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Fears of layoffs spark union push at Sheriff's Office
BY JOE VANHOOSEStar-Banner
OCALA - Fear of layoffs and fewer benefits at the Marion County Sheriff's Office has led more than 70 deputies to push for a union, union leaders say. Two labor unions will compete for a majority vote in an upcoming election to represent about 250 deputies in the agency.
The Florida State Fraternal Order of Police and Florida Police Benevolent Association have both filed petitions to assume collective bargaining duties. There is currently no union representation. If either union gets a 50-percent-plus-one majority vote in a special election among eligible deputies, that group would become the exclusive bargaining representative.
"It would just be the road deputies covered by the agreement," said George Hachigian, the FOP general counsel's chief of staff. "We hope to have an election in 30 to 45 days."
Hachigian said that most of the interest came from deputies worried about cuts to the sheriff's budget for next year.
Earlier this month, Sheriff Ed Dean presented a $72.56 million budget for 2009, about 5 percent lower than this year's budget of $76.2 million. Marion County commissioners asked county agencies to cut their budgets by 10 percent.
"I think there is worry about a shortfall, less benefits and possible layoffs," Hachigian said. "We would fight to save any positions that may be cut because of the budget."
The proposed 2009 budget does not lay off anyone but does freeze 24 vacant deputy positions. In a June letter to his employees, Dean said that his staff has worked hard to protect their interests, as well as the interests of the citizens.
"With or without a union, we will continue to do this," Dean wrote.
Dean said in the letter that 77 employees returned cards expressing an interest in having union representation.
"Our position is that we do not believe that the FOP - or any union - is in the best interest of our employees," he said. "Therefore, there is no need for employees to be represented by any union and pay union dues at the Marion County Sheriff's Office."
Both union leaders and sheriff's Deputy Chief Dan Kuhn said that much of the angst the employees and the agency feel comes from the voter initiative Florida Amendment 1, which resulted in reduced state funding to the agency and other widespread cuts in state spending.
"There is the impact of Amendment 1 on our budget, but we still want to do what's right for our employees," Kuhn said, who added that an election date has not been set. "They'll get a chance to vote for the FOP, or the PBA, or no union at all."
Florida PBA director of organization services Jim Wiggins said that the PBA would work together with the Sheriff's Office to make sure everyone's interests are taken care of. The group's main concern, he said, are labor issues.
"We're not going to tell the sheriff how to run the agency," Wiggins said. "But we will discuss wages and benefits for employees. We want to quantify some current practices."
The PBA represents employees in several sheriff's offices in Florida, including Lake, Alachua and Levy counties. The FOP has two chapters in Ocala, and Hachigian said there are already 100 members who are employees at the Sheriff's Office.
"We already have a presence there," he said. "We've met with representatives at the Sheriff's Office. We're in this together."
Joe VanHoose may be reached at joe.vanhoose@starbanner.com or 867-4124.
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June - Aug 2003 | Issue 2451
Syngman Rhee fled his homeland as a 19-year-old in 1950 and found himself at the heart of the US civil rights movement in the Sixties. Here he speaks about his work for reconciliation between North and South Korea.
Martin Luther King gave me a dream for Korea
Democracy in Northern Ireland (Comment)
An end in sight? (Comment)
A cautionary tale from Kosovar women to the women of Iraq (Comment)
Justifying violence (Comment)
Editorial: Defy the culture of inevitability! (Comment)
Rice to the starving people of North Korea! (Feature)
A young movement in search of direction (Feature)
Country profiles (Feature)
170+ arrested at Trident base (News)
Victory for whom? (News)
US-Iran Sparks fly at Second PrepCom (News)
Through the East Asian lens (Feature)
Noisy, muted, massive or microscopic? (News)
Migrant workers demonstrate in Hong Kong (Feature)
South Korea: migrant workers and the anti-war movement (Feature)
Personal experience from a Korean CO (Feature)
Act in solidarity (Feature)
Moving into the future: building peace in North-East Asia (Feature)
Peace prisoners (News)
Tokyo rising (Feature)
Taiwan - first Asian country to recognise conscientious objection (Feature)
Target: Peace (activists) (News)
Rejecting US aid (News)
Harassment of peace activists continues (News)
Militarism in everyday life - a street performance on International CO day (News)
Feature by Syngman Rhee
I was born and raised in Pyong Yang, now the capital city of North Korea. At that time, the early 1930s, the Korean people were under Japanese rule, which brought us great suffering and pain. It created a deep sense of hostility and enmity towards the Japanese. The cooperation between Korea and Japan, as co-hosts of the soccer World Cup, shows that there is always hope of reconciliation between former enemies.
Soon after our liberation from Japanese occupation at the end of the Second World War, Korea was divided by the Allied Forces, for the purpose of disarming Japanese troops. In the North, the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea (DPRK) was inaugurated with the Communist Party at its centre. Those who had resisted oppression under Japanese rule began to challenge Communist control in North Korea.
Foundations and footsteps
The political authorities in North Korea recognised the churches as a major opposition force. My father was a Christian minister. By the time of the Korean War in1950, he had been imprisoned along with other Christian leaders. When he was 49and I was 19, he was killed in prison.
As I stood before my father's body at his funeral, I cried out to God in grief and anger: “If God is truly a God of love and justice, why do the innocent suffer and the evil seem to prosper?” In those moments of anguish, I heard a still small voice asking, “Shouldn't you follow your father's footsteps in ministry in order to continue what he was unable to finish because of his untimely death?” I have not forgotten that voice. The motive for my life lies in that call of God.
After my father's death, my mother decided to send my younger brother and me to the South, to ensure our safety and survival. The decision was not an easy one for her, or for us. We fled on a snowy Sunday morning, 3 December 1950.Because of the cold and danger, only young and strong men dared to venture on the long walk towards the South. So my mother and four little sisters, aged 14,10, 8 and four months, stayed behind.
At the gate of our house, my mother said to us, “We do not know what may happen to us once we are apart from each other. But pray to God wherever you go and we will see each other through our prayers.” We never saw her again. Her words have been the sure foundation for our lives all these years.
Soon after coming to South Korea, we joined the South Korean Marine Corps and served for five years during the Korean War. In 1956, with the help of many friends, I came to the United States to study. I was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1960. I often thought of how happy my mother would have been.
Freeing the oppressors
The early part of the 1960s marked a time of intense struggle for African-Americans. At that time I was a university pastor and professor at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. I joined with black and white church leaders and with African American students in the civil rights movement.
The African American students of the university wanted to organise a Black Students' Union on campus. They asked me if I would be their faculty advisor, as required by university regulations. “You know I am not black,” I said. “Yes,” they replied. “But we saw you in the streets demonstrating with us for our civil rights.” It was my honour and pleasure to accept their invitation.
I remember vividly Dr Martin Luther King's frequent visits to Louisville. His conviction that the key to creating a new history lies in the hands of the oppressed, not the oppressor, was a new and inspiring insight for me.
In a relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed, the oppressed has a choice--either to carry out revenge, or to forgive and create a new beginning. Dr King called this “vicarious suffering”. He insisted that the civil rights movement was not only a movement to free the oppressed, but also a movement to free the oppressors.
Through my involvement with the civil rights movement, I learned that justice and peace must go hand in hand. At one point, a white man challenged me,”Why are you, an Asian, a yellow person, involved in the black and white issue?”My answer was then, and is now, that the issues of human rights and racial justice and reconciliation are not black and white issues alone. When the basic rights of any people are trampled upon, it is an issue for all of us.
One day during a demonstration, the police arrested us. We spent a night in the city jail. When I returned to my office at the university, someone had placed a dish of jelly-beans on my desk. There were some white jelly-beans and some black jelly-beans--and one yellow jelly-bean, a symbol of our unity for justice and peace.
These experiences led me to look at the Korean situation in a new way. When I left home as a refugee, I was full of hostility and enmity. I saw myself as one of the oppressed. Martin Luther King's ideas on the key to history made me begin to see anew role for myself.
In the spring of 1978, I had the chance to make my long-dreamed-of visit back home to North Korea. The opportunity arose through a contact in the North Korean Embassy in Cairo, while I was visiting Egypt. I had to decide on the spot, without previous planning and without consulting my family in the United States. My visit might cause problems for my younger brother who was in South Korea.
I was filled with both excitement anda nxiety as I boarded a plane from Cairo to North Korea via East Germany and Moscow. When I arrived, two of my sisters were at the airport to meet me. It was28 years since we had seen each other. I cannot begin to describe the emotions of tearful joy we shared. I learnt that my mother had passed away eight years before. She had waited in vain for 20 years, longing to hear something about her two sons.
The hours I spent with my sisters on that visit were a dream fulfilled for me-- a dream which has been denied to countless others. Today there are some 10 million people still separated by the division between North and South Korea. These people live each day knowing nothing bout their loved ones on the other side.
Ministry of reconciliation
This concern for reuniting separated families is the first thought which emerges when I think about the ministry of reconciliation in Korea. Korean political realities have made it almost impossible for families to seek information about those they are separated from. This intense longing is a tangible bond between Koreans on both sides of the demilitarised zone. The agony of not knowing, year after year, what has happened to those we love, is one of the supreme human tragedies of our time.
There are only 150 miles between the capital city of North Korea, Pyong Yang, and the capital city of South Korea, Seoul. In a world where we can pick up a telephone and call any place at any time, it is almost unthinkable that such a tragic situation still exists.
Secondly, I have long wondered how we can reduce tensions, avoid war, and find a peaceful resolution to the hostilities between North and South Korea. Having gone through the Korean War and seen its tragedy, I am convinced that there must never be another war in Korea.
Deeply broken relations on the Korean peninsula have caused alienation and estrangement, which has been costly for all Koreans. At the same time, there have been earnest efforts to build bridges of reconciliation and peace. The power of the desire to be reunited as one people should not be underestimated.
Seeking peaceful engagement
Since my unexpected visit to North Korea in 1978, I have made 23 visits to North and South Korea. Many people have contributed to opening up contacts in North Korea, through visits and through relief donations, as the people there have faced desperate food shortages caused by floods and drought.
The ministry of reconciliation is often costly, difficult and risky. And yet, through our efforts, new relations be come possible. We have come a long way from those days of intense hostility and enmity, and yet we still have a long way to go. Two years ago, in June 2000, we were jubilant to witness the summit meeting of President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea and Commander Kim Jung II of North Korea, and their resolve to re-establish relationships between North and South Korea.
There is also an urgent need to normalise diplomatic relations between the United States and North Korea. The previous US administration made strong efforts to open up new channels of communication with North Korea and had begun to build a new relationship of cooperation between the two nations.
The current administration has not continued on this path. President Bush's remark on “the axis of evil” in his State of the Union speech was truly unfortunate. His negative rhetoric and open hostility set back the improved relationship between the United States and North Korea. It is critically important that the United States return to a policy of peaceful engagement, rather than seeking a military solution in dealing with North Korea.
The importance of dreams
The Confession of 1967 of the Presbyterian Church (USA) stated, “The Church,in its own life, is called to practise the forgiveness of enemies and to commend to the nations as practical politics, the search for cooperation and peace. This search requires that the nations pursue fresh and responsible relations across every line of conflict, even at a risk to national security, to reduce areas of strife and to broaden international understanding.”
This vision presents us with two important tasks:
Our continuing commitment and struggle for racial justice and reconciliation.
Our continuing commitment and struggle for peace and reconciliation in divided, war-torn regions and countries, like Korea.
I have a dream that some day a delegation from North Korea and a delegation from South Korea will gather together in a spirit of true reconciliation and peace.
This text first appeared at http://www.forachange.co.uk/oct02/firstperson.htm and is reproduced here with permission from the author.
Syngman Rhee is a Professor at the Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia. He has served as President of the National Council of the Churches in the USA (1992-94) and Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA) (2000-2001).
Topics: Violence & nonviolence | Race
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Nathan Stoltzfus, Hitler’s Compromises: coercion and consensus in Nazi Germany
David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
Nick Estes, Our History is The Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson, Striking Women: Struggles and strategies of South Asian women workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet
Antony Lerman, ed, Do I Belong? Reflections from Europe
Poynted remarks (Comment)
Review by Ian Sinclair
Yale University Press, 2016; 432pp; £30
Think of Adolf Hitler and invariably an image is conjured up of an all-powerful leader, the most evil individual in modern history, using extreme barbarity to crush his opponents at home and abroad.
The latest study from Nathan Stoltzfus, professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University in the US, challenges this simplistic representation, raising profound questions for historians, citizens and activists alike.
Citing a huge range of German- and English-language sources – there are nearly 100 pages of references – he argues that, contrary to popular understanding, Hitler and the Nazi party elite showed a ‘willingness to compromise with the German people when the political stakes were high enough.’
This accommodation took a variety of forms ‘ranging from his delaying a policy until the people were ready to accept it to redirecting a course already taken in response to popular dissent, to simply not punishing those who publicly opposed a regime policy.’
A series of case studies make up the core of the book, including chapters on Hitler’s push to achieve power legally through the electoral system (with all the political compromises, incentivising and persuasion that come with this), and on the Nazi party’s struggle to subdue and overcome oppositional forces within the Protestant and Catholic churches.
Stoltzfus describes how the Nazi’s policy of (involuntary) euthanasia – established in secret in 1939 to minimise public concern – was significantly curtailed in 1941 after a public outcry led by Clemens August von Galen, the Catholic bishop of Munster.
Along with this important U-turn, two street protests stand out.
In 1943, in the city of Witten, around 300 women successfully demonstrated against the local Nazi chief who had manipulated the women’s food rations to force them to relocate to the countryside.
In the same year, hundreds of non-Jewish women protested in Rosenstrasse after their Jewish husbands had been rounded up in Berlin, their likely final destination a death camp. In reaction to the days-long demonstration most of the men were released, the defiant women saving ‘some two thousand German Jews from death in the Holocaust’, according to Stoltzfus.
Though it deals with some of the darkest events of the twentieth century, Hitler’s Compromises is ultimately a hopeful book, highlighting how there is political space for dissent, however limited, in even the harshest of dictatorships.
Moreover, for peace activists, Stoltzfus provides compelling evidence that nonviolent action was successful in forcing the government’s hand on a variety of issues in Nazi Germany, important victories that deserve to be better known – and remembered in any discussions about the effectiveness of nonviolent activism.
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Conversations with Artists
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective, and a member of the pioneering industrial band Throbbing Gristle and the experimental group Psychic TV. In 2000, P-Orridge embarked on the project Pandrogeny with long-time collaborator and partner Lady Jaye Breyer (1969–2007). In “a test of how fully two people could integrate their own lives, bodies, and consciousness,” the two underwent surgeries to closely resemble each other and attain a “perfecting hermaphroditic state.” Since Lady Breyer’s death, P-Orridge continues to represent the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the material world, while Lady Jaye represents it in the immaterial world, creating an ongoing interdimensional collaboration. In conversation with Siobhan Rigg, Associate Professor of New Media and Fine Arts and Art History Chair, The George Washington University.
$12; free for members and students. Includes admission to special exhibition. Reservations required
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South Korean army soldiers stand guard inside a guard post behind ribbons hanging on a wire fence wishing for the reunification of the two Koreas at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom on May 16. | Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo
Republicans buck Trump on Korea troop pullout talk
By JACQUELINE KLIMAS and WESLEY MORGAN
Republicans and defense experts are warning that President Donald Trump’s idea of pulling American troops from South Korea would undermine stability across Asia and weaken the U.S. against China.
One GOP senator, Alaska's Dan Sullivan, is pushing legislative language touting the importance of the U.S. military presence in deterring North Korean aggression — in contrast to Trump’s repeated calls for withdrawing American forces someday. And other Republicans have sounded that theme since Tuesday’s summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore, where the president expressed a desire to eventually “bring our soldiers back home.”
“There’s a reason we’ve had a U.S. presence there, and it’s always served its purpose,” Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), a former Air Force B-1 bomber pilot, said in an interview Wednesday. Stewart said U.S. forces should leave only if something happens to ease the threat from Pyongyang, such as a future peace agreement that unifies the two Koreas.
“I don’t think we necessarily need to have troops there 100 years from now under certain circumstances,” Stewart said. “But those circumstances need to be very tightly defined, and we’re a ways away from that.”
The defense authorization bill being considered by the Senate includes language championed by Sullivan that says the American troop presence in South Korea “continues to play a critical role in safeguarding the peaceful and stable rules-based international order that benefits all countries.”
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Trump spoke about withdrawing from South Korea as a presidential candidate, citing the cost to U.S. taxpayers of maintaining the tens of thousands of troops who have remained there since the Korean War ended 65 years ago. But at the summit on Tuesday, he acknowledged that "that’s not part of the equation right now. At some point, I hope it will be, but not right now.”
Even so, security and defense analysts say Trump may be drastically underestimating the importance of the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea: Withdrawing them could could lead Japan to question why it continues to host more than 50,000 American troops — especially when those troops repeatedly get into trouble for actions including drunken driving and sexual assault. And a loss of the American presence in Japan could force the U.S. out of the region entirely, Brookings Institution fellow Ryan Hass said.
“The fear is if we were going to draw down our presence [in Korea], the only place we would still have permanent troops in northeast Asia is Japan,” said Hass, who previously served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia on former President Barack Obama’s National Security Council. “I can imagine a situation where Japanese voters start asking, ‘Why are we the only suckers in Asia stuck with American troops?’”
The fear: Withdrawing from the region entirely would diminish U.S. influence in the Asia-Pacific, leaving a vacuum for China to fill. Having U.S. troops in South Korea also demonstrates a clear commitment to American alliances and provides a forward presence to deter aggression.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis last week ruled out the idea of pulling out of South Korea anytime soon, saying on June 3: “We're not going anywhere. It's not even a subject of the discussions.”
But on Monday, Mattis told reporters that he wasn’t sure whether a possible future troop reduction would even be on the table in Singapore. "I don't believe it is,” he said. When asked whether he would know if the topic was on the agenda, Mattis said, “Yes, I sure would.”
Trump places a big midterm bet on trade talk and North Korea deal
By CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO and BEN WHITE
Trump’s words in Singapore raised doubts about Mattis' previous reassurances, as did the president's pledge to end U.S. military “war games” in the peninsula.
After the summit, several Republican lawmakers publicly broke with Trump on the future of the U.S. presence in South Korea.
“As far as moving troops off the Korean Peninsula, I think we need to stay there,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told Time magazine. "We don’t just withdraw our troops."
“The one thing that I would violently disagree with is removing our troops,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on NBC. “That would destabilize Asia. That’s what China wants. That doesn’t make the world more peaceful, it makes it more dangerous.”
On the other hand, a successful effort by Trump to normalize relations with North Korea could create a new set of problems with China if American troops remain on the peninsula.
“If through some miraculous process, we’re able to achieve rapid near-term denuclearization, it will have the unintended effect of opening up a broader set of challenges," Hass said. "If we keep a presence there, the Chinese will complain alliances are pointed against them."
But Hass added that he found a “reluctant tolerance” to continued U.S. presence in South Korea during a recent trip to Beijing.
It’s unclear if U.S. military officials in the region knew ahead of time that Trump would talk about bringing American forces home at some point in the future. But some experts speculated that the military was caught off guard by the remarks.
“By not discussing his remarks beforehand with allies, by not discussing with the military command concerned, Trump is also raising the risk of post-summit fallout with the very adversary he’s been courting,” said Mira Rapp-Hooper of the Center for a New American Security.
Despite the broad criticism of Trump’s remarks, some experts argue that rethinking the U.S. troop presence in South Korea is a smart step. Michael Auslin, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, said the mindset of an alliance serving as a “open-ended blank check" from the United States is beginning to change.
Trump-Kim summit
Trump’s fuzzy timeline on North Korea denuclearization
By ANNIE KARNI and ELIANA JOHNSON
“Historically, alliances do not last for 60, 70 years,” he said during a media roundtable this week in Stanford, Calif. "They don’t. They’re temporary, they’re designed to deal with a specific problem and then they break apart."
David Kang, the director of the University of Southern California’s Korean Studies Institute, pointed to past U.S. drawdowns as evidence that the current troop presence is not necessarily some magic number.
“We’ve been able to draw down tens of thousands of troops without weakening South Korea,” Kang said. “We shouldn’t say, 'They’re there, therefore they must stay there forever.' It’s a question we have to ask. ... An alliance can be very strong without U.S. troops there.”
At 28,500, the U.S. presence in South Korea is the smallest it has been since before the Korean War. And in recent years, the main combat unit there has rotated in from stateside, rather than living in South Korea permanently as U.S. brigades and divisions did for decades and some support units still do.
U.S. troop levels have gradually fallen from a peak of about 325,000 troops on the peninsula during the Korean War. During heightened tensions in the Demilitarized Zone in the late 1960s, the U.S. had more than 65,000 troops in South Korea. The number then hovered around 40,000 troops for decades after former President Richard Nixon cut troop levels in 1971, then dropped to between 30,000 and 40,000 in the 1990s, when the George H.W. Bush administration also removed American nuclear weapons from South Korea.
In recent decades, the main U.S. ground combat formation on the peninsula has been the 2nd Infantry Division. But that unit’s presence dropped to a single ground combat brigade of tanks and armored vehicles plus aviation and support units when the George W. Bush administration cut the troop count to a little under 30,000 in the mid-2000s, when the Army needed some Korea-based troops to fight in Iraq.
The Korea-based armored brigade deactivated in 2015 as the Army shrank and moved to a rotational model for its presence in Korea and Europe. Currently, a brigade from the Georgia-based 3rd Infantry Division is deployed to the peninsula.
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Castleford Tigers boss looking for reaction after 'criminal' cup display
Castleford Tigers head coach Daryl Powell.
Tony Harber
Published: 19:37 Tuesday 14 May 2019
Daryl Powell is demanding a big improvement all round from his Castleford Tigers players when they travel to Emerald Headingley to take on Leeds Rhinos tonight.
In a battle of two wounded animals following their hugely disappointing Challenge Cup exits the Tigers are looking to begin to get their season back on track and the head coach is expecting a reaction from the players after labelling last week’s display as unacceptable.
Powell said: “I thought before last week we’ve been okay. Even though we obviously haven’t won the games we wanted to we’ve been pretty stripped with injuries and we’ve been hanging in and losing tight games.
“But last week was a bit different, I didn’t enjoy the game at all and we need to learn some pretty harsh lessons from that and then move on and be much better in all areas.
“Sport has a way of reminding you that hard work is probably the most important area of everything and I’d like to see us put that right this week.
“If we play well we are confident we can put them under pressure, but we can’t do what we did last week.
“Some of the things we did then were criminal. We are aware of it, we’ve had a couple of pretty harsh meetings.
“Half-time last week wasn’t a great place to be, there was a little bit of honesty, but ultimately we’ve got a season to get into and we need to get after it.
“I am confident we will do that. The first signs should come on Thursday and we’ll take it from there.”
Castleford go into the Rhinos game on the back of four straight defeats – the first time this has happened in a season since Powell took charge – and they are looking to impose themselves on the game early on after being left with too much to do following poor starts in their last two matches.
Powell said: “We’ve started games poorly quite a few times this year, the Hull game, Warrington last week, the Leeds and Wigan games not too long ago. They are games when we haven’t come out of the changing rooms in a positive way. We’ve got to look at ways to sort that out.
“We’ve highlighted that with the players and they are well aware of it. We need to move on and get out there this week and start the game really well.
“It’s something we’ve been great at in the past, but at the moment it’s something that’s eluding us a little bit.
Daryl Powell: Having Castleford Tigers players in and around England squads says a lot about the club
“The disappointing thing at the moment is that motivation sometimes needs to be given to the team rather than it being internal.
“I am looking for more internal motivation and drive for the rest of this season.”
Castleford have lost another two players to injury since last week with back rower Chris Clarkson and young hooker Jacques O’Neill being ruled out, but the senior players who returned to action last week came through okay.
Powell explained: “Chris Clarkson is not available from last week. He got a leg injury, but Jesse, Paul McShane and Grant Millington came through okay.
“Paul McShane probably shouldn’t have played last week, but it was an important game.
“I think I’ll have to call on another debutant for the squad this week. Jacques O’Neill got a head knock in training and he would have been 19th man.”
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Paul Z Jackson on the Myths of Improvisation
May 20, 2015 / Patrick H Short
Over the weekend, my family was invited to a very pleasant backyard dinner with three families. Talk always turns to what we all do, and it did. There was a professor of German, an advertising exec, a project manager for Xerox and a gentleman who works in renewable energy membership programs for utilities.
“So you two own a comedy club?” Yes, we do, but there’s a little more to it, and off we went. I’m always interested in what other people do, and how they do it, but I’m finding that we are a curiosity.
The inevitable “I could never do that,” and “I’m not funny enough, ” came up. Frankly, most of the time offstage, we’re not funny, either. And this got me to pondering, in a quiet moment over iced latte and ice cream, about the myths that continue to weigh us down in improvisation.
Today, I caught a tweet in the feed from Paul Z Jackson, the President of the Applied Improvisation Network, about the myths of improvisation. I could rewrite what he said, but I’d rather just pass it along:
“Experienced improvisers tend to be very enthusiastic about their craft. Yet many people unfamiliar with improvisation imagine they won’t enjoy it. They feel daunted or even frightened. It’s a response that goes beyond a natural caution when dealing with the unexpected – after all, we face uncertainty every day.
This contrast can perhaps be accounted for by various myths circulating about improvisation. Here is the first of three of the most prevalent.
Myth #1: You have to be funny
One myth says you have to be funny. This myth has two main sources. The first is that many people see improvisers creating comedy shows on stage or on TV (Whose Line Is It Anyway? as perhaps the most popular example), so they simply equate improvisation with the performance of comedy. In my view, improvisation is not necessarily about performance or about comedy. The second source is that even in contexts where there is no performing, the moment of improvisation is often funny because of the element of surprise. Laughter is generated by wit or by relief from the straitjackets of tension.
Of course it’s okay to perform and it’s wonderful to be funny. But the principles and techniques of improvisation are not about being funny, and trying to be funny is generally a mistake. It’s also a misleading trap, responsible for excluding people who think they cannot be – or who have no desire to be – funny.
Improvisation is about connecting, listening, adding, engaging with uncertainty, been present in the moment, attending to the here and now. You might do that for the purpose of being funny. Equally, you might be aiming to get better work from a team; or using improvisation skills to be more confident in how you present yourself.”
Myth #2: Improvisation is for when it goes wrong
You are often called upon to improvise when things don’t go according to plan.
Many of the natural language uses of improvisation reflect this. For example, “It was raining, I did not have my umbrella with me so I improvised some shelter with a sheet of newspaper.” Or, “We were ship-wrecked on the beach so we improvised a hut.”
But it’s not always when something is wrong or plans go awry: it may be that circumstances are slightly unusual or unexpected. You watch a football match and the sports commentator says, “Oh, he wasn’t expecting the winger to make that run, so he’s improvised a clever pass inside.”
Our view is that you can also improvise as a deliberate first choice – with no question of anything having gone wrong. Suppose you know that you will be facing conditions of uncertainty. Or you know that you want to create something new with other people. In such circumstances it makes good sense to choose to improvise. You appreciate that you don’t need to have everything planned. You come in ready to see what happens, to adapt and to respond as events unfold.
Now you find yourself improvising as things go well, able to delay decision-making until the optimum moment, operating with more information, with timely responses to exactly what’s there.
This is the quality of improvisation recognised by surgeons, firefighters and the military. You find it in organisations that devolve responsibility to a front-line, because they appreciate complexity and value what emerges. It accompanies a view of the world not as a static, mechanical model with traditional cause-and-effect predictability, but as a more flexible place, in which reality is not a simple and obvious given, but co-constructed as we go along, client and practitioner, person to person.
That is the sort of improvisation we’re primarily focusing on here: Improvisation by design, where you do it by choice, build your skills and flourish by applying them.
The third myth says that improvisation is chaos.
It’s not. There’s a continuum from complete predictability through complexity and onto complete chaos.
Chaos is chaos, where there’s no structure, no order and no predictability. Improvisation applies best in conditions of complexity – when there’s both structure and freedom; planning and responding. A great deal of our lives takes place in those conditions.
We are always adapting and responding within the normal circumstances of everyday life. Almost every conversation is unscripted, for example. Unless a journey is utterly routine, it will contain improvisational elements – what you see along the way, who you interact with. So it makes sense to think about improvisation as offering support for everyday life, which is somewhere between chaos on the one hand and formulaic fixed structure on the other.
There are doubtless other myths of improvisation; those are three key ones we hear a lot, and it’s good to dispel them so that we can really get cracking on the bits that matter.”
Paul’s blog is at http://www.impro.org.uk/blog, and you can email him at info@impro.org.uk.
May 20, 2015 / Patrick H Short/ Comment
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Pippa Norris is the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Electoral Integrity Project.
An Anglo-American political scientist and public speaker, her research compares election and public opinion, political communications, and gender politics around the world.
New books in 2017-18 focus on Strengthening Electoral Integrity (2017 Cambridge), Election Watchdogs (ed. 2017 Oxford), Why American Elections are Flawed (2017 Cornell), Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian-Populism (2018 Cambridge, with Ronald Inglehart) and Electoral Integrity in America (ed. 2018 Oxford University Press).
Her work has been recognized by her elected fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the George H. Hallett book award for Political Recruitment for making 'a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems', the 2017 Sir Isaiah Berlin Award for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies, the 2017 International Engagement Award, the 2016 Brown Medal for Democracy, the 2016 Academic Leadership in Political Science award by the Australian Political Studies Association, the 2014 Karl Deutsch prize awarded by the International Political Science Association to recognize 'a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research', the 2011 Johan Skytte prize awarded with Professor Ronald Inglehart for 'contributing innovative ideas about the relevance and roots of political culture in a global context', the Kathleen Kitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship awarded in 2011 by the Australian Research Council, a 'special recognition' award by the UK Political Studies Association, a Doctor honoris causa for work 'at the forefront of global political science' by the University of Edinburgh, an honorary Doctor of Law by the University of Warwick, an honorary Doctorate from Leuphana University, the Doris Graber award for the 'best book in political communications' at APSA, and the Virginia Hodgkinson book prize from the Independent Sector.
Pippa Norris being presented with the Karl Deutsch Award, IPSA World Congress, Montreal, 2014
In 2012 she established the Electoral Integrity Project, an independent research project supported by the Australian Research Council and other foundations and partners. She directs the research team based at the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The project focuses on why elections fail, why this matters, and what can be done to strengthen integrity. EIP works with local teams of researchers in Mexico, Russia and India, as well as with international agencies including UN women, UNDP, the OSCE and EU, the Australian Electoral Commission, IFES, the Carter Center, ACEEEO, UN-DPA, USAID, and International IDEA. This award winning research project has generated a series of policy reports and outreach commentary, as well as scientific datasets and scholarly books.
Presenting new research on electoral integrity at the United Nations with Massimo Tommasoli, International IDEA and Maarten Halff, Department of Political Affairs.
She has published almost fifty books. This includes Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and the Rise of Authoritarian-Populism (with Ronald Inglehart, Cambridge University Press, 2019), Pippa Norris et al Electoral Integrity in America (Oxford 2019), Pippa Norris and Alessando Nai (Eds) Election Watchdogs: Transparency & Accountability (Oxford UP 2017), Pippa Norris Why American Elections are Flawed (Cornell 2017), and Pippa Norris Strengthening Electoral Integrity (Cambridge UP 2017). Her current research focuses upon a new book, In Praise of Skepticism: Trust but Verify with Will Jennings and Gerry Stoker (under development from the ESRC-funded TrustGov project).
For popular commentary on public affairs, she can be followed on Twitter @PippaN15 and through her blog commentary in outlets such as the Monkey Cage, LSE Blog, Vox, and The Conversation. Her work generates widespread coverage in the news media around the world.
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She has served as the Director of the Democratic Governance Group at the United Nations Development Program in New York and as an expert consultant for many international bodies including the UN, UNDP, UNESCO, UN Women, NDI, the Council of Europe, IFES, International IDEA, the OSCE, the World Bank, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Australian Electoral Commission, and the UK Electoral Commission.
She has served on executive councils for the American Political Science Association (APSA), the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the Political Science Association of the UK (PSA), and the World Values Survey Association.
Within APSA, she has been Vice-President of APSA and president of the Women and Politics Research Section and the Political Communications Section, the Vice-President and President of the Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior section, and the executive of the British Politics Group and the Representation and Elections Section.
She has also been Co-Founding Chair of the Elections, Parties, and Public Opinion Group (EPOP) of the PSA, and IPSA’s Elections, Citizens and Parties Research Committee.
Prior affiliations & Education
Prior to joining Harvard in 1992, she taught at Edinburgh University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Philosophy (Hons) from Warwick University, and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
At Harvard, she teaches Fall semester classes on Comparative Politics and Authoritarian-Populism in the Kennedy School of Government. She is affiliated with the Government Department, the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, the Weatherhead Center for Public Affairs, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, the Ash Center on Democracy, the Carr Center on Human Rights, and the Center for International Development. She can be contacted at Pippa_Norris@Harvard.edu and followed @PippaN15.
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The Piqua community has always supported Catholic education. Both St. Boniface and St. Mary Catholic Churches had their own K-12 parish schools. In 1930, the two parishes combined their High School programs to form Piqua Catholic High School. After nearly 40 years of operating the high school together, high enrollment and rising costs led to the combining of several Catholic high schools to form Lehman Catholic High School in Sidney in 1971. The two parish grade schools continued to operate, independent of one another, until 1987, when they combined once again to form Piqua Catholic Elementary School. Since 1987, the Kindergarten through third grades have been at the St. Boniface School building on Downing Street and the fourth through eighth grades have been at the St. Mary School building on North Street. The 2013-2014 school year saw yet another change at Piqua Catholic School with all of the Kindergarten through eighth grade students moving under one roof at the North Street Campus.
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This review is taken from PN Review 69, Volume 16 Number 1, September - October 1989.
GROWING FROM LOSS Marina Tsvetayeva, Selected Poems, translated by David McDuff (Bloodaxe Books) £6.95 pb.
This new book of translations by David McDuff is a welcome contribution to the growing body of literature about Marina Tsvetayeva (1892-1941), and those who penetrate beyond the gaudy cover and the sensation-seeking blurb will find it rewarding indeed. Unfortunately, many who merely leaf through the book in shop or library, or read the publisher's advertising sheet will retain a vague impression that Tsvetayeva was one more martyred Russian poet, "driven to hang herself" by the wicked Soviets, a precursor to Bloodaxe's 'sellout' publishing success, Irina Ratushinskaya.
Such misapprehensions will in part be dispersed by the translator's introduction, which gives us the facts of Tsvetayeva's life in Russia and in the emigration and an interesting translator's-eye view of her poetry. It should be said, however, that Lidia Chukovskaya, whose memoirs are a prime source for Tsvetayeva's last weeks, was the daughter, not the wife of Korney Chukovsky. Also, the assumption that a room in the centre of Moscow next door to the Writer's Union where Tsvetayeva and her son "could eat at its modestly-priced refectory" was the "only place she could find" after the arrest of her husband and daughter betrays a startling ignorance of Soviet life.
Tsvetayeva had returned to the USSR in 1939, at the height of Stalin's third round of purges and on the eve of war. She was immediately involved in and soon swallowed up by the mass tragedies, but the literary 'establishment' did make some clumsy attempts to alleviate her ...
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Orange Is the New Black star Yael Stone accuses Geoffrey Rush of sexual harassment
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Stone, in an interview with The New York Times, says the Oscar-winning actor spied on her while she showered, danced naked and sent her inappropriate text messages when they worked together earlier this decade on The Diary of a Madman. Rush denied Stone's allegations, saying in a statement: “I sincerely and deeply regret if I have caused her any distress. This, most certainly, has never been my intention.”
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Icefish Study Adds Another Color to the Story of Blood
By John Rennie
The rainbow of pigments that animals use for blood illustrates a central truth about evolution.
The Antarctic blackfin icefish is the only known vertebrate animal that lacks red blood cells containing hemoglobin. But the use of hemoglobin to transport oxygen through the body is actually a rarity among invertebrates, which rely on a variety of other pigments in their versions of blood.
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In February, a genomics study appearing in Nature Ecology & Evolution drew attention to the bizarre Antarctic blackfin icefish, which swim in the brutally cold waters off the coast of the southernmost continent. The icefish of the Channichthyidae family are unusual in several ways — they lack scales and have transparent bones, for example — but what stands out most is their so-called white blood, which is unique among vertebrates. These fish are the only ones known to have neither red blood cells nor hemoglobin pigments for transporting oxygen. Oxygen simply diffuses into their circulating blood plasma from the frigid seawater by way of the fish’s enlarged gills and smooth skin.
By looking at the genome of one icefish species, the researchers were able to peek at the evolutionary adaptations that allowed it to survive. Some were common to red-blooded fish that are also native to Antarctic waters, like the presence of extra genes for making blood proteins that act like antifreeze. Some were more distinctive to the icefish’s lack of red blood cells, such as a boost in the enzymes that protect tissues from the highly reactive free oxygen in its blood.
Odd as the icefish may seem, what makes it peculiar among vertebrates is the norm across the rest of the animal kingdom. Most invertebrates carry genes for hemoglobins, but they generally use other metalloprotein pigments in their versions of blood. Insects, crustaceans and other arthropods use hemocyanin, a bluish copper-based pigment. Mollusks, ranging from clams to squids and octopuses, use hemocyanin, too, but they seem to have invented their version of it independently. Some worms use purplish hemerythrin; others use greenish chlorocruorin; some use a combination of pigments.
It may seem puzzling that so many varieties of blood exist, and more puzzling still that while invertebrates have experimented wildly, vertebrates — aside from the icefish — have stayed universally loyal to the kind with red cells and hemoglobin. The explanation is deeply entrenched in the history of life, going back to the earliest cells.
An Affinity for Oxygen
From the very beginning of life, cells needed to move electrons around between molecules as part of their metabolism, explained Ross Hardison, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Pennsylvania State University. As controls over these redox (oxidation-reduction) reactions, cells deployed ring-shaped molecules called porphyrins. When these porphyrins held a metal atom like iron or copper, they had a ferocious affinity for oxygen. “Once you have an iron in that porphyrin ring, it’s used throughout the biosphere,” Hardison said. He speculated that it “might be one of the earliest molecules that eventually got incorporated into cells.”
Hemoglobin arose out of four interlinked globin proteins, each holding a heme, and it rapidly became ubiquitous. “Hemoglobins predate the origin of animals and even predate the common ancestor of animals and plants,” said Mark Siddall, a curator in the division of invertebrate biology at the American Museum of Natural History.
When respiring animals were only a few cells thick, they could count on diffusion to satisfy their needs for oxygen. But when they grew too bulky for simple diffusion to continue to oxygenate their tissues, hemoglobin was ingeniously ready for the job.
The secret of hemoglobin’s success is collaborative bonding: With every oxygen molecule that the pigment binds, it can bind to the next one more easily, until all four vacancies are filled. This makes hemoglobin extremely efficient at collecting oxygen where it’s abundant (as in the open air and in lungs) and then releasing it again gradually in oxygen-starved tissues.
Vertebrates typically carry genes for several variant globin proteins with finely tuned uses. For example, fetal mammals have a special hemoglobin in their blood with extra affinity for oxygen, which helps them to draw oxygen out of the maternal blood supply in the placenta. Our skeletal muscles make myoglobin, a single globin protein ancestral to hemoglobin, which helps muscle hang on to a reserve of oxygen to use during exercise.
But as good as hemoglobin is, it’s not the ideal molecule for transporting oxygen in all circumstances. Consider hemocyanin, which is so widely used among invertebrates. Hemocyanin is less efficient than hemoglobin at grabbing oxygen because it, like the other hemoglobin alternatives, usually does not bond collaboratively. But the disadvantage of collaborative bonding is that hemoglobin performs worse when oxygen is in short supply. Hemoglobin’s effectiveness also drops with temperature. Consequently, for creatures like octopuses and crabs that live on or near the cold ocean floor, hemocyanin may be a more practical choice.
For insects, it’s different. Their equivalent to blood is hemolymph, a mostly clear fluid that contains small amounts of hemocyanin. But they generally don’t rely on this hemolymph to transport oxygen. Most insects breathe through a network of “tracheal tubes” that pervade their tissues and connect to the air through openings in the exoskeleton. The “open” circulatory system of insects doesn’t have vessels like capillaries to direct the hemolymph; instead, the hemolymph sloshes through the body cavity and helps to distribute dissolved nutrients. The hemocyanin may be in the hemolymph just to help insects store oxygen for later use.
Hemerythrin, the blood pigment found in annelids (segmented worms), leeches and certain other worms, has a deceptive name, because it contains no heme at all. However, like hemoglobin, it is an iron-based pigment descended from a family of ancient proteins that early bacteria used to control redox reactions. Hemerythin has only about one-quarter the oxygen capacity of hemoglobin, though this seems to serve the worms adequately. The pigment also seems to have some immunological functions.
A Toxic Triple Threat
Even if the alternative blood pigments are generally a poor second to hemoglobin at grabbing oxygen, they do have an advantage in terms of simplicity: They usually don’t need something like a red blood cell to hold them. In squids, lobsters and the other blue-blooded animals, for example, hemocyanin is dissolved directly in their plasma. This approach works because hemocyanin, hemerythrin and the other pigments are big, frequently polymerized molecules that keep their oxygen-binding metal atoms tucked away from casual interactions. Conversely, hemoglobin is small and its aggressively reactive heme is easily exposed, which makes it highly toxic — so much so that our livers make a protein, haptoglobin, to scavenge stray hemoglobin from broken blood cells out of our blood.
From a toxicity standpoint, hemoglobin is a triple threat, explained Pampee Young, the chief medical officer of biomedical services for the American Red Cross. Heme has even greater affinity for nitric oxide than oxygen, and the body uses nitric oxide as a signaling molecule to control blood pressure. Excess free hemoglobin will therefore rob the blood of nitric oxide, constrict blood vessels and potentially cause hypertension and reduced blood flow to the organs. Compounding the problem is that hemoglobin, when unprotected in blood plasma, decomposes into its component globin subunits. The naked heme molecules then randomly attack the lipid membranes and other structures in the tissues, damaging them. And as a coup de grâce, the isolated globin proteins can clog the filtration system of the kidneys and shut them down.
Packaging hemoglobin into red blood cells (erythrocytes) helps to contain the toxicity problems. It also makes the distribution of oxygen more efficient by keeping the hemoglobin inside the blood vessels: The molecule is otherwise so small that some of it would leak out into the tissues and fall out of circulation.
The Perils of Justifying Evolution
Human red blood cells are particularly optimized for the job of oxygen distribution. They are compact, flexible and shaped like biconcave disks, which helps them slip through narrow capillaries and gives them a high volume-to-surface area ration, so they can hold a lot of hemoglobin and oxygen. Moreover, human erythrocytes go a step further than those in most species by ejecting their nucleus and other organelles after stockpiling all the proteins they will need for the balance of their lives — what’s left is “basically a bag of hemoglobin,” Young said. The cells pay a penalty for that streamlining, however: Because of their limited ability to repair the wear and tear of pushing through capillaries, circulating human red cells have a lifespan of only about 120 days.
When red cells die, the body converts the hemoglobin down into somewhat less toxic compounds including the green pigment biliverdin. (The green color of a healing bruise is from biliverdin.) Too much biliverdin in a human causes jaundice, but biliverdin is normally present in the blood of certain insects and fish, even though it does not transport oxygen. Last year, the herpetologists Christopher Austin and Zachary Rodriguez of Louisiana State University and Susan Perkins, a parasite researcher in the division of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History, reported on their genetic analysis of certain skinks from New Guinea that have so much biliverdin in their blood that its green overpowers the hemoglobin’s red. (“They have something like 50 times the amount of biliverdin that it would take to kill a human being,” Perkins said.) Genetic evidence suggests that this trait evolved four separate times among these lizards, which led researchers to think that the biliverdin might help protect the skinks from malaria or other parasitic infections. Unfortunately for that theory, preliminary evidence suggests that’s not the case, Perkins said, which leaves it mysterious why evolution favors the trait so much in this one small group.
The green blood of the skinks illustrates the perils of trying to justify the variety of blood pigments in nature as purely adaptive. Much of evolution depends on historical contingency, too. The earliest organisms had many oxygen-controlling pigments at their disposal. But once lineages of organisms committed to using certain ones for certain jobs, it may have been difficult if not impossible for them to drastically revise that choice. The reason that vertebrates show less diversity in their blood pigments than invertebrates do is simply that invertebrates are a much more diverse group of organisms overall (all vertebrates fall within a single phylum, Chordata, while invertebrates are in more than 30).
The unusual blood of icefish doesn’t contradict this generalization; it actually confirms it. When biologists discovered that icefish had clear blood in the 1950s, they at first assumed it was an adaptation to the cold. Subsequent work, however, pointed to the icefish’s loss of hemoglobin genes as more of a lucky accident. In most environments, that mutation would have been fatal. But because the frigid Antarctic waters hold more dissolved oxygen than warmer water does, and because the ancestors of icefish probably already had some adaptations to help them prosper in the cold, the fish survived. It may be true, as Louis Pasteur said, that chance favors the prepared mind, but having a well-prepared genome doesn’t hurt.
This article was reprinted on ScientificAmerican.com.
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Bloggers are ordered by those who most recently posted. For an alphabetical list please see the directory.
Alberta Diary
David Climenhaga, author of the Alberta Diary blog, is a journalist, author, journalism teacher, poet and trade union communicator who has worked in senior writing and editing positions with the Toronto Globe and Mail and the Calgary Herald. His 1995 book, A Poke in the Public Eye, explores the relationships among Canadian journalists, public relations people and politicians. He left journalism after the strike at the Calgary Herald in 1999 and 2000 to work for the trade union movement. Alberta Diary focuses on Alberta politics and social issues.
rabble.ca's staff blog
This is [i]rabble.ca[/i]'s staff blog. Visit this blog regularly for updates about rabble, comments and observations from staff members, and occasional visits by board members and volunteers.
The Whole Picture
A blog about and with musings on community spaces, community building, and the struggle to prevent burnout in activist Canada. Have a cool community space or project you would like profiled? Contact Tania at [url=mailto:tania@rabble.ca]tania@rabble.ca[/url] or on Twitter [url=https://twitter.com/TaniaEhret]@taniaehret.[/url]
Activist Communiqué
Krystalline Kraus is an intrepid journalist and veteran reporter for rabble.ca since its 2001 beginnings. She needs neither a red cape nor safety goggles to fly into her latest political assignment. She often live-tweets from events -- almost exclusively First Nations and environmental issues. You can follow her on Twitter @krystalline_k.
A change is gonna come
Sam Cooke's song, "A Change Is Gonna Come," offered hope during the Civil Rights Movement. Today, it reminds me that it's a long, slow, sometimes tiring walk to freedom and I need to remain focused on the goal -- an equitable world.
Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author, and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. He is Companion to the Order of Canada and a recipient of UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for science, the United Nations Environment Program medal, the 2009 Right Livelihood Award, and Global 500. Dr. Suzuki is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and holds 26 honorary degrees from universities around the world. He is familiar to television audiences as host of the long-running CBC television program The Nature of Things, and to radio audiences as the original host of CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks, as well as the acclaimed series It's a Matter of Survival and From Naked Ape to Superspecies. His written work includes more than 52 books, 19 of them for children. Dr. Suzuki lives with his wife, Dr. Tara Cullis, and family in Vancouver, B.C.
Dented Blue Mercedes
Mercedes Allen is a graphic designer and advocate for transsexual and transgender communities in Alberta. She writes on equality, human rights, LGBT and sexual minority issues in Canada, and the cross-border pollination of far-right spin. She blogs at Dented Blue Mercedes and operates a trans information website at http://www.albertatrans.org/
The Activist Toolkit Blog
The Activist Toolkit Blog is the place to catch up on what's new with the Toolkit. With weekly roundups of newly added tools, highlights of featured tools and extra multimedia content, you'll get up to date info on grassroots organizing. Check out the full activist toolkit at [url=http://rabble.ca/toolkit]rabble.ca/toolkit[/url].
Child Care Canada Now
The Childcare Resource and Research Unit's blog Child Care Canada NOW features commentary by Martha Friendly, CRRU director, other CRRU staff and featured guest writers. Child Care Canada NOW runs the gamut of ECEC topics from the cradle to the cabinet table as it addresses key current ECEC issues and connects the dots that link practice, research, policy and politics. Visit the Childcare Resource and Research Unit's website at www.childcarecanada.org
The Views Expressed
The Views Expressed here showcase a variety of progressive voices from critics, writers, thinkers and activists across Canada. You'll find ideas and commentary on politics, cultural happenings, activist actions and more! Submissions can be sent to [url=mailto:editor@rabble.ca]editor@rabble.ca[/url]. The [i]rabble.ca[/i] editorial team promises to read them all, and publish our favourites.
Award-winning author and journalist Penney Kome has published six non-fiction books and hundreds of periodical articles, as well as writing a national column for 12 years and a local (Calgary) column for four years. She was Editor of Straightgoods.com from 2004 - 2013.
Cathy Crowe's blog
Cathy Crowe is a street nurse, author and filmmaker who works nationally and locally on health and social justice issues. She has fostered numerous coalitions and advocacy initiatives that have achieved significant public policy victories. In 1998 she co-founded the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee which issued the 1998 homelessness State of Emergency Declaration that declared homelessness a national disaster and resulted in a new federal program to respond to homelessness. Her work is the subject of a moving documentary titled Street Nurse, directed by Shelley Saywell. Cathy’s website is www.cathycrowe.ca. Follow her on Twitter @cathyacrowe.
Greening the Media
The basic premise of Greening the Media is simple: if we want a greener planet and a sustainable future, we need better media. I'm concerned with the intersection (collision?) of environment/energy/climate issues, with the structures and practices of journalism and media. The blog also offers relevant political and personal reflections, and perhaps the occasional rant -- the corporate media sometimes deserve no less.
Brent Patterson
Brent Patterson is a political activist and writer. He has worked in solidarity with revolutionary Nicaragua, advocated for the rights of prisoners in jails and federal prisons, taken part in civil disobedience actions in Toronto's financial district and at the Ontario Legislature, and participated in street protests at the Battle of Seattle and at UN climate summits. He supported cross-country activism at The Council of Canadians for almost 20 years. Brent has a BA in Political Science from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA in International Relations from York University. He lives in Ottawa on the traditional, unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Algonquin nation.
Linda Leon's Blog
Yukon is full of artists, thinkers, eccentrics and rabble-rousing political trouble makers. From the windows of her [i]Acting Out Studio,[/i] Linda Leon observes the view from North. Every good artist knows that you have to stand far away to get a full perspective.
KAIROS Witness
In this monthly blog, KAIROS explores the social and ecological justice issues related to the extractive industry and watersheds, the rights of Indigenous peoples, women and migrant workers, and how to build movements of change. KAIROS brings awareness and offers insights on Canadian and global issues that are too often ignored.
The Journalism Doctor
From media executive to media critic, John Miller has seen journalism from all sides (and he often doesn't like what he sees). He draws on his 40 years in news, including five years as
deputy managing editor of the [i]Toronto Star[/i], and 10 years as chairman of the
School of Journalism at Ryerson University. His 1998 book [i]Yesterday's News[/i]
documented how newspapers were forfeiting their role as our primary information
source. This column originally appeared on John's blog, www.thejournalismdoctor.ca.
Raluca Bejan
Raluca Bejan is an Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, where she teaches courses in social policy and social movements. She has a PhD and a MSW from University of Toronto, and a BA in Political Sciences from the Lucian Blaga University, Faculty of Law, Sibiu, Romania. Raluca was a former Visiting Academic at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, U.K., in 2016 and 2018.
Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Founded in 2008, Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) is a national human rights organization whose mandate is to promote a just resolution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine through the application of international law and respect for the human rights of all parties. For more information about IJV visit: http://ijvcanada.org/
Voix juives indépendantes Canada, une organisation nationale des droits humains crée en 2008, a comme mandat de promouvoir une résolution juste et équitable au conflit Israélo-palestinien et la mise en œuvre et le respect autant, du droit international que des droits humains.
Indigenous Nationhood
Dr. Pamela D. Palmater is a Mi'kmaw lawyer and member of the Eel River Bar First Nation in New Brunswick. She teaches Indigenous law, politics and governance at Ryerson University and heads their Centre for Indigenous Governance.
Pulpit and Politics
Dennis Gruending is an Ottawa-based author, blogger and a former Member of Parliament. He has worked as a print and television journalist and a CBC Radio host. He is the author of six books, including the best-selling Great Canadian Speeches. He has written biographies of Emmett Hall, whose Royal Commission recommended medicare for Canada, and of former Saskatchewan premier Allan Blakeney. In his Pulpit and Politics blog, Dennis examines the connections and collisions between religious faith and politics. Prior to serving as an MP in the late 1990s, Dennis spent four years as Director of Information for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Pulpit and Politics examines the connection, and frequent collisions, between religious faith and politics. His blog can be found at: www.dennisgruending.ca
Analysis of Canadian water politics by the Council of Canadians' national water campaigner.
Judy Rebick's Blog
Judy Rebick is one of Canada's most celebrated and well-known feminist thinkers, critics and writers. She is the founder of rabble.ca.
Toward a world with commons and without psychiatry: The Bonnie Burstow blog
Dr. Bonnie Burstow is best known as a philosopher, a social theorist, an antipsychiatry activist, a feminist psychotherapist, and a prolific author. Deeply informed by anti-oppression and community engagement perspectives, she is the author of [i]Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting[/i] and is a regular contributor to [i][url=http://www.madinamerica.com]Mad in America.[/url][/i] She is also a faculty member in Adult Education and Community Development in OISE at the University of Toronto.
Open Media's blog
[url=https://openmedia.org/]OpenMedia[/url] works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free. We create community-driven campaigns to engage, educate and empower people to safeguard the Internet. Follow us on Twitter [url=https://twitter.com/OpenMediaOrg]@OpenMediaOrg[/url].
Susan on the Soapbox
Susan Wright is a lawyer with over 26 years of experience in oil, natural gas, petrochemicals and pipelines. She believes that engaged citizens can change the world. She writes a political blog called Susan on the Soapbox. The Soapbox received the 2013 Clawbie award for the best legal blog for a non-legal audience. Follow her on Twitter [url=https://twitter.com/susanspbx]@Susanspbx[/url].
Council of Canadians' blog
The Council of Canadians is Canada's largest citizens' organization, with members and chapters across the country. We work to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Established in 1960, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is a non-partisan non-governmental organization comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nations ECOSOC. For almost 50 years, VOW has tirelessly advocated for a world without war. VOW women blog about their work and experiences as feminist peace activists.
Policyfix
Policyfix is a blog of the [url=http://policyfix.ca/]CCPA Manitoba office[/url], providing thoughtful analysis of current issues and viable alternatives to government policy.
Brad Hornick's blog
Brad Hornick is a perpetual student now doing a Ph.D. studying the relationship of climate science to political activism. He is a socialist and Quaker, presently active with peoplesclimateconvergence.org, parisclimatejustice.org and systemchangenotclimatechange.org. He has worked for many environmental non-governmental organizations in various communications roles and has a special interest in graphic design. He has lived and travelled through much of Latin America. His particular interest in this blog is to mobilize the grand traditions of Western radical political theory in the service of understanding present environmental politics, particularly in the British Columbia context.
Song of the Watermelon
Song of the Watermelon offers opinion and information that skew towards the green and left sides of things.
Your Heart's On The Left
Jesse McLaren is a physician, activist and blogger, who like Virchow believes that if medicine is to accomplish its great task, it must intervene in political and social life. He blogs at www.yourheartsontheleft.blogspot.com, and tweets @HeartsOnTheLeft.
Eat Your Words!
Michael Pollan says that cooking is a political act. But how do politics really interact with the food that winds up on your plate? This blog will explore a buffet of topics at the intersection of food and politics. Expect posts on the state of migrant labour in Canada, the idea of ethnic authenticity and where the local food movement is now. [i]Bon appétit![/i]
Dr. Dawg's Blawg
John Baglow is a former VP of PSAC, currently a writer and researcher, public policy consultant, occasional academic and poet. He blogs at [url=http://drdawgsblawg.ca/]drdawgsblawg.ca[/url] and no longer tweets.
Nima Maleki's blog
Nima Maleki is a policy analyst and consultant. His writings focus on international relations and the impact of philosophy on politics and art. Nima is also studying communication, philosophy and politics at the European Graduate School.
Policy Note
Policy Note delivers timely, progressive commentary on issues that affect British Columbians, including the economy, poverty, inequality, climate change, provincial budgets, taxes, public services, employment and much more. Contributors include staff and research associates from the B.C. Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The views expressed on this blog are those of the individual contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of the CCPA. Visit the CCPA's Policy Note blog at [url=www.policynote.ca]www.PolicyNote.ca.[/url]
Mel Watkins's blog
Mel Watkins is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is Editor Emeritus of [i]This Magazine[/i] and a frequent contributor to [i]Peace[/i] magazine. He is a member of Pugwash Canada and former President of Science for Peace. Watkins is recipient of the 2008 inaugural Galbraith Prize in Economics and Social Justice awarded by the [url=http://www.progressive-economics.ca/author/mel-watkins/]Progressive Economics Forum.[/url]
Gerry Caplan's blog
Gerald Caplan has an MA in Canadian history and a Ph.D. in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He is an author, teacher, media commentator, and social and political activist with a lifelong commitment to African development. He is preoccupied with genocide and genocide prevention, particularly the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, about which he has frequently written. He has been a consultant on African development issues to many United Nations agencies as well as to the African Union. His latest book is called The Betrayal of Africa. He writes a weekly online column for the Globe and Mail.
Publisher's blog
Kim Elliott joined rabble in 2004 and became publisher in 2006. In her publisher's blog she'll explore the world of independent media, discussing both challenges and stories from the frontlines at rabble.ca.
Education in the Age of Climate Change
For the past 18 years Lizanne Foster has taught the humanities in secondary schools in Surrey, B.C. Education in the Age of Climate Change is a blog about public education in B.C. Follow her on Twitter [url=https://twitter.com/MovingParadigms]@movingparadigms [/url] or visit her blog www.teachteens.org.
Liz Kessler's blog
Liz Kessler is a writer, activist, fundraiser and urban gardener who lives in Winnipeg. She has spent more than 10 years advocating for accessibility for herself and for others with invisible disabilities, and offers consultation on radically supporting loved ones and community members with mental health challenges. You can follow her on Twitter [url=https://twitter.com/E_Kess]@e_kess. [/url]
Ben Powless
Ben Powless is a Mohawk citizen from Six Nations in Ontario, currently based in Ottawa. He works primarily with the Indigenous Environmental Network. He is an avid photographer and sporadic writer.
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Drug use statistics
KEY FINDINGS from the 2015/16 Crime Survey for England and Wales. Interesting information for workplace drug testing and drug testing statistics.
Around 1 in 12 (8.4%) adults aged 16 to 59 had taken a drug in the last year. This equated to around 2.7 million people. This level of drug use was similar to the 2014/15 survey (8.6%), but is statistically significantly lower than a decade ago (10.5% in the 2005/06 survey). The trend in last year drug use among 16 to 59 year olds has been flat for 7 years, since the 2009/10 survey.
Around 1 in 5 (18.0%) young adults aged 16 to 24 had taken a drug in the last year. This proportion is more than double that of the wider age group, and equates to around 1.1 million people. This level of drug use was similar to the 2014/15 survey (19.5%), but statistically significantly lower than a decade ago (25.2% in the 2005/06 survey).
Under 1 in 20 (4.3%) adults aged 16 to 59 had taken a drug in the last month, while around 1 in 11 (9.1%) young adults aged 16 to 24 had done so. Neither proportion has changed statistically significantly compared with the 2014/15 survey, but both are significantly lower compared with a decade ago, when 6.3 per cent of 16 to 59 year olds had reported taking a drug in the last month and 15.1 per cent of 16 to 24 year olds had done so.
Over one-third (35.0%) of adults aged 16 to 59 had taken drugs at some point during their lifetime. This is an increase from 30.4 per cent in the 1996 survey, but similar to more recent figures, such as 35.1 per cent a decade ago in the 2005/06 survey. Use of illegal drugs in a person’s lifetime is likely to be affected by generational effects
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World's biggest Stalin monument would have turned 50 on May Day
Dita Asiedu
It's a beautiful sunny day here in Prague and I'm standing on Prague's Letna Hill overlooking the Vltava River and the Old Town. Tourists come here today, not only for the breathtaking view but to see the large ticking metronome, which was erected here in 1991. But for the local residents this spot holds a darker memory - little do the tourists around me know that exactly fifty years ago, at this very site, some six hundred men and women were working around the clock to create the world's biggest monument ever to honour the Soviet Communist party chief Josef Stalin.
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The 50-metre high massive statue of the finest marble was proudly unveiled by Czechoslovakia's Communist regime on May 1, 1955. For seven years the residents of Prague had the Soviet leader follow their every move from the hill above. The 17,000 tonne statue - Stalin's jacket button alone, decorated with a hammer and sickle, of course, was half a metre wide - featured the Soviet leader in front of a line of workers - jokingly called the "Fronta na maso" or "meat queue" by Prague residents, as this was a time when they were a daily part of life in the city.
There are some dark legends associated with the statue. Its creator, Otakar Svec committed suicide a day before the unveiling. The man who posed for him as Stalin - an electrician from the Barrandov film studios, failed to shake off his nickname "Stalin", took to drink, and died three years later. And, the vast statue's glory days were short-lived. Stalin's reign was denounced by the new Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, and the statue was destroyed just seven years later, on Moscow's orders in 1962.
Too heavy to be displaced, it was blown to pieces with 800 kg of explosives and 1,650 detonators. Some witnesses claim the party chief was decapitated immediately after the first explosion, his head rolling into the river waters below.
Before the remnants of the monument were stored, they were loaded on a truck and paraded in front of cheering crowds that gathered to celebrate the event in the streets of Prague's Old Town. Was it just a coincidence or a bad omen that less than a year later, the driver of the truck died in an accident?
The Košice manifesto – the 1945 document that sealed Czechoslovakia’s eastern orientation
On April 5, 1945 the newly formed Czechoslovak government agreed on a manifesto known as the Košice Programme. It clearly delineated…
Munich Agreement – The behaviour of the great powers explained
This Sunday will mark the 80th anniversary of the infamous Munich agreement - the deal between Hitler, Mussolini and the two western…
Stalin to return (temporarily) to Letná Park
Today it is easy to forget that Prague’s Letná Park overlooking the city once served as a pedestal to the largest statue in the world…
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America's Great Hiking Trails: Appalachian, Pacific Crest, Continental Divide, North Country, Ice Age, Potomac Heritage, Florida, Natchez Trace, Arizona, Pacific Northwest, New England
Written by Karen Berger, Foreword by Bill McKibben, Photographed by Bart Smith, Contribution by Partnership Nat'l Trail System
INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 GOLD Winner for Adventure & Recreation
Society of American Travel Writers Eastern Chapter -- Gold Award
Society of American Travel Writers Foundation -- 2015 Lowell Thomas Travel Award for Best Travel Book
A hiker’s dream bucket list is embodied in this lavishly illustrated celebration of more than 50,000 miles of America’s most iconic trails. Celebrating the forty most important trails in America, this volume takes the reader through forty-nine states and eight national parks. Literally tens of millions of tourists and hikers visit these trails each year, some of which wind through the country’s most scenic natural wonders and virtually every major ecosystem in America. Each featured trail has its own section, complete with a map and photo gallery, and the reader explores what makes it one of the most magnificent hiking experiences anywhere in the world. Trail histories accompany detailed hiker-friendly descriptions that highlight the most scenic spots, with suggestions for shorter weekend and day hikes. The stunning photographs take the reader on a visual adventure conducted by Bart Smith, the first person to hike all eleven National Scenic Trails from end to end. America’s Great Hiking Trails is perfect for anyone interested in outdoor recreation and conservation.
Karen Berger has hiked more than 17,000 miles all over the world, including thru-hikes of the Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide trails. She is the author of eleven other books on hiking. Bart Smith’s photography has been published in Smithsonian and National Geographic, as well as in five illustrated books. Bill McKibben is an environmentalist and writer who frequently contributes to the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and Outside.
Publish Date: September 23, 2014
Category: Sports & Recreation - Hiking
Trim Size: 10 x 10
“Not only a beautiful specimen of a book; but the passion for hiking is oozing from its pages. The writing is beautifully crafted and the images do justice to the words.” -Society of American Travel Writers Eastern Chapter
“Big books and long walks—not an obvious match. But America’s Great Hiking Trails might become a trekking essential. It covers the 11 routes in the National Scenic Trails system, from the iconic Appalachian to the lesser-known (and swampy) Florida Trail. With history, highlights, maps, and a wealth of photos of each byway, the book is a source of inspiration as well as a planning tool.” -The Wall Street Journal
“2015 Lowell Thomas Travel Award for Best Travel Book: Broad and deep reporting by Karen Berger combined with the skilled photography of Bart Smith make this not only a beautiful book to hold and skim, but also an extremely informative book for hikers. To produce this, Berger walked more than 10,000 miles and Smith trekked all 18,000 miles on the 11 trails. Every chapter is marked by excellence.”
-- Society of American Travel Writers Foundation
“What makes a hiking trail ‘great?’ What makes it iconic? Author Karen Berger explores America's great hiking trails in this photo-rich coffee-table book. America's Great Hiking Trails should help readers plan the hike that works best for them. Individual chapters describe the essence of what makes each national scenic trail unique…the Appalachian Trail, which starts in Maine and ends in Georgia, is on many hikers’ bucket lists even though it is rarely more than a two- or three-hour drive from major cities; it is hardly the most dramatic of the national trails, nor is it the toughest. And yet the allure endures. Why? Berger suggests that the Appalachian Trail is more than the sum of its parts. Its lasting appeal lies with its contradictions, between ‘humans and wilderness, towns and trails, solitude and community. The book features excellent writing, with gorgeous photography by Bart Smith.” –Chicago Tribune
“The best holiday gift of the year for thru-hikers. Covering forty of the most important trails in America (including the long ones), this gorgeously illustrated book will have you salivating to hit the AT, stat.” –Backpacker Magazine
“Best Outdoor Book of the Year. Beautifully illustrated and meticulously detailed, this is every hiker’s dream book. It follows 11 of America’s historic long-distance trails including the Continental Divide Trail running through Montana to New Mexico. A wonderful coffee table book, Berger and Smith detail specific needs for hikers, while inspiring them with breathtaking photography and flawless storytelling. This is a perfect bucket list for hikers of all ages.” –Vail Daily
“When this whopper of a coffee table book showed up at our doorstep, I was amazed at its heft. We own a lot of hiking books, including many others written by Karen Berger or photographed by Bart Smith. But America’s Great Hiking Trails is different. It’s not a ‘go here, do this’ type of book. Instead, it dares you to dream. The saga of the National Trails System unfolds over its 336 pages, beginning with the genesis of the Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail, the oldest and most well-known of America’s long distance trails. You’ll discover how each of the 11 trails came to be, what they mean to hikers and volunteers, and where they can lead you. Each chapter is capped off with a round-up of the best destinations along the trail…not just for hikers, but for anyone who daydreams of a cabin in the woods and a quiet walk under the pines.” –FloridaHikes.com
“The most anticipated hiking book of 2014. The subtitle says it all: eleven official, American long distance trails. Well-known hiking author Karen Berger has done a magnificent job in conveying the excitement that each of these trails generates. And peerless hiking photographer Bart Smith provides images to match the grandeur of our eleven ‘national scenic trails,’ congressionally-designated routes that showcase our scenery, history, and adventure. Part of the significance of America’s Great Hiking Trails is that—a half century out— it shows us what we have accomplished and it makes us wonder what additional steps are needed to create a truly comprehensive system.” –Ron Strickland
“Year’s Best Books for Travelers. Sure, you’re content to hike your local trails week after week, but there’s always someone in the group who aspires to go bigger. America’s Great Hiking Trails compiles more than 50,000 miles of trails in one beautifully photographed tome. Eight national parks in 49 states, gorgeous photos, and lots of details about each featured trail make this book a nature lover’s bible. At a pace of four miles per hour you won’t have to gift again until 2071.” -Yahoo Travel
“Ever wonder what it’s like to be one of those thru-hikers we’ve seen tackling the Appalachian Trail alone or sometimes even with a dog for companionship? In the foreword to this 325-page fact-filled invitation to eleven of America’s great national scenic hiking trails, Vermont environmentalist Bill McKibben writes that this will guide you to ‘Beautiful places...few people will come back from these long hikes unchanged. If there’s a possibility you will never hike or visit any of these long-distance trails, you can still marvel at the outstanding beauty they portray as seen in the hundreds of natural scenery and wildlife photographs. Photographer Bart Smith invites you to imagine you are on the very walkways he has pictured for you to see—paths through forests and woods, along rocky cliffs, through fields of flowers, crossing waterways, using footbridges or ladders over barriers, and through desert crossings and mountain passes.” –Vermont Country Sampler
“The stunning photographs take the reader on a visual adventure conducted by Bart Smith, the first person to hike all eleven national scenic trails from end to end. America’s Great Hiking Trails is perfect for anyone interested in outdoor recreation and conservation.” –Pathways
“America's Great Hiking Trails is a hardcover Mac Daddy of hiking books, loaded with 336 pages of drop dead gorgeous photographs and a glimpse into eleven of the country's most iconic hiking trails. Author Karen Berger is a well-seasoned hiker and she invites us to explore, discover and delight in trails that will take you through practically any terrain the country can offer. Photographer Bart Smith was the first person to hike all eleven of these scenic trails and he has the photographs that will make your jaw drop. Together they have created a gem that will inspire you to embark on a journey of discovery. After reading this book I dare you to tell me that at some point you didn't imagine yourself hiking at least a small section of one of these scenic trails.” –Snug Harbour Bay
Author Bookshelf: Bill McKibben
Author Bookshelf: Karen Berger
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Daniel Brush; Jewels Sculpture
Written by Vivienne Becker, Introduction by Nicolas Bos
Forty years of the legendary artist and sculptor Daniel Brush's sublime work with jewels.
A unique figure in the world of contemporary art, Daniel Brush is in equal measure artist and craftsman. Over the course of forty years, Brush has created an unparalleled body of work, whose scope ranges from large-scale abstract drawings to sculptures in steel, aluminum, and gold.
Collected here are more than 150 objects that bring to the fore Brush's astonishing work with jewels. Far from the products of the world of commercial jewelry, these are jewel-encrusted objects of virtue and fantasy that reflect not just the artist's rigorous personal aesthetic and mastery of technique, but his lifelong fascinations with philosophy and Asian thought, and his exhaustive knowledge of the history of precious stones.
With photography made of the objects in situ inside Brush's studio in New York City, this book presents not only a catalog of his jewel work to date, but also an ethereal portrait of the artist himself. Housed in a slipcase, with photographs by Takaaki Matsumoto and an illuminating text by Vivienne Becker, this is an intimate study of the work of a master artist and a beautiful object in itself.
DANIEL BRUSH is an artist, jeweler, and metalsmith whose work exists in and between the worlds of fine art and master craftsmanship. His work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has been exhibited by the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of Art and Design, Phillips de Pury, Christies, and L'École des Arts Joailliers in Paris. He lives and works in New York City.
VIVIENNE BECKER is an award-winning jewelry writer, historian, journalist, broadcaster and author of many books on the history of jewelry design. She lives and works in London.
NICOLAS BOS is a writer and curator of jewelry and CEO at Van Cleef & Arpels.
Category: Design - Jewelry
Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
Author Bookshelf: Vivienne Becker
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f. Accidental damage or misuse during installation.
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d) We will not accept any liability for any goods for minor blemishes and cosmetic defects.
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c. Our liability relating to defective products as set out in the Consumer Protection Act 1987.
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Drinking An Extra 1.5 Liters Of Water Each Day Can Help Prevent UTIs
One of the worst feelings in the world is when you gotta run to the bathroom and can feel a UTI coming on. Right? It's awful! If you are one of those women who feel they're prone to getting urinary tract infection, or UTI's, then it might just be your lucky day because a new experiment is offering some fresh evidence for an easy and free way to prevent them from happening on the regular: drinking an extra 1.5 liters of water each day. Time to make sure you have a water bottle handy.
The study looked at 140 women who experience recurring UTIs who typically drank fewer than 1.5 liters of fluid (about six 8-ounce glasses) a day. For a period of 12 months, the researchers asked half of these women to continue their usual water intake and asked the other half to drink an additional 1.5 liters of water daily. Over the course of that year, women who drank more water had an average of 1.7 UTIs, compared with 3.2 on average for women who didn’t add extra water to their diets, the study found. That's a pretty big difference.
Dr. Thomas M. Hooton, of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and lead author on this study has highlighted the fact that every woman with recurring urinary tract infection issues should strongly take a look at their daily water intake into consideration and really try to increase it to at least two to three liters a day.
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The women who were involved in the current study were in good health, but they had reported at least three UTIs in the previous year - with at least one being including at least confirmed by a clinician with urine tests. All of the participants also reported drinking less than 1.5 liters of fluid on a daily basis to begin with.
JAMA Internal Medicine notes that approximately half of women will experience at least one UTI at some point in their life. Furthermore, once women do have that first UTI, 27 percent of them will have another one within six months, and 44 percent to 70 percent will have another UTI within a year. That's a whole lot of UTIs if you're not being careful!
While there has pretty much always been a link between staying hydrated and a decreased chance of getting a urinary tract infection, until now, there really hasn't been data to back it up. While it is still difficult to truly pinpoint an exact amount of water that women need to drink in order to help prevent these recurring UTIs, it all comes down to the theory that more water means more urine, which essentially will flush the bad bacteria out of your body.
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I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter
In 2012, teens Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy fell in love. They lived hours apart and met in person no more than five times, but exchanged thousands of texts over a two-year period. After Roy was found dead in his car in July 2014, what appeared to be a standard case of suicide by carbon-monoxide intoxication took a shocking turn when investigators discovered alarming text messages on his phone. Carter, 17 at the time, had urged Roy to kill himself, even after he had second thoughts and removed himself from his car. I LOVE YOU, NOW DIE explores the complicated relationship between Carter and Roy, drawing on some of the thousands of texts they exchanged over two years to chronicle their courtship and its tragic consequences. Featuring unprecedented access to the families, friends and communities that were forever changed by this unusual case, the documentary explores the changing nature of the justice system today, following a story that has wider implications for society at large, both online and in real life. The film presents a well-rounded look at a bizarre tale that was a deadly convergence of mental illness, loneliness, pop culture and technology.
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Brill Open Humanities
Brill has opened Brill Open Humanities – An International Journal for submissions. Brill Open Humanities is designed as a broad dedicated publication platform for papers from all branches in the humanities.
The scope of the journal includes areas like archaeology, the ancient Near East, art and architecture, biblical studies, classical studies, gender studies, history, Jewish studies, media and journalism, language and linguistics, literature studies, music, philology, philosophy, religious studies, Slavic studies, and theology.
The editors of Brill Open Humanities are aiming for the highest scholarly standards. Submitted papers are subject to double-blind peer review and accepted only if methodologically sound and relevant. Upon acceptance articles will be published within four to six weeks. Critical supplementary author materials like research data, audio, and video can be added at no extra costs.
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JUDGE OVERTURNS SKAKEL CONVICTION IN MARTHA MOXELY MURDER!!
Martha Moxley
Martha Moxley, pictured above in 1974, lived across the street from Skakel and had been at his house with a group of friends the night before she was killed. The case languished for decades until a one-judge grand jury in 2000 concluded there was enough evidence to charge Michael Skakel with murder.
News today...a Connecticut judge has ordered a new trial, saying the defense lawyer failed Kennedy cousin, Michael Skakel in part by not suggesting his older brother might have killed Martha Moxley in Greenwich 38 years ago.
We totally agree! Never thought Michael was capable of that type of violent narcissistic behavior... but his brother and his friends? ABSOLUTELY...
Michael Skakel, pictured in April, has been granted a new trial in his neighbor Martha Moxley's 1975 slaying. (Jason Rearick / Associated Press / April 30, 2013)
Classification: Homicide
Date of murder: October 30, 1975
Nephew of Ethel Skakel Kennedy
Date of arrest: January 19, 2000 (25 years later)
Victim profile: Martha Elizabeth Moxley, 15 (his neighbor)
Method of murder: Bludgeoned with a golf club, a 6-iron
Location: Greenwich, Connecticutt, USA
Status: Sentenced to 20 years to life in prison on July 19, 2002
Martha's Story:
October 30, 1975: In the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, the night before Halloween was commonly known as "mischief night" or sometimes "doorbell night". On this particular evening, 15-year-old Martha Moxley, and her friends, set out for an night of harmless pranks; spraying shaving cream, throwing eggs and toilet paper around the neighborhood before stopping at the home of Tommy and Michael Skakel.
The Skakel brothers were well know in the neighborhood for their behavior and lack of discipline -- and also because they were the nephews of Ethel Skakel-Kennedy, widow of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
The Moxley's and Skakel's lived in Belle Haven, a gated community in Greenwich, an affluent area of town where Hollywood actors live and former President George Bush grew up.
Sometime between 9:30 and 11 p.m. that night, Martha left the Skakel house. Home was only 150 yards away, but Martha never made it. Martha's body was found the next day under a tree in her back yard. Her jeans and underwear had been pulled down, but there was no apparent evidence of sexual assault. She had been beaten so hard with a 6-iron that the shaft had shattered. A jagged piece of it was used to stab her through the neck.
Police later learned that the club was part an expensive, Toney Penna, set which had belonged to Tommy and Michael Skakel's mother Anne. Mrs. Skakel had died of cancer two years earlier leaving her husband Rushton to raise their large and reportedly unruly family. Their son, Tommy, then 17, was said to be the last person seen with Martha. According to Martha's diary, she had fended off several past attempts by Skakel to "get to first and second base," said Martha's mother, Dorthy Moxley.
The day Martha's battered body was found, Greenwich police did a cursory search of the house with Rushton Skakel's permission, but they never obtained a warrant to do a thorough search. This lack of a warrant in the investigation led to accusations of "special treatment" for the well-connected, influential family. Full Story
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January 17, 2019 / 12:26 PM / 6 months ago
Exclusive: Sri Lanka to receive $1 billion Bank of China loan this quarter
Shihar Aneez
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will receive a loan of $1 billion from Bank of China (601988.SS) before the end of the January-March quarter, the chief of the central bank said on Thursday, to help the country meet repayments in the coming months.
FILE PHOTO: A Bank of China logo is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 19, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren
Sri Lanka is struggling to repay its foreign loans, with a record $5.9 billion due this year including $2.6 billion in the first three months.
The island nation is a key battleground in the tussle for influence in South Asia between China and traditional regional power India.
“We will get the $300 million before end of this month and upsize it to $1 billion. The whole loan will be taken in the first quarter,” Indrajit Coomaraswamy told Reuters.
Coomaraswamy said the interest rate for the $300 million loan is around 5.5 percent.
“This is a sovereign loan and does not require any collateral.”
Details of the loan have not been previously released.
Officials from Bank of China were not available for immediate comment.
Coomaraswamy said the 5.5 percent interest rate is attractive compared to the country’s sovereign bonds in the market.
A series of credit rating downgrades amid a political crisis have made it harder for Sri Lanka to tap international capital markets.
Earlier, speaking at a forum in Colombo, Coomaraswamy said the country aims to borrow $2 billion in a combination of dollar denominated sovereign bonds and bonds issued in Chinese renminbi and Japanese yen in the first quarter.
Three state-owned banks are in a deal to borrow around another $950 million.
“We need to boost the reserves to maintain investor confidence,” he said. “Now there is pretty much enough money lined up to meet repayments.”
Investor confidence took a hit when President Maithripala Sirisena abruptly sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in October, replaced him with pro-China former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and dissolved parliament.
Sri Lanka’s top court then ruled the dissolution of parliament was illegal and Wickremesinghe was restored to power in December. The seven-week-long crisis hurt the rupee and drove sovereign bond yields higher, straining state finances.
Reporting by Shihar Aneez; editing by Alasdair Pal and Jason Neely
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RUGBY TOWN: Valley allocated place in Midland League
Dave Stringer
Less travelling and exciting local derbies in prospect
Rugby Town are heading to the Midland Football League for the 2017-18 campaign, after the FA announced their step five allocations this week.
Subject to the usual final ratification process, Town will line-up in the league’s Premier Division following their relegation from the NPL at the end of last season, which ended a 34-year spell in the higher echelons of the non-league football pyramid.
Valley will join a number of familiar outfits as they seek an immediate bounceback – including Worcester City, who have taken a further voluntary two-step demotion after dropping out of the Conference structure at the end of 2016/17.
Also forming part of the 22-strong division are three teams that Rugby competed against relatively recently in the Southern League – Rocester, Shepshed and Stourport, whilst both Coventry Sphinx and Bromsgrove Sporting have visited Butlin Road for FA Cup Preliminary ties in the past couple of seasons.
Coventry United will provide Town will a further local derby as the recently-formed club look to continue their rapid progression through the ranks, whilst Hereford-based Westfields could well be a tough proposition on the back of the financial boost from their run in the FA Cup last year which saw them progress into the first round proper of the competition.
The Midland Football League was created in 2014 following the merger of the Midland Alliance and Midland Combination entities and this announcement ends the speculation as to Valley’s immediate destiny, with the United Counties League also having been touted as a possible home for returning manager Dave Stringer’s side.
Town Director Neil Melvin commented on the announcement: “We were prepared for both scenarios and were happy to compete in either league, but it is good to have the confirmation now so we can continue with our planning for what will be an important season for us.
“The Midland League means less travelling and also throws up some exciting local derbies. There are undoubtedly some tough fixtures ahead of us, but hopefully we will be able to build squad that is capable of challenging for a return to step four of the pyramid after the disappointment of last season.
“Dave has been working extremely hard in his first couple of weeks back at the club and he has already secured the commitment of a number of players for next season, and we will be announcing these over the coming weeks.”
Full list of Midland Football League Premier Division teams for 2017/18: AFC Wilfrunians, Boldmere St. Michael’s, Bromsgrove Sporting, Coleshill Town, Coventry Sphinx, Coventry United, Haughmond, Heanor Town, Highgate United, Long Eaton United, Loughborough University, Lye Town, Quorn, Rocester, Rugby Town, Shawbury United, Shepshed Dynamo, Sporting Khalsa, Stourport Swifts, West Bridgford, Westfields, Worcester City
# Following last week’s announcement of the appointment of Ross Miller as assistant-manager, Valley boss Dave Stringer has further boosted his backroom team with the return of sports therapist Kerri Holtham to the club.
Holtham previously worked as part of Stringer’s staff for two years between 2012 and 2014 in the physio’s role.
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RZIM Launches New Initiative, At The Table, in Washington, DC
Inaugural event on July 10 to address question, “Is There Still Hope for Our Divided Nation?”
WASHINGTON, DC (July 9, 2019) – Ravi Zacharias International Ministries is launching a new initiative, At The Table, designed to be a place where the exchange of ideas and hospitality meet. At The Table seeks to engage crucial issues of the day through the prism of a Christian worldview that is relevant, thoughtful, and persuasive. The inaugural event will take place in Washington, DC on July 10 at the historic Hay-Adams Hotel and focus on the question “Is There Still Hope for Our Divided Nation?”
“Much has been written about our nation’s current divisions, but it is evident that we have faced and overcome deep divisions in the past,” said Michael Suderman, a speaker with RZIM in DC who is leading this initiative. “Some radical voices say it is time to ‘burn it down’ and start over, while others suggest there is time and a desire to heal our divisions and once again unite. But how do we unite, and around what?”
The inaugural At The Table event will feature Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias, who will be joined by US Senator Tim Scott, US Senate Chaplain Barry Black, and former Obama Administration official Michael Wear. After an initial discussion, these four speakers will join tables of other elected officials, senior government staff, and representatives from business, academia, and media for continued dialogue on the topic.
“Being good listeners is indispensable to finding good solutions,” reflected Ravi Zacharias. “Our country is divided and our world is in turmoil. We must come together and listen if there is to be a future for peace and liberty.”
“Beyond ‘right’ and ‘left’ is an ‘up’ and ‘down,’” Zacharias continued. “I look forward to a robust discussion around key challenges – and potential solutions – as we explore unity and hope in our present cultural moment.”
By tackling tough topics in an intimate format where a spectrum of ideological beliefs and approaches are represented, RZIM seeks to foster meaningful exchanges where truth is paramount. “The vision for At The Table was born out of a desire to intentionally create a space where leaders from diverse backgrounds can come together to discuss the critical questions of culture,” explained Suderman. “Our differences don’t need to divide us, but they will in the absence of communication. Traditionally the table has been the place where the exchange of ideas and hospitality meet, and it is our hope that this event will provide an opportunity for guests to actively participate in a discussion aimed at finding common ground and coming together as a nation despite our deepest differences.”
Future At The Table gatherings are being planned in other key global cities across the US and around the world including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, and Sydney.
For more information or to request an interview, please contact Ruth Malhotra at pr@rzim.org or 770-286-4146.
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In January of 2010 under the guidance of Stacy Spector, a team of 20 staff, parents and community members from Andrew Carnegie Middle School came together for an intense two-day session to develop the draft of our 2011-2014 Strategic Plan. After 2 years of implementation, the ACMS planning team came back together on September 13, 2012 to update and revise our strategic site plan. The results of this work: a shared set of beliefs and parameters; a revised mission giving direction for the school; student-focused objectives on how to measure success; and updated tactics to achieve success.
This "second" draft work was then handed over to our action teams. Our Action Teams worked through December to develop a new and relevant set of action plans that will drive Carnegie forward. These plans and our revisions to our Mission, Objectives, and Tactics were approved by Site Council on February 25, 2013.
Andrew Carnegie Middle School’s Strategic Plan is a plan that will guide our school into the future and provide a focus for our school community. It will be implemented over the next several years and available resources will be allocated based upon these plans.
As a community of creative thinkers and leaders, the mission of Andrew Carnegie Middle School is to inspire and equip our students for an ever-changing global society by providing a dynamic, innovative educational environment that encourages collaboration, fosters unique interests, embraces diversity and empowers students to OWN IT!
By 2015, through multiple measures, we will reduce the number of students in all groups who are not performing at the proficient or advanced levels in English-Language Arts and math by at least 50%.
All students will develop and apply 21st century skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, and applications of technology.
By 2015, 100% of students will have their academic and personal needs supported.
By 2015, 100% of students will consistently demonstrate the characteristics of the Carnegie moto "OWN IT".
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Sleep may have originated underwater 450 million years ago - Printable Version
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Sleep may have originated underwater 450 million years ago - C C - Jul 11, 2019
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/both-fish-and-humans-have-rem-sleep
INTRO: . . . new research on zebrafish suggests that we sleep like them. Sleeping zebrafish have brain activity similar to both deep slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep that’s found in mammals, researchers report July 10 in Nature. And the team may have tracked down the cells that kick off REM sleep.
The findings suggest that the basics of sleep evolved at least 450 million years ago in zebrafish ancestors, before the evolution of animals that give birth to live young instead of laying eggs. That’s 150 million years earlier than scientists thought when they discovered that lizards sleep like mammals and birds (SN: 5/28/16, p. 9).
What’s more, sleep may have evolved underwater, says Louis C. Leung, a neuroscientist at Stanford University School of Medicine. “These signatures [of sleep] really have important functions — even though we may not know what they are — that have survived hundreds of millions of years of evolution.” (MORE)
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Where We Practice
James N. Sessler – Attorney
Jim’s legal practice has been as extensive as it has been varied since he became an attorney in 1976. Jim’s experience in real estate law includes representing clients as varied as banking institutions throughout New England as well as the young couple who is becoming first home buyers. Jim has been an agent for First American Title Insurance Company since the early 1980s and a member of American Land Title Association. Jim practices civil law in the areas including wills, estates, elder law/guardianship, probate, real property (closings, title searches and title insurance), banking and the formation of closely held corporations and limited liability companies. He has also practiced municipal law since 1976 in areas which include zoning and planning, condemnation, real estate taxes, construction contracts, and public utilities regulation.
Jim’s present association with a financial management firm allows him to interact with our clients during his lectures on estate planning, the probate process and elder law.
Jim’s experience in municipal law includes representing and advising N.H. towns and cities, school boards, airport authorities and water districts. Jim was involved in the creation of the Winnipesaukee River Basin Project, a state and local multi-community sewer treatment and collection project. He has been involved in rate setting for the construction of water treatment plants. He has also been involved in condemnation projects for municipal landfills and airport expansions and navigation easements. Jim has extensive experience in contract administration and litigation, as well as municipal zoning and planning. He has appeared before all New Hampshire trial courts, the New Hampshire Supreme Court, as well as numerous state agencies, such as the Public Utilities Commission, and the Board of Land and Tax Appeals. Jim has also helped settle many disputes through his roll as a court certified mediator. In addition he has appeared before federal agencies such as the Federal Aviation Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. He frequently appears before local Planning Boards and Boards of Adjustment on behalf of our clients.
Jim was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Amherst, New Hampshire, graduating from the Milford Area High School in 1969. He worked in Washington, D.C. as a Congressional aide to Representative James Cleveland (N.H.) prior to practicing law. Jim is actively interested in sailing, hiking, fly fishing, fly tying, alpine skiing, and all things outdoors. He has maintained his interest in public service, having served as a Selectman for Laconia, N. H., a member of the N.H. Judicial Counsel by appointment of the Governor, and he was awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service in 1986, and again in 1987. Jim has lectured on municipal issues and co-authored a paper on Conflicts of Interest for Public Officials. He is the past state president of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers. Jim has served on the Board of Trustees for the Peabody Home in Franklin N.H. and is a Corporator of Franklin Savings Bank.
Jim, and his wife, Sally have resided in Laconia, N.H. for over 30 years, where they raised three children.
Michelle Boisvert – Paralegal
Michelle Boisvert joined Sessler Law in early 2011. Michelle is a welcomed addition to the legal team because of her extensive background in the legal field. She earned her Associates Degree in Paralegal Studies from Hesser College and has over 17 years of paralegal experience. At Sessler Law, Michelle assists Jim and our clients in the preparation of estate plans, probate cases, LLC & Corporate formations, Bankruptcy and takes on administrative tasks. She works extensively with the staff of our principal banking and financial clients and assists Jim in his municipal projects working with the town officers and elected officials.
Michelle’s past legal experience includes but is not limited to bankruptcy, divorce and custody, and guardian ad litem work.
Michelle is a New Hampshire native having grown up in Pembroke, NH. She lives in Concord, NH with her husband, Shawn and 3 boys, Brian, Brandan and Jordan.
In her free time Michelle enjoys reading, hiking, traveling and spending time with her family
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A new comprehensive documentary on the life of James Connolly. The film traces Connolly’s life from his childhood in the appalling squalor of the Cowgate slums in Edinburgh to the tragedy of his execution in Kilmainham in May 1916.
James Connolly – A Working Class Hero is the fullest account of a man who worked single-mindedly for a decent, just and free life for workers everywhere. The film reveals how Connolly was unique among his comrades, a self-taught scholar, a Socialist, a Marxist and the outstanding Labour leader of Ireland. Documentary maker Brian O’Flaherty painstakingly gathered together a vast array of historians, political commentators and writers to examine the life of a man whose vision and writings were never more relevant than today.
Contributors include Eamon Gilmore, Fintan O’Toole, Francis Devine, Anne Casey, Ross Connolly and Dick Spring among a host of others. Owen Dudley Edwards, of the University of Edinburgh, calls Connolly ‘ the most profound mind and the greatest theoretician among the founders of the modern Irish state’. The film includes musical contributions from Christy Moore, Andy Irvine, Adrian Dunbar, Paul Cleary and Jimmy Kelly. International film-star Colm Meaney reads from Connolly’s work and letters.
James Connolly is one of the great iconic figures of Irish History but James Connolly - A Working Class Hero places the spotlight on Connolly the person, his family life, his struggles and disappointments as well as his politics. This long-overdue documentary will inform a contemporary audience of the importance of James Connolly then and now.
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McCoy needs 48 yards to become Eagles' top runner
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Eagles running back LeSean McCoy doesn't care exactly how he becomes the franchise leader for rushing yards, he just wants to do it in a win.
The Philadelphia star in a down statistical year needs 48 yards on Sunday against Seattle to pass Wilbert Montgomery as the franchise's all-time leading rusher. McCoy has 6,491 rushing yards in 86 games. If he sets a new club high this week, it will be in 13 fewer games than Montgomery played.
Just another name for McCoy to pass. He's already moved past Hall of Famer Steve Van Buren (5,860) and Brian Westbrook (5,995) this season, while last year he passed current Eagles running backs coach Duce Staley (4,807).
''I never thought when I got drafted here that I would hold the rushing record. That's big. That's something I'm looking forward to doing,'' McCoy said. ''The No. 1 goal is still to win the game, but if there's a way to do both that would be great.''
McCoy never met Van Buren, who died in 2012, but he played a year alongside Westbrook and is coached by Staley. He's also friendly with Montgomery, who carried the Eagles to their first Super Bowl appearance in 1980.
''Coming into the league one of my coaches (at Pitt) knew him; they were pretty tight. Then when I got drafted here I talked to him,'' McCoy said of Montgomery. ''I got to know him a little bit more when he was coaching with the Baltimore Ravens.''
Montgomery, now the running backs with the Cleveland Browns, sent a pre-congratulatory good luck message to McCoy this week.
McCoy said it means a lot that Montgomery likes him as a player and is happy with the mark being passed.
''If I was in his position, I'd feel the same way. Records are made to be broken. You always want the next guy to do well,'' he said. ''I remember in college when I broke some of Tony Dorsett's records and how happy he was. He's a Hall of Famer. He's done everything there is to do here and in college. That was quite an honor.''
McCoy still gets advice from Westbrook, who's tough but not as tough as Staley, who sees even more potential for McCoy.
''He's something special. I stay on him, but he's one of the best there is,'' Staley said. ''He's going to do a lot before he's finished playing.''
And McCoy said there's no such thing as too much advice. Staley, he said, helped bring his game to a level he didn't know he could reach.
''I have no problems taking advice from the guys who came before me. You can never get too big, I don't get guys who do that,'' he said. ''I always take advice from guys like Duce. It's only going to make me better.''
And by the end of the day Sunday he could be the Eagles' best ever.
NOTES: Running back/kick returner Chris Polk returned to practice Thursday after being limited early in the week with an ankle injury. Kicker Cody Parkey (groin) and tight end Trey Burton (hamstring) were limited Thursday. Kelly again made it clear that Parkey would be fine for Sunday's game. . Kelly joked with reporters Thursday about the University of Florida having any interest in him, saying he wasn't sure if his ''pro offense'' would work in the college game.
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Cesc Fabregas Says He'll Stay at Chelsea Until End of Season Amid Transfer Talk
Cesc Fabregas says that he will probably stay at Chelsea until next summer, despite growing frustrated on the fringes at Stamford Bridge.
Fabregas is yet to start in the Premier League under Maurizio Sarri, making just three substitute appearances this season, and he will be free to discuss a summer move from January onwards as his contract expires in June 2019.
He starred against PAOK Salonika in the Europa League on Thursday, providing assists for Chelsea's second and third goals in a 4-0 rout. After the match, Fabregas played down rumours of a January exit.
"I haven't spoken to anyone," he said, quoted by ESPN. "Obviously in January I can sign [a pre-contract agreement] with whoever I want, and probably this will attract many clubs.
"But so far, from what I can say right now, I will stay here until the end of the season.
"I would rather be on the other side of the team [playing in the Premier League], but I play at Stamford Bridge. I'm happy. That's the most important thing. Of course every player wants to play more."
Fabregas played in the centre of a three-man midfield against PAOK. It is an unfamiliar role and the Spaniard believes he would be better deployed elsewhere.
"I know that he [Sarri] rates me highly, but at the same time it's a new position for me and I think it is just my fifth game starting in it," he added.
"I can give more in other positions. Maybe at the moment, he still doesn't see it. We have had a chat about it and maybe in the future it will start to happen. But at the moment it is what it is and you just have to take it."
AC Milan have been linked with a January move for Fabregas as a solution to their injury problems.
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Approved! The World's First Ever Dengue Vaccine
Mexico will be the first country to use it starting early next year.
Photo by nossobernestar.com via biotecnika.org
High fever that on and off, rashes, headache, mild bleeding of the nose or gums—these symptoms are all too familiar. These are just some of the major symptoms of the dengue, a potentially fatal disease spread by mosquitos. Children are at risk the most, as kids one to nine years old are the most vulnerable victims because of their predilection to mosquito bites.
Dengue fever has been a global concern for years now, especially in Asia and Latin America where it is prevalent. Intense campaigns against it have been spearheaded by the World Health Organization, and here in the Philppines, with the Department of Health and other conerned groups.
Now, the Mexican government’ approval of a vaccine against it gives hope that dengue can be prevented, more than just by cleaning waterholes or proper care at the hospitals.
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French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur have been developing a dengue vaccine, called Dengvaxia, for over 20 years now—and in a breakthrough decision, the Mexican government has been approved the vaccine for the general public to use. It has been awaiting approval in 19 other countries.
“This is a historic milestone for our company, for the global public health community and, most importantly, for half the world’s population who lives at risk of dengue,” said Olivier Brandicourt, M.D., Sanofi’s chief executive officer.
José Luis Arredondo García, associate director of Clinical Research in the National Institute of Pediatrics, says Dengvaxia will be a crucial factor in the dengue-prevention and control efforts. “It will be an essential tool to boost on-going community efforts to relieve the long-standing suffering that this disease continues to bring to people in endemic countries like ours,” he said.
Dengvaxia will be for children nine years old and adults under age 45, based on the results of the clinical trials efficacy of the vaccine, and protects against four dengue strains. It helps reduce the risk of hospitalization by 80 percent, and the possibility of developing a more severe form of the disease, characterized by severe internal bleeding, by 93%.
Dengue Treatment and Prevention Measures
According to the Department of Health’s Dr. Eric Tayag, there have been 24,900 cases which have resulted in 100 deaths last year. Parents should remain vigilant especially during the rainy season when pools of murky water become breeding ground for dengue-carrying mosquitos. Dr. Sally Gatchalian, secretary of the Philippine Pediatric Society, adds, “It can disguise itself as other diseases. So, during the rainy season, which is when we usually see an increase of dengue cases, it is important to be on the lookout for fever that is at least of two days duration.”
Aside from getting informed about the disease and seeking the help of medical professionals early, there are also several child-friendly products that can help ward off mosquito bites. Other countries, especially where the disease is widespread, are most likely to follow suit.
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Visual artist Cassils uses bodybuilding and boxing to empower and enlighten
By Steve Dow
Los Angeles-based artist Cassils, who favours plural neutral pronouns such as they and them, uses their body as an artistic medium. The non-binary Cassils once gained 10 kilograms of muscle in 23 weeks to demonstrate that bodybuilding is a "hyper-performance" of the "ludicrous notions of what bodies are supposed to be".
Cassils in Tiresias, 2013.
In that work, Cuts, the transgender performer's muscular contours exposed male and female separateness as a construction, blurring the binary gender line drawn, says Cassils, by "patriarchy and systems of power and control".
For another performance, Inextinguishable Fire, Cassils donned a fire-retardant suit and was set on fire, to strike empathy about the physical pain of fellow humans and to demonstrate how the media constructs truth and images to vilify people such as protesters in the 2014 Ferguson, Missouri, riots that protested the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white policeman.
Cassils pounds clay in Becoming an Image at the SPILL festival in 2013.
The performance, which was videoed, was inspired by a 1969 Harun Farocki film of the same name that traced the napalm that burned the bodies of Vietnam civilians to an Ohio factory, showing United States citizens as unwitting accomplices to violence.
Targeted violence against those who fail to conform has risen recently, says Cassils, ahead of a trip to Sydney to give a talk at the Museum of Contemporary Art, followed by a performance and survey exhibition at the Perth Festival.
"It's a tricky time right now, because we have a heightened moment of trans visibility, but we also have a heightened moment of trans violence, especially for trans women of colour," says Cassils.
"More representation also causes more anger; I have certain friends who [sometimes] aren't sure if they're going to make it home. To be someone who possibly fails as passing as female, and identifies as a trans woman, we live in a time that we take masculinity so seriously that it's such an assault to masculinity that people want to punch that [person].
"We're certainly having more representation, more understanding, but with that comes a need for more education, a broadening of minds and an expanding of the collective consciousness, and hopefully, with that education, is a reduction in fear."
Cassils, whose birth name was Heather and who grew up in Canada's conservative Quebec, began weight training as a teenager inresponse to being severely ill. Pumping iron put the artist on the road to naming their gender-neutral identity.
"I had undiagnosed gall bladder disease. The doctors didn't find it; moreover, I was told it was psychosomatic. For several years I was vomiting profusely daily. Very ill, it stunted my growth.
"Once my bile ducts ruptured and the whites of my eyes turned green, they opened me up and I was literally decomposing inside. I had to have two surgeries which led to bleeding ulcers, which almost bled out. I had a near-death experience at age 14.
I was, unfortunately, a victim to the dismissive sexism of doctors' thinking.
"That made me aware of my mortality [and] one's wellbeing and not only that, one's agency in the body. I was, unfortunately, a victim to the dismissive sexism of doctors' thinking, 'This is just a young, hysterical teenage girl'.
"It [bodybuilding] allowed me to flag and present in a way that matched more with my gender identity, although I don't think I would have the words for that at that time."
Cassils began finding that language in their 20s. At the California Institute of the Arts, Cassils and fellow artists formed the collective Toxic Titties. In 2001, the collective infamously hijacked a public performance by the artist Vanessa Beecroft, critiquing its objectification of female performers. This incident particularly shaped Cassils' later work.
Performing Cuts in 2011, bodybuilding over 23 weeks in response to performance artist Eleanor Antin crash-dieting for 45 days in 1972, Cassils was thinking about how the body responds to biofeedback through training and nutrition, as well as "very strong pressure" then on Cassils "to pass, or to transform totally, and to use surgical means, or hormonal means".
Cassils has kept up the training. In the Perth Festival performance, the artist will box with a 900-kilogram lump of clay in a pitch-black room for Becoming an Image, the energetic actions illuminated only by the flash of a photographer – a male photographer, deliberately reminding us art history and the wider world is so often filtered through a male gaze.
Cassils' art is intended to empower trans and non-binary people, perhaps along the way enlightening cis-gendered audience members, whose gender identity corresponds with their assigned birth gender.
But Cassils also wants to help "young people who don't have those words for themselves but then be able to glean a possibility, because sometimes we don't have the language", says the artist.
"One of the great things about being a visual artist is sometimes you're able to impregnate or get into people's subconscious or psyche with visual references that can cut down on people's biases or allow them to be a bit more open minded."
Cassils' talk, The Body as Social Sculpture, is at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art Australia on February 2. Cassils will perform at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) on February 8, and the artist's exhibition, Alchemic, opens at PICA on February 9.
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"Technology & Design Innovation" Drives Continual Growth in Hanergy's Annual Results
BEIJING, March 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Limited (HK Stock Code: 0566, Hanergy TFP), today (March 29) released its annual results for the 2018 fiscal year. As per the company's recent annual report, the Group's revenue from contracts with customers in 2018 reached HKD 21.3 billion, approximately ramping up by 2.45 times compared to 2017. During the period aforementioned, the company's net profit surged to HKD 5.2 billion, making a remarkable upturn, 18.9 times year-on-year for the consecutive three years.
As per the management, the overall performance of Hanergy TFP throughout the period increased steadily owing to group's strategic focus on upstream core technology research and development, production equipment delivery, and diversified applications of thin film solar energy in downstream business. During the period, the number of customers for new mobile energy industry park augmented ensuring steady growth in the upstream business. In the downstream business, Hanergy TFP has launched various technologies + design, double innovation products such as; HanTile, HanWall, Humbrella, etc., leading to a record increase in both, domestic and overseas sales.
Leveraging its stature in thin-film power industry, scaled-up the equipment delivery capabilities
Hanergy's upstream business generally includes the R&D, design, sales and delivery of the thin-film solar cell equipment manufacturing and product line establishing, as well as technical solution offering. In 2018, as the equipment and technology supplier, Hanergy provided CIGS, GaAs and SHJ product lines to several mobile energy industrial parks, facilitating regional economic development and transformation as a turnkey provider.
In 2018, the prominent industrial park clients included Datong industrial park, Zibo industrial park, Mianyang industrial park, etc. Hanergy has made a significant progress inching closer to deliver these projects, and has received partial repayments. The company's several industrial park projects including Shanxi TV channel have achieved large-scale production.
According to report by Shanxi Television on March 15th, in the Hanergy flexible thin-film solar cells production warehouse in Datong industrial park, the equipments are operational and have been brought to effective use to produce thin-film solar cells for "Raphael Cloud Gallery", which is a Shanghai landmark and one of the significant projects of 13th five-year plan. In the meantime, Hanergy is painstakingly dedicated to collaborate with more countries like Saudi Arabia to mark the launch a bunch of industrial park projects which will contribute largely to the company's performance in the next few years.
As an undisputed leader in global thin-film solar industry, Hanergy has been constantly remained in the forefront of technological research and innovation, setting the world record for conversion efficiency for six times, including Solibro's glass-based large-area Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) panels (18.72%) and the flexible CIGS modules manufactured with the sputtering method by MiaSole (19.4%), GSE's third generation modules (19.3%), silicon heterojunction (SHJ) thin-film battery (24.23%). At the same time, Hanergy's Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) technology currently has a 29.1% conversion efficiency. Meanwhile, in January 2019, Hanergy successfully gained a series of group certifications including ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 integrated management system certification by TüV SÜD Greater China (TüV SÜD), taking a further notch up in the industry.
Hanergy has successively acquired the German company Solibro as well as American companies MiaSolé, Global Solar Energy and Alta Devices. Re-iterating its focus and par-excellence efficiency in research and development, the company has set up eight R&D centers around the world. Hanergy maintains five world records in the conversion efficiency of thin-film solar generation through its strategic global technology integration and making constant breakthroughs in technology independently. Among those world records, the GaAs double-junction solar cell has been certified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with a maximum conversion efficiency of 31.6% and has broken the world record for several times in a row.
Short supply of innovative products
Responding to the global trend of application of low-carbon, green and clean energy, in 2018, the Group introduced a fresh approach on both technology and design innovation of products integrated with its leading thin film solar technologies. It launched series of products and solutions such as; "HanWall", "HanTile" and "Humbrella". At present, while the market feedback for these products has been exceptionally good, however the products are short in supply. Upping the ante in BIPV segment, both HanTile and HanWall thrive on the concept of ecological buildings and architecture that makes it possible to produce and utilize energy within the building ecosystem through the design of the interior and exterior spaces of the building, consequently achieving an efficient, low-cost, ecologically balanced building environment. During last year, the Group also marked the launch of Humbrella, the world's first multi-functional umbrella, which is based on flexible thin-film solar technology. Moreover, the Group gained market's attention as it launched new mobile energy application products such as "HanPack" and "HanPower".
Recently, HanTile has won the German iF Design Gold Award which is known as "Design Oscar". At present, Hantile has been applied in the domestic and foreign construction markets, including residential houses in Beijing, villas in Suzhou, Naxi buildings in Lijiang and villas in Sweden. Within this period, the Group has signed a HantTile pre-sale contract of RMB900 million with FGS International Group from Japan. Recently, Hong Kong's Mondo Green Energy Ltd. became the general distributor of HanTile in Hong Kong, with a purchasing contract amounting to RMB100 million. In Southeast Asia, the Group has recently signed a USD10 million HanTile purchasing agreement with its Malaysian partner. Since HanWall has been launched, it has also attracted attention from the consumers worldwide. Environmental Technology Solutions from Australia has signed Hanwall sales agreement with the Group. Recently, the Group has also signed a HanWall purchasing agreement with South Korea's West Sea Energy for a total value of USD 8 million.
In 2018, the Group continued to participate in the PV Poverty Alleviation Project, while making full use of the land resources of poor rural households and helping to achieve accurate poverty alleviation. In the Northeast China, Hanergy has completed the installation of photovoltaic systems in 21 villages of the Boli County in Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province, connecting them to the grid for power generation. It is estimated to bring thousands of Yuan per year for each household and practically achieve poverty alleviation. Hanergy has also completed the first national photovoltaic poverty alleviation project in Guangshan County, Xinyang City, Henan Province, with local partners in helping the poor population of the region to achieve poverty alleviation.
Flouring in mobile energy industry, expanding in high-end markets
Ushering the new era of mobile energy in 2018, Hanergy utilized the unique thin-film solar technology to mark several breakthroughs in the fields of green transport, aerospace, commercial product and other mobile energy industries. Hanergy collaborated with NASA, Boeing and other voluminous companies, making remarkable entry in the aerospace application sector.
Focusing on the strategic pipeline of thin-film solar power, Hanergy engages in the integration of the entire industry chain ranging from technology research and development, high-end equipment manufacturing, component production and application product development, so on and so forth. Today, Hanergy leads the way in scale and technology in the thin-film solar industry.
Hanergy has been on a continuous growth trajectory, and is on a voyage to strengthen its foothold in global market. Hanergy's business now spans across nearly 40 countries. Looking forward to 2019, Hanergy is determined to grow exponentially by leveraging its exceptional know-how in technology research and development and achieve business scale. Currently, it already possesses super GW-class equipment delivery capabilities and has become the leading "turnkey provider" of thin-film solar production lines around the globe. Through cooperation with a number of mobile energy industrial parks, sales of thin-film solar production line solutions have been on a rise with significant progress to large-scale delivery is underway.
Constant breakthroughs in the sector have led to steady surge in Hanergy's market value. Further, Hanergy's "mobile energy +" model is well in place to promote in-depth integrations of mobile energy and traditional industries. As of February 28th 2019, Hanergy has total of 10,200 global patent applications.
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SouthworldDossier August 2014Growing social discontent
Since February 2012, South Korea has a woman as president (unique in the Confucian area which includes China, Japan, the two Koreas, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam, nearly a quarter of the world population), but this does not mean that it has reached equality between the sexes. However, it is an important signal and the election of Park Geun-hye has shown the ability to break with traditional female roles, even in business and in politics.
Sixty year-old, single, daughter of a controversial general-president, the moderate conservative Park has been able to channel onto herself the desire for stability of South Koreans in front of an uncertain internal horizon but especially an international one. For her, the challenges will be especially to resume peace talks with the North, ensure governability in South Korea’s turbulent political life, reduce social inequalities with a review of the welfare state in favour of a rapidly aging population showing large areas of discontent and real poverty.
However, perhaps inevitably, the major challenges are mainly the structural problems of the economy, signalled by the progress after 2012, characterized by the lowest growth rate (2%) since 2010 and requiring concrete measures in order to counter a growing social unrest. The Bank of Korea, estimates that 6.6 million South Koreans are indebted to the point where they can no longer become solvent.
The Samsung power
Among the priorities of the new South Korean government there is a re-qualifying and re-scaling of the immense productive conglomerates (chaebol) which, even if for years have been ‘engine’ of growth, have also, however, defined much of the country’s strategic lines of intervention.
Samsung represents almost a third of the South Korean GDP and in fact conditions much more than the production scene; it is the arbiter of the prospects of an entire nation. “The economy, even if at a slower pace, remains higher than that of any European country and unemployment at 2.8 percent is among the lowest in the world.
The country is also one of the 5 or 6 in the world to have a budget surplus (2.3 per cent last year)”, said Lee Sung-yoon, a professor of Korean Studies at the U.S. University of Tufts. “In South Korea, the power is firmly concentrated in the hands of the president; state prosecutors have too much power; the current hierarchical system guarantees those who have power and social status – often acquired by the family – and dominance over those who do not have them”, Lee points out, however.
After weeks of political commitments, strengthened also by the presidential denunciation of the phenomena that were the backdrop to the tragedy of the ferry Sewol that sank on 16 April, causing the deaths of 300 people, the Prime Minister Chung Hong-won, at the beginning of July, revealed to the public the extent of the phenomenon of corruption and malfeasance in the country. A clear confirmation that the rapid and, from many aspects, enthusiastic development of South Korea, has so far had as a counterpart approximate levels of security, social inequalities and inadequate welfare facilities for a country of its economic weight and prestige. (S.V.)
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Chick-fil-A Franchise Owner Ashley Derby Honored by the Company
Earlier this year, Chick-fil-A franchise owner Ashley Lamothe Derby, C’2006, was awarded the company’s Symbol of Success, an honor reserved for Chick-fil-A operators whose businesses experience particularly high sales growth. Derby is the owner and operator of a Chick-fil-A near the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
She began her career with Chick-fil-A at age 15, working at a restaurant in her hometown of Marietta, Georgia. After entering Spelman, she began working at a Chick-fil-A near campus. Noticing her work ethic, her restaurant operator pulled her aside and suggested that she consider a career in leadership with the company. She changed her major from theater to economics.
After graduating from Spelman, she spent the next three years completing numerous Chick-fil-A management and development programs. In 2011, at age 26, she became the youngest African-American female franchise owner in the history of the company. Now, she encourages employees at her restaurant to never give up on their goals.
“I want to help them get to where they want to go, whether it’s a career with Chick-fil-A, or studying law or medicine, or anything,” said Derby. “I want to help them make that next step, just like so many have done for me.”
Read Chick-fil-A's "Women Who Inspire" feature about Ashley Derby.
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On the EDge: Odds stacked against those fleeing polygamy
Written by Ed Kociela
OPINION – You can check out, but can you ever really leave?
If you’re talking about the Eagles’ Hotel California, a stint in rehab might work, but if you are talking about the polygamist cult community along the Utah-Arizona state line, the odds are against you, even on those rare occasions when the cops get involved.
A recent story in the Salt Lake Tribune by polygamy beat reporter Nate Carlisle about a man who tried to rescue his underage daughter from the clutches of this group explains just how complicated it is to leave the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
A sinner, it seems, would have better odds of escaping from one of Dante’s nine circles of hell.
Carlisle’s in-depth reporting goes into great detail about how Ron Rohbock tried to rescue his daughter, who he was separated from 11 years ago when he was kicked out of the fundamentalist Mormon church and was recently reunited with, only to have her snatched back by the group in what he describes as a brazen daylight kidnapping from a parking lot in Mesquite.
It’s a story with no end, however.
We don’t know who is caring for the child, and, remember, at 17, she is still a child. We don’t know where she is staying. Is she hidden in some remote corner of the desert near Short Creek or has she been taken away to one of the FLDS compounds in Pringle, S.D., Bountiful, British Columbia, Canada, one of the outposts in rural Colorado, or even Mexico, where the FLDS has established several communities? We don’t know if she has been placed in marriage with an older man, like many girls her age and younger in the FLDS culture.
We also don’t know why the State of Utah, when its officers found the girl reportedly living in a travel trailer in Short Creek and surviving, according to the story, on a box of food delivered to her by a priesthood caretaker once a week, didn’t do more to protect her.
As a minor, there is plenty the state could have done, beginning with placing her into the care of child welfare workers while custody was determined. They could have pursued charges against whoever took her from that parking lot because she is, after all, a minor and she was transported across state lines.
But, this is what happens when you live in a theocracy where state officials seem to have difficulty in unraveling themselves from the roots of the predominant religion.
Utah endured two attorneys general who made public policy of refusing to prosecute the state’s bigamy/polygamy statutes. How those guys continued to be elected baffles me. Of course now we know that those two men, Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow, are facing multiple criminal charges in unrelated matters.
We hear a lot of lip-service from well-meaning progressives these days who labor under the misguided idea that whatever happens between two consenting adults is nobody’s business. I would wholeheartedly agree, except the thing is, this is clearly not consenting adults. The girl is 17 and was younger when this all began to unravel. The so-called progressives have no concept of the context of polygamy as practiced by these fundamentalists, which extends far beyond closed bedroom doors.
We also hear a lot of lip-service from the people of this state who claim that children are their first priority, yet do nothing to ensure the safety of the little girls trapped in this culture, who are the unwilling, duped pawns in a game of sexual perversion and fraud.
We also learned last week from the Eldorado Success, the newspaper from the town where the FLDS built its Yearning for Zion Ranch, that the Texas State Board of Pardons and Paroles has approved Frederick Merril Jessop, a 79-year-old former FLDS bishop, for parole.
Jessop was convicted by a Coke County, Texas jury in November of 2011 and sentenced to 10 years in prison for performing an unlawful wedding ceremony when a jury found that he presided over the 2006 wedding of his own 12-year-old daughter to FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs, who was later found guilty of sexual assault against the 12-year-old and a 15-year-old girl whom he also took as one of his scores of spiritual wives.
Part of the evidence against Jeffs was a horrific audio tape of the young girl weeping as he ordered her to take off her clothes, then proceeded to sexually assault her.
Our friend, private investigator Sam Brower, who has chased the FLDS for decades, was distraught over the news.
“Merril Jessop is without a doubt one of the most despicable, vile human beings to grace the earth,” he said in a Facebook post after the news of Jessop’s early pardon was announced. “Despite his early parole, Frederick Merril Jessop, has repeatedly committed the most inconceivable crime a parent could commit against his own child – knowingly turn them over to the perverse whims of a serial pedophile. I have counted at least 11 of Merril Jessop’s daughters being turned over to Warren Jeffs, many of whom were underage and at least two not even teenagers yet.”
We agree with Sam and we are disappointed because we thought Texas would do a better job of administering justice.
Our only hope is that the board does a better job when Jeffs comes up for parole on July 22, 2038.
The board will hopefully rule that Jeffs should never take another free breath again, that he remains firmly ensconced in the Texas prison system, a victim of his own device, never to check out, never to leave.
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Ed Kociela is an opinion columnist. The opinions stated in this article are his and not representative of St. George News.
Email: edkociela.mx@gmail.com
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Ed Kociela has won numerous awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists. He now works as a freelance writer based alternately in St. George, Utah, and on The Baja in Mexico. His career includes newspaper, magazine, and broadcast experience as a sportswriter, rock critic, news reporter, columnist, and essayist. His novels, 'plygs' and ‘plygs2’ about the history of polygamy along the Utah-Arizona state line, are available at Amazon.com. His play, "Downwinders," was one of only three presented for a series of readings by the Utah Shakespeare Festival's New American Playwright series in 2005, he has written two screenplays, and beginning work on his third novel. You can usually find him, hand-in-hand, with his beloved wife Cara, enjoying Snow Canyon, walking the beach, strolling through the local art district, or sitting at one of their favorite gawking places outside a friendly little cantina. He can be reached by email at edkociela.mx@gmail.com Follow him on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/EdKociela. The opinions stated in this article are Kociela's own and may not be representative of St. George News.
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My Evil Twin February 10, 2015 at 10:35 am Log in to Reply
This whole thing is just sickening. Thank you Ed for this article! Looks like the officials in Texas were gotten to by FLDS. I wonder if the payoff was in cash, or in sex with underage girls.
NotSoFast February 10, 2015 at 10:59 am Log in to Reply
Good article Ed.
I fine it sad when folks read a reality piece on perverted human nature, nod their head in agreement then put the facts aside and go back to eating their cornflakes. It’s like they say to themselves, someone else should do something about that. Pass the orange juice please.
note: The Eagles Hotel California song is one of my true favorites.
anybody home February 10, 2015 at 2:50 pm Log in to Reply
It’s pretty darned hard for a member of the mainstream Mormon church to check out of the hotel, too, Ed. It took almost ten years for my mother and me to be “released” (aka ex-communicated) after my mother made the request when I was 14, and then only after countless letters, phone calls, “home visits,” veiled threats, and what can only be called intimidation over the years. That said, the situation described here is the ugliest kind of extension of this apparent need/desire? to hold onto anyone who comes within range. What goes on at Short Creek and other polygamist locations is clearly a violation of law if underage girls are involved. How it has so long been allowed to continue is beyond a reasonable person’s imagination. Is this part of the “live and let live” attitude so prevalent in Utah? If the Mormon men who run this state are unwilling to do anything for these girls, I’d like to see a band of women take things into their own hands and get this mess cleaned up. Utah might be proud of its parks and canyons, but it should be deeply ashamed of what happens in polygamist compounds.
Roy J February 13, 2015 at 5:42 pm Log in to Reply
I agree wth that, ANYBODY. The intimidation that wafts from the majority in the ‘predominant’ religion is simply astonishing.
Carl February 11, 2015 at 6:49 pm Log in to Reply
Wow! Wow! Man I grew up there and it just stuns me to see people you thought we’re good People actually turn out to be monsters. I’m so glad I left when I did!! Here’s the thing, it’s no longer a religion. It’s a cult, the state says it a cult, courts says it’s a cult, hell everyone says it a cult!! With that being said why not just end the so called cult? Go take all the kids and put them with family’s that can do good by them, tell all the adults to pull there heads out and just deal with it!! I mean they have no clue what unconditional love is to there children. They do not do what best for there children, they do NOT have there best interest at heart! They say they “love” there children but it’s misplaced love. I’m so grateful I grew up in a family that taught us what it means to be a family, that family comes 1st no matter what. I was closer to my family more than the religion, and I know that’s how my family felt towards each other. The one thing that always bothered me was that it felt like we had to warship the “prophet” more than God. I was 14 when I left that place. Merrell Jessop Son married my oldest sister so I knew the Jessop’s as a kid. When the Texas compound raid happened thats when I found out that my bother in law had married an underage girl and was sentenced to 10 years I believe, could be wrong. I couldn’t believe it, always taught he wouldn’t go there. I hope someone important and has power reads this. I beg you as a ex polygamist Stop waisting money trying to up hold there rights as religious people and just end the suffering out there. It’s a cult so treat it as such. I’ve seen to many families torn apart all in the name of a prophet or leader or caretaker! The God I grew up with would never put anyone through what I’ve seen. It’s no longer about “God” it’s about doing the right thing, and there are thousands of children just waiting for someone to step up and do what’s best for them.
Brenda February 12, 2015 at 10:05 pm Log in to Reply
Ed, another great article. Thank you. I agree with all four of the above comments and, yes, I am very disappointed that Texas released Merril Jessop. He should have been made to serve the full term. As for Warren, I doubt if he will still be alive in 2038, so I doubt there is any chance of him being released back into society. I used to work in the correctional and criminal justice systems, so I am aware that there are certain laws that mush be upheld, viz a viz parole release requirements, and also protecting the safety of high profile inmates. However, as Janey Q. Public, I sure wish that the rules could be bent. For example, how great it would be should Warren be housed in the general population in Palestine. I don’t think he’d last till 2018.
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Help track down my son's killer
THE MOTHER of a man blasted to death in a shotgun attack at his home three years ago is renewing an appeal to help track down his killers.
Danny Regan, 25, was murdered on Station Road, Haydock on Sunday, December 15, 2002. His mother Pat, who has since campaigned to rid the streets of gun violence believes Danny's lifestyle contributed to his killing. On the third anniversary of his murder, she is launching a fresh appeal to track down his killer.
Police believe the murderer armed with either a semi-automatic or pump action shotgun entered Danny's home through the conservatory. The first shot fired missed blasting a hole in a conservatory window, but another shot exploded into Danny's chest.
A father of two, Danny was originally from Leeds and lived in Haydock for around 12 months before he died.
Pat Regan, who earlier this year set up Mothers Against Violence said: "It's still so hard to face the idea that my son is never coming home and all of our family miss him terribly.
"I know it's too late to save my son and persuade him to give up the lifestyle, which I feel led to his death. But it's not too late to save others and if the work I do can make another young man think twice, or help another family to turn their children away from gun crime, then perhaps Danny's life won't have been lost in vain.
"I would urge anyone who knows anything that could help the investigation to come forward. Please think of our family - of Danny's children - and help us begin to find some sort of peace with his death."
Det Supt Julieanne Wallace-Jones, in charge of the murder enquiry said: "The years have passed but our commitment to tracing those who murdered Danny remain undiminished and I would appeal to anyone who might not have already come forward with information to contact us. This was a cold blooded murder, which left a family devastated and children without a father."
Detectives in Merseyside are still following up a number of inquiries. They are still trying to find the gun used in the murder and would like to speak to anyone who has information about the weapon. Police have also issued a fresh appeal for information about a silver or grey Rover car, registration number J609 MBU, which was stolen from Manchester on the Thursday Danny was killed and was later found burned out on Station Road.
Anyone with information can contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Would You Want Your Child To Work For You?
Business decisions that significantly impact people’s lives should take those people into account.
by Susan Cramm
Over the past 12 months, I have witnessed a series of shocking people-related decisions. For example:
• Retaining a technically savvy leader who demeans people with angry outbursts and derogatory comments
• Laying off employees right before Christmas, with no notice
• Transferring an employee and his family across the country to a job in which he is destined to fail
• Outsourcing a large portion of an organization without proper planning
• Hiring externally rather than promoting qualified internal candidates
Are these decisions really shocking? After all, they’re nothing new. But consider how these decisions were made: In each and every one, the impact on people was an outcome, not an objective.
The leaders who made these decisions are good people. They love their spouses, invest in their kids, and support their friends and communities. But they have been taught, year after crazy year, that success in today’s global ultra-competitive marketplaces requires focusing on keeping the shareholders, customers, governments, and lawyers happy—with people considered after the fact or not at all.
There’s no question that staying competitive requires change, and that change creates winners and losers. Every day, leaders make decisions that affect people’s lives. The challenge is to make them with heart, as if your children are watching.
We have raised a generation or two of mercenary leaders, fed almost exclusively on maximizing shareholder value. In their book, Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), John Mackey and Raj Sisodia describe mercenary leaders as “hired guns…who operate with short time horizons and tend to largely disregard the interests of stakeholders other than shareholders.”
Truth be told, I am—or rather, hopefully, was—one of those leaders. More than 30 years ago, I graduated from a highly ranked MBA program that didn’t teach the role of leaders in building and sustaining a healthy organization. Soon after, I joined an “up-or-out” company, and learned how to identify the bottom 10 percent of employees and manage them out of the organization. The annual succession planning didn’t require me, or any other leader, to assess how I was negatively affecting the organizational climate, or to identify how I was going to remedy the weaknesses in my leadership by clarifying purpose, strengthening leadership team cohesiveness, and closing the gap between stated values and practiced behaviors.
The collective consequences of such malnourished leadership are reflected in the employee engagement statistics. According to a 2013 Gallup report on the state of the American workplace, 70 percent of employees are actively disengaged. Last year, another survey identified employee engagement as one of the top five critical human-capital priorities facing organizations.
Typically, big problems require big solutions—but not in this case. As I realized the powerful potential impact of employee commitment over compliance, I met with a wise executive who advised me to act like a “border guard” for my organization by letting the good stuff in and keeping the bad stuff out. In each and every one of the decisions listed above, ordinary leaders—three or four levels down from the CEO—had the authority to significantly shape the decisions for the better:
• The demeaning leader could have been fired
• The laid-off employees could have been given more notice
• The employee could have been counseled to reject the transfer offer
• The outsourcing scope could have been modified with a more rigorous analysis of the financials and inherent risks
• Internal employees could have been given a chance to prove themselves
According to Mackey and Sisodia, and our own common sense, these are the type of decisions that are made by leaders who act as “merchants of hope and entrepreneurs of meaning,” who “appreciate the unique talents and gifts of each individual…putting the individual in a position to succeed,” and who “seek strategies that can simultaneously fulfill multiple values.”
“Border guard” leaders are empathetic and courageous. They look away from their phones, their bosses, and their peers so that they can see the faces of the employees affected by their decisions, and envision a company they would want their children to work for. In a sea of mercenary leaders challenged with adjusting to the global shifts in the competitive landscape, they are the lone voice that asks, “How do we achieve our desired results in a way that builds, rather than harms, our organization?”
One of my clients asked and answered this question by investing a significant portion of projected outsourcing savings into improving their employees’ skills. Another avoided layoffs by anticipating a downturn in sales and judiciously using contractors rather than hiring employees to fill vacant positions.
A few righteous decision makers can have profound impact. As psychologist Daniel Golemen said in a TED talk on compassion, all it takes is one person acting empathetically to influence the behavior of many.
Topics: outsourcing, stakeholders, investing, leadership, skills
Susan Cramm
Susan Cramm, leadership coach, author, and former CFO and CIO, is committed to the principle that the best leaders take care of business by taking care of the people entrusted to their care.
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Colombia: See Through The Silence
June 22, 2017: The peace deal with FARC has hit some snags but appears to be working. It’s taken longer than expected to collect all the FARC weapons and it appears that some FARC factions did not (and apparently will not) turn in all their weapons. But without definitive proof the government or foreign observers can’t do much. The security services can and note the surrendering FARC members who were connected with holding back weapons. Some of the FARC factions did not surrender at all and went directly into gangster mode.
Such is the case with any amnesty program like this. Allies like the United States have also noted the switch while monitoring illegal cash flows in and out of Colombia. The two countries share intel on major crime of all sorts and while leftist political violence is in decline corruption and large-scale criminal activity is still big. The Americans continue to sanction or indict Colombians they have enough evidence on and these days it is big-time gangsters.
The only leftist rebels still active are the ELN, which was never as involved with the drug business as FARC and always more hard-core in its communist social beliefs. As a result, ELN was always smaller than FARC. Before the demobilization began FARC had more than three times as many armed members than ELN. Now the ELN is the largest political rebel group and is getting a lot more attention from the security forces. For that reason ELN does not bother to take credit for many of its attacks, secure in the knowledge that most people will see through the silence.
For Colombia the largest security problem is in the east where there is a growing refugee crises on the Venezuelan border. The border is largely rural and easy to slip through. The area was always popular with FARC and is still full of drug gang members and some of the ELN groups. These days the majority of foot traffic consists of Venezuelans using the last of whatever money they had to get to the border and then just walking into Colombia with no idea of when they might be able to go back. Unofficially it is believed nearly a million Venezuelan refugees are now in Colombia. Since late 2016 most of them were not looking to resume careers but to escape death from hunger, disease and a growing number of other problems. While many go to Brazil or North America over 90 percent now head for Colombia because it is all they can afford.
Even a lot of Venezuelan government officials are leaving in addition to of lifelong supporters of socialism. Few are choosing Cuba, which the current Venezuelan rulers long sought for advice. Opinion polls show that by late 2016 nearly 60 percent of adults wanted to leave, which is a sharp rise from 49 percent in 2015. It would appear that about two million have left already but that is accelerating as the Venezuelan economy disintegrates and food becomes increasingly difficult to get, even if you can pay black market rates. At the current rate of emigration over three million will be gone by the end of 2017, which is more than ten percent of the population. Until 2016 most of those leaving had money and were entrepreneurs or people with skills that would assure them employment anywhere. By late 2016 nearly all the Venezuelans fleeing were facing a life (flee) or death (by starvation, disease or murder) decision.
For Colombians living near the eastern border it is also becoming obvious that the situation in Venezuela is spiraling out of control. Violent anti-government demonstrations since late March have left nearly a hundred of the demonstrators dead. The security forces have been unable to quickly shut down these public outburst as they have in the past. In response to that some army and police commanders began ordering their subordinates to avoid hurting, much less killing demonstrators. Many of the demonstrators are now high school and college students along with non-students the same age who are unemployed and hungry. The senior Venezuelan leadership saw these orders as illegal and began firing senior officers who spoke out while others simply resigned (and often realized they had to flee the country while they still could). But even senior prosecutors and other government officials are now criticizing government policies. Since May that has led to more firings and resignations of senior government officials and often they are being replaced with senior military men. President Maduro is more concerned with loyalty and dependability than competence. The federal government has now ordered the military to take over the control of police in any province where the police appear to be unable or unwilling to use force to suppress demonstrators and any other critics of the government.
Public protests are now more widespread and violent than there were in 2014 when the government was forced to accept free (and scheduled) elections for the legislature. The government lost the 2015 vote and found itself with a hostile legislature. By 2017 the government was using the pro-Maduro Supreme Court to declare the legislature illegitimate but many senior government officials balked at that, realizing that the result would be a police state and a very unpopular and bankrupt one at that. Nevertheless the senior officials are moving ahead, even as this drives away most long-time foreign supporters. This now includes China and Russia.
China has been a major investor and lender to the socialist government of Venezuela. But that ended after late 2016 when they agreed to invest $2.2 billion to upgrade Venezuelan oil facilities. It soon became obvious that Venezuelan oil facilities were beyond getting upgraded because there had been too many years of inept decision making. China quietly stopped delivering cash to Venezuela. The years of government corruption and mismanagement has done fatal damage to the Venezuelan oil industry and a major shakeup was required to fix it. The government was trying to survive by borrowing. That option is now gone as potential lenders perceive the current government as unwilling or unable to do anything about the fundamental problems. This means major losses for China, which has been a major lender by providing over $50 billion since 2007. Some of these loans were repaid with Venezuelan oil but the Venezuelan oil industry is so disorganized and decrepit that the country can’t even produce enough oil for its own internal needs. Russia was another generous ally that has invested billions in Venezuela. Now that investment is about to be lost, mainly because of corruption.
Venezuela has run out of sufficient cash to import basic food items and will not admit what the real problems are. The main cause, according to the government, is the United States and neighbors like Colombia working with disloyal Venezuelans. Solutions are impossible if the government will not recognize they are the problem. The government does not want to admit that it cannot afford to buy sufficient imported food or that its corrupt officials are stealing a lot of what is imported. President Maduro apparently is willing to create a dictatorship but too many of his key officials point out that will get Venezuela declared an outlaw state and increase the financial problems. So the government is going ahead with its effort to change the constitution and allow Maduro to rule as long as he like with no legal opposition.
In this part of the world the way this works is the neighbors wring their hands and deplore the tragic events. If it leads to rebellion or civil war the neighbors will stay out of it as long as they can but eventually the growing number of cell-phone images of the suffering and slaughters, not to mention all those desperate refugees crossing the border, will trigger official and unofficial intervention and some semblance of peace and prosperity will return. The lessons of all this, if any, will soon be lost and the cycle of corruption (especially in government) and decline will repeat.
June 21, 2017: The Venezuelan Supreme Court approved efforts to remove the current attorney (Luisa Ortega) from her job for criticizing the effort to change the constitution with an illegal process backed by the Supreme Court. According to the current constitution only the parliament (national assembly) can remove an attorney general from office. But the Supreme Court has ruled that the current parliament is illegal. The parliament describes these actions as a coup and most Venezuelans agree with that. Unlike most other democracy constitutions Venezuela does not allow the legislature to impeach (remove) the president. Rather the Supreme Court, whose members are appointed by the president (and approved by the legislature) do so. But before Maduro’s party lost control of the legislature in the 2015 elections he appointed enough loyal (to Maduro) new judges to the Supreme Court to block any efforts to remove him from power. The legislature and the government have not been able to agree on a compromise solution for this problem.
June 20, 2017: Although the first FARC members completed the disarmament and demobilization process by mid-May the process of processing all 6,800 FARC members at 26 demobilization camps by May 31st did not happen and the deadline was extended until today. It appears that most of the weapons have now been turned in but that there are still another ten or more percent of the weapons to go. FARC members must turn in their weapons before they can be registered for benefits like government jobs, training and other education programs plus medical care and debriefing. The camps are monitored by UN teams with over 500 trained staff.
Another part of the peace agreement is legal proceedings for FARC members known to have committed major crimes. The amnesty process is based on the one used in other nations and involves cooperation from the accused (who did what to whom when and where) to qualify. The demobilization process is to be completed by the end of 2017 although the bad memories will linger for generations. Demobilized FARC members will get some cash assistance and FARC leaders will be able to engage in political activity (via forming parties, running for election and voting). One worrisome aspect to all this is that many veteran FARC members still believe Colombia would be better off with a more socialist government, just not one next door in Venezuela.
June 17, 2017: In the capital a bomb went off in a women’s toilet of an upscale mall. Three people were killed, including a French citizen (who was working as a volunteer in a local education program). Another nine people were wounded. No one took credit but the ELN was suspected as this is the sort of social justice target they like to hit. The government offered a $35,000 reward for information leading to the culprit.
In the east (Arauca province) ELN blew up a section of a major pipeline near the Venezuelan border. It will take a few days to repair the damage. This is the 32nd ELN attack on oil industry operations this year. ELN and the government began peace talks in February and the ELN increased its attacks since then.
In northeast Colombia (Norte de Santander province) two Dutch journalists were kidnapped and ELN was suspected as they still do this sort of thing and this is territory they have long been active in. The security forces also received tips that ELN had done it and have been pursuing those leads.
June 13, 2017: The government negotiators believe that efforts to negotiate a peace deal with the ELN are stalemated largely because the ELN leadership appears to have lost control of many of its factions. ELN violence (bombings and kidnappings) have continued and appear to be on the increase. ELN blames the government without giving specifics. Meanwhile out in the rural areas where ELN is most active the local chatter is all about disgruntled ELN faction leaders, many of them opposed to any peace deal.
June 12, 2017: In Venezuela demonstrators in the capital set fire to the Supreme Court building.
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Russia: Why The Neighbors Are Nervous
October 31, 2014: In eastern Ukraine over 160 people have been killed in Donbas since the September ceasefire. Over 3,700 have died in Donbas since Russia began military operations (via pro-Russian rebels or Russian soldiers) in April. Russia has been warned by the West that if the pro-Russian rebels hold their election on November 2 nd (to establish a separate state) and Russia recognizes it, this will be a violation of international law and will bring more sanctions. Russia used the same tactics to annex Crimea from Ukraine earlier this year and parts of Georgia in 2008. Russia blames the United States for all the anti-Russian attitudes among its neighbors. President Putin and many Russians see America as continuing the Cold War by conspiring to weaken Russia. Many Russians, however, note that their neighbors don’t agree and see Russia returning to its traditional paranoia about all foreigners. These Russians realize that there are bad habits in Russia (aside from tolerance for corruption and outlaw behavior) that need to be changed before Russia can move forward. But at the moment the traditionalists are in charge and it’s paranoia as usual. The average Russian feels the impact of all this with shortages and high inflation, all brought on by the sanctions.
The Donbas rebels demand independence for the five million people in Donbas areas that the rebels control. The Ukraine government refuses to allow that and is willing to negotiate some autonomy. Most Ukrainians, and many Russians believe the Russian government wants to annex Donbas and nothing less will do. Russia quickly discovered that seizing Donbas was going to be a lot more difficult than anticipated. Part of the problem was the unexpectedly robust resistance by Ukrainian forces. In particular the Ukrainian volunteer forces fighting in eastern Ukraine were particularly effective against Russian sponsored troops and Russian regular forces. These volunteer units comprise about 20 percent of the 50,000 armed personnel Ukraine has sent to the Donbas.
While Israel has expressed sympathy for Ukraine in their confrontation with Russia, when Ukraine asked to purchase some Israeli UAVs, the Israeli government intervened and blocked the sale (which Israeli manufacturers were willing to make). The reason was because Israel needed good relations with Russia, especially when it came to persuading the Russians to refrain from selling Iran modern weapons or the technology that would enable Iran to do so. This was a rare win for Russia in its diplomatic and media campaign to justify their Ukraine aggression. With Israel the Russians have not won over Israeli public opinion (which sees Russia as the bad guys) but they have managed to use their diplomatic muscle to foil Ukrainian efforts to get needed military equipment.
While Russian aggression in Ukraine gets most of the headlines, there’s plenty of Russian misbehavior against other neighbors as well. Finland reports growing Russian military activity on the border and against Finnish ships in the Baltic. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (the “Baltic States” that were long part of Russia) are receiving similar harassment, as well as Russian offers of a large discount on what they pay for Russian natural gas if they will leave NATO. None of the Baltic States sees this as a good deal and consider NATO their only real protection from Russian aggression.
Russia’s neighbors also agree that there has been a lot more activity by Russian “diplomats” posing as spies since the Ukrainian crises began in late 2013. East Europeans have been openly comparing Putin’s aggression to that of Stalin and Hitler before World War II. Russians get very upset at these comparisons, insisting that they are only seeking to regain territory that is really theirs’ and lost due to foreign conspiracies. At that point Russian logic introduces imaginary plots by NATO and the United States which strike Westerners as absurd but appeal to a lot of Russians. That’s what makes Russia’s neighbors nervous because it is a repeat of previous instances of Russian aggression. Russian neighbors, particularly Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are increasing defense spending and getting their military forces ready for Russian aggression.
Russia is being forced to depend on China for tech and cash it can no longer get from the West because of the growing sanctions. As much as Russian leaders loathe and fear NATO, many also resent being forced to grant China access to Russian markets, raw materials and military technology in payment for help coping with the sanctions. Russian leaders believe they can handle China and Chinese leaders believe their economic power will give them unprecedented control over Russia. Someone has miscalculated here and it is as yet unclear who. While China gains more raw materials and export markets along with improvements to its locally developed weapons, Russia is forced to halt its efforts to diversify its economy away from dependence on raw materials exports. The diversification depended on Western tech and investment. That has been halted for the moment and the Chinese can’t replace it. Many Russians see this as a bad decision and that helps fuel the growing popular opposition to the government.
The Russian leadership is divided about the ultimate cost of these border wars. The nationalists, led by president Putin, are willing to sacrifice to rebuild the empire. But many in the leadership see the cost as too high and the rebuilding of the empire as impractical in the face of Western opposition. Because of the sanctions the economy is being weakened, leading to a recession and lots of Russians, rich and poor, are going to feel the loss. Economic experts warn of long-term damage as Western governments and firms decide that Russia cannot be trusted and, even after the current crises, charge extra because of the perceived risks of dealing with Russians. This surcharge, and the distrust underlying it, will hurt the Russian economy for decades to come. Also damaging is the growing Chinese economic power inside Russia. Even many Russian nationalists fear this while other pro-empire Russians believe the Chinese are intrinsically weak and will fold under pressure. That’s not what the Chinese think and some Russians are well aware of that. A growing number of Russians believe they are being ruled by a dictator, who only pretends to respect democracy and will, if cornered, use force to remain in power. President Putin dismisses such accusations, while continuing to operate like they are all too true.
The aggressive Russian response to the sanctions is being expressed in the east as well as the west. Thus in the last six months Chinese aircraft fell from first to second place as the most common threat Japanese air defense forces have to deal with. Now, again, it’s Russian aircraft that are most frequently triggering a response. From April to September this year Japanese aircraft went up over 531 times to confront intruders. Russian aircraft (often recon aircraft) coming too close to Japanese air space accounted for 61 percent of these incidents while Chinese intrusions (mostly warplanes) accounted for 39 percent. While 2013 was the first year Chinese intrusions exceeded Russian ones, this did not become a trend. But Chinese intrusions have become more common. This has been coming for several years. In 2011 nearly 43 percent of the sorties were for Chinese aircraft. That was nearly three times as many Chinese intrusions as in 2010. Meanwhile Russian intrusions have been declining. In 2011, Russia still accounted for 52 percent of the intrusions and now they are back on top again.
October 30, 2014: The EU (European Union) and the United States agreed to provide the cash to ensure that Ukraine pays for its Russian natural gas supplies. The deal includes Ukraine getting a 20 percent discount on Russian gas and the EU assured of Russian gas imports continuing without interruption. The EU gets a third of its natural gas from Russia and half of that is delivered via a pipeline passing through Ukraine. The EU and America now have a large financial interest in curbing the corruption that has hobbled Ukraine since it became independent again in 1991.
In eastern Ukraine (Donbas) pro-Russian rebels killed seven Ukrainian soldiers. This was the most violent incident in the Donbas in two weeks.
October 29, 2014: In the last two days NATO nations experienced more than a hundred intercepts of Russian military aircraft flying close enough to their air space to warrant sending up fighters to check out the intrusion. These incidents occurred in the Baltic Sea, North Sea, Atlantic Ocean and the Black Sea.
October 28, 2014: In eastern Ukraine (Donbas) a deal was worked out that allows a hundred Ukrainian paratroopers, trapped by pro-Russian rebels at a checkpoint since September, to retreat. The paratroopers had lost ten dead and even more wounded during resupply operations in the last month.
October 27, 2014: The government is passing laws making it more difficult for Russian individuals and businesses to move large sums of money out of the country. This has always been a problem, first as corrupt politicians and businessmen moved dirty (illegally obtained) money out of the country for safekeeping. Now you also have a lot of money moved out because corruption (and now sanctions) made investing overseas more attractive than doing so inside Russia. This is what is causing over $100 billion to be moved out of the country in 2014 and because of that there is one more problem (shortage of cash) operating within the Russian economy.
October 26, 2014: Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine. While only 52 percent of voters turned out anti-Russian and pro-West candidates won a majority.
October 24, 2014: Sweden called off a six day hunt for an unidentified submarine. The mystery sub was spotted several times off the coast, within Swedish territorial waters. Swedish radio monitoring units picked what appeared to be a distress call from the sub that appeared directed to a Russian cargo ship that lingered just outside Swedish territorial waters for several days. This was believed to be the mother ship for a Russian mini-sub. During the Cold War Russian subs often entered Swedish territorial waters on training or espionage missions. Some were spotted and a few were caught at it. At most, Russia would apologize. The intrusions stopped with the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991 but now they are back. In this incident it was thought that a Russian mini-sub was sent in to observe a joint naval exercise involving Swedish, Dutch, Danish and Polish ships. The mini-sub encountered some sort of problem and apparently overcame it and got away. This incident is expected to cause local navies to improve their anti-submarine capabilities with new equipment and more training.
October 20, 2014: A former Polish foreign minister revealed that during discussions with Vladimir Putin in 2008 the Russian leader suggested that Russia and Poland partition Ukraine. Putin commented that Ukraine was an “artificial country.” This is something many Russians agree with and most Ukrainians denounce as more Russian propaganda.
October 17, 2014: Discussions among Ukrainian, Russian and EU officials to peacefully settle the situation in eastern Ukraine failed. In eastern Ukraine (Donbas) two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and three wounded by pro-Russian rebels using sniper fire and mortars to attack Ukrainian Army positions.
October 16, 2014: France denied a Russian claim that a French shipbuilder was going to deliver the first of two Mistral class amphibious ships in November. In September France suspended delivery of the Mistrals. At first (back in June) the French said they would fulfill the 2011 contract that sold two French Mistrals, for $1.7 billion, to Russia. This was the largest Russian purchase of Western weapons since World War II. The deal was delayed for a long time because the Russians demanded the transfer of shipbuilding and electronics technology (which was eventually agreed to). At the time the dispute over Donbas, in which the European Union and NATO support Ukraine, was still relatively low key. But as the situation escalated to outright war France had second thoughts.
In eastern Ukraine (Donbas) pro-Russian rebels again attacked the airport outside Donetsk, killing three Ukrainian soldiers with mortar fire.
The U.S. has agreed to sell Poland 40 AGM-158A JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles), plus training missiles, test and maintenance equipment and special equipment for the Polish F-16s that will use JASSM. Poland needs JASSM to deal with modern air defenses Russia is building. Russia is the only real enemy Poland has in the region and Poland wants to be prepared for the worst. As a member of NATO Poland expects back up if the Russians come after them and JASSM provides a way to discourage or at least slow down Russian aggression. The Russians responded by moving some military assets farther away from Poland.
October 14, 2014: The U.S. and Russia agreed to renew the exchange of intelligence data on Islamic terrorist groups. This sharing had been interrupted because of the Russian aggression in Ukraine.
In Ukraine the parliament passed new anti-corruption laws. This is in response to popular anger over the failure of the new government to do much about obviously corrupt officials. The new laws are not expected to have much impact.
October 13, 2014: Russia and China signed 40 new business agreements that provide China with more access to Russian markets and raw materials and provide Russia with credit from Chinese banks. This credit replaces, at least partially, access to credit that was cut by the sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine situation.
Internet security firms and Microsoft (the publisher of the most widely used PC operating system in the world) report that they have identified another Russia based hacker group that has been responsible for another surge in attacks on PCs and networks in the West.
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Anna Sui (born August 4, 1964)[2] is an American fashion designer. Her luxury brand retails globally in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Her clothing, fragrance, cosmetic, and accessories lines sell at Anna Sui stores in over 50 countries and are also widely distributed at leading department stores worldwide.[3] Sui is known for her timeless designs and ability to transcend eras with her historical and culturally inspired collections. After leaving Parsons, she worked for a variety of junior sportswear companies. During this time she began designing clothing out of her apartment. With the encouragement of friends Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista, Sui launched her first runway show in 1991.[5] "That those professional beauties were then at the height of their fame helped stoke the reception Sui got from buyers and the news media,"[6] and helped launch the timeless and unique style that Sui's has developed over the past two decades. In 1991, Sui opened her first retail location at 113 Greene Street in New York City's Soho District. This shop, with its lavender walls, red floors, antique black furniture, and signature dolly head mannequins has become a staple of SOHO fashion and has guided the aesthetic of Anna Sui stores worldwide. Evoking the Anna Sui lifestyle, "the stores have come to emphasize the epitome of culture in a continually shifting fashion world."[7] Over her career, Sui has also grown her brand internationally in the American, European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets. Her iconic fashion shows, with their much-anticipated rock music and background designs, routinely pack the Tent at Bryant Park during her prime time Wednesday slot at Fashion Week.
Dolly Girl by Anna Sui
Sui launched a more youthful version of her fashion line called Dolly Girl by Anna Sui in 2004.
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She is known for her mixing of styles finding inspiration in everything from the classic Chanel suit to Haight Ashbury hippie chic to glam rock of the 1970s. A favorite ofPatricia Arquette, Christina Ricci, Cher, Naomi Campbell, Sofia Coppola and Courtney Love, Sui’s funky, purple-walled boutiques can be found in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. Today, her patchwork-boudoir aesthetic is instantly recognizable in her clothing, her store design, even in her beauty packaging. It’s a true lifestyle brand,
Anna Sui for Target (2009), Anna Sui Mobile for Samsung (2005), Anna Sui Vision with Allison Eyewear (2001 to Present), Anna Sui for FitFlop (2009)
“There is an artistry in Ms. Sui's mix of art and fashion:
A perfect example of boho chic, Though the butterfly has been a motif in her prints (another of her signatures),
She developed her designing business throughout the 1980s and was ready to put on her first runway show in 1991. The models included Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista. Anna launched her own clothing line the following year and opened the first of her boutiques in New York City. Eventually she would have boutiques in Tokyo, Osaka, Hollywood and Los Angeles. She has continued to be particularly popular in Japan, and has designed the costumes for an anime (Japanese style animation), television series.
Anna Sui says she was inspired by the rock chic look.
Anna Sui continues to bring out her collections, drawing from different inspirational ideas each time, and the shows are always well received. She is always open about the source of her ideas, and still keeps an eye on what's in the magazines, mixing that with some classic looks from the past.
in the trendy SOHO area of New York, where the store features the signature lavenders and florals that are now synonymous with Anna Sui. This concept store has been rolled out globally and has seen success unequivocally.
Anna Sui is certainly a designer that celebrities and other brands want to be associated with. Take for example celebrities Naomi Campbell, Mischa Barton and Paris Hilton; all of...
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Italy: preferred aspect of going to a museum in Sardinia 2015
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Share of adults who visited a museum or gallery in the last year in England from 2012/13 to 2017/18*, by age
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Perspectives on the French revolution.
This essay will examine the ideologies of the French revolution of 1789. Two perspectives on the French revolution were held by the conservatives’ elite and the educated philosophers. The educated philosophers believed that a revolution was the only way that the middle and lower class were to have a say in matters of state, and obtain their rights. Their goal in the revolution was to turn the absolute monarchy into a constitutional monarchy. The conservatives believed that the absolute monarchy should stay intact to preserve their heritage, and that the revolutionary changes brought more problems than they solved. The French revolution started in 1789 and officially lasted 10 years, finishing in 1799. Although according to public opinion, many events after the official end of the revolution are considered to be included in revolution for example the rein of Napoleon Bonaparte. The revolutions started as a result of rising food prices and the states bankruptcy. The rising food prices were primarily caused by an immense and volatile hailstorm. The food shortage may have ended there, however the hailstorm was followed by a long drought, likely caused by the El Niño effect. After the drought there was an uncharacteristically cold winter rivers and roads froze over, stopping flour from being ground by watermills, and the little food that was produced couldn’t get to the market because the roads were blocked. When spring came around and the snow finally thawed it caused floods destroying an abundance of farmland. There is also speculation that volcanic activity of Laki and Grimsvöth had a hand in the food crisis. In addition to rising food prices, the states bankruptcy, caused in part by Frances involvement in the American revolutionary war, put the monarchy in a difficult financial position. To pay its debts the state would either have to borrow money or raise the already high taxes on the third estate (Adcock, pg. 40). Both decisions were unfavourable as they would cause upheaval in civilian life. The taxes were already high, having been raised to pay for the many wars King Louis XIV had waged, leaving the state in debt (Neely, pg. 29). In august 1786 king Louis XVI’s minister of finance informed him of the seriousness of the financial situation. France had been in debt for about 100 years. They waged 4 separate wars between 1733 and 1783, and borrowed more than £1250 million since 1776. These were the major contributions to Frances debt (Adcock pg. 41, Brooman pg. 19). The king had two options, either borrow more money or raise the taxes higher than they’ve ever been. He soon discovered he couldn’t borrow more money because he was in too much debt, so he tried to introduce a new tax. This tax was called the land tax, all land owners had to pay this tax to keep the land they owned. This included the first, second and third estates land but excluded the king. All new taxes and laws had to be registered and approved at the law courts, or parliament in Paris. King Louis tried to pass the new tax without the estates generals’ approval. When the law courts wouldn’t allow him to introduce the new tax without their approval he exiled the entire parliament from Paris. People everywhere in France protested against this, sometimes violently, for six months until King Louis gave in and reappointed them. As a result of these main problems the people felt that the monarchy was not doing its job and that the French people needed a constitutional government to rule over them fairly. Although the philosophes did not always agree on political issues they did agree that the scientific discoveries made in the 17th century were important to all aspects of life (Neely pg. 16). Most philosophes were not traditional Christians, but rather deists. Deists believed that “knowledge of god came through study of the nature that he created” and did not believe in things such as miracles (Neely pg. 17). Before the revolution the philosophes achieved the publication of the encyclopédie, a collection of knowledge with contributions from many philosophes. The first volume was published in 1751(Neely pg. 18). These encyclopédie have been blamed by some historians for the revolution. They do at least play a small role in the revolution. “what helped to bring on the revolution were not radical ideas, but rather that more and more people were now discussing public policy and taking a lively interest in political and governmental matters”(Neely pg. 21) these books were the reason people were able to be informed enough to create their own opinions. The governing of the country was no longer in the hands of just a few noble men, but majority of the population. One of the most famous philosophes was François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire. He wrote a variety of philosophical works on many topics and in many forms. In 1725 he was exiled to Britain for three years after offending a nobleman. In Britain he learnt about the constitutional monarchy, which appeared far better than his own country’s monarchy. During this exile he wrote letter philosophiqes sur les anglais (philosophical letters on the English). He published these when he returned to France. These letters recommended the constitutional monarchy over the absolute monarchy, and sparked outrage in most people throughout the country. It is likely that these works had a hand in the revolution, once people had time to process the information. The edict of Nantes was signed in Nantes, France by Henri IV on April 15th 1598. Henri was a protestant who converted to Catholicism 4 years after succeeding the throne. The edict gave Protestants the freedom to worship as they please, made their marriages valid, allowed their priests to be paid by the state and gave full immunity for all crimes committed by both sides during the religious wars. The edict proved only to be a temporary solution to the religious wars and rivalry between the Protestants and Catholics. In 1685 Louis XIV revoked the edict of Nantes, declaring all protestant marriages invalid, and causing mass migration to England (Cavandish, history today). Voltaire, who had a protestant wife, wrote about the Protestants and what they were going through during this time of turmoil (Neely pg. 18). Voltaire especially had an interest in the callas case. He believed that the case showed what was wrong with the French society including religious intolerance. Jean Callas was convicted of killing his son for trying to convert to Catholicism. He was tortured and killed in public. In 3 years Voltaire cleared his name. Although the edict was revoked almost 100 years before the revolution, some historians believe it may have had a part in causing it. “Enlightenment led people astray by weakening their faith in tradition and religion by placing entirely too much confidence in the abilities of human beings to reason and improve the world” (Neely pg. 16). The conservatives believed that the revolution would cause more problems than it would solve. Although they admit that the monarchy had its flaws, they believed it was immoral to attack the government and the church (Neely, pg. 16). It was common belief that the king was appointed by god, which meant he had the divine right to rule. Therefore, “to criticise the king was to criticise god”. Public belief in the kings’ competence to rule was largely reinforced by large oil paintings of the king at work (Adcock pg. 7). The second estate or nobility did not have to pay certain taxes (and dodged paying many others), got special treatment in law courts, had the right to carry a sword, and did not have to do military service (Brooman pg. 7). Because most of the conservatives were nobility of the second estate (upperclassmen) it is believed that there may have been a more selfish reason for their beliefs. The conservatives did not want to give up their estates, slaves, titles, and privileges (Neely pg. 16). On the 26th of august 1789 the declaration of rights of man and citizen was introduced provisionally by the parliament (Neely pg. 86). It outlined that all men were equal and free and that power did not solely belong to the king but to the people as well (Brooman pg. 33). Its main purpose was to acknowledge that these rights already exist, no to create new ones. It was merely an affirmation of the philosophes writings about the people’s rights. The document did not mention that the state had a responsibility to help the poor and unemployed. Although it was a victory for the philosophes and the third estate, they only got half of what they wanted (Adcock pg. 89). King Louis XVI or “Louis Capet” as the people insisted on calling him, was found guilty of conspiracy against the state on 7th of January 1793 (Adcock pg. 136). On the 15th of January they voted as to what punishment the king would receive. The votes were very close with 361 people who voted for death without conditions and 360 people who voted against it. Out of those 286 people voted for imprisonment or banishment and 46 people voted for death when peace time came (Neely pg. 170). On the 21st of January he was taken to place de révolution to be executed with a guillotine. Later the place de révolution was renamed to place de la Concorde to try and abate the memory and blame surrounding the place. King Louis XVI was thought of as a rallying point for the conservatives as he was part of the royalty they wished to protect. Once he was executed the conservatives had lost majority of their reason to fight. The revolution officially ended in 1799, when Napoleon Bonaparte came into power. When this happened, both the conservatives and the philosophes lost. Their separate ideals were torn apart as napoleon declared himself emperor, abolishing both the monarchy and the people voice (Adcock pg. 193). During the revolution the French people had 4 separate national assemblies and 3 different constitutions. Many historians believe that without the help of the philosophes the French revolution may never have happened while others argue that dissatisfaction in the system causes criticism and animosity and the revolution still would have happened eventualy. Bibliography
Adcock, M 2004, Analysing the French revolution, Cambridge University Press. Brooman, J 1992, Revolution in France, Longman Group.
Cavendish, R 1998, The edict of Nantes, viewed 12th September 2012 <http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/edict-nantes>3 Hampson, N 1963, A social history of the French revolution, T.J press. Neely, S 2008, A concise history of the French revolution, Rowman and Littlefield publishers.
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George Antheil, Aaron Copland, Arthur Honegger
Piano Concertos of the 1920s
Track Listings (6) - Disc #1
Piano Concerto No. 1, W. 205
Piano Concerto: I. Andante sostenuto
Piano Concerto: II. Molto moderato. Allegro assai
Concertino, for piano & orchestra, H. 55
Piano Concerto in G major: I. Allegramente
Piano Concerto in G major: II. Adagio assai
Piano Concerto in G major: III. Presto
Pianist Michael Rische has been heard regularly in the great concert halls at home and abroad since 1970. His numerous CDs have given him an international reputation, and his interpretations of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and... more » Ravel have been rated as being of unusually high quality. Particularly since his discovery of the piano concertos by Erwin Schulhoff and George Antheil (first performance on March 5, 2001 in London), Michael Rische is seen as a prominent advocate for that 20th century music in which classical music and jazz come together. The works on this album reflect the unique cross-fertilization of jazz and classical traditions in the 1920s, both in Europe and America, best-known today from the works of George Gershwin. « less
All Artists: George Antheil, Aaron Copland, Arthur Honegger, Maurice Ravel, Christoph Poppen, Steven Sloane, Israel Yinon, Bamberg Symphony Chorus, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, WDR Sinfonie Orchester Köln, Michael Rische
Title: Piano Concertos of the 1920s
Label: Arte Nova Classics
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Instruments, Keyboard
Pianist Michael Rische has been heard regularly in the great concert halls at home and abroad since 1970. His numerous CDs have given him an international reputation, and his interpretations of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and Ravel have been rated as being of unusually high quality. Particularly since his discovery of the piano concertos by Erwin Schulhoff and George Antheil (first performance on March 5, 2001 in London), Michael Rische is seen as a prominent advocate for that 20th century music in which classical music and jazz come together. The works on this album reflect the unique cross-fertilization of jazz and classical traditions in the 1920s, both in Europe and America, best-known today from the works of George Gershwin.
Le hot jazz--Real Hot
M. C. Passarella | Lawrenceville, GA | 03/03/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"If this album were a movie, I guess it would be called a "high concept" flick. And the concept is a good and interesting one. France in the 1920s was in love with "le hot jazz," and all of the works on this CD have a French connection, either because the composer studied in France, worked in France--or was French. Odd-concerto-out is Aaron Copland's since it was written in 1926, after his return to America from studies with Boulanger in France. It is the second of his "American" works, the first being "Music for the Theater," and while that work is a charming, lively piece, the Concerto is pretty much a bust and probably convinced Copland that he was on the wrong track with his jazz-influenced direction. He would start approaching America from a different musical direction soon, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Of the other works on this disc, one is a certified masterwork, one an interesting dark horse, and one an attractive novelty whose only fault is to be too short (less than 11 minutes) ever to be programmed in concert. But then that's what CDs are all about. We can enjoy at home the wit and grace of Honegger's tiny Concertino, with its coolly patrician take on jazz. Honegger always has something interesting to say, and he says it memorably here.
The dark horse is George Antheil's Concerto No. 1, a piece that had to be tracked down via some skillful detective work. Apparently, this composition was mentioned in a Berlin press report of 1922 but was not even mentioned by Atheil in his autobiography of 1926. Was he trying to hide something? You be the judge. This is a wild and wooly piece that makes no bones about its obvious indebtedness--entirely to Stravinksy (Petruschka, The Rite of Spring, Ragtime, a few others maybe). It has a wah-wah jazz trumpet tune, ragtime rhythms, dance-band percussion riffs, but then it has serious modernist overtones too. Well, it's hard to describe, but it's a strangely appealing concoction.
Then there's the Ravel, one of the greatest concertos of the 20th century. In this work, Michael Rische is up against stiff competition as he is in no other of the pieces on this disc. So he obviously decided to do something different. True to the title of the CD, Rische and conductor Israel Yinon emphasize the jazz-mad Dionysian side of Ravel--and if you didn't know he had one, you should listen to this performance. The last movement gets a bit rough in spots, but that's because of the especially heady tempos and the impetuosity of the orchestral playing, which sounds like the product of a live performance, though this is a studio job. Rische's performance won't erase memories of famous recordings you've heard, but I think you will enjoy it.
The recordings, made at different times and in different places, are consistently fine, nicely ambient and yet with good definition too. This disc is a revelation."
A Great Collection
D. A Wend | Buffalo Grove, IL USA | 07/26/2005
"I first noticed this disc because of the world premiere of the Antheil Piano Concerto. In his book: Bad Boy of Music," Mr. Antheil mentions having written a piano concerto but provides no details about it. It required some detective work to locate the manuscript. The concerto is quite interesting and unorthodox, much like Antheil's "mechanique" driven music. It is in one movement and freely borrows from Stravinsky while also incorporating many jazz elements. Like Antheil's solo piano music of the period the concerto is characterized by drive and freedom of form. The music is appealing, thoughtful and fresh.
The Concertino of Arthur Honneger comes from 1924; the dialogue between piano and orchestra was influenced by the Brandenburg Concertos but the music, with its elements of blues, places it firmly in the 20th century. The instruments mesh well together and the overall sense is of a well composed and witty concerto.
A surprise for me was the Piano Concerto by Aaron Copland. The work dates from 1926 and was an attempt to create American music by using jazz elements. The concerto was regarded by critics as rhythmically complex, something close to the Rite of Spring and nothing short of noise. I think the opposite is true. The music is very moody and expressive, evocative of an American urban landscape. Listening to this music today I would describe it as a cross between Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein, but I am only suggesting such a comparison to give an idea of what it sounds like: the music is pure Copland.
The most familiar concerto on the disc is the Ravel Piano Concerto in G, which receives an excellent performance. The concertos are all well recorded and are played by different orchestras linked by the pianist Michael Rische, who does a phenomenal job in all of them. Anyone interested in piano concertos of the 20th century will find this an irresistible collection. The price is also right.
A well-filled and intelligently conceived disc, at a bargain
Discophage | France | 03/13/2007
"The same recording has previously been published by Arte Nova with a different cover, and I have reviewed it at length under two of its entries on Amazon (Piano Concertos of the Twenties; Piano Concertos of the 20s: Antheil, Copland, Honegger, Ravel [IMPORT]). I refer you to these reviews. It is a lengthy (70') and intelligently conceived program of (more or less) Jazz-inspired piano concertos, all composed in a same time-span (1922 to 1930) by French composers and American composers with strong French ties: Copland as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger and Antheil as the riot-stirring "Enfant terrible" of the Parisian scene between 1922 and 1927.
Antheil's 1st Piano Concerto is a real find. Despite (or because of) its numerous apparent quotations of other composers and compositions (I hear lots of Stravinsky, but also some Bloch, Ravel and even Ives and Orff - but much of the works I hear references to were actually composed later), it is very uniquely typical of Antheil in those early years, with its typical construction procedures of juxtaposition and succession of small passages of strong rhythmic and melodic flavour, with hardly any motivic development. It is brilliant, brash, colorful and immensely fun.
Honegger's short and rarely recorded Concertino is a neo-classical work with strong whiffs of Stravinsky in its first section but later on with snarling brass, march-like rhythms and a build-up of tension that are very typical of Honegger.
Ravel's Concerto needs no introduction, but Copland's might. Composed in 1926 and premiered by the composer under Koussevitzky in Boston in January 1927, it is Copland's attempt at creating an American vernacular musical language using Jazz. He didn't pursue and settled instead for another kind of vernacular that became his unique trademark - the epic and pastoral "prairie style". Yet the Concerto is a very enjoyable work, because its Jazz (heard mainly in the rambunctious second movement) is not of the watered-down Brodway/Gershwin type, but rather a unique case of Bartok meets West-Side Story. Indeed I hear in it striking echoes of Bartok's Second Piano Concerto, with the Jazz replacing the Hungarian folk-tunes. Interestingly, harbingers of the Copland-to-be can be heard in the first movement, alternating epic fanfares and more such pastoral episodes.
Rische/Sloane's reading will not erase memories of Copland's two recordings - one as conductor with Earl Wild in 1961 (Copland: Piano Concerto And Orchestra/Menotti: Concerto In F For Piano And Orchestra or Copland, Menotti: Piano Concertos), and three years later as the pianist, with Bernstein and New York (The Copland Collection: Early Orchestral Works, 1922-1935). There are spots in the first movement in which they are too solemn and pedestrian, and in the Jazzy second Rische is less muscular than Wild and a bit less idiomatic than Copland. But it is very serviceable nonetheles, and the orchestra has all the rambuctiousness and Jazzy drive required in the second movement. The Ravel gets a surprisingly good performance, dynamic and light-footed and very Gallic in Rische's relative dryness and refusal to "milk the cow" in the more lyrical and effusive passages. It also benefits from outstanding support from the Köln orchestra and Israel Yinon.
It also comes at a bargain price to make Naxos blush with shame and pale with fear.
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The iconic motto of St. Xavier's College, Kolkata 'Nihil Ultra' inspires every endeavour undertaken by the students and the NCC Department wishes to expand the horizons by organising Weapon Display in collaboration with the Head Quarters Eastern Command of Indian Army. This event take place for the first time in the history of St. Xavier's.
The Armed forces work throughout the year during war, peace, disaster, and emergency situations. However, we as individuals fail to acknowledge their duties and selfless service to the nation. Therefore, it is an attempt on our part to provide an opportunity to the students of this institution and other institutions to gain an insight into the functioning of the armed forces and express their appreciation and respect.
The weapon display show held on 19th and 20th of March, 2018 from 10am to 5pm at the college ground. The inauguration of this event held on 19.03.2018 (Monday) and were graced by Brigadier Alok Beri, BGSIW Eastern command and Rev. Fr. Dominic Savio S.J. The 12th battalion of Bihar Regiment organised the display.
St. Xavier's College gets new Principal and Vice-Principal
Rev. Dr. Dominic Savio, S.J. takes over as the Principal of St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata from Wednesday, 1st November. He succeeds Rev. Dr. J. Felix Raj, S.J., who has taken over as the vice-chancellor of St. Xavier's University, Kolkata. Fr. Dominic was appointed the Vice-Principal of the departments of Commerce (morning section) and Business Administration on 1st February 2009. He was appointed the Rector of St. Xavier's, Kolkata on 2nd December 2013. He will continue to serve as the Rector along with his new responsibility as the principal.
Further, Rev. Dr. S. Xavier, S.J. has taken over as the Vice-Principal of the department of Commerce (morning section) from the same date.
A+ + Xavier's seals status of best in Bengal
Jan. 24: St. Xavier's College has become the first in Bengal and only the third college in the country to earn the highest grade of A++ in the new eight-point evaluation scale of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
The 157-year-old institute run by Jesuits scored a cumulative grade point average of 3.77 out of 4, the highest among the three institutes to be awarded the top A++ grade so far.
St. Joseph's College Devagiri, Kozhikode, and Cotton College, Guwahati, are the other two institutes in the A++ league with an average of 3.76 each, a senior NAAC official said.
The UGC had conferred on St. Xavier's the status of "College of Excellence" and "College with Heritage Status" in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
"St. Xavier's College scored the highest NAAC score, A++ (3.77 CGPA out of 4), the highest so far in India for the third cycle accreditation by the NAAC," Reverend Father J. Felix Raj, principal of St. Xavier's College (Autonomous) announced today.
"It is the fruit of our hard work. I want to thank my staff, students, their parents, alumni, benefactors and friends for their cooperation, interest and involvement in the college.... This is yet another milestone in our march towards educational service," Father Felix Raj said.
The NAAC results were published in the morning.
Colleges are being assessed by the NAAC on an eight-point scale since July 2016, when the new grading system took effect. Grades were previously awarded on the basis of a four-point assessment scale.
"St. Xavier's being a college, the focus during the inspection was more on teaching-learning and the evaluation process followed by the institute. While assessing a university, the focus is on research. But whether you are assessing a college or a university, it is difficult for any institute to secure the top A++ grade," a NAAC official told Metro from Bangalore.
"The overall performance of St. Xavier's College was found to be far better than many other colleges in the country," he said.
The criteria used by the council to assess institutes are curricular aspects, teaching-learning and evaluation, research, consultancy and extension, infrastructure and learning resources, student support and progression, governance, leadership and management, and innovation and best practices.
An NAAC team led by Prof. Arunoday Saha, former vice-chancellor of Tripura University, had visited St. Xavier's on January 9 and 10, Father Felix Raj said.
Since revising the grading system last July, the NAAC has assessed 225-odd colleges in Bengal. The highest grade that any college had managed before St. Xavier's is an A, third in the new quality scale.
Inspections by the council continue throughout the year. Accreditation and the grade assigned to each college is valid for five years. A college needs to apply for a re-evaluation once the validity of the rating lapses.
St. Xavier's had scored 3.53 out of 4 in 2011.
The NAAC has not only identified the strengths of St. Xavier's but also given suggestions for further improvement.
Father Felix Raj said the strengths identified by the NAAC peer team include "good and democratic leadership and governance system, clear vision and mission of the college, suitable curriculum with good feedback system, academic flexibility, curriculum enrichment, online admission process, catering to diverse student community, sound teaching -learning and evaluation system and faculty exchange programmes, international exchange programmes, collaborative and departmental research, adequate facilities, publications, extension activities like college to village and village to college, scholarships to needy students, modern and digitised library, good student support and progression and maintenance of its heritage status".
The suggestions include more postgraduate and PhD courses, involvement of teachers in consultancy, more research in arts courses, extra flexibility in the choice-based credit system, new vocational courses and an academic staff college.
Source: The Telegraph, Calcutta : Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Chief Minister at Xavier's Christmas Meet
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was at St. Xavier's on December 23rd evening for the College's annual Christmas Meet. She played Santa Claus to Xavier's promising an annual funding of Rs 7 crores to the new St. Xavier's University. She also announced the allotment of four and a half acres of land to St. Xavier's College in Asansol.
"Our congratulations to St. Xavier's and to Fr. Felix Raj for the new university. The foundation stone has already been laid and a lot of money has been spent to get it going. It is a very big project. I was asking Father how much would be spent on salaries of staff," Mamata said.
She then announced with a magician - like flourish: " I can give you a little something. On behalf of our Government, we will give Rs 7 crore annually for the pay package."
A regular guest at the Christmas meet hosted by the Alumni Association of the College, Mamata had played Santa's role in 2012 when she handed over a formal letter to Fr. Felix Raj allocating 16.4 acres of land at Rajarhat for St. Xavier's University.
Fr. Felix Raj, Principal of the College, thanked the Chief Minister and the State Government for passing the St. Xavier's University Bill 2016 unanimously in the Assembly. " This sanction is a test, a challenge to all of us. It is a journey of commitment, concern and credibility towards reaching excellence in higher education. We pledge to honour it and raise it to the greater glory of God and to the welfare of the State of Bengal," he said.
Earler Rector Fr. Dominic Savio said an opening prayer invoking God's blessings on all gathered at the meet. Provincial Fr. Jeyaraj Veluswamy thanked the Chief Minister and her Government for the Christmas gift in the form of the St. Xavier's University.
On behalf of the Alumni Association, Firdausul Hasan, the Honorary Secretary presented a statue of Mother Mary with Child Jesus, made in Ausgram, Burdwan. " The vision 2020 of Fr. Felix Raj is becoming a reality. We shall continue to assist our St. Xavier" s University to emerge as one of the centres of excellence in the country," said Hasan.
The College choir consisting of students from the department of education and XADAM sang melodious carols and hymns as the Chief Minister and others cut a Christmas cake. The Chief Minister offered cake to all on the dais.
Courtesy: The Telegraph, Calcutta
St. Xavier's College Alumni/ae Assn, Kolkata - National meet at Jaipur
The Saint Xavier's College Calcutta Alumni Association is holding its second National Meet, Looking Beyond II at the Le Meridien hotel, in the pink city of Jaipur October 14 - 17, 2016. Around 150 Xaverians are attending the event. Father Felix Raj, Principal is very much with them. He addressed the delegates on SXC Vision 2020 followed by an interesting interactive session.
The main highlights of the meet include: felicitation of outstanding alumni, Conference on Bengal and Rajasthan Cultural heritage and Business, Cultural programme, fellowship and network, sight seeing and an Exhibition cricket match between the alumni of SXS Jaipur and SXC Kolkata.
The education minister, Mr. Kalycharan Saraf was the chief guest for the inaugural function on October 15. He applauded the Jesuits for their enormous service to education in India particularly in Rajasthan. The Rector, Fr. Glenn Menezes and the Principal, Fr. John Ravi of St. Xavier's School, Jaipur were present at the inaugural ceremony.
The delegates paid their tribute to St. Teresa of Calcutta. They also felicitated in absentia the new General of the Jesuits, Father Arturo Sosa and prayed for him. The panel discussion on Jesuit thought and values added a special richness to the Meet and enlightened the delegates and local invitees on the Jesuit Charism and mission.
Father Felix Raj thanked Mr. Sanjay Gupta, an alumnus of SXC and the General manager of the Le Meridien hotel for his Xaverian quality hospitality. Sanjay had thrown open the entire hotel at the disposal of Xaverians. Fr. Felix Raj's invitation to the Xaverians to participate in the Vision 2020 had an enthusiastic response. Father also thanked the Alumni association for their deep sentiments and loyalty to their alma mater.
The convenors, Mr. Umesh Goenka and Mr. Arun Bhatter have organised the Meet exceptionally well. It was decided in the technical chapter meeting on 16th that the next national meet, Looking Beyond III in 2017 would be held in Mumbai. Nihil Ultra.
London Alumni Meet
Father Felix Raj, Principal, St. Xavier's College met Mr. LN Mittal on September 30th evening in latter's residence at Kensington Palace Gardens and briefed him about the progress of work at Rajarhat campus of St. Xavier's. It is to be noted that Mr. MIttal, an alumnus of the College is participating in the SXC Vision 2020.
Mr. Mittal enquired about the Jesuit Fathers, College faculty and the courses conducted at SXC. Father Felix Raj has invited him for the inauguration of the the Rajarhat campus and the academic session in July 2017.
Fr. Felix Raj and Mr. Firdausul Hasan, Honorary Secretary of the College Alumni Association, had a dinner meeting on the same day at an alumnus, Mr. Sudhir Maheshwari's house with the committee members of the London Chapter( Sudhir, Rajan Tandon, Kuntal Roychowdhury, RC Saraf, Manik Dey and Chiradip) and discussed with them about the activities of the Chapter, and the ways and means of taking it forward productively.
Father and Hasan met the London alumni/ae on October 1 afternoon and presented the SXUK Vision 2020. It was a fruitful meeting with meaningful interactions with all present. The London alumni will have a follow up meeting to plan for a fellowship gathering for all Xaverians in London by December and a fund-raising program sometime in March - April 2017.
Pope Francis Visits the GC 36
There is a well-established tradition that on the occasion of a Jesuit General Congregation, the Holy Father meets with the delegates. So this Monday, 24 October, Pope Francis came discreetly to the curia at 7.30 morning and was greeted by Father General Arturo Sosa and the Superior of the Curia community, Father Joaquín Barrero..
These two accompanied him into the aula (GC hall), and the Pope participated in Morning Prayer with the delegates. The theme of the prayer, the good shepherd, had been chosen for the occasion. The members of the Congregation prayed for Pope Francis, as he often requests of all those he meets.
Pope Francis came to the General Congregation with a message. He gave an encouraging speech that set a direction. The speech gave a good idea of the manner in which he is coming to see the service of the Church and of the world that the Society of Jesus can offer, a relevant way connected to his own ministry. His whole intervention was characterized by an openness to what lies ahead, a call to go further, the way of journeying that allows Jesuits to go toward others and to walk with them on their own journey.
Quoting Saint Ignatius, the Pope recalled that a Jesuit is called to converse and thereby to bring life to birth "in every part of the world where a greater service of God and help for souls is expected." Precisely for this reason, the Jesuits must go forward, taking advantage of the situations in which they find themselves, always to serve more and better. This implies a way of doing things that aims for harmony in the contexts of tension that are normal in a world with diverse persons and missions. The Pope mentioned explicitly the tensions between contemplation and action, between faith and justice, between charism and institution, between community and mission.
Father Felix Raj Honoured with Sikha Ratna award
On Monday, September 5, the first Feast Day of Saint Teresa of Kolkata cum Teachers' Day, Father Felix Raj, our Principal was honoured with the prestigious SIKHA RATNA Award by the State Government of West Bengal at a State-level function organised at Nazrul Manch.
In the absence of the Honourable Chief Minister who is in Rome, the State Higher Education Minister, Shri Partha Chatterjee handed over the award. Earlier the State Government had conferred on him the State's highest award, BANGA BIBHUSHAN in 2014. .
Canonisation of Mother Teresa
Pope John Paul II (now St. John Paul II) beatified Mother Teresa on October 19, 2003. Her beatification, the first step on the path to sainthood, was the fastest ever in the history of canonization.
His Holiness Pope Francis will declare Mother Teresa of Kolkata a saint on September 4, 2016 at St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, in Rome. He will declare her a saint of the universal Church, on the day he has set aside for the celebration of the Jubilee for volunteers and workers of Mercy, since Mother is a symbol of God's mercy for the poor and the marginalized of this world.
The canonization of Mother Teresa gives us an opportunity to reflect deeply on her life and mission for the poorest of the poor. Mother has long been a saint. For us in Kolkata, she is the song of celebration, hymn of compassion. The city of Kolkata shall shine in her holiness. I wish and pray that her Sainthood washes away our sinfulness.
Mother believed that God is specially revealed in the mystery of the human person who is 'created in the image and likeness of God' - she probed the meaning of human life and arrived at the radical goodness that resides in every individual.
She has inspired thousands of followers in several nations as well as individuals around the globe. World leaders have recognized her as an inspiration. She was one among us, one among the poor, dying and destitute. She identified herself with them. She demonstrated that a person could live a faith-filled life even when in agony and doubt.
Her message is universal. No matter what religion a person belongs to, or even if they don't believe at all, Mother Teresa's message is to serve with love. "Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love".
Mother Teresa was misunderstood - critics blamed her for working for conversion. Didn't Judas, one of the Apostles betray Jesus Christ? In her epic years as a missionary, Mother has not converted a single person to a particular religious faith. She converted many, to the communion of Humanity, beyond considerations of parochial religious culture.
I have had a close association with Mother. On many occasions, I had brought Mother Teresa in touch with Calcutta youth. Whenever I invited her to St. Xavier's College to address the staff and students, she was there with her characteristic smile, humility and a presence that created an atmosphere of prayer and veneration. She was always inspiring and every time she met the youth, she had a message for them. Whenever I invited her for youth programmes, she never said 'No'.
About thirty years ago I had met Mother Teresa in Mother House. I had just been ordained as a priest. As soon as she came to greet me she stretched out her hand and touched my feet - I hastily withdrew; she said, 'you are a new priest and I want your blessing.' I said 'who am I in front of you?' She responded in her humble way 'as a priest you are the image of Christ to me. So it is you who must bless me.' When I asked for her blessings she gave me a Rosary and said 'Pray for me and for my work for the destitute and dying'. I discovered in this lady the divine dispensation that reached the core of my heart. Every word she spoke, every touch and every look exuded a transformative tint.
We are eagerly awaiting the canonization of Mother as Saint. We would have preferred our Holy Father to canonize Mother in the very city where she lived and served. It would have been a momentous gift from the Pope to the people of this country.
Now that the canonization will be officially held in Rome, in St. Peter's Square on September 4, 2016, we express our gratitude to Pope Francis for his extraordinary gesture of approving the canonization of Mother Teresa. The following words of Mother have always inspired me. .
In the name of Mother
Fr. Felix Raj paying floral tribute to Mother Teresa.
The Contribution of Mother Teresa to Humanity, a symposium on Mother Teresa, was held at the Fr. Depelchin Auditorium of St. Xavier's College on Sunday, August 7, 2016. The evening began with prayer songs like Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace by Voicestra, led by Nikhil D'Souza and the launch of Aamar Gaaner Majhe, a CD of Christian hymns sung by Father Shyamal Makhal and published by The Goethals Indian Library And Research Society. Father Provincial Jeyaraj Velusamy released the CD.
"The canonization of Mother Teresa gives all of us an opportunity to sufficiently and deeply reflect on her life and mission for the poorest of the poor. For us, she is the song of celebration, hymn of compassion," said Father Felix Raj (top), principal, St. Xavier's College.
Tennis veteran Naresh Kumar and daughter Gita caught up with Sister Prema (above), Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, on the sidelines of the symposium. Sunita Kumar, Naresh's wife, couldn't be there as one of the speakers for the evening, but daughter Gita read out her thoughts on 'Mother, a role model to be humane': "In the 30 years that I spent with her, I learnt all about life, especially to give love, dignity and service to the poor, irrespective of race and religion. She was a true saint.".
Father Julian S. Das, James McGinniss and Father D. John Romus were the other speakers for the evening.
Source: The Telegraph, Kolkata Metro (Pg.19) : 08 Aug 2016
Pictures: B. Halder
Courtesy: The Telegraph, Kolkata
Saint Teresa of Kolkata
In our hearts, Mother is already a saint, by virtue of her boundless devotion towards the downtrodden, irrespective of caste and creed - she has taken all into her fold. The official honour, the declaration of sainthood will take place on September 4, 2016 at St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, Rome. The living 'saint of the gutters', the ministering angel to millions, will be canonised.
Mother Teresa was in close conclave with the Jesuit Fathers, particularly of St. Xavier's College. She held them in high esteem as retreat preachers and spiritual directors. They include Archbishop Ferdinand Perier, Cardinal Trevor L. Picachy, Frs.C. Van Exem, Julian Henry, Joseph Sanders, Edouard Le Joy, Camille Bouche, Antony Gabriel and Jose Cukale.
The City Of Joy, Kolkata, Mother's spiritual abode and the principal site of her missions of charity, is immensely gladdened by the news of her canonization. We await the auspicious occasion with overwhelmed joy and reverence.
Singer Asha Bhosle mesmerised the lively audience at St. Xavier's on the Republic Day evening
The Legendary playback Singer Asha Bhosle mesmerised the audience at Xavier's on Republic Day evening. Fr. Felix Raj, Principal blessed her while felicitating her with a College Uteria. The BB show was grand and overwhelmingly successful.
The Ninth Convocation and Valedictory 2016
Solar Plant Inaugurated at Xavier's
A Solar Power Plant with 46 KW installed capacity was inaugurated at St. Xavier's College, 30 Mother Teresa Sarani (Park Street), Kolkata on 23 December 2015, Wednesday at 11.30 am at the Rooftop of the New B. Ed and Library (old Hostel) Building.
"This endeavour has been envisaged as a part of deep concern of the Jesuits on Environmental Issues and also as a follow up action of the recently concluded Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP-15)", said Fr. Felix Raj, SJ, the Principal.
This Green Energy producing Solar Power Plant is the largest among all the colleges in the Eastern part of the country.
Shri Manish Gupta, Hon’ble Power Minister of West Bengal inaugurated the new Plant and Shri Santanu Basu, IAS, Chairman & Managing Director, West Bengal Power Development Corporation, was present.
Fr. Principal profusely thanked Shri Manish Gupta. Shri Santanu Basu and Fr. Xavier Savarimuthu for the inspiration and support. He also thanked the Vikram Solar company for the successful implementaion of the project within a short duration of three months.
The inauguration of St. Xavier's College, Asansol
The inauguration of St. Xavier's College Asansol was held at St. Joseph's High School grounds on July 25th morning. Dr. Partha Chatterjee, Minister for Higher Education unveiled the plaque while Bishop Cyprian Monis, Fr. Felix Raj, Minister Molly Ghattak and Fr. K.K. Devasi were looking on.
The dignitaries including the VC of Kazi Nazrul University, Dr. Sadhan Chakroborty are seen lighting the lamp. In his speech, Dr. Partha Chatterjee said: " We have to learn from St. Xavier's College. It is a role model for the whole world and we are proud of the institution".
L N Mittal inducted into St. Xavier's Board
St. Xavier's College has inducted LN Mittal, the steel magnate and the chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaking company into its Governing Body (Board of Governors) with effect from July 2015. Mittal has gladly accepted his alma mater's offer. "We are indeed happy and privileged to have Mr. Mittal as a member of our Board. We selected him as a Xaverian and an industrialist. I am confident that his close association with Xavier's and his global experience will enrich our institution," Fr. Felix Raj, the Principal said. The College Alumni Association conferred on Mittal the "Global Xaverian" award in 2013 in London. Mittal then expressed his plan to assist the college in its SXC Vision 2020.
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Ric Tac Two: A Masterful Film from Director Alex Secilmis '19
After the dramatic events of Ric Tac Toe—a 2018 mockumentary created by prolific filmmaker Alex Secilmis '19 and a dedicated group of student and faculty actors—tic-tac-toe wunderkind Richard Head has returned in the feature-length comedy Ric Tac Two, which features a deep and talented cast of 40 TASIS students and teachers.
Our protagonist is reevaluating his life and looking to make things right with his ex-wife Ashli and his estranged father Dr. Martin Head, but to do so, he has to leave tic-tac-toe behind. Ricky's quest for redemption leads him on a sprawling journey through the past and future, crossing paths with his ambitious psychologists, arch-nemesis Daniel Craig, and concerning mega-fan Herkus.
The original Ric Tac Toe film was screened as part of the 2018 TASIS Spring Arts Festival while the sequel premiered in front of a large crowd in the Palmer Center on the evening of April 11, 2019. Enjoy Ric Tac Two in full below, and read on to learn more about Alex’s remarkable achievements.
10 Questions with Director Alex Secilmis
How would you describe Ric Tac Two?
My dad was asking me what’s the elevator pitch, the succinct summary for this movie, and I realized that even though it’s this ridiculous time-travel movie filled with absurd humor and 80s references, it really is a love letter to the TASIS community. It kind of started a movement, where I would have loads of people asking to be in the movie, and then there were my friends that I saw great talent in and encouraged to act. We had no professionals on this film, but our cast and crew were incredible and really the movie is designed to appeal to them, as well as the rest of the TASIS students and faculty. I’m thrilled that so many people were a part of it, and particularly for my class, this can become a relic of our time at TASIS because that identity is such an integral part of the movie, and we can now see exactly how our 18-year-old selves were.
How many total hours would you say you put into the making of Ric Tac Two? And to give people a better sense of the process, can you discuss the three major phases of production—writing, filming, and editing?
It’s really hard to pick an accurate number, but I’m guessing close to 1000. The writing process takes a while, and while I initially wrote the script over the summer, I consistently rewrote it and planned the shot list during production. In fact, I wrote the last scene just before filming it, so a week before the premiere.
Filming takes up a massive amount of time as well—to give you an idea, we shot large three-hour chunks spread out over the course of the first semester, and then a minimum of an hour a day, Monday–Friday at least, from January to April.
Finally, editing is the most grueling process. It’s where you give shape to the film, and I take a lot of extra time adjusting audio and synching the music to the action, for instance.
How did you manage to pull this off while also juggling the demands of being a second-year IB student?
With great difficulty. Many have described my decision to do so as insane, but I stand by the fact that Ric Tac Two has an importance at least commensurate to my academic achievements this year because filmmaking is what I truly love to do. I pulled it off by always prioritizing my studies. I always like to give my 100% to everything I do, so I managed by just doing everything I had to do on schedule, even though I was very pressed for time.
So the film premiered at 19:00 on April 11. When did you actually finish it?
Around 18:30 on April 11! Organizing filming is a massive hassle because I have to prioritize the schedules of my 40-some actors, many of whom are also taking the IB, so when I finally managed to wrap filming I realized I had just six days to finish editing the film. I had spent around seven months editing about 45 minutes of the movie, and I found myself having to finish the last 25 minutes in less than a week. I got through that last week by editing during literally any free time I could, probably for about eight hours a day during the last few days, and with the help of my family and friends I managed to stay sane.
What was the most difficult part of the whole process?
As I mentioned before the toughest thing is unquestionably scheduling. I wasn’t only the writer, director, cameraman, editor, and actor—I also had to organize the schedules of a great deal of people. Sometimes big problems would come from scheduling, and even though I would get really frustrated because I wanted to stick to the script, my crew and I had to come up with creative solutions. For example, Maggie was unwell one day so we just had to kill her character off extremely casually, and the biggest headache was when Herkus had forgotten that he had a hockey tournament in Lithuania, so he was out when we had to shoot the climactic concert scene. Ricky and I considered pushing the movie to May, but I thought if anybody would be a good replacement, we should get someone like Mr. Locke. The teachers in the movie are like our celebrities, so I figured it’s like if a character just suddenly became Tom Cruise and now it’s one of my favorite parts of the movie.
Alex directs star actor Riccardo Borghesi '19 in Ric Tac Toe's climactic Lake Lugano scene.
What was the most enjoyable part of the process?
Just all the laughs with my friends. Being an IB student and the constant time constraints made this movie the most stressful, but so many good moments came from just filming this absurd movie that grounded me and always made me remember that I’m doing something that I love. Things like filming the dance sequence, or the scene where Herkus eats quinoa—which we shot 23 times because our laughing ruined every shot—were all such a joy to be a part of.
What are some of the biggest lessons you learned along the way?
I learned that you can never forget that you’re doing what you love when you find yourself struggling. Filmmaking is seen as a stressful, taxing job, but I have to remember that what I’m doing is literally taking an idea I have exclusively in my mind and realizing it with the help of my friends. If make-believe is my profession, then I’m exceptionally lucky.
Another lesson, in the words of Dr. Love, is to never make the perfect the enemy of the good. Filmmaking is about compromise, and I learned that sometimes the camera can’t be perfectly stable and the audio can’t be perfectly clear, especially on a production with so little time.
How did you initially get into filmmaking?
As a kid, I had a pretty vast imagination, and seeing a great movie brought me a sort of ineffable joy that just granted me this sense of freedom. Things like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Back to the Future, just to name a few, are all the most ridiculous ideas but were still brought to life. I would plan out stories a lot in my head and write books as well when I was young, and when I moved to London I started making my first movies with my best friend and my sister at the age of 10. I started with bizarre horror-comedies, parodied westerns, and spy movies, and the feeling of planning and then realizing these films provides an incredible rush of happiness and excitement.
Can you describe your growth as a filmmaker over the past three years?
When I came to TASIS in 9th grade I hadn’t ever had the chance to make films on a bigger scale. I got paired with Ricky for a PE/Health video project, and we started making these very amateur movies that were filmed on our phones. Almost by fate, when I went into 10th grade Mr. Chevalier and Mr. Zanecchia announced that they were offering a Journalism and Video Production Internship for students in grades 10–12. Their help was really incredible, and they gave me the chance to try my hand at promotional videos for the school and Wes Anderson-esque video profiles (on my friend Aurelia, for example). The support and the platform that they gave me has elevated my craft in a way I am sure no other school could have offered me.
Meanwhile, for my English class, I directed adaptations of scenes from Macbeth and Anna Karenina, and I realized that my love was rooted firmly in narrative filmmaking. I developed and brought my own style of offbeat comedy and my love of 80s music in particular even to travel videos. By 11th grade I was already much more careful with the technical side and not just the narrative, and I think that making a one-hour movie is the culmination of an amazing journey with so many wonderful people that have helped me along the way.
What’s next for you as a filmmaker?
I want to just keep on making movies. I know that it’s a tough business to break into, but honestly I am already living the dream and making feature-length films and just want to continue that. I frequently find myself less interested in movies that come out today, and I feel that particularly with the transition to digital there’s a sort of demand for realism, social relevance and an excess in content to the point where I want to go back to the more grainy, overtly cinematic aesthetic of movies from the 80s to the early 2000s. I think we need more films that own the fact that they are unabashed fantasy—even something like Ric Tac Two owns its absurdity, and I want to make more of those sort of movies.
In chronological order, here are the original films Alex Secilmis has produced over the course of his four years at TASIS:
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Tate Modern Exhibition
Project Space: Burke + Norfolk Photographs From The War In Afghanistan
6 May – 10 July 2011
Simon Norfolk Kabul 2010
In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in Afghanistan, which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century Irish photographer John Burke. Norfolk’s photographs reimagine or respond to Burke’s Afghan war scenes in the context of the contemporary conflict. Conceived as a collaborative project with Burke across time, this new body of work is presented alongside Burke’s original portfolios. The exhibition takes place in conjunction with an earlier complementary exhibition in March 2011 at the Queen’s Palace in the Baghe Babur garden in Kabul, supported by The World Collections Programme and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, which resulted from a series of workshops with Afghan photographers, featuring work by Fardin Waezi and Burke alongside Norfolk’s own work.
Burke + Norfolk: Photographs From The War In Afghanistan
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Giulio Bonazzi
President and CEO of Aquafil SpA
Born in Verona in 1963, he graduated in Business Economics from the University of Venice.
In 1987 he started his career, working in the family business. After a year working in the commercial and technical divisions of Aquafil, he attended a six-month training course at Horizon Carpet in the United States. In 1989 he became assistant production manager at the Arco plant, and a year later took over management of the division. He was also involved in the move to Slovenia, assisting with the acquisition of the Kranj factory. In 1994 he returned to Aquafil, working on the acquisition of Julon d.d., an enterprise which was to become a fundamental asset for the Group. Between 1995 and 1998 he held the office of General Manager at Julon, relocating with his family to Slovenia. In 1999 he returned to Italy as Vice Chairman of Aquafil, before becoming Chairman of the group in 2008. At the end of 2011, he was elected as President of CIRFS, the European Association of the man-made fiber producers.
The Bright Side of Waste
Ralph J. Wilms
Invisible Invaders Amazing Allies
Christoph Santner
Future, Vision & the Bright Side
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By Farzad Farhadi
American or Arab NATO?
TEHRAN - The Trump administration is quietly pushing ahead with a bid to create a new security and political alliance with six Persian Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan, in part to counter Iran’s expansion in the region, according to U.S. and Arab officials.
The White House wants to see deeper cooperation between the countries on missile defense, military training, counter-terrorism and other issues such as strengthening regional economic and diplomatic ties.
The plan to forge what officials in the White House and Middle East have called an “Arab NATO”. The administration’s hope is that the effort, tentatively known as the Middle East Strategic Alliance (MESA), might be discussed at a summit provisionally scheduled for Washington on Oct. 12-13. Saudi officials raised the idea of a security pact ahead of a Trump visit last year to Saudi Arabia where he announced a massive arms deal, but the alliance proposal did not get off the ground, a U.S. source said.
“MESA will serve as a bulwark against Iranian aggression, terrorism, extremism, and will bring stability to the Middle East,” a spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council said.
Similar initiatives by previous U.S. administrations to develop a more formal alliance with Persian Gulf and Arab allies have failed in the past. It is unclear how the alliance could immediately counter Tehran but the Trump administration and its allies have joint interests in the conflicts in Yemen and Syria as well as defending Persian Gulf shipping lanes through which much of the world’s oil supplies are shipped.
Arab NATO and its impact
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the key player in the formation of the so-called “Arab NATO”. Potentially a big obstacle to the planned alliance is a 13-month-old rift pitting Saudi Arabia and the UAE against Qatar, home to the largest U.S. airbase in the region. The U.S. administration is concerned the quarrel could be an obstacle to the initiative, he and an Arab official both said Riyadh and Abu Dhabi had assured Washington the rift would not pose a problem to the alliance.
The sultanate of Oman is also an obstacle in this direction. This country has good relations with Tehran, a relationship that does not match the coalition with the United States and against Iran. Although the Sultanate has a good relationship with the United States, it is unclear what will the courageous Oman still have to deal with this coalition?
The role of Tel Aviv in Arab NATO
In fact, the Trump administration began to complete what had been launched a year ago in Riyadh and announced the establishment of the Middle East Strategic Alliance.
Undoubtedly, the Zionist regime alongside the United States and what moderate Arabs will play an effective role in the coalition. In the other words, this alliance called the Arab NATO to favor the Zionist regime.
Why did not the treaty establish a joint Arab defense against the Zionist regime?
All these years, why did not you hear about a joint Arab defense treaty against Tel Aviv?
The Israeli’s attack on al-Aqsa mosque is increasing in large numbers and Jewish settlements have expanded. Why does not this provoke any reaction? The new generation of Arabs is faced with a lot of dangerous dilemma illustrated in fake phrases such as counteracting terrorism and preventing the spread of Iranian influence. But it cannot conceal the fact that occupation, settlement, blockade and racism constitute a major threat to Palestine, the interests of Jordan and Arab security.
America, the West and Zionists exploit sectarian and tribal issues to spark conflict in the region. The U.S. uses the Arab NATO in the first place to serve the Zionist regime and then pursue its interests and with its Western allies.
The U.S. seeks to keep the Arab states under the auspices of Washington, and in turn, they always need the U.S. and its military support.
By creating an unrealistic enemy of Iran, the United States is seeking to boost its military and arms industries.
What caused the Arab NATO to be addressed is Yemen and Syria's crises. When in the Yemeni war, the Saudi coalition could not get any achievement, and when in Syria, the United States saw itself against strong rivals, the whispers of the creation of the Arab NATO got stronger.
The U.S.'s goal of the Arab NATO formation is in the first step in stabilizing the U.S. presence in the region and the protection of U.S. economic and investment interests and the creation of job opportunities within the United States through the sale of weapons to the region. The United States seeks to maintain balance and domination of the region's economy.
Abdel Bari Atwan, the famous analyst of the Arab world, wrote: “At the same time of Trump's war of words with Rouhani, Trump is looking to form a new security-military coalition with the Persian Gulf countries alongside Egypt and Jordan.”
He added: “The Saudi propaganda against Yemeni Ansarallah about the attack on oil tankers is likely to help establish a new pact with U.S. oversight. But there are a lot of questions here, including will Egypt and Jordan join the new coalition and participate in the upcoming Washington Summit in October? What is the Israeli relationship with this new treaty, and whether it is a member, and how is the nature of this membership, secret or public? What is the problem with the Doha crisis with the four Arab countries that are blocking this coalition?
Will Qatar cut ties with Iran upon the demands of the U.S.-Saudi-Emirati? Is it worth $ 1.5 billion to develop the U.S. military base in Qatar, Al Udeid, targeting it as one of the main centers of the new Arab-American treaty and outlining its main role in any future anti-Iran war?”
Atwan highlighted: “It may be too early to give an answer to all these questions given the unclear details of the American plan. But it is unlikely to know that America's anti-Iran threats are intended to terrorize Arab nations, and in particular the Persian Gulf, to justify signing the new treaty and to fully honor membership fees.”
He continued: “This new tribal treaty is a new tool for taking over hundreds of billions of dollars from the Persian Gulf States on the pretext of strengthening the defense capability but in reality to prepare for the war against Iran. These countries can not oppose Trump’s request and may be left out of the future summit of Washington, or face heavy debts owing to the large military spending that the United States seeks to pay.”
In any case, it is undeniable that Arab NATO is more than the Arab desire.
The United States confronts Arabs by Arabs, and through the imaginary subjects. The U.S. will challenge states that do not move on the path of the Zionist regime and the United States. Washington aims to sell weapons and maintain tension between Saudi Arabia and its allies with Iran. And by scaring Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states from dangerous illusion about Iran, U.S. has already signed wealthy weapons deals.
The goal of Arab NATO formation is to serve Israel, marginalize Palestine, sell more weapons, make more money, and show more hostility towards the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Experts and observers believe that good prospect for Arab NATO could not be imagined. The goal of the Arab Nation is to destabilize the Middle East and to spur the regional issues by Americans.
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Success In Army Basic Combat Training (BCT)
Turning Civilians Into Soldiers
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By Stewart Smith
Army Basic Combat Training (BCT) is basic training or boot camp for civilians who want to join the military. Army BCT turns civilians into soldiers and teaches them marching, shooting, survival skills, and prepares them for life in the Army.
The Army has several training base locations including Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina; Fort Knox in Louisville, Kentucky; Fort Leonard Wood in Waynesville, Missouri; and Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma. Where you attend is primarily dependent upon the location of your follow-on, Advanced Individual Training (Job Training). In fact, if you enlist in one of the Combat Arms MOS's, you very well may receive basic training and Advanced Individual Training all at one location: Fort Benning for Infantry; Fort Knox for Armor; Fort Leonard Wood for Combat Engineers, Military Police, and Chemical.
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A significant portion of your nine weeks at Army BCT will be taken up with marching, drill, ceremonies, and standing in formation. Your arms will thank you if you take some time before arriving at boot camp to study about and practice the basics of the drill. It's also a good idea to start ahead of the game by memorizing Army officer and enlisted ranks. You will also want to memorize the Army General Orders.
There are seven Army Core Values that will be continually hammered into you during your nine-week training. You will live, eat, and sleep about Army Core Values until you think they are part of the Constitution. Memorizing these seven core values in advance may give you a little extra breather time while others are trying to commit them to memory.
Each new recruit is issued a copy of TRADOC Pamphlet 600-4. You can give yourself a head-start in learning some of the things you will need to know to graduate boot camp by studying this pamphlet in advance.
Physical Preparation
Do not forget to work out and prepare physically for the rigors of running, pushups, load-bearing exercises and rucking with 40-50 lbs in a backpack for many miles. You will have to pass a basic fitness test of pushups, situps, and a 2 mile run as well as a more advanced Army Combat Readiness Test that involves some new exercises such as deadlifts, a 250m (drag, carry, sprint) shuttle run, hanging knee ups, an overhead medicine ball power throw, T-pushups, and another 2 mile run.
Reception Battalion
The good news is that will in processing the Drill Sergeants do not yell at you (that much) except for the ones assigned test you with the Initial PT Test. Consider in motivation. If you fail this test, you will get to spend some time in remedial training where brand-new Drill Instructors get to practice on you for a while.
While in the Reception Battalion, you will get your shots, process your paperwork, be issued your uniforms, and that very favorite of all -- the haircut. Between times, you will go to chow (three times per day), and you will wait. You will know your group is getting close to getting out of Purgatory when the Drill Sergeants start to notice you.
The First Few Weeks After Reception
From Week One to Week Three. The first thing you will notice about your new drill sergeant is that he or she appears to be a different species from the ones hanging around the Reception Battalion. He/she will appear to be much larger, much meaner, and very much louder. Army Drill Sergeants absolutely love push-ups. "Drop and Give me Twenty" is a favorite phrase (shouted, of course). On this first day, pretty much everyone will get "dropped." You will be dropped individually, in pairs, and as an entire platoon.
Consider it time to work out and relieve some stress.
Week one is best characterized by a term known as TOTAL CONTROL. Total control is where the soldiers only do what they are told to do by their Drill Sergeants. The first few weeks of Basic Training is definitely NOT the time to find a better way of doing things. Soldiers arrive at the Basic Training Unit from the Reception Battalion and are immediately immersed in an environment where every move they make is scrutinized by the Drill Sergeant.
During the first week, you will start Physical Training and typically first thing in the morning. The typical day throughout Basic Training runs from 0430 (You got to get up very early in able to "do more before 9 am than most people do all day"), with lights out at 2100 (9:00 PM).
During the first week or so, nobody will be able to do anything right. However, by the end of the first week, you will be able to do what you are told, when you are told, and exactly how you are told to do it. The word, "why?" will be surgically removed from your vocabulary before that first week is finished.
Standing Guard Duty.
The Army uses "Fire Guards”. It amounts to the same thing: two-hour shifts of walking around the barracks, keeping watch in case someone tries to steal it, or worse yet, set it on fire.
Total Control continues the second week, along with courses on Army Core Values (including classes on sexual harassment and race relations), and other military-related subjects (such as the fundamentals of bayonet fighting, and first aid training). During the second week is also where you get to practice hacking, coughing, and crying in the "Gas Chamber." This normally occurs in the afternoon, shortly after lunch. No matter how hungry you are that day, eat a very light lunch. While in the chamber, you'll take your mask off two times (once, you merely lift the mask to state your name, rank, and social security number).
If you can get away with keeping your eyes closed and not breathing this nasty stuff, go for it. However, it's far more likely that the Drill Sergeant will make sure you open your eyes and take at least a small breath before you are let out of the chamber.
Also during the second week, you will be introduced to your rifle. It is a rifle. More specifically, it's an "M4 Rifle." You don't get to shoot it during the second week. Right now, you get to learn how to hold it, point it, take it apart, clean it, and repetitively put it back together, take it apart again.
During the final week of Phase I, the Drill Sergeants will (very slowly) start to move the emphasis of training away from the individual, to "team." You will be assigned a "Battle Buddy. Your Battle Buddy is like your Siamese twin. You will go everywhere and do everything together. Of course, as with all weeks, physical training and drill continue during week three, as well as more training/practice taking your rifle apart, and putting it together.
Weapons and Combat Training Time
During the weeks 4-6, you will spend most of your time on various ranges. You will start with basic M4 shooting (just try to hit the targets), and move on to farther targets, pop-up targets, grenades, grenade launchers, and more. You will be surprised at how many different ranges one Army post has.
During the 5th week, you will get practice using bayonets and an introduction to anti-tank weapons and other heavy weapons. Also, you will get practice negotiating the obstacle course. You will also get to run the obstacle course carrying your new friend (The M4 Rifle). You and your Battle Buddy will also be expected to work as a "team."
Sometime during the 6th week, you will notice that the Drill Sergeants aren't yelling as much as they used to. In fact, at times, they seem almost human. You will continue daily PT, as well as practice basic drill and ceremonies. By now, you should be able to shoot straight and navigate basic combat obstacles.
Going Into the Field
Week 7-9, while challenging, this is the most fun you will have during Army Basic Combat Training. During the first week of Phase III, you will take your final PT Test. The Final PT Test consists of the Standard Army Annual PT Exam. You'll need to score at least 150 points to pass Basic Training.
You will learn how to set up tents, go on night patrols, and perform night operations. You will also learn to appreciate Army Chow Halls, as all your meals in the field will consist of MREs.
Week 8 of Basic will culminate with the field training exercise (FTX) with a special tactical field exercise. Recruits then go through Victory Forge, a final three-day field journey prior to graduation. This exercise ties everything you have learned in basic together. The Drill Sergeants will advise (and keep you from getting hurt), but tactical decisions will be made by the platoon leaders and squad leaders. While they differ in scenarios, all Army Basic Combat Training Programs include this Final Event.
At the end of the Field Event, you will return to a short, informal ceremony marking your transition from civilian to soldier.
The Final Week is spent preparing for the graduation ceremony. Basic training in the Army is designed to lay a foundation for discipline and basic combat. Your real training, however, will begin after basic when you transition to Advanced Individual Training (AIT).
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INVESTING IN THE YOUTH
UAE, Sharjah 2017 | HEALTH & EDUCATION | INTERVIEW
Jassem AlBlooshi is a Board of Trustees Member at Rabu’ Qarn Foundation for Creating Leaders and Innovators.
Can you give us an introduction to Rubu' Qarn? What was the main reason behind its creation and what are its main objectives?
The Rubu' Qarn Foundation for Creating Future Leaders and Innovators in the Emirate of Sharjah (Rubu' Qarn Foundation) was established in 2016 by Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, wife of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah and Chairperson of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs. The initiative was conceived to be a platform that will nurture a generation of young leaders in the Emirate of Sharjah and aspires to achieve this by providing young people with a comprehensive array of age-appropriate activities designed to inculcate within them the values necessary to elevate the status of Sharjah at both the national and international levels. The Ruba' Qarn Foundation is an umbrella organisation for four Sharjah-based government entities: Sharjah Children Centres, Sharjah Youth Centres, Sajaya Young Ladies of Sharjah, and Sharjah Tatweer Forum. It unifies their respective activities to ensure that messages around innovation and leadership are standardized and tailored for the correct ages. Under Her Highness's guidance, the foundation will invest in youth capacity building and foster the talents of young people, with its overall aim being to contribute to the creation of a positive and developed society that leads to prosperity for all its members.
What role does Rubu' Qarn play in promoting the socioeconomic development of Sharjah?
The Rubu' Qarn foundation believes that civic values and leadership are learned at an early age. It is committed to instilling social and communal values among children during their formative years and then developing these into their adulthood to equip them with the skills they need to best serve their communities in every way, including economically. By doing so, the foundation enables children to develop a mindset and set of ambitions which they can use in careers that directly and indirectly positively impact their emirate's economy. The foundation was founded on the principles of creating a cadre of young leaders who can drive the Emirate of Sharjah forward. One important specific initiative for young adults with respect to socioeconomic development is the Sharjah Leadership Programme, which was established by the Sharjah Tatweer Forum. Aimed at discovering and developing candidates to become effective leaders of change, the programme uses key training sessions covering appropriate management principles and experience-backed learning techniques and has been formulated to develop leaders who are well informed and focused on the development of Sharjah. It is organized under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah and Honorary President of Sharjah Tatweer Forum.
What are your expectations and biggest ambitions for 2017?
The Rubu' Qarn Foundation formalizes and brings under a single umbrella efforts to advance innovation and develop a cadre of leaders who will progress UAE society. It represents a new way forward in Sharjah's and the UAE leadership's strategy to place the nation among the world's top countries and to ensure the wellbeing, security, and stability for all its people. Areas that the foundation is focusing on for the future include entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and innovation, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), 21st century skills, and linking Sharjah's goals with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Throughout the remainder of 2017, the foundation will be working to expand its horizons of cooperation, enhance its existing partnerships, seek new partners and develop more effective methods of communication with national, Arabic, and international stakeholders. Rubu' Qarn is going through the process of formalizing a new strategy that will streamline the direction of all four entities into a unified vision, with the direction to be formally announced at the end of the year.
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q&a Dec. 8, 2016
Chimamanda Adichie on Black Hair and the Narrow Definition of Beauty
By Ashley Weatherford
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Photo: Boots
We probably don’t deserve Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The author and feminist who inspired Beyoncé is now fighting America’s political battles, and man is she good at it. But that’s not the only hat Adichie’s wearing as of late. She’s also the new face of No. 7 — a division of British drugstore retailer Boots, known for its cult serum that’s a best seller across the pond. (You can purchase the brand in the U.S. at Walgreens.)
The partnership between No. 7 and Adichie is a match that feels in sync. For years Adichie has been outspoken in asserting that feminism and makeup can co-exist, and the specific campaign she was tapped to lead for No. 7 hedges on the concept that cosmetics are more than tools to look pretty: They’re vessels to help a woman begin her day. The Cut talked to the author about her foray into the beauty business, the complex relationship she maintains with her hair, and the feminist lesson to be learned from the presidential election.
What frustrates you about the beauty industry? What gives you hope?
The beauty industry is more inclusive than it was ten years ago. There’s a slightly wider range of foundation shades, for example. What I find frustrating is that it should be even more inclusive. The definition of what is beautiful shouldn’t be so narrow. We should have different kinds of women — different body sizes, different shades of skin, and in a way that is consistent, not only occasional.
A note that struck a chord with me in your book Americanah is when Ifemelu, the novel’s protagonist, says, “Hair is the perfect metaphor for race in America.” What did you mean when you wrote that?
Hair is something we see, but we don’t understand what’s behind it, kind of like race. It’s the same way that something seems obvious, but it is really complicated and complex. For example, to see a middle-aged white woman who has highlights is not something everyone in the world necessarily understands, especially if it’s because she struggles to cover her grays. Or if you’re a black women, sometimes the way that your hair grows from your head isn’t considered “professional” by people who don’t know black hair. I don’t think it’s that people are malicious, I think it’s just some people don’t know what the hair that grows from the head of black women actually looks like.
How would you describe your relationship with your hair?
I don’t think we have enough time to talk about this. It’s interesting because I can say very excitedly now that I absolutely love my hair and I wouldn’t change it. But, it’s a relationship that has its ups and downs. There are times when I just don’t have the time for my hair and I let it be a matted mess. And there are times when I think of my hair as this glorious gift from God in all of its kinkiness. There are times when it’s frustrating and I go through a phase of having such a difficult time keeping the damn hair moisturized — it’s utter frustration. And there are other times when I’m having a really good day with my hair. I’m still looking for the perfect hair moisturizer.
Women can sometimes feel like they have to apologize for an interest in beauty, but you’ve said that women shouldn’t feel ashamed. Why was that important for you to say?
It’s the pitting of feminism against femininity — that they are mutually exclusive, that bothers me. It’s something that I really strongly reject. It’s problematic on many levels. You hear talk about women looking serious when they wear a power suit and if you wear a dress it doesn’t communicate power. Our definition of what normally comes across as powerful very much reflects male ideas, and the things our society traditionally considers masculine are not things that we generally think of as shallow or frivolous. The things that are considered traditionally feminine are considered shallow and frivolous, like beauty and fashion. There are many intelligent, thoughtful, innovative women who are interested in beauty and fashion, and we shouldn’t have any judgment about that.
The concept of self-care is more popular than ever. Do you think there is a viable connection between practicing self-care and beauty?
It’s very clichéd to say, but the greatest form of beauty is being well; mentally, physically, and emotionally well. I like makeup very much, but I also really like my face when I take my makeup off. I like to dress up, but I also really like myself when I’m not dressed up. I like taking long walks, I like nature, I like eating well, I’m happy when I’m exercising. It’s also true what all the magazines say, which is when you’re healthy, your skin actually looks better. So yes, there is a connection. Mental, emotional, and physical health are extremely important things. Particularly today when we sort of live in this stressful modern world where everything is fast.
What makes up your skin-care routine?
The person to talk to about my skin is my mother. My mother has very beautiful skin and she passed it on to her children. I have friends who make fun of me and say that I use all kinds of sleeping potions that I don’t want to tell them about, but actually I don’t. One reason I said yes to this campaign was because I had used Boots’ products in the past, so I knew they were good, and one of the things I used and loved was their No. 7 serum. The thing about Boots No. 7 is that there’s a form of democratic ethics at hand; they are good products that are affordable and somehow work with everyone. Additionally, I’ve always used Vaseline and cocoa butter. My forehead is oily and the rest of my skin is dry, so I’m constantly looking for moisture that’s dense and creamy. Right now I’m using a raw shea butter from Nigeria.
You’ve talked about how your mother has been a huge influence on your relationship with beauty and fashion. Are there any other women you admire when it comes to beauty and style?
Because I’m a writer and I’m always looking for material, I watch people. I admire ordinary women. I don’t mean that to sound mean. I’ll see a woman and how lovely she looks and well-put together and that really inspires me. My sister Uche is also an inspiration. She’s very stylish, very confident, very fashionable, very beautiful. I admire Solange Knowles’s style. Her hair, her face, her fashion, she’s very striking. My friend Thandie Newton is stunning. I just love her makeup because she looks like herself, if that makes sense. I love Michelle Obama, her makeup is on point. The director Ava DuVernay, I love her whole look, her hair. I love Kerry Washington — she’s also my friend — I adore her makeup and style.
Is there any sort of lesson we can learn from our most recent election and how it relates to feminism?
I really think that sexism was a central factor in the election — in the way that Hillary Clinton was covered, and the way her public image was constructed. We need to ask different questions. We need to push back at perceived wisdom. It became quite mainstream to ask the question about sexism, there are lots of places that covered that, and then there were people who said that it can’t possibly be sexism because she’s so perfect. Hillary Clinton was put into a corner to say she’s not perfect. To me that was just as bad, because who is perfect?
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‘Game of Thrones’ Finale Director: No ‘Romantic Jealousy’ in Tyrion’s Reaction to Jon and Dany’s Boat Sex
Longtime ‘Thrones’ director Jeremy Podeswa dishes on all the mysteries of the Season 7 finale episode, ‘The Dragon and the Wolf.’ [Warning: Spoilers]
Melissa Leon
Entertainment Editor
Updated 08.30.17 12:34AM ET / Published 08.29.17 12:00PM ET
“I shouldn’t be surprised, I suppose. She’s your kind of woman,” Cersei snarls at Tyrion, referring to Daenerys, in Game of Thrones’ explosive seventh season finale. “A foreign whore who doesn’t know her place.”
Her words reverberate again as Tyrion lingers outside his queen’s door, as she and Jon Snow (aka Aegon Targaryen) finally consummate their season-long affection and have sex. While Jon and Dany roll around in the sheets and Bran’s voiceover confirms Jon’s parentage and his birth name, Tyrion looks curiously morose. It’s more than apprehension on his face, more than a weighing of the strategic disadvantages of their union. It’s a look of personal heartbreak—right?
The ambiguity of Tyrion’s reaction to his queen’s latest, greatest, totally incestuous love affair set the internet ablaze with wild hypotheticals. Tyrion is in love with Dany, some deduced. A decades-old pitch letter from George R.R. Martin to a publisher, which outlined a since-discarded Jon-Arya-Tyrion love triangle (blech), suddenly became a clue about the “deadly rivalry” to come between Tyrion and Jon Snow, with Daenerys replacing Arya.
And indeed, the dwarf has always advised Daenerys against falling in love while on her quest to retake Westeros. On his advice, she left Daario Naharis behind in Meereen last season, calling him a “liability.” In the touching scene that followed Dany’s breakup, Tyrion told her, “He wasn’t the first to love you. And he won’t be the last.” Could that have been a veiled hint about his own affections?
Others posited that Tyrion’s face looked guilty, a sign of a planned betrayal of his queen. That theory hinges on supposed off-camera dealings with Cersei after the estranged siblings meet in private. The conversation ends on screen with Tyrion’s discovery that his sister is pregnant. But what if that knowledge—and his guilt over her other children’s deaths—prompts him to cut a deal with Cersei off-screen, encouraging her to lie to Jon and Dany about supporting them in the war against the undead?
There are a million more progressively weirder and wilder theories “explaining” Tyrion’s actions and motives in “The Dragon and the Wolf.” To gain some clarity on the matter, we had a quick chat with the episode’s director, Jeremy Podeswa. Fair warning: He has some discouraging news for the conspiracy-minded.
So what everyone is wondering about is what we should read into Tyrion’s expression as he stands outside Dany’s room while she and Jon are having sex inside. He definitely looks apprehensive, but are we meant to see jealousy as well?
Well I think there’s jealousy, but it’s maybe not romantic jealousy, in the way that it is for Jorah, for example. I think that for Tyrion, it’s more complicated. I think he has a very special relationship with Dany and he really believes in her as a true leader and has invested a lot in her. I think for him, with Jon and Dany getting together, this represents a possible undermining of his position with her and also a monkey wrench thrown into what the master plan really is meant to be around this entire alliance. The way I see it is Tyrion is a bit of a strategist—not just a bit of a strategist, he is a major strategist—and I think now, he can’t see where this is gonna go and that’s very difficult for someone who is always thinking three steps ahead. The consequences of Dany and Jon getting together are completely unknown. Is she gonna make decisions now based on this new relationship? Is she gonna be able to separate her personal [interests] from the interests of the greater group? What is this going to foretell for the alliance and what they’re all meant to do as a united front? So I think the worry for him is that now, everything is up for grabs. We don’t really know who’s going to side with who, what’s gonna happen at the end of the day, and which alliances are going to be the strongest.
The desperation on Littlefinger’s face as he realizes Sansa and Arya have double-crossed him is so satisfying. How far back did they know what Littlefinger was up to? Are we meant to assume that the threats and rivalry we saw in earlier episodes was all part of the ruse?
No, for me, it doesn’t mean that at all. I really believe that some of Littlefinger’s manipulations of Sansa were working on her, and that there was a question in her mind at some point of what Arya’s motives really were and whether she could trust her. And I think there was a feeling from Arya that Sansa saw herself as Lady of Winterfell and that she didn’t deserve to have that title. Littlefinger’s strength is that he finds things that are real and finds a way to manipulate the situation around those things. And so I do think that there is a germ of truth in all of that. Personally, I don’t think that they were putting on this ruse for the entire season. I feel like what probably happened is that Bran got involved and he was able to answer a lot of questions and fill in a lot of gaps the both of them had, and later when we see him in the scene with Littlefinger, all the stuff that Bran is saying in that scene is not news to Sansa and Arya. So clearly they’ve been apprised of all this stuff before. But exactly when that happened is the question. Like how early did they know all this and how early did they decide to turn the tables on Littlefinger? That’s a bit of a question. But I feel that there was a journey for both of those characters through all of that.
Was there an explanation for why the Wall’s magic crumbles under wight dragon fire? We’ve heard a lot from different characters over the course of the series about the magic that prevents the dead from crossing south. Was it the same principle as when the spells around the Three-Eyed Raven’s cave were broken?
Well I think there’s a sort of received wisdom about certain things, like there was received wisdom about what happened with Rhaegar and Lyanna. There’s certain things that people hold as truth, but that are not always necessarily true. So there’s received wisdom about the Wall, that it’s absolutely impenetrable. But I think what this proves is that actually, that wasn’t the case. It wasn’t entirely impenetrable. This is an eventuality that nobody ever predicted. But this is the one thing that actually makes the Wall vulnerable, and it’s the power of the undead, you know, the undead dragon. Who could ever have imagined such a thing could be possible? The thing that nobody ever imagines is the thing that actually disproves the accepted wisdom around this.
My favorite part of this episode was Tyrion and Cersei’s private meeting/reunion. What was it like filming that scene between the actors?
It was an amazing thing to shoot. Really one of my favorite ever. I think both of them are just so at the top of their game and the writing is really exceptional in that sequence. It’s the sort of scene that’s a long time coming because their characters haven’t been together for a long time. There is this tension in the scene that Cersei really could kill him at any moment. He knows it and I think there’s this tension for the audience too that it could completely go off the rails at any time. And this writing is so sophisticated, there are so many different shifts and turns and subtleties within that scene. I think for actors, a scene like that is a gift because you really get to play with dynamics and you really get to play with each other in a powerful way. We always do, like, a little blocking rehearsal before we do anything, where it’s just me, the actors, and maybe the cinematographer, just sitting in a room and playing it. I knew from the very first playing of that scene that it was sensational and very moving. Peter [Dinklage] and Lena [Headey] both were just, from the very first moment, right in it. They knew exactly how to play it. And after that, it was just a matter of capturing it.
Should we assume that a lot was said off-camera after Tyrion discovers Cersei is pregnant? There are already conspiracies swirling about major alliance shifts that could have occurred off-screen.
I think the assumption is there definitely was more conversation after that, which leads to her coming back to the Dragonpit and agreeing to be part of this alliance—we think, at that point. (Laughs.) So yes, there was definitely more conversation after that. But that’s all gravy. The essence of it is where it gets to at the end of that scene. I think, for me, that’s one of the great moments for both those actors. I literally had to take a breath. The first time they played [the pregnancy reveal], I was like, (gasp). It was a very powerful moment.
How do you approach a sequence as complicated as the Dragonpit meeting, with so many actors and characters’ dynamics at play?
It was a very complicated sequence to plan, actually, and to execute. I knew we’d have about six days to shoot it. I also knew it was a huge amount of material to get through, about 40 or 50 pages. I worked with the actors first in Belfast. It was the rare circumstance where we have the entire cast together to rehearse something, because we could never have figured this out on the day [of shooting]. So it was not just a matter of figuring out the choreography and the blocking but also just the tension, and which moments are really important, and whether everything in the script is holding well. Then at rehearsal, it’s just how to play everything. Where were the moments, where was the nuance, where was the complexity, what are the intricacies of all their relationships, and having it all come across.
But once you figure all that stuff out, then I started to figure out how to shoot it and break it down into digestible bits. I had a certain sense of how much to try to accomplish on each day and how to get through all the material. So I approached it like one big play and the play had many acts. We’d get through one or two acts a day, progressively in story sequence, through the entire piece. When we got there, it was really just seeing what happens when the cameras are actually rolling and making sure that we captured all those individual and very specific moments between all these characters that were detailed in the script and that we knew we wanted to capture.
It’s certainly epic to see all these characters together again in one place.
We knew going in it was an epic sequence for many reasons. It was epic for the fans and for people who have been watching the story closely because there are many characters who have either never met, or who haven’t been together for a long time. Every encounter is laden with meaning and tension and portent and all those things. But it was also epic in terms of every actor having to be there for each other for an entire sequence, whether they were on-camera or not. What’s so great about this cast is they really are like a family and they’re very committed to each other. Everybody was always there all the time, whether they were directly involved in what was happening or not. And everybody’s reactions are important, whether or not they have dialogue. They all do have a big role to play, no matter what part of the sequence we were in. So it was a real group effort to kind of make it strong and meaningful and emotional and powerful. And really, practically, just to get it done.
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Report on Business Winnipeg app maker Bold Commerce raises $22-million after success on Shopify’s platform
Winnipeg app maker Bold Commerce raises $22-million after success on Shopify’s platform
Josh O’Kane Technology Reporter
Sean Silcoff Technology Reporter
Published January 16, 2019 Updated January 15, 2019
With Shopify Inc. now grown from a startup e-commerce platform to one of Canada’s most valuable technology companies, its fortunes have spilled over into the ecosystem it created – bolstering its partner companies such as Winnipeg’s Bold Commerce.
On Wednesday, Bold will announce it has raised $22-million from Whitecap Venture Partners and Round13 Capital. After seven years of bootstrapping, the 275-employee company plans to use the money to add 200 more staff to its ranks to expand the scale and artificial-intelligence capabilities of its suite of e-commerce apps, the vast majority of which cater to Shopify merchants.
Ottawa-based Shopify has been lately trying to reframe itself less as a tool for e-commerce and more as a one-stop shop for retail entrepreneurs, expanding its in-house offerings to include services such as shipping and cash advances. Its proprietary app store, first launched in 2009, has been pivotal to the Shopify growth story, and companies such as Bold with high-demand apps have joined on its journey to massive growth. The company has deliberately structured itself as a service with core functionality with room for app developers to serve other, new and future needs – creating pathways for developers to build wealth of their own.
While Bold’s $22-million raise is not the largest among Shopify app purveyors – the New York-based marketing service Yotpo has raised US$101-million, for example – it is a vote of confidence from investors in the Canadian spillover of Shopify’s success. “To be part of the growth of the ecosystem was a great opportunity,” says Yvan Boisjoli, Bold’s chief executive officer, who co-founded the company with Jay Myers, Stefan Maynard, and Eric Boisjoli, Yvan’s brother.
Bold might be an exemplary case study in humble beginnings. Starting as “four guys building apps on the side,” Mr. Boisjoli says, they launched their first Shopify app in April, 2012, back when its store had dozens of apps, rather than thousands like today. (That year, Shopify processed US$742-million worth of orders, versus US$26.3-billion in 2017, its most recent full year of financial reporting.)
Bold’s first app aimed to help retailers upsell customers – but its creators took it down after their first user gave it a negative review. They called the user, talked it over, and tried to rethink their entire approach. “We didn’t put ourselves in a merchant’s point of view,” Mr. Boisjoli says. They asked themselves a hard question: “Were we trying to solve a problem for him or were we just trying to sell an app?”
Today, Bold offers 21 apps, most of which are e-commerce solutions, focusing on areas such as subscriptions, checkout, and customer loyalty. One key app is called the Bold Brain, which uses artificial-intelligence technology to recommend items to customers based on their shopping history. While Bold had been profitable as a self-funded company, Mr. Boisjoli says, the investment from Whitecap and Round13 will allow it to expand globally and dive deeper into AI techniques such as machine learning in its apps to streamline and automate more processes for retailers, making each as profitable as possible.
Whitecap partner Shayn Diamond says Bold’s ability to stay at the forefront of digital retail, and its potential to expand to other e-commerce platforms beyond Shopify, attracted his firm to invest. “They’re not pegged to just one use case within the e-commerce space,” he says. “They’re looking forward two, three, four, five years to what’s new [and] up-and-coming … to satisfy the full end-to-end suite of e-commerce.”
Shopify’s ever-growing stable of “partner” companies such as Bold has become crucial to its growth. While Shopify’s final 2018 numbers are not yet available, the company says that while it generated revenue of US$673-million in 2017, its partners generated US$800-million from its platform. Merchants use an average of six apps in their stores; 84 per cent of those apps have earned revenue, Shopify says. In some app-success cases, such as Montreal’s Return Magic, Shopify has purchased partner companies to bring their tech directly into the fold.
“We built this partner ecosystem to say, ‘Instead of building everything ourselves, let’s give merchants what most people need most of the time, and for everything beyond that, let’s find really good third-party developers and agencies and freelancers to build those features,'” says Harley Finkelstein, Shopify’s chief operating officer.
Whereas some popular app stores – such as Apple Inc.'s – take a 30-per-cent cut of revenue, Shopify takes 20 per cent, Mr. Finkelstein says. “We want to create more value for our partners than we capture for ourselves, because fundamentally we believe that’s how you build a real ecosystem, a real platform.”
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From Rock's Backpages
Aretha Franklin stops to think – a classic interview from the vaults
Norman Jopling
The queen of soul, Aretha Franklin, turns 70 on Sunday and to celebrate we've raided the archives of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – to bring you this interview. It was written by Norman Jopling and first published in Record Mirror on 18 May 1968
Tue 20 Mar 2012 06.34 EDT First published on Tue 20 Mar 2012 06.34 EDT
Life and soul … Aretha Franklin in 1968. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives
Some people are going around saying that Aretha Franklin is the Queen oOf Soul, many people are buying her records, and one person (show compere Johnnie Walker) even said that she was the best coloured girl singer ever to make records.
Now it isn't every girl singer who is fortunate enough to have these things said about her or happen to her, whether you go along with them or not. After chasing around and about the metropolis, I tracked Aretha down to her hotel (in the penthouse suite) and asked her a few questions, some of which she answered in length and detail, others which received a mere smile of reply.
As her voice is her fortune, does she do anything to protect it?
"I do vocalistics, if that's what you mean. I was afraid that when I came to Europe I'd end up with laryngitis for the whole trip, but I've been lucky this time. My voice changes as I change climate – it goes down about two octaves when I come to a climate like this." (Aretha had been not too happy about our weather. In fact, she was welcoming quitting our shores to go back to the USA).
How did she feel when her first record for Atlantic, I Never Loved a Man, began to shoot up the US charts, after she had been singing so long without a hit?
"To tell the truth, I never expected that song to be a hit. I was surprised. I could see more potential in Respect – in fact, I can say I knew that would be a hit song. Sometimes I can't get a song right in the recording studio, though. We usually work things out beforehand, not like the Memphis studio where they don't plan things like that, but can end up with a master. We usually know what we're going to do. I sing and the musicians kind of fit things around me. Two of my favourite songs incidentally are Rock-a-Bye, which was on Columbia, and Chain of Fools."
Accompanying Aretha was Ted White, her manager and husband. I asked Aretha if it helped to have Ted as a manager.
"Oh yes. I don't have to worry about the business side. As he's my husband I know I can trust him! I just worry about the singing."
Ted explained that, although Aretha had no hits when she was on Columbia, there was no question of Aretha's style being "suppressed" by that label.
"I'd call it more of an exploration by Columbia. They gave Aretha the chance to sing all sorts of things," he said.
"But it was more kind of 'easy listening', as they say in Cashbox [magazine]," said Aretha. "I started off there with more powerful material – very similar to the kind of thing I'm recording now with Atlantic – and went on to slower music. But I can say that my big records and my success have been due to the backing which Atlantic have put behind me. I can say that I wouldn't have had these hit records if it wasn't for Atlantic, and their organisation."
Aretha reads a lot of newspapers, not too many books, and likes mostly simple things and straightforward people. What did she think about British audiences and how do they compare with their US counterparts?
"I thought maybe they'd like me," she smiled. "But I never expected this, truly. It was so wonderful. My American audiences are pretty mixed. I get all sorts of people, old and young. It's nice. I don't record with my band, though – we use Atlantic musicians."
Did Aretha look back much on old times when she wasn't so successful? Did she enjoy them?
"Oh, we had good times right enough. I was in a group, a gospel group with my sisters Erma and Carolyn. Carolyn is with me here as part of my backing group. We split up and went our separate ways, to do different things. My big ambition later on, when I was with Columbia, was to have a big record. Ted and I have written quite a few songs – but the name on the label credits would be 'White' – we write under my married name. I like writing, and don't confine myself to just the words, or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind."
Ted White explained that they had recently founded the Aretha Franklin Foundation, which gave to charity, and this was an activity Aretha had long been interested in. Aretha's father still sings gospel and has recorded over thirty gospel albums for the Chess label. Aretha's favourite female vocalists are Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey and Clara Ward. And she digs Charles Aznavour – she even wants to cut an album of his songs when she gets the chance.
I asked Aretha that, as she'll undoubtedly be singing in many years time, would she still be doing numbers like Respect and Think (her latest single)?
"No, I shouldn't think so," she laughed. "Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it."
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Oracle executive publicly resigns after CEO joins Trump's transition team
George Polisner penned an open letter of resignation to Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz that he calls ‘a credible action as opposed to an expression of frustration’
Olivia Solon in San Francisco
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Wed 21 Dec 2016 15.27 EST Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 13.57 EST
Donald Trump holds a meeting on 14 December in New York with tech industry leaders including Sheryl Sandberg, Peter Thiel, Tim Cook and Safra Catz (far right). Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP
A senior executive at Oracle has publicly resigned after the technology company’s co-CEO Safra Catz joined the Trump transition team and expressed support for the president-elect.
Catz had attended last week’s meeting of tech leaders at Trump Tower in New York before accepting the position. Prior to the meeting, Catz said:
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“I plan to tell the president-elect that we are with him and will help in any way we can. If he can reform the tax code, reduce regulation and negotiate better trade deals, the US technology industry will be stronger and more competitive than ever.”
George Polisner, 57, who had worked at Oracle on and off since 1993, posted his resignation letter to LinkedIn, outlining concerns over Trump’s choice of cabinet, tax and environmental policies as well as the stoking of fear and hatred towards minorities.
George Polisner quit Oracle after CEO Safra Catz joined Trump’s transition team Photograph: George Polisner
“I am not with President-elect Trump and I am not here to help him in any way,” he said in the post, which has been read more than 150,000 times. “In fact when his policies border on the unconstitutional, the criminal and the morally unjust I am here to oppose him in every possible and legal way. Therefore I must resign from this once great company.”
Speaking to the Guardian on Wednesday, Polisner – a progressive political activist and chair of the Democratic central committee in his home county in Oregon – said that he was at a point in his career where he felt he could “make a statement”.
I thought I could either be a role model in terms of a path forward or a cautionary tale
George Polisner, former Oracle executive
“It’s a demonstration, a credible action as opposed to an expression of frustration,” he said. “Although from a personal economic perspective I’ve probably made better decisions!”
“I thought I could either be a role model in terms of a path forward or a cautionary tale,” he joked.
Polisner would not have resigned so publicly had Catz taken a leave of absence from Oracle to pursue the role with the Trump administration as a private citizen. “I would have been disappointed in her personally, but I would have respected her decision.” he said.
“The Trump administration has been on record talking about creating a Muslim registry and doing a number of things that will cause profound societal damage to the most vulnerable and I wanted no part of that.”
Donald Trump speaks as PayPal co-founder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Oracle CEO Safra Catz listen. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Once he made his mind up to resign, he told his manager before sending the letter to Catz and simultaneously publishing to LinkedIn. “I decided it was too important to die as a private letter.”
Polisner said that it’s important for technology companies to have dialogue with the Trump administration, as happened at last week’s roundtable attended by execs from companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, IBM and Oracle.
“There’s incredible intellectual capacity in the technology space that can be used for good, so the meeting was appropriate for expressing how technology companies see the way forward. It’s better to have a seat at the table.”
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This appears to be the view of Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, according to his response to the staff who questioned how important it was for the company to engage with the president-elect in a private Q&A.
“It’s very important,” Cook said. “Governments can affect our ability to do what we do. They can affect it in positive ways and they can affect in not so positive ways. What we do is focus on the policies.”
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“We very much stand up for what we believe in. We think that’s a key part of what Apple is about. And we’ll continue to do so,” he added.
However, Polisner remains concerned about how the president-elect could use technology as a tool to concentrate wealth and power and oppress vulnerable parts of society.
“In my mind the table has already been set and they are not going to listen to a tech person who says ‘this may not work out so well’ because they’ve already calculated the impact to the balance sheet.”
In the last 24 hours he’s received around 500 messages (around 90% of which are supportive, he said) both from colleagues at Oracle and other people in the technology industry unhappy about how executives are cosying up to Trump. He’s been in touch with some staffers at IBM who have signed a petition urging their CEO Ginni Rometty to stand up to Trump.
What’s Polisner planning to do with his newfound spare time?
“Take a zen breath from all of this,” he said. The next challenge is to build tools to unite disparate groups of progressives to take political action that goes beyond “resisting bad policy”.
“I would love to figure out how we can build a loosely coupled network for progressives, so people can have autonomy and freedom of thought but work together in a crisis.”
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El Salvador ex-colonel fights extradition for notorious murder of Jesuit priests
A court in North Carolina is deciding whether to extradite Inocente Orlando Montano to Spain for the killing of six priests during El Salvador’s civil war
Jonathan M Katz in Greenville, North Carolina
Thu 20 Aug 2015 08.32 EDT Last modified on Fri 18 Aug 2017 03.12 EDT
The former Salvadorian military colonel, Inocente Orlando Montano, departs a court in Boston after an earlier hearing in Boston. Photograph: Steven Senne/AP
Inocente Orlando Montano sat in the sparsely filled courtroom, saying nothing, as two American lawyers and a federal judge argued his fate.
In court, the man who was once El Salvador’s vice-minister of defense and public safety wore an orange jumpsuit stamped with the initials of the North Carolina prison where he currently resides. A blue walker was parked behind him.
Wednesday’s argument centred on whether Montano, 73 and an ex-colonel in the Salvadorian military, would be extradited from the United States to Spain, where a judge eagerly waits to prosecute him for one of the most notorious crimes of his country’s horrific 12-year civil war: the murders of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and the housekeeper’s teenage daughter, on a university campus in San Salvador in 1989.
There was no decision from the US magistrate judge on Wednesday, surprising many watching the case unfold in US district court who thought extradition would be quickly granted under the firm prodding of the State Department.
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Instead, the federal public defender who has taken on Montano’s case, James E Todd, bombarded the court with 44 pieces of evidence – mostly declassified diplomatic cables from the time – all of which he slowly read aloud for several hours as the prosecutor openly fidgeted and rolled his eyes.
At the end of the hearing, Judge Kimberly Swank gave both sides until mid-September to submit written arguments, sometime after which, she would issue a written decision.
“Obviously it has taken me some time to digest this, and obviously it will take some more time,” Swank said.
The then Colonel Montano was a member of President Alfredo Cristiani’s cabinet in November 1989, when the Atlacatl Battalion, an elite army unit originally trained at the US-run School of the Americas, raided the residence of Jesuit priests on the campus of the Central American University in El Salvador’s capital.
The country’s military leaders believed that the priests were helping leftist fighters with the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, or FMLN, in the civil war.
The soldiers forced their way into the house, ordered five priests to lie face down in the garden, and shot them all.
On orders to leave no witnesses, they then searched the house and murdered a sixth priest, along with housekeeper Julia Elba Ramos and her 16-year-old daughter, Celina Mariceth Ramos, according to a 1993 report by a United Nations-sponsored truth and reconciliation commission. The priests were Fathers Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Segundo Montes, Amando López, Joaquín López y López and Juan Ramón Moreno.
To avoid detection, the soldiers used an AK-47 seized from FMLN fighters to kill the priests and would-be witnesses. They also blasted the front of the building and left a cardboard sign blaming the FMLN for the attack. But another housekeeper survived and later gave her testimony.
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Montano was later identified as one of the architects of the massacre by several informants, including those with the truth and reconciliation commission.
Though 19 other officers are also accused of helping plan the attack and conspiring to cover it up, Montano is the only one currently in custody.
Caskets are carried during the funeral procession in San Salvador of six Jesuit priests killed by the Salvadorian military in 1989. Photograph: Luis Romero/AP
In 2001, Montano moved to the United States, having lied to immigration authorities about his military record and entry date to obtain work papers. He was eventually discovered while living in Boston and, in 2012, pleaded guilty to six counts of immigration fraud and perjury.
Two military officials responsible for the massacre were briefly convicted and jailed in El Salvador after the end of the war in 1992, but they were released soon after under an amnesty law that is still in effect.
In an effort to reopen the case, a Spanish court initially charged the accused military officials with having committed crimes against humanity and state terrorism, but a 2014 revision to the country’s laws meant that the former charge had to be dropped. Rather, the case was limited to just terrorism and murder charges, on the ground that five of the murdered priests were Spanish citizens.
Montanto’s lawyer James Todd deployed a wide variety of arguments in his client’s defense, including impugning past informants and witnesses. Several times he mentioned that it would be better for Montano to face a Salvadorian court, though there is no indication that one would try him.
As the session wore on, Todd became emotional, audibly choking back tears as he told the judge of his respect for the Jesuit order. “We’re not here to argue it wasn’t a heinous act against men who dedicated their lives to the church,” he said. Instead, he said, he was defending Montano’s right to due process. Montano did not visibly react.
Carolyn Patty Blum, a senior legal adviser with the Center for Justice and Accountability, which has taken a leading role in pushing the case, rejected that argument.
“Montano chose to come to the United States. He chose to take advantage of the US system. If he wanted the protection of El Salvador, he should have stayed in El Salvador,” Blum said.
Five of his relatives, including Montano’s sister, made the trip to be among the 20 or so people, including lawyers and US marshals, in the courtroom on Wednesday.
The hearing for an accused international war criminal was somewhat unusual for this small southern town, best known for its barbecue and as the home of the East Carolina University Pirates. But a few in the town’s growing Latin American immigrant community were well aware of the figure in their midst.
“It would be a good thing if he was sent [to the Spanish court], but he is just one of many” who were responsible for the killing, Edelmira Maguna, 46, who was a law student in San Salvador at the time of the massacre, and now runs a Salvadorian-Mexican restaurant near the federal courthouse, said in Spanish. “It is always difficult with the high-level ones.”
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Ajay Devgn Looks Fierce In Taanaji First Look
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After unveiling the first poster of the period drama film, Taanaji The Unsung Warrior, the makers have dropped one more poster from the film, marking the beginning on New Year
After unveiling the first poster of the period drama film, Taanaji: The Unsung Warrior, the makers have dropped one more poster from the film, marking the beginning on New Year.
The first look of Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn’s most awaited film Taanaji is out and the actor looks fierce and dangerous in every way. He is seen in a war zone with sword in his hands and ready to fight wearing his classic warrior outfit. Attached to a big rope and crossing the mountain, the actor looks fierce and intense.
Filmmaker Om Raut took to Twitter to wish everyone Happy New Year and surprised them with the first look poster of this historical drama. He captioned it, “Happy New Year!!! Har Har Mahadev!!! @ajaydevgn @TanhajiFilm”
The first poster of Taanaji: The Unsung Warrior came out earlier in July and sharing the first look, he had written, "He fought for his People, his Soil & his King Chhatrapati Shivaji. The unsung warrior of glorious Indian history, Subedar Taanaji Malusare”
It is based on the life of Tanaji Malusare who was the military leader in the Maratha Empire. Taanaji is most famous for his role in the Battle of Sinhagad which was fought in 1670 A.D. during which the heroic warrior lost his life.
The movie stars Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan, and Jagapati Babu in the lead role.
The film is co-produced by Ajay Devgn and Bhushan Kumar under the banner of Ajay Devgn FFilms and T-Series.
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Matthew T. Mangino: Contempt of Congress: Where do we go from here?
The House Judiciary Committee voted 24-16 to recommend the House hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena seeking an unredacted copy of Robert Mueller’s report.
The House Judiciary Committee voted 24-16 to recommend the House hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena seeking an unredacted copy of Robert Mueller’s report. The vote came after President Donald Trump asserted executive privilege to prevent the unredacted report from going to Congress.
Congressional rules empower all committees with the authority to compel witnesses to appear and testify or produce documents for matters being investigated by a Congressional committee.
In 1961, the Supreme Court ruled that a Congressional committee must meet three requirements for a valid enforceable subpoena. First, the committee's investigation must be authorized by a chamber congress; second, the investigation must pursue "a valid legislative purpose;” and third, the specific inquiries must be pertinent to the subject matter that has been authorized for investigation.
Once the threshold is met, Congress has three options to enforce a subpoena. First, Congress’ inherent contempt power provides constitutional authority to detain and imprison an individual until that person complies with the subpoena. The last time Congress used its inherent contempt powers was in 1934 when the Senate held William MacCracken, a former member of Herbert Hoover's administration, after he refused a subpoena. According to the Washington Post, the Senate had nowhere to hold MacCracken so he was imprisoned at a hotel.
Second, Congress can pursue a criminal contempt citation through the executive branch seeking criminal prosecution for contempt. This is the most common method used by Congress. The person accused of contempt is charged with a misdemeanor punishable by a fine and up to a year in jail. There are some practical concerns with this option. Where the official refuses to disclose information pursuant to the president’s decision that such information is protected under executive privilege, it is unrealistic that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will pursue a prosecution for criminal contempt. More to the point, under the current facts the DOJ would be asked to prosecute its boss, the attorney general.
Finally, Congress may rely on the courts to enforce a congressional subpoena. Under this option, Congress may seek a civil judgment from a federal court declaring that the individual in question is legally obligated to comply with the congressional subpoena.
A number of obstacles face Congress in any attempt to enforce a subpoena issued to the Attorney General, an executive branch official. Congress may be able to enforce its subpoena through a civil lawsuit; however, relying on this option to enforce a subpoena directed at the attorney general may be inadequate to protect the authority of Congress due to the time required to achieve a final court ruling.
The two most recent court cases seeking to enforce a Congressional subpoena involved former Attorney General Eric Holder in 2012 and former White House counsel Harriet Miers in 2008. According to a 2017 report from the Congressional Research Service, “(B)oth conflicts ended the same way: The contempt charge was stuck in a court battle for so long that a new president and Congress were elected and new administration officials took office along with them.”
Trump’s blanket claim of executive privilege appears to be an effort to shield Barr from contempt. Essentially, the president is saying the redacted aspects of the report are privileged and Barr cannot turn them over to Congress.
Trump’s efforts parallel Richard Nixon’s unsuccessful effort to prevent his White House Counsel, John Dean, from testifying pursuant to a subpoena from the Watergate special prosecutor.
According to Michael Conway - a former counsel to the House Judiciary Committee - like Nixon, Trump is trying to use an expansive claim of executive privilege to thwart a legitimate Congressional investigation.
Trump seems to be prepared to do as Nixon did in 1973. Conway wrote on the NBC News website, “Nixon predicted that the Senate would question his claim of executive privilege if Dean were required to testify. If that occurred, Nixon said ‘we’ll let it go to the (Supreme) Court. Fight it like hell.’”
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Getting a dog
Learn About New Judging Framework at City Of Birmingham Show
4th August 2017 - 11:49 AM
City of Birmingham Canine Association is offering breed club officials and other interested parties the opportunity to ask questions about the new Judges Competency Framework (JCF) at its championship show at Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry, Warwickshire on the weekend of 2nd and 3rd September 2017.
The Vice Chairman of the Kennel Club Judges Committee, Jeff Horswell, will be on hand along with Kennel Club staff at the show where ‘drop in’ sessions will be held at noon and 2.30pm on both the Saturday and Sunday. The noon session is designed for breed club officials, while the 2.30pm one is aimed at a more general audience, although people are welcome to attend whichever time slot suits them best.
The venue will be the Strollers restaurant, between halls 1 and 2, which will be well sign-posted within the halls of the show.
Plans for the JCF were first announced in April of this year. It will commence in 2019, run alongside the current judge education and approval system for three years, and be fully operational in 2022.
Caroline Kisko, Kennel Club Secretary, said: “We are most grateful to the City of Birmingham for inviting the Kennel Club to hold these JCF question and answer sessions at the show. People will naturally have questions about the obligations of breed clubs when it comes to educating judges under the JCF, as well as about the transition period, so we very much hope to see a good attendance on both days.”
David Bell, secretary of the show, said: “The ‘City’ is happy to host these Kennel Club clinics. It is important that show officials, judges and exhibitors get a clear understanding of the JCF. Hopefully these sessions will give the Kennel Club the opportunity to provide information and more clarity in areas where this is necessary. The introduction of the JCF has been widely welcomed and it is vital that we all have confidence in its success.”
Admission to the show is free of charge, as is parking, and people who are interested in attending the sessions are welcome to turn up at the appointed time. Tea and coffee will be generously provided by the Association.
More information about the show, including directions to the venue, can be found by accessing www.birminghamcitydogshow.co.uk/.
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Time4Good is incredibly fortunate to benefit from the support and advice of amazing individuals. Not all of them are listed here due to the nature of their current responsibilities, but we are grateful to them all.
Peter Boyd
Peter is Founder & CEO of Time4Good and Executive Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Business and the Environment. He has been advising The B Team on their ‘Net-Zero by 2050’ initiative in the lead up to COP21 in Paris; and other high-growth organizations on strategy, marketing, climate change solutions and entrepreneurial opportunity. Peter was previously COO of Sir Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room, after more than 10 years with the Virgin Group (including CEO of Virgin Mobile South Africa), after his first job at McKinsey & Co. He is originally from Edinburgh, Scotland; educated at University of Oxford; and now lives in Westport, CT USA - serving on the board of Earthplace and the town’s Green Task Force.
Jose Maria Figueres
After a successful business career (1979-1987), José María served as Minister of State and was later elected President of Costa Rica (1994-1998) at the age of 39. As President he created a comprehensive national development strategy based on the tenets of sustainability: sound economics, investment in human development, and a strong alliance with nature. He was also the first CEO of the World Economic Forum, where he strengthened global corporate ties to social and governmental sectors. Later he was named CEO of Concordia 21, dedicated to supporting organizations that promote development and democratic values around the world.
José María was first Chairman for The Carbon War Room in 2009, and in 2013 helped launch the Global Ocean Commission to formulate politically and technically feasible recommendations to address key issues facing the high seas. He currently serves as its Co-Chair. José María holds an engineering degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and a Master's in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Bill Finch
Bill Finch was born and raised in Bridgeport, CT, and served as its mayor from 2008 to 2015. He served on a platform of job creation, economic recovery and sustainability leadership. While in office, he co-chaired a national climate-action committee at the US Conference of Mayors. He was also a leader on safety; serving on the Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and achieving the lowest crime rate for Briegeport in forty years. Following his term as mayor, Bill is helping other municipalities create and implement sustainability plans, and is working on the creation of the Mayors’ Institute for Sustainability (to be modeled on the Mayors’ Institute for City Design).
Amy is Vice President of The Artemis Agency, leading efforts on issues including global poverty and disease alleviation, the environment, wildlife conservation, the use of technology and its social impact, gender equality, and education. Keller executes strategies to ensure overall fundraising success, achieving over $100m raised in her career. She is a highly skilled project manager in the social impact space and a strategist in international public policy at the intersection of government, NGO, business, and the global citizen. Recent projects include Live Earth with Al Gore and Kevin Wall, Road To Paris and the Climate Reality Project. Prior to Live Earth, Keller worked with XPRIZE, LA Biomed, The American Red Cross, ONE + (RED), United Nations Foundation, Green Cross among others.
James Kydd
James started his career in advertising agencies before moving to Virgin in 1992. Initially tasked with transforming the advertising for Virgin Atlantic from a price orientation to a more brand building approach, he ended up staying at Virgin for 16 years. During this time he worked on many of the significant launches, including Virgin Money and Virgin Mobile, before overseeing the merger of NTL/Telewest/Virgin Mobile into Virgin Media as MD of Brand &Marketing. He also helped launch the V Festival and played a key role in the establishment of Virgin Unite.
Currently he is Director of Marketing at Purplebricks, a new kind of ‘hybrid’ estate agency that has taken the UK by storm going from zero to the third biggest estate agency in the country in just 2 years. He has been involved with Purplebricks from a very early stage, including the fundraising, design of the website and customer experience as well as all the marketing, which has won numerous awards. Actively involved in a number of other early stage businesses, such as evemattress.co.ukand ao.com, his love of start-up businesses knows no bounds.
Virginia Newton
Ginna is CFO of Friends of the National Zoo, The 501(c)3 of the Smithsonian's National Zoo. Previously she was CFO of Carbon War Room, and prior to that gained more than 15 years of leadership experience organizing and streamlining companies. Her significant quality systems training, ISO and TQM training and HAACP training offer additional layers to her understanding of the complexities of the corporate entity. Her achievements have been featured in Smart Money magazine, as well as other industry and business media. Her strategic approach to growing a business was demonstrated in her previous work as President of Old Dominion Enterprises, Inc. and as Quality Systems Manager of the Louis Dreyfus Corporation, where her systems development and process improvements delivered impressive bottom-line results.
Thomas J. Timmins
Thomas J. Timmins is a Senior Partner at Gowlings law firm in Toronto. He presently serves as the Chair of Gowlings' Global Renewable Energy Practice Group and as a member of the executive committee of Gowlings’ China and East Asia Initiative. He also serves as a board member of the Canadian Solar Industries Association (CanSIA) and as a member of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Greenhouse Gas Protocol Working Group. Tom sits on several other public, private and social sector boards, and is a regular speaker and law school lecturer on clean energy project development, project finance, renewable energy policy development, energy storage and demand response technology initiatives.
Marieke Van Schaik
Marieke van Schaik is managing director of the Dutch Charity Lotteries (Postcode Lottery, BankGiro Lottery, Friends Lottery) since 2009. Marieke holds a degree in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam. She started her career as a project manager in DOEN Foundation before joining the Lotteries in 2000. After various positions in the department she became head of the team in 2006 and managing director of the three lotteries in 2009. Marieke chairs the team of 3 managing directors and has politics & licenses, charities, communications, customer services and human resources in her portfolio.
The Dutch Charity Lotteries have a mission to raise funds for charities. Fifty percent of the proceeds of the lottery goes to more than 200 charities. The Postcode Lottery supports organizations working for people and planet, the BankGiro Lottery supports culture and the Friends Lottery supports health and wellbeing. The international Postcode Lotteries are the third largest private donor in the world.
Stan Wiechers
Stan Wiechers is a structural analyst and ubiquitous computing expert. Currently he is the CTO of Hexagram, a NYC-based startup specializing in artificial life and narrative intelligence. He co-founded the mobile analytics service, PercentMobile as well as Semapedia.org—a crowd sourced QR code project featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel. He worked for Nike, IBM, Nokia and various other companies.
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Likud campaign tries to portray Gantz as mentally unstable
Series of clips focus on a recording of Gantz musing that Netanyahu wants him dead and an interview where Blue and White party leader repeatedly stutters
Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White party, speaks during a party meeting in Tel Aviv on March 20, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
The Likud party released a series of campaign spots on Tuesday in which it sought to portray Benny Gantz, the leader of the rival Blue and White party, as mentally unstable.
“Benny Gantz has lost it,” ran the message, referring to a recording broadcast a few days earlier in which Gantz speculated that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be happy to see him dead and may have asked the Russians to interfere in the elections.
“His appearances speak for themselves. Gantz is scared and weak,” Likud said. “Apparently Gantz still believes that Prime Minister Netanyahu is going to send killers to assassinate him and send the Russians to hack his phone.”
“A man like this is paranoid and someone who says the last month has been the most difficult in his life will not last even a moment under the pressure that the prime minister faces every day,” the campaign spots said.
In a recording of a conversation, which Channel 13 reported Sunday and said was made recently during a closed door meeting in a limited forum, Gantz can be heard making several apparently unfounded accusations about Netanyahu.
“If (Netanyahu) had a way that I would be harmed, that they would kill me, he would do it,” Gantz says, adding that the upcoming elections had made Netanyahu desperate.
“Would regular Benjamin Netanyahu, who I know, want me harmed? The answer is no. Would Benjamin Netanyahu on the eve of elections want me harmed? Unfortunately I would have to say so,” said Gantz, who served as chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces under Netanyahu from 2011 to 2015.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz at the Eshkol Regional Council in southern Israel, on September 22, 2014. (Edi Israel/Pool/Flash90)
Gantz, who is Netanyahu’s main challenger in the upcoming elections, has been on the back foot in recent days over reports that his cellphone was hacked by the Iranians.
The Likud party has tried to use the hack, which Gantz was informed about last year by Israeli security officials, to show he is unfit to lead the country. Gantz has charged that the leak of the breach to the media was politically motivated.
As part of the campaign to show that Gantz was unstable, Likud also showed an edited clip from a recent interview in which Gantz stuttered several times and another clip that repeatedly zooms in on his eyes with an accompanying horror movie soundtrack, apparently trying to convey that he has a crazed look.
“Completely stable,” read the caption.
יציב לחלוטין pic.twitter.com/vsUeToC5kA
— הליכוד (@Likud_Party) March 25, 2019
In the recording, of which Channel 13 played excerpts only, Gantz concedes the Iranians could have been behind the hack, but then immediately pivots to present a different theory, blaming Netanyahu.
“OK, if it’s not the enemy, then who did it? It’s the opponents. If it’s the opponents, how are they doing it? In one of two ways,” Gantz postulates. “One possibility is that they hired private people who carry out these sorts of cyber activities. A second possibility, which suits Bibi — even though I don’t see this as a very high probability — is that he activated the Russians to interfere in the elections,” he says, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.
The Likud party denied these allegations, telling Channel 13 that “Benny Gantz has lost it.”
“After he accused the prime minister of treason against the state [in relation to a German deal to sell submarines to Egypt], he now accused the prime minister of sending people to murder him,” the statement said. “If Benny Gantz is showing signs of advanced paranoia after two weeks of pressure during the election campaign after his phone was hacked, how can he run the country?”
In the recording, Gantz can also be heard taking a swipe at Netanyahu’s legal woes and at his wife Sara’s domineering reputation.
“That man knows he is going to prison, he knows he is in prison no matter what,” Gantz says. “If he finished his term as prime minister he is going to prison. If he doesn’t go to trial, and doesn’t go to prison, he will be with Sara, and so he stays in prison. The only place he is a free man is when he is in his office.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his wife Sara, speaking to reporters before flying to Washington early on March 24, 2019. Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
Netanyahu is to be charged with fraud and breach of trust in three separate corruption cases, and bribery in one of them, unless he can persuade the attorney general to reconsider in a hearing process set for this summer.
This is not the first time that recordings have surfaced from Gantz’s meetings with supporters behind closed doors. Recently he was heard saying that he hadn’t ruled out Netanyahu as a possible coalition partner, contradicting his public statements.
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Amid Gaza tensions, rocket sirens in south go off in false alarm
Activation of warning systems comes after pair of projectiles were fired at Israel from the Palestinian enclave on Friday evening
Corbyn allies lash Labour deputy chief for criticizing response to anti-Semitism
General Secretary Jennie Formby, who is alleged to have interfered in party probes of anti-Semitism, accuses Tom Watson of ‘traducing’ her reputation as she undergoes chemotherapy
UK Labour in turmoil over new anti-Semitism claims in BBC exposé
Ex-Labour officials say Corbyn and top aides meddled in anti-Semitism probes
US weighing how to punish ally Turkey over Russian S-400 deal
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Avalik loeng
Pop-Up Seminar: One Health, One Welfare – the Importance of Research, Education, and Cooperation
Narva mnt 29, Tallinn University, room (A222)
School of Natural Sciences and Health welcomes you to take part of pop-up seminar dedicated to human-animal interactions in modern society. Relationship between people and animals is influenced by behaviors essential to the health and wellbeing of both. This includes, among other things, emotional, psychological, and physical interactions of people, animals, and the environment. Join us for talks about up-to-date concepts, research and experiences in the field.
Time: 14 June 2018, 10.00 – 14.00
Location: Tallinn University
Address: Narva mnt 29, 10120 Tallinn
Room: Euroopa saal - A222
Attendance: FREE
Pre-registration necessary
10:00 Opening words
Rector of Tallinn Univesity Professor Tiit Land and Dr. Marie-José Enders-Slegers, President of IAHAIO
Human-Animal Interactions today, an overview
Dr. Marie-José Enders-Slegers, President of The International Association of Human-Animal Interaction Organizations (IAHAIO)
Measuring welfare in animal assisted interventions
Tynke de Winkel
Importance of education, standards and co-operation
Dr. Anne McBride
The LINK between animal cruelty, domestic violence, elder abuse, child abuse, and other forms of interpersonal violence.
Dr. Marie-José Enders-Slegers
Experience in Sweden making the LINK
Nathalie Nordén
One Health. One Welfare
Dr. Elizabeth Ormerod
Seminar will be held in English*
The organisers retain the right to make changes to the schedule*
Dr Marie-Jose Enders-Slegers
Dr Marie-Jose Enders-Slegers is president of IAHIO (International Association of Human Animal Interaction Organizations). Marie-Jose Enders-Slegers, PhD has been Professor in Anthrozoology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Open University in Heerlen, the Netherlands, since June 2013.
Her research is focused on the development of human animal relations and the meaning of human-animal interactions for vulnerable people (e.g. elderly, demented elderly, traumatized children, mentally handicapped people, children with psychiatric disorders, autistic children, and psychiatric patients) and on the link between domestic violence and animal abuse.
Drs Tynke de Winkel
Drs Tynke de Winkel is a researcher at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Open University in the Netherlands, at the department of Anthrozoology. Her research focuses on the measurement of animal well-being in AAI and on designing online educational programs for practitioners in AAI.
Dr Anne McBride
Dr Anne McBride holds a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Psychology awarded by University College London in 1978. She was awarded her Doctorate in animal behaviour (Aspects of Social and Parental Behaviour in the European Rabbit) from the same institution in 1986. In 1992 she obtained a Certificate in Conservation and Ecology from Birkbeck College, London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Anne has been a practising animal behaviour therapist since 1987 and was the senior behaviour counsellor at the Animal Behaviour Clinic at the University of Southampton which ran from 1998-2009. She is a member of the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors and has lectured, internationally, on various aspects of animal behaviour and the human-animal bond. She has also written on the same topics. She ran puppy socialisation and pet dog training classes in London from 1989 to 1998. She has and continues to work and train domestic pets, exotic species, zoo and farm animals.
She is a member of the Training Working Group and of the Ethics Committee at Marwell Zoological park
She is Chair of the Programme Recognition Committee of the Animal Behaviour and Training Council (ABTC)
She represents the ABTC on the governmental advisory body The Canine and Feline Sector Group and on the current BSI committee working on European standards for Assistance Dog trainers, on the APGAW Livestock Chasing group and with the Department for Work and Pensions on the Public Access for Assistance Dogs.
2018: Honorary Member of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association for her services to the veterinary profession
2014: Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Veterinary Science at the University of Nottingham.
2013: Honorary member of the British Veterinary Nursing Association
2005: Patron of the Rabbit Welfare Fund.
2005: Honorary member of ASETRA – the Italian Veterinary Behaviour Association.
2004: Honorary member of the UK Registry of Canine Behaviourists.(now The Canine Behaviour and Training Society)
In 2003: Honorary Teacher at the University of Bristol Veterinary School.
In 2001: Honorary Fellowship of Myerscough College, University of Central Lancashire for her contribution to the field of pet behaviour.
Nathalie Nordén is a biologist with an education in animal welfare, ethology and veterinary medicine. She is a project manager in a project creating guidelines for veterinarians in how to recognize and how to act when they encounter animal welfare problems and possible domestic abuse and child abuse. She is the chairman of an organisation running a housing program for pets when their owners need to stay in domestic violence shelters.
Nathalie will describe the progress in implementing the LINK during the last ten years in Sweden, where the country is now and what are the plans for this and next year. The talk will include an analysis of the problematic areas of Swedish legislation, funding-problems, different work by different NGOs and corporations as well as how the government handles the different aspects of the problem. Also included is information about cross-reporting and education of different professions in Sweden in the link of violence and tips on how to run a fostering program for pets.
Dr Elizabeth Ormerod
Dr Elizabeth Ormerod BVMS MRCVS is a Churchill Fellow, Elizabeth has travelled widely to visit model AAI programmes. Elizabeth is a Vice President of IAHAIO; a director of SCAS; co-founder and Vice President of Canine Partners and a visiting lecturer to veterinary schools. She was awarded the inaugural International William F McCulloch Award for excellence in human-animal interaction practice.
Small Animal House Physician Elizabeth was responsible for Glasgow University's charity veterinary clinic during which period she became attuned to the significance of companion animals in the lives of vulnerable people. With multidisciplinary collaboration she developed outreach programmes, delivering Animal Assisted Intervention (AAI) programmes to schools, nursing homes, hospitals, sheltered housing and prisons.
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Scottish Government launches consultation on UNCRC incorporation
Date: 22nd May 2019
Category: Incorporation
We warmly welcome the launch of the Scottish Government’s consultation on the incorporation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law. We particularly welcome the clear commitment that legislation is delivered within this parliamentary session and agree with the Scottish Government that incorporation has the potential to transform the experience of children, young people and their families across Scotland.
Access the Scottish Government’s UNCRC incorporation consultation here.
The Scottish Government’s commitment to incorporate the UNCRC follows from years of work by children and young people, Together members, the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland and many others. Most recently, this has culminated in a draft Children’s Rights (Scotland) Bill, written by an independent advisory group of international legal experts convened by Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights) and the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland.
Find out more about the draft Children’s Rights (Scotland) Bill here.
The draft Children’s Rights (Scotland) Bill – referred to in the Scottish Government’s consultation – provides a strong foundation from which a ‘gold standard’ for upholding children’s human rights in Scotland can be developed. In line with the questions raised in the Scottish Government’s consultation, the draft bill sets out:
legal mechanisms for incorporating the UNCRC into domestic law;
processes needed to embed children’s rights into public services;
structures that must be in place to ensure that legislation, policy and practice is compatible with the UNCRC;
options for redress if children’s human rights are violated.
Recognising that incorporation is often seen as a technical legal exercise, we have worked with our members to set out why we think incorporation is important. Throughout May, we have been publishing a series of #RightTime case studies that explore specific children’s rights issues - including poverty, mental health, juvenile justice and even Brexit. Through the case studies, we show how we believe incorporation will make a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families who are affected by these issues.
Read our #RightTime incorporation blogs here.
In the coming weeks, Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights) will produce an initial briefing to support our members to respond to the Scottish Government’s consultation. We also hope to hold a number of engagement events over the summer to inform our response to the consultation. We hope that as many of our members as possible can get involved and support this work!
If you would like to be involved in our UNCRC incorporation work, please contact Kirndeep (kirndeep@togetherscotland.org.uk)
Together is an alliance of Scottish children's charities that improves the awareness, understanding and implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We do this by: promoting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; helping children's organisations to integrate the Convention into their work; monitoring and reporting on the progress made at a Scottish, UK and UN level.
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Pinks, Purples, Greens, Blues and Cold
Scholars, Bias, and the New World Translation
Snake Handling in Worship....You Can't be too Careful
Some things you don't forget.
Like that time I was doing magazine work with Tom Pearlsenswine. He was new then, and deadly serious. This was back when the magazines had no pictures on the cover - back when there was only a list of the articles within, like Craigslist. We were working with the issue about Snake Handling in Worship - that article had top billing. Now, in all fairness to Pearlsenswine, how do you offer an article about snake handling in worship?
"Sir, we are speaking with our neighbors about the alarming practice of snake handling in worship," he led off.
“I don't think we have to worry about that here," the householder quite sensibly replied.
Soberly and deliberately, Pearlsenswine answered: "You can't be too careful."
No, you can't. The article Tom offered focused on that verse in the last chapter of Mark, really the only verse you could have written such an article from:
Furthermore, these signs will accompany those believing: By the use of my name [Jesus] they will expel demons, they will speak with tongues, and with their hands they will pick up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly it will not hurt them at all. They will lay their hands upon sick persons, and these will become well.” Mark 16:17,18
It’s an odd verse, to say the least. You mean we have to carry snakes and Draino with us, in case anyone wants proof of discipleship? I mean - use of God's name, obedience to the Christ, proclaim God's Kingdom, love and unity among selves, no part of the world - yes, all these things we hear about as earmarks of discipleship. But snake handling? Drinking poison? It doesn't really fit the pattern, does it? You can't quite imagine Jesus saying it.
Further, the New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967) notes that "it's vocabulary and style differ so radically from the rest of the gospel, that it hardly seems possible Mark himself composed it," - that is, verses 9-20, not just verses 17-18. Of course, the King James Bible of 1611 uncritically runs all verses, but not so newer translations - translations which, counter-intuitively, are generally more accurate, since they reap the benefits of archeological progress - that is, the discovery through the years of more ancient manuscripts. And the most ancient manuscripts are without verses 9-20.
The New International Version, wishing to spare its readers boring details, inserts just before verse 9, the phrase "the most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have Mark 16:9-20." That's further than most translations go. The Revised Standard Version, wishing to step upon nobody's toes, states: "Some of the most ancient authorities bring the book to a close at the end of verse 8. One authority concluded the book by adding after verse 8 the following: [text supplied]....Other authorities include the preceding passage and continue with verses 9-20. In most authorities verses 9-20 follow immediately after verse 8; a few authorities insert additional material after verse 14."
They're all "authorities!" No attempt is made to distinquish the windbags from the knowledgeable. Choose whichever you like. All roads lead to heaven. It’s the classic milquetoast take-no-stand approach.
The New World Translation is more helpful. It lists (through abbreviations - the key to which is provided in the preface) just which "authorities" (manuscripts and versions) contain the passage and which do not. If you're a student of the Bible, and not just one willing to be talked down to with drivel about "authorities," this information is crucial. You can do research. And you will find that the manuscripts not including the verses are more ancient than the ones that do. Bible translator Jerome, in the fifth century, said that "almost all the Greek codices [are] without this passage."
And yet, it's not such an obvious fraud as the more cleverly written insertion at 1 John 5:7 that explicitly states the Trinity. That insertion appears in no manuscript before the sixth century CE. Since its only effect is to plainly state a doctrine not plainly stated anywhere else, it's hard not to conclude that it was stuck in for that purpose by some Trinitarian translator getting madder and madder in the course of his work that his favorite dogma is not really in the Bible, so he determines to slip it in himself.
Yet, if Jerome, in the fifth century, said almost all Greek codices were without the extra verses of Mark, that means that some included it. So few translations pull the verses entirely (as many do with the 'trinity' insertion); instead, they footnote it.
It’s not real clear just why extra verses would have been added to Mark, but you might get some idea through reading that last chapter. It ends very abruptly, so maybe you can picture some scribe, who likes tidy endings, figuring he might "flesh it out" a little. Maybe he thought there actually had been an ending which, somehow, got lost, so he figured he himself would rise to the occasion. You’re not really supposed to do that, but perhaps it is understandable.
Mark’s style is abrupt. There’s strict economy of words. Not chatty at all. It lends that gospel a peculiar power, even an urgency. For example:
And on that day, when evening had fallen, he said to them: “Let us cross to the other shore.” So, after they had dismissed the crowd, they took him in the boat, just as he was, and there were other boats with him. Now a great violent windstorm broke out, and the waves kept dashing into the boat, so that the boat was close to being swamped. But he was in the stern, sleeping upon a pillow. So they woke him up and said to him: “Teacher, do you not care that we are about to perish?” With that he roused himself and rebuked the wind and said to the sea: “Hush! Be quiet!” And the wind abated, and a great calm set in. So he said to them: “Why are you fainthearted? Do you not yet have any faith?” But they felt an unusual fear, and they would say to one another: “Who really is this, because even the wind and the sea obey him?” Mark 4:37-41
Much more gripping than Luke’s account, found at Luke 8:22
Note, too, Luke’s account of a woman seeking help from Jesus:
And a woman, subject to a flow of blood for twelve years, who had not been able to get a cure from anyone, approached from behind and touched the fringe of his outer garment, and instantly her flow of blood stopped. Luke 8:43-44
Luke, it must be pointed out, was a doctor. But Mark wasn’t, and apparently had little patience with the breed. His description of the poor woman is that "she had been put to many pains by many physicians and had spent all her resources and had not been benefited but, rather, had got worse."
Pop would approve.
So snakes are not necessary in one‘s book bag. This is very good news and makes it likelier that Indiana Jones may someday become a Witness. He does, after all, know God's name.
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Elon Musk on why you should unschool your children [video]
Elon Musk has built an alternative school for his children without grades as he does not trust his children’s brains in the hands of the government. Would you ever consider unschooling your children?
by TheSouthAfrican Staff & Agencies
Inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk explained in a recent interview that he built an alternative school for his children and went on to describe the process of “unschooling” that his children are involved with. Musk is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and chairman of SolarCity. He is also the founder of SpaceX and a co-founder of PayPal.
Musk has revealed in the past that his own experience in public school was horrible, riddled with both bullying and lessons that were neither valuable nor interesting. Instead of forcing his children to endure a similar experience Musk has built them a school without grades and that takes a radically different “unschooling” type approach to learning.
“I didn’t see the regular schools doing the things I thought should be done,” Musk said.
Here’s what Musk has to say in an interview for Chinese Television:
According to Wikipedia:
Unschooling is an educational method and philosophy that advocates learner-chosen activities as a primary means for learning. Unschooling students learn through their natural life experiences including play, household responsibilities, personal interests and curiosity, internships and work experience, travel, books, elective classes, family, mentors, and social interaction. Unschooling encourages exploration of activities initiated by the children themselves, believing that the most personal learning is, the more meaningful, well-understood and, therefore, useful it is to the child. While courses may occasionally be taken, unschooling questions the usefulness of standard curricula, conventional grading methods, and other features of traditional schooling in the education of each unique child.
The term “unschooling” was coined in the 1970s and used by educator John Holt, widely regarded as the “father” of unschooling. While often considered a subset of homeschooling, unschoolers may be as philosophically separate from other homeschoolers as they are from advocates of conventional schooling. While homeschooling has been subject to widespread public debate, little media attention has been given to unschooling in particular. Critics of unschooling see it as an extreme educational philosophy, with concerns that unschooled children will lack the social skills, structure, and motivation of their schooled peers, while proponents of unschooling say exactly the opposite is true: self-directed education in a natural environment better equips a child to handle the “real world”.
In the interview, Musk’s description of his school seemed to match up perfect with this philosophy.
“Some people love English or languages. Some people love math. Some people love music. Different abilities, different times. It makes more sense to cater the education to match their aptitudes and abilities,” he said.
He went on to explain how hands-on experience is more important than making children memorize and regurgitate answers to questions.
“It’s important to teach problem-solving, or teach to the problem and not the tools. Let’s say you’re trying to teach people about how engines work. A more traditional approach would be saying, ‘we’re going to teach all about screwdrivers and wrenches.’ This is a very difficult way to do it,” he said.
Musk then explained that it is better to actually let them take apart an engine, in real life, and figure it out for themselves.
“How are we going to take it apart? You need a screwdriver. That’s what the screwdriver is for. And then a very important thing happens: The relevance of the tools becomes apparent,” he said.
If one of the most brilliant inventors and entrepreneurs in the world doesn’t trust his children’s brains in the hands of the government, maybe you should reconsider you choices if you currently have children in public school.
Words by John Vibe
This article originally appeared on TrueActivist.com
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It’s understood that police have regained control of the situation but that the area still remained volatile on Thursday morning.
Netball World Cup: South Africa beats Uganda, heads into semifinals
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Mum beat child with belt and sticks - court told
Pippa Chambers
BEATEN with wooden sticks, spoons and a belt - punishments one Weston 10-year-old girl allegedly endured at the hands of her mother, a court heard.
The mum, who cannot be named to protect the child’s identity, appeared at North Somerset Courthouse last week charged with assault and ill neglect of a child.
The schoolgirl said she had been abused by her mother and another relative over a period of years.
She said the assaults happened after she failed to do her chores properly.
The court heard that the girl had allegedly been whacked with a hairbrush, hit across the face with a belt and whipped with a phone charger cable after failing to dress her younger sibling in the correct order.
Alison Longhorn, prosecuting, said: “The girl said she was told to do the washing up, but as she didn’t do it properly she was hit with a spoon.
“On another occasion she said her mother took a black belt and hit her across the face with it.
“She said her mother keeps the belt under her pillow for smacking and that on average she and her sibling are hit at least once a day or every other day.”
The girl said she is expected to do chores around the house, and is often hit with wooden sticks. She also told police she was once dragged out of her bed and beaten.
After being struck with various makeshift weapons, she said she then had to put her hands in cold water to ease the pain.
No plea was entered by the woman, who lives in Weston town centre, and her case is expected to be committed to Bristol Crown Court in July.
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James Wan Offers ‘Aquaman’ Sneak Peek at CinemaCon 2017
CinemaCon 2017: Jason Momoa will head to Australia to start shooting DC Films project on Wednesday night
Beatrice Verhoeven | March 29, 2017 @ 6:09 PM
“Aquaman” director James Wan offered a first glimpse of concept images for his upcoming DC film at the annual CinemaCon convention on Wednesday night, exciting fans by telling them he and Jason Momoa are heading to Australia to start production following the presentation.
“Jason Momoa is larger than life and is the perfect embodiment of what Aquaman is,” Wan told audiences in Las Vegas, adding that this movie will be somewhat an origin story, given that he will have audiences explore Atlantis when Aquaman does for the first time.
Wan is directing the movie, which features Momoa in the title role. Momoa first appeared as Aquaman in Warner Bros.’ “Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice.”
Also Read: Warner Bros Pushes 'Aquaman' to Christmas 2018
“Aquaman” also features Amber Heard, Patrick Wilson, Nicole Kidman and Willem Dafoe, who plays Aquaman’s adviser, Dr. Vulko. Momoa and Heard, who plays his love interest, will appear in November’s “Justice League” alongside Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot and Henry Cavill in November of next year. Warner Bros.’ DC imprint is also releasing “Wonder Woman,” starring Gadot, in May.
“Gangster Squad” screenwriter Will Beal wrote the screenplay for “Aquaman” based off a treatment by Geoff Johns and Wan. Geoff Johns, Jon Berg, Zack Snyder and Deborah Snyder are producing the film.
“Aquaman” will hit theaters on December 21, 2018.
The Evolution of Aquaman's Nemesis, Black Manta (Photos)
TheWrap's Umberto Gonzalez has confirmed that Aquaman's solo film in the DC Cinematic Universe will see the protector of the seas take on his most bitter archenemy, Black Manta. Over the past 50 years, Manta has evolved from campy '60s bad guy to a bitter, violent villain on par with the ones Superman and Batman face on a regularly basis. Here's a look at Black Manta through the decades.
Black Manta made his debut in DC Comics back in 1967. For his first act as a supervillain, he unleashed a devastating attack on Atlantis while taking Aquaman's child hostage.
Shortly after his debut, Black Manta became a main villain on "The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure," which helped make his ovular helmet an iconic image among DC's pantheon of villains. Manta later appeared in other DC Cartoons in the 60s and 70s, including the "Super Friends" series.
For much of his early run, Manta's goals and motivations weren't fleshed out much. In the late '70s, DC revealed Black Manta's face beneath the helmet, at which point he declared that his grand scheme was to have black people rule the oceans. For reasons that should be obvious, this plot line was abandoned shortly thereafter.
In the '90s, he was given a more fleshed out origin story, depicting Manta as a boy who was forced to work on a ship by an abusive crew that kidnapped him. When Aquaman did not hear his cries for help while passing by, Manta took matters into his own hands and killed the crew. From that day forth, he saw the ocean as a cruel, emotionless place and hated Aquaman for ignoring him.
For a time, DC shelved Black Manta after the original Aquaman was killed in the event comic series "Blackest Night." When Aquaman was resurrected in the sequel series, "Brightest Day," it was shown that Black Manta had given up his life of crime and was working at a fish market. Aquaman's return, however, is enough to get him to kill everyone in the store before returning to the ocean to renew his vendetta.
"Brightest Day" also revealed that Aquaman's sidekick, Aqualad, was Manta's son. Manta attempted to crush Aqualad for siding with his nemesis, declaring that his son meant nothing to him. With the help of Aquaman and his adoptive father, Aqualad was able to prevail.
In 2012, Black Manta was given a new origin following DC's "New 52" reboot. In this timeline, Manta was a diver who tried to capture Aquaman before he became a famous hero in an attempt to become rich and famous. In the process, he accidentally killed a lighthouse operator, and Aquaman in turn killed the diver's father thinking he was the killer. The Diver then created the Black Manta suit to kill Aquaman.
Aquaman has also made a return to DC animation, appearing as a recurring villain in "Young Justice" and the lighthearted "Batman: The Brave and the Bold."
Now Black Manta will appear in the DC Cinematic Universe to take on Jason Momoa's Aquaman in the hero's solo film coming in 2018. No word yet on whether the DCCU will use an origin story from the comics or make a brand new one.
A look at Black Manta’s road to the upcoming DC live action movie, from a campy ’60s bad guy to a bitter, violent villain
Report From CinemaCon
TheWrap reports from Las Vegas' annual film exhibition trade show where studios present their biggest and best to theater owners
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Whole Foods Is Paying $500,000 to Settle That Overpricing Scandal
A little over six months after NYC's Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) accused Whole Foods of "systemic" overcharging of customers for pre-packaged foods, the organic grocery chain said it has agreed to pay the city $500,000 in a settlement, so it can finally tuck the scandal away in the brown paper bag of history.
In an statement, Whole Foods said, "While WFM refused to consider the DCA’s initial demands of $1.5 million, we agreed to $500,000 in order to put this issue behind us so that we can continue to focus our attention on providing our New York City customers with the highest level of quality and service."
Along with the hefty fine, the company has also agreed to carry out quarterly in-store price audits of at least 50 products from 10 different departments at all of its NYC stores, and to create new policies and trainings for all of its store employees in the city to ensure products are weighed, labeled, and priced accurately. Additionally, should DCA inspectors discover products that are mislabeled, Whole Foods will be required to remove the products and conduct an additional pricing audit within 15 days, according to a press release from the city agency.
But Whole Foods fired back, saying it already implemented procedures to ensure customers are not overcharged.
"Unfortunately the DCA has misrepresented this agreement," the company stated. "WFM has had in place preexisting pricing and weights/measures programs including a third party auditing and training program and a 100 percent pricing accuracy guarantee that gives customers a full refund on any item inadvertently mispriced. These are pre-existing programs that go above and beyond the DCA’s requirements."
In the weeks following the damning charges this summer, Whole Foods' co-CEOs Walter Robb and John Mackey finally came out and apologized to customers who were overcharged, saying, "Straight up: We made some mistakes, we want to own that, and tell you what we’re doing about it... Sometimes the mistakes are both in the customer’s favor, and sometimes not in the customer’s favor."
While the settlement ends the DCA's investigation, the agency said it will continue to hold Whole Foods -- and other businesses in the city -- accountable.
“After discovering the troubling and repeated mislabeling of pre-packaged goods at Whole Foods last year, we are happy to have reached an agreement with Whole Foods that will help to ensure New Yorkers are better protected from overcharging,” said DCA Commissioner Julie Menin in a press release. “Whether it’s a bodega in the Bronx or a national grocery store in Manhattan, we believe every business needs to treat its customers fairly and, with this agreement, we hope Whole Foods will deliver on its promise to its customers to correct their mistakes."
Tony Merevick is Cities News Editor at Thrillist and, relatedly, needs to go grocery shopping because his fridge is empty. Send news tips to news@thrillist.com and follow him on Twitter @tonymerevick.
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This Pizza Is so Spicy Only 12 People Have Finished It
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Bono Discharged from Hospital
Bono has now been discharged from Ludwig Maximilians-University (LMU) Hospital in Munich where he underwent emergency surgery on Friday, following a back injury. In order to fully recover, he is under doctor's orders to start a rehabilitation program and to recuperate for at least eight weeks.
Dr Muller Wohlfahrt confirmed, 'Bono suffered severe compression of the sciatic nerve. On review of his MRI scan, I realized there was a serious tear in the ligament and a herniated disc, and that conservative treatment would not suffice. I recommended Bono have emergency spine surgery with Professor Tonn at Munich's LMU University Hospital on Friday.'
Professor Tonn, who carried out the operation, added, 'Bono was referred to me by Dr Muller Wohlfahrt late last week with a sudden onset disease. He was already in severe pain with partial paralysis in the lower leg. The ligament surrounding the disc had an 8mm tear and during surgery we discovered fragments of the disc had traveled into the spinal canal. This surgery was the only course of treatment for full recovery and to avoid further paralysis. Bono is now much better, with complete recovery of his motor deficit. The prognosis is excellent but to obtain a sustainable result, he must now enter a period of rehabilitation'.
Dr Muller Wohlfahrt continued, 'We are treating Bono as we would treat any of our athletes and while the surgery has gone very well, the coming weeks are crucial for a return to full health. In the next days, he will start a light rehabilitation program, with increasing intensity over the next 8 weeks. In our experience, this is the minimum time.'
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The band will play the National Stadium in Singapore on Saturday 30 November. U2.com Presales open 17 June.
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Second shows for Auckland and Sydney. U2.com presales from Thursday.
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Amusement Park Association Moves HQ To Orlando; Plans To Hold IAAPA Attractions Expo There Through 2030
by Nick Montano
TAGS: Teresa Jacobs, Orlando mayor, International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, IAAP Attractions Expo
Teresa Jacobs
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions' board of directors has announced that it will relocate its global headquarters from Alexandria, VA, to Orlando, FL. The move is tentatively planned for 2017. The board, which met in conjunction with the association's Euro Attractions Show in Barcelona in late September, also announced that the association plans to host the annual IAAPA Attractions Expo at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando through 2030.
This year's IAAPA Attractions Expo is underway now, and closes on Friday, Nov. 18, at 4 p.m.
The move from Alexandria and the convention contract extension are contingent upon support from the state of Florida and Orange County. Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs traveled to Barcelona to answer questions from IAAPA board members about the region, and to outline the county's interest in bringing the headquarters to Orlando and discuss the exposition extension.
"In addition to the obvious synergy with our world-class theme park and entertainment industries, the addition of another national association headquarters unit is tremendously important," Jacobs said.
Orlando has become the global epicenter of the theme park and attractions industry. It is home to world-renowned theme parks like Legoland Florida, SeaWorld Orlando, Universal Orlando Resort and Walt Disney World, and such best-in-class entertainment centers as Fun Spot, Ripley's Entertainment and Dave & Buster's. Additionally, many of the industry's leading manufacturers and suppliers have a presence in the region.
The central Florida location is expected to make it easier for IAAPA members from around the world to connect with each other and IAAPA's staff when they travel to the region to meet with industry suppliers and to review industry innovations at Florida's attractions. As IAAPA's staffing needs grow, the move will also facilitate the association's ability to recruit candidates with industry experience, the association explained.
"IAAPA is the global organization that supports and connects attractions industry professionals from around the world, and although we've done so successfully for almost 100 years, it's now time to look ahead and form our vision for the next 100 years," said association chairman John McReynolds, senior vice-president of external affairs for Universal Parks and Resorts. "I cannot think of a better place to build our future than in Orlando, the theme park and attractions capital of the world."
IAAPA has held many of its conferences and shows at the Orange County Convention Center over the years, and has done so annually since 2010. It previously committed to host the event in Orlando through 2025. That agreement will now be extended for five additional years through 2030. The weeklong event brings 30,000 people to the region and generates an estimated $51.3 million for the Orlando-area economy each year. The economic impact of the 20-year agreement will exceed $1 billion.
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“Vesta Rowing Club, Headquarters, the “Horn” Tavern, Knightrider-street. Established in 1871. Election by ballot of members, one black ball in three to exclude. Entrance fee, 5s.; Subscription, £1 10s.; honorary members, 10s. 6d. Colours, crimson and black stripes oblique. Boat-house, Unity Boat-house, Putney”.
—Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens’s Dictionary of the Thames, 1881
A short(ish) history of Vesta Rowing Club
Vesta Rowing Club was founded in 1870. Legend has it that during the inaugural meeting the name of the club was discussed and as no decision could be made it was decided that it should be named after the first boat to pass under London Bridge. The name of that first boat (a steam tug) to pass under the bridge was Vesta.
The Feathers where Vesta Rowing Club originally boated
The club’s first home was Salters Boathouse which was a part of Feathers Pub on the river Wandle which flows into the Thames just up river from Wandsworth Bridge. In 1875 the club moved to the Unity boathouse (now the Ranelagh Sailing Club) and from there to its present clubhouse next door in 1890.
Putney Embankment 1878 (with no road, but I think the lamppost is still there)
To begin with the Vesta only raced in-house. The club’s first known entry in an open race coming in 1876. The first open win came that year with J. Whaley winning the Junior Sculls at Windsor and Eton Regatta. The first sweep oared win did not come until 1888 and that was a Junior Senior IV at Walton Regatta.
From that date onwards Vesta had increasing success on the water not the least of which included Harry Blackstaff’s double victory in the Diamond sculls at Henley Royal Regatta and the Wingfield Sculls on the Thames in 1906.
Harry Blackstaffe winning Olympic gold in 1908
In 1908 Blackstaff won the gold medal at that year’s Olympic Games sculling race which took place at Henley-on-Thames.
The club practically ceased functioning during the Great War of 1914-18 only being kept alive through the activities of some of its older members and those on leave from the front who occasionally rowed. There were 214 paid up members of Vesta in 1914. 78 joined up of whom 12 made the ultimate sacrifice and gave their lives in that struggle. Read more about Vesta RC during World War I.
VRC Boat House in 1920. It doesn’t look that different!
In 1920 the club lost in the final of the Wyfold IVs at Henley Royal Regatta. It was the club’s first finals day appearance at that august regatta in a sweep-oared boat. In 1930 the club finally had success in this class of boat at the Regatta winning the Thames Challenge Cup for club VIIIs.
In December 1936 a fire ripped through the clubhouse destroying many of its records and trophies, and damaging or destroying some 30 boats. Fortune however shined on Vesta after this blaze as most of the boats were replaced in time for the summer regattas and with the club been given permission to borrow and use the recently built but as yet unused University of London Boat House in Chiswick until such time as the damage to its own club house had been repaired. That summer Eric Wingate and David Baddeley went on to win the Silver Goblets & Nichols Challenge Cup for the club at Henley Regatta.
During the Second World War the London Fire Brigade requisitioned Vesta’s clubhouse for the duration of the hostilities. Rowing however continued as Barclays Bank Rowing Club allowed Vesta to operate out of its premises further along the Embankment. Seven pre-war members of the club did not return from that conflict.
The Vesta clubhouse was reoccupied in 1946 but it was not until 1947 that the club returned to its winning ways when a lightweight VIII won the lightweight pennant at the Tideway Head of the River. In 1954 John Marsden rowing for the club won the first ever Scullers Head of the River Race.
In 1960 the club’s coxless IV won at Twickenham, Marlow, Kingston and as favourites, won through to the final at Henley regatta losing to St. Thomas’ Hospital. In 1976 the first VIII won the Grand Challenge Cup at Marlow Regatta. A coxless IV made up of rowers from this crew won a silver medal in that year’s national championships.
In 1981 the club returned to winning ways at Henley Regatta with the club’s coxed IV winning the Britannia Cup. The club’s highest ever finish in the VIIIs Head of the River was recorded in 1986 when the club’s first VIII finished sixth overall, winning the Vernon Trophy as the fastest Tideway crew. In 1985 Ian Dryden, representing Vesta rowed in a composite crew that won the Queen Mother Challenge Cup.
March 1994 was a notable year for the club. The club’s official historian proudly states that chauvinism died at the club that year, when at an EGM (most) members voted to allow women join as full members. With time success followed. The club won Senior VIIIs and lightweight Sculls at Henley Women’s Regatta in 2004. The women’s senior squad repeated this victory in 2010 when they again won Senior VIIIs at that regatta and competed on Saturday at Henley Royal Regatta.
In 2009 bridging a many year gap a men’s coxed IV once more made an appearance on the final day at Henley regatta. Against the odds and rowing stronger with each outing this unseeded crew lost by under a length in the final of the Britannia Challenge Cup to Agecroft RC.
In 2014 Vesta won the Horton Cup for Senior coxless fours at the Metropolitan Regatta and raced through to Saturday of Henley Royal Regatta.
Vesta Rowing Club (right) are pictured racing against Germany’s Ruder Tennis Hockey Club Bayer Leverkusen (left) in the Britannia cup challenge at Henley Royal Regatta 2014
Vesta has run many annual competitions down through the years. The club first started doing this in 1912. In 1923 the Vesta Dashes, which were a mid-summer short course competition run over three evenings, were instigated. As already stated in 1954 the club founded the Scullers’ Head of the River race. A notable achievement in that first race was that a Vesta competitor came both first and last! In 1981 Vesta organised the first Veterans’ Head of the River Race when then main VIIIs Head race stopped taking Veteran entries. This race is now one of the largest head races that takes place on the tidal Thames with competitors and crews coming from across the UK and abroad to participate.
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University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point > University Communications and Marketing > News Releases and Events > UW-Stevens Point proposes adding, cutting programs to prepare for future
UW-Stevens Point proposes adding, cutting programs to prepare for future
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point outlined a plan today to address fiscal challenges by shifting resources to invest in areas with growth potential.
UW-Stevens Point faces a deficit of $4.5 million over two years because of declining enrollment and lower tuition revenues. It proposes adding or expanding 16 programs in areas with high-demand career paths as a way to maintain and increase enrollment.
To fund this future investment, resources would be shifted from programs with lower enrollment, primarily in the traditional humanities and social sciences. Although some majors are proposed to be eliminated, courses would continue to be taught in these fields, and minors or certificates will be offered.
This repositioning is necessary because of declining financial resources, demographic changes with fewer students in K-12 schools and rising competition among public and private universities, said Greg Summers, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. A significant increase in graduation rates recently has also contributed to overall enrollment declines.
A broad, liberal arts education continues to be critical, UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Bernie Patterson said in messages to students, faculty and staff today. "Importantly, we remain committed to ensuring every student who graduates from UW-Stevens Point is thoroughly grounded in the liberal arts, as well as prepared for a successful career path. It is critical our students learn to communicate well, solve problems, think critically and creatively, be analytical and innovative, and work well in teams. This is the value of earning a bachelor's degree."
UW-Stevens Point proposes expanding academic programs that have demonstrated value and demand in the region, including:
Conservation Law Enforcement
These programs have existed as options and would expand to majors. In addition, new bachelor's (or advanced) degree programs are proposed in:
Aquaculture/Aquaponics
Captive Wildlife
Ecosystem Design and Remediation
Master of Natural Resources
The recommendations recognize a growing preference among students for majors with clear career pathways, Summers said. "UW-Stevens Point is committed to strengthening our academic offerings while improving our liberal arts core to ensure students graduate with the knowledge and skills they will need to be successful in the future."
To create programs that meet the evolving needs of students, UW-Stevens Point proposes shifting resources from programs where fewer students are enrolled. Discontinuing the following programs is recommended:
Art - Graphic Design will continue as a distinct major
English - English for teacher certification will continue
History - Social Science for teacher certification will continue
Music Literature
Sociology -- Social Work major will continue
Students enrolled in any major that is eventually discontinued will have the opportunity to complete their degrees. This includes students who enroll in fall 2018. Courses would continue to be taught in these fields. Minors in English, Art, History and Philosophy are among those continuing.
Additional programs in humanities and social sciences that have clear career pathways will provide opportunities to major in liberal arts fields, Summers said.
The proposal to discontinue programs must be reviewed by a campus governance committee, then the chancellor and UW System Board of Regents. Because possible program elimination may result in the layoff of some tenured faculty members, a new UW Board of Regents policy will be followed. This process is expected to begin in August. If a reduction in tenured faculty positions is recommended, cuts would occur no sooner than June 2020.
Summers described program discontinuation as difficult, painful and necessary. "If we accept the need for change, and we confront and solve the financial issues currently facing the institution, we can create a new identity for the regional public university. UW-Stevens Point can move forward with fiscal stability, new opportunities to build programs and grow enrollment, and renewed capacity to improve our service to the students and communities of central and northern Wisconsin, which are complex, diverse and ever changing."
Admissions; CPS; COLS; CNR; COFAC; Chancellor; Sustainable
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Sarah Hyland says self-care helps her mental health
Sarah Hyland explained how self-care has given her a sense of control over her body amid her health issues. File Photo by Will Newton/UPI | License Photo
Sarah Hyland attends the InStyle and Warner Bros. Golden Globes after-party on January 6. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI | License Photo
Sarah Hyland (R) and Wells Adams attend the iHeartRadio Music Festival on September 21. File Photo by James Atoa/UPI | License Photo
April 24 (UPI) -- Sarah Hyland says taking the time for self-care has helped improve her mental health.
The 28-year-old actress explained in an interview with People published Wednesday how self-care has given her a sense of control over her body amid her health issues.
"It really is this balance of mental, emotional and physical reality," she told the magazine. "So if you're feeling mentally and emotionally drained, or if you are in a very dark space, you have to pull the string on the other side to life you up out of that."
Hyland said she used to work out to improve her mood but has been unable to as frequently because of her health issues.
"I haven't really been able to work out the past four months," she said. "It's just been putting me in a more anxiety ridden place. You have all of these plans and something happens where you're not able to do it."
The Modern Family star partnered with Olay on their new Skin Transformed campaign and has been using the company's skin care products as a form of self-care.
"To be able to take control of my body and use a product that makes me feel comfortable, because I'm not able to do what normally makes me feel comfortable, has been really amazing," she said.
Hyland promoted the campaign in an Instagram post Wednesday.
"I can finally say that I am a part of the @olay #SkinTransformed campaign, which is all about celebrating the transformation of OUR own bodies, and how they are often works-in-progress..not perfection," she wrote.
Hyland has undergone two kidney transplants and 16 surgeries during her lifetime. She said in an interview with The Ellen DeGeneres Show in January she came "very close" to suicide because of her health issues.
Hyland is known for playing Haley Dunphy on Modern Family, which was renewed for an 11th and final season in February.
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Why Joan Didion, at 82, Is Still a Beauty Icon
by Kate Branch
Joan Didion at home in Malibu, California
Joan Didion is wearing oversize black sunglasses in a crowded, dark movie theater where the film about her life is premiering. Standing beside her nephew Griffin Dunne, who directed the documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (Netflix), the 82-year-old Californian’s all-black ensemble plays well with her ashy white bob: Tucked slightly under her chin, its color is stripped and striped, but its body and character are as full as ever. It serves as a reminder that no matter her age or the style of the decade, her hair always seems effortless and elegant. It was blunt and short in the ’60s, when she released Slouching Towards Bethlehem, the book of essays that put her on the literary map; long and middle-parted to fall into a slight S-shaped wave in the ’70s, around the time she penned The White Album, which included her harrowing story on the Manson murders; fringed and peppery in the ’80s, and up until the early aughts with its Bush politics. Throughout it all, her signature lengths appear as if they’ve been dried in the easy Malibu air—even when she’s physically in New York City. A place where she found her first job, at Vogue, and a place she loved and found love in, with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. New York City was also a place she eventually lost, like many other people and places and things in her life.
Didion’s delicate 5-foot frame is made up of 80-something pounds, a result of her diet of Coca-Cola, salted almonds, soup, and cigarettes. It’s a frame that got more delicate as time dragged on, a type of petiteness that proved to be her secret superpower in the fight to depict the times. She’s said before that, if it weren’t for her unassuming size which allowed her to drift in and out of some of the most disordered scenes with ease, she likely would not have been able to become who she is today: one of the best American writers. Something she didn’t plan for, she says in the film.
Her body of work is not unlike her physical frame: elegant, vulnerable, unexpected, and unmanufactured—her wrinkles of time spent in front of the typewriter. They’re ones celebrated by influential fashion brands such as Céline, who see the marks for what they are: proof that Joan Didion was there. But of all her traits, from her daring chops to her pointed brows that jump out from behind bold eyewear, perhaps the most beautiful are her hands. As large as her makeup-free face, her outstretched and bony fingers, elongated even further by a nude and tightly trimmed manicure, her hands are responsible for documenting a body of prose that remains unmatched to this day. Here, a look back at the beautiful writer Joan Didion.
In This Story:Joan Didion
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Long Beach State Overall (5-10)
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Stanford Overall (7-5)
ATS (4-4-3)
O/U (4-6-1)
657 Long Beach State 49ers +550 Under -110 (+11) -110 Cover: 4
658 Stanford Cardinal -800 Over -110 (-11) -110 OVER: 179
657 LBSU +550 Under: -110 (+11) -110 Cover: 4
658 STAN -800 Over: -110 (-11) -110 OVER: 179
STAN(-11)
STAN(-11.5)
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Josh Sharma found himself out of the starting lineup Saturday following a discussion with Stanford coach Jerod Haase.
"He challenged me to play with more passion and energy," said Sharma, who took it to heart.
Stanford's only senior recorded his first double-double with career highs of 23 points and 18 rebounds and the Cardinal beat Long Beach State 93-86 on Saturday night.
Sharma, whose previous career bests were 15 points and nine rebounds, was 10-of-15 shooting.
"I was mad at him," Haase said. "I wanted him to play with more consistency and be a leader. He responded when I've been all over him."
Daejon Davis had 17 points, on 8-of-9 shooting, and five assists for Stanford (7-5), which has won five of seven. Davis left the game with an apparent left leg injury with 6:40 remaining. Haase said he doesn't know the extent of the injury.
"Daejon is a huge part of this team but there are guys willing to step into his role," Sharma said. "We got together and got past that."
Bryan Alberts scored 22 points to lead the 49ers (5-10). Deishuan Booker added 20 and Temidayo Yussef 13.
"That's our fifth Pac-12 game and in four of them we were in a one-possession game and lost all four," 49ers coach Dan Monson said. "You play these games to win, and I think we're good enough, but we're not consistent enough. That's what we take away from this one."
KZ Okpala had 20 points for the Cardinal and Jaiden Delaire scored 10.
Jordan Griffin hit a 3-pointer in the final minute to bring the 49ers within two points but the Okpala had six points in the final 34 seconds as Stanford closed on a 7-2 run.
Alberts hit a 3-pointer and Yussef made a jumper Long Beach State a 45-43 edge but Stanford responded with a 13-1 run to make it 56-46 with just less than 14 minutes remaining and the Cardinal led the rest of the way.
Long Beach State, which beat Stanford for the first time last season, is 0-8 on the road. ... The 49ers, who have defeated a Pac-12 team in each of the past two seasons, went 0-5 against the conference this season. ... Oakland-native Temidayo Yussef reached double figures for the 10th time in 11 games.
Stanford sophomore Oscar da Silva averaged 6.3 points over his first six games. Since then he's averaged over 13 points a game. ... Freshman Cormac Ryan missed his third game with an injury. ... Davis has reached double figures in scoring in his past five games since a six-game stretch of nine points or fewer.
Long Beach State hosts Bethesda in a nonconference game next Saturday.
Stanford travels to UCLA to open Pac-12 Conference play on Thursday.
W/L 5-10
49ers Away
9:30 PM at Stanford L 93-86 W (11) O (145)
Cardinal Overall
ATS 4-4-3
Total 4-6-1
Cardinal Home
9:30 PM Long Beach State W 93-86 L (-11) O (145)
4:00 PM at San Francisco L 74-65 T (9) T (139)
9:00 PM San Jose State W 78-73 L (-18) O (140)
6:00 PM Eastern Washington W 78-62 W (-13) U (141)
4:30 PM at Kansas L 90-84 W (20) O (149)
9:00 PM Portland State W 79-67 T (-12) U (147)
6:00 PM Middle Tennessee W 67-54 W (6.5) U (138.5)
6:00 PM at Florida L 72-49 L (-6.5) U (135)
1:30 PM at Wisconsin L 62-46 L (-9) U (137.5)
6:00 PM at North Carolina L 90-72 T (18) O (158.5)
Over/Under 4-5-1
Bryan Alberts (G) 34:00 7-18 38.9% 6-13 46.2% 2-2 100% 0 6 0 0 0 2 4 0 22
Deishuan Booker (G) 34:00 7-13 53.8% 1-1 100% 5-8 62.5% 0 2 8 0 0 2 3 0 20
Temidayo Yussuf (F) 20:00 5-7 71.4% 0-0 0% 3-4 75% 4 8 1 1 0 4 4 0 13
KJ Byers (G) 21:00 2-8 25% 0-2 0% 4-4 100% 2 4 1 0 0 2 1 0 8
Jordan Roberts (G) 28:00 3-3 100% 0-0 0% 1-2 50% 3 6 5 0 0 3 3 0 7
Jordan Griffin (G) 14:00 2-7 28.6% 1-4 25% 2-2 100% 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 7
Mason Riggins (F) 28:00 3-4 75% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 2 1 1 2 0 2 0 6
Edon Maxhuni (G) 10:00 1-4 25% 1-2 50% 0-0 0% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Demetrius Mims (G-F) 1:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Josh Sharma (C) 28:00 10-15 66.7% 0-0 0% 3-4 75% 12 18 0 1 1 1 4 0 23
KZ Okpala (F) 24:00 8-15 53.3% 2-3 66.7% 2-2 100% 2 4 1 0 0 3 4 0 20
Daejon Davis (G) 31:00 8-9 88.9% 1-2 50% 0-3 0% 0 1 5 2 0 3 2 0 17
Jaiden Delaire (F) 27:00 5-11 45.5% 0-2 0% 0-1 0% 2 4 1 1 1 0 4 0 10
Isaac White (G) 27:00 3-9 33.3% 2-7 28.6% 1-4 25% 1 4 1 0 0 1 2 0 9
Oscar da Silva (F) 27:00 3-9 33.3% 2-7 28.6% 0-2 0% 1 4 3 1 0 0 3 0 8
Kodye Pugh (F) 5:00 2-2 100% 1-1 100% 0-1 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5
Bryce Wills (G-F) 22:00 0-3 0% 0-0 0% 1-4 25% 0 2 4 0 1 2 1 0 1
Lukas Kisunas (F-C) 7:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
Marcus Sheffield (G-F) 2:00 0-1 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Sam Beskind (G) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Keenan Fitzmorris (F-C) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rodney Herenton (G) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cormac Ryan (G-F) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trevor Stanback (F) 00:00 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0-0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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The 2011 World Young Reader Prizes: About the winners
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WAN-IFRA’s annual World Young Reader Prize competition honors innovative newspapers that have devised the best project or activity to attract young readers. In all, the prizes honored 24 projects all over the world in 2011, with top winners from Brazil, Indonesia, India, Portugal, The Philippines and the United States.
Support for the prizes comes from Norske Skog, the Norway-based global paper producer, as part of its partnership in WAN-IFRA’s Newspapers in Education Development Project. Awards were presented 12 October in Vienna during the Young Reader Round Table at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum.
World Young Reader Prize winners picked up their awards at the 2011 Young Reader Round Table in Vienna.
Newspaper of the Year and top winner for Enduring Excellence
Jawa Pos (Indonesia, circulation 400, 000)
Jawa Pos newspaper of Indonesia has been named World Young Reader Newspapers of the Year for 2011, also winning the top prize for enduring excellence.
WHAT THEY DID
Jawa Pos has published a three-page daily youth section, called DetEksi, since 2000. The program combines news, interviews, and discussions in print with an enormous off-page marketing and engagement strategy. DetEksi organizes an annual youth conference, Indonesia’s largest, bringing more than 5,000 middle and high school students together to learn and compete in topics from journalism to sports to quiz bowl. DetEksi also organizes education programs in schools, a student journalism competition, a regional basketball league, and concerts.
WHAT THE JUDGES SAID
Jawa Pos has done an outstanding job with an enduring, substantial, successful commitment to engaging young people on and off the printed page,” the jury said. “Its daily three-page DetEksi effort is more than a standard newspaper youth section. It’s a complete strategy for finding, engaging, and retaining young readers. Most importantly, it has worked.
See an interview here by WAN-IFRA magazine editor Dean Roper with Jawa Pos Director Azrul Ananda about the paper's relationship with its young audience and journalists.
Top Winner: BRAND
The Hindu (India, circulation 1.51 million)
The Hindu (India) turned a used book collection into a huge event that was branded as an opportunity to bring knowledge to those who need it the most. They mobilized both young and old in the city of Chennai, and collected 275,000 old and new books in just five days. Collected books were organized according to age groups and distributed to schools with the help of various non-governmental organizations.
One of the most striking ideas in this project was to build a mammoth wall of books in a public venue in order to highlight the endeavor. This effort made for a very good simple but visible PR concept with amazing numbers. We also very much appreciated that those books that could not be used were recycled to make notebooks, ensuring effective use of all donations.
• OTHER TOP WINNERS WERE :
Wall Street Journal (USA, circulation 2.1 million) for its investigation into how companies secretly track children online
The newspaper’s investigation into how companies secretly track children online aimed to educate parents, teens and young children about how companies create detailed profiles of them for marketing and other purposes. The report, published between June and September 2010, included an interactive guide on “How to Control Your Privacy Online.” To attract teen readers, the newspaper described the findings in the Classroom Edition, delivered to nearly 4,500 U.S. high schools. As a consequence, in May 2011, two U.S. Congressmen, a Democrat and a Republican, introduced a draft bill that would prevent the tracking of children without parental consent.
The news story, "On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking," by Steve Stecklow stimulated newspapers to reach a new level in investigative journalism. It showed that using energy, resources and high-level techniques in reporting about family questions was a good investment for investigative reporting, which should not be only restricted to the ‘big deal’ themes of politics, crime and corruption. The results of such journalistic effort in this field can help society to learn about and abolish harmful practices. The Journal reports that after this report several sites modified their privacy policies and that legislation has been proposed. Bravo!"
MAKING THE NEWS
Controlinveste -- Diário de Notícias & Jornal de Notícias (Portugal) for Media Lab journalism learning center
Media Labs at both Jornal de Notícias (Porto, circulation 88.426) and Diário de Notícias (Lisbon, circulation 23.675) provide students and families with an exciting new dimension in media literacy and brings the world of newspapers to them in an interactive way using modern technologies. The project provides workshops designed to empower students to be critical thinkers and to express their opinions and develop news-writing skills as they produce print and online products using podcasts and video.
Launched in November 2010, MediaLab has achieved impressive results in a short time, with 200 students participating daily, well on the way to its targeted 50,000 a year. It is so popular that schools have to book several months in advance. MediaLab is now also offered on weekends for family participation.
MediaLab is is located at the headquarters of Diário de Notícias in, Lisbon and targets students aged 10 to 18 years. Access to the online platform is completely free. A professional trainer provides workshops and students also produce podcasts and videos. After the visit, students can develop a school newspaper by using web tool available at MediaLab web platform.
Congratulations on being a leader in the field and providing a facility to enable young readers to actively participate in the world of journalism and media using new technologies. The project provides an excellent model for other newspapers to follow and develops an awareness of the importance of news writing and reporting. The simplicity and the scale of this in-house media literacy project are impressive and the ambitious 50,000-student target participants is well on the way to being achieved. The inclusion of families as well as students adds to the reach of this project.
Gazeta do Povo (Brazil, circulation 60,000 daily) for research supporting “Read & Think (Ler e Pensar)”
Read and Think NIE Project aims to encourage the habit of reading newspapers, promoting the improvement of educational indicators that relate to reading and getting information to the schools, enriching the teaching-learning and preparing children and young people to exercise full citizenship. The development of the Project Read and Think is justified by the alarming rates reported in the national and regional assessments regarding to reading, interpreting and producing texts and logical reasoning.
The jury awarded the top NIE prize to Gazeta do POVO Newspaper not only because of its competence as shown in its longstanding “Read and Think” programme, its educational, communication and training project for young readers, but also for its partnership with the universities and its special approach to teachers and students of all grades. The key innovation has been the care and competence in analyzing the recent results of the program, and thus clearly documenting the improved educational skills of students who used newspapers in class as measured by results in the IDEB (Index Basic Education Development), the national exam of Brasilian Education.
Your programme can be a model for many countries. The action that sets Gazeta do Povo truly apart is its high-quality NIE programme and the very careful measurement over three years that shows the clearly positive effects on the academic achievement of children of using newspapers in class.
NATASA PRIZE FOR NEWSPAPER PRINTING PLANTS
Sinag Publishing and Printing Services (Philippines) and publishers of two weeklies for its free journalism training seminars
To encourage the young to embrace and develop a love of journalism, the plant regularly offers Sinag Journalism Training Seminars that are free and open anyone, but particularly to students in the region. Participants need provide only their own food and something with which to write. Seminar topics include news and feature writing, opinion writing and cartooning. The sessions are highly popular with an overwhelming 1000 participants at the first edition (now limited to a maximum of 300).
This printing plant's journalism seminar activity is clearly a fitting tribute to the person after whom this category is named as the commitment is clear to assuring that youth learn about the importance and fragility of a free press and about how to do good journalism.
WHY A NATASA PRIZE This prize is named after Natasa Vuckovic Lesendric ( (1966-2011) who, aided by WAN-IFRA and UNESCO, set up an independent distribution and printing plant under the regime of Slobodan Milošević in Serbia. She assured that the printing plant played a role in teaching the young about the importance of the press to democratic freedom.
Glåmdalen (Norway, circulation 18,531) for its Politiskpepper election project
GlamdalenWHAT THEY DID
This was a multi-media project aimed at increasing political awareness among youth aged 14-25 years and encouraging them to participate in the local and regional elections to be held in September 2011.
Glåmdalen uses cross-media strategies to reach the young and link them to the main paper. Four young students make up the editorial youth group, supervised by a young political editor. Politisk Pepper is published in paper every Wednesday, with links to an interactive website that includes videos, a blog and a Facebook site. The paper says the project has been so successful that it intends making Politisk Pepper a permanent feature of the newspaper, even after the elections, since adults enjoy it as well.
TNS Gallup research shows that Glåmdalen has experienced a 10% increase in young readership, a direct result of the campaign. The paper also received very high ratings from young people in a survey, where it was ranked at the top out of 50 titles. Results showed that one out of three young people in the community participated in the political debate in Politisk Pepper.
Politisk Pepper has been carefully conceptualized and well-implemented, with a baseline study conducted prior to the launch of the project and interim research conducted after six months. It will be interesting to see the research findings after the actual elections in September. We really like that the student editorial team is integrated into the main newsroom and attends editorial meetings with the full-time staff. We are impressed that a small regional paper has had so much success in attracting a strong youth following. This project is an interesting example of how introducing a team of young writers into the paper and giving them the freedom and space in the paper to express their youthful perspective on issues can change the entire perception of a newspaper. This project is easy for other newspapers to replicate, even without additional funding.
• JURY COMMENDATIONS:
BRAND (Jury Commendation)
Mid Day Infomedia (India, 2.5 million copies) for its Smoke Free City campaign
This three-week long multimedia campaign in the cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Pune encouraged young people and their families to kick the smoking habit. Celebrities and organizations joined in the effort, including the cities´ most important corporations. The paper organized street marketing activities and the effort received extensive editorial coverage. Branding was done at various locations, such as cafes and movie theaters. Social media was used effectively, such as SMS's hourly tips to stop smoking.
This project was an interesting idea to use a pledge mechanism to promote a tobacco-free lifestyle, with impressive results. The paper involved both young and old in the community and collected support from usually neglected institutions, such as private companies. After the main campaign was completed, MiD DAY continued to remind its readers about the perils of smoking, making it a continuous and long -lasting contribution and connection.
EDITORIAL (Jury Commendation)
Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan, 10 million daily) for Yomiuri Kodomo Shimbun
The Yomiuri Kodomo Shimbun, a weekly newspaper written for children aged 6-12, joined efforts with the publisher of children’s books to promote reading. Yomiuri and Shogaku-kan wanted to do something to encourage children to read more and launched a weekly publication in March 2011. Shogaku-kan’s experience in producing books and magazines for children was appealing to the Yomiuri, and Shogaku-kan hoped to use the Yomiuri’s marketing power. The goal was 150,000 copies, but because of sales growth Yomiuri had to set a new goal of 200,000 copies by Fall 2011.
in order to revamp readership, the Yomiuri Shimbun children’s weekly joined forces with a major children's book publisher in a joint effort. The project showed creative solutions, such as choosing seven reporters from the police beat experienced with doing the groundwork needed for a story. Another good initiative was to make a special offer allowing grandparents who subscribe to The Yomiuri Shimbun to purchase subscriptions of the Kodomo Shimbun for their grandchildren.
Kleine Zeitung (Austria, circulation 313,000) for Kleine Kinderzeitung
Austria's leading regional newspaper launched an innovative children's weekly with a target group of 6-11 years old. The contents include news, science packages, games and contests. The mission of the weekly includes inspiring children to read and thus helpto improve Austrian children skills in reading and understanding as measured by PISA study.
Though well-designed and edited, it was not this weeky's editorial perspective that caught the our greatest admiration. It was the business model that helped the new product to break even in the second month after launch. Kleine Kinderzeitung is not a free supplement distributed with the daily newspaper but rather a stand-alone publication sold for an extra price (4,90-6,90 euros per month) just for those who want it. As of May 2011 (five months after its launch) the circulation was 18,000 copies.
Delovoy Peterburg (Russia, circulation 24,000) for Dpvkontakte
After watching audiences gather at social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, Delovoy Peterburg, a business daily, followed young adult readers and launched its new news service within a social media site. The platform is not a duplicate of Facebook itself but rather a clone, Vkontakte.ru, that is popular in Russian-speaking countries. The new service is present also on Twitter. DPVkontakte is an online newspaper updated 24/7 by a staff of 5 people and about 200 contributors. It delivers news, slideshows, presentations and video about new media and about doing business in the world. Delovoy Peterburg profits on sales of ads within a service and sponsorships, such as branded sections aimed at a very targeted audience. Within six months the social media newspaper reached 60,000 subscribers and its revenue paid off the initial investment.
This Russian newspaper entered the world of social media with Dpvkontakte as soon as it noticed its young adult readership was already there. It successfully translated the concept of a printed newspaper to the connected digital media environment and made traditional websites look old-fashioned.
MAKING THE NEWS (Jury Commendation)
Heilbronner Stimme (Germany, circulation 92,000 daily) for Universal Children’s Day front page
How would children edit a newspaper?
Heilbronner Stimme challenged chidren aged 9 to 14 to edit the front page of the newspaper on 20 September 2010, Universal Children's Day. From 200 participating schools, a five-member editorial team was selected in August and after a rehearsal, the project went live on September 19. The junior editorial team’s selection was published on the front page while the newspaper’s professional editorial team’s front page was moved to page 3. One newspaper carrying two front pages, including one selected by children, was a powerful story in itself. The public also joined in, by responding to a survey asking which front page they preferred. Surprisingly, a majority of respondents preferred the children’s front page.
This was a powerful idea in letting students edit their own front page – always a revealing experience and a great way to acknowledge Universal Children’s Day. The newspaper should be commended for its pioneering approach in giving children a voice in deciding the news. What really made a difference was giving readers the opportunity to decide which front-page version they preferred, a great reality check for the newsroom and a reflection of the company’s pioneering approach.
Diario Hoy de Extremadura (Spain, circulation 24,000 daily) for My Online Newspaper
The main objective of the HOY school competition was to promote reading and journalism amongst children and young people. The competition challenged students to create a digital newspaper, publishing their own newspaper with contents about their school, and or district. The project targeted students aged 12 to 16 years with students working in teams of 5 to 6 students. Students were required to seek out news stories, as well as interview and photograph subjects. The project was funded by sponsorship and included brand merchandising in its promotion.
The project was implemented across the Vocento Group and as a result, 5,200 children enrolled in Spain and more than 380 in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico and Venezuela. Registration and publication it also drives traffic to the website.
Although in its eighth year, the project has reinvented itself by turning to a digital edition, the planning and implementation of which was very comprehensive. The project provides a concept that is transferable worldwide.
NEWSPAPERS IN EDUCATION (Jury Commendation)
A Gazeta (Brazil, circulation 24,000 daily M-F; 40,500 on Saturday; 51,700 on Sunday) for the Home Sweet Home historic presevation effort.
This project effectively showed how an NIE partnership between a newspaper and schools can yield an intense social mobilization and new consideration of a culture. Inspired by the publication of a story about the fate of houses of Pomerisch immigrants, two teachers applied activities they had learned at an NIE workshop to stimulate students to think about their architectural culture and avoid its disappearance. The main objective was to help children and the community recognize the value of Santa Maria de Jetibá’s historical and cultural heritage and also to sensitize them about situation of Pomerisch homes while showing them the importance of preservation.
A Gazeta’s Newspapers in Education training paid off as two teachers in the programme used those strategies and techniques to turn a news story about the loss of historic houses into a project to help save them.
PUBLIC SERVICE (Jury Commendation)
South China Morning Post (Hong Kong, China, circulation 30,000 weekday; 81,827 Sunday) for Heritage Detectives
Heritage preservation is an important issue in Hong Kong because many areas are being redeveloped and buildings torn down. The newspaper partnered with the Hong Kong Heritage Project and the HK Heritage Museum to implement a project that would enable secondary school students to connect with their city’s history. Students were asked to engage with elderly members of their community and interview them about the past. They formed groups consisting of a team leader, a writer and photographer and each group registered formally in order to pitch their story ideas to the paper. Students attended a briefing workshop and had just two months to interview the elderly and work on their projects. The workshops included sessions on interview techniques, oral history tradition, how to find a good story idea and good sources, and how to take effective portrait photographs. A total of 44 teams registered, 70 students participated in the workshop and 30 entries were submitted, ranging from multimedia projects to articles and audio clips. The editor selected the best six stories and these were published as cover stories in Young Post over a six-week period.
This project was a great way to get young people with a heavy academic workload out of the classroom and into their communities to find out about their heritage. It provided an opportunity to practice skills they do not normally have the chance to hone at school and the teams participated with no incentive other than to find out more about their heritage and get their stories published in the paper. We really liked the idea of assigning young reporters to gather their own information. Encouraging students to create teams is an excellent idea that makes them more willing to participate and is likely to provide better results on average, moreso than, say, a writing competition focused on individual authors. Young people were able to interact with their elders from a different perspective and learned they have important lessons to gain from the older generation. It also helped them to understand the importance of heritage preservation and to respect the history of their city.
Mathrubhumi Daily (India, circulation 1,203,726 - ABC July to December 2010 - daily) for its SEED project
The three-year-old SEED project, which is endorsed by the Department of Education, aimed to creating awareness among 10- to 17-year-olds about the importance of protecting and preserving the environment. Its secondary intention was to develop good reading habits in young people and familiarize them with Mathrubhumi's brand. In its first year SEED had 3,087 member schools, which increased by more than 2,000 schools in 2010, bringing the total number of participating schools to over 5,000. A team of 65 staff members, from factory workers to senior managers, all with a passion for environmental conservation, trained teachers from each education district. The teachers then worked with their students to set up SEED clubs and carry out a wide range of activities, including planting saplings, energy conservation, recycling & making posters. Last year cash prizes amounting to a total of Rs. 20 lakhs (approx. US $ 45,000) were distributed to winning schools, students and teachers. Local environmental reports from schools were published in local editions of the paper, which helped focus public attention on the various problems raised. Detailed stories and editorials were also written about prize-winning schools, which inspired other schools to join and led students to begin implementing SEED programmes at home.
This massive environmental project with huge investment from the newspaper and its partners deserved special recognition based on the sheer numbers involved – impressive indeed! It was fantastic that so many people from within the publishing organisation were involved in the project in a really hands-on way, giving of their time and expertise because they believed in the cause. We are sure this project has gone a long way toward improving employee relations within the organization as staff from various levels and departments worked together as volunteers for its success. This concept is something that can be replicated by other newspapers to build team spirit and a common goal for the greater good.
Kompas Daily (Indonesia, circulation 1,475,562 weekdays; 2,084,060 weekends) for Muda in Action Library
Kompas MuDa challenged high school and college students, aged between 15 and 22, in eight cities to create a library and reading garden in an interesting unused space. Together with three sponsors, the newspaper donated 1,000 children’s books to the project and set up a Twitter site, a Facebook page and an interactive website for the project. The volunteers conducted a survey to find a target location that really deserved a library, converted a suitable space, found out how to run a library; and came up with creative activities for the programme. The volunteers (between 20 and 30 per city) created libraries inside schools, in poor neighbourhoods and even inside a museum. Some of the activities they introduced included a literary seminar, a reading day, book workshops and a field trip to the museum. According to the paper, readership of its e-paper by 15- to 25-year-olds increased as a result, although no actual figures were given.
This project is commendable because Kompas has created awareness amongst its young readers of the importance of reading from an early age. Kompas MuDa has made books accessible in communities where there previously were not. The project could be extended or replicated at a very low cost with donated books. Creating libraries in spaces where you don’t expect to find them, such as in a park, is simply a great idea that gives the message that you can find books everywhere. While it will take commitment and perseverance from the young volunteers to sustain the libraries, the project should be recognized for actively promoting reading and involving Kompas MuDa’s young readers in doing something valuable and of service to their communities.
• SPECIAL MENTION:
BRAND (Special Mention)
I-Next (India, circulation 311,404 daily) for Bikeathon
More than 40,000 persons rode their bicycles across 12 cities of India for 14 kilometers, to celebrate the spirit of fun, freedom and fitness in an eco-friendly way. Marketing included both conventional and unconventional methods, such as taking bikes to businesses and giving employees a framed picture with the bikes. Editorial tie-ins included a celebrity and biker´s column, plus extensive coverage of the event. Merchandising was also branded and distributed while a multimedia campaign was also included to spread the word. Bikeathon was sponsored by a main company, plus other secondary gift bearers.
With excellent pre-event publicity, the Bikeathon took place in 12 cities simultaneously. It allowed the newspaper to connect with its young audience both with its editorial content and the main biking event itself. This was a clever idea with impressive results that promoted health-consciousness and fitness by a newspaper with an impressive history of innovation.
CONNECTING WITH MOBILE (Special Mention)
Jornal da Manha (Brazil) for photojournalism workshops
Jornal da Manhã ran a workshop in which students could use mobile phones to learn about the basics of photojournalism as part of its programme to help schools make educational use of mobile telephones that also includes a guide for teachers on now to use other common cellphone features for schoolwork.
This uncomplicated idea could be used anywhere to teach the young about the very important tenets of photojournalism in a fun, accessible way.
EDITORIAL (Special Mention)
United Daily News (Taiwan, circulation 600,000) for Student Weekly
United Daily News, one of Taiwan’s largest newspapers, has for the last two years published a weekly 20-page publication for students called that combines professional editorial content with stories, columns, and artwork from students and teachers. Each issue of UDN Student Weekly includes news literacy lessons and articles from Scientific American and other adult publications rewritten in Chinese for a student audience. UDN hosts weekly competitions for students to submit columns, articles, and cover art. The newspaper works closely with local schools and teachers to develop content for the classroom and includes content created by teachers alongside that by students.
UDN Student Weekly is a wonderful example of applying innovative thinking to a common idea. The publication stood out for its content and its persistent focus on education and its efforts to create an indispensable educational resource for teachers and parents. UDN has found the elusive balance between professional and user-created content, mixing its journalists’ original work with international stories rewritten for young audiences, and with articles written by students and teachers. Each issue includes news literacy content designed to help students learn to navigate news media, and “clinics” by teachers aimed at helping students improve their writing. These efforts have paid dividends: the Student Weekly was profitable by its second year, and more than half of Taiwan's school districts subscribe, the first time the Taiwanese school system has purchased group news subscriptions. This success speaks to the strength and potential of UDN’s model for publications around the world.
ENDURING EXCELLENCE (Special Mention)
Chicago Tribune (USA, circulation 437,000 daily) for The Mash
For several years, The Chicago Tribune has published The Mash, a multiplatform publication for and by Chicago-area teenagers. The Mash distributes 75,000 copies of its printed magazine to area high schools every week during the school year. The print edition is complemented by content and contests online and through social media. The Mash pays teams of student journalists to develop and produce content, and features a blend of serious topics, such as the death of Osama bin Laden, as well as cultural topics, and readership and brand competitions, such as a massive prom promotion that received tens of thousands of local teen participants.
The Mash is an impressive multiplatform, teen-focused standalone brand that has developed a rare, successful mix of local and national, entertaining and serious content. In its three years on the market, The Mash has grown its reach to 75,000 printed copies and many more online visitors, and is present across the immense Chicago metropolitan region, including in local schools. The judges were particularly impressed by The Mash’s dedication to its student editorial staff. Though professional journalists support the publication, they do not control its content. This has resulted in an encouraging content package that has produced impressive work on serious topics affecting area teenagers. The Mash’s approach, its local reach, and its support from The Chicago Tribune are all models for other newspapers to examine and emulate.
Südkurier (Germany, 133 000 daily) for Klasse! and Klasse! for kids
For the past 12 years, Germany's daily Sudkurier has operated a media literacy and news-in-schools program called Klasse! For four weeks every school year, more than 9,000 students receive free copies of the full newspaper. Their teachers receive detailed teaching materials and lesson plans, developed in collaboration with local education officials. Through the lessons, students learn how to read, analyze, and use the newspaper, and learn about broader issues with internet and the media. Newspaper editors visit each school, where they present about newspapers and participate in activities. At the end of the curriculum, students produce class newspaper pages, which are submitted to the Sudkurier staff for evaluation; the best pages win a prize.
WHAT THE JUDGES SAID:
Klasse! is a news-in-schools program that has succeeded in scale, substance, and sustainability. More than 150,000 students have participated over the program’s twelve years in operation, creating more than 600 student newspapers and involving thousands of teachers and classrooms across southern Germany. The judges were particularly impressed by the program’s focus on broader media literacy, helping students navigate media content and become lifelong readers. The project’s detailed educational materials, close working relationships with its education partners, and long-lasting success make it an impressive model for newspapers worldwide.
MAKING THE NEWS (Special Mention)
Kurjer Sreda Bersdsk (Russia, circulation 5,020 copies weekly, published Wednesdays) for Pobednije 65
This project was devoted to the 65th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War victory. This simple concept was effective in making history alive by capturing stories of war veterans. The newspaper worked with children aged 7 to 18 years and provided them with a list of 14 topics with questions. Students had to interview a veteran and submit the material, including a picture electronically. The newspapers editorial team selected extracts and designers developed infographics for each entry. Full copy of the interviews was online and in the newspaper. To celebrate the event, organizers held a public ceremony for the newspaper, students and veterans.
The focus on the "Great Patriotic War" is an interesting example of cooperation between schools and a newspaper that creates bridges between generations, with young people continuing to visit the veterans. It is a great concept to develop a living history project, deftly executed with excellent layout and graphics. By speaking with veterans and publishing an extract from each as an infographic, the project maintained the interest of all readers. This is an excellent project for other newspapers to replicate. For a small paper it was a compelling way to join the community together by talking about local events.
Polskapresse Publishing (Poland, circulation 2.4 million weekly) for Junior Media
Junior Media is an innovative project that encourages students to read newspapers and delivers schools the tool to create them on the template of a professional newspaper. Journalists from all over the country give specialist advice and help children fulfill the dream of becoming a journalist. The success of the program speaks for itself. It was forecast that 200 schools would register in the first two months, but there were 900 registrations. It was expected that 50 school newspapers would be submitted but 900 were received. The special online platform helps students create a newspaper step-by-step using templates of real regional newspapers. Each month 50 of the best newspapers created on the Junior Media platform are printed by the newspaper at their plant in proper newspaper format. During November and December 2010, a total 250 of these newspapers were printed. About 3,000 pupils have received training from journalists so far and over 10,000 students use the Internet platform every day.
This is a well-executed project and has good results. It is a good example of how the newspaper can cooperate with its partners. Not only did the paper provide an online platform for its young readers but it also printed copies. This was a very impressive commitment by a newspaper to produce school newspapers online - 1200 newspapers were produced, 200 titles printed and 50,000 copies distributed; 3,000 students trained; 10,000 kid internet users and a projected 1 million readers reached. It is an excellent variation on related work by an earlier winner, Ekstra-Bladet of Denmark.
Former WAN-IFRA president Jayme Sirotsky greets the jury.
Former WAN-IFRA President, Jayme Sirotsky, greets the jury.
JURY OF CHAMPIONS KEEPS GREAT IDEAS COMING
Key members of the World Young Reader Prize jury come from papers that have won multiple young reader prizes and continue to keep the young at the center of their work, even though they can no longer compete for a WAN-IFRA award.
Previous World Young Reader Prize winners on the jury included: Lynne Cahill of The West Australian (Australia), Altair Nobre of Zero Hora (Brazil), Wendy Tribaldos of La Prensa (Panama), Grzgorz Piechota of Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland) and Lisa Blakeway of EISH (South Africa).
They were joined by Aralynn McMane, WAN-IFRA executive director of young readership development, and four guest judges: Christopher K. Sopher, founder of Younger Thinking (USA); Cristiane Parente, executive NIE coordiantor for ANJ, the Brazilian Newspaper Association, and two youth specialists from Zero Hora newspaper, Ângela Ravazzolo and Mariana Müller. Zero Hora hosted deliberations at its headquarters in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Vote totals discounted those of judges for entries from their own countries.
The jurors took time out from deliberations to hear about the latest accomplishments of the group:
Zero Hora (Porto Alegre, Brazil), a multiple World Young Reader Prize winning newspaper, hosted judges, in the first time deliberations held outside WAN-IFRA’s Paris offices. The paper is now working to give its highly successful youth brand, Kzuka, a national presence.
Lynne Cahill of Australia won a top prize this year from the International News Marketing Association for a deceptively simple idea that produced huge gains in newspaper orders from schools: a special supplement of holiday songs with art by students.
Wendy Tribaldos of Panama will launch a major, national folklore project in partnership with of The Smithsonian. Activities include the production of the country's first archive of regional dances and costume.
Lisa Blakeway of South Africa, a multiple winner while with Johnnic Publishing, is launching a new youth project that combines video, smart phones and learning journalism in cooperation with the European Journalism Centre.
Grzgorz Piechota is leading School 2.0, a massive project to help Polish schools move decisively into the digital era and Mission 21, in which an international group of journalism students from Europe is testing Poland’s readiness to host the crowd coming to next year’s European football championships. You can follow them yourself now at facebook.com/misja21 or misja21.blox.pl
Aralynn McMane
Executive Director, Youth Engagement and News Literacy
WAN-IFRA, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
Phone: ++33-147428518
E-Mail: aralynn.mcmane@wan-ifra.org
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Lakes to Locks Passage - Lake George Region
Season: Year Round
A self-guided tour through the Lake George Area
Explore spectacular landscapes laden with history in the Lake George Area!
Midway between Manhattan and Montreal the more than 200-miles of the Lakes to Locks Passage Scenic Byway provides access to charming cities, rural landscapes, recreational areas, and Adirondack hamlets. Through all four seasons, you can experience history, nature, and culture. Traveling by bike, foot, boat or car, you will have access to this historic watercourse used by migratory birds and native peoples, explorers, armies, commercial enterprises.
The Lake George Area, known for its beauty, offers a 50-mile loop around the western side of the historic lake. When Thomas Jefferson visited he wrote to his daughter, "...Lake George is the most beautiful lake I have ever seen..." The lake has become known as the Queen of the American Lakes. Lake George and its surrounding area were significant during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution as a strategic location between Albany to points south and east and north to Canada.
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Darnley Mausoleum
Type:Cemetery / Mausoleum
Lodge Lane, Cobham, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 3BS
The Earls of Darnley were usually buried in Westminster Abbey, but by the late 18th century, their vaults were full. In his will, the 3rd Earl, John Bligh, left instructions for a mausoleum to be built in Cobham Park, Kent, where he and his descendants could be laid to rest in a grand manner.
Lord Darnley's ideas for his mausoleum were possibly inspired by the Roman remains, including the monumental pyramid mausoleum of Cestius, he saw on the 'Grand Tour'. He may also have been influenced by French artist Nicholas Poussin's picture 'The Sacrament of Ordination'.
Of the detailed instructions he left in his will, it clearly stated that he wanted a square stone building with a 'prominent pyramid' surrounded by a dry moat.
James Wyatt and George Dance the Younger
After the Earl's death, the family commissioned architect James Wyatt to design a mausoleum following the instructions set out in his will.
Wyatt exhibited his design at the Royal Academy in 1783, but due to a heavy workload, the mausoleum was built under the supervision of another famous architect, George Dance the Younger.
Left unused
The mausoleum was completed in 1786, at a cost of £9000 (well over £1 million in today's prices), but there was a problem... For reasons that remain unclear, possibly involving a dispute with the Bishop of Rochester, the Darnley Mausoleum was not consecrated and could not be used for burial.
Although unused, the mausoleum was the most prominent monument in Cobham Park, with the pyramid visible from some distance towering above the tops of the trees.
Landscape designer Humphry Repton suggested the mausoleum be converted to a viewing platform, but the idea never became reality. Instead, the building retained its sombre grandeur in a setting he redesigned to provide enhanced views across the park and the estate.
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New special session venue has some Alaska lawmakers wary
By: MARK THIESSEN and BECKY BOHRER, Associated Press
WASILLA, Alaska (AP) - When Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy called for the Legislature's next special session to be held in Wasilla, some agreed with him that a change of venue would be good for lawmakers struggling to finish their work after a drawn-out five months at the state capital.
Others called it a means of intimidation or cited security and logistical concerns.
Now, the wait is on to see if the House and Senate heed Dunleavy's call to do business July 8 in his conservative hometown.
It would be the first time an Alaska special session has convened outside the capital, Juneau, or the state's largest city, Anchorage, where a few have been held.
Nationally, it's rare for special sessions to be held outside state capitals, though committee hearings sometimes take place elsewhere. Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, pitching it as a way to make government more accessible, gave most of his State of the State speeches outside of that state's capital, after his first address at the Statehouse was marred by protests.
Alaska's Republican governor called the session so lawmakers can finalize this year's payout to residents from the state's oil wealth fund, a politically divisive issue that has been simmering for years and is nearing a boiling point. The checks have been smaller for the past three years as political leaders struggling with a budget deficit strayed from a formula in state law for calculating them.
If the law is followed as Dunleavy wants, this year's check will be about $3,000. The House, controlled by a bipartisan majority composed largely of Democrats, rejected a full payout during the first special session of the year, in Juneau, while the Republican-led Senate was more closely divided in not advancing a full payout.
Dunleavy warned of a change of venue if lawmakers didn't complete their business during that session, suggesting as a potential site the Matanuska-Susitna region, where Wasilla is nestled about 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of Anchorage. Wasilla made headlines more than a decade ago as the hometown of then-Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Senate Minority Leader Tom Begich, an Anchorage Democrat, said he sees Dunleavy choosing Wasilla as a way to intimidate legislators. He said the governor had an opportunity to work with legislators on a location that logistically made sense.
Begich's brother, former U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, lost last year's governor's race to Dunleavy.
House Speaker Bryce Edgmon, an independent from the southwest Alaska fishing community of Dillingham, has cited logistical concerns with meeting in Wasilla, along with security worries.
Edgmon said he has received threatening calls and "angry, vitriolic" emails from people frustrated with lawmakers for not approving what they consider a "birthright" - a $3,000 dividend check. Many emails have come from the Matanuska-Susitna region, he said.
"It could be a very volatile environment," Edgmon said.
Dunleavy's administration has tried to allay concerns. While the governor's office has singled out some legislators for their position on the dividend and encouraged Alaskans to weigh in, Dunleavy has asked them to do so civilly.
Deputy chief of staff Jeremy Price gave reporters a tour last week of Dunleavy's recommended venue for the special session, Wasilla Middle School, showing off two gymnasiums with room for spectators that he said could accommodate concurrent House and Senate floor sessions. Self-locking doors were touted as security measures.
Cost estimates for holding a special session in Wasilla haven't been publicly released.
"Juneau has a lot of costs all their own, and a whole lot fewer fast-food options," said Republican Rep. David Eastman of Wasilla, where the state's first Sonic drive-in restaurant is set to open in September.
Juneau's downtown restaurant options, within walking distance of the Capitol, include a Subway sandwich shop.
Wasilla residents and officials see the special session as an opportunity for the region to flex its political clout. The fast-growing Matanuska-Susitna Borough has a population of more than 100,000.
"We're really progressing, but the rest of Alaska wants to ignore that or pretend it's not happening," borough manager John Moosey said. "We're growing. Anchorage is not."
Dunleavy touted the location as a selling point, saying it is within a five-hour drive of a large majority of the state's more than 730,000 residents.
Juneau and the surrounding area, home to about 32,000 people, are not on the main road system. People have to fly or take a boat, like a state-run ferry, to get there. There have been periodic efforts to move the capital or Legislature.
Jan Engan, who moved to Wasilla in 2014 to be closer to family, cited cost concerns with traveling to Juneau and said people in other states have easier access to their lawmakers. Engan used to work for state government in North Dakota.
Some in the region, sometimes referred to as the Mat-Su Valley, see the special session as a chance to shake off the "valley trash" slight used years ago by former state Sen. Ben Stevens, a Republican who is now a Dunleavy adviser. A 2004 editorial in the local newspaper said Stevens used the term in response to an email from an individual criticizing him. Stevens didn't respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment for this story.
The Bearpaw River Brewing Co. recently resurrected the "Valley Trash" imperial blonde ale, using the recipe from the original brewery that closed. The beer is sold in cans.
"The label is ironically classy, with cursive lettering," owner and operations manager Jake Wade said.
Jessica Viera with the Wasilla chamber said too many people see the city as a place you pass through on your way somewhere else and don't see its expansion.
"So, to have this kind of growth and then just be like, 'Oh, well. Who cares about Wasilla?' Well, we care about Wasilla because we love living here, playing here, working here. You can do everything."
It remains unclear whether lawmakers will legislate there. Legislative leaders have been discussing their options.
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Texas Activists Combine Social Media With Old-School Tactics to Resist Conservative Agenda
Intersectional movements are helping the left gain ground, not just play defense.
What Defend Texas Trees did and how they did it during a 30-day Special Session of the Texas Legislature offers a window into how progressive movements are increasingly joining forces and harnessing the power of their numbers to attack conservative agendas.
Photo by www.justraveling.com.
Kit O’Connell posted Oct 10, 2017
Who could resist images of smiling children gathered under an ancient oak tree on the grounds of the Texas Capitol, transfixed by Democrat and Republican lawmakers doing a tag-team recitation of Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax?
Apparently not the good folks of Texas.
A broad coalition of environmental activists employed just such a strategy during a special session of the Texas Legislature this summer as a way of stealing the spotlight and defeating a bill meant to strip municipalities of their power to protect historic trees.
And while the “heritage trees” law did eventually pass, it had been so defanged of its ability to interfere with local regulations that the environmental advocates declared victory. “This isn’t about liberal overreach; this is about the purest values that we have amongst us,” explained Andrew Dobbs, program director at Texas Campaign for the Environment, a group that is a key organizer of the Defend Texas Trees coalition.
These kinds of intersectional movements aren’t new.
What Defend Texas Trees did and how they did it during a 30-day Special Session of the Texas Legislature offers a window into how progressive movements—often with disparate and unrelated interests—are increasingly joining forces and harnessing the power of their numbers to attack conservative agendas.
Another such intersectional movement, One Texas Resistance—a partnership of LGBTQIA and abortion rights groups as well as grassroots protest movements like Indivisible—used cross-movement collaboration, grassroots lobbying and in-your-face actions to successfully fight back a barrage of attacks on their constituents.
By combining their efforts, these coalition members shared information about upcoming legislation and pooled resources and people power—illuminating links between seemingly disparate issues and forging ties that organizers hope will last beyond the legislative sessions.
These kinds of intersectional movements aren’t new. They exist across the country in many forms, including the Moral Mondays movement, which deliberately seeks to connect a host of interrelated social justice issues to build collective power.
And as more state legislatures have come under control of Republicans, who seem poised to attack vulnerable populations, strategies such as the ones used in Texas offer tangible lessons and insight for resisting conservative agendas in other states, coordinators say.
The dramatic reading of The Lorax wasn’t just a media-friendly photo op. Dobbs’ group took children and their parents to key legislative offices, handing out copies of the classic children’s book to lawmakers. The group brought in other stakeholders as well, including arborists and even military officials who testified to the importance of trees in training exercises.
The bill was just one point in Texas’ Gov. Greg Abbott’s 20-point agenda, ranging from abortion restrictions to a version of the infamous anti-transgender “bathroom bill.” Abbott had hoped to pass them all in just 30 days.
In Texas, the legislature meets for 140 days every other year, a tight window for the state to conduct two years’ worth of business. The state Constitution allows the governor to call an unlimited number of special 30-day sessions, intended for emergency situations.
Transgender people of all ages are especially vulnerable to self-harm and suicide attempts.
When it became clear that the bathroom bill wouldn’t pass during the 2017 regular session, Republican leadership orchestrated an “emergency” by making sure that a crucial budget bill didn’t pass, thus triggering the need for a special session.
Supportive Democratic lawmakers attacked his agenda from the inside with amendments and delaying tactics. That gave activists time to pressure Republican lawmakers, who—fed up with the open hostility among their leadership—were unusually receptive to the left.
And so the activists went to work.
One Texas Resistance was born from a previous collaboration between ACLU of Texas and reproductive access organizations like Texas Equal Access (TEA) Fund and Afiya Center, and expanded to include members such as Equality Texas. Equality Texas led the fight against the transgender bathroom bill, along with diverse groups like Voto Latino and the Workers Defense Action Fund.
One Texas was inspired by Sister Song, an organization led by Southern women of color that seeks to link abortion access with other issues such as poverty and police brutality. They call it the “Reproductive Justice” movement.
With power in numbers, they combined social media and online activism with old-fashioned lobbying in legislators’ offices and phone banking that generated thousands of calls. They enlisted corporations to put financial pressure on the state.
Hundreds of the groups’ members showed up on the first day of the special session for a massive One Texas Resistance rally outside the Capitol, even as temperatures that July day crept toward the triple digits.
And they kept coming back, day after day, from all across the state, showing that the issues mattered to constituents outside the Capitol, which the conservative governor sometimes derisively refers to as “the People’s Republic of Austin.”
Like Defend Texas Trees, opponents of the bathroom bill used storytelling to get their messages across. Children, clergy, and police officers came out in support of transgender rights. “Most of Texas didn’t want this,” said Jess Herbst, mayor of New Hope, Texas, and the state's first transgender mayor.
“We showed up each and every time in force and we told our stories over and over again.”
In a dramatic sign of activists’ success at reframing the issues, Rep. Joe Straus, the Republican Speaker of the House, told the media that he wouldn’t allow the Texas House to support the bathroom bill because he didn't want to feel responsible for the suicide of transgender youth. Transgender people of all ages are especially vulnerable to self-harm and suicide attempts, but Republican legislators don't usually express sensitivity to this risk.
“Those talking points came from grassroots organizations and advocates and parents of transgender children,” said Ash Hall, who worked as a government relations manager during the regular session and as a Democratic policy analyst during the special session. “When people put on the pressure, it does change the way that elected officials are talking about these issues,” she added.
Helping lawmakers and other Texans outside the urban centers see transgender people as their neighbors and co-workers was vital to winning them over. And as opposition to the bathroom bill spread to more Texans outside the LGBTQIA community, support plummeted in the Legislature.
“The transgender community didn’t roll over and play dead or hide like we were expected to,” Herbst said. “We showed up each and every time in force, and we told our stories over and over again.”
In addition to defeating the bathroom bill, activists also derailed an attack on Planned Parenthood, a bill that would have drastically restricted cities’ ability to collect the property taxes they use to fund social services, and an attack on the right of public workers’ unions to collect dues.
But not all issues received the same level of intersectional attention. While supporters of abortion access rallied for transgender rights and in support of public workers’ unions, fewer people came out in defense of abortion.
And in one of the worst losses of the session, a bill passed prohibiting most standard insurance plans, including those under the Affordable Care Act, from covering abortions. The law provides no exceptions for rape, incest, or fetal abnormalities, and opponents have said it effectively forces women to buy rape insurance.
“Abortion stigma is still alive and well even on the left and in progressive spaces,” said Nan Little Kirkpatrick, the executive director of TEA Fund, which provides financial assistance to low-income people who want but can’t afford abortions. “People don’t show up for those fights the way they show up for other fights.”
Still, intersectional movements such as One Texas Resistance help Kirkpatrick and her allies show others how abortion access ties to other social justice issues—from the rights of people of color and undocumented immigrants to LGBTQIA freedom. “It’s not about taking support from anything else, it’s about wanting to have support for abortion access that’s on par with other issues,” she said.
This work requires a focus on long-term change rather than short-term gains, she said. And she believes that over time, this can build the kind of positive cultural change that will lead to the left gaining ground again, instead of simply fighting defensively. “We’re going to continue working outside of the legislative session to build those coalitions,” Kirkpatrick said.
Kit O’Connell wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Kit is a journalist from Austin, Texas. Find more of his writing at kitoconnell.com.
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August 17, 2016 at 7:54 pm EDT | by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
‘They’re cowards’ — gay athletes still refuse to come out
Major League Soccer player Robbie Rogers of the Los Angeles Galaxy and Minor League Baseball player David Denson of the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, currently are the only openly gay players associated with the five major U.S. sports leagues for men.
Yet despite the longstanding absence of out gay players, LGBT sports advocates say the big five leagues in recent years have adopted an unprecedented array of LGBT-supportive policies and outreach programs.
The leagues include Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, and Major League Soccer. The Washington Blade also reviewed the policies of the United States Tennis Association, which has adopted LGBT-related outreach programs and tournaments.
Although the advocates acknowledge the LGBT supportive policies of the five leagues haven’t had an immediate effect of prompting more gay players to come out, they say the policies and programs have laid the groundwork for gay players to come out in the coming years.
“I would say that almost every league has a non-discrimination policy and every league that we work with has an inclusive policy,” said Wade Davis, a gay former NFL player, in referring to the big five leagues’ LGBT programs and policies.
Davis serves as executive director of the You Can Play Project, a New York-based group that advocates for LGBT inclusion in professional sports. Among other things, he conducts LGBT training sessions on behalf of You Can Play for players, coaches and upper management officials at several of the leagues, including the NFL.
‘I would say that almost every league has a non-discrimination policy and every league that we work with has an inclusive policy,’ said Wade Davis, a gay former NFL player. (Washington Blade file photo by Damien Salas)
He says nearly all of the players and coaches he talks to have expressed strong support for treating a gay player as a fully accepted and respected member of their teams if and when a gay player comes out.
The national advocacy group Athlete Ally, founded by former college wrestler Hudson Taylor, has lined up more than 100 professional athletes who, like Taylor, have become straight allies and “ambassadors” of their respective sports for the purpose of advocating on behalf of LGBT inclusion in sports. Among those who have signed on as ally ambassadors are players in each of the big five major men’s sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball. Taylor has said the players who sign on as ally-ambassadors do so with the full support of their teams and respective leagues.
In addition to adopting policies and programs aimed at supporting out gay players, Major League Baseball, the Super Bowl, the U.S. Tennis Association, and the Professional Golf Association recently have expanded their LGBT inclusion policies to welcome LGBT-owned businesses.
In a development that drew attention in the professional sports world, Major League Baseball announced in March of this year that it entered into a first-of-its-kind partnership with the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. The partnership is aimed at helping LGBT-owned businesses to become official suppliers of products and services for MLB.
NGLCC President Justin Nelson said the partnership would enable hundreds of LGBT-owned businesses like construction companies and equipment suppliers to compete for business with the league and its baseball teams.
Nelson has said the partnership with MLB comes after his organization entered into similar partnerships with the NFL’s Super Bowl, the U.S. Tennis Association, and the PGA.
NGLCC has served as a clearinghouse for corporations and local and federal government agencies interested in reliable business suppliers and contractors by certifying LGBT-owned businesses deemed to be capable of providing products and services. The certification qualifies them to compete as an LGBT/minority owned business.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred this year promoted gay former MLB player Billy Bean to the newly created position of Vice President for Social Responsibility and Inclusion. (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)
LGBT sports advocates point to Major League Baseball as one of the most LGBT supportive of the big five professional men’s sports leagues. In July 2014, then Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig hired gay former Major League player Billy Bean as a consultant on LGBT issues under the title of Ambassador for Inclusion.
After assessing Bean’s work in organizing and conducting LGBT-related training sessions and meetings with players, managers, and coaches in his first year and a half on the job, Selig’s successor, Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred in January of this year promoted Bean to the newly created position of Vice President for Social Responsibility and Inclusion.
“In his elevated role, Bean will be responsible for many of the League’s social responsibility initiatives, including oversight of MLB’s Workplace Code of Conduct and anti-bullying programming, while continuing to facilitate inclusion strategies with a focus on the LGBT community,” MLB said in a statement at the time of Bean’s promotion.
“Billy has really taken his role and made it very, very important and special for us,” Michael Teevan, MLB’s vice president for communication, told the Washington Blade. “He’s an amazing human being. We have really enjoyed working with him.”
Teevan said Manfred named another former MLB player, Curtis Pride, who’s deaf, to replace Bean as the league’s Ambassador for Inclusion. Pride isn’t gay but has been an advocate for minorities in sports, and Teevan said he will continue the work Bean started in the ambassador’s position.
Teevan said as far as he knows, David Denson is the only current out gay player in MLB system. He noted that Denson talked to Bean before deciding to publicly disclose he’s gay while playing for his minor league team associated with the Milwaukee Brewers system.
Sean Conroy, another minor league player affiliated with an independent league not part of the MLB system, also recently came out as gay.
Teevan was asked why he thought an out gay player has yet to emerge on a major league team despite the MLB’s LGBT-supportive policies and programs.
“What I would say is we would love it if it happens and if the player wants to do it we tried to build a foundation that would make it comfortable to do so,” he said.
Teevan added, “We have tried to make it clear that baseball is inclusive and that it’s a game for everybody and that we tried to install the attitude that if a player wanted to make such an announcement he would get absolute support and respect.”
The NFL’s stated commitment to LGBT inclusion is said to have been first observed in August 2011 when it agreed to a labor contract with the NFL Players Association that added sexual orientation to the league’s existing non-discrimination policy.
“There will be no discrimination in any form against any player by the Management Council, any Club or by the NFLPA because of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or activity or lack of activity on behalf of the NFLPA,” the contract states.
Davis of You Can Play has been credited with playing an important role in promoting LGBT inclusiveness within the NFL since the labor contract was signed, including following two developments that some LGBT activists viewed as signs of homophobia.
In February 2013, three college football players participating the NFL’s annual tryout gathering in Indianapolis, where NFL scouts and coaches evaluate prospective candidates for the NFL draft, told the media they were asked if they like girls. Some criticized the action as an attempt to screen out gay players.
The development prompted New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to invite NFL officials to a meeting where he brokered an agreement by the NFL to conduct year-round seminars for players and officials involved in hiring players that discuss the league’s non-discrimination policies, according to media accounts of the meeting.
Notices of the NFL’s non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, including the ban on sexual orientation discrimination, would be posted in locker rooms throughout the NFL under terms of the agreement.
Davis said You Can Play quickly approached the Atlanta Falcons with suggestions on diversity training earlier this year after news surfaced that a coach asked one of the players about his sexual orientation.
“They will do about two or three events to make sure their players know and their coaches know that this is something that’s not tolerable and there needs to be education that’s happening on their team,” Davis said.
For the most part, Davis said, NFL teams and players have engaged in positive activities on the LGBT front, including a parking lot tailgate event designated as You Can Play Day with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He noted that last year, his group arranged for New York Giants players to visit an LGBT youth service agency in Manhattan, the Hetrick-Martin Institute, where they met and spoke with LGBT youth.
A short time later, We Can Play arranged for a group of about 30 LGBT youth to attend a Giants game, where they were invited onto the field before the game started to visit with the players. Davis said it was part of his group’s ongoing “High Five” events associated with NFL games.
Similar to the NFL, the NBA adopted a sexual orientation non-discrimination policy in 2011 but went a step further by announcing that players making anti-LGBT slurs on the basketball court would be subjected to a fine of $50,000.
LGBT sports advocates praised the NBA and its players for expressing strong support for then-Washington Wizards player Jason Collins when he came out as gay in April 2013, becoming the first out gay person in any of the big five men’s sports leagues. Collins, at age 35 and after 13 years as an NBA player with several teams, announced his retirement from basketball in November 2014.
Earlier this year, the NBA, in partnership with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, embarked on a campaign to sell LGBT Pride Month T-shirts in which the logo of every NBA team was altered to show a rainbow design. The NBA donated the proceeds from the sales to GLSEN, which advocates for LGBT youth in the nation’s schools.
“Support from professional sports for LGBT people has been one of the biggest cultural developments in the past five years, and the NBA has consistently led the way,” GLSEN Executive Director Eliza Byard said.
The NBA was further praised by GLSEN and other LGBT advocacy organizations last month when it announced it was withdrawing its 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, N.C., to protest the approval by the North Carolina Legislature earlier this year of an anti-LGBT law known as HB-2.
The NHL, which has a sexual orientation non-discrimination policy, in 2013, became another one of the big five major league sports for men to enter into a partnership with You Can Play. Hockey officials said the partnership formalized and advanced the league’s existing commitment to inclusiveness in sports.
“The NHL sets the standard for professional sports when it comes to LGBT outreach and we are incredibly grateful for their help and support,” said Philadelphia Fliers scout Patrick Burke, co-founder of the You Can Play Project.
“While we believe that our actions in the past have shown our support for the LGBT community, we are delighted to reaffirm through this joint venture with the NHL Players’ Association that the official policy of the NHL is one of inclusion on the ice, in our locker rooms and in the stands,” said NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman. Bettman was referring to the NHL Players’ Association joining the NHL in its partnership with You Can Play.
Earlier this year, the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation, which is affiliated with the Oilers team, announced it had become the founding partner of Pride Tape, an NHL program aimed at supporting LGBT equality by asking players to attach rainbow colored tape to their hockey sticks.
“Pride tape is described as a badge of support from the teammates, coaches, parents and pros to young LGBTQ players,” a statement released by organizers of the project says.
Similar to the NHL and other major sports leagues, Major League Soccer has adopted a sexual orientation non-discrimination policy and a partnership with You Can Play. The partnership with MLS and the other leagues involves an agreement where MLS invites a You Can Play representative, usually Wade Davis, to conduct LGBT-related training sessions for players, coaches, and other league employees.
The U.S. Tennis Association bills itself as the “national governing body for the sport of tennis and the recognized leader in promoting and developing the sport’s growth on every level in the United States, from local communities to the crown jewel of the professional game, the U.S. Open.”
The USTA’s website includes a sweeping diversity and inclusion statement adopted in 2012 that calls for “removing barriers to allow us to be inclusive so that tennis reflects all of America.” Although the statement doesn’t specifically mention LGBT people or any other minority, other sections of the website promote specific LGBT-related programs and tournaments.
Among them is the announcement in February of this year of an expansion of a first-of-its-kind same-gender couple’s tennis tournament launched in Palm Springs, Calif.
“The USTA is proud to recognize this tournament as an official USTA National Championship event,” said Katrina Adams, the USTA board chair and CEO and president, in a statement. “We were thrilled at the success of last year’s inaugural event, and sincerely hope that giving the event National Championship status will allow it to continue to grow and attract even more same-gender couples to the competition,” she said.
Cyd Ziegler, co-founder and co-editor of the LGBT sports news website OutSports, points out that the USTA’s same-sex couples tournaments are limited to the association’s amateur division and that the USTA has no same-sex couples tournaments in its professional tennis division.
“In the history of tennis they’ve never had a ranked [male] player come out publicly,” said Ziegler in referring to professional tennis tournaments.
A USTA spokesperson couldn’t immediately be reached to determine whether the USTA has plans for a professional tennis tournament for same-sex couples.
Why don’t more gay athletes come out?
Ziegler, a recognized expert on LGBT sports issues, and You Can Play’s Davis agree that the big five men’s sports leagues have made dramatic changes in recent years to become open to LGBT athletes. But the two, like many LGBT sports observers, disagree sharply over why more gay athletes don’t come out in those leagues.
“Tomorrow somebody could decide to come out or could be caught literally with his pants down,” Ziegler told the Blade. “All professional sports leagues are quote-unquote ready for an out player. But the gay athletes are just afraid. They’re cowards.”
He added, “The definition of a coward is somebody who lets fear govern his actions. And the gay athletes in the major men’s professional sports today are cowards. And even worse than the athletes that are active in sports are the dozens or hundreds of gay athletes who are retired who won’t come out,” he said.
“I mean, they have nothing to lose in the sports world. And for them to not come out really shows the disdain for the mental health of America’s youth,” especially LGBT youth who look to professional athletes as role models, Ziegler said.
“Cyd is a friend of mine,” Davis said. “But Cyd has never been a professional athlete. And everyone’s coming out experience is very different. Everyone’s experience growing up as a gay person is very, very different,” said Davis.
“So I find it a little disingenuous and a little hard to hear that everyone who’s not out is a coward,” Davis told the Blade.
Davis said he has spoken to closeted gay athletes in recent years and has learned that their individual situations are complex and nuanced.
“You’re not just coming out to your team,” he said. “You have to realize that when you come out on a professional sports team, you still have a family to deal with. So your family situation may be set up in a certain way that you also have to deal with now. Maybe my father is not going to be accepting.”
According to Davis, most of the gay athletes are aware of experiences of other gays who have come out in college sports and the rare cases of someone coming out in professional sports like Jason Collins.
“And what most people don’t understand – I have talked to a lot of closeted players,” Davis said. “And they will tell you as soon as you come out as an openly gay player in a sport you become just that…The focus would be on whether or not this gay person can survive in the locker room,” Davis continued.
“And I don’t know too many athletes I’ve spoken to who want to be engaged in that conversation when at the same time they have to perform on the field or on the court,” he said.
Ziegler praised organizations like You Can Play for working with professional sports leagues to put in place policies and practices that are inclusive of gay players. But he said the sports-related LGBT advocacy groups should also be encouraging more athletes to come out.
“At this point the most important thing any of these advocacy groups can do is identify professional LGBT athletes and work with them to come out publicly. I don’t think any of them are doing that,” he said.
“That’s not our job,” said Davis. “That’s not our responsibility. The responsibility of our organization is to make the culture safe,” he said. “Those players are human beings. They know their lives better than we do. They have agency, which means they have the free will to decide what’s best for their lives.”
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August 18, 2016 at 10:33 am EDT at 10:33 am
Ziegler is a fool. Coming out is a personal decision and isn’t always governed by fear. While policies aways look good on paper, personal relationships, financial decisions (not all big sponsors will let a gay man be their spokesperson to a world whose consumers are overwhelming long straight), and personal circumstances, should govern a person coming out, not the desire of the LGBT coming out police.
bandanajack
August 19, 2016 at 2:15 am EDT at 2:15 am
there has to be a column three. cyd’s accusation, while rooted in the truth, is not productive; wade’s statement is simply a whitewash, pardon the term. imho, at this point he is more invested in his fat paycheck than any results, and in his unmitigated support for the athletes he SAYS he has spoken to, he completely disregards the lives of the gay adolescents being destroyed by homophobia in their schools.
neither seems to remember the actual goals they set out to attain.
Ted Heavy
August 27, 2016 at 3:23 pm EDT at 3:23 pm
But the gay athletes are just afraid. They’re cowards.” Fear is a harsh way to state it. The whole coming out this is just plain retarded. I love it when people have press conferences to tell the world about their sexual proclivity. I can tell you from the hetero perspective no one cares. It is not brave it is not heroic. What a person does in their bedroom is a private issue. In todays world the only people that want to make a big deal of their sexuality are gays. No one cares.
Phobia? There is no fear of gays.
Gerard Mason
March 28, 2017 at 9:48 am EDT at 9:48 am
It’s odd how gay people sometimes turn to the dark side^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Left and become activists, and then end up socialist activists who just happen to be gay. Any individuality they might have had, as gay people, becomes suffocated by the moral vacuum cleaner that is leftist identity politics, and they are left as rootless, witless ghosts. Being gay taught me that it is always the individual that matters, and that groups are just masses of individuals — if you get the laws for individuals right, you don’t need identity politics. Every time I hear another leftist gay regurgitating pre-prepared, pre-sanctioned opinions as though it’s the cleverest thing possible — I pray for the soul of George Orwell.
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THE 2013 TONY® AWARD-WINNING BROADWAY MUSICAL RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA COMES TO THE WASHINGTON PAVILION IN SIOUX FALLS IN JANUARY
Sioux Falls, SD – RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN'S CINDERELLA, the 2013 Tony® Award-winning Broadway musical from the creators of THE KING & I and THE SOUND OF MUSIC, will play the Washington Pavilion for a limited engagement on January 9 and 10, 2019.
Tickets for CINDERELLA are available now and can be purchased at the Washington Pavilion Box Office at 301 S. Main Ave, by calling (605) 367-6000 or at washingtonpavilion.org. Special pricing is available for groups of 15 or more.
With its fresh new take on the beloved tale of a young woman who is transformed from a chambermaid into a princess, this hilarious and romantic Rodgers + Hammerstein's CINDERELLA combines the story's classic elements – glass slippers, pumpkin, and a beautiful ball along with some surprising twists.
More than just a pretty face with the right shoe size, this Cinderella is a contemporary figure living in a fairytale setting. She is a spirited young woman with savvy and soul who doesn't let her rags or her gowns trip her up in her quest for kindness, compassion and forgiveness. She longs to escape the drudgery of her work at home and instead work to make the world a better place. She not only fights for her own dreams, but forces the prince to open his eyes to the world around him and realize his dreams too.
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA has music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, a new book by Douglas Carter Beane and original book by Oscar Hammerstein II. Originally directed by Mark Brokaw and choreographed by Josh Rhodes, the tour is directed by Gina Rattan and choreographed by Lee Wilkins. Music adaptation and arrangements are by David Chase and music supervision is by Greg Anthony Rassen. Orchestrations are by Bill Elliott and are adapted from the original Broadway orchestrations by Danny Troob.
One of Rodgers + Hammerstein's most popular titles, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA was written for television -- debuting in 1957 starring Julie Andrews. In 2013, the show made its long-overdue Broadway debut. Along with CINDERELLA, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's legendary musicals include OKLAHOMA!, CAROUSEL, THE KING AND I, SOUTH PACIFIC and SOUND OF MUSIC.
Mr. Beane's book for Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA blends masterfully with the musical's cherished score with songs including "In My Own Little Corner," "Impossible/It's Possible," "Ten Minutes Ago" and "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?"
The creative team includes scenic design by Tony® Award nominee Anna Louizos, costume design by six-time Tony® Award-winner William Ivey Long, lighting design by Tony® Award-winner Kenneth Posner and sound design by Tony® Award nominee Nevin Steinberg.
The Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA tour is produced by Work Light Productions. CINDERELLA was produced on Broadway by Robyn Goodman, Jill Furman, Stephen Kocis, Edward Walson, Venetian Glass Productions, The Araca Group, Luigi Caiola & Rose Caiola, Roy Furman, Walt Grossman, Peter May/Sanford Robertson, Glass Slipper Productions LLC/Eric Schmidt, Ted Liebowitz/James Spry, Blanket Fort Productions and in association with Center Theatre Group.
For more information please visit www.CinderellaOnBroadway.com
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Twitter: @CinderellaBway
The Washington Pavilion is the region’s home for the arts, entertainment and science. Located in a beautifully renovated historic building in downtown Sioux Falls, it is one of only a few facilities in the world to bring together under one roof the performing arts, visual arts and interactive science. The vast array of high quality programming and educational activities available through the Husby Performing Arts Center, Kirby Science Discovery Center, Visual Arts Center and the Community Learning Center ensures that people of all ages and walks of life can rely upon the Washington Pavilion to inspire, educate, entertain and enrich. There is, indeed, something for everyone here. For information about our programs, please call (605) 367-7397 or, (toll free) at 1-877-Wash Pav or visit our website at www.washingtonpavilion.org.
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EDITORIAL: New gay Army
Top general calls Christian soldiers 'bigots'
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By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times - Thursday, September 16, 2010
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Next week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to begin floor debate on a defense authorization bill that would repeal the Clinton-era “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and allow homosexuals to serve openly in the armed forces. Last month, a top military official offered a glimpse of how the military might look should the new policy take effect: Those serving who oppose the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) agenda are no longer welcome.
Those were the views of Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, the Army’s deputy chief of staff in charge of personnel matters who spoke about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” before several hundred troops at the European Command headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. “Unfortunately, we have a minority of service members who are still racists and bigoted and you will never be able to get rid of all of them,” Lt. Gen. Bostick said. “But these people opposing this new policy will need to get with the program, and if they can’t, they need to get out. No matter how much training and education of those in opposition, you’re always going to have those that oppose this on moral and religious grounds just like you still have racists today.”
The strong words take additional significance from Lt. Gen. Bostick’s direct involvement with a Pentagon panel charged with shaping military policy on this issue. Although Lt. Gen. Bostick presented the question of homosexuals in the military as if it were about civil rights, it is nothing of the kind. The services must discriminate to function. Those who are too old, too weak or too overweight must be shown the door even when similar actions in the private sector might spark a lawsuit. The reason for the military’s existence is to win battles and wars, not to ensure feelings aren’t hurt or to serve as a playground for social experimentation.
The military’s long-standing ban on homosexual conduct is rooted in the principles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which also criminalizes adulterous conduct among heterosexuals insofar as it undermines the good order and discipline of the armed forces. Lt. Gen. Bostick suggested he would employ the same strict disciplinary standards to provide “education and training” that would ensure soldiers, sailors and airmen embrace the new LGBT agenda.
“Unfortunately, if the law is repealed, the military will attempt to do what it does - makes things work, for better or worse,” Tommy Sears, executive director of the Center for Military Readiness, told The Washington Times. “So there will be no toleration of dissent. If for whatever reason you disagree, whether it’s religious conviction or personal objection, your career will in essence be over.”
Servicemen should not be booted from the military because of their sincerely held religious convictions. It’s unseemly for a senior officer to equate those who hold traditional values with racists and bigots. Lt. Gen. Bostick’s careless words demonstrate his unsuitability to the task, and, for that reason, he should withdraw from further involvement in the Pentagon panel set to issue a report on the new policy by Dec. 1. The Senate also should reject this attempt to undermine the effectiveness, morale and morals of the military on the behalf of a radical fringe.
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Cherokee County Experiences Localized Flooding on Tuesday
Jerry Baker
Cherokee County, FLOODING, nws, Severe Weather
The Cherokee County area received as much as four to six inches of rainfall on Tuesday – causing flooding in many locations.
In the City of Centre, Park Street was covered in water, a portion of Northwood Drive had water flowing over it, and Hardwood Drive off Highway 9 South in Centre also experienced flooding.
The National Weather Service in Birmingham reports that three to seven inches of rain fell across central Etowah County causing flooding in many areas there.
The weather forecast is calling for more rainfall over the next couple of days which could translate to flash flooding. Those who live in low lying flood-prone areas should pay close attention to the weather siltation during the time and be prepared to evacuate immediately if necessary.
WEIS Radio will continue to monitor the weather and will keep you updated on all weather watches and warnings issued by the National Weather Service.
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Heart-Saving Chinese Remedy Legalized
By Jennifer Barrett , Aug 28, 2007
For many of the estimated 57 million Americans with moderately high cholesterol (200-239mg/dL), the supplement Cholestin is a natural treatment for heart health. The formula derives its benefits from red yeast rice, a traditional Chinese food whose virtues as a circulation tonic were extolled by the Tang Dynasty in 800 A.D. Since then, more than 30 clinical trials in China and the U.S. have documented the positive effects of the supplement, including a most recent study conducted at the UCLA School of Medicine. As reported in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in February 1999, the double-blind, randomized trial of 83 subjects showed Cholestin to significantly reduce total cholesterol levels. With heart disease the number one killer in America today, thousands are turning to this product to keep their cholesterol levels down.
Unfortunately for Pharmanex, the maker of Cholestin, the FDA has not been willing to jump on the bandwagon. In the spring of 1998, the federal agency informed the company that their product was a drug, not a supplement, and an unregulated one at that. One of the constituents in Cholestin is chemically identical to a synthetic ingredient in the prescription drug Mevacor, and this, said the FDA, put the product on par with other prescription drugs.
The FDA banned the company from importing the fermented rice and told them they would have to apply for drug status if they wanted to continue selling it. Pharmanex's subsequent appeal of the decision has become the landmark test case of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). In 1994, thousands of health consumers and natural products companies fought for passage of this law to guarantee consumer access to dietary supplements without lengthy and costly FDA approval. Groups on both sides of the issue have monitored the Pharmanex case closely, knowing that the final verdict would have far-reaching ramifications for those who use herbal products.
"The implications of this case were enormous," recalls Pharmanex President Bill McGlashan. "Cholestin contains all naturally occurring ingredients. Mevacor is a synthetically isolated, purified, and crystallized drug product. The FDA was basically saying that we needed to spend the $75 to $300 million it takes to get a drug approved. Taking it a step further, plants with active beneficial ingredients like green tea would have to be marketed as drugs too."
Millions of dollars in legal fees later, says McGlashan, the case was before the Utah U.S. District Court, which had to decide whether or not to overturn the FDA's decision. In February of 1999, much to the relief of natural products companies throughout the country, the court ruled that the natural cholesterol-lowering formula was indeed a supplement. The judge pointed to the fact that the DSHEA law allows supplement makers to sell products without the approval of the FDA, unless a safety issue is involved. Since the agency never questioned the safety of Cholestin, Pharmanex was off the hook.
Many viewed the ruling as an important affirmation of the DSHEA law. Susan Haeger, president and CEO of Citizens for Health, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group in Boulder, Colorado, explains, "This is the first time that DSHEA—an intent of Congress to make supplements accessible to consumers—has been tested in court. Pharmanex has done so much research to be able to communicate the benefits of red yeast rice clearly to their consumers, and had the FDA won this case, it would have discouraged other companies from investing in science. For the FDA to classify this product as a drug was extremely disturbing. I'll be very interested to see if the FDA appeals the case."
The Pharmanex case is just a first chapter in what is likely to be a long tale of strained relations between the rapidly growing natural products industry and the FDA.
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Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
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Department lecturer nominated for prestigious documentary award
One of our lecturers, David Hickman, has been nominated for the prestigious IDA documentary award in Los Angeles.
The nomination is for the series Slavery: A 21st Century Evil which David co-directed last year for the channel Al Jazeera English. The series has been nominated by the Los Angeles-based International Documentary Association (IDA) for the 2012 IDA Documentary Awards, which will be announced at a ceremony on 7th December. The IDA is 'the world's most prestigious award for non-fiction filmmaking'; and other nominations in David's category include films by Werner Herzog and Martin Scorsese.
David produced, directed and photographed three of the films in the 'Slavery' series. In addition, much of the post-production work was done here in the department, making use of our professional standard facilities.
The full list of nominees is:
BOMB PATROL: AFGHANISTAN (NBC/G4), GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD (HBO), ON DEATH ROW (Investigation Discovery), SLAVERY: A 21ST CENTURY EVIL (Al Jazeera English), THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION (HBO)
About the IDA Documentary Awards
The annual IDA Documentary Awards Gala is the world’s most prestigious award event solely dedicated to documentary film. For almost three decades, IDA has produced this annual celebration to recognize the most groundbreaking documentary films of the year. In addition to honoring both individuals and organizations for outstanding achievements in documentary filmmaking and contributions to the field, the IDA Documentary Awards also recognizes the year’s best documentary productions.
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TSU instructor charged with sexual assault
By Sara Vanden Berge
An instructor at Tarleton State University has been charged with sexual assault in an incident that reportedly did not take place on campus.
Philip Matthew Loyd, 31, was taken into custody Thursday and is being held at the Erath County Jail on a $10,000 bond.
Lt. Don Miller with the Stephenville Police Department said Loyd was arrested in connection with an out-of-state warrant.
He is listed as Dr. Matt Loyd on Tarleton’s website.
According to his Facebook page, Loyd is the director of teacher education, certification officer and assistant professor at Tarleton. He has been with the university for less than a year.
Prior to that he was employed at Southwest Minnesota State University.
The E-T will bring you more on this developing story as details become available.
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Father and son find adventure with metal detector
Jul. 2, 2014 10:00 a.m.
West Coast metal detecting enthusiast James Van Camp recently celebrated a banner week of treasure hunting.
After about five hours of scouring waist-deep in the ocean north of Swim Beach, a buzz from Van Camp’s metal detector led to the discovery of an 1883 Canadian quarter.
“It was totally amazing. When I first popped it out of the ground and pulled it out of the water and had a look I almost felt like somebody was setting me up,” he said. “It’s one of those things you don’t really think is going to happen and when it does it’s fantastic.”
He said the coin’s condition suggests it was likely dropped shortly after being minted, meaning it had spent over 100 years in the ground.
Van Camp noted the area he was scouring has no easy-access or nearby road.
“The really interesting thing is wondering how the coin got there and who it came from; of course I’ll never figure that out but that’s certainly part of the fun,” he said.
A few days after finding the historic quarter, Van Camp made another fascinating discovery when he dug up a 1923 nickel on Big Beach.
The quarter is the oldest coin Van Camp has found, with his previous best being a 1918 American wheat penny he discovered buried in MacKenzie Beach last summer.
Van Camp is not a coin collector and does not search for treasure to make a profit but what he keeps serve as thrill-of-the-chase mementos.
“Looking in the box of stuff that I’ve found you get to relive the moment you found it,” he said.
Van Camp, a member of the Ucluelet RCMP, is a relative noob in the metal detecting game and got into the hobby last year when his son Lucas, a Grade 8 USS student, showed an interest. He said the activity quickly became a unique source of fatherson bonding.
“When somebody asks ‘what are you looking for’ I always say ‘fun’ and we find it every time, so it’s not really about what you bring home it’s what you’re doing while you’re out there and it’s fantastic,” he said.
Along with the fun they have, Lucas and his father have enjoyed the good karma of clearing garbage off beaches and returning lost items.
Van Camp recently volunteered to assist a man who lost a wedding ring in the region and is stoked on the opportunity to investigate.
Lucas once found a cell phone in the sand and tracked down its owner who was thrilled to have it returned.
“He gave us a really, really, nice glass blown starfish for our efforts,” Van Camp said noting Lucas had not asked for any reward. “When you return something to somebody it’s really nice.”
He encourages others to take up the activity but urges them to follow a code of ethics that includes re-filling every hole they dig and removing any trash they find.
“Metal detecting is such a neat hobby; you’re out treasure hunting and you’re cleaning up the beach as you go,” he said. “It’s so much fun and the people that I’ve met doing it are awesome.”
One of the people Van Camp has met is a 17-year-old Florida youth who had been mugged on a beach by two men who stole his metal detector.
Van Camp found about the youth’s experience through online threads last November.
“The story bothered me and it stuck with me for quite a few days,” he said.
When he told Lucas what had happened, Lucas decided to send the youth his metal detector.
“I was super proud of Lucas,” Van Camp said. “He knows that we’re fortunate enough to work for an organization like the RCMP and we live in a nice spot and we’ve got a great family and he just thought ‘let’s pass it along.'” The Van Camps shipped the metal detector off and the youth was stoked when it arrived.
“The tides and weather were really good and he was just dying to go out and he couldn’t go and then he got a knock at the door and it came in the mail and he was super excited,” Van Camp said.
He said the youth has stayed in touch and often sends photos of his found treasures.
“I don’t want him to feel like he owes us anything,” Van Camp said. “It wasn’t something that we wanted to be thanked repeatedly for. We just wanted to be able to pass it along.”
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21st – 23rd OCT 2019
WETEX
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WETEX 2017 invites universities to participate in the Innovation Hall to showcase latest innovations and inventions
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer: The Innovation Hall will showcase the latest innovations in the energy, water, environment, oil and gas, as well as the renewable and clean energy sectors
Dubai, UAE, 11 August 2017: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has invited local and international universities to participate in the Innovation Hall, which is organised as part of the 19th Water, Energy Technology and Environment Exhibition (WETEX) 2017. The exhibition is held under the directives of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Minister of Finance and President of DEWA, from 23 to 25 October 2017 at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exhibition is held under the theme ‘at the forefront of sustainability’.
“The Innovation Hall at WETEX, which will host more than 14 universities, will contribute to the foundations of environmental sustainability. It is in line with the UAE Green Growth Strategy, which was unveiled by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, under the theme Green Economy for Sustainable Development, and the UAE Vision 2021, which aims to achieve sustainability, as well as Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050, which aims to transform Dubai into a global hub for clean energy and green economy. We invite local and international universities to participate in the WETEX Innovation Hall to showcase their knowledge in environmental issues, and to present their research studies and innovative projects in the fields of energy, water, environment and technology. We look forward to the essential role that universities play in the progress of the energy, environment and water sectors. The participation of universities in the Innovation Hall during the last edition of the exhibition was influential in enriching WETEX; a global scientific platform that brings together scientists, thinkers, innovators, academics and students from all over the world,” said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA, and Founder and Chairman of WETEX.
“This hall aims to enhance the participation of university students to develop their knowledge of the latest developments in the energy, water and environment sectors. Students will also benefit through participating in events and competitions, and attending seminars offered by international companies and sponsors, highlighting the latest innovations and inventions that serve smart cities and provide a happy life. We believe that creating an environment that stimulates innovation in these vital areas is a joint effort done by DEWA as well as the educational sector in the UAE, especially UAE universities. Hence, this contributes to the advancement of innovation through research, studies and pioneering initiatives,” added Al Tayer.
“The participation of universities in WETEX strengthens its leading position in the list of the world's leading exhibitions in the fields of water, energy, environment, oil and gas, renewable and clean energy. It also promotes student participation, which is one of the most important pillars of Dubai's hosting of the World Expo 2020, and the transformation of Dubai into the smartest and happiest city in the world. Participating universities will showcase their practical and innovative research and scientific progress in the vital areas of the exhibition. The Innovation Hall will focus on the latest innovations in energy and water efficiency, technology and green solutions for all sectors of society,” noted Al Tayer.
The Innovation Hall aims to stimulate innovation and promote environmentally friendly practices and raise the contribution of sustainable solutions to enhance the country's global competitiveness in environmental sustainability. The Hall will feature open-ended panel discussions to provide an overview of the most important innovations and inventions in the traditional and renewable energy sectors, water, environment, oil, gas and related fields over three days. Universities will also have an important role to play in highlighting the latest scientific research trends in these sectors.
The 19th WETEX will be the largest ever since its launch, and will be held under the umbrella of the Green Week, in conjunction with the second Dubai Solar Show, and the fourth session of the World Green Economy Summit (WGES), with the participation of leading experts in the fields of energy, finance and business, as well as government leaders and international organisations.
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As discussed at a meeting of the supporters during the summer of 2018, a new scheme has been set up to raise additional funds for the club. This will hopefully help the club to progress on the pitch, as any surplus funds raised will be used to support the playing expense budget. There will also be a monthly prize draw. Richard Tennant has kindly agreed to manage this initiative on behalf of the club and has worked hard to get it up and running. The forms are available from Richard or at the Belmont Ground or can be downloaded from the link below.
Whitstable Town Supporters Trust Fund Forms
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