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AMLI Residential to Add 279-unit Building to Mueller Community
AMLI Residential has announced it will build a 279-apartment building at the Mueller master-planned community in Northeast Austin.
Camelia Bulea
Nov 02, 2012
AMLI Residential has announced it will build a 279-apartment building at the Mueller master-planned community in Northeast Austin. The homebuilder expects to break ground on the mixed-use building in the first quarter of 2013, with the first units available in the third or fourth quarter of 2014, reports the Austin-American Statesman.
The $30 million project, which will be located across from Mueller’s 30-acre Lake Park and the planned home for Austin Children’s Museum, will feature one- and two- bedroom units and include 8,000 square feet of retail space. The publication adds that rents will vary from $1,100 to $1,800 a month, with an average of about $1,350 a month. Units will range from 630 square feet to 1,200 square feet.
According to a news release by AMLI, the new apartment community will also feature a fitness studio, business and conference center, Wi-Fi, club and gaming lounge, resort-style pool and private sundeck, as well as a public paseo linking the lakefront and apartments to the town center.
The Community Impact Newspaper reports that circa 15 percent of the units built by Chicago-based AMLI will be reserved for residents who earn 60 percent or less of the city’s median income.
The building is the fourth project at the Mueller site, a 700-acre redevelopment project to create a mixed-use, urbanist community on the site of the former Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. The other multifamily projects are Mosaic at Mueller, the second phase of Mosaic at Mueller and Wildflower Terrace.
When complete, the master-planned project developed by Catellus Development will feature 5,700 single-family and multifamily homes, 4.4 million square feet of commercial space, 650,000 square feet of local retail space and 140 acres of park space.
Photo courtesy of AMLI Residential
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Nathan Stoltzfus, Hitler’s Compromises: coercion and consensus in Nazi Germany (Review)
Comment by Claire Poyner
How feminist is Star Trek?
I started re-watching (for the fourth? fifth? time – it’s certainly been three times since watching as a child) Star Trek: The Original Series (‘TOS’ to Trekkies) when I was recovering from a knee operation.
I knew that TOS broke new ground in the 1960s. There you have, on the bridge (the starship’s command centre): an alien (well, a half-alien anyway); a Russian (in the middle of the Cold War!); a Japanese man, barely 10 years after the Second World War; a regular hunk who chased the ladies (Kirk, of course); and the coup de grace – Uhura, an African-American female! On the bridge! In a professional capacity!
Famously, Whoopi Goldberg was inspired to go into acting after seeing Nichelle Nichols on screen, and Martin Luther King, no less, encouraged Nichols to stay in the show after she’d expressed a desire to leave, saying: ‘If you leave, they can replace you with a blonde-haired white girl.’
In fact, having a woman on the bridge at all was a coup for the show’s creator, Gene Rodenberry.
The first pilot episode, ‘The Cage’, had a female second-in-command, known as ‘Number One’, but the networks did not like her so she had to go.
The second pilot was better-received and featured the famous cast of Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Sulu and Uhura (Chekhov didn’t appear until the third season).
In many ways, it was a progressive offering, featuring a multi-racial cast, and male and female characters who worked together as equals. In the years since it went off the air, one criticism TOS has been repeatedly charged with is sexism.
So how feminist is Star Trek? Well there are the costumes. But, as Nichols stated: it was the ’60s, we all wore skirts that short. In fact, miniskirts were, at the time, seen as a symbol of liberation.
Then there’s Kirk and his womanising. I mean, every single episode (almost) he gets to snog a beautiful alien. It’s usually consensual (apart from the famous Uhura/Kirk kiss, which was forced on them by a controlling alien, no doubt to appease southern racists).
At the time, many saw the women of Star Trek as positive role models: they were not housewives and helpmeets, they were professional people working alongside men as equals.
Later re-boots of Star Trek fared rather better. The short skirts were quickly replaced with jumpsuits, and later, jersey and trousers. The opening credits of Star Trek: The Next Generation proclaimed that the mission of the USS Enterprise was to go where ‘no one’ (as opposed to ‘no man’) had gone before.
In one episode, ‘The Neutral Zone’, the Enterprise finds an ancient space capsule with three deep-frozen humans. One was, according to the accompanying records, ‘a home-maker’. Comment from a crew-member, ‘Must be some kind of construction work’.
Women were in positions of authority: female chief medical officer, Beverly Crusher, and counsellor, Deanna Troi, (hmmm, both caring professions) and head of security, Tasha Yar. However, female captains of other ships put in appearances, as do female admirals.
Later still, Star Trek: Voyager included a female engineer, the fierce and tough B’Elanna Torres, and most of all, a female captain, Kathryn Janeway. Plenty of role models there.
The Bechdel test asks: do two named female characters talk to each other about something other than a man? Voyager (1995–2001) had a whopping 87 per cent of episodes passing the test (and every single episode of season 5 passed); Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) was second with 58 per cent; The Next Generation (1987–1994) scored 45 per cent, followed closely behind by the series Enterprise (2001–2005) with 39 per cent. The Original Series (1966–1969) ranked in last place with only 7.5 per cent.
Roddenberry said it perfectly himself: ‘Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences of life forms.’
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Life, leadership and lessons from the boardroom
By Joan Withers
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The inspiring story of one of New Zealand's most respected business leaders.
‘Successful women rarely set out to become role models. They just do the best they can, and hopefully that becomes inspirational for other women.’
Joan Withers left high school with School Certificate at the age of 16 and from those unassuming beginnings has gone on to manage one of New Zealand's leading media organisations and to chair the boards of several of the country's largest companies. An outspoken advocate for diversity in the boardroom and for equal pay for women, Joan argues that gender inequality holds back not only women but economic growth globally.
In this candid account of her life and career, she shares her journey from stay-at-home mum to CEO of Fairfax New Zealand, and in-demand company director and board Chair. A highly readable insight into business leadership and what it takes to succeed, A Woman's Place is also a call to action for women to set their sights on the top of the corporate ladder.
Joan Withers
Nothing in my early life indicated that one day I would find myself sitting around boardroom tables with some of the most experienced and influential businesspeople in New Zealand, nor that I’d be helping to set strategy and reviewing the accounts of multi-million-dollar companies.
Joan Withers Talks Success
One of New Zealand’s most accomplished businesswomen, Joan Withers, shares advice for corporate success.
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Find A Park > Van Cortlandt Park > Highlights > Algernon Sydney Sullivan Fountain
Van Cortlandt Park
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Algernon Sydney Sullivan Fountain
This ornamental horse trough and drinking fountain honors jurist Algernon Sydney Sullivan (1826–1887). It is adjacent to the Van Cortlandt Park Golf House and Lake, and was dedicated in 1906.
Sullivan was raised in the southern Indiana River town of Madison. He attended Hanover College in Indiana and Miami University in Ohio. He returned to Madison to study law, and was admitted to the bar in 1849. Sullivan moved up river to Cincinnati, and established a law firm. He married in 1851, but his wife died that year. He subsequently married Mary Mildred Hammond, though the early years of their marriage were racked by financial strife, as Sullivan contended with large debts incurred during the economic turmoil of the Panic of 1856.
By the outbreak of the Civil War, Sullivan had moved to New York, and established a law office on William Street, near Wall Street. Though opposed to slavery and the southern cause, he defended in court the crew of the Savannah, a captured Confederate privateer. Arguing that they be accorded proper treatment as prisoners of war, Sullivan was vilified, and then imprisoned by the Federal government. Strenuous objections from prominent members of the bar and the bench won his release after six weeks, and Sullivan successfully negotiated the exchange of the Savannah’s crew.
A member of the reform wing of the Democratic Party, Sullivan helped lead the fight against the corrupt Tweed Ring, who notoriously controlled municipal government and patronage during the 1860s and early 1870s. He was made an assistant district attorney in 1870, and served with distinction for three years. In 1875 Sullivan became public administrator of New York, a position he held for ten years, which was responsible for the administration of estates. His public service during this era caused supporters to urge him to run for mayor, but he declined.
In 1873 Sullivan organized the firm of Sullivan, Kobbe & Fowler, an immediate success, in large part due to Sullivan’s legal reputation and his connections to industrial leaders. In 1879, he and one of the firm’s partners, William Nelson Cromwell (1854–1948), reorganized the firm under a new name, Sullivan & Cromwell. Though the business prospered, Sullivan dedicated much of his effort to providing free legal services to the poor, and did not himself amass great personal wealth. He continued an active public life while serving as senior partner until his death on December 4, 1887. With more than 350 attorneys, Sullivan and Cromwell is one of the most prestigious laws firms in the financial district and in the United States today.
The American Bar Association said of Sullivan that the law “was his life work and his life love as well . . . adversary and client alike felt the power of his lucid, conscientious, wise advice . . . it is fair to say that no lawyer, however great his fame, was regarded by the bench with greater confidence and esteem.” An Algernon Sydney Sullivan Memorial Committee formed and raised funds of $6,000 to commission a commemorative fountain. Frank Wallis, designer of the 1937 bathing pavilions at Riis Park, was the fountain’s architect.
The monument consists of a ten-foot high granite stele with ornamental pediments, basins on either side, as well as circular bronze relief portraits of Sullivan. These medallions were created by Jonathan Scott Hartley (1845–1912) who also crafted the statue of Swedish-American inventor John Ericsson, which stands at the north end of Battery Park, and the sculpture of Alfred the Great on the New York State Appellate Building, opposite Madison Square Park.
Prior to a restoration from 2001-2003, the monument had been repaired on several occasions. In 1934 missing bronze letters from the dedicatory inscription were recast. In 1949, all the remaining letters were removed, and the inscriptions were etched into the stone. Later the fountain ceased to function for decades, and the basins were filled with concrete. In 2001 and 2002, with support from Sullivan & Cromwell, Parks’ Citywide Monuments Conservation Program conserved and regilded the reliefs, rebuilt the fountain, cleaned and repointed all the masonry and decoration. This work was done in conjunction with a City-funded capital renovation of the lake and the adjacent landscape, completed in 2003.
Directions to Van Cortlandt Park
Due to construction at Broadway and West 242nd Street, the entrance near the subway is closed. Please access the park at the stairway adjacent to the public comfort station (Broadway & Manhattan College Parkway). There is an accessible entrance at the end of the block. The barbecuing area at Van Cortlandt Park has temporarily been moved behind the Nature Center. For more information on the progress of this construction project, please visit our Capital Project Tracker page.
Anticipated Completion: Summer 2020
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Zip Code:10467, 10470, 10471, 10705
Community Board: 07, 08, 12
Council Member: Andrew Cohen
Park ID: X092
Acreage: 1146.43
Property Type: Flagship Park
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U.S.|Mayor Faces ‘Rite of Passage’: A Campaign Seeking His Exit
Lawrence Journal
Mayor Faces ‘Rite of Passage’: A Campaign Seeking His Exit
Daniel Rivera, elected in 2013 on a reform platform, is the latest in a series of mayors in Lawrence, Mass., who have grappled with recall efforts over the past 25 years.CreditCreditShiho Fukada for The New York Times
By Jess Bidgood
LAWRENCE, Mass. — Daniel Rivera, a first-term mayor who promised to change the pockmarked political landscape of this underdog mill city, has not been charged with a crime or accused of graft.
And yet a group of constituents seeks to force him from office through a recall, complaining of unilateral decision making and the firing of city workers as political retaliation. He is the fifth mayor here to face such proceedings — none of which have made it to the ballot so far — in the past 25 years.
“It’s like a rite of passage for mayors” in Lawrence, said Mr. Rivera’s lawyer, Sal Tabit. “It’s terrible, but it’s true.”
The recall effort, which has been slowed by legal proceedings, is the kind of political turbulence that many here would like to avoid. But the recall’s leaders say Mr. Rivera is out of touch with constituents and has broken rules with his hiring and firing; the mayor says his critics are unhappy because his efforts have disrupted the pervasive cronyism that has been suspected in the city.
Lawrence is among dozens of midsize New England cities that have struggled over the years to find their economic footing after factory shutdowns, even as larger American cities, like Boston, New York and San Francisco, absorb ever-higher levels of wealth. The challenges here have contributed to the political turmoil.
“The thing about New England is that we have real poverty,” said Benjamin Forman, the research director at MassINC, a think tank in Boston. “We just concentrate it in places, and that’s the case in Lawrence.”
He added: “All of these cities are under enormous stress, and the leaders that are leading them don’t have the tools to do the job they’re hired to do. That just creates instability.”
By many accounts, Lawrence has been on an upswing, with strong nonprofits, improving schools, the redevelopment of some mills and declines in unemployment. “There are wounds from the previous political battles,” Mr. Forman said, “but I think the larger community is moving in a positive direction, and I think that energy’s palpable.”
Another recall effort, some residents say, would simply feed a long-held stereotype of the city as fractious and chaotic, turning off outsiders who could bring business or philanthropy to a city on the rise.
A closed mill along the Merrimack River in Lawrence. Dozens of midsize New England cities have struggled to find their economic footing after factory closings.CreditShiho Fukada for The New York Times
“I think it only serves to disrupt good governance, and I think in the past it’s only served to create divisions in the community,” said Michael R. Sweeney, a former city councilor who now runs the State Lottery. He considers himself a Rivera supporter, though he is on good terms with some who oppose the mayor.
“Lawrence,” he said, “is not a community that can afford those types of distractions.”
This city, on the banks of the Merrimack River, has a history of rough-and-tumble politics. Mr. Rivera’s immediate predecessor, William Lantigua, was deeply divisive, commanding the support of those who viewed him as a man of the people while facing suspicions of corruption and cronyism and his own recall attempts. Mr. Rivera beat him in 2013 by fewer than 100 votes.
“I think sometimes people forget that we got elected to undo some of the things that they did,” Mr. Rivera said. “We want to do things that people think, these things will never change, it’s Lawrence.”
One step, he said, has been to remove unqualified city workers, but critics say he has violated the city charter with some of those terminations and made Lawrence vulnerable to lawsuits.
“I’m afraid that because he wants to show the outsiders that he’s a no-nonsense mayor, he’s taking a stand that is going to hurt our city,” said the City Council president, Modesto Maldonado, who has been a vocal opponent of Mr. Rivera but is not formally involved in the recall. He added, “We are a city with a lot of problems, and obviously there is a tremendous amount of dissatisfaction on the part of the citizens.”
Last month, a group called the Foundation for Transparency in Government gathered 181 affidavits — only 100 are needed to start the recall process — listing numerous grievances against Mr. Rivera. These included complaints over his hiring and firing practices and over a failure to reopen a pedestrian bridge and two firehouses.
“When you have a mayor that just isn’t accessible and really isn’t meeting the needs of the people, save a small group of elite supporters, that’s a problem,” said William Green, a police officer who is among the recall’s leaders and who was disciplined by the mayor for not reporting work he did while off duty.
The mayor and his supporters have repeatedly pointed out that among the recall bid’s leaders or representatives are people he has tried to discipline or who owed back taxes, as well as supporters of Mr. Lantigua. (Those involved in the recall effort say there is no personal motivation.) Some have complained that 100 affidavits is too low a bar to start the process of a recall.
“It’s just a mechanism to slow down the positive change,” Mr. Rivera said about the push for a recall. “Unfortunately, the collateral damage is the city’s reputation, and people start thinking, ‘Hey, this is old crazy Lawrence again.’ ”
The Board of Registrars, a city body that oversees elections, on Thursday began to hear his claims that dozens of affidavits are invalid; that process is set to continue this week. Organizers hope they will then be permitted to gather about 5,600 petition signatures and move the recall forward.
Lawrence was founded in the mid-1800s by industrialists who wanted to build a neat and efficient mill town. Immigrants came here for work, and the city prospered until the decline of manufacturing in the mid-1900s gutted the city’s economy.
William Green, a police officer who was disciplined by the mayor for not reporting work he did while off duty, is among the recall’s leaders.CreditShiho Fukada for The New York Times
“The city was created and laid out to be ultimately a place that had millworkers within walking distance of mills,” Mr. Sweeney said.
“It was not built to be flexible or to be able to change.”
The buildings housing those mills are still here, gargantuan constructions of brick and glass that stare quietly over the river. Some now hold affordable housing or business, though not on the scale of the city’s past.
The city kept drawing immigrants — Latinos make up 74 percent of the population here, but only 10 percent of the statewide population — but it has never recovered its main economic engine.
According to the census, 29 percent of this city’s residents lived in poverty in 2013, well above the state’s average.
Lawrence is not the only New England city where political and economic difficulties have gone hand in hand.
Last year, voters in Fall River, Mass., another relatively poor postindustrial city, successfully recalled their mayor amid anger over Fire Department layoffs and accusations that he had threatened a city councilor with a gun.
“It tends to happen a bit more in older, industrial cities that have higher unemployment, where government tends to be a larger employer, where factions can develop more easily,” said Jim Stergios, the executive director of the Pioneer Institute, a research organization in Boston.
Many here do not expect the Rivera recall bid to go so far, calling it a vestige of the city’s past.
“I just think it’s kind of a silly distraction,” said Jessica Andors, the executive director of Lawrence CommunityWorks, a community development organization that is part of the robust network of nonprofits here.
But it was nevertheless on the mind of some of the constituents who approached Mr. Rivera one evening this month. He was outside a grocery store to shake hands and give out his contact information.
“I’m thinking, we finally got a decent mayor, and now they want to do this?” said Susan White, 60, who approached Mr. Rivera and shook his hand. “I hope that recall thing just goes away.”
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 17 of the New York edition with the headline: Mill Town on the Upswing Is Roiled by an Old Habit: A Mayoral Recall Campaign. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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New Zealand's high poison deaths a concern, expert says
12 Mar, 2019 4:40pm 2 minutes to read
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James Renwick: Dauntless hope in the face of a climate catastrophe
12 Mar, 2019 4:45pm
Victoria University's Professor James Renwick is one of New Zealand's most visible and accessible scientists. Photo / Supplied
By: Jamie Morton
Science Reporter, NZ Herald
jamie.morton@nzherald.co.nz @Jamienzherald
A top honour from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is overdue acknowledgement of Professor James Renwick's long contribution to climate change awareness, writes science reporter Jamie Morton.
It must be demoralising, you'd think, to be a climate scientist in 2019.
These are people who have spent years tracking models which, collectively and increasingly, point to an unfolding global calamity - all while greenhouse gas emissions have continued to soar.
That the world's most powerful politician has yanked the second-worst polluting nation out of the UN-led Paris Agreement, and continues to mock the science of climate change, wouldn't have eased their grief.
Nor would a recent poll showing few Kiwis believe that humanity would do enough to spare itself those worst consequences of global warming: drought, flood, famine and war.
And nor would the fact that it's now such an emergency that thousands of young Kiwis will leave their classrooms in protest later this week.
Against all that gloom, it's a wonder that Professor James Renwick is still pushing his message of hope and positivity.
"It can be depressing and frustrating, sure, that there is still this kind of attitude at the highest levels of government, when what we are seeing already should be enough," the Victoria University climate scientist told the Herald.
"But for me, it's been more of a motivator. It's now well known that just presenting the facts to people is far from enough, so, how do you get it inside their heads that, boy, this is the number one problem that we have to be dealing with?
"And it's one thing to get through to people at a Rotary Club in Lower Hutt, but reaching those people who make the decisions in society – the business leaders, the politicians – that's the real goal."
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Today, Renwick is one of our most visible and accessible scientists.
Anyone who's seen him speak – or noticed his colourful and somewhat celebrated collection waistcoats - would know he's not the male, stale and pale stereotype of a university professor.
His cryptic Twitter handle, @cubaraglanguy, tells us he's a hybrid of two of the types of Kiwis described in Chris Brown and Jill Caldwell's sustainability-focused book 8 Tribes: The Hidden Classes of New Zealand.
That's the Raglan Tribe – "independent spirits who value the ability to live a life according to their own priorities" – and the Cuba St Tribe - "members of the urban avant garde who constantly seek out the cutting edge of cool".
More to the point, though, is his tireless advocacy for climate awareness and action.
In the past five years alone, he's taken part in more than 100 public presentations, organised major conferences and given hundreds of media interviews, which has made him a favourite target of naysaying cranks.
When he's been frustrated enough by misguided newspaper opinion pieces, he's moved to set the record straight with rebuttals as gracious as they are authoritative.
Anyone who's noticed James Renwick's colourful and somewhat celebrated collection waistcoats would know he's not the male, stale and pale stereotype of a university professor. Photo / Supplied
His being awarded the $100,000 Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize from Jacinda Ardern in Wellington this afternoon is acknowledgement long overdue.
Renwick, whose research focus is on climate variability, climate change and weather and climate prediction, also contributes to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which informs global agreements on climate change action.
He is currently a convening lead author for the next IPCC Assessment Report, due in 2021.
"I try to accept every invitation that comes my way," he said.
"I do feel a sense of duty to tell the world about the science behind climate change, how I see the consequences unfolding, and the need for action, which is urgent.
"The more opportunities people have to understand what is going on the better, as it is only when enough of us demand action that we are going to get it.
"It's not about finger pointing, it's about helping people understand what's at stake, how little time we have and how they can best leverage their concern to influence those who make decisions."
He wasn't always this vocal ambassador for climate science.
During his school and study years throughout the 1970s, he points out, global warming wasn't even on his radar.
It was when former NASA scientist James Hansen issued a warning to the United States Congress in the 1980s that Renwick, by then working as a MetService weather forecaster, began to grasp the threat.
He later shifted to Niwa, and then to Victoria University, where he discovered he had a knack for explaining science in a way the rest of us could understand.
The subject of climate change has become so ubiquitous that you now can't listen to a radio bulletin or scroll through a news site without learning about some stark new finding.
Yet the response from policymakers here and overseas has been arguably sluggish.
"That's an interesting social question isn't it? The science community has known about this big problem for this long, so how is it that nothing has happened? I'd say it's part of human nature.
"Putting aside all of the misinformation campaigns funded by oil companies and all of that jazz, I think we tend not to acknowledge really bad news unless we have to.
"I was actually talking about this with someone over the weekend, and I commented that we are sort of like this society of drunks who won't admit that we have a problem – we just keep imbibing and hope that things are going to work out okay."
Science tells us that we won't avoid significant climate change.
In New Zealand, where two thirds of people live in areas prone to flooding, projections show the country could expect by the close of this century a mean temperature between 0.7C and 3C warmer and a sea level between 50cm and 1m higher.
All of this hinges on how aggressively the world tackles the crisis.
The most recent figures show that, if warming continues at the current rate, the Paris Agreement's aspirational threshold of 1.5C will be crossed at some point between 2030 and 2052.
To keep within that mark, carbon dioxide emissions will need to be halved over the next decade, and other greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide will also need to be forced down.
If the 1.5C threshold could be held, the world could escape an extra 10cm of sea level rise, over and above what was already been locked in for this century.
Renwick, optimistic as he is, thinks this fanciful.
"I do feel a sense of duty to tell the world about the science behind climate change, how I see the consequences unfolding, and the need for action, which is urgent." Photo / Supplied
"It may still be possible, but we are talking about a really heroic, World War 2-scale mobilisation from governments all over the world, starting right now, and it's not obvious that this is happening," he said.
"But with more and more extreme events, and more civil disobedience – the school strike this week is an example of that – I am hopeful that we'll be able to stop at 2C."
Even if we couldn't – and many experts think we certainly won't – Renwick's unshakeable position is that it's never too late to act.
"Even if we're on track for 3C, well 3C is still better than 4C."
He's encouraged by what he's been seeing.
"It's a combination of all the things that are going on—the IPCC reports, what groups like Generation Zero and Greenpeace are doing, and more extreme weather events that people can see happening," he said.
"The most common question I get is 'what can I do?'. The answer I give is that if everybody does the small things, like reduce the amount they drive and their consumption of meat, it will add up.
"But I also say it shouldn't be just down to individuals. People need to tell their political representatives that they want change.
"If enough people speak up, the message will get through."
Science heroes honoured
The overall Prime Minister's Science Prize, worth $500,000, has been awarded to Kiwi-developed software that has helped identify suspects in tens of thousands of criminal cases around the world.
A team of scientists at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) developed STRmix to interpret DNA material from a crime scene that comes from multiple individuals.
Before it started being used in case work in New Zealand in 2012, ESR senior scientist Dr Jo-Anne Bright said, there was a lot of evidential material wasted because many mixed DNA profiles were too complicated to analyse.
"At a lot of crime scenes, particularly sexual assaults, you have samples from the victim and also from the offender, along with mixtures on clothing that might contain DNA from various people," she said.
"Before STRmix existed, we didn't interpret a lot of these mixtures. Following its introduction in New Zealand, we saw a 30 to 50 percent improvement in our DNA profiling success rate, with the rates getting better the more complicated the profile was.
"Turnaround times are also a lot quicker. Before STRmix, we spent a lot of time interpreting a profile with a pen, paper and a calculator.
"Now we can just load it up on the software and go onto other things while it does the interpreting."
It's now the number one software for the interpretation of DNA profiles internationally and is routinely used in case work by more than 40 laboratories around the world.
Two of the scientists behind crime-solving software STRmix, Dr Jo-Anne Bright and Bjorn Sutherland, of the Institute of Environmental Science and Research. Photo / Supplied
Many of those are in Australia and North America but the product is also being used in Asia, the Middle East and the United Kingdom.
The Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize was awarded to University of Auckland researcher Dr Peng Du, who is leading the world with his development of devices that help in the fast, reliable diagnosis and treatment of gut problems.
He uses a combination of experimental recording and mathematical modelling to understand what happens to the food we eat, and the interactions between waves of bioelectrical activity generated by the gut and its movements to ensure essential nutrients can be absorbed.
The 33-year-old's first world-leading research involved mapping the bioelectrical activity of the gastrointestinal tract to detect the differences between healthy and abnormal gut functions.
He developed flexible, disposable polymer strips embedded with electrodes and circuits to map the bioelectrical activity, transmitting the readings for reliable analysis during surgery.
Peng and his research team of biomedical engineers and clinicians have since achieved another break-through in which the same gut activity can be monitored with an array of electrodes being placed on the body surface without the need for invasive surgery.
The Prime Minister's Science Teacher Prize went to Carol Brieseman, of Hampton Hill School in Tawa.
With 30 years' teaching experience, Brieseman has developed an education programme based on robotic Argo floats, which measure the temperature, salinity and velocity of the ocean, and has also been involved in a project looking at how online citizen science projects can help engage students.
Her science experiments at staff social events create fun amongst her colleagues and give them simple ideas for their classrooms, making the learning accessible to all students.
"I love tapping into kids' curiosity," she said.
"There is an untainted awe about the world that kids display and I love being able to nurture this. It's so important for them to be able to make scientifically-informed decisions at this age, and right through life."
Eighteen-year-old Finnegan Messerli, of Wellington's Onslow College, received the Prime Minister's Future Science Prize for his research into a problem that might ultimately help scientists better understand the risks of avalanches and slips.
Finn's project began when, as captain of the New Zealand team participating in the International Young Physicists Tournament in Beijing, he was asked to explain why grains, such as sand or salt, form a cone-like pile when they are poured onto a surface.
He wanted to use an established technique called the Discrete Element Method but struck problems in measuring the properties of the grain in order to allow computer modelling.
"Essentially, I came up with an easy method of testing those properties and one that doesn't require expensive equipment," he said.
"I tried to design the method I would have liked to have at my fingertips when I was working on the problem."
With further development, the system of tests Finn has created could be used to predict flows in a wide range of granular materials, with potential for applications in the food processing, mining, pharmaceutical and geotechnical industries.
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Young Latics Up For The Cup
Oldham Athletic’s Youth Team take on Altrincham U18s tomorrow evening in the First Round of the FA Youth Cup.
The match, which takes place at the J Davidson Stadium, is a big opportunity for the young Latics to showcase their talents in a prestigious competition.
Interim Academy Manager, Peter Wild says everyone is excited for the match.
“For players and staff these are the nights we’re all involved in it for,” he commented.
“We look forward to it because the FA Youth Cup is a great competition and a lot of top players have come through from playing in it.
“We’re looking forward to it against a non-league side, we watched Altrincham play in the qualifying round and they played very well.
“We’ve certainly got a game on our hands and it’s up to us to prepare the lads professionally to go there and get the result we want.
“It won’t be easy, they’ll have all their families and friends supporting them but it’s a great chance to see if our lads can deal with that pressure.
“It’s alright on Chapel Road when there are 50 fans there, but when there are 200 fans and all their parents watching as well it’s different, so we as a coaching staff are keen to see how they cope.”
The Young Latics head into the game unbeaten in their last four matches, winning three of those.
Despite that, Wild is keeping his players’ feet firmly on the ground.
“Confidence is high but we don’t want to come across as arrogant or cocky,” he said.
“We will treat this match as if it was any other game and we’ll approach it in the right frame of mind and show a good account of ourselves which is what we want to see most as coaches.”
A win will set up a Second Round tie away at either FC Halifax Town or Sunderland depending on the outcome of their match this evening, however Wild isn’t letting that be a distraction.
“I’ve banned any word of any Second Round ties in the dressing room with a threat of hard running.
“It can distract you and if you allow that distraction you can slip up so I’ve banned any talk of a Second Round tie.”
Oldham Athletic’s youth team take on Altrincham U18s at the J Davidson Stadium tomorrow (Thursday, November 1) at 7:45pm.
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Listen Now: Nigeria in Your Earbuds
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Because these artists have millions of fans, even if you haven’t heard of them.
By Taylor Mayol
The Daily Dose MAY 20 2016
When it comes to pop music in Africa, Nigeria dominates (sorry, Kenya), and if a song is popular in Lagos or Abuja, there’s no doubt it’s also blasting from matatus in Nairobi, clubs in Cape Town or local bars in southwest Madagascar. And now Nigerian dance music is getting play off the continent too. Take Davido, who performed at this year’s SXSW in Austin and just signed a global deal with Sony Music Entertainment. Or the 26-year-old Ayo Jay, who recently collaborated with American rapper Fetty Wap. Wizkid — the Justin Bieber of the Nigerian music scene — is featured on Drake’s latest album. “He’s nauseatingly popular and quite versatile,” says Nigerian-American Monzi Oni, whose teenage cousin in Lagos recently asked her if it was OK to love someone you’ve never met. Jay Z and Akon are also looking to Nigeria for talent. More than a few Nigerian stars are signed to Akon’s Konvict Muzik label, and there’s speculation that Jay Z sent his cousin to scout new talent for Tidal.
Our playlist includes songs by these artists and more: some classics, like “African Queen,” by 2Face; a couple by Nigeria’s Beyoncé, Tiwa Savage; and a handful of dance beats by brothers Peter and Paul Okoye, otherwise known as P-Square. If you were on the continent anytime around 2012 or 2013, you likely have a soft spot for the duo’s “Chop My Money,” which has more than 29 million YouTube views. There’s also a new track, “Festival,” from New York–based Kahli Abdu, and one by Major Lazer featuring Wizkid that we couldn’t do without. Happy listening.
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Photos: Jamaal Williams with the Packers
Green Bay Packers' Jamaal Williams eludes a tackle by New York Jets' Jordan Jenkins during first half of the Green Bay Packers game against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018, in East Rutherford. Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) celebrates his touchdown run against the LA Rams Sunday, October 28, 2018 at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, Cal. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) stretches for extra yards in the first quarter against the Detroit Lions at Lambeau Field on Sunday, December 30, 2018 in Green Bay, Wis. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wi
Green Bay Packers' Jamaal Williams (30) celebrates a touchdown during first half of the Green Bay Packers game against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018, in East Rutherford. Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jamaal Williams of the Green Bay Packers celebrates after scoring a touchdown against the New York Jets during the second quarter at MetLife Stadium on December 23, 2018 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Steven Ryan/Getty Images) Steven Ryan, Getty Images
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) scores a touchdown on a 10-yard run during the third quarter of their game against the Chicago Bears Sunday, December 25, 2018 at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill. The Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers 24-17. MARK HOFFMAN/MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL Mark Hoffman, MARK HOFFMAN/MILWAUKEE JOURNAL S
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) breaks free for a touchdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Nov. 26, 2017, at Heinz Field. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) signals a first down against the Detroit Lions on Dec. 31, 2017, at Ford Field. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) catches a pass during minicamp on June 13, 2018, at Ray Nitschke Field. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) celebrates his long touchdown run against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Nov. 26, 2017, at Heinz Field. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) breaks into the secondary against the Carolina Panthers on Dec. 17, 2017, at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. Jim Matthews/USATODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) catches a ball during a training camp drill on July 27, 2017, at Ray Nitschke Field. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) gets upended on a run against the Cleveland Browns on Dec. 10, 2017, at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) runs over a Detroit Lions defender on Dec. 31, 2017, at Ford Field in Detroit. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) tries to spin out of a tackle against the Chicago Bears on Nov. 12, 2017, at Soldier Field in Chicago. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) dances to the music during a TV timeout against the Philadelphia Eagles on Aug. 10, 2017, at Lambeau Field. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) dances to "Jump Around" on the bench during the fourth quarter against the Philadelphia Eagles on Aug. 10, 2017, at Lambeau Field. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) points to the fans during a timeout against the New Orleans Saints on Oct. 22, 2017, at Lambeau Field. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) walks to practice alongside a young fan on a bicycle during training camp on Aug. 15, 2017, outside Lambeau Field. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) does a Lambeau Leap after scoring a touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Dec. 3, 2017, at Lambeau Field. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) celebrates after scoring a touchdown against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Dec. 3, 2017, at Lambeau Field. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) high fives fans on his way to training camp practice on Aug. 22, 2017, at Ray Nitschke Field. Adam Wesley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) fends off Baltimore Ravens inside linebacker Patrick Onwuasor (48) on Nov. 19, 2017, at Lambeau Field. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) catches a long touchdown pass against the Cleveland Browns on Dec. 10, 2017, at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wis
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) picks up a first down in the fourth quarter with Atlanta Falcons outside linebacker Duke Riley (42) defending on Sept. 17, 2017, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Rick Wood/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Green Bay Packers running back Jamaal Williams (30) picks up four yards before being tackled by Chicago Bears cornerback Marcus Cooper (31) during the first quarter on Sept. 28, 2017, at Lambeau Field. Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Pakistan Showbiz, Bollywood ‘Shahenshah’ turns 75
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By Ahmad On Oct 11, 2017
Fans across the globe are celebrating 75th birthday of Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan today (Oct 11).
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also wished Amitabh Bachchan on his birthday, saying the country is proud to have an unparalleled artiste like him who has pledged support to many social causes.“Happy birthday @SrBachchan! India is proud of his cinematic brilliance & support to many social causes. I pray for his long & healthy life,” Modi wrote on Twitter.
Happy birthday @SrBachchan! India is proud of his cinematic brilliance & support to many social causes. I pray for his long & healthy life.
The star had said he has decided not to celebrate his milestone birthday and will not be present in Mumbai.Bachchan has reportedly taken off to Maldives for a getaway with his family, including daughter Shweta Bachchan Nanda and grandchildren Navya Naveli and Agastya.In a series of tweets, Big B expressed gratitude and thanked his fans for all their love, support and wishes.“The affection of greeting for the 75th, displayed over several mediums, overwhelms me .. a thank you shall never be enough,” he wrote.
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— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) October 10, 2017
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Big B has always been active on social media- from sharing inside stories from film sets to sharing life quotes, the superstar knows how to keep the magic alive.
Referred to as the “Shahenshah of Bollywood”, “Star of the Millennium” or “Big B”, Amitabh Bachchan was born 11 October 1942.He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for movies like Zanjeer and Deewaar, and was dubbed India’s first “angry young man” for his on-screen roles in Bollywood.He has since appeared in over 190 Indian films in a career spanning almost five decades.Bachchan is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema.
Bachchan has won numerous accolades in his career, including four National Film Awards as Best Actor and many awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies.He has won fifteen Filmfare Awards and is the most nominated performer in any major acting category at Filmfare, with 41 nominations overall.In addition to acting, Bachchan has worked as a playback singer, film producer and television presenter.He has hosted several seasons of the game show, Kaun Banega Crorepati, India’s version of the game show franchise, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. He also had a stint in politics in the 1980s.The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1984, the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2015 for his contributions to the arts.The Government of France honoured him with its highest civilian honour, Knight of the Legion of Honour, in 2007 for his exceptional career in the world of cinema and beyond.Bachchan made his Hollywood debut in 2013 with The Great Gatsby, in which he played a non-Indian Jewish character, Meyer Wolfsheim. – Samaa
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Benjamin Franklin Rap Song
Dec 07, 2018 · The 2019 Grammy nominees have been unveiled, and as always, there are plenty of surprises in the Big 4 categories and more than a few tight.
Benjamin Hammond Haggerty (born June 19, 1983), known by his stage name Macklemore (/ ˈ m æ k. l ə m ɔːr / MAK-lə-mor), (formerly Professor Macklemore), is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter, from Seattle, Washington.He has collaborated with producer Ryan Lewis as Macklemore.
Mar 1, 2012. The episode ends with Dee-1 performing “Writer's Block,” a song from the. He's branded himself as the politically inclined rapper who reports about the. was a star athlete at Ben Franklin High—Dee turned his attention to.
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In between songs he talked about growing up in the City of Brotherly. Made in America opens at noon on Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
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Omar then retweeted Greenwald, adding the comment, “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” the title of a rap song by Puff Daddy. “Benjamins” is a slang term for $100 bills, a reference to the portrait.
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Jun 23, 2011 · Billy Mays & Ben Franklin meet in this episode of Epic Rap Battles Of History. Who won? You decide. [ERB Season 6 begins Spring 2019] Download this song ht.
Feb 28, 2019. Rapper Lil Xan's 11 face tattoos have helped fuel his fame. For a boy with Benjamin Franklin tattooed on his face (and the SoundCloud logo on. He also made “Lollipop,” a song so unavoidable that even the most isolated,
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PHILADELPHIA — The Budweiser Made in America Festival grounds along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway went from empty and waiting. roared at the conclusion of each of the four or five songs he played,
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The Grammy Award for Best Rap Song is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality songs in the rap music genre. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor.
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It even earned the praise of Nixon himself — after he forced the omission of the musical’s most critical song. It could be called a logical. local theater veteran Bobbie Steinbach, whose Benjamin.
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Benjamin Franklin, as portrayed by Anthony Martinez-Briggs, would rap. A giant loaf of bread (Kristen Bailey) would join up with the butter to sing a song abut healthcare too. At one point, Joan of.
The only U.S. edition was here, on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in front of the Philadelphia Museum. hundreds of thousands of people turned out for a musical smorgasbord that had the multiethnic.
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Dec 24, 2000. If it hadn't been for Benjamin Franklin Stickney, the number of Toledoans partial to the University of Michigan fight song would be considerably greater. The eccentric rap came largely from Mr. Stickney's decision to name.
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There was a palpable energy in the room as the audience clapped along with students who got the chance to sing, act, and rap about historical figures including Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin.
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James Madison (1751-1836) was a founding father of the United States and the fourth American president, serving in office from 1809 to 1817. An advocate for a strong federal government, the.
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His father was a lawyer and the treasurer of what is now James Madison University. His older brother, William Conrad Gibbons, a historian of the Vietnam War, died July 4. Dr. Gibbons was a 1949.
Synopsis. Born on March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia, James Madison wrote the first drafts of the U.S. Constitution, co-wrote the Federalist Papers and sponsored the Bill of Rights.
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James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the United States Constitution and the United States Bill of Rights.
Facts about James Madison. This is a list of basic facts about James Madison.Madison was one of the primary creators of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.He served in the Virginia legislature and in the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.
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He was 58. According to a family statement released by the University, the cause of Krueger’s death was suicide. Specializing in labor economics, Krueger was the James Madison Professor of Political.
A TV reporter and cameraman were shot to death during a live television interview Wednesday. Parker had just turned 24 and had joined the station as an intern after attending James Madison.
by Natalie Bolton and Gordon Lloyd Introduction: To assist teachers in teaching the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Professor Gordon Lloyd has created a website in collaboration with the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University on the Constitutional Convention.Professor Lloyd organizes the content of the Constitutional Convention in various ways on the website.
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But in the twisted mind of Virginia gunman Vester Lee Flanagan II, they were pure racism — and saying them became a death sentence for Alison. A black former classmate of Parker at James Madison.
Melvin Reese passed away on December 27, 2007 in Columbia, S.C. Melvin was the son of Louis and Virginia Reese, formerly of Madison. He resided in Rochester, N.Y. prior to moving to Columbia, S.C., with his son and daughter-in-law.
Home > Constitutional Convention > Delegates > James Madison Jr. James Madison Jr. State: Virginia Age at Convention: 36 Date of Birth: March 16, 1751 Date of Death: June 28, 1836 Schooling: College of New Jersey (Princeton) 1771 Occupation: Politician Prior Political Experience: Lower House of Virginia 1776, 1783-1786, Upper House of Virginia 1778, Virginia State Constitutional Convention.
Vester Lee Flanagan, who was known professionally as Bryce Williams, died at a Fairfax. He said Parker was a graduate of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, while Ward was a.
Birch Bayh, one of Terre Haute’s most famous native sons and author of two amendments to the U.S. Constitution, died early Thursday at the age. of the Constitution than any legislator since James.
James Madison, in full James Madison, Jr., (born March 16 [March 5, Old Style], 1751, Port Conway, Virginia [U.S.]—died June 28, 1836, Montpelier, Virginia, U.S.), fourth president of the United States (1809–17) and one of the Founding Fathers of his country. At the Constitutional Convention (1787), he influenced the planning and ratification of the U.S. Constitution and collaborated with.
In November 2013, Jeff Bourne did a couple of unusual things. Bourne, the athletics director at James Madison University, first dismissed a football coach with a 109-71 record, a national championship.
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Peoples Bank Chairman David Bochnowski said Bayh, who died earlier this month at 91. “He amended the Constitution more than anyone in U.S. history, with the exception of James Madison,” Bochnowski.
MADISON—Billie Jo (Moore) Baron, loving mother, daughter, and sister, died unexpectedly in her home on March 25, 2019, in Madison at the age of 44.
Political Views Of Thomas Jefferson The story of how the Declaration of Independence came to be says much about the ideals of the men who signed it. We can learn a lot from them about character and compromise, two qualities sadly. With nary a nay, Congress has scrubbed Thomas Jefferson’s name from a park. when asked if modern politics were
Students attending James Madison University will soon study “black rage” and. The Black Lives Matter movement that began after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in 2012 —.
Jenkins competed in several strongman competitions and finished fourth in the World’s Strongest Man competition shortly before his death. He finished in fifth place in 2012 and eighth in 2011. He also.
(STATS) – While James Madison University remains hopeful it will be the host for ESPN’s "CollegeDay" next Saturday, the top-ranked Dukes know they have a pretty big game on campus nevertheless.
At Madison’s death, about 120 men, women and children were enslaved. That’s when he called on McGary, who works at James Madison University. Over weekends throughout the summer and fall, McGary.
They both died on the scene. A third shooting victim. Parker is a 2012 graduate of James Madison University in Virginia, according to the station. She grew up near Martinsville. Before joining.
She was preceded in death. of the University of Montana where she became a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and then completed her internship in Medical Technology at Madison General.
James Madison University has suspended seven players before meeting Youngstown. The Wayne County medical examiner’s office said 28-year-old Robert Eddins and 32-year-old Ricardo McFarlin died of.
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Every college has its beloved traditions, and at James Madison University, with its iconic Wilson Hall tower, it’s the ringing of chimes every half-hour that sets the cadences of life. Students hope.
The Founding Fathers: Virginia En Español John Blair, Virginia. Scion of a prominent Virginia family, Blair was born at Williamsburg in 1732. He was the son of John Blair, a colonial official and nephew of James Blair, founder and first president of the College of William and Mary.
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Bolling served as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 2006-2014. He is currently serving as a Senior Fellow in Residence for Public Service at James Madison University. It has been 230 years since.
James Madison University (also known as JMU, Madison, or James Madison) is a public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia.Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the institution was renamed Madison College in 1938 in honor of President James Madison and then James Madison University in 1977. The university is situated in the.
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We Are All Trayvon Martin
In the wake of the “not guilty” verdict, we are all in greater danger.
By Maya K. Francis· 7/15/2013, 8:11 a.m.
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“What do you mean that you feel threatened by me, ma’am?”
That’s what I heard my boyfriend say to our neighbor when she came to our apartment two weeks ago. In the late evening, she came to our door demanding a conversation. Despite my disinterest given her pattern of prejudicial behaviors, my boyfriend patiently engaged her.
We moved into our Montgomery County apartment last year. On move-in day, it took three separate efforts on my part to finally get her to shake my hand and acknowledge my presence when I went to introduce myself. Since then, she’s hit every major stereotype about blacks, suggesting that we’ve attempted to burglarize her home, complaining about loud music coming from a stereo we do not own, and calling me “hostile.” She has also gone as far to infer things about “where we’re from” and how we’re “used to living.”
That night at our front door, she told us about how the proximity of our very existence made her uncomfortable and “afraid” of us.
“It’s not anything personal,” said the woman who told him my name “wasn’t important.”
Their conversation had volleyed back and forth from opposite sides of the doorway. My ears tuned in as I heard my boyfriend’s voice soften in a way I’d never heard before. “How am I threatening you, ma’am?”
It was a strange sound. One that searched for understanding while suspended in disbelief that somehow he’d been perceived as menacing, despite the ordinariness of his actions.
Quickly, I went to the door and ended the conversation. Instinctively, I knew a black man’s innocence would never stand up next to a white person’s — especially a white woman’s — claims of discomfort, should it have escalated. As I moved toward the door, I saw the look in his eyes. Suddenly, a solid man of 6 feet looked keenly aware of the delicate minefield that lay before him. His smallness in the wake of her privilege infuriated me. He was in his home. He was being antagonized. And yet, in that moment as he advocated on his own behalf, as he fought for his right to be there, he was guilty.
Moments like this one explain why the Trayvon Martin case resonates so strongly with me. Such is the case for many other black people. We are all Trayvon Martin. We know his story; we’ve lived it ourselves. With this verdict, a judicial allowance of deadly force based on racial prejudice, we now find ourselves in greater danger. How convenient it must be to have the privilege to “not see race” as it becomes messy and inconvenient.
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” – Audre Lorde
I would like to say that I was surprised by George Zimmerman’s “not guilty” verdict. I would like to say that I believed that a mostly white jury of white women could see a 17-year-old black boy in a hoodie as something other dangerous. I would like to say that I believed that they would see George Zimmerman’s decision to get out of his car as both absurd and antagonizing; that in following someone, he played the role of instigator. I would like to know that black men and women are entitled to defend themselves when they are confronted.
But then I would have to forget everything I already know about the way black people are viewed in this country.
I would have to forget Emmitt Till. Orlando Barlow. Kathryn Johnson. Kimani Gray. Chavis Carter. Sean Bell. Amadou Diallo. Oscar Grant. Jordan Davis. Fred Hampton. Rekia Boyd. Derek Williams. Countless others.
I would have to forget what I saw at my front door two weeks ago.
three little black boys
lying in a grave yard
i couldn’t tell
if they were playing
or practicing.”
– Baba Lukata, “Rehearsal”
When I heard the verdict announced yesterday, a wave of sadness and anger crashed over me. I was angry because I’d allowed myself to hope. “If we didn’t know before, we know now,” I tweeted as I watched white cable news anchors try to understand black rage from their colleagues on live TV.
It’s simple, really. The frustrating thing about racism and racial prejudice is their duality as both subversive and customary. Enduring racism and surviving it become rites of passage; our communities grow accustomed to the narrative. The ability to anticipate your own oppression is maddening.
Following the death of her 14-year-old son, Emmitt Till, who was killed in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, Mamie Till spoke on the collectivism of black identity:
“Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, ‘That’s their business, not mine,’” she said. “Now I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all.”
According to the Orlando Sentinel, there are nearly 450,000 signatures on the NAACP petition calling for the Department of Justice to investigate in shooting of Trayvon Martin. As I write this column, there are protests happening in Los Angeles, New York, Charlotte, Denver, Detroit and the Florida Capitol. There were others in Washington, D.C., and in here in Philadelphia. California freeways are swarmed with marching demonstrators and Times Square is flooded with large crowds of peaceful protesters.
Zora Neale Hurston once said, “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” Without a public push for an investigation, Trayvon Martin’s story would be unknown to many, and George Zimmerman would not have been arrested, much less tried in front of a jury. In light of a “not guilty” verdict, we have begun to attend to the business of us all, affirming that we will not be silenced. We are all Trayvon Martin. And we will not die.
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Rob Wudlick: Mission to adventure again after paralysis
August 30, 2014 in Real Life Stories
I grew up in Excelsior, Minnesota, and went to college in Bozeman, Montana to study Industrial & Management Engineering. Being in the West gave me so many opportunities to be active and outside: skiing, rafting and climbing. In 2011, I was rafting with friends in the Grand Canyon and broke my neck after diving into the river to retrieve a piece of trash that blew off one of our boats. It was really serious. After an hour on the beach, I was taken by helicopter to Las Vegas for treatment. Paramedics intubated me while I was conscious in the helicopter, and I remained on a ventilator for the next 2 1/2 months. I had immediate surgery to stabilize my spine, and was placed in the ICU unit. I flat-lined once and had to be revived.
I don’t remember a lot about the first week after the accident. My family said that I was awake but not really lucid; talking nonsense sometimes. I spent two weeks in the hospital in Las Vegas before being moved to Craig Hospital outside of Denver, CO for post-acute rehabilitation. This hospital has a strong reputation for handling brain and spinal cord injuries. There, they were able to wean me off of the ventilator and teach my family and I how to live with the injury that left me a quadriplegic.
I, of course, had given little thought to spinal cord injuries before my own accident. A friend from college had broken her neck in a car crash two or three years before my accident, but I don’t think you can prepare for this when it is you. Obviously it was very upsetting, but somehow 90% of the time I’m positive and moving forward. My goal is still total recovery. There are many major advances in the field of spinal cord rehabilitation that are inspiring me today.
After a few months at Craig Hospital, I moved back to Minnesota, and began going to the Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute (formerly the Courage Center) for rehab three times a week. I work with the TheraStride(R) treadmill that supports some of my body weight in an upright position with a harness, while fitness specialists move my legs to help me walk. When a person without paralysis walks, their brain tells them to put that first foot forward. After that trigger, their neural pathways know the routine and are on auto-pilot. It’s like relearning to ride a bike, in layman’s terms. When you first start doing it, you have to think about balancing and pedaling. After awhile, it’s just instinctive, and you can do it easily. With the TheraStride, you’re working to establish new pathways; re-wiring.
In general, the more you work out, the more tired you get, but this really energizes me. I do forty-five minutes on the treadmill, then mat exercises, and Functional Electrical Simulation (FES), which has electrodes that send electrical pulses to paralyzed muscles to strengthen and restore their function. It is inspiring to me to see people who have been recently injured come to Courage Kenny and noticeably get better after few months, all because of this advanced therapy. I don’t think they would have come that far with traditional therapy. This pushes them the extra step out of their wheelchair, which they may not have received this advanced aggressive therapy a few years ago.
In addition to my own recovery, I’ve been working with others to mobilize more funding for spinal cord injury functional recovery research and improve public policy around disability issues. A group I am part of just started a non-profit where we are basing our efforts. Currently, the pressing issue is petitioning the White House to support a Spinal Cord Regenerative Initiative Project that will dedicate more research funding to spinal cord injury issues, improve access to physical therapy and fitness and create a new commission to oversee future work in this area . We need 100,000 signatures by August 27.
Locally, for the past three years our group has been working in the Minnesota Legislature to create a state fund to draw federal and private funding into spinal cord injury research. We partnered with the Minnesota Brain Injury Alliance to increase our momentum. You can read more about our Get Up, Stand Up for the Cure initiative here. People in California established a similar center years ago and leveraged the initial investment from their legislature into millions of dollars in additional grants and contracts. We can build on local expertise at the University of Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic, among others, to build a local research movement that inspires innovation and enhances additional investment in finding a cure for paralysis. The issue touches so many people: car crashes, sports injuries and neurological diseases such as MS can leave anyone vulnerable to paralysis. There will be an incredible return on investment, both in jobs for scientists in Minnesota, opportunities for companies working with these issues, and – of course – in leading the nation for finding a cure for paralysis. Everyone involved seems to have a personal connection to the cause. The man who started this movement has a son who was paralyzed in an accident in Costa Rica.
There is so much promise out there. One of the big things in research is epidural stimulation. There is a neurostimulator on the market for pain management, and it is now modified to provide spinal cord injury stimulation that allows paralyzed people to move their legs again. It’s a breakthrough, and the early results are really exciting! The Christopher and Dana Reeves Foundation has, in part, funded that.
I stay really busy with my own recovery and doing what I can to improve the lives of all people with paralysis. I started a blog recently and hope that people will follow my progress. There is progress to report: I can move my arms a lot more now! As the title of the blog states, it is my “mission to adventure” again.
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Six North Atlantic Right Whales Now Found Dead This Year
Punctuation, a right whale who was killed earlier this week. Photo: Gary Mansfield, CBC
Since we reported on the death of a young male North Atlantic Right Whale a few weeks ago, there have been five more dead whales found in Canadian waters, the latest one discovered just yesterday and a total of four in the last three days. In response, Transport Canada immediately implemented an interim, precautionary speed restriction of 10 knots, for vessels of 20 meters or more in length traveling in the western Gulf of St. Lawrence, where all the whale deaths have been reported.
Why This Matters: A recent study by the U.S. and Canadian governments underscored that these whale deaths are most likely caused by humans and thus are preventable. it is good that the Canadian government has stepped up its efforts and recognizes the grave circumstances. “Protecting our endangered North Atlantic right whales is an important task, one that our government takes seriously,” said Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau. But whatever we have been doing thus far this year, it is not enough. And the new babies that have been identified will not be improving the situation if we lose adults of childbearing age.
Whales Swim Around And Into Harm’s Way
“One of the things that caught us off guard this year is that the right whales are in a really different location than in previous years,” said Kim Davies, an oceanographer and whale expert.
Davies also noted that said the “whales are present over a really, really large area of the Gulf and individual right whales move around constantly” — the problem is they aggregating further north and further east in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, closer to shipping lanes.
These Whales Were Not Anonymous
The first was a juvenile male known as Wolverine, who had been entangled in fishing gear and struck by ships.
Punctuation was a breeding female who had mothered eight calves and then gone on to have several grandchildren.
Comet was 33 years old male who was familiar to whale-watching experts who was believed to be a grandfather.
Another was a female identified as #3815 who was on the cusp of sexual maturity and had yet to give birth, according to the New England Aquarium.
The fifth was discovered along Anticosti Island in Quebec yesterday and the New England Aquarium identified as #3329, a 16-year-old female who had yet to calve.
The sixth, which has yet to be identified, was found drifting off Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula during an aerial surveillance flight.
June 27, 2019 » Canada, extinction, right whale, ship strikes
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Home > About the Port > About the Port > Driving Economic Development
A vital role in world trade
Port activities in Montreal create more than 19,000 direct and indirect jobs, and generate approximately $2.6 billion in annual economic impact.
By promoting greater trade between countries, globalization has profoundly changed the face of maritime shipping. Thanks to marine carriers' direct services with transshipment ports in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, the Port of Montreal trades with the world. Currently, about 37% of the containers handled at the Port of Montreal originate in or are heading to Northern Europe; 25% Asia; 21% the Mediterranean; 8% the Middle East; 5% Latin America and 4% Africa/Oceania.
Several factors explain the Port of Montreal’s popularity: its location 1600 km (1000 miles) inland, the versatility of its facilities and its privileged access to rail and road networks that crisscross North America.
Serving a pool of 40 million consumers in 1 day by truck and 70 million consumers in less than 2 days by train, the Port of Montreal is a major link in the Canadian and U.S. supply chain of raw materials and various products, and a catalyst of trade for all its customers.
Containerized cargo: a growth industry
The Port of Montreal is a leader among container ports, a type of transport that generates - and continues to generate - substantial economic benefits. Containerized goods make up more than 40% of the port's total traffic, with the balance shared between liquid and dry bulk products, including grain.
Spurred on by global trade, containerized cargo traffic has grown steadily in recent years. The second largest container port in Canada and the only container port along the Quebec-Ontario Continental Gateway, wich moves more than 74% of Canada's trade, the Port of Montreal handles more than 1.5 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent units) per year, ranking it among the top 100 container ports in the world.
Tens of millions of dollars are invested each year to increase the operating efficiency of the port’s rail network, quays and terminals, and to improve the flow of goods. These initiatives, along with cooperation from its logistics and transport chain partners and support from the Greater Montreal business community, strengthen the port’s role in Montreal’s economic viability and Canada’s long-term prosperity.
Cargo M: An industrial strategy for logistics and transportation
The Port of Montreal was one of the driving forces behind the creation in 2012 of CargoM, Montreal’s logistics and transportation metropolitan cluster.
CargoM’s mission is to bring together all stakeholders in the region’s logistics and freight transportation sector, whose operations make Greater Montreal a hub for goods transportation, to work on shared goals and take concerted action to further improve collaboration, competitiveness and growth, and to extend the sector’s reach. Sylvie Vachon, president and CEO of the Port of Montreal, is chair of CargoM.
Over the next 10 years, CargoM’s vision is to make Greater Montreal a renowned multimodal hub that is sought after for its operational and environmental performance and that contributes to its business partners’ competitiveness and the economic development of the Quebec region.
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Bruno Ribeiro - "I'm Very Happy"
Yesterday saw Port Vale come away from MK Dons with all three points for the first time since the Dons were established.
It was also the first win on the road for Vale this season, as they ended a run of six games without picking up maximum points away from home.
The Valiants won 1-0 thanks to another Alex Jones strike, his seventh in eight appearances for the club.
After the game, manager Bruno Ribeiro was delighted with his sides performance as they moved back into the play-offs.
He said: “I’m very happy, this win is for players because it is fantastic, we work hard every day and I know I say this every week, but they are fantastic.”
“With this team we can win home and away, because this attitude when we play as a team and are organised, it is more easy to win.”
Vale had to defend well to keep their one goal lead intact, as the team defended and kept their shape to keep the Dons at bay.
This was something Ribeiro was pleased with and believes that his team are proving the doubters wrong at the moment.
“Our organisation was good, we could have scored one or two more, but we won the game and that’s is more important, the three points.
“We are fourth in the league and that is fantastic, because at the start of the season, some people thought we might only have 4 or 5 points at this stage, but now we have 20 and all these wins are for the players.”
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Southsea Model Village hosts Under Milk Wood as you've never seen it before
Southsea Model Village, where Groundlings will be performing Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood on June 27, 2019, to celebrate a new model of the The Groundlings Theatre being installed at the village. Picture: Chris Broom
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Southsea Model Village will be standing in for the fictional Welsh village of Llareggub when the Groundlings company stages an ambitious production of Under Milk Wood.
They will be performing the Dylan Thomas play to mark the unveiling of a new 1/12 scale replica of the real Groundlings Theatre in Kent Street, Portsea, in the model village.
It will be the latest addition under the tourist attraction’s project to add small-scale versions of real-life locations. In May they installed a copy of the much-loved and recently closed city centre shop U Need Us.
Groundlings’ artistic director Richard Stride says: ‘It’s been a thought for a very long time and when we saw about U Need Us, we approached them and said how about it? We’ll make the model for it, and they liked the idea.
‘We’re going to do a recording of Under Milk Wood, and then inside, on the model of the stage will be a model of the model village and playing will be the Under Milk Wood performance. As people go to see the model, one side of it will be completely glass, like a cutaway, so they can see inside and hear the performance. We did think of putting a model of our model on the stage and keep going to see how small we could get, but we thought that might be a bit too much!’
The actual performance will take place around the paths of the virtual village, which has created some unique challenges for the staging.
‘Under Milk Wood is about 24 hours in a village, so when we’re talking about the chapel, we’ll go there, and then here’s the post office, and so on. It’s been interesting blocking it. The audience either follows us around or stays in the middle and watches from there, it’s not huge in there so we’ll have to see how it works.
‘It’s nice to do something classic, but also fun. And I also like the idea of the village atmosphere, and that’s what it literally is.
‘Initially we were just going to put the model in but then we talked about it and said why don’t we do a nice big opening? And then it became why don’t we do a performance in the evening?’
With 67 characters in the original radio play, how are they tackling that?
‘We’ve got some doubling up – we’ve got a cast of 24 which is still quite sizable. We have done a little bit of editing and cut a couple of characters to keep it a bit more pacy too.’
And Richard was keen to provide some solidarity with a fellow Portsmouth institution. ‘The model village has done so well and they’ve really pulled out all the stops to make it work there, and it’s nice to celebrate another venue’s success in the city, and for us to do something different and be in a different space.
‘It’s a win-win for all of us really.’
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Enterprise Holdings: How Collaboration Is Fueling Growth of Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
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ST. LOUIS, June 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Existing transportation networks, supported by the power of industry collaboration, will drive the future of Mobility as a Service (MaaS). That is the key message delivered by Enterprise Holdings – which manages the world's largest and most diverse privately-owned fleet – at last week's Joint Annual Meeting of the ITE Midwestern District (MWITE) and Missouri Valley Section (MOVITE).
Institute of Transportation Engineers
The ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) holds these regional meetings every year to provide transportation professionals across the Midwest with the knowledge and skills to serve the needs of their communities and help shape the future of transportation. This year's theme was "Gateway to the Future: A New Horizon of Transportation," and Friday's keynote speaker was Mike Mangan, Vice President of Commute with Enterprise (vanpooling). Other prominent speakers included Brandye Hendrickson, Deputy Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration; Lyda Krewson, Mayor of the City of St. Louis; and Bruce Belmore, International ITE President.
Public Transportation, Private Enterprise
Enterprise Holdings owns National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car as well as its flagship Enterprise Rent-A-Car brand. In addition to Commute with Enterprise, other Enterprise-branded business lines include: Enterprise CarShare and CarClub; Enterprise Fleet Management (leasing); Enterprise Car Sales; Enterprise Truck Rental and Flex-E-Rent; Exotic Car Collection by Enterprise (luxury); and Zimride by Enterprise.
As a result, Enterprise Holdings has been in an ideal position for decades to partner with transit authorities and other government agencies at the federal, state and local levels to improve mobility and enhance fleet management – proving that private industry can be an important partner in the urban mobility, sustainable transportation and public transit arenas.
"The transportation industry is currently experiencing a dramatic paradigm shift, as technology inspires new models for moving around within communities. Today, commuters have more mobility choices than ever, from traditional taxis and bus lines to vanpooling and bike sharing," said Mangan. "How we connect these options can create convenient and seamless multimodal experiences over a common platform, and that's the central idea behind the Mobility as a Service, or MaaS, movement."
Mangan placed heavy emphasis on the need for continued collaboration throughout the industry. Strategic transportation providers – including car rental operators like Enterprise – have both an opportunity and an obligation to help businesses, government agencies and communities of all sizes reach their own mobility and sustainability goals. To that end, Mangan has recently contributed two articles to the ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) Journal:
"The Value of Vanpooling as a Strategic, Cost-effective, and Sustainable Transportation Option"
"Public Transportation, Private Enterprise"
During the Joint MWITE/MOVITE Meeting, Mangan noted, "The quickening pace of innovation we're seeing around the world makes me incredibly optimistic. Not only about meeting basic mobility needs, but also about the possibilities for addressing lingering urban and rural mobility challenges. With its global reach and wide range of convenient transportation options, the car rental industry is uniquely positioned to help provide the infrastructure for tomorrow's MaaS paradigm."
Mangan also discussed the various ways that connected vehicles, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and autonomous cars will transform the transportation landscape – and how Enterprise is responding to these emerging technologies.
"Looking to the future, technology will continue to expand people's mobility options even more. A connected fleet will put drivers in control and get people where they need to go faster. AI and machine learning will help us better predict where we need to allocate our fleet and when, while also allowing us to anticipate customer needs. And the key to marketplace success for autonomous is smart, large-scale fleet management and logistics, something rental car companies do every day."
ITE Student Leadership Summit
Mangan also served as the keynote speaker at the 2019 St. Louis ITE Midwestern and Great Lakes District Student Leadership Summit held June 17-19, where the Enterprise Rent-A-Car brand served as the event's official sponsor.
Students enrolled in the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis Joint Undergraduate Engineering Program organized the St. Louis Summit to help shape and inspire the next generation of transportation engineers through leadership training, professional development and networking opportunities. In addition, students from more than a dozen universities across the Midwest attended, and the event also featured local public transportation experts and industry thought leaders from the two universities as well as from the Missouri Department of Transportation.
Enterprise Holdings, Inc., manages the largest and most diverse privately-owned fleet in the world through an integrated network of more than 10,000 fully staffed neighborhood and airport rental locations. This global network of independent regional subsidiaries and franchises also operates the Enterprise Rent-A-Car brand – as well as the National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands – in 100 countries and territories. Combined, Enterprise Holdings and its affiliate Enterprise Fleet Management, which currently manage more than 2 million vehicles and employ 100,000 worldwide, accounted for $24.1 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2018. In total, the annual revenues of Enterprise Holdings and Enterprise Fleet Management rank near the top of the global travel industry, ahead of many airlines and most cruise lines, hotels, tour operators and online travel agencies. Since 2008, Enterprise has spent almost $2.4 billion on acquisitions and corporate-venture capital investments or commitments in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, Ireland, Spain, Brazil and China. These acquisitions include car rental companies, carshare operations, vanpooling services, technology platforms and franchises. Enterprise Holdings currently is ranked as one of America's Largest Private Companies and if it were publicly traded, would rank on Fortune's list of the 500 largest American public companies.
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Tuesday, November 13 -
The Senate stands adjourned pursuant to the provisions of S. Res. 684, and does so as a further mark of respect for the late former Sen. Ben Tidings of Maryland.
The Senate will next convene for legislative business at 3:00 p.m.
Following leader remarks, the Senate will resume consideration of the House message accompanying S. 140, the vehicle for the Coast Guard reauthorization bill.
At 5:30 p.m., the Senate will VOTE on cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendment to S. 140, the vehicle for the Coast Guard reauthorization bill.
Note: if cloture is invoked on the motion to concur, the post-cloture time will expire at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, November 14, and the Senate will VOTE on the motion to concur in the House amendment to S. 140, the vehicle for the Coast Guard reauthorization bill.
Note: following disposition of the motion to concur, the cloture motion with respect to the Bowman nomination will ripen and the Senate will VOTE on cloture on Executive Calendar #909, Michelle Bowman, of Kansas, to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from February 1, 2006.
Note: on Thursday, October 11, cloture was filed on the motion to concur in the House amendment to S. 140, the vehicle for the Coast Guard reauthorization bill.
Note: on Thursday, October 11, cloture was filed on Executive Calendar #909, Michelle Bowman, of Kansas, to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from February 1, 2006.
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Disney World workers reach tentative agreement on wages
FILE PHOTO: Security officers staff the entrance at the Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida, U.S. June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Barbara Liston/File Photo
(Reuters) - Walt Disney World workers have reached a tentative agreement with parent Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) regarding wages, union body International Brotherhood of Teamsters said on Friday.
The union said the tentative deal will be voted on next week and a contract will be in effect until October 1, 2022 if approved.
If ratified, Disney World workers will receive a minimum of $4.75 in wage increases over the lifetime of the contract, with everyone at the resort getting a minimum increase of $2.50 by March 6, 2019.
Employees will also receive retroactive pay back to September 24, 2017, and a bonus of $1,000.
By 2021, all employees will be at a minimum starting rate of $15, the union said.
The contract follows a year of negotiations with the company and the Service Trades Council Union, a coalition of Teamsters Local 385 and five other unions who represent more than 39,000 workers at Walt Disney World.
Reporting by Nivedita Balu in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber
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January 31, 2017 / 10:26 AM / 2 years ago
Potent euro zone growth, inflation pressures reluctant ECB
Jan Strupczewski, Francesco Guarascio
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Inflation in the euro zone has risen to just below the European Central Bank’s target, economic growth is accelerating at greater speed than in the United States, and unemployment has hit a more than seven-year low.
FILE PHOTO: A man passes a sign advertising the first day of winter sale shopping in a retail shop in Vienna, Austria, December 28, 2016. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo
Myriad data releases showed on Tuesday that the 19-member currency bloc’s economy is on the mend - a confirmation of recovery that will intensify political pressure on the European Central Bank to haul back its generous stimulus program.
But while the noise from hawks in countries like Germany will undoubtedly get louder, the ECB is likely to stand firm with its policies in the near term, believing some of the key data is not sustainable.
Inflation accelerated to 1.8 percent year-on-year in January, Eurostat estimated, up from 1.1 percent in December, leaving it just shy of the ECB’s medium-term target of below but close to 2 percent.
It was the highest rate since February 2013 and came after data in the past two days that showed prices rising in Germany, France and Spain, three of the bloc’s four biggest economies.
But core inflation, which excludes volatile prices of energy and unprocessed food and which is the ECB’s focus, came in only stable, at 0.9 percent year-on-year.
ECB President Mario Draghi has said he will look past energy price fluctuations until underlying inflation picks up in a “convincing” way.
One of Draghi’s rate-setting colleagues, Ewald Nowotny, has also pretty much shut down any move soon, particularly on tapering, or easing off its asset-buying program - something economists have noted.
“With core inflation still weak, it seems unlikely that this will cause the ECB to change course” on its bond-buying program, said Bert Colijn, economist at bank ING.
Nonetheless, the barrage of positive economic news is likely to mean some policy change ahead.
“We’re seeing a sharp jump in inflation in many countries ... this situation could lead to a tightening of monetary policy from central banks and a rise in interest rates over the long term,” Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said, referring to the global rather than specifically euro zone picture.
Spain’s year-on-year inflation rate in January came in at 3.0 percent - but de Guindos said he expected it to ease back in the second quarter.
Energy prices jumped 8.1 percent year-on-year in January after a 2.6 percent increase in December and unprocessed food was 3.3 percent more expensive than a year earlier.
But the euro zone is clearly enjoying something of an economic renaissance, the beneficiary of just over 1.5 trillion euros in stimulus from the ECB and negligible borrowing costs.
Eurostat said euro zone gross domestic product rose 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter in the last three months of 2016 for a 1.8 percent year-on-year rise.
The quarter-on-quarter growth would mean an annualized rate of 2 percent, higher than the 1.9 percent annualized rate reported for the U.S. economy, the world’s biggest.
Whether this can last will depend on a number of factors, not least of which is that if inflation keeps rising, consumer spending may be hit.
Bringing political risk into the mix, there are also elections ahead in France, the Netherlands and possibly Italy.
“We suspect the euro zone may find it difficult to sustain this momentum amid appreciable political uncertainties during 2017 and likely reduced consumer purchasing power due to higher inflation,” said Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight.
But stronger economic growth also helped bring down the bloc’s unemployment rate to 9.6 percent in December, the lowest since May 2009, before Greece’s debt crisis broke out.
Joblessness has been one of the euro zone’s biggest problems, triggering demands for economic reforms to free up labor markets.
“This starts to get closer to figures that would justify more wage pressures, but it seems unlikely that this will happen in a meaningful way in the first half of 2017,” ING’s Colijn said.
“Nevertheless, the ECB will look at this batch of data with a mix of joy and concern, as it does show that the economy is moving in the right direction, but it will probably bring out the hawks early.”
Reporting by Jan Strupczewski, Francesco Guarascio and Philip Blenkinsop; Writing by Jeremy Gaunt; Editing by Catherine Evans
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U.S. to hold hearing on French tax investigation Aug. 19
FILE PHOTO: The logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are seen in a combination photo from Reuters files. REUTERS/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) Office will hold a hearing on Aug 19 in its probe of France’s new planned tax on big technology companies, calling the proposal “unreasonable.”
President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered an investigation into the tax, which could lead to the United States imposing new tariffs or other trade restrictions.
USTR said in a public notice the levy was an “unreasonable tax policy.” The plan departs from tax norms because of “extraterritoriality; taxing revenue not income; and a purpose of penalizing particular technology companies for their commercial success,” it said.
USTR added that statements by French officials suggest the tax will “amount to de facto discrimination against U.S. companies... while exempting smaller companies, particularly those that operate only in France.”
The tax is due to apply retroactively from the start of 2019. USTR said that calls into question the fairness of the tax.
On Thursday, the French Senate approved the 3% levy that will apply to revenue from digital services earned in France by firms with more than 25 million euros in French revenue and 750 million euros ($845 million) worldwide.
The French Embassy in Washington declined to comment.
Other EU countries including Austria, Britain, Spain and Italy have also announced plans for their own digital taxes.
They say a levy is needed because big, multinational internet companies such as Facebook (FB.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O) are currently able to book profits in low-tax countries like Ireland, no matter where the revenue originates. Political pressure to respond has been growing as local retailers in high streets and online have been disadvantaged.
Reporting by David Shepardson and Andrea Shalal in Washington; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
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September 21, 2016 minuteman missile national historic site national parks
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, SD
Here's a National Park Service site you may have never heard of, but it's one you should absolutely check out. Especially due to its close proximity to to the entrances Badlands National Park. Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is home to two Cold War-era military relics, the Delta-09 missile silo and the Launch Control Facility at Delta-01. While I came into existence towards the far end of the Cold War, being a 1990-born baby, I've always been fascinated by the history of this almost-50 year tension between the United States, the former Soviet Union and the worried rest of the world. Stories of espionage and spies, the arms race- it makes me wish I were a few years older so I could've been present during that time.
One of the top reasons I admire the National Park Service, is that they not only make a strong conscious effort to preserve some of this country's most spectacular natural landscapes like Zion and Rocky Mountain National Parks, but they also strive to protect, restore and educate curious minds about important sites that shaped America's history. That brings me to this NHS (National Historic Site).
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site consists of the two military facilities above, as well as a great, new visitor center and museum off of Exit 131, the same exit you take to enter Badlands National Park. See, no excuse! Go check it out. When I was leaving Badlands to head back home east towards Wisconsin, I made it a priority to stop and cross this NHS off my adventure bucket-list. I started by checking out the Delta-09 missile silo which is off of Exit 116 if you'e leaving from the Sage Creek Campground area at Badlands. Drive down a dirt road to a fenced off block with security cameras and warning signs visible. Park and walk into the silo area towards the capped enclosure to peak down below. Boom, you're staring 80ft straight down at a decommissioned 1.2 megaton warhead. "Whoaaaa holy cow," I said to myself, shaking my head in disbelief. The Delta-09 (decommissioned) missile you're looking at face-to-face, was one of 1,000 Minuteman II Missiles spread out across plains of America from 1960s to the end of the Cold War. There were over 150 of them alone in South Dakota. Built in 1963, the 12ft wide silo is layered in thick strong concrete and reinforced with a steel-plate liner. For safety and I'm sure a few national security reasons, you can't go underground and explore the silo. I stood there peeking down through the welded silo door's glass just trying to picture this being ready to launch in a few minutes notice of a potential all-out nuclear war. Scary stuff. Surrounding the silo area many supporting structures, antennas and motion sensors. When I arrived in the morning, a park ranger my age was cleaning the glass on the silo and we joked about how I was envious of his probably the best window cleaning job on the planet. "Yeah it's pretty cool getting to do this every day," he smiled and replied.
Down the road a few minutes from the missile silo is the visitor center, open everyday from 8am-4pm. Apart from a gift shop, there's a fantastic museum where you'll get a full-on history lesson on all that was the Cold War and Nuclear Arms Race (both from yesteryear and present). You'll see videos, photos, super-cool Cold War-era propaganda form both the USSR and US, along with restored items like a chair from a Minuteman Missile launch control facility that Air Force staff would sit strapped in, ready to turn the two launch keys simultaneously to launch a nuke, if we came under attack. One of my favorite items was the silo blast door painted by missileer crews "Worldwide Delivery in 30 Minutes Or less," coined from a Dominos Pizza advertisement but in relevant reference to guaranteeing a nuclear missile impact to strike the USSR in under half-an-hour. Crazy. There's a corner dedicated to when 'Duck and Cover' drills were an everyday thing back in the 1950s. I highly recommend watching this video with Bert The Turtle from 1951 from the Civil Defense Administration. America had to be ready in the event of a fallout from an atomic bomb. I learned a TON from all the exhibits here, and I have to extend a big thanks to the National Park Service for providing all this historical content in such an intuitive, interactive format. Way better than just reading paragraphs in a hard-cover textbook. To view a complete list of the exhibits at Minuteman Missile NHS click here.
Next time I'm heading down I-90 westward, I need to stop and do a guided tour of the Launch Control Facility Delta-01. A half-hour, ranger-led tour takes you down 31ft elevator into the underground lair where US Air Force Missileer crews worked an lived, on-alert and ready to launch a Minuteman II Missile. Reservations are required and made at the visitor center or by calling 605-422-5552. Tour costs $6 if you're 17 & over, $4 if you're 16 & under.
I also suggest 'liking' and following them on Facebook, where the NPS posts daily historic photos.
Cheers ,
(Oh, and sorry if the following pictures aren't the highest-quality. My camera died and I had to take stills on my video camera)
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Richard Powers and Barbara Kingsolver
“You don’t need a lot of sensitivity or soul to feel moved by a redwood forest,” says Richard Powers about the origins of his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Overstory (Norton, 2018). In this 92nd Street Y video, Powers joins Barbara Kingsolver, author of the novel Unsheltered (HarperCollins, 2018), for a reading and conversation with Kevin Larimer, editor in chief of Poets & Writers Magazine. The authors were featured in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Kevin Larimer
Stuck behind bars, a writer found a way to connect to the world
Poet, memoirist, and teacher Reginald Dwayne Betts speaks with PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown about his experience as a teen in prison and how poetry gave him a new identity. Betts is the author of Bastards of the Reagan Era (Four Way Books, 2015) and Felon, forthcoming from Norton in October, and is a recipient of the 2019 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award.
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Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux reads her poems “If It Weren’t for Bad Ideas, I’d Have No Ideas at All,” “Evening,” “This Close,” and “Savages” at a 2017 reading in Washington, D.C. for the Field Office. Laux’s new collection, Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems (Norton, 2019), is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Only as the Day Is Long
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Marilyn Chin is a badass Chinese-American poet
“It takes facility, it takes brilliance, it takes verve!” Marilyn Chin talks to Joseph Ross about what it takes to write poetry and reads poems from her fifth collection, A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems (Norton, 2018), which is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Joseph Ross
A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems
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Camille Dungy - The Writer's Responsibility in the Moment
“What you can do is tell your best story, at that moment.” Camille T. Dungy, whose first essay collection, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys Into Race, Motherhood, and History (Norton, 2017), is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, offers writers advice on how to overcome roadblocks.
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys Into Race, Motherhood, and History
“Remember” by Joy Harjo
“Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you. / Remember language comes from this.” In this video from the Academy of American Poets, Joy Harjo reads the poem “Remember” from her 1983 collection, She Had Some Horses. Harjo is the winner of the 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and is featured in “Vote of Confidence: The Life-Changing Support of an NEA Fellowship” in the May/June 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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The Zookeeper’s Wife
THE ZOOKEEPER'S WIFE - Official Trailer [HD] - In Theaters March 2017
Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story (Norton, 2007) recounts the true story of how keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of lives during the German invasion in Poland. The book has been adapted into a feature film directed by Niki Caro, and stars Jessica Chastain and Johan Heldenbergh.
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T2 Trainspotting
T2 Trainspotting Official Trailer – At Cinemas January 27
T2 Trainspotting is the sequel to director Danny Boyle’s 1996 film, Trainspotting, an adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s debut novel of the same name. The sequel, based on Welsh’s novel Porno (Norton, 2002), takes place twenty years later and reunites cast members Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Ewan McGregor, and Jonny Lee Miller.
INVENTORY - a poem by Sandra Beasley
“We gaze into your eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes. / We forget the display is blind.” Sandra Beasley, winner of the 2008 Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award in poetry, reads “Inventory” from her third poetry collection, Count the Waves (Norton, 2015).
Count the Waves
Pam Houston on Dialogue
Word Works presents Dialogue with Pam Houston
“Nothing makes me want to hurl a book across the room harder and faster than when the writer gives me a quick little emotional recap to make sure I’m keeping up.” For the Word Works series at Hugo House, Pam Houston, the author most recently of Contents May Have Shifted (Norton, 2012), delivers a lecture on crafting dialogue.
Hugo House
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Triumph Modern Bloom Bra Terms & Conditions: Prize is a Triumph Modern Bloom bra in black only which comes in sizes 32DD-F and 34B-40F. Prize is subject to availability. All prizes are non-transferable, non refundable and non negotiable. No cash alternative is available for any prize. Quite Frankly She Said and Debenhams Retail Plc will not be liable for any prizes which are lost, delayed or damaged in the post for reasons beyond their control. The giveaway will run from 18/10/2016 to 06/11/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. Your details will be passed to Debenhams to send your prize. The winner’s name and county will be made available on request. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Myrtle & Maude Mumma-To-Be Tummy Settling Pack Terms & Conditions: Prize is a Myrtle & Maude Mumma-To-Be Tummy Settling Pack. All prizes are non-transferable, non refundable and non negotiable. No cash alternative is available for any prize. Quite Frankly She Said will not be liable for any prizes which are lost, delayed or damaged in the post for reasons beyond their control. The giveaway will run from 06/10/2016 to 30/10/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. The winner’s name and county will be made available on request. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Gravity Force St Albans Terms and conditions: Prize is four free jump sessions at Gravity Force St Albans. Travel is not included. All prizes are non-transferable, non refundable and non negotiable. No cash alternative is available for any prize. We will not be liable for any prizes which are lost, delayed or damaged in the post for reasons beyond their control. Your details will be passed to the brand to send your prize. The giveaway will run from 05/08/2016 to 14/08/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. The winner’s name and county will be made available on request. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Willows Farm Family Day Pass Terms and conditions: Prize is a Willows Farm family day pass. Travel is not included. All prizes are non-transferable, non refundable and non negotiable. No cash alternative is available for any prize. We will not be liable for any prizes which are lost, delayed or damaged in the post for reasons beyond their control. Your details will be passed to the brand to sent your prize. The giveaway will run from 26/07/2016 to 14/08/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. The winner’s name and county will be made available on request. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Panasonic SC-RB5 Bluetooth Speaker Terms & Conditions: Prize is a Panasonic SC-RB5 Bluetooth Speaker. All prizes are non-transferable, non refundable and non negotiable. No cash alternative is available for any prize. We will not be liable for any prizes which are lost, delayed or damaged in the post for reasons beyond their control. Your details will be passed to the brand to sent your prize. The giveaway will run from 20/07/2016 to 28/08/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. The winner’s name and county will be made available on request. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Nibbling Teething Rattle & Bracelet Terms & Conditions: Prize is a Nibbling Teething Rattle and Bracelet. All prizes are non-transferable, non refundable and non negotiable. No cash alternative is available for any prize. We will not be liable for any prizes which are lost, delayed or damaged in the post for reasons beyond their control. Your details will be passed to the brand to sent your prize. The giveaway will run from 20/07/2016 to 14/08/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. The winner’s name and county will be made available on request. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
The Secrets of Birth Terms & Conditions: Prize is a signed copy of The Secrets of Birth by Kicki Hansard. All prizes are non-transferable, non refundable and non negotiable. No cash alternative is available for any prize. We will not be liable for any prizes which are lost, delayed or damaged in the post for reasons beyond their control. The giveaway will run from 19/07/2016 to 14/08/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. The winner’s name and county will be made available on request. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Debenhams 24 Hour Strapless Bra Terms & Conditions: Prize is for the Debenhams 24 Hour Strapless Bra only which comes in sizes 32-36 B-DD and 38 B-D. Prize is subject to availability. All prizes are non-transferable, non refundable and non negotiable. No cash alternative is available for any prize. Debenhams Retail Plc will not be liable for any prizes which are lost, delayed or damaged in the post for reasons beyond their control. The giveaway will run from 30/05/2016 to 26/06/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. Your details will be passed to Debenhams to send your prize. The winner’s name and county will be made available on request. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
ROOM DVD Terms & Conditions: The Prize is ROOM on DVD. The giveaway will run from 04/05/2016 to 15/05/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. Your details will be passed to the publicist to sent your prize.The winner’s name and county will be made available on request. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Joseph Joseph Dial Baby Giveaway Terms & Conditions: The Prize is a set of Dial Baby food storage containers from Joseph Joseph. The giveaway will run from 01/05/2016 to 29/05/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. The winner’s name and county will be made available on request. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Sown & Grown Cereals Giveaway Terms & Conditions: The Prize is one muesli and one granola from Sown & Grown. The giveaway will run from 23/04/2016 to 15/05/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. Your details will be passed to the brand to sent your prize. The winner’s name and county will be made available on request. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Moony Japanese Nappies Giveaway Terms & Conditions: The Prize is a pack of Japanese nappies. The giveaway will run from 10/04/2016 to 24/04/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. Your details will be passed to the brand to sent your prize. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Stick to Stigu Planner Giveaway Terms & Conditions: The Prize is a Stick to Stigu Planner 2016. The giveaway will run from 29/12/2015 to 10/01/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Olive It! Recipe Book Giveaway Terms & Conditions: The Prize is a copy of the Olive It! Recipe Book. The giveaway will run from 18/12/2015 to 03/01/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Aniworld Anisnap Watch Giveaway Terms & Conditions: The Prize is one Aniworld Anisnap Watch. The giveaway will run from 16/12/2015 to 03/01/2016. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
Tommee Tippee Cups Giveaway Terms & Conditions: The Prize is three Tommee Tippee Cups. The giveaway will run from 21/11/2015 to 21/12/2015. The giveaway is open to UK only aged 18 and over. The Prize must be claimed within 28 days. No responsibility is accepted for entries which are lost, corrupted, incomplete or for any failure to capture entry information. Use of false details will result in disqualification. The entry must be made by the person entering the competition – entries sent through third parties, agencies or by automated means (such as scripts and macros) will not be accepted.
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Warren Tribune Chronicle: Covering up guns in schools
Warren Tribune Chronicle
Reports of students disciplined for taking guns to school are seen in the news infrequently. It does not happen often -- but it may be a bigger problem in Ohio than most people think.
That is because the state Department of Education covers up many such incidents.
There were nearly 250 of them in the Buckeye State last year. Few were included in reports on the education department's website.
When a school district reports fewer than 10 cases of students taking guns to school during a year, the information is "masked" -- with no number showing -- on the education department's website, according to a published report.
Why? State officials say the rule is intended to safeguard the privacy of students.
Baloney. Students are not identified in the state reports. Like so much in government, the "privacy" claim serves to cover up information that might prove embarrassing.
Every situation in which a student takes a gun to school ought to be reported on the state department's website. If that requires action by the General Assembly, lawmakers should take it as soon as possible.
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Home Book Reviews 14 New Audiobooks by Lauren Willig, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Beth Harbison & More
14 New Audiobooks by Lauren Willig, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Beth Harbison & More
Jane Boursaw
As we roll into fall and cooler weather, it’s a great time to curl up with a good book. Even better if they’re on audiobook, so you can just relax and listen to someone tell you a story (love that!). Here are 14 brand new audiobooks to check out this fall. Click through the titles to buy on Amazon.
1. The Other Daughter by Lauren Willig
Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died, suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to clear out the cottage…and finds a cutting from a London society magazine, with a photograph of her supposedly deceased father dated all of three month before. He’s an earl, respected and influential, and he is standing with another daughter-his legitimate daughter. Which makes Rachel…not legitimate. Everything she thought she knew about herself and her past-even her very name-is a lie.
Still reeling from the death of her mother, and furious at this betrayal, Rachel sets herself up in London under a new identity. There she insinuates herself into the party-going crowd of Bright Young Things, with a steely determination to unveil her father’s perfidy and bring his-and her half-sister’s-charmed world crashing down. Very soon, however, Rachel faces two unexpected snags: she finds she genuinely likes her half-sister, Olivia, whose situation isn’t as simple it appears; and she might just be falling for her sister’s fiancé…
From Lauren Willig, author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Ashford Affair, comes The Other Daughter, a page-turner full of deceit, passion, and revenge.
2. Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart
On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.
Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded by the Emperor himself.
When a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on Tibetan bandits. But Li Du suspects this was no random killing. Everyone has secrets: the ambitious magistrate, the powerful consort, the bitter servant, the irreproachable secretary, the East India Company merchant, the nervous missionary, and the traveling storyteller who can’t keep his own story straight.
Beyond the sloping roofs and festival banners, Li Du can see the mountain pass that will take him out of China forever. He must choose whether to leave, and embrace his exile, or to stay, and investigate a murder that the town of Dayan seems all too willing to forget.
3. Everybody Rise by Stephanie Clifford
Everyone yearns to belong, to be part of the “in crowd,” but how far are you willing to go to be accepted? In the case of bright, funny and socially ambitious Evelyn Beegan, the answer is much too far…
At 26, Evelyn is determined to carve her own path in life and free herself from the influence of her social-climbing mother, who propelled her through prep school and onto New York’s glamorous Upper East Side. Evelyn has long felt like an outsider to her privileged peers, but when she gets a job at a social network aimed at the elite, she’s forced to embrace them.
Recruiting new members for the site, Evelyn steps into a promised land of Adirondack camps, Newport cottages and Southampton clubs thick with socialites and Wall Streeters. Despite herself, Evelyn finds the lure of belonging intoxicating, and starts trying to pass as old money herself. When her father, a crusading class-action lawyer, is indicted for bribery, Evelyn must contend with her own family’s downfall as she keeps up appearances in her new life, grasping with increasing desperation as the ground underneath her begins to give way.
4. The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn’t cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village.
But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true. And so begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth. What they uncover deep in the forest sets off a sequence of events that leads to murder, leads to an old crime, leads to an old betrayal. Leads right to the door of an old poet.
And now it is now, writes Ruth Zardo. And the dark thing is here. A monster once visited Three Pines. And put down deep roots. And now, Ruth knows, it is back. Armand Gamache, the former head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, must face the possibility that, in not believing the boy, he himself played a terrible part in what happens next.
5. Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella
The unstoppable, irreverent mother-daughter team presents a new collection of funny stories and true confessions that every woman can relate to. From identity theft to the hazards of bicycling to college reunions and eating on the beach, Lisa and Francesca tackle the quirks, absurdities, and wonders of everyday life with wit and warmth. As Lisa says, “More and more, especially in the summertime when I’m sitting on the beach, I’m learning not to sweat it. To go back to the child that I used to be. To see myself through the loving eyes of my parents. To eat on the beach. And not to worry about whether every little thing makes me look fat. In fact, not to worry at all.”
So put aside your worries and join Lisa and Francesca as they navigate their way through the crazy world we live in, laughing along the way.
6. Dragonbane by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Out of all the mysterious boarders who call Sanctuary home, no one is more antisocial or withdrawn than Maxis Drago. But then, it’s hard to blend in with the modern world when you have a fifty foot wingspan. Centuries ago, he was cursed by an enemy who swore to see him fall. An enemy who took everything from him and left him forever secluded.
But Fate is a bitch, with a wicked sense of humor. And when she throws old enemies together and threatens the wife he thought had died centuries ago, he comes back with a vengeance. Modern day New Orleans has become a battleground for the oldest of evils. And two dragons will hold the line, or go down in flames, in Dragonbane, the next explosive Dark-Hunter novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon.
7. A Paris Affair by Tatiana de Rosnay
From the internationally best-selling author of SARAH’S KEY comes an irreverent yet heartfelt collection that examines our most intimate and forbidden desires. Late nights at the office… Hotel rooms and secret rendezvous… Lingering perfume… Sizzling texts… What takes place in Paris when husbands and wives tangle with infidelity?
In this compulsively readable collection, Tatiana de Rosnay paints a portrait of forbidden loves in many shades – sometimes tragic, sometimes humorous, sometimes heartfelt, always with a dry wit and unflinching authenticity. A PARIS AFFAIR will take you on a vacation overseas, into the hidden lives of husbands, wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, where illicit desire wars with duty, and where a French take on romance will surprise you every time.
8. Badlands by C.J. Box
Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is back with a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won’t soon forget. Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective Cassie Dewell has been assigned as the new deputy sheriff of Grimstad-a place people used to be from, but were never headed to. Grimstad is now the oil capital of North Dakota. With oil comes money, with money comes drugs, and with drugs come the dirtiest criminals hustling to corner the market.
In the small town resides twelve-year-old Kyle Westergaard. Even though Kyle has been written off as the “slow” kid, he has dreams deeper than anyone can imagine. He wants to get out of town, take care of his mother, and give them a better life. While delivering newspapers, he witnesses a car accident and takes a mysterious bundle from the scene. Now in possession of a lot of money and packets of white powder, Kyle wonders if his luck has changed.
When the temperature drops to 30 below and a gang war heats up, Cassie realizes that she may be in over her head. As she is propelled on a collision course with a murderous enemy, she finds that the key to it all might come in the most unlikely form: an undersized boy on a bike who keeps showing up where he doesn’t belong. Because a boy like Kyle is invisible. But he sees everything.
9. What Doesn’t Kill Her by Carla Norton
Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint’s victim. Not anymore-not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after four years of captivity. Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit, performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals. It seems that he is still suffering the effects of the head injury he suffered in the car crash that freed Reeve seven years ago. Post-concussive syndrome, they call it.
For all that Flint seems like a model patient, he has long been planning his next move. When the moment arrives, he gets clean away from the hospital before the alarm even sounds. And Reeve is shocked out of her new life by her worst nightmare: Her kidnapper has escaped. Less than 24 hours later, Flint kills someone from his past–and Reeve’s blocked memories jolt back into consciousness. As much as she would like to forget him, she knows this criminal better than anyone else. When Flint evades capture, baffling authorities and leaving a bloody trail from the psychiatric lock-up to the forests of Washington state, Reeve suddenly realizes that she is the only one who can stop him.
Reeve is an irresistibly brave and believable heroine in Carla Norton’s heart-stopping new thriller about a young woman who learns to fight back.
10. If I Could Turn Back Time by Beth Harbison
Told with Beth Harbison’s wit and warmth, If I Could Turn Back Time is the fantasy of every woman who has ever thought, “If I could go back in time, knowing what I know now, I’d do things so differently…”
Thirty-seven year old Ramie Phillips has led a very successful life. She made her fortune and now she hob nobs with the very rich and occasionally the semi-famous, and she enjoys luxuries she only dreamed of as a middle-class kid growing up in Potomac, Maryland. But despite it all, she can’t ignore the fact that she isn’t necessarily happy. In fact, lately Ramie has begun to feel more than a little empty.
On a boat with friends off the Florida coast, she tries to fight her feelings of discontent with steel will and hard liquor. No one even notices as she gets up and goes to the diving board and dives off…
Suddenly Ramie is waking up, straining to understand a voice calling in the distance…It’s her mother: “Wake up! You’re going to be late for school again. I’m not writing a note this time…”
Ramie finds herself back on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, with a second chance to see the people she’s lost and change the choices she regrets. How did she get back here? Has she gone off the deep end? Is she really back in time? Above all, she’ll have to answer the question that no one else can: What it is that she really wants from the past, and for her future?
11. In This Together by Ann Romney
When Mitt and Ann Romney met in their late teens, a great American love story began. And their life together would be blessed: five healthy sons, financial security, and a home filled with joy. Despite the typical ups and downs, they had a storybook life.
Then, in 1998, Ann was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She couldn’t believe it was real; there were no therapies or treatments to help her. Mitt told her that day that they would tackle the diagnosis as a team: They were in it together. “As long as it isn’t fatal, we’re fine. If you have to be in a wheelchair, I’ll be right there to push it,” he told her. And Ann thought, “But I’ll be the one in the wheelchair.” A caregiver and helper her whole life, she’d crossed a terrible invisible line. She wouldn’t be able to care for her family anymore. She was the patient. Ann and Mitt would face the most frightening and humbling experience of their lives.
From reflections on her early life, her marriage, and her diagnosis and recovery, the sources of her faith, and the stories of others who overcame adversity and inspired her to keep going,In This Together is a brave and deeply honest portrait of a family facing an unexpected blow, often in the most public of circumstances.
“A lot of people talk about a transformation that happens when life throws you a curve ball, and the big one in my life was my MS diagnosis. With all the blessings I’ve had, MS has been my greatest teacher: It has taught me about faith, compassion, and serving others. I’ve met many people along the way who’ve shared advice and demonstrated enormous resilience in the face of challenges; their stories gave me strength. In sharing my story, I want to give others hope as I’ve been given hope on this journey.”
12. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
In Furiously Happy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea.
But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. As Jenny says: “Some people might think that being ‘furiously happy’ is just an excuse to be stupid and irresponsible and invite a herd of kangaroos over to your house without telling your husband first because you suspect he would say no since he’s never particularly liked kangaroos. And that would be ridiculous because no one would invite a herd of kangaroos into their house. Two is the limit. I speak from personal experience. My husband says that none is the new limit. I say he should have been clearer about that before I rented all those kangaroos.
“Most of my favorite people are dangerously fucked-up but you’d never guess because we’ve learned to bare it so honestly that it becomes the new normal. Like John Hughes wrote in The Breakfast Club, ‘We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it.’ Except go back and cross out the word ‘hiding.'”
Furiously Happy is about “taking those moments when things are fine and making them amazing, because those moments are what make us who we are, and they’re the same moments we take into battle with us when our brains declare war on our very existence. It’s the difference between “surviving life” and “living life”. It’s the difference between “taking a shower” and “teaching your monkey butler how to shampoo your hair.” It’s the difference between being “sane” and being “furiously happy.”
Lawson is beloved around the world for her inimitable humor and honesty, and in Furiously Happy, she is at her snort-inducing funniest. This is a book about embracing everything that makes us who we are – the beautiful and the flawed – and then using it to find joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. Because as Jenny’s mom says, “Maybe ‘crazy’ isn’t so bad after all.” Sometimes crazy is just right.
13. Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain
Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She and her husband live in San Diego, where they hope to soon adopt a baby. But the process terrifies her.
As the questions and background checks come one after another, Molly worries that the truth she’s kept hidden about her North Carolina childhood will rise to the surface and destroy not only her chance at adoption, but her marriage as well. She ran away from her family twenty years ago after a shocking event left her devastated and distrustful of those she loved: Her mother, the woman who raised her and who Molly says is dead but is very much alive. Her birth mother, whose mysterious presence raised so many issues. The father she adored, whose death sent her running from the small community of Morrison Ridge.
Now, as she tries to find a way to make peace with her past and embrace a future filled with promise, she discovers that even she doesn’t know the truth of what happened in her family of pretenders.
Told with Diane Chamberlain’s compelling prose and gift for deft exploration of the human heart, Pretending to Dance is an exploration of family, lies, and the complexities of both.
14. Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success by Michael D’Antonio
In the summer of 2015, as he vaulted to the lead among the many GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump was the only one dogged by questions about his true intentions. This most famous American businessman had played the role of provocateur so often that pundits, reporters, and voters struggled to believe that he was a serious contender. Trump stirred so much controversy that his candidacy puzzled anyone who applied ordinary political logic to the race. But as Michael D’Antonio shows in Never Enough, Trump has rarely been ordinary in his pursuit of success and his trademark method is based on a logic that begins with his firm belief that he is a singular and superior human being.
As revealed in this landmark biography, Donald Trump is a man whose appetite for wealth, attention, power, and conquest is practically insatiable. Declaring that he is still the person he was as a rascally little boy, Trump confesses that he avoids reflecting on himself “because I might not like what I see” and he believes “most people aren’t worthy of respect.”
A product of the media age and the Me Generation that emerged in the 1970s, Trump was a Broadway showman before he became a developer. Mentored by the scoundrel attorney Roy Cohn, Trump was a regular on the New York club scene and won press attention as a dashing young mogul before he had built his first major project. He leveraged his father’s enormous fortune and political connections to get his business off the ground, and soon developed a larger-than-life persona. In time, and through many setbacks, he made himself into a living symbol of extravagance and achievement.
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Raiders reveal four more signings for National League Division One
Joe Allen will be back in a Raiders jersey next season
Romford Junior Raiders have added another four players to the roster ahead of the 2019/20 season.
Stevie Dunnage in action for the Raiders back in 2015 (pic: John Scott)
Coach Ben Pitchley has moved to bring in speedy forward Joe Allen, defenceman Craig Ellis and has re-signed both Steve Dunnage and Tom Adams.
Forward Allen returns to the gold and blue from rivals Invicta Dynamos after one season at the Kent club.
The 29-year-old has spent majority of his career across the water in Streatham but is excited to be back.
"I'm looking forward to being back in the gold and blue jersey once again," Allen said.
"I spent most of my junior days in Romford and being coached by Ben is going to be great as he always pushes his players.
"The fans are always supportive and loud, so it's going to be a good exciting season with the dynamics of the league changing.
"We're going to have a strong hard working team, which is how Romford fans like it, and I'm really looking forward to giving it my all every shift for team and get some good results this coning season."
Defenceman Ellis joins from Peterborough Phantoms after spending the last three seasons at the club.
The 17-year-old is also excited to working under Pitchley again after previously playing under the coach at Slough juniors.
"I am excited to be playing in Romford, and I know a few of the guys through conference, it's also going to be good to be playing for a club that Ben is coaching again."
Returning to the roster is former Romford junior Dunnage for a second season in the gold and blue.
The 24-year-old originally made his Raiders debut during the 2014/15 season before stepping away from the sport for a few years.
"I am over the moon to be back in Romford," Dunnage said
"I'm looking forward to making the step up and taking on the new challenge."
Adams is also back inbetween the pipes after joining mid-way through last season from Haringey.
"I'm really happy to be signing again as it's a club I enjoy playing for.
"Obviously as we are stepping up a league that means I'm gonna work hard to get myself to be the best I can be between the sticks over the summer to help the team as much as I can."
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ARLENE — Violet Arlene, 80, of Chico, died Saturday, Nov. 11, 2006, in Chico. Arrangements are under the direction of Brusie Funeral Home, 342-5642.
HARRIS — John Harris, 63, of Chico, died Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006, in Chico. Arrangements are under the direction of Brusie Funeral Home, 342-5642.
LEWIS — Thomas “Jerry” Gerald Lewis, 67, of Paradise, died Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006, in Paradise. Arrangements are under the direction of Paradise Chapel of the Pines, 877-4991.
PERIA — Carmen Juanita Peria, 61, of Oroville, died Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006, in Oroville. Arrangements are under the direction of Scheer Memorial Chapel, 533-5255.
THURNER — Former Orland resident Eena Maria Thurner, 50, of Santa Rosa, died Monday, Nov. 13, 2006, in Santa Rosa. Arrangements are under the direction of F.D. Sweet & Son Mortuary, Orland, 865-3349.
VAN SCHOELANDT — Fred Van Schoelandt, 80, of Oroville, died Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006, in Fair Oaks. Arrangements are under the direction of the Neptune Society of Northern California, Chico Branch, 345-7200. No service is planned.
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Cops and Courts: Nov. 23, 2011
Confinement sought for convicted sex offender
A probable cause hearing has been scheduled for Monday to determine whether a convicted sex offender can be confined as a sexually violent predator.
William Donald Bitzer, 36, was convicted in 2003 on numerous counts of child molestation and possession of child pornography.
Bitzer, who was then living in Scotts Valley, had been a children”s baseball coach and roller disco disc jockey who was known to invite young boys over for pool parties and to play video games, authorities said. He pleaded guilty to five felony counts of committing lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age, three felony counts of using an underage person for obscene matter and 26 misdemeanor counts of possessing obscene matter of a minor engaged in sexual acts, according to court records.
He was sentenced to three years, eight months in state prison for the felony counts and a year in County Jail for the misdemeanors, to be served concurrently. He was arrested that same year for making online sexual advances to an Anaheim police officer posing as a 14-year-old boy.
Bitzer was arrested in 2009 for possessing pornography and in 2010 for possessing a number of items violating the terms of his parole. That included communications about a sexual encounter and interaction with a sex offender.
He was sent back to prison and was scheduled to be released on parole on Nov. 17, but prosecutors have filed a petition to keep Bitzer in confinement as a sexually violent predator.
Police: Teen girls steal Mustang
Three teenage girls were arrested early Monday morning after they stole a red Ford Mustang that had been warming up unattended, police said.
The girls stole the red 1996 Mustang after its owner started it and left it in the driveway with its keys in the ignition on Carey Avenue about 6:25 a.m., said Watsonville police Sgt. Brian Ridgway.
About 6:45 a.m., officers were dispatched to a hit-and-run at Riverside Drive and Main Street in Watsonville. The red Mustang hit a 2004 Toyota Tundra and a Ford Aerostar van, then drove away, Ridgway said.
A few minutes later, police found a red Mustang on Rodriguez Street near Second Street and stopped it. Two female passengers ran and police arrested a third girl who was driving, police said.
The passengers, whose names were not released because they were minors, also were arrested about a block away. None of the girls were old enough to have a driver”s license; two were 14 and one was 15, Ridgway said.
The teens were arrested on suspicion of vehicle theft, hit-and-run, driving without a license and possession of stolen property, police said.
City attorney fires back in Occupy case
Santa Cruz City Attorney John Barisone filed a motion in federal court Monday to try to bring Occupy Santa Cruz”s public nuisance case back to Santa Cruz County Superior Court.
City officials initially filed the nuisance suit against Occupy campers at San Lorenzo Park in part so city leaders could be legally authorized to break up the camp. On Nov. 15, Occupy Santa Cruz attorney Ed Frey tried to move the suit to federal court in San Jose because he said the protest was based on constitutional rights to free speech and assembly and was best served in federal court.
Monday, Barisone filed a motion to send the case back to Santa Cruz court.
“There”s no basis for them moving this case to federal court,” Barisone said.
Barisone said the case is due back in federal court on Jan. 3, but the judge could send it back to Santa Cruz before that date without a hearing.
Off-duty cop arrests football fan
An off-duty Watsonville police officer spotted a wanted man at a San Francisco 49ers game Sunday at Candlestick Park and had him arrested, Bay City News reported.
About 4:30 p.m. in a parking lot near Gate F, the off-duty cop showed police a man who had an outstanding warrant in Santa Cruz County, police said.
The officers detained the man — whose name has not been reported — and found he had a warrant for his arrest, police said.
The man kicked and spit at the officers as he was arrested, police said.
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Inevitable Evita: On The Eva Peron Trail In Buenos Aires
January 10, 2015 / Mike Gasparovic / South America Travel, Travel Tips
Eva Peron
Her story was known everywhere even before it was finished, and no wonder—since it sprang not from mere life, but from the timelessness of Latin American myth.
The humble, illegitimate birth near Los Toldos, on a dusty ranch on the Argentine pampas. The scandal at her father’s funeral, when her mother was briefly allowed to pay her respects, and afterwards sharply escorted from the cemetery by friends of the legitimate wife. The flight, at 15, to the capital. The early career as a radio and B-movie actress. The fated meeting with the future president at a fundraiser for earthquake victims. The passionate love affair. The unwavering, true-believer support for her husband’s political programs, designed to empower Argentina’s labor unions and working poor. The 20-hour days spent in service to the descamisados—to women, children, the elderly, all the little people traditionally neglected by the country’s power structure. The towering need to be loved. The agonizing death from uterine cancer when she was just 33.
She, of course, is Evita Perón, and she has been venerated and reviled, called Virgin Mother and Mary Magdalene, beneficent saint and opportunistic whore, from the moment her husband took office in 1945, dividing not just Argentines but intellectual opinion and popular sentiment the world over.
So controversial was her meteoric career that even in death, she failed to achieve peace. Her corpse, after being almost ritualistically embalmed, was spirited out of Argentina, hidden in a false grave in Milan, and later displayed on her husband’s kitchen table in Spain before ultimately being repatriated to Buenos Aires, where it today lies beneath three sets of trap doors in a tomb that is said to be more secure than Argentina’s central bank.
Loco? Certainly. But it helps to explain why she is also one of the great cultic figures of Latin American history, on a par with Simón Bolívar, Emiliano Zapata, and Che Guevara.
And also why seeking out her trail is an inevitable part of any excursion to the Argentine capital. For North Americans, the image of Argentina’s most important First Lady may be cosmetically enshrined in the arias of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, but in Buenos Aires, 60 years after her unquiet death, Evita still is a complex, vital woman, an imposing presence to be loved or hated, and her footsteps—should you elect to follow them during your stay in the city—lead everywhere, from high to low, and always ever deeper into that most fascinating of Latin labyrinths, the Argentine psyche.
Here are some suggested destinations to help you follow those footsteps.
Eva Peron’s Balcony, Casa Rosada
La Casa Rosada
Plaza de Mayo, Microcentro
The rear balcony of Argentina’s Presidential Palace, nicknamed the Pink House or Casa Rosada, is, as Latin American tourist destinations go, the very definition of iconic. Facing directly onto the Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires’s central square, it was the site of Evita’s outpourings to the masses during her tenure as First Lady, as well as for Madonna’s rendition of “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” in the 1989 film version of Evita. Today visitors can peer out from the same windows during the free tours offered on weekends, as well as see memorabilia in the palace itself. There’s also a museum next door, the Museo del Bicentenario, with more of Evita’s belongings on display.
Tomb of Eva Peron
Recoleta Cemetery
Calle Junín 1790, Recoleta
Only in Argentina, porteños like to joke, is one of the principal tourist attractions a cemetery, but there’s a reason the tombs in Recoleta draw huge crowds every year. Simply put, they’re like nothing you’ve seen before. Funereal, decadent, and grand, they house the remains of the city’s honored dead, and none is more honored than the former First Lady herself. Her black-marble vault is strewn with flowers at all hours of the day and night, and the crowds only intensify on July 26, the anniversary of her death. If you can, take a tour with one of the well-informed guides lingering near the gate: hearing the morbid comedy of what happened to Evita’s remains after her death will blow your mind.
Museo Evita
Calle Lafinur 2988, Palermo
The exhibits at this showcase for all things Evita have a hagiographic quality to them—not surprisingly, since the former First Lady’s grand-niece is the director. Notwithstanding, the site is a must-see, since it affords a fascinating insight into the growth of the Evita cult. Here you can see the dresses, the letters, and the early films, as well as toys and appliances distributed by the charity and welfare organizations Evita sponsored. Even more haunting are the newsreel clips projected onto the walls, in which we hear her and her husband speak in their own voices—and the crowds answer. A good introduction to Evita’s life and times for those unfamiliar with Argentine history.
Confederación General del Trabajo
Azopardo 802, Microcentro
The CGT, a labor organization analogous to the AFL-CIO, was one of the Peróns’ most loyal backers during the late 40s, when Juan Perón ordered the construction of this concrete bastion to house its offices. More dramatically, though, it also provided the site for Evita’s embalming and lying-in-state after her death in 1952, an event memorialized in the small museum on the second floor. Here, in an environment eerily resembling a funeral parlor, you can see newspaper clippings and photos of the First Lady’s demise, as well as the tiled mortuary, resembling a shower stall, where Pedro Ara, a world-famous mortician, worked to chemically preserve her remains. Guided tours are available from Lorenzo Olarte, a diehard Peronist who knew both the President and the First Lady. Ghoulish, yes, but irresistible for those hoping to understand not just Evita, but the nation that so crazily adored her.
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Families come to us for all sorts of reasons, often as a result of life events that are both varied and complex. Below are stories from ex-residents. All are true and present a very real picture of their situation before, during and after their stay with Save the Family.
This is the story of Stella who put up with abuse for years and nearly lost everything.
Stella came to Save The Family in January 2013 after staying at two Refuges in Liverpool and Chester.
Stella was forced to leave her home when the police were called to the house after a neighbour raised concerns. Social services were called out and gave Stella an ultimatum of leaving there and then with her children, or risk having her children removed.
“It was horrendous, I literally had to pack my bags and leave the house, all my possessions and everything.”
She has three children living with her at Save The Family, who are 11, 9 and 4 years old. All the children have been found places in the local school and are now thriving according to Stella.
“They love it, they’ve really settled in and their school attendance has really improved since we’ve been living her.”
One of the most significant forms of support Stella accessed was the Freedom Programme, a 10 week course to help victims of domestic abuse.
“This was a real eye opener for me. I was ticking everything on this list about his abusive nature, the manipulation, sexual control as well as the mental and physical abuse. He’d really undermined my confidence and I didn’t socialise outside the house at all”.
The course helped Stella talk about her relationship with others, what she had suffered and helped her see the commonalties with other women’s stories.
Stella had been left with debts as a result of the children’s father running up these debts after she left the house. Stella is receiving help from Save The Family about her financial and housing situation, as well as personal and emotional support from staff at Save The Family. Stella stated she was ready to move on and that her confidence and self-esteem was better than it ever was.
“This place has put me back together; I am a different, more confident person now. But it’s time to move on soon, I hope to be out by the end of the year.”
We also work with families that have suffered as a result of addictions and will work with health services to support people coming off addiction. The case of Catherine shows how vulnerable she had become before she came to live with Save the Family.
Catherine referred herself to Save the Family after becoming addicted to heroin. She was evicted from her home and was in a desperate situation before coming to Save The Family.
“I used to use drugs but only in a social way and it was fine. But when I met my boyfriend and he moved in, that was when it all went downhill and fast. He was an addict, and I ended up using, and before I knew what was happening, I was hooked. It completely change my life…I’d got myself in a mess.”
Catherine has two children living with her at Save the Family, aged seven and nine. It was Catherine’s father who suggested to Catherine that she should contact Save the Family. Catherine said she came to have a look around the place and talked to people about the support she could access and she knew this was the right decision.
“It was a no brainer, it looked and seemed amazing.”
Since moving in to Save the Family, Catherine has come off heroin successfully and has made significant improvements to her health and well-being.
“When I came here I was really thin and felt vulnerable. I was always looking for answers. Now I feel healthy and much better about myself, able to cope.”
The support Catherine received included considerable personal support from key workers to help build her self confidence and self esteem; get her children into a Welsh speaking school help with accessing benefits, and help her with her emotional and physical well-being.
“The support I’ve received has helped me focus on changing my life around. I’m a completely different person now. I’m ready to deal with things now. I came here shattered and now I’m ready to move on.”
Catherine is now drawing up a Moving On Plan that staff develop to agree her next steps and safe transition back home.
We work hard with each of our families to make sure that all their needs are addressed. The case of Jayne and her three children demonstrates the benefits of supporting the whole family, particularly when there is a range of complex needs.
Jayne has 3 children and has been living with Save The Family for 14 months. Her youngest daughter has a sever and rare disability and needs a lot of support. Jayne herself has a severe disability which means she is constantly in pain and in need of support herself.
She got into problems with rent arrears and had a disagreement with her local housing association which resulted in her being evicted. Jayne also suffers from mental health problems and in her words has “had a very difficult life, I’ve suffered lots of abuse of all kinds.”
Jayne was extremely vulnerable when she first came to Save The Family and initially kept herself to herself for the first few months. However, she now feels much for confident in herself and sees a change and resilience in her children that was not there before.
“My daughter is so much happier now. They have got her into a Special Needs school and this has made all the difference.”
Save The Family has helped her daughter access mental health support and has also adapted the family’s living accommodation to enable them to live independently.
“No matter what we need, they have provided solutions for. It’s been fantastic.”
Her son, before coming to Save The Family, was “always naughty, always abusive and we would fight all the time. Now he is happier and I think it’s because he knows I am happier in myself. There is less stress around.”
Her son is now participating in a Duke of Edinburgh award which Save The Family organised and according to Jayne, “this has been the making of him.”
Save The Family has also supported Jayne in accessing community learning and she recently completed an NVQ Level 1 in Drug Awareness. She reported having gained a real sense of achievement from doing this.
“I loved doing it, it’s really made a difference to my self-esteem and now I just want to do more”
“This place has given me back my life. I can move on now with greater confidence thanks to all the support. They deserve an award working here; they have been nothing but absolutely fantastic.”
We also provide outreach support for people who continue to need us after they have settled back into community. This is an essential part of the successful rehabilitation of families. Sharon’s case shows how we are able to support families even when they are back in the community again.
Sharon stayed at Save The Family last year from January to April after a relationship breakdown and becoming homeless.
“I was desperate, I had three children and my Mum was really poorly at the time and I had nowhere to go”.
She felt vulnerable and needed somewhere to stay, some advice and emotional support to help get her through a difficult period in her life.
“When I arrived my confidence was very low and I needed someone to talk to and help with keeping my kids safe and happy. I felt like I was letting them down.”
Sharon received support in getting housing, accessing the correct benefits and registering with a local GP service.
“They did everything for me, it was amazing to be able to hand it all over to someone. At the time I couldn’t have done that.”
Sharon soon got her confidence and self-esteem back and was ready to move on. Save The family helped her set up her home when leaving Plas Bellin.
“They helped me move, helped me get the water on and get a TV licence. They also gave me some furniture and curtains. They did the sort of thing your family would do if they could.”
Sharon has settled back into the community and is coping well. She was still in contact with staff at Save The Family and tended to call them for any help she needed.
“I spoke to them recently about some child care issues I had and they still help. It’s been wonderful.”
When Madeline arrived on site with her mother Kathryn, she was three months old. For the first three months of her life she had lived with a foster carer and had never spent longer than one night with Kathryn. She had been taken into care almost immediately after she was born.
Madeline was the ninth child that Kathryn had given birth to; all of the previous eight children had been removed from Kathryn’s care because of her poor parenting. Kathryn had several relationships but the most recent was with a man who abused her. But because Kathryn loved him, she put up with it and put him before her children, allowing them to witness their parent’s violent relationship and Kathryn’s increasing journey into depression. Kathryn’s confidence and self-esteem was low and she neglected the wellbeing and safeguarding of her children, to a point that they were removed from her and placed, firstly, in foster care and, later, adopted.
Kathryn’s oldest child was 12 years old and Kathryn was 36 when she found she was expecting her ninth child. Social care eventually decided to give Kathryn one last chance to prove that she could be a good mother. Her lifestyle had changed significantly and she came to live at Save the Family’s site. Kathryn really wanted to prove she could be a good mother but because she had “failed her other children”, as she put it, she wanted help.
Madeline was a beautiful baby but Kathryn felt as though she wasn’t settling and the social worker was concerned about their level of attachment. So, with an agreed support plan in place, Kathryn embarked on an 11 month learning curve. It was a rocky road, but Kathryn was receptive to advice and engaged with us every day. We explored routines: singing and talking to your baby; baby massage; stimulating play; messy play; feeding,weaning and healthy eating; and we talked about Kathryn being the primary educator in her baby’s life. We showed her how the Early Years Foundation Stage worked and helped discover ways to enhance her daughter’s development.
Madeline and Kathryn grew closer and closer. Madeline was growing into a confident and lively toddler who was dressed beautifully, ate a healthy balanced diet, attended all appointments and obviously loved her mother, who also adored her in return. The two laughed and learned together and were eventually ready to re-join their community.
We still hear from them regularly and things are still positive. Kathryn and Madeline are now visiting nurseries in the area as Kathryn has been offered a part-time job. Kathryn has given Madeline the very best start in life and believes that her time at Cotton Hall Farm has made the difference and helped her turn her life around.
*names and identities have been changed to protect families’ privacy.
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J&K HC | Power of employer to hold departmental enquiry against a delinquent government servant, is independent of power of police and Anti-Corruption Bureau to register FIR
Jammu and Kashmir High Court: Sanjeev Kumar, J. dismissed a writ petition which claimed promotion and challenged the government order which was made on the basis of serious allegations regarding the disproportionate acquisition of property.
Respondent 2 herein, on a complaint, conducted a secret verification and found that the petitioner had acquired huge assets both movable and immovable, which were disproportionate to his known sources of income. He registered an FIR against the petitioner for the commission of offence under Section 5(1)(e) read with Section 5(2) of the Jammu and Kashmir Prevention of Corruption Act, 2006. He also wrote a communication to respondent 1 (Administrative Secretary) for initiating departmental action under Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services Rules, 1956 against the petitioner. Respondent 1 by passing an order attaching petitioner with the Chief Engineer, PHE Kashmir. Petitioner was Superintending Engineer in a hydraulic circle, Kargil. He claimed that due to his seniority he was likely to be promoted to the post of Chief Engineer. Aggrieved by the said order, the petitioner challenged both the aforesaid communication as well as government order by way of this petition.
Petitioner claimed that the impugned communication issued by respondent 2 and the impugned government order by Administrative Secretary was illegal, arbitrary, mala fide and without any authority of law; and the same could not be sustained in law as they were not traceable to any provisions of Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services Rules, 1956. He also contended that no employee can be penalized only on the ground that an FIR for his misconduct was registered with the police or Anti-Corruption Bureau and pleaded that the impugned communication and order were only aimed to denude him from his right to seek promotion to the post of Chief Engineer. Respondent 1 denied the allegations of arbitrariness and mala fide and objected the writ petition on the ground that the impugned government order was fully justified as the allegation against the petitioner was serious and disproportionate to his known sources of income. He also claimed that the petitioner had been attached with the Chief Engineer not only because an FIR regarding his misconduct was pending investigation before respondent 2 but also because a full-fledged departmental enquiry against him was contemplated.
Court held that the department was competent to hold a departmental enquiry solely on the basis of the allegations made against an employee and this power of the employer was independent of the power of the police and the Anti Corruption Bureau to register FIR and investigate the allegations. The delinquent employee may be acquitted by the Court of law on finding that the prosecution could not prove his guilt, but he can be penalized in the disciplinary proceedings, which were decided on the basis of preponderance of probabilities. The Court also observed that as per Section 31 of Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services Rules, 1956 he could also be suspended, if the complaint against him of any criminal offence was under investigation or trial. Hence, respondent 1 had shown leniency and instead of suspending him had only attached him with the Chief Engineer. Therefore, it could not be said that the order by respondent 1 was without jurisdiction or without any sanction of law. Thus, the petition was dismissed for being devoid of merit.[Sarwan Singh v. State of J&K, 2019 SCC OnLine J&K 518, decided on 07-06-2019]
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Raj HC | Person promoted on regular line of promotion cannot be deprived of higher pay scale on account that he had sought voluntary retirement
Rajasthan High Court: Ashok Kumar Gaur, J. allowed the writ petition for the benefit of the Non-Practicing Allowance (NPA) as no reference was made of such circular to show that the person can be deprived of such benefits.
A petition was made by the petitioner praying for the grant of Non-Practicing Allowances (NPA) and also challenged the order by which the earlier order of granting NPA was withdrawn.
The facts of the case were that petitioner was sent on deputation as Deputy Director (AIDS) in Rajasthan State AIDS Control Society. The petitioner pleaded that he must be granted NPA and thus requested the authorities and submitted a representation to the Project Director to grant him NPA. The petitioner further submitted that the Society held its meeting in which a conscious decision was taken to grant NPA to those working in other National programmes but the same was not paid to him. Thus, this application.
Abhay Bhandari, Senior Counsel for the petitioner submitted that he had to seek voluntary retirement which was accepted. It was further submitted that instead of granting him the actual benefit on the promoted post, the respondents had denied the actual benefit of the promotion to the petitioner only on account of the fact that the petitioner was promoted after he had sought voluntary retirement. The petitioner was also entitled to his fixation in the pay scale of Rs 10000-325-15200 on his promotion and only because the petitioner had sought voluntary retirement, the actual benefit could not have been denied to him.
Prakhar Gupta, Counsel for the respondent submits that the petitioner was not entitled to grant of NPA. It was submitted that since the petitioner was not getting any NPA prior to his posting in the Rajasthan State AIDS Control Society and as such he could not be given such benefit. Counsel further submitted that the NPA could only be given to the persons who were entitled as per the order issued by the Finance Department from time to time. Counsel submitted that the claim of the petitioner for grant of pay scale of Rs 10000-325-15200 on the promoted post was also not justified as the petitioner had sought voluntary retirement and while considering his case for promotion, he was not working and as such notional benefit is only to be given to the petitioner.
High Court opined the petitioner has been promoted as Senior Medical Officer and a particular pay scale was required to be given to the person who was promoted on the regular basis, the same cannot be denied to him only on account of the fact that he had sought voluntary retirement. The court further held that as there was no clause which prescribed that a person who has been promoted on regular line of promotions, can be deprived from the pay scale of the higher post. Thus, the order was made to the respondent to pay the NPA along with the actual benefit of pay revision of promotion within five weeks.[Avdhesh Gupta v. State of Rajasthan, 2019 SCC OnLine Raj 686, decided on 20-05-2019]
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Karnataka Reservation Act, 2018 constitutional; Benefit of consequential seniority to be accorded retrospectively
Supreme Court: Upholding the validity of the Karnataka Extension of Consequential Seniority to Government Servants Promoted on the Basis of Reservation (to the Posts in the Civil Services of the State) Act 2018, the bench of UU Lalit and Dr. DY Chandrachud, JJ held,
“The Reservation Act 2018 is a valid exercise of the enabling power conferred by Article 16 (4A) of the Constitution.”
The Reservation Act 2018 was preceded in time by the Karnataka Determination of Seniority of the Government Servants Promoted on the Basis of the Reservation (to the Posts in the Civil Services of the State) Act 2002 . The constitutional validity of the Reservation Act 2002 was challenged in B K Pavitra v Union of India, (2017) 4 SCC 620 wherein it was held that Sections 3 and 4 of the Reservation Act 2002 to be ultra vires Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution on the ground that an exercise for determining inadequacy of representation, backwardness and the impact on overall efficiency had not preceded the enactment of the law. Such an exercise was held to be mandated by the decision of a Constitution Bench of this Court in M Nagaraj v Union of India, (2006) 8 SCC 212. The legislature in the State of Karnataka enacted the Reservation Act 2018 after this Court invalidated the Reservation Act 2002 in B K Pavitra I. The grievance of the petitioners is that the state legislature has virtually re-enacted the earlier legislation without curing its defects.
On whether the basis of the decision in B K Pavitra I has been cured
Holding that in adopting recourse to sampling methodologies, the Committee cannot be held to have acted arbitrarily, the Court said that the methodology which was adopted by the Ratna Prabha Committee has not been demonstrated to be alien to conventional social science methodologies.
It was hence, held,
“once an opinion has been formed by the State government on the basis of the report submitted by an expert committee which collected, collated and analysed relevant data, it is impossible for the Court to hold that the compelling reasons which Nagaraj requires the State to demonstrate have not been established. Even if there were to be some errors in data collection, that will not justify the invalidation of a law which the competent legislature was within its power to enact.”
On selection based on “merit”
On the assumption that awarding opportunities in government services based on “merit” results in an increase in administrative efficiency, the Court said,
“administrative efficiency is an outcome of the actions taken by officials after they have been appointed or promoted and is not tied to the selection method itself. The argument that one selection method produces officials capable of taking better actions than a second method must be empirically proven based on an evaluation of the outcomes produced by officials selected through both methods.”
The Court also said that the arguments that attack reservations on the grounds of efficiency equate “merit” with candidates who perform better than other candidates on seemingly “neutral” criteria, e.g. standardised examinations. Candidates who score beyond a particular “cut-off point” are considered “meritorious” and others are “non-meritorious”. However, this is a distorted understanding of the function “merit” plays in society. It, hence, said,
“the providing of reservations for SCs and the STs is not at odds with the principle of meritocracy. “Merit” must not be limited to narrow and inflexible criteria such as one‘s rank in a standardised exam, but rather must flow from the actions a society seeks to reward, including the promotion of equality in society and diversity in public administration.”
On the issue of creamy layer
Accepting the submission of the State of Karnataka that progression in a cadre based on promotion cannot be treated as the acquisition of creamy layer status, the Court held that the concept of creamy layer has no relevance to the grant of consequential seniority. It said,
“The Reservation Act 2018 adopts the principle that consequential seniority is not an additional benefit but a consequence of the promotion which is granted to the SCs and STs. In protecting consequential seniority as an incident of promotion, the Reservation Act 2018 constitutes an exercise of the enabling power conferred by Article 16 (4A).”
On retrospectivity of the Act
Sections 3 and 4 of the Reservation Act 2018 came into force on 17 June 1995. The other provisions came into force at once as provided in Section 1(2). Section 4 stipulates that the consequential seniority already granted to government servants belonging to the SCs and STs in accordance with the reservation order with effect from 27 April 1978 shall be valid and shall be protected.
The Court, hence, held,
“The object of the Reservation Act 2018 is to accord consequential seniority to promotees against roster points. In this view of the matter, we find no reason to hold that the provisions in regard to retrospectivity in the Ratna Prabha Committee report are either arbitrary or unconstitutional.”
Therefore, the benefit of consequential seniority has been extended from the date of the Reservation Order 1978 under which promotions based on reservation were accorded.
[BK Pavitra v. Union of India, 2019 SCC OnLine SC 694, decided on 10.05.2019]
Published on May 10, 2019 May 17, 2019 By Prachi Bhardwaj
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Ker HC | Claim for promotion not maintainable where employee lacks consistent record of good performance
Kerala High Court: The Division Bench of V. Chitambaresh and A.M. Babu, JJ. allowed the appeal filed by a company against the order of learned Single Judge granting promotion to its retired employee on the ground that he had the requisite appraisal rating for the same.
Respondent herein had retired from the services of the appellant as an Executive in the year 2003. His plea was that he was entitled for promotion as Assistant Manager in the year 1997. Case of the appellant company was that there were no vacancies to the post of Assistant Manager at that time for the respondent to be promoted; and at best, he was entitled to stagnation promotion as per Clause 14(c) of Promotion Policy.
The Court noted that as per the aforesaid Promotion Policy, respondent (an engineering diploma holder) should have had a consistent record of performance (i.e., score of 150 and above) for a period of seven years in order to be considered by the Departmental Promotion Committee. However, he had a consistent record of performance only for three years during the period from 1994-95, 1995-96 and 1996-97. His performance dipped to a score below 150 in the year 1998-99. Thus, evidently, he was not eligible for stagnation promotion in the post of Executive as per Clause 14(c) of Promotion Policy.
It was observed that in view of a clear mandate in Clause 14 (pertaining to stagnation promotion) of Promotion Policy, the learned Single Judge had erred in granting promotion by relying on Clause 9 of the said policy which was applicable to regular promotion.
In view of the above, the impugned Judgment was set aside holding that respondent did not have a consistent record of good performance for seven years in order to be eligible for promotion.[Hindustan Newsprint Ltd. v T.C. Mani, 2019 SCC OnLine Ker 1031, Order dated 21-03-2019]
Published on April 6, 2019 April 10, 2019 By Devika
Utt HC | Authorities cannot be allowed to read something between the lines, which is not even a part of the Regulation
Uttaranchal High Court: A Bench of Manoj K. Tiwari, J. while allowing the petition quashed the order of the Chief Education Officer.
In the present matter, the petitioner was a Class-IV employee, serving in a Government aided minority institution. He was appointed in the year 2002 on the post of Night Chowkidar and having been completed 17 years of continuous satisfactory service, and being the seniormost Class-IV employee, he was eligible for promotion to Class-III post of Clerk. Therefore, the petitioner through learned counsel Mr Alok Mehra, approached the Court being aggrieved by the communication of the Chief Education Officer, Almora where the petitioner was declared ineligible for promotion only on the ground that he was appointed on the post of Night Chowkidar.
The Court while quashing the said order of the respondents held that, “Promotion is governed by Statutory Rules and every candidate, who is eligible in terms of the Rules, has a Fundamental Right to be considered for promotion against available vacancies. Therefore, imposition of new condition regarding eligibility by the Chief Education Officer, which has the effect of taking away right to be considered for promotion to the petitioner, cannot be sustained”.
Respondents were further directed to consider petitioner’s claim for promotion along with other eligible persons.[Lal Singh Bisht v. State of Uttarakhand, 2019 SCC OnLine Utt 229, Order dated 07-03-2019]
Published on April 4, 2019 April 5, 2019 By Devika
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AFT | A junior promoted to a senior rank being pegged at a pension of his last but one rank, held fallacious; Pension enhanced
Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT): The bench of Sunita Gupta, Member (J), Lt Gen Philip Campose, Member (A), allowed an application praying for revision of pension in accordance with the last rank held before retirement.
In the pertinent matter, the applicant in pursuance of the circular by the Government of India (GoI) approached the Tribunal, wherein the circular clarified that, 10 months continuous service in the last rank held is not required for grant of pension in such rank. They relied on Thiagrajan v. Union of India, O.A. No. 93 of 2014, where the ten months were waived-off and the Tribunal opined that “pension cannot be deprived to an individual to a rank for which he has already rendered his service and that the applicant has earned his pension in the rank of JWO already, and therefore, is entitled to be paid pension in the rank of JWO. Even if, for some reason, such a pension is found to be less, the applicant is entitled to receive the highest pension he earned already...”
The respondent conceded that the requirement of holding the last rank of 10 months before retirement has been dispensed with in keeping with the circular and further contended that they are correct in giving pension to the applicants on the lower rank as it is financially more beneficial.
The Tribunal held that the argument of the respondents, where a junior promoted to a senior rank should be pegged at a pension of his last but one rank, is fallacious, while placing reliance on D.S. Nakara v. Union of India, 1983 (1) SCC 305. Further on the method of calculating the exact pension, relied on the explanation in P. Gopalakrishnan v. Union of India, the complete import and implication of Circular 430 dated 02-02-2009 Regulations for the Air Force Part 1, Ministry of Defence (MoD) letter dated 07-06-1999 and came to the conclusion that “the basis of calculation being pursued in the instant case was detrimental for the pension of petitioner..”. And it further directed the respondents to calculate the pension based on the last held rank by him before retirement and arrears to be paid accordingly.[Dhanushkodi Rajarajan v. Union of India, 2019 SCC OnLine AFT 4, Order dated 20-02-2019]
Published on March 5, 2019 March 14, 2019 By Devika
CAPFs being in Organized Group “A” Services entitled to Non-Functional Financial Upgradation
Supreme Court: In a huge relief to Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), the bench of RF Nariman and MR Shah, JJ has upheld the Delhi High Court verdict which had directed the Central Government to grant Non-Functional Financial Upgradation (NFFU) to CAPFs who are a part of Organized Group “A” Services.
On the object behind granting NFFU
In order to overcome the stagnation problems, the 6th Pay Commission recommended NFFU to all Group “A” Officers in various Organized Group “A” Services. The purpose of granting NFFU was to give relief to Group “A” Officers facing the problem of stagnation as fallback option when regular promotions do not come into various factors.
On non-compliance of two attributes out of six attributes listed in the Monograph of 1993
According to the Monograph itself, there may be certain “minor deviations” from the attributes listed therein and also to the extent wherein it states that even if the listed criteria are fulfilled, the same would not automatically confer the status of an Organized Group “A” Service. Thus, fulfilling/compliance of the attributes shall not be given too much weightage while deciding on the status of CAPFs.
On the Appropriate authority to define “Organised services”
The Central Pay Commission, as such, is not authorised to define “Organized Services” or to grant such status to any service but only relies on the information submitted to it by the various Departments. It appears from the material on record that right from 1986 onwards, in various Monographs CAPFs were included in the list of Group “A” Central Civil Services.”
The Court, however, noticed that the Government took ‘U’ turn and a stand was taken that CAPFs are not Organized Group “A” Central Services and, therefore, on the basis of such a stand, the 6th Pay Commission did not recommend NFFU to CAPFs. It was, hence, held tha:
“merely because the 6th Pay Commission did not recommend to grant NFFU to CAPFs – Group “A” Officers in PBIII and PBIV, the Group “A” Officers in PBIII and PBIV cannot be denied the NFFU, which otherwise is granted to all the Officers of Group “A” Central Civil Services.”
[Union of India v. Sri Harananda, 2019 SCC OnLine SC 126, decided on 05.02.2019]
Published on February 6, 2019 February 8, 2019 By Prachi Bhardwaj
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Promotion cannot be claimed as a matter of right, rather only consideration for promotion to a particular post can be asserted as a right
Jharkhand High Court: A Single Judge Bench of Pramath Patnaik, J., dismissed a writ petition filed by the petitioner, whereby he sought directions upon the respondent to grant him promotions and benefits of Assured Career Progression as had been granted to one of his colleagues Akhouri Shrawan Prasad.
The main issue that arose before the Court was whether the respondent authorities were liable for discriminating the petitioner with his colleagues.
The Court observed that the petitioner and the employee with whom the petitioner is claiming discrimination had joined the services in the same year. The petitioner was concerned with the fact that Mr Shrawan had been granted more promotions, however from the record it was crystal clear that the petitioner was granted promotion to Selection Grade Assistant and given the post of Head Assistant before the said Mr Akhouri Shrawan Prasad and even on the date of retirement, the basic salary of the petitioner was higher than that of Mr Akhouri Shrawan Prasad. Further, it was observed that promotion cannot be claimed as a matter of right, rather only consideration for promotion to a particular post can be asserted as a right.
The Court held that the petitioner was duly considered for promotions time and again during the course of his service and he had failed to establish that the respondent authorities had ever deprived him of his right to be considered for promotion to a particular post. Resultantly, the petition was dismissed being devoid of merits.[Hira Lal Ram v. State of Jharkhand,2018 SCC OnLine Jhar 1550, order dated 05-11-2018]
Published on November 26, 2018 November 28, 2018 By Devika
Selection by Select committee formed for promotion of IAS candidates can be put to judicial review
Punjab and Haryana High Court: A 2-Judge Bench comprising of Mahesh Grover and Rajbir Sehrawat, JJ., addressed a petition filed against an order passed by Central Administrative Tribunal, Chandigarh where an Original Application filed by petitioner was dismissed and his prayer for re-consideration of his suitability for the Select List for promotion to the post of IAS was rejected.
Facts of the case were such that the petitioner had joined State Civil Service in 1994. According to the Indian Administrative Service (Appointment by Promotion) Regulations, 1955, a select list for promotion of IAS had to be prepared every year but for 2011 the select list was not created. When in 2015 the select list was created, petitioner’s name was 10th in the list but he was not considered for promotion. It is to be noted that a candidate who had expired was also considered for promotion and for the same petitioner had filed a representation before the respondents which was rejected.
Petitioner while contending brought before the Court the fact that his grade was ‘outstanding’ but the same was downgraded to be ‘very good’ and this downgrading of petitioner was arbitrary. Whereas respondent negated the jurisdiction of this Court by stating the decisions of Select Committee as sacrosanct which the court or tribunal has no authority to question and would not come under judicial review. It is upon the Select Committee as to how to make a selection and they can give their own grades not necessarily the grades given by ACRs.
The High Court after perusing provisions of the rules, regulations and the guidelines governing the appointment and the assessment for appointment was of the view that guidelines stated that reasons are mandatory to be recorded when the candidate is considered in a subsequent year with the difference in assessment from the previous year. Court had rejected the contentions of respondents and observed the assessment was devoid of rationality and was arbitrary. Therefore, this petition was allowed and the Tribunal’s order was set aside. [Satya Pal Arora v. CAT,2018 SCC OnLine P&H 1731, decided on 15-02-2018]
Authority directed to consider claim for promotion to post of Sub-Inspector as per U.P. Sub-Inspector and Inspector Service Rules 2016: Allahabad HC
Allahabad High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Ashwani Kumar Mishra, J., disposed of a petition filed with a claim of promotion under U.P. Sub-Inspector and Inspector (Civil Police) Service (Second Amendment) Rule, 2016.
This dispute was related to promotion which went before Supreme Court from where the same was remanded to Division Bench of the High Court. It is the order passed by Division Bench which is in question in this petition where U.P. Police Recruitment and Promotion Board was directed to consider the claim of the petitioner. The Petitioner was appointed as a constable in furtherance of which he was discharging his duties on the said post. Petitioner submitted that his conduct was satisfactory and till date, no complaint was made against him. Petitioner prayed for promotion to a position of Sub-Inspector as per amended Rules of 2013 and 2015. Whereas Additional Chief Standing Counsel submitted that the U.P. Sub-Inspector and Inspector (Civil Police) Service (Second Amendment) Rule, 2016 was amended for the matter of promotion and thus claim of petitioner does not come under the above-mentioned rules and is liable to be dismissed.
In light of the above discussion, High Court disposed of this writ petition with a direction to the respondent for considering the claim of the petitioner for promotion to the post of Sub-Inspector. [Dilip Kumar v. State of U.P.,2018 SCC OnLine All 1551, Order dated 26-09-2018]
Published on September 28, 2018 October 1, 2018 By Devika
Refusal of promotion by an employee does not deprive him of the benefit of pay upgradation
Madhya Pradesh High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Sanjay Dwivedi, J., allowed a petition filed by an employee against the decision of the employer whereby the order of his pay upgradation was withdrawn.
The petitioner was aggrieved by the decision of his employer to withdraw the benefits of pay upgradation. The decision was taken by the employer under Clause 13 of the concerned circular, whereby if an employee refuses to accept the promotion along with pay upgradation, then in such a case, the benefits of his pay upgradation are also to be withdrawn. The petitioner challenged the said decision wherein his pay scale was revised, reduced and refixed at a lower grade.
The High Court considered the submissions made on behalf of the parties, and referring to earlier decisions of division bench on the same issue, held that such decision was unsustainable. It was observed, merely because an employee has refused to accept the promotion, that does not deprive him to enjoy the benefit of upgradation of pay granted to him for completing certain period in service. The analogy as contained in Clause 13, mentioned above, was disapproved of by the Court. Thus, holding the decision to be unsustainable, it was set aside. The Court ordered to quash any recovery, if made, from the employee in furtherance of the said decision. The petition was accordingly disposed of. [Raspal Singh Dangi v. State of M.P.,2018 SCC OnLine MP 401, dated 25-06-2018]
Promotions in UP Higher Judicial Service can’t be given in the absence of suitability test: SC
Supreme Court: Deciding the validity of determination of seniority of promotee and direct recruit Higher Judicial Service (HJS) officers in the State of Uttar Pradesh, the bench of AK Goel and RF Nariman, JJ held that the promotees could not be given promotion without suitability test nor could they claim seniority without the same.
The question for determination before the Court was whether the promotees recruited in the year 2008/2009 are entitled to seniority prior to their selection on the ground that no suitability test was required prior to 9th January, 2007 and retrospective effect to such requirement was illegal. Upholding the decision of the High Court, the Court held that the suitability test was required in terms of judgment of this Court in All India Judges Association v. Union of India, (2002) 4 SCC 247 and under the amended Uttar Pradesh Higher Judicial Service Rules, 1975 applicable retrospectively which was duly upheld by this Court in V.K. Srivastava v. Govt. of U.P., (2008) 9 SCC 77.
With regard to the Quota-Rota rule, the Court said:
“there is no doubt that this is a mandatory requirement of the Rules. The said requirement has however to be seen in the peculiar fact situation. The issue of determination of vacancies was embroiled in continuous litigation. The Quota-Rota rule could not be applied in the absence of determination of vacancies. The suitability test though validly laid down could not be held till 2008 for reasons already noted. No promotion could be given in absence of suitability test. The rule provided for seniority of the promotes to be fixed from the date of availability of vacancy but such seniority could also not be given in the present fact situation. If rota rule is applied, it will work serious prejudice to the promotees. Thus, the Rules will have to be given pragmatic interpretation.”
Background of the Amendment:
The Rules as originally framed envisaged three sources of recruitment – direct recruitment from the bar, promotion from members of Uttar Pradesh Nyayik Sewa (UPNS) and officers out of cadre of judicial magistrates. There was also a provision for quota for the different sources. However, the said Rules were amended as per the All India Judges Association verdict. The U.P. Higher Judicial Service (Sixth Amendment) Rules, 2006 were notified on January 09, 2007and by the said amendment, the criteria for recruitment by promotion was changed. Requirement of passing a suitability test was incorporated. There was also modification about the percentage of quota. The suitability test in pursuance of the said amended rules was held for the first time in the year 2008. [High Court of Judicature at Allahabad v. State of Uttar Pradesh, CIVIL APPEAL NO. 3356 OF 2018, decided on 28.03.2018]
Published on March 30, 2018 By Prachi Bhardwaj
Karnataka State Law granting consequential seniority to the Government servants belonging to SC/ST Category, held unconstitutional
Supreme Court: Deciding the validity of the Karnataka Determination of Seniority of the Government Servants Promoted on the Basis of Reservation (To the Posts in the Civil Services of the State) Act, 2002 which provides for grant of consequential seniority to the Government servants belonging to Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes promoted under reservation policy, the bench of A.K. Goel and U.U. Lalit, JJ declared the provisions of the impugned Act to the extent of doing away with the ‘catch up’ rule and providing for consequential seniority under Sections 3 and 4 to persons belonging to SCs and STs on promotion against roster points to be ultra vires Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution.
In the present case where the Assistant Engineers of SC/ST category recruited in the year 1987 were promoted to the cadre of Assistant Executive Engineers while in general merit,Assistant Engineers recruited in 1976 were considered for promotion to the said cadre, the appellants argued that the SC/ST candidates got promotion early and on account of consequential seniority, percentage of SC/ST candidates was much higher than the permitted percentage and all top positions were likely to be filled up by SC/ST candidates without general merit candidates getting to higher positions. The appellant had also argued that as a consequence of accelerated seniority to the roster point promotee, the roster point promotee would reach the third level by the age of 45 and fourth, fifth and sixth level in next three, two and two years, however, the general merit promotee would reach the third level only at the age of 56 and retire before reaching the fourth level. This would result in reverse discrimination and representation of reserved category would range between 36% to 100%.
The exercise for determining ‘inadequacy of representation’, ‘backwardness’ and ‘overall efficiency’, is a must for exercise of power under Article 16(4A) of the Constitution. Mere fact that there is no proportionate representation in promotional posts for the population of SCs and STs is not by itself enough to grant consequential seniority to promotees who are otherwise junior and thereby denying seniority to those who are given promotion later on account of reservation policy. If the State wishes to exercise its discretion under Article 16(4A), it is to collect quantifiable data showing backwardness of the class and inadequacy of representation of that class in public employment in addition to compliance with Article 335. Even if the State has compelling reasons, the State will have to see that its reservation provision does not lead to excessiveness so as to breach the ceiling limit of 50% or obliterate the creamy layer or extend the reservation indefinitely. The Court said that the plea that persons promoted at the same time were allowed to retain their seniority in the lower cadre is untenable and ignores the fact that a senior person may be promoted later and not at same time on account of roster point reservation. Depriving him of his seniority affects his further chances of promotion.
The Court, however, clarified that the judgment will not affect those who have already retired and will not affect financial benefits already taken. Consequential promotions granted to serving employees, based on consequential seniority benefit, will be treated as ad hoc and liable to be reviewed. Seniority list may be now revised in the light of this judgment within three months. [B.K. Pavitra v. Union of India, 2017 SCC OnLine SC 109, decided on 09.02.2017]
Published on February 10, 2017 February 27, 2017 By Prachi Bhardwaj
Annual Confidential Report cannot be ignored for the purposes of promotion merely on the ground that it was written after some delay
Supreme Court: Answering the question as to whether the Annual Confidential Report (ACR) of an officer could be ignored for the purposes of his promotion merely on the ground that it was written after some delay, in negative, the Court said that the ACR of an officer forms a part of his service record and he cannot be prejudiced merely because his superior officers delayed writing it.
In the present case, A Select Committee constituted under the Indian Police Service (Appointment by Promotion) Regulations, 1955 considered the appellant, amongst others, for promotion in the Indian Police Service. Referring to the decision of the Court in G. Mohanasundaram v. R. Nanthagopal, (2014) 13 SCC 172, where it was held that in terms of the IAS Regulations, the UPSC is obliged to consider the service record, which includes ACR, of a candidate who is eligible for promotion and it is on the basis of the overall relative assessment of the service record that an eligible officer may be graded, the Court said that in the said case the provisions of the Indian Administrative Service (Appointment by Promotion) Regulations, 1955 were under consideration and that the relevant provisions are in pari materia with the provisions of the Indian Police Service (Appointment by Promotion) Regulations, 1955.
The bench of Madan B. Lokur and P.C. Pant, JJ said that the writing and review of the ACR is beyond the officer’s control and hence, there is no rational basis on which the officer could be disadvantaged merely because his superior officers were lax in the discharge of their responsibilities. [P. Sivanandi v. Rajeev Kumar, 2017 SCC OnLine SC 85, decided on 02.02.2017]
Published on February 4, 2017 February 18, 2017 By Prachi Bhardwaj
Rules providing for reservation in promotions for SC/ST govt employees, invalidated
Madhya Pradesh High Court: While deciding a public interest litigation (PIL) questioning reservation in promotions, the Court quashed all provisions granting promotions in the MP Public Service Promotion Rules, 2002, which introduced to reservation for SCs and STs in all posts at government departments. The state government in exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 read with Article 16 and 335 of the Constitution of India, relating to determination of the basis for promotion in public services and posts and also, the reservation in promotion in favour of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, had made provisions of 20 per cent reservation for SC employees and 16 per cent for ST employees in the service.
The Court decided on the public interest litigation (PIL) filed by R B Rai, Santosh Kumar, SC Pandey and others, who had challenged the 2002 service rules on the ground that they were not in conformity with the law (guidelines) laid down by the Supreme Court in M. Nagaraj v. Union of India, the Supreme Court had laid down certain guidelines while interpreting Articles 16, 16 (4), 16 (4A), 16 (4B) and 335, before making provisions of reservations in promotion with benefit of consequential seniority, filing up of backlog vacancies, lowering of standards of evaluation etc.
The bench comprising A M Khanwilkar C.J. and Sanjay Yadav J.observed that all promotions granted as per 2002 rules would be invalid and stated that “The existing provision relating to reservation, backlog vacancies, carry forward of backlog vacancies contained in the Rules of 2002 runs contrary to the constitutional provisions contained in clause (4A) and (4B) of Article 16 and Article 335 and law predicated in M Nagraj,” observed the High Court. It further stated that “Consequently, various promotions of SCs and STs category made on the basis of these rules of 2002 are held to be non-est in the eyes of law and the persons be placed in the position as if the said Rules never existed and all actions taken in furtherance thereof must be reverted to status quo ante (the situation existing earlier).” The Court had further required the government to satisfy itself after collection of ‘quantifiable’ data in each case to ensure that there is no reverse discrimination vis-a-vis the general category candidates. It was further submitted that the rules are ultra vires also because the other directions as mandated by the apex court have also not been followed. [R.B. Rai v. State of Madhya Pradesh, Writ Petition No.1942/2011, Decided on 30.4.2016]
Published on May 3, 2016 May 11, 2016 By Editor
No reservation for SC/ST categories in case of officers’ promotions in public sector banks
Supreme Court: Reviewing its judgment dated 9-1-2015, the Division Bench of Chelameswar and Dr. A.K. Sikri, JJ has held that there is no provision for reservation in public sector banks for SC/ST categories in promotion of officers from one grade/scale to the next, when such promotions are to be made on selection basis i.e. on merits.
The Court however, observed that it is open to the State and the banks to consider whether it is feasible to provide such reservation in the officers’ category and if so up to what level.
The Court had to decide upon the validity of the Madras High Court’s judgment in the batch of appeals, which had decided that in the matter of promotions in the officer grades, a reservation in favour of SC/ST officers was provided for in the Office Memorandum dated August 13, 1997. The Banks contended that there was no rule of reservation for promotion in Class A (Class I) to the post/scales having a basic salary of more than Rs 5700 per month and the OM at best only provided a concession. The Supreme Court had upheld the Banks’ contention observing that there was no reservation in respect of promotion by selection within only those Group A posts carrying ultimate salary of Rs 5700. However, based on other memoranda, it observed that reservation existed only in respect of those posts carrying basic pay of up to Rs 5700 per month and with the implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission Report, It would follow that such reservation was applicable to the post carrying pay scale of Rs 18,300. On that basis, it was held that since pay scale of the posts up to Scale VI was Rs 18,300 reservation is to be provided. This aspect of the judgment was under review.
The Attorney General Mr Mukul Rohatgi submitted that a fundamental error, apparent on the face of the record had crept in para 34 of the judgment wherein the Court had observed that “reservation is provided in promotion by selection qua those posts which carry an ultimate salary of less than Rs 5700 (pre-revised)” while observing in the earlier portion of the same paragraph that “there is no reservation in promotion by selection in Group A posts which carry an ultimate salary of Rs 5700 per month. In such cases it is only the concession that applies”. In spite of deciding the main issue against the respondents, because of the aforesaid error in the judgment, the said benefit was still bestowed by giving reservations to officers belonging to SC/ST category from Scale I to Scale VI. The Court agreed that it was in conflict not only with the earlier portion of para 34 but the entire conclusion discussed in the judgment. It is clearly an error on the face of record as no such consequence follows. Consequently, the Court allowed the review petitions by deleting paras 33 to 36 of the judgment, the directions contained therein as well as the directions contained in para 37 . It was to be replaced with
“33. Result of the aforesaid discussion would be to allow these appeals and set aside the judgment of the High Court. While doing so, we reiterate that it is for the State to take stock of the ground realities and take a decision as to whether it is necessary to make a provision for reservation in promotions from Scale I to Scale II and upward, and if so, up to which post. The contempt petition also stands disposed of.”
Guided by the principle of ex debito justitae as discussed in A.R. Antulay v. R.S. Nayak,(1988) 2 SCC 602 and S.Nagaraj v. State of Karnataka, 1993 Supp (4) SCC 595, the Court observed “when an error is pointed out and the Court also finds that there is an error apparent on the face of the record, it would not shy away from correcting that error”. [Chairman & Managing Director, Central Bank of India v. Central Bank of India SC/ST Employees Welfare Association, 2016 SCC OnLine SC 19 , decided on 8-1-2016]
Published on January 19, 2016 January 19, 2016 By Editor
Stand on consequential seniority versus catch up rule under implementation of Article 16-4A, clarified
Supreme Court: The Bench comprising of T.S. Thakur, and R. Bhanumathi, JJ., held that in absence of provision for consequential seniority in the rules, the catch up rule will be applicable and the roster-point reserved category promotees cannot count their seniority in the promoted category from the date of their promotion and the senior general candidates if later reach the promotional level, general candidates will regain their seniority.
The common issues involved in bunch of appeals were that: Firstly, in the absence of policy decision taken by the State/rules framed pursuant to the enabling provision of Article 16-4A of the Constitution of India whether a reserved category candidate promoted on the basis of reservation earlier than his senior general category candidate in the feeder category can claim consequential seniority in the promotional post; Secondly, in the absence of policy decision taken by the State with regard to Tamil Nadu Highways Engineering Service Rules, whether Division Bench was right in holding that Article 16-4A of the Constitution of India by itself would give consequential seniority in addition to accelerated promotion to the roster-point promotees.
The bench after referring to the catena of cases from Indra Sawhney to M. Nagaraj, to clear out the present stand over matter stated that, the true legislative intent under Article 16-4A of the Constitution is to enable the State to make provision or frame rules giving consequential seniority for the accelerated promotion gained based on the rule of reservation. Rule 12 of impugned rules in question, evidently does not provide for the consequential seniority for reserved category promotees at any point of time. The consequential seniority for such reserved category promotees can be fixed only if there is express provision for such reserved category promotees in the State rules. In the absence of any specific provision or policy decision taken by the State Government for consequential seniority for reserved category accelerated promotees, there is no question of automatic application of Article 16-4A of the Constitution. The State is duty bound to collect data so as to assess the adequacy of representation of the Scheduled Caste candidates in the service and based on the same the State should frame a policy/rules for consequential seniority. S. Panneer Selvam v. Government of Tamil Nadu, 2015 SCC OnLine SC 764 Decided on 27.08.2015
Published on September 7, 2015 November 23, 2015 By Editor
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2004-UP-062 - Blake v. Logan
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals
Herman Blake, Appellant,
Joy Logan, Treasurer of Beaufort County, Beaufort County and Yvonne Wilson, Respondents.
Appeal From Beaufort County
Thomas Kemmerlin, Circuit Court Judge
Unpublished Opinion No. 2004-UP-062
Submitted January 12, 2004 – Filed January 29, 2004
AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, AND REMANDED
R. Thayer Rivers, Jr., of Ridgeland, for Appellant.
David S. Black, of Beaufort and J. Ray Westmorland, of Hilton Head Island, for Respondents.
PER CURIAM: Herman Blake brought this action against the Beaufort County Treasurer and Yvonne Wilson seeking to set aside a tax sale of his property due to the county treasurer’s failure to divide the property as prescribed in S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-40 (Supp. 2003) . During trial, Blake sought to amend his complaint to conform to the proof that he had redeemed the property pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-90. [1] The trial court denied his motion and found the statute of limitations contained in S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-160 (2000) barred the claim asserted under section 12-51-40. Blake now appeals. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.
In 1972, Blake purchased 3.7 acres of land on Daufuskie Island in Beaufort County. In 1993, he failed to pay his Beaufort County property taxes. To satisfy this delinquent tax obligation, the Beaufort County Treasurer sold two acres of Blake’s property at a public tax sale held on February 6, 1995. The highest bidder for the property was Wilson, who bid and paid $27.27 for the two-acre parcel. The deed to Wilson was recorded on May 1, 1996.
On October 30, 1998, Blake commenced this action in an effort to set aside the tax sale deed issued to Wilson. His complaint contained the single allegation that the sale violated South Carolina Code section 12-51-40 because the County only needed to sell a small portion of the property to satisfy the delinquent tax bills.
At trial, Blake sought to amend his complaint to conform to the evidence. Blake argued that proof had been placed into evidence that tended to show he had properly redeemed the property prior to the expiration of his statutorily prescribed right of redemption.
The question of whether Blake had redeemed the property was raised early on at trial. On direct examination, Blake testified he thought he had paid the taxes for 1993, specifically referring to a letter he received from the county treasurer dated February 6, 1996 indicating he had paid his taxes.
On cross-examination, defense counsel pressed Blake further on whether he was claiming he had paid the delinquent taxes or had timely redeemed title to the property. After further questioning, Blake produced a copy of the February 6, 1996 letter he received from the county treasurer. He maintained it contained the check he originally sent to the county treasurer to redeem title to the property. This letter was ultimately admitted into evidence without objection by defense counsel.
Later in his testimony, Blake also produced a copy of the letter dated December 22, 1995 and sent to him by the county treasurer. The letter advised Blake that his property had been sold and informed him of his right to redeem by sending $53.99 to the treasurer by February 1, 1996. Blake also produced a cashier’s check dated February 1, 1996. It was drawn as payable to the county treasurer in the amount of $53.99.
Blake’s counsel’s subsequent request to admit the December 22, 1995 letter along with the cashier’s check was met with objection by defense counsel. The following exchange ensued:
[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: I’m going to object on that, Your Honor. What we now have is testimony about whether he’s paid taxes or not and I suppose I kind of opened the door on that, but really the issue here is whether this was an excessive sale. In other words, the issue is whether Beaufort County sold too much of the property not whether he’s made payment and this shouldn’t have happened altogether at all.
COURT: Right
[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: That’s not the allegations in the complaint and so I’m going to object to that.
COURT: What about that?
[BLAKE’S COUNSEL]: Well, as [Defense Counsel] candidly said, Your Honor, he opened the door to that. And Mr. Blake has now shown he actually had paid the delinquent tax sale monies so I’m probably going to move to amend the complaint to reflect the proof proffered. Because he’s the one that asked about it, not me. I’m not sure he has a leg to stand on if he wants to object to it.
COURT: The thing of it is, you’ve got another lawsuit now. And I would not deny you the right to amend but I would not make him go forward at this time without an opportunity to look into that question.
The trial court held in abeyance its decision regarding the motion to amend until the conclusion of the trial.
As further grounds in support of his motion to amend, Blake asserted he had noted in his supplemental responses to Wilson’s request for production that he intended to admit the February 6, 1996 letter from the county treasurer in evidence. This response, Blake argued, was sufficient to put the respondents on notice that he would claim that he had properly redeemed the subject property.
The trial court denied Blake’s motion to amend, opining that:
If [Blake] truly believed that the tax deed should be set aside because he had previously paid the taxes necessary to redeem the property, then [Blake] should have put those allegations in his pleadings and should not save that testimony for trial with the prospect of then having evidence that the other parties were not prepared to defend against.
With respect to Blake’s original cause of action, the trial court found the county treasurer complied fully with South Carolina Code section 12-51-40 in dividing the property for purposes of the tax sale. As an alternative ruling, the trial court also found that Blake had failed to bring his action within the applicable two-year statute of limitations prescribed by South Carolina Code section 12-51-160.
STANDARD OF REVIEW
An action to set aside a tax deed is in equity. Godfrey v. Webb, 277 S.C. 246, 247, 285 S.E.2d 883, 884 (1982) . Accordingly, “[w]e may review the evidence to determine facts in accordance with our own view of the preponderance of the evidence.” Tiger, Inc. v. Fisher Agro, Inc., 301 S.C. 229, 237, 391 S.E.2d 538, 543 (1990) . Though we are permitted a broad scope of review, “we do not disregard the findings of the Master, who saw and heard the witnesses and was in a better position to evaluate their credibility.” Id.
LAW/ANALYSIS
I. Motion to Amend Complaint
Under Rule 15, SCRCP, the trial court may allow the pleadings to be amended to conform to the evidence presented “and shall do so freely when the presentation of the merits of the action will be subserved thereby and the objecting party fails to satisfy the court that the admission of such evidence would prejudice him in maintaining his action or defense upon the merits.” Rule 15(b), SCRCP. A motion to amend the pleadings is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial judge. Our courts, however, have consistently held that “[a]mendments to conform to the proof should be liberally allowed when no prejudice to the opposing party will result.” Harvey v. Strickland, 350 S.C. 303, 313, 566 S.E.2d 529, 535 (2002) . “Prejudice occurs when the amendment states a new claim or defense that would require the opposing party to introduce additional or different evidence to prevail in the amended action.” Ball v. Canadian Am. Exp. Co., Inc., 314 S.C. 272, 275, 442 S.E.2d 620, 622 (Ct. App. 1994) ; see also 61B Am. Jur. 2d Pleading § 827 (1999) (noting that “[t]he test of prejudice in this situation is whether the opposing party had a fair opportunity to defend and whether he could offer any additional evidence if the case were to be retried on a different theory.”).
In this case, we find the trial court erred in denying Blake’s motion to amend. As described above, a significant amount of testimony presented at trial centered upon the question of whether Blake had properly redeemed title to the property. Both Blake’s lawyer and defense counsel questioned Blake and others on this subject. On the stand, Blake produced several critical pieces of evidence in this regard: the December 22, 1995 letter from the county treasurer informing Blake of his right to redeem the property by tendering payment of $53.99; the February 6, 1996 letter from the county treasurer informing Blake that his taxes were paid and returning his check; and the check itself. The February 6, 1996 letter was admitted into evidence with no objection by defense counsel.
Furthermore, we find the respondents have failed to demonstrate allowing the amendment would have resulted in prejudice. Respondents point to no further testimony or documentary evidence that would be necessary to try Blake’s redemption claim on its merits. Indeed, the record reveals that the defense was able to directly rebut Blake’s own testimony and evidence that he had redeemed the property with the testimony of Herschel J. Evans, Jr., the Deputy Treasurer of Beaufort County. Defense counsel asked Evans: “Do your records show that there was any payment of either taxes or the redemption for what would have been charged on the property for the tax year 1993?” Evans responded: “My records do not indicate any payment of the taxes or the redemption for tax year 1993.” (Emphasis added.)
We conclude, therefore, that the respondents failed to meet their burden of showing that prejudice would have resulted had the amendment been allowed.
II. Propriety of the Tax Sale Under Section 12-51-40
Blake argues the trial court erred by finding his claim under South Carolina Code section 12-51-40 was barred by the two-year statute of limitations. We disagree.
Section 12-51-160 provides that:
In all cases of tax sale the deed of conveyance, whether executed to a private person, a corporation, or a forfeited land commission, must be held and taken as prima facie evidence of a good title in the holder, that all proceedings have been regular and that all legal requirements have been complied with. No action for the recovery of land sold under the provisions of this chapter or for the recovery of the possession may be maintained unless brought within two years from the date of sale.
(Emphasis added.)
As noted above, the tax sale in the present case occurred on February 6, 1995. Blake did not file his complaint until October 30, 1998, more than one and a half years after the statute of limitation had expired. Even if we applied the statute from the time the tax sale deed was recorded—May 1, 1996—Blake’s action was commenced beyond the two-year limitation. Blake’s cause of action under section 12-51-40 is, therefore, barred.
We therefore conclude Blake’s motion to amend his complaint to conform to the evidence that showed he, pursuant to section 12-51-90, properly redeemed the property should have been allowed under Rule 15(b), SCRCP. We also conclude the trial court correctly held Blake’s claim under section 12-51-40 was barred by the statute of limitations contained in section 12-51-160. We express no opinion, however, regarding the claim of redemption, including the question of whether the claim is now barred.
AFFIRMED IN PART, REVERSED IN PART, and REMANDED.
GOOLSBY, HOWARD, and KITTREDGE, JJ., concur.
[1] See Act No. 166, 1985 S.C. Acts 628. S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-90, as amended in 1985 by the last cited statute, provided in part:
The defaulting taxpayer . . . may within twelve months from the date of the delinquent tax sale redeem each item of real estate by paying to the person officially charged with the collection of delinquent taxes, assessments, penalties, and costs, together with eight percent interest on the whole amount of the delinquent tax sale bid.
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PLAT-I Operational in Nova Scotia
On Saturday, February 23rd, the system generated first power, becoming the only operational in-stream tidal energy system currently installed in Nova Scotia
Sustainable Marine Energy’s PLAT-I tidal energy platform has generated first power from the tidal currents of Grand Passage in Digby County
Following a period of commissioning and testing environmental monitoring equipment, Sustainable Marine Energy has satisfied the requirements set out by the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans to commence operation of tidal turbines on the PLAT-I platform installed in Grand Passage, Nova Scotia. The platform that is equipped with instream turbines developed by SCHOTTEL HYDRO, was originally developed and tested in Scotland with support provided by Scottish Enterprise. It was relocated to Nova Scotia and installed at Grand Passage in September 2018.
On Saturday, February 23rd, the system generated first power, becoming the only operational in-stream tidal energy system currently installed in Nova Scotia.
The works performed over the past weeks, including the installation of turbine blades at site, have proven the unique advantages provided by SME’s PLAT-I technology. All critical components can be accessed and serviced on site, and in Canadian winter conditions.
Jason Hayman, the Managing Director of Sustainable Marine Energy commented: “We are very proud to have achieved this important milestone, as part of our staged testing and demonstration program in Nova Scotia. We have been working diligently with a wide range of stakeholders, including research organisations, academia and regulators to develop effective methods of monitoring the environmental interactions of this new form of electricity generation, and will continue to do so as we advance our technology. Our objective is to provide coastal and island communities with a robust, reliable and environmentally benign renewable energy solution.’’
Nova Scotia Energy and Mines Minister Derek Mombourquette says: “Tidal energy continues to develop and remains a significant opportunity for businesses and workers in Nova Scotia. This achievement strengthens our province’s position as a national leader in fighting climate change, and as a global leader in the development of this clean, renewable energy technology.”
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Zozo police seek heavily armed burglar
Carrizozo Police are looking for a thief who looted a storage unit and is believed to be heavily armed.
Zozo police seek heavily armed burglar Carrizozo Police are looking for a thief who looted a storage unit and is believed to be heavily armed. Check out this story on ruidosonews.com: http://r-news.co/2bBkBcf
Dave Tomlin, Ruidoso News Published 10:24 a.m. MT Aug. 17, 2016
Police blotter(Photo: Courtesy)
That’s because the loot was four rifles, three handguns and a shotgun. Altogether, the arsenal is worth more than $2,500, according to a police incident report.
The owner discovered the theft about two weeks ago when he checked the unit and found the door closed but not locked. He told police there are only two keys, his and the one that belongs to his wife, from whom he’s separated.
Staying separated might be the best approach until more information is available.
At least the owner had details on make, model and serial numbers of his missing merchandise. The same cannot be said of another Carrizozo theft victim, who reported to police that somebody stole a $40 pup tent from his car on the night of Aug. 3.
Police had to break the news to him that in addition to the tent in its little red bag, the miscreant had nicked him for a circular saw, a vehicle jack, some CDs and a collection of small garden tools. The jack and CD’s had been in the car with the tent, the owner later said, and the rest was on his porch.
The reason police were so well informed is that the whole pile of stuff, tent and all, had already turned up outside the apartment of another Carrizozo man, who phoned in to report it.
The man said he resided in the apartment with his live-in girlfriend, whose daughter had recently moved in with her boyfriend. The reporting party’s girlfriend had told him that her daughter’s boyfriend had piled the goods in front of their home.
As it happened, the investigating officer already knew the younger couple. He had spotted them the previous evening as “two suspicious subjects” who were walking near the town fire department.
He looked at their ID’s and sent them on their way, which he recalled had taken them in the direction of the house where there was a pup tent sitting in an unlocked car just a few blocks away. Small world.
The young man went with the investigating officer to the station to talk things over. He said he never stole those items. Another man had given them to him. But later in the interview the officer said the tent had been inside the car, and he replied, “Not all the property was in the van.”
The young man was identified as Jesus Rios Dorsett, 28, and the incident report said the District Attorney’s office approved charges against him of Auto Burglary and Larceny.
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Yanir Grindler writes for the Daily Maverick "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is complex enough without the shouting."
Yanir Grindler
Standing on the piazza of the Wits University Great Hall during the annual Israel Apartheid Week, I often wondered whether equating anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism was, after all, no more than a clever tactic used by Israel advocates to defuse a difficult discussion.
US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s recent series of comments and tweets have made me seriously reconsider my assumption. Her sentiments, which were once beyond the pale in our public discourse, are being heard with greater frequency and volume these days, especially among those who consider themselves anti-racists, and I think it is imperative that we address them.
Before I elaborate, let me first set the context. It was March 2017 and I was a Wits student on my way to my 8am philosophy lecture on East Campus. Only when I arrived on campus that morning did I realise that it was the annual Israel Apartheid Week. Covering the Great Hall, the central point of the university, stood a giant concrete wall, labelled “Zionism is Racism”. This slogan set the stage for the events that were to take place in the week ahead.
That year, more than any previous year, it was made clear to me that Israel Apartheid Week does not seek to educate anyone, nor to challenge Israel’s occupation of territory captured in 1967, nor even to further the cause of Palestinian liberation. On the contrary, it exists solely to incite confrontation between the two groups and to create greater hatred among a number of factions in society.
Israel Apartheid Week does not make people aware of what is really going on in Israel; rather, it is a platform for people to delegitimise Zionism and to defame Israel, to the point of denying its very right to exist.
Before pointing out the changes that the hosts of Israel Apartheid Week ought to consider making in the future, I want to address the slogan “Zionism is racism” and explain why this false and biased charge is a deliberate, and indeed an anti-Semitic, effort to undermine the Jewish nationalist movement and deny the Jewish people’s right to live in freedom and security in their historic homeland.
Zionism, formally established as a political organisation in 1897, is the Jewish national movement of rebirth and renewal in the land of Israel — the historical birthplace of the Jewish people. The Zionism that the movement’s founder, Theodor Herzl, presents us with is more complex than what is portrayed by both the Zionist myth and anti-Zionist propaganda. It is an ideology that envisions a Jewish state and is rooted in the liberal principles of freedom, democracy, equality and social justice.
By painting the slogan “Zionism is racism” and denying Jews the right to national self-determination, and only Jews, I struggle to see how this can be called anything other than anti-Semitism.
It may be different for the couple of Utopians who consistently argue against nationalism in any form, seeking to bring about a world without nation-states, but this is not what the slogan painted in front of Wits Great Hall seeks. Anti-Zionism isn’t directed at any other national movement, but that of the Jews.
While there are perfectly legitimate criticisms that one can make of Israel or the actions of its government — and I have never been shy about making them — those criticisms cross the line into anti-Semitism when they ascribe evil, almost supernatural powers to Israel in a manner that replicates classic anti-Semitic slanders.
The Jewish power to “hypnotise the world”, as Ms Omar put it, is, in fact, the plot of — the most successful Nazi film ever made, produced by Joseph Goebbels himself. Since then, the myth of the shrewd Jewish manipulator continues to persist in various forms. I mean, in 2018 ANC MP Sharon Davids declared in the Cape Provincial Legislature that the “Day Zero” water crisis had been fabricated by the DA in order to score contract kick-backs for what she referred to as the “Jewish mafia”.
So, we can acknowledge that most anti-Zionists at Wits wholeheartedly embrace other national movements or at least fail to condemn the existence of any nation-state other than Israel. We can also acknowledge that the same people empathetically champion Palestinian aspiration and insist on the rights of self-determination for every other minority. What I struggle to understand though is how this stark double standard seems to escape them? What is it about the Israelis, exactly, that puts them beyond the pale?
So, if the BDS and the Wits Palestinian Solidarity Committee (PSC) aim at seeking a positive change in the future, then I would argue that they ought to restructure and rebrand their campaign. The way I see it — and call me out if you see it differently — the BDS campaign does not target Israel’s policies. Rather, it simply targets Israel’s legitimacy. Their emotionally charged campaign just incites greater hatred — so instead of building longer tables to engage in rational discussion, Israel Apartheid Week just builds more walls.
If an entire campaign is premised on hatred and seeks to consistently delegitimise Israel, how will we seek to bring an end to the occupation and ultimately an end to the conflict? Now, I truly believe that Israel could benefit from a week like this and genuinely needs an international wake-up call to realise some of the negative implications of its presence in the West Bank. However, by setting up a campaign that both demonises Israel and refuses to acknowledge its legitimate right to exist, BDS and the PSC are retreating from any form of constructive dialogue that may bring about any genuine change.
Let me conclude by saying that like, many other Jews, I am not a supporter of Netanyahu’s current Likud government, nor am I a supporter of the policies encouraging the continuous expansion of settlements in the West Bank. I also understand the harsh reality that Yom Haatzmaut for Jews is interpreted as Nakba Day for the Palestinians. One side may assert that in 1948, they finally found refuge in their historical homeland, whereas the other may claim that Israel’s establishment led them to being uprooted from theirs.
The Palestinians argue that the creation of a Jewish state in an Arab land was indeed an injustice to them, whereas the founding fathers of Israel argue that leaving the Jews homeless, especially in the context of the widespread anti-Semitism that prevailed in the 1940s, would also have been an injustice.
I can’t call out either side and say that neither makes a legitimate point, so in saying this, if we choose to realistically and pragmatically move forward from here, then both sides need to make compromises. BDS ought to acknowledge that the Jewish people also have a historical right to the land that is now Israel. They just need to recognise that the Jews who settled in Palestine did not conquer the land to enrich themselves, which is usually the purpose of a colonial invasion.
Instead of focusing a campaign on delegitimising Zionism and denouncing Israel’s right to exist, BDS should rather place emphasis on critiquing and attempting to bring a change to Israel’s current policies.
On the other side, we Jews ought to constantly remain critical and be willing to engage. I always say that a real Zionist constantly seeks a better Israel, and that is why I encourage every Zionist to constantly challenge his or her beliefs. At the end of the day, none of us can turn back time and neither side can truly prove who the land belongs to.
In an ideal world, perhaps, Palestinians and Israelis would peacefully coexist in the same land — but this is not the reality we face. So, as students, we must remain rational and we must remain pragmatic. I truly believe that student movements can play a major role in the conflict, so as academics, and foremost, as human beings, instead of creating a microcosm of the conflict on our campuses, let’s truly educate others.
Let’s first acknowledge each other’s cause — neither side less worthy – and ultimately find some common ground, something few Israeli and Palestinian politicians have been able to do, and which they urgently need to do if this long-running conflict is ever to be resolved.
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A Memorable Edition of New York City’s Premier Latin Dance and Music Event!!!
Once again in the heart of Times Square, the mecca of culture and entertainment, New York International Salsa Congress (NYISC) returns this year with workshops and performances from today’s most talented dancers, live music from world-famous bands, and social dancing all night long.
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Humberto Nieves better known as “Tito Nieves” was born in Puerto Rico but raised in the U.S. El Pavarotti de la Salsa began his career while participating in Cimarron, a New York-based orchestra. He then teamed up with Héctor Lavoe in 1977 and joined Conjunto Clásico soon after.
Nieves started his solo career in 1986, setting himself apart by singing salsa in English. He became a chart-topper in 1997 with a song called “I Like It Like That”. Among his key albums are: “Classic” (1988), “Yo Quiero Cantar” (1989), “Fabricando Fantasias” (2004), and “Hoy, Mañana y Siempre” (2006), followed a year later with “Pura Salsa Live”, and 2008’s tribute offering Canciones Clásicas de Marco Antonio Solis, which landed at number 15 on Latin Heatseekers and 23 on the Top Latin albums charts.
His 2010 studio offering, “Entre Familia”, reached number 15 at Top Latin Albums and number two on the Tropical Albums list, followed by “Que Seas Feliz” (number 23) two years later. The majority of his singles regularly placed in the Top 20 over the next few years and his albums continued to chart. “Mis Mejores Recuerdos” (2014) placed at seven on Tropical Albums while its successor, the following year’s “En Dos Idiomas” on his newly created Tito Nieves Creations label, did even better, reaching number four. Though he was now his own boss, Nieves had no time to take it easy, he toured hard over the next two years, surfacing again in 2017 with “Canciones Que No Se Olvidan”.
NEW SWING SEXTET:
A product of New York City and the excitement and turbulence of the 60s, the New Swing Sextet (NSS) made its professional debut at the New York World’s Fair in 1965. The band was to become very popular in the United States and Latin America, including the Caribbean, as exponents of an innovative new sound that emerged in the mid-60s known as Latin Boogaloo.
Though the New Swing currently has 7 members, when the group first got together it was composed of 6 members (popularly called “Sextet”). During that era (1960s), so many young musicians growing up in New York were exposed and influenced by rock-and-roll, pop, and soul music and the Latin Boogaloo (which was in term related to the cha-cha-cha and guajira rhythms). During the boogaloo’s peak years of popularity, there was also a slight decline in the popularity of mambo and salsa. But the young new bands of that era such as: Willie Colon, Johnny Colon, the Lebron Brothers, Joe Bataan, Ricardo Ray and the Joey Pastrana Orchestra, as well as the New Swing Sextet, were responsible for creating a young fresh, joyful yet rebellious sound.
In 2015, New Swing Sextet celebrated their 50th Anniversary with a worldwide audience ready for tours, shows, dances, and unique style.
STEVEN OQUENDO ORCHESTRA (featuring singers FRANKIE VAZQUEZ and FRANKIE MORALES):
Steven Oquendo – Musician, Band Leader and Educator, was born in 1979 in New York City with Puerto Rican and Dominican descent – proved himself to be a powerful force in the Latin music scene during and after high school.
Oquendo has toured all parts of the globe, including Africa, Europe, South America and the Caribbean. He has recorded and performed with a wide and diverse range of artists, which include collaborations with, Destiny’s Child, Big Pun, Swiss Beatz, Angie Martinez, Juan Luis Guerra, and Mana. He has also performed with Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, Cheo Feliciano, Wynton Marsalis, Jon Faddis, Arturo Sandoval, India, George Lamond, Eddie Palmieri, Ray Santos, Milly Quezada, The Tito Rodriguez Orchestra, The Machito Orchestra, and many more.
In 2009 Oquendo formed the Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra (SOLJO), a 19-piece big band comprised of well-seasoned professional musicians, that for more than five years, has intrigued and captivated audiences with its sophisticated use of free improvisation, dissonant harmonies, fusion rhythms, and creative arrangements in the arena of Afro Cuban, Latin Jazz, Salsa, and The 1950s – Palladium Mambo Classics.
Since its inception, Steve Oquendo, the distinguished trumpeter and music educator with his band SOLJO has proven itself a force to be reckoned with. The big band is made up of 19 superbly talented guardians of Latin music.
SOLJO includes a repertoire of Afro Cuban 1950s Palladium Mambo Classics that pay homage to the genre’s originators, while simultaneously injecting a fresh interpretation that has intrigued and captured new fans of all ages and backgrounds.
Purchase your Tickets TODAY for this Annual Celebration of Latin Dance, Latin Music and Culture!
#NYISC2018 presents the 7TH ANNUAL OLD SKOOL ROOM
“PRESERVANDO LA TRADICIÓN”
Date: Sunday, September 2th (Astor Ballroom)
“A MATINEE DANCE EVENT HONORING THE MARRIAGE BETWEEN LIVE MUSIC AND SALSA DANCING IN NEW YORK CITY”
The Old Skool Room was added to the schedule of these events in 2012 by the late John “Choco” Knight, former owner of the New York Salsa Congress. Inspired by his deep admiration for the old school dancer and at their behest Choco thought it was time to take heed and create an event for the very men and women who danced in the clubs, afterhours, and after-after hours venues across the five boroughs in New York City.
The purpose of the Old Skool Room is to highlight the old-school dancer, which describes a person who enjoys smooth, elegant dancing and has frequented famed New York City clubs from the 1950’s all the way to present day. They are also simply just someone who enjoys dancing with that “old skool flavor”. Forming a unique, culturally diverse demographic of music aficionados hailing from all boroughs on the Big Apple and surrounding areas, old-school dancers graced the dance floors of the famed Palladium, Casablanca, St. James Hotel, Tropicoro, Casino 14, Ochentas, Cheetah, and Broadway 1 & 2, to name a handful.
Old-school dancers ascribe to a specific tempo of music, enjoying a steady, pronounced clave beat, buoyant Charanga rhythm, classic Cuban Son, and smooth Cha-Cha-Cha, having danced the night away to the best bands in the world.
The Old Skool Room is dedicated to preserving the tradition of the New York, Puerto Rican, and Cuban styles of dance and Latin music folklore with the annual inclusion of the talented DJ Andy “El Más Bailable” (PR/NY).
This year’s live music performance promises to delight, continuing the tradition of danceable music by New York’s best musicians.
For more information and latest updates about The New York International Salsa Congress visit www.newyorksalsacongress.com
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Mardi Gras in May will welcome Miss USA pageants
The public is invited to attend a Mardi Gras-style parade in downtown Shreveport at noon on May 14.
Mardi Gras in May will welcome Miss USA pageants The public is invited to attend a Mardi Gras-style parade in downtown Shreveport at noon on May 14. Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/entertainment/events/2018/04/18/mardi-gras-may-welcome-miss-usa-pageants/525907002/
Chris Jay, Shreveport-Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau Published 8:00 a.m. CT April 18, 2018
Miss Louisiana USA Lauren Vizza on Instagram (Henrietta Wildsmith/The Times)
The Miss USA pageant, , is scheduled for May 21 at 7 p.m., airing live on FOX.(Photo: Courtesy)
The Mardi Gras in May with Miss USA and Miss Teen USA Parade will include all 102 contestants from the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA competitions as well as local dignitaries, Miss USA Kára McCullough, Miss Teen USA Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff, local Mardi Gras krewes, a marching band and more.
The parade will take place on the west end of Texas Street in downtown Shreveport, in the 500-700 blocks near the Caddo Parish Courthouse, Robinson Film Center and Artspace. Local food trucks will be parked near the Caddo Parish Courthouse.
The parade will have a patriotic theme and will serve to welcome all of the visiting Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants as well as their families and supporters, event organizers and fans. The parade will be broadcast live on KTAL-NBC 6.
More: Miss USA 2018 expected to have large economic, social media impact
Parade organizers are currently seeking donations of Mardi Gras beads and throws from locals. Anyone who wishes to donate beads or throws to the Mardi Gras in May Parade may do so by dropping off their donation at the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau Visitor Center at 629 Spring Street in downtown Shreveport, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, at the Louisiana Boardwalk Outlets Guest Services desk located on the first floor of the Louisiana Boardwalk Outlets parking garage near the escalators, or at the information desks at Mall St. Vincent in Shreveport and Pierre Bossier Mall in Bossier City.
The Miss USA pageant, hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, is scheduled for May 21 at 7 p.m., airing live on FOX.
Shreveport native Lauren Vizza will represent the state as Miss Louisiana USA 2018.
Miss Teen USA will be held May 17 and broadcast by the Reelz Network.
Both pageants will be held in May in Shreveport's Hirsch Memorial Coliseum.
For more information, visit www.shreveport-bossier.org/missusa.
For official Miss USA pageant information, visit www.missusa.com.
Worth a follow - Miss Louisiana USA Lauren Vizza
The Instagram art of Lauren Vizza Miss Louisiana USA 2018. Follow her at Personal: @laurenvizza and the official Miss Louisiana USA account: @misslausa All photos property of Lauren Vizza Courtesy
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Michael Owen's Controversial Comments Highlight Modern Problem With Newcastle Players' Attitudes
Former Newcastle United striker Michael Owen revealed in an interview earlier this week that he hadn't wanted to move to Tyneside from Real Madrid back in the summer of 2005, but rather return to former club Liverpool.
In a remarkably candid interview with BT Sport, the former Ballon d'Or winner and teen prodigy made clear that a return to Anfield was always he's preferred choice and, even after it became clear that Liverpool weren't willing to match Newcastle's offer of £16m, he still harboured hope of using the Magpies as little more than a stop gap before re-signing as the Reds' prodigal striker.
It's fair to say that Owen's comments didn't go down too well in the north east of the country, and it's not hard to see why.
Overwhelming reaction to this interview. Thanks to @themichaelowen for his disarming honesty tonight. Give this 9 minutes of your evening and a share. Thanks🙌 pic.twitter.com/uzVT1y1Em4
— Jake Humphrey (@mrjakehumphrey) August 25, 2018
It is only natural for a professional footballer to have a favourite club and to want a return to ones where you've had a good past experience.
However, to imply that you were unhappy to move to a different team - who had put up a record fee for you - and go behind that club's back to ask someone else to match their bid is bordering on disrespectful.
While Liverpool never did make a serious play to re-sign Owen despite his desire, with Rafa Benitez instead spending a cumulative total of around £70m on strikers between 2005 and 2009. In his four injury-riddled years at St James' Park Owen faded into a pale imitation of his former self, scoring 26 goals in 71 games.
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Even while at Newcastle, struggling to nail down a first team spot and prove he was worth the club-record outlay, Owen was looking for his great escape back to Liverpool.
Speaking to BT Sport, he admitted: “At Newcastle, I had it in my contract that I could go back for a set amount. I agreed to go to Newcastle on the basis that I could still go back to Liverpool.”
His comments have struck a nerve among Magpies supporters (and club legend Alan Shearer) who are often tired of watching their side used simply as a stepping stone by players. Owen's words have confirmed what many had feared; that some players do not see Newcastle as their final destination, but rather a layover needed to get onto bigger, better things.
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Following Owen's interview, which was tweeted out by BT Sport anchor Jake Humphrey, Shearer (who famously turned down move's away from the Magpies during his decade long stay) responded: “Not sure Newcastle United fans, teammates or employers will want to thank him.”
Shearer played with Owen during part of the latter's time at St James' Park.
If Owen and his revelations show the most pervasive attitude of Newcastle players of recent times, then Shearer showed the best. There is nobody in football who could argue that, once Shearer arrived on Tyneside, he didn't bleed black and white. He loved the club, gave his heart and soul for the team and the fans, and he is fondly remembered for it as a result.
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It's not just his incredible goalscoring that sees Shearer hailed as a footballing god up in the North East. It was his attitude and approach to being at the club.
Newcastle was never a stepping stone for Shearer. He was never looking onto pastures beyond, or bigger clubs, or trophies or personal accolades. He was a Newcastle player, and he gave his everything for the club.
Both proved themselves as great strikers who will be remembered at St James' Park, for England and beyond for their finishing prowess. However, at least in terms of attitude, Newcastle United has had far too many Michael Owens and not nearly enough Alan Shearers in recent times.
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My House is Dying
If Jackson ends up being like East Union, which I'm guessing it will, I don't personally feel like I wanna live here anymore. I can't imagine walking around in either one of those places and feel like I'm belonging to a neighborhood. I also feel like there's not really much point in me cultivating my house as an individual home, cause I don't think anyone would want it as an individual home. They're more and more filling in my block. I think there's four of our houses left. So you know that's kind of weird too to feel like, wow, my relationship with my house is changing. I mean it would be different if I was passing the house on the other people who wanted to come and enjoy the house, but I'm guessing that's probably not gonna happen. There's a number of houses in that area that happened to. I knew people who poured a lot of money into their house, and they were so proud of it, and you know they were neighbors and next thing you know they decided to sell and they didn't even take anything out of the house they just...
So I'm guess my house is dying, and it's a great house. I love that house, and it's been kind of this public house, all of our boxers have come through that house. It's been a really important part of our business. And to just think it could be the it for it.
All My House is Dying The Central Area is not a Wasteland Uncle Eddie's Apartments The Central District was Disbanded It's Happening So Fast Brown People Everywhere That's Gone Too Displacement of Latinos Racism in Housing What We Built What This Community Has Done for the City Learn the History Change in the Neighborhood
My House is Dying The Central Area is not a Wasteland Uncle Eddie's Apartments The Central District was Disbanded It's Happening So Fast Brown People Everywhere That's Gone Too Displacement of Latinos Racism in Housing What We Built What This Community Has Done for the City Learn the History Change in the Neighborhood
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Putu Natih
Erzsébet Bukodi
Jardine-Oxford Scholar
Thesis title: Multidimensional Poverty Measurement using West Java, Indonesia as a Case Study
putu.natih@trinity.ox.ac.uk
Putu is a DPhil student in Social Policy who works on poverty measurement in Indonesia. Her DPhil thesis is supervised by Dr Erzsebet Bukodi (previously co-supervised with Dr Stuart Gietel-Basten). Prior to the DPhil Putu completed an MPhil in Development Studies at Oxford University’s Department of International Development and an undergraduate degree in Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia. Putu was awarded a full scholarship from the Jardine Foundation for her MPhil and was also awarded a full scholarship for her DPhil by the Jardine-Oxford scholarship fund. Other than research on poverty measurement, Putu has also worked on various research projects on disaster mitigation, micro-finance, banking and monetary policy. Putu is a member of Trinity College (Putu’s profile on the Trinity College website: https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/postgraduate-study/postgraduate-profiles/). In her spare time Putu enjoys Balinese traditional dancing and playing the gamelan.
Selected Awards and Grants
Selected Presentations
Natih, P. G. L. (2015). Technical Efficiency Levels of BPRs in West Java: A Stochastic Frontier Approach. Economics and Finance in Indonesia, 61(3), 223-240.
Isfandiarni, I., Machmud, T.M. Z., Natih, P. G. L. (2016). Panglima Laot: The Traditional Institute of the Fishing Community and Maritime Customs. The Institute for Economic and Social Research Faculty of Economics and Business University of Indonesia.
Selected published newspaper articles
Natih, P.G.L. (2018, March 5). Women's Day: Build on traditions to empower the nation, The Jakarta Post
Natih, P. G. L. (2017, November 10). National Heroes Day Reflection on Freedom from Poverty, The Jakarta Post.
Natih, P. G. L. (2014, December 23). Lest We Forget: Survival, Alertness of Future Disasters, The Jakarta Post.
Natih, P. G. L. (2013, December 22). Mother's Day Thoughts on Mandela and Malala, The Jakarta Post.
Natih, P. G. L. (2012, April). The Relevance of Ibu Kartini's Letters to Our Nation's Economy, The Jakarta Post.
Natih, P. G. L. (2011, April). Kartini Spreads Religion of Love to the World, The Jakarta Post.
Natih, P. G. L. (2010, April 18). Student Brainstorming: The Harvard Way, The Jakarta Post.
2018, Australian National University, Visiting Research Fellow Award and Academic Grant
2016, Trinity College, University of Oxford, Scholars Award
2016, Jardine Foundation, Fieldwork Grant
2013 and 2016, Trinity College, University of Oxford, Academic Grant
2014, Susan Kidd Foundation, Academic Grant
2014, Jardine-Oxford DPhil Scholarship
2012, Jardine MPhil Scholarship
2018, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Australian National University, “Who Really are the Poor? Measuring Poverty with Multiple Dimensions” (https://crawford.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/12556/who-really-are-poor-measuring-poverty-multiple-dimensions)
2018, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), “Incorporating a Delphi Method within Poverty Measurement: A Case Study of West Java, Indonesia” (https://ophi.org.uk/courses-events/events/)
2017, St Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, “Incorporating the Delphi Method within Poverty Measurement: A Case Study of West Java, Indonesia” (https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/sea_seminar_schedule_ht17_0.pdf)
2016, South East Asian Studies Symposium, University of Oxford, “Poverty, Welfare and Inequality Issues in South East Asia” (http://projectsoutheastasia.com/academic-events/sea-symposium-2016/panels/poverty-welfare)
2015, British Society for Population Studies Conference, University of Leeds, “Poverty measurement in Indonesia: an evaluation of measures and a search towards better understandings of poverty” (http://www.lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy/Researchcentresandgroups/BSPS/annualConference/2015-Conference/Poster-abstracts.aspx)
2015, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, “The Use of Focus Group Discussions in Developing Poverty Measures”
Dr Erzsébet Bukodi
Associate Professor of Quantitative Social Policy
Director of Graduate Studies (for DPhils only in 2018/9)
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College Students’ Internet Usage Patterns Could Signify Depression
In a new study analyzing Internet usage among college students, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have found that students who show signs of depression tend to use the Internet differently than those who show no symptoms of depression.
Using actual Internet usage data collected from the university’s network, the researchers identified nine fine-grained patterns of Internet usage that may indicate depression. For example, students showing signs of depression tend to use file-sharing services more than their counterparts, and also use the Internet in a more random manner, frequently switching among several applications.
The researchers’ findings provide new insights on the association between Internet use and depression compared with existing studies, says Sriram Chellappan, PhD, an assistant professor of computer science at Missouri S&T and the lead study researcher.
“The study is believed to be the first that uses actual Internet data, collected unobtrusively and anonymously, to associate Internet usage with signs of depression,” Chellappan says. Previous research on Internet usage has relied on surveys, which are “a far less accurate way” of assessing how people use the Internet, he says.
Chellappan and his fellow researchers collected a month’s worth of Internet data for 216 Missouri S&T undergraduate students. The data were collected anonymously and unobtrusively, and students involved in the study were assigned pseudonyms to keep their identities hidden from the researchers.
Before the researchers collected the usage data from the campus network, the students were tested to determine whether they showed signs of depression. The researchers then analyzed the usage data of the study participants. They found that students who showed signs of depression used the Internet much differently than the other study participants.
Chellappan and his colleagues found that depressed students tended to use file-sharing services, send e-mail, and chat online more than the other students. Depressed students also tended to use higher “packets per flow” applications, those high-bandwidth applications often associated with online videos and games, than their counterparts.
Students who showed signs of depression also tended to use the Internet in a more “random” manner—frequently switching among applications, perhaps from chat rooms to games to e-mail. Chellappan thinks that randomness may indicate trouble concentrating, a characteristic associated with depression.
The randomness stood out to Chellappan after his graduate student, Raghavendra Kotikalapudi, examined the “flow duration entropy” of students’ online usage. Flow duration entropy refers to the consistency of Internet use during certain periods of time. The lower the flow duration entropy, the more consistent the Internet use.
“Students showing signs of depression had high flow duration entropy, which means that the duration of Internet flows of these students is highly inconsistent,” Chellappan says.
At the beginning of the study, the 216 participating students were tested to determine whether they exhibited symptoms of depression. Based on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale, about 30% of the students in the study met the minimum criteria for depression. Nationally, previous studies show that between 10% and 40% of all American students suffer from depression.
To ensure that participants were not identified during the study, each participant was assigned a pseudonym. The campus information technology department then provided the on-campus Internet usage data for each participant from the month of February 2011.
The researchers’ analysis of the month’s worth of data led Chellappan and his colleagues to conclude that students who were identified as exhibiting symptoms of depression used the Internet differently than the other students in the study.
Chellappan’s research will be published in December in the Winter 2012 issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and is also accessible from Chellappan’s website.
— Source: Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Dayton Taft Attorney Mullins to Serve on University of Dayton School of Law Advisory Council
Dayton, OH, September 24, 2008 – Jeffrey A. Mullins, Partner-in-Charge of the Dayton office at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, was recently appointed to serve a three-year term on the University of Dayton School of Law Advisory Council.
“Serving on the Law Advisory Council is a great fit with Taft, because of the firm's strong commitment to education in the legal profession,” said Mullins. Formerly an undergraduate and law school student, “The school made a significant impression on me, and I look forward to giving back to an institution that has done so much for me.”
Besides serving on the Council, Mullins is President of the Miami Valley Human Resource Association (MVHRA) and a board member of the Catholic Social Services and Culture Works. He also serves as treasurer for the Voluntary Protection Program Association for Construction.
Mullins practices in the areas of health care and labor and employment law. He is a member of the Dayton and Ohio Bar Associations, American Health Lawyers Association, Associated Builders and Contractors and the Society for Human Resource Management.
About Taft
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP is a full-service law firm with offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, and Dayton, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Northern Kentucky; Phoenix, Arizona; and Beijing, China. With more than 400 attorneys and legal professionals, the firm provides a broad range of legal services to businesses and individuals, including litigation, corporate and business law, securities and municipal financing, tax and estate planning, labor and employment law, real estate and environmental, health care, intellectual property and unfair competition and antitrust law.
Jeffrey Mullins
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What Happens on the Moldova Global Service Program Trip?
Video created by Iris Kaymak ’20
EcoVisio Moldova, a youth-led grassroots NGO in the small village of Rîșcova, envisions Moldova—the poorest and least-visited country in Europe—and its neighbors as a model region of empowered society, healthy environment, and vigorous, fair economy. “We’re trying to grow a group of young, active citizens who will care about the community and have the skills to help develop it,” explained Liliana Botnaru, Coordinator of Eco-Village Moldova. “We aim to connect changemakers, particularly in fields related to sustainable development—such as organic agriculture, eco-construction, civic activism, rural development, and social entrepreneurship—with the ultimate goal of developing as a community and as a country.”
The EcoVisio Moldova Opsahl Global Service Program group was established in 2018 by former program director Zach Mulert and TASIS Elementary School Teacher Kim Goldsworthy, who led the inaugural trip last spring. On the first trip, Ms. Goldsworthy, assistant faculty leader Mark Chevalier (TASIS Director of Communications), and 13 students spent a week at the Eco-Village, where they helped establish a new community park (the only one in the village), learned about sustainable development and organic agriculture, and forged powerful connections with members of the local community.
While Ms. Goldsworthy was unable to be a part of this year’s group due to a conflict with her teaching schedule, Mr. Chevalier signed on for another year and added first-year High School English Teacher Carolyn Rosenberger as a second faculty leader. After discussing Moldova’s history, the EcoVisio’s goals, and topics such as sustainable development and eco-construction at weekly meetings throughout the year, the two faculty leaders boarded a flight to Chișinău, Moldova’s capital city, with seven 11th-grade students on the evening of Friday, April 12. Below is their account of this year’s trip.
By Mark Chevalier and Carolyn Rosenberger
The Moldovan National History Museum (See more photos from this year’s trip on the TASIS SmugMug page.)
Day 1: Saturday, April 13
Due to a delay of our Friday evening flight from Milan to Chișinău, we did not reach our hotel until after midnight. Following a night of rest and a quick breakfast at the hotel, we were met at 10:00 by Valeria Șvarț-Gröger, EcoVisio Co-founder and Development Director, who we worked very closely with on our initial trip to Moldova the previous spring.
As we walked the streets of Chișinău—Moldova’s largest city with a population of around 530,000—Valeria pointed out the major landmarks and touched upon Moldova’s complicated past and current political issues. We picked up some supplies for the week ahead at the EcoLocal Farmers Market, did some additional shopping at a second outdoor market, and toured the Moldovan National History Museum before stopping for a traditional Moldovan lunch at a local restaurant.
As the rain that had been threatening all morning began to fall, we made our way back to the hotel to collect our suitcases and boarded a mini-bus for the one-hour ride to the Eco-Village in Rîșcova, a central-Moldovan village with a population of just over 1000.
After a quick break to unpack and settle into our simple but comfortable accommodations at the Eco-Village, we met in the Environmental Training Center—where we would hold all of our meetings and eat our meals throughout the week—to watch a presentation about the vision and goals of EcoVisio, get to know several members of the Eco-Village team, and discuss our aspirations for the week. We decided that we would focus our energies on six main projects:
We very much wanted to add some playground equipment to the community park we helped establish the year before. (Prior to our arrival in year one, the “park” was really just an open grassy space behind the local Elementary School. During our first visit, we built four wooden benches, designed and constructed a unique sandbox, and made a small obstacle course out of recycled tires. We also helped raise money for the construction of a stage that was added to the park in between our two visits.)
To make it feel more like a proper park that community members could take pride in, we aspired to beautify the grounds by adding flower beds and painting a mural.
In our most ambitious undertaking, we hoped to build a treehouse in the orchard adjacent to the Eco-Village to provide a fun gathering place for the five children who live at the Eco-Village and other local youth.
The Eco-Village recently added a horse sanctuary, and many of our students expressed an interest in helping out with the horses as time allowed.
We agreed that we should help Liliana’s mother Claudia, an amazing cook and an even sweeter person, in the kitchen as much as possible. (The organic, vegetarian meals she prepares for our group three times per day are a major highlight of this trip.)
We all decided that it would be important to cap off our week by hosting a community event in the park on our last full day in Rîșcova. This would require quite a bit of planning and would put some pressure on us to finish our projects on time.
With our project goals solidified, the adults took a step back and gave the students some time to collaborate, delegate tasks for the next day, and establish a detailed schedule for the week. It was obvious that the students—who had been nothing but positive, respectful, and appreciative throughout day one—were taking their time here very seriously and genuinely wanted to contribute positively to the community.
Following an invigorating dinner of fresh salad, rice with chickpeas and carrots, and lots of other ingredients and spices grown on the Eco-Village’s grounds, it was time for a quick evening meeting to summarize our plan of attack. We were impressed by how well the students listened to one another, debated the finer points of their plans, were patient with opposing points of view, and came together to reach solutions.
Before we retreated to our rooms for an early bedtime, we couldn’t help but notice two of our students approach Claudia and thank her for the delicious meal and for her hard work.
The state of the park at the beginning of the week
Day 2: Sunday, April 14
After an early breakfast, we toured the Eco-Village grounds, examined the proposed treehouse setting, and made the first of many trips to the park (about a kilometer from the Eco-Village). It was heartwarming to see our contributions from last year now firmly installed in the park, which was still covered in snow when we departed on March 31.
Despite the cold and wet weather that we would grow accustomed to as the week wore on, our students drew inspiration from our short journey around Rîșcova and maintained a high level of enthusiasm. They met several students from the local middle school (there is no school in the village after grade nine) and immediately connected with them despite the language barrier. (Most residents of Rîșcova speak only Romanian and Russian, and no one in our group speaks either of these languages.)
Some of these students accompanied us back to the Eco-Village for a brief ice-breaking session in which they taught one another some basic expressions in English and Romanian—with great kindness and patience displayed on both sides. They then broke into teams, and it seemed as though we were unintentionally dividing along gender lines, with our three boys—Giovanni, Kazu, and Qeis—focusing on the treehouse (with help from several local students and Valeriu, an EcoVisio member whom we could not have done without), and our four girls—Carmen, Iris, Melina, and Regina—joining forces with Liliana, Valeria, and some girls from the local school to work on the park.
A brief planning session ensued, with Valeria and Kristina (another EcoVisio member) translating back and forth as the park team established a clearer action plan. Although our students were really ambitious with their ideas, they soon formed a solid outline of what they most wanted to accomplish: a mural for the stage with a design inspired by traditional Moldovan carpets, more playground equipment for the local children, flower beds encircled by rock walls throughout the park, and a community event that would include the planting of flowers in these new beds.
Meanwhile the boys looked at treehouse plans with Valeriu and investigated how they could establish a level platform while working with the natural shape of the tree and not harming it in any way whatsoever. It was clear that this would be the most difficult stage of the process, but the boys were determined to make it happen—especially Giovanni, who had been dreaming about building this treehouse since September.
It was time to get to work. We put in a solid opening session, broke for a delicious lunch that was highlighted by a pasta dish garnished with a fresh batch of pesto made by Claudia that morning, and continued working in earnest until it was time for dinner at 19:00.
Morale was high at that evening’s reflection meeting, as we all felt good about the progress we’d made already. We made sure the students knew we were impressed with their efforts so far and that they had accomplished far more than we expected on our first real work day. They in turn expressed how happy they were to be on this journey with one another and simply to be here in Moldova.“I am so glad I am on this trip because I am actually doing something,” noted Melina.
Teaming up with the locals
Day 3: Monday, April 15
This was another big work day, with all the students remaining very invested in their individual and group projects. Down at the park, Carmen and Melina spent the morning hauling rocks, carefully piecing together the rock beds, and digging up grass to ready the soil for planting while Regina and Iris traced and began painting the mural. Many kids from the school flocked to the park to help the moment they had a break from their lessons.
With the sun peeking through after lunch, Carmen, Iris, and the locals made considerable progress on the mural while Melina and Regina created fliers to promote our community event and rode bikes all over Rîșcova to hang them up and pass them out. They even met the mayor!
All the while, the boys worked steadily on the treehouse and were grateful for the boost they received from local teenagers Marius and Ovidiu and from Danny, Liliana’s precocious 10-year-old son who always seemed to be around when we needed him. The team cut and stained all the wood for the floor and, despite the ever-present communication challenges, managed to fully install the base—by far the trickiest part—just before it was time to break for dinner at 19:00.
Several of the local teenagers and Corey—an American serving a two-year Peace Corps stint in Rîșcova—joined us for another wonderful dinner: fresh bread, salad with locally grown vegetables and feta cheese, and lasagna with pesto. They then had a lot of fun teaching our students some traditional Moldovan dances.
We closed the evening with a very productive reflection meeting in which we discussed some of the options for allocating the CHF 3000 our group raised throughout the year. We also asked the students specific questions about their experience so far, and they shared a number of stories. Qeis noted that he couldn’t think of one thing from that day he didn’t enjoy, and a number of others commented on how friendly the people in the village are and how eager they are to help. We discussed how important our time here is, how we are ambassadors for these local kids who may never meet another person from some of the countries we are from, how fortunate we are for all we have, and how we will be changed as a result of our time here.
Day 4: Tuesday, April 16
As we did last year, we took a mid-week break from our projects to explore Orhei Vechio, a Moldovan historical and archaeological complex located in Trebujeni. We had planned to rent bikes and make the long ride through some trails in the woods, but the wet conditions rendered this impossible. Instead we hopped on a mini-bus and made the half-hour drive.
With Valeriu as our trusted leader, we braved cold, wet, and very windy conditions as we hiked along stunning ridges, explored ancient caves, and visited a historical monastery. After a nice tea break at a traditional Moldovan restaurant, we returned home in time for lunch and then held a meeting in which we assessed the state of all our projects and made plans for Thursday’s community event.
At 16:00, it was time to deliver the students to the three different host families they’d be spending the night with—an integral part of the Moldovan experience that was a bit more challenging this year due to our complete lack of Russian speakers. But as we stayed behind to enjoy a quiet dinner in Liliana’s house, it was heartening to see the kids filling up our WhatsApp group with messages about how much fun they were having.
Day 5: Wednesday, April 17
We awoke to another cold, gray, and rainy morning, with all the students returning to the Eco-Village by 9:00. While the reviews from the first two groups were mixed, our spirits were buoyed when Iris and Melina burst into the room and declared, “That was the best night of our lives!” They raved about the deep conversation they had with their hosts over an excellent meal. (Because they stayed with the family that is hosting Corey during his Peace Corps stay, they had the benefit of having a translator, as Corey has already learned the Romanian language.)
As a good portion of the following day would need to be devoted to preparing for and carrying out the community event, we all knew this would be our final full work day, and the students rose to the challenge accordingly (and were even granted a bit of sunshine). The girls spent the day finishing the mural, tidying up the flower beds, and painting the playground structure that had been installed by some local workers that morning.
The boys installed the entire floor for the treehouse using a bespoke design that worked around the tree’s many protruding branches. (Again, the most important guideline was that we could not alter or harm the tree in any way.) Thanks to Valeriu’s expertise, just before dinner they also managed to successfully position four support beams that extended from each corner of the platform to a wooden structure we’d previously installed at the base of the tree—a very complex step.
After another lovely dinner, the students used our evening meeting to make their final plans for the community event and to work on the dance routine they planned to unveil. They were all really good sports about it and practiced repeatedly without complaining. We loved watching them interact, and this evening further confirmed how fortunate we were to be traveling with a really nice group of kids who are inclusive, friendly, and welcoming of one another.
Before we retired for the evening, two students indicated that they want to come back to Moldova next year. Two more would say this before the week was out.
Day 6: Thursday, April 18
With much still to be done, we all agreed to have breakfast a little earlier than usual and to be working by 8:30 at the latest. The treehouse crew built a customized ladder out of rope and wooden dowels and installed it with great pleasure. Although the treehouse will still need side railings and a half-roof installed, the most difficult part of the process was behind us, and it was time to turn our attention to the park.
We joined the girls, who had already put the finishing touches on the mural and cleaned up the stage, in the park at 11:00 for the first stage of the community event. Many villagers brought flowers and helped plant them in the four rock-encircled flower beds. Meanwhile lots of local children ran around the park while some of the older ones helped us move wheelbarrows full of gravel, stain the playground set, install a rock climbing wall, build a rope climbing wall, and figure out how to hang swings. As everything came together, we couldn’t help noticing that what was simply a neglected plot of land just one year ago was beginning to look like a proper park—the kind we all take for granted in Switzerland.
Two of our best helpers from the community
After a quick lunch break, some of us returned to the park to finish the swings and the rope wall while others stayed behind to prepare food for the main part of the community event, which was scheduled for 17:00. As the time approached, we finished the swings and nervously waited for the villagers to arrive.
To our great pleasure, more than 100 guests turned out. The mayor delivered a short welcoming speech and then called our group to the stage and asked each of us to introduce ourselves. Our students had many gracious things to say, and the crowd applauded happily as Liliana translated their remarks.
Liliana and the mayor
While the local choir sang a number of traditional Moldovan songs and our students bravely performed their synchronized dance routine (and then forced us to destroy the video footage!), dozens of children absolutely flocked to the playground equipment. There was so much competition for the swing set that a local mother had to institute a rule that each child could swing for one minute before returning to the back of the line, which was growing by the minute. Liliana confirmed what we suspected: most of these kids had never been on a swing before.
As Iris, Valeriu, and Corey worked through the event to finish the rope climbing wall, an enormous dance circle erupted in the middle of the park, with our students joining hands with their new friends in a final symbolic act. With bittersweet emotions, we returned to the Eco-Village at 19:15.
Our final evening reflection meeting was an emotional one, and we marveled at the things our students had to say about the week. Several admitted that they had not been looking forward to the trip at all but that they were now certain it would prove to be a pivotal experience in their lives. We told them they had exceeded our expectations in every way, and Liliana expressed her boundless gratitude for all they had accomplished.
“I’ve been really impressed by TASIS students,” she would privately tell us afterward. “It’s been inspiring to see their commitment, their focus, their great attitude, their energy, and their ability to adapt when the conditions they’ve been living in here in Moldova are quite different than what they’re used to. Above all else, their willingness to go outside their comfort zone to connect with young people from Moldova—despite language barriers—and try to work together, side-by-side, has been really inspiring.”
Not quite ready to close the book on our time at the Eco-Village, several of us joined Valeriu for a late-night cup of tea in the treehouse under a full moon.
Our final dinner at the Eco-Village
Day 7: Friday, April 19
After a final breakfast, some time to tidy our rooms and pack our things, and a quick trip to the Eco-Village gift shop, we exchanged emotional goodbyes with our EcoVisio friends and assured them we’d be back next spring.
While our students began to board the mini-bus for the ride back to Chișinău and we were forced to come to terms with the fact that the journey was really over, we asked Liliana to help provide us with some perspective we could take back to Lugano. We asked her if TASIS, over these past two years, has helped the EcoVisio move toward achieving its lofty goals. Have we made a difference?
“With students from TASIS, we’ve managed to connect with the local community to implement several important projects,” she said. “The community park has become not only a center for people to get together but, more importantly, has provided hope, particularly for our youth. They see that we’ve tried to do something, that we’ve taken some small steps, and that gives them the confidence to undertake bigger initiatives, to feel the community spirit, and to feel pride for their village. I’m just grateful that we started the collaboration with TASIS, and I hope it will continue because it’s really been a great highlight for us in Rîșcova.”
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The Opsahl Global Service Program was envisioned by Jan Opsahl ’68, who became the first international student at TASIS when he came from Norway in 1965. The pioneering program was launched in 2013 with major support from a most generous donation from Mr. Opsahl and his family to set up the Global Service Trust. This Trust, along with support from the TASIS Foundation, make this incredible, life-changing experience for our students possible.
The Opsahl Global Service Program, which was directed by Zach Mulert through the spring of 2018 and is now led by Danny Schiff, transforms lives by providing every High School student a unique opportunity to connect across borders through comprehensive experiences that build empathy and encourage personal responsibility. Participation in the program—which is designed to awaken students to humanitarian needs, inspire them to build enduring, mutually beneficial relationships, and lead them toward a life of active citizenship and committed service—is a graduation requirement.
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UK spends much more than the rest of the EU combined on bloated procurement contracts
The UK spends vastly more than the rest of the EU combined on large procurement contracts, and much less on smaller ones, research finds.
The United Kingdom published 167 contract award notices on contracts worth €100 million or above.
France published 29, Italy 25 and Germany 5.
These are worth altogether €73.77 billion and accounted for 52 per cent of such notices published in 2015.
The rest of the EU combined only spends €41 billion on contracts of the same size.
Outsourcing titans continue to dominate public procurement despite well-publicised failures.
Our new report examines the state of public procurement in the UK and finds that despite government ambitions to get more small and medium-sized businesses to win public contracts, the UK awarded more contracts of €100 million or more than any other EU country, and almost six times the number published by France, the next highest.
This has left the UK over-reliant on outsourcing to very large companies like Capita, Atos, G4S, and Serco.
Commenting on the findings, Jan Zeber, Policy Analyst at the TaxPayers' Alliance and author of the report, said:
"From staplers to warships, public procurement regularly accounts for approximately a third of total public spending. It is therefore crucial that value for taxpayers is at the heart of all public-sector purchasing decisions, no matter whether it's a multi-million-pound military vessel or stationery for the Cabinet Office. The report outlines a number of positive steps which can be taken to improve the procurement process by saving money and increasing efficiency."
You can read the report here.
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Andy Steiert (top) of R.T. Construction builds a model home, one of three under construction for the new Saint Louis Park Place development at the intersection of 20th and Montgomery streets on Friday, March 1, 2019. Developer Dwight Arant started work last month on the trio after buying several lots from developer Paul McKee of NorthSide Regeneration. Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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August 24, 2010 - Linda Hodge, a real estate agent with Laura McCarthy, closes down an agent open house Tuesday afternoon on West Cedar in Webster Groves. The five bedroom home hit the market last Saturday - asking price $514,900. Robert Cohen rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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Housing prices were supposed to fall after the tax law changed. They didn't.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was supposed to boost corporate profits, and it did. It was expected to give at least a temporary lift to consumer spending, and it did.
Housing, on the other hand, has defied expectations. Because the 2017 law reduced tax breaks for homeowners, forecasters thought it would cause house prices to fall, especially in high-priced neighborhoods.
Sixteen months after the law took effect, any adverse effect on housing is hard to detect. Home values, as measured by the national Case-Shiller Index, rose 4.6 percent for the 12 months that ended in January.
Prices climbed a bit faster in 2016 and 2017, but it’s hard to argue that tax changes caused the slowdown. Mortgage rates, which rose by a percentage point last year before coming back down in recent months, almost certainly did more to dampen buyers’ enthusiasm.
When the tax bill was being debated, economists and real estate lobbyists pointed to three changes that would hurt housing. The mortgage interest deduction was limited to loans of $750,000, down from a previous cap of $1 million; the deduction for state and local taxes was capped at $10,000; and a higher standard deduction meant that many homeowners would no longer itemize.
Frank Nothaft, chief economist for CoreLogic, studied the issue last fall and couldn’t find any tax law effects on house prices, even in high-cost cities.
More recently, he sees some downward pressure in expensive places such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, but he thinks that has more to do with mortgage rates and overall affordability than with taxes.
Jeff Tucker, an economist at Zillow, notes that the tax law also raised most people’s after-tax income, which lets them afford a bigger mortgage. “The tax bill’s broad impact on the housing market would be ambiguous,” he says. “Housing is a large fraction of household budgets, and this increased their overall budget by several thousand dollars.”
Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, thinks the limit on state and local tax deductions, SALT for short, is affecting high-tax states like New York, New Jersey and Illinois.
“We are finding right now that house prices are softer in those places where the SALT limit is starting to bite,” Yun said.
In modest-priced markets like St. Louis, the economists say, the tax law changes have had no noticeable effect on housing.
For a typical buyer here, the $24,000 standard deduction is now more attractive than the itemized deductions that go with owning a house. The lack of a tax break doesn’t make people indifferent between buying and renting.
“The decision is mostly motivated by considerations about the type of house you can have as a buyer, space for a growing family and a yard and good schools,” Tucker said. “Those are things that don’t change with a tweak in the tax code.”
Eventually, the 2017 tax changes could still have a dampening effect on house prices. “Now that everyone has submitted their first 1040 under the new law, for many people it was an eye-opener,” Nothaft says. “I think many people didn’t understand specifically how it affected them.”
In the near future, though, any negative tax law effect probably will remain hard to detect. The large millennial generation is entering its prime home-buying years, and mortgage rates have fallen below 4 percent. Those two facts should keep demand strong, tax break or no tax break.
David Nicklaus
Tax Cuts And Jobs Act
David Nicklaus is a business columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Community Mental Health Care
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It provides a comprehensive outline of the essentials of work in community mental health care. Written in an accessible and engaging style, it provides an indespensible blueprint for the profession in the twenty first century. It summarises the history of community care; its why, when, what and who; the skills required to work with psychiatric patients; the practical 'rules of the game' in terms of the care programme approach, the mental health act and treatments (psychological, social and physical, including medications). This provocative and ground-breaking book will encourage debate and challenge community mental health workers to provide a modern and practical approach to the holistic care of the patient.
A Practical Guide to Outdoor Psychiatry
By Mark Salter, MB, BS, BSc, MRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Homerton University Hospital, London, UK and Trevor Turner, MD, FRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, The East London Foundation Trust, Homerton University and St Bartholomew's Hospitals, London, UK
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Cycling: First national cycling title a reward for Serene Lee
The race terrain in Nongsa, Batam, where 264 cyclists competed across 12 categories at the OCBC Cycle National Road Championships yesterday.ST PHOTOS: GAVIN FOO
Women's Open champion Serene Lee, 30, with her mother after the presentation ceremony. She won her first national title in 2hr 43min 19.84sec.ST PHOTOS: GAVIN FOO
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Maiden national title in Batam compensates for the pain of several second-place finishes
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Most of Serene Lee's outings at national cycling championships have ended in tears after finishing second. There were no tears at yesterday's OCBC Cycle National Road Championships, after the 30-year-old won her first national title in 2hr 43min 19.84sec in Nongsa, Batam.
"I've been second for as long as I can remember, maybe since my first national championships," Lee told The Straits Times at Tering Bay, where the race ended.
"Every year (my team would) see me coming back crying because I'd just missed by a couple of centimetres or a wheel or two. It has been eight years in the making and this week everything just went perfectly. I finally had a good week leading up to the race, everything paid off and every dog has its day."
She took a conservative approach during the 96km race at the Nongsa circuit, biding her time whenever her competitors broke away before making her move.
Lee, an exercise physiologist, believes the reason for her breakthrough this year is a change in mindset, aided by a "support village" that spans Singapore, Australia and Europe. She spent five weeks training and racing in the Netherlands in May, and will be back there at the end of the month. She will then go to Perth to pursue a doctorate at Murdoch University.
Listing the components of her support village - her boss, Dutch team Maaslandster International and her family, Lee, whose mother accompanied her to Batam, said she had been especially moved by her father's support before yesterday's race, especially since he had been in hospital recently.
This year's national championships took place overseas for the first time, and Lee feels there was a more communal atmosphere than in previous years. "After the race, nobody can go home and now they are mingling with one another - that's what the racing community should be, it's about the friendships you make off the bike."
Still, it was not all smooth sailing with some riders, including Lee and men's Open winner Goh Choon Huat, who won the 120km race in 3:22:14.21, voicing concerns over how several categories had been flagged off at the same time.
Nonetheless, Lee gave credit to the Singapore Cycling Federation (SCF), saying: "Kudos to SCF for setting a precedent and holding the national championships in a different country. This race was a lot more competitive - there was terrain that people could actually play on and they get to ride on roads they don't usually experience."
SCF president Hing Siong Chen noted that the points Lee and Goh made had been considered, but said staggering the different categories "was not possible in terms of logistics and cost" as races would have taken an entire day to complete, instead of half a day.
A total of 264 cyclists competed across 12 categories yesterday. Hing noted that cycling's first overseas national championship was "probably as good as it can go in our first race", and added: "We had to limit our number of riders this time because we could only have two ferries. We had a waiting list of about 50 to 60 who couldn't come.
"Moving forward, we hope to scale it up a bit more to make it more accessible to everyone."
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on July 09, 2018, with the headline 'First victory a reward for Lee'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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Two Cats Facing Each Other on the Path
Two cats were walking on a narrow path toward each other. When they came near one another, no one was willing to let the other pass first. They just stood there, screaming at each other.
"You let me pass first," said one cat.
"No! I was first here," said the other cat.
"No, I must be first, because I am bigger."
"No, I must be first, because I am more beautiful."
"No, I am wiser than you, and you must, therefore, respect me."
"I am stronger."
"I have many cats that will hurt you if you don't let me pass."
After a while, the screams turned into a fight. The cats started fighting, scratching, and biting each other.
A little while later, a wiser cat arrived to the scene. He looked at them and started to laugh.
The two cats stopped fighting, at looked at him amazed.
"Why are you laughing?" The cats asked him.
"I am laughing at you and at your behavior. You are wasting your time and are hurting each other, just because you won't let the other one pass. The path is wide enough for each cat to pass to the other side."
"Why are you fighting? Don't you have anything better to do?"
"It is a matter of honor and power." The two cats said.
The wise cat was amused and said, "Do you need to prove you are stronger? Who cares about this?"
"Someone, who is really strong and self-confident, doesn't feel the need to show this to others. He or she feels good about himself, and others feel his strength, and respect him, with love, not fear."
"There is life, there is good food, there are wonderful things to enjoy and to do, and you are standing, here, facing each other, yelling, scratching and fighting. Is this a practical and rational act? Open your eyes and grow up!"
"Is it really important who passes first to the other side of the path? Is it worthwhile to have all these scratches and bites? You are wasting your time, energy and health on nonsense."
"Look around, and see all the animals around you laughing at your irrational behavior."
The two cats were bewildered and didn't know what to say. The words of the wise cat made sense, but their subconscious, programmed behavior and habits were too strong. It was not easy for them to resist them.
Did the two cats stopped fighting and each one went on their way? I leave that for you to think about.
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Approved by the Board of Trustees of Rockland Community College on May 1, 2015.
Rockland Community College (RCC) as one of the State University of New York (SUNY) Campuses, observes general SUNY policies, and follows SUNY guidelines overseeing all teaching and learning activities.
As SUNY’s copyright policy only applies to the State-operated campuses, it does not apply to community colleges under the program of the State University. RCC’s Copyright Policy asserts that RCC adopts the PATENTS, INVENTIONS AND COPYRIGHT POLICY, authored by the SUNY Faculty Counsel in 1954, and approved by the State University of New York Board of Trustees in 1958, which is included in the State University of New York Policies of the Board of Trustees, dated December 2013,
RCC Copyright Policy approves the procedures set by SUNY regarding Copyright and Faculty Ownership of Intellectual Property, including the common-law exception from the work-for-hire rule for faculty work. The RCC policy further clarifies that faculty own the copyright under the academic work-for-hire exception embedded in SUNY’s copyright policy.
§ 335.28 Patents and inventions policy.
State University recognizes that the three primary missions of an educational institution are teaching, research, and public service. While carrying out its research mission, State University further recognizes that inventions of value to the public will be made by persons working in its facilities. It is the policy of State University to encourage such inventors and inventions and to take appropriate steps to aid the inventor and ensure that the public receives the benefit. Appropriate steps include securing research support, identifying inventions, securing appropriate patents, marketing inventions through licensing and other arrangements, and managing royalties and other invention-related income. These activities are undertaken in a spirit of cooperation with governmental agencies and private industry as part of State University's contribution to the economic well-being of the State of New York and of the Nation.
In implementing its policies State University will take appropriate steps to ensure that its faculty may freely publish the results of scholarly research pursuant to the State University board of trustees policy on unrestricted disclosure of research activities as set forth in trustees' resolution number 66-258. In conformance with this principle, all concerned shall cooperate so that essential rights to inventions shall not be lost.
All net proceeds after payment of the inventor's share as defined in subdivision (c) of this section, and other appropriate costs associated with the university technology transfer program, realized from the marketing of State University inventions shall be used for the support of State University research programs.
All inventions made by faculty members, employees, students, and all others utilizing university facilities at any of the State-operated institutions of State University shall belong to State University and should be voluntarily disclosed, or shall be disclosed to State University upon request of the university. The inventor or inventors shall make application for patents thereon as directed by State University and shall assign such applications or any patents resulting there from to or as directed by State University. However, nonuniversity organizations and individuals who utilize university research facilities under the trustees' policy on cooperative use of research equipment, or policy and guidelines on use of State University facilities by emerging technology enterprises, will retain ownership of all patentable inventions. Also, an invention made by an individual wholly on such individual's own time, and without the use of such university facilities, shall belong to the individual even though if falls within the field of competence relating to the individual's university position. For purposes of this provision, an individual's own time shall mean time other than that devoted to normal and assigned functions in teaching, university service, direction and conduct of research on university premises and utilizing university facilities. The term university facilities shall mean any facility available to the inventor as a direct result of the inventor's affiliation with State University, or any facility available under the trustees' policy on cooperative use of research equipment, or policy on use of facilities by emerging technology enterprises, and which would not otherwise be available to a nonstate university-affiliated individual. Where any question is raised as to ownership of an invention or patent under these provisions, the matter shall be referred to a committee of five members to be named by the chancellor of State University. At least three of such members shall be members of the academic staff of the university. Such committee shall make a careful investigation of the circumstances under which the invention was made and shall transmit its findings and conclusions to the chancellor for review. If the committee determines that the invention has been made without the use of university facilities and not in the course of the inventor's employment by or for the university, and the chancellor concurs in such determination, the university will assert no claim to the invention or to any patent obtained thereon.
With respect to any invention obtained by or through State University or assigned to or as directed by it in accordance with the foregoing provisions, the university, in recognition of the meritorious services of the inventor and in consideration of the inventor's agreement that the invention shall belong to the university, will make provision entitling the inventor and the inventor's heirs or legatees to a nonassignable share in any proceeds from the management and licensing of such invention to the extent of 40 percent of the gross royalty paid, unless this exceeds the limits fixed by applicable regulations of the relevant sponsoring agency, which will control in such cases. State University may make suitable arrangements with nonprofit patent management agencies for the purpose of obtaining services and advice with respect to the patentability of inventions, the obtaining of patents thereon and the management and licensing of inventions. Such arrangements may provide for division of the net income from any invention after payment of the inventor's share between the management agency and State University.
Upon recommendation of the patents and inventions policy board, the chancellor may grant exclusive licenses for a fixed period for the marketing of inventions, since it is recognized that in the absence of such a condition some inventions may not reach the marketplace for the public benefit. Granting of exclusive licenses for a fixed period may be accepted by the chancellor as a condition for industrial sponsorship of research programs, within guidelines recommended by the patents and inventions policy board.
Grants made available to State University by or through The Research Foundation of State University of New York shall be subject to the policy herein stated except in special instances as hereinafter provided. Nothing in the policy herein stated shall prevent the acceptance of research grants from, or the conduct of research for, agencies of the United States, either directly or through The Research Foundation, upon terms and conditions under applicable provisions of Federal law or regulations which require a different disposition of inventions or patent rights, nor shall anything herein contained prevent cooperative arrangements with other agencies of the State of New York for research.
The chancellor, acting with the advice of the patents and inventions policy board or State University's designated patent management agent, may determine not to file a patent application in the case of any specific invention or continue efforts at marketing. The university's decision shall be arrived at, in consultation with the inventor, within a period not to exceed six months from the date of first submission of the inventor's properly executed statement of disclosure of invention to the university or its designee. In every instance in which the university determines not to file a patent application or continue efforts at marketing, or fails to elect to do so within six months from the date of submission of said disclosure statement, all of the university's rights to the invention shall be released to the inventor, who may then file for a patent, subject only to those restrictions that may be required by an external sponsor, if any. In every instance in which the university determines to file a patent application or continue efforts at marketing, the inventor may, at any subsequent time, request the patents and inventions policy board to recommend such release. For any invention so released to an inventor, State University, at its option, shall receive 10 percent of the net proceeds, in recognition of the contribution of the State and people of New York to the support of the research which resulted in said invention. For purposes of this provision, the term net proceeds shall mean earnings to the inventor from the invention over and beyond reasonable costs incurred in the process of patent application and management.
In all cases, any person is entitled to request an exception or waiver to the provisions of this patents and inventions policy. The person requesting an exception or waiver shall have the right to appear, accompanied by representatives of the person's choice, before the patents and inventions policy board for consideration of the request for an exception or waiver. The patents and inventions policy board shall prepare a report of its findings and an advisory recommendation to the chancellor for review. The decision of the chancellor on the findings and recommendations of the patents and inventions policy board shall be final.
The chancellor shall establish and appoint a patents and inventions policy board of the State University of New York and designate the chair thereof in accordance with the following:
The patents and inventions policy board shall have no more than 10 members, and shall include one representative of the central administration, two from the university centers, one from the health sciences centers, one from another major research institution of the university, one from the colleges of arts and science, one from the agriculture and technology colleges, one from The Research Foundation of State University of New York, and two representatives from business and industry.
The patents and inventions policy board shall have full powers of organization.
The members of the patents and inventions policy board shall serve without extra compensation and at the pleasure of the chancellor. The normal term of appointment shall be for three years.
The patents and inventions policy board shall meet at least once annually.
The patents and inventions policy board shall advise the chancellor in the following matters:
guidelines and procedures for the implementation of these policies;
exceptions to these policies in unusual circumstances;
determining the extent of the university's interest in inventions;
determining whether or not to grant exclusive licenses or to commit the university to the future granting of exclusive licenses as a condition of sponsorship for particular research projects; and
such other matters as the chancellor may deem appropriate.
The patents and inventions policy board shall undertake continual review of these policies and advise the chancellor and the board of trustees thereto.
The patents and inventions policy board shall maintain current information concerning patent and invention activities within the university, disseminate information to the faculty of State University concerning such activities, and encourage general awareness of and interest concerning patents within the university community.
The patents and inventions policy board, through the chancellor, shall report annually to the board of trustees concerning its activities and recommendations during the preceding year.
§ 335.29 Copyright policy.
Generally the members of the staff of the university shall retain all rights to copyright and publish written works produced by them. However, in cases where persons are employed or directed within the scope of their employment to produce specific work subject to copyright, the university shall have the right to publish such work without copyright or to copyright it in its own name. The copyright will also be subject to any contractual arrangements by the university for work in the course of which the writing was done. Staff members will be expected not to allow the privilege to write and retain the right to their work to interfere with their university duties. In those cases where an author desires the help of university facilities, arrangements should be made through the administrative staff of the author's institution in advance with respect to the assistance which may be appropriately given and the equity of the university in the finished work.
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Home Top Stories £10,000 proposed for everyone under 55
£10,000 proposed for everyone under 55
What would you do with £10,000?
The government should give £10,000 to every citizen under 55, a report suggests.
The Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) said it could pave the way to everyone getting a basic state wage.
The idea sees two payments of £5,000 paid over two years, but certain state benefits and tax reliefs would be removed at the same time.
The RSA said it would compensate workers for the way jobs are changing.
The money would help to steer UK citizens through the 2020s, “as automation replaces many jobs, climate change hits and more people face balancing employment with social care”, the report said.
‘Storm clouds’
Payments would come from a British sovereign wealth fund in the form of two annual £5,000 dividends, the RSA proposes.
The payments would not be means tested, and applicants would only have to demonstrate how they intended to use the money.
Anthony Painter, director of the RSA’s Action and Research Centre, said: “The simple fact is that too many households are highly vulnerable to a shock in a decade of disruption, with storm clouds on the horizon if automation, Brexit and an ageing population are mismanaged.
“Without a real change in our thinking, neither tweaks to the welfare state nor getting people into work alone, when the link between hard work and fair pay has broken, will help working people meet the challenges ahead.”
A Government spokesperson said: “Our priority is to have a welfare system that supports those who work and cares for those who can’t, while being fair to the taxpayer.
“Providing a universal basic income would not allow for the same targeted support that is tailored to meet individual needs.”
But the RSA The report says the fund could help people: “A low-skilled worker might reduce their working hours to attain skills enabling career progression.
Media captionA pilot scheme in Finland is giving 2,000 unemployed people an income, instead of benefits
“The fund could provide the impetus to turn an entrepreneurial idea into a reality. It could be the support that enables a carer to be there for a loved one.”
The fund would be built from public debt, levies on untaxed corporate assets and investments in long term infrastructure projects, and be similar to Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund.
As the dividends would replace payments such as Child Benefit, Tax Credits and Jobseeker’s Allowance, the savings for the government could also be ploughed into the fund.
The right questions
Anyone receiving the “dividends” would not be able to claim any tax allowances, which the RSA says would act as a disincentive to wealthier earners wanting to apply for the handout.
In all, the RSA puts the cost of the scheme at £14.5bn a year if it is fully subscribed to, and a total of £462bn over 13 years, more than half of which would be paid for by government savings.
The Labour Party has said it is looking into similar arguments for a Universal Basic Income (UBI).
Jonathan Reynolds MP, Labour’s shadow Treasury minister, said: “This new report from the RSA raises the right questions about the future of work and the long-term challenges we face, including making sure automation and the changing nature of work deliver a fairer, more prosperous society.”
Scotland is considering piloting UBI schemes in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife and North Ayrshire.
The RSA report suggests that options for funding a full UBI included a tax on wealth, levies on companies’ assets, and a tax on tech firms – such as Amazon, Facebook and Apple – using or transferring people’s data.
Universal Basic Income – a work in progress
The history of UBI can be dated back to Thomas Paine’s essay, Agrarian Justice, where he proposes the idea as part of a social security system.
More recently the idea has been put into practice in limited ways. For instance, in Alaska all residents have been entitled since 1982 to a yearly cash dividend from the Alaska Permanent Fund.
Finland is half way through a two year nationwide pilot scheme, giving 2,000 unemployed Finns a monthly income of €560 (£497) which continues even if they find work.
Scotland has provided funding for four local authorities to look into the idea.
In the US one Democrat presidential nominee hopeful, Andrew Yang is proposing his version of UBI, a $1,000 a month “Freedom Dividend”.
Even so, some economists believe full UBI can’t work.
Brexit campaigner Patrick Minford from Cardiff University’s Business School said UBI is “not a workable scheme because it’s far too expensive”.
“It creates a tremendous tax, a disincentive for the average person further up the income scale who’s paying for it all.”
There are questions over how much of a social security system UBI would replace.
Would citizens still be able to claim disability allowance or help with housing?
The RSA believes that properly done UBI would help people get into work, give them an opportunity to rethink their lives and contribute to better health and wellbeing.
Others claim it would be a disincentive.
However, a report by the National Bureau of Economic Research into the Alaska Permanent Fund concluded that “it does not significantly decrease aggregate employment”.
A report by the OECD into UBI said that its effect would be hugely different depending on the circumstances of each individual and the existing tax and benefits systems.
UBI could also be ruinously expensive for governments and provide limited benefit for the poor, it said.
According to the OECD report, if the UK were to fund UBI only with money saved by abolishing the existing benefits system it would lead to higher levels of poverty.
It adds: “However, even in the case where taxes are raised significantly to pay for [UBI] it does not significantly reduce poverty.”
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Why Even Justified Criticisms Of GNU Privacy Guard Miss The Point
from the friend-in-need dept
Thu, Mar 5th 2015 12:35pm — Glyn Moody
Recently, there was something of a scare around GNU Privacy Guard (GPG), a "free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 (also known as PGP)." An article on Propublica revealed that GPG was essentially the work of one person, who was running out of money. Just at the moment when we needed properly-implemented strong crypto most, it looked like the project was on the verge of collapse. Fortunately, that same article also succeeded in raising people's awareness of the situation, and enough money was pledged as a result to secure the future of GNU Privacy Guard, at least for the immediate future.
Now GPG is under attack again, and from a surprising quarter. Moxie Marlinspike is the pseudonym of a well-known computer security researcher. You might expect him to be pretty supportive of what GPG is doing, and yet in a recent blog post he is anything but uplifted when he receives encrypted email using it:
When I receive a GPG encrypted email from a stranger, though, I immediately get the feeling that I don't want to read it. Sometimes I actually contemplate creating a filter for them so that they bypass my inbox entirely, but for now I sigh, unlock my key, start reading, and -- with a faint glimmer of hope – am typically disappointed.
Eventually I realized that when I receive a GPG encrypted email, it simply means that the email was written by someone who would voluntarily use GPG. I don't mean someone who cares about privacy, because I think we all care about privacy. There just seems to be something particular about people who try GPG and conclude that it's a realistic path to introducing private communication in their lives for casual correspondence with strangers.
Increasingly, it’s a club that I don’t want to belong to anymore.
The rest of his interesting post goes on to describe the flaws of GPG. Basically, it is extremely hard to use, not widely deployed, and has turned into impenetrable, backward-looking code -- all of which are entirely reasonable criticisms. Marlinspike concludes:
GPG isn't the thing that's going to take us to ubiquitous end to end encryption, and if it were, it'd be kind of a shame to finally get there with 1990's cryptography. If there’s any good news, it's that GPG’s minimal install base means we aren't locked in to this madness, and can start fresh with a different design philosophy. When we do, let's use GPG as a warning for our new experiments, and remember that "innovation is saying 'no' to 1000 things."
In the 1990s, I was excited about the future, and I dreamed of a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I'm still excited about the future, but I dream of a world where I can uninstall it.
Again, those are all good points. And yet for all GPG's faults, and for all its failings, it seems somewhat ungrateful to berate it in these terms. I suspect that it has saved a good many people living in countries with oppressive and brutal regimes from arrest or worse; it has doubtless helped journalists to receive crucial information they might not otherwise have been sent, and to keep their sources safe; and it certainly made Snowden's revelations possible -- at least once Glenn Greenwald finally worked out how to install it. To say that it could have been better, or that its unintuitive approach may have prevented more people from using it misses the point, which is that in its own idiosyncratic way it was there when people really needed it, and that it did the job asked of it -- and for that, we should be hugely grateful, even while hoping that something better will come along soon.
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Home Industry Moody’s, Team8 launch cyber risk joint venture
Moody’s, Team8 launch cyber risk joint venture
Ratings and analytics company Moody’s, and Team8, a cybersecurity think tank and company creation platform, have formed a joint venture to work on evaluating and assessing cyber risk for enterprises; the companies said in a news release.
The joint venture will build on Moody’s experience in developing methodologies and global standards to measure risk, together with Team8’s expertise in cybersecurity technologies.
Derek Vadala will lead the joint venture as chief executive. Mr. Vadala comes to this role after 16 years at Moody’s, where he most recently served as managing director, Global Head of Cyber Risk for Moody’s. Prior to that, he served as chief information security officer (CISO) for Moody’s.
Joining the joint venture’s board are Nadav Zafrir, co-founder and CEO of Team8; Jim Rosenthal, co-founder and CEO of BlueVoyant and the chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley until 2017; and Simon Hastilow, managing director, Global Head of Commercial at Moody’s Investors Service.
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Distinctive Song Leads Scientists To New Himalayan Bird Species
23 January 2016, 7:55 am EST By Jim Algar Tech Times
An international team of scientists has discovered a new species of bird living in northern India and China, dubbed the Himalayan forest thrust and noted for its musical song.
The researchers first suspected they'd found a new species because birds in the forests sang a much more musical tune than similar birds on the rocky Himalayan peaks.
Previously, both had been thought to be one species known as the plain-backed thrush.
Further investigation found genetic and physical differences confirming the forest thrush to be a separate, distinct species.
The high-mountain dwellers have now been renamed the alpine thrush, while the new Himalayan thrush has been given the scientific name Zoothera salimali.
"There aren't too many new birds to be found in the world," says Per Alström of Uppsala University in Sweden, lead author of a study on the new species appearing in the journal Avian Research. "So it's exciting when you find a new one."
The researchers began to suspect they were dealing with two different species when they compared the songs of the forest and mountaintop varieties.
The song of birds living at lower levels in mixed and coniferous forests was pleasingly musical, while birds in the same region but living higher up on rocky terrain above the tree line sang tunes the researchers found to be harsh, scratchy and rather unmusical.
"It was an exciting moment when the penny dropped, and we realized that the two different song types from plain-backed thrushes that we first heard in northeast India in 2009, and which were associated with different habitats at different elevations, were given by two different species," says Alström.
The suspicion of a new species was confirmed by further research comparing birds in the wild in India and China with specimens held in numerous museums around the world.
DNA analysis in particular showed the two species, forest and alpine, have been breeding separately for several million years, the researchers reported.
They may have begun as one species but they evolved differently to meet the different demands of living in the forests and on the mountain peaks, they suggest.
"The alpine thrush has longer legs and a longer tail, proportionately, than the forest bird, which I'm sure are adaptations to its habitat," says Alström, "because longer legs are more useful in open habitats than in forest."
It is rare to find a new bird species anymore, the researchers point out, and the Himalayan forest thrush is only the fourth new species identified in India since 1949.
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Attack on embassies is wrong: MP
TEHRAN - Alaeddin Boroujerdi, an Iranian lawmaker, has said that attack on foreign embassies is wrong.
“Security forces should provide embassies with security,” Alaeddin Boroujerdi, who sits on the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told ISNA in an interview published on Tuesday.
He called attacks on embassies of the UK and Saudi Arabia in Tehran “wrong” and “unusual”.
In protest over sanctions during the Ahmadinejad Administration, a number of protesters attacked British embassy in 2011.
In 2015, weeks after Iran and the 5+1 group - the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany clinched a nuclear deal, the British embassy in Iran was reopened.
Also, in January 2016, a group of protesters stormed the Saudi diplomatic missions in Tehran and Mashhad in protest to the execution of the pro-democracy cleric Nimr al-Nimr.
Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran after the incident despite the condemnation of the move by top Iranian leadership.
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Where did he come from?
The role of myth, charisma and theatricality in the origins of political power
By Alex Traub
Long before Donald Trump was the frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary, he was known in New York City as a playboy, tycoon, and clown. Trump's background has come up explicitly a number of times this campaign, most dramatically when his Republican adversary, Ted Cruz, insulted his "New York values" during a debate.
The press in India has borne stupefied witness to Trump's priapic boasting and race-baiting this year; considerably less attention, however, has been paid to the origins of Trump's power and unlikely charisma. To understand Trump, it is necessary to understand his past in New York City.
It was Donald's grandfather, Friedrich Trump, an itinerant operator of brothels, who moved to the city and started buying real estate. Friedrich's son, Fred, quietly used political connections to build the family's holdings into an empire. Donald, the scion of this line, first made news in 1973, when he and Fred were accused by the department of justice of refusing to rent apartments to African-Americans. This portentous episode didn't stop The New York Times from running a flattering profile of Donald three years later: "He dates slinky fashion models, belongs to the most elegant clubs and, at only 30 years of age, estimates that he is worth 'more than $200 million.'" Donald was in the process of scoring a major business success, securing hundreds of millions in tax abatements and loans to redevelop New York's grand old Commodore Hotel.
Now a widely recognized young man on the make, Trump launched himself on a series of wacky, narcissistic, and oddly violent business ventures. During the Trump Castle World Powerboat Championship in 1989, four boats sank, three racers broke their backs, one was concussed, and another was killed. The same year he also organized a bicycling race - named, in all seriousness, the "Tour de Trump" - in which the leaders were assaulted by other competitors and hit by a support-crew Jeep. When Trump was trying to get rid of renters from a building he hoped to tear down, he asked the city to start housing the homeless in its vacant apartments - an offer he claimed to make for entirely altruistic reasons.
For New York's gossip columnists and metro reporters, Trump made unbeatable copy. More than an entrepreneur, he was a character, an ebullient, irrepressible hustler. When Trump was asked what figures from history inspired him, he named Flo Ziegfeld, the vaudeville producer best known for his Broadway show, Ziegfeld Follies, and its chorus line of leggy dancers. Trump was self-consciously a performer in the tradition of New York showmanship.
His ambition, however, wasn't exactly as benign as that of an entertainer like Ziegfeld. Many New Yorkers still bitterly remember how Trump whipped up racial hysteria during the city's erroneous prosecution of black and Hispanic teenagers for the rape of a white woman in Central Park. At various times, Trump publicly contemplated running for mayor of New York City, governor of New York state, and president of the United States of America. The first time Trump indicated he might run for president, in 1987, the now-defunct New York humour magazine Spy greeted the prospect gleefully: "If Donald Trump runs for president, God, we promise we will never make fun of the pope again." A presidential run by this zany cretin seemed comical and hopeless.
Now the same qualities that made Trump a joke for decades - his overblown egotism, his insistent tastelessness, his transparent mendacity - have propelled him to the centre of political power. How is he suddenly being taken so seriously by so many people? This signals a fundamental change in American politics. Eight years of the Republican Party denouncing the popularly-elected American president as illegitimate, along with a Supreme Court decision allowing the country's wealthiest citizens to spend unlimited funds to influence elections, have helped foment widespread cynicism. With so many concluding that the system is rigged, Trump's snarling contempt for propriety has found its moment.
In fact, his strongest base of support may not even have voted yet. New York holds its primary today, and it is projected to be the first state Trump wins with an outright majority.
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Pink pens powerful statement on parenting while sick after canceling concert
By Julie Pennell
Everyone needs a break sometimes, and Pink is no exception.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BmALVhblDhv
The 38-year-old superstar musician recently canceled her concert in Sydney, Australia, after suffering from an upper respiratory infection and receiving medical advice that she should not perform. But when paparazzi caught her on the beach with her family, a headline alluded to her playing hooky.
“Pink’s Sydney concert cancelled as she chills in Byron Bay,” an Australian newspaper wrote next to a picture of the singer lounging in the sand with her 7-year-old daughter, Willow.
Of course not every picture tells the whole story, though.
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In an Instagram posted Thursday, Pink fired back at the paper and explained what the photo didn’t show.
“I don’t need to clear this up, but out of respect for my fans I will attempt it,” she wrote. She then explained she and her kids had already been sick twice on the Australian tour, but she was able to push through in those instances.
“This time, what these parasite paparazzi don’t show you, is two doctor visits in Byron on two consecutive days, antibiotics, steroids, Vick’s, nose spray, throat spray, more steroids, NyQuil, a screaming baby in the middle of the night, every night, while mama gives him warm baths and tells her daughter everything is fine,” she wrote.
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Pink also noted that her Byron Bay break had been scheduled since 2017 as a way to get outside the hotel and have some time with her children.
“You can think whatever you want, it's your right, but I have never taken advantage of any one in my entire life," she wrote. "I have never f---ed off while disrespecting hard working people who spend money to come see me play. I have never phoned in a single tour, I have an impeccable record for not cancelling.”
She then hit home, saying that she mothers with everything she has while handling all the rest. “I'm doing the absolute best I can, and you can believe it or not."
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Justin Timberlake came to her defense, too, in a sweet comment. "THE REALEST," he wrote. “As an artist who has had the fortune of sharing the stage twice on tour with this incomparable BADASS (once with 'NSync and once as a solo artist), I'm here to tell you that you won't find a harder working, more authentically talented and more thankful for her place on that stage and her fans than this woman."
Fans were also supportive of the singer’s decision to rest.
“You're human! They can get over it and have compassion!!!” one wrote. Another said: “Stay true to yourself and what you need to do for your family and your health. You are no good for anyone if you aren't healthy.”
The postponed Sydney show will be rescheduled, and in the meantime, we hope Pink feels better!
TODAY loves ... Pink
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TomatoInk Blog: Eco-Friendly Ink, Toner, Printing, and Related Topics > Our Contributors
You may have noticed some new names recently on our blog. We’re very happy to have a wonderful group of writers joining us as contributors to TomatoInk. Their articles will no doubt entertain, inform, and even inspire you to lead a “greener” life. Visit the blog each week to get a new perspective on sustainable living, eco-friendly travel, healthy (and delicious) food, and much more.
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Jessica Cohen is a health coach, a greener living enthusiast, and an advocate of social good. On her website, EatSleepBe.com, she provides tips for being kinder to yourself, to others, and to the planet. Additionally, Jessica enjoys consulting with like-minded companies to create site concepts, develop editorial and social media calendars, ghost write, publish press releases, and run successful outreach campaigns. You can also find her on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram at EatSleepBe.
Awanthi Vardaraj lives and writes in the port city of Chennai, in the south of India, where she runs her own small artisanal bakery and keeps a garden full of jasmine plants and herbs that she still cannot name. As a freelance writer, she mostly focuses on food, feminism, travel, mental health, and poverty. She also nurtures a deep love for the Oxford comma and the semicolon. Visit her website at www.awanthi.com and follow her on Twitter at AwanthiVardaraj.
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Study sites and methods
TC | Volume 12, issue 6
Observations and modelling of algal growth on a snowpack in north-western Greenland
Observations and modelling of algal growth
Observations and modelling of algal growth on a snowpack in north-western Greenland Observations and modelling of algal growth Yukihiko Onuma et al.
Yukihiko Onuma1, Nozomu Takeuchi2, Sota Tanaka2, Naoko Nagatsuka3, Masashi Niwano4, and Teruo Aoki5,4 Yukihiko Onuma et al. Yukihiko Onuma1, Nozomu Takeuchi2, Sota Tanaka2, Naoko Nagatsuka3, Masashi Niwano4, and Teruo Aoki5,4
1Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, 277-8574, Japan
2Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan
3National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, 190-8518, Japan
4Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, 305-0052, Japan
5Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan
Received: 13 Nov 2017 – Discussion started: 29 Nov 2017 – Revised: 24 Apr 2018 – Accepted: 12 Jun 2018 – Published: 27 Jun 2018
Snow algal bloom is a common phenomenon on melting snowpacks in polar and alpine regions and can substantially increase snow melt rates due to the effect of albedo reduction on the snow surface. In order to reproduce algal growth on the snow surface using a numerical model, temporal changes in snow algal abundance were investigated on the Qaanaaq Glacier in north-western Greenland from June to August 2014. Snow algae first appeared at the study sites in late June, which was approximately 94 h after air temperatures exceeded the melting point. Algal abundance increased exponentially after this appearance, but the increasing rate became slow after late July, and finally reached 3.5 × 107 cells m−2 in early August. We applied a logistic model to the algal growth curve and found that the algae could be reproduced with an initial cell concentration of 6.9 × 102 cells m−2, a growth rate of 0.42 d−1, and a carrying capacity of 3.5 × 107 cells m−2 on this glacier. This model has the potential to simulate algal blooms from meteorological data sets and to evaluate their impact on the melting of seasonal snowpacks and glaciers.
Onuma, Y., Takeuchi, N., Tanaka, S., Nagatsuka, N., Niwano, M., and Aoki, T.: Observations and modelling of algal growth on a snowpack in north-western Greenland, The Cryosphere, 12, 2147-2158, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2147-2018, 2018.
Snow algae are cold-tolerant, photosynthetic microbes growing on snow and ice and are commonly found on glaciers and snowfields worldwide. Snow algal blooms occur on thawing snow surfaces and change the colour of the snow to red or green (Thomas and Duval, 1995; Hoham and Duval, 2001; Takeuchi, 2013). Red snow algal blooms (usually by Chlamydomonas nivalis) commonly occur in polar and alpine snow fields (Hoham and Duval, 2001; Segawa et al., 2005; Takeuchi et al., 2006; Lutz et al., 2016; Tanaka et al., 2016; Ganey et al., 2017).
The conditions required for the growth of snow algae are the occurrence of liquid water, solar radiation, and nutrients. Snow algal cells are typically present in the liquid water film surrounding snow grains when the snow melts (Fukushima, 1963). Field observations showed that snow algae begin to grow when the air temperature is above the freezing point for several days, suggesting that algal growth requires a certain amount of water content in the snow (Pollock, 1972; Onuma et al., 2016). A field study on algal photosynthesis suggested that algal growth requires at least 1 % of incident photosynthetically active radiation in the snowpack, promoting photosynthesis and germination of algae (Curl Jr. et al., 1972). After the algae appears on the snow surface, nutrient depletion (particularly nitrates) in the snowpack can cause shifts in life cycle phases and a decrease in the growth rate (Hoham et al., 1989). Previous studies have shown that the abundance of snow algae increases as the snow melts. For example, snow algal abundance on a glacier in Alaska continued to increase during the melt season until the snowpack completely melted on the glacier surface (Takeuchi, 2013). Snow algal abundance on a seasonal snowpack in Japan increased exponentially with snowmelt until the snowpack completely melted (Onuma et al., 2016). Such temporal changes in snow algal abundance can be affected by the snow conditions, such as water content, solar radiation, and nutrient availability.
A numerical model could be utilized to reproduce the seasonal change in algal abundance on snowpacks, to understand algal growth in the snowfields on a regional or worldwide scale, and to evaluate their effects on the surface albedo and resultant melt rate. The effect of algae on surface albedo can be physically calculated using an albedo model based on algal abundance (Cook et al., 2017a, b). A temporal change in snow algal abundance could also be reproduced using a numerical model. Many models were proposed and applied to temporal changes in the abundance of photosynthetic microbes in aquatic environments such as lakes or oceans. For example, there has been a model for cyanobacteria in lakes, which can reproduce their exponential growth using their initial concentration, growth rate, and nutrient concentration (Chen et al., 2009). Additionally, a model for algae (diatoms) growth in sea ice was developed using a sea ice physical model (Pogson et al., 2011). This model can reproduce the temporal change in chlorophyll a concentration in Arctic sea ice from the initial chlorophyll a concentration, algal growth rate, and grazing rate. The exponential growth of snow algae observed on a seasonal snowpack in Japan was reproduced using a Malthusian model (Onuma et al., 2016). Although this model might be effective for the seasonal snowpacks that exist for a short period and disappear in spring or early summer, it is questionable whether the model is suitable for algae on permanent snowfields or glaciers.
The Greenland Ice Sheet, the second-largest continuous body of ice in the world, is known to be inhabited by snow algae. Several studies have reported the visible red snow caused by blooms of Cd. nivalis over the ice sheet (Lutz et al., 2014; Uetake et al., 2010; Takeuchi et al., 2014). The ice sheet is reportedly losing mass due to an increase in temperature and decrease in surface albedo during the last two decades (Rignot et al., 2008; Wientjes and Oerlemans, 2010; Box et al., 2012). Decline in surface albedo by snow and ice algal blooms can increase surface melt rates and thus is likely one of the factors to cause mass loss of the ice sheet in recent years (Yallop et al., 2012; Aoki et al., 2013; Lutz et al., 2014, 2016; Tedstone et al., 2017; Stibal et al., 2017). Observation of a glacier in south-eastern Greenland showed surface reflectance in the visible wavelengths for red snow (49 %) to be lower than that of clean snow (75 %), and that snow algal growth might lead to a positive feedback, increasing the melt rate of the glacier (Lutz et al., 2014). Quantification of snow algal abundance is important for estimating the melt rate of snow over the ice sheet. Niwano et al. (2015) demonstrated that the snow albedo and snowmelt in Greenland Ice Sheet can be simulated by a snow physical model (Niwano et al., 2012) that incorporates a physically based snow albedo model (Aoki et al., 2011). Establishment of a numerical model for algal growth possibly leads to a simulation of the snowmelt including the effect of algal growth on snow albedo by a coupled snow microbial–physical model. However, there is little information on the temporal changes in snow algal abundance on a snowpack in Greenland, and a numerical model for the snow algal growth has not been established to date.
In this study, biological and meteorological observations were conducted on the Qaanaaq Glacier located in north-western Greenland in order to quantify the temporal change in snow algal abundance and establish a numerical model for algal growth. Temporal changes in algal abundance on the snow surface were quantified at two locations on the glacier from June to August in 2014 and were fitted to a simple numerical equation. Factors affecting the parameters of the equation are discussed in terms of meteorological data, and physical and chemical snow data from the study sites.
2 Study sites and methods
Figure 1A map of the Qaanaaq ice cap in north-western Greenland, showing the location of sampling sites on the glacier.
The investigation was conducted at the Qaanaaq ice cap in north-western Greenland (Fig. 1) from June to August in 2014. The Qaanaaq ice cap, which lies on a small peninsula of north-western Greenland, covers an area of 286 km2 and has an elevation of approximately 1110 m a.s.l. (Takeuchi et al., 2014; Sugiyama et al., 2014). We selected two study sites at different elevations (sites A and B) on the Qaanaaq Glacier, which is an outlet glacier of the ice cap and is easily accessible on foot from Qaanaaq village. Site A is a snowpack located at an elevation of 551 m a.s.l. towards the middle of the glacier and is likely formed by snowdrift. Since the depth of the snowpack was deeper than that of surrounding areas, the snow persisted through much of the melt season. Site B is located at 944 m a.s.l., and was close to the equilibrium line of the glacier (Tsutaki et al., 2017). Meteorological data used in the study were collected with an automatic weather station (AWS), which was installed at Site B in 2012 by the Snow Impurity and Glacier Microbe effects on abrupt warming in the Arctic project (SIGMA) (Aoki et al., 2014). Air temperature and solar radiation were collected hourly from April to August 2014 using the AWS. Aoki et al. (2014) provided a more detailed description of the AWS. The temperature sensor and pyranometer of the AWS were placed at heights of 3.0 and 2.5 m above the snow surface. Air temperature at Site A was calculated from the air temperature collected at Site B with a temperature lapse rate, which was assumed to be −7.80 × 10−3 K m−1 (Sugiyama et al., 2014). Solar radiation at Site A was measured hourly from day 172 (21 June 2014) to 214 (2 August 2014) with a pyranometer (EKO ML-020) installed at 1.5 m above the snow surface. The measured time of the hourly meteorological data is defined as local time (LT is Greenwich Mean Time minus 2 h) in summer.
Snow pits were observed once weekly during the study period at both sites to determine vertical profiles of snow type, temperature, density, and liquid-water content. The snow temperature was measured with a thermistor sensor (CT-430WP, Custom Ltd, Tokyo, Japan). The volumetric liquid-water content in snow layers was obtained from snow density and snow permittivity, which were measured using a density sampler and dielectric probe (Denoth, 1994), respectively. Snow surface temperature was obtained from direct measurements and from calculating the observed downward and upward long-wave radiant fluxes, assuming the emissivity of the snow surface to be 0.98 (Armstrong and Brun, 2008), following the protocol of Niwano et al. (2015).
Surface snow collection and snow pit observation were carried out, simultaneously from days 162 to 214 (nine times total) at Site A and from days 168 to 215 (eight times total) at Site B. Samples were collected from one to five randomly selected surfaces (depth of 0 to 2 cm) using a stainless-steel scoop. The sampling area ranged from 100 to 900 cm2 and was recorded for each collection. Snow layers below the surface were also collected from snow pits at Site A on day 162 and Site B on day 168. The samples collected were from the surface layer (depth = 0–2 cm), the subsurface layer (depth = 2–10 cm), and the layers of every 10 cm down to the previous summer layer (depth = 150 cm for the Site A and 142 cm for the Site B). All of the samples were preserved in Whirl-Pak® bags (Nasco, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, USA). Electrical conductivity (EC) and pH for the collected samples were measured using a portable pH–conductivity meter (F-54, HORIBA, Japan) after the samples were melted in Qaanaaq village. Samples used for algal cell analysis were collected separately. These samples were melted and preserved in 3 % formalin in 30 mL clean polyethylene bottles before being transported to Chiba University, Japan, for analysis.
Algal abundance was obtained by counting cells and was represented as cell number per unit surface area of snowpacks. Water samples of 20–1000 µL were filtered through a hydrophilized PTFE membrane filter (pore size 0.45 µm, Millipore). The number of algal cells on the filter was counted two to five times for each sample using an optical microscope (BX51, OLYMPUS, Japan), and cell concentrations (cells L−1) were obtained from mean cell counts and filtered sample volumes. Cell number per unit area (cells m−2) was calculated using the cell concentration and area of sample collection. To obtain a cell volume biomass (biovolume), mean cell volumes were estimated by measuring the size of 5–50 cells for each species using a microscope and mean cell volume was obtained geometrically. Total algal volume per unit area (mL m−2) per taxon was obtained by multiplying the cell count and cell volume.
Abundance of mineral particles in snow was quantified using another set of samples collected from the snow surface. Melted samples were dried (60 ∘C, 24 h) in pre-weighed crucibles then combusted (500 ∘C, 3 h) in an electric furnace to remove organic matter. The mass of mineral particles per area (g m−2) was obtained from the combusted sample weight and sampling area, since only mineral particles remained after combustion.
3.1 Meteorological conditions
Meteorological observations on the Qaanaaq Glacier showed that air temperature was below 0 ∘C from April through most of June and increased above 0 ∘C from late June through early August (Fig. 2a). The daily mean air temperature at Site B ranged from −25.8 to −11.1 ∘C in April and from −19.7 to −7.9 ∘C in May. It first exceeded 0 ∘C in the daytime on day 154 (3 June 2014) and remained above 0 ∘C from late June to early August. This air temperature record indicates that snowmelt occurred continuously from late June to August at the study sites.
Figure 2Meteorological conditions at sites A and B from 1 April to 1 September 2014. (a) Daily mean air temperature, (b) solar radiation.
Solar radiation gradually increased from April to mid-July, before decreasing (Fig. 2b). At the location of the Qaanaaq Glacier, the sun never set from day 108 (18 April 2014) to day 241 (29 August 2014). Monthly mean solar radiation values at Site B for April, May, June, and July were 165, 276, 296, and 244 W m−2. The daily mean solar radiation in July ranged from 71 to 375 W m−2 (mean: 218 W m−2) and from 90 to 383 W m−2 (mean: 244 W m−2) at sites A and B, indicating that solar radiation did not significantly vary among sites.
3.2 Physical and chemical conditions of surface snow
Figure 3Meteorological and physical conditions of surface snow at Site A from 1 June to 1 September 2014. (a) Mean daily air temperature, (b) mean daily snow surface temperature calculated from observed downward and upward long-wave radiant fluxes, (c) relative snow surface level at the site (0 cm on day 162), (d) snow density, (e) volumetric liquid-water content of snow, and (f) abundance of mineral particles. Melt period in (b) is defined as the period from the first day to the last day on which mean daily snow surface temperature was 0 ∘C from 1 June to 1 September 2014. Standard deviation shown by error bars.
Figure 4Meteorological and physical conditions on surface snow at Site B from 1 June to 1 September 2014. (a) Mean daily air temperature, (b) mean daily snow surface temperature calculated from observed downward and upward long-wave radiant fluxes, (c) relative snow surface level at the site (0 cm on day 168), (d) snow density, (e) volumetric liquid-water content of snow, (f) abundance of mineral particles. Melt period in (b) is defined as the period from the first day to the last day when the daily mean snow surface temperature was 0 ∘C from 1 June to 1 September 2014. Standard deviation shown by error bars.
Snow observations showed that the surface snow was consistently wet from late June to early August at both sites (Figs. 3 and 4). When the observation was started on day 168 (17 June 2014), the surface snow at Site B was fresh dry snow without surface melt. This snow became granular on day 176, implying that the snow surface began to melt. Surface snow density was 386 kg m−3 on day 168 and gradually increased until day 215 (3 August 2014, 489 kg m−3). The mean snow grain size was 0.3 mm on day 168, 0.9 mm on day 181, and varied between 0.7 and 0.9 mm until day 215. Snow surface level decreased by 121 cm during the study period (47 days). Surface snow temperature was –0.2 ∘C on day 168 and 0 ∘C from days 176 to 215, except on day 197 (−0.1 ∘C). Hourly surface snow temperature was calculated from long-wave radiation and showed that the temperature was above 0 ∘C for 885 h of 1129 h during the study period. The volumetric liquid-water content of surface snow was 6.3 % on day 181 and varied between 3.8 and 4.9 % until day 215. Changes in snow properties were similar between sites. For example, the surface snow of Site A was granular and the surface snow temperature was 0 ∘C after day 179. The results indicate that the snowpacks at both sites melted continuously from late June until early August.
The mass of mineral particles in surface snow gradually increased from June to early August at both sites, and it was consistently greater at the lower site (Site A) than at the higher site (Site B) (Figs. 3 and 4). The mineral abundance at Site B was 3.0 × 10−3 g m−2 on day 176 and gradually increased to 7.6 ± 3.0 × 10−1 g m−2 (mean ± SD) until day 215. The abundance at Site A was 1.4 g m−2 on day 179 and gradually increased to 6.6 ± 1.9 g m−2 until day 214. A statistical test demonstrated that the temporal changes in mineral abundance were significant at both sites (one-way ANOVA, Site B: F=4.95, P=0.02<0.05; Site A: F=2.74, P=0.004<0.01). The comparison of the mineral abundance in August between sites A and B showed that their difference was statistically significant (6.6 ± 1.9 vs. 7.6 ± 3.0 × 10−1 g m−2; Student's t test, t=4.10, P=0.009<0.01).
The EC and pH of surface snow did not show seasonal trends or differences between the sites. The EC ranged from 1.5 to 4.0 µS cm−1 (mean: 2.7 µS cm−1) and from 0.4 to 3.2 µS cm−1 (mean: 2.4 µS cm−1) at sites A and B. The pH ranged from 5.5 to 6.2 (mean: 5.9) and from 5.3 to 6.1 (mean: 5.8) at sites A and B. There was no significant difference in EC or pH between sites in late June (Student's t test, EC: t=2.47, P=0.13>0.05; pH: t=2.32, P=0.15>0.05). The EC and pH in July and August did not significantly vary among sites.
3.3 Snow algae on snow surface
Figure 5Photograph of snow algal cells observed on the snow surface at Site A. An oval red cell with secondary carotenoids, most likely mature spores of Cd. nivalis, which is the dominant species at both sites. Scale bar = 20 µm.
Microscopic observation revealed that the red spherical algal cells were dominant at both study sites. Algal cells (Fig. 5) contained a reddish-orange and/or green pigment and were 21.3 ± 2.3 µm in diameter. The cell volume biomass of this alga accounted for over 95 % of the total algal biomass at both study sites. This alga was likely Chlamydomonas (C.) nivalis since the shape, size, and pigmentation (Fig. 5) corresponded with the taxon observed previously in 2007 and 2012 on this glacier (Uetake et al., 2010; Takeuchi et al., 2014).
The other cell types were present in the samples in trace amounts. One was spherical in shape with an orange or green pigment, and its cell size was smaller (9.0 ± 2.2 µm) than the previously described algae. Another cell was also spherical but with pale blue-green pigments and was much smaller in size (4.6 ± 1.2 µm). These types of algal cells were likely the undefined alga and Chroococcaceae cyanobacterium reported by Uetake et al. (2010).
3.4 Temporal changes in algal cell concentration of surface snow
Figure 6Temporal changes in algal abundance on snow surface at (a) Site A and (b) Site B. Melt periods in (a) and (b) are indicated in Figs. 3b and 4b. Standard deviation shown by error bars.
Microscopic analysis revealed that the algal cells appeared on the surface snow in late June and gradually increased until late July (Fig. 6). Algal abundance was 7.4 cells m−2 at Site B when the algae first appeared on day 181 and then increased to 5.0 × 105 cells m−2 until day 215, although its abundance decreased occasionally on days 190 and 197 (Fig. 6b). The algal cells at Site A first appeared on day 179 (3.1 × 103 cells m−2), then their abundance exponentially increased until day 201 (2.2 × 107 cells m−2) (Fig. 6a). Temporal changes in algal abundance were significant at both sites (one-way ANOVA, Site A: F=2.45, P=0.006<0.01; Site B: F=2.91, P=5.9 × 10-5<0.01). The snow pit samples collected before the appearance of the algae (on days 162 at Site A and 168 at Site B) contained no algal cells in all of the snow layers down to the last summer surface.
The algal abundances on the snow surface at Site B continued increasing until early August, whereas the abundances at Site A did not significantly increase between days 201 to 214 (Fig. 6). The mean algal abundance at Site A was 2.2 × 107 cells m−2 on day 201 and 3.5 × 107 cells m−2 on day 214. The algal abundance on day 201 was 637 times that of day 195; however, algal abundance on day 214 was only 1.6 times that of day 201. The temporal change in algal abundance at Site A was not significant between days 201 and 214 (one-way ANOVA, F=4.56, P=0.26>0.01).
4.1 Origin of snow algae and their growth condition on the Qaanaaq Glacier
The red snow phenomenon observed on the Qaanaaq Glacier is likely to occur every summer according to previous studies on the glacier (Uetake et al., 2010; Takeuchi et al., 2014). Additionally, the species causing this phenomenon are likely the same as those typically occurring in Arctic snowfields. The dominant algal cell, Cd. nivalis, has been widely reported in Arctic snowfields (Spijkerman et al., 2012; Takeuchi, 2013; Hisakawa et al., 2015; Lutz et al., 2016; Tanaka et al., 2016).
The red algal cells appear to have originated from windblown algal spores in the atmosphere, but they are not likely from the remaining snow of the previous melt season. Algae growing on the snow surface are usually derived from spores transported by wind or animals from distant places (up to hundreds or kilometres) or from motile cells that migrated from the lower layers of the snowpack (Müller et al., 2001; Remias, 2012). The migration of motile cells in the snowpack requires solar radiation as well as liquid water (Hoham, 1980). However, photosynthetically active radiation can only penetrate to a depth of 1 m in wet snowpacks (Curl Jr. et al., 1972). When snow algae appeared on the snow surface at the study sites, the previous summer surface was located deeper than 1 m from the present surface (229 and 110 cm at sites A and B, respectively). The depth appeared to be too great for these cells to migrate to the surface. Furthermore, there was superimposed ice over the last summer surface in the snowpack at Site B when the algae appeared (Aoki et al., 2014). The superimposed ice layers seem to block algal migration to the surface. The lack of algal cells in the snow pit samples also suggest that algal cells are not derived from the lower snow layers. Therefore, the algal cells are unlikely to have originated from beneath the snow. Alternatively, algal cells might have been transported from the ground surface surrounding the glacier or from distant sources atmosphere. Previous studies reported that mineral dust on glaciers in north-western and south-western Greenland is mainly supplied from local ground surfaces (e.g. moraine near the glacier) rather than the distant areas (Nagatsuka et al., 2014, 2016). Therefore, the algal spores, which were washed out from the glacier and stayed on the ground, may be supplied with dust around the glacier by wind.
Meteorological records suggest that the initiation of algal growth requires the air temperature to remain above 0 ∘C for a certain period of time after the previous snowfall. The snow algae at both sites A and B appeared two days apart. Prior to algal appearances, the hourly air temperature remained above 0 ∘C for 94 h from day 175 at Site A and for 136 h from day 176 at Site B; there was no snowfall during this time at either site. The period from the last snowfall appears to be important in initiating snow algal growth, as fresh snow coverage inhibits photosynthesis of the snow algae under the snow. Additionally, snowmelt is required for the initiation of algal growth (Fukushima, 1963; Onuma et al., 2016). Snow algae on a snowpack in Japan has been reported to appear when air temperatures exceed 0 ∘C for 24 h, which is likely the minimum requirement for initiating snow algal growth (Onuma et al., 2016). The duration was longer in this study than that which was observed in Japan. The longer duration may be due to a difference in algal species or weather conditions on this glacier. These results suggest that continuous melting for a minimum of 94 h is required for the initiation of algal growth on the Qaanaaq Glacier, although further studies are necessary to determine the snow physical conditions for the initiation.
4.2 Approximation of the algal growth curve with a numerical model
In order to reproduce the observed algal growth with a numerical equation, we applied a logistic model that utilizes a general differential equation of microbial growth to the observed algal growth curve. An increase in microbial cells can simply be expressed by a differential equation known as the Malthusian model, which is defined by an initial cell concentration and algal growth rate (Lavoie et al., 2005). The Malthusian model is based on the assumptions that microbial abundance increases by cell division in all present cells at a constant rate, so that there is no addition or removal of cells in the habitat, and that light, nutrients, and habitable space are unlimited. According to this model, the microbial growth curve is calculated as follows (Cui and Lawson, 1982):
(1)X=X0eμ(t-t0),
where X and X0 are population densities of microbes at t and t0, respectively, and μ is the growth rate of microbes in t−1. The Malthusian model has been applied to observational microbial abundances in sea ice (Lavoie et al., 2005) and in snowfield (Onuma et al., 2016). However, the algal abundance at Site A did not significantly increase after late July, despite the air temperature remaining above 0 ∘C and a lack of snowfall, indicating that the Malthusian model could not represent the algal growth curve on the surface snow of the Qaanaaq Glacier. The decreased growth rate observed on the glacier suggests that algal abundance has a limited capacity in this habitat. A logistic model is a microbial growth equation with a carrying capacity, and thus could represent the algal growth curve observed in this study. The temporal change of the logistic model is represented as follows (Cui and Lawson, 1982):
(2)X=K1+K-X0X0eμt0-t,t=d-df,
where K is the carrying capacity of algae in the snow surface (depth = 2 cm) and t0 is the day of the first appearance of algae on the snow surface. Since snow algae can grow only on the melting snow surface, we assumed that algal growth was interrupted when snow surface temperature was below 0 ∘C. Thus, t represents the number of days during which the mean temperature was above 0 ∘C. This equation was fitted to the observational algal cell concentrations at sites A and B through Poisson regression. The observational data used are from the day of algal appearance (days 179 at Site A and 181 at Site B, t0) through the last day of the study period (days 214 at Site A and 215 at Site B, tmax). This regression is based on the assumption that there is no inflow or outflow of algal cells on the snow surface. To fit Poisson regression to the observed algal cell concentrations, carrying capacity was assumed to be 3.5 × 107 cells m−2 at both sites based on the observed maximum concentration of algal cells (day 214 at Site A). Although it is uncertain whether the algal concentration at Site A was greatest on day 214 in the summer of 2014, the carrying capacity was likely around 3.5×107 cells m−2 since the cell concentrations hardly increased from day 201 to 214 despite air temperatures remaining above 0 ∘C. In contrast, the algal cell concentration at Site B continued to increase significantly until day 215, suggesting that it did not reach the level of the carrying capacity at this site. The cell concentration would increase further the day after because the snow surface temperature calculated at Site B remained above 0 ∘C for a week. Although the carrying capacity possibly varies on different snow surfaces, it was assumed to be the same at Site A and B in this study since they are on the same glacier.
No inflow of algal cells on the snow surface was assumed for this calculation because wind delivery of algal cells appeared to be smaller compared with the abundance during the growth period. The initial concentration of algae on the surface (3.1 × 103 cells m−2 on day 179 at Site A and 7.4 cells m−2 on day 181 at Site B), which is probably equivalent to the algal cells of the wind delivery, was substantially smaller than the final concentration (3.5 × 107 cells m−2 on day 214 at Site A and 5.0×105 cells m−2 on day 215 at Site B). Outcropping algal cells from the subsurface snow also appear to be insignificant because no algal cells were detected in all of the snow layers below the surface. The outflow of algal cells by meltwater is also likely to be too insignificant to affect the algal cell abundance on the snow surface since the algal cell concentration kept increasing during the study period.
Table 1List of the parameters of a logistic model of snow algal growth obtained from data from each study site.
Figure 7Temporal changes in snow temperature and algal abundance on the surface at Site A. (a) Mean daily snow surface temperature, (b) observed and calculated algal abundance, and (c) enlargement of the observed and calculated algal abundance between 0 and 1.0 × 106 cells m−2. Surface snow temperature was calculated from observed downward and upward long-wave radiant fluxes. Solid marks indicate observed algal abundance. Solid lines indicate algal abundance calculated from regression by logistic model. Standard deviation shown by error bars.
Figure 8Temporal changes in snow temperature and algal abundance on surface snow at Site B. (a) Mean daily snow surface temperature, (b) observed and calculated algal abundance, and (c) enlargement of the observed and calculated algal abundance between 0 and 1.0 × 106 cells m−2. Surface snow temperature was calculated from observed downward and upward long-wave radiant fluxes. Solid marks indicate observed algal abundance. Solid lines indicate algal abundance calculated from regression by the logistic model. Standard deviation shown by error bars.
Fitting the data to the model showed that the coefficients of determination in the regressions (R2) were 0.64 and 0.96 at sites A and B, respectively, suggesting that the algal growth curve was reproduced well with the equation (Table 1, Figs. 7 and 8). However, the confidence levels cannot be used to calculate the regression curve because the standard deviations for the observed algal cell concentration increased over time. Therefore, the uncertainty in the calculated algal abundance appears to be larger late in the melt season. The decline of algal cell concentration observed from days 201 to 208 at Site A was not reproduced in the calculated growth curve. This is likely the reason for the lower R2 value at Site A. However, the calculated cell concentration (3.4 × 107 cells m−2) was consistent with the observed abundance (3.5 × 107 cells m−2) on day 214, which was the day when algal cell concentration on surface snow was greatest during the observational period; this suggests that the model can accurately reproduce the cell abundance with the order of magnitude and the time at which algal cell concentration reached the carrying capacity.
Table 2List of maximum algal cell concentrations of red algal bloom reported from various snow fields across the world. Maximum algal cell concentrations per area (cells m−2) were obtained by calculation from reported maximum algal cell concentrations per volume (cells mL−1) assuming the snow density of granular snow to be 500 kg m−3 and the depth of collected samples to be 0.02 m.
4.3 Factors affecting parameters of algal growth model
The growth rates (μ) obtained from the regression of the algal growth curve did not significantly differ between the two sites, whereas the initial cell concentration (X0) at the lower site was 100 times greater than that of the higher site (Table 1).
The difference in initial cell concentration (X0) between the two sites was likely attributed to the abundance of initial algal spores supplied from the atmosphere. The initial cell concentration observed at sites A and B were 6.9 × 102 and 6.3 cells m−2, and the abundance of mineral particles on the snow surface was also significantly greater at Site A (1.4 g m−2) than at Site B (7.0 × 10−3 g m−2, Table 1). The sources of mineral particles on the Qaanaaq Glacier were mostly from local sediments, such as soil and moraine near the glacier (Nagatsuka et al., 2014). Therefore, the initial algal spores on surface snow are likely supplied with mineral particles by wind from the surrounding ground surface. There is little information on the abundance of initial algal spores on the snow surface. An estimation of initial algal concentrations from mineral particle abundance could be applied to this model in the other glaciers or snowfields since the abundance of mineral particles is widely available by observation, the surface mass balance model on the Greenland Ice Sheet (Goelles et al., 2015), and atmospheric circulation models (Ginoux et al., 2001).
The growth rates (μ) obtained from the sites were similar, suggesting that growth rates on the glacier are constant. The growth rates were 0.39 and 0.42 d−1 at sites A and B, respectively (Table 1). Although solar radiation might affect algal photosynthesis and thus their growth rate on the snowpack, the effect is unclear since there was no significant difference in the July solar radiation among the two sites (218 vs. 244 W m−2 for sites A and B, respectively; Student's t test, t=-0.99, P=0.32>0.05). According to the measurement of the growth rate of isolated snow algae, Chloromonas nivalis in the culture, it was 0.6 d−1 in 18 ∘C water (Leya et al., 2009), which is significantly greater than the growth rate of 0.39–0.42 d−1 in the present study (Table 1). The lower growth rate in our study is likely due to the lower temperature of the algal habitat compared to the culture conditions, as growth rate of fresh water algae is dependent on water temperature (Eppley, 1972). The growth rate of snow algae may also vary among algal species, although further study is necessary.
The carrying capacity of snow algae may be determined by nutrient availability in the snowpack. The carrying capacity was estimated to be 3.5 × 107 cells m−2 in this study, based on the observed growth curve (Table 1). Although there are no observational data on the carrying capacity of snow algae, it could be represented by the cell concentration of snow algal bloom reported late in the melt season in previous studies. Cell concentrations of snow algal blooms reported previously in various geographical locations ranged from 5.1 × 107 to 7.5 × 109 cells m−2 (Table 2), suggesting that carrying capacity varies among sites and might be determined by environmental conditions. There are two possible factors affecting carrying capacity: (1) the reduction in physical space available for microbial growth (i.e. the volume of liquid melt water, McKindsey et al., 2006) and (2) the exhaustion of resources for the algae on the snow surface (Cui and Lawson, 1982). The maximum algal cell volume on surface snow (depth = 2 cm) at Site A (day 214) was substantially smaller compared to the total volume of liquid water in the surface snow obtained from the water content (0.19 mL m−2 vs. 500 mL m−2); this indicates that the physical space for algal growth in the habitat is not a factor affecting carrying capacity in this study. Nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus are essential for algal growth and are usually supplied from the atmosphere to the snow surface as aerosols. Phosphorus supplied that is carried by wind to glaciers in the form of phosphate minerals easily becomes a limiting factor for algal growth compared to nitrogen, as the concentration of phosphorus was less than that of nitrogen in glaciers (Stibal et al., 2008). The addition of nutrients from outside likely increases snow algal abundance in the snowpacks reported by Ganey et al. (2017). Therefore, the carrying capacity may be determined by approximation using the relationship between observational abundance of algal cells and mineral dust on the snow surface, although further study is necessary to substantiate this claim.
The temporal changes in snow algal abundance on snowpacks of the Qaanaaq Glacier in north-western Greenland were studied. Spherical algal cells filled with red pigment, which are likely Cd. nivalis, were dominant on the snowpack. The algal cells first appeared on the snow surface in late June when the snow had melted and the air temperature remained above 0 ∘C for approximately 94 h. Algal abundance increased exponentially for a month, and then the growth rate decreased mid-July, even though the air temperatures remained above 0 ∘C and no snowfall occurred. A logistic model was applied to the observed algal growth curves to reproduce the abundance numerically using three parameters: the initial cell concentration (X0), growth rate (μ), and carrying capacity (K). The growth curves were reproduced with coefficients of determination (R2) of 0.64 and 0.96 at the lower and higher sites. Our observational results suggest that the model parameters can be determined using the environmental conditions (physical and chemical snow properties and meteorological conditions) of the glacier; thus this logistic model has the potential to reproduce the snow algae on glaciers or ice sheets in Greenland, although further studies are necessary to determine the three parameters of the model. The parameters determined in this study were based on the observation of a single glacier and season. More observation data on the algal seasonal growth could reduce the uncertainty in the model. In order to validate and calibrate the model parameters in more extensive areas of the glacier or the ice sheet, satellite images could be useful as a recent study successfully quantified the red algal abundance on an ice field in Alaska (Ganey et al., 2017). Furthermore, it is important to understand the life cycle of snow algae including the process of atmospheric transportation of the algal spores and effect of nutrient dynamics within the surface snow. Our results demonstrate that a simple numerical model could simulate the temporal variation in algal abundance on snow surface on a Greenland glacier. In future, coupling this algal model with a regional climate model in Greenland, such as the model proposed by Niwano et al. (2018), would enable us to estimate snowmelt regarding the effect of algal bloom. In addition, the model would be useful for understanding the algal life cycle on the ice sheet.
All of the observation and model output data presented in this study are available upon request to the corresponding author (Yukihiko Onuma, onuma@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp).
YO and NT designed the study and wrote the paper. YO, ST and NN collected snow samples and observed snow physical properties. YO and ST analyzed the collected data. MN and TA prepared the SIGMA AWS data and provided technical support.
We would thank to the filed campaign members of the SIGMA (Snow Impurity and Glacial Microbe effects on abrupt warming in the Arctic) project and GRENE (the Green Network of Excellence) Arctic Climate Change Research project in Greenland in 2014. We also thank two anonymous reviewers and an editor (Marco Tedesco) for helpful suggestions that greatly improved this manuscript. This study was supported in part by Grant-in-Aids (23221004, 26247078, 26241020, 16H01772).
Edited by: Marco Tedesco
Reviewed by: two anonymous referees
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Snow algal bloom can substantially increase melt rates of the snow due to the effect of albedo reduction on the snow surface. In this study, the temporal changes in algal abundance on the snowpacks of Greenland Glacier were studied in order to reproduce snow algal growth using a numerical model. Our study demonstrates that a simple numerical model could simulate the temporal variation in snow algal abundance on the glacier throughout the summer season.
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George Gershwin Alone
The Colonial Theatre, Berkshires
This celebrated one-man play features acclaimed actor, playwright, and accomplished pianist Hershey Felder rendering an intimate portrait of George Gershwin's personal life and artistic genius. Widely regarded as the man who brought jazz into the concert hall, Gershwin changed the musical landscape forever. Packed with Gershwin's legendary songbook, George Gershwin Alone features delightful classics such as "I Got Rhythm," "Someone to Watch Over Me," songs from Porgy and Bess and An American in Paris, and a complete performance of "Rhapsody in Blue." Directed by Joel Zwick (Broadway: George Gershwin Alone, Dance With Me; Film: My Big Fat Greek Wedding; TV: Laverne & Shirley, Full House, Perfect Strangers, Family Matters).
Dates:Opening Night: August 24, 2019
Final Performance: August 31, 2019
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Colorado Judge Kicks the Decision on Fox News' Jana Winter Further Down the Road
After a day full of criticism in the media, both of the situation and the coverage, Colorado district court Judge Carlos Samour Jr. decided to delay making a decision that would force Fox News reporter Jana Winter to reveal her anonymous sources or face jail time.
After a day full of criticism in the media, both of the situation and the coverage, Colorado district court Judge Carlos Samour Jr. decided to delay making a decision that would force Fox News reporter Jana Winter to reveal her anonymous sources or face jail time. Samour submitted a decision late Monday evening saying the time was not "ripe" for him to make a decision as to whether or not Winter should have to testify in the James Holmes trial.
Winters is waiting for Samour to make a decision that could land her in jail. Last July, Winter reported Colorado shooter James Holmes allegedly sent a notebook that was "full of details about how he was going to kill people" to his psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton, citing law enforcement sources. The judge who was presiding the case, William Sylvester, wasn't happy with this development. He had ordered gag orders on prosecutors, the defense, and police from commenting on the case in public. So when Winter's report came out, the defense and Sylvester wanted to know who her sources were. A number of officers involved in the discovery of the notebook were questioned already but none of them admitted to telling Winter about the notebook. Sylvester has since stepped down from the case and been replaced with Samour, but that doesn't mean much for Winter's fate. She still may be subpoenaed to reveal the source of her story.
Samour was scheduled to make a decision about the case on Wednesday when the Holmes case is scheduled to have its next day in court. An Aurora detective will be questioned and the defense are hoping that will help them figure out who leaked the details notebook. "If that questioning fails to turn up leads on the leak, then Samour could order the reporter, Jana Winter, to testify. If she refuses, she could face up to six months in jail for contempt of court," the Denver Post reported last week.
That April court hearing will go ahead as scheduled, but Samour won't decide whether or not Winter will have to testify until he decides whether the notebook will be submitted as evidence. And that decision depends on the direction the defense decides to take their case, Samour writes:
Accordingly, the Court defers on the merits of Winter's motion to quash and the defendant'smotion for sanctions until the Court determines whether the contents of the notebook seized on July 23 are admissible. The Court notes that the notebook's admissibility depends on whether it is protected by the physician-patient privilege or the psychotherapist-patient privilege, an issue that was previously deferred by agreement of the parties until the defendant decides whether he will attempt to enter a not guilty by reason of insanity plea or to introduce expert evidence of his mental condition.
There's no indication when, exactly, we'll know where this will go. Samour had previously described his decision as presenting Winter with a "Hobson’s Choice." She can reveal her source and potentially ruin her career as an investigative reporter, or she can keep mum like she plans to and serve time in jail. The legalese is a bit more complicated than that, of course. Colorado has a shield law that protects reporters from being jailed for refusing to name sources. There are exceptions, though: should the identity of the source not be obtained by other means, or the information is ruled "directly relevant" to the case, or if the judge decides obtaining the information is more important than the freedom of the press, a reporter can be forced the testify.
Atlantic Wire contributor Sara Morrison spoke to Winter's lawyer, Dori Ann Hanswirth, for the Columbia Journalism Review. Hanswirth says the defense hasn't "really articulated exactly what Jana’s knowledge is relevant to." But the notebook could have major implications down the road for the defense team, should it be admitted as evidence, Morrison explains:
Should Holmes decide to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, the notebook, which is currently sealed and in the court’s possession, could be admitted into evidence, but, again, it’s not clear how knowing who told Winter about its existence would make a difference. More likely, the defense would use any proof that law enforcement officials acted improperly as grounds for appeal should Holmes be convicted.
Winter's story captivated a day's worth of press coverage in certain places on the web Monday, particularly because of how little coverage it was receiving in the quote-unquote "mainstream media." Before the weekend, the only outlet really covering the story was Winter's employer, Fox News. The Denver Post would occasionally provide updates, but ultimately the story of the journalist potentially facing jail time wasn't getting the amount of coverage in the major papers that one might expect. Some were saying out loud that it wasn't necessary a liberal media bias, but that it was because of the accumulated disdain for Winter's employer, Fox News.
"If she worked for mainstream newspapers or CNN, I think the case would have been covered," Judith Miller told Buzzfeed's Hunter Schwarz. "There's a certain reluctance because it's Fox News." Miller once did 85 days behind bars for refusing to give up a source for a 2005 New York Times story. She's now a Fox News contributor. Miller says people were very supportive of me because I was with The New York Times," at the time of her conviction. But the calls of media bias against Fox weren't only coming from inside the Ailes' fortress. A Colorado based CNN reporter, Jim Spellman, got in on the action:
Observation: If @janawinter ,who may go to jail to protect sources, worked for @nytimes instead of @foxnews the case would be huge.
— jim spellman (@jimspellmancnn) April 7, 2013
And so did Gawker's Jon Cook, of all people. He had previously dealt with Winter over a story she reported about Gawker. He had nothing but nice things to say about her reporting and nothing but nasty things to say about the lack of coverage Winter was getting from the major papers:
Even when her bosses dispatched her to participate in a calculated hit on Gawker in response to our provocations, she did so fairly and responsibly. The prospect that she may go to jail for doing her job is an outrage. The fact that she has thus far been hung out to dry by a press corps normally quick to cry foul is a direct consequence of the fact that she, and many of her colleagues, have been systematically exploited by Roger Ailes as human shields in their lengthy war on the practice of newsgathering.
Forbes' Rich Ungar chimed in on the matter, too. For him, this is a matter of principle. If the media doesn't defend Winter and she ends up going to jail, it's going to set a terrible precedent and no editor will be allowed to feel bad when one of their reporters is placed in a similar situation:
None of you should be surprised if your lack of support for one of your own —and Jana Winter is one of your own—comes back to bite you in the nose sometime in the future when it is your reporter facing a few months in the pokey.
In the mean time, Winter's story has been picked up in plenty of other places: Politico, Poynter, and Salon, among others. In the mean time, we have to wait for the defense to choose their strategy to decide Winter's fate. We'll keep checking The New York Times to see when someone over there weighs in, too.
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If you want to experience the bustling New York City of movies and postcards, look no further than Midtown East. Home to countless Gotham landmarks, world-class restaurants and shopping, and architectural points of interest—from glistening Art Deco skyscrapers to towering Tudor-style apartments—the neighborhood has plenty for visitors to see, eat, and do without traveling too far. The area doesn’t just attract tourists either: prominent American companies like Bloomberg, Capital One, and Pfizer have set up their headquarters in the neighborhood. Then there’s the United Nations, which sits a hop skip away from The Benjamin, and plays host to some of the world’s most important diplomats.
By night, the neighborhood quiets down considerably, offering dining options that range from relaxed to refined. Whether you’re looking for a classic New York City Irish pub or a swanky club and lounge, you’ll find something worthwhile in Midtown East. Here, check out Midtown East’s best bars, restaurants, shopping, and attractions.
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Serena Williams Opens Up About ‘Postpartum Emotions’ in Instagram Post
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
Serena Williams. Photo: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
In a post shared to Instagram, Serena Williams was candid about her struggles as a new mother. She wrote: “Last week was not easy for me. Not only was I accepting some tough personal stuff, but I just was in a funk. Mostly, I felt like I was not a good mom.”
She went on to explain that she was reading up on postpartum emotions, and that it could take up to three years to process if not addressed properly. Williams has been open about sharing her life as a new mother with the world. In January, she revealed that she suffered complications while giving birth to Olympia, in an interview with Vogue.
Last week was not easy for me. Not only was I accepting some tough personal stuff, but I just was in a funk. Mostly, I felt like I was not a good mom. I read several articles that said postpartum emotions can last up to 3 years if not dealt with. I like communication best. Talking things through with my mom, my sisters, my friends let me know that my feelings are totally normal. It’s totally normal to feel like I’m not doing enough for my baby. We have all been there. I work a lot, I train, and I’m trying to be the best athlete I can be. However, that means although I have been with her every day of her life, I’m not around as much as I would like to be. Most of you moms deal with the same thing. Whether stay-at-home or working, finding that balance with kids is a true art. You are the true heroes. I’m here to say: if you are having a rough day or week--it’s ok--I am, too!!! There’s always tomm!
A post shared by Serena Williams (@serenawilliams) on Aug 6, 2018 at 3:24pm PDT
“It’s totally normal to feel like I’m not doing enough for my baby,” the tennis champion continued. “We have all been there. I work a lot, I train, and I’m trying to be the best athlete I can be.”
Williams also addressed other mothers who work to find the balance between raising children and the other obligations in their lives. “Whether stay-at-home or working, finding that balance with kids is a true art. You are the true heroes.”
She ended the post with a reminder. “If you are having a rough day or week — it’s ok — I am, too!!!”
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By TK Kelly August 6, 2018 View all posts (58)
Over the years, Saturday Night Live sketches have provided us with some of the funniest and most memorable characters in TV history. In short, punchy bits, certain characters manage to really stand out and stick with the audience enough to warrant a recurring bit, thus the creation of SNL movies.
Once in a while, they become popular enough that Lorne Michaels will greenlight a feature film and send the characters onto the big screen. While they don’t all necessarily work (Sorry, Stuart Saves His Family), some of them actually turned out to be pretty damn funny SNL movies.
These are the top five movies based on SNL sketches.
5.) The Ladies’ Man (2000)
This flick starring Tim Meadows as smooth talking (except for the lisp), late-night radio host Leon Phelps didn’t do much in the box office and was completely panned by critics, but if you give it a watch we promise it will give you some solid laughs.
Leon Phelps is a sex crazed sex therapist and radio host who begins a journey to tracing back his previous conquests to find a mystery woman who leaves him an enticing note. In the meantime, a group of men whose girlfriends and wives have been seduced by Leon in the past, are pursuing Leon.
Leon is a bit of a one-note character, but this film is sneaky funny and definitely underrated. Plus, we say if a film features Will Ferrell donning a singlet and oiling up to legitimately Olympic-style wrestle with Tim Meadows, it’s at least worth giving a shot. Unfortunately, the movie earned around $14 million against a reported $24 million budget.
Leon – “I have made love to many fine ladies, from the lowliest bus station skank, to the classiest, most sophisticated, educated, debutant, high society bus station skank.”
4.) Coneheads (1993)
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“They’re aliens with giant, cylindrical heads and they talk funny.” Not exactly the most reassuring film pitch and not exactly SNL’s finest film, but definitely a good one nonetheless. The movie features Dan Akroyd and Jane Curtin, the parents of a family of aliens living in the suburbs.
There are some classic scenes, like the one between the youngest Conehead, Connie, and Chris Farley who plays a mechanic and her love interest, when she takes down a sub sandwich in one bite, and Jane Curtain’s Prymatt Conehead using her mouth as a vacuum bag. Overall, it’s just a fun film with a few really funny moments.
Despite cameos from a dozen of notable comedians, the film failed to eanr back its budget and was disliked by most critics.
Beldar – “Take my car. Its reinforced alloy superstructure is far superior to that of your broken down, rusted out shit box.”
3.) MacGruber (2010)
Based on a short Will Forte sketch where a MacGuyver-esque hero is never able to diffuse the bomb before it explodes, this movie didn’t exactly blow up the box office, but you have absolutely got to check it out.
MacGruber went from sketch to Super Bowl commercial to feature film and now it’s got a cult following.
The character names alone are worth at least giving it a chance: Vicki St. Elmo, Lt. Dixon Piper, Dieter Von Cunth… that’s just high-quality writing. Oh and also there are scenes where Will Forte blows up a van full of professional wrestlers and has vigorous sex with an imaginary vision of his dead wife. It’s not high brow, but it’s just plain funny.
Favorite Quote: Vicki – “I thought you were dead.”
MacGruber – “So did I. But I’m not.”
2.) Blues Brothers (1980)
The Blues Brothers’, Jake and Elwood seek to reunite their band and save the Catholic orphanage where they grew up. During the journey, you’ll see some incredible musical numbers and see them smash up half the city of Chicago.
Elwood and Jake Blues were the first SNL characters to make the jump to the silver screen and remain the most iconic. They weren’t sketch characters in the same sense as most SNL characters were, because they only did musical performances on the show. There were no catch phrases or token moves, they were just two badass, blues-playing brothers, and in the movie they remained as such.
Also, since the Brothers only appeared on SNL performing songs, there was no need to call back to the sketch comedy; the movie was allowed to create its own world with its own rules. What resulted was a two-hour Belushi and Aykroyd romp that featured some of the biggest musical performances and craziest car chases you’ll ever see, especially compared to other SNL movies.
Favorite Quote: Elwood – “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark… and we’re wearing sunglasses.”
Jake – “Hit it.”
1.) Wayne’s World (1992)
Wayne and Garth were just two Midwestern rockers who filmed a local TV show out of Wayne’s mom’s basement and spent most of their time not so subtly talking about girls they wanted to nail and hurling. But when it came time for their moment on the big screen they wound up with a genuinely great movie that has endured the test of time.
From the classic “Bohemian Rhapsody” sing-along in Garth’s sweet, flame-licked Pacer, to the slow-mo shots of Tia Carrere while “Dreamweaver” played in the background, basically every scene in this ’92 comedy was hilarious.
Garth – “Benjamin is nobody’s friend. If Benjamin were an ice cream flavor, he’d be pralines and d!ck.”
There you have it, the very best of the SNL movies. And allow us to offer our sincerest apologies to the seven huge fans of “Night at the Roxbury,” as well as to the zero huge fans of “It’s Pat! The Movie,” but there simply wasn’t enough room on the list to try to polish those turds. If you think they absolutely deserve to make the cut, then throw together a list of your own, and give our regards to Julia Sweeney.
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Jimmy Breslin on JFK’s Assassination: Two Classic Columns
Jimmy Breslin’s classic column on JFK’s assassination captured the tragedy’s human side for a nation in shock and grief.
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In the days after President Kennedy’s assassination, the legendary columnist Jimmy Breslin set the standard for literary journalism written in the wake of tragedy. His columns for the New York Herald Tribune became instant classics, precisely because he chose to cover the unexpected human stories at the heart, but on the periphery, of the breaking news.
Published below with Breslin’s permission, his iconic column from those tumultuous days. “A Death in Emergency Room One” chronicles Nov. 22, 1963, from the attending emergency-room surgeon in Dallas.
You can also read his other, “It’s an Honor” which has become a staple of journalism schools because Breslin sidestepped the media circus and covered the president’s burial from the perspective of the gravedigger at Arlington National Cemetery.
These columns are true short stories, history written in the present tense.
‘A Death in Emergency Room One’
New York Herald Tribune, Nov. 24, 1963
By Jimmy Breslin
DALLAS—The call bothered Malcolm Perry. “Dr. Tom Shires, STAT,” the girl’s voice said over the page in the doctor’s cafeteria at Parkland Memorial Hospital. The “STAT” meant emergency. Nobody ever called Tom Shires, the hospital’s chief resident in surgery, for an emergency. And Shires, Perry’s superior, was out of town for the day. Malcolm Perry looked at the salmon croquettes on the plate in front of him. Then he put down his fork and went over to a telephone.
“This is Dr. Perry taking Dr. Shires’ page,” he said.
“President Kennedy has been shot. STAT,” the operator said. “They are bringing him into the emergency room now.”
Perry hung up and walked quickly out of the cafeteria and down a flight of stairs and pushed through a brown door and a nurse pointed to Emergency Room One, and Dr. Perry walked into it. The room is narrow and has gray tiled walls and a cream-colored ceiling. In the middle of it, on an aluminum hospital cart, the president of the United States had been placed on his back and he was dying while a huge lamp glared in his face.
John Kennedy had already been stripped of his jacket, shirt, and T-shirt, and a staff doctor was starting to place a tube called an endotracht down the throat. Oxygen would be forced down the endotracht. Breathing was the first thing to attack. The president was not breathing.
Malcolm Perry unbuttoned his dark blue glen-plaid jacket and threw it onto the floor. He held out his hands while the nurse helped him put on gloves.
The president, Perry thought. He’s bigger than I thought he was.
He noticed the tall, dark-haired girl in the plum dress that had her husband’s blood all over the front of the skirt. She was standing out of the way, over against the gray tile wall. Her face was tearless and it was set, and it was to stay that way because Jacqueline Kennedy, with a terrible discipline, was not going to take her eyes from her husband’s face.
Then Malcolm Perry stepped up to the aluminum hospital cart and took charge of the hopeless job of trying to keep the 35th president of the United States from death. And now, the enormousness came over him.
Here is the most important man in the world, Perry thought.
The chest was not moving. And there was no apparent heartbeat inside. The wound in the throat was small and neat. Blood was running out of it. It was running out too fast. The occipitoparietal, which is a part of the back of the head, had a huge flap. The damage a .25-caliber bullet does as it comes out of a person’s body is unbelievable. Bleeding from the head wound covered the floor.
There was a mediastinal wound in connection with the bullet hole in the throat. This means air and blood were being packed together in the chest. Perry called for a scalpel. He was going to start a tracheotomy, which is opening the throat and inserting a tube into the windpipe. The incision had to be made below the bullet wound.
“Get me Doctors Clark, McCelland, and Baxter right away,” Malcolm Perry said.
Then he started the tracheotomy. There was no anesthesia. John Kennedy could feel nothing now. The wound in the back of the head told Dr. Perry that the president never knew a thing about it when he was shot, either.
While Perry worked on the throat, he said quietly, “Will somebody put a right chest tube in, please.”
The tube was to be inserted so it could suction out the blood and air packed in the chest and prevent the lung from collapsing.
These things he was doing took only small minutes, and other doctors and nurses were in the room and talking and moving, but Perry does not remember them. He saw only the throat and chest, shining under the huge lamp, and when he would look up or move his eyes between motions, he would see this plum dress and the terribly disciplined face standing over against the gray tile wall.
Just as he finished the tracheotomy, Malcolm Perry looked up and Dr. Kemp Clark, chief neurosurgeon in residency at Parkland, came in through the door. Clark was looking at the president of the United States. Then he looked at Malcolm Perry and the look told Malcolm Perry something he already knew. There was no way to save the patient.
“Would you like to leave, ma’am?” Kemp Clark said to Jacqueline Kennedy. “We can make you more comfortable outside.”
Just the lips moved. “No,” Jacqueline Kennedy said.
Now, Malcolm Perry’s long fingers ran over the chest under him and he tried to get a heartbeat, and even the suggestion of breathing, and there was nothing. There was only the still body, pale white in the light, and it kept bleeding, and now Malcolm Perry started to call for things and move his hands quickly because it was all running out.
He began to massage the chest. He had to do something to stimulate the heart. There was not time to open the chest and take the heart in his hands, so he had to massage on the surface. The aluminum cart was high. It was too high. Perry was up on his toes so he could have leverage.
“Will somebody please get me a stool,” he said.
One was placed under him. He sat on it, and for 10 minutes he massaged the chest. Over in the corner of the room, Dr. Kemp Clark kept watching the electrocardiogram for some sign that the massaging was creating action in the president’s heart. There was none. Dr. Clark turned his head from the electrocardiogram.
“It’s too late, Mac,” he said to Malcolm Perry.
The long fingers stopped massaging and they were lifted from the white chest. Perry got off the stool and stepped back.
Dr. M.T. Jenkins, who had been working the oxygen flow, reached down from the head of the aluminum cart. He took the edges of a white sheet in his hands. He pulled the sheet up over the face of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The IBM clock on the wall said it was 1 p.m. The date was November 22, 1963.
Three policemen were moving down the hall outside Emergency Room One now, and they were calling to everybody to get out of the way. But this was not needed, because everybody stepped out of the way automatically when they saw the priest who was behind the police. His name was the Reverend Oscar Huber, a small 70-year-old man who was walking quickly.
Malcolm Perry turned to leave the room as Father Huber came in. Perry remembers seeing the priest go by him. And he remembers his eyes seeing that plum dress and that terribly disciplined face for the last time as he walked out of Emergency Room One and slumped into a chair in the hall.
Everything that was inside that room now belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy and Father Oscar Huber and the things in which they believe.
“I’m sorry. You have my deepest sympathies,” Father Huber said.
“Thank you,” Jacqueline Kennedy said.
Father Huber pulled the white sheet down so he could anoint the forehead of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Jacqueline Kennedy was standing beside the priest, her head bowed, her hands clasped across the front of her plum dress that was stained with blood which came from her husband’s head. Now this old priest held up his right hand and he began the chant that Roman Catholic priests have said over their dead for centuries.
“Si vivis, ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis. In nomine Patris et Filio et Spiritus Sancti, amen.”
The prayer said, “If you are living, I absolve you from your sins. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, amen.”
The priest reached into his pocket and took out a small vial of holy oil. He put the oil on his right thumb and made a cross on President Kennedy’s forehead. Then he blessed the body again and started to pray quietly.
“Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord,” Father Huber said.
“And let perpetual light shine upon him,” Jacqueline Kennedy answered. She did not cry.
Father Huber prayed like this for 15 minutes. And for 15 minutes Jacqueline Kennedy kept praying aloud with him. Her voice did not waver. She did not cry. From the moment a bullet hit her husband in the head and he went down onto his face in the back of the car on the street in Dallas, there was something about this woman that everybody who saw her keeps talking about. She was in shock. But somewhere, down under that shock some place, she seemed to know that there is a way to act when the president of the United States has been assassinated. She was going to act that way, and the fact that the president was her husband only made it more important that she stand and look at him and not cry.
When he was finished praying, Father Huber turned and took her hand. “I am shocked,” he said.
“Thank you for taking care of the president,” Jacqueline Kennedy said.
“I am convinced that his soul had not left his body,” Father Huber said. “This was a valid last sacrament.”
“Thank you,” she said.
Then he left. He had been eating lunch at his rectory at Holy Trinity Church when he heard the news. He had an assistant drive to the hospital immediately. After that, everything happened quickly and he did not feel anything until later. He sat behind his desk in the rectory, and the magnitude of what had happened came over him.
“I’ve been a priest for 32 years,” Father Huber said. “The first time I was present at a death? A long time ago. Back in my home in Perryville, Missouri, I attended a lady who was dying of pneumonia. She was in her own bed. But I remember that. But this. This is different. Oh, it isn’t the blood. You see, I’ve anointed so many. Accident victims. I anointed once a boy who was only in pieces. No, it wasn’t the blood. It was the enormity of it. I’m just starting to realize it now.”
Then Father Huber showed you to the door. He was going to say prayers.
It came the same way to Malcolm Perry. When the day was through, he drove to his home in the Walnut Hills section. When he walked into the house, his daughter, Jolene, 6 and a half, ran up to him. She had papers from school in her hand.
“Look what I did today in school, Daddy,” she said.
She made her father sit down in a chair and look at her schoolwork. The papers were covered with block letters and numbers. Perry looked at them. He thought they were good. He said so, and his daughter chattered happily. Malcolm, his 3-year-old son, ran into the room after him, and Perry started to reach for him.
Then it hit him. He dropped the papers with the block numbers and letters and he did not notice his son.
“I’m tired,” he said to his wife, Jennine. “I’ve never been tired like this in my life.”
Tired is the only way one felt in Dallas yesterday. Tired and confused and wondering why it was that everything looked so different. This was a bright Texas day with a snap to the air, and there were cars on the streets and people on the sidewalks. But everything seemed unreal.
At 10 a.m. we dodged cars and went out and stood in the middle lane of Elm Street, just before the second street light; right where the road goes down and, 20 yards further, starts to turn to go under the overpass. It was right at this spot, right where this long crack ran through the gray Texas asphalt, that the bullets reached President Kennedy’s car.
Right up the little hill, and towering over you, was the building. Once it was dull red brick. But that was a long time ago when it housed the J.W. Deere Plow Company. It has been sandblasted since and now the bricks are a light rust color. The windows on the first three floors are covered by closed venetian blinds, but the windows on the other floors are bare. Bare and dust-streaked and high. Factory-window high. The ugly kind of factory window. Particularly at the corner window on the sixth floor, the one where this Oswald and his scrambled egg of a mind stood with the rifle so he could kill the president.
You stood and memorized the spot. It is just another roadway in a city, but now it joins Ford’s Theatre in the history of this nation.
“R.L. Thornton Freeway. Keep Right,” the sign said. “Stemmons Freeway. Keep Right,” another sign said. You went back between the cars and stood on a grassy hill which overlooks the road. A red convertible turned onto Elm Street and went down the hill. It went past the spot with the crack in the asphalt and then, with every foot it went, you could see that it was getting out of range of the sixth-floor window of this rust-brick building behind you. A couple of yards. That’s all John Kennedy needed on this road Friday.
But he did not get them. So when a little bit after 1 o’clock Friday afternoon the phone rang in the Oneal Funeral Home, 3206 Oak Lawn, Vernon B. Oneal answered.
The voice on the other end spoke quickly. “This is the Secret Service calling from Parkland Hospital,” it said. “Please select the best casket in your house and put it in a general coach and arrange for a police escort and bring it here to the hospital as quickly as you humanly can. It is for the president of the United States. Thank you.”
The voice went off the phone. Oneal called for Ray Gleason, his bookkeeper, and a workman to help him take a solid bronze casket out of the place and load it onto a hearse. It was for John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Yesterday, Oneal left his shop early. He said he was too tired to work.
Malcolm Perry was at the hospital. He had on a blue suit and a dark blue striped tie and he sat in a big conference room and looked out the window. He is a tall, reddish-haired 34-year-old, who understands that everything he saw or heard on Friday is a part of history, and he is trying to get down, for the record, everything he knows about the death of the 35th president of the United States.
“I never saw a president before,” he said.
‘It’s An Honor’
New York Herald Tribune, November 1963
WASHINGTON -- Clifton Pollard was pretty sure he was going to be working on Sunday, so when he woke up at 9 a.m., in his three-room apartment on Corcoran Street, he put on khaki overalls before going into the kitchen for breakfast. His wife, Hettie, made bacon and eggs for him. Pollard was in the middle of eating them when he received the phone call he had been expecting. It was from Mazo Kawalchik, who is the foreman of the gravediggers at Arlington National Cemetery, which is where Pollard works for a living. “Polly, could you please be here by 11 o’clock this morning?” Kawalchik asked. “I guess you know what it’s for.” Pollard did. He hung up the phone, finished breakfast, and left his apartment so he could spend Sunday digging a grave for John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
When Pollard got to the row of yellow wooden garages where the cemetery equipment is stored, Kawalchik and John Metzler, the cemetery superintendent, were waiting for him. “Sorry to pull you out like this on a Sunday,” Metzler said. “Oh, don’t say that,” Pollard said. “Why, it’s an honor for me to be here.” Pollard got behind the wheel of a machine called a reverse hoe. Gravedigging is not done with men and shovels at Arlington. The reverse hoe is a green machine with a yellow bucket that scoops the earth toward the operator, not away from it as a crane does. At the bottom of the hill in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Pollard started the digging (Editor Note: At the bottom of the hill in front of the Custis-Lee Mansion).
Leaves covered the grass. When the yellow teeth of the reverse hoe first bit into the ground, the leaves made a threshing sound which could be heard above the motor of the machine. When the bucket came up with its first scoop of dirt, Metzler, the cemetery superintendent, walked over and looked at it. “That’s nice soil,” Metzler said. “I’d like to save a little of it,” Pollard said. “The machine made some tracks in the grass over here and I’d like to sort of fill them in and get some good grass growing there, I’d like to have everything, you know, nice.”
James Winners, another gravedigger, nodded. He said he would fill a couple of carts with this extra-good soil and take it back to the garage and grow good turf on it. “He was a good man,” Pollard said. “Yes, he was,” Metzler said. “Now they’re going to come and put him right here in this grave I’m making up,” Pollard said. “You know, it’s an honor just for me to do this.”
Pollard is 42. He is a slim man with a mustache who was born in Pittsburgh and served as a private in the 352nd Engineers battalion in Burma in World War II. He is an equipment operator, grade 10, which means he gets $3.01 an hour. One of the last to serve John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who was the 35th president of this country, was a working man who earns $3.01 an hour and said it was an honor to dig the grave.
Yesterday morning, at 11:15, Jacqueline Kennedy started toward the grave. She came out from under the north portico of the White House and slowly followed the body of her husband, which was in a flag-covered coffin that was strapped with two black leather belts to a black caisson that had polished brass axles. She walked straight and her head was high. She walked down the bluestone and blacktop driveway and through shadows thrown by the branches of seven leafless oak trees. She walked slowly past the sailors who held up flags of the states of this country. She walked past silent people who strained to see her and then, seeing her, dropped their heads and put their hands over their eyes. She walked out the northwest gate and into the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue. She walked with tight steps and her head was high and she followed the body of her murdered husband through the streets of Washington.
Everybody watched her while she walked. She is the mother of two fatherless children and she was walking into the history of this country because she was showing everybody who felt old and helpless and without hope that she had this terrible strength that everybody needed so badly. Even though they had killed her husband and his blood ran onto her lap while he died, she could walk through the streets and to his grave and help us all while she walked.
There was Mass, and then the procession to Arlington. When she came up to the grave at the cemetery, the casket already was in place. It was set between brass railings and it was ready to be lowered into the ground. This must be the worst time of all, when a woman sees the coffin with her husband inside and it is in place to be buried under the earth. Now she knows that it is forever. Now there is nothing. There is no casket to kiss or hold with your hands. Nothing material to cling to. But she walked up to the burial area and stood in front of a row of six green-covered chairs and she started to sit down, but then she got up quickly and stood straight because she was not going to sit down until the man directing the funeral told her what seat he wanted her to take.
The ceremonies began, with jet planes roaring overhead and leaves falling from the sky. On this hill behind the coffin, people prayed aloud. They were cameramen and writers and soldiers and Secret Service men and they were saying prayers out loud and choking. In front of the grave, Lyndon Johnson kept his head turned to his right. He is president and he had to remain composed. It was better that he did not look at the casket and grave of John Fitzgerald Kennedy too often. Then it was over and black limousines rushed under the cemetery trees and out onto the boulevard toward the White House. “What time is it?” a man standing on the hill was asked. He looked at his watch. “Twenty minutes past three,” he said.
Clifton Pollard wasn’t at the funeral. He was over behind the hill, digging graves for $3.01 an hour in another section of the cemetery. He didn’t know who the graves were for. He was just digging them and then covering them with boards. “They’ll be used,” he said. “We just don’t know when. I tried to go over to see the grave,” he said. “But it was so crowded a soldier told me I couldn’t get through. So I just stayed here and worked, sir. But I’ll get over there later a little bit. Just sort of look around and see how it is, you know. Like I told you, it’s an honor.”
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The Chief Minister of Sindh province, Syed Murad Ali Shah along with members of the Sindh government visited Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, Karachi on Wednesday, 3rd July. Upon their arrival, the Principal of the academy greeted them with a warm welcome after which the honourable guests were taken on a tour of the campus.
The tour began with Mahad al-Zahra, the department of Quranic sciences dedicated to the memorization and study of the Holy Quran. Syed Shah admired the building’s architecture which he found to be conducive to learning and memorization. The Aljamea band which was positioned outside the Mahad building, played various tunes and melodies.
The Chief Minister then visited al-Masjid al-Fatimi. Upon seeing the Fatimi design elements he remembered the late His Holiness Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA and praised his unwavering dedication to restoring numerous monuments of Islamic significance not just in Egypt but throughout the Muslim world.
A special presentation of books and rare manuscripts was arranged for the guests in the library. Syed Shah was shown pictures of his late father Syed Abduallah Ali Shah’s visit to Aljamea, which brought back pleasant memories. He was impressed by the extensive reading and research material provided to students and took a keen interest in the process of copying and preserving rare and antiquarian manuscripts.
Passing through boys’ hostel, the Chief Minister then visited the sports ground, where he applauded the range of sporting activities made available to students, as well as the holistic approach to education adopted by the institute which fosters both mental and physical growth.
After the tour, he graced the main assembly hall where students and faculty members had gathered. In his address Chief Minister Shah commended the efforts of His Holiness Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS and his dedication to the cause of education, which is manifested in institutions like Aljamea. He also recalled the ʿAshara Mubāraka event held in Karachi two years ago where he had the chance to meet with His Holiness TUS and expressed his admiration for the various initiatives led by the Dawoodi Bohra community that have brought about lasting socio-economic change.
The visit concluded with a brief press conference where he reiterated the significance of Aljamea in shaping personalities that would serve the community in particular and humanity in general.
His entry in the guest book reads as follows:
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Seriously. Fuck Those Guys. (The Big Brain Theory)
So I’ve been watching Discovery’s The Big Brain Theory for a while, on a tentative basis. It’s a show I should like, with a Mythbusters-like premise: a bunch of smart guys get together to solve engineering challenges. And it should be fun, except the people who make it have clearly never watched reality shows.
Which is to say that there’s some really poor choices that go into the structure of the show. For example, when someone is voted off the show at the end, they stay on the team, which makes a modicum of sense; you want guys working on big challenges that require massive infrastructure, and if the nerds left then the finals would be two dudes working on erector sets. So they keep them about.
But they don’t have them wear different clothes, so you can’t tell who’s been kicked off and who’s not. They’re just eight interchangeable nerds in nerd T-shirts. And the mechanism via which they’re incentivized to stay on the show, the chance to get voted back in, is completely incoherent. Nobody’s sure how they retain their old standing. So there’s no sense of forward motion, no sense of anything at stake. If you lose? Well, you’re still there. (Not that there’s any tension in losing; Kal Penn shrugs and says, “Okay, well, it’s not you.”)
The bigger problem is, however, the idiot judges.
See, at the beginning of each show, the contestants are presented with the challenge (stop an incoming foam missile, prevent this box from exploding), and they have an hour to sketch out their designs to solve the problem. At which point the judges decide which designs are worthwhile, choosing the two team captains.
But the judges are never held accountable for their poor decisions, and inevitably prioritize “flashy” over “workable,” meaning that both teams failed the first three challenges. And the show might have been interesting if the judges had sat down and said, “So what are we doing wrong in choosing people?” and treated the show itself as a scientific theory to be refined, as in, “Clearly we’re not picking the right designs, so how can we improve our decision-making process?”
And then there was Dan.
The nerds were, typically, competitive and asocial, but Dan was the worst. He was a flat-out bully, yelling at people in attempts to intimidate them, throwing things, shrieking at the top of his lungs and then storming out in a paroxysm of fury. He verbally threatened people with veiled threats of physical violence, throwing hammers to prove that he was better at welding. One of the women in the group was so threatened by his antics that she literally could not remain in the same room with him.
And when it came time to choose who got to go back on the team, was there a contest? No. Was there a challenge of wits? No. The judges merely picked one person out of the elimination lineup, because they thought he had potential.
And they picked Dan.
Oh, sure, he had temper problems, they said. But his engineering designs –
– and I turned it off.
Fuck those guys. Fuck their show. When they do this on television, to a show with millions of people, what you’re telling folks is that it’s perfectly okay to be an abusive asshole, as long as you’re really good at what you do. (A talent that wasn’t necessarily shown on the show, but whatever.) And it’s telling people that yes, if you’re smart, you too can be a bully! It’s okay! We want to reward this behavior! He’s good television!
I can’t stop them from choosing whatever damn fool person they choose to pick. But I can stop their show, cancel my DVR subscription, and tell everyone that this show is a steaming pile of shit that should be ashamed of itself. If you were watching, I heartily encourage you to stop. And if you weren’t watching… well, it looks like you made the right choice.
Posted by The Ferrett on Jun 6, 2013 in Current Ramblings | 1 comment
Scott Van Essen
Hey Ferrett,
While I’ve never seen the show (and now I never will), I’m inclined to agree wholeheartedly with your analysis of the flaws of the show and particularly with the message being sent by keeping Dan around.
I do think that you’ve neglected one key aspect about the judges’ decision making process. These days, a large number of reality TV fans and producers equate yelling and abusive behavior with “drama”. So, I suspect that there was a significant amount of pressure behind the scenes to keep the most “dramatic” character on for a while longer.
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A person mails their electoral reform referendum ballot after a rally in Vancouver on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
B.C. electoral reform option designed by University of Alberta student
“That to me was a significant problem. Regardless of where someone lives, their vote should matter,” Sean Graham said from Edmonton.
Nov. 22, 2018 8:20 a.m.
The first time he was old enough to vote in an election, Sean Graham says he realized the system was flawed.
His hometown riding in northern Alberta was a secure seat for a party that he didn’t support, so voting for anyone else under the first-past-the-post system felt like a wasted ballot.
“That to me was a significant problem. Regardless of where someone lives, their vote should matter,” Graham said from Edmonton.
Only a few years later as an undergraduate student at the University of Alberta, Graham crafted a pitch for a new electoral system. That model is now being considered by voters in British Columbia, where a provincewide referendum on electoral reform is underway.
“It is the first Canadian-developed proportional representation system to be put to a province-wide vote, so I’m very proud to have my work have that status. Certainly it has gained traction more than I thought, though I was hopeful because I do think it addresses the concerns quite well,” he said.
The first question on the ballot asks voters to choose between the existing first-past-the-post voting system and proportional representation, a form of voting where the parties gain seats in proportion to the number of votes that are cast for them.
The second question asks voters to rank three forms of proportional representation: Rural-urban proportional, mixed member proportional and Graham’s model, dual member proportional.
Elections BC is accepting ballots by mail or in person until Nov. 30.
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Graham said he developed the model as a grant-funded independent research project that was supervised by a professor, while he was pursuing double majors in political science and physics.
“I thought it would be helpful to come up with a system that not only addressed the issue of rural inclusion better but also retained more of what people like about first-past-the-post,” he said.
This isn’t the first time a province is considering it. When the government of Prince Edward Island put out a white paper looking for proportional representation proposals, Graham said he realized dual-member proportional met each of its requirements and submitted it. It was one of five options on the ballot in a non-binding plebiscite on electoral reform in that province in 2016, however, mixed-member proportional won the most votes.
Another referendum question asking P.E.I. voters to decide between first-past-the-post and mixed member proportional is expected to be on the ballot in the next general election.
Graham said he submitted the model to the B.C. government through a similar process.
In dual member proportional, most electoral districts are combined with a neighbouring district and have two representatives in the legislature, although large rural districts continue to have one member. In two-member districts, a voter can vote for one candidate or a pair of candidates who may or may not be from the same party. The first seat in a district is won by the candidate with the most votes, while the second goes to the parties so that each party’s share of seats roughly matches its share of the popular vote.
Mixed member proportional is used in a number of countries, including Germany and New Zealand. Rural-urban proportional is a hybrid of mixed member and single transferable vote, which is used in Ireland and Australia, and was designed by Fair Vote Canada.
Some have criticized dual member proportional because it has not been tested elsewhere in the world.
“I find that a bit strange in some ways. The argument against proportional representation in the past has often been that it’s imported from other countries, so now that we have a uniquely Canadian invention on the ballot and they’re still not happy with that, I find that a bit surprising,” Graham said.
Dual member is largely modeled on mixed member proportional, he said, but he designed it to address the unique needs of Canada.
Amy Smart, The Canadian Press
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Max Mosley
Labour says it will stop accepting donations from Max Mosley
After revelation of Mosley ‘racist’ pamphlet, payments to party or Tom Watson will be declined
Rajeev Syal and Dan Sabbagh
Max Mosley, who donated more than £500,000 to the Labour party. Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Observer
Labour will no longer accept donations from the privacy campaigner Max Mosley following accusations that he published a leaflet in the 1960s linking immigrants with disease, Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman has said.
The party had no plans, however, to return £500,000 that had already been handed over by the racing tycoon to the office of the deputy leader, Tom Watson, the spokesman said.
Labour’s decision to cut ties with Mosley came as the former FIA motorsport boss launched a counter attack against the Daily Mail, after it revealed that he had published the racist pamphlet in 1961, hinting that he could sue the newspaper.
It is understood that Mosley now accepts that the pamphlet is genuine, having initially questioned its existence in a television interview.
He said that “it was entirely in the hands of my lawyers” as to what he would do next after the Daily Mail asked whether he had committed perjury in a court case when asked about the leaflet. “The Mail’s reporting on immigration and health is far more offensive to the UK’s immigrant communities,” he said.
In response to Labour’s decision to reject any further donations, Mosley said: “It’s entirely up to them what they do.”
Max Mosley accused by Daily Mail of publishing racist leaflet in 1960s
The pamphlet backed a candidate standing in a 1961 byelection for the far-right Union Movement, the party founded by Max’s father, Sir Oswald Mosley. The election leaflet states that it was “published by Max Mosley”.
Questions have been raised about evidence that Mosley gave under oath in a high court trial when he successfully sued the now-defunct News of the World in 2008. News Group Newspapers, former owner of the News Of The World, said it had instructed lawyers to examine Mosley’s testimony following the discovery of the leaflet.
The Mail sent a dossier to the Crown Prosecution Service on Wednesday regarding Mosley’s evidence in the 2008 trial, which the CPS said it had passed to the Metropolitan police, who said they would carry out an assessment of it.
News UK, then publisher of the News of the World, added that it had instructed its own lawyers “to consider the impact of the revelations and Mr Mosley’s responses” with the intention of “considering all our legal options”.
The Daily Mail unearthed the pamphlet in archives in Manchester. It includes the warning: “Protect your health. There is no medical check on immigration. Tuberculosis, VD and other terrible diseases like leprosy are on the increase. Coloured immigration threatens your children’s health.”
It also states: “If enough people vote for me in this election, the government … will be sending coloured immigrants home, instead of bringing more in.” It urges voters to “let us give the coloured people a fair deal by sending them back to good jobs and good wages at home in Jamaica”.
When asked if he was a racist at that time, Mosley would not answer, saying only that he planned to release a statement via his lawyers on the subject shortly. But he said that he was not racist now. “I ran campaigns to stamp out racism when I ran the FIA. You can’t be racist when you run a world organisation with members from 130 countries. The only thing that mattered was ability.”
Replying to journalists’ questions about the Mosley party donations, Corbyn’s spokesman said: “I don’t think there will be any more payments to the Labour party or Tom Watson. We have moved away from large individual donations and they will be judged on the criteria of whether they are appropriate or ethical for the Labour party to accept.”
Asked if £500,000 received by Labour on behalf of Watson’s office would be returned to Mosley, the spokesman added: “[The donations] were made on the basis that they stood, but there won’t be any further donations.”
Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
Watson’s office and parliamentary activities could be curtailed without Mosley’s donation. The deputy leader and his staff have been seen as an alternative power base for many anti-Corbyn MPs. According to official parliamentary registers, Watson, the MP for West Bromwich East, has one of the best resourced offices in Westminster, with nine members of staff.
Mosley has insisted that he did not recall the leaflet, and said he would not be deterred from his campaign for reforms to protect people from press abuses.
Asked in the 2008 trial about his political activities as a young man, Mosley acknowledged that he was the election agent for the Union Movement candidate Walter Hesketh in the 1961 byelection in Moss Side. But he said it was “absolute nonsense” to suggest that he had put out leaflets alleging that immigrants brought diseases with them.
Pressed on whether the literature urged voters to “send blacks home”, he replied: “Not as I recall.”
Mosley, a former head of Formula 1, campaigned for tighter press regulation after the News of the World , which closed down in 2011, falsely said he had taken part in a gathering with “Nazi-themes”. Mosley has also funded the press regulator Impress.
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Asked by Channel 4 News on Tuesday about the line in the 60s pamphlet suggesting “coloured immigration threatens your children’s health”, Mosley said: “I think that probably is racist. I will concede that completely.”
Mosley also insisted on Tuesday that he would continue to give money to Labour. The £500,000 he donated to the party was given in two tranches, £200,000 in June 2016 and £300,000 six months later.
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Home » COA overturns injunction against Charlestown code enforcement scheme
COA overturns injunction against Charlestown code enforcement scheme
Olivia Covington
KEYWORDS Local government / Laws / lawsuit / Landowner Issues / Clark County / Indiana Court of Appeals / Charlestown
Special judge halts ‘irrational’ Charlestown code enforcement
Charlestown land dispute pits city against its lower-income residents
Judge dismisses part of Charlestown lawsuit tied to redevelopment plans
A special judge’s ruling that preliminarily enjoined the city of Charlestown from inconsistently imposing code violation fees while simultaneously finding the city was not subject to the state’s Unsafe Building Law has been overturned. The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the trial court erred in finding the UBL does not apply to the city, thus requiring remand for re-examination of how local and state regulations should work together.
The case of City of Charlestown, Indiana, et al. v. Charlestown Pleasant Ridge Neighborhood Association Corporation, et al., 10A01-1712-CT-2896, traces back four years to 2014, when the southern Indiana city first considered redeveloping Pleasant Ridge, a neighborhood in Charlestown that is comprised of World War II-era homes. According to city attorney Michael Gillenwater, the homes were only intended to stand for roughly 10 years, but many remain today and have fallen into disrepair.
Thus, the city, under the direction of Mayor Bob Hall, sought to use federal blight elimination funds to redevelop the neighborhood. That plan was scratched after residents objected, and the city instead began using code enforcement and fines to revitalize the neighborhood.
Specifically, the city council passed a series of ordinances that allowed the city to inspect Pleasant Ridge homes beginning in August 2016 and impose non-waivable fines for code violations. Meanwhile, local developer John Neace formed Pleasant Ridge Redevelopment, LLC, a redevelopment company that began offering to buy Pleasant Ridge homes for $10,000. Through an agreement with the city, Neace was not required to pay fines on the homes he purchased in exchange for his promise to eventually demolish them.
All of this, residents claimed, was part of Hall’s plan to raze Pleasant Ridge and build nicer homes in its place, leaving them without affordable housing options. Gillenwater, however, told the Indiana Lawyer in November that the city had helped subsidize a new housing development where Pleasant Ridge residents could move into energy-efficient homes with lower utility bills and increased home equity.
Despite that assertion, a group known as the Pleasant Ridge Neighborhood Association and some of its resident members sued the city and its Board of Works, arguing the code enforcement plan violated local, state and federal laws, including the local property maintenance code, the Unsafe Building Law and federal and state constitution protections. The residents and neighborhood association — which was fined nearly $9,000 for code violations — sought injunctive relief.
Special Judge Jason Mount of Scott County granted the preliminary injunction against the city, finding the local property maintenance code requires the city to “provide a reasonable opportunity to make repairs before fines may be imposed.” That was not done here, Mount said, pointing to the fact that fines began accruing against the neighborhood association immediately and daily, even before it was made aware of the code violations found in a duplex it owns.
Mount also said the city violated equal protection laws by imposing fines on the residents, but not on Neace’s LLC. However, the special judge said the plaintiffs’ claim under the Unsafe Building Law likely would not succeed because, under the Home Rule Act, local ordinances superseded that law.
Mount’s ruling on the UBL formed the basis of the Court of Appeals’ Monday reversal. The panel agreed with the homeowners’ cross-appeal that the trial court erred in concluding Charlestown is not required to adhere to the UBL because of the Home Rule Act, noting the city voluntary agreed to adopt the law in 2001.
“It is true, as the City asserts, that the Home Rule Act implements the ‘policy of the state … to grant units all the powers that they need for the effective operation of government as to local affairs,’” Judge Terry Crone wrote for the unanimous court. “…However, the Home Rule Act also provides that ‘(i)f there is a constitutional or statutory provision requiring a specific manner for exercising a power, a unit wanting to exercise the power must do so in that manner.’”
“… Moreover, the PMC explicitly provides, ‘This ordinance does not supersede Federal or State laws, statutes or regulations, except as allowed,’” Crone said.
The court remanded the case for the trial court “to consider how the UBL and the (property maintenance code) work together in light of our conclusion that the City is bound to enforce the PMC in accordance with the UBL, and to reconsider the Homeowners’ claim that the City’s manner of enforcing the PMC violates the UBL.” The court also noted the residents’ remaining claims would have to be re-examined, as well, if they chose to continue to pursue those claims. However, the judges declined to address the issues raised by the city in its appeal of the preliminary injunction.
In a statement released Monday after the decision was handed down, the Virginia-based Institute for Justice, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of the Pleasant Ridge residents, claimed the ruling as a victory that provides "procedural protections from overzealous city code enforcement."
"Today's opinion is another rebuke to the city of Charlestown's reckless disregard for state law," IJ senior attorney Anthony Sanders said in the statement. "This includes a cap on the amount of fines, and a mandate that fines can only be issued against recalcitrant property owners. The city has wantonly ignored those protections through issuing immediate fines against property owners in its illegal quest to force them to sell their properties to developer John Neace."
Olivia Covington joined the Indiana Lawyer team as a reporter in September 2016 and took on the role of managing editor in April 2018. She also handes the newspaper’s social media presence.
She came to the Indiana Lawyer from The (Columbus) Republic and has received honors from both the Hoosier State Press Association and Indiana Associated Press Media Editors for her work there.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Franklin College and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in journalism from Ball State University.
Recent Articles by Olivia Covington
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Analysts, diplomats raise doubts over Moscow-facilitated Syria chemical weapons bargain
Posted by Albert Gersh - September 10, 2013
Rouhani: Iran "will not give up one iota" of nuclear rights
Day of sectarian violence rocks Iraq amid government efforts to stem Sunni insurgent violence
WSJ: Movement to draft Egypt general as president highlights popular backing for military
What we’re watching today:
Confusion swirled throughout the day as to the nature and scope of a series of Russian-facilitated deals designed to defuse the international crisis triggered by what is widely suspected to be the use of chemical weapons by the Bashar al-Assad regime. NBC News reported that by day's end Damascus "appeared poised to accept the Russian proposal for Syria to hand over chemical weapons" and to join the Chemical Weapons Convention. In what Washington Post foreign affairs writer Jackson Diehl called a flat-out trap, Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that any Syrian proposal be accompanied by a U.S. commitment not to use force against the Assad regime, with which Moscow is allied. It is unclear whether Washington would be willing to issue such a guarantee. Foreign Policy noted that Assad has dozens of movable facilities, and that "the U.S. intelligence community would have a hard time knowing where more than a fraction of the sites were at any one time. Reuters emphasized that in addition to the normal problems that inspectors face when confronting dictatorial regimes - the Iraqis, for instance, "lied through their teeth" according to non-proliferation expert Amy Smithson - it "would be difficult" to protect arms inspectors. Moreover fears that negotiations could be used by the regime to stall for time have been broadly aired, including by officials from the Syrian opposition, Gulf states, and Israel. Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Khalifa instead called on the United Nations to take what he referred to as "necessary deterrent measures" against the regime, echoing calls made on Monday by Saudi officials urging the international community to "assume its humanitarian responsibility to rescue the Syrian people."
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared Tuesday that Tehran "will not give up one iota" of its nuclear rights, deploying rhetoric that AFP described as "echoing his hardline predecessor" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The statements come a day after the chief of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) emphasized that it was "essential and urgent" for Tehran to address international concerns surrounding its atomic program. A recent IAEA report called specific attention to Iran's efforts to lock in advanced uranium enrichment technology, to bring online its plutonium reactor, and to destroy evidence of work possibly related to the development of nuclear weapons. Rouhani's response to the IAEA's call for greater transparency is in line with a similar statements made by an advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last month, to the effect that the revolutionary-era cleric's government will follow "the same trend strategically as the former government" of Ahmadinejad. It comes alongside Rouhanis's vocal support for Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime, and may heighten skepticism regarding the new president's self-described moderation.
A series of bombings and shootings in Iraq killed at least 24 people today, deepening fears that ongoing government efforts to stymie Sunni terror groups had failed - per the Associated Press - "to have dented the insurgents' ability to stage attacks at a high place." At least seven police officers were among today's victims. The deadliest attack took place south of Baghdad when gunmen shot and killed six people preparing the body of a Sunni man ahead of his funeral. Coordinated car bombs targeted multiple Shiite-majority areas, prompting suspicions that Al Qaeda forces were behind the bombings. More than 4,000 people have been killed in Iraq since summer began and approximately 800 Iraqis were killed in August alone. Analysts have expressed explicit concerns that Iraq may slide into "the scale sectarian slaughter" of 2006-07.
A grenade attack on a military checkpoint in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula Monday left one soldier dead and two others injured, as insurgents sought to push back against an ongoing, widespread campaign by the army to uproot jihadist infrastructure in the increasingly anarchic territory. Scores of security officials have been killed in recent clashes across Egypt, with jihadists targeting both the army and institutions of the interim army-backed government. Leaders of the mass movement that called for the removal of Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi have been targeted for assassination, as have government officials. The military's efforts to dampen the violence have long enjoyed widespread popular backing, and a Wall Street Journal article published this morning outlined that "a movement to nominate Gen. Abdel Fattah Al Sisi as Egypt's next president is gaining pace" as a signal of "Egyptians' yearning for stability and order."
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Cardinal calls for Church to house migrants
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Thousands more accommodation places for migrants and refugees arriving to Austria could be found in parishes around the country, according to the Archdiocese of Vienna.
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, from the Archdiocese of Vienna, said that they will be considerably expanding the accommodation they can provide in the next few weeks.
“Speaking for the Archdiocese of Vienna, we can safely accommodate some 1,000 refugees in ecclesiastical quarters in the coming weeks,” he told the ORF's ZiB 2 programmes Tuesday night.
The Catholic Church is already the largest private provider of accommodation for migrants and refugees in Austria, working in collaboration with the charity Caritas, but Schönborn said there was room for more places.
Although warning he did not have power over parishes in Austria, the Cardinal said that he recommends they too offer quarters to migrants in need.
“We must not collective point the finger about the question of refugees and then do nothing ourselves,” he said.
He also urged the government to speed up the asylum application processes for Syrians as 99 percent of them would get a positive asylum application.
Asylum seekers moving out of schools
Some asylum seekers who were housed in schools over the summer break have recently had to move out ahead of the new school term beginning.
In Upper Austria 697 asylum seekers who had been housed in schools have since been moved to other quarters.
Refugees are still being accommodated in Mittelschule Markt sports hall in the town of Hard, in Vorarlberg, until the end of September when the hall will be used again by the school.
In Salzburg 300 asylum seekers are still being housed in schools, but are due to find a new home in accommodation operated by charities Caritas, Red Cross, and Diakonie.
In Austria, migrant trainees face expulsion as attitudes harden
13-year jail sentence for attempted murder in Vienna asylum centre
The 6,165 irregular migrants who can't be deported from Vienna
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Fritzl home 'could house refugee families'
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Fritzl's house in Amstetten. Photo: Kurier/Wolfgang Atzenhofer
The former home of Josef Fritzl - who held his daughter captive in the cellar for decades - could be used as accommodation for refugee families after the local council failed to find a buyer for the property.
Lawyer Walter Anzböck, who is in charge of liquidating Fritzl's estate in Amstetten, told the Kronen Zeitung newspaper that the empty house could be converted into eight apartments and accommodate up to 60 asylum seekers. He said that the council could not afford to let the property sit empty, and that he planned to discuss the feasibility of such a plan with the Red Cross.
The cellar, where Fritzl kept his daughter locked up for 24 years and repeatedly raped her, has been filled in with concrete to ensure that no-one will ever be able to enter it again and to avoid it becoming a gruesome tourist attraction. Fritzl fathered seven children with his daughter, and was convicted of murdering one of them through neglect.
He is now 80 years old and is serving a life sentence in nearby Stein prison. His house has been up for sale for some time but the €200,000 property has not yet found a buyer. It has remained empty ever since his horrific crimes came to light.
The local council will make the final decision on whether to use the building for refugee accommodation. So far it has ordered a container which will provide beds for 150 asylum seekers - fulfilling its quota.
Mayor Ursula Puchebner told the Kurier newspaper that she had not been informed of the proposal, and nor had the asylum coordination office.
Deutsche Bahn suspends trains to Austria
Relief for refugees who make it to Austria
Resources stretched as 20,000 refugees arrive
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New book offers 'Game of Thrones' back story
George R.R. Martin's new book, released this week, is "The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones"
New book offers 'Game of Thrones' back story George R.R. Martin's new book, released this week, is "The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones" Check out this story on thenorthwestern.com: http://oshko.sh/1wwpe8K
Hillel Italie, Associated Press Published 6:19 p.m. CT Oct. 27, 2014 | Updated 6:21 p.m. CT Oct. 27, 2014
Author George R.R. Martin arrives at the premiere for the third season of the HBO television series “Game of Thrones” at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. “The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones,” a companion volume to Martin’s “Ice and Fire” series, will be released Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. (Photo: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP )
NEW YORK – George R.R. Martin knows all the signs of Boba Fett Syndrome.
Named for the minor "Star Wars" character who fans demanded to know more about, Boba Fett Syndrome is most acute for any book or film series that has reached the level of phenomenon, when minutiae becomes major.
For Martin, this has meant not just the usual demands for the next "A Song of Ice and Fire" fantasy novel (don't ask, he's still working on it), but constant letters and emails asking for information on everything from dragons to Aegon Targaryen's war against the Seven Kingdoms.
Martin's new book, released this week, is "The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones," 300 pages of back story and original artwork by the some of the world's top fantasy illustrators.
He agreed to the companion volume in 2006 and expected it would take just a couple of years. Naturally, it took longer. He intended to write some brief text to accompany the drawings, but ended up setting down some 300,000 words, more than enough to make his editor's "head explode."
"It was bigger than I anticipated," he said during a recent telephone interview, acknowledging that "The World of Ice & Fire" might have delayed still further the next "Ice and Fire" novel. "I start these things that I think won't take much time and they grow and grow."
Martin said "The World of Ice & Fire" offers material already in the "Ice and Fire" series, material he has long worked out in his mind and on paper, but had never released, and material he invented entirely for the book, such as the section dedicated to lands on the other side of the Narrow Sea. (Fans of Tyrion Lannister, be advised: Martin includes little about the character he has called his favorite. He's saving that for future books).
Time spent working on "The World of Ice & Fire" also means time spent on publicity, and on Sunday the resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico came to New York and appeared before hundreds of fans at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y. Dressed all in black — black corduroys, black shirt, and black vest set off by his white hair and beard — he was interviewed on stage by Salon.com critic Laura Miller and responded to written questions from the audience.
Martin, 66, has completed five of seven planned novels: The most recent, "A Dance With Dragons," came out in 2011, the same year the Emmy-winning HBO adaptation "Game of Thrones" first aired. Martin said Sunday that one challenge is keeping track of so many characters and events spread out over thousands of pages. Like a filmmaker hiring a continuity director, he works with longtime "Ice and Fire" experts Elio M. Garcia, Jr. and Linda Antonsson, who run the fan site www.westeros.org and are credited as co-authors of the new book.
"They displayed, right away, an almost obsessive knowledge of my world. In fact, I had to alter my world because of that obsessive knowledge," Martin said, noting that they had caught errors in his work.
A native of Bayonne, New Jersey, Martin loved comic books and writing as a kid and by high school had won an award for a superhero story. He has been publishing books since the 1970s and began his "Ice and Fire" series in the 1990s, intending to write a trilogy.
During his telephone interview, Martin said some of his fondest early memories were of reading illustrated versions of "Treasure Island" and other classics and that he wanted "The World of Ice & Fire" to have a similar appeal. He admires the Kindle, but prefers reading on paper and thinks the new book is especially suited for its hardcover edition.
"My feeling was 'Let's make it a coffee table book and let's fill it with some great fantasy art by some of the top illustrators in the fantasy world,'" he said. "We're at a time in publishing history where you can have you stories in many different ways. But I'm still an old fart. I love a physical book."
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Edition No. 10 May 3 - 9, 2014
Student resistance to Christopher Pyne’s plan to allow universities to raise their fees will find an unlikely champion in Clive Palmer’s senate bloc. By Sophie Morris.
PUP to fight Pyne’s uni funding cuts
Clive Palmer never finished his journalism studies at the University of Queensland in the 1970s. But the classes he took were free, thanks to the Whitlam government. He says he couldn’t have afforded them otherwise. Now he is adamant that all Australians should have that same opportunity.
As Education Minister Christopher Pyne prepares to overhaul higher education, he will have to contend with the “no-fees-for-degrees” stance of Palmer and his crucial senate voting bloc.
“My view is we should have free education at universities for Australian students,” Palmer tells The Saturday Paper. “We don’t support charging more to Australian students, that’s for sure.”
This clashes with Pyne’s desire to shift the cost of higher education away from taxpayers and towards increased private contributions, as he promises to “set universities free” to compete globally.
“Government investment alone is not enough to ensure a well-functioning higher education sector,” Pyne said in a speech in London this week.
Now he is armed with the findings of the government’s Commission of Audit, published on Thursday, which makes the case for higher student payments as part of a bid to deliver a surplus of 1 per cent of gross domestic product by 2023-24.
Commission of Audit recommendations
The five-volume report, from a panel chaired by businessman Tony Shepherd, reads as a fascinating primer on what policy changes would be open to a government whose desire to rein in spending and pare back the public sector was not tempered by the bothersome need to face voters. Needless to say, not all its recommendations will be adopted. But higher education is one area where the government is preparing to act and fee increases are on the cards.
Such increases would require changes to the Higher Education Support Act. Labor and the Greens would block this in the current senate and, from July, the Palmer United Party will hold sway.
This raises the intriguing prospect of Palmer-aligned senators emerging as the unlikely heroes of student unions: “The Brick with Eyes”, Glenn Lazarus; national service advocate Jacqui Lambie; engineer Dio Wang; and motoring enthusiast Ricky Muir.
Pyne has prepared the ground for what Universities Australia chief executive Belinda Robinson says could amount to a “fully fledged re-engineering of Australia’s higher education system”.
Three issues are under consideration. One is the extension of public subsidies to private colleges. This was recommended by a government-commissioned review, by David Kemp and Andrew Norton, and Pyne has all but endorsed it.
Vice-chancellors are almost as nervous as they were in 1996, when another new Coalition government was wielding the budget axe.
The second associated change is how to fund this. Kemp and Norton suggested a decrease in the per-student subsidy and an increase in fees. In other words, public funds would be spread thinner and students would make up the difference. Calculating the cost is difficult but Norton says it could grow to about $450 million a year, given current enrolments and as some students transfer from vocational training.
The third issue is whether government limits on fees should be axed, allowing prestigious universities to increase fees to boost revenue. Pyne has lent some support to this, saying he wants Australian universities to be among the world’s best and that public funds would not suffice.
Vice-chancellors are almost as nervous as they were in 1996, when another new Coalition government was wielding the budget axe. There’s a story vice-chancellors tell about that time and their first dinner with the Howard government’s new higher education minister, Amanda Vanstone.
Known for her flamboyant style and frank manner, Vanstone is said to have glanced at a bottle of wine, pointed to its percentage alcohol per volume and suggested, to the horror of the VCs, that the funding cuts might be of that order.
Sure enough, it was a tough budget for universities and Vanstone’s brief tenure as minister was marked by rowdy student protests. Kemp replaced her within a year, with Norton as his adviser.
Now Vanstone has again weighed in on the university funding debate via her role on the government’s Commission of Audit, and her close friend and acolyte, Pyne, is education minister.
Higher education is identified in the commission’s report as one of the 15 largest and fastest-growing areas of Commonwealth spending. It finds graduates benefit from their studies, through higher income, and should pay more, recommending that the student contribution to course costs rise from 40 per cent to 55 per cent. It also proposes graduates should have to pay back government loans sooner – starting when they earn the minimum wage of $32,354, instead of the current repayment threshold of $51,309 – and face higher borrowing costs.
The commission urges the government to consider options for full or partial fee deregulation, but says “further work is required” on this, noting in an appendix that “very large fee increases” could result and that: “Australian undergraduates are currently paying among the highest levels of tuition fees in the world.”
A user-pays philosophy is also apparent in the report’s recommendations for radical surgery to the health system, including increased payments for medicines and doctors’ visits and greater reliance on private health insurance.
It calls for a slower rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, tighter eligibility for family tax benefits, the disability support pension and future age pension recipients, though not until 2027, as well as measures to shed some 15,000 public service jobs.
In a week when the government lost control of its budget messaging following revelations it was planning a “temporary” tax to pay off the deficit, Tony Abbott compromised on his proposed paid parental leave scheme, agreeing to cap payments for higher income earners at $50,000, down from $75,000. But the commission wants more substantial changes to the expensive policy, recommending it be capped at average weekly earnings – meaning payouts for the six-month scheme would be limited to $28,730 – with the savings redirected to supporting childcare, including nannies.
Abbott is reluctant to budge further on paid parental leave, but the budget on May 13 will adopt some of the commission’s other proposals, including on higher education.
University chiefs have become accustomed to budget cuts. Some wish they were no longer at the mercy of someone who can glance at a bottle of wine and tighten the purse strings.
Making the case for fee deregulation has put University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Glyn Davis offside with the student union. Responding to a petition demanding he join students in requesting more public funds, Davis explained the government was intent on cuts and such pleas would be in vain.
“It is not in students’ interests to reduce the quality of their education to avoid unpopular fee rises,” he wrote. “This is a choice no one welcomes, but a question we cannot avoid.”
In a plea to students to understand political reality, Davis also wrote of “a tougher message politicians pass on only in private”: that the issue simply does not sway votes.
Funding imbalances
But the changes being contemplated would affect universities in vastly different ways. Australian sandstone universities might source more revenue from students, though still shy of the generous endowments that sponsor Ivy League institutions in the United States. At the other end of the spectrum, mass-entry institutions such as the Australian Catholic University would face stiff competition on price from private colleges with lower overheads.
ACU vice-chancellor Greg Craven warns this would lead to a rise in the number of “dodgy operators” and unfair competition. “These commercial enterprises would love to be funded like universities, but have neither the research output, nor the infrastructure overheads, nor the expensive academically qualified workforce to justify it,” he wrote.
Any proposals for fee increases will trigger important debate about equity and accessibility and what a heavier debt load will mean for graduates.
But a report released a week ago by British group University Alliance also sounds a cautionary note about what it meant long term for university revenue, with public funding declining as fees rose.
“The important lesson here for those in Australia who are looking to liberalise fees for the purpose of raising funding to universities is that the trebling of fees to £9000 in England did not bring in much additional resource to English universities overall – and brought reductions for some,” says the report.
Already, the government is seeking to rein in the rising cost of higher education. Labor’s removal of limits on subsidised student places resulted in enrolments increasing from 444,000 in 2009 to 571,000 in 2013. The cost to government of these subsidies grew from $4.1 billion to $6.1 billion.
The Coalition is pursuing savings measures proposed by Labor to strip $2.3 billion from the sector, but the opposition has now withdrawn its support for these cuts.
The co-author of Pyne’s review of higher education, Andrew Norton, thinks it would be better to shift the cost to students, via higher fees, rather than cutting university funding and jeopardising quality.
“If the government is pursuing a radical reform package in higher education, why burden it with itty-bitty budget cuts that Labor dreamt up in a budget panic last April?” he says. “Instead, they should do cleaner, more systemic changes that will not have an impact on teaching and research.”
But Norton says fee deregulation – involving further fee increases – should only occur after private colleges are granted subsidies, arguing that the competition they provide will restrain fee rises.
This extension of subsidies to private providers would present a challenge to Palmer’s position. He vows to oppose fee increases, but the government would argue the measure would eliminate fees for students in private colleges, who now pay their own way.
Asked about this, Palmer says he has no problem if private colleges compete with public universities for overseas students, but he opposes fee increases for Australian university students.
He restates his uncosted Whitlamesque ideal that there should be no university fees at all. “I don’t think we should burden our brightest and best with debt before they even get into the workforce,” he says.
Student unions will no doubt cheer him on and hope that he sticks to his guns.
This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on May 3, 2014 as "Paying the price". Subscribe here.
Sophie Morris
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Edition No. 122 August 20 – 26, 2016
Deleted text messages and botched directions underscore the flaws in an operation senior police say was not their responsibility. By Mike Seccombe.
How top-ranking NSW police failed the Lindt cafe siege
NSW Police Force Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn leaves the Lindt cafe siege inquest on Tuesday.
Credit: AAP IMAGE
Failure is an orphan. The old saying has rung so true this past week, as the top brass of the New South Wales Police Force finally fronted the inquest into the Lindt cafe siege.
They never said it in so many words, but the essence of evidence from Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione and Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn was “not my baby”.
Scipione, Burn and acting deputy commissioner Jeff Loy all insisted their roles in the 17-hour drama were never “operational”.
They were “executive”, which meant they had nothing to do with the decisions, and indecisions, of December 15 and 16, 2014, after Man Haron Monis took 18 hostages in the Martin Place cafe, an event that ended with a rushed police action and the deaths of Monis and two hostages, Katrina Dawson and Tori Johnson.
In their non-operational roles, the chiefs liaised. They talked to people – senior operational people, political people and media people – but when it came to the actual on-the-ground, life-and-death calls on how to deal with Monis, they did nada. Nix. Nil.
So they say.
The evidence before this final stage of the long-running inquest points to a New South Wales Police Force woefully unprepared for an event such as this.
This might seem counterintuitive, particularly in the case of Burn, who was the designated head of counterterrorism. And all the more peculiar given that in the days and weeks after the siege, the government spun things as though she had been a central actor, rather than a bit player.
NSW premier Mike Baird himself told media in mid-January 2015, after the first stories began appearing suggesting failings in the police response, “I worked alongside Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn throughout the entire siege. I have nothing but admiration, respect and gratitude for the incredible work she did. That goes for the other police officers involved, all the way up to Commissioner Andrew Scipione.”
But as the inquest winds up – Burn and Scipione were the last scheduled witnesses – it is open to question whether that admiration was merited.
Let us say right at the top it was an incredibly difficult situation: 18 hostages, an irrational perpetrator armed with a gun and possibly a bomb in a backpack.
Let us concede also that the failings in dealing with Monis began long before he took those hostages. The chain of events began in 1996, when he flew into Australia on a short-stay business visa, claimed asylum, and later was granted citizenship, despite a number of red flags. He had been assessed as a security threat by ASIO in 1999. Long before the siege, he had become a serial pest to politicians and security agencies, had accumulated dozens of criminal charges. When he walked into the Lindt Chocolate Café he was on bail on a charge of being an accessory to the murder of his wife.
That said, though, the evidence before this final stage of the long-running inquest points to a New South Wales Police Force woefully unprepared for an event such as this.
For a start, communications were extraordinarily bad.
To cite one example: a senior constable with the tactical operations unit, codenamed Alpha Two, who was the first to enter the cafe for the final firefight with Monis, arrived at the scene about 10.15am that day.
He and his team were told to take up a position on Phillip Street, ready for action. But within 10 minutes of getting there, said Alpha Two, he discovered his radio had, as he put it, “shit itself”.
“I knew that we didn’t have any spares,” he said, so for the next 15-odd hours he was forced to rely on a “buddy system”, whereby instructions were relayed verbally to him by others in his team.
Radio failures occurred sporadically throughout the day and night. Critically, they affected the people with the best view of what was happening inside the Lindt cafe, the police snipers, who saw Monis preparing to shoot Tori Johnson. Right at the end, after Monis executed Johnson and police were forced, belatedly, to act, a radio glitch prevented the tactical commander from giving the order to storm the cafe.
The litany of inadequacies is long. A specialist truck, equipped with soundproof booths, whiteboards and sophisticated communications equipment, had not been available since 2011, when it was badly damaged in a crash. It was subsequently sold and had never been replaced.
As a result, negotiators worked from a four-wheel-drive vehicle for the first few hours of the siege, before moving to an office at a city leagues club. There was only a single phone line and some calls from hostages were diverted to another area in the club.
Attempts were made to record the conversations on a dictaphone, but several hours of calls went missing. The primary negotiator, “Peter”, said he was not good with technology.
Nor were the communications problems all technical in nature, although most had their basis in technical problems. The negotiators appeared not to be well trained. They never managed to speak to Monis himself, and some information gleaned from hostages was not passed on to them.
For example, “Peter” told the inquest he was not made aware of a Monis demand that Christmas lights in Martin Place be turned off. Had he known, he said, he might have been able to use the information as a bargaining chip.
We could go on, reciting the litany of problems, but the point is that Catherine Burn – the head of counterterrorism in NSW – appeared unaware of many of them.
We’ll never know exactly what she knew of events during the siege, because she deleted from her phone text messages she received in the night. Under examination on Wednesday about why she had done so, she said it was because she was not operationally involved.
It did not occur to her that the information might have been relevant to an inquiry into events on the night or to planning for similar situations in the future.
“I did not think I was an involved person in this matter,” she said. “I don’t believe I deleted anything that would have relevance.”
But one revealing text did come to light, because she converted it to an email to herself. Burn did not mention it in her statement, put before the inquest. It was turned up only on Monday, in a search by police IT staff.
The message was sent to her by Commissioner Scipione just a few hours before the end of the siege, and it referred to conversations he had with front-line officers about the inadequacies of their equipment.
“Catherine, I’ve had a quick chance to talk to the SSG [Special Service Group] team who were forward tonight,” Scipione wrote.
“It has become apparent we should be preparing a fresh bid for any new equipment as necessary.”
He asked her to get advice “as to any new electronic imaging or audio equipment that we might need”.
The text suggested they talk about it the next day, and ended: “See you bright and early…”
Under questioning about it, Burn said she had been unaware of the problems. She had not visited the forward command post during the night. She went off duty at 10pm – under Scipione’s instructions – as did he.
The head of counterterrorism was unaware that the tactical officers who would be required to risk their lives had to rely on a buddy system because of radio failure. Indeed, Phillip Boulton, SC, for the Dawson family, had to explain to her what was meant by the term “buddy system”.
Boulton put it to her that she had “no idea” what Scipione was talking about in his text.
“No,” she said. “I didn’t know at the time.”
Nor did she inquire of the senior operational officers if things were operating properly. That, she said, “was not my role”.
Which raises the question: What was her role? She might not have been involved operationally, but would her executive function as head of the unit not require that she ensured in advance that the operational officers had the relevant training and equipment to cope with the situation?
Scipione’s role
Let us turn now to Scipione. In his case, the questioning went the other way – to suggestions that he was more involved in operational matters than he should have been.
Two issues in particular were of interest.
One related to a YouTube video, uploaded by one of the hostages at Monis’s behest, setting out his demands and critical of the police.
Scipione was concerned the video might encourage more terrorist acts. There was a lot of social media “chatter” about it. So at 11.59pm he sent an email to other senior police, including the operational commander and Assistant Commissioner, Mark Jenkins:
“Gents this has just been sent to me. Let’s move to have it pulled down from Youtube ASAP. I will leave it with you.”
That might sound like an order, but Scipione insisted it was not.
The decision on whether or not to have the video taken down was not his to make, he insisted. It was ultimately a decision for the operational leaders.
That’s what he meant by “I will leave it with you”. Not that he was leaving it with them to do it, but leaving it with them to decide whether to do it.
Scipione said he was cognisant of the possibility that such an action might serve to further disturb Monis, and even result in reprisals against the hostages.
In one way, the point was moot. As Scipione said, the decision had already been taken by Jenkins to remove the YouTube clip. But it went to the question of whether he had interfered in the operation.
Scipione and Burn were not originally slated to appear at the inquest. Counsel for the families of the two slain hostages had pushed for it, but the lawyer for the NSW Police Force, Ian Freckelton, QC, had argued that: “The position of Mr Scipione, Ms Burn and Mr Loy is that they did not give any order, direction or provide any guidance or advice in respect of the conduct of the siege on the day…”
The second suggestion of interference by Scipione in operational matters was potentially more serious.
It related to a terse entry by a police scribe who logged the actions of Jenkins on the night. At 10.57pm, Jenkins received a brief phone call from Scipione. The log entry said: “DA to occur as last resort – COP.”
The initials DA stood for “deliberate action”, and COP for “chief of police”.
A deliberate action is the police term for the planned storming of a siege “stronghold”. This is not what happened on the night of the Lindt siege. In the early hours of December 16, police were forced into what they call an emergency action or EA. The difference is that a DA is proactive, while an EA is reactive. In one, the police decide the timing; in the other, the terrorist does.
While plans had been formulated for a deliberate action to the Lindt siege, they were never formally approved. The police response, until Monis forced their hand, was to continue with a strategy of containment and negotiation.
For Scipione to have instructed the operational commander on tactics would have amounted to the most serious intervention.
Scipione, however, denied he had done any such thing. The 10.57 phone call had really just been a “welfare check”, he said. He wanted to see how things were going, whether Jenkins was “settled” in his role as operational chief, and to ensure he “had what he needed”.
He noted the scribe could hear only Jenkins’ end of the conversation and it was not a verbatim transcript. The comments about a DA being a last resort were Jenkins, not his, said Scipione. The coroner, Michael Barnes, will decide this.
There are other questions, too, that emerged from the appearance of these last two witnesses, as well as the 117 others who preceded them over the 109 sitting days of this inquest, on which Barnes will have to cogitate.
Like the potential role of the military in such situations in the future. As things stand now, there are barriers to using military force in domestic situations. There is a formal process by which they can completely take over, but the question of whether they can simply lend certain equipment or personnel to a police operation seems to have no clear answer.
Likewise, there is the matter of whether a terrorist siege should be approached differently from a standoff of other kinds, such as a domestic dispute, for instance. The international evidence now shows that the chances of reaching a negotiated outcome with someone prepared to be a martyr for a cause are far lower. Perhaps in such circumstances police and/or the military should take quicker recourse to deliberate action.
Not all the questions arising from this inquest are for the coroner alone. Premier Mike Baird faces some big ones, too. Andrew Scipione’s term as commissioner already has been extended by the government. He will retire within the next year or so.
It was long assumed his successor would be either Burn or another deputy commissioner, Nick Kaldas. But the politics at the top of the NSW Police Force, and between Burn and Kaldas in particular, have been toxic for years.
We have not the space to go into the detail here, but the upshot is the highly respected Kaldas quit the force in March.
In other circumstances that would have left Burn in the box seat for the job. But after this week, you have to wonder. Failure is an orphan, and it makes them, too.
This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on Aug 20, 2016 as "How top police failed the siege". Subscribe here.
Mike Seccombe
is The Saturday Paper’s national correspondent.
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Edition No. 32 October 4 – 10, 2014
Deeply wounded but now fighting back, Aboriginal survivors of Darwin’s Retta Dixon Home tell their stories to the royal commission into child sex abuse. By Clare Martin.
Retta Dixon children failed by the system
A dormitory at the Retta Dixon Home in Darwin, 1958.
Credit: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA
In 1980, after 34 years of operation, the Retta Dixon Home in Darwin closed its doors for the final time. The buildings were demolished and the land was handed over to the newly established Northern Territory government. Today, all that can be seen of the former home is some concrete slabs. But the ghosts of its ugly past linger.
The land is now called Karu Park – karu being a local Aboriginal word for child. It’s a fitting name because hundreds of Aboriginal children were placed in the Retta Dixon Home. The children were mostly of mixed descent – at that time referred to as half-castes – and many had been forcibly removed from their families, made wards of the state and put into institutional care. They are part of Australia’s Stolen Generations.
But many of the children at the Retta Dixon Home were more than stolen. They now say they were also physically and sexually abused by some of the adults charged with their care.
For the past two weeks, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been sitting in Darwin and its focus has been the Retta Dixon Home: on hearing from the former residents and house parents; from the Aborigines Inland Mission (AIM) that ran the home; and from the Commonwealth government whose policies placed the children in that home.
The Northern Territory government was also under the microscope, forced to explain why charges of sexual assault against a house parent were dropped on two occasions, and then interrogated on current policies and practices around children in out-of-home care.
The former residents of Retta Dixon and their families welcomed the inquiry with an enormous sense of relief. Finally, they had an opportunity to speak publicly about what had been hidden for so many years. Nine men and women came forward to tell the commission of the physical and sexual abuse they had experienced as children.
But the telling took courage. Each witness read a prepared statement but often struggled just to get the words out. Voices wavered, tears were frequent. Often there were long pauses as the reader was overcome by emotion. Some bravely put their own names to their stories; others didn’t want to be identified. Just telling the story was enough of a challenge. The commission respected their wishes and pseudonyms were used.
The witnesses talked about life at Retta Dixon. Going to school, endless domestic chores, Sundays at church. They remembered some kindness, but not often and not much.
Two consistent themes emerged in their stories. The first was the physical abuse experienced by these young residents. It was constant and cruel and, they claim, administered both by house parents and the superintendent of the home. The children talked about being chained up at times, being yelled at, humiliated and often beaten by whatever was at hand – a broomstick, a cane or a belt. Not finishing a chore was punished, wetting the bed was punished, all manner of minor misdemeanours were punished.
Witness AKV recalled going to school with welts across his back, hidden under his shirt. “The teachers never asked about the bruises. I didn’t think to tell them about the abuse. I just felt it was normal and all kids must get flogged.”
The second theme was sexual abuse, the focus of this royal commission. Witnesses told of the sexual abuse they had experienced, some as young as five years old, of the fear they felt every day living at the home and the ongoing damage caused to their lives.
Sexual abuse was widespread at Retta Dixon, the commission heard: house parents were perpetrators, older boys were perpetrators and they preyed on both boys and girls.
Lorna Cubillo, now in her 70s, told of being both physically and sexually abused by her house parent, Mr Walters. Sandra Kitching by her house parent, Mr Pounder. But it was house parent Donald Henderson, at Retta Dixon from 1964 until 1975, who was the focus of most of the allegations.
Witnesses spoke of the physical and sexual violence towards them by Henderson. His stalking, tickling, touching, rubbing and rape. They talked of the size of his penis and the nicknames they had for him. They told the commission how they did their best to avoid the places where that abuse would take place – the chook shed, the banana patch, the swimming pool, the front seat of his car, or his bedroom when his wife was out. They said all the children knew what he was doing. Some said the other house parents had no idea but the evidence to the commission suggests that was not the case.
As a young boy, Kevin Stagg tried to tell Superintendent Mervyn Pattemore about the Henderson abuse but told the commission he was not believed and was caned until he retracted his allegations. Other witnesses said they were too afraid to report Henderson.
But it was not just house parents in positions of trust who allegedly sexually abused children; many of the older boys at Retta Dixon were also perpetrators. Veronica Johns told the commission an older boy raped her when she was just seven years old. She says she lived in fear of further sexual assaults. The commission heard that Johns reported
a number of incidences to Pattemore but “nothing ever changed”.
Pattemore was the superintendent of Retta Dixon from 1963 until it closed. He was an AIM pastor and charged with the day-to-day running of the home. Pattemore featured constantly in the accounts given to the royal commission by the former residents. Sometimes he was spoken of as a kind man, but mostly the witnesses claimed he administered beatings to the children in his care and refused to believe those who said they were being sexually abused.
Mervyn Pattemore is still alive, living just outside Darwin. He did not appear before the royal commission.
Donald Henderson is also alive and one of the commission’s tasks is to examine why sexual assault charges against him were dropped on two occasions.
The first was in 1975 when, on the urging of a young house parent, Henderson was reported to the police and charged with a number of counts of indecent assault on young boys. The charges were subsequently dismissed at committal, but the details of why that happened 40 years ago are difficult to uncover. Although Henderson didn’t go to trial, he subsequently left Retta Dixon.
The next time Henderson was charged was in 2002. Then, four former residents alleged numerous sexual assaults. Eighty charges went to committal, with 15 going through to a trial date in December of that year. However, just a month before the trial was to go ahead, the Northern Territory’s director of public prosecutions (DPP) dropped the action. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is determined to find out why this happened.
The current DPP, Jack Karczewski, arrived to defend the decision made by one of his predecessors, but within a short time was agreeing with counsel for the commission that the charges against Henderson were strong in law and should have gone to trial. Karczewski also admitted that in 2002 the DPP’s own guidelines on the arguments that needed to be presented if a matter was to be discontinued were not followed. The DPP’s processes in this case were clearly flawed and an important opportunity was lost for the men and women who claim to have been victims of sexual abuse as children to have these charges heard in court.
While redress for these alleged victims was lost in 2002, the royal commission is now examining what redress is possible. The Commonwealth government and the AIM – now known as Australian Indigenous Ministries – were jointly responsible for the operation of the Retta Dixon Home and representatives from both appeared before the commission.
Neither was impressive. Most of the documents from those 34 years of the operation of the home have disappeared or never existed. There is no useful paper trail of what official oversight there was of the operations or what care was taken to ensure that the hundreds of children in this religious institution were properly treated.
The former residents of Retta Dixon told the commission all they want is an apology and compensation. While some say financial compensation would not give them back their childhoods, at least it would be a serious recognition of the wrong done to them.
The past two weeks saw the start of a healing journey for many of those who claim to be the abused children of Retta Dixon. They showed great courage in speaking out. With the conclusion of the hearings on Wednesday, all will be hoping that the royal commission matches that courage with its final recommendations.
This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on Oct 3, 2014 as "Failed by the system". Subscribe here.
Clare Martin
is a Darwin-based journalist and a former chief minister of the Northern Territory.
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The USS Rafael Peralta is christened. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy.
Honoring a hero
March 27, 2017 | San Diego Community College District
The Navy’s newest guided missile destroyer named posthumously for Marine hero and former San Diego City College student Rafael Peralta is set to be commissioned in Coronado in late July.
Sgt. Rafael Peralta
Peralta was born in Mexico City and grew up in San Diego, graduating from San Diego’s Morse High School and attending San Diego College. He later enlisted in the Marine Corps and was killed during the second Battle of Fallujah in 2004 when he grabbed a grenade thrown by insurgents, clutched it to his body, and absorbed the blast to save the lives of his fellow Marines.
Peralta was awarded a Navy Cross for his actions and he is buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in Point Loma.
The Navy took possession of the USS Rafael Peralta on Feb. 3 from General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Maine, and the Navy is set commission the $1.5 billion ship at Naval Base Coronado.
In fall of 2014, the keel of Rafael Peralta was laid down. The ship was christened October 31, 2015 during a ceremony at the Bath Iron Works facility in Bath, Maine, and then launched on November 1, 2015. The USS Rafael Peralta will be commissioned July 29, 2017. For more information on the commissioning visit peraltacommissioning.org.
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By Jillian Kramer
Your First Look at 'Fifty Shades Freed' Is at a Theater Near You
You'll have to watch 'Fifty Shades Darker' to catch it.
We know, we know: Fifty Shades Darker has just come out (to box office success, naturally), and yet we can't help but look ahead to the third installment of the series. And, good news for us, the first look at Fifty Shades Freed is out in theaters—it's just hidden in a pretty unexpected place.
To catch a glimpse of the final film this BDSM-based trilogy, you'll need a ticket to Fifty Shades Darker—hey, you're there to see the movie anyway, right?—and then wait all the way to the very end. Because once the steamy sex scenes and, um, stalker drama of the movie fade to black, there's one more titillating experience in store: As the credits roll, snippets of Fifty Shades Freed begin to play.
Spoiler alert below!
Here's what you'll catch: Anastasia Steele, played by Dakota Johnson, is wearing a wedding dress and standing beside a mystery man. We can only see the back of his head, but one can assume he's her on-again, off-again lover, Christian Grey, played by Jamie Dornan, because it sounds as if he's reciting wedding vows as the clips play out.
"I solemnly vow to keep you safe for as long as we both shall live," Grey says.
You'll also spot flashes of Steele and Grey on the beach, in a private jet, and making out in a shower (of course). It'll leave you wanting more, but until its official trailer and its theater release on February 9, 2018, Fifty Shades Darker will have to do.
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Volunteers help center for homeless take shape
Resource center for homeless taking shape
Volunteers help center for homeless take shape Resource center for homeless taking shape Check out this story on thespectrum.com: http://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/local/2014/06/15/volunteers-help-center-homeless-take-shape/10560061/
David DeMille, ddemille@thespectrum.com Published 5:10 p.m. MT June 15, 2014
Volunteer Bronco Hollowell scrapes off the remains of carpet adhesive at the St. George Resource Center on Friday. (Photo: Trevor Christensen / The Spectrum & Daily News )Buy Photo
ST. GEORGE – Backed by an enthusiastic city government and the help of numerous volunteers, organizers here are working steadily toward an ambitious plan to turn a former rehab academy into a multi-faceted resource center to combat homelessness.
Representatives from St. George are working with state and local agencies, churches, nonprofit groups and others toward the opening of the new St. George Resource Center at 948 N. 1300 West, touting it as a potential answer to solving the homelessness and poverty problems that struck the area so hard during the Great Recession and economic downturn.
During a meeting last week with the city council, managers explained that the idea is to go beyond the normal functions of an emergency shelter. Those in need can stop in to get their basic food and shelter needs met, but they will also receive on-site support for job training, mental health counseling, and help finding housing.
When the facility opens, potentially before the end of the summer, a procedure would be in place where each person coming in to look for help would be interviewed and assessed by case workers who would then develop an action plan for that individual.
“We go through that whole thing without any judgment, and now we can help you and now we know where to start,” said Carol Hollowell, hired earlier this month to head the operation as director.
Hollowell said similar service-based efforts have worked locally on a smaller scale, and in her past experience people have always been willing to try to work his or her way out of homelessness as long as the right support is there. She said that in the past year she has worked with hundreds of people trying find jobs and work, and only one declined the help.
“That typical picture we have of a ‘hobo’ just isn’t there,” she said.
The federal government defines chronic homelessness as being continuously homeless for a year or more or having been homeless at least four times in the past three years. According to the most recent data, less than 4 percent of Utah’s homeless population qualified.
The area’s only existing major shelter, the Dixie Care and Share, saw more than 600 people spend 13,637 nights in 2013, often filling the facility’s 52 beds.
The St. George Resource Center would be only slightly larger, with 64 beds, but Hollowell said managers are confident that they can avoid space issues by funneling people through the system quickly, getting them back to work and back into homes. All of the support services would be there under one roof, backed by a municipal government and funded through a variety of grant programs, donations and volunteer contributions.
“What a powerful tool we have by coming together,” Hollowell said. “There’s no way we’ll have people coming in and staying in homelessness if we can help put together an action plan that is individualized and works for them.”
The idea has widespread support. Since the city approved the $1.5 million building purchase in April, planners have worked with numerous government agencies and advocacy groups willing to help, including the Department of Workforce Services, Southwest Behavioral Health Center, Dove Center, Children’s Justice Center, Erin Kimball Foundation, Department of Veterans Affairs, the United Way and even the Department of Motor Vehicles.
A lot of the stuff we’re not reinventing we’re just putting them all together and taking what they’ve got and adding to it by getting at the whole picture,” City Manager Gary Esplin said.
Successful grants have already been approved to purchase seamless mattresses and other furniture to prevent the bed bug problems that often plague shelters, and various local entities are chipping in to help with remodeling work. On Friday dozens of Dixie State University Students showed up to help scrape out what was left of the old floor.
“When I talk to people about this program, I’ve had people say, ‘I’m just getting chills,’” Councilwoman Bette Arial said. “It’s just amazing.”
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Here’s what you need to know about Trudeau’s carbon price plan
By Alex BallingallOttawa Bureau
What’s the government doing?
The federal government’s carbon price plan has two prongs. The first is a fuel tax on everything from aviation turbo fuel to gasoline and combustible waste. This tax starts in April 2019 at $20 per tonne of greenhouse gas emissions. It is scheduled to go up $10 per year until 2022, when it is $50 per tonne.
The second component is called an output-based pricing system. This is for heavy emitters in industries like cement and fertilizer production. Companies in these industries get a set amount of emissions tax-free. Firms that emit less than their industry allotment will receive credits. Firms that emit more than their industry allotment can either buy credits from their competitors or pay the federal tax.
Which provinces will be affected by the federal tax?
On Tuesday, the government announced it will impose its pricing system on four provinces that refused to devise their own plans that met federal standards: Ontario, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Nunavut, Yukon and Prince Edward Island voluntarily accepted the federal fuel tax instead of creating their own systems.
Why a tax?
The federal government argues that “putting a price on pollution” is the best way to encourage individuals and businesses to make greener decisions. The fuel tax is designed to give people and businesses an incentive to burn less fuel. Many economists argue such a carbon tax is more economically efficient than alternatives like regulations to phase out fossil fuels. Christopher Ragan, chair of the Ecofiscal Commission in Montreal, said this is because businesses and individuals can find the best solution for themselves, whether it be investing in ways to avoid the tax or simply deciding to pay it.
What’s this supposed to accomplish?
The carbon price is a central plank of Ottawa’s framework with the provinces and territories to curb greenhouse gas emissions (other parts of the plan involve weaning off subsidies to the oil and gas industry, regulating methane emissions, and phasing out coal-fired power across Canada). Canada’s pledge under the Paris Agreement is to reduce emissions to 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.
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But the government’s own projections, submitted to the United Nations last year, say the framework isn’t enough to hit that target. What’s more, federal officials say the countrywide pricing plan will have a weaker impact that originally forecast because Ontario cancelled its cap-and-trade program and will instead use the system devised by Ottawa.
What will happen to the tax revenue?
The fuel tax in the four provinces where it is being imposed is expected to raise $2.3 billion in the 2019-20 fiscal year — $1.7 billion from Ontario alone.
Ninety per cent of that will go to individuals and families via rebates added to their annual tax returns, the government says. A family of four in Ontario will get a $307 rebate next year, when the government predicts extra costs from the tax for that family will be $264. By 2022, the rebate will be $697 for an average Ontario household, when costs are expected to hit $564, according to government officials.
Payouts will be different in the other three provinces where the tax is being imposed. In Saskatchewan, the average household cost will be higher and more revenue will be raised, so people will receive larger rebates. The government expects to rebate the average Saskatchewan household $1,419 in 2022, up from $598 next year.
The remaining 10 per cent of tax revenues will go to support small- and medium-sized businesses in the four provinces, as well as non-profit organizations, municipalities, universities, hospitals and Indigenous communities. For Ontario, this payout is expected to be $50 million in 2019-20 and rise to $125 million five years later.
What is the expected impact on the economy?
Federal officials say gross domestic product is expected to grow 1.7 per cent each year until 2022 when each province and territory has a carbon price in place. Without the carbon price, GDP growth would be 1.8 per cent each year officials say. In May, the Parliamentary Budget Officer predicted GDP would be $10 billion lower in 2022 than it would have been without Ottawa’s carbon price plan.
Alex Ballingall is an Ottawa-based reporter covering national politics. Follow him on Twitter: @aballinga
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Canadian Pacific (CP) Stock Climbs Following Update on $28 Billion Norfolk Southern Bid
Canadian Pacific (CP) shares are rising after the company offered a detailed view of its bid for Norfolk Southern (NSC).
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP - Get Report) are up by 5.7% to $146.67 in early afternoon trading on Wednesday, after the company detailed its $28.4 billion bid for rival Norfolk Southern (NSC) today.
Canadian Pacific is expecting to deliver a premium of close to 60% over Norfolk shareholder's holdings through its cash and stock offer.
The railroad operator also said that a combined company would generate savings of $1.8 billion annually.
Canadian Pacific released its detailed offer today after Norfolk rejected the bid saying that it presented too low of a premium.
Insight from TheStreet Research Team:
TheStreet's Jim Cramer, portfolio manager of the Action Alerts PLUS charitable trust, believes that Norfolk Southern should continue to play hard to get.
Should Norfolk Southern (NSC) just say no to Canadian Pacific's (CP) $95 offer announced yesterday, given that the stock was just at $72 not that long ago? Should it take the money and run? Or should it hold out for something higher, given that the stock traded at $117 at this point last year?
Right now it sure sounds like Norfolk Southern wants nothing to do with the offer, or wants something much higher if it is going to sell out to CP -- if it wants to sell at all.
I can't blame the company. Right now, the rails are caught in the grips of a huge decline in coal, the bedrock cargo for this business, and it's getting worse, not better, anytime soon, given the much lower cost of natural gas as a feedstock. Utilities that can switch from one fuel to another, however, have mostly done so. Coal, which represents almost 40% of the fuel for the U.S. electric grid, is not expected to go below 30% within the next 10 years even though natural gas is cheaper, abundant and cleaner.
So, it's pretty easy to see why Norfolk Southern is saying that coal's decline is bottoming out and its stock reflects too much negativity about that cargo and not enough of the positives that come from robust intermodal traffic.
- Jim Cramer, Maybe Norfolk Southern Should Just Say No to Canadian Pacific, originally published on 11/18/2015.
Separately, TheStreet Ratings team rates CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD as a Buy with a ratings score of B. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
We rate CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD (CP) a BUY. This is driven by multiple strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:
The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 9.4%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 2.3%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.
The company's current return on equity greatly increased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of significant strength within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Road & Rail industry and the overall market, CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD's return on equity significantly exceeds that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
Net operating cash flow has increased to $696.00 million or 30.33% when compared to the same quarter last year. The firm also exceeded the industry average cash flow growth rate of -5.55%.
48.80% is the gross profit margin for CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD which we consider to be strong. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Regardless of the strong results of the gross profit margin, the net profit margin of 18.89% trails the industry average.
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD's earnings per share declined by 11.7% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY LTD increased its bottom line by earning $8.49 versus $4.98 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($10.26 versus $8.49).
You can view the full analysis from the report here: CP
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Top Ten Celebrities Who Like Metal Music
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In A Deleted Scene He Sings The Song Hammer Smashed Face In Growls And Screams That Parody Death Metal Vocalist's - christangrant
He Wanted Cannibal Corpse To Be In Ace Ventura - christangrant
2 Nicolas Cage Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and producer. He is well known for his roles in Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, Vampire's Kiss, Wild at Heart, Honeymoon in Vegas, Red Rock West, Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock, Con Air, Face/Off, City of Angels, 8MM, Bringing ...read more.
Yes, and his son Weston is a black metal musician - Weston was the frontman for the band Eyes of Noctum and is currently working on a solo black metal project called Allone.
This list is awesome. Congrats! - Metal_Treasure
3 Sir Christopher Lee Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (1922-2015) was an English actor, singer, and author. He was best known for his villainous roles in films such as Dracula in the Hammer Horror films, Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, Saruman in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit ...read more.
He discovered metal music in his late 70s and even recorded metal albums - he's got a pretty good singing voice. He released his last metal album at 92 (R.I.P). At the age of 87, he was honoured with the Spirit of Metal award at the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden God awards ceremony. - Metal_Treasure
4 Jack Black Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black is an American actor, singer, musician and comedian. His acting career has been extensive, starring primarily in comedy films. Black is the lead vocalist of the comedic rock group Tenacious D, which he formed in 1994 with friend Kyle Gass. They have released the albums Tenacious ...read more.
Yes, and he performed the song "The Metal" ("You can't kill the metal, metal will live on") - Metal_Treasure
5 Lady Gaga Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. ...read more.
Yes Its True She Likes Iron Maiden - christangrant
And she has a song "Heavy Metal Lover". - Metal_Treasure
6 Demi Lovato Demetria Devonne "Demi" Lovato is an American singer, songwriter and actress. After appearing on the children's television series Barney & Friends as a child, she received her breakthrough role as Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel television film Camp Rock and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. ...read more.
I didn't know that! And she's one of my favorite singers. She should write some metal songs.
She likes Lamb of God and Dimmu Borgir.
Wait, she's a metalhead? Wow - NikBrusk
7 Cameron Diaz Cameron Michelle Diaz is a retired American actress, producer, author, and fashion model. She rose to stardom with roles in The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding, and There's Something About Mary, and is also known for voicing the character of Princess Fiona in the Shrek series.
Ha, I didn't know this about her but sounds good.
I just learned she mostly listens to Iron Maiden. - Metal_Treasure
8 Michael Fassbender Michael Fassbender is a German-Irish actor of stage and screen whose career includes roles in both independent and blockbuster films, most notably; Hunger, Inglourious Basterds, Shame, X-Men: First Class, Prometheus, 12 Years a Slave, Frank, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Steve Jobs.
Magneto Likes Metal Music and Metal
9 Mike Myers Michael John "Mike" Myers is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, and film producer, who also holds British and American citizenship.
"Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal." - Metal_Treasure
10 Chris Jericho Christopher Keith Irvine, better known by the ring name Chris Jericho, is a Canadian-American professional wrestler, musician, media personality, actor, author, and businessman, currently signed to WWE and NJPW.
He's In A Band Called Fozzy And His Wrestling Finisher The Walls Of Jericho Is Named After A Helloween Album - christangrant
You Just Made the list! - htoutlaws2012
11 Post Malone Austin Richard Post (born July 4, 1995), known professionally as Post Malone, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, and guitarist.
He was in a high school metalcore and covered an Asking Alexandria song, which is available on the internet to listen. He also hangs out with metal Youtuber Jared Dines and reportedly loves Infant Annihilator. There's actually a video of Jared giving him a signed IA vinyl and him being excited about it.
12 Amy Lee Amy Lynn Hartzler, known professionally as Amy Lee, is an American singer-songwriter, classically trained pianist and composer. She is also the lead singer to the Arkansas band Evanescence.
This pretty woman with angelic voice likes death metal. - Metal_Treasure
Well is something obvious, she sing in a nu metal/alternative metal band
Evanescence aren't a metal band - they don't even have a page on Encyclopaedia Metallum and the band's official website classed their genre as "rock". - Metal_Treasure
Yeahhh I can tell by her music! Awesome! I love her.
13 Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
Paris Jackson is Michael Jackson's daughter. Yep, The King Of Pop's daughter is a metalhead! Her favorite band is Metallica. She goes to live metal shows and I've seen pictures of her with the metal horns gesture. - Metal_Treasure
14 Margot Robbie Margot Elise Robbie is an Australian actress. Robbie started her career by appearing in Australian independent films in the late 2000s. She got her big break in 2013 with The Wolf of Wall Street, where she was acclaimed for her performance, and being hailed "the hottest woman I've seen in a while" by ...read more.
15 Snoop Dogg Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr., (born, October 20, 1971) known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, actor, record producer, and television personality from Long Beach, California.
Never tough he likes metal. - zxm
I even saw him wear a Metallica shirt one time.
Yeah, he even covered Sad But True by Metallica. - NikBrusk
16 Prince Harry Prince Henry of Wales commonly known as Prince Harry, is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales.
He likes some old school metal bands. - Metal_Treasure
He's a fan of the big four of thrash.
17 Dave Grohl David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, producer and film director. He is best known as the former drummer of the hugely popular 90s grunge band Nirvana and the vocalist/guitarist for the alternative rock band Foo Fighters. He has sat behind the ...read more.
He is a fan of Canadian metal band Voivod - not sure if he still is but in an interview he was talking about his younger years and said Voivod blew his mind in the 80s. - Metal_Treasure
18 Jada Pinkett Smith
This is interesting, I didn't expect it. - Metal_Treasure
She was in a Nu-Metal band called Wicked Wisdom - JCHOW
19 Chris Hemsworth Chris Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as Kim Hyde in the Australian TV series Home and Away and as Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor, The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Thor: Ragnarok.
20 Daniel Radcliffe Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor who rose to prominence as the title character in the Harry Potter film series.
21 Stephen King Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. Many of his most well-known novels include Carrie, It, The Shinning, The Stand, Misery, The Dark Tower series, and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, which was later ...read more.
He likes Metallica, Anthrax, and Judas Priest.
22 Mickey Rourke Philip Andre Rourke Jr., known professionally as Mickey Rourke, is an American actor, screenwriter, and retired boxer, who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films.
23 Avril Lavigne Avril Ramona Lavigne is a Canadian–French singer-songwriter and actress. By the age of 15, she had appeared on stage with Shania Twain; by 16, she had signed a two-album recording contract with Arista Records worth more than $2 million.
She's a massive metal fan and even sang Fuel in front of Metallica members. Youtube this: Avril Lavigne - Fuel (Metallica MTV Icon) - Metal_Treasure
24 Rachel Weisz Rachel Hannah Weisz is an English film and theatre actress as well as a former fashion model who holds both British and American citizenship.
25 Michael C. Hall
26 Ice-T Tracy Lauren Marrow, better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American musician, rapper, songwriter, actor, record executive, record producer, and author.
Obviously the front man if the metal band Body Count would be into metal even if he also is a rapper.
27 Seven Lions
28 Justin Bieber Justin Drew Bieber (born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer. He currently resides in Ontario, Canada and is Christian. He is the son of author Pattie Mallette. ...read more.
I doubt that... if I recall correctly he said that he hates metal...
29 Adam Gontier Adam Wade Gontier is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist and main songwriter for Saint Asonia, but is best known as the former lead singer, rhythm guitarist and main songwriter of the Canadian rock band Three Days Grace.
Three Days Grace Is an Alternative Metal And Post-Grunge band. - MegadethFan07
30 Beck Beck Hansen, known by stage name Beck, is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is mostly known for his musical composition, as well as a palette of sonic genres.
He likes the death metal band, Carcass.
31 Christina Grimmie Christina Victoria Grimmie (March 12th 1994 - June 10th 2016), known on YouTube as zeldaxlove64, was an American singer-songwriter known for participating in The Voice and for her covers of hit songs by contemporary pop musicians. She was shot dead during a meet-and-greet in Orlando, Florida, by fan ...read more.
32 Lil Jon Jonathan Smith, better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, DJ and actor.
He sampled a Slayer song.
33 Sage Kotsenburg
34 SpaceGhostPurrp
35 Kurt Cobain Kurt Cobain was born February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington. In 1987, he started the grunge band Nirvana, which became one of the most successful bands ever. He was a talented yet troubled grunge performer. Kurt Cobain became a rock legend in the 1990s with his band. He committed suicide at his ...read more.
His favorite metal bands were Metallica and Celtic Frost.
36 Kenny G
The smooth jazz musician (sax player) was seen at least twice at Opeth shows in LA (Opeth are a melodic death metal band). - Metal_Treasure
37 Steve-O Stephen Gilchrist Glover, better known by his stage name Steve-O, is a British-born American actor, stunt performer, producer, comedian, author, musician, and clown.
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USA Shelves ‘Shooter’ Premiere Until Fall
Series debut was previously delayed a week following multiple high-profile shootings in the US
Reid Nakamura | July 18, 2016 @ 1:00 PM Last Updated: July 18, 2016 @ 1:04 PM
USA has shelved the Ryan Phillippe-led series “Shooter” until the fall.
An individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap that the network felt that premiering the series — which stars Phillippe as a former Marine sniper — this summer would be disrespectful given current events.
Last week, USA announced that it would be delaying the premiere by a week out of respect for the victims of a mass shooting in Dallas, Texas, which saw 12 police officers and two civilians shot by a sniper during an otherwise peaceful protest.
Also Read: 'Shooter' Premiere Delayed a Week Following Dallas Shooting
Based on the 2007 feature film and the original Stephen Hunter novel “Point of Impact,” the series sees Phillippe taking over for Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger, an off-the-grid former Marine sniper who is coaxed into action to thwart the killing of the president.
Tom Sizemore and Omar Epps also star.
This summer has been marked by several high-profile shootings, including the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, last month, which left 49 people dead.
Also Read: 'Shooter' Stuntman Injured in On-Set Accident
The police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile also made headlines earlier this month.
On Sunday, a Marine veteran killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in a shootout that police have described as an ambush.
63 TV Shows to Watch Before Summer's Over, From 'Guilt' to 'OJ' (Photos)
Don't spend the end of summer on some depressing beach. Scroll through our handy gallery of shows you still have time to watch before the fall TV season.
"Devious Maids" (Lifetime) at 9 p.m./8c
Season 4 of the Eva Longoria-produced series will see the Beverly Hills maids returning for more down and dirty hijinks.
"Angie Tribeca" (TBS) at 9 p.m./8c
Rashida Jones returns to solve more crimes for the Really Heinous Crimes Unit in Season 2 of this cop drama spoof.
"Rizzoli & Isles" (TNT) at 9 p.m./8c
Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander will play the indefatigable cop/doctor team for the last time when the seventh and final season begins.
"UnReal" (Lifetime) at 10 p.m./9c
Reality TV has never been more real in Season 2 of this scripted series about the behind the scenes world of a "Bachelor" type dating show.
"Casual" (Hulu)
Season 2 of the Hulu dramedy will explore more deep topics like family, love, and sex in dark, but funny, ways.
"Hell on Wheels" (AMC) at 9 p.m./8c
The last seven episodes of the fifth and final season of this Wild West series promises to be one hell of a ride.
"OJ: Made in America" (ABC/ESPN) at 9 p.m./8c
This seven-plus hour documentary on the infamous O.J. Simpson murder trial will air part one on ABC before finishing out on ESPN.
Also Read: ESPN’s ‘OJ: Made in America’ Documentary Event Set to Screen in LA, NYC Theaters This Weekend (Video)
"The American West"(AMC) at 10 p.m./9c
Check out a different slice of American history with this event series that explores the lives of famous frontier figures like Wyatt Earp, Sitting Bull and Billy the Kid.
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"The Last Ship" (TNT) at 9 p.m./8c
With a cure for the virus in their possession, the crew of the Nathan James must now focus on rebuilding society
"Ride with Norman Reedus" (AMC) at 10 p.m./9c
"The Walking Dead" star will tour the U.S. exploring all the facets of biker culture.
Also Read: Norman Reedus Thinks Fan Outrage Over ‘Walking Dead’ Finale Is a ‘Huge Compliment’
"Guilt" (Freeform) at 9 p.m./8c
An American student living in London is accused of her roommate's murder in this ripped from the headlines Freeform original starring Emily Tremaine, Billy Zane and Kevin Ryan.
Also Read: ABC Family Orders New Scripted Dramas ‘Guilt,’ ‘Beyond’
"BrainDead" (CBS) at 10 p.m./9c
Mary Elizabeth-Winstead leads this drama about a Capitol Hill staffer who learns that Congress has been taken over by brain-eating aliens.
"Major Crimes" (TNT) at 10 p.m/9c
Season 5 of the "Closer" spinoff will pick up with the Major Crimes Squad tracking down the most high-profile criminals in L.A.
"Uncle Buck" (ABC) at 9 p.m./8c
Mike Epps stars in this sitcom based on the classic 1989 John Candy film about a perpetual slacker who agrees to care for his brother's kids.
"Animal Kingdom" (TNT) at 9 p.m./8c
This drama, based on the Australian film of the same name, follows a family that fuels their lavish lifestyle through crime.
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"Wrecked" (TBS) at 10 p.m./9c
This new comedy series tries to find the lighter side of surviving a plane crash and ending up on a desert island.
"To Tell the Truth" (ABC) at 10 p.m./9c
Anthony Anderson will host a game show revival in which a panel of celebrities try to determine the true identity of the contestants.
"Another Period" (Comedy Central) at 10 p.m./9c
Any "Downton Abbey" fans with a taste for comedy should check out this series from creators Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome
"Aquarius" (NBC) at 9 p.m./8c
David Duchovny returns for Season 2 of period crime drama about a detective who goes undercover with infamous the Manson Family.
"Orange Is the New Black" (Netflix) at 12:01 a.m.
Get locked up again with Season 4 of this popular Netflix show that explores the colorful lives of the women being held at Litchfield Penitentiary.
"The Jim Gaffigan Show" (TV Land) at 10 p.m./9c
Season 2 of Jim Gaffigan's comedy series sees the comedian still trying to balance his family life with his career.
"Murder in the First" (TNT) at 10 p.m./9c
Taye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson return for Season 3 as Dets. English and Mulligan from veteran producer Steven Bochco.
"The Fosters" (Freeform) at 8 p.m./7c
The atypical Foster family comes back for Season 4 to continue their exploration of what it means to be a family in the modern age.
"Odd Mom Out" (Bravo) at 10 p.m./9c
Season 2 of this comedy will see star Jill Kargman fighting against the matronly monarchy that rules over New York's Upper East Side.
"Pretty Little Liars" (Freeform) at 8 p.m./7c
Get ready for more mayhem and makeup in Season 7 of this series based on the novels by Sara Shepherd.
"The Haves and the Have Nots" (OWN) at 10 p.m/9c
Season 4 of Tyler Perry's drama series will continue to explore the contrast and conflict in the lives of the wealthy Cryer and Harrington families and the poor Young family
"Queen of the South" (USA) at 10 p.m/9c
Alicia Braga leads this USA original about a Mexican woman who flees across the border after her drug dealer boyfriend is killed.
"Greenleaf" (OWN) at 10 p.m./9c
Family and faith collide in Oprah Winfrey's new drama about the life inside a family that runs a Memphis megachurch.
"Big Brother" (CBS) at 8 p.m./7c
Julie Chen welcomes a new group of bickering housemates for Season 18 of this popular reality series.
"American Gothic" (CBS) at 10 p.m./9c
Steven Spielberg and James Frey produce this drama about a prominent Boston family that is attempting to redefine itself in the wake of a discovery that links their recently deceased patriarch to a string of murders spanning decades.
"BattleBots" (ABC) at 8 p.m/7c
Season 2 will continue all the mechanical mayhem we have come to expect from this robot demolition derby competition series.
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"Celebrity Family Feud" (ABC) at 8 p.m/7c
Steve Harvey hosts this version of the syndicated game show in which celebrities try to win money for charity.
"The $100,000 Pyramid" (ABC) at 9 p.m/8c
Former "Live" co-host Michael Strahan will helm the revival of this game show in which contestants team up with celebrities for word-association games.
"Ray Donovan" (Showtime) at 9 p.m./8c
Liev Schreiber is back for Season 4 of the gritty drama about a professional "fixer" and his efforts to keep his own family out of trouble.
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"Roadies" (Showtime) at 10 p.m./9c
Cameron Crowe returns to his rock roots with this series about the road crew of an arena rock band.
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"Match Game" (ABC) at 10 p.m/9c
Alec Baldwin will host the revival of this seminal dating game show.
"Dead of Summer" (Freeform) at 9 p.m./8c
"Once Upon a Time" creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis along with Ian Goldberg are leading this series about the dark forces at work at a summer camp in the 1980s.
"Zoo" (CBS) at 9 p.m/8c
Season 2 of this hit summer series will see animals continue to strike back against humanity for years of abuse and imprisonment.
"Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll" (FX) at 10 p.m./9c
Denis Leary puts on his leather pants once again for Season 2 of this comedy about a has-been rock star looking to reclaim his former glory.
"Marco Polo" (Netflix) at 12:01 a.m.
Lorenzo Richelmy will again play the famed explorer in Season 2 as he navigates the treacherous waters of Kublai Khan's court.
"Killjoys" (Syfy) at 9 p.m./8c
The bounty hunting heroes of this sci-fi series are back for Season 2 for more out of this world action.
"Dark Matter" (Syfy) at 10 p.m./9c
Season 2 finds the Raza crew still piecing their pasts together while outwitting untold dangers across the galaxy.
"Tyrant" (FX) at 10 p.m/9c
Adam Rayner returns as Bassam "Barry" Al-Fayeed, the son of a Middle Eastern dictator who struggles with whether or not to enter the family business.
"The Night Of" (HBO) at 9 p.m./8c
John Turturro stars in this miniseries about a murder in New York City, which spirals into a larger examination of the criminal justice system.
"Whose Line Is It Anyway?"(The CW) at 9 p.m./8c
Season 4 will bring more improv craziness as the "Whose Line" gang makes it up as they go along with a little help from the audience.
"Penn & Teller: Fool Us" at 8 p.m/7c
Season 3 will see the world-renowned magicians trying to shepherd the younger generation of prestidigitators in this reality competition series.
"Difficult People" (Hulu)
Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner play fictionalized versions of themselves once again in Season 2 of this comedy about two jaded New York comedians.
"Suits" (USA) at 9 p.m./8c
In Season 6, Pearson Specter Litt will have to rebuild after all their employees jumped ship at the end of last season.
"Mr. Robot" (USA) at 10 pm/9c
Rami Malek returns for Season 2 of this surprise hit and Golden Globe winner about a hacker who gets pulled into working with a hacktivist group.
Also Read: USA Unveils ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Trailer, First Look at ‘Shooter’ (Videos)
"Stranger Things" (Netflix) at 12:01 a.m.
Winona Ryder stars as a mother whose child disappears without a trace, and she must confront evil forces to get him back.
"Power" (Starz) at 9 p.m./8c
Omari Hardwick returns as drug kingpin/entrepreneur "Ghost" for Season 3 of this crime drama, which co-stars and is produced by 50 Cent
"Ballers" (HBO) at 10 p.m/9c
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is back for Season 2 of the comedy series in which he plays a former NFL player turned manager trying to keep his pro athlete clients on the straight and narrow.
"Vice Principals" (HBO) at 10:30 p.m./9:30c
Danny McBride and Walton Goggins play rival high school vice principals in this new comedy series.
"Shooter" (USA) at 10 p.m./9c
Ryan Phillippe takes over for Mark Wahlberg in this small screen adaption of the movie about an ace sniper who is framed for an assassination.
"BoJack Horseman" (Netflix) at 12:01 a.m.
Will Arnett again lends his voice to Season 3 of this animated series about a once-great horse actor trying to get back on top of Hollywood.
"Degrassi" (Netflix) at 12:01 a.m.
Netflix is reviving this popular Canadian teen melodrama for the fifth series in the long-running franchise
"Survivor's Remorse" (Starz) at 10 p.m/9c
In Season 3 of this comedy from producer LeBron James, Cam Calloway (Jessie T. Usher) lives the high life of a pro basketball player with his crazy family along for the ride.
"Bachelor in Paradise" (ABC) at 8 p.m./7c
Season 3 will see even more steamy action as former "Bachelor" and "Bachelorette" contestants hooking up in tropical locales.
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"The Get Down" (Netflix) at 12:01 a.m.
In this funky musical original from Baz Luhrmann and Shawn Ryan, a group of kids tries to navigate the streets of New York during the 1970s.
"Cheer Squad" (Freeform) at 10 p.m./9c
This original reality series follows the trials and tribulations of champion cheerleading team The Great White Sharks.
"Better Late Than Never" (NBC) at 10 p.m./9c
William Shatner, Henry Winkler, George Foreman and Terry Bradshaw star in this comedy event series as the four icons tour across Asia together.
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"The Strain" (FX) at 10 p.m/9c
Season 3 picks up with a bloody vengeance as the human survivors of a vampiric virus battle for their lives.
"You're the Worst" (FX) at 10 p.m./9c
This dark comedy explored the effects of clinical depression last season, and Season 3 will no doubt go in even crazier and more powerful directions.
It’s not too late to catch up on these summer shows, still available online or on-demand
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Coldplay split as Chris goes solo
A final album is already in the pipeline for December 2009 along with a string of farewell performances.
Last night Chris said: “I’m 31 now—and I don’t think that bands should keep going past 33, so we’re trying to pack in as much as possible. We’ll go for it until the end of next year.” Chris, who is married to actress GWYNETH PALTROW, will then concentrate on a solo career.
A music insider told me: “Chris isn’t the sort of guy who wants the comfort of being in a band. He’s very proud of what Coldplay have done, but he wants to go out when they’re on top.
“He’s become bigger than the band so he knows he’s going to have a huge career on his own. A solo career is something he’s always wanted to do.”
The Grammy and Brit Award-winning group have sold 40 million albums and produced anthems such as Yellow, Clocks and The Scientist.
X&Y was the best-selling album of 2005, shifting 8.3 million copies worldwide.
Their latest record, Viva La Vida, has already notched up two million sales and in June became the most downloaded album ever.
Chris formed the band, originally called Starfish, 12 years ago while at uni in London with JONNY BUCKLAND. They settled on the name Coldplay after GUY BERRYMAN and drummer WILL CHAMPION joined.
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Thomson Reuters finds labor disruption is the top global risk to prioritize among senior energy industry leaders
Global survey examines energy sector risk management and identifies the industry’s top business priorities
New York/London – Global energy leaders view labor disruption as the most significant risk impacting the effective management of their operations and commercial initiatives, according to a Thomson Reuters survey. The report also found that price risks represent the greatest segment of opportunities for improving business.
Thomson Reuters surveyed 250 global senior energy professionals to better understand their greatest areas of supply chain risk. The findings supplement a previous Thomson Reuters report finding that, on average, a company in the energy sector has 13,867 global third-party relationships in a typical year. The report, “Risk Management in the Energy Sector” examines the labyrinth of risks the companies face.
“Companies in the energy sector often don’t have a clear picture of the size and scale of potential labor and pricing risks, mostly because it has become more opaque and effective risk management solutions were seen purely as a cost,” said Leigh Henson, global head of Commodities, Thomson Reuters. “More companies are identifying the importance of a well-defined raw materials hedging strategy to improve margins, mitigate risks and gain competitive advantage over peers.”
The survey identified funding as the most significant obstacle to effective risk management, with human capital and resources named as the second most significant, particularly in the current low-cost environment across the global energy industry. Lack of data and/or an insight on risk, executive sponsorship, and outdated technology/digital infrastructure were also cited as impediments to risk management.
“Energy companies face myriad risks, ranging from complexities in supply chains to labor-force disruption and beyond,” said Emily Lyons, managing director, Energy Practice Group, Thomson Reuters. “It’s essential that these business leaders identify new ways to navigate the risk landscape in a profitable and compliant way, utilizing emerging technologies available. Thomson Reuters is a leader in providing answers to mitigate the threats to which they are exposed.”
The report surveyed respondents from the renewable, oil, and natural gas sub-sectors, both upstream and downstream. Respondents were split equally between five continental divisions: North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Middle East, and Asia. Respondents included chief compliance officers, chief risk officers, chief legal officers, heads of treasury, heads of supply chain, heads of procurement, and CEOs.
Thomson Reuters provides a comprehensive range of solutions for companies across commodities-related industries, including news, data, fundamentals, forecasting tools, and related products, both on its flagship desktop product Eikon and commodities data distribution tool PointConnect. These tools are also used by professionals to identify and navigate risks relating to global supply chains. More information about Thomson Reuters commodities solutions can be found here.
A link to Thomson Reuters annual “Top-100 Global Energy Leaders” is also available here.
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Triglav National Park
in Slovenia, Europe
Triglav lake Photo © ビッグアップジャパン
Triglav - Triglav National Park. Photo by Monitotxi
Triglav National Park, the only national park in Slovenia covering an area of more than 83,000 hectares, is one of the largest national reserves in Europe, named after its highest mountain Triglav (2,864m). The park is home to nearly all of Slovenia's 400 mountain over 6,562 feet Mountain tops, wild and deep gorges, amazing flora and fauna, cultural landscape with mountain pastures, and picturesque small alpine villages with rich cultural heritage invite you to visit the park.
In addition to its primary purpose of nature protection and conservation of landscape, the Triglav National Park is a place of exploration, relaxation, and experience of nature. It is a popular weekend destination with a wide range of activity, from hiking, climbing and mountain biking to fishing, canyoning and rafting. Marked trails in the park lead to countless peaks besides Mount Triglav. Favorite climbs include Mangart (2,679 m) and Špik (2,472 m) in the north, and the sharp ridge of Razor (2,601 m) southeast of Vršič . Triglav National Park is not only about climbing mountains. There are easy hikes through beautiful valleys, forests, and meadows too. The prettiest, you'll find around Bohinj and Pokljuka. Mountain huts known as ‘koča’ offer basic accommodation and delicious meals for hikers and climbers.
From traditional festivals and authentic farming villages to jaw-dropping scenery and stunning mountain panoramas, Triglav National Park is the perfect destination for the outdoor enthusiast who wants to step off the beaten path and taste authentic alpine culture.
The Triglav National Park is among the earliest European parks; the first protection dates back to 1924 when the Alpine Conservation Park was founded. The area was renamed Triglav National Park in 1961 and expanded 20 years later to include most of the eastern Julian Alps . Today, the park stretches from Gozd Martuljek in the north to Tolmin in the south and from the Italian border in the west almost to Bled in the east. In 2003, the park was included in the UNESCO MaB (Man and Biosphere) network.
Triglav National Park. . Photo by Erik
Highlights of Triglav National Park
Vršič moutain pass
Vršič pass is the highest road pass in Slovenia and connects Kranjska Gora with Bovec. The road runs through the heart of the Julian Alps and the views from the road simply call out for a stop-over. Slovenia's highest mountain pass also makes an excellent starting point for mountain hikes. The road is usually closed in the winter due to snow and avalanches.
Russian Chapel
When the Vršič Pass on the Kranjska Gora side descents almost to the valley, between 9th and 8th bend, stands a small Chapel of Larchwood. The Russian chapel was built to honor the memory of those who died and to serve as a reminder of the follies of war. Russian prisoners built the neat little chapel between 1916 and 1917.
The Soča River - Triglav National Park. Photo by Jill
The Soča hiking trail
This famous 14 miles educational trail leads along the emerald Soča river from Bovec into the heart of the Triglav National Park. Hiking time is 8 to 9 hours. There are several sights along the trail.
Triglav lakes valley
It used to be named ‘The Valley of the Seven Lakes’. The number of the lakes is much higher, although some of the lakes are very small. The alpine valley is located between Bohinj and Trenta. Magnificent natural lakes in the middle of the Karst environment are located at an altitude between 1300 m and 6,562 feet
Mt Triglav
Not merely the country’s highest peak, Triglav is also Slovenia’s national symbol. A favorite hiking destination, it is said that one is only considered a true Slovenian after having scaled its slopes and glanced out at the majesty of all that surrounds. There are several paths leading to the 2,864 m high peak, so choose a trail that is suitable for you. You don't have to be a keen mountaineer to climb it, but some hiking experience is needed.
Flora and fauna of Triglav National Park is a typical alpine one, with Alpine Ibex being the king of the mountains, and the brown bear, the king of the forests. However, it is not very likely you will see it. The most typical animal species of the Triglav National Park is the chamois. You can also meet Alpine marmot, deer, mouflon, golden eagle, fox, and many more. The otter, however, is very rare and is the most threatened animal species in the park. Of the plants, the most famous are Julian poppy, edelweiss, and the purple Zois' bellflower. It should be noted that most plants are protected, gathering rare alpine flowers is forbidden.
The park can pride itself on diverse bedrock composition and the richness of fossilized life specimens. Its surface forms are highly diverse and numerous, comprising high-mountain ridges with towering peaks, glacier U-shaped valleys, and a treasure chest of karst surface forms. The Julian Alps, the mountain range covering a large part of the national park, mainly consist of limestone, which is responsible for the formation of high-altitude karst forms such as potholes, abysses and pits and caves with watercourses functioning as underground connections of karst lake-lets.
Russian Chapel at Vrsic Mountain Pass - Triglav National Park. Photo by unknown
There is a bus service from Ljubljana to Lake Bohinj, Mojstrana, Gozd-Martuljek, and Kranjska Gora. In summer months, buses run from Kranjska Gora over the Vršič pass to Bovec. Regular bus routes are also to Tolmin, Kobarid and Bovec from Nova Gorica, Idrija and Ljubljana.
From Ljubljana to the railway station Lesce-Bled, and from there with a local bus. From Jesenice, the train takes you to Nova Gorica and back. The railway stations of Bled-Jezero, Bohinjska Bistrica, Podbrdo, and Most na Soči are convenient starting points for the Triglav National Park.
Author: Ayda. Last updated: Aug 24, 2014
Pictures of Triglav National Park
On the way to Triglav - Triglav National Park. Photo by Monitotxi
Location in Slovenia
46° 19' 59" N, 13° 46' E (Large Map)
Hotels nearby Triglav National Park
Pension Stare at the Bohinj Lake
8.4km - Ukanc
Hotel Mangart
18.4km - Bovec
Hotel Alpina Kranjska Gora
19.5km - Kranjska Gora
Hotel Kompas Kranjska Gora
Hotel Krn
19.6km - Tolmin
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Tour de France Standings
Official Tour de France standings can be confusing if you are a new viewer or new to the world of professional cycling. Why are there teams if the race is won by a single rider? How can you tell who is in the lead? How are times measured and points tallied? What is a "stage" and why are there different winners announced each day? And what is the significance of the sea of colored jerseys being strutted around?
To help you figure it all out, here is a mini-tutorial on Tour de France standings. To begin with, the Tour de France is a three-week bicycle race that winds throughout all of France. It is not only the longest cycling race in all of Europe, far surpassing the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España in both mileage and popularity, but the Tour de France is considered the most grueling and physically challenging event of any sport. The inaugural race, which took place on a much smaller scale with far fewer riders back in 1903, was an instant hit; since then, the Tour de France has become a household name all around the globe, attracting over a billion viewers each summer.
The competitors are 20 to 22 nine-member teams (each team known by the name of its sponsor), who must be invited to enter by the race's organizing body, the Amaury Sport Organization (ASO). Each team designates a leader who is the contender for the title, however no cyclist can expect to win the Tour de France without the support of his team members. They work to shield the leader from the wind, to block riders from opposing cycling teams, to maintain leads by "bunch sprinting" and pushing the leader toward the finish line, and employ a whole series of permissible strategies to emerge victorious at the end of each day or "stage."
Part of the route takes place over flat land, while in other parts of the Tour cyclists must tackle the ascents and descents of steep mountainsides, as well as neck-breaking speed sprints along winding roads. Hence daily Tour de France standings also announce the winner of the sprint race, who wears the green jersey; the winner of the mountain climbing race, who is dubbed "King of the Mountains" and who dons the polka-dot jersey; best rider under the age of 26, who is awarded the white jersey, and more.
To decipher reports of the Tour de France standings, you'll also need to familiarize yourself with some Tour lingo, such as "peloton," "breakway," "domestique," "prologue," "slipstream," "general classification" (GC), and more. These terms are often used to describe the thrilling action and will help you appreciate the Tour de France even more.
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https://www.vocera.com/press-release/vocera-executive-headlines-two-patient-experience-focused-events Skip to main content
Vocera Executive Headlines Two Patient Experience Focused Events
M. Bridget Duffy, M.D., to Discuss Restoring the Human Experience of Healthcare at Patient-Centered Care Symposium at University of Wisconsin
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE: VCRA), the leading provider of integrated, intelligent communication solutions for mission-critical environments in healthcare, hospitality, energy, retail and other mobile work environments, today announced that M. Bridget Duffy, M.D., chief medical officer at Vocera, will speak at two upcoming events focused on improving patient experience: the University of Wisconsin Health Patient Experience Week held in Madison, Wis., September 16-20, 2013, and the National Research Corporation's 19th Annual International Patient-Centered Care Symposium held in Baltimore, Md., September 22-25, 2013.
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During Wisconsin Health's Patient Experience Week, Dr. Duffy will give a keynote presentation, titled: "Restoring Human Connection in Healthcare," on Tuesday, September 17 at 5:45 p.m. CT. She will also be meeting with physician coaches that day and leading a duplicate keynote session on Wednesday, September 18 at 11:30 a.m. CT. Both speeches will take place at the UW-Madison Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) Atrium at 750 Highland Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin.
At the National Research Corporation's 19th Annual International Patient-Centered Care Symposium, Dr. Duffy will lead a general session, titled: "Restoring the Human Experience of Care," on Monday, September 23 at 8:30 a.m. ET. Her session will take place in Harborside A-C of the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront at 700 Aliceanna Street in Baltimore, Maryland.
M. Bridget Duffy, M.D., is the chief medical officer of Vocera. Before serving in this role, she co-founded and served as CEO of ExperiaHealth. Dr. Duffy also held the position of chief experience officer (CXO) of the Cleveland Clinic, the first senior position of its kind in the nation, where she guided the institution in reprioritizing their strategic goals to emphasize the patient experience. She frequently speaks about the importance of patient experience and the ways in which it affects clinical and financial outcomes. She has been honored by HealthLeaders magazine as one of "20 People Who Make Healthcare Better" and received the Quantum Leap Award for sparking international change in the healthcare field. Dr. Duffy is a graduate of the University of Minnesota's medical school and completed her residency in internal medicine at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn., where she created and served as medical director for one of the U.S.'s first "hospitalist" services. Dr. Duffy also served as medical director of Medtronic, Inc.
Vocera empowers integrated, intelligent communication for mission-critical environments in healthcare, hospitality, energy, retail and other mobile work environments. One of the fastest growing mobile technology companies, Vocera is widely recognized for developing smarter ways to communicate that improve patient and customer satisfaction. Exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association, Vocera® Voice Communication, Secure Messaging, and Patient Experience solutions are installed in more than 1,000 organizations worldwide. Vocera is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with offices in Tennessee, Canada, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.vocera.com and @VoceraCom on Twitter.
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pgoncalves@vocera.com
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Schwartz MSL
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Dr. Dre Breaks a Two-Year Silence with "Gunfire"
The song will be featured on 'The Defiant Ones' documentary series.
by Lawrence Burney
Jul 11 2017, 2:50pm
Foto: Kevin Winter / Getty Images
Earlier this week, documentary series about Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine's rise in the music industry, The Defiant Ones, premiered on HBO. Relevant to the themes covered in the series, Dr. Dre has a new song titled "Gunfire" or "Gunfiya" (as it's also being stylized), which he recently premiered on his Beats 1 show, The Pharmacy. It's his first new music since his 2015 Compton album and it covers the 20 years Dre has been in the game, including the trials it took to get to this point of success. "Gunfire" is available online now, but it will also appear in the fourth episode of The Defiant Ones. Listen above.
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Trump is considering 'severe' options for North Korea. What they might be
President Trump said he is considering 'severe' options after North Korea tested an ICBM to hit a U.S. city. Pyongyang and China have options too.
Trump is considering 'severe' options for North Korea. What they might be President Trump said he is considering 'severe' options after North Korea tested an ICBM to hit a U.S. city. Pyongyang and China have options too. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2tWYtlF
Oren Dorell, USA TODAY Published 6:22 p.m. ET July 6, 2017 | Updated 8:52 p.m. ET July 6, 2017
During a press conference, U.S. President Donald Trump said he is considering some "pretty severe things" in response to North Korea's missile tests. Video provided by Newsy Newslook
This picture purportedly taken on July 4, 2017 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on July 5, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) celebrating the successful test-fire of the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 at an undisclosed location.(Photo: KCNA, AFP/Getty Images)
President Trump said Thursday he is considering “severe” options in response to North Korea’s first test of a long-range missile. China and Russia oppose tough action, urging talks instead to resolve tensions.
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Wednesday the U.S. administration has considerable military capabilities but prefers “not to go in that direction."
Here are several options Trump can choose to pressure North Korea to halt its weapons programs and prompt China to seek the same goal.
Cut off a major Chinese bank
North Korea could be a year or less away from being able to place a miniaturized nuclear warhead on a missile that can hit a major U.S. city, said Gordon Chang, author of Nuclear Showdown, North Korea takes on the world.
Given the shortened time frame, the U.S. could bar from the U.S. financial system a major Chinese bank that participated in a money laundering scheme to help finance North Korea's weapons development, Chang said.
According to the U.N. Panel of Experts on North Korea, the Bank of China allowed a shipping firm, Chinpo Shipping, to use its bank accounts in Singapore from 2009 to 2013 to process more than $40 million through the U.S. financial system for North Korea.
“The fact that Chinese banks have been able to conduct criminal activity and get away with it is a scandal,” Chang said.
China might try to respond, but it would suffer more than the U.S. if the two countries engaged in a trade war, Chang said.
“The global markets might be shocked. The Chinese might try to retaliate. But we don’t need to be terribly concerned,” he said. “We don’t have an economy geared to selling things to China. The Chinese have an economy geared to sell things to us. They do not have the means to win a trade war.”
Scott Snyder, director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, recommended focusing on Chinese banks with a more gradual approach to prevent uncontrollable ripple effects.
Interdict North Korean ships
The U.S. and its allies could ramp up the interdiction of North Korean and North Korea-linked ships suspected of carrying weapons for sale abroad, Chang said.
Sales of weapons and military technology to Iran, and countries in south Asia and Africa are among North Korea’s main sources of income. “They’ve been selling all sorts of missiles to Iran,” Chang said.
Since the U.S. and North Korea are still technically in a state of war since 1953, when the Korean conflict ended without a peace accord, “there’s no agreement not to use force,” he said. “We can stop North Korea’s illegal trade in weapons."
Chris Hill, who led the U.S. delegation in 2005 for the “six-party talks” with North Korea, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea, said North Korea would consider such a move an act of war, and its response would be unpredictable.
“The North Koreans might retaliate militarily,” Hill said. “Their options are most opaque.”
Snyder said such action is permissible under U.N. Security Council resolutions, which bar North Korea from testing or selling missiles.
“It is a type of response that has military applications but is not a military response,” Snyder said. As a result, it probably wouldn't trigger the same type of escalation as a U.S. missile strike on a North Korean launch site, he said.
Life in North Korea: What you are allowed to see
Swimmers ride a water slide at the Munsu water park in Pyongyang, june 16, 2019. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Commuters ride a bus past the portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on June 18, 2019. Commuters ride a bus past the portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on June 18, 2019. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A conductor updates a newspaper stand in a subway train station in Pyongyang on June 18, 2019. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Tourists from China pose for photos before the Three Charters monument in Pyongyang June 14, 2019. Ordinary Chinese pay travel companies around $360.00 for a standard three-day trip to North Korea, arriving overland by train to tour the capital's highlights, from the Arch of Triumph to Kim Il Sung Square. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Swimmers rest beside a wave pool at the Munsu water park in Pyongyang, june 19, 2019. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A swimmer rides a water slide at the Munsu water park in Pyongyang, June 16, 2019. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Students hold cards to form pattern of smiling face of an old man during the mass game performance of "The Land of the People" at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, Friday, June 7, 2019. Jon Chol Jin, AP
Dancers play with rings during the mass game performance "The Land of the People" at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, Friday, June 7, 2019. Jon Chol Jin, AP
Girls in penguin costumes perform before the start of games during an International Children's Day event in Pyongyang, North Korea Saturday, June 1, 2019. Jon Chol Jin, AP
This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on June 1, 2019 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un posing with schoolchildren during his visit to the 250-mile Journey for Learning Schoolchildren's Palace in Jagang province in North Korea. KCNA VIA KNS, AFP/Getty Images
Farmers transplant rice seedlings in a field in Chongsan-ri, Kangso district, Nampho, North Korea, Sunday, May 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Cha Song Ho) ORG XMIT: OTK Cha Song Ho, AP
Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers stand before a bride and groom during a wedding photo shoot at a park in Pyongyang on April 18, 2019. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
A bride and groom jump over a skipping rope as they pose during a wedding photo shoot at a park in Pyongyang on April 18, 2019. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
In a photo taken on April 11, 2018, a performance troupe from Russia arrives at the opening of the "April Spring Friendship Art Festival" outside a theatre in Pyongyang. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
A woman wiper her eyes as she waits to pay her respects before the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, as part of celebrations marking the anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, known as the 'Day of the Sun', on Mansu hill in Pyongyang on April 15, 2019. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
The First Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea meets at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on April 11, 2019. AFP/Getty Images
Visitors tour the 21st Kimilsungia Festival opens marking the birthday anniversary of President Kim Il Sung at the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Exhibition Friday, April 12th, 2019, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Cha Song Ho, AP
A competitor interacts with a child on a road side during the annual 'Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon' in Pyongyang, April 7, 2019. KIM WON JIN, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Taesong Department Store in this photo released April, 8, 2019. KCNA VIA KNS, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency via AFP/Getty Images
Competitors run past the Ryugyong hotel during the annual Pyongyang marathon, April 7, 2019. There were twice as many in this years race than last. as last year ran in the city's annual maratho KIM WON JIN, AFP/Getty Images
An airport worker walks across a bridge near Sunan international airport outside Pyongyang, March 12, 2019. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
This is the Fifth Meeting of Company Leaders and Political Instructors of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in Pyongyang, March 27, 2019. North Korean Central News Agency via EPA-EFE
People walk past a kiosk that sells snacks in Pyongyang, March 9, 2019. Kiosks like these are a common sight around the city, some selling food, drinks and even artificial flowers. Dita Alangkara, AP
A worker walks among stacks of food at Kumkhop Trading Co. food factory in Pyongyang, March 13, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
Girls wait for their turn to perform a dance during the election day at a polling station in Pyongyang, March 10, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
A couple pose as they have their wedding photo taken at an indoor swimming pool in Pyongyang, March 13, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
A boy holding a toy rifle stands before a taxi on a street in Pyongyang, March 11, 2019. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
A commuter stands before a copy of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper showing an image of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un casting his ballot at the 14th Supreme People's Assembly elections, on display at a subway station in Pyongyang, March 11, 2019. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
Members of a Socialist Women's Union propaganda troupe perform a dance and music routine in front of the Ryugyong hotel in Pyongyang, March 9, 2019. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
Students participate in a "mass dance" as part of celebrations marking the birthday of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, known as the "Day of the Shining Star", in Pyongyang, Feb. 16, 2019. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
A man waters a pine tree on Munsu Hill as North Korea marks "tree-planting day" in Pyongyang, March 1, 2019. KIM WON-JIN, AFP/Getty Images
Students read the Rodong Sinmun newspaper coverage of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un visiting Vietnam for a summit in Hanoi with President Donald Trump, on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang, Feb. 28, 2019. KIM WON JIN, AFP/Getty Images
A television screen shows a news announcer introducing coverage of a visit to Vietnam by North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, on a street in Pyongyang, March 1, 2019. KIM WON JIN, AFP/Getty Images
In this picture taken on March 5, 2019 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (C) waves to the crowd of welcomers uppon his arrival at the Pyongyang Station after the Vietnam summit. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) / South Korea OUT / ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE --- / KCNA VIA KNS/AFP/Getty Images ORIG FILE ID: AFP_1E80FV KCNA VIA KNS, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean men ice fish on a frozen lake in Nampo, North Korea, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
North Korean women use a pedestrian crossing as the top of pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, a major landmark in the capital city, is seen in the background in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
North Korean men ride their bicycles in Nampo, North Korea, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
North Koreans men walk with a background of West Sea Barrage in Nampo, North Korea, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. West Sea Barrage was built in the 80s to separate Taedong River from the sea to prevent sea water intrusion into the river. Dita Alangkara, AP
North Koreans walk past a mural of their late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and his son Kim Jong Il in Nampo, North Korea, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
North Korean men ride their bicycles past propaganda banners in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
A North Korean woman works at Ryuwon Shoe Factory that specializes in sports footwear, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
A student sings in front of a green screen during a computer graphics class at Pyongyang Teachers' University, a teacher training college, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
In this Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, file photo, a man rides an electric bike in Pyongyang, North Korea. Dita Alangkara, AP
Children walk past a pedestrian underpass near the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, Jan. 28, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
People cross a road in Pyongyang, Jan. 26, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
A man rides an electric bike in Pyongyang, Jan. 28, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
A man rides his bicycle as tree branches cast shadows onto an apartment building in Pyongyang, Jan. 28, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
A man is dwarfed by an apartment building in Pyongyang, Jan. 28, 2019. Dita Alangkara, AP
Attendees shout slogans during a rally in support of a new year's address by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang, Jan. 4, 2019, Much of Kim's speech focused on North Korea's moribund economy, saying that improving people's lives was his top priority and tackling energy shortages was an urgent task. KIM WON JIN, AFP/Getty Images
Attendees shout slogans during a rally in support of a new year's address by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang, Jan. 4, 2019 KIM WON JIN, AFP/Getty Images
Government officials perform mass rhythmic exercises while taking part in the first sports day of the new year at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, Jan. 13, 2019. Jon Chol Jin, AP
Children jumprope and play folk games in front of the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum in Pyongyang, Jan. 1, 2019. Jon Chol Jin, AP
A man walks past a sign for underground pedestrian crossing as people remove snow from the sidewalk in downtown Pyongyang, Dec. 17, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
Men read books at one of the reading rooms at The Grand People's Study House in in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
North Koreans sit inside a trolley bus in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
North Koreans wait for a trolley bus at a bus stop in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
North Koreans walk on a pedestrian crossing bridge in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
A North Korean woman talks on her mobile phone as she skates at an ice rink in Pyongyang, North Korea Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
North Korean men walk past portraits of their late leaders Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, North Korea Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
Korean People's Army soldiers leave after bowing before the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il during National Memorial Day on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on Dec. 17, 2018. North Korea is marking the seventh anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Il. Kim Won Jin, AFP/Getty Images
Pyongyang residents prepare to lay flowers at the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il during National Memorial Day on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on Dec. 17, 2018. AFP/Getty Images
This is a traffic officer in Pyongyang, Dec. 2, 2018. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
Commuters ride a tram in Pyongyang, Dec. 2, 2018 ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
A man stands before the city skyline on a viewing deck of the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, Dec. 2, 2018. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
A bride and groom walk before the Juche tower and Taedong river on a foggy evening in Pyongyang, Dec. 2, 2018. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
Pedestrians walk past the portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il across Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang, Dec. 3, 2018 ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
A man rides an electric bicycle as the Tower of the Juche Idea is silhouetted against the sunrise in Pyongyang, Oct. 27, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
Dancers perform during "The Glorious Country" mass games at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, Oct. 25, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
A welcoming committee receives a delegation of performers and entertainers from China at Pyongyang International Airport, Nov. 2, 2018 KIM WON-JIN, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel wave from a motorcade in Pyongyang, Nov. 4, 2018. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency via AFP/Getty Images
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel review the honor guards while Kim's wife Ri Sol Ju and Diaz-Canel's wife Lis Cuesta Peraza walk behind during the Cuban leader's departure at Pyongyang airport, Nov. 6, 2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel wave from a motorcade in Pyongyang, Nov. 4, 2018.
Women cross a road in Pyongyang, Oct. 27, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
People cross a road in Pyongyang, Oct. 22, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
A van enters a tunnel on Pyongyang-Wonsan highway near the city of Wonsan, Oct. 22, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
Men smoke as they chat outside a supermarket in downtown Pyongyang, Oct. 21, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
A man looks out from a tram in Pyongyang, Oct. 22, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
North Koreans perform during an event, as part of the Inter-Korean summit, at the May Day stadium in Pyongyang Sept. 19, 2018 PYONGYANG PRESS CORPS / POOL, EPA-EFE
This is a general view of heaven lake and Mount Paektu in Mount Paektu, North Korea. POOL VIA GETTY IMAGES
South Korean President Moon Jae-in collects water from heaven lake at the bottom of Mount Paektu during a visit with his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un on Sept. 20, 2018 in Mount Paektu, North Korea. Kim and Moon meet for the Inter-Korean summit talks after the 1945 division of the peninsula, where they will discuss ways to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. POOL VIA GETTY IMAGES
A view of the sunrise over the city of Pyongyang from Koryo hotel in Pyongyang, Sept. 19, 2018. PYONGYANG PRESS CORPS / POOL, EPA-EFE
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, and his wife Kim Jung-sook, second from right, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from left, and his wife Ri Sol Ju ride a cable car to Mount Paektu in North Korea. The two Korean leaders took to the road for the final day of their summit. POOL/Pyongyang Press Corps
Visitors look at bears at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Kin Cheung, AP
A North Korean man looks through a device to study the vision of a dinosaur, at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Kin Cheung, AP
North Korean bride and groom pose for a photo at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Kin Cheung, AP
A North Korean rides a bike by the Tower of Juche Idea in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Kin Cheung, AP
A dog walks at the Kim Il Sung Square with the marks on the ground which had been used to coordinate different groups in their movements during parade, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. Kin Cheung, AP
North Korean boys wait for a train in a subway station in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 13, 2018. Kin Cheung, AP
A North Korean subway officer stands next to a train in a subway station in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 13, 2018. Kin Cheung, AP
A man rides a bicycle past the Cultural Palace in Pyongyang, Sept. 12, 2018. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
Customers get assistance at a supermarket in Pyongyang, Sept. 12, 2018. Kin Cheung, AP
North Korean students take part in a torch march held in conjunction with the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding day celebrations in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. Ng Han Guan, AP
Fireworks erupt as North Korean students hold torches during a parade on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic Of Korea on Sept. 10, 2018. Thousands of North Korean students took part in the parade as part of the National Day and 70th anniversary of the country's foundation celebrations. How Hwee Young, EPA-EFE
A portrait of Supreme leader Kim Il Sung on a float passes by as North Korean students hold torches during a torch light parade on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic Of Korea on Sept. 10, 2018. How Hwee Young, EPA-EFE
Performers hold cards to form the Korean words "Korea! Forever!" during the "Glorious Country" mass games held in conjunction with the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding day in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. Kin Cheung, AP
Participants perform during the "Glorious Country" mass games held in conjunction with the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding day in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. North Korea is bringing back one of its most iconic art forms, mass games performed by tens of thousands of people working in precise unison, to mark its 70th anniversary this weekend. Kin Cheung, AP
North Korean youths use cards to form the number 70 during the "Glorious Country" mass games held in conjunction with the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding day in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. Ng Han Guan, AP
Participants perform in a 'Mass Games' artistic and gymnastic display at the May Day stadium in Pyongyang on Sept. 9, 2018. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Korean People's Army tanks take part in a military parade on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Sept. 9, 2018. North Korea held a military parade to mark its 70th birthday, but refrained from showing off the intercontinental ballistic missiles that have seen it hit with multiple international sanctions. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Korean People's Army soldiers march during a mass rally on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Sept. 9, 2018. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Korean People's Army soldiers march during a military parade and mass rally on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Sept. 9, 2018. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Kumsanpho Fish Pickling Factory with his wife Ri Sol Ju in South Hwanghae Province, North Korea, Aug. 8, 2018. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency via AFP/Getty Images
North Korean athletes, headed by North Korean Vice Sports Minister Won Kil U, prepare to leave the Pyongyang international airport in Pyongyang to participate in the 18th Asian Games Aug. 10, 2018. Cha Song Ho, AP
Kim Jong Un chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, inspecting the Samchon Catfish Farm in South Hwanghae Province, North Korea, Aug. 8, 2018. NORTH KOREA'S OFFICIAL KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY VIA EPA
Twenty year old instructor Kim Ju Yang holds a North Korean-made assault rifle as she poses for a portrait at the Meari shooting range in Pyongyang, July 29, 2018. The range offers customers the opportunity to shoot a number of North Korean and foreign-made firearms, most of which have been modified to fire .22 caliber ammunition which costs one US dollar per round. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
Tour guide Ju Hye Yon poses for a portrait on a viewing deck of the Arch of Triumph, before the city skyline of Pyongyang, June 16, 2018. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
Children perform with traditional instruments at the Children's Palace in Pyongyang, July 26, 2018. The Children's Palace is a regular fixture on tour group schedules and features arts, dance, and musical performances by children. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
Students take part in a mass dance event marking the anniversary of the end of the Korean War on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang, July 27, 2018. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
Students pose for a photo after paying their respects before the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on the anniversary of the end of the Korean War, at Mansu hill in Pyongyang July 27, 2018. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
A taxi driver waits for customers in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, July 26, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
Girls dance in a studio at the Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, July 26, 2018. Mangyongdae Children's Palace is for talented school children to attend extracurricular classes and a popular place for tourists to visit during their stay in the capital. Dita Alangkara, AP
A girl performs on stage at Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, July 26, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
North Koreans spend their afternoon in an indoor swimming pool at Munsu Water Park during a hot day in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, July 24, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
A woman has her hair cut at a hair salon at Munsu Water Park during in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, July 24, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
A man carries a taxidermy falcon on the basket of his bicycle in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, July 24, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
Korean People's Army soldiers bow before the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, to mark the 24th anniversary of the death of Kim Il Sung, at Mansu Hill on in Pyongyang July 8, 2018. KIM WON-JIN, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
People leave flowers as they pay their respects in front of bronze statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Munsu Hill in Pyongyang July 7, 2018. ANDREW HARNIK, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
A woman walks past a boy on the street in Pyongyang July 7, 2018. ANDREW HARNIK, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Women clean a square outside the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang July 7, 2018. ANDREW HARNIK, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Animal specimens decorate a class room for biology at Mangyongdae Revolutionary School, an elite military educational establishment, in Pyongyang, June 21, 2018. The school provides basic all-round education but with a strong military emphasis as many of the pupils are expected to go on to senior careers in the military. DITA ALANGKARA, AP
People applaud as a seal, led by a trainer, walks past by during a dolphin show at an amusement park in Pyongyang, June 22, 2018. DITA ALANGKARA, AP
People walk on the street near the Koryo Hotel in Pyongyang, July 5, 2018. POOL VIA EPA
South Korean women's basketball players practice at Ryugyong Chung Ju-yung Gymnasium for exhibition games in Pyongyang, July 3, 2018. POOL VIA EPA-EFE
A worker at Okryugwan restaurant in Pyongyang serves 'naengmyeon,' a cold noodle dish that is the restaurant's specialty, during a welcoming dinner for South Korea's basketball delegation in Pyongyang, July 3, 2018. POOL VIA EPA-EFE
A South Korean journalist has their identity checked from North Korea officials as she arrives at Pyongyang Sunan International Airport July 3, 2018. POOL VIA GETTY IMAGES
Fans cheer during an inter-Korean basketball match at Ryugyong Chung Ju-yung Gymnasium in Pyongyang, July 5, 2018. POOL VIA GETTY IMAGES
People walk on a pedestrian bridge with apartment buildings in the background, in Pyongyang, North Korea on June 20, 2018. High rise apartments are a common form of accommodation for people living in the capital city. Dita Alangkara, AP
An employee in traditional dress stands at the entrance of a restaurant to greet customers in Kaesong, North Korea on June 20, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
A North Korean woman pauses during a visit at a trick mirror house at an amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on June 19, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
School children play in a shooting arcade at an amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on June 19, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
People enjoy a ride at an amusement park in Pyongyang, North Korea on June 19, 2018. Dita Alangkara, AP
Passengers ride a trolley in Pyongyang, North Korea on June 19, 2018. The city trolley is one of the more common forms of public transportation among North Koreans living in the capital city. Dita Alangkara, AP
A North Korea People's Army (KPA) soldier stands at the entrance to a tunnel at the Punggye-ri nuclear test facility prior to a demolition 'ceremony' May 24, 2018. AFP/GETTY IMAGES
This is a demolition 'ceremony' of North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test facility, May 25, 2018 . KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY VIA AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Kim Jong Un inspects the completed Koam-Tapchon Railways in Pyongyang, May 25, 2018. NORTH KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY
Kim Jong Un inspects the completed Koam-Tapchon Railways in Pyongyang, May 25, 2018. NORTH KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY VIA EPA-EFE
South Korean journalists arrive at North Korea's Kalma airport in Wonsan, May 23, 2018. Pyongyang has given South Korean reporters a last minute green-light to witness the slated demolition of North Korea's nuclear test site. SOUTH KOREAN NEWS AGENCY NEWS1 VIA DONG-A ILBO VIA AFP/GETTY IMAGES
A traffic policeman checks his watch outside the central railway station in Pyongyang. North Korea went forward in time by 30 minutes on May 4, to match its clocks with those of the South following the inter-Korean summit on April 27. KIM WON-JIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shake hands at the Workers' Party of Korea headquarters in Pyongyang on May 9, 2018. North Korea's Official Korean Central News Agency via AFP/Getty Images
Wang Yi, state councelor and foreign minister of the People's Republic of China and his deligation visit the Friendship Tower in Pyongyang, May 2, 2018. NORTH KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY VIA EPA-EFE
This is the former North Korean Workers Party Headquarters in Cheorwon, April 22, 2018. ED JONES/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Korean People's Army soldiers arrive to pay their respects before the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, at Mansu hill in Pyongyang April 15, 2018. ED JONES/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
This is the Pyongyang city skyline and the Taedong river, April 4, 2018. ED JONES/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Staff members stand before preserved 'flat-fish' in a science classroom at the Mangyongdae Revolutionary Academy outside Pyongyang, April 10, 2018. The academy was originally created for orphans who lost parents in the Korean War, and currently has 1000 students. ED JONES/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Spectators walk across Kim Il Sung square as they arrive to watch a fireworks display during celebrations marking the anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang on April 15, 2018. ED JONES/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Visitors by the gate of the Central zoo in Pyongyang, April 15, 2018. CHA SONG HO/AP
People hold a dance party to celebrate the 106th birth anniversary of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang, in this photo released on April, 15, 2018. NORTH KOREA'S OFFICIAL KOREAN CE
This photo released by the North Korean Central News Agency, shows Kim Jong-un chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, together with his wife Ri Sol-ju speaking to the cast after enjoying the ballet choreodrama 'Red Women Company' performed by a Chinese art troupe at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater, April 16, 2018. NORTH KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY VIA EPA-EFE
This April 15, 2018 picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 16, 2018 shows fireworks being displayed to celebrate the 106th birth anniversary of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang. KCNA VIA KNS, NORTH KOREA'S OFFICIAL KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY VIA AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Spectators watch fireworks over the Taedong river during celebrations marking the anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang April 15, 2018. April 15 is known as the Day of the Sun. ED JONES/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Students participate in a 'mass dance' event outside the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium as thousands of people gathered to dance in celebration of late leader Kim Jong Il. ED JONES/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
This is the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, April 9, 2018. CHA SONG HO/AP
A light show displays a North Korean flag on top the Ryugyong hotel in Pyongyang April 9, 2018. ED JONES/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Runners compete in the Pyongyang International Marathon with a backdrop of the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, North Korea, April 8, 2018. Hundreds of overseas runners hit the streets in Pyongyang for North Korea's annual marathon. Jon Chol Jin, AP
Children fly kites during Lunar New Year festivities on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang Feb. 16, 2018. KIM WON-JIN, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un shakes hands with South Korean chief delegator Chung Eui-yong during a meeting in Pyongyang, March 6, 2018. NORTH KOREA'S OFFICIAL KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY VIA AFP/GETTY IMAGES
The North Korean delegation of athletes, supporters and journalists arrive in Pyongyang after taking part in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea, Feb. 26, 2018 KCNA VIA KNS VIA AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Visitors take smartphone photos at the '8th National Cooking Competition' at the Pyongyang Noodle House in Pyongyang, Feb. 12, 2018. KIM WON-JIN, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
A chef prepares a dish during a demonstration at the '8th National Cooking Competition' at the Pyongyang Noodle House in Pyongyang, Feb. 12, 2018. KIM WON-JIN, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
A foreign visitor stands for a photo with a Korean People's Army soldier in front of a portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Jong IL, at the 22nd 'Kimjongilia Festival' flower festival marking the upcoming 'Day of Shining Star', the anniversary of the Kim's birth, in Pyongyang Feb.13, 2018. KIM WON-JIN, AFP/GETTY IMAGES
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released this photo taken Feb. 8, 2018 on Feb. 9, 2018. It shows North Korean soldiers marching during the military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean People's Army at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. KCNA VIA KNS, AFP/Getty Images
North Korea's military march in Pyongyang and put its intercontinental ballistic missiles on display just a day before the Winter Olympics open in the South. KCNA VIA KNS, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, dressed in black, observes the parade marking the 70th anniversary of the Korean People's Army. KCNA VIA KNS, AFP/Getty Images
North Korea military stand at attention, Feb. 8, 2018, at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. KCNA VIA KNS, AFP/Getty Images
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released this image Feb. 9th which shows North Korean soldiers marching during the military parade in Pyongyang. KCNA VIA KNS, AFP/Getty Images
Hwasong-15 ballistic missiles are shown during the military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean People's Army, on Feb. 8, 2018. KCNA VIA KNS, AFP/Getty Images
The military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean People's Army culminated at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. KCNA VIA KNS, AFP/Getty Images
People cheer as military vehicles pass by during the parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean People's Army on Feb. 8, 2018. KCNA VIA KNS, AFP/Getty Images
North Korea put some of its military hardware and soldiers on parade a day before the Winter Olympics open in the South. KCNA VIA KNS, AFP/Getty Images
In this image made from video by North Korea's KRT, military tanks are seen during a parade in Pyongyang. NORTH KOREA'S KRT VIA AP
The satellite Deimos-2 captured this photo of Pyongyang today during their military parade, Feb. 8, 2018. On the left of this photo you can see armored vehicles in the street during the parade. DEIMOS IMAGING AN URTHECAST COMPANY
In this image made from video released by KRT, North Korean soldiers march during a military parade in Pyongyang, Feb. 8 2018. NORTH KOREA'S KRT VIA AP
In this image made from video released by KRT on Feb. 8, 2018, a military parade is held at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. NORTH KOREA'S KRT VIA AP
In this an image made from video by North Korea's KRT, a military parade is held in Pyongyang, Feb. 8, 2018. NORTH KOREA'S KRT VIA AP
In this image made from video by North Korea's KRT, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, attends a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea held a massive military parade highlighted by intercontinental ballistic missiles in its capital one day before South Korea hosts the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. North Korea's KRT VIA AP
A North Korean military guide leads a tour of the USS Pueblo in Pyongyang, Jan. 24, 2018. The Pueblo, an American spy ship, was attacked and captured by North Korea 50 years ago. The ship is the only commissioned US Navy ship held by a foreign government. ERIC TALMADGE, AP
A 'super blood blue moon' rises above the Ryugyong hotel in Pyongyang, Jan. 31, 2018. The cosmic event not seen in 36 years was glimpsed in parts of western North America, Asia, the Middle East, Russia and Australia. KIM WON-JIN, Afp/Getty Images
Schoolchildren shovel snow Jan. 22, 2018, in Pyongyang as temperatures were forecast to drop below -2 degrees. ERIC TALMADGE, AP
Women use drums and flags to cheer on commuters during the morning rush hour in Pyongyang Feb. 2, 2018. The cheering squads, intended to motivate people on their way to work or school, are a common morning ritual in the North Korean capital. ERIC TALMADGE, AP
A couple ice skate at the Outdoor Skating Rink in Pyongyang Feb. 1, 2018. ERIC TALMADGE, AP
A girl walks past the Taedong Gate in Pyongyang, Jan. 22, 2018 . JON CHOL JIN, AP
A group of officials of ministries and national institutions run on the occasion of the first sports day this year at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea on Jan. 14, 2018. Jon Chol Jin, AP
A mass rally organizes in the Kim Il Sung Square vowing to carry through the tasks set forth by the country's leader Kim Jong Un in his New Year address in Pyongyang, North Korea on Jan. 4, 2018. Jon Chol Jin, AP
Participants perform mass rhythmic exercise on the occasion of the first sports day this year at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea on Jan. 14, 2018. Jon Chol Jin, AP
Children stand before an ice sculpture at the Pyongyang Ice Sculpture Festival, marking the new year on Kim Il Sung Square Dec. 31, 2, 17. KIM WON-JIN, AFP/Getty Images
This is an overview of the second day of the 5th Conference of Cell Chairpersons of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, Dec. 22, 2017. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency via AFP/Getty Images
Passengers wait for their flights in the departures lobby of Pyongyang's international airport, Dec. 23, 2017. Despite being one of the least Internet-friendly countries in the world, North Korea's main Internet provider recently set up an airport WiFi network that is available to travelers who have cleared customs. Access to WiFi and the Internet in general remains beyond the reach of most North Koreans. Eric Talmadge, AP
Fireworks usher in the New Year in Pyongyang, Jan. 1, 2018 North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency via AFP/Getty Images
Children play as others gather on Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the New Year, Jan. 1, 2018, in Pyongyang. Jon Chol Jin, AP
People offer flowers to the statues of their late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Mansu Hill, marking the sixth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's death in Pyongyang, Dec. 17, 2017. Jon Chol Jin, AP
A street in central Pyongyang, Nov. 15, 2017 ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers bow before statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il to mark the sixth anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-Il, at Mansu hill in Pyongyang Dec. 17, 2017. KIM WON-JIN, AFP/Getty Images
Song Song-Hui (C) sits with relatives gathered at her apartment in Pyongyang Nov. 17, 2017. North and South Korea are radically different societies, one ruled by the same family for decades and the other a freewheeling democracy and thrusting economy, but one thing unites them - fermented cabbage. Kimchi, originally a means of preserving the vegetable during winter and which can vary from mild to fiery, has been a staple part of virtually every meal on the now-divided peninsula for centuries. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
This Dec. 8, 2017 photo released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows Pyongyang residents greeting officers of Hwasong-15 missile test launch in Pyongyang. KCNA via AFP/Getty Images
North Korean soldiers attend a mass rally in Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang to celebrate the North's declaration it had achieved full nuclear statehood, Dec. 1, 2017. North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un declared the country had achieved a "historic cause" of becoming a nuclear state, its state media said Nov. 29, after the country tested an intercontinental ballistic missile earlier in the day. KIM WON-JIN, AFP/Getty Images
This Dec. 12, 2017 photo released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows scientists attending a reception hosted by the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea at the Mokran House and the People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang. KCNA via AFP/Getty Images
In a photo taken on Nov. 19, 2017, a woman and child pull a cart loaded with wood along a road near Kiliju on North Korea's northeast coast. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
In a photo taken on Nov. 18, 2017, a woman carrying cabbage rides a bicycle past a beach in North Korea's eastern port city of Wonsan. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
North Koreans attend a mass rally in Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang to celebrate the North's declaration it had achieved full nuclear statehood on Dec. 1, 2017. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
In a photo taken on Nov. 21, 2017, a man pushes a bicycle past a factory in the industrial city of Chongjin on North Korea's northeast coast. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
This photo taken on Nov. 19, 2017 shows cyclists passing along a road on the outskirts of the industrial city of Chongjin on North Korea's northeast coast. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
A man waits to cross a street in Rason. at the northeastern tip of North Korea, Nov. 21, 2017. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
This is a photo released by the North Korean Central News Agency on Nov. 30, 2017 of the launch of the newly developed inter-continental ballistic rocket Hwasong-15 on at an undisclosed location in North Korea, Nov. 28, 2017. KCNA via EPA-EFE
This photo was released by the North Korean Central News Agency on Nov. 30, 2017 of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un giving an order to test-fire the newly developed inter-continental ballistic rocket Hwasong-15 on at an undisclosed location in North Korea. KCNA via EPA-EFE
A sailor stands on his boat in the port in Rason at the northeastern tip of North Korea, Nov. 21, 2017. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
This Nov. 29, 2017, image provided by the North Korean government on Nov. 30, 2017, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and what the North Korean government calls the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, in North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. KCNA, KNS via AP
Ra In-Hae, 46, in her new home, portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, hang on the wall near Rason at the northeastern tip of North Korea, Nov. 21, 2017. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
A woman shields herself from the cold at the port in Rason at the northeastern tip of North Korea, Nov. 21, 2017. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
People cheer as they watch the news broadcast announcing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's order to test-fire the newly developed inter-continental ballistic missile Hwasong-15, Nov. 29, 2017, at the Pyongyang Train Station. Jon Chol Jin, AP
People watch the news broadcast announcing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's order to test-fire the newly developed inter-continental ballistic missile Hwasong-15, Nov. 29, 2017, at the Pyongyang Train Station. Jon Chol Jin, AP
In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, South Korea's Hyunmoo II missile is fired during an exercise at an undisclosed location in South Korea, Nov. 29, 2017. South Korea Defense Ministry via AP
North Korean soldiers look at the South side near the spot where a North Korean soldier crossed the border on Nov. 13 at the Panmunjom, in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Nov. 27, 2017. South Korea is reportedly broadcasting on loudspeakers into North Korea news of the recent escape of a North Korean soldier who was shot five times by his former colleagues as he dashed across the rivals' border, part of Seoul's psychological warfare against the North. Lee Jin-man, AP
Vendors prepare flowers for Mother's Day at a flower shop in Pyongyang on Nov. 16, 2017. North Koreans in Pyongyang typically mark Mother's Day with flowers and chocolates. which they celebrate on Nov. 16. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean soldiers look at the South side at the spot where a North Korean soldier crossed the border on Nov. 13 at the Panmunjom, in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Nov. 27, 2017. South Korea is reportedly broadcasting on loudspeakers into North Korea news of the recent escape of a North Korean soldier who was shot five times by his former colleagues as he dashed across the rivals' border, part of Seoul's psychological warfare against the North. ( Lee Jin-man, AP
In this photo taken through the window of a car, students illuminated by a public television screen walk past the central station in Pyongyang Nov. 16, 2017. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
People dance in a park in Pyongyang, Nov.15, 2017. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
This is a North Korean military guard outpost seen from Paju, South Korea, Nov. 14, 2017. Four North Korean soldiers fired 40 rounds at a comrade fleeing into South Korea and hit him five times in what is the first shooting at the jointly controlled area of the heavily fortified border since 1984. Lee Jin-man, AP
This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Nov. 15, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a Kumsong Tractor at the factory in Nampo City, North Korea. (KCNA) via AFP/Getty Images
These two ride a bicycle as they pass along a street before the city skyline of 'Mirae Scientists Street' in Pyongyang. Sept. 27, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Runners compete in the half-marathon in Pyongyang, Oct. 29, 2017. Jon Chol Jin, AP
Amateur horse riders compete during the 'Autumn Race-Goers Games' at the Mirim Riding Club in Pyongyang Oct. 15, 2017. The Mirim riding club equestrian centre opened in 2013 and serves as a destination for foreign tour groups and well-heeled North Koreans. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
A salesperson of 'Jilin Provincial Muziwu Daily Necessities' of China demonstrates a noodle-making device at the 'Pyongyang International Sci-tech Exhibition', at the Sci-tech Complex in Pyongyang Oct. 16, 2017. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
Spectators watch competitors during the 'Autumn Race-Goers Games' at the Mirim Riding Club in Pyongyang on Oct. 15, 2017. The Mirim riding club equestrian centre opened in 2013 and serves as a destination for foreign tour groups and well-heeled North Koreans. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
Men and women participate in a mass dance event marking the 20th anniversary of the election of former leader Kim Jong Il as general secretary of the Workers' Party, which is the founding and ruling party of North Korea, at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang,Oct. 8, 2017. Jon Chol Jin, AP
Men ride on a make shift raft to transport logs down the river that divides North Korea from China near the Chinese city of Lingjiang in northeastern China's Jilin province, Aug. 30, 2017. Ng Han Guan, AP
Participants described as 'working people, youth, and students of Pyongyang' perform during a mass gala event marking the 20th anniversary of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's election as general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) on Kim Il-Sung square in central Pyongyang, Oct. 8, 2017. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
A man shoots an air-powered rifle at a shooting stall on a street in Pyongyang, Sept. 27, 2017, Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A propaganda troupe perform a flag-waving routine outside the central railway station in Pyongyang, Sept. 2t, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Pedestrians pass through a square outside the central railway station in Pyongyang, Sept. 27, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Visitors try a ride at an amusement fair in Pyongyang, Sept. 26, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Participants of a mass rally shout slogans as they gather on Kim Il-Sung sqaure in Pyongyang on Sept. 23, 2017. Tens of thousands of Pyongyang residents were gathered in the capital's Kim Il-Sung square to laud leader Kim Jong-Un's denunciation of President Donald Trump. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
Visitors look at kitchens on display at the 13th International Trade Fair in Pyongyang, Sept. 25, 2017 Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A woman carries a child across a road in Pyongyang, Sept. 24, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A Chinese vendor hands scarves to North Korean customers at the 13th International Trade Fair in Pyongyang, Sept. 25, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A woman pulls a trolley across a street before a taxi during rainfall in Pyongyang, Sept. 24, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Two men play pool at a bowling alley in Pyongyang, Sept. 24, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Service persons of the Ministry of People's Security during an anti-US rally in Pyongyang, Sept. 24, 2017. Afp Photo/Kcna Via Kns
Spectators gather to watch a public news brodcast of a statement by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, before a public television screen outside the central railway station in Pyongyang, Sept. 21, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Dancers perform during the 20th ITF World Taekwondo Championships in Pyongyang, Sept. 21, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A woman stands at a street-side flower stall in Pyongyang, Sept. 21, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Anglers compete during a fishing contest at Pothong riverside in Pyongyang. , Sept. 14, 2017. Some 60 people participated in the event and tried to catch carp and catfish. Jon Chol Jin, AP
A man crosses a street outside the central railway station in Pyongyang, Sept. 21, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A girl leans on a lamp post outside the central railway station in Pyongyang, Sept. 21, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Spectators listen to a television news brodcast of a statment by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, before a public television screen outside the central railway station in Pyongyang on Sept. 21, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
The skyline of Pyongyang, Sept. 20, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sept. 21, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visiting a fruit farm in the South Hwanghae Province. Korean Central News Agency via
A football match is played on a pitch between buildings in Pyongyang Sept. 20, 2017. / Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A group of North Korean tourists stand before the city skyline atop the Juche tower in Pyongyang Sept. 20, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A North Korean soldier stands on the bank of the Yalu river near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province on Sept. 4, 2017. AFP
Fireworks go off while Pyongyang residents and military people hold a celebration rally on the test of a hydrogen bomb for ICBM at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, Sept. 4, 2017. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency via AFP/Getty Images
This coastline (top) above the barbed-wire fence is the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea, on Ganghwa island on Sept. 4, 2017. North Korea could be preparing another Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers cheer while watching fireworks during a mass celebration in Pyongyang for scientists involved in carrying out North Korea's largest nuclear blast to date.Sept. 6, 2017. Citizens of the capital lined the streets to wave pink and purple pom-poms and cheer a convoy of buses carrying the specialists into the city, and toss confetti over them as they walked into Kim Il-Sung Square. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers attend a mass celebration in Pyongyang for scientists involved in carrying out North Korea's largest nuclear blast to date, Sept. 6, 2017. KIM WON-JIN, AFP/Getty Images
The sun rises over North Korea and the Yalu river which forms the border between China and North Korea, as seen from Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province on Sept. 5, 2017. Greg Baker, AFP/Getty Images
North Koreand rest on a wall on the bank of the Yalu river near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province on Sept. 5, 2017. Greg Baker, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean soldiers stand at a fence on the bank of the Yalu river near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province on Sept. 5, 2017. Greg Baker, AFP/Getty Images
The North Korean coastline can be seen behind the barbed-wire fence of the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea, on Ganghwa island Sept. 4, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Two North Koreans help each other wash in the Yalu river near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province on Sept. 4, 2017. Greg Baker, AFP/Getty Images
A North Korean man brings his boat up to a Chinese tourist boat to sell North Korean products, on the Yalu river near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province on Sept. 4, 2017. Greg Baker, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean men unload a trailer on the bank of the Yalu river near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province on Sept. 4, 2017. Greg Baker, AFP/Getty Images
A North Korean soldier stands on a loading ramp on the bank of the Yalu river near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province on Sept. 4, 2017. Greg Baker, AFP/Getty Images
Korean People's Army soldiers applaud as they watch a screen showing news coverage of a missile test launch, in a public square outside a train station in Pyongyang on Aug 30, 2017. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
People fill the square of the main railway station to watch a televised news broadcast of the test-fire of an inter-continental ballistic rocket Hwasong-12, in Pyongyang, Aug. 30, 2017. Kim Kwang Hyon, AP
This picture from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) taken on Aug. 29, 2017 and released on August 30, 2017 shows North Korea's intermediate-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 lifting off from the launching pad at an undisclosed location near Pyongyang. Nuclear-armed North Korea said on August 30 that it had fired a missile over Japan the previous day, the first time it has ever acknowledged doing so. Korean Central News Agency via AFP/Getty Images
Cashiers work at the Potonggang department store in Pyongyang, North Korea, June 19, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
Staff at the Potonggang department store stock shelves with local and imported snacks, mostly from China, in Pyongyang, June 19, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
People wave banners and shout slogans as they attend a rally in support of North Korea's stance against the US, on Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang on Aug. 9, 2017. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
Pedestrians and vehicles pass before the portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung (L) and Kim Jong-Il (R) in Pyongyang on July 21, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Awoman stands at the entrance to a supermarket in Pyongyang on July 28, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Steel worker Kang Chol-Su (38) poses for a portrait at the Chollima Steel Complex, south of Pyongyang on July 22, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A hostess cooks clams using gasoline, at the West Sea Barrage beach outside the coastal city of Nampho, southwest of Pyongyang on July 22, 2017. The West Sea Barrage beach features as a stopping point for foreign tourists, and is a destination for North Korean work groups from the neighbouring area. The beach lies at the end of an eight-kilometre-long barrage that separates the sea from the Taedong River, which runs through Pyongyang. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A photo taken on July 22, 2017, shows beachgoers dancing at the West Sea Barrage beach outside the coastal city of Nampo, southwest of Pyongyang. The West Sea Barrage beach features as a stopping point for foreign tourists and is a destination for North Korean work groups from the neighboring area. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
Swimmers gather in a wave pool at a water park in a leisure complex in Pyongyang on July 21. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A group of men look toward the West Sea Barrage beach outside the coastal city of Nampo, southwest of Pyongyang, on July 22, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Workers repair a section of the 'West Sea Barrage,' outside the coastal city of Nampo, southwest of Pyongyang, July 22, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean women push their cart and bicycles over a bridge in Hamhung, the second-largest city and the capital of South Hamgyong province in North Korea. Wong Maye E, AP
A group of youths play tennis in a public square in Pyongyang on July 20. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean men work on farm fields along the Pyongyang-Wonsan highway on July 20 in Sangwon. Wong Maye E, AP
North Korean women make their way across a road at the end of a workday July 20 in Hamhung. Wong Maye E, AP
Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers walk past portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il at the Korean Revolutionary Museum in Pyongyang on July 19. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean schoolgirls stop at a kiosk selling flowers July 18 in Pyongyang. Wong Maye E, AP
Soldiers gather in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang to celebrate the test launch of North Korea's first intercontinental ballistic missile two days earlier, July 6, 2017. Jon Chol Jin, AP
Soldiers watch fireworks in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, July 6, 2017, to celebrate the test launch of North Korea's first intercontinental ballistic missile two days earlier. Jon Chol Jin, AP
The sky is overcast in Pyongyang July 17, 2017. The 105-story pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel has been under construction since 1987 and was intended to be a landmark and a symbol of progress and prosperity, but the economic difficulties that the country went through forced the project into repeated delays and nearly 30 years later. It has become a major Pyongyang landmark but has never been used as a hotel, as it was intended. Wong Maye-E, AP
North Koreans ride in a crowded electric trolley, which is one of the more common modes of public transport around the North Korean capital July 16, 2017, in Pyongyang. Wong Maye-E, AP
Soldiers of the Korean People's Army (KPA) watch a fireworks display as part of celebrations marking the July 4 launch of the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile in Pyongyang, July 6, 2017. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
A primary school student An Jae-Gwon (10) poses for a portrait during a festive 'children's day' event at 'Primary School Number 4' in Pyongyang, June 6, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A woman stops by a kiosk selling gifts and flowers along the streets of Pyongyang, June 16, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
Pedestrians walk along a residential area at dusk in Pyongyang, North Korea, June 19, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
Two boys row their boat on the Pothong River where rice is being planted in Pyongyang, June 19, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
People walk cross the Pothong river via a suspended bridge while another man is silhouetted as he plants grass in Pyongyang, June 19, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
A waitress moves a dining chair at a restaurant terrace which overlooks a residential street at dusk in Pyongyang, June 19, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
People are are silhouette as they start their morning commute down a road in Pyongyang. Wong Maye-E, AP
Staff members from a boat restaurant on the Taedong River line up at the entrance as they wait to greet customers June 18, 2017, in Pyongyang. The boat is berthed along the river, which is the fifth longest river on the Korean Peninsula and runs through the country's capital. Wong Maye-E, AP
A Korean People's Army (KPA) soldier gestures as he stands before the military demarcation line separating North and South Korea, before South Korea's 'Freedom House' (rear C) at the Joint Security Area (JSA) near Kaesong, June 4, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Men push their bicycles past the portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sungand Kim Jong-Il on Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang, June 4, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at a photo session with the participants in the 8th Congress of the Korean Children's Union in Pyongyang, June 6, 2017. AFP Photo/KCNA via KNS
An elderly woman follows behind children pushing their bicycle at the end of a work day in Pyongyang, June 13, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
A farmer transplants rice seedlings in a field in Pyongyang, June 13, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
Former NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman arrives at Sunan International Airport June 13, 2017, in Pyongyang. Kim Kwang Hyon, AP
People watch a screen showing news coverage of the Pukguksong-2 missile rocket launch at a public square in central Pyongyang May 22, 2017. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
People attend the 20th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair in Pyongyang, May 22, 2017. Countries participating in the fair include Belarus, China, Iran, Italy, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Cuba Jon Chol Jin, AP
This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 22, 2017 shows North Korean ground-to-ground medium-to-long range strategic ballistic missile Pukguksong-2 being launched in a test-fire. North Korea declared its medium-range Pukguksong-2 missile ready for deployment after a weekend test, the latest step in its quest to defy UN sanctions and develop a weapon capable of striking US targets. (KCNA) via AFP/Getty Images
People gather at a street-side newsstand in Pyongyang and read a copy of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper featuring coverage of a rocket test from May 14, 2017. in Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
This is a test launch of the ground-to-ground medium long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 at an undisclosed location. This picture taken on May 14, 2017 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, via AFP/Getty Images
Women soldiers march across Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade on in Pyongyang, April 15, 2017, They were celebrating the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder and grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. Wong Maye-E, AP
An elderly man is silhouetted against a model of the Unha 3, a space launch vehicle, displayed at the Sci-Tech Complex in Pyongyang, April 17, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
Soldiers march across Kim Il Sung Square during a military parade on in Pyongyang, April 15, 2017, They were celebrating the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder and grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. Wong Maye-E, AP
Boys play on the sidewalk along Changjon Street lined with tall residential buildings in April 19, 2017, in Pyongyang. Wong Maye-E, AP
Men and women walk along a residential area in Pyongyang, April 17, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
A woman is silhouetted against the sky as she exercises in Pyongyang, April 17, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
North Koreans sit at the back of a truck as it drives along Mirae Scientists Street in Pyongyang, April 19, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
A man rides his bicycle along the Taedong River bank in Pyongyang. Wong Maye-E, AP
A traffic police woman hands over her LED wand used to guide traffic, over to her colleague as they prepare to change shifts April 19, 2017, in Pyongyang. Wong Maye-E, AP
Women shelter from the rain under an umbrella in front of a shop in Pyongyang, April 14, 2017. How Hwee Young, European Pressphoto Agency
A North Korean soldier uses his binoculars on the banks of the Yalu river near Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong April 14, 2017. Johannes Eisele, AFP/Getty Images
Schoolgirls attend a dance class at the Mangyongdae Children's Palace in Pyongyang, April 14, 2017. Amid rising regional tensions, Pyongyang residents have been preparing for North Korea's most important holiday: the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder and grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. Wong Maye-E, AP
People walk along the streets of downtown Pyongyang on a rainy evening, April 14, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
A commuter is seen through a tram window in Pyongyang April 14, 2017. How Hwee Young, European Pressphoto Agency
Commuters walk up the stairs as a train leaves a subway station in Pyongyang April 14, 2017. How Hwee Young, European Pressphoto Agency
A boy performs the zither at the Mangyondae School Children's Palace in Pyongyang, April 14, 2017. How Hwee Young, European Pressphoto Agency
Students participate in a mass dance event to mark the occasion of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the National Defense Committee in 1993, in Pyongyang on April 9, 2017. Mass dances are usually held to mark important dates and national holidays in the North Korean capital. Wong Maye-E, AP
Competitors run through Kim Il-Sung square during the Pyongyang Marathon April 9, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
The newly renovated Koryo hotel main lobby in Pyongyang on April 10, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
A North Korean traffic police officer is silhouetted as she directs traffic at the driveway of Sunan International Airport in Pyongyang on April 11, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
A staff member of the newly renovated Koryo hotel walks across its main lobby in Pyongyang on April 10, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
Boys jog at the end of a work day in Pyongyang on April 11, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
People on the street in Pyongyang on April 10, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
Workers leave an assembly area after rehearsals for celebrations ahead of the April 15 "Day of the Sun," a national holiday marking the birthday of the late Kim Il Sung, leader Kim Jong Un's grandfather and North Korea's "eternal president" April 10, 2017, in Pyongyang. Wong Maye-E, AP
A woman walks along the highway from downtown Pyongyang to Sunan International Airport on April 11, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
Men walk and some push their bicycles along a highway at the end of a work day in Pyongyang on April 11, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
A North Korean soldier looks at the south side while U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was visiting the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, March 17, 2017. Lee Jin-man, Pool
Kim Jong-Un visits a construction site in Pyongyang, March 16, 2017. KCNA via AFP/Getty Images
A North Korean soldier takes a photograph while two South Korean soldiers stand guard March 17, 2017. Lee Jin-Man, AFP/Getty Images
People ski at the Masik Pass Ski Resort in Wonsan, Feb. 11, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
People watch news footage of a missile launch on a giant television screen outside the main railway station in Pyongyang March 7, 2017. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
This undated picture released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on March 7, 2017 shows the launch of four ballistic missiles by the Korean People's Army during a military drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea. KCNA via AFP/Getty Images
Kim Jong-Un supervives the launching of four ballistic missiles by the Korean People's Army during a military drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea. This photo was released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via on March 7, 2017. KCNA via AFP/Getty Images
The representatives of diplomatic missions and international organizations plant memorial trees in downtown Pyongyang March 2, 2017. Pyongyang's new "Ryomyong Street" is to have the country's tallest apartment building, at 70 stories, along with a 50-story building and a handful of smaller ones in the 30-40 story range. Kim Kwang Hyon, AP
A security guard stands in a courtyard of the Kim Jong-Suk textile mill following a snowfall in Pyongyang, Feb. 22, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Two women walk outside a dormitory of the Kim Jong-Suk textile mill in Pyongyang Feb. 22, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A worker pushes a trolley carrying buckets of silk-worm larvae at the Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill in Pyongyang Feb. 21, 2017. The Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill employs a workforce of 1,600 people, and is named after the grandmother of current North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
People watch a fireworks display as they visit an ice festival near the Taedong river, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the birth of Kim Jong-Il, in central Pyongyang Feb. 16, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
People look at a noticeboard after a fireworks display in front of Kim Il-Sung square as they visit an ice festival near the Taedong river, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the birth of Kim Jong-Il, in central Pyongyang, Feb. 16, 2017. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A woman dressed in a traditional gown pays her respects at statues of late North Korean leaders, Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Unaware of reports his eldest son - and current leader Kim Jong Uns half-brother - was killed just days ago in what appears to have been a carefully planned assassination, North Koreans marked the birthday of late leader Kim Jong Il on Thursday as they do every year. Eric Talmadge, AP
Children with offerings walk toward statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il to pay tribute, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Jo Chol Jin, AP
Residents sip hot tea at stalls set up as part of celebrations of the birth of the late leader Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Eric Talmadge, AP
Performers take part in a mass dance event on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the birth of Kim Jong-Il, in Pyongyang on Feb. 16, 2017. ED JONES, AFP/Getty Images
Men transport gas cylinders in Pyongyang, Feb. 13, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
Two elderly men crouch on a smoke break in Pyongyang, Feb. 13, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
People walk down the street in Pyongyang, Feb. 12, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
A boy runs with the national flag along the Pyongyang-Wonsan highway in Wonsan, which is about 125 miles from the capital and is a port city located along the eastern side of the Korean Peninsula, Feb. 11, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visits the newly built Pyongyang Orphans' Primary School, Feb. 2, 2017. AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS
Children of the workers at the Suk Silk Mill sing and dance at a childcare center at the the mill in Pyongyang, Jan. 6, 2017. The mill, named after North Korean leader Kim Jong UnÕs grandmother, is where 1,600 workers _ mostly women _ sort and process silkworms which produce silk thread that officials at the Pyongyang factory say is made into roughly 200 tons of silk a year. Wong Maye-E, AP
This woman sorts silkworm cocoons to be boiled as part of the silk production process at the Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill in Pyongyang, Jan. 6, 2017. In his New Year's address, leader Kim Jong Un called for the people to step up production. Wong Maye-E, AP
Women sort out silkworm cocoons to be boiled at the Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill in Pyongyang, North Korea, Jan 6, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
Kim Jong-Un posing with the school students while visiting newly built Pyongyang Orphans' Primary School, Feb. 2, 2017. STR, AFP/Getty Images
A man rides his electric bicycle along the Taedong River bank at the end of a work day in Pyongyang, Nov 6, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
This is a mass rally taking place at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, Jan. 5, 2017 North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency , AFP/Getty Images
A traffic police officer directs traffic on a road in Pyongyang Dec. 2, 2016 Believed to be hand-picked for their looks, Pyongyang's female traffic police are a familiar sight at intersections around the capital, where traffic volumes have noticeably increased in recent years. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Pedestrians and cyclists are reflected in the Pothong River as they across a bridge at the start of their work day in Pyongyang, Jan. 6, 2017. Wong Maye-E, AP
North Korean honor guards watch as Choe Ryong Hae, vice chairman of North Korea's State Affairs Commission leaves for the departure gates at the Pyongyang Airport Jan. 6, 2017. Hae was headed to Nicaragua to attend the inauguration of their newly elected President Daniel Ortega. Wong Maye-E, AP
Kim Jong-Un at Fishery Station No. 15 of the Korean People's Army unit 549 Dec. 15, 2016. Korean Central News Agency via AFP/Getty Images
Baek Hyun-kyung is a tour guide at the Three Charters of National Reunification Monument where she works on the outskirts of Pyongyang Dec. 2, 2016. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A member of North Korea's under-20 women's football team is welcomed back at Pyongyang airport after beating France to win the 2016 FIFA under-20 Women's World Cup Dec. 6, 2016. KIM WON-JIN, AFP/Getty Images
Kim Jong-Un at the Wonsan Shoes Factory in Kangwon Province in this photo released on Dec. 9, 2016. Korean Central News Agency via AFP/Getty Images
Korean People's Army (KPA) lieutenant and tour guide Hwang Myong-jin poses for a photo in front of a hut where negotiations for the Korean War armistice agreement were held in 1953, at Panmunjom near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea Nov. 30, 2016. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
Sailor Kim Il-Soo poses for a photo on a boat used to host wedding photo shoots on the Taedong river in Pyongyang Nov. 25, 2016. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean traffic police women chat next to a residential building while off duty Oct. 18, 2016, in Pyongyang. Wong Maye-E, AP
Kim Jong-Un interacting with people while inspecting the outpost on Kali Islet and the defence detachment on Jangjae Islet in the West Sea, Nov. 13, 2016. KCNA, AFP/Getty Images
North Koreans walk past a residential building as they use an overhead bridge to cross a major intersection Oct. 18, 2016, in Pyongyang. Wong Maye-E, AP
North Koreans are seen in silhouette as they make their way across an intersection at the end of a work day Oct. 18, 2016, in Pyongyang. Wong Maye-E, AP
Azalea, whose Korean name is "Dalle", a 19-year-old female chimpanzee, smokes a cigarette at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea Oct. 19, 2016. According to officials at the newly renovated zoo, which has become a favorite leisure spot in the North Korean capital since it was re-opened in July, the chimpanzee smokes about a pack a day. They insist, however, that she does not inhale. Wong Maye-E, AP
Students stretch following an under-14 training session at the Pyongyang International Football School in Pyongyang, Sept 22, 2016. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
A North Korean boy in his school uniform walks past a playground in a residential area on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Wong Maye-E, AP
Spectators cheer as parachutists perform an aerial display during the Wonsan International Friendship Air Festival, Sept 24, 2016. Ed Jones, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean female MiG-21 fighter pilots Rim Sol, left, and Jo Kum Hyang, right, walk past a MiG-21 plane at the Wonsan International Friendship Air Festival, Sept 24, 2016. Wong Maye-E, AP
North Korean boys play in a fountain feature during a hot afternoon Sept. 23, 2016, in Pyongyang. Wong Maye-E, AP
Residents look up at a big screen TV in front of Pyongyang railway station showing television presenter Ri Chun-Hee officially announcing that the country successfully tested a nuclear warhead earlier in the day on Sept. 9, 2016. North Korea has successfully tested a nuclear warhead, it said which said the "maniacal recklessness" of young ruler Kim Jong-Un would lead to self-destruction. Kim Won-Jin, AFP/Getty Images
This is a national meeting to celebrate the 68th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Pyongyang, Sept. 9, 2016. KCNA, AFP/Getty Images
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un while inspecting the Taedonggang Pig Farm in Pyongyang, Aug.18, 2016 KCNA via AFP/Getty Images
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspects the Chollima building materials complex in Pyongyang, July 27, 2016. KCNA, AFP/Getty Images
A surface-to-surface medium long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-10, also known by the name of Musudan missile, being launched at an undisclosed location, North Korea. According to South Korea and Japan's officials, North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile off its east coast early Aug 3, 2016. KCNA, via European Pressphoto Agency
North Korean soldiers peep into a conference room in the United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission Conference Building during a ceremony marking the 63rd anniversary of the signing of the Korean War ceasefire armistice agreement at the truce village of Panmunjom, South Korea. Kim Hong-Ji, AP
Military personnel stand during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square July 2, 2016, in Pyongyang. They were celebrating the new title of chairman of the new State Affairs Commission given to leader Kim Jong Un at a meeting of its national parliament. Kim Kwang Hyon, AP
A missile is fired during a drill by Hwasong artillery units of the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army, photo released on July 21, 2016 . North Korea said its latest ballistic missile tests trialled detonation devices for possible nuclear strikes on US targets in South Korea and were personally monitored by supreme leader Kim Jong-Un. KCNA, AFP/Getty Images
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Retelling a Parable: The Prodigal Daughter
Rev. Arthur E. Curtis | December 5, 2004
What is a parable? The word parable comes from a Greek word for “comparison”. So a parable is a comparison, or a little story containing a comparison, used for a religious or ethical purpose. The story line of the parable you have just heard is simple, even though it is the longest parable in the four gospels. This is a Bible story for everyone, not just for Christians. But let’s update the story, bring it out of the country into the city, and for good measure, change the gender of the characters.
Let’s imagine a woman in Fairbanks with two daughters, Claire, a successful child, and Janet, the younger one, who got into trouble in high school but graduated from UAF with good grades and landed a well-paying job in Anchorage. Janet married, they bought a house, and had three children. But she and her husband were constantly looking for thrills and excitement. They got hooked on cocaine, gradually gambled away their life savings, and lost custody of their children. Janet’s husband went to prison. Janet lost her job and is now at the end of her rope.
We can imagine that Janet has not written or phoned her mother for weeks. But now, like the son in the original parable, she compares her present situation with her previous prosperity, and thinks that any living situation her mother could provide would be better than living on the street. So she takes a bus for Fairbanks.
Here she is now, knocking on her mother’s door, tired, distraught, and feeling very guilty and contrite. She even wonders whether her mother, who knows she was on cocaine, will let her come in.
And here’s her mother, who sees Janet’s haggard face through the living room window and is shocked and repulsed by this face, this face which shows the effects of Janet’s foolhardy lifestyle.
Mother opens the door and Janet says “I’m home, Mom. I’ve made a mess of my life and am no more worthy to be called your daughter.” Mother hesitates, hugs her, and then, more by mother instinct than by conscious thought, says “Janet, I love you. I was so worried about you. Come in and get warm. Let’s have a cup of tea.”
Janet says “Forgive me, Mother. I’ve done everything wrong. I hate my life.” And mother replies, “Janet, I’m your mother. I hate what you’ve done. But I forgive you.” Mother is surprised to hear herself say that, but having said it, she feels better. In a way it seems to the mother very natural to go ahead and forgive Janet. After all she forgave her two girls a dozen times a week in the difficult years of raising them, especially when they were screaming at age two and rebels at age fourteen. A forgiving character is a necessary qualification for parenthood. But she had thought the hard years were over, since she had tried to raise her daughters to be responsible and provide for themselves. Her older daughter, Claire, had fulfilled her mother’s hopes. But with Janet, bad, bad Janet, what should Mother do?
If the mother had been a Unitarian-Universalist, I suppose we could imagine her being very rational and saying “I will thoughtfully and thoroughly weigh the pros and cons, including theological and ethical arguments, before making the decision to invite you inside and forgive you.” But this is subzero Fairbanks, and you are warm, compassionate UU’s. You would at least bring the daughter in out of the cold, and CONSIDER forgiving her.
Let’s return to the story.
The next day the mother decides that Janet’s return should be celebrated, and so she calls up some family friends and her older daughter, Claire, who lives in town, and she invites them all to dinner at Pike’s Landing. And that brings Claire into the story. She is resentful. She says “Hey, Mom, why all the hullabaloo and celebration for Janet, when she has made a mess of her life? Sure we’re glad to see her back, but how can you forgive her for neglecting her children and using cocaine? And why haven’t you ever thrown such a party for ME, good old reliable ME, who sticks at my boring job and always pays my credit card balance? I even wash the coffeepot at the UU fellowship!”
And Mom replies: “Don’t take it badly, Claire. I thought we had lost Janet completely, but now she is back home safe and sound. Isn’t that a reason to celebrate? Janet has made big mistakes in her life but I love her and forgive her as I love you and forgive you. I’m hosting this celebration to show her that we’re glad to have her back. Join us at the restaurant so that we have the whole family together.”
In the gospel parable the story ends there, and we don’t know whether the older child attends the celebration. Perhaps the parable should be renamed “The Parable of the Opposite Siblings”, one who was adventuresome and reckless, the other who was hardworking and responsible, even a bit dull, like a Unitarian minister. We know humanity well enough to know the strengths and weaknesses of both types.
So far as I can unravel it the parable seems to be saying, loud and clear, that forgiveness is the glue that holds families and society together. The parable goes even further in suggesting that the act of forgiveness can be a joyful event, to be celebrated with a feast. So perhaps the best title for the parable is not “The Prodigal Son”, but “The Joyful Forgiving Parent”.
In the original parable the father tries to teach the elder child to forgive. We can imagine that the parent might also need to teach the younger child to forgive herself as well as to reform her lifestyle.
Bible commentators have suggested that this parable is really an allegory about the relationship between God and humanity, with the forgiving father in the story being God. If it is an allegory about God then it carries a distinctively Universalist message. You may remember that the founders of Universalism, which is one half of our Unitarian Universalist heritage, were reacting against the hellfire and damnation preachers of their time, who said that most people were sinners and were going to hell for eternity. The Universalists preached that God is forgiving and merciful, not harshly judgmental. They thought God might mete out some punishment to evildoers in the afterlife, but would not send anyone to hellfire for ever and ever. Other Christians thought that too much talk about God’s mercy would encourage people to sin more than ever. Actually Universalists behaved as well as anyone else, but many people believed they were a threat to decency and morality. You should probably be prudent and NOT tell your God-fearing friends about the very merciful, very forgiving Universalist God, or you will never be invited to their potlucks.
In the parable there is no mention of ANY remedial action to be taken by the prodigal child,, who, in my version of the parable, neglected her children and snorted cocaine. Should forgiveness come so easily? Shouldn’t the daughter have to do something to merit forgiveness?
In the Catholic and Jewish traditions God a person seeking forgiveness from God must take it seriously. For Catholics God’s forgiveness is obtained by doing three things: first, penance, which means feeling contrite, then confessing your wrongdoing before a priest, and finally, taking some action prescribed by the priest. At least that’s the way it was two generations ago, before most Catholics in the U.S. and Europe stopped going to confession regularly. In the Jewish tradition you are expected to feel remorse, make restitution and then renew your relationship with God. After those steps have been taken you can ask for forgiveness from the person wronged, and finally, ask forgiveness from God.
The priest and the rabbi will tell us that we can become better people by following this process. The Jews even schedule a special day each year, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in September, for everyone to think back over their last twelve months and go right away to ask forgiveness of people wronged.
But what if you are being asked by your daughter for forgiveness and the daughter is contrite, as in the parable? Is contrition enough? Are you going to ask for more than that? Confession, reform plan, restitution, whatever? Or could you joyfully forgive and even prepare a feast? At least a pizza party?
Let’s not forget that forgiveness has a positive effect on the person who does the forgiving. Being able to let go of resentment and grudges is usually a very liberating experience, particularly if you have suffered greatly. Perhaps you have heard about those families of murder victims who have spoken out against the death penalty and have shown compassion for the families of the condemned murderers. For both types of families this has been a welcome healing process. In people who are unable to forgive, by contrast, resentment often feeds on itself and sometimes leads to depression. At the very least resentment and anger “take up space…in our psyches….”, as one UU minister expressed it.
To be honest we have to admit that asking for forgiveness OR granting forgiveness is often painful. The same UU minister, Scott Alexander, wrote this about repairing his relationship with one of his friends:
…I cared enough about the relationship and found enough courage within to arrange for a confrontation between the two of us. Not a nasty, one-way confrontation where I spewed out my anger toward him, but a creative, healing dialog where first I said how hurt and angry I was, and then together we engaged in genuine conversation about his feelings and perspectives and how together we might close the painful breach between us. Let me tell you [that] this process leading to forgiveness was uncomfortable for both of us. He acknowledged his betrayal and disloyalty, but, as I listened to his own hurt feelings, I also faced ways in which I had contributed to the weakening of our friendship, and stood myself in need of forgiveness.
From Scott Alexander’s story we are reminded that forgiveness within relationships often requires that both parties do some forgiving. We can imagine that all three parties in the parable had some responsibility for the failure of the prodigal child, and would need to ask forgiveness of each other. Indeed I can imagine the parent, especially the modern one, asking herself, “How did my actions as a parent contribute to the irresponsible behavior of my daughter?”
Much more could be said here about the subject of forgiveness. I imagine that each of you has a story to tell or a dilemma to ponder. We’ll have a moment of silence and then time for comments.
I want to close with some advice from a UU minister in Massachusetts, Stephanie Nichols: “The invitation of [this parable, she says] is to never give up on home, to stay in relationship with those people and those parts of yourself that have been lost, and to remain ready to rejoice when someone or something that has been lost is found again. It is an invitation to live with open arms rather than with clenched teeth.” 2
Original sermon given at Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, January 23, 2000
1 Rev. Scott Alexander, “This Day Holds Other Things for You…” CLF, Sept. 1991.
2 Rev. Stephanie Nichols in Mar. 99 Quest (CLF), p. 5, sermon on the Prodigal Son entitled “With Open Arms or Clenched Teeth?”. In sermon she quotes Henri Nouwen, Prodigal Son.
See article in Christianity Today, 1/10/2000 for summary of the new research and references to the International Forgiveness Institute.
Posted Thursday, October 15th, 2009 under Sermons and Talks.
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TARGETing pediatric blood cancer: Changing treatment for kids
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A new molecular map of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) illuminates previously unknown causes of the disease and may lead to more effective treatment strategies developed specifically for children.
Conducted by an international team of scientists and pediatric oncologists, the study found that kids with AML have significantly different cancer-driving mutations than those seen in adult AML patients, with far more diversity observed in children. The few mutations that are common to all age groups appear to interact differently in younger versus older patients, a new finding with profound clinical implications.
Their results reinforce the need for, and may result in, a better way of classifying pediatric patients, based on specific genetic and epigenetic changes that sustain their disease. This informs treatment decisions and clinical trial participation, a major consideration for this rare but deadly cancer.
Dr. Timothy Triche, Jr.
“Pediatric cancers arise from fundamentally distinct processes compared to adult cancers, and it is important to recognize this if we are to have a tangible impact on these children’s lives,” said Timothy J. Triche, Jr., Ph.D., an assistant professor at Van Andel Research Institute and co-first author of the study, which was published today in Nature Medicine. “This study provides scientists and physicians with a strong foundation on which to build effective, patient-centered treatment strategies that are desperately needed for children with AML.”
The findings are the result of the Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (TARGET) study, a collaborative project spearheaded by the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), whose member institutions care for more than 90 percent of children diagnosed with cancer in the U.S., and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health. It was led by Soheil Meshinchi, M.D., Ph.D., a faculty member and pediatric AML researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and professor and attending physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital/University of Washington.
The project, nearly a decade in the making, included scientists and physicians from more than a dozen groups and institutions, both in the U.S. and abroad. The findings represent the most comprehensive characterization of pediatric AML to date.
All cancers result from damage to a person’s DNA, but the type and location of damage that gives rise to pediatric, adolescent and adult cancers vary widely. Because most cancer drugs are developed to treat adult patients, these differences can have drastic ramifications on treatment response in pediatric cases.
For example, unlike its adult counterpart, the team found that pediatric AML is more frequently characterized by genetic fusions, an aberrant mash-up of two genes. Many of gene fusions in children are not targeted by any available drug treatments. Conversely, a number of the most common cancer-driving gene mutations found in adult AML are rare or absent in pediatric cases.
“It’s not just mutations, but also their interaction with other genetic and metabolic variations that impact the disease’s susceptibility to one treatment over another,” Triche said. “There are kids who respond well to standard regimens, and there are kids who don’t. The latter currently have few options. We now have a better idea of why that is, and we hope that our findings spur a change in how patient risk is classified.”
Because the pediatric AML patient pool is so small, large-scale, comprehensive studies are difficult to undertake, which makes today’s report that much more remarkable, Triche says. In all, samples from 1,023 children enrolled in COG-affiliated clinical trials were included in the dataset.
The team included scientists and clinicians at Fred Hutch; NCI; COG; Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Science; Jane Anne Nohl Division of Hematology, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center; USC’s Keck School of Medicine; Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency; St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; Eramus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital; Brigham Young University; University of Utah; Nemours Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Alfred I. DuPoint Hospital for Children; and Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics.
TARGET is supported by NCI award U10CA98543; work also was supported by NCI contract HHSN261200800001E. Computation was supported in part by Fred Hutchinson Scientific Computing, University of Southern California’s Center for High-Performance Computing and NSF Award ACI-1341935. Additional support came from COG Chairs U10CA180886 and U10CA98534; COG Statistics and Data Center U10CA098413 and U10CA180899; COG Specimen Banking U24CA114766; R01CA114563 (Dr. Meshinchi); St. Baldrick’s Foundation (Dr. Jason E. Farrar, Dr. Timothy J. Triche, Jr., Dr. Soheil Meshinchi); Alex’s Lemonade Stand (Dr. Soheil Meshinchi), Target Pediatric AML (TpAML); P20GM12193 (Dr. Jason E. Farrar); Arkansas Biosciences Institute (Dr. Jason E. Farrar) and the Jane Anne Nohl Hematology Research Fund (Dr. Timothy J. Triche, Jr.).
The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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Sunflower Newsletter: January 2018
By Rick Wayman|2018-01-03T14:06:43-07:00January 3, 2018|
Issue #246 – January 2018
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Ten Nuclear Wishes for the New Year by David Krieger
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech by Beatrice Fihn
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech by Setsuko Thurlow
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
Trump Explicitly Threatens Nuclear War Via Twitter
Member of Congress Introduces Bill on No First Use of Nuclear Weapons
More Hanford Workers Possibly Exposed to Plutonium
Pope Francis Shows the Fruit of War
ICAN Honored with Nobel Peace Prize
Kim Jong-un Claims to Have “Nuclear Button,” Reaches Out to South Korea
Nikki Haley Displays Missile to Allege Iran Is Violating Deal
Nuclear “Modernization”
$1.24 Trillion “Modernization” Price Tag Omits Environmental Cleanup
This Month in Nuclear Threat History
TEDx Talk: The Insanity of Nuclear Deterrence
Come On: Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet
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Foundation Activities
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Preventing War: Crisis and Opportunity with North Korea
NAPF Peace Leadership 2017 Highlights and 2018 Preview
Congratulate ICAN on the Nobel Peace Prize
Ten Nuclear Wishes for the New Year
by David Krieger
1) That Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s past will not become any other city’s future.
2) That the new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will get at least 50 ratifications and enter into force.
3) That there will be no further proliferation of nuclear weapons to other countries.
4) That no insane leader will initiate a nuclear war and leaders of nuclear-armed countries will stop taunting each other.
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
by Beatrice Fihn
Nuclear weapons, like chemical weapons, biological weapons, cluster munitions and land mines before them, are now illegal. Their existence is immoral. Their abolishment is in our hands.
The end is inevitable. But will that end be the end of nuclear weapons or the end of us? We must choose one.
We are a movement for rationality. For democracy. For freedom from fear.
We are campaigners from 468 organizations who are working to safeguard the future, and we are representative of the moral majority: the billions of people who choose life over death, who together will see the end of nuclear weapons.
by Setsuko Thurlow
I speak as a member of the family of hibakusha – those of us who, by some miraculous chance, survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For more than seven decades, we have worked for the total abolition of nuclear weapons.
On the seventh of July this year, I was overwhelmed with joy when a great majority of the world’s nations voted to adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Having witnessed humanity at its worst, I witnessed, that day, humanity at its best. We hibakusha had been waiting for the ban for seventy-two years. Let this be the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons.
All responsible leaders will sign this treaty. And history will judge harshly those who reject it. No longer shall their abstract theories mask the genocidal reality of their practices. No longer shall “deterrence” be viewed as anything but a deterrent to disarmament. No longer shall we live under a mushroom cloud of fear.
To the officials of nuclear-armed nations – and to their accomplices under the so-called “nuclear umbrella” – I say this: Listen to our testimony. Heed our warning. And know that your actions are consequential. You are each an integral part of a system of violence that is endangering humankind. Let us all be alert to the banality of evil.
On the evening of January 2, U.S. President Donald Trump used his Twitter account to make an explicit threat of nuclear war to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Trump wrote in part, “I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!” Trump’s language and use of Twitter are uniquely and clearly dangerous. No one knows what would push Kim Jong-un over the edge.
According to former arms-control official Robert Joseph, every U.S. president since Harry Truman “has sought to maintain, in the words of John F. Kennedy, a nuclear-weapons capability ‘second to none’.”
Uri Friedman, “The Terrifying Truth of Trump’s ‘Nuclear Button’ Tweet,” The Atlantic, January 3, 2018.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, introduced bill H.R. 4415 to the House of Representatives. The bill would make it the policy of the United States not to use nuclear weapons first.
Rep. Smith said, “A declaratory policy of not using nuclear weapons first will increase strategic stability, particularly in a crisis, reducing the risk of miscalculation that could lead to an unintended all-out nuclear war.”
“Smith Introduces Bill Establishing ‘No First Use’ Policy for Nuclear Weapons,” Office of Rep. Adam Smith, November 15, 2017.
On December 13, the government contractor CH2M Hill stopped demolition work at the Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington State. Monitors worn by employees revealed high levels of radiation exposure. Testing showed the particles contained the radioactive isotopes of plutonium and americium.
A few months earlier, on June 8, a release of radioactive particles led to at least 31 workers ingesting or inhaling radioactive particles.
Susannah Frame, “More Hanford Workers Possibly Contaminated with Plutonium,” KING 5, December 14, 2017.
Pope Francis distributed cards featuring an image of a young boy standing in line at a crematorium following the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The boy is carrying his dead brother. On the back of the cards, Pope Francis included the phrase “the fruit of war” along with his signature.
The photo was taken in 1945 by American photographer Joseph Roger O’Donnell, a Marine who worked for four years after the atomic blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki documenting their impact.
John L. Allen, Jr., “Pope Circulates Nagasaki Image Under Heading ‘The Fruit of War’,” Crux, December 30, 2017.
On December 10, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and was accepted on behalf of the Campaign by its executive director, Beatrice Fihn, and by Setsuko Thurlow, an ICAN campaigner and survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing. Both spoke for the thousands of campaigners from over 450 organizations in more than 100 countries who succeeded this fall in working with friendly governments to move a majority of states at the United Nations to adopt a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons, making their possession, use, or threat of use unlawful.
It has been just 10 years since ICAN first launched its campaign to ban nuclear weapons, just as chemical and biological weapons have been banned, along with land mines and cluster bombs.
Alice Slater, “The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Is Honored with a Nobel Peace Prize,” The Nation, December 22, 2017.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un issued a new year message in which he claimed to have a nuclear button on his desk, which he would only use if threatened. He said that the United States “should properly know that the whole territory of the U.S. is within the range of our nuclear strike and a nuclear button is always on the desk of my office, and this is just a reality, not a threat.”
Kim also raised the possibility of sending a delegation of North Korean athletes to the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games, which will take place in South Korea in February. Kim said, “North Korea’s participation in the Winter Games will be a good opportunity to show unity of the people, and we wish the Games will be a success. Officials from the two Koreas may urgently meet to discuss the possibility.”
Simon Denyer, “North Korean Leader Says He Has ‘Nuclear Button’ but Won’t Use It Unless Threatened,” Washington Post, January 1, 2018.
Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, held a press conference on December 14 to allege that Iran is violating the nuclear deal. Amb. Haley displayed a missile that she claimed was fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen toward the Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia.
“The weapons might as well have ‘Made in Iran’ stickers on them,” she said. Iran denied the accusation.
“Make no mistake: What Nikki Haley is doing right now is laying the groundwork for a U.S.-Iran war on behalf of Saudi Arabia,” concluded Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council.
Jake Johnson, “With Theatrical Missile Speech, Critics Say Nikki Haley ‘Laying Groundwork’ for War With Iran,” Common Dreams, December 14, 2017.
In its recent cost estimate for the United States’ 30-year nuclear “modernization” effort, the Congressional Budget Office excluded $541 billion in projected costs to clean up nuclear weapons production sites.
The largest of these cleanup costs, at $179.5 billion, is attributed to the stabilization and disposal of high-level radioactive wastes generated from the production of plutonium. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) informed Congress in 2013 that these wastes are “considered one of the most hazardous substances on earth.”
Robert Alvarez, “CBO Cost Estimation of Nuclear Modernization Omits Hazardous Cleanup,” The Washington Spectator, December 20, 2017.
History chronicles many instances when humans have been threatened by nuclear weapons. In this article, Jeffrey Mason outlines some of the threats that have taken place in the month of January, including the January 24, 1961 crash of a B-52G Stratofortress bomber carrying two 2.5-megaton Mark 39 thermonuclear bombs near Goldsboro, North Carolina.
To read Mason’s full article, click here.
For more information on the history of the Nuclear Age, visit NAPF’s Nuclear Files website.
When nuclear-armed nations face off, the threat of mutually assured destruction is expected to keep the worst from happening. But is this a rational strategy? Or is it one that is doomed to failure? In this eye-opening and powerful talk, Commander Robert Green shares his experience piloting nuclear-armed aircraft and his shift to becoming a staunch opponent of nuclear deterrence.
Commander Robert Green served for twenty years in the British Royal Navy. As a bombardier-navigator, he flew in Buccaneer nuclear strike aircraft and anti-submarine helicopters equipped with nuclear depth-bombs. His final appointment was as Staff Officer (Intelligence) to the Commander-in-Chief Fleet during the 1982 Falklands War.
To watch this TEDx talk, click here.
The Club of Rome has published a new book entitled Come On: Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet. The book contains contributions from 30 members of the Club of Rome, including NAPF President David Krieger, who contributed to a section entitled “Nuclear Weapons: The Forgotten Threat.”
Click here to order from Amazon, or find it at your local bookshop.
The Arms Control Association is holding an online vote for the 2017 Arms Control Person of the Year. This year’s nominees are individuals and institutions that have advanced effective arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament solutions or raised awareness of the threats posed by mass casualty weapons.
Among the nominees are Pope Francis and the team of ambassadors who led the negotiations for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
The 2016 Arms Control Person of the Year was the government of the Marshall Islands and its former Foreign Minister, Tony de Brum. They received the distinction for pursuing a formal legal case in the International Court of Justice in The Hague against the world’s nuclear-armed states for their failure to initiate nuclear disarmament negotiations in violation of Article VI of the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and customary international law.
Voting for the 2017 Arms Control Person of the Year ends on January 5. For more information and to cast your vote, click here.
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has a great internship program, empowering students and recent graduates by giving them the opportunity to lead important projects for peace and nuclear disarmament.
Click here to read what two of our 2017 interns have to say about their experiences at the Foundation, and how it has helped to shape their futures.
If you know any current students or recent graduates who might be interested in working with us, the application deadline for our full-time, paid summer internships is March 1, 2018.
On March 7, 2018, Christine Ahn will deliver the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 17th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future. Ahn’s lecture is entitled “Preventing War: Crisis and Opportunity with North Korea.”
Christine Ahn is the Founder and International Coordinator of Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War, reunite families, and ensure women’s leadership in peace building. She is co-founder of the Korea Peace Network, Korea Policy Institute and Global Campaign to Save Jeju Island.
The event is free and open to the public. The lecture will begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 W. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. For more information, call (805) 965-3443.
In 2017, NAPF Peace Leadership Director Paul K. Chappell gave over 90 talks in 16 states and one Canadian province. He directly reached well over 5,000 people through his lectures and workshops on peace literacy and peace leadership. Paul has worked closely with an outstanding group of educators to revamp the Peace Literacy website and publish a groundbreaking new curriculum for students of most ages.
In 2017, Paul also published his sixth book, Soldiers of Peace: How to Wield the Weapon of Nonviolence with Maximum Force.
Paul has a full schedule of talks, workshops, and curriculum development in 2018. To learn more about this exciting initiative, click here.
On December 10, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. The Nobel Committee awarded ICAN “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.”
ICAN is made up of over 450 Partner Organizations, including the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, from 101 countries.
ICAN stands in stark contrast with those national leaders and their allies who possess nuclear weapons and have been unwilling to give up their claim on them for their own perceived national security. But ICAN is on the right side of history, because those with nuclear weapons threaten the future of civilization, including their own populations.
ICAN well deserves the Nobel Peace prize. The campaign is effective. It is youthful. It is hopeful. It is necessary. May the Nobel Peace Prize propel it to even greater accomplishments. And may it awaken people everywhere to the threat posed by nuclear weapons, and the need to ban and eliminate them.
Please join us in congratulating ICAN on this historic achievement!
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall. This quote appears in the book Speaking of Peace: Quotations to Inspire Action, which is available to purchase in the NAPF Peace Store.
“I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognizing the rights of others.”
— His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, a member of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Advisory Council, in a December 15 tweet.
“With participation by both Koreas, we believe the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games can help build a peaceful Korean Peninsula and a peaceful global community.”
— PyeongChang Joint Statement for Peace, issued at the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea on December 19, 2017.
“On New Year’s Day 2018, I am not issuing an appeal. I am issuing an alert — a red alert for our world. Conflicts have deepened and new dangers have emerged. Global anxieties about nuclear weapons are the highest since the Cold War.”
— António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in a January 1, 2018 video message.
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International Women's Day: PTSD after conflicts
After the Conflict: International Women's Day
To celebrate International Women's Day, I hosted a large group of visitors to EU Parliament. I hosted two events; the first of which focused on initiatives to support sufferers of PTSD in the wake of violent conflicts.
This is an issue for all those affected by violent conflicts, but women often face a unique set of challenges which need to be addressed more thoroughly.
After war is over, people just want to go on with their lives, rebuild their houses and their country.
But simply enjoying peace is often impossible: soldiers as well as civilians are traumatised by war.
In many crises, local people as well as international helpers focus on basic needs such as food and shelter. While these vital issues need to be fulfilled first, trauma should be addressed at the same time. When we bring food, we should also start talking.
Without treating trauma, the violence continues, making peacebuilding and reconstruction difficult. Unfortunately, the relevance of trauma is underestimated and neglected greatly. Focusing on the wounds on bodies, we don’t notice the invisible, psychological scars.
But internal turmoil can keep survivors from functioning, and can lead to more violence.
It is very difficult to heal if you are still in an unsafe and volatile situation, such as we see in Iraq and Kashmir. After all: if it continues to rain, you cannot dry.
It affects your psychology and mental health. All the violence, restrictions, strikes and curfews do have an impact on destabilising mental health.
Ending atrocities would be an obvious urgent first step to preventing additional mental health consequences, but action also must be taken to heal the damage already done, by providing victims with treatment and other appropriate reparations.
A Doctors Without Borders’ report published in 2015 reveals that 1 in every 5 adults in Kashmir is living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Depression is the most prevalent disorder, with a shocking 41% adults showing its symptoms.
In the case of Kashmir, generation after generation has been living under this constant threat: anybody can get killed or injured for life on a daily basis.
This causes a condition of helplessness and a trans-generational transmission of trauma.
Women living under these circumstances need particular attention. In many conflicts, women are raped. And in many cultures, this means they suffer twice over: they have suffered the rape itself, and on top of that, they are stigmatised as a victim of sexual violence.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for example, many women cannot go back to their own villages precisely because they have been raped in violent conflict.
In Bosnia, horrifically, tens of thousands of survivors live next to their rapists: they have seen them daily for the last 25 years.
Conflict survivors speak of serious physical and psychological problems they continue to suffer, including post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, sexually transmitted diseases, diabetes, hypertension and insomnia.
Very few have health insurance adequate to address their specific medical conditions, and most are unable to pay for the medication they require.
Women victims of sexual violence tend to experience high rates of unemployment and poverty; they are among the most vulnerable economic groups. They must face everything alone – unwanted pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
They need support, and they need a platform and a safe environment in which to talk about their experience.
Doing more to address mental health needs is not only essential for individuals’ wellbeing, it is also critical for communities to effectively rebuild their communities and country.
In any country battered by strife and civil war, like South Sudan at present, it is very important that the local people see that others from outside are coming to help: to see that international organisations are on the ground, offering assistance, gives them the feeling of not having been forgotten. Psychologically it matters a lot not to feel alone.
Often survivors have to rely on psycho-social and medical assistance from NGOs, whose commitment to delivering excellent and highly specialised care to these women in the face of great challenges is remarkable.
Governments, supported by the international community, must honour their international legal commitments to respect, protect and fulfil the right to health, including mental health.
Also, crucially, governments must provide victims with meaningful justice and reparation for the crimes they suffered. More must be done to ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice.
In Bosnia, according to Amnesty, a quarter of a century after the start of the conflict more than 20,000 survivors of wartime sexual violence are still being denied justice. Less than 1% of the total estimated number of victims of war crimes of sexual violence have come to court.
While the trauma of the past can never be ‘unlived', it is not too late to ensure that the future of these women is one in which their rights and their dignity can finally be reclaimed.
The EU has been providing assistance to people affected by conflict through numerous projects such as:
The European Network for Traumatic Stress-Training & Practices - a project supported by the EU Commission and delivered through the EU Health Programme. Its aim was to disseminate and implement evidence-based practice for those affected.
In Kashmir, the EU provides financing for humanitarian projects in Jammu and Kashmir for psycho-social, medical and livelihood support.
In Iraq, the EU has been at the forefront of the emergency humanitarian response, helping families and victims of physical and sexual violence through psycho-social support projects to deal with severe trauma through mental health services, and to develop psychological and health services skills.
In Bangladesh, the project 'Protection, essential services and durable solutions for refugees in Bangladesh: Phase IV', co-financed by the EU with EUR 9 million and implemented by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), has an objective to reduce the risk of sexual and gender based violence towards the Rohingya.
In 2018, the EU is leading the global Call to Action on Protection from Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies to help transform the way it is addressed within humanitarian action.
The EU/UN Spotlight Initiative on ending violence against women and girls will include specific measures and actions for the elimination of sexual and gender based violence in fragile contexts, including in South East Asia .
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