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NT strikes local decision making agreement
The Anindilyakwa Land Council (ALC) and Northern Territory government have signed the Groote Archipelago Local Decision Making Agreement, giving major decision making responsibilities around education, health, justice, housing and local governance to local Aboriginal communities.
The agreement is one of nine Local Deicison Making agreements currently signed or underway, and forms part of a broader push towards self-determination for similar regional communities.
The agreement outlines Anindilyakwa priorities and timeframes for transition to local control in the areas of housing, education, health, local government, economic development, law and justice and environmental sustainability.
“The old way is finished, and today we embark on a significant journey to give decision-making power back to where it belongs, in the hands of the Anindilyakwa people of the Groote Archipelago,” Chief Minister Michael Gunner said.
ALC Chairman Tony Wurramarrba AO welcomed the announcement, saying that it represents a future pathway for self-determination for the Anindilyakwa people.
“We celebrate today’s occasion because it marks the Northern Territory Government’s solemn commitment to return control of local decisions to Traditional Owners. We will work with the Northern Territory Government to undertake this important work under this agreement over the next decade and make these changes for the benefit of our people,” Mr Wurramarrba said.
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Social Enterprise: the new economic engine
Social entrepreneurship is lauded for its efficient delivery of public services and for making not-forprofit organisations more ...
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"Social entrepreneurship is lauded for its efficient delivery of public services and for making not-forprofit organisations more financially self-reliant. But, says Rebecca Harding, the true economic value of social entrepreneurs is only now becoming clear."
James Williams is an entrepreneur. He is setting up a chain of children’s adventure play areas with clamber equipment, soft play areas and a café. The uniqueness of his business concept is that the play areas are in inner cities and there will be careers advice, counselling, computing facilities, advice and resources, for parents to utilise while their children play.
“If you look around in places like Liverpool,” he says, “there is nowhere within ten miles like this for kids, and nowhere at all like this for parents, especially women, to give them some breathing space, teach them to play with their kids and to find work or training if they want to.” More than this, the groups will be staffed both by trained professionals and by younger people from deprived areas looking for work experience. “It’s better to give these young people work rather than waiting for them to come in and pinch stuff,” remarks James, somewhat wryly.
That this is a business venture is in little doubt. The revenue streams are commercial ones, and James and his wife, both former IT managers at British Telecom, have invested a great deal of personal capital in getting the project off the ground. Where there is a difference with a normal business, however, is that this project has a clear “double bottom line” in that it is trying to achieve social as well as economic objectives.
James is one of the growing army of social entrepreneurs who fall off the orthodox entrepreneurial radar screen both when it comes to understanding what he does and when it comes to raising cash for his business. “Social entrepreneurs tackle some of the toughest and most intractable challenges around”, says Gregory Dees in “The meaning of social entrepreneurship”, and their role in the general welfare system, according to the literature, is both under-estimated and misunderstood. Yet, some such as the ECT group, providing doorstep recycling, or Greenworks, recycling office furniture, have multi-million pound turnovers while providing real community and social added value.
For the last 20 years, but particularly for the last 10 years, there has been a general belief that social entrepreneurship is a “good thing”. It is seen as important for the economy, in terms of efficient delivery of public services; and the welfare benefits that flow to society as a whole when not-for-profit organisations become increasingly self-sufficient and independent from grants.
As the world’s investors become more actively interested in a broader definition of business value creation, and as policy makers become ever-more interested in the role of entrepreneurship generally in fuelling economic growth, the role of social enterprise in creating economic and social value needs to be examined more closely. Yet this is where the evidence is weakest.
In particular, and despite the unquestioned interest in the subject, a single definition of social entrepreneurship remains elusive.
The growth in social entrepreneurship globally over the last decade has been impressive, but the precise meaning of the term remains a matter of debate. This is a barrier to research.
There is a substantial body of case study material on how to be a good social entrepreneur. However, there is little or no theory; little systematic data at a national level; and nothing in the way of international comparisons of impact and types of social entrepreneurial activity. This renders the area of little interest to investors in particular since there is no estimation of the hard economic impact that these ventures create.
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A Different Kind of Weather A Memoir
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'Why did you go into politics in the first place?' A question that former Cabinet minister has found himself asked, and indeed asking himself, over the years, Lord Waldegrave's is a life lived through politics. The youngest of seven children, and the son of an earl, Waldegrave's quintessentially English upbringing would go on to shape the course of his life, instilling in him a sense of independence and self-discipline needed to steel one for a successful career in government. Formative years spent at Eton, Oxford and Harvard fortified his resolve to enter the political establishment, and by the early seventies he finally achieved his greatest ambition. As an fearless young Conservative politician in the seventies and eighties, one who witnessed the fall of Heath and the triumph and eventual decline of Thatcher, Waldegrave was firmly at the heart of one of the most exciting and tumultuous periods of modern British history. However just as his star was in the ascent, Waldegrave became embroiled in a scandal which tarnished his reputation, but could not dampen his voracious enthusiasm for the political game. An unembroidered account of the narcotic effect of politics from one of the most fiercely intellectual governmental figures of the modern age, A Different Kind of Weather is a beautifully weighted memoir of political success and failure, and the passing of an era.
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Publisher: Constable an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date: 1st September 2016
Author: William Waldegrave
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About William Waldegrave
Lord Waldegrave was educated at Eton College, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Harvard. After a spell working in industry, he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Bristol West in 1979. He was made a Minister in 1981, and served continuously in 1997, including terms as Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, and at the Foreign Office. At Cabinet level he served as Secretary of State for Health, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister of Agriculture, and Chief Secretary to the Treasury. After losing his Commons seat in 1997, he entered the House of Lords ...
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The Chicxulub impact event was an ~100 million megaton blast that devastated the Gulf of Mexico region.
The blast generated a core of superheated plasma in excess of 10,000 degrees. Although that thermal pulse would have been relatively short-lived, a handful of minutes, it would have been lethal for nearby life.
The Chicxulub Impact event produced a shock wave and air blast that radiated across the seas, over coastlines, and deep into the continental interior. Winds far in excess of 1000 kilometers per hour were possible near the impact site, although they decreased with distance from the impact site. The pressure pulse and winds would have scoured soils and shredded vegetation and any animals living in nearby ecosystems. An initial estimate of the area damaged by an air blast was a radius 1500 kilometers. There are several factors that can affect this estimate, so the uncertainty might be better reflected in a range of radii from ~900 to ~1800 km. The travel times are quite short, so this effect would have occurred in advance of any falling debris ejected from the Chicxulub crater.
Chicxulub Airblast
Impact shock waves radiating across the surface are trailed by very high velocity winds called an airblast. The phenomenon was observed around nuclear weapon test explosions during the Cold War. Emiliani, Kraus, and Shoemaker (1981, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 55, 317-334) estimated the radius of damage before the site of the impact was known. Their airblast is shown here applied to the Chicxulub impact site. The damage would have been severe across southern and central North America. This type of airblast effect also occurs around smaller craters, such as Arizona’s Meteor Crater. For readers wanting to compare the dimensions of the airblast zone, we refer you to LPI’s guidebook to Meteor Crater. The airblast is discussed in Chapter 12.
Illustration Credit: David A. Kring
That debris landed within minutes in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean region. Depending on distance from the impact site, the debris was rocky rubble, impact melted spherules, or mixtures of both. Life on the continental landscape and marine seafloor was buried beneath impact ejecta that was several hundred meters thick near the impact site and decreased with radial distance. Along the Campeche bank, 350 to 600 kilometers from Chicxulub, impact deposits of ~50 to ~300 meters have been logged in boreholes.
Because the impact occurred at sea, tsunamis radiated across the Gulf of Mexico, crashing onto nearby coastlines, and also radiated farther across the proto-Caribbean and Atlantic basins. Estimates of the sizes of the waves vary. Lower estimates suggest the waves were “only” 50 to 100 meters high, while some estimates suggest the tsunamis were 100 to 300 meters high when they crashed onto gulf shores and tore through coastal ecosystems. The tsunamis may have penetrated more than 100 kilometers inland before the backwash swept continental debris back into the Gulf of Mexico, where it was deposited in seafloor channels. Both the initial waves and the resulting backwash deeply eroded the seafloor to depths of several hundred meters. The impact also generated a seismic pulse roughly equivalent to a magnitude 10 earthquake. That seismic activity caused huge landslides on the seafloor, ripping through any colonies of life.
Impact-generated Tsunamis
The Chicxulub impact into the Gulf of Mexico, over the partially submerged Yucatán Peninsula, created a radiating series of waves, including tsunamis that ramped up and towered over coastlines. Some calculations suggest the tsunamis were 50 to 150 meters high around the gulf coast of what is now Mexico and the United States. The waves eroded shorelines and dumped reworked seafloor sediments throughout the area, from Chiapas in the southwest to Texas and Alabama to the north. This is an artistic rendering of one of those tsunamis by Jake Bailey. The illustration was initially made for an educational website Bailey and David A. Kring produced for the Univ. Arizona Space Imagery Center.
Illustration Credit: Jake Bailey
Evidence of many of these processes is found in the rock record around the Gulf of Mexico. Chicxulub-generated tsunami deposits exist, for example, along the Brazos River of Texas.
Another classic location is Arroyo el Mimbral in Mexico, where the boundary sediments are several meters thick, and very complex, because of their proximity to the Chicxulub crater. The lower portion of the sequence is composed of altered impact melt spherules. Above the spherules is sand that contains abundant plant debris. The plant debris is out of place, because the site was far offshore at the time of impact and is composed of seafloor sediments deposited beneath ~500 meters of water. Thus, the plant debris seems to be material carried seaward by the backwash of a tsunami. Water within the Gulf of Mexico was also sloshing back and forth, just like water in a bathtub, which stirred seafloor sands to-and-fro in alternating directions.
Impact Melt Spherules and Tsunami Backwash Deposit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) Boundary
An outcrop of rock in Arroyo el Mimbral, Tamaulipas, Mexico, is a good example of the complex deposits of impact debris and other sediment produced by the Chicxulub impact event. The lower portion of the sequence (bottom panel) is composed of altered impact melt spherules with an interbedded sandy limestone, and overlain with a laminated sandstone. The base of the laminated sandstone contains plant debris, even though these sediments were deposited on the seafloor beneath ~500 meters of water. The upper portion of the sequence (upper panel) is composed of layers of sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone. The top of the sequence, where the hammer is resting, contains anomalously high concentrations of the element iridium, which was produced from the vaporized impactor that produced the Chicxulub crater. The outcrop was initially described by Jan Smit and others (1992, Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico, Geology 20, 99-103). This set of pictures appeared in a review paper by David A. Kring (2007, The Chicxulub impact event and its environmental consequences at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 255, 4-21). Thorough descriptions of this outcrop can be found in a guidebook to several key K-T boundary locations in northeastern Mexico that is available as part of LPI’s Contribution Series.
Photographic Credit: David A. Kring
Plant Debris in a Tsunami Backwash Deposit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) Boundary
Plant debris is found in the midst of a complex deposit of impact debris at the K-T boundary at Arroyo el Mimbral, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The base of the deposit is composed of impact melt spherules from the Chicxulub impact crater and the top of the deposit is composed of iridium from the vaporized impactor. All of this material was deposited offshore on the seafloor beneath ~500 meters of water. An impact-generated tsunami appears to have passed overhead as it raced from the Chicxulub crater in the east to the gulf coastline in the west. Once that tsunami crashed onto the coast, the backwash carried the remnants of a mangrove ecosystem out to sea, where it was buried by additional impact-swept debris. The width of this picture is approximately a half-meter. The outcrop was initially described by Jan Smit and others (1992, Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico, Geology 20, 99-103). This picture appeared in a review paper by David A. Kring (2007, The Chicxulub impact event and its environmental consequences at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 255, 4–21). Thorough descriptions of this outcrop can be found in a guidebook to several key K-T boundary locations in northeastern Mexico that is available as part of LPI’s Contribution Series.
Gulf Waters Sloshing after the Chicxulub Impact
At a K-T boundary sequence at El Peñon, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, ripple marks can be seen along bedding planes of sediments deposited before the widely-dispersed and finer-grained iridium-rich debris settled to the seafloor. The water depth at this site at the time of impact was between 100 and 500 meters. Energetic wave action, nonetheless, stirred currents on the seafloor at that depth. A standard, 33 centimeter-long geology hammer is shown for scale. Thorough descriptions of this outcrop can be found in a guidebook to several key K-T boundary locations in northeastern Mexico that is available as part of LPI’s Contribution Series. A good introduction to the geologic details of these types of outcrops in Mexico is a review paper by Jan Smit (1999, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science 27, 75-113). This picture appeared in a review paper by David A. Kring (2007, The Chicxulub impact event and its environmental consequences at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 255, 4-21).
At a K-T boundary sequence at Lajilla, Tamaulipas, Mexico, there is a series of climbing ripple marks in sediments deposited before the widely-dispersed and finer-grained iridium-rich debris settled to the seafloor. The water depth at this site at the time of impact was close to 500 meters. Energetic wave action, nonetheless, stirred currents on the seafloor at that depth. Moreover, the climbing ripples indicate the current directions were alternating, moving first in one direction and then in another. That evidence suggests the waters of the Gulf of Mexico were sloshing back and forth after the impact, similar to water sloshing back and forth in a bathtub. A standard, 33 centimeter-long geology hammer is shown for scale. Thorough descriptions of this outcrop can be found in a guidebook to several key K-T boundary locations in northeastern Mexico that is available as part of LPI’s Contribution Series. A good introduction to the geologic details of these types of outcrops in Mexico is a review paper by Jan Smit (1999, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science 27, 75–113). This picture appeared in a review paper by David A. Kring (2007, The Chicxulub impact event and its environmental consequences at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 255, 4–21).
The story of how the gulf coast of Mexico was affected is based on the work of a large number of geologists, but the work of Jan Smit and his colleagues has been particularly insightful. A good introduction to the geologic details is a review paper by Smit (1999, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science 27, 75-113). Another key resource is a guidebook to several key K-T boundary locations in northeastern Mexico that is available as part of LPI’s Contribution Series.
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The Grand Union Canal by Stockers Lock in Rickmansworth
Double Rainbow over Sutton Harbour
Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
Jurassic Sunrise Sidmouth
Sidmouth is a town on the South Devon coast. It has a Regency history with fine hotels clean beaches and friendly shops. It nestles beneath majestic red cliffs and green hills of the Sid valley. Deliberate grainy effect
Plymouth Hoe and Sound Panorama
Plymouth Foreshore
Plymouth Hoe Panorama
Merchant Marine Memorial Plymouth
The new Merchant Navy, and fishing fleets memorial on Plymouth Hoe. This new monument is in memory of all the merhant seamen and fishermen that lost their lives during the wars. In the background is the Royal Navy memorial.
RNLB Sybil Mullen Glover
Plymouth is home to two lifeboats, the larger All Weather Lifeboat, named Sybil Mullen Glover and the smaller but faster Inshore Lifeboat, named Millenium Forester. Based in Millbay Marina, both lifeboats provide cover 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to the Port of Plymouth, including the rivers Tamar, Lyhner, Tavy, Plym, Yealm and Erme; and the surrounding coastline into both Bigbury and Whitsand Bays. The Severn Class Lifeboat is 17m long and is the largest in the RNLI's fleet. It is fully self righting.
RNLB Cosandra
The Shannon class is the latest class of all-weather lifeboat to join the RNLI fleet. They are the first modern all-weather lifeboat to be propelled by waterjets instead of traditional propellers, making them the most agile and manoeuvrable all-weather lifeboat yet. Seen here entering Cattewaer Plymouth
Tug Cannis
Tug leaving cattewater and entering Plymouth sound
Tamar Road Bridge
The Tamar Bridge is a road bridge over the River Tamar between Saltash in Cornwall and Plymouth in Devon. It adjacent to the Royal Albert Bridge, and part of the A38, a main road between the two counties. It is currently a toll bridge where it is free to drive from Devon to Cornwall. However, a toll must be paid for the reverse journey. During the 20th century, there was increasing demand to replace or supplement the Saltash and Torpoint ferries, which could not cope with the rise in motor traffic. The Government refused to prioritise the project, so it was financed by Plymouth City Council and Cornwall County Council. Construction began in 1959. It was unofficially opened in October 1961, with a formal presentation by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in April 1962. A reconstruction of the bridge began in 1999 after it was found to be unable to support a European Union requirement for goods vehicle weights.The project was completed in late 2001
Kalanchoe is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa. This image was created using 59 focus shifted images.
Astute Class SSN under escort on Plymouth Sound
What appears to be an Astute class attack submarine being escorted in to Devonport. The name is unknown as the Navy doesn’t like to let give information on the whereabouts of its nuclear vessels. It is under its own power with the tugs tethered together and going in reverse. Ther were many other Royal Naval vessels there to protect the submarine at a time when it is at its most vunerable. Including men in fast boats wearing black uniforms. Other vessels were kept well away throughout the whole operation.
THV Patricia undertakes aid to navigation maintenance work, towing, wreck location and marking among other projects. It has a helicopter-landing pad, a 20 tonne main crane capacity and 28 tonne bollard pull and towing winch, she is also survey capable. It is a multi function vessel which can be hired to many different things.
Spirit of Falmouth
This image was taken as she entered Cattewater in Plymouth. Originally built in late 1984, the SPIRIT OF FALMOUTH was used by youth groups under supervision to take disadvantaged children and young adults on sailing trips. In 1994 she changed names from SPIRIT OF MERSEYSIDE to SPIRIT OF SCOTLAND. Through these transitions she has covered many trips around the British Isles. As SPIRIT OF SCOTLAND she was used to take children from inner cities on outdoor pursuits until 2002 when she became SPIRIT OF FAIRBRIDGE where she again had a role of taking disadvantaged youths on excursions around the British Isles. As of late 2014 the boat was renamed the SPIRIT OF FALMOUTH and was donated to the charity, Turn to Starboard, where she currently resides.
Rainbow over Sutton Harbour
Astute class attack SSN about to enter Plymouth Sound
Astute class attack SSN about to enter Plymouth Sound where its escort awaits. On the horizon the Eddystone Lighthouse can clearly be seend
Astute Class attack SSN
Hawker Hurricane V7497
V7497 is a Hurricane Mk 1, manufactured in August 1940 by Hawker Aircraft Ltd at Kingston. And was operational at the very height of the Battle of Britain from Kenley, in East London, the aircraft was lost during an operational patrol on 28th September over Sutton in Kent. The remains were later excavated and then stored in a barn for several decades before Hawker Resorations Limited acquired them for restoration. The fully restored plane flew again on 30th August 2018. its home is now at Duxford.
P51D Mustang Miss Helen
P51D Mustang G-BIXL 44-472216 “Miss Helen”. Currently the only known genuine airworthy survivor of the 352nd Fighter Group, of nearly 500 P47, and P51 fighters. It can be regularly seen at airshows in the UK. The 352nd Fighter Group was popularly known during WW2 as “The Blue Nosed Bastards of Bodney” and one of the most famous and successful 8th Air Force Fighter Groups based in East Anglia. All other blue nose Mustangs that are airworthy around the world are not genuine 352nd machines.
Aerotek Pitts S-2
Aerotek Pitts S-2, Special built in 1980. This one is nicknamed the wasp.
Pitts Model 12
The Pitts Model 12 is a high performance biplane designed by Curtis Pitts.
American Cemetery Cambridge
The Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II American military war grave cemetery, located north-west of Cambridge, England. The cemetery, dedicated in 1956, contains 3,811 American war dead and wall with the names of 5127 missing. If ever evidence of the special relationship between the USA and UK was needed, this memorial shows it in abundance. So many Americans gave their lives to preserve the peace in the UK and the rest of the world by fighting the tyrant from mainland Europe who wanted to crush the UK.
Paraglider coming in to land at Little Gransden airfield
Aeronca Model 7 Champion
The Aeronca Model 7 Champion, more commonly known as the Champ, is a single-engine, two-seat, fixed conventional gear airplane. Designed for flight training and personal use. Production began in the United States in 1945. This craft dates to 1946
Chipmunk T10 Display
DHC Chipmunk T10 display at Little Gransden 25th August 2019. The first aircraft designed and built by de Havilland Canada, the Chipmunk tandem two-seat trainer first flew in 1946. It was this class of aircraft that was used for basic flight training around the world.
Plymouth Sepia Sound
Torpoint Ferry
The Torpoint Ferries cross the River Tamar Torpoint in Cornwall, and the city of Plymouth in Devon. The crossing has a long and history, and there has been a formal ferry service at Torpoint since 1791. Originally serviced by rowing boats and then steam boats. However, the timetable was erratic due to tides and winds. The first Torpoint chain ferry or 'floating bridge' came into service in 1831, using a self-propelled vessel using a pair of vertical chain wheels in the middle of the vessel to pull on fixed chains connected between the river banks. There are currently three in operation. It costs nothing to cross from Plymouth to Torpoint. However, at the time of writing it costs £1.50 to cross from Torpoint back into Plymouth.
Towards Marlow Lock
Towards Marlow Lock on the Thames as seen from Marlow Bridge
All Saints Marlow
The Parish Church, dedicated to All Saints, was built on the site of an earlier one which was demolished in 1832. The date of erection of the old Church is obscure, but records show that a Church existed here at least as early as 1070 A.D. when Saint Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, visited the town.
The Church by the Bridge Marlow
The Parish Church, dedicated to All Saints, was built on the site of an earlier one which was demolished in 1832. The date of erection of the old Church is obscure, but records show that a Church existed here at least as early as 1070 A.D. when Saint Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, visited the town. There has been a bridge across the Thames at Marlow since before 1227. The present bridge was built between 1829 and 1832 to replace the wooden bridge sited further downstream, which had grown inadequate for the growing traffic on the Reading and Hatfield Turnpike road. It eventually collapsed in 1828. William Tierney Clark FRS MICE (1783-1852) was appointed to design a new bridge and supervise its construction.
All Saints Marlow HDR version
HMS Dragon leaves Plymouth Sound
HMS Dragon is the fourth of the Royal Navy's six Type 45 air defence destroyers. Launched on 7 November 2008. After successful firing the Sea Viper, intensive at-sea training, her maiden deployed on 19 March 2013 to the Gulf region. Dragon quickly integrated into the Gulf theatre of operations, working closely with other UK and international partners to promote security in the region and keep the trade flowing through the Straits of Hormuz. While in the Indian Ocean Dragon visited many of the Gulf states including Oman,Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain. HMS Dragon then repositioned to the Eastern Mediterranean to demonstrate the flexibility of deployed maritime forces and to ensure the protection of UK interests, which includes the defence of our Sovereign Base Areas.
Yacht on the Sound
Yacht leaving Plymouth Sound and entering Cattewater. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
FGS Brandenberg
FGS Brandenberg, a German F123 Brandenberg Frigate, leaves Plymouth after a short visit. The Type 123 Brandenburg Class frigates were ordered in June 1989 to replace the Hamburg Class. The frigates are primarily tasked with anti-submarine operations, but they also contribute to anti-air defence, the tactical command of group forces and surface operations.
HMS Queen Elizabeth and RFA Tideforce
HMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest and most powerful vessel ever constructed for the Royal Navy and is capable of carrying up to 40 aircraft. She wil replace HMS Ocean as the navys flag ship. She is so large that she cannot navigate Plymouth Sound to Devonport Dockyard,, despite being one of the largest natural harbours in the world. Plus RFA Tideforce is the fourth in a fleet of four 39,000 tonne Tide-Class tankers, capable of carrying up to 19,000 cubic metres of fuel and 1,400 cubic metres of fresh water. She has been designed to support the new Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers.
A Red Arrow over Plymouth Sound
A Red Arrow circles over HMS Queen Elizabeth and RFA Tideforce on Plymouth Sound. The Red Arrows, officially called The Royal Airforce Aerobatic Team, is one of the best known and premier Aerobatic teams in the world. HMS Queen Elizabeth the most powerful vessel ever built for the Royal Nave along with one of its support ships RFA Tideforce.
Red Arrows 2019
Seen here at Plymouth Armed Forces Day 2019. The Red Arrows, officially called The Royal Airforce Aerobatic Team, is one of the best known and premier Aerobatic teams in the world. The team is the public face of the RAF and assist with recruiting to the armed forces. They act as ambassadors for the UK at home and abroad.
Our Endeavour
Our Endeavour is a Trawler registered in Exeter but its home port is Plymouth.
Fishing Boat Maria Q
Fishing boat Maria Q. No other information found on any registration sites. NB NOT SUITABLE FOR CANVAS WRAP
HMS Queen Elizabeth is the largest and most powerful vessel ever constructed for the Royal Navy and is capable of carrying up to 40 aircraft. She wil replace HMS Ocean as the navys flag ship. She is so large that she cannot navigate Plymouth Sound to Devonport Dockyard,, despite being one of the largest natural harbours in the world.
RFA Tideforce
RFA Tideforce is the fourth in a fleet of four 39,000 tonne Tide-Class tankers, capable of carrying up to 19,000 cubic metres of fuel and 1,400 cubic metres of fresh water. She has been designed to support the new Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers.
Red Arrows Palm Split 2019
Red Arrows Tornado 2019
Red Arrows Concorde
Red Arrows Arrive 2019
Seen here at Plymouths Armed Forces Day 2019. The Red Arrows, officially called The Royal Airforce Aerobatic Team, is one of the best know and premier Aerobatic teams in the world. The team is the public face of the RAF and assist with recruiting to the armed forces. They act as ambassadors for the UK at home and abroad.
Red Arrows Diamond 2019
Seen here at Plymouths Armed Forces Day 2019. The Red Arrows, officially called The Royal Airforce Aerobatic Team, is one of the best known and premier Aerobatic teams in the world. The team is the public face of the RAF and assist with recruiting to the armed forces. They act as ambassadors for the UK at home and abroad.
River Tamar
The River Tamar. To the left is Torpoint in Cornwall. To the right the Royal Navy dockyard of Devonport. Near the middle you can see two of the chainlink ferries crossing the river. It is free to travel from Devonport to Torpoint. But to leave Cornall there is a toll to be paid. At the time of this photograph it is £1.50.
Yacht on the river Tamar
A Halberg Rassey Yacht heading upstream on the river Tamar
RFA Tiderace
RFA Tiderace is the second of a fleet of four 39,000 tonne Tide-Class tankers, capable of carrying up to 19,000 cubic metres of fuel and 1,400 cubic metres of fresh water. She has been designed to support the new Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers. *** NOT suitable for a canvas wrap ******
SD Forceful
SD Forceful is a tug built in 1985 for the Royal Navy. In 2008 it was bought by SD Marine Services Ltd. Its home port is London.
HMS St Albans, the sixteenth and last of the Royal Navy's Type 23 frigates to be built, was launched on 6 May 2000. Constructed by BAE Systems at Scotstoun, she was delivered to the Royal Navy in November 2001. HMS St Albans emerged from an extensive £25M refit late in 2014. alongside in base port. As with all Duke class frigates they are versatile and can operate in any imaginable situation. At the time of this photograph the Saint is the Fleet Ready Escort and will spend the majority of the year in and around UK waters conducting training and exercises with various UK and military agencies and organisations.
Trawler Judy G
Judy G is a licenced Trawler/Scalloper. Home port is Brixham and according to the government registry was built in 2018. Seen here about to enter Sutton Harbour in Plymouth.
HMS Enterprise is an Echo-class multi-role survey vessel . Multi-talented and adaptable, she’s equally at home mapping and surveying the ocean floor as she is acting as a floating base for our minehunters.
RFA Fort Victoria
Fort Victoria is an Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment (AOR) ship. She was originally designed to support frigates on anti-submarine warfare patrols. She provides vital support to the fleet acting as a stores ship and a fleet tanker. She also has a large flight-deck, hangar and maintenance facilities for helicopters.
Trawler Ocean Spirit
Ocean Spirit is a Trawler/Scalloper. It was built in 1999 and is registered in Brixham. However, its home port is Plymouth.
Trawler Provider II
Provider II s a Trawler licensed for cod and bass. It was built in 2001 and is registered in Brixham. However, its home port is Plymouth.
RFA Argus
Royal Fleet Auxiliary Argus was originally launched in 1981 as the commercially owned and operated Contender Bezant, a combination freight, Roll on Roll off ferry (RORO) and container ship. She is now fully equipped with state of the art emergency facilities and 100-bed medical complex on board, which can be uniquely tailored to deliver cutting-edge treatment afloat and is a Primary Casualty Receiving Ship (PCRS). She cannot be designated a hospital ship as she does carry some defensive guns so under the Geneva Convention cannot display the International Red Cross Symbol. She also provides specialist aviation training facilities for the Fleet Air Arm.
RFA Argus and RFA Fort Victoria
Royal Fleet Auxiliary Argus was originally launched in 1981 as the commercially owned and operated Contender Bezant, a combination freight, Roll on Roll off ferry (RORO) and container ship. She is now fully equipped with state of the art emergency facilities and 100-bed medical complex on board, which can be uniquely tailored to deliver cutting-edge treatment afloat and is a Primary Casualty Receiving Ship (PCRS). She cannot be designated a hospital ship as she does carry some defensive guns so under the Geneva Convention cannot display the International Red Cross Symbol. She also provides specialist aviation training facilities for the Fleet Air Arm. Fort Victoria is an Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment (AOR) ship. She was originally designed to support frigates on anti-submarine warfare patrols. She provides vital support to the fleet acting as a stores ship and a fleet tanker. She also has a large flight-deck, hangar and maintenance facilities for helicopters.
Cattewater and Mount Batten
Smeatons Tower
Smeatons Tower was the third of four Eddystone lighthouses originally sited 14 miles West of Plymouth. And was in use from 1759 to 1882. As technology moved on it was too small contain modern machinery so it was dismantled and rebuilt on a new granite base on Plymouth Hoe and opened in September 1884.
Plymouth Hoe and Smeatons Tower
Plymouth Hoe and Sound
Plymouth Sound looking towards Cattewater from the stern of the Plymouth Venturer
Plymouth Hoe Foreshore
HMS Example in Weymouth
HMS Example is the Northumbrian University Royal Naval Unit (URNU). It is an Archer class fast patrol boat based at HMS Calliope, a Royal Naval Reserve Base next to the Tyne Bridge on Gateshead Quayside. The Northumbrian URNU provides a three-year package of training and activities to student in order to broaden their knowledge of the Royal Navy and its activities worldwide.
HMS Echo was the first of two Echo Class multi-role hydrographic survey ships commissioned by the Royal Navy. It was designed to conduct survey operations in support of submarines or amphibious operations. It has a secondary role as a mine countermeasure tasking platform.
The Radcliffe Camera Oxford
The Radcliffe Camera is a building of Oxford University, England, designed by James Gibbs in neo-classical style and built in 1737–1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Librar
Brittany Ferries Armorique
Brittany Ferries Armorique leaving Plymouth
Drakes Island
Drakes Island is situated in Plymouth Sound at the entrance to the river Tamar. It is about 6.5 acres in size. Its strategic position has meant that there a a number of military buildings. It was originally called St Michaels after a chapel that was built there. The chapel was rededicated to St Nicholas and the island then took that to be its official name. However, due to its association with Sir Francis Drake it acquired the nickname of Drakes Island. The buildings are Grade II listed. The island is now in private ownership and after many years of trying, planning permission to convert the island into a luxury hotel and spa have finally been approved. Work is expected to start sometime in 2019 as planning permission runs out in 2020.
Boats on Plymouth Sound
Boats on Plymouth Sound. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
New Street Plymouth
New Street Plymouth. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
Mount Batten Plymouth
Mount Batten was the location of a flying boat station and Royal Air Force Base, during the years 1913 until 1986. it was there that the United States Curtis Flying Boat NC 4 came ashore, following the first successful airborne crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. Many classes of flying boat were to use this base, the best known during World War II being the Shorts LTD. of Belfast long distance ocean reconnaissance Sunderlands. Meanwhile, during the 1930's, T.E.Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) served there as an ordinary aircraftsman under the alias of Shaw, at a time when he had shunned his earlier public fame as Lawrence.
Drakes Island is situated in Plymouth Sound at the entrance to the river Tamar. It is about 6.5 acres in size. Its strategic position has meant that there are a number of military buildings. It was originally called St Michaels after a chapel that was built there. The chapel was rededicated to St Nicholas and the island then took that to be its official name. However, due to its association with Sir Francis Drake it acquired the nickname of Drakes Island. The buildings are Grade II listed. The island is now in private ownership and after many years of trying, planning permission to convert the island into a luxury hotel and spa have finally been approved. Work is expected to start sometime in 2019 as planning permission runs out in 2020.
HMS Northumberland and the Eddystone Lighthouse
HMS Northumberland and the Eddystone Lighthouse 14 miles away on the horizon. HMS Northumberland is a type 23 Frigate and was launched in April 1992 and entered service in late 1994. She was built in the North-East by the Swan Hunter yard and is affiliated to the County of Northumberland and reaffirmed her close ties to the area with a visit to the Port of Tyne in September 2013. She is based in Devonport when not deployed. HMS Northumberland was among the first ships of her class to receive the most advanced sonar designed to hunt down submarines and played a vital role in testing the new equipment with HMS Torbay as her quarry at a special test range in the Bahamas.
Plymouth Hoe and the Royal Citadel
Plymouth Hoe and the Royal Citadel from the Sound. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
Boat Trip on Plymouth Sound
The view towards Cattewater of Plymouth Sound from the stern of the cruise ship Plymouth Venturer.
FGS Bonn
FGS Bonn is a Type 702 Berlin Class fleet auxiliary vessel in service with the German Navy. The auxiliary replenishment ship is designed to provide logistics and medical services support to the combined task forces. The vessels are named after German cities. Berlin Class vessels are the largest warships in the German Navy fleet.
HMS Northumberland is a type 23 Frigate and was launched in April 1992 and entered service in late 1994. She was built in the North-East by the Swan Hunter yard and is affiliated to the County of Northumberland and reaffirmed her close ties to the area with a visit to the Port of Tyne in September 2013. She is based in Devonport when not deployed. HMS Northumberland was among the first ships of her class to receive the most advanced sonar designed to hunt down submarines and played a vital role in testing the new equipment with HMS Torbay as her quarry at a special test range in the Bahamas.
USNS Big Horn
USNS Big Horn (T-AO-198) is a Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. She entered non-commissioned U.S. Navy service under the control of the Military Sealift Command with a primarily civilian crew on 21 May 1992. She serves in the United States Atlantic Fleet.
HMS Montrose is a type 23 Frigate. She is based in Devonport when not deployed. She returned to sea in 2017 after a £35 million pound upgrade.
HMS Diamond is a Type 45 air defence destroyer and one of the most advanced warships in the world. Nearly as tall as Nelson’s Column, Diamond's sleek lines are designed for stealth at sea, appearing virtually invisible on enemy radar. With cutting-edge military sensors and a range of weapons systems, Diamond is ready to detect and destroy any airborne, surface and sub surface threat. Her Motto is - honor clarissima gemma – honour is the brightest jewel.
Fishing boats in Sutton Harbour
Fishing boats in Sutton Harbour. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
Royal Citadel Plymouth
The Royal Citadel is a 17th century fortress at the easten end of Plymouth Hoe. It encompasses the site of an earlier fort built at the time of Sir Francis Drake. It is still used by the military to this day.
Plymouth Hoe from the Sound
Plymouth Hoe. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
Yacht on Plymouth Sound
A yacht on Plymouth Soound heading towards the river Tamar.
Plymouth Venturer on PLymouth Sound
Plymouth Venturer was launched in March 2017. It is a modern catamaran design and is the largest passenger vessel in Plymouth. It can hold up to 250 people. Its day job is hour long cruises from Sutton Harbour to the Devonport Naval Dockyard on the river Tamar. It is also available for hire for parties etc
United States Marine Corps Super Hercules
United States Marine Corps Lockheed KC-130J Super Hercules 167112/BH-7112 flying out of RAF Northolt
BBMF Dakota
BBMF Dakota on its way to fly past the Polish War Memorial in Northolt where a service was being held to remember 303 Polish Squadron and commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the unveiling of the memorial and the centenary of Polish Independence.
Yacht returning to Cattewater
Yacht returning to Cattewater at the mouth of the river Plym. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
Hereford Cathedral
A cathedral dedicated to the Martyred King Ethelbert has stood on the site since Saxon times. Todays building contains some of the finest examples of architectural excellence from the Norman times to the present day. It is home to the Mappa Mundi, the largest surviving medieval world map. It also houses the famous chained library.
Buckingham Palace in London
Marlow at Christmas
Marlow Bridge on the River Thames in winter time.
Ludlow Castle
Ludlow Castle was a privately owned Castle which began construction in the 11th century as the border stronghold of Roger De Lacy, a Marcher Lord. Roger Mortimer enlarged the Castle into a palace in the 14th century. Later under the ownership of Richard, Duke of York the Castle was involved in the war of the Roses. Then as a Royal Palace Edward IV sent the Prince of Wales and his brother to live at the Castle, which was also the seat of government for Wales and the border counties. In 1501, Prince Arthur (brother to Henry VIII), honeymooned here with his wife, Catherine of Aragon. In 1689, the Royal Welch Fusiliers were founded at the Castle by Lord Herbert of Chirbury. It was abandond soon after and fell into decay. In 1811, the ruins were purchased from the Crown by 2nd Earl Pof Powis, in the ownership of whose family it remains.
Ludlow Castle was a privately owned Castle which began construction in the 11th century as the border stronghold of Roger De Lacy, a Marcher Lord. Roger Mortimer enlarged the Castle into a palace in the 14th century. Later under the ownership of Richard, Duke of York the Castle was involved in the war of the Roses. Then as a Royal Palace Edward IV sent the Prince of Wales and his brother to live at the Castle, which was also the seat of government for Wales and the border counties. In 1501, Prince Arthur (brother to Henry VIII), honeymooned here with his wife, Catherine of Aragon. In 1689, the Royal Welch Fusiliers were founded at the Castle by Lord Herbert of Chirbury. It was abandond soon after and fell into decay. In 1811, the ruins were purchased from the Crown by 2nd Earl Pof Powis, in the ownership of whose family it remains. Given the old sepia treatment
Mayflower Steps
The Mayflower steps. These are not the original steps due to the development of the Barbican. The originals were destroyed over a hundred years ago to make way for a road around the Royal Citadel.
TThe Radcliffe Camera is a building of Oxford University, England, designed by James Gibbs in neo-classical style and built in 1737–1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library
Panoramic view from the top of Ludlow Castle.
Panoramic view from the top of Ludlow Castle created from 3 separate images. Ludlow Castle was a privately owned Castle which began construction in the 11th century as the border stronghold of Roger De Lacy, a Marcher Lord. Roger Mortimer enlarged the Castle into a palace in the 14th century. Later under the ownership of Richard, Duke of York the Castle was involved in the war of the Roses. Then as a Royal Palace Edward IV sent the Prince of Wales and his brother to live at the Castle, which was also the seat of government for Wales and the border counties. In 1501, Prince Arthur (brother to Henry VIII), honeymooned here with his wife, Catherine of Aragon. In 1689, the Royal Welch Fusiliers were founded at the Castle by Lord Herbert of Chirbury. It was abandond soon after and fell into decay. In 1811, the ruins were purchased from the Crown by 2nd Earl Pof Powis, in the ownership of whose family it remains.
Oxford City of Dreaming Spires
Oxford, The City of Dreaming Spires, is famous the world over for its University and place in history. For over 800 years, it has been a home to royalty and scholars, and since the 9th century an established town, although people are known to have lived in the area for thousands of years. Nowadays, the city is a bustling cosmopolitan town. Still with its ancient University, but home also to a growing hi-tech community. Many businesses are located in and around the town, whether on one of the Science and Business Parks or within one of a number of residential areas. With its mix of ancient and modern, there is plenty for both the tourist and resident to do. Whether its visiting one of the many historic buildings, colleges or museums, going out for a drink or a meal, taking in a show or shopping till you drop,
A mute swan
Juvenile Robin
A juvenile Robin in my garden in west London
Juvenile Robin in my garden in west London
Naval Memorial Plymouth
Plymouth Naval Memorial is one of three in England to commemorate British sailors who died at sea during the two world wars and have no known grave. This memorial also includes the names of sailors from Australia, South Africa and India.
A mute swan landing on Ruislip Lido
London Skyline as seen from The Embankment in October 2010
The London Eye was the vision of David Marks and Julia Barfield, a husband and wife architect team. The wheel design was used as a metaphor for the end of the 20th century, and time turning into the new millennium. Back in 2000, the London Eye was known as the Millennium Wheel. At that time, British Airways was the main sponsor, and up until November 2005 they were joint shareholders with Marks Barfield Architects and The Tussauds Group. British Airways also privately funded the London Eye project from the early stages of conception. In June 2008 they celebrated flying their 30 millionth guest!
Pink Gerbera
Pink Gerbera in my garden in west London
Windsor Castle from Eton Bridge accross the Thames
The Lady Chapel in Winchester Cathedral
Sidmouth Beach
Sidmouth is a town on the South Devon coast. It has a Regency history with fine hotels clean beaches and friendly shops. It nestles beneath majestic red cliffs and green hills of the Sid valley.Give the antique sepia treatment
Sidmouth is a town on the South Devon coast. It has a Regency history with fine hotels clean beaches and friendly shops. It nestles beneath majestic red cliffs and green hills of the Sid valley.
Sidmouth seafront and beach
View over Sidmouth
Sidmouth and the Jurassic coast as viewed from the Sidmouth Harbour Hotel.
The Royal Citadel is a 17th century fortress at the eastern end of Plymouth Hoe. It encompasses the site of an earlier fort built at the time of Sir Francis Drake. It is still used by the military to this day.
Sunset over the Tamar
Sunset from Plymouth Hoe 30th October 2016.
The Monument stands at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill in the City of London. It was built between 1671 and 1677 to commemorate the Great Fire of London and to celebrate the rebuilding of the City. The fire began in a bakers house in Pudding Lane on Sunday 2nd September 1666 and finally extinguished on Wednesday 5th September, after destroying the greater part of the City. Although there was little loss of life, the fire brought all activity to a halt, having consumed or severely damaged thousands of houses, hundreds of streets, the Citys gates, public buildings, churches and St. Pauls Cathedral. The only buildings to survive in part were those built of stone, like St. Pauls and the Guildhall. As part of the rebuilding, it was decided to erect a permanent memorial of the Great Fire near the place where it began. Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Pauls cathedral, and his friend and colleague, Dr Robert Hooke, provided the design for a Doric Column.
The Gherkin
The Gherkin is the popular nickname for the office block opened in 2004 at No.30 St Mary Axe. The road is named after the nearby Church of St Mary Axe, the 'axe' part referring to a relic kept in the church.
Marlow is a town in Buckinghamshire situated on the river Thames
Sir Francis Drake Memorial Plymouth Hoe
Sir Francis Drake statue on Plymouth Hoe. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
City of London Skyline in 2010
The City of London skyline, taken from Tower Bridge. In this image you can see one of the oldest buildings in the City, the Tower of London, plus two of the newest, the Gherkin and the new Heron Tower just behind it.
Millennium Bridge and St Pauls
The London Millennium Footbridge is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians crossing the River Thames in London, England, linking Bankside with the City. It is located downstrem from Southwark Bridge and upstream from Blackfriars Railway Bridge
The City of London skyline as seen from Tower Bridge
Plymouth Armada Memorial
Plymouth Armada Memorial was built in 1888 to celebrate the tercentenary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
St Pauls an alternative view
The dome of St Pauls Cathedral seen though the towers of the bridge at Cannon Street Station.
Sun Dial
The Sun dial by St Katherines Dock on the River Thames.
Kite Surfer
A kite surfer on a windy day at Sidmouth in Devon.
London Bridge was originally the only crossing for the Thames. As London grew, so more bridges were added, although these were all built to the west of London Bridge, since the area east of London Bridge had become a busy port. In the 19th century, the East End of London became so densely populated that public need mounted for a new bridge to the east of London Bridge, as journeys for pedestrians and vehicles were being delayed by hours. Finally in 1876, the City of London Corporation, responsible for that part of the Thames, decided the problem could be delayed no longer and so Tower Bridge was commisioned
Big Ben collage
The name Big Ben is often used to describe the tower, the clock and the bell but the name was first given to the Great Bell. The Clock Tower was completed in 1859 and the Great Clock started on 31 May, with the Great Bell's strikes heard for the first time on 11 July and the quarter bells first chimed on 7 September.
1980 Bell Helicopter Textron BELL 206B
JFK Memorial Runnymede
This memorial stands halfway up the Cooper's Hill Slopes and overlooks Runnymede, on ground previously belonging to the Crown and now the property of the United States of America. It is made of Portland stone to the design of G.A. Jellicoe and was unveiled by HM Queen Elizabeth II on 14 May 1965 in the presence of President Kennedy's widow and children. Visitors reach the memorial by treading a steep path of irregular granite steps, one for each year of Kennedy's life.
Anzac Cemetery Harefield
During the First World War Harefield Park was offered by the owner as a hospital to the Ministry of Defence of New South Wales. For the duration of the war casualties from the Australian Forces from Gallipoli and the Western Front were treated at the newly created Harefield Hospital. Many of the wounded died; 111 men and one nursing sister were buried with military honours in an extension of the churchyard.
Anzac war graves Harefield
The obelisk is inscribed as follows - To the Glory of God who giveth us the victory and in memory of brave Australian soldiers who after taking part in the Great War now rest in Harefield churchyard
Barbican Prawn Sculpture
The Barbican Prawn at the entrance to Sutton Harbour next to the Mayflower steps. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
Plymouth Hoe and Foreshore
Mount Batten was the location of a flying boat station and Royal
Plymouth Foreshore and Mount Batten
Plymouth Sound. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar which divides Devon from Cornwall. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
Mount Batten Fort
A view of Windsor including the castle, mausoleum and Old Windsor town. Deliberate effect adding a grainy aged look
Churches of Hillingdon
Churches in the London Borough of Hillingdon
A white rose in my garden
Starlings in my garden
A Collage of Starling images taken in my garden, in West London, during the summer of 2010
Collage of Wildfowl
A Hotrod car at the Royal Berkshire Festival of Wings, Wheels, Speed and Steam at White Waltham 2010
Old Book Shop
A book shop at Kingsgate in the historic town of Winchester.
Hotrod 2
I Sphinx it is the London Eye
The London Eye as seen from Cleopatras needle
Sutton Harbour Sunset
Carousel in Sepia
Carousel by Bournemouth Pier in Dorset
St Mary's Parish Church Harefield
St Mary's Parish Church is Harefield’s oldest building, and has been its spiritual heart for centuries, despite beng sited away from the geographical centre of the village. It has been described as the Westminster Abbey of West Middlesex because of its wealth of monuments. At the Domesday Survey of 1086 Harefield had a priest, and therefore presumably a church which was probably on the present site.
Silhouette of Two Gulls on a Lamp post
Though called the Common Gull it is not common in all areas of the country. It can be quite localised.
Black Park Country Park which has been used in many films including James Bond and Harry Potter. Also TV programs like Midsommer Murders have had scenes shot here. Deliberate effect
Little Britain between Iver and Cowley, is a complex of attractive lakes with islands set between the River Colne and Frays River. The area is excellent for close views of water birds, which are less shy here, such as gadwell and great crested grebe and of course swans and herons, even turtles
Little Britain between Iver and Cowley, is a complex of attractive lakes with islands set between the River Colne and Frays River. The area is excellent for close views of water birds, which are less shy here, such as gadwell and great crested grebe and of course swans and herons, even turtles.
Winchester Cathedral Quire
Winchester Cathedral is the Mother Church of the Diocese of Winchester, which is part of the Church of England. The Cathedral has its origins in the 7th century, when a Christian Church was first built on this site.
A Cathedral dedicated to St Paul has stood on this site since 604AD, and throughout the Cathedral has remained a busy, working church where millions come to reflect and find peace.
Hereford Skyline
Hereford is a cathedral city with 7th century Saxon origins. Was extensively developed by the Normans who rebuilt its famous cathedral. There are many half timbered buildings plus the Shire Hall an Town hall which sit alongside modern developments of the Old Market Shopping centre, Maylords shopping centre and the Courtyard; Herefords Centre for Arts.
Gull Silhouette
Gull Silhouette in Sidmouth South Devon
Seaton Beach Devon
Seaton is a small Devon Seaside town.It has a shingle beach with views of the Jurassic Coast line.
Bournemouth Beach
A view Eastwards of Bournemouth beach taken from the pier
HMS St Albans the sixteenth and last of the Royal Navy's Type 23 frigates to be built was launched on 6 May 2000. Constructed by BAE Systems at Scotstoun. She is affectionately known as The Saint.
Houseboats on the Grand Union Canal in Cowley near Uxbridge West London
Abandoned boat and Lobster Pot
Abandoned boat and Lobster Pot on Sidmouth Beach. Sidmouth is a town on the South Devon coast. It has a Regency history with fine hotels clean beaches and friendly shops. It nestles beneath majestic red cliffs and green hills of the Sid valley.
Eagle Owl
This massive bird is one of Europes most powerful predators, which even kills other owls to claim exclusive use of territory. Its huge eyes give it exceptional vision in poor light and hunting is almost entirely nocturnal.
The herring gull is often considered a nuisance. It nests on rooftops and can be extremely noisy. Has been in decline in Europe but can be found almost anywhere inland or by water. So wherever you are watch out otherwise you may lose your icecream or sandwiches.
Tower at Windsor Castle.
Windsor Castle, the largest and oldest occupied castle in the world, is one of the official residences of Her Majesty The Queen. The Castle's dramatic site encapsulates 900 years of British history. It covers an area of 26 acres and contains, as well as a royal palace, a magnificent chapel and the homes and workplaces of a large number of people.
St Laurence Cowley
St Laurence Church in Cowley Middlesex is in parts thought to be over 1000 years old.
Denham Deep Lock
Denham Deep Lock on the Grand Union Canal West London
A yacht on Plymouth Sound
A yacht on Plymouth Sound 25th March 2017. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
Coppermill Lock Harefield
A white rose in my garden with a square crop for coaster and a deliberate softer feel.s
Faulty Towers
Beach huts at Highcliffe beach in Dorset
St Lawrence West Wycombe
The 18th century Church of St. Lawrence, with its golden ball on the top of West Wycombe hill, is a well-known landmark, visible for many miles due its hilltop location, visually dominating the village. The church was remodelled by Sir Francis Dashwood inside and out. The hill is known as 'West Wycombe Hill' and was an Iron Age hill fort. Also situated on the hill is the Dashwood Mausoleum, inspired by the Colosseum in Rome
Portal from the past
Houseboats on the Grand Union Canal at Cowley West London. The pub at this location, and Cowley Lock, was used in an episode of Lewis first broadcast 9th May 2010.. It won first prize in a competition run by Thames21 for images of Londons waterways.
River Wye From the old bridge Hereford
Hereford is a cathedral city with 7th century Saxon origins. Was extensively developed by the Normans who rebuilt its famous cathedral. There are many half timbered buildings plus the Shire Hall an Town hall which sit alongside modern developments of the Old Market Shopping centre, Maylords shopping centre and the Courtyard, Herefords Centre for Arts.
Wide Water Lock Harefield
Wide Water Lock on the Grand Union Canal at Harefield
Sidmouth Beach and Esplanade
Sidmouth is a town on the South Devon coast. It has a Regency history with fine hotels clean beaches and friendly shops. It nestles beneath majestic red cliffs and green hills of the Sid valley. Given an old fashioned grainy postcard look.
Hengistbury head towards Mudeford
A misty Mudeford as seen from Hengistbury Head with a heavy frost.
Bournemouth Beach and cliffs as seen from the pier facing East
St Giles Ickenham
St Giles' Church is packed full of over 650 years of history. The oldest part of the building is believed to date back to 1335 when the first Rector of the Parish of Ickenham was appointed. A North Aisle was added in the 16th Century, an extension to the west end of the Nave in 1959 and a 2nd storey extension above the Choir Vestry was opened in 1986.
Plymouth Quest
Plymouth Quest is a MCA Workboat 2 research vessel, owned by the UK's Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Built in China in 2001, she was sold to PML by her Icelandic owners in March 2004 and entered service in June that year. She is the newer of two ships owned by PML and is used for biological, chemical and physical sampling in coastal seas. A robust and versatile vessel, Plymouth Quest enables trawling, hauling, dredging, towing, and equipment deployment, as well as oceanographic measurements.
Nanchang CJ6 fighter
They have a top speed of 370kmh are are powered by 285-330hp, supercharged engines. They are capable withstanding +6 and -4 G. The aircraft is part of China's military training and several air forces have used them for counter insurgency and ground attack missions.
The Poppy Story
From front to back we have the poppy bud, the flower and then the seed head ready to propagate itself.
Snow goose (anser caerulescens)
St Mary's Parish Church
Springwell Lane Bridge and Lock
Springwell Lane Bridge (176), which goes over the Grand Union Canal by Springwell Lock near Rickmansworth.
Air Forces Memorial Plymouth
RAF and Allied air forces memorial on Plymouth Hoe is dedicated to those men and women who served during the seond world war both in the air and on the ground from all allied countries.
Winchester Cathedral Altar
RAF Memorial Runnymede
This sobering yet beautiful memorial to the men and women of the Allied Air Forces who died during World War II was designed by Sir Edward Maufe R.A. and unveiled by HM Queen Elizabeth II on 17 October 1953. An inscription over the entrance to the cloister reads: 'In this cloister are recorded the names of 20,456 airmen who have no known grave. They died for freedom in raid and sortie over the British Isles and the land and seas of northern and western Europe'.
Kite Surfer in Sidmouth
A kite surfer on a windy September Day in Sidmouth Devon
Seaton is a small Devon Seaside town. It has a shingle beach with views of the Jurassic Coast line.
City of London Skyline
HMS Belfast and Tower Bridge viewed from the South bank of the River Thames
Wild blackberries in my garden in west London
Houseboat on the Grand Union canal in Cowley West London
Narrowboat
Narrow Boat on the Grand Union Canal at Cowley West London
Wye Valley at Hay on Wye
Hay-on-Wye is situated to the West of Hereford and is literally on the English/Welsh border with the main town on the Welsh side. It os also known as the Town of Books due to its many bookshops. It is world famous for its Literary Festival held at the end of May each year
Temple Lock on the River Thames
This lock is quite unique in that when a new replacement lock was built in 1890, the builders left the old one in place alongside it. The old lock was modified with channels to enable light craft, skiffs and punts to be transferred up and downstream.
Tower Bridge from the South bank of the River Thames
Oxo Tower London
The building was originally constructed as a power station for the Post Office, built towards the end of the 19th century.
The City Skyline from the Embankment
The view down river Thames towards the City of London as view from the Embankment in Westminster
Millennium Wheel
The Merlin Entertainments London Eye is the vision of David Marks and Julia Barfield, a husband and wife architect team. The wheel design was used as a metaphor for the end of the 20th century, and time turning into the new millennium. Back in 2000, the London Eye was known as the Millennium Wheel. At that time, British Airways was the main sponsor, and up until November 2005 they were joint shareholders with Marks Barfield Architects and The Tussauds Group. British Airways also privately funded the London Eye project from the early stages of conception. In June 2008 they celebrated flying their 30 millionth guest!
Field of Grass on West Wycombe Hill
Stone steps on a pathway on Hengistbury Head in Dorset
Widewater Lock
Lock gates at Widewater Lock in Harefield on the Grand Union canal Effect is deliberate HDR processing
Stockers Lock
Stockers Lock on the Grand Union Canal near Rickmansworth. Two people sit and wait for the lock to fill before opening the gates to let their boat in. This stretch of the canal was used in an episode of Lewis first broadcast on 30th May 2010.
Fairground Attraction
A house of fun at the Chilterns show 2010
Gorse by the sea
Gorse growing on the cliffs in Bournemouth.
Bisham Church
Bisham village, which has been known by various names down the centuries, was recorded in Domesday with its villagers, cottagers, slaves, vines and meadowland. A church was also recorded there, no doubt on the beautiful riverside site of the present building, the oldest part of which is the 12th century tower, the parapet, battlements and brick quoins of which were added in the 15th century. The tower contains three bells dating from 1840.
The Harris's Hawk or Harris Hawk also known as the Bay-winged Hawk or Dusky Hawk, is a medium-large bird of prey which breeds from the south western United States south to Chile and central Argentina.
A mute Swan a swimming
A mute swan swims along the river Thames in Windsor, Berkshire, England
Richmond Hill St. Andrews skyline
Richmond Hill St. Andrews United Reformed Church is the largest church building in Bournemouth with a capacity to seat nearly 1,100 people.
Working boats
Boats in Poole Harbour Dorset
Bournemouth pier
Bournemouth Pier Dorset
Groyne at Highcliffe
A groyne covered with seaweed on Highcliffe Beach
HMS Northumberland is a type 23 Frigate and was launched in April 1992. She was built in the North-East by the Swan Hunter yard.
Towards Christchurch
A view toward Christchurch across the reed beds and frozen waters of Christchurch harbour from Hengistbry Head.
Grey herons are unmistakeable: tall, with long legs, a long beak and grey, black and white feathering. They can stand with their neck stretched out, looking for food, or hunched down with their neck bent over their chest.
Young Robin Redbreast
The Robin is a common garden bird usually associated with Christmas
Plymouth Foreshore. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
The Polish War Memorial Northolt
The Polish War Memorial is a memorial erected to remember the contribution of airmen from Poland who helped the Allied cause during World War II. The memorial is made from Portland stone with bronze lettering and a bronze eagle the symbol of the Polish Air Force. There are 2165 names inscribed around the memorial. It was designed by Mieczyslaw Lubelski, who had been interned in a forced labour camp during the second world war.
London Bridge was originally the only crossing for the Thames. As London grew, so more bridges were added, although these were all built to the west of London Bridge, since the area east of London Bridge had become a busy port. In the 19th century, the East End of London became so densely populated that public need mounted for a new bridge to the east of London Bridge, as journeys for pedestrians and vehicles were being delayed by hours. Finally in 1876, the City of London Corporation, responsible for that part of the Thames, decided the problem could be delayed no longer
The Dome of St Pauls Cathedral from the South
The Dome of St Pauls Cathedral from the South. A Cathedral dedicated to St Paul has stood on this site since 604AD, and throughout the Cathedral has remained a busy, working church where millions come to reflect and find peace. The current Cathedral – the fourth to occupy this site – was designed by the court architect Sir Christopher Wren and built between 1675 and 1710 after its predecessor was destroyed in the Great Fire of London.
Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square London
Canary Wharf Tower Bridge and HMS Belfast viewed from London Bridge
A moody and deliberately grainy Plymouth Sound.
Nothe Fort Weymouth
Built by the Victorians to protect Portland Harbour, Nothe Fort is one of the best preserved Forts of its kind. The advances in technology that affected the Fort are explained through many displays, exhibits and audio visual facilities located on the ramparts, gun decks and maze of underground passageways. Located at the entrance to Weymouth Harbour the Fort is a labyrinth of underground passageways and outdoor areas with stunning views of the Jurassic Coast. Constructed on three levels , which are easily accessed by means of a lift, the Fort is filled with displays, mammoth guns and cinema areas that chart the history of this large and magnificent Victorian structure which took 12 years to build. The Fort is now one of Weymouth’s major attractions and a venue for a wide range of events.
Blueberry Crush Lily
Blueberry Crush is an Oriental Trumpet lily
A walk along the beach
A modern day interpretation of the style of Jack Vettriano. Taken at Weymouth
Winchester Cathedral Cloisters of the Inner close
Dorset sun rising
The sun rises behind the clouds over a misty Isle of Wight as seen from Bournemouth
St. Andrews United Reformed
HMS Dragon is a Royal Navy's sType 45 air defence destroyers. Launched on 7 November 2008. Her maiden deployment was to the Gulf region in March 2013.
A collage of Christchurch and the Priory
A collage of Christchurch and the Priory.
St Mary the Virgin Ross-on-Wye
The parish of St Mary the Virgin includes the whole of Ross-on-Wye, an attractive market town serving South Herefordshire. The spire of St Mary's Church, towering 205 feet into the air, can be seen from miles around as a welcome to worshippers and visitors.
St Mary's Church Hayes
The Parish Church of Hayes Middlesex has been witness to the Christian Faith since at least 830 AD.
Red Poppy
Red Poppy. Often associated with Remembrance Sunday in the UK
Carousel in Bournemouth
A narrowboat approaches Stockers Lock on the Grand Union canal near Rickmansworth
Grand Union Canal Rickmansworth
Grand Union Canal between Springwell Lock and Stockers Lock, Rickmansworth
Autumn at Ruislip Lido
Ruislip Lido started life in 1811 as Ruislip Reservoir and was built as a feeder for the Grand Junction Canal, later, in 1933, to become the Grand Union Canal. John Rennie was the main engineer working on the construction, Hugh Mackintosh the constructor. On 5th December 1811 the project was announced as complete, by Rennie.
London Central Mosque
The London Central Mosque is a mosque in London, England. It was designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd, completed in 1978, and has a prominent golden dome.
Grass seed head
Grass seed head blowing in the wind on Plymouth hoe
Weymouth Beach in the evening
Weymouth Lifeboat
Weymouth is one of the RNLI busiest lifeboat stations on England’s south coast. It operates two lifeboats – Ernest and Mabel, a Severn class all-weather lifeboat, and Phyl Clare 3, a B class Atlantic 75 inshore lifeboat.
Weymouth Lifeboats
Jacobs Ladder Sidmouth
Jacobs Ladder Beach Sidmouth. Sidmouth is a town on the South Devon coast. It has a Regency history with fine hotels clean beaches and friendly shops. It nestles beneath majestic red cliffs and green hills of the Sid valley.
Jacobs Ladder Sidmouth. Sidmouth is a town on the South Devon co
Jacobs Ladder Sidmouth. Sidmouth is a town on the South Devon coast. It has a Regency history with fine hotels clean beaches and friendly shops. It nestles beneath majestic red cliffs and green hills of the Sid valley.
Waves crashing
Waves crash against a groyne on Hengistbury Head beach
New Forest Pony
The New Forest ponies most endearing quality is their inbred, gentle nature. Their calm temperament naturally recommends them as an excellent choice and an ideal mount for both children and adults. They have long been raced locally and are surprisingly fast, especially over rough terrain. They are suited to many competitive activities from Pony Club to polo, driving to dressage, they are naturals at jumping and gymkhana and are successfully trained to carry handicapped riders. All in all, the modern New Forest Pony is an exceptional all-rounder with an endearing character, that has developed as a result of both its unique environment and strong association with the people who have been responsible for the development of the breed.
The London Eye
The Shard is the tallest building in Western Europe, its crystalline façade transforming the London skyline with a multi-use 310 m (1,016 ft) vertical city. It comprises high quality offices, three world-class restaurants - aqua shard, Oblix and Hutong, the 5-star Shangri-La hotel, exclusive residential apartments and the capital's highest public viewing gallery, The View from The Shard.
Lobster Pot on Sidmouth Beach
Lobster Pot on Sidmouth Beach. Sidmouth is a town on the South Devon coast. It has a Regency history with fine hotels clean beaches and friendly shops. It nestles beneath majestic red cliffs and green hills of the Sid valley.
Sunrise at Bournemouth beach
Bournemouth beach sunrise on a frosty and misty Boxing Day 2010
Weymouth Harbour
Weymouth is one of the nicest family holiday destinations in the UK. It has something for everyone. It’s a great base from which to explore the Jurassic Coast, which is a world Heritage site, as well as the Dorset countryside.
A kite surfer and a wind surfer
A kite surfer and a wind surfer on a windy day in Sidmouth Devon
Dartmouth is a unique and historic port. The town is full of boutique shops and galleries. The town is world famous for the Britannia Royal Naval College which over looks the town and river. Dartmouth Castle has guarded the mouth of the river for over 600 years. On the other side of the river is Kingwear which has a steam train service too and from Paignton.
Dandelion Seed Head
A plane apparently on its way to the Moon. Genuine photo not a composite
Bournemouth Pier and Beach
Canary Wharf is located in the West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs in the Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. The West India Docks once formed part of the busiest port in the world. After the docks were closed in 1980 the British Government adopted various policies to stimulate the redevelopment of the area, including through the creation of the London Docklands Development Corporation in 1981 and granting the Isle of Dogs Enterprise Zone status in 1982. In 1987 the Canadian company Olympia and York agreed to construct a major office development on the Isle of Dogs, with construction commencing in 1988.
A Plane flies over The Shard
Merton Street Oxford
Southbourne Beach
Seascape at Southbourne
Greylag Geese
A family of Greylag Geese on the Thames near Runnymede
Magnolia and House Guest
Hengistbury Head and Isle of Wight viewed from the cliffs at Southbourne in Dorset
The Crocus is a dwarf perennial
A genus of summer flowering perennials. Fully hardy. Square crop for coasters
Christchurch Priory
There has been a church on this site since around 800 A.D. The present building was begun in 1094 by Ranulf Flambard and has since been in continuous use as a place of prayer and pilgrimage. Visitors never fail to be amazed to find such a beautiful church tucked away in this corner of Dorset, where it dominates the skyline of the historic town of Christchurch. In Simon Jenkins' book Thousand Best Churches the Priory was one of only eighteen churches awarded 5 stars and was described in The Times Newspaper as the least appreciated of Grand Churches.
Boscombe Beach
Boscombe Beach in Dorset
A touch of Hitchcock
Bee collecting pollen
Bee collecting pollen from a tobacco plant in my garden
Bournemouth Beach Huts
Beach Huts in Bournemouth
The Palace of Westminster and Parliament Square
Impressionist Poppies
Poppies and other wild flowers photo made to look like a painting by one of the great impressionists. The original is available unaltered.
A genus of summer flowering perennials. Fully hardy.
Taymar Ferry Plym II
The Torpoint Ferries cross the River Tamar between Torpoint in Cornwall, and the city of Plymouth in Devon. There has been a ferry service at Torpoint since 1791. Originally serviced by rowing boats and then steam boats. The first Torpoint chain ferry or 'floating bridge' came into service in 1831, using a self-propelled vessel using a pair of vertical chain wheels in the middle of the vessel.to pull on fixed chains connected between the river banks. The current vessels are the 5th generation and were commisioned to be built when the previous onne were reaching the end of their useful lives in the late 1990s. The first of the new generation vessel, Plym II, was delivered in December 2004. Subsequently Tamar II was delivered in March 2005 and finally Lynher II in February 2006. When travelling from the Devon side to the Cornish side of the Taymar it is free.
Noddy Train
The Noddy train makes its way to the end of Hengistbury Head at Christchurch Harbour in Dorset
Beach Huts at Hengistbury Head
Yellow rose from my garden
Christchurch Priory in Dorset
A bee collecting nectar
Poole Bay Abstract
Royal Gala apple
British Grown Royal Gala apple
Orb Web Spider
Bournemouth Beaches
A common seal sunning itself on the rocks at Sutton Harbour Plymouth
Christchurch in Dorset
Needles on the Isle of Wight as viewed from Mudeford
Lone Strawberry
Fresh Strawberry
An old Oak Tree in Alexandra Park Windsor
Christchurch Skyline
Christchurch in Dorset. The harbour and skyline
Yellow Legged Gull
The river Avon in Dorset
Orange and yellow Gerbera
Southwark Skyline
Southwark Skyline including the Shard and County Hall
The London Millennium Footbridge is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians crossing the River Thames in london, 2012, olympics, England, linking Bankside with the City. It is located between Southwark Bridge (downstream) and Blackfriars Railway Bridge (upstream). The bridge is owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. Construction of the bridge began in 1998, with the opening on 10 June 2000.
The Isle of Wight as Viewed from Mudeford in Dorset
Orange Rose in my garden
Hengistbury Head
Hengistbury Head beach
Oxford High Street
Tank Memorial
An American Sherman tank that was pulled from the sea off Slapton Sands. It was lost during practiced landings carried out by American troops, ready for the Normandy landings in 1944. Many American lives were lost during the practices and this stands as a memorial to their sacrifice.
The Shard and City Hall
The Shard and Southwark Cathedral
Spitfire Mk IXB
Perhaps the most famous of all Spitfires still flying today, MH434 was built in 1943 at Vickers, Castle Bromwich. This Spitfire is completely original, and has never been fully rebuilt. It was flown in combat by South African pilot Flt Lt Henry Lardner-Burke, DFC (1916-1970), seven and a half kills, three damaged, retiring as a Wing Commander.
Arsenal Lily
Arsenal Lily in my garden.
A bee inspects wild Daisies growing at the top of Southbourne Cliffs
White Rose in my garden
Ruislip Lido
Ruislip Lido started life in 1811 as Ruislip Reservoir and was built as a feeder for the Grand Junction Canal, later, in 1933, to become the Grand Union Canal. John Rennie was the main engineer working on the construction, Hugh Mackintosh the constructor. On 5th December 1811 the project was announced as complete, by Rennie
Christchurch Harbour in Dorset
Larger than a pochard, the male has an orange-brown head with a red beak and pale flanks. Females are brown with pale cheeks. In flight they show whitish primaries. They dive, dabble and up-end for their food.There is a large population in Spain and nearer but smaller numbers in France, Netherlands and Germany - and occasional wild birds may come to the UK from the Continent. The UK breeding birds almost certainly all come from escaped birds.
Cruising on a spring afternoon
A Narrowboat having just left Stockers Lock on the Grand Union Canal
A pastel misty and moody Isle of Wight as Viewed from Southbourne in Dorset
Grass Silhouette
Silhouette of long grass
Isle of Wight as seen from Bournemouth
The bridge at Henley-on-Thames
Yellow daisy
Day out on the canal
Contables House
The remains of a 12th-century riverside chamber block or 'Constable's House'. This very early example of domestic architecture includes a rare Norman chimney. This can be found in the grounds of Christchurch Castle, Dorset. As seen from across the river Avon
Boats moored in Christchurch Harbour
Slapton Sands
On top of being an extremely picturesque and popular beach, Slapton Sands plays an important part in the survival of some of the UK’s rarest flora and fauna. Slapton Sands has a very moving story attached to it. In 1943, the beach was taken over by the allied forces to use as a rehearsal area for the D-Day Landings. Unfortunately, a combination of live ammunition and poor visibility resulted in the deaths of 749 American servicemen. You can visit a stone monument which was set in place on Slapton Sands to commemorate the ill-fated ‘Operation Tiger’, along with a Sherman Tank at nearby Torcross.
Poppy. A symbol of Rememberance of all those that have died in war.
Juvenile Blackbird
One of the most common birds in Europe, The male has a black body, a bright orange bill and a yellow ring around the eye. The female has a dark brown body with a mottled dark spotted underside. Immature males (1st winter) are coloured dull black with a dark bill. Juveniles have a gingery brown body with pale streaks on the back and an orange bill.
Blueberry Crush Lily. This is an Oriental Trumpet variety.
Bournemouth Pier in Dorset
Woodpigeon
Wild and shy but common almost everywhere.
Rowing boat on the shore of Poole Harbour
Surfers at Boscombe in Dorset
The Needles on the Isle of Wight seen from Hengistbury Head
Boats near Denham Deep Lock on the Grand Union canal
Springtime by the Canal
The Grand Union Canal near Stockers Lock
Black Jacks Lock
Reflective Mood
Poppies and other wild flowers
Fresh Strawberries
St Peters Marlow
Fishing nets at Mudeford Quay
In the early 1080s, William the Conqueror began to build a massive stone tower at the centre of his London fortress. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Through the centuries that followed, successive monarchs added to the fortifications.
Tomatoes on the vine
Bournemouth Sunset
Sunset at Bournemouth Dorset
Avon Beach
View of Avon Beach from Mudeford Harbour
Poppy Bud
Poppy bud in my garden
Mute Swans
Cygnets on the Avon river in Dorset
Kite Surger at Southbourne in Dorset
Galloway Shetland cross cow
Galloway/Shetland cross cow
Reed Beds
St Aldates Street Road
Temple Lock
Temple Lock on the Thames near Marlow
Aquatic perennial cultivated for its showy summer flowers.
View across the bay.
View across Poole Bay from the overcliff area
A cheeky Robin
Swanage Bay
Swanage was originally a small port and fishing village flourished in the Victorian era, when it first became a significant quarrying port and later a seaside resort for the rich of the day. Today the town remains a popular tourist resort, this being the town's primary industry, with many thousands of visitors coming to the town during the peak summer season, drawn by the bay's sandy beaches and other attractions. It is situated at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck, approximately 8 miles south of Poole and 30 miles east of Dorchester.
Mudeford Beach in Dorset
Isle of Wight as viewed from Mudeford on Boxing Day morning 2012
The Groyne
Groyne at Bournemouth in Dorset England
The remains of a 12th-century riverside chamber block or 'Constable's House'. This very early example of domestic architecture includes a rare Norman chimney. This can be found in the grounds of Christchurch Castle, Dorset. As seen from the Castle Street road bridge across the river Avon
Slapton Ley
Hms Belfast and city skyline
One of the most powerful large light cruisers ever built, HMS Belfast is now the only surviving vessel of her type to have seen active service during the Second World War, Serving Britain for 32 years, she played an important role in both the Second World War and the Korean War as well as performing peacekeeping duties throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Saved from destruction in 1971, HMS Belfast is now part of the Imperial War Museum and is the first ship to be preserved for the nation since Nelson’s Victory. It is moored just upstream from Tower Bridge on the River Thames.
The London Millennium Footbridge is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians crossing the River Thames in London, England, linking Bankside with the City. It is located between Southwark Bridge (downstream) and Blackfriars Railway Bridge (upstream). The bridge is owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. Construction of the bridge began in 1998, with the opening on 10 June 2000.
Ghost Train
Ghost train by Bournemouth Pier
Collared Dove
Hengistbury Head in Dorset with the Isle of Wight in the background
Geum in my garden
Sutton Harbour Plymouth
R22 Beta Helicopter
The Robinson R22 Beta II is flown throughout the world for many applications, ranging from flight training to livestock mustering to patrolling pipelines that require dependability, low operating costs, and performance.
Christchurch Castle
Christchurch Castle was built in the late 11thcentury to protect the town's and river access to the interior of Wessex. It was built inside the Saxon fort whose walls were probably used to build the castle mound or motte. The luxurious Contable's Hall was built around 1150. The stone keep, (slighted after 1650), replaced a wooden structure about 1300. The castle saw action in the Anarchy about 1147 and in the Civil War in 1645.
Corfe Castle
The dramatic ruins of Corfe Castle stand on a natural hill guarding the principal route through the Purbeck Hills. It guards the gap between the south of Purbeck, where Purbeck marble was once quarried, and the rest of England. Nothing could pass in or out without going past the Castle.
Windsor Castle framed by an old Oak from Alexandra Park
Red Arrows Memorial
The associted plaque reads...... Always Follow your Dreams Blue Skies Memorial to Flt. Lt, John Egging - Eggman - Red 4 who tragically died when his Hawk aeroplane crashed after displaying at the Bournemouth Air Festival on 20 August 2011
Greylag Goose om Little Britain Lake
Historic Christchurch
View of Christchurch Priory and the Norman House
Sidmouth is a typically English seaside town on the South Devon coast. It has a Regency history with fine hotels clean beaches and friendly shops. It nestles beneath majestic red cliffs and green hills of the Sid valley.
White Water Lily
White Water Lily on Little Britain Lake
Paignton to Dartmouth Railway
Train being pulled by 5239 Goliath. Built August 1924 in Swindon. Withdrawn British Railways 1963.This class of locomotive was designed for use on heavy coal trains in the Welsh valleys, although two of the class were allocated to St Blazey in Cornwall for china clay traffic. 5239 was based at Neath for all of its working life being withdrawn from there in 1963 and sent to Barry scrap yard.Rescued by the Dart Valley Railway, it arrived at Newton Abbot in June 1973 where most of the restoration work was carried out. In June 1976 it was transferred to Paignton for completion, entering traffic in 1978
Winter Wonderland Fairground
Calm reflections
Black Jacks Bridge and Lock
Canal Craft
Fishing Boat with an old fashioned grainy look
Air Forces Memorial
The Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede. Dedicated to over 20000 aircrew that have lost their lives in defence of our country. Many from overseas who bravely fought alongside the British during the second world war. Their names are carved into the inside walls.
Magna Carta Memorial
The memorial to the Magna Carta at Runnymede by the Thames where it was drawn up.
Hengistbury Head view from Boscombe Pier
RNLB 17-28
The Brixham lifeboat is named RNLB Alec and Christina Dykes in memory of Mrs Helen Christina Dykes whose bequest covered almost half of the build cost. A number of other individuals and organisations made significant contributions to the lifeboat and its facilities. These are noted on a brass plaque which is mounted in the wheelhouse. Mrs Dykes during her lifetime donated a D Class to Ilfracombe Station which was named in memory of her husband.
Grey herons are tall, with long legs, a long beak and grey, black and white feathering. They can stand with their neck stretched out, looking for food, or hunched down with their neck bent over their chest.
Arsenal Lily in my garden. Its there under protest as I am a West Ham suppoerter
Winter Wonderland Power Tower
The London Skyline from the Millennium Bridge
A Cathedral dedicated to St Paul has stood on this site since 604AD, and throughout the Cathedral has remained a busy, working church where millions come to reflect and find peace. The current Cathedral – the fourth to occupy this site – was designed by the court architect Sir Christopher Wren and built between 1675 and 1710 after its predecessor was destroyed in the Great Fire of London.
Oxford Skyline
View of Oxford Skyline as seen from the banks of the Thames across Christ Church Meadow
Merton College and Church Oxford
Merton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s
Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, about 10 miles downstream and 7 miles northeast of Reading, 10 miles upstream and 7 miles west from Maidenhead. It is near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.
Christ Church, colloquially known as “the House,” is a unique joint foundation of a college of the University of Oxford and the Cathedral of the Diocese of Oxford. It has a world-famous Cathedral Choir and a Picture Gallery containing an important collection of Old Master paintings that is open to the public. There is also a small Cathedral School. The College is one of the largest in the University.
The Oxford University Boat Houses
Mute Swan at Rickmansworth Aquadrome
St Pauls Cathedral Points away towards the Heavens
Goshawks are powerful predators. They are scarce, due to persecution, in most areas. They are making a come back in the UK where they have been illegally released or simply escaped.
St Pauls Cahedral taken from theShard. A Cathedral dedicated to St Paul has stood on this site since 604AD, and throughout the Cathedral has remained a busy, working church where millions come to reflect and find peace. The current Cathedral – the fourth to occupy this site – was designed by the court architect Sir Christopher Wren and built between 1675 and 1710 after its predecessor was destroyed in the Great Fire of London.
Telekia speciosa
Telekia speciosa is a summer-flowering herbaceous perennial. Also known as Heart-leaved ox eye, Ox-eye daisy, Yellow ox-eye.
The Old Bailey, also known as Justice Hall, the Sessions House, and the Central Criminal Court, was named after the street in which it was located, just off Newgate Street and next to Newgate Prison, in the western part of the City of London. Over the centuries the building has been periodically remodelled and rebuilt in ways which both reflected and influenced the changing ways trials were carried out and reported.
Paraglider at Southbourne Cliffs in Dorset
Steam Tractor.
Steam tractor at White Waltham Festival of speed, air and steam
Sheldonian Theatre Oxford
The Shard is the tallest building in Western Europe, its crystalline façade transforming the London skyline with a multi-use 310 m (1,016 ft) vertical city. It comprises high quality offices, three world-class restaurants - aqua shard, Oblix and Hutong, the 5-star Shangri-La hotel, exclusive residential apartments and the capital's highest public viewing gallery, The View from The Shard. Shown here as a part of a complex angular structure where only the bridge is level
The Shard and Southwark Cathedral. A contrast of the very old next to the very new.
Grand Union Canal Bridge 181
Black Jacks on the Grand Union
Star Flyer ride
Poole Bay
A view of Poole bay in Dorset with Boscombe and Bournemouth piers
Hotrod Engine
Exposed Hotrod engine
Strelitzia Reginae is an exotic, tender, evergreen perennial. It forms a clump of broadly oblong, grey-green leaves on long stalks and in winter and spring, produces unusual orange and blue flowers that resemble a birds head. Hence it is also known as Bird of paradise, Bird of paradise flower , Crane flower.
Garden Cross Spider
One of the most common spiders with what looks like a cross on their abdomen
Marlow Bridge
Marlow Bridge from All Saints Church Graveyard
Sutton Harbour Plymouth. It was from here that the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for the new world. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
Mudeford Quay
Mudeford Quay as viewed across Christcurch Harbour from Hengistbury Head. This is the mouth of the river Stour which was joined by the river Avon a short way before.
HMS St Albans, the sixteenth and last of the Royal Navy's Type 23 frigates to be built, was launched on 6 May 2000. Constructed by BAE Systems at Scotstoun. She is affectionately known as The Saint.
Sutton Harbour in Plymouth. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history t
Tower of London and Tower Bridge
Diver and Dolphin
Diver and Dolphin Fountain Sculpture at St Katherines Dock
Marlow in Buckinghamshire, by the river Thames. Marlow's most famous resident is Sir Steve Redgrave, 5 times Olympic champion. There is an 8 foot high bronze statue of Sir Steve in the gardens near the river.
Sunset from Plymouth Hoe 30th October 2016. Plymouth Hoe is a large south facing open space which over looks Plymouth Sound. Hoe derives from Anglo-Saxon meaning a sloping ridge shaped like an inverted foot and heel. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis
Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on the South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
Weymouth Old Harbour
Plymouth Gin Distillery
Plymouth Gin Distillery is the oldest working distillery in England. It has been making Plymouth Gin according to the original recipe since 1793.
Smeatons Tower was the third of four Eddystone lighthouses originally sited 14 miles West of Plymouth. And was in use from 1759 to 1882. As technology moved on it was too small contain modern machinery so it was dismantled and rebuilt on a new granite base on Plymouth Hoe and opened in September 1884. Plymouth is Englands Ocean City. Situated on Englands South coast on the east bank of the River Tamar and the mouth of the River Plym. It has a history that goes back beyond Elizabethan times as an important sea port. It has been home to many historic people including Sir Francis Drake who allegedly completed a game of bowls after being told that the Spanish Armada was on its way. It is also famous for the Pilgrim Fathers setting sail for the new world on the Mayflower. It has so much history that it would take volumes to describe its past and current day. Other than to say it is still a thriving naval port with old and new alongside each other.
The City of London Skyline
Silver Stream
Silver Stream is a trawler-netter which was built in France in 1966. It has had a couple of names before coming to Plymouth in 1982. It was an average sized boat then, but became the largest in the fleet do to the decline of the British fishing industry caused by EU regulations restricting fishing quotas etc. This is a city that should benefiit greatly as a result of the right sort of Brexit.
Marlow Bridge and All Saints Church
Boscombe Beach Abstract
An abstract created from one of my own images of Boscombe Beach in Dorset using Serif PhotoPlus
London Eye Abstract
An abstract of the London Eye created in Serif PhotoPlus using one of my own images as the base
Gerbera Abstract
An abstract of an Orange and yellow Gerbera created in Serif PhotoPlus
Sunset over Poole Bay
Woodland Path Abstract
Created in Serif PhotoPlus using one of my own images as a base.
St Giles Abstract
Created in Serif PhotoPlus using one of my own images of St Giles in Ickenham, as a base.
Country Parks Collage
A collage of images taken at parks and country parks to the West and North West of Longon, Including Ruislip Lido, Little Britain, Black Park Country Park and Rickmansworth Aquadrome.
Winchester Cathedral Nave ceiling from the Quire.
The view through the entrance of the world famous Eton College near Windsor in Berkshire, England.
Household Cavalry
Three members of the Household Cavalry ride up the Mall
Church of St. Lawrence West Wycombe
R44 Raven Helicopter
Robinson's R44 Raven Series Helicopters provide excellent reliability, responsive handling, and altitude performance, making the R44 the ideal helicopter for private, business, and utility applications. Taken at Denham Airfield west London where this particular craft is registered
Thames Skyline
HMS Belfast, Tower Bridge, Tower of London
Apple Blossom 4
Apple Blossom 4 Taken in my garden in West London
Apple Blossom 3 In my garden
New Forest Pony. The New Forest ponies most endearing quality is their inbred, gentle nature. Their calm temperament naturally recommends them as an excellent choice and an ideal mount for both children and adults. They have long been raced locally and are surprisingly fast, especially over rough terrain. They are suited to many competitive activities from Pony Club to polo, driving to dressage, they are naturals at jumping and gymkhana and are successfully trained to carry handicapped riders. All in all, the modern New Forest Pony is an exceptional all-rounder with an endearing character, that has developed as a result of both its unique environment and strong association with the people who have been responsible for the development of the breed.
Best mum in the world
A yellow rose for Mothers Day. Or simply for that special lady in our life anytime of the year.
Hengistbury Huts
Bournemouth Pier in Dorset on Englands South Coast
Polish War Memorial - Poleglym lotnikom Polskim
The Polish War Memorial was erected in Northolt West London to remember the contribution of airmen from Poland who helped the Allied cause during World War II. Many flew from RAF Northolt.
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Indefinite by Nina Lyon
Essay, The Clearing
This month Little Toller publishes Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Savage Gods. For this series on The Clearing Paul invited poets, writers and artists from across the world to respond in their own way to a simple, one-word theme: transformation. The result is a series of explorations, in words and images, of the alchemical cycle of change: breakdown, rebirth and renewal. This is a new essay by the writer Nina Lyon.
I used to run on the mountains that loom up like giant bare knuckles a few miles behind my house. The first steep climb is grim, and in truth I have never been able to run it, but it gets easier on the top, which is largely flat from the top of the Dragon’s Back, the ridge that undulates up from the pass to the northwest. Sometimes, once the worst of the climb is over and you pick up speed, the hulks of the ridge begin to breathe, and all that is left of the valley is a mist that coalesces from the rain, although you are not looking at the valley, but at the mountain, which has become big and alive.
The whole point is to lose yourself, so there is only the mountain. It doesn’t happen often. It is hard to do, and not only because running up a mountain entails overcoming laziness. What passes for wilderness in the British landscape never really is, and the vista as you work your way along the flat top of the northern escarpment is a toy-town, or toy-countryside, of patchwork fields, lanes and villages along the snaking river. To lose yourself, it has to be just you and the mountain, or rather the delusion of it.
There is always someone else on the mountain. There are often many people on the mountain, so many that helicopters hover on the plateau dangling bags of rock to pave it in an attempt to mitigate the channels carved by their footfall. If you want to avoid people, you need a termtime weekday morning and preferably the threat of rain, or dusk. Tourists balk at climbing after sunset, because they think the mountain presents an existential threat, and they demonstrate this belief with high-spec walking trousers with multiple zips and handheld GPS navigation systems. They could just use their phones: the 4G reception is great on the picturesque edges of the mountain, and you could stream documentaries about famous people walking on mountains or video tutorials on how to walk on mountains while on the mountain if you felt the need. You can see the phone masts dotted along the hills beyond the valley. The mountain is barely eight hundred metres high. It was three hundred and fifty, possibly four hundred, where they parked. There is really very little to worry about. You don’t stand much chance of getting lost, and if there is anything left to worry about it should be the near-impossibility of it instead.
Sometimes, just before I go to bed, a couple of Chinooks growl over my house. It is too dark for bags of rocks by then; there are military bases nearby, and I think they drop soldiers up there on exercise, a simulation of getting lost, and then I wonder if the soldiers are ever able to suspend disbelief enough to feel that they are lost, or if the point is for the soldiers to get lost to some external observer instead, hiding in the scarce quiet corners of the land for as long as they can get away with it.
I have become lazy about running on the mountain. I tell myself that it is too small, and too familiar. It isn’t a credible argument against running, and it isn’t always true. A friend of mine went up there last winter when the place was reshaped by snowdrifts and impassable, and he got stranded, and lost. I once went up there with the children because there was snow when we drove into town, the first of the winter in late November, and we thought it might be fun to have a look. My daughter delighted in her bootprints in the virgin snow which soon thickened to twice her height. I caught sight of her, a little black speck on the ridge where gusts of wind whipped off the tops of snowdrifts, and then it whipped away at her, and she faltered. I did not understood quite how close she came to being taken off the mountain by the wind until we got back home. We only went there for the novelty of it, and it ended up being more of an adventure than we bargained for.
Chasing novelty is about running away from fixed, familiar, predictable things as much as any zeal for something new. The mountain often seems familiar now, and when things feel familiar they begin to lose the magic of the undiscovered qualities they might contain. We begin to have a sense of their solidity, of knowing them in full, of being able to describe them to ourselves in some definite way. Unconquerable things retain their indefinite status, but there is little unconquerable about a paved mountain-top. Instead, you have to engage in the elaborate deception of approaching the mountain from the one ascent inclined towards it – unromantically named Y Grib, The Ridge – and avoid looking out across the picture-book valley, and run, even though it is too steep, and, blinkered by intentional exhaustion, try to see the shifting shapes ahead as something bigger.
The Dragon’s Back didn’t always have its own car park. Not too long ago, the trunk road that skims its tail was merely a track, impassable in winter. When our sense of scale was framed in how far human legs could take us in a day, it would all have felt quite different – perhaps even like a hulking beast at rest, dozing through the centuries until it was time to move on to other places. We have shrunk our mountains into toys, and only a ferocious winter can breathe them back into being.
The historian of religion F. Max Müller, writing on the Vedas, held that some objects that could not be fully appraised due to their scale – mountains, rivers, vast trees in a forest – carried a particular religious significance.
Most objects can be seen whole, grasped in full by the mind as a pebble can be held in the hand. These, Müller said, were ‘before us in their completeness. They cannot evade our grasp. There is nothing in them unknown or unknowable.’ Mountains, rivers and trees were different: their size made them, in his taxonomy, semi-tangible, demi-gods to the still vaster gods of sea, fire and sky. If you can only see a part of something and the rest of it resists your view, it takes on an indefinite quality, for you will never know it entirely.
If we stand at the foot of a mountain and look up to where its head vanishes in the clouds we feel like dwarfs before a giant. Nay, there are mountains utterly impassable, which to those who live in the valley, mark the end of their little world. The dawn, the sun, the moon, the stars, seem to rise from the mountains, the sky seems to rest on them, and when our eyes have climbed up to their highest visible peaks, we feel on the very threshold of a world beyond.
And let us think, not of our own flat and densely peopled Europe, not even of the Alps, in all their snow-clad majesty, but of that country, where the Vedic hymns were first uttered… and we shall then begin to understand, how the view of such a temple might make even a stout heart shiver, before the real presence of the infinite.
Müller was writing in the late nineteenth century when the industrial domestication of the European landscape was at full pace, and I don’t think he’d be much surprised by the leisure-park status of our small, tame mountains today. But he also had a deep attachment to the poetry of an ancient vision of animate, godly entities in the natural world, and found a metaphysical significance to it. The indefinite was the threshold to the infinite, which defied the grasp of human minds, and was where the inexpressible totality of God could be found. Things we could not quite get our heads around were signposts to this domain.
Even a tree, at least one of the old giants in a primeval forest, has something overwhelming and overawing. Its deepest roots are beyond our reach, its head towers high above us. We may stand beneath it, touch it, look up to it, but our senses cannot take it in in one glance. Besides, as we say ourselves, there is life in the tree, while the beam is dead. The ancient people felt the same, and how should they express it, except by saying that the tree lives? By saying this, they did not go so far as to ascribe to the tree a warm breath or a beating heart, but they certainly admitted in the tree that was springing up before their eyes, that was growing, putting forth branches, leaves, blossoms, and fruit, shedding its foliage in winter, and that at last was cut down or killed, something that went beyond the limits of their sensuous knowledge, something unknown and strange, yet undeniably real; – and this unknown and unknowable, yet undeniable something, became to the more thoughtful among them a constant sense of wonderment. They could lay hold of it on one side by their senses, but on the other it escaped from them – ‘it fell from them, it vanished.’
It is hard to articulate the indefinite in words, for words capture things and put them into boxes; Müller held that the early written language of the Vedas did a better job of maintaining the indefinite aliveness of the world by virtue of its imprecision, so that each word had a broad-brush metaphorical meaning. As language developed, it focused more tightly onto things and trapped them, sterilising them. One word meant one object, and we knew what it meant and what the object was, and there was no movement, no remaining strangeness. Müller had to go back to the Vedas to find a poetic strategy for expressing the aliveness of trees.
I sometimes think of Müller when I see photographs that imply the indefinite within a landscape, intimating a vastness that we are forced to extrapolate outside the frame towards infinity. I have friends who are good photographers, but I have never worked out how they do it, and any attempt to capture one of those rare moments where the mountain has grown back into its vastness shrinks into my four-inch iPhone screen. There is something miraculous about representing the ineffable, saying the unsayable, and it is out of my reach. And yet sometimes it happens by accident, or as a matter of scale.
My daughter took messy, captivating pictures on the same phone as a toddler, so close-up that everything became strange again: the glowing purple halo of a flower, or the blurred orthogonal corners of a table, or tips of the toes of one foot nudging the frame as pale parabolae against a stone floor.
Small children know that you can find all sorts of detail in things if you get close enough to them. They know it as they endlessly inspect leaves and sticks. They find it because they are not in a hurry to do anything else; they have the time and inclination to stay looking.
This is the bit that Müller was wrong about: if we do not find some ghost, at least, of the indefinite in the shell or berry in our hand, we are not looking hard enough. A sea-shell might no longer be in that dynamic state, but it contains the history of a life marked out in coloured bands of growth; the berry, if you look, is streaked with veins, and its seeds are set out geometrically inside, waiting for action, when you hold it to the light. All things that are alive are indefinite, for the perpetual becoming of growth and transformation resists fixity, and they don’t need to be vast for you to glimpse it.
A few miles down the Wye from where it snakes away beneath the Dragon’s Back, there is a stretch of pebble beach. The beach, at the edge of town, is a peaceful, pretty spot, popular because the river pools on either side of a small rocky weir, which makes it safe for swimming. It is only in the winter floods that it becomes the sort of strong brown god worthy of mythologising, casting debris high into trees along the bank as though to remind us that it still can. Most of the time, it is tame. Like the tame toy mountain, you can try to find it on a quiet day, and immerse yourself as best you can, swimming with the ducks and trying not to arouse the suspicions of bellicose swans, and hope that the exertion might help you get subsumed by it. It isn’t much of an adventure, though. It is too nice.
‘When we speak of a river,’ Müller said, ‘there is nothing in reality corresponding to such a name. We see indeed the mass of water which daily passes our dwelling, but we never see the whole river, we never see the same river. The river, however familiar it may seem to us, escapes the ken of our five senses, both at its unknown source and at its unknown end.’ I try to not-see the river in this way; I really do. I am very attached to the Müller-vision of things in general, but it falls from us; it vanishes.
I have paddled much of the river; I have driven past the point where it rises on the far side of Mid Wales, and straddled its muddy mouth at Chepstow on a train; my son can map its course from memory. I have sometimes spent enough time in a kayak for the villages and bridges that mark out points along the way to blur into the river along with my burning palms, but aside from that it is hard to escape the sense of human ownership, not least because the people who own houses by it, and believe they own the river, sometimes tell you so, shouting and waving their fists in punctuation. It is a river shaped by people, and the ideas that people generate.
On the bank, there are pebbles flecked with the imprints of ancient fossils, tiny shells whose age stretches the conceivability of time to something far from definite. Sometimes, they are cracked and you can see inside where the green-grey cedes to a darker, purple rock of a slightly different texture. Each of the pebbles is like this, if you get stranded there for long enough by children who are too busy examining pebbles to keep track of time. Perhaps the indefinite is best sought in pebbles. All it takes to transform small things into big things is the act of looking closely, and you can do that close to home, and find your infinities there.
I had given up on semi-tangible objects and demigods and moments of stage-managed rapture. It felt dishonest, demanding the pretence of an ancient naivety we had all long abandoned. In our domesticated world, we might as well make peace with domesticity. We planted some peas a few weeks ago and every day we go out to inspect them. One of the plants is a triffid of a thing already, and has already outgrown the sticks to which its tentacles are coiled in tight fists, and the leaves that once emerged from the seed tray in a furled little spike are the bigger than my hands. This, I decided, would have to do: peas and pebbles, wild strawberries and sea-shells. Think small.
Last night, it was my son’s eleventh birthday, and his friends stampeded on his father’s lawn beneath the other side of the mountains in endless games of football. The rain came in waves across the valley, and when it slowed wisps of saturated wetness rose out of the woods, and they kept on playing, soaked through and streaked with mud.
After supper, the last guests made their way outside. I muttered maternal admonishments about the need to get to bed in time for school and carried book-bags to the car. The rain had stopped, in the way it always seems to just before the sun goes down. The sun was edging onto the ridge across the valley. The wisps of mist that rose up from the dingle grew and grew, and lifted into a haze that swept up the hill towards us. The mist paused for a while, shrouding the field beneath the house, and then it lifted again, a tendril of it trailing around an oak tree as though held there. The tree was there, and not there; the mist licked away toward the valley’s sides, and hung itself there instead, working up towards the mountain. The sun was part-eaten by the dark ridge on the other side and no longer a circle, and the rest of its light bathed the tree in orange light and, I now saw, the children and their father and the last guests. They stood in a silent broken line along the track, watching it.
Nina Lyon is a writer with an interest in philosophy and the natural world. She is the author of Mushroom Season (Vintage, 2014) and Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man (Faber, 2016), which was recipient of the Roger Deakin Award. She lives in Wales with her two children.
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According to an article in The Moscow Times an impact on their recent success has been faithfulness to the Kremlin. “The father, Aram Gabrelyanov, states to President Vladimir Putin as the “father of the nation”. One of Putin’s oldest friends spent $80 million to become a key shareholder in the Gabrelyanovs’ holding company, News Media, providing it with a flood of cash for investment. In September 2014 Ukraine’s National Council of Television disqualified 15 Kremlin-run channels, including Life News, for what they appealed was war propaganda. In 2015 News Media cut around 15 to 17 percent of the employees of Lifenews. Life has been closed down on August 18, 2017. Formerly it has been issued that the TV channel is about to reduce staff. Life News is famous for a submissive attitude toward the Kremlin and a closeness to the Russian security services. While broadcasting news about events during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, Life News was mocked for falsely claiming to have found the business card of Dmytro Yarosh at the site of a battle in the Donbass. Ukrainians quickly formed an internet meme called the Yarosh business card and called the reporting “propaganda inferior than that of Nazi Germany” When the number on the card was called, it grasped an unaffiliated elderly woman, casting further doubts on the claims of Life News. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January 2015, it declared a piece from one of its regular contributors and ‘expert political analysts’ that said the terrorist attack had been carried out by the US against France in order to further an anti-Russian agenda.
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Maine DHHS Wins $5.3M Federal Award to Help Mothers and Babies Affected by the Opioid Crisis
AUGUSTA – Maine will receive $5.3 million in federal funds as one of 10 states selected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in the Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) model, which aims to improve care for pregnant and postpartum women with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and their infants.
Under the model, Maine will take steps to create a statewide system of evidence-based and comprehensive care for women with substance use disorders through MaineCare, the state's Medicaid health coverage program for low-income residents. The goal is to increase access to high-quality treatment and reduce costs while better coordinating and integrating care.
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) Office of MaineCare Services will collaborate with six care delivery partners to pursue this model statewide: MaineGeneral Medical Center, MaineHealth, Mid Coast-Parkview Hospital, Northern Light Health, Penobscot Community Health Care, and Pines Health Services.
The grant period is for five years, and DHHS anticipates expanding to additional sites over that time.
"This award will bolster our aggressive response to the opioid crisis under the leadership of Governor Mills," said Maine DHHS Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew. "Ensuring the health and wellbeing of mothers, children and families affected by opioid use disorder is key to our success. Under this model we can target compassionate, effective support from before birth all the way through infants' crucial first year of life. We're proud to work with our care partners throughout the state on this initiative."
"This represents another important part of our strategy in the Mills Administration's coordinated work to combat the opioid crisis," said Maine Opioid Response Director Gordon Smith. "Focusing additional attention and resources toward mothers and children affected by opioid use disorder will benefit our response and the state as a whole."
The award addresses a critical need for Maine families, communities, and providers. In state fiscal year 2018, the DHHS Office of Child and Family Services received 904 reports regarding infants born exposed to substances, including opioids, which accounts for about 7 percent of live births in Maine. While this represents an ongoing decrease since 2014 and includes babies born to mothers who are on recommended medication-assisted treatment, infants exposed to opioids before birth are at a higher risk of being born early and with lower birth weights.
Critical components of the MOM model include creating a "no wrong door" system to screening, welcoming and engaging women in care; supporting the treatment and recovery of mothers with group-based medication-assisted treatment; increasing the capacity of integrated care teams to deliver evidence-based care, including through telehealth; coordinating delivery, hospital, and post-partum care for mothers and infants; enhancing home visiting and community supports; and conducting a public outreach campaign.
By the third year of this initiative, DHHS plans to have established a sustainable way to fund through MaineCare the services necessary to support this care model moving forward.
During the first year of the Mills Administration, Maine DHHS has taken action to improve the health of children and families in Maine, including launching a statewide public education campaign called Safe Sleep for ME, extending the eligibility for Public Health Nursing home visits to all newborns, promoting access to a coordinated system of perinatal care, and hiring a Chief Child Health Officer to ensure kids get the full range of health and human services.
Governor Mills' first executive order expanded MaineCare, which as of October 31, provided nearly 4,800 members with treatment for opioid use disorder. The Governor's second executive order directed a wide range of actions to stem the opioid crisis, including: eliminating Medicaid limits on medication-assisted treatment; distributing 12,000 doses of naloxone, training 200 additional recovery coaches, and expanding treatment in emergency rooms and jails and prisons. DHHS also secured a $2 million SUPPORT Act grant to expand substance use disorder treatment capacity.
More information about the Maternal Opioid Misuse model, including a fact sheet and list of participants, can be found at: innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/maternal-opioid-misuse-model/.
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#70 Grand Bus Will Be Rerouted to Union Station Until the New Grand Bridge Project is Finished
Dianne Williams
Metro officials have announced the #70 Grand MetroBus route will not return to the Grand MetroLink Station for the duration of the new Grand Bridge project. The #70 Grand MetroBus, which has been rerouted to Union Station since May 23, serves more passengers than any other MetroBus route. All MetroLink customers who wish to board the #70 Grand bus must board at the Union Station MetroLink Station until the new Grand Bridge is completed. Due to Grand Boulevard being closed and traffic being detoured around the construction project, MetroBus customers traveling near the Grand Bridge construction project should continue to allow an extra 15 minutes for their bus commutes.
Metro will advise customers of any other future service changes via the media and Rider Alerts on the website at www.metrostlouis.org. For more information, passengers can call Customer Service in Missouri at 314-231-2345 and in Illinois by calling 618-271-2345 from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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Fair Festivities: Dirty Muggs, MC Lyte Perform
By Matthew Hibbard
Happy Fourth of July, St. Louis! Celebrate America’s birthday by heading to Forest Park for Fair Saint Louis. Remember, Metro transit is a great option for those who are looking for a safe and convenient way to get to the festivities.
Fair Saint Louis officially opens at 12 p.m., but you’ll want to get here early (around 7 a.m.) if you want to cheer on racers at the Freedom 4-Miler and Family Fun Run, which weaves through Forest Park. The 133rd Veiled Prophet Parade will follow afterward at 9:45 a.m.
The live music starts at 12:45 p.m. with local artists KBeeta on the Budweiser Stage, followed by Dirty Muggs at 2:15 p.m. American rapper MC Lyte rounds out the afternoon at 3:45 p.m.
American soul and R&B artist Tony! Toni! Toné starts the evening performances off at 5:15 p.m. Morris Day and The Time follow after at 7 p.m., with Kool & The Gang ending this year’s fair at 8:45 p.m. The three-day event concludes with the Enterprise Rent-A-Car/Edward Jones fireworks display at 10 p.m.
Metro will be operating additional MetroLink trains for Fair Saint Louis. Trains will be crowded, especially after the fireworks this evening, so please be patient and respectful of others. To make your transit experience as smooth as possible and reduce waiting times as you leave the fair, we’re recommending passengers use two designated MetroLink Stations when heading home:
Passengers returning to Illinois stations as well as all Missouri Blue Line passengers should use the Skinker MetroLink Station when leaving the fair.
Missouri Red Line passengers should use the Forest Park-DeBaliviere MetroLink Station when leaving the fair.
Leaving the Fair from the Forest Park-DeBaliviere MetroLink Station
If you plan on leaving the fair using the Forest Park-DeBaliviere MetroLink Station, you will need to line up on DeBaliviere Avenue, just south of the station, north of the Missouri History Museum. The southbound lanes of DeBaliviere Avenue will be closed to vehicle traffic and divided into three paths for passengers and pedestrians.
Passengers traveling westbound on MetroLink, toward Lambert Airport or Shrewsbury, will need to use the left walkway to access the westbound platform of the Forest Park-DeBaliviere Station. Passengers traveling eastbound on MetroLink toward Illinois will need to use the right walkway to access the station’s eastbound platform. The center walkway will allow pedestrians to cross over the MetroLink tracks and connect with Pershing Avenue and the bus stop on Pershing served by the #1 Gold and #90 Hampton MetroBus routes.
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Leopold Order
Type I (1906-1910)
Leopold Order, Type I, Silver Medal
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Obv: LEOPOLD IV FÜRST ZU LIPPE Rev: FÜR VERDIENST
The Order was founded by Prince Leopold IV in 1906, and was conferred upon individuals, regardless of rank or nationality, who rendered meritorious service to the Sovereign and State. Originally the Order featured a single class, which could be conferred with or without a crown.
In 1908, the I Class Cross (with crown) was modified to feature a stick pin fastening device. At this point, the Order was extended to feature a Silver and Bronze Merit Medal.
In 1910, the Order was extended to include a Grand Honour Cross, a Silver Merit Collar and a Golden Merit Medal. The Grand Honour Cross was conferred upon the princes of the House of Lippe, as well as members of other ruling Houses.
The Grand Honour Cross served as I Class, the Cross (with crown) as II Class and the Cross (without a crown) as III Class.
In 1916, the Order’s purpose was extended so that the decorations could serve as a reminder of the ascension of the Lippe-Biesterfeld line to the head of the House of Lippe.
The Order became obsolete in 1918.
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Leon Shulman Gaspard (1882-1964) Biography
Leon Shulman Gaspard (1882-1964)
Leon Gaspard, Taos Home, Oil on Board, Circa 1919, 8.75" x 13.5"
Leon Gaspard was an interesting addition to the New Mexico arts scene when he arrived there in 1918. A Russian-born, French-trained veteran of the airborne campaigns of the Great War, he arrived physically diminished from a horrific plane crash that had put him in a French hospital for two years. Seeking a more hospitable climate, he arrived in Taos to find a vibrant arts community and an exotic blend of native, western and Hispanic cultures.
Leon Gaspard, Chimney Sweep, Oil on linen, 9" x 6.25"
Having traveled widely throughout Russia, China, Mongolia, Tibet, Morocco and Northern Africa as a fur trader, successful painter, army pilot and international spy, Gaspard had a love of foreign cultures and a desire to document them artistically. Taos allowed him just such an opportunity, and he set out to paint the Taos Indians in much the same way he had painted the natives of North Africa and Asia while in Paris.
Leon Gaspard, Oil on Canvas
A pariah of sorts when he first arrived, Gaspard was saved socially when Herbert "Buck" Dunton took a liking to him and began to bring him around to meet the artists of Taos. A kindly and gregarious man, Gaspard eventually became quite well-liked, in part because of his propensity to sing romantic songs from various cultures and tell stories of his life and travels.
Leon Gaspard, Taos, Mother and Child, Sketch Book, Color Crayon and Pencil on Paper, 8" x 6"
Leon Gaspard, Graphite and Pastel on Paper, 5" x 3"
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Infectious Disease > General Infectious Disease
Microcephaly-Zika Link Is International Emergency: WHO
Concerted effort needed to 'get to the bottom this,' Chan says
by Michael Smith Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today February 01, 2016
The cluster of microcephaly cases in Brazil -- possibly linked to a spreading virus -- is an international public health emergency, the World Health Organization said.
An 18-member expert panel agreed on the need for an urgent international effort to understand the relationship between Zika virus and "congenital malformations and neurological complications," WHO director general Margaret Chan, MD, said in Geneva.
The link between the virus and the complications -- microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome -- is "strongly suspected but not yet scientifically proven," Chan told reporters in a telephone briefing.
Coordinated international efforts are urgently needed to "get to the bottom of this" and in the meantime to take precautionary measures aimed at reducing risk to people in some 25 countries and territories in South and Central America, Chan said.
Those precautionary measures, she said, include controlling the Zika virus vector, the mosquito Aedes aegypti, and helping people in affected areas to take personal precautions against mosquito bites.
There is no “public health justification” for travel or trade restrictions, Chan said. The CDC has urged pregnant women or those who might become pregnant to either curtail travel to the affected region or to take anti-mosquito precautions while there.
Zika virus alone would not meet the agency’s criteria for a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), said the expert panel’s chairman, David Heymann, MD, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in England.
Zika is “not a clinically serious infection,” he told reporters.
“It’s only because of this association, if it’s proven, that Zika could be considered as a public health emergency of international concern,” he said.
The emergency, Heymann said, “has to do with proving that these clusters are or are not linked to the Zika virus.”
Aside from declaring understanding the microcephaly-Zika link to be a PHEIC, the committee made two main recommendations, he said:
Surveillance for microcephaly and other neurological disorders needs to be standardized, especially where Zika is circulating.
And research into new clusters needs to be intensified.
An increased rate of microcephaly has been reported in Brazil, with some 4,000 suspected cases, although only 270 of those have been confirmed as having both microcephaly and a congenital infection. That cluster follows a spike in cases in French Polynesia in 2014, and in both regions, the increases were associated in time and space with a Zika virus outbreak, Heymann said.
Some studies of the possible links are already underway and others will begin within two weeks, Chan said.
But pinning down the association with microcephaly is likely to be challenging, Heymann said. “Microcephaly is a rare event,” he said, and investigators will need to find enough babies with and without the condition to conduct a case-control study.
As well, Zika infection is difficult in itself to diagnose, especially in retrospect, he said.
Clusters of microcephaly have only been seen in Brazil and French Polynesia so far, commented Bruce Aylward, MD,the agency’s assistant director-general for outbreak and health emergencies.
An uptick in Guillain-Barré syndrome has been seen in those places as well as El Salvador, he said.
Because current Zika outbreaks are taking place at the same time and in the same places as the clusters, Chan said, the international community needs to coordinate surveillance and detection of infection, as well as detection of both microcephaly and Guillain-Barré.
And a concerted effort is needed to control mosquitoes and to develop both vaccines and diagnostic tests for Zika and vaccines, Chan said.
Even if the association is ultimately disproved, Chan noted, many of the measures -- such as mosquito control -- have their own public health value.
Aylward said the WHO’s new incident management system, erected in the wake of the Ebola epidemic, has been used to respond to the Zika issue. As well, money from a new contingency fund for epidemics is being used to step up the response.
The WHO is not concerned that the declaration of the emergency will eventually be seen as a “false alarm” if Zika is declared innocent of causing birth defects and neurological disease, Aylward said.
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NESPCA to officially open Harry and Eve Vickar Shelter
Published on: September 13, 2019 | Last Updated: September 16, 2019 4:53 PM EDT
The Harry and Eve Vickar Shelter.
The grand opening and gala for the Harry and Eve Vickar Shelter for the North East SPCA is just around the corner. The official ribbon cutting will be followed by a gala but the fundraising for the SPCA will continue.
The Harry and Eve Vickar Centre is located on Hamilton Avenue will have its official ribbon cutting at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, September 27 which will be followed by a Grand Opening Gala.
“We are in full swing for planning for it. We have donations coming in from many great businesses and individuals in the northeast,” Pat Rumberger of the NESPCA said.
“It is difficult to reach out to all of them so we ask that if anyone would like to make a donation to please call the North East SPCA at 752-7722. They can also call that number if they are interested in tickets,” she said.
The Gala at the Kerry Vickar Centre begins at 6 p.m. with a reception and cocktails followed by a meal catered by Page Seven at 7 p.m. the official program and entertainment start at 8 p.m.
“We will have raffles, silent auction and live auction because it is an important fundraiser for us as well,” Rumberger said.
“There are no government grants or support for SPCAs so we rely upon donations and fundraisers to raise money to manage the shelter and help save the animals in the northeast,” Rumberger said.
The process to get the shelter built has been a long one and the fundraising will continue according to Rumberger.
“Many long hours have been volunteered by lots of people to get this going. The fundraising will be continuous it never quits. We need fundraisers happening in all of the northeast as it is there for all small animals in the northeast. It covers a wide area,”
Tickets are $50 per person or a table of eight for $375. All ages are welcome at the event. There is also a $20 tax receipt with each ticket.
“If a business would like to purchase a table of eight then it is $375. So there is a $25 savings there for business. Or if one individual is buying all eight tickets for a family or whatever it could be that way too,” she explained.
The event is sponsored by the W Law Group in Melfort.
Tickets are available at George Home Hardware and Northern Lights Gallery in Melfort and Lockwood & Wellington Financial Services (Sunlife Financial) in Nipawin. You can also contact the SPCA at 306-752-7722 for tickets.
“We encourage people to come out and support us that night. It is going to be a nice evening with lots of people who have helped us will be there so it will give us an opportunity to publicly thank them,” Rumberger said.
The following Saturday, October 5 the Shelter will be hosting a barbecue and offering guided tours of the facility beginning at 11 a.m.
“So that gives everybody an opportunity to see the shelter and see where the funds that have been raised are going,” she explained/
The barbecue will be from 11 to 1 p.m. with tours continuing after the barbecue is completed.
The NESPCA is also hosting their annual Fall into Winter Trade Show November 9 at the Kerry Vickar Centre. The fundraising for the SPCA will be ongoing and throughout the northeast.
“We would really encourage people in other communities to contact us in regards to helping to fundraise within their communities. We are more than willing to lend them a helping hand as much as we can if they would like to do a fundraiser,”
There will also be a volunteer information night upcoming in Tisdale after previous ones have been hosted in Nipawin and Melfort.
If you are interested in volunteering just go to the NESPCA volunteer Facebook page and find information.
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Major News and Events of 21 December 2012
What Happened on 21 December 2012
21 December 2012 Current Events BJP paid Gujarat Muslims not to vote
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's third consecutive win in the state assembly elections spurred Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh to state that the BJP was paying Rs.500 to each Muslim in the state to stop them from voting. He said the strategy which the BJP follow is they influence the
Muslim-majority constituencies and ensure a lower voter turnout by distributing cash among the Muslim population and confiscated their voter ID cards.He said in the Muslim-dominated areas, the turnout is never more than 25-30 percent. BJP swept 12 of the 19 constituencies in Gujarat where Muslims are in majority.
Raisina Hill transforms into a battle zone as India demands justice
The government on Saturday had to face the brunt of youth power as young men and women surrounded Raisina Hill, the seat of power, asking for justice for a 23-year-old gang rape victim, which led the police to use canes, tear gas and water cannons on the crowd of thousands.The aggressive youth and the mass outpouring since early morning, prompted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ask Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to see to it that people feel safe in Delhi and incidents like this are not repeated. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi also discussed with the prime minister and home minister and asked them to take suitable action instantly to protect women in the city that is often described as the "rape capital". Delhi has recorded over 600 incidents of rape this year. Shinde stated that the government will form a commission to investigate the incident that has shocked the nation.
Chidambaram asks the bankers to get ready for the Direct Cash Transfer system
Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the proposed Direct Cash Transfer scheme to be a ‘pure magic' which will imply bigger responsibility on banks for its implementation. He told the bankers to work in coordination with the government to make the scheme a success. Through this money credited will be instantly transferred to beneficiary’s account thus doing away pilferage and plugging the loophole for corruption. The scheme will be launched on January 1 in some districts with some schemes and by the end of the year, it will cover all the districts and schemes. Bankers were asked to get into the mode for effective initiation of the scheme.
No state funeral for Claudius
Hockey legend Leslie Claudius will rest in peace beside his son Robert at a South Kolkata cemetery on Sunday, without any state funeral.Claudius - a member of three Olympic gold and a silver medal-winning teams died on Thursday. His body was kept in a city mortuary Peace Heaven on Friday, as his two sons from Australia, Bojo and Richard were to come for the last rites. West Bengal Sports Minister Madan Mitra specified that the arrangements were being made by the state but Claudius' family was against elaborate affair. Bengal Hockey Association president and Olympian Gurbux Singh stated Claudius should be given a state funeral but all was not in their hands and the decision lay with the government. Claudius' body from the mortuary would be taken first to the Calcutta Customs Club and then the Veterans Club.He was an employee and a player of Customs as well as the president of the Veterans Club.
Telecom department warning to Vodafone, Idea, Tata for cancelling licences for 3G roaming
Vodafone, Idea, Tata Telecommunications and Aircel have been served show cause notices by the Department of Telecom (DoT), directing them to stop offering third-generation (3G) mobile data services through roaming pacts beyond their licensed zones as they are 'illegal'. The companies have got 60 days to respond why their licenses should not be cancelled or a penalty imposed on them. The penalty is that of Rs. 50 crore per circle in case they fail to comply to DoT's directives.
'Barfi' fails to qualify for the Oscar
Director Anurag Basu's "Barfi!" did not qualify for the best foreign language film category for the 85th Academy Awards, as per the latest Oscar shortlist. The film had Ranbir Kapoor portraying the role of a deaf and mute boy and Priyanka Chopra an autistic girl. The movie had got much appreciation and enjoyed box office success. Out of the 71 films which qualified for the Oscars from around the world, nine were shortlisted those will go to the final five nominations. The nine films are "Amour" (Austria), "War Witch", (Canada), "No" (Chile), "A Royal Affair" (Denmark), "The Intouchables" (France), "The Deep" (Iceland), "Kon-Tiki" ("Norway), "Beyond the Hills" (Romania) and "Sister" (Switzerland). On Jan 10 the final list will be declared.
BJP paid Gujarat Muslims not to vote
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's third consecutive win in the state assembly elections spurred Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh to state that the BJP was paying Rs.500 to each Muslim in the state to stop them from voting. He said the strategy which the BJP follow is they influence the Muslim-majority constituencies and ensure a lower voter turnout by distributing cash among the Muslim population and confiscated their voter ID cards.He said in the Muslim-dominated areas, the turnout is never more than 25-30 percent. BJP swept 12 of the 19 constituencies in Gujarat where Muslims are in majority.
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US Stocks Slip On Euro-Zone Worries;Materials, Energy Lead Drop
By Donna Kardos
Published: Nov 26, 2010 10:41 a.m. ET
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks fell Friday as worries over the euro zone's finances overshadowed positive signs on U.S. Black Friday sales.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 73 points, or 0.7%, to 11113, in recent trading. Alcoa was the measure's worst performer with a 1.5% drop, and DuPont was also weak, off 1.2%. Friday's early drop puts the Dow off about 0.7% for the week, following the negative trend seen in recent years for Thanksgiving week.
The Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.2% to 2539. The Standard & Poor's 500 index declined 0.5% to 1193. The materials and energy sectors posted the biggest declines as related commodities fell in a move away from risky assets.
The declines came as investors homed in on Spain as another weak spot in the euro zone. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero moved to dispel the growing anxiety, saying there was "absolutely" no chance the euro zone's fourth-largest economy would seek a bailout from the European Union. But his attempt to calm the markets had little effect: The euro tumbled and the selloff in Spanish and Portuguese sovereign bonds continued. The euro traded at $1.3251 recently.
"Besides being one of the larger economies over there, it's a renewal of contagion worries and...it just puts further stress on the EU," said Bernie Williams, vice president of private investment management at USAA Investment Management.
European leaders sparred over whether to commit more funds to rescue struggling euro-zone countries, as financial-market pressure on the region's weakest economies intensified. The European Union's executive arm, the Brussels-based EU Commission, floated a proposal on Wednesday to double the size of Europe's EUR440 billion ($588 billion) bailout fund for euro-zone governments, but the idea was dismissed by Germany, according to people familiar with the situation.
The uncertainty of the euro-zone debt situation prompted investors to pull out of riskier assets, sending crude-oil futures lower. Metals futures also fell, prompting gold to slip to $1,355 an ounce.
Investors sought safety in the dollar and U.S. Treasurys. The U.S. Dollar Index, tracking the U.S. currency against six others, climbed 0.6%. Gains in Treasurys pushed the yield on the 10-year note down to 2.87%.
The euro-zone worries overshadowed strong early signs on Black Friday sales in the U.S. Lines wrapped around stores and parking lots across the nation as shoppers sought early-morning deals, especially on consumer electronics and toys. About 138 million Americans are expected to go shopping this weekend.
Some $447 billion will be spent during the holiday season, up 2.3% from last year, the National Retail Federation predicts, with Black Friday weekend seeing about $41.2 billion in business. An NRF survey also found that up to 138 million people plan to shop this weekend, higher than the 134 million people who planned to do so last year.
"The consumer, for all the unemployment worries, the ones that have jobs have held in there," Williams said.
Still, retail shares were mixed. Wal-Mart Stores fell 0.4% and TJX Cos. shed 0.4%, but GameStop jumped 1.5%, Big Lots climbed 1.3%, and Best Buy added 0.7%. Amazon.com was flat.
Among other stocks in focus, Del Monte Foods rose 4.3% after the maker of pet foods and canned vegetables announced it agreed to a takeover by an investor group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in what would be one of the year's largest private-equity buyouts.
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https://www.middletownpress.com/middletown/article/Tribes-Bridgeport-near-casino-deal-that-could-13908480.php
Tribes, Bridgeport near casino deal that could replace MGM plan
By Emilie Munson
Updated 7:59 am EDT, Friday, May 31, 2019
Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim delivers his annual State of the City speech at the University of Bridgeport on April 2.
Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
HARTFORD — The city of Bridgeport and Connecticut’s two Native American tribes are close to a deal that would deliver a casino resort worth at least $350 million, a development that could unseat MGM Resorts International’s larger plan for Bridgeport harbor.
Mayor Joe Ganim, legislators and the tribes held several meetings Thursday to negotiate a deal. Those conversations are ongoing, but a preliminary proposal drafted by the city, and conversations with people involved in the talks, point to a midsize casino and large hotel resort.
The plan would need approval from the state House and Senate and governor to move forward — which could happen early next week. No location is named in a draft of the legislation, but the parties are discussing several sites, sources said.
This latest foray marks a new milestone in Bridgeport’s decades-long effort to host a casino, a history that included a developer in the early 1990s by the name of Donald J. Trump. Although the tribes’ plan would be much smaller than the $675 million MGM proposal on the harbor, it appears more likely to win approval in the General Assembly — where the tribes’ supporters have fought MGM vociferously for years.
“We’re trying to find a happy medium that is good for the state, good for the tribal nations and good for the city of Bridgeport,” said Rep. Chris Rosario, D-Bridgeport, who has participated in the negotiations. “The idea of the city of Bridgeport settling for a slot box, or some parlor, that’s out.”
A casino deal between Bridgeport and the tribes represents a shift for the city’s legislative delegation, who for years have maintained that they support an open, competitive bidding process to bring a new casino to the state’s largest city.
MGM has said all along it only wants the right to compete for a license. But that plan has been blocked for the last several years by supporters of the tribes. The agreement with the tribes, by contrast, would grant the license without competition. That would preserve the state’s compact with the tribes, under which the state receives 25 percent of slot machine revenue, or about $240 million this year.
It’s unclear what payments the tribes would make to the state under the new deal. MMCT, a joint venture of the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes, which own Foxwoods Resort and Mohegan Sun casinos, respectively, did not issue a comment Thursday night.
MGM, which has a contract to build its casino resort with the master developer of the harbor, including Steel Point, declined to comment Thursday night.
The bill would require the casino resort to be “fully operational” within 42 months of passage by the General Assembly. If that deadline isn’t met, there would be an open-bidding process and 5 percent of gross gaming revenue made by MMCT would be paid annually to Bridgeport.
The tribes would construct a Bridgeport casino with a minimum of 2,000 slot machines, 100 gaming tables, a 500-room hotel, with a spa, restaurants and retail space, according to a working draft of the legislation draft shared with Hearst Connecticut Media.
Rep. Jack Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, said jobs are the “key” to the deal.
“We’re cautiously optimistic that we are going to be moving forward to provide revenue and jobs for the city of Bridgeport,” he said.
Any deal between the city and tribes faces enormous obstacles beyond approval at the state Capitol, where the legislative session ends next Wednesday.
MGM would be likely to file a lawsuit claiming its rights were violated. It is also unclear how large a gambling facility the tribes could finance in Bridgeport. Their revenues from Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun have declined recently and they have investments planned in a joint East Windsor casino venture.
Legislation would need the signature of Gov. Ned Lamont, who has not participated in negotiations over the past week after his own gambling deal fell apart. Instead, Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin, has helped broker the latest Bridgeport negotiations.
“We have not been asked to participate in any negotiations, we have no first hand knowledge of details of any proposal or of any deal,” said Maribel La Luz, communications director for Lamont.
In his own negotiations, Lamont tried to persuade the tribes to drop the East Windsor plan in exchange for a license in Bridgeport. MGM would agree to walk away under that scenario, and sports betting would be shared between the tribes, the Connecticut Lottery Corp. and Sportech, a New Haven-based maker of gaming technology that operates 16 off-track betting locations in Connecticut.
The tribes refused to agree to drop the East Windsor plan and refused to share sports betting activities with the other companies, claiming an exclusive right. It’s unclear how and whether the latest deal would affect sports betting.
The joint venture won approval in 2017 for a midsize casino along Interstate-91 in East Windsor, which was designed to pick off customers driving to the $1 billion MGM Springfield casino 13 miles to the north. That project is not yet under construction.
MGM previously filed a lawsuit against the state over approval of a casino by the tribes in East Windsor, withdrew the lawsuit and has said it will file it again.
Hennessy said the delegation believes a deal can be reached to avoid an MGM lawsuit.
“The key to the resolution is to avoid litigation,” he said.
Hearst Columnist Dan Haar contributed to this story
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‘Beautiful – The Carole King Musical’ is a Fun Ticket to the Past
By Francine Brokaw
Carole King has written some amazing songs and in a sense she has provided the soundtrack for many of our lives. The Broadway musical about her life is a sure-fire way to relive some past memories through her songs as well as learn about her amazing life and career.
Do you remember the first time you heard her iconic album “Tapestry”? I do. I was babysitting and after the baby went to sleep I thumbed through the record collection in the apartment. I had not heard about Carole King before so I put it on the player. From the first song I was hooked. I loved Carole King and have enjoyed her music ever since that night.
King was born Carole Klein and has had an extraordinary career in the music business. She sold her first song when she was a teenager, then went on to become a successful songwriting team with her boyfriend-turned-husband Gerry Goffin. As their story plays out on stage, the audience is privy to their “perfect” life together as a couple and a team. But that “perfect” life wasn’t to last and even though it unraveled, their songs remain and our memories of what we were doing when we heard them continue to bring joy and happiness to an entire generation.
The competition between King/Goffin and the songwriting team of Cynthia Weil/Barry Mann spurred on both couples as they churned out one hit song after another. “So Far Away,” “It Might As Well Rain Until September,” “Take Good Care of My Baby,” “He’s Sure the Boy I Love,” “Up on the Roof,” “Some Kind of Wonderful,” “The Locomotion,” “On Broadway,” “Chains,” “One Fine Day,” “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” “Walking in the Rain,” “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman,” “I Feel the Earth Move,” “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” “You’ve Got a Friend,” “Beautiful,” and many more wonderful songs are part of the musical. The Righteous Brothers, The Monkees, The Drifters, The Shirelles, and Little Eva, recorded many of the songs and are portrayed on stage as the story unfolds.
With great music and wonderful staging, “Beautiful - The Carole King Musical” is well worth seeing either on Broadway or when the touring company comes to your town. And no matter what you think you know about this incredibly talented woman, you’ll learn a lot more. She has talent, stamina, a great sense of humor, and intelligence. And her music has been an inspiration to millions of fans.
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Movie review: ‘Wild Rose’ takes too many convenient shortcuts in telling its musical odyssey
Ed Symkus More Content Now
Jun 17, 2019 at 9:10 AM Jun 17, 2019 at 9:10 AM
The newest entry in the “small, personal British film featuring a complicated character” genre takes place in current-day Glasgow, where single mom Rose-Lynn (Jessie Buckley) has just finished a year-long prison sentence for assisting in drug dealing. She’s on her way home to be with her two young kids and her mum, Marion (Julie Walters), who’s been taking care of them. But Rose-Lynn doesn’t seem to have family concerns on her mind. She’s only thinking about her long-gestating dream of going to Nashville to become a country music star.
But her time away has put a spanner in the works. The country music bar she used to sing at - Glasgow’s Grand Ole Opry - has replaced her with someone else, who brazenly tells her, “Nobody wants to see a convicted criminal up there.” On top of that, she’s been ordered to wear an ankle bracelet that keeps her at home between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. - a situation that can hinder a budding singing career.
And though it seems to be of less importance to her, there is her family to deal with. Marion isn’t very interested in her daughter’s return, and can’t help showing frustration regarding Rose-Lynn’s singlemindedness to be a singer. It’s like a “here we go again” kind of thing. Rose-Lynn’s young son Lyle doesn’t really know what’s going on, and is content to be under grandma’s care, and his big sister Wynona is mostly silent and disapproving around her mom. In Rose-Lynn’s mind, family translates as an inconvenience that isn’t being sympathetic toward her.
But the script, by TV writer Nicole Taylor, tends to just keep moving forward, presenting situations - often repeating them - then tying them up quickly, without developing them enough.
That said, a strong plot turn does begin to develop. Needing a job, because she does still have to pay rent and raise her kids, Rose-Lynn finds a cleaning position in the home of a well-to-do family, working for Susanna (Sophie Okonedo).
Some solace is found there, as she can do the job well, without thinking about it much, usually wearing headphones as she vacuums the floors, grooving on her beloved country music. A nice visual touch is added to the film when Rose-Lynn helps herself to some refreshment from Susanna’s bar, bursts into song, and imagines that a honkytonk full of musicians is with her in the house as she cleans.
Truth be told, some of the best parts of the film are when Jessie Buckley is belting out those tunes. She’s as much a singer as she is an actress, and her vocal work here is quite thrilling. Fortunately, her acting is just as strong, as is that of pretty much everyone (well, except for the kids playing her kids) around her.
But solid acting deserves a better script. Things turn kind of formulaic when Rose-Lynn’s irresponsibility as a mom arises. She stops for a drink on the way home from work, forgets to pick up dinner - as was promised - for her kids, and is lectured - yet again - by Marion. She’s also revealed to be a teller of white lies, oddly telling Susanna that she’d someday like to have kids, when she has two of them waiting at home. That irresponsibility gets more out of control when, with the promise of a chance at singing comes her way, she jumps into rehearsal mode, regularly asking friends to watch the kids while she’s away cultivating those personal dreams again.
It’s Nashville on the mind, all the time, and some breaks do come her way. Then, again reverting to formula, things go wrong, then, miraculously, they get better. Other characters begin revealing that they, too, once had dreams they had to give up. But that doesn’t stop Rose-Lynn, who keeps charging ahead, fueled by impulses rather than any careful thinking or planning.
One of her dreams does come true: She makes it to Nashville, though the circumstances that make that happen occur too easily. What takes place there is thankfully cliché-free, and stands as a nice piece of writing. Unfortunately, the tacked-on “one year later” happy ending comes too quickly and conveniently. It doesn’t ring true.
Ed Symkus writes about movies for More Content Now. He can be reached at esymkus@rcn.com.
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Michigan Tech Receives NCWIT Surging Enrollment Seed Fund to Bring More Women Into Computing
By Mariana Grohowski
Published 9:00 a.m., May 15, 2018
Category: Academics, Campus Life, Outreach
Increasing enrollment for women in computer science with new mentoring program funded by NCWIT.
Michigan Tech receives $10,000 to launch strategic approaches for recruiting and retaining women in computing.
Michigan Technological University is one of four institutions to receive the 2018 National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Surging Enrollment Seed Fund. The fund expands diversity of incoming computing students in the face of increasing enrollment in computing programs.
Michigan Tech’s Department of Computer Science and Admissions Office are developing a program to match admitted women students with current women students. The program’s goal is to increase the percentage of accepted female students that enroll at Michigan Tech.
“Computing disciplines continue to grow in popularity among all student populations,” said NCWIT CEO and Co-founder Lucy Sanders. “Universities and colleges must look for ways to handle heightened demand for these programs without inadvertently leaving underrepresented populations behind.”
In the U.S. in 2016, women earned 57 percent of all bachelor’s degrees; less than one-fifth of those degrees were in computer and information sciences and engineering. Engaging tech-related activities and opportunities can help to reverse this trend by appealing to a variety of students by building on their existing interests.
According to Dr. Linda Ott, professor of computer science at Michigan Tech, “The Computer Science Department has been delighted to see an increase in the number of women enrolling in our undergraduate programs the last few years. There has been disappointment, however, as we’ve watched the number of applications from women rise much faster than our enrollments. We are very excited to have this award to develop this mentoring program. We believe that the mentoring program will develop stronger personal connections, so that more of our applicants will feel comfortable coming to Michigan Tech.”
Allison Carter, director of admissions, agrees. “There’s tremendous potential in engaging prospective female students with a current student within their same academic department while the student is still in high school. Peer-to-peer communication offers valuable opportunities that prospective students are more likely to engage in. Current students are excited about the program and will be involved in all aspects of outreach and engagement.”
Programming will begin in the fall 2018 semester and continue through the first semester of enrollment for new first-year students.
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The NCWIT Surging Enrollment Seed Fund awards NCWIT Academic Alliance members at non-profit, US institutions (excluding US territories) with start-up funds (up to $10,000 per project) to develop and test approaches to increasing diversity of incoming computing students despite the current enrollment surge in computing disciplines. Find out more.
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is a nonprofit community of more than 1,100 universities, companies, nonprofits, and government organizations nationwide working to increase girls’ and women’s meaningful participation in computing. NCWIT equips change leaders with resources for taking action in recruiting, retaining, and advancing women from K–12 and higher education through industry and entrepreneurial careers. Find out more.
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Bench and Bar: What Is Each Entitled To Expect From the Other? (PART I)
Part I: What is the Bar entitled to expect from our Bench?
Author: MURRAY I. WEINER
I have enjoyed this year’s monthly Bar Association lunches. The food has been good, the location is great, and turn out by both the Bench and Bar has been high. I am particularly pleased by the quality of the speakers that have taken time to visit with us over lunch. There is no Bar lunch in June, and I have had time to reflect on some of what was said by our speakers. In particular, I am interested in comments made to us by Judge Hoffman of the Denver District Court, and Judge Ebel of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Their comments relate to the art of judging, why the judicial branch is so different from the other branches of government, and the duty of the Bar to speak out on behalf of the judiciary and judicial independence.
In discussing judicial activism, Judge Hoffman argued that it is the “process” not the “outcome” that is the province of judges and judging, and that judges must never substitute their view of what is “good” or “right” for that of the legislature: the branch of government in charge of policy making. To emphasize his point, Judge Hoffman spoke of attending a judicial conference where he had lunch with a newly appointed trial judge. The new judge told Judge Hoffman that after a few weeks on the bench she felt like she had “finally done some good.” The Judge was displeased by this statement since, in his opinion, such judgments or actions are or should be outside the judicial role or function.
Judge Ebel gave a scholarly talk about the “Separation of Powers,” the topic the American Bar Association suggested for Law Day. In the course of his speech Judge Ebel suggested that the public improperly perceives the judiciary as just another political branch of government. Judge Ebel coupled this observation with a plea to the Bar to speak out and defend the judiciary from attack.
In large part I agree with the comments of both Judge Hoffman and Judge Ebel. I trust our judges to call balls and strikes. However, like Judge Hoffman, I am not particularly comfortable when judges substitute their view of “good” or “right” for the view expressed by the legislature in its statutes, or when a judge decides to do what he or she thinks is “best” regardless of the law or the provisions of the contract between the parties.
A judge, like an umpire in a baseball game, must focus not on winning or losing but on application of the rules or statutes to the game or case. When we say that an umpire or official has “called a good game,” we mean that he or she faithfully applied the rules. We imply nothing about who won or lost. In fact, implicit in this statement is praise to the official for not favoring one side or the other.
The same is true in the law. While a judge who applies that law as written may be criticized for being heartless on the one-hand, or overly generous on the other, in actuality he or she cannot be faulted for doing anything other than applying the policies and political judgments codified by the legislature.
At the same time, I recognize the need now more than ever, to protect our bench from unwarranted and meritless criticism, or worst of all, unthinking attacks. As Judge Ebel explained, because the bench may not speak out in response to its critics, members of the Bar are obligated to defend our judges, protect their independence and explain to the public what makes the judiciary different from the other two branches of government.
The comments of Judges Hoffman and Ebel lead me to ask myself two questions: (1) What is the Bar entitled to expect from our Bench? and (2) What should the Bench expect from our Bar? I attempt to answer the first question in this article. The second will be the subject of my July article.
What is the Bar entitled to expect from our Bench?
What follows is my list in rough order of importance to me of what I believe the Bar can and should expect from our Bench. By undertaking this exercise, I do not intend to imply that anyone on our Bench is not doing the things listed below or not doing them well. I survived writing two articles which suggested making modest changes to how we handle civil matters, and I suspect I can survive writing about (not criticizing) our judiciary. If it is any consolation to my colleagues on the Bench, they should know that my preliminary list of expectations for next month’s article is longer than what is set forth below.
Members of our Bar expect the following from our Bench:
The Court will follow the law. First and foremost, it is the expectation of the Bar that decisions made by the Judges of our Court will be grounded in law. The law will not be bent or swayed to achieve an outcome, but instead will be followed as written or as stated by a higher court. The Bench has a right to expect that lawyers appearing in our Court will not “wing-it,” and the Bar and our clients are entitled to the same expectation from the Bench. “Gut-feel” does not constitute proper advocacy, and decisions made without support in the law are equally unacceptable. Judges who follow the law are predictable, and they allow us to give our clients advice upon which they can rely in deciding how to proceed with their cases.
The Court will show respect to those who appear before it. When lawyers appear in Court, we are doing our job. This is our profession. We are entitled to respect from the Bench until and unless we prove we are not entitled to it. Do not fault us for not agreeing with our opponent’s factual or legal position. We represent clients in an adversarial system. We know that if we take or argue positions that are not well-founded we risk losing the respect to which we believe we are entitled. Lawyers know when they are taking positions which reach beyond where they should go, and the Court is well within its rights to call them on it or take other appropriate action. Clients too are entitled to respect. They have put their faith in the legal system for resolution of their dispute, or been thrust into it. In either case, the matter is about them or their conduct, and they need to feel that they will be fairly heard by the Court and our system.
The Court will decide the case or matter. It is hard to decide cases, issues or questions that come before the Court. Nevertheless, decisions must be made and our clients are entitled to a decision. Moreover, our clients deserve and are entitled to a decision by the Court, not one of the parties – unless the Court makes its decision and directs a party to prepare an order as set forth in the rules. Finally, judges are not mediators or arbiters, and the expectation of the Bar is that judges will not assume these roles in our cases.
The Court will provide the basis or rationale for its rulings. Decisions issued by the Court must be clear to both the lawyers handling the case and their clients. Unless it is self-explanatory, a decision which does not include a basis or rationale is difficult to understand and even more difficult to explain to clients. Our Court is overburdened and under significant time pressures. Regardless, it is necessary and required that the Court provide its rationale or basis for its rulings. Without it there is no way to know if the Court is following the law. Additionally, the Court’s failure to provide a basis or rationale for its rulings serves to further lower the esteem in which the public holds our legal system — a topic touched upon by Judge Ebel in his Law Day address.
The Court will not substitute its views on factual matters for those agreed to by the parties. Last year I was appointed to be a Special Master to implement a complicated settlement agreement between family members fighting over a Colorado Springs business. Among the terms in the parties’ written settlement agreement was that a family member in Florida who did not work in the business would be provided with a car by the company. I thought the provision was stupid. I asked the parties how much they believed it would cost to lease a car for the Florida family member and, in my recommendation to the Court, I substituted this sum for the requirement that the business provide the Florida relative with a car. My other recommendations were adopted by the Court. This one, however, was not. In its Order the Court noted that neither the Court nor the Special Master had the power or authority to rewrite the parties’ settlement agreement (contract), even if my recommendation was less cumbersome and easier to implement than that agreed to by the parties. In short, the parties’ expect unambiguous agreements they enter into to be enforced as written, and the expectation of the Bar is that our Court will not do what I did and rewrite agreements made between the parties.
The Court will enforce the rules. Lawyers expect to follow the rules and for the most part do so. Lawyers are not judges, however, and they cannot make their opponent do what he or she is not doing. Telling the parties to work it out only goes so far. Where difficulties arise between the parties regarding the rules, the expectation is that the dispute will be resolved by the Court.
The Court will be willing to reconsider its decisions or rulings if proven wrong. Before he got elevated to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, the District Judge I clerked for referred to the Court of Appeals as “the Court of second conjecture.” The point is that no one has a corner on being right. This process is too expensive and time consuming for intelligent people (I include lawyers and judges in this category) to refuse to reconsider their decisions when they are provided with a sound legal or factual basis for reconsideration. Of course, the Court has the right to expect that reconsideration motions will be filed only in situations where there is a valid legal or factual basis for reconsideration.
The Court will use its best efforts to make the process less costly. Large segments of our society cannot afford to have their disputes resolved by our Courts, and for the rest, the cost of litigation is a financial burden. The high cost of litigation, in part, adds to the negative public perception of both lawyers and our Courts. How our Courts handle cases directly affects the cost of litigation. It is the expectation of our Bar that the Bench will remain mindful of the cost of litigating disputes and that in performing the judicial function, our Bench will use its best efforts to reduce or minimize the costs incurred by the parties.
Those are my thoughts. Hopefully I have not offended too many people. My list may overstate what the Bar expects from the Bench; on the other hand, it may not. I encourage feedback from both the Bench and Bar and have been assured that we have room in The Pikes Peak Lawyer to print letters or responses to anything I have said in this article.
Next month I will attempt to answer the question: What should the Bench expect from our Bar?
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Bermuda: a journey to the heart of a triangle… Amazing!
Bermuda can also be explored on a boat: ideally a catamaran!
A little known destination which boasts over 180 islands and islets: definitely something for everyone!
How does sailing on the waters where the 35th America’s Cup will take place grab you ?
Lined with immaculate beaches, Bermuda will reward anyone who ventures there.
The town of St George has a wonderfully British charm!
Protected waters, but also well defended by coral outcrops and reefs. You should really get to know these waters before taking them on!
In May and June 2017, Bermuda will be putting on the greatest show on earth, with the America’s Cup and its incredible catamarans…
A different and lesser-known kind of playground!
A risky area, with many reefs, which needs to be taken on with caution!
It has to be discovered from a catamaran of course !
With the Americas Cup as a backdrop, Bermuda has in a few weeks, become a dream destination for all the world’s sailors. It’s a different place to visit, but one which is particularly practical for those who sail around the Atlantic!
Until recently, Bermuda was only really thought of as the ideal stopover when returning from the Caribbean to the States or to Europe. It is in fact an ideal spot to stop on both of these routes: it’s why the archipelago sees around a thousand yachts every year, and that’s despite the fact that Jimmy Cornell in his “World Cruising Handbook”, considers that Bermuda “has little to offer cruisers”… And yet Bermuda is an interesting archipelago, made up of over 180 islands and islets, the largest of which are connected by roads and bridges. The islands are bathed in the waters of the Gulf Stream, which explains the presence of the Atlantic’s most northerly coral reefs.
These reefs are also potentially linked to the notorious Bermuda Triangle’s terrible reputation… The triangle stretches from Florida to Puerto Rico and then up to Bermuda. This zone has seen the unexplained disappearance of many planes and ships. Is there a force at work here which makes these 1.5 million km² more dangerous than anywhere else? Don’t worry, in reality, there is no more risk here than elsewhere, and the stats prove it. The proof: your insurer will not add any supplements if you tell them that you will be sailing in this zone!
There is one reality to take on board though: a large coral barrier surrounds these islands, and it stretches several miles out into the ocean. There are many areas where you need to be careful and which are not well mapped. Boats regularly get caught out. This is part of the explanation, (and a more rational one than aliens and supernatural forces) why most of the sailors who are passing by, tend to stay in St. George’s in the far north east of the islands, with the crews preferring to get around by road…
This explains why there are very few charter companies in the islands, and those that are present, prefer to organize day trips with a skipper, to find the best spots, rather than go sailing head first into the coral reefs!
Despite this, the world’s greatest sailors have decided to come and play in Bermuda, on board the fastest catamarans ever imagined (read our test of the Groupama AC 45 in Multihulls World 152). The objective is to come away with a silver jug (The Americas Cup), the oldest sporting trophy that is still being fought over! There will therefore be organized cruises so that you can follow the racing and discover the region…
There are several direct flights from the big American cities, which makes Bermuda accessible from anywhere in the world. New York is less than two hours flying time, and Miami and Atlanta are three hours. Air Canada, American Airlines, British Airways and Delta all fly to Bermuda…
The Bermudan climate is clement, and it is good for sailing all year round. The sea temperature is around 20°C at its coldest in winter, and is close to 30°C in summer. Summer is also when most of the rain falls. It’s worth noting that Bermuda is exposed to hurricanes, and the archipelago has been affected several times in the past few years. The hurricane season runs from June until the end of November.
Formalities:
Visas are not required to enter Bermuda, and a valid passport with 6 months validity after your departure is usually enough for most European or American travelers. Watch out though if you are travelling through the States to get there. You will need to fill in an online ESTA authorization.
English is Bermuda’s official language.
The local currency is the Bermudan dollar (BMD) which has the same value as the American dollar (USD). US dollars are accepted everywhere and have parity with the Bermudan dollar.
The America’s Cup village and the racing itself with the most outrageous boats ever built. The wild beauty of the reef, snorkeling and the world’s smallest drawbridge (Somerset Bridge).
Charter Companies in-situ
The Moorings during the America's Cup. Otherwise, Sail Bermuda, Bermuda Yachts, Thinking of Bermuda, Restless Native Catamaran…
ITINERAIRE TYPE
As the official supplier of the 35th Americas Cup, The Moorings are offering a complete service for those who want to follow the event, which takes place between the 26th May and 27th June 2017. These cruises will take place on board six Leopard cats, all with a crew and a top of the range service so that you can be at the heart of the action with special access to the closest spectator zone for the racing, and the Americas Cup Village. It’s a great way to follow a truly world event close up, and to see the incredible potential of these AC50 catamarans with the best crews in the world, in the flesh.
Yet it would be a shame to go all the way to Bermuda and not see some of the wonders that this archipelago has to offer:
You can’t come sailing in Bermuda and not visit Horseshoe Bay. This bay lies just a few miles from South Shore Park, and is easily accessible. With its calm, clear waters, perfect for snorkeling, swimming and sunbathing, it’s easy to understand why this crescent-shaped pink sand beach has been cited as one of the Caribbean’s best by USA Today. It’s picture postcard stuff, and in this little corner of paradise you’ll find everything you need to make the most of your day. It’s a must see!
Elbow Beach
This beach takes its name from the arc which it forms. Elbow beach is a splendid beach which stretches for almost 2 km along the southern Bermudan coast. With turquoise waters and well-preserved coral reefs, it’s ideal for snorkeling, and whatever your age you will be spoilt for choice for things to do on land. There is a spa and several great beach bars where you can relax with your Bermudan cocktail.
Somerset Long Bay
In the western part of the island, you can discover a lost little corner of paradise, crisscrossed by lovely walking trails around Somerset Long Bay. This carefully preserved public park is a perfect place for your quiet family picnic. There is even a kid’s play area. There are lots of birds to see, and several fresh water lakes close by.
Tobacco Bay Beach
With its eponymous bar and restaurant, Tobacco Beach Bay is an unmissable visit during your trip to Bermuda. This major tourist destination has everything that you might need to enjoy yourselves. Relax on Tobacco Bay beach whilst studying the curious rock formations that seem to encircle you.
Gibbs Hill Lighthouse
For a breathtaking view of Bermuda, head for the Gibbs Hill Lighthouse. It only costs $2.50 per person (free for under 5s) to climb up the 185 steps up to the summit of this pretty lighthouse built in 1846.
Bermuda is an internationally renowned scuba diving and especially snorkeling destination. The best places to discover the marine life and the unbelievable colors of the coral, are Hamilton, the Royal Naval Dockyard and St George…
NEWS FROM THE CHARTER COMPANIES
Discover Columbia on a cat.
Columbia is opening up to nautical tourism, and some charter companies are starting to offer this original and very likeable destination. Cartagena, the “Pearl of the Caribbean” is the ideal base for setting off to discover the Islas del Rosario, famous for its sandy beaches and marine life.
To find out more: www.voile-evasion.ch
Corsica with a Crew.
Corsica is still one of the most beautiful destinations in the Med or even the world to visit on the water. What more could we ask than navigating around the “Ile de Beauté” with a crew? Vent Portant has just taken possession of a brand new Lagoon 450, which will be offered from Porto Vecchio, with crew only, from the start of the season.
For more info: www.ventportant.com
ACM in the Caribbean.
Renowned for the rigor of its training courses, ACM is continuing to develop and can now offer new destinations and activities with ACM Caraibes. Tailor-made management and chartering, school and training center, partnering of projects and rental or cruises with crews in the West Indies are now available.
Get more info here: acm-caraibes.com
Sailing in Puerto Rico
It wasn’t that long ago (Multihulls World 151) that we put the spotlight on Puerto Rico. This magical destination is now being offered by Dream Yacht Charter, allowing you to sail and discover the island’s many marvelous sites. Ideal for those who want to discover new destinations.
Find out more: www.dreamyachtcharter.com
Learn to Sail.
Whether you are looking at a family holiday in the West Indies or setting out around the Atlantic, Jim is offering training courses just off the English coast on board a 12m Privilege. He’s been doing this for 22 years, so he really knows his subject, and especially catamarans.
For more info: www.multihull.tv
Miami and the Keys – Hemingway’s perfect paradise.
Norway, Land Of Legend and Fjords
South Brittany
The Canaries
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Canada Graduate Scholarship
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship
Atreya-Haritha Scholarship in Mathematics
A.G. Hatcher Memorial Fellowship
F.A. Aldrich Fellowship
F.A. Aldrich Graduate Award
We also encourage you to visit Memorial University School of Graduate Studies for a complete list internal and external scholarships and awards.
The NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS) Program provides financial support to high-calibre students who are engaged in master's or doctoral programs in the natural sciences or engineering. This support allows these students to fully concentrate on their studies and to seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields. NSERC encourages qualified Aboriginal students who are interested in the program to apply.
Normally, up to three A.G. Hatcher Memorial Scholarships are awarded annually commencing in the Fall Semester. The awards are to be made solely on the basis of high academic merit. Typically a minimum of a first class degree is required. One scholarship shall be awarded to an applicant who graduated with an undergraduate degree from Memorial University, one to an applicant who graduated with an undergraduate degree from a Canadian university, and one to an applicant who graduated with an undergraduate degree from a foreign university. The value of the scholarship is $15,000, and it may be held for one year only. Recipients holding a major external award of $15,000 or greater will retain $3,000 of the A. G. Hatcher Memorial Scholarship. One nomination from each category listed above, for these awards, should be forwarded to the Dean or Director by June 1st. Deadline for the Dean or Director to submit nominations to the School of Graduate Studies is June 15th.
This award is valued at $15,000 for a single year. Normally up to three scholarships are awarded each year to students currently pursuing graduate studies at Memorial University: one to a student with an undergraduate degree from Memorial University, one to a student with an undergraduate degree from elsewhere in Canada, and one to a student with an undergraduate degree from outside of Canada. The nomination deadline is usually in June.
This award is valued at $15,000 for 1 year at the Master's level, or $20,000 for each of 2 years at the Doctoral level. Students who also hold an external award are eligible to retain $5,000 of this fellowship. Canadian students who have applied for September admission are eligible to be nominated for this award. The nomination deadline is usually in February.
The F.A. Aldrich Graduate Award
This award is valued at $2,000 for a single year. It is open to students who have previously received a degree from Memorial University, and who are now in the first year of a graduate program. The deadline to be considered is usually in May.
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As Iowa caucus nears, candidates ramp up God-talk
By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service
Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at a rally at West Delaware High School, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020, in Manchester, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
(RNS) — Democratic presidential hopefuls ramped up the God-talk while criss-crossing Iowa over the weekend, invoking the Bible and meeting with religious leaders while their Republican opponent President Trump worked to bolster support among evangelical Christians.
The faith-fueled weekend kicked off with remarks from Trump in a Florida church on Friday evening, where he launched a new "Evangelicals for Trump" campaign initiative to assist his re-election bid. Speaking to a group of evangelicals, the president took a shot at his Democratic opponents, accusing them of being anti-religious.
“As we speak, every Democrat candidate is trying to punish religious believers, and silence our churches and our pastors,” Trump said. “Our opponents want to shut out God from the public square so they can impose their extreme anti-religious and socialist agenda on America.”
Trump singled out South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, mocking the Democrat's faith.
“All of a sudden he has become extremely religious,” Trump told the crowd, referring to Buttigieg. “This happened about two weeks ago.”
Faith leaders pray with President Donald Trump during a rally for evangelical supporters at the King Jesus International Ministry Church, Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
But Buttigieg, an Episcopalian who has spoken of his faith often during his campaign, fired back — first on Friday evening by tweeting “God does not belong to a political party” and then by directly addressing the president’s remarks on Saturday.
“I’m not sure why the president’s taken an interest in my faith journey, but I certainly would be happy to discuss it with him — I just don’t know where that’s coming from,” Buttigieg told reporters. “Certainly, it has been a complex journey for me, as it is for a lot of people, but I’m pretty sure I’ve been a believer longer than he’s been a Republican.”
It turned out to be the beginning of a spiritually infused few days for a slate of presidential candidates who have shown an unusual affinity for religious rhetoric, with some even tying their faith to their policy proposals.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren got biblical while discussing economics and usury laws, arguing that banks in the 1980s chipped away at ancient economic systems designed to protect average people from exploitation.
“Bankruptcy is provided (for) in the Bible: Every seven years debts are forgiven — and the notion of a ‘jubilee,’” she said, noting usury laws are also in the Quran.
Warren referenced faith again a short time later during an exchange with a voter at a campaign town hall event in Dubuque, Iowa. A man who identified as an evangelical Christian asked why he should “give up” his religious opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion to support someone like Warren, arguing that Democratic candidates don’t respect his views.
Warren responded by noting that she was raised Methodist and once taught Sunday school and insisted that every person should be treated with respect, be they “black or white, straight or gay or trans … old or young.”
The senator then singled out the man’s reference to abortion.
“A woman who’s in the position of trying to decide what she’s going to do about a pregnancy — that she may not have planned for, may not have hoped for, may have been forced upon her — is a woman who should be able to call on anyone for help,” Warren said. “She should be able to call on her partner. She should be able to call on her mom. She should be able to call on her priest or rabbi, or her pastor. But the one entity that should not be in the center of that very hard decision is the federal government.”
After the crowd responded with a standing ovation, Warren added: “I’ll be respectful of you, and I believe you when you say you’re respectful of me. We may have a difference about the view about the federal government on this issue, but boy I sure would like to think about the parts we come together on — on the importance of investing in every single baby in this country."
WATCH: @JoeBiden shares an emotional moment with parishioners at Corinthian Baptist Church in Des Moines, IA as they say an almost five-minute prayer over the former VP. pic.twitter.com/tAI5ogQVvu
— Allie Raffa (@AllieRaffa) January 5, 2020
Not to be outdone, former Vice President Joe Biden, a Catholic, visited Corinthian Baptist Church in Des Moines on Sunday. Parishioners at the historically African American church prayed over him.
“(I pray) in the name of Jesus … every day that (Biden) gets up, oh Lord, that you direct his path, that you direct his steps,” a woman said, while others laid hands on Biden. “There are so many things coming against him. You said the blood of Jesus will protect him as he goes throughout this United States in the name of Jesus. Oh father God, put a hedge of protection around him, let no harm or danger come near him or his family.”
Signs suggest the God-talk is unlikely to let up as candidates enter the final stretch before the Iowa caucus on Feb. 3. At least five presidential hopefuls — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, former congressman John Delaney, spiritual author Marianne Williamson, independent Candidate Mark Charles and Republican candidate Bill Weld — are slated to speak at the Vote Common Good forum hosted in Des Moines Jan. 9-11, which is facilitated by a group of religious progressives.
Organizers said Biden, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders have yet to respond.
Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service
Jack Jenkins is a national reporter for RNS based in Washington, covering U.S. Catholics and the intersection of read more…
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By Ronnie McBrayer
Weekly Preaching: October 22, 2017
By James C. Howell
Exclusion and Embrace, Revised and Updated
The CEB Study Bible Hardcover
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What Minnesota congressional districts’ different rates of population growth will mean for redistricting
By Greta Kaul | 08/29/2018
If you live in Hibbing, your vote for a member of the U.S. House in November will be worth more than someone voting for a House member in Minneapolis.
That’s because the Fifth District, located in Minneapolis and its suburbs, contains almost 10 percent more people than the Eighth District, which covers a huge swath from northeastern Minnesota on down to the northern Twin Cities ’burbs.
They didn’t start out that way. In 2012, after the new district lines were drawn, the populations of Minnesota’s eight congressional districts were closer to each other, based on counts from the 2010 Census. But in the half-a-decade since then, some districts populations have grown much faster than others.
For now, that means that — in theory — a northern Minnesota voter is slightly more represented than her Twin Cities counterpart. But in just a few years, the district lines will be drawn again, and taking account of these shifts could mean big changes for Minnesota’s districts — especially if the number of those districts drops from eight to seven.
Different rates of growth
The differences in population growth between Minnesota’s congressional districts are pretty stark.
Estimated population added by Congressional District, 2012 to 2016
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota State Demographic Center
The First District, a band across the state’s southern border farming regions that includes Worthington, Mankato and Rochester has seen minimal growth. It added about 5,000 people since 2012, the first year new Congressional district lines were in use.
The Second District, a slice that includes counties south and east of the Twin Cities, has seen rapid growth. Twin Cities suburbs like Lakeville and Eagan have bulked up. CD2, which stretches down the Mississippi past Wabasha and west to Scott County, added nearly 23,000 people since 2012.
The Third District, which is mostly made up by the Twin Cities’ western suburbs, has also seen rapid growth, with more than 26,000 additional residents since 2012.
Districts 4 and 5, geographically small districts that comprise Minneapolis and St. Paul and some of their suburbs, have grown the most, with an additional 27,000 and 34,000 people since 2012, respectively.
The Sixth District, the Central Minnesota district up the I-94 corridor in the area northwest of the Twin Cities, has grown by more than 26,000 people.
The Seventh, a near cross-section of Minnesota’s western side, ranging from Kittson on down to Pipestone County in the near southwest corner of the state, added an estimated 5,000 residents.
The Eighth District has grown less than any other in Minnesota, adding only an estimated 2,000 people since 2012.
The fastest-growing parts of the state are the Twin Cities and their suburbs.
“That’s pretty unusual for recent history, where we were used to seeing some of the districts, (like 6) growing faster,” says State Demographer Susan Brower. “We were used to seeing most of that population growth happening in Central Minnesota.”
What it means for redistricting
These population shifts will all play in to the redrawing of Minnesota’s congressional districts after the 2020 Census.
If Minnesota keeps its eight seats in the U.S. House, redistricting will just be a matter of moving existing boundaries around, said Peter Wattson, longtime Minnesota legislative staffer and redistricting expert.
In this case, what’s likely to happen is a geographic shrinking of districts 2, 3, 4 and 5, with parts of them added to the smaller population districts, evening out the populations.
“The general rule is that areas that have been growing less fast/more slowly have to get larger in area, and the ones that have been growing faster would get smaller,” Wattson said, speculating it could look something like this:
“(CD1) would probably just go a little further west, and 8 would probably have to move a little bit into Stearns County,” he said. The 25,000-or-so people in Todd County could be moved from the 7th to the 8th, among other changes.
Courtesy of the Minnesota Legislature
A map of Minnesota's ten congressional districts in 1913.
In the Metro, CD4 could take less of Washington County and give it to the 2nd of the 6th, 5 could take less of Fridley and give it to the 8th, and 3 could back out of parts of Carver County.
That’s if Minnesota’s congressional delegation remains the same size. But many predict Minnesota, whose population is growing steadily but not as fast as other states, will be one of several states to lose a Congressional seat to fast-growing southern and western states.
“Each district would need to hold about 100,000 more people if we lose a Congressional seat, so going from roughly 700,000 or so, plus 100,000. That (lost) seat would just need to be redistributed across the other seven,” Brower said.
If that happens, redistricting will become a much more invasive process.
“Instead of just those three outstate districts having to get bigger, squeezing in on the metro area, one of them will be gone. So not only will they have to get bigger, the metro districts will also have to get bigger,” Wattson said.
You might see the Fifth District moving further into Minneapolis suburbs; the Fourth usurping all of Washington county to the east of St. Paul and maybe adding parts of Dakota County; the Third moving out into the Sixth.
Losing a seat could put one incumbent out of the job, assuming there’s no retirements (for example, Collin Peterson, 74, who has represented Minnesota’s slow-growing 7th District since 1991, might get edged out by redistricting – or retire).
“If we do go to seven seats, that’s a really big mess,” Wattson said.
At least that’s been the case in the past.
Down from 10 House seats
After the 1930 Census, when Minnesota went from its all-time high of 10 seats down nine, the redistricting process was so acrimonious that no plan had been agreed upon by the time Congressional elections rolled around. All the candidates for U.S. House ran at-large — statewide — Wattson said.
A map of Minnesota's eight congressional districts in 1961.
After the 1960 Census, the last time Minnesota lost a seat, putting it at its current count of 8, the lines got drawn, but it took two special sessions to get it done, Wattson said.
As for what happens by 2022?
“What will happen in 2022 is going to depend on who is elected governor in 2018 and who is in the majority in the House and Senate,” Wattson said.
In Minnesota, it’s the legislature’s job to draw congressional district lines. But when the legislature and the governor can’t agree on a redistricting plan, the decision gets kicked to the courts. That’s what’s happened to Minnesota's Congressional districts for the last four decades.
All we know in the meantime, really, is that some parts of the state are growing faster than others. And that that’s likely to keep up through 2020 when the Census is taken, causing district lines to shift, whether Minnesota keeps eight seats in Congress or loses one.
“There’s a lot of momentum in population growth because you get younger people together and young people are the people who tend to make more humans and also to move around and draw more in and so-forth,” Brower said. “That’s how we know that the growth where we've seen it will continue.”
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Greta Kaul
Greta Kaul is MinnPost's data reporter. She can be reached at gkaul@minnpost.com.
Submitted by Dan Landherr on 08/29/2018 - 01:22 pm.
South and north districts?
If they drop to 7 districts we could see district #1 swallow up the western half of #7 and what is left of district #7 merge with district #8 to form an “Up North” district from Duluth to Moorhead. This is an important issue to consider in the 2018 state election for governor and 2020 for all other offices.
Submitted by Darryl Carter on 08/31/2018 - 01:30 pm.
Existing statute dictates PRECISE equality among Congressional Districts when newly drawn. This is, of course, a fantasy goal. A plus or minus 2% deviation, to accommodate conformity with County (1st priority) and/or City (distant 2nd) lines would be more useful. The Jesse Ventura insistence on departure from the 4-4 more customary division, has resulted in a gerrymandered 6th and a monstrous 7th. Dakota and Washington Counties combined constitute a nearly perfect 1/8th of MN’s population. Similarly, Ramsey plus the eastern half of Anoka.
Submitted by Hiram Foster on 08/03/2019 - 03:42 pm.
Do we have confidence that the federal government will aggressively try to count all people in the United State?
Is there an advertising campaign urging people to fill out the census forms? Does the campaign tell people that the information they provide is private and will not be use by or available to any law enforcement agency?
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Israel’s Worst Fear Is A Political Settlement
December 4, 2014 By Matt Peppe 1 Comment
The recent murder of four Jewish worshipers in a Jerusalem synagogue has drawn intense media coverage, with the situation being described as “tense” and the country as “shaken.” U.S. officials decry the violence and call for both sides to “seek a path forwards toward peace.”
Yet the Israeli government’s reaction and history demonstrate that Israel is not concerned with creating peace, but rather maintaining the status quo. If the government cared about stopping violence and protecting its population, it would immediately end the occupation and accept a political settlement that guarantees everyone in Greater Israel their right to self-determination. Instead they are exploiting the violence to tighten their control of the West Bank and Gaza and crush Palestinian aspirations for an end to the 66-year dispossession and conquest.
The grisly murder of four worshipers at a Jerusalem synagogue was carried out last month by two Palestinian cousins, who did not belong to any political or resistance factions. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to cast blame on all Palestinian political parties who would be a partner in a peaceful settlement to the conflict.
Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: Abu Mazen, Al Aqsa Mosque, and the Palestinians, Beirut, Benjamin Netanyahu, Danny Rubenstein, East Jerusalem, Electronic Intifada, Fatah, Fateful Triangle: The United States, Gaza, Hamas, Human Rights, Israel, Jerusalem, Lebanon, Mahmoud Abbas, mainstream media, media, Noam Chomsky, Palestine, Palestinian Authority, PLO, propaganda, Rania Khalek, River Jordan, Temple Mount, terrorism, The Washington Post, War, Yehoshua Porath, Yehuda Glick
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Dennis Roop, MD
Chair, Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology Program
Dr. Roop received his received a B.A. degree in Biology from Berea College, Berea, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Bert O’Malley at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, from 1977 to 1980. Subsequently, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Stuart Yuspa at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, where he rose to the rank of Senior Investigator.
In 1988, he was recruited back to Baylor College of Medicine, where he held the positions of Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Dermatology and Director of the Center for Cutaneous Molecular Biology until he was recruited to his current position in Colorado in 2007. He has served on the Advisory Council at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and he is a former President of the Society for Investigative Dermatology. His laboratory has had a long-standing interest in epidermal stem cells, the role that they play in inherited skin diseases and the potential isolation and correction of defective epidermal stem cells and their use as autologous grafts to treat patients with these diseases. More recently, his research has focused on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). His laboratory is currently generating iPSCs from patients with inherited skin diseases using methods which do not require viral vectors, and determining whether zinc finger nucleases can be used to correct the genetic defect in these patient-specific iPSCs.
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Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant
Prince Gabriel
Prince Emmanuel
Princess Eléonore
King Albert II
Queen Paola
Princess Astrid
Prince Laurent
origins of the dynasty
King Leopold I
King Leopold II
King Albert I
King Leopold III
Prince Regent Charles
King Baudouin
Home / The Royal Family / History / King Baudouin
Baudouin, Albert, Charles, Léopold, Axel, Marie, Gustave, Count of Hainaut, was born at the Chateau of Stuyvenberg, near Brussels, on 7 September. He was the second child of H.M. Leopold III, King of the Belgians and of H.M. Astrid, born Princess of Sweden.
A tragic climbing accident claimed the life of his grandfather King Albert I.
On the accession to the throne of his father, King Leopold III, on 23 February 1934, the young Prince received the title " Duke of Brabant ".
On 29 August 1935, the Prince lost his mother, Queen Astrid, who died in a car accident at Küssnacht, Switzerland.
King Leopold and his children left the Chateau of Stuyvenberg, and moved into the Royal Chateau of Laeken.
On 10 May, at the time when Belgium was being invaded, Prince Baudouin, accompanied by his elder sister Princess Josephine-Charlotte and his younger brother Prince Albert, left the country first for France and then Spain.
The Princes returned to Belgium on 2 August.
They continued their studies until 1944, either at Laeken, or at the Chateau of Ciergnon in the Ardennes.
In June 1944, at the time of the Allied landings, Leopold III, Princess Lilian - who he married in 1941 - and the royal children were deported by the Germans to Hirschstein in Germany, and later to Strobl in Austria, where they were liberated by the American Army on 7 May 1945.
Due to the political situation in Belgium, King Leopold and his family moved to the villa "Le Reposoir" in Pregny, Switzerland, when they left Austria in October 1945. They would stay there until July 1950.
Meanwhile, the Prince continued his education at a secondary school in Geneva. In 1948, he carried out a journey to the United States.
King Leopold III, accompanied by Prince Baudouin and Prince Albert, returned to Belgium on 22 July. On 1 August of the same year, the Sovereign decided to ask the Government and Parliament to vote on a law delegating his powers to his son, Prince Baudouin, Duke of Brabant, who became Royal on 11 August.
On 17 July, the Prince Royal swore the constitutional oath and became the fifth King of the Belgians.
On the international scene, Belgium signed the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community on 18 April 1951. Later, that institution would form the foundations (through the Treaties of Rome, 25 March 1957) for the European Economic Community, now the European Union.
At national level, this period was characterised by a series of problems that often led to serious tensions: the schools issue in which advocates of private education and state education were arguing against each other, the independence of the Congo, the strikes of 1960-1961.
The schools issue would drag on into 1958 and was solved by an agreement, known as the "Schools Pact", ratified by the law of 29 May 1959.
In January-February 1960, a round table was organised in Brussels between leading Congolese politicians and a Belgian government delegation. Independence was officially granted, and a Congolese Constitution was outlined. On 30 June 1960, the King attended the hand-over of power in Léopoldville (Kinshasa).
Still in 1960, the Government had to deal with a difficult socio-economic situation. Flanders was hit by structural unemployment, while the closure of the coal mines was causing upheavals in Wallonia. In order to meet the specific needs of the regions, the Government decided to devise a regional economic policy for the first time. I
In November 1960, it put forward a general recovery programme to the Parliament, known as the "Single Law". During the second half of December, a general strike paralysed the country. It soon appeared that the movement was less strong in Flanders than in Wallonia, where violent incidents occurred. in Wallonia, the strike was of a political nature, since it was aimed at structural reforms of a federal nature.
Tensions between the communities, which were highlighted once again by this event, would be amplified in the following years.
On 15 December the wedding of the King and Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón took place.
Doña Fabiola, Fernanda, Maria de las Victorias, Antonia, Adelaïda de MORA y ARAGÓN was born in Madrid on 11 June 1928. One of seven children, Doña Fabiola was the third daughter of Don Gonzalo Mora Fernandez, Riera del Olmo, Count of Mora, Marquis of Casa Riera and Doña Blanca de Aragón y Carrillo de Albornoz, Barroeta-Aldamar y Elio.
From her earliest youth, her concerns were mainly social and cultural. After training as a nurse, she worked in a hospital in Madrid. In addition to Spanish, Queen Fabiola speaks fluent French, Dutch, English, German and Italian.
After the death of Queen Elisabeth in 1965, Queen Fabiola took under her High Protection the charity which organises the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition, of which she was Honorary President until 2014.
Queen Fabiola has a strong personal commitment to social welfare and the well-being of children and young people. She set up a Queen's Social Secretariat at the Royal Palace to answer the many requests for assistance received each year. Through the Queen Fabiola Fund for Mental Health, she supports actions to help people with mental health problems or a mental disability.
Queen Fabiola died on the 5th of December 2014.
The linguistic frontier was drawn by the law of 8 November 1962. The laws of 30 July 1963 (use of official languages in education) and 2 August 1963 (use of official languages in administrative matters) confirmed the principle of unilingualism in the regions.
From 1966, this principle gave rise to a major challenge about the presence in Leuven of the French-speaking section of the Catholic University. Many Flemish circles insisted that it should be transferred to Wallonia. The transfer (to Ottignies, in Walloon Brabant) soon became a reality.
On 18 February 1970, Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens declared in Chamber that the unitary state had been left behind by events, and that the communities and regions would have to take their place in the renovated structures of the State.
The time had come for the first community revision of the Constitution in the history of Belgium. During the same year, the Flemish Community and the French-speaking Community were granted cultural autonomy, so that they had sole powers to deal with cultural issues.
During the following years, several attempts were made, particularly through the Egmont and Stuyvenberg agreements in 1977-1978 to find a response to community tensions. But to no avail.
This situation became a growing concern for King Baudouin, who was keen to preserve the unity of Belgium. He expressed that view in these words on 31 March 1976, recalling the motto of Belgium ("L'Union fait la Force" or "Unity is Strength): "When the founders of an independent Belgium chose that motto, they were well aware of our diversity, and the necessity to maintain cohesion.
They considered that the regions, with their legitimate autonomy, constituted complementary parts of a whole and should not be envious adversaries. They know that federating was uniting with acceptance of differences, and not disbanding through confrontation". Thereafter, this issue kept recurring, with growing insistence each time, in the Sovereign's speeches.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his reign, the Sovereign decided to devote the funds donated to him by the population to setting up the King Baudouin Foundation, with the purpose of improving the living conditions of the people.
It carries out projects and publishes documents in fields as varied as the battle against poverty and social exclusion, the environment, the architectural and artistic heritage, the training of young people, etc.
In 1980, another reform of the State was created by means of a revision of the Constitution and special legislation. The Flemish and French-speaking communities were also granted powers in cultural and personal matters (health care and assistance to persons). For the German-speaking community, a directly-elected Council was set up.
The statute of the Walloon Region and the Flemish Region were also defined. Enormous powers were granted to the two regions: the regional economy and employment, land use, town and country planning, the environment, housing, etc.
The communities and regions now govern by means of decrees, which have force of law in their jurisdiction. Their financial resources were expanded, particularly with rebates on taxes paid and by limited tax-raising powers (own taxation).
In parallel, the Court of Arbitration was set up to settle conflicts between the communities and regions, and between these entities and the national authorities.
During the first half of the 1980s, the economic and financial problems became acute. The country was hit by a wave of unemployment, while the public debt reached unprecedented heights. In February 1982, the Belgian franc was devalued. Successive recovery plans, providing for pay restraint, budget cuts, reduction in the tax burden on businesses, etc. would gradually bring about a real improvement.
The third reform of the State occurred in 1988-1989.
The powers of the regional entities were expanded: the communities were given powers for education and health policy; the regions were given powers, in particular, for public works and total supervision of local authorities.
At the same time, the statute of the Brussels Region was established: a directly-elected representative body (the Council of the Brussels Capital Region) will be given a government. Separate French-speaking and Flemish commissions were also set up to deal with community issues in Brussels.
The financing law of 16 January 1989 set the proportion of national taxes to be transferred to the communities and regions, and extended their tax-raising powers.
On a completely different front, a constitutional problem arose in spring 1990. At the beginning of April, the Chamber and the Senate approved a draft law on the liberalisation of abortion. On 30 March, King Baudouin had notified the Prime Minister that he was prevented by his conscience from sanctioning this law, as it is incumbent on the third branch of the legislative power.
Based on Article 82 (currently Article 93) of the Constitution, the Council of Ministers observed that the King found it impossible to reign. In such a case, it is the Council of Ministers which exercises the constitutional prerogatives of the King.
The Council sanctioned the law on liberalisation of abortion (3 April 1990) and enacted it. On 5 April, the combined Chambers of Parliament observed the end of the King's impossibility of reigning, so that he could once again exercise his constitutional prerogatives.
To mark the Sovereign's 60th birthday as well as 40 years of his reign, a national tribute was paid to him ("Fêtes 60-40"). The festivities took place from 7 September 1990 (date of the King's birthday) until 21 July 1991 (Belgian national holiday).
The Government addressed the continuation of the reform of the State. To achieve this, they entered into the Accords of Saint-Michel on 28 September 1992. The work done (revisions of the Constitution, special and ordinary legislation) was largely implemented in 1993.
Under Article 1 of the new Constitution, Belgium is now a federal state consisting of communities and regions. The members of the Flemish Council (which deals with both community and regional matters) and the Walloon Regional Council are now directly elected. The membership and the task of the Federal Chamber of Deputies and the Senate were revised.
The powers and responsibilities of the communities and regions were expanded, particularly concerning foreign relations.
Finally, the province of Brabant was split into two provinces: Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant.
In what would turn out to be his final speech, the King set out his vision in these terms: "This year, we have once again introduced a major reform of our political structures. This is the finishing touch to the amendments made between 1970 and today. (...) The Parliament wanted to define a new balance between the autonomy of the regions and communities on the one hand, and the essential unity and cohesion of the country on the other" (21 July 1993).
On 31 July, the King died in Motril in the south of Spain. The King suffered a heart attack while the royal couple were on holiday in their Spanish residence.
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Why British American Tobacco could represent a value opportunity
The risks to the company may have been overstated …
Patrick Cairns / 15 July 2019 00:26
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At the start of last year, British American Tobacco (BAT) was trading at around R825 per share. Twelve months later, it had almost halved to R450 per share. For something that is thought of as a defensive counter, that was a distinctly poor performance.
Analysts who are bullish on the company have always held that the addictive nature of its products, and the extremely high barriers to entry in the tobacco industry, make it a stable and reliable generator of cash. In fact, over 2018 BAT almost doubled the amount of cash generated from its operations.
Read: BAT is on the campaign trail to transform tobacco
“Just because the share price hasn’t performed well doesn’t necessarily mean that the days are over for British American Tobacco,” Kevin Williams, chief investment officer at Bateleur Fund Managers, told the Glacier Investment Summit in Stellenbosch last week.
“The company is still showing upper single digit earnings and dividend growth in constant currency. It also still has a lot of pricing power.”
Balance sheet issues
However, there are growing pressures on tobacco companies, and on BAT in particular. Not only are there concerns about the long term sustainability of tobacco as a business model, the company has also faced some specific short term issues.
“BAT has been through a very noisy 12 months,” Truffle Asset Management portfolio manager Nicole Agar said at the event.
“The reason it didn’t perform defensively last year is because it took on a lot of debt to buy Reynolds.”
BAT bought Reynolds American for $49 billion in mid-2017 to create the world’s largest listed tobacco firm. The company raised $25 billion in loans to fund the deal.
This more than doubled the borrowings it was carrying on its balance sheet, and, together with a massively increased deferred tax liability, tripled its long term liabilities. This was matched on its balance sheet with an enormous increase in its intangible assets. It added almost £110 billion ($135 billion) in goodwill and trademarks from the Reynolds acquisition.
Analysts are concerned that this investment in intangible assets could weigh down the balance sheet unless it can be offset by a substantial increase in revenue.
The Reynolds acquisition also meant that British American Tobacco re-entered the US market, which (despite its name) it had exited in 2004. Just days after the deal was completed, however, the US Food and Drug Administration said it would consider a ban on menthol cigarettes.
Analysts estimate that around a quarter of BAT’s earnings come from menthol sales in the US. This is therefore a potentially serious threat. However, Williams doesn’t see it as an immediate one.
“BAT has said that they are going to challenge any ban, so changes in regulation will take a while to implement,” he points out. “It could be five years, maybe longer.”
Competitive threats (and new opportunities)
The threat of competition from alternative products such as vaping is however potentially more significant in the short term. Even here, though, Williams thinks that sentiment may be too negative.
“You must remember that they also participate in that space themselves,” he says. “They are actively disrupting themselves.”
Vitaliy Katsenelson, chief investment officer at Investment Management Associates in the US, also has an interesting idea about where tobacco companies may find a new growth opportunity. In a recent note to clients, he pointed out that already 10 states in the US have legalised marijuana for recreational use, and it is legal for medical use in 23 states.
“It is really a question of when – not if – the federal government legalises marijuana,” Katsenelson wrote.
“Then it will be possible to build national pot brands – this is where the money will be made.”
The companies best equipped to take advantage of this, he believes, are cigarette companies.
“They know how to grow (or at least deal with farmers who grow) and distribute that other ‘weed’ – tobacco,” Katsenelson points out. “They are also great at manufacturing and marketing. They have enormous capital that they are burning to put to work.
“Marijuana may give them another lease on life.”
Finding value
Both Williams and Agar believe that the sell-off in the BAT stock price is overdone. If anything, it is now offering attractive value.
“I remember looking at this company back in the 1990s when its dividend yield in sterling was close to 12% because there was a lot of litigation risk around the company,” Williams noted. “It’s now at 7%. So these come and go.
“I’d be very surprised if over the next five years earnings didn’t hold up.”
Agar notes that on a price-to-earnings (PE) valuation, BAT is also much more attractive than its peers. Altria, which operates only in the US, is currently trading on a PE multiple of 12.5 times, and Philip Morris, which does business entirely outside of the US, is on a PE of over 15 times.
BAT is trading on a PE multiple of 11.
“There is a disconnect there,” she says. “And we think that’s a value opportunity.”
Patrick Cairns
Patrick Cairns is one of South Africa's most respected commentators on the investment industry. He also covers economics issues and business news.
CV63 6 months ago
I am trying to get my head around the imagery of a balanced sheet weighed down by intangible assets…
Part of the reason why BAT has performed so poorly is the change in the interest rate cycle. As a defensive business with highly visible long-term cash flows and attractive dividend yields, it was the perfect stock for the post-GFC low-interest rate period. But less so when rates started going back up.
Pure coincidence, of course, that the proposed menthol ban was announced after the Reynolds deal, when Reynolds became wholly-owned by a UK company.
Tobacco stocks have been among the best-performing long-term investments, not just because of their growth, but because the market has historically overpriced the risk of litigation, which means that dividends could be re-invested at very attractive P/E ratios. This could well be the case here again.
Mactheknife 6 months ago
If BATS decided to add another addictive substance like say, Coffee, to its business, this share would be a no brainer! And then of course, there’s MaryJane! Lots of opportunities to expand here!
On a more serious note – I agree, this share is very tempting at these levels.
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The Perfection of Imperfection
We all have them. There is no one exempt from their trappings. They haunt us. They chase us. They inhibit us. Sometimes—SOMETIMES—they even inspire us.
Imperfections.
Bad habits. Quirks. Temperaments. Attitudes. Flaws. Call them what you will, we all have them. And as a writer, I look to exploit them. Because let’s face it: perfect characters are, well… BORING.
Like our dear Prince Ferryl with his impulsivity and idealism. While those traits can be a good thing, they can also be a very bad thing for a man who is to inherit a kingdom. That idealism often comes back to haunt him when the world doesn’t turn as he expected. And he is often faced with the worry of what is not going on much more than what is. As a result, Ferryl can be temperamental and even irrational. And do things like, you know, leave Elizabeth behind because he’s so angry with her for just being herself. *ahem*
“I think you should to stay here, Elizabeth. I think you should get to know your mother, to find out what your life was like, your history, your family. Haravelle is your home. We both know that. And I think…” he said, tripping on his own emotion now. “I think it is best if you stay behind.”
~The Purloined Prophecy, Chapter 44
And Elizabeth. Stubborn, logical, insufferably practical Elizabeth. There must always be a reason. There must always be an answer. Even when there is not. And that need for logic drives her every thought—ad nauseum. So when the world doens’t fit in a box, when the answers don’t make sense on paper, she is left to pick up the pieces of her logical mind and figure out how to cope. And she has a tendency to push people away—the ones she loves most—on that unending quest for answers.
She knew he was right. It was a logical, practical solution. For her to get to know her mother, for her to find out who she was and how she had grown up. To search for the memories that evaded her.
But most importantly, for her to find a life away from him.
Because it could never work as long as they were together. As long as they were together, they would always want each other, always love each other, always torture each other with a dream that could never be.
And for the first time in her life, Elizabeth hated every damned logical, reasonable word out of his mouth.
Ever met anyone like them?
I sure have. I think I’m both of them at times. What about you?
It’s funny how art can be so cathartic. Because as I write these characters, I begin to realize profundities about myself: that maybe it’s our imperfections that not only make us interesting, but serve a greater purpose. A divine purpose. Maybe it’s our imperfections that serve to show us a Truth we might not have found otherwise.
Isn’t that what happened to Ferryl and Elizabeth? Didn’t Ferryl’s impulsivity and idealism help him realize that he would fight—and die—for Elizabeth? And didn’t that love for her help him realize that it was perhaps a part of a bigger plan, a divine purpose for both of them?
And what about Elizabeth? She wasn’t wrong about Ferryl—he had obligations to his kingdom that could not be ignored. But none of those obligations precluded his heart. And at the end of the day, that’s what he would choose. What he would always choose. And isn’t that okay?
I think imperfections are what lead us to the truth. I think our imperfections, though not always easy or even fun, can often be the best thing for us—that ever present reminder that we’re not God. And we never had to be.
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Dinosaurs are Dragons: My Interview with The Arrow and the Song
Hi friends! Today I am sharing a guest post from the blog, The Arrow and the Song, which just so happens to be the blog of my editor, Arielle Bailey.
This was one of my favorite interviews ever, simply because the questions are so good. I think you’ll agree. Arielle is quite imaginative (part of why I love working with her). And yes, dinosaurs are really dragons. Dragons are dinosaurs. Whatever. You know I’m right.
Check out the interview below!
From The Arrow and the Song:
I had the privilege of editing this book and helping Morgan polish it for release. If you like prophecies, realistic love stories, fantasy wars and politics, and a good villain against which the heroes can fight, you should check out The Chalam Faerytales!
Welcome Morgan!
Describe your book’s aesthetic in three words and/or a graphic.
Poetic Epic Færytale
What was the very first spark for this story?
Wow. That’s a difficult question… If I’m being completely honest, I think the book sparked in me when I was a kid. I remember from the time I was tiny, I would lay outside in my backyard, looking up at the sky and wondering if God had made other worlds. And if he had, if he would give them a similar story to ours. Would he redeem them the way he was redeeming us? Even as a kid, I figured the answer was probably yes. And from then on, I have had stories floating in my mind—stories of other worlds and other people. The funny thing is, I didn’t realize that I was a storyteller until well into adulthood. I just thought that if anyone knew the things floating around in my mind, they’d call me insane. Turns out I am insane—I’m a writer! Ha!
If you could invent a sub-genre to classify this book, what would you call it?
Hmmmm…. It’s probably Spiritual Romantic Epic Classic. Yeah. I like that.
What music did you listen to while writing it? Are there any songs that go to particular chapters or characters?
As a singer/songwriter myself, I have a soft spot for the genre. So I listen to a lot of folksy, ethereal, under-produced artists who write their own stuff. They get bonus points if they play the piano. My favorite right now is RHODES. He’s a British singer/songwriter with a voice like butter. I think I took to him because he sort of reminds me of Ferryl. His music is deeply romantic but clever and thoughtful. It’s ethereal in all the right ways. He has quite a few songs that inspired a lot of scenes in my books, but ones that come to mind first are ‘Wishes’, ‘The Lakes’, ‘What If Love’, and ‘Crash’.
Do you have a favorite character, and if so, why?
Can I have more than one? *wink* I think my favorites are a tie between Titus, Michael, and a character you haven’t met yet named Hania. (You’ll meet her in the next book but sufficient to say, they call her a lioness for a reason. And I LOVE her.) Titus is my favorite because he’s so conflicted. He doesn’t know who he is yet. But he knows he’s not who he should be. I love his journey. And, having the privilege of knowing what’s going to happen to him (#AuthorPrivileges), his story is one of my favorites.
But Michael is another favorite. And I think it’s because he’s so nauseatingly selfless. He reminds me of my husband in that regard. He’s one of those people that would give you the shirt off of his back. But he’s flawed, too. And he’s got scars he hasn’t worked through yet. If I’m being honest, I think both of them are in my top favorites because I hadn’t planned on any of them. This story was birthed through Ferryl’s and Elizabeth’s eyes, so the secondary characters that became central characters were a surprise to me. I think that is honestly one of the most rewarding things about being a storyteller—the characters can really surprise you. And they feel like your own children in some ways.
Which character do you identify with the most?
This is a tough one for me, because I think there is probably a little bit of me in each of the characters. If there is a character I’d hang out with on weekends, it’s probably Hania (again, you haven’t met her yet but she’s just…. GREAT). If there’s a character I feel like I’d go to for advice, it’s Elizabeth, hands down. If there is a character that I would be thrilled to have show up slightly intoxicated at family parties so that he can say highly inappropriate things at all the wrong times, it’s Derwin. And if there is a character that I would hate but also be slightly jealous of her style and personality, it’s Meria. (Yes, I love the villain. She’s delightfully horrible.)
What was your favorite part to write and why?
I’m going to answer this the only way I can: by saying what has been my favorite to write of what you’ve read so far because… if I said what has been my favorite to write of the series so far, there would be major spoilers. (Again, #AuthorPrivileges) So, of books one and two, my favorite scene to write was Ferryl on the mountain. Largely inspired by Moses’ encounter with the burning bush in the book of Exodus, this scene gave me chills as I wrote it. I loved the challenge of trying to explain immortal, divine Light. I loved the challenge of giving God a personality. And I loved seeing it all through Ferryl’s eyes. For me personally, I think God is all of the things Ferryl encountered and more: light, music, fire, eternity, galaxies, heat, joy. I think creation is a shadow and portrait of the Creator. So to try to convey that magnitude with letters and words and phrases… it was daunting. But it was also quite cathartic and romantic for me. I’ve had a lot of readers tell me that was their favorite scene, too.
Did you have a LEAST favorite part to write, and if so, what?
I did NOT like writing any scene where Ferryl and Elizabeth fought. It was difficult to give them problems because I wanted to cradle them in my arms and keep them safe from all harm. (Again, they feel like my kids in a lot of ways.) But it has been a central tenet of these books to write love for what it really is—the valleys and the mountaintops. The highs and the lows. So I didn’t want to portray one of those we-never-have-problems-because-we’re-in-love couples. So I let them fail. I let them get nasty with one another. I let them say things they regretted. And I hated every minute of it.
What scene/s did you love writing that DIDN’T make it into the final draft?
Hahahaha, okay, you’re going to hate me for this, but when I wrote the first draft of The Purloined Prophecy, Lord Adam was originally intended to be a new love interest for Elizabeth. I thought it might be fun to give Ferryl a little challenge. I eventually changed that thread because of who Lord Adam became, and because of what I knew he would have to do in the rest of the books. But originally, there was a scene were he kissed Elizabeth. It was my subtle little nod to George Lucas and Star Wars because (SPOILER AHEAD….) of them being family. I thought it would be a funny little nugget to have for Derwin to make fun of Elizabeth for unknowingly making out with her cousin. BUT…. I ended up changing Lord Adam’s entire persona from being someone Elizabeth might be attracted to, to someone Elizabeth knew was up to no good. Because that will become tantamount in later books. So the kissing scene got nixed. (Plus I realized that even if she couldn’t be with Ferryl, it would take Elizabeth a lot longer than a few days or weeks to move on to another man.)
Will you share three of your favorite quotes from the book?
Ooooooh, YES. Gladly!
“I know who holds your leash, Prince Derwin.” smirked King Aaron, sipping again of his wine. “Just as I know you happen to like it that way.”
– Chapter 48, The Purloined Prophecy (I love this because I love Derwin. He’s a grumpy cuss and there is only one person in the world who has his number. And he happens to be married to her.)
“Providence was… He was…
Beyond.
Beyond anything Ferryl could put into words. His light. His color. The radiant glory and power emanating from him like a tangible wave of heat and power and infinity. Eternity. Future and past. The book and the pen that wrote it. The song and the notes that composed it. The canvas and the brush that painted it. Fury. Splendor. Fire. Wonder.”
– Chapter 49, The Purloined Prophecy (I love this quote because of what I mentioned before: the challenge of trying to convey who Providence is in mere words.)
“Maybe I need you, yes. But maybe… Maybe you need me, too.
“Because the truth, Elizabeth, sometimes it’s black and white—as black and white as the halls of Benalle Palace.
“But sometimes, Elizabeth… Sometimes the truth is as nuanced, as colorful as the glittering halls of Chesedelle. And it requires something more of us. Something beyond logic, beyond reason. Sometimes the truth requires…”
“Faith,” she interrupted softly, tears lining her eyes.
“Yes,” he nodded. “Faith. And I think the fact that it requires both faith and logic is what makes it truth at all. I think the fact that it’s both unchanging and depthless is what makes it formidable, eternal.”
– Chapter 52, The Purloined Prophecy (This. This sums up the mystery of my faith. It’s both black & white and as nuanced as a glittering crystal. It is the enigmatic marriage of tangible and intangible. And I think love was given to us to help us understand that, even if only just a little.)
Are there any hidden easter eggs in your book that we should look out for?
Only about a million. Every prophecy, of course. They will all matter. And some of them… well, some of them will be left for you to decide how they will work. The moths. Oh, I can’t wait for you to learn about the moths. And well, I cannot give all of them away because where would the fun be in that? But sufficient to say that there is a LOT more to Michael’s story. And you already know it, you just don’t realize it yet.
How did writing this book help you grow as an author?
I think looking at the world through the eyes of so many different characters has made me a better person. So often in real life I will interact with someone who reminds me of one of my characters. And so I take a moment to listen longer. I make a point to absorb and retain. I think I’ve become a better listener and a better friend. And perhaps those reasons began as selfish character research. But it has taught me to slow down, to soak in, and to appreciate human nature in all its varied forms.
What’s your favorite book? Did it influence this story in any way?
That’s like asking me what is my favorite star in the sky. GEEZ. Okay, I have several go-tos that I read over and over. I absolutely LOVE Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. I make a point to read that one about once a year. I also LOVE The Princess Bride by William Goldman and the entire Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. Of course these books influenced mine. Of course! How could they not? I think all art influences art. I think all life influences art. But in particular, I love how the story of Christ is represented in such a tangible way in Redeeming Love. I love that, again as I said before, a love story teaches us about the Creator’s own heart. Yes, that book is beautiful.
And as for The Princess Bride? The book is witty and clever and quick and yet still sweet and poignant and deeply romantic. I think that had to have influenced me in some ways. I did not set out to write a particular genre. I set out to try to be authentic and write authentic people, with a healthy sprinkling of magic. People who are deep and broken and scarred, but are still funny and clever and witty. People who have many layers, like we do. So of course The Princess Bride influenced that. It’s a masterpiece of light-hearted fairy tale meets profound peek into human nature. I love every morsel of it.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I’m deep in the throes of writing this series. As of now, I have written the first five books of the series and have started writing the sixth. I have eight planned out so far. But I have a sneaking suspicion that there may be more in there. Only time will tell. I haven’t allowed myself to think past this series yet because I’m a bit of a *squirrel* kind of person when it comes to creativity.
BUT… as I write these books, I am also simultaneously working on writing, composing and recording a companion soundtrack, with both songs and scores influenced by the story and characters. I don’t have a definitive release date set for it yet, but you can at least get a sneak peek of one of the songs on the trailer for The Promised One here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MwIK5WvoME (I wrote, arranged, and performed the music for this, and the piece is lovingly called Ferryl’s Song.)
Do you have a favorite dinosaur? If so, what?
Bahahahahahaaha #NonSequiturAlert
Okay ummmm, peg me as one of those people who firmly believes dragons are dinosaurs. Fight me. I don’t really care about real-life dinosaurs, except perhaps Littlefoot (color me a kid of the ’80s). But give me dragons all day. So yes, my favorite dinosaur is a dragon. Elliott, to be precise. Pete’s dragon. He’s perfect. You’re welcome. And while we’re on this dragon vein, I also happen to love Abraxos, Manon’s mount in the Throne of Glass series, though technically he’s a wyvern, which is an armless dragon. Which is really a dinosaur. #Science
Thank you for stopping by, Morgan! It was delightful to hear about behind the scenes of this book and series.
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What’s with all the Hebrew in The Promised One?
Maybe you noticed it… maybe not. But in The Promised One, there are a WHOLE LOT of Hebrew transliterations. Pretty much every proper name, including all the places, provinces, towns, castles, kingdoms, plus all the character names (except a few — more on that in a bit) are Hebrew in origin.
What’s with that?
There’s a pretty simple explanation, actually. The book is an allegory of the Old Testament. (Well the first four books, to be precise. And yes, you guessed it, the books after that will be an allegory of the New Testament. You’re welcome.)
So I spent quite a while researching ancient Hebraic folklore, traditions, fare, culture, even currencies. I took some liberties, of course. I mean, it’s fantasy, kids. But in general, most everything you read is based on the ancient Hebrew culture. So of course, all the names had to be Hebrew.
And let me just tell you… finding a non-ridiculous transliteration spelling of some of the Hebrew words I wanted to use was… challenging. It’s a guttural language, to say the least. So as with some of the tradition and folklore, I took some liberties with spelling too. But it’s so cool to know that every name has meaning, and everything is rooted in the culture that gave us the Bible.
So without further ado, here are some of the more popular proper names in The Promised One, and their meanings (and pronunciations, because I’m generous like that).
Navah (nah-VAAH) — Hebrew; means “home”
Midvar (MID-vahr) — Hebrew; means “wilderness”
Haravelle (HAH-ruh-vell) — Hebrew origin: HAR, means “mountains”
Benalle (beh-NALL) — Hebrew; means “wisdom”
Ferryl (FEH-rill) — Irish*; means “brave one”
Elizabeth (ee-LIZ-uh-beth) — Hebrew; means “promise of God” (hint, hint)
Delaney (de-LAY-nee) — Gaelic*; means “from the black river”
Michael (MY-kull) — Hebrew; means “which man is like God”
Meria (muh-RY-uh) — Hebrew; means “rebellions one” (Ha! I love this!)
Aiken (AY-kinn) — Hebrew; means “made from oak trees”
Erel (EH-rill) — Hebrew; means “hero”
Bedell (buh-DELL) — French*; means “messenger”
Derrick (DEH-rick) — Germanic*; means “rich or powerful ruler of all people”
Chalam (CHAH-lumm) — Hebrew; means “dream”
*There were just some names that no matter how hard I tried, I could not find a Hebrew transliteration or name that fit their personality. And sometimes, if I found the word, it did not an eloquent name make. So I took some liberties from other cultures to find just the right names. Although I must admit to you that when it came to the name Ferryl, I just liked it. It was perfect. Sorry, not sorry.
May 4, 2018 /0 Comments/by Morgan G Farris
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Ampersand Write Presents: Debut Author Morgan G Farris
Hey guys! It’s release day!! Hooray!! The Promised One is officially available for purchase wherever books are sold. Oh man, I am FREAKING OUT!!! I wanted to share with you an article from Ampersand Write, a writing community I am a part of. It was so much fun to answer these questions and I am thrilled to share with you just a little insight into the making of The Promised One.
~Morgan
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Original article by Kristen Aitken, Ampersand Write
Every once in a while, a story comes along that grabs you by the shirt collar and sweeps you off your feet until the last page turns. One such book for me is The Promised One by Morgan G. Farris. Having known Morgan for many years, I could not wait to get my hands on a copy of what she had poured her heart and soul into creating… And, of course, to pick her brain about it for your benefit! Following is a behind-the-scenes look at what became this beautiful, charming, magical tale that is available now for purchase.
Tell us about your book!
Wow, okay doesn’t every author hate having to sum up their story into a few sentences? Ha! My book is called The Promised One and it is the first book in a series I’ve lovingly (and painstakingly) named The Chalam Færytales. (Chalam is the Hebrew transliteration for dream. In the book, you learn of the chalam tree, which has the legend that when two people share of its fruits, they share of the same destiny.) The book follows the stories of Elizabeth and Ferryl, my two main characters, and their journey of finding their way back to each other after being separated by magic, a wicked queen, and a destiny they don’t know that awaits them. They’ve known each other their whole lives, and fallen in love over those years, so that when the story kicks off, you’re not watching a couple fall in love, you’re watching a couple who is already in love figure out what went wrong. It’s a fantasy, so there are mythical creatures and spells and curses and all that jazz. But at the end of the day, I wanted to tell a little bit different kind of love story—the story of what happens after that first kiss.
What gave you the idea for your work?
I think there is one glaring way that art fails to adequately reflect life: love stories. In books and movies, most of the time the best part of the relationship revolves around that first kiss—or that first time the couple finally admits their feelings to one another (however that pans out). But in life, I think we forget that the kiss is only the beginning, and that love is something that is forged over time, not discovered in a moment of passion. I really wanted to read a book about that, but they’re few and far between. Like the adage says, write a book you want to read. So I did. And somewhere in the churning and mulling over of these ideas of love, these characters, this world, and this concept was born. And because I’m a nerd, of course that concept was a fantasy.
What is your favorite character in your work and why?
My favorite character in my book is probably Commander Titus. He’s not a huge part of the story in the beginning, but I introduced him in book one because in books two and three, he becomes paramount to the story (and he doesn’t even know it). But you’ll see even in book one that Titus is a conflicted man. He doesn’t know what he wants, he doesn’t really even know where he stands. He’s fiercely loyal, even to his own detriment, but his main flaw is that he cannot see the good within himself. I love him because I think Titus is a little bit of all of us. He is darkness and he is light and some days he gives in to one of those more than the other. But he wants to be good. He wants to do right. He just can’t quite figure out how in his circumstances.
What is one aspect of your current work that sets it apart from other books/stories?
It was really important to me from the beginning that this story feel real, even though it is set in a fantasy world. I wanted the characters to be relatable, to be people we could see ourselves through. On the other hand, my books are an allegory of the story of the Biblical Messiah. I wanted to convey the magic of that story without preaching and I wanted to paint real people without white-washing them the way Christian literature often does. So the characters are messy. They fail. They have foul mouths (God forbid!). They hurt each other—purposely and accidentally. They hurt themselves. If you’ve ever read the Old Testament, you know there is nothing G-rated about it. I wanted to make sure that my story held true to that. That is why I haven’t marketed it as Christian literature, but also haven’t shied away from saying what it is—a reimagining of the greatest story ever told. It’s a niche genre with an unconventional angle, and from the moment the story began to unfold, I knew I was writing something a bit risky. But I also knew I was supposed to write it, so here we are. I’m genuinely curious to see what people think, to be honest.
Do you recall how old you were and/ or what happened to spark your interest in reading?
I am what you call a victim of the school reading system. In other words: school ruined me for reading. All those AR points turned reading into a burden for me from a young age (a mistake our schools are making that I am quite passionate about, to be honest.) But I did have a few exceptions to that rule that I fell in love with from an early age. Little Women, The Iliad and The Odyssey, and The Chronicles of Narnia, to name a few. But it wasn’t until I was in my early twenties and met my husband that I learned to crave reading and, funny enough, it was his love for Harry Potter that turned me into a bookworm. So yes, I am one of those millions of people who say that Harry Potter ignited their passion for reading. And yes, I was an adult when that happened.
What is your favorite book and why?
I could no sooner pick a favorite book than I could pick a favorite star in the sky. But I do have some go-tos that I can’t seem to quit reading. Foremost, I am a hardcore forever fan of Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. I have read that book too many times to count and I still ugly cry every time. I am also a super nerd for the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. She is just… a stupid brilliant writer and if I could channel even an iota of her voodoo magic, I would.
When did you start writing? And what about that gave you the desire to write?
I started writing when I was nine years old. It manifested in the form of songs for about twenty years and over that time, I’ve written hundreds and hundreds of them. I always loved writing papers in school and in college, but I never considered myself a writer, per se. It wasn’t until the summer of 2014 that I began penning novels. To date, I have written seven novels, but The Promised One is the first one to be published.
What are your main influences (writing-related or otherwise)?
I am heavily influenced by music. I’m a musician, so it’s in my blood. For most of the scenes in my books, I have a song to which I attribute the moment. (For those curious, you can find my Apple Music playlist of those songs here.)
If you could meet one author, living or dead, who would you meet and why? What would you ask them?
C.S. Lewis. Hands down. He and I are kindred spirits in so many ways. He was a skeptic at heart. He never took things at face value, not even his faith. He challenged it, questioned it, and explored it. What he left behind was a legacy of thought-provoking prose that has shaped so much of how I think of God and the world. I’d sit down with a cup of hot tea and ask him to tell me stories the same way Elizabeth (in my book) would ask her father to.
Most definitely my faith. Everything I do is colored by it. I’m not going to preach to you, I’m not going to tell you that you’re wrong and I’m right. But I am going to tell you, in some form of art, no doubt, that an undeniable something has gotten ahold of me, and I’m a better person for it. The Promised One is most definitely a love letter to that faith and a testament to the work of Providence in my own life.
The Promised One, the first book in The Chalam Færytales series, is available for purchase now. You can check out this and other works by Morgan (because she does a lot more than write) here. And check out her book trailer below! (She even wrote, arranged, and performed the music for it!)
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~Kristen Aitken, Ampersand Write
January 9, 2018 /0 Comments/by Morgan G Farris
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What Is The Promised One?
In honor of my book’s upcoming release, I thought I might share with you a little bit about it. The story of where it came from, how it came about, and some of the why behind The Promised One: The Chalam Færytales.
If you’re in the street team, or if you’ve poked around my site or social media enough, you probably know that the first book (actually, the first three books) is an allegory of the Old Testament. In saying that, I want to make something clear: this is not a character for character, scene for scene allegory. Instead, it is an interpretive allegory, meaning that it is heavily inspired by many of the people depicted in the Old Testament, and while themes are the same, it is not just the same story with different names. The main character, Prince Ferryl is heavily based off of two men in the Bible: namely King David and Moses. As you get to know him and read his story, hopefully you will pick up on some of the parallels from his life with that of the lives of these two heroes of the faith. But again, Prince Ferryl’s life does not follow the same paths of these men. He doesn’t go to the enemy king demanding for the release of slaves, he doesn’t see a woman bathing on a roof and take her to be his wife, etc. But he does face a lot of the same themes that Moses and David faced—learning to trust in a God he doesn’t understand, finding himself through faith, and learning to let go of what he wanted for the story Providence had intended for him all along. (Oh, and there may or may not be a burning bush in one of the subsequent novels…)
You might be reading this and wondering what in the world is the point of this kind of story. The truth is, I think the idea of The Promised One was birthed in me when I was a little girl. I remember from a young age, I would lay in a clover patch in my backyard, look up at the sky, and wonder who God is. I would wonder how he created all the things around me—the trees and the bees and the clouds and the wind. Later, those thoughts got a little deeper, to the point that I would ask myself philosophical questions like, “If the universe is so big, surely there is more life out there. And if there is more life, then would God redeem them the same way he redeemed us?” From those thoughts, my mind would wander down wild paths, imagining the story of the Messiah played out in a different world, with different people, a different savior of all souls.
Thus, The Promised One was born.
It’s a conceptual story—a fæerytale based around that idea. What if God redeemed another people? What would their story look like? How would they come to understand that this God of the universe is as undeniable as he is unbelievable? And what would their Messiah be like?
More than that, it is a story about love in its many forms. It’s a love letter to remind us that the heart is the canvas upon which Providence creates his masterpiece. It’s a fæerytale to teach us that love is the catalyst by which hope is born and faith is fostered.
As you read these stories, I hope they inspire you. I hope they encourage you. But most of all, I hope they point you to a providential God that is remarkable, uncontainable, and beautiful. I hope you read these stories and find a little of yourself in Prince Ferryl, or in Elizabeth, or in Michael, or in Delaney. I hope you get lost in another world, another time, another place; and I hope you are encouraged to dig a little deeper into the magic of Providence.
The Promised One: The Chalam Færytales (Book I)
Available January 9, 2018
Some færytales end with a kiss, but for Elizabeth and Ferryl, the kiss is only the beginning.
When the memories of their happily-ever-before are inexplicably stolen, Elizabeth sets off to uncover the truth and save her fabled love with the crown prince, no matter the cost. Meanwhile, Prince Ferryl must unravel the mystery behind his father’s crippling headaches, grapple with the band of rebels infiltrating the borders of his kingdom with suspicious acumen, and undermine the manipulation of a queen with an unslakable thirst for power and control. All while trying to keep his mind off the beautiful stranger who seems to know and understand him too well.
The Promised One is the first book of The Chalam Færytales series—a coming-of-age epic fantasy, a story that begins after the first kiss. It’s a færytale to remind us that magic is everywhere, if only we look—and love may be the most powerful magic there is.
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October 31, 2017 /0 Comments/by Morgan G Farris
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Ampersand Write: For Writers, By Writers
So a few months ago, I had this idea: what if I made a group on Facebook for writers? A place where we could learn from each other, grow in our craft, figure out things as a community, problem-solve.
So I just made one. I’ll never forget that first day when I invited someone to join. About three members in, a person commented on my invitation to join and said, “Why would I join this? There are only three members.” I was a little dejected, but I pressed on.
Fast forward five months later and we’re about 500 members strong and growing every day. I have been overjoyed at what’s going on and the response from the members. We’re an active, uplifting, realistic, useful community unlike any other writing group on Facebook (and believe me, I’m a member of most of them). We’ve started something organic—a true community built on the principle that the best way to grow in your craft is to surround yourself with like-minded people with similar goals.
Thus, Ampersand Write was born. A Facebook group made for writers, by writers.
As the group grew, I got another crazy idea: What if we had a website where we could provide our members with articles about the biggest questions we get? What if we had a place where we could list real businesses and services that we’ve not only personally used, but recommend so that writers don’t have to sift through so many weeds just to find a reliable editor? Or a decent cover designer? What if?
So today, we officially launched ampersandwrite.com. It’s a community, it’s a resource, it’s a hub of information made to help the budding, aspiring writer find exactly what they’re looking for. It’s active, it’s growing, and it’s awesome—we hope you agree!
Who are the &W Admins?
So who are we that we think we know so much? Glad you asked. hahaha
We are a team of four women: three Texans and a Brit. Some of us have been friends for more than a decade. Some of us are neighbors. Some of us met on Facebook! We are mothers and writers and poets and songwriters. We are marketing directors and professional editors and USA Today Best-Selling authors. We all bring something unique to the table, with different goals and ambitions in the writing world. We’ve each made mistakes and learned the hard way in various aspects of this business. But there is one thing we’ve each learned for certain: the writing community is awesome, but it can be overwhelming. When we put our heads together, we realized that we just might be able to make a place that is useful to writers: a resource for all things writing.
Whether you are looking to self publish or traditionally publish, whether you need an editor or a cover designer, whether you need grammatical advice or have a question about how to query an agent, our goal is to be a hub of resources to help you better your craft and learn this business of writing.
So if you haven’t yet, come join us over on Ampersand Write. We’d love to have you!
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Home Diaspora Council of Moroccans Abroad Deplores ‘Childish’ Burning of Moroccan Flag
Protesters in Paris waved Amazigh and Riffian flags to mark three years since the death of fishmonger Mohcine Fikri.
Protesters marched in Paris in support of the Hirak Rif. Photo credit: Ahdath Info.
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Susanna is an editor at Morocco World News.
Rabat – The Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) has issued a statement condemning the burning of a Moroccan flag during a march in Paris over the weekend. The council said the act was “cowardly,” “childish,” and “barbaric.”
Protesters marched in Paris on Saturday, October 26, to mark three years since the death of Mohcine Fikri. The fishmonger’s death ignited the Hirak Rif protests across Morocco’s northern Rif region in 2016 and 2017.
Some protesters, according to state-owned media outlet Maghreb Arab Press (MAP), burned the Moroccan flag. Others marched carrying flags representing the Amazigh (Berber) people, the Rif region, and even the Catalan flag.
“The desecration of the national flag is a criminal act that has nothing to do with freedom of expression,” stated CCME Secretary-General Abdellah Boussouf on Sunday.
Saturday’s protest saw some calling for independence for the Rif region, waving flags of the republic established by Moroccan hero Mohamed Ben Abdelkrim El Khattabi. El Khattabi briefly liberated some of the Rif region from Spain at the Battle of Anoual in the 1920s.
The German Maghreb-Post outlet noted that the crowd in Paris was a “manageable” size. A smaller protest also occurred in Fez.
One outlet reported Polisario supporters also joined the Paris protest.
What was the Hirak Rif?
Mohcine Fikri died in a garbage truck in the northern city of Al Hoceima when he tried to retrieve fish that police had confiscated. Someone activated the truck’s crushing mechanism, killing Fikri. Fikri’s work in the informal sector and his death became a symbol of the Rif region’s economic and social marginalization.
Protests rocked the Rif region from late 2016 into 2017, ultimately leading to the arrest of dozens of protest leaders.
In June 2018, a Moroccan court handed down prison sentences for over 50 Hirak Rif activists. Along with three others, leader Nasser Zefzafi received a 20-year prison sentence. Earlier this month, Zefzafi had called for the protest in Paris on Saturday.
National and international organizations have called the release of Zefzafi and the other Hirak Rif activists. While some activists received royal pardons, the leaders remain in prison.
Read also: Hirak Rif: Al Hoceima Authorities Ban Protests Commemorating Mohcine Fikri’s Death
Morocco’s Penal Code allows for the prosecution of those burning a Moroccan flag. If convicted of showing “contempt of the emblem and symbols of the kingdom,” individuals can face six months to three years in prison.
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There's more. Congress has given great power to hospital administrators and doctors appointed to special hospital "peer review" committees originally set up to review complaints about doctors' work. And hospitals and doctors have used this power to remove competition and foster medical monopolies.
Federal law, specifically The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, shields these committees and hospitals from accountability. As a result, these committees are essentially little oligarchies holding great power over the future of all the other doctors on the medical staff. And they're behaving like oligarchs, often for their own personal benefit.
A single final report from one of these committees can cause a doctor to be kicked out of a hospital and reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank which then makes the information available to entities that meet the "...explicit statutory requirements for participating in the NPDB...." in other words, another group of selected, elite entities and not the general public.
As related by a series of investigative articles by Steve Twedt, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "traditional guarantees of due process or even fair play do not necessarily apply." For example, doctors accused of bad behavior typically aren't even told who the accuser is.
"Disruptive behavior" is a favorite charge for getting rid of a competitor, even when the "disruption" amounts to a doctor complaining about poor patient care by the hospital and confirmed by outside professional and government agencies.
This mess is an example of government losing sight of justice in favor of false politically-motivated efficiency. The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 gave legal immunity to hospitals and peer review committees as long as they could claim a "reasonable belief that the action was in the furtherance of quality health care."
As Twedt writes "And while the law also refers to adequate notice of a hearing, providing an accused doctor with a list of witnesses and giving the doctor a right to question his accusers, those are suggested standards, not requirements. E
ncino physician Mileikowsky, for example, asked for a meeting with the medical executive committee after his suspension. He said the committee kept him outside the hearing room for an hour while it discussed charges that he had 'exhibited a pattern of disruptive, threatening and uncooperative behavior.' Finally allowed in, he had 30 minutes to rebut accusations he was hearing for the first time."
Because they can't use hospital facilities these doctors can't work and generate income. Some are considering personal bankruptcy or are losing their homes through foreclosure.
When ruling in the hospital's favor, judges sometimes say they don't want to interfere with internal hospital business. In doing so, they admit that they're not very interested in truth and justice, either for patients or doctors.
But the problem goes deeper, and is in fact symptomatic of a totalitarian mindset. It goes like this:
1. Ideologues create a theoretically perfect system later adopted by politicians or dictators or welfare states.
2. The system doesn't work.
3. The system itself can't be questioned.
4. Therefore, scapegoats need to be found and show-trialed.
For American politicians, Medicare isn't working out the way they think it should, with complaints and expenses rising. Therefore, the politicians conclude, doctor-wreckers must be doing it. After all, there are 500 times as many patients as there are doctors, with 500 times as many votes. And it's the government's job to root them out - or to at least "send a message", a al Don Corleone, to doctors.
In the interests of Medicare "system integrity" an unelected few doctors, now typically selected by hospital officials, have Star Chamber powers to punish their competitors and monopolize medical business for themselves.
In other words, let's treat patients and doctors as individuals rather than cogs in a government machine.
Robert J. Cihak, M.D., is a Senior Fellow and Board Member of the Discovery Institute and a past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Michael Arnold Glueck, M.D., is a multiple-award-winning writer who comments on medical-legal issues.
There's more. Congress has given great power to hospital administrators and doctors appointed to special hospital "peer review" committees originally set up to review complaints about doctors' work. And hospitals and doctors have used this power to remove competition and...
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The Takeaway & Restaurant Innovation Expo 2016
The countdown is well and truly on for Europe’s leading event for takeaway and restaurant owners. In just over a month’s time, on September 27th& 28th, ExCeL London will be opening its doors for the show’s fourth edition, and we would love to tell you a bit more about what to expect at this FREE, unique, and unmatchable exhibition…
Firstly, in order to give our key stakeholders all the up to date information and innovations within the industry, we have been sending out monthly newsletters leading up to the show. You can read the July and August newsletter by clicking on the links. You can also subscribe and receive the next publication here.
Now onto next month’s show. What awaits visitors at the Takeaway Expo? Well, there will be over 300 leading suppliers, 150 expert speakers, workshops, the Innovation Awards, 1-2-1 advice, and panel sessions. As well as all this, there are five amazing features that take the event’s interactivity, education, and innovation to the highest level. The features are:
The Delivery Zone will be providing a wealth of information and guidance on the best delivery options for you. The area includes suppliers of the transport to get all your food to the hungry household as well as the packaging to keep it safe in the process.
The Drinks Zone presents some of the most cutting edge and inspiring concepts and developments in drinks products and supplies. Amongst the numerous exhibitors at the show will be leading suppliers of drinks machinery, vending machines, and design.
The FoodTalk Radio Show will be hosted by Sue Nelson and Paul Andrews. It will include interviews with some new and innovative exhibitors, gaining insights into the concepts behind their products, services, and business.
The Networking Area will be providing a networking platform that’s unparalleled in scope, diversity, and opportunities to build new relationships and connections with industry professionals from all over the UK and Europe.
And finally, The 2016 Takeaway Innovation Awards. Comprised of four different awards categories; Kitchen, Drinks, Products, and Takeaway Innovation. The judges of the awards range throughout the two days and include influential industry figures such as:
·Ben Taylor (Head of Operations at Nandos)
·Graham Corfield (Managing Director of Just Eat)
·John Aizelwood (CDO at Pizza Hut)
·Mark Fabes (Vice President of Technology at Starbucks)
·Chris Fung (Ex-CEO & Co-Creator at Crussh)
·And many more…
Be sure to attend the Live Debates over the two days, which covers eight diverse and relevant topics including the future of delivery, sustainability, franchising, health and safety, and much more. Get the chance to hold the microphone and ask the leaders of companies such as Just Eat, the Food Standards Agency, and Delivery Mates your very own questions.
Whether you are a restaurant, bar, or café owner, an aspiring catering entrepreneur or just a lover of everything cuisine, make sure you save the date in your diary and register now for a free ticket to this unique exhibition. It’s THE place to be, we promise! Find all the details you need on our website.
I look forward to welcoming you to the show.
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Book of the Month for Oct 2019
The Gardens of Bunny Mellon
Alicia Whitaker
The Gardens of Bunny Mellon by Linda Jane Holden
Vendome: New York, London, 2018. 308 pages
$60.00 $34.99 Amazon
You may wonder why a book about the gardens of a wealthy socialite would be recommended for NARGS members by implication of this book review. As I learned from The Gardens of Bunny Mellon, this extraordinary woman was a hands-on gardener, a designer of many gardens, the creator and custodian of an extraordinary horticultural library, and a general force in landscape design and gardening in the second half of the twentieth century. Rachel Lambert Mellon grew up during a time when wealthy women were expected to plan menus and shop; she did these things, but went way beyond the conventional expectations for her class to have an impact on gardens, horticultural scholarship and gardening.
Bunny grew up as the daughter of a wealthy family, but early in her life asked for a small plot of land at the family home and got busy planting and tending a garden. The Lambert’s garden in Princeton was designed by the Olmsted Brothers, and was an exceptional landscape. This interest in hands-on gardening was encouraged by her grandfather and tolerated by others in the family. When she finished Foxcroft, she came out in society and was expected to marry almost immediately, as young women in her circle were not encouraged to go to college. She did marry in her twenties, but before that, she learned a great deal about plants and landscapes, and designed a number of gardens for friends of the family.
Bunny and her first husband settled in Virginia, where she continued the garden-making and interest in horticulture that would continue until her death. The Second World War interrupted what had been an idyllic domestic life. The young couple had become close friends with neighbors Paul Mellon and his wife and during the war, both men served in the OSS, a predecessor to the CIA. After Mellon was widowed, Bunny divorced her husband and he and Bunny married and began fifty plus years of art and house collecting, garden making, and philanthropy.
The Mellons had a number of residences, including homes in Virginia, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Antigua, Paris and Manhattan; Bunny designed gardens and oversaw the plantings for each. Oak Springs Farm in Virginia evolved as their primary residence and became the home for her extensive library of rare garden books, encompassing over 16,000 books, manuscripts, prints, herbals, florilegia dating back to the 14th Century. When Bunny died in 2016, she left a legacy of $400 million to support the preservation and development of the Oak Springs Garden Library. She used these resources as operating manuals for her gardens, as well as valuing them as important cultural documents.
In addition to her own gardens, Bunny is known for having designed the Rose Garden at the White House. She was a close friend of Jacqueline Kennedy’s and their families often got together to sail and share meals on Cape Cod. Jack Kennedy had noticed magnificent garden spaces in Europe and asked her to design a new space for the White House that could be used for ceremonial functions. Her design, featuring four southern Magnolias at the corners, boxwood and roses, survives to this day. There’s a wonderful story about how she identified and reached out to a gardener, Irwin M. Williams, to come back to the National Park Service to oversee the planting and maintenance of this special space. He remained as Head Gardener for fifty years. After Kennedy’s death, she designed the simple landscaping at his gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery. Her great friendship with Jacqueline Kennedy continued until her death.
Bunny was dressed by the couturier Balenciaga until his retirement, who then passed her on to Hubert de Givenchy, who became a great friend. She helped him to design the parterres and gardens at his country estate outside of Paris – Le Jonchet. He became President of the World Monument Fund and engaged Bunny and her husband as patrons for the conservation of the Louis XIV Potager du Roi, the kitchen gardens, at Versailles. Over and above providing the money for the restoration, she had significant hands on involvement in the plan. The contingent of gardeners from Versailles present at the celebratory dinner to honor the opening of these gardens clapped when she entered the room and recognized her as “one of our own.”
Upon her death in 2016, Bunny provided for a continuing legacy for gardeners and gardening by endowing the Oak Springs Horticultural Library. The Oak Springs Foundation is working on restoring and maintaining the gardens there are sponsoring educational programs for scholars and gardeners alike. The abiding interest of her life and her greatest comfort was to be found in gardens and gardening, and we are better for that.
Alicia Whitaker is President of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons and a member of McNARGS. Unlike Bunny Mellon, she has killed every myrtle topiary she's tried to grow. Among other things, Bunny was known for her legions of topiaries.
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South Asia Compared by Economy > Currency > GDP > Constant 2000 US$
Constant 2000 US$
DEFINITION: GDP (constant 2000 US$). GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in constant 2005 U.S. dollars. Dollar figures for GDP are converted from domestic currencies using 2000 official exchange rates. For a few countries where the official exchange rate does not reflect the rate effectively applied to actual foreign exchange transactions, an alternative conversion factor is used.
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1 India $1.37 trillion 2012
2 Pakistan $138.47 billion 2012
3 Bangladesh $92.36 billion 2012
4 Afghanistan $12.43 billion 2012
5 Bhutan $1.53 billion 2012
Interesting observations about Economy > Currency > GDP > Constant 2000 US$
Three of the top ten countries for GDP per capita are island nations: Bermuda, Cayman Islands, and Iceland.
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Renovation Complete on Tallest Portion of Border Fence in Southwest US
By Danny Freeman and R. Stickney • Published at 10:40 am on October 26, 2018
The renovation is complete on the tallest border fence in the southwestern region of the U.S. and the Department of Homeland Security Secretary called on Congress to move forward with funding of President Donald Trump's proposed border wall.
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke Friday in Calexico, California along the repaired fence near the El Centro Port of Entry.
“Walls work,” she said. “We’ve seen the success of walls in El Paso, in Yuma, in San Diego and in the past, right here in the El Centro sector.”
She also addressed the heightened security around the U.S. due to a series of mail bombs and her department's request for military troops along the border.
This plaque now on this Calexico stretch of a border fence reads “This plaque was installed on October 26, 2018 to commemorate the completion of the first section of President Trump’s border wall.” @nbcsandiego pic.twitter.com/ZpCl5FqFpu
— Danny Freeman (@DannyEFreeman) October 26, 2018
The repairs to an old, dilapidated fence made of landing mats were funded by 2018 appropriations. The construction began in February and ended on Oct. 4.
"Currently, this 30-foot wall is the tallest border wall deployed along the southwest border," said El Centro Sector Border Patrol Chief Gloria Chavez.
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A steel bollard wall has been built in the area considered to be the most active in illegal crossings and attacks on federal agents, Chavez said.
Early next year, DHS will begin construction on 11 more miles of 30-foot fence. Three more miles of fence will extend to the east and eight more miles of fence will be built to the west.
The fenced area toured Friday is not part of the prototypes built last year near the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
The eight prototypes that stand about 30 feet tall and 25 feet wide are made from a variety of materials.
In a report released in September, some of those prototypes were breached when they underwent testing by tactical teams, including experts from CBP, U.S. Special Operations Command and the Marine Corps Special Operations Command.
Nielsen called on Congress to approve funding for the proposed border wall. There are two bills in Congress that would offer amounts varying from $1.6 billion to $5 billion for funding a border wall, according to NBC News.
NBC News reported in August that White House officials have suggested the entire wall project could cost $8 billion to $12 billion and internal DHS assessments suggest that the cost could be even higher - as much as $21 billion.
While in El Centro, Secretary Nielsen addressed the current investigation into mail bombs intercepted in several states as well as the news this week that the Department of Defense has approved deploying troops along the U.S.-Mexico in support of President Trump.
The department has heightened the security posture at federal facilities around the nation in response to the devices targeting a number of high-profile politicians, Nielsen said.
“If you notice a strange package or if you see something that appears out of the ordinary, do not remain silent,” she said. “If you see something, say something.”
Nielsen also addressed a question regarding the military deployment of troops to the border.
“We have asked for engineering support, logistics support, “ Nielsen said. “I don’t have any information with respect to particular troop numbers, that’s up to DOD to meet our request.”
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Long-Awaited “Red Tails” Finally Has a Trailer, Release Date
Published at 11:28 am on August 1, 2011
Way back in 1988, George Lucas actually had something other than Star Wars on his mind. He wanted badly to pursue a movie idea called "Red Tails," based on the true story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African-American fighter pilots in WWII.
Then he got sidetracked by midichlorians and Jar-Jar.
Well, Lucas never gave up on the idea, and "Red Tails" was pulled along on a tortured production rollercoaster.
Finally finished in 2009 by director Anthony Hemingway ("The Wire," "CSI," "Treme") from a screenplay by John Ridley (who created "Undercover Brother." Yes, for real), "Red Tails" was rumored to be a mess that required Lucas to dig through the footage and radically retool it all (even, according to reports, changing the entire main plot and lead character focus). Still, it boasts some, well, intriguing names in front of the camera: Terrence Howard, "Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston, Cuba Gooding Jr. (who needs this, badly), Method Man, and, er, Ne-Yo.
Whatever the behind the scenes shenanigans, the movie finally has a trailer and a release date: January 20, 2012. Right in the middle of....post-Christmas, Not Quite Bad Enough for February But Almost Season. Sigh.
We'll reserve our final judgment until we see the finished product. In the meantime, check out the trailer.
Its heart is in the right place, clearly, but who knows if the heavily-CG action (Lucas' Achilles heel) will work on the big screen.
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Campus briefs
Education news from Springfield-area campuses
Campus briefs Education news from Springfield-area campuses Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/1fblMtb
SNL Published 5:31 p.m. CT March 30, 2014 | Updated 6:58 p.m. CT March 30, 2014
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Free concert by MSU bands tonight
The University Wind Ensemble, Symphonic and Concert Bands will be in concert at 7:30 p.m. today. The performance will be presented in the Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts. Each group has prepared music of a particular style. The Wind Ensemble is preparing a program of band classics. The Concert Band will honor American composers, contemporary and traditional.
The Symphonic Band will take the stage as the final ensemble for the evening with the theme "Let Freedom Ring!" Selections include a riveting composition titled "Rockets' Red Glare," a soul-moving piece called "Arlington (Where Giants Sleep)," and toe-tapping marches such as "Stars and Bars" and "Nobel Men." The concert is free. The public is invited.
Freshman accepted into national honor society
Jessica Albright, Willard, was recently accepted into the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. NSCS is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies and is the nation's only interdisciplinary honors organization for first-year and second-year college students. Albright is a freshman at MSU, majoring in marketing and entertainment management with a minor in international business.
SBU Chorale presents free spring concert
The Southwest Baptist University Chorale will present its spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Pike Auditorium. Under the direction of James R. Tarrant, director of choral studies and professor of music, the selectively auditioned chorale will present works from several eras of choral music represented by composers such as William Byrd, Heinrich Schütz and Giancarlo Aquilanti. Many of these works will be performed a capella style. The ensemble enjoys a reputation for performing varied works from the spectrum of choral music. The chorale's spring concert is free and open to the public.
Evangel's Qualls presents paper in Washington, D.C.
Joy Qualls, assistant professor of communication at Evangel University, recently presented a paper at the National Communication Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Qualls was part of a four-person panel that focused on theology as rhetorical criticism. The NCA is the largest national professional organization for scholars of communication.
Qualls' paper was titled "Theology Belongs to the Artists as Much as the Apologists: Rhetorical Criticism in Walter Brueggemann's The Prophetic Imagination." The paper explained how Brueggemann's book could be used as a means of analyzing religious and political communication. She also examined the role of the Christian in speaking prophetically to the culture and the power structure of the world.
OTC Career Fair is scheduled Wednesday
Ozarks Public Broadcasting, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Big Cedar Lodge and Great Southern Bank are just a few of the employers who will be at the Ozarks Technical Community College Career Fair from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday. The event will take place in Lincoln Hall, Room 211. Lincoln Hall is at the southwest corner of Central Street and Sherman Avenue. The event is free and open to the public.
Job seekers should come prepared with resumes in hand, professional dress, a 30- to 60-second introduction that details the candidate's skills and education, and ready to ask engaging questions.
For a complete list of employers that will be present at the career fair, go to www.otc.edu/ careerservices/.
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Exclusive: It's My Job to Handle Alpha Males Dhoni and Virat, Says Ravi Shastri
In an exclusive interview with CNN-News18, Ravi Shastri talks about his 18 months as Team India Director and everything that went around during that period.
Ayaz Memon |CNN-News18 |April 23, 2016, 11:34 PM IST
Hello and welcome to CNN-News18. I have got a special guest with me today - Ravi Shastri. Thank you for being with us, Ravi - Team Director, back to commentary, where exactly are you placed these days?
Ravi Shastri: Doing commentary. Doing commentary on the IPL. I think it’s going along nicely. it’s going to be a cracking tournament, with a lot of teams showing promise.
Ayaz Memon: And the assignment with the BCCI in terms of coaching or being involved with the team, is that part of agenda? Will that happen?
Ravi Shastri: Well, that’s entirely up to the BCCI. I have had a chat with them, so let’s see what happens in the coming months.
Ayaz Memon: A lot of things are happening within the cricket establishment. Let me just focus on two things which recently have had far-reaching implications. One is that we have heard possibly the 2017 IPL may be played overseas. I mean that’s very drastic according to me because IPL is a domestic tournament.
Ravi Shastri: The IPL can go anywhere, it’s a global product. I see no reason why it can’t go overseas, or part of it. Ideally you want it to be played here because this is for Indians fan; this is where you get maximum crowds. It’s an industry, it’s not just the cricket part of it. The hotels are full, airlines get this thing, the number of people who get jobs around the IPL. It’s massive, so why should it go outside? So I think IPL should stay in India. But then if there is no choice, for a couple of weeks, three weeks, why not! Because it went to South Africa - massive success. And when it went to the UAE, it was an even bigger success because no one expected that many people coming to every game in Dubai. It was simply outstanding and full marks to the authorities there. Sheikh Nahyan (bin Mubarak) was personally in charge of it. He did not leave any stone unturned. He made sure that everything was in place.
Ayaz Memon: But one of the purposes of the IPL, as put out by the BCCI, when it started was to nurture the young Indian talent. And if you take it away, there is some erosion, certainly in the purpose.
Ravi Shastri: But then if you have no choice, like you have had problems this year in shifting of venues, and it’s a logistical problem that you are facing, to get the tournament to finish smoothly. Then you have no choice, you may as well go out for a couple of weeks. Why not!
Ayaz Memon: Let me ask you bluntly. Do you think the BCCI is getting hemmed in by a lot of by these issues and pushed into a corner?
Ravi Shastri: When I see it from the outside, it’s unfortunate, because people are just harping on the negatives of the IPL, which I think are 5 per cent or 6 per cent. The positives of the IPL, which should be given importance as well, are not getting the same amount of importance. But that’s the mindset of a certain section of people. But the positives are it produces damn good cricket and it gives youngsters a chance to showcase their talent. If you see India’s recent success in one-day internationals, it’s because of the IPL. You won the 2011 World Cup, a lot of players came through the IPL. You were in the finals, two semi-finals of World Cups. It’s because you have a stable of youngsters who come through the IPL.
Ayaz Memon: So the impact of the IPL on Indian cricket I am going to talk about. But having said what you did that just 5-6 per cent is the negative part, and yet it has become a huge enough issue to be taken to the Supreme Court?
Ravi Shastri: It’s because IPL is such a massive property.
Ayaz Memon: But also there might have been, why might have been, there must have been some neglect in the overall running of it.
Ravi Shastri: Oh, no question about it! When something gets that big, there will always be an underbelly, which needs to be improved upon. Everything can’t be perfect, but as long as you show signs that you are willing to accept mistakes and you are willing to try and improve it, I think the people will understand that.
Ayaz Memon: So as an insider, as you were part of the governing council, you do accept or you do believe mistakes were made?
Ravi Shastri: Yes, nobody is perfect, but you have to learn. It’s such a massive event. You might not pay attention to a thing which you think is not important, but in the end it becomes important. So you live and you learn. You learn from your mistakes and I am sure the BCCI and the (IPL) Governing Council, at the moment, are looking to do exactly that.
Ayaz Memon: There is also the appointment of a Chief Executive Officer, the first-ever CEO of the BCCI. There has been a clamour for this kind of a position for a while now. Do you think - and this is again a candid question – this is kind of a figurehead position, or do you think it was really needed?
Ravi Shastri: I think it’s a step in the right direction. It should have been there some time ago, because I am a firm believer in professionalism and accountability.
Ayaz Memon: Professionalism and accountability are issues, which sometimes a lot of people feel are not really in sync with how the BCCI functions. That’s a perception; I am not saying it is true.
Ravi Shastri: So probably that perception might change, now that a CEO has been appointed - because that’s where the professionalism will come from, and he will be accountable.
And from what I have heard, it’s a very good appointment. He comes with a lot of experience. I have not met the gentleman, but he comes with a lot of experience and he has been in the field long enough.
Ayaz Memon: So professionalism was not possible because people within the BCCI didn’t pay enough attention to it, or is it because it wasn’t allowed?
Ravi Shastri: No, I won’t say that. The level of accountability, what you want to see, probably wasn’t there. When you are doing honorary jobs, then it becomes very difficult. You are still giving your time to the game and ensuring that everything runs smoothly. But I think with professional appointments, that accountability will come, where, whoever is the bloke appointed, his job can be on the line if he doesn’t do it properly.
Ayaz Memon: So the flip side, and this is one of the criticism that we have had in the past, is that say for an instance not as a team director but when you were a commentator, all the commentators were being paid money by the BCCI and therefore the BCCI wanted them to say only what the BCCI thought was right.
Ravi Shastri: That’s the biggest load of garbage I have heard. Absolute nonsense! I was contracted for about six years, not once did the BCCI tell me say this or don’t say this. I was free to speak on what I saw.
Ayaz Memon: You could say as you saw it?
Ravi Shastri: Absolutely, as I saw it. So if it came out to the viewers that the BCCI is smelling of roses, because I said it, so be it. But not once did they tell me don’t say this or don’t say that, neither was it part of my contract.
Ayaz Memon: Why hasn’t the BCCI been encouraging – and it’s not that they can’t do it - but why it has not been encouraging a players’ association? Not that they can force it, it’s up to the players.
Ravi Shastri: I don’t think it’s needed. You go and ask any of the players. They are extremely happy with the way things have gone in last 10 years, 10 or 15 years. I don’t think anyone is complaining. Because they get the money, there is the IPL that’s come into play. There is an opportunity for a lot of youngsters to make a very good living and be secure for the rest of their lives. I don’t think anyone is complaining. But there again, there might be areas which you could do even better. Because if you go and ask the players, they will say they are very happy but this can be done better, that can be done better. But it will be just one or two per cent, I would say. But most of them, they will be more than happy. Where do you do need associations? You need associations where there is no communication between the players and the board. When that comes to a standstill, like probably in the West Indies, then there is an issue. But when the communication is good between the BCCI and the players why do you need an association?
Ayaz Memon: To protect or safeguard their interests?
Ravi Shastri: For that you can have a committee of two players or three players or five players with integrity who are on that committee and who act as the buffer between the players and the board, if need be. You don’t need an association.
Ayaz Menon: One of the fears has been, especially at the lowest-rung players, of almost like a class system, that the best-known players are the best-paid players. They are very secure, the others may not be. Is that a genuine concern?
Ravi Shastri: I don’t think so. You got to earn your buck. You know the CEO of a company doesn’t get paid the same amount as the guy who has just joined six months ago. He has to earn his stripes. He has to show his quality, he has to show his class and work up the ladder to command that kind of respect and the payment he gets.
Ayaz Memon: A couple of questions more about the IPL. One is the technical part, the cricketing part, and there are a lot of critics who believe that it has had a deleterious effect on the game. Do you agree? And on the face of it, guys like Virat Kohli seem to be maestros at all formats.
Ravi Shastri: I don’t think so at all. I think it was the adrenaline or the injection that the game needed for it to evolve. I think the amount of money that comes through the IPL can be put back into the grass-root levels so that Test cricket and first-class cricket is sustained. I would look at it the other way round.
Ayaz Memon: What about players focusing only on T20s or the IPL and not having an ambition beyond that. Is that a problem?
Ravi Shastri: I don’t think that. When I see the young Indian team, they all want to play Test cricket for India. You go and ask a Yuvraj Singh, you go and ask a Sehwag, you go and ask a youngster who is playing today, a Manish Pandey or anyone else. They will say we want to play Test cricket for India. That is the desire. But then, if you are not good enough, you have no choice but to fall back on either 50-over cricket or T20 cricket.
Ayaz Memon: What about mentoring of players, especially in the Indian context. You are 18, 20 or may be 21, and you run into megabucks. Pawan Negi gets eight and a half crore suddenly, and then mindsets change, attitudes change.
Ravi Shastri: I think it’s a very good point, especially for a guy under 23. When he has not got the exposure and suddenly he gets that much money falling his way, I think it’s not a bad idea for the BCCI to keep a certain amount of that, like a benevolent fund, and give it to the parents or the people concerned. Once the guy has seen a little more, post 25 maybe, give it to him, so that the money is safe. Plus he gets the interest on that and then he can do what he wants, and he would be a little more mature.
Ayaz Memon: Ravi, your association with the Indian team as Team Director is now almost 18 months, though it came in bits and pieces to start with. So how do you see your own performance? Are you happy with what has been achieved, or would you have liked something else to have happened? It’s a self-appraisal.
Ravi Shastri: I think I am more than satisfied. If you told me at the start of 18 months this is what you will achieve at the end of 18 months, I would have taken it on day one. Because if you see where India were when I took over the job and if you see where India is today, not just the rankings but the brand of cricket they have played, the quality of cricket they have played across all formats, at home and away, has been outstanding. If anything, you might say a World Cup (because) we lost in two semi-finals. I would say one World Cup, because in 2015 I thought we played above our potential in Australia and lost to the best team. Okay! Here (ICC World Twenty20 at home), I thought we didn’t play to our potential. We played at 75% of our ability. So that was a little disappointing. But you still made it to the semi-finals, you still lost to a team that went on to win it, and were destined to win it.
Ayaz Memon: Test cricket. You yourself keep saying that Test cricket is the ultimate benchmark for any cricketer. Are you seeing the Indian team head towards the No. 1 spot, not as a one-series wonder but more consistently?
Ravi Shastri: That’s what we have strived to achieve, consistency. Because if you look here we were 18 months ago, we were five or six on the ladder. You are No. 2 now, you were briefly No.1 and you don’t get there if you are not consistent. So you have had some good series, you lost 2-0 in Australia, but you beat Sri Lanka for the first time in 23 years in Sri Lanka after being one-zip down, then beat South Africa in India, a team that hadn’t lost overseas in 10 years. So there have been positive results, but like you said, the endeavour would be consistency.
Ayaz Memon: One thing that hasn’t changed much is India’s performance overseas barring the mid-80s period where, I remember, the Indian team did very well - in 1986 we won in England and so on and so forth. This team, as talented as it may be, everybody was saying let’s wait for the youngsters to come good and then we will do well overseas, that has not really happened.
Ravi Shastri: Since we took over the job, since I became the Director and our team, we played three Test series. We lost 2-0 in Australia, which I thought was fabulous, because in both those Test matches we lost, we had a chance to win. So I saw a lot of positives there. And what happened later, with the India one-day team and Test-match performances doesn't surprise me one bit, because I knew hard work was put in there. (With a) Little bit of luck, you could have won the Adelaide Test. And you had Australia on the mat in Brisbane after scoring 400, they were 240 for 6. So there are positives. The result will show 2-0, but I would say it shows 2-0 not 4-0, like in the past. So I see massive improvement there and that’s why you won in Sri Lanka and then against South Africa.
Ayaz Memon: Since you mentioned that Australia Test series, I must ask you about Virat Kohli, because that seemed to be the turnaround series for him as a batsman - almost 700 runs. What’s been the change? You saw him in England in 2014. He struggled a bit, and then suddenly...
Ravi Shastri: It’s just mind over matter. It just goes to show how strong he is mentally, and you got to give him the credit for it, because of the work he put in. And I have said his work ethics are unmatched, and I mean it, because you have just got to see the way he prepares, the way he trains, the effort he puts into a performance and the passion which he brings to the table, which is unbelievable. His batting in Australia, I don’t think I have seen batting of that sort ever by an Indian overseas. I saw Jimmy Amarnath in the West Indies in 1983 - which was a level above everything else - and Virat Kohli on the same page. Four hundreds in four Tests took you back to the days of Viv (Richards) at his prime.
Ayaz Memon: A lot of people say that he is like a soulmate, a kindred soulmate to Ravi Shastri in the way he lives his life or he approaches the game. Do you share that? There is a Bombay phrase which you must be familiar with, which is called the GTU – gire to bhi taang upar (Even if you fall, your feet are up).
Ravi Shastri: That should be the case. In our lot of billion people, that ought to be the case. It must be the primary quality.
Ayaz Memon: Is he also a GTU boy?
Ravi Shastri: No, no, I was a naughty boy. This guy is much more disciplined. He is passionate, he is aggressive. I just love the way he approaches a game. He looks you in the eye and he wants to play proper cricket. He doesn’t want any freebies. He wants to earn it. He wants to earn his stripes. That kind of personality, it spreads around. That’s why you can see a lot of other players in the team also wanting to emulate him.
Ayaz Memon: Are you living through him something that you couldn’t have, or you couldn’t get?
Ravi Shastri: I enjoy it.
Ayaz Memon: No, the captaincy, I mean, now that he is captain - because you captained in only one Test. Is that (Kohli’s leadership) one kind of an outlet or expression?
Ravi Shastri: I won’t say an outlet, but I am enjoying every bit of it in the dressing room with him around, because he has taken it to a different level. I see huge potential for this team. It’s a young team in transition. But I see huge potential.
Ayaz Memon: Is Shastri living by proxy?
Ravi Shastri: No, no. I have been passionate about the game. There are very few who can say are more passionate than me. I am not Mr. Beaten in 35 years - either as a player, as a broadcaster, now as a Director. You have not missed a month of cricket in those 35 years. So, you are passionate about it, and when you see someone taking the game to another level and then helping his personality rub off on the other players, it’s a great feeling. I am telling you the job satisfaction I got after 18 months, I haven’t got in any other profession.
Ayaz Memon: I will come to that about the other profession also, but what’s the mantra? A lot of them, almost everybody in this present team, have been singing your praises. So what’s it? I mean is it buddy-buddy, spending time with them?
Ravi Shastri: No, no. It’s one word – trust. The trust in one another is fabulous. If anyone has to say something, he will tell you on your face. There’s no bitching, there’s no pointing fingers or talking behind one’s back.
Ayaz Memon: It’s not four dressing rooms within one dressing room?
Ravi Shastri: Absolutely not. It’s one, and they want to play as one, not as individuals.
Ayaz Memon: What is your advice to them?
Ravi Shastri: Making sure you instill that trust - where a person should know even when he is told something in a strong manner, it’s constructive. It’s not coming with any agenda. It is straight talk for your own good.
Ayaz Memon: This is something that interests me. How do you handle two alpha males? You have got two captains. You have got Dhoni, you have got Virat Kohli - and they are completely contrasting personalities.
Ravi Shastri: That’s the job, but then there is tremendous mutual respect for each other, which is great. Virat knows how much of a help MS was when he started. MS is fully aware of the quality of player Virat is and what he contributes to the team, and the passion he brings to the table game after game. There is tremendous mutual respect there, very little problems.
Ayaz Memon: Were you bowled lock, stock and barrel when Dhoni announced his retirement from Test cricket?
Ravi Shastri: Absolutely, and if there is anything more than bowled, that also (laughs), because it came as a bolt out of the blue, absolutely.
Ayaz Memon: Not an inkling?
Ravi Shastri: Not an inkling. He just came into the dressing room and said, 'Guys, I just want to say something'. And that was it. But, that is MS. No one has to tell him when to go. That’s why, you know, even I get irritated when people keep asking him ‘are you going to carry on, are you going to retire’ - because he is a kind of guy who will disappear when you don’t even expect it. And he is a certainty in the side. If he wants to play all three formats, he will be a certainty in all three formats.
Ayaz Memon: Maybe he should. But my point is - is he what we see on the field, the cool guy, the unflustered?
Ravi Shastri: Absolutely, the same.
Ayaz Memon: And, in the dressing room?
Ravi Shastri: Absolutely the same.
Ayaz Memon: He doesn’t throw the bat around or...
Ravi Shastri: That others can do, even I might do.
Ayaz Memon: Cartwheels when the team is not doing well?
Ravi Shastri: Absolutely, he is measured. What you see is what you get with him, and the same with the other alpha male. What you see is what you get.
Ayaz Memon: I think the important thing is that they both get along well.
Ravi Shastri: Absolutely.
Ayaz Memon: Coming to a few generic questions, as when you have been part of the ICC technical committee and stuff. One is why can’t the ICC, and certainly with lot more support from the BCCI, push for cricket to be part of the Olympics. There was a move earlier - the Australians, especially Steve Waugh and Adam Gilchrist, were moving towards that.
Ravi Shastri: I think it’s too early.
Ayaz Memon: T20 format lends itself?
Ravi Shastri: Yeah, but it can be done at the ICC stage itself. I feel T20 is the best way of spreading cricket. If there is any format where you can have 16 teams or 20 teams around the world, it’s in T20. Yes, you will get those off matches. But T20 is the only place where you get teams that can upset anyone, like you saw Afghanistan beating the West Indies (in World T20), who eventually went on to become world champions, and the passion they bring to the table. Like that, there might be some other teams who must be encouraged to play this format, and then you see how it goes. After two or three World Cups, you have 16 or 18 teams. Then there could be a case to push it there.
Ayaz Memon: What about the toss, I mean Steve Waugh, Ricky Ponting, Michael Holding also say let’s do away with the toss.
Ravi Shastri: What are you talking! Then I will have no job if you take away the toss. As a commentator, I will have no job. (laughs). Jokes apart, I think the toss should stay because it’s part of the tradition, it is one of the great things in the game. I remember reaching a ground for a 10 o’ clock start to make sure that you got into the Brabourne Stadium by 9:25 or 9:20, just to see the two captains getting out. It’s something that has stayed with the game from the outset. And it adds to the picture. So I see no reason why it should be taken away. You win the toss, you win the toss. You lose it, you lose it.
Ayaz Memon: Do you think that a lot more players today, retired and recently retired, are getting engaged and involved – maybe because they are professionals at some cost – to, for instance, administration. You got Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid with the under-19, under-25 team which is relatively below the radar but he is there.
Ravi Shastri: Fabulous! Why waste that knowledge, and if you can give it back, in whichever sort of way. Like for me, now doing this job is so enjoyable and gives you that much job satisfaction because you feel you are contributing. You have got that 35 years of experience, and if you can give back something to the game, nothing like it. The amount of goodwill you get from fans around the world is unbelievable.
Ayaz Memon: So I must ask you now which is your preferred position when the game is concerned?
Ravi Shastri: Job satisfaction?
Ayaz Memon: Team director or commentator? With those fabulous phrases that everybody seems to love, the ‘tracer bullets’ that you let out in front of the mic
Ravi Shastri: No, no, not like that. ‘Into the fence like a tracer bullet’ (emulating his own style). That’s the way it should go. But (as far as) job satisfaction? Director. It’s tough. Blood pressure levels go way through the roof, and the stress factor involved is tremendous. As commentator, zero stress.
Ayaz Memon: Zero stress, but there must be time when you got really..
Ravi Shastri: Yes, you will get butterflies for a big game, but nowhere near the kind of tension you see at the start of an India-Pakistan game, or on the eve of an India-Pakistan game. Unmatched!
Ayaz Memon: So what’s been your most memorable moment as a commentator, because you have been actually on air during several fantastic moments in Indian cricket.
Ravi Shastri: Only one.
Ayaz Memon: Which one?
Ravi Shastri: Dhoni, the man on strike. Way she goes into the crowd, India win the World Cup, the party begins on Marine Drive. (Emulating his commentary after Dhoni’s six won India the 2011 World Cup).
Ayaz Memon: Fantastic, I think that’s a good note, that’s a high note to end on. Thanks you so much Ravi for being with us.
Ravi Shastri: Pleasure.
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CBS Promotes Social Justice with Poem to 'White Boy Privilege'
By Nicholas Fondacaro | July 13, 2016 10:45 PM EDT
During Wednesday’s CBS Evening News the network chose to give a boost to Social Justice Warriors by ending the show with a poem to “white privilege.” “We end tonight with a poem, written and performed by an Atlanta teenager this past spring, but it's been getting new attention from millions after the violence that shook America last week,” stated CBS Anchor Scott Pelley.
The poem titled “White Boy Privilege” was performed at a poetry contest at a private school my Royce Mann, and a video of it made it online. “Royce Mann's message was a plea from a 14-year-old white male going to a private school in Atlanta -- let everyone share his privileges,” reported CBS’s Mark Strassmann.
The parts of Mann’s poem which were aired include these passages:
To be honest, I'm scared of what it would be like if I wasn't on the top rung, if the tables were turned and I didn't have my white boy privilege safety blanket to protect me.
I love it because when I see a police officer, I see someone who is on my side.
“I’m just trying to be truthful about like how I wouldn't trade places with somebody and that I think a lot of people sometimes aren't so truthful about that,” Mann explained to Strassmann.
Mann’s poem had gone viral Strassmann noted, “After Minnesota, Baton Rouge and Dallas, Mann's poem struck a nerve on line. Many loved it. Others attacked him. More than eight million people have seen it.”
The CBS segment concluded with a line from Mann’s Poem, “It's time to let go of that fear. It's time to take that ladder and turn it into a bridge.” Mann’s poem won the contest.
6:57:06 PM Eastern [1 Minute 54 Seconds]
SCOTT PELLEY: We end tonight with a poem, written and performed by an Atlanta teenager this past spring, but it's been getting new attention from millions after the violence that shook America last week. Here's Mark Strassmann.
ROYCE MANN: My name is Royce. My poem is titled "White boy privilege."
MARK STRASSMANN: "White Boy Privilege" was an entry in a school poetry contest.
MANN: To be honest, I'm scared of what it would be like if I wasn't on the top rung, if the tables were turned and I didn't have my white boy privilege safety blanket to protect me.
STRASSMANN: Royce Mann's message was a plea from a 14-year-old white male going to a private school in Atlanta -- let everyone share his privileges.
MANN: I love it because when I see a police officer, I see someone who is on my side.
I’m just trying to be truthful about like how I wouldn't trade places with somebody and that I think a lot of people sometimes aren't so truthful about that.
STRASSMANN: Racial division seared America last week. After Minnesota, Baton Rouge and Dallas, Mann's poem struck a nerve on line. Many loved it. Others attacked him. More than eight million people have seen it.
MANN: Everyone should have the privileges I have. In fact they should rights instead. Everyone's story should be written so all they have to do is get it read. I get that change is scary, but equality shouldn't be.
I'm not asking anybody to give up their lives to fight for equality. I have other dreams, too. I'm just asking you to try and be an ally, to do your share. When you see something that you think is wrong, that's discrimination, speak up.
It's time to let go of that fear. It's time to take that ladder and turn it into a bridge. [Applause]
STRASSMANN: He also won that poetry contest. Mark Strassmann, CBS news, Atlanta.
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Docs Say Choose Organic Food To Reduce Kids' Exposure To Pesticides : The Salt It's important for kids to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables, America's pediatricians say, but there are fewer pesticides and a potentially lower risk of exposure to drug-resistant bacteria in organic produce, if you can afford it.
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Parents now have more advice to consider when it comes to choosing organic foods. Here, Theo Shriver, 6, weighs organic produce at the Puget Consumers Co-op in Seattle.
For the first time, the nation's pediatricians are wading into the controversy over whether organic food is better for you – and they're coming down on the side of parents who say it is, at least in part.
It's worth buying organic to avoid pesticide residues, at least in some foods, says the American Academy of Pediatrics in a report released today. Contrary to what the Stanford University study on organics a few weeks back suggested, the pediatricians say when it comes to feeding kids, relying on federal standards for pesticide residue isn't good enough.
The pediatricians are worried because babies of female farm workers in California showed small but significant developmental and motor delays when their mothers were exposed to pesticides at levels similar to those deemed acceptable in conventionally grown produce while pregnant.
No studies have been done to see if exposure to similar levels of pesticides from simply eating produce would cause similar problems. But since early childhood exposure to lead and other toxins at very low levels is now known to be harmful, the pediatricians think caution is in order.
"Clearly if you eat organic produce, you have fewer pesticides in your body," Joel Forman, an associate professor of pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and a lead author of the new report, tells The Salt. That's particularly important for young children, he says, because they are especially vulnerable to chemical exposure while their brains are developing.
That puts the pediatricians in a pickle, they admit, because they also want children to eat more fresh fruits and veggies, not less. They know that organic still costs more in most cases, and that many parents can't afford to buy only organic food.
"We don't want to be telling people to eat organic if in the end, they eat less healthy," Forman says. Instead, he says, parents should think about buying organic for fruits and vegetables that are more likely to contain more pesticide residue, like spinach and celery, and going conventional for veggies like cabbage and sweet potatoes, which tend to have less.
The new report recommends using the Environmental Working Group's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce to help decide. "It's a good resource," Forman says. "Nobody disputes the quality of the data."
The pediatricians disagreed big time with Stanford University scientists who last month reported that since conventional foods usually didn't exceed federal limits for pesticide residue, buying organic didn't really matter. The Stanford researchers also found that there were no nutritional benefits to eating organic, by and large, which sparked an uproar at NPR and elsewhere.
Forman says the pediatricians found the data on nutrition flawed and confusing, so they didn't think it possible to give clear advice on that aspect. "Moisture levels in soil, when you harvest – that makes tons of difference in nutrients," Forman says.
The docs do agree with the Stanford scientists that organically raised meat and poultry is more likely to be free of contamination with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Conventionally-raised livestock is often fed antibiotics to stimulate growth, but large-scale use is considered a key cause for the rise of deadly resistant strains. They are calling for more studies on this.
But the pediatricians went with the federal government and the National Dairy Council in pooh-poohing any health benefit to milk marketed as free of growth hormones — the ones used in cows. "Bovine growth hormone doesn't work in people," Forman says. "There's very little in the milk. And even if there was, it wouldn't be absorbed. You're not exposing your child in any way, shape or form." Using growth hormone in cows might actually have environmental benefits, the doctors conclude, because it would take fewer cows to produce a given amount of milk.
They also say kids should stay away from raw milk because of the risk of illness.
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Weehawken Office Building on the Block, Ready for Multifamily Conversion
Kelly Stratton | Jul 24, 2012
NEW JERSEY—A 163,438-sq.-ft., fully vacant office building situated on a Hudson River Pier in Weehawken is being marketed for sale. HFF has been retained on an exclusive basis to arrange the sale of 1500 Harbor Boulevard, which offers an opportunity for a multihousing conversion.
Located across from Midtown Manhattan with views of the Hudson River and New York City, the property has conceptual drawings that allow for 108 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments on the second and third floors over 116 parking spaces on the ground level.
The building is within Lincoln Harbor and offers close proximity to amenities including a NY Waterway Ferry stop, Sheraton Hotel, Lincoln Harbor Yacht Club and a variety of restaurants including Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, The Chart House, Houlihans and Masina Trattoria.
Constructed in 1987, the property is situated in a Special Waterfront Zone: Planned Development District. It is being offered clear of existing debt.
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Announcing the Finalists! Whose Web-Scale Wish Will Come True?
By Laura Whalen
As you know, the goal of the Web-Scale Wish Datacenter Makeover Project is to gift more than $500,000 in web-scale technology to deserving non-profit organizations. Nutanix is incredibly grateful for this opportunity to give back, and we truly appreciate your support and contributions.
The worldwide community submitted hundreds of notable nominations, and our five community judges have contributed their time and expertise to follow an unbiased, calculated process to determine these three finalists:
Berry Street (AU)
CLASS LTD (US)
The Air Ambulance Service (UK)
Congratulations and best of luck to these deserving non-profit organizations! They spend 100% of their time and effort contributing to communities across the globe, and we’re honored to be able to contribute what we do best to help support these amazing causes.
About Berry Street:
“Since 1877, Berry Street has chosen to work with children, young people and families, with the most challenging and complex needs, including those for whom we are often the last resort. Last year, we helped over 27,000 of the most disadvantaged children, young people and families across our community. We believe all children should have good childhood, growing up feeling safe, nurtured and with hope for the future.”
Their Top IT Challenges: “Chronic underfunding. Through our funding agreements we’re obliged to use several different data systems – none of which inter-operate. It costs us large amounts of staff time to (manage) these disconnected systems.”
Their Web-Scale Wish: “Two words: Data warehouse. We want to pour their data (from all of the disconnected systems) into a central bucket, and develop reporting and data entry tools. We’re going to need a place to put this data, and a place to analyse it. We don’t have the time or expertise to design and manage a bespoke system. The in-built data management is brilliant – the cost savings on licensing other products alone is significant for us.”
About CLASS LTD:
“CLASS believes everyone deserves the opportunity to live a rewarding, fulfilling, and meaningful life, and that having a developmental disability does not diminish the desire or right to pursue this dream, it simply makes the journey more challenging. (We) offer a wide range of innovative service options to meet individual needs and provide opportunities for persons with intellectual or other developmental disabilities to maximize their potential, independence, community inclusion, acceptance, and individual rights. CLASS LTD is a technology driven company due to the collaboration needs of our employees and the large amounts of client data we must maintain. We have 6 offices across 5 counties and approx. 200 employees. We have to maintain a high level of security due to HIPAA regulations.”
Their Top IT Challenges: “Working on a tight budget. We try hard to do a lot with very little.”
Their Web-Scale Wish: “To complete the virtualization of our server infrastructure since most of it is running on outdated hardware. Do to our budget constraints we can only add a little equipment at a time.”
About The Air Ambulance Service:
“The Air Ambulance Service runs (two regional) helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS), and The Children’s Air Ambulance – an emergency helicopter transfer service for critically ill babies and children across England. We provide these services free of charge to both patients and the NHS. We treat at the scene before transferring to the hospital with the best resources. The Children’s Air Ambulance is able to drastically cut the time it takes to carry out transfers, meaning tiny patients can get lifesaving care as soon as possible – giving them the best chance of survival and recovery. IT is absolutely essential to the running of the organisation (because) our users are extremely dependent on the services we provide. From the pilots who fly a tracked aircraft as they carry a baby for life-saving treatment, to the administrative teams which respond to calls, emails and letters, and process donations.”
Their Top IT Challenges: “We have 4 offices, 29 shops, a number of remote users, and a small IT staff. The Head Office has an array of equipment (from) two sites that merged earlier this year. (The equipment) was chosen to keep costs as low as possible, with no consideration for growth. We don’t have proper server resilience, nor do we have capacity on the physical servers for VMs, so we have to rely on backups, which is time-consuming on restore.”
Their Web-Scale Wish: “Converged infrastructure that’s reliable and easily managed, and can accommodate multiple, dedicated VMs. The Nutanix platform is scalable, (and) we are looking to expand our operations and continue to grow. It would also offer us the benefit of increasing the resilience and availability of our services. The converged solution utilises the storage pool in a more optimised way, and there would even be space available for us to start using VDI. It would also free up resources in the way of cost and time, whilst providing a solution that would perform much better for our users. Saving energy is also quite important to us. (The money that) IT would save can (instead) be put toward operational costs, the impact of which means that we will be able to assist our organisation to fly more missions and save more lives.”
These three finalists are in the running for the Grand-Prize package – a 48-hour Ultimate Web-Scale Datacenter Makeover that includes:
NX-3350
3 Ultimate Software Licenses
3 Years of Support
2-Day Installation Services
The Grand Prize is pretty sweet, but the good news is that all three organizations will be winners, because the two runners-up will receive a web-scale equipment and support package that includes:
How can YOU determine the grand-prize winner?
A two-minute video by each of the three finalists will be front & center on webscalewish.com next Wednesday, Dec. 10, and you can vote for your favorite cause during the 24-hour voting period that accommodates all regions worldwide (from Dec. 10 at 12:00am ET, to Dec. 11at 12:00am ET). The winner you choose will be announced following the public voting period, and their well-deserved web-scale datacenter makeover will begin in the new year!
An immeasurable thanks to all of the judges, nominators, organizations, and everyone else who has contributed to this epic project so far… we couldn’t have made this happen without you!
So get ready and mobilize your troops to cast their votes online next Wednesday for your favorite cause! It’s all up to you…
Laura Whalen
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Arts|Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies?
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Credit...Photo illustration by Delphine Diallo for The New York Times; Universal Pictures, STX Films, Warner Bros. DreamWorks Pictures (Film stills)
In many Oscar bait movies, interracial friendships come with a paycheck, and follow the white character’s journey to enlightenment.
By Wesley Morris
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“Driving Miss Daisy” is the sort of movie you know before you see it. The whole thing is right there in the poster. White Jessica Tandy is giving black Morgan Freeman a stern look, and he looks amused by her sternness. They’re framed in a rearview mirror, which occupies only about 20 percent of the space. You can make out his chauffeur’s cap and that she’s in the back seat. The rest is three actors’ names, a tag line, a title, tiny credits, and white space.
That rearview-mirror image isn’t a still from the movie but a warmly painted rendering of one, this vague nuzzling of Norman Rockwell Americana. And its warmth evokes a very particular past. If you’ve ever seen the packaging for Cream of Wheat or a certain brand of rice, if you’ve even seen some Shirley Temple movies, you knew how Miss Daisy would be driven: gladly.
[Read about the best and worst moments of the Oscars | Read Spike Lee’s passionate acceptance speech.]
As movie posters go, it’s ingeniously concise. But whoever designed it knew the concision was possible because we’d know the shorthand of an eternal racial dynamic. I got off the subway last month and saw a billboard of black Kevin Hart riding on the back of white Bryan Cranston’s motorized wheelchair. They’re both ecstatic. And maybe they’re obligated to be. Their movie is called “The Upside.” A few months before that, I was out getting a coffee when I saw a long, sexy billboard of white Viggo Mortensen driving black Mahershala Ali in a minty blue car for a movie called “Green Book.”
In “Green Book,” set in the early 1960s, Viggo Mortensen, left, plays a driver for a pianist portrayed by Mahershala Ali.Credit...Universal Pictures
Not knowing what these movies were “about” didn’t mean it wasn’t clear what they were about. They symbolize a style of American storytelling in which the wheels of interracial friendship are greased by employment, in which prolonged exposure to the black half of the duo enhances the humanity of his white, frequently racist counterpart. All the optimism of racial progress — from desegregation to integration to equality to something like true companionship — is stipulated by terms of service. Thirty years separate “Driving Miss Daisy” from these two new films, but how much time has passed, really? The bond in all three is conditionally transactional, possible only if it’s mediated by money. “The Upside” has the rich, quadriplegic author Phillip Lacasse (Cranston) hire an ex-con named Dell Scott (Hart) to be his “life auxiliary.” “Green Book” reverses the races so that some white muscle (Mortensen) drives the black pianist Don Shirley (Ali) to gigs throughout the Deep South in the 1960s. It’s “The Upside Down.”
[Read The New York Times review of “Green Book.”]
These pay-for-playmate transactions are a modern pastime, different from an entire history of popular culture that simply required black actors to serve white stars without even the illusion of friendship. It was really only possible in a post-integration America, possible after Sidney Poitier made black stardom loosely feasible for the white studios, possible after the moral and legal adjustments won during the civil rights movements, possible after the political recriminations of the black power and blaxploitation eras let black people regularly frolic among themselves for the first time since the invention of the Hollywood movie. Possible, basically, only in the 1980s, after the movements had more or less subsided and capitalism and jokey white paternalism ran wild.
On television in this era, rich white sitcom families vacuumed up little black boys, on “Diff’rent Strokes,” on “Webster.” On “Diff’rent Strokes,” the adopted boys are the orphaned Harlem sons of Phillip Drummond’s maid. Not only was money supposed to lubricate racial integration; it was perhaps supposed to mitigate a history of keeping black people apart and oppressed.
The sitcoms weren’t officially social experiments, but they were light advertisements for the civilizing (and alienating) benefits of white wealth on black life. The plot of “Trading Places,” from 1983, actually was an experiment, a pungent, complicated one, in which conniving white moneybags install a broke and hustling Eddie Murphy in disgraced Dan Aykroyd’s banking job. The scheme creates an accidental friendship between the duped pair and they both wind up rich.
But that Daddy Warbucks paternalism was how, in 1982, the owner of the country’s most ferocious comedic imagination — Richard Pryor — went from desperate janitor to live-in amusement for the bratty son of a rotten businessman (Jackie Gleason). You have to respect the bluntness of that one. The movie was called “The Toy,” and it’s simultaneously dumb, wild and appalling. I was younger than its little white protagonist (he’s “Master” Eric Bates) when I saw it, but I can still remember the look of embarrassed panic on Pryor’s face while he’s trapped in something called the Wonder Wheel. It’s a look that never quite goes away as he’s made to dress in drag, navigate the Ku Klux Klan and make Gleason feel good about his racism and terrible parenting.
These were relationships that continued the rules of the past, one in which Poitier was frequently hired to turn bigots into buddies. The rules didn’t need to be disguised by yesterday. These arrangements could flourish in the present. So maybe that was the alarming appeal of “Driving Miss Daisy.” It went there. It went back there. And people went for it. The movie came out at the end of 1989, won four Oscars (best picture, actress, adapted screenplay, makeup), got besotted reviews and made a pile of money. Why wasn’t a mystery.
Any time a white person comes anywhere close to the rescue of a black person the academy is primed to say, “Good for you!,” whether it’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Mississippi Burning,” “The Blind Side,” or “The Help.” The year “Driving Miss Daisy” won those Oscars, Morgan Freeman also had a supporting role in a drama (“Glory”) that placed a white Union colonel at its center and was very much in the mix that night. (Denzel Washington won his first Oscar for playing a slave-turned-Union soldier in that movie.) And Spike Lee lost the original screenplay award for “Do the Right Thing,” his masterpiece about a boiled-over pot of racial animus in Brooklyn. I was 14 then, and the political incongruity that night was impossible not to feel. “Driving Miss Daisy” and “Glory” were set in the past and the people who loved them seemed stuck there. The giddy reception for “Miss Daisy” seemed earnest. But Lee’s movie dramatized a starker truth — we couldn’t all just get along.
For what it’s worth, Lee is now up for more Oscars. His film “BlacKkKlansman” has six nominations. Given the five for “Green Book,” basically so is “Driving Miss Daisy.” Which is to say that 2019 might just be 1990 all over again. And yet viewed separately from the cold shower of “Do the Right Thing,” “Driving Miss Daisy” does operate with more finesse, elegance and awareness than my teenage self wanted to see. It’s still not the best movie of 1989. But it does know the southern caste system and the premium that system placed on propriety.
[Spike Lee finally won an Oscar. And his speech was worth waiting for.]
The movie turns the 25-year relationship between Daisy, an elderly Jewish white widow from Atlanta, and Hoke, her elderly, widowed black driver, into both this delicate, modest, tasteful thing — a love letter, a corsage — and something amusingly perverse. Proud old prejudiced Daisy says she doesn’t want to be driven anywhere. But doesn’t she? Hoke treats her pride like a costume. He stalks her with her own new car until she succumbs and lets him drive her to the market. What passes between them feels weirdly kinky: southern-etiquette S&M.
Bruce Beresford directed the movie and Alfred Uhry based it on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which he said was inspired by his grandmother and her chauffeur, and it does powder over the era’s upheavals, uprisings and blowups. But it doesn’t sugarcoat the history fueling the regional and national climes, either. Daisy’s fortune comes from cotton, and Hoke, with ruthless affability, keeps reminding her that she’s rich. When she says things are a-changing, he tells her not that much.
Platonic love blossoms, obviously. But the movie’s one emotional gaffe would seem to come near the end when Daisy grabs Hoke’s hand and tells him so. “You’re my best friend,” she creaks. But her admission arises not from one of their little S&M drives but after a bout of dementia. And in a wide shot, he stands above her, a little stooped, halfway in, halfway out, moved yet confused. And in his posture resides an entire history of national racial awkwardness: He has to mind his composure even as she’s losing her mind.
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Today: Three decades ago, the Academy Awards gave its highest honor to a movie about a white passenger learning to love her black chauffeur. On Sunday night, it gave the same award to a film about a white chauffeur learning to love his black passenger. Times culture critic Wesley Morris on Hollywood’s obsession with fantasies of racial reconciliation.
It’s Tuesday, February 26.
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Good evening, and welcome to the one millionth Academy Awards. We are not your hosts, but we’re going to stand here a little too long so that the people who get USA Today tomorrow will think that we hosted.
So last night, I was watching the Academy Awards. I was struck that it was John Lewis, this congressman, but most importantly, this legendary civil rights leader, who introduced “Green Book” at the awards ceremony.
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I can bear witness that the portrait of that time and place in our history is very real.
And basically endorsed it. And I haven’t seen the movie, but his stamp of approval made me think that I should have.
Our nation bears the scars of that time, as do I. [APPLAUSE]
And then after “Green Book” won best picture, later on in the evening, I’d read that Spike Lee, the black director, he walked out of the room in protest.
wesley morris
And that the award generated a fair amount of controversy. So my question to you is, what exactly happened here?
O.K., well, where do you even want to start? How far back in history do you want to go?
Wherever you think we should in order to really understand this.
Oh, man.
Let’s go back to 1990, which is the Oscar year for the films that came out in 1989. And you have a best-picture slate that is full of movies that we still are with in some ways.
If you build it, he will come.
“Field of Dreams” and “Dead Poets Society.”
We are food for worms, lads. Because believe or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing.
“Born on the Fourth of July.”
People say, if you don’t love America, then get the hell out.
And “My Left Foot,” which we don’t really talk about enough, but it made Daniel Day-Lewis a star, and gave him the first of his zillion Oscars. And —
[CAR ENGINE STARTING]
“Driving Miss Daisy.”
My mother’s a little high-strung.
The fact is, you’d be working for me. She can say anything she likes, but she can’t fire you.
And remind me what that film was about.
“Driving Miss Daisy“?
“Driving Miss Daisy.” “Driving Miss Daisy” is the story of an old Jewish lady played by Jessica Tandy, whose son insists that she’s too old to drive her car. So he hires a black guy to drive the car for her.
Now, Miss Daisy, you need a chauffeur. Lord knows I need a job. So why don’t we just leave it like that?
His name is Hoke. He’s played by Morgan Freeman. And over the course of, I guess it’s maybe 30 years, this professional relationship deepens into a kind of friendship.
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You’re my best friend.
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No, go on now, Miss Daisy. You don’t have to —
No, really. You are.
It is a fantasy set during Jim Crow in the South about an impossible friendship that is based in work. And that makes us feel good, because you see this prejudiced woman in a racist climate become friends with this black man who just wants to drive her around. Basically, what happened that year was that Kim Basinger at some point comes out.
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Hello, the world. We’ve got five great films here. And they’re great for one reason, because they tell the truth. But there is one film missing from this list that deserves to be on it, because ironically, it might tell the biggest truth of all.
And she says, oh, wait a minute, something’s not in this category. And it’s the movie that tells the biggest truth of all.
And that’s “Do the Right Thing.”
So Kim Basinger comes in.
Kim Basinger.
Famous white actress, and says, something’s amiss here. “Do the Right Thing” should be nominated.
Never met Spike Lee. She is dating Prince at this point. Spike Lee — one of Spike Lee’s favorite people on the whole planet. But I don’t think that really matters. Anyway, she comes out and says this, and it’s a controversial thing. The room is sort of unsure what to do about this.
And what’s the basic plot?
The basic plot is —
Fight the power! Fight the power!
It is a parable set on the hottest day of the year in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
archived recording (speaker 1)
Who told you to walk on my side of my block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?
I own this brownstone.
Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street?
I can’t even hear myself think!
And all kinds of racial tensions bring people to converge on this pizzeria. And you just have all this tension, and things boil over. There is a melee. Someone dies at the hands of the police. Then you have a riot.
Doctor.
Come on. What?
Always do the right thing.
It’s by Spike Lee. It’s his best movie.
I got it, I’m gone.
It’s one of the greatest movies ever made in the history of American cinema.
So in 1990, which film ultimately wins best picture?
Michael, I told you what they were. What do you think won?
And the Oscar goes to “Driving Miss Daisy“!
And what does it mean that “Driving Miss Daisy” won best picture in that year?
That it’s the continuation of a long trend of a kind of racial reconciliation fantasy.
And what does that phrase mean?
Well, it’s this idea that you’ve got a white character who typically tends to be racist or bigoted or prejudiced or whatever. And that person is going on this journey, courtesy of this relationship to a black person who has no journey to go on, is just there to morally be a center that this white person can return to, or, like, make his or her way toward.
And just to be clear, break down this word “fantasy” for me. What is the fantasy?
The fantasy is that prolonged exposure to a black person is going to cure you of your racism. The black person just has to sit there and take your money. And you’re basically buying a friend, who will then absolve you of every horrible thought, every racist deed you’ve ever had or done.
And what does that look like? How does that fantasy, this dynamic you’re describing — how does that show up in pop culture over the next few years and maybe even decades?
Well, let’s just skip to the ‘80s.
What do you give the kid who has everything?
Daddy said anything I wanted. Anything in the store.
So there’s this one movie that I remember very clearly. It’s called “The Toy.”
For Eric Bates, it was the only toy in his father’s store —
I know what I want.
— that wasn’t for sale.
What you’re offering me is not a job, sir. It’s an insult, and I’m insulted.
Richard Pryor, who, at this point, if people were taking a poll and saying, name the greatest living comedian, Richard Pryor would probably be at the top of almost everybody’s list. He’s recruited in this movie by Jackie Gleason to be the best friend of his estranged son. Pays him money.
$2,000?
With that kind of money, if Eric blows his nose, you wipe it.
And the idea is that he’s going to befriend this kid.
If you want a friend, you don’t buy a friend. You earn a friend.
Who is initially pretty obnoxious. Meanwhile, the guy who — Jackie Gleason’s character is a bigot and a racist, and at some point has to be taught by Richard Pryor’s character that that’s not cool, and being a father is pretty O.K., too.
Why would Richard Pryor take this kind of a role?
Your guess is as good as mine. But it’s like, why does anybody take any of these roles? Because there’s nothing else for them to do if they want to be in movies. You don’t have a lot of black people writing and directing movies. Most of the people writing these shows and directing and writing these movies are white people whose ideas about black people come from popular culture that existed before the popular culture they’re making. It’s usually not coming from actual relationships with actual black people. And if it is, it’s compromised by the idea that there’s only so much that they can imagine a black person doing in the first place. So this idea of behind-the-camera representation becomes important during this period, too. But I mean, for our purposes, it’s white people imagining black people, for white people. And then in the 2000s, you have a very easy, classic example of this problem.
I got a job today writing for the Jackson Journal.
In a movie like “The Help,” another best picture nominee.
Aibileen, you spilled something.
Forgive me, Lord, but I’m going to have to kill that woman, Aibileen.
And it is essentially the story of some maids in a southern town.
You said to write about what disturbs me, particularly if it bothers no one else. I’d like to write something from the point of view of the help. I want to interview you.
Who wind up being written about as an exposé.
I’m gonna help with your stories.
We all are.
Of the poor treatment they receive at the hands of their white mistresses.
It’s quite scandalous. Sounds like Jackson, if you ask me.
And the book becomes a hit. But it then winds up imperiling the lives and the safety and comfort of the women themselves.
You tell Aibileen, do I have plans for her. You’re a godless woman.
And what is the fantasy in “The Help“?
Well, the fantasy is that you can make the lives better for oppressed women during the Jim Crow era, in which, you know, black people were treated all kinds of horrible — death, dehumanization, any kind of inequity you can subject a person to black people faced under Jim Crow. And by writing this book, which is what the white main character of this movie does, it’s supposed to make these lives better. And the fantasy is that this woman can come in, interview these black women, they will give their stories to this white woman, who will write a book, sell a bunch of copies. And these black women are going to be left to fend for themselves. But the fantasy that this woman is allowed to have about her do-gooderness is that she actually is making a difference and is going to create a means by which these women can be treated better by the white women they work for.
When in fact, in some cases, she makes it worse.
She makes it worse. The last shot of that movie is really kind of tragic.
Mae Mobley was my last baby. In just 10 minutes, the only life I knew was done.
It’s just Viola Davis walking down a road — with no job, by the way.
God says we need to love our enemies.
It’s hard to do.
It kind of creates this sense that Emma Stone is kind of off the hook, and Viola Davis is on a hook. And the fantasy of the reconciliation is that the conscience-clearing and the act of expressing empathy or sympathy or something is enough.
I guess I want to push you on this. Doesn’t inherently spending time with people who are different than we are make us more empathetic? And why would that be anything other than a good thing?
That’s a deep question. The immediate answer, though, is that it’s on the terms of white people. There’s nothing mutual about any of these movies, any of this work. It’s not mutual at all. You aren’t going into the houses and lives of these black characters. And they’re presented as so good as to have no agency. Now “The Help” sort of pushes back against that a little bit. But to be fair, I mean, if the movie works, and it works as a movie, it’s very easy to overlook a lot of these problems. A well-made movie is effective as a spell-casting mechanism, right? You know, you watch a movie like “The Help,” and you’re like, but she wrote the book. She got the truth out there about how bad it is for these maids. And what more can she do? What more do you want her to do? She did her job. I just feel like that is a great way to feel, but I’d love to see a black woman’s version of “The Help.” But I don’t think you’d ever see that, because black people don’t want to tell that story. And the other thing about these movies that’s really worth noting, especially the ones that get near the Oscars, these racial reconciliation fantasies are almost always set in the past. They’re all set during the Jim Crow-era, in the South for the most part, and involve something about the relationship between the white person and the black person being unequal, whether it’s the black person’s I.Q. in “The Green Mile” or the social standing of the black person in “The Help.” So these are movies that would say they believe in equality, but there’s nothing equal about the races in them. There’s an inherent imbalance. And the fantasy, of course, is just acknowledging that black people exist and giving them some lines and casting a good actor to play them is a kind of argument for an equality. But it’s not, if you look at the way they function within the system that the movie created for itself.
So lay out for me specifically how you see this racial reconciliation fantasy playing out in “Green Book.” And I haven’t seen the movie, so keep that in mind.
You’re in for a treat, my friend. So here we are in 2019, and just imagine all this progress in 30 years. So this is the year where the movies have just never been blacker, and the black movies you get have never been this good, right, as a class of movies. You’ve got a movie like “Blindspotting,” “Sorry to Bother You,” “Black Panther,” “BlacKkKlansman.” You’ve got “If Beale Street Could Talk.” You’ve got “Widows.” this is coming a year after “Get Out” was a hit. And that’s coming a year after “Moonlight” won best picture.
All having major black protagonists.
Major black protagonists? They were written and directed by black people. It’s a huge deal. It’s meaningful. So here we are, 2018. This movie called “Green Book” starts to make its way around the country. And it should be the story of a man named Don Shirley, a black musician who is no longer with us, and the trip he decides to take to the Deep South in 1962. 1962. Like, Jim Crow Deep South, 1962. And he needs somebody to be able to get him from place to place.
Some guy called over here, a doctor. He’s looking for a driver. You interested?
I am not a medical doctor. I’m a musician. I’m about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South. What other experience do you have?
Public relations.
It’s got to be somebody who’s tough, has a little bit of muscle, isn’t afraid of anything, but is also obviously white.
Do you foresee any issues in working for a black man? You in the Deep South? There’s going to be problems.
So he decides that the man for the job is a guy named Tony Vallelonga, a kind of bouncer from the Bronx. Now what I just said to you is the opposite of what the movie actually is. The movie is actually the story of Tony Vallelonga, and how he gets a call one day from somebody for a job. And he goes and meets Don Shirley, who he sees and is like, I’m driving for you? No way, I’m not doing that. And Don Shirley, of course, is like, but I need you, you’re my man. You seem to be the most qualified person for the job. Please do it. Drive me. He consents. Thus begins a friendship almost completely from the vantage of Tony Vallelonga.
The white guy.
Yes. Tony is the protagonist of this movie. We spend the first 25 minutes of it with him. And I saw the poster for this movie, and the poster is Viggo Mortensen in the front seat, Mahershala Ali, who plays Don Shirley, in the back seat. The first thing I thought was, oh my god, you gotta be kidding me.
It’s “Driving Miss Daisy” all over again! This is 1989 all over again. I can’t believe this.
Kentucky Fried Chicken. In Kentucky. When’s that ever going to happen?
I mean, it’s a comedy all in the service of making you feel good about the idea that racist Tony Vallelonga can become increasingly less racist by driving Don around a place that the movie wants you to understand is more racist than Tony.
I got the bucket so you could have some.
I’ve never had fried chicken in my life.
Who are you bullshitting? You people love the fried chicken, the grits and the collard greens. I love it too. Negro cooks used to make it all the time when I was in the army.
You have a very narrow assessment of me, Tony.
Yeah, right? I’m good.
No, no, you’re not good. You’re bad. I’m saying just because other Negroes enjoy certain types of music, it doesn’t mean I have to, nor do we all eat the same kind of food.
Tony is like a nice, friendly, lovable cartoon racist. But I mean, he’s nothing compared to these Jim Crow people. You know, these Confederate racists who use the N-word every 15 minutes and have Confederate flags everywhere and will beat Don up for coughing. We’ve never seen Tony do that. This entire movie is — oh my god, it’s a literal vehicle to get Tony from racism to reconciliation in under two hours.
Eat it. Come on. Take it, take it, take it. I gotta drive. 10 and 2 on the wheel. Come on, take it. Take it. Come on, come on.
I can’t do this, Tony.
Eat the [expletive] thing. Jesus.
So this year’s Academy Awards happens on Sunday night, 30 years after “Driving Miss Daisy” wins best picture, and Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” is not even nominated for best picture. What’s going through your head as the evening unfolds? I assume you’re watching it.
Yeah, I was. I was watching it. I mean, I have to watch it.
Here are the nominees for best picture.
I mean, obviously, there’s a juiciness, right? There’s a kind of moral juiciness. You’ve got “Green Book” nominated for best picture and four other Oscars. And then you’ve got Spike Lee back at the Oscars in a competitive way for the first time since that Oscar loss in 1990 for “Do the Right Thing.” He was nominated one other time, but this is, like — this is the big boys’ table if you’re Spike Lee.
So here we are. We’re having a little bit of PTSD, because a movie that’s just like “Driving Miss Daisy” is up against a movie in “BlacKkKlansman” —
There’s never been a black cop in this city. We think you might be the man to open things up around here.
That features a black guy in the Colorado Springs Police Department, who basically, via telephone, infiltrates the K.K.K., pretending to be a white guy hoping to join.
This is Ron Stallworth calling. Who am I speaking with?
This is David Duke.
Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, that David Duke?
Last time I checked. What can I do you for?
And it obviously is trying to depict a more accurate racial scene than “Green Book” is trying to depict.
We must unite and organize to fight racism.
Are you down for the liberation of black people?
Power to the people.
All power to all the people.
That’s right, sister.
This is very much, in a sense, a rematch of 1989, 1990.
It is a spiritual rematch involving one of the actual participants, but in different categories, right? And so the stakes are this. If “Green Book” wins, and you’ve got a movie like “BlacKkKlansman” nominated for best picture, what on earth is that telling you about where the academy is as a body and what its priorities are in terms of whose point of view matters to the most people?
And the Oscar goes to “Green Book.”
And so I feel like I really understand why that movie won. It really does believe that Don Shirley’s insisting that Tony Vallelonga be in his life makes Tony a better person. That feels good, right? It feels good to see a person make a positive change from a bad place to an arguably good one. And I don’t know, there’s just — it’s very hard to resist that. I mean, for the people who do like it, it is a really good movie. It’s entertaining, and it’s funny. And it’s made by Peter Farrelly of the Farrelly Brothers, the people who brought you “Something about Mary” and “Shallow Hal” and “Me, Myself and Irene.” These guys know how to make a comedy. That’s what they do. And that’s what this movie is, 100 percent — it’s a comedy. And I don’t think most people watch movies that morally. And there are people who — you bring this up, and I’m like, but who is Don Shirley to this movie? People get upset. Listen, it’s about interracial friendship. It’s about healing the divide between the races. How dare you? This is a good movie. And it’s saying something positive.
Why do you want negativity in the world? And I never have a good answer for that, because those people — those people aren’t wrong. But I also feel like this movie is not the solution to anything. It is the perpetuation of the same problems our entertainment’s been giving us since it started.
So Wesley, what is significant about this best picture award? What does it mean that the academy chose a film like this — one with, to use your words, this racial reconciliation fantasy as so central to its plot — as the best film of the year?
It’s a fantasy. And it does nothing to address or acknowledge the infrastructural problems that keep the races divided. If anything, the enthusiasm for a movie like “Green Book” only makes — it kind of makes the problem worse, in some ways. Because it makes it seem like the movies don’t care about the way racism actually works. They just want to make racism go away. I mean, let me just put it this way. I’ll put it in the most human terms I possibly can — personal terms. I have white friends. I see very little art about the kind of friendships I have with white people. I have friendships with white people that don’t involve making them feel better about their racism, to the extent that they have it. We talk about that stuff. Like, why did you say that? Why did you do that? These are not cataclysmic conversations. These relationships are about a mutual curiosity. These people want to know what my life is like as a black person. They want to know what my family is like, what my family history is like. There is a give and take. There is a real questioning of the larger systemic problems in this country that affect the relationship that I’m even able to have with these white people. And that is not the thing that you see discussed in these movies. I think that the movies have an obligation to entertain us, but I think they also have an obligation to be fair to certain aspects of social reality. Because people take lessons from this stuff. All I’m saying is, “Green Book” is another version of a movie we’ve been watching for 100 years.
Wesley, I’m really struck that I think it was about a month ago, you wrote an essay for The Times in which you kind of laid out everything we’re talking about now. You reminded us that 30 years ago, “Driving Miss Daisy” won, and that this idea of the racial reconciliation fantasy remains prominent in Hollywood and was at the center of “Green Book.” And you seemed to kind of presciently suggest that that movie might win and that it might carry the day because of the power of this concept you were describing. And that is exactly what happened.
I mean, listen, there’s a part of me that’s like, I never am right about the Oscar winners. But I just felt this one. I felt this one. I felt like there was a way in which the thing that happened on Sunday does mirror whatever is happening in this country right now, where a segment of the population is feeling really paranoid and a little bit endangered and is worried about feeling displaced or unseated by change. And to the extent that the people who make our movies are a microcosm of the nation writ large, the academy is undergoing some changes, and it is becoming less white and less male. And I think they’re going to, like, cling even more tightly to things that feel safe and familiar. And this is a movie that feels safe, and it feels comforting in some way. Because it lets them believe that on the one hand, they can say they’re giving their top honor to a movie about an interracial friendship and about racial reconciliation.
But to me, what that says about them is also a fantasy, right? It’s also a fantasy that says, this symbol of excellence, and this symbol of our tastes and our belief as a body, or at least the people who voted for it, really does sort of reflect what we should be as a nation. And that’s not what we are. So the aspiration that we can just make this racism go away by running out and finding the nearest black person to pay us to be better people is absurd. And I think that’s what happened on Sunday.
Wesley, thank you very much.
Oh, my pleasure.
Wesley talked about “Green Book,” race and the Academy Awards with his co-host, Jenna Wortham, in the latest episode of their podcast, “Still Processing.”
One headache with these movies, even one as well done as “Driving Miss Daisy,” is that they romanticize their workplaces and treat their black characters as the ideal crowbar for closed white minds and insulated lives.
Who knows why, in “The Upside,” Phillip picks the uncouth, underqualified Dell to drive him around, change his catheter and share his palatial apartment. But by the time the movie’s over, they’re paragliding together to Aretha Franklin. We’re told that this is based on a true story. It’s not. It’s a remake of a far more nauseating French megahit — “Les Intouchables” — and that claimed to be based on a true story. “The Upside” seems based on one of those paternalistic ’80s movies, “Disorderlies,” the one where the Fat Boys wheel an ailing Ralph Bellamy around his mansion.
Phillip’s largess and tolerance take Dell from opera-phobic to opera-curious to opera queen, leading to Dell’s being able to afford to transport his ex and their son out of the projects, and permitting Dell to take his boss’s luxury cars for a spin whether or not he’s riding shotgun. And Dell provides entertainment (and drugs) that ease Phillip’s sense of isolation and self-consciousness. But this is also a movie that needs Dell to steal one of Phillip’s antique first-editions as a surprise gift to his estranged son, and not a copy of some Judith Krantz or Sidney Sheldon novel, either. He swipes “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (and to reach it, his hand has to skip past a few Horatio Alger books, too). Most of these black-white-friendship adventures were foretold by Mark Twain. Somebody is white Huck and somebody else is his amusingly dim black sidekick, Jim. This movie is just a little more flagrant about it.
There’s a way of looking at the role reversal in “Green Book” as an upgrade. Through his record company, Don hires a white nightclub bouncer named Tony Vallelonga. (Most people call him Tony Lip.) We don’t meet Don for about 15 minutes, because the movie needs us to know that Tony is a sweet, Eye-talian tough guy who also throws out perfectly good glassware because his wife let black repairmen drink from it.
By this point, you might have heard about the fried chicken scene in “Green Book.” It comes early in their road trip. Tony is shocked to discover that Don has never had fried chicken. He also appears never to have seen anybody eat fried chicken, either. (“What do we do about the bones?”) So, with all the greasy alacrity and exuberant crassness that Mortensen can conjure, Tony demonstrates how to eat it while driving. As comedy, it’s masterful — there’s tension, irony and, when the car stops and reverses to retrieve some litter, a punch line that brings down the house. But the comedy works only if the black, classical-pop fusion pianist is from outer space (and not in a Sun Ra sort of way). You’re meant to laugh because how could this racist be better at being black than this black man who’s supposed to be better than him?
The movie Peter Farrelly directed and wrote, with Brian Currie and Tony’s son Nick, is suspiciously like “Driving Miss Daisy,” but same-sex, with Don as Daisy and Tony as Hoke. Indeed, “Miss Daisy” features a fried chicken scene, too, a delicate one, in which Hoke tells her the flame is too high on the skillet and she waves him off. Once he’s left the kitchen, she furtively, begrudgingly adjusts the burner. It’s like Farrelly watched that scene and thought it needed a stick of cartoon dynamite.
Before they head out, a white character from Don’s record company gives Tony a listing of black-friendly places to house Don: The Green Book. The idea for “The Negro Motorist Green Book” belongs to Victor Hugo Green, a postal worker, who introduced it in 1936. It guided black road trippers to stress-free gas, food and lodging in the segregated South. The story of its invention, distribution and updating is an amusing, invigorating, poignant and suspenseful story of an astonishing social network, and warrants a movie in itself. In the meantime, what does Tony need a Green Book for? He is the Green Book.
The movie’s tagline is “based on a true friendship.” But the transactional nature of it makes the friendship seem less true than sponsored. So what does the money do, exactly? The white characters — the biological ones and somebody supposedly not black enough, like fictional Don — are lonely people in these pay-a-pal movies. The money is ostensibly for legitimate assistance, but it also seems to paper over all that’s potentially fraught about race. The relationship is entirely conscripted as service and bound by capitalism and the fantastically presumptive leap is, The money doesn’t matter because I like working for you. And if you’re the racist in the relationship: I can’t be horrible because we’re friends now. That’s why the hug Sandra Bullock gives Yomi Perry, the actor playing her maid, Maria, at the end of “Crash,” remains the single most disturbing gesture of its kind. It’s not friendship. Friendship is mutual. That hug is cannibalism.
Money buys Don a chauffeur and, apparently, an education in black folkways and culture. (Little Richard? He’s never heard him play.) Shirley’s real-life family has objected to the portrait. Their complaints include that he was estranged from neither black people nor blackness. Even without that thumbs-down, you can sense what a particularly perverse fantasy this is: that absolution resides in a neutered black man needing a white guy not only to protect and serve him, but to love him, too. Even if that guy and his Italian-American family and mob associates refer to Don and other black people as eggplant and coal. In the movie’s estimation, their racism is preferable to its nasty, blunter southern cousin because their racism is often spoken in Italian. And, hey, at least Tony never asks Don to eat his fancy dinner in a supply closet.
Mahershala Ali is acting Shirley’s isolation and glumness, but the movie determines that dining with racists is better than dining alone. The money buys Don relative safety, friendship, transportation and a walking-talking black college. What the money can’t buy him is more of the plot in his own movie. It can’t allow him to bask in his own unique, uniquely dreamy artistry. It can’t free him from a movie that sits him where Miss Daisy sat, yet treats him worse than Hoke. He’s a literal passenger on this white man’s trip. Tony learns he really likes black people. And thanks to Tony, now so does Don.
Lately, the black version of these interracial relationships tends to head in the opposite direction. In the black version, for one thing, they’re not about money or a job but about the actual emotional, psychological work of being black among white people. Here, the proximity to whiteness is toxic, a danger, a threat. That’s the thrust of Jeremy O. Harris’s stage drama “Slave Play,” in which the traumatic legacy of plantation life pollutes the black half of the show’s interracial relationships. That’s a particularly explicit, ingenious example. But scarcely any of the work I’ve seen in the last year by black artists — not Jackie Sibblies Drury’s equally audacious play “Fairview,” not Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You,” not “Blindspotting,” which Daveed Diggs co-wrote and stars in, not Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk” or Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” — emphasizes the smoothness and joys of interracial friendship and certainly not through employment. The health of these connections is iffy, at best.
In 1989, Lee was pretty much on his own as a voice of black racial reality. His rankled pragmatism now has company and, at the Academy Awards, it’s also got stiff competition. He helped plant the seeds for an environment in which black artists can look askance at race. But a lot of us still need the sense of fantastical racial contentment that movies like “The Upside” and “Green Book” are slinging. I’ve seen “Green Book” with paying audiences, and it cracks people up the way any of Farrelly’s comedies do. The kind of closure it offers is like a drug that Lee’s never dealt. The Charlottesville-riot footage that he includes as an epilogue in “BlacKkKlansman” might bury the loose, essentially comedic movie it’s attached to in furious lava. Lee knows the past too well to ever let the present off the hook. The volcanoes in this country have never been dormant.
The academy’s embrace of Lee at this stage of his career (this is his first best director nomination) suggests that it’s come around to what rankles him. Of course, “BlacKkKlansman” is taking on the unmistakable villainy of the KKK in the 1970s. But what put Lee on the map 30 years ago was his fearlessness about calling out the universal casual bigotry of the moment, like Daisy’s and Tony’s. It’s hot as hell in “Do the Right Thing,” and in the heat, almost everybody has a problem with who somebody is. The pizzeria owned by Sal (Danny Aiello) comes to resemble a house of hate. Eventually Sal’s delivery guy, Mookie (played by Lee), incites a melee by hurling a trash can through the store window. He’d already endured a conversation with Pino (John Turturro), Sal’s racist son, in which he tells Mookie that famous black people are “more than black.”
Closure is impossible because the blood is too bad, too historically American. Lee had conjured a social environment that’s the opposite of what “The Upside,” “Green Book,” and “Driving Miss Daisy” believe. In one of the very last scenes, after Sal’s place is destroyed, Mookie still demands to be paid. To this day, Sal’s tossing balled-up bills at Mookie, one by one, shocks me. He’s mortally offended. Mookie’s unmoved. They’re at a harsh, anti-romantic impasse. We’d all been reared on racial-reconciliation fantasies. Why can’t Mookie and Sal be friends? The answer’s too long and too raw. Sal can pay Mookie to deliver pizzas ‘til kingdom come. But he could never pay him enough to be his friend.
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For each year, the count of days at or above 9032 degrees reflects a 21-year rolling average. Temperature observations for your hometown are averaged over an area of approximately 625 km² (240 square miles), and may not match single weather-station records.
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Joel McHale takes on pop culture live at CFE Arena
By Trevor Fraser
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Joel McHale, star of "The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale," performs at UCF's Homecoming Comedy Knight on Monday, Nov. 5. (John Salangsang / AP)
Joel McHale has a unique relationship to pop culture. “It’s around me,” said the comedian. “I see it like the Force. Or maybe like a cold, super soaked wetsuit. It’s always on and I feel like I’ve peed myself.”
McHale is breaking from movies and TV to perform at UCF’s Homecoming Comedy Knight on Monday, Nov. 5 (with Jaboukie Young-White, 8 p.m., CFE Arena, 12777 Gemini Blvd., Orlando, $25, cfearena.com).
As host of “The Soup” on E! and later “The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale” on Netflix, the actor has been the voice of criticism for talk shows, reality shows and the cult of celebrity. But he’s also been the star of sitcoms “Community” and “The Great Indoors,” and something of a celebrity himself.
All of the shows mentioned above are gone, but McHale’s star still seems to be rising. This year saw him with roles in “The Happytime Murders,” “Assassination Nation” and as Chevy Chase in the comedy biopic “A Stupid and Futile Gesture,” as well as landing a recurring role on Netflix’s “Santa Clarita Diet.”
Though one of his earliest appearances was a recurring role in a series of Burger King ads in 2003-04, McHale, 46, is known for keeping fit. An episode of “Community” focused on him being more handsome than Ryan Seacrest, “the guy famous for being handsome.” The NBC sitcom also featured episodes directed by Joe and Anthony Russo who went on to direct “Avengers: Infinity War” this year.
On the phone from his home in Los Angeles, McHale talked about his characters, performing for students and what the future may hold. Questions and answers have been edited for clarity and length.
Question: You’re performing for a college homecoming show. How do you prepare differently when you’re going to be in front of a specifically younger audience?
Answer: I’ve learned their language. I have the Babel app. [Laughs] No, I do the thing where I don’t really know or care. That sounds like insecurity. But I go, “Well, if they don’t like what I’m saying, then they could always stone me.” That’s how they did it in biblical times. Yes, I know I’m old enough to be their great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, but hopefully some of their parents will be there.
Q: It’s been said that “comedy isn’t pretty.” Do you think good-looking comics face an uphill battle in comedy?
A: I don’t know. I think unfunny comics face an uphill battle. If you’re not funny, you’re in real trouble, and then that crosses itself out. There’s a natural selection that takes place. The really good-looking funny people become movie stars.
Q: Does the skillset for standup crossover into comedic acting and hosting comedy shows?
A: Doing standup is a completely different muscle to flex than if you’re playing a character. It’s very different than if you’re telling jokes or if you’re hosting a show with a teleprompter and you have a very specific agenda that has to be accomplished in 42 minutes. It would be the difference between welding and doing an electrician’s work.
If you’re playing a character in a scene, you’ve got to memorize lines and have motivations and interactions. You’ve got to know what you want in that scene. With hosting, at least for me, it’s about keeping the ball in the air, don’t screw it up, and move things along. So it’s totally different.
Q: You’re known for playing fairly cynical characters. Does that bleed into your personal life?
A: I’ve always been hyper critical of things like pop culture or politics. But when it comes to personal relationships, I think people are always surprised at me. Like I can’t stop hugging and kissing my kids even though they’re older. They’re 10 and 13 and they keep telling me to stop it. And I’m like, “Just give me a hug. I’m your dad.” But I am hyper critical. I get hyper critical about coffee. I like the classic Italian style espresso.
Q: Any word from the Russo Brothers on where you might fit into the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
A: They’ve already promised me, I’m new Thor and new Captain America. I’m doing both and we might combine them into one movie. [Laughs] No, I have no idea, but I am so thrilled for what’s happened to them. And when you look at how they did it, they worked so hard. They had their eyes on the prize and they did not deviate from that plan.
Q: That’s all I had for you except to ask if you still eat at Burger King.
A: You bet I do. I love a Whopper. Sometimes I take the bun off because I’m from Southern California and I don’t want the carbs. But thank you for bringing up work I did in 2003.
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A graduate of the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH), OTTO JUNKER made it a point in later life to provide students of that university's Foundry Engineering and Electrical Engineering Institutes - as well as young researchers working on their diploma or doctorate thesis - with an opportunity to gather first-hand experience in his company. In 1943, OTTO JUNKER was given the freedom of the city of Aachen. In 1962 he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in recognition of his outstanding commitment to the university.
In 1970, Dr.-Ing. h.c. OTTO JUNKER established the Otto Junker Foundation as successor to his estate.
His objectives in setting up the foundation were essentially twofold:
On the one hand, he sought to ensure the continuity and ongoing viability of his company, while on the other he aimed to apply corporate profits towards the sustained promotion of science and research, the growing importance of which he understood at a very early stage.
When Dr.-Ing. h.c. OTTO JUNKER died childless in 1982, the Foundation - as his universal heir - inherited not merely his substantial liquid assets but also a 100% share in the OTTO JUNKER company.
The sole beneficiary of the Otto Junker Foundation is the Technical University of Aachen (RTWH), to which the founder felt closely related throughout his life. Since the start of its sponsorship programme in the mid-80s, the Foundation has made available more than € 15 million to the University of Aachen for over 100 research projects. Consistent with its charter mandate, the Foundation has also done much to promote the work and careers of young scientists. Every year, an average € 10,000 are spent on scholarships. The Otto Junker foundation thus ranks among RWTH's leading sponsors today.
The OTTO JUNKER Awards, conferred annually by the Otto Junker Foundation to RWTH graduates in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and degree work, have evolved into a noted mark of distinction and gained renown far beyond the confines of the university's immediate geographic region.
Summarizing the Foundation's sponsorship activities today, it can be stated unreservedly that Dr.-Ing. h.c. OTTO JUNKER's wish to provide lasting support to research and science has been, and will continue to be, fulfilled with determination and success.
JUNKER, Inc. 3 locations JUNKER Industrial Equipment s.r.o. OTTO JUNKER GmbH - Middle East Office OTTO JUNKER GmbH - Beijing Office OTTO JUNKER Metallurgical Equipment
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Transdniestria: a family quarrel
Thomas de Waal
Outside the theatre in Tiraspol, where a bride in a long white frilly dress was posing for photographs, a billboard hung bearing the pictures of a trio of large sturdy men: the leaders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Sergei Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity, and Transdniestria's leader, Igor Smirnov.
Thomas de Waal is Caucasus editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in London. He is co-author of Chechnya: calamity in the Caucasus (New York University Press, 1998) and author of Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war (New York University Press, 2003)
Musa Shanib in the Caucasus: a political odyssey" (11 October 2005)
" Abkhazia's dream of freedom" (9 May 2006)
" The Russia-Georgia tinderbox" (16 May 2008)
"T he north Caucasus: politics or war?" (7 September 2004)
" Abkhazia-Georgia, Kosovo-Serbia: parallel worlds?" (1 August 2006) - an exchange with Zeyno Baran
" Abkhazia's archive: fire of war, ashes of history" (20 October 2006)
" South Ossetia: war and politics" (10 August 2008)
"South Ossetia: the avoidable tragedy" (12 August 2008)
Until recently this group portrait was a trinity of the unrecognised. The three separatist republics which had broken away from Georgia and Moldova in the early 1990s, provided a mutual-support group of would-be states without international recognition. Their main succour came from parliamentarians in Russia's state Duma, who grouped the three territories together in ever more strident resolutions on the unresolved conflicts of the former Soviet space.
That all changed on 26 August 2008, the day Moscow suddenly followed the Duma's lead and unilaterally recognised the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. On Russian-backed Trandsniestria (Transniestria is the preferred spelling of the region itself), which declared its independence from Moldova in 1990 there was silence - while on the other separatist dispute in the south Caucasus, the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia chose another tack, presenting itself as the indispensable and neutral broker.
I came to Chisinau, capital of Moldova, and Tiraspol, capital of breakaway Transdniestria, as the guest of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to deliver a lecture on journalism and conflict in both cities. I have spent the last fifteen years studying four separatist conflict-zones in the Caucasus (beginning with Chechnya) but had never managed to visit this one.
As soon as I arrived, I realised that, despite superficial Caucasian similarities, I had to cast off preconceptions here. The process began with the very question of whether "conflict" was even the right term to describe this dispute. "Quarrel" might be a better definition to suggest the nuances of a situation where, as I learned, some people work during the week in Chisinau and go home for the weekend in Tiraspol; where the Tiraspol football team Sheriff is top of the Moldovan league and has such a shiny big stadium that the Moldovan national team has used it for international fixtures; where a chain of pizza restaurants named Andy's Pizzas, rumoured to be owned by a relative of a senior member of the Moldovan government (not called Andy but I cannot say more) has branches on both sides of the Dniestr river.
The dispute here, then, about life-and-death issues, but about power, culture and resources. It has all the uneasy resentments and intimacy of (that word again) a family quarrel (see "Another forgotten conflict", Economist, 13 November 2008). As in the Caucasus, there was a clash between resurgent nationalism from the new emergent state in Moldova and a community that felt alienated by the new nationalists and tried to cling to rule from Moscow as long as possible. The first spark for trouble was the passing of a new language law in Moldova on 31 August 1989. It was also a clash between two competing elites, one predominantly industrial, the other rural (and between unequals: Moldova's population was then around 4.3 million, and Transdniestria's 550,000).
There were a few days of bloodshed in 1992, the Russian 14th army moved in to suppress the Moldovans, and since then Transdniestria has lived a twilight existence as a pro-Russian unrecognised enclave.
The measure of conflict
One lesson of the Caucasus is that words create deeds. The angry rhetoric from Georgians and Ossetians - accusing one other of being "criminals", "terrorists", perpetrators of horrific crimes - created a context in which war could break out between two communities who are capable of getting along perfectly well. Over Nagorno-Karabakh, some of the bellicose rhetoric on the Azerbaijani side has been so extreme in recent times that is no surprise to see large parts of the Azerbaijani population advocating a return to war.
I noticed none of that here. True, there is some verbal sniping, especially between the two leaders concerned, Moldova's Vladimir Voronin and Transdniestria's Igor Smirnov. Voronin, who comes from Transdniestria, tried to visit his home village on 3 November but was turned back. He described Smirnov as "an evil force who has turned his region into a festering wound on the body of Moldova." Yet, others describe how when the two sides meet at conferences or negotiations they sit down over a glass of cognac and get along famously.
Some international and local observers gave me mixed reviews of the Moldovan government's record on trying to solve the dispute. "Inconsistent" and "amateur" were two of the verdicts. But when I interviewed Vasily Sova, Moldova's friendly moustachioed "minister of reintegration" and chief negotiator, he put on an impressively reasonable performance.
Among openDemocracy's articles on Europe's "frozen conflicts":
Sabine Freizer, "Nagorno-Karabakh: between vote and reality" (14 December 2006)
Robert Parsons, "Georgia, Abkhazia, Russia: the war option" (13 May 2008)
Donald Rayfield, "The Georgia-Russia conflict: lost territory, found nation" (13 August 2008)
Neal Ascherson, "After the war: recognising reality in Abkhazia and Georgia" (15 August 2008)
George Hewitt, "Abkhazia and South Ossetia: heart of conflict, key to solution" (18 August 2008)
Mary Kaldor, "Sovereignty, status and the humanitarian perspective" (26 August 2008)
Fred Halliday, "Armenia's mixed messages" (15 October 2008)
William H Hill, "Russia's game with Moldova" (24 October 2008)
Donald Rayfield, "Georgia and Russia: the aftermath" (16 November 2008)
Plus: openDemocracy's Russia section reports, debates and blogs the Georgia war
What, I asked, was the main lesson for Moldova of the South Ossetia conflict. He answered: "We long ago learned the main lesson and we've stuck to it since 1993 and that is that you can't solve these problems by force, you have to do it peacefully."
The whole tenor of Sova's remarks was an implied rebuke to Georgia and its tactics of constantly raising the stakes with Russia. "Small countries ought not to create big problems, neither to themselves, nor to the big players", he said. And he valiantly declared that he was not envious of the mass international attention and multi-billion-dollar aid package being lavished on Georgia since the war. "Let us live in poverty but in a country at peace", said Sova.
Moldova has explicitly said it will not seek membership of Nato and wants to see the European Union as a more powerful player in the dispute. "We want to be an attractive bridge between Moscow and Brussels", said Sova - eloquently but rather optimistically given that Moldova is the poorest country in Europe.
Chisinau has also said it will respect Russian investments in Transdniestrian industry. That primarily means MMZ a big steel factory which is half-owned by Russian-Uzbek oligarch Alisher Usmanov. Moldova would stand to win much-needed economic dividends from a resolution of the dispute and the incorporation of Transdniestrian industry into its economy.
The unreal reality
Crossing to the other side of the river, I was confronted with the strange mixture of money and patriotism that fuels Transdniestria and makes it a sort of miniature if less threatening version of Vladimir Putin's Russia. Sheriff, the big conglomerate that owns the football team, has opened a couple of vast supermarkets. Inside, everything looked as it should, until I started studying the fruit and vegetables section. There were apples from Italy, pears from Spain, potatoes from Poland, a lot of produce from "PMR" (that is, Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica, or Pridnestrovie), Transdniestria in other words, but absolutely nothing from Moldova. Truly, this is an economic bubble.
There is a lot of money being made in Transdniestria, as I observed on the far side of the river. Near the football stadium, behind high walls stood a Hollywood-style mansion with Greek pilasters, reputedly belonging to one of the bosses of Sheriff.
In the city itself, socialism is the message. Inside the vast building of the supreme soviet (Transdniestria keeps its Lenin statue, its streets named after Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Marx) I was met by Sergei Cheban, head of the foreign-affairs committee of the local parliament.
Cheban also did his best to be reasonable. Of course, like any respectable secessionist he wanted to talk about Kosovo, Montenegro and East Timor and the numerous precedents his territory aspired to follow. But he conceded that a deal over sovereignty was quite possible: Transdniestria had been ready to sign up to plans for federation with Moldova, it was the Moldovans who had rejected it.
Did Transdniestria feel let down by Russian failure to recognise its independence when it granted this to Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Cheban put a brave face on it, pointing out that geography was not in the territory's favour - as Transdniestria is separated from Russia by a vast stretch of Ukraine. "We don't need that kind of recognition", he said.
Unrecognised entities have an unreal air about them. In part it is a matter of the "participant-observation" phenomenon, with the observer knowing that this place is not "for real" and therefore looking out for flaws in the picture. In an internationally unrecognised state after all the institutions are self-invented, all its standards judged by no one but itself. But it is also the case that that officials in Abkhazia or Nagorno-Karabakh or pre-war Chechnya over-compensate for their lack of legitimacy by an excess of symbols, including a profusion of flags, crests and slogans that insist on statehood rather too shrilly.
Here was no exception, although there was a Bolshevik tinge to the symbolism. There were the red-green-and-red flags of the PMR, the republic of Transdniestria. There was the self-styled currency, the Transdniestrian rouble, bearing portraits of Russian general Alexander Suvorov. There were revolutionary slogans, such as "liberty, equality, fraternity". The windows of the Proryv youth movement (founded on the model of Nashi in Russia) displayed posters not just of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev but of Che Guevara, who I suspect would have despised the capitalist pretensions of the men he was sharing a window with.
Black market, black hole
Yet, the statelet is vulnerable on a couple of fronts. First, I was told that there are now more manifestations of discontent among ordinary people who had earlier been too afraid to protest. The perception is that Igor Smirnov and his team are enriching themselves without giving anything back. Recently, more than 100 staff at the radio-station were suspended on low pay after refusing to accept an order to have the ministry of information take over the station. But they kept on protesting, even inviting the information minister to the building to justify himself.
Second, the untaxed economy of Transdniestria is facing a slow squeeze. With more trade now going to the European Union than to Russia, almost 500 Trandniestrian companies have registered in Chisinau in order to do legitimate business with Europe.
The key is Ukraine. When I probed Cheban about Transdniestria's reputation as an economic black hole, he shot back: "If we have Moldova on one side and Ukraine on the other, how can we not be transparent exporting our goods?" Moldovans are certainly involved in exploiting Transdniestria's twilight status, but they are also poor and have political motives for not doing so. Ukraine, which is not so constrained, is the major co-conspirator in the black economy.
The attraction is obvious. Goods, whether they be chickens or cars, can be imported at nearby Odessa, Ukraine's main port, with a listed destination of Transdniestria - nominally a foreign country, and therefore exempt from customs duties. Once arrived in Tiraspol, a middleman is paid off and the goods exit Transdniestria again for Ukraine.
That is why, according to the European Union Border Assistance Mission for Moldova and Ukraine (Eubam), the people of Transdniestria supposedly consumed during a few months of 2006 were supposedly consuming 67 kilograms of chicken per head, while the more modest Germans were only eating 5 kg of chicken meat.
Eubam, created in 2005 and based in Odessa, is throwing a light on Transdniestria's illicit trade. It does not have the licence to intervene, only to assist Moldovan and Ukrainian customs-officers to do their job properly. In part it absolves the Transdniestrians from the more lurid accusations of gun-running and drug-smuggling.
But, as Andrew Filmer, deputy head of operations for Eubam in Odessa, told me: "A lot of illegal activity is still happening [in Transdniestria]." As he noted, it is legitimate small businesses that tend to suffer because of these large monopolistic scams.
A delicate dance
Negotiations over Transdniestria are at an impasse. The Russians have been trying to push their own initiative, said to be a revived version of the so-called "Kozak memorandum" of 2003 that Moldova rejected at the last minute. The Moldovans are cool - and, besides, Vladimir Voronin is stepping down from the presidency in spring 2009 and is losing the authority to negotiate a deal. Transdniestria and the Russians want the Russian troops - remnant of the 14th army - to stay; other parties say that would turn Transdniestria into "another Kaliningrad", or in other words an enclave of the Russian military in central Europe.
The result is a delicate diplomatic dance. Ukraine, politically divided and beholden to its own corrupt economic elites, has to decide how far it is prepared to push Transdniestria to clean itself up and risk the wrath of Moscow as a result. The Russians must decide how much it is in their interests to maintain an unrecognised pro-Russian enclave, which owes them more than $1.5 billion for an unpayable gas debt - or whether they prefer to promote a deal with Moldova and open up links with the European Union that way. The EU must decide how much of a priority this small obscure dispute is. Arguably, it should see an opportunity here to pursue an agreement that would open up a path to Europe for both Moldova and Transdniestria and make a model of successful cooperation with the Russians. That would suit everyone, except the black-marketeers.
Ultimately, it is up to the internationals only to underpin a deal the locals make themselves. Maybe I was not there long enough but I met no one who expressed raging hostility for the other side. Weary exasperation with the dispute seems to be the prevailing emotion. I was struck too by the comment of a Transdniestrian journalist who stepped over the issue of sovereignty and said, in a pithy rebuke to the corruption of both Moldova and Transdniestria: "I'd like to live in a country where everything is legal." Leaders, take note.
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Flynn won't be 'hotheaded' when he sees Raiders again
Matt Flynn was brought to Oakland last season to be the starting quarterback, and maybe a franchise savior.
Flynn won't be 'hotheaded' when he sees Raiders again Matt Flynn was brought to Oakland last season to be the starting quarterback, and maybe a franchise savior. Check out this story on packersnews.com: http://pck.rs/1oSCvre
Ryan Wood, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 5:42 p.m. CT Aug. 20, 2014 | Updated 6:31 p.m. CT Aug. 20, 2014
Quarterback Matt Flynn (10) makes a throw during Green Bay Packers Training Camp at Ray Nitschke Field August 19, 2014.(Photo: Jim Matthews/Press-Gazette Media)
On paper, it made sense. The Raiders showed their commitment, relinquishing a fourth-round draft pick in a trade with the Seattle Seahawks. It was Flynn's team. His time to shine.
Which made it awkward when Flynn was beaten out in the preseason by Terrelle Pryor, his expected backup.
The breakup was shocking. Flynn lasted just two games with the Raiders before being cut, making one start. Barely enough time for a cup of coffee.
Flynn found some success with the Green Bay Packers, where he crash landed in November. Back with the team where he began his career, Flynn led the Packers to a 2-2 record in Aaron Rodgers' injury absence. Now, he's embroiled in a competition with Scott Tolzien to be the Packers backup quarterback this season.
When Green Bay plays its third preseason game Friday night at Lambeau Field, it'll be a critical point in the backup quarterback race. Fitting, then, that the game will be played against the Raiders. Against basic instinct, Flynn said he'll put the past aside and playing without a chip on his shoulder.
"I think if you do that, you can put yourself in situations to get in a little bit of trouble," Flynn said. "I've always taken the approach to the game of being level-headed, of being a calming influence. So that's kind of my goal going into this game. I'm not going to try to do anything above and beyond what's necessary.
"So you don't want to put yourself in a situation where you're trying to make plays or trying to throw deep on them every time because you make mistakes. I'm just going to play my game and see what happens."
Reunited so soon, it would be only natural for a player to want to show his old team they made a mistake. In his younger years, Flynn admitted that kind of discipline could be a challenge.
Seven years into his career, the former LSU quarterback said he's matured. He understands the NFL is a business, not personal.
"I think maybe if I was a younger player in the league it would be more difficult, but nothing surprises me in this league anymore," Flynn said. "Nothing surprises me on the field, off the field, business, you know, whatever it is. I'm not surprised by anything. So I think things roll over off my shoulders a little bit faster than they probably used to. I don't think I'll have to worry about me being hotheaded or anything."
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The First American Psychos?
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On a summer’s day in 1799, a group of men were driving cattle from Kentucky to Virginia, along a road known as Boone’s Trace, when the cows suddenly quit the road and rushed into the woods. Once the men had rounded the beasts up, they went to see what had spooked them. In a ditch at the side of the road was the bloody corpse of a man who had been brutally assaulted some days before.
The drovers took the body to a nearby public house on the Rockcastle River, where it was recognized by the innkeeper as that of a Mister Langford, a young gentleman from a respectable family in Mecklenburg, Va. The innkeeper told the local lawman that Langford had stayed in the tavern a few nights before, on his way to Kentucky. He was a good-natured man, the innkeeper said, and generous too. When a poor family – two brothers named Harpe and their wives – had stopped at the inn at breakfast, Langford had paid for their meal.
And then he left with them.
The Harpe Brothers were pursued, and run to ground in a place called the Crab Orchard. They were brought to Danville, Ky for trial, but they escaped west, to a town called Henderson on the Ohio River, in an area which had only recently been settled. There they embarked on a brief but brutal reign of terror. “They murdered every defenseless being who fell in their way, without distinction of age, sex or color,” wrote Judge James Hall in his book Letters from the West, in 1832. He described the Harpes staking out isolated farmhouses, waiting for dark, and then falling on the inhabitants, killing them all and burning the houses afterwards.
But they rarely stole, Hall wrote. “Neither avarice, want, nor any of the usual inducements to the commission of crime seemed to govern their conduct.” Instead it seemed that their only motive appeared to be what he called “A savage thirst for blood, a deep-rooted malignity against human nature.”
Were the Harpes the first American Psychos? Probably not, but this is the first documented account that I’ve found of men in America murdering apparently for kicks, rather than for revenge or advancement, or out of anger. The Harpes quickly became notorious in Western Kentucky, thanks to their shocking brutality and the careless nature of their crimes. They murdered an African American boy for no apparent reason, breaking his head open on a tree trunk, then leaving him to die, but not taking his mule or the bag of corn it carried. They terrorized the local tavern owners and shopkeepers, and lived in the woods with vagrants and beggars. They were able to get away with their murder because the area they operated in was a wilderness in 1800, and there were no lawmen to speak of.
But the people of Kentucky were on alert. They locked up their wives and daughters and armed themselves. And when the Harpes went on one particularly stomach-churning killing spree, the locals put together a posse to hunt them down.
The spree started when the Harpes killed a local landowner, stole his horse and stalked a pair of travelers through the area to the house of a Mr and Mrs Stegal. Mr Stegal was not at home, but the wife gave the travelers a bed. The Harpes murdered both travelers and Mrs Stegal and set fire to the house. They escaped in the rain and rode hard into the wilderness. When they came across a woodsman who was looking for his horse, they killed him, too.
By now the Governor of Kentucky had heard of the Harpes and put a price on their heads. A man named Leiper assembled a group of townspeople, including the unfortunate Mr Stegal, and went after the brothers. The posse surprised the Harpes in the woods, and after a brief but hurried pursuit on horseback, Leiper shot and wounded the older brother, Micajah. The wound was mortal, but Harpe made a full, prideful confession of all of his crimes before he died. The only killing he showed any qualms about was the murder of one of his own children, whom he killed for making too much noise, he said.
Stegal arrived just as Harpe died, and cut off his head. The head was taken to a local magistrate, and stuck on a pike at a crossroads to deter other bandits. The head is long gone, but a monument to Harpe’s Head remains at the site today.
The other Harpe ran to Natchez and teamed up with another bandit crew, preying on travelers along the Ohio River. He rode with them for a while, and then killed the gang’s leader, cutting off his head and taking it to a local magistrate for a reward. Unluckily for him, he was recognized, and was arrested, condemned and executed.
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Black Francis of the Pixies on the Cure’s…
Black Francis of the Pixies on the Cure’s Daydream Festival, a new album and podcast, and how songs are like sandwiches
The Pixies are, left to right, guitarist Joey Santiago, bassist Paz Lenchantin, drummer David Lovering, and singer-guitarist Black Francis. (Photo by Travis Shinn)
By Peter Larsen | plarsen@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: August 27, 2019 at 9:12 am | UPDATED: August 27, 2019 at 9:17 am
The Cure had been around for a decade by the time the Pixies coalesced in Boston in 1986, making the English post-punk band led by Robert Smith something akin to an older brother to the alternative rock group fronted by singer-guitarist Black Francis.
“We’ve crossed paths with them a lot over the years in different contexts,” says Black Francis, the stage name adopted by Charles Thompson all those years ago for his role in the Pixies.
Thirty years ago, they shared a bill for the first time, the Pixies opening for the Cure on a U.S. tour that included a sold-out show at Dodger Stadium on Sept. 8, 1989.
There, the Pixies played a 25-minute set that included songs such as “Debaser,” “Monkey Gone To Heaven,” and “Gouge Away” from the just-released second Pixies album “Doolittle,” before a set by Love and Rockets gave way to the Cure, and two-and-a-half hours of songs such as “Pictures Of You,” “Lullaby,” and “Fascination Street” from its album “Disintegration,” as well as many more from the seven records before it.
So when the Cure invited the Pixies to join them for Pasadena Daydream Festival it was curating, little time or thought was needed for the Pixies — singer-guitarist Francis, guitarist Joey Santiago, drummer David Lovering, bassist Paz Lenchantin — to answer, he says.
“Sounds like it’s a hell of a lineup and very artist-driven, which is nice,” Francis says by phone from his home — he’s based in Western Massachusetts, the other three Pixies all live in or around Los Angeles. “So it wasn’t really like a lot of thought or discussion went into it.
The Pixies recorded their new album, “Beneath The Eyrie,” at Dreamland, a former church turned recording studio near Woodstock, N.Y. Seen here are, left to right, bassist Paz Lenchantin, producer Tom Dalgety, singer-guitarist Black Francis, drummer David Lovering, and guitarist Joey Santiago. (Photo by Simon Foster)
The Pixies are, left to right, bassist Paz Lenchantin, drummer David Lovering, singer-guitarist Black Francis, and guitarist Joey Santiago. (Photo by Travis Shinn)
“Beneath The Eyrie,” which will be released on Sept. 13, 2019, is the seventh full-length album by the Pixies. (Photo courtesy of the artist)
The Pixies recorded their new album, “Beneath The Eyrie,” at Dreamland, a former church turned recording studio near Woodstock, N.Y. Seen here are, left to right, guitarist Joey Santiago, drummer David Lovering, bassist Paz Lenchantin, producer Tom Dalgety, and singer-guitarist Black Francis. (Photo by Simon Foster)
The Pixies perform to a sold-out audience at the House of Blues in Anaheim on Sunday, April 23, 2017. Seen here are guitarist Joey Santiago, left, and singer-guitarist Black Francis. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
The Pixies perform to a sold-out audience at the House of Blues in Anaheim on Sunday, April 23, 2017. Seen here are singer-guitarist Black Francis and bassist Paz Lenchantin. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
The Pixies perform to a sold-out audience at the House of Blues in Anaheim on Sunday, April 23, 2017. Seen here is bassist Paz Lenchantin. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
The Pixies perform to a sold-out audience at the House of Blues in Anaheim on Sunday, April 23, 2017. Seen here is singer-guitarist Black Francis. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
The Pixies perform to a sold-out audience at the House of Blues in Anaheim on Sunday, April 23, 2017. Left to right are drummer David Lovering, singer-guitarist Black Francis, bassist Paz Lenchantin. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)
“You know, you get a phone call saying, ‘Hey, the Cure wants you to play on the bill with them at this giant hoedown in Pasadena, it’s like, ‘OK, I guess I’ll be there.’ It’s not even any sort of question about it.”
Pasadena Daydream, which includes acts such as Deftones, Mogwai and Throwing Muses, also marks the start of a new tour for the Pixies behind a new album, “Beneath The Eyrie.” The making of the album is chronicled in a new podcast called — with a lets-get-right-to-it kind of directness — “It’s A Pixies Podcast.”
The album and the podcast were recorded over three weeks in December 2018 at Dreamland Recording Studios near Woodstock, N.Y., and by the time the Pixies wrapped up a co-headlining tour with Weezer in April the band already was working into its shows as many as seven of the 12 tracks on “Beneath The Eyrie,” though it’s not out until Sept. 13.
The Pixies, who released their first four albums between 1988 and 1991, then nothing more for 23 years, faced the same difficult choice with “Beneath The Eyrie” as they had on its two predecessors, 2016’s “Head Carrier” and 2014’s “Indie Cindy.”
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“In the moment, you can consider these things,” Francis says. “But it’s a little bit like running a sandwich shop.”
His brother, Francis explains, once ran a fine sandwich shop, with lots of repeat customers, most of whom had very specific opinions — and often contradictory ideas — on everything from how to make the best sandwich to the proper amount of salt to serve on french fries.
“But eventually it just starts to drive you nuts if you give it too much power,” Francis says, shifting his analogy from sandwich shop to recording studio. “Sometimes to be polite we try to consider, ‘Well, what will people think when they hear this? What will be their response?’”
Everyone becomes an armchair producer, he says, and few of the comments from the crowd gather together into a consistent point of view.
“It’s not like everyone says, ‘You know what, you don’t sound anything like the way you guys used to,’” Francis says. “Some people say that. Some people say, ‘You sound like you’re just trying to imitate yourself.’
“After a while, it’s just sort of like, ‘You know what, I’ll just create the record, and hopefully it’ll come out good and you’ll like it,’” he says, and laughs. “And if you all say you don’t like it and you don’t want it? You know, I guess I’ll have to close down the sandwich shop.”
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“Beneath The Eyrie,” the band’s seventh full-length collection, is satisfying no matter how you slice it. Songs such as the lead single “Up On Graveyard Hill,” and album tracks like “Catfish Kate,” “This Is My Fate,” and “Los Surfers Muertos,” sound like classic Pixies and fresh and new at the same time, too.
And while the album stands on its own just fine, Pixies’ fans really should listen to “It’s A Pixies Podcast,” the 12-part podcast that lets listeners into the former church turned recording studio where with producer Tom Dalgety the band worked in December.
The podcast hosted by British music journalist Tony Fletcher pulls back the curtain on the way the Pixies shaped demos and brand-new ideas into the dozen songs on “Beneath The Eyrie,” a process that Francis describes as more intuitive than intentional.
“Themes are something that happen in hindsight,” he says, when asked what kinds of ideas and inspiration were at work inside the stained-glass chambers of the 120-year-old space last year. “It’s psychologically more interesting to look back after you finish it off and say, ‘Oh, lo and behold, there is a theme here!’ As opposed to laying out a theme and saying, ‘I know, let’s write a record about the cost of tea in China,’ and then you set out to do that.
“It’s A Pixies Podcast” mixes fly-on-the-wall audio from inside Dreamland as the Pixies worked together or individually with Dalgety with interviews Fletcher conducted with each on his daily trips to the studio. While you might think a creative artist might not want to let the fans inside the process, Francis says it just wasn’t that big of a deal to say yes to the project.
“The manager makes a suggestion and he gives you the reasons why,” Francis says. “He says, ‘Podcasts are very popular. This is a content stream that, you know, might earn you some money. Or might fund the record, whatever.
“In this internet world where there’s so much content you would think that maybe just making a little bit of music would be enough,” he says. “But no, it’s like there’s so much content in order to get noticed. Could you create even more content? More everything because we need to create an even bigger pile of stuff for people to kind of notice you?
“I’m just commenting, I’m not complaining,” Francis says. “I’m just sort of like, it is what it is. I was kind of more into the old school, like just remain mysterious, you know, and don’t say too much about everything, but whatever man, that isn’t at the top of my priority list.”
What is at the top of his list is to remain a working musician, making records, playing shows.
“Everything else kind of falls in behind that,” Francis says. “At the end of the day, it’s like, ‘Really? Am I going to be that uptight about it?’”
He says he’s learned over the years not to micro-manage every aspect of what the band does, learning to delegate everything from lighting design to album art to others on the Pixies team.
“I guess what I’m saying is, ‘All this stuff we talk about, there’s a lot of stuff that doesn’t really fall into the category of what I call ‘the art part,’” Francis says, and laughs.
“It may be someone else’s ‘art part’ to do the lights, but I’m not a lighting guy and I don’t really want to be a lighting guy. I want to be the Bob Dylan guy. I want to be that guy, you know? That’s what I’m going to be really opinionated about.”
Pasadena Daydream Festival
When: 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31
Where: Brookside at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena
How much: $149 general admission, $299 for VIP
For more: Pixiesmusic.com or Pasadenadaydream.com
Peter Larsen
Peter Larsen has been the Pop Culture Reporter for the Orange County Register since 2004, finally achieving the neat trick of getting paid to report and write about the stuff he's obsessed about pretty much all his life. He regularly covers the Oscars and the Emmys, goes to Comic-Con and Coachella, reviews pop music, and conducts interviews with authors and actors, musicians and directors, a little of this and a whole lot of that. He grew up, in order, in California, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oregon. Graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore. with degrees in English and Communications. Earned a master's degree at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Earned his first newspaper paycheck at the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat, fled the Midwest for Los Angeles Daily News and finally ended up at the Orange County Register. He's taught one or two classes a semester in the journalism and mass communications department at Cal State Long Beach since 2006. Somehow managed to get a lovely lady to marry him, and with her have two daughters. And a dog named Buddy. Never forget the dog.
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Tools and frameworks
Passion Brand positioning framework
Through a process of rigour and imagination the Passion Brand codication emerges at the intersection of the two internal forces (left) and the two external ones (right). Analytical rigour ensures that brand belief is arrived at in full recognition of all the influences and constraints that might impinge upon it; it is never simply something “dreamt up” by a team or individual insulated from reality.
The framework is based on our conviction that the most potent positioning for any brand lies at the intersection of four vital forces (see diagram).
The two forces on the left are internal, relating to the brand or the organisation itself. ‘Ideology’ embraces the ethos of the company, no matter how loosely sketched, plus all the values associated with the brand, both current and past, and should include, where possible and appropriate, foundational beliefs. ‘Capability’ examines the company’s abilities, its ‘invisible’ assets like the distribution network or trade relationships, its source of authority and its cultural bias – what its culture inclines it to do.
The two forces on the right are external, relating to the world beyond the brand. ‘Consumers’ will include people who buy, reject or otherwise influence the brand, but the lens should be broadened to look at people in a much more general sense, to examine behavioural trends, cultural shifts and the trickle-down effect of celebrity. ‘Environment’ covers the entire competitive environment in which the brand sits and is not simply confined to the immediate competitive set. Also covered here should be technological, economic and demographic trends.
The process splits into two halves. The first is to analyse all the four forces as they relate to your brand; rigour is vital here. The second is to use the facts, insights and tensions uncovered by the analysis as fuel which, with the spark of imagination, will help you ‘discover’ your true brand spirit and the beliefs and promises that accompany it.
Do not be afraid of tensions, even extreme ones, between two or more of the four forces. They will always exist, and are usually the key to the process. It is the resolution of these tensions, which will be different for every brand, that leads to the imaginative leaps that make for an inspired positioning. A step-by-step explanation of the process, with examples, can be found in the Passion Brand chapter of ‘The Definitive Book of Branding’ (Sage, 2015). Or you can simply read the relevant section here.
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A concerted effort to save as much ground as possible by both the trainer and the jockey of Mystic Love resulted in victory in the $100,000 Dania Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park Saturday. The 2-year-old Maryland-bred filly proved superior to the boys in the one-mile turf stakes because trainer Jessica Campitelli didn’t want to stretch […]
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Richard Kaster and Frederick Wietling’s 2-year-old Kentucky homebred colt Excaper finished a game second as a 33-to-1 longshot behind Aidan O’Brien-trained Irish invader Wrote in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) on Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs, and appears set to resume his promising career in the $100,000 Dania Beach Stakes at Gulfstream […]
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Interview with André Terras Alexandre
Q: Hi André, welcome to Pellicola. Tell us something about your life and yourself.
Hi! Thanks for giving me the opportunity to answer these lovely questions. My name is André Terras Alexandre. I was born in Portugal and I am currently living in Porto. I work as a junior doctor, and I am now in the last year of my pulmonology residency.
Q: What’s your first memory with a camera?
I actually have no idea. I remember grabbing the family camera when I was 3 or 4 years old and running around the house shooting my parents and my brother in the most random situations, like brushing their teeth, cooking or watching TV. Those crappy shots were always some of my favourites of the roll because they were so candid and apparently meaningless. I was around 20 years old when I bought my first camera with my own money, it was a Fisheye 2. It was weird and funky, but I loved it. I had my first experience trying different film stocks with it. I cross-processed film, tried redscale, color flashes, multiple exposures, light trails… It was good fun. Even Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth shot a bunch of images with it after a show, when I asked him for an autograph. He thought it was the craziest camera he had ever seen. After the Fisheye I moved on to a Holga, and later a few SLRs, like the Pentax ME Super, the Canon A-1, etc… Those were my first “real” film cameras and helped me gain some of the knowledge and experience I have today.
Q: Why do you still shoot film?
In my opinion, the film look is impossible to recreate on digital, like it has some form of dimension that can only be captured that way. Life is not perfect and film can make an image look more like real life because of its beautiful flaws. There is something about digital images that makes them look too perfect, and that ends up making the photos look boring and unnatural. Plus, the final result heavily depends on the time spent post-processing, which is something I absolutely hate doing. I’d rather spend my time shooting and exploring new places than sitting in front of the computer editing images, that’s just a terrible plan for a day. I currently don’t own a digital camera and I don’t think I will in the near future.
Q: What is your favorite subject to shoot?
I like living in the city, but it’s a bit difficult to capture street scenes in its whole essence. Or maybe I’m just not talented enough to do so. That doesn’t mean I don’t shoot some street stuff, especially at night, but I usually keep it to myself. On the other hand, I am a bit shy to ask for strangers to pose for my photos, so I also don’t do much portrait work. I sometimes use people as a scale unit for some of my landscape shots, but in a way that the loneliness feeling of the landscape still stands out as the main element of the image. So that’s pretty much why I mainly shoot landscapes. They give me time to absorb and enjoy the moment and still be able to capture the image. There’s nothing better than hiking a beautiful trail in the mountain or driving on an endless road and stop to capture stills of the scenery you’re immersed in. The symbiosis between the place and the photographer really shows in the photos, and that’s an important element that differentiates a good from an amazing photograph.
Q: Do you think that a photographer like you, that shows us how beautiful is our planet, has also an educational role in remembering where pollution is leading us?
Definitely. I don’t travel as much as I would like to because of my job. I just can’t spend my vacation days all at once and feel miserable for the rest of the year. But when I travel I have an urge to go to places that are pure and untouched (I mean, not always, but I guess even I have the right to go to the Grand Canyon and Yosemite at least once). Going to a remote location doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s going to be beautiful or mindblowing, but documenting these places is essential. People tend to take the world for granted. I mean, no one stares at a picture of the Eiffel Tower for more than a few seconds. Or other popular location for that matter. If I can show them a piece of the world that it’s less familiar I think it’s easier to stop and think about it for a bit longer.
Q: Which was the most remarkable place you’ve photographed?
I think my favourite place I shot to date was the Ilulissat Icefjord, in Greenland. It’s a UNESCO world heritage site and possibly the most beautiful place I’ve ever been to. The fjord, about 80 kilometers long, connects Greenland’s massive ice sheet to the Ilulissat bay, and it is the largest producer of icebergs in the northern hemisphere. Traveling by boat among the icebergs under the midnight sun, alongside dozens of whales, is definitely the experience of a lifetime.
Q: We would like to know more about your experience in the Arctic.
I miss that trip every single day. I’ve been to Greenland in July 2017. I began to explore Kangerlussuaq, the gateway to the island; from there I flew to Ilulissat, and later the capital Nuuk. Overall it was an extreme journey, with minimal comforts sometimes. The landscape is aggressively beautiful, mountainous, with colorful flora contrasting with the icy shades of glaciers. The Inuit culture was also one of the reasons why I decided to travel to the Arctic. So unknown, so mysterious, so remote. I had to know more about these people. They carry a heavy cultural load, whose life revolves around the sea. I tried seal and whale dishes, common at the table of Greenlanders. I remember them starring at the travellers with astonishment, trying to figure out what kind of person would visit a country like theirs. I left a lot to explore in Greenland, though. I hope I can go back in the future.
Q: What does keep you inspired?
Inspiration comes in a lot of ways. Sometimes I think I won’t live enough to be able to explore other planets, so I guess being stuck on earth acts as a form of inspiration, in the sense that it’s relatively easy to move around and appreciate the most incredible places. Of course I also get inspiration from a bunch of different young photographers from this new generation, like Cody Cobb, Dan Tom, Dino Kužnik, or Alec Soth. You don’t necessarily have to go back to Ansel Adams to get inspiration. I have also been very inspired by some street/night photographers, like Alex Webb, Todd Hido, Greg Girard or Joe Greer. I have been shooting more and more street and night stuff thanks to these guys. Last, but not least, I can’t stress enough the importance of some YouTube channels/creators in my inspiration to keep shooting and experimenting with film, and I guess that a lot of photographers out there feel the same way. George Muncey (Negative Feedback), Matt Day, Adrian Vila (aows), Willem Verbeeck, Ben Horne, Nick Carver, just to name a few. They are all professional photographers and they construct their lives around the art, which is something that is far from my reality, but their contribution to film photography can’t be overlooked, they’re pretty inspirational folks.
Q: Thanks a lot, André, for your time. Would you suggest our readers a film or an album?Watch Melancholia by Lars von Trier at least once in your lifetime. And listen to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel as many times as you possibly can.
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Hari Jaisingh
Looking beyond PM Modi’s ANI interview
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 95-minute interview with Smitha Prakash of ANI on the New Year in New Delhi was quite comprehensive and wide-ranging. The ANI Editor-in-chief’s questions were pointed and pithy while keeping up sensitivities and intricacies of the VVIP at the other end.
She knows Narendra Modi does not meet the media at a full-fledged press conference for a free-for-all question-answer session. I wish PM Modi could do that. This would have helped him to understand national and global ground realities. But that was not to be. On his part, he has perfected the art of governing the media through the route of India’s media mughals. This suits him politically, but in the process he misses the power and flavour of free media in a vibrant democracy like India.
Well, the loss is of the Prime Minister. But then who cares in the BJP regime where free voices are at a discount even among his ministerial colleagues. This is PM Modi’s strength as well as weakness.
In the circumstances, Smitha Prakash has done a good job and deserves all compliments for maintaining sobriety and professional norms while dealing with the BJP supremo, who has to be handled with care and caution.
True, she enjoys confidence of the Prime Minister who, as already stated, keeps the media at bay and mainly relies on public rallies to attack his opponents and holds out promises to the people for a better tomorrow. Now, nearing the end of his five-year term, it would be worthwhile to assess objectively PM Modi’s plus and minus points of governance at the helm of national affairs. The problem with him is that right from the beginning, he has cast himself in the mould of a larger-than-life image as “no
Opposition leader”, including Congress president Rahul Gandhi, is a match for his public stature and the art of rhetoric. Such an image has its own advantage and disadvantage – the disadvantage since elements of arrogance, wittingly or unwittingly, creep in such a character which generally erode the leader’s standing in public perception.
And this is what has happened, though the BJP’s supporters may not admit it. Frankly speaking, super shining Narendra Modi of May 2014 today is an eroded version of his former self. The reason for his fall in the popularity graph is simple. The PM still has miles to go before the promises he held out at public rallies could be fulfilled. That is why in his heart of hearts, he is desperately trying for a second term. It is for the people to decide on the subject. As a journalist, I keep my fingers crossed while keeping my ears to the ground. As of now, I cannot be sure of his journey ahead, though he has now 10 per cent reservation quota for “Poor upper classes”. I doubt whether he has worked out the economics of creating new jobs. As it is, joblessness is PM Modi’s major problem for the May 2019
The biggest handicap of PM Modi is his inability to take even his varied party colleagues and allies along with him despite his impressive campaign of "Sabka vikaas, sab ka saath". The only “saath” he depends on is from his “friend” from Gujarat Amit Sah, the president of the BJP. In the absence of wider network, such an approach becomes counter-productive, sooner or later.
I had tremendous faith in Narendra Modi when he bowed his head at the foothold on Parliament House and talked passionately about Change India. Honestly speaking, I hardly see any substantive change in the way the Indian system has been run arbitrarily as a one-man show. This is neither a healthy sign for the BJP’s growth nor for Indian democracy.
Another problem with PM Modi is his one-track mind which does not entertain voices of criticism and dissent. What is democracy without dissenting voices? Indian democracy is not a paper boat to be played on the waves of a bath tub as children do. PM Modi needs to understand the complexities of India as well as its vibrant characteristics.
Take, for instance, his “great reformist measure called Demonetisation”. PM Modi still feels, as he reiterated in his interview: “It was necessary for the economic health of India.” May I ask him: Did he ever realise that 90 per cent of the rural economy is run on cash? No wonder, DeMo only added to the woes of farmers whose crisis is likely to be a major issue for the 2019 poll.
This is not a question of “a train changing tracks and slowing down a bit”. I consider it to be “a disastrous move”, and not “a jhatka” in the name of unearthing black money!”
PM Modi surely sounded sincere and honest while replaying to a number of questions relating to Ram Mandir. He virtually rejected the RSS’s political route of issuing on ordinance on Ram temple before the judicial process plays out. This needs to be applauded. Modi has made it clear that the court will not be pre- empted. Fine. Modi deserves thanks on this count. I am not analyzing his interview at length as it has been widely published. I wish to assess the Modi regime of over four and a half years on the touchstone of our ancient concept of how “a king” is supposed to conduct himself.
In today’s trying times, I expect the ruling establishment to think of “Vikramaditya throne”. Those at the helm of affairs have to conduct themselves by the example of the legendary king who ruled and acted honestly, truthfully, wisely and justly.
The “nakedness” of most rulers, whether self-inflicted or induced, cannot be a matter of controversy. It is foolhardy to hide the truth, howsoever unpleasant.
Everything depends on how closely the executive and judiciary follow the Vikramaditya creed of justice and fair play with regard to all sections of society, whether Hindus, Muslims or Dalits. More than anything else, I would like the persons occupying key positions in public life to be guided by the “lamp” within and refrain from inflicting injustice on others.
What is necessary for this is enlightened vigilance for public good? In this context, it is worthwhile recalling the following words of wisdom: “Where the subjects are watchful a prince is entirely dependent on them for his status. Where the subjects are overtaken by sleepy indifference, there is every possibility that the prince will cease to function as a protector and become an oppressor instead. Those who are not wide awake have no right to blame the prince.”
In the Modi regime, the problem is not of blame game but a selective approach in seeing men, matters and issues in terms of communities, caste, creed and religion, the Sangh Parivar style. PM Modi has been somewhat indifferent to such goings-on. The net result remains to be watched in 2019.
What will probably matter finally is the people’s common sense. It is a different matter that common sense is not so common these days!
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The Closest Star System To The Sun, Alpha Centauri, Might Still Be Hiding Earth-Like Planets
Admin April 28, 2018 0
Alpha Centauri has long held the interest of stargazers and astronomers, for one very important reason: it's really close to us. Or, at least, it's close relative to the rest of the known universe. The solar system is a daunting four light years (or 1.3 parsecs) away, but compared with any other star in the galaxy, that's quite close.
It is likely that this will be our first port of call when we start venturing outside of our own sun's range of influence in order to see what other cool planets we can find.
The challenge that astronomers face is that it's not particularly easy to spot the worlds that may circle around any of Alpha Centauri's three stars. One planet, Promixa-b, is very similar to our own planet in terms of size and distance from its star, but at this point, it's difficult to tell whether there might be more of these smaller planets currently escaping our view.
In an effort to find out what secrets might be hiding in the Alpha Centauri system, researchers from Yale have analyzed previous data that's been observed from the solar system.
The goal was to determine how well the data has been interpreted, and to try and figure out whether any interesting planets have managed to avoid our notice up to this point.
The study involved breaking down the solar system into different sectors, and then attempting to determine whether our knowledge of these various sectors is actually complete. Essentially, the team asked themselves whether there was enough evidence in each area of space within Alpha Centauri to rule out the possibility of planets hiding within the sectors.
In other words, the team played Battleship with data from Alpha Centauri, trying to spot where planetary battleships might be hiding based on whether or not previous studies have had a good enough peak at the opponent's board. This may sound strange but its true.
Ultimately, the team concluded that it's very unlikely that hitherto undiscovered giant planets, like our system's Jupiter of Saturn, exist around Alpha Centauri. Those would be the easiest to notice thanks to their size and weight.
As for smaller planets, there's a lot of room for error in the data we've uncovered thus far. If we're very lucky, there are several places throughout the system that Earth-sized planets might exist, just waiting to be spotted.
This study ultimately finds the potential for more planets, rather than any concrete evidence that these things exist. Regardless, it's a good use of earlier data, and it helps us to recognize the kinds of planetary signals we ought to be looking out for when studying Alpha Centauri in future. Here's hoping, then, that some cool new planets appear on our radars in the near future. If we're very, very lucky, one of the hidden planets revolving around Alpha Centauri's three suns might just be habitable, and could even contain life.
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US Supreme Court steps in after Alabama court stops lesbian mum seeing her own kids
Nick Duffy December 16, 2015
The US Supreme Court has stepped in to grant a lesbian mother visitation rights to see the children she has raised from birth – after an Alabama court tried to ‘void’ her same-sex adoption.
The mother, known as V.L. in court documents, had a decade ago adopted the three children her then-partner E.L. conceived through IVF.
The pair recently split after a breakdown of their relationship, and V.L pushed for visitation rights.
But the Alabama court ruled that it could not recognise her as the children’s mother – because it doesn’t see their same-sex adoption from the state of Georgia as valid.
The decision blocked V.L.’s visitation rights – cutting her off from her children, aged 13, 11 and 11.
However, this week the highest court in the US has stepped in – to stay the ruling, temporarily restoring the woman’s right to see her children.
The United States Supreme Court ordered that the mother be allowed to see her children, pending review of the ruling.
The mother said: “I’m overjoyed that my children and I will be able to be together again.
“It’s been so long— more time that I ever thought I could bear —since we have been able to be together and just do the everyday things that parents do with their children, like having dinner together and helping them with their homework.
“I adopted my children more than eight years ago to be sure that I could always be there to protect them.
“This terrible Alabama decision has hurt my family and will hurt so many other families if it is not corrected.”
The National Center for Lesbian Rights is representing V.L. in the case.
NCLR Family Law Director Cathy Sakimura: “I am relieved for V.L. and her children that they can be reunited.
“For any adoptive parent, it would be unthinkable that their adoption could be invalidated years later and that they could be separated from their children for months while they fought to be recognized.
“V.L. and her children have already endured what no parent or child should ever have to experience.”
The group added: “Before this ruling, no state supreme court has refused to recognize a same-sex parent’s adoption from another state—or any out-of-state adoption—based on a disagreement with how the court issuing the adoption interpreted its own adoption laws.”
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NBA’s reigning MVP Stephen Curry speaks out against North Carolina’s HB2
Joseph McCormick April 16, 2016
The NBA’s current reigning MVP (most valuable player), has spoken out against North Carolina’s anti-LGBT HB2.
The player, who is from Charlotte, North Carolina, has said he thinks the law is not “tolerable”.
Speaking to Bay Area News on Friday, Curry said: “I’ve already kind of explained kind of how I feel about discrimination period. I think that’s not tolerable. Nowhere.”
He added: “And it just sucks that it’s in my home state, where there are a lot of great people there.”
The NBA yesterday suggested it would keep its 2017 All Star game in Charlotte, despite calls to move it as a boycott of the state over the law, and saying that the organisation was “deeply concerned” about its impact on the event.
Curry said he does not support the event being moved, but instead said he hopes the law will be repealed by then.
He said: “The All-Star game hopefully being in Charlotte will be a huge thing for the city. I know the NBA will make the right decision when it comes time after North Carolina hopefully handles it.”
The league previously said it was “deeply concerned” by North Carolina’s recently passed HB2, which rolled back pre-existing LGBT rights protections.
The NBA had previously hinted that it might move the game out of Charlotte, but has now said it would prefer to keep a “presence” in the state.
A fake news story briefly published by some news sources claimed that the NBA had given an ultimatum to North Carolina – to repeal the law or lose the All Star game.
But it was later clarified by the NBA that the quotes attributed to the league were fake.
Hundreds of business leaders have urged the repeal of North Carolina’s HB2, and multiple celebrities have pulled out of appearances, including Ringo Starr and, Bruce Springsteen.
Springsteen was even accused of using “bully tactics” for cancelling the concert by one of the state’s Representatives.
But dozens of celebrities and hundreds of fans came to the defence of Springsteen, commending him for taking a stand.
Others such as Mumford and Sons and Cyndi Lauper have said they will appear but that they will donate their profits to LGBT rights organisations.
Mississippi also faces similar threats as Bryan Adams and Sharon Stone have pulled out of appearances there.
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Alonzo Webb III joined the Pitt track and field coaching staff as a volunteer assistant coach in 2010 before his promotion to assistant coach in 2011. Webb's primary duties including working with the jumpers and multi-event athletes.
A Pittsburgh native, Webb has been an integral part of the Panthers’ coaching staff, guiding student-athletes to the ACC Indoor and Outdoor Championships in each of Pitt’s years as a member of the league.
During the 2015 season, he guided Luke Gallaher to school records in heptathlon and decathlon as well as All-ACC honors, and helped Imani Brown record a school record in outdoor triple jump.
Over his first two seasons on staff, his combined 17 student-athletes had all qualified for the Big East Championship Meet.
In his first season with the Panthers, all nine of Webb’s athletes reached both the 2011 Big East Indoor and Outdoor Championships, including Ashley Corum winning the indoor triple jump as a freshman. Subsequently, five of his student-athletes qualified for the IC4A Championships, while one of them went on to reach the NCAA Championships and two qualified for the USA Junior National Championships.
In 2012, Webb coached three student-athletes en route to their top-five finishes at the Big East Indoor Championship Meet. Webb helped Reggie Steele place third at the IC4A Championships in the long jump and qualify for the NCAA Outdoor National Championship meet. Webb also saw Gallaher earn a spot USA Junior National Team in high jump. At the ECAC/IC4A Championships, every athlete who qualified made the finals, recording sixth and ninth place to go along with the unlikely first-place finish in the women's heptathlon.
He coached Elizabeth Kline en route to two Big East Championships, as well as an ECAC Championship and a spot at the National Championship in heptathlon in 2012-13. Additionally, he guided Julia Koloski to a Big East Championship, and sent her and Ashley Corum to the NCAA Regional Meet.
Webb is a 2010 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor’s degree in communications with a related area in Africana studies. He was a member of the Panthers’ track and field team, competing under his father, head coach Alonzo Webb. He participated primarily in high jump and long jump.
Webb and his wife, Sarah, reside in Pittsburgh and are welcomed their first child, Zara Noel, in October 2017.
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NY to step up security at high-profile places after deadly UK blast
Posted: 11:59 PM, May 22, 2017
NYPD commissioner James O`Neill tweeted police are closely monitoring events in Manchester, England to determine any possible implications for New York City.
NEW YORK — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he's directed state law enforcement officials to step up security and patrols at high-profile locations across the state after an explosion at an Ariana Grande concert in northern England.
The Democratic governor says the state is increasing security at airports, bridges, tunnels and mass transit systems.
At least 19 people were killed and dozens of others were injured late Monday in the blast at Manchester Arena.
In a statement, Cuomo called the explosion "an inexplicable and abhorrent assault on our universal values as human beings."
New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neill wrote on Twitter on Monday night that the New York Police Department is closely monitoring the events in Manchester to "determine any possible implications" for the city.
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Emily Lakdawalla • October 24, 2012
DPS 2012: Future impact risks
Continuing my writeup of notes from last week's Division for Planetary Sciences meeting: presentations on the risks of future asteroid impacts. This issue is an interesting moving target, because the more we survey the skies, the more previously unknown asteroids we find. Usually they're not impact risks, so it becomes less likely that an undiscovered asteroid is on its way to hitting us. At the same time, those surveys inevitably yield the discoveries of objects that do have very low probabilities of hitting us. A couple of talks addressed different sides of this problem.
Richard Wainscot presented the current status of the Pan-STARRS1 discovery survey for near-Earth objects. NEO surveying represents only a small fraction of Pan-STARRS telescope time, although, he said, it would be increasing to 11% by November 2012. He talked about how dependent Pan-STARRS is on other people (mostly amateurs) to follow up their discoveries. Their surveys produce "tracklets" that they turn over as quickly as possible to the Minor Planet Center, and then it's pretty much up to volunteers to attempt to recover the new objects on subsequent nights in order to obtain enough sightings to produce an orbit. Of course, amateurs have smaller telescopes so are more likely to recover brighter objects than dimmer ones. As a result, while Pan-STARRS can find fast, faint objects, these objects are often lost because no followup observations are achieved. Wainscoat said that Pan-STARRS' median magnitude for its discoveries is 22.5, while other surveys (which, I assume, are doing their own followup) achieve median magnitudes of 23.1. Pan-STARRS is uniquely best at finding large, distant, faint objects, because it is better at spotting the faintest objects, and if they are distant, they are slow-moving and so easier to recover.
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Sunrise at Pan-STARRS 1, Haleakala, Hawai'i
A view into the dome of Pan-STARRS 1 on the summit of Haleakala volcano. The mountain positions its observatories (which also include the Keck I and II telescopes) above the elevation of clouds. In the distance, Mauna Kea also rises above the clouds.
Alan Harris' presentation posited an interesting question regarding the actuarial risk that we face from asteroid impact. The question: is reduction of risk really worth the cost of large surveys? When the modern effort to survey for potentially hazardous asteroids began, we didn't know where asteroids were, only that they were out there and that an unknown one could present a hazard. Harris showed that the majority of the actuarial risk due to impacts is from undiscovered large objects. Near-Earth object surveys have found (we think) 98% of the largest objects that present the most risk, reducing the actuarial risk due to asteroid impacts from 250 fatalities per year to 64 per year. Based on past discovery rates and projecting forward through proposed future projects, over the next 16 years, we should achieve 90% completion of discovery of asteroids larger than 140 meters in diameter. The effect of this 16 years of work -- at a cost of roughly a billion dollars -- will be to reduce the actuarial risk to 33 fatalities per year. If you see asteroid surveys as a form of insurance, then you're spending about two million dollars per fatality avoided. From the point of view of insurance, this is a relatively expensive effort. Harris' point: "The hazard stuff might sell the program," but in fact, the benefit is questionable; the real value of survey programs is in the science they produce. "The scientific value of deep surveys is such a treasure trove that it's worth it right there."
I'll pause here in my retelling of the presentations at this meeting to note the parallel to the appalling verdict reached by an Italian judge last week. In a case that has been watched closely by geoscientists since it began three years ago, six scientists and a public official were convicted of manslaughter for their "false reassurances" that there was no increased risk of earthquake in the village of L'Aquila despite a recent swarm of earthquake activity. The seven had met at the village to discuss the risk, and determined that there was no reason to suspect that the risk was any more than it usually is. The public official made an unfortunate statement to the public to the effect that they should go home and drink wine to deal with their fear. Sadly, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake happened a week later, killing more than 300. The deaths were caused by the collapse of buildings not properly built or retrofitted to survive the known level of seismic activity in the region. The six scientists and the public official were sentenced to six years in prison. Here, in Reno, there were experts in the field discussing the risk of asteroid impact, and determined that the risk is no higher than it ever was; in fact, that it's less than it used to be. If we discover a hundred-meter asteroid tomorrow that obliterates a city the day after tomorrow, are Harris and his peers culpable for "false reassurances?" It would make just about as much sense. A lot of geobloggers have been writing about the court case; I recommend Chris Rowan's take on it.
Many of those fatalities could have been prevented through the kinds of things that California and Japan have done: the enactment and enforcement of building codes that prevent collapses and subsequent fires, and public earthquake drills to prepare the populace to handle the unpredictable but inevitable events. Citizens are expected to make their own preparations. We should deal with the inherently unpredictable nature of asteroid risk in the same way. This was the subject of the next talk in the session.
Steve Chesley is with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Near Earth Asteroid program, and presented an analysis of the unpredictable risk posed by a specific asteroid, 2011 AG5. He quibbled with Harris' talk, saying that Harris' analysis assumes that when asteroids are discovered, you will know that either they do, or do not, pose an impact hazard. In fact, while you can usually determine quickly when an asteroid does not pose a hazard, you are rarely able to determine that an asteroid definitely does. 2011 AG5 is one such asteroid. It has a 0.2% chance of striking Earth on February 5, 2040, if it passes through a "keyhole", a particular region in space near Earth on February 23, 2023, that will deflect its orbit to one that is on an impact trajectory. We don't yet know its orbit well enough to know if it will pass through the 365-kilometer-wide keyhole.
Chesley asked, "How urgent is this situation? Do we need to start hiring a project manager [for a mission to deflect it], or can we wait for more observations and hopefully eliminate the prospect altogether? The cheapest asteroid deflection campaign is the one you don't have to do at all, because your observations improve the orbit and show it not to be a risk." The catch is, it will be much easier to deflect the asteroid before the 2023 close pass by Earth, because if it is found to be passing through that keyhole, its path only needs to be shifted 365 kilometers. If we wait until after 2023 and find that it is on an impact trajectory, we will now have less time and need to deflect it by a larger distance -- Earth's diameter, 13,000 kilometers. So the question becomes: can we do followup observations in time to delay a decision about preparing a deflection mission until after those observations are performed? There aren't any further good observation opportunities in 2012. Late in 2013, there will be a much closer pass. The first radar opportunity -- which would really precisely determine the orbit -- is not until that "keyhole" passage in 2023.
Chesley outlined what he thought was an effective way to handle the risk from 2011 AG5. We wait until 2013 for followup observations. There is a 90% chance that those observations will show the asteroid to be on a course that will not impact Earth. If AG5 actually is on an impact trajectory, these followup observations won't be able to prove it either way, but the impact probability would jump to 10% or more. If that happens, Chesley said, we should start a mission, one that would launch in 2018 for a rendezvous with it in 2020. Once a spacecraft arrives, radio tracking will allow us to collapse the uncertainty immediately: we will know for sure whether it's on course to hit us or not. Hopefully it won't be. If it is, our spacecraft will hopefully be able to shift the asteroid's motion just enough for it to miss that 365-kilometer keyhole. If the first try doesn't succeed, we will still have time to try a second, although more difficult, deflection mission.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It goes as well for risk we face on the ground as for risk we face from the sky.
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z3n0n: 2012/10/24 08:25 CDT
There was a scientist who was charged with raising an alarm before the l'Aquila earthquake. If the presumption is that earthquakes can't be predicted then any alarm can be considered a false alarm. If one cannot prove in a court of law that an earthquake will happen then how can one be charged for not making a warning. Perhaps the scientific community could posture better. Earthquake hazard maps are based on prior observations of earthquake activity and can indicate the chances of a moderate earthquake in a given area. No one has succeeded in accurately predicting the time, place and magnitude of a major earthquake. The difficulty that we face is that something that has not happened is not a fact.
If I recall correctly the scientist charged with raising an alarm was involved with marketing earthquake prediction equipment that monitored underground gas releases. Where do we draw the line between withholding evidence and disturbing the peace? The scientist's reputation was more at risk if he did not announce the potential for an earthquake. At what confidence level would an alert be legally required? That decision could be put to a vote. The same could be said about NEOs.
Qu@ntum: 2012/10/25 09:55 CDT
z3n0n, good points, all. The situation in Italy makes me sick to my stomach. It also gives me cause for great concern. It sets an alarming precedent for legal action in the future, against scientists who are merely offering advice in a certain area based on their expertise in said area. However, a line can drawn between earthquake prediction and path prediction of an N.E.O. Whereas we currently have no reliable way of predicting earthquakes, the same cannot be said of an N.E.O. Given time, the path of an N.E.O. can be plotted and relative to earthquakes, can be determined to either pose a threat or not--immediate or otherwise. To my knowledge, no amount of time can allow for scientists to accurately predict an earthquake. Although, even with the science of Near Earth Asteroids being less foreseeable in nature than earthquake prediction, there is still room for error. So, I believe, the question becomes; Can we ethically make any particular scientist or group of scientists legally responsible for what can best be described as an "Act of God?" The scientists in Italy are no more "responsible" for the devastation caused by the earthquake, than would be any member of the N.E.A. program if we were to be struck today by an asteroid that blindsided us or even deviated slightly from it's predicted path. Therefore, I believe it to be irresponsible to ever legally require an alert to be issued. I do agree with your suggestion of a possible threat being put to a vote. It should be done so among the scientific community at large, free of government intervention and legal ramifications.
bware: 2012/10/25 10:48 CDT
That is a scary precedent. Assigning responsibility should be up to the local governments based only upon engineering structural criteria that building owners failed to retrofit to or the builder(s) who fail to retrofit correctly or newly construct correctly. This is not the fault of the scientists in anyway what-so-ever.
2012DA14 Closest Approach 02/15/2013 = 3.2 > X < 3.5 radii. This puts it inside the lower satellite orbital belt. Luckily no impact trajectory is seen as of 05/23/2012. This asteroid so far to date (my call) is the closest to a wake up call to stop dragging ones' feet and take action. We could test out our orbital deflection strategy with this one. All we need is 4 - 8 transponders or an orbiting transponder and a heavy enough spacecraft to cause deflection by orbiting. It will be close enough to catch and we'll know exactly where it is and then go from there on the study of our theory.
First, allow me to apologize for my typo. My post should have read "more foreseeable" not "less." Second, bware, you are absolutely correct. The direct fault for the deaths in Italy can be attributed to negligence in the building and or retrofitting of the town's structures. Now on to the Gravity Tractor theory. While the principle is sound in EVERY way, it has one shortcoming. It is intended for defection of objects that we have ample time to respond to. What happens if our response time is cut dramatically? We need an emergency program in place for objects that suddenly seem to appear out of nowhere. There are currently no viable solutions, that I'm aware of. The possibility of getting being sucker-punched by an asteroid is just as great if not greater.
Again, please forgive my mistake. "The possibility of being sucker-punched" is how that should read. I should do a better job of proof-reading these! Lol
Abigail Fraeman
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Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249)
Watt and Murray, Fasti, 124: Geoffrey, son of Martin, was a clerk of Alexander II and became clerk of the liverance (de Liberatione) by 30 June 1228. He was in this office when he was elected bishop of Dunkeld in 1236, being consecrated between 3 and 31 December of that year. He died on 22 November 1249.
Total number of associated factoids: 236
Transaction factoids (71) Relationship factoids (43) Title factoids (84) Possession factoids (2) Witnesses factoids (36)
unavailable Gift of lands in villas of Clackmannan, Dunkeld, Scone and Inverness Beneficiary 2/55/2 (Scone Lib., no. 93)
unavailable Grant of 20s in church of Cramond (MLO) Grantor 2/6/60 A (Inchcolm, no. 22)
unavailable gift of stone of wax payable from his burgh of Aberdeen from house which belonged to Robert of London Beneficiary 2/55/2 (Scone Lib., no. 93)
unavailable Gift of lands in villasof Clackmannan, Scone, Dunkeld and Inverness Grantor 1/7/242 (RRS, iii, no. 236)
unavailable Gift of land on western side of church of Perth Consentor 2/6/48 (Dunf. Reg., no. 140)
unavailable Document (gift?) concerning lands of Inveralmond (PER), 'Hervicroc' (?PER) and church of Moulin (PER) Grantor 2/40/8 (Dunf. Reg., no. 136)
unavailable Appointment of papal judges-delegate Appointee 4/32/81 (Arb. Lib., i, no. 241)
unavailable Concessions of Richard, John, Gilbert, and Geoffrey, bishops of Dunkeld to Scone Abbey Grantor 2/6/57 (Scone Lib., no. 110)
unavailable Gift of lands in villas of Clackmannan, Scone, Dunkeld and Inverness and a stone of wax Beneficiary 1/7/242 (RRS, iii, no. 236)
unavailable Gift of land in villa of Dunkeld Grantor 2/6/35 (C.A. Chrs., no. 29)
unavailable Previous gift of land west of church of Perth Grantor 2/6/48 (Dunf. Reg., no. 140)
unavailable Agreement made between Clement, bishop of Dunblane and Cambuskenneth Abbey named person (transaction) 2/39/2 (Camb. Reg., no. 126)
unavailable Previous appointment of papal judges-delegate Appointee 4/32/81 (Arb. Lib., i, no. 241)
unavailable Confirmations of Richard, John, Gilbert and Geoffrey, bishops of Dunkeld to Scone Abbey Grantor 2/6/57 (Scone Lib., no. 110)
unavailable Appoinment of men to make provisions to church of Dunblane Addressor 2/140/83 (Arb. Lib., no. 241)
unavailable Indulgence of 40 days Grantor 2/84/23 (Durh. Rites, App. 6, no. 1)
unavailable Appointment of papal judges-delegate Appointee 4/32/80 (Camb. Reg., no. 125)
unavailable Gift of villa of Dunkeld Grantor 2/6/57 (Scone Lib., no. 110)
unavailable Renewals made concerning church of Madderty (PER) Grantor 2/40/7 (Inchaff. Chrs., no. 66)
unavailable Previous appointment of judges Appointee 4/32/80 (Camb. Reg., no. 125)
unavailable Renewals made concerning land of apdaine of Madderty (PER) Grantor 2/40/7 (Inchaff. Chrs., no. 66)
unavailable Appointment of papal judges-delegate in case between Clement, bishop of Dunblane, and Walter Comyn Appointee 4/32/78 (Inchaff. Lib., no. 11)
unavailable Donations and concessions of bishops of Dunkeld concerning Madderty (PER) Grantor 2/6/56 (Inchaff. Chrs., no. 90)
unavailable Previous appointment of papal judges-delegate Appointee 4/32/78 (Inchaff. Lib., no. 11)
unavailable Confirmations of bishops of Dunkeld concerning Madderty Grantor 2/6/56 (Inchaff. Chrs., no. 90)
unavailable Confirmation of church of Madderty (PER) Grantor 2/146/20 (Inchaff. Chrs., no. 93)
unavailable Quitclaim of Kettlestoun (WLO) named person (transaction) 1/7/311 (RRS, iii, no. 303)
unavailable Gift of unnamed churches in diocese of Dunkeld Grantor 2/143/55 (St A. Lib., 91 )
10 Jul. 1222 X 6 Sept. 1236 Gift of Inch of Scone Beneficiary 1/7/74 (RRS, iii, no. 334)
1227 X 24 Feb. 1236 Gift of lands in villas of Clackmannan, Dunkeld, Scone and Inverness, and a stone of wax Grantor 2/55/2 (Scone Lib., no. 93)
24 Feb. 1236 Gift of land in villas of Clackmannan, Scone, Dunkeld and Inverness with stone of wax from Aberdeen Previous landholder Alexander of Stirling, son of Patrick; David of Bernham, bishop of St Andrews (d.1253); Robert, king's chaplain (TRA2); Thomas, son of Ranulf (d. 1262); William Lindsay, dean of Glasgow (d.p.1246/7); William of Bondington, bishop of Glasgow (d.1258); William of Hadden, constable (13C) 1/7/242 (RRS, iii, no. 236)
6 Sept. 1236 Command to enquire into postulation of Geoffrey, bishop of Dunkeld named person (transaction) 2/140/76 (Theiner, no. 85)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 Confirmation (?) of dispute Grantor 2/6/46 (Dunf. Reg., no. 135)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 Command to give sasine of land to Dunfermline Abbey Addressor 2/6/48 (Dunf. Reg., no. 140)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 Renewal concerning churches of Logierait in Atholl (PER) and Redgorton in Stormont (PER), one toft in Logierait, and land in Dunkeld Grantor 2/6/47 (Scone Lib., no. 100)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 Gift of toft in Scone (PER) in the presence of Hugh, chaplain (Scone); John of Everley, archdeacon of Dunkeld (d.a.1265×72); Peter of Cargill; Reginald Blund; Robert, treasurer of Dunkeld (fl.1238-71); Simon, clerk (13C) 3/648/1 (Scone Lib., no. 94)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 Gift of toft in Scone (PER) Sealer Hugh, chaplain (Scone); John of Everley, archdeacon of Dunkeld (d.a.1265×72); Peter of Cargill; Reginald Blund; Robert, treasurer of Dunkeld (fl.1238-71); Simon, clerk (13C) 3/648/1 (Scone Lib., no. 94)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 Unknown transaction concerning land of Perth Grantor 2/6/48 A (Dunf. Reg., no. 138)
5 Apr. 1237 Command to collect ecclesiastical income to Patrick, clerk Addressee 2/140/80 (Theiner, no. 89)
16 Apr. 1237 Settlement of dispute between Dunfermline and Scone Abbeys Addressor 2/6/44 (Dunf. Reg., nos. 205, 306)
May 1237 Agreement between Scone Abbey and David Hay named person (transaction) Alexander, abbot of Coupar Angus (fl.1209-40); Andrew, rector of Inchture; Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249); Henry Abernethy (fl.1220s×60); John Cameron, sheriff of Perth; John Hay (I), lord of Naughton (d.×Oct.1266); Malcolm Hay, rector of Errol; Patrick Abernethy, son of Laurence; Ralph of Kinnaird, son of Richard 4/32/77 (SHS, Misc viii, 13-4)
May 1237 Agreement between Scone Abbey and David Hay Sealer Alexander, abbot of Coupar Angus (fl.1209-40); Andrew, rector of Inchture; Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249); Henry Abernethy (fl.1220s×60); John Cameron, sheriff of Perth; John Hay (I), lord of Naughton (d.×Oct.1266); Malcolm Hay, rector of Errol; Patrick Abernethy, son of Laurence; Ralph of Kinnaird, son of Richard 4/32/77 (SHS, Misc viii, 13-4)
10 Jun. 1237 X 20 Aug. 1241 Settlement of dispute between Clement, bishop of Dunblane and Arbroath Abbey Judge 4/32/81 (Arb. Lib., i, no. 241)
11 Jun. 1237 Appointment of papal judges-delegate Appointee 2/140/83 (Arb. Lib., no. 241)
1 Jul. 1238 * Assignment (agreement) of churches of Leny and Inchmahome (STL) Judge 4/32/78 (Inchaff. Lib., no. 11)
1 Jul. 1238 Settlement of case between Clement, bishop of Dunblane and Walter Comyn, earl of Menteith Judge Gilbert of Stirling, bishop of Aberdeen (d.1239); Matthew of Aberdeen, master, archdeacon of Glasgow; Peter Ramsay, bishop of Aberdeen (d.1256); Peter, abbot of Cambuskenneth (fl.1235-40); Philip, abbot of Scone (fl.1230-42); Ralph of Lamley, bishop of Aberdeen (d.1247); Unknown, abbot of Inchaffray; William Lindsay, dean of Glasgow (d.p.1246/7) 4/32/78 (Inchaff. Lib., no. 11)
1 Jul. 1238 * Concession (agreement) of permission to build religious house at Inchmahome Judge 4/32/78 (Inchaff. Lib., no. 11)
31 Dec. 1238 Renewal of church of Madderty (PER) and the apdaine and quitclaim of cain and conveth Grantor Adam de Prebenda, dean of Dunkeld (fl.1229×36-45); Malcolm, precentor of Dunkeld (fl.1238-58×61); Peter of Carstairs, precentor of Dunkeld; Robert of Leicester/Craigie, dean of Aberdeen (d.1277×88); Robert, treasurer of Dunkeld (fl.1238-71); William of Ednam, master, archdeacon of Dunkeld (d.1251×57); William, subdean of Dunkeld 2/6/45 (Inchaff. Chrs., no. 65)
1239 *Concession (agreement) that church of Leslie will become a prebend of Dunkeld Party 1 4/30/6 (Inchcolm, no. 18)
1239 Agreement between Geoffrey, bishop and the chapter of Dunkeld, and Merleswain son of Waltheof Party 1 Hugh, abbot of Culross (d.1245); Laurence Abernethy (fl.1180s×1230s); Malcolm (II), earl of Fife (d.1266); Malcolm, son of Earl Mael Domnaig of Lennox (d.c.1248); Nicholas Soulis, lord of Liddesdale (d.1265); Walter Stewart (II), son of Alan (d.1241); Walter, son of Alan of Ruthven, knight 4/30/6 (Inchcolm, no. 18)
undated Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/646/11 (Scone Lib., no. 89)
undated Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/646/9 (Lind. Cart., no. 67)
1 Oct. 1182 X 1194 Son of Martin of Perth (father of Geoffrey de Liberatione) (Familial relationship) subject (relationship) 3/516/1 (Scone Lib., no. 21)
1 Oct. 1182 X 1194 Sons of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/516/1 (Scone Lib., no. 21)
17 Mar. 1199 X 25 Jul. 1202 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/363/2 (C.A. Chrs., no. 10)
17 Mar. 1199 X 25 Jul. 1202 Son of Martin of Perth (father of Geoffrey de Liberatione) (Familial relationship) subject (relationship) 3/363/2 (C.A. Chrs., no. 10)
11 Apr. 1206 X Sept. 1227 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 4/21/1 (Scone Lib., no. 169)
1209 X 1245 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/646/1 (Scone Lib., no. 97)
1210 X 4 Dec. 1214 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 4/33/9 (Arb. Lib., no. 215)
circa 1210 X circa 1250 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/646/3 (Scone Lib., no. 90)
7 Jan. 1210 X 1231 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/11/10 (Dunf. Reg., no. 149)
4 Dec. 1214 X 6 Sept. 1236 Clerk of Alexander II, king of Scots (d.1249) (Employment relationship) subject (relationship) 3/646/4 (Scone Lib., no. 86)
4 Dec. 1214 X 6 Sept. 1236 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/646/4 (Scone Lib., no. 86)
1219 X 6 Dec. 1219 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/646/2 (Scone Lib., no. 82)
10 Jul. 1222 X 6 Sept. 1236 Clerk of Alexander II, king of Scots (d.1249)(Employment relationship) subject (relationship) 1/7/74 (RRS, iii, no. 334)
10 Jul. 1222 X 6 Sept. 1236 Son of Martin of Perth (father of Geoffrey de Liberatione)(Familial relationship) subject (relationship) 1/7/74 (RRS, iii, no. 334)
1227 X 24 Feb. 1236 Clerk of Alexander II, king of Scots (d.1249)(Employment relationship) subject (relationship) 2/55/2 (Scone Lib., no. 93)
11 Apr. 1227 X 1234 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/404/1 (Neville, Strathearn, Add. Chrs., no. 25)
Sept. 1227 Clerk of Alexander II, king of Scots (d.1249)(Employment relationship) subject (relationship) 1/7/138 (RRS, iii, no. 135)
13 Dec. 1229 X 24 Mar. 1232 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/646/5 (Balm. Lib., no. 25)
13 Dec. 1229 X circa 1241 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/646/6 (Balm. Lib., no. 22)
circa 1230 X 18 Apr. 1241 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/276/13 (Lind. Cart., no. 66)
3 Feb. 1231 Clerk of Alexander II, king of Scots (d.1249)(Employment relationship) subject (relationship) 1/7/170 (RRS, iii, no. 166)
1233 X 1241 Clerk of King Alexander II (employment relationship) subject (relationship) 1/7/214 (RRS, iii, no. 207)
24 Feb. 1236 Clerk of Alexander II, king of Scots (d.1249)(Employment relationship) subject (relationship) 1/7/242 (RRS, iii, no. 236)
3 Dec. 1236 X 12 Nov. 1246 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/23/19 (Simpson, de Quincy, no. 10)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 Nepos (nephew/grandson) of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 2/6/48 A (Dunf. Reg., no. 138)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 Nepos (nephew/grandson) of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249)(Familial relationship) object (relationship) 2/6/48 (Dunf. Reg., no. 140)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 Sister of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249)(Familial relationship) object (relationship) 2/6/48 (Dunf. Reg., no. 140)
31 Dec. 1238 Predecessor of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249)(Tenurial & lordship relationship) object (relationship) 2/6/45 (Inchaff. Chrs., no. 65)
31 Dec. 1238 Canon of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249)(Employment relationship) object (relationship) 2/6/45 (Inchaff. Chrs., no. 65)
Saturday 8 Dec. 1240 Son of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Familial relationship) object (relationship) 3/646/8 (Inchaff. Chrs., no. 69)
Wednesday 26 Apr. 1245 Predecessor of Geoffrey de Liberatione, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1249) (Tenurial & lordship relationship) object (relationship) 4/33/18 (St A. Lib., 307-08)
3 Aug. 1251 X 16 Apr. 1272 Predecessor of Richard, bishop of Dunkeld (d. 1272) subject (relationship) 2/6/60 A (Inchcolm, no. 22)
26 Dec. 1255 X 15 Dec. 1261 Predecessor of Richard of Inverkeithing, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1272)(Tenurial & lordship relationship) subject (relationship) 2/6/54 (St A. Lib., 309)
15 Feb. 1263 Predecessor of Richard of Inverkeithing, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1272)(Tenurial & lordship relationship) subject (relationship) 2/6/57 (Scone Lib., no. 110)
2 Aug. 1263 Predecessor of Richard of Inverkeithing, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1272)(Tenurial & lordship relationship) subject (relationship) 2/6/56 (Inchaff. Chrs., no. 90)
23 May 1266 Successor of John Scott, bishop of Dunkeld (d.1203) (Familial relationship) subject (relationship) 2/146/20 (Inchaff. Chrs., no. 93)
X 6 Sept. 1236 Dominus (Lord/Sir) 3/646/7 (Scone Lib., no. 96)
4 Dec. 1214 X 6 Sept. 1236 clerk (king's) 3/646/4 (Scone Lib., no. 86)
17 Sept. 1217 X 6 Sept. 1236 clerk of the livery 3/274/3 (Dunf. Reg., no. 150)
Jan. 1218 clerk of the livery 2/10/153 (Midl. Chrs., no. 20)
10 Jul. 1222 X 6 Sept. 1236 clerk (king's) 1/7/74 (RRS, iii, no. 334)
1227 X 24 Feb. 1236 clerk (king's) 2/55/2 (Scone Lib., no. 93)
Sept. 1227 clerk (king's) 1/7/138 (RRS, iii, no. 135)
Sept. 1227 ? Dominus (Sir/Lord) 1/7/138 (RRS, iii, no. 135)
30 Jun. 1228 X 31 Dec. 1236 clerk of the livery 2/52/3 (Scone Lib., no. 92)
1229 X 6 Apr. 1236 clerk of the livery 2/6/40 (Inchcolm, no. 14)
1229 X 6 Apr. 1236 canon of Dunkeld 2/6/40 (Inchcolm, no. 14)
25 May 1229 clerk of the livery 1/7/155 (RRS, iii, no. 152)
30 Apr. 1230 X 11 Sept. 1233 clerk of the livery 3/586/13 (Arb. Lib., no. 117)
30 Apr. 1230 X 11 Sept. 1233 Dominus (Lord/Sir) 3/586/13 (Arb. Lib., no. 117)
1231 X 6 Apr. 1236 Dominus (Lord/Sir) 2/6/43 (Dunf. Reg., no. 132)
1231 X 6 Apr. 1236 canon of Dunkeld 2/6/43 (Dunf. Reg., no. 132)
3 Feb. 1231 clerk (king's) 1/7/170 (RRS, iii, no. 166)
1233 X 1241 clerk (king's) 1/7/214 (RRS, iii, no. 207)
21 Feb. 1236 precentor of Glasgow 1/7/241 (RRS, iii, no. 235)
24 Feb. 1236 clerk (king's) 1/7/242 (RRS, iii, no. 236)
8 Apr. 1236 clerk of the livery 1/7/246 (RRS, iii, no. 239)
6 Sept. 1236 canon 2/140/76 (Theiner, no. 85)
3 Dec. 1236 bishop-elect 1/7/258 (RRS, iii, no. 251)
3 Dec. 1236 X 1240 bishop of Dunkeld 3/320/3 (Gen. Coll., i, 53)
3 Dec. 1236 X 1241 Dominus (Lord/Sir) 3/424/2 (Midl. Chrs., no. 32)
3 Dec. 1236 X 1241 bishop of Dunkeld 3/424/2 (Midl. Chrs., no. 32)
3 Dec. 1236 X 12 Nov. 1246 Dominus (Lord/Sir) 3/23/19 (Simpson, de Quincy, no. 10)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 bishop of Dunkeld 2/6/48 (Dunf. Reg., no. 140)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 Dominus (Lord/Sir) 3/60/9 (Inchcolm, no. 17)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 bishop of Dunkeld 2/6/47 (Scone Lib., no. 100)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 bishop of Dunkeld 3/60/9 (Inchcolm, no. 17)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 bishop of Dunkeld 3/648/1 (Scone Lib., no. 94)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 bishop of Dunkeld 2/40/8 (Dunf. Reg., no. 136)
3 Dec. 1236 X 22 Nov. 1249 bishop of Dunkeld 2/6/48 A (Dunf. Reg., no. 138)
5 Apr. 1237 bishop of Dunkeld 2/140/80 (Theiner, no. 89)
16 Apr. 1237 bishop of Dunkeld 2/6/44 (Dunf. Reg., nos. 205, 306)
May 1237 bishop of Dunkeld 4/32/77 (SHS, Misc viii, 13-4)
May 1237 Dominus (Lord/Sir) 4/32/77 (SHS, Misc viii, 13-4)
10 Jun. 1237 X 20 Aug. 1241 bishop of Dunkeld 4/32/81 (Arb. Lib., i, no. 241)
11 Jun. 1237 bishop of Dunkeld 2/140/83 (Arb. Lib., no. 241)
23 Oct. 1237 bishop of Dunkeld 1/7/268 (RRS, iii, no. 261)
1 Jul. 1238 bishop of Dunkeld 4/32/78 (Inchaff. Lib., no. 11)
28 Jul. 1238 bishop of Dunkeld 1/7/274 (RRS, iii, no. 267)
31 Dec. 1238 bishop of Dunkeld 2/6/45 (Inchaff. Chrs., no. 65)
1239 Dominus (Lord/Sir) 4/30/6 (Inchcolm, no. 18)
1239 bishop of Dunkeld 4/30/6 (Inchcolm, no. 18)
24 Feb. 1236 Lands in villas of Clackmannan, Scone, Dunkeld and Inverness Holder (possession) 1/7/242 (RRS, iii, no. 236)
1248 Church of Forgandenny Holder (possession) 4/4/17 (Camb. Reg., no. 74)
X 6 September 1236 Quitclaim of land in Perth 3/646/7 (Scone Lib., no. 96)
1 October 1182 X 1194 Gift of ‘Ahednepobbel’, a toft in Tibbermore (PER) and meadow on Lochty Burn 3/516/1 (Scone Lib., no. 21)
4 December 1214 X 6 September 1236 Gift of 2 booths in the burgh of Perth (PER) 3/646/4 (Scone Lib., no. 86)
17 September 1217 X 6 September 1236 Receipt at feuferme of the land of Moulin for an annual render of 100 shillings 3/274/3 (Dunf. Reg., no. 150)
January 1218 Gift of church of St Martin of Strathmartin (ANG) 2/10/153 (Midl. Chrs., no. 20)
September 1227 Renewal of possessions given to Dunfermline Abbey 1/7/138 (RRS, iii, no. 135)
30 June 1228 Gift of land of 'Robynfeld' to maintain bridge of Spey (BNF) 1/7/143 (RRS, iii, no. 140)
30 June 1228 X 31 December 1236 Quitclaim of all debt which Scone shall owe at death of Andrew, rector of Inchture 2/52/3 (Scone Lib., no. 92)
1229 X 6 April 1236 Confirmation of church of Auchtertool (FIF), with two oxgangs of land south of church 2/6/40 (Inchcolm, no. 14)
25 May 1229 Confirmation of church of Redgorton (ANG) 1/7/155 (RRS, iii, no. 152)
30 April 1230 X 11 September 1233 Renewal of half mark from mill of Haddington (ELO) 3/586/13 (Arb. Lib., no. 117)
1231 X 6 April 1236 Renewal of church of Strathardle (PER) 2/6/43 (Dunf. Reg., no. 132)
3 February 1231 Foundation of Balmerino Abbey 1/7/170 (RRS, iii, no. 166)
1233 X 1241 Foundation of Balmerino Abbey 1/7/214 (RRS, iii, no. 207)
21 February 1236 Gift of waste around Ettrick Water (SLK) 1/7/241 (RRS, iii, no. 235)
8 April 1236 Statement concerning agreement between Melrose Abbey and Roger Avenel 1/7/246 (RRS, iii, no. 239)
3 December 1236 Renewal ? of all lands between Gala and Leader Waters and other lands on south bank of Tweed 1/7/259 (RRS, iii, no. 252)
3 December 1236 Gift of loch of Dunscore in Nithsdale (DMF), and pennyland belonging to it 1/7/258 (RRS, iii, no. 251)
3 December 1236 Concession to hold lands in free forest 1/7/260 (RRS, iii, no. 253)
3 December 1236 X 1240 Succession of land of Dunore (PER) 3/320/3 (Gen. Coll., i, 53)
3 December 1236 X 1241 Gift of land of Saltoun (ELO) 3/424/2 (Midl. Chrs., no. 32)
3 December 1236 X 12 November 1246 Confirmation of land in Perth 3/23/19 (Simpson, de Quincy, no. 10)
3 December 1236 X 22 November 1249 Gift of half of land held in Duddingston (MLO) 3/60/9 (Inchcolm, no. 17)
May 1237 Agreement between Scone Abbey and David Hay 4/32/77 (SHS, Misc viii, 13-4)
23 October 1237 Confirmation of waste of Dundaff and Strathcarron (STL) in exchange for land of 'Gretquerqv' in Galloway 1/7/268 (RRS, iii, no. 261)
25 October 1237 Gift of lands within sheriffdom of Perth 1/7/269 (RRS, iii, no. 262)
28 July 1238 Succession to earldom of Lennox 1/7/274 (RRS, iii, no. 267)
11 January 1241 Concession of right to trade in Argyll and Lennox, and throughout kingdom 1/7/290 (RRS, iii, no. 283)
5 February 1241 Gift of 2 acres of land in territory of Scone 1/7/281 (RRS, iii, no. 274)
18 July 1241 Concession to hold lands beyond the Mounth in free forest 1/7/284 (RRS, iii, no. 277)
31 August 1241 Gift of Vale of Leithen (PEB) 1/7/287 (RRS, iii, no. 280)
1 March 1242 X 31 March 1244 Gift of lands of Pitgorno and Drumdreel in Fife 1/7/308 (RRS, iii, no. 344)
15 July 1242 Command to imprison excommunicates in bailliary of Traquair 1/7/293 (RRS, iii, no. 286)
9 June 1243 Confirmation of donation made by John de Vaux 1/7/298 (RRS, iii, no. 291)
10 November 1243 Gift of church of Killean in Kintyre (ARG) 1/7/299 (RRS, iii, no. 292)
7 January 1245 Confirmation of quitclaim of Kettlestoun (WLO) in return for lands at Binn and Abbots Dueglie (PER); and of gift of land of Bandeath 1/7/311 (RRS, iii, no. 303)
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Music Spotlight The 1960's
Remembering the legendary Otis Redding
December 10, 2019 December 12, 2019 Pop Expresso 0 Comments 1960's, 1967, Monterey, Music, Otis Redding, Soul
The unique Otis Redding passed away at age 26 on this day in 1967
Otis Redding was born Otis Redding Ray Jr. on September 9th, 1941 in Dawson, Georgia, one of the most influential soul music singers of all time and one of the main responsibility to project Soul music to the mainstream back in the 60’s when he successfully brought Soul and Rock music fans together. Redding’s style of singing gained inspiration from the gospel music. Born and raised in the US state of Georgia, Redding quit school at age 15 to support his family, working with Little Richard’s backing band, the Upsetters, and performing at talent shows for prize money. In 1958, he joined Johnny Jenkins’s band, the Pinetoppers, with whom he toured the Southern states as a singer and driver. An unscheduled appearance on a Stax recording session led to a contract and his first single, “These Arms of Mine”, in 1962. At an early age, Redding sang in the Vineville Baptist Church choir and learned guitar and piano. From age 10, he took drum and singing lessons. During the start of his professional music career, as a member of Pat T. Cake and the Mighty Panthers, Redding toured the Southern United States on the chitlin’ circuit, a string of venues that were hospitable to African-American entertainers during the era of racial segregation, which lasted into the early 1960s. He often cited Little Richard and Sam Cooke as influences. Redding said that he “would not be here” without Little Richard and that he “entered the music business because of Richard – he is my inspiration. I used to sing like Little Richard, his Rock ‘n’ Roll stuff… My present music has a lot of him in it.” Aside from being a talented and charismatic singer, Redding was also a notable composer, he started to compose his own songs at an early stage of his career and by 1965, with 24, he already had composed and released absolute classics such as “These Arms of Mine”, “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” and “Respect”. Otis was frequently backed by the famous band Booker T. & the M.G.’s (“Green Onions”) on stage and studio. After spending the first half of the 60’s trying to make a name for himself despite being popular in the Soul music circuits and with already numerous released singles and 3 albums “Pain In My Heart” , “The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads” and “Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul”, it wasn’t until 1965 with this original song “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” that reached number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Billboard Rhythm & Blues chart and in 1966 with his version of the 1930’s song “Try a Little Tenderness” (produced by Isaac Hayes and backed by the Booker T. & the M.G.’s) that he peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 that Otis career started to progress in the mainstream direction.
Recognition, Monterey Pop Festival and “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”
In 1966 Otis does his first European tour, when his crew arrives in London when his crew arrived in London, the Beatles sent a limousine to pick them up. During that same year, he is booked by Bill Graham to play at the Fillmore Auditorium. The gig was commercially and critically successful and introduces Otis music to new audiences. With a circle of admirers and fans such as Bob Dylan, Otis became in 1967 one of the most acclaimed artists, he successfully shifted his career direction and blend music fans from several genres together. He gets a real taste of it when he’s invited to play the Monterey Pop Festival during that year, a festival that consisted mainly of Rock and Pop acts. At the time, he “had not been considered a commercially viable player in the mainstream white American market.” yet, but after delivering one of the most electric performances of the night, and having been the act to most involve the audience, “his performance at Monterey Pop was therefore a natural progression from local to national acclaim. His act included his own song “Respect” and a version of the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction.” Redding and his backing band (Booker T. & the M.G.’s with the Mar-Keys horn section) opened with “Cooke’s “Shake”, after which he delivered an impulsive speech, asking the audience if they were the “love crowd” and looking for a big response. The ballad “I’ve Been Loving You” followed. The last song was “Try a Little Tenderness”, including an additional chorus. “I got to go, Y’all, I don’t wanna go”, said Redding and left the stage of his last major concert. According to Booker T. Jones, “I think we did one of our best shows, Otis and the MG’s. That we were included in that was also something of a phenomenon. That we were there? With those people? They were accepting us and that was one of the things that really moved Otis. He was happy to be included and it brought him a new audience. It was greatly expanded in Monterey.” Still, in 1967 he puts out the duet album with Carla Thomas “King & Queen”, that proved to be one of his most successful albums, an instant classic, regarded today as highly influential. The album featured songs such as “Knock On Wood”, “It Takes Two”, “Lovey Dovey” and “Tramp” among others. But despite all that, Otis still wanted to reach a wider range of audiences and to experiment more with music styles against the wishes of his record label Stax, as a composer he didn’t want to get stuck just or associated with just one genre. Inspired by “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts” club band he started working on new music and together with Steve Cropper writes “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” that became for many his signature song. Otis died with only 26 years old in a plane crash on December 10th, 1967 at the peak of his career. After his death, “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” was released and became one of his best selling songs. His influence in music cannot be disregarded in many musical genres, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, The Doors (who tribute Otis in their 1969 song “Runnin’ Blue” that starts with Jim Morrison’s poem “Poor Otis Dead And Gone”) are just very few of those who have been and continue to be inspired by Otis, and it can be said that even if he left too soon, he accomplished on his 26 years of life his musical goal, which was to be part of a wider music community and to have his music recognized as a free form of expression not associated to a particular style. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Redding in 1989, declaring his name to be “synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying.
Watch the historical Otis Redding live performance at the Monterey Pop Festival 1967, “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long”
Watch the historical Otis Redding live performance at the Monterey Pop Festival 1967, “Respect”
Watch the historical Otis Redding live performance at the Monterey Pop Festival 1967, “Try a Little Tenderness”
Listen to some of Otis Redding greatest songs compiled by Pop Expresso on Spotify
Watch the Otis Redding music video for “(Sittin’On) The Dock of the Bay”
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Portrait of Norman Lindsay as a student, c. 1896
George Coates
oil on cardboard (frame: 39.8 cm x 32.1 cm, support: 28.5 cm x 20.5 cm)
Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), artist, cartoonist, and writer, came from a family that produced five artists. Lindsay left home when he was sixteen to live with his brother in Melbourne. In 1901 he moved north to make his permanent home in the Blue Mountains, working for the Bulletin in an association that lasted almost to his death. His first novel was published in 1913, and by the 1920s he was both proficient and prolific in pen and ink drawing, etching, woodcuts, painting and sculpture. Lindsay loathed Christianity, and his art depicts Bohemianism and Arcadian pantheism madly admixed in a fantasy world. As early as 1904 his work was deemed blasphemous; in 1930 his novel Redheap was banned and the following year the police proceeded against an issue of Art and Australia that showcased his art. Lindsay’s work remains popular with collectors, and his cheerfully violent story The Magic Pudding (1918) retains its status as a classic of Australian children’s literature.
George Coates (age 27 in 1896)
Norman Lindsay (age 17 in 1896)
1. Norman and Jack, c. 1903. 2. Ruby, Norman, Pearl, Percy, Reg, Bill Dyson and Mary in Creswick garden, c. 1899. 3. Norman and "Peter Ward", c. 1906. 4. Norman, Kodak, Rose, J.F Archibald, model and John Barr, c. 1913. All an unknown artist.
Painting light and life
Previous exhibition, 2011
Impressions: Painting light and life presents portraits by, and of, artists at the heart of Australian impressionism including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin.
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Observations on the Florid Song, Or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers, Written in Italian, Translated Into English
by Pier Francesco Tosi and John Ernest Galliard
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City University of New York Selects SGI to Power Major Research Projects
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City University of New York Selects SGI to Power Major Research Projects : SGI, a global leader in high-performance solutions for compute, data analytics and data management, announced that the City University of New York (CUNY) has selected SGI to support the university's interdisciplinary research and educational activities through SGI's platinum partner Comnetco, Inc. SGI is a global leader in high performance solutions for compute, data analytics and data management that enable customers to accelerate time to discovery, innovation, and profitability.
As the third largest university system in the United States, CUNY provides high-quality, accessible education for more than 269,000 degree-credit students and 247,000 adult, continuing and professional education students at 24 campuses across all five boroughs of New York City. The University is an integrated system of senior and community colleges, graduate and professional schools, research centers, institutes and consortia.
To ensure its broad base of university researchers maintain the computational power needed to solve the complex graph theory problems they face, CUNY selected to upgrade its infrastructure to the SGI UV 300 advanced symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system, configured with 32 sockets and 384 cores using Intel Xeon E7-8857 v2 processors, 12 terabytes (TB) of cache-coherent shared memory, and eight NVIDIA® Kepler GPUs. With a combination of the latest SGI NUMAlink® 7 interconnect in a new all-to-all topology, the SGI UV 300 provides unprecedented gains in both high bandwidth and ultra-low latency in-memory computing for high performance data analytics applications.
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Karpura Srinivasa Rao (Part 1)
D V Gundappa
I have mentioned earlier[1] that Karpura Srinivasa Rao was one of the founding fathers of Karṇāṭaka Sāhitya Pariṣad. In any activity beneficial to the nation, he would always make himself counted.
Like Visvesvaraya, Srinivasa Rao too began his career with the Government of Bombay and retired after serving in prominent positions in the Government of Mysore. Seven or eight days after the demise of Gopal Krishna Gokhale in February 1915, a few friends decided that a public condolence ceremony must be organized in Bangalore. Rao Bahadur Garudachar, K S Krishna Iyer, and I went to Diwan Visvesvaraya to request him to preside over the function. Visvesvaraya said, “Kindly ask Sri Karpura Srinivasa Rao to preside over the function. That will be appropriate.”
We said, “If you oblige, it will bring greater honour to the assembly.”
“I will come to the assembly. If you want, I can also speak a few words. However, Srinivasa Rao is the right person to preside over the function in all respects. He and Gokhale studied together, they were classmates. I am senior to both of them by a year or two. Gokhale studied in the engineering college for a couple of years and then he quit. Srinivasa Rao went on to complete engineering. I can say that he was better than Gokhale in Mathematics. He is honest in his dealings. He is a complete patriot and is free from fear. If he presides over the ceremony, I will attend.”
The ceremony was carried out as per the suggestion of Visvesvaraya. The speech that Visvesvaraya made has not been erased from the mind. It was short but profound.
That day when Karpura Srinivasa Rao was giving his president’s address, as he spoke, all his old memories swelled from deep within and he was unable to hold back his tears. Belavadi Nanjundayya, Ramanna – they were the first among those who went to Bombay from Mysore, became engineers, and made a name for themselves. Srinivasa Rao was shaken as he remembered their names and saying, “O Ramanna!” he wiped his eyes and nose using the edge of his coat. It didn’t occur to him that he was wearing his uttarīya! This shows the purity of his heart.
One could observe a few contradictions between Visvesvaraya and Srinivasa Rao. Visvesvaraya was soft and subtle in his form and personality whereas Srinivasa Rao was haphazard. By nature Visvesvaraya was calculative in his speech. On the other hand, Srinivasa Rao would speak expansively depending on the subject and the free time he had.
Subject Interest
During 1913-14, there was a conference on democratic representation in Mysore. Visvesvaraya’s resolve was to add an important point about the budget for the Kannaṃbāḍi[2] dam in the speech that was scheduled on the first day. If it were to be added, he anticipated that it would be beneficial for the deal that was being negotiated with the Government of India. This point was to be provided by the chief engineer of the kingdom, Sri Karpura Srinivasa Rao. For this, a peon came to Srinivasa Rao at around 7 pm on the eve of the conference. Rao was busy debating on logic with a learned man in Sanskrit. Srinivasa Rao saw the Dewan’s servant and said “wait”. The debate was going on. Fifteen-twenty minutes passed by, one more servant came. Shri Rao smiled at him and again said, “wait”. After fifteen minutes passed by, a third servant came! Rao told the learned man : “this guy, this Visvesvaraya is always like this, right from his childhood - always hard pressed for time[3]. Just like the British - dressing, language - all like them”. Saying that, he left debating and gave what was needed.
I was witnessing all these from the first storey building which is situated next. Secretary D.M. Narasinga Rao was standing beside me and laughingly quipped “see them, see”. We laughed a lot.
In politics, Rao belonged to Tilak’s party. Rao had an adoration for Tilak and his magazine “Kesarī”. On the tenth day of Tilak’s demise, he went to Kempāmbudhi lake along with hundred others and performed his last rites as per the customs.
Rao was familiar with Marathi literature. He adored Sanskrit literature very much. He used to show a great reverence towards Sanskrit Pandits.
He had not learnt sanskrit in his childhood. Nor did he learn it in a traditional way too. It was from Swami Vivekananda’s triumph and his speeches that his love for Sanskrit was born. He narrated this to many people and used to say “This is an easy language. You don’t have to do anything. Just read Śrīmad-rāmāyaṇa. You can learn Sanskrit easily” - he advised.
Love for the Sahitya Parishat
Rao’s efforts in building Karnataka Sahitya Parishat is herculean. He used to collate money and members from anywhere and everywhere possible. He knew all the scholars of the state. He never missed even a single conference. Being present in each conference, he would add value, not only by his oratory skills but also by his charisma. I will narrate a couple of instances I remember succinctly.
During the conference, lunch break was more interesting than the conference itself. Rao was the president. He mandated that everyone who was having lunch were supposed to sing a song, or a poem or a shloka. Many poems and prose used to float. Once, Nangapuram Venkatesha Iyengar narrated a prose of middle kannada literature of Gubalala Shyamacharya called “Saugandhikā-pariṇaya”. A few said from Jaiminī-Bhārata. Some from Gadugina-Bhārata. Kadapa Raghavendra Rao sang “ಲಂಗೋಟಿ ಬಲು ಒಳ್ಳೆದಣ್ಣ”[4]. In the garb of showing hospitality, there were many types of peculiar proverbs that were coming up. “One who doesn’t take bribes despite being in the government job is the traitor of the family, one who doesn’t eat well in a samārādhanā is a traitor of the self”
Rao used to laugh wholeheartedly when such instances used to occur.
This is the first part of a two-part English translation of the twelfth essay in D V Gundappa’s magnum-opus Jnapakachitrashaale (Volume 3) – Sahityopasakaru. Edited by G S Raghavendra.
[1]In chapter 10
[2] The present KRS dam
[3] In kannada “ಏಳನೇ ತಿಂಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದವನಂತೆ ಆಡುತ್ತಾನೆ”
[4] A Kīrtanā by Purandara-dāsa highlighting the virtue of renunciation, being content even while being poor. literally “loin cloth is good”
Karpura Srinivasa Rao
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Kumaravyasabharata
Devanahalli Venkataramanayya Gundappa (1887-1975) was a great visionary and polymath. He was a journalist, poet, art connoisseur, philosopher, political analyst, institution builder, social commentator, social worker, and activist.
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Dhruva Somayaji holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Instrumentation engineering and a master's degree in Business Administration majoring in Finance and Marketing. Dhruva currently works as a senior financial analyst for State Street Global Advisors, a renowned asset management company. His major interests are in history, philosophy, literature, art, politics, and religion. He blogs at http://themeindia.blogspot.in.
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Ben Carlisle
Having served on the company’s board of directors since 2003, Ben joined the company as vice president in 2010 and was elected president in 2013. A native of Bangor, Ben returned to Maine after working in the Boston region for 13 years, where he consulted for regulated utility companies such as Verizon, Waste Management, CSX Transportation, and Exelon Energy. Ben currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Maine Forest Products Council, Forest Society of Maine, North Maine Woods, and the Maine Forest & Logging Museum. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.
Benjamin Benwell
Ben joined Prentiss & Carlisle in 2014 as Corporate Controller before being named CFO and Treasurer in 2018. He oversees financial reporting for both P&C and its clients and is also responsible for the company’s Accounting Operations division, including all financial activities, tax reporting, asset management, treasury, and insurance programs. Prior to joining P&C, Ben worked in the audit department of the public accounting firm of BerryDunn, gaining experience in internal control environments and developing an analytical mindset. He graduated with honors from the University of Maine with a Master’s in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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Brent Martin
Vice President – Harvest Operations
Brent joined P&C in 2012 after working in the forest products industry for the past 15 years. His experience covers a broad range, including working in the heavy equipment industry where he specialized in equipment training and harvest operations while managing the sales force to meet the growing needs of the customers. Previously Brent’s experience with a New England based forestry firm exposed him to managing an aerial herbicide crew using GPS and GIS mapping for various industrial land owners. Today, Brent is responsible for P&C’s Harvest Operations division. He is a 1997 graduate of the University of Maine in Orono with a B.S. in forest management.
John McGeechan
Manager – Woodyard Operations
John joined P&C in 1996. He is a 1993 graduate from the University of Maine with a B.S. in forest management. John is a licensed Maine forester and licensed scaler. During his tenure with P&C, John has held many positions, some of which include: operations forester for our Woodlot Services division, project manager on several right-of-way clearing projects, cut-to-length operations supervisor, sawmill supervisor, scaler, and equipment operator. In 2016, John became the manager of our Newport Woodyard and Manufacturing division.
Vice President – Forest Management
Bill joined P&C in 1985, after graduating from the University of Maine with a B.S. in forest management and from Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies with an M.F. degree. Bill is responsible for the company’s forest resource management and technical consulting activities, and also manages P&C’s forest information systems including GIS, computer mapping, forest inventory, and growth and yield modeling.
Vice President – Woodlot Management Services
Tom joined P&C in 1972, starting out by working as a forest technician during summer vacations. Tom eventually took on responsibility for the layout and supervision of harvest operations, and then became the company’s regional forester, responsible for land in the southern region of Maine. In 2003, he launched the company’s Woodlot Management Services division, which he now leads. Tom graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in forest management in 1977. His father, Forrest Nelson, was also a professional forester and lifetime P&C employee, serving from 1951 to 1985.
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Sophy Ridge to present Saturday and Sunday politics shows for Sky News during 'Brexit election'
BBC to use 'semi-automated journalism' for first time in covering 2019 general election
Non-profit local news body could bring about 'sea change' in public interest journalism
By Tony Hall Twitter
Earlier this year, a major report into the future of journalism made stark reading for those who believe in the importance of local democracy.
The effect of commercial pressures on local journalism across the UK has long been recognised. In the last decade, circulation for local newspapers has halved. Many titles have merged or folded. We’ve seen a net loss of around 250 in the last four years alone.
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The report from Dame Frances Cairncross made the stakes clear. She underlined that, as the number of local reporters has shrunk, so has their coverage of the whole machinery of local democracy.
It has led to a chronic under-reporting of local councils, courtrooms and other institutions. It has meant a growing lack of scrutiny on the issues and concerns that matter most to local communities.
I have always believed that the BBC should find ways to support a healthy local media ecology. I know that it’s so often what communities rely on most.
That’s why, at the start of last year, the BBC launched our Local Democracy Reporting Service. It’s a partnership with regional newspapers and the local media sector more widely, with the goal of supporting a network of 150 new local democracy reporters – managed by local media, but funded by the BBC.
Their job is simple: hold local politicians and public institutions to account all around the UK. So far they have produced more than 100,000 public interest stories on bodies such as councils and NHS trusts. They are all stories that might not otherwise have been heard.
The new Royal Liverpool Hospital, for example, built with unsafe cladding. Northamptonshire County Council underpaying childminders and nurseries by thousands of pounds. The £24m health centre in Altrincham that will never be used, but is still costing the NHS over £2m a year.
We have proved that this approach works. We have also shown the impact we can have through broader initiatives such as our Shared Data Unit, which sees BBC data journalists working alongside seconded reporters from local news to improve the standard of journalism in their own newsrooms.
But I’m determined that the BBC should do even more to help reverse the damage that has been done to local democracy. That’s why we have today announced a plan to expand our support for local media into an ambitious new BBC Local News Partnership.
The idea is to create a dedicated, not-for-profit body – independent of government and others – with the explicit aim of supporting a strong local media landscape and nourishing the foundations of local democracy. It will build on all our existing work, but will seek to expand significantly its scope and impact.
Already we have we have opened up our Local Democracy Reporting Service to news platforms aimed at black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities. We want it to be able to serve directly the interests of BAME audiences.
Right now we are extending the scheme in Northern Ireland, meaning that five new journalists there will be added to the pool of local democracy reporters.
But by creating a new, dedicated body and bringing like-minded businesses and other organisations on board we hope to unlock substantial new funding from others and dramatically raise our level of ambition.
That could mean a new crop of local democracy reporters around the UK. It could mean a new Local Justice Reporting Service with many more journalists covering magistrates’ and sheriff’s courts. It could mean a sea change in local public interest journalism.
I’m excited about what the BBC Local News Partnership could achieve for local democracy in this country. I believe that it is exactly the sort of initiative that the BBC can and should be taking to respond to the needs of society right now.
I also believe that it is important to recognise the reason why the BBC is in a position to make such significant interventions for the benefit of all communities around the UK.
It is the way we are funded – through the licence fee, which is guaranteed as the way of funding the BBC until at least 2027 – that underpins our public service mission.
The two have always been inextricably linked. Because we are funded by everyone, our role is to serve everyone in return. It’s a profoundly democratic ideal, and it remains at the heart of everything we do.
Our licence fee gives us a fundamental responsibility to protect the interests of local communities and uphold local democracy – and this ambitious partnership shows how we can live up to that responsibility.
Lord Tony Hall (pictured) is director general of the BBC.
Picture: BBC
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Brian Cathcart says:
The Cairncross report stated in plain terms: ‘There should be a careful independent review of the [LDR] scheme. The evaluation the BBC itself conducted at the end of the first year was fairly light touch.’ This independent review has not occurred. Lord Hall should explain why it hasn’t. Cairncross also recommended that ‘as soon as possible’ oversight and management of the scheme should be taken away from the BBC and given to an independent Institute for Public Interest News. Lord Hall does not mention that either. In the meantime the BBC is cheerfully ploughing licence fee cash into a scheme whose chief beneficiaries are the same big companies that have for years been sucking money out of the local and regional press, closing titles and sacking journalists.
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Primo Biography
Primo. Biography
Last update 2014
The landscape of music is always cultivating new sounds and artists who start out with a dream and a passion to bring their visions and life stories to life. In today’s world of music entertainment, anyone who has a hunger to live out childhood dreams has a chance to develop themselves into the “star” that will ignite the dance floors across the globe.
Primo has always been a student of the culture of modern day hip hop, rock and dance music since he was born in 1985 in Miami, Florida. Primo got his first glimpse of the booming music scene in Miami from his father; who emigrated from Cuba To USA in 1980.
During the Miami Vice era, Primo father became one of Miami’s biggest music promoter and club owners. Primo always saw his dad working with freestyle music artists such as George Lamond and Coro to name a few. While sneaking into clubs to accompany his father, he developed an appetite for the music entertainment industry. “I watched rappers and singers living that fast life, and I wanted a piece of that spotlight” said Primo.
During the time when Primo was trying to stay out of detention and becoming the popular ladies’ man in his high school, he began competing in pro paintball competitions where he gained a cult following for his rebellious style and attitude.
Primo soon got a call from a TV station that was looking to find talent for a popular show called Adrenaline Hour. After that TV show ended, Primo hosted another primetime show named, T.V Latin Music. “It was a fun and controversial music video show that allowed me to expose the booming Miami audience to music that I liked to listen and dance to.” Unlike other music video shows, Primo became the first VJ to ever put on primetime TV, Cuban reggaeton music videos.
While Primo was becoming a popular TV personality in Miami, and partying like a rock star with the best in the music industry, he took the opportunity and teamed up with local producers and Dj’s and began to develop his own signature hip hop style infused with a beat driven EDM flavor. He inked a deal with local label 4 Power Records and released handful of singles, including; "I Need Love" - Ft "Oba Frank Lords", “Been Made” and the EDM club thumping anthem “Watermelon Chalk” among others that have charted on iTunes and other online music retailers.
“I'm not just your ordinary guy that play's by the rules very much, I'm Primo and when I work on my music, I always break rules...”
Currently, Primo is once again preparing to attack the music scene with his signature baritone raspy voice and controversial stories of the fast life of a rebel who breaks all the rules. Now, Rock strong
He is teaming up with talented producers and remixers from both the USA and Europe and is developing new music that will break rules and make you turn up the Rock strong.
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Compared to other places, the availability and standards of local primary schools are good
Colston Avenue has 4 state primary schools within a reasonable walking distance and a further 16 within driving distance. There are also several options for private education locally.
Number of Schools within walking / driving distance
1 within a 15 minute walk
2 more within driving distance
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St Michael's on the Mount Church of England Primary School
Ages 4-11 , Mixed
Rated Good by Ofsted in 2015
0.1miles 2 mins walk
St Michael's on the Mount Church of England Primary School is a state school that is rated good by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 2 minutes walk. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11 of Church of England faith.
Based on Ofsted inspections and exam performances from schools that this data is available for, this school appears to be one of the best in the area. However we do not have data available for all schools in your area, so we recommend that you make your own enquiries to establish the performance of those schools where the data is missing. In terms of performance, pupils at this school perform around the national average in Maths and English SATs
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Cathedral Primary School
Cathedral Primary School is a state school that is rated good by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 6 minutes walk. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11, with no particular emphasis placed on faith.
St George Church of England Primary School
St George Church of England Primary School is a state school that is rated good by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 7 minutes walk. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11 of Church of England faith.
Based on Ofsted inspections and exam performances from schools that this data is available for, this school appears to be one of the better schools in the area. However we do not have data available for all schools in your area, so we recommend that you make your own enquiries to establish the performance of those schools where the data is missing. In terms of performance, pupils at this school perform around the national average in Maths and English SATs
Ss Peter and Paul RC Primary School
Rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 2009
0.7miles 13 mins walk
Ss Peter and Paul RC Primary School is a state school that is rated outstanding by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 15 min walk/2 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11 of Roman Catholic faith.
Based on Ofsted inspections and exam performances from schools that this data is available for, this school appears to be the best in the area. However we do not have data available for all schools in your area, so we recommend that you make your own enquiries to establish the performance of those schools where the data is missing. In terms of performance, pupils at this school perform around the national average in Maths and English SATs
Cotham Gardens Primary School
0.8miles 3 mins drive
Cotham Gardens Primary School is a state school that is rated good by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 15 min walk/3 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11, with no particular emphasis placed on faith.
Christ Church Church of England Primary School
Christ Church Church of England Primary School is a state school that is rated good by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 15 min walk/3 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11 of Church of England faith.
Hannah More Primary School
Rated Requires improvement by Ofsted in 2017
Hannah More Primary School is a state school that by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 15 min walk/3 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 5 and 11, with no particular emphasis placed on faith.
Based on Ofsted inspections and exam performances from schools that this data is available for, this school appears to be one of the poorer performing schools in the area. However we do not have data available for all schools in your area, so we recommend that you make your own enquiries to establish the performance of those schools where the data is missing. In terms of performance, pupils at this school perform around the national average in Maths and English SATs
Holy Cross RC Primary School
Holy Cross RC Primary School is a state school that is rated good by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 15 min walk/3 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11 of Roman Catholic faith.
Southville Primary School
Southville Primary School is a state school that is rated good by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 3 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 3 and 11, with no particular emphasis placed on faith.
The Dolphin School
The Dolphin School is a state school that is rated good by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 3 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11, with no particular emphasis placed on faith.
Cabot Primary School
Cabot Primary School is a state school that is rated good by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 3 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11, with no particular emphasis placed on faith.
St Mary Redcliffe Church of England Primary School
Rated Inadequate by Ofsted in 2016
St Mary Redcliffe Church of England Primary School is a state school that is rated inadequate by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 3 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 3 and 11 of Church of England faith.
Based on Ofsted inspections and exam performances from schools that this data is available for, this school appears to be one of the worst in the area. However we do not have data available for all schools in your area, so we recommend that you make your own enquiries to establish the performance of those schools where the data is missing. In terms of performance, pupils at this school perform around the national average in Maths and English SATs
St Nicholas of Tolentine Catholic Primary School
St Nicholas of Tolentine Catholic Primary School is a state school that is rated inadequate by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 3 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11 of Roman Catholic faith.
Based on Ofsted inspections and exam performances from schools that this data is available for, this school appears to be the worst in the area. However we do not have data available for all schools in your area, so we recommend that you make your own enquiries to establish the performance of those schools where the data is missing. In terms of performance, pupils at this school perform around the national average in Maths and English SATs
Hotwells Primary School
Hotwells Primary School is a state school that by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 4 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 3 and 11, with no particular emphasis placed on faith.
Ashton Gate Primary School
Ashton Gate Primary School is a state school that is rated outstanding by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 4 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11, with no particular emphasis placed on faith.
St Barnabas Church of England VC Primary School
St Barnabas Church of England VC Primary School is a state school that by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 4 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11 of Church of England faith.
Easton Church of England Academy
Easton Church of England Academy is a state school that by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 4 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 3 and 11 of Church of England faith.
Fairlawn Primary School
Fairlawn Primary School is a state school that is rated good by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 4 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 4 and 11, with no particular emphasis placed on faith.
Compass Point Primary School
Compass Point Primary School is a state school that by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 4 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 3 and 11, with no particular emphasis placed on faith.
St Johns Church of England Primary School, Clifton
St Johns Church of England Primary School, Clifton is a state school that is rated outstanding by Ofsted. You can read their report in full on the Ofsted site. The school is approximately 4 minutes drive. This is a mixed school accepting pupils between the ages of 5 and 11 of Church of England faith.
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Nicki Minaj Biography
Samuraeh December 08, 2019
Onika Tanya Maraj (born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj (/mɪˈnɑːʒ/), is a Trinidadian-American rapper, singer, songwriter, model, and actress. Born in Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and raised in Queens, New York City, New York.
Onika Tanya Maraj
Birth Date / Age
December 8, 1982 (age 37)
Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
New York City, U.S.
American, Trinidadian
Harajuku Barbie
US $25.5 Million
US $75 million
Robert Maraj (Father)
Carol Maraj (Mother)
Micaiah Maraj (Brother)
Brandon Lamar (Brother)
Jelani Maraj (Brother)
Ming Maraj (Sister)
La Guardia High School
Queens, New York , U.S.
Mobile Phone No:
MyPinkFriday.com
She gained public recognition after releasing the mixtapes Playtime Is Over (2007), Sucka Free (2008), and Beam Me Up Scotty (2009).
She has brothers named Micaiah, Brandon and Jelani and a sister named Ming. Her mother Carol has worked as a gospel singer and her father Robert has worked for American Express.
Her relationship with producer Safaree Samuels ended in 2014. She then dated rappers Meek Mill and Nas.
According to source, Nicki Minaj net worth was estimated to be at $75,000,000 Million.
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Czech drivers able to scratch penalty points from license on new course
Rosie Johnston
From the beginning of September, car-owners will be able to get rid of some of the penalty points on their license by attending a special one-day driving course, Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Monday. The course will cost 8300 crowns (503 USD) and for the moment, will only be held in Most, Northern Bohemia. Drivers who pass the course will have three penalty points scratched from their license, the paper writes. Czech drivers are allowed to have up to 12 points on their license before it is revoked.
Civic Democrats want to facilitate Georgian NATO membership
The ruling Civic Democrats would like to speed up Georgia’s bid to become a member of NATO, Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra said on Monday. Mr Vondra said that the Civic Democrats would do all that they could to speed up Georgia’s NATO membership following Russian ‘aggression’ in the Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The views of the Civic Democratic Party are at variance with those of Czech President Václav Klaus, himself a former Civic Democrat. Mr Klaus has recently said that he holds Georgia responsible for the current crisis in the Caucuses. Russia is firmly opposed to Georgia joining NATO.
Press: Czech government to spend 26 million crowns on advertising upcoming EU presidency
Advertising the Czech Republic’s EU presidency will cost the government 26 million crowns (1.6 million USD), Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Monday. The paper says that devising a logo for the country’s EU presidency has cost the Czech state 50,000 crowns (just over 3,000 USD), while gifts, and pamphlets about the presidency, have already cost nearly 18 million crowns (1.1 million crowns). The rest of the sum has been put towards decorating government buildings and working out an overall visual scheme for the presidency. Prague will take over from Paris at the head of the European Union in January 2009. The Czech Republic is the second post-communist country to take over the EU presidency, after Slovenia.
Foreign Ministry: nineteen Czechs died in Croatia so far this year
Nineteen Czech tourists have died in Croatia so far this year, said the Czech Foreign Ministry on Monday. This number is already higher than 2007’s tally – which was a total of 17 casualties. According to the ministry, four Czechs have drowned while on holiday in Croatia, while six have died in road accidents. The most recent tragedy was two Czech divers drowning – Croatian coast guards found their bodies on Sunday.
GP cleared of professional misconduct in horrific abuse case
Milana Smékalová, the family doctor of two boys who were horrifically abused, has been cleared of professional misconduct by a Brno court. Ms Smékalová faced up to three years in prison for failing to report the boys’ maltreatment. A judge ruled on Monday, however, that there was no proof that Ms Smékalová had ever seen the boys’ injuries. It is thought that the GP will now sue for compensation. The trial of Ms Smékalová is only one part of a bigger child abuse case, in which six people, including the mother of the abused boys Klára Mauerová, are being tried. The second stage of the trial will take place in October.
Visitor numbers at Czech spa towns up by 5.5 percent
The number of people visiting Czech spa-towns has risen in the first half of this year by 5.5 percent to 333,000. Just under half of those visiting the country’s spa towns were Czechs, which the number of foreigners visiting towns like Karlovy Vary and Mariánské Lázně shot up 7.5 percent to 167,000. According to the Czech Association of Travel Agents, the length of time that visitors are spending in the country’s spas is down, with the majority of tourists going for a relaxing weekend instead of staying for longer periods to convalesce. The majority of foreign guests at Czech spas come from Germany, the second largest group of foreign visitors is made up of Russians.
Defence Ministry: SOFA Agreement to be signed in September
A spokesperson for the Defence Ministry has said that the Czech-American Status of Forces Agreement may be signed in September, and not, as Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg suggested recently, in a couple of days. The Status of Forces (or SOFA) agreement will lay down the conditions for US soldiers living and working at a planned American radar base in Brdy, Central Bohemia. According to Defence Ministry Spokesman Andrej Čírtek, the individual points of the SOFA agreement have already been approved by both Czech and American delegates. The final wording of the agreement, however, is yet to be settled.
Press: Social Democrats propose ‘penalisation fees’ for underachieving students
The opposition Social Democrats would consider the introduction of fines for underachieving students, Hospodářské noviny reported on Monday. The Civic Democratic Party, which is currently in power, is for the idea of a British-style system of tuition fees and student loans, but has said that it will not implement such a system during this term in office. The Social Democrats have always been against such a plan to make students pay. In a new proposal published on Monday, however, the Social Democrats said that they were for the idea of ‘penalisation fees’ – in other words, charging those who fail an exam, should they want to re-sit it. The shadow education minister Jiří Havel has said that such fees would not discriminate against any parts of society, as the cost of re-sitting an exam would not be that high. Mr Havel envisages charging students around 200 crowns (12 USD) for an exam re-sit, and an additional 100 crowns per term if their results were bad.
Detained bug-hunters go on trial in India
The trial of two Czechs accused of smuggling rare insects from India has begun in New Dehli. Etymologists Petr Švacha and Emil Kučera were detained bug-catching in the Singalia National Park in June. They spent one month in prison and were released on bail a couple of weeks ago. If found guilty of smuggling, the pair could face up to seven years in prison. Hundreds of scientists from around the world have signed a petition calling for their release. The pair have maintained their innocence throughout.
Tennis: Czech Šafářová wins US Open warm-up at Forest Hills
Czech Lucie Šafářová, ranked just 82nd in the world, beat China's Peng Shuai 6-4, 6-2 in the final of the US Open warm-up event at Forest Hills on Saturday. The 21-year-old Šafářová, who won this event in 2005 when she won the first of two tournament wins at Estoril, Portugal, had lost to Peng on clay in 2004 in the Czech Republic in their only other meeting.
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“A lot of heart, but a lot of brain too” – could the Doctor Who Christmas special feature a return for a fan favourite?
Showrunner Steven Moffat is teasing clues about the festive episode...
By Huw Fullerton
Tuesday, 6th September 2016 at 2:25 pm
While we still have around seven months before the next full series of Doctor Who, we’ll get to see Peter Capaldi’s Time Lord in action considerably sooner in this year’s Christmas special, the details of which have remained shrouded in secrecy…
…until now. Because head writer Steven Moffat has finally begun dropping hints about what we can expect from this winter’s Yuletide romp, and they’re real head (and heart)-scratchers.
“We’ve just started working on the Christmas episode,” Moffat told BBC Newsbeat.
“It’s got a lot of heart, but it’s got a lot of brain too. Figure that one out.”
Ok Mr Moffat, challenge accepted…
Now, we think we’ve got the heart reference down – the Doctor, as with all Time Lords, has two hearts, which could reasonably be described as “a lot”. So we reckon he’s definitely in it… But what could Moffat mean about the episode having a “lot of brain?”
Was it just an offhand reference to the fact that it’s an adventure with a particularly fiendish plot as well as plenty of warmth, or a nod to something more specific that happens in the episode?
Matt Lucas’s Nardole as one of the heads imprisoned by King Hydroflax’s body
We think the latter – and we might have an idea what he’s referring to. In last year’s Christmas episode the primary antagonist was the robot body of King Hydroflax (voiced by Nonso Anozie), who had a habit of severing people’s heads and containing them within his chest cavity, switching them out for use when necessary.
One of his victims was Matt Lucas’ Nardole, who has since been confirmed as returning for series 10 in full possession of his own torso. Could this be how the character is reintroduced to the action, with his and many other “brains” still trapped inside the robot body and needing to be rescued by the Doctor?
You have to admit, it sort of makes sense – they’ll need to explain how Nardole gets his body back after the conclusion of The Husbands of River Song left him happily muddling along with his new condition – but it could be that we’re still barking up the wrong tree.
Could it instead be that the “hearts” and “brains” comment hints at the return of the Doctor’s fellow brainy (and two-hearted) Time Lord Missy (Michelle Gomez, above)?
Or perhaps a surprise comeback for revived series alien the Ood and their three-brained system of thought? No?
What we do know from other comments Moffat made is that the production team have “four episodes in the can” already, and that new companion Pearl Mackie is “a breath of fresh air on the Tardis”. So even if the plot is still shrouded in darkness, the future of Doctor Who is sounding pretty bright.
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Man who shot dog sentenced to 7 years
By EILEEN MCCLORY Reporter
A Paris Township man who assaulted a woman and killed a dog in April was sentenced to seven years in prison on Tuesday.
Jeffrey C. Adams, 35, had a last known address in the 6200 block of Wayland Road. He pleaded guilty on June 8 to several crimes he committed in April.
Adams pleaded guilty to improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation, a second-degree felony; abduction, a second-degree felony; trafficking in marijuana, a fifth-degree felony; domestic violence, a third-degree felony; and cruelty against a companion animal, a fifth-degree felony.
According to the Portage County Sheriff’s office, Adams went on a rampage at the home, throwing a woman into a wall and fracturing her nose. He also allegedly shot a 12-gauge shotgun and a .22-caliber handgun in the house.
Portage County Prosecutor Victor Vigluicci said Adams also shot the dog in the face with the 12-gauge shotgun, killing it. Deputies seized evidence that showed Adams was dealing marijuana, including a digital scale.
In August, he withdrew his plea of guilty pending evaluation of a psychologist, claiming it was made under duress. He was found competent on Oct. 15 and sentencing was scheduled.
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Please Stop Calling Nigella Lawson "Weak"
People are interpreting the celebrity chef's public silence as subservience to her husband's alleged abuse.
By REDBOOK Editors
British tabloids recently published photos of celebrity chef Nigella Lawson allegedly being choked by her husband, Charles Saatchi, while the two dined at a London restaurant. Since the photos emerged, the story has become an international incident, with media outlets on both sides of the Atlantic rushing to assess the situation. As with many domestic violence incidents, people want to place blame; however, another disturbing pattern is emerging. Lawson has chosen to remain silent so far, and people are using her lack of public response to label her "subservient" and "weak."
Saatchi has already taken very public action in response to the pictures. As for Nigella, her spokesman confirmed that she's staying somewhere else with the couple's two children, but beyond that, she hasn't issued a statement or spoken publicly. In a segment on CNN's New Day, entertainment reporter Neil Sean said that her look of distress in the pictures and subsequent silence is making her seem "sort of subservient." "She's always portrayed as a very powerful woman; a woman in control…I think this is a very telling story," Sean says. Later on in the segment, host Pamela Brown says that, "People are taking to Twitter saying she needs to come out and address this. That she's this powerful figure, and this makes her look weak."
Here's the thing: Nigella Lawson may be a celebrity, but she's still a human being. Not only is there no requirement that she comment on a very private matter (a reminder that these are paparazzi shots that were an invasion of privacy in the first place), she's most likely still processing both the situation and the resulting media storm. If she has been the victim of domestic violence, calling her "weak" won't help the situation. Plus, it's a hasty judgment to apply to a woman who has in the past been extremely powerful and vocal.
Even strong women can be the victims of domestic violence. Implying that Nigella's silence should be interpreted as subservience to her purported abuser follows an incredibly outdated (and offensive) line of reasoning that this only happens to weak women. This kind of thinking is what has cast domestic violence in a curtain of shame and silence, which makes it even harder for victims to come forward and leave the situation.
"Anyone that is going through this, who is questioning whether or not they can make it on their own: You can. The fact that you're still alive now; the fact that you've been through everything you've been through, and you're still there, I think is a testimony to the strength and resilience of your spirit," says Sil Lai Abrams, who shared her own story about "The Relationship That Almost Killed Me" in the October issue of REDBOOK.
The only people in this situation who do look weak are those hiding behind the anonymity of Twitter, casting judgment.
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Rediff.com » Business » Do not park too much money in co-operative banks
Do not park too much money in co-operative banks
By Tinesh Bhasin and Sanjay Kumar Singh
November 13, 2019 08:30 IST
Do not go for riskier options like co-operative bank only for the higher return. Even if you go for them, park only a small portion of your capital there, say Tinesh Bhasin and Sanjay Kumar Singh.
IMAGE: Depositors throng the PMC Bank in Mumbai. Photograph: ANI Photo.
Depositors would be feeling extremely harassed with the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) decision to restrict withdrawal from Punjab & Maharashtra Co-operative Bank or PMC Bank.
Many depended on the money parked with the bank for their daily lives and businesses.
But there was little that the banking regulator could do after finding severe irregularities at the bank.
For the next six months, depositors can only withdraw Rs 1,000 only at one time.
If there are scheduled payments or equated monthly instalments linked to PMC Bank accounts, they have to be shifted to another bank's account.
In interviews with media, the management has said that it is hopeful that all depositors would get their money back as the bank has given only collateralised loans.
Even if this is true, banking sources say that the final resolutions would take months or even years.
Uncertain future
Those who have up to Rs 1 lakh or below with the bank; the deposit insurance covers them.
But they will still have to wait until the time regulator finds a suitable solution.
For those who have over Rs 1 lakh, they will have to wait and watch.
When the regulator imposes restrictions under Section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, it is an extreme step.
"Bank affairs are completely stopped, and depositors can withdraw a limited amount. It means RBI believes that the situation is serious," says RK Bakshi, former executive director, Bank of Baroda.
He adds: "Unless RBI completes the total investigations -- because there might be other skeletons in the cupboard - there will be no solution."
In recent cases such as Kapol Co-operative Bank, Vasantdada Nagari Sahakari Bank, Padmashree Dr Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil Co-operative Bank and Karad Janata Sahakari Bank, the RBI has extended the restriction a few times.
In the past, when the RBI had taken similar action, the outcome had varied depending on the financial health of the bank on which restrictions were put.
Bakshi, for example, points out that about a decade back Bank of Baroda took over Memon Cooperative Bank and all the depositors were paid off.
The resolution of PMC Bank also depends on the regulator's assessment of its assets and liabilities.
There could be a scenario where another bank takes over PMC Bank if the financial health is good.
If not, the regulator can keep extending the restrictions like in case of other co-operative banks.
Co-operative banks are riskier
Co-operative banks more susceptible to governance issues.
In the current financial year, over a dozen co-operative banks have faced restrictions on withdrawal.
According to Usha Thorat, former deputy governor of the RBI and chairperson of Financial Benchmark India, there are multiple reasons why co-operative banks face governance issues.
"These banks are small, and due to their size, they are more susceptible to concentrated lending. They are subjected to dual regulation by the RBI and by Registrars of Cooperative Societies, which can be exploited," says Thorat.
Existing customers who do not want to take any risk should move their money out of co-operative banks and put it in a scheduled commercial bank (unless they are absolutely sure about their co-operative bank's position).
"In this kind of an environment, you do not know what the chain reaction might be," says Mumbai-based financial planner Arnav Pandya.
Many depositors belonging to lower-income groups are forced to open an account with a co-operative bank because they find it difficult to do so with a scheduled commercial bank.
"People who are able to open an account with a scheduled commercial bank should stick to them," says Deepesh Raghaw, founder, PersonalFinancePlan.in, a Sebi-registered investment advisor.
Do not go for riskier options like co-operative bank only for the higher return.
On a five-year deposit, State Bank of India offers an interest rate of 6.25 per cent while PMC Bank offers 7.25 per cent, a difference of 100 basis points.
Even if you go for them, park only a small portion of your capital there.
Do not put all your money in a single bank. Many cases have come to light of people who had put their entire life's savings in PMC Bank.
"Diversification acts as a strong safeguard against these kinds of risks. Spread your deposits across three-four banks," says Ankur Maheshwari, chief executive officer, Equirus Wealth Management.
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My first article written for this space can't yet be published. And I can't tell you why. At least, not right now. Cruel and unusual to tease you like that? Apologies. Sadly, it will have to wait.
I can't help but think of Hitch in moments like these. Moments where I, with the responsibility of bearing witness as a writer, am actually afraid to print what I've written. And it's not paranoia. It's self-preservation.
Earlier this week, I was wondering why more national print publications didn't pick up the story on how Northeastern University administrators and faculty have been hijacking endowed funds, grants and other monies designated to educate people about the Holocaust and Judaism, and instead, are using them to spread anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiment.
In light of last month's terror attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France that took the lives of three children and the father of two of the victims, as well as severely injuring a third man connected to the school, what came out earlier this week about Northeastern seemed appalling. Shocking, even.
Why weren't more people speaking out? Where is the ADL? Where are all the Jewish alumni of Northeastern? Heck, where is the Jewish community of Boston itself???
I'll tell you where they are: like me, they're cowering in fear of something bigger than anyone in America understands. I stumbled upon it in my research about Northeastern. It was an accident.
But Einstein said that there are no coincidences in the Universe. So it wasn't an accident then, was it? I was meant to bear witness to it, meant to write it out here...in this essay.
Instead, the best I can do is allude to the yet-clandestine knowledge. Ironically, when my website was new, I could have expressed anything I wanted--because I had a relatively small, contained audience. Now, that's no longer the case.
There are over 102,000 readers of my online essays; some of you are looking for something specific--like my piece on the Heelix Nebula, or on Dr. Black. Others are searching my name for reasons I don't know...from as far away as Denmark, Finland, Russia, Germany, Kuwait, Dubai, Australia, UK, Sweden, Italy, Spain, France, South America, and many other countries around the world. It's frankly awesome, and well beyond my imagings.
Though you may be disappointed by this first April-essay, let me assure you that I will keep the trust you placed in my proverbial pen. I will bear witness. But my hands must be patient. And so must you.
The fear is the reason why popular culture is so important. It pacifies the masses through a barrage of constant distraction, shortening our attention span, shortening our length of concentration. We've become the idiocracy so many of us feared. And we've all been witting participants in the dance.
I have some very bright students this semester--all young people with tremendous promise. I really love them all and worry for them all, especially now. We read articles on Futurism today, and the transhumanist movements pushing people to evolve through technology. As a discussion ensued, one young man who often leads class discussions was critical of changing our bodies through technology. He said, "It's just not right."
And he's right about that. It's not. But not because of religious moralism. It's not right because it is one of those instinctive-ethics that we're born with...little voices in our collective unconscious that hint at who and what we are.
We're missing something vital, something that has yet to occur. Something that could erase the fear that has silenced not only a whole university, but a whole city and state. It has to do with humanity's evolution, too--but not through artificial means.
When we become who we are meant to be, we will be able to use that technology responsibly. Until then, like with every other new idea in the world, there will be those who exploit it for their own selfish purposes.
Right now, Earth's human population is at varying stages of its psycho-social evolution. There are many people who "get it," but many more who don't. Many are yet in their infancy in terms of their psycho-social development, looking to feed off of difference as an excuse for even more primitive behaviors like inciting fear and hatred--the kind that often leads to violence.
I feel we're standing on the edge of a great precipice. Any moment, we may topple over the edge. But because we are still standing, there's still hope.
I'm still standing, too.
Hope. Fear. They're one and the same--twins, if you will. You can't have one without the other. Given that innate connection, it would seem impossible to overcome the latter. There is information that will eventually help humanity arrest the need for hope, the need to fear. But it's not accessible through a screen; it can't be found on a tablet. You won't be able to receive an illuminating text.
Vedanta calls the wider world "maya," meaning cosmic illusion. The ancient philosophy also states that true reality can only be accessed through one portal: the mind. It implies the individual nature of our psycho-social evolution. Such conversion of thought can't be done through argument. No amount of persuasive rhetoric can turn the tide. Only the individual. One at a time.
Patience. The world cannot collectively receive information it's not ready for. But every moment, another mind makes the journey. And that's another moment we come closer to our true gift:
Ourselves.
Rebecca Housel, Ph.D., known as "The Pop Culture Professor" (TM), is an international best-selling author and editor in nine languages and 100 countries. Rebecca, listed in the Directory of American Poets & Writers for her work in nonfiction, was nominated by Prevention magazine essayist and best-selling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, to the National Association of Science Writers for her work on cancer. Rebecca has published with best-selling author of The Accidental Buddhist, Dinty Moore's literary nonfiction journal, Brevity, and with commercial publications like Redbook magazine and online journals like In Media Res. Her recent interviews appear in publications such as the LA Times, Esquire, USA TODAY, The Huffington Post, Inside Higher Ed, Woman's World magazine, and Marie Claire as well as on FOX news, and NBC. Former President of the New York College English Association, Housel was a professor in both Atlanta and New York, teaching popular culture, film, creative writing, literature, and medical humanities. Dr. Housel currently works on the Editorial Advisory Boards for the Journal of Popular Culture and the Journal of American Culture; she has also worked as a reviewer for Syracuse University Press and Thomson Wadsworth. A writer of all genres, Housel has written and published both fiction and nonfiction in over ten books and 398 articles, essays, book chapters, book reviews, and encyclopedia entries.
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Peters Statement on Reported Potential Closure of EPA Region 5 Office
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI) today released the following statement on reports that President Trump’s Administration may close the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 Office in Chicago that serves Michigan and other Great Lakes states:
“While these reports have yet to be confirmed, I am gravely concerned with any effort to potentially close the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office, which would be a disaster for the Great Lakes. Not only are the Great Lakes a source of clean drinking water for over 40 million people, but they play a critical role in our economy – from shipping and commerce to tourism and travel. Important Environmental Protection Agency programs help restore portions of the Great Lakes watershed and protect against threats like toxic algal blooms and invasive species.
“The Environmental Protection Agency also provides important technical assistance as the City of Flint recovers from the water crisis and considers a transition to a new water source. Flint families still cannot drink tap water without a filter, and as more communities deal with the effects of aging infrastructure on the health of their water systems, we should be strengthening - not cutting - these vital federal tools.
“I am committed to fighting any proposal to close the Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 office, which would threaten public health in communities across Michigan and endanger the Great Lakes for future generations.”
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Jan Schulmeister's success in Brussels
The youngest member of our PETROF Art Family, Jan Schulmeister, has achieved unprecedented success: he was the first Czech pianist under the age of 13 to win the 1st prize in the prestigious César Franck piano competition in Brussels. The competition took place from 13 to 17 December 2019. The competition was attended by 50 competitors from 26 countries.
On this occasion we asked Jan some questions:
Jan, congratulations. What does winning this competition mean to you?
This competition means a lot to me because it is considered one of the most prestigious competitions for young pianists in Europe. This was also seen in the competition of over fifty pianists, who came here from all over the world. In addition to competitors from European countries, there were young pianists from China, Japan, Australia, and the USA.
How do you evaluate the course of the competition?
I evaluate the course of the competition very positively. The only downside was that there was a very limited number of instruments to play in the competition area, but otherwise, the organization was amazing. I was also very interested in the quiet atmosphere because the competition took place in a beautiful venue around Brussels.
How was your preparation for this competition?
The preparation was the same as for any other competition, because it is always the most important thing to give the best performance, and this is necessary for all competitions - from the smallest to the largest.
Do you have any special rituals that you follow before concerts or competitions?
Yes, I have some “rituals" before concerts and competitions. Perhaps one of the most important is that I always go around the entire stage at the piano. It helps me to concentrate because I imagine bypassing the space that needs to be filled with sound.
What are your next goals and plans?
Two concerts in Prague are coming soon. The first one will be in the hall of the Prague Conservatory on 21 January, where I will play together with the members of the Barocco sempre giovane Mozart's Piano Concerto in A major. It will be part of the Vaclav Hudecek festival "Holidays of Music". The next day I play the same concert in the Church of St. Simon and Judy with the Prague Chamber Orchestra. Furthermore, during February and March, I will finish my second CD featuring compositions by W. A. Mozart, Domenico Scarlatti, Sergei Rachmaninov, Franz Liszt, and Fryderyk Chopin. In June of this year, I will also have a grand opening concert at the Kromeriz festival “Music in Gardens and Chateau”, where I will play together with the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc. In the meantime, I will also have a few concerts within the Circle of Friends of Music…. and I also have to learn at school…
Thank you for the interview and we wish you a lot of further success!
Photo: private archive of the Schulmeister family
Photo No. 1: Diploma of the winner
Photo No. 2: With the President of the Competition, Belgian pianist Philipp Raskin, Professor of the Royal Conservatory in Brussels
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Nigerian militant attacks kill 20 in northeast: witnesses
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants armed with guns and machetes killed at least 20 people in villages in Nigeria’s turbulent northeast, witnesses said on Friday.
The attacks on Wednesday and Thursday took place close to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state where Islamist sect Boko Haram launched an uprising in 2009.
Boko Haram, which wants to impose sharia law in northern Nigeria, and other splinter Islamist groups, are the biggest threat to stability in Africa’s top oil exporter.
“Fifteen people were killed in Gajiram on Wednesday night when the Boko Haram sect members attacked the town,” witness Modu Ngubdo told Reuters in Maiduguri, where he fled after the attack. Gajiram is around 40 miles from Maiduguri.
A further five people were killed by gunmen in the early hours of Thursday in the village of Bulabilin Ngaura, around 20 miles from the state capital, resident Aisami Babagana told Reuters.
The military did not respond to a request for comment. Information can take a long time to emerge from Borno where the army has cut the telephone network in an effort to disrupt communication between Boko Haram cells.
More than 160 people were killed in violence linked to Boko Haram last month - one of the bloodiest periods since President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency and a military crackdown in three northeastern states in mid-May.
The military said last month Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau may have died in late July of wounds inflicted during a gun battle, though the report could not be verified independently.
Reporting by Ibrahim Mshelizza; Writing by Joe Brock; Editing by Andrew Heavens
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Like 'Beggars Banquet,' 'Let It Bleed' was produced by Jimmy Miller and is also similar in that both sides of the LP open with two stone cold classics, "Gimme Shelter," with Merry Clayton's wonderful backing vocal, and "Midnight Rambler," songs that have been a part of Stones live shows for the last four decades.
In another similarity to the band's previous studio album it also features a blues cover, this time, "Love in Vain," written by the King of the Delta Blues Singers, Robert Johnson.
The last track on the record is the ambitious and very different "You Can't Always Get What You Want," featuring the London Bach Choir arranged by Jack Nitzsche and Al Kooper, late of Blood Sweat & Tears on keyboards and French horn.
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Key Driving Forces of Social Innovation: Impact Investment and Social Enterprise
December 21, 2018 - By Heather Grady
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and the China Global Philanthropy Institute recently held a launch for a book authored by Vice President Heather Grady titled Key Driving Forces of Social Innovation, focused on encouraging the nascent impact investing and social enterprise sector in China. The following article is adapted from her talking points at the book release event on December 11, 2018 in Shenzhen. The book is currently available in Mandarin; for more information, email info@rockpa.org.
The philanthropy sector around the world is exploring how to become more sustainable, in both impact and financial terms. My new book, Key Driving Forces of Social Innovation, represents a small contribution to that effort. It drew on substantial interviews with more than thirty experts, and has been written primarily for a Chinese audience, though we believe its key concepts and case studies will be of interest to philanthropists and foundation colleagues anywhere.
In China, as in every country, governments hold fundamental responsibilities for ensuring that all people are educated and healthy, and have opportunities to be productive and prosperous. The field of philanthropy in China is growing, so there as elsewhere, philanthropy and impact investment are finding their roles complementary to—not replacing—the fundamental role and responsibility of the public sector. Indeed, today in China as elsewhere, smart combinations of public and private funding will be an essential component in tackling complex social and environmental challenges.
How Impact Investing Contributes to this Shared Responsibility
In a book that Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors published more than a decade ago, Solutions for Impact Investors: From Strategy to Implementation, we wrote that “impact investing can create social good at scale and begin to address some of the world’s most pressing problems where commercial markets and donor-based programs have not.”
Philanthropists who have been giving away funds through operational programs or grants can add impact investing to their toolbox, and this presents a tremendous opportunity for foundations to put more of their assets to work to create greater impact. A point raised in our book launch discussion in China mirrors that in other contexts: that there will always be program areas and goals that require grants rather than investments for financial return. So the starting point for Chinese investors is to be sure that they are selecting a tool that matches the problem. Moreover, many social enterprises can make good use of grants, and most not-for-profits use grant funds before they create something investible for their revenue streams. But where philanthropists and foundations have objectives that lend themselves to impact investing resources, they should see how this can reinforce and support those objectives in addition to their current portfolio. Crucial to progress is a frank examination of lessons learned, exchange across countries and sectors, and developing and testing successful models.
Key Concepts in Impact Investing and Social Enterprise
This volume for Chinese readers stressed that even when impact investors support social services, if the client of those programs is the government and the government is eventually paying for those services, then impact investors are the financiers, not the donors. They are making a fixed-term investment and aim to be repaid with interest (in the case of debt) or profit (in the case of equity). And it is particularly useful in certain cases: in piloting new approaches on which governments cannot afford to take a risk, or in funding social services or social enterprises in a start-up phase where there are potential efficiency or productivity gains to be realized over time.
The Global Impact Investment Network (GIIN) provides a wealth of information and guidance for both new entrants to the field and experienced practitioners. Concepts like intentionality, and approaches to impact measurement, will be important for Chinese impact investors to learn and use. A hallmark of impact investing is the commitment of the investor to measure and report the social and environmental performance and progress of underlying investments. In new markets like China, impact measurement helps ensure transparency and accountability, and is essential to informing the practice of impact investing and building the field.
Our discussion at the book launch raised the question of asset classes. Whereas some of this field’s leaders have earlier written that impact investments will constitute one standalone asset class, we clarified that impact investments can be made across asset classes, including but not limited to cash equivalents, fixed income, venture capital and private equity. Impact investors can also earn fees by providing catalytic instruments such as guarantees. In China as elsewhere, investors’ return expectations and the instruments in which they invest will reflect their intent and are typically driven by the economics of the investment. Some will support higher risk early-stage social enterprises in challenging rural markets, though most will likely look to finance the expansion of proven business models to reach scale, in the expectation of market or near market rate returns.
Clarifying how Change will Happen
Impact investors, like philanthropists, will need to think about how they believe change will happen—a theory of change leading them to make an informed choice. We make assumptions with these investments just as we make assumptions when we decide which traditional businesses to invest in to make a good financial return, or how to give away our charitable money. These assumptions must be tested over time through monitoring and evaluation, itself a growing field in China.
While Chinese audiences are curious about terms like Program Related Investments and Mission Related Investments known and used by many U.S. foundations, their entirely different legal framework means they will create their own nomenclature and practices. What will be similar is that below-market mission investments will increasingly be made across asset classes, in the form of loans, loan guarantees, cash deposits, equity investments, and other investments made for specific purposes, like elderly care and workforce development.
Social Impact Bonds, or Pay for Success models, are being actively explored in China, with the city of Shenzhen aiming to be a locus of experimentation on these instruments and social finance more broadly. Sections of the book devoted to this topic, including famous case studies form the U.S. and UK, should help expand the important exchange of lessons learned across national boundaries on this effort-intensive tool.
Getting Started in Impact Investing
RPA’s impact investing workshops in China have emphasized the importance of preparation. Our early volume on impact investing listed seven steps in the cycle that illustrate the investor preparation and reflection needed before a deal flow is even generated:
Given the complexity of this endeavor, philanthropists, foundations, and new investors will need to educate not only themselves, but their board, staff, and investment committees. This can be helped along by providing examples of investments and what they should be looking for in investees, helping them identify whether they want to invest in funds or direct investments, and creating user-friendly tools in-house to do this, or finding and using external asset managers. Risks can be mitigated through the way investments are structured or management assistance. In China as elsewhere, some investees are more impact investment ready than others, a reality for which impact investors should simply plan.
Case Studies and Examples of Impact Investing and Social Enterprise in the U.S. and China
The book concludes with several notable examples from the field of impact investment and social finance in the U.S. and China. The world’s most famous foundation is always a topic of interest in China, so a section describes how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched PRIs in its program areas of education, international development, and global health. A second example is Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing. Case studies on social enterprises and social impact bonds in education in the U.S. offer in-depth illustrations of the opportunities and challenges. Chinese case studies written by the Social Finance and Innovation Center of the China Global Philanthropy Institute focus on Dao Ventures, Tsing Capital, and the Aiyou Foundation. But whether examining the U.S. or China, the field is moving fast and there are a growing number of examples to learn from.
As the many examples and case studies in this book show, important factors for success are collaboration, patience, and communication. These are social endeavors that build on processes of listening, discovery, experimentation, sometimes failure, and integrating new knowledge of what works and what does not. China’s place in this landscape of philanthropy and impact investing is important, and rapidly evolving. Philanthropy and impact investing that crosses borders helps to increase the mobility of ideas and greater understanding between different cultures. We hope this book makes a contribution to that in the years to come.
More about Impact Investment and Social Enterprise: Key Driving Forces of Social Innovation:
This book captures years of personal experience in philanthropy as well as insights gained from well over thirty experts interviewed. The book discusses:
Partnerships between philanthropy and government;
The five steps in the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Philanthropy Roadmap;
Key philanthropy concepts;
How to manage impact investing, particularly for organizations and individuals who have been generously giving away funds; and
How to predict, measure and evaluate impact.
We also include case studies to further illustrate the concepts. For more information, please email info@rockpa.org.
Heather Grady is a Vice President in RPA’s San Francisco office and leads the organization’s strategy and program development in global philanthropy, including collaboratives, global programs, research, and publications. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor for the Executive Management in Philanthropy Program at the China Global Philanthropy Institute.
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Alabama Senate bans nearly all abortions, including rape cases
Alabama’s state Senate passed a bill on Tuesday to outlaw nearly all abortions, creating exceptions only to protect the mother’s health, as part of a multistate effort to have the U.S. Supreme Court reconsider a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
The country’s strictest abortion bill was previously approved by the Alabama House of Representatives and will now go to Republican Governor Kay Ivey, who has withheld comment on whether she would sign but is generally a strong opponent of abortion.
The law, which passed 25-6, would take effect six months after being signed by the governor, but is certain to face legal challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups which have vowed to sue.
Legislation to restrict abortion rights has been introduced this year in 16 states, four of whose governors have signed bills banning abortion if an embryonic heartbeat can be detected.
The Alabama bill goes further, banning abortions at any time. Those performing abortions would be committing a felony, punishable by 10 to 99 years in prison, although a woman who receives an abortion would not be held criminally liable.
The Republican-controlled Alabama Senate also defeated a Democratic amendment that would have allowed legal abortions for women and girls impregnated by rape and incest.
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A Bootlegger's Story: Dennis Lehane Takes on Prohibition-Era Boston
By Stephen Anable |
"To me, this place is old Boston to its core. You can almost smell the cigar smoke," says Dennis Lehane, in scoop-necked black shirt and reddish stubble, a duplicate of his dust jacket photograph. He's talking about what is now the Park Plaza Hotel—its lobby an extravagant splendor of mirrors, marble, and gilded plaster lit by crystal chandeliers. Lehane set a key scene in his new novel, Live by Night (Morrow, Oct.), about Prohibition-era bootlegger Joe Coughlin, in this hotel, then called the Statler.
"Joe thinks he's an outlaw and ends up becoming a gangster," Lehane says. That is, Joe lives by a self-imposed moral code, which he eventually, inevitably, violates. "In the beginning, he's an iconoclast, not buying into institutional corruption. He doesn't want to be what his father represents, a corrupt cop. He sees massive hypocrisy in the way a loan shark is treated as compared to a banker. But what happens is what his father warns him about—the consequences of his violence. That becomes a central question of the book: can you retain your soul in this business?" Though operating in a criminal world, Coughlin doesn't see himself as a criminal. To him, an outlaw is a different animal. Coughlin originates in Lehane's previous historical, The Given Day (Morrow, 2008), about the 1919 Boston police strike and the flu pandemic after WWI. Lehane says that he fell in love with the character and was compelled to explore Coughlin's life further. "I'd done so much research for The Given Day that I felt steeped in the time. So when I started to work on this book, the writing was really flowing, the faucet was open… And, one of the reasons I write is because of all the Jimmy Cagney movies I watched when I was young. The gangster novel is my favorite sub-subgenre."
In Live by Night, Coughlin is drawn into a shootout that forces him to flee south and become a permanent snowbird. Lehane, 47, uses this novel to contrast the kind of love felt by a young man compared with that of an older man, and how it feels to have an obligation to the larger social structure. Through Coughlin, Lehane explores how time and family can change a man's priorities. Lehane himself divides his time between Massachusetts and Florida, where he teaches writing each spring at his alma mater, Eckerd College, in St. Petersburg. Much of Live by Night takes place in the Tampa neighborhood of Ybor City, "a mini New Orleans" of venerable houses with wrought iron grillwork, cigar factories, palm trees, and a population with Spanish, Cuban, and Italian roots. The locale, St. Petersburg and Tampa across the bay from each other, has lured Lehane for decades: "Tampa was the narcotics capital of America in the '20s, with a thriving trade in rum and illegal immigrants. But no writers were looking at Tampa—and it's such a romantic, sexy place. I'd loved Ybor since I went to college there in the eighties."
Lehane grew up in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, the son of Irish immigrants who believed doggedly in the American dream. Today, the bestselling author retains a scrappy, populist worldview: "I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world—and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place." Early in his life, Lehane vowed to succeed as a novelist, and to shun the distracting niches he saw fellow novelists accept in teaching and advertising. He took " 'do you want fries with that' jobs" and lived like a college kid until he was 31. He remembers: "Until my fifth or sixth book was published, my father was calling me every time the post office had an exam."
Live by Night stands as one of Lehane's most enjoyable projects: "When I wrote this book, I knew every move to make without knowing how I knew. I think that's why the book is so much fun."
Stephen Anable is the author of two mysteries, The Fisher Boy (2008) and A Pinchbeck Bride (2011).
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QMU lecturer shortlisted for ‘Inspirational Podiatrist of the Year’ award
By Press Office 21 May 2019
A lecturer at Queen Margaret University (QMU) has been shortlisted for the ‘Inspirational podiatrist of the year’ award in The Tomorrow’s Podiatrist Awards 2019.
Joseph McIntyre, lecturer in podiatry at QMU, has been recognised in The Tomorrow’s Podiatrist Awards - the first podiatry-focused awards that recognise the outstanding contributions of those who enrich the student experience and the students who shine in the profession.
The Inspirational Podiatrist of the Year category recognises that it’s not just in lectures where future podiatrists are inspired. It’s the podiatrists they meet throughout their journey that shape their interests, passions and future.
Nominees will have helped shape the next generation of podiatrists. This may have been by inspiring them to study podiatry, enthusing them in a particular aspect or setting standards to aspire to.
Joseph said: “It was lovely - and genuinely unexpected - to be nominated for this award, let alone shortlisted with the other finalists. Good luck to all of the nominated candidates, although of course I am hoping for a QMU win!”
Also hoping for a successful outcome at the awards are QMU senior lecturers Evelyn Weir and John Veto, and practice educator, Sara Henderson, all of whom have been nominated in the Educator of the Year category. Evelyn and John are lecturers in the Dietetics, Nutrition & Biological Sciences, Physiotherapy, Podiatry & Radiography Division. Sara is an NHS podiatrist but works very closely with the team at QMU.
The winners will be announced at an evening celebration at the end of the Future of Podiatry Conference on Friday 21 June 2019.
For further media enquiries, please contact Karen Keith (Media Relations and Content Officer) at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, E: kkeith@qmu.ac.uk, T: 0131 474 0000.
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Tip: Daily Production. In 2017, the government will print roughly 19 million notes a day, totaling about $209 billion in value for the year. More than 90% of the newly minted notes will replace notes already in our circulation.
Source: Federal Reserve, 2016
The average $20 bill is in circulation for 7.9 years, according to a report by the Federal Reserve. That’s better than the $10 bill, which has a life span of only 4.5 years, but worse than the $100 bill, which is in circulation for 15 years.¹
Here’s a quick look at what goes into creating a $20 bill and what determines when a bill’s lifespan ends.
A $20 bill starts out life as part of a big, blank sheet of paper — but not just any paper. While most paper is made primarily from wood pulp, the paper used by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing doesn’t contain any wood at all. Currency paper is composed of a special blend of 75% cotton and 25% linen. It’s made with special watermarks and has tiny blue and red fibers embedded in it along with a special security thread.²,³
Each blank sheet is tracked from the time it leaves the mill until it is printed, and the entire shipment is continuously reconciled to make certain all are accounted for.⁴
These blank sheets of cotton and linen paper get printed four times.
Fast Fact: Lots of Folding. It takes about 4,000 double folds — first forward and then backward — before a $20 bill will start to tear.
Source: Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 2017
Background images and colors are printed — both sides at once — using offset presses that are over 50 feet long and weigh over 70 tons. After drying for 72 hours, the portraits, vignettes, scrollwork, numerals, and letters are printed on the back using Intaglio presses that are a mere 40 feet long and weigh only 50 tons. After drying for another 72 hours — in special guarded cages — more portraits, vignettes, scrollwork, numerals, and letters are printed on the front using the Intaglio presses. Finally, the serial numbers, Federal Reserve seal, Treasury Department seal, and Federal Reserve identification numbers are printed using a letter press.⁵
Cutting and Wrapping
Once dry, these printed sheets are gathered in stacks of 100 to be cut by a specially designed guillotine cutter. Each new stack of 100 $20 bills is wrapped with a special paper band. Ten of these 100-note stacks are gathered, machine counted, and shrink-wrapped into a bundle. Then four of these shrink-wrapped bundles are collated together, given a special bar-code label, and shrink-wrapped again to create a brick of 4,000 bills, worth $80,000.⁶
Distribution and Circulation
The Treasury Department ships these newly printed $20 bills to the Federal Reserve Banks, who in turn pay them out to banks and savings and loans—primarily in exchange for old, worn-out bills. The new bills are handed out to customers of these institutions as they withdraw cash, either through tellers or through automated teller machines.⁷
An average $20 bill will change hands often, but even the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing isn’t sure how many times a bill will move from one pocket to the next. Contrary to popular belief, the government doesn’t have any way to track individual bills.
There is a polyester security thread embedded in the paper that runs vertically up one side of each bill. If you look closely, the initials USA TWENTY along with the bill’s denomination and a small flag are visible along the thread from both sides of the bill. This thread makes currency more difficult to counterfeit, but cannot be tracked electronically.⁸
Banks gather worn out and damaged currency, sending it to the Federal Reserve in exchange for new bills. The Federal Reserve then sorts through these bills to determine which are still usable and which are not. Those bills deemed usable are stored until they can go out again through the commercial banking system. Those deemed no longer usable are cut into confetti-like shreds. Most are then disposed of; a small portion is sold in five-pound bags through the Treasury’s website.⁹
1. Federal Reserve, 2016
2. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 2016
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About Us > Our Team > Richard Webster
Legal Program Director
Richard Webster is the Legal Director for Riverkeeper. He was formerly a staff attorney in the Environmental Enforcement Project at Public Justice, the Legal Director of the Eastern Environmental Law center, formerly the Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic, and an attorney with the environmental group at Arnold & Porter in New York.
Richard has had considerable experience representing environmental groups on water and other issues. Most recently, he pioneered the use of litigation regarding coal ash and fracking to both clean up water and reduce climate change impacts. He also litigated the relicensing of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant and an environmental justice issue regarding the Indian Point relicensing. In addition, he has much experience litigating regarding state permit issuance and renewal in both New York and New Jersey.
Before becoming an attorney, Richard was an expert hydrologist and environmental scientist. He established and ran Environmental Development Consultants, providing expert advice and litigation support to, among others, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Sierra Club and the World Bank. Earlier, he was the Associate Director of Consultants in Environmental Sciences in Hong Kong and a Senior Environmental Scientist with Consultants in Environmental Sciences, Ltd., in London.
Richard received his J.D. in 2002 from Columbia University Law School, where he was the Articles Editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, a Kent Scholar, and a Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar. He earned a Master’s Degree in 1989 from London University in Engineering Hydrology and a B.A. in Physics from Oxford University in England.
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Slippery Customer
By Ian Adcock
Bosch Car Service garage, Carringtons of Oxford, UK, came across a slippery customer when carrying out an vehicle safety check – a Boa constrictor.
Wayne Hunt, the Bosch technician carrying out the MOT on the Mini Cooper, put his hand under the hood to find the safety release catch and felt something that seemed rather out of place, which turned out to be the five-foot long, five-inch thick snake.
Wayne said: "We immediately called the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) to collect the snake, since it didn't belong to the customer and we had no idea who owned it. We also wanted to make sure we didn't harm the reptile in removing it, as we're more used to working on brakes than snakes."
"The snake was dealt with properly and luckily it had done no damage to the car. The RSPCA told us that it looked thinner than it normally would, which could mean it had been living under the hood for a while. In all the years I have worked as a vehicle technician, I've never seen anything like it."
There's no news yet if Samuel L. Jackson is going to reprise his role in the film, "Snakes in a Plane" with a sequel, "Snakes in a Car."
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Indian passive resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 Collection
Men of Dynamite
71.The Group Areas Act
Gandhi and South Africa: 1914-1948 by E.S. Reddy and Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Reminiscences of The International Campaign Against Apartheid - with special reference to The United Nations by E.S. Reddy
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
Circular Letter To Trade Unions, Progressive Organisations, Democrats And Anti-Fascists by Yusuf Dadoo, June 10, 1946
Statement In Court By Dr. Dadoo And Dr. G. M. Naicker, When Charged With Aiding And Abetting Under The Immigrants Regulation Act Of 1913, February 26, 1948
Statement in Court by Dr G. M. Naicker and Dr Y. M. Dadoo, When Charged With Aiding and Abetting Under the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913, February 26, 1948
Paper on the Group Areas Act and Its Effects on the Indian People in Natal, May 1956
Minutes of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, February 1-2, 1947
Search for a United Front against racism
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
Indian Passive resistance 1946-7
Thambi Naidoo and his Family - The Story of Thambi Naidoo, a lieutenant of Gandhi in the Satyagraha in South Africa, and of his family which sacrificed for five generations in the struggle for a free South Africa by E.S. Reddy
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
“We Shall Resist” The Role of Indian Women in the Passive Resistance Campaign 1946-1948 by Kalpana Hiralal
Biographical Notes on Indians in South Africa, August 1966
United Nations and the African National Congress: Partners in the Struggle against Apartheid E. S. Reddy
Apartheid The United Nations and the International Community: A Collection of Speeches and Papers E. S. Reddy
Struggle for Liberation in South Africa and International Solidarity - A Selection of Papers Published by the United Nations Centre against Apartheid – Edited by E. S. Reddy
Men of Dynamite: Pen Portraits of MK Pioneers edited by Rashid Seedat and Razia Saleh
List of All People imprisoned during the 1946 Indian Passive Resistance Campaign
Members of the Joint Passive Resistance Councils of Natal and Transvaal
Panel – Statistical Analysis of the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign
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GM's "humbling" moment
Bankruptcy and government ownership is a bummer and may not even work, but hey, it could be worse
Andrew Leonard
When General Motors files for bankruptcy early Monday morning, we will witness "the humbling of an American icon," proclaims the Wall Street Journal in the lead sentence of its lead story on Sunday night.
And yet -- the denouement is not quite as humbling as the only other realistic alternative: a catastrophic liquidation, sure to deliver another debilitating blow to an already tottering economy. It's a choice no automaker, or American president, could possibly welcome -- but it's the choice President Obama and General Motors faced.
The New York Times calls the managed bankruptcy, in which the United States government will end up a 60 percent owner of the new General Motors, a "risky bet." That's an understatement. Although General Motors will unburden itself of billions of dollars of debt and other liabilities, there is no guarantee that the automaker will emerge better able to compete with the likes of Toyota -- or even Ford. There is no guarantee taxpayers will ever see their money back. There's no guarantee that this bold new experiment in American capitalism won't turn out to be a complete disaster.
It has been the hallmark of the young Obama presidency that there are few good options for the administration to pursue in many arenas, whether in Afghanistan or Detroit -- there are only less bad alternatives. The General Motors bankruptcy is a prime example. The ultimate selling point for the managed bankruptcy is that it might not be as bad for the overall health of the economy to try to mitigate the damage that a messy liquidation could wreak.
Viewed thus, maybe the most amazing thing is that having chosen their perilous course, the Obama administration has moved with surprising dispatch.
From the Journal:
The Obama administration, for its part, has navigated the GM rescue so far with notable speed, clearing away many of the biggest obstacles in just months with less drama than many expected. In six to 18 months, GM could be a publicly traded company again, administration officials said.
For example: Ever since the full extent of General Motors' plight became obvious last fall, critics have declared that the government would never be able to get the automaker's vast number of bondholders to agree on significant "haircuts" that would take chunks out of what they felt they were owed. And yet, on the weekend before the administration's June 1 deadline, more than 50 percent consented to a deal that gives them about 10 cents on the dollar, plus warrants to buy stock later. Unlike in out-of-court restructurings, where the vast majority of the bondholders have to agree before any deal can be consummated, in bankruptcy court, a simple majority is all that is necessary to move forward (although other parties can, and no doubt will, litigate their hearts out for years to come).
So, we don't know whether G.M. will ever be healthy again, and we don't know whether the U.S. is sliding down the slippery slope of state intervention in private industry. But we do know this: When the Obama administration sets a deadline, it isn't messing around.
Andrew Leonard is a staff writer at Salon. On Twitter, @koxinga21.
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Conception Bay South couple opens Tierra Y Mar restaurant on Spain’s southeast coast
Sam McNeish (samuel.mcneish@thetelegram.com) The Telegram
Seth Hickey and his fiancée, Catryn Davies, pose alongside the charcuterie table located at Tierra Y Mar, the tapas bar they have operated in Garrucha, Spain, since early 2018. - Contributed
CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. —
You never know what a vacation is going to lead into.
Just ask Catryn Davies and her fiancé, Seth Hickey.
Davies, 23, and Hickey, 27, went to Spain a few years ago on vacation — they went back a second time in 2017 — and they were hooked.
“We had a tentative plan to eventually move here, within three to five years, but after we arrived here for the second time to celebrate Catryn’s birthday (in 2017) the plan was expedited,’’ Hickey said via email.
Tierra Y Mar in Garrucha, Spain.
“Catryn’s mother jokingly said to a friend who happens to work real estate: ‘Keep an eye out for a bar/restaurant that Seth and Catryn can open up here in Spain,’ and our friend responded with, ‘It just so happens, my friend is selling his restaurant and it would be perfect.’ We went to look at it the next day and everything just fell into place.’’
The couple returned to Canada and went back to work at the Woodstock Colonial Inn in Paradise from October to January to help fund their venture.
It was their experience there over the years that helped them get their new venture, titled Tierra Y Mar, which translates to land and sea. This name was suggested to the couple by Catyrn’s mother, Pam.
Davies started working at the Woodstock as a 16-year-old, serving the Sunday brunch, and worked her way up to floor manager, which taught her valuable leadership and business skills that would serve the couple well in Spain.
Hickey was also employed at the Woodstock, where he served as the bar manager for eight years.
His background as a bartender and Catryn’s experience in being in front of the main activity helped them. And it was also her ability to learn Spanish very quickly and interact with customers that placed her front and centre in the tapas restaurant.
So by default, Hickey became the cook.
A traditional Newfoundland-style cod cake complete with Mount Scio savoury.
“The Woodstock was a great place for us to learn the ins and outs of everything,” Hickey said.
“When we first opened we had seven tapas and poutine on our menu. In the past year we have expanded our everyday selection to over 40 different tapas and more than 10 larger dishes, three different kinds of poutine and a selection of homemade desserts,’’ Davies added.
But now on their own, they are free to do and try whatever they feel will be beneficial to Tierra Y Mar, and they have gone with traditional dishes, but also added a Newfoundland flair to introduce the locals to something new.
“Garrucha is a very traditional Spanish fishing town, so the locals were a little slow in coming around, as we are not the norm. But once they tasted our homemade food, they’re hooked,” Hickey said.
“The most popular dishes vary with the season, as the Spanish typically enjoy warm, rich meals in the wintertime and cold, lighter meals in the summer. That being said, our cod cakes, seasoned with savoury from Mount Scio Farms, has been a bestseller season-round.”
Catering to locals
Garrucha is a seaside town of about 6,000.
There is only one main road through the community, and Tierra Y Mar is competing for business from among 60 or more restaurants in the region.
“The weather is amazing. We’re seconds from the beach, the food is delicious, and the relaxed lifestyle is so nice,’’ he said.
“Garrucha in particular is special. It is a fishing port and the summer tourists give it the feel of a bustling city,’’ he added.
Canadians and Newfoundlanders are few and far between in the region, but the locals are getting acclimated to what the couple are offering. In fact, a few familiar faces have made their way in, including Hickey’s 82-year-old grandmother, who surprised them recently.
The couple said the location they have is not a prime spot, located more in a commercial area of town. But despite the fact their restaurant is on the site of two previous and closed-down locations, there seems to be a familiarity with the place and a number of residents have been coming in as regulars since they opened just more than a year ago.
The many items available at Tierra Y Mar, a tapas bar owned/operated by Seth Hickey and his fiancé, Catryn Davies,
Despite the fact they are thousands of kilometres from home, getting a business up and running in a foreign country was not as difficult as one would think, they say.
“We thought there would be a lot of challenges in that regard, but when they see that you’re genuinely interested in adding to the community it becomes a lot easier,” Hickey said.
“Catryn also has dual citizenship for the EU which really smoothed things out. She is now a resident of Spain, and mine is in the works,’’ he added.
In addition, sourcing items for the restaurant is easy and inexpensive.
Whether it is fruits or vegetables, meats, fish or day-to-day supplies, everything is reasonably priced.
“This is how we’re able to have a selection of free, homemade tapas to give our customers with their drinks,” Davies said.
Those who have frequented Tierra Y Mar have been kind to the couple as well, leaving a host of good reviews on Trip Advisor, most of them four- and five-star reviews.
“We love reading the reviews. It’s still somewhat surreal to us that we’re here in Spain, working in our own bar,” Hickey said.
“But reading the comments about our food and atmosphere makes it all that more real. And it makes every long workday so much more rewarding.”
The couple will return to Newfoundland in the fall for a few weeks, as they are coming home to get married, something that has been in the works for a while and which they are looking forward to.
But in the interim, they are enjoying the venture, working to make it better each day and becoming more integrated in the community.
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Mexican Mayor Assassinated First Day In Office
A newly sworn-in mayor in Mexico was assassinated on his first day in office. Alejandro Aparicio Santiago, a member of the National Regeneration Movement, had just taken office in Tlaxiaco when he was attacked.
NPR reports:
Alejandro Aparicio Santiago had just taken office Tuesday and was walking to his first official meeting at city hall when a group of gunmen opened fire. The mayor died at the hospital, according to The Associated Press.
https://dcdirtylaundry.com/mexican-mayor-assassinated-first-day-in-office/
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North Ford Causeway
From: Benbecula
To: North Uist
Crossings related to the A865
Uig - North Uist Ferry • Lochboisdale Ferry • South Ford Causeway • Loch Bee Causeway • Berneray Causeway
Crossing from Benbecula to North Uist, this causeway is touted as the longest in the Western Isles. However, as it jumps between islands, it is not a continuous causeway! The full route between the two main islands is about 4 miles, linking about 7 islands of varying sizes, and crossing three bridges along the way. Two of the bridges are large enough to allow small boats through.
1.1 The North Ford
1.2 The Causeway
2 The Route
The North Ford
Before the causeway opened, boats plied the channel at High tide, and at low tide it was possible to walk across.
1959 Map showing fords prior to the opening of the causeway
However, with four miles of potentially treacherous sand to cross in at most 2 hours, it was a risky business. A number of local men worked as guides, tracing the route between cairns, but after winter storms they often had to find a new route.
The Causeway
Opened by the Queen Mother in 1960, the Causeway brought new hope to the communities that it served, and meant that vehicles could now cross with ease, rather than relying on ferry boats. This was probably the first step from boat to car as the main transport method in this part of the Western Isles.
When opened, the causeway was entirely single track, with 9 passing places per mile. However, work is has recently been undertaken to upgrade several sections to full S2, the remainder due to be improved in the coming years. Much of the route across the intermediate islands is now complete, and some of the causeway sections have also been done.
Starting at Cairinis on North Uist, the A865 heads south east along a finger of land before reaching the first causeway section. This stretches over to Garbh-Eilean, using a midway rocky islet along the way. A very short causeway then links to Eilean a'Ghiorr, and so far there have been no bridges, or even culverts through the causeway as far as can be ascertained at high tide! The next section, across to Grimsay does, however, include a bridge which, despite improvements to either side, is still currently single track.
North across Grimsay
The Island of Grimsay is a sizeable island, and the ring road around the island is about 5 miles long. However, the A865 just cuts the corner of the island, crossing in about 700m! A series of very short causeways link across the rocks to the small island of Eilean na h-Airigh. This is the last of the proper islands used by the Causeway, and so the last half mile or so is mostly causeway, using just a couple of rocks as it turns the final corner to approach Benbecula. There are two more bridges on this section, and again both remain single-track despite upgrades to either side.
Other nearby roads
A865 • A867 • A888 • B888 • B889 (Barra) • B889 (South Uist) • B890 • B891 • B891 (North Uist) • B892 • B892 (North Uist) • B893 • B893 (Tigharry - Clachan) • B894 • C89 (Eilean Siar)
Retrieved from ‘https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=North_Ford_Causeway&oldid=588492’
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Know Your Opponent: Sacramento Republic FC
Ruben Dominguez
The start of the 2017 NPSL season may be a month away, but "Know Your Opponent" has returned ahead of Sacramento Gold FC's first preseason friendly. The team's opponent: their Capitol City counterparts, who feature a mix of mainstays and fresh faces. After a disappointing finish to last year, they're also looking to make the climb to the top, in more ways than one. In the first 2017 edition of "Know Your Opponent," learn more about Sacramento Republic FC.
City: Sacramento, CA
Stadium: Bonney Field
President: Warren Smith
Head Coach: Paul Buckle
Sacramento Republic FC has only been around for less than half a decade, but has already become one of the most successful minor league clubs (both on and off the field) American soccer has ever seen, both on and off the field. Republic FC is entering its fourth season in the United Soccer League (USL), one of only two minor leagues in American professional soccer, in addition to the North American Soccer League (NASL). Republic FC is one of 15 members competing in the league's Western Conference, which includes clubs from ten different states (and one Canadian province).
The main man behind Republic FC is team president Warren Smith, who's not in his first rodeo with Sacramento sports. Smith, the former CEO of CleanWorld waste management services, co-founded the Sacramento River Cats AAA baseball team and served as its executive vice president for nine years. On the field, Republic FC is lead by head coach Paul Buckle, who replaced former U.S. National Team member Predrag "Preki" Radosavljević in 2015. Buckle played across England for 18 years before becoming a manager. He spent time at the helm of clubs such as Torquay United, Bristol Rovers, and Luton Town before heading to Sacramento.
Republic FC first called Sacramento City College's Hughes Stadium home, before moving into the club's current home, Bonney Field, midway through the 2014 season. Situated on the grounds of Cal Expo, Bonney Field has expanded to sit more than 11,000 people. The location has it's advantages. During the annual California State Fair, the colorful sights and sounds make for an utterly unique atmosphere during summer match days. Bonney Field is also one of the nation's premier rugby venues, having hosted several international matches and serving as the home for the Sacramento Express of PRO Rugby.
2014, Republic FC's first season, proved to be a dream year, with the club announcing its presence by winning the USL Pro Championship, while taking home individual honors such as Defensive Player of the Year and Coach of the Year. After just missing the top spot in 2015, Republic FC finished on top of the Western Conference last year, though the club was knocked out of the playoffs in the first round for the second straight season. During these three years, Republic FC has also shattered several league attendance records, while selling tens of thousands of season tickets and drawing friendlies against professional clubs from England and Mexico.
However, Republic FC has even loftier ambitions. Sacramento is one of 12 cities under consideration for an expansion spot in Major League Soccer (MLS), with the club now at the center of the city's bid. With attendance records smashed, support from the city's government, a soccer-specific stadium plan in place, and continual feverish support from local fans, Sacramento has made a strong case to be a future part of the MLS. With a decision on expansion expected from the league later this year, it appears Sacramento (and Republic FC) have done everything to set themselves apart and prove California's Capitol is #BuiltforMLS.
Notable Players:
Danny Barrera: Republic FC's leader on the field, Barrera is both the club's captain and midfield talisman. The Colombia native appeared in all 30 of the club's USL matches in 2016, leading the team with nine assists (a Republic FC record), scored three goals, and finishing with over 3,000 minutes played (one of only three players to do so). Barrera's efforts earned him a spot on the All-USL First Team, as well as the USL Team of the Week for Week 16. Barrera has also laced up his boots for former NASL clubs Atlanta Silverbacks and San Antonio Scorpions, as well as English Football League Championship side Derby County.
Adam Moffat: The marquee signing of the offseason, Moffat brings tremendous talent and experience to the Republic FC attack. The Scotsman is returning to the USL for the first time in ten years (back when it was divided into USL-1 and USL-2). During this time, Moffat won the 2008 MLS Cup as a member of the Columbus Crew, played for four other MLS clubs (producing several YouTube-worthy long-distance goals for the Houston Dynamo), and took part in two Soccer Bowl-winning seasons with the NASL's New York Cosmos. He was also a member of the Dynamo teams which made it to the MLS Cup in 2011 and 2012.
Dominik Jakubek: If this name sounds familiar to Gold fans, it's because Jakubek is one of the few players to put on uniforms for both Sacramento clubs. Jakubek guarded the Sacramento Gold goal for two years before signing on as one of the original members of Republic FC in 2014. He's become a USL champion and club mainstay, still putting up impressive stats as he nears the age of 40. Last season, Jakubek ranked fourth among all USL goalkeepers who played at least 1,000 minutes with a 0.88 goals against average. Plus, he's done it all while serving as goalkeeper coach for his old club, the Gold.
2017 Season Preview:
The 2017 season will mark the end of an offseason of change for Republic FC. It will be the club's first without an MLS affiliate, the San Jose Earthquakes now aligning themselves with expansion club Reno 1868. It will also be the first as a Division II club, the U.S. Soccer Federation having granted the USL such status, along with the NASL. The club's roster is without a few notable players, including Max Alvarez, Cameron Iwasa, and J.J. Coval. However, it also includes new signings Moffat, Tyler Blackwood, and Gabe Gissie, who returns after spending 2016 with the Bethlehem Steel.
Republic FC will hope for a strong start to the season, particularly while missing the comforts of home. Seven of the club's first nine league games will be on the road, with only three games (including a preseason friendly against FC Cincinnati) at Bonney Field over the next three months. The stretch will either prove a bad place for the old and new players to gel, or a perfect place for the team to grow together through adversity. The middle and end stretches of the season will prove kinder and more fruitful with home games. Republic FC finished first place in the Western Conference last year, though it took the last week to clinch it. A good start will help the club's chances of ending on top again.
Upcoming Schedule:
Saturday, February 25: Sacramento Republic FC @ San Jose Earthquakes, 2 p.m., Avaya Stadium*
Saturday, March 4: FC Cincinnatti @ Sacramento Republic FC, 5:30 p.m., Bonney Field*
Saturday, March 11: Sacramento Republic FC @ Reno 1868, 4 p.m., Greater Nevada Field*
Saturday, March 18: Sacramento Republic FC @ San Francisco Deltas, 7 p.m., Kezar Stadium*
Sunday, March 26: Sacramento Republic FC @ Seattle Sounders 2, 2 p.m., Starfire Stadium
* = Preseason Friendly
Three Things You (Probably) Didn't Know:
In addition to Coach Dom, Max Alvarez was both a former member of Sacramento Gold FC and a Republic FC original. During his three years with Republic FC, Alvarez finished fourth in the USL in assists in 2014, won the year's USL Championship, and dished out the game-winning assist in the club's 2015 friendly against Sunderland AFC of the English Premier League. He also teamed up with a former foe, Mickey Daly, a former member of the rival Sonoma County Sol, from 2014-15. Daly is now playing for another USL club, the Oklahoma City Energy, while Alvarez scored the first goal in the history of the NASL's San Francisco Deltas, with who he is on a trial.
For the third consecutive year, Republic FC will open the USL season on the road against the Seattle Sounders 2 (founded three years ago). The clubs are 1-1 in mutual season openers, with S2 winning 4-2 in 2015 and Republic FC getting a 1-0 revenge win the following year. The setting for all three meetings: Starfire Sports Complex in Tukwila, WA, where in 2015 Sacramento Gold FC earned a wild, memorable 4-3 win over the then-FC Tacoma 253 thanks to a Manolo Piña hat trick. It was also the place (and year) where U.S. Men's National Team member Clint Dempsey was sent off after ripping up the referee's notebook in a match against the Portland Timbers in the U.S. Open Cup.
By claiming the 2014 USL Championship, Republic FC continued a title-winning tradition with Sacramento-based soccer clubs. Four years earlier, Sacramento Gold FC claimed the 2010 NPSL National Championship. Four years before this, the Gold's NPSL predecessors, the Sacramento Knights, won the 2006 league title. In addition, the Gold's spiritual predecessors, the Sacramento Gold of the American Soccer League, claimed the 1979 league championship. The history extends to indoor soccer as well. In 1999, the Sacramento Knights (different team) won the World Indoor Soccer League crown.
Sacramento Gold FC and Sacramento Republic FC will play on Wednesday, February 22 at American River College. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. Fans can buy tickets here.
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SAM AIMS TO STAMP HIS AUTHORITY
Midfield man enjoying life with The Saddlers...
SAM MANTOM celebrated his first home game since signing a permanent deal with the club by opening the scoring in our 3-1 victory over AFC Bournemouth.
Mantom's effort found its way through a crowd of players and beyond former England International, David James in the visitors' goal.
"It was one of those situations where I saw an opportunity to put the ball into a dangerous area," he said. "I knew that if I put it into the right place it had a chance of causing problems and thankfully it went straight in.
"I'll take the goal and add it to my scoring record!"
The heart of the midfield has seen Mantom build up an excellent understanding with Adam Chambers, who himself is a former West Bromwich Albion youngster. "I'm really enjoying playing alongside Adam," he went on. "He's always there or thereabouts when I'm in trouble and I'd like to think that he feels the same way about me.
"We've developed a bond where we're passing it to each other well, creating space, picking up second balls and getting forward, which is just what the Gaffer is looking for from us.
"He has that extra experience, which I can only learn from and having him alongside me will only help my game improve.
"I'm delighted to be here on a permanent basis. I want to really stamp my authority on the team now and keep doing the right things and progressing. The next 12 months is going to be so important for me.
"As for the team, we're on an excellent run and have beaten some of the best sides in this League. That said, we won't get too carried away; we know that we have to be consistent and maintain the standards that we have set ourselves.
"Everyone wants to succeed here. There is a real grit and determination amongst the lads and we go into every game with confidence and belief."
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The Road to Super Bowl 50
By | on January 27, 2016
by: Jabious White
Savannah State University Intern
Despite the weather dropping below 30 degrees this past weekend, it didn’t stop the final four teams for competing for a spot in super bowl 50.
You would think that Tom Brady would continue go to his favorite target Rob Gronkowski to take the game into overtime, but that wasn’t the case in those final seconds of the fourth quarter. The Denver Broncos played conservative football throughout all the hold game behinds Coach Gary Kubiak power house run offense.
The Broncos played marvelous on the defensive side forcing Tom Brady to throw 2 interception and containing him in the pocket throughout the entire game. After watching the game you can say that the Broncos lived up to the hype of being rated the number one defense in the National Football League. Tom Brady season came to an end living him with no chance on winning the super bowl back to back years as he did once before in his career with a final score of 20-18.
Cam Newton gave the Carolina Panthers something to cheer about with his performance against a tuff Arizona Cardinals team. Cam Newton threw for two touchdowns and ran for two others, and Carolina’s defense crushed Arizona’s topranked offense Sunday for the NFC championship with a final score of 49-15.
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer dreams to making it to his very first super bowl were crushed after throwing four interceptions. This was Carson Palmer best season and first time making the playoffs, but it seemed the Carolina Panthers defensive were too much for him to handle.
Cam Newton showed why he is the top candidate on winning the MVP award this year the way his playing this postseason. Despite almost a perfect season coming down to the final game against the division rival Atlanta Falcons it didn’t stop him from dominating each team he faced so far on the road to winning his first super bowl championship.
It will be the first Super Bowl for Newton and the second trip to the big game for the Panthers (17-1), who lost to New England 12 years ago. Denver, of course, has made a habit of going to Super Bowls, reaching it for a record-tying eighth time.
Super Bowl 50 will host 39 year old Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos (14-4) vs 26 year old Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers February 7 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
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