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How Much Money Does Madhur Jaffrey Make? Latest Income Salary
Madhur Jaffrey, CBE (born Bahadur, 13 August 1933) is an Indian-born actress, food and travel writer, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the Americas with her debut cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973), which was inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2006.
She played an instrumental part in bringing together film makers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant[10][11] and acted in several of their films such as Shakespeare Wallah (1965), for which she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress award at the 15th Berlin International Film Festival.[12] She has appeared in dramas on radio, stage and television.[13]
In 2004 she was named an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to cultural relations between the United Kingdom, India and the United States, through her achievements in film, television and cookery.[14][15]
Her childhood memoir of India during the final years of the British Raj, Climbing the Mango Trees, was published in 2006.[16][17]
Madhur Jaffrey Net Worth: $100 Million
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Bota Hopkinson is the President and Co-Founder of the Conservative Friends of Eurasia. She is a prominent member of the Conservative Party and a proud British of Kazakhstan origin. Bota was a conservative candidate for the Westminster City Council in a local election 2018.
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Lord Popat is a Party Whip and a former member of Her Majesty’s Government as the Minister of the Crown with responsibilities for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Transport. Back in 2013 he was the first Gujarati Minister to represent the Conservative Party on the Frontbenches in the House of Lords.
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Mark Garnier was elected to Parliament for Wyre Forest in May 2010 and is a member of the Treasury Select Committee and the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. He is actively involved in several All Party Parliamentary Groups including being the Chairman of the APPG for Heritage Rail and the APPG for the Economy of the West Midlands.
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The Waldorf High School
Excerpted from Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out by Jack Petrash
“After all, the function of education is to turn out an integrated individual who is capable of dealing with life…”
–J. Krishnamurti
It is a typical high school day, the kind that takes place every spring in hundreds of schools across America. Classes have been over for several hours and the school is remarkably quiet and empty. The only activity inside the building is that which involves the cleaning staff.
Out in the parking lot behind the school, the baseball team is unloading the van, having just returned from an away game. As the coach, I stand with the players as we put away the balls, the bats and the batting helmets. Our catcher is still unloading his own gear, a large bag that contains his chest protector, shin guards, and mask. He is a senior, and is one of those unique players who evoke a mixture of awe and envy in opposing teams, an all-met player whose home-runs and leadership will eventually lead our team to the final four in our state tournament.
As he reaches into the van for his equipment, he begins to sing beautifully and I stop in surprise. He is singing opera and I am immediately struck by the confluence of his talents — his athletic ability and his unique artistic sensibility. I think to myself: “How many coaches in America have a left-handed, power-hitting catcher who lapses into “Don Giovanni” at the end of a long day?
This experience provided yet another of those moments when I could clearly see the value of a Waldorf education. This young man embodied the results of the three-dimensional approach to education.
Good Habits of Mind
In high school this three-dimensional paradigm continues to be the guiding educational principle. Waldorf high school students are engaged through the week actively, emotionally and thoughtfully, just as they were in their earlier education. However, during this third phase of a young person’s education, the emphasis in a Waldorf high school moves decidedly toward thinking, which is developed through the types of subjects that are taught and through the habits of mind that are cultivated.
The maturation process that occurs in high school students plays an important role in determining which habits of mind will be cultivated during the four years. According to Douglas Gerwin, the director of the Waldorf High School Training in New Hampshire, each high school year should present a unique question to the students. These underlying questions have important purpose, to awaken specific aspects of human intelligence.
Ninth grade students are summoned to exercise powers of exact observation: in the sciences, to describe and draw precisely what happened in the lab experiments and demonstrations; in the humanities, to recount clearly a sequence of events or the nature of a character without getting lost in the confusion of details. The objective here is to train in the student powers of exact observation and reflection so they can experience in the raging storm of phenomena around them the steady ballast of their own thinking…One may summarize the approach of this freshman curriculum with the seminal question: What? What happened? What is going on here? What did you see and hear? (Gerwin, 1997, p. 12)
Gerwin goes on to say that in tenth grade, observation is expanded to include comparison and the question of “What?” is replaced with “How?” How are acids different from bases? How are men different from women? How do cultural and religious traditions from the Middle East and the Far East differ from those in the West?
Eleventh grade develops powers of analysis and abstraction. Gerwin continues:
The junior year curriculum could be characterized by a theme of invisibility: namely the study of those subjects that draw the student into areas that are not accessible to the experience of our senses…In chemistry, the students enter the invisible kingdom of the atom; in physics they explore the invisible world of electricity (which we can see only in its effects, not in its inherent nature)…These voyages to the invisible landscapes pose a central question intended to strengthen the student’s powers of independent analysis and abstract theorizing. The question is “Why? Why are things this way?” (Gerwin 1997, p. 13, 14).
Although the development of thinking is certainly not completed in the high school and will continue in college and in life, the twelfth grade is a time to step back and observe the whole. Synthesis becomes the habit of mind that is trained as the students are asked to broaden their view and see their subjects as part of a whole curriculum. The curriculum poses the questions — “How do I see the world in a non-fragmented way?” “Is there meaning in life?” and finally, “Who am I?” These are presented to the seniors as they look back on their years of study. These questions are raised repeatedly, particularly in the literature study of the transcendentalists, with Emerson’s “Self Reliance,” Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and with Emily Dickinson’s poem, “The Inner from the Outer.”
Keeping those underlying questions in mind, teachers help to develop powers of discernment, enabling students to look closely at the world in which they live and at themselves. The ability to observe, compare, analyze and synthesize helps young people better understand the world they are inheriting and at the same time, prepares them for finding their place in the world. Because Waldorf education requires inner responsiveness on the part of the students, graduates leave school with a clearer sense of who they are and what they believe to be important, making it possible for them to give direction in their own lives.
In-Depth Study
To develop good habits of mind, schools create learning situations that encourage students to explore subjects deeply, going beyond a superficial understanding. This requires a more intensive focus and in-depth study. Tod Sizer, the founder of the Coalition for Essential Schools at Brown University, contends that it is not effective to try and cover all the material specified in high school curricula because such attempts to teach all areas of study lead only to a smorgasbord of superficial instruction. “My basic conclusion is contained in the aphorism ‘less is more.” I believe that the qualities of mind that should be the goal of high school need time to grow and that they develop best when engaging a few, important ideas, deeply” (Sizer, 1992 p. 89).
Rather than sampling a wide range of diverse material, Waldorf schools choose to delve deeply into selected areas in an effort to provide their students with a more substantive understanding. The main lesson classes that are taught in the high school take place in an hour and forty minute “double” period at the beginning of each school day over the span of three to four weeks. This “block scheduling,” which is also a school reform used in mainstream education in both high schools and colleges, is an organizational feature well suited to in-depth study. A dozen subjects are studied in this way over the course of each year. These subjects come from all disciplines ranging from science and math to the humanities and are taught in an intensive, concentrated manner.
Truth, Beauty and Goodness
The subjects that a school elects to offer express the values of its institution and/or its school system. This is certainly the case in the Waldorf high school, which subscribes to a value-laden approach, one similar in sentiment to what Howard Gardner expresses in his book, The Disciplined Mind: “an education for all human beings needs to explore in some depth a set of key human achievements capture in the venerable phrase “the true, the beautiful and the good” (Gardner, H., 2000, p. 19).
For Rudolf Steiner, the experience of truth, beauty and goodness was an essential aspect of what children should receive in school. This also is an apt way to describe what Waldorf high school students will encounter through the curriculum. The subjects that are taught can essentially be organized around these ideals.
High school students actively take up a search for truth. Math and science subjects such as Boolean Algebra, Permutations and Probability, Geology, Optics or Zoology provide necessary understandings about the tangible world and foster the mental acuity needed for this exploration. But a search for truth is also a personal quest for each individual student. That is why teenagers begin to question adults rather than simply to ask questions. A search for truth inevitably requires that both students and teachers are able to suspend personal beliefs and for an extended period of time entertain other points of view. Today, more than ever, issues are rarely so clear as to be one sided. High school teachers must help students develop the habit of considering issues from various points of view.
History teaching in the high school can further this effort by presenting many sides of an issue. With the Civil War, for instance, students can understand both the outrage of northern abolitionists and the “love of place” that motivated Virginians and especially Robert E. Lee. Students need to experience the worry and danger of the Underground Railroad, as well as the apprehension and pain of the battlefield, the sadness and discouragement of Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, or even Jefferson Davis, and the heartache of the mothers and wives back home. They should know the desolation and shock of the people of Georgia as Sherman made his “March to the Sea” and they should comprehend as well the disappointment caused by the assassination of Lincoln. Young people must see that event with clear issues, a search for truth is complicated and time consuming, but always worth the effort.
The Waldorf curriculum also provides its high school students with the opportunity to consider timeless beauty. In freshman and sophomore year, the study of Art History, a two-part survey course, enables the students to experience, know, and recreate works of lasting artistic value. The eleventh-grade study of the History of Music offers the same opportunity, as does the senior-year study of the History of Architecture. All of these courses underscore the importance of beauty and place it in the context of human history.
High school students also need an experience of the good. The National Association of Secondary School Principles (NASSP) states in its report, Breaking Ranks: Changing an American Institution, “that schools must unabashedly teach students about key virtues…Some educators may feel uncomfortable about accepting this assignment, but we believe certain enduring virtues are universal to principled Americans. In an era where children are killing children and children are giving birth to children, high schools cannot afford to shirk this duty” (NASSP 1996a, p. 30).
Value-laden instruction is a complicated matter fraught with a wide array of difficulties, but one that cannot be avoided. Although it is often fruitless to provide direct instruction about virtue, examples of individuals from history and literature who have wrestled with moral questions enable students to explore and define their own beliefs. In high school, the main lesson in Dante’s Inferno brings students face to face with the conflict of Good and Evil. In the study of the epic tale, Parsifal, the role of personal moral responsibility is explored. And the reading of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, Les Miserables, the possibility of human transformation is viewed through the character of Jean Valjean. Other books such as the Upanishads or the Bhagavad Gita are used in a Waldorf high school because they raise serious ethical questions, ones that encourage students to consider goodness as an ideal that is worthy of our attention as truth and beauty.
The Pedagogy at Work
In a freshman class at Oberlin College in Ohio, students are receiving an unexpected and rather surprising assignment. The professor tells them that he is going to collect their notes at the start of the next day’s class. After a flurry of gasps and groans, one student asks, “Which notes?”
“Your class notes,” the professor replies.
“But which class notes?” the student responds, “The ones I take each day or the ones that I rewrite at night?”
Now it is the professor who is surprised. “Who told you that I was going to collect your notes?”
“No one,” the student rejoins, “this is the way I was taught to take notes.”
“Where did you go to school?” the professor asks skeptically.
The student answers, “A small school on Long Island, the Waldorf School.”
“Oh, that explains it,” the professor replies, satisfied at last.
The value of the Waldorf educational philosophy should be evident in its ability to put educational principles into practice. One way to assess if this is indeed being done effectively would be to examine the Waldorf program in the light on commonly accepted educational criteria.
The late Ernest Boyer, former Commissioner of Education, Chancellor of the State University of New York, and president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, took part in an extensive study of secondary education in America and proposed that high schools should strive to meet four essential goals.
First, the high school should help all students develop the capacity to think critically and communicate effectively through a mastery of language.
Second, the high school should help all students learn about themselves, the human heritage, and the interdependent world in which they live through a core curriculum based upon consequential human experiences common to all people.
Third, the high school should prepare all students for work and further education through a program of electives that develop individual aptitudes and interests.
Fourth, the high school should help all students fulfill their social and civic obligations through school and community service (Boyer, 1983, p. 66-67)
These four goals provide a viable way to measure the soundness of the Waldorf approach to high school education.
Communicating Clear Thinking through the Mastery of Language
With regard to the first of Boyer’s goals, the section of this chapter that discusses good habits of mind (pages 84-87) shows that Waldorf high schools offer a comprehensive approach to the development of critical thinking. What has not been stated explicitly, however, is the role that the mastery of written and spoken language plays in that process.
Each high school student writes, on the average, three compositions each week. These pieces vary in type from experiment observations, to informative descriptions, to narrative accounts, essays, research projects and literary interpretations. Almost all of these compositions will become the text of the student’s main lesson books, accounts of the material studied in each of the dozen or so main lesson blocks of the year. These books contain the essential information from the lessons and serve as a textbook to the students.
In addition to providing continuous opportunities for writing, the extended main lesson format encourages classroom discourse, requiring students to express their ideas orally through the regular review of the previous day’s work and through discussion of new material. In each instance, the school supports the students in the delicate process of ascertaining and giving voice to their own thoughts.
Understanding Our Human Heritage
With regards to the second of the Carnegie Foundation’s goals, it is clear that Waldorf schools’ approach is decidedly “humanistic.” An understanding of “human heritage” is placed at the forefront of the Waldorf program. Ancient cultures from Asia, Africa and the Americas, from Buddha and Lao Tzu to the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Native Sioux, are all considered from the point of view of their wisdom, faith and insight. At the same time, our modern civilization and its current and sometimes tragic events are also examined at length. In this way the Waldorf high school is able to blend two essential considerations noted by Howard Gardner in his recent book, The Disciplined Mind: “We need an education that is deeply rooted in two apparently contrasting but actually complementary considerations: what is known about the human condition in its timeless aspects; and what is known about the pressures and challenges and opportunities of the contemporary scene” (Gardner, 2000 p. 20).
Preparing Students for the Future –Elective Courses
As a young graduate student in education, I visited a local Waldorf school and saw a display of work from high school students. I remember pausing in front of a table and staring at a red flannel shirt that one of the senior boys had sewn, and a beautifully drawn skeleton of a horse in his biology main lesson book, and then at a large exquisite stained glass project and a beautiful piece of calligraphy. I had a bachelor’s degree and was on the verge of completing my masters, but I lacked the abilities that this high school student had. I knew it and I felt shortchanged. But I also knew immediately that this was the type of school in which I wanted to teach.
Because the three-dimensional paradigm matters as much in the high school as it does in the preschool and grade school, all students take a combination of classes that require manual skill and artistic ability, as well as academic understanding. Courses such as choral singing, stone sculpture and eurthymy (a form of movement set to music or speech that was developed by Rudolf Steiner and taught at most Waldorf schools) are required courses for all students because they are essential in developing well-rounded individuals.
Within a framework of a balanced education students are encourage to choose electives, which can range from the highly technical subjects (robotics) to the most basic (blacksmithing), and from the 21st century with computer graphics and web design to madrigal singing, 18th century chamber music, or an in-depth consideration of the Civil Rights Movement or Darwin’s Origin of the Species. These choices are not necessarily career track electives, but they do allow students to follow their interests, deepen their understanding, and perfect their skills.
Social and Civic Responsibility
Anyone who spends time with American high school students cannot help but notice a striking degree of selfcenteredness. Teenagers are, by nature, self-conscious and self-involved. When affluence is added to the mix, it exacerbates the situation further. For that reason, Waldorf schools, like so many other schools across the country, have institutionalized service programs to help young people acquire social awareness and demonstrate social responsibility.
Service-based construction programs like Habitat for Humanity or Christmas in April are often popular with Waldorf schools because they provide hands-on, concrete ways to help. With supervision and materials provided by local construction companies, high school students are able to spend weekend time making repairs and painting the homes of the elderly, the disabled and the less-fortunate.
Another opportunity for social service is found at local soup kitchens. Waldorf high school students often perform their service as a class, going to a local shelter together to prepare and serve lunch several times during the school year. This arrangement provides an important opportunity, enabling students to transform their idealism and concern into action – in short, to think globally but act locally.
Working locally is equally important when it comes to environmental issues. Waldorf students need to be aware of environmental issues in their school, not just in the rain forest.
Student government should be involved in school decisions on paper use, nutritional and packaging issues concerning lunch, and the recycling of cardboard, plastic, and aluminum. These small decisions are important because they help Waldorf students experience the conflict between our ideals and our own personal convenience.
Waldorf high schools do more than an adequate job of meeting the educational goals set forth by the Carnegie Foundation in its study of American high schools. And yet, concerns are not uncommon.
Perhaps the most common criticism directed at Waldorf high schools has centered on size. Parents, students, and even teachers have at times felt the schools are too small. Typical enrollments of approximately 100 students change social interactions in a variety of ways, including the dramatic experience of school spirit prevalent at large high school sporting events, and the traditional high school scene with large cafeterias, well equipped gymnasiums, and large groups of students.
Smaller budgets mean fewer faculty members, and students miss the possibility of having new teachers year after year. Housed on the same campus and often in the same building as the preschool and the grade school, Waldorf students often complain about the familiarity of being in the same place and with the same students and teachers for 12 to 14 years. The perception is that small is a disadvantage, but according to a recent study of American high schools by the National Association of Secondary School principals, this is not the case.
During much of this century, reformers sought to shut small high schools and herd youngsters into ever larger schools that styled themselves after the factory model. Experts perceived bigness as a sine qua non of excellence. This paradigm, with its vast array of offerings, represented the epitome of educational progress. But students are not pieces on an assembly line and knowledge is not an inert commodity to pour into vessels like soft drink syrup at a bottling plant. The impersonal nature of high school leaves too many youngsters alienated from the learning process (NASSP, 1996b, p. 11).
Clearly the “weakness” of the Waldorf high school is also its strength. The familiarity that makes young people feel uncomfortable also makes them members of a community. It insures that they are known and cared for and that changes in their behavior and appearance do not go unnoticed.
This insightful passage by Theodore Sizer from his book, Horace’s Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School, clearly shows the anonymity that students seek.
Her name was Melissa. She entered the classroom alone…Looking at no one in particular. Melissa headed toward a desk to the teacher’s left, against the wall…She said nothing to her neighbors, but seemed at ease with them and they wilt her. She looked about her, neither pleasantly or unpleasantly, with no particular recognition, enthusiasm, curiosity or hostility…Melissa watched all…without animation. Her face was not blank, quite; there was an ennui, acceptance, a trace of wariness. A question was directed to her. She looked at the teacher with little change in expression. A pause. I don’t understand. (The teacher) repeated the question, kindly, without reproach. Another pause. I don’t know…Melissa speaking slowly said something, a phrase using words earlier spoken during the teacher’s lecture. It was enough to end the exchange, but not enough to provoke a counter question or a follow up by a teacher. Melissa, however unwittingly, was a master of non-engagement. She sat at the side. She didn’t move much, thus drawing attention to herself. She did not offer ideas to the class, and when questioned answered with something just plausible and relevant enough to avoid being chided for inattention…She was an educational artful dodger with considerable skill…I could imagine Melissa moving through her entire school day in (this) fashion (Sizer, 1984, p. 161-2).
This non-engagement is a challenge to teachers. Many students in high schools across the country slip by disengaged with only a modicum of effort, and no one notices. In contrast, Waldorf high schools discourage anonymity. When a teacher instructs approximately 100 different students each year as opposed to 300, she is able to notice the quiet, disengaged student and intervene. Students cannot avoid responsiveness when they sit in smaller classes, face to face with an attentive teacher who has known them and possibly their siblings for an extended period of time. More so, when a team of high school teachers with many eyes and a variety of perspectives meets regularly to discuss the students as Waldorf teachers do each week, the students’ needs become more clear to everyone. This underscores the notion that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Schools need to meet the boys and girls such as Melissa who reside on the periphery, but they also need to confront the students who are overly assertive and aggressive. Every high school has its bullies, both girls and boys. Some are physical, some verbal, and some practice emotional intimidation. These students can prove just as elusive as quiet students because they hide behind their peers and behind a persona of potential defiance. In large schools the crowd obscures these students, but in small schools they are painfully obvious.
Balanced Development in the High School
In either case, the teachers hold the key to the students’ ability to change through direct contact with these students. It takes a great deal of effort on the part of the teacher to intervene successfully to affect change. In a Waldorf high school, however, the three-dimensional paradigm supports that effort.
The non-engaged student and the overly assertive are lacking balanced development. The non-engaged student lacks involvement, that volitional aspect that is cultivated in the Waldorf school from the earliest years. Active involvement, or will development, is the basis of the preschool program as well as a key component of the grade school. It must continue to be fostered in the high school as well through movement and artistic work, classroom participation, and extracurricular activities.
In the Waldorf high school program, where sports teams and dramatic productions accept all students rather than offering tryouts, the opportunity for activity and involvement increases. Perceptive teachers can see the long-distance runner in the solitary student or exceptional basketball ability in the seemingly unathletic, quiet girl who can apply her unwavering focus, dedication and intelligence to a one-on-one defense. When these students are encouraged and supported to explore new abilities in unfamiliar situations, they grow in confidence. But, most of all, these active experiences strike at the root of non-engagement. However, these changes cannot happen without an advocate. That is why many Waldorf high schools provide a personal advisor for each high school student.
In a similar way, the aggressive student is lacking in balanced development. In this instance it is the emotional aspect that is undeveloped. With bullies, sensitivity, consideration, and compassion, are all strikingly absent. These students form critical judgments about their classmates and teacher and often manifest these negative judgments in unfortunate actions, actions that can be heartless and cruel. It is emotional engagement that is missing or distorted in what they do. And this is precisely what needs to be encouraged in high school. It is not uncommon that artistic ability sleeps within the aggressive student. Musical ability, dramatic ability, and visual artistic talent often reside in the most challenging and aggressive students.
“I shall create. If not a note, a hole. If not an overture, a desecration.”
–Gwendolyn Brookes (speaking about an angry adolescent) (Brookes, 1987)
When high school programs require all students to be artistically engaged it is easier for difficult students to find an artistic outlet for their frustrations. These students often have latent talents that have gone unnoticed. When an advisor can look closely and with sufficient insight to recognize the musical or dramatic ability that has gone undeveloped in a difficult student, it can clear the way for healing and positive change.
That is not just a Waldorf understanding. Educators nationwide have recognized the arts as an invaluable tool for helping young people find direction in their lives. Author Bill Shore points this out in his recent book, The Cathedral Within: Transforming your Life by Giving Something Back.
The Chicago Children’s Choir (is) the largest choral and performance training group of its kind in the United States. As much as (its director) Nancy Carstedt loves music, that is not the focal point of her work. Her work is about saving children’s lives. She succeeds at it by letting kids into a world they’ve never imagined, exposing them to discipline and commitment and excellence…and by doing whatever is necessary to enable them to create and experience excellence themselves…The choir is multiracial, multicultural, and, like any choir, harmony is its business (Shore, 1999, p. 79).
On the other hand, when high school programs ignore arts education, the results can be disastrous. This was underscored by the late music educator, Charles Fowler. “My observations in schools are that drugs, crime, indifference and insensitivity tend to run rampant in schools that deprive students of instruction in the arts” (Fowler, 1996, p. 12, 13).
When Waldorf teachers work with challenging students, they proceed on two levels: They deal with problematic behavior and then they invariably turn to the root cause of the problem. Almost always, the difficulties that are uncovered indicate a one-sided and incomplete development of the three essential capacities – thinking, feeling and willing – that are at the heart of Waldorf education. This incomplete development occurs for a variety of reasons – mis-education, difficulties in the home, or a physiological problem – but in any case it requires a high school teacher’s unwavering dedication to restore balance through teaching.
This is the same educational ideal that not only shapes the work of the high school, but of all three phases of Waldorf education – preschool, grade school, and high school. The fundamental understanding is that a student’s healthy development must be fostered by an education that is heartfelt and hands-on as well as academic. It is only through a well-balanced approach to teaching that we can help students realize all that they can do and help them to become adults who can realize their full human potential.
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Brookes, G. (1987). Blacks. Chicago: Third World Press.
Fowler, C. (1996). Strong arts, strong schools: The promising potential and shortsighted disregard of the arts in American schools. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gardner , H. (2000). The disciplined mind: Beyond facts and standardized tests. New York: Penguin Books.
Gerwin, D. & L. Harris. (1997). Genesis of a Waldorf high school: A source book. Wilton, NH: High Mowing School.
Krishnamurti, J. (2000). Educating the educator. Parbola, 25 (3), 85-59.
National Association of Secondary School Principals. (1996a). Breaking new ranks: Changing an American institution: An executive summary. Reston, VA. Author.
Shore, B. (1999). The cathedral within: Transforming your life by giving something back. New York: Random House.
Sizer, T. (1984). Horace’s compromise: The dilemma of the American high school. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
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A controversialist, born in England c. 1569; died there c. 1643. He studied at Reims (1590) and Rome (1593). As priest he was imprisoned at Wisbech, and was active against the Jesuits, acting later for the Appellant Clergy in Rome (1602). Afterwards he was appointed president of the English College of Arras near Paris, becoming doctor of theology and Fellow of the Sorbonne. He was vice-president of Douai College, from 1619 to 1625, and from 1628 till he returned to England, where he died some time after 1643. He published: "An Answer to a Letter of a Jesuited Gentleman" (1601); "A Manual of Controversies"(l614); "A Treatise of the Vocation of Bishops" (1616); "Mr. Pilkington his Parallela Disparalled" (1620); "An Answer to a Pamphlet (by D. Featley) intitled 'The Fisher catched in his own Net'" (1623); "Defence of the Appendix to the Antidote" (before 1624); "Legatum Fratribus suis Cleri Anglicani Sacerdotibus Testamento relictum" (in Bishop Smith's "Monita"). His "History of Queen Elizaheth" is still in manuscript. Formerly, as stated by Gillow, Cooper. Knox, etc., it was preserved in the archives of the Old Chapter, but since 1879 has been restored to Westminster Archieves, to which it belonged; there are also some other works in manuscript.
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Lent: March 24th
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent
March 24, 2018 (Readings on USCCB website)
O God, who have made all those reborn in Christ a chosen race and a royal priesthood, grant us, we pray, the grace to will and to do what you command, that the people called to eternal life may be one in the faith of their hearts and the homage of their deeds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever..
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Old Calendar: St. Gabriel, archangel; St. Catherine of Sweden (Hist)
According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Gabriel. His feast in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is celebrated on September 29 which is also the feast of Sts. Michael and Raphael. Historically the feast of St. Catherine of Sweden, the fourth child of St. Bridget of Sweden, is celebrated today.
This Saturday, in the early ages of Christianity, was called Sitientes, from the first word of the Introit of the Mass, in which the Church addresses her catechumens in the words of Isaias and invites them that thirst after grace to come and receive it in the holy Sacrament of Baptism.
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Catherine of Sweden, Saint, the fourth child of Saint Bridget of Sweden (q.v.) and her husband, Ulf Gudmarsson, b. 1331 or 1332; d. March 24, 1381. At the time of her death St. Catherine was head of the convent of Wadstena, founded by her mother; hence the name, Catherine Vastanensis, by which she is occasionally called. At the age of seven she was sent to the abbess of the convent of Riseberg to be educated and soon showed, like her mother, a desire for a life of self-mortification and devotion to spiritual things. At the command of her father, when about thirteen or fourteen years old, she married a noble of German descent, Eggart von Kürnen. She at once persuaded her husband, who was a very religious man, to join her in a vow of chastity. Both lived in a state of virginity and devoted themselves to the exercise of Christian perfection and active charity. In spite of her deep love for her husband, Catherine accompanied her mother to Rome, where St. Bridget went in 1349.
Soon after her arrival in that city Catherine received news of the death of her husband in Sweden. She now lived constantly with her mother, took an active part in St. Bridget's fruitful labors, and zealously imitated her mother's ascetic life. Although the distinguished and beautiful young widow was surrounded by suitors, she steadily refused all offers of marriage. In 1372 St. Catherine and her brother, Birger, accompanied their mother on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land; after their return to Rome St. Catherine was with her mother in the latter's last illness and death.
In 1374, in obedience to St. Bridget's wish, Catherine brought back her mother's body to Sweden for burial at Wadstena, of which foundation she now became the head. It was the mother-house of the Brigittine Order, also called the Order of St. Savior. Catherine managed the convent with great skill and made the life there one in harmony with the principles laid down by its founder. The following year she went again to Rome in order to promote the canonization of St. Bridget, and to obtain a new papal confirmation of the order. She secured another confirmation both from Gregory XI (1377) and from Urban VI (1379), but was unable to gain at the time the canonization of her mother, as the confusion caused by the Schism delayed the process. When this sorrowful division appeared she showed herself, like St. Catherine of Siena, a steadfast adherent of the party of the Roman Pope, Urban VI, in whose favor she testified before a judicial commission. Catherine stayed five years in Italy and then returned home, bearing a special letter of commendation from the pope. Not long after her arrival in Sweden she was taken ill and died. In 1484 Innocent VIII gave permission for her veneration as a saint and her feast was assigned to March 22 in the Roman martyrology. Catherine wrote a devotional work entitled "Consolation of the Soul" (Sielinna Troest), largely composed of citations from the Scriptures and from early religious books; no copy is known to exist. Generally she is represented with a hind at her side, which is said to have come to her aid when unchaste youths sought to ensnare her.
Excerpted from The Catholic Encyclopedia, J.P. Kirsch
Tuesday of the 4th Week of Lent, Station with San Lorenzo in Damaso (St. Lawrence at the House of Damasus): The church of today's station is believed to have been built over the house of Pope St. Damasus, (366-383), by the Pope himself. The church was rebuilt in the late 15th century and restored several times, the latest being after fire damage of 1944. This is yet another church dedicated to St. Lawrence, deacon and martyr, who has ten churches just in Rome dedicated to this popular saint.
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Of all the jewels in Africa’s collection, the Okavango Delta, with its glittering channels and watercourses, is one of the shiniest. One of the seven wonders of Africa, it is a massive inland delta that covers over 15 000km2. The summer rains that are the lifeblood of the delta, fall in the highlands of Angola and take about four months to complete their journey, lazily meandering their way down the 1 200km watercourse to arrive in the Delta and slowly spreading through the wetlands just in time for winter. There is less than a 2-metre difference in elevation across the Delta, which means that once the water gets there, it fans out extensively. By June each year, the flood basin has normally swelled to three times its normal size.
The waters of the Okavango River never reach the sea. Some drains into the neighbouring Moremi National Park to the east of the Delta, and into Lake Ngami to the south. But the majority of the water is there to nourish the grasses and trees of the Delta, and to support one of the greatest concentrations of game in Africa. It is a seasonal rhythm, and when the floodwaters begin to ebb, many of the huge herds disperse, following the rains to greener pastures, only to return in the winter months in an endless repetition of one of nature’s greatest cycles.
The largest island in the Delta is known as Chief’s Island. It was formed by a fault line that uplifted an area over 70km long and 15km wide. In days gone by, it was reserved as an exclusive hunting area for the chief of the area, but now it provides the core dry land mass for much of the resident wildlife when the Delta is in flood.
There is an estimated population of over 200 000 large mammals in the Delta. Many of them are elephant and buffalo that follow this ancient migration route.
Herds of 250 000 zebra make the 240km march to the Makgadikgadi every year, returning home for the winter feast. Herds of lechwe wade in the shallows and waterways, nibbling on aquatic plants. 71 species of fish dart between the weeds: many are identical to the species found in the Zambezi river system, indicating a prehistoric link between the two systems.
The predators follow this age-old pattern instinctively. Lions, leopards, hyena, wild dog, cheetah, jackal and others smack their lips at the inevitable return of the great herds, waiting patiently for their moment to pounce. Crocodiles lurk in the shadows under water weeds, ready to snap up any who dare wade in too deeply.
The accommodation in the Delta is of a very high standard. Activities range from walks and game drives to fishing and boating trips and helicopter flips. You can even try your hand at paddling a mokoro (the local dugout canoe)!
Life in the Okavango Delta is governed by the rise and fall of floodwater, and access to different parts of the Delta varies with the season. June through to August is considered the best time for a safari, much of which is done by boat or canoe, as the water is at its highest. At this time of year the extent of the floodwater is at its most dramatic, and the animals will all have arrived in their droves.
Added benefits are the mild winter weather, the small chance of rain and the absence of mosquitoes.
Hot, dry September and October are also good. The waters will have begun to recede and animals will crowd the waterholes. November through to April are the rainy months. The floodwater has usually abated and some of the larger animals moved on. But this is when the reserve becomes a birding paradise with more than 450 species of bird all waiting to be captured through camera lenses and binoculars.
The Okavango Delta is a life-giving paradise in the middle of a dry, desert region. It has stunning, mercurial mood swings and contrasts, mind-blowing game viewing, and should be on any wildlife enthusiasts bucket list.
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Professor Didier Queloz wins 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for first discovery of an exoplanet
Queloz jointly wins the 2019 Physics Nobel for his work on the first confirmation of an exoplanet – a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun.
Back then, exoplanet research was a very small field. I think there were about fifty of us and we were seen as weirdos
Didier Queloz on the early days of his research
Professor Didier Queloz from the University of Cambridge has been jointly awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Professor James Peebles and Professor Michel Mayor for their pioneering advances in physical cosmology, and the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
Queloz is Professor of Physics at the University’s Cavendish Laboratory, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He leads the Cambridge Exoplanet Research Centre. In 1995, along with Michel Mayor, Queloz made the first discovery of a planet outside our solar system, an exoplanet, orbiting the star 51 Pegasi. Queloz becomes the 109th affiliate of the University of Cambridge to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 2019 Prize this morning. The Nobel Assembly said: “The discovery by 2019 Nobel Prize laureates Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz started a revolution in astronomy and over 4,000 exoplanets have since been found in the Milky Way. Strange new worlds are still being discovered, with an incredible wealth of sizes, forms and orbits.”
"This year’s Laureates have transformed our ideas about the cosmos. While James Peebles’ theoretical discoveries contributed to our understanding of how the universe evolved after the Big Bang, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz explored our cosmic neighbourhoods on the hunt for unknown planets. Their discoveries have forever changed our conceptions of the world."
Above: Listen to audio from the press conference given by Prof Queloz on the day the Nobel Prize was awarded.
"It’s an incredible honour and I’m still trying to digest it," said Queloz on the day he was awarded the Nobel. "When we discovered the first exoplanet, it was pretty obvious that this was something important, even though not everyone believed us at the time. Back then, exoplanet research was a very small field. I think there were about fifty of us and we were seen as weirdos. Now there are probably over a thousand people working in the field.
"It’s a hot topic at the moment, so I’m really happy that the field of exoplanets has been recognised with a Nobel Prize," Queloz said. "When you are working so passionately at your research, it can be very disruptive to your family. My family has always been there for me and I’m grateful of their support. This Nobel Prize is also an acknowledgement of their incredible patience!"
Today, many regard the discovery of 51 Pegasi b by Queloz and Mayor at the University of Geneva in 1995, as a moment in astronomy that forever changed the way we understand the universe and our place within it.
It was the first confirmation of an exoplanet – a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun. Until then, although astronomers had speculated as to the existence of these distant worlds, no planet other than those in our own solar system had ever been found.
This seminal discovery has spawned a revolution in astronomy both in terms of new instrumentation and understanding of planet formation and evolution. Since then Professor Queloz has been involved in a successful series of developments of precise spectrographs, considerable improving the precision of the Doppler technique.
Of the 1,900 or so confirmed exoplanets that have now been found – around a tenth of these by Queloz himself – many are different to anything we ever imagined, challenging existing theories of planet formation.
In 2007, in the emerging area of planetary transit detection, he established a successful international collaboration with the WASP team from UK, providing the spectroscopic confirmation and precise photometry follow-up to confirm and characterize planetary candidates. He also took an active part in the Corot mission, pioneering planet transit detection from space. He conducted a part of the work that led to the first transit detection of a rocky planet (Corot-7b).
In 2012 he received with Michel Mayor the 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award of Basic Sciences for developing new astronomical instruments and experimental techniques that led to the first observation of planets outside the Solar System.
In 2013 he became a professor at the University of Cambridge, where he is leading a comprehensive research program with the goal of progressing our understanding of the formation, structure, and habitability of exoplanets, as well as to promote and share the excitement of this work with the public.
The University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen Toope, said: "I am delighted to hear that Professor Didier Queloz has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Didier’s discovery of planets beyond our solar system has ushered in a revolutionary new era for cosmology.
"This work represents an extraordinary scientific achievement but also offers humanity so much inspiration – the chance to imagine such distant and different, or perhaps similar, worlds. It gives me tremendous pleasure, on behalf of our community, to congratulate the University of Cambridge’s latest Nobel Prize winner.”
Professor Andy Parker, Head of the Cavendish Laboratory, said: "Professor Queloz’s research has led to the discovery that planets are abundant throughout our galaxy, orbiting other stars. We can now estimate that there are tens of billions of potentially inhabitable exoplanets. This takes us one step closer to answering the question of whether we are alone in the Universe: it seems increasingly likely that life in some form will have found a foothold on these many new worlds.
"The current programme of work being carried out by Professor Queloz at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University will search for signatures of life in the chemicals found in the exoplanet atmospheres. This groundbreaking research is extremely demanding technically, and addresses profound questions which fascinate all of humanity. We look forward to further breakthroughs as Professor Queloz continues his outstanding work."
Read a 2016 interview with Professor Queloz here.
My PI here in Cambridge, @DidierQueloz, just won the Physics Nobel Prize! We had to interrupt our SPECULOOS meeting to take an historical picture! Congrats Didier!!! pic.twitter.com/eGnsNAogcf
— Laetitia Delrez (@LaetitiaDelrez) October 8, 2019
New Nobel Laureate Didier Queloz was at a scientific meeting when news of his #NobelPrize broke. Here, fresh from celebrating with colleagues, he speaks with @nobelprize.
Interview to follow.
Photo: Nick Saffell. pic.twitter.com/7FyURzjzAq
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 8, 2019
A perspective from Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge:
"Jim Peebles played a key role back in 1965 in appreciating and interpreting the ‘cosmic microwave background’ radiation – the ‘afterglow of creation’. He has been the most influential and respected leader of empirical cosmology with a sustained record of achievement spanning half a century.
"The study of exoplanets is perhaps the most vibrant field of astronomy. We now know that most stars are orbited by retinues of planets; there may be a billion planets in our galaxy resembling the Earth (similar in size and at a distance from their parent star where liquid water can exist). This takes us a step towards the fascinating question of detecting evidence for life on the nearest of these exoplanets. Queloz and Mayor not only discovered the first planet orbiting an ordinary star. The have also been among the leaders in the ongoing research that has led to the discovery of many thousands of other planetary systems, exhibiting an unexpected variety.
"These awards seem to show, incidentally, a welcome broadening of the Nobel criteria. In the past, astronomy has been included primarily when the discovery involves some new physics (neutron stars, gravitational waves, vacuum energy, etc). But this award highlights astronomy as also the grandest of the environmental sciences. And the award to Peebles will be welcomed by his friends and colleagues as recognition of a lifetime of sustained contributions and insights by an acknowledged intellectual leader, rather than a ‘one off’ achievement."
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What is osteopathic medicine?
Osteopathic medicine emphasizes overall health and the relation among the body's nerves, muscles, bones, and organs. Osteopathic physicians (also called doctors of osteopathic medicine, or DOs) base diagnosis and treatment on the idea that the body's systems are interconnected. Instead of treating specific symptoms or illnesses, DOs regard and treat the body as an integrated whole. Osteopathic medicine focuses on disease prevention and health maintenance.
Osteopathic physicians must complete basic medical education from an accredited college of osteopathic medicine. Accreditation is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council on Postsecondary Education. Like medical doctors (MDs), DOs must complete an internship and residency program after their basic medical education. DOs can prescribe medicine and do surgery.
Like MDs, DOs must pass a state medical board examination to obtain a license in order to enter practice. Each state board sets its own requirements and then issues the license for the osteopathic physician to practice in that state.
What is osteopathic medicine used for?
Osteopathic physicians may serve as primary care providers. DOs can prescribe medicines, order medical tests such as X-rays, and do surgery. DOs often provide treatment in a hospital. More than half of all osteopathic physicians practice in primary care areas. Examples of primary care areas are children's health (pediatrics), pregnant women's health (obstetrics), women's health (gynecology), and general adult health (internal medicine).
Some osteopathic physicians use hands-on manipulation of bones and muscles, or osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), in their training and practice. OMT allows osteopathic physicians to use their hands to help diagnose injury and illness, help pain, and promote healing.
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Thursday, September 12, 2019, 09:54
Cuba says facing acute fuel shortage due to US sanctions
Thursday, September 12, 2019, 09:54 By Reuters
Locals line up to board a public service bus in Havana, Cuba, Sept 11, 2019. (ISMAEL FRANCISCO / AP)
HAVANA — Cuba must implement emergency measures to stave off an acute fuel shortage in September caused by the Trump administration's "perverse" efforts to block oil shipments to the Communist-run country, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Wednesday.
Public transport as well as transport of goods to market were already being affected by the shortage of fuel, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said
The Caribbean's largest island will have to make do this month with the little fuel available now, plus supply from a ship that arrives on Saturday and another at the end of the month, Diaz-Canel said in a roundtable discussion on state television.
He said all shipments for October were already guaranteed.
ALSO READ: EU stresses support for Cuba even as US hikes sanctions
The Trump administration has tightened the decades-old embargo on Cuba in what it says is an attempt to get the Communist government to reform and drop support for Venezuela's embattled socialist President Nicolas Maduro. That has included fresh sanctions on vessels and firms involved in oil exports to the island.
People line up with their vehicles to load up on fuel at a gas station in Havana, Cuba, Sept 11, 2019. (ISMAEL FRANCISCO / AP)
Economy Minister Alejandro Gil said in the roundtable that in the short-term, as the embargo bites, the government is focusing on ensuring basic services to the population at the cost of lower economic productivity, which could mean investment projects would have to be paused for a few weeks.
Public transport as well as transport of goods to market were already being affected by the shortage of fuel, Diaz-Canel said. There was also a risk of blackouts but the government would announce them ahead of time, he said.
The president exhorted all Cubans to contribute to greater energy efficiency. Workers with state cars should offer rides to others and those who could work from home should do so.
READ MORE: Dissension over Cuba strains US ties with allies
Locals hang precariously from a public service bus in Havana, Cuba, Sept 11, 2019. (ISMAEL FRANCISCO / AP)
Diaz-Canel assured Cubans the crisis was not a return to the economic depression of the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, because the economy was more diversified now and Cuba had alliances with countries worldwide.
Tourism remained strong despite increased US restrictions, for example, he said.
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Carbon budgets, climate sensitivity and the myth of "burnable carbon"
by David Spratt
Breakthrough National Climate Restoration
Forum 21-22 June, Melbourne
In my previous post explaining why there is no carbon budget left for burning fossil fuels for a 2-degree Celsius (°C) target, I explained that these carbon budget calculations are expressed in probabilities of not exceeding the target. This reflects a number of uncertainties in understanding, including climate sensitivity, ocean heat uptake inertia, the influences of non-carbon dioxide forcing agents, and because results vary somewhat among model ensembles.
Of these, climate sensitivity is the biggest issue, because of the possibilities that climate change might proceed more rapidly than currently estimated because of reinforcing feedbacks, thresholds or tipping points in the climate system, or less rapidly because of dampening feedbacks.
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The real budgetary emergency and the myth of "burnable carbon"
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Another significant issue is whether the modelling used for the most recent IPCC report is too conservative in projecting the loss of Arctic sea ice, and the consequences for Arctic-driven warming.
This post looks at these two issues
Arctic modelling underestimates sea-ice loss, albedo change and warming
The IPCC's 2013 carbon budget work uses Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) computer modelling results. Results are given for the RCP2.6 (~2°C warming) scenario, which show a 43% reduction in September Arctic sea-ice extent by 2100 (compared to a 1985–2005 reference period), so that ~ 4 million square kilometres on Arctic sea ice still remains in summer by 2100.
This is so at odds with the reality on the ground as to be not credible. With less than 1°C of global warming, the Arctic sea-ice extent has dropped by half, and the sea-ice volume by three-quarters. At the 2012 summer minimum, sea-ice extent was 3.4 million square kilometres, less than the CMIP5's projection for 2100!
Many Arctic experts think that the Arctic is likely to reach an sea-ice-free state (defined as less than 1 mil. sq. km.) in the northern summer within the next decade or so, and perhaps sooner, with the number of ice-free days growing from then on. Prof. Will Steffen told "The Age" in September 2012 that: “I’m pretty certain that we have now passed the tipping point for Arctic sea ice”. This reflects work by researchers include Livina, Lenton, Wadhams and Maslowski (1).
A reasonable scenario would be to look at a sea-ice-free Arctic in five-to-ten years, with the number of ice-free days expanding from then on to several weeks, perhaps even months, before +2°C is achieved. This is important because a more rapid loss of sea ice changes the Arctic's albedo (reflectivity), as dark seas absorb more heat than white ice, increasing warming. This feedback effectively squeezes down the carbon budget, and is underestimated in IPCC's 2013 report.
A 2011 study, for example, found that if the Arctic were ice-free for one month a year plus associated ice-extent decreases in other months then, without taking cloud changes into account, the global impact would be about 0.2ºC of warming. If there were no ice at all during the months of sunlight, the impact would close to 0.5ºC of global warming (2).
It is a very credible scenario that the Arctic could indeed be sea-ice-free for a month in summer before warming reaches 2°C, but this has not been considered in any carbon budget considerations as far as I can ascertain. Warming of 0.2°C from a month of sea-ice-free conditions is roughly equivalent to ten years of current human emissions, which would have to be subtracted from the IPCC's 2013 carbon budget, reducing it by around 40%.
Climate sensitivity
Short-term, or Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS), is the temperature increase resulting from doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, including such factors as rapid changes in snow and (sea) ice melt, and the behaviour of "fast" feedbacks including clouds and water vapour. Thus, doubling of atmospheric CO2 from the pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million (ppm), to 560 ppm, would resulted in a 3°C global temperature increase using ECS of 3°C. A related function is the Transient Climate Response to Cumulative CO2 Emissions (TCRE), which is used in the IPCC's carbon budget.
Arctic sea-ice loss, and the associated albedo change, is a fast feedback that is included in the CMIP5 models for IPCC AR5 carbon budgets, but as discussed above, that process appears to have been significantly underestimated.
The mid-range ECS estimate is generally around 3°C (range 2–4.5°C), and it plays out in the first hundred years or so after an injection of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The 2013 IPCC report finds that "Equilibrium climate sensitivity is likely in the range 1.5°C to 4.5°C" but "No best estimate for equilibrium climate sensitivity can now be given because of a lack of agreement on values across assessed lines of evidence and studies."
However a recent paper by Sherwood, Bony et al. looking at clouds and atmospheric convective mixing finds that on “the basis of the available data… the new understanding presented here pushes the likely long-term global warming towards the upper end of model ranges.” Taking “the available observations at face value,” they write, “implies a most likely climate sensitivity of about 4°C, with a lower limit of about 3°C” (3).
Writing in the Guardian, Skeptical Science's Dana Nuccitelli explains that these "results are consistent with Fasullo & Trenberth (2012), who found that only the higher sensitivity climate models correctly simulated drying in key cloud-forming regions of the atmosphere. Likewise, preliminary results by scientists at the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory presented at the 2013 AGU meeting showed that higher sensitivity models do the best job simulating observed cloud changes. These results are also consistent with Lauer et al. (2010) and Clement et al. (2009), which looked at cloud changes in the Pacific, finding the observations consistent with a positive cloud feedback" (4).
If indeed ECS is more likely at the higher end of the range, this would diminish the remaining carbon budget. Quantifying a carbon budget for a ~4°C mid-point ECS has not been done as far as I can ascertain.
Long-term earth system sensitivity
Paleoclimatology (study of past climates) suggests that if longer-term feedbacks of "slow" factors are taken into account, such as the decay of large ice sheets, changes in the carbon cycle (changed efficiency of carbon sinks such as permafrost and methane clathrate stores, as well as biosphere stores such as peatlands and forests), and changes in vegetation coverage and reflectivity (albedo), then the Earth's sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 could itself be double that of the "fast" climate sensitivity predicted by most climate models, or around 6°C (5). These "slow" feedbacks amplify the initial warming burst. A measure of these effects for a doubling of CO2 is known as Earth System Sensitivity (ESS).
Longer-term ESS is generally considered to come into play over periods from centuries to several millennia, depending on how fast is the rate of change in greenhouse gas levels and temperature.
The problem is that rate of climate change now being driven by human actions may be as fast as any extended warming period over the past 65 million years, and it is projected to accelerate in the coming decades. This means that longer-term "slow" events associated with ESS – such as loss of large ice sheets, and changes in Arctic and biosphere carbon stores – are starting to occur now, are happening much more quickly than expected, and likely will proceed at a significant scale in the current hundred years. We face an event unprecedented in the last 65 million years of "fast" short-term and "slow" long-term climate sensitivity events occurring alongside one another in parallel, rather than one after the other in series as is usually the case. Thus, even as some of the "fast" warming is still to be realised due to thermal inertia, some of the "slow" feedbacks are already coming into play:
Evidence from Earth’s history suggests that slower surface albedo feedbacks due to vegetation change and melting of Greenland and Antarctica can come into play on the timescales of interest to humans, which could increase the sensitivity to significantly higher values, as much as 6°C … the slow feedback climate sensitivity has relevance in the Anthropocene era, since ice sheet/vegetation feedback may become significant on decadal-to-centennial timescales of interest to humans (6).
Unfortunately, slow feedbacks are amplifying on time scales that humans care about: decades, centuries, even millennia. As the planet warms, for example, ice sheets melt, exposing a darker surface that increases warming. Also warming causes a net release of long-lived greenhouse gases from the ocean and soil. Vegetation changes that occur as climate warms from today's situation will also have a significant amplifying effect, as forests move into tundra regions in North America and Eurasia (7).
The problem is that the IPCC carbon budget analysis assumes that none of these longer-term feedbacks will be materially relevant before 2°C of warming, and so exclude the possibility of large-scale permafrost, methane clathrate or less efficient biological stores (Amazon, tundra etc) making contributions to atmospheric greenhouse gas levels and impacting on the carbon budget.
Thus the IPCC 2013 report notes that "Accounting for ... the release of greenhouse gases from permafrost will also lower..." the target, and that the CMIP5 modelling used for the IPCC's carbon budgets does not include "explicit representation of permafrost soil carbon decomposition in response to future warming". It also notes that "the climate sensitivity of a model may... not reflect the the sensitivity of the full Earth system because those feedback processes ["slow feedbacks associated associated with vegetation changes and ice sheets"] are not considered".
Several lines of evidence suggest theses assumptions are not robust. Recent research shows that the Amazon may often be releasing huge quantities of CO2 to the atmosphere, acting not as a carbon sink but as a source (8); and that the seafloor off the coast of Northern Siberia is releasing more than twice the amount of methane as previously estimated and is now on par with the methane being released from the Arctic tundra (9).
In February 2013, scientists using radiometric dating techniques on Russian cave formations to measure historic melting rates warned that a +1.5ºC global rise in temperature compared to pre-industrial was enough to start a general permafrost melt. They found that “global climates only slightly warmer than today are sufficient to thaw extensive regions of permafrost.” Lead researcher Anton Vaks says that: “1.5ºC appears to be something of a tipping point” (10).
In 2011, Schaefer, Zhang et al. warned: "The thaw and release of carbon currently frozen in permafrost will increase atmospheric CO2 concentrations and amplify surface warming to initiate a positive permafrost carbon feedback (PCF) on climate…. [Our] estimate may be low because it does not account for amplified surface warming due to the PCF itself….We predict that the PCF will change the Arctic from a carbon sink to a source after the mid-2020s and is strong enough to cancel 42-88% of the total global land sink. The thaw and decay of permafrost carbon is irreversible and accounting for the PCF will require larger reductions in fossil fuel emissions to reach a target atmospheric CO2 concentration" (11).
This very strong and disturbing finding – that permafrost decay is "irreversible" and requires a lower carbon budget – is not reflected in the PCC's figuring.
Climate change with its non-linear events, tipping points and irreversible events – such as mass extinctions, destruction of ecosystems, the loss of large ice sheets and the triggering of large-scale releases of greenhouse gases from carbon stores such as permafrost and methane clathrates – contains many possibilities for catastrophic failure.
If climate sensitivity is, in reality, at the high end of the range used for the IPCC's carbon budgets, then as a consequence that means that we must adopt a very low-risk of exceeding the target. As the previous post explained, If a risk-averse (pro-safety) approach is applied – say, of less than 10% probability of exceeding the 2°C target – to carbon budgeting, there is simply no budget available, because it has already been used up. The notion that there is still "burnable carbon" is a myth.
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(2) Hudson S. (2011) “Estimating the global radiative impact of the sea ice–albedo feedback in the Arctic”, JGRA, 16 August 2011; For a more detailed discussion, see: http://www.climatecodered.org/2012/10/after-arctic-big-melt-1-hotter-planet.html
(3) Sherwood, S.C., S. Bony et al. (2014) "Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing, Nature 505: 37-42
(4) Nuccittelli, D. (2014) "Global warming is being caused by humans, not the sun, and is highly sensitive to carbon, new research shows", The Guardian, 10 January 2014.
(5) The Geological Society (2013) "An addendum to the Statement on Climate Change: Evidence from the Geological Record", London, December 2013, www.geolsoc.org.uk/climatechange; Hansen, J. (2013) "Climate Sensitivity, Sea Level and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 371, 20120294, doi:10.1098/rsta.2012.0294.
(6) Previdi, M., B.G. Liepert et al (2011) "Climate sensitivity in the Anthropocene", Earth Syst. Dynam. Discuss., 2, 531–550
(7) James Hansen, An Old Story, but Useful Lessons, 26 September 2013, http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2013/20130926_PTRSpaperDiscussion.pdf
(8) Kirby, A. (2014) "Drought ‘makes Amazonia emit carbon’", Climate News Newtwork, 5 March 2014, http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/2014/03/drought-makes-amazon-emit-carbon, accessed 7 April 2014; Brando, P.M., J.K.Balch et al. (2014) "Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions", PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1305499111
(9) Science Daily (2013), "Arctic seafloor methane releases double previous estimates", 25 November 2013, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131125172113.htm, accessed 7 April 2014.
(10) Vaks, A., O.S. Gutareva et al. (2013) “Speleothems Reveal 500,000-Year History of Siberian Permafrost”, Science 340: 183-186
(11) Khvorostyanov, D.V., P. Ciais et al. (2008) “Vulnerability of east Siberia's frozen carbon stores to future warming”, Geophysical Research Letters, 2008; 35:L10703; Schaefer, K., T. Zhang et al. (2011) "Amount and timing of permafrost carbon release in response to climate warming", Tellus 63:165-180.
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Bush, Howard Cement Alliance as APEC Begins Meeting
Published 9:12 PM ET Tue, 4 Sept 2007 Updated 3:22 PM ET Thu, 5 Aug 2010 Reuters
U.S. President George W. Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard cemented a strong alliance on Wednesday as Asia-Pacific ministers began talks ranging from human security and climate change to trade and economic reform.
Howard promised Australian soldiers would stay alongside U.S. troops in Iraq following a meeting between the close friends, a short cruise, and lunch beside the picture-postcard Sydney Harbour with Australian soldiers and sailors.
"Our commitment to Iraq remains. This is not the time for any proposals of a scaling down of Australian forces," Howard told reporters, pointing to next week's crucial progress report to the U.S. Congress on the American troop surge in Iraq.
"It's historic work, Mr Prime Minister, and it's important work and I appreciate the contribution that the Australians have made," Bush replied to the veteran Australian leader, whose support for the war in Iraq is clouding his re-election hopes.
Bush and Howard signed a treaty giving Canberra improved access to secret U.S. military technology and intelligence, surveillance and joint training. Under the deal, U.S. equipment would also be based in Australia in case of regional disasters.
The treaty was signed at Howard's Sydney office as anti-war activists went to court to challenge police restrictions on mass weekend protests which are expected to draw up to 20,000 people onto the streets against Bush's visit and the Iraq war.
"I have absolutely no doubt that minority groups will engage in a level of violence not previously experienced in Sydney," police chief superintendent Steve Cullen said.
At an anti-Bush rally at Sydney Railway Station on Tuesday, media outnumbered the noisy but peaceful protesters.
Hu at Sheep Farm
Trade liberalisation and climate change top the agenda at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum summit, and Bush wants the group's 21 economies to agree to a strongly worded pledge to reinvigorate the Doha round of world trade talks.
Bush and Howard discussed trade, the Middle East, North Korea and the rise of China, whose President Hu Jintao is also in Australia and was expected in Sydney for APEC later on Wednesday.
Hu visited a farm near the Australian capital, Canberra, to watch a sheep being shorn. China is Australia's biggest wool export destination and resource market, and -- in contrast to Bush -- Hu has received a warm public reception in Australia.
Ice sculptures of Bush's and Howard's face were placed by protesters near Sydney's famous Harbour Bridge to slowly melt in the sun, symbolising the refusal of the United States and Australia to sign the Kyoto climate pact.
Bush and Howard boarded a luxury cruiser before lunch with armed helicopters hovering overhead and flanked by police on jet skis and in inflatables boats.
"You've been telling me how beautiful Sydney is. I now agree," Bush told Howard.
About 40 trade and foreign ministers, including U.S. Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice, gathered at Sydney's main convention centre on Darling Harbour to hammer out a declaration for their leaders to consider at a weekend summit.
A draft of that declaration, obtained by Reuters, says the 21 APEC members will try to develop a more robust approach to strengthening food and product safety standards in the region.
The declaration notes that security is essential to economic growth and, in cooperating on that front, APEC members will "remain closely attuned to the needs of business".
APEC has begun work on a recovery programme to revive trade in the event of a terrorist attack and a set of principles "to help protect the food supply against deliberate contamination".
On trade, APEC will be focusing this year on "behind the border issues", including structural reform, competition policy, strengthening capital markets, combating corruption, promoting good governance, and a more certain legal and regulatory climate.
The draft declaration, however, gives short shrift to a U.S.-backed Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific.
Police expect weekend protests to turn violent and more than 5,000 police and soldiers have been deployed in central Sydney to guard APEC leaders inside a 5km-long (3 mile) steel-and-concrete wall. Fighter jets patrolled low over the city on Wednesday.
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New York Gov. Cuomo: No budget unless abortion made legal for any reason until birth
by Samuel Smith , Christian Post Contributor | 10 January, 2019
(Photo: Reuters/Mike Segar)New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo delivers his fourth State of the State address from the New York State Capitol in Albany, New York, January 8, 2014.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is refusing to sign the state's budget unless the legislature passes a bill that makes abortion up until birth for any reason legal in the state. He is also calling on the legislature to enshrine abortion as a right guaranteed in the state constitution.
While delivering a pro-abortion speech at Barnard College in Manhattan with former first lady Hillary Clinton at his side, the 61-year-old Democrat vowed not to support the 2019-2020 state budget legislation until the state legislature approves the Reproductive Health Act and the Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act.
Cuomo's vow comes after Democrats retook control of the New York Senate in the 2018 midterm elections. The vow also comes as the Trump administration has worked to advance pro-life policies.
Now that conservatives have a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, some abortion-proponents fear the possibility that a Supreme Court decision could one day overturn Roe v. Wade.
"The Republican senate said, 'You don't need a state law codifying Roe v. Wade. No administration would ever roll back Roe v. Wade,'" Cuomo said, according to The New York Times. "So help me God, this was the conversation."
According to the language of the Reproductive Health Act: "Every individual who becomes pregnant has the fundamental right to choose to carry the pregnancy to term, to give birth to a child or have an abortion." The act would also remove abortion from the state's penal code.
According to the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, the bill has passed the Democrat-controlled Assembly in the past but has stalled for over a decade in the Republican-led senate. Many conservatives in the senate objected to the fact that it included language that would allow non-doctors to perform late-term abortions.
The newspaper reports that the legislature is expected to approve the bill on Jan. 22, which is the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.
"As many of you know, the Governor is pushing again for abortion through birth and even after with so-called 'Reproductive Health Act.' Now he has an anti-Life Democrat-led Senate to help him get it through," New York State Right to Life campaign warned on Facebook Wednesday.
In a policy statement on the Reproductive Health Act, N.Y. State Right to Life explained that the legislation would lead to an increase in abortions and "expose mothers to increased dangers by removing protections currently in New York statute."
Current law only allows duly licensed physicians to perform an abortion up to the 24th week of the pregnancy. But the Reproductive Health Act would allow any licensed health care practitioner to perform an abortion as long as the practitioner acts in "good faith," pro-lifers have warned.
"Supporters of RHA claim it merely seeks to update New York's laws to make them consistent with Roe v. Wade. This claim is false," the New York State Right to Life policy statement reads. "The changes this bill would make instead would authorize abortion through all nine months, for any reason, with no restrictions."
Another group that is opposing the Reproductive Health Act is Feminists Choosing Life of New York, which has submitted at least six letters to The New York Times opposing the legislation.
"One point of opposition is the heinous legalization of abortion during the second and third trimester of pregnancy through the inclusion of a broad health exception allowing women to abort viable fetuses for essentially any reason; including economic or familial health," Kelly Brunacini, a member of the group's board of directors, wrote in one of the letters. "The vast majority of Americans, including in New York, oppose these late-term abortions. As a New Yorker, Democrat and feminist, I can't help but wonder what history will say about a people who allowed the legalized killing of fully formed human beings for the sake of exerting political dominance."
NY State Right to Life also contends that the bill would prevent the prosecution of illegal abortions.
"This is the opposite of pro-woman," the organization's statement reads.
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Justin Welby defends Stephen Fry: 'That is his freedom, given to us in creation'
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Justin Welby: To take away religious freedom is 'to violate the core of humanity'
Ruth Gledhill Thu 16 Jul 2015 14:30 BST
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Attempts by the Church to compel "obedience" through violence are a cause for humility and shame, the Archbishop of Canterbury said today.
The Most Rev Justin Welby also said that to take away a person's freedom to believe or not to believe is "to violate the core of their humanity".
Archbishop Welby, writing in The Times, said: "We must never compel or manipulate people into faith."
He added: "This is why the church's sporadic record of compelling obedience to its teachings through violence and coercion is a cause for humility and shame."
At the same time, faith can never be an optional extra or a consumer choice, like deciding which type of car to buy, he said.
Work needs to be done to develop the language used by political and religious leaders to talk about religious belief in their own contexts, and how we understand the beliefs of others, he continued. "Religion defines us. For me, there is quite literally nothing more important than knowing, loving and serving Jesus Christ."
The transformational power of religious belief needs to be nurtured, while distinguishing it from the "mutations of religion" that do so much harm.
Describing a visit to a village of straw-roofed huts and a school which had been attacked by raiders, the Archbishop gave a compelling example of the realities of religious persecution.
"I found one man, like Job, sitting on a heap of ash. The raiders had killed his wife and six children. He had hidden down a well for three days. On a nearby hill, a raider stood silhouetted with a rifle in his arms and watched us the whole time we were there. The cause of this brutal attack? The village was a Christian community."
In the Central African Republic Christians have attacked Muslims. Christian churches are burned in south India, Muslim and Christian villages attacked in parts of Myanmar. In the Levant and Mesopotamia, the extreme violence wreaked by Islamic State continues.
"Close to home, the firebombing of mosques in this country, and the atrocious attacks on Jewish communities across Europe show that too many people, of all faiths, find their fundamental human right to freedom of religion and belief under attack," Welby said.
He was writing as Lord Alton of Liverpool leads a debate on religious freedom and belief in the House of Lords today. His motion notes violations of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and urges the UK and international community to give greater priority to upholding this right.
The Archbishop said: "Jesus gave those he encountered absolute freedom of choice as to whether to follow him or not: the thieves on either side of Jesus, as he hung on the cross, were given a choice whether to believe in him: one turned to him, the other cursed him. That is freedom. It is a freedom that should apply to people whatever their faith, or those who are atheists."
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240 NGOs Call on Leaders at the World Humanitarian Summit to Improve Humanitarian Action by Adopting the CHS
The CHS Alliance and its members are calling on world leaders and humanitarian decision-makers at the World Humanitarian Summit to improve humanitarian action by committing to adopt, use and monitor the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS).
The CHS Alliance is participating in a number of panels and events at the summit in Istanbul, 23- 24 May 2016, which takes place under the theme of “One Humanity: Shared Responsibility”. The CHS, which is central to the work of the CHS Alliance, speaks directly to the theme of the summit by putting people and communities affected by crisis at the centre of humanitarian action. The CHS sets out Nine Commitments that humanitarian and development actors can use to improve the quality and effectiveness of the assistance they provide.
“Like you, I want to be prepared for the World Humanitarian Summit and make the most of this unique opportunity that we all have to make a positive difference to the lives and dignity of people affected by crisis,” said CHS Alliance Executive Director, Judith F. Greenwood.
“That’s why the CHS Alliance is calling on all humanitarian stakeholders at the summit to commit to adopting, using and monitoring the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS).”
The Core Humanitarian Standard and the World Humanitarian Summit
A strong demand to put affected people at the heart of humanitarian action emerged during the summit consultations. The CHS facilitates greater accountability to communities and people affected by crisis: knowing what humanitarian organisations have committed to will enable them to hold those organisations to account.
The CHS Alliance has made the following commitment on behalf of its members: “The members of the CHS Alliance – over 240 national and international organisations working in more than 160 countries – commit to adopting, using and monitoring the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), with the objective of making humanitarian action more appropriate, effective, and responsive to the needs of people and communities affected by crises.”
Find us at the summit
The CHS Alliance is taking part in number of High-Level Leaders Roundtables and sessions including the Special Session on People at the Centre. We will be calling on participants at this session to make the following commitment as listed in the official session programme: “All stakeholders should adopt the Core Humanitarian Standard and International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard, with clear benchmarks for achieving these”.
The CHS Alliance, together with Groupe URD and the Sphere Project, will hold a side-event hosted by the Swiss and Danish governments entitled, “Quality and Accountability: It is not enough to do the things right, the right things have to be done” (Monday 23 May, 13:00-14:30 Rumeli Hall 3, Lüfti Kirdar Convention and Exhibition Center). The event will explore how strengthening the coherence of standards across different sectors of humanitarian work ensures greater ownership and enables increased effectiveness and efficiency.
Opening remarks will be given by Stephan Schønemann, Director for Humanitarian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. A panel discussion will feature:
Amina Labarakwe, community member, Baringo county Kenya;
Lise Grande, Resident Humanitarian Coordinator, Iraq;
Alejandro Maldonado, Executive Secretary, CONRED, Guatemala;
François Grünewald, Executive Director, Groupe URD, France, and,
Chair: Arno Wicki, Deputy Head of Swiss Humanitarian Aid and SHA, Head of Multilateral Division.
The CHS Alliance will have an exhibition stand at the summit where participants can access copies of the 2015 Humanitarian Accountability Report, the CHS booklet and CHS Guidance Notes & Indicators in key languages. We will also be previewing a CHS animation and e-learning platform.
The CHS Alliance improves the effectiveness and impact of assistance to crisis-affected and vulnerable people, by working with humanitarian and development actors on quality, accountability and people management initiatives. Formed in 2015 by the merger of HAP International and People In Aid, the Alliance brings together more than two decades of experience supporting the sector in applying standards and good practices.
The Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS), launched in December 2014, sets out Nine Commitments that organisations and individuals involved in humanitarian response can use to improve the quality and effectiveness of the assistance they provide. It replaces the People In Aid Code of Good Practice in the Management and Support of Aid Personnel, the 2010 HAP Standard, and the Sphere Core Standards. The CHS is available in 14 languages including Arabic, French and Spanish on the CHS website.
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Service to mark 10th anniversary of ecumenical charity that supports Christians in Holy Land
Service to mark 10 years of ecumenical charity support for Christians in Holy Land
An ecumenical charity that supports Christians in the Middle East has celebrated its 10th anniversary.
Friends of the Holy Land stand shoulder to shoulder with people who live in the West Bank, Gaza, Israel and Jordan.
The Church supports the charity and former Moderator of the General Assembly, Very Rev Dr Derek Browning, was among around 100 people who attended an anniversary service at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Glasgow on Friday.
Very Rev Dr Derek Browning lights a candle at the 10th anniversary ecumenical service.
The minister of Morningside Parish Church in Edinburgh visited the Holy Land in January last year and took part because the current Moderator, Rt Rev Colin Sinclair, is currently in Ghana.
Dr Browning said: “At a time of continuing tension in the land many call ‘holy’, it is good when the different strands of the Christian family can gather together, learn from each other and support each other.
“We also learn from our partners in that land, working on the ground, making a difference for good in co-operatives, hospitals, schools and in many other groupings where ordinary people face the challenges of everyday life with courage and imagination.”
Faith enriching
The Church of Scotland has been present in the State of Israel since its foundation in 1948, and for many decades prior to that during the Ottoman and Mandate Periods.
Currently it has two churches, in Jerusalem and Tiberias, as well as owning and managing The Scots Hotel in Tiberias, Tabeetha School in Jaffa, and St Andrew’s Guesthouse in Jerusalem, employing around 160 people.
Tabeetha, a Church of Scotland school, was founded in 1863.
Dr Browning said visiting the Holy Land was one of the most “faith enriching” experiences he has had.
“To walk the bomb-blasted streets of Gaza with Palestinian friends, to stand and pray at the Western Wall with Jewish brothers and sisters and to meet the women who tend olive groves,” he added.
“To meet the young men carving holding crosses and stars from olive wood – these and so many more experiences, where meeting the people of Israel-Palestine today puts texture and colour into the Bible stories I have taught for years.”
Privilege and excitement
The anniversary service, which was followed by a reception, was led by the Most Reverend Suheil Dawani, Anglican Archbishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem.
He was supported by the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow and representatives of the Church of Scotland’s World Mission Council’s Middle East Committee were also present.
Dr Browning spent time in the Middle East during his year as Moderator of the General Assembly 2017-18.
Dr Browning said: “The Church of Scotland has a long history of involvement in the Holy Land, and it was good to meet Christians from other denominations in Scotland who share this privilege and excitement.
“It was also a pleasure to hear again from the Anglican Archbishop of Jerusalem, reminding us of the need to maintain the ‘living stones’ of the spiritually rich and often frayed part of our world.
“We continue to pray for all God’s children living there."
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Kirk equips congregations with new resources ahead of General Election
The Scottish Churches Parliamentary Office (SCPO) and the Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT) have launched a series of new policy briefings, questions and reflections to help local churches approach the upcoming General Election on 12 December from the perspective of their faith and make informed choices.
JPIT, which is made up of the Church of Scotland, the Baptist Union, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church, work together for peace and justice; helping local churches speak out with a distinctively Christian voice on injustice, and to resource them to reflect and campaign effectively.
Following the announcement that churches across Scotland will be holding General Election hustings to try and help people decide who to vote for, Irene MacKinnon of the Scottish Churches Parliamentary Office (SCPO) encouraged congregations to get involved and make use of the new material.
“We have been given the opportunity to elect the next government of the United Kingdom and it is helpful to reflect on what we would like this government to do, and what we would like it to value in the years ahead,” Irene said.
“We have created these resources, alongside our colleagues in JPIT, to address some of the main issues surrounding the decision that we will make on 12 December, and as a way to think about the values that are important to us.
“We want to give people the tools to explore subjects in an in-depth way, help congregations to consider what to ask their candidates, and hopefully lead to insightful and meaningful discussion about our future and what really matters.
“The resources look at poverty in the UK, and in particular, our welfare system, refugees and asylum seekers, the climate emergency, our relationship with the rest of the world, Scottish independence and the reality of Brexit.”
Love, Pray, Vote
Designed to be flexible and dynamic to fit with your local congregation’s needs, each new resource can be used on its own or together as a full pack.
These new resources, which can be freely downloaded and shared amongst congregations, include:
Summarised policy briefings– One-page briefings on key policies (e.g. public services, poverty, refugees, the climate emergency, etc.), reflecting on why we, as Christians, think these areas are important, as well as questions you can use to reflect on. The policy briefings also include within them:
Questions for reflection – Short reflections on our approach to political life as Christians, and the shifting landscape in which we consider it.
Question ideas for local candidates – Key questions from each policy area which can be used to ask your local candidates at a hustings.
A guide to holding a hustings – Advice on areas such as how to ask questions which hold your MP accountable, safety and practicalities, legal advice, and live streaming your hustings.
Churches such as Livingston United Parish Church, the Fellowship of Kilmarnock Churches, Greyfriars Parish Church in Lanark, and St Michael’s Parish Church in Linlithgow, are so far planning to hold hustings events ahead of the poll on 12 December.
Worship during Brexit
For more support to congregations during the ongoing shifts in British politics, the Church of Scotland has also recently released worship materials which can be used as part of Brexit discussions in local churches, to help promote respectful dialogue amongst people of faith.
You can access the materials, which include blessings, graces, Bible studies, guides and prayers, on our Worship During Brexit page.
There are also a series of prayers written by those from across the Church of Scotland and our partner organisations on the topic of Brexit which you can read on our Brexit Prayers page.
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland have also written a selection of prayers about Brexit which you can download and use for reflection.
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3rd Lonavala International Film Festival Of India kicks off on 7 September
The festival will see 18 films and 3 masterclass seminars conducted between 7-9 September 2018.
Mumbai - 07 Sep 2018 18:00 IST
Our Correspondent
The 3rd edition of the Lonavala International Film Festival of India (LIFFI) is set to begin today (7 September) at the Triose Plaza in Lonavala. The festival is curated by Vivek Vaswani, and will see a collection of 18 films screened at the 3-day event.
The festival will open with Bimal Roy's acclaimed classic Sujata (1959) and Sridhar Rangayan's acclaimed Evening Shadows (2018). The festival will also see Rinki Roy Bhattacharya, daughter of Bimal Roy, pay tribute to the filmmaker through a short documentary. In a tribute to the late filmmaker, his films Devdas (1955), Bandini (1963) and Madhumati (1958) will also be screened at the festival.
The event will also see a collection of acclaimed Marathi films which include Doctor Rakhmabai (2016), Kachhha Limbu (2017), and Nude (2018) screened at the venue. Among the internatonal films being screened is the Ukrainian-English animation film, The Stolen Princess (2018).
Lonavala International Film Festival India 2018 is organized by Triose Plaza. Madhav Todi is the festival director, while the chief patron for the festival is Sushil Kumar Agrawal, managing director of Ultra Media and Entertainment Pvt Ltd.
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About seventy years ago, when the UN (1945) and UNESCO (1946) were born from the ruins of the Second World War, culture and heritage seemed a solid foundation on which to rebuild a new society that went beyond the devastating conflicts that had marked most of the countries of the world in the first half of the 20th century.
About seventy years ago, when the UN (1945) and UNESCO (1946) were born from the ruins of the Second World War, culture and heritage seemed a solid foundation on which to rebuild a new society that went beyond the devastating conflicts that had marked most of the countries of the world in the first half of the 20th century. Over the following decades, cultural heritage became more and more relevant to global economic policies, progressively losing its elitist and distinctive connotation and assuming that of a cultural industry, subject to the laws of the market.
On the threshold of the third millennium, while there was a radical process of change in the global economy, heritage entered the current language as it had never happened before, taking the role of a brand for cities and countries, capable of supporting and guiding touristic demand. After having been the object of attention for centuries for a restricted area of the society, the patrimony seemed to have really reached that universal value that it had been hoped for since the 1972 UNESCO Convention, which started the process leading to creation of the World Heritage List, now reaching 1121 sites in 167 countries around the world.
And yet, at the very beginning of the 21st century, while everything suggested that the great anthropic risks to heritage were finally attenuated with respect to what happened in the previous century, we witnessed one of the most incredible and deliberate destruction of a monument, that of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, blown up for alleged religious motives by the Taliban in March 2001. Condemned by almost all the governments of the world, this event caused a general indignation also for the ways in which this destruction was carried out: for some days the Taliban had been ruthless with dynamite and tanks against the hard stone that seemed to want to resist them, as it had done for centuries.
At that time, no one believed that threats to heritage would have grown exponentially, as happened in the second decade of this century, coinciding with the conflicts that devastated a large part of the Arab world. With the progressive spread of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, we have thus witnessed barbarous destruction that had never been seen, even in the darkest centuries of humanity: entire museum collections devastated, statues mutilated, up to the deliberate destruction of some extraordinary sites like Palmira. Here the violence against heritage has reached its peak, in parallel with what was perpetrated against unarmed human beings.
We therefore decided to draw inspiration from these dramatic episodes – on which there is still a lot to be known beyond the most striking news disseminated by the media all over the world – to dedicate an issue of Compasses to the more general theme of heritage at risk, with a specific focus on the Middle East and archaeology. From Libya to Turkey, from Palestine to Iran, from the UAE to Lebanon, almost all the articles that make up this number tell us about heritage at risk, especially the archaeological one, threatened not only by conflicts, but also by natural and man-made phenomena of consumption. In the first group we find Libya, whose sites are now threatened by abandonment and looting, but also Palestine, whose cultural landscape is compromised by the latent conflict that has now marked the territory for many decades. In the second group, the cases of the archaeological heritage of Turkey and Iran are distinguished with different problems and outcomes, while the city of Beirut is investigated for the imposing urban transformations that for ages have marked one of the most complex and multicultural cities in the Middle East, with a specific focus on the architecture of the tomb of Rafiq Hariri created by the French architect Marc Barani.
While the issue was already under work, we witnessed dismayed the Notre-Dame fire of last April 15th, which in a few hours caused a very hard blow to one of the most important monuments in the world, which was believed to be much more protected of the cases mentioned above. The destruction of the roof and the flèche of Notre-Dame proves, if proofs were needed, how fragile is the heritage at all latitudes and that even the seemingly safer places can reveal pitfalls and negligence, capable of literally sending centuries of history up in smoke. This is why we decided to open this issue with a reflection on Notre-Dame, which traces the history of what was lost but, above all, warns against the risks of a hasty and disrespectful reconstruction remembering all the scientific skills necessary for a complex project such as this. Following in the [Essays] section, there is a study on the heritage of the Modern in Morocco, through the case of the thermal complex of Sidi Harazem by Jean François Zevaco. The remaining articles in the section return to the central theme of the issue, illustrating the activities carried out by UNESCO in Libya for heritage conservation between 2011 and 2016 and above all the results of an exhibition dedicated to the sites of Mosul, Aleppo, Palmyra and Leptis Magna and the related events that have marked them in recent years.
All the remaining issue, as already mentioned, follows the theme of heritage, although not strictly in the Middle East and not necessarily at risk: so we have the case of the restoration of the Casa do Carnaval in Salvador de Bahia, carried out by the A&P Arquitetura e Urbanismo, that of the arrangement of the archaeological area of Nola (Campania) by Alberto Izzo & Partners, then to return to the UAE with the project for the historical district of Sharjah realized by COdESIGN, and the proposal elaborated by the American University in Dubai for the museum and the Jumeirah research center. Finally, also the sections [materials & interiors] and [smart food] host examples related to the theme of heritage: in the first case with the musical activities developed in historic buildings by La Digestion group, in the second with the announcement of the opening of the Open Colonna, a concept restaurant created in the heart of Milan, in Piazza Cordusio.
But it is ultimately on the subject of heritage at risk in the Middle East that here we want to draw attention to, so that we can really turn the page with respect to a decade that saw the most wicked actions carried out in the name of a vandalic fanaticism that ended up destroying itself too.
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Mojang Unchained: Why Microsoft wants Minecraft maker
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Move comes two weeks after Swedish game-maker unveiled version of top-selling Minecraft game to Microsoft
By Peter Sayer
Senior Editor, IDG News Service |
Microsoft has agreed to buy Mojang, the Swedish developer of the Minecraft PC and console game, for $2.5 billion, the companies announced Monday.
The deal comes two weeks after Mojang released a version of its world-building game for Microsoft's Xbox One game console. A version for the PlayStation 4 came out a few days earlier.
Minecraft is the most popular online game on Xbox, while PC users have downloaded it 100 million times since its 2009 launch, according to Microsoft. It touted the loyalty of Minecraft players, saying that 90 percent of paid customers had signed in on the PC version within the last 12 months.
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That loyalty may make the acquisition a rough ride, though. When rumors of the Mojang-Microsoft deal began circulating last week, some Minecraft fans reacted angrily, accusing the independent software developer of "selling out."
They recalled Mojang CEO Markus "Notch" Persson's response to Facebook's plans to acquire Oculus, the maker of a virtual reality headset for which Mojang was developing a version of Minecraft. Persson initially suspended development of Minecraft for the Oculus Rift, although he later posted a message to Twitter saying he was "officially over being upset about Facebook buying Oculus", raising hopes that development had restarted.
Mojang said that the decision to sell the company was down to Persson, the company's majority shareholder.
"He's decided that he doesn't want the responsibility of owning a company of such global significance. Over the past few years he's made attempts to work on smaller projects, but the pressure of owning Minecraft became too much for him to handle. The only option was to sell Mojang. He'll continue to do cool stuff though," wrote Mojang spokesman Owen Hill on the company's blog.
Indeed, Persson has devoted much of his time in recent weeks to a whimsical effort to reimplement the rendering engine of the 1990s first-person shooter Doom in Dart, looking only at the unofficial technical specification issued by Doom's developer and without reference to the original source code.
Persson and other Mojang founders will leave the company, Hill wrote, but Microsoft said the rest of the development team will join Microsoft Studios, the company's game division. It hopes to close the deal by the end of this year.
Later, Persson gave his own take on the deal, confirming his departure in a post to his personal blog.
"As soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately," he wrote.
Although he stepped back from development of Minecraft some time ago, people still see him as the leader, he said. "I've become a symbol. I don't want to be a symbol, responsible for something huge that I don't understand, that I don't want to work on, that keeps coming back to me."
Microsoft didn't say how long it had been negotiating to buy Mojang, but in his blog post Persson recounted the events that led him to invite bids for the company in a June 16 posting to Twitter, saying: "Anyone want to buy my share of Mojang so I can move on with my life? Getting hate for trying to do the right thing is not my gig."
That post came about, he said, when the company attempted to clarify how the Minecraft end-user license agreement (EULA) allowed third parties to make money from the game.
"The internet exploded with hate against me over some kind of EULA situation that I had nothing to do with," he said in Monday's blog post.
The furore led him to realize he no longer had the connection to the game's fan base that he had believed he had. "I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm not a CEO. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter," he wrote.
He acknowledged that the blog post about the deal contradicted some of his previous statements on the subject, but said he had no good explanation for the turnaround.
Thanking the game's fans for their support, he said of Minecraft: "In one sense, it belongs to Microsoft now. In a much bigger sense, it's belonged to all of you for a long time, and that will never change."
As for selling the company, he concluded: "It's not about the money. It's about my sanity."
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R. Kelly signs autographs at McDonald's after jail release
R&B singer R. Kelly signed autographs and waved at a fan who yelled "I love you!" when he stopped at a McDonald's in Chicago after being released from jail in his sexual abuse case.
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Pastor and Christian Leadership Resources
The Trend of 'Believing without Belonging'
The concept of spirituality as a lone personal quest is hardly new to Christian history. Nevertheless, the development of this pattern into a massive cultural movement is a new development -- and one that is reshaping many churches.
The trend has caught the attention of the BBC. Writing in the BBC News Magazine, Denise Winterman reports:
Births, deaths and marriages. They're the only events that get most people in the UK through church doors these days and even that is too often for some.
But this doesn't stop the majority of us calling ourselves Christian. More than half of British people say they believe in God despite only one in seven actually attending a Christian church service each month, says a new study.
It seems that while people find the church thing a little bit difficult, they are willing to recognise God. There's even a cute catchphrase for this absent majority - believing without belonging.
"Believing without belonging" is indeed a catchphrase, but there is no reason for confidence that the "believing" here has anything to do with biblical Christianity.
More from the BBC report:
In today's "post-modern society" people want everything on their own terms - that includes Christianity, says Dr Elaine Storkey, a Christian academic, broadcaster and president of Christian charity Tearfund, which commissioned the study.
"People are used to instant gratification, they are used to having what they want, when they want and without putting in too much effort. Some view religion in the same way."
Having a connection with Christianity is not a problem for most people, it's when something is asked of them that they start to struggle, she says.
"The first step to get people involved in the church is getting them to consider God. A lot of people identify with Christianity even if they don't attend church. Often when the chips are down they fall back on the Christian faith.
"The second step is getting them to consider how much their faith will cost them. That's a huge leap for most people, that's when they have to start giving something back."
Some sort of "vague Christianity" acts as a way for people to keep their options open, they don't have to think too hard about life and aren't pushed outside their comfort zone, says philosopher Dr Julian Baggini.
"It's easier than going in the other two directions. If you take religion fully on board you have to believe some strange things. Discarding it totally means you have to really think through the consequences, that death really is the end and many people find that worrying."
So "having a connection with Christianity" is what these persons want, not Christianity itself. When something is demanded of them, they feel imposed upon. Taking the theological and discipleship claims of Christianity "fully on board" means "you have to believe some strange things" that these persons would rather not believe.
The BBC report picks up on the fact that many persons want to consider themselves Christians without taking on Christianity -- without believing its doctrines, accepting its morality, following its disciplines, or joining a congregation.
This last dimension may be the key to understanding the others. Christianity is an ecclesial reality -- not a lone quest. The life of an authentic congregation is vital to Christian faithfulness.
Put simply, there is no true "believing without belonging" in Christianity. Christianity is, by definition, a belonging -- a belonging to Christ and a belonging to Christ's people. Christ's people, belonging together in local congregations, believe together, hear the Word together, sing together, pray together, hold each other accountable together, grow together, grieve together, celebrate together, and evangelize together. The key word here is together.
In terms of the theological confusions of the "believing without belonging" movement, what can be expected of an approach that cuts the faith down to my desires and demands? The church of Me involves my conversation with myself -- nothing more. The "together" dimension of Christianity extends, very importantly, to the fact that we embrace the orthodox Christian faith together with believers long dead. They, though dead, yet speak.
The problems with "believing without belonging" are many, but the greatest problem may be that some believe this to be compatible with biblical Christianity. It is not.
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Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary — the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world. He is a theologian and ordained minister, as well as an author, speaker and host of his own radio program The Albert Mohler Program.
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For engagement and strategic advice on issues affecting local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
Committee objective
The purpose of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Consultative Committee is to:
Provide a consultative forum to engage with and provide strategic advice to Council.
Advocate on issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the Cumberland Local Government Area.
Inform and improve Council decision making in relation to policy, program, and service delivery.
Councillor representation
Clr Steve Christou
Clr Ned Attie
Cumberland City Council Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Consultative Committee Terms of Reference
For more Information about the ATSIC Committee, contact Council's Aboriginal Education and Programs Officer on (02) 8757 9791 or email council@cumberland.nsw.gov.au.
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Attack Hobby Kits 1/72 Panzer III Ausf.G Kit First Look
Panzer III Ausf.G
Nice detailing
The German Panzer III was an evolutionary development from the lessons learned in the field with the Panzer I and Panzer II series. The Panzer I and Panzer II were classed as light tanks, while the Panzer III and Panzer IV were medium tanks. While the light tanks were ideal for most of the Blitz campaigns, it would be up to the new medium tanks to deal with enemy armor and fortified opposition.
The Panzer III was developed with an anti-tank gun in the turret and two machine guns. By mid-1940, the Panzer III Ausf.G entered production, initially with a 37mm main gun, but the majority of this series would be armed with the 50mm main gun. 600 examples were built between mid 1940 and early 1941 before the next series of improvements would be ready to inject into the production line. The Panzer III Ausf.G would see distinguished service in Russia as well as in North Africa.
The Attack Hoby Kits' 1/72 Panzer III Ausf.G kit is molded in light gray styrene and features some beautifully cast details throughout the kit. While not a complex kit, it will become quickly obvious just how much detail is present once the completed model has been weathered and dry-brushed!
One feature that I especially like is the molded track sections. Rather than include rubberband track, this model features sections of track and individual links only around the drive sprocket and return wheel.
Assembly should be quick and painless with the majority of time will be spent cleaning up the tree attachment points, and these are minimal.
Markings are provided for two examples: Russian front circa 1941, and DAK (Afrika Korps) circa 1942.
This is a nice-looking kit that will appeal to 1/72 armor modelers of all skill levels. Recommended!
My sincere thanks to Squadron Mail Order for this review sample!
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* '''DailyHistory.org Study Guides'''
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DailyHistory.org has over 600 articles that cover a multitude of topics. Our study guides organize core groups of materials for specific issues, and you can look for other articles with our search function. In addition to articles, we also have book reviews and booklists.
* [[United States History Study Guide|United States History]]
* [[American Civil War Study Guide|American Civil War]]
* [[World War One Study Guide|World War One]]
* [[World War Two Study Guide|World War Two]]
* [[Ancient History Study Guide|Ancient History]]
* [[Roman History Study Guide|Roman History]]
* [[Renaissance History Study Guide|Renaissance History]]
* [[Ancient Greek Study Guide|Ancient Greek History]]
* [[Ancient Egypt Study Guide|Ancient Egypt History]]
* [[The History of Things Guide|The History of Things]]
* [https://dailyhistory.org/Category:Book_Review Book Reviews]
* [https://dailyhistory.org/Category: Booklists]</blockquote>
*[http://www.americanyawp.com/index.html The American Yawp]
''The American Yawp'' is a free online textbook that is divided into 2 volumes. You can also get a paper copy of the book from Stanford University Press for $24.95 for each volume. ''The American Yawp'' is a massive "Collaboration Open U.S. History Textbook." Essentially it is an open-source textbook. Historians essentially modeled the textbook on the open source model that has been successfully used for numerous computer programs such as Linux, MediaWiki, Wordpress, and many more. In addition to the textbook, "The American Yawp" has a [http://www.americanyawp.com/reader.html Sourcebook] that can be used to expand on topics with primary source documents.
Besides being an excellent textbook, it is a great way to help reduce textbook costs for students because it can be accessed online for free.
* [https://edsitement.neh.gov/ EDSITEment! - National Endowment for the Humanities]
EEDSITEment! focuses on Lesson Plans and Study Activities. The Lesson Plans cover some topics and are exceptionally detailed. The plans even suggest how many class sessions should be used to teach the lesson. The lesson plan even breaks down how each day should be organized to get through all of the material. For example, take a look at [https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/turning-tide-europe-1942-1944 Turning the Tide in Europe, 1941-1944]. It provides Background for the lesson, preparation, lesson activities, assessment, lesson extensions, and a ton of resources. These are some of the best lesson plans you will find online.
The site also has a section on Student Activities. There are over 200 different student activities that can be used in classrooms. These student activities include texts, videos, and interactive maps.
EDSITEment! is easily one of the best resources for teachers and instructors.
*[https://historyexplorer.si.edu/ Smithsonian's History Explorer]
The Smithsonian site includes teaching lessons, interactives, videos, museum artifacts, and other teacher resources. There is a remarkable amount of material to explore. The site also has an outstanding search function. The search function allows you to look for resources based on resources type (videos, artifacts, reference materials, etc.), grade, historical era, and cross-curricular connections (look for resources that touch on multiple subjects such as economics, science, etc.)
*[http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ Library of Congress]
Like the Smithsonian, the Libary of Congress is another outstanding United States government resource. The Library of Congress has multiple missions, but it has a teachers portal that allows you to browse materials and search for them more easily. It also has a search function that will help you find resources, but it isn't as good as the Smithsonian's search. It does allow you to search for content that satisfies Common Core and State materials. It also permits you to search for materials that fit organizational standards as set by the NCTE, AASL, NETS, NCSS and the NCSG.
*[https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-assessments The Stanford History Education Group]
The Stanford History Education group has created History Assessments of Thinking (HATS) that draw on the Library of Congress's digital resources. Here is a [https://sheg.stanford.edu/list-history-assessments-thinking list of the HATS] that Stanford has compiled. You can download the lesson plans from the site after you register (free) to the site. Typically, these HATS are critical writing assignments. The HATS use images or statements and to get students to write critically about the content. It is a fantastic way to add a writing assignment to cover materials that you have taught in class.
*[https://www.gilderlehrman.org/ The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History]
The Gilder Lehrman Institute is an archive based in the New York Historical Society building in New York. Instead of relying on its 70,000 piece collection on American History it has become a resource for teachers, undergraduate, and graduate students, professors and writers. Its website has a blog called History Now that has articles, videos, online timelines, and information from the Institute's exhibitions.
The 50+ Issues from [https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now History Now] typically focus on a single broad historical topic. The articles in that issue will help you dive deeper into specific historical topics such as US Immigration Laws, Voting Rights, Alexander Hamilton, and Civil Rights. Each issue of History Now links to relevant videos, articles, and even lesson plans.
* [https://teachinghistory.org/ National History Education Clearinghouse]
TeachingHistory.org resource created by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. It has a mixture of resources for teachers including teaching guides, lesson plan reviews, website reviews, history quizzes, guides to best practices, and history content. Teachinghistory.org has a ton content, but you will need to do a deep dive into the site to find what you are looking for. Probably the most useful aspect of the Teachinghistory.org is its [https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews Website Reviews] of various historical sites.
* [https://newseumed.org/ Newseumed.org]
Newseumed.org has a critical mission. It provides free resources "to cultivate the First Amendment and media literacy skills essential civic life." In the new social media world, students need to know how "to authenticate, analyze and evaluate information from a variety of sources." Over the past few years, it has become clear that Americans struggle to do this. Newseumed.org wants to help. To access Newseumed.org you do have to register with the site, but the materials are free.
Through its [https://newseumed.org/search/?type=artifact,debate,exhibit,debate_comparison,interactive,historical_event,lesson,map_page,quiz,poll,theme,timeline,video_page& EDTOOLS] feature, Newseum has numerous resources for history, government and civics teachers. The two most useful tools are the Critical Debates and the Lesson Plans. Here an example of a Critical Debate entitled [https://newseumed.org/tools/critical-debate/system-fair Is the System Fair?] and a lesson plan called [http://Ihttps://newseumed.org/tools/lesson-plan/introduction-first-amendment-whats-violation Introduction to the First Amendment: What's a Violation?]
* [https://reacting.barnard.edu/ Reacting to the Past]
Reacting to the Past is a teaching technique that instead of relying on lectures and notes, relies on role-playing elaborate games based on classic texts that require students to play historical characters. Instead of observing a lecture, students are actively working within the confines the philosophical and intellectual beliefs of the historical figures they are portraying. Reacting to the Past requires students to explore the complicated historical situations that people lived through. As part of the game, students prepare speeches, write papers, and other public presentations to try and win the game.
Reacting to the Past was created by Mark C. Carnes at Barnard College in the 1990s. So far, it has been implemented at hundreds of colleges and universities across the United States. High schools have also started introducing Reacting to the Past in the classroom. [https://reacting.barnard.edu/curriculum/published-games 30+ Reacting games] have been published by W.W. Norton & Co., the University of North Carolina Press and the Reacting Consortium Press. In addition to the published games, there are over 100 games currently in development.
Unlike other sites on this list, Reacting to the Past requires preparation by teachers to successfully implement it into the classroom. Therefore, Reacting has numerous [https://reacting.barnard.edu/the-conferences conferences] to help teachers add it to their curriculum. The Reacting site has an article and several videos explaining how Reacting to the Past was incorporated into [https://reacting.barnard.edu/SpotlightUO Freshman curriculum at the University of Oregon].
* [https://www.battlefields.org American Battlefield Trust]
The American Battlefield Trust has created over 400 maps, videos, and articles that illustrate battles from the American Revolution, the War of 1812 and the Civil War. These maps, videos, and articles can be used to show what happened at over 400 battles. The site is exceedingly straightforward and informative.
* [http://americainclass.org/primary-sources/ America in Class]
America in Class was created by the National Humanities Center. The National Humanities Center is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to the advancement of the understanding of the humanities and is supported by approximately 50 universities, foundations, and companies. The website provides curated primary source materials for United States history classes. These materials would be appropriate for both high school and college students. These materials are organized into thematic and time-based collections. For an example, here is a link to the Toolbox [http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/triumphnationalism/index.htm The Triumph of Nationalism/The House Dividing: America 1815-1850]. The Toolbox contains materials for different topics, checklists, timelines, topic framing questions, and original source material.
The materials on the site are curated and the selections are outstanding. That provides a ton of outstanding sources and guidance that helps teachers use the materials for discussions, assignments or essays.
* [http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/ Voices of Democracy -- The U.S. Oratory Project]
The Voices of Democracy is a web project that focuses on great speeches from American history. There is a journal, curriculum units (based on themes, Speakers, Authors and time periods) and blog with short posts focused on key speeches. Typically, each speech part of the site will have either a video or text of the speech, an essay, teaching materials, and additional resources. Voices on Democracy also has an [http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/VOD-K-12-Introduction.pdf Grades 8-12 Educational Resource Guide] that shows teachers how to use their materials and comply with Common Core Standards.
* [https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/ PBS Learning Media]
PBS Media is a resource that includes videos, interactive content, and lesson plans. The site has resources for a ton beyond history and social studies. The key component of PBS Media is its wealth of videos that have been drawn from PBS. It has over 6,000 videos (K-13+) on various social studies topics for students.
* [https://dp.la/ Digital Public Library of America]
"The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is an all-digital library that aggregates metadata — or information describing an item — and thumbnails for millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States." What does this mean? Essentially, it allows you to access sources from all over the world.
The DPLA has created Primary Source Sets for teachers and instructors. The Source Sets explore historical topics with primary sources and teaching guides. You can search for the Source Sets either through the site's search function or on the [https://dp.la/primary-source-sets Primary Source Sets] page. On the Source Sets page, you can search based on subject, periods or recently added. For example, the Scopes Trial Source Set includes photos of the people involved in the trial, excerpts from the Tennessee biology textbooks, records of witness testimony, and even a political cartoon.
* [https://www.archives.gov/education National Archives - Educator Resources]
The National Archives is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for maintaining and documenting government and historical records. The National Archives has a been a resource for historians since its creation in 1934. The Archives has some resources available for teachers, but the [https://www.docsteach.org/ DocsTeach.org] is probably the useful and readily accessible feature for teachers. DocsTeach.org is designed for educators to help them connect with the Archives resources.
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/history BBC History]
BBC History site focuses on short interactive stories that mix charts, videos, pictures, and text boxes. The interactives are useful for teaching subjects quickly, but they lack the depth of other sites on this list. Regardless, the interactives are fun and entertaining. Here's a link to an interactive on [http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/ztsd7hv The London Blitz].
* [https://www.zinnedproject.org/ Zinn Education Project]
The Zinn Education Project is inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States which emphasized the role of working people, women, people of color and the organized social movements that helped shape history. Zinn project is much less focused on politics that can take a central role in the history courses. The Zinn Education Project has a [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials Teaching Materials] portal that helps teachers find resources based on periods, themes, resource type, or grade level. It also has a keyword search function if you know what you are looking for. You can search for different types of resources including teaching activities, articles, profiles, posters, audio clips, websites, and many others. Here is an example of a Teaching Activity entitled [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/cointelpro-teaching-fbis-war-black-freedom-movement/ COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI's war on the Black Freedom Movement].
* [https://www.oah.org/programs/teaching-tools/ Organization of American Historians Teaching Resources]
The Organization of American Historians has some tools for high school and college level United States history course, but the material is primarily for members of the OAH. Memberships range in price from $45 (for students), $60 (K-12 Educators), and up to $245 (income over $150,000). The membership includes access to several OAH publications and US History Teaching Units. While there is a rationale to join the OAH as if you are United States history teacher, it probably cannot be justified based solely on the materials offered by the organization.
* [https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/classroom-materials/classroom-materials-united-states-history American Historical Association - Teaching Resources for Historians]
The American Historical Association (AHA), the largest history organization in the United States, has a much rich assortment of material for teachers and instructors. Like the OAH, the AHA is member organization and has some excellent resources on their website. They offer a mixture of classroom materials, discussions of teaching, plagiarism and a Teaching and Learning History community portal. Like the OAH, some materials will require a membership. Membership for K-12 teachers costs $59 a year.
* [http://besthistorysites.net/ Best History Websites]
The Best History Sites from EdTechteacher is probably the most comprehensive listing of websites for teachers in different history fields. Despite being comprehensive, it is difficult to recommend the sites because it does not appear to updated regularly. If you start going through the site, you find numerous dead or misdirected links. It is especially frustrating when you are looking for sources on World, Latin American, European, Asian, and African history courses.
* Online History Courses
Free online college-level history courses are a wonderful resource for teachers and instructors. They can be used as a refresher for material that you haven't studied in years or at all. Many of the sites also include portals for educators. Most of the online courses break them up into individually sub-titled lectures. Instead of taking an entire course you can watch a specific lecture on a single topic or use the resources from the class (such as lecture slides, images readings, and assignments) in your class. The number of history courses available has grown dramatically.
It should be noted that some courses are posted on the internet in their entirety (videotaped lectures, materials, images, slides, etc.) while others will only post materials. The videotaped lectures are only available during the time when the course is scheduled. Courses may only available for a limited period of time.
Most of the online courses will require you to register and they will most likely send your email. Typically, this process is pretty painless. Additionally, some organizations will also charge a fee if you need a certificate of completion from the site. For example, EdX.org charges fees ranging from $49-99 to get a verified certificate of completion. Other sites will ask for a donation to support their programs.
Future Learn, Coursera and edX are currently the best options from this list because they get their course from multiple universities. The Yale and MIT sites appear to lack full institutional support. There numerous also other providers and some may be better options than those listed here, but the world of online courses appears to be evolving. Unfortunately, history courses are not a primary part of their offerings. Most of the sites are focusing on skills such as IT specializations and computer programing.
*[https://www.edx.org/ edX.org]
edX.org has several history classes available from multiple universities across the including Columbia, Harvard, Purdue, Peking, and others. They have one of the widest selections of course.
*[https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/categories/history-courses Future Learn History Courses]
Future Learn has a focus on European and British History and the courses are fairly eclectic (i.e. Hadrian's Wall, The Fall of the Roman Republic, and Why Opera Matters). As of January 2019, the site had 29 different courses available. They also have paid online degree programs for students.
*[https://www.coursera.org/browse/arts-and-humanities/history Coursera.org]
Coursera.org is one of the largest providers of online courses in the world. It has 182 universities and organizations partnering with it. This allows Cousera to offer over 100 history or history related courses. The courses offered are incredibly diverse. The courses include videos, readings, and quizzes. Some courses can be completed for free, but others are behind paywalls. You can either pay for courses individually or buy a a monthly subscription.
*[https://www.udemy.com/topic/history/ Udemy]
Udemy is the largest online course provider in the world. They offer free courses, but most of them cost $9.99 or more. Their history section is fairly limited. Additionally, more than half of the courses are not in taught in English.
*[https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/# MIT Open Courseware]
MIT Open Courseware has numerous history courses, but they have not added any new courses since 2017. The courses are structured more like classes and are less user-friendly. The courses also do not appear to have videotaped lectures available after the course has finished. Still, the courses do have lecture slides and additional information for educators.
*[https://oyc.yale.edu/ Open Yale Courses History Courses]
The Open Yale Courses offer free complete courses taught by Yale History professors, but it only has 4 history courses available.
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Sports || Men's basketball || woMen's basketball
Full day of hoops tomorrow with double header action at Jadwin
By Owen Tedford | Nov 28, 2017
The women’s and men’s basketball teams play games back-to-back at home in Jadwin Gymnasium on Wednesday, Nov. 27. The women’s game against No. 25 Villanova will tip first at 5:30 p.m. and will be immediately followed by the men’s game at approximately 8 p.m. against Lehigh.
For the women (3—1), the game will be important as they face what is their biggest challenge yet this season, playing a ranked Villanova team. The Tigers have played close games all year so far, which could give them the confidence that they need to be able to defeat a talented Wildcats team. Princeton is led by its underclassmen with two freshmen, guard Abby Meyers and guard Carlie Littlefield, winning the last three Ivy Rookie of the Week awards. In addition to these two freshmen phenoms, sophomore forward Bella Alarie, last year’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, is averaging nearly a double-double in her last 22 games at 14.1 points and 9.0 rebounds. In 19 of 22 those games, Alarie has scored in double figures and has had nine double doubles in the same stretch.
For Villanova (5—0), who has an early season marquee win over No. 11 Duke, the key has been their defense and three-point shooting. Villanova’s defense is in the top 20 in three-point percentage, field-goal percentage, blocked shots, and scoring defense. Just one of their opponents has scored 60 points this season. The three-point shooting for Villanova has sparked their offense all year with both of their top scorers, Adrianna Hahn and Kelly Jekot, shooting better than 30 percent from beyond the ark. Shutting this down will be a key for the Tigers.
On the men’s (2—3) side, Princeton will be looking to stretch its winning streak to three after a 0—3 start. All-time, the Tigers lead Lehigh 31—4 in the series, including winning the last 17 games that they played the Mountain Hawks at home. Princeton is led on offense by its trio of junior guard Myles Stephens, junior guard Devin Cannady, and senior guard Amir Bell who have accounted for at least 55.6 percent of the team’s points in each game so far this year. Before the game against Lafayette, these three had been the only players to score in double figures this season when they were joined by freshman forward Sebastian Much.
Lehigh (3—3) will be coming to Jadwin on Wednesday night looking to rebound after back-to-back losses to No. 10 USC and Pitt, both major conference foes. The Mountain Hawks so far this year have struggled on the glass, having been outrebounded by all five of its D1 opponents so far this season. This is certainly an area that Princeton will be highlighting, having won the rebound battle twice so far this season after having been outrebounded last year by Lehigh.
If you’re unable to make the trip down to Jadwin, both games will be streamed on the Ivy League Digital Network and the men’s game will be broadcast on NBC Sports Philadelphia. In addition, the men’s game will be available on WPRB 103.3 locally in Princeton and through the TuneIn app online. You can follow the women’s game live on their Twitter, @PrincetonWBB, and the men’s game live on their Twitter, @Princeton_Hoops.
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Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER)
Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) is a nationwide organisation with a regional focus. ISER’s mission is to promote the effective understanding, monitoring, implementation, accountability and ensuring full realisation of social and economic rights in Uganda. ISER has adopted a multi-faceted approach in promoting and protecting social and economic rights in Uganda. We combine advocacy, research and documentation, public information and community empowerment, and capacity building.
Current projects include:
www.iser-uganda.org
Angella Nabwowe
Promoting Social and Economic Rights in Uganda (Specific focus on the right to health, as it relates to the delivery of National Minimum Health Care Package): This project focuses on the delivery of the National Minimum Health Care Package (NMHCP) introducing the principles of universal access,
Equality and non-discrimination in Uganda’s public debate to promote accountability and a human rights based approach to healthcare service delivery. Accordingly, ISER conducts research, documentation and legal and policy analysis that form the basis for evidence based advocacy, including strategic litigation.
Innovations for Civic Engagement in Social and Economic Rights Advocacy in Uganda: This is a pilot project aimed at enhancing community participation to demand for social and economic services in Uganda. Funded by the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA), this project is being implemented in two sub counties in Kayunga District. The project is about leveraging Short Message Service (SMS) Technology to support access to information. It is largely an sms platform, complimented by community dialogues and radio talk shows. The sms application enables communities to access information relating to health services and to report back through a given contact. The system enables communities to share information that is relevant to holding the government accountable for health services.
Demystifying Social and Economic Rights in Uganda: This project consists of a series of systematic and coordinated activities designed to enhance the recognition and realization of social and economic rights in Uganda through capacity building for key stakeholders, legal and policy advocacy, strategic litigation and awareness raising.
Funded by the Finnish NGO Foundation for Human Rights (KIOS), the overall outcome of the project is a significant shift in the understanding, recognition and accountability for social and economic rights in Uganda. This will entail a situation where social and economic rights have become a subject of public discussion, with policy makers and communities beginning to understand social and economic rights as entitlements, with improved legal and policy framework, accountability, and public participation in government processes.
Approaches to implementing Community monitoring/ accountability
By documentation where citizens themselves send information about the challenges in public health care using a text messaging service. The information goes directly to the service providers with a copy to ISER for follow up purposes. We also use a lot of community dialogues where citizens directly engage service providers.
Results and Lessons
We only begun implementation this year so it is difficult to talk about results and achievements at the moment.
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Tiffany Morrison
Professor, Chief Investigator, Program 1 Leader and Social Science Research Leader
Regional Studies Association Ambassadorial Fellow (2014-)
University of Oregon Institute for Policy Research and Innovation Adjunct Fellow (2012-2013)
Australian Research Council Super Science Fellowships Award (2010 - 2014)
Universitas 21 Early Career Researcher Award (2012)
University of Queensland Early Career Researcher Award (2009-2012)
Senior Lecturer (tenured), Geography, Planning & Environmental Management, University of Queensland (2008-2014)
Japan Foundation Fellowship Award (2005-2006)
Lecturer (tenured), Political & International Studies, Flinders University (2004-2007)
Ph.D, University of Queensland, Australia • B.Sc. (Honours) University of Queensland, Australia • B.Sc. (Environmental Studies), Griffith University, Australia
Morrison Complex Environmental Governance Research Group
tiffany.morrison@jcu.edu.au
@TH_Morrison
I grew up in Queensland, Australia. I completed a PhD on complex environmental governance in the USA and Australia in 2004, supported by a highly competitive Land and Water Australia scholarship at The University of Queensland and a visiting fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research focuses on improving how society governs complex environmental change. My interest in complex environmental governance began in 1996 while working on the first CSIRO experiment in regional environmental governance, an experiment fundamentally challenged by hidden political-economic dynamics. From 2004-2008 I taught in the Master of Public Administration program while tenured faculty in the School of Political and International Studies at Flinders University. In 2005, I was awarded a visiting Fellowship at the University of Kyoto, where I became interested in the complex governance challenge of climate adaptation. During 2008-2014 I held an ARC Super Science Fellowships grant, where I focused on developing integrated governance solutions for sea level rise. This project which was profiled by The Australian newspaper (2 November 2011) as in the top 10 of innovative collaborative Australian research projects. Throughout this time, I was tenured faculty in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management at The University of Queensland. I joined the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies as tenured Social Science Research Leader and co-leader of the People and Ecosystems Program in 2015. Since then, I have developed a major new research program on multiscale governance of climate adaptation and conflict in large-scale reef systems. In 2017, a BAFTA-awarded BBC documentary producer interviewed me about my work on the complex governance of the Great Barrier Reef. A two-part documentary Costing the Earth was aired on the BBC in early 2018.
My Google Scholar page
Our research program combines the disciplines of political science and geography to understand and improve the design of complex environmental governance regimes. We work closely with a range of physical, natural, and social scientists and policymakers on inter-disciplinary approaches to environmental governance problems. Our social science capacity and competitiveness is underpinned by an international research program, involving co-tutelle PhD supervision and co-appointed postdoctoral fellowships, with colleagues at Exeter University, Stockholm University, WorldFish, and the University of Queensland.
Our current research is centred around three questions.
Hidden political-economic drivers in complex regimes: Global sustainability depends on better understanding and implementation of complex environmental governance regimes. However, current understanding is typically limited to snapshot analyses of the initial design or the emergent structure of complex regimes. To meet this challenge, we are focusing not only on the structure of regimes but also on systematically examining internal and external socio-political drivers in environmental governance. Recent results have been published in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and WIREs Climate Change, and cited in major policy reviews such as the 2017 Review of Governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Our main aim is to uncover hidden levers for improving the design, implementation and robustness of complex environmental governance regimes. This program involves a diverse array of collaborators from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, University of Michigan, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Exeter, University of Melbourne, Lancaster University, McGill University, WorldFish and WWF.
Governing through power asymmetry and complexity: The problems of resource-dependent regions include globally uneven power relations and development patterns, and rapid and uncertain exogenous threats. At the same time, economic and social restructuring involving devolved planning responsibilities, privatised resource rights, and networked management approaches are undermining previous scientific and policy assumptions about the resilience of resource-dependent regions. We already know that multiscale institutions play a critical role in ensuring the resilience and resourcefulness of regions in the face of such challenges. We do not yet understand why some regions are resilient while others strain or even paralyse under conditions of inequity, complexity, uncertainty, and unpredictability. Our early contributions to this field emerge out of conducting empirical research on policy and administration in the USA and Australia, focusing on the role of scale in governance. Our more recent work has involved the development of a Regional Governance Index for assessing the institutional potential of regions. This has led to new cross-national projects analysing the governance of governance (‘meta-governance’) in governing through power asymmetry and complexity. By focusing on scale and power asymmetry, we are providing an important counterpoint to the ‘bottom-up bias’ in sustainability science. See new papers in Journal of Rural Studies and American Review of Public Administration here.
Governance in the Anthropocene. This dimension of our research is concerned with the feasibility of different institutional designs to respond to chronic conflict and cumulative impacts of multiple environmental threats, such as global climate change, coastal development and over-fishing. In four recent and highly influential Reviews (in Nature, WIRES Climate Change, Nature Climate Change and Ecosystems), we identified several key challenges associated with governing large scale SESs under climate change. Future research will continue this work by developing a robust framework for understanding complex environmental governance under climate change, providing a more rigorous basis for understanding the effects of complexity and change on socio-ecological systems. New findings demonstrate that current governance interventions fail comprehensively for large scale SESs under climate change, highlighting the need for a more forward-looking understanding of the governance of socio-ecological change incorporating complex exogenous, cumulative and feedback dynamics. See our new paper on marine fisheries and future ocean conflict in Fish and Fisheries.
Complex Environmental Governance Research Group
Sivee Chawla, JCU PhD Candidate: Understanding ecosystem service choices made by individual actors and their implications for social–ecological interactions
Dr Pip Cohen, WorldFish Scientist & JCU Adjunct Research Fellow: Resilient small-scale fisheries
Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, UQ PhD Candidate: Global governance for conserving migratory shorebirds
Dr Missaka Hettiarachchi, JCU & WWF Senior Fellow: Environment and disaster governance
Cindy Huchery, JCU & WorldFish Research Associate: People and ecosystems
Dr Danika Kleiber, JCU & WorldFish Research Fellow: Governance of small-scale fisheries
Sarah Lawless, JCU PhD Candidate: Assessing and orchestrating complex meta-norm diffusion in natural resource governance
Lucy McHugh, JCU PhD Candidate: Power and participation in seascape conservation in the Anthropocene: How are new governance models turning the tide?
Dr Andrew Song, JCU & WorldFish Research Fellow: Regional governance of fisheries
Jessica Spijkers, JCU & Stockholm University PhD Candidate: Navigating international conflicts in the governance of shared stocks
Shanna Grafeld, JCU: Market structures, trade networks, and governance of coral reef fisheries across a development gradient
We are always encouraging applications from exceptional PhD and postdoctoral scholars with backgrounds in political science, public administration, geography, sociology, economics, planning, law and cognate disciplines. Areas of interest include:
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of governance norms
Comparative analysis of multi-scalar governance transformation
Scalar and spatial dimensions of governing for ecological resilience
Adaptation of governance in tropical, coastal and marine regions
If you are about to contact me to inquire about a PhD, please read this article first.
Morrison, T.H., Hughes, T.P., Adger, W.N., Brown, K., Barnett, J., Lemos, M.C., Huitema, D., Huchery, C., Chaigneau, T., Turner, R., and Hettiarachchi, M. (2019) Save reefs to rescue all ecosystems. Nature, 573: 333-336.
Morrison, T.H., Adger, W.N., Brown, K., Lemos, M.C., Huitema, D., Phelps, J., Evans, L., Cohen, P., Song, A.M., Turner, R., Quinn, T., Hughes, T.P. (2019). The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance. Global Environmental Change, 57: 101934
Sets forth a new research agenda to inform better management of different types of power in polycentric environmental governance. Applies new power typology to marine, forestry, and water governance. Ranked in top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric.
Bellwood, D.R., Pratchett, M.S., Morrison, T.H., et al. (2019) Coral reef conservation in the Anthropocene: Confronting spatial mismatches and prioritizing functions. Biological Conservation, DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.05.056.
Bodin, Ö., Alexander, S.M., Baggio, J., Barnes, M. L., Berardo, R., Cumming, G.S., Dee, L.E., Fischer, A.P., Fischer, M., Mancilla Garcia, M., Guerrero, A.M., Hileman, J., Ingold, K., Matous, P., Morrison, T. H., Nohrstedt, D., Pittman, J., Robins G., Sayles, J.S. (2019). Improving network approaches to the study of complex social–ecological interdependencies. Nature Sustainability, 2: 551–559.
Brodie, J., Grech, A., Pressey, B., Day, J., Dale, A.P., Morrison, T., Wenger, A. (2019). Chapter 28 – The Future of the Great Barrier Reef: The Water Quality Imperative, Editor(s): E. Wolanski, J. Day, M. Elliott, R. Ramachandran. Coasts and Estuaries, Pages: 477-499.
Gallo-Cajiao, E., Morrison, T.H., Fidelman, P., Kark, S., Fuller, R.A. (2019). Global environmental governance for conserving migratory shorebirds in the Asia-Pacific. Regional Environmental Change, 19(4): 113-1129.
Hettiarachchi, M., Morrison, T.H., McAlpine, C. (2019) Power, politics and policy in the appropriation of urban wetlands: the critical case of Sri Lanka. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 46(4): 729-746.
Pratchett, M.S.,…,Morrison, T.H., et al. (2019). Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. World Seas: an Environmental Evaluation, 333-362
Song, A.M., Cohen, P.J., Hanich, Q., Morrison, T.H., Andrew, N. (2019). Multi-scale policy diffusion and translation in Pacific Island coastal fisheries. Ocean & Coastal Management, 168: 139-149.
Spijkers, J., Singh, G., Blasiak, R., Morrison, T.H., Le Billon, P., Österblom, H. (2019). Global patterns of fisheries conflict: Forty years of data. Global Environmental Change, 57: 101921.
Blythe, J., Silver, J., Evans, L., Armitage, D., Bennett, N.J., Moore, M.L., Morrison, T.H. and Brown, K. (2018). The Dark Side of Transformation: Latent Risks in Contemporary Sustainability Discourse. Antipode, 50(5): 1206-1223.
Cinner, J.E., Adger, W.N., Allison, E.H., Barnes, M.L., Brown, K., Cohen, P.J., Gelcich, S., Hicks, C.C., Hughes, T.P., Lau, J., Marshall, N.A., and Morrison, T.H. (2018) Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities. Nature Climate Change, 8(2): 117-123.
Provides a roadmap for governments, development agencies, and civil society organizations concerned with deep systemic adaptation to climate change in tropical coastal communities. Output of an international working group on coastal adaptation in Townsville, Australia 2015. Ranked in top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric. Featured on cover of issue and picked up by media outlets.
Gallo-Cajiao, E., Archibald, C., Friedman, R., Steven, R., Fuller, R., Game, E., Morrison, T.H., and Ritchie, E. (2018) Crowdfunding biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology, 32(6): 1426-1435.
Song, A.M., Johnsen, J.P., and Morrison, T.H. (2018) Reconstructing governability: How fisheries are made governable. Fish and Fisheries, 19(2): 377-389.
Spijkers, J., Morrison, T.H., Blasiak, R., Cumming, G., Osborne, M., Watson, J., and Osterblom, H. (2018) Marine fisheries and future ocean conflict. Fish and Fisheries, 19(5): 798-806.
Wilson, C., Morrison, T.H., Everingham, J-A, and McCarthy, J. (2018) Capture and crush: Gas companies in the fracking dispute and deliberative depoliticization. Geoforum, 92: 106-116.
Morrison, T. H. (2017). Evolving polycentric governance of the Great Barrier Reef. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(15): E3013-E3021.
Analyses extent and impact of governance change for the Great Barrier Reef. Recommendations adopted by the 2017 Review of Governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Commended by the Faculty of 1000. Ranked in top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric.
Morrison, T. H., Adger, W. N., Brown, K., Lemos, M. C., Huitema, D., & Hughes, T. P. (2017). Mitigation and adaptation in polycentric systems: sources of power in the pursuit of collective goals. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, doi: 10.1002/wcc.479.
Develops highly novel conceptual model for understanding complex governance under climate change. One of the outputs of a working group on coastal and marine governance under climate change convened in Cornwall, UK, 2016.
Cohen, P.J., Song, A.M., and Morrison, T.H. (2017) Policy coherence with the small-scale fisheries guidelines: analysing across scales of governance in Pacific small-scale fisheries. In: Jentoft, Svein, Chuenpagdee, Ratana, Barragán-Paladines, María José, and Franz, Nicole, (eds.) The Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines: Global Implementation. MARE Publication Series (14). Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 57-77.
Foley, M. M., Mease, L. A., Martone, R. G., Prahler, E. E., Morrison, T. H., Murray, C. C., & Wojcik, D. (2017). The challenges and opportunities in cumulative effects assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 62: 122-134.
Hettiarachchi, M., Morrison, T.H., and Mcalpine, C. (2017) Power, politics and policy in the appropriation of urban wetlands: the critical case of Sri Lanka. The Journal of Peasant Studies, doi: 10.1080/03066150.2017.1393801.
Hughes, T.P., Barnes, M.L., Bellwood, D.R., Cinner, J.E., Cumming, G.S., Jackson, J.B., Kleypas, J., van de Leemput, I.A., Lough, J.M., Morrison, T.H. and Palumbi, S.R. (2017). Coral reefs in the Anthropocene. Nature, 546(7656): 82-90.
Milestone interdisciplinary paper forecasting radical changes in the science and governance of coral reefs under climate change. Picked up by 37 news outlets, including major media. ISI listed “Hot Paper” and “Highly Cited Paper”.
Wilson, C. E., Morrison, T. H., & Everingham, J. A. (2017). Linking the ‘meta-governance’ imperative to regional governance in resource communities. Journal of Rural Studies, 50: 188-197.
Wilson, C.E., Morrison, T.H., and Everingham, J.-A. (2017) Multi-Scale Meta-Governance Strategies for Addressing Social Inequality in Resource Dependent Regions. Sociologia Ruralis, doi: 10.1111/soru.12189.
Wilson, C. E., Morrison, T. H., Everingham, J. A., & McCarthy, J. (2017). Steering Social Outcomes in America’s Energy Heartland State and Private Meta-Governance in the Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania. The American Review of Public Administration, 47(8): 929-944..
Morrison, T. H. (2016). The meta-governance of regions and the need for a political geography of planning. International Planning Studies, 21(3): 298-304.
Cuevas, S.C., Peterson, A., Morrison, T.H., and Robinson, C. (2016) Methodology for examining the challenges in mainstreaming climate change adaptation. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 8(3): 418-439.
Cuevas, S.C., Peterson, A., Robinson, C. and T.H. Morrison (2016) Institutional Capacity for Long-Term Climate Change Adaptation: Evidence from land use planning in Albay, Philippines. Regional Environmental Change, 16(7): 2045-2058.
Cumming, G.S., Morrison, T. H., & Hughes, T. P. (2016). New Directions for Understanding the Spatial Resilience of Social–Ecological Systems. Ecosystems, 20(4): 649-664.
Daniel, C., Morrison, T. H. and S. Phinn (2016) The Governance of Private Residential Land in Cities and Spatial Effects on Tree Cover. Environmental Science and Policy, 62: 79–89.
Mills, M., Leon, J., Saunders, M., Bell, J., Liu, Y., O’Mara, J., Lovelock, C., Mumby, P., Phinn, S., Possingham, P., Tulloch, V., Mutafoglu, K., Morrison, T.H., Callaghan, D., Baldock, T., Klein, C., and O. Hoegh-Guldberg. (2016). Reconciling development and conservation under coastal squeeze from rising sea-level. Conservation Letters, 9(5): 361-368.
Turner, R., Addison, J., Arias, A., Bergseth, B., Marshall, N., Morrison, T., & Tobin, R. (2016). Trust, confidence, and equity affect the legitimacy of natural resource governance. Ecology and Society, 21(3): art. 18.
Morrison, T.H., Lane, M.B. and Hibbard, M. (2015). Planning, governance and rural futures in Australia and USA: Revisiting the case for rural regional planning. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 58(9): 1601-1616.
Althaus, C and T.H. Morrison (2015). Federalism Dreaming: Re-Imagining the governance of Australian landscapes Australian Journal of Public Administration, 74(1): 93-99.
Bell, J. and T.H. Morrison (2015) A comparative analysis of the transformation of governance systems: Land-use planning for flood risk, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 17(4): 516-534.
Belmar, Y, McNamara, K.E and T.H. Morrison (2015). Water security in Small Island Developing States: The limited utility of evolving governance paradigms. WIRES Water, 3(2): 181–193.
Clement, S., Moore, S.A., Lockwood, M. and T. H. Morrison (2015) A diagnostic framework for biodiversity conservation institutions. Pacific Conservation Biology, 21(4): 277-290.
Cuevas, S.C., Peterson, A., Robinson, C. and T.H. Morrison (2015) Challenges in Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Local Land Use Planning. The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, 7(3): 45-65.
Hettiarachchi, M., Morrison, T.H. and McAlpine, C.(2015). Forty-three years of Ramsar and Urban Wetlands.Global Environmental Change, 32: 57-66.
Provides a roadmap for updating environmental governance regimes in response to contemporary conditions, part of a series on social-ecological transformations.
Mills, M., Weeks, R., Pressey, R.L., Gleason, M., Eisma-Osorio R., Lombard, A.T, Harris, J.M., Killmer A.B., White, A. and T.H. Morrison (2015). Real-world progress in overcoming the challenges of adaptive spatial planning Biological Conservation, 181: 54-63.
Morrison, T.H. (2014). Developing a regional governance index: the institutional potential of regions. Journal of Rural Studies, 35: 101-111.
Develops and tests a metric for analysing resilience and robustness of regional environmental governance in US and Australian cases over time.
Bell, J., Saunders, M., Leon Patino, J., Mills, M., Kythreotis, A., Phinn, S., Mumby, P.J., Lovelock, C.E., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., and T.H. Morrison (2014). Maps, laws and planning policy: working with biophysical and spatial uncertainty in the case of sea level rise. Environmental Science & Policy, 44: 247-257.
Cuevas, S. C., Peterson, A. & T.H. Morrison (2014). An analytical framework for investigating complex institutions in climate change adaptation: The institutional environment matrix. In Leal, W. (Ed.), Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation: Springer, Berlin Heidelberg. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-40455-9_18-1.
Hettiarachchi, M., T. H. Morrison, et al. (2014). The eco-social transformation of urban wetlands. Landscape and Urban Planning, 132: 55-68.
Hettiarachchi, M., McAlpine, C. and T.H. Morrison (2014). Governing the urban wetlands: a multiple case-study of policies and institutions. Environmental Conservation, 41 (3): 276-289.
Morrison, T. H., C. Wilson and M. Bell (2012). The role of private corporations in regional planning and development: Opportunities and challenges for the governance of land use. Journal of Rural Studies, 28(4): 478-489.
Schmidt, P. and T.H. Morrison (2012) Watershed management in an urban setting: Process, scale and administration. Land Use Policy, 29: 45– 52.
Morrison, T.H., McAlpine, C., Rhodes, J.R., Peterson, A. and P. Schmidt (2010) Back to the Future: Planning for environmental outcomes and the new Caring for our Country program. Australian Geographer, 41(4): 521-538.
Morrison, T.H. (2009). The road ahead for regional governance. In Lane, M., Robinson C., and Taylor, B., (eds),Contested Country, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 227-240.
Morrison, T.H. (2007). Multiscalar governance and regional environmental management. Space and Polity, 11 (3): 227-241.
Morrison, T.H. (2006). Pursuing rural sustainability at the regional level: key lessons from the literature on institutions, integration and the environment. Journal of Planning Literature, 21(2): 143-152.
Morrison, T.H. and Lane, M.B. (2006). The convergence of regional governance discourses: enduring challenges and constructive suggestions. Rural Society, 16(3): 341-357.
Lane, M.B. and T.H. Morrison (2006). Public interest or private agenda? A meditation on the role of NGOs in environmental policy and management. Journal of Rural Studies, 22(2): 232-242.
Morrison, T.H. (2005). Institutional design for collective environmental decision and action: the prescriptions of technocrats, neo-liberals and democrats. Political Geography, 24(6): 775-778.
Morrison, T.H. and Lane, M.B. (2005). What ‘Whole-of-Government’ means for environmental policy and management. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 12(1): 47-54.
Morrison, T.H., McDonald, G.T. and Lane, M.B. (2004). Integrating natural resource management for better environmental outcomes. Australian Geographer, 35(3): 243-258.
Lane, M.B., McDonald, G.T. and T.H. Morrison (2004). Decentralisation and environmental management.Geographical Research, 42(1): 103-115.
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TCF Financial Corporation and Chemical Financial Corporation to Present at RBC Capital Markets Financial Institutions Conference
March 08, 2019 02:44 PM Eastern Standard Time
WAYZATA, Minn. & DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TCF Financial Corporation (TCF) (NYSE: TCF) and Chemical Financial Corporation (Chemical) (NASDAQ: CHFC) today announced that Craig R. Dahl, chairman and chief executive officer of TCF; Dennis Klaeser, chief financial officer of Chemical; and Brian W. Maass, chief financial officer of TCF are scheduled to present jointly at the RBC Capital Markets Financial Institutions Conference in New York City at approximately 10:40 a.m. ET on Wednesday, March 13, 2019.
A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available on both the Investor Relations section of TCF’s website (ir.tcfbank.com) and the Investor Information section of Chemical’s website (www.chemicalbank.com). A replay of the webcast will be accessible for 90 days after the presentation.
About TCF Financial Corporation
TCF is a Wayzata, Minnesota-based national bank holding company. As of December 31, 2018, TCF had $23.7 billion in total assets and 314 bank branches in Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado, Wisconsin, Arizona and South Dakota providing retail and commercial banking services. TCF, through its subsidiaries, also conducts commercial leasing and equipment finance business in all 50 states and commercial inventory finance business in all 50 states and Canada. For more information about TCF, please visit http://ir.tcfbank.com.
About Chemical Financial Corporation
Chemical Financial Corporation is the largest banking company headquartered and operating branches in Michigan. Chemical operates through its subsidiary bank, Chemical Bank, with 212 banking offices located primarily in Michigan, northeast Ohio and northern Indiana. As of December 31, 2018, Chemical had total consolidated assets of $21.5 billion. Chemical Financial Corporation’s common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol CHFC and is one of the issuers comprising The NASDAQ Global Select Market and the S&P MidCap 400 Index. More information about Chemical Financial Corporation is available by visiting the “Investor Information” section of its website at www.chemicalbank.com.
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ACADIA Pharmaceuticals to Present New Clinical Data and Outcomes Research at Upcoming Scientific Meetings
— New data presented at the International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders will highlight treatment benefit of pimavanserin in patients with comorbid Parkinson’s disease and depression
— New data presented at the Psych Congress will highlight improvement on sexual functioning observed in patients treated with adjunctive pimavanserin for major depressive disorder
September 19, 2019 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: ACAD) today announced it will present several scientific posters at the upcoming International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders® on September 22-26, 2019 in Nice, France and at the annual Psych Congress on October 3-6, 2019 in San Diego, California.
Scientific poster presentations will highlight ACADIA’s clinical and real-world research in central nervous system disorders with significant unmet need, including Parkinson’s disease and Parkinson’s disease psychosis, dementia-related psychosis, and major depressive disorder.
Scientific Presentations at the MDS Congress include:
Poster Number 163: Open-Label Study of Pimavanserin in Patients With Comorbid Parkinson’s Disease and Depression presented on September 23, 2019, 1:45 – 3:15 p.m. CEST.
Poster Number 129: Use of Off-Label Antipsychotics Among U.S. Long-Term Care Residents With Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis presented on September 23, 2019, 1:45 – 3:15 p.m. CEST.
Poster Number 204: Evaluating the Off-Label Use of Antipsychotics in Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis Patients Within Large National U.S. Healthcare Databases presented on September 23, 2019, 1:45 – 3:15 p.m. CEST.
Poster Number 756: Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs of Parkinson’s Disease Dementia With Psychosis in the U.S. Medicare Population presented on September 23, 2019, 1:45 – 3:15 p.m. CEST.
Poster Number 1836: Comparison of Dementia Patients With and Without Parkinson’s Disease Before Dementia-Related Psychosis Occurs: An Administrative Claims Data Analysis presented on September 25, 2019, 1:15 – 2:45 p.m. CEST.
Scientific Presentations at the Psych Congress include:
Poster Number 137: Improvement of Sexual Function Observed During Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder With Adjunctive Pimavanserin presented on October 4, 2019, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
Poster Number 146: Open-Label Study of Pimavanserin in Patients With Comorbid Parkinson’s Disease and Depression presented on October 4, 2019, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
Poster Number 147: A Post Hoc Analysis Evaluating the Impact of a Reduction in Psychosis on the Severity of Agitation and Aggression in Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease presented on October 4, 2019, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
Poster Number 211: CLARITY: A Phase 2 Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Adjunctive Pimavanserin in Major Depressive Disorder presented on October 4, 2019, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
About Pimavanserin
Pimavanserin is a selective serotonin inverse agonist and antagonist preferentially targeting 5-HT2A receptors. These receptors are thought to play an important role in psychosis, schizophrenia, depression, and other neuropsychiatric disorders. In vitro, pimavanserin demonstrated no appreciable binding affinity for dopamine (including D2), histamine, muscarinic, or adrenergic receptors. ACADIA is evaluating pimavanserin in an extensive clinical development program across multiple indications with significant unmet need including dementia-related psychosis, adjunctive major depressive disorder, and the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Pimavanserin was approved for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease psychosis by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in April 2016 under the trade name NUPLAZID®. NUPLAZID is not approved for dementia-related psychosis, schizophrenia or major depressive disorder.
About ACADIA Pharmaceuticals
ACADIA is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative medicines to address unmet medical needs in central nervous system disorders. ACADIA has developed and commercialized the first and only medicine approved for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease psychosis. ACADIA also has ongoing clinical development efforts in additional areas with significant unmet need, including dementia-related psychosis, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and Rett syndrome. This press release and further information about ACADIA can be found at: www.acadia-pharm.com.
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature are forward-looking statements. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to: the potential benefits of pimavanserin for central nervous system disorders as well as the potential results of clinical trials of pimavanserin in other indications. These statements are only predictions based on current information and expectations and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ materially from those projected in any of such statements due to various factors, including the risks and uncertainties inherent in drug development, approval and commercialization, and the fact that past results of clinical trials may not be indicative of future trial results. For a discussion of these and other factors, please refer to ACADIA’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 as well as ACADIA’s subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. This caution is made under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement and ACADIA undertakes no obligation to revise or update this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, except as required by law.
Important Safety Information and Indication for NUPLAZID (pimavanserin)
WARNING: INCREASED MORTALITY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA-RELATED PSYCHOSIS
Elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis treated with antipsychotic drugs are at an increased risk of death.
NUPLAZID is not approved for the treatment of patients with dementia-related psychosis unrelated to the hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease psychosis.
Contraindication: NUPLAZID is contraindicated in patients with a history of a hypersensitivity reaction to pimavanserin or any of its components. Rash, urticaria, and reactions consistent with angioedema (e.g., tongue swelling, circumoral edema, throat tightness, and dyspnea) have been reported.
QT Interval Prolongation: NUPLAZID prolongs the QT interval.
The use of NUPLAZID should be avoided in patients with known QT prolongation or in combination with other drugs known to prolong QT interval including Class 1A antiarrhythmics or Class 3 antiarrhythmics, certain antipsychotic medications, and certain antibiotics.
NUPLAZID should also be avoided in patients with a history of cardiac arrhythmias, as well as other circumstances that may increase the risk of the occurrence of torsade de pointes and/or sudden death, including symptomatic bradycardia, hypokalemia or hypomagnesemia, and presence of congenital prolongation of the QT interval.
Adverse Reactions: The most common adverse reactions (≥2% for NUPLAZID and greater than placebo) were peripheral edema (7% vs 2%), nausea (7% vs 4%), confusional state (6% vs 3%), hallucination (5% vs 3%), constipation (4% vs 3%), and gait disturbance (2% vs <1%).
Drug Interactions:
Coadministration with strong CYP3A4 inhibitors (e.g., ketoconazole) increases NUPLAZID exposure. Reduce NUPLAZID dose to 10 mg taken orally as one tablet once daily.
Coadministration with strong or moderate CYP3A4 inducers reduces NUPLAZID exposure. Avoid concomitant use of strong or moderate CYP3A4 inducers with NUPLAZID.
Indication: NUPLAZID is indicated for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease psychosis.
Dosage and Administration: Recommended dose: 34 mg capsule taken orally once daily, without titration.
NUPLAZID is available as 34 mg capsules and 10 mg tablets.
Please see the full Prescribing Information including Boxed WARNING for NUPLAZID.
Investor Contact:
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Mark Johnson, CFA
ir@acadia-pharm.com
Maurissa Messier
media@acadia-pharm.com
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CurrencyFair Announces Marketplace Payment Product in Partnership With Chinese Network Buy-World
He Jui Feng, chairman and CEO of Buy-World, and CurrencyFair CEO and president, Paul Byrne (Photo: Business Wire)
November 22, 2019 02:30 AM Eastern Standard Time
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International payments and money transfer service CurrencyFair has launched its cross-border collections solution for marketplaces, and signed a partnership with Chinese wholesale marketplace, Buy-World.
The partnership will allow the “factory-to-business-to-consumer” trade network, comprised of 2.3 million global buyers, to transition to a full-service online model where global payment management is outsourced to the Dublin-based FinTech company.
Commenting on the partnership, Buy-World Chairman and CEO, He Jui Feng said: “Partnering with CurrencyFair to manage global payments allows us to offer a fully integrated service with major cost and efficiency benefits for our suppliers and buyers.” These advantages are at the core of CurrencyFair’s service to individuals, small businesses, and now large marketplaces.
The partnership is one of the many steps CurrencyFair has recently taken as part of an ambitious expansion into Asia, where 33% of global money transfers are estimated to take place by 2026. The company’s advances into the region began in 2018 with the acquisition of Hong Kong business, Convoy Payments, and has gained momentum during this year.
“2019 has seen tremendous growth at CurrencyFair, in terms of geographical expansion and diversification of service,” said Paul Byrne, CEO and President of CurrencyFair.
“This year, we have introduced some key Asian currencies to the platform, formally launched in Singapore and Hong Kong, and now bring our cross-border payment product designed to create significant efficiencies and savings for China’s exporting SMEs.”
“It’s all part of our mission to bring fair financial services all over the world, to all segments of the market,” he concluded.
About CurrencyFair
CurrencyFair is an international money transfer and payments platform focused on providing the best available exchange rates and experience for customers who need to send money and make payments overseas. CurrencyFair’s 150,000-strong user community have traded the equivalent of over €9 billion and saved more than the equivalent of €230 million using the service. This unique peer-to-peer model and secure, state-of-the-art technology, raises the industry standard in designing technology-led foreign currency services for web, iOS and Android use. The company has offices in Ireland, Singapore and Australia, and announced plans to expand further across Asia after acquiring Convoy Payments (Hong Kong) in December 2018.
About Buy-World
Buy-World is an online marketplace connecting Chinese suppliers with its proprietary database of 2.3 million global buyers and an average annual purchasing demand of 500 billion US dollars. Buy-World is innovating the way the purchasing and supply chain operates all the way from the factory to the end consumer in its F2B2C business model. Working with major industrial clusters and professional exhibitions Buy-World integrates online and offline services, accurately connecting suppliers with pre-screened global buyers across 88 industry categories.
Brónagh Kelly
e: bkelly@currencyfair.com
t: +353 87 380 6879
The Irish FinTech company has expanded into the Asian global payments space, recently partnering with Chinese ecommerce site, Buy-World.
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Activist Erica Garner Says She Was "Railroaded" By ABC News
The activist, whose father was killed by NYPD officers in 2014, was at a town hall on Thursday with Barack Obama. She planned to ask the president about the status of the investigation into her father's death but wasn't afforded the opportunity until after the taping.
By Darren Sands
Darren Sands BuzzFeed News Reporter
Last updated on July 15, 2016, at 12:41 a.m. ET
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WASHINGTON — Activist Erica Garner said she believes she was used for ratings by ABC News after storming out of a taping of a presidential town hall hosted by the network Thursday.
Garner, an activist who is planning a march as the two-year anniversary of the death of her father, Eric Garner, approaches, took her bag and stormed off set, according to eyewitnesses.
In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Erica Garner said the agreement with ABC News was that she'd get to ask a question about the Justice Department's investigation into her father's death — something the network refutes.
“That was the agreement before I called my brother and sisters and before we got on the train to head to D.C. to do the town hall," she said.
She added that she was particularly annoyed because she cleared her schedule to come to Washington amid planning for the two-year anniversary of her father's death.
Mary Altaffer / AP
Eric Garner died in 2014 on Staten Island after a New York police officer put him in what was been described as a chokehold. His comment during the struggle, "I can't breathe," became a rallying cry for the demonstrations that followed.
"I’m doing a march," Erica Garner said. "I could have done a whole different thing with my day other than to come to D.C. based on a lie."
Ashley Kershaw, an attendee of the town hall, described a tense atmosphere in the 150-person seat theater as Garner exited the stage and began screaming within earshot of the president.
"It was uncomfortable. People were looking around and you could definitely hear her screaming," Kershaw said. "The president shifted in his chair for a second but you could tell he was trying to ignore it."
It wasn't her intention to embarrass the president, Erica Garner said, but she had to be "belligerent just to be heard."
In a private moment with Obama she asked about the federal investigation into her father's death, she said.
“He did acknowledge" what happened to her father, she said. "It showed me that he's human and sees what’s going on but still it wasn’t enough. I felt like my voice didn’t matter in that conversation" on air.
The version of what was promised to Erica Garner and her family is disputed by ABC News. But Erica Garner told BuzzFeed News she was also angered by another development: The network sat her next to family members of Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, who were killed in an ambush days after a grand jury decided not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who applied the chokehold immediately before Eric Garner's death.
Erica Garner was not comfortable with ABC News' decision.
The producers 'said they thought that I knew," Erica Garner said. “I don’t have nothing against [them] personally. They tried to tie it to my dad and I don’t think it had anything to do with my father."
Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter network, said the ordeal at the town hall taping was symptomatic of a lack of progress under the nation's first black president.
"Too much talk and not enough action from the president," Cullors said. "The movement has been meeting with him for years and yet we haven't seen an improvement for Black Lives. It's time the president commits to take executive action and defund law enforcement agencies that continue to violate the civil and human rights of black people."
Erica Garner intended to ask about the length of Justice Department investigations, including the one Obama reportedly assured her was still open.
She said Obama assured her the investigation is still open and said he can’t put pressure on the Justice Department — or put his thumb on the scale — because of politics. He also told her she should be hopeful, according to Erica Garner.
"I just wanted to ask what he can do about it," Erica Garner told BuzzFeed News.
She also said she felt she had been "used for ratings," and she was upset that the broadcast didn’t acknowledge her dad despite her family being in attendance. As she sat in her seat, Erica Garner grew agitated as the conversation veered into "respecting officers," so-called black-on-black crime, and even gun control.
“Well, my dad wasn’t killed by a gun," she said.
Asked why her emotions boiled over so close to the grim anniversary, Erica Garner paused.
“I’m tired," she said. "I'm tired and I'm exhausted. I've exhausted every avenue trying to pursue justice for my dad. I've spoken to a rep from the DOJ. I've spoken on panels — whoever you can think of I’ve spoken with them. I’m tired of having this conversation. I’m tired. And I think the only way do this is to shut shit down. That’s not what I wanted to do or intend to do, but it’s a shame that I have to be loud and act 'ghetto' to get my point across. But I will be not be used and I will not be silent."
Backstage, Garner was seen pacing, clearly aggravated that she'd been "railroaded" by ABC News on the two-year anniversary of her father's death at the hands of the NYPD.
Reached by BuzzFeed News, a spokeswoman for ABC News said the taping went overtime to accommodate more people.
"We took an extra 30 minutes to get to as many people as we could during the town hall," Heather Riley, ABC's vice president of communications, said. "The president spoke to several people after the event ended, including at length with Erica Garner."
There were 150 invitees in the room, according to ABC News. Eyewitnesses said the exchange between Erica Garner and Obama lasted about three and a half minutes. On Thursday evening the White House confirmed the visit.
"After the ABC-hosted town hall that was taped this afternoon, the president had a brief opportunity to visit with Erica Garner who was upset that she didn't get called on to ask a question," an official said.
Reggie Harris, Erica Garner's political director, said ABC News reached out to Erica Garner to attend and their team wasn't immediately "enamored" with the idea, as she'd already met with the president. They came wanting to participate in the conversation on air, he said.
According to Harris, ABC News said it couldn't promise anything, but eventually acquiesced.
"I asked them, 'Short of a camera going out, if any questions get asked today, will you promise me one of those question will be Erica's?" Harris said. "They said, unequivocally, yes."
Darren Sands is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Contact Darren Sands at darren.sands@buzzfeed.com.
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US Federal Reserve Board Proposes Major Changes in How the US Operations of Foreign Banks and Their Subsidiaries Are Supervised
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While several foreign banking organizations (“FBOs”) were restructuring their U.S. presence to reduce the impact of U.S. regulation, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Board”) recently countered with proposed rules pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act (“DFA”) to heighten supervision of FBOs.
The proposal generally follows the substance of the proposed rules that the Board issued under the DFA in December 2011, for the heightened supervision of large domestic bank holding companies (“Large BHCs”) and nonbank financial companies that may be designated as systemically important financial institutions (“SIFIs”). However, the proposed rules would mark a significant change in how the U.S. operations of FBOs are regulated. in many cases, an FBO would be required to house all of its non-branch U.S. operations (including U.S. investment advisory and broker-dealer subsidiaries) in a U.S-based intermediate holding company (“IHC”) that would be subject independently to substantial capital, liquidity and other prudential requirements.
The Board is also proposing to apply generally the same requirements to a foreign nonbank financial company that is designated as a SIFI as it would apply to FBOs. The Board has indicated that it plans to tailor the requirements to each foreign SIFI, as appropriate, and has set forth criteria that it would apply in determining whether to require a foreign SIFI to establish an IHC. To keep reading, download the full article.
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US Air Force tests ‘base in a box’ in Poland to prep for future wars
By: Valerie Insinna August 26, 2018
About 60 airmen from 14 different active, Reserve and Air National Guard units set up this tent city at Poland’s 31st Air Base during a July exercise meant to test a smaller, prototype version of the U.S. Air Force's deployable air base system, or DABS, construct. This camp is about one-fifth the scale of an actual DABS, exercise organizers say. (Valerie Insinna/Staff)
The first-ever DABS proof of concept officially kicked off July 16, when vehicles and supplies started arriving at Poland's 31st Air Base. This photo shows 12 tents used for living quarters, left, with the headquarters of the 1st Combat Communications Squadron, which provided classified and unclassified radio and internet, right. (Valerie Insinna/Staff)
The dining facility, on left, with the camp's kitchen on right. During the DABS exercise, U.S. Air Force personnel ate breakfast and dinner with Polish forces, while airmen from the 200th RED HORSE Squadron DET 1, Ohio Air National Guard, cooked daily lunches. (Valerie Insinna/Staff)
A typical hot lunch of noodles and gravy, fruit cocktail, vegetables, and chocolate cake. The meals were prepared and served by airmen from the 200th RED HORSE Squadron DET 1, Ohio Air National Guard. (Valerie Insinna/Staff)
One of the shower facilities available to U.S. Air Force personnel during the DABS proof of concept, which ran from July 16 to Aug. 14, 2018, at Poland’s 31st Air Base. (Valerie Insinna/Staff)
Over the course of the exercise, 87 trucks, two C-130J aircraft and a train moved the equivalent of 321 pallets of equipment into Krzesiny, Poland, by July 31. These washing machines were among that sent via C-130 to the 31st Air Base. (Valerie Insinna/Staff)
On July 31, several U.S. Air Force civil engineers were tapped to perform airfield work for the Polish armed forces. The troops participating in the DABS exercise used a kit of materiel needed for rapid airfield repairs, such as concrete and asphalt, a variety of saws, and other tools. (Valerie Insinna/Staff)
An airman uses a chainsaw to remove damaged concrete before a team of civil engineers fills a sinkhole on a maintenance apron on July 31 at the 31st Air Base near Krzesiny, Poland. (Valerie Insinna/Staff)
U.S. Air Force personnel, temporarily deployed to the 31st Air Base in Krzesiny, Poland, unload vehicles and shipping containers full of equipment on July 31. The DABS exercise held in July and August will help the service evaluate how quickly it can move materiel onto a partner nation's base. (Valerie Insinna/Staff)
Over the course of the DABS proof of concept, about 60 vehicles and 161 containers worth of equipment were transported from Sanem, Luxembourg, to Krzesiny, Poland, from July 16 to Aug. 1, 2018. (Valerie Insinna/Staff)
KRZESINY, Poland — If the U.S. Air Force finds itself in a conflict with Russia, it won’t be able to simply rely on its major operating hubs in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. So it’s getting more expeditionary thanks to a new “air base in a box” that will enable the service to rapidly move to a partner nation’s airfield, set up a squadron and begin flying combat missions.
Defense News traveled to Poland’s 31st Air Base near Krzesiny this July for an exclusive look at the first-ever trial of the U.S. Air Force’s new deployable air base system, or DABS — a series of humble-looking shipping containers filled with everything needed to stand up air operations, including temporary billeting and mess facilities, vehicles, airfield repair resources, and power and electrical equipment.
"When we deploy forward, we have very generous hosts, but in a crisis, they’re going to need their capabilities for their priorities, their mission sets, and we’re going to fight jointly and operate jointly,” said Brig. Gen. Roy Agustin, U.S. Air Forces Europe’s director of logistics, engineering and force protection.
“But rather than add a burden by adding our [requirements] — ‘Hey, can you provide us power, can you provide us lodging?’ — if we can bring that organic capability with us, we are both more capable and there’s more synergy as a result,” he told Defense News in a July 31 interview.
Poking the bear: US Air Force builds in Russia’s backyard
The U.S. Air Force is quietly ramping up investments that will enable it to deploy to allied bases in Eastern Europe and operate close to Russia’s western flank.
By: Joe Gould, Valerie Insinna
While this capability comes at a fraction of the cost of a new, permanent air base, it still entails spending hundreds of millions of dollars on DABS and storage facilities based around Europe.
In fiscal 2019, the Air Force plans on spending $361 million for DABS equipment. The budget also includes funding for storage facilities to house DABS, including $119 million for Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and $87 million for one at Royal Air Force Fairford in the United Kingdom. A further $48 million will pay for production and deployment of “enhancements” to existing DABS infrastructure at undisclosed locations.
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Gen. Tod Wolters, commander of U.S. Air Forces Europe, said funding these deployable air base packages is critical for improving the posture of the service on the European continent.
“Those funds have enhanced our lethality, our responsiveness and our resiliency, and we want to ensure that our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are in a position where they can be quicker and faster and sharper and stronger than their predecessors,” he said.
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Because the Air Force didn’t start buying DABS until the FY18 budget and still doesn’t have a complete system, a full-up DABS was not used for this first deployment. Instead, airmen hustled to deploy a more cost-effective prototype version that was about 20 percent the size of a normal DABS, said Capt. Alex John, who helped plan the exercise.
"The scale doesn’t need to be huge yet because right now what we’re doing is we’re scripting the process for how we would actually forward deploy DABS,” he said. “What we’re able to do at a small scale, we’re able to do essentially the same exact way on a large scale. So it’s the same process, just more people and more equipment.”
The exercise starts ...
While planning for the exercise began almost a year ago, the proof of concept officially started in July, with the first members of the team arriving at Krzesiny on July 14, and the first trucks loaded on July 16 and then traveling from Sanem, Luxembourg, to Poland that day.
About 60 airmen from 13 different active, reserve and Air National Guard squadrons participated in the exercise. But of that, only a handful of airmen in leadership positions were given full insight into what to prepare for on the ground.
“We wanted to see how they would do it. Clean slate, tabula rasa, how these engineers would set up the tents,” John said. “Maybe they’d do it better than we planned, or different.”
In total, 87 trucks, two C-130J military transport aircraft and a train moved the equivalent of 321 pallets of equipment — including about 60 vehicles and 161 containers — into Poland by July 31. That same day, airmen began sending materiel back to Luxemburg, with 25 trucks departing Krzesiny once everything had been received.
The first equipment to arrive were things like forklifts and other vehicles needed for moving equipment. Following close behind were the materials needed to stand up the tent city — temporary housing, a main dining hall, shower facilities and a kitchen (port-a-potties were contracted by the service, but a real DABS would include latrines). Later on, two C-130 Hercules brought laundry facilities and air conditioning units.
Tech. Sgt. Dennis Ferguson, an engineering assistant, was one of the first airmen to arrive at Krzesiny on July 14.
“When we showed up, this whole field was thigh- to waist-high grass. The Polish knocked everything down for us. We leveled a little bit of stuff out, and then they filled in some holes for us that were out here,” he said.
“When you look at a map, you can only see so much from an aerial picture. It might look like the greatest place in the world to put tents, and then you get there and it’s low lying and it holds water or its full of holes and not exactly ideal.”
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From there, the engineers figured out how to lay out the camp and began constructing the facilities. While there were no major problems, the process didn’t always go smoothly, Ferguson said. The main dining facility was a new piece of equipment that no one had experience setting up, and the written directions were packed in a separate box — turning its assembly into everyone’s worst Ikea furniture nightmare.
Then, engineers realized they had put the tent city downwind from the port-a-potties and had to reorganize the camp to keep living quarters habitable. Air conditioning units broke and had to be repaired, generators needed to be refueled and fuel consumption had to be monitored.
“There’s always something to improve on,” Ferguson said. “As soon as everything is set up, there’s always something that’s going to go wrong. If it’s mechanical, it’s going to break.”
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Another learning experience for the Air Force was using a train to transport goods; the service normally doesn’t rely on railroads and wanted to “stress test” that capability.
“We’re looking at all of our different options because in a contingency environment, if we don’t have enough trucks or we don’t have enough planes, we can use trains,” John explained.
For this exercise, the Air Force contracted with a commercial freight company, filling 19 rail cars with 31 shipping containers and 13 vehicles. It also leaned on the expertise of U.S. Army personnel temporarily deployed to Poland to provide logistical support for Operation Atlantic Resolve, the name for the U.S. mission meant to strengthen ties between NATO allies and other partners in Europe.
When the train showed up, it wasn’t configured in a way that made it easy to offload, said Staff Sgt. Zane Trapp, a movement supervisor for the Army’s 612th Movement Control Team, which helped the Air Force with customs paperwork, getting diplomatic clearances and transportation logistics.
“They probably didn’t know what it would look like at the download site, but we did,” he said. “We sent the train back out [from the loading dock] and reconfigured it. It took about an hour. And then the download took about two and a half hours, versus about five or six if it wasn’t reconfigured.”
While Trapp was explaining the reconfiguring process, Tech Sgt. Michael Creech, who led the Air Force’s transportation efforts during the exercises, dropped by to greet Trapp and thank him for helping out with the paperwork needed to get 25 trucks worth of equipment shipped out that day.
“This is one heck of a ride today,” Creech said, taking a short break for a minute in the air-conditioned dining tent — a welcome respite from the hot, muggy summer day. “We’ve got 11 [vehicles] done.”
“I have the rest of the forms too,” Trapp said.
“I’m glad you did. That was like a weight off the shoulders, too, because [I’m] running back and forth out there,” Creech replied.
After Creech left to finish up a long day’s work, Trapp commended the effort that he and other airmen were putting into the exercise.
“Twenty-five trucks is a lot when you're working in an expeditionary type of environment. I have a forklift. I have a crane. I don't really have established throughput and stuff that can stack things up for me quickly,” he said. "Most of the vehicles we have require a dock, so a lot of the times we can only do two trucks at a time, if that."
The proof of concept was designed to stress how much the Air Force could bring into a new base and how quickly it could be done. Much of the equipment moved into the area — large shipping containers filled with thousands of tons of concrete slabs to enable maintenance work, heavy high-voltage power generators that would be necessary to power a larger deployment — went unused.
“We have roughly an average of receiving 10 to 15 trucks a day. How much more than that are we able to handle is what we’re trying to figure out. Then we’ll come up with the maximum amount of the vehicles, trains, planes that we could receive in one day,” John said. “What is the fastest time frame to move all of this equipment?”
That may seem like a really simple exercise on paper, but logistics can break down on the smallest details, he said. Not being able to support flying operations for even a single day can have major consequences in a conflict.
“We’re proving our ability to respond to any activity or any kind of contingency anywhere within our [area of responsibility],” John said. “No matter where it is, no matter where we need to go, we’re proving that we can do it rapidly and effectively and be able to build up air power rapidly in a very flexible way.”
Where’s the Prime BEEF?
The Air Force already fields a number of organizations that enable a more expeditionary form of operations. It has established RED HORSE squadrons — short for Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer — that can deploy to an area and conduct heavy construction, like building runways or performing major airfield repairs, and sustain itself for several months.
Prime BEEF (base engineer emergency force) teams, which can deploy to do more minor construction work, have been around since the Vietnam War. And the service has also created “Harvest Eagle” and “Harvest Falcon” kits that would allow the Air Force to stand up shelters, latrines, messing and other basic facilities in austere environments.
The 482nd Prime Base Engineering and Emergency Force displays the squadron emblem. (Senior Airman Jacob Jimenez/U.S. Air Force)
So what’s the difference between all of those organizations and DABS?
“It’s a bigger umbrella,” Agustin explained, himself a former RED HORSE and Prime BEEF engineer. Engineers and equipment from RED HORSE and Prime BEEF squadrons are part of the DABS concept. And compared to Harvest Eagle and Harvest Falcon, the DABS comprises a more diverse kit of equipment that includes medical support, various vehicles for transportation and construction, and tools for setting up airfield operations.
Another major difference is that DABS will be pre-positioned in Europe at locations including Sanem, Ramstein Air Base and RAF Fairford, allowing them to deploy more quickly than the Harvest Eagle and Harvest Falcon sets in the face of a crisis.
“What took us 120-plus days as we shipped from Holloman Air Base in New Mexico to this theater now is [taking] one day from Sanem to here,” Agustin said.
This first proof of concept didn’t involve supporting a full-up flying squadron, but Prime BEEF engineers got the chance to do some airfield maintenance for Poland on July 30.
Using a “Sustainment Pavement Repair” kit containing tools, a concrete mixer and materials like asphalt, a team of engineers fixed a sinkhole located on one of the base’s maintenance aprons. After digging the loose gravel out of the hole, the airmen used a chainsaw to dislodge damaged concrete before filling it with asphalt and repaving it with concrete.
“When you forward deploy this DABS, anything can happen to a runway to damage it,” John said. “This is just more practice for them.”
The next DABS exercise hasn’t been greenlighted yet, but it’s likely the Air Force will want to test whether it can be used by airmen to sustain a full expeditionary camp and to keep a combat squadron flying.
“As we get more of these equipment delivered," Agustin said, "I think we definitely want to see if we can deploy and employ a greater part of this capability.”
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New Study Confirms Majority of Americans Have Confidence in the Integrity and Results of Elections
By Democracy Fund / 2018 October 18th
Washington, D.C. – Today, Democracy Fund, in collaboration with Reed College Professor Paul Gronke, released a new report on Understanding The Voter Experience: The Public’s View of Election Administration and Reform. It shows that while most Americans approve of the job their election officials are doing and trust the results of the election, confusion about voting processes and lack of information about candidates are the top reasons people decide not to vote. Recognizing the information gap between voters and local and state election officials, Democracy Fund is also proud to announce the relaunch of electionline.org—a crucial resource for trusted, politics-free news and information about the people and processes that guide our nation’s elections.
“Understanding the experiences that American voters face during an election cycle is key to improving the electoral system and increasing voter turnout,” said Natalie Adona, Senior Research and Learning Associate with Democracy Fund’s Elections Program. “Our data provides insights into the voter journey from beginning to end: individual level decisions to vote or not, general awareness and familiarity with voter registration requirements, and the public’s trust and confidence in U.S. elections.”
Highlights from Understanding the Voter Experience, include:
The public ranks election administration well in terms of trust when compared to other institutions—outranking Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Press. In 2016, 95 percent of people gave a good or excellent job performance ratings for their poll workers and nearly 60 percent gave high rankings to their local election officials.
87 percent of respondents were confident that their own ballot was counted as cast in 2016, but only 71 percent were confident in the national vote count.
In general, people understand they are responsible for their voter registration, but nearly half of the respondents were confused or unfamiliar with their state voter identification requirements.
30-40 percent of respondents consistently felt they did not have enough information to vote on key races like state attorney general, secretary of state, and state senator.
“Far too many respondents felt that they did not have enough information to vote,” said Adam Ambrogi, Director of Democracy Fund’s Elections Program. “Democracy only works if the American public understands how to vote, has enough information to make informed decisions, is confident in our election process, and trusts the results.”
As part of Democracy Fund’s commitment to fostering a modern, trusted, voter-centric election system, it is also unveiling the new and improved electionline, which continues to be the only place to find state-by-state curation of daily election administration news. In addition to publishing the classic electionline Weekly newsletter, the website will also share original reports and exclusive content from leaders and experts in the field—making the site a must-read for local election officials, civic organizations, and journalists who cover elections.
ABOUT DEMOCRACY FUND
Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation created by eBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar to help ensure that our political system can withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people. Since 2011, Democracy Fund has invested more than $100 million in support of a healthy democracy, including modern elections, effective governance, and a vibrant public square. To learn more, visit www.democracyfund.org or follow @democracyfund.
ABOUT ELECTIONLINE
Electionline is America’s only nonpartisan, non-advocacy clearinghouse for news and information about the people and processes that guide our nation’s elections and a hub for sharing tools, best practices, and innovative ideas for improving the voting experience. A project of Democracy Fund, electionline aims to support voter-centric elections that are accessible, fair, and secure. To learn more, visit www.electionline.org or follow @electionline.
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Rebel, Activist, Feminist & Mother: Farmworker Organizer Dolores Huerta Profiled in New Documentary
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legendary civil rights activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America with Cesar Chavez, now president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation for community organizing.
A remarkable new film, now in theaters, chronicles one of the greatest civil rights leaders in United States history. It’s called “Dolores,” about Dolores Huerta, the legendary co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, which went on to become the United Farm Workers of America. We air excerpts from the film and speak to Dolores Huerta.
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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. And, yes, a remarkable new film is now in theaters that chronicles one of the greatest civil rights leaders in this country’s history. It’s called Dolores. Yes, our guest, Dolores Huerta, the legendary co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, which went on to become the United Farm Workers of America. This is the trailer.
DOLORES HUERTA: After I had seen the miserable conditions of farmworkers, Cesar Chavez said, “We have to organize a union.” You had this ambiance all around you that you could really change the world.
REPORTER: It was, beyond question, the largest gathering on behalf of farmworkers in California history.
PROTESTER: I wish they’d all go back to where they came from. We have no labor troubles.
UNIDENTIFIED: She wasn’t asking for permission. She just did what needed to be done.
ELISEO MEDINA: She has such a firm belief in what she’s doing—
DOLORES HUERTA: We’ve never given up.
ELISEO MEDINA: —that she infects you with it.
Dolores Huerta.
DOLORES HUERTA: Ninety thousand people were poisoned in the fields of the United States of America.
RANDY SHAW: The farmworkers founded the whole idea of environmental justice.
AMY GOODMAN: That’s a clip from the new documentary, Dolores, which opens in theaters on September 1st. We’re joined in studio by Dolores Huerta, legendary civil rights activist, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation for community organizing.
It is wonderful to have you in our studio. We’ve interviewed you many times around the country, but you’ve never graced us here at Democracy Now!, so it’s so great to have you with us, Dolores. Talk about how you came to organize the United Farm Workers.
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, I was very blessed in meeting this great human being named Fred Ross Sr., who actually recruited Cesar and myself in house meetings.
AMY GOODMAN: You’re talking about Cesar Chavez.
DOLORES HUERTA: Cesar Chavez. And he told us how we could really change the world.
AMY GOODMAN: And Fred’s name is?
DOLORES HUERTA: Fred Ross Sr. And we belonged to another organization called the Community Service Organization. And when we tried to get that organization to support a union of farmworkers, they refused. And so then Cesar and I went off. We left that organization and began the United Farm Workers.
AMY GOODMAN: How did you meet Cesar Chavez?
DOLORES HUERTA: In that organization, the Community Service Organization. Cesar was organizing in San Jose. I was organizing in Stockton. And the one thing that we did have in common was the whole plight of farmworkers. And so, then we made a plan on how we could organize a farmworkers’ union, but the Community Service Organization did not support us on that plan. So we both left the CSO and started the United Farm Workers.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to take a step back. A lot is known about Dr. Martin Luther King, about Cesar Chavez, not as much about you, although, of course, the people you’ve worked with over the years, the number, the millions of people you’ve affected. And so, I want to go back to where you were born and how you came to do what you do.
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, I was born in the state of New Mexico and moved to Stockton when I was 6 years old. My parents divorced, and my mother took us to Stockton. And that’s where I was raised, and that’s where I started my initial organizing, in that area.
AMY GOODMAN: And how did you, as a teenager, decide that organizing was going to be the path of your life, and specifically working with farmworkers?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, that was kind of accidental, as where I grew up, Stockton, California, is an agricultural community. And as a youngster, I was a Girl Scout for 10 years of my life, and I was in a lot of different social clubs. But when I met Mr. Ross and he showed us what we could actually do by coming together and organizing and taking direct nonviolent action, then I was really—I thought, “Oh, my goodness! This is what I want to do with my life.” And so, I became a schoolteacher, then I left teaching to go to Delano to start the union there.
AMY GOODMAN: And farmworkers themselves, the grape boycott that you helped to lead, the worker strikes, talk about how you organized them. What was the strategy? And then talk about your response to the impact that it had.
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, the thing is that when people think about the strike and the—it’s very dramatic, colorful. But what they don’t see is like the three years before the strike, where we organize workers in house meetings. And this is the method that Fred Ross taught us, by meeting in people’s homes, you know, one family at a time, and then bringing them all together. And this is the same kind of a method that we use today with my foundation, the Dolores Huerta Foundation, where we’re working on ending the school-to-prison pipeline, working on environmental issues, on economic issues and, you know, inspiring people that they—and motivating them that they have power, but that they can make the changes, but that they have to make the changes. No one can do it for them. And this is the kind of work that we do, using that same organizing method, one family at a time, one family at a time. And it’s very tedious, and it’s very time-consuming, but then the results are really wonderful.
We recently settled a lawsuit with our current high school district in California, in Bakersfield, for the expulsion and suspension of African-American and Latino students. And now they have to change their policies, and they have to change their procedures, to keep the students in school. And so, we’ll go out there, and we organize the parents, and then the parents are the ones that take on the—they become the leaders of making sure that some of these policies are changed.
AMY GOODMAN: When was the grape boycott?
DOLORES HUERTA: It was in 1968. We started the boycott in 1968.
AMY GOODMAN: And explain what it was. What was the strategy you took?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, the strategy was that we had farmworkers come out from California, and again using those same methods of meeting people in their homes and organizing groups throughout the United States and asking people to come and support, number one, to get people to picket the stores and ask people not to buy grapes. And at the end of the day, we had like 17 million people that were not eating grapes. And this is what brought the growers to the bargaining table.
AMY GOODMAN: What about Robert Kennedy’s role? How significant was it? And how did you and Cesar Chavez reach out to him?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, Senator Kennedy had been a supporter early on. He came to California. He had a hearing right in the middle of the strike. And there’s a very dramatic moment in the movie, Dolores, where Robert Kennedy tells the sheriff of Kern County and the district attorney to read the Constitution of the United States, because they were continuously arresting us, and so that we wouldn’t be—you know, we wouldn’t be able to picket. And so, he was a great supporter. And then, of course, we helped him very much in his campaign, when he was running for the presidency, by going out there and getting people out to vote.
AMY GOODMAN: When you hear about corporations suing activists—for example, you have Energy Transfer Partners suing Greenpeace and other groups, calling them “eco-terrorists”—do you identify with the organizers, the people who are under attack? And did you experience anything like this over the years in your organizing?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, yes, we did. But we also sued them, you know, for one of the suits that we filed against the Farm Bureau Federation and the Teamsters union. It was the coming together—their coming together to come and—to come and to take away the contracts of the United Farm Workers. And I think that this new tactic that they’re having now—we know that we have friends of ours that were able to end fracking in Monterey County, and then Chevron is turning around and suing them and trying to stop us—trying to stop them from ending the fracking. So, I think this is a new tactic that obviously the oil companies and the energy companies are using to try to stop the progress of the environmental organizations.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about worker strikes in the 1960s that you helped to lead?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, again, the strikes took place after many, many years of organizing people at the grassroots level and to prepare them and, you know, to let them know that they have the power to make the changes. and if they don’t make the changes, that those changes are not going to be made. And I think, in terms of today—and this is what—why we hope that people will see the film, because, again, this is a message that we want to get out there. We know we have a lot of obstacles right now, but the only way that we’re going to be able to overcome those obstacles is by everybody.
But, you know, Amy, I do want to say one thing. I think it’s wonderful and it’s great that we have like 40,000 people protesting in Boston against the “alt-right” and the neo-Nazis, and we have all of these marches, like the Women’s March and the other marches that have taken place. But we’ve got to march to the polls, we’ve got to march to the ballot box, because if people do not vote, then we really can’t change the policies. And we know that many of the things that we fought for in the ’60s and ’70s and the ’80s, you know, are now being rolled back. And the only way that we can stop this is by really electing progressive people to all of our different public offices, at the local level and especially at the national level.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to turn to a clip of your film, Dolores.
AUDIENCE: ¡Sí se puede!
ARTURO RODRIGUEZ: ¡Sí se puede!
ARTURO RODRIGUEZ: For Cesar, ”¡Sí se puede!” wasn’t just a slogan.
DOLORES HUERTA: When people in Arizona said—they told me, “No, Dolores, no se puede. You can’t do this in Arizona. Only in California,” my response to them was ”¡Sí se puede!”
¡Sí se puede! ¡Sí se puede!
MICHELLE MILLER: Hers was the rallying cry that would later come to define the presidential campaign of candidate Barack Obama.
SEN. BARACK OBAMA: Yes, we can.
ORGANIZER: Have you heard President Obama say, “Yes, we can”? It came from Cesar Chavez: ”¡Sí se puede!”
ANGELA DAVIS: Dolores Huerta came up with the slogan ”¡Sí se puede!” And we all attribute that to Cesar Chavez, even Barack Obama. Of course, when he gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he had to correct himself.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: On a personal note, Dolores was very gracious when I told her I had stolen her slogan, ”¡Sí se puede! Yes, we can!” Knowing her, I’m pleased that she let me off easy, because Dolores does not play.
AMY GOODMAN: That was a clip from the documentary Dolores. So, ”¡Sí se puede!” was your phrase.
DOLORES HUERTA: Mm-hmm, yes.
AMY GOODMAN: When did you come up with it?
DOLORES HUERTA: In Arizona, actually, in 1972, when Cesar was fasting, was doing a 25-day water-only fast, kind of to take the hatred out of the hearts of the growers. That’s the way that he put it. And so, we were trying to organize people to come and to join us, and speaking to a group of professional Latinos, asking them to come and join us. And they said, “No, you can’t do this in Arizona. Only in California. No se puede. No, you can’t.” And my response to them was “Yes, we can. ¡Sí se puede!, in Arizona, the way that we organized in California.”
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to turn to another clip of the film that’s now out in theaters around the country. This is Dolores, and the clip begins with the feminist icon Gloria Steinem.
GLORIA STEINEM: I didn’t really know Dolores before New York. But I think I was scared of her. I don’t think that Dolores thought I was worth the trouble, until I got Huntington Hartford to picket the A&P, which of course got press, because the heir to the A&P fortune was boycotting the A&P. After that, we became partners.
EMILIO HUERTA: My mother was raised a Catholic and very traditional. And prior to going to New York City, she really didn’t speak of feminism.
DOLORES HUERTA: I was in New York when the feminist movement was being born. But my mind was focused on getting all of those women at those conventions to support the farmworkers.
ANGELA DAVIS: There was a time when rarely could you discover women of color who would identify as feminists, because it was assumed to be a question simply of gender. And if it was a question simply of gender, that gender was white.
GLORIA STEINEM: When social justice movements arise in a patriarchal system, all kinds of false divisions are made.
AMY GOODMAN: So, that was Angela Davis and Gloria Steinem talking about Dolores. That’s Dolores Huerta. And the new film about her, that’s a clip. You are often seen in photographs with, oh, all your male colleagues. Can you talk about when you came to see the importance of the intersectionality of the labor movement, the women’s movement, people of color and the feminist movement?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, in order to be able to win, through the boycott, to begin with, we had to reach out to all of the different organizations, and, otherwise, we could not win. I mean, the 17 million Americans that stopped eating grapes, you know, included all of these different organizations. And so—and I think that’s one of the messages that we have today, is that, you know, the only way that we’re going to be able to, again, counter the Trump administration is that we’ve all got to work together. You know, we’ve all got to work on the environmental issues. We’ve all got to support labor unions. We’ve got to support the immigrant rights movement, etc., and the LGBT movement also, because we can’t be in our silos and win. We’ve all got to work together. I think that’s the lesson that we have from the boycott.
AMY GOODMAN: When you first came to know Gloria Steinem, your views on choice and abortion separated you both. Can you talk about how you took this on?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, I think Gloria helped me a lot, as did Ellie Smeal from the Feminist Majority, in terms of a—
AMY GOODMAN: You were originally anti-abortion.
DOLORES HUERTA: Oh, very much, yes, because I was a Catholic, and that’s the way that I had been taught and trained, like many Latina women out there. You know, even I think when we think of Latina women that may have voted for Trump, that was probably the issue that they did. And, you know, they haven’t really come to the realization, as I did, that, you know, a woman—the only way that you can control your life is to control your body in the first place and that that’s got to be a choice that women make, and you have to respect somebody else’s choice, in terms of how many children they want to have or not have. I like to say that my daughter Juanita likes to have dogs and not children, you know? And that’s her choice. And then we’ve got to respect that choice.
And women, yes, they do need to have the right to have an abortion if they need so. And I know that that’s one of the issues that the conservatives and the Republicans really focus on, but they really use that issue to subjugate women. And we know that we’ve got to have more feminists on all of these public boards. I like to say, if you don’t have women on those boards, they’re going to make the wrong decision.
AMY GOODMAN: Dolores Huerta, you mentioned your daughter Juanita. How many kids do you have?
DOLORES HUERTA: I have 11.
AMY GOODMAN: You have 11 kids. How did you have all these kids and do the organizing that you did?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, I had to ask for people to help me with my children. And then I dragged them around the country with me. But they all grew up very resourceful, very strong, and they survived.
AMY GOODMAN: You know, I think a really poignant part of the film was your children talking about what it was like to grow up with you and without you. And it was a very honest look, you know, a great deal of love and also—I wouldn’t say resentment, I would say an honest expression of their pain at not being able to spend the kind of time they wanted with you as they grew up. What was it like on your end of things?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, it’s—I knew that when I was leaving my children behind or when I was bringing them with me—say, for instance, bringing them to New York City here for the boycott—that it was always a painful experience. But on the other hand, you know, they kind of grew up in the movement, so they became very independent, they became very resourceful. And also, they realized that they had to kind of fend for themselves in some respects, you know. But we did have—in the farmworkers’ movement, we did have daycare for the kids. We had a Montessori school. And we had people that did help us. And, you know, my oldest son is a doctor. My second son is Emilio Huerta, is a public interest attorney who’s now running for Congress in the 21st Congressional District in California. And I have a daughter who’s a nurse. Juanita, my daughter, became a teacher. And so, they became very resourceful.
But I do want to encourage women out there: Don’t leave your kids behind. And, grandmothers, bring your grandchildren. Bring them to the marches. Bring them to the protests that you have, because, that way, they really live these experiences, and it makes them strong, and they feel the collective energy of people who are trying to fight for justice. So, you know, bring them along—it’s very important—as I did mine.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about taking on, for example, the Texas Board of Education, that would perhaps like to wipe out references to Cesar Chavez, to Dolores Huerta? Talk specifically about that and what has been done to try to fight back against that, to tell the story of the farmworkers in this country and how they helped build the United States.
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, that is a really, really big issue, because by taking out the stories of the contributions of Latinos, of African Americans—
AMY GOODMAN: Talk specifically about what they’re trying to do.
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, not only in Texas, but Arizona, they’re trying to really remove the history of the contributions of people like myself. You know, and if we—
AMY GOODMAN: Arizona, a judge just ruled against the attack on ethnic studies.
DOLORES HUERTA: Right. And we know that they’re trying to do this. And actually, when you think about it, in our school books, we don’t talk about the contributions of people from Mexico, you know, tilling the lands, building the railroads, or people from Asia, or indigenous—the indigenous Native Americans in our country that were the first slaves, or that the African slaves were the ones that built the White House and the Congress. And as long as we keep all of this history out of our school books, then that really adds to the racism and the bigotry that we’re seeing right now in our country.
So, I really encourage people to, you know, run for school board, get on those school boards. We’ve got to get labor studies, ethnic studies, women’s studies, LGBT studies into our history books. And it’s got to start at the kindergarten level, because now we see that racism has reared its ugly head, but it’s very, very visible. They’ve taken off the hoods, you know. And this is something that we, as people of color, have always suffered in this country, but now we know that we have to do something about it, because it is the cancer, and it’s destroying our society.
AMY GOODMAN: When you talk about the “alt-right,” the white supremacists, the Klan, the neo-Nazis taking off their hoods, perhaps there was nothing more chilling, some might have said—well, seeing people in hoods, that represent the Ku Klux Klan—but the fact that they felt comfortable enough to not wear those hoods, to not cover their faces, and yet march with their torches in Nazi-like fashion and say, “You will not replace us.”
DOLORES HUERTA: And I think that’s what the president, Donald Trump, has done. He’s given people license to express their racism. And I think that’s what we’re seeing right now. And then we see what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, when you actually saw Heather, a white person, and the two white deputies that were also killed, you know, during that demonstration. So, I think that—I think this is a wake-up call for all of the United States of America, that all of us have got to step up, in private organizations and public organizations, that we’ve got to start addressing the issue of racism and misogyny, against women. And again, you know, what Trump is doing with the transgender ban in the military, this also hypes up the whole homophobia that we have in our country. So, this is like—to me, this is a call to action, a call to action for everybody.
AMY GOODMAN: Where was your mother and father born?
DOLORES HUERTA: In the United States. My grandparents were, honestly, born in the United States. I’m a fifth generation American. My great-grandfather was in the Civil War on the Union side. And that’s one of the things that we bring out in the film Dolores, is, even though—you know, I still have had trouble, as a teenager, to being treated like a United States citizen of this country. It’s because I happen to be Latina.
AMY GOODMAN: You, in a few years—you’re 87—will be 90 years old. What are your plans now? What are the projects you are taking on?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, with our foundation, we continue our grassroots organizing, because, you know, Amy, it’s almost like magic that we can, you know, raise money, hire an organizer. We send them into a community. They bring people together. They organize them through these house meetings. We build a base. And then they take on the issues in their community. And then they have to volunteer to do the work. And in volunteering, this is how we create the kind of leadership. So you leave something behind everywhere that you go, everywhere that you organize.
And then we encourage people to run, many of the residents. And these are people that are ordinary people. They don’t have a high school diploma. They don’t have a college diploma. But they’re serving on city councils, and they’re serving on school boards and recreation boards and utility districts. You know, we encourage them to run for office. And once they learn how to organize, they know how to get themselves elected.
We’re a (c)(3), the Dolores Huerta Foundation, but we also do have a (c)(4), where we can endorse candidates. And we do the civic engagement of making sure people register to vote, making sure that they get out to vote, so that they realize that they have the power at the local level. And once they have that power, they have to act on it. And this is how we are able to really take control of our country.
AMY GOODMAN: Finally, what gives you hope? You were deeply involved in the presidential campaign. Ultimately, while President Trump lost the popular vote by millions, he did win. He became the 45th president of the United States. All of these issues you talk about, that you care about, each one very much under attack—what gives you hope?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, as an organizer, I always see things that are negative, like the presidency right now, as an organizing opportunity, because I really think, as I said, it’s a wake-up call. And people that were kind of out to lunch during the elections or people that, for some reason or the other, decided not to vote, that now they realize that we’ve all got to take action. It’s up to every single one of us. And there’s a line in the film, Dolores, by Robert Kennedy, where he—just before he got killed. You know, he said, “We have a responsibility to our fellow citizens.” And this is what I hope the people will take from the film. All of us have a responsibility that we’ve got to engage. And we’ve got to make sacrifices to make sure that we have progressive people that are elected to office.
AMY GOODMAN: You were at the Ambassador Hotel—
DOLORES HUERTA: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: —when Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June of 1968?
DOLORES HUERTA: Mm-hmm, yes. Yes, I was there with him.
AMY GOODMAN: Where were you at the time he was gunned down?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, just before he was assassinated, I had been next to Robert Kennedy at the podium. And we had done—been out there doing the work, you know, for his primary election, to make sure that he won. And then, as we were stepping down from the podium, then they took him back to the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel, where he was assassinated.
AMY GOODMAN: So you were still in the big room.
AMY GOODMAN: The ballroom.
DOLORES HUERTA: Yes. Well, I was right behind him, actually, and, you know, just as we got to the doorway, somebody pulled me aside, and so I wasn’t able to go with him through the doorway.
AMY GOODMAN: Did you hear the bullet?
DOLORES HUERTA: Oh, yes. I was just right behind him. And we heard—I thought they were firecrackers. I thought there was a celebration, because you heard all of these—I think about eight shots, which I thought were firecrackers.
AMY GOODMAN: Because he had won the California primary.
DOLORES HUERTA: He had got—he won the California primary. But then people started screaming, and we realized that they were bullets.
AMY GOODMAN: And so, what happened then? What was your response? Where did you go? What was the scene in the ballroom?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, of course, there was chaos in the ballroom. There was chaos. And we did a vigil when he was in the hospital, and then, of course, he passed away, you know, during that vigil.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I guess, if someone asked you then, what gave you hope, after the man you had championed had been assassinated right before you?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, we know that when you’re working for the poorest people of all, and the work that we have to do, there’s only one way to go. You can’t go down. You’ve got to keep going up, and you’ve got to keep working. And when we think of all of our martyrs, you know, when we think of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X—
AMY GOODMAN: Did you spend any time with Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X?
DOLORES HUERTA: Actually, I didn’t. I didn’t. I was supposed to be with Martin Luther King in—here in New York City, but somehow the flight got canceled. I wasn’t able to make it. But I did spend a lot of time with Coretta when she was campaigning for the holiday. But I think, with all of these martyrs, the way that we honor them—
AMY GOODMAN: For the Martin Luther King holiday?
DOLORES HUERTA: Yeah. But the way that we honor our martyrs is that we have to continue doing the work. You know, we have to continue doing the organizing work and social justice work. And, you know, I’ve been quoting Pablo Neruda, the poet. I’ve been quoting. He says, “They can cut all the flowers, but you can’t hold back the spring.” And I think, like back in the '60s, you know, when we were fighting Nixon and we had the Vietnam War, and all of these organizations were just being formed in—the green movement, the LGBT movement, the second wave of the women's movement, the civil rights movement—and we came out stronger. We came out stronger, and we changed policies. And I think that will happen again.
AMY GOODMAN: Dolores, you were deeply involved with the campaign supporting Hillary Clinton. Upon reflection, do you see mistakes that were made? What do you learn, as you learn from every campaign you’re involved with? And what do you think of how Bernie Sanders conducted his campaign? And do you think if he had been—he wasn’t your choice of candidate, but if he had been the candidate, he could have beaten Donald Trump?
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, I think we won’t know that, right? I mean, everybody thought that Hillary was going to win. I don’t think that the media was fair to Hillary. I think Bernie could have been more supportive of Hillary, you know, just before the general election, after she won the primary. So, you know—
AMY GOODMAN: He might have said the same in the lead-up to the convention, that he wished that her—that the Democratic National Committee was more supportive of him as an equal candidate.
DOLORES HUERTA: Yeah, and we can kind of look backward. But I think at this point that we just have to look forward. But I think one of the issues that we do have, I think, with the Democratic Party is that we’ve got to make sure that—and I know that there’s some kind of issues right now between whether they’re going to support conservative candidates or progressive candidates, and I think all of us have to push the Democratic Party to say we’ve got to have progressive candidates. We don’t need Republican-lite. We don’t need to elect people to the Congress or to the Senate that are going to vote with the Republicans. We’re at a critical point in our country right now, and we’ve got to get the strongest, the most progressive candidates elected. So I’m also encouraging people, get involved in your local Democratic Party. You know, these are democratic organizations. You’ve got to get in there and make sure that we get Democratic good progressive candidates in our party or in the Green Party or even in the Republican Party.
AMY GOODMAN: You mentioned that your son is running for Congress. Did you ever think of running for elected office?
DOLORES HUERTA: No, I consider myself an organizer. And I—you know, I like to be able to work for progressive candidates and also to take the other ones out, if they’re not doing the job.
AMY GOODMAN: Final thoughts, as you reflect on your life? Certainly, as you travel the country with the film Dolores being released, people are talking to you about your legacy, though you are still extremely active and moving forward, as you reflect on your life.
DOLORES HUERTA: Well, I think I have a few years left, and hopefully that I can continue doing that grassroots organizing, which I believe is really vital, the way that we organized the farmworkers’ union, the way that we’re organizing today, to get people involved and to really make people understand that they’ve got the power, but that they’ve got to use that power, they’ve got to get engaged. None of us can afford to take any time out right now. We are in a crisis. And this is—and I hope that all organizations get the kind of support that they need, not only in terms of resources, but also in terms of volunteers, that can help us go forward.
AMY GOODMAN: Dolores Huerta, thanks so much for being with us. Dolores Huerta, the civil rights icon, the co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America with Cesar Chavez, president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation for community organizing. Her remarkable life is the subject of a new documentary. It’s called Dolores. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year and is opening in theaters all over the country today, on September 1st, from PBS Distribution. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. Thanks so much for joining us.
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Members of the international community answer 10 key questions about their lives in the Netherlands
‘People here speak their mind, but they’ve never seemed rude to me’
Originally from Plymouth in the US, New York Times author and illustrator Brooke Barker moved with her husband from America to Amsterdam a few years ago. She loves real ginger tea with ginger slices, is baffled by the local love of toothpicks and says she is too short to ever feel really Dutch. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I’ve always loved the Netherlands, and I’d always wanted to live there so I found a job with an... More >
‘I couldn’t get over how perfect Amsterdam looked, like a postcard’
Bilge Yörük spent most of her childhood in Turkey before she moved to Canada as a teenager. She now lives in Amsterdam with her husband and young daughter and works for a medical research company. She would like to meet tv presenter Arjen Lubach and loves hanging out in the Jordaan. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I met my now husband while I was working on my PhD in Toronto. He was doing a research internship in... More >
‘Amsterdam weather is controlled by an angel who is on an internship’
Originally from Pakistan, Basir Mahmood is an artist, photographer, and filmmaker whose works have appeared in galleries and museums all around the world. A few years ago, he was awarded a research fellowship in Amsterdam, and he continues to live in the city. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I have been travelling around for the last eight years now, from one artist residency to another. This is how I also ended up at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende... More >
‘There’s a non-hierarchic, “say what’s in your heart” mentality here’
Groningen-based Israeli Guy Weizman (45) moved to the Netherlands with his partner some 20 years ago to work with celebrated choreographer Itzik Galili. Today he is the artistic and general director of theatre company Noord Nederlands Toneel and dance company Club Guy & Roni; parent to a teenage son; and an enthusiast for Dutch art, literature, philosophy and oliebollen. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I was invited to come and work here when I was dancing, myself.... More >
‘There are more than 400 museums in this tiny country’
Dual national Abbie Vandivere (Canadian and British) gets to work with some of the Netherlands’ most precious paintings, as a conservator at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. In the Netherlands for 13 years, she would like to have a party at Jan Steen’s family tavern, and invite Hieronymus Bosch and Johannes Vermeer to join in. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I’ve always been fascinated by Dutch Old Master paintings, and I came here in 2005 for an... More >
‘I got into local cooking because I had to. I knew I was going to stay’
Aileen Enda Jansen Dawson, 83, will be spending her 59th Christmas in the Netherlands this year. She moved here in 1959 to marry a Dutchman she met while working at a hotel in Germany. Now widowed and with four sons, she still gets het and de confused, has learned to eat Dutch vegetables and knows every museum in Amsterdam. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I was doing hotel management at a hotel in Ireland. It was a... More >
‘Dutch people don’t like long silences but in Sweden we can live with them’
Helena van Heel is a Swedish mezzo soprano who moved to the Netherlands 25 years ago. She lives in Amsterdam Noord with her Dutch husband and daughter, recommends you visit the 11 Fountain tour in Friesland and sneaks off to Ikea when she gets homesick. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I met a Dutchman in Stockholm, he was playing in an orchestra and it was love at first sight. The first time I had visited him I... More >
‘We have fallen in love with the Netherlands, the people, the weather’
British national Hannah Bayliss, husband Tim and dog live next to the Valkenburg airbase near Katwijk where they distill gin, enjoy beach life and have gotten to grips with the weather. How did you end up in the Netherlands? We ended up here in 2015 after Tim sent me a picture of the beach at Noordwijk. We both wanted to live in another country and were debating between New Zealand or the Netherlands. Tim had a temporary job in the... More >
‘I try to make Dutch food healthier, I made bitterballen with liquid nitrogen’
Jordanian Moayad Abushokhedim is a trained food scientist who has embarked on new business adventure using recycled food waste to create chemical-free additives in the Netherlands. Based in Rotterdam, he has learned to ride a bike and has become Dutch enough to go for ‘buy two, get one free’ offers in supermarkets. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I moved in November 2015, from Jordan — well, I moved to Spain first, and from Barcelona I moved to... More >
‘People see me and they see my name and they assume I am Dutch’
Rachelle Meyer is an American illustrator who moved to Amsterdam with her British husband twelve years ago. She’s currently putting together an art collection of her Faces on the Ferry drawings, she would like to meet Jesse Klaver and she thoroughly recommends the Hoge Veluwe as a place to visit. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I’m originally from Texas but I was living in New York City when I met my British husband. He was living in... More >
‘I was told “even if you’re the queen of the Netherlands, no means no”‘
Seven years ago, Beena Arunraj said goodbye to her dental practice and, with her husband Eddie, who works for Philips, upped sticks and moved from India to Eindhoven. Beena has been shocked by home births and sales staff in Ikea, but says she would like to meet Menno Snel and talk to him about the 30% ruling. How did you end up in the Netherlands? It was by a very normal route: my husband was with Philips, so he moved... More >
‘Dutch families have dinners together, celebrate special events and holidays together’
Sheetal Shah originally moved to the Netherlands with her husband while she was finishing her PhD and pregnant with their second child. She now lives in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, teaches psychology at Webster Leiden, and works with Bridge 2 Hope, an organisation that helps the victims of human trafficking. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I was born and brought up in Mumbai and I moved to the Netherlands 12 years ago as a trailing spouse.... More >
‘I obsessively collect supermarket stickers for cheap crockery I don’t need’
Writer and journalist Gordon Darroch was widowed soon after moving to The Hague with his terminally ill wife, Magteld. He talks about the challenges of single parenthood, Jan Steen and the secret of a perfect uitsmijter. How did you end up in the Netherlands? My wife, Magteld, was from Drenthe and like a lot of mixed couples we’d talked idly for years about emigrating, especially once we had children. It became more urgent when she was diagnosed with breast cancer... More >
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‘When I was ten, I already had the feeling I would move here’
Novelist Ellen Keith’s Dutch ancestry drew her irresistibly to the Netherlands, where she settled in 2015. Today, the 29-year-old Canadian can be found whizzing across the capital, ringing her bicycle bell at tourists and dreaming of a perfectly-baked cookie. How did you end up in the Netherlands? My mother’s side of the family is Dutch. My grandparents were both born and raised in the Netherlands and they emigrated in the 50s. I still have some extended family in the east... More >
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Singaporean neuroscientist Xing Chen (32) moved to Amsterdam for work in 2014. Already a die-hard FEBO fan with a convincing Dutch accent, she has quickly made the Netherlands her home. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I was studying for my PhD in the UK and in 2014 I was looking to continue my career. I had a lot of experience working in the lab and studying the visual cortex and how the brain works and I found... More >
‘Moving out of Amsterdam really helped me improve my Dutch’
In 2005, nutrition educator Shay Klomp Bueters (43) left the mountains of Montana, USA for the Dutch lowlands, following a romance on a cruise ship with a Dutch co-worker whom she went on to marry. They live with their five-year-old son in Almere-Poort, where she been amazed at the Dutch ability to reclaim and settle new land. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I fell in love with a Dutchie while we were both working for the Holland... More >
‘I’m grateful to this place for its peaceful and relaxed, but professional, mindset’
Hungarian-born, US and-Israeli-educated David Lusztig is a growth hacker for Codemotion—a ‘geek connector’ that unites developers and tech communities in cutting-edge conferences. He says he escaped a life in the tech world at the mercy of some money-hungry superiors—’sharks’—where many friends ended up burnt out or worse. He has since become ‘stupid proud’ of what he does, and he plans to stay in the Netherlands ‘until forever’. How did you end up in the Netherlands? I was working in Israel,... More >
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Doug Yowell
I was born in Ridgewood, NJ as the last of six kids that all played music. There was already a set of drums in the house and at the age of three I was completely drawn to both the rhythmic quality of the instrument as well as melody. My father was a jazz musician in the 50's who had the great opportunity of playing with Charlie Parker, Zoot Simms, Gerry Mulligan and many others. Through his love and encouragement I was given an endless supply of life force to dig into as hard as I wanted. My Dad has always been an artist. No matter what he decided to do with his mind and his hands he could create it. It never mattered how difficult it was and through him I realize now that he created an environment to open the imagination as wide as possible and taught me without ever speaking the words that this kind of exploration was completely normal and necessary to reach the end result. Dad… I love you and I am forever grateful.
Jazz for me was influencing the idea that a conversation could be spoken through the instruments and players. The spectrum of music in the house was vast between all of my brothers and sisters who all played and sang ranging from Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Joni Mitchell, Gladys Knight, Ruben Blades, Elton John, James Taylor and on and on. I remember vividly telling my dad at three years old that I wanted to be a drummer and that I was going to play with Elton John. Although he wasn't here to see it, I recorded with Elton John for a new version of "Are you ready for love" on an upcoming Disney film due out in March 2018. My drive and passion never ceased. I had great teachers at a young age and by the time I was 16 years old I was studying with Jazz drumming legend, Peter Erskine who took me under his wing and not only taught me many conceptual approaches but brought me on countless live gigs, recording sessions, rehearsals and sound checks to watch guys like Michael Brecker, Steps Ahead, Eliane Elias, Bob Mintzer and so many others including Vince Mendoza for whom I recorded a snare drum étude with Peter to open one of the pieces. The experiences were were filled with the kind of experiences I needed to see up close.
I began recording session work at age fourteen, gaining as much experience as I could with great engineers and producers. Having known David Lasley and Luther Vandross since I was eleven years old, I began working with both of them in the studio and live in LA when I was twenty. My first touring experience was with Sophie B. Hawkins which was short lived but will always be with me.
Things really started to change when I met NYC bassist and now close friend, Mike Visceglia and guitar great Marc Shulman who both helped me tremendously in fusing my drumming with the art of working with the singer / songwriter. They were completely honest with me about what was needed and what could be improved upon and I found myself working as hard as possible in the NYC scene where I met one of the greatest influences I’ve had to date, Gerry Leonard. Gerry introduced me to Duncan Sheik to work on a play that was being formed for Broadway called ‘Spring Awakening’. At the same time I was called in to record for Suzanne Vega who I had been admiring for years and before I knew it was recording on both of their records and touring with them back to back around the world for the last ten years. In both situations I was starting to get into the technology of using a laptop live and integrating it into my set up as an extension of the instrument which has become a whole new world for me. Duncan was a great catalyst for this.
My musical appreciation and love for the art of it is a driving force that wakes me up first thing in the morning because I can’t wait to start another day. Having a home studio has also been great for me to be able to explore my creativity and at the same time record tracks for people all over the world.
I’m very busy touring these days as well as recording records, movie soundtracks, jingles etc. I’ve been fortunate to work with many great artists along the way either appearing on records or sharing the stage. Sharon Corr, Joe Jackson, Elton John, Suzanne Vega, Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson, Stephen Stills, Duncan Sheik, Judy Collins, Desmond Child, Phoebe Snow, Robbie Dupree, Ari Hest , Laura Pausini, Eros Ramazzotti and many, many more. I grew up wanting to play with my heroes like the legendary Will Lee on bass and he's not only become a great friend but a true mentor.
Producers such as Kevin Killen, Patrick Leonard, Mark Plati, Neil Dorfsman, Rupert Hine, Mark Ronson, Duncan Sheik, and Gerry Leonard have also contributed so much to my knowledge of the process as well as some of the great session players of New York who I’m proud to call friends.
My passion for music and drums is increasing every single day…. I’m a seeker of sound and texture. The conventional ideas of this instrument hold no boundary and I’m forever discovering ways to achieve this but nothing is more important to me than feel and dynamic. When you’re surrounded by real artists and the love you share is part of the music, a level is reached that can’t happen any other way. A person’s ears are the most important part of any instrument along with the ability to be present in that moment and only that moment.
~ Doug
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Violin Sonata in G minor Bg.5, (Devil's Trill Sonata) by Giuseppe Tartini(1692-1770)
The Violin Sonata in G minor, Bg.5, also called Tartini's Dream or Devil's Trill Sonata(Italian: Il trillo del diavolo), is a solo violin sonata created by Giuseppe Tartini (8 April 1692 – 26 February 1770), an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.
According to the legend, Tartini was inspired to write the sonata by a dream in which the Devil had played.
Tartini allegedly told the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that he had dreamed that the devil had appeared to him and had asked to be Tartini's servant and teacher. At the end of the music lesson, Tartini handed the devil his violin to test his skill, which the devil began to play with virtuosity; delivering an intense and magnificent performance. So singularly beautiful and executed with such superior taste and precision, that the composer felt his breath taken away.The complete story is told by Tartini himself in Lalande's Voyage d'un François en Italie:
One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the "Devil's Trill", but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.
Mesmerized by the devil’s brilliant and awe-inspiring playing, Tartini attempted to recreate what he had heard. However, despite having said that the sonata was his favorite, Tartini later wrote that it was "so inferior to what I had heard, that if I could have subsisted on other means, I would have broken my violin and abandoned music forever."
The sonata, written for violin with basso continuo (figured bass), is written in four movements:
1. Larghetto affettuoso
4. Allegro assai — Andante — Allegro assai
The first movement, begins gently and reflectively, with languid double stops and a flowing violin melody line filled with tasteful embellishments. The melody, which moves from the tonic to the mediant key in the middle of the movement includes several deceptive cadences, before returning once again to a tonic theme similar to the beginning. A crisp, quick, highly decorated bravura follows, preceding a brief cantabile slow movement, said to signify Tartini's dream state.
The last movement, technically difficult, begins fast, before dissolving into repeated, modular violin melody over an intensifying accompaniment. This leads to a slow chromatic theme, followed by more sequences of the two themes. The source of the sonata's nickname is a passage where the violinist trills while simultaneously playing arpeggiated triads. The bravura cadenza that is frequently played was composed by Fritz Kreisler. The accompaniment joins the violin again for the last few dramatic measures. The trill in the last movement is one of the earliest examples of a trill illustrating a musical theme.
While Tartini claimed he composed the sonata in 1713, scholars think it was likely composed as late as the 1740s, due to its stylistic maturity. It was not published until 1798 or 1799, almost thirty years after the composer's death.
The sonata is Tartini's most famous composition. It is notable for its technically difficult passages that requires a number of technically demanding double stop trills and is difficult even by modern standards.
It would become the basis for Cesare Pugni's 1849 ballet Le Violon du diable, as well as Chopin's Prelude No. 27.
Giuseppe Tartini sculpture in the Basilica of St Anthony in Padua
Giuseppe Tartini was born in Piran, a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice (now in Slovenia).
It appears Tartini's parents intended him to become a Franciscan friar and, in this way, he received basic musical training. He studied law at the University of Padua, where he became skilled at fencing. After his father's death in 1710, he married Elisabetta Premazore, a favorite of the powerful Cardinal Giorgio Cornaro, who promptly charged Tartini with abduction. Tartini fled Padua to go to the monastery of St. Francis in Assisi, where he could escape prosecution. While there, Tartini took up playing the violin.
Legend says when Tartini heard Francesco Maria Veracini's playing in 1716, he was impressed by it and dissatisfied with his own skill. He fled to Ancona and locked himself away in a room to practise, according to Charles Burney, "in order to study the use of the bow in more tranquility, and with more convenience than at Venice, as he had a place assigned him in the opera orchestra of that city".
Tartini's skill improved tremendously and, in 1721, he was appointed Maestro di Cappella at the Basilica di Sant'Antonio in Padua.
Giuseppe Tartini was the first known owner of a violin made by Antonio Stradivari in 1715, which Tartini bestowed upon his student Salvini, who in turn gave it to the Polish composer and virtuoso violinist Karol Lipiński upon hearing him perform: the instrument is thus known as the Lipinski Stradivarius.
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Sweetdram, an east London-based collective of distillers, commissioned graphic designer Andreas Neophytou to design its brand identity.
IMAGE Florian Böhm
The Sweetdram logo is formed of multiple separated elements that can be combined to create different compositions, a reference to the distillation process that follows a method of separating component substances.
IMAGE courtesy Andreas Neophytou
Neophytou initiated the project by researching the origins of the ‘dram’. Originally both a coin and a weight in ancient Greece, the dram refers to a unit of mass in the avoirdupois system, and both a unit of mass and a unit of volume in the traditional apothecaries’ weighing system. The apothecary symbol is 'ʒ'. As a result, the '3' symbol forms the basis of the Sweetdram logo.
DISEGNO NO.10
The Two and Three Dimensional
Felix de Pass is a London-based product designer; Andreas Neophytou is a New York-based graphic designer. Together they created the visual identity for Sweetdram, an east London-based collective of distillers who create liqueurs and then produce them collaboratively at host distilleries.
Neophytou, the creative director of New York and London-based agency Spring Studios, was commissioned by Sweetdram to create the brand’s overall identity. Despite being briefed to create a contemporary design, Neophytou initiated the project by researching the origins of the ‘dram’. Originally both a coin and a weight in ancient Greece, the dram refers to a unit of mass in the avoirdupois system, and both a unit of mass and a unit of volume in the traditional apothecaries’ weighing system. The apothecary symbol is 'ʒ'. As a result, the '3' symbol forms the basis of the Sweetdram logo.
The logo is formed of multiple separated elements that can be combined to create different compositions, a reference to the distillation process that follows a method of separating component substances. Although the logo presented on the bottle cap of Escubac (the first liqueur to be created by Sweetdram) is clearly recognisable as the three numeric, with each new liqueur recipe the separate elements that form the logo will be recomposed into new arrangements.
It wasn’t until Neophytou’s identity for the brand was complete that de Pass was commissioned to create the bottle’s 3D identity. De Pass was already known to Neophytou (in 2011, Neophytou created the product designer's own graphic identity) and it was Neophytou that suggested de Pass to Sweetdram. De Pass’s resulting design is driven by functionality. The bottle is made from amber-coloured glass due to its UV filtering properties, while its angular neck has been designed to enable smooth pouring of the aperitif that the bottle holds.
In March this year Disegno interviewed both Neophytou and de Pass for an Observation piece that featured in the latest issue of Disegno: The Quarterly Journal of Design; Disegno #10. Below, we are delighted to publish an edited transcript of the interview with Neophytou. Within the interview Neophytou discusses the guiding principles for his design for Sweetdram, the importance of working across disciplines, and the finer details of his collaboration with de Pass.
Your brief was to create a contemporary identity for Sweetdram yet there is a huge amount of historical grounding to your design. Why was that important?
Even if a brand is contemporary I think it is good that it is grounded in something. On the front of the bottle there is a big orange circle. Usquebaugh [known in France as Escubac d’Angleterre], the original drink which I think was from 1600, was described as the liquid of the sun or something along those lines. It was because it had these bright colours from the saffron, which made it feel golden. Using it on the bottle was just a reference to the rays of the sun: this big, orange, vibrant circle with these waves going through it. All through the project I always tried to bring some kind of rationale.
It is also a means to create some criteria that you can work to: critical elements that you can actually judge the work on. Otherwise it is all abstract. It is important because although what Sweetdram is doing is contemporary, it is a contemporary spin on something that is actually a traditional heritage art form.
Every element of your design has a back-story and rationale. Why approach the project like this when ultimately the brand wants you to create an identity that looks visually enticing?
I was the first person that Sweetdram spoke to so it was more about creating the brand than it was about creating the label. The label is the outcome of the branding, and the branding was what was used to brief Felix, and what was used to brief future collaborators and even architects that work on their spaces. It is much more than graphic design. It is capturing their philosophy and approach and giving it a visual language.
I almost wanted the identity to reflect the way that Sweetdram operate which is never the same, it is always changing and always being rearranged. That is why I broke the dram symbol into four shapes, so that they can be rearranged every time we create a new label. There is another idea behind that. I had established the visual language and created the brand identity but Sweetdram will go onto work with other designers and collaborate with different artists in much the same way that they collaborate with distilleries. In that sense, I really just wanted to create a set of tools that people could work with.
Why was such a flexible identity appropriate for the brand?
I don’t believe that this type of thing is appropriate for every brand, but Sweetdram is new and it is challenging traditional practices. All of those other distilleries and breweries are steeped in heritage and tradition. They are almost like artefacts. I felt like the new way to do this, or the way to challenge the brand, was to be this ever-shifting kind of thing. It is almost like it is not an idea that is set in stone but rather a philosophy that can be reapplied. I don’t know who wrote the rules that you have to have this logo that is the same every time. It just felt like there are no rules. Let’s just do it however we want to do it, in the most creative way that we can and in a way that captures what it is Sweetdram believes in and how it operates.
Why was Felix a good fit for the project?
Well I like Felix a lot, I think he’s a nice guy and I have worked with him in the past. I remember working on a project with him and we were discussing typography. I have noticed that product designers have a strong understanding of proportion, weight, depth – spatial qualities that you don’t find in many other professions. Graphic designers have that as well but because I am a type designer as well as a graphic designer, I have a particular interest in those things. I just always really enjoyed talking about those things with Felix.
Is there a value of working with somebody outside of the liquor industry?
I’ve worked with other designers who specialise in creating alcohol bottles and they seem to approach it with so many conventions in mind. They are already in the industry, so they know what works on the shelf. I knew that Felix had never done this type of project before and I loved his simple but intelligent approach to furniture design. I thought it would be amazing if he could transfer that to a bottle: no gimmicks, no novelties, just a beautiful piece. The design is very simple but Felix went through so many iterations to get to that point. I knew that he would be concerned with the micro details, even if the end result still feels very simple. I didn’t want somebody sketching some weird thing with pencils and pens on a piece of paper, like an artist’s drawing. Felix is already there. He is already thinking in so much detail.
What is the value with working with different disciplines?
I have always loved collaboration and in this industry you truly never do anything alone, even if it is you collaborating with a client. I think that is something that is often overlooked – the client is a key collaborator. Design is really all about collaboration. It is just fun, as well, to work with different people.
How important was it that the 2D identity and the 3D identity of the bottle complemented each other?
I have never really considered it in that way, that there is a 2D world and a 3D world. It is almost like every 2D application adorns a 3D object. Yes, you do get print and websites and things like that, but essentially you are taking this thing home in your hand. So yes, I do think it is important. I wouldn’t even consider them as separate things.
Words and interview Anya Lawrence
This interview formed the basis of an Observation piece that is featured in Disegno #10, the latest issue of Disegno: The Quarterly Journal of Design.
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Years ago I saw a fascinating television show where psychologists were doing an experiment on human group behaviors as they related to warnings. What I saw about human behavior intrigued and stunned me. This was the experiment.
In the first group, 20 people who thought they were applying for a job in a large corporate building took an application into a waiting room to fill out. After 5 or so minutes, a standard fire alarm went off. People looked up, looked at each other, but no one got out of their chair, no one left the room. People shifted uncomfortably for a few minutes but then went calmly back to their applications. The fire alarm continued to scream its warning for 5 full minutes and was then turned off. The experiment was over. A psychologist came in and debriefed the participants and told them they were testing to see under what conditions people responded appropriately to alarms. When asked why no one left the building, people stated that they figured it was a false alarm. People also stated that since no one else seemed concerned, they weren’t concerned either. They cited fear of embarrassment as one of the reasons they didn’t want to respond to what was probably a false alarm.
In the next group, 20 new people filed into a room with applications and sat down to fill them out. The fire alarm went off. People looked around at each other but no one got up to investigate and no one left the room. But this time, the researchers had a bunch of people walk past the experiment room to make it seem as if they were evacuating the building. Only one person in the experimental group got up and left the room to follow the other “building employees.” When asked why the rest did not follow, people said they didn’t know what to do, or that they didn’t want to be embarrassed if there really was no fire, and also that they figured it was a false alarm because they could detect no evidence of a real fire. The man who actually did leave the room said, “I figured the employees knew what was going on so I followed them.”
Now the third group was tested. 20 people filed in with their applications. One of them was planted in there by the researchers. When the alarm went off, the planted researcher immediately stood up in alarm and said, “Hey, everyone, there might be a fire! Let’s get out of here.” People stood slowly, not sure if they should follow this person. But a few of them did. Not all left, however. If I remember correctly, only about 5-7 got up and left. The researchers asked why they didn’t leave and some replied that they figured it was a false alarm, and also that the guy who jumped up to leave was just being paranoid. They figured he knew no more than any of them, so why should they do what he did? The people who did get up and leave said they did so because the first guy seemed so confident and they wouldn’t be embarrassed to leave if other people left too.
Okay, now the fourth group gets sent in. 20 people with clipboards. This time when the fire alarm sounded, a computerized woman’s voice came on and said, “There is a fire on the second floor in room 245. Please evacuate the building immediately.” Every single person jumped up, grabbed their stuff, and high-tailed it out of the room. No one looked at other people to see what they were going to do. They just got themselves right out of there. When the researchers asked why they responded so quickly the people replied that they figured the computer wouldn’t have been so specific unless there was a real fire.
The researchers were testing to see under what conditions people would respond to alarms. After all, what’s the point in having a fire alarm if people don’t respond to it when there is a real fire? It was also interesting to the researchers that people were so afraid of being embarrassed in front of total strangers that they would risk their lives not to appear foolish. They also learned that people look to others for clues about how they should react to potentially dangerous situations. And they learned that if you act confidently you can persuade people to do as you do.
After I watched this program I was amazed at human behavior. People risking their lives to avoid embarrassment. Interesting. People who looked to others to determine what they should do. Wow. I found out that this branch of psychology was called “Human Factors” and was one of the catalysts that drew me into that branch of psychology. What makes people act the way they do? So fascinating to me.
What do you do when you hear a fire alarm? Do you sit there and do nothing? Do you look around to see what other people are doing? Or do you get up and get out of the building right away? In what other areas of your life do you exhibit this behavior? Such as relationships, health, career, politics?
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On 22nd March, ECA participated alongside representatives from La Liga and FIFPro on a panel addressing the future of the transfer system. The panel was part of the annual EU Sport Forum, which brings together representatives from major sports bodies from across the EU.
The EU has historically been fully engaged in transfer matters given the need for the system to align with its rules relating to the internal market and other policy areas under its control. With the current focus of FIFA and stakeholders in the professional game, including ECA, on the modernisation of the system, the EU has placed the transfer system high up on its sports policy agenda.
Represented by Senior Strategic Advisor, David Frommer, ECA outlined its commitment to working constructively with stakeholders to examine ways to enhance the transfer system in a manner that maintains the general principles which underpin the agreement reached in 2001, which acts as the basis for the system as we know it today. This requires the need to maintain a balance between the rights of players to free movement and stability of contracts together with the objective of integrity of sports and stability of competitions.
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An area of darkness
In its struggle to subdue Kashmir, India is stripping it of liberties
Days after losing its largely nominal autonomy, the region is still in lockdown
AsiaAug 15th 2019 edition
AN INFORMATION BLACKOUT has obscured the northernmost tip of India. Since it scrapped Jammu & Kashmir’s largely nominal autonomy on August 5th and carved the state into two territories, the central government has maintained a curfew in the region. Internet and telephone services have been suspended. Travel has been restricted. A young academic in Delhi says the lockdown made it impossible for him to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid with his family in rural Kashmir. The territory has “disappeared”, he says, leaving people like him only able to guess what might be happening there.
Official statements from the central government do not shine much light. They assert that no violent protests have taken place since the change of Jammu & Kashmir’s status. But that seems unlikely. On August 9th Al Jazeera and the BBC aired footage of a large angry crowd in the Muslim-dominated part that is known as the Kashmir valley. At first the home ministry insisted that no gatherings of more than 20 people had taken place. It also claimed that no shots were fired by police, despite the sound of gunfire in the videos. It was only after four days that it reversed course and acknowledged the protest (a separate one is pictured). A day later it admitted the police had used shotguns.
Police vans in the Kashmir valley have been cruising the streets with their loudspeakers blaring orders that people must stay at home. But the government disputes that there is a curfew in place at all. “Curfew” is a technical term, it says. There has been no formal imposition of one.
The government has also failed to explain its legal basis for locking up many Kashmiri politicians, including ones who are relatively moderate, during the clampdown. Reports by Indian and foreign media say that between 200 and 500 people are being held in makeshift detention facilities in Srinagar, the main city in Kashmir. A senior official was asked by reporters whether there was a legal justification. “Yes,” he said simply, “but I cannot say what.” Shah Faesal, a civil servant-turned-politician, tweeted on August 12th that Kashmir needed a “non-violent political mass movement” to restore citizens’ rights. On August 14th he was detained at Delhi’s airport and put under house arrest.
Mr Faesal is being held under the Public Safety Act. This gives police the discretion to place almost anyone under administrative detention for up to two years. It is one of many such laws that have long been in force—the Armed Forces Special Powers Act being the most notorious. They give the authorities sweeping rights to imprison or even shoot people they regard as troublemakers. The Supreme Court has taken an indulgent line on the curfew. “When the situation is such, we must have a real picture before we take a call on this,” said Arun Mishra, one of its judges.
The prime minister, Narendra Modi, is crowing. In an interview with IANS, an Indian news agency, he said revoking Kashmir’s special status would “only empower democracy even more”. That sounds implausible. For now, the academic in Delhi fears for his family’s safety. He hopes to hear news from a friend who has just flown to Srinagar (if he can leave again). “Darkness is not a happy situation,” he says. ■
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "In its struggle to subdue Kashmir, India is stripping it of liberties"
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361.96 KB Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities dismisses appeal made by a refused CRA-applicant against ESMA On 10 January 2014, the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities handed down its decision on an appeal by the appellant, Global Private Rating Company “Standard Rating” Ltd, against the refusal by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to register it as a credit rating agency. This is the first appeal against a decision by ESMA refusing an applicant registration as a credit rating agency. The Board of Appeal unanimously decided that the appeal should be dismissed, and that ESMA’s refusal decision should be confirmed. It stated that it accepted the appellant’s point that the registration of a credit rating agency by ESMA is a new process, and recognised that the procedures will to an extent take time fully to work out. Nevertheless, because of the responsibilities placed on credit rating agencies and their importance in the financial system generally, it considered that the onus must be on an applicant to satisfy ESMA that the relevant requirements are met. The application and its contents must be very clear, and it is not ESMA’s responsibility as regulator to remedy deficiencies.
02/04/2014 JC-2014-18 PR Press release- European Supervisory Authorities highlight cross-sectoral risks Joint Committee Press Release PDF
515.46 KB European Supervisory Authorities highlight cross-sectoral risks The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published today its third bi-annual report on risks and vulnerabilities in the European Union's (EU) financial system. The report has identified a number of potential vulnerabilities and cross-sectoral risks to the stability of the European financial system including: weak and uneven economic recovery; uncertain outlook in a number of global emerging economies; asset price imbalances and risks of a sharp adjustment; increased search for yield in a protracted low interest rate environment; conduct of business risks; IT-related operational risks. Andrea Enria, Chairman of the EBA and current Chairman of the Joint Committee, said: “The cross-sectoral risks identified in this report will help focus the scenarios of the stress tests for banks and insurance companies. Concerns about conduct of business are growing and will also require more coordinated attention by the three ESAs”. The report highlights a fragile economic outlook in a number of EU Member States, with uncertainties about asset quality in the banking sector as well as in other institutional investor segments, and reduced growth potential in the insurance sector Moreover, concerns have also emerged in relation to the uncertain political and economic outlook in a number of global emerging economies and, more recently, to the evolving situation in Ukraine and Russia, which may impact the EU through direct and indirect transmission channels, as well as expose institutions to FX risks. In addition, the report focuses on risks associated with search for yield behaviour, which is incentivised by a low interest rate environment. Such behaviour has intensified concerns related to the build-up of imbalances and exacerbated risks linked to sudden interest rate changes, which may result in a disorderly unwinding of financial positions. Furthermore, the report highlights risks linked to the conduct of business and points to series of cases related to financial institutions’ conduct of business, which risk undermining public confidence in financial institutions and markets and which have been associated with significant redress costs. In the report the ESAs recommend supervisors to place greater emphasis on management bodies’ responsibilities to address conduct risks and ensure the appropriate protection of consumers and investors. Notes for editors The Joint Committee is a forum for cooperation that was established on 1st January 2011, with the goal of strengthening cooperation between the European Banking Authority (EBA), European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), collectively known as the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs). Through the Joint Committee, the three ESAs cooperate regularly and closely and ensure consistency in their practices. In particular, the Joint Committee works in the areas of supervision of financial conglomerates, accounting and auditing, micro-prudential analyses of cross-sectoral developments, risks and vulnerabilities for financial stability, retail investment products and measures combating money laundering. In addition to being a forum for cooperation, the Joint Committee also plays an important role in the exchange of information with the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). The full text of the report can be viewed here: Report – April 2014
13/06/2014 JC/2014/43 Joint Committee Final Report on guidelines for complaints-handling for the securities (ESMA) and banking (EBA) sectors Guidelines and Technical standards, Joint Committee Guidelines & Recommendations PDF
312.66 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) published today their Joint Committee final Report on guidelines for handling consumer complaints in the securities and banking sectors. The document aims to increase market confidence and for the benefit of consumers and firms alike it will ensure a harmonised approach to handling complaints for all 28 EU Member States and across all financial services sectors.The final report published today is part of the efforts of the European Supervisory Authorities to bring further supervisory convergence across the securities and banking sectors. It was developed on the basis of the existing complaints-handling guidelines established by EIOPA (the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority) for the insurance sector. The report was launched for a public consultation last year and this final version takes into consideration the feedback received.ESMA and the EBA consider that these guidelines will ensure a consistent approach to complaints-handling across the EU. Consumers can purchase financial services and products in the investment, banking and insurance sectors across the entire EU Single Market and these guidelines will allow them to refer to a single set of complaints-handling arrangements. EU consumers will therefore be able to rely on the same approach irrespective of what type of product they have purchased and where they have purchased it.In addition to strengthening consumer protection -a key statutory objective for ESMA and for the EBA-, the guidelines will also allow firms, some of which sell products from more than one sector across the EU, to streamline and standardise their own complaints-handling arrangements. National regulators too will be able to supervise the same harmonised requirements across all sectors of financial services in their own jurisdictions.The guidelines will be translated into the official languages of the European Union (EU) and they will become applicable two months after the date of publication of their translations.
17/07/2014 2014/C1/02 Board of Appeal Decision Joint Committee, Board of Appeal Decision PDF
368.94 KB The Joint Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities (the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority) published its decision in an appeal brought by SV Capital OÜ, an Estonian company, against a decision of the EBA. This was the second appeal to be considered by the Board of Appeal in this matter between the same parties concerning the question whether the suitability of the managers of a significant branch of a bank raised a question of Union law. Following the Board of Appeal’s affirmative decision of 24 June 2013, the appellant requested the EBA to initiate an investigation against the Estonian and Finnish Financial Supervision Authorities because their alleged failure to take action in respect of individuals in the Estonian branch of Nordea Bank Finland PLC whom it was alleged were not fit and proper persons to be key function holders in the bank. The EBA decided that it would not initiate an investigation. The Board of Appeal decided that the EBA had been right to raise the matter with the national supervisors, but that having done so, it was entitled to take no further action in the light of their responses. The Board accordingly dismissed the appellant’s appeal against the EBA’s decision.
24/07/2014 2014/61 EBA, ESMA and EIOPA consult on technical standards for financial conglomerates risk concentration and intra-group transactions Joint Committee, Press Releases Press Release PDF
79.27 KB The Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs - EBA, ESMA and EIOPA) launched today a consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on risk concentration and intra-group transactions within financial conglomerates. The technical standards aim at enhancing supervisory consistency in the application of the Financial Conglomerates Directive (FICOD). The consultation runs until 24 October 2014. The objective of the draft RTS is to clarify which risk concentrations and intra-group transactions within a financial conglomerate should be considered as significant. In addition, the RTS provide some supervisory measures for coordinators and other relevant competent authorities when identifying types of significant risk concentration and intra-group transactions, their associated thresholds and reports, where appropriate. The consultation paper is available on the websites of the three ESAs: EBA, ESMA and EIOPA. Comments to this consultation paper can be sent to the Joint Committee. Legal background The three ESAs have developed these RTS in accordance with Article 21a (1a) of Directive 2002/87/EC (FICOD), which mandates the three ESAs, through the Joint Committee, to develop RTS to clarify the definitions on risk concentration and intra-group transactions provided in Article 2 of the FICOD and to coordinate the provisions laid down in Articles 7 and 8 and Annex II.
31/07/2014 JC/2014/062 Annex (Press Release) The Joint Committee of the ESAs remind financial institutions of their responsibilities when placing their own financial products with consumers Press Releases, Joint Committee Press Release PDF
315.73 KB The Joint Committee of the ESAs reminds financial institutions of their responsibilities when placing their own financial products with consumers. ESMA underlines risks from investing in contingent convertible instruments (CoCos). The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA) published a reminder to banks and insurance companies across the EU on the consumer protection requirements that apply to certain financial instruments they issue. In addition, ESMA highlighted specific risks posed to investors by contingent convertible instruments (CoCos).
25/08/2014 JC/2014/43 bg Насоки относно разглеждането на жалби за сектора на ценните книжа (ESMA) и за банковия сектор (EБО) Joint Committee, Guidelines and Technical standards Guidelines & Recommendations PDF
25/08/2014 JC/2014/43 cs Obecné pokyny k vyřizování stížností pro odvětví cenných papírů (ESMA) a bankovnictví (EBA) Joint Committee, Guidelines and Technical standards Guidelines & Recommendations PDF
154.2 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) published today their Joint Committee final Report on guidelines for handling consumer complaints in the securities and banking sectors. The document aims to increase market confidence and for the benefit of consumers and firms alike it will ensure a harmonised approach to handling complaints for all 28 EU Member States and across all financial services sectors.The final report published today is part of the efforts of the European Supervisory Authorities to bring further supervisory convergence across the securities and banking sectors. It was developed on the basis of the existing complaints-handling guidelines established by EIOPA (the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority) for the insurance sector. The report was launched for a public consultation last year and this final version takes into consideration the feedback received.ESMA and the EBA consider that these guidelines will ensure a consistent approach to complaints-handling across the EU. Consumers can purchase financial services and products in the investment, banking and insurance sectors across the entire EU Single Market and these guidelines will allow them to refer to a single set of complaints-handling arrangements. EU consumers will therefore be able to rely on the same approach irrespective of what type of product they have purchased and where they have purchased it.In addition to strengthening consumer protection -a key statutory objective for ESMA and for the EBA-, the guidelines will also allow firms, some of which sell products from more than one sector across the EU, to streamline and standardise their own complaints-handling arrangements. National regulators too will be able to supervise the same harmonised requirements across all sectors of financial services in their own jurisdictions.The guidelines will be translated into the official languages of the European Union (EU) and they will become applicable two months after the date of publication of their translations.
25/08/2014 JC/2014/43 hr Smjernice za rješavanje pritužbi/prigovora za sektore vrijednosnih papira (ESMA) i bankarstva (EBA) Joint Committee, Guidelines and Technical standards Guidelines & Recommendations PDF
25/08/2014 JC/2014/43 da Retningslinjer for klagebehandling i værdipapirsektoren (ESMA) og banksektoren (EBA) Joint Committee, Guidelines and Technical standards Guidelines & Recommendations PDF
25/08/2014 JC/2014/43 nl Richtsnoeren voor de behandeling van klachten door de effectensector (ESMA) en de bankensector (EBA) Joint Committee, Guidelines and Technical standards Guidelines & Recommendations PDF
25/08/2014 JC/2014/43 et Kaebuste käsitlemise suunised väärtpaberituru (ESMA) ja pangandussektori (EBA) jaoks Joint Committee, Guidelines and Technical standards Guidelines & Recommendations PDF
25/08/2014 JC/2014/43 fi Arvopaperialaa (ESMA) ja pankkialaa (EPV) koskevat ohjeet valitusten käsittelystä Joint Committee, Guidelines and Technical standards Guidelines & Recommendations PDF
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Ngbundu in the Language Cloud
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This graph shows the place of Ngbundu within the cloud of all living languages. Each language in the world is represented by a small dot that is placed on the grid in relation to its user population (in the vertical axis) and its level of development or endangerment (in the horizontal axis), with the largest and strongest languages in the upper left and the smallest and weakest languages (down to extinction) in the lower right. The population value is the estimated number of all users (including both first and second language speakers); it is plotted on a logarithmic scale (where 100 = 1; 102 = 100; 104 = 10,000; 106 = 1,000,000; 108 = 100,000,000). The value for the development versus endangerment dimension is the estimated level on the EGIDS scale. (See the pages on Development and Endangerment for a fuller explanation.)
Ngbundu is represented by a large, colored dot. When the population is unknown, a color-coded question mark appears at the bottom of the grid. When there are no known users, an X appears at the bottom of the grid. The color coding matches the color scheme used in the summary profile graphs on the navigation maps for the site. In this scheme, the EGIDS levels are grouped as follows:
Purple = Institutional (EGIDS 0-4) — The language has been developed to the point that it is used and sustained by institutions beyond the home and community.
Blue = Developing (EGIDS 5) — The language is in vigorous use, with literature in a standardized form being used by some though this is not yet widespread or sustainable.
Green = Vigorous (EGIDS 6a) — The language is unstandardized and in vigorous use among all generations.
Yellow = In trouble (EGIDS 6b-7) — Intergenerational transmission is in the process of being broken, but the child-bearing generation can still use the language so it is possible that revitalization efforts could restore transmission of the language in the home.
Red = Dying (EGIDS 8a-9) — The only fluent users (if any) are older than child-bearing age, so it is too late to restore natural intergenerational transmission through the home; a mechanism outside the home would need to be developed.
Black = Extinct (EGIDS 10) — The language has fallen completely out of use and no one retains a sense of ethnic identity associated with the language.
The EGIDS level indicated by the large, colored dot may be higher than the EGIDS level reported in the main entry for the language. This is because a separate EGIDS estimate is made for every country in which a language is used. Our method for calculating the EGIDS level for the language as a whole is not to take an average of all countries, but to report the highest level (that is, most safe) for any country. The logic here is that if the EGIDS level of a language is taken as a predictor of its likely longevity, then its longevity will be determined by where it is the strongest.
Each dot in the cloud is gray at the level of 20% black. As dots are superimposed on each other, the spot gets darker. Thus a spot of total black indicates that at least 5 languages are at the same spot in the cloud. The population scale is continuous; thus the placement in the vertical axis corresponds exactly to population. The EGIDS scale, however, is discrete. Rather than placing all of the dots for a given EGIDS level exactly on the grid line for that level, the dots are “jittered” (that is, the horizontal placement is random within a band around the grid line for the level).
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Kinder Bologna 69
Opel Skyliners 62
Local time: 00:00 PALAMALAGUTI
The fairytale season of Opel Skyliners has come to an end in Bologna, Italy, this season's destination for basketball dreamers. Defending champions Kinder Bologna defeated their guests from Frankfurt 69-62 to sweep into the Top 16 with a 12-2 record, tying Panathianiakos of Group C for the best regular season mark in the entire Euroleague. Frankfurt fell to 8-6, better than anyone expected, but only good enough for fifth-place as both of the teams it was tied with, Ulker and Union Olimpija, won their final games at home. Antoine Rigaudeau had the game-high for the victors with 15 points followed by David Andersen's 14 and 7 rebounds. Aleksandar Lockhmanchuk led Opel with 14 points followed by Marcus Goree and Chad Austin, who contributed 13 each.
It was an ugly game at the beginning of the first quarter. Both teams were unable to find, let alone maintain, any sort of rhythm. Kinder suffered from Ginobili's foul troubles, while Frankfurt only found points from Austin. Kinder led 7-5 after five minutes but then went on a mini 6-0 run. It was 13-5 for the home team before Lokhmanchuk entered the game. "Loch" sank a three and brought the Skyliners back into the game. Kinder still led by five at the end of the first period, 17-12, thanks to Andersen's and Jaric's points in the closing minutes.
Many mistakes and many turnovers characterized the first half. Kinder was able to go on a mini run to take an 8-point lead at 31-23, but Andersen wasted free throw opportunities and committed many mistakes in the paint. The game was choppy and Goree took advantage and scored twice. Baskets then became about as frequent as goals in soccer, and finally free throws from both Roller and Frosini ended the mistake-filled half with Kinder up by four, 33-29.
It was one of the ugliest third quarters ever seen in Palamalaguti arena. Kinder was held scoreless for five minutes before Frosini scored their first basket of the half. Meanwhile, Lokhmanchuk made two steals and turned them into easy fastbreak points. The Skyliners were able to run the ball thanks to a switch to zone defense. Kinder could not crack the 2-3 called by coach Herbert, while Goree did a great job on the boards. Opel flew by Kinder 33-35, and ended the third quarter up by eight, 42-50.
Kinder was finally able to break through the zone defense and recover thanks to a three by Abbio which fixed the score at 49-51. Kinder still made many mistakes but Frankfurt was unable to exploit them. The game was tied at 57-57 on Andersen's jumper which caused Frankfurt to switch to man-to-man. Although the score was still close, the game felt as it was already over as all the momentum had switched over to Kinder's side. A couple of free throws for the home team gave them a 67-60 lead as Lokhmanchuk and Goree missed last-minute three-point attempts that could have kept them in the game.
Daniele Baiesi, Bolgona
Referees: KOUKOULEKIDIS, STELIOS; ROTH, ANDREAS; JANAC, LADISLAV
Kinder Bologna 17 16 9 27
Opel Skyliners 12 17 21 12
Kinder Bologna 17 33 42 69
Kinder Bologna
6 GINOBILI, EMANUEL 9:00 1 0/3 0/1 1/2 1 1 1 2 1 -4
7 ABBIO, ALESSANDRO 32:00 11 1/1 2/3 3/4 1 4 5 2 2 1 4 6 17
8 BONORA, DAVIDE 14:00 0/2 0/1 1 -4
12 FROSINI, ALESSANDRO 24:00 10 3/4 4/4 2 3 5 3 1 3 2 11
13 ANDERSEN, DAVID 34:00 14 6/14 2/4 7 7 1 2 1 2 5 14
14 RIGAUDEAU, ANTOINE 29:00 15 3/5 1/4 6/6 2 2 1 2 1 2 6 18
17 BRKIC, DAVID 2:00
18 SMODIS, MATJAZ 17:00 7 3/5 0/1 1/1 3 3 6 1 3 5 1 4
19 BARLERA, PAOLO 5:00 1 -1
20 JARIC, MARKO 34:00 11 4/9 0/3 3/5 2 11 13 1 3 2 1 2 5 20
Totals 200:00 69 20/43 3/13 20/26 8 31 39 3 18 14 4 1 21 26 84
Head coach: MESSINA, ETTORE
Opel Skyliners
4 STANESCU, VIRGIL 19:00 6 1/3 4/4 1 1 2 5 2
6 DIARRA, IBRAHIM 18:00 0/1 0/1 1 1 2 1 1 3 -3
8 GOREE, MARCUS 32:00 13 4/10 0/6 5/8 3 11 14 3 3 2 2 8 16
10 JANKE, INGMAR DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
11 ROLLER, PASCAL 31:00 7 1/5 1/4 2/2 1 2 3 1 2 2 4 4 4
12 AUSTIN, CHAD 38:00 13 1/3 3/11 2/2 4 4 1 1 3 3 3 6
13 MARAS, ROBERT 27:00 9 4/5 1/2 4 6 10 1 1 4 1 14
14 LUTCKE, NIKLAS 10:00 0/1 1 1 -3
15 LOKHMANCHUK, ALEXANDER 25:00 14 4/7 2/9 1 1 2 1 3 1 2 4 3 8
Team 6 2 8 5 3 10
Totals 200:00 62 15/34 6/32 14/18 16 28 44 3 16 16 1 4 26 21 52
Head coach: HERBERT, GORDON
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"Of course this game was characterized by our lack of motivation, as we were already sure of our first place. We were not fluid enough on the court. This game was useful for us to make our inside players practice against heavy big men. Our desire to bring the game home was the most positive thing."
HERBERT, GORDON
"We played like we wanted to for 30 minutes, we did what we were prepared for. But the situation was very difficult for us, and we paid for the mistakes we made on the court. We finished 8-6, and even if we did not make it to the 2nd round we did great things this season."
GOREE, MARCUS
"We played together for 30 minutes, we did what we had prepared in the last few days. But we missed the chance to make it to the Top 16 in the last three games, most of all with the home loss against Olimpija"
REGULAR SEASON TOP 16 FINAL FOUR
Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 Round 8 Round 9 Round 10 Round 11 Round 12 Round 13 Round 14
Spirou Basket 100
Alba Berlin 91
Idea Slask 66
Benetton Basket 89
Maccabi Elite 76
Ulker 93
Peristeri 79
FC Barcelona 74
Zalgiris 90
Kinder London Towers 72
Buducnost 110
Zadar 97
Skipper Bologna 77
Pau-Orthez 74
KRKA Novo Mesto 84
Cibona VIP 89
AEK Athens 90
Telindus Oostende 88
Scavolini Pesaro 81
Ural Great 94
Tau Ceramica 88
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Mr Mark Victor Middleton
Home Titanic Victims Mr Mark Victor Middleton
Mr Mark Victor Middleton (saloon steward, 2nd class) was born in Ash, Martock, Somerset, England on 12 November 1887. His birth was registered in Yeovil in the first quarter of 1888 and he was baptised on 1 January 1888 in Ash Chapelry.
He was the son of William Augustine Middleton (b. 1852), a stone mason, and Harriet Shumarck (b. 1855). His father was native to Martock and his mother from Tintinhull, Somerset and they had married in 1873, producing eleven children with nine living past infancy. Their known children, besides Mark, were: George (b. 1875), Naomie (b. 1876), Albert Edward (b. 1879), Thomas (b. 1881), William Arthur (b. 1883), Ephraim (b. 1884), Rosa Kate (b. 1889), Florence Annie (b. 1890) and Henry Charles (b. 1893).
Mark first appears on the 1891 census living at an unspecified address in Ash, his father now being described as a jobbing mason and his mother as a glove maker. The family address is given as 89 Bristol Road, Bridgewater, Somerset on the 1901 census and his father was now described as an agent for an assurance company. Mark, aged 13, had already left school and was working as a domestic servant, later working as a time keeper. Between that time and the 1911 census the family shifted from Somerset to London and appear living at 48 Felsham Road, Putney. Mark was described as an unmarried care taker at a technical institute whilst his father was unemployed.
Mark had spent a brief time serving in the Royal Navy, joining the Boscawen III on 4 April 1905 for one voyage, ending on 13 June 1905. He was described as standing at 5' 6" and with dark brown hair, brown eyes and a dark complexion.
When he signed-on to the Titanic, on 4 April 1912, Mark gave his address as 48 Felsham Road, Putney, London. The Titanic was his first merchant ship. As a second class steward he received monthly wages of £3, 15s.
Mark Middleton died in the sinking. His body, if recovered, was never identified.
His parents continued to live in London, his father passing away in 1927 followed by his mother in 1931.
Titanic Crew Summary
Name: Mr Mark Victor Middleton
Born: Saturday 12th November 1887 in Ash, Somerset, England
Age: 24 years 5 months and 3 days (Male)
Last Residence: at 48 Felsham Road, Putney London, England
Occupation: Saloon Steward (2nd class)
Last Ship: First Ship
Victualling Crew
First Embarked: Southampton on Thursday 4th April 1912
Agreement and Account of Crew (PRO London, BT100/259)
(2020) Mark Victor Middleton Encyclopedia Titanica (ref: #2008, updated 13th January 2020 06:27:41 AM)
URL : https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/mark-victor-middleton.html
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Shanghai Noon
Shanghai Noon ★★½ 2000 (PG-13)
Goofy, goodnatured, western action/comedy finds Chinese imperial guard Chon Wang (Chan) in trouble for not preventing Princess Pei Pei (Liu) from running off to America (circa 1880) with her American tutor (Connery). But it all turns out to be a kidnapping scheme and Wang winds up in Nevada, helping to deliver the ransom gold. Through some unlikely events, Wang hooks up with talkative, unsuccessful outlaw Roy O'Bannon (Wilson), learns some of the west's wilder ways, and the buds set out to rescue the damsel, who's no shrinking flower herself. Chan and Wilson are both throughly ingratiating and you've got the Chan stunts to look forward to as well. 110m/C VHS, DVD . Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Owen Wilson, Roger Yuan, Xander Berkeley, Jason Connery, Henry O, Walton Goggins, Russ Badger, Rafael Baez, Brandon Merrill; D: Tom Dey; W: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar; C: Dan Mindel; M: Randy Edelman.
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Implementation: Ukraine
State of compliance
Ukraine‘s climate change provisions are scattered among several laws, resolutions and governmental decrees. The Law on the Main Principles (strategy) of the State Environmental Policy of Ukraine until 2020 of 21 December 2010 envisages, among other things, the development and phased implementation of a national action plan to mitigate climate change for the period up to 2030.
The Cabinet of Ministers’ Resolution on the Environmental Protection Action Plan for the period 2011 - 2015 of 15 May 2011 calls for the development of legislation for a Monitoring, Reporting and Verification system, an emission trading system and performing research on vulnerability assessment.
The Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers dated 21 April 2006 on approval of the Order of operation of the system for the estimation of anthropogenic emissions and removals of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol transposes some of the provisions of Regulation (EU) 525/2013.
Several laws on climate were prepared in 2018, including the draft Law of Ukraine “On the regulation of economic activities with ozone-depleting substances and fluorinated greenhouse gases” (April 2018), the draft Law of Ukraine “On Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of GHG emissions” (June 2018) as well as the Strategy on Low Emission Development of Ukraine up to 2050 (March 2018). They were adopted by the Parliament in first reading in February 2019. Due to early parliamentary elections in 2019, they were relegated to second reading by the new Parliament. The two laws were adopted on 12 December 2019. The Law “On the regulation of economic activities with ozone-depleting substances and fluorinated greenhouse gases” will enter into force on 27 June 2020, while the Law “On the Principles of Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions” will enter into force on 01 January 2021.
National greenhouse gas emissions monitoring and reporting systems
Reviewing the national greenhouse gas emissions monitoring and reporting systems with a view to align with the Regulation (EU) 525/2013
Develop a National Inventory System for greenhouse gas emission
Provisions on the creation and maintenance of national inventory systems are included in the Decree of 21 April 2006 as well as in the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of 28 May 2008 on the formation and maintenance of the National Electronic Registry of anthropogenic emissions and removals of greenhouse gases. While it transposes some of the provisions of Regulation (EU) 525/2013, further revision is needed to be in line with the Monitoring Mechanism Regulation.
The National Centre for Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory - subordinated to the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources - is in charge of the preparation of national greenhouse gas inventory reports and is the core institution in the national greenhouse gas inventory system.
In January 2018, the draft national legislative package on the Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of Greenhouse Gas Emissions was published by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources. These provisions lay the groundwork for Ukraine’s planned emissions trading system, which is being developed in line with its obligations under the Association Agreement with the EU. The legislation was adopted by the Parliament in first reading in February 2019. Due to early parliamentary elections in 2019, they were relegated to second reading by the new Parliament and were adopted on 12th December 2019. The Law “On the Principles of Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions” will enter into force on 01.01.2021.
In order to be in line with Monitoring Mechanism Regulation (EU) No 525/2013, following the adoption of this law, it is necessary to strengthen the national system for greenhouse gas emissions absorption and removals from land use, land-use change and forestry as well as create a single registry of controlled substances (ozone-depleting substances and fluorinated greenhouse gases). A special authorized agency on monitoring, reporting, and verification of greenhouse gas emissions and emissions trading should be created.
Low Carbon-development Strategies Adopt Low-Carbon Development Strategies
The Concept for the Implementation of State Policy in the Field of Climate Change up to 2030 was adopted in December 2017. It is the first holistic policy document on climate action, focusing on strengthening institutional capacity, climate change mitigation, and transition to low emission development as well as adaptation and reduction of climate related risks. It establishes the main principles of state policy in the field of climate change, including 49 measures, among them the development of two national strategic documents: a Low Emission Development Strategy and a National Adaptation Strategy. The country’s first Low Emission Development Strategy up to 2050 was adopted in July 2018, being overall in line with the acquis. According to the Strategy, the indicative GHG emissions target is 31 - 34% by 2050 (compared to 1990 levels). If implemented, the targets would be far more ambitious than the current commitment under the Paris Agreement.
Introduce legislation defining national systems for Policies, Measures and Projections
The most important forecasting instrument regarding greenhouse gas emissions is the Energy Strategy of Ukraine until 2035, adopted in August 2017. As the legislation defining national systems for policies, measures and projections is under development, compliance is pending.
National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs)
Development of National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) as part of Recommendation 2018/01/MC-EnC
Technical Working Group (TWG)
Following the adoption of Recommendation 2018/01/MC-EnC and the Policy Guidelines 03/2018-ECS on the development of National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), an Energy and Climate Technical Working Group composed of technical experts designated by the Contracting Parties was established at regional level in the framework of the Energy Community Energy and Climate Committee.
Ukraine has set up a national working group to prepare the NECP in July 2019. Because of institutional changes in the new Government since September 2019, the activity of this working group is on standby. However, the Government considers approving a comprehensive 2021 – 2030 National Energy and Climate Plan as a priority and mobilized international donors to support the country with preparatory work.
Develop integrated methodological tools to prepare a reference scenario
Preparatory work on the analytical and technical aspects of the plans has not started yet.
Develop integrated methodological tools to prepare a policy scenario
Develop templates for national plans
The template of the NECP was discussed and clarified on several occasions. The plan will be elaborated following the structure and parameters indicated in Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.
Organize regional consultations and peer review
Preliminary regional consultations have been launched in the framework of the Energy Community Energy and Climate Committee and its Technical Working Group, to which Ukraine participated.
After the submission of the draft national plan, a consultation with the other Contracting Parties and EU Member States shall be organised. The consultation will result in an opinion issued by the Secretariat on the draft national plan.
Submit National Energy and Climate Plans
Ukraine shall submit the final plan to the Secretariat by October 2020.
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UK Conservative Victory Portends Deregulation
EW News Desk Team
A decisive victory by the Conservative Party in Great Britain may portend greater cost cutting to social services and lower corporate taxes for the UK.
While the Conservatives gained a majority with over 327 seats, the Liberal Democrats suffered a fall from grace as they lost about 30 seats in the House of Parliament. The Labour Party, with over 230 seats, will be the second largest party and the opposition to the Conservatives, but they will also have to contend with the Scottish National Party, whose representation in the Parliament surged to at least 56 seats.
Scottish Challenge
David Cameron, who has been prime minister of the UK since 2010, declared aggressively a number of victories during a tumultuous period in British history. Most recently, Cameron faced a Scottish vote for independence that nearly split up the United Kingdom. Despite keeping the union intact, a surge of support for the Scottish National Party, which spearheaded the secession movement, means that they will be the third largest party in the House of Parliament.
Some analysts believe this move indicates Scotland’s uncertainty in remaining in the union, with a secession only a matter of time; others point to frustration with the two-party dominated system in the UK, in which Conservatives and Labor have failed to provide sustainable economic growth for the country as a whole.
Austerity and Growth
Cameron has also become notorious amongst economists for his aggressive adoption of pro-growth austerity, which Keynesians see as a paradox and a headwind to the UK.
Cameron claims austerity, tax-cutting, deregulation, and pro-business policies have brought Britain back on the path to growth after the 2009 recession. Critics argue that a cyclical recovery was inevitable regardless of Cameron’s actions, and growth has averaged 2% annualized since the beginning of 2013, far below the average. However, economic recoveries should show a growth rate above the average.
Lower Living Standards, Higher Popularity
Additionally, critics argue the net national disposable income per head has fallen since 2008 and failed to recover, being lower in 2014 than it was in 2011, even as GDP per capita has risen to pre-crisis levels. Critics also point to zero hour contracts, in which employees are required to remain on call but may not actually receive paid work during a workday, and a higher cost of living driven by spiraling housing prices as indicators that Conservative policies are failing most British people.
Despite these criticisms, popular opinion has swayed towards the Conservatives, especially on economic matters. In a 2015 YouGov poll, Labor saw a large loss in support on economic issues—with the Conservatives leading by 18 points versus Labor on the economy. The Conservatives have made an aggressive campaign stating that not only have they saved the economy, but that a profligate Labor party will raise taxes and spend the revenue on wasteful and unnecessary social services.
At the same time, Conservatives lost favor on every other issue since they came into power, including housing, the National Health Service, welfare, law and order, and immigration.
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232: Chess Enlightenment
Comic #232 (March 7, 2007)
Chess Enlightenment
Title text: You know that 'sweep the pieces off the board and see it in your mind' thing? Doesn't work.
In this comic, Cueball finds his game of chess against Megan to be too difficult, and he attempts to tap his subconscious to find his next move. This is a common technique used in more physical competitions like baseball or golf, where overthinking can interfere with one's motion and thus "clearing one's mind" and relying on the subconscious is useful to overcome such mental barriers. However, chess is more a game of planning and strategy than natural movement, and the rules of chess are not ingrained into Cueball's subconscious, and so his subconscious ends up feeding him invalid moves and beginner questions concerning movement rules.
Chess is a board game in which two players take turns to move a variety of different pieces representing units on a battlefield to try to capture the other player's king. Chess has a lively tournament scene and takes much practice to attain a competent level of skill in the game. Different units can move and capture in different ways; pawns can only move forward by one square unless it's their first move, in which case they can move up two squares, but they can only capture by moving diagonally unless they perform an en passant, in which they move around an opposing pawn that had moved forward two squares on the previous turn. Other pieces have different rules.
Obi-Wan Kenobi is a character from the movie series Star Wars who played the mentor figure to the protagonist, Luke Skywalker. One of his pieces of advice to his mentee was to relax and listen to his subconscious in strenuous times. However, Obi-Wan gave this advice because Luke was connected to The Force, a mystical energy in the Star Wars universe that connects to the entire universe; not being a part of the Star Wars universe, Cueball is unable to tap into it. The Force does have similarities to real-life concepts used in various Eastern philosophies, but they are not typically used to play chess, for the same reasons given above.
The title text refers to a scene in the chess movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, in which Sir Ben Kingsley's character dramatically sweeps the pieces off the board and instructs his student to see the pieces in his mind, which the child proceeds to do. Randall considers this impractical, presumably for similar reasons as the Obi-Wan example.
[Cueball and Megan are playing chess; Cueball is leaning forward over the chessboard.]
Cueball (thinking): Why is chess so hard? Maybe the answers lie within me. Maybe I just need to let go, relax, and let my instincts and subconscious speak.
[Cueball leans back and places his hands to his head.]
Cueball's subconscious: Knight to G-4
[Beat panel.]
Cueball: That's not even a legal move.
Cueball's subconscious: Okay, hold on. How do the pawns capture, again?
Cueball: Man, Obi-Wan was full of crap.
I actually think that the title-text is a reference to the movie "Searching for Bobby Ficher, where Ficher's coach teaches him to play chess by sweeping all the pieces onto the floor. 174.31.180.218 20:43, 21 August 2013 (UTC)PassiveDemoralizer
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Comics from March
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Custom Cutters Like Speed, But Prefer Reliability & Horsepower
By Dave Kanicki posted on September 15, 2014 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions
A little more speed might help, but reliability and horsepower are what custom cutters would like to see more of when it comes to their equipment.
Jon Orr, a custom harvester based in Apple Creek, Ohio, also serves as vice president of U.S. Custom Harvesters, and says that as an organization, the group has determined that labor is its absolute biggest problem.
Josh Russell, a custom harvester based in Texas, who specializes in silage, is in total agreement when talking about the challenge of finding qualified operators. As a result, he says, operations like his require big equipment, and the bigger the better.
With his 1,000 horsepower-plus Krone forage harvesters and 30 foot cutting heads, Orr is a firm believer that “there is no substitute for raw horsepower” in his type of work. He says he has all the speed he needs and has raced through “drought corn” at 15 mph. “But going that fast is no fun for anybody because the fields are usually rough, the trucks are getting their gizzards bounced around and the choppers are getting beat to death. What you really need is getting enough material going through the chopper so it cuts right.”
A good day for his operation is 3,000-3,500 tons of corn silage or 500 acres of alfalfa. He says that speed doesn’t have a lot to do with his field operations. Typically, 5 mph works best with his big choppers. His mowers’ maximum field speed is 12 mph and his merger works best at about 8 mph. “We’ve merged at 12-14 mph but our windrow quality gets ugly,” he says. “Everything flows right and your windrow quality stays a lot better.”
Russell says, with good crop corn, 5.5 mph is about as fast as he needs to go.
“When we’re chopping grass, we’re running anywhere from 8-10 mph.”
“With a little more speed, we could probably be more efficient, but the faster you go in a lot of these fields, the more wear and tear you have on your equipment. “With a bigger chopper we could probably go faster in corn, but then you run into the problem you always run into in silage. If you go faster, do you have enough trucks? If you have enough trucks, do you have enough pack tractors or enough baggers? More speed in this business usually means there’s going to be a bottleneck somewhere.”
Russell says that bigger equipment probably wouldn’t be a significant advantage in the areas where he works. “We run 10-row heads; from wheel to wheel they’re about 9.5 feet.”
He adds that they were one of the first in the area to adapt the triple mowers. “They cut about 28.5 feet and we’ve got a merger built on the back of them so we can windrow it. I know they’re running a lot bigger stuff in other parts of the world, but you couldn’t even move that stuff around down here.
“As far as the cutting width and transport width, I think they’ve kind of maxed out on how wide you can go on some of this stuff.”
The Real Need — Reliability
Both Orr and Russell agree that, with what a big forage harvester costs, the real need is to keep them moving; reliability is their challenge to manufacturers and dealers. “All of the manufacturers are doing better in this regard,” says Orr.
At the same time, with what they’re paying for a new chopper, you better believe they’re going to demand more. “Fifteen years ago, a chopper was $325,000. Now they’re over $600,000. It probably won’t be long until we’re looking at $1 million. At these kind of prices, we can’t afford to have them sitting.”
Russell says “more reliability” is at the top of his wish list when it comes to the equipment he’s operating.
“What I would like to see is more uptime with my equipment. And the faster we go, the harder it is on the machines. We could go up on horsepower and not really get any wider on the forage choppers, but for down here it would be kind of a waste because we’re not going to see 30 ton corn.”
As for right now, Russell says that he says the industry needs to get over the Tier 4 transition before it looks at more speed. “We just want to see that the new engines are reliable.”
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H. R. Giger’s Hellishly Perfect Album Cover Artwork
By Jason Diamond
Of all H. R. Giger’s art, which might be adequately described to those unfamiliar with it as H. P. Lovecraft in a personal hell designed by Salvador Dalí, his design work on the film Alien will always be the most well known. But Giger, who died this week at the age of 74, periodically spread his talents to designing album covers, creating artwork for a wide swath of different groups, from French prog-rock to a new wave goddess’ debut solo outing, over a 30-year period. As anybody familiar with any of these albums might know, in some cases, Giger’s visceral and terrifying artwork outshined the music it was intended to sell.
Brain Salad Surgery, Emerson, Lake and Palmer
To Mega Therion, Celtic Frost
Attahk, Magma
Hallucinations, Atrocity
Heartwork, Carcass
Danzig III: How the Gods Kill, Danzig
Kookoo, Debbie Harry
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New Year’s Day superstitions: Eating black-eyed peas, sauerkraut and donuts, avoiding laundry
By Amy Lieu
Published January 1
FOX TV Digital Team
New Year’s Day traditions and superstitions across the U.S. include eating certain foods, performing certain rituals and avoiding various activities.
LOS ANGELES - New Year’s Day traditions and superstitions across the U.S. include eating certain foods, performing certain rituals and avoiding various activities.
Black-eyed peas, collard greens and cornbread served on New Year’s Day is a tradition that is not only popular in the South, but all over the nation. The saying, "peas for pennies, greens for dollars, and cornbread for gold," is associated with the foods, according to AllRecipes.com.
Black-eyed peas are also associated with a “mystical and mythical power to bring good luck,” said John Egerton, a Southern food researcher in his book “Southern Food: At Home, On the Road, In History,” the food outlet reported.
FILE: Jeanne Logan prepared this traditional Sunday dinner at her Fresno home, including southern fried chicken at center, surrounded by, clockwise from upper right, smoked macaroni and cheese, candied yams, black eyed peas with lima beans, collard a
The green color of the collard greens represents money and the yellow color of cornbread represents gold for a prosperous new year.
Another unusual but common tradition involving black-eyed peas is adding “luck” by cooking the pot of peas with a penny or dime inside, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Then whoever gets the bowl with the coin in it has the best luck for the new year.
Enslaved people from West Africa brought black-eyed peas to the Carolinas and grew them in their gardens, after which the the recipes eventually made their way to their slaveowners’ tables, the New York Times reported.
“Some white Southerners claim that black-eyed peas saved families from starvation during the Union Army’s siege of Vicksburg in the Civil War,” read a 2010 Op-Ed article in The New York Times.
Pork and sauerkraut are also a popular food tradition on New Year’s Day, especially in Pennsylvania, as the state’s Dutch believe that the meal will bring good luck in the new year, WFMZ reported.
Dutch and German settlers in Pennsylvania have served pork and sauerkraut on New Year’s since the 1800s, the Times reported. In Denmark, dishes are thrown at a neighbor’s door as a sign of friendship, according to the report.
Pork and sauerkraut, also a popular New Year’s Day dish in Germany, promises as much luck as the cabbage’s many strands, USA Today reported.
"Pigs take their snout and root forward, as opposed to digging backwards," Linda Pelaccio, host of the culinary radio show "A Taste of the Past," told the paper.
In Italy, pork and lentils make for a lucky dish, the paper reported.
In Spain and Mexico, eating 12 grapes at midnight as the clock strikes once for each hour will bring good luck for the next 12 months, according to AllRecipes.com.
It is also good luck to eat something in the shape of a circle, such as a donut, according to Cox Media Group.
Round foods resemble coins and money, Pelaccio told USA Today. Many believe that eating these symbolic foods make for a financially successful new year, the report said.
Noodles’ long length is thought to symbolize long life and luck, Megan Elias, food writer and director of the gastronomy program at Boston University, told the paper.
During Chinese New Year, or Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan. 25 this year, people in China or Chinese people around the world polish off “longevity” noodles.
Soba noodles are also served on New Year’s Day in Japan, according to the paper.
Around the world, fish symbolizes abundance in the new year, the AllRecipes.com reported. Asian cultures feast on whole fishes to celebrate Lunar New Year. The fishes’ silvery scales also stand for bountiful coinage, according to the report.
Eastern European countries like herring as their fish of choice.
In Germany, people not only eat an entire carp but also save fish scales in their wallets for extra good fortune, according to USA Today.
One of the most famous New Year’s Day traditions is the midnight kiss. The first kiss of the new year with your beloved at the stroke of midnight is believed to nurture affection for the next 12 months.
Another odd tradition involves not doing laundry. According to folklore, washing clothes on New Year’s Day means washing a loved one away or washing away good fortune, according to the Daily Mail.
The laundry superstition sparked debate on social media, with one user saying, “Nope, if it needs doing it needs doing. If I spent my life worrying about superstitions, my life would be ruled around it and nothing would get done. Life is for living,” the Mail reported.
The first guest in your home, sometimes called “first footing” or a “first footer” for the first person who steps foot in your home, also portends what kind of fortune you will have for the rest of the year, according to the Times.
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First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi
Jonathan- a Portrait of a Godly Man
Series: 1 Samuel
Sermon on Nov 15, 2009
1 Samuel 14:1-23
The Lord's Day Evening
“Jonathan — a Portrait of a Godly Man”
The Reverend Dr. Derek W. H. Thomas
Now before we read the passage, and it's 1 Samuel chapter 14 — Saul and about six hundred men are on one side of a valley and about thirty thousand plus Philistines, or Philistines, are encamped on the other side of the valley and a battle commando attack is about to occur. Now before we read the passage, let's look to God in prayer.
Our Father, we thank You for the Scriptures. They make us wise, they show us the way of salvation, they show us how to live and how to die, they teach us about Jesus, they teach us about our sin, they teach us about faith and trust and hope and confidence in You rather than in ourselves. Tonight, O Lord, we are as needy as ever. We pray now, in the stillness of this Lord's Day evening, come down, come by Your Spirit, minister to us we pray. Bless this Word to us. Make the Scriptures come alive by Your Spirit. We ask it in Jesus’ name. Amen.
“One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who carried his armor, ‘Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side.’ But he did not tell his father. Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave at Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men, including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone. Within the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. The name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, ‘Come, let us go over to the garrison of those uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us, for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.’ And his armor-bearer said to him, ‘Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. Behold, I am with you heart and soul.’ Then Jonathan said, ‘Behold, we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them. If they say to us, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them. But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ then we will go up, for the Lord has given them in to our hand. And this shall be the sign to us.’ So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, ‘Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves.’ And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer and said, ‘Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.’ And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, ‘Come up after me, for the Lord has given them into the hand of Israel.’ Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him. And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land. And there was a panic in the camp, and in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and even the raiders trembled, the earth quaked, and it became a very great panic.
And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude was dispersing here and there. Then Saul said to the people who were with him, ‘Count and see who has gone from us.’ And when they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there. So Saul said to Ahijah, ‘Bring the ark of God here.’ For the ark of God went at that time with the people of Israel. Now while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, ‘Withdraw your hand.’ Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle. And behold, every Philistine's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion. Now the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle. So the Lord saved Israel that day. And the battle passed beyond Beth-aven.”
Well, thus far, God's holy, infallible Word.
John Knox, 16th century founder of Presbyterianism, galley slave, spent some time in Geneva, some time in England, before founding what is the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the 16th century. John Knox once said, “One man with God is always a majority. One man with God is always a majority.” Well another John, or a Jonathan here, is one man and his armor-bearer with God. Chapter 13 had closed. you may remember, in hopelessness and despair. The Philistines had attacked in huge numbers, they have plundered more or less Israel, Saul has withdrawn to a retreat on a rocky mount with six hundred men, the rest of Israel have fled, none of them are allowed to have blacksmiths, anyone to sharpen knives or instruments — they had to go to the Philistines in order to do that. And we have this standoff position here in the opening of chapter 14. You have two camps on either side of a hill with a valley in between - six hundred men with Saul on the one side and about thirty thousand plus on the other. Some commentators estimate maybe thirty six thousand Philistines versus six hundred of Saul's men. And this is where Jonathan emerges.
Some of you might have seen the recent series of dramas based on the opening chapters of Samuel on NBC. You will be grateful if you didn't. It was called, Kings. It was set in a modern context retelling the Bible story. Jonathan, as you might have predicted, was depicted as gay. That's because of Jonathan and David's friendship. Many modern commentators go down that path, sadly.
Jonathan is a man of extraordinary courage and conviction and faith. The situation here is hopeless. What do you do when the odds are against you? What do you do when there's nothing you can do, there's nothing you feel you can do? Traditional wisdom say, “Don't even try.” Traditional wisdom says, “Play it safe.” And I want you to see in verse 2 and 3 here we have a little glimpse of Saul. Saul has failed already and offered a sacrifice which he shouldn't have done before Samuel got to him, you remember in chapter 13. God has already told Saul the kingship will depart from him. Saul is playing the “end game.” And Saul, Saul is hunkered down. He's getting ready perhaps for the “long game.” He's convinced himself there's nothing that you can do. He has a priest, Ahijah. Read between the lines. Actually just read what the text tells you. Who is Ahijah? He has Ichabod's genes all over him. Ichabod is the son, you remember, born to Phinehas’ wife. The two sons, you remember Hophni and Phinehas of Eli, whom God killed. And the son that was born was called Ichabod, “the glory has departed.” Saul is hunkered down with “departed glory” as a priest. As far as Saul is concerned it's “Mission Impossible.” There's nothing you can do. It's a sad picture of hopelessness and despair and dejection.
But then in contrast you have Jonathan. He's introduced in the first verse, and then from verses 4 all the way down to verse 13, you have Jonathan and his armor-bearer. We don't know the name of his armor-bearer. What an extraordinary man this armor-bearer, this kit-bearer is. He will go with Jonathan no matter what. He will serve him loyally and faithfully no matter what. Andrew Bonar has a marvelous little sermon on Jonathan's armor-bearer. He's a braver man than I to preach a sermon on a man about whom we don't know his name, but the point, the point of Bonar's sermon is to say — He may go unrecognized in this world, as some of you go unrecognized in this world, but he will be recognized before the Lord of glory and his name will be read out on that grand day.
You’re with Jonathan. The whole focus of this passage comes out in verse 6 — “Let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us.” He has no guarantee, he has no promise that God is going to work for him, but it may be that God will work for him because “nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.”
That reminds you of so many passages in the Bible — of Gideon with thirty two thousand men, you remember, and God whittles them down to three hundred. It reminds you of Sennacherib when he is bunkered down in Jerusalem and a hundred and eighty five thousand Assyrians are outside the gates of Jerusalem and in the morning they are dead. Or think of that incident with Elisha and his servant in Dothan, you remember? And the Assyrians are on the mountaintops in the morning and Elisha prays, “Lord, open his eyes.” The servant had come out and said to Elisha, “Alas, my master, what shall we do?” “Open his eyes, because there are more with us than be with them.” And the hills were alive, not with the sound of music, but the hills were alive with angels and the mighty servants of God. God isn't dependant you see you numbers, that's what Jonathan is saying — He can win this battle by few as He can win this battle by many.
If the Lord is on our side, what is there that can withstand the determination and the plan of Almighty God? Now my friends that is extraordinary faith. We can hunker down in passivity, we can hunker down in despair, we can hunker down in crippling, debilitating lack of faith, or we can do what Jonathan does. We can take the initiative.
Now Jonathan sets up a sign. Don't be too hard on Jonathan for setting up a sign. He had no promise and no guarantee. He sets up a sign that if the Philistines say, “Come up,” that is going to be the sign that God is going to give the Philistines into their hands. And in a matter of moments, twenty Philistines are dead. And then in the latter section of this passage you see Saul again. And Saul doesn't even know that Jonathan and his armor-bearer are gone and he dithers for a moment and he says to Ahijah the priest to send for the Ark of the Covenant and everything within you wants to say, “Don't do it. Saul, remember 1 Samuel chapter 6. Remember what happened the last time you used the Ark of the Covenant like a talisman in battle.” And eventually the faith and the courage and the conviction of Jonathan spills over into the army of Saul as they see the rampage and hear the tumult on the other side of the valley and they join in this battle and there's a great victory. Now that's the story.
And I want to ask you tonight, “Why is this story here?” Some of you are interested in history. You tell me all the time you watch the History Channel. That defines you. You know there are certain people who watch the Food Channel and there are others who watch the History Channel. And some of you love history and others of you begin to yawn. Why is this passage here? It's a fascinating story. Brister loves war stories. Almost every week we get a war story from Brister. He loves war stories. This is a great war story. It's a commando war story. I'm not sure if I can relate a similar incident where one man with his armor-bearer won the battle in a commando raid of daring proportions. It's a wonderful story. It would make a wonderful movie. But why is it here? Why is this part of the Word of God? What does this have to say to us in 2009? What does it have to say to us tonight and this week in particular, after yesterday in particular? What does this passage have to say to us?
I. The battle is not won by our strength, might and resources.
I want to suggest to you that is says at least three things. It says first of all, that the battle isn't won by our might and our strength and our resources. We need to remember that. First Presbyterian Church, with all that we have — “It's not by might and it's not by power, but it's by My Spirit, says the Lord.” The kingdom isn't going to be won because we have a big church and we have lots of resources. God can win the battle without us. God can put the front tier of the battle in some small, tiny, almost insignificant part of His kingdom. We need to be constantly reminded of what Paul tells the Corinthians — that not many mighty are called and not many powerful are called.
John Bunyan is my, I think, all time favorite theologian. John Bunyan never went to school. As far as I can tell, he didn't even have a basic education. He was raised in almost abject poverty. When John Owen was talking one day - and wouldn't you give a dollar or two to overhear a conversation between John Owen and King Charles II? - and John Owen one day was talking to King Charles II, he told the King that he had been listening to John Bunyan preaching in London. And the King rebuked him, scoffed at him. John Owen was the vice chancellor at OxfordUniversity. The King could not for one moment understand why John Owen would be listening to someone like John Bunyan. And John Owen said he would give all of his learning if he could preach one sermon like John Bunyan could preach. I think we need to remember that and I think it comes out of this passage. It's what Jonathan is saying — “God can win by many or God can win by few because it is not us, it is not our might, it is not our intellect, it is not our money. It is the power of our sovereign God. If God is on our side, if the Lord of glory is on our side, nothing can stand in our way and nothing can withstand what God has purposed.” That's the first thing.
II. If God be for us, what enemy cant stand in our path.
The second thing, and it follows from that, that if God be for us, what enemy can stand in our path? I've been asking that question in the last few days as perhaps some of you have. The enemy in this case is not a Philistine. The enemy I have in mind is cancer. If God is for us, what is cancer? If God is for us, what is Alzheimers? If God is for us, then how can I know that God is for us?
Do you remember the logic of the apostle? “He that spared not His own Son, but freely delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not, with Him, freely give us all things?” If you were to ask Missye Rhee tonight if she would prefer to be back here in that pew, somewhere halfway down on that side, or enjoying the triumph and the beauty and the splendor and the magnificence of the sight and the sound that surrounds her this evening, do you know what she would say? Yes you do, because victory is hers. As Ligon said yesterday in the sermon, “Cancer may have beaten her, but the grave has not beaten her, because in Jesus Christ, there is victory and resurrection and eternal life and a new heavens and a new earth. Because He has spoiled principalities and powers and made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in the Cross.” If God be for us, who can be against us? That was Jonathan's faith. What are these Philistines — thirty six thousand of them — what are they if God is for us, if God is on our side, if God is going before us, if God is equipping us? Because the battle is the Lord's.
III. The battle is the Lord's.
But there's a third thing that I draw from this passage. What's the difference between Saul and Jonathan? Saul was a man who played it safe. He played it safe. There's a lot to be said for playing it safe. Do you know my friends, if the elders and deacons of this church had played it safe, this building would never have been erected. We wouldn't be in this building tonight for a start if they had played it safe in this economy. Maybe there's a word here, maybe there's a lesson here, maybe there's a challenge here, maybe to those of you who have the enormous responsibility of strategic planning — planning for the future.
You know there are men in this church and that's what they've been doing, they've been talking about the future — where do we want to be ten years from now with all the obstacles and all the difficulties and all the enemies and all the problems and all the trials? I wonder if this is a challenge to us. Will we be a Jonathan or a Saul. Will we play it safe or will we say, “The battle is the Lord's. The battle is the Lord's. For nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.”
The motto of the SAS, these are the Special Air Service commanders of the British you know, but their motto is, “Who Dares, Wins.” It's in Latin, but it means, “Who Dares, Wins.” I can't help but think, you know, of the very last thing that Jesus almost did with His disciples. After His resurrection, Peter — where was Peter? He was back up in Galilee fishing, fishing, because Jesus had died, Jesus had been buried, and if there was one thing that Peter knew how to do it was fishing. He’d gone back to his old job. He was playing it safe. And you know, it's extraordinary, fishermen, and a good fishermen that Peter undoubtedly was, he caught nothing. And then do you remember what Jesus says to him in the boat? “Put down the net on the other side.” And you can hear Peter muttering, “You know, what does He know about fishing? I've spent my life fishing.” And you can almost imagine him casting these nets down and then all of a sudden the boat is almost about to capsize because it's not about Peter, it's about the power of God. It's about the power of a resurrected Christ.
That's what went through this building yesterday afternoon — the power of a resurrected Christ in the face of everything that this world and the devil and hell itself can do. And Jesus is victorious. I wonder tonight if that's a challenge to you. Are you just going to play it safe, or will you take the Word of God and the promises of God and the power of God and do what Jonathan did?
Let's pray together.
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Projects Archive - Foundation for Prader-Willi Research | Genetic Therapy
The Functional Development of Hunger Neurons in Prader-Willi Syndrome
AgRP ('hunger') neurons are found in the hypothalamus and control feeding, metabolism and compulsive behaviors. There is evidence that AgRP neurons may be overactive during development in PWS, which might lead to some of the characteristics of PWS. In this project, Dr. Dietrich will use a cutting edge technology developed in his lab to evaluate false
CRISPR-mediated molecular dissection of Prader-Willi syndrome
The PWS region of chromosome 15 consists of several genes. While we know the loss of all these genes together will lead to the characteristics of PWS, we still don’t know exactly what is the contribution of each gene. In this project, Dr Talkowski's team will use CRISPR technology (a very precise way to cut out parts of the genome) to develop false
Targeting SMCHD1 to address the underlying cause of PWS and SYS
Associate Professor Blewitt and her research team study how genes shift between ‘sleeping’ to ‘awake’ states, and how this impacts a range of diseases. “A protein called SMCHD1 keeps many genes in their sleeping state,” Associate Professor Blewitt said. “We discovered that SMCHD1’s targets include some of the maternal genes that are involved in false
CRISPR-mediated 3D modeling, molecular dissection and epigenetic profiling of PWS
Deletions on chromosome 15 in the bands labeled 15q11.2-q13 on the chromosome inherited from a subject’s father cause Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). The unique nature of this causative genetic event has been known for many years, but the precise manner in which it causes the developmental abnormalities of PWS is not completely understood since the false
Therapeutic Potential of Blocking Zinc Finger Protein 274 Binding to the PWS Locus
Our goal is to understand the molecular pathways disrupted in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and to develop therapeutic interventions for this disorder. Through the biological process called genomic imprinting, the chromosome 15 that is inherited from the father has a set of genes that is switched on while the same set of genes on the chromosome 15 false
The molecular mechanism of SNORD116 action and possible SNORD116 substitution strategies
The loss of two snoRNAs, SNORD115 and SNORD116, plays a central role in the development of Prader-Willi syndrome. However, the normal function of SNORD116 is still unclear, making it difficult to understand what goes wrong when SNORD116 is lost. Dr. Stamm’s group is exploring how SNORD116 influences other genes, and their preliminary studies false
Preclinical studies of a novel epigenetic therapy for Prader-Willi syndrome
Despite the significant progress in understanding the molecular basis underlying Prader-Willi syndrome, little advance has been achieved in developing the treatment specifically targeting to the molecular defect. The SNORD116 between the SNRPN and UBE3A genes is important for the major features of PWS. The host transcripts and SNORD116 in the false
Reactivation of the PWS locus via disruption of the ZNF274 silencing complex (year 2)
Through a normal biological process called genomic imprinting, the chromosome 15 that is inherited from the father has a set of genes that are switched on while the same set of genes on the chromosome 15 inherited from the mother are switched off. In Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), there is no normal copy of the paternal chromosome 15 so patients false
Activation of silenced genes in Prader-Willi syndrome
The genetic causes of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) are known, including as a complex disorder involving imprinted genes that normally only function after inheritance from the father. A dozen genes contribute to the clinical problems in PWS, although what most of these genes do is poorly understood. Additionally, although numerous mouse models that false
Reactivation of the PWS locus via disruption of the ZNF274 silencing complex
Small molecules and therapeutic potential for PWS
A publication resulting from this project was highlighted in an FPWR Research Blog post “Promising First Steps Towards Genetic Therapy for Prader-Willi Syndrome” (December 2016)
Injectable protein gene activation therapy for PWS (year 2)
This proposal will investigate the development of a gene therapy for Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). PWS is caused by the loss of a region of human chromosome 15q11-13. Humans have two copies of chromosome 15, one the mother (maternal) and one from the father (paternal). Due to an unusual mechanism called genetic imprinting, the genes affecting PWS false
Functional Assessment of snoRNA derived microRNAs in Prader-Willi Syndrome
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, predominantly caused by a deletion on the long arm of chromosome 15. This deletion eliminates a group of genes called HBII-85 whose function is currently unknown. Therefore, this proposal aims to investigate the underlaying molecular mechanisms behind the loss of HBII-85 and how this false
Reactivation of maternally-silenced genes in PWS
This proposal will investigate the development of a gene therapy for Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). PWS is caused by the loss of a region of human cromosome 15q11-13. Humans have two copies of chromosome 15, one the mother (maternal) and one from the father (paternal). Due to an unusual mechanism called genetic imprinting, the genes affecting PWS false
Small molecular screening and therapeutic potential for PWS
Like most genetic disorders, there is no specific therapeutic intervention targeted to the molecular defect for Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). The clinical presentations of PWS are caused by paternal deficiency of genes in the chromosome 15q11-q13 region. Recent reports indicate a region between the SNRPN and UBE3A genes harboring SnoRNA clusters is false
Identification of substances that substitute for the loss of snoRNAs from the Prader-Willi critical region
Genetic studies strongly indicate that the Prader-Willi syndrome is caused by the loss of small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNA). SnoRNAs are short RNAs that do not encode a protein. In most cases studied, snoRNAs help in the modification of other RNAs. However, the function of the snoRNAs missing in people with Prader-Willi syndrome is not clear. In false
Exploring the potential of using demethylation drugs to treat PWS
More than 95% of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) cases are caused by either a large deletion of paternal chromosome 15q11-q13 or maternal uniparental disomy (UPD) of chromosome 15. The major gene or genes responsible for PWS are subject to genomic imprinting and exclusively expressed from paternal chromosome. For patients with a large chromosomal false
Activation of the maternal allele at the PWS/AS domain as a potential therapeutic approach (year 1)
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) results from inactivation of a domain on the paternal chromosome 15 while the same domain on chromosome 15 that is of maternal origin is normally inactivated. This situation in Prader-Willi patients is therefore associated with complete silencing of a relatively large number of genes that are located in this domain. false
Activation of the maternal allele at the PWS/AS domain (Year 2)
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Metro & state: EMU men’s cross-country wins MAC title
EMU’s Nick Raymond earned the individual title for the second straight season.
Metro & state: EMU men’s cross-country wins MAC title EMU’s Nick Raymond earned the individual title for the second straight season. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2eIl2lO
Michigan Published 2:54 a.m. ET Oct. 30, 2016
Students walk past the Halle Library on the Eastern Michigan University campus in Ypsilanti.(Photo: Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press)
Men’s cross-country: Eastern Michigan won its seventh consecutive Mid-American Conference title, setting a MAC record in the 8K race with 15 team points. Miami was second with 63 points. EMU’s Nick Raymond earned the individual title for the second straight season. He finished in 25:10. EMU’s John Goodridge was named conference coach of the year. Hlynur Andresson, Csaba Matko and Abel Flores were named to the All-MAC first team along with Raymond. The tournament was held at Kent, Ohio. Central Michigan finished seventh. ...
Oakland finished fifth and Detroit Mercy sixth at the Horizon League tournament in Kenosha, Wis. OU’s BryceStroede won the individual title, finishing the 8K in 25:01.3. UDM’s Ben Kendell was the runner-up (25:08).
Women’s cross-country: Eastern Michigan won its second straight MAC tournament title, topping the 12-team field in the 6K race at Kent, Ohio. The No. 14 Eagles placed three runners in the top four and finished with 27 points. Northern Illinois was the runner-up with 78 points. EMU’s Jordann McDermitt won the individual title, finishing in 20:34.1.Coach Sue Parks won coach of the year honors. Central Michigan was fourth in the team standings and Western Michigan eighth.
Oakland won the Horizon League championship at Kenosha, Wis. It was the second straight league title for the Golden Grizzlies. Rachel Levy won the 6K race with a time of 21:35.4. OU’s Miranda Haas was the runner-up (21:54.6), and Alana Koepf was fourth (22:07.4). Detroit Mercy finished sixth. The Titans’ Devon Sutton was seventh (22:23) and earned All-Horizon first team honors.
College hockey:Evan Janssen and Dylan Gambrell scored second-period goals to lift No. 3 Denver over Western Michigan, 3-1, Friday night. Trevor Gorsuch made 32 saves for Western Michigan (3-1). The teams played again late Saturday in Denver (5-2).
Michigan football is in a pickle at linebacker with latest defection
U-M's Harbaugh lost a 'trusting friend' in top recruiter
Report: U-M hiring former Miss. State defensive coordinator
Football isn't the only sport new Lions coordinator is good at
Here's how Michigan basketball lost recruit Lorne Bowman to Wisconsin
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Why I believe the SXX share price is too low
Rupert Hargreaves | Sunday, 22nd April, 2018 | More on: SXX
The Sirius Minerals (LSE: SXX) share price could be about to take off as the company prepares to complete the second stage of financing for its flagship North Yorkshire potash mine.
For the past few years, the share price has languished as the company, despite its prospects, has produced little in the way of tangible progress on its mine development. This started to change last year when the firm finally began substantial work at its North Yorkshire site. And there should be further progress in 2018, as the firm works towards its target of producing 10m tonnes of potash per annum by 2024 and 20m tonnes by 2026.
Aside from planning, the most prominent speed bump this project was always going to face was financing. Sirius management agreed on the first stage of project financing last year, a $1.2bn mix of debt and equity to pay for the sinking of two 1,500 metre shafts at its site on the North York Moors. Now it needs to raise a further $3bn this year to fund the next stage of the project, which includes the construction of a 23-mile tunnel linking its mine with a port on Teesside.
To help convince backers, management is seeking $2bn in debt guarantees from the UK Treasury under the Infrastructure Project Authority. The company believes that it has already done all it needs to qualify for the scheme and is waiting for confirmation.
Even though there will still be plenty of work to do before the project is complete after financing is received, when the company has passed this final substantial milestone, the group will have a clear runway to its ultimate objective.
The substantial progress the company has made over the past 12 months is why I believe that the SXX share price is too low.
As well as putting in place the initial funding required to get the project off the ground, management has already secured supply agreements for more than 4m tonnes a year of output from the mine. It is looking to increase that figure to between 6m and 7m tonnes this year, which will cover as much as 70% of initial production.
To some extent, this de-risks the project as, now that the company has customers to sell to, financiers are more likely to back it.
As I have covered before, some of these agreements suggest that the company will be able to sell its potash polyhalite at a price of $145 a tonne, compared to production costs in the region of $30 a tonne. Based on these figures, it is not unreasonable to assume that the firm can generate over $1bn (£714m) per annum in annual earnings before depreciation, admin, interest and tax costs. Compared to its current market value of £1.3bn
These are only ballpark estimate figures, but they show just how much potential the company has and why I believe the SXX share price is too low today.
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LONG, BRAD
Love Me Again/Come To Me
SING SING RECORDS
SING 031EP SING 031EP
"In and out of unrecorded regional combos since the late 1960s, Logansport, Indiana music store owner Brad Long issued this, his lone single, on his own Music Stand label in the summer of 1977. Featuring a warm, lo-fi basement pop sound with stylistic roots firmly grounded in the mid 60's, both 'Come to Me' and 'Love me Again' evoke a hazy mood reminiscent of early Twilley. Also included with the release were a series of press releases, a section of which listed Long's heroes as Roger McGuinn, Paul Revere and the Raiders and Joe Meek."
Other releases on SING SING RECORDS
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Moon flashing potential for Gators
Robbie Andreu @RobbieAndreu
Aug 14, 2018 at 5:01 PM Aug 14, 2018 at 5:01 PM
Redshirt sophomore playing multiple positions on defense
Jeremiah Moon appears to be making a rather seamless transition from outside linebacker to rush end, and he’s getting help from the players he’s competing with for playing time.
"Of course,” Moon said. “Cece (Jefferson), Jachai (Polite), they’ve been doing it for a while. They’ve been a big help. They’re selfless players and they’re always there for me with whatever I need."
Moon, Jefferson and Polite are manning a hybrid position in the 3-4 defense — a combination end/outside linebacker. Moon has the OLB side of things pretty much covered having started four games at the position last season. Now, it’s a matter of putting his hand on the ground and picking up the end side of the position.
“Last year, I played off the ball, so coming down on the line is a lot different, but I think I like it better,” Moon said. “I’m able to use my length a little bit more, set the edge and come off the edge more. That’s been the biggest transition."
To help prepare himself for his new position, where at times he will be lining up against 300-pound offensive tackles, Moon went to work in Nick Savage’s strength and conditioning program in the offseason, packing on almost 20 pounds of muscle. He’s now at 239 pounds, with the plan to be at 242 for the start of the season.
"Coach Savage has been a big help,” he said. “I’ve gained maybe 17 pounds over these six months. He’s just done a great job motivating everybody and getting everybody into shape for this upcoming season. He’s been a big part of it."
When he wasn’t lifting and running this summer, Moon was working with Jefferson and Polite. The emphasis was on getting off the line quick and using his hands to keep offensive tackles and tight ends from getting into his body.
“That’s been the biggest transition part that I’ve had to learn when it comes to playing the end,” he said. “All throughout summer workouts, I’ve been working with Jachai, Cece. They’ve helped me a lot with using my hands.”
Now that camp has started, Moon is getting hands-on coaching from defensive line coach Sal Sunseri and defensive coordinator Todd Grantham, who made the decision to move Moon to rush end.
“He’s with Coach Grantham most of the time,” Sunseri said. “Todd has done a great job with him. When I watch him play, the kid takes a lot of pride in his effort, being a playmaker, making sure he carries out his assignments.
“Jeremiah has done a heck of a job developing into a pretty dang good football player. He works extremely hard, he has good length, he’s explosive, he’s doing some very, very good things.
“Going through Coach Savage’s program, he’s become stronger, he’s becoming more powerful and he’s a more confident football player right now.”
Moon is still in the early stages of learning his new position, at least the end half of it. So far, the transition has gone smoothly, with Moon seemingly getting more comfortable with each rep, each practice.
“It’s a lot different, but Coach Grantham makes it understandable,” Moon said. “We’ll figure it out.”
A quicker Joseph
While many players like Moon have gained weight in Savage’s program, outside linebacker Vosean Joseph went in the opposite direction, losing 10 pounds and considerable body fat.
“I just muscled up and trimmed up and got slim,” Joseph said. “(I’m) a lot quicker. I’m 224 (pounds) right now. And I’m at like 6 percent body fat, from something like 17 percent.”
Joseph not only looks and feels better, he says he’s playing better coming off a disappointing sophomore season.
“I’ve actually got my eyes right. I’ve gotten my footwork better and my pursuit angles,” he said. “Last year I was just ‘Ok, I’m going to go play football and hit this man or whoever’s got the ball.’ Now it’s more the scheme. I’m actually learning the game now. For me to just be able to look at it, to see where I messed up last year and come back, it’s actually helped me a lot.”
Lighting up Lemons
Hard-running sophomore running back Adarius Lemons recently tweeted that he hates linebackers. The impetus for that message is two big hits he’s recently taken from the LBs — one from James Houston, the other from Ventrell Miller.
“Oh yeah, I’ve been lighting Lemons up the last couple of practices,” Houston said. “I know he tweeted that because Ventrell knocked his helmet off one practice. We’ve been giving it to Lemons. Lemons has been getting it. He has to get a little bit more weight, but he’s still nice, though, he’s still nice.
“We talk all the time in the locker room. We go back and forth. So it’s a nice little competition.”
New Mexico St. on board
The Gators have added the New Mexico State Aggies to their 2020 schedule, completing UF’s non-conference schedule for the season.
New Mexico State is coming to Gainesville on Nov. 21, 2020. The Aggies' payout will be a $1.525 million guarantee.
UF’s other non-conference foes in 2020 are Eastern Washington, South Alabama and Florida State.
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Senate Passes Gardner VA Accountability Legislation
Washington, D.C. - On December 19, 2019, the Senate unanimously passed S. 221, the VA Provider Accountability Act, which was introduced by U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), and Susan Collins (R-ME). The Senators introduced S. 221 earlier this year to bring much needed accountability to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The legislation will now be referred to the House of Representatives for consideration. A troubling GAO repo… Continue Reading
Gardner, Blunt, Klobuchar, Cortez Masto Measure to Boost Jobs, Support Travel & Tourism Passes Senate, Heads to President’s Desk
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) applauded the inclusion of their legislation to reauthorize Brand USA in the year-end funding vehicle, which passed the Senate on Thursday. Brand USA is a public-private partnership that enhances tourism across the country by promoting international travel to the United States. The legislation now heads to the President's desk to be signed into law. "Reauthorization of… Continue Reading
Senate Passes Gardner, Bennet Bill to Extend Platte River Recovery Implementation Program
Washington, D.C. - Today the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan bill introduced by Colorado U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R) and Michael Bennet (D) to extend the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program (PRRIP) as part of the year-end spending package. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives earlier this week and will now go to the president's desk to be signed into law. "The Platte River Recovery Implementation Program has responsibly protected endangered species living in Colorado'… Continue Reading
Gardner Statement on Stephen Biegun’s Confirmation as Deputy Secretary of State
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, issued the following statement today after the Senate voted 90-3 to confirm Stephen Biegun as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Biegun will continue to serve as the United States Special Representative for North Korea, the capacity in which he has worked closely with the Senate Foreign Relations Commi… Continue Reading
Gardner Backed Provisions Included in Senate-Approved National Security Appropriations Bill
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Senate today passed H.R. 1158, the consolidated national security appropriations package for Fiscal Year 2020, with U.S. Senator Cory Gardner's (R-CO) support. This legislation is one of two funding bills that passed the Senate today to fund the government, and it included a number of key priorities backed by Gardner for the state of Colorado. The bills now head to the President's desk to be signed into law. "After months of unnecessary delays, I'm pleased the Senate… Continue Reading
Gardner, Markey Applaud $2.5B in Government Funding Bill to Implement Indo-Pacific Policy
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, today applauded the passage of the State and Foreign Operations, and Related Programs appropriations bill as a part of the end-of-year spending package, which contained $2.5 billion to implement the Gardner-Markey Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA), the comprehensive Asia policy f… Continue Reading
Gardner and Colleagues Urge U.N. Ambassador to Impose Sanctions, Maximum Pressure on North Korea
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, sent a letter to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft urging she make clear the Trump administration intends to fully implement the "maximum pressure" policy on North Korea and impose sanctions as required by law. The letter was also signed by U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-IN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Lindsey Graham (… Continue Reading
Senate-Passed Government Funding Bill Includes Colorado Victories, Gardner Priorities
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) successfully included a number of Colorado priorities in H.R. 1865, a domestic spending package of appropriations bills, which was approved by the Senate today. This legislation is the first of two funding bills considered by the Senate today to fund the government, and H.R. 1865 now heads to the President's desk to be signed into law. "I'm proud that this funding package ties together many of the efforts that I've championed for Colorado thi… Continue Reading
Gardner, Warren Announce Bipartisan Bill to Protect Veterans Working in the State-Legal Cannabis Industry
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Gardner, Warren Announce Bipartisan Bill to Address Immigration in the State-Legal Cannabis Industry
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) today announced the introduction of bipartisan legislation that would remove participation in the state-legal cannabis industry from the list of activities that automatically bar naturalization. In April, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued guidance in its policy manual making clear that because cannabis is still a Schedule 1 substance under the Controlled Substances Act, an applic… Continue Reading
Foreign Relations Committee Passes Gardner’s Hard-Hitting Russia Sanctions Package
Washington, D.C. - Today the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed U.S. Senator Cory Gardner's (R-CO) legislation to increase pressure and deter the Russian Federation's malign actions around the world. Adopted in a vote of 17-5, the Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression (DASKA) Act seeks to increase economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on the Kremlin in response to Russia's interference in democratic processes abroad, malign influence in Syria, and aggression against U… Continue Reading
Defense Bill Clears Senate, Includes Gardner Provision to Promote Democracy, Human Rights, and Autonomy in Hong Kong
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) voted in support of the conference report to accompany the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020 today, which includes his legislative provision expressing U.S. support for democracy in Hong Kong and authorizes U.S. sanctions against all those violating the human rights of the people of Hong Kong. The language initially passed in the Senate on June 27, 2019, and was the first legislative response to the widespread prote… Continue Reading
Gardner Thanks Law Enforcement During Holiday Season
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) spoke on the floor of the United States Senate today in honor of Colorado law enforcement officers and the sacrifices they make to keep Colorado communities safe. Gardner remembered the lives of Colorado State Patrol Master Trooper William Moden, Colorado State Patrol Corporal Daniel Groves, Colorado Department of Corrections Sergeant Joshua Voth, and Summit County firefighter Ken Jones, who died in the line of duty this year while serving Col… Continue Reading
Defense Bill Clears Senate, Includes Gardner Provisions to Sanction North Korea
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Gardner, Bennet, Neguse Introduce Bills to Expand Rocky Mountain National Park
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Defense Bill Clears Senate, Authorizes Over $300 Million in Gardner-Secured Colorado Priorities
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Gardner Secures Repeal of Costly Obamacare Taxes
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Senate Passes Gardner Resolution Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge
Washington, D.C. - In recognition of the Battle of the Bulge beginning 75 years ago today, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution last week introduced by U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), and Joe Manchin (D-WV) commemorating this anniversary. S. Con. Res 23 honors the valiant efforts of the Allied Forces in December 1944, as well as those who made the ultimate sacrifice in this last major German offensive in Western Europe during World War II. The 4th Infantry Division of the… Continue Reading
Gardner Urges Congressional Leadership to Pass No Budget, No Pay
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Senate Passes Gardner, Menendez, Cruz Resolution Recognizing Armenian Genocide
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E.D. Bussey Middle School
Principal: Jeremiah Oliphant
Mr. Oliphant is in his 13th year in education and 5th as a campus administrator. He graduated from North Texas University in 2005 with a Bachelor's in Business Administration and earned his Master's of Administration in 2011 from Lamar University. He enjoys spending time with his wife and kids and pushing students in the direction of their interests.
Associate Principal: Rachael Brown - 8th grade
Mrs. Brown is starting her 18th year in education and 11th as a campus administrator. She graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2002 with a Bachelor's in Business Administration. She then received her teaching certification from University of Texas at Arlington in 2003 and earned her Master’s of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in 2008 from the University of North Texas. She is passionate about helping kids succeed and works hard each day to ensure the success of Bussey's students and staff. Ms. Brown is the proud parent of two great kids and loves to travel and spend time with family and friends.
Asst. Principal: Tim Parr - 7th grade
Mr. Parr is excited to join Bussey Middle School as an assistant principal. He has worked in Garland ISD for the last 21 years, starting as a science teacher at Hudson Middle School and eventually leading to 18 years in administration serving as an Assistant Principal at Austin Academy for Excellence and Sellers Middle School.
He is looking forward to a great year!
Asst. Principal: Brandon Maxie - 6th grade
Mr. Maxie is in his 12th year in education and his 3rd year as a campus administrator. He graduated from Northwest Missouri State University with a Bachelor’s in Marketing and from Lamar University with a Master’s in Educational Technology Leadership. He's a husband and a father of an one year old daughter.
Counselor for students in 6th grade: Sharron Bland
Counselor for students in 7th grade: Katrina Woods
Counselor for students in 8th grade: Marcus Gaines
Counselor's Secretary: Maria Beltran
Secretary: Cyndi Underwood
Data Clerk/Registration: Jessica Barrios
Attendance Clerk: Alejandra Lopez
School Resource Officer: CL Carter
School Nurse: Sharon Clausing
Home of the Owlets
Bussey Middle School
1204 Travis Street, Garland, TX 75040-4916
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Howard Klein
“a leading US employee benefits and executive compensation attorney”
Howard Klein, Partner
People and reward
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howard.klein@freshfields.com
Howard represents clients in connection with all employee benefits and compensation related aspects of corporate transactions, reorganizations, financing arrangements and public offerings.
His work includes negotiating, reviewing and drafting transactional documents, supervising due diligence, and identifying issues arising under, and assisting in complying with, the Internal Revenue Code, ERISA, applicable labor laws, federal securities laws and applicable exchange regulations.
Howard’s practice consists of designing, negotiating and drafting equity-based compensation plans (including stock option, restricted stock and phantom equity arrangements); cash bonus plans; employment, consulting, termination, severance and change-in-control contracts; and restrictive covenant agreements, including non-competition, non-solicitation and confidentiality arrangements.
Howard also advises clients on the structure, implementation and administration of qualified and non-qualified employee pension, welfare and compensation plans, programs and arrangements, including the associated ERISA, federal tax and securities implications. He also provides counsel to management teams and boards of directors on executive compensation and change-in-control arrangements in connection with corporate transactions and reorganizations, and consults with senior executives and boards of directors on transactional strategies.
Howard actively assists clients with corporate governance and compliance matters, including preparation and revision of applicable securities filings, employee communications and public announcements.
Prior to joining Freshfields, Howard was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in New York and, before that, he worked at other global New York-based law firms.
Advising Starbucks Corporation on its $7.15bn global coffee alliance with Nestlé.
Advising Unimin and its parent company Sibelco on Unimin’s merger with Fairmount Santrol, valued at $6bn.
Advising KLX on the $4.2bn sale of its aviation parts and services business to Boeing and the spinoff of its energy services business.
Advising Formula One Group (F1), together with its shareholders including CVC Capital Partners, on the $8bn sale of F1 to Liberty Media Corporation.
Advising Carlson Hospitality Group on its sale of Carlson Hotels to HNA Tourism Group, a division of HNA Group.
Advising London Stock Exchange Group on the employment aspects of its $1.15bn sale of Frank Russell Company’s asset management business to TA Associates and Reverence Capital Partners.
Advising Zhongwang USA, a subsidiary of Zhongwang International Group, on its $2.33bn acquisition of Aleris Corporation from a consortium of shareholders led by Oaktree Capital Management along with Apollo Management and Sankaty Advisors.
Advising Henderson Group on its $6bn all-stock merger of equals with Janus Capital to form Janus Henderson Global Investors, a leading global active asset manager with AUM of more than $320bn. Read more about the deal in our case study.
Advising AstraZeneca on its $7bn acquisition of a majority equity stake in Acerta Pharma.
JD, Fordham University School of Law.
BA, summa cum laude, philosophy, politics and law, State University of New York at Binghamton.
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Member of the Fordham Law Review.
Recognized as a New York Super Lawyer for employee benefits/ERISA since 2012
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Oz Pearlman will be performing in the "AGT" live rounds at Radio City Music Hall. (Photo: Screenshot via NBC)
6 things they don't tell you about being a mentalist
Oz Pearlman prepares for "America's Got Talent" by reading reporter's mind.
by Joel Keller | Friday, August 21, 2015
by Joel Keller
Editor's note, 9/16/15: Oz and nine other contestants performed in the "America's Got Talent" finale Tuesday night on NBC. Will Oz win? Tune in to find out tonight at 9 p.m. ET. In the meantime, read our profile of him to find out what goes into making a great trick.
Because I knew what Oz Pearlman does for a living, meeting him at his apartment in New York City's West Village wasn't just a hand shake and a "nice meeting you."
His apartment was a bit chaotic, because he was getting ready for his upcoming debut appearance at Radio City Music Hall for the live rounds of NBC's "America's Got Talent." He may have been keeping an eye on his friendly shih tzu Mico as the dog chewed on things he shouldn't have. But I knew, because Pearlman is a mentalist, he was watching me closely, filing observations about me in his mental vault.
By the end of my time with him, he proved my theory to be correct.
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What does a mentalist like Oz (pronounced Oh-s) Pearlman do? He uses observation and sleight of hand, among other techniques, to guess what people are thinking. But it's not as simple as "what am I thinking of right now?" An Israeli native who grew up in Michigan and now lives in New York, Pearlman has been doing this professionally since 2005. He is always in control of the conversation when he is doing a trick, directing you to a point where his guess will more than likely be right... but not always.
What has Pearlman learned in the decade since he left his job at Merrill Lynch to perform full time?
1. Be friendly and disarming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhbBuWSPbBk
One of the things that I noticed about Pearlman is that he's a chatty, gregarious guy, but he doesn't run you over with words. He gives you room to talk while making self-deprecating jokes about his dual life as a mentalist and ultramarathoner. The friendliness is key to his act.
"I'm approachable," he told From The Grapevine. "I'm not some aloof figure. I present myself as a regular guy who's going, 'Isn't this wild this stuff I've learned how to do?' I'm trying to set up an element of wonder where people go, 'That was nuts! How did he do it?'"
If you watched his first "AGT" appearance, at New Jersey's NJPAC theater, you noticed that he starts by complimenting Heidi Klum and Mel B, the two judges who he performed tricks on in that episode. The compliments put the judges at ease, allowing them to go along with Pearlman as he began his performance.
"Making them feel at ease helps me get into their heads and do what I do, but it also helps them enjoy it," he said.
2. Failing strengthens the act
Pearlman never pretends that he's conjuring up these answers from nowhere. He doesn't call what he does "magic" or say that he's a "psychic." He simply utilizes what he describes as laser focus, a well-honed memory and a keen eye, combined with problem-solving skills he learned as an engineer managing Merrill's UNIX servers.
"So much of what I do is layering different methods on each other, so you never catch what's going on," he said.
A person's gestures, eye level, and other tiny details are "tells" that reveal your thought process in action. Most people do the same things, no matter how unreadable they think they are. He's also in control of the conversation, which is why he can't guess what you're thinking at any random moment.
While he's nailed his brief appearances on "AGT," he acknowledges that he doesn't always guess things right during his 90-minute stage show. But that's more than OK. "People get desensitized" to the mentalist getting it right all the time, he said.
"The moment you're on stage in front of 500 people, someone thinks of something, and you don't get it, you know what that just did? That validated the whole rest of the show. People think, 'This guy's not trying to screw up on purpose. That means all those other things he did must have been real.' If I got it right every time, this would be a magic show."
3. Knowing your 'partner' makes things harder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2huwKE7-de8
The longer Pearlman interacts with someone, the better the performance.
"The performance is nuanced, I need to feel you out. I've got to ease into it," he said. During his show, he says he establishes a rapport with the people he selects from the crowd based on his observational skills.
But that doesn't mean that his job is easier on "AGT" because he knows the judges are his subjects.
"The viewers know the judges aren't in on it. Nothing's set up in advance," he said. "It's harder, because in my shows, when I have random people selected out of the audience, you know they're random. If I say something about Howie [Mandel], you can Wikipedia that. I have to think out of the box and be pure in my approach."
For instance, he knew that during his second "AGT" appearance, where he'd have to try to read Mandel and the notoriously skeptical Howard Stern, he'd have to work that much harder to wow them.
"You're really going to have to impress him (Stern) with something he's never seen, so I used a signature item I created, which is cutting a silhouette of a thought-of person. I saved that for him."
4. Running helps hone your act
Oz Pearlman reacts after crossing the finish line of Hartford Marathon, where he came in fourth place overall. (Photo: Courtesy Oz Pearlman)
Pearlman is an ultramarathoner, running in races that have been as long as 153 miles (the race from Athens to Sparta in Greece). The determination needed to get through such a lengthy and punishing race has helped him concentrate during his performances. "Level-headedness, focus, the knowledge that things aren't always going to go well" are what he's learned by running long distances. It's also helped his confidence. "When I get on stage, that's the most comfortable I'll feel. That's my time. That's what I've been waiting all this time for. That's what a race is like."
There's also a side benefit to being a mega-distance runner, though; his long training runs give him an opportunity to work out the logistics of new tricks. "My best ideas come while I run," he said. "People running the other way see me doing hand gestures like I'm psychotic. I'm rehearsing. I came up with two jokes for next week today on my run."
5. You can't use your family to rehearse
Pearlman doesn't practice his act, especially his "AGT" material, by pulling people off the street. That approach doesn't get optimal results because there's no connection between him and the person he's trying to read.
So how does a mentalist rehearse? He certainly can't use his wife, who he said "is brutally honest about what I do. If I can fool my wife, Howard Stern is easy," he joked. "My wife knows my humor. I can play off of her a little bit, but she has biases. I can't get her to think of something because she knows where I'm going with it." He talks to mentalists he admires and they help him brainstorm and refine a trick, but there's no real way he can rehearse.
So, in many ways, he'll be doing the trick for the first time when he hits the famous Radio City stage on the 25th. And he has to get it right, in front of the biggest audience of his life, or else he won't be coming back. "There are nights I can't fall asleep. I'm doing gestures in bed and my wife wants to know what's going on. I say 'I'm rehearsing.' I know what an impact this has on my career. There's nothing else I'm going to do that puts me in front of 12 million people at once."
6. Reporters are surprisingly readable
I asked Pearlman what he observed about me since we met in the lobby of his building, and he gave me some vague terms – he noticed my wedding ring, what I was wearing (rumpled casual mixed with New York City humidity) and the stories I mentioned I had worked on in the recent past.
"How can I use the info I've gathered about you to execute something specific?" he asked. So when I asked him to do a trick with me, he readily obliged.
He asked me to think about a list of people who I'm going to talk with in the coming week who are not co-workers. I thought of a friend of mine, and a friend of my wife's. But then I zereoed in on an interview subject I was scheduled to talk to later in the week. It's no one I personally know, I've never mentioned the person to him, and he has an unusual first name – Jesse. I figured he'd never guess it.
Pearlman put my phone on top of two billfolds. "Don't take the MetroCard, it's unlimited," he joked. He gave me a card with an "x" and a line on it, and asked me to write the person's first name down while he looked away. Then, while still looking away, he told me to fold the card and fold it again. He joked that because I have a wedding ring, "You clearly didn't think of your wife." He guessed that it was a guy because "you'd be more excited if you wrote down a woman's name." Then, still not looking, he helped me rip it up into about a dozen pieces. He then guessed, because I took out my phone, that it would be an electronic conversation, not in person.
Then he tapped my phone, told me to take out his business card from a zipped part of one of the billfolds and look on the back. What he had written there blew away even my skeptical mind:
Amazing. (Photo: Joel Keller/From The Grapevine)
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Buy tickets: Brandenburg Festival candlelit concert – 27 Sept 2018
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Allegri Miserere by candlelight
Support Full Circle Fund Therapies through this special concert, part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London
Thursday, 27 September 2018, 9.30pm
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square
Tickets: £15, in aid of Full Circle Fund Therapies
Full Circle and the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London are delighted to welcome Ralph Allwood and his talented Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir for a very special evening of music in aid of Full Circle Therapies.
The concert, which will last approximately one hour without an interval and be performed by candlelight, will feature some of the most profound texts ever set to music in works spanning almost a millennium. The programme will include Allegri’s haunting Miserere with its remarkable stratospheric solo, and Purcell’s reflective Hear my prayer, O Lord.
THE FESTIVAL & THE VENUE
The Brandenburg Choral Festival of London bring together choirs and vocal ensembles of different shapes and sizes, and from every musical background to perform in Central London venues. Thanks to their generosity, Full Circle will benefit from every ticket we sell through Eventbrite (linked from this page).
There has been a church on the site of St-Martin-in-the-Fields since medieval times but the present building was designed by James Gibbs in the neoclassical style and completed in 1726 at a cost of £33,661.00. It is dedicated to St Martin of Tours and today is famous for both its work with homeless people and its programme of concerts , which number over 350 per year.
THE CHOIR AND CONDUCTOR
Ralph Allwood MBE DMus was for 26 years Director of Music at Eton College and is now a freelance choral director. His accomplishments are too numerous to mention, but include enabling thousands of young people from very diverse backgrounds to experience the joy of singing through courses and choirs in London and beyond. His current role includes teaching at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, home to the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir.
Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir
The choir has existed in its current format since 2001, when Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance became heavily involved in the provision of music at the Chapel. Trinity Laban is the only conservatoire in the world with a chapel choir, which is now regarded as one of the most outstanding sacred music ensembles in London.
The concert features sacred a cappella works spanning almost a millennium from the medieval composer Hildegard von Bingen’s O Ecclesia up to more recent times with Arvo Pärt’s …which was the Son of… composed in 2000. The programme opens with Gregorio Allegri’s hauntingly beautiful Miserere, complete with its mesmerising stratospheric solo, and will also includes contemplative works by Henry Purcell and Renaissance motets by Gombert, Lobo and Mouton.
Gregorio Allegri (1582 – February 1652) Miserere mei, Deus
Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts
Alonso Lobo (1555 – 1617) Versa est in luctum
Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) Hear my prayer, O Lord
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Familiar face takes over at Furrows
A Shropshire motor group has appointed a new general manager at its Oswestry dealership – but he already knows the company better than most.
Richard Pettener has taken over the reins at the Whittington Road branch of Furrows, and he has worked for the company for the past 26 years.
“I’ve worked for Furrows for many years and held many different roles in the after-sales departments,” said Richard.
“And now I’m delighted to have been given the chance to step up to the challenge to oversee the transition of our business in Oswestry as we unveil a brand new showroom in the coming weeks.
“I will also be focusing on the co-ordination, development and management of the dealership, as well as managing the service department.
“These are extremely exciting times at Furrows of Oswestry, and it’s a real honour to have been chosen to lead the team as we prepare for the future.”
Richard has previously led the service teams at Furrows dealerships in Telford and Shrewsbury, introducing new initiatives and working practices both front-of-house and in the workshops to develop the customer service the team offers.
He also completed his Master of Science degree in the automotive industry after studying at Loughborough University Business School as a post graduate alongside his full-time job.
Furrows Dealer Principal Dave Farthing said: “We’re very proud of Richard and his dedication and commitment to Furrows over the years – he was the perfect choice to take over at Oswestry.
“With such massive changes on the horizon for the dealership, we’re pleased he’ll be at the helm during our transitional phase and we hope his experience will ensure a smooth and stress-free changeover.”
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Getting Started 1-2-3
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Immigration & Naturalization
When did you ancestors come to this country? Was it during the Colonial period or during the Potato Famine? Why did they come; for religious or political reasons, to avoid military conscription? Were they indentured servants, convicted felons, slaves, political prisoners? Whatever the reason, you have a good opportunity to find where they came from, the departure point, the port of arrival, and who else was on the passenger ship list. There was no law before 1820 that ships passenger lists should be kept but some records do exist. Records of ships' manifests exist from 1820-1959 but not all of these manifests are indexed by name. Some records have been published while the majority is unindexed in the National Archives. For some years and ports, the National Archives has soundexed the passenger ship lists. Soundex is an index by sound of name, i.e., all variations of MOORE, MOOR, MORE, MOUR, etc. are grouped together.
By the end of the nineteenth century, more than seventy percent of all immigrants into the United States were coming from central, eastern, and southern Europe. If your ancestor came into this country during this time period, you may find them in the Ellis Island records. There is a searchable database of over twenty-two million names of immigrants, passengers, and crewmembers that came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York from 1892 to 1924. See: www.ellisislandrecords.org.
Remember the first rule of genealogy? Start with yourself and work backwards in time. This rule applies when searching for immigration records. It is advisable to find the naturalization record first. The information on the naturalization records may lead you to the date of arrival and name of the ship. Most often a person naturalized in the town they settled some time after arrival. Naturalization was a two step process, the declaration of intention or "first papers" and then some years later, the petition for citizenship or "final papers." They could start the process in one town, move on to another, and file the final papers in a third town. Papers could be filed in any court. The “first papers” often contain more information than the “final papers.”
The census will help determine if your ancestor was naturalized. See the 1870, 1900, 1910, 1920 or 1930 census records which have citizenship questions. From 1900 on, the year of immigration is on the census record. In 1920, the census taker asked for the year of naturalization.
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To ask these or similar questions, click on Help Me!, fill out the form that comes up, and submit your questions.
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Foreign policy during the Bush administration is an unmitigated disaster
By Michael Carmichael
https://www.globalresearch.ca/foreign-policy-during-the-bush-administration-is-an-unmitigated-disaster/10287
Foreign policy during the Bush administration is an unmitigated disaster that is still unfolding.
Not only, has the Bush White House grotesquely mismanaged the Middle East in what is nothing less than a criminal manner rippling with war crimes and violations of international law streaming across our media in an unceasing barrage — over the last eight years, nothing systematic has been achieved in Africa — an appalling situation characterized by criminal negligence that allowed China to make huge strides on the continent– and, Latin America is totally outraged by US policy it now finds insidious and repugnant.
Over a number of years US actions have alienated the peoples of Latin America. US belligerence under the guise of a “war against drugs” has transformed the nation of Colombia into a narco-state. Early in the Bush administration, blatant US attempts to fabricate a coup in Venezuela backfired badly. Later attempts to rig the Venezuelan elections to topple Hugo Chavez via an operation under the command of Mark Penn and his firm, Penn & Schoen, fell flat on their face.
The neocon Democratic consultants: Stanley Greenberg, James Carville and Jeremy Rosner produced a pathetic plan that was little more than an ill-conceived plot to rig the Bolivian presidential election against Evo Morales that became a documentary film, Our Brand is Crisis. The plot did little to disable Morales, who swept into power in the next election largely fueled by the common knowledge that the US had opposed him via an elaborate series of plots, plans and ploys.
Condoleezza Rice’s latest contributions to the egregious malfeasance in US foreign policy in Latin America (and elsewhere) now include the involvement of the State Department in plots to initiate a new wave of coups d’etat and political assassinations in Bolivia and Venezuela.
As usual, the US media is oblivious to the crescendo of Latin American criticism now hitting the Bush government in the international media.
Another topic never discussed in US media is that foreign policy is playing a major role in undermining the US economy and the collapsing dollar.
I applaud the letter by Tony Benn, John Pilger, Harold Pinter and others who oppose the deliberate destabilization of democratically elected governments in Latin America. (posted on Global Research).
Copyright © Michael Carmichael, Global Research, 2008
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November 6th, 2017 | Written by Doreen Edelman
Global Sanctions Regimes Ramp Up Against North Korea
RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TEST: The UN unanimously passed severe sanctions in Resolution 2375.
UN resolution increased inspection requirements of ships engaging with North Korean ports.
UN resolution banned North Korean textile exports and prohibited sale of natural gas to North Korea.
Trump executive order authorized sanctions against financial institutions involved with the North Korean regime.
The United Nations, the United States, and governments around the world have sought to update, implement and impose severe economic sanctions regimes against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in response to Pyongyang’s continued development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.
This article will provide a brief timeline and overview of the most recent updates to international sanctions regimes targeting the North Korean economy.
US and UN Sanctions Expansion
On August 2, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law a wide-ranging sanctions measure titled The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), expanding current sanction regimes against Iran, Russia and North Korea. Pursuant to CAATSA’s Title III, Korean Interdiction and Modernization of Sanctions Act (KIMSA), President Trump was authorized to impose new sanctions on non-US persons for certain North Korean-related transactions.
The UN Security Council then unanimously passed the US-drafted Resolution 2371 on August 6, which imposed fresh sanctions on North Korea targeting $1 billion worth of the nation’s primary exports, including coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore and seafood. It also called for a resumption of talks between the US, China, Japan, Russia, North Korea and South Korea, with the ultimate goal of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula.
North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on September 3, 2017, prompting the UN to pass Resolution 2375 on September 11. Driven by the efforts of US Ambassador Nikki Haley, the unanimously-backed sanctions regulations were severe, but not as far-reaching as the Trump administration initially had hoped for after receiving pushback in the negotiation process from its Russian and Chinese counterparts. However, the resolution did increase inspection requirements of ships engaging with North Korean ports, banned North Korean textile exports, capped sales of crude oil and prohibited the sale of natural gas into North Korea.
Executive Order 13810 and OFAC Update
On September 21, President Trump issued an executive order (EO) that authorized a wide variety of sanctions against numerous individuals, entities and foreign financial institutions involved with the “provocative” and “destabilizing” North Korean regime. Following the September UNSC Resolution and EO 13810, on September 26 the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published updated guidance, issued new general licenses, and designated 26 individuals and eight banks as Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDNs) under the North Korean sanctions regime.
EO 13810 also expanded the categories of conduct that can result in a designation on the SDN list, and requires foreign entities to cut ties with persons who operate in a variety of North Korean industries or risk being designated as blocked parties themselves, subject to forfeiture actions by the US Department of Justice.
The expanded list of vulnerable individuals and entities includes those who:
Operate in the North Korean construction, energy, financial services, fishing, information technology, manufacturing, medical, mining, textile or transportation industries;
Own, control or operate any port in North Korea, including any seaport, airport or land port of entry;
Have engaged in at least one significant importation from or exportation to North Korea of any goods, services or technology; and,
Are a North Korean citizen, including any North Korean person that has engaged in commercial activity that generates revenue for the Government of North Korea. In addition, the EO prohibits aircraft and vessels that have engaged with North Korea within the prior 180 days from entry into the US.
EO 13810 further authorizes the imposition of secondary sanctions on foreign financial institutions that conduct significant transactions related to North Korea or with a blocked party, regardless of whether the institution has any connection to the US This expansion will result in considerable risk for US companies that engage in business with entities and institutions in North Korea’s major trading partner countries, particularly Russia and China.
Fresh Sanctions from the EU and UN
On October 16, the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union (EU) adopted autonomous sanctions measures to complement and reinforce the September UN Resolution 2375. The new sanctions include a total ban on EU investment in all sectors of North Korea’s economy, as well as a total ban on the sale of refined petroleum products and crude oil. EU member states additionally agreed not to renew work authorizations for North Korean nationals present on their territory, with certain exemptions for refugees. On October 23, the UN Security Council on North Korea expanded its current export prohibitions, adding 32 items with both civilian and military uses to the banned goods and technologies list.
The US House of Representatives approved the Otto Warmbier North Korea Nuclear Sanctions Act on October 24. The measure passed overwhelmingly 415-2, and was described as the “most far-reaching sanctions ever directed at Pyongyang” by the bill’s sponsor Congressman Andy Barr. Named in honor of the American student who died after spending more than a year in North Korean custody, the Otto Warmbier North Korea Nuclear Sanctions Act directs the US Treasury Department to impose strict conditions and oversight on foreign financial institutions that engage with North Korea. The bill additionally authorizes the Treasury Department to cut off financial assistance to any international government that knowingly fails to prevent economic transactions that benefit the DPRK regime.
China and Chinese financial institutions are likely the primary target of this most recent round of sanctions legislation.
Amidst escalating tensions between Pyongyang and Washington, the most recent sanctions have expanded the extraterritorial scope of available enforcement mechanisms in the current unpredictable climate of international relations. The geopolitical instability of North Korea will continue to invite harsh economic sanctions from around the world. The bottom line is that businesses will have to spend more time focused on due diligence and documentation to ensure compliance.
Doreen M. Edelman is a shareholder and co-leader of the Global Business Team at Baker Donelson (Washington, D.C.). With more than 25 years of experience in import and export compliance, foreign investment and global expansion, she advises both US and foreign-based companies on international business matters.
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Kelleys Island Historic Home, Kelleys Island, Ohio (D)
Kelleys Island is located on the western basin of Lake Erie and is a very popular vacation destination. The Island is over 2,600 acres and chock full of Historical Homes and scenic points of interest. This Home Tour starts with the Kelleys Mansion and continues through the downtown area and finishes with the Sennish House.
This article is featured in the app "GPSmyCity: Walks in 1K+ Cities" on iTunes App Store and Google Play. You can download the app to your mobile device to read the article offline and create a self-guided walking tour to visit the attractions featured in this article. The app turns your mobile device into a personal tour guide and it works offline, so no data plan is needed when traveling abroad.
Create Your Own Self-Guided Walks in Kelleys Island
Guide Name: Kelleys Island Historic Home
Guide Location: USA » Kelleys Island
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Article (D))
# of Attractions: 17
Author: Stephen Merkel
Author Bio: The Tour Author, Steve, is the Vice-President of the Kelleys Island Chamber of Commerce and has been a property owner on the Island for over 25 years. While on the Island, I operate my own Water Taxi Charter, work for The Kelleys Island Ferry Boat Line and have always been involved with many Island Activities and Events. Kelleys Island is a wonderful place to call home and the phone tour of some of the Historical Homes will give you an appreciation of our past residential home history.
Sight(s) Featured in This Guide:
Kelleys Mansion-Tour Stop #1
Inscription Rock State Memorial-Tour Stop #2
Koster's Dock-Unique Marker Club-Tour Stop #3
The Pape House-Tour Stop #4
The Himmelein House-Tour Stop #5
The Beatty House-Tour Stop #6
The Cricket Lodge-Tour Stop #7
The Timothy House-Tour Stop #8
The Kelleys Cottage-Tour Stop #9
Datus Kelley House-Tour Stop #10
The Island House-Tour Stop #11
The South Side School-Tour Stop #12
Schock House-Tour Stop #13
Zion Methodist Church-Tour Stop #14
Old Stone Church and Kelleys Island Historical Association-Tour Stop #15
St. Michael's Catholic Church-Tour Stop Tour #16
Sennish House-Tour Stop #17
1) Kelleys Mansion-Tour Stop #1
Begun in 1862 and completed in 1867, this fine house, constructed of locally quarried limestone, was then and still is one of the most impressive structures of the Lake Erie Islands.
Designed by J. B. Merrick of Sandusky for Addison Kelley, son of Datus, the interior features include carved woods of various kinds (cherry, butternut, chestnut, and black walnut), magnificent stained and etched glass, and a self-supporting oak spiral staircase, which is the centerpiece of the house.
The mansion remained in the Kelley family until 1928 when it was sold to the short-lived Cleveland Sportsman's Club. In 1933, it was acquired by the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Michigan, serving as a retirement home for nuns, and, later, as a summer camp for girls. It was during this period that a number of adjacent buildings were constructed.
The Kelleys Mansion is currently privately owned and is not open for tours.
2) Inscription Rock State Memorial-Tour Stop #2
This large limestone rock is on the south shore of Kelleys Island,near the Kelleys Mansion.. The remains of at least two Native American villages were found very near the rock. Archaeological and historical research suggests that until about 1643 AD, Algonquian-speaking groups affiliated with the "Fire Nation" confederacy populated the Sandusky region. Historical references describe a water route of travel via Lake Ontario to the western basin of Lake Erie, an area rich in beaver pelts. It is assumed it was these pre-historic groups or members of roving bands of Iroquoian peoples (Neutral, Erie, Cat) after 1643 that carved the rock’s markings.
The 32 x 21’ surface of the rock is covered with one of the finest examples of aboriginal art in the Great Lakes region. Known as a petroglyph, no one is sure what the unusual drawings depicted. The most widely accepted theory is that the large rock was used as a "message stone" where various Native Americans would make drawings,noting that they’d been there, how the hunting or fishing had been and/or where they were headed next. The markings have been so eroded by exposure to the weather that it is difficult to see them. In 1969 The Ohio Historical Society erected a cover to attempt to preserve the rock. A small-portion plaster replica of the accurate and detailed sketches done in the 1850’s is at the site.
3) Koster's Dock-Unique Marker Club-Tour Stop #3
Originally built in 1883 as a wine dock by Merman Koster, it was enlarged in 1889 to facilitate shipment of his products. Later, when the Koster Winery went out of business, the dock was used by the Sweet Valley, Monarch, and Meiers Wine Companies. From 1907 to 1945 it was owned by the Kelleys Island Lime and Transport Compan. From 1921 to 1955 it was used by the Lay Brothers Fish Company. In the latter year, the dock was taken over by the Kelleys Island Fish Producers Co-op as a parking and transfer station. Since commercial fishing ceased to be profitable in the 1960's, it has been used for other purposes: marina, chartered sports fishing boats, etc. and is now owned by the Unique Marker Club.
4) The Pape House-Tour Stop #4
Built in 1886 as a two-lane bowling alley, with a two-story saloon in front, this was an auxiliary building to the Himmelein House. In addition to the bowling alleys, there also was a billiards room.
After the Himmelein house ceased operation as a hotel, the two-story saloon in front of the present building was razed and an entrance porch was added to the remaining structure. The building then was converted into a summer cottage by Richard Himmelein (son of, John) and his friend, Fritz W. Pape. In 1943, a further alteration was made when a 30-foot section to the rear of the building was demolished.
The building is still used by the descendants of Fritz Pape as a summer residence. It is not open to the public.
5) The Himmelein House-Tour Stop #5
Over the years, Kelleys Island has had many fine hostelries, but none more famous than the Himmelein House. The first section was built about 1859 by Johann (John) Himmelein as a private residence. However, by 1870, census records show that it was being used as a hotel.
By 1890, after enlarging the original structure by the addition of two wings and a third-story, the Himmelein House reached the size it is today. For nearly three decades following the renovation and enlargement, it served as a center for rest and entertainment of summer guests, including Grover Cleveland and William Howard Taft. In addition, Mr. Himmelein and, later, his son-in-law, Gus Sun, were both nationally known theatrical booking agents who not only entertained many of their clients here, but, also, sponsored professional performances on the Island.
The house was sold to a new owner and is now a private residence.
6) The Beatty House-Tour Stop #6
In 1948, Gottfried Schock, a master stonemason, built this impressive house for Henry and Rosella Beatty.
Henry Beatty, a descendant of German immigrant, Louis Beatty (originally Ludwig Bette), was a prominent citizen and businessman on the Island, one of the last of the successful commercial fishermen of the Western Basin of Lake Erie. In addition, Mr. Beatty served on the Village Council and as Mayor (1948-1958), as the first ranger-administrator of the Kelleys Island State Park and on the Board of Public Affairs, which operates the Island's water system.
The house itself is constructed of hand-cut, locally quarried limestone and, like most of Gottfried Schock's work, is a monument to his craftsmanship. It was the last major project undertaken by Mr. Schock prior to his retirement.
The Henry Beatty House is a private residence and is not open to the public.
7) The Cricket Lodge-Tour Stop #7
Known as "Cricket Lodge," this house was built by John Himmelein & his wife, vaudeville actress Beatrice Earle, in 1906. Dorothy Himmelein Sun, daughter of John Himmelein, had married Gus Sun, Jr., nationally known theatrical promoter and booking agent. Over the years, guests to the home often were world famous musicians, actors, and actresses of the legitimate theatre. Later additions to the house greatly added to its beauty and potential for entertaining.
In 1985, Dorothy Sun sold "Cricket Lodge" to Chris and Frank Yako, who now operate it as a bed and breakfast. It is located near Downtown and has a private dock for guests to enjoy scenic views of the lake.
8) The Timothy House-Tour Stop #8
This house, a modified French Romanesque style, was built in 1683 by Henry Kelley, grandson of Irad Kelley. He had begun his career as a clerk at "The Lodge,"now known as “Captain's Corner”. but, in 1900, became Assistant Superintendent of the Kelleys Island Lime and Transport Company.
Since 1910, the house has had a series of owners and residents, its next to last being Irma Dodge Conkle, who, for many years, was the manager of the Kelleys Island Dock and Steamboat Company. Most recently, called "Timothy House," it is privately owned and maintained.
9) The Kelleys Cottage-Tour Stop #9
This "Steamboat Gothic" cottage was built in 1861 by William Dean Kelley, youngest son of Datus Kelley. It is one of several houses constructed by members of the Kelley family located along the Island's south shore.
A rather common Gothic design of its time, with a two-storey center section flanked by single storey wings, it has remained in the Kelley family since it was erected, for the most part used as a summer residence.
Its builder, William Kelley, had served as a teacher in the Island school and was a veteran of the Civil War. His son, William Datus Kelley, was a civil engineer who surveyed a route for the Intercontinental Railroad through Ecuador and Peru. His grandson, William, was associated with the Nickel Plate Railroad. The present owner maintains it as a private summer residence.
10) Datus Kelley House-Tour Stop #10
This is the oldest house on Kelleys Island. Built in 1835 by Addison Kelley for his father, Datus, the original portion is of squared log construction. About 1850, frame additions were made and, today, it resembles a flew England saltbox style.
Over the years, the house has been adapted to the living styles of its various owners. Today it is used for various business activities.
11) The Island House-Tour Stop #11
Built in 1876 by Henry Trischman, a German immigrant from Hesse, this large, Italianate-styled house stands as a tribute to its builder's success in his adopted country.
Trischman, with his wife and brother, had come to the United States sometime in the 1860's. After a short residence in Sandusky, they came to the Island and started a butcher business in what is now the Island Market. Trischman not only operated his own slaughterhouse, but fattened his own livestock on a 35-acre plot on Monaghan Road. In addition, he also owned a vineyard and was one of the founders of the Sweet Valley Wine Company. As a public-spirited citizen, he served both as a township trustee and as a member of the school board.
In recent years, the house has been converted and enlarged to serve as a restaurant, The Island House, without spoiling its basic architectural integrity.
12) The South Side School-Tour Stop #12
The South Side School was built in 1853 to replace a frame building, which had stood on a site nearby, which had been constructed in 1837. The first floor housed the elementary students; the second story had classrooms for the 7th and 8th grades.
The South Side School was closed in 1901, when the Estes School opened and all Island classes were consolidated there. The building was sold and became a private residence, which it remains to this day. For a time, c. 1950-1935, an addition to the west side of the stone structure was used as the Kelleys Island Public Library.
13) Schock House-Tour Stop #13
Gottfried Schock (later spelled both Godfrey and Godfried) was trained as a stone mason in Germany before his immigration to Kelleys Island in 1918. Though at first he worked in his cousins' vineyards, within a short time he employed his masonry skills both on the Island and the mainland. On Kelleys, he built the kitchen and dormitory buildings at the Kelley Mansion, the War Memorial in the Village Park, and five fine Island houses, including his own on Division Street. In addition in his forty-five year active career he built two churches (one in Marblehead and one in Detroit) and constructed countless decorative and functional stone structures, ranging from fireplaces, steps, walls, etc. His artistic skills are nowhere more apparent than demonstrated in his own home.
14) Zion Methodist Church-Tour Stop #14
This building was constructed in 1893. Its membership was composed of a number of Protestants on the Island and, at the time the present building was erected, the congregation was associated with the Evangelical United Brethren sect. Soon after, though, it became a part of the Congregational Church of Ohio. For many years, it was known locally as the Community Church, but in recent times has been a charge of the United Methodist Church. Though its membership, because of the Island's year round population loss, has dwindled , during the summer months Sunday attendance fills the pews to overflowing. At the present time, it is the only Protestant church in operation on the Island. Renovations and improvements over the years have seen the building enlarged and modernized. It is served by a part-time lay pastor.
15) Old Stone Church and Kelleys Island Historical Association-Tour Stop #15
In 1865, German‑speaking Protestants on the Island organized the German Reformed Church. Two years later, they dedicated this church building which had been built with their own labor from stone quarried on their own property. Regular services were held in the church until the early 1900's, by which time most of the members were gone. The building, complete with pews, altar furnishings, and other accoutrements was unused, except for meeting of a Ladies' Aid Society.
In September, 1980, the Kelleys Island Historical Association was formed and, the following year, a lease-purchase arrangement was made with the Northwest Ohio Association of the United Church of Christ, which held the deed to the property. In 1986, the Historical Association gained outright ownership and, after much restoring and refurbishing, currently uses it as part of the headquarters and museum complex.
This complex organizes,maintains and displays artifacts, photographs and documents of Kelleys Island. It is an all volunteer association and is a fantastic source of Island information for both residents and Visitors.
16) St. Michael's Catholic Church-Tour Stop Tour #16
Organized in 1861, the congregation which was to become St. Michael's met in private homes and was served by visiting priests. Two years later, the "little stone church" was constructed by the forty-four families of the newly formed parish. However, by 1915, the membership had doubled and St. Michael's was considerably enlarged. In recent years, the interior has been remodeled along simpler lines. The altar and communion rail came from an old mission church in Sandusky. From 1876 to 1936, the St. Michael's congregation operated a parochial school in a separate building across the street. In recent years, it has been served by visiting priests though, for much of its history, resident pastors ministered to the congregation.
17) Sennish House-Tour Stop #17
The Sennish house was built by Addison Kelley, for his oldest son,Frederick during the Civil War.
Frederick Kelley died in 1864 and his widow, Angeline Woodford Kelley, became the owner of the house.The house changed ownership over many years and eventually was owned and maintained by Jim and Anne Sennish.
The Sennish house concludes the Tour of 18 interesting sites centered around the downtown area of Kelleys Island. This tour is a small sample of the dozens of historic homes on Kelleys Island.
Thank you for visiting Kelleys Island and please return again in the near future!
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How the Last of the Green Belt Was Saved:
A History of the Committee to Save the Green Belt
Our city’s name—Greenbelt—comes from the 800 acres of forest that once surrounded the town. Embedding a town in a green swath of forest was one of Franklin Roosevelt’s fundamental principles in designing Green Towns. As time passed, the 800 acres that defined the town was sold and developed piece by piece until only 225 acres remained undeveloped. This remaining land was often referred to as Parcels 1 and 2 but affectionately referred to by many citizens as The Great North Woods.
Since the early 1960’s, various proposals for development of Parcels 1 and 2 were suggested. At one point, a portion of Parcel 1 and much of Parcel 2 ( a total of 72 acres) was acquired by Prince George’s County as a potential site for a new school complex. Eventually, in response to citizen’s interventions, one school, now Eleanor Roosevelt High School, was located on the other side of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. The 72 acres continued to be owned by Prince George’s County.
In November 1987, the Greenbelt News Review ran a story with the headline, “ Townhouses, Detached Homes Proposed for Undeveloped Parcel 1 in North End”.
As you can imagine, many of the town’s people were very sad. This proposal alone would have devoured nearly half (100+ acres) of what was left of the remaining Green Belt.
Even worse, plans were soon underway to develop much of the remaining forest land (the 72 acres owned by the county), into a sprawling county –owned sports complex with up to eight lighted ball fields, a 300-car parking lot and a snack bar.
As you can imagine, the townspeople were really very sad.
Within weeks of the News Review article, Ruth Kastner and Paul Downs formed a citizens’ group, the Committee to Save the Green Belt. They went to the city council but were informed that the 100 acres no longer belonged to the city – it had been sold as the rest of the green belt had been. This included Parcel 2.
The Committee jumped in and worked feverishly to save the woods, offering woods walks, bird walks, Halloween Tours, Labor Day booths, and countless other ways to introduce the beautiful forest to those who did not yet understand its priceless legacy. These efforts continued for many years.
Through the dedicated efforts of Bill Rich, Yoni Siegel and others, the Committee helped elect Rodney Roberts to city council. Through the years, with Rodney Roberts on council and the Committee’s relentless public awareness campaigns, the group became a force to be reckoned with – they simply would not go away. The Committee grew, consistently supported by the citizens of Greenbelt.
The Committee acted on the county-owned land (72 acres) and the remaining Parcel 2 land. Public pressure led to victory, when first the city bought the remaining Parcel 2 land and then the county agreed to return the 72 acres to the city in 1989.
Hundreds of residents supported the Committee when it urged council to use condemnation laws (squatter’s rights) to buy back the land. And so, in 1990, the people of Greenbelt recovered the land that was the city’s remaining historic legacy of the Green Belt.
At last, all of the land – the last of the Green Belt – belonged to the town.
So Greenbelters were happy – for a while.
However, the battle was not yet over. Now that the city had re-acquired the land, the woods seemed more vulnerable than ever. Almost like clockwork, about every other year for the next 13 years, people who didn’t think much of Roosevelt’s idea would come along with new ideas for “what to do with the woods”. Ideas like: “Let’s put a 100 unit senior citizen apartment building in the woods,” or “Let’s expand ball fields into the woods,” or “Let’s build a road through the woods,” or “Let’s move the Public Works storage department into the woods,” or “Let’s make the woods a mountain biking destination.” It seemed like “open season” on the woods.
Yet again and again, the Committee and stalwart citizens came out on freezing winter nights to fill council chambers and demand that the woods be saved from these new ideas. Often there was standing room only in the council chambers.
The Committee battled these threats year-round for more than a decade, through the 1990s and beyond. Every threat to destroy the forest further galvanized the citizens.
Finally, in 2003, after nearly a half century of citizen interventions* to save the woods, the Greenbelt City Council (Rodney Roberts, Mayor J Davis, Alan Turnbull, Tom White and Ed Putens) voted 5-0 to create a 225-acre Forest Preserve to protect the woods for generations to come.
So this year, we honor the tireless efforts of the members of the Committee to Save the Green Belt. In honoring them, we celebrate our entire Greenbelt community – citizens, council members, young and old – who were so noble as to care for its forested lands. And we thank those who gave so much for this forest – for this home of so many homes – over so many years.
If the Committee and the citizens of Greenbelt had not been there, virtually all of the Green Belt would have disappeared forever, melding into an all too familiar landscape that carries the need for more and more houses, more highways and more shopping malls a little too far. Instead, we have a priceless legacy: an historic urban forest saved by citizens, for the pleasure and well-being of the wildlife, our children and all of Greenbelt, for generations to come.
“Be With the Woods, but Most Important, Let the Woods Be.”
-Paul Downs
* The effort to save these woods includes the challenges met successfully in the 1960’s when the 72 acres procured by the county was planned as the sight for the Eleanor Roosevelt High School, which now resides on the other side of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway with access provided by the walking bridge.
Support the Greenbelt Forest Preserve
Show your support for the woods with a handmade Keep it Wild and Wooded Bracelet or an original art celebration t-shirt. Visit our Support Us page for more details.
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Gavin Newsom is the Governor of California, former Lieutenant Governor of California, and former Mayor of San Francisco. Newsom is widely recognized for his willingness to lead – repeatedly developing, advocating, and implementing innovative and groundbreaking solu
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The Climate Passport program takes off today at San Francisco International Airport with special kiosks that allow travelers to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their flights and buy carbon offsets to address the impacts.
San Francisco Looks to LEED as the Path to Green Jobs and Buildings
The city of San Francisco now has over 120 architects, engineers and construction managers who are LEED accredited professionals and are shepherding more than 40 LEED-registered municipal projects through the green building review process.
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Since San Francisco's solar energy incentive program GoSolarSF launched last year, the city has seen a 450 percent increase in applications over the previous year; putting the city in third place over much larger and sunnier California cities, and providing environmental and economic boosts despite a sluggish economy.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signs one of the nation's more stringent municipal recycling measures into law today. Provisions in the new ordinance make it mandatory for businesses and residents to compost food scraps -- the first requirement of its kind in the U.S.
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San Francisco, which passed the first mandatory recycling and composting laws in the U.S., just last week, launches an iPhone version of the popular web-based EcoFinder tool to help residents recycle.
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We offer personalized and group tours for Protestants in Israel
Our tours provide a mix of visits to religious, historical, and archaeological sites.
The attached itinerary is an example and can be tailored to your personal needs.
Day 1: Airport - Tel Aviv Welcome to Israel!
Arrival at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv.
Welcome by a representative of G&S Travel and transfer to Tel Aviv.
Start your Holy Land experience by sightseeing in Tel Aviv and Jaffa.
Visit Old Jaffa with its ancient port, as well as the traditional house of Simon the Tanner where Peter had a vision.
Walk through the ancient streets of Jaffa, check out the small artists' shops and studios and feel like you are walking in a unique Middle Eastern city.
If time permits – take an afternoon walk in the city of Tel Aviv. Get to know the fascinating history of the city while walking in the picturesque streets of the Neve Tzedek neighborhood. Finish your day by 'joining' the declaration of Israel in the Independence Hall in Rotschild Street.
Day 2: Caesarea - Haifa
Open your eyes to the sight of a lovely, relaxing view of the Mediterranean Sea. Start the day by driving along the shoreline to Caesarea.
See the remains of the once magnificent port built by Herod the Great as well as the ancient theater and the hippodrome. See the site where Paul appeared before Festus and King Agrippa before he was sent to Rome, and simply enjoy the air and the view of the Mediterranean Sea.
Drive to Haifa, the capital city of the north of Israel.
Visit Muhraka on Mount Carmel. From the top of the mountain, you will see the site where Elijah challenged the prophets of Ba'al and enjoy the magnificent view of the Jezreel Valley.
Drive along Panorama Road, visit the Bahai Gardens - World Center of the Bahai denomination.
Drive to Tiberias on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
Overnight: Tiberias
Day 3: Meggido - Cana - Nazareth - Sephoris
Open the curtains in the hotel and reveal the sight of the magical shores of the Sea of Galilee.
Drive to Meggido, known also as Armageddon, see the impressive remains of this "chariot city" from the time of King Solomon, as well as the great water system, built by King Ahab.
Drive to Nazareth and view the city from Mt. Precipice; visit the Church of Annunciation, St. Joseph’s Church, and Mary’s Well - the only source of water in ancient Nazareth.
Drive to Cana (Wedding Church) where Jesus performed the miracle of the Marriage in Cana.
Visit Nazareth Village, based on solid New Testament scholarship and the most up-to-date archaeology. Nazareth Village brings to life a farm and Galilean village, recreating Nazareth as it was 2,000 years ago.
If time allows, visit Sephoris to get a glimpse of an Hellenistic town, where it is logically assumed that young Jesus spent some time.
Day 4: Sea of Galilee - Tiberias
Spend the whole day on the marvelous shores of the Sea of Galilee.
Start the day on the Mount of Beatitudes to recall the Sermon on the Mount. Go down by foot (optional) to the shore, enjoy the view and recall some of Jesus's most famous parables, which were probably inspired by these surroundings. Visit Tabgha, the site of the multiplication of bread and fish, and see the outstanding Byzantine mosaic floor of the Church of Multiplications and the Mensa Christi Church.
Continue to Capernaum to see the town that Jesus chose as his home. Visit the recently excavated site of Magdala where a 1st century synagogue was discovered.
If time allows, visit Kursi, on the other side of the lake to see where Jesus healed the men possessed by demons.
Take a Boat Ride in the sunset, on a boat resembling that of ancient times.
Day 5: Golan Heights - Dan Nature Reserve
Drive to the northern area of Israel. Visit the beautiful Dan Nature Reserve and see one of the most important water sources of the Jordan river as well as the remains of the Israelite Temple and the impressive Canaanite Gate, known as Abraham's Gate. Continue to Banyas (Caesarea Philippi), another beautiful nature reserve and one of the three tributaries of the Jordan River.
If time allows, drive to the Golan Heights.
Visit the Mount Bental lookout towards Syria, Lebanon, and the Golan Heights, and hear the famous stories of the 1948 War of Independence. Climb to the highest point to get an amazing view of the whole area.
Day 6: Beth Shean - Jericho - Jordan River
Start the morning by heading south. Drive to Beth Shean (Scythopolis). Climb the mound where the corpses of King Saul and his sons were hung by the Philistines after being slain on Mount Gilboa. Recall the tragic story and view the surroundings. Visit the excavations from the Roman Byzantine periods (the Roman theater, streets, temples, and much more), and see one of the Decapolis. If time allows, visit the ancient synagogue of Beit Alfa with its beautiful mosaics.
Continue south through the Jordan Valley to the traditional baptism site at Qasr el Yahud, situated near Jericho. Drive to Jericho, visit the excavations of Tal-El-Sultan. View Mount Temptation. Pass by the famous sycamore tree that Zacchaeus climbed.
Overnight: The Dead Sea
Day 7: Qumran - Dead Sea - Masada
Drive to Qumran, visit the site of the Essene community, and view the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
Continue to the Ein Gedi desert oasis with David’s Waterfalls and recall the story of David trying to hide from King Saul.
Drive to the Masada Fortress. Ascend and descend by cable car, take a walking tour of the fortress and learn why the site became a symbol of Jewish heroism.
Continue to the shores of the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth! Experience floating on the Dead Sea and cover yourself with healthy mud!
Drive to Jerusalem.
Day 8: Bethlehem - Jerusalem
Visit the Israel Museum to view the “Shrine of the Book” (exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls) and a model of Jerusalem from the time of Herod the Great.
Visit "Yad Vashem", the Memorial museum for the victims of the Holocaust.
Drive to Bethlehem and visit the Church of Nativity and the Shepherds Fields.
Day 9: Old City, Jerusalem
Drive to the Mount of Olives for a panoramic view of Jerusalem. Walk down the Mount and see the old Jewish cemetery, then continue to the Garden of Gethsemane. Walk through the Old City. Visit the Pool of Bethesda at the St. Anna Church. Continue through the Via Dolorosa, Lithostrotos, and Ecce Homo Arc, to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Visit Mount Zion, including the Tomb of David and the Room of the Last Supper.
Walk through the Jewish Quarter to see the Western Wall and the "Cardo Maximus", a Roman street.
Visit the Temple Square with the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque (if possible).
Finish your day with a visit to the Garden Tomb.
Day 10: Jerusalem
Start your day by visiting the City of David with the Shiloah Tunnel. The City of David is an archeological site that is considered to be the original urban core of ancient Jerusalem.
Cross the street and visit the Davidson Center, an archeological site that has an extraordinary variety of findings from the days of the Second Temple.
Conclude your visit with a fascinating tour through the Western Wall Tunnels and experience the life of the people of Jerusalem in ancient times.
Attend the closing dinner and receive a Christian Certificate.
Day 11: Airport
Transfer to Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv for the return flight.
Shalom until the next time in the Holy Land!
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We are so blessed week in and week out to be studying together the Word of God and have its truths opened to our hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit. What a tremendous, tremendous privilege it is. Every text that we come to as the months and years go by carries with it such great truth, such heart-searching truth, such life-changing truth. And I, I find that the adventure of my own preparation each week is an exhilarating joy.
This week, however - as was last week - is a bit hard for me to preach because I'm talking about what I do in talking about the qualifications for one who is a pastor. And I want you to understand that I come to this pulpit humbly, and I come to this pulpit not at all advocating myself as the pattern or the model for these things. I come to the pulpit as one who is really myself under the authority of what the Scripture says, and I must bring it to bear upon my own life, so this is indeed an exercise in my own spiritual life. I have been through this text now for days and days and it has searched out my own heart, as do all of those that particularly pertain to the ministry and those who are qualified. And whatever God has done in my life in ministry, whatever he is doing and shall do in the future, is strictly and only due to His grace, which is abundant in me and for which I give Him all the glory.
We're studying Titus chapter 1 and we're looking at verses 5 to 9, which give us the required character for a pastor or an elder. We are examining what kind of man the Lord wants to lead His church. This instruction is explicit, unarguable, it is not negotiable. It is simple and straightforward. It tells us precisely, without equivocation, that there are certain men who fit as leaders in the Lord's church and there are certain men who do not. It is crucial for the life of the church, the future of the church, that it might continue to become more and more like Jesus Christ, that the right men are its pastors, elders, overseers, leaders.
In general, the role of leadership is one of example. Obviously precept is there, but behind anything we say is what we are. And that is why in this text, starting in verse 5 and running down to verse 9, you don't hear anything about teaching until you come to verse 9. Only as the last category of discussion does the apostle Paul talk about men who are skilled in holding forth the faithful Word. Up until that point, everything has to do with character. The character of the man is the foundation of his preaching and teaching because the pattern of his life is the platform for his proclamation. We are preachers and we are teachers, we are articulators of truth, but at the same time that is done from the platform of a virtuous life. Leadership primarily is example. We are called to live what we preach and teach. We are to set a pattern for others to follow in our own lives, as well as what we say. The apostle Paul reminds us of that in a number of places, as do other New Testament writers. Philippians 3:17, Paul says, "Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us. Follow people who follow me because I follow Christ." That's leadership in the church.
In 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 and verse 9, Paul says that we “offer ourselves as a model for you that you might follow our example.” In 1 Timothy chapter 4 and verse 12, Paul says to Timothy that you are to be an example “in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity,” an example that others can follow. In Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 7, the readers are told to “remember those who led them, who spoke the word,” and they are to “imitate their faith,” follow their life pattern. In 1 Peter 5, Peter says that under shepherds, pastors, are “to be examples to the flock.”
I suppose it's summed up in 1 Corinthians 11:1 where Paul says, "Be ye followers of me as I am of Christ." And so leadership is basically spiritual virtue, spiritual character, spiritual maturity, godliness, holiness, righteousness, integrity of life that sets a pattern for others to follow.
When Paul wants to find a way to illustrate this kind of leadership, when he wants to find some other arena to draw as an analogy for this, interestingly enough he chooses the family. Look at a very important text, 1 Thessalonians chapter 2, 1 Thessalonians chapter 2. Paul here is describing to the Thessalonians the nature of his ministry. And he describes it beginning in verse 7 in some very wonderful terms. First Thessalonians 2:7, "We proved to be gentle among you, as a nursing mother tenderly cares for her own children. Having thus a fond affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us. For you recall, brethren, our labor and hardship, how working night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. You're witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and uprightly and blamelessly we behaved toward you believers; just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory."
Verse 7 mentions a mother, and verse 11 mentions a father. And all around those two are various characteristics of a mother and a father: the gentleness; the nursing mother; the tender care; the fond affection; the giving of our lives to the very dear way in which we treated you; the labor; the hardship; the work; the upright, blameless example; the exhortation, encouragement and imploring of you; all speak of parental activity. We lived with you. We nurtured you. We loved you. We cared for you. We set a pattern for you. We sacrificed for you. We worked for you. We witnessed to you. We exhorted, encouraged, implored you. We wanted you to be worthy and to walk in a worthy way.
There you have the image of the consummate leader in the church. He's not like a CEO in a company, not at all. He is like a father in a family. He is like a mother in a family. He is a combination of both of those in a spiritual parent. He is tender and loving and compassionate. He has a compulsive love which gives its life for the nurturing of others, no matter how great the toil to do so. He is strong; he is persuasive; he is motivating, courageous. He sets the pace for others. He sets the model by example. And this is a parenting kind of picture. He lives a life to be imitated.
The spiritual leader in the church is not primarily a producer as industry calls them, somebody who works hard. He is not primarily a manager, that is, somebody who gets people to work. He is a leader, that is someone who lives a life that others want to copy. That's what leadership is. The producer is somebody who can do a job. The manager is somebody who can mobilize people to accomplish an end. The leader is someone that others want to be like. That's what spiritual leadership is. We're not just producers. I'm not just in the church to produce sermons. We're not just managers. I'm not here to organize and structure and mobilize the church to some accomplished goal. All pastors and elders are here to become patterns that you desire to follow, people you want to become like because they pattern for you the very things they teach from the Word of God. And there's no better way to see that then in the analogy of parenting. And that's why Paul chooses it there in 1 Thessalonians.
Paul many times refers to those that are Christians and saints in his life as his children. John calls them his children in the faith. Peter calls the believers children. Why? Because they all understand that spiritual leadership is a kind of parenting role where you live before people, you set an example before them, as well as teaching, instructing them. They go together.
When you have the responsibility to lead people to Christ and to lead them to sanctification and holiness and to lead them to service for the Lord Jesus Christ, you are fathering them, you are nurturing them, you are parenting them, moving them along. And your life must back up what you say if you're to have the power of integrity and credibility in that effort.
Now I believe that's, that’s really a very important concept to have in mind as you come to the text of Titus chapter 1. Let's go there - Titus chapter 1. Titus says, "For this reason,” verse 5, “I left you in Crete, that you might set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you, namely, if any man be above reproach, a one-woman man” - and now for this morning we look at this statement – “having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion."
Now if you are to be a leader of the Lord's church, if you are to be a father to the family of God as we read about in 1 Thessalonians chapter 2, what better way to qualify yourself then by proving your spiritual leadership in your own family. If you want to know whether a man lives an exemplary life, if you want to know whether he can lead someone to faith in Christ by the power of his own virtue, if you want to know whether he can teach the truth, if you want to know whether he can model it, whether he is consistent, whether he can lead people to salvation, lead them to holiness, lead them to serve God, then look at the most intimate relationships in his life and see if he can do it there. See if he has integrity there. See if the credibility is there. Does a man have integrity and virtue? Does a man have true godliness and righteousness in all his ways? Are the principles that he wants to teach lived out in the most intimate way in his own life? Is he able to lead someone to Christ by the power of his testimony and consistency? Is he trustworthy? Is he godly? Is he virtuous?
You want to know the answer to that? Look at his family, and you will find the people who know him best - who know him most intimately, who see him most closely, who understand every part of him. If you want to find the answer to what kind of man he is, ask the people who know him best.
There are many fathers who work hard. And some fathers who manage their households well, keep everything controlled, but do not lead their children to Christ and do not lead their children to godliness and do not lead their children to serving the Lord. The men who do are candidates for being pastor or elder. That's what he's saying here. Since spiritual leadership is a kind of parenting where you don't just talk it, you live it, and where you must be able to lead people by your life as well as your precepts to certain level of understanding of the truth which leads to salvation and holiness and service, you need to look at some proving ground where you can see that happening, and Paul's simply saying here the proving ground is in the home - it's in the home.
Now this is, this is a somewhat provocative concept, I understand. And you may be having all kinds of thoughts, not all of which I'll attempt to answer any more than this text does. But the simple statement here is the man who is to be considered for leadership in the church is a man who has proven his spiritual leadership in the most intimate place - that's his own family.
Now remember, Paul is arming Titus here, as at the end of verse 5 he said, "I already directed you about this." He's simply writing down what they've already discussed, not so much for Titus' benefit but the benefit of the churches in which Titus will be having to do his work. And it isn't an easy work. He's on that island called Crete, and he's going from place to place to straighten up what is broken, or bent or crooked, and to ordain elders in every city where there was a church. And just going in and saying, "Look, I'm going to pick some elders out here and have you people affirm them," was not an easy task, and the church might sort of quibble about who would be selected. So to arm Titus effectively, the Lord inspires Paul to write down the very specific qualifications.
Now these qualifications, starting in verse 6 down to verse 9, can be divided into four categories. The first was sexual morality. The second - we're looking at today - is family leadership. The third, in verses 7 and 8, is general character. And the fourth and final one, in verse 9, is teaching skill. If someone is to be an elder or a pastor, they must qualify in all four categories: sexual morality, family leadership, general character, and teaching skill. And when a man does, of course, in general he will be a man as verse 6 says, and verse 7, who “is above reproach.” Fourfold package, if you will, and if you are not qualified in one of the four, you do not qualify.
Now what he's saying today is - we're looking at the matter of family leadership - and he is saying “the instruction is simple, Titus” - a pastor or elder, overseer in the church, must be a man who has demonstrated his spiritual leadership ability and his integrity by leading his family to the truth he holds most precious, which is the very same thing he must do in the church. The family then becomes the proving ground for his unique kind of leadership. Can he lead by precept? Can he lead by principle? And can he support it by the virtue of a righteous life? Look at his children. His leadership in the family will be the most obvious place to find the answer.
Now let me say this. A few footnotes. One, it may be that you as a father have made every effort, every good and righteous effort possible, to lead your children to faith in Christ and you have not seen the fruit that you would desire. You are not responsible for your child's rejection before God, but neither would you be qualified to be an elder or a pastor in the church. Secondly, there is nothing in the Scripture that bars a single man from being an elder. Paul, at the writing of this, was probably single, as best we can tell. There's nothing in Scripture that bars a single man from leadership, from being an elder in the church. Furthermore, there is nothing in the Scripture that bars a childless man from being an elder in the church. But where you don't have marriage, or you don't have children, you have to find other experiences than those in the home to ascertain the man's spiritual leadership. And if indeed he has been faithful as a spiritual leader in other arenas that will be available to assess. So I want you to understand that I don't think this is a prohibition against single people or against childless people being elders or pastors, not at all. It's just that there are going to have to be other areas in which you look to see the impact and the virtue of that life.
And also, when you see this in verse 6 as flowing right behind the statement "if a man be above reproach," and right before the statement, verse 7, "the overseer must be above reproach," you're really talking here primarily about an above-reproach man. It's almost like a negative rather than a positive. We are wanting to emphasize the positive impact of his Christianity, but there's also the point that he must “have children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion,” because they would become a reproach on him. And obviously, if he's not married and doesn't have any, they couldn't. So it's important for us to note those things.
But the general thrust is this: the family is the proving ground where a man demonstrates his spiritual leadership. And if he has “children who believe,” who are not involved in dissipation and rebellion, they will never bring scandal upon his good name and the integrity of his spiritual leadership. When a man stands in a pulpit and says, "This is how to live, this is how to conduct yourself, this is God's high standard, this is what God expects of you, this is how you're to raise your children, this is how you pass godliness from one generation to the next," and you look at his life and you say, "Wait a minute, you've got wild and uncontrolled children who live in rebellion and reject the gospel, why are you the guy who is telling us how to do this?" You can see it brings reproach upon his life. It questions the integrity of his message. It sucks the credibility out of it and thus the impact. It is a unique thing that preachers and elders do. It is a unique thing that requires a very unique grace from God to qualify them to do it. But please remember, just because someone is not married or doesn't have a child doesn't mean they're disqualified, it just means the demonstration of their spiritual leadership has to be somewhere else, and we need not worry that one of their children would bring reproach upon them.
Paul is saying “you want to make sure you select men who have a good reputation,” as he says elsewhere, “outside the church as well as inside the church, who will never be discredited by some unbelieving, wayward child, one who claims to believe but is unruly and sinful.” That kind of child would be a reproach, shattering the model of godly virtue that he is to hold up before the people on the inside of the church and the outside of the church.
So the standard is both positive. He is to reflect the power of godly living, and he is also to be protected from embarrassing scandal by wayward children. Both are essential perspectives for his candidacy to be an elder.
Now some people want to make this an issue of sovereign election. Whenever you get into this discussion, there's a lot of discussion about this statement, by the way, a lot of it. And some people want to say, "Well, it certainly can't mean you have to have converted children, because that's all up to God's election, that's all God's sovereignty. And if He doesn't choose to elect your children, then you're in real trouble." Well, let me answer that by saying this: that is an unbiblical and fatalistic approach, and is not worthy of a proper consideration of the impact of a godly life or the responsibility for evangelism. Salvation comes to people through the faithful witness and godly example of other people. Is that not true? Salvation comes to people through the faithful witness and godly example of other believers. All through Scripture we are continually taught that a godly life leads people to salvation. Election is the issue with God and the issue by which we give Him glory, but it is not the consideration to be in our minds in the process of spiritual living and witness. All through Scripture we are taught that a godly life leads people to salvation.
Let me show you by way of reminder. Matthew 5:16 - I'll give you a number of texts; you might want to write them down - just listen as I read them. Matthew 5:16, "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and as a result glorify your Father who is in heaven." In other words, you can live a kind of life that leads people to glorifying God. In Acts, chapter 2, we find that this is indeed what happened in the early church. It says “they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching,” Acts 2:42, “to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, to prayer.” They “had all things in common,” verse 44. Verse 46, they were worshiping, “they were taking their meals together,” breaking bread; they had “gladness, sincerity of heart.” Verse 47, they were “praising God.” Here are some powerful, transformed lives. They had “favor with all the people.” The result, “the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.” Why were they being saved? They were being saved because of the power of these transformed lives, the impact of godly example.
In Romans, chapter 11, the apostle Paul writes in verse 14, he says, "My desire in preaching to the Gentiles is to somehow move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them." Paul is saying, “If I can minister effectively among the Gentiles, if my life and ministry is effective there, it will create a jealousy that will save some Jews.” In other words, “what I do has a direct impact on the salvation of others.”
First Corinthians 9:22, Paul says, "To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might, may by all means save some. I do everything for the sake of the gospel." In other words, he says, “the way I deal with people is to lead them to salvation by my life.” He said, “I become a slave to all, that I might win the more,” verse 19. “I become a Jew to the Jews; I become as without Law to those who are without Law; I become whatever I need to become to live a life pattern and to reach people that I might save them.”
In 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 31, Paul says, "Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. Don't give an offense to a Jew or to a Greek or to the church." He says, "Just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of many, that they may be saved." “I do what I need to do not to offend anybody, because how I live my life leads people to salvation” - you see that?
Look at Philippians, chapter 2. Here it is again; it's the same great concept. He says in verse 15, Philippians 2, you're to “prove yourself to be blameless...innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world." Here we are living in a world of sin and iniquity, we are to be blameless, innocent children of God, above reproach, in the middle of this crooked, perverse generation. We are to be lights in the middle of the darkness, holding fast the Word of life. Why? “So that in the day of Christ” - that's in the future – “I may have cause to rejoice because I didn't run in vain or toil in vain.” What does he mean? “In the day of Christ I will see the impact of your life was to lead others to Christ” - that's his point. “In the day of Christ I will rejoice when we're all gathered to Christ, and I will see the power of your living, your example.”
In 1 Timothy chapter 4, verse 12, Paul says, "Don't let anyone look down on your youthfulness, in speech, conduct, love, faith, purity, show yourself an example of those who believe." You ought to be a living illustration of what Christianity is. That's what a Christian leader should be, a living illustration of what Christianity is. Then in verse 13 he talks about the preaching and the teaching.
Go down to verse 16, "Pay close attention to yourself and your teaching, persevere in both of those things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and those who hear you." How you live, along with what you say, brings salvation to people.
Look at 1 Peter chapter 2, 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 11, "I urge you as aliens and strangers, abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul. Keep your behavior excellent among the pagans, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may on account of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation." You know what “the day of visitation” is? The day of judgment. He says, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if in the day of judgment the pagans who watched your life glorified God?" In other words, they weren't being judged; they were among the redeemed. They were glorifying God in His judgment because it wasn't coming on them. They were praising God for delivering them. And what was the impact that caused them to believe? It was the power of your good deeds as you observed, as they observed them in your life. So stay away from fleshly lusts, keep your behavior excellent, because it can be on account of your good deeds that people will glorify God in the day of judgment, rather than fearing Him.
Look at 1 Peter 3:1, "you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word” – uncoverted – “they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior." The power of a virtuous life, the power of a godly life, is laid out for us all through Scripture, all through Scripture.
You can't just, you can't just go off on the concept of election and say, "Well, if they're elect they'll get saved; if they're not elect they won't get saved." The fact of the matter is, God saves people through the means of godliness in the lives of others. And if I in my home am committed to living a godly life and a virtuous life and the proclaiming, saving gospel truth that is lived out in integrity, there is every reason to believe God in His grace will use that to redeem my children. It may not always happen, but for a man who stands in the pulpit to be the model and who will not be scandalized by some activity on the part of his children, it is necessary. And God in His grace makes it possible.
Let me give you a couple of specific illustrations for the power of Christian parenting to lead children to salvation. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter 7.
First Corinthians chapter 7, very interesting, there's a lot of issues in this chapter about marriage. None is more interesting than the one in verses 14 to 16, where you're talking about a marriage of an unbeliever to a believer. First of all he says, you know, don't divorce them. If you're married to an unbeliever, don't divorce them; verses 12 and 13 talk about that. Don't-send-her-away or send-him-away thing means “don't divorce.” Why? Well, verse 14, "The unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy."
Isn't that interesting? What he's saying there is where you have one partner that is converted, another partner unconverted, the unconverted partner can be sanctified and the result will be holy children. Now some would say that that sanctification is a temporal-blessing-kind-of-thing, and it may well include that. But follow into verses 15 and 16, "Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace." In other words, if you have an unbelieving partner, and they want to leave the marriage, they want out of the marriage, let them go; you're not in bondage. Verse 16, "For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?" That tends to interpret for me verse 14, so that it is possible that an unsaved partner can become saved by living with a believer, and that's what he's saying.
If you have a mixed marriage, stay there. It may be that God will lead you to bring that person to salvation, with the result that you both having come to Christ your children will be made holy. Where you have godly parents, there's every reason to believe you have the opportunity, the wonderful opportunity, to raise up godly children. He says you don't know that that's going to happen, verse 16. It doesn't always happen in a mixed marriage, but it can happen. And when it does happen it tends to make the children not unclean but holy. It should really be the norm. It should be the pattern in a Christian marriage that you have holy children if that Christianity is real, and if those believing ones are faithful to live out what they say they believe.
An illustration of this further would be 1 Timothy chapter 2. First Timothy chapter 2 looks at this whole idea of the godly life in the home. First Timothy 2:15, this is a discussion about women and the role they play in the church, the life of the church. He starts out in verse 9 and 10 by talking about how they dress and what they look like and they are certainly to dress modestly, properly, discreetly, not calling attention to themselves but calling attention to their godliness. And then in verse 11, not just how they dress but how they behave in the church. They're to receive instruction with submissiveness, to be quiet, not to teach and take authority. And the reason for this is creative. God made Adam first, and he was to be the head and Eve was to follow along. And it was illustrated how important it was that she follow her husband by the Fall. Eve was deceived and fell into transgression, led the whole human race into transgression. Why? Because she came out from under the leadership of Adam and acted independently. She acted on her own; the serpent was there; she didn't go back and check with Adam – “Adam, this snake is talking to me. He's telling me bad stuff. What do I do?” She didn't lean on the strength of her husband; she didn't follow his headship. She acted independently, led the race into sin. She produced then a cursed society. She raised up a cursed seed because of her sin. Adam, of course, sinned in falling in line with her, but she led the transgression. And so there's a certain stigma on women that they led the race into sin. Eve was first to go. She led the race into that iniquity.
Verse 15 then comes back and says this, "Women shall be preserved” - from this stigma, delivered from this stigma, relieved from this stigma – “through the bearing of children." What is that saying? This: women, who once raised a generation of cursed children because of a woman's sin, can now raise a generation of godly, blessed children because of a woman's righteousness - that's the point. So the woman is preserved from the stigma, delivered from it through bearing children if - follow this - if these women continue in faith and love and purity with self-restraint. What does that mean? It simply means if a woman maintains her godliness, her faith in the Lord, her love for God, her holiness and purity of life, manifested in self-restraint and self-control, therefore she walks in a godly way, she will bring forth children who will bless rather than children who will curse. There is the promise to a woman that a godly woman can raise a generation of godly children. Godly parenting is a norm for Christians.
This certainly is illustrated personally in the life of Timothy. Look at 2 Timothy 3:15. Paul says to Timothy, "From childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." “From the time you were a little child, you were taught the Scripture which leads to salvation.”
Go back to chapter 1, verse 5, "I am reminded, I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I'm sure it's in you as well." There you have it. Grandmother Lois was a godly woman; she raised a godly daughter. Godly Eunice was a godly woman; she raised a godly son, Timothy. This is the pattern. Godliness passed from one generation to the next. It's a wonderful and magnificent pattern. God has designed that the primary unit of human society for which - from which, I should say - righteousness is passed generation to generation to generation is the family, the family.
Now all of that simply to say this: to simply pass this whole thing off as an election issue is not legitimate; it is not biblical; it is fatalistic. The Scripture says people are converted as a result of how we live and what we preach. And a godly life, proclaiming truth, living with integrity, is going to have a tremendous impact on the conversion of other people, and you're going to see it in the family, in the home.
By the way, as another footnote, it is somewhat of a curiosity that there is no mention of the wife here. It says he must have children who believe but it doesn't say anything about his wife. I think it is fair to say that the assumption is that she is also a believer. It's a moot point because it would be assumed. In 1 Corinthians chapter 9 the apostle Paul, talking about his own apostleship and his own leadership and the rest of the apostles and all the brothers of the Lord and Peter and all of that, says this, "Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife?" And there is an emphatic statement. Anyone in Christian ministry has a right to have a believing wife. He is simply saying, “We have a right to be married,” but he makes it very clear that she's a believing wife. I think that was an assumed reality.
Another thing that leads to that conclusion, or that assumed reality, would be 2 Corinthians chapter 6, verse 14, "Do not be bound together with unbelievers; what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness?...what fellowship has light with darkness?...what harmony has Christ with Belial?...what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?...what agreement has the temple of God with idols?" The point being, if you are in that kind of marriage where there's a believer and an unbeliever, there is not in existence the kind of harmony that can create the spiritual power and energy of a godly family. It isn't there. It isn't there.
And so, we assume that the wife was a believer, to which the man was totally devoted in faithfulness, and the children also followed along in the faith. A truly godly life is the most powerful tool God has in saving sinners - the power of a godly life that speaks the truth. How can we lead people to conversion? How can we lead people to holiness unless we can show them the power of it in a life? And what are we to do in the church? We're to teach you how to raise a godly generation. How can we teach you how to raise a godly generation if we can't do it?
So a pastor, an elder, must be this kind of man, “above reproach” - back to Titus 1 – “a one-woman man and having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion.” Let's look at that text now more specifically. “Having children who believe” - that is literally what the Greek says, teckna echōn pista, “having children who believe.” “Having” is present tense; “children” has no regard for age at all. In fact, it's the same word used back in verse 4 to speak of Titus, “my true child,” who was a grown man. It simply means “sons and daughters, offspring.” And generally speaking the tone of this text assumes them to be adult. You say, "Why do you say that?" I'll show you in a moment. But primarily it's associated with “not accused of dissipation or rebellion.” That hardly refers to little children. There aren't too many dissipated, debauched little kids. That is a term which would more accurately be reflective of an adult life.
Further, elders by definition were older men who tended to have older children. Some of them did have young children and that, I think, referred to in 1 Timothy as I'll mention in a moment. But the word "children" here has no regard for age. Whatever age they are, if they wanted to talk about little children he could have used teknon. If he wanted to talk about babies he could have used brephos, that means “infants.” But he just uses a general word for sons and daughters.
Now we know that elders could have had young children. He could have had older children. Probably the norm was older children, since by definition they were older men. But many of them surely did have young children as well. It's not an issue of his age. It's an issue that his children believe, and they're not dissipating, and they're not in rebellion, whatever age they are in life.
Now let's take that word "children who believe, who believe." Now if you have an Authorized or King James, it may say "faithful." This has been much debated over and over through the years. It's a very debated issue. In order to try to help bring some clarity to that debate, I'm going to beg the issue a little bit this morning, so indulge me.
Some people say it means “faithful children.” And all “faithful children” means is they're just “obedient to their parents,” okay? They don't have to be Christians. This is a big point people make. They don't have to be Christians. They just have to be obedient to their parents. Well that would assume, then, that they were little children, wouldn't it? Because do adult children have to be obedient to their parents? No. And I don't think this text could be related to little children since it says they're “not to be accused of dissipation or rebellion.” And those terms are very graphic descriptions of wild, unruly, sordid, lascivious living, which would be much more characteristic of older children than little kids. I think here then it's safe to say that he's talking here about “faithful adult children,” for the most part, who are not going to scandalize the ministry by their unruly, wild living.
Now others are willing to say it does mean, as it's translated properly here in the New American Standard, it means “children who believe.” But that's the battleground. Some say “no, it just means faithful obedient children, they don't have to be converted.” Others say they do have to be converted.
You say, "Well now wait a minute. What if your children don't fit into this category because they're not old enough to believe? They're not at that age yet; they're still little children. Elders could have small children, right?" I think 1 Timothy 3 covers that - Paul giving requirements there for one who is an elder, in verse 4, 1 Timothy 3, says “he must be one who manages his own household well, keeps his children under control with all dignity.” That clearly must refer to younger children, because you don't keep your adult children under control; you're not in the same role with them that you maybe once were. And so I think really you have the emphasis of 1 Timothy 3 on the controlling of the household, the controlling of the children “with all dignity,” and I'll say more about that in a moment. And in Titus you tend to see the older child who now believes and whose life follows that belief, not being accused of anything that would scandalize the ministry.
Having said all of that, the word itself, pista - very important word, you need to understand - simply means “believe,” “believe.” The opposite of it, apistos, means “to not believe, disbelief, unbelief.” So it is best to see this as “believing,” just in the simplicity of the word. You say, "Well, can't it be translated ‘faithful’ in the sense of ‘loyal’ or ‘trustworthy?’" Yes, and let me explain that to you. It has what commentators will call an active and a passive sense. The active idea is “one who believes.” The passive idea is “one who is to be believed,” or to put it another way, “one who trusts” or “one who is to be trusted.” Some people say, "Well it just means ‘somebody who can be trusted,’ ‘somebody who can be believed,’ ‘somebody who is loyal to his father, who is an obedient child.’" The problem with that is never is this term “faithful” used to apply to anyone other than a believer. It can emphasize the loyal side of it. It can emphasize the trustworthy side of it. It can emphasize the passive side, “to be believed,” but never without the active side; it's two sides of the same coin. In other words, if it said “having children who are faithful,” we would immediately ask the question, “Faithful to what?” Well, the answer would have to be “faithful to what their father taught them,” and the most precious and priority thing he ever would have taught them would have been - What? - the gospel, the truth.
Although the word "faithful" is used several times in the New Testament of inanimate objects - like faithful sayings, five times in the epistles; like the faithful “word” - it is used most always of individuals, people. It is used of the faithful Creator-God who is faithful to what He knows to be true, and the faithful high priest, Jesus Christ, who is faithful to what He knows to be true. You have to be faithful to something. But most of the time it is used of individuals, and it describes someone who is trustworthy and loyal to what they believe, to what is true.
To see it in contrast, compare it with the negative, apistos. You put the little "a" at the front, it negates the word. John 20:27 says this, "Be not apistos but pistos." In other words, “be not unbelieving but believing.” There's the opposite - the opposite of belief is unbelief. And it could be the opposite of faithfulness as unfaithfulness, which would mean rejection of the truth. Second Corinthians 6:15 says, "What part has pistō with apistou,” or “What part has a believer with an unbeliever?” So the word in its negative form always means unbelief.
I would conclude the word in its positive form can mean “trustworthy” or “faithful,” but never disconnected from believing. “He is faithful to what he believes.” That's the idea. For example, let me illustrate that. Ephesians 1:1, "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are at Ephesus and who are faithful in Christ Jesus." The only way to be faithful is to be in Christ Jesus. They're faithful saints who are in Christ Jesus. The active and passive unite there. Colossians 1:2, you have the same thing. He's addressing the people, “To the saints” - the holy ones – “and faithful brethren in Christ.” You always see “faithful” associated with believers, faithful believers.
Look at 1 Timothy. Let's just look in the pastorals and see how “faithful” is used. First Timothy 1:12, "I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service." What does he mean “faithful”? He means “loyal to what he believed,” “loyal to the truth.” You can't divorce “faithfulness” from “belief.” Chapter 3 of 1 Timothy, verse 11, "Women” - women who are to serve in the church – “are to be dignified, not malicious gossips,...temperate” - there it is – “faithful in all things." What does that mean? Simply “obedient”? No. Believers who are living obediently, faithful to what they know to be true.
Look at chapter 4, verse 3, beware of these men, these people who teach that you're to avoid marriage, and they advocate “abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who are faithful, who believe, and know the truth." The words are so interchangeable that the translators go back and forth, but “the faithful always believe,” and “the believing are always to be faithful.”
Down in verse 10, "It is for this we labor and strive, because we fixed our hope on the living God, who was the Savior of all men, especially of believers” - or “the faithful." Verse 12, he says you are to be an example in all these areas of those who are faithful, “those who believe,” in verse 12. Down in chapter 5, verse 16, the word appears again, "If any man, any woman who is a believer,” or “any woman who is faithful has dependent widows," etc., etc. Down in chapter 6, verse 2, again, "Let those who have believers as their masters not be disrespectful to them because they are brethren, but let them serve them all the more, because those who partake of the benefit are faithful and beloved” – “believers and beloved." So you see, once in a while it's “believers,” once in a while it's “faithful.” They go back and forth, but always the “faithful” are “believers” and the “believers” are “faithful.” They're interchangeable.
To take the word "faithful," pull it out of the believing context, isolate it as if it only meant “submissive to the father's leadership,” without “believing what the father taught,” would be to distort the word. If you look at the Scripture, every scripture in the New Testament I looked at - I got them all where the word is used - it always refers to believers, unless it's referring to an inanimate object, or God, or Christ. For example, the “faithful servant” of Matthew 24 and Luke 12 is a believer. The “good and faithful servant” of Matthew 25 and Luke 19 is a believer. The “faithful person” of Luke 16 is a believer. The “faithful mother” of Timothy, Acts 16:1, is a believer. The “faithful stewards” of 1 Corinthians 4 are believers. The “faithful Timothy” of 1 Corinthians 4:17 is a believer. The “faithful ministers” of Colossians 1:7 and 4:7 are believers. The “faithful Onesimus” of Colossians 4:9 is a believer. The “faithful Moses” of Hebrews 3:5 was a believer. The “faithful Silvanus” was a believer, 1 Peter 5:12. And the “faithful martyrs,” including “Antipas,” of Revelation 2 were believers. Always they're called “faithful” because they are believers. It is never used in the New Testament of somebody who is not a believer. So the word then describes both active and passive sides.
So what is Paul saying? He's saying not only is this man “to have children who believe,” but children who also are - What? – “faithful to what they believe.” That's what's implied in the rest of the statement, “not accused of dissipation or rebellion” - they believe it and they live it; they believe it and they live it.
So many people want to leave this matter of salvation out and say he doesn't have to have saved children as long as they just submit. Well, what are you going to do right here when you get to this point? How can they be called “faithful” if they don't believe what they must be faithful to? And if they're adult children here, they certainly wouldn't be obeying their father – “faithful” would mean nothing.
In 1 Timothy it says, "Keeping his children under control with all dignity." I believe that looks at them when they're young, and when he has young children they are obedient, they're under control. “With all dignity” - What does that mean? It means the father maintains his class and his humility and his respect and his admiration and his stateliness and his gentleness. In other words, it's not an overbearing control, a domineering control, an abusive control; but he controls them with respect and admiration, so that they look to him and they admire him and they want to be like him and they aspire to be what he is and they love him. And they obey out of delight and joy and respect. And verse 5 of 1 Timothy 3 said if he can't control his family in that way, how is he going to manage the church? So I believe that when they are little they follow their father's example.
You say, "Are you saying if your children aren't old enough to be saved you can't be an elder?" No. When they're young, they're under control, and they believe whatever their little hearts can believe, and they affirm whatever they can understand, and they live by those principles being taught to them by the parents. And some day that blooms into saving faith. The church ought to be able to look at that man's life and see that process taking place, see those little children affirming, believing as much as their simple hearts can believe - we could say, “believing with a simple faith, progressing toward a saving faith.” But when it comes to the point that they're old enough to believe, they are to be faithful to the truth they have been taught.
As I have said, then, the home is God's basic unit of society for passing righteousness from one generation to the next, and it therefore becomes the proving ground for spiritual leaders. And we are to have children who are faithful to what is most precious to us.
Now, not just believers, let me just tap this point one more time by looking at those words, “dissipation” and “rebellion.” “But faithful believers” - I think they're both there – “not accused of dissipation or rebellion.” “Dissipation” is asōtia. It means just what it says. It's used in Ephesians 5:18 associated with drunkenness and wild revelry and pagan festivals. It means “wild, wasteful.” Literally “without saving, saving nothing,” just “throwing yourself away, indulgent.” And the second term is “rebellion,” “out of control, wild, unruly.” His children are to be believers who are faithful, who live obediently, under control when they're small, following their father’s faith until it emerges into their own faith, and at that point they don't live a wild and rebellious out-of-control, unruly, wasteful life, but they live a faithful Christian life.
A pastor who has children who are wild, self-indulgent, disobedient and rebellious, even if they claim to be Christians, is not suited to be an elder or a pastor. What a standard this is. The man who is selected to be an elder or a pastor has exhibited the leadership and life-integrity to lead people to salvation and sanctification and service to God, because he has done it or is doing it in the proving ground of his own family. He is known as one who has obedient, controlled children who believe, as they are able, the truth of the Christian gospel and live according to its principle, and their simple faith when they're young is emerging into a saving faith at some point. Those children become the proof of his spiritual leadership.
Even the little ones believe. I look back on our little ones as they were growing up and continue to affirm their faith in Christ, affirm their love for Christ. Even though it wasn't a saving faith, it was a simple affirmation of the things precious to father and mother, and it became a saving faith. This is the proving ground. This is where the man is tested. He's not a better man. He's not a more virtuous man. He's not a more godly man. But he is a man who uniquely suits the ministry. Other men may be godly men, faithful men, loyal men, and perhaps have children that are wayward. That does not hinder his relationship to the Lord Himself, because he's not ultimately responsible for what his children choose to do. But it does not either qualify him for this unique role of leadership. You might put it this way: we who do this need a special, abundant apportionment of God's grace - Don't we? - because of the uniqueness of our task. And whatever has happened in any of our lives who lead the church, whatever has happened in our lives to qualify us in any measure is purely and simply and only because of the grace of God, the grace of God.
Thus does the apostle arm Titus with both a moral qualification for leadership and a leadership qualification. They are absolutely foundational to the ministry. And where they don't exist, the church will remain at a low level because the pattern isn't there to lift the church. We need to pray for our leaders, pray for all of us, all those who lead the church - any place, any time - that they might be these kind of men who know this kind of grace, that the Lord's church may be what would please Him most.
Father, we thank You again this morning that this Word is clear. It is penetrating; it is provocative; it is not easy to receive. It is hard to hear because it is so demanding, and it, it somehow makes us feel like some men are better than others, elevated above others. Lord, let it not be so. May we remember that he who is suited to leadership is the one who is most humble. And even Jesus came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and give His life. But may we also understand that out of the humility of such a life there are unique qualifications that must be met, and when met can set a man in a place of leadership where he can live and teach as a pattern that others can follow - not a perfect one, for none is that, but at least a reflection, at least some kind of representation of that kind of godliness that You want passed from generation to generation through all the families in Your church. Thank You, Lord, in this church for leaders who have been blessed and graced with such families as can be followed. Keep them that way, keep them faithful, keep the children faithful that they might never be a rebuke to the one who serves in Your name. Amen.
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Volunteers Take “The Great American Roadtrip” Registering Voters
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What’s more American than rock n’ roll and democracy? A few lucky young people are getting a healthy dose of both this summer, taking “The Great American Road Trip” to register voters at Dave Matthews Band, Wilco, Phish and Furthur concerts across the country.
Their trek, organized by HeadCount, will collectively cover over 15,000 miles and 103 concerts, and help tens of thousands of people register to vote.
A separate team of 2-4 volunteers is assigned to each band, traveling to nearly every concert on the respective tours. In each city, they’ll be joined by up to 10 local volunteers who will help register voters and then get to enjoy an evening of music. Anyone 18 years of age or older can sign up to volunteer at HeadCount.org. In all, over 1,000 people will participate in this nationwide voter registration campaign.
The HeadCount team will be traveling to each Dave Matthews Band show in a Volkswagen Routan minivan – and filing dispatches from the road on the HeadCount blog. Volkswagen of America, Inc. and Dave Matthews Band’s Bama Works Fund are covering all the volunteers’ travel costs.
HeadCount set an all-time record for a single concert tour when they registered 12,161 voters with Dave Matthews Band in 2004. That year, turnout by voters age 18 to 24 jumped 11 percent. It was by far the largest increase among any age group. In 2008 that trend continued, with young voters being the only age group to show an increase in turnout.
However, it will take some work if that trend is to continue. A recent Wall Street Journal poll found that only 43 percent of young voters said they were very interested in the Presidential election, compared to 65 percent in a poll taken at the same time of year in 2008. Another poll by Gallup said that only 56 percent of registered voters under the age of 30 plan to cast their ballot in November.
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Welcome to the Hale Village Hall Website.
In 1927, a public meeting was held in Hale School to discuss raising funds to build a village hall. By the end of 1929 sufficient funds had been raised to go ahead with the project. In 1931 a plot of land was purchased adjoining the village green and a Trust Deed was drawn up establishing the Hall as a registered charity and vesting the property in the Official Trustee for Charity Lands. Dear and Sons won the contract to build the hall and it was officially opened on 16th February 1932. By 1935 all debt was cleared. In 1936 electricity was installed; but it was not until 1950 that a piped water supply was available. A new committee room and kitchen were added in 1958. In 1998 with a grant from the Lottery Fund the main hall was re-floored, a store room added and the downstairs committee room extended. Minutes of Hale Village Hall can be found here.
Hale Village Hall is currently used daily by Hale Primary School and weekly by Dog Training, Table tennis club, Hale Brownies, Pilates and Tai Chi.
Other regular users are the Hale Parish Council, Hale and Woodgreen Horticultural Society (alternating with Woodgreen Hall), Hale Film Club and Hale and Redlynch Cricket Club. It is also the venue for occasional concerts, social events and private parties.
There is a thriving monthly Food Market.
The hall is looked after by the Hale Hall Management Committee, which is appointed annually. It is composed of elected trustees, representatives for the village and the societies using the hall. The rental charged for use of the hall is used for repair and maintenance, together with additional money from fund-raising events as required.
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The Main Hall has a movable stage; a screen for slide projection; and seats up to 100 people. There is a storage room for the tables and chairs when not in use. The kitchen is fully equipped with a cooker, a heated cupboard, refrigerator, dishwasher and two sinks. It has crockery and cutlery for 80 people. Showers and toilets (including one for the disabled) are available.
We now have an extra room to hire out! The newly refurbished Meeting Room downstairs is ideal for small groups of 20 people. Great for yoga, committee meetings or small groups.
Funding.Hale Village Hall Management Committee has been very fortunate in securing the funding needed to carry out an extensive refurbishment project spanning 2013 to 2015 and are very grateful to all those who have helped. Key contributors have been Cleansing Services Group. For more details, click here.
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Loneliness| quotes and guidance that helps!
Posted on June 3, 2019 June 3, 2019 by JuanitaHFNE
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The meaning of loneliness
It’s likely you or I will feel lonely at some point in our lives. Eighty four percent of adults in the UK have experienced loneliness, a recent survey by Campaign to End Loneliness found. One in 10 felt lonely more than half of the time.
Loneliness is not the same as being alone, or being a ‘loner’. It’s the feeling that you have fewer meaningful or emotional connections than you would like. That means someone can be surrounded by people, but still feel lonely.
As a social species, friendships can help us to function. When this need isn’t met over time – when loneliness becomes ‘chronic’ – it can affect us mentally and physically, increasing our risk of premature death by up to 26% (Holt-Lunstad et al., 2015).
Although it may sound strange but loneliness isn’t always the same as being alone. A person can be surrounded by loved ones; friends, family and even be busy in the workplace, surrounded by colleagues and still feel lonely.
Being alone refers to a person being by themselves, no one else in the room with them. However, loneliness can be described as the feeling of not having anyone with whom you can connect socially or emotionally.
An empty feeling of isolation. Loneliness is a normal reaction to feeling disconnected and or withdrawn from human interaction – many people suffer from loneliness from time to time, it can be an extremely difficult emotion to deal with and can often lead to mental health illnesses such as depression as a result of feeling loneliness.
Learning to deal with loneliness is an important life skill to have and develop in order to deal with day to day life.
Loneliness can be described as a void, a feeling of emptiness. For example, when you have a good piece of news or a bad piece of news, it’s not having that person to tell about it, not knowing who to call or text to share your feelings. Lacking those people in your life can be really hard to deal with and adjust to can be difficult.
It can be easy to assume that those who are great at communication, extroverts, do not suffer from loneliness, but they can. Some people are great at talking to different types of people and even start conversations. However, suffer from being able to develop a long lasting and meaningful relationship with people.
A Lot can be done to deal with loneliness, leaving it to pass is not usually a great way to the feeling of loneliness.
The good news is that the feeling of loneliness can be solved and you do not have to feel like that all the time – the crippling feeling of loneliness does not have to remain and constantly be your reality; steps can be taken to rekindle a deeper sense of wholeness and connection again.
Iconic quotes about loneliness to get you through difficult times, when you feel at your lowest.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
And if I’m alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.Henry David Thoreau
Loneliness doesn’t have much to do with where you are.
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intac
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Loneliness song
Here’s an uplifting song about loneliness that is sure to instantly make you feel better after one listen.
1. ‘Lonesome Feelings’
Bob Marley and the Wailers
The inspiration for this piece and quite possibly the happiest song about being lonely, it makes you feel less lonely after just one play
2. ‘So Lonely’
Even Sting knows the feeling, and he compressed it into one helluva awesome song for your pleasure
3. ‘You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You’
The words of this song are enough to make you go sit in the corner with a bottle of wine and cry, but place them against a big band and sing them in Dean Martin’s voice and you have a crooning musical wonder
4. ‘All My Friends’
A modern, upbeat dance song to listen to when you finally look back on your life and think ‘Where did all the time go?!”
5. ‘Another Saturday Night’
Sam Cooke can make anything sound soulful and sweet – even being dateless on a Saturday night
6. ‘Downtown’
Petula Clarke
As Miss Clark demonstrates, New York has been saving people from feeling lonely for a very long time
7. ‘These Boots Are Made For Walking’
Less about being lonely and more about the process leading up to becoming lonely, yet she does it with such confidence and stylish flair
8. ‘Return To Sender’
Who would refuse this man’s love letters? WHO?!!
9. ‘I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party’
Though the fab four have many songs about being lonely this one simply hugs the soul
10. ‘Lonely Boy’
This song inspires epic air guitar moves, and no one can be lonely whilst playing air guitar. But if loneliness persists watch the video for it – IT’S AMAZING
11. ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)’
I challenge anyone to feel unhappy while listening to this song. I don’t care how lonely you are, it’s impossible
(NB: don’t think about how she’s dead now or the way in which she died)
12. ‘One Is The Loneliest Number’
Three Dog Night taught us that “1 is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.” However they also taught us that “2 can be as bad as one, it’s the loneliest number since the number 1.” So, you know, maybe we should move onto 3?
https://www.tremr.com/ThatsRightMem/12-songs-about-being-lonely-that-instantly-stop-you-from-feeling-lonely
Loneliness poems
Here’s a list of links to relatable poems, that can help get you through periods of loneliness. Often listening to or reading relatable poems, can help you feel better.
Loneliness books
Here’s a list of loneliness books, that will help develop your interpersonal skills and character and bring comfort to you during your difficult lonely periods.
1. Becoming Human
2. Hopecasting: Finding, Keeping, and Sharing the Things Unseen
Mark Oestreicher
3. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Ekhart Tolle
4. Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life
Judith Orloff
5. Stop Being Lonely: Three Simple Steps to Developing Close Friendships and Deep Relationships
Kira Asatryan
6. The Loneliness Cure: Six Strategies for Finding Real Connections in Your Life
Kory Floyd
7. Positive Solitude: A Practical Program for Self-Fulfillment
Rae Andre
8. Celebrating Time Alone: Stories of Splendid Solitude
Lionel Fisher
9. Never Be Lonely Again: The Way Out of Emptiness, Isolation, and a Life Unfulfilled
Pat Love and Jon Carlson
10. And She Lived Happily Ever After: Finding Fulfillment as a Single Woman
If you know of any other great books that may help other people, please leave your recommendations below in the comments – that would be great.
Loneliness at Uni
Starting at university can be academically stressful, with an increase in the intensity and depth of your chosen subject as well as increased workload. Completing essays and reading can feel almost near impossible when one feels overwhelmed with unexplained anxiety and emotions.
Feeling lonely at university is more common than most more think. From the outside, student life seems exciting and fun. A mixture of parties, societies, new friends, clubs and independent. In reality, loneliness is very common at university. There are many factors to make a student feel lonely whilst at university. The big factor, the most obvious one is all the attention surrounding social media. Students are often stuck on their phones, scrolling through social media sites such as Twitter and Instagram; and of course, life always seems incredible online, which can result in others feeling isolated and have feelings loneliness.
In addition to this, students often suffer from the feelings of loneliness because they have moved from home, making new friends and dealing with money issues, which is usually the first time dealing with these situations. Especially, students that come from overseas, can really struggle with this. Any of these topics can take a toll on a person’s mental health at university.
‘Lonely’ isn’t the same as ‘alone’. You can have lots of friends and still feel lonely, but you can also be quite content spending time on your own. Here are some suggestions to help you think about how you’re feeling.
Does any of these bother you?
I don’t have someone I feel really close to.
I don’t have much in common with the people around me.
I don’t know many people to hang out with.
No-one asks how I’m feeling, or how my day went.
I don’t have anyone I can be myself around.
A problem is getting me down, but I can’t tell anyone.
I can’t join in with things because I feel different to others (i.e. because of money, age, disability, politics, or something else).
If you familiarise with any of the above points, then you may feel as though something is missing, then you may be struggling with loneliness.
There are also physical and behavioural cues to watch out for, like feeling more stressed than usual. You may notice changes in how much you eat, sleep, and exercise to cope with feelings.
How to cope with loneliness
Loneliness isn’t something you can just switch off, but there are ways to handle the emotions.
If you’re not usually in tune with your feelings, start there. Mindfulness, body scanning, or keeping a diary all help identify and release emotions. Even if you don’t feel like it, make plans to be around others – join societies or groups, have dinner with flatmates, or try volunteering. The companionship will lift your mood, and reduce feelings of isolation.
Although, putting yourself out there can be incredibly intimating, if you try to take small steps to overcome this fear, then in time it will get easier to meet new friends.
Although, above social media was mentioned that can negatively affect you. It does, like most things, have positive features too.
Social media can be good for discovering new activities, so use it if it helps. If it doesn’t make you feel good – i.e. affects your sleep or makes you feel dissatisfied with your life – cut back on screen time.
Sharing how you feel with others can be the most challenging aspect of loneliness, but it’s worth a try. You could open up to a family member or friend, or a tutor you trust – it could even be an anonymous message online, or call to a helpline. It’s especially worth contacting a support organisation if loneliness is tied in with a problem you’re struggling with alone, such as housing, money, or bereavement.
Your university’s student services/support team.
Samaritans – phone, email, and face-to-face listening service.
Student Minds – guidance and support tailored to uni life.
CAMHS– a service for under 18s who are dealing with mental health issues
Mind – mental health support and advice (including for loneliness).
The HFNE app has a community of like-minded people who are happy to interact with you
The feeling of loneliness will come and go, and there are things you can do to process and cope with the feelings. Reach out for help if you need it and, if it makes you feel good, be there for someone else in turn once you’re feeling more resilient.
Remember universities have a responsibility to provide services for students struggling with mental health problems and other issues, yet it can often be difficult to locate these services and make use of them. All universities have a student services department or place of contact, that will be able to point you in the right direction to get the proper help you desire.
Feeling lonely at university is very common, and it should be spoken about more often. Perhaps then students would not feel so lost when it comes to finding help. Admitting that you are lonely is hard, but talking to someone is a great way to start making connections and friendships as well as feeling comforted by the knowledge that you are not alone.
Loneliness at Christmas
Loneliness can be difficult to cope with at any time of the year, but add a little forced festive cheer and, for many, it becomes unbearable. The festive season emphasising family, community and that is not all the reality for everyone.
It is easy to feel as though you are the only person having this feeling. To put things in perspective, the United Kingdom was recently named ‘the loneliness capital of Europe’, and consequently there are lots of people who, for whatever reason, are feeling isolated and aren’t seeing friends or family at Christmas.
Additionally, even if people aren’t alone, it’s also entirely possible to feel lonely in a room full of people. Take some of the pressure off yourself by recognising that many, many people are in the same boat there’s nothing to be embarrassed about.
2. but if you want to be, that’s fine too
Some people want to be alone during the holiday period, and that is okay to. Don’t feel pressured to accept invitations if you’d really rather be by yourself. Sometimes being in a room full of people who don’t understand how you feel can make things worse. If you’re not sure whether you want to accept an invite or are wavering, make a compromise in the form of dropping by for a festive drink before or after Christmas dinner, then spend the rest of the day as you want to.
Loneliness and depression
Depression and loneliness are two words that we all hate to hear.
They are words that we can all identify with, and we have all experienced at one time or another in life. But, one thing that many people don’t realize is how connected these two words, depression loneliness, really are to each other.
To understand the way they relate to and play off each other let’s first look at the two words separately. Depression is a considered a mood disorder, it is a type of mental health challenge and unfortunately, it is a fairly common issue.
In fact, the percentage of people that deal with depression is continuing to rise. There are many different levels of depression just as there are levels of loneliness. The feeling of loneliness can often result in depression.
When you are living with this it is hard to function in your daily life.
Depression brings with it all kinds of feelings. People struggling with depression may experience one of these feelings or they may experience all of them.
Their feelings may change one day to the next or sometimes even faster than that. Or, they may be stuck dealing with one feeling for long, drawn-out, extended periods of time.
The easiest way to break the cycle is to catch it before it starts or as you start to feel it. You can put processes into your daily life that will help you keep from circling through the depression loneliness cycle again and again. So how will you break the cycle?
Talk about it.
Connect with people you love
Do your favourite things
Spend time offline
Journal and meditate
Feeling lonely in a marriage
Loneliness is a complex feeling. When someone says they feel ‘lonely’ in a relationship, it can mean a variety of things.
It may be a feeling of disconnect, feeling unheard or unloved. It could be a feeling of confusion and lost, as though things aren’t going as planned.
Changes in your life situation often mean different or greater pressures, which can leave you feeling like you need more support. For example, money issues, new jobs, relocating. If it doesn’t feel like you’re getting the support you need you may begin to resent your partner or drift apart from them – this is when the feeling of ‘loneliness’ can begin to creep in.
These changes in our lives can also alter the role we want our relationship to play in our life: a mother may suddenly find herself re-assessing whether her relationship gives her everything she needs after her grown-up children have left home.
Again, feeling your relationship isn’t giving you what you need can lead to a sense of alienation as you begin to doubt whether you’ve got your priorities right. That is why it is incredibly important to open up and discuss these things as they come, rather than waiting for these feelings to pass on their own as that is unlikely to happen.
Feeling lonely after a break-up
Breakups are awful. Let’s get that out of the way first.
When you’re in a relationship with someone, you open up and literally share your life with another person. You’re vulnerable, which makes things that much more difficult when things eventually end.
Some breakups are mutual. Some breakups are one-sided. Some breakups are necessary. Some breakups happen over time. That is why once a break up happens it is easy to feel isolated and lonely as someone you once shared your life with is no longer involved in it.
After a breakup, you’ll need to indulge in some self-care to make things feel as normal as possible while you work through your feelings. If you feel lonely, remember that’s a typical side effect of a breakup; this is especially true if your relationship was a long one and you still share many aspects of your life together.
How to overcome loneliness
Begin by talking. Try and make an effort to stay in touch with your friends and talk openly about how you feel. Chances are they will be able to relate or at least understand your situation. Feeling understood is a key component to overcoming loneliness, so do your best to speak openly. Although, this may be difficult – in the long run it will do you more good than bad discussing your feelings. (Although it can be hard)
Always look for new opportunities to interact with like-minded people. (Seek friendships!) Societies and clubs are always welcoming to new members. Volunteering in particular has been shown to give new perspectives and a feeling of usefulness in society, which fights against social isolation.
It’s important to remember that you are not alone and to try and maintain perspective. Take a moment to feel grateful for any friends or family members who are there for you and strengthen these commitments. Practising gratitude can help with negative feelings of loneliness, anxiety and discomfort.
Switching off technology can really help to. People who feel lonely are usually no less isolated than those who don’t, but they struggle to pick up on positive social stimuli and withdraw prematurely. Try to remedy this by thinking more positively about social interactions.
There is no quick fix for feeling lonely, but we can help prevent the devastating effects of chronic loneliness by spotting it early. Take time to read the research and understand just how important connection and community is to your health and ultimately to your education.
Loneliness is a societal issue that people should be taking more seriously. Take little steps to interact more often and more deeply to get the most out of life.
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Civil War [2], slavery [3], evangelism [4]
Charles Hodge, undated. [Pearl ID: 6062]
--by Richard Reifsnyder
Powerful reaction to the Alt-right demonstrations in Charlottesville in 2017 and the controversies surrounding monuments honoring southern military figures remind us that the issues of the Civil War [5] are with us yet. I recently taught a course on the Civil War in my community’s adult lifelong learning center, and the students discovered that the moral wrestling of that time was surprisingly relevant for our own. Issues of race and the enduring meaning of the nation’s most divisive war continue to shape contemporary life, and the Church continues to struggle with what it means to live faithfully in turbulent times.
Although the Civil War can be viewed through varied political, social, economic, and military lenses, it was, in profound ways, a “theological crisis,” according to historian Mark Noll. That culture viewed events in biblical and religious categories, and part of the challenge of dealing with the moral dilemma of slavery and the devastation of the war involved trying to understand how God was at work.[1]
Charles Hodge, during his more than fifty-year career teaching biblical studies and then theology at Princeton Theological Seminary [6], gave serious theological guidance on the issues that divided the nation before and during the Civil War. Not only did he teach nearly 3,000 students, but he also edited what was probably the most significant and erudite theological journal of the antebellum and war years, the Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review [7] (hereafter BRPR).[2] In an era when church publications were widely read, Hodge wrote more than one hundred forty articles covering the latest issues in theology, church life, and national politics. Moreover, he was an ecclesiastical leader deeply engaged in nearly all the major controversies of the Presbyterian Church. Because religious history tends to focus on theological innovators, it is easy to overlook the vigor and influence of an orthodox figure like Hodge. (He was proud to claim that during his tenure “a new idea never originated in this Seminary.”) Only recently has Hodge begun to receive the critical attention his influence warrants.[3]
Throughout his life, maintaining consistency was extremely important to Hodge. He often declared that he tried to say “nothing that wasn’t in the Bible.” He saw himself as captive to no party, and his nuanced ideas on slavery and the Civil War were controversial in his own time. When J. C. Backus [8], who was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. in 1861, suggested Hodge had changed his views on slavery after the election of Lincoln, Hodge pushed back hard: “I cannot conceive where you have gotten that impression. I have not changed an inch.” After the war, he declared numerous times that his position had never changed.[4] While it is true that he did not change certain core convictions, it seems clear that his emphases were deeply shaped and transformed by the changing circumstances he experienced from the mid-1830s through the end of the war. Seemingly an apologist for slavery early in his career, he came to be an ardent supporter of Abraham Lincoln and the Union cause, and in the end was convinced that God in his providence had used the war to bring about the end of slavery.
Hodge’s initial foray into the moral minefield came in an article “Slavery” published in 1836 in BRPR. Ostensibly a review of William Ellery Channing [9]’s abolitionist leaning book Slavery, Hodge quickly turned the article into a forum to expostulate his own ideas. The explosion of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s, Hodge concluded, had forced people to have an opinion on slavery. No one could henceforth remain neutral. Hodge’s approach to the Bible was rooted in common sense realism. He, like many in his generation, assumed the clear “meaning of the word of God is so generally admitted” that it does not need detailed exposition. It was clear to Hodge that Scripture did not prohibit slavery in all cases, and therefore the efforts to declare slaveholding a sin were simply unbiblical. Preservation of the integrity of Scripture was paramount. “It will do no good, under a paroxysm of benevolence, to attempt to tear the Bible to pieces,” he asserted. Hodge maintained this basic position that the Bible did not prohibit slavery. He affirmed that being a slave did not diminish one’s personhood and that other scriptural admonitions about how humans were to be treated fairly and compassionately applied equally to slaves. But he dismissed the arguments that slavery was “man-stealing” and a violation of the Ten Commandments, that American slavery was distinctly different from what was referred to in the Bible, or that depriving slaves certain rights was not substantially different than depriving employees certain rights. Slavery was not a sin “in itself.” It all depended on circumstances.[5]
John Chester Backus, undated. [Pearl ID: 116413 [10]]
Hodge maintained that the abolitionists, however sincere they were, promoted a “delusion” that was disruptive to the social order. For the next thirty years, he maintained that abolitionism did not reflect the position of most northerners (which was probably true), nor that of the Republican Party. Northerners who disliked slavery, were, like him, conservative emancipationists at best.
It is important to understand the context of Hodge’s perspective. Historian Allen Guelzo suggests that Hodge’s position cannot be excused on the basis of ignorance of slavery. Indeed, the emancipation that took place in New Jersey in 1804 set up a gradual timetable, and slaves were still part of life during Hodge’s early years at Princeton. It seems as though Hodge himself may have owned a slave for a time (and thus may have had a personal reason to justify slavery’s hypothetical legitimacy), though it is true that he had little direct knowledge of the harsher aspects of southern slavery.[6]
Of even greater contextual and personal significance were the debates going on within the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The New School party had introduced contentious resolutions in the 1835 General Assembly to declare slaveholding a sin, excommunicate slaveholders, and oppose the colonization movement—which Hodge supported. Hodge was deeply concerned for the unity of the Church, and labored diligently to find ways to keep increasingly divided Christians together. Much as he was concerned about some of the abolitionist tendencies in the New School party, he took a moderating position in the Old School/ New School debates, accepting that most of that New School party was orthodox in faith. He was not initially in favor of the purge of the New School Presbyteries in 1837.[7]
The tensions within the Church and Hodge’s determination to maintain unity form the backdrop for his 1836 article on slavery. He intended to assure southern churches that abolitionism was not the position of the Church and to draw them into sympathy with the Old School perspective. Among other factors, Hodge argued that abolitionism was impractical. Simply denouncing slavery would not make it go away.
Although Hodge acknowledged certain anti-Christian practices were intended to maintain the “present mental and physical degradation” of slaves, readers in both North and South saw his article fundamentally as a biblical defense of the legitimacy of slavery. It gained wide circulation, and was reprinted inside increasingly vigorous southern defenses of slavery, such as Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments, published in Georgia in 1860. Certainly, the anti-slavery movement saw the article as little more than a propaganda piece. It contained “the most finely wrought sophistry so ardent is its desire to reconcile [slavery] with Scripture,” according to one review published by the Pittsburgh Anti-Slavery Society [11]. “Over this performance the religious lovers of slavery chuckle with irrepressible delight.”[8]
Hodge denied in “Slavery” that he was an apologist for the institution, and asserted that he had even given a roadmap for how slavery could end. If slave owners really practiced their Christianity fully—educating slaves, schooling them in faith, working to maintaining familial ties—there would be a natural, “gradual elevation of slaves in intelligence, virtue, and wealth,” so “the chains of bondage will naturally fall off….[I]t will no longer be possible or desirable to keep them in their bondage.” He continued to maintain and amplify this position throughout his life, although he was frustrated that he didn’t always see this happening in the South. Such a position seems incredibly naive from our vantage point, considering the power of an entrenched economic system and the willingness of slaveholders to rationalize moral evil.
Hodge simply saw himself as following Scripture where it led. The biblical hermeneutics of the era assumed that God’s will could be plainly deduced from Scripture by ordinary readers. And yet, with the issue of slavery, it wasn’t plain to readers—all of whom accepted the authority of Scripture, and the straightforward reading of it—what God intended. As Mark Noll puts it, “the obvious crisis that bore directly on the fate of the nation was [that] the ‘simple’ reading of the Bible yielded violently incommensurate understandings of Scripture, with no means, short of warfare, to adjudicate the differences.”[9]
Hodge was optimistic that he had found a formula that would be acceptable to all sides and help to hold the Church as well as nation together, North and South. For the next decade, he maintained and interpreted his position in the pages of BRPR and on the floor of the General Assembly. He lamented the meddling of the Scottish and Irish Presbyterian churches on the question of slavery in an article in 1847, when he felt the American Church had “arrived at such harmony of views” regarding slavery. As Moderator of the General Assembly in 1846 he supported a resolution that tacitly reaffirmed the strong anti-slavery statement of the 1818 General Assembly. He continued to support the American Colonization Society. He applauded R.J. Breckinridge’s stillborn effort to create a legal framework for emancipation in Kentucky. Yet he also supported the expanded fugitive slave law, so central to the Compromise of 1850. He became more insistent that slaveholders take seriously their responsibility to provide for the “religious education of their slaves, to respect their parental and marital rights…to recognize their right of property (not prosperity),” which in his mind would lead to an elevation of the slaves’ condition that would promote their ultimate freedom—what he called “the gospel method of emancipation.” He felt he was seeking “middle ground, the ground of the Bible.”[10]
Left: Frederick Douglass, circa 1879 from U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Right: James W. Pennington, n.d. from National Portrait Gallery, London.
His optimism proved to be unfounded as the nation became increasingly polarized during the 1850s. Southerners increasingly defended slavery not only as a permissible necessity, but as a positive good in God’s plan. They made the case for expanding slavery into the territories, thereby preserving slavery indefinitely and undermining Hodge’s theory that slavery, under Christian influence, would eventually wither away. Throughout the decade Hodge became more intense in his critique of the system of slavery as it was practiced, and blasted the cruelties of the system and the legislative enactments that preserved its injustices. As early as 1849 he began to talk of “negro slavery,” tacitly acknowledging the American form of slavery was tied up in racial issues. Hodge’s views on race are complex. He eloquently proclaimed “the unity of mankind,” yet accepted, as most white Americans did in his time, the inferiority of black Americans. Despite his professed Biblicism, he offered no biblical justification for such a position. Other than African American abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and James Pennington [12], few church leaders came to grips with the racial assumptions at work in American slavery. Hodge was certainly no exception.[11]
Hodge insisted he had not changed his position, but by the end of the 1850s more than his tone had shifted. This was apparent in his great debates with James Henley Thornwell in the General Assemblies of 1859 and 1860 over the “doctrine of the spirituality of the church,” which Hodge labeled a “new doctrine” that was biblically unwarranted. Hodge said that, taken to its “logical conclusions,” such a doctrine would undermine the Church’s call to “denounce what God forbids, or to proclaim in all ears what God commands.” In his “State of the Country” article in the January 1861 BRPR, Hodge made explicit “there are occasions when political questions rise into the sphere of morals and religion, when the rule for political action is to be sought, not in considerations of state policy, but in the law of God.” Later, during the war itself, Hodge blasted Thornwell for betraying his own convictions regarding “spirituality of the church.” Southern pulpits, he blasted, “rage perpetually with political harangues” supporting the cause of the Confederacy.[12]
The increasing estrangement of southern churchmen in the face of political change, and the election of Lincoln, was deeply disturbing to Hodge. On one hand, he was frustrated by his southern Old School Presbyterian colleagues’ unabashed promotion of slavery as a positive good and the tendency of northerners to capitulate to southern perspectives. In late 1860 he wrote to his brother Hugh, “I am thoroughly disgusted by the poltroonery of Northern Men. If they would take moderate and just ground, and take it firmly, and not go down on their knees and call themselves the sole wrongdoers, there would be some hope.” On the other hand, maintaining unity of the Church was so important to him that he worked hard to convince his fellow Old Schoolers that the Church continued to maintain the twin prongs he had articulated since 1836, that slaveholding was not in itself a sin, and that the northern Church was not supportive of abolitionism.[13]
He reiterated those points in a passionate effort to hold the Church together in a “State of the Country” article in January 1861. Moreover, he argued fiercely that the perceived grievances of the South did not justify secession. The Union is not a “mere partnership…..it is a body politic…and indissoluble.” Secession is a “breach of faith.” Hodge was surprised by the vehemence of the reaction he got to this essay. Northern abolitionists were unhappy with his ongoing defense of slavery’s legitimacy—something he expected. But he was astonished by the fierce response of southern Church leaders who saw it as an “unfair, one sided attack on the south.” Many of those same leaders began to align themselves with the secession movement.[14]
The inability of either nation or Church to hold together deeply pained Hodge. He was particularly distraught that his dear friend J. Leighton Wilson [13], who had been Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions [14], would find fault with his arguments against secession. Hodge declared himself in “despair” that “one of the best men [I] knew” could approve of what he considered a crime, and disapprove of what he saw as the plainest truth. “We are almost as far apart as though we did not believe in the same God and Savior, or recognize the same moral law,” Hodge wrote in a twelve page letter to Wilson. If “we who hold the same convictions can be differing so much…what must be the case of those not like minded….If you and I cannot agree, can the north and south agree?”[15] Sadly, the answer was obvious.
Hodge labored in vain to try to hold the Church together, even if the nation divided. As late as April 1861 he shared his hope that the Church would “present to the world the edifying spectacle of Christian brotherhood unbroken by political convulsions.”[16] He opposed the Spring Resolutions in the General Assembly of 1861, which sought to affirm Church loyalty to the federal government, arguing that although the Bible expects obedience to the government, the General Assembly had no right to decide a political question, i.e. to which government a church member owed allegiance. Curiously, Hodge asserted that if a lower governing body such as the Synod of New Jersey had asked for such a declaration of loyalty, he would have supported it on the grounds that it was clear to which government a citizen in that state should affirm allegiance. By 1862, when southerners had broken away from the Union and there was no longer a question of whether one owed loyalty to the state or federal government, Hodge was willing to go along with a General Assembly resolution calling for allegiance to the federal government. His logic, which seemed absolutely clear to him, was bound to seem convoluted to others.[17]
Painful as the secession and the separation of the Old School denomination was, Hodge became freer to criticize certain aspects of the slave system as it was actually practiced, especially the failure of laws to provide protections for marriage and the family. He had to admit there had been no significant improvements in the system in a hundred years, and that while he continued to hope for the system’s gradual evolution leading to emancipation, the South was committed to maintaining and expanding slavery.[18]
Hodge became a fierce supporter of the Union and the policies of Abraham Lincoln. In the middle of the war, he reflected on the idea of a “just war.” Following the President, he affirmed the emancipation proclamation as a war measure, and a legitimate means to preserve the Union. But he refuted the idea that an offensive war to end slavery would be legitimate. Preserving the Union and the Constitution was a just cause, but to make “abolition the end of the war is a plain and palpable violation of…the Constitution and the law of God.” Hodge held to the old West Point (and just war) code of the appropriate methodology of fighting war, and was uncomfortable with the increasingly brutal nature of the war and tendency to blur the distinction between civilians and soldier combatants. He found the “aphorism that all things are lawful in war, is not only unchristian, but inhuman.” Following the war, he was disturbed by the calls for vengeance and retribution against the South.[19]
Despite his assertion to the very end that he did not change his views, Hodge became a more ardent supporter of the end of slavery, and less sanguine about its ability to wither away under the natural processes of societal Christianization. Because of what he considered firm biblical principles, he never viewed abolishing slavery as a legitimate end of war. He endorsed the action of the General Assembly in 1864 calling for an end to slavery within the states and territories, admitting finally that the institution of slavery is “so repugnant to the feelings and conscience of the great mass of mankind…..that either national life or slavery must be extinguished.” Nevertheless, he insisted, through a complex analysis of word usage typical of Hodge, that this did NOT mean the endorsement of abolitionism. It is no wonder that people on various sides of the issues found him disarmingly obtuse.[20]
James Henley Thornwell, undated. [Pearl ID: 116411 [15]]
In earlier writings Hodge was more cautious than many of his generation in asserting he knew the will of God. At the beginning of 1863, during a time of discouragement for the North, he admitted that God had various purposes for trials and suffering. Sometimes God “means to punish (people) for their sins; sometimes he designs to try their faith and to make them examples to others; sometimes he intends to develop their character," and sometimes suffering is simply so that “the works of God should be made manifest.” One never knew for sure what was in God’s plan.
But by war’s end, the only way Hodge could explain the rationale for such great suffering as had been experienced in the Civil War was that “God has evidently so overruled the course of events that the destruction of slavery is the inevitable consequence of the triumph of the national arms.” Ending slavery was not an appropriate “just cause” for the war, but saving the Union was. However, by God’s providence and in God’s purpose, slavery had come to an end, a goal that Hodge affirmed even if his theology would never let him fully advocate that position. He found it less easy to provide a providential explanation for the death of Abraham Lincoln. “We cannot see the reason for it, nor conjecture the end it is designed to accomplish through it,” he wrote in a lengthy tribute to Lincoln after his death. “Why Mr. Lincoln should have been murdered just when he was most needed, most loved, and most trusted, is more than any man can tell. God is wont to move in a mysterious way."[21]
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Hodge, although he never explicitly wrote about the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, or Fifteenth Amendments, did affirm the principle that former slaves should become full citizens. Although he had earlier been an advocate of the colonization movement and even of forcing freed slaves to return to Africa (on the frankly racist grounds that black and whites could not easily co-exist), he later changed his mind on the deportation of former slaves—a number of whom, he reminded his readers, had fought to secure their freedom.
Nevertheless, in two lengthy 1865 articles, “President Lincoln” and “The Princeton Review on the State of the Country and of the Church,” Hodge defended his core positions on slavery and abolition, insisting that he held “precisely what he held in 1836.” He could not bring himself to say that slavery was wrong in itself from a biblical point of view, or that the spiritual arc of the Bible bent toward acknowledging slavery as sinful—the view held by many New School colleagues and numerous other evangelicals. Hodge thought that a position other than his own could lead nowhere but to an undermining of the authority of Scripture.
Hodge’s teaching, writings, and ecclesiastical actions helped frame important discussions within the Church. Church leaders took seriously what he said, and yet his positions (which Hodge viewed as biblical, moderate, and principled) were unduly nuanced and ultimately unsatisfying even to many in his own time and in his own Church—though he labored intensely to show himself a passionate supporter of the Union cause. Allen Guelzo suggests that there was “no threat to disunion Hodge feared more than disunion within himself.”[22] Although his core convictions remained the same, how he treated the issue of slavery responded to and reflected the changing political and ecclesiastical circumstances of the era. He did become more ardent in his distaste for slavery and his desire for emancipation, even though he remained incredibly naïve in his hopes for how that might happen. It could be argued that his maturing views of providence enabled him to see the hand of God at work in the extermination of slavery.
Although Hodge was influential in his time, and provided a thoughtful analysis of the issues of his day, his views are not finally satisfying to those of us who live in the 21st century. He ultimately stood on the wrong side of history, not grasping sufficiently the oppressive nature of slavery and especially the racial aspects of its American form. His approach to the Bible seems rigid and too literalistic, tied to the letter and not to the spirit. His approach has not provided a way ahead to deal biblically and theologically with complex issues of morality and justice. Nevertheless, he is an instructive example of one who valued the authority of Scripture and sought for theological consistency while tackling the toughest moral issue of his day.
Richard Reifsnyder retired after 44 years in pastoral ministry in the PC(USA), including 21 years as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Winchester, Virginia [16]. He is a graduate of Duke University, Yale Divinity School, and Princeton Theological Seminary, where he received a Ph.D. in Church History. Among his publications are articles on the history of church organization and leadership in The Presbyterian Presence series [17]. Rich lives in Salisbury, CT.
[1]Mark Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis [18], Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. This book provides the most sustained treatment of this perspective. A conference at Louisville Theological Seminary and the subsequent collection of many of tfhe essays in a book edited by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson, eds., Religion and the American Civil War [19], New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, was a catalyst in the burgeoning study of religion and the war.
[2]Religious periodicals were widely read and highly influential during this period. They often contained commentary not only on religious matters but were a source of information on social and political matters. See C.C. Goen, Broken Churches, Broken Nation. Denominational Schism and the Coming of the Civil War [20], Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1985, 36-42.
[3]See, for example, John W. Stewart and James H. Moorhead, eds. Charles Hodge Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and Work [21], Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002. Two recent biographies with different theological slants are W. Andrew Hoffecker, Charles Hodge: the Pride of Princeton [22], Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing Co, 2011, and Paul G. Gutjahr, Charles Hodge: Guardian of Orthodoxy [23], New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. See also James Moorhead, Princeton Seminary in American Religion and Culture [24],Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2012, 90-233; E. Brooks Holifield, Theology in American: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War [25], New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003, 370-394; and Mark Noll, America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln [26], New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, 316-19, 413-20, 433-35. While Hodge’s theology has largely been eclipsed in mainline Presbyterianism, it is still popular among more conservative Presbyterian and Reformed traditions.
[4]Charles Hodge, “The Princeton Review on the State of the Country and of the Church [27],” Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review (October 1865): 628, 656. A.A. Hodge, Life of Charles Hodge, DD, LL.D [28], New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1880, 333-34.
[5]Charles Hodge, “Slavery,” Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review [29] (April 1836): 268-303.
[6]Allen C. Guelzo, "Charles Hodge’s Anti-Slavery Moment” in Stewart and Moorhead, eds., Charles Hodge Revisited [30], 300-309; David Torbett, Theology and Slavery: Charles Hodge and Horace Bushnell [31], Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006, 55-70; Andrew Murray, Presbyterians and the Negro: A History [32], Philadelphia: Presbyterian Historical Society, 1966, 107-08.
[7]George Marsden’s The Evangelical Mind and the New School Presbyterian Church [33], New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970, 59-87 provides an excellent overview of the issues leading to the split. See also Hoffecker, Charles Hodge [22], 178-90.
[8] Review, by a Pittsburgher, of a pamphlet entitled, View of the Subject of Slavery contained in the Biblical Repertory for April 1836 in which the scriptural argument, it is believed, is very clearly and justly exhibited, Pittsburgh, 1836, for gratuitous distribution [11], Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1836.
[9]Mark Noll, “The Bible and Slavery” in Miller, Stout, and Wilson, eds., Religion and the American Civil War [19], 49. Noll’s essay gives a nice summary of four major ways in which the Bible was interpreted on this issue.
[10]Charles Hodge, “Report on the General Assembly [34],” Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review (July 1847): 427-42.
[11]Torbett, Theology and Slavery [31], 104-107; Guelzo, "Charles Hodge’s Anti-Slavery Moment” in Stewart and Moorhead, eds., Charles Hodge Revisited [21], 318-19. Noll’s chapter titled “The Negro Question Lies Far Deeper Than the Slave Question" in his The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, 51-74, provides an excellent analysis of the significance of race in how religious leaders addressed slavery.
[12]Ernest Trice Thompson, Presbyterians in the South: Volume One, 1607-1861 [35], Richmond, VA: John Knox Press, 1963, 510-50; Charles Hodge, “The State of the Country [36],” Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review (January 1861): 1; “The Princeton Review on the State of the Country and of the Church [27]."
[13]Letter from Charles Hodge to Hugh L. Hodge, December 13, 1860, Quoted in A.A. Hodge, Life of Charles Hodge, DD, LL.D [28]., 463.
[14]Charles Hodge, “The State of the Country [36],” 28-32; “The Princeton Review on the State of the Country and of the Church [27],” 628-30; Stewart and Moorhead, eds. Charles Hodge Revisited [21], 91-94.
[15]Leighton Wilson correspondence, RG 376, Box 2, Folder 2; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA.
[16]Charles Hodge, “The Church and the Country [37],” Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review (April 1861): 376.
[17]Louis G. Vander Velde, The Presbyterian Churches and the Federal Union 1861-69 [38], Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983, 39-55; James Moorhead, American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War 1860-69 [39], New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978, 31-32; Torbett, Theology and Slavery [31], 97-99.
[18]Charles Hodge, “Report on the General Assembly [40],” Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review (July 1864): 545.
[19]Charles Hodge, "The War [41],” Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review (January 1863): 140-69; “President Lincoln [42],” Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review (July 1865): 455. See Harry Stout, Upon the Altar of a Nation. A Moral History of the Civil War [43], New York: Viking Press, 2006, 175.
[20]Charles Hodge, “Report on the General Assembly [40]," 549-50; “The Princeton Review on the State of the Country and of the Church [27]," 633-4, 640-41.
[21]Although Hodge’s views on providence were similar to Lincoln’s, the President’s viewpoint was more tentative in assuming he was able to read exactly what God’s purpose was. In the Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln declares, “Yet, IF God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” By the end of the war there was no “if” in Hodge’s thinking. He clearly saw God’s providential hand in ending slavery by means of the war. Charles Hodge, “The War," 142-50; “President Lincoln,” 439-50; Harry Stout, Upon the Altar of a Nation [43], 146. For an excellent treatment of the important of the idea of providence in the North and South see Mark Noll, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis [18], 75-94.
[22]Guelzo, "Charles Hodge’s Anti-Slavery Moment” in Stewart and Moorhead, eds. Charles Hodge Revisited [21], 323.
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April 21, 2019 8:02pm PT by Josh Wigler
'Game of Thrones' Creators Explain That Surprising Sex Scene
Here's how the most unexpected scene from "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" came to life.
[This story contains spoilers for season eight, episode two of HBO's Game of Thrones, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms."]
"We're probably going to die soon. I want to know what it's like before that happens."
And with those words, the romantic possibilities between Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) and Gendry (Joe Dempsie) were no longer just the stuff of fan fiction. In "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," with hours left before the White Walkers arrive at Winterfell, Arya meets Gendry in one of the castle's many corridors and makes her intentions clear: she wants to sleep with Gendry, her childhood friend, the black-haired blacksmith she once admired from afar. That distance is officially closed. Whatever happens next, the daughter of Ned Stark (Sean Bean) and the son of Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) were an item for at least one night — a development some fans speculated about going as far back as the characters' time together on the road in seasons two and three.
It's a happy moment in otherwise bleak times for both Arya and Gendry, but how has the audience responded to the scene? With memes and mixed reactions, based on a quick stroll online. How did the creators of the series justify the scene? In HBO's Inside the Episode feature after "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," Thrones co-creator David Benioff offered the following explanation: "For us, what was interesting about this episode was that this is our last night together, and I think everyone would face the end in different ways. Some characters want to make love for the first time because they've never done it before, and other characters are getting drunk and singing songs."
Beyond Arya, Benioff is referring to the other moments of character triumph throughout the episode, such as the scene in which Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) knights Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) in front of unlikely drinking companions Tyrion (Peter Dinklage), Davos (Liam Cunningham), Podrick (Daniel Portman) and Tormund (Kristofer Hivju).
"Everyone faces [the end of the world] in different ways," he says, "but they're all facing it and that's why this episode was so important to us because, it's all these characters that we've been following for so long and now they're facing a common enemy."
For her part, Williams spoke with EW about the scene, saying she first believed it was a prank from the creators. "David and [co-creator Dan Weiss] were like: 'You can show as much or as little as you want,'" she said, speaking about the amount of nudity featured in the scene. "So I kept myself pretty private. I don't think it's important for Arya to flash. This beat isn't really about that."
What was it about, then? Williams' answer on the meaning of the scene: "It was really interesting because it's a very human relationship for Arya.… This is something she's stayed away from, an emotion we've never really seen her engage with. David and Dan were like, 'It's the end of the world, what else would you have her do?' This may be a moment where Arya accepts death tomorrow, which she never does — 'Not Today.' So it was that moment where she says, 'We're probably going to die tomorrow, I want to know what this feels like before that happens.' It's interesting to see Arya be a bit more human, speak more normally about things people are scared of."
Two days after the episode aired, Williams responded on social media to fans who felt uncomfortable about the scene, tweeting: "if u feel uncomfortable just know that my mother and my step dad and my 2 sisters and my 4 brothers have all probably watched this too ahahakillmeehehe."
Previously, The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Dempsie about returning to Game of Thrones in 2017, after a three-season break from the series. In that interview, he was asked to speculate on a possible romantic future between Gendry and Arya. His response at the time: "I think it's implied in the books that there might be a romantic element to the relationship, and in the books I think the characters are significantly closer in age. I know from my personal experience, when we were filming the earlier seasons and people would ask about that and talk about that, I would feel slightly uncomfortable. I'm acting alongside a child here. I was a 25-year-old man. I sometimes found that question a little hard to address and a little tricky to answer.
"As a result of the difference in age, I think one of the roles Gendry played in Arya's story was as him being an older guy who sort of awakens certain feelings in Arya for the first time as she's becoming a young woman. There's that scene in season two where I'm forging a sword — fairly inexplicably without a shirt on — and I think the idea was to convey the idea of Arya experiencing feelings she's never felt before. Everyone's had that at some point. Whether that means Gendry has a place in Arya's heart or vice versa, I have no idea. I think there's almost a sibling element, too. At that point in the story, Gendry really reminded her of her brothers and of home. That was the comfort with him. But it could go a number of ways. It would just be nice if they met again, wouldn't it? It's a pairing you wouldn't want to mess with."
As for how his thoughts evolved on the matter, Dempsie told EW: "It's obviously slightly strange for me because I've known Maisie since she was 11, 12 years old.… At the same time, I don't want to be patronizing toward Maisie — she's a 20-year-old woman. So we just had a lot of fun with it."
Where does the scene leave Arya and Gendry moving forward? For one thing, they won't be sleeping in. The White Walkers have arrived at Winterfell by the end of "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," and Arya has a brand new Gendry-forged weapon to test out. Expect to see its results in action in the supersize, action-oriented episode three, directed by "Battle of the Bastards" helmer Miguel Sapochnik.
Follow THR.com/GameOfThrones for more final season coverage.
Josh Wigler
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The Monk Ilarion of Gdovsk and Pskovoezersk ("Pskov-Lake")
Commemorated on March 28, October 21
The Monk Ilarion of Gdovsk and Pskovoezersk ("Pskov-Lake"), was a disciple of the Monk Evphrosyn of Pskov (Comm. 15 May). In 1460 on the banks of the River Zhelcha, not far from Gdov, he founded the Ozersk (Lake) Pokrov (Protection of the Mother of God) monastery. The monastery was situated on the boundary with the Livonian Knights order, and the monks constantly suffered the incursions of the military order. Despite the harsh conditions and insufficiency of means, the Monk Ilarion maintained an high degree of reverence at the monastery, and made great efforts to adorn and build up the monastery.
The Monk Ilarion reposed on 28 March 1476 and was buried at the north doors of the iconostas in the church of the Protection of the MostHoly Mother of God, in the monastery founded by him. Afterwards at the monastery was built a temple in honour of the Nativity of Christ, the left chapel of which was dedicated in the name of the founder of the Gdovsk monastery. The commemoration of the Monk Ilarion of Gdov is made also on 21 October, on the day of saint-name in common.
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TREND ALERT! BATIK MOTIF COLLECTION BY UNIQLO
Some people do not know this but I am very close with my aunt who has lived in Indonesia for around 30 years with her husband and son. Growing up, I would always get excited whenever my aunt visited the Philippines. Whenever she comes home, she usually brings souvenirs to give to each family member. Some of the souvenirs that she usually brings are BATIK items. Yes, even during my younger years, I am already familiar with BATIK fabric and BATIK apparel because it is one of my aunt's favorite items to give whenever she comes home. I even own a bunch of BATIK dresses and tops that I still wear today. I even have BATIK shorts that I use as sleepwear because well, it's so trendy and comfortable at the same time. (Style and Comfort)
That's why I became very excited when UNIQLO announced their newest Spring/Summer Collection for 2018: BATIK MOTIF COLLECTION featuring of course, BATIK designs and apparel.
The Spring/Summer BATIK MOTIF COLLECTION features traditional textiles that is a fusion of cultural heritage and modern elements. The collection was launched in two phases - the first one was on March 23 and the next one was on May 25. This collection was inspired by the diversity of Indonesia's cultural motifs such as Ceplokan (representing UNITY), Kembang (representing FLORA) and Sido (representing HOPE). UNIQLO aims to preserve the beauty and characteristics of traditional Batik Motifs on wearable everyday pieces. These pieces range from stand collar shirts for men and frilled sleeves and ruffled blouses for women.
(grabbed from www.uniqlo.com)
The full men’s collection will be available at all UNIQLO stores and online at www.uniqlo.com/sg.
The full women’s collection will be available at selected stores including UNIQLO Orchard Central (Global Flagship Store) and online.
UNIQLO, through the BATIK MOTIF COLLECTION, aims to increase more awareness on Indonesia's cultural treasure to the younger generations around the region. The patterns were carefully thought of and developed by UNIQLO in line with its LIFEWEAR Philosophy to design pieces of clothing that is of the time and for the time. UNIQLO also hopes to meet the standards and needs of the younger generation for affordable and stylish everyday wear.
About UNIQLO LifeWear
Apparel that comes from the Japanese values of simplicity, quality and longevity. Designed to be of the time and for the time, LifeWear is made with such modern elegance that it becomes the building blocks of each individual’s style. A perfect shirt that is always being made more perfect. The simplest design hiding the most thoughtful and modern details. The best in fit and fabric made to be affordable and accessible to all. LifeWear is clothing that is constantly being innovated, bringing more warmth, more lightness, better design, and better comfort to people’s lives.
About UNIQLO and Fast Retailing
UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading global Japanese retail holding company that designs, manufactures and sells clothing under seven main brands: Comptoir des Cotonniers, GU, Helmut Lang, J Brand, Princesse tam.tam, Theory, and UNIQLO. With global sales of approximately 1.8619 trillion yen for the 2017 fiscal year ending August 31, 2017 (US $16.87 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2017 rate of $1 = 110.4 yen), Fast Retailing is one of the world’s largest apparel retail companies, and UNIQLO is Japan’s leading specialty retailer.
UNIQLO continues to open large-scale stores in some of the world's most important cities and locations, as part of its ongoing efforts to solidify its status as a truly global brand. Today the company has more than 1,900 stores in 19 markets worldwide including Japan, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, U.K. and the U.S. In addition, Grameen UNIQLO, a social business established in Bangladesh in September 2010, currently operates several Grameen UNIQLO stores in Dhaka. UNIQLO manages an integrated business model under which it designs, manufactures, markets and sells high-quality, casual apparel. The company believes that truly great clothes should be supremely comfortable, feature universal designs, are of high quality and offer a superb fit to everyone who wears them.
With a corporate statement committed to changing clothes, changing conventional wisdom and change the world, Fast Retailing is dedicated to creating great clothing with new and unique value to enrich the lives of people everywhere. For more information about UNIQLO and Fast Retailing, please visit www.uniqlo.com and www.fastretailing.com.
caramielrush April 19, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Love the patterns!!! Are they available here in the Philippines? :)
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Arsenal Midfielder Keen to Prove Commitment to Fans
By Vishnuprasad S
Updated October 2, 2013 13:14 BST
Arsenal midfielder Mathieu Flamini expressed his delight in returning to the Gunners' ranks and claims he wants to prove his commitment to the club's supporters by performing well.
The Frenchman, who had left the club in 2008 to join AC Milan, moved back to north London on a free transfer last month, after spending several weeks training with the squad. The 29-year-old made an impressive second debut for Arsenal in the 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur in the north London derby at Emirates last week and the player says he felt like he has never been away.
"I really have the sensation of being back home. Playing in a big derby, it was a great emotion, a great feeling. Playing against Tottenham is never easy but it is special for the club, for the fans and for the players. Of course, for me it was my first game and I wanted to show everyone how committed I am to this club, how I am ready to give everything on the pitch. I hope everyone saw it; I really did my best when I came on," Flamini said.
Flamini says he feels like he never left (Arsenal)
"I have heard it a lot [that it is like I have never been away]. I feel like I never left. There are players I played with before, and even staff, there are a lot of people still here that I knew before and the [relationship] with the fans was just amazing. I just want to thank everyone for the nice atmosphere on Sunday. It was great," the Marseille product added.
Flamini also praised Arsenal's deadline day signing of Germany playmaker Mesut Ozil from Real Madrid for a club record transfer fee. Palermo goalkeeper Emilaino Viviano was another player who joined the Gunners on Monday and the Frenchman said he has been impressed with the quality of the squad.
"The quality is very high in this team and at this club. That is the most important thing, to have players of quality because that makes a difference. The team spirit is also very good, and we saw on Sunday that everyone was helping each other on the pitch. That makes a difference in the big games," Flamini stressed.
This article was first published on September 6, 2013
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Atlas Group is a private equity firm that has been in the world of technology for over 20 years. The firm has successfully been investing in businesses at different stages of their growth: seed capital, venture and development capital in the tech industry; with a special interest in the blockchain revolution, cryptocurrencies and ICOs.
Founded by Jean-Michel Alfieri, who serves as its current President; and Philippe Bednarek who serves as its Chairman. With a degree in Political Science, Jean-Michel co-founded this diversified financial investment organization in 1994. Also, Mr. Alfieri works as the Chairman of the online marketing agency Digital based in the UAE and he is the Co-Founder and President of GoldFinX based in Singapore, a fintech company that raises funds through its ICOs to provide working capital to goldmines.
As Atlas Group’s representative, Jean-Michel currently sits on the board of 14 companies in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia and has participated in more than 20 M&A deals over the last 2 decades from seed funding to IPO including the sale and purchase of companies in America, Europe, and Asia.
Philippe Bednarek graduated from the University of Aix-Marseille in Public Law and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Law from the same university. He co-founded the private equity firm Atlas Group of Companies with Mr. Alfieri. Within the Atlas Group, Philippe’s main appointments include CEO of GoldFinX, CEO of Atlas Finance a private investment firm; and director of the Atlas Interactive Group specializing in value-added telecommunications.
This dynamic duo has gathered quite the experience over the years, leading international teams that have a deep understanding of global financial trends and practices, leading the Atlas Group of Companies into a successful business capable of implementing financial solutions and financing options; which include cryptocurrency models and trading in digital currencies.
Furthermore, throughout the years Philippe and Jean-Michel have met with talented young entrepreneurs who are innovating in the tech sector to share the experience with them. This is precisely why the Atlas Group of Companies focuses a great part of its efforts into ensuring investment on high potential innovative companies, strategically finding prospects with excellent proof of concept and strong historical revenue growth.
But no matter how good your idea is if the right team is not behind it to make it happen, then most likely the entire project will fail.
This reasoning led to the managing team to seek experts in different areas to develop the best possible product. With a deep understanding of blockchain technology and the cryptocurrency market, the Atlas Group of Companies has developed StepChain: a revolutionary and responsible fitness app that offers rewards in exchange for your steps count. Based on the data extracted from the pedometer and phone accelerometer, users obtain great rewards that can be exchanged for goods and services from the fitness and sports industry, with specific discounts or even allowing users to make charitable donations with the rewards earned.
For this task, the company has Alexandre Rigaud who serves as the Chief Blockchain Officer and Co-Founder of StepChain. Alexandre has been a computer expert and coder since his early teens and speaks five languages fluently. With a Bachelor of Business Administration, International Business / Innovation and Entrepreneurship major, Alexandre is an expert in the Blockchain environment. This tech-savvy individual designs and develops rich technical experiences, creative dynamic solutions, and unique content to improve the Blockchain Industry. At Twenty-four years, Alexandre is also a University Professor and a Public Speaker in the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency space. He is a speaker at Google’s MENA HQ as well as in various blockchain events and conferences in the region. He is a member of the UAE Ministry of Youth’s “Youth Council” and president of the Dubai French Community Club for Youth.
Behind StepChain, there’s an incredibly talented team working towards the success of the company. With great experience and knowledge of digital content and apps development and distribution, the rest of the team offers a unique approach to the word business. Each one of its members focuses on different targets to drive the company towards success.
The Team behind StepChain offers vast experience in different sectors, ensuring the success of the company through the development of different areas. This company is led by experts with great knowledge in business administration, blockchain technology, marketing, and the cryptocurrency market, driving the company towards success. Every company or project needs to have a strong and experienced team behind, which will make it more possible for the company to eventually be successful; especially when competing with other well-established brands in the tech and fitness industries.
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The Paddy Power Cup
Ireland draw Russia, England & Greece in European Championships
The draw for the first ever EAFF European Championships took place this afternoon in Riva, Turkey. Europe's first ever major Amputee Football tournament will take place in Turkey from the 1st to the 10th of October this year. 12 teams from across the continent will compete for Europe's biggest prize. The tournament represents the culmination of the incredible work that has been done across Europe in developing the sport of Amputee Football since the establishment of the EAFF in 2015. With the support of UEFA, in the space of two years, the EAFF has helped European Amputee football reach unimaginable heights. Thanks to the EAFF more and more nations are taking up the sport in Europe and in October 4 of the 12 teams competing at the European Championships will be appearing in a major international tournament for the first time. The tournament also promises to be of an incredibly high standard. 3 of the top 4 nations in World Amputee Football were named 1st seeds for the draw (Russia #1, Turkey #3 and Poland #4).
Earlier today Ireland were drawn in Group C alongside World Champions Russia, neighbours England and emerging Greece. Ireland have never faced Russia or Greece in an International fixture while they have played England on numerous occasions, most recently at the Amp Futbol Cup in Warsaw in June. The squad will acknowledge that they've have been drawn in the toughest of the 3 groups but will remain confident of achieving the aims they have set out for the tournament. The squad have been training regularly this summer and will attend several more training camps before October to ensure that they are fully prepared for the challenge that lies ahead.
The tournament kicks off on the 2nd of October as hosts Turkey play Germany in the opening fixture. Ireland's group fixtures are as follows:
3rd October 17.00 (15.00 Irish time) v. Russia
4th October 16.30 (14.30 Irish time) v. England
5th October 12.00 (10.00 Irish time) v. Greece
Irish Squad to play at European Championships Announced
The IAFA International management team of Nick Harrison and Declan Considine announced the Irish squad that will compete at the first ever Amputee Football European Championships in Turkey earlier today. Those selected have been training tirelessly throughout the year, meeting monthly at the University of Limerick and doing their utmost to earn their places on the flight to Turkey at the end of this month. Check out our video for a taste of what happens when the IAFA International squad get together and see the squad that will represent Ireland at the European Championships revealed.
International Squad, European Championships 2017:
International Managers: Nick Harrison, Declan Considine
Goalkeepers: James Conroy, Justin Guiney, Patrick Hutton
Defenders: David Saunders, Kevin Cahillane, Simon Baker
Midfielders: Garry Hoey, Alan Wall, Kevan O'Rourke, Éanna Durham
Strikers: James Boyle, Neil Hoey, Christy McElligott
Huge thanks to mshotstudio.pl for the fantastic video.
IAFA and IAFA Juniors to travel to Poland this Summer
Both the IAFA Seniors and Juniors will be in action this Summer in Warsaw, Poland. First up the Senior International Squad will compete at the Amp Futbol Cup on the 24th and 25th of June. The Amp Futbol Cup has been the most prestigious and competitive Amputee Football tournament in Europe since its inception in 2012. In this, the sixth edition of the competition, Ireland will face England and France in the group stage and should they advance, will compete against Poland, Japan and Greece for the coveted trophy. The squad have been training tirelessly since January to prepare for the tournament and are eagerly looking forward to testing themselves against some of the world's elite teams in advance of the European Championships this October. The tournament will be live streamed and links to the stream will be available through the IAFA's social media channels on June 24th and 25th.
6 Juniors will represent Ireland at the second EAFF Junior Amputee Football Training Camp from the 6-9 of July. Following on from the enormous success that last year's camp in Dublin was, Poland will host Junior Amputee Footballers from across the continent for a weekend of football and fun. Our six Juniors were chosen for the dedication and commitment they have shown over the past year. Each player cannot wait to train alongside their European peers as they continue to develop in the hope that someday they will play in the senior squad. We would like to wish our Juniors the very best of luck for their exciting trip and hope they thoroughly enjoy the experience. No doubt they will all be donning the Green jersey in no time at all.
Irish Internationals help promote EAFF Amputee Football Weeks 2017
The Irish Senior International squad took time out from their pre-match training to help promote the EAFF's European Amputee Football Weeks which kicked off on Thursday June 1st. The initiative, supported by UEFA, will see Amputee Football events take place across Europe to promote the game and encourage the further development of the sport across the continent. Having flown back from New Jersey following their game against Mexico, preparing to meet visitors Uruguay at the Aviva on Sunday evening, the Irish squad were on hand to support the IAFA's involvement in the EAFA's initiative. The IAFA featured at the Champions League festival in Cardiff on Thursday, will send 6 Junior Amputee's to take part in the EAFF Junior Development Camp in Warsaw and will compete in the Amp Futbol Cup, also in Warsaw later this month, all as part of the Amputee Football Weeks. The association and the squad would like to thank Martin, Roy and all the Irish squad for their support.
IAFA to host 2017 EAFF Congress, February 10-12
The European Amputee Football Federation's Annual Congress will take place in Dublin this year on the weekend of the 10-12 February. The Irish Amputee Football Association and the FAI will host delegates from 14 countries across Europe for the weekend when they will discuss the future development of the sport across the continent. Those attending include hosts Ireland, reigning world champions Russia, as well as, European Championship hosts Turkey. European Amputee Football has grown from strength to strength in recent years. European Amputee Football took centre stage at the 2014 World Cup with three teams, Russia (1st), Turkey (3rd) and Poland (4th), finishing within the top five of the 20 team competition. The EAFF was later established in February 2015 on the back of this success. In 2016 the EAFF created the Amputee Football Weeks initiative to further develop the sport of amputee football in Europe raising awareness by encouraging nations to showcase their rising stars. The initiative saw 11 countries host both junior and senior events; tournaments, matches, open training sessions and demonstrations between May 14th and June 12th. In October 2017 Turkey will host the EAFF's first European Championships with qualification for the 2018 Amputee Football World Cup at stake. The delegates will have much to discuss and the future of European Amputee Football is looking very bright.
IAFA Manager leads the way on Operation Transformation
IAFA International manager Chris McElligott was selected as one of five leaders for the 2017 edition of RTE's weight loss and healthy living programme Operation Transformation. Chris hopes to inspire the public as he tackles his weight and fitness through the 8-week programme and is determined not to allow his amputation to get in his way. Chris lost his leg in a traffic accident in 2001. A legend of domestic soccer in Ireland, Chris had played for St. Patrick's Athletic and Monaghan United in the Irish Premier League, won the FAI Junior Cup with his hometown club, Ballymun United, and amassed 17 Junior International caps with Ireland before he became an amputee. In 2011 Chris returned to the game he loves and was instrumental in the foundation of the Irish Amputee Football Association. Chris acted as player-manager of the IAFF for the 2012 and 2013 seasons but chose to concentrate on coaching and managing the International team thereafter. A master tactician, possessing invaluable experience of the game, Chris has managed Ireland at various tournaments across Europe, as well as, at the Amputee Football World Cup in Mexico in 2014. Now Chris feels he's ready to prove his own fitness and is aiming to pull on the green jersey again at the upcoming EAFF European Championships in Turkey this October. In his first two weeks on the programme Chris has already lost an incredible 15 and a half pounds and has been an inspiration to anyone who has watched and followed him.
You can follow Chris's journey over at: https://ot.rte.ie/leaders/chris-mcelligott/day-16/?view=full
Who knows, later this year we may see more of this from 'The Gaffer'...
Damien Duff and Robbie Keane team up against IAFA in challenge match
Republic of Ireland legends Damien Duff and Robbie Keane joined Noel King and former League of Ireland players, lining up against the Irish Amputee Football Association's International, for a challenge game at the FAI's headquarters in Abbotstown in December. Duff became an ambassador for the IAFA in 2015 and has been helping raise awareness for the sport of Amputee Football in Ireland ever since. Duff has held training sessions with the IAFA squad, attended the first ever EAFF Junior training camp held in Dublin in March 2015 and played a key role in arranging this match. The Irish Amputees got the opportunity to showcase their sport to the former internationals, who even gave the game a go for themselves, using crutches to play the second half. The IAFA would like to extend their warmest appreciation to all those who played on the day, to Robbie, Noel and to Damien whose continued support is invaluable to the association.
IAFA, IAFA Junior Academy proud to take part in EAFF Football Weeks
Between May 14th and June 12th 2016 the European Amputee Football Federation are promoting the sport of Amputee Football across Europe through their Amputee Football Weeks initiative. 10 countries across the continent will play host to events, tournaments, demonstrations and junior training camps, to showcase the sport. The IAFA International squad travel to Poland to compete in the second annual Podhale Amp Futbol Cup. Our Irish Amps will look to improve on last years second place finish when they take on hosts Poland, old rivals Ukraine and tournament debutants Germany. UL Sport Amputee Football Club complete their season on June 11th at the EAFA League Cup in Birmingham. The Limerick side will look to cap off a fine debut season that saw them finish second in the EAFA League to Peterborough on goal difference. The IAFA Junior Academy will host a Junior Training Camp at the University of Limerick on the same weekend. Junior Amputees from across the country will come together for a fun filled weekend of coaching and games. The Academy is growing from strength to strength. Following the incredibly successful European Junior Training Camp held in Dublin in March the IAFA Juniors demonstrated their skills and abilities at the recent FAI Junior Cup Final at the Aviva Stadium. Stay tuned for updates on what promises to be an incredibly exciting few weeks for European and Irish Amputee Football.
ULSport AFC beaten on penalties in Cup Semi-Final
ULSport Amputee Football Club finished fourth in the EAFA Takeda League Cup on Saturday June 11th. The competition was played as part of the European Amputee Football Federation's Amputee Football Development Weeks. 8 teams from England, Scotland and Ireland competed through 2 groups for the top prize. UL started the day brightly recording wins against Partick Thistle (4-0) and Manchester City (1-0) and drawing with Arsenal (0-0) to top their group. Having secured 7 points from a possible 9, scoring 5 goals and keeping 3 clean sheets the UL squad were in buoyant spirits as they advanced to the knockout stages.
UL met Peterborough in their semi-final, the side that had narrowly beaten them to the League title in May. UL dominated the game, created numerous chances but were unable to make them pay and Peterborough held out for a draw. The game would be decided by a penalty shootout. Both teams scored each of their first 3 penalties but when UL missed their fourth, Peterborough converted theirs to move on to the final. Everton beat Peterborough (1-0) in the final, having beaten Man City (1-0) in their semi-final, to lift the Takeda Cup.
UL were beaten (1-0) by Man City in the 3rd/4th place playoff, having given their absolute all to secure a place in the final in their previous match. There were a number of top performances from the Irishmen yesterday. Alan Wall scored all 5 of UL's goals, player/manager Simon Baker remained solid at the back throughout the tournament and the team's youngest member Neil Hoey showed great versatility performing well at the back and in a central midfield role.
The Limerick side capped off an impressive season without any silverware but with 4 very solid performances. The club, Ireland's first Amputee Football club, has gone from strength to strength since its inception last Autumn and will undoubtedly be looking to compete for the League/Cup double next season.
Ireland unbeaten at Podhale Amp Futbol Cup 2016
The IAFA International squad finished second at the Podhale Amp Futbol Cup for the second year in a row drawing with Poland (1-1) and Ukraine (0-0) and beating Germany (5-3) over the weekend of the 4th-5th of June. Following an impressive performance last year at the same competition that saw them narrowly lose out to the hosts the Irish squad hoped to go one better this year and lift the coveted trophy. Unfortunately, despite three very impressive performances the Irish side were once again bettered by hosts Poland. Ireland went unbeaten through the tournament for the first time in the associations history and took yet another step towards bridging the gap between themselves and Poland, currently ranked 4th in the World and one of Europe's top Amputee Football teams.
Poland 1-1 Ireland
Ireland kicked off the tournament labelled the 'mini Euros' against hosts Poland. These two sides had met on 4 previous occasions and each time the Poles emerged victorious so this was set to be Ireland's toughest fixture, one that would have a significant bearing on the destination of the cup. But Ireland started brightly. David Saunders broke powerfully down the right but his cross was cut out. Ireland enjoyed some early pressure but failed to really work the Polish keeper. Defensively Ireland remained solid and compact and captain James Conroy in the Irish goal, who would later scoop the prize for Goalkeeper of the Tournament, was rarely called into action. Neither side could break the deadlock before the break. The Polish improved in the second half and pushed further forward. They won a succession of corners but still couldn't find a lead goal. Ireland were then awarded a free-kick on the right hand side of the Polish box with 10 minutes left to play. Alan Wall stepped up confidently and thumped the ball around the Polish wall and into the top left corner of the net. Ireland led and Poland were rattled. A mistake allowed Kevan O'Rourke to break free of the Polish defence on the halfway line and race through on the keeper. His strike went wide of the left hand post unfortunately as Polish defenders got back to apply the necessary pressure. Ireland hung on and tried to grind out the result until in stoppage time the Poles equalised. Moments away from an historic win the Irish side remained proud of their performance and knew that they were still in with every chance of winning the competition.
Ireland 0-0 Ukraine
Ireland and Ukraine have a long history in the sport of Amputee Football. They had met on 4 previous occasions, twice at the World Cup in Mexico in 2014. There is no love lost between the sides and this game proved to be a highly competitive, tough and physical contest. Again Ireland started brightly. Three good chances fell to David Saunders (1) and Kevan O'Rourke (2) but both players failed to direct Alan Wall's fine crosses into the Ukraine goal. Craig Dowlng too almost capitalised on a defensive mix up but his delicate chip was deflected out for a corner. Ukraine who had already secured 3 points against Germany in their first game set up to frustrate Ireland. The sides remained level at halftime and while Ukraine did improve in the second half they created very few opportunities on the Irish goal. Ireland defended well, held their shape and continued in their attempts to break Ukraine down. Ireland threatened from set pieces and had a couple of penalty claims waved away by the referees. Kevan O'Rourke played a ball across the penalty area that was taken out of Craig Dowling's path by a sliding challenge from the Ukrainian captain. The Eastern European's did carve out a chance in the dying moments of the game as Ireland tired but they were denied by the woodwork and the sides ultimately finished level. Another performance the Irish amputees could be proud of. They had only once recorded a win against Ukraine and were unlucky not to break them down on a couple of occasions during this game.
Ireland 5-3 Germany
Ireland's 2 points meant that they had to win their final game against Germany to be in with any chance of winning the competition. Their chance was, however, dependent on the result of the final game of the competition between Poland and Ukraine. Despite creating chances early on Ireland were dealt a blow when Germany opened the scoring with a dubious goal. The German striker, unseen by the referees, touched the ball with his crutch past Justin Guiney in the Irish goal. Ireland reacted positively, however, Alan Wall's strike rattled the German crossbar, the German's failed to clear their lines and Kevin 'Butch' Cahillane tapped into an empty net to score his first ever international goal. The German's would take the lead for a second time, however, a defensive mistake allowed Germany to make it 1-2. Ireland finished the half the stronger side. David Saunders headed home from an Alan Wall corner to draw the sides level again, like Cahillane scoring his first ever goal for Ireland in the process. The second half would prove as frantic as the first but Ireland began the control the game better. Ireland took the lead through Craig Dowling, captaining the side on his final appearance before leaving for Canada in September. The Germans again failed to clear their lines from an Irish corner, Alan Wall slid a ball through to Dowling who finished powerfully. Ireland then made it 4-2. 'Butch' Cahillane whipped a dangerous ball into the German penalty area that deflected off a defender and found its way to the back of the net. The Germans struck back one final time. A defensive error followed by a deflection left Justin Guiney with no chance and Germany were back in it. Saunders stepped up again, however, to put the result beyond doubt. He picked the ball up in space and curled a delightful effort with the outside of his right boot past a flailing German keeper. Poland beat Ukraine 3-0 in the final game claiming the cup for the second year in a row but the Irish team know they ran the hosts close and can be very proud of a valiant effort in Poland over the weekend.
IAFA Squad, Podhale Amp Futbol Cup 2016:
James Conroy (C), Justin Guiney, Garry Hoey, Kevin Cahillane, David Saunders, Kevan O'Rourke, Alan Wall, Craig Dowling, Neil Hoey
Christy McElligott (Manager), Ross Ó Cionaoith (Coach), Alan Heary (Performance Coach), Daniel Boyle (Kit Man), Mark Barry (Physio)
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Denis Shapovalov’s New York adventure comes to an end
Diego Schwartzman becomes smallest man to reach last eight since Jaime Yzaga in 1994
Mon, Sep 4, 2017, 08:35
Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain celebrates his win against Denis Shapovalov. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Denis Shapovalov vowed to return to New York and “do some damage” after his US Open adventure ended in a fourth-round defeat by Pablo Carreno Busta.
The 18-year-old Canadian has been hailed as the future of tennis and compared to a young John McEnroe — including by the man himself — during his run at Flushing Meadows.
It is hard to see Shapovalov as anything other than a future grand slam champion given his armoury of exciting weapons and competitor’s mentality.
But he will have to wait a little longer after 12th seed Carreno Busta, the highest-ranked man left in the bottom half of the draw, battled to a 7-6 (7/2) 7-6 (7/4) 7-6 (7/3) victory.
The impact Shapovalov has made was demonstrated by the fact this was his third match in a row in Arthur Ashe Stadium, a privilege usually reserved for slam champions rather than teenage qualifiers.
Before leaving the court, Shapovalov put down his bags and thanked the crowd and, asked afterwards for his favourite memory of the tournament, he said: “Honestly, I think it was the roar of the crowd when I put my bags down and I went to applaud them.
“They were all screaming. It was so loud, and it was a great moment for me. It really has a special place in my heart now, New York. Hopefully I can come back here for many more years and just try to do some damage.”
At a time when men’s tennis is having to contemplate life after Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, the emergence of Shapovalov could not be more opportune.
The teenager hopes his success will encourage Canadian youngsters to pick up “a racket instead of a hockey stick”, and he is already aware of the wider impact he has made.
Shapovalov said: “Just a couple of days ago in Central Park, I was walking with my team and I ran into this kid.
“He comes up to me, and he tries to talk to me but he can’t really start a conversation, he’s shaking so much. He’s, just, like, ‘Oh, my God, wow, I can’t believe this’.
“I grew up wanting to play tennis. I want to try to change the sport, first of all in Canada. But definitely in America, I think I’m making an impact, and hopefully I can continue to do so, because for me the best thing in life is to see kids like this looking up to you and just aspiring to be like you.”
The disappointment for Shapovalov was that he could not go further here, with the draw an open invitation for someone to seize the chance to reach a first grand slam final.
That could yet be Carreno Busta, who does not have Shapovalov’s weapons but played an extremely solid match and handled the big points very well.
Shapovalov served for the opening set, had three set points and was also a break up in the third.
He said: “I think I had a lot of chances. I don’t think I played as well today as I have been these past two weeks.
“I think Pablo played a great match. He stayed very tough mentally in the big points. He just played three tie-breaks that were better than mine.
“I definitely had my chances. I’m very disappointed that I wasn’t able to keep my leads. But it’s tennis. I still have a lot of things to learn.”
Carreno Busta admitted he had not heard of Shapovalov until last month, when he defeated Rafael Nadal on his way to the semi-finals of the Masters tournament in Montreal.
The Spaniard said: “In Montreal I watched him playing against Rafa, and he played an unbelievable match.
“He’s playing with a lot of confidence and he’s very young so in the future, he will be one of the best.”
Diego Schwartzman is through to the US Open quarter-finals after a four set win over Lucas Pouille. Photograph: Ben Solomon/NYT
Carreno Busta will next face Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman, who followed up his victory over Marin Cilic by defeating 16th seed Lucas Pouille 7-6 (7-3) 7-5 2-6 6-2.
At 5ft 7in, Schwartzman is the smallest man to reach the quarter-finals in singles at a grand slam since Jaime Yzaga here in 1994.
Schwartzman looked to be in trouble in the third set when he began to feel pain in his right leg but he fought through it impressively.
The 25-year-old said: “I am really surprised because I was just thinking about the leg in the fourth set. Maybe Lucas, as well. That’s why he can’t deal well with it in the fourth.”
South African Kevin Anderson is through to the quarter-finals for the second time in three years after beating Paolo Lorenzi 6-4 6-3 6-7 (4-7) 6-4.
Anderson surrendered his record of not having lost a set or a service game this tournament but remains a strong contender in the very open bottom half.
Anderson will now take on American Sam Querrey, the only player in the bottom half of the draw to have reached a grand slam semi-final before.
The 17th seed will take some stopping if he continues to play as he did against Mischa Zverev on Sunday night.
Querrey hit 55 winners and made only eight unforced errors in a 6-2 6-2 6-1 drubbing.
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Posted by: Dr Izzadeen Chowdhury in Campaigns, Current Affairs, Europe, Latest, Latest Posts, Non-News, Opinion, Politics, UK 29/04/2019 0
Over the last few weeks, Extinction Rebellion has conducted a series of protests across London. These acts of civil disobedience have aims of raising awareness and focusing minds, particularly of those in power, on the devastating effects of climate change, hoping to avert, what they term, “climate catastrophe”.
In what may be the largest coordinated act of civil disobedience in modern British history, protests occurred across the capital, including a “die in” at the Natural History Museum. To date, over 1000 protestors have been arrested, surpassing the number arrested in the anti-nuclear protests in 1982 (752) and the poll tax riots of 1990 (339). [1]
Social commentators have suggested that these protests are very different from other single-issue demonstrations because the protestors are calling to action in order to — as they see it — save humanity, rather than for a personal or community-based gain.
Roger Hallam, founder and organiser of the Extinction Rebellion movement that advocates non-violent civil disobedience, confirmed that no police officers had been hurt in the peaceful protests.
“We’re hoping that the political class wake up, because if they don’t the next thing that will happen will be much more dramatic.” [2]
Over the last 100 years, scientists have been able to record the Earth’s average temperature. This data shows a clear upward trend in the Earth’s average temperature, meaning that the Earth is getting warmer. In fact, since 1880 it has increased by about 1°C. Of the 22 highest average temperatures recorded, 20 have occurred in the last two decades alone, with two-thirds of the warming having occurred after 1975. [3] This rise in the average temperature of the Earth is colloquially known as climate change.
1°C may not seem like much, however, in global terms, when we consider the amount of energy needed to warm the oceans, the atmosphere, and the land by one-degree, it becomes significant. Indeed, if we consider that it took only a one or two-degree drop to plunge the Earth into the Little Ice Age, then the thought becomes a more sobering one. [4]
What are the causes of climate change?
The earth is getting warmer; of that, there is no doubt. Some have argued that this is a natural variation, however, the preponderance of evidence [5] points to the fact that it is due to human activity. Broadly speaking, climate change is caused by the increase in greenhouse gas emission and large-scale deforestation.
As we all learnt in school, sunlight passes through the Earth’s atmosphere and warms its surface. Ordinarily, this heat is radiated back to space. However, most of this heat —as much as 90% [6] — is absorbed by greenhouse gas molecules and then re-emitted in all directions towards the Earth. In simple terms, we can understand these greenhouse gases as a blanket over the Earth. Greenhouse gases primarily include water vapour, but also include carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. This has, as a result, caused climate change.
In 1750, around the start of the Industrial Revolution, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air was 280 parts per million by volume, whereas currently, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air is 400 parts per million by volume. [7]
Furthermore, the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, has increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Another cause is mass deforestation.
Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) created a perfect world in beautiful harmony. One very simple example is that the oxygen we need to live is produced by trees, whilst these same trees take our ‘waste product’ of respiration — namely, carbon dioxide — and produce oxygen with it via photosynthesis. Tragically, as a species, we have not heeded the words of the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam), who said:
“Take care of this Earth for she is your mother. No one does good or evil on her except that she will speak of it (on the Last Day).” [8]
The resultant mass deforestation, especially in tropical rainforests, has produced an increase in greenhouse gases by 24%. [9] One of the largest reasons for deforestation is palm oil production. At 66 million tons annually, [10] palm oil is big business. We all use it. It is found in foods, cosmetics, cleaning products, and fuels. Day after day, large areas of rainforests in South East Asia and Africa are decimated in order to make more palm oil plantations. This act of deforestation alone releases carbon dioxide and reduces the Earth’s ability to transform carbon dioxide into oxygen.
Is climate change a hoax?
There are, of course, those who claim that the Earth’s temperature rise is a natural variation and not a result of human activity. They are supported by notable intellectual giants like the American president, Donald Trump, who in piercing insight tweeted in 2014:
It's late in July and it is really cold outside in New York. Where the hell is GLOBAL WARMING??? We need some fast! It's now CLIMATE CHANGE
However, it is reasonable to suggest that the changes in the Sun’s energy may also cause the climate to change, given it is the source of energy that drives our climate. It is thought that a decrease in solar energy together with volcanic activity triggered the Little Ice Age. However, since 1750, the amount of energy coming from the Sun has either remained the same or decreased slightly. If warming was coming from the Sun, we would expect to see warming at all levels of the atmosphere. Yet, what is observed by scientists is cooling in the upper atmosphere and warming in the lower parts of the atmosphere. [11]
There is growing evidence that suggests climate change is responsible for the extremes in weather that we have seen over recent decades, from heatwaves, to flash floods, and to droughts. According to Carbon Brief’s analysis, 68% of all extreme weather events studied to date were made more likely or more severe by human-caused climate change. Out of the 68%, heatwaves accounted for 43%, droughts made up 17%, and heavy rainfall or floods accounted for 16%. [12].
Climate change can even have an effect on nature, with an example being the loss of biodiversity. Currently, there is a 1.0°C rise in temperature, but if this were to increase to 1.5°C, 20 to 30% of species would be at risk of extinction. According to WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), “if the planet warms by more than 2°C, most ecosystems will struggle”. [13]
The impact of climate change is intensified in polar regions, with average temperatures in the Arctic increasing significantly over the past century. The resultant melted glaciers and thermal water expansion have increased sea levels. By the mid-century, it is expected that the Arctic Ocean will become ice-free during the summer [14], with global sea levels due to rise by 1 to 4 feet by the end of the century. Rising sea levels are causing loss of land and forcing people to migrate. One such example is in Louisiana, America, with communities of colour most affected. With a rapidly rising sea level, residents have been given federal help to relocate inland. [15]
However, it is the developing world that is most at risk of climate change and yet, they are the least able to prepare for it. Sadly, but unsurprisingly, the countries who hold the greatest responsibility for climate change due to their use of fossil fuels — China, USA and the UK — pay only lip service to the issue. Just last week, Liam Fox, British Secretary of State for International Trade, was accused of being a climate change denier. [16] This followed Prime Minister May non-attendance at a meeting with 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. [17]
Future climate change wars
The Middle East is a volatile region with wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. At a conference in February 2019, academics warned that climate change would create food scarcity and water shortages, which would thus lead to displaced people and potential wars. [18] We can already see a water war of sorts occurring between the Zionist State and Palestine in Gaza. As reported in the Independent:
“Rights groups say 25-year-old, out-of-date water agreements with Israel effectively sees it hinder the building of Palestinian water infrastructure while siphoning off water resources to its own citizens, who enjoy in some settlements in the West Bank four times the amount of water Palestinians do.” [19]
There are many challenges we face today, including illegal wars to usurp the natural resources of the developing world; third world debt; propping up of dictators; corrupt governance; shadowy lobbyists; and media monopolies. Climate change is interlinked to each, whilst at the same time, is arguably the greatest challenge we face as a species.
If it was not for America’s greed and an insatiable appetite for cheap oil, the two Gulf Wars might not have happened, and one million children might not have starved to death with the despicable Oil-for-Food Programme. In turn, oil might have been more expensive, and it might have been used less, producing less carbon dioxide. Energy companies might not have become the behemoth they are with revenues in the hundreds of billions of dollars. In turn, their influence on government policy might not have been as significant. Those countries who are now most vulnerable to climate change — were it not for crippling interest rates — might have been in a financial position to better prepare for the effects of climate change. As for the media empires that seek to confuse the public about climate change and promote a right-wing agenda, they would be less able to do so with a less pliable government.
There is no simple solution; whatever we do as individuals can only touch the sides, as laudable as they are. What is needed, however, is radical thought and political conviction. Unfortunately, we have political leaders who either are enthralled to multinational companies or accept donations from questionable sources, such as the £875,882 given by Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of a former minister for Russian President Vladimir Putin. [20] Other instances include the donations from Tullow Oil or from Chief Executive of BP, Bob Dudley – an American citizen. [21] These oil and gas companies make eye-watering sums of money, with Exon Mobil having annual revenue of 279 billion dollars. Why can there not be a heavy tax placed on these companies, whereby the revenue can be used to help fight climate change? Or, in the alternative, why not treat them like tobacco companies and launch class action lawsuits against them?
Ultimately, what is needed is to challenge capitalism — To confront the notion that human happiness can be measured by GDP; to question whether the purpose of life is to be more than a till receipt; to ask whether those box-fresh trainers or brand spanking just made in China’s zombie factory iPhone is enough to fill that void within the soul or whether it yearns for something more.
As directed by the Qur’ān, it is upon the Muslim nation to be at the forefront of tackling climate change, after all:
“And [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, ‘Indeed, I will make upon the Earth a viceroy.’ They said, ‘Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?’ Allāh said, ‘Indeed, I know that which you do not know.’” [22]
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[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/22/people-arrested-at-london-climate-protests
[3] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/DecadalTemp
[5] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/syr/
[6] https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/
[7] https://www.theccc.org.uk/tackling-climate-change/the-science-of-climate-change/climate-variations-natural-and-human-factors/
[8] Ṭabarānī, al-Kabīr 5:65, ruled authentic by Albānī, al-Ṣaḥīḥah #1792
[9] https://www.earthday.org/campaigns/reforestation/deforestation-climate-change/
[10] https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/topics/palm-oil#start
[11] https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/
[12] https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-climate-change-affects-extreme-weather-around-the-world
[13] https://www.wwf.org.uk/effectsofclimatechange
[14] https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
[15] https://expo.nola.com/news/erry-2018/11/b64a03f8128002/climate-report-louisiana-south.html
[16] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2019/apr/25/brexit-latest-news-developments-theresa-may-told-tory-mps-expect-her-to-resign-before-end-of-year-as-possible-new-brexit-vote-planned-for-next-week-live-news?page=with:block-5cc1c6518f08d5e277b54a07#block-5cc1c6518f08d5e277b54a07
[17] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/theresa-may-greta-thunberg-climate-change-corbyn-extinction-rebellion-a8882826.html
[18] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/middle-east-climate-change-war-food-water-refugees-jihadis-un-a8786911.html
[19] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestine-israel-conflict-gaza-west-bank-peace-plan-water-crisis-a8736866.html
[20] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-47392658
[21] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2015/apr/01/tory-100-industry-captains-party-donors-tax-avoiders
[22] Qur’ān 2:30
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Learn about different coverage plans that will help you maintain your sanity and reduce your guilt.
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For entrepreneurs, taking any time away from your company can induce panic. We've nurtured and grown our businesses from scratch, and leaving--even for a week or two--can feel like you've abandoned your responsibilities. So when you're leaving for a matter of months, as is often the case when having a baby, having a clear coverage plan in place is the best way to maintain your sanity... and reduce your guilt.
I got pregnant with my daughter Caroline when my start-up, weeSpring, was less than a year old. I'd been traveling cross-country for fundraising meetings, working past midnight on a regular basis, hustling to grow our user base and secure advertisers--and taking care of a toddler. It didn't feel remotely sustainable, but it was all absolutely necessary. The idea of slowing down that pace was unfathomable, never mind stopping entirely.
To prepare, I talked to a ton of other women across many different industries who'd balanced seriously demanding careers with newborn babies, and the theme that threaded across all of those conversations was trust. You have to trust that your stand-in (or stand-ins) will be able to execute in your absence, and you have to trust your job (and your company) will be there for you when you get back. And planning is key: you need a long runway to really ensure a seamless transition (both at your departure and your return).
Five coverage plans emerged from those conversations:
1. OVER: Your Boss Takes on Your Responsibilities
While not always applicable for entrepreneurs (unless you have a very active board), having your manager take the reins is relatively common in the corporate world. When your boss is stepping in, you know that there's someone watching over your projects and relationships who has a 30,000 foot view and the relationships to make things happen.
When a CEO takes maternity leave, the board chair is the de-facto manager, as was the case when Katie Duffy, who leads Democracy Prep Public Schools, had her baby. "Our board chair was extraordinarily supportive when I was on leave, standing in for me at important meetings," she told me. "He became really hands-on and was able to carry some of the weight of the important decisions we were faced with as an organization."
The downside: while the big strategic decisions are in capable hands, the day-to-day could get lost in the shuffle.
2. UNDER: A Direct Report Shoulders Your Responsibilities
If it's a direct report taking on some of the load, it can be an opportunity to signal to her or him that you have confidence in their abilities and are investing in their professional development. Several women told me the people they designated were excited to be given the chance to take on leadership responsibilities and interface directly with senior management. If you're running your own company, this tends to be the default choice.
The downsides: This person might not (yet) have the gravitas or sway to keep things moving along in your absence. And trust really is paramount; you don't want to blindly elevate someone into your seat if you think that person could be angling for it.
3. SIDEWAYS: A Colleague Steps In for You
A lateral coverage plan puts a peer in place; for entrepreneurs, it is a co-founder. If a colleague is taking the reins, invest the time to work side-by-side with that person before you leave. A real estate investor told me that she allowed two weeks for her colleague to shadow her, and in the second week, they reversed roles so the colleague could actually start doing the job. If you're the one who regularly corresponds with press, for instance, have your co-worker/co-founder do those calls while you're listening in and can offer feedback.
The downside: unless your colleague's role is being scaled back during this time, it can leave him or her overcommitted--and potentially resentful. (And a resentful co-worker will unnecessarily complicate your transition back to the office.)
4. OUTSIDE: A Consultant or Freelancer is Brought In to Do Your Job
An outside temp can be a great solution because you know that person will have full bandwidth, unlike someone who is taking on your role in addition to her own (like the three previous examples). One option is the ex-employee who comes back exclusively to cover maternity leaves. She knows the key players and the culture, and in a lot of instances, she's done the day-to-day work previously.
When Rachel ten Brink, a co-founder at Scentbird, had her first child, she was on the marketing team at Estee Lauder. "A capable, confident industry consultant came in to fill my shoes," she told me. "I knew my projects and contacts would be in good hands, because this was someone who'd essentially done my job."
The downsides: it can be time consuming (and expensive!) to recruit, screen, and train someone to come in from outside. You also have to invest in getting buy-in from your team members, who may be reluctant to follow a leader they don't know.
5. ALL OVER: Your Responsibilities Are Divided Amongst Your Team
Team coverage is most common in instances when the team is large or the company is small (like a consulting or PR firm), with several people working collaboratively on a single project. Spreading the work around limits the burden on any one individual, and for start-ups, it's sometimes the only option because everyone is already stretched so thinly. When I was preparing to leave weeSpring for a couple months, I made a comprehensive list of what was on my plate, and I went through it item-by-item, assigning a temporary owner to each.
The downsides: With everything divided (and hopefully conquered), no single person is looking at the big picture--and prioritizing accordingly. If you're doing project-based work, you run the risk of not having a project to return to. (Make sure you network internally to lay the groundwork for your return well before you leave!)
Regardless of which of these plans is best for you (and your company), managing your maternity leave is also about managing expectations--especially your own. I often heard comments like, "I found my team could finish things that we'd started before I left, but weren't able to initiate anything new without me." But if you lay the groundwork thoroughly and effectively, you'll be able to avoid inertia in your absence and surprises when you return.
(Once you've decided on a coverage plan you will also have to decide how to craft your out-of-office message.)
Allyson Downey is CEO and co-founder of weeSpring, a startup that helps new and expecting parents collect advice from their friends about what they need for their baby. Her entrepreneurial spirit dates back to elementary school, when she had a face-painting business for birthday parties, and it's carried her through roles with Random House, Eliot Spitzer, and Credit Suisse. She has an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MFA from Columbia University's School of the Arts, and a BA from Colby College. She serves on the board of Democracy Prep Public Schools. Follow her @allysondowney @wee_spring.
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U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walk down the Hall of Honour on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, June 29, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Barack Obama says his approach to politics aligned with Justin Trudeau’s
Obama argued that U.S. and Canadian values are strongly aligned
Former U.S. president Barack Obama made a point of highlighting his admiration for Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, saying the prime minister’s approach to politics is close to his own.
Obama, who endorsed Trudeau toward the end of the recent federal election campaign, made the remarks during a one-hour question-and-answer session before a sold-out crowd of 9,000 at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax.
The 58-year-old former president mentioned Trudeau and former prime minister Stephen Harper when he was asked to talk about the greatest challenges facing Canada-U.S. relations.
After a dramatic pause, which left the crowd nervously chuckling, Obama said he wasn’t too worried about Canada.
“Of all the things I stress about, U.S.-Canada relations are not high on that list,” he said. “Which is not to say there aren’t significant bilateral issues.”
Obama, dressed in a dark blazer and white dress shirt, noted that his two-term presidency — from 2009 until 2017 — overlapped with the Conservative government led by Harper and the Liberal government led by Trudeau, who first assumed power in 2015.
“Very different politics … and although my own politics are obviously much closer to Justin’s, we were able to do good work with Stephen Harper’s government on a range of issues, and on some we disagreed — and it was fine.”
Obama argued that U.S. and Canadian values are strongly aligned.
“Let’s face it,” he said. “When you guys show up in the U.S., we can’t tell you’re Canadian half the time. You’re kind of infiltrating us, and we don’t know it.”
Obama made headlines across Canada on Oct. 16 — five days before election day — when he tweeted his support for Trudeau, saying he was proud to work with the prime minister when he was president.
“He’s a hard-working, effective leader who takes on big issues like climate change,” the tweet said. “The world needs his progressive leadership now, and I hope our neighbours to the north support him for another term.”
The tweet energized the Trudeau campaign, but it also raised questions about political interference in the campaign.
Obama’s Halifax event took place against the backdrop of an historic day in Washington, D.C., where the first public hearing was held in the impeachment inquiry for U.S. President Donald Trump.
The House Intelligence Committee is looking into allegations the president planned to withhold military aid to Ukraine unless the new leadership agreed to investigate the son of Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden.
Obama never mentioned Trump by name in Halifax, but he made a point of talking about polarization in politics and the dangerous internal trends that can develop into conflict.
“There were times where I felt as if the polarization we’re seeing, not just in the United States but in a lot of democracies around the world, has taken a dangerous turn. But what I’ve continued to insist on is that we have more in common than what separates us.”
He said there are two competing narratives about how societies organize themselves, the oldest of which is a tribal system in which “might makes right” and racial differences are viewed with suspicion and fear.
While this system inevitably leads to conflict, the more recent narrative preaches inclusiveness, caring for the weak and respect for women and those with different sexual orientations.
“The danger for Canada, for the United States and Western Europe is: how do you strengthen that second story?” he said. “If a nation is built around an idea of ‘us and them’ and it’s a zero-sum game based on power and ethnicity … sooner or later there’s a war.”
Reclining in a wing chair, his legs crossed and his collar open, Obama appeared relaxed as he offered his views about climate change, globalization, China, democracy and family life in the White House.
And he had plenty of good things to say about Canada.
“There is a spirit in Canada that is unique and worth feeling very good about,” he said. “The people here are still modeling the kind of civility and tolerance and thoughtfulness that is required for a democracy, and I hope that continues.”
Asked how he dealt with the stress of leading a superpower, Obama said: “I was pretty good at working out.”
He said he also believes he was good at making decisions about complex problems, but admitted that his darkest day in the Oval Office was Dec. 14, 2012, when a gunman used a semi-automatic rifle to kill 26 people — including 20 children — at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
“I had to speak at a memorial just two days later with the parents,” he said, later referring to the “drumbeat of mass shootings” that occurred during his term in office.
“One of my biggest frustrations during my tenure as president was the inability for me to get Congress to respond in any meaningful way to that tragedy.”
Obama, the 44th president of the United States and the first African-American to hold the office, is on a speaking tour that started in St. John’s, N.L., on Tuesday and was to move on to Montreal on Thursday.
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Indianapolis, Indiana — Hallmark Home Mortgage, LLC of Fort Wayne, Indiana sued Hallmark Rentals & Management, Inc. of Bloomington, Indiana seeking a declaration that its uses of “Hallmark,” including an application for the trademark “Hallmark,” Serial No. 85/937,259, which is currently pending with the U.S. Trademark Office, are non-infringing.
Hallmark Home Mortgage was founded in February 2007. It operates a mortgage-lending business under the trademark “Hallmark Home Mortgage,” which currently operates in 11 locations in Indiana, Ohio and Florida. It asserts that it has plans to expand its business into other states. Hallmark Home Mortgage focuses on financial services for residential real estate.
In its complaint, Hallmark Home Mortgage states that it began using the Hallmark Home Mortgage trademark in connection with its home mortgage lending business in February 2007. Since then, it claims that it has continuously and prominently used the trademark in connection with its home-mortgage lending business.
Hallmark Home Mortgage has a pending application for trademark registration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the “Hallmark” mark (word only), in International Class 036 and used in connection with the following: Financial services, namely, mortgage planning; Financial services, namely, mortgage refinancing; Housing services, namely, real property acquisition and consumer financing to facilitate home ownership; Insurance agencies in the field of home, vehicles, personal property; Insurance brokerage in the field of home insurance; and Mortgage brokerage.
In addition to the application pending with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Hallmark Home Mortgage is also the owner of the Trademark “Hallmark Home Mortgage,” Registration No. 2013-0263, which is registered with the State of Indiana. This mark is registered for use in connection with residential mortgage financing, settlement of mortgage loans, mortgage insurance and related services.
Hallmark Rentals & Management, the Defendant, operates one location in Bloomington, Indiana, at which it provides commercial and residential property management services under the brand name “Hallmark Rentals & Management.”
In May 2013, Hallmark Rentals & Management sent a cease-and-desist letter to Hallmark Home Mortgage claiming that the latter was infringing on Hallmark Rentals & Management’s intellectual-property rights in the “Hallmark” mark and, further, was engaging in unfair competition. In its communications, it claimed to own “common law trademark rights, common law service mark rights, and trade name rights . . . with regard to the Hallmark name.” It further indicated that it uses the Hallmark name in “activities hav[ing] to do with real estate.” Finally, it stated that it would sue Hallmark Home Mortgage if Hallmark Home Mortgage did not immediately cease and desist from any use of the term “Hallmark.”
In response, Hallmark Home Mortgage sued Hallmark Rentals & Management for declaratory judgment. It seeks a judgment of non-infringement of common law trademark rights under the Lanham Act, common law and the laws of Indiana.
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· Count I: Declaratory Judgment of Non-Infringement
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Hallmark Home Mortgage asks for a judgment that its use of the “Hallmark” trademark does not infringe upon any trademark rights of Hallmark Rentals and Management; a judgment that its use of the “Hallmark” trademark does not constitute unfair competition; an injunction preventing Hallmark Rentals and Management from interfering with Hallmark Home Mortgage’s use and registration of the trademark “Hallmark,” and from opposing, seeking to cancel, or otherwise objecting to any registration applications to the “Hallmark,” trademark; attorney’s fees and costs.
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This is what makes the Los Cachiros case so interesting, because it’s a little window into the way organized crime and elites intersect in places like Honduras,’ said Steven Dudley, co-director of Insight Crime.
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For some context on how the gang began and spread, I talked to Hector Silva Avalos. He’s a research fellow at American University and spent 15 years as an investigative reporter in his native El Salvador.
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Deborah Bonello is a senior investigator at InSight Crime (...) Bonello leads its Venezuela program, and she spoke with WLRN’s Tim Padgett from Mexico City about the Lamas extradition and Venezuela’s spiraling crisis
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Steven Dudley, co-director and co-founder, head of research for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean: Dudley is a senior fellow at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington DC. He is the former Bureau Chief of The Miami Herald in the Andean Region and the author of “Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia” (Routledge 2004). Dudley has also reported from Haiti, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba and Miami for National Public Radio and The Washington Post, among others… READ MORE
Jeremy McDermott is the Executive Director and co-founder of InSight Crime. He also leads the investigations and coverage of Panama, the Caribbean and South America (except Brazil) and manages the team, which is based primarily in Medellín, Colombia. McDermott has two decades of experience reporting from around Latin America. He is a former British Army officer, who saw active service in Northern Ireland and Bosnia. Upon retiring from the military he became a war correspondent, covering the Balkans, based in Bosnia, then the Middle East from… READ MORE
Our team is a multinational, multidisciplinary group of reporters, investigators and researchers in Colombia, Mexico and the United States. It is supported by an administrative core and a technical team in Colombia. The Board of Directors has members living in Colombia, Mexico and the United States. And it counts on support from its key partner organization, the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University, as well as its key funders, which include Open Society Foundations, the British Embassy in Colombia, the International Development Research Centre of Canada, and the Swedish government.
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Home News Brief Latin America Citizens Say They Feel Least Safe for Ninth Year Running
Latin America Citizens Say They Feel Least Safe for Ninth Year Running
Latin America and the Caribbean is the least secure region in the world
For nearly a decade straight, citizens in Latin America and the Caribbean responding to an annual survey have consistently said that they feel less safe than their counterparts in any other region of the world, underscoring the complexity of the region’s security situation and the challenges faced in trying to improve it.
The Gallup polling organization’s 2018 Global Law and Order report found that respondents from Latin America and the Caribbean were the least likely of any group in the world to feel secure in their communities.
According to the report, the region’s “law and order index” score of 62 was the lowest in the world and slightly worse than what the region scored the year before. Five of the 10 countries where residents were least likely to feel safe were in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Unsurprisingly, Venezuela was again ranked as the least secure country in the world, tied with war-torn Afghanistan. InSight Crime argued the Andean nation could be considered a “mafia state” in a recent investigation looking into the exponential growth of organized crime there.
Mexico and the Dominican Republic were also among the world’s least secure nations. No country in Latin America and the Caribbean was among the world’s top 50 most secure nations, according to the report.
Moreover, the report also found that just 42 percent of respondents in Latin America and the Caribbean have confidence in their local police forces, the lowest level of any region in the world. Venezuelans and Mexicans were the least likely to have confidence in their local police.
(Graphic courtesy of Gallup)
However, some countries in the region did show an improvement from last year’s rankings. For example, the report found that El Salvador’s score of 67 was a “marked improvement” from last year and that a declining murder rate in recent years reflects the country’s “slowly improving security situation.”
The report was based on the responses of around 1,000 adults from more than 140 countries to questions regarding their level of confidence in local police and whether or not they feel safe walking around their city, among others.
Measuring insecurity is often a complex process, but the responses to basic questions about perceptions of security that respondents provided offer a simple barometer of security conditions that says a lot about the complexity of the region’s overall security situation.
There has been seeming progress in some key countries in recent years. Colombia signed a 2016 peace deal putting a formal end to a decades-long internal conflict. And murder rates in two of the most violence-wracked nations in the region, Honduras and El Salvador, have been falling.
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But in general, residents of Latin America and the Caribbean still consistently feel less safe than their international counterparts, suggesting that deep issues driving insecurity in many cases remain unaddressed.
For example, El Salvador’s declining murder rate may be more a result of a growing sophistication among the country’s gangs and adjustments made to their criminal activities in response to extraordinary anti-gang measures utilized by the government in recent years. It’s possible that these and other factors — including abusive police tactics and vigilantism — are contributing to insecurity and the country’s low law and order score even as the murder rate declines.
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Home > (Dr Ebbetts) Beatles Compact Discs (Japan) > Beatles Dr Ebbetts Japan Cd - Something New
Beatles Dr Ebbetts Japan Cd - Something New
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Something New (Dr. Ebbetts DBM-042)
I�ll Cry Instead (Lennon/McCartney) 1:49, Things We Said Today (Lennon/McCartney) 2:35, Any Time At All (Lennon/McCartney) 2:11, When I Get Home (Lennon/McCartney) 2:16, Slow Down (Larry Williams) 2:54, Matchbox (Perkins) 1:58, Tell Me Why (Lennon/McCartney) 2:09, And I Love Her (Lennon/McCartney) 2:37, I�m Happy Just To Dance With You (Lennon/McCartney) 1:56, If I Fell (Lennon/McCartney) 2:18, Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand (Lennon/McCartneyNicolas/Helmer) 2;45
The Beatles �Something New� was originally released on 8/8/64 and entered Billboard�s Top Ten on the Album chart in its 8nd week. It never reached #1 but spent 9 weeks at #2 (behind the United Artists release of A Hard Day�s Night), 17 weeks in the Top Ten and a total of 37 weeks on the chart. This Dr Ebbett�s release comes from the Original Master Recording of the German release of this album on the Odeon label. The original album was Capitol Records attempt to further Capitalize on the success of the Beatles mega stardom. They had also released three 45s from the movie (not counting Can�t Buy Me Love released in March). Despite the saturated market this album still sold millions of copies, as seen by its success on Billboard�s chart. Which is no surprise when you look at the tracks available: Great rockers like: Tell Me Why, Any Time At All, When I Get Home and I�m Happy Just to Dance With You. Monster ballads like: And I Love Her, If I Fell and the Things We Said Today. Plus 3 great covers: Carl Perkins Matchbox, Larry Willams Slow Down and the Beatles cover I Want to Hold Your Hand in German. I had forgotten how much I like this album.
DBM-041 is another exceptionally crisp sounding transfer boasting tremendous separation and gain. This release is light years ahead of the �The Capitol Albums Volume 1� product out for public consumption and makes that release useless. There were a few moments where I felt the Stereo separation was inconsistent but that is a minor flaw and did not detract from my overall enjoyment of the album at all.
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Survey Finds IT Pros Grappling with Competing Priorities
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Budgets and headcounts are expected to remain relatively flat going into 2016, while business expectations and demands are only increasing.
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Spending on cloud services is expected to increase slightly in 2016 with IT professionals planning to spend 14 percent of their budgets in this area next year. Seventeen percent of hosted/cloud-based services budgets in 2016 will be spent on email hosting, 14 percent on web hosting, and 13 percent on online backup/recovery. Though only 29 percent of IT professionals stated that hosted/cloud services were important to current business practices, 43 percent believe that these services will be much more important to their organizations in the future.
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According to a new survey from Spiceworks, a professional network for IT, technology budgets are expected to remain relatively flat going into 2016, increasing by only 1 percent year over year. Additionally, nearly 60 percent of respondents indicated that headcounts are expected to remain flat, despite expected increases in company revenue.
While budgets and staffing levels are projected to remain about the same, business expectations are running high, leaving IT pros to grapple with multiple competing priorities. Many organizations have held off on technology refreshes, making technology end-of-life a driving force behind new hardware, software and services investments in the coming year. The survey also found that a significant number of organizations are still running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
Nearly 47 percent of respondents expecting to upgrade operating systems in 2016 are planning to invest in Windows 10. Having reached its end-of-life in July 2015, 32 percent also said they planned on a Windows Server 2003 migration. With Microsoft SQL Server 2005 reaching its end-of-life in April 2016, 12 percent of respondents are planning a database application migration.
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