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California State University, San Bernardino — Constitutional Law and American Politics – Assistant Professor Tenure Track
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Constitutional Law and American Politics – Assistant Professor Tenure Track
POSITION: Assistant Professor
START DATE: August 17, 2020
SALARY: Dependent on qualifications and expertise
APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 1, 2019
SUBFIELD: Constitutional Law and American Politics
RANK AND QUALIFICATIONS: Tenure-track Assistant Professor. Candidates must hold Ph.D. at time of employment and demonstrate evidence of teaching and research promise.
The Department of Political Science at California State University, San Bernardino seeks applicants for a tenure-track position with primary expertise in the fields of Constitutional Law, including civil liberties and civil rights, and American Politics, including political institutions and public policy, to begin August, 2020. A Ph.D. is required at the time of appointment. We expect successful candidates for this tenure-track position to teach courses in Constitutional Law and American Politics. The successful candidate will teach a variety of upper-division courses in these and related areas of specialization and also teach lower-division American Government courses. In addition, the candidate may be asked to teach graduate courses. The successful candidate will produce scholarly research and provide service to the university and community.
California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) is located in San Bernardino in the Inland Empire, 60 miles east of Los Angeles and operates a satellite campus in Palm Desert located in Coachella Valley. CSUSB serves approximately 20,000 students, of which 81% are first-generation college students, and graduates about 5,000 students annually. As a designated Hispanic Serving Institution, CSUSB reflects the dynamic diversity of the region and has one of the most diverse student populations of any university in the Inland Empire, and the second highest Hispanic enrollment of all public universities in California. CSUSB employs 467 full-time faculty and offers 48 undergraduate, 35 graduate, and 1 doctoral degree programs and 14 academic programs with national accreditation.
At CSUSB, diversity, equity and inclusion are values central to our mission. We recognize that diversity and inclusion in all its forms are necessary for our institutional success. By fully leveraging our diverse experiences, backgrounds and insights, we inspire innovation, challenge the status quo and create better outcomes for our students and community. As part of CSUSB's commitment to hire, develop and retain a diverse faculty, we offer a variety of networking, mentoring and development programs for our junior faculty. We are committed to building and sustaining a CSUSB community that is supportive and inclusive of all individuals. Qualified applicants with experience in ethnically diverse settings and/or who demonstrate a commitment to serving diverse student populations are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Preferred candidates will be expected to meet the traditional requirements of excellence in teaching, active scholarly and professional work, and service to the university and community.
Qualified candidates must demonstrate a commitment to excellence in teaching and mentoring a diverse student population and to working effectively with faculty, staff and students across a wide range of disciplines.
In addition, new faculty are encouraged to develop and participate in activities that support the University's strategic plan. This plan emphasizes: a) student success; b) faculty and staff success; c) stewarding resources; d) community engagement and partnerships; and, e) enhancing campus identity. CSUSB's Strategic Plan is available at https://www.csusb.edu/strategic-plan.
Ph.D. in Political Science or related field is required by time of appointment.
To assure full consideration, application materials are due by November 1, 2019.
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Information regarding CSUSB's Department of Political Science can be found at https://csbs.csusb.edu/political-science. If you are interested in this opportunity, we invite you to apply at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/csusb/jobs/2495455 . Salary is commensurate with experience.
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Justia Criminal Law Index Burglary—Breaking or Entering
Burglary—Breaking or Entering
Unlawful Entry—No Force
Attempted Forcible Entry
Definition: The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft.
The UCR Program classifies offenses locally known as burglary (any degree), unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny or felony, breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny, house-breaking, safecracking, and all attempts at these offenses as burglary.
The UCR Program's definition of a structure includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Dwelling house
House trailer or houseboat (used as permanent dwelling)
Railroad car
Vessel (ship)
Additionally, any house trailer or other mobile unit that is permanently fixed as an office, residence, or storehouse is considered a structure. Tents, tent trailers, motor homes, house trailers, or other mobile units that are being used for recreational purposes are not considered structures. The UCR Program does not consider a telephone booth a structure.
Hotel Rule
Burglaries of hotels, motels, lodging houses, or other places where lodging of transients is the main purpose can present reporting problems to law enforcement. If a number of units under a single manager are burglarized and the offenses are most likely to be reported to the police by the manager rather than the individual tenants, the burglary must be reported as a single offense. Examples are burglaries of a number of rental hotel rooms, rooms in flop houses, rooms in youth hostels, and units in a motel. If the individual living areas in a building are rented or leased to the occupants for a period of time that would preclude the tenancy from being classified as transient, then the burglaries would most likely be reported separately by the occupants. Such burglaries must be reported as separate offenses. Examples of this latter type of multiple burglary would be the burglaries of a number of apartments in an apartment house, of the offices of a number of commercial firms in a business building, of the offices of separate professionals within one building, or of a number of rooms in a college dormitory.
Thefts from automobiles, whether locked or not; shoplifting from commercial establishments; and thefts from telephone booths, coin boxes, or coin-operated machines are all classified as larceny-theft offenses. If the area entered was one of open access, thefts from the area would not involve an unlawful trespass and would be classified as larceny-theft. A forcible entry or unlawful entry in which no theft or felony occurs but acts of vandalism, malicious mischief, etc. are committed is not classified as a burglary provided investigation clearly established that the unlawful entry was for a purpose other than to commit a felony or theft. (For information about vandalism as a Part II offense, see page 141.) Of course, if the offender unlawfully entered the structure, a multiple offense exists and the agency must classify the offense as a burglary.
Larceny-theft is an element of burglary and, therefore, must not be reported as a separate offense if associated with the unlawful entry of a structure. If a forcible or unlawful entry of a building is made to steal a motor vehicle, the reporting agency must count the offense and the value of the vehicle under burglary, not motor vehicle theft.
When a question arises as to whether a type of structure comes within the scope of the burglary definition, the law enforcement officer must look to the nature of the crime and be guided by the examples set forth. If a question remains, the agency should contact its state UCR Program. Direct contributors should contact the national Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, WV 26306; telephone (888) UCR-NIBR/(888) 827-6427.
NOTE: It is important to remember that offenses must be classified according to UCR definitions and not according to state or local codes. Some states might, for instance, categorize a shoplifting or a theft from an automobile as burglary. These offenses are not classified as burglaries in UCR and must be reported to the national Program as larceny-thefts.
Burglary—Forcible Entry
Law enforcement must classify as Burglary—Forcible Entry (5a) all offenses where force of any kind is used to unlawfully enter a structure for the purpose of committing a theft or felony. This definition applies when a thief gains entry by using tools; breaking windows; forcing windows, doors, transoms, or ventilators; cutting screens, walls, or roofs; and where known, using master keys, picks, unauthorized keys, celluloid, a mechanical contrivance of any kind (e.g., a passkey or skeleton key), or other devices that leave no outward mark but are used to force a lock. Agencies must also include in this category burglary by concealment inside a building followed by exiting the structure.
The following scenarios illustrate incidents known to law enforcement that reporting agencies must classify as Burglary—Forcible Entry (5a):
A liquor store was broken into on a holiday when the store was closed. The next day, the manager found alcoholic beverages and money were missing and called the police.
A burglar used a key to enter four units in a condominium complex and stole numerous articles from each residence. The resident in each condominium called the police. The police made no arrest.
A man hid in a theater. After it closed, he stole money from the cash register and left the premises during the night. The police made no arrest.
Burglary—Unlawful Entry—No Force
The entry of a structure in a Burglary—Unlawful Entry—No Force (5b) situation is achieved by use of an unlocked door or window. The element of trespass to the structure is essential in this category, which includes thefts from open garages, open warehouses, open or unlocked dwellings, and open or unlocked common basement areas in apartment houses where entry is achieved by other than the tenant who has lawful access.
The following scenarios illustrate incidents known to law enforcement that reporting agencies must classify as Burglary—Unlawful Entry—No Force (5b):
While a housewife was in the backyard hanging clothes, a 14-year-old boy entered her house through the unlocked front door and took her purse. When the woman realized her purse was missing, she called the police. The police subsequently located the boy and charged him with juvenile delinquency.
A woman posing as a maintenance employee entered an unlocked office and stole a wallet from a cabinet.
During the night, someone stole a $24,000 car out of an unlocked, but closed, private garage. Two days later, police found the car abandoned in a nearby town. No suspect was identified.
In certain circumstances of burglary, an agency may be required to identify, classify, and report both Forcible Entry (5a) and Unlawful Entry—No Force (5b) within the same incident. Therefore, the agency will occasionally report offenses in two or more categories.
The following scenario illustrates an incident known to law enforcement that reporting agencies must classify in two subcategories of burglary:
After closing hours, a thief entered an unlocked door of a warehouse. The warehouse contained a number of offices of individual shipping companies. The subject broke into eight of the company offices, rifled the office desks, and stole some items from each office.
Explanation: The reporting agency must classify this incident as eight offenses of Burglary— Forcible Entry (5a) and one offense of Burglary—Unlawful Entry—No Force (5b).
Burglary—Attempted Forcible Entry
This category includes those situations where a forcible entry burglary is attempted but not completed. Once the thief is inside a locked structure, the offense becomes a Burglary—Forcible Entry (5a). Agencies must classify attempts to enter an unlocked structure as well as actual trespass to an unlocked structure as Burglary—Unlawful Entry—No Force (5b). Only situations in which a thief has attempted to break into a locked structure are classified as Burglary—Attempted Forcible Entry (5c).
The following scenario illustrates an incident known to law enforcement that reporting agencies must classify as Burglary—Attempted Forcible Entry (5c):
Police investigation verified an attempted break-in at the local bank. There were no suspects in the incident.
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January 8, 1945 - July 6, 2019 Mr. George Richard "Dick" Jarvis, 74 of Clemmons, NC, passed away on Saturday, July 6, 2019, at the palliative care unit of Forsyth Medical Center. He was born in Forsyth County on January 8, 1945. He is survived by his wife, Kathy Whitaker Jarvis, of 49 years, their son, Scott Jarvis, his wife, Kendra Cameron Jarvis, and their one precious granddaughter, Anna, of Asheville, North Carolina. Dick was a devoted husband, Dad, Papa, uncle, and a friend to many. He had one brother, Wayne Jarvis and wife, Ann; nephews, Marty Jarvis and wife, Misty; Jeff Weir and wife, Deanne; niece, Jennifer Flippin and husband, Michael. Greatnieces: Allie Jarvis, Dezha Simcox, Brianna Weir Copeland, Maleah Weir Bretz, Ava Weir, and Olivia Weir; great-nephews: Zach Weir, Michael Flippin, Jr., Tanner Flippin, Jedidiah Flippin, and Ezekiel Flippin. He was blessed to have many wonderful friends. Special thanks to Carl Cox and wife, Judy, for their lifetime of friendship. He graduated from Western Carolina University with a BA in business administration followed by a master's degree from Grand Canyon University. While at WCU, Dick was a charter founder and brother in Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He also served on the Greek Council. Dick proudly served in the United States Army. He did a tour of duty in Vietnam. In the U.S. Army, he received a medal of valor for heroic acts in Vietnam. Upon his return he was stationed at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Dick was a vice president and senior loan officer in industrial and commercial lending at the Bank of Carolinas. He was with BB&T and RBC Centura before joining the Bank of the Carolinas. He retired in August 2008. Dick was a devoted member of Clemmons United Methodist Church. In addition, he was a faithful usher at the 8:30 service. He volunteered and helped the Fall Bazaar. Dick had many interests including football, golf, backyard wildlife, and woodworking in his shop. He was an avid dog lover...English springer spaniels. He had four in his lifetime...Cindy and Abigail (deceased) and our dogs at home, Max and Molly. A celebration of life will be held at Clemmons United Methodist Church Thursday, July 11 at 2 p.m. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the English Springer Spaniel Rescue and the Vietnam Veterans of America or the Clemmons United Methodist Church Compassion Fund. Online condolences may be made at Frank Vogler and Sons in Clemmons, North Carolina. Frank Vogler & Sons 2849 Middlebrook Dr
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Baby undergoes circumcision R 370.(Photo by: REUTERS)
Europe council: Circumcision a 'violation of the physical integrity of children'
UK Jewish organization "troubled" over non-binding resolution.
A resolution that calls male ritual circumcision a “violation of the physical integrity of children” was passed overwhelmingly by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
The council, a pan-European intergovernmental organization, debated and passed the resolution on Tuesday based on a report by the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development led by German rapporteur Marlene Rupperecht. The resolution passed by a vote of 78 in favor and 13 against, with 15 abstentions.
The resolution calls on states to “clearly define the medical, sanitary and other conditions to be ensured for practices such as the non-medically justified circumcision of young boys.”
It also calls on member states to “initiate a public debate, including intercultural and interreligious dialogue, aimed at reaching a large consensus on the rights of children to protection against violations of their physical integrity according to human rights standards” and to “adopt specific legal provisions to ensure that certain operations and practices will not be carried out before a child is old enough to be consulted.”
Practices covered by the resolution include female genital mutilation, the circumcision of young boys for religious reasons, early childhood medical interventions in the case of intersexual children, corporal punishment, and the submission to or coercion of children into piercings, tattoos or plastic surgery.
Large majorities rejected five amendments that sought to remove or alter references to the circumcision of boys. An amendment that removed a reference to the “religious rights of parents and families” was supported by a large majority of members.
“Although the adoption of this report is non-binding and does not represent any direct threat to milah, we are troubled at the readiness of the Parliamentary Assembly to dismiss the points made during the debate about religious freedom,” the Milah UK organization told JTA.
The ritual circumcision of boys younger than 18 has come under attack increasingly in Scandinavia and German-speaking European countries both by left-wing secularists and right-wingers who fear the influence of immigration from Muslim countries.
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Egyptian security forces blow up a house in Rafah, near the border with Gaza October 29, 2014.(Photo by: REUTERS)
Amnesty: Egypt forcibly evicted 1,165 families from Rafah by the Gaza border
By TOVAH LAZAROFF
In many cases, Amnesty said, residents were not given any official warning at all and heard from the media that they had 48 hours to leave their homes.
Egypt has forcibly evicted an estimated 1,165 families in Rafah so that it can clear a buffer zone by the Gaza Strip border, charged the human-rights group Amnesty International, which is concerned that additional homes will be demolished in the coming weeks.
“The scale of the forced evictions has been astonishing; the Egyptian authorities have thrown more than 1,000 families out of their homes in just a matter of days, flouting international and national law,” Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa, said on Thursday.
“Shocking scenes have emerged of homes in Rafah being bulldozed, bombed, with entire buildings reduced to piles of rubble and families forcibly evicted,” Sahraoui said.
According to Amnesty, Egypt has destroyed some 800 homes since November in response to an attack on one of its military checkpoints in North Sinai on October 24, in which 33 soldiers were killed. The armed group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis has claimed responsibility for this attack, Amnesty said.
Days after the attack, on October 29, Egypt’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab mandated the creation of a buffer zone by Rafah and called for the area to be evacuated.
At least 238 members of the security forces have been killed in northern Sinai since July last year, according state media reports.
Clearing a buffer zone to stop Hamas from building infiltration and smuggling tunnels from Gaza into Egypt is one of the steps Cairo is taking to protect its armed forces from attacks by terrorist groups, Amnesty said. Egypt has a right to take security measures, but it must do so within the bounds of international human rights law, it added.
The forced evictions have ignored these laws, said Amnesty, which explained that residents were not given adequate notice, proper compensation or alternative housing.
In many cases, it said, residents were not given any official warning at all, and heard from the media that they had 48 hours to leave their homes.
It called on Egypt to stop these demolitions, particularly in light of reports that it planned to add another 500 meters to the buffer zone.
“Plans for expanding the buffer zone must not include further forced evictions. The human rights of the residents in North Sinai cannot just be trampled on in the name of security,” Sahraoui said.
In a November 20 interview on the France 24 news channel, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi defended the home demolitions and explained that the local population had been notified.
“Meetings have been organized in order to compensate them and to rebuild a new city of Rafah,” Sisi said.
“In our struggle against terrorism, we always tried to do our utmost to spare the human lives of civilians. We always respected human rights,” he said.
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No. 20 LSU baseball gets past UNO in final midweek game of season
LSU baseball head coach Paul Mainieri (Source: Josh Auzenne)
By Josh Auzenne | May 14, 2019 at 9:44 PM CDT - Updated May 15 at 8:40 AM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - No. 20 LSU held on to get the victory over UNO at Alex Box Stadium in the final midweek game of the season Tuesday night.
The Tigers pulled out the 7-5 win over the Privateers.
No. 19 LSU baseball captures midweek contest against UNO
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Devin Fontenot started on the mound for LSU. He gave up two runs on three hits in two innings of work. He struck out two batters. Reliever Matthew Beck earned the win. He only allowed two hits and no runs in two innings. He also had two strikeouts. Zack Hess was the closer and picked up his first save of the year. He allowed two runs on two hits and struck out three. He put in 1.1 innings of work.
After a scoreless first inning, UNO got on the board in the top of the second of a two-run home run to take the 2-0 lead.
LSU rallied in the fourth inning. Brandt Broussard grounded into a double play, but Hal Hughes still scored to make it 2-1. Then, a single by Antoine Duplantis sent Brock Mathis home to tie it 2-2. Next, Daniel Cabrera hit a two-run home run to give the Tigers the 4-2 lead. It was Cabrera’s 12th home run of the season.
UNO hit a solo home run in the top of the fifth to make it 4-3.
Duplantis then went yard for the 10th time this season, a solo shot, to give LSU the 5-3 lead.
The Tigers put up two more runs in the bottom of the eighth and the Privateers scored a pair of runs in the top of the ninth to make it 7-5.
LSU will host Auburn for a series starting Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
Copyright 2019 WAFB. All rights reserved.
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Josh Auzenne is the Sports Digital Content Producer at WAFB.
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He was wrongfully jailed for more than a decade. Years later, he died in a hit-and-run
Hollywood police searching for driver
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN
Paul Kane/Getty Images
Andrew Mallard (center) along with John Button (left) and Rubin Carter (right) pose for a photo during the Justice WA Rubin "Hurricane" Carter Gala Dinner at the Sheraton Hotel on February 20, 2010, in Perth, Australia.
(CNN) - Andrew Mallard spent more than a decade in prison for a crime he didn't commit.
The 56-year-old Australian had been free for 13 years and was engaged to a woman in Los Angeles when he was killed in a hit-and-run crash Thursday.
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In the final moments of his life, Mallard can be seen buying cigarettes and talking with a clerk at a Hollywood liquor store on surveillance video obtained by CNN affiliate KABC. The station reports he was a regular customer.
Minutes after Mallard left, he was hit by a vehicle while he was crossing the street. The driver took off without stopping.
Though the fire department responded, Mallard died of his injuries, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement.
In 1995, Mallard was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Pamela Lawrence at her jewelry shop in a suburb of Perth.
The documentary "Saving Andrew Mallard" followed Mallard's family, journalist Colleen Egan, Member of Parliament John Quigley and lawyer Malcolm McCusker as they made the case for Mallard's innocence.
Mallard was exonerated in 2006, and a cold case review of Lawrence's death found evidence implicating a different man who had been convicted of murder.
Mallard was offered a $3.25 million settlement from the Western Australian government in 2009.
The LAPD said it is searching for the hit-and-run driver and is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information related to the driver.
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Gliese 1132b: Astronomers find a super-Earth that may have a watery atmosphere, just 39 light-years away
An artist’s impression of the exoplanet GJ 1132b, which orbits the red dwarf star GJ 1132 at upper right.
(MPIA)
By Amina Khan Staff Writer
A team of astronomers says they’ve caught wind of an atmosphere around a super-Earth known as GJ 1132b, just 39 light-years away. The findings, described in the Astronomical Journal, mark another step on the road to determining whether alien worlds near and far might be capable of hosting life.
“It’s a great proof of concept that we can observe atmospheres on these small, rocky planets even from the ground,” said Laura Schaefer, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University who was not involved in the paper. “That’s really exciting and that means that we’ll be able to do it with more planets down the line as we find more planets of this size.”
The planet, Gliese 1132b, was first spotted in 2015 orbiting a small, dim M dwarf (a type of red dwarf) star about one-quarter of the Sun’s radius. At the time, the discovery excited scientists even though — with a surface temperature of about 620 degrees Fahrenheit — the planet wasn’t considered habitable.
“Receiving 19 times more stellar radiation than the Earth, the planet is too hot to be habitable but is cool enough to support a substantial atmosphere,” the authors of the 2015 study in Nature wrote. Because the host star was so close by, they added, “existing and upcoming telescopes will be able to observe the composition and dynamics of the planetary atmosphere.”
Astronomers often try to find exoplanets using the transit method: They wait for a planet to cross in front of its star and measure how much starlight is blocked. It’s much easier to pick out gas giants akin to Jupiter than it is to pick out small, rocky planets because oversized gas giants cause more dramatic dips in the amount of starlight. Those few other exoplanets whose atmospheres have been studied are gas-giant planets or very large super-Earths, with something like eight times our planet’s mass.
But because GJ 1132b is so close, and because its star is so small, the rocky planet blocks proportionally more light, making it easier to study.
Gliese 1132b is interesting not just because it’s the first low-mass super-Earth to have a detectable atmosphere. It’s near Earth, putting it in the sights of existing telescopes; and it was also thought to be about 1.2 times the Earth’s radius, making it very close in size — and potentially composition — to our planetary home.
For this paper, a team of European astronomers used the 2.2-meter ESO/MPG telescope in Chile to track nine of the planet’s transits in front of its star. They studied the starlight in seven different bands of light across optical and infrared wavelengths.
As a planet passes in front of the star, it blocks a certain amount of starlight across all seven bands. But the small amount of starlight that passes through the atmosphere will be selectively filtered: Certain chemicals in the atmosphere will absorb (and thus, block) certain wavelengths while allowing others to pass straight through. The missing wavelengths can tell scientists which atoms and molecules are present.
The astronomers found that, based on the amount of light blocked, the silhouetted planet has a radius about 1.4 times that of Earth, making it a little bigger than previously thought.
GJ 1132b also appears larger in one of the infrared wavelength bands than it does in the rest — signaling the presence of an atmosphere that is transparent to some wavelengths but opaque to others. The researchers then modeled different scenarios, finding that the atmosphere could potentially be rich in water and methane.
If that’s true, then it means the planet could have a steamy atmosphere and perhaps a magma ocean, said Schaefer, who cautioned that many more follow-up observations need to be done to ensure the vapor-filled atmosphere really is there.
“It’s not confirmed that it’s water,” she pointed out. “So it’s very exciting but we definitely need more data on it.”
Because M dwarfs are so abundant throughout the galaxy, and habitable-zone planets circling them are easier to find, many scientists think these dim stars may offer one of the best chances for finding a life-friendly world. But these red dwarfs are also thought to be much more active than main-sequence stars like the sun — with flares, eruptions and other activity that could blow a planet’s atmosphere away.
Keep in mind, Gliese 1132b circles its star so closely that its “year” lasts just 1.6 Earth days. So if the planet does turn out to have an atmosphere in spite of that proximity, it would be good news for astronomers — because it would mean that M dwarfs are more stable places for habitable planets than thought.
For now, researchers are somewhat limited in what they can probe with existing ground and space telescopes. But with the launch of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) later this year and the James Webb Space Telescope in 2018, researchers may soon be able to find more interesting nearby targets and then probe their atmospheric composition with precision.
amina.khan@latimes.com
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Home runs leader Jose Abreu placed on 15-day disabled list
White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu breaks his bat as he flies out to left field against the Houston Astros in the fifth inning Saturday.
(Pat Sullivan / Associated Press)
Major league home runs leader Jose Abreu of the White Sox has been placed on the 15-day disabled list with tendinitis in his left ankle.
The 27-year-old rookie first baseman left Saturday night’s game against the Astros in Houston with a limp in the seventh inning. Abreu set rookie records for home runs (10), RBIs (32), extra-base hits and total bases in April.
He is hitting .260 with 15 homers and 41 RBIs in 44 games.
Manager Robin Ventura said Sunday that Abreu is in Chicago for further evaluation.
Outfielder Adam Eaton will be called up from his rehab assignment in Triple-A Charlotte to take Abreu’s roster spot.
Eaton has been on the DL since May 3 with a strained right hamstring. He is hitting .276 with 14 RBIs.
The St. Louis Cardinals have activated left-handed pitcher Jaime Garcia to start against the Atlanta Braves. Garcia had surgery for a torn labrum and rotator cuff last May. Sunday would be his first appearance in just over a year and the 100th of his career. To make room for Garcia, the Cardinal optioned right-handed reliever Jorge Rondon to Memphis on Sunday. ...
The Washington Nationals placed Gio Gonzalez on the 15-day disabled list Sunday because of inflammation in his pitching shoulder. This is the first time the 28-year-old left-hander has gone on the disabled list. Gonzalez (3-4) dropped his third straight start in Saturday’s 5-2 loss to the New York Mets. The Nationals recalled Ryan Mattheus from Triple-A Syracuse. ... The Texas Rangers have recalled outfielder Daniel Robertson from Round Rock and optioned right-handed reliever Miles Mikolas to the triple-A affiliate.
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Former UEFA president Michel Platini arrested in 2022 World Cup probe
Former UEFA chief Michel Platini, shown in 2015, was arrested Tuesday in connection with a probe into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
(Valery Hache / AFP / Getty Images)
Reporting from Paris —
Former UEFA president Michel Platini denied wrongdoing during police questioning Tuesday following his arrest as part of a corruption probe into the vote that gave the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Confirming a report by online news publication Mediapart, a judicial official told the Associated Press that Platini was placed in custody when he was summoned at the Anti-Corruption Office of the Judicial Police outside Paris. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Platini, a former France soccer great, can either be released or formally charged after questioning ends.
Platini’s communications team said he was also quizzed on the awarding of the 2016 European Championship to France, adding that he was “absolutely confident in the future” and has “strictly nothing to reproach himself with.”
“Michel Platini expresses himself serenely and precisely, answering all the questions, including those on the conditions for the awarding of the 2016 Euro, and has provided useful explanations,” the statement said.
Also detained Tuesday was Sophie Dion, a former sports advisor of Nicolas Sarkozy when he was French president, the judicial official said. Claude Gueant, the former secretary general of the Elysee under Sarkozy, was heard as a witness and not detained.
Platini’s lawyer, William Bourdon, said the former Juventus playmaker was also questioned as a witness and placed in custody only for “technical reasons.”
French financial prosecutors have been investigating the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups and previously questioned former FIFA president Sepp Blatter. France’s financial prosecutor services opened the investigation on grounds of private corruption, criminal association, influence peddling and benefiting from influence peddling relating to the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, which were awarded to Russia and Qatar, respectively.
FIFA said it is aware of Platini’s situation but declined to comment further on his case.
Platini’s lawyer and advisor did not immediately answer messages from the Associated Press seeking comments.
Much intrigue has centered on Platini’s decision to vote for Qatar.
Blatter, who was FIFA president at the time of the vote in 2010, blamed Platini for backing out of a secret “gentleman’s agreement” to award the 2022 tournament to the United States.
Platini told the AP in 2015 that he “might have told” American officials that he would vote for the United States bid. However, he changed his mind after a November 2010 meeting, hosted by then-President Nicolas Sarkozy at his official residence in Paris and Qatar’s crown prince, now Emir, Tamim bin Hamad al Thani.
Platini has long insisted that the meeting did not influence his vote for Qatar less than two weeks later.
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“Sarkozy never asked me to vote for Qatar, but I knew what would be good,” he told the AP in 2015.
But Blatter claimed in a 2015 interview with the Financial Times that Platini told him ahead of the World Cup vote: “I am no longer in your picture because I have been told by the head of state that we should consider the situation of France.”
Both Platini and Blatter were toppled from their positions of power at the top of soccer in 2015. Platini was banned by FIFA for financial misconduct in relation to a $2-million payment authorized by Blatter — a suspension due to expire in October.
Qatar’s methods to bring the World Cup to the Middle East for the first time have been subject to investigations by FIFA. American attorney Michael Garcia found that some of Qatar’s conduct “may not have met the standards” required by FIFA but concluded there was no “evidence of any improper activity by the bid team.”
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Column: On the matter of the USWNT and equal pay, it’s complicated
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Galaxy and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are held in check in loss to Earthquakes
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Adama Diomande scores twice as LAFC hands Dynamo first home loss
Adama Diomande scored twice off assists from Lee Nguyen and Los Angeles FC handed the Houston Dynamo their first home loss of the season, 3-1 on Friday night.
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Who is Robert Bales? Friends, comrades thought they knew
By Kim Murphy and Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Lake Tapps, Wash., and Norwood, Ohio
For those who grew up with him, Robert Bales seemed to have a place reserved on easy street. Captain of the football team and president of the sophomore class at his Ohio high school, Bales after just three years of college had an oceanfront condo in Florida. He was also pulling in more than $100,000 a year as a financial advisor.
His investment work ran into trouble, though, and when the Sept. 11 attacks came, Bales felt what friends said was an irresistible call. He enlisted in the Army — signed up for the hardest duty anybody could ask for, the infantry — and headed almost straight for Iraq.
“I thought, ‘Jeez, man. That’s crazy. You’ve got it all,’ ” said Steven Berling, a high school friend.
But Bales had long seemed fascinated by what led nations into combat. “I remember one day in AP [advanced placement] history class, Bobby and the teacher were going back and forth about old wars and … various historic battles,” Berling said. “He must have been reading up on all that on his own.”
In Iraq, Bales was a soldier “who really believed in it,” his former platoon leader, Chris Alexander, said. “It was rare to find an E5 soldier who was as deep a thinker as he was.... He’d get into these epic conversations about the Middle East and our role.”
Now, friends are trying to piece together how the gregarious 38-year-old staff sergeant could have become the tragic anti-hero suspected in the late-night massacre of 16 Afghan civilians — a crime that has prompted new questions about how much longer the U.S. can remain in Afghanistan.
For soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, where Bales was based during three deployments to Iraq and one in Afghanistan, the events have been dumbfounding. Bales trained his men carefully, oversaw his patrols vigilantly, and treated Iraqi villagers with respect and good humor. That he could have snapped so precipitously is almost beyond comprehension.
There is sympathy for the financial problems, multiple deployments and violence that may have imposed unbearable stress, but also contempt for a soldier who may have put others in the path of potential violent reprisals.
“The picture that’s being painted of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales — that ‘There but for the grace of God goes any other American soldier’ — this is amazingly offensive,” said Bryan Suits, who hosts a Seattle-based KFI radio show popular with soldiers and veterans.
Suits, who served three Army deployments, said nearly all long-serving U.S. troops had similar stories of nightmarish deployments. “Everybody’s been there. And this is the first time a guy has killed 16 civilians,” he said.
But Bales’ combat colleagues appear more mystified than angry.
“I know Bales. I worked with him for years. He was a great NCO,” Alexander said. “And you don’t go from being somebody like that to all of a sudden shooting unarmed people.... There’s something more to it.”
Longtime friend Michael Blevins, who grew up with Bales in Ohio, said almost the same thing. “I want people to know there is no way the guy I knew did this,” he said. “You don’t go from being a local hero to a monster.”
People from the working-class neighborhood of shady lanes and two-story panel homes in Norwood, Ohio, where Bales grew up said that, even early on, Bales seemed to feel it was his mission to protect the neighborhood.
“When Bobby was 10 or so, there were half a dozen teenagers talking loud and obnoxious in front of his house. He went outside and ran them off after knocking one of them into the bushes,” Blevins recalled. “My mother watched the whole thing from her porch. When it was all over, Bobby walked across the street and said, ‘I’m sorry they were talking that way and that you had to hear it.’ ”
Bales attended Ohio State University for three years and went to work as a financial advisor with several firms in Ohio, launching his own investment firm with his brother in Florida.
But according to a report from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Bales and his Ohio firm were the target of a major complaint from a client in 2000. In 2003, Bales and his partners were directed in arbitration to pay more than $1.2 million in compensatory and punitive damages for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and other charges.
Meanwhile, the World Trade Center attacks had occurred, and Bales abandoned the world of stocks and bonds for the Army.
Bales was stationed almost immediately at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, joining the 2nd Infantry Division’s 3rd Stryker Brigade. Court records show he was charged in 2002 with criminal assault in a case involving a girlfriend; the charge was dismissed after he underwent anger management training.
In 2005, he married Karilyn Primeau, who grew up in the well-to-do suburbs east of Lake Washington, and who neighbors said already owned a home in Auburn, not far from the military base. Bales by then was preparing for his second deployment to Iraq and walking with a pronounced limp; acquaintances said it appeared a medical mishap had compounded a previous injury and led to the loss of part of his foot. It’s unclear when the original injury occurred.
“His main focus and goals at that time were to get healthy, get in another unit and go back over there,” said his neighbor in Auburn, Timothy Burgess. “Which kind of amazed me, because he’d already got injured and it was like, ‘Ain’t you done enough?’ ”
Bales also suffered a head injury in a vehicle rollover unrelated to combat. But he seemed to revel in battle and, even when patrols were quiet, would sit alert on the back of his Stryker vehicle as he’d been trained to do, Alexander said.
“Some of us got pretty jaded, but he really wasn’t one of those. There was a genuine, ‘We need to win the hearts and minds’ attitude, and he put effort into it. He’d smile at the kids. He learned a little bit of Arabic to throw out at folks, the kind of stuff that shows you’re not Robocop walking around in body armor.”
The Bales’ two children, ages 3 and 5, were born while Bales was overseas. The couple had moved to a bigger house in the wooded, lakeside neighborhood of Lake Tapps, but they owed too much on the Auburn house to sell it. That house fell into disrepair and the bank took it over.
Soon, the couple had trouble keeping up with the payments on the Lake Tapps house too.
Still, they seemed like a solid couple, said many who knew them. They were hoping, after Bales’ third deployment, that he could be assigned a safe job as a military recruiter.
Ann Burlingame, a high school friend of Karilyn’s, saw the couple at a reunion last summer. “They were handsome; just so happy to be together,” she said. Bales, she said, regaled the group with war stories. “He was really looking forward to spending a career in the military.”
Things didn’t work out as the couple had hoped, though. Bales was up for a promotion to sergeant first class but didn’t make it. And then the couple got news that Bales’ unit was going to Afghanistan in December.
What went wrong on this deployment is now the subject of an exhaustive Army investigation; official charges are likely later this week.
At a briefing in Afghanistan, a U.S. legal expert said authorities were investigating the possibility that a makeshift bomb had damaged a U.S. tank near the scene of the shootings several days earlier, prompting what villagers said were threats of reprisals from U.S. forces. And Bales’ lawyer, John Henry Browne, said Bales was not present but was traumatized by the explosion that cost a fellow soldier a leg.
After meeting with his client at Ft. Leavenworth on Monday, Browne said Bales remembers little or nothing from when the military believes he went on a shooting rampage.
“He has some memory of some things that happened that night. He has some memories of before the incident and he has some memories of after the incident. In between, very little,” Browne told the Associated Press.
Back home, there were dark rumbles on the domestic front too. On the eve of the shootings, Karilyn Bales had put the house up for sale for more than $50,000 less than they’d paid for it.
On Monday, two small moving vans pulled into the driveway and started the process of removing what had been the Bales family’s life there.
In a statement released through lawyers Monday, Karilyn Bales called the shootings “a terrible and heartbreaking tragedy.” She extended condolences to Afghans who lost family members, saying she and her husband’s family are “profoundly sad.”
“I too want to know what happened,” she said. “I want to know how this could be.”
kim.murphy@latimes.com
louis.sahagun@latimes.com
Murphy reported from Lake Tapps and Sahagun from Norwood.
Times staff writers Molly Hennessy-Fiske in Los Angeles, Richard Serrano in Washington and Laura King in Kabul, Afghanistan, contributed to this report.
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Maduro Administration Bans Juan Guaidó from Public Office for 15 Years
By: Latin America News Dispatch
Originally published at Latin America News Dispatch
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó speaks during a meeting with supporters after he was barred from public office for 15 years on March 28, 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela. (Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)
VENEZUELA: Yesterday, opposition leader Juan Guaidó was barred from public office for 15 years by the Venezuelan government. In an announcement on state television, state comptroller Elvis Amoroso cited alleged inconsistencies in Guaidó’s financial records and accused him of receiving gifts from foreign governments. Soon after the announcement, Guaidó dismissed the measure and made clear that it would not deter him from attempting to drive President Nicolás Maduro from power.
Delegations from several European and Latin American countries, known as the International Contact Group, openly criticized the government’s decision. U.S. State Department spokesperson Robert Palladino called the ban “ridiculous.”
HEADLINES FROM THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
UNITED STATES: Yesterday, President Donald Trump tweeted that Mexican and Central American leaders were doing “nothing” to prevent migrants from fleeing to the United States.
Mexico is doing NOTHING to help stop the flow of illegal immigrants to our Country. They are all talk and no action. Likewise, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have taken our money for years, and do Nothing. The Dems don’t care, such BAD laws. May close the Southern Border!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2019
His accusation came after administration officials met with Mexican officials in Miami on Tuesday and traveled to Honduras on Wednesday to sign a border security agreement with Central American leaders. The agreement seeks to expand intelligence sharing and combat human trafficking. In his tweets, Trump also suggested a shut down of the U.S.-Mexico border, a longstanding threat.
The U.S.-Mexico Border: In a press conference in El Paso, Texas on Wednesday, United States Customs and Border Protection officials claimed they have reached a “breaking point” due to the influx of migrants. Hundreds of migrants are currently being held by Border Patrol behind a chain link fence under the Paso Del Norte International Bridge in the border city. On Thursday morning, El Paso’s Mayor Dee Margo confirmed that migrants were now housed in temporary holdings underneath the highway bridge. The processing facility in El Paso is reportedly at a 395 percent capacity.
MEXICO: Mexican officials raised a high alert level for the Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City. The National Disaster Prevention Center raised its alert level from yellow phase two to yellow phase three, one level below the stage where evacuations are prepared. Yesterday morning, an eruption sent volcanic ash flying 2.5 kilometers high (about 1.5 miles). Around 2.5 million people live within 100 kilometers of the active volcano.
CUBA: Yesterday, Cuba and Google signed a deal to create a cost-free connection between their networks, which would allow Cubans to connect to content on Google servers faster and reduce government costs. The move to improve the island’s connectivity is dependent on Cuba being able to physically connect to an undersea fiber-optic cable that will be introduced in the future. Cuba currently relies on one fiber-optic connection with Venezuela that has not been able to sufficiently accommodate the growing number of internet users on the island. No clear timeline for the project was established.
PUERTO RICO: A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill yesterday to make Puerto Rico the 51st state without holding a referendum. The Puerto Rico Admission Act, introduced by Florida Rep. Darren Soto, requires that the island be admitted into the union within 90 days of the law’s passage. President Donald Trump has stated that he is against Puerto Rican statehood and recently expressed that the island received too much disaster aid after Hurricane Maria. During the past five years the Puerto Rican government has held two referendums regarding the island’s status in 2012 and 2017 where voters chose statehood, but the ability to change the island’s status rests with Congress.
GUATEMALA: On Wednesday night, a truck plowed into a crowd and killed at least 18 people and injured 18 in the western town of Nahualá. The crowd had gathered on the Pan-American Highway in response to a separate crash that occurred earlier that night when the truck driver crashed into them and tried to flee the scene. A suspect was later detained and is in police custody. The Guatemalan government declared three days of national mourning for the victims.
COLOMBIA: The International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday that violence has increased in some areas of the country since the 2016 peace deal with the FARC. According to the organization, mass displacement increased by more than 90 percent last year as the paramilitary dissidents fight for control of drug trafficking routes in the western provinces of Choco and Cauca. The ICRC also said that landmine victims raised by more than 280 percent last year.
SOUTHERN CONE
CHILE: Yesterday, a Chilean cardinal went before a local prosecutor as a defendant in an ongoing investigation into the sex abuse and cover up scandal in the Catholic Church. The cardinal, Javier Errazuriz, was removed from his informal Cabinet by Pope Francis on Saturday after Errazuriz was accused of covering up clerical abuse in at least 10 cases. Errazuriz’s appearance before the prosecution follows a recent ruling from an appeals court in Chile that the Catholic Church must compensate the victims of one of the country’s most well-known priests.
BRAZIL: On Wednesday night, mining company Vale stated that a total of four of its dams could collapse at any given moment and raised the risk level to the highest degree near three additional dams. Last week, the company raised a similar alert in rural areas near a dam in the city of Barao de Cocais, after evacuation orders were issued in those same areas last month. The announcement comes only two months after a rupture of a company dam caused the death of over 200 people in the town of Brumadinho.
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Dating & Relationships Our Lives Uncategorized
Ms. Behavior®
By Ms. Behavior® by Meryl Cohn May 9, 2008
Categories: Dating & Relationships, Our Lives, Uncategorized
Tags: Issue 338
Dear Ms. Behavior:
We are lesbian moms who have formed a group with other lesbian moms and gay dads.
The problem is that one couple (I’ll call them June and April) seem to be a little lax with their child. For instance, they wipe their little girl baby from back to front when cleaning during a diaper change. And they literally will pop a pacifier that has dropped on the floor right back in the kid’s mouth without even wiping it clean, let alone washing it off. They carry her all slumped over, without sling or other device. They don’t have her on any kind of a schedule.
This upsets the other mothers and dads, who want to have an intervention to give these women a clue. My partner thinks we shouldn’t impose our parenting on them, but I don’t feel good about doing nothing.
What’s the right way to handle the situation?
—Sammy’s Mommy
Dear Sammy’s Mommy:
It may be tempting to intervene formally, or to at least say, “Yo, your kid is slumpy and germy, and probably at risk for a vaginal plague.” Unfortunately, an attempt to educate June and April about how to care for their bacterially challenged charge may backfire. You could end up alienating them, and making them feel defensive enough to leave the group.
Instead, try initiating show-and-tell sessions, where members share information about baby care and products. Then, you’ll be free to whip out a baby sling, and show it to the whole group, without calling attention to April and June’s misshapen, undersupported baby. You can demonstrate front-to-back wiping, or do a power point presentation about floor germs on pacifiers, without alienating the Dirty Mommies.
If, however, April and June remain stuck in their nasty ways, don’t despair. Living in a bit of filth apparently isn’t all bad.
According to the “Hygiene Hypothesis,” the growing rate of allergies and asthma in babies and children actually may be the result of too much cleansing and sanitizing. This comforting theory suggests that the presence of germs helps children’s immune systems to develop properly. If parents overuse antibacterial soap, and push antibiotics at the first sign of infection, the kids aren’t exposed to enough germs. Consequently, the immune system can become overly sensitive, resulting in increased risk of asthma and allergies.
Also, antibiotics and hand sanitizers may kill off weaker germs, but aid in the development of resistant strains of bacteria. The stronger germs may become “supergerms,” tough enough to resist the effects of stronger antibiotics.
So, instead of worrying about April and June’s mothering skills, try to remember that their poor bacteria-ridden little critter may be healthier than her gleaming peers.
After having escaped a hellish childhood, I have chosen to live far from home and family. I’m fortunate to have a secure job for a big company in a gay-friendly environment.
I learned recently that my stepbrother, Eric, is moving to my town, and applying to work for my company. We were close as kids, but in his late teens, he became an angry, homophobic person, and we’ve avoided contact for years. Now, he says he wants us to be friends again, and wants to have lunch. Part of me is curious, and another part wants to stay away.
I have an acquaintance in Human Resources who probably will ask my opinion about Eric. I think he is messed up, and I wouldn’t feel comfortable if he were around.
Would it be wrong for me to say this? Is it unethical for me to wreck his chances at employment?
—Homo Bro
Dear Homo Bro:
Sharing your negative opinion of Eric with your acquaintance in Human Resources may be slightly mean-spirited, but it’s not unethical. Like it or not, jobs are frequently attained or not attained based on personality and connections. If your opinion is solicited and valued, it’s not wrong to answer honestly.
However, you may want to check out how you feel about Eric in the present by having lunch with him before offering an opinion. It makes sense that you feel conflicted about seeing him, because you cared for each other before he developed into a full-size homophobe.
But contact with him doesn’t have to be a black-or-white decision. Lunch doesn’t mean that you’re committed to being “friends” again, or that you need to help him to get a job at your workplace.
On the other hand, reconnecting with Eric may be of emotional value to you. It could be an opportunity for you to reframe your past, or to grow beyond some painful memories and heal.
© 2008 Meryl Cohen. Address questions and correspondence to msbehavior@aol.com. She is the author of Do What I Say: Ms. Behavior’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Etiquette (Houghton Mifflin). Signed copies are available directly from the author.
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Banned from his art | NOVEMBER 22
The works of the Expressionist painter and graphic artist Bruno Gimpel were classified as “degenerate” during the Third Reich. Neither his voluntary service as an aide in a military hospital during World War I nor his “mixed marriage” with an “Aryan” woman spared him the usual repressive measures. On November 22nd, 1938 he received a letter from the Reichskammer der Bildenden Künste, the Nazi authority in charge of the visual arts, which yet again denied him membership and banned him from all branches of his profession. In 1935, this institution of the Third Reich had once before rejected a request for admission by the Dresden artist. Since 1937, he had no choice but to make a living by giving drawing lessons to Jewish children.
For all eternity | NOVEMBER 21
Among the over 1,400 German synagogues destroyed on and around the pogrom night of November 9th to 10th (later known as “Kristallnacht” or “Night of Broken Glass”) was the Semper Synagogue in Dresden, named after its architect. While neo-Romanesque on the outside, the building featured an interior in Moorish Revival Style – a design imitated by numerous other architects of synagogues in Germany. When the building was burnt down by both the SA and SS, 98 years had passed since its festive opening in 1840, at which Rabbi Zacharias Frankel had consecrated it to the service of God “for all eternity” and extolled the “respect for religious freedom inspiring this people.”
From bank teller to celebrated Hollywood composer | NOVEMBER 3
Mr. Wachsmann, an industrialist in Königshütte, Upper Silesia, tried to talk his gifted son, Franz, out of embarking on an unprofitable career as a musician. He imagined a more solid career for the youngest of his seven children. But Franz would not be dissuaded. While briefly working as a bank teller, he used his salary to pay for his real interests: piano; music theory; and composition lessons. After two years in this disagreeable position, he went to Dresden, later to Berlin to study music. Recognizing the young man’s talent, the composer Friedrich Hollaender asked him to orchestrate his score for the legendary 1930 movie, “The Blue Angel” with Marlene Dietrich. When in 1934, Franz was beaten up by Nazi hoodlums, he needed no further persuasion to leave the country and boarded a train to Paris the same evening. In 1935, he moved on to the United States, where, under the name “Waxman,” he quickly became a sought-after composer of film music. On November 3, 1938, Richard Wallace’s movie “The Young in Heart” was launched, with a soundtrack by Franz Waxman.
A last class photo | SEPTEMBER 4
Gisela Kleinermann (top row, right) had recently turned 10 years old. With her arm around her classmate, she looks, with a slight smile, into the camera. At this time, Gisela may already have known that she will not be part of this class of the Jewish school in Dresden any longer. In late summer 1938, her mother Erna prepared her family’s emigration to the United States. Step by step, in recent years the Nazis forced segregation in public schools. In many Jewish communities—as well as in Dresden—new Jewish schools were founded as a result.
Gestapo warrant for protective custody | JUNE 29
The Gestapo warrant for protective custody dated June 29, 1939 confirmed the hitherto merely formal arrest of the Jewish and communist painter Lina (Lea) Grundig (also see June 1). After her conviction of high treason, she was held at the Dresden Court Jail.
Gestapo in the house | JUNE 1
Her paintings were political accusations and constituted a threat to the Nazi regime. Lea Grundig, born in 1903 as Lina Langer, was arrested with her husband, Hans, by the Dresden Gestapo on June 1, 1938, and not for the first time. The explanation given on the form was “Suspicion of subversive activity.” What was meant was her art. With picture cycles like “Under the Swastika” or “It’s the Jew’s Fault,” Grundig, who since 1933 had been barred from her profession, hauntingly documented the brutality of the persecution of Jews and communists by the Nazis. In 1935, she gave one of her paintings the portentous title, “The Gestapo in the house.”
Monetary hurdles | MAY 4
Before Martha Kaphan could travel to Mandatory Palestine, she had to deposit the considerable amount of 800 Reichsmark at the Dresdner Bank. The Reich Office of Foreign Exchange Control, which played a major role in the exploitation of Jewish emigrants, demanded the sum for the issuance of her tourist visa. Thousands of Jews tried to enter Palestine illegally by means of tourist visas with the intention of applying for permanent visas later. Apparently, Martha Kaphan did not emigrate for long. The British Consulate confirmed her departure on December 24, 1938. The deposit was paid on December 29, 1938 in Breslau, and the account was closed on January 10, 1939.
“A quiet light in the dark night” | JANUARY 6
Sometimes the dark events were even reflected in the tone of birthday greetings. Fritz Schürmann, a Jewish teenager from Hildesheim, and Gerhard Loeffler, a Protestant from Dresden, had been good friends for years. On the occasion of Fritz’s 18th birthday, Gerhard wished him safety, solace, and strength. Untypically for people of so young an age, the friend tries to convince Fritz of the necessity of hard experiences in the life of every human being.
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List and uses of medicinal plants in Nigeria
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There are many medicinal plants used as home remedies for various diseases and conditions in Nigeria. Below is a summarised list and uses of medicinal plants in Nigeria.
Medicinal plants in Nigeria are plants used for making home remedies and traditional medicines or what we all know as herbal medicine. Any part of the plant could be used. In some plants, almost every part can be used in one home remedy or another. While in particular plants only some parts are used.
Herbal medicine in Nigeria is gaining more recognition, and this is seen in how much inquiries people make concerning home remedies and traditional medicine. In this article, we will only be listing some of the popular medicinal plants and their uses. We will not be explaining the procedure of making the various home remedies. Please note that is advisable and safe to seek professional advice, direction especially herbal medicine vendors for safety reasons.
Medicinal plants in Nigeria and their uses
These are the popular medicinal plants in Nigeria and their uses.
Moringa plant (Moringa Oleifera)
Moringa is a popular flowering tree. There is no way we will write about medicinal plants without mentioning Moringa Oleifera. It is referred to as the miracle tree. The uses of Moringa are too many to list, there are culinary, cosmetic, and medicinal uses, etc.
Some of the popular uses of moringa in Nigeria include:
Moringa plant is rich in amino acids, minerals and vitamins especially vitamin A, C, and E.
Moringa has antioxidants properties that help to fight free radicals and molecule that cause cell damage, inflammation, and oxidative stress.
It is used to fight inflammation because it has properties which suppress inflammatory enzymes and proteins in the body.
It is also effective in reducing glucose and lipid levels in the blood which is beneficial to the cardiovascular system.
Moringa leaves and flowers are rich in polyphenols which helps to protect the liver against oxidation, damage, and toxicity.
It is a traditional medicine in the treatment of the following conditions or alleviating symptoms of some of these conditions. Anemia, Arthritis and other joint pain (rheumatism), Asthma, Cancer, Constipation, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Epilepsy, Fluid retention, A headache, Heart problems, High blood pressure, Intestinal spasms, Kidney stones, Stomach pain, Stomach and intestinal ulcers, Thyroid disorders.
Treatment of infections (bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic infections) and abscesses. It has antibacterial and antimicrobial properties.
It is used as topical treatment of skin as a drying agent (astringent) or as a germ killer. And it is also applied to wounds because it has blood clotting properties that help in wound healing.
Smoothie made from Moringa also helps in energy release. Used to treat fatigue.
It is good for the eyes to maintain good vision. As mentioned earlier is very rich in vitamin A.
Bitter Leaf (Vernonia Amygdalina)
Bitter leaf is a plant that is grown in Africa and many parts of the world. It is known as Ewuro in Yoruba, Onugbu in Igbo, and Shiwaka in Hausa. As the name implies, the leaves of this plants are bitter, and that is why a lot of people cannot withstand it. Bitter leaf has a lot of detoxification properties that make is powerful in helping the body fight against many diseases and infections. It also has antipyretic properties. But if you dare to take it fresh, these are some of the medicinal uses of the bitter leaf.
One of the well-known uses of the bitter leaf is that it is a remedy for stomach ache. You can either chew on the tender part of the plant stem or leaf stalk or swallow the bitterness. Also, you can pound the leaves and squeeze out the juice from the leaves. Put three tablespoons of the juice in a small cup, add a pinch of salt to it and drink it. The stomach ache will be relieved just in a matter of minutes.
Bitter leaf is used for treating malaria, typhoid fever, and also diarrhea.
It is also good for the blood and lymphatic system. It has strong medicinal properties that help to clear the blood and lymphatic system of impurities. This is achieved by drinking the juice squeezed from fresh bitter leaf occasionally.
It is also helpful in people with hypertension in keeping their blood pressure low.
It is helpful in the management of diabetes. It can be effective in lowering blood glucose level.
It is used as traditional medicine for the remedy of many infections and diseases such as sexually transmitted infections, pneumonia, skin exanthemas such as eczema, ringworm, etc.
Another popular medicinal use of bitter leaf that you can find anywhere is that it is very helpful for people with prostate cancer. It helps to relieve symptoms associated with this disease such as difficult and painful urination known as dysuria. By taking a glass cup of juice from bitter leaf squeezed in water four times in a day. It helps to increase the flow of urine, reduce pain and also regulate and slow down the spread of the neoplastic cells.
It is also a proven remedy for treating insomnia.
Some studies show bitter leaf also helps to boost chances of getting pregnant, i.e., it enhances fertility.
Aloe Vera is a common medicinal plant which can be grown in the backyard. It is more popular for its cosmetic uses, especially for hair and scalp moisturization and treatment. It is an important ingredient a lot of natural hair and skin care products. But it also has some medicinal uses.
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Aloe Vera is used more often for topical treatment (i.e., on the skin) by applying the gel squeezed from the plant on the skin surface. It is used topically on the skin to soothe skin irritations and rashes. It is used in the treatment of skin conditions such dermatitis and psoriasis.
It is also used to treat oral mucositis, mouth ulcers, and canker sores. This is by application of the gel or a patch of the Aloe Vera leaf on the area of the sore or ulcer.
It is also used to make mouth rinse to reduce dental plaque.
Aloe Vera gel is used as a home remedy for accelerating the healing of burn injuries.
Aloe Vera is commonly used to treat constipation. But in this case, it the latex found just under the skin of the Aloe Vera plant that is used to make the traditional medicine. The latex has a very strong laxative effect.
Aloe Vera is also used sometimes as traditional medicine in diabetes management. Some studies show that it may be helpful in the management of blood sugar level.
Basil or Scent Leaf (Ocimum gratissimum)
The African basil also is known as scent leaf and is a popular medicinal plant in Nigeria. It is called Efirin in Yoruba, Daidoya in Hausa, and Nchanwu in Igbo. This plant is usually home-grown and easy to come by. So it is a popular medicinal plant for making home remedies. These are some of its uses.
One of its most common use is as a home remedy for diarrhea, dysentery, stomach ache, and vomiting.
It is also used to make a home remedy for relieving colon pains and earache.
Scent leaf is also used for preventing and treating cold and catarrh, cough, fever, and malaria.
Another use of scent leaf is for aiding digestion and relief bloating.
Squeezed scent leaf can also be applied to the skin to treat ringworm and some other skin diseases.
Scent leaf is also used to make traditional medicine for treatment of oral infections. Also, for treating fungal infections.
Some people also chew the stick of scent leaf for cleaning of the mouth and teeth (local chewing stick.)
Scent leaf or African Basil is also used for cooking because of its aromatic taste.
Girdle Pod (Mitracarpus Scaber)
This plant is known as Irawo Ile among the Yoruba’s in Southwestern Nigeria. It is called Gudugal in Hausa and Obuobwa or Ogwungwo in Igbo.
It uses include:
The treatment of skin infections such as scabies, dermatoses, and ringworm.
The home remedy for the treatment of body aches, headaches, toothaches, and arthritic pains.
It is also used in making traditional medicine for treating amenorrhea, hepatitis, and some sexually transmitted infections.
Ringworm Bush or Candle Plant (Senna Alata)
This plant is a popular medicinal plant in the tropics. It is called Ogalu in Igbo and Asunrun Oyinbo in Yoruba. This plant has antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, analgesic, diuretics, and laxative properties.
It is widely known for its antifungal properties which makes it efficient for treating a couple of fungal infections of the skin, ringworm and scabies included. It is also used to treat parasitic skin infections and eczema.
The plant has laxative properties. It is also used in making traditional medicine for treating constipation, diarrhea, intestinal parasites, uterus problems, and also expulsion of filarial worms.
The decoction made from the leaves can be used to treat biliousness and hypertension.
Wild Lettuce is a widely used medicinal plant used in traditional medicine not only in Nigeria but almost every part of the world where it can be found. It is known as Efo Yarin in Yoruba. The plant is known to have many healing qualities. It has been used for relaxant and sedative purposes for thousands of years. It also has anti-oxidative properties.
It has analgesic properties, and it is used to make a home remedy for pain relief, e.g., arthritic pain, colic pain, joint pain, muscle pain, and muscle spasms. It also helps to relieve uterine cramps in women during menstruation.
The plan has euphoric properties. It can be used to manage anxiety and stress.
One of the most popular uses of Wild Lettuce is its use for the treatment of insomnia because of its sedative properties
It is also used for treating conditions of the respiratory system such as asthma and cough because of its antitussive properties. It can also be effective in the treatment of bronchitis and also whooping cough.
It is very effective in treating headaches and migraines.
Wild Lettuce is also widely used for treating sexual disorders especially excessive and uncontrollable sexual drive in women, commonly knowm as nymphomania. It can also be used to manage the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome such anxiety, uneasiness, and pain.
It is also used as a home remedy for skin care. The latex of the plant can be applied for topical treatment of skin itching, irritation or minor skin infection.
The seed oil of Wild Lettuce is used to treat atherosclerosis. It helps the hardened arteries to regain its elasticity and flexibility.
It is also used to make a remedy for urinary tract problems because it has diuretic properties.
Note that this plant must be used carefully and in small doses for a short period because too much of it can cause conditions such as anxiety, decreased bowel sounds, dizziness or drowsiness, restlessness, mydriasis, and urinary retention if used in the wrong way or for a long period. Excessive use of wild lettuce can even slow down your breath and even lead to death.
Mint Leaf
Mint is a popular medicinal plant not just in Nigeria but every place where mint is grown. You can find mint as part of the ingredients of most of the products we use on a daily basis. It has lots of medicinal benefits.
Mint leaves can be used to aid digestion and treat stomach ache. When you drink warm water with mint leaves and lemon in it, it has a soothing effect on the gastrointestinal tract, helps to release intestinal gas, and relieve abdominal cramps.
Mint leaves are used to make tea which is medicinal. For example, a sip of mint tea is effective in fever relief.
Mint leaves can also be used by expectant ladies to relief morning sickness, nausea, and vomiting. An expecting lady can always have crushed mint leaves by her side, and when she is feeling sick, she can smell them to bring her relief.
Menthol extracted from mint is used in aromatherapy, and it has clinical benefit in alleviating post-surgery nausea.
Mint leaves are used in many other health and cosmetics product such as toothpaste, room freshener, shampoo, peppermint spray or oil, etc.
it also has a lot of culinary uses.
Water Leaf (Talinum fruticosum)
Water Leaf is a very popular medicinal plant in Nigeria which seems to go all year round but mostly in the raining season. It is more popular among the Yoruba people in Southwestern part of Nigeria. The Yorubas call it Gbure, Edo people call it Ebe-dondon and it has other English names such as Philippine spinach or Florida spinach.
Medicinal benefits of Waterleaf include:
Consumption of waterleaf helps to boost the immune system especially in people who often fall sick with malaria or people who always feel weak and tired.
The leaves of water leaves are excellent for people with diarrhea, hepatitis, and liver enlargement.
The leaves can also be pounded and applied as soothing on inflammations.
Infusions made from the leaves of waterleaf can be used as diuretics
Also, there have been scientific studies which have shown that consuming waterleaf helps to enhance the activity of the brain and protect brain tissues.
Waterleaf is also believed to be good for pregnant women.
Waterleaf is also used to make vegetable food, and it is high in dietary fiber.
People with gout, kidney disorders, and rheumatoid arthritis should avoid Waterleaf because it has a very high concentration of oxalic acid.
These are popular medicinal plants in Nigeria. You can learn more about each of them and how to use them.
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The era of Finlandization during the Cold War was characterized by the self-censorship of political leaders, in fear of angering Soviet leaders. This was combined with an effort to steer domestic public discourse in a way that no one would say anything that would offend our neighbor to the East.
“I belong to the generation that, in Finland during the time of the Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance with the Soviet Union, was told that a war could have been prevented if the Finnish government would have agreed with Soviet diplomat Jartsev’s proposals of a defense union between the USSR and Finland. We nodded our heads, even though in our gut we knew that this would have meant that Finland would have shared the same fate with the Baltic countries. We were also told about the legitimate Soviet security interests, when the Terijoki lights could be seen blinking all the way in Leningrad. All this can be seen and felt in the modern discourse regarding security policy in an bothersome way.” This is how Ulpu Iivari, the former party secretary of SDP, describes public discourse during the Cold War.
It has been almost 30 years since the fall of the Soviet Union, but Finland has still not been able to completely shake off the rigidness surrounding the public discourse in foreign- and security policy matters, which was characteristic of the time after the Finno-Soviet treaty of 1948. An analytical and open discourse is still lacking.
The last few years have even seen a negative trend in this aspect. The last political representatives of the Cold War generation have been able to keep themselves at the center of Finnish security policy discourse. A comical example of this was the A-talk episode (in Finnish) from a year ago, where the studio guests were all diplomats who started their careers in the 70’s and had a ripe average age of 70.
In the effort of safeguarding the legacy of Finlandization, members of this generation have found each other across party lines as well. The support that Erkki Tuomioja gave Sauli Niinistö’s letter is a good example of this.
When former Prime Minister Esko Aho attempts to silence discussion of his role in a Russian state-owned bank, or when the former Foreign Minister berates an YLE-news piece, which sites the Economist, as the dumbest thing he has read, freedom of speech suffers and attempts to create a more open discourse on foreign- and security policy are slowed down. In Finland, freedom of speech is assumed, but it still needs defending. Libera wants to act as a platform for diverse, analytical and open discussion on security policy. Because of this, the think tank organized a seminar on security policy, with the goal to take the discourse on security policy to the next level.
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In his exhibition, Anonymous, John Edmonds combines two distinct series of portraits, both of which conceal the identities of their subjects. The first series comprises striking formal studies of individuals wearing hoods on the street, photographed from behind. We can quickly read this suite of images as a statement on the unjust death of Trayvon Martin and how individuals of color face issues of racism, safety, and injustice in systemic ways. “All the work that I make is from a very personal place,” says Edmonds of his process. “It starts with me.” Edmonds further embeds himself in this work by photographing his subjects wearing his own hoodies and jackets. With little visual clues to guide us, we may only learn from the artist that the obscured individuals in fact vary in race, gender, and age.
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Edmonds takes an intimate approach to portraiture as a means of exploring symbols of black culture and the body, and through his pictures he poses larger questions about viewership, desire, and power today. Through concealment, he leaves much to the viewer’s imagination, revealing both the complexity of images themselves and the significance of the preconceptions that we bring to them. “At the heart of all of my work,” says Edmonds, “I want to leave people with something that is mocatalogdespite the facade—and to open up feeling and empathy.”
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At the 2008 Republican National Convention, party stalwart Michael Steele declared, “Drill, baby, drill! And drill now! Do you want to put your country first? Then let’s make decisions about our security based on what keeps us safe and not on what’s politically correct.”
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stepped onto the national stage at that convention as Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential running mate, and she quickly took up the “drill, baby, drill!” mantra, always being sure to make the proclamation with her telegenic broadcaster’s smile. Palin became the Republicans’ biggest proponent of unfettered drilling, in particular offshore drilling.
It’s little wonder that Palin and Donald Trump allied during his 2016 run for the White House. They were clearly cut from the same cloth. They both hold an antiquated notion of energy production: that the only way forward is to extract as much oil, natural gas and coal from the Earth as humanly possible, and to do it as quickly as possible.
No, Trump’s desire to suck our land and oceans dry of oil is not a new one. It was embraced by the Republicans in 2008, and more quietly in GOP circles for years before that.
But the party never pushed offshore drilling as Trump has. In January 2018, his administration said it would allow new offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all U.S. coastal waters. His plan would give “energy companies access to leases off California for the first time in decades” and open “more than a billion acres in the Arctic and along the Eastern Seaboard,” The New York Times recently reported.
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The proposal by the U.S. Department of Interior would open more than 90 percent of the outer continental shelf — the submerged land three miles off the coast — to oil and gas exploration.
A federal judge ruled in March, however, that the president’s executive order to permit such activity was unlawful. Thank goodness.
We’re not off the hook, though. Appeals could overturn that ruling. That’s why we, the people, must make our voices heard. And that’s what happened on Monday, Earth Day, when the Coalition to Save Hempstead Harbor held a rally at Tappen Beach in Sea Cliff to denounce Trump’s proposal.
“The executive branch is trying to undo all these [environmental] regulations, but we need to stop the ‘drill, baby, drill’ mindset,” U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from Glen Cove, told the Herald in advance of the protest.
Now all of us need to keep up the pressure to ensure that offshore drilling never happens here, and that no new drilling happens anywhere else.
How naïve and greedy Steele and Palin appeared just under a year and half after their fateful declarations when an offshore oil rig, British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11, injuring 17 and spewing an estimated 5,000 to 25,000 barrels of crude oil a day into oceanic waters stretching from Louisiana to Florida and beyond.
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Deliver Me from Temptation by Tes Hilaire
27 November 2012 Nicole Angels, Demons, Paranormal, Reviews, Tes Hilaire, Vampires 0
Ahhh, the second book in a new series is always much anticipated and one hopes that it will be as good and hopefully better than the first. Unfortunately, Deliver Me from Temptation was a bit of a let down. Don’t get me wrong, I like the series and the story arc, but it just wasn’t as good as the first book in the Paladin Warriors series, Deliver Me from Darkness.
Logan Calhoun is the last full-blooded Paladin, the future leader of a race of immortal warrior angels. The heavy responsibility of continuing the Paladin line falls to him, and the last thing he should do is get involved with a human. Then fate throws Jessica Waters, a homicide detective who doesn’t believe in fate or divine intervention, into his path. Her devotion lies in her Glock and a good set of handcuffs. Like Logan, she’s a warrior for her people, and she awakens within him something he’d never thought he’d feel. But she’s also as human as they come…
I’m torn here. I do enjoy the series and didn’t dislike Deliver Me from Temptation, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as the debut, Deliver Me from Darkness. Usually once all the world building of a new series is complete (it was all done back w/Deliver Me from Darkness), action and character development is the center of the future books. This was only partly true for Deliver Me from Temptation, as in, there was character development.
The Paladin Warriors series is PNR, so you have different hero/heroine combos for each book, so you expect character development to be heavy in each book of a PNR series. However, to me, Deliver Me from Temptation was slow. There wasn’t enough action and the pace just felt sluggish. I needed more tension, more “oomph” if you will. I get bored easily and it’s not uncommon for me to skim through less active portions of a book. I’ve read this way since I was a kid. But with Deliver Me from Temptation, I wasn’t just skimming. I kept getting heavily distracted by outside things…twitter, facebook, music playing in the background. My ADOS (attention deficit….oooooh…SHINY!) was rampant while reading Deliver Me from Temptation. It’s hard to explain. The writing isn’t bad and didn’t feel forced. I just think there could have been more tension and drama going on. For instance, the dynamics between Logan and his father. There’s a big story there…even Logan warns his dad at one point that he (dad) didn’t want to have Logan challenge him…that Logan didn’t want to have to go there yet. Why? What is the backstory there? We don’t find out really…so is Logan’s dad gonna get a book? If not, then this is Logan’s book…the perfect time to go there with his dad. Time to face that demon and force that issue, especially when daddy dearest scares the living daylights out of Logan’s woman.
Also, I’m not entirely sure what the set up is for upcoming books. There are some small hints, maybe. But…I’m just not too sure. Part of this could be from me not knowing how many books the series is set up for. But I’m not entirely sure who the next hero will be.
I just feel that Deliver Me from Temptation could have been soooo much better. There were several subplots that could have been fleshed out more to give more action and create the tension I look for. As I said, I like Ms. Hilaire’s writing and I do like the concept for the series. But would I move Deliver Me from Temptation up to the #1 spot on your TBR list, no. Is it worth reading? Yes…but save it for a rainy day when you’re stuck inside and need something to do ;).
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Veterans committee has few answers as millage spending concerns rise
Amidst charges of not spending millage money designated for veterans services, committee members say they are saving for transitional housing and seeking to fill empty staff positions.
Veterans committee has few answers as millage spending concerns rise Amidst charges of not spending millage money designated for veterans services, committee members say they are saving for transitional housing and seeking to fill empty staff positions. Check out this story on livingstondaily.com: https://ldpaa.com/2IiMrYd
Susan Bromley, Livingston Daily Published 6:30 a.m. ET Sept. 27, 2018 | Updated 6:36 a.m. ET Sept. 27, 2018
Counter clockwise from bottom left, County Commissioner Bob Bezotte sits in on a Sept. 24 meeting of the five-member veterans affairs committee, Chair Hansel Keene, Jim Wallace, Kevin Nagle, Joe Riker and Bruce Hundley. The committee has been under fire regarding spending of millage funds, and a criminal investigation by the Michigan State Police.(Photo: Susan Bromley/Livingston Daily)
Livingston County’s volunteer Veterans Affairs Committee continues to oversee day to day operations of veterans services in the county despite an ongoing criminal investigation and growing concerns from county leaders over financial management in the department.
On Monday, the committee met to discuss three open veterans services positions, including the open department director position. Former Director Adam Smiddy was fired last month by the committee. Smiddy said he was fired because he reported financial wrongdoing by a committee member.
A millage passed two years ago generates about $1 million per year for all veterans programs and services in the county. County officials approved budgets in the last two years that would have left about $150,000 a year allocated, but in fact more than $600,000 remains unspent.
None of the five committee members has answered questions from the Livingston Daily regarding Smiddy’s firing or the criminal investigation. And Monday, none were able to say just how much money the department has on hand.
County Commissioner Bob Bezotte told the five-member committee Monday that he has questions about the number of veterans served in the county in recent years and whether there has been an increase or decrease. He also said he wants answers to how money is being spent.
"It was alleged at our (county board) meeting that we aren’t spending the money and servicing vets correctly and I would like to have a discussion on that in the future as well," Bezotte said.
Committee Chair Hansel Keene assured Bezotte the committee "would get numbers and look at dates" for a meeting with county commissioners.
Keene has declined to release budget documents showing where money is being spent.
"I am not going to say I am ignorant of it, but I'm not sure what it is," Keene told the Livingston Daily when asked what the fund balance is. "The money is carried over from the previous year and we want to spend that first, even though we get a box of money for the next year. We look at the money and we're very, very diligent in working through all that."
Keene also declined to release minutes of the committee's Aug. 27 public meeting.
The Livingston County East County Complex houses the Veterans Services office, shown Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. (Photo: Gillis Benedict/Livingston Daily)
Transitional housing proposed
Committee Member Bruce Hundley said Monday the extra funds are being saved for "a dedicated facility for transitional housing" for veterans.
Committee member Joe Riker said it would be a "one-stop shop" for veterans and said the committee had decided in June to form a subcommittee on veterans transitional housing to study the issue, including county commissioners, relief committee members, and members of the Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency.
The committee has not met yet, but he said he hopes there will be a meeting "in the next couple of months, once we have a new director."
Riker said the veterans population is declining across Michigan, but said he did not have data on the number of veterans in the county, nor the number of veterans the department assists annually.
He estimated there were between 11,000 to 12,000 veterans in the county, with the department "easily seeing less than 10%."
The millage passed by voters is meant to fund the department of veterans affairs which includes benefits counselors to assist veterans in receiving the benefits to which they are entitled; drivers to help veterans get to medical appointments and other destinations; and relief services counselors to provide additional assistance to veterans who need help with food, shelter, clothing, etc. for themselves and their families and qualify under income guidelines.
The department was budgeted to have five full-time employees this year including a director, administrative specialist and three counselors, as well as three part-time employees, including a counselor and two drivers.
Nick Koulchar worked in the county's veterans services department for two years as a veterans resource officer. He said the questions being raised about the agency's spending now are ones that troubled him during his employment.
Koulchar, a 36-year-old Brighton Township resident, is an Army veteran who lost both his legs when a roadside bomb detonated in Iraq. He received a medical retirement from military service in 2010, but in December 2014, took a full-time job with the county veterans services.
Even in his position, he said he was reluctant to support the millage.
"I knew they didn’t have a good plan for the money," Koulchar said. "The money they were receiving before was enough to operate on. If they expanded services and staff, that’s one thing, but for the office spending to shrink-- they are getting two to three times as much money and doing less and less with it. I expect that money to be spent."
Koulchar recalled discussion of temporary housing for indigent veterans, which was proposed as an alternative to paying for hotel and motel rooms for homeless veterans, but he said he was not a fan of indigent housing as it would be a lot of "overhead and risk" for the county.
While he didn't hear anything more on the temporary housing idea once the millage passed, he expected additional staffing in the department or more digital equipment, but that did not materialize either. Instead, staffing has shrunk.
Koulchar said one of the reasons he resigned in June 2017 was because the committee members were merging counselor positions and asked him to take on additional duties without salary increases.
One of the critical staffing shortages in the veterans services department is drivers to transport veterans to medical appointments, with only one paid driver on staff. Appointments are sometimes as far away as Detroit and Ann Arbor.
Hundley said at Monday’s meeting he has had problems obtaining volunteer drivers.
"It could be horrible if we didn't pick up someone who needs to go to the hospital," Committee Member Kevin Nagle said. "It's really important we have paid people responsible for getting our veterans safely to everywhere they need to go. If something goes wrong, it's a big problem."
Hundley said Administrative Specialist Susan Cassie had been asked to keep track of all transportation appointments and should know where the van was at any given time.
The committee has received several applications for the open positions and planned to discuss candidates at a meeting set for 3 p.m. Friday.
The five-member veterans affairs committee meets on Sept. 24, 2018. Committee members are, from bottom left, Chair Hansel Keene, Jim Wallace, Kevin Nagle, Joe Riker and Bruce Hundley. They are joined by County Commissioner Bob Bezotte and Veterans Benefits Counselor Carol Reeve. (Photo: Susan Bromley/Livingston Daily)
Firing director not unanimous decision
The Livingston Daily was directed to file a public records request with the county for the committee’s Aug. 27 minutes. That document, a single page, was released by committee member Bruce Hundley.
The minutes summarize a 2-hour, 40-minute meeting in a few sentences. The minutes contain a short paragraph about the firing of Smiddy, noting that "Chairman Keen (sic) read Director Smiddy's job evaluation. Needed improvement in all areas. Lengthy discussion with all members and Adam Smiddy taking part. Jim Wallace did not agree with the evaluation and expressed that he was of the opinion that Adam Smiddy was doing a wonderful job as the director."
The minutes then noted that Nagle made a motion to terminate Smiddy, which was seconded by Riker and also approved by Hundley and Keene. Wallace did not approve.
An audio recording of the meeting, obtained through a public records request, reveals that Keene said he wrote one evaluation based on a composite of all committee members' evaluations; however, Wallace's evaluation of Smiddy was not included.
"Hansel, you are nothing but a troublemaker yourself and you don’t know what is going on in the department," Wallace told Keene after he learned his positive review was not used for the evaluation. "You’re incompetent and have shown that continuously, you don’t know how to lead meetings, you don’t know the public meetings act and you're only there for your own personal ego. You've made a mockery of this committee and I think you should resign."
Smiddy has said he was fired five days after he raised concerns to a committee member about a donation not being reported. The donation, he said, included a $400 check made out to the committee member, as well as two vacuum cleaners, and a riding lawnmower. He said the committee member told him he scrapped the lawnmower, still had the vacuum cleaners, and used $125 of the money for a veterans plaque. Smiddy said the committee member could not account for the remainder of the cashed check.
The State Police have confirmed they are investigating allegations of fraud by a committee member after a citizen complaint. County Administrator Ken Hinton requested the investigation.State police, Hinton, and Smiddy all declined to name the committee member pending results of the investigation.
Koulchar said he has lost confidence in the committee, and would not vote to renew the millage, which expires in 2022.
"My experience is the committee has done more harm to the vets of this county than help, they have crippled the office's ability to help vets," Koulchar said. "I don’t have confidence that if I ever needed assistance as a vet, that I could go to that office and find it. I'm upset that I have been gone a year and all this stuff still going on and nothing has changed... It's frustrating to think the amount of services offered to veterans has dwindled. There needs to be some investigation."
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Russian defense chief says there are survivors of navy fire
by: VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. A fire on one of the Russian navy’s deep-sea submersibles killed 14 sailors, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday without giving the cause of the blaze or saying if there were survivors. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
MOSCOW (AP) — Some crew members survived a fire that killed 14 sailors on one of the Russian navy’s deep-sea submersibles, Russia’s defense minister said Wednesday without specifying the number of survivors from the blaze.
Speaking at the navy’s Arctic base of Severomorsk, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu praised crew members for “heroic” actions on the research vessel, saying some seamen sacrificed their lives to rescue a civilian expert and to save the ship when the fire broke out Monday.
The Defense Ministry said the 14 seamen were killed by toxic fumes from the blaze, but it did not disclose how many crew members the submersible carried. Russian media reports said four or five crew members survived the blaze, but the claim couldn’t be confirmed.
Details remained scare Wednesday about the fire and the ship, which was on a mission to measure sea depths in Russia’s territorial waters in the Barents Sea.
The ministry didn’t name the vessel, but Russian media reported it was the country’s most secret submersible, a nuclear-powered research submarine called the Losharik intended for sensitive missions at great depths.
Few images and details have emerged about the vessel. In 2012, the Losharik was involved in research intended to prove Russia’s claim on the vast Arctic seabed. It collected samples from a depth of 2,500 meters (8,202 feet), according to official statements at the time. Regular submarines can typically dive only to depths of up to 600 meters (2,000 feet).
President Vladimir Putin, who summoned Shoigu Tuesday to report on the fire, said in televised comments that seven of the dead had the rank of captain and two had been awarded the nation’s highest medal, the Hero of Russia.
“It’s a huge loss for the navy,” Putin said.
The Defense Ministry on Wednesday published a list identifying the victims. They included two captains, Denis Dolonskiy and Nikolai Filin, who were recipients of Hero of Russia medals. Russian media said Dolonskiy and Filin received the medals for the 2012 Arctic seabed mission.
Shoigu, speaking during a meeting with officials investigating the fire, said those who died were “high professionals” and “unique experts.”
“The submariners acted heroically in the critical situation,” he said. “They evacuated a civilian expert from the compartment that was engulfed by fire and shut the door to prevent the fire from spreading further and fought for the ship’s survival until the end.”
Viktor Murakhovsky, a well-connected military expert, told Russian state television the accident happened while the ship was at a depth of 300 meters (984 feet.) He said the victims included two sons of Russian navy admirals.
Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, refused to say whether the vessel was nuclear-powered or answer any questions about its name, design and mission. He said the information was confidential.
In an email to The Associated Press on Wednesday, Synne Egset of the Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority said the agency “had not had confirmation or denial that it was a nuclear submarine.” She added that the accident would have no implications for human beings or wildlife.
A Vatican spokesman said Pope Francis has been informed of the fire and “expresses his condolences and closeness to the families and the victims affected by the disaster.” Putin is set to visit the Vatican Thursday for a meeting with the pope.
The fatal blaze is the most serious Russian naval accident since 2008, when 20 crew members died aboard the nuclear-powered Nerpa submarine in the Pacific Fleet after a firefighting system was accidentally initiated.
The Losharik is named after a Soviet-era animated cartoon horse made up of small spheres – a reference to the unique design of its interior hull, reportedly made of a chain of titanium spheres capable of withstanding colossal pressure at great depths.
Media reports speculated that it likely has features similar to the U.S. deep submergence vessel, the NR-1, which was mothballed in 2008 after nearly 40 years of service.
But unlike the NR-1 that was designed to dive to 910 meters (3,000 feet), the Losharik was built to go far deeper.
Some observers speculated the Losharik was even capable of going as deep as 6,000 meters (19,685 feet), but the claims couldn’t be independently confirmed. Analysts suggested that one of its possible missions could be disrupting communication cables on the seabed.
In Russia’s worst submarine disaster, the Kursk nuclear submarine suffered an explosion and sank during naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea on Aug. 12, 2000, killing all 118 crewmembers. Putin, who was in his first year of his presidency, came under heavy criticism at the time when he failed to immediately interrupt his vacation to handle the catastrophe.
Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark and Colleen Barry in Milan contributed to this report.
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Soldier Five: The Real Story of the Bravo Two Zero Mission
Author(s): Mike Coburn
The SAS book the British Government tried to ban
Soldier Five is the memoir of an elite New Zealand soldier's service within the Special Air Service and in particular, his service during the Gulf War. As a member of a Special Forces patrol, now famously known by its call sign Bravo Two Zero, he and seven others were inserted hundreds of kilometres behind enemy lines to reconnoitre targets, undertake suveillance of Scud missile sites and to sabotage Iraqi communication lines.
From the outset the patrol was dogged by problems that conrtributed both directly and indirectly to the demise of the mission. The patrol's compromise, and subsequent attempts to evade Iraqi troops, resulted in four of Bravo Two Zero's members being captured and three other patrol members perished. One escaped to Syria. Beaten horrifically and repeatedly, the four prisoners of war were held in hideous conditions until their repatriation at the end of the hostilities.
But the story goes further than the Gulf War itself. Despite numerous books, films, and articles on the same subject, the British Government has done its utmost to thwart the release of Soldier Five, at one stage claiming the book in its entirety was confidential. A campaign of harrasment that took some four and a half years of litigation to resolve, has now resulted in the freedom to publish the real story of the Bravo Two Zero mission.
Soldier Five is a gripping and suspenseful account of one man's experiences as a Special Forces soldier, of his ambitions, his loyalties, his relationships and his fight to see his story told. Twelve years post the first Iraqi Gulf War and in the aftermath of the 2003 Iraqi conflict, the story is as relevant as it ever was, providing the reader a stark insight into the realities of war.
Publisher : Mission Vista Ltd
Imprint : Mission Vista Ltd
Author : Mike Coburn
Dewey classification : 956.70442092
Illustrations : 16pp colour photographs
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Pain > Rebirth > Reviews > MaDTransilvanian
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Birth of the true Pain - 95%
MaDTransilvanian, November 30th, 2008
Rebirth is Pain's second full-length album and it's pretty much the band's true debut seeing as how the self-titled debut album isn't very representative of Pain's overall sound. Peter Tägtgren's side project truly became special because of this album and subsequent efforts which evolved from the same idea.
Musically this is a considerable improvement over the debut album because on Rebirth Peter wrote catchy songs with much more prominent keyboard work which all stick in your head while still being metal (to some extent) and are still very far from pop or other music which relies on catchiness alone. The metal elements aren't so different from the debut album, the riffs and drumming tend to accomplish the same roles as before although there are none of the admittedly few idiotic riffs occasionally present on the S/T. The songs here are, like I mentioned before, catchy as hell and this is what makes the album amazing. Peter's clean vocals are as good as ever, somewhat better than the debut album I might say, the catchiness of the songs being aided by the nature of his vocals and their ever-increasing quality.
Electronic and even techno elements exist here and can be found in basically each song, which adds a lot to variety without making this weak, since Peter seems to be comfortable and competent at mixing all this together into a very enjoyable overall result. His skills as a producer don't really need to be mentioned anymore and the production on Rebirth is essentially perfect, ideally suited to this type of music.
Unlike the previous album each song sounds unique, different and is memorable. Naming highlights is pretty difficult since everything kicks ass for the most part, but I suppose that the opener, Supersonic Bitch, End of the Line, Suicide Machine, Parallel to Ecstasy and On And On might all be called highlights, but while I was trying to figure this list out I constantly wanted to add almost the entire album's worth of songs to it…Rebirth basically IS an album's worth of highlights thanks to Peter Tägtgren's incredible songwriting skills. Each song has some awesome unique element to it, like the operatic vocals on Parallel to Ecstasy or the slow-paced low vocals on Dark Fields of Pain, making the whole album exceedingly captivating and addictive to listen to.
This album is where Pain found their sound, where the winning formula with which they've now created five albums and counting was born. It's an excellent album which is definitely worth hearing by anyone open minded enough to enjoy electronic elements in their metal. You won't be disappointed because Rebirth is another masterpiece by one of the world's most talented musicians.
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Foster: An ill-conceived mission to Mars
By Robert W. Foster/Guest Columnist
Seven years ago President Obama appointed the Human Space Flight Plans Committee to re-think President Bush’s 2004 “Vision for Space Exploration.” They established that the Bush estimate of $108 billion to return to the moon by 2020 is short by at least $30 billion. But now the president has “shared the vision … to send a crewed mission to Mars in the next 15 to 20 years,” according to the MetroWest Daily News of Oct. 16. President Obama’s pending retirement seems to have affected his judgment .
A manned junket to Mars is a bad idea.
Why not send men to Mars?
It is unnecessary. Everything we want to do on Mars can be accomplished by robotics. Sending along a manned crew would be nothing more than nationalistic hubris. The dream of space travel has been rendered obsolete by the advance of robotics technology. In the vacuum of space machines can do everything that men can do and do it all better, safer and cheaper.
Our astronauts, steeped in a culture of the “right stuff,” will, as they always have, protest that only a human presence can deal with unexpected circumstances so often encountered on these expeditions. But men encumbered with protective clothing and gear, and limited in their stamina and endurance for complex tasks, will be outclassed by robots that can observe situations, communicate with “mission control” and perform the necessary operations tirelessly for their own survival and that of their missions. And if they fail, all that is lost is hardware.
It is too costly. We can send robots on a one-way trip without the need of food, water, air supply systems, waste disposal systems, medical emergency systems and all the rest of the paraphernalia required to support human life for weeks or months outside their normal environment. Removing men from the venture will reduce the cost of the project by multiple millions of dollars. We have proved the ability of robotics in several missions to Mars over many years, each accomplishing exponentially more than the preceding mission.
The risk of an agonizingly prolonged death of a crew “lost in space,” on display for the whole world to experience, is too great a risk for the perceived benefits and would put an end to public support for such adventuring forever. Accidents and mechanical failure do happen; we have the history to prove it.
The idea of colonizing the planets in order to preserve human life, in anticipation of a life-ending calamity on earth, is insane. There is no calamity we cannot prepare for and survive if we apply the same engineering and scientific effort to the earth’s livability as we would to building a civilization in an unlivable environment. The idea (per Elon Musk) that a few rich elites should have an out-of-this-world safety net while the less fortunate billions are left behind to some unnamed fate is monstrous and politically and morally unacceptable.
Robert W. Foster is a retired engineer living in Hopkinton. He may be reached at robertwf97@gmail.com.
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Sophomore Brian Polendey played mostly on special teams in six games last season.
“You know, it’s tough to see a kid go down. It doesn’t matter who it is,’’ UM tight ends coach Todd Hartley told the media Wednesday after fall camp practice No. 5, the first with full pads. “Michael was having a great camp. He had a great spring camp. He really, really had a great summer and was really lookinjg forward to seeing what he was going to do this fall.
“There’s still a possibility he could come back at the end.’’
University of Miami tight ends coach Todd Hartley discusses how freshmen Brevin Jordan and Will Mallory will do in place of Michael Irvin
Irvin underwent surgery Wednesday to repair a right-knee medial collateral ligament injury, believed to have been sustained on Monday during practice. He is expected to be sidelined for about four months, UM said in a released statement, adding that he is expected to make a full recovery.
“Irvin is my guy,’’ UM running back DeeJay Dallas said. “We were preparing for a big season from his this year.’’
Irvin, the son of UM great and Pro Football Hall of Fame member Michael Irvin, is from Fort Lauderdale and graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas High School. He played in 12 games last season, catching nine passes for 78 yards. He had no catches in the six games in which he saw limited action as a freshman.
University of Miami offensive coordinator Thomas Brown speaks after the team's practice at Greentree Fields in Coral Gables, Fla. on Tuesday, August 7, 2018.
UM opens the season against LSU on Sept. 2 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
“I think about the LSU game every night before I go to sleep,’’ Jordan told the Miami Herald in May.
Said Hartley: “Now you’re going out there with kids that you think are capable, but there’s no substitute for game experience,’’ Hartley said. “And then it kind of hurts you in practice a little bit from a rotation standpoint. Those young guys have to grow up. Now it’s sink or swim.”
If they’re as good as they’ve been the past few years and in practice the past week, Jordan and Mallory will rise to the occasion.
Jordan, listed as 6-3 and 245 pounds, finished his senior year at Bishop Gorman with 1,111 receiving yards and 13 touchdowns on 63 catches.
“A freak,’’ South Florida recruiting analyst Larry Blustein calls him. “He’s going to be one of those guys that takes it right over. He’s a dominator. This kid is really, really, really good.’’
Mallory, 6-5 and 230 pounds, was rated as the nation’s third-best tight end prospect by ESPN, with 21 catches for 364 yards and three touchdowns last season. He had sustained a concussion last August, then almost immediately sprained his ankle when he returned in the third game and didn’t play again until there were only three games left.
He had 46 catches for 900 yards and 12 touchdowns his junior season.
Hartley said they both, as expected, have impressed.
“Through five practices, they’ve kind of exceeded expectations, to be honest,’’ Hartley said. “Brevin, specifically, he’s a kid that has unbelievable athleticism. You saw that in high school. You come out here and he’s just got stuff that you can’t coach. He runs routes well, has a good understanding of how to beat press, how to understand coverages and reading leverage and getting in and out of breaks.
“He’s [an] extremely gifted route-runner. But he’s also, for a young kid, pretty good at the point of attack. [He has] a long way to go and it really is a benefit to him that he goes against our defensive line every day. He’s right where I thought he’d be, if not further along.’’
Hartley said he “didn’t really [know] what to expect from Mallory... but man, that kid’s doing unbelievable as well. He’s really having a good camp and making a lot of plays and running and catching. The blocking stuff that we’ve put him in there with, he’s really done a nice job.
“Both of them just need to keep doing what they’re doing. ...They’re on track to be where they need to be.”
Both will have their opportunities Saturday in UM’s first fall scrimmage, closed to the media and public.
“It’s big,’’ Hartley said. “They’re getting hit now. The only thing that’s not happening now is we’re not going to the ground.
“They’re getting popped in the mouth, they’re getting driven back. They’re able to hit people and drive people back. The scrimmage, to me, is going to be no different than being out here every day.”
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CIH9: N.G.O. (Nothing Going On)
Maysles Cinema 343 Lenox Avenue New York, NY, 10027 United States (map)
Presented by True Walker Productions and Friends of the Congo
N.G.O. (Nothing Going On)
Arnold Ganze, 2017, 83 min
Two friends, Tevo and Zizuke, dream of living carefree lives, making easy money and pairing off with mzungu (white) women. At their local hangout, they meet a mzungu woman who suggests they start an NGO. They seize the opportunity, seeing it as the key to their own personal gain. As the two young men fumble to launch their organization, they enlist the help of a beer-swilling elder named “Mr. Heineken”, who instructs them on the lingo of “empowerment” and “capacity- building”. The scam is a huge success — or so it seems — until an international donor sends a filmmaker to document the NGO’s nonexistent achievements and the situation takes an unexpected turn... This light-hearted comedy packs a deep and incisive critique of foreign aid and intervention in Africa.
Followed by a post-screening discussion with Arnold Aganze and reception with Congolese food and live music by Nkumu Katalay and the “Life Long Project” Band.
Congo in Harlem is a showcase of films, exhibits, panel discussions and special events focused on the history, politics, and culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Congo in Harlem is made possible by generous contributions from The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Congo Love.
This presentation is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2017 Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds Grant program, administered by the ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.
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South Carolina Lawmakers Pre-File Four Marijuana Bills For 2019
South Carolina lawmakers pre-filed four marijuana-related bills on Tuesday, including two that would establish comprehensive medical cannabis programs in the state.
Currently, there are only legal protections for a small class of South Carolina patients to use cannabidiol, or CBD. But the new legislation that’s being introduced for 2019 by Reps. Rosalyn Henderson-Myers (D) and J. Todd Rutherford (D) would allow a wider range of patients to possess and consume marijuana and permit licensed shops to cultivate and dispense the plant.
Henderson-Myers’s bill would also require dispensaries to “contract with laboratories for testing of marijuana.”
Separately, a pre-filed bill from Rep. Ivory Thigpen (D) would amend state law to decriminalize possession of up to one ounce of cannabis or 10 grams of hashish. Instead of a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to 30 days in jail and a $200 fine, possession of that amount would be a civil infraction.
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Rutherford also pre-filed a separate piece of decriminalization legislation, but his proposed policy would only apply to military veterans who were honorably discharged and suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) “arising from the veteran’s duty in an area that the president of the United States designated by executive order as an area in which United States armed forces are engaging or have engaged in combat.”
Qualifying veterans would legally allowed to possess up to an ounce of cannabis or ten grams of hashish under the bill.
“We are excited to see lawmakers increasingly engaged in this issue in South Carolina, and it reflects the strong support medical cannabis has among voters in the state,” Chris Lindsey, senior legislative counsel at the Marijuana Policy Project, told Marijuana Moment.
“Its past time lawmakers and the governor adopt a program for seriously ill patients who qualify, and we think there will be majority support in both chambers in 2019.”
Lawmakers in states across the country have started pre-filing marijuana bills ahead of upcoming legislative sessions. That includes bills to allow students to use medical cannabis in schools in Washington state and Virginia and to fully legalize cannabis in Missouri and Texas.
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Spotlight Lecture: Ann Beattie at the Portland Public Library
Thursday, July 11 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: Portland Public Library, Rines Auditorium
Audience: Adults
Join us for a conversation between Ann Beattie and TBD, to discuss Beattie’s new book A Wonderful Stroke of Luck. The conversation will be held on Thursday, July 11 at 6:30pm in the Rines Auditorium.
As a member of the Honor Society at Bailey Academy, one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the country, Ben falls under the tutelage of Pierre LaVerdere, a brilliant, enigmatic teacher who instructs his charges on how to discuss current events, how to think about art and literature, and how to form opinions for themselves. Ben develops close friendships with LaVerdere’s other disciples, and as the years go by the legacy of their teacher and his words remain strong. As Ben moves on, first to college and then to the turbulence of post-grad life in New York City, he comes to feel the pace of his life accelerating, his relationships a jumble, and his career plans in a constant state of flux. What did Bailey really teach him?
After his father dies, Ben develops a curiously close, yet strained intimacy with his stepmother and tries to salvage what he can of his relationship with his sister. A move upstate offers only temporary respite from his anxieties about work and romance and when LaVerdere returns to Ben’s life, everything Ben once thought he knew about the man–and about himself–is called into question. A twenty-first century comedy of manners, A Wonderful Stroke of Luck is a keenly observed work of fiction that shows one of the most iconic writers of our time, once again an astute chronicler of her generation’s ambivalence and sometimes strange ambitions.
Ann Beattie has been included in four O. Henry Award Collections and in John Updike’s Best American Short Stories of the Century. In 2000, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story form. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Key West, Florida, and Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.
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Francisca de Lebrija, Humanist and Academic
Francisca de Lebrija/Nebrija (5 July)
Francisca de Nebrija was the daughter of the humanist scholar Antonio de Nebrija and Doña Isabel Montesinos de Solis. Her father was born Antonio Martínez de Cala, but Latinized his name as "Aelius Antonius Nebrissensis"--"Nebrissensis" the Latin version of his native birthplace, Lebrija. In Spanish, he was thus known as Antonio "de Nebrija" or "de Librija." His daughter's name is similarly confusing, at times given as "de Lebrija," at times as "Nebrija."
The list of female writers and scholars
appended to Nicolás Antonio's 1672
Modern Spanish Writers
(image from Google Books)
Aside from the name of her father and mother, little else is known about Francisca's life. The reason for posting about Francisca de Librija* today is thus a bit odd--her father died on 5 July 1522. Since I can find no dates for Francisca's life, not even a birth date nor death date, I am posting about her today.
Although no biographical information survives, Francisca de Librija does occupy a place in history, however scant the evidence. What is said about her is brief but often repeated: she was tutored by her father, a distinguished poet and lexicographer, she substituted for him as a teacher of rhetoric at the University of Alcalá, and she may have assisted him in his research and writing.
The entry for Lebrija in The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature indicates she was born in the sixteenth century, but since her father was born in 1444 and died in 1522, at the age of 78, it seems likely that Francisca was born in the late fifteenth century.
As Emilie Bergmann notes in "Spain's Women Humanists," although "[c]enturies of repetition established the commonplace" about both Francisca de Librija and her contemporary, Luisa de Medrano--that they lectured on rhetoric at the University of Salamanca--little evidence survives.
For example, in his massive Modern Spanish Writers (Bibliotheca hispana nova, first published in 1672), Nicolás Antonio includes an appendix, "Gynaeceum Hispanae Minervae," listing the names of Spanish women known for their writing--but whose work had (already) been lost (if you click this link, the appendix begins on p. 337). The five-line entry for "Francisca de Lebrixa" notes that she is the daughter of Antonio "Nebrissensis," that she taught the art of rhetoric, and that her teaching was applauded by all.
The entry for Francisca "de Lebrixa" in Nicolás Antonio's
1672 Modern Spanish Writers
Such an account of Francisca "de Nebrija" was still being given in the nineteenth century. In his Escritoras y eruditas Espanolas (Spanish [Women] Writers and Scholars), Diego Ignazio Parada included a brief account of Francisca de Lebrija among other "teachers and writers in Latin prose," writing that she substituted for her father when he was ill and when he was occupied with other business. While noting that no work by her hand survives, Parada suggests that she may well have contributed to some of her father's works.
A note of caution is sounded by Mary Agnes Canon in her 1916 The Education of Women in the Renaissance. In a chapter on the educated women in Spain and Portugal during the Renaissance, she calls Francisca de Lebrija "her father's right hand in his literary labors." She also notes that some scholars have "conjectured" that she might have contributed to her father's work. but, Canon observes, there seems to be "no warrant for the conjecture," since nothing survives.
Which takes us back to Bergmann. Like the scholar Beatriz Galindo, "La Latina," Francisca de Lebrija is a female scholar whose scholarship, unfortunately, has been lost.
*I am using "Lebrija" as this is the way her name is spelled by Elizabeth T. Howe in her brief entry in The Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature.
Francisca de Lebrija's name is included on the Heritage Floor in Judy Chicago's massive art installation, The Dinner Party.
Labels: Beatriz Galindo, Judy Chicago, Luisa de Medrano, women and education, women writers
Mary Jones and the Great Library War of Los Angeles
Mary Letitia Jones (born 29 June 1865)
Born on 29 June 1865, Mary Letitia Jones was the daughter of a minister, William R. Jones, and his wife, Jane, both of whom had immigrated to the United States from Wales. In the 1870 U. S. Census, four-year-old Mary is living with her family in Wisconsin; by the time of the 1880 Census, the family has moved to Nebraska.
Mary Letitia Jones,
from the collection of the Los Angeles Public Library
Mary Letitia Jones graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1885 and then attended New York State Library School, founded by Melvil Dewey (of Dewey Decimal fame), where she graduated in 1892.
After finishing her education and carrying with her a recommendation from Dewey himself, she returned to Nebraska, recruited by James H. Canfield, chancellor of the University of Nebraska. She was hired not only to head the library but to help in the planning of a new library building. By 1895, she was head of a staff of 10 and had doubled the size of the library's holdings. (She also converted the library to the Dewey Decimal system.)
After leaving the University of Nebraska, Jones worked at the University of Illinois and the State Library of Iowa, moving to the Los Angeles area by 1899 to join her family--her father had retired to Pasadena.
She was soon hired by the Los Angeles Public Library, as an assistant librarian, working with city librarian Harriet Child Wadleigh. When Wadleigh retired, Mary Jones became the city's head librarian. As Nicholas Beyelia notes, Jones was "the first Los Angeles City Librarian working for the Los Angeles Public Library who was both a college graduate and a graduate of library school."
Despite Jones's qualifications and career accomplishments, all did not go well--just five years later, she was asked to resign so that the city of Los Angeles could replace her with a man. Jones refused, noting her reasons in a letter delivered to the library's board of directors:
At first it was my inclination immediately to yield to the request relayed upon me by the president. But, upon reflection, I have concluded that it would not be fitting for me to tender my resignation as the head of a department where only women are employed. When such a resignation is tendered solely on the grounds that the best interests of the department demand that its affairs no longer be administered by a woman. Ever since the adoption of the present city charter, the library has been presided over by a woman with a staff of assistants composed exclusively of women.
Since Jones refused to resign, she was fired. Her firing set off the "the Great Library War." (I love this statement that Jones made to the Los Angeles Times, when she was asked about why she had been replaced by a man: “Those directors seem as crazy after a man as though they were a board of old maids.”
This "war" certainly demonstrates sexism and misogyny--but there is a healthy bit of nepotism and favoritism as well, and of course the usual chicanery, harassment, espionage, and bureaucratic finagling. It engulfed the city, but the war went beyond the city's limits, eventually bringing Susan B. Anthony to town!
Susan B. Anthony, "laying down the law,"
Los Angeles Herald, 13 June 1895
After she was fired, Jones left Los Angeles, at least temporarily. She went next to Berkeley, where she taught at the university for two years, then headed to Bryn Mawr, where she was head of the library for six years. In 1920, she returned to Los Angeles, where she helped to set up the Los Angeles County Library system. During the first world war, she helped to create a library on a local military base, Camp Kearney. Jones remained in Los Angeles after retiring and died, age 80, in 1946.
I could write much more here--I always tend to write more than I plan to write! But, truth be told, I would be taking information from the incredibly readable, detailed blog of Nicholas Beyelia, who has posted a four-part series. That's where you need to go to read much more of this incredible story! For the first part of Beyelia's account of the Great Library War ("Have You Met Miss Jones?"), click here.
You may also be interested in Susan Orlean's The Library Book (2018), a book about the 1986 fire in the Los Angeles Public Library that destroyed 400,000 books (and damaged 700,000 more). Orlean writes about the library's history, including the story of Mary Letitia Jones.
Labels: Susan B. Anthony, women and education, women and work
Urraca Alfonso, Queen of Navarre and Regent of Asturias
Urraca Alfonso, queen of Navarre and regent of Asturias (married 24 June 1144)
Urraca Alfonso was the daughter of Alfonso VII of León (the son of a woman whom we have met before, Queen Urraca of Castile and León) and Gontrodo Pérez, member of a noble Asturian family, which accounts for the name by which her daughter is also know, La Asturiana.
Gontrodo was the wife of a feudal lord (tenente), Gutierre Sebastiániz, at the time of her relationship with King Alfonso, whom she seems to have met when he was in Asturias to quell a rebellion.*
Urraca Alfonsa's tomb in the cathedral of Palencia
(with a questionable date of death)
At the time of Urraca Alfonso's birth, Alfonso VII's queen and wife was Berengaria of Barcelona, to whom he had been married in 1128, when she was just twelve years old--the first of their seven children would be born in 1134.
(After the death of Queen Berengaria in 1149, King Alfonso would go on to marry Richeza of Poland in 1152, with whom he would have two more legitimate children, one of whom was Sancha of Castile, queen of Aragon.)
A contemporary life of King Alfonso, the Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris, notes that Gontrodo was "extremely beautiful and of the highest nobility." But historical judgments differ. About this relationship, the nineteenth-century historian of Spanish queens, Anita George, concludes that, while the king "loved [Gontrodo] with the most ardent passion," she was a "worthless" rival.
Worthless or not, Gontrodo gave birth to Urraca in 1133, making her the king's first-born child. According to a seventeenth-century Jesuit historian of Asturia, Alfonso treated this daughter as he did his legitimate children, in particular his sons--he awarded her land and titles and arranged for her to be educated, along with his other children, by his sister, Sancha Raimúndez of León.
The king also secured a significant marriage for Urraca Alfonso—to García Ramírez, king of Navarre, on 24 June 1144. The twelfth-century chronicle of Alfonso contains a lengthy account of this politically expedient decision and of the lavish marriage ceremonies that celebrated the match. (Urraca Alfonso's half-sister, Sancha of Castile--one of Alfonso VII's daughters with Berengaria--would marry King García Ramírez's son in 1153. Another interesting example of "traditional marriage"--half sisters marrying a father and a son. And yes—Alfonso VII has two daughters named Sancha of Castile, one born to each of his two wives. No wonder this gets confusing!)
After the death of the king of Navarre in 1150, Urraca, now dowager queen, was sent to Asturias by her father. There she took up residence in Ovieda, where King Alfonso allowed his daughter to retain her title of "queen" and entrusted her with the administration of the province.
In 1153, she confirmed the charter of the Monastery of Santa María de la Vega, her mother's foundation. After the death of King Alfonso VII in 1157, Urraca's half-brother, Fernando II, continued to allow her to administer Asturias, although he himself returned to Oviedo and ruled as king of "Galicia and León"--Asturias was a province of Galicia.
Urraca Alfonso, dowager queen of Navarre, remarried in 1163. A charter from that year indicates that the Urraca and her second husband, Álvaro Rodríguez de Castro, were now managing Asturias together: "Alvaro Rodríguez with his wife Urraca governing Asturias" (Alvaro Roderici cum uxore sua regina Urraca Asturias imperante).
At some point in early 1164, the two were involved in an uprising in Asturias, a rebellion that was crushed by her half-brother, now king of León.
Urraca Alfonso gave birth to two children. Her daughter Sancha was born in 1148, while Urraca Alfonso was queen of Navarre. During her second marriage, she gave birth to a son, Sancho Álvarez de Castro, in 1164. Like his mother, he would eventually control Asturias, a chronicle noting, "Sancho Álvarez [was] governing Asturias" and describing him as "the son of Queen Urraca" (Dominante Asturias Sancius Alvari filius regina Urrace).
There is some dispute about the year of Urraca Alfonso's death--the Oviedo Enciclopedia cites her date of death as 1164. This date is also accepted by the online biographical dictionary of the Real Academia de la Historia, which notes that Urraca Alfonso's second husband, Álvaro Rodríguez de Castro, was free to remarry in that year, since Urraca had died. Finally, the notes to the twelfth-century chronicle of Alfonso VII indicate that Urraca Alfonso died "after" 1164.
However, a document from the Monastery of Villaverde de Sandoval records a gift made by "La infanta Urraca, hija de Alfonso VII" of significant property in 1178. The donation is made for for songs to be sung for her soul and that of her father (Hace la donación para que en el cabildo del monasterio, en el que desea ser enterrada, se cante un aniversario por su alma y la de su padre el día de San Juan Bautista). This date may be confused, however--in his edition of the chronicle of Alfonso, Glenn Edward Lipskey notes "References to dates will follow the original manuscripts of the chronicle which utilize the calendar of the Spanish Era. Thirty-eight years must be subtracted in order to arrive at the corresponding year within the Christian calendar." Could the 1178 year in the original document be in the old-style calendar?
Finally, to further confuse matters, Urraca Alfonso's tomb in the chapel of Santa María Magdalena in the Cathedral of Palencia, though constructed later, gives her year of death as 1189. (Urraca was buried in the Romanesque cathedral at the time of her death, but it was rebuilt in the fourteenth century in the Gothic style.)
So this breathtaking gap--Urraca Alfonso may have died in 1164 or as late as 1189--is just another indication of the failure of documentation for many historical women's lives.
*There are variant spellings for Gontrodo's name, and some discussion about exactly how noble her family. Born about the year 1105 or 1106, she had three children with her husband. After 1137, the name of her husband, Gutierre Sebastiániz, disappears from the records. Gontrodo's name appears only sporadically in the records, and the evidence suggests that she retired to a convent after her liaison with Alfonso VII--she donates an inheritance to the Monastery of San Vicente in 1141, and several years later, property that had been given to her by Alfonso VII. But the twelfth-century Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris claims that, after her daughter's marriage, Guntrodo became a nun:
Now Guntroda, King García's mother-in-law, recognized the enormous honor paid to her daughter who bad become a queen. . . . Even though she possessed many worldly desires, Guntroda looked eagerly to spiritual matters as much as she could. She consecrated herself to God and remained in his service. Accordingly, she became a nun in Oviedo. There she joined a religious community in the church of Saint Mary. She felt that with help from the Mother of God she certainly would be able to discover some joy in life. She would appease God by praising him continually through the Divine Office. She would then await the glorious end of her life persevering in this devout practice. Praying constantly in a true spirit of sincerity, she would repent for all of her sins.
In 1153, Gontrodo founded the Monastery of Santa María de la Vega in Oviedo, where she became a nun, dying there on 26 June 1186. Online information is available online at the Oviedo Enciclopedia.
Alfonso VII would also have a daughter with a another woman named Urraca, Urraca Fernández de Castro, widow of a Leonese nobleman, Rodrigo Fernández. The date of Stephanie Alfonso's birth isn't clear, but her mother seems to have begun her relationship with the king in 1139, after her husband's death. Between that date and 1148, the king awarded property and privileges to Urraca Fernández and Stephanie Alfonso.
A twelfth-century manuscript drawing of
Urraca Fernández (right) and her husband, Rodrigo Martínez
After Alfonso VII's death in 1157, his son, Fernando II, now king, arranged for the marriage between his half-sister and the head of his household, Fernando Rodríguez de Castro. In 1180, Stephanie's husband murdered her--he stabbed her to death. He suspected his wife was unfaithful to him . . . But, oops, maybe not. Whatever the case (and there is a dramatic, romanticized story that he realized he was wrong and was sorry afterwards), King Fernando forgave him for having murdered his half-sister . . . Which is why Stephanie is also known as Stephanie the Unfortunate (Estefanía la Desdichada).
Stephanie was buried near her grandmother, Queen Urraca of Castile and León. Her epitaph makes no mention of the circumstances of her "unfortunate" death:
Here lies the Infanta Doña Estefanía, daughter of Emperor Alfonso, wife of the powerful Fernán Ruiz, mother of Pedro Fernández Castellano, who died on July 1, 1180.
(The Latin inscription reads: HR INFANTISSA DOMINA STEPHANIA, FILIA IMPERATORIS ADEFONSI, CONJUX FERDINANDI RODERICI POTENTISSIMI BARONIS, MATER PETRI FERDINANDI CASTELLANI, QUAE OBIIT WAS MCCXVIII. KAL. JULII.)
Labels: queens, regents, Sancha of Castile, traditional marriage, Urraca of Castile, women and political power
Margherita de' Medici, Regent of Parma and Piacenza
Margherita de' Medici, duchess and regent of Parma and Piacenza (born 31 May 1612)
Margherita de' Medici was the daughter of Maria Magdalena of Austria, grand duchess and regent of Tuscany, and Cosimo II de' Medici, archduke of Tuscany. Like her mother, Margherita would become regent for her minor son after the death of his father.
Margherita de' Medici, c. 1628,
about the time of her marriage,
by Justus Sustermans
Born on 31 May 1612, Margherita was given an excellent humanist education, worthy of a woman of her social class and family status--in religion, art, classical literature, music, statecraft, and science, as well as in Latin. As the product of this education, she could compose odes and epigrams in both Italian and Latin.
Although Marie de' Medici, dowager queen of France, hoped to marry her son, Gaston, duke of Orléans, to Margherita, the Florentine girl was promised instead to Odoardo Farnese in 1620, when they were both eight years old--Odoardo had been born just a month before Margherita.
Odoardo's father, Ranuccio I Farnese, was the duke of Parma, Piacenza, and the alliance between his son and a daughter of the archduke was intended to strengthen the alliance between Parma and Tuscany.*
Odoardo Farnese succeeded to his title when he was still a child, in 1622, at the time of his father's death. His uncle was regent of Parma until 1626, and after he died, the young Odoardo's regent was his mother, Margherita Aldobrandini.** She continued as regent until her son reached his majority, in 1628, when he and Margherita de' Medici were married in a spectacular ceremony in the Florentine cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.
In Parma, Margherita de' Medici, now duchess of Parma and Piacenza, gave birth to eight children, the first in 1629, a year after her marriage, the last in 1641. During his frequent absences in pursuit of his territorial ambitions, Odoardo trusted at least some of the political duties to his wife. In 1635 he appointed her governor of Piacenza, for example. (As for Odoardo's ambitions--among other failures, he was excommunicated in 1641 and lost the Farnese fief of Castro, though it was eventually returned to him in 1644 as part of a peace negotiation with the Barberini family. After his death, however, papal forces razed Castro.)
As Adelina Modesti notes, Margherita was able to "[use] her cultural background, family connections, and force of personality to navigate successfully the transition between her natal and marital families, enabling her to gain an extraordinary degree of political power and cultural influence, which she used to enhance the interests of her marital family without losing her sway with the family she left behind."
Margherita de' Medici,
duchess of Parma and Piacenza,
copy of a portrait by Sustermans,
Galeria Nazionale
In August 1646, the dowager duchess and former regent of Parma, Margherita Aldobrandini, died. A month later, in September, Margherita de' Medici's husband, Odoardo Farnese, died. Since her eldest son was still a minor, Margherita de' Medici, now herself dowager duchess of Parma and Piacenza, became regent for her son. Her regency lasted until 1648, when her son, Ranuccio II of Farnese, achieved his majority.
As Modesti notes, however, Margherita de' Medici continued to exert a great deal of influence even after her son became duke, acting as his "political advisor and diplomatic ambassador even after he became an adult, married three times, and ruled officially in his own right."
Margherita de' Medici lived another thirty years. She died on 6 February 1679, aged sixty-six, noted as "a woman of extraordinary talent with good taste in the arts: mourned by the people and the court, she was greatly famed for her acute judgement, eminent compassion, and exquisite traits."
The most complete treatment of Margherita de' Medici, duchess of Parma and Piacenza, is Adelina Modesti's “Margherita de’ Medici Farnese: A Medici Princess at the Farnese Court,” in Medici Women: The Making of a Dynasty in Grand Ducal Tuscany.
*There is some evidence to suggest that the marriage negotiations at first involved the eldest Medici daughter, Maria Christina, but she seems to have been born with some kind of physical disability--when the duke of Parma discovered this, he insisted on renegotiating the alliance. Maria Christina lived in the Florentine convent of the Holy Conception (Santissima Concezione), founded by her great-grandmother, Eleanor of Toledo, duchess of Florence (wife of Cosimo I de' Medici). She remained there until her death, at age twenty-three, in 1632.
**Whose story is an interesting one! The granddaughter of Pope Clement VIII, Margherita Aldobrandini was married to the thirty-year-old Ranuccio I Farnese when she was just twelve years old. She remained childless for a decade, leading Ranuccio to the conclusion that she had been cursed! Or he was . . . Or something. When at long last a child was born to Ranuccio and Margherita, the baby was deaf. Convinced that his wife was cursed, Ranuccio had a former mistress, Claudia Colla and her mother, Elena tried for witchcraft--and executed in 1611. And Odoardo was born, as I said, in 1612 . . .
Labels: Maria Magdalena of Austria, regents, women and political power, women and politics, women rulers
Elizabeth of Bosnia, Regent of Hungary and Croatia
Elizabeth of Bosnia, Queen of Poland and Regent of Hungary (married 20 June 1353)
Elizabeth of Bosnia was the daughter-in-law of a remarkable queen, Elizabeth of Poland, queen of Hungary, who was for many years her son's valued and trusted political adviser. Elizabeth of Bosnia was the mother of two ruling queens, Jadwiga, queen regnant of Poland, and Mary, queen regnant of Hungary and Croatia, and she was also regent of Hungary after her husband's death.
Elizabeth of Bosnia and her husband,
Louis of Hungary,
kneeling at the feet of St. Catherine,
from a fourteenth-century chronicle
Born about the year 1340, Elizabeth of Bosnia was the daughter of Stephen II, the ruler (or "ban") of Bosnia, and Elizabeth of Kuyavia, a Polish noblewoman who was closely related to Elizabeth of Poland. The marriage of the Bosnian ban and a Polish woman was intended to strengthen the ties between Stephen and the Hungarian king, Charles Robert (Elizabeth of Poland's husband).
Not much is known about Elizabeth of Bosnia's early years--but she must have received some education, because she is known to have later written a "manual" on the education of daughters. (See below.)
By the time she was about ten years old, she was already a valuable commodity in the marriage market. In 1350, as a way of settling a long conflict between Bosnia and the Serbian empire, Tsar Stefan Dušan suggested a marriage between his son and Stephan's daughter, Elizabeth.
Stephan of Bosnia declined this offer, however. At some point he seems to have sent his daughter to the court of Elizabeth of Poland, where she could be reared by the queen. Elizabeth of Poland's son, Louis, had been married to Margaret of Bohemia (daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV) in 1342, when she was just seven, but the dowager queen seem to have regarded Elizabeth of Bosnia as a spare. And after Margaret died of the plague in 1349 (she was just thirteen of fourteen years old), Elizabeth of Poland arranged for her son to marry Elizabeth of Bosnia. The marriage took place in 1353.
Stephen of Bosnia died just three months after his daughter became the queen of Hungary, but there seems to have been no question that she (or she and her new husband) would succeed him as ruler of Bosnia. Instead, Stephen was succeeded by an underage nephew.
Throughout the next few years, Elizabeth's husband and her cousin, now king of Bosnia, struggled over the payment of her dowry. In Bosnia, the new young king had trouble maintaining the integrity of the state his uncle had crafted, and in 1357, he was forced to cede a great deal of territory to Elizabeth's husband as payment of and in exchange for a recognition of his title. By 1370, Louis gained even more influence when he succeeded to the crown of Hungary and Croatia
Meanwhile, Elizabeth, now queen of Poland and Hungary, had her own struggles. Her mother-in-law, the dowager queen, remained an active and powerful political force (Elizabeth of Poland didn't die until 1380, aged about 75), while the younger Elizabeth herself "failed" in her most important duty as queen, producing an heir--she remained childless for over a decade after her marriage.
During this period of "failure," Elizabeth of Bosnia committed--supposedly--a daring but ultimately shameful act, perhaps motivated by a desire to give birth to a son. During a visit to the shrine of St. Simeon in Zadar, Croatia, she stole a part of the saint's finger. (She may have believed this relic would help her infertility.) As soon as she broke the piece off of the saint's body, it began to decompose. Since she couldn't leave the church without revealing her theft, she returned the finger to the body (where it was restored to its previous state).
The casket of St. Simeon, commissioned by
Elizabeth of Bosnia,
Church of St. Simeon, Zadar, Croatia
To atone for her action, Elizabeth of Bosnia commissioned an elaborately wrought reliquary for the body of St. Stephen, produced by the goldsmiths of Zadar between 1377 and 1380. She donated the silver herself. The casket of St. Stephen is now recognized as a masterpiece of medieval gold- and silver-work, and is under UNESCO protection.
Although she did not give birth to a son, she eventually produced three daughters in quick succession--Catherine, born in 1370, Mary, in 1371, and Jadwiga, in 1373. (Although no copies of Elizabeth of Bosnia's book on the education of daughters survives, a copy is known to have been sent to Louis of France, count of Valois, in 1374.)
Unlike some kings who shall remain nameless (looking at you, Henry VIII of England), Louis made plans for his three daughters, Catherine, Mary, and Jadwiga, to succeed him. His daughters were not only desirable marital prospects, but their marriages were also a way for Louis himself to consolidate his influence and power.
In pursuit of his political ends, Louis arranged for his eldest daughter, Catherine, to be married to Louis I, duke of Orléans, and he promised the Holy Roman Emperor that his second daughter, Mary, would be married to Charles IV's second son, Sigismund of Luxembourg, an agreement that was signed by deed in 1373. In 1375, Louis arranged Jadwiga's marriage to the Habsburg William of Austria, and the girl was sent to the court in Vienna, where she lived from 1378 until 1380.
But plans for a smooth succession began to fall apart in 1378, when Louis and Elizabeth's eldest daughter died. Following Catherine's death, Louis confirmed his plans for Mary's marriage. By 1379, Mary and Sigismund of Luxembourg were formally betrothed, and Sigismund arrived in Hungary so he could learn not only the language but the customs of the country. In September 1379, in order to assure Mary’s succession in Poland, Louis summoned Polish nobles and ecclesiastical leaders so that they could affirm her rights to succeed her father. He achieved his goal, though contemporary reports suggest that the assent was not freely given.
At the same time, Louis planned for his youngest daughter, Jadwiga, to inherit his throne in Hungary, though there is some evidence to suggest that, after Catherine's death and rather than dividing his kingdoms between his two surviving daughters, he hoped to leave everything to the elder, Mary.
Whatever Louis's hopes may have been--for Jadwiga to rule in Hungary and for Mary to rule in Poland, or for Mary to inherit both thrones--his plans never materialized. Instead, Louis died in 1382, and a great deal of turmoil followed.
Following her husband's death, Elizabeth of Bosnia moved quickly to claim the regency for her two young daughters, but she ran into trouble. Given her husband's reliance on his mother as his political adviser, Elizabeth of Bosnia had little experience in politics upon which to draw. In addition, her reliance on Nicholas Garay, who had also been one of her husband's advisers, was the source of jealousy and suspicion. (As was frequently the case with powerful women and their male advisers, her enemies said he was Elizabeth's lover.)
The succession difficulties and challenges for Elizabeth of Bosnia' two daughters were many. To start, the marriages Louis had arranged for his daughters were both rejected.
Rather than accepting Elizabeth's regency, the Polish nobility elected Jadwiga, then just nine years old, as "king" (rex) of Poland, crowning her immediately, but in doing so, they rejected William of Austria. Instead, Jadwiga was married to Jogaila, grand duke of Lithuania, on 15 February 1386. The marriage was desirable for Poland and not only because it would allow them to resist pressures from Austria--the newly combined territories of Lithuania and Poland were larger than the previous union of Hungary and Poland. Through Jadwiga and her husband, who became King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland, the Jagiellon dynasty was established.* (For an extended account of Jadwiga's succession in Poland, including the reactions of the rejected William, click here.)
A depiction of Elizabeth of Bosnia handing a chest
to St. Simeon, with her three daughters, below;
detail on the sarcophagus of St. Simeon,
commissioned by Elizabeth of Bosnia
In Hungary, meanwhile, the nobility also preferred to be ruled by a king, not a queen--or, in this case, two queens, the dowager Queen Elizabeth, as regent, and the new queen regnant, Mary, still a minor.
By 1383, rebellion broke out. In part to solicit assistance in her struggles, Queen Elizabeth turned to France, hoping to marry Queen Mary not to her promised partner, Sigismund, but to Louis I, duke of Orléans, whose elder brother had become king of France. (Louis had been the marriage partner arranged for Mary's elder sister, Catherine, before the girl's death.)
But the proposed French marriage resulted in even more conflict in Hungary. (For an extended account of Mary's succession in Hungary, and the marital politics involved, click here.)
Although both of her daughters would eventually succeed to the throne as queens, Jadwiga in Poland and Mary in Hungary and Croatia, their powers were limited. They may have reigned, but they did not rule. And both queens would die while they were still in their twenties.
So Elizabeth of Bosnia may have "succeeded" in helping her daughters maintain their rights of succession, but all of her struggles for her daughters did not end well for Elizabeth of Bosnia--in her effort to secure Mary's crown, Elizabeth of Bosnia had been responsible for the assassination of an opponent the Hungarian nobility had invited into the kingdom. A year later, on the anniversary of the assassination, Elizabeth of Bosnia was herself strangled in an act of revenge.
Elizabeth of Bosnia was not a notably successful regent, but she has often been criticized for the very ambitions and failings demonstrated by her male contemporaries--inexperience, ambition, and ruthlessness, for example. But the title of historian Janos Bak's essay noting Elizabeth of Bosnia may more accurately suggest why she "failed" in the eyes of her contemporaries--"Queens as Scapegoats in Medieval Hungary."
Or, maybe you prefer Sophia Elizabeth Higgins's view--in her 1885 Women of Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (vol. 1), she writes, "Few episodes in history are indeed more melancholy than the fortunes of [Jadwiga and Mary]. The retribution for their father's sins fell upon them." Higgins regards their mother's weaknesses and failings with a sympathetic eye: Elizabeth of Bosnia was driven by "despairing efforts to avert the ruin of her family," constantly disappointed by the "failure" and "disaffection" of the many rivalries, jealousies, and contending factions that undermined her efforts. (Higgins's discussion of Elizabeth of Bosnia is the most extended account I have found.)
*For three notable Jagiellon queens, see Isabella Jagiellon, queen of Hungary (here), Anna Jagiellon, queen of Poland (here), and Catherine Jagiellon, queen of Sweden (here).
Labels: Anna Jagiellon, Catherine Jagiellon, Elizabeth of Poland, Isabella Jagiellon, Jadwiga of Poland, Mary of Hungary, queens, regents, women and political power, women and politics
The Midnight Ride of Sybil Ludington, American Revolutionary
Sybil Ludington and her "Midnight Ride" (26 April 1777)
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
Well, I don't know who Longfellow was thinking about here--everybody hears about Paul Revere and his damn midnight ride.
Anna Hyatt Huntington's sculpture of
Sybil Ludington, on her midnight ride,
(photo by Anthony22)
But not too many people hear about the ride of Sybil Ludington--at the age of sixteen, she undertook a dangerous ride to alert her father’s militia forces of the approach of the British.
On the night of 26 April 1777, during a terrible rainstorm, she road forty miles, from Putnam County, New York, to Danbury, Connecticut. (Revere, by the way, was forty years old and didn't complete his ride--he was captured by the British.)
Born on 5 April 1761, Sybil Ludington was the daughter of Abigail Knowles and Henry Ludington, the eldest of their twelve children.
Henry Ludington was both a farmer and the owner of a grist mill. Ludington began his military service in 1755, at the age of sixteen, when he enlisted in the Second Connecticut Regiment. He fought for the British against the French in the so-called French and Indian War, part of the larger European conflict known as the Seven Years' War. Ludington served from 1755 until 1760. In recognition of his distinguished service, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the British Colonial Army. Ludington resigned in protest after the Stamp Act (1765), but rejoined in 1773 when he was commissioned as a captain.
But at the outbreak of the Revolution, rather than continue as a British officer, Ludington joined the Continental Army and took command of a volunteer infantry regiment. On 26 April 1777, Ludington learned of Governor William Tryon's planned attack on Danbury, Connecticut--this was where the stores and munitions for the Patriot army were being stored.
And now the story turns to Sybil Ludington. Accounts differ about why she made the ride--according to family legend, she volunteered to make the trip, though it may be that she rode at her father's direction.
In any case, Sybil made the journey, setting off after nine p.m. and riding through the night. Despite the dangers, she carried her father's order for muster, spreading the word to the militiamen to rally at her father's farm. By daybreak, most of the men had gathered.
The British nevertheless managed to burn Danbury and destroy the Continental Army's supplies. Ludington's men were late for the series of skirmishes that became known as the battle of Ridgefield, arriving "short of ammunition" and "outnumbered by the British three to one," but they nevertheless were able to "harass the British" with their "scattering sharpshooter fire from behind trees and fences and stone walls," and the British retreated to their ships."
Whether her father's troops won the battle or not, Sybil Ludington's ride achieved its purpose. In a history written by a member of Henry Ludington's family, Sybil and her sister Rebecca are also credited with having aided her father in his espionage work, established under the direction of General George Washington, whom Henry Ludington came to serve as an aide-de-camp. The two girls were "privy" to the "doings" of one of their father's spies; they "had a code of signals, by means of which they frequently admitted him in secrecy and safety to the house, where he was fed and lodged."
And when their father's activities raised hostilities in their neighbors, the two girls also took action:
These children would sit for hours, armed with heavy muskets, at the upper windows, behind casks on the piazza, or in a neighboring cornfield, watching for the approach of suspicious or openly hostile characters and ready to give their father warning.
While her actions in defending her father's spies and her father himself may be part of a family historian's fanciful collection of stories, and while some details of Sybil's ride may have been fancifully embroidered in later retellings (I've left out the fluff here), the fact of her ride is not in doubt.
After the war, Sybil Ludington married Edward Ogden, variously described as a lawyer (Encyclopedia Britannica!!!), a farmer, or an innkeeper. (Then again, sometimes he's named as "Edmund" Ogden--for what it's worth, the family historian identifies Ogden as a lawyer, but says he's named Henry!)
Sybil Ludington Ogden's headstone,
Maple Ave. Cemetery,
Patterson, New York
(note the spelling of her name,
"Sibbell" and "Edmond"
as her husband's name
Now Sybil Ogden, she moved to Catskill, where she had one son, named Henry (the family historian may be confusing Sybil's husband's name with her son's). She died on 26 February 1839, aged seventy-seven.
There are no known references to Sybil Ludington Ogden's ride before 1880, when Martha Lamb, a New York historian, included it in her History of the City of New York.
I know I'm always bitching about the Encyclopedia Britannica's refusal to include women, but as noted above, there is an entry for Sybil Ludington. You may also be interested in Debra Michals's essay on Ludington, posted by the National Women's History Museum.
A profile of Sybil Ludington Ogden is also provided by the town of Patterson, New York, as part of ts "Historic Patterson" website.
Although Sybil Ludington Ogden's application for a Revolutionary War pension was denied--the reason given was that there was insufficient proof of her marriage to Edward Ogden, who had served in the Continental Army--she was honored by a U.S. postage stamp in 1975.
http://www.historicpatterson.org/Exhibits/ExhSybilLudington.php
Labels: women and history, women and warfare
The Travels of Egeria
Egeria the Pilgrim (a post for Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019)
One of the earliest surviving texts attributed to a woman writer, the Itinerarium Egeriae (The Travels of Egeria) preserves the account of a female traveler in the Holy land.
A page from the Codex Aretinus manuscript,
containing Egeria's Itinerarium
(photo posted by Flavio Barbiero)
Although not much is known about the traveler herself, a woman named Egeria, most scholars seem to agree that she started her pilgrimage in northwest Spain, likely Galicia--though there is some disagreement here, with others suggesting she was from southern France.
The date of her travels is also uncertain. Egeria probably made her journey between the years 381 and 384, and since she arrived in Jerusalem in time to celebrate Easter, I have chosen to post about her today.
Her extant writing takes the form of an extended letter addressed to her sorores--"sisters"--a word that has led some readers to conclude that Egeria was a nun, but there is now a general sense that Egeria was probably a wealthy lay woman addressing herself to a group of women who shared her faith.
As it has survived, The Travels of Egeria is a fragmentary text, missing its beginning and end. (The missing opening of Egeria's account of her travels might have told us more about the writer.)
The part of Egeria's text that survives is found in a manuscript copied between the ninth and twelfth centuries, now known as the Codex Aretinus. This fragmentary account of Egeria's Itinerarium was rediscovered and identified at the end of the nineteenth century. Two new fragments were identified in 2007, these dating to a copy made about the year 900.
But there are references to Egeria's work made in the centuries after she traveled, showing something of the transmission of her text among Christian readers. Egeria is praised by Valerio of Bierzo, a seventh-century monk from Galicia. A glossary from the eighth or ninth century quotes from her Itinerarium. And the twelfth-century Benedictine monk Peter the Deacon, librarian of the abbey of Montecassino, also refers to Egeria--Montecassino is where the the Codex Aretinus was copied.
What survives of Egeria's letter is in two parts. The text begins mid-sentence, with Egeria already in Jerusalem (the journey from her home to the Holy Land is missing). In this first part of her "travels,' she writes about her extended stay in Jerusalem, from which she takes a number of shorter journeys.
From Jerusalem, Egeria travels to Mount Sinai and on to Mount Horeb, then to a garden where she sees the burning bush mentioned by Moses; to the "city of Arabia," which is "in the land of Goshen"; to the Jordan Valley; to sites in Mesopotamia, after crossing the Euphrates; to Edessa, Antioch, the shrine of St. Thecla, "a three-day journey from Tarsus," and then to Constantinople. As she travels, she writes about those who serve as guides and interpreters, especially monks, and she relates each place she visits to biblical accounts of the sites.
The shrine of St. Thecla,
photo by Cobija
The second part of Egeria's letter describes the "daily offices"--the "order of service (operatio) day by day in the holy places" of the city of Jerusalem--followed by a recital of the special church festivals as they are celebrated, including Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, and Easter. (Interestingly, the celebration of the Nativity of Christ, now 25 December, is not yet mentioned among the festivals of the church year.)
Between 2000-2006, The Egeria Project was established online. The site is still accessible, but it seems not to have fulfilled its goals. Like Egeria's original text, it is incomplete.
Scholars have repeatedly attempted to map Egeria's various travels--the difficulties in doing so are outlined by Cristina Corsi, in her "Topographical issues in the Itinerarium Egeriae: An Essay on the Modalities of Travel in the Fourth Century AD." The essay contains a great deal of fascinating information.
For the text of the surviving Egeria fragments, The Pilgrimage of Egeria is available here.
One of many proposed itineraries of Egeria
(posted by Nicoletta De Matthaeis,
who has an excellent blog post on Egeria,
in Spanish)
Labels: women and religion
Marguerite St. Leon Barstow Loud: An "Imagination of No Common Order"
Marguerite St. Leon Barstow Loud, poet (born 17 April 1812)
In the preface to Wayside Flowers: A Collection of Poems by "Mrs. M. St. Leon Loud," editor Park Benjamin describes the volume's intended readers as those who "love tenderness and purity of thought, joined to simplicity and grace of expression."
Marguewrite St. Leon Barstow Loud,
frontispiece from Wayside Flowers, 1851
The poems are "like those 'wildlings of nature,' from which they borrow their title" (by the way, Benjamin has created the title). They are "the spontaneous productions of a fertile soil," "the free growth of an unartificial mind." They represent "nature's growth," not "exotics." And thus are better than "cultivated efforts."
Oh, dear. No work at all, then, right? The poems just happen????? Without intention, work, effort?
In his last months of life, Edgar Allen Poe happily accepted the "relatively lucrative opportunity" to edit Wayside Flowers--he writes to a correspondent that he is on his way to Philadelphia to edit the work of the "poetess," whose wealthy husband had hired him. Poe writes, "[t]he whole labor will not occupy me 3 days." (Poe had been offered $100 by Marguerite Loud's husband--Poe had earned only $166 the entire year before.)
Oh, dear. On the website of the Edgar Allen Poe Society of Baltimore, Marguerite St. Leon Barstow Loud is identified as a "minor American poet."
Aside from this rather disparaging information--and from Benjamin's preface in the volume of poetry, Wayside Flowers--not all that much is known about Marguerite St. Leon Barstow Loud. No Wikipedia entry, for example!!!
Marguerite St. Loud Barstow was born in Wysox, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Seth T. Barstow and his wife, Clarissa Woodruff. According to Benjamin, both parents were from New England, and Marguerite's father was a successful physician.
In his preface to Wayside Flowers, Benjamin also indicates that Marguerite Barstow's education was an informal one--her mother was her teacher, her parents both loved poetry, and the home had an "ample library."
Her date of birth has been variously given. She died in Kenyon, Minnesota, and her gravestone indicates that she was born on 17 April 1812, but there are questions about this date, principally the fact that some sources indicate she was married in 1824--which would make her only twelve years old at the time of her marriage. Thus other dates for her birth are suggested--even a date of 1800 (see the University of Virginia's Collective Biographies of Women database, for example)!
But the preface to her volume of poetry specifically addresses the date of her marriage as well as explaining the source of the confusion--Marguerite Barstow was married in 1834, not 1824, an erroneous date that appeared in Caroline May's 1848 The American Female Poets.*
Title page of the 1851 Wayside Flowers
So there's no need for anyone to twist themselves into pretzels or question the date of birth on the headstone. Marguerite Barstow was born in 1812, and she married in 1834. Her husband, John Loud, was a successful piano manufacturer in Philadelphia. A daughter, Caroline, was born in 1834, and Clara was born in 1837. (There may have been other children born after Clara, perhaps a daughter named Danvina, born in 1842.)
Edgar Allen Poe died before he could travel to Philadelphia to edit Wayside Flowers. The book was finally published in 1851, and it did not sell well. Of the 550 copies that were printed, 360 copies were returned, unsold, to the Louds.
In his discussion of Poe's intention to edit Wayside Flowers and Poe's death, Matthew Pearl notes that "according to electronic library database Oasis, only fourteen original copies of the book are held by American libraries."
Which may account for the fact that Loud's elegy, "The Stranger's Doom," one of the earliest poems that seems to be about Poe's death, has "attracted little critical attention."
But, thankfully, you don't have to search out one of the few print copies of Marguerite St. Leon Barstow Loud's Wayside Flowers. It is now widely available online.
Poe himself seemed to think well of Marguerite Loud as a poet. Of her he wrote in 1841:
Mrs. M. ST. LEON LOUD is one of the finest poets of this country; possessing, we think, more of the true divine afflatus than any of her female contemporaries. She has, in especial, imagination of no common order, and unlike many of her sex whom we could mention, is not content to dwell in decencies forever.
While she can, upon occasion, compose the ordinary metrical sing-song with all the decorous proprieties in which are in fashion, she yet ventures very frequently into a more ethereal region. We refer our readers to, a truly beautiful little poem entitled the “Dream of the Lonely Isle,” lately published in this Magazine.
Mrs. Loud’s MS. is exceedingly clear, neat and forcible, with just sufficient effeminacy and no more.
Marguerite St. Leon Barstow Loud died on 4 November 1889. She was seventy-seven years old.
Detail from headstone of
Marguerite St. Leon Barstow Loud
(photo by Dave Vangsness,
posted at Find a Grave)
*The link here is to the edition of 1854, which reprints the 1824 date in its biographical note for "Marguerite St. Leon Loud."
Labels: women and literature, women writers
Back to the Future, Part 14: More Good News for Women--We're Still Missing!!
Back to the Future, Part 14: Women and Wikipedia
I rarely refer to Wikipedia in my posts. It's not that I'm a research snob (well, okay, I'm a research snob), it's just that I hope to include information in these entries on women that wouldn't necessarily appear at the top of the page after a quick Google search.
Logo of WikiProject Women in Red
But here's the thing, which should surprise no one: women are vastly under-represented in Wikipedia. Despite many efforts to redress the balance, the "pages" of Wikipedia are heavily skewed toward men--male historical figures, artists, writers, musicians, politicians, athletes, even goddamn video game characters. Etc., etc. Ad nauseam.
And now a bit of happy news about just how bad it is.
According to an April 2019 report released by Wikimedia, of the 1,618,509 biographies in the English Wikipedia, only 287,852 of them are biographies of women!!! Just 17.79%!! (This is reported by WikiProject Women in Red.)
This number--17.9%--is up from 15%, reported in 2014. Yay????
A similar number is reported by Le project les sans pagEs: "en octobre 2018, Wikipédia en français compte 547 599 biographies d'hommes, contre 94 021 de femmes, soit seulement 17,3%" (in October, French Wikipedia includes 547,599 biographies of men, compared to 94,021 of women, only 17.3 percent).
Logo of Le project les sans pagEs
Why the disparity? A recent story in the New York Times suggests that it's not because women don't care. Rather there are continued barriers to women writers and editors--Wikipedia is a place of "relentless harassment" for women. According to a report by the Wikimedia Foundation, the Foundation itself is "seriously concerned about the idea that cisgender women and transgender editors could be repelled from Wikipedia by online abuse."
It's not only the online abuse: there is a "systemic bias in policies," "implicit bias within the [Wikipedia] community," and "poor community health"--which includes, in addition to harassment, a lack of support for "gender equity work" and a "lack of diversity in leadership."
Banner posted by Wotancito,
Spanish "Women Love Wiki" project
("making women invisible in history is also violence")
I've filled this blog with complaints about women written out of history, women written out of the literature, women written out of art, the lack of public monuments for women's achievements, and, especially, the terrible treatment of women by "reliable" sources like the venerable Encyclopedia Britannica. I'm always bitching about something, I guess . . .
Update, 16 April 2019, afternoon: And, then, there's this--
The man charged with throwing a 5-year-old boy off a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America told police he was angry at being rejected by women at the Minnesota mall and was "looking for someone to kill" when he went there last week, according to a criminal complaint Monday.
But, hey, he wasn't murdering his wife, his girlfriend, or his own child . . .
Labels: Encyclopedia Britannica, mothers of the novel, women and art, women and history, women and writing, women artists
Back to the Future, Part 13: Men Killing Women, New and Improved!
Back to the Future, Part 13: More Intimate Partner Violence! What a Surprise!
First, I hate the anodyne phrase "intimate partner violence." Because we wouldn't want to offend anyone's tender sensibilities by saying "men slaughtering wives, girlfriends, and children," now would we?
"Domestic Violence" is better than "Intimate Partner Violence--
but does it say enough?
And second, such acts of domestic terrorism (a phrase I first heard Gloria Steinem use to describe men killing women several years ago) are so commonplace that they are frequently overlooked in the media. For example, today the Huffington Post reports on the deadly slaughter of his wife and two daughters by a Phoenix man. (He also killed a family friend while he was murdering his family.) The death of his oldest daughter was particularly gruesome--instead of shooting her, as he had his wife and five-year-old daughter, he clubbed the seven-year-old to death. (Police found the youngest daughter, three, hiding under a bed.)
While this horrific murder merited an article in today's Huffington Post, the story did not appear in The New York Times, but a quick Google search shows that it was reported in the Washington Post two days ago, and on NBC, ABC, and CNN.
But what did appear in today's New York Times was this story: "Murders by Intimate Partners Are on the Rise, Study Shows."
Yup. Rather than less frequently, horrific slaughter like the one in Phoenix is happening MORE frequently: "Homicides by intimate partners are increasing, driven primarily by gun violence after almost four decades of decline."
Just a few facts: "The number of victims rose to 2,237 in 2017, a 19 percent increase from the 1,875 killed in 2014." Yes, men are killed too, but the "majority of the victims in 2017 were women, a total of 1,527."
And, "gun-related domestic killings increased by 26 percent from 2010 to 2017. . . . In 2017, 926 of the 1,527 women murdered by partners were killed with guns. In 2014, it was 752 of 1,321 women."
The Times article refers to the finds of Emma E. Fridel and James Alan Fox, "Gender Differences in Patterns and Trends in U.S. Homicide, 1976–2017" (in Violence and Gender 6 [March 2019]).
Interestingly, it was the Huffington Post that first reported on this new study. And adds these gems to what appears in the Times story: "Domestic violence groups often repeat the statistic that three women a day are killed by domestic violence. But according to Fox’s most recent data, it is four."
And: "Nearly half of all women who are murdered die at the hands of their partners. Only 5 percent of men suffer the same fate."
And: "Every 16 hours, according to one estimate, a woman is fatally shot by her boyfriend, husband or ex."
The House of Representatives recently voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, which had expired in February of this year.
Reauthorization of the act is opposed by the NRA.
The Senate has yet to act.
Here's my modest proposal.
For more in the "Back to the Future" series of blog posts, click on the label, below. The label "domestic terrorism" will take you to more posts on men killing women.
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Labels: Back to the Future, domestic terrorism, women and violence
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Tommies’ sculptures to stand watch over communities
Photograph Jamie Forbes 20.7.18 Kirkintilloch. Dedication of Victoria Cross Memorial Stone for John Meikle.
Liz Gallacher
East Dunbartonshire will mark the centenary of the end of the First World War with a number of special events taking place across the area.
In November, three sculptures – known as Tommies – will go on display across East Dunbartonshire after the council agreed to support the national ‘There but not there’ campaign to remember the fallen from the First World War.
The Tommies, specially designed six foot sculptures depicting silhouettes of soldiers, will be placed in the Community Hub buildings in Bearsden, Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch before being moved to the towns’ war memorials for Remembrance Day.
The Tommie in Kirkintilloch will stand watch in Barleybank – next to St Mary’s Church – over the memorial paving stone dedicated to the town’s Sergeant John Meikle.
The paving stone was unveiled earlier this year in a special ceremony presided over by the Depute Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire, Reverend Mark Johnstone of nearby St Mary’s Church.
Sgt Meikle was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross in July 1918 in recognition of his bravery during bitter fighting in France during the Great War.
The 19-year-old, who was born in Freeland Place, Kirkintilloch, was one of just 627 people to be awarded the medal during the conflict.
An exhibition, which featured a copy of Sgt Meikle’s Victoria Cross citation and other First World War memorabilia, was on display in the lobby of William Patrick Library in the town earlier this year. East Dunbartonshire Provost Alan Brown said: “John Meikle’s brave actions should never be forgotten.”
One of East Dunbartonshire’s best-known buildings will also be temporarily turning red to mark the 2018 Scottish Poppy Appeal.
The Kirkintilloch Community Hub and William Patrick Library building will be bathed in red light from Thursday, November 1, until Sunday, November 11, which is Remembrance Sunday.
An exhibition exploring the impact of the First World War on East Dunbartonshire through the stories of local servicemen, nurses and civilians will be on display at
libraries across the area from November 3 until November 24.
The exhibition content has been gathered over the past three years as part of the East Dunbartonshire’s War project by volunteers and staff from the East Dunbartonshire Leisure and Culture Trust’s archives and local studies collections.
Experts from the Scottish Military Research Group will be coming to do a Family History drop-in session on Saturday, November 10, from noon to 4pm at Milngavie Library to help you find out more about your First World War relatives.
Police investigate hit and run near Lenzie school
Pupils from Turnbull High School in Bishopbriggs, and Boclair Academy in Bearsden, will be taking part in the Theatre of Remembrance project organised by The Scottish Council on Archives.
The students will work together to develop scripts directly from First World War diaries, letters and archive material before delivering a public performance for their local communities in November.
A Festival of Remembrance to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of hostilities in the First World War will be held at St Mary’s Church in Kirkintilloch on Saturday, November 10, at 4.15pm.
The event will be attended by East Dunbartonshire Council Provost Alan Brown and other community representatives and will be followed by refreshments.
The area will once again mark Remembrance Sunday (November 11) with services – organised by local churches and community councils – held in Auchinairn, Baldernock, Bishopbriggs, Kirkintilloch, Lennoxtown, Milngavie, Milton of Campsie, Torrance, Twechar and Woodilee.
A service organised by the council will also be held at the War Memorial, Bearsden Cross, commencing at approximately 10.40am, and will be led by the Rev. John Craib of Bearsden Baptist Church.
Provost Brown said: “As we prepare to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War these events give us all a chance to come together to commemorate the conflict and reflect on the devastating impact it had on our communities.
“On the centenary of the Armistice we will give thanks for peace and for those that returned, and pay tribute to those men and women who lost their lives in the service of their country.
“Together we will fall silent to remember them.”
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Minister for Defence - Interview with Lyndal Curtis, ABC24
TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW WITH LYNDAL CURTIS, ABC24
TOPICS: AUSMIN; Afghanistan; Military Justice Bill.
LYNDAL CURTIS: Stephen Smith, welcome to ABC News 24.
STEPHEN SMITH: A pleasure.
LYNDAL CURTIS: What is on the agenda for the AUSMIN meeting?
STEPHEN SMITH: We'll discuss the range of regional and global security issues of concern to both of us, we'll also do a stocktake of the United States Global Force Posture Review, which has seen initiatives such as 250 marines rotating through Darwin. We'll review the assessments made on that. And we'll also start a conversation about the potential for enhanced United States aerial or aviation access through our Northern Territory RAAF bases.
LYNDAL CURTIS: So that will be more US planes, visiting more often?
STEPHEN SMITH: Yes, but we haven't started that conversation yet. We'll start it in the formal AUSMIN talks tomorrow. And we'll also - because we're in Perth, which is a great thing for the capital city in which I live, but because we're in Perth our Indian Ocean capital with our Indian Ocean port HMAS Stirling - we'll also have a conversation about the potential down the track as the Indian Ocean rim grows in importance of enhanced US naval access to HMAS Stirling.
LYNDAL CURTIS: How far down the track is that- would that possibly be, are we talking months or years?
STEPHEN SMITH: We're talking years. The rise of India continues, in my view, to be under-appreciated. But everyone sees the rise of China and the rise of the ASEAN economies combined and the strength of Japan and the Republic of Korea, but India is also on the rise and in due course we'll see what some people describe as the Indo-Pacific, a strategic region that goes and covers not just Asia and the Pacific but also the Indian Ocean.
But that - the discussions about HMAS Stirling are third cab off the rank. When President Obama was here back in November 2011 and the Prime Minister and he announced the rotation of the Marines, we made it clear that the second cab off the rank would be discussions about aerial or aviation access, and down the track a look at HMAS Stirling. But one of the reasons we are in Perth is because of that Indian Ocean focus.
LYNDAL CURTIS: Now you've said before that the US has not raised concerns with Australia about defence budget cuts. Do you have any concerns about the possibility of big defence cuts in the US if it falls off the fiscal cliff because there are cuts of, I think, US$500 billion planned over a decade if there can't be a deal on the budget?
STEPHEN SMITH: Well I've made the point repeatedly that- both before our May budget and after- I've had discussions with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and he entirely understands that we're facing what he describes as a new fiscal reality. And as you quite rightly say, he's currently managing half a trillion dollars worth of cuts in US defence spending over the next decade, and if the fiscal cliff problem is not solved or resolved, then he's looking at the prospect of $1.2 trillion over the next decade. So that's an issue that all of the world is now watching in terms of getting some resolution on that US fiscal issue.
But over the weekend we saw reports that somehow the United States would raise our budget position as a matter of concern, and I said that was frankly a nonsense. And when we greeted Secretary Clinton on the airport this morning in Perth, Assistant Secretary Campbell was there, he spoke to Ambassador Beazley, and the first comment he made to Ambassador Beazley was how egregiously misrepresented he'd been on his comments over the weekend. So if we have a conversation about defence spending, it will be in the context that we're all under pressure. And this is a point that Defense Secretary Panetta made very clearly at the Shangri-La Dialogue this year where he described it - the phrase I've used before - as the new fiscal reality.
LYNDAL CURTIS: Now Leon Panetta has told reporters on the plane on the way over that the review of the size and scope of the US military role in Afghanistan post the 2014 transition will be complete within weeks. Do we know yet how many troops Australia leave in Afghanistan after 2014?
STEPHEN SMITH: No. Again, in some respects, the discussion about the post-2014 international community presence in Afghanistan is only just beginning in earnest. We've made it clear, for example, that we are prepared to leave behind a training element, a particular training element for the Afghan army officer school, which we're doing in conjunction with the British and the Canadians. We've also made it clear that if there's a [indistinct] mandate, and under appropriate circumstances, we'd also leave behind some Special Forces contribution, either for training or for counter-terrorism. But everyone-
LYNDAL CURTIS: But numbers haven't been decided yet?
STEPHEN SMITH: No, no, not in our case, and not in others. I made the point at the last NATO-International Security Assistance Force Defence Ministers meeting in Brussels in October that these conversations now needed to start in earnest. I think the reality is that the detailed conversation was held in abeyance pending the outcome of the United States election. We've seen the re-election of President Obama and that continuity so these discussions will now start in earnest. There's a meeting of International Security Assistance Force Foreign Ministers in Brussels before the end of the year, and that will see effectively the start of those formal conversations.
LYNDAL CURTIS: If I could ask you about one question domestically that seems to be unfinished business in your area. The Military Court legislation to establish a new Military Court has been introduced into Parliament, it hasn't yet gone through Parliament as I understand it. Is that because it doesn't yet have the support it needs?
STEPHEN SMITH: It's in the Parliament, that's quite right. There was a Senate Committee report which reported a few weeks or a month ago. It's unlikely given the workload in the House and in the Senate with only a couple of weeks of sitting remaining that we'll get to it in the course of this year. What the Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon and I want to do is to carefully consider the Senate Committee report and then have a conversation with our Opposition counterparts to see whether it's possible for a Military Justice Bill to go through the Parliament with broad based if not unanimous support.
LYNDAL CURTIS: So you don't think our current legislation will be capable of attracting that support yet?
STEPHEN SMITH: Well, that's not necessarily the case, but the Senate Committee has made a range of recommendations which the Attorney-General and I want to carefully consider. But we're in this position because the High Court knocked out previous Howard Government legislation. That's not said critically, these things happen from time to time, so what I want to effect is a piece of legislation which is not only able to be constitutionally supported by the High Court but which has the broad-based support of the Parliament, so that that legislation can continue into the future. It's not the sort of legislation that we want to be disturbed by great changes as Parliament compositions change, either upper houses or lower houses.
LYNDAL CURTIS: Stephen Smith, thank you very much for your time.
STEPHEN SMITH: Thanks Lyndal. Thanks very much.
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Gleyber comes off DL, in lineup for Yankees
Wade optioned to Triple-A; Drury likely won't go on DL
By Greg Zeck
ST. PETERSBURG -- Gleyber Torres returned to New York's lineup on Wednesday after being activated from the 10-day disabled list. He had been sidelined since July 4 with a strained right hip.The Yankees' rookie sensation said he was "super excited" to be back on the field with his teammates, adding
ST. PETERSBURG -- Gleyber Torres returned to New York's lineup on Wednesday after being activated from the 10-day disabled list. He had been sidelined since July 4 with a strained right hip.
The Yankees' rookie sensation said he was "super excited" to be back on the field with his teammates, adding that the last time he felt any pain was approximately two weeks ago.
"Sometimes, I felt bad because I wanted to help my team," Torres said of his time trying to heal. "I just need to focus when I come back to try and help the team."
• Torres went from trade chip to All-Star in just two years
Torres had been batting .294/.350/.555 with 15 home runs prior to getting hurt. New York went a stellar 45-18 with him in the lineup. In Wednesday afternoon's 3-2 loss, he went 0-for-3 and scored a run on Neil Walker's sacrifice fly.
In a corresponding roster move, the Yankees optioned Tyler Wade to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. For the year, Wade was hitting just .185/.228/.315 with five extra-base hits in 23 games.
Torres added that prior to being placed on the disabled list, he had been feeling pain in his hip, but he elected to play through it. When it would not subside, he reported the injury to trainers.
"I played a couple games fine to make sure I didn't feel anything and that everything was all right," Torres said.
Outfielder Aaron Hicks was out of the starting lineup on Wednesday, but he replaced Walker at designated hitter in the seventh inning and went 0-for-2.
Hicks said that he is feeling better after hurting himself on a slide during Monday's loss to the Rays. He woke up with left shoulder pain on Tuesday, but after taking batting practice that afternoon, he knew it was nothing serious.
Yankees infielder Brandon Drury was feeling better from his bruised left hand, according to manager Aaron Boone. He is not expected to go on the disabled list.
After being hit with a breaking ball in Tuesday's win over Tampa Bay, Drury had X-rays on his hand, and they came back negative.
"It's kind of a day-to-day situation and an emergency situation today," Boone said. "I think he's available. It doesn't look like a DL thing, so that's good. He felt better today."
Greg Zeck is a contributor to MLB.com.
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Ancient and avant-garde: Chinese woodcut prints evolve through politics and social upheaval
By Linda S. Mah | lmah@mlive.com
"Love for the Mountain," Dong Jiansheng, 1999, woodcut printed with oil-based inks. Dong's work is a large-scale piece that pays homage to ancient landscapes and the connection between people and the land.
View full sizePolitical face of art: As woodblock prints grew as a political tool, the communists tightly controlled the images artists could create, such as “Portrait of Mao Zedong,” by Chen Tiegeng, 1937-1948, woodcut print with water-soluble inks.
Woodcut prints are an ancient Chinese art form, and in modern times they provide a unique view of the country’s political and social turmoil during the past century.
The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts will examine that recent history with an exhibition of 65 prints in “Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937-2008: Towards a Universal Pictorial Language,” featuring works from the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., and the private collections of 11 contemporary Chinese artists. The show opens Jan. 23 and runs through April 18.
Renee Covalucci, a Boston-based printmaker and an adjunct professor at the Art Institute of Boston, co-curated the exhibition.
“When you give a definition for avant-garde, it is art work that has to really change society and behavior in society — or at least documents that change. And it has to change the appearance of the art,” Covalucci said. “These works are considered the start of the Chinese avant-garde movement.”
Woodblock or woodcut prints can be traced back to Buddhist texts from the 9th century, Covalucci said.
But it was in the early 1900s that the art changed as Chinese artists incorporated Western styles of print making in their political art.
It was artist Lu Xun, who brought the prints of German and Russian artists into China and used those as models to foster change in Chinese woodcuts, she said. Many of the prints from those years were designed by the communists and the nationalists to convey messages to a largely illiterate peasant population, she said.
“Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937-2008: Towards a Universal Pictorial Language” — Features 65 Chinese woodblock prints, Jan. 23-April 18, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 314 S. Park St. (269) 349-7775, www.kiarts.org.
Art League Lecture: “Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937-2008” — Renee Covalucci will discuss the cultural and political influences in “Woodcuts in Modern China,” which she co-curated, 10 a.m. Feb. 10, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 314 S. Park St. $10, $3 for college and Kirk Newman Art School students with ID, free for league members. (269) 349-7775, www.kiarts.org.
“Most of the messages were leaning toward the idealism of Mao Zedong and were able to get the attention of peasants and share their views with them,” Covalucci said. “They focused on atrocities and how things could be different.”
Some of the woodcuts from this period took on the cheery look of Chinese New Year’s posters, such as “Picture of Ample Food and Clothing,” by Li Qun, 1944, which shows a happy family celebrating their bounty. But the political intent of the print is apparent as a child clutches a copy of the “little red book” that was Mao’s political manifesto.
Other images embraced darker shading and harsher lines. In the coastal areas and the south, where people were used to Western art styles, the images were widely accepted, Covalucci said.
“But in the rural and inner sections of the country, the images were a little shocking,” she said. “People were afraid of them with the rough marks on people’s faces and the shading. To them that was a ghost or death.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Chinese entered the Cultural Revolution, with the government exercising strict control over the art that was produced and defining acceptable images and messages.
View full sizeNew directions: “Dove” by Zhang Minjie, 1992, woodcut printed with oil-based inks, reflects the new direction of Chinese woodcut prints that is more individualized. Zhang draws on his background in drama to create multiple layers of action.
The medium has experienced a rebirth in the last 20 years, Covalucci said. Artists have rebelled against the tight controls of the past, and that has inspired artists to “reinvent” woodcuts, she said.
“They rejected the heavy visual political weight of those earlier images,” Covalucci said. “Some artists have gotten more playful, some have made it much more realistic.”
Li Yan Peng, for example, works in great detail that creates prints with the look of a photograph or Andrew Wyeth painting.
“One of the other ways he reacted was that he took the humans out of his prints,” she said. “He just deals with the land and the goats that live in the mountains” to comment on society.
Dong Jian Sheng, with whom Covalucci has studied, stayed with stark black-and-white images, but he began working in monumental scale. His “Love for the Mountain,” describes the resilience of Chinese civilization. In also embraces the ancient tradition of landscape painting in China, she said.
In many ways, the confines of the Cultural Revolution and political influence of the past decades gave the artists the impetus necessary to become more creative.
“When you have something to push against, when you change your art for a reason, it is some how cathartic,” Covalucci said.
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Pregnancy and child
Back to Pregnancy and child
Do pylons cause asthma in babies?
“Pregnant women who use hairdryers, microwaves, vacuum cleaners or who live near pylons could be putting their babies at risk of asthma,” reported the Daily Mail. “Exposing unborn children to potentially harmful magnetic energy produced by household appliances and power lines could treble their child’s chances of suffering from the condition,” it added.
This prospective cohort study measured the amount of magnetic field (MF) women were exposed to on one day during their pregnancy and looked at whether there was an increased risk of their child being diagnosed with asthma during their first 13 years. The researchers concluded that a higher exposure to MF during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of asthma in the child.
This study has some strengths but also several limitations. In particular, the women’s exposure to MF was measured only once and then used to estimate their MF exposure throughout their pregnancy. In addition, the women were not asked which appliances they used or whether they lived near electrical pylons, therefore it is not possible to say which electrical appliances could be associated with a high MF exposure.
On balance, the weaknesses of this study mean that it is not robust evidence that magnetic fields can cause asthma in unborn children. Further research is needed to answer this question.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, California, USA. Funding was provided by the California Public Health Foundation. The study was published in the (peer-reviewed) journal: Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine .
This study was covered by the Daily Mail , which covered it accurately, but it could have given more emphasis to its weaknesses. The Daily Mirror gave a very brief report of this story and did not report any data from the study.
What kind of research was this?
This was a prospective cohort study, which looked at whether maternal exposure to high levels of magnetic fields during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of the child being diagnosed with asthma before the age of 13.
The researchers said that the prevalence of asthma has been steadily growing over the past several decades and the rate of increase suggests that there may be environmental risk factors. They suggest that environmental exposures during pregnancy could affect the development of the baby’s immune system and lungs while in the womb.
The researchers suggest that people are being progressively exposed to more electromagnetic fields (EMFs) than before, because of the increase in use of mobile phones and other wireless devices in the workplace and home.
In this study, the researchers used a meter to objectively measure the magnetic fields (MFs) that the women were exposed to during their pregnancy and followed up their children for up to 13 years to see if there was any association between exposure to MF and the risk of developing asthma.
What did the research involve?
The researchers recruited women who were registered with Kaiser Permanente, a hospital group in the San Francisco area, from 1996 to 1998. The women were 5-13 weeks pregnant. The participants were interviewed to assess their risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes, and potential confounders that are known to be associated with a risk of asthma (such as sociodemographic characteristics, family history of asthma and maternal smoking).
Electromagnetic field refers to both electric fields and magnetic fields. In this study, the researchers only measured magnetic fields. They did this using a device that the women wore for a 24-hour period during their first or second trimester (around 13 to 26 weeks). The device enabled the researchers to record the MF the women were exposed to during their daily activities. At the end of the 24-hour period the women were asked whether that day had been a typical day in terms of the activities they performed. The women’s average (median) MF exposure over that 24-hour period was then used to estimate their MF exposure throughout their pregnancy. For some of the analyses, women were divided into three groups based on their MF exposures: low exposure were women with the bottom 10% of MF measurement; medium exposure were women with MF exposures between 10% to 90% of the range of MF values measured; and high exposure were women with MF values in the top 10%.
Children of the 734 women who had complete 24-hour measurements during pregnancy were followed up until one of the following occurred:
They were diagnosed with asthma.
They left the Kaiser Permanente Healthcare system.
They reached the end of the study period (August 2010).
To be classified as having asthma the child had to have received a clinical diagnosis of asthma on at least two occasions during one year of the follow-up period. The researchers excluded 67 children who had only one diagnosis, 17 children who had asthma diagnoses that were more than one year apart and 24 children who used anti-asthmatic medications without a clinical diagnosis of asthma. In total, 626 mother-child pairs were analysed.
What were the basic results?
Overall, 130 children (20.8%) developed asthma during the 13 years of follow-up. Over 80% of these were diagnosed by the time they were five years old. Around 250 of the 626 children left the Kaiser Permanente scheme before the end of the follow-up.
The researchers looked at whether there was an association between increasing MF exposure measurements and the risk of asthma in the child. They adjusted the results for maternal age, race, education, smoking during pregnancy and a history of asthma in the family. They found that every additional unit of magnetic field was associated with a 15% increased risk of asthma in offspring (adjusted Hazard Ratio [aHR] 1.15; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.04 to 1.27).
Women with low MF exposure were compared to those with medium or high MF exposure. The researchers found that compared to women with a low MF exposure, children of women with a high exposure had a 3.5-fold increased risk of developing asthma (aHR, 3.52 95% CI, 1.68 to 7.35). There was no significant increase in asthma risk in children of women with medium exposure compared to low exposure.
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers said that a high maternal MF exposure level in pregnancy is associated with a significantly increased risk of asthma in the child.
There are several limitations to this study and these weaken its conclusion that magnetic field increases the risk of asthma in unborn children:
Exposure to MF was measured on only one occasion. Although the women were asked whether the measurement day was a typical day for them this may not have given an accurate estimate of the actual MF they were exposed to over the course of their pregnancy.
The study did not ask women about what electrical appliances they had used or whether they lived near electrical pylons. It is not possible to say from this study what types of appliance could be responsible for a higher MF exposure in these women.
A large number of participants (around 40%) were not followed for the full 13-year period because they had left the Kaiser Permanente healthcare scheme. This is a high loss to follow-up, and it is not possible to say whether or not the inclusions of these individuals would have altered this association between MF and asthma.
The study does have some strengths in that it is a prospective study, following the children from before they had asthma to after their diagnosis with the condition. It also used objective measures of MF and asthma rather than relying on self-recall, which can be open to bias.
On balance, the weaknesses of this study mean that it is not robust evidence that magnetic fields can cause asthma in unborn children. To answer this question would require further research in different and larger populations.
Links to the headlines
Pylons linked to babies' asthma: Hairdryers, vacuum cleaners and microwave also a risk, say scientists
Daily Mail, 2 August 2011
Asthma linked to exposure to magnetic fields during pregnancy
Daily Mirror, 2 August 2011
Links to the science
Li D-K, Chen H, Odouli R.
Maternal Exposure to Magnetic Fields During Pregnancy in Relation to the Risk of Asthma in Offspring
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 2011; Published online August 1, 2011
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs new album details revealed
NME Dec 1, 2005 12:54 pm GMT
Producer claims 'cat concept' behind album
Yeah Yeah Yeahs new album has a running concept about singer Karen O’s cat , it has been claimed.
Around 12-13 songs have been recorded for the album, due for release in March 2006, as well as additional material that may end up on an EP. Older songs ‘Down Boy’ and ‘10×10’ were amongst those recorded.
The album’s producer, Squeak E Clean, said: “Each track tells the story of the [cat’s life]. So it starts with Coco‘s birth, to when they found Coco, and continues.”
Discussing how the new album was different to the band’s 2003 full debut ‘Fever To Tell’, Clean said: “Those guys did a lot of growing both musically and personally. The album is much more spiritual and much more mature than their last album. It definitely rocks really hard — but there’s more songs, real, beautiful songs. Karen sings beautifully”
Clean also mentioned that he had been working on Karen O’s solo record.
“It’s nothing like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It sounds radically different from anything that’s out right now, period,” he said.
Although the first fruits of the collaboration ‘Hello Tomorrow’ was heard on a Adidas advert earlier this year, Clean told MTV.com that the solo project would probably not be released until after Yeah Yeah Yeahs tour the new album.
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Bob Boule (inset), the owner of the Smuggler’s Inn, was granted bail Thursday morning in Surrey Provincial Court. (Photo courtesy of The Northern Light newspaper)
Blaine, Wash. inn owner, charged with smuggling people into B.C., granted bail
Robert Joseph Boule ordered to turn away anyone indicating a plan to enter Canada illegally
Aaron Hinks
Apr. 25, 2019 12:57 p.m.
The owner of a Blaine bed and breakfast who is facing multiple charges relating to the smuggling of people into Canada has been granted bail.
Judge Robert Hamilton’s decision regarding Robert (Bob) Joseph Boule was announced in Surrey Provincial Court Thursday morning.
It included more than a dozen conditions, including that Boule must deny potential customers if they give any indication of a plan to enter Canada illegally; and, he must erect an illuminated four-by-eight-foot sign 10 feet from the border of his property that states ‘Warning, it is illegal to enter Canada from this property.’
He’s not allowed back into the U.S. until the sign is erected.
Boule has also been instructed to cancel his personal and business phone numbers and delete an email address associated with the business. He’s also required, as part of his conditions, to create a new business email address and provide the password to his bail officer.
Boule’s Smuggler’s Inn Bed & Breakfast is located on the U.S. side of 0 Avenue at 184 Street.
He is facing 16 counts of counselling offences relating to knowingly inducing, aiding or abetting 16 people in illegally attempting to enter Canada. He’s facing an additional 14 charges of breaching recognizance relating to a prior indictment.
READ MORE: UPDATED: Smuggler’s Inn owner charged with helping people illegally enter Canada
The offences are alleged to have occurred at between April 2016 and March 2019.
Outside court following an appearance earlier this month, Boule’s lawyer Greg Boos described his client as “a pillar of the Blaine community and all the of the economic development community of Whatcom County.”
Details heard over the course of the bail hearing cannot be published.
Bail was set at $15,000.
Trudeau says Ontario ‘shortsighted and irresponsible’ for challenging carbon tax
Mayor among 3 slain in Mexico’s Veracruz state
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Joey Kramer on surviving and thriving with Aerosmith
By Rich Chamberlain (Rhythm) 2017-06-14T11:10:21.164Z Drums
Drum titan on five decades of hard rocking and iconic band’s farewell tour
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Bringing the r'n'b...
Clocking up almost 50 years with the same band is no mean feat. When said band is one as turbulent as Aerosmith, the achievement becomes all the more incredible.
But, that is the milestone that is coming into view for Joey Kramer. As the band limbers up for the first dates of their Aero-Vederci Baby world tour this summer, Kramer has been behind the kit for the Boston bad boys for 47 years and counting.
Since then, the band has been through the wringer. Drink and drugs almost tore them apart in the 1970s and 80s. Bassist Tom Hamilton has beaten cancer not once, but twice. And Kramer himself has faced his own demons, battling depression in 1995.
But somehow, each and every time the band has come back stronger than ever before. After their brief split with guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford in the early ‘80s they came back with a run of hit albums that made them the hottest band on the planet. Kramer’s mid ‘90s recovery was welcomed by the band scoring their first, and only, Number One single with I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing. These boys always land on their feet.
I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences and that is what I bring to the table with Aerosmith
And it’s no fluke. Aerosmith’s wealth of killer tunes has helped them bounce back time and time again. Kramer has more than played his part in amassing this enviable catalogue. In the hands of a lesser drummer tracks like Rag Doll, Love In An Elevator and Walk This Way might be straight-ahead rockers. But Kramer’s love of r’n’b has helped to inject a bounce into the beats; he brings the funk to Joe Perry’s blues and Steven Tyler’s soul.
When we speak with Kramer, he is preparing for a run of European farewell shows with the band, including what is billed as their final-ever UK performance at the Download Festival in June. However, with the rest of the world still to come we think he has a good chance of making it into that 50th year with the band. We wanted to find out all about the Aerosmith’s numerous flirtations with obliteration, Kramer’s unmistakable style and what the future holds.
Steven Tyler was Aerosmith’s original drummer, so how did you land the gig?
“I was recommended to play with Tom and Joe through a mutual friend of ours. I knew Steven because he and I went through a couple of years of high school together but Tom and Joe didn’t know that. So when they told me that they didn’t think they’d want to use me because they had a friend coming up from New York who was going to play drums and sing, I asked them who it was because I was from New York as well. It turned out to be Steven and the rest is pretty much history.”
It sounds like there’s a lot of soul in your playing. Was r’n’b a big early influence on you?
“Yes, I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences and that is what I bring to the table with Aerosmith. My favourite rock and roll drummers were guys like Mitch Mitchell and, of course, Bonzo. The mixture of all of the rhythm and blues that I listened to together with those rock and roll drummers is what I bring to the table. With me it’s more of a groove and a pocket sort of thing.”
That r’n’b influence comes through on songs like Rag Doll and Walk On Water. They have a real groove and a feel.
“Yeah, my playing is all about feel. I’m completely self taught, I never took any lessons or anything. I’m a street player and all of my influences come from bands that I was listening to at the time when I was growing up. I was very impressed with guys like Mitch Mitchell. I liked rock and roll drummers and I loved rhythm and blues guy like Clyde Stubblefield with James Brown, man, that band blew me away all of the time. I took those two things and brought them together in my playing and that helped Aerosmith stand out a little bit.”
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Breakthroughs and breakups
How experienced were you by the time you went in to record the first Aerosmith album?
“When we went in to make that record that was the first time I had ever been in a recording studio. I was completely inexperienced and had no idea what I was doing. We were recording all of the tracks live. One of the things that I would love to do is to go back and remix that album. There’s a lot of drumming on that album that was mixed down and you can’t really hear it. There’s some cool stuff on there. The songs on that record stand up for themselves, though.”
You had an incredible early run of records with the debut and then Toys In The Attic, Rocks and Draw The Line bringing you big, breakthrough success
“I like Rocks, that’s a good one. Toys… and Rocks pulled us ahead of the pack. Other than that we kind of then faded away for a bit until we came back with Permanent Vacation and Pump, two records which were favourites of mine.”
Toys… featured the original recording of Walk This Way. Did you know from the start that song would be a hit?
“Not right away. It was obvious to me what I should play and that beat turned out what it was and it turned out well. It spoke for itself. The best part of that song was when Run DMC took it and ran with it in 1986. That reignited us for a bit. I thought that was an interesting idea right from the getgo.
“It’s one of those songs where people know the song and then they hear us play the song live they go, ‘Oh, those are the guys that play this song.’ It’s the same with songs like Dream On, they know the song but don’t realise that it’s us that plays them. It’s all about the songs. Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test of the time that is the most important thing.”
When we went in to make that record that was the first time I had ever been in a recording studio. I was completely inexperienced and had no idea what I was doing
You achieved huge success on that run of albums. Your life must have changed immeasurably in what seemed like an instant
“Oh yeah. We went from playing little clubs to opening for big acts. We opened for bands like Mott The Hoople. That was when the fun started.”
By the time you came to work on Rock In A Hard Place, we’re guessing it wasn’t quite as much fun?
“Joe and Brad both left [prior to that album] and Steven, Tom and I tried to keep it together. Jimmy Crespo did all the guitar parts on that album, Joe and Brad didn’t play on that album at all. Everything that Brad had done on that album Jimmy erased and re-did. That was a strange time. I never believed for a second that the band would completely break up and my inkling was correct. Those two guys left but there was never a time when the band broke up. Steven, Tom and I made that album together, but Aerosmith still existed.
"At that time we were all dealing with the demons that we were dealing with, but later those guys finally came to see what it was all about. When you’re involved with an entity like Aerosmith you deal with the drama and the bull**** and everything that comes with it and sometimes you can’t help but let it affect you, but at the same time you don’t always realise what an amazing thing you’re apart of until you’re not apart of it anymore. I’ve always felt as though I have realised that and that is why I would never let anything get in the way of me and the band. I just do whatever it takes to keep things smooth and moving in a forward direction.”
When Joe and Brad returned, the band kicked the drink and drugs and became bigger than ever, particularly with Permanent Vacation and Pump
“Oh yeah. The key to the Aerosmith success is that for some strange reason we always work the best and produce the best results when we’re under pressure. I don’t know why that is, I don’t know how that is, but if you put the pressure on us, we produce. Once people learn that, the record company and management would apply the pressure and we would always give them a positive outcome.”
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Gettin' clean
How important was getting clean to the comeback?
“We came back with Permanent Vacation, that was the real comeback record. A lot of people think Done With Mirrors was the comeback, but Done With Mirrors was, in my opinion, not finished. It was an incomplete record. When we did Permanent Vacation that was our comeback. That was the announcement that we were back and the proof was in the songs on those records. From there we did Pump and Get A Grip and they were our three highest-selling records of our career.”
Did getting sober bring a new mindset to the band?
“Yeah. I’ve been playing drums for a very long time and I like to think that I get a little bit better and a little bit more seasoned all of the time. I don’t consider myself to be the greatest drummer in the world but I like to think that it works in the context of what I do in this band. This is like any other band, it’s five pieces that work together according to the chemistry between the five of us. It’s like having five slices of blueberry pie. You can’t take one slice out and replace it with a slice of apple pie; it just doesn’t work.”
I’ve been playing drums for a very long time and I like to think that I get a little bit better and a little bit more seasoned all of the time
There was another big change on Permanent Vacation - you were playing to a click!
“It was the first time I had ever played to a click. I sacrificed a couple of songs on that record to get used to the click. On that record we went into the studio and Bruce Fairbairn, the producer, set up a click and said, ‘Okay, here it is.’ I had never played with one and getting used to playing with a click is a whole science in itself. You can play on the click, behind it, in front of it and my intention was to make the click track disappear so I couldn’t hear it at all.
"When I couldn’t hear the click track I knew that I was doing it right. Now I use clicks all the time. It makes it much easier when you’re working on a grid for them to do edits and take songs apart and put things back together. When you’re on the grid you can do that but when you’re not time is ticking and it can be difficult to keep on going backwards and forwards.”
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We mentioned that Steven started out as a drummer, did that make your life in the band easier or more difficult?
“[Lets out a big laugh] It was difficult at first. I realised early on that I had to get myself to a point where there wasn’t anything that he could tell me because I already knew it and instead there were things that I could tell him and show him. I eventually came to do that. I learned a lot from Steven. He’s a prolific musician and he was a very good drummer in his day. He taught me a lot that I had no idea of back then. He was into making the band happen.
"I had lots of chops when I joined the band because of the guys I had been listening to. So, I could really play well and I had command of the drumset but I didn’t really know what I was doing in terms of putting my ability towards to making the band as a whole sound better. Steven helped me realise that. Once he helped me realise that I took the ball and I ran with it. I took that ball and ran so long, so fast and so hard that it’s taken me to where I am today.
"I’m really proud of that. I like to think of myself as a humble guy. I don’t think of myself as a spectacular player. I’m happy that I can do what I do and that I can make the band happen. I drive it hard and I’m up there driving the bus. I’m always open to listening to feedback though. I always go out and watch our opening acts because when the time comes when you think you’re above learning anything from anyone then you’re in some trouble.”
I realised early on that I had to get myself to a point where there wasn’t anything that [Steven Tyler] could tell me because I already knew it
You released your autobiography in 2009 and in that you were very open about some hard issues, such as addiction, depression and suffering a nervous breakdown in 1995. Was revisiting those experiences difficult?
“It was a very cathartic experience for me. I got to speak about everything that has happened to me. The reason that it’s not like a lot of other books is that a lot of books are about taking drugs, partying, f***ing girls, backstage and this and that. My book is my story, it is my life and what has made me what I am today. It’s about me, not all that other stuff.
"The reason my book never really got the recognition that it deserved, in my opinion, is that the week it was released was the same week that Michael Jackson passed so it got lost in the media shuffle of Michael Jackson dying so it never got the attention. However, here we are seven or eight years later and the book is still out there and people are still talking about it. It’s a book about life, depression, anxiety, drug addiction, alcoholism, being abused as a kid and people relate to that when they read it.
"I proclaimed when I released the book that if it helps one person then it was worthwhile. I’ve spoken to a lot of people who say it has helped them and that is a very good feeling. [Coming back from the nervous breakdown] gave me a perspective on what it was that I brought to the band. At that point I was healthy enough emotionally to know which direction I needed to go in. I’ve been on that path ever since.”
It has been almost 50 years since Aerosmith formed - how have you changed in your approach to drumming in that time?
“I don’t know if there has been a change in my approach. My approach is pretty much the same - I’m all about playing for the band and not myself. My golden rule is less is more. I like to think my playing has matured over the years. I don’t really know of anybody else out there that does what I do quite how I do it, despite my playing being relatively simple. But for me, that is what it is all about, keeping it simple.”
I got rid of all of the rack toms and all of the bull***. If you can play you can play, it doesn’t really matter what you’re playing on
How about your kits, are you a guy that likes to change things up every few years?
“I went to a five-piece kit when we did Just Push Play and I have been playing a five-piece kit ever since then. I got rid of all of the rack toms and all of the bull***. If you can play you can play, it doesn’t really matter what you’re playing on.”
So you’re definitely not a player that likes to have a kit full of toms?
“No. I find some of the drummers that [do have big kits] are frustrated. If you’re a drummer and you’re frustrated, it is a very frustrating place to be. Most of the time you feel like that because you don’t want to be a drummer. If you want to be the hour hand on the clock instead of one of the springs in the back that makes it work then you have to re-examine the choices that you have made.
"I think a lot of guys regret making that choice, I have never regretted it, I love being a drummer. I am very happy and grateful to our fans. I’m indebted to Aerosmith’s fans. We’re coming up to our 50th anniversary. Staying together for that long is all about loving what you do. When I go to work I work really hard and I sweat and it is very physical, but I love it so much and it brings me so much joy that it really isn’t work. I’m very grateful for that.”
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Chris Cooper is a Actor American born on 9 july 1951 at Kansas City (USA)
Birth name Christopher W. Cooper
Birth 9 july 1951 (68 years) at Kansas City (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Christopher W. "Chris" Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American film actor. He became well known in the late 1980s. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including the drama American Beauty (1999), the biopic about a NASA engineer titled October Sky (1999), the action spy film The Bourne Identity (2002), the biographical sports psychological-drama thriller film Seabiscuit (2003), the biographical film about Truman Capote, Capote (2005), the geopolitical thriller Syriana (2005), the action-thriller The Kingdom (2007), the crime drama The Town (2010), and the musical comedy film The Muppets (2011).
Cooper won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the comedy-drama metafilm Adaptation (2002). He played a lead role in the historical and political thriller Breach (2007), playing FBI agent and traitor Robert Hanssen. He played Daniel Sloan in the 2012 political action thriller The Company You Keep, and supervillain Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).
Cooper resides in Kingston, Massachusetts, with his wife, Marianne Leone Cooper, whom he married in 1983. In 1987, their son Jesse Lanier Cooper was born. Three months premature, Jesse developed a cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral palsy. After searching for the best schools for children with special needs, Cooper and Leone moved to Kingston, where they became strong advocates for exceptional children. Jesse was eventually mainstreamed into Silver Lake Regional High School, where he became an honor student. On January 3, 2005, Jesse Cooper died suddenly and unexpectedly from epilepsy. A memorial fund was set up in his name, the Jesse Cooper Foundation.
Me, Myself & Irene
Maggie Renzi
Filmography of Chris Cooper (47 films)
Directed by Brian Fee
Themes Children's films
Actors Owen Wilson, Cristela Alonzo, Armie Hammer, Larry the Cable Guy, Chris Cooper, Nathan Fillion
Roles Smokey Yunick (voice)
Le célèbre Flash McQueen doit abandonner les circuits après un très grave accident durant la dernière course de la compétition et alors qu'une nouvelle génération de voitures high-tech, menée par le rookie Jackson Storm, l'a mis sur la touche. Pour ne pas finir comme était son mentor Doc Hudson, il entreprend donc de retrouver confiance en lui, aidé par une entraîneuse un peu maladroite, Cruz Ramirez, et le mentor de son défunt mentor, Smokey.
Live by Night (2017)
Directed by Ben Affleck, Rand Ravich
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Sienna Miller, Ben Affleck, Chris Messina, Zoe Saldana, Elle Fanning, Chris Cooper
Roles Chief Irving Figgis
Set in the 1920s, the story follows Joe Coughlin, the prodigal son of a Boston police captain. After moving to Ybor City, Coughlin becomes a bootlegger and a rum-runner and, later, a notorious gangster.
Demolition (2016)
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
Actors Naomi Watts, Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Brendan Dooling, Heather Lind, Judah Lewis
Roles Phil Eastwood
Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal), a successful investment banker, struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. Despite pressure from his father-in-law Phil (Chris Cooper) to pull it together, Davis continues to unravel. What starts as a complaint letter to a vending machine company turns into a series of letters revealing startling personal admissions. Davis’ letters catch the attention of customer service rep Karen (Naomi Watts) and, amidst emotional and financial burdens of her own, the two form an unlikely connection. With the help of Karen and her son Chris (Judah Lewis), Davis starts to rebuild, beginning with the demolition of the life he once knew.
Directed by Marc Webb
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about computing, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about spiders, Spider-Man films, Superhero films, Cyberpunk films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Shailene Woodley, Dane DeHaan, Colm Feore
Roles Norman Osborn
OsCorp scientist Richard Parker records a video message to explain his disappearance. Later, he and his wife, Mary, are aboard a private jet hijacked by a man sent to assassinate Richard. The plane crashes, killing both Richard and Mary, after he uploads the video.
August: Osage County (2013)
Directed by John Wells
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Abigail Breslin, Sam Shepard, Chris Cooper
Roles Charles Aiken
The title designates time and location: an unusually hot August in a rural area outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Beverly Weston (Sam Shepard), an alcoholic, once-noted poet, interviews and hires a young native American woman Johnna (Misty Upham) as a live-in cook and caregiver for his strong-willed and contentious wife Violet (Meryl Streep), who is suffering from oral cancer and addiction to narcotics. Shortly after this, he disappears from the house, and Violet calls her sister and daughters for support. Her sister Mattie Fae (Margo Martindale) arrives with husband Charles Aiken (Chris Cooper). Violet's middle daughter Ivy (Julianne Nicholson) is single and the only one living locally; Barbara (Julia Roberts), her oldest, who has inherited her mother's mean streak, arrives from Colorado with her husband Bill (Ewan McGregor) and 14-year-old daughter Jean (Abigail Breslin). Barbara and Bill are separated, but they put up a united front for Violet.
The Company You Keep (2012)
Directed by Robert Redford
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Political films, Road movies
Actors Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Anna Kendrick, Richard Jenkins, Susan Sarandon, Sam Elliott
Roles Daniel Sloan
A recently widowed single father, Jim Grant (Robert Redford), is a former Weather Underground militant wanted for a 1980 Michigan bank robbery and the murder of the bank's security guard. He has been hiding from the FBI for over thirty years, establishing an identity as a defense attorney near Albany, New York. When Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon), another former Weather Underground member, is arrested on October 3, 2011, an ambitious young reporter, Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf), smells an opportunity to make a name for himself with a national story. His prickly editor, Ray Fuller (Stanley Tucci), assigns him to follow up. Ben's ex-girlfriend, Diana (Anna Kendrick), is an FBI agent, and he presses her for information about the case. She tells him to look up a Billy Cusimano (Stephen Root). Billy, an old hippie with a history of drug arrests who runs an organic grocery, is an old friend of Sharon Solarz and a former client of Jim's. Billy is disappointed that Jim doesn't want to take Sharon's case, and he conveys this information to Ben when Ben questions him.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
Directed by Alex Gibney
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about religion, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about child abuse
Actors Jamey Sheridan, John Slattery, Chris Cooper, Ethan Hawke
Roles Gary (voice)
The film follows documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney as he examines the abuse of power in the Catholic Church system through the story of four deaf men — Terry Kohut, Gary Smith, Pat Kuehn and Arthur Budzinski — who set out to expose the priest who abused them during the mid-1960s. Each of the men brought forth the first known case of public protest against clerical sex abuse, which later lead to the sex scandal case known as the Lawrence Murphy case. Through their case the film follows a cover-up that winds its way from the row houses of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, through Ireland's churches, all the way to the highest office of the Vatican.
The Muppets (2011)
Directed by James Bobin
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones, Zach Galifianakis, Jim Parsons
Roles Tex Richman
Brothers Walter and Gary, residents of Smalltown, are fans of the Muppets, having watched The Muppet Show throughout their youth. Now adults, Gary plans a vacation to Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Mary, to celebrate their tenth anniversary, inviting Walter so he can tour the Muppet Studios. Mary feels Gary's devotion to Walter is detracting from their relationship.
The Company Men (2010)
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Maria Bello, Rosemarie DeWitt
Roles Phil Woodward
When the multi-billion dollar publicly held shipbuilding corporation Global Transportation Systems, or GTX, is downsized in the midst of the recession, many employees are fired, including Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck). Walker is a white-collar, corporate ladder-climbing employee with a six-figure salary, a wife, and a teenage son and younger daughter.
Remember Me (2010)
Directed by Allen Coulter
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about terrorism, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin, Pierce Brosnan, Martha Plimpton
Roles Neil Craig
In 1991 in New York City, 11-year-old Alyssa "Ally" Craig is waiting with her mother for the subway on the F Line at 18th Avenue and McDonald Avenue. Suddenly, the pair are mugged by two young men who then shoot her mother before boarding the train. Ally is left scarred by the events and refuses to travel by subway again.
The Town (2010)
Directed by Ben Affleck
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Psychologie, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall, Blake Lively, Jeremy Lee Renner, Pete Postlethwaite
Roles Stephen MacRay
Four lifelong friends from the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, Douglas "Doug" MacRay, James "Jem" Coughlin, Albert "Gloansy" Magloan, and Desmond "Dez" Elden, rob a bank. They take the manager, Claire Keesey, hostage, but release her unharmed. When they find out Claire lives in their neighborhood, Doug begins to follow her to find out how much she has told the authorities, and to make sure that Jem does not eliminate her as a witness. Soon a romance grows between them, which Doug hides from the gang. As they grow closer, Doug tells Claire of his search for his long-lost mother, who he believes went to live with his aunt in Tangerine, Florida. He also recounts his chance to be a professional hockey player which he threw away for a life of crime, following in his father's footsteps. She in turn tells Doug that she saw a tattoo on one of the robbers, and he realizes that she can identify Jem and send them all to jail. He knows that Jem will kill her if he discovers the truth, so he persuades her that the authorities cannot protect her, and she decides not to tell the police.
Amigo (2010)
Directed by John Sayles
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Actors Chris Cooper, Garret Dillahunt, Joel Torre, DJ Qualls, Yul Vazquez, Lucas Neff
Roles Col. Hardacre
Amigo centers on Rafael Dacanay, kapitan of the fictional barrio of San Isidro in a rice-growing area of Luzon. His brother Simón, head of the local guerrilla band, has forced the surrender of the Spanish guardia civil outpost and charged Rafael with the task of imprisoning the guardia Captain and the barrio’s Spanish friar, Padre Hidalgo, in the name of the revolutionary government. But when the American troops chasing General Emilio Aguinaldo arrive, the Spanish officer and Padre Hidalgo are freed, and a garrison under the command of Lieutenant Ike Compton is left to ‘protect’ the barrio. The American occupation policy now changes from ‘hearts and minds’ to ‘concentration’ (what was called ‘hamletting’ during the Vietnam war) and Rafael has to answer to both the Americans and the Filipino patriots, with deadly consequences.
Directed by Julie Taymor, William Shakespeare
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, Chris Cooper
Roles Antonio
Prospera, the duchess of Milan, is secretly denounced as a sorceress and usurped by her brother Antonio, with aid from Alonso, the King of Naples, and is cast off in a small boat to die with her three-year-old daughter Miranda. They survive, finding themselves stranded on an island where the human beast Caliban is the sole inhabitant. Prospera enslaves Caliban, frees the captive spirit Ariel and claims the island. After 12 years, Alonso sails back to his kingdom from the marriage of his daughter to the prince of Tunisia, accompanied by his son Ferdinand, his brother Sebastian and Antonio. Prospera, seizing her chance for revenge, with Ariel's help causes a tempest, wrecking the ship and stranding those on board on her island.
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Directed by Spike Jonze
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Max Records, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, Paul Dano, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara
Roles Douglas (voice)
The film begins with Max, a lonely nine-year-old boy with an active imagination whose parents are divorced, wearing a wolf costume and chasing his dog. His older sister, Claire, does nothing when her friends crush Max's snow fort (with him inside) during a snowball fight. Out of frustration, Max messes up her bedroom and destroys a frame that he had made for her. At school, Max's teacher teaches him and his classmates about the eventual death of the sun. Later on, his mother, Connie, invites her boyfriend Adrian to dinner. Max becomes upset with his mother for not coming to the fort he made in his room. He wears his wolf costume, acts like an animal, and demands to be fed. When his mother gets upset, he throws a tantrum and bites her on the shoulder. She yells at him and he runs away, scared by what has transpired. At the edge of a pond Max finds a small boat that he boards.
Directed by Jiang Wen, Shekhar Kapur, Natalie Portman, Yvan Attal, Andreï Zviaguintsev, Scarlett Johansson, Fatih Akın, Albert et Allen Hughes, Brett Ratner, Mira Nair, Joshua Marston, Shunji Iwai
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Anthology film, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Hayden Christensen, Bradley Cooper, Andy García, Justin Bartha, Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom
Roles Alex (segment "Yvan Attal")
New York, I Love You est, comme pour Paris, je t'aime, un travail collectif de onze courts-métrages, faisant chacun environ dix minutes. Les réalisateurs ayant participé au film ont filmé leur segment dans les cinq boroughs de New York. Chaque segment n'a pas de lien direct avec les autres mais toutes tournent toutes autour du même thème : trouver le grand amour et le plaisir du sexe.
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Joint-Letter from Opposition Parties Urge Trudeau to Call By-Elections
OTTAWA – In an open letter signed by the leaders of the NDP, the Conservatives, Bloc Québécois and the Green Party, the opposition is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to immediately call all by-elections following his decision to hold an election for only one of the four vacant seats in the House of Commons.
“Your decision to delay the other three by-elections denies hundreds of thousands of Canadians their simple democratic right to be represented in Parliament and have their voices heard,” the letter says.
In their letter, party leaders, Andrew Scheer, Jagmeet Singh, Mario Beaulieu, and Elizabeth May, point out that due to Trudeau’s refusal to call the by-elections in Burnaby-South (BC), York-Simcoe (Ontario), and Outremont (Quebec), more than 300,000 Canadians will continue to go without federal representation.
“While the parties we lead disagree on what solutions are best for the challenges facing Canadians, we are in complete agreement that Canadians deserve to have elected representation as soon as possible,” the letter reads. “We urge you to do what’s best for Canadians in these ridings and immediately call the by-elections for all vacant seats in the House of Commons.”
Full text of the letter can be found here.
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The Killing Of An American Missionary By Andaman Tribe
Published: November 24, 2018 21:52 IST
"I am not a tame person", said one of the Khomani San (they are bushmen and Khomani is their language) to me years ago when I asked him why he tends to lose everything he is given from false teeth to glasses to money. A few years prior to that, a large brand had come to South Africa and approached the Khomani San to perform in an advertisement. They agreed. After the shoot, the company paid the main elder a large amount of money, handed over in a wad of cash. They did this because most of the Khomani San in South Africa have no papers, no birth certificates, nothing at all that allows them to open up bank accounts. Generations of genocide and barbarity has reduced their numbers to a few hundred and those that are left have been removed from their ancestral lands and live in ghettos of squalor. Anyhow, the money, which was close to 50,000 rands, caused great strife. How would it get distributed? Would it only go to the people who were in the advertisement?
Arguments broke out and turned violent. The elder who was handed the money decided it was bringing nothing but evil and chucked the money in the fire. Everyone was happy that the problem was now solved and went home.
You and I will never understand this: to "not be tame".
A few days ago, a young American man was killed by a Sentinelese tribe on an island in the Andamans. He was an adventurer and a missionary who was convinced the tribals need to embrace Jesus. The same tribe had killed two fishermen in 2006 when they ventured too close to the island. These are the last of the uncontacted tribes on the planet and this particular group has made it violently clear that they want to be left alone.
John Allen Chau was killed by members of the Sentinelese community using bows and arrows, reports said
While I am deeply sorry for John Allen Chau and his family, his journal entries make it quite clear that he was aware of the dangers. "You guys might think I am crazy in all this but I think it's worthwhile to declare Jesus to these people", he wrote. Apparently on an earlier trip, he hollered, "I love you, Jesus loves you." The response was an arrow shot into his waterproof Bible. He speculated that this might be one of the last places where Satan lived. He was well aware that he was trespassing, writing, "God kept us hidden from the coast guards". It must be said here that if this young man had made proper contact and spent time with the tribe, he could have sentenced them all to death with germs he carried to which they have no immunity, even the common cold.
"These people" are a group who have lived wild as hunter-gatherers, pretty much untouched for upwards of 20,000 years. One of the big wave of human migrations out of Africa to the Middle East, Asia and India occurred about 60,000 years ago. If they have any similarities to the San, the oldest hunter-gatherer tribes of the world, then they are probably nature-worshippers with a strong spiritual tradition that reveres their ancestors and uses trance as a way of accessing the spirit world, guided by a Shaman.
The Sentinelese fired arrows at an Indian Coast Guard helicopter that went to help after the 2004 tsunami (File)
The Sentinelese are thought to be one of the last pre-Neolithic tribe in the world. Their island is just 60 sq kms big and is about 1,200 kms from mainland India. Very rough estimates have put the numbers of this tribe at between 50-150 people. It is believed that they survive on sea food, wild pigs and probably edible plants. To have survived for this long, they must be adept in their knowledge of what they can eat, how to harvest or hunt it, and the medicinal value of many of the plants. learnt to survive all of it.
This shows remarkable intelligence and self-preservation skills.
The Jarawa people, another indigenous group who had no contact with people for the longest time, are now under great threat due to a road that runs through their territory on another Andaman island. This has caused tremendous problems with the tribe being treated like sight-seeing attractions. Measles and influenza affected the tribes badly and the women have been sexually exploited by poachers, loggers, bus drivers and settlers. The Supreme Court in 2002 declared that the road must be closed and not used and yet it is in use and tourists go there on "highway safaris" to see the tribals. In 2013, the Supreme Court intervened once more and asked administration to stop tourism on the road.
North Sentinel Island is home to the Sentinelese who reject any contact with the outside world
Recently, the Indian government in a bid to expand tourism in the Andaman and Nicobar islands has excluded 29 islands including this North Sentinel island from those defined as restricted areas until 2022. It was done on the undertaking that the Andamans administration will ensure that no damage is caused to the natural environment. A different permit is still needed for areas like the one where the preacher was killed but this requirement is easily circumvented with the help of willing fishermen and others.
It is essential to recognise not just the right but the need to leave indigenous people alone, to not literally invade their space. Let us stick to boundaries and respect them.
(Swati Thiyagarajan is an Environment Editor with NDTV and author of 'Born Wild', a book about her experiences with conservation and wildlife both in India and Africa)
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed within this article are the personal opinions of the author. The facts and opinions appearing in the article do not reflect the views of NDTV and NDTV does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same.
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Live Theatre is recognised as one of the great new writing theatres on the international stage. It offers everything from world class theatre, stand-up comedy and live music in its beautiful theatre located on Newcastle’s vibrant Quayside. Its quirky historic spaces made from five Grade II listed buildings joined together create a unique atmosphere with an intimate feel.
Transformed in 2007 with a capital redevelopment, the complex of beautifully restored Grade II listed buildings with state-of-the-art facilities, include a 160 seat cabaret style theatre, a studio theatre, renovated rehearsal rooms, dedicated writer’s rooms as well as a thriving café, bar and pub. It is now developing a new outdoor public performance space and gardens ajoining the theatre due to open in spring 2016.
Live Theatre produces work as varied and diverse as the audiences it engages with. Writer Lee Hall whose plays Billy Elliot and The Pitmen Painters were first produced at Live Theatre calls it ‘British Theatre’s best kept secret.’ As well as championing the art of writing for the stage by producing and presenting new plays, Live Theatre unlocks the potential of young people and finds and nurtures creative talent.
Proper food and proper ale is served in their award-winning pub, The Broad Chare, next door and Italian restaurant Caffé Vivo offers drinks, pre and post theatre meals.
For more information and tickets ring the box office on (0191) 232 1232 or see www.live.org.uk.
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Bleed the Foreigner
PRINCETON – Today, the world is threatened with a repeat of the 2008 financial meltdown – but on an even more cataclysmic scale.This time, the epicenter is in Europe, rather than the United States.
PRINCETON – Today, the world is threatened with a repeat of the 2008 financial meltdown – but on an even more cataclysmic scale. This time, the epicenter is in Europe, rather than the United States.
And this time, the financial mechanisms involved are not highly complex structured financial products, but one of the oldest financial instruments in the world: government bonds.
While governments and central banks race frantically to find a solution, there is a profound psychological dynamic at work that stands in the way of an orderly debt workout: our aversion to recognizing obligations to strangers.
The impulse simply to cut the Gordian knot of debt by defaulting on it is much stronger when creditors are remote and unknown. In 2007-2008, it was homeowners who could not keep up with payments; now it is governments.
But, in both cases, the lender was distant and anonymous. American mortgages were no longer held at the local bank, but had been repackaged in esoteric financial instruments and sold around the world; likewise, Greek government debt is in large part owed to foreigners.
Because Spain and France defaulted so much in the early modern period, and because Greece, from the moment of its political birth in 1830, was a chronic or serial defaulter, some assume that national temperament somehow imbues countries with a proclivity to default.
But that search for long historical continuity is facile, for it misses one of the key determinants of debt sustainability: the identity of the state’s creditor.
This variable makes an enormous difference in terms of whether debt will be regularly and promptly serviced.
The frequent and spectacular early modern bankruptcies of the French and Spanish monarchies concerned for the most part debt owed to foreigners.
The sixteenth-century Habsburgs borrowed – at very high interest rates – from Florentine, Genovese, and Augsburg merchants.
Ancien régime France developed a similar pattern, borrowing in Amsterdam or Geneva in order to fight wars against Spain in the sixteenth and seventeen centuries, and against Britain in the eighteenth.
The Netherlands and Britain, however followed a different path. They depended much less on foreign creditors than on domestic lenders.
The Dutch model was exported to Britain in 1688, along with the political revolution that deposed the Catholic James II and put the Dutch Protestant William of Orange on the English throne.
Indeed, the Glorious Revolution enabled a revolution in finance. In particular, recognition of the rights of parliament – of a representative assembly – ensured that the agents of the creditor classes would have permanent control of the budgetary process. They could thus guarantee – also on behalf of other creditors – that the state’s finances were solid, and that debts would be repaid.
Constitutional monarchy limited the scope for wasteful spending on luxurious court life (as well as on military adventure) – the hallmark of early modern autocratic monarchy.
In short, the financial revolution of the modern world was built on a political order – which anteceded a full transition to universal democracy – in which the creditors formed the political class.
That model was transferred to many other countries, and became the bedrock on which modern financial stability was built.
In the post-1945 period, government finance in rich industrial countries was also overwhelmingly national at first, and the assumptions of 1688 still held. Then something happened.
With the liberalization of global financial markets that began in the 1970’s, foreign sources of credit became available. In the mid-1980’s, the US became a net debtor, relying increasingly on foreigners to finance its debt.
Europeans, too, followed this path. Part of the promise of the new push to European integration in the 1980’s was that it would make borrowing easier. In the 1990’s, the main attraction of monetary union for Italian and Spanish politicians was that the new currency would bring down interest rates and make foreign money available for cheap financing of government debt.
Until the late 1990’s and the advent of monetary union, most government debt in the European Union was domestically held: in 1998, foreigners held only one-fifth of sovereign debt.
That share climbed rapidly in the aftermath of the euro’s introduction. In 2008, on the eve of the financial crisis, three-quarters of Portuguese debt, half of Spanish and Greek debt, and more than 40% of Italian debt was held by foreigners.
When the foreign share of debt grows, so do the political incentives to impose the costs of that debt on foreigners. In the 1930’s, during and after the Great Depression, a strong feeling that the creditors were illegitimate and unethical bloodsuckers accompanied widespread default.
Even US President Franklin Roosevelt jovially slapped his thigh when Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht told him that Nazi Germany would default on its external loans, including those owed to American banks, exclaiming, “Serves the Wall Street bankers right!” In Europe today, impatient Greeks have doubtless derived some encouragement from excoriations of bankers’ foolishness by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The economists’ commonplace that a monetary union demands a fiscal union is only part of a much deeper truth about debt and obligation: debt is rarely sustainable if there is not some sense of communal or collective responsibility.
That is the mechanism that reduces the incentives to expropriate the creditor, and makes debt secure and cheap.
At the end of the day, a collective, burden-sharing Europe is the only way out of the current crisis. But that requires substantially greater centralization of political accountability and control than Europeans seem able to achieve today.
And that is why many of them could be paying much more for credit tomorrow.
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle.
Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2011.
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Former Vice-President Dick Cheney on Tuesday called upon the nations of the world to “once and for all ban the despicable and heinous practice of publishing torture reports.”
“Like many Americans, I was shocked and disgusted by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s publication of a torture report today,” Cheney said in a prepared statement. “The transparency and honesty found in this report represent a gross violation of our nation’s values.”
“The publication of torture reports is a crime against all of us,” he added. “Not just those of us who have tortured in the past, but every one of us who might want to torture in the future.”
Saying that the Senate’s “horrifying publication” had inspired him to act, he vowed, “As long as I have air to breathe, I will do everything in my power to wipe out the scourge of torture reports from the face of the Earth.”
Cheney concluded his statement by calling for an international conference on the issue of torture reports. “I ask all the great nations of the world to stand up, expose the horrible practice of publishing torture reports, and say, ‘This is not who we are,’ ” Cheney said.
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Valentine H. Kass vkass@nsf.gov (703) 292-5095 E11477
June 1, Annually Thereafter
Proposals will be considered for field support in Antarctica beginning no sooner than a year after the proposal deadline in which funding was requested (i.e., if applying to the July 2019 deadline, requests for field support would be considered no sooner than July 2020). Proposals will be considered for work aboard ship in the Southern Ocean beginning no sooner than seven months after the original proposal deadline.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is the lead Federal agency managing the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP), which supports scientific research and education in the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean. The Antarctic Artists and Writers Program was established to facilitate writing and artistic projects designed to increase the public�s understanding and appreciation of the Antarctic and human endeavors on the southernmost continent. The Artist and Writers Program gives priority to projects that focus on interpreting and representing the scientific activities being conducted in the unique Antarctic region.�Proposed projects must target audiences in the U.S. and be distributed/exhibited in the U.S. The program does not support site installations or performances in Antarctica. The program also does not support short-term projects that are essentially journalistic in nature (See Section IX. Other Information). Artists and Writers Program field teams should consist of no more than one or two people.� Larger projects�such as television or documentary film crews�should contact the cognizant AAW Program Officer.
Successful projects will be provided with USAP logistical support needed to implement the proposed activity, as well as round-trip economy air tickets between the United States and the Southern Hemisphere. USAP infrastructure available to support projects undertaken by artists and writers consists of three year-round stations, numerous austral summer research camps in Antarctica, two research vessels, and surface and air transportation. The Artists and Writers Program does not provide direct funding to successful applicants for any purpose.
Due to the unique nature of this program, proposers are strongly encouraged to carefully follow the guidelines described in this solicitation and to contact the cognizant Artists and Writers Program Officer prior to submitting a proposal to discuss the unique requirements and restrictions of the Antarctic Artists and Writers Program and Antarctic logistics in general.
If Polar Programs determines, prior to the panel review, that the logistic needs for a project cannot be met in the upcoming field season, the proposal will be returned without review.
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Erin Billups has been reporting on health for Spectrum News since 2013. She’s covered a wide range of topics, from the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act to innovations in treatment for diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer’s, heart disease and cancer. Erin’s coverage regularly highlights public policy responses to health epidemics and widening disparities in access to care.
Erin is now the host of Spectrum Networks’ new initiative “Exploring Your Health,” which will take a deeper dive into major health issues affecting Americans.
Erin has held several roles with Spectrum Networks. She hosted Spectrum News NY1’s weekly health program, "City Health Beat," for two years. She was the first reporter stationed at Spectrum’s Washington D.C. Bureau, which launched in July 2011. In Washington, Erin covered President Obama's announcement of the end of the Iraq War and U.S. Supreme Court arguments on cases ranging from immigration reform to health care reform.
Prior to working in the nation’s capital, Erin kept tabs on changes in David Paterson's administration and the transition to Andrew Cuomo's administration as NY1's State House Reporter. Her stint in Albany included covering the historic and controversial same-sex marriage bill, which passed in 2011.
Before working for NY1, Erin was the political reporter for Spectrum News’ Capital Tonight in Upstate New York. She began her career with Spectrum News as the morning reporter in Albany. Prior to that, she was a general assignment reporter in Elmira-Corning at the ABC affiliate WENY-TV, where she also covered the health beat.
Originally from Hollis, Queens, Erin was raised by her mother and grandmother, who was an emergency department nurse. Health and nutrition were regularly a focus of family conversation and a large part of why she chose to pursue the health beat.
Erin is a graduate of the State University at Albany. She lives in New York City with her husband and their two children.
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Uncle Mario's Pizzeria
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This former Abitino location gets rebranded as Uncle Mario's, after the namesake of the ruling family of Mario and Anna Abitino, Neapolitan immigrants who bring homestyle tradition to New York's already considerable Italian scene.
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Uncle Mario's Pizzeria is located in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. How best to describe one of the most famous neighborhoods in the United States? Aside from the extreme concentration of the rich and the famous, their opulent dwellings, and the army of doormen, butlers and chauffeurs who serve them, the Upper East Side is also a showcase for some of America’s finest cultural establishments.
Walk along Fifth Avenue’s Museum Mile which features a veritable plethora of artistic and cultural institutions. For some of the best contemporary art collections, visit the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum and the recently renovated cylindrical wonder that is the Guggenheim. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Guggenheim has always prided itself on being home to innovative and at times controversial works of art since its inception in 1959. There’s also the Jewish Museum, one of the world's largest and most important institutions devoted to exploring the remarkable scope and diversity of Jewish culture.
Of course, no visit to Museum Mile would be complete without to the city’s crown jewel, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many special exhibits complement the permanent displays at the Met, yet the collection is so vast that the huge storage areas under Central Park are bursting with pictures, sculptures and other objects d’art. From rare, ancient Egyptian relics to medieval coats of armor to a costume gallery that spans seven centuries it’s almost impossible to see everything in one visit, so multiple trips may be necessary. In addition, visit the nearby Whitney Museum of American Art and see thousands of works of art including collections by seminal artists such as Edward Hopper, Alexander Calder and Reginald Marsh. The Asia Society Museum, and Frick Collection are also nearby.
The official residence of New York City’s mayor, Gracie Mansion, is at the northern end of Carl Schurz Park on 89th Street. The main floor of the mansion is open to the public and is a showcase for art and antiques created by New York designers, cabinetmakers, painters and sculptors. Tours must be reserved in advance however.
From glamorous Fifth and Park Avenues to the fashionable townhouses in the East Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, there are too many noteworthy addresses to list, but a veritable Who’s Who of American society can be found here and if you’re lucky, you might even get a glimpse of it. For your best bet, try dinner at Elaine’s. While the food is essentially secondary to the patronage, it remains a great spot for celeb-spotting. Named after its famed, cantankerous owner who can still be spotted their nearly every night attending to customers, the casual bistro is a frequented by a high celebrity clientele and counts Woody Allen, Michael Caine and Jackie Onassis among its devotees. Good luck getting a reservation. If it's fresh seafood you're craving try Atlantic Grill. Sample the daily selection of oysters and clams on the half shell from the raw bar. Or try their unique take on sushi and sashimi. Restaurant Daniel is another great dining option renowned for its award-winning French cuisine and elegant atmosphere.
The Upper East Side is also home to some of the most luxurious hotels in New York. There's the classic Carlyle, which has been called home by leaders in world affairs, business, society, entertainment and the arts since its debut in 1930. The Carlyle remains a landmark of elegance and refined taste. Other prestigious hotels in the area include The Mark, which has been cited as one of the top 100 U.S. and Canada hotels in a Travel + Leisure's readers' poll and the sophisticated Lowell. A bit further south at the southeastern corner of Central Park, of course there's the most legendary hotel of them all, The Plaza, which set the standard for luxury when it opened over a century ago. The tradition continues following a recently completed $400 million, two-year renovation. The passion and uncompromising service, which made the hotel a legend, has returned with a new and contemporary spirit.
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Handbags are an important part of fashion. Just like the outfits worn by women, the type of handbag that a lady carries will affect the way her wardrobe looks. Since the early 1900s, carrying bags made by popular designer labels has been very fashionable. However, because of the high prices which these bags are sold for, not many people are able to afford them. An easy solution to this problem is by buying replica handbags. Replica handbags, such as Balenciaga replica handbags are designed to look like the original. Women are thus able to repeat the look in their wardrobe at a more affordable cost. Most replica handbags look just as good as the original. Louis Vuitton replica handbags are popular favorites amongst many people today. This is because of the legend and respect that is associated with the Louis Vuitton (LV) label.
LV is undoubtedly one of the oldest designers in the fashion industry today. Opened in 1854 by the eponymous designer, the fashion house was dedicated to the designing and manufacturing of luxury leather goods. The high quality of the fashion shop soon won it favorites and orders for its product grew very quickly. When the founding designer died, the fashion line was taken over by his son, George Vuitton. It is he who is credited as starting the monogram trend that has become very popular today. He also diversified the product line, introducing wallets and purses alongside the bags and trunks that the company was known for.
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These bags have led the forefront of fashion for over 100 years. They have been found on the arms of actresses, musicians, politicians and simple housewives. They are carried to ceremonies, dinners, offices and travel trips. It doesn't matter if a lady is carrying an original or a well designed copy; the effect of the LV name is just as strong today as it has always been classy, simple, flawless and timeless.
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How is the humanitarian system performing?
5 December 2018 15:30 - 17:00 GMT
Streamed live online
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John Mitchell - Director, ALNAP
Mike Wooldridge - former International Affairs Correspondent, BBC
Helen Alderson @HAldersonICRC - Head of Regional Delegation for the UK & Ireland, ICRC
Sara Almer @sara_almer - Humanitarian Programme Coordinator, Oxfam
Paul Knox-Clarke - Lead author of the report and Head of Research, ALNAP
In recent years the geopolitical landscape has changed, with powerful effects on the context and practices of humanitarian action. Irregular migration, epidemics and conflict have stretched the capacity of the humanitarian system and are reshaping the relationships not only within it, but also with development actors, governments and civil society organisations, amongst others.
This discussion, drawing on The 4th edition of The State of the Humanitarian System (SOHS), looks back at what has shaped the humanitarian landscape from 2015 to 2017 and forward to the challenges ahead. It outlines humanitarian needs in the period, provides an overview of the resources that were available to address these needs, describes the current size and structure of the humanitarian system and presents an assessment of the performance of the system in addressing these needs.
For more information about The State of the Humanitarian System reports and launches, visit www.alnap.org/sohs.
John Mitchell is the Director at ALNAP, which he has led for the past 15 years. ALNAP is a global network of NGOs, UN agencies, members of the Red Cross/Crescent Movement, donors, academics and consultants dedicated to learning how to improve responses to humanitarian crises, hosted at ODI. John is a committed humanitarian leader with over thirty years’ experience in humanitarian action, and a leading exponent of humanitarian practice and policy. Over the course of his career he has worked for donor organisations, UN agencies and NGOs.
Mike Wooldridge is a former International Affairs Correspondent for the BBC. Mike joined BBC News in 1970 as a sub-editor. Over the course of 45 years he was a correspondent for the BBC in East Africa, South Africa and South Asia, reporting on some of the worlds biggest news stories. He is a trustee of BBC Media Action.
Helen Alderson is Head of the Regional Delegation for the UK and Ireland for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). She oversees the ICRC's relationship with the UK Government on humanitarian policy, humanitarian law in armed conflict, and the UK's support of the ICRC in its worldwide operations. Helen began her career at UNICEF in 1985 and has over 30 years experience working in a number of posts at both field and HQ level.
Sara Almer is a Humanitarian Programme Coordinator with Oxfam, who has just returned from Ethiopia where she worked as Interim Country Director. Previously with Oxfam, she led large-scale humanitarian programmes around the world with their Global Humanitarian Team. Sara has more than 17 years of experience in humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and development work for INGOs in South Sudan, Sudan, Indonesia, Haiti, Pakistan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Ethiopia and the UK.
Paul Knox Clarke is Head of Research at ALNAP, and the lead author of The State of the Humanitarian System report 2018. At ALNAP, he supports all ALNAP research and is particularly engaged with issues of accountability, humanitarian effectiveness, urban response and leadership. Prior to ALNAP, Paul worked with the WFP and Save the Children, focusing on issues of food security, policies around accountability and participation, and organisational effectiveness.
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Winnie Nieh with Paul Dab – Sunday, September 16 at 4 pm
Rick Bahto June 26, 2018 Uncategorized
Winnie Nieh, soprano
with Paul Dab, piano
Take refuge on the road to madness! Join soprano Winnie Nieh and pianist Paul Dab for a program on joy, seduction, love, loss and madness, featuring works by Purcell, Strauss, Ravel, the West Coast premiere of Richard Aldag’s Five Songs for Voice & Piano, and the world premiere (with piano) of Richard Festinger’s Love Wanders There and Winds of May. Winnie graduated from Harvard and received Associate diplomas from Trinity College London in piano, voice and violin. She has appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, as well as in Germany, Canada, South Korea and Hong Kong. Paul graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2011 and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2014, and has studied at conservatories in Vienna, Austria and Glasgow, Scotland and participated in festivals in New York and North Carolina. Last season this duo delighted Bay Area audiences with two recitals, and Winnie tied for Second Place behind Joyce DiDonato in San Francisco Classical Voice’s poll for Best Vocal Recital 2016-17. Don’t miss this program and the chance to meet composers Richard Aldag and Richard Festinger. Please visit winnienieh.com and pauldab.com for more information on the performers.
Lynn Schugren – Sunday, September 9 at 4 pm
Jihye Chang – Friday, September 28 at 8 pm
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Platforms: PC
Publisher: Mindscape
Developer: Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Genres: Strategy / Real-Time Strategy
Game Modes: Singleplayer
SSI has been developing AD&D role-playing titles for some time. Building on their considerable experience in this area, the company has created its own role-playing universe called The World Of Aden. Their second World of Aden title is Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall, an action/role playing game which has no involvement with Thunderscape, the first World of Aden title, other than being set in the same world.
The player is Squire Warrick, a character who wakes up on an island one day to find that his memory is gone. Your character eventually finds out that the island is being invaded by hordes of insects and other monsters which feast on the blood of the living. Through interaction with characters and events in Entomorph, Warrick becomes involved in a complex storyline in which he must stop a plague of insectoid creatures. What’s worse is that as Warrick travels along, he realizes that he has contracted this plague and is turning into an insect himself.
Entomorph isn’t your normal role-playing game. The game is viewed from an isometric standpoint and all of the action is in real time. It’s not quite an action game, where you blast from one room to the next, but there is a healthy dose of fighting your way through insect hordes. Entomorph still manages to incorporate a lot of role-playing and adventure attributes through an engaging branching storyline, character development, puzzles to solve and mini-missions to complete along the way.
The game is played through a mouse or joystick which is used to control our hero Warrick. At the beginning of the game Warrick begins with only his own two hands to fight the evil creatures, but he’s able to gain different spells as he travels throughout the world, providing powerful weapons and armor. Fighting is accomplished by positioning Warrick directly in front of whatever he wants to destroy, and pressing the button. When spells are acquired, they go into Warrick’s spell book, which can be accessed whenever he needs it. Up to three spells can be in readied at any one time, each spell being activated by a corresponding key on the keyboard. Warrick’s hit points are shown by a bar on the left side of the screen while his mana, the points used for casting spells, are shown by a bar on the right side.
Entomorph is an odd blend of action and role-playing. There are a ton of things to squash and kill, but there’s also lots of puzzles along the way with an involved storyline. Warrick will have to travel through many horrid, oozing levels and meet (and kill, kill all the big bugs) lots of horrid, oozing creatures to complete his mission. With good 2D graphics and an original soundtrack to match, Entomorph manages to capture one’s attention despite its odd subject matter.
System Requirements: 80486/33 MHz, 4 MB RAM, Win95
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Baldur’s Gate: Forgotten Realms
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HOCHTIEF AG
• Construction of roads and motorways (4211)
This company is engaged in the provision of construction services. Founded by Gebruder Helfmann in 1873, it has its registered head office in the city of Essen in Germany. The company is one of the world's leading construction groups. Its core business comprises of the segments: Transportation Infrastructure, Energy Infrastructure, Social and Urban Infrastructure, Mining Services, and Services. The Transportation Infrastructure segment is active in the construction of roads, bridges and tunnels as well as sea ports, rail lines and airports. The Energy Infrastructure segment is involved in power plant design, construction, and decommissioning. The Social and Urban Infrastructure segment provides design, construction, and refurbishment capabilities for built structures-including office buildings, healthcare properties, schools, and sports facilities as well as shopping malls and residential buildings-in many regions of the world. The Mining Services segment is active in the design, construction, and operation of processing plants for coal, industrial and precious metals, industrial minerals, and iron ore. The Services segment generates continuous earnings contributions outside the project business. The company operates as a subsidiary of ACS, Actividades De Construccion Y Servicios, S.A.
If as a company manager or official of HOCHTIEF AG you want to enter in touch with our staff, provide more information to OpenCorporation or get an account to access and compile the company questionnaire, please write an email to support@opencorporation.org .
ACS ACTIVIDADES DE CONSTRUCCION Y SERVICIOS, S.A.
Mr Marcelino Fernandez Verdes
(has a role in 7 companies)
2018 € 23.882,29
2016 € 19.908,328
€ 14.447,822
€ 1.183,028
www.hochtief.de
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Open source is not enough
Free and Open source software has taken over the world and become the new standard for software publication. However, free software and open source only addressed the angle of freedom and rights with the end product, as conveyed through software licenses. They did not mandate how the software was to be built. They said nothing about who really controls the creation of the software.
As a result, a lot of open source software is produced in ways that are closer to proprietary software than to the ideals of free software, and in the absence of a taxonomy it is difficult to tell the difference. We need to start caring about how software is built, and not just the license the code is released under.
In this talk we'll explore the differences between models of open source software production, and call for going beyond open source and defining standards on how open source licensed software shall be built.
What can I expect to learn?
At the Open infrastructure summit we focus on enabling the open development of open infrastructure solutions. We apply the model known as the Four Opens to create an open collaboration playground reducing useless duplication of effort and industry convergence toward interoperable standards at the infrastructure level.
But in the absence of a taxonomy describing the various ways to produce "open source", it is difficult to distinguish between this open collaboration model and single-vendor solutions that are today closer to proprietary software than to the ideas of free software.
This talk is timely, as some advocate for a shift in the definition of open source to better accommodate their business models. We need to talk more about how open source is produced, and this new track at the Open Infrastructure Summit is a great place to kick it off.
Monday, April 29, 12:00pm-12:40pm
The Colorado Convention Center - Meeting Room Level - 505/506
Slides: Open source is not enough
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Tags: Upstream Development
Thierry Carrez
OpenStack Foundation, Vice President of Engineering
Thierry Carrez is the Vice-President of Engineering at the OpenStack Foundation, in charge of the long-term health of the open source projects under the Foundation. A long-time elected member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, he has been a Release Manager for the OpenStack project since its inception, coordinating the effort and facilitating collaboration between contributors. Thierry... FULL PROFILE
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Tributes to Simonstone gentleman and businessman
Alfred Bracewell
Dominic Collis
Published: 10:34 Tuesday 18 December 2018
A Simonstone businessman, described as “a kind-hearted gentleman”, has died at the age of 86.
Mr Alfred Bracewell, who set up several companies during his lifetime, was best known for his work at Acewell Units, which is still operating from Hapton.
Mr Bracewell, who was born and brought up in Colne and attended Lord Street School in the town, was the son of Thomas Bracewell who set up Bracewell Coaches and Undertakers.
After leaving Colne, Alfred attended public school in Giggleswick, and then went on to set up a chicken farm at Whins Lane, Simonstone, where he lived for the rest of his life.
His wife Susan said: “Alfred was a workaholic, he was quite an entrepreneur and had various companies, including Acewell Electronics, throughout his life.
“We had been together since 1991 and married since 2005. We had a lovely retirement together which included holidays and trips on his motor cruiser around the Costa del Sol.
“Alfred was lovely, a genuine kind-hearted gentleman who was so pleasant and trusting. He was very well-known throughout the area.”
Before embarking on his business career, Alfred served in the Parachute Regiment on his National Service and enjoyed several parachute jumps.
Alfred also leaves son Craig and daughter Tina, as well as two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
His funeral will be held on Friday with a service at St John’s Church, Read, at 9-30am, followed by cremation at Burnley at 10-40am.
Neighbours' fury over plans to build on Earby greenspace land
Police will enact 'stop and search' powers in Nelson tonight
Announcement for the Flying Scotsman arriving in the Ribble Valley: Times now released
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Beto O’Rourke Is More of a Slacker than a Saint
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Beto O’Rourke delivers a campaign speech atop a counter at The Beancounter Coffeehouse & Drinkery in Burlington, Iowa, March 14, 2019. (Daniel Acker/Reuters)
Before I go any further, this is it — your last chance to register for the National Review Institute Ideas Summit, like a spring concert festival for conservatives, libertarians, populists, Republicans, Trump fans, Trump critics from the Right. And what a lineup: Pompeo, DeVos, Pai, Hassett, Rollins, Rubio, Crenshaw, Bruce, Buckley, Carlson, Carolla, Continetti, Leo, Yoo — and that’s beyond the whole NR gang.
Extra-big Morning Jolt today, just too much to cover: a horrific terrorist attack overseas, some big questions about why we see intense cults of personality springing up in our politics more often, what you ought to know about John Hickenlooper, and a once-revered institution faces ironic allegations of scandal.
A Self-Described ‘Fascist’ Terrorist Attack in Christchurch, New Zealand
Remember a few years ago, when you heard about a terrible terrorist attack overseas, and you figured it was Islamists? The world’s not so simple anymore. Muslim-haters have pulled off their own atrocity, killing at least 49 at a pair of mosques in New Zealand. Mass shootings, explosives strapped to bodies, multiple attackers, video clips posted to social media, a manifesto demanding sweeping changes to society — it’s the same jihadist playbook, directed at innocent Muslim families by perpetrators with an agenda that they themselves described as fascist.
It’s as bad as it gets.
Are We Being Gaslit About the Endless Charm and Appeal of Beto O’Rourke?
Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times, writing in October:
Like Obama, O’Rourke is running on hope over fear; he exudes compassion and speaks about “power and joy.” Christine Allison, a Republican-turned-independent, is president of the company that publishes D Magazine, a city magazine for Dallas, and one of O’Rourke’s ardent supporters. “He listens,” she told me, saying that he has what Christians sometimes call a “servant-leader approach to politics.”
Quartz magazine, mid-October:
He’s transformed Democratic regulars into fervent volunteers, and the politically neutral into committed voters. “He gave me hope,” said Lauren Thompson, a 22-year-old recent college graduate who sat out the 2016 presidential election and is determined to show up for the midterms. O’Rourke is even turning some Republicans. Dianne Martin, a 70-year-old retired high-school Latin teacher who said she once felt conflicted about Barack Obama because of his race, told me now she wants to be “on the right side of history.”
A typical Facebook comment: “Beto’s speeches are so inspirational & gives us hope!”
Around the same time, Britt Daniel, the lead singer of the venerable indie band Spoon, describing the stickers and t-shirts for Beto O’Rourke he was seeing around New York City: “Maybe they just see him as someone who has a future for the party, a future in politics, or maybe they’re just genuinely inspired by him.”
Last year and this year we’re witnessing Beto-mania, just a few years after different groups of America embraced Trump-mania, eight years after another group of Americans embraced Obama-mania . . . (Let’s face it, there never was much Romney-mania.)
Are our politics more driven by cults of personality than in the past?
I’m not just talking about enthusiasm for the candidate; that’s always existed. I mean the weirdly over-the-top reverence exhibited by the O’Rourke devotees, seemingly inspired by the most mundane things — he plays guitar! He skateboards! He swears! — and the repeated references that he “brings people hope,” and personal testimonials from fans that he restored their hope for the country.
He’s . . . just some guy. He was in Congress for six years and nobody noticed. He hasn’t done much in his life — no wartime heroics, no remarkable entrepreneurship, no inspiring tale of overcoming adversity or discrimination or long odds to success. For his first 30 years, he’s something of a slacker screwup. In these profiles, he keeps driving around with a reporter, using the F-bomb, getting fast food, talking wistfully of Ciudad Juarez and the correspondents freak out like they’ve hanging out with the Rolling Stones.
What’s so exciting and inspiring about him?
It’s easy to see what got people excited about Barack Obama. He’s a classic American success story. Biracial, absent father, often absent mother, a name that marks him as an outsider from day one. Whatever you think of Obama, you can see that it would not have taken many wrong turns for him to end up on a much worse path in life. He pulled himself together from his “choom gang” days and made his way up a difficult path; he figured out what it took to climb the ladder all the way to the top and he did it. A lot of people saw themselves in Obama because he was the guy who wasn’t born with all the advantages, the guy who was ignored, dismissed, counted out, underestimated — “slept on and stepped on,” as Pitbull says. If Obama can make it to the top with all of his challenges and disadvantages, so can you. Plus, it’s easy to understand the excitement and hopes surrounding the election of the first black president. You can’t begrudge people for believing that event would make some sort of turning point for the better in American history.
Just because I’m inoculated against the appeal of Trump doesn’t mean I don’t see its roots. Trump’s the millionaire who became a billionaire, the guy who has “to hell with you” money and isn’t afraid to say “to hell with you” to anybody. He refuses to play by anyone else’s rules, and people feel a sense of vicarious liberation in that. He’s famous for saying, “You’re fired,” not out of cruelty but out of a need to enforce accountability. Critics charge he’s a fearmonger, but he sometimes articulates genuine, valid fears that a lot of other figures ignored or downplayed. “If you don’t have borders, you don’t have a country.” “I think Islam hates us.” “Washington flourished but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered but the jobs left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.”
But with Beto O’Rourke? I don’t see it with this guy. I don’t see much of anything with this guy, and it feels like the emperor’s new clothes. I can’t tell if I’ve become too cynical to relate to “normal Americans” or whether someone is gaslighting the rest of us.
There’s a little bit of evidence that it might be the latter. Last night Marc Ambinder, who’s moved on from his old political reporting, tweeted:
So here’s an observation from having spent a week in DC with students and reconnecting with lots of political, [national security] folks, and old friends. The Dems know they have to pretend to like Beto O’Rourke…. Those who’ve met her and him separately tend to love her and realize they have to pretend to find him cool.
No doubt, some people genuinely love O’Rourke and find him a breath of fresh air, fun, relatable, authentic, and unpretentious. Where I see an Owen Wilson character waiting to happen — the guy trying too hard to be cool — they see a Matthew McConaughey role, the earnest, plainspoken former congressman with his eyes on the horizon and a dream to revive the American spirit.
But watching this trend — Obamamania, Trumpmania, Betomania — one can’t help but wonder if the modern world has left Americans with a hunger for heroes that is so unmet that we’re shoehorning politicians into this role in our lives. We used to know the names of brave soldiers, astronauts, inventors.
Or is it that as we become a less religious society, we need to find another inspirational figure who promises deliverance to believe in?
What You Need to Know About John Hickenlooper
If you absolutely had to vote for a Democrat, you could do a lot worse than former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper.
Which is not really an endorsement; he signed a lot of bills into law that conservatives vehemently opposed. But he’s a let’s-build-infrastructure kind of Democrat, not a turn-to-page-138-of-Pedagogy-of-the-Oppressed-to-understand-the-Marxist-analysis-of-the-legacy-of-colonialism-in-our-society kind of Democrat.
Hickenlooper is one of the most unusual figures in the 2020 Democratic field, but he would probably stand out as one of the most unusual figures in any group. His life story is full of unexpected twists and turns — geologist-turned-restauranteur-turned-stadium-renaming-activist-turned-mayor. He’s got a goofy sense of humor, enjoys silly stunts to get attention (the running of the pigs, skydiving in commercials) and makes fun of himself constantly. When you’ve written “Twenty Things” profiles about a bunch of Democratic senators running for president, the unpredictable, amiable, weirdo Hickenlooper is a hoot.
Not too long ago — say, the 1990s or 2000s — Hickenlooper’s resume would be the sort of thing that catapulted him to frontrunner status — two-term mayor of Denver, two-term governor of Colorado. He signed a lot of bills into law and the city and state largely thrived while he was in office. A lot of Colorado Republicans kind of like him, even if they disagree with him. Now Colorado looks pretty blue, his preference for building bipartisan consensus looks soft to the progressive grassroots, and his corny optimism is far from the mood of the perpetually outraged Democratic activists.
Hickenlooper’s lone shot at the Democratic nomination is if everyone else is chasing the progressive mantle and turns into a ten-car pileup, and he more or less alone consolidates Democratic primary voters who still like the idea of a sort-of-centrist, non-combative, cheerful nominee.
Gentlemen, You Can’t Discriminate in Here, We’re an Anti-Discrimination Group!
Few organizations have seen their reputation change as quickly as that of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Once a reliable monitor of indisputable hate groups, the SPLC kept expanding its definition of “hate groups” to include organizations like the Family Research Center, a Christian-conservative policy research and advocacy group.
Even the Washington Post was stirred to write a long article about claims the SPLC painted with too broad a brush and unfairly tarred organizations with the “hate group” label, asking whether advocates like the FRC, or proponents of less immigration like the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or conservative legal stalwarts like the Alliance Defending Freedom, really have so much in common with neo-Nazis and the Klan that they belong in the same bucket of shame.” The SPLC listed Ben Carson as an extremist. It labeled anti-Islamism groups “anti-Islam.” Organizations on the SPLC’s hate group list said that members’ decades-old quotes were taken out of context to portray them as extremist and dangerous. Despite all of these complaints and sketchy accusations, a lot of other institutions and media organizations treated labels from the SPLC with as much authority as if they were handed down on stone tablets by Moses.
And now, it turns out that the SPLC might have some discrimination problems of its own:
The Southern Poverty Law Center has fired its famed co-founder, Morris Dees, over unspecified misconduct, the nonprofit announced Thursday, a stunning development at an organization that became a bedrock of anti-extremism research and activism under nearly half a century of Dees’ leadership.
The Times has also learned that the organization, whose leadership is predominantly white, has been wrestling with complaints of workplace mistreatment of women and people of color. It was not immediately clear whether those issues were connected to the firing of Dees, who is 82.
Also Thursday, employees sent correspondence to management demanding reforms, expressing concerns about the resignation last week of a highly respected black attorney at the organization and criticizing the organization’s work culture.
A letter signed by about two dozen employees — and sent to management and the board of directors before news broke of Dees’ firing — said they were concerned that internal “allegations of mistreatment, sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism threaten the moral authority of this organization and our integrity along with it.”
In light of this controversy, does anyone at the Southern Poverty Leadership Center now think that maybe some accusations of racism or discrimination might be a little more complicated than they first appeared? Does anybody over there now grasp why you might want to be wary about accusations without proof?
ADDENDUM: If you’re not listening to The Editors podcast, you’re missing a lot. Where else are you going to hear Charlie Cooke and Michael Brendan Dougherty arguing about breaking up Big Tech? (National Review editors disagree a lot and debate each other a lot; the assertion that conservatives march in lockstep like drones is a sure sign that the speaker doesn’t know what he’s talking about.)
Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent of National Review. @jimgeraghty
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Celebs Turn Out to Help Rihanna's Diamond Ball Shine Bright
The pop star, fashionista and makeup mogul held the black-tie gala for her Clara Lionel Foundation on Thursday in New York City
By Mesfin Fekadu
Published Sep 14, 2018 at 10:03 AM | Updated at 10:08 AM CDT on Sep 14, 2018
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Issa Rae, Donald Glover, Trevor Noah, Tiffany Haddish and Seth Meyers were among the attendees and performers.
Rihanna's Diamond Ball shined in its fourth year and continued to make a name as one of the industry's white-hot and must-attend parties — all while raising money for charity.
The pop star, fashionista and makeup mogul held the black-tie gala for her Clara Lionel Foundation on Thursday in New York City, where Childish Gambino performed and Tiffany Haddish bid $75,000 on earrings.
The "Girls Trip" superstar, per usual, was in an electrifying mood at Cipriani Wall Street. When the Chopard earrings were being auctioned, the recent Emmy winner told her competition: "Let me have something in this world." The earrings were valued at $112,000.
Haddish watched Gambino, who performed "This Is America," ''3005" and more songs, like a die-hard fan right in front of the stage, even yelling her catch phrase — "she ready" — while the Emmy-winning "Atlanta" actor performed his Grammy-winning soul anthem, "Redbone."
Issa Rae, the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated creator of HBO's "Insecure," hosted the event and happily told the audience: "Rihanna knows my name y'all!"
Trevor Noah, Odell Beckham Jr., Brian Tyree Henry, Paris Hilton, Normani, Meek Mill and A$AP Rocky were among the famous faces who attended the event for Rihanna's organization, which promotes education and arts globally and assists emergency response programs. The 30-year-old singer started the foundation in 2012 and named it after her grandparents, Clara and Lionel Braithwaite.
"In the past I've wanted to support so many causes and you go to one foundation for this and one foundation for that. And I don't think it's fair to turn your back on someone else who needs help just because it doesn't fit into the bracket of your mold. And I don't think charities should be molded like that— not for me anyways," she said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Some people, it works for them, but for me personally, I couldn't sleep knowing that I can't help someone with AIDS because my charity's about cancer. Everybody needs help, you don't even know what that means, it could be schools supplies, it could be something as light as that. But we would always, always reach out and support, so this going to be an ever-growing charity."
Puerto Rican Artists Join Calls for Governor to Resign
The Clara Lionel Foundation, which has supported those affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Maria, has set a goal to raise $25 million for an emergency response fund by next year's Diamond Ball. The organization also has a scholarship fund as well as oncology and nuclear medicine in Barbados, where Rihanna was born and raised.
Seth Meyers surprised the audience when he showed up to help with the live auction, which raised more than $1 million. Other attendees included Gucci Mane, Teyana Taylor, La La Anthony, Fabolous, Gayle King, Nipsey Hussle, Skylar Diggins, Justine Skye and DJ Mustard, who performed after Gambino.
Hugh Evans, the CEO of Global Citizen, received the 2018 Diamond Ball Award.
J. Lo Concert in NYC Cut Short by Power Outage
The Jennifer Lopez concert was cut short at Madison Square Garden due to the massive power outage in Manhattan.
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Michael Cera Joins Indie Rock Super Group for Tour
By Michael Preston
Published Dec 2, 2010 at 3:26 AM | Updated at 3:30 AM PST on Dec 2, 2010
Michael Cera talks "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World" at the Soho Apple Store tonight.
In his movies, Michael Cera often plays the role of a stereotypical, musically-obsessed teenager. As one of the title characters in Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist or the band leader in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the understated Canadian has repeatedly displayed his desire to become a rock god.
Now, thanks to the formation of a new indie rock band, Cera's going to get to play the role of guitar hero in real life, reports Pitchfork.
Cera will join Mister Heavenly, a super group featuring Man Man's Honus Honus, Islands' Nick Thorburn, and Modest Mouse's Joe Plummer. When the band played their first show ever at Seattle's Moore Theater on November 30, Cera joined in on bass and is scheduled to play with the band for the duration of their West Coast tour with Passion Pit.
Cera previously appeared in a video for Islands' song No You Don't.
Celebrity Hookups: David Foster, Katharine McPhee Marry
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Selected Reading: Pitchfork, New York, Seattle Weekly
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PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013 Jul 11;7(7):e2288. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002288. Print 2013.
Strongyloides stercoralis: Global Distribution and Risk Factors.
Schär F1, Trostdorf U, Giardina F, Khieu V, Muth S, Marti H, Vounatsou P, Odermatt P.
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
The soil-transmitted threadworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, is one of the most neglected among the so-called neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). We reviewed studies of the last 20 years on S. stercoralis's global prevalence in general populations and risk groups.
METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:
A literature search was performed in PubMed for articles published between January 1989 and October 2011. Articles presenting information on infection prevalence were included. A Bayesian meta-analysis was carried out to obtain country-specific prevalence estimates and to compare disease odds ratios in different risk groups taking into account the sensitivities of the diagnostic methods applied. A total of 354 studies from 78 countries were included for the prevalence calculations, 194 (62.4%) were community-based studies, 121 (34.2%) were hospital-based studies and 39 (11.0%) were studies on refugees and immigrants. World maps with country data are provided. In numerous African, Asian and South-American resource-poor countries, information on S. stercoralis is lacking. The meta-analysis showed an association between HIV-infection/alcoholism and S. stercoralis infection (OR: 2.17 BCI: 1.18-4.01; OR: 6.69; BCI: 1.47-33.8), respectively.
Our findings show high infection prevalence rates in the general population in selected countries and geographical regions. S. stercoralis infection is prominent in several risk groups. Adequate information on the prevalence is still lacking from many countries. However, current information underscore that S. stercoralis must not be neglected. Further assessments in socio-economic and ecological settings are needed and integration into global helminth control is warranted.
10.1371/journal.pntd.0002288
The life-cycle of S. stercoralis (based on http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx).
Strongyloides stercoralis: Global Distribution and Risk Factors
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013 Jul;7(7):e2288.
Flowchart of the literature review.
Number of studies undertaken per country since 1989, with geo-location if indicated; Thailand and Brazil displayed separately.
Prevalence of S. stercoralis infection by country based community-based studies.
Prevalence of S. stercoralis infection by country based on health services studies.
Prevalence of S. stercoralis in refugees and immigrants by country.
Risk of S. stercoralis infection in HIV/AIDS patients (meta-analysis of case-control studies).
Risk of S. stercoralis infection in patients with HTLV-1 infection (meta-analysis of case-control studies).
Risk of S. stercoralis infection in alcoholics (meta-analysis of case-control studies).
Risk of S. stercoralis infection in patients with diarrhea (meta-analysis of case-control studies).
Neglected Diseases/epidemiology
Strongyloides stercoralis/isolation & purification*
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First 1,000 Days: from the beginning of pregnancy through to your child’s second birthday.
The First 1,000 Days of being a parent are now accepted to be the most significant in a child’s development. Leading child health experts worldwide agree that care given during the First 1,000 Days has more influence on a child’s future than any other time in their life.
Ask most parents, and chances are they’ll say that the First 1,000 Days also present some of the most challenging moments in a person’s life. And, with each new baby comes a whole new set of priorities, dilemmas and challenges.
At NCT, we have long believed that the First 1,000 Days matter. For more than 56 years we have delivered a trusted service to parents.
These pages point to the latest evidence and reasoning behind why now is the time to come together and make lasting improvements to the experience of parents in their First 1,000 Days.
Together we can benefit the lives of children through the early years to adolescence into adulthood and beyond to the next generation.
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ARGYLE teenager Nelson admitted he was surprised to be handed a striker’s role during the Pilgrims’ 3-2 victory over Northampton at Home Park on Saturday.
Nelse had never played up front before manager Carl Fletcher introduced him as 67th-minute substitute for fellow scorer Rhys Griffiths.
However, Curtis showed a scorer’s instinct to head an important third goal and give Argyle a two-goal cushion after they had gone in at half-time 1-0 down.
It turned out to be a three point-winning goal as Northampton reduced their arrears late in injury-time.
Fletch told the 19-year-old that he wanted him to play as a striker just moments before Rhys limped off with a recurrence of the calf strain that kept him out of Argyle’s first three league matches of the season.
He said: “I thought: ‘Yeah – I’ll do it, I’ll do it. Just get me on the pitch’. I did have a little giggle. I was a bit surprised. I didn’t know Griff was struggling.
“If you are on the bench, you have got to be ready to go on the pitch. That’s why you are there. Everyone in the squad is there to be ready.”
Seven minutes after coming on for his 65th Argyle appearance, Nelse was celebrating his first senior goal.
He said: “I’m really happy, but it doesn’t really matter that I scored – it’s a contribution to the team and the three points we wanted.
“I don’t care if I’d missed a goal and someone else scored it, as long as we got the three points. Three points is always top of the list on a Saturday, come 3pm.
“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter who scores or how the ball goes over the line, as long as it’s a goal and we win the game. That’s the main thing.”
Robbie Williams provided the cross for the headed goal, sending a hanging cross over from the Pilgrims’ left flank.
“It was a great ball,” said Nelse. “He’s got a sweet left peg and always got quality there.
“I thought ‘Just challenge, get up with [the defender]’. I saw the ’keeper come off his line out of the corner of my eye, and, as soon as [the ball] hit my head and I saw it flying over, I thought ‘I think that’s in’.”
The goal was Argyle’s third in 27 minutes after Warren Feeney and half-time substitute Griffiths had also netted.
“Griff’s a great player,” said Curtis. “Scoring would have given him a confidence-boost. I don’t know the ins and outs of his injury, but it’s a shame he had to come off so soon.
“I’m very impressed with him. He’s got that look about him. He’s a goalscorer.
“You have got to give credit to Warren Feeney, as well. He scored a great header.”
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Deal: Samsung Galaxy Tab E is 20% off at Best Buy
by Cosmin Vasile / May 28, 2018, 1:12 PM
The Galaxy Tab E is one of the oldest Samsung tablets still available for purchase. Introduced on the market back in 2015, the slate has already received two major Android updates that brought it to Android 7.0 Nougat.
After almost three years on the market, the Galaxy Tab E's price dropped to $200, a pretty decent amount considering we're talking about a Samsung product. However, for just one day, Best Buy offers the tablet for 20% off, which means customers can get it for $160.
More importantly, Best Buy offers the 9.6-inch version that packs 16GB internal memory. Also, the deal includes a 6-months Internet Security subscription for free, which will allow you to protect up to 3 devices (Android, Mac, Windows, iOS) against viruses, malware, phishing attacks and other online threats.
As far as the Galaxy Tab E goes, Samsung's tablet is a bit obsolete hardware-wise, but that's understandable considering it was launched three years ago. That being said, the slate comes equipped with a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, 1.5GB RAM, and 16GB expandable storage.
Last but not least, Samsung Galaxy Tab E sports a 9.6-inch display with 1280 x 800 pixels resolution, a 5-megapixel rear camera, a 2-megapixel selfie camera and a massive 7,300 mAh battery.
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$125.38 Samsung Galaxy Tab E on Amazon
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Camera 5 MP / 2 MP front
Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 410, Quad-core, 1300 MHz
Storage 8 GB + microSDXC
Battery 5000 mAh(26h 3G talk time)
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The ninth film in the original Star Wars saga will be called The Rise of Skywalker, and will feature the return of the evil emperor Palpatine to threaten the young heroine Rey and the Resistance. Walt Disney Co on Friday showed fans attending the Star Wars Celebration convention in Chicago the first footage from the movie, which will be released in theatres in December and will conclude the story that began in 1977. A villainous cackle was heard at the end of the trailer, and the actor who played Palpatine in previous films, Ian McDiarmid, walked onstage to loud applause from an audience of roughly 10,000 fans, many waving colourful light-sabres. The Rise of Skywalker trailer has been viewed online about 11 million times. Director JJ Abrams, speaking alongside a handful of cast members, said the movie takes place some time after the events of the 2017 film The Last Jedi. The footage showed a hug between Princess Leia, played by the late Carrie Fisher, and Rey (Daisy Ridley). Fisher died in 2016, but Abrams said that in a "weird miracle," he was able to piece together unused footage from Last Jedi to continue the beloved character's story. "Princess Leia lives in this film in a way that's mind-blowing for me," he said. The director disclosed little about the plot, however. "This movie is about this new generation, what they've inherited, the light and the dark, and are they ready?" he told the crowd. Abrams said writers met with Star Wars creator George Lucas before they started to script the final chapter in one of the world's most-celebrated movie franchises. The goal was "to create something that gives a sense of surprise and thrill and heartbreak, and shock and awe, but also feeling like an inevitability," he said. The circumstances surrounding Palpatine's return remain a mystery. The character appeared to die in 1983's Return of the Jedi. In the trailer released on Friday, the voice of Luke (Mark Hamill) says to Rey that "no one's ever really gone." Luke also tells Rey that "we have passed on all the knowledge," and that the fight against evil is now hers. Ridley, John Boyega, who plays Resistance fighter Finn and Oscar Isaac, who portrays pilot Poe Dameron, all attended the event. Australian Associated Press
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Rise of Skywalker to close Star Wars story
Bob Chiarito
The ninth film in the original Star Wars saga will be called The Rise of Skywalker.
The ninth film in the original Star Wars saga will be called The Rise of Skywalker, and will feature the return of the evil emperor Palpatine to threaten the young heroine Rey and the Resistance.
Walt Disney Co on Friday showed fans attending the Star Wars Celebration convention in Chicago the first footage from the movie, which will be released in theatres in December and will conclude the story that began in 1977.
A villainous cackle was heard at the end of the trailer, and the actor who played Palpatine in previous films, Ian McDiarmid, walked onstage to loud applause from an audience of roughly 10,000 fans, many waving colourful light-sabres.
The Rise of Skywalker trailer has been viewed online about 11 million times.
Director JJ Abrams, speaking alongside a handful of cast members, said the movie takes place some time after the events of the 2017 film The Last Jedi.
The footage showed a hug between Princess Leia, played by the late Carrie Fisher, and Rey (Daisy Ridley).
Fisher died in 2016, but Abrams said that in a "weird miracle," he was able to piece together unused footage from Last Jedi to continue the beloved character's story.
"Princess Leia lives in this film in a way that's mind-blowing for me," he said.
The director disclosed little about the plot, however.
"This movie is about this new generation, what they've inherited, the light and the dark, and are they ready?" he told the crowd.
Abrams said writers met with Star Wars creator George Lucas before they started to script the final chapter in one of the world's most-celebrated movie franchises.
The goal was "to create something that gives a sense of surprise and thrill and heartbreak, and shock and awe, but also feeling like an inevitability," he said.
The circumstances surrounding Palpatine's return remain a mystery. The character appeared to die in 1983's Return of the Jedi.
In the trailer released on Friday, the voice of Luke (Mark Hamill) says to Rey that "no one's ever really gone."
Luke also tells Rey that "we have passed on all the knowledge," and that the fight against evil is now hers.
Ridley, John Boyega, who plays Resistance fighter Finn and Oscar Isaac, who portrays pilot Poe Dameron, all attended the event.
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Home Why does local matter? Let’s ask our audience.
Why does local matter? Let’s ask our audience.
Photo by Sam Javanrouh/Flickr
June 23, 2015 Melody Kramer
Media InnovationMediaWire
It’s summer now so it’s time for a long, juicy beach read on why local news matters.
I posed the question a month ago to my newsletter audience and was expecting four or five responses. I received dozens on why their local newspapers and public radio stations mattered.
I’ve collected their answers, which I also sent out in my newsletter on June 2, below. If you work in a local newsroom and need a pick-me-up today, I highly recommend perusing the answers. It would also be an interesting question to ask your own audiences. We talk about the importance of local at journalism conferences — and with each other — but our audience also has very good ideas and articulate why they do (or don’t) rely on their local news.
Keep in mind, most of these people who answered the questions below live outside of major markets and don’t work in news. I’ve condensed some of their answers for clarity. I would also love to hear your own thoughts in the comments section below.
‘National correspondents swoop in and provide two minutes of a story, whereas local reporters can revisit a story multiple times to make sure that we, the listeners, fully understand it and its impact on us, if there is one.’
Local stations are not just about the weather and the road conditions. Those are helpful things to know, but they are not the real heart of what local stations provide. They provide the color of the areas around you; things you might not notice otherwise, but which may be important for your daily life.
For me, being in central Jersey, that means collecting news from “local” stations in NYC and Philly, both of which provide information I care about–about local arts, politics, parks, etc. Now, I know that most of the time I don’t hear things about Princeton, where I live, but I do get to hear about regional issues that may have some sort of bearing on my daily life, and that matters. Local reporters are able to pick up on local color and read into situations in a way that national correspondents can’t necessarily match.
National correspondents swoop in and provide two minutes of a story, whereas local reporters can revisit a story multiple times to make sure that we, the listeners, fully understand it and its impact on us, if there is one.
The purpose of local is to see, know, care about and understand your community
The purpose of the local paper or station is to see, know, care about and understand your community in ways your neighbors don’t and then share what you find. It’s to be perpetual tourist in your town with a side helping of too much empathy.
‘Local public media stations are like public libraries and local museums in that they preserve culture, educate and engage in order to build understanding on important issues that are expensive or difficult to cover.’
Check out Wyoming Public Radio: Who else is covering the Wind River Reservation community? Local newspapers, and other community-supported media.
The Current, KCRW, KEXP, and other music-focused public radio stations cover local music scenes in their respective areas as well as lifting up artists that wouldn’t get airtime on commercial stations.
WAMU and WPFW cover the arts scenes here in DC as well as social justice issues like police violence and District statehood. Who else is doing that?
WHUT screens locally produced cinema and recently engaged in a two hour discussion of race and police violence called Cities in Crisis. None of the local commercial television stations are covering these issues with this depth. On election night, the local news couldn’t even get straight what side of town the candidate’s respective parties were happening. (Pro tip: Howard Theater is not in Northeast DC.) As I type this, WJLA, Washington’s ABC affiliate, has an abundance of crime and tragedy stories on its homepage
Local public media are like public libraries and local museums in that they preserve culture, educate and engage in order to build understanding on important issues that are expensive or difficult to cover. They can also empower people to stand up for justice where there is none.
‘For me, the local Washington Post news is critical to my life and public discourse.’
I live in DC. I don’t care for the hill. For me, the local Washington Post news is critical to my life and public discourse. That said, the old model of monopoly ad prices supporting big news is gone. We have to find new models to make it work – both in revenue and in reporting.
Local TV? It’s a graveyard of vapid hype.
‘When I’m looking for local news (as opposed to passively consuming it), I often am in a particular ‘role’ in my head’
I live in Brooklyn, and I listen religiously to WNYC. I do get some local Brooklyn based email newsletters, which I’ve also been trying to pay more attention to.
When I’m looking for local news (as opposed to passively consuming it), I often am in a particular “role” in my head: i.e. I’m looking for events for kids in the neighborhood (mom hat), or I’m wondering about running groups or healthy restaurants (health hat), or someplace to co-work (office hat). I rarely use one source for all of those things, but usually they are local (if not traditional “news”) resources.
I wish I could get more worked up about local politics, because in theory I think that’s where a lot of change could occur, but it’s SO in the details that it’s hard to follow unless you can devote a lot of time. I see a big role for local stations in making that relevant and accessible for people – but I wouldn’t say that’s what they do now.
National won’t hold your city councilmembers accountable.
In some ways, it would be way easier to simply have every NPR station [for example] run the same, standard schedule, with no local programming. It would truly then be National Public Radio, even if NPR doesn’t stand for anything anymore. But, we’d lose an incredible amount if we didn’t have local stations. A national station isn’t going to break in and tell you about a natural disaster that could wreak havoc. It won’t hold your city councilmembers accountable. It won’t do deep dives into your local school districts, or talk to interesting people in your area. It’ll instead focus on vague things that vaguely apply to everyone, with the majority centered around happenings in New York, DC and Los Angeles, simply because that’s where the hive mind exists.
But potentially the most tragic thing about not having a local station is losing that connection to your community. Maybe you miss out hearing about speakers coming to town, or local authors who have books coming out, or debates between people wanting your vote. Why would we ever give that up?
Local helps communities get to know each other better
Local radio and newspapers are huge! Public media ties a community together and offers an outlet to share the stories of your neighbors — not only can you gather and send information that relates directly to the community, but you can also get to know each other better.
I grew up in a town of about 36,000 and always looked forward to getting the weekly newspaper to see what was happening and who was involved. National reporters can’t always understand the nuances of a community or what stories are actually important. Local town meetings might sound boring in theory, for instance, but they’re important – someone needs to be able to cover them and share them with those who are most directly impacted.
‘It drives conversations, serves as public record and covers the news happening in your own backyard.’
I’m a huge believer in local news. It drives conversation, serves as public record and covers the news happening in your own backyard. And while national news outlets can handle the big stuff, it’s never quite the same (or as good) as hometown coverage.
I was at Penn State when the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse case broke and I would still argue that The Daily Collegian and the Centre Daily Times had the best coverage — period. We knew the area, we knew the players and while everyone else had one or two reporters on the ground, we had 100.
With those numbers and that larger understanding of the situation, the coverage is more insightful and helpful. It tells the story with the understanding of WHY it matters in that community and can give reference to events that may be similar or other moments in history. It becomes more than a paper or source of record — it’s a key part of the story unfolding.
The scary part is that local news orgs are downsizing, and with each downsizing comes even fewer resources to cover the same amount of space. What’s being lost? The stories that matter. The important positive work happening in the community. The little events that later become pivotal for fundraising or community building. I could go on for hours — without local media, we miss so, so much.
Local improves community
I think a local news outlet (not picky about the medium) is a wonderful thing to have. I don’t think it’s as essential as other services (water, garbage collection, etc.), but having one improves the sense of community.
For me, an easy example of the value of a local outlet is a fire at home or business. It’s not “news” to someone five miles away necessarily, but it is news to the people on that block, the people nearby who might want to help clean up or donate to victims, and of course the family or business-owner themselves. A local news operation can cover that event for the community and connect the different voices (fire dept., church/aid organization, real estate developers, etc.).
Four reasons for local
local investigative reporting
local politics and local elections
locally-produced shows (KQED Forum, “The California Report”)
‘…It reminds me of home and it allows me to still be connected with where I will always call home’
In my opinion, local radio stations are critical. I am on a strict budget, paying off grad school loans and spending minimally like many people, but I contribute financially to my local station every year.
I feel connected to the station, the reporters and the stories in a way that I don’t feel with TV stations, necessarily. I expect a lot from them – I expect listener input, a constant perspective of “does this affect the public? How?” and more. I actually moved to San Diego for a few years two years ago but lived in MA my whole life. Now that I live in San Diego, I follow KPBS on Twitter and sometimes watch them on TV but I religiously listen to my old local station in Boston, WGBH, every day.
I listen through their mobile app and the Internet because it reminds me of home and it allows me to still be connected with where I will always call home. They cover stories I care about and that affect the people I care about. When 9/11 happened, I started falling asleep to the radio because it was this comforting sense that people were working, paying attention, and researching for us – the public. It’s one of the most important resources I have and we all have, in my opinion.
They have our best interest in mind (I like to think but also actually do believe) and a commitment to getting to the heart of stories and issues. The local angle is critical because our environments affect so much of how we live. We are not all in the same place, affected by the same stories. National stories – yes – but there is so much culturally, environmentally, professionally, etc that is unique to our location. This is why local is necessary.
‘…Local radio that speaks to people on the ground, where they live, without economic biases, can literally be life-changing and saving for individuals as for whole communities’
Journalism is nothing but a big highbrow-player’s game with no local, and public media stations should be on the frontlines of local.
You don’t always get that from local stations. Sometimes they can be very highbrow as well, focused on their donors more so than the less fortunate locals in the region.
Now, there’s a more ground-level variant on public broadcasting – community radio. I was a DJ and producer for many years on the old KUSF-FM of yore and can testify that local radio that speaks to people on the ground, where they live, without economic biases, can literally be life-changing and saving for individuals as for whole communities.
Now, a network of local stations can aggregate their output around topics and can share resources to build impact, and cover regional and national issues with rich, rich local detail.
I don’t think they have risen to that opportunity, however, which is disappointing.
Local community media is produced by the people who live in the community and it introduces people to creating media
I grew up in Maine, and our local community radio station (WMPG) was a huge resource for me. It wasn’t a public station per se, but it was run through the local state university, staffed almost entirely by students and community volunteers, and had resources and opportunities (like a news and current affairs show made by teenagers/high schoolers) that no one else had locally.
The way I see it, there are several advantages to local community media like that. The fact that it’s not beholden to commercial interests is, of course, the primary one. This allows for a much greater diversity in content; so many genres were represented, including super niche and obscure stuff. That alone made the place important to me.
The high school/youth radio show, which I participated in for a few years, was my first exposure to creating media, and I think turned me and a lot of my peers on to working in both the broadcast and digital realms. I think exposure like that is important for kids who grow up in places not known for being media hubs/metropolises.
The station, though scrappy, inspires intense loyalty among its listeners. And it relies on their support (donations, volunteering) to sustain itself. Because Maine is such a small place, most everyone has some kind of connection to the station, and I think it’s that localism and personal connection that motivates people to both become involved and then to help to keep the station afloat as members/donors.
Local reporting documents
I think local news is very important, and I want reporters to live in the communities they’re documenting. Being a hyper-local investigative reporter is my dream job that doesn’t exist because there’s not enough of a market for it.
A local news outlet is part of my identity; it’s part of how I see myself
I live and work in the Upper Connecticut River Valley, straddling the Connecticut River with work on the New Hampshire side and home sweet home on the Vermont side. (My hometown is 3,400 people. My work town is 11,400 people.)
However, I am only a member of Vermont Public Radio–Not NHPR on the other side of the river. I did not have a great answer about why until I got your inquiry. After all, I am affected by news from both states: legislative coverage, coverage about local towns, local fires, local employers, local school games. National news can be covered by anyone, but local news means more from local stations. I find myself switching on the dial to pick up both. So why does one matter so significantly more that I give only to one – not disproportionately and certainly not in equally divided parts?
I identify as a Vermonter and not–definitely not–as a New Hamp-shite (New Hampshirian?). I wouldn’t go so far as to say that my public radio has replaced religion. But I would say: public radio is my temple. It is where I go to have community, to have my beliefs and sense of humor reinforced by like-minded people, to hear the news from sympathetic travelers of the world, to hear the same stories of human existence, challenge, triumph told over and over again- with different characters but the same moral. It is a supplement to the town common- I can hear the news of the day, new discoveries, the weather.
Now I am not from Vermont originally (I am a New Orleanian). So VPR is not my only temple. I have other former congregations: KUHF – Houston, WWNO & WWOZ – NOLA, and the great KERA – Dallas Fort Worth. I listen to those stations (online – but still listening, radio style) to feel and remember. I hear accents that sound like “home.” I remember who I was. Sometimes I catch up on news that affects the people I love who are still in those places (or at least I can imagine them there because the geography of the language and the story are just as I remember them).
A public radio station provides a service that is not usually part of its overt mission: it creates community and forms a sacred and ritual space for dialogue, hopefully debate, shared joy and shared sorrows. In doing so, it creates collective identity and imparts building blocks of individual identify: memory, story, experience, emotion. Add the possibility to make a contribution: by submitting citizen journalism, pledging a donation, etc. and you are most of the way to a collaborative community.
Yes. You could make an argument that Fox News provides stories, invokes emotion, creates memories, and exploits emotion. NHPR does that too. But I don’t find myself and my family there. At the end of the day, I am like a dog: I need one reliable consistent place that smells the same everyday, where I can circle five times and lay down and feel the world will hold me up until I wake to a new morning. VPR smells like home. Only local radio can do that.
Local, schmocal
They are obsolete. I haven’t checked local news my entire life. I have vague memories of my grandparents checking it when I was a kid. I get everything on the Internet. If there’s some way of watching that content online, and if it is unique and compelling, I’ll eventually find it. Otherwise it will be disrupted. I assume that most of the viewers/listeners of local stations are older generations. Once they die out, most of their audience will have disappeared.
Local stations are how we know that someone is watching.
My market is special. Truth be told, every market is special. My market stretches from about thirty miles east, to about 200 miles west. It’s a weird stretch, though no weirder than our congressional districts.
Local includes the bedroom communities of Fredricksburg, Richmond and Charlottesville, along with the myriad farms between those places and a small city called Wytheville. In between, there are more Main St’s than you can shake a stick at and at least a 1,000 times as many cows. But, there’s only one NPR station, WVTF/Radio IQ. The number of frequencies it broadcasts on is intimidating, but the one thing that links that whole area together are those call-signs.
When WVTF extended its reach all the way to Wythville I was a bit surprised. It already covered the denser stretch between Virginia Tech (it’s home) and UVA. It had already stretched slightly eastward to cover Louisa County. And now it was going another hour and a half down I-81. I thought it was ridiculous. Then I went there.
Scan across the dial and look for any local news? Music programming aplenty, but aside from WVTF and its alternate callsigns there was only one news station and it was based in Bluefield, WV.
The only real chance people have to hear news on the radio from their home is WVTF’s coverage. And that matters!
I can come back to Charlottesville for the reason it matters. My special home, with more than a few local sites dedicated to covering local news on-line, with two large-ish TV news organizations competing for coverage, with a weekly and a daily newspaper all reaching for as much coverage as they can muster, my special home has trouble getting bodies in every meeting. The near portion of our market still covers 9 municipalities, a handful of colleges and universities and the people that make up those communities. Covering every significant event across all our outlets is an impossibility; covering just every municipal meeting is a stretch.
One of my favorite local reporters, Sean Tubbs of Charlottesville Tomorrow, routinely watches livestreams of meetings he isn’t in while covering a different meeting. Why? Not because he is going to write about both while splitting his attention, he’s too good of a reporter to publish without being able to ask follow-ups and dig deeper. No, he watches because he needs to see it for himself. He’ll even refer his Twitter followers to other publications that sent reporters to cover the meetings he couldn’t get to. This community of reporters sees these referrals as a greater good. Better to have a competitor cover a meeting than to let another meeting go unobserved. It’s remarkable.
Again, local stations are how we know that someone is watching.
I love my community, but I’ve never served on any of its boards or commissions and have only ever attended a handful of its meetings. These guys take themselves away from friends and family week in and week out to make sure that someone is always there for every meeting. To make sure that every person in a community has an opportunity to hear their elected and appointed officials speak. And isn’t that everything?! Isn’t that how we create an informed electorate! Heck, isn’t that how we inform our community about the on-the-ground goings on?! Is there any other way, really, than to put someone there!?
Local frames the conversation in a community.
Local newspapers provide folks an accurate, honest and curated introduction to their neighbors and to the issues about which their neighbors are passionate. They frame the conversation in a community. Usually, that’s as simple as shifting the conversation to be centered on others instead of on ourselves.
That’s something social media can’t do well. I was a small-town (10,000 people) newspaper editor for a few years, and it’s still the job I’ve loved the most. I didn’t live in the town, but it was obvious how passionate I was about the town, and that’s what mattered.
We missed stories, but because we were in the town all day every day, we missed far fewer than the paper from the neighboring city, which purported to cover us but never did it well (and was writing, largely, to a different audience, so skipping the most human stories, the ones that were of interest only to our citizens).
Warren Buffett’s take
Have you read the letter Warren Buffet wrote to the publishers and editors of Berkshire Hathaway’s daily newspapers? It gives a great reason why local papers will always survive (and this could translate to local public radio and TV stations.)
(Mel note This is the letter I found.)
Think of local like local food
As a self-proclaimed food person more than a self-proclaimed media person, I think of local food and local radio in a similar breadbasket. When things develop locally, they taste of the place they’re grown. They’re good for your body and your mind. They don’t necessarily bode as well when traveling long distances, but they make the place where they were created that much better.
‘Local stations and local reporters both inform and guard the public they serve.’
It’s hard hitting, meaningful and rigorous. It’s why local stations need to exist.
Local stations and local reporters both inform and guard the public they serve.
In 2012, a local reporter discovered that all the recycled glass in Rhode Island (hundreds of thousands of tons) was actually being thrown away into the local landfill. That policy quickly changed once the public knew. It’s all due to an underpaid muckraker digging through pages and pages of new legislation passed in the 11th hour.
In 2013, a local reporter in Miami broke the news that a small clinic had been the major supplier of PEDs to Major League Baseball players, including two MVPs. The story sent ten men to court, and is the reason why Alex Rodriguez didn’t play last year.
In 2014, a local reporter discovered the Governor in Oregon had been steering money, contracts and personnel decisions to his wife’s consulting firm. The reporting forced the Governor to resign. He’s currently being investigated by the FBI.
So what’s the importance of local stations?
Content – and the ability for a reporter to report.
Local news helps build awareness and share unique perspectives
I think local radio stations should still exist, but I’d argue that their purpose today is much different than it was decades ago.
Working in PR, I can attest that businesses, associations and schools still rely on local media (including radio stations) for a number of reasons: to build awareness in the market, promote community events, cue the local workforce into hiring plans or other professional opportunities, etc. I’ve also found that local radio stations rely on different interview sources – and consequently share unique perspectives – compared to local print/digital newspapers and TV stations. Local radio programming also seems to allow for longer, in-depth conversations with interviewees, which provides listeners with more information than can be squeezed in a three or four minute TV package.
Today though, local radio stations are in the position to communicate and disseminate local stories/voices more meaningfully than other media. Social media is great for spreading information throughout a geographic market quickly, but local radio can spread “meatier” information. Living in Chicago, programs like WBEZ’s Curious City comes to mind – that’s the kind of local reporting and storytelling that you can’t get from newspapers or, these days, local television. Local radio stations also serve as valuable partners to initiatives like StoryCorps, helping ensure that these oral histories are shared in relevant markets.
Local connects you to the place where you live.
The purpose is to connect you to the place where you live. To both inform and fuel your own curiosity about the area you inhabit. And, one step beyond, to connect that place to the broader world.
[On my show] We explore this region and talk with the various, interesting people who inhabit it. [Our city], as both a city and region, is unique in that it is a very storied city, with it’s own rich history and vibrant communities. It’s global city where the big picture IS important to those who live here. Most cities, areas and towns, though have a similarly individual DNA. There are interesting and important stories everywhere.
I’ve moved around a fair amount – Massachusetts, San Diego, Virginia, D.C. – in the last decade or so.
Everywhere I’ve lived, identifying the local public radio station was an important – and easy – first step in getting a sense of place when I rolled into town. And when I lived and worked in public radio in Virginia (Hampton Roads region), it was at a time when the local media – the Virginian-Pilot and the now defunct alt-weekly – were shrinking their staffs or shuttering completely. People felt strongly about the local talk show already, but the reliance on it increased as other outlets for conversations and coverage important to the community diminished. That experience cemented my status as a local radio evangelist.
And yes – as a local producer I know I’m missing stories. Reporter colleagues are as well, not because they’re bad at their jobs (quite the opposite!) but because we don’t know what we don’t know. It can be a challenge to cover discreet communities and uncover new stories. But the major advantage public radio has in discovering them is it’s audience. We engage with listeners, we go into communities, and we invite ideas.
So while local may seem trivial to some in this global age, it’s vital. People will always care about what’s happening in their backyard, perhaps most of all, and want a trusted, engaging and – yes even – entertaining resource to bring it to them.
Radio, in particular, is a medium that works even when other services go down.
Yes. Necessary. Always. Because we live in bodies, in places, with weather.
I live in Hoboken, NJ, a city of almost 50,000. It was brought to its knees by Hurricane Sandy. Local radio mattered and got through (thanks, batteries and windup radio). Internet, not so much.
‘…Many of the best investigations come from local outlets because they’re close to something’
I always think the purpose of a local news outlet it to serve that specific community. Local outlets can give communities what they need and care about, from local elections to the high school homecoming parade. National outlets aren’t going to do that if they serve the biggest audience, but local outlets can focus only on what’s important to a specific community.
You could also point out that many of the best investigations come from local outlets because they’re close to something. National organizations have to bounce from topic to topic as the news changes but local news outlets cover the same community and the same businesses every day.
Local is a filter. Local is a branch
A local station exists to be that friendly voice, that personal interpreter, that casual acquaintance, who filters and personalizes the national and international NPR sound.
They tell you the traffic, they talk to regional and local leaders and they – most importantly – sound like the people you know and trust and surround yourself with.
A local station is your branch of the larger national tree, adding insight to local stories in the national news and being a watchdog where no one else will be otherwise.
Local stations are the most important part of the public radio world.
Local news is part of the connective tissue that makes a city a real city
This is funny, I was just watching the documentary Radio Unnameable last night–about Bill Fass’ show on NYC’s WBAI. It’s on Netflix if you haven’t seen it. I hadn’t heard about it before stumbling on it there.
But that dude’s show was a midnight-to-5AM thing on a little non-commercial station in the middle of the dial. And his freeform all-nighters helped galvanize a community there in the early to mid-‘60s. People from all walks of life would call in to just talk, and enormous events were organized basically just on the strength of Fass’ suggestions that, say, we should sweep up the trash on 7th Street that’s piled up because of the garbage strike.
I kept thinking, man, I wish we had something like that. And we could yet, if [local station] doesn’t go completely under.
In order for local stations to justify their existence, they need to support and engage and react to the communities around them. If they’re doing that, then what I’m about to say applies.
Radio is an equalizer–most everyone has access to them. And because the broadcast radius is necessarily limited, you have a pretty decent idea of who it is that you’re talking to. And there is so much potential there for good. To act as a sort of virtual Third Place for communities to gather. To be a forum for the people there. Radio’s greatness lies in its potential to be a living part of its community. As a medium, it’s well-established enough to have this built-in clout which can be used (should be used in my opinion) to amplify the unheard voices in the city.
Locally-based and community focused radio is part of the connective tissue of what makes a city a real city. It’s in there with local television news crews, newspapers, alt-weeklies, bloggers, and all that stuff that gets people to talk to each other. And given that radio is a medium for voice, how appropriate is that?
Local works when it focuses on local issues
Simply put, from my perspective, local media (radio, print, tv, whatever) should serve the local community with locally-specific and locally-relevant stories. Local media can and should be focused on local issues. Stories of national import are NOT the same as stories of local relevance and vice-versa.
I live in Aurora, IL (population around 200,000; 2nd biggest city behind you-know-who in IL) and my wife and I read our local PRINT paper to find out what is happening, news-wise AND events-wise, in the area. Our local newspaper, The Beacon-News (owned by the Chicago Tribune but still uses some actual live, local reporters) may not be error-free but it still has a role to play in between all my email newsletters (ahem), podcasts, my Twitter feed, my feedly.com feeds. It is focused, very specific role, but still relevant to me and my daily, on-the-ground existence, in Aurora, IL.
Local helps you when you move to a new place and need something to stay grounded
I just moved from Brooklyn to San Francisco. The rules are different here. People drive different. Local shops think I’m nuts tying my dog outside. “Bring him in!” And the schools work on a crazy lottery system. There’s a drought, but all the produce is local produce.
The board of supervisors moves in a different way. Everything about politics here is different in little ways. And I’d like to hear about current local events from someone who understands this city.
Local news adds value locally
Mel: If the local entity is adding value locally – creating local programming, holding events that benefit the local community, acting as a convener for the discussion of regional issues –then it should exist. If it is only a pass-through for NPR-created programming, it really doesn’t have a compelling reason to exist, and likely will have a tough time to survive in the future. Think of yourself in a connected car – you can listen to anything from anywhere in the world. Why do you want to listen to your local public media entity – their audio programming, for example? It has to be because they are offering something you can’t get elsewhere – news and information about your local community. And hopefully some great locally-created programs also.
Local reporters help national reporters
How much do national reporters rely on local reporters to lay ground work before they parachute in to report a “big picture” story that’s accessible to people across the country/ world?
Local should exist because there’s a world outside of NYC and the NYC suburbs
I’m a bit sad to think of someone wondering why local radio/newspapers should exist, so I thought I’d send along this email. I’m from upstate NY (and recently moved back from Boston), so if I ever want news related to this region and not NYC it has to come from local news. Local news has a huge purpose here b/c so many people forget/don’t know/don’t care that the majority of NY is not NYC and NYC suburbs.
PS. Demographic/news consumption info info: I live near Rochester, NY. Population 220,000 in the city… not sure about suburbs. Local reporters here are pretty fantastic about covering interesting stories… what doesn’t make it to TV usually makes it to Twitter, online or a podcast. I get majority of news online via email newsletter (briefi.ng is my favorite) but also watch local nightly news, national news, PBS Newshour, and follow tons of local news stations/reporters on Twitter.
Local is important because it pays attention to many more people, in many different ways.
In the process of building [something in Edmonton], I ended up thinking a lot about Clay Christensen’s idea of “jobs to be done.” I may be mangling his concept, but it seemed to me that one important job to be done is “pay attention to me.” This is a thing that people “hire” their local newspaper to do, in a way. They don’t necessarily pay money to be in it (although advertisers do, of course); it’s more that they like that the newspaper is around so that when something noteworthy happens, it will be noticed. When they are in it, they feel validated.
National media cannot pay attention to a very big percentage of the total audience. Local media can pay attention to many more people, in many different ways.
Once a local media outlet realizes that the job its community has hired it to do is to pay attention, then it may devise more opportunities to pay attention to more people…
A newspaper, printed on dead trees, is a lousy medium for delivering news anymore; but it remains an excellent medium for delivering validation. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people tell me how thrilled they were (and how thrilled their moms were) that they were in the paper. “I saw you on the website” still doesn’t have the same cachet.
“I heard you on the radio” or “I saw you on TV” does have that cachet, I think. Maybe because people know that time is limited, just like space in the newspaper is limited, so if they make it on air, they must be a big deal. Could local public radio and TV stations give that feeling to more people than they do now? Could that be part of their reason to continue existing?
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For women journalists, the times are better, Cokie Roberts tells 'Kalb Report'
April 2, 2019 | By Gil Klein | gilbert.klein@me.com
Newswoman Cokie Roberts is interviewed by Marvin Kalb at "The Kalb Report" taping at the National Press Club April 1.
Photo/Image: Al Teich
With all of the talk about sexual harassment in business and politics, veteran newswoman Cokie Roberts told host Marvin Kalb at Monday night's taping of "The Kalb Report" at the National Press Club that conditions for women in journalism are much improved now than they were when she launched her career in the mid-1960s.
“It is night and day different from when I went into the news business,” said Roberts, a mainstay in National Public Radio since 1978 and ABC News since 1988, as well as a contributor to PBS NewsHour. “At that point you had men saying to you, ‘We don’t hire women to do that,’ with their hands on your knee."
All women know about women’s rights legislation known as Title IX of the 1972 Education Act, she said, but few women are aware of Title VII in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The act prohibited employment discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, and color. Almost unnoticed, two women legislators -- Rep. Martha Griffiths and Sen. Margaret Chase Smith -- added “sex” to the list.
“That’s what changed employment for women in America,” she said. “That did it.”
She recalled sitting next to a senator at a head table during an event and the senator put his hand on her knee.
“I picked it up, put it on the table and said, ‘I think this belongs to you.’ It was so blatant. And the discrimination was so blatant,” Roberts said. “So honestly, we cared less about the harassment than we did about the discrimination. Give us the job, and we will escape you.”
She said it is great now that women feel the power to say, “Don’t do this. It’s inappropriate. Stop.”
While Roberts is appalled that President Trump would use the phrase “enemy of the people” to describe the news media -- citing its Stalinist origin -- she said she is not surprised at the divisions now in American politics and among the news media.
The camaraderie among legislators came out of World War II when many of the legislators had “literally been in foxholes together,” she said. It lasted until the end of the Cold War. “You had this sense that the enemy was not the guy across the aisle, but the dictator across the sea.”
But American politics was much more divisive throughout much of its history and the press was much more biased, and she that’s what the country is returning to. “I’m afraid it’s more like the norm,” she said.
The country is going through an extraordinary period of turmoil, economically and socially, that has left large parts of the population wishing they could return to the good old days, she said. She noted that Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama ran promising campaigns to bring the country together, yet they couldn’t. Donald Trump did not invent these divisions, she said, but he has exploited the. And he could get reelected, she added.
During the days when the news media was supposed to be unbiased, she said, it was far from inclusive.
“The people telling the story were almost entirely -- 99.9 percent,99.9999 percent -- white males, and they were telling the story from their perspective,” she said. “It might not have been politically biased in their views, but it carried the bias of their privileged existence.”
The Kalb Report returns Mondahy, April 15 with Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins offering his thoughts on the 50th anniversary of the historic first moon landing. Order tickets online.
The Kalb Report, now in its 25th season, is a joint project of National Press Club’s Journalism Institute, the University of Maryland University College, the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs, Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center, the Gaylord College of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma, and the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. It is underwritten by a grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and Maryland Public Television serves as presenting station for national distribution.
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Welcome to the November 2013 edition of National Pro Bono News, from the National Pro Bono Resource Centre.
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In this edition, you can read about:
NEWS: Centre develops new strategic plan for 2013-2017
NEWS: Two PILCHs make Justice Connect
NEWS: Expansion of WA pro bono clearing house to be explored
NEWS: QPILCH to expand services into Townsville and Cairns
REPORT: Highlights of the 7th Annual European Pro Bono Forum
INTERVIEW: Michael Gill – “We don’t retire; we just change what we do”
JOBS: For the latest jobs check out Social Justice Opportunities
PRO BONO IN THE NEWS: October – November 2013
At its annual planning day the Centre developed a new strategic plan for the next four years. At the heart of the plan is the NPBRC as an independent centre of expertise whose principal objective is to grow the capacity of the Australian legal profession to provide pro bono legal services that are focused on increasing access to justice for socially disadvantaged and/or marginalised persons, and furthering the public interest.
The full plan can be seen here (PDF).
The integration of the Public Interest Law Clearing House (Vic) and the similarly named entity in NSW announced in December 2012 became complete with the launch of Justice Connect in Melbourne on 14 November 2013. The launch featured a special video of lawyers who have contributed significantly to fighting for the rights of individuals experiencing disadvantage, and those instrumental in the foundation of the two PILCHs, together with speeches from Mitzi Gilligan, Chair of Justice Connect and partner, Minter Ellison; David Hillard, Justice Connect NSW State Committee member and partner, Clayton Utz; Peter Butler, a founding board member and previous chair of PILCH (VIC) and partner, Herbert Smith Freehills; Fiona McLeay, Executive Director, Justice Connect; and the Hon. Mark Dreyfus QC MP, Shadow Commonwealth Attorney-General.
Former Executive Directors of PILCH (Vic)
(L-R) Caitlin English, Mat Tinkler, Amanda Cornwall, Fiona McLeay (Executive Director of Justice Connect), Emma Hunt and Kristen Hilton
The launch emphasised a number of the notable cases where either the NSW or the VIC PILCH have played a connecting role. These included the Tampa case (2001), the Gunns 20 case (2004-2010), the creation of the Human Rights Law Resource Centre (2006), the Autism spectrum case that changed guidelines on access to disability support services (2008), the Victorian Bushfire Legal Help Service (2009), the NSW Stolen Wages cases (2009/2010), , the Offshore Asylum Seeker Project (2011), the Balan Caravaners case (2012), and other cases simply where an individual’s life has been changed for the better.
PILCH (NSW) was established in 1992 and was the first of its kind in Australia. It was an initiative of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), law firms and the Law Society of NSW. Whilst always having its own board, PILCH (NSW) only became administratively and physically separate from PIAC in 2009. The NSW-based staff of Justice Connect will continue to be based in the old Sydney Law School building in Phillip Street, Sydney.
Launch of Justice Connect, Melbourne Town Hall
PILCH (Vic) was established in 1994 as a project of the Consumer Law Centre of Victoria (CLCV), supported by Fitzroy Legal Service, six Melbourne law firms (Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Freehills, Mallesons Stephen Jacques, Minter Ellison, Phillips Fox and Wisewoulds) and the Victorian Bar Council. CLCV managed and provided accommodation and infrastructure to PILCH (VIC) for its first six years. The Victorian staff of Justice Connect will continue to be based at their offices in Bourke Street, Melbourne close to the Law Institute of Victoria. Some contact details have been changed
More detail is available on the new Justice Connect website.
Michael Brett Young, CEO of the Law Institute of Victoria, Stephen Hare, CEO of the Victorian Bar, John Corker,
Director of the Centre and Anton Hermann, National Director, Pro Bono and Community Investment, Minter Ellison
Photos courtesy of Justice Connect.
Expansion of WA pro bono clearing house to be explored
In its meeting on 26 November the Council of the Law Society of Western Australia endorsed the recommendations presented to it by the WA Public Interest Law Clearing House Reference Group (“Reference Group”) and decided to develop a business plan in consultation with relevant stakeholders (i.e. potential partners and funders) to explore the possible expansion of the existing Law Access Service (managed by the Law Society of WA), as a “central pro bono clearing house service”.
The recommendations endorsed were:
That WA would be best served by introducing formal mechanisms and structures that will allow for the better coordination of existing pro bono services and schemes with the potential to enhance existing services.
That any model to enhance pro bono coordination and planning needs to:
Include a rural, remote and regional (RRR) representative and incorporate RRR considerations, interests and needs.
Ensure that a Western Australian focus to pro bono service delivery remains central.
Ensure that existing pro bono relationships with local firms and legal assistance services are maintained and enhanced.
Be resourced to take on higher-level pro bono functions including, identifying unmet legal need, policy and law reform.
That enhanced pro bono services include partnerships with entities such as university law schools and The College of Law to provide opportunities for student clinics and graduate work experience.
That a Western Australian Pro Bono Advisory Committee be established or pro bono be included in existing access to justice committees, such as the WA Jurisdictional Forum.
That the establishment of a Western Australian stand-alone clearing house, similar to QPILCH, is not a viable short to medium term option in the current funding climate.
That the most feasible options for improved pro bono coordination and planning in Western Australia at this stage are either through extension of services done under a partnership model and/or by joining a multi-state model.
That a “partnership” model be properly explored through the possible expansion of The Law Society of Western Australia’s Law Access service, as a central pro bono clearing house service (including a central merit assessment program), in consultation with other relevant stakeholders and consistent with the issues raised in the Doing the Public Good report.
Recommendations 1-6 came from the recently released report commissioned by the Reference Group, Doing the Public Good: a feasibility study of pro bono models for Western Australia with recommendation 7 being developed by the Reference Group itself.
The Reference Group was brought together in early 2012 and comprised representatives from: The Law Society of Western Australia, the Western Australian Bar Association, Legal Aid Western Australia, the Community Legal Centres Association of Western Australia, the Aboriginal Legal Service (WA), Criminal Lawyers Association, Family Law Practitioners Association (WA), the five Western Australian law schools, pro bono coordinators from nearly all major national firms, and from large and medium sized firms and the Courts.
The Doing the Public Good report provides a picture of diverse and growing pro bono activity in Western Australia, with the legal profession in WA engaging in pro bono legal work in a number of ways: through direct requests for clients, ad hoc referrals, referrals from Law Access and the Western Australian Bar Association, or partnerships with publicly funded legal service providers. For example, both the number of pro bono applications received by Law Access, and the number of matters placed or resolved during the 2012/13 year, more than doubled.
However, the report also identified a number of constraints to growth, including a lack of clear access points for clients, some duplication of service provision, inconsistent eligibility criteria across different referral schemes, and the absence of a strategic proactive approach to pro bono work which is directed at responding to unmet legal need.
QPILCH to expand services into Townsville and Cairns
The Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House (QPILCH) are to further expand their services into Northern Queensland. They will be establishing a new office with a full-time solicitor in Townsville and engaging a part-time solicitor for the Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic in Cairns. The Townsville Service will build on the existing QPILCH homeless person’s legal clinic that has been operating in Townsville for over two years. The Cairns service will co-locate with an existing homeless persons welfare agency. These positions have been advertised and applications close on Monday 2 December 2013 – see the QPILCH website for details.
Information on these and many other opportunities can be found on Social Justice Opportunities (www.sjopps.net.au).
Highlights of the 7th Annual European Pro Bono Forum
by Nic Patrick, Partner and Head of Pro Bono and Corporate Responsibility – International at DLA Piper
A key highlight of the Forum was hearing Pierre Servan-Schreiber, the managing partner of the Paris office of Skadden Arps, describe his pro bono representation of the Hopi tribe of Arizona. The Hopi tribe applied to a French court for an injunction to prevent the sale of cultural and religious artefacts which were to be sold by a Paris auction house. Although unsuccessful in preventing the sale, Pierre was able to purchase one of the artefacts when the auction went ahead, and travelled from Paris to Arizona where he then rode into the desert on a motorbike to return the recovered artefact to the Hopi tribe. He is a truly inspirational pro bono lawyer who went above and beyond the call of duty in the pursuit of justice for his clients.
Other significant highlights included a presentation by Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and Iranian Human Rights Lawyer who described the challenges of being a human rights defender in Iran. Shirin has a long history of providing pro bono representation to clients targeted by the religious police, in circumstances where there is no due process, where lawyers are targeted by the government, and where the citizens have no rights. As she described, the people do not even have the right to go to hell if they want to, since the express purpose of a theocracy is to ensure everyone goes to heaven. Her presentation reminded us of the important role of lawyers in upholding the rule of law and defending those who have no other friends to look to for protection against the injustices of the state.
2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Abadi speaking at the Forum
There was a busy NGO marketplace where law firm representatives could meet with NGO representatives. The NGOs in Europe are increasingly using pro bono more strategically (to run test cases, engage in law reform and policy issues etc). One NGO had a glossy pitch document which listed available strategic pro bono opportunities in the area of disability rights, demonstrating a real enthusiasm for collaboration with law firms.
The PILnet forum always includes sessions on in-house pro bono in Europe. Regular attendees at the conference will have noticed that many of the ‘usual suspects’ appear every year to profile the pro bono work of their Europe-based in-house teams. The usual suspects include GE, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard and a few others. In most cases the mandate to get involved in pro bono has come from US-based general counsels and has been a very positive development for the in-house teams who clearly enjoy doing pro bono work, usually in collaboration with law firms, with the blessing of their companies. The real significance of the in-house lawyers is the message that they send to the law firm attendees through their presence and interest in pro bono.
There is anecdotal evidence to suggest that there is a growing willingness to consider access to justice work (as opposed to advice for charities and non-profits) in Europe. For example, Caritas Austria received the third annual European Award for an Exemplary Partnership in the Public Interest in recognition of their project with the Austrian Asylum Lawyers’ Network. The Network has developed into a collaboration between eight Austrian NGOs and ten lawyers across Austria who take on legal representation of select indigent asylum seekers. The Network focuses primarily on proceedings before the Austrian High Courts and the European Court for Human Rights.
Although pro bono is in some respects still in its infancy in Europe, PILnet is very effective at finding European lawyers who are doing pro bono work and giving them a platform to share their experiences with others. This has the effect of normalising the practice of pro bono and creates the impression that the pro bono movement is more developed than it is in reality. The benefit of this is that it plays to the competitive psychology of law firms and motivates others to do more and better.
(R-L) Atanas Politov, Marieanne McKeown (PILnet), Nic Patrick, Ozgur Kahal (DLA Piper) and others at the Forum
Most of the participants will have left the forum with a strong sense that the pro bono movement in Europe is gathering momentum, and it is, but there is also a palpable fragility. The role and success of PILnet, an American NGO, in promoting a pro bono culture in Europe cannot be understated. But, whereas the National Pro Bono Resource Centre in Australia and the Pro Bono Institute in the USA exist alongside a robust pro bono movement in the legal profession, PILnet in many ways is the pro bono movement in continental Europe and one cannot help to wonder if the ‘movement’ would continue if PILnet withdrew. Even more concerning is that the success of PILnet is largely attributable to the enormous energy of a handful of extremely impressive individuals who ironically by their own prominence only serve to highlight the current lack of depth of pro bono commitment and leadership on the continent. What is desperately lacking is vocal unambiguous top level support from law firm leaders, and the infrastructure to deliver quality pro bono opportunities to busy lawyers working in firms.
Despite these challenges, I believe PILnet will ultimately succeed in entrenching a pro bono culture in Europe. There are certainly glimmers of hope. There is a demonstrable willingness on the part of European lawyers to participle in public interest lawyering; there is increasing cooperation between law firms and the nonprofit sector; the internationalisation and consolidation of the legal sector is promoting culture transfer and ‘shared values’; and there is real enthusiasm and anticipation surrounding next year’s forum which will take place in London.
Photos courtesy of PILnet.
Michael Gill – “We don’t retire; we just change what we do”
He started planning his retirement in 2003. He retired five years later in 2008 after a partnership of 37 years as an insurance lawyer. Now ex-DLA Piper partner Michael Gill has found himself in a satisfying role as part of DLA Piper’s global pro bono program and as an ambassador for New Perimeter, the vehicle DLA Piper created to strategically advance its pro bono work for projects primarily in less developed and post-conflict countries.
John Corker caught up with Michael to ask him how this came about and what advice he would provide to other senior lawyers considering retirement.
How long have you been a practising lawyer?
I started as an articled clerk in March 1968, and have been practising for 43 years. I became a partner in 1971 and have been with the same firm through its many changes to become DLA Piper in 2008. Most of my time was spent in Insurance law and firm management.
How did your pro bono ethos originate?
A Catholic family and a Catholic school education taught me that you had obligations in life that went beyond yourself. Specifically we have an obligation to use our abilities to help those less well off. In the early 1970s I became involved with the work of the NSW Law Society; legal aid and community legal education developments gave me opportunities to help. I was appointed the first Chairman of the Community Law Committee. International travel has broadened my views and I have often been confronted by the disadvantage, poverty, and scandalous exploitation of people around the world.
What was your involvement in the development of the structured pro bono program at DLA Piper (or its predecessor firms)?
I was asked by the CEO of Phillips Fox, Tony Crawford, to help build the program. As a long time partner and former Chairman and CEO of Phillips Fox I had a view about how to approach the challenge. I spoke to the key people, addressed their concerns and assisted Nic Patrick to get the program started. Nic has great vision, compassion and energy. He was committed to get the program going. I was very pleased to be able to help.
Nic then found others ways in which I could assist. Later, I also became involved in putting together with your Centre a professional indemnity insurance solution for corporate lawyers and working with the NSW Law Society and LawCover on that. Having been a Law Society President and Chairman of LawCover was not a disadvantage. My knowledge, experience and long term relationships with many of the key people helped.
Nic led the firm in the establishment of the Homeless Persons Legal Service (HPLS) clinic at Newtown. I joined the roster, going back to a role which I first filled as a young lawyer in Redfern in 1971. I still volunteer at a homeless person’s shelter where I sleep over one night every three months. I have seen familiar faces at both places.
These experiences reinforce the messages that you get more from it personally than you give and the real gift is not the time that you give but the part of your heart that goes with it.
How did your retirement plans change to include working with the DLA pro bono program?
I became a consultant here in 2008 and thought that with any luck, five years and that would be it. As my insurance work and management roles wound down I increased the time I spent in the firm’s Community Investment and Pro Bono areas helping out with charities and pro bono projects. This turned out to be both extremely fulfilling and to some extent challenging. New opportunities followed.
DLA Piper actually has a history of pro bono going back to the 1960s and particularly in Chicago so even though they are a large corporate law firm, they understand that the law is a calling, it’s more than a business!
When Nic Patrick went to London as head of Pro Bono International, Dan Creasey took over his role in this region. He asked me to lead a project about identifying roles for the firm in micro-insurance solutions to assist development and disadvantaged people in countries right across the world.
Lisa Dewey, the Director of New Perimeter, asked me late last year if I would do an appraisal of a teaching project, the aim of which was, in conjunction with Mexico Appleseed, to encourage the Mexican legal profession to embrace the culture of and need for pro bono as part of professional life. The teaching courses took place over 5 years in 5 Universities in Mexico and involved people from Appleseed and DLA Piper. New Perimeter has all projects independently appraised.
I went to Mexico City; I interviewed University staff, students and the Board and senior staff of Appleseed. Then I interviewed those from the firm involved in creating, managing and teaching the courses.
I then prepared the report for the New Perimeter Advisory Board in what was similar to a report for an insurer client, something that I have done hundreds of times over three decades of legal practice.
I used familiar legal skills. I enjoyed this. I am hoping that New Perimeter saw value in my work and that it may lead to more of these assignments from New Perimeter.
What is your experience of the New Perimeter model of service delivery so far?
The model is unique among law firms and is genuinely important to the firm. For example, New Perimeter has been in Kosovo and East Timor since they first emerged from conflict. The programs are big, significant internationally and involve co-operation of many DLA Piper offices. The New Perimeter vehicle better allows for joint ventures with other NGOs by creating an entity they can work with more easily.
In the context of a large international law firm, it presents a fabulous opportunity for persons from diverse offices to come together and form important bonds, especially when people are working together on one particular project. An example is teaching a course on legal drafting skills at the Law School of Tanzania in Dar Es Salaam. The Law School program is a one-year course intended to supplement the student’s law degree and completion is compulsory in order to practice. The program is for many students the first exposure to interactive and practical legal training and clinical legal education. The New Perimeter team teaches for two weeks each year, reaching about 400 students. Lawyers from DLA Piper teach in teams with lawyers from our client, GE. You are there with colleagues from other countries, clients and an NGO, using your skills to teach the future lawyers and leaders of Tanzania.
You are doing it together, and then debriefing, and then catching up some time later and telling some of the war stories and seeing photos on the website that bring back the memories. It’s not until you get into the space of actually living it that you see how dynamically good it is for all concerned, including those teaching.
Not everything about large international law firms (or large international corporations) is seen in positive terms. They need to do things which show their commitment to social responsibility generally and their communities in particular. Law firms have the additional incentive that they are more than a business; they are a calling. And the big internationals are uniquely placed to make significant contributions because of their wealth, size and spread, both geographically and competencies.
You seem to have been playing the role of facilitator, investigator and reporter, and more recently, educator. Have you had to develop new skills?
Yes although much of it flows naturally from my legal skills and experience. Networks are also useful at times. Some of the work is out of my comfort zone which is good for me. For example the technical and compliance issues in relation to methods of teaching. Presentation skills come easy to me. However the BABSEA CLE model and the unique way they work to educate people, by encouraging involvement and having fun, is new and stimulating but not easy to start.
I would like to think that as long as I am blessed with good health there will be no shortage of useful things to do. I will maintain my relevance. I have come to appreciate that many senior lawyers suffer greatly from the loss of relevance after 40 years or more of a huge investment in knowledge and skill.
You seem to have found a role with the global program that is almost naturally based on your skills and experience. Do you think that there are any particular roles that senior lawyers are well suited to?
It’s amazing how it happens. I am blessed because so many great opportunities came my way. I think that if you have a reputation for being willing to roll your sleeves and try new things, it can easily come to you too. The first time I went out to HPLS at Newtown, I wondered what problem would come to me from the first client. Well, it was an insurance problem. I thought I would be out of my depth but there was a person asking questions about a policy with funeral benefits. Don’t be daunted by what you don’t know. What is important is knowing what you don’t know, and then referring the person to the right place or person or knowing how to find the solution.
Although it might not be strictly pro bono, I have been the deputy chair of the board of our local retirement village and nursing home since 2009 and I bring my legal skills to that board. Any lawyer that has experience with issues like personal responsibility of directors, liability issues, occupational health and safety, environmental concerns, can very easily go onto the board of a charity or not-for-profit organisation and make a very useful contribution.
What advice would you give to senior lawyers who are considering retirement?
I would say don’t leave it until the last year to work out what you want to do. I believe it’s about sensible planning. I started planning at 55 to retire at 60, thinking about, identifying the things I wanted to do in my 60s. .
It’s becoming much more accepted that harmony in your life comes, to some extent, from your generosity. You have had that investment over all those years in legal skills. They are still useful and will give you satisfaction in continuing to use them for the good of others, especially the needy and the disadvantaged. And don’t forget the rest of the world!
I have said to my friends we don’t retire; we just change what we do.
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NSW and Vic lawyers come together to give back
15 November 2013 – Lawyers Weekly
A new agency that will replace the PILCH services in Victoria and NSW was launched in Melbourne last night (14 November). Justice Connect will bring together more than 10,000 lawyers and barristers that are prepared to offer free legal advice to not-for-profit organisations and individuals.
Abbott’s new world order
15 November 2013 – Sydney Morning Herald
Since Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison took office, workers in offshore detention centres say asylum seekers have never had it so bad. Melbourne lawyer Simon Kenny, who is representing some of the asylum seekers facing charges and who acted for men in another riot case on Nauru last year, says that a group of Melbourne and Brisbane lawyers and barristers are prepared to work pro bono to represent the asylum seekers.
Power is all in a day’s work for top legal eagle Mark Leibler [paywall]
9 November 2013 – The Australian
That passion for the less-privileged comes through in ABL’s public law practice, which Mark Leibler claims is one of the reasons the firm consistently attracts some of the brightest young talent in the profession. “The mere fact that we do this pro bono work is one of the prime motivations for them coming here. It is something about getting involved in the law but preserving their soul. They feel that they want to be in a place that is ethical,” Leibler says of the graduates.
Clutz named a leading international pro bono firm
8 November 2013 – Lawyers Weekly
Clayton Utz was the only Australian firm named in the top 10 leading pro bono firms in the world in the inaugural Who’s Who Legal Global Pro Bono Survey. The Survey recognised firms that are leading the way in their pro bono contributions, level of participation and efforts to institutionalise pro bono work. Global firm DLA Piper also made the top 10.
UK: Student pro bono: maximising the impact of volunteering
14 November 2013 – The Guardian
After a placement at a law centre and feeling that students could be doing more to help, we decided to set up Pro Bono Community. Ollie, like several of our friends at law school, had been volunteering at a law centre, with mixed feelings. Some days he was able to get stuck in but on others he was left a bit adrift, unsure of what he should or could be doing to help.
SINGAPORE: Funding for legal aid could rise: Indranee
12 November 2013 – The Sunday Times (Singapore)
The Government may increase funding for legal aid in non-capital criminal cases, by giving more money to groups that run pro bono legal aid programmes. This was revealed by Senior Minister of State for Law Indranee Rajah on Tuesday, while she was replying to a question by Mountbatten MP Lim Biow Chuan on legal aid for criminal cases.
UK: Record number of junior lawyers working pro bono
7 November 2013 – The Law Society Gazette
More junior lawyers are doing pro bono work than ever before, according to Law Society research published to coincide with National Pro Bono Week. In 2013, 45% of all newly qualified solicitors are providing pro bono services, up from 36% in 2012. This year, an equal proportion of newly qualified and partner-level solicitors are providing pro bono services.
TrustLaw Connect Awards 2013: Collaboration Award
7 November 2013 – Thomson Reuters Foundation
This award showcases NGOs, social entrepreneurs, and lawyers working together from different places on TrustLaw Connect projects to achieve amazing results. For the Collaboration Award, the 2013 winning team was: DLA Piper and CMS London working with Beijing Fanbao to support advocacy for anti-domestic violence legislation in China.
TrustLaw Connect Awards 2013: Legal Team of the Year
There are 3 teams in particular that TrustLaw Connect honours each year for their outstanding commitment and enthusiasm to pro bono. These firms – one international law firm, one domestic firm working outside the traditional pro bono markets, and one in-house legal team – have dedicated huge amounts of time and resources to helping us achieve our mission of spreading the practice of pro bono worldwide.
TrustLaw Connect Awards 2013: Lawyer of the Year
We asked our NGO and social enterprise members to nominate a lawyer or team of lawyers who they felt demonstrated extraordinary commitment to a pro bono project. We received dozens of nominations. Once we narrowed down the nominees, we allowed the public to vote, and we received nearly 700 votes. The winners for 2013: Hainin Lin and Dayin Zhang from Jun He Law Offices in China.
UK: Call for compulsory pro bono commitment
Civil legal aid cuts have put “more pressure” on the need for pro bono work, the attorney general has accepted, following a call to make it compulsory for lawyers to volunteer their services for free. At the Law Society’s Pro Bono Question Time debate in Westminster, Sejal Karavardra, director at Birmingham firm DBS Law, suggested pro bono activities should be made mandatory for all firms.
Who’s Who Legal: Pro Bono Survey Results
31 October 2013 – Who’s Who Legal
Who’s Who Legal recently invited law firms to participate in our first ever global pro bono survey and we were greatly encouraged by the responses received from both national and international law firms representing all regions of the world. The responses provided an insight into the differing approaches to the practice of pro bono, the scale of engagement at different levels of seniority within firms as well as the steps taken to instil a pro bono culture.
Who’s Who Legal: Pro Bono Leading Firms
Top Ten Global Pro Bono Law Firms: these firms include WilmerHale, White & Case, Vinson & Elkins, Sidley Austin, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Kirkland & Ellis and DLA Piper. In addition we recognise the achievements of Mexican firm Von Wobeser y Sierra, Kim & Chang in South Korea and Clayton Utz, which recently achieved 35 hours per lawyer per year in all six of their Australian offices.
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Maine's Newest ESOP Company
The leaders of Westbrook, ME based Ethos have sold 100% of their company to a newly-formed Employee Stock Ownership Plan. Ethos, a multi-platform branding and digital agency with 55 employees, announced today that it has established an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, joining a growing number of companies in Maine and nationally choosing the ESOP model for future growth.
From left, Glenn Rudberg, Ted Darling, Tom Gale, Judy Trepal on the rooftop deck of the multi-platform branding agency Ethos, which announced today that it is now 100% owned by its employees. Rudberg, Darling and Trepal founded the agency in 1999 and Gale came on later to lead Ethos' wholly owned digital marketing agency VONT and ultimately became a partner.
The ESOP transfers ownership of the just-under $10 million Westbrook company from a closely held LLC partnership to an S-Corporation owned 100% by its employees. The employee owners also include the employees of VONT LLC, a leading digital marketing agency wholly owned by Ethos. Developed as part of an ongoing strategic planning process, the ESOP was officially introduced to company employees on Aug. 31.
Agency founders Glenn Rudberg, Ted Darling and Judy Trepal, along with VONT President Tom Gale, will continue day-to-day management of the company, focusing on the agency's clients and developing the Ethos and VONT teams. Gale has been appointed CEO of the combined entity.
The four partners will now serve on the board of directors and as officers of the company. William Plumley, a long-time employee, was also appointed to the board of directors.
ESOP tied to growth strategy
In a telephone interview with Mainebiz, Gale noted the owners of Ethos and VONT did a lot of research about ESOPs before deciding that it was the best way to ensure the company's long-term sustainability and enable it to retain and attract top talent.
"The statistics are impressive in terms of how a company performs" after establishing an ESOP ownership plan, he said. "It focuses everyone in the company on what drives future growth. The company becomes even more focused on doing better for its clients."
Gale said clients for Ethos and VONT include Oakhurst Dairy, Gifford's Ice Cream, Finance Authority of Maine, the Wild Blueberry Association of Maine and Boston University.
"An employee-owned company was the logical way to reward a team that already thinks and acts like owners," he added. "Our agency was founded upon the principles of doing right by our clients and by our employees. Moving the company to an employee-owned model allows us to leverage the client-focused culture we have built over the years. The ESOP also ensures the company's long-term sustainability, retains and attracts top talent, and provides dedicated employees with the rewards of ownership."
Plumley, who joined the company in 2003, said the company has been on a strong trajectory of growth, noting that it had fewer than 15 employees when he was hired, with its expansion prompting several moves that culminated with its February 2016 move to a state-of-the-art building on the banks of the Presumpscot River in Westbrook.
"We're doing this from a position of strength," he said. "We have strong client retention; we have strong employee retention."
"Today's employees want to be a part of something. They want a stake in the game," said founding partner, Glenn Rudberg. "We see a 100% employee-owned company as the best way to reward loyal employees and to motivate the next generation of leaders."
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School Board Treasurer
Mr. Marc Casciani
Pine Township Region 1
mcasciani@pinerichland.org
Marc Casciani became a member of the board on September 20, 2012.
Mr. Casciani is a business development executive at First National Insurance Agency. He received both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University and a Master of Business Administration from The University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Casciani served as a volunteer football coach in the Pine-Richland School District from 1998 to 2011. He also coached football at North Catholic High School in 2012. He is grateful for this chance to be a servant leader in his community and considers this opportunity to be both an honor and a privilege. Mr. Casciani has lived in Wexford with his family since 2004.
Term Ends in 2019. Appointed Sept. 20, 2012, Elected November 2013 & Re-Elected in 2015.
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The "Alternative" in American Culture?
John Bowe, Lia Gangitano, Alec Soth, Eric Shiner
Sunday 10 March, 2013
3pm, $0
The Armory, Media Lounge
Pier 94, West 53 Street and Twelfth Avenue
What does the term “alternative" mean in relation to American culture today, and what does this say about its contemporary psyche? In a conversation that ranges from the critical to the tongue-in-cheek, Eric Shiner talks with panelists about current practice that profiles a range of perspectives from undercurrents that could be seen as subversive or resistant to so-called mainstream culture, to views on America from inside and out. Panelists also debate how—particularly with the increasing democratization of images—“high" art should be judged versus art that has mass appeal. Has art that is truly radical been subsumed by the existing art world, or does it linger at its edges, or even outside, and should such terms continue to hold significance? Speaker John Bowe contributes to the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Playboy, Public Radio International and others; Lia Gangitano founded PARTICIPANT INC, a not-for-profit art space in 2001; Alec Soth is a Minneapolis based photographer, whose works have been in numerous exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. Moderator Eric Shiner is Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh and curator of Armory Focus: USA.
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PolitiFact and PunditFact fact-check the debate over immigration
By Jon Greenberg, Derek Tsang on Monday, July 28th, 2014 at 6:26 p.m.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents work at a processing facility in Brownsville, Texas, on June 18, 2014.
The influx of unaccompanied children at the U.S.-Mexico border is pushing security officials to their limits and putting pressure on President Barack Obama and Congress to take some sort of action.
Politicians and talking heads have been scrambling both to provide context for this surge of children, mostly from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, and to assign blame.
PolitiFact and PunditFact have been fact-checking their claims, and we’ve found that there’s more than a little misinformation going around. Here’s a summary of some of our recent work.
Obama’s 2012 policy
One of the consistent talking points among conservatives discussing the thousands of kids arriving at the U.S. border is that President Barack Obama’s 2012 immigration policy is responsible.
The policy allowed certain young people without legal status to apply for a two-year deferral of any removal proceedings. Though it does not apply to people just now crossing the border, conservatives say it gave children and their families the idea that they could try. And so they have.
"This president and his administration knew what was happening with the issuance of the executive order in 2012, which created these children coming across," Fox Business News host Lou Dobbs said recently.
There is a problem with the claim, however. The dates don’t line up as neatly as people are letting on.
Last month, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service published month-by-month statistics of children being processed at the border. What the data shows is that the number of children being processed at the border was steady between October 2008 and January 2012. The numbers then started to rise between January and April 2012 then plateaued until January 2013. From there, the number of children coming to the border grew exponentially.
Why is that important?
Based on Congressional Research Service data, the rate of arrivals nearly doubled before Obama announced his new policy. While this doesn’t mean Obama’s policy played no role in the current flood of children arriving at the border, the policy itself didn’t create the current problem.
Dobbs’ claim rates Mostly False.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, one of the Republican Party’s most vocal advocates of federal action on immigration policy, recently wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal laying out a suggested course of action for addressing the thousands of undocumented Central American minors.
"Currently the vast number of children is overwhelming the process," he wrote with co-author Clint Bolick. "Roughly half do not show up for their hearings. As a result, judging by Homeland Security figures, only a fraction of the approximately 20,000 Central American children who entered the country illegally in 2013 were repatriated. By some estimates, as few as 2 percent of the 50,000 children who have crossed the border illegally this year have been sent home."
We’ve already looked at the number of minors who report for their hearings. (Bush's description of it as "roughly half" is not far off from what we found.)
But what about the number of children that the government has returned this year? Is it "as few as 2 percent"?
It’s surprisingly difficult to track down exact numbers, but from what we can gather, that number appears accurate, according to testimony made before a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing meeting on July 9.
That figure, though, is only useful as a snapshot of the current state of affairs; it is likely the number will rise as more and more of these children go through the legal process.
Further, Bush said the low number was a result of Central American children skipping their court appearances. Actually, it has more to do with how long the legal proceedings take.
We rated his statement Mostly True.
Health problems, maybe, but Ebola?
Some, like Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., have expressed concern about the impact the influx of immigrants could have on public health.
On July 7, 2014, Gingrey wrote a letter expressing these concerns to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"The influx of families and unaccompanied children at the border poses many risks, including grave public health threats," Gingrey wrote.
"As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose. In fact, infectious diseases remain in the top 10 causes of death in the United States. … Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning."
We don’t dispute that the conditions for newly arrived migrant children pose public health challenges. But Gingrey went well beyond that when he invoked Ebola, a particularly scary and untreatable disease with high mortality rates.
The reality is that Ebola has only been found in Africa -- and experts agree that, given how the disease develops, the likelihood of children from Central America bringing it to the U.S. border is almost nonexistent. But most importantly for our fact-check, Gingrey’s office was unable to point to solid evidence that that Ebola has arrived in Western Hemisphere, much less the U.S. border. To the contrary, the CDC and independent epidemiologists say there is zero evidence that these migrants are carrying the virus to the border.
We rated the claim Pants on Fire.
Spending on border security
Obama has asked Congress for $3.7 billion to help the border situation, but leading Republicans have expressed skepticism.
"I'm not going to vote to approve $3.7 billion for the president to hire more lawyers and to squander in a way that he has designed," said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa on Fox News. "There is nothing in this that actually secures the border. And until we stop the bleeding at the border, Bill, we are not going to solve this problem."
King has a point that a majority of the funding request would cover basic necessities for children crossing the border as well as additional resources for the legal process.
But somewhere between $177 million and possibly as much as $1 billion of the total request would be spent on items that can be described as aiding efforts to secure the border.
Because this is not a trivial amount, King is wrong to say it’s "nothing." We rated his claim Mostly False.
Violence back home
ABC pundit Cokie Roberts said the violence these children are leaving behind is astounding.
"I heard a report this week that in New York, your chances of getting murdered are 1 in 25,000," Roberts said on This Week. "In Honduras, it’s 1 in 14. You can’t send children back home to that."
Roberts is right that Honduras is more dangerous than New York, but on the specific numbers she offered, she’s wrong.
The claim rates Half True.
The 1 in 25,000 figure for New York represents the chances that an individual is murdered in a year, whereas the 1 in 14 figure for Honduras represents the chances that an individual is murdered over the course of a lifetime. (Both of these are also slight miscalculations.)
Apples to apples: Over a lifetime, the chances of being murdered in Honduras are 1 in 15, compared to 1 in 250 in New York.
When they get here
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly worried about the strain these children and others coming to the Untied States will put on the government.
"Our welfare system is strained to the limit now, so is the public school system," O’Reilly said. "About 50 percent of them lack a high school education. And more than 50 percent of immigrants from (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) use at least one major welfare program once they get here."
O’Reilly’s point about the use of welfare is correct when defining things by households and by including a broad definition of "welfare" that includes school lunch programs.
But looking at individuals would produce a different, lower percentage. Also, there is a wide disparity depending on what particular welfare program you’re looking at.
O’Reilly’s statement rates Mostly True.
Where they end up
Conservative pundit Pat Buchanan says California’s transformation from red to blue is thanks to an influx of immigrants and should serve as a cautionary tale for the national conservative agenda.
On The Sean Hannity Show, Buchanan noted that California Republicans are now outnumbered 2 to 1 in the state Legislature, 2 to 1 in Congress, and that no Republican holds a statewide office.
"Right now, one third of all the illegal aliens go to California. Take a look at California politically, which Richard Nixon carried five times and Ronald Reagan carried in four landslides," he said. "And when the country looks like California demographically, it’s going to look like California politically."
There’s no good data on where unauthorized immigrants are going after crossing the border, but we can estimate where they live.
According to estimates by the Department of Homeland Security and the Pew Research Center, anywhere from 21 to 25 percent of unauthorized immigrants live in California. Texas comes in second at around 16 percent.
So Buchanan is in the ballpark, but a bit high.
On politics, it’s hard to see a direct correlation simply between the number of unauthorized immigrants and election results.
California voted Republican for president from 1968-88 and has voted Democrat from 1992-2012. Of the state’s last six elected governors, three were Republican and three were Democrat.
Balancing that all out, Buchanan’s claim rates Half True.
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"By some estimates, as few as 2 percent of the 50,000 (Central American) children who have crossed the border illegally this year have been sent home."
— Jeb Bush, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014.
Obama’s 2012 policy on younger immigrants "created these children coming across" the border.
— Lou Dobbs, Monday, July 21st, 2014.
"Right now, one third of all illegal aliens are going to California."
— Pat Buchanan, Thursday, July 17th, 2014.
Amid the "crisis at our southern border," there are "reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as … Ebola virus."
— Phil Gingrey, Monday, July 7th, 2014.
"More than 50 percent of immigrants from (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) use at least one major welfare program once they get here."
— Bill O'Reilly, Tuesday, July 8th, 2014.
"In New York, your chances of getting murdered are 1 in 25,000. In Honduras, it’s 1 in 14."
— Cokie Roberts, Sunday, July 13th, 2014.
Says "nothing" in Obama’s $3.7 billion request to address the child immigrant situation "actually secures the border."
— Steve King, Thursday, July 10th, 2014.
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Researchers: Lauren Carroll, Steve Contorno, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Linda Qiu, Katie Sanders, Derek Tsang
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CMR Surgical announces the appointment of Ingeborg Øie as Chief Financial Officer
CMR Surgical Limited
("CMR Surgical" or the "Company")
Cambridge, UK, XX February 2019: CMR Surgical Ltd, the British company developing a next-generation surgical robot, today announces the appointment of Ingeborg Øie as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Board of Directors, effective from 25 February 2019.
Ingeborg joins CMR Surgical from Smith & Nephew, the FTSE 100 global medical technology business, where she was most recently Finance Director of Canada and previously VP Global Investor Relations in the corporate headquarters since 2014. Ingeborg has significant experience in the medical devices sector having started her career as a Medical Devices analyst at Goldman Sachs and later becoming Managing Director and Head of Medical Devices and Healthcare Services coverage at Jefferies International.
She is currently a Non-Executive Director of Georgia Healthcare Group PLC, the London Stock Exchange Main Market-listed healthcare services group.
Ingeborg holds a MEng in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London and an MSc in Public Health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is a CFA charterholder.
Martin Frost, Chief Executive Officer of CMR Surgical, commented: “We are delighted to welcome Ingeborg to the executive management team and Board where she brings a wealth of experience in the medical devices industry. Ingeborg will play an integral role in the rapid growth of CMR Surgical and the commercialisation of Versius worldwide. Together with the Board and the wider executive team, I am very much looking forward to working closely with Ingeborg in the next phase of our exciting development.”
Commenting on her appointment Ingeborg Øie, said: “I am extremely pleased to be joining CMR Surgical and the mission to make minimal access surgery universally accessible and affordable. The Versius is one of the world’s most exciting medical technologies and I feel privileged to now be part of the dynamic team of employees and investors who created it, and to contribute to the continued success of the Company.”
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About CMR Surgical Limited
CMR Surgical is a British private limited company developing the next-generation universal robotic system, Versius®, for minimal access surgery.
The vision behind CMR Surgical is to make minimal access surgery universally accessible and affordable, transforming the existing market for surgical robotics while also addressing the six million people who still undergo open surgery each year.
Global annual revenues for robot-assisted minimal access surgery are presently approximately $4 billion and are anticipated to reach $20 billion by 20251.
CMR Surgical, formed in 2014, has its headquarters in Cambridge, United Kingdom and is backed by an international shareholder base of specialist and generalist investors.
The Company achieved the registration of its Quality Management System to ISO 13485:2003 by Underwriters Laboratories LLC® (UL), and the status as a UL Registered Firm, in September 2015.
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Designed to meet the complex requirements of laparoscopic surgery, Versius’ compact size fits easily into the existing surgical workflow, while its ergonomic console design allows surgeons to work in a way that reduces physical and mental effort.
Intended to be used across a range of surgical specialties, the versatility and portability of Versius, enabled by a unique and patented four-axis wrist joint, expands the potential for higher utilisation. The versatility of the system and compelling commercial model allows healthcare providers to offer the benefits of robotic-assisted procedures in a cost-effective way.
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Cytokinetics Awards Inaugural Communications Fellowship To The ALS Association Golden West Chapter
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 28, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cytokinetics, Incorporated (Nasdaq: CYTK) today announced that The ALS Association Golden West Chapter is the inaugural recipient of the Cytokinetics Communications Fellowship, an annual grant from the company intended to support increased capacity and community engagement for nonprofit organizations.
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“We are extremely grateful to Cytokinetics and honored to receive this unique grant,” said Fred Fisher, MSW, President and CEO of The ALS Association Golden West Chapter. “There are more people than ever who are registering with the Golden West Chapter, and the demand for the services and support that we offer grows larger every month. The Fellowship provides critically-needed funding to help us invest in communications resources to support people with ALS and their loved ones, and to create deeper connections between The ALS community and the Chapter.”
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Cytokinetics is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing first-in-class muscle activators as potential treatments for debilitating diseases in which muscle performance is compromised and/or declining. As a leader in muscle biology and the mechanics of muscle performance, the company is developing small molecule drug candidates specifically engineered to increase muscle function and contractility. Cytokinetics is collaborating with Amgen Inc. (“Amgen”) to develop omecamtiv mecarbil, a novel cardiac muscle activator. Omecamtiv mecarbil is the subject of GALACTIC-HF, an international Phase 3 clinical trial in patients with heart failure. Amgen holds an exclusive worldwide license to develop and commercialize omecamtiv mecarbil with a sublicense held by Servier for commercialization in Europe and certain other countries. Cytokinetics is collaborating with Astellas Pharma Inc. (“Astellas”) to develop reldesemtiv (CK-2127107), a next-generation fast skeletal muscle troponin activator (FSTA). Reldesemtiv has been granted orphan drug designation by the FDA for the potential treatment of spinal muscular atrophy. Reldesemtiv was the subject of a positive Phase 2 clinical study in patients with spinal muscular atrophy which showed increases in measures of endurance and stamina consistent with the mechanism of action. Reldesemtiv is currently the subject of two ongoing Phase 2 clinical trials in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Astellas is also conducting a Phase 1b clinical trial of reldesemtiv in elderly adults with limited mobility. Astellas holds an exclusive worldwide license to develop and commercialize reldesemtiv. Licenses held by Amgen and Astellas are subject to Cytokinetics' specified co-development and co-commercialization rights. Cytokinetics continues its 20-year history of innovation with three new muscle biology directed compounds advancing from research to development in 2018. For additional information about Cytokinetics, visit www.cytokinetics.com.
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Dancing with the Stars Season 11 – The Campaigns
With each passing season, more and more campaigns spring up, clogging my tweetdeck. By campaigns I mean fan groups of certain celebrities lobbying in any way they think will help to get their favorite on the next season of DWTS. Sometimes this is with the blessing of the celebrity and sometimes the fans don’t seem to care if the celeb wants on the show or not.
The most prominent one that I’ve seen on twitter seems to be Martha Byrne – which is, frankly, a mystery to me. Okay, so Martha was one half of a super couple on As The World Turns – she played Lily as part of the Lily/Holden couple. I know this, yes, because I used to watch this soap. 🙂 I guess I’m surprised she has such dedicated fans. And I think she’d be good on the show too. Guess what? She’s totally up for it, from the sound of it, and may have been the instigator of the campaign.
Of course, another huge one is Johnny Weir – and he has Karina Schmirnoff campaigning for him.
Plus, they are friends –
Johnny Weir has been discussed as a contestant since the day that Evan was announced as a participant. The things I read made him sound a little bitter that Evan was chosen, but I think there is still room for Johnny and I think he would probably be delightful. Now, I’ve got no dog in this fight – I like both guys. Don’t spam me people. 🙂
The person who has surpassed Evan Lysacek levels of tweeting related to DWTS is this guy who is campaigning for Bern Nadette Stanis (Thelma from Good Times):
And you’re seeing only a tiny fraction of his commitment to his cause. 🙂 This guy is passionate. There’s even a facebook page. According to this page, she really wants to do it. I hope she’s successful. I HOPE this guy lays off the campaign a little bit because he’s killing my tweetdeck. 🙂
Hmmm…don’t know if this is really a campaign, per se, as much as an offhand comment – Debi Nova. Click the link and judge for yourself. 🙂
These are far from the only campaigns that I’ve seen for the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars, but that’s going to have to do it for now. I’ll post more later – but by all means, if you know of one I haven’t mentioned, let me know!!
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32 responses to "Dancing with the Stars Season 11 – The Campaigns"
# Natalie slowikowski commented on June 22, 2010:
Celebs should be: Hulk or Brooke Hogan, Andrej Goleta,Pee Wee Herman, Jersey Shore kids, Stevie Nicks,Cyndi Lauper, the Donald,Weird Al Yankovic,Yanni,Ellen Degeneres, Portia, Cake Boss,Dawg the Bounty Hunter or his wife Beth, John Travolta,Paris Hilton, Smokey Robinson, John Stamous, Mary Kate & twin sister, most importantly Steve Wilkos. Then it will be a most interesting season!!! Thank you. Natalie
# JenH commented on June 22, 2010:
I would love to see Johnny on the show. Not really too sure about the rest as I don’t really know who they are.
# John commented on June 22, 2010:
Johnny, please! He is entertaining and has a personality. He is too polarizing to win but he would be a lot of fun to watch and I think he would have fun on the show too.
# ck410 commented on June 22, 2010:
You know, the other day I randomly thought of someone I’d LOVE to see on the show. Nancy Wilson of Heart. She’s 56 but in great shape. They also have a new album coming out soon so it would be a great way to help promote it.
God that would be awesome.
# Andie commented on June 22, 2010:
Go Johnny Go! This will be a hoot if he’s on.
# Courtney commented on June 23, 2010:
@ck410 Ooh. I love me some Heart. And Nancy does look FANTASTIC for her age – I daresay she’d make it a lot farther than Belinda Carlisle did.
@Natalie – You’ve got some good ones on your list (definitely wouldn’t mind seeing Weird Al), but it seems like a lot of the ones you’ve listed are either too famous (somehow, I don’t see the Donald dropping everything to hoof it for only $200k, and Travolta as well) or are beginning to become a bit of a reality TV cliche (Cyndi just did Celebrity Apprentice, and I want to say she was on some VH1 series).
Call me a party pooper, but I don’t really have any interest in seeing Johnny Weir on the show. I’m afraid he’d be a bit of an attention fiend like Donny was. I liked Evan because he came across as a pretty polite, likeable, inoffensive guy, and while I do appreciate people who rock the boat, I’m afraid Johnny would do a bit too much of it and alienate some of the more conservative viewers. And correct me if I’m wrong, but has there ever been an instance that a personal friend of one of the pros has actually made it onto the show? I can’t recall it ever happening before…then again, I can’t recall any of the pros ever campaigning to get a certain celeb on the show before, either.
Well I think Johnny is a spark, and they’re going to need one after season 10. Will he win? I don’t really care about that, what I think will be enormously entertaining is the Johnny Weir show. We had the Kate Gosselin show and that was a downer. And we had the Osmond show and that was a downer because it wasn’t nostaglic it was a bore. I want to have fun watching the show, and Johnny is going to bring it. Outrageous Gays are a real chuckle, and let’s face it, there is a segment of the population who will love the show because he’s unashamed of his orientation. If Johnny is a good ballroom dancer icing on the cake!
# Jay commented on June 23, 2010:
Here’s my take on Jonny Weir. He’s in it to win it. I could be wrong in my recollections but I think he painted himself into a corner with his comments about a certain season 10 star’s abilities and how skating IS actually like dancing, afterall. Yes, he’d be a riot and probably a good dancer. But he also needs to do well and play it rather straight (sorry) on broadcast TV. What’s really funny and entertaining about him probably won’t translate well for a win.
(((shrug)))) Johnny was truthful about a skater and how closely the sport is related to dance. Evan isn’t completely innocent here, he didn’t have to be such an old queen either, commenting about who should be on a Stars On Ice Tour.
If Lance Bass can go on DWTS and kiss a girl and “like it” or Steve Gutenburg can do the Mango with Jonathan Roberts, there’s more than enough room for Johnny.
# Heather commented on June 23, 2010:
I don’t know if I see Disney and Johnny in the same sentence but I agree they have big shoes to fill after Season 10. I still would like to see an All-Star or Second Chances season so they can bring Evan and some other past folks back. I also think some of the skaters that were more popular in the 80s and 90s might have a good fan following: Brian Boitano, Kurt Browning, etc.
Anyway, there is a facebook campaign to bring “Nellie Oleson” aka Alison Arngrim of Little House On the Prairie fame to DWTS. Her book came out last week and she also does a comedy routine called Confessions of a Prairie B**ch. I saw both the comedy show and her book signing in NY last week. She is hilarious. I would love to see either her or Melissa Gilbert on the show. They are both very funny on twitter too.
I would love to see Derek Jeter do the show but the seasons always conflict with baseball season.
# Beth commented on June 23, 2010:
I’ve heard that Greg Louganis would really like to be on the show, and I’d love to see him. I imagine he’d be very elegant.
Andie:
Agreed. My point is that he’s on record slamming a previous star and saying that figure skating is like dancing – AND that he can do well because of this. I think it’s very possible that if he gets on, while loads of fun for many people, the criticism lobbed his way will be exhausting and distracting.
# Princess Heidi commented on June 24, 2010:
Greg Louganis has been rumored or has been campaigning for himself for two or three seasons now. You never know – sometimes it takes that long for something to go from rumor to reality. 🙂
Well, I see both Jay and Andie’s points – I think Johnny is right and Evan’s fans who claim he didn’t have an advantage are misguided. Clearly he did – not just enough of one. And I clearly remember groaning when reading the remarks that Evan made about the Stars on Ice thing – very bad idea there, Evan. At the same time, Johnny has painted himself into a corner. If he doesn’t do well, look out. But hell, it sure would be fun to watch either way. He could either win or completely demolish the Olympic Gold Medalist thing. 🙂
@Courtney – Exactly. She’d fill the “slightly older woman” spot but I’ve seen her move around onstage like a teenager. So she’s probably in great shape and I have a feeling she would have more stamina to keep up as opposed to a Susan Lucci, Jane Seymour, etc.
Plus I’m sure we’d get to see Cameron Crowe in the audience.
Eh, Johnny’s talk is like any other rivals, all the footballers are constantly comparing themselves to Emmit and trying to get a win but they so far have fallen short. Johnny might crash and burn or he could blow anything Evan did out of the water. Just because the difference is Johnny and Evan don’t like each other doesn’t make it less entertaining.
# Paul Slowikowski commented on June 24, 2010:
If you’re going to pick a wrestler I’de rather see Hulk Hogan instead of Chris, and Johnny Weir looks “weird” he resembles Edward Scissorhands!!!Come on, we need Weird Al Yankovic, PeeWee and one of the Jersey Shore Kids. Natalie
Entertaining yes. OK on broadcast, maybe not. I think Johnny would be great for DWTS. I’m not ABC though and they’ve never put a trash-talking Liberace on before. BIG diff between him and trash-talking footballers or Joey Fatone. Big diff. That’s what may be his downfall for this venue – his personae is glittery and bitchy. But to win, he’d have to make some huge compromises in that approach and then we’d have Johnny doing something he swears he won’t do – compromise.
Jay makes a really good point about Johnny – he’s flamboyant and unapologetic about it…which makes him a definite broadcasting risk. I have a feeling the show would have to hire on additional personnel to man the censors, because Johnny is the type that’s gonna say or do whatever he wants, regardless of whether or not it’s going to incur a huge fine from the FCC for the show. And I agree about your contrast of “trash-talking Liberace” vs. trash-talking footballers/Fatones – let’s face it, a good chunk of the viewing audience is extremely close-minded & conservative, and they’re likely going to be more tolerant of obnoxious straight men than they are of gay ones…let alone outspoken gay ones. It’s unfortunate, yes; but for a show that is concerned with ratings, it wouldn’t surprise me if they passed over someone like Johnny in favor of someone more palatable & lower-risk, like Evan. And even when openly-gay Lance Bass was on the show, there was little to no mention of his sexual orientation, and he seemed to do his best not to “rock the boat”, so to speak (I almost think the faux-traumatic “I was the worst dancer in NSYNC!” bit was meant to distract some of the more conservativce viewers). While some of us might welcome the breath of fresh air (more like gust of fresh air, hehe) Johnny’s personality might bring to the show, having him on there is a risk I’m not sure the producers are ready to take.
While I agree with a lot of what you say, I have to say that no ones sexuality is “discussed” or “mentioned” on the show unless the people in question are stirring up a showmance – ala Cheryl and Chad. I don’t know why people think that when someone gay is on the show they (or the show) will feel the need to discuss it any more than any straight people feel the need to discuss it. I mean, there are gay men who are out and very flamboyant and those who just aren’t – but that’s not the same as discussing it. That’s just *being*. As for the audience – I dunno, part of me thinks that perhaps that conservative audience most likely assumes that all the male dancers ARE gay and yet they still watch the show. Or maybe they just don’t really care. I tend to think that the obnoxiously bigoted conservative types are a vocal minority in a conservative group that is much more “live and let live” than what you see portrayed by the news. Let’s face it – those folks are looking for the extremes all the time for ratings. And let’s not forget about Bruno – he’s pretty darn open and has made many questionable comments while on the show. And the ratings were UP this season, so he’s not had much impact.
Then again, I was surprised by the large surge in search terms like “Louis Van Amstel boyfriend” and just plain “Louis Van Amstel” that brought people to this site when Louis’ boyfriend was discussed on Ellen. People were actually stunned that he was gay – which surprised me because he’s not in the closet at all. So, I have to wonder if the largest segment of DWTS audience (women) just doesn’t care.
My apologies for being at risk of beating this to a pulp. But, perhaps, JW is a particular type of star that should be discussed. Please note that I think all the points being made are very good. But, 1. he’s not like anyone else in that he is a loose cannon (albeit a very funny one) who voluntarily wants to appear in a corporate/big business venue. And corporate only wants you if you can make money for them, not cost money. 2. I’m not sure viewers have an issue with gay so much as with a guy whose whole personae is shoving gender issues in your face and telling every emperor they have no clothes (Bruno controls when and where he is flamboyant – just picture the first time JW goes after him – and YES, I’d pay to see that.) 3. Johnny (and this is what’s intriguing me most) will have to compromise just like everyone else if he wants to win the MBT. What will he compromise and, if he compromises and still loses, what does he do with that?
Jay I definitely agree with you there – I think the biggest concern in casting Johnny may not be so much that he’s gay – but the fact he’s just a HUGE loose cannon. He’s like Cloris times 5 – and without the redeeming quality of being a cute little old lady & a Hollywood legend. And if he’s racking up fine after fine for the network for his outlandish behavior, then he isn’t making money for the “corporate” machine…and really, I don’t see him reigning in his behavior as part of the terms of his contract on the show. He’s completely unpredictable – and unpredictable is dangerous when you’re walking a fine line of propriety on a basic cable network like ABC. Those antics of his could be absolute gold on a premium network like HBO or Showtime (didn’t he have a reality show on one of them?) but on ABC…OY.
And Heidi, while I agree with your distinction of “being” gay and actually discussing your sexuality on-air, I’m not so sure Johnny is the type that’s going to be able to make that distinction – or want to. I could see him tossing a few saucy lines Bruno’s way while on the air that basically scream “I’M GAY!!!!”, or making some off-color comment about [insert male pro here] being shirtless or wanting to do the rumba with [insert male pro here]. I could be wrong about him, but from every TV appearance of his I’ve seen, he seems to let his flag fly loud & proud, and isn’t willing to scale it back for anyone.
All this conversation is exactly why Johnny would be good for DWTS. While we might want good dancing or no drama, the producers want ratings. Johnny brings conversation and I think Cloris and other celebs like Steve-O and even Macy Gray’s were question marks and not knowing what they might say on the air. Remember Macy Gray was beeped her first performance and I thought said the most out there comment in the history of the show after her first dance. Besides I think it depends on the partner. If you put Johnny with Lacey, I can just see drama all season long and both complaining about the judges. Put Johnny with Karina, Edyta or Anna, I think he will still be himself but quieter.
And there’s nothing wrong with it. I think the show would do well with him. He would be an ultimate “get”
The show is about ‘ratings’ after all, and Johnny, love him or hate him will be a ratings bonanza.
# Lori commented on June 25, 2010:
I can see a similarity between the discussions that happened when Adam Carolla was announced as a celebrity, and now, discussing Johnny Weir. At the time, AC was FAR outside the norm for the celebrities they picked, but I think it turned into a profitable experiment for them, since they tried to pick at least one (or two, or three) controversial figures to fill in the cast each season. I remember that Adam had said that they talked with him, and asked him to watch himself, and remember, he did say quite a few things that sat right on the edge…. But people came to like him. And, the censors kept their fingers on the buttons the whole time he was on, and HE wasn’t the one they bleeped, it was Julianne, saying “shoot.” Anyone remember that uproar, about what a horrible person Adam had to be, to get Julianne to swear on TV? Or the uproar when it was announced that they were pairing Julianne with Adam? It ended up being a good pairing, and they seemed to balance each other out.
Anyway, they COULD do the same with Johnny. From what I’ve seen, he would probably want to be with Karina, but if they’re already good friends, I don’t know if it would be a good idea. I do think they would need to pair him with someone much more “down,” to balance his “up.” Honestly, maybe Chelsie would be the best one to pair him with. Not saying anything against Chelsie, but Johnny personality seems to be wild and outrageous, while Chelsie’s is more down to earth, and settled.
It would definitely be something that they’d have to watch carefully. I’m sure they’ll sit him down and tell him how it’s going to be, just like they did with Adam. If he doesn’t like it, they’d simply sign another celebrity.
# vin commented on June 28, 2010:
Johnny would be an awesome additin 2 da show 4 sure! As for Chris jehrico, thats is awesome too.
# Cori commented on June 28, 2010:
I’d be surprised if DWTS had another Ice Skater before season 13-14.
I don’t think that TPTB would have a problem handling Johnny Weir, at least not on the show itself.
JW is a professional and would play to win. Pissing off the producers, judges, and at home audience isn’t the way to win. He would know that.
I think that he’d let enough of his personality shine to capture the audience, but keep the more outrageous stuff in check. Ala Kelly Osborne.
Oh I hope he doesn’t stuff his personality for this show. Who cares about winning, it’s about ratings.
I hope he’s outrageous as he’s always been. That’s what makes him Johnny Weir.
And they seem to have an NFL football player on every year, so there’s no reason why a figure skater can’t be on more regularly.
Cori:
Respectfully, his personality is what has cost him dearly in figure skating. Yes, I know we can discuss the technical and artistic merits of his olympic performance re the new scoring but I think he started to go down in that subjective sport years earlier when he let his personality and views out. Has he learned that you must conform to win? He’s got to find a balance for DWTS.
And I still think he’s not like any earlier stars. Everyone else played it straight (so to speak), even when they made outrageous comments. Profanity is the least of it when you’ve got a guy who is a quick wit coming after you…When Courtney said he might say something about a shirtless pro, I’m thinking he’d wait for live TV and say something about a shirtless Bruno or Tom.
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I was catching up on my other fav show, Deadliest Catch and heard that Sig Hansen is campaigning to be on the show and for some reason his wiki page (reliable minor) said that he was “confirmed” which I know can’t be true. Right?! Having said that. I would LOVE to see a guy who expects his crew to work 20+hours straight without sleep bust his butt to train for the viannese waltz.
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After rising ~165% in 2017, the stock lost much of its momentum in 2018, declining 65% and by a further 3% YTD 2019, trading around 160-165p range at the time of writing.
However, on the news of Taptica’s £135m all-stock takeover of US-focused peer RhythmOne, which was announced in February this year, saw the stock jump ~6%. With this combination, Taptica expects to become “one of the leading video advertising businesses in the US.”
Taptica’s financials
Taptica's current market cap stands at around £106.4m. In the six months ended June 30, 2018, the company's revenues increased 119.4% to $144m, compared to the first half of 2017. The growth in total revenue reflects the contribution from Tremor Video DSP, which Taptica acquired in August 2017. A 9.9% growth in revenue in the performance-based marketing business, which accounted for 50.1% of total revenue, also contributed to the total growth.
The core mobile apps business grew by 24%, driven by an increased presence in Japan and growing demand from the e-commerce and video-on-demand segments. Gross profit increased by 128.4% to $58.5m compared to $25.8m in the corresponding period in the previous year. Adjusted EBITDA for the period was $21.6m compared with $13.1m in H1 2017. Net cash inflow from operating activities was $21.5m compared to $13.7m in H1 2017.
Taptica board declared a dividend of $0.0398 per share. The company offers its investors 25% of net profits in dividend payments.
Taptica is optimistic about building on the momentum it saw in the first half of the year as it continues to liaison with “Tier 1 advertisers” against a backdrop of increased access to the internet, smartphones and video consumption. In its performance-based marketing business, the sales momentum of the first half of 2018 is expected to spill into the second half through the expansion of its international client base.
TAP has delivered significant growth in revenue, profits, and also paid a dividend. The company has also raised $30 million of equity to lower its debt and to better position itself for M&A opportunities and it has been “presented with acquisition opportunities of a larger magnitude than initially expected.”
With a consensus target price of 445p per share, the stock offers a considerable upside from the current 155p per share, though not without risk. Buying a company with a robust outlook at a cheap price always makes for a good investment thesis.
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No Tricks: Derren Brown's latest tour comes to Reading, but don't expect illusions and mind-reading
'It’s a very modern idea that we are entitled to be happy,': Derren Brown brings talk on happiness to Reading
By Louise Hill
THROW out the self-help books and stop thinking you’re the centre of the universe if you want to be happy, and remember “more or less everything is absolutely fine".
At least that’s according to illusionist Derren Brown who is embarking on a mission to debunk the myths around happiness that have filled the bookshelves of many an anxious person over the years.
Taking a stand against the multi-million pound business of ‘being happy’, the 45-year-old has spent the last three years researching what it is to be happy and why it is that we’re all obsessed with making sure we find it.
He’s come up with a, rather simple idea, that we all just need to stop trying so hard.
It is, Derren says, an incredibly modern phenomenon, not helped by the self-help ‘think positive’ brigade.
“It’s a very modern idea that we are entitled to be happy,” he says, explaining his research into the philosophy of the Stoics which formed the basis for much of what he speaks about in his new book, ‘Happy’.
“This idea that if you think positively that things will come to you, that you set goals and try to achieve them, is actually quite damaging. A lot of the way we are told you should be should be trying to achieve happiness just makes us more unhappy and more anxious about not being happy.”
After 16 years shocking audiences with his ‘mind-reading’ skills and big on-stage tricks, Derren is about to embark on a slightly more reflective tour, ‘No Tricks: An Evening with Derren Brown” speaking about happiness.
The talk comes to Reading’s Concert Hall on October 1, and while he doesn’t claim to know the secret to happiness, he does say realising there are some things in life that you can’t control, and stopping yourself from worrying about the bits that you can’t change, is a pretty good place to start.
So, is it the end of illusions and reading minds on stage after 16 years in the business? Derren isn’t too sure.
“As you get older you kind of want to do things that are useful and worth something to others,” he says.
“When you’re in your 20s you think about and who you are and things like that, so magic tricks and impressing people is important. This is probably a symbol of growing up, and I don’t know if things will continue going in that direction, it would be nice, though.”
The talk will be followed by a question and answer session where, he confirms, ‘nothing is off limits’.
No Tricks: An evening with Derren Brown comes to Reading Concert Hall this Saturday (Oct 1) from 7.30pm
Tickets £27, visit www.readingarts.com/concert-hall/whats-on/no-tricks
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Donald Trump Is Talking the Dollar - and the U.S. Economy - Into Decline
Have you ever noticed that old people tend to shrink during their golden years? It’s not so much that we’re growing in height as old people are losing theirs.
This physical truth is worth keeping in mind for readers interested in understanding movements of the euro in terms of the dollar. With 1 euro presently purchasing 1.13 dollars compared to 1.40 dollars a ways back, some are suggesting the dollar is very “strong.” Some are even saying that the U.S. economy is experiencing “deflation.” This view is particularly popular among supply-side thinkers who generally know better, and who plainly understand the parallel truth that our grandparents’ loss of height is not the same as our gain of it.
Applied to the dollar versus the euro, the dollar isn’t strong of late. It’s actually rather weak. The euro’s decline against the greenback masks this truth. Basically the dollar is less weak of late than the euro is, and because it’s less weak, it’s seen by some to be soaring. Supply siders who once again know better are wringing their hands over deflation. They should relax, and after relaxing, they should consult the price of gold.
Historically they’ve wisely used the price of gold to divine an objective market “opinion” as it were about the direction of the dollar. To paraphrase the classical economic thinkers whom supply siders have historically (and rather wisely) sided with, gold is the commodity least influenced by outside influences. Precisely because there’s so much gold stock versus new discoveries of the yellow metal, its price is impressively stable. It’s no mere coincidence that gold has historically been used to define money. Its stability in terms of value makes it uniquely suited for just that.
To see why gold is so stable, imagine selling a million shares of ExxonMobil. It seems like a lot, but you likely couldn’t move the share price of the global energy giant when it’s remembered that there are over 4 billion outstanding shares of XOM. With gold, big sales of the metal, and big discoveries of it, don’t much move its price when it’s remembered that just about every ounce of gold ever mined is still in existence. When gold moves, the latter is a sign of the value of the dollar moving, or euro, or any other currency one might want to measure in terms of the precious metal. Gold’s constancy is why it’s long been used as money, and also to define it.
Importantly, the price of gold is yet again telling us a different story about the value of the dollar. That gold is rising, which is a sign of the dollar weakening, is evidence of what’s long been true: U.S. presidents generally get the dollar they want.
In President Trump’s case, he complained last week that ECB President Mario Draghi’s announcement of more quantitative easing (QE) “immediately dropped the euro against the dollar, making it unfairly easier for them to compete against the USA.” Trump added that they “have been getting away with this for years, along with China and others.” In his veiled call for a weaker dollar Trump mis-spoke, and as the dollar’s decline indicates, his error-filled statement could have negative implications for the U.S. economy.
Up front, the sole purpose of money is to facilitate exchange of goods and services (trade), and to facilitate the allocation of goods and services toward future production (investment) with an eye on accessing goods and services in the future. Money is just a measure. It’s not supposed to rise or fall, and it’s not supposed "strengthen" with economic growth. Trump seems to believe the latter as it applies to China. China is growing, hence its currency should be rising in value. No.
In truth, growth is much greater the more stable the currency is. See the U.S. with its stable dollar from the late 18th century right up to 1900. With the dollar a fixed measure as roughly 1/20th of an ounce of gold, it served its essential purpose as a facilitator of trade and investment to the great benefit of the American people. Money is not a barometer, it’s just a measure that enables a great deal more trading and investing necessary for actual progress. Nothing else.
Back to Trump, he mis-spoke with his weird assertion that currency weakness powers growth. That’s an impossibility. The American people are the economy, they earn dollars, so you wouldn’t stimulate growth by eroding the value of their work through the tax that is currency devaluation. As for businesses, they earn dollars too. Plus everything they produce (good or service) is an effect of global cooperation. In that case, a currency devaluation raises the dollar cost of their production, thus depriving them of any competitive gains. What’s true for U.S. companies is true for those in Europe, China and anywhere else.
The truth about the dollar being down versus the euro, yuan, yen, Swiss franc, Canadian dollar, Aussie dollar, and just about every other global currency in the 21st century seems to elude Trump, which means it can’t concern him. In his world, it’s always the “others’ devaluing. That’s not true, nor is it true that devaluation confers a growth advantage on countries.
It doesn’t because investment is the driver of economic growth. Investment is the failure-laden act that enhances our ability to produce more and more with less and less. Precisely because it’s failure-laden, investing is expensive. Devaluation is a huge tax on what’s already expensive when it’s remembered that currency devaluation reduces any returns won by intrepid investors. Devaluation saps growth because it’s a tax on investment. Period.
All of this matters because President Trump’s calls for dollar weakness have picked up in the past week. While a dollar purchased 1/1200th of an ounce of gold when the 45th president entered office, it now purchases 1/1439th. The dollar is weaker, it’s weakening, and by extension the tax on investment without which there is no growth is rising.
Supply siders have long known the above truth. It’s central to the supply side view of the world. Yet much supply-side commentary at the moment is rooted in the falsehood that the dollar is too strong, that the Trump economy is being weakened by “deflation.” It’s quite the opposite. The gold signal long relied on by supply siders is flashing this truth brightly. Unknown is whether an important school of thought will ignore the gold signal to placate President Trump, or if the proponents of progress will alert Trump to the dollar weakness that has felled every presidency that's pursued it since 1971.
John Tamny is a speechwriter and writer of opinion pieces for clients, he's editor of RealClearMarkets, Director of the Center for Economic Freedom at FreedomWorks, and a senior economic adviser to Toreador Research and Trading (www.trtadvisors.com). His new book is The End of Work, about the exciting explosion of remunerative jobs that don't feel at all like work. He's also the author of Who Needs the Fed? and Popular Economics. He can be reached at jtamny@realclearmarkets.com.
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Marilyn A. Chan
Mar 30, 2009 at 2:00 AM Apr 14, 2011 at 11:59 PM
Formerly of Callicoon, NY
Marilyn A. Chan, 75, of Oxford, NY, passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by her family on Saturday, March 28, 2009. She is now with God in Heaven.
She was born September 16, 1933 in Callicoon, NY, the daughter of the late George and Anna (Wagner) Dill. On October 22, 1952 she married Lewis A. Chan, whom she met while attending St. Peter's Hospital School of Nursing in New Jersey. He passed away in 1984.
She is survived by her children: Michael Chan of Saratoga, NY, Debra and David Carnachan of Norwich, NY, Linda and Chet Hobby of Hurleyville, NY, Marilyn and Mark Roach of Oxford, NY and Tim Chan of Norwich, NY; nine grandchildren: Christopher, Jennifer, Amanda, Katlyn, Megan, Eric, Jessica, Chelsea and Mathew; seven great-grandchildren: Quincy, Sophie, Brianna, Mackenzie, Kelsie and twins, Michael and Mikayla; her sister, Jeanne Depuy of Woodbourne, NY; several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her brother, William Dill.
She lived in several areas before settling in Norwich, NY in 1961. She worked at Chenango Memorial Hospital for 35 years on the Maternity Ward. We often kidded Mom that she was the "baby nurse" for half of Chenango County. It would not be unusual to be at the store with Mom and have someone come up to her and start showing pictures of a baby she had taken care of.
Mom, a true NY Giants football and Syracuse basketball fan also enjoyed camping, reading and crossword puzzles. Mostly Moms loved her family. She was the greatest wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was a member of St. Paul's Catholic Church in Norwich and later St. Joseph's Catholic Church when she moved to Oxford.
Mom was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2005 and fought a long, courageous battle. At the end, if Mom could have, she would have thanked Linda Hesse, Dr. Karen Banks and Karen Delmonico for helping to meet her last wishes.
A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, April 1, at 11 a.m., at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Oxford, NY. Burial will be in St. Paul's Cemetery, Norwich.
Friends may call at the Behe Funeral Home, 21 Main St., Oxford, NY (607-843-6888) on Tuesday, March 31, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Chenango County, 21 Hayes St., Norwich, NY 13815 or the American Cancer Society.
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Sooni Taraporevala
4 March 2017 to 1 January 2018
The Whitworth Art Gallery,
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Photographer, screenwriter, filmmaker Sooni Taraporevala will present a series of black and white photographs depicting life in Bombay/Mumbai from 1976 to the present day. Capturing the city in which she grew up, Taraporevala’s images, cutting across class and community lines, are an insider’s affectionate view. The images, complex and intimate, quirky and quotidian, celebrate the odd and the everyday and are a significant contribution to the social history of one of India’s most diverse cities. Exploring a metropolis as its shape shifted over four decades, these works are personal documents of the city’s eccentrics, its children, its elderly, its landscape: a gentle mirror to culture and politics, with the secret sideways glance of a flaneur.
Photo Credit: © Sooni Taraporevala, Salim and Tukloo, Bombay 1987
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Ioana Moldovan
Ioana holds an MA in English, German, and film studies in Romania and Germany. A natural people’s person, film enthusiast, Balkans and Berlin addict, she is happy to combine these passions in any way possible. When she is not writing for Romania-Insider.com she works for international film festivals and (ideally) travels a lot. Email: [email protected]
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Romanian film review – Way of the drugs: The Network
A documentary on cancer treatment may not be your first choice for an evening at the movies. Still, it should be, because Claudiu Mitcu's Rețeaua/The Network is an eye-opening look at a largely unknown medical and human drama. Having had its premiere in June at Transilvania International Film Festival, The Network is currently screened at Elvira Popescu cinema (77 Dacia Blvd.) and today's show at 7pm is not only free, but also in the presence of the director and his crew.
In Romania, cancer patients have limited or no access to proper medication for treating cancer, the so-called cytostatic drugs, being sentenced to an almost-certain death if their treatment is incomplete or done with a delay in medication. In the past decade, the only way to get these drugs has been through the so-called “cytostatic network“: its members based in Western Europe or travelling there would buy the medicine and bring or send it back to Romania with the help of acquaintances, relatives or friends. The network is supposed to have approximately 250 members at the moment while the value of the acquired pills reaches 60,000 euros. The most remarkable thing about the network is that none of its members make a profit by transporting the drugs; in many cases the persons in the west cover the costs themselves. Since transporting drugs for the personal use is allowed, it is also a fairly 'legal' affair.
Based on an investigation by HotNews journalist Vlad Mixich, Mitcu's documentary follows the way of the cytostatics from pharmacies in Vienna and Hungary to their patients in Romania, focusing on a few of the people involved in the 'traffic', from 'transporters' to cancer patients.
As it is often the case with documentaries and especially with such an emotionally explosive topic, the theme overshadows the form and The Network will be mostly judged by its content and less by its cinematic achievements, a reaction clearly noticeable at the film's TIFF premiere. Which is to the film's benefit, however, since it does a fine job at portraying the people and social and moral aspects involved, and especially a brave one (to my knowledge the issue hasn't been tackled before on film), but as a documentary it is not particularly innovative despite some interesting aesthetic choices. Overall it is a moving, gripping tale but such a slight running time (approximately 60 minutes) can only cover some of the problem's implications and history. A more encompassing approach, both on a personal and a state level, would be very welcome as well.
Earnest, empathetic and most of all necessary, The Network deserves a large audience and most of all a serious impact. Ideally it should be a catalyst for a public discussion on the matter and a change in the medical system but while the latter is certainly a more challenging affair, the former is not impossible. And desperately needed.
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How to get from São Tomé and Príncipe to Porto Alegre by plane or bus
There are 2 ways to get from São Tomé and Príncipe to Porto Alegre by plane or bus
Fly to Porto Alegre • 20h 27m
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What is the cheapest way to get from São Tomé and Príncipe to Porto Alegre?
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What is the fastest way to get from São Tomé and Príncipe to Porto Alegre?
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There is no direct flight from Sao Tome Airport to Porto Alegre Airport. The quickest flight takes 26h and has two stopovers.
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Porto Alegre is 4h behind São Tomé and Príncipe. It is currently 3:26 AM in São Tomé and Príncipe and 11:26 PM in Porto Alegre.
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Distance: 4403 miles
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What companies run services between São Tomé and Príncipe and Porto Alegre, Brazil?
TAAG Angola Airlines, Gol Transportes Aéreos and two other airlines fly from Boa Morte to Porto Alegre 3 times a day.
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Who Will Be Debating At The First 2020 Democratic Debates? A Breakdown Of The Jam-Packed Events
By Gillian Walters
As the next presidential race inches closer, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) will hold the first 2020 Democratic debates on Wednesday, June 26, and Thursday, June 27. The DNC presumably had to split the event into two parts due to the large number of contenders vying to become America's next president. Although some presidential hopefuls were left out of the crowded debates, there are still plenty of candidates slated to participate, which is why you might find this breakdown about who's debating at the Democratic debates each night useful.
At the time of this writing, 24 Democrats are running for president, according to CNN. The latest hopefuls to join the race are former Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, according to HuffPost.
I have no background in event organization or anything like that, but I think it's safe to say it was a tad difficult for the DNC to organize the first 2020 Democratic debates given the wide pool of candidates. But in the end, the DNC was able to figure it all out by splitting the event into two parts — one on Wednesday, June 26, and the other on Thursday, June 27, according to The New York Times. The debates will be broadcast from Miami, Florida from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET on both nights, according to CBS News.
On June 26, according to Vox, the debating candidates are:
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke
New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee
Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro
Hawaii Rep Tulsi Gabbard
Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan
Former Maryland Rep. John Delaney
And on June 27, according to NBC News, the debating candidates are:
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
California Sen. Kamala Harris
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet
Author Marianne Williamson
California Rep. Eric Swalwell
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper
So, how were the lineups chosen? Was it at random or planned out? As it turns out, the DNC and NBC News — the hosts of the debates — held a "random selection" in New York City to create the lineups. "NBC News executives and producers drew names from a set of two boxes to determine the two groups — one dubbed 'purple' and the other 'orange'— before deciding which group would debate first," BuzzFeed News reported.
As for the format of the evening, "candidates will be allowed one-minute answers, 30-second follow-ups, closing statements, and responses to other candidates based on the moderators’ discretion, according to campaign operatives briefed on debate planning," BuzzFeed News noted.
As CBS News reported on Monday, four Democratic candidates won't be able to participate in the debates because they failed to receive at least 1 percent support in three qualifying polls or didn't rack up 65,000 unique donors by June 12, according to The New York Times.
Even though some contenders didn't make the cut, the first Democratic 2020 debates on Wednesday, June 26, and Thursday, June 27, are shaping up to be jam-packed events.
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Brexit Deal Series: Ireland’s Great Brexit Achievement – and Challenges Ahead
Paul McGrade | 16 November 2018
© 2018 European Union
A few months after the UK’s vote to leave the EU, the then Irish Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, gave a speech to policy makers in which he described the Brexit talks as: “[the] most important negotiations in our history as an independent state”.
On any objective view, the draft Withdrawal Agreement is a triumphant conclusion to those negotiations, and a vindication of the big strategic calls which both Enda Kenny and his successor, Leo Varadkar, have made on the conditions for agreeing an exit deal and transition period for the UK.
But political dysfunction in London still poses risks to both the Irish economy and to political stability on the island. Even if the UK implements the deal in good faith, the Irish government faces the future without a committed, engaged partner on Northern Ireland, and needing to find ways to reassure unionists, not least on how Dublin can help Northern Ireland effectively implement a consultative role on future EU laws without stoking unionist fears to boiling point should the backstop ever be triggered.
Given the risks, the mood in Ireland, not just in government circles but across the country, is of profound relief. The feeling that it could have been so much worse reaches far beyond those who routinely follow the news. The UK might have succeeded in pushing the Irish border issue into the future, even while potential successors to Mrs May are competing to denounce a long-term customs union with the EU. European partners might not have shown such solidarity to Ireland – though some in government circles are still crossing their fingers until we see if the EU’s commitment survives even a short-term ‘no deal’ test. Or the Irish might have had to choose between the political safeguards for the Irish border and wider East-West trade links.
In fact, the Irish government have secured all of their principal negotiating aims. Tactically, the Taoiseach and the Foreign Minister and Tánaiste (deputy Prime Minister) Simon Coveney are conscious of the need to avoid triumphalism and to reach out to Unionists and other Northern Ireland parties. Varadkar began to do that today – though the main Unionist parties declined his offer. But the mood is jubilant.
Why is the deal so good for Ireland?
There are three successes. Firstly, a political gain. The comprehensive, ‘all-weather’ Northern Ireland backstop which the Irish government sought has been achieved. If a future deal does not deliver ‘frictionless’ trade between the UK and the EU then, if all else fails, Northern Ireland will stay in the EU customs union (fully applying the Union customs code) and effectively in the single market for goods, sufficient to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland. That takes some of the heat off demands for a ‘border poll’, which would inevitably be accompanied by political instability in the North, perhaps even violence.
Detailed preparations for Irish unity would be a huge, energy consuming effort for the Irish government. Divisive too. Just as Ireland completes its transition to a liberal, tolerant society (as big majorities of voters now see it), unification would risk drawing them back into zero-sum questions of identity, integrating a more socially conservative population. Quietly, many Irish voters however unfairly, see the North as a distorted reflection of their own recent past – socially repressive, authoritarian, uncompromising – and therefore a potential threat to cementing Ireland’s place as a liberal beacon in Europe and the world, which is deeply attractive to many of the voters fine Gael want to target. Varadkar is the first Irish Taoiseach to talk unselfconsciously about ‘Ireland’ and ‘Northern Ireland’, reflecting that reality.
That doesn’t mean that the Irish government don’t want unity, or wont prepare for it seriously. But they want to be in control of the process, and for Fine Gael to do so from a position of domestic credibility as defenders of Irish priorities, north and south. The backstop success gives Varadkar that breathing space, and essentially a fresh mandate to lead that work.
There’s a domestic political gain, too. Varadkar has shown that the Irish government are the most effective defenders of Irish citizens in the North, undermining the claims of both the main opposition Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin. Varadkar’s Fine Gael party would hate to have to choose between losing office and coalition with Sinn Féin after the next election. They are now in a stronger position to avoid that risk.
Secondly, an economic gain. The UK’s successful push to stay in a customs union until a future deal is negotiated, with the option of simply extending the standstill transition period (in which nothing changes in the UK’s implementation of EU law), keeps East-West trade links open as now. These are vital to Ireland’s economy. Key sectors, such as agri-food, depend on direct sales to the UK market. The land bridge to the Continent through the UK is also vital for Irish exports and imports. Ireland is one of the world’s biggest hosts of pharmaceutical companies. But manufacture in Ireland of time-sensitive medicines would be impractical on a large-scale if they could not be exported to France and Germany on predictable timescales, free of customs queues at Dover.
Thirdly, Ireland’s strategic choice to go with the EU wholeheartedly, as against its UK ties, has been vindicated by the support from the rest of the 27. It was a choice which Ireland hoped never to have to make, much as the UK, until Brexit and Trump, sought to be a bridge across the Atlantic, leveraging each relationship to get more from the other. Ireland made its choice, and has helped reinvigorate the EU’s reputation as a very good home for smaller states, after the battering of the Eurozone crisis.
The longer-term challenges are momentous
The gains are mirrored, however, by three big challenges in the new strategic landscape.
To secure stability in Northern Ireland longer-term, the Irish government will need to rebuild confidence among unionists, who have described the backstop in near apocalyptic terms, for them akin to the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, which brought 100,000 unionist protesters onto the streets of Belfast. Let’s take one example. If the backstop is ever triggered, Northern Ireland will be subject to single market and customs rules made in Brussels, over which the ‘parent’ state, the UK, will have had no say, and certainly no vote. The withdrawal agreement recognises the genuine democratic deficit this would create and makes provision for Northern Ireland to be consulted on future EU legislation, including trade deals.
Ireland has a delicate role to play here. the Irish government will need to be available for the Belfast institutions (if they are sitting) to consult, but will have to avoid the optics of, for example, non-unionist parties talking to Dublin regularly about upcoming legislation while unionists refuse to act through any other than formal channels, preferably with UK government representatives in the room. It is just such an imbalance of access to government in the DUP confidence and supply agreement which has increased suspicions among nationalists in the north that the DUP “wants” a hard border. Some mechanism through the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement structures could also be useful, and Dublin may have to reassure other EU partners, particularly in Paris, that consultation is not simply a Trojan horse for UK Ministries to undermine the autonomy of the EU’s decision-making.
That calls for a renewed partnership UK-Ireland partnership both over helping manage instability in the North and future EU legislation. Senior Irish officials are used to having commensurate access at the highest levels of the British system, and of serious engagement. Will that be on offer? Even if the will is there in London, when will there be enough ministerial and official bandwidth to devote time to Ireland again? And how easy will it be to overcome suspicions about the cynical use of Northern Ireland to advance UK-wide interests with the EU, which the Brexit talks have stoked?
Finally, having made its choice for the EU, Ireland will find itself without UK cover in Brussels when painful proposals on tax, financial services, and trade come back again under the next Commission. British willingness to challenge protectionist measure will be missed as will, despite all Ireland’s frustrations with politics in London, UKRep’s excellence in playing the Brussels game. Can new alliances be as effective? will a price eventually be extracted – literally, as far as tax receipts go – for EU solidarity with Ireland over Brexit? Is there, however distantly, a path back into the EU for the UK, and should that now, quietly, become a strategic aim of Irish diplomacy?
The withdrawal agreement is a triumph for Irish strategic prioritisation, willingness to take diplomatic risks, and focus across government. The same qualities will need to be sustained long-term to face the even greater challenges ahead.
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MLB: Scherzer, Nats finalize $210M deal
WASHINGTON — Forgive Washington Nationals owner Mark Lerner if he got swept up in the scene.
Speaking after a news conference Wednesday to announce the addition — via a $210 million, seven-year contract — of 2013 AL Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer, Lerner was thinking big thoughts. After all, the club's starting rotation, at least for the moment, also includes Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmermann, Doug Fister and Gio Gonzalez.
"If they all stay healthy," began Lerner, whose father, Ted, is the team's principal owner, "I guess it's a possibility we may give up the fewest runs in National League history during a 162-game schedule, which is amazing."
Let the speculation begin, then.
Who will start on opening day, an honor that's gone to Strasburg the past three years? How good could this staff be?
As it is, in 2014, Washington's starters led the majors with a 3.04 ERA.
How far can those pitchers take the Nationals, who won the NL East in 2012 and again last season before bowing out in Washington's opening playoff series each time?
And, perhaps most intriguingly, will general manager Mike Rizzo keep that group intact? Or will he wind up trading someone, perhaps Zimmermann or Fister, who can both become free agents after next season?
Until those last two questions are answered, Rizzo certainly shares Lerner's enthusiasm for the current collection of arms.
"We'll stack our rotation up with anybody's in our division, our league and maybe in baseball," Rizzo said, "and compete against them."
Of course, things don't always shape up on the field the way they do during the offseason.
The terrific Atlanta Braves group that included three Hall of Famers in Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz wound up with only one World Series championship. That's one more than the Philadelphia Phillies won after assembling Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels and Roy Oswalt.
Still, if that's the discussion connected to the Nationals now, it represents a sea change from where this franchise stood a half-dozen years ago.
It was noteworthy to hear the word "winning" over and over Wednesday at Nationals Park, where the scoreboard displayed a "Welcome to D.C." greeting for Scherzer and his wife, and the diamond was covered by the afternoon's dusting of snow.
This is a club that lost 100 games in both 2008 and 2009 and found it difficult to attract top talent in free agency, but the perception has changed.
"There's no doubt about it," Rizzo said. "We've got a lot of good baseball people around here. We've got a lot of good professionals. The selling portion of it from five years ago to today is night and day. We certainly have no problem with players wanting to be Washington Nationals."
Asked what were the reasons that led him to sign with Washington, Scherzer replied, "One: winning. I think this team is capable of winning and winning a lot. When you look at the near term and long term, this is an organization you want to be a part of."
The size of the contract probably didn't hurt, either.
The 30-year-old Scherzer, who became a free agent after spending the past five seasons with the Detroit Tigers, received the most guaranteed dollars for a right-handed pitcher in big league history.
"I don't play this game for money," said Scherzer, who was 18-5 with a 3.15 ERA in 2014, a year after going 21-3 with a 2.90 ERA, "but yet at the same time, when you have an offer like that, it just makes you go, 'Wow.'"
The deal includes a record $50 million signing bonus and spreads the total payments over 14 years, reducing the present-day value and making it palatable for the Nationals.
"If that didn't happen, there wouldn't have been a deal," Mark Lerner said. "We had to make it work for us financially. It was really my father and Mike coming up with a creative deal."
Scherzer gets a record $50 million signing bonus, of which $5 million is due this year and $15 million each in 2019, 2020 and 2021. The money is due in 12 equal semimonthly installments in those years from April through September.
He receives salaries of $10 million this year, $15 million in each of the next three seasons and $35 million in each of the final three years. The $105 million due in the final three years will be deferred without interest and paid in $15 million installments each July 1 from 2022 through 2028.
The structure is designed to pay him $15 million annually for 14 years and shield much of the money from District of Columbia income tax.
Scherzer would get a $500,000 bonus each time he wins an MVP award, $250,000 for finishing second, $150,000 for third, $100,000 for fourth and $75,000 for fifth. He would earn similar bonuses for Cy Young finishes.
He would receive $250,000 if he is World Series MVP, $150,000 for League Championship Series MVP and $100,000 for making the All-Star game, winning a Gold Glove and winning a Silver Slugger. He also gets a hotel suite on road trips.
Lerner joked about Scherzer: "I want to ask him for a loan."
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The Isle of Purbeck - Worth Matravers
To be frank, Worth Matravers is not what it was..... but what's new? I have known the village for over half a century, and have returned again and again, not because of any links with the inhabitants, but because of its feel, its location, my own memories, and, perhaps, its pub. As a child I played in the duckpond, having water fights with other children staying, or living, here. We walked down to Winspit, wary of the cows, frightened of the dark recesses of the quarries, and terrified of the slippery rocks and sucking waters. We spent our days on Studland beach, where the wind whipped sand into the sandwiches while the commandoes practised with their landing craft.
Even fifty years ago, although there was still a great deal of quarrying and masonry in the area, Worth had probably already lost its identity. It was, and is, a characterful and harmonious village; its position within sight of the Channel, within touch of strip lynchets, the terraces of early man's agriculture, is both elevating and intimate. Now the lynch pins of the community, since the demise of the post office and village shop, are the Church of St Nicholas and the Square and Compass pub, defended by the same family (the Newmans) for well over a century, and defiant in its absolutely immaculate old world charm. But no one quite knows how many houses are second homes, and certainly visitors outnumber residents throughout the summer (?) months.
The best reason to visit however is that from the car park you can take a number of walks which either take you onto the Jurassic Coast, literally in the foot steps of the dinosaurs, or across the Isle of Purbeck to the ruins of Corfe Castle, or to the sunny charms of seaside Swanage.
If you are a calloused and heavy duty walker, you probably arrive here towards the end of six weeks on the South Coast Path, but if you have not yet taken the luxury of early retirement you may be here for just a day or less. So you need to venture out to St Alban's (aka St Aldhelm's) Head, past, or via if you have enough time and energy, Chapman's Pool, a horseshoe bay that would not look out of place on a Falkland Isle or perhaps in the Orkneys. Seaweed and flat grey shingle abound here, and a few rusty corrugated iron shacks house fishing gear and secrets that it may be best not to know.
Walking here brings you close to the edge, literally, and exposed to the weather. Most likely there will be a wind blowing off the sea, and quite possibly there will be mist or cloud or rain. The dry stone walls offer little shelter, though sheep find them comforting when the squalls go mad, and local masons have recently added embellishments which recognise the elements.
There are views along the Jurassic coast, looking West towards Devon and East to Durlston Head. The rock in some spots is hard and valuable purbeck stone, durable limestone that was used to fortify this coast in the Napoleonic Wars, but has also been used for churches, bridges, scultpures and was also prized for Palladian Villas and city palaces up and down the land. At other points the cliffs are crumbly and insecure, and rockfalls and mudslides are not uncommon. In fact, on July 25th this year a 20-metre stretch of the south-west coast path gave way and an estimated 400 tonnes of mud and rock fell from the top of the cliff on to the beach at Burton Bradstock, killing 22 year old Charlotte Blackman.
Even if the visibility is not great, the feeling of remoteness is strong and this perhaps works magic with the fossil finds that have been made along here, with ammonites and trilobites as common as garden snails, but traces of dinosaurs not being that rare.
The path dips and rises in a steeply stepped declivity, and then at 108 metres above sea level you come to a row of ex-coastguard cottages (now holiday lets) and the tiny (7.77m square), ancient St Aldhelm's Chapel. When I first came here, it was dank and rank and had not been cared for for some time, but now there are regular services and a new Altar table, fashioned from local stone, was consecrated by Rowan Williams in July 2005 as part of the 1300th anniversary celebrations of the first Bishop of Sherborne, St Aldhelm, to whom the chapel is dedicated. (In a corrupted version he also gave his name to the area, as St Alban's Head is derived from St Aldhelm.) The existing structure is at least 800 years old, and may well have been built on an older religious site, though there is still some mystery about why a chapel was put in such an inhospitable place, and one theory is that it was used as a landmark for sailors, and had a beacon on the roof where there is now a cross.
Inside St Aldhelm's Chapel
Also on this headland there is what would seem to be a CoastGuard station, though it is in fact run by the National Coastwatch Institution (NCI http://www.nci.org.uk/) an entirely voluntary organisation keeping a visual watch along UK shores. They currently have 46 stations and each one assists in the protection and preservation of life at sea and around the UK coastline.
And within a few paces of this, is a memorial to the wartime radar research scientists with a plaque which Sir Bernard Lovell (who died this week aged 98) unveiled on October 27th 2001, "in the presence of Dr. Bill Penley and the veteran scientists who worked here during the war."
From here the coastal path gently slips down towards Winspit, close to the edge, and patrolled by gulls. Then suddenly a great shape looms up and blocks the sun for a moment - an eagel? A roc? The gulls are furious and I grab for my camera. No time to fit a telephoto lens I fire at the shape as it glides past. What was it? The standard lens seems to hold no clue, But, with the miracle of modern digital technology, we can actually see the brute: a Great Skua.
On the shore side there plenty of other birds, and skylarks twitter at me tempting my digital expertise, so here's one I caught with a beakful!
In the meantime, the humble Dunnock poses quite nicely for me, fluffing a little in the wind:
Another natural pleasure here lies in the proliferation of wild flowers. Some of the land is owned by the National Trust, who have carefully controlled the grazing to enable native species to thrive.
Winspit Quarries, on the Jurassic Coast
The water at Winspit
This rocky and inhospitable cove was once busy with quarry work and I can remember blasting when I was a kid. Now the workings are left to incautious wild campers and the erosions of time. But the rocks and the water continue their symphony in the endless ebb and flow of land and sea, swishing and sucking and splashing and smacking in a mesmerising antidote to the motorways and offices of our daily bread.
The Square and Compass pub
Worth Matravers
When my family first came to Worth Matravers for a summer holiday (we stayed in Gulliver's Cottage, just by the duck pond) over half a century ago my parents would occasionally slip up to the pub. In those days children never entered, so many years passed before I got inside, but one of the great things is that really nothing much has changed. One well known habitue of this inn was the painter Augustus John, who first frequented it before the First World War, but who was still around into the second half of the twentieth century (he died on October 31st 1961) and who may well have been there when I was a boy and who would still feel at home if he were to wander back.
My dad was here before being posted to North Africa in 1943, as RAF Worth Matravers was a centre of radar research (as commemorated at St Albans Head) as he specialised in radar in the RAF in the Egypt and then Italy through 1944 and 1945, so he came here for briefing. The sign for RAF Worth Matravers now hangs in the pub, but it's too late to reminisce with my dad.
Apart from the addition of the fossil museum, the pub still operates from a hatch and has two rooms. Beer, and cider, is dispensed by gravity, the only food served is pie or pasty, and there is a long tradition of folk music performances. It can be busy at times, with quite a lot of children, but there is also an ongoing Augustus John lookalike competition amongst local moustache wearers, and in the quieter hours it is timeless and peaceful - a place for contemplation and the near forgotten art of conversation.
Tuesday, 31 July 2012 21:00 - 23:00
Tom Hitching and Greg Bartley (here seen at sound check!)
As I said, Worth Matravers is not what it was. It might have been at its very best about 180 million years ago when peace-loving dinosaurs picknicked on the unspoilt coastline, or nestled in the folds of Seacombe bottom. But then Worth Matravers is actually what it is, which is a place of harmony between man and the environment, where stone has been cut from the ground and piled into attractive and purposeful buildings, where walls protect and shelter animal and plant life, and where the casual visitor can exercise in the freshest of air and then rest and socialise in a near perfect public house, well worth the designation "World Heritage Site!"
http://www.squareandcompasspub.co.uk/
Labels: Augustus John, Corfe Castle, Dorset, Isle of Purbeck, Jurassic Coast, Purbeck Radar Museum Trust, Sir Bernard Lovell, Square and Compass, St Aldhelm's, Swanage, Winspit, World Heritage Site, Worth Matravers
Location: Worth Matravers, Dorset BH19, UK
My Sunday in a picture
Page 40, The New Review, The Observer, Sunday August 5th 2012
The original picture (compressed)
Labels: St Albans Abbey, The Observer
Location: 1 Dean Moore Close, Saint Albans, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL1 1DW, UK
Blakeney and the Norfolk Coast Path
It is exactly 100 years since the National Trust acquired Blakeney Point and established Norfolk’s first nature reserve. This Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty has something for everyone.
Peter expertly pilots his clinker-built craft close to the shore of Blakeney Point. Young pups swim around us, watching us with their deep eyes, while their parents laze on the sand, smiling for the cameras. A little way away a gang of teenage seals, common and grey, hang out by the water’s edge, as teenagers do. Peter, born and bred in Blakeney, points out courting Sandwich Terns, and Little Terns that plunge from flight to catch sand eels.
Seal-spotting and bird watching are two of the great attractions in this National Nature Reserve, which celebrates its hundredth anniversary with the “Tidal Lands” exhibition in Blakeney Village Hall from August 18th this year. The Reserve, managed by the National Trust, covers some 1000 hectares including the four mile long shingle spit of Blakeney Point, freshwater marshes by the river Glaven near the village of Cley, and saltmarshes carpeted with common seablite, samphire and sea lavender. There are also extensive mudflats at low tide and dunes held together by marram grass, where colonies of Terns nest and Oyster Catchers, Ringed Plovers and Redshanks strut to feed.
Along the Norfolk Coastal Path, which runs through Blakeney for forty-six miles from Hunstanton to Cromer, Linnets and Yellowhammers frequent the gorse, and Skylarks fly high above the grasses. Flocks of Brent Geese winter here, and Cormorants can be seen fishing in the tidal creeks.
Although Blakeney’s heyday was in the seventeenth century, when it rivalled King’s Lynn as a port, it was still a busy harbour until a hundred years ago. A Lifeboat Station was built on the point in 1898, but it was decommissioned in 1935 when silting and longshore drift finally put an end to its viability. The building now houses the National Trust information centre and provides accommodation for the wardens. At high tide it is a laborious walk to the point on the shingle, but at low tide vast areas of hard sand are exposed and in fine weather you can imagine you are Robinson Crusoe on a deserted coast.
Blakeney is home to about eight hundred people, though that number must double in the summer and probably quadruples on a sunny day, when children splash in the creek or fish for crabs from the quay. There are two major hotels and two pubs, the Kings Arms, a traditional inn with showbiz connections through hostess Marjorie Davies and her late husband Howard, and the White Horse, where Francis and Sarah Guildea have introduced a twenty-first century touch to local ingredients.
Although walking is a great way to see the area, the Coasthopper bus service can take the pain out of the return journey, with services every half an hour in summer between Wells and Cromer. However the easiest way to admire the coast is from a boat. Look out for Peter from Bishop’s Boats; he will introduce you to this spectacular world!
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/blakeney/things-to-see-and-do/events/
Labels: Atlantic seals, Bishop's Boats, Blakeney, Blakeney Point, Cley, common seals, Norfolk Coast Path, Peddars Way, saltmarshes, samphire, Stiffkey Marshes, Terns, The King's Arms, The White Horse, Wells-next-the-sea
Location: The Quay, Blakeney, Norfolk NR25, UK
Stalking Virg Clenthills Blues
HOE DOWN in Snowdonia
In a marquee in Snowdonia, Richard Gibbs catches up with country music “legend” Virgil Clenthills III, alter ego of Gareth Owen, poet, novelist and former presenter of BBC Radio 4’s “Poetry Please”…..
The sun is sinking, like a plum in an oil slick. Canvas flaps, earth and crushed grass churn underfoot. Hilary greets us as we slip into the warmth of her marquee, steel pegs and raw sisal upholding the peace. Outside the sun goes on sinking, while the river shivers on into the sea, past darkening trees and strands of salt marsh. Inside we are cheered with fizzy wine and propelled into a barn dance.
It’s a well drilled melee: the caller expertly corralling the herd: Penny swings with actor John; Lucia does the doz-e-doh with a slender man in a black Stetson – could it be Virgil Clenthills III? The sheep-shorn beard, the crushed lilac top, the yellowing cowboy boots – this had to be the country legend, the one, the only, the man of whom it was once said, “‘If you've ever woken up with a broken heart in one hand and an empty bourbon bottle in the other - Virg is singing just for you.” My wife pretends to swoon; I pretend to catch her. The author of “A Song for Hank Williams,” is just a step away.
Virgil Clenthills swears he was born in August 1939 in Intercourse, Missouri, son of an illegal English immigrant and half Shoshone Virginia Mae Pluckett who then orphaned him at the age of five with a Packard. But really Virg was created by Gareth Owen at 70, in Ludlow.
As Virg recalls, he launched his “World Tour of Ludlow, Presteigne, Ross and B’ham,” in 2010 to avoid the limelight, and tonight we find him in Bontddu, in the Snowdonia National Park, on The Dolgellau to Barmouth Mawddach Trail. Now, as the sheep draw near, bleating like Tennessee crickets, Virg sets up his keyboard and exposes his country veins, lurching into “Stone Drunk Again” with barely a glance at the words.
Then, as the Welsh Whisky flows, we join in the chorus of “Happy with That,” a classic tale of degeneracy and domestic discord on a run-down Kentucky homestead.
Later, we cross the creaking bridge back to the George III Hotel at Penmaenpool, the moon above like a pearl set on black satin, singing:
“Yes I once met a man
Who talked with a man
Who saw Jesse James riding by….”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfNqVuIGNPk
Entered for the Guardian Travel Writing Competition, 2012, An Encounter category - not even a runner up..... Probably classed as more hip-replacement than hip!
Labels: A Song for Hank Williams, Barmouth, Bontddu, Dolgellau, Gareth Owen, George III Hotel, Mawddach Trail, Penmaenpool, Poetry Please, Snowdonia, Virgil Clenthills III
Location: Bontddu, Gwynedd LL40, UK
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Onboard a Porsche, all drives go well
Events RoadStr News
We take a tour of the North Sierra of Madrid with 1,642 HP
Reposted Courtesy of espíritu RACER (RS: @espirituracer)
Written By: Javier Costas (RS: @javiercostas)
Photos By: Ivan Santamaria (RS: @gasandroads)
Driving a Porsche is always a special occasion, no matter what model it is, from the Cayenne Diesel to the 911 GT3 RS. It shows that there is something different in the mentality of this brand. It’s the dream of an engineer, Ferdinand Porsche, that continues in the family to this day. For its entire existence, Porsche has been building sportscars, even though lately it’s a manufacturer of sporty SUVs. But it continues being the best at it.
I will never forget when I drove my first Porsche, a Boxster S (986), which coincided with my first press release, back in December 2004. Even though I recorded everything on video with my old Video8 and took many photos, I still have it imprinted in my memory as if it were yesterday. The purr of that six-cylinder engine is saved in my mind like a first kiss or first vacation with friends (and without parents).
And such a pleasant experience is always capable of repeating itself. Last weekend we went on a drive with five Porsches from different eras, all cars with a lot of RACER spirit, through one of the best areas to drive within the Community of Madrid. The middle-of-nowhere Madrid has some scandalous roads, barely traveled, with landscapes that haven’t been spoiled by urbanization, excessive traffic, advertisements, or a culture of haste. On top of that, everything smells like childhood, as I’m a native of the area.
We met at a gas station north of the capital. When I arrived there was already a 1986 911 Carrera 3.2, a 911 Carrera 4S (997), a Panamera Turbo (970) and a 911 Carrera 4 (964) parked there. We only had to wait for a 718 Cayman (982) to go for a ride. In a sense it was like a blind date. We did a meetup with an app, but it was not Tinder. Well, almost.
The love for cars is one of the most expensive loves there is, and from time to time petrolheads want to meet with others like us, more than anything else so that they understand us. With this idea the RoadStr community was born, used exclusively on Android or iPhone smartphones. The forums have been around forever, including the IRC chats which for many is out of style, as other modern forms have arrived.
An event with a date, time, a marked route, and a “restriction” (for only Porsche) was the only thing that brought us all together. Once we all arrived, we got into the cars and left towards the north, with a few kilometers of highway to heat up our machines and oil. I was in the Carrera 4S. It immediately brought back memories of another press event in 2006, that of the Cayman. When a truck had had an accident with several test vehicles, they brought several 911s “to compensate”, and I managed to get a 911 Carrera 4S Cabrio. One of the best experiences of my life.
This car is well cared for, with little more than 100,000 kilometers, all original, maintained by Porsche service centers, and not a single scratch. Enrique, its owner, takes meticulous care of it. There are many others like him, which is why more than 70% of the 911s that have been produced still circulate, and are usually in an enviable state of conservation. Only the interior and a couple of screens betray that it’s a car with 13 years, otherwise it has lost none of its appeal, and it’s 355 hp are still impressive even compared to the turbos and extra goodies of other vehicles.
In a world where the 2-liter four-cylinder can get more than 300 hp, the 3.8 boxer with six cylinders asserts its authority when it accelerates, although the Tiptronic shift slightly spoils the feeling. It is full of strength and has a unique sound. Although Subaru also makes boxer motors, the sensation is completely different. It’s not the same have everything at the rear with a short exhaust pipe. It all counts.
We switch on the controlled suspension (PASM) and the Sport Chrono package. This car was bought with very specific intentions. We exit the highway on highway M-129 towards El Vellón. Once in the town, we head towards the M-122 and on to the N-320 road. The curves begin. The 911 was born to take on curves. The 911 Carrera 4S is noble in all moments, as if it’s making a show of its constant superiority, like someone who controls all situations, like the hero of a Japanese comic.
We passed by many motorcycles (almost all of them sport bikes or sport turismo). In those parts, you drive more for pleasure than for necessity. Bear in mind that there are very few people living in the North Sierra. Almost everyone would fit into a football stadium, even less than the Bernabéu or the Nou Camp stadiums. A little more than 25,000 people live in roughly 1,250 square kilometers.
The 911 traces the curves as if it were new. Ahead is the old Carrera 3.2, which despite its 30 years of age is in excellent shape. Although they have a slightly negative reputation as a difficult-to-drive car, its owner’s hands always keep it on its path, without any interference, like an arrow shot by a bow, true to his wishes.
We take the N-320 for a few kilometers, a bridge route if you want to call it that. A straight line where the “caravan” had to overtake two or three cars, no more. We quickly reached the M-120, headed towards Valdepiélagos, and after going through the town we continued onto the M-124 until leaving the province of Madrid. It’s not such an intense stretch, but you still enjoy the experience and the good music onboard.
We continue on another road GU-202, which leads to the CM-1002 towards Casa de Uceda. It’s the same area where a 22-year-old guy was caught driving a Lamborghini Huracan at 228 kmh (142 mph). The area has good roads, of course, but with that car it’s easy to quickly run out of asphalt. We don’t proceed at a gallop, but rather a light trot, as you don’t need to go so fast to have fun.
Spectacular landscapes lay in front of our windshields and out of our windows. Even riding along as a copilot is enjoyable. A gentle touch to lower the window and the aroma of the countryside and clean air invades the cabin. That’s how it should be everywhere. The temperature is pleasant, neither cold nor hot, and comfortable in short sleeves. Winters are very hard in the area, even harder in the past, however here we are at the end of spring.
We enter the CM-123, and there the route becomes scandalously fun. There are all kinds of curves, where you can have a good time driving your machine. It’s only inconvenient when eventually encountering a slower vehicle, and without a safe zone to pass, especially when trying to overtake several cars. When driving with others behind, you must be much more careful and considerate with your calculations than when going alone.
We took an opportunity to make a short stop on a straightaway with excellent visibility to take some souvenir photos. Just a couple of cars pass by that area, and the driver of one of them screams loudly: “I’ll trade you!”. For the locals to see so many Porsches in one go is like seeing a UFO, an unusual phenomenon.
The “final” section of the route takes us to the GU-1065, a humble road that leads to a valley where the sun sets early depending on the time of year, and we end up in a place where very little happens, Tortuero. Not even cyclists go there, but some peasants go for a walk in their free time to evade the nuisance of our digital world. In the tiny town square, we stopped our engines to give them a short rest.
But the route doesn’t end there, far from it. There is still the main course ahead. We return to the CM-123 to head in the direction of the Embalse del Atazar. Leaving Tortuero, we stop at another turnout to take some beautiful photos in the afternoon light while exchanging opinions on the distinct 911s. The Panamera Turbo is a kind of strange body, not characterized by its lightness or its speed through the curves, but its 500 HP emanating from the 4.8 V8 are still figures to be respected.
We return to the CM-123 and follow it back to the confines of the Madrid province. As soon as we pass over the border, a sign reads “M-134 El Atazar Dam”. We follow it through a frenzy of curves and a descent within a few kilometers, and the experience could only be better if the Guardia Civil (police) guaranteed that nobody else drives in the area. But as there are other vehicles on the road, we must continue to respect the rules of the road, since after any blind curve there might be a motorcycle, a cyclist, or a car along the shoulder while its passengers are taking photos.
We pass one lookout after another until we reach the famous curve where so many petrolheads used to take photo. Tire marks show that no attempt has been made to avoid an accident, but rubber has been deliberately burned. In fact, we discussed that the road traction of the last several kilometers is better than normal thanks to more rubber on the road rather than traces of pollen or dirt. There is a certain atmosphere of the espíritu RACER (racer spirit) on these second- and third-category roads, with a lot of rubber laid down.
We arrive to the last point where we take photos of all the cars together. The light of the sunset hits the surface of the reservoir before us, creating a beautiful and evocative image. The dam that holds back so many millions of liters of water is impressive, and its relative size, reminds us that although man is the measure of all things, sometimes this measure is small in relation to man’s achievements.
The 911 Carrera 3.2 smokes slightly, as the brakes have received a more intensive treatment than usual, and the car needs to cool a bit while in motion. We’ve taken on several descents without taking advantage of the sustained power of the engines. While passing by the viewpoints prior to the famous curve where we have parked, several motorists and drivers of high-performance compacts, have gazed at us, watching us pass by.
The last sun rays bathe the bodies of the five German cars. The participants share the sensations we felt from the roads we have just experienced and how much we have enjoyed them. What a difference without traffic. If it were an alternate route to a toll road (as is similar with the famous Garraf route near Barcelona) the experience would have been quite different. Fortunately, this is not the case.
With the evening already beginning, it’s time to say goodbye. There is a good camaraderie among those who a few hours before were perfect strangers. We give each other our hands, and our roads separate again. There is someone waiting for us or some pending commitment back in the capital. “Until next time”, we say.
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What you have just read and relived is a common experience of a “meetup” in which there are not necessarily many cars. Sometimes it’s just about filling a town square or parking lot. This is more like a game of poker between gentlemen, a game to which would be welcome, obviously, a feminine touch. But we were all like kids, one just under 10 years old and another almost 50, but we all enjoyed it in a similar way.
If you want to live experiences like this one, you have to start to socialize. Beyond the big events, which are advertised on websites, forums, and social networks; RoadStr can help you to find those experiences. You just have to sign up, enter some basic information about you and your cars (or the one you have). If you are a Honda fanatic, you will discover more people who follow the designs of the prophet Soichiro. Are you more from Audi Quattro? You will also find them there. You can follow whoever you want, and don’t forget us, our account is @espirituracer. And mine? For any decent proposition, @javiercostas.
You only have to download the app for iOS (on the Apple App Store) or Android (on Google Play), and start familiarizing yourself with it. It’s better than a Tinder for petrolheads lovers, this is an app for petrolheads fanatics. On there you’ll find routes, photo sites, groups, events, photos of your favorite cars, and people, like you and me, who prefer to squander money on cars and spend less on other things. And how much will this all cost you? Nothing, just gasoline to go from one meet to another, which is up to you.
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Tom Ramshaw & Sarah Douglas
Monday, September 17th 2018 - Kingston, ON
The Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018 took place from July 29th to August 12th in Denmark. Held every 4 years, this event is the largest global sailing competition that includes all ten Olympic fleets. As the first and largest country qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games, this event was pivotal for all countries.
Over 400 sailors gathered from across the world to compete in this event, including our Canadian Sailing Team members, Tom Ramshaw and Sarah Douglas. While the weather varied throughout the week, the Finn and Laser Radial sailors held their own finishing in the top 10 in their fleet.
In competition with Finn sailors from 42 nations, Tom made his way to the top as he captured one of the 8 available spots for Tokyo 2020. Finishing 5th overall, he mentioned, “it was a great week for me and I'm more motivated than ever to keep pushing hard to get to the top of the podium.”
While the Laser Radial sailor, Sarah Douglas made her way up the scoreboard marking a 6th place finish, securing one of the 18 spots available in the fleet. Competing with over 119 sailors, from 53 different nations, this event marked new accomplishments for the Canadian sailor, “it was my first medal race and I was very excited to be out racing in epic conditions with the top girls in the world.” Sarah Douglas mentioneds. “Securing the Olympic spot was the goal and I’m happy to have done that for Canada.”
Their hard work and persistence during the event paid off, as their results made “Sailing the first Canadian NSF to qualify spots for Tokyo" mentioned by Veronica Brenner, Olympic Performance Manager with the Canadian Olympic Committee.
Congratulations to our Helly Hansen Sailor of the Month - Tom Ramshaw & Sarah Douglas for qualifying Canada a spot in the Finn and Laser Radial fleets for the 2020 Olympic games.
Full list of results can be found here
Sail Canada’s Sailor of the Month award acknowledges sailing achievements by Canadians involved or associated with the sport in all its forms. Sail Canada encourages the submission of noteworthy Canadian sailing activities to communications@sailing.ca
About Sail Canada
Established in 1931, Sail Canada is the national governing body for the sport of sailing. The Association promotes sailing in all its forms including yachting through collaboration with our partners, the Provincial Sailing Associations, member clubs, schools, and many individual stakeholders.
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Day Hike: Soaking in the views atop Santa Fe Baldy
Matt Dahlseid
Viewed from the west, Santa Fe Baldy’s rounded profile gives it an air of approachability.
It’s a challenging but manageable 14-mile out-and-back hike from the Santa Fe ski basin to reach the summit of New Mexico’s fifth-highest mountain (12,622 feet), and the views from the top are well worth the effort.
Starting from the ski basin, hikers make an immediate climb up Winsor Trail to the Pecos Wilderness boundary, then pass through aspen trees and moss-covered pines as the trail levels out. About five miles into the hike, past a pair of stream crossings, is the large meadow known as Puerto Nambé, a popular backpacking location with views of the surrounding peaks.
It’s all uphill from here. The trail ascends to a rise that offers an expansive view of the Pecos Wilderness to the north and east, then splits with options to hike up to Baldy or around to Lake Katherine.
Now above the tree line, it’s an exposed hike up to the summit but not excessively steep. Once at the top, Lake Katherine is visible below in a cirque to the northeast of the summit. On a clear day, the peaks of Southern Colorado’s ranges can be seen in addition to the prominent forms of Truchas Peak and Wheeler Peak, New Mexico’s two tallest mountains, to the north.
Location: Winsor trailhead at the Santa Fe ski basin (Google Maps)
Matt Dahlseid is a digital enterprise producer for the Santa Fe New Mexican.
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James Mickens
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science
James Mickens has broad interests in systems design and security. Much of his research focuses on the problems that arise when distributed systems must scale to many users and many machines. Mickens investigates how to provide high performance to those systems despite the presence of faulty or subverted machines. He also studies mechanisms for protecting user data from other users and the system itself (which may not be fully trusted by users). On the client-side, a primary focus of his research is on the architecture of web applications—this architecture includes both JavaScript programs and the web browsers which run those programs. For example, how should a browser compose untrusted content from multiple origins in a way that still permits safe cross-origin communication? What kinds of tools can we build to allow developers to debug the complex, nondeterministic program faults that users encounter? On the server-side, Mickens studies fast, reliable datacenter storage, as well as security frameworks that allow users to restrict the ways that datacenters can manipulate sensitive user data.
Mickens received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001. In 2008, he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. After graduate school, Mickens went to Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, where he spent six years as a member of the Distributed Systems group. During the Fall 2014 semester, he was a Visiting Professor at MIT, working with the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group. In Fall 2015, he became an Associate Professor at Harvard.
Office: Maxwell Dworkin 335
Email: mickens@seas.harvard.edu
Assistant: Susan Virginia Welby
Assistant Office: Pierce 310
Research Mgr: Benjamin A. Garvin
Information and Society (Policy, Computer Science Education, Privacy and Security)
Systems, Networks and Databases (Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Database Management Systems)
B. A., 2001, Computer Science, The Georgia Institute of Technology
Ph.D., 2008, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Positions & Employment
Fall 2014 - MLK Visiting Professor
2008 - 2015 - Microsoft Research, Researcher, Distributed Systems Group
James Mickens granted tenure
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Kontrol Energy Provides Smart Factory Update
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / July 10, 2019 / Kontrol Energy Corp. (CSE: KNR, OTCQB: KNRLF, FSE:1K8) (the 'Company' or 'Kontrol') a leader in the energy efficiency sector through IoT, Cloud and SaaS technology is pleased to provide a corporate update relating to its Smart Factory platform and its growing software as a service (SaaS) business.
On March 25, 2019 Kontrol announced that it had entered into a strategic partnership with Toyota Tsusho. Working together Kontrol and Toyota will assist automotive and automotive parts factories achieve improved efficiencies in the areas of buildings, utilities and process. The key benefit to factory customers is the ability to reduce costs and improve operational profitability by being able to analyze, manage and adjust operations in real-time.
90-day Highlights
4 facilities reviewed
2 pilots completed
Up to $700,000 of revenue opportunities based on 2 facilities
Anticipating up to $2 Million in revenue opportunities for 2019
Paul Ghezzi stated, "We are excited about the Smart Factory platform potential as a new organic growth vertical for Kontrol. In approximately 3 months time we have been able to validate our technology and expedite two pilots and begin to focus on large revenue opportunities. The opportunity over hundreds of factories can be a very significant growth driver for Kontrol."
Kontrol has designed a proprietary SaaS platform, including 2 patents, for buildings and industries to better manage their energy and facilities in real-time. For a typical building of up to 50,000 square feet in size Kontrol may integrate hundreds of sensors and for a factory of approximately 100,000 square feet in size Kontrol may integrate thousands of sensors into its SaaS platform. Through robust cloud analytics and automation Kontrol is able to communicate in real-time with any piece of equipment and provide optimization of process and increase profitability. Customers receive immediate feedback and can measure and track facility improvements immediately.
Paul Ghezzi continued, "We are now collecting and analyzing more than 2 Billion data points annually and are working diligently to scale our SaaS platform across our existing customer base and now a new growth vertical in Smart Factories. In addition, our SaaS platform can also drive new revenue streams in the maintenance and management of facilities through our real-time data analytics services."
According to MarketsandMarkets.com, the smart factory market is expected to reach USD $358.01 Billion by 2023. Smart factory refers to various fully integrated automation solutions adopted for manufacturing facilities. A fully optimized factory can provide a competitive advantage to OEMs seeking to reduce their overall operating costs and improve their profitability.
About Kontrol Energy
Kontrol Energy Corp. (CSE: KNR) (OTCQB: KNRLF) (FSE: 1K8) is a leader in the energy efficiency sector through IoT, Cloud and SaaS technology. With a disciplined mergers and acquisition strategy, combined with organic growth, Kontrol Energy Corp. provides market-based energy solutions to our customers designed to reduce their overall cost of energy while providing a corresponding reduction in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.
Kontrol Energy was recently announced as the 7th fastest growing Startup in Canada by Canadian Business and Maclean's.
Additional information about Kontrol Energy Corp. can be found on its website at www.kontrolenergy.com and by reviewing its profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com
Neither IIROC nor any stock exchange or other securities regulatory authority accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Caution Regarding Forward Looking Statements:
Certain information included in this press release, including partnering with a global industrial can provide the Company an opportunity to scale its technology solutions across a large potential global customer base, providing technology solutions to drive down costs and gain a competitive advantages, completed and future acquisitions that will generate considerable revenues for the Company, anticipated annualized revenues, the acceleration of revenue synergies across operating subsidiaries, IoT and Cloud expansion, SaaS technology, completed and future acquisitions that will generate considerable revenues for the Company, information relating to future closings of the Offering, payments of interest, commissions or finders fees, minimization of common equity dilution, possible future acquisitions and/or investments in operating businesses and/or technologies, accelerated growth, the provision of solutions to customers and Green House Gas emissions reductions, proposed financial savings and sustainable energy benefits and energy monitoring, growth strategy and financial or operating performance and other statements that express the expectations of management or estimates of future performance constitute 'forward-looking statements'. Where the Company expresses or implies an expectation or belief as to future events or results, such expectation or belief are based on assumptions made in good faith and believed to have a reasonable basis. Such assumptions include, without limitation, that the Offering will be successful, that suitable businesses and technologies for acquisition and/or investment will be available, that such acquisitions and or investment transactions will be concluded, that sufficient capital will be available to the Company, that technology will be as effective as anticipated, that organic growth will occur, and others. However, forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed, projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks include, but are not limited to, lack of further subscriptions for the Offering, lack of acquisition and investment opportunities or that such opportunities may not be concluded on reasonable terms, or at all, that sufficient capital and financing cannot be obtained on reasonable terms, or at all, that technologies will not prove as effective as expected that customers and potential customers will not be as accepting of the Company's product and service offering as expected, and government and regulatory factors impacting the energy conservation industry. Accordingly, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements and the forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. The forward-looking statements contained herein are made as at the date hereof and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or revise any such forward-looking statements or any forward-looking statements contained in any other documents whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable securities law.
SOURCE: Kontrol Energy Corp.
https://www.accesswire.com/551385/Kontrol-Energy-Provides-Smart-Factory-Update
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"Ah, so this is the famous shed. This is where it all happens..."
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George Clarke's (and Jane Field-Lewis's) Amazing Spaces - the book
A new series of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces starts tonight at 8pm on Channel 4 and it promises to be as intriguing as series one. To coincide with the first programme, Quadrille has also just published a book of the same name written by Mr Clarke and Jane Field-Lewis of My Cool Shed fame which we'd certainly recommend to readers of Shedworking.
Along similar lines to Ruth Slavid's Micro: Very Small Buildings, Sally Coulthard's Shed Chic and Phyllis Richardson's Big Ideas, Small Buildings series, it looks at a very wide variety of microarchitecture including familiar favourites such as beach huts, shepherds' huts, and garden offices (although what they call a 'schoffice' is surely a 'shoffice'?). There are extensive sections too on small buildings on wheels, repurposed and multifunctional spaces, and selfbuilds, and as you would expect it features plenty of examples from both television series in considerable detail.
Although it's not a 'how to' book, there is a huge amount of general and sensible practical advice (a minor quibble, it would have been useful to include some kind of 'where to go for more information' section for books, websites, suppliers, etc) and the standard of colour illustration is very high indeed. Indeed, the inspiring photographs - and there are huge numbers of them - are probably it's biggest selling point - it's easy to see how this would inspire readers to have a go themselves at thinking small. Certainly in the running for a Shedworking 2013 award.
Available from all the usual outlets but we'd encourage you to get it from your local independent seller.
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Sully Primary School's Dylan Thomas-inspired writing shed
A lovely piece in the Penarth Times looks at the local Sully Primary School's shedworking initiative, a writing shed, pictured above, funded by the school's PTA and officially opened by nine-year-old pupil Christian Morton who came third in BBC Radio 2’s Children’s Story Writing Competition.
The idea for the shed came from teacher Laura Sheldon who showed her class a picture of Dylan Thomas's writing shed and discovered they were inspired to emulate it. According to the newspaper report: "It is hoped that the writing shed will be a quiet place to inspire youngsters to write stories, poems, plays and songs. The writing shed is also full of a range of unique items, including pictures, paintings and a gas lamp, to inspire children in their writing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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How can I bring WiFi to my shed?
It's a question that pops up all the time and this time the fine folk at Engadget are having a go at crowdsourcing the answer. Lots (and lots) of comments and suggestions so if this is something you're thinking about doing, then it's well worth a long browse. We'd also be keen for readers of Shedworking to suggest their solutions below this post. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Amazing Spaces: the soundtrack
The intriguing Amazing Spaces series is back for a second round of microarchitecture musings next Thursday (in the first episode the focus is on a couple transforming a 1960s ambulance into a campervan). To whet your appetite, Jane 'My Cool Shed' Field-Lewis - who is one of the main brains behind the show - put together this rather nice selection of the music the production team listened to as they whizzed around the country looking for shedworkingesque structures. ----------------------------------------------------------
Renovated Bletchley Park codebreaking huts get special military intelligence flooring
As regular readers will know, the fine folk at Bletchley Park are doing tremendous restoration work on wooden huts 3 and 6 to prevent these historic buildings from disintegrating due to weather damage and general dampness. “These huts were only put up as temporary structures," says Janie Price, Conservation Architect and partner at Kennedy O’Callaghan Architects, "so they probably would have expected them to be taken down after the war and it is extraordinary that they have lasted as well as they have." As well as a major grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, they have also received a donation of a major consignment of floorboards from Fawley Court in Henley on Thames which operated as a military intelligence school during World War Two. This means the huts will have like-for-like, proper replacements for those which are unrepairable. Fawley Court has also donated 50 square metres of shiplap boarding for the outside of the huts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'Hill of shed workers'
@shedworking. Did you know that Mistley in Essex used to be called 'Sciddinghoo' meaning 'Hill of shed workers'?
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InsideOut’s Garden Buildings Guide
InsideOut, one of the leading garden office suppliers over the last decade, has decided to move out of the market and concentrate on their architects practice (www.gordonsmitharchitect.co.uk). It's a shame but rather than disappear altogether, they've turned their www.iobuild.co.uk site into an excellent resource for anybody who wants to know more about shedworking and garden offices. It will be updated too by Lynn Fotheringham, editor of InsideOut’s Garden Buildings Guide and a director of Gordon Smith Architect, which is good to hear. Here's Lynn on what she plans to do with it:
"It doesn’t really matter where you work at home as long as you are comfortable and can concentrate. Roald Dahl wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in a draughty summerhouse and Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own in a damp outhouse. But if you are going to spend some money on your work space or even invest in a garden office what’s important?
"I don’t think you want your office to catch fire, you don’t want to be cold and you don’t want to be damp. To avoid these less than comfy conditions the basics you need to consider are insulation, windows and doors that fit properly so that no draughts can get in, and preferably double glazed. Cheap and efficient heating and, if you are moving into the garden, an electrical supply that’s been installed by a qualified electrician.
"How do I know these basics? Because I write InsideOut’s Garden Buildings Guide which contains what I learnt during ten years of designing and building garden offices. So, visit the site and share the basics before you decide to build or buy a garden office. InsideOut’s Garden Buildings Guide contains articles on the questions you should ask before you buy, info about planning permission for garden buildings and lots of inspirational photos. If you have any questions about working in a garden office why not email them to Alex at shedworking and I will answer them for you?"
Garden Office Week
It's Garden Office Week over at Judy's great Work From Home Wisdom site. Above is today's offering, Katy Duke's blind-making workshop from where she runs her Thermal Blind Company. It used to be a row of school lavatories... As she says: "It’s fabulous to trip down the path in the sun and open the doors to birdsong, with the salvaged rooflight giving lots of daylight. It’s a bit Heath Robinson but I love it." While you're over there, take a browse around as there are lots of interesting posts in general for those who work in shedlike atmospheres. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Library studio
A lovely combination of shedworking atmosphere and home library in this build by 3rdSpace in the Oxfordshire garden of a professor of literature who needed a space to store her books, but lacked the space inside her home. According to Ben Couture, it is also "fully de-mountable, meaning it can be 'flat-packed' and moved if the customer relocates in the future".
"Most of our modular buildings utilise Western red cedar cladding," says Ben, "but in this case Thermowood was the perfect material which takes well to the matt black finish. We also suggested positioning the cladding vertically to mirror the orientation seen through the spines of the books inside."
The core of the construction is a Douglas fir post and beam system. The installation of the library studio took five days to complete on site, including fitting-out with Vitsoe shelving. ----------------------------------------------------------
How to build a garden office (video)
We haven't had a good time lapse video of a garden office going up for a while so here's a recent one from Smart Garden Offices for Taunton-based Bediwin Information Services who provide local small businesses with dependable computer, IT support and managed services. -----------------------------------------------------
Harry's Hideout on DIY SOS tonight
Tiny House UK donated one of their marvellous pieces of microarchitecture to a family in Fareham some months ago and the story behind it is due to appear on BBC1's DIY SOS at 8pm tonight. There's a whole microsite devoted to Harry's Hideout and here's the BBC's bumph:
"Hanna and Mike have three kids, two of whom are twins who were born prematurely. One now suffers from cerebral palsy and the other is profoundly deaf. The family house is tiny and the cramped conditions are making life extremely difficult and at times dangerous for the growing boys. Nick Knowles and DIY SOS team call on friends, family and the local community to come to the aid of this young family and build a single storey extension in just nine days."
Well worth a watch.
Plankbridge expands into Australia
Shepherds' huts specialist Plankbridge is expanding its empire well beyond its Dorset base to include Australia. It will be shipping its new-build huts to Brisbane as part of a joint venture with Steve and Mellissa Chaddock who emigrated from the UK some years ago.
"I really like the idea of shipping corrugated buildings like firms in Bristol did in Victorian era," Plankbridge co-owner Richard Lee told Shedworking. "I love corrugated iron and the idea that orders for our huts in Australia are helping to employ craftsmen in Dorset, just as they did 150 years ago, fills me with huge optimism for the future.!"
Love Your Hut and new Hutters
We mentioned the launch of Love Your Hut – the new specialist insurer for garden offices, beach huts, chalets, shepherds' huts and other shedlike atmospheres – earlier in the week and were pleased to hear that they have already successfully set up a new beach hut association with the 'Hutters' at Heacham Beach, Norfolk. The 101 huts will now benefit from discounted premiums, as well a specialist policy.
Matthew Briggs from Love Your Hut said: “It is great news that Heacham are forming a new association. We’re really looking forward to working with them and helping them achieve their future goals. Another association creates another beach hut community and that’s what we want to help do, create more of them.” ----------------------------------------------------------
Todd Daniel: shedworker
I have a small house and had two children at home at the time so I couldn't figure out how I'd be able to work from home, writes Shedworking reader Todd Daniel of Powder Springs, Georgia, USA. I did some research on the Internet and found a guy in Louisville, Kentucky, who had built an office shed. I corresponded with him for a while and he was very helpful, and I incorporated some of his ideas.
The shed is in my backyard, 40 feet from the house. It is 12 feet x 15 feet. When we were closing our office, my boss suggested that I take a cubicle with me and set it up inside the shed. This turned out to be a brilliant idea because it helps to dampen outside noise and it holds heat in during the winter. It actually makes my office area quite comfortable.
I work in the shed during the day and in the evening it becomes my "man cave" because my hobby is working on computers. I also like the outdoors and working out in the shed makes me feel closer to nature. I do have my two dogs for company and protection.
I use wi-fi for Internet and I have portable heaters for winter and a small air condition unit for summer. There are two separate power lines -- one for my air condition and heater and one for my computer equipment. I did this to avoid the electrical surges that the a/c and heater would have on my electronics.
At the time I was finishing out the inside, my boss sent a professional out to inspect it. Both he and the fellow in Louisville recommended something very important - a fart fan. In addition to its obvious purpose, I also use the fan in the spring and fall to suck out warm air and get the temperature down a few degrees. Thus, I only need to use my a/c in the heart of summer.
It's nice walking 40 feet to work every morning, and the only occupational hazard is stepping on dog poop.
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A Changing Real Estate Landscape – Shumacher/GRA Interview
A Changing Real Estate Landscape
By Christy Simo
The economy may have taken a hit over the past three years, but that doesn’t mean restaurants aren’t opening, closing and moving around as usual. Whether you are interested in opening a new concept or are a seasoned pro, the current real estate downturn may have changed the way you want to approach choosing a site for your next restaurant.
There are lots of things to consider, from what you can afford to where you want to be located, to even if you can get a loan. Still, experts note that restaurants are opening and concepts are expanding, just at a slower pace.
“There’s still lots of growth, but it’s a different kind of growth,” says Steve Josovitz, vice president and associate real estate broker for The Shumacher Group, an Atlanta-based company that specializes in site selection for regional and national restaurant and retail chains and the sale of existing restaurants and businesses. “The money is slower to come by, so that’s slowing up growth, because the borrowed money is not there.“
However, The Shumacher Group has noticed an uptick in the number of restaurants they’ve sold this year over last.
“The reason for that is that the fully equipped turnkey restaurant, for example, could be had right now for under $100,000,” he says. “It’s a great time to open a restaurant, because there’s great deals to be had. There’s a lot of empty restaurant space all throughout Georgia, and you can get it for a fraction of the price of what it would cost to build out a restaurant.”
Josovitz points to two recent purchases, both great deals in a down market.
“A Doc Greens [location] was sold to Chow Baby, and they bought a restaurant that has hoods, it has grease traps, it has the infrastructure of a restaurant, and all they have to do is come in and do cosmetic changes,” he says. “We sold a Mama Fu’s recently to Saigon Café. Saigon Café, for a fraction of the price to build out a space, can go in and technically all they have to do is different paint and cosmetics. They can be up and running in no time.”
BANKS TIGHTENING BELTS
While there are deals to be had, one of the issues slowing restaurant growth is the same as in the residential real estate market: banks are not lending as easily as in years past.
“It’s harder,” says Greg Vojnovic, vice president of development for Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen. “Restaurants are always one of the higher-risk opportunities, particularly independent restaurants.”
The economy has made it “easier for restaurants, although it’s harder for them to get the deals done,” he adds.
That’s especially true for small or independent restaurateurs who are not affiliated with a large franchisor.
“If they go into a local bank, they’re going to have to explain their business to a local banker,” Vojnovic says. “That banker may not understand the restaurant business, so it’s going to be hard for him to get his arms around the cash flow, whereas it’s much easier for a bank to finance an apartment complex.”
To make sure you have the best shot that you can of obtaining a lease, have all the paperwork and information prepared that a lender could potentially need to approve a loan before you set foot in the door.
“You need to prove to your lender that you’re a winner, and you have to show why you’re a winner—show them your cash flow statements,” Vojnovic says. “You have to show them, walk them through step by step, because you may know the restaurant industry intimately, but bankers look at hundreds of loan applications in different industries.”
A CHANGING GAME
The lending issue is affecting various aspects of the industry, from the decision of whether to buy or lease a space to selecting a site.
“The economy has hit [the restaurant real estate industry] pretty hard because it’s made lending very hard,” Josovitz says. “In terms of major growth, it’s been hampered because of lending. The lending has not stopped; it’s just getting harder. It’s taking much longer, and the requirements are much more stringent.”
Despite the banks tightening up loan availability, interest has picked up in available restaurant sites across the state.
“There is a definite increase in interest in new locations,” says Harold Shumacher, president and managing broker of The Shumacher Group. “The good news is we’re probably seeing more activity from bigger restaurants.”
The other piece of good news is that there is less uncertainty today than there was even a year ago.
“Nobody knew where this was going to go. Nobody knew where the bottom was,” Shumacher recalls. “Now everybody acts and feels like they’re more busy, and there seems to be more deals in the offering. And they’re bigger deals for the most part, but I think … we’re six to nine months away from seeing a solid recovery.”
However, even though the real estate industry is going through a rough patch, it does not mean restaurants can name their price.
“There’s a perception that because of the economy that every landlord and every seller is bending over backwards to give away the store,” Josovitz says. “That’s not happening.”
“What you’ll find is landlords are not willing to reduce their rates below market. What they’re willing to do is give you a rent abatement, or free rent,” says Vojnovic. “We’re telling our franchisees don’t concentrate so much on the dollar per square foot, but concentrate on the total value of the lease for the lease term. Find out what you’re getting. In other words, don’t try to knock the rent down, but try to get more abatements on the front end.”
While landlords may be looking for creative ways to entice restaurant operators into vacant properties, the other benefit of the current economy is that premium locations that may have never been available in the past may suddenly be up for lease or purchase.
“As an owner/operator, the really good deal that you’re getting is that you have the availability of getting that good piece of dirt. In this marketplace, there’s corners where out of nowhere, a business you thought would never go out becomes available,” Vojnovic says. “So while the real estate might not be at a discount, your true discount is that you’re able to get an extraordinarily strong site.”
“Because of the economy faltering, we just have more leasing opportunities and more leasing of closed restaurants for sale,” agrees Josovitz. “In terms of restaurants for sale that are really cheap, there’s some really great deals out there.”
Another event having an impact on the real estate market is the flood of people who either retired or were laid off who are interested in entering the restaurant industry.
“We’re getting more calls now than we’ve ever had in 25 years, and one of the factors for that is that there’s a lot of people out of work that have a chunk of money in the bank,” Josovitz says. “They may never get another job at the level they were at, and they realize if they don’t get a job real quickly or do something with their money, it’s going to be gone.“
So should a restaurant buy or lease the space? That depends, although experts say if you have the means, purchasing the land or a building makes more financial sense.
“Owning the real estate gives you more flexibility in how you can take money in and out of the business, but it requires a greater amount of money in the business,” Shumacher says. “Most start-up restaurants generally only have enough capital to get open.”
Regardless of whether you purchase or rent the space, finding a high-quality spot is imperative. “You want to find the best piece of possible real estate because you’re committing all of your investment into that piece of dirt,” Vojnovic says. “You can’t take it with you.”
And if for some reason, you need to or must close or move your business, you have a piece of real estate that will be in demand. “If you have a really bad site, it’s hard to find somebody else to take it,” Vojnovic says. “But if you have a really good site, there’s going to be interest and value. People are going to want to take over that site.”
Another reason to consider purchasing the space is that what’s low rent today could become the hot area of town tomorrow.
“We always encourage people to buy the real estate if possible, because in 15 years you’re going to own a physical asset, whereas if you’re paying a lease, you don’t own anything,” Vojnovic says. “Really the only difference is you have to come up with a down payment. In 15 years, you’re negotiating a renewal on your lease, and they’re going to [raise] your rent because real estate is going to be worth a lot more in 15 years.”
Even if you do not have the capital to purchase real estate or the property is for lease and not for sale, still look for the best piece of property you can find.
“You really raise your money through the restaurant; you’re not a real estate developer,” says Vojnovic. “So it’s a preference, but don’t just pass on a deal because you can’t own real estate.”
CHOOSING YOUR SITE
So what makes a site the best place to locate your restaurant?
“That’s like saying what makes a girl pretty,” Shumacher says. Still, he notes that there are a few basics no matter where you are located within the state. “The simple ones are visibility, access and presence. You know where it is—can you get in and out, and can you see it? Those are the basics.”
“The fundamentals for all real estate are linked to two primary components,” agrees Vojnovic. “No. 1 is the quality of the trade area, and the second is the quality of the physical piece of real estate.”
Vojnovic notes that you don’t always find places that have both components, but you need to have at least one.
“You can have a weak trade area if you have a very strong piece of real estate, or you can have a weak piece of realty but a great trade area,” he says. “But what you absolutely cannot do is have a weak trade area and a weak piece of real estate. That’s the challenge in this marketplace most people are encountering.”
The other main factor in determining if a space is ideal for your concept is the rental rate and other extra charges a shopping center or landlord will charge you.
“There’s a certain percentage of what your sales have to be to cover rent. Normally around 10% of your sales should be rent and no more,” Josovitz says.
Common Area Maintenance (CAM) charges can also sneak up on you and make your monthly payment cost prohibitive.
“The problem is that you might have CAM charges anywhere from $3.50 a square foot to up to $10 a square foot,” Josovitz says. “They may give an attractive rental rate, but your CAM charges are so high that it will take your rental factor up really, really high. You also have to factor in the taxes and the real estate insurance. Some places have association fees, then you have to factor in your fixed costs—utilities, workers compensation and licenses.
“The successful person really has to budget and know what they can afford in rent,” he adds. “When you know that, that’s when it makes you much more educated when you’re looking for a space. It really takes the guesswork out of what you can afford, and that will also ensure your success a lot more.”
Lastly, consider the time and cost it will take to build out a raw space vs. converting an existing restaurant space.
“In this marketplace, there’s a lot of opportunities to take over failed locations and do conversions,” Vojnovic says. “What you have to do is look at that—why did it fail? Did it fail because the operator was poor, or did it fail because it was in a poor trade area or poor real estate?“
“There’s a great appeal right now in the marketplace for buying an existing restaurant business or leasing a fully equipped space, or one that was a restaurant—we call that second-generation restaurant space,” Josovitz agrees. “At a minimum, a second-generation restaurant space would probably have the structure of a restaurant, which would include the exhaust hoods, the kitchen, grease traps. It would have HVAC systems. It would be set up so all you have to do is do some cosmetic work, add your furniture fixtures and equipment, and you could be open in a fraction of the time it would take to build out a space from scratch.”
No matter how the market plays out over the next few years, don’t wait too long to sign that lease or purchase that space.
“It’s like having kids. There’s no good time to have kids, but people have kids,” Shumacher says. “There’s no perfect time to open a restaurant. But there is a time when you say, you know, it’s time to jump in.”
“Good real estate is still good real estate,” agrees Vojnovic. “In this economy, the smarter survive. The goal is to leave as strong as possible with the best possible real estate.”
Previous Listing: Shumacher Leases Conyers Longhorn
Newer Listing: Expert Tips for Navigating the Real Estate World – Shumacher/GRA Interview
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News Archive / 2016 / September
The Polish composer Krzysztof Meyer has written his new orchestral work “Metamorphoses” in response to a commission in honour of the 70th jubilee of the Chopin Music School in Kraków. The Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Maciej Tranowski will perform the world premiere of the work on 30 September 2016 at the Kraków Philharmonic.
In this new orchestral work, Meyer has recourse to themes and motifs from his composition “Metamorphoses” for saxophone and piano written in 2004.
Krzysztof Meyer has supplied the following commentary on “Metamorphoses”:
“The ‘Metamorphoses’ are written for small orchestra and use a compositional technique with which I have been working for many years. The harmonic language based on symmetrical chords (alongside the interaction of sections functionally referring to the overall form of the piece) represents a fundamental principle of my compositional technique. The piece forms a cohesive whole but indicates a multi-sectional form. In the ‘Metamorphoses’ for small orchestra I deal again with those compositional problems that I have already posed in other pieces for chamber orchestra (‘Musique scintillante’ and ‘Musique de la lumière et de la pénombre’). And, as always: I have tried to further develop several technical methods used in the latest works whilst separating myself from those that did not produce satisfactory results.
Philharmonic, 7:30 PM
World premiere: Krzysztof Meyer,
“Metamorphoses” for small orchestra
Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra
Maciej Tarnowski (direction)
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TWENTY-FOUR PRELUDES FOR PIANO
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THE CANTERVILLE GHOST. Opera based on the tale by
Schostakowitsch, Dmitri
CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND OORCHESTRA NO. 2 in F major
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Wenger Defends No Penalty Call In West Brom Victory
by David on September 25, 2017
Arsene Wenger is famous for never seeing controversial incidents involving his Arsenal players, but the eyesight of the Gunners manager must be improving after saying it was the correct decision not to award Jay Rodriguez a penalty in Arsenal’s 2-0 win over West Brom on Monday.
The forward was felled in the area by Shkodran Mustafi in only the eighth minute at the Emirates Stadium, before he got to his feet and saw a shot tipped onto the post by Petr Cech after referee Bobby Madley allowed play to continue.
West Brom boss Tony Pulis said it was “a stonewall penalty” and Rodriguez himself said he felt clear contact, but Wenger says Madley was right to award the advantage.
“Mustafi tackled and touched the West Brom player,” the Arsenal manager told Sky Sports.
“It could have been given, the referee left the advantage. I think it was right because they were in a position where they could score and they hit the post.
“It’s a kind of decision that’s difficult. If he doesn’t give the advantage and they miss the penalty, people will reproach [the referee].”
Alexandre Lacazette went on to score twice to give Arsenal their third home win in a row in the Premier League and take his tally to four goals in the top flight.
“What’s interesting is that he gets stronger in every game, and that’s very positive,” Wenger said of his club-record signing. ”
He adapts to the physical demands here and technically he’s intelligent. You could see on the goal from the free-kick, there was a rebound and he was there.”
Wenger also praised the performance of Alexis Sanchez, who he believes has recovered fully from an ankle injury picked up at the start of the month.
“He worked very hard, he finished tired but you could see that he’s back to his level,” he said.
The win moved Arsenal back to within six points of league leaders Manchester City and Wenger said it was important to respond after there were weekend wins for Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham and Pep Guardiola’s side.
“In the first half, they had a very direct game, a very intense game to stop us from playing and they were dangerous on the break and from long balls,” he said.
“In the second half I feel we dominated the game and it was one-way traffic. But as long as you don’t score the second goal, knowing they’re good at set-pieces, you’re always a bit on your nerves.
“You’re always under pressure when everybody else wins. You can’t afford to drop points and you know a team who can give you a very difficult night is West Brom.”
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Sketching the future
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
Professor William Egginton will present and sign his book “The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World” at the Library of Congress.
Professor William Egginton, who teaches in the Spanish Program of the Department of German and Romance Languages at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, will present new book entitled The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World.
In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain’s wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the single most-read author in human history. Cervantes did more than just publish a bestseller, though. He invented a way of writing. This book is about how Cervantes came to create what we now call fiction, and how fiction changed the world.
The Man Who Invented Fiction explores Cervantes’s life and the world he lived in, showing how his influences converged in his work, and how his work –especially Don Quixote– radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that worldview went on to infiltrate art, politics, and science, and how the world today would be unimaginable without it.
Fri, December 02, 2016
Mary Pickford Theater, James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC 20540
Library of Congress.
This event is cosponsored by the Hispanic Division and the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress.
Also in Washington, D.C. 4
Fair Water: The Water Office Open Lab Exhibition
Water: The Mirror of Life at Fair Water
Fair Water: A Right of All
Fair Water: La Cascada by Luzinterruptus
Also in Literature 1
Paco Roca: Signing and Q&A
Competitions & grants
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