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Morris, MN
Sebesta Blomberg
Construction Manager at Risk
The University of Minnesota Morris Hydrogen and Anhydrous Ammonia Production Facility is a research demonstration model project for producing Anhydrous Ammonia. The project consists of two separate prefabricated modular buildings. The first building generates hydrogen and nitrogen through an electrolyser and compressor equipment. The second building combines the hydrogen and nitrogen to form Anhydrous Ammonia through a reactor. The plant is expected to produce 6.6 lbs. of ammonia per hour or 158 lbs. per day. The project also has the capability of producing electricity by burning hydrogen gas through a 60 kw/hr hydrogen engine generator set. The electricity can then be sent to the campus grid as a renewable energy resource. Anhydrous Ammonia is a prime ingredient for fertilizer and has a high demand in farming communities in western Minnesota. The majority of our Ammonia production is purchased overseas so the long-term plan is to start producing Ammonia locally.
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Posted: Jun 27, 2019 / 02:31 PM PDT / Updated: Jun 27, 2019 / 10:13 PM PDT
FILE – This Jan. 21, 2018 file photo shows actor-director Idris Elba at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Elba confirmed in a Vanity Fair cover article that he will not be the next James Bond. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP, File)
LONDON (AP) — Even though Idris Elba isn’t trying to become the next James Bond, he’s disheartened that some people don’t think he should be considered for the spy role because he’s black.
The British actor says in the August issue of Vanity Fair that it’s frustrating that there are people who say “‘It can’t be.’ And it really turns out to be the color of my skin.”
Some have speculated that the “Luther” star would make the perfect Bond. Elba says although Bond is a coveted, beloved character that he would be fascinated to play, he doesn’t need to put himself in the position of questioning whether a stint as Bond did or didn’t work “because of the color of my skin.”
Elba stars in “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” due in theaters in August.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- The Waterfront Blues Festival was successful in its 32nd year bringing major acts and local talent together and collecting donations for families in need.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Portland already has a reputation for attracting trendy young hipsters and a new study shows more millenials are moving here than any other large city.
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Aggies sweep team titles in Ted Nelson Invitational
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Posted: Sat 8:43 PM, Jan 12, 2019 |
Updated: Sat 10:59 PM, Jan 12, 2019
COLLEGE STATION – A sweep of team titles by Texas A&M in the Ted Nelson Invitational, in front of 2,044 fans, featured a winning pole vault of 18 feet, 3.75 inches by Jacob Wooten as well as a winning mile of 4:51.57 by Hannah Campbell.
The Aggie men accumulated 164 points to finish well ahead of Baylor (83), UT Arlington (81), UTSA (75) and Texas (68). The A&M women scored 140.5 points to better a field that included Texas (113.5), Baylor (86), Texas State (76.5) and Stephen F. Austin (71.5).
Including the men’s distance medley relay on Friday, the Aggies totaled 10 event wins in the meet with six runner-up performances and nine third-place efforts.
“Winning the meet is important and I like to see our team concerned about the team score,” said Texas A&M head coach Pat Henry. “They’re happy to win.”
Wooten bettered the pole vault meet record of 17-10 ½ (5.45), set by SFA’s Keith Benford in 2013, with his winning height of 18-3 ¾ (5.58) and had three attempts at 18-5 ½ (5.63) in trying to top his school record of 18-4 ¾ (5.60) set last season. Wooten ended up with the No. 2 performance on the Aggie all-time list.
“Today was mostly about getting some qualifying marks out of the way and being consistent,” said Wooten. “My height today should qualify me for NCAA Indoor, since historically I don’t think it’s ever not made it into the national meet. Now I can focus on trying out some different techniques and experimenting a little more than I would have been able to if I was still chasing a qualifying mark.”
Challenging Wooten in the pole vault was Baylor freshman KC Lightfoot, who came in with a best of 18-3 ¾ set at altitude last season as a senior in high school. Lightfoot placed second with a mark of 18-1 ¾ (5.53). The collegiate leading height prior to Wooten’s performance was 18-1 ¼ (5.52) set on Friday by Deakin Volz of Virginia Tech.
“I was really excited to have KC jumping with me today,” noted Wooten. “I haven’t really had that much competition in a little while. He was clearing on first attempts right along with me until we reached 18-3. It was a good bit of excitement.”
Campbell returned to College Station just last Saturday after a fall semester of studying abroad in France and promptly set a career best with her 4:51.57 mile victory, becoming the No. 7 performer with the No. 10 performance on the A&M all-time list as she improved her previous best of 4:54.89 from last year.
“I’m really glad I had this kind of performance, because I can go throughout the season knowing I’m back to where I should be,” stated Campbell. “There’s no setbacks from being gone abroad. I’m just excited.”
After teammate Sammy Watson led the mile in the early stages through 800m, Campbell challenged the new leader in SFA’s Kelsey Ramirez. Churning out the fastest lap splits over the final 600m with splits of 37.19, 34.82 and 32.83, Campbell passed Ramirez (4:52.48) for the win. Aggie teammates Valarie Bradley (4:58.08) and Kelsie Warren (4:59.97) placed third and fifth, respectively.
“I followed Ramirez for a while since I knew she raced in the 5,000 the previous night as was pretty strong,” noted Campbell. “Towards the end of the race I knew if I showed her I was there then she may get disheartened or tired. My true goal today was to win. When I saw Sammy step off the track then I thought I might be able to win this thing.”
Competing for the first time in an Aggie uniform during the indoor season, Tahar Triki won the long jump at 25-1 ½ (7.65) and by having the better second leap in his series. O’Brien Wasome of Texas matched the effort by Triki. On secondary marks, Triki produced a 25-0 (7.62) compared to Wasome’s 24-1 ¾ (7.36).
The learning curve for Gabriel Oladipo in the men’s weight throw had a sharp uptake with his winning toss of 63-2 ¼ (19.26) to better his previous best of 56-8 ¾ (17.29). Oladipo moved to No. 3 performer on the Aggie all-time list. Teammate Josh Brown placed third with an improvement to 58-7 ¼ (17.87) and moved to No. 8 on the A&M all-time list.
The Aggies swept the 4x400 relays with the women clocking 3:36.37 to better Texas (3:38.36) and Baylor (3:40.90) while the men posted a 3:08.08 to finish ahead of Baylor (3:08.12) and Texas (3:13.33).
A line-up of Tierra Robinson-Jones (54.47), Syaira Richardson (53.56), Julia Madubuike (54.23) and Jarra Owens (54.01) won the women’s 4x400 relay. On the men’s side the foursome included Bryce Deadmon (46.71), Ilolo Izu (46.45), Richard Rose (47.44) and Devin Dixon (47.48).
Madubuike won the open 400 in 54.64 while Rose finished third in the men’s 400 with a 47.42. Brenessa Thompson sped away with the women’s 60 title in 7.47 with Amber Ivy third in 7.55. In the 200, Diamond Spaulding ran 23.68 as runner-up with Thompson third in 23.69.
Jace Comick finished as runner-up in the 60 (6.75) and third in the 200 (21.29). Tyler Guillory ran 8.03 for third in the 60m hurdles and Kennedy Smith placed third in the women’s 60m hurdles with a best of 8.59.
LaJarvia Brown claimed the triple jump with a mark of 42-9 (12.95). Alstian Walker cleared 6-9 ¾ (2.08) for victory in the high jump as teammates Mason Farley and Mason Corbin tied for second at 6-8 (2.03). CJ Stevenson turned in a 49-8 ¼ (15.14) triple jump as runner-up.
In the 800, Jean Jenkins ran 2:10.73 as runner-up in the women’s race while David Torkington posted a 1:54.17 for fourth in the men’s race. Jon Bishop (4:13.42) and Wes McPhail (4:14.43) placed third and fourth in the men’s mile while Raymond Gonzales ran 8:39.51 for fifth in the 3,000.
Ashton Hutcherson led the Aggies in the women’s 3,000 as she placed third in 9:59.51 while Abbey Santoro (10:19.75) and Julia Black (10:20.47) were sixth and seventh.
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Woodstock: the 50th Anniversary
August marks the 50th anniversary of The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Max Feldman explores how a bunch of hippie capitalists managed to seize the zeitgeist and define a generation. Woodstock (or The Woodstock Music and Art Fair to give it its proper name) occupies a venerable place in the...
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Doorstep Library – National Volunteers’ Week
It’s National Volunteers’ Week and here at Doorstep Library we want to celebrate all that our amazing volunteers do for the local London communities we work in. Doorstep Library is a literacy charity that believes in the power of words to take children places, not just in their imagination, but...
Nasser Azam: Saiful Malook
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An interview with Cinderella director Julian Crouch
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Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Julian Crouch is a director, designer, writer, maker, teacher, illustrator and musician, whose career has spanned theatre, opera, ballet, film and television. Initially a mask and puppet maker, he co-founded the Improbable Theatre Company in the mid-1990s, with which he gained far-reaching recognition. With Improbable, Julian co-created,...
H.G. Wells was one of the foremost writers of science fiction in history, stories like The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and perhaps his most famous novel The War of The Worlds would go on to codify many of the foundational tropes of the genre. In his stories he predicted...
Stefan’s Zweig’s Chess
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English National Ballet bring new in-the-round version of Cinderella to the Royal Albert Hall 06-16 June 2019.
English National Ballet will perform a new in-the-round version of multi award winning choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon’s, Cinderella, at the Royal Albert Hall from 06-16 June 2019. Co-produced by English National Ballet and the Royal Albert Hall, Wheeldon’s inventive production features over 90 dancers and combines magnificent sets and costumes, theatrical...
Writing: Making Your Mark at the British Library
The more integral something is to our daily existence, the easier it is to take it for granted. After all no one’s hobby list includes ‘respiration’, and so among mankind’s achievements the written word is often treated like something of a red-headed step-child.This is not a grumpy accusation that no-one...
The Glass Piano at the Coronet Theatre
It’s perhaps telling that not even rampant monarchists believe in the concept of the inherent superiority of royalty anymore. Whether they believe that they serve as a counterbalance to government, or just because you like the parades, no-one is going around sincerely believing that what rattles around in the royal...
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Wharton, TX Cremation Services
What to Expect from Cremation Services in Wharton, TX
Cremation services in Wharton, TX completely understand how you will be devastated by the loss of a loved one and will need help and assistance in arranging a cremation.
One of the main reasons that people regularly choose a cremation over a burial is linked to the cremation costs in Wharton, TX. The final bill for cremating a person is usually far lower than the cost of arranging a burial because you do not have to pay for the land, its preparation and then the long-term upkeep.
Across all of America cremations are rapidly increasing as the most popular choice of interment and it is predicted that over 50% of people will choose cremation within the next 20 years or so. An exact and full price list will be passed to the person organizing the cremation so that you fully understand all of the cremation costs in Wharton, TX.
Why Do People Choose Cremation in Wharton, TX?
When you have experienced standing around a graveside as the body is lowered into the earth, it is an experience that many prefer to forget. The very different, and less dramatic experience of attending a cremation, focuses more on the person who has died rather than the events organized by Wharton, TX cremation services.
Some religions will only accept a cremation as the only option for interment and this will be explained by cremation services in Wharton, TX. In the past, other religions would not accept a cremation as an alternative, but in modern times, the majority of religions are completely accepting of the cremation method being used.
Were you to cast a survey, you would find that modern cemeteries are regarded as extremely sterile and lacking of great character and if you live in a colder area, a grave is a difficult place to visit because of the weather, especially the snow and even more so in a northern state. This explains why many people look at the Wharton, TX cremation costs and choose it as their best option
In the majority of states, you can care for the deceased at your own home, but the majority of people will prefer that cremation services in Wharton, TX will undertake the facility.
Wharton, TX cremation services will explain that the body of the deceased is placed into a container which can be a coffin or casket, but a simple and suitable container is all that the law requires. At the crematorium, the employees will remove jewelry and medical devices, like pacemakers, to reduce the safety hazards for the cremation process. An efficient tagging system is used so that the individual can always be properly identified.
The individual will be cremated in the furnace at temperatures between 1400?F and 2000?F during the course of 2 to 3 hours, when the body will be reduced completely to fine powder, mostly a grey color. These are the ashes that are then returned to the nominated person as part of the cremation costs in Wharton, TX.
All of the options related to the memorial service will be carefully discussed with Wharton, TX cremation services.
The Wharton, TX cremation costs will detail whether the crematorium will be supplying a standard urn to return the ashes to you or whether you have opted to purchase a model for display which you may decide to use for a number of years.
The individual is always cremated alone, so you can rest assured that the ashes being returned to you are always correct and all of the procedures will be explained in detail by Wharton, TX cremation services.
Religious Questions in Wharton, TX
Some religious groups will require for a cremation to be completed inside 24 hours after the death of the person. This will be arranged by the funeral director and included within the Wharton, TX cremation costs, once all of the legal documentation is complete.
There are so many things that you need to think about after someone has died so you should not be worried about leaning heavily on the skills and experience offered by Wharton, TX cremation services.
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Nightly At The Institute of the Possible
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SKU: 321 Categories: Hedgerow Books, Levellers Press Author: D.M. Gordon
Weaving the “Fourth World” of snails, ravens, and sloths with imagined worlds of our human fragility, our power to destroy and to love, D M Gordon’s poems bring us face to face with the divine. Nightly, at the Institute of the Possible is often allegorical, language-rich, and always illuminating.
“In these sensuous, tough-minded and sophisticated poems, the possible extends its range to the clairvoyant. Like nature’s slow transformation of gleam to a rich patina of green brocade, the work of time and decay turns rich and strange in these poems of an original mind and an irrepressible spirit.”
—Eleanor Wilner
D M Gordon’s poems and stories have been published widely. Prizes include The Betsy Colquitt Award from descant, The Editor’s Choice Award from the Beacon Street Review, and First Prize for a short story from Glimmer Train. Phi Beta Kappa, Masters in Music from Boston University, she’s the recipient of a 2008 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in fiction, having been a finalist in poetry in 2004. She currently works as an editor and facilitates a weekly public discussion of contemporary poetry for Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is the author of Fourth World (Adastra Press, 2010,) and is at work on a novel set in the Gulf Islands.
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NewsCatholic Church, Politics - U.S., Politics - WorldFri Sep 15, 2017 - 7:28 pm EST
Vatican recalls U.S. diplomat in child porn investigation
clergy, pope francis, pornography, secretariat of state, state department, vatican sex-ed
VATICAN CITY, September 15, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A senior member of the Vatican U.S. embassy staff in Washington was recalled after a request from U.S. prosecutors for him to be charged and tried in a child pornography case, Vatican and U.S. officials said.
The diplomat, a priest, is suspected of possessing, though not producing or disseminating, child pornography, including images of prepubescent children, the Associated Press reported, citing a U.S. source who is familiar with the investigation and speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The Vatican said in a statement on Friday that U.S. State Department notified the Vatican Secretariat of State of “a possible violation of laws relating to child pornography images.”
The Holy See said it recalled the priest in keeping with the practice of sovereign states, and that he is currently in Vatican City.
The Vatican Tribunal has also launched an investigation, according to the Vatican press office statement.
The State Department asked the Vatican to lift the official’s diplomatic immunity on August 21, the AP report said, and the request was denied three days later. For the State Department to make such a request, it said further, State Department lawyers would have been certain there was reasonable cause for criminal prosecution.
The reasons prompting the State Department request were not known, and the Department of Justice, as the office that would bring charges, did not immediately offer comment.
A U.S. official familiar with the case confirmed the priest was a senior staff member for the Vatican embassy.
The Vatican had begun requesting specifics in the case from the U.S. and said that as a preliminary inquiry the investigation was subject to confidentiality.
Pope Francis’ financial czar, Australian Cardinal George Pell, is currently facing sex abuse allegations in his home country. Cardinal Pell, who has been attempting to reform Vatican finances, is the highest-ranking Catholic official to be charged with sex abuse, has categorically denied the charges.
Pope Francis has repeatedly condemned clergy sex abuse during his pontificate.
He promised zero tolerance for clergy sex abusers in 2014 and set up a commission to investigate allegations against priests and care for victims. He spoke out strongly against clergy sex abuse again later that year and again in May 2016, saying abusers must be severely punished. Shortly thereafter, he released an update to the policy for removing bishops suspected of neglecting clerical abuse cases.
Pope Francis restated zero tolerance again this past January, directing bishops in a letter to “adhere, clearly and faithfully, to ‘zero tolerance'” for sex abuse of minors.
While some have criticized the pope for not speaking more strongly against abuse and not acting more firmly against abusers and those who have covered up abuse, still others have pointed to instances where his actions in some serious cases don’t match his tough stances on abuse.
The Vatican removed its ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Monsignor Jozef Wesolowski, in 2013 after he was accused of sexual abuse.
A Vatican court later defrocked him, and the priest passed away before a criminal case could proceed.
Vatican recalls U.S. diplomat in child porn investigation Vatican recalls U.S. diplomat in child porn investigation News By Lisa Bourne
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Innovations in African agriculture : Mechanizing Senegal’s rice value chain
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In recent years, there has been a drive to innovate and transform Africa’s agricultural value chains in order to meet the food security, peace and prosperity targets set out by the Malabo Declaration and the Sustainable Development Goals. A key element of African countries’ agricultural transformation strategies involves integrating technologies along the value chain to improve productivity and efficiency. But with 20 million young Africans entering the workforce each year there is a concern that agricultural machinery and new technologies are destroying jobs.
To ensure that productive employment opportunities are created to absorb Africa’s growing youth demographic, the Malabo Montpellier Panel’s ‘Mechanized: Transforming Africa’s Agriculture Value Chains’ report explains how agricultural mechanization can and must be employment enhancing, rather than labor replacing. On 16th April 2019, members of the Malabo Montpellier Panel met with key decision-makers in the agricultural sector to discuss their experiences of mechanization in different value chains and to examine some of the primary lessons from the report, which underlines that the successful mechanization of African smallholder agriculture must become a priority on countries’ development agendas.
Among the speakers, Jean-Michel Voisard, Senior Market Systems Advisor at RTI International and former Program Lead of the Feed the Future Senegal Naatal Mbay project, drew on his experience in successfully integrating mechanical tools and technologies into the rice value chain in the Senegal River Valley. Targeting stakeholders at different levels along the value chain - from smallholder cooperatives and individual entrepreneurs to large millers and local government authorities - the Naatal Mbay project took a bottom-up approach to mechanization, with the aim to improve the livelihoods of farming communities in the valley. As a result of the intervention, more than 100,000 small grain producers have been able to increase their self-sufficiency.
Entrepreneurship Opportunities
Using imported Chinese milling machines, maintained by local mechanics, founder of Diongoma Riz De La Vallée, Mrs Gueye – a beneficiary of the Naatal Mbay Feed the Future project – is able to process 5,000-6,000 tons of rice per year (20-30 tons per day). She employs 14 full-time members of staff to carry out these operations, in addition to 10 women for manual pre-cleaning activities. Mechanization has enabled Mrs Gueye to expand her production and create much-needed jobs. She is able to use the rice she processes as collateral to borrow funds, in order to pay farmers on the delivery of their rice. Once the rice is processed and sold she repays the banks to clear her borrowing. Mrs Gueye’s ability to repay her loans on time has allowed her to increase her borrowing year-on-year and to continue to expand the mill’s operations.
Another entrepreneur supported by the Feed the Future project has also realized the value of agricultural mechanization for business expansion and job creation. In 2014, the rice farmer located near the Mauritanian border started with just one tractor. Today, he owns five combine harvesters and several tractors, worth US$1.4 million. To pay for the machines he rents them to farmers in exchange for 20 percent of their harvest. As a result, he receives 14,000 tons of rice from farmers each year, in addition to his own harvest. This high turnover has enabled him to employ 15-20 people on a regular basis as drivers and mechanics. With US$500,000 in investment, the farmer plans to build a mill with a laser system for cleaning, as well as a storage warehouse by 2020, thereby creating more jobs for the local community.
Agribusiness expansion
In Ross-Béthio, Naatal Mbay has facilitated l’Union des Femmes Productrices (UFP), a women’s cooperative, to acquire milling machines for rice processing and encouraged them to try new rice varieties. Consequently, the 28 cooperative members’ yields have increased from 4-5 tons per hectare to 7-8 tons per hectare, helping to boost their incomes. Additionally, some of the women have been trained as accountants and data managers to support the cooperative’s transition into a sustainable agribusiness and help them access the capital that they need to expand. With these new business skills and the increased income from the milling machines the cooperative is likely to be able to employ new members of staff in the coming years.
Established in the Senegal River Valley in 1953, another family-owned rice mill has also benefitted from the project’s promotion of mechanization. The mill uses machines to separate husks, bran and rice. The husks are made into pallets as a source of energy for a local cement factory, while the bran is used as animal feed. The company’s 18 full-time employees and 20 part-time staff support the processing of 15,000 tons of rice per year and maintenance of the machines. Beyond providing jobs for these employees, the mill’s increased processing power, as a result of the machines, has benefitted the livelihoods of its local farmer suppliers. Even with approximately 100 farmer groups (each with 5-55 members) supplying rice, the mill still struggles to source enough rice to function at maximum capacity.
As Mr Voisard told participants of the Malabo Montpellier Panel’s Policy Seminar: Transforming Africa’s agriculture value chains through mechanization on 16th April, “The transformation of factories and all of these new technologies taking shape in the Senegal river valley, will – in the long run – create jobs.” The evidence from Feed the Future’s Naatal Mbay project speaks for itself, indeed portraying that mechanization can lead to an increase in employment opportunities rather than a decrease, when policies are designed in a way to spur employment generation. Armed with the findings of the Malabo Montpellier’s Mechanized report, African decision-makers and the private sector need to make targeted efforts and interventions to promote mechanization in each segment of the value chain. To do this, they must work at developing socially sustainable mechanization pathways and increasing investments in the development of supportive infrastructure. Thus, allowing the potential of agriculture to drive growth and employment, particularly in rural economies.
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by David Clayton
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Daniel Grimshaw signs new three-year deal
Fri 08 Jun 2018, 2:00 PM
City goalkeeper Daniel Grimshaw has signed a new contract with the Club.
The 20-year-old has penned a new deal until 2021.
Manchester-born Grimshaw, a lifelong City fan, was promoted to the first team squad last season and will look to kick on again in the coming season.
Grimshaw made 15 appearances for the EDS and U19s during 2017/18 campaign.
He also made a huge impact for the Under-19s during the run to the UEFA Youth League semi-finals, making crucial saves in the last 16 and the quarter-final penalty shoot-out wins over Inter Milan and Liverpool to see City progress through to the semi-final for the first time.
Grimshaw said: “I’m really happy to commit myself to City for a further three years.
_Daniel Grimshaw is mobbed by his team-mates_
“It’s no secret I’ve been here many years already and that I’ve been a City fan all my life.
“To be at the Club at this exciting time is pretty incredible and to be able to learn and train from goalkeepers like Ederson and Claudio Bravo made this an easy decision for me.”
City’s Director of Football Txiki Begiristain added: “We are delighted Daniel has agreed this new deal.
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“His current contract expired at the end of June and we were obviously keen to keep him as part of our squad.
“He is a goalkeeper of great potential and has impressed Pep Guardiola and his coaching staff over the past two seasons with his hard work and progress.
“As a result of this, Daniel will be increasingly involved in the first team set up next season.
“He is young and is still learning his trade, but we are happy he is continuing his education at Manchester City and look forward to watching him progress in the coming seasons.”
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Celebrating Beautiful Football
Friday, June 8, 2018 8:35 AM
by Rob Pollard @RobPollardMCFC
We’ve launched an online hub dedicated to celebrating the wonderful football Pep Guardiola’s team have played this year en route to winning the Premier League and Carabao Cup.
We've put together a series of videos celebrating the football we have played under Pep this season
Gossip: World Cup build up and midfield duo linked
by Paul Handler @Handler_MCFC
Welcome to Friday’s media watch where we’ve got World Cup build-up, transfer speculation, and manager Pep Guardiola’s view on the key strength of his title-winning side.
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De Bruyne backs injured skipper for World Cup
Thursday, June 7, 2018 7:49 AM
by David Clayton @dclayton_MCFC
Kevin De Bruyne believes Vincent Kompany has a big part to play for Belgium in the World Cup, even if he misses the opening matches.
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Theatre Performances - Memories of Louis Jannetta and the Imperial Room
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Memories of Louis Jannetta and the Imperial Room
Showtime: Saturday, March 2, 2019
Location: RBC Theatre
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Memories of Louis Jannetta and the Imperial Room March 2, 2019 07:30 pm $40.00 - $55.00
This evening's concert is a musical journey from the 50's to the 90's.
Patti Jannetta will share warm stories of her father Louis Jannetta, and his life among the stars as show business Maitre D' at the iconic Royal York Hotel Imperial Ballroom.
Memorable music will have guests travelling down the 'historical steps of musical time'.
Patti Jannetta
A teen actress in the Canadian production of the Las Vegas and LA theater version of Jesus Christ Superstar, Patti’s performed across Canada, the US, Europe and Asia. She’s released three albums, 2 music videos and starred in her own CTV national special A Family Christmas with Patti Jannetta. Patti wrote and toured with Bo Diddley, and shared the stage with artists from Michael Buble and Burton Cummings to Jackie Richardson and Michael Burgess. A Juno Award nominee, Patti received a Diamond Record for the Much Music Dance hit Tell Me You Love Me and received the Canadian Recording Legacy Award. Patti’s in constant demand as a performer, host and MC.
Based on true stories and her own experiences from her father Louis Jannetta’s book, King of the Maître’d’s, My Life Among the Stars, Patti is thrilled to bring her self-written production Memories of Louis Jannetta and The Imperial Room to life!
Micah Barnes
Joining the cast!
After recording and touring the world as a member of The Nylons, Micah has established himself as one of Canada's foremost solo entertainers. His career has included a Billboard #1 hit Welcome To My Head and a #1 Jazz single New York Story the title song from his critically acclaimed album New York Stories (e-One Music). He is also a busy vocal coach helping support the next generation of talent on both sides of the border. For music, video’s and more please check micahbarnes.com
Jackie Richardson
Jackie Richardson is an electrifying, award-winning, world-class performer and one of Canada’s foremost singers of gospel, blues and jazz whose career includes performances in concert, radio, television and recordings. She has performed across Canada and in countries around the world. Jackie has received the NAACP, Juno, Betty, Dora, Jesse, Gemini, South African Women for Women Awards and Nominations.
Jackie was also presented with Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Toronto Blues Society, The Canadian Black Achievement Awards, The Ken Page Memorial Trust and The Canadian Equity Association. She holds a number of additional awards and honours that have been bestowed on her and most recently was honoured by PAL Canada Foundation.
High on Jackie’s list are community and global concerns, and some of her most vital areas of support is for The Regent Park community, The Steven Lewis Foundation’s Grandmother’s Campaign (HIV/AIDS project), and The Princess Margaret Hospital. Jackie is known to be very passionate about the need to bring more focus and support to children and women’s issues.
Lastly, to quote Jackie "Don’t let nobody take your joy!"
Adrian Luces
Adrian Luces was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and emigrated to Canada at the age of nine, and was quickly recruited into a specialized music focused school in Toronto for his primary and secondary education. Adrian further pursued his music studies by attending the renowned jazz and pop school, Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. He later received a degree in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
A versatile singer, Adrian has participated in performances on television, and on stage, ranging from classical, opera and Broadway, to jazz, pop and rock, however his favourite songs to sing are inspirational pop, and love ballads. He’s also a songwriter, concert producer and an Executive Voice coach instructing executives and professionals on how to enhance their overall image through their voice.
Travis Knights
Tap Dancer. Performer. Choreographer. Speaker. Believer. Montreal native Travis Knights is realizing his dreams, pounding rhythms on wood floors all over the world. His talent and dedication have earned him audiences in Shanghai, Dusseldorf, Paris, New York, and Vancouver to name a few. His career started in 2000, when he was cast as a principal dancer in the motion picture biography of Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson with Gregory Hines and Savion Glover.
He was tapped to be the principal dancer in the video game adaptation of Warner Brother's 'Happy Feet'. Travis was a Tap Dance consultant for Cirque du Soleil, starred in the touring show 'Wonderland: A Tap Tribute to Stevie Wonder', was a featured Tap Dancer in the Opening Ceremonies to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and toured North America with the raucous and rowdy internationally acclaimed Australian Tap Dance show, Tap Dogs. Travis hosts The Tap Love Tour Podcast, featuring interviews with inspiring artists and he’s developing an original full length work commissioned by Soulpepper Theater Company. We are ecstatic to have him as part of the cast of Memories of Louis Jannetta and the Imperial Room.
Run time: TBD
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June 1, 2019 | Medical | Manufacturing & Prototyping | Sensors/Data Acquisition
Scientists 3D Print All-Liquid ‘Lab on a Chip’
Research sets the stage for new class of 3D printed, all-liquid devices.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Researchers at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have 3D printed an all-liquid device that, with the click of a button, can be repeatedly reconfigured on demand to serve a wide range of applications — from making battery materials to screening drug candidates.
The 3D printed all-liquid device can be programmed to function like an artificial circulatory system that separates molecules flowing through the channel and automatically removes unwanted by-products. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)
“What we demonstrated is remarkable. Our 3D printed device can be programmed to carry out multistep, complex chemical reactions on demand,” says Brett Helms, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and Molecular Foundry, who led the study. “What's even more amazing is that this versatile platform can be reconfigured to efficiently and precisely combine molecules to form very specific products, such as organic battery materials.”
The study's findings, which were reported in the journal Nature Communications, is the latest in a series of experiments at Berkeley Lab that fabricate all-liquid materials with a 3D printer.
Last year, a study co-authored by Helms and Thomas Russell, a visiting researcher from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who leads the Adaptive Interfacial Assemblies Toward Structured Liquids Program in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, pioneered a new technique for printing various liquid structures — from droplets to swirling threads of liquid — within another liquid.
“After that successful demonstration, a bunch of us got together to brainstorm on how we could use liquid printing to fabricate a functioning device,” says Helms.
“Then it occurred to us: If we can print liquids in defined channels and flow contents through them without destroying them, then we could make useful fluidic devices for a wide range of applications, from new types of miniaturized chemical laboratories to even batteries and electronic devices.”
To make the 3D printable fluidic device, lead author Wenqian Feng, a postdoctoral researcher in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, designed a specially patterned glass substrate. When two liquids — one containing nanoscale clay particles, another containing polymer particles — are printed onto the substrate, they come together at the interface of the two liquids and within milliseconds form a very thin channel or tube about 1 mm in diameter.
Once the channels are formed, catalysts can be placed in different channels of the device. The user can then 3D print bridges between channels, connecting them so that a chemical flowing through them encounters catalysts in a specific order, setting off a cascade of chemical reactions to make specific chemical compounds. And when controlled by a computer, this complex process can be automated “to execute tasks associated with catalyst placement, build liquid bridges within the device, and run reaction sequences needed to make molecules,” says Russell.
The multitasking device can also be programmed to function like an artificial circulatory system that separates molecules flowing through the channel and automatically removes unwanted by-products while it continues to print a sequence of bridges to specific catalysts and carry out the steps of chemical synthesis.
When two liquids — one containing nanoscale clay particles, another containing polymer particles — are printed onto a glass substrate, they come together at the interface of the two liquids and within milliseconds form a very thin channel or tube about 1 mm in diameter. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)
“The form and functions of these devices are only limited by the imagination of the researcher,” explains Helms. “Autonomous synthesis is an emerging area of interest in the chemistry and materials communities, and our technique for 3D printing devices for all-liquid flow chemistry could help to play an important role in establishing the field.”
Adds Russell, “The combination of materials science and chemistry expertise at Berkeley Lab, along with world-class user facilities available to researchers from all over the world, and the young talent that is drawn to the Lab is unique. We couldn't have developed this program anywhere else.”
The researchers next plan to electrify the walls of the device using conductive nanoparticles to expand the types of reactions that can be explored. “With our technique, we think it should also be possible to create all-liquid circuitry, fuel cells, and even batteries,” says Helms. “It's been really exciting for our team to combine fluidics and flow chemistry in a way that is both user-friendly and user-programmable.”
The Molecular Foundry is a DOE Office of Science User Facility that specializes in nanoscale science. Researchers from UC Berkeley also contributed to the study. This work was supported by the DOE Office of Science. A video of the technology is available here. The technology is available for licensing and collaboration. Contact Berkeley Lab's Intellectual Property Office, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. For more information, visit here.
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George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin Just Gave Us the Best Reason to Love Them Yet
By Jordan Valinsky
Our George Clooney vision board just grew larger.
Over the weekend, the beloved humanitarian and actor got married to Amal Alamuddin, an internationally renowned lawyer, in Venice, Italy. The lavish, four-day wedding is estimated to cost roughly $15 million, so it's not surprise that everyone was itching to see what the star-studded spectacular looked like. First wedding photos typically turn into high-stakes bidding wars by the tabloids, and in the case of Clooney and Alamuddin's wedding, People and Hello! magazines won the rights.
However, instead of keeping the money or using it as a ploy to garner publicity (cough, Kardashians, cough), TMZ reports that the money will go to several charities that are close to the couple's hearts.
"We're told the lion's share is earmarked for the Satellite Sentinel Project, a charity that monitors the movements of militant gangs in the Sudan ... in order to warn civilians. Clooney is a cofounder of the group, which launched in 2010," TMZ reports.
It's unclear how much money the wedding photos went for. Business Insider estimates that it likely went in the millions, similar to when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt sold the first pictures of their twins. They too donated the whopping $15 million asking price to charities.
The donation is just another example of what a good guy Clooney is. His charity work spans raising awareness about the atrocities in Darfur to being the cofounder of several charity organizations, including Not on Our Watch, a nonprofit that works to fight against genocides.
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Special needs of women in prison will be watched over by a special program established by the Legislature. It’s a program born from a conference in Washington a few years ago – a conference attended by the deputy director of women’s health in the Department of Corrections and some women legislators. Out of that conference comes a law specifying a top department official will oversee special programs for women’s needs. The bill is awaiting the signature of Governor Holden before it becomes law.
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How to survive a global disaster: a handy guide
By: Keith Stuart
Whether it’s a natural disaster, bioterrorist attack or pandemic, experts reckon society as we know it will collapse within 13 days of a catastrophic event. So what do you do next?
On 22 June, 2013, Tara O’Toole and Thomas Inglesby of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies, organised a war game like no other. The two researchers, working with an array of bodies such as the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security, set out to simulate the effects of a biological attack on the US. The project was called Operation Dark Winter.
What they discovered was that the country was ill prepared to cope. Within two weeks there would be enormous civilian casualties, a catastrophic breakdown in essential institutions, and mass civil unrest. Food supplies, electricity and transport infrastructures would all collapse.
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Sol Campbell: "We Need To Stop Shooting Ourselves In The Foot"
Macclesfield Town manager Sol Campbell stated that his side need to stop making it difficult for themselves after fighting back to claim a valiant 3-3 draw at home to Crewe Alexandra.
The Silkmen fell behind on three occasions but pegged their opponents back with goals from Scott Wilson, Nathan Cameron and Reece Cole.
And Campbell insists that his side must eradicate their early errors if they are to continue their progress up the Sky Bet League Two table.
“It wasn’t good for the blood pressure, no! It was a very entertaining game, but for us we are climbing Mount Everest by giving goals away. In the last two or three games we have shot ourselves in the foot on many occasions.
“I think really as a team we’ve just got be a lot more focused on the starts. We’re all trying our best and I think we just need to kind of look at the details, look at what the players are doing and just, from back when I used to play, expect the unexpected. That’s what I used to do and I used to feel like I am playing against the best forward in the world and he can do every single thing.
“So I used to say to myself I’ve got to mark and do absolutely everything in my kind of powers and calculate everything what comes through, and that’s it. Instead of thinking well, that forward is not going to make that run or the midfielder’s not going to run – just things like that, you’ve got to expect the unexpected and we’ve got to look at that.
“We responded really well but we keep on shooting ourselves in the foot. In the last dying moments we’re not following our runs. The penalty, well I’m not surer about the penalty but their first goal we weren’t tracking our runners and we were not talking across the line.
“But we responded really well and we scored a fabulous goal. Willo played really, really well.
“We’ve just got to do more. We can’t keep climbing Everest every weekend, we can’t keep giving teams at least two goals – we can’t do it.”
A sublime finish from Scott Wilson chalked up his eighth goal of the season, and Campbell was full of praise for his leading Silkmen scorer.
“It was great technique, he took it really well and he could have had another one as well – it just went past the post. But Scott is willing to learn, and that’s what I like about him.
There was a sense of frustration from the Macclesfield boss though in regards to his team’s performance, and Campbell believes his side need to start translating their work on the training ground out onto the pitch come matchdays.
“I think we done enough. We had to work really hard for our goals. The most disappointing thing for me was that we’re not transferring the stuff that we are doing in training, like keeping the ball, and all of a sudden everything goes out of the window.
“We’ve got to transfer training into the games and stop forgetting what we’re doing. We look a million dollars in the week, and we’ve got more time and space than normal! Yet we still don’t quite pick a pass and I’m thinking to myself it’s something that we need to address.
“We need to be braver to move that training into games.”
In a dramatic finish, it was Reece Cole who popped up at the most important time to rifle the ball home in front of a jubilant Star Lane End.
And Campbell lauded up the on-loan Brentford star, who has acclimatised to his new surroundings extremely well since his arrival three weeks ago.
“Reece can do a lot more. He took the goal fantastically and he is a top player Reece, top player. I’m glad he’s with us he works his socks off, playing in two positions as well and he has a great career ahead of him.
The Silkmen manager was delighted to see the unification of both his team and supporters, in spite of the tension amongst home and visiting supporters, and Campbell was adamant that the spirit displayed can go a long way in Macclesfield’s fight for survival.
“Everyone together. Obviously sometimes it can go over the top and you get shouts and crowd trouble and things like that. But there is a fine line between celebrating and voicing your opinions but the fans are all behind us.
“Both teams can go away and say it was a great game and we’ll move on.
“It’s a point, at least we haven’t lost and we did really well to comeback. That’s the kind of comeback you need to kick on and survive this league. We need more of that and less of the starting slow at the beginning of the game.”
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A Budding Industry
The rise of cannabis consultancy
By Linda Stansberry linda@northcoastjournal.com @lcstansberry
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Ronald Mattson
In marijuana country, you get used to not seeing your farmer friends for months at a time as they prepare their sites, tend their plants and deal with the stress of harvest time. But in the past year, thanks to Humboldt County's compliance program and the passage of California's Proposition 64, an entirely different group of professionals has experienced an intense workload and multiple trips into the hills.
They are the consultants, scientists and legal experts tasked with helping cannabis farmers get legal. And while farmers bite their fingernails and wonder if legalization is going to mean boom or bust, for these ancillary professions, the process has been all boom.
"It's been insane, it never stops," says Jack Henry, a wildlife biologist with Timberland Resource Consultants who has watched the stream of growers interested in coming into compliance go from a trickle to a deluge. "At first it was really slow. When I first started this, I went out on my first assignment in [2013] and I watched my boss talk growers off a ledge to sign paperwork. It's really nice to see people embrace it a little bit but it's been insanely busy."
Henry does the same kind of work for cannabis farmers that he would do for more traditional agriculture operations, but says these farmers are held to different, higher standards.
"There's such a broad spectrum of laws and agencies," he says, adding that when he got his degree at Humboldt State University, he never imagined he'd be working with pot growers. "To protect the environment, it's good in a sense. But it puts some of these guys in a tight spot."
Among the common issues Henry sees in the field are farms built around roads never intended for year-round use. Many cannabis grows are former timber lands, with roads only meant for the summer. In the early days of the industry, before mixed-light grows and greenhouses became the norm, this was less of an issue. But now roads that were never meant to be used in the winter are seeing heavy wear, resulting in erosion and runoff into nearby streams.
Henry, who helps growers pass inspections by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the regional Water Quality Control Board, admits that his clientele self-selects. The farmers he works with want to come into compliance, which means their operations are probably in better shape than those who are going to stay in the black market. Many complain about the high costs of the required inspections and mitigation work, but Henry says skilled people, like engineers, expect to be paid appropriately for their work.
"It's just like the gold rush," says Henry. "It wasn't the gold miners who got rich, it was the stores who sold the picks and shovels."
Paul Gallegos, a former Humboldt County district attorney, is currently helping some cannabis farmers structure their businesses. He says the morass of laws surrounding medicinal and recreational cannabis, federal, state and legal scheduling can be confusing for many.
"So many people are trying to figure out what's going on," he says. "Now with the passage of [Prop. 64], people are even more confused."
For clients who are trying to operate legally as medical cooperatives, he breaks it down to the three Ms: marijuana, members and money. The marijuana must be accounted for from start to finish — "seed, stem, leaf and bud." Co-operative members must be valid patients and up to date on their referrals. The money has to be accounted for. For growers trying to get into compliance, a history of solid bookkeeping could work in their favor for state licensing. But professional, squeaky clean operations aren't the norm in the industry.
"They whine to me, 'What do you mean, I need an onsite septic system? What do you mean I need a handicap-accessible bathroom?'" says Kimberly Preston, of Omsberg and Preston Engineering. "I walk them down the hallway of my office and show them my bathrooms. 'You're getting legal. You're no different than me in what's required. And while you're at it, put Microsoft Word on your computer and set up your voicemail.'"
Preston, who has worked at the firm since 2004, refers to all the farmers she works with affectionately as "Farmer John." If the learning curve for some cannabis growers is steep, Preston's team has also struggled to keep up with the ever-changing terrain of county and state requirements.
"It's been crazy," she says. "Forget anything and everything I ever knew about engineering in the last 20 years, it's gone. The only thing you can still count on is that water flows downhill."
The green rush has been an economic boon for her firm, which reduced its staff from 14 people to two after the 2008 financial crash but has now grown to employ eight engineers, all working full-tilt to help growers with grading plans, septic testing and design, topographic and boundary surveying.
"They don't think they should have to do any of it," says Preston, laughing. "Because they've never been regulated, they don't like it. They don't understand the cost, because their money has always been their money. And I would sure like to be part of helping them get bank accounts."
She says there are several consultancy firms that are charging "unethical" rates, several times more than her, for their work despite not employing licensed engineers.
"It floored me," she says, adding that she considers herself a lobbyist for her clients. "I keep thinking, is everything I'm doing in vain? Will the state not give them your licenses? Will the feds not put up with it? I don't know. I do unto others. I give honest answers. I put in a good day's work."
"There's a lot of snake oil salesmen out there," agrees Ronald "Ronzo" Mattson, owner of Verdant Bridge Enterprise. Mattson, who owns a garden supply shop and has been working in the local cannabis industry since the early 1980s, shies away from calling himself a "consultant," partially because so many unqualified people have attached themselves to that title. Verdant Bridge got its start after Mattson himself waded through the compliance process, and it mostly does rehab — taking parcels that were trashed by the previous growers and bringing them up to code. Mattson says he chose the name Verdant Bridge because everything else was taken.
"Everything with 'Humboldt' or 'green' or 'organic' was gone," he says, referring to the large variety of cannabis-related businesses in the area.
Mattson's crew often visits sites that were trashed by the previous owners, plots rife with garbage, illegal grading and illegal water diversions. He says restoring property to a more natural state and having state agencies give it the thumbs up is very rewarding. His company is currently only taking on a handful of clients and it's still overwhelmed.
"Right now Humboldt County is an engineer's goldmine," he says. "Everyone needs pot plans done. Structures need to be done. Unpermitted structures need to be permitted. There's a lot of engineering. It's basically site-specific. If you have a very clean site and not a lot of issues, it's not going to cost you a lot of money."
How much money should a grower expect to pay for permits, engineering and all the various inspections, if they're not getting fleeced? It really depends, says Mattson's business partner, Fauna O'Brien.
"A simplistic snapshot, with low-end zoning, tier one with the water board, maybe under $10,000," she says. "If we want to talk about large and tricky situations, personally I've seen clients get close to the half million mark just trying to get to the point where they can get approved. It depends on how people have treated their land so far."
O'Brien declined to say which consultancy firms she's heard negative things about but urged farmers to ask questions and work with licensed professionals. She says it hurts to see people in her community be taken advantage of by people who have "popped up out of the woodwork calling themselves consultants."
"It's the heart and soul farmers, the ones who are absolutely passionate about it," she says. "The ones who are trudging through this compliance process are the ones who have been waiting for this all along. They want to do this without the fear or anxiety of having it all ripped away from them."
Linda Stansberry is a staff writer for the Journal. Reach her at 442-1400, extension 317, or linda@northcoastjournal.com. Follow her on Twitter @LCStansberry.
Tags: News, cannabis, consultant, Timberland Resource Consultants, Verdant Bridge, engineering, permitting, biologists
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Linda Stansberry
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Linda Stansberry was a staff writer of the North Coast Journal from 2015 to 2018.
The F-Words
Shrill is a fun, fearless mess
by Linda Stansberry
'Perfect Storm' Has North Coast Marine Ecosystem Reeling, Abalone in Crisis
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Home / Your Government / The Premier / Media Releases from the Premier / Appointment of The Honourable Justice Margaret Beazley QC AO as Governor
Appointment of The Honourable Justice Margaret Beazley QC AO as Governor
Published 13th January, 2019
Premier Gladys Berejiklian today announced the appointment of The Honourable Justice Margaret Beazley QC AO to be the Governor of NSW from May 2019.
“I am delighted Her Majesty, the Queen, has approved my recommendation of Justice Beazley for the appointment of Governor,” Ms Berejiklian said.
“Justice Beazley has made an outstanding contribution to the legal profession, having served as a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and the NSW Court of Appeal, and as President of the Court of Appeal.
“She has also had a successful career as a legal academic through her chairmanship of the NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law and through her writing on a variety of legal matters.
“She has been a mentor to many aspiring legal professionals – a role that was recognised when she was made an Officer in the Order of Australia.
“Justice Beazley is an exceptional Australian who has served our State and nation with distinction for many years. The people of NSW are extremely fortunate Justice Beazley has accepted the position of Governor.
Ms Berejiklian also paid tribute to His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Ret’d) and Mrs Linda Hurley for their dedication to duty and service to the people of NSW over many years, including to the indigenous community.
“Governor Hurley has worked tirelessly and with the utmost compassion, warmth and respect for members of our local and international communities during his tenure as Governor,” the Premier said. “We should all be very proud and honoured that he will be our next Governor-General of Australia and I wish him every success in his new role.”
Justice Beazley, who will become NSW’s 39th Governor, was born in Sydney in 1951 and graduated from Sydney Law School with Honours in Law in 1974. She was appointed Queens Counsel in 1989 and is the current President of the NSW Court of Appeal.
In 2006, Justice Beazley was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for service to the judiciary and the law, particularly through contributions to professional and ethical standards and to the advancement of women in the legal profession and the community.
In 2012, she was named as one of the inaugural Australian Financial Review/Westpac 100 Women of Influence.
Justice Beazley has three adult children, Erin, Lauren and Anthony Sullivan. She is married to Dennis Wilson.
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Sep 4 NOOKFEST ARTIST PROFILE // STEPHANIE BOUTARI
Stephanie Boutari is an artist with the PATCH Project, an initiative which partners with artists to transform unused public spaces into galleries for all to enjoy. At this year's NookFEST COmmunity Arts and Music Festival Stephanie will be creating a mural piece on the back of 2038 Danforth Avenue, home of the Nooks DANFORTH.
Stephanie Boutari is an artist and muralist with a background in architecture and interior design. She started painting murals while completing her Master of Architecture degree at the University of Waterloo in 2014. Her thesis, entitled "Painting Architecture" focused on architecture's outer surfaces, and since then her interest in murals and public art has continued to grow.
For the last few years, Stephanie has worked between the fields of architecture and art, working full-time at a design-build firm in Toronto while pursuing mural work independently. She has worked on projects ranging from commercial and residential interior design to custom architectural fabrication and three-dimensional art pieces.
In June 2017, she shifted to freelance work to pursue her passion for art full-time. She has also partnered with boko, a design-build studio and workshop based in New Hamburg. It is a collaborative workspace with access to tools for architectural fabrication, art, objects, furniture, signage and more.
My work strives to bridge the gaps between art, architecture and design. Rather than seeing them as separate disciplines, they inform and influence each other in my creative process.
I am particularly fascinated by the ability of paint to shape and transform architecture. For me, the two-dimensional surface is a three-dimensional tool. A thin layer of paint can make a building volume can look heavier or lighter, larger or smaller, still or in motion, fragmented or whole. It can tell a story, revitalize a neighbourhood, spark a conversation, or become a social landmark.
Although I have explored a variety of styles and techniques in my work, my recent focus has been on geometric abstraction and the creation of illusory depth and dimension through painting. Concepts of optical art, colour relativity, pattern and immersive environments continue to inspire my work.
ABOUT PATCH + THE STEPS INITIATIVE
The STEPS Initiative is an award winning charity at the intersection of arts and culture, community, and city-building by animating unlikely spaces with unlikely partners. We seek to inspire cities across Canada and around the world to create welcoming public spaces that reflect and celebrate local community through artistic excellence and have been responsible for some of Canada’s largest and most community-engaged public art initiatives.
Initially conceived as an incubated project of the Centre for Social Innovation, and recently concluding its 7th year in existence, STEPS has led some of Canada’s largest and innovative public arts initiatives. Their World’s Tallest Mural and #StClairMural, alongside their award-winning social enterprise - PATCH - through which they collaborate with landowners and developers to turn under-utilized spaces into an ongoing public gallery, have received international recognition. Their work ranges from commissions as high-profile as the Ceremonial Cauldron for the TO2015 PanAm / Parapan Am Games, to building the capacity of youth and emerging artists to lead community-engaged projects.
https://thepatchproject.com/artists/stephanie-boutari/
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Photograph by NASA, ESA. Acknowledgement: Josh Lake
Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud—a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way—meanders around our galaxy. As the Milky Way’s gravity gently tugs on its gas clouds, they collapse and form new stars, lighting up the Large Magellanic Cloud with kaleidoscopic colors.
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The universe seems to be expanding faster than all expectations
New evidence deepens a mystery around the Hubble constant, one of the most important numbers in cosmology.
By Michael Greshko
Fresh evidence suggests that the universe is expanding faster today than it did in its infancy, a difference that has set off a search to understand what cosmic forces could be at play. If confirmed, the changing rate—which is nine percent faster than had been projected—would force us to reconsider a fundamental aspect of the cosmos.
The result, announced in a new report publishing in the Astrophysical Journal, marks the latest in a long-running controversy over the Hubble constant, a key measure of the universe's age and expansion rate.
In recent years, numerous studies have shown that measurements of the Hubble constant from the cosmic microwave background—the faint afterglow of the infant universe—are at odds with estimates from far younger stars, such as those in our Milky Way, even after taking into account other mysterious cosmic forces such as dark energy, which is accelerating the universe's expansion.
“[The universe] is outpacing all our expectations in its expansion, and that is very puzzling,” says lead study author Adam Riess, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University who co-won the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for helping discover dark energy.
Some have argued that the discrepancy is a product of incomplete data, or some unseen errors systematically pressing their thumbs on the scales. But based on fresh measurements of our cosmic neighborhood from the Hubble Space Telescope, Riess and his colleagues say that the mismatch is not only real, it's wider than ever.
In the new study, Riess's team measures the Hubble constant to a value of 74.03 kilometers per second per megaparsec, give or take 1.42. That's at odds with the best estimates from Planck, a European Space Agency telescope that made the best measurements to date of the cosmic microwave background. Planck's data pegs the Hubble constant at about 67.4 kilometers per second per megaparsec, give or take 0.5. In statistical parlance, the difference between these two results stands at about 4.4 sigma, or 1-in-100,000 odds that the discrepancy is merely a fluke.
“To use an analogy, let’s look at a two-year-old and see how tall they are, and then try to figure out how tall they are going to be when they grow up. Then we could actually wait until they grow up and measure them,” Riess says. “If they far exceed that [extrapolation], we’d have a real mystery on our hands. Something isn’t right in our understanding of how this person grew.”
Clocking the universe
Calculating the Hubble constant, and thus the expansion rate of the universe, based on the movements of stars requires two kinds of data: how far away a given star is, and how quickly it's receding from us.
To measure a star's relative velocity, astronomers look for shifts in the star's emitted light. To measure distance, astronomers use a variety of tools, from straightforward geometry to careful observations of stars called Cepheid variables. These stars brighten and dim regularly, and the rate of these pulses is closely related to the star's overall brightness: the brighter the star, the more slowly it pulsates.
In February 1997, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery took this picture of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) after separating from the orbiting telescope.
Photograph by NASA
Astronomers can use this relationship as a ruler. By measuring a Cepheid's pulse rate, astronomers can work out how luminous the star is, and by comparing that absolute brightness with the one we see, we can infer how far away the star is from us. Cepheids also can be combined with observations of certain kinds of stellar explosions to measure distances deeper and deeper into the cosmos.
Astronomers have worked for years to assemble this “cosmic distance ladder,” and they're constantly trying to calibrate it ever more finely. For this study, Riess's team used the Hubble Space Telescope to peer at 70 Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our Milky Way's irregularly shaped satellite galaxies. These new data let them more precisely estimate the distances between us and objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which in turn let them infer the Hubble constant with greater precision.
Balancing the books
If the universe really is expanding faster than thought, then some kind of new physics would have to provide the extra oomph. Is dark energy more exotic and turbo-charged than we thought? Is dark matter more complex than we imagined? Is there some other kind of unseen particle in the cosmos, such as a “sterile neutrino” that interacts with other types of matter only via gravity?
And if our cosmic checkbooks are truly off, we might want to call in an outside accountant—and one could be coming soon. In 2017, scientists detected gravitational waves, ripples in space-time itself, and light flung off by a colliding pair of neutron stars. The historic measurement allowed astronomers to derive an independent estimate of the Hubble constant. So far, that value slots right in between the Planck values and those derived from the cosmic distance ladder.
The effectiveness of using such events as “standard sirens” to measure the expansion of the universe, however, hinges on the number of neutron-star events that gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO pick up. So far, astronomers have confirmed only one—but on the morning of April 25, LIGO may have detected another. That said, pinpointing the waves' origins in the sky proved challenging, which is complicating follow-up measurements with telescopes.
Meanwhile Riess and astronomers around the world are working to make their measurements of the Hubble constant even more precise, in the hopes that even a small discrepancy could unlock a massive new clue to how the universe works.
“Even nine percent is a big deal, when you have an uncertainty of one or two percent,” says Riess. “We have some feeling that the universe is still teaching us.”
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Glenn Beck Dropped from New York Radio Station
WOR blames low ratings
By Sara Dover
Published Jan 5, 2011 at 11:36 AM | Updated at 11:45 AM EST on Jan 5, 2011
Glenn Beck was dropped from his gig on a New York radio station due to poor ratings.
The conservative pundit's syndicated show on WOR (710 AM) will be replaced by another right-wing commentator, Mike Gallagher, on Jan. 17, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.
"The reason is ratings," WOR program director Scott Lakefield told the Daily News. "Somewhat to our surprise, the show wasn't getting what we wanted."
He said he hopes Gallagher will add more of a local angle to the program.
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Beck, a nationally famous TV personality and Tea Party favorite, is also known for his weekday show on Fox News and his impassioned and activist approach to political commentary. The "Restoring Honor" rally he lead in August attracted thousands to Washington D.C. and sparked protest rallies.
On a national scale, Beck's ratings are much stronger, although he suffered a 6.5% loss of viewership on his television show last year, according to Nielsen ratings via Politico. Talkers magazine rated him the No. 3 talk show host in radio for their "Heavy Hundred" list, after Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
"We are very proud of Glenn Beck's performance in New York," Chris Balfe, who runs the talkmeister's media company, told Politico in a statement.
Gallagher has been a long-time host of WABC (770 AM) before moving to national syndication several years ago. He told the Daily News he looks forward to increasing "ratings and revenue" on the radio show.
The shift will move WOR morning host John Gambling's show to 6-10 am, and Gallaghers show will begin at 10am.
Selected Reading: New York Daily News, Politico, Newser
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Title: Serious Crime, News Coverage, and Ideology - A Content Analysis of Crime Coverage in a Metropolitan Paper
Journal: Crime and Delinquency Volume:27 Issue:2 Dated:(April 1981) Pages:191-205
Author(s): D Humphries
Type: Report (Study/Research)
Annotation: This exploratory study of the coverage of serious crime by the 'New York Post' is based on 126 routine crime stories taken from newspapers published in 1951 and 1968.
Abstract: The 'Post' was selected because its coverage of crime was judged to be a reasonable representation of the way other metropolitan papers throughout the United States presented crime news during the same period. Crime stories published during the McCarthy era and during the political turmoil of the 1960's were compared to answer two questions: (1) How does the news reflect the phenomenon of crime? and (2) What changes, if any, occurred in the content of postwar crime coverage? For each of the 126 stories (48 from the 1951 issues and 78 from the 1968 issues), indepth content analysis was performed, including collection of 'crime-related facts' such as the offense, its location, seriousness, and effects. In addition, the stories were regrouped according to four types of offense: serious crime, conflict crime, municipal corruption, and petty crime. Offender and victim 'facts' included data on race, sex, age, and employment. The analysis examined the relationships between crime facts and demographic data, as well as language and qualitative modes of explanation. Study findings revealed that approximately 45 percent of the routine stories in both samples were devoted to serious crime, and over two-thirds of the serious crime described in these stories took place in New York City. Although these features remained stable, other characteristics shifted between 1951 and 1968. Homicide accounted for 66 percent of the stories on serious crime in 1968, but for only 23 percent in 1951. Death, as a reported effect of the crime covered, occurred in 66 percent of the 1968 stories on serious crime, but in only 27 percent of the 1951 stories. In both years, reporters frequently described offenders in terms of age, gender, racial membership, and employment status, and used these descriptions to situate individuals within the social world. Often, the mode of explanation used implied that male youths, nonwhites, and under- or unemployed persons were members of illegitimate social categories. These descriptions, however, included no information that would place violence and serious offenders in the structural or historical context of the postwar period. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings for an understanding of the ideological content of crime news. A total of 50 footnotes are provided. (Author abstract modified)
Index Term(s): Media coverage; New York; Offenders; Public Attitudes/Opinion; Public information; Urban area studies; Violent crimes
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El Camino Real Historic Trail Site
This site, located 35 miles south of Socorro, charts the journey and significance of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (the Royal Road to the Interior Land). The historic trade route traversed the same landscape on which the state-owned museum is situated, on the path of the very trail it interprets.
Originally extending from Mexico City to Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo), the 1,500-mile trail was followed into New Mexico by Spanish explorer Juan de Oñate, who in 1598 claimed New Mexico as a colony of Spain. The riverside route tracked a course of ancient and established Indian trails. For the next 300 years, it was the primary route into New Mexico for Spanish friars, colonists and military officials as well as other adventurous settlers.
Linking the cultures of Spain, Mexico and the United States, El Camino Real was the foundation for a vibrant history of travel, trade and commerce in the region. Today, El Camino Real Historic Trail Site honors that history in an award-winning building boasting a stylized ship design. Artist Greg Reiche’s monumental sculpture, Camino de Sueños (Road of Dreams), greets motorists approaching the site.
The museum’s exhibitions highlight first-person stories and artifacts that illuminate the journeys of Native Americans, Spaniards, Mexicans, Anglo-Americans and others. Hand-hewn carts, tools, leather water jugs, and religious altars and objects provide visitors with an educational and inspiring experience of the trail.
While the State of New Mexico provides funding to operate the site, private contributions through the Museum of New Mexico Foundation are critical in creating exhibitions and programs.
To learn how to support this historic site click here
County Road #1598
San Antonio, NM 87832
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Amazon music streaming service arrives today
by Daniel Gumble
October 12th 2016 at 8:26AM
After months of speculation, Amazon has today announced a full-fledged music streaming service, offering subscriptions as low as $3.99 per month for owners of its Amazon Echo speaker.
Designed to go head-to-head with the likes of Spotify and Apple Music in the streaming market, Amazon Music Unlimited, the service lets offers access a vast bank of songs on demand, yet, unlike its competitors, offers a far more flexible pricing model compared the $9.99 per month industry standard.
Subscribers to the service on the firm’s Echo speakers will only be charged $3.99 per month; while the cost for Amazon Prime subscribers is $7.99 per month.
Those who subscribe to neither of those services will be charged – you guessed it - $9.99 per month.
Aside from a more flexible pricing model, Amazon Music Unlimited will also differentiate itself in the mark with a new feature called Alexa, which is essentially Amazon's own version of Apple's Siri. This will allow users to control the service and select songs via voice recognition technology.
The service is available in the US from today and will be launching in the UK an other parts of Europe later this year.
“Amazon Music Unlimited brings real value to the millions of people who are already Prime members, with a choice of subscribing for only $7.99 a month or even $79 per year," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "Plus, customers are going to love Amazon Music’s all-new app for iOS, Android and desktop. And if you want a sense of the future of voice-controlled music, go ahead and ask Alexa for a free Music Unlimited trial, and play around on your Echo. If you don’t know the name of a song but know a few lyrics, if you want to hear songs from a specific decade, or even if you’re looking for music to match your mood, just ask.”
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MA responds to Sri Lankan Flooding
Heavy rainfall in May 2016 left much of the Columbo and Kegalle districts in Sri Lanka with serious damage to infrastructure and affecting livelihoods.
Flooding and landslides has resulted in more than 200,000 people to leave their homes and seek shelter in relief camps.
Almost 1,800 homes have been damaged and over 47,000 families affected and in the western province, a further 178,000 people.
In response, Muslim Aid Sri Lanka are delivering an emergency flood relief project to support families get back on their feet. The project started in June and will end in July and has already seen the distribution of essential items such as health and hygiene kits, food and school kits which have been given to selected beneficiaries – specifically vulnerable groups such as the poor, widows, orphans and the disabled. Around 21,935 people are expected to benefit from the two month project.
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The Humours of Bandon
Brisbane Powerhouse
The Humours of Bandon is a heart-felt, funny, coming of age story playing at Brisbane Powerhouse for a limited run, from Thursday May 23 to Saturday May 25.
Presented by Fishamble, an award-winning, internationally acclaimed Irish theatre company, this warm and witty play is a must-see for anyone who had a childhood passion that threatened to overwhelm their life.
Meet Annie, a 16 year old Irish Dancer from Dublin, who takes us through the various successes and disappointments of her Irish Dancing life, on the eve of the Irish Open championship. We share her mind-numbing commitment and burning desire to win the Irish Open title. Will she win and, if so, in what way?
From the confines of every parochial hall in Ireland, Irish Dancing champions are churned out at a massive rate. Medals and cups build up in drawing rooms and Riverdance swells a national pride, but the public aren’t privy to the blood, sweat and tears that pave the way to the first place podium.
Written and performed by Margaret McAuliffe, a former competitive Irish Dancer, Humours of Bandon is a fascinating Irish dance show/coming of age tale that everyone can relate to.
Brisbane Powerhouse is a valued partner of Must Do Brisbane.com
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‘I’ve Made up my Mind’ – Hazard Opens up on Chelsea Future
May 13, 2019 emmanuelSportsNo Comment on ‘I’ve Made up my Mind’ – Hazard Opens up on Chelsea Future
Eden Hazard has told Chelsea he has made his mind up over his future but has yet to publicly announce if he will stay at Stamford Bridge after persistent speculation linking him with a move to Real Madrid.
The Belgium playmaker has just a year left on his contract after joining the Premier League club from Lille for £32 million ($42 million) in 2012.
And after a substitute outing in Sunday’s 0-0 draw at Leicester, the 28-year-old revealed he had made the club aware of his decision.
“Yes. A couple of weeks ago. Yes I have made my decision but it is not just about me,” said Hazard, who blew kisses to the travelling fans, who called for him to stay.
“I have made my decision, that’s it.”
When asked if his future will become clear after the Europa League final against Arsenal on May 29 he added: “I think so. We have a final to play and then I will see.”
Hazard also admitted he had wanted his future resolved earlier to avoid it being the season-long saga it has become.
“Yes, I wanted that but that’s not happened. I’m still waiting like you are waiting and like the fans are waiting,” he said.
“When you are on the pitch, you try to be focused on the pitch with the ball. That’s it. When I am on the pitch I just try to do the best.
“I am not thinking about this and this, my situation or the club’s situation. I just try to win games.”
The Blues are understood to be holding out for £100 million for their prized asset.
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Orthopedic Physicians Alaska
Jeff Moore, MD
Dr. Jeffrey Moore is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who focuses on sports medicine. He has treated collegiate and many other athletes in Alaska for decades. He brings extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of sports injuries, including shoulder and knee arthroscopic surgeries and adult reconstructive procedures such as shoulder, hip and knee replacements.
Dr. Moore earned his undergraduate degree at the United States Air Force Academy, where he was recognized as a distinguished graduate. He completed his medical degree at the University of Southern California and his residency at the University of Nebraska/Creighton University School of Medicine.
After his residency, he entered the Air Force and served as Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at both Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada and later at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage. He then entered private practice in Nebraska where he served as head team physician for Hastings College.
In 2001, Dr. Moore returned to Anchorage in private practice and later teamed up with fellow orthopedic sports medicine surgeon Dr. Eli Powell to form Alaska Orthopedic Surgery & Sports Medicine, which merged with OPA in 2014.
Today Dr. Moore continues his sports medicine practice serving patients at OPA offices in Anchorage and Eagle River. He also serves as the head team physician for various sports teams, including the Alaska Aces professional hockey team (since 2002), University of Alaska Anchorage basketball, cross country, track & field, gymnastics and skiing teams, ad well as UAA's Great Alaska Shootout (Since 2004). He also helps local high schools, including Chugiak H.S., with their sports medicine coverage.
Dr. Moores' current leadership roles include serving as the Alaska delegate for the National Council of American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM). He is also past president of medical staff at Alaska Regional Hospital.
Dr. Moore and his wife Becky have three boys. The family enjoys an active lifestyle including skiing, hiking, camping, fishing and boating.
University of Nebraska/Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE
Undergraduate Degree, Distinguished Graduate, United States Air Force Academy
American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), National Council of Delegates Alaska State Medical Association, Member
American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Fellow
Anchorage Orthopedic Society, Member
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Brian Gutekunst an 'outstanding hire' as Packers' new GM
Brian Gutekunst has been named Green Bay Packers' GM, succeeding Ted Thompson.
Brian Gutekunst an 'outstanding hire' as Packers' new GM Brian Gutekunst has been named Green Bay Packers' GM, succeeding Ted Thompson. Check out this story on packersnews.com: http://pck.rs/2m5186t
Ryan Wood, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 12:49 p.m. CT Jan. 7, 2018 | Updated 10:28 a.m. CT Jan. 8, 2018
Aaron Nagler speaks with Michael Cohen about some of the challenges facing the Packers new general manager and what he should prioritize. USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Packers director of player personnel Brian Gutekunst (center).(Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
GREEN BAY - Central in the Green Bay Packers' search for a new general manager was whether the franchise would continue Hall of Famer Ron Wolf’s scouting lineage, or break into a new direction for the first time in three decades.
Team president/CEO Mark Murphy ultimately decided to stick with what has proven to work in Green Bay, though the Wolf disciple tabbed to run the Packers' personnel department isn’t the candidate who bears his last name.
Brian Gutekunst, a longtime scout originally hired by Wolf, will replace Ted Thompson as the team’s next general manager, sources confirmed Sunday. The team is expected to announce Gutekunst as their next general manager Monday.
Gutekunst was chosen over fellow in-house candidates Russ Ball and Eliot Wolf, the son of Ron Wolf. Murphy also interviewed former Buffalo Bills general manager Doug Whaley, ensuring the Packers would comply with the league’s Rooney Rule requiring one minority candidate be considered, a league source confirmed.
A league source said Gutekunst, 44, was en route Sunday afternoon to Green Bay from Houston, where he was scheduled to interview for the Texans general manager vacancy. Murphy made sure his top target didn’t get away, reaching agreement on a five-year contract, according to reports.
New Green Bay Packers GM Brian Gutekunst. (Photo: Green Bay Packers)
One person likely happy with Murphy’s decision will be coach Mike McCarthy. A source said the two have a strong relationship, and believed Gutekunst was the candidate McCarthy referenced when he spoke of needing the right fit with his next general manager.
“The head coach is probably pushing Gutekunst,” a league source said late last week before the search concluded.
Gutekunst was targeted for the Texans' general manager vacancy by consultant Jed Hughes of Korn Ferry, a headhunting firm that also assisted Murphy. A league source indicated Gutekunst was a primary target for the Texans' job.
It wasn’t the first time another organization was interested in hiring Gutekunst for their GM opening. In the past year, Gutekunst interviewed with the Bills and San Francisco 49ers for GM jobs, and was thought to be a leading contender in San Francisco before withdrawing his name from consideration.
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Eliot Wolf, too, has been a trendy GM candidate across the league. He interviewed with the 49ers and Indianapolis Colts for their openings last offseason, and the Packers blocked him from interviewing with the Detroit Lions for their GM job one year earlier.
According to a source, Gutekunst and Murphy want Wolf to stay with the Packers, but they might have a difficult time convincing him, given Wolf’s options elsewhere. An obvious possibility would be reuniting with Cleveland Browns general manager John Dorsey, who worked with Wolf in Green Bay. It’s unclear whether the Packers would let Wolf out of his contract, as they did with longtime senior personnel executive Alonzo Highsmith, who joined Dorsey’s staff in Cleveland last week.
They have previously blocked Wolf’s attempts to join other teams, but Murphy left open the possibility last week when asked if in-house candidates who did not get the Packers job would be allowed to leave for parallel positions.
“If it’s a great opportunity for somebody,” Murphy said, “I don’t want to hold them back.”
Ball was a serious contender for the job, but tabbing him as GM would have departed from the Packers’ long-held approach of placing a football scout in the franchise’s top personnel role. The Packers reserve their GM role as the top voice on all football matters within the organization, including video, training, equipment and, of course, player personnel.
As the Packers' vice president of football administration/player finance, Ball’s most influential responsibility was negotiating player contracts, but his tentacles stretch throughout the organization. Ball’s daily supervision includes video, training, equipment, player development, family programs and public relations, but he has limited scouting experience.
By choosing Gutekunst, Murphy ensured the team’s next GM will be someone with deep history as a talent evaluator.
“I think it’s very important,” Ron Wolf told PackersNews.com on Sunday. “They had two losing seasons up there in 25 years. So that seems to be the way to go, and that’s the way they went. I think that’s really, really important. I think it’s the test of time, and time has proven that works well. If you look at the time before I got up there, in 24 years they had 24 years of mediocrity.
“Now, they’ve had 25 years of pretty good football. Two losing seasons in 25 years, but it’s been one way. It’s been run by football people. So I think it’s important that they continue to do that.”
Since Ron Wolf became the Packers general manager in 1991, each of the past two men to hold that title either received his recommendation (Mike Sherman) or first started working for the Packers under him (Thompson). Naturally, Ron Wolf would have preferred to see his son promoted, but Gutekunst will be the sixth scout he hired for the Packers to go on to become a general manager in the league.
Murphy was denied permission to interview two Wolf disciples who became general managers elsewhere: John Schneider of the Seatle Seahawks and Reggie McKenzie of the Oakland Raiders.
Gutekunst, a scouting intern with the Packers in 1997, originally was hired full time with the team as a college scout in 1998. He primarily scouted the East Coast in his first two years before transitioning to the Southeast, a plum job because of the fertile Southeastern Conference.
After 13 years as an area scout, Gutekunst was promoted to director of college scouting in 2012. On March 21, 2016, he was promoted to director of player personnel. In that role, Gutekunst was one of Thompson’s top lieutenants. He has been involved in most player-acquisition decisions.
Bob Harlan, who preceded Murphy as team president, spent almost a decade overseeing the Packers while Gutekunst was an area scout. In the years following his retirement, Harlan said he liked to sit with scouts during the game. Though no particular memory resonates, Harlan said Gutekunst reminded him of Ron Wolf.
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“He’s a low-key, intense person,” Harlan said. “Very talented. Very thorough in his evaluations. And the thing that got to me most of all was Ron Wolf had great faith in him. I thought that was a great compliment to him.
“He’s got a little bit of Ron Wolf in him as far as that intensity and great work ethic. I just think he’s a wonderful choice.”
Gutekunst joins a lineage already consisting of Thompson, Schneider, Dorsey, McKenzie and former San Francisco and Washington general manager Scot McCloughan. From that group, Schneider, Dorsey and McKenzie each worked under Thompson.
As with others, Gutekunst isn’t expected to be a carbon copy of Thompson, who will become the senior adviser to football operations. A league familiar with Gutekunst said he likely will be more aggressive in free agency.
“I’d be surprised if he isn’t,” the source said.
Gutekunst was born July 19, 1973 in Raleigh, N.C., where his father John was starting his coaching career as an assistant at Duke. John Gutekunst went on to become head coach at the University of Minnesota from 1985-91, compiling a 29-37-2 record.
Brian Gutekunst played two seasons of college football at Wisconsin-La Crosse. A shoulder injury ended his career, but he remained involved in the game. Gutekunst served as an assistant coach with the team in 1995-96. He was a linebackers coach during the team’s 1995 Division III national-championship season.
Gutekunst’s first NFL experience came in the summer of 1995. During training camp, he assisted the New Orleans Saints’ coaching staff with the offensive line.
In 1998, Gutekunst became a scouting assistant for the Kansas City Chiefs. Gutekunst’s time with the Chiefs overlapped with McCarthy's in his role that season as the Chiefs' quarterbacks coach.
After one year with the Chiefs, Gutekunst returned to the Packers and has worked in their personnel department for the past 19 years. His 20th season will be unlike any other. For the first time, Gutekunst will get the opportunity to make the final decisions.
“Outstanding hire,” Harlan said. “Brian is part of the Ron Wolf tree, and everybody Ron brought in was so outstanding. Brian has risen through the ranks, and certainly has earned his promotion. I couldn’t be happier for him.”
Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contributed to this report.
Aaron Nagler speaks with Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette to get his takeaways from Mike McCarthy's season-ending press conference. (Jan. 4, 2018) USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Graham must make his impact in the red zone
Buzz: Defense 'should be' better than offense
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David comes to Palm Springs Celebrity Tours with a wealth of knowledge, experience, desire, commitment, drive, and integrity. “I first met David (Tim Bannister, owner Celebrity Tours) through phone conversations while he was Director of the Indio Performing Arts Center. He was easy to talk to, and from the first conversation I knew he was a man committed to the betterment of the community”
After taking an early retirement from a senior management position directing social care in London, Clinton-Reid moved with his wife, Esther, to Palm Springs. She had adult children from a previous marriage living in Los Angeles County, and they wanted to be a closer to them. That’s when Clinton-Reid found himself becoming progressively more involved in desert arts scene.
“Having arrived in the U.S., my goal was not to manage resources again,” said Clinton-Reid, who was born in the Republic of Ireland to parents heavily involved in theatre. “I needed something part-time in order to be stimulated. Coming from a theater background, I took a seasonal job promoting the Palm Springs Follies. This was great fun, and I was proud to be part of a quintessentially American organization.”
While at the Follies, Clinton-Reid was approached by the management and board of the Indio Performing Arts Center to promote their organization.
“It presented new challenges, and as it was a nonprofit with a strong connection to the community, I accepted,” he said. “That was early fall 2008 when the economy crashed. It became a very difficult time for the theater, and the future looked uncertain.”
In early 2009, the board of directors for IPAC decided on major changes to its organizational structure. Clinton-Reid was asked to take over the management.
“My experience of managing resources was very much in need,” he said. “Together with colleagues and board support, we were able to keep the doors open and provide quality entertainment for our culturally diverse community. I effectively worked voluntarily to ensure that the operational needs of the theater could be met.”
Clinton-Reid spent his childhood between Ireland and England. With his parents traveling extensively, he spent most of his youth in what he calls “an ancient boarding school in Gloucestershire.” He attended high school in London before moving on to York University, also attending college in Rome and at Westminster University in London, receiving a Master’s degree in public administration with qualifications in social work and psychotherapy.
David has a wealth of experience and brings this experience to the team at Celebrity Tours.
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The Minister for Industry and Trade (The Hon. P. Holloway), by leave, without notice, moved - That the sitting of the Council be not suspended during the continuation of the Conference on the Statutes Amendment and Repeal (Aggravated Offences) Bill.
and Repeal
(Aggravated
Offences) Bill.
Problem Gambling Family Protection Orders Act 2004 - Report on the Operation and Effectiveness of the Act, 2004-2005.
The Minister for Industry and Trade tabled a copy of a Ministerial Statement made by the Deputy Premier (The Hon. K. O. Foley, M.P.) concerning the Wheeler Report into Airport Security.
The Council, according to order, resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole for the further consideration of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company’s Steel Works Indenture (Environmental Authorisation) Amendment Bill.
The Hon. S. M. Kanck moved on page 2, lines 5 to 8, to leave out the clause and insert new clause as follows:
“2—Commencement
This Act will come into operation on 31 December 2010.”.
Company’s Steel
Works Indenture
(Environmental
Authorisation)
The Hon. K. J. Reynolds
The Hon. S. M. Kanck (Teller)
The Hon. S. M. Kanck moved on page 5, lines 7 to 17, to leave out all words in these lines.
Question - That the amendment be agreed to - put
The Hon. S. M. Kanck moved on page 6, lines 1 to 9, to leave out subclauses (3) and (4) and insert new subclause as follows:
“(3) In this section—
the Minister means the Minister having the administration of the Environment Protection Act 1993.”.
The Hon. S. M. Kanck moved on page 11, after line 21, to insert the following:
“4A. The Licensee must take all reasonable and practicable steps to ensure that the Australian Health Standard National Environment Protection Measure for Particulate Matter (PM10) is not exceeded more than five times per annum as recorded at the Whyalla Town Primary School monitoring site.”.
“5.3 The Licensee must, within seven days after the end of each calendar month, forward the data received from the above monitoring equipment during that month to the Authority.
5.4 The Licensee must present all data received from the above monitoring equipment, as soon as possible after its receipt, on an electronic register and maintain the data on the register so that it is accessible by the public through the internet for a period of not less than ten years.”.
The Hon. S. M. Kanck moved on page 21, lines 17 to 29, to leave out all words in these lines.
The Minister for Industry and Trade, pursuant to contingent notice, moved - That the Standing Orders be so far suspended as to enable the Bill to pass through its remaining stages without delay.
The Minister for Industry and Trade then moved - That this Bill be now read a third time.
Question put.
The Council, according to order, resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole for the further reconsideration of the Development (Sustainable Development) Amendment Bill (No. 1).
The Hon. S. M. Kanck moved on page, 6, after line 19, to insert new clause as follows:
(Sustainable
Development)
Amendment Bill
(No. 1).
“54C—Protection of solar collectors
(1) A person must not—
(a) undertake development involving the construction of a building if the building would, when constructed, adversely affect the operation of an existing solar collector located on a building on adjacent land by reducing the access of direct sunlight to the solar collector; or
(b) permit a tree on land owned by the person to adversely affect the operation of an existing solar collector located on a building on adjacent land by reducing the access of direct sunlight to the solar collector.
(2) However—
(a) subsection (1)(a) does not apply if the development is to be undertaken pursuant to a development authorisation granted on the basis of an application made before the relevant solar collector (or an earlier solar collector that has since been replaced) was placed or installed on the building (and if the development involved 2 or more applications for 2 or more consents before the granting of a final development approval then the first application for consent will be the one taken into account for the purposes of this paragraph); and
(b) subsection (1)(b) does not apply if the relevant tree is a significant tree and a relevant authority has refused to grant a development approval in order to allow the tree to be removed or cut back; and
(c) subsection (1) does not apply—
(i) if the owner of the adjacent land consents to the construction of the building or to the size of the tree (as the case may be); or
(ii) in any other circumstances prescribed by the regulations.
(3) A person who is applying for a development authorisation in respect of the proposed construction of a building must declare—
(a) that the building would not, when constructed, be in breach of subsection (1)(a); or
(b) that the owner of adjacent land consents to the construction of the building under subsection (2)(c)(i); or
(c) that subsection (1) of this section does not apply on the basis of circumstances prescribed by regulation under sub-section (2)(c)(ii).
(4) A relevant authority may (without further inquiry) rely on a declaration under subsection (3) in connection with granting a development authorisation under this Act unless the relevant authority knows, or has reason to believe, that the declaration is false or misleading in a material particular.
(5) No fee is payable under section 39 in relation to an application made by a person in order to remove or cut back a part of a significant tree in order to comply with subsection (1)(b).
(6) For the purposes of this section, an adverse effect on a solar collector will be disregarded if it is trifling or insignificant.
solar collector means a device comprising 1 or more solar panels designed to provide power or to heat water (or both).”.
Question - That new clause No. 8A, as proposed to be inserted by the Hon. S. M. Kanck be so inserted - put and negatived.
Clauses No. 9 and No. 10 reconsidered and agreed to.
Clause No. 11 reconsidered.
The Hon. C. V. Schaefer moved on page 7, lines 14 to 18, to delete all words in these lines and insert the following:
“building assessment auditor means a person employed or engaged by the Minister's department, or by another administrative unit designated by the Minister by notice in the Gazette, who holds qualifications prescribed by the regulations and who has been authorised by the Minister to conduct audits under this section.”.
The Hon. C. V. Schaefer moved on page 7, after line 23, to insert the following:
“(2a) A fee determined by or under the regulations is payable by a council or private certifier in respect of the conduct of an audit under this section.”.
Clause No. 11 otherwise amended and agreed to.
Clause No. 12 reconsidered, amended and agreed to.
New clause No. 13A inserted.
Clause No. 14 reconsidered and agreed to.
The Hon. S. M. Kanck moved on page 13, after line 4, to insert new clause as follows:
“14B—Insertion of section 104A
After section 104 insert:
104A—Emergency protection—heritage
(1) If a council is of the opinion—
(a) that a place has sufficient local heritage value to justify its protection under this Act, or that a place should be evaluated in order to determine whether its heritage value justifies its protection under this Act; and
(b) that an order under this section is necessary to protect the place,
the council may make an order requiring a person to stop any work or activity, or prohibiting a person from starting any work or activity, that may destroy or reduce the heritage value of that place.
(2) An order under subsection (1) takes effect on service of notice of the order on the person and ceases to have effect 12 business days after that service unless confirmed by the Court under this section.
(3) If a council makes an order under subsection (1), the council must immediately apply to the Court for an order under this section.
(4) On application under subsection (3) the Court may—
(a) —
(i) confirm the council's order; or
(ii) make, in substitution for the council's order, any other order that the Court thinks necessary to protect the place; or
(iii) revoke the council's order; and
(b) make any consequential or ancillary order.
(5) The Court may, on subsequent application under this section, vary or revoke an order that has been made under this section.
(6) A council may, at any time, vary or revoke an order that the council has made under this section.
(7) A person who contravenes or fails to comply with an order under this section is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: Division 2 fine.”.
Question - That new clause No. 14B as proposed to be inserted by the Hon. S. M. Kanck, be so inserted - put.
The Minister for Industry and Trade, without notice, moved - That the Standing Orders be so far suspended as to enable the sitting of the Council to be extended beyond 6.30 p.m.
The Hon. S. M. Kanck moved on page, 13, after line 13, to insert new subclause as follows:
“(3) Section 108—after subsection (8) insert:
(9) A regulation cannot be made under item 9 of Schedule 1 unless the Minister has given the LGA and the Conservation Council of South Australia notice of the proposal to make a regulation under that item and given consideration to any submission made by either entity within a period (of between 3 and 6 weeks) specified by the Minister.”.
Schedule reconsidered and agreed to.
Title reconsidered and agreed to.
The President resumed the Chair, and reported that the Committee had reconsidered the Bill and had agreed to the same with further amendments; whereupon the Council adopted such report.
The Minister for Industry and Trade, by leave, tabled a copy of a Ministerial Statement made by the Minister for Health (The Hon. L. Stevens, M.P.) concerning an Investigation of a Person “holding out” to be a Nurse.
The following Messages from the House of Assembly were received and read -
MR. PRESIDENT - The House of Assembly has passed the Bill transmitted herewith entitled an Act to amend the Guardianship and Administration Act 1993, to which it desires the concurrence of the Legislative Council.
House of Assembly, 21 September 2005. R. B. SUCH, Speaker.
Guardianship and
MR. PRESIDENT - The House of Assembly has agreed to Amendments Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 made by the Legislative Council in the Parliamentary Committees (Public Works) Amendment Bill, without any amendment; and has disagreed to Amendments No. 3 and 6. The House of Assembly returns the Bill herewith and desires its reconsideration.
Ordered - That the Message be taken into consideration on next day of sitting.
(Public Works)
Ordered - That the Council, at its rising, do adjourn until Monday, 17 October 2005, at fifteen minutes past two o’clock.
Council adjourned at fifteen minutes to seven o’clock until Monday, 17 October 2005, at fifteen minutes past two o’clock.
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NWFA’s 2016 Wood Flooring Expo Grows by 10%
The National Wood Flooring Association’s (NWFA) Wood Flooring Expo has continued its growth trend for the fifth year in a row. The 2016 Expo, which took place last month in Charlotte, North Carolina, grew by 10%, with attendance exceeding last year’s historic level reached in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Expo was held April 27 – April 30 at the Charlotte Convention Center in downtown Charlotte. There were more than 20 hours of education in five tracks: Management, Marketing/Sales, Technical Skills, Design/Architecture, and Roundtables. The day-long Pre-Expo Symposium, which took place the day before Expo, provided three more tracks.
The trade show floor sold out in March. It included two demonstration theaters, one for exhibitors to showcase their products, and one for NWFA instructors to demonstrate technical skills. There were 14 more companies on the floor than in 2015 and 25 more than in 2014, with 55 first-time exhibitors this year. Five years after the NWFA overhauled the Expo, rebuilding the show and the show staff from the ground up, the growth continues.
“We are glad to see the upward trend is carrying forward, to see our members and Expo thriving together,” said Michael Martin, NWFA President & CEO. “That the show has grown considerably these past few years is remarkable. We want to keep the positive momentum going.”
The 2016 Expo theme, “Floor It,” focused on the fast-paced growth that the NWFA is experiencing through training, certifications, partnerships, and membership.
Photos are viewable and sharable through the NWFA Facebook page. Information about the 2017 Wood Flooring Expo, which will be held April 11 – 14 in Phoenix, AZ, is available at www.nwfaexpo.org.
The NWFA can be contacted at 800.422.4556 (USA & Canada), 636.519.9663 (local and international), or at www.nwfa.org.
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Archives|Blair Is Trying for New Spark Among Voters
Blair Is Trying for New Spark Among Voters
By ALAN COWELL MARCH 23, 2005
LONDON, March 18 - Prime Minister Tony Blair went on daytime television recently, seeking to lure voters back to his Labor Party for elections that are expected in early May. What he found, though, was that some Britons at least have begun to question his leadership, entertaining the once unthinkable prospect of life without him.
Marion Baxter, a nurse, asked him, point blank, if he would be prepared to clean patients' backsides for $9 an hour. On another issue, Maria Hutchings, a homemaker, advanced on him across the studio, proclaiming, "That's rubbish, Tony." Debra Kroll, a midwife, told him, "We asked you not to go to war," and demanded an apology for invading Iraq. (He did not give one.)
Buoyant and seemingly invincible, Mr. Blair swept to power in 1997 vowing to "rebrand" Britain. But lately, his star has fallen as he has thrashed through one political thicket after another, from the highly unpopular war in Iraq to nitty-gritty issues like the number of hospital beds for surgery and failing schools.
Few people here think that Mr. Blair and Labor are headed for defeat in the end. Indeed, after the death of Yasir Arafat and the successful election in Iraq, Mr. Blair, like President Bush, is hoping to capitalize on the stirrings of peace and transformation across the Middle East to rebuild his image.
But to set the groundwork for a successful third term and to forestall a challenge from his longtime Labor rival, Gordon Brown, Mr. Blair needs not just to win, but to win convincingly. And to accomplish that, he needs to woo back the growing numbers of voters who are no longer impressed with his performance.
In simplest terms, Mr. Blair and the British electorate just are not getting along the way they used to, a fact he acknowledged recently.
"All of a sudden," he told a Labor party conference in February, "there you are, the British people thinking, 'You're not listening.' And I think, 'You're not hearing me."'
"And before you know it, you raise your voice; I raise mine," he continued. "Some of you throw a bit of crockery. And now you the British people have to sit down and decide whether you want the relationship to continue."
Mr. Blair's marital metaphor was shrewdly chosen, reflecting his dwindling appeal to women -- once a mainstay of electoral support -- who seem to have developed the greatest resistance to his considerable charms.
The Labor Party's lead over the opposition Conservatives in the most recent survey by the MORI Institute dwindled to as low as 2 points in late February from up to 10 points last October. A majority of women, in one poll, said they mistrusted him.
Worse yet, after a series of parliamentary battles and political missteps by his advisers, the most basic of political calculations in Britain may be shifting away from the view that Labor is simply unassailable.
"No one expects to lose this election," the columnist Polly Toynbee wrote in the left-leaning Guardian, referring to Mr. Blair's Labor supporters, "but for the first time they can imagine it."
That showed just how far Mr. Blair has fallen, Icarus-like, from 1997, when he led his party in to power after 18 years in opposition. In 2001, he was re-elected in yet another landslide victory. But since then, the invasion of Iraq and growing disenchantment with Labor's inability to deliver on its lofty promises to overhaul the schools and national health service have opened a deep seam of disillusion and enduring questions about his leadership.
Undoubtedly, the war in Iraq has inflicted the deepest political wounds. Having based his foreign policy on a steadfast alliance with the United States, he shared Mr. Bush's publicly stated convictions about the need to disarm Saddam Hussein, insisting that Iraq had prohibited weapons that presented a "serious and current" threat. When those failed to turn up after the war, his credibility was widely questioned -- particularly by his own constituents, who largely opposed the war to begin with.
"It's fairly clear that a considerable number of people turned against the government because of the war, and a large proportion of them have remained hostile," said Anthony King, a professor of government at Essex University. Even before the war, he recalled, Mr. Blair's government had been "found guilty of spin and double-accounting."
At the same time, Labor's once-invincible electoral machine seems to have been weakened, if only temporarily, by internal feuding, particularly between Mr. Blair and Mr. Brown, just as the opposition Conservatives have begun to show an unusual self-confidence under their leader, Michael Howard.
"Michael Howard genuinely thinks he might win the next election," wrote Piers Morgan, a former Daily Mirror editor. "And what's even more extraordinary is that I am beginning to agree with him."
All that may simply be pre-election hyperbole, particularly since the Conservatives echoed Mr. Blair's support for the war. In Britain's constituency-based electoral system, the Conservatives would need a swing toward them of unheard-of proportions to prevail.
Mr. Blair may also be suffering from a familiar voter weariness afflicting politicians, like him, with two full terms under their belt and a third in prospect.
But there are signs, as Mr. Howard, the opposition leader, suggested the other day, that Labor is getting "rattled" by the upset in its fortunes and that Mr. Blair is looking to soften his image.
The prime minister has sought to sidestep the traditional media -- seen by his aides as unremittingly hostile -- in favor of a series of carefully aimed public appearances and interviews intended to reach potential voters outside the traditional political loop. Nowhere is that more evident than in his attempts to win back support among women voters.
On several occasions in recent weeks, he has gone on daytime television chat shows, where he has been exposed to the wrath of women enraged by his policies. The bluntness of their criticisms suggests that whatever deference Mr. Blair ever claimed has long fallen away.
His aides call it the masochism strategy, intended to draw out dissent long before polling day. His critics call it just plain masochism of a kind hard to imagine in the politics of most of Europe or the United States.
In a rock magazine, Mr. Blair acknowledged doing Mick Jagger imitations for a band called Ugly Rumors. His daytime television appearances also seem intended to show that he is not the aloof, presidential figure his critics depict him to be. "By soaking up the anger, he calculates he may drain it," the columnist Andrew Rawnsley wrote in the weekly Observer.
For Mr. Blair, the political challenges extend beyond the traditional effort against the Conservatives and the smaller Liberal Democratic Party to his longstanding rivalry with Mr. Brown, who many voters believe would make a more capable prime minister.
In a Daily Telegraph poll, 63 percent of voters said they viewed Mr. Brown as an asset for Labor, compared with only 34 percent for Mr. Blair. When asked who was doing the better job, more than half chose Mr. Brown, who as finance minister receives credit for a strong economy, while only 17 percent were for Mr. Blair.
Indeed, Mr. Blair is said to have promised Mr. Brown more than a decade ago that he would, at some stage, cede the premiership to him. But according to the most recent published accounts, he broke that promise last year and said he would serve a third term if he won the coming election.
The electoral calculation, thus, goes something like this: If Mr. Blair's majority of around 160 in the 659-seat House of Commons is significantly weakened by the vote on May 5, Mr. Brown's case for taking over during Labor's expected third term will be strengthened. If Mr. Blair secures another huge margin as he did in 1997 and 2001, then his authority will be cemented.
"The general expectation is a reduced Labor majority with a low turnout in the election," said Clare Short, a former Labor minister who broke with Mr. Blair over the Iraq war. "The question is how much will the majority be reduced."
A version of this article appears in print on March 23, 2005, on Page A00001 of the National edition with the headline: Blair Is Trying For New Spark Among Voters. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Isaac Berg – Content Manager / Editor, @Isaac_Berg_
Isaac Berg is a recent college graduate from Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania. Over the last four years he spent his time working with the Mercyhurst Men’s Division I Hockey Team as their Student Director of Hockey Operations.
Brandon Wright – Oshawa Generals Beat, @DCBrandonWright
Brandon is 20-years-old and has been an Oshawa Generals season ticket holder for 13 years. He is currently studying journalism-mass media at Durham College in Oshawa, Ont., and has a passion for writing and storytelling.
Raine Hernandez – Mississauga Steelheads Beat, @BringerOfRaine
Zach Scribner – Owen Sound Attack Beat, @z_scribner
Zach is a recent grad of Fanshawe’s Broadcast Journalism program where he won Sports Reporter of the Year. He’s a bit different than most Canadians, where you will find him at the Bayshore in Owen Sound on Saturday nights rather than watching Hockey Night in Canada like everyone else. He is also the media producer for thescout.ca.
Kennedy Player-Reid – Hamilton Bulldogs Beat, @kennedyreid_58
Kennedy grew up watching and playing hockey, and her passion grew with her. Raised in Hamilton, Ontario, she was surrounded by AHL and OHL hockey her entire life and was in the crowd to witness the Bulldogs 2018 OHL Championship. She is now attending Ryerson University’s Sport Media program and contributing Hamilton Bulldogs content for OHLNetwork
Johnathan Moran – Windsor Spitfires Beat, @JohnathanMoran_
Has been writing about hockey for the past five seasons and the Spitfires over the last year and a half. Has never looked back since moving to Windsor. Johnathan also does stats tracking and analytics for use in his writing.
Sam Hossack – Barrie Colts Beat, @samhossack4
My name Is Sam Hossack, I am currently 19 years old and run the Social Media / Game Night Promotions for the Orillia Terriers Junior C Hockey Club. I have been a fan of the Ontario Hockey League since the age of about 8 and have attended over 10 OHL Rinks for games over the last few seasons.
Kyle Outridge – OHL Unfiltered Host & Kitchener Rangers Beat, @Kyle_Outridge
Kyle played some puck throughout his days. He has a passion for hockey and he’s carried that passion with him into podcasting. He began podcasting by doing segments for the Leafs Convo on NHL Prospects before expanding to his own podcast Junior Hockey Talk. Kyle is always willing to talk hockey.
Aidan Battley – Ottawa 67’s Beat, @AidanBatt
Aidan is a current Communications and Media Studies student at Carleton University, who always had a passion for sports. Aidan is also a Para-ice Hockey player, former arena announcer and Hockey Canada licenced Coach.
Jason Koshinskie – Erie Otters Beat, @WhiteoutHockey
Jason is a writer and editor with 20 years of professional experience. He’s covered news, features, sports and business for newspapers, magazines and websites in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. A longtime hockey fan, he enjoys being a rec-league rink rat. Away from the rink, he is a coffee fiend and Spider-Man aficionado. He served as a sports information assistant and statistician at Gannon University for 15 years. He received a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from Gannon University. He lives in Erie, Pa.
Brandon Mills – Flint Firebirds Beat, @bdoggmills
Brandon is a native of Flint, Michigan. He has his MBA with combined credits from Michigan State University (Go Green!) and The Ohio State University. He has been the game day writer for the Flint Firebirds of the Ontario Hockey League since the beginning of the 2017-18 season. He joined Michigan Sports and Entertainment as a Detroit Red Wings writer during the 2018-19 season. His wife Taryn and five daughters share his love for the game of hockey and are often found at the rink in Flint. When he’s not at the rink or with family, he also works in new (Honda) and used car sales, security, and volunteers for his local high school’s band program.
Cody Wall – Windsor Spitfires Beat, @Codywall62
Hockey has always been a huge passion of mine going back as far as I can remember. Over the past few years I have had the opportunity to cover the Windsor Spitfires thanks to my program in college. Some the highlights in my young journalism career include interviewing Taylor Hall, building relationships with former and current Spitfire players and seeing the growth of young players such as Jean-Luc Foudy.
Matt Young – Contributor, @mattyoung71
Matt joins OHLNetwork after 4 years of co-hosting IceDogs This Week on YourTV and two years of co-hosting the OHL To The Point podcast. Matt has also written for Bullet News Niagara and Niagara This Week covering the IceDogs and the OHL as a whole. Matt lives in the Niagara region and is looking forward to providing his weekly thoughts on the OHL as part of the team at OHLNetwork.
Jesse Phillips – Co-founder & CTO, @jessephil
Jesse is passionate about hockey and grew up in Kamloops, BC cheering for the Blazers. He jumped ship and sported his Cougar’s jersey in seasons ticket seats in Prince George, BC for several years. But he is back in Kamloops and sharing his passion for the Blazers with his 2-year-old son. He played and reffed hockey for many years and is excited to bring together his love for the game and skills for web development.
Paul Figler – Co-founder & CEO, @Paul_Figler
Paul has been involved with hockey since he could put skates on his feet. The Western Hockey League became a passion for him when he moved to Red Deer in 2012. DUBNetwork is one of many passion projects Paul has, he’s currently working on his degree in Business Management.
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Russell Dickerson finds bliss with the song 'Yours'
By Emily Yahr The Washington Post
It's easy to lose track of the days when you're a country singer who spends most of your time on the road, but Russell Dickerson always knows when it's Saturday - his Instagram and Twitter notifications inevitably start blowing up as his debut single and biggest hit, "Yours," starts playing at weddings nationwide for a happy couple's first dance.
"I get chills just thinking about it," Dickerson, 32, said during a recent interview in Nashville. "It's such a common thing now. Wedding season is in full swing, and I'm excited to look every Saturday: 'Who's getting married today?!' "
In 2016, the Knot named "Yours" (which he co-wrote with Parker Welling and Casey Brown) one of the hottest wedding songs of the year. The success of the love-struck ballad, inspired by Dickerson's relationship with his wife, Kailey, helped make him a breakout star - which is still somewhat surreal to him, as he spent years being turned down by Nashville labels.
When he signed a record deal in late 2016, it became a near-constant grind, especially as he embarked on a radio tour during the week and then opened for other artists on the weekends. He guesses that in 2017, he was home for "about 40 days."
"My body was so exhausted, but my spirit was so alive because my dreams were coming true," Dickerson said. "Like, so many years of just no one caring, and then, holy crap, these radio stations playing my song, I finally got signed, I have a whole radio team working to get the entire world to hear this song. And so my spirit - that's just what kept me going."
These days, the schedule has become a bit easier. His radio tour paid off big time, as "Yours" and sophomore single "Blue Tacoma" both hit No. 1. His third single, "Every Little Thing," is currently in the mid-20s on the airplay charts. Between dates opening for Thomas Rhett this summer, he's headed back in the studio in July to record his second album.
Dickerson was always well-versed in the ups and downs of a country music career; he grew up in Nashville and attended Belmont University, a popular choice for aspiring singer-songwriters. He met two guys a couple years ahead of him in school named Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley. The three of them would write songs together, even before Hubbard and Kelley decided to become Florida Georgia Line. FGL's smash"Cruise" launched their career in 2012, and now, Dickerson is especially grateful to have close friends who know how the industry works.
"We've all spent less time together, but this whole journey has definitely brought us closer. Because you just get it," he said. "As much as you want to tell your best friends from college what you're going through, no one understands it like someone who's been right there doing the same thing you are."
Dickerson wrote songs and played venues around town while trying to get a record deal, he also self-released his music online. In July 2015, he posted a music video for "Yours," directed by Kailey, on YouTube. The song took off on Spotify (it currently has more than 150 million streams) and eventually was noticed by SiriusXM's "The Highway."
The next year, Dickerson was the first singer signed to Triple Tigers, an independent record label. It wound up being an ideal home, as the staff had lots of time to devote to pushing his single to radio; the label has since signed two more acts, Scotty McCreery and Gone West, a new country quartet with Colbie Caillat.
While Dickerson admits he felt a bit of pressure as the flagship artist, he tried to "turn that pressure into excitement - just to prove everybody wrong who turned me down for seven years," he joked.
"I'm never one to be like, 'Ha ha, told you so,' " he said, adding that executives from labels that rejected him are "super kind" and "very congratulatory" about his recent success. "They weren't in a place to sign me then. And it's all good. I found my people."
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Pennsylvania college to no longer allow frats, sororities
SWARTHMORE, Pa. (AP) — Fraternities and sororities will no longer be allowed at Swarthmore College following outrage over years-old documents allegedly written by one fraternity there that contains derogatory comments about women and the LGBTQ community and jokes about sexual assault.
School President Valerie Smith made the announcement Friday in a letter posted on the college's website. Smith says the school's lone sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, can continue with its current members through the spring 2022 semester but can't recruit or initiate new members.
Swarthmore's decision comes about a week after the only two fraternities at the private liberal arts college in suburban Philadelphia decided to disband following the internal documents' release.
"The voluntary disbanding of Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon reflects a broader change in student needs and desires. Exclusive, dues-paying social organizations no longer effectively meet the needs of our residential liberal arts environment," Smith wrote in her statement.
In mid-April, two campus publications released the Phi Psi documents from 2012 to 2016 they said were anonymously leaked. In the wake of the documents' release, dozens of students occupied the Phi Psi house and called for both fraternities to be shut down and the buildings put to other uses.
The authenticity of the documents has not been verified.
Swarthmore had suspended fraternity activity while it investigated. The sorority wasn't affected during that time.
Both fraternity houses are on campus and owned by the college. The Phi Psi house was primarily used for parties and other social activities. The college has said both fraternities had decided to relinquish their houses, and Smith said in her statement that long-term plans for the use of the properties are still to be decided.
An email to Kappa Alpha Theta's national office seeing comment was sent.
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The fact that Republicans aren’t rejecting the idea out of hand is a shift. | POLITICO Staff
The 37 percent solution?
By JAKE SHERMAN and STEVEN SLOAN
Boehner’s $800 billion offer earlier this week was, lawmakers and aides say, a step in the right direction. It was a tax hike on the wealthy, not through higher rates but, rather, elimination and curbing of deductions. It wasn’t enough for Obama, who wants to resolve the impasse over the fiscal cliff by hiking tax rates on the rich. Boehner and his negotiating team have taken a firm position against tax rate increases.
Obama and Boehner talked Wednesday for the first time in more than a week.
Major corporations, visiting Washington this week, were discouraged that a deal would come together after Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) visited the Business Roundtable on Tuesday night. He said the movement over the next 72 hours would determine whether Washington would come to a deal. McCarthy’s message to the CEOs: This is Obama’s responsibility. When pressed by a CEO of a major corporation whether the debt ceiling will be added into the deal, McCarthy said it is unlikely.
Of course, the degree of changes to entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is another huge gap between the White House and congressional Republicans. Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) — along with the rest of House GOP leadership — sent a letter to Obama this week describing a $2.2 trillion plan but did not delve into specifics on entitlement changes. Senior congressional aides said their team is looking to push back the eligibility age for Medicare and limit the program for the wealthy.
Asked about the prospect of splitting the difference with Obama and setting the top rate at 37 percent, McCarthy said, “You don’t debate it in the press.”
But lawmakers from across the spectrum seem willing to consider a slightly higher marginal rate in exchange for changes to entitlement and steep spending cuts. It’s precisely what the White House was banking on: that Boehner will see divisions in his ranks.
“There’s got to be entitlement reform for me to look at something like that,” said conservative California Rep. John Campbell.
He added, “Entitlement reform better start in less than a year, and there are ways to do that.”
Several House Republican freshmen, who were swept in on a no tax, cut spending promise, say they are willing to consider a slight tax increase.
“I came here to do something,” said Rep. Thomas Reed, a New York Republican on the Ways and Means Committee. “If we have to consider something that is counter to one of my fundamental positions — increasing taxes is bad — but if we have to do it to get people to find common ground, I’m willing to do that, because I’m practical in my outlook. But you have to solve the problem.”
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Says HIV and AIDS rates have spiked "due to increased heroin and fentanyl use."
— Edward Markey on Thursday, October 26th, 2017 in a statement
No data to support claim that HIV/AIDS has spiked due to fentanyl and heroin use
By Miriam Valverde on Tuesday, October 31st, 2017 at 5:34 p.m.
President Donald Trump pledged to fight the opioid crisis in an address Oct. 26, 2017.
Democratic Sen. Edward J. Markey said that the Trump administration’s plan to use funds from HIV and AIDS programs to fight the opioid addiction crisis is unsound. Specifically, the Massachusetts senator said that increased opioid abuse has led to an increase in HIV and AIDS.
The administration’s Oct. 26 declaration of the opioid epidemic as a national public health emergency allows flexibility in the use of resources in HIV and AIDS programs to allow people eligible for those programs to get substance abuse treatment.
"The administration’s proposal to reallocate funding from HIV/AIDS programs to the opioid crisis is robbing Peter to pay Paul, especially as HIV and AIDS rates spike due to increased heroin and fentanyl use," Markey said in an Oct. 26 statement.
We wanted to know if increased use of heroin and fentanyl have led to increased rates of HIV and AIDS. We found some truth to Markey’s claim but not enough national data to fully back it.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told us it does not have data specific to heroin and fentanyl, and estimates that HIV and AIDs diagnoses have declined in recent years among people who inject drugs. Still, there are risks associated with opioid injections and HIV transmissions, as was the case in an Indiana county.
U.S. opioid epidemic, transmitted diseases
More than 64,000 people died in 2016 from drug overdoses, the majority linked to opioids, which include the synthetic opioid fentanyl and the illicit drug heroin, according to the CDC.
Increased availability, a relatively low price and the high purity of heroin in the United States are driving increased use of heroin, the CDC said. Fentanyl use, including illicitly-made fentanyl, has also increased in recent years.
People who inject drugs are at risk for infectious diseases that can be transmitted through used needles and syringes.
Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is most commonly acquired or transmitted through sexual behaviors and needle or syringe use. If not treated, HIV can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS.
The CDC’s HIV Surveillance Report, 2015, noted that HIV and AIDS diagnoses tied to injection drug use declined from 2010 to 2015. The report did not specify diagnoses by types of drugs injected.
From 2008 to 2014, estimated annual HIV infections among people who inject drugs declined 56 percent (from 3,900 to 1,700), according to February 2017 data from the CDC. That report did not include AIDS data.
HIV outbreak in southeastern Indiana
Experts we reached said they were not aware of reports showing a national spike in HIV and AIDS among injection drug users, but noted that data collection and reporting tends to lag.
"It is very possible that increased HIV transmission due to fentanyl and/or heroin use is occurring" but have not yet been identified through HIV testing and screening or have not yet been reported to CDC, said Brandon Marshall, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health.
When we contacted Markey’s office, they highlighted reports about HIV spikes in Scott County.
Scott County historically had fewer than five cases of HIV infection reported annually, CDC reported. By April 21, 2015, Indiana officials had diagnosed HIV in 135 people in a small community within Scott County.
Most of them reported injection drug use with oxymorphone as their drug of choice, said CDC’s May 2015 report, adding that some reported injecting heroin.
Since early 2015, at least 191 people had tested positive for HIV in Scott County, the Indiana State Department of Health said in April 2016.
"The outbreak in Scott County turned a floodlight on the intertwined nature of opioid use, HIV, and (hepatitis C virus) … It’s possible that the opioid epidemic could already be having a similar impact in other communities," said a June blog post by Richard Wolitski, director of the office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
A CDC analysis published November 2016 found that at least 220 counties in 26 states are "potentially vulnerable" to HIV and hepatitis C infections among persons who inject drugs "in the context of the national opioid epidemic."
Markey said, HIV and AIDS rates have spiked "due to increased heroin and fentanyl use."
There are risks for HIV transmission among people who share needles and syringes to inject opioids. An Indiana county recently had an HIV outbreak linked to the injection of opioids, including heroin. At least 220 U.S. counties may be at risk of similar outbreaks.
But the CDC said it does not have national data addressing Markey’s heroin and fentanyl claim, and estimates that HIV and AIDs diagnoses have declined in recent years among people who inject drugs.
Markey’s statement contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it Mostly False.
Edward J. Markey
https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markey-on-trump-opioid-announcement-a-vision-without-funding-is-an-hallucination
in a statement
Published: Tuesday, October 31st, 2017 at 5:34 p.m.
Researched by: Miriam Valverde
Subjects: Public Health
Sen. Edward J. Markey, Senator Markey on Trump Opioid Announcement: A Vision Without Funding Is An Hallucination, Oct. 26, 2017
PolitiFact, Donald Trump declares public health emergency over opioid crisis. Here’s what that means, Oct. 30, 2017
White House, President Donald J. Trump is Taking Action on Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, Oct. 26, 2017
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Community Outbreak of HIV Infection Linked to Injection Drug Use of Oxymorphone — Indiana, 2015, May 1, 2015
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Provisional counts of drug overdose deaths, as of Aug. 6, 2017
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hepatitis Surveillance Report, May 11, 2017
HIV.org, What Are HIV and AIDS?, How Is HIV Transmitted?, pages last updated May 15, 2017
Email interview, Brandon Marshall, associate professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health, Oct. 30, 2017
Email interview, Cora Lynn Bernard, PhD Candidate in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University, Oct. 31, 2017
Indiana State Department of Health, HIV testing hours extended at Scott County One-Stop Shop, April 26, 2016
The New England Journal of Medicine, HIV Infection Linked to Injection Use of Oxymorphone in Indiana, 2014–2015, July 21, 2016
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV Surveillance Report, 2015; vol. 27. Published November 2016
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC Fact Sheet: HIV Incidence: Estimated Annual Infections in the U.S., 2008-2014 Overall and by Transmission Route, February 2017
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV and Injection Drug Use, Page last reviewed and updated March 16, 2017
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV and Injection Drug Use, Page last reviewed and updated Nov. 29, 2016
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Interconnected, Intertwined, and Colliding: Co-Occurring Epidemics of HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Opioids, June 14, 2017
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, County-Level Vulnerability Assessment for Rapid Dissemination of HIV or HCV Infections Among Persons Who Inject Drugs, United States, Nov. 1, 2016
National Center for Biotechnology Information, County-Level Vulnerability Assessment for Rapid Dissemination of HIV or HCV Infections Among Persons Who Inject Drugs, United States, Nov. 1, 2016
National Center for Biotechnology Information, Increases in self-reported fentanyl use among a population entering drug treatment: The need for systematic surveillance of illicitly manufactured opioids, Aug. 1, 2017
CNN, Greatest rise in heroin use was among white people, study says, March 29, 2017
National Institute on Drug Abuse, Research on the Use and Misuse of Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids, June 30, 2017
National Institute on Drug Abuse, Emerging Trends and Alerts
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Researchers synthesize nanocluster made of 32 gold atoms
Researchers have synthesized a tiny structure from 32 gold atoms. This nanocluster has a core of 12 gold atoms surrounded by a shell of 20 additional gold atoms. As the scientists report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the unusual stability of this cluster results from electronic interactions with amido and phosphine ligands bound to its surface.
Aggregates of a few metal atoms, known as clusters, are increasingly used in catalysis, bioscience, and nanotechnology. Since the discovery of a pyramidal structure of 20 gold atoms, “golden cages” have become a new class of clusters with unusual structural properties. It was predicted that a cluster of 32 gold atoms should be very stable and would structurally resemble C60 fullerene. C60 is a hollow sphere made of 60 carbon atoms arranged into a structure of 5- and 6-membered rings, just like the facets of a traditional soccer ball. “Golden fullerenes” are predicted to have a broad spectrum of potential uses, including as transporters, molecular labels, and catalysts.
A team led by Jun Li and Quan-Ming Wang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) has now achieved a synthesis of a nanocluster made of 32 gold atoms in solution. The synthesis involved the direct reduction of gold-containing precursors. The formula of the compound is [Au32(Ph3P)8(dpa)6]+[SbF6−]2 (where dpa = 2,2’-bipyridylamido ligand and Ph3P = triphenylphosphine ligand). The structure consists of an arrangement of 12 gold atoms in a cage of 20 gold atoms—described as Au12@Au20—that is protected by eight Ph3P and six dpa ligands bound to the surface. With a combination of analytical methods and computer calculations, the scientists were able to completely determine the structure: its geometry, its chemical bonding relationships, and its electronic structure.
The “golden core” of the new cluster compound is a hollow icosahedron (a shape with 20 triangular faces) made of 12 gold atoms surrounded by a “shell” of 20 gold atoms in the form of a dodecahedron (a shape with 12 pentagonal faces). The bonds between the shell and core are very strong. The eight Ph3P ligands are bound to eight gold atoms of the shell, forming the corners of a cube. The dpa ligands are arranged so that their midpoints form the corners of an octahedron. They are not bound through their amido groups, but instead through the two nitrogen atoms in their two aromatic rings, which each bridge two gold atoms.
The researchers stated:
The geometric and electronic structures of the gold cluster depend very strongly on interactions with the ligands, as confirmed by our quantum chemical studies. The dpa ligands in particular ensure the effective stabilization of the gold nanocluster. We anticipate that a rich variety of coinage-metal nanoclusters can be generated with the protection of amido ligands.”
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Andreas Schnepf and co-workers from the University of Tübingen (Germany), Howard University (Washington, D.C., USA), and the University of Missouri, Kansas City (USA) independently reported the synthesis of a cluster consisting of 32 gold atoms. This study was submitted to the journal Angewandte Chemie shortly before the work of the Chinese team was received. Their simple synthetic route yielded a compound of the formula Au32(R3P)12Cl8 (where R = ethyl, n-propyl, or n-butyl group), also with a Au32 cluster kernel. In this case, eight chloride ions and twelve phosphine ligands each equipped with three short alkyl chains (R3P) are bound to the surface. The researchers observed that the gold icosahedron as well as the gold dodecahedron are slightly distorted. The distortion results from the electronic structure and the electrical field within the cluster core (Jahn-Teller effect) as quantum-chemical calculations showed. The length of the alkyl chains did not influence the structure of the cluster.
https://newsroom.wiley.com/press-release/angewandte-chemie-international-edition/golden-ball-golden-cage-golden-fullerene-ligan
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2 Louisiana Slayings Likely Racially Motivated, Police Say
Monday, September 18th 2017, 1:45 AM CDT
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - The slayings of two black men in Baton Rouge last week were likely racially motivated, police said Sunday, and a suspect — a 23-year-old white man — was in custody. In both shootings the gunman fired from his car then walked up to the victims as they were lying on the ground and fired again multiple times.
The suspect, Kenneth Gleason, was being held on drug charges and was given a $3,500 bond on Sunday evening, a district attorney told The Associated Press. Authorities didn’t immediately have enough evidence to arrest him on charges related to the killings, but the investigation was ongoing, Baton Rouge Sgt. L’Jean McKneely told The Associated Press.
Gleason was still jailed as of 6 p.m. Sunday, according to the sheriff’s office.
“The victims were ... ambushed,” McKneely said. “There is a strong possibility that it could be racially motivated.”
McKneely said shell casings from the shootings linked the two slayings, and a car belonging to Gleason fit the description of the vehicle used in the killings. He said authorities had collected other circumstantial evidence but he wouldn’t say what it was.
Neither victim had any prior relationship with Gleason. It wasn’t immediately clear if Gleason had an attorney or when his first court appearance would be.
The shootings happened about five miles from each other. The first occurred Tuesday night when 59-year-old Bruce Cofield, who was homeless, was shot to death. The second happened Thursday night when 49-year-old Donald Smart was gunned down while walking to his job as a dishwasher at a cafe popular with Louisiana State University students, Mckneely said.
Smart’s aunt, Mary Smart, said she was still dealing with the shock of her nephew’s death.
“I’m feeling down and depressed. My nephew, I love him, and he was on his way to work and that makes it so sad,” she said in a telephone interview Sunday. “He was always smiling and hugging everybody. A lot of people knew him.”
Smart had a son and two daughters, she said.
She declined to comment on police allegations that her nephew might have been shot because of the color of his skin.
“I cannot say,” she said. “Only God knows.”
No one answered the door at Gleason’s house in a quiet neighborhood of mostly ranch-style homes with well-kept lawns, located about 10 miles from the sites of the shootings.
“He looks like any clean-cut American kid,” said neighbor Nancy Reynolds, who said she didn’t know Gleason or his family. She said it was “hard to believe this sort of thing is still happening.”
Two of Gleason’s cousins said they couldn’t believe he had anything to do with the killings.
“He had no problems with any person,” said Garrett Sing, 37. “He had black friends, white friends, Asian friends. He made friends with anyone.”
Another cousin, 33-year-old Barton Sing, described Gleason as a “good kid” and recalled how his cousin recently asked him to teach him how to bow hunt.
“He said he never liked guns. That’s why he wanted to get into archery,” Sing said. “He’s the last person I’d think to do something like this.”
Gleason didn’t appear to have any active social media profiles. A spokesman at Louisiana State University said a student by that name attended the university from the fall of 2013 to the fall of 2014 before withdrawing. He had transferred to LSU from Baton Rouge Community College, the spokesman, Ernie Ballard, said.
East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore wouldn’t comment on what led investigators to him.
“We’re actively investigating right now,” Moore said.
Detectives searched Gleason’s home on Saturday and found 9 grams of marijuana and vials of human growth hormone at his house, according to a police document. After Gleason was read his Miranda rights, he claimed ownership of the drugs, the document said.
Louisiana’s capital, a city of 229,000, is known for its championship college football team and its political scene. A year ago, racial tensions roiled the city when a black man was shot to death by white police officers outside of a convenience store. About two weeks later, a black gunman targeted police in an ambush, killing three officers and wounding three others before he was shot to death. The city is about 55 percent black and 40 percent white.
Smart consistently showed up for his overnight shift as a dishwasher at Louie’s Cafe in a spotless white T-shirt and bright white Nike tennis shoes, The Advocate newspaper reported.
“I’ve seen 26 years of folks washing dishes in a busy diner and this guy is untouchable,” Louie’s general manager, Fred Simonson, was quoted as saying. “When you have an employee like Donald, he’s the type of person who’s going to make the person next to him better.”
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A colouring expedition
Illustrated by Andrew Leach
Edwin Scholes
Tim Laman
Series: Colouring Books
What could be more delightful than to colour in the amazing plumage of true-to-life birds of paradise?
This beautiful book contains illustrations of 39 different birds of paradise, drawn by Andrew Leach, from the work of Dr Edwin Scholes and photojournalist Tim Laman from a Cornell Lab of Ornithology expedition. The photographs are also included as a wonderful bonus and to show the dazzling colours of these remarkable birds.
There have been more than 12 million views of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s introductory video to the birds of paradise project on YouTube alone.
ABOUT THE Illustrator
Dr. Andrew Leach is a science illustrator, landscape architect and artist. He holds a certificate in scientific illustration from the University of California, as well as degrees in landscape architecture and fine art.
Dr. Edwin Scholes is a scientist, author and explorer. He has studied the birds of paradise for more than a decade and is a leading authority on their behavior and evolution. He heads up the Birds-of-Paradise Project at the Cornell Lab.
ABOUT THE A13
Dr. Tim Laman is a field biologist and world-renowned wildlife photojournalist. He holds a PhD in Biology from Harvard University and is an associate at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. Tim is a contributing photographer for National Geographic magazine.
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Cedar City Shakespeare Festival 2018
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Cedar City is the largest city in Iron County, Utah, United States.It is located 250 miles (400 km) south of Salt Lake City, and 170 miles (270 km) north of Las Vegas on Interstate 15.It is the home of Southern Utah University, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Utah Summer Games, the Neil Simon Theatre Festival, and other events.As of the 2010 census the city had a population of 28,857, up.
Winter brings with it the "Greatest Snow on Earth." One of my favorite signs of summer in the Beehive State is the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City. If you’ve never seen them tread the boards.
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romantic comedy staged at the Tony and Emmy award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City. Despite halting the production not once, but twice due to a drenching rain that soaked both actors.
“Summer theater in Utah” inspires many to think about the Bard. But while Cedar City’s Utah Shakespearean Festival offers world-class interpretations of classic works, you don’t have to travel three.
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Jay Dickens Racing Engines Life Of Pi Poem The poem from the "Life of Pi" author, entitled "What the Drop of Water Had to Say," sets the theme for the show, which will be hosted by Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte from the International. For the rest of his life he is haunted by this cold-hearted desertion, the
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Each summer for the past quarter century, he traveled to Cedar City for the Utah Shakespeare Festival, where he served as dramaturg. The festival attracts upwards of 140,000 people annually. Flachmann.
If Music Be The Food Of Love Poet The festivities kick off today with an evening of music. poem ‘Aurat’ that he recited. “In those days, when it was considered a woman’s lot to stay at home and raise children, and for the man to go. “We both fell in love with the genre,” she said. “It’s funny, it’s poignant.” Chandler has spent
IRON COUNTY – After 52 years performing at the Southern Utah University campus, directors of the Utah Shakespeare. replace the festival’s long time home on the campus at SUU, moving the yearly.
4. Take an ill-tempered wife, a British king bent on revenge, crew-cut basement singers and an educated flower girl, put them together and they are all part of this year’s 43rd Utah Shakespearean.
Coming out of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, I felt like I had just witnessed. a bit grumpy as I settled into my seat in the Randall L. Jones Theatre in Cedar City.
Peter Sham, who has worked with the festival for a few seasons now, has been announced as the new artistic director for the Cedar City-based theater festival. With a dozen seasons at the Utah.
There, the lovely green campus of Southern Utah University has for nearly 50 years hosted one of the Southwest’s premiere artistic events — the Utah Shakespearean Festival. 14 drops you into the.
Louise Gluck Poetry Reading “Louise Glück's poems are sculptures of belief,” Streckfus noted in his introduction at a Lannan Series reading. Her poems can also be viewed as speech-acts, Louise Gluck can be considered American poetry’s trapeze artist. Even though I find that approach perilous, after my third reading of “The Wild Iris,” the book still strikes me as
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CARLOS’ REEL – Clips of Carlos Andrés Gómez in the award-winning documentary “Word Clash,” on season 6 of HBO’s “Def Poetry,” Spike Lee’s “INSIDE MAN” with Denzel Washington, and a jaw-dropping finale of Gómez performing with Savion Glover at The Town Hall on Broadway
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RuPaul’s Drag Race fans go wild for guest judge Jenifer Lewis
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It’s that time again – RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars is back for a fourth season, and that means a whole host of new guest judges, too.
The first episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4 debuted last night, and RuPaul brought on actress and singer Jenifer Lewis as a guest judge.
And fans are going wild for the star, whose turn on the show seems to have won her a few new admirers.
One fan tweeted: “@JeniferLewis is a treasure. #AllStars4.”
Another said: “Petition to have Jenifer Lewis reaction shots in all future film and television please.”
One fan said: “Jenifer Lewis needs to be a judge every week!”
Another tweeted a GIF of the star, and added: “Could Jenifer Lewis be a regular judge of the show?”
Other fans simply expressed their love for Lewis by tweeting her name followed by a series of exclamation marks.
One fan boldly proclaimed that she was now his “new favourite person.”
Another said that they wanted a tribute episode dedicated exclusively to Lewis.
Who is Jenifer Lewis?
Jenifer Lewis is an actress, singer and activist, and began her career in Broadway musicals and later worked as a back up singer for Bette Midler.
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She has also starred in films, including Beaches and Sister Act, and also has appeared on TV shows such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Black-ish.
She also released a memoir last year, called The Mother of Black Hollywood, that details her career and early years.
RuPaul’s Drag Race: controversy about transgender contestants
Meanwhile, RuPaul’s Drag Race won praise from fans last week after the RuPaul’s Drag Race Holi-Slay Spectacular Christmas special aired.
The episode included Sonique, who competed on the second season of the show in 2010, and later came out as a transgender woman.
RuPaul caused a firestorm last March when he said he would “probably not” allow a trans contestant to participate in the show.
Speaking to the Guardian, RuPaul said that the idea of trans women appearing on the show was “an interesting area.”
He then said that a contestant who had physically transitioned would probably not be allowed to take part.
“You can identify as a woman and say you’re transitioning, but it changes once you start changing your body.
“It takes on a different thing; it changes the whole concept of what we’re doing.”
He added: “We’ve had some girls who’ve had some injections in the face and maybe a little bit in the butt here and there, but they haven’t transitioned.”
However, Michelle Visage, who is also a judge on the show, recently weighed in on the debate in an interview with The Sun.
She said: “Everyone has always been welcome, and trans women have always been a part of the drag spectrum.”
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Music in American Life
Music Film & Media Biography & Personal Papers See all Subjects
Read a review "Henry Mancini."
Reinventing Film Music
A superstar of film scoring, from The Pink Panther to "Moon River"
Henry Mancini, the first publicly successful and personally recognizable film composer in history, has practically become a Hollywood brand name. In his lifetime, he sold thirty million albums and won four Oscars and twenty Grammy awards. Through Mancini, mere background music in movies became part of pop culture--an expression of sophistication and wit with a modern sense of cool and a lasting lyricism that has not dated.
The first comprehensive study of Mancini's music, Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music describes how the composer served as a bridge between the Big Band period of World War II and the impatient eclecticism of the Baby Boomer generation, between the grand formal orchestral film scores of the past and a modern American minimalist approach. Mancini's sound seemed to capture the bright, confident, welcoming voice of the middle class's new efficient life: interested in pop songs and jazz, in movies and television, in outreach politics but also conventional stay-at-home comforts. As John Caps shows, Mancini easily combined it all in his music.
Mancini wrote his first dramatic music for a radio series in 1950. By the mid-1960s, he wielded influence in Hollywood and around the world with his iconic scores: dynamic jazz for the noirish detective TV show Peter Gunn, the sly theme from The Pink Panther, and his wistful folk song "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Following the evolution of Mancini's style, Caps traces the history of movie scoring in general: from the jazz-pop of the 1960s to the edgier, electro-funk harmonies of the Watergate 1970s, from the revisionist 1980s marked by New Age trends and new jazz chords to the frustrating New Hollywood of the 1990s when films were made by committees of lawyers rather than by artisans.
Through insightful close readings of key films, Caps traces Mancini's collaborations with important directors and shows how he homed in on specific dramatic or comic aspects of each film to create musical effects through clever instrumentation, eloquent melodies, and the strong narrative qualities of his scores. Accessible and engaging, this fresh view of Mancini's oeuvre and influence will delight and inform fans of film and popular music.
"In this lively, syncopated survey of Mancini's movie music, Caps offers a comprehensive critique of the composer's film/TV scores and hit albums."--Publishers Weekly
"A well-researched study of a musical career. . . Film by film, the book reveals how Mancini negotiated and compromised to become the composer of many a moviemaker's dreams."--Booklist
"Accessible and engaging, this fresh view of Mancini's oeuvre and influence will delight and inform fans of film and popular music."--Turner Classic Movies
"Will satisfy musically experienced readers as well as laypeople. It deserves a place in every film and popular music collection."--Library Journal
"Caps' assiduously research study of Mancini's life and career . . . is detailed and insightful. . . . It will be enjoyed both by film buffs and music lovers."--Allaboutjazz.com
"An important book, and, in many ways, a crucial one, too, it's chief value resting in Caps' articulate championing of one of the most singular compositional talents to emerge from Hollywood's film factory."--Classical Music
"[The] first thorough biographical account of film and television composer Henry Mancini. . . . Recommended."--Choice
"Caps succeeds in arguing that we should look past the pop pablum and credit Mancini with creating an original and compelling sound for films."--Wall Street Journal
"A stimulating chronicle of the life and works of film and television composer Henry Mancini. Consistently thorough and detailed, this book contains a considerable wealth of information and insight into this extremely popular composer."--James Wierzbicki, author of Film Music: A History and Elliott Carter
"A great new book on Henry Mancini's contributions to American culture. Offering extensive musical analysis of almost every film score, John Caps's insight into the Mancini oeuvre is the best I've ever seen."--Jon Burlingame, author of Sound and Vision: 60 Years of Motion Picture Soundtracks
John Caps is an award-winning writer and producer of documentaries. He served as producer, writer, and host for four seasons of the National Public Radio syndicated series The Cinema Soundtrack, featuring interviews with and music of film composers. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Legendary Guitarist Peter Frampton to Receive the Les Paul Innovation Award at 34th Annual NAMM TEC Awards
CARLSBAD, Calif., Dec. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- GRAMMY® award-winning guitarist, singer, songwriter, and innovator Peter Frampton will receive the prestigious Les Paul Innovation Award at the 34th Annual NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards (NAMM TEC Awards), being held Saturday, January 26, 2019, in Anaheim, CA. The award is given to those individuals who personify the innovative thinking of Les Paul, the Father of Modern of Music. The Les Paul Foundation partners with NAMM each year to honor the individuals that have set the highest standards of excellence in the creative application of recording technology, which also celebrates the legacy of the late, great Les Paul.
Frampton notes, "It is a distinct honor to receive the Les Paul Innovation Award. I would say that many of my career highlights occurred while holding an instrument in my hands that bears Les Paul's name. I was lucky enough to know him personally, and I owe him so much. He was a wonderful character as well as a genius! An incredible guitar player as well as the inventor of so much music technology. Les changed the way we record forever. I can only hope that I've been able to make a fraction of the positive impact that Les Paul made in his iconic career."
Frampton is one of music's renaissance men, having begun a career in his early teens, and still making his mark today in the areas of recording and touring. A multi-platinum-selling artist, he recently celebrated the 42nd anniversary of his fifth solo album, Frampton Comes Alive!, an album that remains one of the top-selling live records of all time with over 17 million copies sold worldwide. In 2007 he won the GRAMMY award for "Best Pop Instrumental Album" for Fingerprints and in 2014 was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame.
"Peter Frampton remains one of the most skillful and celebrated artists in rock history. He also was a friend of Les Paul's and has played a pivotal role in helping the Foundation keep Les's legacy alive," shared Michael Braunstein, Executive Director, The Les Paul Foundation. "Like Les, he is an undeniable master of his instrument and in many ways ahead of his time. We are honored to have Peter join the impressive list of Les Paul Innovation Award recipients."
Frampton's storied career began at 16 as the lead singer and guitarist for the British band The Herd. By 18, he co-founded one of the first supergroups – the seminal rock act Humble Pie. His touring years have included work with a whos-who of the top names in music, such as David Bowie, Stevie Nicks, Gregg Allman, Ringo Starr, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cheap Trick, Steve Miller Band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, and many others. Additionally, he took his eponymous Peter Frampton's Guitar Circus on the road for two years with special guests B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Vince Gill, Larry Carlton, Robert Randolph, Don Felder (formerly of The Eagles), Dean DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots), Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Sonny Landreth, Robert Cray, and Roger McGuinn (The Byrds).
His session work includes collaborations with artists who have made their mark on the industry including George Harrison, Harry Nilsson, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Entwistle, Mike McCready, and Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam), among many others.
Frampton's talent has also stretched beyond music and into the realm of television and film. He was called upon by Oscar-winning writer/director Cameron Crowe to serve as technical advisor for the film Almost Famous (2000) and even appeared in the film and composed several songs for the soundtrack. Frampton has appeared as himself in The Simpsons and Family Guy.
Les Paul invented the solid body electric guitar, multi-track recording, overdubbing, echo, reverb and numerous other recording techniques. Without Les Paul, the music industry would not be what it is today. He is often called the "Father of Modern Music," "The Wizard of Waukesha" and even the "Thomas Edison of Music." Les founded the Foundation prior to his passing and wanted to inspire young people to invent, create, innovate, and get involved in music while exploring their own creative ideas. Today, The Les Paul Foundation works with organizations throughout the country in support of music education, engineering, and medical research. The Les Paul Innovation Award at NAMM and the Les Paul Spirit Award are two of the most prestigious awards celebrated by the Foundation.
With the honor, Frampton joins Jackson Browne, Joe Perry (Aerosmith), Don Was, Slash, Todd Rundgren, Pete Townshend, Steve Vai, and others, who have received the Les Paul Innovation Award since it began in 1991.
Announced early this year, Leslie Ann Jones, the Grammy-winning groundbreaking engineer, producer, and Director of Music and Scoring for Skywalker Sound, will be inducted into the NAMM TEC Hall of Fame that same night. Jones joins luminaries Rose Mann Cherney, Skunk Baxter, Hal Blaine, Jack Douglas, Nathan East, Geoff Emerick, and others with her induction, the industry's highest honor for pioneers of audio technology and the music industry's most accomplished producers and audio technicians.
The NAMM TEC Awards are held during The NAMM Show, the global gathering of music, sound and event technology industries, in Anaheim, California, January 24-27, 2019. They are bestowed annually in honor of the many individuals, companies and technical innovations used in sound recordings, films, broadcast television and video games. Nominees were announced earlier this year. Purchase tickets on site or in advance here for $65 (General Admission) or $195 (VIP). The show begins with a VIP-only reception at 6PM, followed by the awards ceremony at 7PM, held in the Hilton Anaheim Hotel's Pacific Ballroom. Stand-up comedian and entertainer Demetri Martin will host the ceremony.
Download TEC Awards high resolution assets here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4i0j9tsjqpw95te/AAA7n12nBSzSACvKjcpZQCLva?dl=0
For NAMM TEC Awards, Chalise Zolezzi | 760-801-7900 | Chalisez@namm.org or Jeanne O'Keefe | 310-965-1990 | JOKeefe@lippingroup.com
For the Les Paul Foundation: Caroline Galloway (440) 591-3807, caroline@m2mpr.com
ABOUT THE TEC AWARDS
Presented annually by the NAMM Foundation during The NAMM Show, The NAMM TEC Awards recognizes the individuals, companies and technical innovations behind the sound of recordings, live performances, films, television, video games and other media in 23 Technical and 8 Creative Achievement Categories. The Les Paul Innovation Award is given at the event in tribute to musical artists and others whose work has exemplified the creative application of audio technology. Through its Hall of Fame, The TEC Awards also honors the pioneers of audio technology and the music industry's most accomplished producers and audio technicians. The NAMM Foundation's TECnology Hall of Fame celebrates innovations and groundbreaking technical achievements of the past. For more information, visit www.tecawards.org
ABOUT LES PAUL FOUNDATION
Les Paul formed his foundation to encourage young people to pursue their curiosity and innovation about music, sound and engineering. Recent grants from the Les Paul Foundation include funding to multiple music education programs and to museums that tell the Les Paul story. The foundation's comprehensive website at www.lespaulfoundation.org connects viewers to numerous resources. The mission of the Les Paul Foundation is to honor and share the life, spirit and legacy of Les Paul by supporting music education, engineering and innovation as well as medical research. The foundation is based in New York. Follow the Les Paul Foundation at www.facebook.com/lespaulfoundation, https://twitter.com/lespaulfound, www.instagram.com/lespaulofficial or click on lespaulfoundation.org.
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Glory and Phoenix battle for Long Distance Derby Cup
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Perth Glory’s first home game of the Hyundai A-League 2015/16 season this weekend will kick-off with more than just three points on the line.
Glory faces off against New Zealand rivals Wellington Phoenix at nib Stadium and both teams will be playing for a new trophy.
The two clubs have joined forces to form the ‘Long Distance Derby Cup’ which acknowledges the 5255 kilometre trek between the two cities- the longest road trip in world football.
Glory captain Richard Garcia applauded the move, saying the initiative had been a long time coming.
“We have derbies in AFL, State of Origin and in the A-League all mainly on the East Coast. The distance between our two teams is something that needs to be honoured and celebrated in the competition and I think it’s fantastic both teams have put their heads together and have come up with something like this the players and the fans can get excited about”.
Glory and the Phoenix will play each other three times during the season. The Cup trophy winner will be decided by the team which gathers most points over the three rounds. If the points are equal after the series, goal difference will be used to determine the winner.
Phoenix captain Andrew Durante also praised the Cup concept.
“You have the Sydney Derby, the Melbourne Derby and the F3 Derby between Central Coast and the Newcastle Jets,” he said.
“In the tradition of derbies those clubs are close together and this will be a derby with a difference. We might be over 5000km apart but there is a bit of a bond between us and Glory because of it” he said.
The match kicks-off at 4pm.
Tickets to the match, can be purchased HERE
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Let’s Talk About European Attitudes Toward US Tech Firms
Posted on May 29, 2018 May 29, 2018 3:14 pm
It’s beginning to feel like two kids talking smack in a high school hallway — except, in this case, billions of dollars are involved, along with issues of privacy and innovation.
The latest episode had French President Emmanuel Macron telling executives from major technology companies — including Facebook, Microsoft, Intel and IBM — that innovation needs to be accompanied by tough regulations and societal contributions.
“I believe in innovation and at the same time in regulation and working for the common good,” Macron said, according to an account from Reuters about the former investment banker’s “Tech for Good” summit.
Macron’s comments represent the latest example of Europe’s — and the European Union’s — attitude toward U.S. technological might when it comes to social media, eCommerce and the digital world. Don’t worry, though — the Americans can give as good as they get.
Peter Thiel, the technology investor who co-founded PayPal, recently described some of the motivation behind the European Union’s push to put more taxes and regulation on digital firms as jealousy of the relative success of U.S. companies.
“The good reasons are these privacy concerns and the bad reasons are there are no successful tech companies in Europe, and they are jealous of the U.S., so they are punishing us,” Thiel said, according to reports.
One of the attitudes behind all that smack is European suspicion of the de facto personal database that is social media. The European experience with authoritarianism, of course, has helped to shape that attitude, reminders of which are not difficult to find.
For instance, a German intelligence official, Hans Georg Maassen, said Europe might have to impose regulation on social media if it does not increase its transparency and do more to prevent the spread of dangerous and illegal content. The proliferation of “fake news” has spooked officials in Europe — and around the world — and the continent has its own experience with Russian meddling in politics and elections.
And now, some European officials are using a long-standing metaphor from the United States to argue that more order is needed when it comes to a digital world still dominated by that country. “We do not accept that the internet is some sort of ‘Wild West’ where no moral values can apply,” Andrew Parker, head of Britain’s MI5 spy agency, recently told reporters.
U.S. companies have done their part to fuel the European attitude expressed by Macron. Just look at the massive data scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, which involved the access of personal data from some 87 million users without their permission.
But that’s likely not the only factor behind the increasing European assertiveness toward U.S. technology giants. A record $19 billion in technology investment flowed into Europe last year, up from $14.4 billion in 2016, according to an estimate from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, a U.S.-based international law firm that serves technology firms. Such investments “are happening not just in the traditional U.K. and German markets, but also in markets such as the Netherlands, Spain, Finland and Slovenia,” according to Christopher Grew and Shawn Atkinson, partners in the firm’s technology companies group.
Not only that, but Europe is attracting more technology professionals, and not just in traditional areas. “Professional developer numbers have increased across the continent to 5.5 million. The U.K. remains the No. 1 destination for tech talent migrating into — and within — Europe but appears to have lost share to other European destinations such as Germany and France,” the two wrote in a blog for Orrick.
In short, Grew said, “Europe has arrived as a power broker in the global technology ecosystem.”
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North West city crowned top destination for house hunters
The latest data and analysis from Zoopla has revealed that there has been a notable spike in buyer demand during the last 12 months for one North West city.
Over 200 Scottish landlords found to be in breach of deposit...
According to the latest research carried out by SafeDeposits Scotland, during the last 18 months, more than 200 landlords from across Scotland have been found in breach of a law designed to protect...
Wales comes out top for UK house price growth in Q2
The latest data and analysis from Principality Building Society has revealed that Wales had the highest annual rate of house price growth in the four UK nations during the second quarter of 2019.
Living in the same building as their serial bad tenant… a...
It’s been heavily publicised that a large percentage of the UK’s retirees are struggling to live off their pension, so it’s no surprise that some over 65s have turned to renting out rooms in...
How best to deal with noisy neighbours
On an otherwise unremarkable late Monday morning, 27th August 1883, a small archipelago of islands in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) violently self-destructed, producing the loudest sound...
The UK's BTL market remains competitive despite wider financial...
Keeping down costs, maximising yields and boosting income levels have always been key considerations for landlords, and this is now even more evident in the wake of recent tax and regulatory...
Room rents up 8% following Tenant Fee Act
The latest research from room share platform, ideal flatmate, has looked at the cost of renting a room across the UK’s major cities during Q2 2019.
Tenants in Wales to receive mandatory 12-month contracts under...
New plans to extend the notice period for so-called 'no fault' evictions in Wales, effectively giving tenants 12-month contracts by default, have been slammed by the RLA as scandalous.
Growth in the PRS remains subdued despite rising yields
The latest data and analysis of the UK's Private Rental Sector from Kent Reliance has revealed that despite improving yields for landlords, the growth of the PRS is subdued on the back of...
Strong H1 performance from Bovis as completions up 4%
Housebuilder, Bovis, has released a trading statement revealing that the firm has delivered 1,647 completions in the half year to the end of June, a 4% increase on the prior year.
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Insights into the global economy
by George Magnus / December 17, 2018 / Leave a comment
Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/Tass/PA Images
During 2018, private companies in China, the mainstay of the country’s economic resurgence in the last decades, have been hit by a slump in the stock market, the ongoing credit crunch and the trade conflict with the US. Beijing has taken measures to help them, but entrepreneurs have concerns that run much deeper—namely that the government’s industrial and economic focus on the state sector is at their expense.
The “Communist” element of the Chinese Communist Party was abandoned many years ago. After Deng Xiaoping came to power in 1978 and launched the “Reform and Opening up” programme, China shed its obsession with public ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange. It gradually allowed some market mechanisms and private ownership and enterprise to take root in the economy, albeit under close state and Party control. In the 1990s, a huge wave of privatisation of state enterprises occurred, along with the development of a thriving private market in property.
Fast forward to 2018, and the private sector has been described using the figure “56789”: private activities account for 50 per cent of fiscal revenues, 60 per cent of GDP and investment, 70 per cent of industrial upgrades and innovation, 80 per cent of jobs, and 90 per cent of enterprises. China’s 164 or so private equity companies in the tech space—known as unicorns—are worth over $630bn and are world leaders in terms of numbers.
Even though it is widely accepted that China’s private sector has been the driving force in the country’s economic eruption, clouds have been gathering over this part of the economy since Xi Jinping came to power. Lately, private enterprise has not only been flagging but it has also been the focus of great controversy and uncertainty.
What is private in China anyway?
Official data testify to the overwhelming numerical predominance of private firms. At the end of 2017, there were 65.8m individually-owned businesses and 27.3m private enterprises, employing some 340m people. Yet the classification of private, especially as regards the latter, remains opaque. Companies that register as private can, in practice, still be state-controlled, or file as collectively-owned or co-operative companies, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of China. Some limited liability companies may have mixed private and public owners, and many have layers of holding companies behind which…
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George Magnus is a well known economist and former Chief Economist at UBS. His forthcoming book is "Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy" (Yale University Press)
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UK logistics firm continues expansion with funding from RBS and Lombard
Cardiff head-quartered logistics operator Rhys Davies Logistics (RDL) has purchased 20 newly branded trailers after agreeing a funding package from asset finance specialist Lombard and Royal Bank of Scotland Corporate & Institutional Banking (RBS CIB).
RDL was founded in 1952 and, over the past 20 years, has grown from a single base in South Wales into a national company with ten depots throughout the UK. The Cardiff headquarters provides central services to the company and, together with operating centres in locations such as Haydock, Andover, Barnsley, Birmingham, London and Newton Aycliffe, forms a national network of logistics, distribution and warehousing, offering excess of 600,000 square feet. The business, which last year celebrated its 60th anniversary, has an annual turnover of over £37m and employs more than 460 people throughout the UK.
The joint asset finance facility from RBS and Lombard has allowed Rhys Davies to renew and expand its fleet to over 190 vehicles, ranging from vans and rigids through to articulated vehicles and double-deck trailers. Operating within client sectors as varied as carpeting to chemicals and packaging to healthcare, the additional 20 vehicles will allow the business to grow in a very competitive UK logistics market. Rhys Davies has been a client of RBS since inception in 1952.
Mark Richmond, managing director, Rhys Davies & Sons Limited, said: “This funding from RBS and Lombard allows us to invest in the company and focus on our growth aspirations. We are proud to be able to make further additions to our fleet, especially as it coincides with our 60th anniversary and the recent corporate rebranding. With the financial support and guidance from RBS I’m confident the business will enjoy another strong 60 years and remain at the forefront of our industry.”
David Brown, relationship director, RBS, said: “Rhys Davies is a great example of a Welsh success story performing on the national stage as evidenced by its expanding fleet. The move to the striking new brand demonstrates the on-going development of the business and a clear display of the values that underpin the service that RDL provide to a large range of customers nationally and internationally. Operating in a competitive market, it continues to increase its presence and client proposition and we are delighted to be Rhys Davies’ bank of choice.”
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BBC's behind the scenes look at NatWest Huddersfield
/ October
The Huddersfield branch of NatWest is under the spotlight as a BBC film crew takes a look behind the scenes to explore how a high street bank works and the stories of its staff and customers.
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The three part series, being developed by The Garden productions (makers of 24 Hours in A&E, Inside Claridges and The Motorway: Life in the Fast Lane) will air on BBC TWO in 2015 and will focus on the lives of customers and branch staff in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
The series will look at our relationship with money and how banks are at the centre of that relationship. Filming is now well underway but there is still time for customers to find out more or take part if they would like to.
The production team in Huddersfield, led by series director, Heenan Bhatti, are keen to hear from NatWest customers in the area who would like to take part in the show. The team want to hear from people regardless of their particular circumstances whether it’s looking for a mortgage or finance to make a big purchase, running a business or charity or simply people who are looking for advice on how to better manage their finances.
Whatever you’ve got to say, if you’re based in the Huddersfield area and would be happy to speak to the BBC team, you can contact them on 07804 850 864 or carla@thegardenproductions.tv.
It was strange at first to wake up every morning and realise you are going to be on TV but everybody got used to it very quickly.
Claire Blakey, Deputy Branch Manager
Zac Beattie, Executive Producer at The Garden productions said: "It's very exciting to have been granted access to a branch of NatWest bank. It’s a first for a television documentary. But just as important as the staff, are of course the stories of the customers. Whatever their views and whatever part money plays in their life at this moment in time - from buying a dream home, juggling debt or just about getting by from week-to-week. Anything they’ve got to say just helps to show what an important part money plays in most people’s lives."
Claire Blakey, Deputy Branch Manager at NatWest Huddersfield said: “We were really excited to let the cameras into our branch. It was strange at first to wake up every morning and realise you are going to be on TV but everybody got used to it very quickly. We are very proud that NatWest here in Huddersfield was chosen for the programme and that the film crew is getting a really close look into the everyday lives of our branch and our customers."
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Flagship branch in Edinburgh receives an upgrade
/ December
The St Andrew Square branch officially celebrated the transformation by hosting a launch event earlier this week.
The branch is fitted with new, modern technology such as upgraded ATMs and Cash and Deposit machines.
The Royal Bank of Scotland brand has been on Scottish high streets for nearly 300 years and the iconic St Andrew Square branch has played a unique part in the bank’s heritage. The building was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland (who already owned the neighbouring 35 St Andrew Square) in 1835. Since then, 36 St Andrew Square has provided banking services and advice to Edinburgh residents and is registered as the Royal Bank of Scotland’s headquarters.
While the building retains many of its traditional elements, including the famous domed ceiling with 120 stars which appears in all notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland, the branch will now have a more modern look and feel. The ‘traditional’ bank counter will be removed so customers no longer have to queue to speak to a member of staff and will feature photographs of famous landmarks from the local Edinburgh area. The Royal Bank of Scotland worked with Historic Scotland to create a great environment for customers while ensuring the new design was sympathetic to the existing architecture and protected important historical artefacts.
The branch is fitted with new, modern technology such as upgraded ATMs and Cash and Deposit machines. The branch also has free Wi-Fi for customers and iPads so customers can register and access Online Banking services, with staff on hand to provide demonstrations where required.
RBS’s investment into upgrading branches is part of an overall £1bn being spent across the UK on branch refurbishment and state-of-the-art banking technology. The bank’s aim is to meet the needs and demands of its customers round the clock by offering options for customers to choose how they conduct their banking such as over the telephone, online, mobile banking, mobile branches, ATMs, CDMs and post offices.
Branch Manager Tomie Cannon commented:
“Although an increasing number of our customers are choosing to bank with us over the phone, online or on their mobile, our branch network plays an extremely important part of the service we’re providing to customers. The investment we’ve made in the St Andrew Square branch shows we are committed to providing the best banking service to the local community and want to be a central part of the local communities where our branches are based. We’re looking forward to unveiling our new-look branch and new technology to customers.”
RBS Archivist Ruth Reed said:
"36 St Andrew Square has been the home of the Royal Bank of Scotland since 1828, but the house itself dates back even further, to the 1770s. It's one of the most significant buildings in Edinburgh's New Town, and the loveliest bank I know of anywhere. The magnificent banking hall at the back of the building was completed in 1861, and the recent refurbishment has preserved its unique historical character while bringing facilities up to date. I'm particularly excited by the glimpse we now get of an original feature that was hidden from view for decades; a viewing window in the new floor that reveals some of the Victorian encaustic tiles below."
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NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland help customers affected by flooding
This is a difficult time for those impacted by the serious flooding across North West England and Southern Scotland so NatWest and RBS have introduced a range of measures to support our personal and business customers and ease the financial strain.
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Genesius Guild's "The Knights"' Script Nearly Triumphs Over Its Execution
By Mike Schulz
Saturday's opening-night production of Aristophanes' The Knights, which closes Genesius Guild's summer season and runs through this weekend, began with a few words from Guild founder - and uncredited Knights scribe - Don Wooten, and it's hard to imagine the evening commencing on a more charming note.
In Praise of the CAST Cast: "Don't Drink the Water" at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre
Perhaps the biggest pleasure in attending an entire season of summer-stock theatre lies in the chance to see familiar faces in show after show. If a company's actors have impressed you in the past, just noticing their names in a new program is enough to make you smile, and I've now smiled throughout four consecutive shows at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre (CAST). By this point, I'm so happy just seeing Katherine Walker Hill and Nicole Horton and Chris Amos and Craig Merriman and Patrick Stinson and Sandee Cunningham and Michael Oberfield and the rest of CAST's 2005 ensemble that it barely matters what show they're in; with actors this enjoyable, audiences are all but guaranteed to have a great time. (It's a wonderful argument for remaining faithful to a theatre ... and for purchasing season subscriptions.)
Ghostlight's "Will Rogers Follies" a Spirited Mess
Overreaching in the arts is often a good thing. Take, for example, The Will Rogers Follies, the latest presentation from Ghostlight Theatre, Inc. This is a hugely ambitious musical comedy. Not only does it aim to reproduce the experience of the Ziegfeld Follies stage shows in all their splendor and extravagance, but it's meta-theatre as well. The production is narrated by Rogers (Shane Partlow), who freely admits to being dead for decades, yet Rogers also converses onstage with the actual Ziegfeld (voiced by the show's director, Steve Flanigin), and other performers drop in and out of character to comment on the action as it progresses. Rogers also receives occasional visits from a long-dead pilot (Dr. Walter E. Neiswanger), while we in the audience are treated to musical contributions from others who are, similarly, deceased.
Making Something Delightful Out of "Nothing": Genesius Guild's "Much Ado About Nothing"
Ah, Genesius Guild. By the time the company's Saturday-night production of Much Ado About Nothing commenced, the quality of the show barely mattered, because I was already thoroughly amused by the audience.
The Underpants Fall, but Timber Lake's "The Underpants" Doesn't
If there's one theatrical axiom I've subscribed to over the years - both as a performer and as an audience member - it's this: If anything is going to go wrong with a production, it'll go wrong on opening night. (Things also tend to go wrong when the show is being videotaped or ... ahem ... when a critic is in the audience, but that's a whole 'nother story.)
Play Ball!: "Damn Yankees" at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre
In the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre's production of Damn Yankees, the characters you might find yourself adoring the most aren't the devilish Applegate, or the seductress Lola, or newfound baseball star Joe Hardy, despite the considerable talents of those playing them. They're Joe and Meg Boyd, whose story sets the plot in motion, and who - as portrayed by Rob Engelson and Nicole Horton - provide the show with more cumulative emotional impact than you might be expecting. Horton isn't on stage as often as some of her co-stars, and Engelson appears even less frequently, but their spirits hover over the whole production, and it's not until the last scene that you realize just how much of Damn Yankees' success rests on how much you like Joe and Meg.
Music Guild Presents a Huge, Handsome "Fiddler on the Roof"
It's too bad that so many of us greet the news of another area production of Fiddler on the Roof with an audible groan, because the show itself is really, really good. The music is marvelous, the characters are enjoyable, the story is well-plotted and touching, it's always funnier than you remember it being ... if you're a musical-theatre fan and if you've never seen it, you have no excuse. But, let's face it, it can be a daunting musical to sit through. "I love that show," you'll hear people say, "but, Jesus, it's long ... ."
A Pleasing, If Uneven, Walk Through "the Forest": "Another Part of the Forest" at the Richmond Hill Barn Theatre
There are two styles of drama going on in Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, or at least there are in the Richmond Hill Players' current production of it: domestic and melo-. A prequel of sorts to the author's more widely known The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest features, as its central figure, patriarch Marcus Hubbard (Stan Weimer), the richest man in Bowden, Alabama, circa 1880. A cruel, conniving, even murderous despot, Marcus is universally reviled, especially by his children - Benjamin (James V. Driscoll), Oscar (Steve Mroz), and Regina (Keri Cousins) - all of whom, for reasons of their own, want their hands on the family fortune.
Playcrafters' Latest Showcases an Enchanting Ensemble: "Enchanted April"
"It's a shame it all has to end," says our heroine, Lotty (Karrie McLaughlin), at the end of Playcrafters' Enchanted April. I completely agreed. The production currently running at Moline's Barn Theatre is unexpected in the best way possible: Who knew this light, frothy, harmless little romp could be this intoxicating?
A Heroic "Pooh," and a Load of Crap: Circa '21's "Winnie the Pooh," and My Verona Productions' "Dingo Boogaloo 2: Taco's Revenge"
Circa '21's Winnie the Pooh at The Rocket through July 23
At the opening-day performance of Winnie the Pooh, the air was already so festive - their doors may be temporarily closed, but the Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse is still in business! - that the show was the recipient of enormous goodwill even before it began. Balloons decorated the street, the Rocket Theatre was alive with the noise of excited young uns, the parents seemed in surprisingly good moods ... it was a pretty sweet sight. If you have as much fondness for Circa '21 as I do - and I know some of you do, 'cause I've seen you there ... - the atmosphere alone would have made Winnie the Pooh worthwhile.
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Breaking Patriarchal Norms To Become Woke Dads
Men are stepping out of their traditional roles to become primary caregivers for their children—to enable their partners to build their careers and lead fuller lives
Yasaswini Sampathkumar, Chirag Mehta Updated: Jun 17, 2019 10:10:11 IST
Hands-on Fathers
By Yasaswini Sampathkumar
“When my son mentions that I prepared his lunch,” says Amit Awekar, Assistant Professor at IIT Guwahati, “His teacher isn’t quite sure how to react.”
Awekar is deeply involved with his children, often waking up at 5 am to help them get ready for school. He enjoys picking the best ingredients for the sandwiches he makes for them and likes preparing delicious snacks for their lunch boxes. However, he is often in the minority and like his son’s teacher, others are surprised by his active role.
“I am usually the only father at birthday parties,” he says, even though he and his wife work together to make decisions, plan, and organize the events of their children’s lives. He mentions, however, that he doesn’t like to preach to his children about equality. “They can learn by watching,” he says.
Amit Awekar with his children Anjali and Maadhav
Fathers like Awekar are working against a number of factors that make it difficult for men and women to share parenting tasks equally. State of the World’s Fathers (SOWF), a global report on men’s contribution to parenting and care giving, says that social norms, workplace policies, and laws can come together and affect the distribution of caregiving.
For example, gender socialization can perpetuate the idea that unpaid caregiving must be done by women. The lack of paternity leave can force mothers to become primary caregivers.
For example, when Sid Balachandran’s wife returned to work after maternity leave, they were keen to have a parent stay at home with their son. It seemed natural for Sid to take a career break. He didn’t give it much thought initially, but over time, his unusual choice exposed him to the unequal expectations set by patriarchal social norms.
“My wife and I both knew that we were going to have to make some major adjustments to our careers,” explains Sid. “Having said that, I think women’s careers take a bigger hit after becoming a parent just because of the way our society perceives their role,” he adds.
Sid says that he realized the importance of setting the right example for his child. “As more fathers step up, more women will be able to pursue their career or at least have the choice.”
The SOWF recommends teaching all children the value of care work from an early age, and to see that care work is the responsibility of all, regardless of their gender. Modelling such positive behaviour for children can bring about deep change.
Ganesh Vancheeswaran, an entrepreneur and writer, has experienced this. He made a career switch because he wanted to give importance to his role as a father. “I was in high school when I visited a friend whose father was handling the home. I was impressed by the role reversal,” he says.
Ganesh Vancheeswaran with son Tejas
Now, he challenges assumptions about gender roles openly. When his son’s friends are visiting, he is usually cooking or cleaning.
Vijay Nagaswami, psychiatrist and relationship consultant, who has authored many bestselling books on marriage in India, gives a ray of hope when he says that traditional role definitions are now giving way to fuzzier divisions of labour, especially in professional urbanized settings. “Both parents have definitive views on how children should be parented,” he says.
The SOWF report also states that economic and workplace realities also maintain a traditional division of labour within the home. When an office does not have space for young children, it is often the careers of women that are disproportionately affected.
Ayon Tarafdar, Associate Professor at the School of Planning and Architecture in Vijayawada, experienced this when he wanted to be a supportive partner to his wife. She needed to travel on work and their children needed an after-school space. Tarafdar had to create it for his children at his workplace. “I store sketchbooks and colours and puzzles in my office, and sometimes bring my children here after school.”
He is quick to add, though, that this won’t be possible in every office. “I wish it were the norm to have some space for kids,” he says. But his actions might already be having a ripple effect. “Some of my colleagues are following my example and encouraging their wives to travel. Perhaps they feel confident because have seen me with my children."
Hands-on fathers also tend to have a better understanding and appreciation of their partners’ responsibilities. For instance, Tarafdar enjoys his daily routine with his children and sees it as doing his part: “Getting my children ready for school, and encouraging them to eat their dinner is relaxing – especially after a long day in the office. And my wife does so much more”. Sharing the responsibility seems to have built a stronger bond between these parents.
Dr Nagaswami agrees: “As a rule of thumb, the fewer the conflicts, the greater the satisfaction between couples. Mothers now expect their partners to be more engaged in parenting chores—and rightly so. So when fathers are pulling their weight, the marriage also tends to be positively impacted.”
These fathers also appear to be deriving some benefits from their lifestyle choices, and finding opportunities for personal growth. Sid began to explore his creative side when he was at home with his young son. He started a blog about his fatherhood journey, which evolved into a career in content writing. “Being a parent altered my path but in an unexpectedly positive way. Truth be told, parenting has taught me a lot more than two degrees and 10 years of professional work.”
Others mention that their relationships have become deeper and more meaningful. “My wife and I have a sense of being on a team," says Awekar, “And I began to see my own parents differently. They have already done this with far less money and time.” Ganesh echoes a very similar sentiment when he says that anticipating his son’s needs has made him more empathetic towards others. “A child gives you access to parts of your personality that you didn’t even know existed,” he says.
Looks like more people are pushing the envelope on what fatherhood means and how it can affect their lives. And in the process, building happy, fulfilling lives – for themselves and their partners. We only hope many more dads take the cue and make this the norm rather than an interesting exception.
Life lessons from a stay-at-home dad
By Chirag Mehta
Who would have thought I’d be a stay-at-home dad? Least of all me. As an average Indian man, I was used to the household being run by my wife. I worked with the Future Group in a senior role, successfully handling their food business for Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. My wife managed the home and children. Life was pretty normal this way. It was when she decided to re-join her enterprise, Dirty Feet, in March 2017 that we decided to take a joint call on who will get to do the ‘home run’.
My wife and I always believed parenting should be an equal opportunity platform—where both the partners pitch in equally. So when the opportunity presented itself, I thought this was my chance to experience the everyday bliss and blisters of bringing up our little girls, something I had been missing out on until then.
Chirag Mehta with his daughters
Our twin daughters, Iha and Arka, were just two and a half then. All of a sudden, I was alone at home to look after them. I had no clue where to begin, at first. My initial days as a stay-at-home dad were rough, to say the least,. It was the first time I was spending time at home all day, which in hindsight, terrified me more than the chores and responsibilities. It was also the first time I was interacting with my girls at a deeper level—beyond the ‘hello’ and ‘bye’, father-daughter chitchat and hug.
I always thought that being the breadwinner of the family was tough—you had to meet deadlines, work in a dynamic and competitive environment and constantly up your game. But nothing had prepared me for the real chaos that ensued being a full-time parent. I guess you don’t realize the trials and tribulations of a caregiver (mothers, in most cases), until you are actually in their shoes. The change was hard to adjust to, but what kept me going was the sheer joy of being with my daughters, participating in their everyday explorations, giggles and play-acts. I was reliving my own childhood through their antics.
Every day is a new learning with them around. I used to be an immensely restless and impatient person when I began my parenting journey. Being with Iha and Arka has taught me how to prioritize and multitask and has improved my decision-making capabilities. I learnt to let go of my own biases because I realized that children are intuitive and emulate their parents. I didn’t want them to grow up with prejudices, so I was careful not to pass on my own biases. I have taught Iha and Arka to never give up, no matter how hard the going gets, and my most treasured moment is when my daughters exhibit this never-say-die attitude. For instance, one day I was struggling to keep up with their play pace and was generally making a mess of it. They just walked up to me, looked me in the eye and said, “It's okay Papa, take your time. Just keep trying”. And my heart just filled with pride and joy. Today, the girls call me to take them to the washroom or for any important event in their lives, even though my wife is around.
I think parenting should be hands-on, organic, slow and conscious. It’s about giving space, and time and empowering them our children to explore, experience, enjoy life, and move forth at their own pace. Our only priority should be to ensure that the child in them stays alive. Our daughters are now four and a half and are yet to face any kind of formal and structured environment. So here we are, content in our own chaotic and cosy world.
Chirag Mehra chronicles his experiences and learning on his blog mydaughtersandme.com
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First time finalist wins REIA award
19 March 2013 Stacey Moseley
Long hours, passion for the job and in-depth industry knowledge were the reasons the newest Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) Property Manager of the Year stood out amongst the crowd, said the new recipient.
Last week Ranita Patel from Place Newmarket in Queensland was awarded the REIA's ‘Terri Scheer Residential Property Manager of the Year’ award at the eight REIA National Awards for Excellence, held in The Great Hall at Parliament House in Canberra.
According to the young property manager, it was her industry knowledge that won her the prestigious award.
“I think it was for the passion and the knowledge I have for the industry,” she told Residential Property Manager.
“I live and breathe the industry. I do long hours, probably a minimum of 10 hours a day, but I am always researching and reading up about what people are doing in the industry outside of hours.”
Ms Patel has been in the industry for seven years, working as a property manager for the last six. She has been a finalist at the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) Awards for Excellence for the last three years. This year she was given the top prize.
“It was my first time at the REIA awards, so I really didn’t think it would be me,” she said.
“It was such a big surprise, I wasn’t expecting it at all.”
According to Mario Sultana, the principal at Place Newmarket in Queensland, Ms Patel is an integral part of the Place Newmarket team.
“Ranita’s win is a great reflection of our property management business and our belief to always give our customers unbelievable service,” he said.
“She thoroughly deserves the award and it a great recognition of her hard work and enthusiasm.
“Ranita has grown our rent roll significantly in the last 12 months and is an important part of our team.”
Stacey Moseley
Last Updated: 05 June 2017 Published: 19 March 2013
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Existing-Home Sales Rise in November, Market Likely Stabilizing
Washington, DC, Dec. 31, 2007 - Existing-home sales rose slightly in November, indicating a stabilization in housing in the wake of mortgage disruptions earlier this year, according to the National Assn. of REALTORS®.
Total existing-home sales – including single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops – rose 0.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate (1) of 5.00 million units in November from an upwardly revised pace of 4.98 million in October, but are 20.0% below the 6.25 million-unit level in November 2006.
Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said the market appears to be stabilizing. “Near term, existing-home sales should continue to hover in a narrow range, just as they have since September, and that’s good news because it’ll be a further sign that the housing market is stabilizing,” he said. “Mortgage interest rates are near historic lows and the most current data shows decelerating price declines, along with a modest reduction in the number of homes on the market.” Disruptions in mortgage availability and pricing peaked in August, which caused sales to slow in subsequent months.
The national median existing-home price (2) for all housing types was $210,200 in November, down 3.3% from November 2006 when the median was $217,300, but there remains a downward drag on the national median as the mix of closed sales has shifted away from expensive markets.
“Just like the weather, there are large local variations in home prices,” Yun said. A quarterly examination of price performance on a metropolitan basis shows nearly two-thirds of metro areas are showing price increases. Among the many metros experiencing healthy local price gains are Farmington, NM; Reading, PA.; Columbia, SC, and Fargo, ND.
Total housing inventory declined 3.6% at the end of November to 4.27 million existing homes available for sale, which represents a 10.3-month supply (3) at the current sales pace, down from a 10.7-month supply in October. “Inventory is still high, and further reduction in prices may be required in some areas to induce buyers back into the market,” Yun said.
NAR President Richard Gaylord, a broker with RE/MAX Real Estate Specialists in Long Beach, CA, said that Congress should expand affordable financing. “Consumers have some choices with safer conventional financing, but raising the limit on conforming loans would significantly revive home sales,” he said. “This would help creditworthy buyers in hard hit regions like California and Florida by greatly increasing access to low-interest-rate mortgages. NAR, as the leading advocate for homeownership, strongly urges lawmakers to act quickly on this important measure.”
According to Freddie Mac, the national average commitment rate for a 30-year, conventional, fixed-rate mortgage fell to 6.21% in November from 6.38% in October; the rate was 6.24% in November 2006.
Single-family home sales rose 0.7% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.40 million in November from 4.37 million in October, but are 19.9% below the 5.49 million-unit pace in November 2006. The median existing single-family home price was $208,700 in November, down 3.7% from a year earlier.
Existing condominium and co-op sales slipped 1.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 600,000 units in November from 610,000 in October, and are 20.6% below the 756,000-unit level in November 2006. The median existing condo price (4) was $221,100, down 0.7% from in November 2006.
Regionally, existing-home sales in the West increased 10.3% in November to a level of 960,000, but are 25.0% below a year ago. The median price in the West was $325,800, which is 6.8% lower than November 2006.
In the Midwest, existing-home sales were unchanged at an annual rate of 1.18 million in November, but are 16.9% below November 2006. The median price in the Midwest was $163,000, down 0.5% from a year ago.
Existing-home sales in the South declined 2.0% to an annual rate of 1.99 million in November, and are 19.4% below a year ago. The median price in the South was $174,200, which is 2.5% below November 2006.
Existing-home sales in the Northeast fell 3.3% to an annual pace of 870,000 in November, and are 19.4% below November 2006. The median price in the Northeast was $258,300, down 3.2% from a year ago.
The National Assn. of REALTORS®, “The Voice for Real Estate,” is America’s largest trade association, representing more than 1.3 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.
(1) The annual rate for a particular month represents what the total number of actual sales for a year would be if the relative pace for that month were maintained for 12 consecutive months. Seasonally adjusted annual rates are used in reporting monthly data to factor out seasonal variations in resale activity. For example, home sales volume is normally higher in the summer than in the winter, primarily because of differences in the weather and family buying patterns. However, seasonal factors cannot compensate for abnormal weather patterns.
Existing-home sales, which include single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, are based on transaction closings. This differs from the U.S. Census Bureau’s series on new single-family home sales, which are based on contracts or the acceptance of a deposit. Because of these differences, it is not uncommon for each series to move in different directions in the same month. In addition, existing-home sales, which generally account for 85% of total home sales, are based on a much larger sample – nearly 40 percent of multiple listing service data each month – and typically are not subject to large prior-month revisions.
(2) The only valid comparisons for median prices are with the same period a year earlier due to the seasonality in buying patterns. Month-to-month comparisons do not compensate for seasonal changes, especially for the timing of family buying patterns. Changes in the geographic composition of sales can distort median price data. Year-ago median and mean prices sometimes are revised in an automated process if more data is received than was originally reported.
(3) Total inventory and month’s supply data are available back through 1999, while single-family inventory and month’s supply are available back to 1982. Condos were tracked quarterly prior to 1999 when single-family homes accounted for more than nine out of 10 purchases (e.g., condos were 9.5% of transactions in 1998, 8.5% in 1990 and only 6.1% in 1982).
(4) Because there is a concentration of condos in high-cost metro areas, the national median condo price can be higher than the median single-family price. In a given market area, condos typically cost less than single-family homes.
Existing-home sales for December will be released January 24. The next Forecast / Pending Home Sales Index is scheduled for January 8.
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JB Hifi CEO posts record profit, then quits
David Ramli (Unknown Publication)
06 February, 2010 22:00
JB Hi-Fi CEO, Richard Uechtritz, is stepping down after announcing his company’s half-year profit jump of 29 per cent to $76 million. The result was achieved despite a tougher Christmas sales period. Uechtritz leaves the retailer in top form after 10 years at the helm, having led it through years of steady growth in profit and market share against stiff competition and the recent Global Financial Crisis. He is being replaced by COO, Terry Smart, but will return as a non-executive director by July or August. According to the JB Hi-Fi’s results, revenue rose by 23.16 per cent to $1.55 billion in the half-year ending December 31, 2009. Comparable store sales also grew strongly despite missing last year’s Government stimulus spending. “We are once again extremely pleased with this strong result, particularly the comparable store sales growth of 6.5 per cent in December,” Uechtritz said. “JB has proven very resilient throughout the economic downturn, which led to low consumer confidence and spend. “We opened new stores, expanded our offering and reduced our prices on the back of increased economies of scale and [had] a continued focus on cost.” Analyst predictions of a slowdown in Christmas sales were recently borne out by December sales figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics , which showed a drop by 0.7 per cent. Despite continuing doubts from both retail analysts and global markets, the retailer said it was on track to deliver its promise of a 20 per cent full-year revenue increase to $2.8bn. It also expects profits to rise 24-27 per cent to $117m-$120m.
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Duterte, the Most Loved by Filipinos
Paolo Affatato 24 April 2017
Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines since May 2016, has extensive and rock-solid support unscathed by official gaffes and bad language. During his first nine months in power, the popular support he enjoys increased and according to polls is now stable at about 75%. In spite of criticism from the international community over his not very democratic and illiberal methods – as witnessed by the 8,000 victims of his well-known anti-drugs crusade, mainly extra-judicial executions – Duterte rejects all interference concerning his policies.
“The people gave me their vote and now I am the one who decides,” he repeats. It is true that Filipino citizens voted for him en masse, giving him almost 40% of the votes. But why? What are the social, cultural and political dynamics that have made Duterte the country’s most beloved politician?
The millennials’ short memory
The spring 2016 elections were filled with strong symbolism for the Republic of the Philippines. The presidential elections fell on the 30th anniversary of the end of Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship. That regime ended in 1986 thanks to a non-violent people’s revolt; people took to the street en masse, encouraged also by a campaign backing the Catholic Church, a traditionally strong presence in Asia’s most Catholic country where over 85% of the people are believers.
But those days are long gone. It is sufficient to bear in mind that in November 2016, Duterte ordered the former Filipino dictator’s body be moved to the ‘heroes cemetery’ in Manila. Protests from human rights activists – “this is a dark day in the country’s history” said the NGO Karapatan – did not have much of an effect.
If one adds the praise for Marcos and references to martial law made by Duterte, without causing widespread indignation, one observes that fear and vigilance regarding oppressive and illiberal forms of power seem to be dormant in the collective consciousness. This is happening above all because of a generational gap. Filipino millennials, young people born after the mid-Eighties, have not personally experienced the suffering inflicted by a dictatorship. And their parents’ memories are not enough.
One must also add that one cannot lay all responsibility at the feet of the young. The school books they use are rather lacking in information about the Marcos era and the techno-democracy that characterises their lives does not help. The entire system has failed to transfer to the new generations the lesson the nation had learned thirty years ago.
In the Philippines, out of its 100 million inhabitants the young aged between 18 and 35 represent over 37% of the electorate (which has a total of 55 million voters), and the percentage of voters under the age of 30 (over 25 million when last counted) continues to rise every year. According to observers, the millennials’ vote was decisive for Duterte’s victory and the young still form the solid base for his support.
The strong man’s appeal
It is, however, undeniable that Duterte enjoys transversal approval in society. The Filipinos are subject to the irresistible charm of strong men. In the course of his political ascent, Duterte exploited the widespread dissatisfaction with poverty and phenomena such as crime, drugs and corruption. The people’s frustration catapulted him to victory. The Filipinos rewarded his authoritarian attitude and his intransigent rhetoric. In a country in which democratic processes have repeatedly failed to improve the lives of ordinary people, the public seems drawn to charismatic leaders who achieve results no matter by what means.
Duterte presented himself as an “anti-system man” promising social and economic change. He presented himself bringing with his political baggage his efficiency in managing the city of Davao, in the south of the archipelago, where he was the mayor for 22 years. It is from his experience in government there, that names such as “The Punisher” come, due to the focus on issues such as security and, according to others, complicity with the squadrons of “vigilantes” who cleared the city of crime using methods that were anything but legal. Epithets that, instead of becoming a handicap in the race for the presidency, turned out instead to benefit him.
In the sign of discontinuity
In any case, the newly elected president is an “outsider” and embodies the paradigm of discontinuity compared to a past dominated by large family clans. The cumbersome presence of dynasties, hence a small oligarchy managing power, is the factor that characterises both the economy and politics in the Philippines, acting as a restraint to the country’s real democratisation. Society there is closely linked to the phenomenon known as crony capitalism.
Political dynasties increase corruption and inefficiency, monopolising political authority and bending it to the interests of a few. While the Philippines’ constitution specifically forbids political dynasties, 40% of Filipino legislators, civil administrators and politicians belong to a clan. And cronyism did not vanish at all following the deposal of the Marcos regime. Control over the banking, property, energy and telecommunications sectors as well as gambling remain firmly in the net of crony capitalism.
Duterte has had the power to break this organisational paradigm. Filipinos identify with their undisputed leader who, on the other hand, plays greatly on populism and arouses sentiments of national pride. Slamming the door on Washington, Beijing or Brussels, as Duterte has at least done verbally, is a move that has had a psychological impact on the people and consolidated their support.
The uninfluential Church
There is one last element that seems significant; the Catholic Church, which in the Philippines has always played a role and exercised significant political influence. On the eve of the 2016 elections, the entire Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines had publicly begged Catholics “not to vote for Duterte”. Priests and nuns gathered to pray, asking people “not to vote for this demon”, portraying him as the “expression of forces of evil”. Archbishop Antonio Ledesma wrote, “This infernal monster is a Pol Pot who will not hesitate to kill people en masse. There will be new extermination camps if Duterte becomes president.”
The stronger the Church’s opposition, the more resounding and symbolically stinging seemed the defeat suffered by the hierarchies. The 2016 elections marked a momentous change in Filipino society, certifying the end of the Church’s influence on the people’s political and moral choices. While effectively the vote was presented as “a choice between good and evil”, the fact that in spite of everything the people chose Duterte, shows the citizens, albeit Catholics, no longer entrust to the clergy the discernment of their own conscience-based choices.
Filipino society has changed profoundly. Four years ago parliament’s approval of a law regulating “reproductive health” (which legalised birth control) and was strongly opposed by the Church, was a warning bell. This issue has now exploded in all its clarity. Parliament’s recent approval of the death penalty, thanks to which the Philippines, previously a country on the front lines as far as abolitionism was concerned, will now reintroduce capital punishment – the vote in the Senate at the beginning of May is considered a formality – is additional confirmation of the Catholic hierarchy’s lack of influence on the public in spite of having expressed its strong opposition.
The Church in the Philippines nowadays appears to be slow in understanding that credibility, authoritativeness and the people’s loyalty are not won over through a show of strength but rather by becoming a transparent vehicle for the Gospel, enlightening consciousness.
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October 9, 2018 / 10:09 PM / 9 months ago
Pentagon slow to protect weapon systems from cyber threats: U.S. agency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has been slow to protect major weapon systems from cyber attacks and routinely found critical vulnerabilities that hackers could potentially exploit in those systems, a federal government report said on Tuesday.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a watchdog unit of Congress, said in a 50-page report that the Pentagon found “mission-critical cyber vulnerabilities in systems” under development.
“Using relatively simple tools and techniques, testers were able to take control of systems and largely operate undetected, due in part to basic issues such as poor password management and unencrypted communications,” the report said.
Some program officials told GAO that the weapon systems were secure and discounted some test results as “unrealistic.”
While the Pentagon plans to spend about $1.66 trillion to develop major weapon systems, the report found, it had only recently taken steps to improve cyber security.
Cyber security has been receiving increasing attention among U.S military and intelligence officials.
Last week, Western countries issued coordinated denunciations of Russia for running what they described as a global hacking campaign, targeting institutions from sports anti-doping bodies to a nuclear power company and the chemical weapons watchdog.
In some of the strongest language aimed at Moscow since the Cold War, Britain said Russia had become a “pariah state.”
The United States said Moscow must be made to pay the price for its actions. Their allies around the world issued stark assessments of what they described as a campaign of hacking by Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency.
“Due to this lack of focus on weapon systems cybersecurity,
(Department of Defense) likely has an entire generation of systems that were designed and built without adequately considering cybersecurity,” the report said.
Reporting by Idrees Ali; Editing by David Gregorio
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August 31, 2017 / 2:06 PM / 2 years ago
Former U.S. officials urge balance in refugee cost reports
Warren Strobel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former officials of the State Department and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service have written to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, urging that two White House-ordered reports on refugee resettlement costs be balanced by also tallying the benefits refugees bring to the United States.
FILE PHOTO: A sign warns of surveillance at the International Arrival area, on the day that U.S. President Donald Trump's limited travel ban, approved by the U.S. Supreme Court, goes into effect, at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Reuters in June first reported discord over the reports, which President Donald Trump ordered in March. Four current and former officials said they believe the Trump administration wants to help make a case to restrict refugee flows by creating a skewed analysis.
A White House spokesman at the time denied ordering biased reports.
Trump campaigned for president on a platform of restricting immigration and building a border wall with Mexico. His March order framing the reports, which are due in September, did not ask that they include the economic or diplomatic benefits of resettling refugees, which many experts say can be considerable over time.
“We believe that an assessment of the long-term costs of the Refugee Admissions Program must also gauge the long-term economic and social benefits of the program, and that failure to do so will paint a misleading picture of the program’s value to the United States,” the 10 former senior officials and academics wrote to Tillerson.
The letter was sent to Tillerson on Wednesday and made public on Thursday.
For the first report, Trump ordered a tally of “the estimated long-term costs of the United States Refugee Admissions Program at the Federal, State, and local levels, along with recommendations about how to curtail those costs.”
Trump directed that the second report estimate “how many refugees are being supported in countries of first asylum (near their home countries) for the same long-term cost as supporting refugees in the United States, taking into account the full lifetime cost of Federal, State, and local benefits, and the comparable cost of providing similar benefits elsewhere.”
The letter’s authors called that a “flawed exercise,” saying that while keeping refugees in camps overseas may be cheaper in some cases, it does not provide a sustainable long-term solution.
“The cost of a fish may be less than that of a fishing pole, but only the latter will free the beneficiary from dependency into the future,” they wrote.
Signers of the letter include Arthur Dewey and Eric Schwartz, both former assistant secretaries of state for population, refugees and migration; former deputy INS commissioner Myrta Sale; and three former INS general counsels.
Editing by Cynthia Osterman
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Home » #CommunityMedia » Rains in Rio: Responses from Mayor Crivella and Governor Witzel and Accounts from Favela Residents
Rains in Rio: Responses from Mayor Crivella and Governor Witzel and Accounts from Favela Residents
On Wednesday, February 6, a year and a day after the 2018 summer rains began, another storm devastated the city of Rio de Janeiro. The traditional and intensifying summer rains were “unexpected” and consisted of “a surprisingly…large amount of water,” for Rio’s mayor, Marcelo Crivella.
Last year, the mayor responded to the situation from afar while on a controversial trip to Europe. He went so far as to make jokes at the expense of welfare recipients who were the most affected by the storm, saying they would receive “Balsa Familia” (balsa is Portuguese for “raft” and the term “Balsa Família” is a play on words with “Bolsa Família,” Brazil’s federal welfare program). This year, he quickly arrived at Avenida Niemeyer, which connects the South Zone to the West Zone, where a landslide had struck a bus, killing two people, and parts of the Tim Maia bike path—personally inspected by Crivella less than two weeks prior—collapsed.
In response, Crivella blamed environmental regulations: “If we had come here to Niemeyer with engineers from Geo-Rio [Rio’s municipal entity for conducting geological assessments] three days ago and they had said that it’s necessary to remove a tree, environmental concerns would certainly have been raised.” Beyond this false blame, Crivella must be unaware that trees are nature’s first defense against landslides.
Meanwhile, Wilson Witzel, Rio’s new governor, blamed the City of Rio (Mayor Crivella’s administration) and the disorderly occupation of the city’s hillsides. The former was certainly at fault: merely R$14.5 million (US$3.5 million) was spent on flood control in 2017 (when Crivella’s mayoral term began), and only R$66 million (US$16.5 million) was spent in 2018—nearly 80% less than the amounts spent in 2014 by the previous administration (see table below). Furthermore, in 2018, the City only spent R$35 million (US$8.75 million) of the R$265 million (US$66 million) allocated for the containment of hillsides, a budget that was reduced to R$72 million (US$18 million) in 2019. These are part of an overall, troubling trend: public spending on favelas has decreased 69% since 2013.
Laying blame on the “disorderly occupation” of Rio’s hillsides is an age-old tradition—one that is clearly misplaced. This line of thought consists of treating favelas as a problem and not a solution to issues such as Rio’s housing deficit and urban mobility challenges. Instead of identifying a century of government neglect and the inadequate provision of public services as the problem and finally addressing the risks that threaten people’s homes, the governor insists on the need to “remove people from high-risk areas,” in line with the position already signaled by Crivella. Conveniently, he ignores the fact that the rain caused damage in low-lying areas like Barra de Guaratiba, and in upscale neighborhoods like Jardim Botânico. Additionally, he fails to acknowledge that favela residents are not the only people who occupy the hillsides. In the São Conrado region, for example, landslides affected wealthy residents living in luxury homes, as shown in the photo below.
Witzel promised to address the favelas most affected by the rains, namely Vidigal and Rocinha, through a program called Comunidade Cidade (“Community City”). “The State Water and Sewerage Utility (CEDAE) will allocate R$500 million (US$125 million) in funding so we can open the roads and have basic sanitation in the region, clear the most critical areas, and collaborate with community members to construct buildings throughout Rocinha,” the governor said to Agência Brasil. Additionally, he announced that the Metropolitan Chamber will meet this month, convening mayors from 22 municipalities in the state of Rio. The purpose of the meeting is to “identify areas where housing can be built for low-income families that live in areas of risk,” rather than joining forces and coordinating the municipalities’ urban planning efforts in order to reduce the impact of recurrent floods and provide dignified housing for local populations.
Far from blameworthy, favelas are victims of the floods. The greatest damages were experienced in the hillside communities of Rocinha—where a woman died due to a landslide—and in Vidigal, where a containment wall broke, harming a woman, and where six people who were injured by collapsed houses were rescued by firemen via helicopter. In low-lying Complexo de Manguinhos, the overflow of the Cunha Canal impeded transportation, and in Acari, Military Police tanks continued to patrol the area despite tire-high water, as documented by Coletivo Fala Akari.
In the North Zone, in Complexo do Alemão‘s Morro do Adeus, a cable from the electric-powered cable car (which has been out of service since 2016) broke for the second time (the first was in 2013, while the system was still functioning) due to strong winds that reached over 100km per hour, leaving a resident injured. Several communities are experiencing power outages—in Alemão, the storm fell on residents’ sixth day without power and Vila Autódromo in Rio’s West Zone is still without electricity today, six days after the storm. Two more deaths occurred in Barra de Guaratiba, in the West Zone of the city, where trees collapsed on a house, killing a mother and her son.
Rescue in Vidigal
One of the people rescued by firemen via helicopter in Vidigal was Thalita, 21, who was with her three-month-old son Bernardo when water began to seep through the window of her house. Wellington Ferreira, Bernardo’s father, recounts that when the water started to rise, Thalita wrapped Bernardo in a blanket and took him to a house located on higher ground. “A few minutes after they went up, followed by Thalita’s grandmother, a boulder rolled down the hill—landing between them in the middle of the living room and pressing everyone up against the wall. There were many broken wires and bricks. Thalita, her younger sister, and her grandmother were injured. Through the opening made by the rock, our neighbor inserted a ladder to help rescue everyone. Thalita and the others who were most severely injured were taken to the hospital via helicopter.”
At the time of the incident Ferreira was at the flower shop where he works. His friend said that some houses had collapsed in an area of Vidigal known as Jaqueira. Due to the closure of access roads leading to Vidigal and because of the landslides, he couldn’t get to Thalita’s house. “It was pitch-dark. No one could see very well. If I had been there, I would have been another fatality in this disaster because I wouldn’t have been able to ignore a neighbor crying out for help.”
With no word of Thalita and their son, Ferreira tried to remain calm and prepared himself to search for them the following day. The next morning, he set out for Vidigal but was barred from proceeding by the Civil Defense. “I climbed down over the rocks until gaining access to the exit [to the community] on the beach,” he recounts, showing how he managed to reach the favela. “Now I feel that it is my obligation to help the whole family rebuild,” said the 23-year-old man. Ferreira recently won second place in the first edition of Desafio Seu Amanhã (“Your Tomorrow Challenge”), a competition designed to share knowledge and opportunities with youth from favelas. Ferreira created an online crowdfunding campaign to raise support in order to rebuild.
He intends to help not only through his work at the flower shop but also through his dream of owning a company that helps youth create art and culture. “During my childhood, I couldn’t be an actor. My father said that it was almost impossible in the Baixada Fluminense,” says Ferreira, who grew up in Jardim Metrópoles in São João de Meriti. “So I don’t want other children to give up on their dreams because they don’t have money for bus fares—I don’t want new MCs to miss out on participating in cultural events because they don’t have money for transportation and food.”
Alternative Media Coverage in Rocinha
Rocinha community journalist Michel Silva shared a series of updates on the situation in the community. At 2:36am, he posted:
I’m walking in Rocinha right now. Many residents lost furniture. Business owners are cleaning up their shops. There are many trails of destruction in the alleyways. A young woman died, trapped in the upper part of the favela. The man who was swept away by the water survived. There are still other locations that are at risk of landslides.
The following morning, he assessed the damage:
I’ve been in the streets since 5am. There are landslides in at least four places in Rocinha. The most serious one was in Dioneia, in the upper part of Rocinha, where a house was swallowed by the mud. Residents escaped with water up to their chests. Some wooden shacks were impacted near Morro Dois Irmãos, with no reported injuries. There is a trail of destruction along Estrada da Gávea. Hundreds of houses are without power; there is no estimated restoration time. There are reports that many houses were flooded.
The following morning, Silva continued to denounce:
The Civil Defense has only one team working in Rocinha. It’s the favela that was most severely impacted by the storm, with landslides in several locations. The next storm that comes will worsen the situation on the hillsides. There’s a lot of mud. Many trees need to be trimmed. Many families are being neglected by public aid agencies. If nothing is done, it will be an announced tragedy.
Residents reported that they were not able to leave to go to work or take their children to school. Many spent the day removing mud, trash, and debris from houses, as well as appliances, motorcycles, and cars that had been swept up by the storm. One resident reported that she had to break a hole in a wall in her house so that the water inside could drain. Trash collectors and environmental workers from the De Olho no Lixo project reinforced residents’ efforts.
In response to photos of trash-filled streets following the storm, many residents spoke out about the practices of neighbors who do not properly dispose of waste. On the Rocinha em Foco Facebook page, one resident stated her opinion:
Guys, it’s the government’s fault insofar as there isn’t waste treatment, basic sanitation, or a decent sewage system. The community doesn’t have anywhere to throw away trash. We have to be conscious of the fact that without educating people, no one will know what to do. The mayor abandoned this city. If they were interested in resolving [the issue], they would have implemented a trash collection system. But for Crivella, poor people are only good for paying taxes.
Another resident expressed:
But guys?! So, where do you throw out your trash??? On my street, there are NO adequate places. If not on the street, am I supposed to wait for COMLURB [the municipal waste collection utility] to come by and hand deliver it to the trash collectors—I have to work, don’t I?
In light of the situation, a reporter from Voz das Comunidades made an appeal to social media users:
JOURNALIST FRIENDS IN RIO DE JANEIRO!
Let’s cover and share everything that’s happening in Rocinha and Vidigal, holding authorities responsible and helping the residents of these favelas. People lost their homes, some died, there’s lots of debris and mud in the streets…AND THERE’S EVEN THE RISK OF TWO LARGE BOULDERS FALLING ON RESIDENTS’ HOMES IN VIDIGAL.
Social media accounts of people who you can contact and follow to find out what is happening in the two favelas: Edu Carvalho, Michele Silva, Michel Silva, and Roberta Rodrigues.
If you live outside of Rio de Janeiro and want to support victims, you can donate to Catalytic Communities, the Brazilian NGO and USA 501[c][3] nonprofit that publishes RioOnWatch, here, and 100% of your contribution will be passed on to community groups organizing donations below. Please write “2019 Rains” in the “earmark” category. Or simply message donate@catcomm.org informing us that your contribution is earmarked for “2019 Rains.”
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DONATION DROP-OFF LOCATIONS IN ROCINHA
Baptist Church
Estrada da Gávea, 436. Phone: +55 (21) 2420-4743
Located in front of the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) buildings. Accepting donations of water, non-perishable foods, personal hygiene items, and cleaning supplies for affected residents—in addition to volunteers to personally help clean up houses.
No set hours.
Pizza Lit
Located on the “S” Curve
Opens at 5pm
Viniciu’s Beverage Supply
Located in Roupa Suja
Opens at 12pm
DONATION DROP-OFF LOCATION IN VIDIGAL
Donations at the Residents’ Association: Avenida Presidente João Goulart, 737 – Motorcycle taxi drivers are also providing assistance.
DONATION DROP-OFF LOCATION OUTSIDE OF ROCINHA
So far we have confirmed four places that are accepting donations OUTSIDE of the community for residents of Rocinha. See below:
Oi Kabum Lab – located in downtown Rio
Rua Benedito Hipólito, 125
3rd Floor – in front of Terreirão do Samba
Cultura Inglesa – located in Jardim Botânico
Rua Saturnino de Brito, 74
Pontifical Catholic University Association of Employees – located in Gávea
Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225
São Conrado Driving School
Estrada da Gávea, 847 – Store C
"area of risk" designation
#VoicesFromSocialMedia
CEDAE
Comlurb (waste collection utility)
community media
Guaratiba
landslide risk
Light (electricity)
Manguinhos
Marcelo Crivella
Morro do Adeus
Policy Critique
Rocinha
São Conrado
Tim Maia bike path
Vidigal
Wilson Witzel
This article was written by Luisa Fenizola, and published on February 11, 2019.
Translation provided by Ava Rose Hoffman, Tara Mittelberg. in #CommunityMedia, #MonitoringCrivella, *Highlight, Opportunities to Support Favelas, Policies, Sustainability, Understanding Rio, Violations
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ESPN’s FPI Predicts Vols’ 3 Remaining Games
by Nathanael Rutherford - Nov 7, 2018
Tennessee has three games left in their 2018 football season. They have to win two of them in order to get to six wins and earn a bowl berth. Can the Vols pull that off in Jeremy Pruitt’s first year as head coach?
ESPN’s Football Power Index is a tool ESPN uses to quantify talent, experience, and strength of schedule to make predictions for college football. The FPI is “a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of a team’s performance going forward for the rest of the season” according to ESPN’s website.
And according to the FPI, the Vols will not only fail to reach their postseason goals; they’ll fail to win a single game left on their schedule.
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The FPI gives Tennessee only a 33.6 percent chance of defeating No. 11 Kentucky this Saturday in Neyland Stadium. The Wildcats opened up as a 3.5-point favorite over the Vols, but that line has risen to make Kentucky a six-point favorite just a few days before kick-off. Kentucky hasn’t won in Knoxville since 1984, and they haven’t defeated Tennessee in back-to-back years since they beat them in both 1976 and 1977. But the Wildcats are easily the favorites when the two teams face-off this weekend.
But this Saturday’s contest isn’t the only game the FPI gives the Vols little to no chance of winning.
Tennessee’s next game against Missouri is also a home game, and the FPI gives the Vols an even smaller chance of defeating the Tigers even though they aren’t a ranked team like Kentucky. According to the FPI, the Vols have just a 25.1 percent shot at taking down Missouri. The Tigers rolled all over Tennessee last season, defeating the Vols 50-17. Tennessee would announce the firing of head coach Butch Jones the day after that loss.
The FPI doesn’t even like the Vols’ chances of beating in-state rival Vanderbilt. According to those metrics, Tennessee has a 42.6 percent shot at beating the Commodores in their regular season finale. Vanderbilt owns a two-game winning streak over the Vols and have won four of the last six meetings between the two teams. The Commodores haven’t beaten Tennessee three years in a row since they owned a a nine-game streak over UT that included seven wins and two ties from 1918 to 1927.
According to the FPI, the Vols have just a 3.8 percent chance of winning out this season. Tennessee is ranked No. 58 in the FPI, and that places them 12th in the SEC. Only Vanderbilt (60th) and Arkansas (80th) are ranked lower in the FPI out of the 14 SEC teams.
Tennessee’s 2018 schedule is one of the tougher schedules in college football, and the FPI backs that up. The Vols have played five teams ranked inside the top 20 of the FPI and will play a sixth when they take on Missouri next week. The only teams on UT’s schedule that aren’t ranked inside the top 35 of the FPI rankings are Vanderbilt (60th), Charlotte (115th), UTEP (129th), and ETSU (N/A because they’re an FCS school).
The Vols haven’t missed out on a bowl game in back-to-back seasons since they had a three-year bowl drought from 2011 through 2013. But if the FPI projections come true, this year will see Tennessee staying home in December just like last year.
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Nathanael Rutherford
Nathanael Rutherford is the managing editor and social media manager for Rocky Top Insider. Nathanael graduated from the University of Tennessee and cultivated a passion for the Vols while growing up in Knoxville a mere 10 minutes from Neyland Stadium. He's been a part of the RTI team since November of 2015 and has been the editor of RTI since June of 2017. If he's not talking or writing about Tennessee athletics, he's probably talking about Star Wars.
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Black Snake Moan (2007)
Samuel L. Jackson as Lazarus
Christina Ricci as Rae
John Cothran Jr. as R.L.
Justin Timberlake as Ronnie
S. Epatha Merkerson as Angela
Directed and written by
Craig Brewer
Drama, Indie
Rated R for strong sexual content, language, some drug use
I had never really heard many half-snorts before. Snorts, yes, and silence. But what do you make of an audience that has no idea how to react? "Black Snake Moan" is the oddest, most peculiar movie I've seen about sex and race and redemption in the Deep South. It may be the most peculiar recent movie ever except for "Road House," but then what can you say about "Road House"? Such movies defy all categories.
The movie -- I will try to be concise -- stars Samuel L. Jackson as a broken-down blues musician and vegetable market gardener whose wife has just walked out. On the road leading to his property he finds the battered body of a young white girl, whose injuries hardly seem curable by the cough syrup he barters fresh vegetables for at the drugstore. The girl is Rae (Christina Ricci); it is no coincidence that Jackson's character is named Lazarus, and Lazarus determines to return her from near death or whooping cough, one or the other. No saint himself, he wants to redeem her from a life of sluttery.
His technique, with a refreshing directness, is to chain her to a radiator. Good thing he lives way out in the wilderness. Lazarus and Rae have no sex per se, but they do a powerful lot of slapping, cursing and chain-rattling, and the reaction of the blue-collar town on Market Day is a study. I think the point is that Lazarus and Rae somehow redeem each other through these grotesqueries, a method I always urge be used with extreme caution.
The performances are very good: Hell-bent for leather, and better than the material deserves, there is much hysteria and snot. The writer-director, Craig Brewer, made that other splendid story of prostitution and redemption, "Hustle & Flow," with its Oscar-winning song ("It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp") In fact, I pretty much enjoyed the whole movie, with some incredulity and a few half-snorts.
Both "Black Snake Moan" and "Hustle & Flow" are about neglected characters living on the fringe who find a healing in each other. Both movies use a great deal of music to illustrate the souls of their characters.
We sense that the girl has never been treated other than in a beastly manner, and that the man, having lost his wife, is determined not to allow sex to betray his instincts to do good. Yes, I think it is probably against the law to chain a drifter to a radiator, but in a sense these people exist outside the law, society and common or any kind of sense. Their society consists of the usual locals who seem clueless and remarkably unobservant, leading to remarkable non sequiturs.
There is another woman, the middle-aged pharmacist named Angela, played by the sweet S. Epatha Merkerson, to provide Lazarus an alternative to a life of sluts and tramps. But, as for Rae -- well, I gather that when compulsive nymphomania passes a certain point, you're simply lost.
After Rae says goodbye to her boyfriend Ronnie (played by pop star Justin Timberlake), who has enlisted in the service for cloudy reasons, she immediately falls to the ground and starts writhing as if under attack by fire ants. This is her way of conveying uncontrollable, orgiastic need. A girl that needy, you'd approach like Miss RoboCop.
I love the way that both Samuel Jackson and Christina Ricci take chances like this, and the way that Brewer creates characters of unbelievable forbearance, like Ronnie, who is in a more or less constant state of panic attacks and compulsion. And I like the understated way the rural Tennessee locations are used. You have never seen a movie like this before. Then again, you may not hope to. Some good blues music helps carry the day.
I heard some days after the screening that Jackson considers this his best performance. Well, maybe it is. He disappears into the role, and a good performance requires energy, daring, courage and intensity, which he supplies in abundance. Few actors could accomplish work at this level with this screenplay. As for Christina Ricci, she is the right actor for this role; she embodies this poor, mixed-up creature and lets you experience both her pain and her hope. Her work defines the boundaries of the thankless.
by Glenn Kenny
by Peter Sobczynski
Justin Timberlake sings "The Social Network": "The script was its own song, really."
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Senior Telecom Industry Leaders Join Tethr Board to Drive Next Wave of AI-enabled Communications Innovation
By STS News Desk On Oct 12, 2018 269
Strategic telecommunications industry appointments bolster leadership for communications intelligence and enterprise listening company and establish basis for next phase of growth
Tethr, the leading AI-powered communication intelligence and listening platform for enterprise insight centers has announced the expansion of its board of directors and advisory board with the appointment of veteran telecommunications industry leaders Admiral William Owens as a director and Roy Chestnutt and Martha Bejar as strategic advisors. In addition, long time Tethr advisor and board director Steve Elfman has been appointed to role of non-executive chairman. The combination of these senior executives with Tethr’s existing board of industry leaders has created a leadership team with decades of telecom experience and connections to spur the next wave of industry growth around AI-enabled enterprise listening and insights.
These additions to Tethr come at a time when the company is experiencing tremendous growth in the telecommunications industry via direct relationships with carriers and major BPOs serving the market. These organizations are using the Tethr cloud-based AI platform to undercover insights from their customer interactions in a single view across internal and outsourced operations. These insights are driving substantive improvements to sales conversion, customer experience, customer loyalty, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance.
Steve Elfman is a founding partner of TAP Growth Group and the former president of Network Operations and Wholesale at Sprint. Elfman has been working with Tethr since its inception as a strategic advisor and has served on the Tethr Board since 2016. A proven leader and innovator in wireless technology, Elfman has a wealth of expertise in wireless applications and Internet business models. Elfman joined the Sprint senior leadership team in May 2008 from mobile data technology services company Infospace where he was executive vice president of Infospace Mobile. Following the acquisition of Infospace Mobile, Elfman served as president and chief operating officer of Motricity. He also has held leadership positions at Terabeam, as executive vice president of operations, and AT&T Wireless, where he was chief information officer (CIO). Prior to that, Elfman was the CIO at GE Capital (Fleet Services Company) as well as head of information technology at 3M Company for International Operations.
New Tethr board member Admiral William (Bill) Owens is co-founder and executive chairman of Red Bison Advisory Group, a company which identifies opportunities with proven enterprises in China, the Middle East and the United States and creates partnerships focusing on natural resources, real estate and information and communication technology. Owens brings decades of telecommunications expertise to Tethr, most recently as the chairman of the board of CenturyLink, the third largest telecommunications company in the United States. He has also served on the boards of Wipro, Telstra, Nortel Networks and Polycom. Owens was the CEO/Chairman of Teledesic LLC, a Bill Gates/Craig McCaw company bringing worldwide broadband through an extensive satellite network and prior, was the president, COO/vice chairman of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and the CEO and vice chairman of Nortel. He has also served on over 20 public boards and advisory boards for companies including Daimler, British American Tobacco and SAP USA as well as on the boards of the non-for-profit organizations Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Brookings Institution and RAND Corporation. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and a four-star US Navy veteran, having formerly served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the United States’ second-ranking military officer.
New Tethr strategic advisor Roy Chestnutt is the former executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Verizon Communications where he was responsible for development and implementation of Verizon’s overall corporate strategy, including business development, joint ventures, strategic investments, acquisitions and divestitures. Chestnutt joined Verizon in 2011 from Motorola Networks where he served as corporate vice president of the Americas and helped lead the successful transition of the business unit to new ownership by Nokia Siemens Networks. Chestnutt was previously chairman and CEO of Grande Communications, a communications provider in Texas, and before that senior vice president of National Field Sales and General Business for Sprint-Nextel. Chestnutt also served on the board of the Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA) and chaired the strategy committee of 25 Global Telecom Heads.
Also joining Tethr’s advisory board, Martha Bejar is a veteran in the information and communications technology market. She is the co-founder and CEO of Red Bison Advisory Group. Bejar also serves on the board of Mitel Networks, CenturyLink, Commvault, Rainier Scholars, and is a member of the President’s Advisory Group at EastWest Institute. Bejar has been the CEO and Director of several private companies: from December 2016 to March 2017, Bejar was the CEO/Director at Unium Inc. Unium’s software delivers fast, uninterrupted, secure, Wi-Fi wireless connections to the internet. In March 2018, she closed on the stock sale of Unium to Nokia Corp. She was also the CEO and Director of Flow Mobile, a broadband wireless access solution service provider. In December 2015, Bejar closed on the sale of Flow Mobile’s operations to Consolidated Telecom in North Dakota. Prior to joining Flow Mobile, Bejar was Chairperson/CEO of Wipro Infocrossing Cloud Computing Services (A Wipro Company). Prior to Wipro, Bejar was with Microsoft Corp., where she was the corporate vice president for the Communications Sector, and prior to Microsoft she was one of the business presidents at Nortel Networks.
“Despite supporting the largest communications dataset on the planet, the telecommunications industry has been unable to drive business-changing insights from the data for its customers. Tethr is changing all of that by revolutionizing access to insights from the voice channel and driving significant business upside for its customers,” said Owens. “I’m honored to work with the Tethr leadership team and all of the talented people who have helped the company create a game changing platform that is enabling enterprises to unlock powerful insights and value from phone conversations.”
“Bill, Steve, Martha and Roy are outstanding leaders with demonstrated experience in innovation for some of the largest and most influential companies in the telecommunications industry. The market has never had an autonomous listening capability to understand the customer’s voice and how that impacts financial outcomes. This team understands the power of AI-powered communications intelligence and the Tethr platform to deliver significant and meaningful returns to our customers and carrier partners,” said Mike Mings, CEO of Tethr. “Their deep industry backgrounds are a perfect complement to the telecommunications and carrier expertise represented on our existing board. We’re thrilled by the opportunity to add fresh insights to our business as we continue our rapid growth and momentum.”
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Why Did Columbus Refer to the ...
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Why Did Columbus Refer to the Native Americans As "Indians"?
Christopher Columbus called the Native Americans "Indians" in the mistaken belief that he had found India. Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492. This geographic region was later renamed the "New World."
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator under the patronage of Spain. He embarked on a voyage in 1492 to reach Asia, particularly India. He first set foot in the Bahamas, continuing on to the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola. Convinced that he had found India, Columbus returned to Spain to report his discovery, although he exaggerated on some accounts. Owing to his mistaken success, Spain funded his next expedition to explore more islands.
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US Russian couple seeking answers after police 'ripped baby from their arms'
Published time: 27 Apr, 2013 04:19 Edited time: 29 Apr, 2013 02:36
Image from the facebook page Bring Sammy Home. © Facebook
A young Russian couple living in California is struggling to understand the events of the past few weeks, which began with a trip to the hospital and continued days later with police forcing entry into the couple’s home to take their child.
Anna Nikolayev and her husband Alex brought their five-month-old boy Sammy to Sacramento’s Sutter Memorial Hospital after he began exhibiting flu symptoms. He had been diagnosed with a heart murmur at birth, according to News 10, a local ABC affiliate.
Sammy was admitted to the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, at which point his mother witnessed a nurse administering the baby with antibiotics, apparently without instructions from the doctor.
“I asked her, ‘For what is that?’ And she’s like ‘I don’t know.’ And then I said ‘You’re working as a nurse and you don’t he know what you’re giving my baby?’” Anna struggled to explain through her tears.
Mrs. Nikolayev added that a doctor said the child should not have been given antibiotics, although they did want to perform heart surgery on Sammy immediately. At that point, Anna said, the couple decided to rush Sammy out of the hospital in search of a second opinion on his condition.
“If [they made] one mistake after another, I don’t want to let my baby have surgery in the hospital where I don’t feel safe,” she said.
The parents traveled directly from Sutter Memorial to Kaiser Medical Center in Sacramento, where doctors released Sammy to the care of his parents.
“I do not have concern for the safety of the child at home with his parents,” a note from a doctor said. Anna and Alex were forced to show the note to police, who came to the second hospital, presumably after staff at Sutter Memorial called 911.
“The police showed up there. They saw the baby was fine,” Anna told News 10. “They told us that Sutter was telling them so much bad stuff that they thought this baby was dying in our arms. So police saw the report from doctors and said, ‘Okay, you guys have a good day,’ then walked away.”
But just one day later, police showed up at the Nikolayevs’ home with Child Protective Services (CPS) representatives. Alex met the authorities outside, wondering what multiple squad cars were doing at his house.
“I was pushed against the building, smacked down,” Alex said. “I said, ‘Am I being placed under arrest?’ He smacked me to the ground and yelled out ‘I think I got the keys to the house!’”
Alex later told reporters, “It doesn’t seem like parents have any rights whatsoever.”
During the commotion in the driveway Anna had set up a camera pointing at the door. At least four police officers, who did not have a warrant, are shown on film barging into the home followed by CPS workers demanding Sammy.
“I’m going to grab your baby, and don’t resist, and don’t fight me, okay?” one policeman can be heard telling Anna.
Explanations have been hard to come by. Law enforcement referred media requests to CPS, who refused to offer a definitive statement other than claiming Sammy was taken because of “severe neglect,” a vague definition the Nikolayevs have denied.
“We conduct a risk assessment of the child’s safety and rely heavily on the direction of health care providers,” CPS said.
The Nikolayevs and their attorney, Joe Weinberger, expressed disbelief that Sammy was still in the hospital without their consent during an interview with the ABC affiliate.
“It’s absolutely amazing to me how a government can reach out and snatch a child after a doctor said there’s not an issue,” Weinberger said. “As we’ve seen, there is no emergency situation in this case...I can’t imagine having my baby ripped from my arms.”
Attorney Weinberger provided RT viewers with more details into the case, saying that the entire case against the Nikolayev family was “manufactured.”
“They were provided with medical evidence that said that the baby was fine to be taken home and despite this, they manufactured an excuse to take this baby away,” Weinberger said
The initial physician who examined the child, Weinberger believes, is partly responsible for the situation.
“I think what it comes down to is that parents didn’t appreciate the opinion of the doctor in a hospital and wanted to seek a second opinion,” attorney said.
But the lawyer also admits that the parents are partly responsible for the CPS course of action.
“The mistake that they made was without signing out the child, they left the hospital and went to a different hospital and in my opinion what they did upset the initial physician and he decided to make a call to the Child Protective Services and say that there’s a child who is in imminent danger of death. What he did not know at that time was that they had gone to a second hospital and a different doctor said- no, it is not an issue.”
A court hearing is scheduled for Monday, April 29.
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87-Year-Old Runner Vows to Hit All-American Times at Age 90
Everett Luoma is living proof that sometimes slow and steady really does win the race.
By McGee Nall
Bryan Luoma
Even though the high temperature will likely be well below freezing today in Adrian, Michigan, you can bet that Everett Luoma, 87, will venture outside for a run.
If it’s too cold for his liking, he’ll likely enjoy a longer run at the indoor track at Siena Heights University, where he serves as a volunteer assistant coach for the school’s cross-country and track teams. No matter where he gets in his workout, Luoma just needs to run—he’s kept a running streak since November, 2017, and made a log of each run ever since. Not only that, but he believes he’s on track to achieve Masters All American Standard times for several race distances when he reaches 90.
Last March, Luoma ran the Great Black Swamp 15K in 2:18:59, which is off by about 13 minutes in the 85-89 masters age group. But if his times don’t stall, he has a major lead on the 90-94 age group time of 2:39:25. He’s also posting times in distances like the 5K that have him not far off from his current 85-89 standard.
“I have a tremendous support group, and I think that is very important, otherwise I’m just an old man,” Luoma told Runner’s World. “But I have all these people who give me their respect and keep me motivated.”
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Luoma still participates in half marathons, one of his recent ones being the Glass City Half Marathon last April, finishing in 3:28:50. And he logs about 25 miles per week without skipping a beat.
How does this 87-year-old keep up a run streak and competitive age-group times? Luoma credits his ability to stay active to his family and friends, many of whom are runners, plus the Toledo Roadrunners, a club of which he’s been a member for more than 20 years.
“There’s no reason to stop because I’m healthy enough to go on the road. You slow down, but you keep on going.”
But running wasn’t always been a part of his life. After finishing high school in Minnesota, Luoma served in the Army for two years before attending West Point Military Academy in New York. Three years into his schooling, Luoma said he was medically discharged after being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a disease that causes inflammation in the digestive tract. He took the news and the change in life direction the same way he approaches other challenges.
“I don’t have those ups and downs. I don’t have those disappointments. Life goes on,” Luoma said. “If I had highs and lows, I’d be a better runner, too. I just go by own pace and I enjoy myself.”
After treating the disease, Luoma began running off and on, but started experiencing severe Achilles pain because of major pronation in his feet. After a doctor put padding in his shoes to help support his arches, Luoma, then age 50, decided to take his running more seriously. He never looked back, and he’s been racing for almost 40 years.
“This is what I do. If I would stop, I would be alone,” Luoma said. “There’s no reason to stop because I’m healthy enough to go on the road. You slow down, but you keep on going.”
Luoma might be receiving attention now, but the truth is, his diligence has been a lifelong discipline of just taking one day (or step) at a time at whatever pace he likes it. As he turns 88 next month, one year closer to taking a crack at these top times for the 90-94 age group, Luoma plans to keep running the way he lives his life—by taking it slow and enjoying the view.
McGee Nall Contributing Writer McGee’s work for both Runner’s World and Bicycling consists mostly of news and human interest pieces.
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The state does not require the disclosure of an investment’s exact value.
Brown’s other interests include $100,001 to $1 million in stock in Health Fusion Inc., a medical office software company, and $10,001 to $100,000 in Gap Inc., where Gust Brown was once an executive.
Brown also reported gross rental income of $10,001 to $100,000 from a property he owns in Oakland. The source of rent was Oaklandish, an apparel and accessories company.
The previous year, Brown reported income on the same property of less than $500.
Other than the tequila, most of the non-travel related gifts Brown took were for meals he attended.
Call David Siders, Bee Capitol Bureau, (916) 321-1215. Follow him on Twitter @davidsiders.
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Iran detains ex-prosecutor convicted in 2009 torture case
Originally published April 21, 2018 at 11:36 pm Updated April 22, 2018 at 11:26 am
NASSER KARIMI
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian police have arrested a former prosecutor known as the “torturer of Tehran,” who faces a two-year jail term over the death of prisoners following protests in 2009, Iranian media reported on Sunday.
The official website of the judiciary, Mizanonline.com, said former Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has been arrested, without elaborating. The semi-official Tasnim news agency said police detained Mortazavi in a villa in northern Iran, near the Caspian Sea.
Mortazavi was sentenced to prison by an appeals court in December. That court found him guilty of “aiding and abetting” the torture and deaths of protesters arrested after the disputed re-election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Since that court decision, Mortazavi apparently couldn’t be found by authorities.
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“They could not find him despite the arrest warrant,” judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi said last week.
After the reports of his disappearance, wanted posters printed by activists began appearing around Tehran.
Mortazavi’s wife and lawyer denied he was missing, but said he intends to appeal the ruling. His lawyer could not be immediately reached Sunday.
Canada has blamed Mortazavi for the death in custody of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi in 2003. Iranian reformists accused Mortazavi of trying to stage a cover-up because it was he who reported that Kazemi had died of a stroke.
A government committee probing her death later found that she had died of a fractured skull and a brain hemorrhage from a blow to the head. No charges were filed against Mortazavi.
He is detested by those pushing for social and political reforms and critics have dubbed him the “butcher of the press,” and the “torturer of Tehran.” He was behind the closure of some 120 newspapers and the jailing of many journalists and political activists over the past decade.
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Huawei founder says U.S. risking international reputation
By Jay Jackson, Scotland Star
Zhengfei said the U.S. government's campaign to isolate Chinese tech companies was damaging to the U.S.'s international reputation
Last week Huawei launched legal proceedings against the U.S. government
"Trump should be more open-minded and willing to accept all types of investment"
SHENZHEN, China - The treatment of Huawei by the United States is a deterrent for companies and individuals wanting to invest in the country, accordi to Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei.
In an interview on CNN on Wednesday, Zhengfei said the U.S. government's campaign to isolate Chinese tech companies was damaging to the U.S.'s international reputation.
"If this US administration always treats other countries, companies or individuals in a ferocious way, then no one would dare invest in the United States," he said.
Last week Huawei launched legal proceedings against the U.S. government over actions it has taken to isolate the giant tech company over claims it collates intelligence for Chinese agencies and is therefore a risk to U.S. national security.
Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump authorised the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), preventing federal agencies and contractors from buying Huawei telecommunications and video surveillance equipment.
"His tactics are all wrong," Zhengfei told CNN.
"If he intimidates a country today, threatens a company tomorrow or wantonly arrests someone, then no one would dare invest in the United States."
"Trump should be more open-minded and willing to accept all types of investment. If he becomes more tolerant of the world, then all the U.S.-bound investments would ensure another century of American prosperity," Zhengfai said.
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Last Revised: 28 April 2017
I. NATURE AND PURPOSE
The Society is a permanent organization of historians of France. Its purpose is to promote scholarly work in any and all aspects of French history. It carries out this purpose chiefly through the holding of annual meetings, the publication of a journal, and the awarding of prizes for outstanding scholarly achievement. Since 1993 the Society has been a constituent member of the American Council of Learned Societies.
II. MEMBERSHIP
Any person interested in French history is eligible to join the Society by payment of annual dues at the applicable rate.
Special memberships, reflected in different rates for annual dues, are available to student members and retired members.
Life memberships are available at a sum equivalent to twenty times the annual membership rate.
Current dues rates are published in each issue of French Historical Studies.
Members receive the Society's journal, French Historical Studies, and the programs of meetings. They are invited to suggest to the Executive Committee candidates for President of the Society, for Executive Director, for Financial Officer, for the three at-large places on the Executive Committee, and for the Editorial Board of the journal.
Membership in the Society is required of all participants in the program of the Society's annual meeting.
III. OFFICERS; DUTIES OF OFFICERS
The governance and organizational life of the Society are the responsibility of a President or Co-Presidents and, in some cases, a Vice President, an Executive Director, a Financial Officer; and an Executive Committee.
A. The President
The President (or, in some cases, Co-Presidents) has responsibility for organizing and conducting the Society's annual meeting. For this reason, the President is normally a member of the faculty at the university--or at one of the universities--where the annual meeting is to be held. The President is named for a one-year term by the Executive Committee, which under the bylaws must take into account suggestions received from the membership and also considerations on location of the coming annual meeting.
A new presidential term begins immediately upon the conclusion of each year's annual meeting. In the absence of a Co-President, the President, at his or her discretion, may choose to select a Vice President and, after doing so, will inform the Executive Director. The President has complete discretion in appointing the committee or committees that will assist in organizing the annual meeting and is ex officio chair of the committee or committees.
The President maintains and administers the funds in the annual-meeting account of the SFHS and at the appropriate time returns the ledger for the President's account to the Financial Officer, who will arrange to transfer it to the next President or Co-Presidents. At or before the end of a calendar year the Immediate Past President (or Co-Presidents) will supply the Financial Officer with a detailed record of their use of funds in the SFHS President's annual meeting account. That record must include all deposits in and withdrawals from the account, along with the dates, purposes, and amounts; and any other information appropriate for financial record keeping.
The President presides over the dinner banquet at the annual meeting.
The President is ex officio a member of the Executive Committee and remains a member for two years following the expiration of the term of office.
A President-elect (or Co-Presidents-elect) is named each year by the Executive Committee when it convenes during the annual meeting. The President-elect is invited to attend the meeting of the Executive Committee at which the appointment is formally made. The individual chosen as President-elect assumes the office of President at the conclusion of the annual meeting held one year following his or her designation.
B. The Vice President
The President may name a Vice President for a one-year term.
The Vice President assists the President in organizing and conducting the annual meeting. For this reason, the Vice President is normally a member of the faculty at the university--or at one of the universities--where the meeting is to be held. The Vice President is ex officio a member of the Executive Committee during the year of incumbency.
C. The Executive Director
The Executive Director is the Society's chief executive officer and gives continuity to the organizational life of the Society between meetings of the Executive Committee.
The Executive Director is appointed by the Executive Committee for a three-year term and may be reappointed.
The Executive Director prepares an agenda, circulating it among the governing board, in advance of each meeting of the Executive Committee.
The Executive Director chairs the awards luncheon/business session at the annual meeting.
Where appropriate, in routine matters requiring decision between meetings of the Executive Committee, the Executive Director may poll committee members by mail, e-mail, facsimile, or telephone.
The Executive Director conducts correspondence on Society affairs with all interested parties: members, officers of other organizations, and others.
The Executive Director is ex officio a member of the Executive Committee and remains a member for two years following retirement from office.
The Executive Director is the Society’s designated representative to the American Historical Association and the Council of Administrative Officers of the American Council of Learned Societies
D. The Financial Officer
As the Society's treasurer, the Financial Officer has custody of all its funds.
The Financial Officer is appointed by the Executive Committee for a three-year term and may be reappointed.
The Financial Officer keeps in periodic contact with the publisher of French Historical Studies to ensure that bills and renewal notices are sent out on a regular schedule to the Society's members and to institutional subscribers to the journal. Periodically, the Financial Officer verifies the membership list.
The Financial Officer receives all monies due the Society from membership dues and disburses sums owed by the Society. The principal charges the Financial Officer must meet are the non-subsidized editorial office expenses incurred by the journal's faculty editor(s), the costs of the annual prizes not covered by a special fund, the cost of annual insurance, and, if necessary, accounting fees.
The Financial Officer administers the Society's surplus operating funds, if any exist, and also the Society's various prize funds, seeking to invest these funds advantageously.
The Financial Officer advises the Executive Committee concerning the Society's financial status and its membership and subscription figures and presents a formal report during the awards luncheon/business session of the annual meeting.
The Financial Officer is ex officio a member of the Executive Committee and remains a member for two years following retirement from office.
The Financial Officer is the Society's designated delegate to the annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies. If the Financial Officer is unable to attend, he or she may designate another member of the Executive Committee or member of the Society to attend in his or her place.
E. Secretary/Web Coordinator
The Secretary/Webpage Coordinator has primary responsibility for the social media, including the official webpage, Facebook page, and twitter account, of the Society.
The Secretary/Webpage Coordinator is appointed by the Executive Committee for a three-year term and may be reappointed.
The Secretary/Webpage Coordinator takes minutes at the meetings of the Executive Council during the annual conference. After circulating these minutes to the governing board for comment, correction, and approval, the minutes are posted with other archived documents on the password-protected page for the use of the Executive Committee.
The Secretary/Webpage Coordinator works in collaboration with the President(s) and Duke University Press to ensure that all participants at the annual meeting are members in good standing of the SFHS.
The Secretary/Webpage Coordinator is ex officio a member of the Executive Committee and remains a member for two years following retirement from office.
F. The Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is the governing body of the Society. It is composed of the following officers and former officers of the Society: the President (or Co-Presidents); the Vice President (or Vice Presidents); the Executive Director; the Financial Officer; the Secretary/Web Coordinator; the Editor-in-Chief (or Co-Editors) of French Historical Studies; the presidents from the two previous years; the most recent past Executive Director (for two years following retirement from office); the most recent past Financial Officer (for two years following retirement from office); a representative of H-France; four at-large members, one of whom must hold a doctoral degree but has never held tenure at any time prior to time of election; and the President-Elect (or Co-Presidents-Elect).
The Executive Director and the Financial Officer serve three-year staggered terms.
The Executive Committee has primary responsibility for its own composition, subject to conditions set forth in the Society's bylaws.
The four at-large members serve three-year staggered terms. They are appointed by the Executive Director with the advice and approval of the Executive Committee. The Editor-in-Chief of H-France serves as an ex officio (non-voting) member of the SFHS Executive Committee. If the Editor-in-Chief of H-France is unable to attend the annual SFHS Executive Committee meeting, the Editor-in-Chief may designate a H-France officer or editor to represent H-France at the meeting.
In choosing among nominees for at-large positions, the Executive Committee attempts to maintain appropriate representation from among the geographic regions of the United States and among the subfields of French history. Whenever possible, one of the at-large members will be drawn from the Society's Canadian membership.
Each issue of French Historical Studies and each program for an annual meeting carries the names of the full Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee appoints the officers of the Society. In the case of the President (or Co-Presidents), the committee solicits nominations by the most effective means available. Final selection is the responsibility of the committee.
The Executive Committee and the President fix the dates and the location for each annual meeting.
The Executive Committee appoints the Editor(s)-in-Chief of French Historical Studies and, in consultation with the Editor(s)-in-Chief, the members of the journal's Editorial Board.
The Executive Committee confirms or appoints the members of various awards committees upon nominations or recommendations from continuing members of those committees.
The Executive Committee may adopt for the conduct of its business any rules or procedures not contrary to the bylaws.
The Executive Committee meets at the time of the Society's annual meeting. The Executive Committee designates the President-elect and makes all other appointments at this meeting.
IV. MEETINGS
A. The Annual Meeting
The Society holds a meeting in the spring semester of each year, at a time and a place designated by the Executive Committee. Dates of a coming meeting are announced during the awards luncheon/business session at the annual meeting of the previous year.
Meetings are usually held at or in connection with a university or universities. The Executive Committee's selection of the site for a coming meeting generally takes the form of accepting an invitation from one of its members for the meeting to be held at his or her academic institution.
Inasmuch as the function of the Society's President is to organize the annual meeting, the Executive Committee normally selects as President a person extending an invitation, someone who has thereby signified willingness to assume responsibility for organizing an annual meeting.
For compelling reasons, the Executive Committee may occasionally separate the office of President from affiliation with a host institution.
B. Special Meetings
The Society may from time to time hold a meeting or colloquium outside the regular sequence of annual spring semester meetings. Such occasions, which will be rare, may be undertaken jointly with another society and may be thematically tied to the commemoration of a significant historical event.
The decision to hold a special meeting is subject to vote by members present at the awards luncheon/business session at the annual meeting. The proposed resolution for a special meeting may originate with either individual members or the Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee works out the details of time, place, and occasion in conjunction with an ad hoc committee on the special meeting. The latter body, appointed by the Executive Committee, shall consist of three persons.
The Executive Committee decides in connection with each special meeting whether to cancel the annual meeting of the Society for the given year.
The membership at large must receive full and early notice of any special meeting planned by the Executive Committee and be given opportunity to participate therein.
V. THE JOURNAL
The Society sponsors a journal, French Historical Studies, which appears quarterly.
The annual membership fee includes a subscription to the journal.
The Editor-in-Chief (or Co-Editors) is appointed by the Executive Committee for a three-year term; the appointment is renewable. The Editor-in-Chief may select an Associate Editor, with the approval of the Executive Committee. The Editor-in-Chief is ex officio a member of the Executive Committee.
The journal's Editorial Board consists of a sufficient number of members to cover all periods of French history. They are appointed to staggered three-year terms by the Executive Committee upon consultation with the Editor-in-Chief. A representative of H-France, designated by the Editorial Board of that body, also serves on the journal's Editorial Board.
The Bibliographers, responsible for the features, "Recent Books on French History" and "Recent Articles on French History," are appointed by the Editor-in-Chief, with the approval of the Executive Committee, and serve on the journal's Editorial Board.
The Editor-in-Chief convenes the editorial board once a year, at the time of the annual meeting.
The Editor-in-Chief speaks for the Society in all dealings with the journal's publishers that bear on the intellectual content of the journal. On all other matters, including those with financial or operational implications for the Society, the Executive Director and Financial Officer shall be the only individuals authorized to speak for the Society, after consulting with the members of the Executive Committee.
VI. PRIZES
The Society annually makes several awards for scholarly work.
A. The William Koren, Jr. Prize
The Koren Prize is awarded for the best article on French history (in any period) by a Canadian or American scholar published in an American, Canadian, or European journal during the preceding year. The Koren Prize Committee may decide whether articles that have appeared as part of a book or in the published proceedings of a scholarly conference are also eligible for consideration.
The prize may not be shared, though an Honorable Mention may be named.
The Koren Prize Committee consists of four members, representing different periods of French history, who are appointed by the Executive Committee for staggered three-year terms.
The Koren Prize was established as a memorial by friends of William Koren, Jr., a serious student of French history and politics, whose untimely death in 1956 cut short a distinguished career in the United States Foreign Service.
B. The Gilbert Chinard Prize
The Gilbert Chinard Prize is awarded to the author of the best book published in North America during the preceding year on the history of France and the Americas in any chronological period. Studies of French-American relations and comparative studies of France with North, Central, or South America will be eligible. The author of the work need not be a U.S. or Canadian citizen, but the book must be published by a North American press. Books that have been translated into English are eligible, as are critical editions of significant source materials.
The Chinard Prize is conferred jointly by the Institut Français d'Amérique and the Society for French Historical Studies. The two organizations share the funding of the award; a committee of the Society determines the winner.
The Chinard Prize Committee consists of three members appointed by the Executive Committee for staggered three-year terms.
The Gilbert Chinard Prize commemorates the eminent scholar who founded the serious modern study of French-American history.
C. The David Pinkney Prize
The David Pinkney Prize is an annual award for a distinguished book on French history, in any period, published during the preceding year by a citizen of the United States or Canada or by an author with a full-time appointment at a U.S. or Canadian college or university.
The David Pinkney Prize Committee consists of four members, representing different periods of French history, who are appointed by the Executive Committee for staggered three-year terms.
The Pinkney Prize, first awarded in 1989, was established in honor of one of the Society's founding members and its first secretary-treasurer, who also served a term as president and nine years as Editor-in-Chief of French Historical Studies.
D. The Research Travel Award
The Research Travel Award is given annually to a recent recipient of a doctorate in history from an American or Canadian university to continue work on an outstanding project in any area of French history.
The award may not be shared.
The Research Travel Award is sponsored jointly by the Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History.
The Research Travel Award Committee consists of four members, representing different periods of French history. Members are appointed by the Executive Committee of the Society for French Historical Studies for staggered three-year terms. The Executive Committee of the Western Society for French History may appoint one member if it chooses to do so."
E. The Marjorie M. and Lancelot L. Farrar Awards
The Marjorie M. and Lancelot L. Farrar Awards are given annually to two students of any nationality enrolled in a doctoral program in history at a college or university in the United States or Canada to support work on an outstanding dissertation project in progress in French history (any period). In selecting the winner of one of the two awards, the designated awards committee will give strong preference to studies which relate French history to that of another European country or part of the world.
The Marjorie M. and Lancelot L. Farrar Memorial Awards Committee will be responsible for selecting the recipients of this award. The committee will consist of four members representing different periods of French history. Members are appointed by the Executive Committee for staggered three-year terms.
These fellowships are a memorial to Marjorie M. Farrar, esteemed historian of modern France, and to Lancelot L. Farrar, esteemed historian of modern Europe. One fellowship was established in 2001 through a generous donation from the family of Marjorie M. Farrar, and in 2010-2011 a second fellowship was established through donations from the family, colleagues, and friends of Lancelot L. Farrar.
F. Natalie Zemon Davis Graduate Student Paper Award
The Society for French Historical Studies awards the Natalie Zemon Davis prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the Society's annual meeting. A student of any nationality enrolled in a doctoral program in the United States or Canada is eligible.
The recipient of the Davis Award will be selected by the designated Awards committee.
The award honors Professor Natalie Zemon Davis for her outstanding work as a mentor of graduate students. It was established through donations from students and colleagues of Professor Davis and from other members of the Society for French Historical Studies.
G. Institut Français d’Amérique Fund Research Fellowships
The Society for French Historical Studies will offer annually two research fellowships for maintenance during research in France for a period of at least one month. Candidates should be working on PhD dissertations, or they should have received the PhD no longer than three years before the application deadline. These awards are not for travel to or from France. The proposed fields for research can include all areas of French historical and cultural studies.
The two awards will be named in alternating years the Gilbert Chinard Fellowship or the Harmon Chadbourn Rorison Fellowship, for the first award, and the Edouard Morot-Sir Fellowship or the Catherine Maley Fellowship, for the second award. The Chinard/Rorison Fellowship will support research in all areas of French historical and cultural studies. The Morot-Sir/Maley Fellowship will give preference to young scholars working in a broadly defined field of cultural history, art history, or literary studies. The SFHS Research Travel Awards Committee is responsible for evaluating proposals and choosing the winners.
These awards are underwritten by the ‘Institut Français d’Amérique Fund’ of the Society for French Historical Studies, in recognition of the scholarship and service to the profession provided by of some of the founding members of the Institut Français de Washington, founded in 1926.
French Historical Studies periodically carries notices on the Society's various awards, indicating their nature and purpose and the application and selection process for each award. The names of award recipients are published in the journal.
VII. STIPULATIONS
A. The Society for French Historical Studies is organized exclusively for education and charitable purposes, including for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.
B. The Society designates its officers, its conference speakers, and its session commentators and chairs as official delegates from their home institutions to the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies.
C. The Society takes the position that its meetings further the professional interests of its members. Accordingly, it considers the expenses personally paid for all attendees at its annual meeting, provided that they are bona fide members of the Society, to be deductible on the annual income-tax returns for professional purposes.
D. Upon the dissolution of the Society, assets shall be distributed for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or shall be distributed to the federal government, for a public purpose. Any such assets not disposed of shall be disposed of by a court of competent jurisdiction in the country in which the principal office of the organization is then located, exclusively for such purposes or to such organization or organizations, as said court shall determine, which are organized and operated exclusively for such purposes.
VIII. REVISING THE BYLAWS
The Executive Committee will be responsible for revising the bylaws. The Executive Director will post the proposed revisions to the Society's Web site at least one month prior to the annual meeting and invite comments from the membership. Proposed revisions can originate with the Executive Committee or by petition signed by at least five (5) members of the Society. Revisions proposed by the membership are sent to the Executive Director, who will put them before the next meeting of the Executive Committee for its consideration. The Executive Director will publicize the revisions of the bylaws as widely as possible and make a copy of the revised bylaws available to any member who requests it.
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"Art of the Airport Tower" Barcelona El-Prat Airport
Carolyn Russo, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Barcelona El-Prat Airport, Spain 1965
Barcelona's first airport, an airfield at El Remolar, opened in 1916. It relocated in 1918 to El-Prat. Initially used by the Aeroclub of Catalonia, it also became the base for the Spanish navy's fleet of airships. Barcelona El-Prat began commercial air service in 1927 and is now the second largest airport in Spain, after Madrid. It has undergone several transformations over the years. Two of its three towers are no longer in service. Designed by Eduardo Aguirre, this one from 1965 stands 15 meters (50 feet) tall.
The photograph is a part of Art of the Airport Tower, an exhibition that explores contemporary and historical air traffic control towers in the U.S. and around the world.
Image by Carolyn Russo, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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“Art of the Airport Tower” Opens at National Air and Space Museum
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Posted on October 23, 2018 by Sheryl Raodcap
City record
-9:34 p.m.: possessing criminal tools. Kayla Hammons, 27, 317 New St., Montana Cowger, 20, at large, and Jody Napier-Bunnell, 47, and Alice Turner, 32, both of 522 1/2 E. Court St., all were arrested for possessing criminal tools.
-4:11 p.m.: theft. The theft of a 20-volt DeWalt Sawzall, valued at $200, an 18-volt DeWalt drill, valued at $200, and 10 other miscellaneous tools, valued at $125, were reported stolen by known individuals.
-3:57 p.m.: assault. Police issued a warrant for an alleged assault.
-11 a.m.: theft. Thomas Johnson, 56, at large, was arrested for theft.
-11:01 p.m.: theft. Four tires on a 2011 Hyundai were reported slashed and $700 in cash was reported stolen while parked in the 900 block of Buckeye Avenue. The damage is set at $400.
-6:04 p.m.: criminal damaging. A small basement window, screen door and dryer vent cover were reported damaged at 1407 N. Main Ave. The total amount of the damage is set at $80.
-1:56 p.m.: theft. A LG Stylo 4 cellphone, valued at $250, was reported stolen.
-11:36 a.m.: criminal damaging. A topper on a white 1998 Chevrolet truck was reported damaged resulting in a hole in it by someone unknown. The cost of the damage is set at $100.
-7:32 a.m.: disorderly conduct. Nicole L. Bonnoront, 36, 318 Thompson St., was arrested for disorderly conduct-offensive gesture or noise.
-2:10 a.m.: driving under the influence. Marcus Jordan Daugherty, 20, of Quincy, was arrested for OVI.
-9:49 p.m.: theft. The theft of $80 by someone known was reported stolen from 115 Franklin Ave.
-12:08 p.m.: unruly juvenile. A 14-year-old male was arrested for being unruly.
-11:44 a.m.: warrant. Honorio S. Queada, 26, 2485 Alpine Court, was arrested on a warrant.
-11:21 a.m.: warrant. Daniel D. Tamplin, 30, and Heather L. Rinderle, 29, both of 1221 Park St., were both served a summons to appear in court.
-10:04 p.m.: assault. Tracey F. Clason, 49, and Crawford Ray Foster, 56, both of 517 S. Wilkinson Ave., were both arrested for assault.
-10:04 p.m.: warrant. Josey Rafferty, 33, 211 1/2 E. North St., was arrested on an active warrant.
-6:44 p.m.: lost property. A black, leather shoulder bag, valued at $20, containing a black wallet, a Fifth Third debit card and a State Farm bank card was reported lost.
-6:18 p.m.: criminal damaging. Police are investigating a report that a right, rear window on a grey 2014 Lincoln was damaged while parked in the 500 block of N. Miami Avenue. The damage is set at $200.
-5:35 p.m.: trafficking in drugs. Jason McAfee, 32, 602 Monroe St., was arrested for trafficking in drugs.
-5:22 p.m.: theft. A ZTE phone, valued at $100, was reported stolen.
Lorrie L. Davis, 63, 4800 Hardin Wapak Road, was cited with improper lane change after a two-vehicle crash on Monday at 8:13 p.m.
Davis was traveling westbound in the right lane on South Main Avenue when he entered the left lane and struck the right side of the westbound vehicle in the left lane on South Main Avenue that was driven by David A. Nagel, 22, 10491 State Route 47 West.
• Aaron C. Topp, 17, of Minster, was cited with overtaking and passing after a two-vehicle crash on Monday at 4:20 p.m.
Topp was traveling southbound on Ohio Avenue behind the vehicle driven by David K. Adams, 59, of Minster, who was attempting to pull into a parking space near 214 N. Ohio Ave. When Topp attempted to pass on the left Adams’s vehicle struck Topp’s vehicle.
• Alex L. Yoder, 50, of West Liberty, was cited with right of way after a two-vehicle crash on Monday at 12:06 p.m.
Yoder was pulling from the private drive at 55 S. Vandemark Road but a semitrailer was blocking his view of the northbound traffic on Vandemark Road so when he pulled from the drive he was struck by a northbound vehicle that was driven by Robin E. Stubbs, 24, of Troy.
• Karen Forsythe, 34, of Jackson Center, was cited with assured clear distance ahead after a two-vehicle crash on Sunday at 1:36 p.m.
Forsythe was traveling westbound on state Route 47 when she struck the rear of the stopped vehicle in front of her at the red light at the Interstate 75 overpass.
The other vehicle was driven by Janet DeMoss, 74, 417 Woodward Way.
Sidney Fire Department responded to the scene.
• No citations were issued after a two-vehicle crash on Saturday at 1:25 a.m.
Kenneth L. Smith, 46, 2355 Collins Drive, Apt. C, was traveling southbound on Buckeye Avenue when he struck the rear driver’s side of an unoccupied parked vehicle facing the south in front of 1005 Buckeye Ave. Smith told police a unidentified red vehicle was traveling northbound at a high rate of speed and went over into the southbound lane. Smith said he swerved to avoid a crash with the red vehicle.
The parked vehicle is owned by Elizabeth N. Garcia, 1005 Buckeye Ave.
• No one was cited following a two-vehicle crash on Thursday at 3:06 p.m.
Roger L. Gillium, 68, 632 Folkerth Ave., and Patsy R. Lawson, 73, 1855 Fairoaks Drive, were both traveling southbound on Sixth Avenue in the far right lane. Lawson told police she went into the left turn lane when she and Gillium collided. Gillium told police he was in the straight lane when he and Lawson hit one another. Both drivers said they did not know who hit who first and that they both were driving straight.
According to the police report, due to lack of witnesses and conflicting stories, no citations were issued.
• Victoria J. Carey, 52, of Pemberton, was cited for running a red light after a two-vehicle crash on Thursday at 11:42 a.m.
Carey was traveling westbound on West Court Street when she ran the red light at South West Avenue and struck the northbound vehicle on South West Avenue. Carey told police she proceeded through the intersection on a yellow light.
Police spoke to a witness of the crash. The witness said Carey ran the red light and struck the other vehicle.
Carey was later served the citation.
The other vehicle was driven by Melissa C. Huges, 50, 824 N. Miami Ave.
• Willis C. Maye, 55, of Louisville, Kentucky, was cited with failure to control after a two-vehicle crash on Thursday at 10:55 a.m.
Maye was operating a semitrailer westbound on Michigan Street and when attempting to make a left turn onto Stolle Drive his trailer struck a stopped northbound vehicle on Stolle Drive at the red light at Michigan Street causing minor damage.
The other vehicle was driven by Dwight A. Schroer, 62, of New Bremen.
• Branten L. Arnett, 18, 211 E. North St, was cited with right of way after a two-vehicle crash on Thursday at 8:35 a.m.
Arnett was traveling southbound in the alley across the street front 219 E. Court St. going the wrong direction in the alley. He stopped, then pulled straight ahead and failed to yield the right of way of an eastbound vehicle in front of 219 E. Court St. and struck the vehicle’s left rear.
The other vehicle was driven by Ann M. Allen, 70, 186 E. Hoewisher Road.
-12:31 to 2:36 a.m.: medical. Medics responded to two calls.
-8:52 p.m.: fire. Firefighters responded to the report of a trash fire.
-3:06 p.m.: odor. Firefighters conducted an odor investigation.
-12:17 p.m.: crash. Crews responded to an automobile crash.
-8:07 a.m. to 7:09 p.m.: medical. Crews responded to seven calls.
-3:38 p.m.: leak. Firefighters responded to the report a vehicle was leaking a liquid.
-9:25 a.m.: odor. Firefighters conducted an odor investigation.
-12:17 a.m. to 2 p.m.: medical. Crews responded to seven calls. One call was cancelled en route.
-5:01 to 5:15 p.m.: downed lines. Firefighters responded to two reports that powerlines were down.
-5:02 to 5:37 p.m.: wind/storm damage. Firefighters responded to two calls to assess wind and storm damages.
-12:32 to 11:44 p.m.: medical. Crews responded to nine calls.
-6:43 p.m.: standby. Medics were on standby at the SHS football game.
-3:43 p.m.: crash. Crews responded to an automobile crash.
-7:25 a.m.: fire alarm. Crews responded to a fire alarm.
-3:28 a.m. to 9:53 p.m.: medical. Crews responded to 11 calls.
-1:30 a.m.: mutual aid. Medics provided mutual aid for Port Jefferson Rescue.
-11:17 p.m.: car fire. Firefighters responded to a car fire.
-10:37 a.m.: carbon monoxide. Crews conducted a carbon monoxide investigation.
-7:43 a.m to 9:43 p.m.: medical. Crews responded to six calls.
Compiled by Sheryl Roadcap.
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Taoiseach welcomed by Fujitsu in Japan
Meeting important to continue building and expanding relationships between Ireland and Japan
Senior Fujitsu Executives from Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories met today (2 December) with Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Japan. The meeting was part of the Taoiseach’s week-long trade mission to Japan and focused on strengthening relationships between both countries.
During the high level meeting, Fujitsu and the Taoiseach discussed the importance of building strong economic, trade and cultural relations between the two nations and industry’s role in representing their home countries abroad and adding value to the countries in which it operates.
Speaking about the meeting, Regina Moran, Fujitsu CEO of Fujitsu Ireland said: “Fujitsu was honoured to meet with Taoiseach Kenny in Japan and to have the opportunity to showcase the exciting projects we are undertaking in Ireland and all over the world. Meetings such as these are critical to deepening Ireland’s relationship with Japan.
'Fujitsu is extremely proud of its Japanese heritage and Ireland is very open to engaging in collaborative projects in which we can learn from each other. Ireland has world class researchers and institutes that rival anywhere else in the world. It is for this reason that Fujitsu undertook a significant R&D investment programme in Ireland in 2010. We now have two unique research programmes underway in Ireland focusing on Big Data and eHealth.
“While our two countries are far apart we face the same problems in terms of economic recovery and an aging population. We look forward to progressing these projects even further with Irish researchers to bring Japanese innovation and Asian developments to Ireland.”
Speaking about the meeting, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said: "Ireland's economy is recovering with a new focus on exports and enterprise. Strong trade relations with important markets such as Japan is a priority for the Government as we work to grow the economy further. Ireland's growing reputation as a location for research and development excellence is attracting more industry partners to seek out new growth opportunities. As a long standing investor in Ireland I was delighted to meet with Fujitsu representatives in Japan to discuss their projects in Ireland and learn about their activities across the world. I am confident that the research programmes underway in partnership with industry will help us address the common social challenges we face."
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Mom revived after fire thanks to 10-year-old son
Matt Dunning
A 10-year-old Cambridge boy may well have saved his mother’s life early Saturday morning.
According to police reports, the boy called 911 around 3:45 a.m. March 22 to report a fire in his apartment. Police said the boy shared the apartment with his mother, 46, at 51 Columbia St. Police did not release the identity of the boy or his mother.
According to reports, the boy told emergency dispatchers that a fire had started in the bathroom. Fire and police officials said they arrived to find the apartment filled with smoke, and a woman — later identified as the boy’s mother — submerged in water in the bathtub.
Police said the woman was only partially clothed, unresponsive and was not breathing. The responding officer, Peter Neal, also noted he and two other officers couldn’t initially find a pulse on the woman. Firefighters helped the officers pull the woman out of the tub and put her on a stretcher. The three officers were able to revive the woman using CPR. She was then transported to Mass. General Hospital for treatment.
Police said officers took the boy to his grandmother’s house for the night.
According to reports, it was later determined that the woman might have been smoking in the bathroom before the fire started.
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Miscarriage of justice sends 2 innocent men to prison
Local // Bay Area & State
Gary Kamiya May 16, 2014 Updated: May 17, 2014 4:32 p.m.
1of2Warred Billings (left) and Tom Mooney meet in Mooney's cell during his habeas corpus hearing, 18 years after his trial.Photo: The Chronicle
2of2Tom Mooney is greeted by brother John, sister Anna and Rena Mooney, sobbing, when he left prison.Photo: The Chronicle
(05-17) 16:31 PDT San Francisco --
On a sultry July afternoon in 1916, as thousands of flag-waving San Franciscans clogged Market Street for a "Preparedness Day" parade to support war readiness, an explosion killed 10 people and set in motion the greatest miscarriage of justice in the city's history.
There was never any direct evidence pointing to the person who detonated the bomb at 2:06 p.m. on Steuart Street near Market, a blast that sent body parts flying through the air and wounded 40 in addition to those killed. That lack of evidence, however, didn't keep two innocent men from being convicted of the crime.
In the paranoid, vengeful atmosphere that enveloped San Francisco after the bombing - one whipped into a frenzy by William Randolph Hearst's flagship newspaper, the Examiner - left-wing labor activists Tom Mooney and Warren Billings were arrested, tried and found guilty. The verdicts had barely been handed down when evidence revealed that the entire judicial process had been a farce, marked by illegal arrests, perjured and coached witnesses and gross prosecutorial misconduct. Yet neither man was released for decades.
America's patriotic mania for "preparedness" was partly driven by World War I, which was raging in Europe, but more by fear of revolutionary Mexico.
Long viewed by American capitalists as a compliant fiefdom, Mexico had been racked by turmoil after the ouster of dictator Porfirio Diaz in 1911. When guerrilla leader Pancho Villa sacked the town of Columbus, N.M., killing 17 Americans, the Hearst papers demanded that the U.S. invade and annex Mexico and civilize its "mongrel mixture of Aztec, Indian and Spanish buccaneer" people. A nationwide "Preparedness" movement arose.
A bitter class divide already existed in San Francisco, where the business community was squared off against the city's powerful unions. The Preparedness movement exacerbated these tensions.
Denounced by labor
The movement was embraced by merchants, bankers and capitalists, who saw it as the duty of "every red-blooded American in San Francisco" to support the cause. Labor and left-wing groups denounced it as a way for businessmen and munitions manufacturers to increase profits.
As Richard H. Frost notes in his definitive 1968 study, "The Mooney Case," the Preparedness Day parade was made up almost entirely of businessmen and white-collar employees. Virtually none of the city's large working-class population took part.
Perfect stooges
Tom Mooney and Warren Billings were militant labor activists. Mooney was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World and a socialist. Both men had been implicated in a direct-action campaign against Pacific Gas and Electric Co., in which a number of electrical towers were blown up. Mooney was acquitted, but Billings served a year in jail.
In the hysteria after the parade bombing, their backgrounds made the men perfect stooges.
The Chamber of Commerce's Law and Order Committee, which had been formed to break San Francisco's unions, joined the Hearst press in demanding that anarchists, radicals and other un-American types be rounded up. Actual evidence of guilt was not necessary: Merely being a radical was enough.
Police soon declared that Billings and Mooney were suspects and arrested them. The arrests were blatantly illegal - there was no evidence against either man - but that made no difference. San Franciscans wanted convictions, and District Attorney Charles Fickert was going to supply them.
Billings' trial came first. His alibi was strong and the case against him weak, but that made no difference. Fickert's closing argument ignored the facts and appealed directly to the jury's patriotic outrage: "This American flag, this American flag was what they desired to offend!" Billings was sentenced to life in prison.
The case against Mooney was even weaker. A photograph established that he was more than a mile away minutes before the bomb exploded. The key witness against him, a cattleman named Frank Oxman, said he had seen Mooney riding in a jitney down Market Street during the parade, which would have been impossible because the street was closed to traffic.
The convictions were appalling enough, but subsequent developments were still more outrageous.
No new trial
After Mooney was sentenced to death, it emerged that Oxman had persuaded an acquaintance to commit perjury to support his testimony. This bombshell should have resulted in a new trial for Mooney, but Fickert said no and a judge backed him up.
The pattern was repeated over and over. New evidence kept appearing that exonerated Mooney and revealed prosecutorial wrongdoing - but although his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Gov. William Stephens in 1918, for various legal reasons he could never win a new trial. Years later, state Supreme Court Justice Raymond Peters said that if no legal procedure existed to set aside Mooney's conviction, the court should have invented one.
Years turned into decades, and the case became famous around the world, but still nothing happened. It was a Dickensian nightmare, one of the lowest points in the history of California law.
Wrong climate
But it wasn't just the courts that were to blame: The media and public opinion also played a crucial role in keeping Mooney and Billings locked up. Crusading editor Fremont Older fought to expose the frame-up, but the flag-waving sensationalism of Hearst's yellow journalism was stronger.
And the people of California didn't care enough about a left-wing rabble-rouser to try to free him. As San Francisco attorney G.S. Arnold wrote, Californians wanted Mooney - he was the one who got all the attention; Billings was forgotten behind bars - kept in prison because they didn't want him "urging dynamite as a tonic for the body politic. I doubt this sentiment will ever change."
22 years in prison
Mooney remained in San Quentin Prison until 1939, when Gov. Culbert Olson, a liberal, pardoned him. His 22 years in jail had shattered his health, and he died three years later at age 58.
Once Mooney was pardoned, the authorities could no longer justify holding Billings, and he received a commutation reducing his sentence to time served. He was released 10 months after Mooney but was not given a full pardon until 1961 - 45 years after the Preparedness Day bombing.
On a smaller scale, the case of Mooney and Billings presaged the disgraceful internment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor and the assault on Muslims' civil rights after 9/11 - each an example of how fear, borne of national security hysteria, can threaten Americans' most precious possession, their rights.
Every corner in San Francisco has an astonishing story to tell. Every Saturday, Gary Kamiya's Portals of the Past will tell one of those lost stories, using a specific location to illuminate San Francisco's extraordinary history - from the days when giant mammoths wandered through what is now North Beach, to the Gold Rush delirium, the dot-com madness and beyond.
Last week's trivia question: What piece of land was called Il Giardino by early Italians in San Francisco?
Answer: Washington Square.
This week's trivia question: What incessant sound after the 1906 earthquake almost drove some survivors mad?
Gary Kamiya is the author of the best-selling book "Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco." All the material in Portals of the Past is original for The San Francisco Chronicle. E-mail: metro@sfchronicle.com
Police release body cam footage of fatal San Leandro shooting
Flood water rains down on BART tracks, shuts down Muni at SF’s Embarcadero
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Rebecca Creagh signs for her third Shels spell
Thursday, March 14, 2019 - Pic: Inpho
Shelbourne FC is delighted to announce the signing of forward Rebecca Creagh. Rebecca returns for her third spell at the club having previously departed for Australia and been side lined due to a reoccurring injury.
A spokesperson for the the club said: "We are thrilled to have Becks back for another spell at the club. Her presence in the dressing room, on the field and off the field, will be key to our success this season. Becks is a natural leader and our younger girls look up to her."
Creagh said she is eager to get back to full fitness following a stint on the sidelines which has made her more hungry for success. She says she has a lot to prove and is ready to help the the team and club challenge for the league and cups.
Welcome back Rebecca!
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Pleas in Solai tragedy case are thrown out
By Antony Gitonga | Wednesday, Sep 5th 2018 at 00:00
A resident of Solai in Nakuru County stands on the remains of what used to be his shop after a dam in Patel farm burst its banks on May 9, 2018 killing 48 people and displacing tens of others. [Standard]
An application by four people seeking to stop their prosecution in connection with the Patel Dam tragedy has been dismissed.
Two senior officials from the county government and two others from the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) had sought a judicial review in a case where they are facing 48 counts of manslaughter. The case is set to begin in a week's time.
The four, in two different petitions, had challenged the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to charge them, saying they were not directly responsible for the tragedy that left 48 people dead.
In the first petition, Johnson Kamau, the director of water in Nakuru County, and Luka Kipyegen, the Rongai sub-county administrator, had accused the DPP of unfairly targeting them.
They argued that the duty of regulating the use of water was exercised by the Water Resource Authority (WRA) and not the county government.
Court ruling
But Naivasha High Court judge Richard Mwongo noted that the two, because of their positions in the county, knew of the existence of the dam before it burst.
In dismissing the petition, the judge noted that due to public interest and the grave consequences that the collapse of the dam brought, the prosecution of the suspects should not be stopped.
“The matter should proceed and be determined expeditiously so that the matter can be laid to rest.”
The second petition was filed by Williec Omondi and Lynette Cheruiyot, both employees of Nema.
The two, through their lawyers, had argued that there was infringement and violation of their rights and that the law protected them from any personal liability when carrying out their duties. But the judge noted that following the tragedy that resulted in deaths, the role of Nema and the accused persons had come into sharp focus.
Nema mandate
He noted that the two, in their petition, had admitted that they were deployed to carry out the mandate of Nema where the dam was located, but failed to do so.
The other suspects in the case are Perry Mansukhlal Kansagra, Vinoj Jaya Kumar, Winnie Muthoni, Jacita Were and Tomkin Odo Odhiambo.
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Republicans vs. Syrian Refugees: Keep Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free Because We’re Scared
November 25, 2015 By Brian E. Frydenborg 2 Comments
Once again it is Red v Blue—Fear v Moral Strength, Myth v Math—if and when a well financed fanatic wants to come to the USA—they will not have to trek through a thousand miles of Siberian tundra, disguised as a flesh-less Kurd, when they can simply catch a plane or a boat. The fanatics have financial resources. If we treat the refugees with contempt and inhumanity, the hunger, desperation the being abused—will create a whole new brand of enemy. I am not arguing that all refugees should be given a permanent home in the west, I believe that other solutions should also be invested in. But the more fearful and bigoted we get, the happier and more numerous and motivated our enemies become. Meeting hate with hate cannot possibly have a good outcome. That is a mathematical fact. Patrick Andendall
Republicans, predictably after the Paris attacks, have turned on Syrian refugees as the latest group from which they can arouse fear in the American people to Republicans’ political benefit. Buying into this fear would be ignorant and stupid, and the American refugee resettlement program already has a long track record of thorough vetting and successful resettlement. Ignore Trump and go with Hillary on this one: welcome more Syrian refugees to America.
By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981) November 24th, 2015
One of the most annoying things about today’s Republican Party is that they constantly disregard core American values in favor of inventing their own, often creating new ideology based on the exclusion and denigration of others. The Republican campaign season began with an assault on illegal immigrants; now, the Republicans have set their sights Syrian refugees, unleashing their latest broadsides on them. While Republicans currently fit into a strong nativist tradition in American history, this tradition has always contradicted the core founding principles of the United States of America and it is remarkable how even in 2015 those espousing such principles do not see how much their ideas contradict the core spirit of America. The contrasting tradition of bringing in wave after wave of immigrants, and integrating them as unique parts of America, helping us to grow and change in exciting and productive ways, is a much stronger tradition. Steve Jobs of Apple fame was a Syrian migrant’s orphan, and he is but one in a long list of famous American immigrants, from famed Yankees’ closer Mariano Rivera and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Andrew Carnegie and Albert Einstein.
It is amazing but also predictable how immediately after the Paris attacks, Republicans began to use that tragedy as prop for their anti-immigrant/refugee shenanigans. There are three main tracks of this phenomenon: Republican presidential candidates, Republican, governors, and Republicans in Congress, and each track deserves a discussion.
As for the presidential campaign, none of the candidates on the Republican side have come out in favor of taking in Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks, with the exceptions of Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Ted Cruz; Bush wants to help refugees in general but to “focus” on Christian refugees, with the rationale that they in particular do not have a place to go in the Middle East (not entirely accurate but there are not many places they would be welcome there), but he would not exclude Muslims (this makes him, to his credit, the only recognizable—sorry Jim Gilmore—GOP candidate who allowing for the possibility right now of settling Muslims refugees from Syria, even if one can view his desire to concentrate on Christian refugees with apprehension); Cruz has indicated that only Christian Syrians should be allowed into the United States. The rest of the pack—Dr. Ben Carson, Govs. Chris Christie, John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, George Pataki, and the recently exited Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina, Sens. Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Rick Santorum—much like with the debate on immigration, seems to be pulled in a certain direction by leading contender Donald Trump, with he and all of them saying a loud “NO!” to Syrian refugees. Most seem to be doing so on the grounds of questioning the Obama Administration’s ability to competently screen refugees, but some seem to be suggesting significant numbers of refugees would be terrorists wishing us harm. Trump let it be known he would send them back out of the country if elected, and Dr. Carson even compared Syrian refugees to “rabid dogs.” And, sadly, some of these candidates were for helping Syrian refugees before the attacks in Paris.
In contrast, Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Gov. Martin O’Malley both want to bring in even more (up to 65,000 next year) refugees than the 10,000 Obama is planning to accept in 2016, and Bernie Sanders is also for taking in refugees; just another of many clear contrasts between the Republican and Democratic candidates this political season.
Republican Governors
Since 2012, not even 1,900 Syrian refugees have been settled in the United States. As for November 16th, twenty-five Republican governors had vowed to bar Syrian refugees from—or are against any entering—their states. This number has increased slightly since then as of November 19th, to include thirty-one governors of thirty-one states, thirty of which have Republican governors. Dr. Ben Carson even tweeted solidarity with the governors not taking in Syrian refugees by showing a map of all the states saying no to taking in Syrian refugees but by showing a map that was, hilariously, disturbingly, and unsurprisingly to many, filled with mistakes and geographical errors:
Thus, basically, America’s Republican governors are pretty much against settling refugees in their states.
Republicans in Congress
Congress also seems intent on working against Obama’s program to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year. While some Congressional Republicans are calling for harsher measures or are using inflammatory rhetoric (one Alabama Republican Congressman claimed Syrian refugees were coming to the U.S. for a “paid vacation” and to mooch off of American welfare programs), the Republican-led House recently passed bill with some Democratic support that calls for reforms to increase scrutiny of refugees and the security procedures designed to vet them. It does not explicitly call for a long pause or a stoppage of the refugee resettlement program. But its critics contend that the changes are so sweeping and cumbersome that the process of implementing these changes would de facto result in a cessation of the program for some time, and that this is the very intent behind the legislation. This is why the White House announced that Obama would veto this legislation if the Senate passed a version of it. As it stands, the refugee application process is the hardest way to get into the United States, and can take up to two years; this leads me to agree with those who think that perhaps the Republican-led effort to make this process even more difficult is, at least in part and in the minds of some of its proponents, an effort to de facto stop the admission of Syrian refugees altogether (this is not unlike what was regrettably done concerning Jewish refugees hoping to come to America in the WWII-era; Anne Frank and her family were denied entry as refugees by the U.S.). Though more benign than simply barring Syrian refugees, the House’s Republican-dominated plan elongating and intensifying an already thorough process would seem to have the same effect as an outright ban, at least in the short-term future.
Helping Syrian Refugees: as American as Apple Pie
Let’s be clear: denying most or all Syrian (Muslim) refugees passage into the United States would just be cruel, immoral, irrational, and bad policy. The current screening process is very thorough and it can take up to two years to get into the U.S. as a refugee, hardly a good timeline for committing terrorism, hence the 9/11 hijackers came in as tourists and students, not refugees. Refugees are not committing terrorism in the U.S. these days and are, if properly screened, a very minimal threat. I’m not going to write here that it is the burden the U.S. to take in the most Syrian refugees; others should be shouldering that burden (I’m talking to you, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the rich Gulf, and it was Europe, not the U.S., which drew the disastrous borders of the modern Middle East at the end of WWI that still cause so many problems today, with France becoming the occupying power in Syria from 1919-1946). But I not only support Obama’s modest proposals to take in Syrian refugees, I support Hillary Clinton’s proposal to take in a lot more refugees than Obama is proposing. Republican efforts to shut the door to the some of the world’s most vulnerable people fleeing a deadly, brutal, and long civil war is hardly America taking a brave stance to help those facing death and persecution; rather, it is cowardly and pathetic. In general, three out of four Syrian refugees are women and children, and only two percent of Syrian refugees settled thus far in the U.S. are single men of military fighting age. Despite Republican claims, the current and thorough system actually has a very good track record and the idea that the Obama Administration would sloppily allow large numbers of terrorists into the U.S. as refugees is unfounded.
George Takei—Captain Sulu of Star Trek fame—was unjustly interned as a little boy along well over 100,00 other Japanese-American immigrants and citizens during WWII, thus, when he cautioned his Facebook followers that Americans needed to avoid letting the tragedy of the Paris attacks wrongly turn into fear, paranoia, and mistreatment of refugees and immigrants, he was speaking from experience.
Helping people in need is supposed to define us when we Americans are at our best. The poem written in honor of and engraved inside the base of the Statue of Liberty (a gift from France) reads: “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” As Hillary Clinton exclaimed passionately to a crowd of supporters recently, “We can’t act as though we’re shutting the doors to people in need without undermining who we are as Americans and the values we have stood for!” Shutting the door to Syrian refugees, mostly women and children, as far too many Republicans want to do, simply plays into ISIS’s propaganda that the U.S. is anti-Muslim and that we are in a civilizational war to the death against the Islamic Ummah (global community). Integrating the refugees of Syria seeking a better life into the American fabric will only make us stronger and render ISIS propaganda as impotent as it is inaccurate, as Muslims fleeing ISIS oppression who settle into America and prosper as Muslims who are free to worship their religion the way they see fit, free from the terror of suicide bombings, forced sexual slavery, and beheadings, is a vision of hope that ISIS can never offer its followers and is among the best possible counters to ISIS’s destructive ideology. Yet once again, by talking tough with little thought for the real world consequences of their actions, Republicans are making us less safe, not safer, by empowering our enemies and their extremism.
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Corey Mondello says
conservative ideology is based on feaer, why does anyone think when they are at their rallies and on FOX, they try to prove they are the tough guys, while liberals are wimpy. thats why there has been many examples where lists of those who are pro-war, tend to be conservative and have never been in the military, as in “chicken hawks”, and they dont want their own kids in the military of course! and, its one reason why conservatives in congress never support helping veterans or even giving those currently in the military, safer gear, body armor, and tanks.
Jake Smith says
rePIGs are always afraid, always ready to surrender to unfounded and overly-exaggerated fear, never take responsibility for their actions that had a negative result, and flee from peaceful conflict resolution. It is in their very nature to do so.
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First hospital trials Mycarematters boards for patients with dementia
East Surrey Hospital, run by Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, is the first hospital to trial information boards developed by Mycarematters to help give nurses, doctors and clinical teams a simple insight into some extra details about the individual patients, living with dementia, who they are caring for.
Mycarematters boards have picture symbols for topics that are filled in by a relative or loved one to reveal more about the person behind the patient: preferences for food, music, previous work background, favourite past time. The boards are being trialled on two wards at East Surrey Hospital next to the beds of patients with dementia or memory issues. This means that clinicians and members of the ward teams are able to see extra information about the patient at a glance.
Chris O’Connor, consultant nurse for dementia at SASH, said: “The reaction from patients and families has been very positive. One patient’s daughter said to me, ‘This board makes my mum a person again, not a patient.’
“These boards provide staff with information about who the person they are caring for, for example what sort of job they had or how they like their tea etc. The boards make it easier for staff to engage with the person. It’s about caring for the whole person, both their physical and mental wellbeing.”
Lorraine Kutner, from Redhill, who has been visiting her dad, John, said: “I think it’s a brilliant idea because dad is not able to express his likes and dislikes, what kind of person he is. The board shows his preferences from music to food, a little bit about his personality as he is a very private person, which is important for hospital staff to know. I think it’s a really nice insight into my dad.”
The Mycarematters boards started life as humble post-it notes in a nursing home, written by Zoe Harris to assist in the care of her husband who had dementia and was unable to communicate with people in the last months of his life.
“My scribbled notes rapidly turned into a laminated wall chart, a very simple concept using symbols,” Zoe said. “I laminated it so I could easily update the information when necessary and I used symbols to help staff find the information they needed quickly and easily.”
Zoe added: “I’m delighted that SASH is the first hospital to trial the boards, which aim to improve the experience of patients. Sharing some of the simple aspects about a person with dementia can make a big difference to their wellbeing. Dementia is set to touch the lives of more people as the population gets older.”
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06/25/1950 Korean War Begins
Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by RightHand, Jun 25, 2006.
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1950 Korean War beginsArmed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War. The United States, acting under the auspices of the United Nations, quickly sprang to the defense of South Korea and fought a bloody and frustrating war for the next three years.
Korea, a former Japanese possession, had been divided into zones of occupation following World War II. U.S. forces accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in southern Korea, while Soviet forces did the same in northern Korea. Like in Germany, however, the "temporary" division soon became permanent. The Soviets assisted in the establishment of a communist regime in North Korea, while the United States became the main source of financial and military support for South Korea.
On June 25, 1950, North Korean forces surprised the South Korean army (and the small U.S. force stationed in the country), and quickly headed toward the capital city of Seoul. The United States responded by pushing a resolution through the U.N.'s Security Council calling for military assistance to South Korea. (Russia was not present to veto the action as it was boycotting the Security Council at the time.) With this resolution in hand, President Harry S. Truman rapidly dispatched U.S. land, air, and sea forces to Korea to engage in what he termed a "police action." The American intervention turned the tide, and U.S. and South Korean forces marched into North Korea. This action, however, prompted the massive intervention of communist Chinese forces in late 1950. The war in Korea subsequently bogged down into a bloody stalemate. In 1953, the United States and North Korea signed a cease-fire that ended the conflict. The cease-fire agreement also resulted in the continued division of North and South Korea at just about the same geographical point as before the conflict.
The Korean War was the first "hot" war of the Cold War. Over 55,000 American troops were killed in the conflict. Korea was the first "limited war," one in which the U.S. aim was not the complete and total defeat of the enemy, but rather the "limited" goal of protecting South Korea. For the U.S. government, such an approach was the only rational option in order to avoid a third world war and to keep from stretching finite American resources too thinly around the globe. It proved to be a frustrating experience for the American people, who were used to the kind of total victory that had been achieved in World War II. The public found the concept of limited war difficult to understand or support and the Korean War never really gained popular support.
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Thanks RH
That War Took some of my Father's soul.
Quigley_Sharps, Jun 25, 2006
My dad was 82nd Airborne and 25th Tropical Lightning Division infantry. He turned 18 on Heartbreak Ridge in Korea. He also lost some of his soul to the Korean War. Out of 200 men in his unit when they went into combat, only 4 men from his unit made it out alive.
Conagher, Jun 26, 2006
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Gough wins third event as men earn best CAC finish ever; women place third in conference
ST. MARY'S CITY, Md. – The Salisbury University swimming squads concluded the 2016 Capital Athletic Conference championships with the men finishing in second place (491 points) for the first time ever and the women capturing a third-place finish with 439 points.
In qualifying earlier in the day, Will Gough continued his historic showing at the championships with another school record as he qualified in the top spot of the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 45.81 seconds. The record was set in 2015 by Gough himself at 45.96 seconds.
Okan Eyigor qualified for another backstroke final as he raced the 200-yard backstroke preliminary in 1:56.27 to finish the heat in third place.
The last finals qualifier on the day for Salisbury was Stephen Arcidiacono, who took the last qualifying spot in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:03.19.
The final session of the championships opened up with Peter Moyer breaking a 17-year old school record and getting a fourth-place finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle. Moyer swam the race in 16:42.72 to shatter the school record that was set in 1999 by 10 seconds.
Eyigor added to his stellar season with a second-team All-CAC finish in the 200-yard backstroke. Eyigor finished the event in 1:55.12 to pick up the second-team nod.
Gough once again impressed as the senior won his third individual event of the championships, a first in program history. Gough broke the school record he set earlier in the day in the 100-yard freestyle by swimming the race in 45.60 seconds. The 45.60 time also earned Gough a NCAA provisional "B" cut.
Gough is now the only member of the Salisbury men's swimming team to have earned four first-team All-CAC honors in their career, as he won the 200-yard freestyle last season. Gough is also now just the fourth male in CAC history to ever earn first-team honors in the 50-yard, 100-yard, and 200-yard freestyle in the same season.
The men earned their last All-CAC performers of the championships in the 400-yard freestyle relay as the team of Eyigor, Andrew Ward, Jake Blazer, and Gough finished third with a time of 3:10.95.
The women had two members -- Victoria Radcliffe and Layne Gable -- qualify for the finals in events during the morning session.
Radcliffe qualified for the 200-yard breaststroke by breaking her own school record (2:29.32, 2014). She finished the race in 2:28.03 to qualify in second place.
Gable moved onto the finals in the 200-yard butterfly with a 2:16.23 race to finish the preliminary in fourth place.
The women started the night session with Nicki Schult grabbing a top-eight finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle, finishing seventh with a time of 18:28.12.
In the finals of the 200-yard breaststroke, Radcliffe destroyed her own school record that she had set just hours earlier in the preliminaries to pick up second team All-CAC recognition. Radcliffe touched the wall in 2:25.72 to secure the second All-CAC second-team finish in her career.
Gable finished the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:16.36 to grab a sixth-place finish for the women.
The second-place finish for the men stands as the highest finish ever in the championships, while the third-place finish for the women is their second-highest finish of all time as they came in second place during the 2001 championships.
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Convocation, Film to Examine Inheritance and Injustices of War
Published: January 08, 2010 | Category: Academics
Southern Utah University will host attorney-turned-film producer James W. Parkinson in a film screening of his award-winning film The Inheritance of War In conjunction with his convocation address, “Soldier Slaves: Abandoned by the White House, Courts and Congress”. Both events will be held on SUU’s campus on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. Parkinson’s lecture will be held at 11:30 a.m. in the SUU Auditorium; the film screening will be at 6 p.m. in the theater of the Sharwan Smith Student Center.
According to the film’s official website, The Inheritance of War details an ongoing fight for justice, following the little-known tale of thousands of WWII soldiers held as prisoners of war in the Philippines after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the largest defeat in United States military history.
The film’s emotional story of survival and hardship presents, “nearly-forgotten events like the death march across the Bataan Peninsula, the ‘hell ships’ that carried prisoners of war to Japan, and harrowing stories of starvation, poor treatment, and harsh conditions experienced when the men were forced to work as slave laborers for Japanese corporations.”
Fifty-five years later, the aging soldiers filed a class action suit, seeking acknowledgement and redress from the private Japanese companies, now multibillion-dollar corporations, that used them as slave labor during the war. James Parkinson was the co-lead counsel representing these POW veterans who were seeking restitution for their suffering.
These decades-old war abuses are given up-to-the-minute relevance by Mr. Parkinson. He traces a path that began with the infamous Bataan Death March of April 1942 and continued with three and a half years of forced labor. After the war these brave men were ordered by the U.S. government to remain silent about their abuse. The audience will be drawn into the case as the extent of the maltreatment by the Japanese is revealed and the POWs' efforts to be compensated for their labor unfold. Mr. Parkinson ties the present to the past by interspersing horrific war narrative with modern-day dramas played out in courtrooms and congressional hearing rooms as lawyers, judges, government officials, senators, and congressmen debate the merits of a case now known as the JPOW case.
The first two hundred people in attendance at Mr. Parkinson’s afternoon Convocation will receive a free copy of his book “Autodidactic” (a book about the value of literacy and being self taught). All convocations are free and open to the public.
Admission to the film screening that same evening is $5 per person. A portion of the proceeds will benefit SUU’s Service & Learning Center. Mr. Parkinson will answer questions after the film.
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What's the meaning of the Hebrew alphabet »
This page is about the meaning, origin and characteristic of the symbol, emblem, seal, sign, logo or flag: Hebrew alphabet.
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The Hebrew alphabet (alefbet ʿIvri ), known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script, block script, or more historically, the Assyrian alphabet, is used in the writing of the Hebrew language, as well as other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. There have been two script forms in use. The original old Hebrew script is known as the paleo-Hebrew script (which has been largely preserved, in an altered form, in the Samaritan script), while the present "square" form of the Hebrew alphabet is a stylized form of the Assyrian script. Various "styles" (in current terms, "fonts") of representation of the letters exist. There is also a cursive Hebrew script, which has also varied over time and place.
The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters, of which five have different forms when used at the end of a word. Hebrew is written from right to left. Originally, the alphabet was an abjad consisting only of consonants. Like other abjads, such as the Arabic alphabet, means were later devised to indicate vowels by separate vowel points, known in Hebrew as niqqud. In rabbinic Hebrew, the letters א ה ו י are also used as matres lectionis to represent vowels. When used to write Yiddish, the writing system is a true alphabet (except for borrowed Hebrew words). In modern usage of the alphabet, as in the case of Yiddish (except that ע replaces ה) and to some extent modern Israeli Hebrew, vowels may be indicated. Today, the trend is toward full spelling with these letters acting as true vowels.
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Israel's president formally nominates Netanyahu as PM
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's president has formally nominated Benjamin Netanyahu for a fourth consecutive term as prime minister.
In one of the president's few non-ceremonial roles, President Reuven Rivlin tasked Netanyahu on Wednesday with assembling a governing coalition within 42 days.
The move was widely expected after Netanyahu's Likud party and its right-wing allies captured a majority of seats in parliamentary elections last week.
Rivlin hosted post-election consultations with party leaders this week to hear their recommendations for who should serve as the next prime minister.
Netanyahu's allies, who command a 65-55 majority in the 120-seat parliament, all lobbied for Netanyahu to continue as prime minister.
In the coming weeks, Netanyahu will have to negotiate coalition deals with his partners, who will jockey for powerful and influential Cabinet posts.
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The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee serves as the Olympic Academy in the United States, providing a national forum for the advancement of the social and educational principles of Olympism. These two principles are embodied through U.S. Olympic Academy activities that aim to inspire and cultivate Olympism throughout the United States.
The social principles are tied to USOPC programming that empowers and supports U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes as the greatest representatives and most inspiring ambassadors of the Olympic and Paralympic movements. USOA programs work with U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes to further instill these values and empower athletes to make positive contributions to their communities, thereby cultivating and growing Olympism in the United States.
The educational principles of Olympism are embodied in the USOA through the preservation and sharing of Olympic and Paralympic materials and memorabilia. Central to this is the Crawford Family U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Archives, which nurture and promote the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic movements through the preservation and presentation of Olympic torches, medals, historic photos, artifacts, important documents and more. The archives develop opportunities for museum exhibits and national displays to showcase and promote the Olympic and Paralympic Games and their values. The archives also collaborates with the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum, which will open in spring of 2020 in Colorado Springs, Colo., bringing Olympism alive to thousands of visitors every year. Additionally, the USOA is committed to participating in and contributing to the mission of the International Olympic Academy, which is to preserve and spread the Olympic spirit by studying, serving and promoting the ideals and principles of the Olympic Movement.
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Home News Oppo F3 Review: Smartphone with Rich Features
Oppo F3 Review: Smartphone with Rich Features
Oppo F3 Review
As a person who lives in a modern world, you might want to purchase the smartphone with excellent specification and plenty of features. Smartphone lately has evolved into more than the merely communication device. It is also able to do something else that may or may not have something to do with communication. Photography, for instance, is a good example of this case. The camera becomes one of the great features that smartphone these days should have.
The demand for the smartphone with such specification is getting higher. Oppo is answering this market challenge. This company releases Oppo F3 as their best invention. The device is designed to provide reliable performance as a communication device and other functions. Of course, great camera feature is one of the features included in this gadget. The camera comes along with other features that are designed to satisfy the need of its customers. In this Oppo F3 review, we are going to talk about what it has to offer for their clients.
Brief Specification and Feature of Oppo F3 Review
The first thing that we are going to talk about this Oppo F3 review is the design of the smartphone. The market trend lately for a smartphone is one with a luxurious impression. Therefore, gold and rose gold becomes the best colour options available. This smartphone vendor seems to understand this demand. As the response, Oppo F3 is released with those colour options. According to plenty of articles about Oppo F3 review, the market has good response related to the colour used by the smartphone. The design maximises the screen size. It incorporates big home button on the bottom of the screen.
As implies on the Oppo F3 review above, the layout is intended to fit wide screen size into its compact dimension. The screen itself comes at 5.5 inch, which is an ideal size for the modern smartphone. Meanwhile, the size of this product is about 153.3 by 75.2 mm with the thickness of 7.3 mm. The screen of this smartphone has the screen resolution of 1080 by 1920 pixels. This capacitive touchscreen is featuring Corning Gorilla Glass 5. This protection feature will protect your screen from scratches and dents.
Oppo F3 Review Smartphone with Rich Features
An Oppo F3 review will not complete without talking about the hardware components inside the smartphone. The most noticeable thing about the smartphone performance is its smoothness. This smooth performance is achieved due to the impressive 1.5 GHz of Octa Core processor. Aside from the processor specification, Mediatek MT6750T is also contributed to its stable performance. As for storage component, it includes 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage. External storage can be added if you need more storage. Dedicated microSD slot is available for it.
On the beginning of this Oppo F3 review, we already talk that this smartphone has the great camera. The rear camera comes with 13 megapixels. Meanwhile, the front camera comes with a dual feature. It combines 16 megapixels and 8 megapixels of resolution. The camera is equipped with plenty of features that allow you to capture the best photo. With such great features, the camera also has good performance when being used to record video. Recording up to 2160 pixels of video at 30 frames per second would not be a problem for its camera specification.
The list of features above is only mentioning about few of its superior features. Aside from those features, it also has other supportive features such as fingerprint, proximity, accelerometer, compass, and much more. From this Oppo F3 review, you can draw a conclusion that this luxurious smartphone has plenty of features with great specifications. As for the price, this smartphone series is available on the market at $594.67.
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CIO 50 2009: Dana Deasy
By Andy Smith in CIO50 on June 1, 2009, 4:57 AM PST
CIO 50
Organization : CIO and Group VP Information Technology & Services
Dana Deasy has been CIO of BP since October 2007 - joining the energy giant from car company General Motors where he was CIO for the North America region.
Previously he was CIO for Tyco International, and CIO of the Americas for Siemens. He has also held the position of director of Information Management at Rockwell's Space Systems Division, supporting its Space Shuttle programme. Today he can lay claim to more than 25 years' experience of leading large scale IT strategies and projects.
At BP, Deasy is responsible for the company's global IT strategy and capability, supporting all the company's operations including its refining and marketing, and exploration and production businesses, as well as its commodity trading operation.
He is also overseeing the transformation of BP's $3bn IT organisation - part of a wider change agenda at BP - to maximise the competitive edge and value that IT provides.
Deasy holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California and a graduate degree from National University in California.
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Hot Press Best of Ireland 2014
Stonewell Cider has been named in the country’s Best of Artisan in the Hot Press Best of Ireland 2014 magazine.
Best Of Ireland features a team of leading journalists’ top picks when it comes to the nation’s best pubs, clubs, restaurants, venues, hotels, festivals, events and much more. It is an invaluable guide for visitors to these shores, as well as locals looking to get better acquainted the cream of the Irish crop.
It includes a comprehensive lifestyle guide, the 70 best restaurants in Ireland, venues, music, nightlife and our contributors’ recommendations for entertainment, food, sport, fashion, tours and fun. The ’24-Hour City’ features provide the perfect guide on getting the most out of Ireland’s top destinations.
Best of Ireland also features recommendations for Ireland from a string of celebrities including Kian Egan, Jamie Heaslip, Lucy Kennedy, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Joseph O’Connor, Glenn Patterson, Catherine Fulvio, Wallis Bird, Emma Donoghue, Bernard O’Shea and loads more.
You can pick up a copy of the issue in most newsagents and shops nationwide, or order directly from www.hotpress.com
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Jordan to send ambassador back to Israel as tensions ease
A picture taken on Oct 17, 2012 shows Jordan's ambassador to Israel, Walid Obeidat, during his meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres at the presidential compound in Jerusalem. Mr Obeidat will return as Jordan's ambassador to Israel, the government said on Monday, Feb 2, 2015, three months after withdrawing the envoy in protest at Israeli restrictions on access to Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque. -- PHOTO: AFP
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan will return its ambassador to Israel, the government said on Monday, three months after withdrawing the envoy in protest at Israeli restrictions on access to Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque.
For the first time since making peace with its neighbour in 1994, Jordan announced in November it was pulling its envoy out of Israel following growing tensions over the sacred compound housing Al Aqsa mosque - the third holiest site in Islam.
Government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani said that since then, Israel had taken significant steps to ease the friction and was allowing many more Muslims to access the site, which is also the holiest place in Judaism.
"We noticed in the last period a significant improvement in Haram al-Sharif with numbers of worshippers reaching unprecedented levels," Momani said. Haram al-Sharif, known in Judaism as Temple Mount, is where the mosque is located.
Israel welcomed the move. "This is an important decision that reflects the shared interests of Israel and Jordan, chief among them being stability, security and peace," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement.
Israel shut the Al Aqsa compound for one day last November after a far-right Israeli-American activist, who had spoken out against a ban on Jews praying at the ancient compound, was shot and seriously wounded in Jerusalem.
Jordanian officials said the mosque complex was swiftly reopened after the personal intervention of King Abdullah, whose custodianship of the holy site was recognised in the 1994 peace treaty with Israel.
The compound, which also houses the Dome of the Rock, the gold-plated shrine from where the Prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven, is run by several hundred Jordanian government employees.
Momani said the ambassador would be returning to Israel later on Monday, adding that the government hoped the relative calm around the holy site would continue.
Jordan blamed Israel for the tensions, saying it had not moved to restrain Israeli far-right nationalists who sought to overturn the Jewish prayer ban. "The message was delivered and reached the Israelis and on this basis we have asked our ambassador to go back to his work in the embassy this evening," Momani said.
Jordan is one of only two Arab states to have made peace with Israel. But this has never won much domestic favour, given Israel's continued occupation of the neighbouring West Bank.
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Trump’s rise leaves the world in Merkel’s hands: Burman
By Tony BurmanForeign Affairs Columnist
Sat., Nov. 19, 2016timer3 min. read
So, as Barack Obama prepares to leave office, we may now know what the next “leader of the free world” looks like.
No, I don’t mean that slightly overweight American bully, with his orange hair, who seemingly sleeps in his navy blue business suit. I mean someone completely different.
With Donald Trump’s unlikely election as the next U.S. president, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany — a scientist by training, fluent in Russian and born 62 years ago in communist East Germany — is increasingly being seen as the last leader left in defence of the post-Second World War international order.
That was evident on Thursday in Berlin. The dramatic, somewhat emotional final meeting between Merkel and President Obama was a poignant and historic encounter.
When they first started working together in 2009, after Obama was elected, there were personal and political frictions. But that gradually transformed into a smooth partnership between the two leaders, and between the United States and Germany.
In their final news conference, it was as if Obama was handing the mantle of western leadership to the German chancellor. They both talked about their history of “shared values,” the importance of close co-operation between the United States and Europe and the need “to stand up to Russia” when international security is at stake.
But they were not only talking to their respective national audiences. In essence, they were aiming their sharp remarks at Trump himself.
Trump’s election — declared in the early morning hours of Nov. 9 — is seen in much of Europe as a watershed, and there is considerable foreboding. Nowhere is this more deeply felt than in Germany’s capital, Berlin.
It was on Nov. 9, 1989, when — not far from where Obama and Merkel were speaking on Thursday — the Berlin Wall separating East and West Germany came down. And it was on Nov. 9, 1938, when — on Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” — Nazis accelerated their rise in Germany by attacking Jewish synagogues, homes and shops.
In Germany, the ghosts of the past are never forgotten.
If Trump’s election on Nov. 9 also proves to be a historic turning point, in what direction will it take the world?
Trump’s foreign policy proposals during the presidential campaign, although often incoherent and contradictory, point to a dramatic change to the international world order in place since the end of the Second World War. He wants to abandon the global trading system, divide the western security alliance and scrap the nuclear treaty with Iran.
The anti-establishment, often-racist populism that fuelled Trump’s victory is also rampant in Europe. It was at the core of Britain’s surprising Brexit vote in June and will likely lead to the defeat of French President François Hollande in elections next spring.
As for Merkel, she has been in office for 11 years and, if she chooses to run, will stand for election again next September.
Although she earned considerable international respect for her handling of the refugee crisis, she has suffered a political backlash within Germany. There was some speculation that she would step down.
But the challenge of Trump ironically strengthened her position and she is expected to announce — perhaps as early as this weekend — that she will run again.
Much of the worry in Europe focuses on Trump’s odd infatuation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In his campaign, he spoke often of being able “to do a deal” with Putin. That leaves most European leaders appalled.
As if to prove their fears, it is striking how Putin dealt with Trump this week.
On Monday, Putin and Trump spoke by telephone. The Kremlin said the two leaders agreed on the need for joint efforts to fight terrorism.
But on Tuesday morning, only hours after the call, Russia launched in its long-awaited offensive across Syria, with particular aim at the besieged city of Aleppo. It is widely believed that Russia and the Syrian regime are trying to exploit Trump’s victory by demolishing the opposition forces backed by the United States and Europe.
This pattern of events, perhaps a hint of what is to come in this new era, probably took few Western leaders by surprise. And certainly not Obama or Merkel.
Tony Burman is former head of Al Jazeera English and CBC News. Reach him @TonyBurman or at tony.burman@gmail.com .
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After 46 years, DNA evidence proves Virginia inmate’s innocence, attorneys say
By Justin JouvenalThe Washington Post
Sat., Oct. 22, 2016timer5 min. read
When Sherman Brown was convicted and imprisoned in the brutal killing of a 4-year-old Virginia boy, the Vietnam War was still raging and Watergate was just a hotel, not a scandal.
Then 22 years old, he maintained his innocence at the time and as each decade faded into the next. Now, after nearly a half-century behind bars, Brown is petitioning Virginia’s Supreme Court, saying DNA collected from newly recovered evidence indicates that he could not have committed the murder.
Justices now will have to weigh whether that genetic evidence is strong enough to warrant overturning his 1970 conviction in Albemarle County, Va.
If Brown, 69, is exonerated, he would be among the longest-serving prisoners to be cleared of a crime in the history of Virginia and the United States. It would be an extraordinary turnabout for a man who was initially sentenced to death before the sentence was reduced to life.
“Recent DNA testing demonstrates by clear and convincing evidence what I have maintained for over 45 years: that I am innocent of this crime,” Brown wrote in his writ of actual innocence filed in early October and first reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “The evidence against me at trial was deeply flawed.”
Brown was convicted of first-degree murder after a vicious 1969 attack near Charlottesville, Va., during which a woman was beaten, stabbed and possibly raped in her home. The same man also fatally stabbed the woman’s 4-year-old son, leaving him face down on his bed.
The mother survived and identified Brown as her attacker. He was also linked to the crime via a type of fibre and hair analysis that the FBI in recent years has acknowledged is flawed, in part, after reporting by The Washington Post.
Brown writes in court filings that new tests ruled him out as the source of a partial male DNA profile found in a recently recovered slide containing a vaginal swab taken from the woman after the attack. Neither the woman nor her son are identified in recent court records.
The tests also showed a greater than 98 per cent chance that the material did not come from the woman’s husband, according to the filing. The woman recently told prosecutors she had a monogamous relationship with her husband, Brown’s attorneys said in the court papers. The attorneys argued that the DNA must have come from an unidentified third man who was the actual attacker.
Brown’s attorneys, who include lawyers from the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project and New York’s Innocence Project, said that the type of Y-chromosome DNA recovered from the swab cannot be matched against DNA samples of known perpetrators contained in state or federal databases.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring’s office has not filed a response to Brown’s writ of actual innocence and another writ of habeas corpus claiming that prosecutors relied on the discredited hair and fibre analysis. Albemarle County prosecutors did not respond to a request for comment.
“As with all such petitions, we will closely examine and consider the claims and evidence as we prepare a response for the Supreme Court,” Michael Kelly, a spokesperson for the attorney general’s office, wrote in an email.
Brown had recently returned from serving in the Vietnam War when the horrific events of Oct. 1, 1969, unfolded. Prosecutors said at trial that a man knocked on the door of the woman’s home that afternoon.
The woman went to the door with her 4-year-old son and opened it. The man asked for a drink of water. After a brief conversation, prosecutors said, the man propositioned the woman for sex and the woman repeatedly refused. Prosecutors said the man told her, “I’m so sexed up, I don’t know what to do.”
Soon after, the woman vaguely remembered receiving painful blows to her side and was knocked unconscious, prosecutors said.
Later that afternoon, the woman’s sister-in-law came to the house and found the woman beaten and stabbed. Her underwear had also been removed. The 4-year-old boy was found covered in blood on his bed, prosecutors said. He had been beaten and stabbed several times.
Prosecutors argued at trial that the suspect raped or tried to rape the woman and attacked her and killed her son to try to get rid of any witnesses. An analysis of the woman’s vaginal swab performed after the attack indicated the presence of sperm, according to Brown’s filing.
At trial, the woman was the sole eyewitness who identified Brown as her attacker. The woman testified that she had smoked a cigarette with him during a previous 15-minute encounter.
In his filings, Brown denies ever meeting the woman and said she might have misidentified him because they were of different races, among other factors. Brown is African-American; the woman is white.
At trial, an FBI agent testified that Brown’s hair was found on a sweatshirt that also contained fibres that matched a robe the woman was wearing during the attack, tying Brown to the crime.
The woman’s testimony and forensic evidence was enough for an all-white jury to convict Brown after a brief deliberation. He was sentenced to death.
Brown was on Virginia’s death row when the Supreme Court struck down the state’s death penalty in 1972. Brown was resentenced to life, before the death penalty was reinstated.
In 2008, the Innocence Project reached an agreement with the Albemarle County prosecutor’s office to begin DNA testing in the case. After an audit, the Justice Department also recently told Brown’s attorneys that the FBI agent erred in his analysis of the hairs found on the sweatshirt.
But the true break came last year, when members of the University of Virginia’s Innocence Project discovered the slide containing the vaginal swab at the school’s Department of Pathology.
More than 40 people have been exonerated of crimes in Virginia, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. If exonerated, Brown would join Earl Washington Jr. as the only other person to have sat on death row in the state before being cleared of a crime, if the Supreme Court rules in his favour.
There are a number of steps before that could happen. The Virginia Supreme Court stayed the writ of actual innocence for 90 days so that additional testing can be done to try to conclusively exclude the woman’s husband as the contributor of the male DNA found in the vaginal swab.
The state must respond to Brown’s filing. Then, the Supreme Court will decide whether to hold oral arguments before rendering a decision. After 46 years, Brown will have to wait a bit longer for his claim of innocence to be decided once again.
“It’s very tragic to think someone has been in prison for four decades and he may actually be innocent of the crime,” said Susan Friedman, an attorney with the Innocence Project.
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ODDIE THE BEST
Who is Bill Oddie? Resident of The Real Marigold Hotel, star of The Goodies and ex-Springwatch presenter
The bird expert has joined the popular BBC series set in India
By BECKY PEMBERTON
WILDLIFE presenter, author and comedy host, Bill Oddie is a well-known telly personality.
The nature expert has joined the latest series of The Real Marigold Hotel – but what do we know about Springwatch star?
Bill Oddie is in the latest series of The Real Marigold HotelCredit: Getty Images
Who is Bill Oddie?
TV presenter, writer, musician and conservationist, Bill Oddie is a star with many strings to his bow.
He is well-known for his wildlife expertise in shows that include Springwatch, Birding with Bill Oddie and Bill Oddie Goes Wild but was also famous for starring in comedy show The Goodies.
The talented star was born in 1941 and went on to study at Cambridge University, where he quickly fell into comedy production.
It was here he met his fellow Goodies hosts, who would later produce a show of the same name that would plunge him into the public eye.
The talented star was born in 1941 and went on to study at Cambridge UniversityCredit: Rex Features
When will Bill Oddie be on the Real Marigold Hotel?
The famous TV presenter has joined the Real Marigold Hotel for its second series.
The show, which is inspired by the hit movie, will see Bill be one of eight ageing celebrities who travel across India to see if they would be able to hack retiring overseas.
The second series features a new line-up of celebs alongside Bill, including This Morning’s Doctor Miriam Stoppard, actress Amanda Barrie, Paul Nicholas from ‘80s sitcom Just Good Friends, singer Sheila Ferguson, entertainer Lionel Blair, snooker player Dennis Taylor and TV personality Rustie Lee.
The first season, which was broadcast on BBC2 last year, was a hit, attracting a series average of 4.1 million viewers.
The famous TV presenter has joined the Real Marigold Hotel for its second seriesCredit: BBC
When was Bill Oddie on Springwatch?
One of Bill Oddie’s most famous TV slots was when he featured on Springwatch with co-presenters Simon King and Kate Humble.
The show evolved from a number of similar nature programmes starring the presenters.
Bill Oddie and Simon King first co-hosted A Bird in the Nest together in 1994, and the pair later went on to do Wild In Your Garden with Kate Humble.
This show was switched up to become Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie, which had an identical format to Springwatch.
Oddie hosted from 2005 to 2008 before he left the show due to personal health reasons, and was replaced by Chris Packham.
One of Bill Oddie’s most famous TV slots was when he featured on Springwatch with co-presenters Simon King and Kate HumbleCredit: BBC
When was Bill Oddie in the Goodies?
The Goodies are made up of three British comedians: Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden.
Their comedy TV show was popular during the 1970s and early 1980s, and saw them nominated for a BAFTA in 1975 and an EMMY award.
The trio met at Cambridge University where Oddie was studying English, Garden was studying medicine and Brooke-Taylor was studying law.
Bill Oddie was in the comedy TV show The Goodies during the 1970s and early 1980sCredit: Getty Images
What is an ornithologist?
An ornithologist is a person who studies birds.
Bill Oddie is one of the most famous British bird experts, and started out as a birdwatcher during his childhood in Birmingham.
He has written a number of books and articles about birds for publications such as Birdwatch, British Birds and Birdwatching Magazine.
He became the president of the West Midland Bird Club in 1999 and in 2003 ran a half-marathon to raise funds for a number of wildlife charities.
The TV presenter has written a number of books and articles about birds for publications such as BirdwatchCredit: Rex Features
What about Bill Oddie’s personal life?
Bill Oddie has been married twice, and first tied the knot with Jean Hart in 1967 before getting divorced.
He had two daughters with Jean, Bonnie Oddie and Kate Hardie, and now has three grandchildren, Gracie, Ella and Lyle.
In 1983, he went down the aisle with Laura Beaumont-Giles, and the couple had a daughter called Rosie in 1985.
Bill and Laura have worked together on a number of film scripts and books together.
The Real Marigold Hotel series two airs on Wednesday nights at 9pm on BBC ONE.
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MIPCOM 2016: Virtual Reality has arrived
MIPCOM has a habit of predicting the future.
In the past, it has been ahead of the curve with on-demand, digital, mobile, e Sports, streaming and much, much more. But it has also avoided the passing fads and focused on the platforms and techniques that have gone on to change the game.
This year, the world’s content marketplace has focused firmly on VR by bringing the leading storytellers from the world’s of film, TV, sport, gaming and finance together to discuss the next frontier for entertainment.
Here in Cannes, the signs are everywhere if you are prepared to look closely. A man in a suit, enjoying an espresso a quiet Old Town cafe, a VR headset on the table in front of him. Or the group sitting on the deck of a sprawling super yacht in the marina, screaming with laughter as they watch VR content while eating a lavish lunch.
Something has changed over the course of 2016. VR is no longer ‘on it’s way’ – it is here. And with bells on. That is why we at Laduma are also here in force. Not only have we been invited to speak on the opening day but we have also been asked to showcase and, let’s be honest, show-off our extraordinary range of VR content this week.
This year at MIPCOM, the first three days are focused on a series of best-in-class VR sessions, sponsored by Sony. There are panels and talks dedicated to creativity in the space, production challenges, financing and business models. While others will look at the commissioning process, revenue generation and sponsorship.
Sky and Discovery are just some of the media giants sending their leading minds from their own in-house VR departments with the former having launched a new VR studio and app in recent weeks, and the likes of Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Sony and Universal all beginning to invest heavily in their very own teams. VR is here to stay.
The spectacular Laduma space inside the Palais des Festivals, which also acts as home to the Cannes Film Festival, reflects the real magic we believe VR possesses: the ability to transport you. Step inside the mysterious Laduma box this week and open your mind to a cornucopia of experiences from across the world. I’ll say no more.
But what will MIPCOM 2016 really do for VR? It is further evidence of what we at Laduma have known for some time – VR has a vast role to play in changing the way we consume content, interact with the brands we love in the near future. It is further evidence that the players joining us at the table – Google, Facebook, Sony, YouTube, Samsung, Universal, Sky, Fox, Warner Brothers, NBC, BBC and Discovery – are formidable, wealthy and determined. It would take a brave soul to bet against them.
It is, finally, also perhaps a sign that it may already be too late for those who had hoped to be among the early adopters, the ground-breakers, the future-shapers.
MIPCOM is and has always been a place where the best stories, told in the most compelling way, are bought and sold and shared and reviewed. It is the biggest storytelling market place in the world for film and TV. So, perhaps it is no surprise that Virtual Reality is the focus this time around. Because that is all VR is. A way to tell those wonderful stories we have always loved, in an incredible new way. It is a chance to watch those stories not through a through a television screen or a window but from within the story itself – sitting on the same beach as the leading characters, flying through the same sky, walking on to the same sports field, feeling your way inside.
I will leave you with one final thought. It was Maya Angelou who said ‘people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.’ And that is the key, this week. People will, despite my best efforts, forget my talk at MIPCOM this week. It will fade very quickly. But I know for sure that they will not forget the content we at Laduma show them in VR in Cannes this week. Because it will make them feel something. And that is the brilliance of VR.
Have a fantastic week.
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The Health 202: Under Trump, immigrants back away from Medicaid, Obamacare subsidies
By Paige Winfield Cunningham The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - Enrolling in Medicaid or an Obamacare plan doesn't hurt immigrants' chances of gaining permanent residency in the United States. That might change soon, under a major policy shift the Trump administration is considering that could curtail legal immigration.
Clinics that serve immigrant populations are anxiously watching the White House's budget office, where sources say the proposed changes are likely headed for consideration and are expected to be released before July. Providers told me they're already feeling the effects, as immigrants hoping to gain a green card or even citizenship back away from public safety-net programs, for fear it will score against them.
"When rules like this come out, they cause a lot of fear in our community regardless of whether someone is here lawfully or not," said Thu Quach, director of community health for Asian Health Services, a California-based chain of community health centers. "They'll go into the shadows because they're afraid."
The draft changes, first reported last month by The Post's Nick Miroff, would require immigration caseworkers to consider a much broader range of factors when determining whether immigrants or their U.S.-citizen children are using public benefits or may be likely to do so.
If an immigrant is determined to have a high likelihood of becoming a "public charge," it's much harder for them to gain longer-term approval for staying in the country.
The proposed changes from the Department of Homeland Security would broaden the government's definition of benefits to include not just Medicaid and insurance subsidies through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, but also the widely used earned-income tax credit, food stamps and a host of other welfare programs.
We're not talking here about undocumented immigrants, who would see little change under this new policy. Instead, it would apply to the immigrants playing by the rules, including young people protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program if they attempt to file for full legal residency.
Expanding the "public charge" definition fits right into the administration's broader effort to curb legal immigration, which top Trump appointees view as a drain on federal budgets. DHS officials have said it's well within the government's scope to ensure that immigrants seeking to enter or remain in the United States are self-sufficient and won't pose a hefty bill for taxpayers.
"Any proposed changes would ensure that the government takes the responsibility of being good stewards of taxpayer funds seriously and adjudicates immigration benefit requests in accordance with the law," DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman said last month.
But health advocates worry that the shift is discouraging immigrants from seeking out needed care, which could in turn lead to worse health outcomes and strain the workforce.
"We saw the chilling effects in our clinics - there were a lot more missed appointments," Quach told me. "We had one incident where a patient saw a doctor and said, 'I want to pay out of pocket, I don't want any record of this.' "
Last week, Philadelphia Mayor James Kenney requested to meet with officials from the Office of Management and Budget before they finalize the rule, saying he's worried about its economic effects on his city.
The current policy ensures "everyone can receive essential services, such as health and nutrition benefits, without being considered a public charge on that basis," Kenney wrote. "The proposed changes may cause immigrant families to forego needed health care or go hungry in an effort to keep their families together."
The director of the Asian American Research Center on Health weighed in, tweeting:
"The proposed regulation will target legal immigrants and their children (even if the children are citizens). Use of any public assistance - Medicaid, ACA, Food Stamps, WIC, SNAP, CHIP - can lead to denial of legal permanent resident status and possible deportation"
So did the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations, tweeting:
"Public charge is part of a broader agenda to marginalize immigrant families in this country. . . ."
The legality of such a change isn't really in doubt. For a long time, the U.S. government has been able to deny residency to immigrants who depend on public assistance. But here's the practical question: Do foreign-born people use public benefits more than then native-born population? The government's own research shows they don't.
In 2013, 3.7 percent of immigrants received cash benefits and 22.7 percent accepted noncash benefits, according to statistics from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The shares were only slightly lower for non-immigrants, with 3.4 percent receiving cash welfare and 22.1 percent receiving noncash benefits that year.
Immigrant rights advocates have long complained that even under existing policy - in which use of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families programs and federally funded long-term care are considered in the public charge equation - immigrants are discouraged from seeking public assistance to an unfortunate degree.
"Immigrants' fears of public charge determinations are having devastating, widespread impact on the ability and willingness of immigrants to access public health and health care services," the National Immigration Law Center wrote in 1998 as part of a survey of how providers across the country were responding to policies under the Clinton administration.
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Inmates feared aggressive cellmates'
By JOHN O'CONNOR Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Inmates at a maximum-security prison in southern Illinois reported concern about "aggressive cellmates" shortly before a string of murders at the penitentiary, according to a report by an independent group.
The John Howard Association said several older inmates at Menard Correctional Center were anxious about the "younger and aggressive" inmates they were housed with when the prison monitoring group visited Menard Correctional Center in December. A report the organization filed late Tuesday also noted inmates serving long sentences who are housed with inmates facing shorter stretches "can be problematic."
Three inmates at the prison in Chester, about 60 miles southeast of St. Louis, have been murdered since Jan. 31, authorities said.
One involved a murderer serving five life sentences who allegedly beat and strangled a younger cellmate who had spent 2� years left behind bars. Another involved a 64-year-old inmate who was allegedly beaten by his 23-year-old cellmate.
Violence in the state's correctional system, including inmate assaults on staff members, has drawn a spotlight because of crowding. There are more than 49,000 inmates in facilities designed for 32,100.
"Tensions are very high due to the crowding," said John Maki, executive director of the John Howard Association. "The crowding is what exacerbates everything, here. Prisons, Menard in particular, have a history of violence, and heightened tensions, but the crowding has made everything more tense. When bed space is so limited, it complicates ordinary operations, from getting food into a facility to housing assignments."
Randolph County State's Attorney Jeremy Walker told the Associated Press Wednesday that he filed a murder charge Tuesday in the third case, against 38-year-old Frank Wings. Wings is accused of fatally strangling his cellmate, 35-year-old William Crowder, on March 26.
Wings has been transferred to the maximum-security lockup in Pontiac. Walker said he faces a preliminary hearing May 23. Wings' attorney, Lucas Liefer of Red Bud, declined comment on the case.
Illinois Department of Corrections spokeswoman Stacey Solano stressed "an extensive review process" matches cellmates based on physical age and size, length of sentence, level of aggression and history of violence, gang affiliation and more. She said the inmate deaths have prompted officials to carefully review the policies.
"Inmates may request a cell change with security or counseling staff at any time," Solano said. "The department carefully considers all requests and approves or denies based on the safety and security of inmates and facility."
Walker said the last Menard inmate homicide was in 2004. Corey Fox, serving a life sentence at Menard for a 2001 murder, killed a cellmate who was a first-time offender sent to Menard when he tested positive for crack cocaine in the minimum-security prison in which he had been held.
Fox was later exiled at Tamms Correctional Center, the "supermax" prison for the system's "worst of the worst" that Gov. Pat Quinn ordered closed at the end last year to save money. Its closure, and that of the women's prison in Dwight, which was shuttered last month, has been held up by Corrections Department critics who said they've contributed to the crowding.
Wings, serving a 25-year sentence for armed robbery and scheduled to be released in 2023, is similar in age and sentence duration to his alleged victim, who was scheduled to be released in 2021. But Wings is listed at 6-foot-1, 244 pounds, compared with Crowder, who was 5-foot-10, 170 pounds.
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