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Iconic television personality Alex Trebek has been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Host of the popular game show 'Jeopardy!' since 1984, Trebek released a pre-recorded video sharing the news with his fans. Mr Trebek says he's going to 'beat the low survival rate statistics' for pancreatic cancer. He went on to say he has three years left of his contract and is determined to finishing it out. On average, pancreatic cancer has a 5-year survival rate of nine per cent according to the American Cancer Society.
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RSL riding experience into Silver Stick
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Published on: January 11, 2019 | Last Updated: January 11, 2019 8:39 AM EST
(Contributed photo) Shown here are the Rideau St. Lawrence Kings major bantam team after winning the region Silver Stick tournament in Pembroke to earn a berth into the Internation Silver Stick championship tourney, starting Jan. 24 in Port Huron.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
That’s the adage the Rideau St. Lawrence Kings major bantam team are living by as they get ready for the International Silver Stick championship tournament, which starts Jan. 24 in Port Huron.
The Kings earned their spot when they won the finale at the Pembroke-hosted regional Silver Stick tourney in November.
RSL head coach Terry Gray said his team, “sneaked into the semifinal” at the Pembroke tournament. They finished the roundrobin with a 1-1-1 record, unable to pull out wins in a couple of games where, “we didn’t play our best,” added Gray.
Once they got into the tournament’s playoffs, said the coach, the returning players’experience from being at the Silver Stick last year took over.
Things still weren’t easy, though.
The Kings won their semifinal in overtime. In the final they trailed by a goal with two minutes left before they found the back of the net twice within the little time remaining in regulation.
Although it’s not exactly the way RSL wanted to get into the International Silver Stick tourney, it gave them a blueprint of what needs to get done to have any kind of success in Port Huron.
“We haven’t played like that (like in the round robin) again in the season, which is good. We’ve been playing well since then,” said forward Ethan Wooller, who has 17 goals and 22 assists in 24 games this season with the Kings.
This is the second straight year this AA Kings team, last season as minor bantams, earned a spot in the Silver Stick championship tournament. RSL made it all they way to the International tournament’s semifinal last year before their run ended. Getting back to the competition has always been high up on the Kings list of potential accomplishments for this season.
RSL had five players move on to AAA this season that played on last year’s team. The chemistry has been there right from the start of the season with all the new players, said Gray.
The Kings haven’t played against any of their opponents in the upcoming Silver Stick competition. They’ll start the tourney off against the San Diego Saints and then follow it up with the Howard Huskies and Port Huron Flags. RSL doesn’t know how potent their opponents’offence are or how much of a brick wall their defences will be. At the very least, RSL knows they have an edge over everyone else because they’ve played at the top level of Silver Stick before and have been somewhat successful.
“It’s one of those tournaments where if you lose you’re almost eliminated. If you lose two games then you’re done. You have to compete and be ready to go all the time,” said Gray.
The expectations are somewhat loose for RSL.
The Kings are, obviously, going into the Silver Stick looking to win. They also have their eyes on going up against top-end clubs from all over North America, which should help them get ready for the HEO Minor AA-A playoffs starting in early February.
RSL is currently ranked third in the HEO with a 14-5-5 record and boast the second-most goals in the league. The Kings are also ranked fourth in all of Ontario, according to MyHockey rankings, which tallies up a team’s regular season and tournament games.
“Just the will to want to compete has been there,” said Gray about this year’s team. “That’s pretty much what’s working – the work ethic.”
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This study explores the current strategies that are being employed in mainstream schools that effectively comprises of the children with behavioural, emotional, and social difficulties (BESD). The influences that this inclusion has over the remaining children of the school are inspected, and ensure some strategies to be considered by all where the experience was as positive as possible. Few schools were visited and interviewed with the supporting staff and members of the leadership team who are working directly with BESD children. A proper concern was taken to ensure the results validity with the small sample and by which the conclusions drawn were limited. A general agreement was made in schools concerning the critical challenges of children with BESD, specifically, increased stress for staff and influence on remaining children, and disruption to classes. Moreover, to fight against this everyone has efficient strategies, and the most effective is where the entire school is taken into consideration. This is employed through the leadership team who has clear vision for example inclusion and leading.
As per (Ellis, 2009), the behaviour of children in schools is often presented as a concern. According to (DfE, 2011), a serious disruption in the classroom would be caused by the children who behave badly. However, a small minority of pupils contribute to this, as acknowledged by the DfE. As reviewed from (DfE, 2011), the government’s green paper on Special Education Needs (SEN) inspected that the number of pupils with BESD have been raised to 23 percent in between 2005 and 2010. A review of the literature indicates that the attitude towards children with challenging behaviour has evolved since children with differing needs first began to be categorised. Behavioural difficulties are now seen as a special need that requires provision, in the same way as those with reading or writing difficulties might be supported. Research points towards mainstream school staff accepting the need to include these children in their schools. However, ongoing media interest in the ‘behaviour problems’ in the nation’s schools, coupled with the significant section of The Importance of Teaching (DfE 2010) dedicated to improving behaviour, perhaps suggest that there are still many challenges to be faced when seeking to include a child with BESD in a mainstream primary school. Since 1989, policy and guidance has raised the alarm about the possible negative effects which behaviour is having on: ‘Pupils’ learning, recruitment and retention of teachers and the needs of society’. The DfE (2010) and the teachers have raised these concerns. The BESD pupils’ inclusion in mainstream schools may have an impact on the rest of the school community; hence the onus then rests with the leadership team to recognise this impact and seek to minimise or maximise it as appropriate. Many of the recommendations made by policies and research over the last two decades have followed similar themes, for example a focus on whole-school approaches, explicit teaching of social and emotional skills (increasingly as individualised programmes) and maintaining a balance between discipline and pastoral care (Ellis, 2009). It therefore seems unlikely that any effective new principles are about to be discovered through this research. However, all schools have their own individual contexts, and therefore school leaders will be interpreting the guidance to suit their own circumstances.
This paper strive to identify and asses the variations in practice to know about what is actually implementing in schools and to enable this what are the leadership skills that are being employed. The paper also explores how the practise is taking place currently in mainstream primary and mid schools. In support with the review of literature, the paper presents some recommendations to practitioners for adopting effective policy guidance by answering to the preceding questions: How does the inclusion of BESD children impact on other pupils and staff? What challenges does a mainstream school face today to include children with BESD? What leadership strategies are needed to effectively meet these challenges while ensuring that the impact on other pupils and staff is as positive as possible? How has the BESD children inclusion in mainstream schools evolved?
As reviewed from (DES 1978), in prior to the landmark 1978 Warnock Committee Report, children with SEN have categorized long back and they come under categories like ‘educationally sub-normal’ or ‘maladjusted’. The way for inclusion was paved by Warnock as that we know in recent days and with the introduction of the national curriculum in 1988 (DfES 1988), the entitlement of all children to a ‘broad and balanced curriculum’ was made clear. Coinciding with the release of the national curriculum was the publication of the Elton Report (DfES, 1989) that responded to media interest in the alleged worsening of behaviour in England’s schools. The report concluded that poor behaviour was not a ‘new problem’, nor was it a problem limited to England and Wales. The report also focused on the importance of personal and social education in improving behaviour. The Code of Practice was launched in 1994 (DfE 1994a) that coincided with the signing of the groundbreaking ‘Salamanca Statement’, both of which continued the case for inclusion. Children with SEN should have access to regular schools and that must accommodate them in a child centred pedagogy, which is able to meet these requirements. This asserted in ‘the Salamanca Statement’. The Code of Practice agreed that as there was a ‘continuum of needs and provision’ most children would benefit from being educated in a mainstream school. With the Code of Practice in 1994 came new categories for children with SEN, among them behavioural, social and emotional development, more commonly known as behavioural, social and emotional difficulties (BESD) which encompassed the category of children known as ‘maladjusted’ in the pre-Warnock era. Although the use of the BESD category has been continued in the recent green paper on SEN (DfE, 2011), its usefulness is being questioned via the consultation process. The 1999 national curriculum review (DfES 1999) placed the responsibility for educating all children within a mainstream school firmly at the feet of the class teacher when it stated that there is ‘a statutory duty of all teachers in mainstream schools to be teachers of SEN’. However, as (Cole, 2011) recognised, this was a period during which segregation continued for BESD pupils, and in some cases increased, with the ‘rapid expansion’ of Pupil Referral Units (PRUs). The Code of Practice was refreshed in 2001 (DfES 2001), and supported in 2002 with the Index for Inclusion (Booth & Ainscow 2002) that gave advice to schools on developing their inclusive policies, practices and culture. By 2004 the previous government had moved towards a more socially inclusive approach, with its Removing Barriers to Achievement publication (DfES 2004). This built on advice already given by Ofsted (2000), and to some extent by the national curriculum (DfES 1999); namely, that there are numerous issues which may affect a child’s achievement. Many of these may be caused by factors external to the child (for example, looked after child [LAC] or English as an additional language [EAL] status) and require a change in provision in order for the child to succeed. Throughout this period behaviour in schools continued to be presented as a concern, as it frequently is (Ellis, 2009), leading to the commissioning of previous government reports Managing Challenging Behaviour (Ofsted, 2005) and the Steer Report (DfES 2005). Both reports confirmed that behaviour in most schools is good. The work of Removing Barriers to Achievement (DfES 2004) has been continued through the roll-out of the Inclusion Development Programme (IDP) by the National Strategies. The IDP provides the continuing professional development programme (CPD). It is planned for the mainstream settings and schools to raise the confidence level and skills of mainstream practitioners in acquiring huge incidence of SEN. As per (DCSF, 2010), one among the most recent modules is named as “Supporting Pupils with Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties”. The exact definition of BESD is a much-debated subject – even the arrangement of the B, E, S and D varies between organisations. The previous DCSF, and currently the DfE, prefer to use the acronym BESD, while SEBDA (Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties Association) argue that ‘the “social” and “emotional” generally give rise to the “behaviour” and should be stressed first’ (Cole 2006: 1). The view can also be taken that placing the B first, draws unnecessary attention to the behaviour, detracting from the emotions behind it (Cole, 2011). Although there is much merit to these arguments, for consistency the term BESD will be used throughout the rest of this report, unless referring to a quote that does otherwise, as the focus of the work will be in schools.
A more recent definition has not been settled on, although the revised SEN Code of Practice (DfES, 2001) does offer a guide to symptoms of significant BESD: a marked and persistent inability to concentrate
clear recorded examples of withdrawn or disruptive behaviour difficulties in establishing and maintaining balanced relationships with their fellow pupils or with adults any other evidence of a significant delay in the development of life and social skills Signs that the child experiences considerable frustration or distress in relation to their learning difficulties. The IDP refers practitioners back to this definition, but also makes reference to later guidance provided by the DCSF in 2008, which reiterated the above and added that: ‘A young person or child is regarded to have BESD based on a several factors, like: abnormality, severity, frequency, nature, and persistence of the complexities and their cumulative impact on the young person or child’s behaviour and emotional well being in comparison across expected particular age. (Ellis, 2009) Acknowledge that as a result of such broad definitions, ‘there may be very little that pupils sharing the SEBD label have in common’ (2001: 244). With definitions that are so context-dependent, it is not surprising to find that categorisation of children varies from school to school. Ekins and Grimes’ (2009) recent work in schools suggests that BESD children do feature highly in schools’ inclusion agendas, as ‘challenging behaviour’ was one of three areas of focus commonly referred to by schools when talking about inclusion. Macbeath et al (2005: 60) found that, in general, most teachers have a positive attitude towards inclusion; however, the area they expressed most concern about was the ‘ability of schools to provide a suitable education for children with complex emotional and behavioural needs’.
As per the report given by Ekins in 2009, there are lot of changes have been made in this region from last five years. They are worked as teachers in the school they eager to see children challenging behaviour over there, which also linked exclusion with inclusion and they became more concerned about children. Kalambouka in 2005 stated about it, that their anxiety have been justified in primary school level. There is effect of student inclusively on Emotionsl and behavioural difficulties were as other are negitively behaved at some situations. Ellis in 2009 eknowledged that some of students whose distinctive feature with BESD is, an negitive consequence which may be shown on their teachers and peers. No decling from the side of media on this issues, there are no signs even on this – A Big Debate is made by Chris Woodhead on this in 2006 and he also stated that addition of extra SEN children may show dangourous impact on other pupils. There is a finite time and energy for a teacher, and resources school have. Here school is trying level best in order to provide good facilities for the children, several problems that are raised during providing facilities for children in that school says Woodhead in 2006. DFE in 2010 stated that Recently, A new Coalition government’s white paper has released that shows the importance of teaching. Which expressed their distress about the “poorly disciplined children” who became disturbance for other pupils, that they used to harass them and bring trouble while learning. DFE also stated that it was not only showing impact on students but also on teachers and staff working, this is the main reason many lecturers are leaving their profession. It is all because of the city’s poor behaviour. All these extract some questions that ask to find positive result of steer report by DFES and Ofsted during 2005. Then after it started rapid investigation on good practice in the inclusion of students in BESD mainstream schools, that brings more profits to the school community. Even after getting good achievement, by taking help of SEN they concentrated on improving learning and teaching for children. The four important characters of inclusive leadership that identified by National College in 2010 was: share full vision
All these characters are very interesting that they introduced specially, which can also be applied for the children embraced with BESD. Methodology
The span of this research was partial to primary phase schools. Whatever the approach and structural size developed by secondary schools are very different from the styles that are supporting the BESD pupils. Whereas Middle schools also a part that felt they are very closer to primary school compared to the secondary school. Many of the colleges nominated themselves in order to a part of research. Depending upon their measurement each of them included the children of BESD successfully in their schools. Whoever is at top four places in the final round of nomination, they are going to represent school type range and its geographical area. There are totally four schools, from that two are primary, one is middle and other is junior school, which were located all the way through South East of England. During the academic years 2012-13 as well as 2013-14, researcher is going to visit the every school once. With the head teacher, SENCO (Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator) and a teaching assistant worked with BESD pupil, together used to conduct semi-structured interviews. To triangulate the results based upon three interviews that help to increase validity. It was already known that many schools are come with different ideas, plans and job titles. From the above given place one of the staff member in school belongs to equivalent standing was interviewed. What is the view of inclusion in the school?, asked by an interviewer. These done before the steps tried to take by BESD and the invitation for interview to comment on the challenges they face. The participants over there started asking to give answer about impact children of BESD having on the remaining school community. All the results are treated carefully, due to the study that has made at greater extent. A certain steps are been taken to check validity of data and trying to take out some result from one particular local authority that will increase dependably. Findings
After conducting a literature review, there was probably founded that the definition of BESD is not perfect, this may raise some issues in school. Although it was questioned that this was not challengingly named by any of the school, but, Daniels et al in 1999 founded that the key member of staff can easily understand nature of this EBD and it was differentiated from routine misbehaviour. This was required in order to support the children effectively, and they are feeling to have at least one in the school. If it was not their more members of the staff are needed to involve in this category. By taking the help of BESD the identification of children is made easy, this was question SENCOs has asked during interview, they were bringing stout systems to find out. They also involved other staff members for identification in order to know complete structure of children behaviour. The staff members are midday supervisors to head teacher. In initial days, parents are also used to help but later on SENCOS has observed the behaviour of children at home circumstances and at school level. As per the DIES released curriculum’s in 1999 advices, that teacher is going to be placed as main for identification and planning process in many schools, as now they are observed by SENCO. SENCO report from primary school that “The teachers are used to feel dispirited if they needed to pass it over on someone else at all times when issue was raises” How inclusive culture is going to be developed?
The main theme from majority of the interviews was only the positive behaviour of staff towards inclusion. But, there was the small felling about inclusion is that used to prefer exclusion. The main reason was the children that they are working with. At present every children in the school they can clearly explain about inclusion when interviewer asks about it. The definition of inclusion is well known by every child and in each school. Each and every children
All the children has given same chances
Each child was supported to use the same chance.
All these messages are shared throughout the school, to TAs, parents and teaching staff. It was difficult to effect by inclusion insight, even though it was more familiar and challenging as parents. In order to broadcast about inclusion here SENCO has played a major role, this process is took place by using some methods depending up on school style. In every school there is an individual conversation with the staff, but in some big schools connection with every staff person individually is more difficult. There is a necessary of daily meeting among teachers as well as TAs. Every weekend the companies are used to discuss about issues that rise in business. From that, SENCO is used to crop the issues mainly, this meeting held based up on the time. In many of big schools email was mostly used as suggestion tool, because it was regularly going to checked by every individual, in union with that it also used to deliver some key messages. In the process of developing inclusive ethos, all the senior leaders who are interviewed and discussed about involving TAs as well as teaching staff. However, some of them discussed about the issues that made to come out of staff and relevant training, but one has specified about office staff. Many of think that they need to understand the BESD issues among staff like office staff, cleaners or ICT technicians. In spite of all these staff members having little regular, they are directly in contact with the children, even now they have chance that entire ethos of the school be contributed. Many of the leadership teams SENCO has became one part, in mainly schools, which they visited mostly. Here SENCO played major role in many schools in order to communicate about inclusion meant and look like. Everyone feel that it was the team effort. Some of the best examples that shows clear structure of roles example we see year group or stage leader, learning mentor, High Level Teaching Assistant, class teacher, leadership team, TA, middle supervisor, and pastoral manager etc., all of these are playing an important role in the school approach to add BESD children and others. The attitude of staff seen here playing major role, and leadership team is used to promote and model their positive attitude. Many schools which are visited over that region identified themselves as having good practice; more over they also identified the challenges faced incorporate with BESD children. Every child is supported by one another in the classroom, but it was not a ideal policy to see in all BESD children. Outside the classrooms, they are conducted one-to-one sessions, example: discussion about social issue or particular emotions. Mostly, these classes are going to be scheduled in the morning period (especially on Mondays, more problems are used to face by children), in order to solve the divergence problems most probably the classes are conducted after break times to solve problems. With the help of one-to-one sessions, there are many groups are involved in order to cover wide range of emotional, behavioural and social skills. Mostly, many schools are used to conduct formal programmes. Friend circle
Thoughts, which are emotional, cool decisions (outside groups providing anger management) Let chill up
A recuperative justice
Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL)
Speeches in different languages (all the expressions and emotions are covered by programmes, by taking help of language analyst speech’s are given) Speaking publicly
Spending time in conversation
Many other groups are made available to schools; this is one of support for staff (eventually to every child). This was the main regular part of local authority and which, varies from region to region. Some advices and key sources that supported by various schools: Psychology related to education
Team which are supportive to inclusion (this is consists of behaviour support team) SEN Counsellor
Language and speech therapy
This study is pointed to find out the present challenges faced by more of primary and middle schools when BESD children are included. Additional to these they gathered leadership polices that they use most effectively. Mainly to offer advice to many other schools, best way is to reduce positive impact of these children in school. These are policies and challenges that are summarised as below: The challenges faced were met with non class based staff in the tackle of whole school, example: disturbance during learning and teaching, showing effect on the behaviour of other child, office staff, children are going to be benefited by taking adult support, stress is increased for teachers. Probably facing many problems by the school, that may affect its atmosphere as well as its status. Effective policy: inclusive ethos are being established, staff is provided with training and support, positive attitude of staff is modelled, as a leadership team, an good relationships are build up, among children and staff, and between the children too.. Whole school is adopted for interventions, A specific responsible staff is appointed for BESD, consistent systems are used for communication among parents and staff, using peer group support.
Cole, T. &. K. B., 2011. How to Help Children and Young People with Complex Behavioural Difficulties,. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. DCSF, 2010. Inclusion Development Programme: Supporting Pupils with Behavioural, Social and Emotional Difficulties, London, DCSF.. DfE, 2011. Support and Aspiration: A New Approach to Special Educational Needs and Disability – A Consultation, London, The Stationery Office. DfES, 1989. Discipline in Schools (Elton Report), London: DfES. DfES, 2001. Special Educational Needs Code of Practice, London, DfES. Ekins, A. &. G. P., 2009. Inclusion: Developing an Effective Whole School Approach,. London: McGraw Hill. Ellis, S. &. T. J., 2009. Behaviour for Learning, Abingdon, Routledge. s.l.:s.n. Kalambouka, A. F. P. D. A. &. K. I., 2005. The impact of population inclusivity in schools on student outcomes. Research Evidence in Education Library, London, EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. Ofsted, 2005. Managing Challenging Behaviour. London: HM Inspectorate of Education.
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only words....
Someone called me a spastic in the office the other day. She was referring to my inability to come out and join them for a run by saying that "I was a bit spasticated". It would be going too far to say that I was shocked by the choice of words, but I was certainly a little surprised. I don't think anyone has called me that since I was at school.
Of course, back then, being called a "spaz" or a "joey", usually accompanied by the appropriate facial expression, was entirely commonplace. It's all Blue Peter's fault, of course:
"In 1981, the last year of his life, Joey Deacon was featured on the children's magazine programme Blue Peter for the International Year of the Disabled. He was presented as an example of a man who achieved a lot in spite of his disabilities. Despite the sensitive way in which Blue Peter covered his life, the impact was not as intended. The sights and sounds of Deacon's distinctive speech and movements had a lasting impact on young viewers, who quickly learnt to imitate them. His name and mannerisms quickly became a label of ridicule in school playgrounds across the country".
I have no idea if it's true, but the story goes that the Spastic Society changed their name to Scope to try and escape the playground association, but all that happened is that subsequent generations of schoolchildren simply belmed at their mates and said "Scope" instead of "Spastic" at them.
Kids, eh?
I don't know if it's simply because I'm older or if we actually live in more enlightened times, but, on the whole, this kind of casual bigotry is far less commonplace than it used to be. Back in the day, we were just kids and we didn't really know any better, but language is important and words can hurt. The elimination of this kind of casual, unknowing prejudice from most people's everyday vernacular is an entirely good thing. After the huge success of the Paralympics, it seems entirely possible that the average person's understanding of disabilities like cerebral palsy is much greater than it used to be, and surely we're all the better as a tolerant, accepting society for that... or at least heading in the right direction.
That said, I actually used the word "flid" in conversation last week too. It's a word that I haven't used in more than 25 years, but one that we used to use all the time to mock someone for being a bit of a weakling. I was talking about a colleague who always seems to be getting colds, and I joked to someone else that, "back at school, we used to call someone like that a flid".
No sooner had the words dropped out of my mouth than I realised, probably for the first time ever, the derivation of that word and I felt thoroughly ashamed of myself. I hadn't used the word in years, but every time I had used it, I had been completely ignorant of what it actually meant. Yeah. Ignorant. There's no better way of putting it. I didn't know any better. Well, now I do know and I won't be using it again. Once in two decades is still once too often.
Words have power. Choose them wisely.
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Honeysuckle 21 May 2013 at 21:52
While agreeing that the 'power' of P.C. and more importantly legal stuff have been responsible for freezing intended insults between brain and lip, thus changing people's behaviour, do you think people's attitudes have changed?
swisslet 21 May 2013 at 22:10
That's a really interesting question. Hmm. I was all ready to be glib about now being better than ever before but that there's further to go yet... but your comment about the gap between brain and lip made me stop in my tracks. I think I posted about something similar years ago: that sometimes none of us can control that initial tourettes-like impulse thought that pops into our heads. Sure, we might not say what we think, but the thought occurs.
Have people's attitudes changed? Yes, I think they have. Mostly - you're not going to change everyone. We maybe can't change that base, reactive initial thought, but if we don't say it then that's got to be an improvement, hasn't it?
And yeah.... just as surely as there are people that still say that stuff, I'm sure there are people who think it and believe it but know better than to say it. One step at a time. Are we a better, more tolerant place today than we were yesterday? Shit. There's a lot of hate in the world, but watch that footage of the NZ parliament legalising gay marriage and tell me we're not making tiny steps in the right direction.
I actually initially used the phrase "political correctness" in the post and then took it out. Attitudes *are* changing. Not fast enough, maybe, but look at the Paralympics as an example of how far societal attitudes to something like disability have shifted even over the last ten years. It's for reasons greater than political correctness that Ellie Simmonds (to pick one example) has been embraced. It's because she's inspiring and a real hero.
It appalls me to think that our Government may be moving away from a bill to legalise gay marriage because they're worried that people will switch to vote UKIP. Fuck that. What kind of country do we want to be? How do we want the rest of the world to see us?
It's Jung, isn't it? Ego, Super Ego and ID. We all have an ID. Some are able to control it better than others.
At the risk of raining on the post-Paralympian parade, has the publicity associated with the achievements and honours resulted in an improvement in the job prospects of and more importantly jobs for disabled people? The MS Society last month highlighted that only 25% of people with the condition were in full-time work. This evening, In Touch, a radio programme highlighting issues of particular relevance to visually -impaired people, reported similar figures for blind people. Moreover, the numbers hadn't changed for ten years, so we can't blame the recession. So not entirely sure whether expressed attitudes are translating into more inclusive behaviours, where it matters.
Do you think things are better than they were? Have attitudes changed at all? I'm not suggesting that the battle is won by any stretch of the imagination, nor am I saying that this is going to be easy....there are also reasons other than employer attitudes why some people with MS are not in full time work.
Ellie Simmonds has a achondroplasia. She is also on massive posters in my local Sainsburys advertising sport for schools. I know she's just a single example, but she also symbolises a greater change in attitudes. The other poster boy in the same campaign is David Beckham. This won't happen overnight, but people with cerebral palsy no longer have to live their lives in mental institutions like Joey Deacon did within living memory.
(only 25% of people with MS are in full time employment? Can that statistic really be true? That's an incredible figure)
Yes, definitely. There has been a sea-change in the attitude and behaviour of people (i.e. the dominant majority) towards all minorities. The shore is in sight and I'm hopeful that it will eventually be reached.
You're dead right about the gap between lips and brain and the epically slow progress in real change... Look at how the government here is portraying disabled benefits claimants as scroungers and is clawing a few paltry million pounds back and letting their mates and supporters off multi-million pound tax bills. There's a long way still to go, no doubt.
Dan Bates 22 May 2013 at 15:21
Why did your coworker think that insulting you would result in you wanting to go for a run with her?
It's ok to be ignorant. All that means is that you don't know. Being willfully ignorant is another matter.
Nicely put, Dan.
Co-worker is a lot of fun, so she was just messing about and teasing me.... she's just getting started with running, and I've been encouraging her, and she's just getting to the point where she's comfortable running with other people, so it's actually kind of nice to be asked.
Ah, so it was the "we pick on you because we like you" treatment.
Basically, yes. Piss taking as a sign of affection.
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Jan Nagel to Rep Switch VFX & Animation in LA
Posted on September 14, 2017 in Press
by: Mercedes Milligan Sep 13th, 2017
Jan Nagel
Pete Denomme, CEO and Executive Producer of Switch VFX & Animation, has confirmed the appointment of entertainment marketing pro Jan Nagel as the company’s local representative for production facilities and studios in the Los Angeles Area. “Expanding the team to include Jan has already reaped rewards” he said. “We needed boots on the ground in LA to ensure Switch, our properties and our capabilities are top of mind. Jan’s connections, expertise and passion made her the right choice for us.”
Branding herself as the “Entertainment Marketing Diva,” Nagel is also a noted speaker, author and educator who has worked extensively with award-winning feature film and television studios, representing animation studios from around the world, as well as animation content creators. She is a founding member and president emeritus of Women in Animation International, an active member of ASIFA-Hollywood and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and has been teaching for over 14 years at many universities, including Otis College of Art and Design and Santa Monica College.
“I am honored to be representing Switch Animation,” said Nagel. “With Pete’s vast experience and under his guidance, Switch is an artist-driven Canadian studio whose superior expertise in 2D is in high demand. The work they are currently doing is some of the best I have ever seen.”
Nagel and Denomme will both be on-site at MIPCOM next month. More information on Switch can be found at switchent.com.
Article originally appeared in Animation Magazine September 13, 2017
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Home » Sports Channel » Sports And Torts » The Bunny And The Rabbit
The Bunny and the Rabbit
This week's lovely lady is freshly minted Playboy Playmate (Miss April 2013) Jaslyn Ome. It doesn’t get much better than that. Well, it does — but only slightly. Jaslyn is scheduled to be on the show via Skype. To have her as an in-studio guest would be ideal. Hard to believe she would rather be in California enjoying the warmth there rather than be in Chicago with its winter weather. We'll also go one-on-one with Basketball Hall of Famer Elgin Baylor.
Photo courtesy of Playboy
Sports and Torts: Miss April Jaslyn Ome
This California beauty is Playboy’s Playmate of the Month for April 2013. She talksa bout her journey from teenage model to the pages of Playboy Magazine, with a stopoff in Hawaii along the way.
Sports and Torts: Elgin Baylor
Before LeBron, before Michael, before Magic and Dr. J, there was Elgin Baylor. But he played before the days of widespread television exposure, so among the only records of his prowess that remain are the words of those who saw one of the greatest ever to play.
Jaslyn Ome
Jaslyn Ome of El Dorado Hills, Calif., is Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in the magazine’s April 2013 issue. The 21-year-old East Indian, black and Caucasian stunner loves the ocean and is an avid jet-skier and paddle-boarder. She has an affinity for marine life , and spends as much time in the water as possible. Although Jaslyn has been modeling professionally since the age of 14, she was shocked to find out that she’d been chosen to appear in the magazine. “It’s kind of surreal,” she says. “A year ago I never would have believed I would be a Playmate. It’s awesome.” Miss April graduated from Oak Ridge High School in 2009, and went on to study communications at CSU Sacramento and Folsom Lake College. She resides in Los Angeles.
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Balyor played 13 seasons as a forward for the NBA's Minneapolis Lakers/Los Angeles Lakers, appearing in eight NBA Finals. Baylor was a gifted shooter, strong rebounder, and an accomplished passer. Renowned for his acrobatic maneuvers on the court, Baylor regularly dazzled Lakers fans with his trademark hanging jump shots. The No. 1 draft pick in 1958, NBA Rookie of the Year in 1959, and an 11-time NBA All-Star, he is regarded as one of the game's all-time greatest players. In 1977, Baylor was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Baylor spent twenty-two years as GM of the Los Angeles Clippers, being named the NBA Executive of the Year in 2006, before being relieved of his duties shortly before the 2008-09 season began.
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Is the IMF still useful? edit
IMF reform has been on the policy agenda for as long as most of us can remember. Since the breakdown in the early 1970s of the Bretton Woods System that the IMF had been created to oversee, observers have questioned whether the Fund still has a mission and tools appropriate to the task. For the older among us, recalling these earlier discussions, it seems like the IMF is always in search of a new job description.
-->IMF reform has been on the policy agenda for as long as most of us can remember. Since the breakdown in the early 1970s of the Bretton Woods System that the IMF had been created to oversee, observers have questioned whether the Fund still has a mission and tools appropriate to the task. For the older among us, recalling these earlier discussions, it seems like the IMF is always in search of a new job description.
In the last year, however, reform discussions acquired a new sense of urgency. Developing countries, flush with dollars, no longer needed the IMF. Currently the Fund has only six arrangements under which it lends money, down from 21 such programs in 1998. Since the institution derives income from its lending, this creates the delicious prospect that it may have to undergo the kind of painful structural adjustment that it typically prescribes to its clients. In addition, the IMF has been impotent in the face of the global imbalances that pose the main threat to international financial and economic stability. On both counts it has seemed increasingly irrelevant. The danger, as Mervyn King of the Bank of England put it, is that the Fund will slide into obscurity.
By all accounts, serious discussion of these problems took place at the IMF's annual meetings in Washington, D.C. last month. For the first time in memory, delegates departed from their prepared statements in favor of real debate on the issues. The Fund's steering committee, made up of leading finance ministers and central bank governors, agreed that IMF surveillance should focus more on global economic issues. Surveillance should be multilateral, rather than country by country, and it should focus on international spillovers. The intent, evidently, is to give the Fund a mandate to address the problem of global imbalances.
But does this expanded role come with the power to actually do anything? The IMF is not going to be able to force the United States to raise taxes or China to change its exchange rate. If a country doesn't borrow from the Fund, the latter is notoriously unable to do more than politely suggest some modest policy changes. Especially if the country is a large shareholder in the Fund, like the United States is and China soon will be, its government will simply tell the institution to mind its own business.
A feuding husband and wife will often say the same to those who offer them gratuitous advice. But sometimes the dysfunctional couple, if it recognizes that the marriage is at risk, will seek professional help. A marriage counselor similarly has no power to compel the husband and wife to change their behavior. But sometimes a neutral venue and intervention by a neutral referee, who has seen similar problems before, may encourage constructive changes in behavior.
Can the IMF succeed as marriage counselor? Can it get the U.S. to agree to raise taxes and China to increase spending on education, health care, and infrastructure in order to keep global demand stable while redistributing spending away from the United States before the current pattern of imbalances unwinds abruptly? Not all marriages can be saved, especially when the partners see things differently. But divorce is costly, not least for the smaller members of the household. And there is no better venue for counseling than the IMF. China and other emerging markets are not part of the G7. And larger groupings like the G20 lack experience and legitimacy.
Is there still a role for the Fund in providing its services to emerging economies? With so many emerging markets running current account surpluses and accumulating international reserves, the fashionable answer is no. Emerging markets, in this view, are now in a stronger financial position, and they no longer need subject themselves to the painful and embarrassing conditions involved in securing financial assistance from the IMF.
What this view neglects is that emerging markets are enjoying, for the moment, extraordinarily favorable conditions. Global growth is stronger than in 35 years. Interest rates are still low for this stage of the business cycle. International investors flush with liquidity are pouring money into emerging markets because there is nowhere else left. And despite all this there are countries on the verge, from Iceland to Hungary. As interest rates rise further, their problems will deepen, and the list of problem countries will lengthen.
Moreover, holding reserves against the possibility of financial instability is expensive. Poor countries have better uses for their scarce resources. The sensible solution is for them to pool their reserves at an international institution, which could lend them to countries in need. The resulting institution could act like a credit union. Why, we could call it the IMF!
Alas, on this front there was no progress at the spring meetings. The Fund's own proposal for a new facility that would automatically disburse funds to countries that had been prequalified for assistance went nowhere. As it should have: prequalification is problematic, and disqualifying a previously prequalified country is especially problematic since nothing is more certain to precipitate a crisis. A better approach would be to streamline existing procedures for extending assistance and increasing existing credit lines, the IMF's so-called quotas, by pooling countries' reserves at the Fund. Since countries with larger quotas get more votes in the IMF, the emerging markets currently have ample reserves but may need assistance in the future should be happy to contribute.
Giving the IMF a role as marriage counselor is a first step in rescuing it from irrelevance. But it also has a role as manager of a credit union for emerging markets. Only when the institution's management and shareholders acknowledge this will the institution truly be saved from obscurity.
Barry Eichengreen Professeur d’économie et de sciences politiques à l’université de Californie à Berkeley Contact Barry Eichengreen
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Providing the very best of care for bereaved families since 1981
Ray Thornalley founded the business 1st April 1981. Working for a local builder as a carpenter and joiner, the opportunity arose for Ray to start up his own funeral business at 24 years of age at Station Road, Clenchwarton.
A year later Ray and Shirley were married and together they purchased 53 St James Street, King’s Lynn where they converted a Newsagent shop into a small Funeral Home. In 1988 they purchased an adjoining property, No. 51 St James Street, where alterations were made to make the two properties into one.
Meanwhile, Ray and Shirley had two children, Andrew and Rachel. Eager to follow in his Father’s footsteps, Andrew spent his adolescent years helping in the funeral business whenever he could during school holidays, washing cars and preparing coffins, before finishing school on a Friday and joining his Father full time on the Monday!
In 1999, Thornalley Funeral Services expanded into No. 55 St James Street and major building work took place to make the three properties into one Funeral Home.
Thornalley Funeral Services continued to grow and the opportunity arose to build a purpose built Funeral Home in Austin Street, King’s Lynn. After a lot of work the new Funeral Home was opened on 4th February 2011 and has continued to strive to deliver the best care and service possible to the bereaved in and around the King’s Lynn area. Meanwhile, Andrew’s wife Abi joined Thornalley Funeral Services in 2012 and works alongside Shirley.
Thornalley Funeral Services broadened their roots in 2016 when they bought Chapmans Funeral Services in Swaffham, renaming it Chapmans & Thornalley Funeral Services and carrying out extensive refurbishments. Both offices run as one big, friendly family upholding the traditional values of respect and dignity.
Two generations have dedicated their life to providing a professional yet personal service that is second to none and now a third generation of Thornalley Funeral Services is on the horizon as Andrew and Abi have two sons who are desperate to follow in their Daddy and Papa’s footsteps!
Photo above: Ray & Shirley with Mayor Frank Barton, opening their first funeral home in King’s Lynn – early 1984
Ray Thornalley with his first hearse – 1981
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884 million people in the world do not have access to safe drinking-water.
That’s more than the entire population of Europe (741.4 million). Imagine if all Europe could not access safe drinking water.
Safe drinking water and adequate sanitation are crucial for poverty reduction, crucial for sustainable development and crucial for achieving any and every one of the Millennium Development Goals.
— Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General
2.1 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water services.
4.5 billion people lack safely managed sanitation services.
340 000 children under five die every year from diarrheal diseases.
Water scarcity affects four out of every ten people.
Every minute a newborn dies from an infection caused by lack of safe water and an unclean environment.
Contaminated water can transmit diseases such diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio.
In low- and middle-income countries, 38% of health care facilities lack an improved water source, 19% do not have improved sanitation, and 35% lack water and soap for handwashing.
Unclean water and poor sanitation is one of the leading causes of child deaths worldwide. Diarrhea is estimated to cause 1.5 million child deaths per year.
Facts on Water Usage:
50-100 liters of water per person and per day is what is considered sufficient for personal and domestic uses.
Water should cost no more than 3% of the household income.
While women and children spend on average more than four hours to walk miles to collect water, 1000 metres is the maximum
distance and 30 minutes the most time it should take to collect water.
While many in developing nations use only 5 liters of water a day, people in the United States use 80-100 gallons of water per day per person.
In order to cook each day, a family needs 2 liters of safe water.
A breastfeeding woman needs to drink 7.5 liters of water a day.
Why Do We Focus On Water?
With accessible water sources, people spend less time and effort for basic survival and can expend it in ways to be productive in other areas.
Health costs drop with improved water access.
School attendance rates go up with improved water access.
A $1 investment in water and sanitation yields $3-$34 in economic return, but lack of WASH can cost up to 5% of a country’s GDP.
Water iN AFRICA
Over one-third of all wells drilled in the last twenty years are now broken – 50,000 are currently broken in Africa alone.
Gross National Income Per Capita: $670 USD
More than half of the population doesn’t have access to basic water.
61% of Ugandans don’t have access to water, and 75% don’t have access to improved sanitation facilities.
Every day, over 800 children die from preventable diseases caused by poor water, and a lack of sanitation and hygiene.
Piped Water Schemes
Instead of drilling shallow wells that need constant maintenance and repair, piped water schemes provide larger, more sustainable solutions.
Deep boreholes are drilled, and water is piped directly through a tap stand network. Each piped system can reach at least ten location in a village. Drinking water is available at homes and schools, increasing access and in line with recommended distance and time measurements by WHO.
Well Maintenance and Repair
Instead of drilling more boreholes, training individuals how to repair and maintain existing wells is more sustainable.
Using a “Pay-As-You-Fetch” model, families pay a fee -- agreed upon by each community -- to collect water. 20% of fees goes to pay for future maintenance costs and major repair needs, so the wells can be fixed as needed. The remaining funds go to the caretakers and well mechanics as payment for keeping the wells clean and working.
What Is TAP's Role?
The Adventure Project trains local well mechanics and caretakers to fix and maintain wells, creating a sustainable way to ensure wells are working so people always have access to clean water.
It is estimated that as many as 60,000 new hand pumps are installed each year, but a third in sub-Saharan Africa are simply nonfunctional. Knowledge about the hand pumps and having people around who can fix hand pumps increases the sustainability and lifespan of these pumps. Our trained well mechanics continuously manage wells and make sure wells properly operate and provide clean water to the community.
In addition to well mechanics, we also hire water operators and kiosk caretakers. The water operators help manage the process of extending pipes to families’ homes and collect fees, while caretakers help ensure public kiosks are running efficiently and are clean. These entrepreneurs keep the water flowing.
Our partnership with Water for People focuses on Kamwenge, a rural district in western Uganda that depends heavily on agriculture. It is home to 428,285 people. When we first began our partnership with Water for People, only 40% of the population had access to reliable, safe drinking water. Now, it’s grown to over 50%, and our goal is to help make Kamwenge the first district with 100% access.
Our partner: Water For People
Water For People exists to promote the development of high-quality drinking water and sanitation services, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments. Water For People is tapping into the private sector and water businesses’ potential to manage and increase the sustainability of the water systems. This means that everyone will access safe water from privately managed water systems.
https://www.waterforpeople.org/
Learn about the global water crisis.
Avoid wastage of water in every day activities: turn off the tap while brushing your teeth or while washing your hands, for example.
Donate and engage to non-profit organizations fighting for clean water.
Share information and materials about water issue on social media.
The human right to water and sanitation is recognized by the United Nations since 2010 through Resolution 64/292. It is acknowledged that clean drinking water and sanitation are essential for the realization of all other human rights.
Every $1 invested in improved sanitation translates into an average return of $9.
Every year, there are two UN international observances of water and sanitation:
March 22nd: World Water Day.
November 19th: World Toilet Day.
International Decade for Action: Water for Sustainable Development 22 March 2018-22 March 2028:
Improve cooperation, partnership and capacity development.
Put a greater focus on the integrated management of water resources.
Facilitate the sharing of good practices and provide a platform for advocacy, networking and partnership building.
Safe water is awater which is safe from outside contamination such as harmful microorganisms and substances and which doesn’t present any risk to drink.
The access to safe water is measured by the proportion of population with access to an adequate amount of safe drinking water located in a convenient distance.
Sanitation generally refers to the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human urine and feces. It can also refer to the maintenance of hygienic conditions.
WASH is an acronym that stands for "Water, Sanitation and Hygiene". Indeed, these three areas are dependent on the presence of the others. Working on these three core issues at the same time is essential. For example, without clean water, basic hygiene practices are not possible.
UNDP: Human Development Report 2006
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Thai Parliament Passes Controversial Political Amnesty
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Thailand's lower house of parliament on Friday passed a controversial political amnesty bill that has sparked mass anti-government protests.
Lawmakers voted 310-0 in the early hours of the morning to pass the legislation, with four abstentions, according to a parliamentary official.
Opponents fear the bill -- which still needs approval by the upper house -- will "whitewash" past abuses and allow ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra to return.
Government whip Amnuay Khangpha said the opposition Democrat Party -- which opposes the amnesty -- refused to take part in the vote, which came after about 19 hours of heated debate.
"The bill sailed through the second and third readings early this morning," he told AFP.
"The bill will now be submitted to the Senate," he said.
The opposition Democrat Party has warned that the passage of the bill will trigger street protests. It did not take part in the vote, but the bill passed by 310 votes to 0.
Thousands of people joined a rally against the planned amnesty in Bangkok on Thursday evening, some wearing bandanas reading "Fight" and waving clappers with the slogan "Stop the amnesty for corrupt people".
"If a murderer kills someone and later he gets an amnesty, then the country will not be peaceful," said Surapol Srimawong, 56, from the northeastern province of Korat.
"It would mean any leader can kill whoever and after killing he can issue the amnesty bill, then it would be terrible."
According to national police spokesman Piya Uthayo, around 6,500 people joined the rally organised by the opposition.
Advocates of the bill say it will draw a line under the political turmoil that resulted from the military coup in 2006 that removed Mr Thaksin from power, leaving Thailand bitterly divided.
But critics say the amnesty would allow human rights abuses to go unpunished.
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Technology Lock In: Why the regulatory environment is inhibiting eco-innovation
Current standards for green technologies are inhibiting new products from reaching the market – we need new benchmarks, argues NPL’s Nicola Smith
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In the early 90s, Harvard Business School Economist Professor Michael Porter turned conventional wisdom on its head by suggesting that environmental policies would help companies improve their competitive advantage. His theorised that strict environmental regulation encourages firms to identify technological improvements and reduce inefficiencies. This creates a motivation to innovate, which in turn enhances profits and competitiveness.
However, Porter doesn’t suggest that environmental regulation can always lead to innovation or greater competitiveness. Rather that there is a need for ‘well-designed’ policies, which foster continuous improvement by not locking in one particular technology over another. So how well does the UK do? Are our environmental policies ‘well-designed’ enough to systematically foster innovation and competitiveness?
Innovation isn’t the problem
Looking at the UK’s environmental policies, it is fair to say that they certainly do encourage competitiveness. Indeed, since the introduction of the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme in 2010, the total number of installations of renewable technology has reached 621,195, with Solar PV accounting for nearly 99% of this result. As such, the total generation capacity of all installations combined to date isapproximately 3,482 MW, which is around 14% of the UK’s current renewable electricity capacity.
However, if you take a closer look at the eligibility requirements behind these schemes, they are often designed with only current environmental technologies in mind. New products entering the market are more innovative than existing technologies and therefore cannot be characterised under these policies. Furthermore, UK innovation policies and grants are largely focused on the early development to commercialisation stages of a technology. There is a lack of incentives to ensure that the product is validated and to provide independent proof of its performance.
Lock in
Independent third party testing is not a new idea, however, for new technologies coming onto the market; it should be considered a prerequisite. From a business perspective, it builds investor confidence by allowing decisions to be based on high quality performance data; and from a marketing perspective, test data will strengthen the product’s credibility and its market advantage. However, it is at this point that novel products often struggle.
As it stands, environmental technology performance certification schemes are not fit-for-purpose. Written with existing technology in mind, the standards are often too inflexible, often under-reporting or excluding the benefits of newer, more innovative designs. As such, they are currently locking in pre-existing technologies, impacting the development of newer, more efficient technologies, which could potentially offer significant greenhouse gas (GHG) savings over existing products.
ETV: Environmental Technology Verification
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the first organisation to change this status quo by launching the Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Programme in 1995. The scheme would solve two problems: firstly, provide a harmonised system across the US, superseding the various regulations in each state; and secondly, deliver credible performance data to help accelerate the entrance of new environmental technologies into the market. Following its success, the programme was established in Canada two years later.
For many manufacturers, the ETV programme has been the only entity available that can verify and test their product. Ralph Sheldric, Director of International Sales & Marketing atOzonator Industries, from Canada, said that his company underwent ETV for its biohazardous waste treatment technology, because they realised the benefit of having a globally recognised standard,
“I cannot see any company developing new environmental technologies that would even attempt to approach domestic or international markets without ETV verification behind them”.
The difference between ETV and other existing verification scheme is that ETV will assess each environmental technology against its own characteristics and tests on a case-by-case basis. Technology manufacturers with new products are able to demonstrate that their technology goes above and beyond the requirements of current legislation, because the verification process is flexible enough to accommodate novel designs and techniques.
However, according to Sheldric, the main reason why technologies undergo ETV in Canada is due to it being a requirement by the provincial regulatory government. Whether the same requirement will be implemented by the UK government, remains to be seen and will be dependent on the success of Europe’s own pilot ETV scheme, in which the UK is an active participant.
Launched in 2013 by the European Commission, EU-ETV is specifically aimed at helping SMEs enter the market quicker by independently verifying the specific performance claims of their new technology. The scheme has so far verified three environmental technologies, with high expectations that the programme will be able to match the same number of verifications achieved during the first few years of other ETV schemes, like in the Philippines and Japan.
For those nations that have yet to trial the programme, it will not be long until the International Standardization Organisation (ISO) publishes a new standard on ETV and Performance Evaluation. Known as ISO 14034, it will provide the basis for mutual recognition of ETV programmes in the future. Thus a technology undergoing ETV can expect to access international markets more easily as it is “Verified Once, Accepted Everywhere”.
A scheme that overcomes regulatory barriers
At present, environmental policies are failing to account for novel technologies that cannot be categorised under current standards, because these technologies have limited or no proof of performance. Programmes like the ETV scheme are critical to providing this evidence and facilitating the uptake of new commercial environmental technologies within the market.
Nicola Smith is the Environmental Technology Lead for the Centre for Carbon Measurementat the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). For further information about ETV please email[email protected] or phone 0208 943 6964
Article first published on businessgreen.com
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Why organisations should be working towards a more inclusive workforce
By Pete Eyre 2019-05-30T11:30:20Z Computing
How to usher in a listening culture at your workplace
(Image credit: Image credit: Pixabay)
If you wind back the clock just a decade or so, most company meetings and internal comms projects were very different from how they are today. Senior management would often take the opportunity to broadcast the latest company news to employees. It was a one-way conversation. Staff often felt disengaged and unable or unwilling to contribute.
Businesses may have talked about being inclusive and ensuring everyone had their say but the reality was often very different. The voices of the same few managers and leaders have often dominated the conversation. Workers at the bottom of the chain, or those less confident in speaking out, often felt their views didn’t count.
Today, we are seeing a real transformation in the ways organisations engage with their workforces. Technology is allowing businesses to make certain everyone’s voice is heard, no matter how shy or outspoken they are, no matter what background they are from or what level of seniority they hold in the organisation.
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What is driving this change is a growing awareness among senior management teams that they must be inclusive. If they fail to be, they run the risk of missing out on creative ideas, and they are likely close themselves off to the skills of a major part of the talent pool available to them. Whether that be people that struggle physically or mentally to be present every day in the office, or those returning to the workforce following a prolonged period of maternity or paternity leave.
Attracting new talent while retaining talented employees
Businesses must make sure that they are opening themselves up and making themselves attractive to this talent but also that they are successfully retaining it once they have brought it into the organisation. Inclusivity can help deliver this as people like working in collaborative organisations. They want to be part of businesses where success is built on teamwork and change driven by it. Businesses that deliver these kinds of supportive environments will attract and keep more staff.
Employees today also believe that they should value themselves more as individuals and that their employers should do the same. In line with this, we are seeing a heightened focus on the importance of a good work life balance but also a global trend towards increased self-care and self-worth in the workplace.
Employees are increasingly coming to a firm resolution that in the modern world of work, they should never feel hesitant to put their strongly-held views forward, or speak up if they believe that something is wrong. They are increasingly of the opinion that what they think and say should really matter to the organisation.
Further to this, we are seeing an increasing number of businesses building environments where everyone can communicate in an authentic way. They want to engage with their employees, open up conversations and get their feedback.
(Image credit: Image Credit: Tim Gouw / Pexels)
HR's role in inclusivity
This focus on inclusivity is increasingly being built into the fabric of the organisation itself. We are seeing organisations (especially large companies) increasingly put in place very specific HR roles such as Head of Inclusion & Welfare, and task them with taking the lead in creating a more open environment in which all employees feel a sense of ‘belonging’.
By having a flat communication network that connects leaders and senior management directly to their staff and championing a transparent communications culture, employees feel more connected to their colleagues and more valued by their employers which is a win-win situation for everyone.
With a more engaged workforce, businesses tend to get better outcomes. They generally keep staff longer, for example, and so their recruitment costs go down. And by looking after them well, they make sure their employees work harder on the business’s behalf.
Including remote workers and fostering employee feedback
Inclusivity is also key in helping support a distributed workforce. Remote workers often feel ‘out-of-the-loop’, as they may lack opportunities for face-to-face interaction with colleagues and managers – and this sense of isolation can negatively impact their mental health and general well-being.
Today, internet-based engagement technology offers a solution. It is accessible at anytime from anywhere, so this kind of technology can help dispersed workforces feel more involved.
Despite all this, there is a fundamental difference between understanding the theoretical benefits of being more inclusive and implementing the approach in practical terms. For some organisations, there are still some major barriers to overcome. Some organisations feel overwhelmed by the scale of employee feedback and get worried that they are not equipped to respond to it. At the same time, they are concerned that a failure to respond efficiently and effectively may further disenfranchise their workforce. The reality is that they can learn a lot by just understanding and listening to their employees. That in itself will take them a long way.
Often, just the fact that they have not previously tried the technology or the approach is seen as an obstacle. Using anonymous feedback in meetings, for example, might be new to the business and they therefore may be worried about it. Once they have dipped their toes in the water and tried new technology in a live environment, these concerns often start to fade away.
Providing a forum for anonymous feedback is another means by which businesses can deliver inclusivity. If employees feel that they can be identified, it can inhibit their willingness to interact. Being anonymous enables employees to speak out and engage without fear of being judged by their peers or their managers.
True anonymity is often difficult to deliver today, however. Any employee logging into meeting software will be linked to an account. If they use collaborative software or social media, they can be traced, real anonymity is hard to achieve. Yet traceability must be avoided to gain true feedback from employees, such as not keeping IP addresses.
Why listening is key to inclusivity
Ultimately, a key element of building a truly inclusive workplace must include a commitment that everyone’s voice is listened to and heard, whatever their level of seniority, role or background. Too often in the past, lip service has been paid to this concept but little has been done.
Today, though, that’s changing. Businesses increasingly understand the need to be inclusive and the benefits it can bring and they are increasingly implementing the processes and technology to make it happen.
Pete Eyre, Managing Director at Vevox
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Samsung D3 Station 3TB
Samsung on top, Seagate underneath
By Nick Peers 2013-10-01T17:07:00.273Z Disk drives (HDD & SSD)
Plenty of storage for your money
The D3 Station is an understated, but reliable and solid drive for anyone who doesn't need standout performance, but who wants a convenient and inexpensive way of adding a large amount of additional storage to their setup.
Solid and robustly built
Good performance on a par with most USB 3.0 drives
Samsung Drive Manager insists on starting with Windows
Lack of energy saving features
No means of replacing the drive
The first thing to note about this desktop external drive is that it's a wolf in sheep's clothing, or more precisely, a Samsung-branded drive manufactured and distributed by Seagate. Available in 2TB or 3TB capacities, it has enough storage to satisfy the most demanding of users.
It's housed in a compact – but quite heavy – case with slight curved edges to avoid unflattering comparisons with a box. The USB and power connections are found at the back of the drive, and there are four bright activity lights at the front. While it feels quite chunky, the black plastic case is durable enough to handle the odd knock as well as repel light scratches.
The drive will work with both PCs and Macs, but is set up for use with PCs out of the box and formatted as a single NTFS drive. It comes with Samsung Drive Manager software that allows you to repartition the drive if you so wish, and offers a simple diagnostics tool, automatic backup software with password protection and a handy SecretZone app that allows you to encrypt part of the drive for storing sensitive files in. It's nice and simple to set up, with enough options to make it flexible, although we'd have liked to have been given some kind of choice over what encryption was applied.
The security setup screen.
Drive performance
The D3 Station is a solid, competent performer, although the early promise in the synthetic benchmarks, with peak read/write times of 216MB/s and 203MB/s respectively, aren't borne out in real-world tests. Here its performance is actually slightly worse than some portable drives we've tested, although the advantages of USB 3.0 over 2.0 are still obvious. The drive takes nearly 26 minutes to write a 36.5GB folder containing 60,000 files in our small files test, and just under 17 minutes to transfer a 54.8GB folder containing seven large files.
We liked
This is a solidly built, no-nonsense desktop drive, designed to sit alongside your PC or Mac and deliver all the backup and extra storage you could possibly need. And while the real-world performance isn't stellar, it's still on a par with most USB 3.0 drives out there. The robust casing – which doesn't get particularly hot even after a few hours of use – is also a plus point for those looking for something that won't scratch easily.
We disliked
There's a lack of energy-saving features with the drive – it powers off with your computer or when the USB cable is removed, but powers on independently of it when you first flick the electricity switch. There also appears to be no means of putting the drive to sleep when it's not in use. The enclosure itself isn't serviceable, so you can't replace the drive easily should you later want to upgrade or renew it.
The D3 Station is an understated, but reliable and solid drive for anyone who doesn't need standout performance, but wants a convenient and inexpensive way of adding a large amount of additional storage to their setup.
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Arwa Janahi – Bold is Beautiful
We have all been passengers on an aircraft at least once in our lives and with the global economy we live in today traveling has become as easy as flying like a bird. But the one thing that we still wonder is what happens behind the cockpit and how a flight is actually flown by a trained pilot.
The Times Kuwait recently had the opportunity to chat with a young Bahraini pilot Arwa Janahi who spoke about her journey into becoming a pilot and revealed some of the steps that pilots go through to ensure we have a safe and pleasant flight.
Arwa, the oldest of six siblings lived an everyday life in Bahrain, graduating and taking her master’s degree in finance before settling down to a rewarding career in a bank. However, she always had this feeling that something was missing in her life, there was no adventure no excitement in her desk-job. In 2010, when an opportunity came knocking in the form of a government-sponsored program to train young pilots, she took up the challenge and decided to change her career.
“Looking back today I’m very happy with the decision I made, and I truly consider it a great blessing to have had the opportunity to become a pilot. Who I have become today as a person and in my career was only because I had the courage to seize the opportunity when it presented itself,” said Arwa at the start of our conversation.
“Regarding my flights, I fly both long- and short-haul flights. Both flights need a pilot’s full attention with the only difference being that in a long-haul you get more time in between the take-off, cruise and landing, so you get breaks to relax and get refreshed. Whereas in short-haul, each stage comes soon after the other. It is like being alternately stretched and compressed.
“In a routine flight, before the take-off we have to calculate the weights and the speed and make sure everything is ready for the flight to take off. We go through a certain procedure and finalize the number of passengers and weight the flight is carrying. Imputing this on the computer system gives us the exact speed at which to take off.
“Once we are at cruise altitude, we are required to make radio contact with the control towers in every air space we enter to request permission and to inform them of our passing through their air space. The route that the auto-pilot takes on cruise is already predetermined at the time of take-off based on our initial inputs and the wind speed. Wind is the biggest factor here and it determines the length and route of our flight. This is selected from a list of options the system provides us at take-off
“Then, before we begin our descent to land, the flight crew brief each other and determine our landing path; we look at our best option to land smoothly and request the control tower for landing permission. Factors such as day or night and weight are important to consider along with the sequence and instructions we receive from the tower while making our final decent. Then to make the landing we first disengage the auto-pilot as come in to land manually.”
Elaborating on her journey as a pilot and travel experiences in her career, Arwa said: “Often when on long-haul flights such as to Malaga, which is a seven-hour flight, if we exceed our usual flying hours we get to take a layover which gives us time to get out and explore the city.
“Personally, I like to fly short-haul flights although it can be more stressful; a two- or three-hour flight is just perfect as it gives me equal time to work and to relax. But, of course, when you want to see and explore places as a part of your work, then you need to fly long-haul flights.”
Revealing some of the challenges she faced in her career, Arwa said, “In the beginning it used to be hectic flying up and down every day. Sleeping and waking up in different cities and at different times led to my body being in constant jet lag and I always felt tired, as I had been accustomed to a routine life earlier. But then, as I progressed through my training and career I got used to it and now I can even sleep while sitting up and at any time during the day. Another big challenge is having to check on the plane when it is 50-degrees hot outside. It is something I dread, but I guess these are the small things that make you tough and stronger.”
Speaking about the training sessions that she has to regularly undergo, Arwa said, “We are required to update our pilot license every six months and this requires us to go through a test which involves a lot of reading and upgrading on anything new related to our job.
“My favourite part of these re-training exercises is the simulator tests we have to take to deal with emergencies. In these tests, we go through every possible emergency situation, including the ones that are the least possible.
“I still remember a real emergency that I went through, at the time I was still in training. We were in the air, I was sitting right next to the Senior Training Captain and he was about to ask me questions from the instruction manuals. Suddenly the glass in front of the cockpit cracked all the way from one side to the other. It was just my fourth or fifth flight, and of course I started to freak out, and all I could do was to cover my face with my iPad and look at the captain.
“He was the calmest person that I had ever met, even after the outer glass cracked completely he calmly asked me if I wanted to move to the back seat and let the Safety First Officer take my place. They then handled the situation in a very calm and professional manner.
Describing her choice of career, she concluded by saying, “I can never really be tired of this life and I never felt the need to be in just one place. I have done the 9-5 job which was fantastic, but this feeling of being free and not being constrained to live in just one city is a blessing. It allows you to experience a different city almost every day, to interact with different cultures and people; this is something I cherish a lot in my life.”
By Meryl Mathew
Special to The Times
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NEW ON YOUR PLAYLIST: Earl Sweatshirt
06 September 2013 - 03:02 By Pearl Boshomane
Image: SUPPLIED
Earl Sweatshirt made his name as a member of the uber-hip Los Angeles music collective Odd Future, whose most famous members are Tyler, The Creator and Grammy winner Frank Ocean.
But Sweatshirt (real name Thebe Kgositsile) is probably the most talented of the lot. Following his acclaimed 2010 mixtape Earl, he releases Doris, his debut studio album (which is on a major label, Columbia).
While it feels like his peer Tyler raps about certain things just to be provocative, Sweatshirt sounds like he's rapping about less palatable topics not for attention, but because they are part of his life.
There is a certain honesty in the 19-year-old rapper's lyrics, whether he is talking about the artistic pressures that come with being the son of a poet (South Africa's own Keorapetse Kgositsile) or being too busy recording Doris to grieve for his grandmother's passing (the album is named after her), both of which he does on the track Burgundy.
Unlike Earl, Doris features no gratuitously-violent lyrics – Sweatshirt is not trying to be Tyler (who makes a guest appearance on the track Sasquatch).
The album's tempo is slow burning and chilled out, but with a lot going on (some of the songs have thick, heavy beats that sound like the soundtrack to an artsy horror flick), much like Sweatshirt's rapping style.
He doesn't have much of a flow – it really feels as though he is just talking over the beats – but it works. Earl Sweatshirt doesn't have to rely on shock tactics to get the listener's attention because he's a highly-intelligent wordsmith with an impressive gift for puns and double entrendes.
Perhaps poetic brilliance is genetic.
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Conversation with Dr. Lucy Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey
A displaced stretch of California State Route 178 following this weekend's earthquakes.
If you've been following the news in the wake of this weekend's one-two punch of magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 earthquakes near Ridgecrest and Searles Valley, you've likely seen Dr. Lucy Jones with her U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) colleagues on television talking about the impact of the two quakes, the vigorous sequence of aftershocks, and what to expect moving forward as Southern California ends its two decade earthquake drought.
I first met Dr. Jones at the inaugural Great California Shakeout press event at the California Institute of Technology in June 2008, and had a chance to speak with her at length in Dec. 2014, when I was recording interviews for a Public News Service story I was doing on Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's sweeping new retrofit plan for the city.
At the time I was only able to use bite-sized "actualities" as story quotes, and while I had plenty of material to choose from, being something of an earthquake student I remember thinking it was a shame I wasn't able to use more of my conversation with Dr. Jones for the story, or for a more long-form presentation similar to what I'd been doing a few years earlier with my Treehuggers International show.
After I submitted my story I moved on to my next assignment, but after this weekend's quakes I decided to go back and revisit my interview. I found several of the points Dr. Jones mentioned to be entirely relevant today, including concerns over the loss of affordable and workforce housing, being cut off from regional water sources, and the long-term economic impacts for Southern California.
Dr. Lucy Jones at the California Great Shakeout media event at CalTech, June 4, 2008.
Calif. State Route 178 aerial photo courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (public domain)
Dr. Lucy Jones photo by Tommy Hough
Demonstrate Your Support for Our National Park Service This Weekend
President Theodore Roosevelt and conservationist John Muir at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park.
Visiting a National Park shouldn't be seen as a political statement or an act of self-actualizing resistance. Ordinarily, I would never advocate for such a thing in relation to America's Best Idea, or as a means to symbolically push back against a corrupt and cruel regime – even one as vile as this administration.
But at this moment, our National Park Service (NPS) could use some love and attention. It could also use some respect – and you and I can demonstrate that respect.
Our National Parks and Wilderness areas are places where Americans can, should, and frequently do, come together without obsessing over what political stripe they identify with. Our outdoors have always been part of what binds us together as Americans, serving as a common symbol of pride and expression of humility at the foot of our nation's most remarkable landscapes.
As humans we are naturally imperfect, and therefore, we are an imperfect nation. But as a nation, we also have the capacity within our founding documents to improve upon ourselves, and rise above our egos to get things right. Jefferson called this the pursuit of "a more perfect union." Conservation policy is a marvelous expression of that ideal. The benefits to humankind and our planet in doing so are self-evident, and abundant.
But today we have a president who is a liar, a destructive fool, and a resentful braggart. He has never wanted for anything, but has never felt he had enough. He is an agent of abject and malicious cruelty, like a child who stomps on snails or tortures animals because there's no one to stop him, despite having the immense power of his office at his fingertips to be the world's greatest advocate of peace and kindness. This president is not an engaged caretaker of our special places, nor does he have any interest in being one.
It's astounding that, for a man so desperate to be loved, this president can be counted upon to make the most hateful, unpopular decision even worse by twisting his knife into groups he perceives as isolated, vulnerable, or powerless along the way. He will never make a decision that isn't utterly self-centered and based upon his most immediate need to dominate. Yet he sincerely wonders why no one likes him.
He makes absurd exaggerations and fabricates conversations, like a child, about what our mayor might have said about his border policies behind closed doors, or how many people attended his inauguration. Those who fall into his orbit are irreparably damaged, and will remain marked by their association with him for the rest of their days. That he is an insatiable, emotional black hole is transparently clear, yet so many, perhaps blinded by his alleged wealth or some other odd attraction, fail to see it.
Which brings us to today. The only way this president seems to feel he receives the respect he believes is due is by ordering the military and weapons of war to surround him like a Soviet politburo stooge. His rally saw a U.S. president break with 243 years of tradition, of resistance to indulging in empty, vain military braggadocio. Today, we have a president so emotionally insecure he can't even perceive the idea that to boast shows weakness and insecurity – two things no chief executive should ever reveal.
Whether a few tanks or a few jet flyovers, the United States – the strongest military power in the world, if that means anything – has no need to parade our might before the world in a wasteful, impotent show of force that utilizes the authoritarian May Day displays of North Korea or the Soviet Union as inspiration, even though the president argues he was inspired by Bastille Day. These displays are not, and have never been, who we are as Americans.
According to historian Michael Beschloss, who wrote a book about wartime presidents, President Eisenhower – the general who held the coalition of Western Allies together and led them to victory over Germany and Italy in World War II – had no problem reviewing military parades as a general, or reviewing formations as president when visiting military bases.
But when asked by his staff during the era of large Soviet military parades if he wanted to arrange something similar, Eisenhower said:
"To have a military parade without the end of a war or an inaugural or some big reason in Washington, D.C., that is out of our tradition."
According to Beschloss, Eisenhower also said:
"We are the preeminent power on Earth. For us, to try to imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square, would make us look weak."
Eisenhower also famously cut defense spending during his administration, something only a war-winning general could have done in the midst of the Cold War, and famously warned the nation about the military-industrial complex upon leaving office in January 1961.
But even shortly after taking office in 1953, as the Korean War was heading into its final, bloody months before a cease-fire, the 34th president said:
"The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people."
Those days, of course, are very much over. Today our president insists on "rebuilding our Navy," without any awareness it is no longer 1945.
Today, what interests our president isn't doing the right thing or abiding by the rational tradition observed by individuals clearly more decent and wise than he. What interests this president is the only thing that has ever motivated him – more. The question is, who does he cheat, rob, or steal from to get more.
In the case of today's display on the National Mall, where Martin Luther King gave his celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, and where Marian Anderson performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the segregated Washington, D.C., of 1939, the president spent millions in seven military flyovers, with 24 aircraft costing at least $560,000 per hour, along with a variety of "unknown costs" that the White House will probably never clarify. A Defense Department estimate for a proposed military parade last year came to $92 million, but the event was scuttled once the costs were made public.
While the "unknown costs" for the president's spectacle remain, what is known is the administration snatched $2.5 million in visitor fees from the National Park Service to fully fund the "Salute to America," even as park service officers were ordered to police the event.
An agency long-maligned by this administration, the park service relies upon visitor fees collected at NPS sites to cover the shortfall politicians of both parties fail to provide, year after year, for maintenance, visitor services, law enforcement, wildlife habitat and recreation access.
That this money is being "appropriated" from the NPS at a time when parks face a massive financial shortfall, including $12 billion in backlogged maintenance aggravated by the government shutdown earlier this year, and while the administration is actively undoing the sanctity of National Monuments even at a time of renewed interest in parks and an influx of visitors, is contemptible.
That today's self-congratulatory display is taking place at a time when children have been forcibly separated from their parents and kept in cages, devoid of the love and touch any child needs, and held in filthy, unsanitary concentration camps "housing" migrants legally seeking asylum, is similarly extraordinary and intolerable. This administration continues to undo the capability of our courts, our operating agencies, and remains dead set on pitting Americans against each other in order to enhance the president's power.
The rot that this administration has enabled, with the naked aid of a foreign power has, in two-and-a-half short years, radically altered the basic tenets of our republic and weakened our democracy to the breaking point.
So with the administration's theft of the park service budgetary supplement in mind, I would encourage you to make a trip this weekend to one of our nation's National Parks, and tell the rangers and employees and volunteers there thank you. Let them know you value them, and that you appreciate the unheralded work they do, day after day, maintaining and preserving our nation's natural and historical heritage. Say the same thing to U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) personnel too, and those who operate our state and regional parks.
Park professionals and volunteers work every day to not only give visitors an amazing experience, but to illustrate how our nation's legacies have affected the wild and the land. They preserve our resources, highlight moments when our nation has succeeded and faltered, and simply in being there stand as one of our nation's great success stories.
Granted, this isn't the kind of success a man like our president can comprehend or appreciate. The humility that goes into declaring a place, an ecosystem, a historic site, or a vast wilderness as off limits so as to enact preservation practices is an extraordinary feat of humanity, and one that is constantly set upon by the temptation of greed, prejudice, waste, and a desire among some to whitewash our nation's mistakes and heritage – to deny history – in order for it to conform to a curious perfection aligned with certain political desires.
When visiting a National Park Service locale, consider the options before you. Instead of fighting the crowds at Muir Woods National Monument on a holiday weekend, find solace, silence and an extraordinary outdoor experience to the north at Point Reyes National Seashore. Instead of driving yourself crazy trying to find parking among the campers and fifth wheels at Yosemite Valley, explore the basin and range geologic province and ancient bristlecones of Great Basin National Park. Savor the view from our Cabrillo National Monument, or revel in the majestic natural churches of the Redwoods.
Take a stand and resist by going out into our woodlands and wilderness and heed, as John Muir would say, the "good tidings" of the mountains. Visit our parks and special places, and embrace our collective natural and historic heritage that our president sees only as an ATM to fund embarrassing, self-aggrandizing spectacles that subvert our nation's earned patriotism.
Visit our National Parks, and protect what's yours from those who would privatize it or steal it away from you in the dead of night. This land is your land.
President Barack Obama speaking at Yosemite National Park, June 2016.
President Theodore Roosevelt's letter to John Muir, March 1903.
Guest Column: Clearcut Kings Killed the Oregon Climate Bill
This guest column originally appeared on the Oregon Wild website. It is reprinted here with permission from the author.
By Steve Pedery
Back in 2010, when Congress was debating the Affordable Care Act, opponents of the legislation had a problem. The things that were actually in the bill – slowing the inflation of health care costs, providing more access to health care, and ensuring coverage for people with pre-existing conditions – were very popular with Americans. So the healthcare reform opponents attacked things that were never actually in the bill, like "death panels," and launched a massive media and P.R. campaign to pretend they were.
Those same corrupt, swamp-monster politics of Trump and Washington D.C. arrived in Oregon this session, most visibly in the death of HB 2020, the Clean Energy Jobs Act that was killed in the Oregon State Senate.
Most Oregonians want our state to act to address climate change. They want more investment in renewable energy and cleaner vehicles, and a transition to less pollution from industrial facilities. They also want Oregon's forests, rivers, and wildlife protected. Voters wanted these things badly enough that they voted for a Democratic "super majority" in the 2018 elections to achieve those aims.
Oregon Wild was not a major player in the debate over HB 2020. Our work focuses primarily on protecting and restoring public lands, forests, wildlife, and rivers. The campaigners behind HB 2020 made a strategic decision early on to exempt logging emissions from the bill. By doing this, they hoped to avoid the ire of "King Clearcut," i.e. the circle of logging barons, logging corporations, chemical industry lobbyists, and the Oregon Forest Industries Council (OFIC) that funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions to Republican and Democratic politicians every year.
Getting on the wrong side of King Clearcut is viewed as the kiss of death in Salem politics, and by exempting logging emissions the bill's backers hoped to avoid being targeted by Oregon's powerful clearcut lobby.
But as the 2019 legislative session dragged on, this became increasingly difficult. First, some in the logging industry began demanding credit for the carbon being captured and stored by forests on U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land recovering from the clearcutting epidemic of the 1980s and early 90s.
They also wanted credit for simply replanting forests on private lands they clearcut (which has been legally required in Oregon since the 1970s). Since the whole point of climate legislation is to improve things over the status quo, neither condition made any sense, particularly since King Clearcut refused to consider the giant carbon debt that occurs every time a forest is logged.
Others in the logging lobby tried to push fake science, claiming that forest fires were a bigger source of carbon than clearcutting (they are not); that 2 x 4s, construction materials, and paper products store more carbon that living forests (they don't); and that dense, 30-year-old industrial logging tree farm plantations store more carbon than 200+ year-old old-growth forest (they don't). The reality is that logging is Oregon's largest source of carbon emissions, dwarfing even wildfire, and that better logging practices like restoring old-growth, longer logging rotations, and fewer clearcuts is the biggest single step our state can take to address climate change.
To be fair, not all logging interests were pushing fake science and climate denial. Some quietly weighed in to support HB 2020, hoping to sell carbon credits to industrial polluters under the "cap and trade" program the bill would create. If landowners go to longer logging rotations, thinning instead of clearcutting, or agreements not to log at all, more carbon is stored. While this creates a potential offset for carbon emissions from industrial polluters, it doesn't do much to protect clean air or the health of residents living downwind from those facilities.
In the end, this didn't matter. As the session began to wind down, some of Oregon's wealthiest logging barons, led by Andrew Miller, funder of Bundy-believing politicians and a wide variety of right-wing causes, and Rob Freres, who Oregon Wild battled to protect Opal Creek from clearcutting in the 1990s, came out against the bill and began urging Republicans and anti-environmental Democrats to oppose it. In response, Sen. Arnie Roblan (D-Coos Bay) added his -113 amendment, which specifically barred Oregon landowners from selling carbon credits instead of logging.
It wasn't enough. Miller and Freres, the clearcut kings, launched a major P.R. and media campaign saying the bill would regulate logging (it wouldn't), that it would drive up fuel prices for loggers, farmers and truckers (a companion bill actually gave them new fuel subsidies), and that it would ruin rural economies (when economic studies said it would do the opposite). They told these lies to the media, their employees, and to legislators, and launched their #TimberUnity log truck rally in Salem to promote them. They weaponized misinformation and told rural Oregonians to boycott businesses that support climate action.
That the entire campaign was based on lies didn't seem to matter. Employees of logging companies were encouraged to come to Salem, and company owners sent their log trucks and tractors.
Television news ran images of diesel log trucks rolling through Salem and angry speakers decrying HB 2020 as a ban on logging, while largely ignoring the presence of Three Percenter (believers in the violent "sovereign citizen" movement) and white nationalists in the crowd. Some media outlets responded to criticism of inaccurate stories with bland, stenographical-justification statements of "we are just covering what they are saying."
Just as in 2010, when a P.R. campaign firmly established the idea that "death panels" were actually a thing in the Affordable Care Act, the #TimberUnity rally firmly established the idea that HB 2020 had provisions in it that restricted logging. The pressure worked, and after three anti-environment Democrats made it known they were siding with Oregon's runaway Republicans against the bill and action on climate change, it died.
So what is Oregon to learn from this mess? For one, it is high time that elected officials and environmental campaigners all recognize that the clearcut kings of Oregon, i.e. right-wing donors like Freres and Miller, have no interest in solving environmental problems. Men who argued in favor of clearcutting the ancient forests of Opal Creek and who fund the campaigns of anti-public lands, anti-immigrant, anti-worker politicians are not going to stay neutral on climate legislation, or any other major progressive campaign in Oregon.
Second, Oregon is literally being flooded with corporate political money, and that money is corrupting our state's politics – particularly on the environment. As the Oregonian's Polluted by Money series documented, our state has some of the weakest campaign finance rules in the nation, and politicians have thus far been unable to produce a plan that would effectively combat the corrupting influence of money in our politics.
Per capita, Oregon ranks first in the nation when it comes to campaign contributions from corporations, and first in contributions from the logging industry – doubling even the money the logging industry spends in Washington and California. That money buys access, power, and favors, all of which were on display when Republican senators abandoned their jobs in order to block a vote on climate legislation, and when three anti-environment Democrats joined them. Oregon desperately needs campaign finance reform to rein in the nearly unlimited money currently coming from polluting corporations.
Finally, Oregon has to get serious about addressing our weakest-in-the-west logging rules on state and private lands. Logging barons have made millions clearcutting our forests, leaving Oregonians, rural and urban alike, to foot the bill from mudslides and polluted drinking water, degraded salmon runs, and an ongoing endangered species crisis.
They have also exposed rural families to cancer-causing chemicals, and blocked important legislation to protect health and safety. Worse, state regulators can't even say with certainty if most logging operations are even meeting our existing weak rules.
Everyone in Oregon uses wood products, but they don't have to come from clearcuts. All of us, urban and rural alike, want a clean, healthy environment. We all value old-growth forests, salmon runs, and clean water. We want meaningful action to address climate change. After the death of HB 2020, it is clearer than ever that we cannot have those things unless all of us work to stand up to Oregon's clearcut kings, and the lies and misinformation they spread.
Steve Pedery serves as conservation director at Oregon Wild, and is an avid fly fisherman.
The wilderness of Oregon's 11,249 ft. Mt. Hood is surrounded by industrial clearcuts.
Banner graphic and Clatsop County logging animation courtesy of Oregon Wild.
Steve Pedery and Hood River County timber country photos by Tommy Hough.
Three Percenters photo by Tim Dickerson.
Spraying editorial cartoon © 2015 Jesse Springer.
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Director Maria Aberg – from a blood-soaked Duchess of Malfi to a ‘very silly’ Little Shop of Horrors
Director Maria Aberg. Photo: Johan Persson
by Sam Marlowe - Aug 7, 2018
After a gore soaked Duchess of Malfi at the RSC, Maria Aberg is bringing the ‘very silly’ Little Shop of Horrors to Regent’s Park. She tells Sam Marlowe about re-sharpening the teeth of the B-movie inspired musical
In Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s musical Little Shop of Horrors, bubble-headed blonde Audrey longs for a squeaky-clean, deodorised home of her own: “Somewhere that’s green”. This summer, she gets her wish as the show takes root in the verdant Open Air Theatre in London’s Regent’s Park.
The B-movie-inspired story of a boy, a girl, a sadistic dentist and a power-crazed carnivorous plant has won legions of devotees since it first appeared Off-Broadway in 1982, inspiring the kind of cult fandom only really rivalled by Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show.
Vicky Vox and Marc Antolin in rehearsals for Little Shop of Horrors. Photo: Johan Persson
There have been regular UK revivals. Sheridan Smith starred in a production at the Menier Chocolate Factory in 2006, which transferred to the West End and toured three years later with a new cast. Birmingham Rep and Manchester Royal Exchange have both mounted productions within the last four years.
Surprisingly, Maria Aberg, who directs this time around, has never seen it on stage – though she has seen the 1986 Frank Oz film version. Is she anxious about tackling a cult classic having no experience of it on stage? On the contrary, she says, coming to it fresh is freeing. “It means we can do it without worrying too much about either being different, or about conforming to what people are expecting.”
Aberg is not one for serving up the predictable. The Swedish-born, multilingual director has given us a pop culture King John complete with Dirty Dancing and Rihanna, an As You Like It set at a music festival, and a role-swapping Doctor Faustus, all for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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In a career that has taken her to Sweden and Germany as well as the UK, she’s directed new work by Dennis Kelly, Polly Stenham and Roy Williams. She comes to Little Shop seven months pregnant with her second child, and with the gory stench of the Duchess of Malfi at the RSC still in her nostrils. “That was 11 weeks of existing in this horrible, misogynistic, blood-soaked world of misery and hatred,” she recalls cheerfully. “This is just very silly.”
Menken and Ashman’s creation is based on the little-known, low-budget black comedy film of the same name, released in 1960. Seymour, played here by Marc Antolin, is a nerdy assistant at a struggling Skid Row florist who stumbles across an extraordinary plant that feeds on human flesh and blood. He dreams the discovery could transform his threadbare, lonely life. He is also besotted with ditsy shopgirl Audrey, here played by Jemima Rooper, who is abused by her nasty dentist boyfriend, played by Matt Willis, formerly of boyband Busted.
Aberg acknowledges that Little Shop is a departure for a theatremaker whose work is typically knotty, risk-taking and visceral – but it’s not a show without darkness. She thinks it may have lost some of its power to shock over the years and is determined to re-sharpen its teeth.
Joan Iyiola and Alexander Cobb in Maria Aberg’s The Duchess of Malfi at the RSC earlier this year. Photo: Johan Persson
“One of the things we talked about right at the beginning was making the material feel as subversive as it did when the show first came out,” the director says. “It’s slightly fossilised into this quite familiar, friendly little chamber musical, where everyone knows what they’re gonna get. And that’s kind of the pleasure of it. But the edges, the things that were spiky and interesting and slightly outrageous about it, have been worn off by time and success.”
Audrey’s tortured relationship with Orin is one angle she’s addressing. “It’s so bleak, and we haven’t shied away from that. Matt is really relishing the grotesqueness of the character. So hopefully it’s still fun, but also a bit disturbing.”
Then there’s the question of the killer plant at the show’s schlocky heart. Named Audrey II by Seymour, in honour of his beloved, it is usually portrayed by a series of latex puppets, each bigger than the last as it grows to a monstrous size. Aberg’s production will adopt a quite different approach – although she’s tantalisingly tight-lipped about exactly what form it will take. We do know that Audrey II will be played by drag queen and former member of the LA pop band DWV, Vicky Vox. “There will be some puppets,” Aberg admits reluctantly. “But there will also be… some other things. I can’t give away too much.”
Directing a full-scale musical has been an ambition for Aberg since she worked with folk artist Laura Marling on As You Like It in 2013. Aberg loved the collaboration; the pair would develop the songs via the internet, with Marling, who was in LA, “doing little demos in her bedroom and emailing them over”.
She directed Fantastic Mr Fox, a Roald Dahl-based musical family show, for Southampton’s Nuffield two years ago, but says it was totally different. “The material wasn’t quite ready, and it was a new play, so it was constantly being reworked.”
Q&A: Maria Aberg
What was your first non-theatre job?
Working for my dad’s business, which made shop fittings for stores such as H&M. My sister, my brother and I used to spend the summer welding bits of Perspex together in the factory. It was cool.
What was your first professional theatre job?
Literary assistant at the Royal Court.
What’s your next job?
A big project for the Royal Shakespeare Company that will culminate in 2020. I’m not allowed to talk about it yet because it hasn’t been announced.
What do you wish someone had told you when you were starting out?
Dominic Cooke came in to talk to the directors on the course at the National Theatre, and he said: “Don’t worry about the career, worry about the work.” That is the best piece of advice ever – so I actually had the advice I really needed.
Who or what was your biggest influence?
Pina Bausch. I went to see The Rite of Spring and Cafe Muller when they came to Malmo when I was about 15, and I remember thinking: “This is just something else.” It’s stayed with me a long time. There’s something about the strength and vulnerability of the women in those pieces that’s quite astonishing.
What’s your best advice for auditions?
I figured out a while back that the people who nail it in the room are not necessarily the people you should cast. You need to see a glimpse of someone working in the same direction you want to move in. It doesn’t have to be finished that’s what rehearsals are for. So for an actor, I’d say, have some genuine thoughts about the work, and engage with the big ideas.
If you hadn’t been a director, what would you have been?
I would have been a florist – which is interesting, given the show I’m doing. I’ve always fancied that.
Do you have any theatrical superstitions or rituals?
In fact, there are few challenges she’s not up for. Born in Sweden just outside Malmo – “between The Bridge country and Wallander” – she came to London in 1999 to study directing at Mountview Academy. She found the course poorly conceived and frustrating, and says it was at the Royal Court, where she was a literary assistant and assistant director, that she got her real training.
No one was more surprised than Aberg when she formed such a strong, symbiotic relationship with the RSC. “It was never the place I thought I’d be working. But I feel so at home there, and I can experiment,” she says. “Of course the audience is in part extremely conservative, but there’s another part that is hungry for other things, and really willing to engage in debate and conversation.”
Jemima Rooper in rehearsals for Little Shop of Horrors. Photo: Johan Persson
Pressed on her approach to theatremaking, she says: “I’m always interested in the metaphor. We get so bogged down in illustrating location and period. I want to see an interpretation – I’m not curious about the original intention of the writer, I can find that out myself at home, I don’t need to go to the theatre for that. And by extension I suppose that is what I try to do myself.” That feeds into her passionate belief in race- and gender-blind casting. “It’s important artistically for exactly those reasons. But also, I don’t know why you would leave your politics at the door when you go to make work.”
She also believes there is still a lot of snobbery and elitism around theatre in general, and Shakespeare in particular. “I haven’t been involved with the Globe, but I felt that the way Emma Rice was treated had a lot to do with the sort of fences that we’ve put up around who is allowed to do Shakespeare, and who is allowed to enjoy it, and how.”
Aberg herself has big ambitions. Above all, she says: “I really want to run an organisation.” She grins and pats her pregnant belly. “I just need to get some other things out of the way first.” In the meantime, she’s sanguine about how her work sometimes divides audiences – and critics. “As long as you have enough genuine personal conviction in what you do – it doesn’t make you immune, because you’re always vulnerable when you put work out there – but it matters less. Because you know you’re doing something that matters to someone. Even if that someone is just you.”
CV: Maria Aberg
Born: Near Malmo, Sweden, 1979
Training: Mountview Academy
Landmark productions:
• Stallerhof, Southwark Playhouse (2006)
• Days of Significance, Royal Shakespeare Company Swan Theatre/US Tour (2007); Tricycle (2008)
• Alaska, Royal Court, London (2007)
• Crime and Punishment, National Theatre, London (2008)
• The Gods Weep, RSC at Hampstead (2010)
• The Chairs, Theatre Royal Bath (2010)
• Belongings, Hampstead/Trafalgar Studios (2011)
• King John, RSC Swan Theatre (2012)
• As You Like It, RSC (2013)
• Much Ado About Nothing, Manchester Royal Exchange (2014)
• Hotel, National Theatre, London (2014)
• The White Devil, RSC Swan Theatre (2014)
• Wildefire, Hampstead Theatre (2014)
• Doctor Faustus, RSC Swan Theatre and Barbican, London (2016)
• Fantastic Mr Fox, Nuffield/Lyric Hammersmith (2016)
• The Duchess of Malfi, RSC Swan Theatre (2018)
Agent: Rachel Taylor at Casarotto Ramsay
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Nilsson stops 34 shots, Senators beat Blues 2-0
Pete Hayesphayes@thetelegraph.com, phayes@civitasmedia.com
Published 9:42 pm CDT, Thursday, March 14, 2019
The puck passes the helmet of Blues goaltender Jake Allen (34) as defenseman Jay Bouwmeester (19) and Ottawa Senators right wing Bobby Ryan (9) skate in front of the crease during Thursday night’s game in Ottawa.
The puck passes the helmet of Blues goaltender Jake Allen (34) as defenseman Jay Bouwmeester (19) and Ottawa Senators right wing Bobby Ryan (9) skate in front of the crease during Thursday night’s game in
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Anders Nilsson stopped 34 shots for his second shutout of the season as the Ottawa Senators beat the St. Louis Blues 2-0 on Thursday night.
Christian Wolanin and Chris Tierney scored to help Ottawa snap a three-game losing streak. The shutout was Nilsson’s sixth of his career.
Jake Allen made 19 saves in the loss for the Blues (36-27-7).
The rebuilding Senators had two players making NHL debuts — defenseman Erik Brannstrom and forward Max Veronneau.
Veronneau, 23, was born and raised in Ottawa and played three years of junior hockey in the city with Gloucester before embarking on his four-year collegiate career at Princeton. He signed a two-year entry level contract with the Senators on Tuesday after the Tigers were eliminated from the NCAA playoffs and his first skate with the NHL team was on Wednesday.
Brannstrom, who was playing with the Senators’ AHL affiliate in Belleville, Ontario, was an emergency call-up due to injuries on the Ottawa blue line. The 19-year old Swede, who was the 15th overall pick by Vegas in 2017, was dealt to the Senators in the trade that sent Mark Stone to the Golden Knights at the deadline.
The two rookies teamed up on a couple occasions to produce scoring opportunities, including midway through the second period when Brannstrom set up Veronneau for a good chance. Veronneau had four shots on goal in the second period.
The Senators opened the scoring with 6:33 left in the second when Wolanin took a cross-ice pass from Mikkel Boedker. Wolanin had an empty net to shoot at as Allen and the rest of the Blues were focusing on Boedker.
Tierney scored into an empty net with 57 seconds to play.
NOTES: Colin White, Mark Borowiecki and Christian Jaros were scratches for the Senators, while Joel Edmundson, Sammy Blais, Jordan Kyrou and Vladimir Tarasenko were scratches for the Blues. … Blues F Ryan O’Reilly bought 35 tickets for the First Nation Elite Bantam AAA hockey team and their parents after hearing how the team was subjected to racist taunts at a tournament in Quebec City last year.
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Unemployment Levels
Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons on 3rd July 2018.
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Maria Miller Chair, Women and Equalities Committee
What fiscal steps his Department is taking to reduce unemployment.
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Philip Hammond The Chancellor of the Exchequer
As a result of tough decisions made by Conservative-led Governments, the UK’s fiscal position has improved enormously since 2010. Contrary to the consistent predictions of doom-mongers on the Opposition Benches, during that process UK employment has also grown consistently. It now stands at record levels, and the unemployment rate is at its lowest in 40 years. However, we are further supporting job growth through the lowest corporation tax rate in the G20, and reduced employment costs through the employment allowance.
My right hon. Friend will know that our track record stands in stark contrast to that of Labour. No Labour Government have ever left office with unemployment lower than when they entered it.
The Chancellor is right. Record numbers of women are in work in this country, but I would like to see more of those women in better-paid jobs. Does the Chancellor support the Prime Minister’s view that all jobs should be flexible from day one, and will he be doing anything to turn those words into practice in all our businesses?
Yes. Female employment is indeed vitally important, and it has grown to a record high of 71.3%. As the labour market tightens, it is not just fair for us to make it possible and attractive for women to take part in the workforce; it is absolutely essential from an economic point of view. Dealing with any concealed discrimination is key to making it possible for women not only to enter the workforce, but to progress within the workforce to highly paid and rewarding jobs.
Rachel Reeves Chair, Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee
One way to reduce unemployment is to encourage self-employment, and 4.8 million people are now self-employed. While that is welcome, there is a real problem of bogus self-employment, which is costing workers their rights and depriving the Treasury of tax revenue. Next week it will be a whole year since Matthew Taylor published his review “Good work” for the Government. When will they finally implement his recommendations and crack down on bogus self-employment?
The hon. Lady is right on both counts. Self-employment is an important contributor to our economy and genuine self-employment is very much to be encouraged, but there is a problem of bogus self-employment. People who are essentially employed are not paying the proper taxes and operating according to the proper rules for people who are employed, and in some cases employers are concealing the employment of people for their own selfish reasons. We need to deal with both those counts.
David Evennett Conservative, Bexleyheath and Crayford
Given that we are a Government and a party that strongly supports business and entrepreneurs, what estimate has my right hon. Friend made of business investment in the UK during the last eight years?
Business investment in the UK over the last eight years has recovered significantly since the financial crisis, but right now, as my right hon. Friend knows, there is a degree of uncertainty. We need to get through this period of uncertainty in order to see a continuing commitment by business to invest in the UK economy, and that is what the Government are committed to doing.
Catherine McKinnell Labour, Newcastle upon Tyne North
The Chancellor says that we need to deal with bogus self-employment, and I absolutely agree. One in 10 workers in the north-east are on zero-hours contracts, in temporary roles, or in low-paid and often bogus self-employment. What will the Chancellor do to ensure that these new jobs are genuinely sustainable roles, and that people are not leading their lives in insecure work without real employment rights?
The overwhelming majority of the over 1,000 new jobs a day that have been created since the 2010 general election have been conventional jobs; only a tiny fraction of people in the workforce are on zero-hours contracts—less than 2.8%. Zero-hour contracts do have a role to play, but the Government have taken action to make sure they are not abused, and we will continue to take action to make sure that the flexibilities that are essential to the operation of our labour market and the attraction of the UK for international investment are not abused.
Bob Neill Chair, Justice Committee
Businesses in my constituency have been telling me that as we leave the EU they want to have the assurance and clarity of security of their supply chains, not to be burdened with undue regulation and paperwork in relation to customs, and in financial services both clarity and certainty of alignment and regulation; they also want the ability to fly in key personnel across our EU markets to advise clients. Does my right hon. Friend agree that their views should be treated with respect and seriousness?
Yes, the views of business, which is the great generator of employment, wealth and prosperity in our country, should always be taken very carefully into account. We should listen to what business is telling us and make sure that we deliver a Brexit that delivers on the needs of business.
Alison McGovern Chair, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
The Chancellor lauds both the employment rate and the fiscal steps the Government he has been a part of have taken, but that data masks a host of problems, so can he confirm to the House today that he thinks a rising child poverty rate is a price worth paying for his spin and rhetoric?
No, and I should tell the hon. Lady that the proportion of people in absolute poverty is at a record low. Since 2010 there are 1 million fewer people in absolute low income; there are 300,000 fewer children in absolute low income and 200,000 fewer pensioners in absolute low income, and 881,000 fewer workless households. That is a great result and a great record, and we are proud of it.
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Dawn of a New Reality (A Virtual One)
What a summer of sport it has already been: Andy Murray rampant on the lush green lawns of SW19, Wales lighting up Euro 2016 with the kind of swashbuckling unity that England dream of and Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola arriving in Manchester.
For the first time in a long time, I have watched on not from the press box, but as a fan, enjoying the pantomime from the stalls, not the stage. As a journalist, my job was to find or witness the great sporting stories and then tell as many people as possible.
And even though I have left the BBC and journalism behind, that is still the case. In my new role, as CEO of Laduma, there is unlikely to be any jousting with Jose, but the desire and need to tell incredible stories in spectacular new ways, endures.
Virtual Reality is, quite simply, the future – the next chapter. In my lifetime, the first one was the bedtime stories my Dad would tell me, never reading from a book, always dreaming up a new adventure from his imagination. And although my career has been varied – film business, the media – the common thread has been telling great stories. So VR is an obvious next step on that path.
Laduma is a company that helps the biggest names in sport and entertainment tell their stories in the most compelling way possible – in 360 but also in 3D. Yesterday, Wimbledon released a 360-degree film we created for them, while another of our teams was in LA, shooting behind the scenes on game-day with Steven Gerrard and the LA Galaxy. Watch this space.
Unfortunately, talking about VR is like telling you what it feels like to look at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. You can’t even get close. You have to feel present inside the worlds we have created and feel what it is like to sit right next to one of your sporting heroes, to get a sense of what I am talking about. When it comes to VR, we believe seeing really is believing.
What I will do is tell you a bit about how we do things at Laduma and where, we think, the VR market place goes from here.
We are working with some of the biggest sports brands out there. All of them now have VR very much front-and-centre in their thoughts, and that is something that has changed rapidly over the past six months. We have gone from going into meetings and being asked “So what is VR?”. To walking in and being asked “We know we really need this, what is the best way to use it?” There is no question, that US brands are ahead of the game with VR. One major US sports franchise is very keen to use our techniques to improve their performance of their players. Another wants to give away almost 20,000 free branded cardboard headset to fans. Some see the potential of VR to help them engage with supporters all around the world, pick them up from wherever they are and make them feel more a part of the team they support from a distance.
In South Africa, we are talking to major sporting institutions about how they get ahead of the wave and benefit from the huge growth in popularity of Samsung smart phones and the free headsets the public are being given as part of the deal. And in Europe, sporting royalty are consulting with us on how to create compelling sponsored content for new and existing brands.
And that is just to scratch the surface.
So how do we do it? Well, our bespoke and unique 3D camera system shoots in every direction, to create a sphere of the world. But by showing the world as it really is, VR does something that 2D simply cannot. And I’m not sure I can absolutely explain it.
When it is done properly, when you get up close, when you take people to the centre of the action, you can connect people in a genuinely profound way. It is not something I have experienced in any other medium I have worked in, even the movies, which of course have the power to make you laugh and make you cry. But they don’t connect you with people in the way that VR does. Yes, they can make you feel like you have left your life for a moment, but they can’t make you feel like you have got up out of your seat, leapt through the cinema screen and into the world you are watching.
By taking that leap, you see the world differently. You understand people in a different way, you lose your prejudices and you begin to understand your new world in a much more empathetic way, because you are part of it. There is no screen between you anymore. Once you get your head around that, you begin to see how powerful this medium could be.
The speed at which the industry is moving is incredible and the demand for content is growing – we are feeling it as a business.
Over the next 12 months, headsets will become more visible. Seeing someone on a bus or a train watching content will become the norm. And as that momentum builds, so will the demand for content. Fans will expect it. Ask where it is. Want it. Need it. If they don’t find VR content with your brand, they will find it elsewhere. Because once you get the taste for it, you want to revisit that world again and again. You want to feel that childlike excitement at the discovery of a new way to tell wonderful stories. Just like I once did with my Dad’s bedtime stories.
So there it is, we are Laduma. The thunder is coming.
www.laduma.co.uk
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The plague is back! After the worst outbreak in 50 years last year and 7 countries confirming outbreaks New Mexico is the latest to confirm the disease
Photo credit YouTube
The New Mexico Department of Health is warning residents the first case of plague this year has been contracted by a dog in Santa Fe County.
NMDOH is performing an investigation of the dog owner's home to assess the risk of the disease potentially spreading.
"They will go door-to-door to neighbors near the case to inform them about plague found in the area and provide information to residents on reducing their risk," said Department of Health Secretary Lynn Gallagher in a press release.
There were 28 animal cases last year.
Four New Mexico humans who contracted plague in 2017 survived the sickness.
Plague is a bacterial disease that can be transmitted to humans through direct contact with infected animals.
While animals usually display symptoms including fever, lethargy and disinterest in food, the illness in humans has a quick onset and can be severe.
Last year China became the 7th country in 2017 to confirm a Bubonic plague outbreak after biggest outbreak in 50 years in Madagascar killed more than 200 people.
China was the latest country last year to discover the Bubonic plague after a person died of the disease.
Subei County in northwest China's Gansu Province on Wednesday lifted a quarantine for plague after local health officials said they believe they have controlled the disease from spreading.
A person in Subei showing symptoms of plague died on Dec. 12.
Further testing later that day confirmed the person died of the bubonic plague and ensuing septicemic plague.
The county was put under quarantine the following day.
twelve people who had close contact with the victim have shown no symptoms of the plague in the past nine days, local health officials said.
Is the plague on a resurgence?
In November 2017, a total of 2119 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of plague, including more than 200 deaths were reported by the Ministry of Health of Madagascar to the World Health Organization, WHO.
The island off the east coast of Africa is no stranger to the Bubonic Plague with small outbreaks every year, what was disturbing this year, however, was the fact most of the cases in this year's outbreak was the pneumonic plague, a more virulent form that spreads through coughing, sneezing, or spitting and is almost always fatal if untreated.
For the 1st time, the disease long seen in the country's remote areas was largely concentrated in its 2 largest cities, Antananarivo and Toamasina.
As the outbreak of the plague in Madagascar continued to evolve at a pace an alarming development saw the disease arrive in the Seychelles.
Health officials in Seychelles confirmed that 3 people tested positive for the Bubonic Plague in November.
In December 2017 Peru was the latest country to discover rats infected with the plague after the epidemic scare in Madagascar.
A ten-year-old boy in Siberia's Altai Republic contracted the bubonic plague, local medics told TASS in July 2017.
The boy was hospitalized with a high fever and tested positive for bubonic plague.
It is thought he later died.
2 bears were found in California with the plague just last summer: Positive bear samples were found in 32 counties in California.
Navajo County Health Department was also urging the public to take precautions to reduce their risk of exposure to this serious disease, after being found in rodents in the Arizona county.
The Apache County Health Department recently notified the public about a new prairie dog die-off in Concho, Arizona, in August 2017.
In June 2017, two more cases of human plague were confirmed in New Mexico.
The New Mexico Department of Health said a 52-year-old woman and a 62-year-old woman were recently diagnosed with the plague.
According to health officials, the first confirmed case of the plague last year occurred in June when a 63-year-old man contracted the plague.
In July last year, Parks Canada closed off a Saskatchewan national park's remote prairie dog colony to the public after two rodents from the area tested positive for sylvatic plague — the same bacteria that causes the bubonic and pneumonic plagues in humans.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 13,000 people contracted bubonic plague in Asia, Africa and America between 2004 and 2013.
Roughly 900 of them died from the disease.
250 have died in Madagascar this year in just two and a half months, which is thought to be the biggest outbreak in 50 years.
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Deeply Discounted II/Sequences of Snow: A Night of Improvisational Performance by Ken Vandermark and Nate Wooley
Thursday, Apr 25, 2019 7:30p -
The Alternate Space at Seven Cycles
Watertown, MA 02472
https://www.thealternatespace.com
Watertown, MA March 7, 2019 – The Alternate Space (TAS) is honored to host an evening with improvisational performance duo Ken Vandermark and Nate Wooley on April 25, 2019. These players will be performing long-form compositions from their third recording together, an LP titled Deeply Discounted II/Sequences of Snow, released in December 2018. The duo will be on a tour of the US in between April 23rd and May 3rd in support of the LP. During the tour, the duo will perform some pieces from their first three recordings alongside a new set of music composed in collaboration using the “exquisite corpse” method first made popular by the Surrealist art movement.
This one-night only experience will feature two of the nation’s most dynamic improvisers in a performance billed as a night to remember. Ken Vandermark and Nate Wooley are offering the rare opportunity to enjoy a performance in a unique setting not seen by many – Watertown’s The Alternate Space. The event, sponsored by Seven Cycles, brings improvised jazz music into a bicycling manufacturing environment where creativity, motion and hard work happen. The musicians will play together to create an organic combination of jazz tradition, free improvisation, and modern composition, placing it into the raw and intimate space.
Ken Vandermark, a Massachusetts native, will be coming home for this special, one-time gig. A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since 1989, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compositions, which typically balance intricate orchestration with passionate improvisation. He has led or been a member of many groups, collaborated extensively with other artists, and was awarded a 1999 MacArthur Fellowship. He plays tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and baritone saxophone.
Nate Wooley's solo playing has often been cited as being a part of an international revolution in improvised trumpet. In recent years, Wooley has been gathering international acclaim for his idiosyncratic trumpet language. Time Out New York has called him “an iconoclastic trumpeter”, and Downbeat’s Jazz Musician of the Year, Dave Douglas has said, “Nate Wooley is one of the most interesting and unusual trumpet players living today, and that is without hyperbole.”
The Deeply Discounted II/Sequences of Snow event will take place at The Alternate Space located at 125 Walnut Street, Watertown, MA 02472 on April 25th. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets can be reserved through The Alternate Space website. For more information about this one-time only event, email music@thealternatespace.com.
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her boy friday Jan. 6, 2014
Demi Moore Is Dating a ‘Tech-Savvy’ Youngster
Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images
There’s no phrase quite like tech-savvy for indicating that someone is describing a person younger than herself, about whom she can’t think of anything else nice to say. Thus did the New York Post describe Demi Moore’s new boyfriend, christening him with one of his first-ever tabloid adjectives.
In addition to being a fan of the newfangled (he has a Twitter account and a Vine account, both of which he uses), this young sprout also boosts a rad, cool, chill, young person’s name: Sean Friday. It’s the sort that would belong to the crush in a Disney Channel Original Movie.
So how does Mr. Friday fill his days in this 27th year of his life, in addition to using the Internet and some of its features? Well, he and his winged-astronaut tattoo are canoodling in Mexico with his new girlfriend, Demi Moore. He drums the drums for an L.A. rock band called Dead Sara and aids the electronic musician/D.J. Skrillex. So, so young, this man.
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the kavanaugh hearings Aug. 29, 2018
Kavanaugh Will Try to Hide His Views on Abortion. Here’s How to Not Be Fooled.
By Irin Carmon
Brett Kavanaugh. Photo: Getty Images
The Pigpen-style swirl of crime around the president who nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is extraordinary. Still, there is one very standard aspect of the Kavanaugh nomination: the obfuscating code words around abortion. The judicial nominees of Republican presidents in particular have historically said as little as possible about abortion in their hearings, the better not to awaken a public that to this day is overwhelmingly supportive of Roe v. Wade. “Do I have this day an opinion, a personal opinion on the outcome in Roe v. Wade?… [M]y answer to you is that I do not,” Clarence Thomas solemnly declared in his own hearing. Nine months later, as a justice, he joined an opinion stating, “Roe was plainly wrong.”
Candidate Donald Trump broke from the euphemisms to claim that Roe’s demise “will happen automatically in my opinion because I’m putting pro-life justices on the Court.” And when Kavanaugh’s name was first floated to replace retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, conservative insiders publicly reassured their own nervous ranks about his anti-abortion bona fides. “On the vital issues of protecting religious liberty and enforcing restrictions on abortion, no court-of-appeals judge in the nation has a stronger, more consistent record than Judge Brett Kavanaugh,” wrote one former clerk, while a conservative attorney offered, “There is no reason to conclude that Kavanaugh would support Roe and Casey when presented with the question as a Supreme Court justice.” The moment Trump actually named Kavanaugh, however, the gaslighting of abortion supporters began: People who dared worry about the future of the procedure were “scaremongers” consumed by “hysteria” — after all, Kavanaugh was such a stand-up guy he’d chosen female clerks! People, it’s all on the internet; we can read.
Nonetheless, Kavanaugh’s hearings will be full of doublespeak. For help reading between the lines, consult the below.
“Abortion on demand.”
Thrown around by the right — including Kavanaugh, who tellingly used it three times in his one major abortion opinion — to denote women capriciously making decisions for themselves.
“Balls and strikes.”
By his own account, Brett Kavanaugh racked up tens of thousands of dollars of debt on baseball tickets, so perhaps he’ll revert to Chief Justice John Roberts’s aw-shucks mantra in his 2005 confirmation hearings: “I will remember that it’s my job to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat.” In other words, he promised to uphold the law and the Constitution, not impose policy preferences, like making abortion illegal. Of course, cases usually get to the Supreme Court because other judges have reasonably disagreed on what the law or Constitution means.
“Between a woman and her doctor” and “safe, legal, and rare.”
Some Democrats still use these vintage pro-choice talking points, but they grate on a new generation of abortion rights activists. “Between a woman …” implicitly defers to a white-coated professional over a pregnant person’s reproductive autonomy and doesn’t acknowledge that trans people have abortions. “Safe and legal” still has lots of fans on the left, but “rare,” as Tracy Weitz put it, “separates ‘good’ abortions from ‘bad’ abortions.’” In 2012, Democrats took the Clintonian slogan out of their platform.
Casey (or Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey).
This unloved legal compromise, decided by the Supreme Court in 1992, declined to overturn Roe but said states could erect all kinds of roadblocks to prevent women from exercising that right — as long as the obstacles don’t present a so-called “undue burden.” The legal haggling ever since has been over exactly which burdens are undue. You can thank retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy for this unwieldy creation that at least kept abortion legal for the past 25 years. And then you can thank him for making way for the man who may undo that.
“The democratic process” or “It should go to the states.”
This is what you’re likely to hear from Republicans, and what’s not to like about some good old-fashioned democracy? Well, previously in the democratic process and states’ rights: bans on interracial marriage and other Jim Crow–era restrictions. “The democratic process” would likely mean the loss of abortion access in 22 states, but regardless, these arguments purporting to be about process are really about achieving certain outcomes. Congressional Republicans weren’t exactly respecting states’ rights when they introduced federal personhood bills, prohibitions on race- and sex-selective abortion, or legislation to forbid abortion at 20 weeks or when the fetal heartbeat can be detected. In fact, the GOP platform includes support for a human life amendment that would outlaw all abortion everywhere.
“Dismemberment abortion,” “partial-birth abortion,” and “fetal pain.”
These are political, not medical, concepts cooked up by the anti-abortion movement to refocus the debate on the fetus and on potentially uncomfortable details. In 1995, when the National Right to Life Committee heard about a doctor performing abortions through intact dilation and extraction, they named it “partial-birth abortion” to “foster a growing opposition to abortion,” and the Supreme Court signed off on banning it. The Court has yet to weigh in on laws passed in 17 states blocking abortion after about 20 weeks on the medically unproven theory that the fetus feels pain at that time, or on prohibitions against “dismemberment abortion” —another concocted term for a common and safe abortion method — that was passed in nine states.
Doe v. Bolton (1973).
You don’t hear much about this lesser-known companion case to Roe v. Wade, decided at the same time, but it’s GOP code for “women having abortions willy-nilly.” In this case, brought on behalf of a Georgia woman, seven justices ruled that abortion could be banned at viability as long as there was an exception for a woman’s health, defined broadly by a physician as “all factors — physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age — relevant to the well-being of the patient.” Doe v. Bolton is why Paul Ryan once sneered, “The health exception is a loophole wide enough to drive a Mack truck through it,” and John McCain, when debating the issue, put derisive air quotes around the word “health.”
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
These irrefutably wrong Supreme Court decisions upholding slavery and segregation are evoked by conservatives in the abortion debate to (1) compare abortion to slavery, and (2) point out that some Supreme Court precedents are actually bad. When George W. Bush brought up Dred Scott in the 2004 presidential debate, one Evangelical leader called it “a poignant moment, a very special gourmet filet mignon dinner.”
Garza v. Hargan or Garza v. Azar (2017).
The rare abortion case on which Kavanaugh has ruled. The Trump administration unsuccessfully tried to bar a raped migrant teenager from leaving detention to have an abortion, even though she’d jumped through all the legal hoops. Some conservatives protested that Kavanaugh didn’t go far enough by not joining another dissent that claimed that legally, an undocumented immigrant is not a person. Kavanaugh’s own dissent would have run out the clock by looking for a sponsor, a process that had already delayed the young woman’s abortion by seven weeks and threatened to push her pregnancy past the legal limit. The biggest tell of all: Kavanaugh deferred to rulings keeping abortion legal but wrote, “As a lower court, our job is to follow the law as it is, not as we might wish it to be.” On the Supreme Court, on the other hand …
“Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg hates Roe v. Wade” and “the Ginsburg rule.”
Yes, Ginsburg has often critiqued Roe, but that’s because she preferred a different strategy (incrementally striking down abortion bans rather than all at once); legal basis (women’s equal citizenship rather than right to privacy); language (maybe a tiny bit less patronizing to women and deferential to doctors); and test case (specifically her own client, a nurse the military was trying to force to abort). So what? It doesn’t make her any less an unbending supporter of reproductive freedom, and it’s irrelevant because Casey, which she likes a bit better, is the standard we now have. As for the so-called Ginsburg rule Senate Republicans invoke to say Kavanaugh doesn’t have to say shit about shit: While Ginsburg did say in her 1993 hearing that she didn’t want to speculate on future cases, this is what she also said in those same hearings: “[Abortion] is something central to a woman’s life, to her dignity. It’s a decision that she must make for herself. And when government controls that decision for her, she’s being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.” By all means, let’s have Kavanaugh follow the Ginsburg rule.
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965).
This opinion struck down a ban on contraception for violating a “right to marital privacy,” forming some of the basis for Roe. Asking about it has been used as a proxy for asking about Roe; those who express reservations about Griswold probably feel the same about Roe, in other words.
“Original public meaning,” and “originalism.”
This is the conservative dictum that judges should stick to the framers’ intentions, popularized by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Taken to its strictest conclusion, originalism could make it legal to discriminate against women and LGBT people, legalize segregation — and of course ban abortion. Some liberals argue that the framers intentionally used broad language to encourage interpretation over time.
“Rational basis.”
While Casey said states could only restrict abortion as long as it didn’t put an “undue burden” on a woman’s access, “rational basis” would be an even lower bar, one that the conservative Fifth Circuit tried to slip through in Whole Woman’s Health only to be slapped down by the Supreme Court. Under rational basis, almost any restriction on abortion would be allowed to stand without much scrutiny — say, requiring all medical equipment to be gold-plated — as long as it sounded reasonable.
Roe v. Wade (1973).
Only two justices dissented from the opinion that struck down all state abortion bans, and one was Justice William Rehnquist, who in 2017 Brett Kavanaugh called his “first judicial hero.”
“Settled law” or “precedent” or “stare decisis.”
When Kavanaugh told Maine senator Susan Collins that Roe is “settled law,” she was satisfied that he wouldn’t go after the fundamental right to abortion. But mouthing the right words about how the Court is supposed to avoid sudden moves doesn’t mean long-standing decisions can’t be toppled. Chief Justice John Roberts, who called Roe “settled as a precedent of the court,” has never voted against a restriction on abortion. Plus, he’s voted to strike down plenty of long-standing precedents with regard to voting rights, union rules, and money in politics.
Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) and Gonzales v. Carhart (2007).
With the help of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the court struck down Nebraska’s “partial-birth abortion” law because it had no exception for the health of the woman. But when she retired and was replaced by Justice Samuel Alito, the court waved through a federal version. So much for precedent.
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016).
In the Court’s last big abortion case, Justice Anthony Kennedy voted with the four Democratic appointees in ruling that states had to have a really good reason for regulating abortion clinics out of business. If the Court would overturn just this single, very recent so-called precedent, the last clinic in Mississippi would be forced to shut down, and quite possibly nearly three-quarters of the clinics in Texas — to name just two states where abortion access would be severely curtailed.
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French Election: Four Ways Nicolas Sarkozy Got Screwed
The French president survived Sunday’s vote. But to win the runoff next month, he’ll have to stop running against himself.
Christopher Dickey
World News Editor
Eric Feferberg, Pool / AP Photo
The president of France is in deep trouble, and he’d like to have his countrymen think they are, too, if they don’t reelect him. When polls closed Sunday in the first round of balloting to decide whether to give Nicolas Sarkozy another five-year term or simply to be rid of him, returns showed he will make it into the decisive runoff on May 6 against Socialist candidate François Hollande. But the most recent opinion polls show that Sarkozy will lose that mano a mano matchup by a landslide.
If Sunday night’s results give Sarkozy some encouragement, that’s mainly because his outlook has been so bleak. He will be the first sitting president in the Fifth Republic who failed to take first place in the first round of voting. But according to the official numbers released early this morning the margin by which Sarkozy lost—27.08 percent to Hollande’s 28.63 percent—is small enough for him to see a glimmer of momentum. In the meantime, Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front scored a very strong 18 percent, which gives her voters king-making potential. The far-left-wing firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who played to big, excited the crowds, did less well among actual voters, with 11.1 percent.
Sarkozy will hope he can draw Le Pen’s voters en masse, but most surveys show that he can only rely on about two-thirds of them. More than 80 percent of Mélenchon’s votes, meanwhile, are expected to go to Hollande. The moderate François Bayrou, who garnered 9.1 percent of the ballots, will probably see his supporters split down the middle. So Sarkozy is still in the race, but it’s going to be very, very tough.
The 57-year-old incumbent’s strategy now is to convince the French that disaster looms if Hollande replaces him. France’s economy and Europe’s are in a perilous state. Indeed, Europe is “a convalescent,” Sarkozy says. Paraphrasing the ominous words attributed to Louis XV, “après moi le déluge,” Sarkozy told the right-wing daily Le Figaro, in an interview published Friday, “I’m not saying, ‘After me, chaos.’” But of course he was. If any president reduces the pressure to bring down deficits (read: Hollande), “we’ll be swept away,” says Sarkozy. “France does not have the right to make a mistake!”
Hollande, 57, who cast his ballot this morning in the little town of Tulle deep in central France, has managed to build the momentum he has without the help of charisma or an impressive record. A protégé of the late socialist president François Mitterrand, Hollande himself has never held a cabinet post. He constructed his political base mainly as the head of the Socialist Party from 1997 to 2008, a period when the socialist presidential candidates (including his ex-partner and the mother of his four children, Ségolène Royal) fared very badly indeed. In 2002 the socialist candidate didn’t make it to the second round. In 2007 Sarkozy trounced Royal in the runoff.
But Hollande got lucky. Sarkozy’s most dynamic opponent a year ago seemed sure to be former finance minister and then–International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. But DSK suddenly flamed out in scandals in New York and France before he ever had a chance to announce he intended to run. And once Hollande got the nomination, he made what now appears to have been the wise decision to present himself as the candidate of “normal.” Even his campaign T-shirts proclaim that bland virtue.
Hollande can have a sharp tongue on the podium, and he has adopted some predictable lefty stances in the campaign (the kinds of positions that Sarkozy threatens will bring on the deluge). Hollande wants to keep government jobs, not cut them. He calls big financial interests the “adversary.” He talks about taxing marginal income over €1 million ($1.32 million) a year at a rate of 75 percent. He (along with Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman and IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard, among others) questions the relentless austerity pressed on the continent by Germany. But Hollande famously told British financial interests, in English, “I am not dangerous.” Hollande’s greatest virtue in the minds of the French, in fact, is essentially negative. More than half of those who’ve told pollsters they’ll vote for Hollande in the second round have said they’ll do so because he’s not the incumbent.
So, how did Sarko—arguably one of the most brilliant political tacticians in French history—get screwed so badly he’s barely got a prayer of holding onto office? Four overlapping factors seem to have played key roles.
First of all, as the dinner-table cliché goes, “it’s not what he does, it’s who he is” that so many French find hard to stomach. Short and pugnacious, intense and vulgar, Sarkozy is not the kind of man with whom many French want to raise a glass of wine. In fact he drinks little or none at all. And neither is he one whom they naturally look up to. He never made it to the top of the elite schools that groomed most of the country’s leaders (including Hollande), and early in his presidency he gave the impression that big money with bad taste, or, as the French press would have it, “bling,” impressed the hell out of him.
In the first few months of Sarkozy’s first term he partied at the glitzy Champs-Élysées restaurant Fouquet’s on election night and then celebrated further on a friend’s yacht. His wife and adviser, Cécilia, dumped him rather than endure as his first lady. So, months later, Sarkozy remarried former supermodel Carla Bruni.
There was a vaguely Kardashian quality to the Sarkozy household in those days, even before anyone in France knew who the Kardashians were, and right up until this last week Sarkozy has been apologizing for his behavior back then. (He blames his unhappiness with Cécilia for his erratic behavior at the time.)
Neither classy nor notable for a common touch, Sarkozy’s slightest gesture can leave audiences uncomfortable. Recently he stripped an expensive watch off his wrist just before diving into a sea of well-wishers who wanted to shake his hand. Was he afraid they’d see it? Or steal it?
Secondly, Sarkozy had the extraordinary bad luck to be a president who came to office embracing the global economy when, a year later, the global economy tanked. He had promised more money for more work, and in boom times young voters, especially, found that an alluring idea. But he’s been stuck since 2008 with unemployment hovering around 10 percent, which means for many people no work at any price. Could he have handled the crisis better? There has been endless second guessing, and it’s not unreasonable for him to think, as he does, that he should get points for helping to keep Europe from flatlining. But it’s hard to make bragging rights out of that word he uses for Europe’s present condition: “convalescent.”
Thirdly, after three years trying to present himself as a centrist open to all political currents and leftist celebrities, including several socialist stalwarts he brought into senior government positions, Sarkozy decided in 2010 to ditch that whole approach. In regional elections the socialists had wiped his party off the map. So Sarkozy decided to go back to his roots—the tough-guy “top cop” right-wing posturing that had helped him ascend from the Interior Ministry to the presidency in 2007. In that election he’d used carefully calculated anti-immigrant rhetoric to siphon off a huge amount of support from Jean-Marie Le Pen, the fiery curmudgeon of the ultraright. But over the last two years Jean-Marie has handed over the reins of the far right to his daughter Marine Le Pen, who took full advantage of the fact that Sarkozy’s stands on immigration and citizenship started to make her look moderate.
Fourthly, and finally, as the pressure has mounted on Sarkozy, his behavior has become more erratic, not less. And this just at the moment he’d like to present himself as a leader with a steady hand.
One can understand his frustration. Over the last year, nothing he could do had much of an impact on his abysmal approval rating. He led a successful war to oust Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and that accomplishment barely made a blip in the public’s appreciation. More recently, and much to his embarrassment, he has been at pains to deny what was known as a fact: that he tried like hell to sell Gaddafi a nuclear reactor back in 2007. Sarkozy and Carla had a baby girl, but even this foray into late-in-life fatherhood did not soften the harsh impression the president left on the public. Sarkozy already has three sons from his two previous marriages; Carla had one from another liaison. Neither the president nor the first lady make convincing homebodies.
In the closing weeks before today’s vote, Sarkozy started grabbing at policies like a man who’s besieged, looking frantically in the closet for a weapon he could shoot, or swing, or maybe just throw. Suddenly he started adopting some of Hollande’s positions: among them a call for the European Central Bank to play a bigger role in relaunching the European economy (which would contradict its charter), rent control for French apartments, and so on. To such an extent has Sarkozy suddenly embraced policies he previously rejected that the satirical and investigative weekly Le Canard Enchaîné dubbed him Mr. Chameleon.
Maybe this sort of behavior suddenly will be portrayed as sweet reason, or at least reasonable pragmatism, in the debates and speeches before the final vote on May 6. But unless Sarkozy can quit running against himself, it’s Hollande who will walk away with the French presidency next month.
-- with Tracy McNicoll in Tulle
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Sessions: I Didn’t Discuss Campaign With Russians
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NBC News cameras caught up with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday, the morning after reports emerged that he had spoken twice with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. during the 2016 campaign—a fact he did not disclose during his Senate confirmation hearings. “I have not met with any Russians at any time to discuss any political campaign,” Sessions told NBC News, continuing his camp’s insistence that while he met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, he did not mislead anyone by not disclosing the conversations. According to Sessions and his spokesperson, the meetings were entirely unrelated to the 2016 presidential campaign, despite the ex-senator’s role as a prominent Trump surrogate. Additionally, Sessions told NBC News that he will recuse himself from the Department of Justice’s probe of Russian meddling in the election “whenever it’s appropriate.” Sessions’ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores told AL.com that the then-Alabama senator spoke with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, after Sessions gave a speech at a Heritage Foundation event at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last July. Around 50 other ambassadors attended, Flores said, adding that Sessions and Kislyak also spoke on the phone on Sept. 13.
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Torn Picasso Returns to the Met
Updated 04.25.17 10:16AM ET / Published 04.21.10 3:16PM ET
Besides the Plexiglass through which it’s now viewed, most visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art will not see anything different about Pablo Picasso’s The Actor since it was displayed again last week. Picasso’s rare Rose Period work was torn in January after a woman in an adult-education class fell into it one afternoon. In preparation for the museum’s upcoming exhibition, Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 105-year-old canvas was returned to the wall, where it will appear with nearly all of the museum’s pieces from Picasso—paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and ceramics. Picasso painted The Actor, a painting of a gaunt performer leaning across the stage, when he was just 23. “I felt strongly that people would get very close to it and it needed some protection,” said Met conservator Lucy Belloli, after the three-month restoration process.
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Kenya, Tanzania clash over planned dams on the Mara
Saturday May 4 2019
Wildebeests cross a section of the Mara River on August 7, 2018 at the Maasai Mara game reserve. Kenya and Tanzania have clashed over a joint plan to build two dams on the river. PHOTO | GEORGE SAYAGIE | NMG
Tanzania wants the construction of two dams halted to protect the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem.
Kenya, however, has vowed to proceed with construction of the dams and is accusing Tanzania of dishonesty.
The dams were conceived as measures to address water and food insecurity for the communities within the basin on both sides of the border.
By NJIRAINI MUCHIRA
Kenya and Tanzania have disagreed over a joint plan to build two dams on the Mara River, amid warnings that the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem faces serious threats from increased human activity.
Tanzania wants the construction of two dams, Norera in Kenya and Borenga in Tanzania, halted to protect the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, which is the heartbeat of the multibilliom-dollar tourism sector in the region.
Norera will be 10 metres high and Borenga 30 metres high.
Tanzania’s Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Constantine Kanyasu told parliament this week that the country is in consultation with Kenya to have the planned projects shelved.
“The dams will lead to an adverse impact on the Serengeti ecosystem, including the loss of some species due to lack of water in the Mara River during dry season,” he said.
Kenya, however, has vowed to proceed with construction of the dams and is accusing Tanzania of dishonesty, saying these are joint projects being implemented under the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI).
TZ in talks with Kenya over proposed dam on Mara River
Kenya dams proposal raises concern over Serengeti ecosystem
Kenya’s Water Cabinet Secretary Simon Chelugui told The EastAfrican that under the NBI’s investment programme—the Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Programme—the two countries agreed to construct the Norera small multipurpose dam upstream on the Kenyan side and Borenga medium multipurpose dam downstream on the Tanzanian side.
The dams were conceived as measures to address water and food insecurity for the communities within the basin on both sides of the border while promoting catchment conservation and ensuring water flows all year round, he said.
“It’s unfortunate that there’s so much focus on hearsay by the Tanzanian leaders. It would be appropriate for them to use appropriate communication channels to get the facts from us,” he told The EastAfrican.
He added that while Kenya respects existing riparian policies and transboundary treaties, Nairobi has made a decision to proceed with the construction of Norera dam to regulate the flow of the Mara River and store water for use during dry seasons.
“We make sovereign decision with Kenyan interests first but also considering East Africa Community interests. Tanzania should not call for stopping of the dams because one dam is being built on the Tanzanian side,” he noted.
The Kenyan project, however, is still in the planning stages and the government is yet to identify a financier and is also in the process of undertaking an environmental impact assessment.
He added that with climate change already affecting the Mara River to a point where it completely dries up in the dry season, a dam has become a necessity.
“We just need to collaborate on how to ensure a win-win situation for both partners.”
But a study by international scientists published in the journal Science warns that increased human activity around Africa’s most iconic ecosystems is “squeezing the wildlife in its core,” damaging habitation and disrupting the migration routes of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles.
The 400km-long Mara River originates in the Mau Complex in Kenya’s Rift Valley and empties into Lake Victoria in Tanzania.
It is the lifeline of millions of wild animals in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem and the multimillion-dollar tourism industry for both Kenya and Tanzania.
It also lies across the path of the world-famous wildebeest migration—which, according to scientists, is facing serious threats from increased human activity.
Every year, more than a million wildebeest, half a million gazelle and 200,000 zebra make the perilous trek from the Serengeti park in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya in their search for water and grazing land.
The migration has been named as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
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Robin Hobb: ‘Fantasy has become something you don’t have to be embarrassed about’
Alison Flood
The US author on the art of choosing a pseudonym, the success of Game of Thrones and finishing Assassin’s Fate, the finale of her 16-book epic
Fri 28 Jul 2017 07.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 07.40 EST
‘There was no discouraging me – writing is an obsession’ … Robin Hobb. Photograph: Trina Jones
As George RR Martin takes his time over a new instalment from the Game of Thrones world, much to the frustration of his legions of fans, fellow fantasy writer Robin Hobb has finished the final book in her 16-part series. More than 20 years ago, Hobb set out to tell the story of the bastard son of a prince, assassin FitzChivalry Farseer. Sixteen brick-like volumes and thousands of pages later, wars have been fought, magic wielded, dragons resurrected, fair maidens lost and won and lost again, and she has pulled her epic tale to a breathtaking conclusion in Assassin’s Fate, published this spring.
Hobb, who is softly spoken and carefully deliberate in her choice of words, sounds relieved about coming to the end of a story she felt she had finished at least twice before. “It feels like I worked on it for ever,” she says, jet lagged in a Kensington hotel after flying in from the US, where she lives on a small farm in Washington state with her husband and two dogs.
Embarking on the final novel was, she says, a scary prospect. “What was hardest for this one was [having] 15 volumes of backstory – trying to keep it all coherent and cohesive so I’m not contradicting something I said before.”
And she was wary of the trap many fantasy writers fall into of letting their story get away from them, unravelling hopelessly over an endless series of volumes. “It terrifies me as much as anybody. It’s really hard to say when you’re this close, ‘Did I get that right or is it just diffusing?’”
Hobb is the author whose books George RR Martin described as 'like diamonds in a sea of zircons'
Hobb is the author whose books Martin described as “like diamonds in a sea of zircons”, the writer to press on those who turn up their noses at fantasy. Her writing is superb, her world-building irresistible, her storylines both hell-for-leather exciting and deeply introspective. And the way she pulls together multiple disparate strands from the preceding volumes in Assassin’s Fate is a joy to read.
Good fantasy, Hobb believes, is about “lowering the threshold of disbelief so the reader can step right into the book and not feel blocked out by something that’s impossible or at first glance silly. And I think silly is more dangerous than impossible.”
It is also, as Martin knows so well, about not being afraid to draw the final curtain for your characters when the time comes. “Nobody gets to go on for ever. If you put a little magical umbrella over your characters and say ‘yes, we’re going to scare you a little bit but ultimately you know that at the end of the book everything is going to be much the same way it was when we started the story’, well then, why write the story, what’s the point?”
Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Return of the King … ‘The filming of The Lord of the Rings made people realise these stories can be taken seriously’. Photograph: Alamy
Hobb had been dabbling in writing for years before she really committed. “It would come and go,” she says. “I had been trying to write before I had kids, and then I had kids and I kept on writing, working mostly on short stories, mostly for children.”
She sold these stories to magazines, but then decided to try writing in the genre she preferred reading: science fiction and fantasy. She published her first novel, Harpy’s Flight, at the age of 30, in 1983, under the name Megan Lindholm (her real name is Margaret Ogden). The story of a woman whose family has been slaughtered, and who is fleeing from vengeful harpies, it “got good reviews and mediocre sales”, says Hobb. “It did OK but it never earned out, and so in the US I was a midlist writer for a lot of years. Midlist means it’s a nice little addendum to your income but don’t quit your day job. And I had a number of those. When I was writing Harpy’s Flight I was working as a waitress. And I had the kids and then ended up with a tiny farm, so I was trying to keep that going. And my husband was away at sea.” (He’s a submarine engineer, whom she married at 18.)
She was not put off. “There was no discouraging me. Writing is partially an obsession or a compulsion. People who are meant to do it are going to do it whether they are published or not.”
Further titles under the name Lindholm followed, before the story that would become Assassin’s Apprentice, the first she published as Robin Hobb, began to flow. The book is told in the voice of FitzChivalry Farseer, or Fitz, an illegitimate son who is dumped at the royal court in the medievalesque kingdom of the Six Duchies. His father is dead, and he is raised in the stables, rejected by all his family apart from his uncle Chade, who trains him as an assassin. It turns out Fitz also has a talent for magic, which in this world is a dangerous, rare ability known as “the Skill”.
“I quite clearly remember, because I was working on something else – and that’s always where you get your best ideas – thinking, ‘What if magic was an addiction, and what if that addiction was destructive, so you really want to continue working magic, even though you know that it’s destroying your mind or your health?’ And that’s the Skill,” says Hobb. “But I didn’t have much else to go with it at the time, so I wrote it on a torn piece off an envelope, and I put it in my desk drawer. It was there for years, and other bits and pieces of ideas accrued around it.”
The voice she was writing in was, she found, very different from Megan Lindholm, who is “a little more snarky, a little more sarcastic, a little less optimistic, less emotional. Fitz is cagey, he doesn’t always admit the full truth about anything, but he really says what he’s feeling.” So she and her publishers came up with Robin Hobb as a pen name for this new voice. It was short, fitting on the cover nicely; it was androgynous, and “if you say Robin the first thing people usually think of is Robin Hood or Robin Goodfellow, so it’s got all these nice little nuances tied into it”.
George RR Martin has helped to address ‘a lot of misapprehension’ about fantasy.
Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian
Hobb drew the geography of the Six Duchies from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, where she and her husband lived for many years. She wove in the concept of “the Wit”, a vilified “beast magic”. And a character who had been a walk-on part, the mysterious, enigmatically gendered Fool, sidled on to centre stage, helping to turn Assassin’s Apprentice into something different from the usual swords and sorcery fantasy.
“When I first began writing the book, the Fool had exactly one sentence in the outline. But as he came more and more into the story, whether I wanted him there or not, it affected the plot and got woven through it until he was one of the major characters. He became a driving force that complicated the plot, had his own agenda,” she says. “He’s the wild card.”
Assassin’s Apprentice was the first book in a planned trilogy. It turned out to be a gamechanger for Hobb, who has now sold more than 1.25m copies of her books in the UK alone. She finished the trilogy, not particularly planning to return to the story of Fitz and the Fool, and wrote another set of books in a different corner of the same world, featuring living ships.
And then she found herself with another story to tell about Fitz. The Tawny Man trilogy was published between 2001 and 2003, followed by the Soldier Son trilogy, set in an unrelated fantasy realm, and then four books set in a far corner of Fitz’s world and featuring a new cast of characters, the Rain Wild Chronicles. In 2014 she returned to Fitz and the Fool for a final trilogy. There are sentences in Assassin’s Fate, she says, that she’s had in her head for more than 20 years.
“At the start I was very sure it was just a trilogy and that was done with it. And then I was going to write the Liveships [The Liveship Traders trilogy] which was set in the same world but with different characters. I kind of knew there would be interplay in some distant future between these characters and the events that they’d triggered, but I never thought I’d actually write all the way there,” says Hobb.
Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb – a melancholic hero fights again
“It’s like watching a piece of clockwork, the old clocks where the shepherd and the sheep come out and strike a chime – that’s kind of like what happens when you’re writing in a really big world. You set off events, and then you see coming into view what they are triggering.”
Hobb believes that fantasy in general is in a good place right now. “I think the lid’s been taken off in some ways. When I first started I was writing paperbacks, and I was told, don’t write anything more than 250 pages long, 275 tops, because a paperback binding isn’t going to hold anything more than that. So you’ve got a really strict limit there.”
Then the late Robert Jordan came along, with his Wheel of Time fantasy series. “It looked like a brick. I had never seen a book shaped like that before and I thought, ‘They did figure out how to bind that! OK, maybe I’m not going to cut this because it won’t fit in a paperback binding.’”
Hobb is a friend of Martin, whose writing she first spotted at a convention decades ago. She feels he, along with the Lord of the Rings films, has helped to address “a lot of misapprehension” about fantasy – the feeling that “‘Oh, it’s for children, it’s about elves and fairies and pixies and unicorns’ … I don’t think people realised what it actually was,” she says. “And certainly the filming of The Lord of the Rings made people stop and think that these are stories that can be taken seriously … It became something that you didn’t have to be embarrassed about carrying.”
While she finally succumbed to watching Game of Thrones – she prefers the books – there are no plans in the works for film or television adaptations of her own novels. “It would have to be a situation of somebody I trusted and felt would respect the characters. Not the author so much, but the characters.” For now, Hobb is relishing having completed such an epic work, after living with her characters for 25 years. “It’s still a little bit hard to believe,” she says. “As always, you know what happens next in that world, the things that go on, but this big piece of it is finally over. The world goes on – but everybody has an ending.”
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Sir John Plumb
One of the great British historians, he was an influential Cambridge academic, prolific writer and inspirational teacher
Neil McKendrick
Mon 22 Oct 2001 05.39 EDT First published on Mon 22 Oct 2001 05.39 EDT
With the death of Sir John Plumb at the age of 90, Cambridge has lost one of its most influential historians and one of its most memorable characters. He was one of a remarkable group of dynamic and charismatic scholars (including Sir Moses Finley, Sir Geoffrey Elton, Sir Harry Hinsley, Owen Chadwick, Sir Denis Brogan, Sir Herbert Butterfield, Dom David Knowles, MM Postan, Philip Grierson, Walter Ullman, Peter Laslett and Denis Mack Smith) who made the Cambridge history faculty such an exciting place to be in the 1960s and 1970s.
When one recalls that Joseph Needham and EH Carr were then at the height of their powers in Cambridge; that exciting young scholars such as John Elliott, Quentin Skinner, Christopher Andrew and Norman Stone had already joined the faculty; and that ambitious youngsters such as Richard Overy, Geoffrey Parker, Roy Porter, Simon Schama, John Brewer and Keith Wrightson were beginning their research careers, it is little wonder that one looks back on it now as a golden age, unequalled since. Few, if any, could claim to have played a more central role than John Plumb. As a hugely influential teacher, the most popular lecturer and the most prolific writer, and as an unforgettably colourful character, Plumb dominated Christ's and Cambridge history during much of this period.
Jack Plumb did not enjoy the effortless rise to the top which so many of his colleagues did. He was the product of a working-class family in Leicester and of the local grammar school (Alderman Newton's). His first attempt to get into Cambridge ended in a humiliating form of rejection. He took the St John's scholarship examination in December 1929. Despite coming top of the exhibitioner list, quite exceptionally he was not awarded one, so he went to Leicester University and was the first person ever to take a first in history from that university college. He went up to Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1933 to begin research as GM Trevelyan's first and last research student and, apart from a brief interlude as a research fellow at King's and his time at Bletchley during the war, he never left Christ's again.
He became a fellow in 1946, and for over half a century devoted his life to the college. Unlike many academic "stars", Plumb was a dedicated "college man" and anyone who used that phrase in a disparaging way in his presence could expect an Exocet-like rebuke. Not for him the uninterrupted research time that many academic prima donnas now demand. He was in turn an official fellow, college lecturer and director of studies in history, tutor, steward, wine steward, vice-master and master. He once even unsuccessfully stood for bursar - he failed by a single vote. Greater love for his college has no man than the fellow willing to take on all these burdens, while at the same producing a stream of original research. He did not skimp on his university duties either, being, among many other things, a notably brisk and efficient chairman of the history faculty board from 1966-68.
In spite of all these commitments, he was a most productive researcher and a hugely prolific publisher. Books, articles and reviews poured from his pen. Between 1950 and 1973 he brought out 23 books, quite apart from nine volumes he edited for The History Of Human Society, four volumes for Signet Classics or eight volumes of the Fontana History Of Europe. These were the decades when he was at the height of his powers, publishing two great volumes on Sir Robert Walpole (1956 and 1960), his Penguin History Of England In The 18th century (1950), a life of Chatham (1953), a study of The First Four Georges (1956), his Ford lectures on The Growth Of Political Stability In England 1675-1725 (1967) and The Death Of The Past (1969).
These are the books which made his scholarly reputation, but Plumb wanted to be more than simply a scholar. He wrote to be read, and hungered to reach a large audience: with The Renaissance (1961) and in particular with Royal Heritage (1977) he did so. These two books sold in massive numbers, and together with his collected essays - Men And Places (1963), In The Light Of History (1972), The Making Of A Historian (1988) and The American Experience (1989) - established him as one of the few English historians to reach a wider public. He must be the only British historian for whom the Union flag was flown from the American Senate by express request of the president after a unanimous vote in Congress, in August 1991.
Plumb's major long-term scholarly standing will surely rest most securely on his work as a political historian of "the long 18th century". His great biography of Walpole has already stood the test of nearly 50 years' scrutiny and has not been bettered, while his Penguin history survived as the best general introduction to 18th-century England for 40 years until it was finally surpassed by the work of Roy Porter (Plumb's last supervision pupil); his Ford lectures have permanently changed our attitudes to late Stuart and early Georgian England.
But Plumb recognised very early in his career that other historical disciplines were increasingly coming to the fore. He wrote in Studies In Social History (which he edited in 1955) that "social history, in the fullest and deepest sense of the term, is now a field of study of incomparable richness and the one in which the greatest discoveries will be made in this generation". His prediction has long since been borne out, and he increasingly followed the dictates of his own prophecy - first in an editorial capacity, but increasingly in his own writing and research, which moved more and more into the sphere of social and cultural history. It was a decision which fuelled and exacerbated the strong personal antipathies between the Plumb and the Elton schools of historiography in Cambridge and beyond.
To Elton, who espoused ever more strongly the pre-eminent claims of constitutional history, Plumb's decisive move towards the history of social realism was anathema. Elton might be said to have won the battle (after all, he did become regius professor), but Plumb has surely won the war. The study of history has marched irresistibly in the direction in which he predicted and led.
His stature as a scholar was acknowledged by a steady stream of honours. He took a LittD at Cambridge in 1957, was promoted to a readership in 1962 and to a personal chair in 1966, was invited to give the Ford lectures at Oxford in 1965, and elected to a fellowship of the British Academy in 1968. He was elected to the mastership of his college in 1978 and was knighted in 1982. Seven honorary degrees (five in the US) testified to his international reputation as a scholar, but in many ways he still felt frustrated by the prizes which had eluded him. He was many people's favourite for both the chair of modern history and the regius chair in Cambridge and for the presidency of the British Academy. He was on Harold Wilson's infamous resignation honours list for a peerage, but was dropped in the furore which followed its "leaking" to the press.
Where he did achieve the full recognition he deserved was from his pupils. They were quick to recognise the influence of his teaching and his generous promotion of their talents. At Christ's alone he promoted the careers of historians of the calibre of Rupert Hall, John Kenyon, Frank Spooner, Barry Supple, Eric Stokes, John Burrow, Jonathan Steinberg, Quentin Skinner, Norman Stone, Geoffrey Parker, Roy Porter, Simon Schama, Clive Holmes, David Cannadine, Linda Colley, Joachim Whaley, Niall Ferguson and myself. These and many others were launched on their successful careers by Plumb's patronage and support at Christ's. Many of them were the product of his robust teaching methods, in which exaggerated praise and excoriating blame rained down seemingly at random to keep one encouraged, and yet to prevent one from becoming complacent. Plumb as a teacher was not a paragon of all the old- fashioned virtues of charm, restraint and tolerance. Few people emerged from his supervisions unscathed. Most admitted to being profoundly influenced.
Indeed, many of his pupils would readily admit (as would I) that he was the greatest single influence on their early lives and careers. Many have told me what an inspiration he was in their days in Cambridge, and many count it as one of the great pleasures of their lives to have basked in his company. Not that it was always a comfortable experience. Jack Plumb did not earn the title of being the rudest man in Cambridge without inflicting some hurtful verbal wounds.
Novelists who used him as a model have found it no easier than his friends to come to terms with what CP Snow called "the complex and contradictory nature of Jack Plumb". Does one choose the character which Angus Wilson so memorably pinned down as John Hobday in The Wrong Set, or does one choose one of the various versions of Plumb which flit through Snow's Strangers And Brothers novels, or does one plump for the two splendid portraits of him which dominate William Cooper's two best novels, Scenes From Provincial Life and The Struggles Of Albert Woods? My vote would go to the Cooper fictional portraits. They give the best physical description of the young Plumb and the best insight into his personality, which could be so engaging and so maddening at the same time.
He never ceased to surprise. After more than 60 years as a passionate socialist, he suddenly embraced Thatcherism with an ardour that astonished his friends. As he moved ever further to the right, he met the appalled response of his old liberal friends with the smug retort, "There's no rage like the rage of the convert."
Such a complex personality inevitably subjected some of his friendships to strain. Not all of them survived, but most of his friends eventually accepted the fact that, as one of them put it, "the stimulation was worth the aggravation, the fun was worth the fury". Over the years, most of us came to realise that he saw it as his self-appointed task to set the standards we were supposed to live up to. In doing so, he amused and outraged us, encouraged and deflated us, flattered and denounced us, cajoled and contradicted us, informed and corrected us, entranced and enraged us, inspired and provoked us - all with the intent (sometimes with the insistence) of exhorting and educating us to the levels he aspired to on our behalf. If we did not always achieve the levels he set for us, it could be fun trying to do so.
And when it wasn't fun, it was always memorable. Jack Plumb made good copy. His turn of phrase made him eminently quotable. His trenchant judgments made good stories - and sometimes unforgiving enemies. His material generosity made him a splendid host. His generosity of spirit made him a splendid exemplar. His knowledge made him a splendid teacher.
He will, of course, be remembered best by historians for the impact of his work on what is known as "Plumb's century", but in London and New York (and in Cambridge and academia at large) he will, perhaps, be remembered even more for his ebullient personality, which expressed itself not only in his erudition but in his en thusiasm and his enjoyment of the good things of life.
For he played as hard as he worked. An entrepreneur, a bon viveur, a connoisseur of food and wine, a collector of fine silver and porcelain, his rooms were far more opulent than those of most dons. Fine paintings adorned the walls, fine claret and champagne flowed with abandon, and his Vincennes and Sèvres were far superior to the collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum. His cellar was the finest in Cambridge. Apart from his splendid rooms in Christ's, he shared for over 30 years a 16th-century rectory in Suffolk, he had a long-term interest in a magnificent moulin in Provence, and kept a pied-à-terre 22 stories up in the Carlyle in New York. Not for Plumb the life of the cloistered and ascetic scholar, not for Plumb the life of the remote and ineffectual don. He lived his life to the full. He had little time for what he called "the quiet rich", he abhorred meanness, and he spent his money with as much gusto as he earned it. He approached his 90s full of plans for the millennium, still encouraging and exhorting the gifted young, still planning further trips to the US, still plotting the outcome of his munificent charities.
Plumb was a formidable fundraiser. He did not scruple to flatter or cajole or bully his friends into stumping up for the charities he believed in. He claimed to have raised more than £3m for Christ's alone. About a third came from his own pocket, and his intentions in his will confirmed where his ultimate loyalties lay. His not inconsiderable fortune will go to promote the two things which have dominated his life - Christ's College, Cambridge, and the study of history. Although twice engaged, he remained unmarried.
· John Harold Plumb, historian, born August 20 1911; died October 21 2001.
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German prosecutors probe bonus payments to suspended VW manager
Published: Apr 23 at 11:40 a.m.
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German prosecutors are investigating a possible breach of fiduciary duty by Volkswagen over bonus payments made to an executive who was suspended over the carmaker's emissions cheating scandal.
Regulators blew the whistle on Volkswagen (VW) in 2015 after the German company was caught using software designed to cheat emissions tests on diesel engines.
VW has argued the cheating was the work of a handful of engineers who acted without the consent or knowledge of members of the management board, which at the time included VW's current chief executive Herbert Diess and chairman Hans-Dieter Poetsch.
Prosecutors in Braunschweig, in VW's home region of Lower Saxony, said on Tuesday they were now investigating why one VW manager received bonus payments while suspended. According to German paper Bild am Sonntag, the manager received 866,000 euros ($974,000) in bonuses between 2016 and 2018.
The prosecutors declined to identify the manager.
VW declined to comment on the payments.
The manager is among five VW executives, including former chief executive Martin Winterkorn, to face criminal charges for conspiring to cover up the carmaker's diesel emissions cheating scandal.
Prosecutors have said that between November 2006 and September 2015, Winterkorn and four other managers failed in their duty to inform authorities about systematic emissions cheating. The VW managers could face up to 10 years in prison.
The carmaker has argued that although it was informed about the use of software to help pass emissions tests, lawyers advising the company had cautioned against informing the authorities because it was unclear the software was illegal.
Regulators later said that VW had crossed the line from using legitimate software programs to protect engines from damage, known as Auxiliary Emission Control Devices (AECD), to using an illegal “defeat device” which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines as software which “reduced the effectiveness of the emission control system."
VW has said it also stopped short of informing shareholders about the software before the regulatory announcement because it felt potential fines would not exceed 150 million euros. So far the scandal has cost VW more than 29 billion euros.
(Reporting by Jan Schwartz; Writing by Edward Taylor; Editing by Mark Potter)
Wall Street rises as Fed's Williams bolsters rate-cut hopes
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Under-17 - No stopping Portugal - News
No stopping Portugal
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Portugal became the third team in six seasons to follow a final defeat by winning the title, taking the trophy in Denmark with flair.
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It was something of a theme in the early Under-16 tournaments for the previous runners-up to go one better the next year. And Portugal became the third team in six seasons to do just that in 1989 in Denmark, winning in superb style.
Of the usual contenders, only 1988 semi-finalists West Germany did not qualify, losing 3-0 on aggregate to their fellow former champions the Soviet Union. Portugal, having only lost the 1988 final on penalties, were on top form in Group A, defeating Switzerland 2-0, Norway 3-0 and Romania 4-0 en route to the semi-finals. Hosts Denmark began with a 9-3 win against Austria, the biggest win to date in any U16 finals match and a record aggregate scoreline that would not be beaten by the time it became an U17 event in 2001. However, it was France and Yugoslavia, who drew 0-0, who were to dominate Group B. On Matchday 2 Denmark lost 2-0 to Yugoslavia and France defeated Austria 3-2. Yugoslavia then beat Austria 2-0, but missed out on goal difference as France saw off the hosts 4-0.
Holders Spain were in Group C, and defeated the Netherlands 2-0 in their first game. A 2-2 draw with Bulgaria left the group in the balance going into the final round but Spain came out on top, defeating Greece 1-0 to better the Dutch, who beat Bulgaria by the same score. East Germany, third in 1988, started Group D with a 1-0 win against Italy as the Soviet Union beat Scotland 2-1. All the other results were to be draws - 2-2 between East Germany and Scotland, with the rest 1-1. That included the decider between East Germany and the USSR, meaning that a penalty shoot-out was needed - and just as they had against Sweden the year before, the East Germans prevailed 5-4.
In the semi-finals Portugal gained revenge for their 1988 final defeat by Spain with a 2-1 win while East Germany defeated France 3-0. The French did finish third by beating Spain 3-2, but the title stayed in Iberia as Portugal beat East Germany 4-1. Nelson Lemos opened the scoring in Vejle on 16 minutes, and although Lars Kampf equalised just after the break, Luís Figo, Nelson Gomes and Miguel Simão decided the game.
In the subsequent FIFA U-16 World Championship in Scotland, East Germany fell in the last eight to the hosts, who then defeated Portugal 1-0 before losing to Saudi Arabia on penalties in the final.
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Full Name: Ronald Jones
Born: Aberdare.
Club: Birchgrove H, Woodford Green, Borough of Enfield H.
Welsh Wonder
Few Welsh sprinters have been as successful as Ron Jones, who was part of a British world record quartet in 1963, won a succession of relay medals and a series of national titles. His life has been dominated by sport, and at the age of 66, in he was rewarded for his work with the development of youth sport in Wales through his role as director of Sports Aid Cymru Wales by receiving an MBE in the New Year’s Honours in 2001. Having established himself in track and field, he ended up playing a major role in three different football clubs.
Stacking Up The Medals
In 1962, Jones won two relay bronze medals at major championships at the European Championships in Belgrade and Commonwealth Games in Perth, a success which was compounded by eight Welsh titles at 100y/100m and four at 220y/200m. It was some period, because he set six Welsh records at 100y between 1958 and 1959 and a further five at 9.6-9.5 between 1962 and 1963.
His achievements though at the Olympic Games in Mexico lasted more than a generation. It was some Games for Jones. Having led the Welsh team at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston in 1966, he was the British team captain before his auto-timed 100m mark of 10.42 remained as the Welsh record until 1990.
Jones is best remembered though for being one of the quartet as Britain’s men broke the 4 x 110y world record at the White City Stadium on August 3, 1963. Along with Peter Radford, David Jones and fellow Welshman Berwyn Jones, the team ran 40.0 to beat the USA and earn their small part in British athletics history.
When Jones retired from athletics, he became involved in the administrative side of football. He progressed to become chief executive at Queens Park Rangers in 1976, having first joined the club in a part-time role to advise their coaching. Then he joined Cardiff City, before in 1988, he became managing director at Portsmouth prior to his position as director of Sports Aid Cymru Wales.
1958: qf 100y, 5th 4x110y Commonwealth Games
1962: sf 100y, 3rd 4x110y Commonwealth Games, 3rd 4x100m Europeans
1964: 8th 4x100m Olympics
1966: qf 100y, 4th 4x110y Commonwealth Games, sf 100m, 5th 4x100m Europeans
1968: qf 100m, sf 4x100m Olympics
1969: sf 100m, ht 4x100m Europeans
1970: qf 100y Commonwealth Games
UK Internationals: 31 (1959-70)
Won AAA 100m 1969, Welsh 100y 1956, 1959, 1963, 1965-8; 220y 1959, 1963, 1965; 100m and 200m 1970
100y 9.5, 9.76 (1963); 10.3, 10.42A (1968), 200m 21.3 (1963), 21.49 (1967), 440y 49.6 (1960)
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About TSB Local Pride
Winner of the TSB Community Partnership Award 2016: Flamingo Chicks, the inspirational dance school
Imagine a world where a child is excluded from expressing him or herself because they have cancer; or a place where most disabled children (80 per cent, in fact) are inactive, due to lack of facilities. It doesn’t take much imagination if you know the facts: it’s a reality for many families with a child that is ill, has special needs or is disabled. And it leads to loneliness, anxiety, isolation and depression in 75 per cent of families.
Flamingo Chicks Dance School took flight in 2013. It’s an inclusive school where children with special needs, disabilities and serious illnesses come together to learn to dance alongside their able-bodied friends. It started as a one-off workshop in Bristol, the brainchild of Katherine Sparkes, who was struck by the lack of dance opportunities for children with special needs.
Dance fun for everyone
Katherine hired a professional dancer and invited children aged five to eight. Some children had disabilities, some didn’t, but together they learned ballet and explored movement. And the feedback was phenomenal. Katherine received a large number of phone calls from families asking how their child could take part. So she sought funding from local organisations to expand her inclusive dance classes to a wider audience.
Currently Flamingo Chicks holds dance classes in Bristol, Bradford, London, Leeds, York and Cardiff, with 300 active volunteers helping to reach more than 1,500 children a week. For every place that becomes available, it has 15 applicants. And no wonder; the benefits are numerous.
“Flamingo Chicks promotes strength, flexibility and balance, as well as developing children’s social skills, confidence and self-esteem,” says Paediatric Physiotherapist, Jenny Lowther. And the children clearly love their dance lessons: “As a mum, it is incredibly heart-warming to see my little girl, who has been through so much, glow with such delight at being the centre of attention of something other than her cancer,” says parent, Deborah Crossan.
With such a strong message of inclusivity (around 22 per cent of its dance students don’t have disabilities or special needs), the support it provides for families and the obvious health benefits of dance and movement, Flamingo Chicks is breaking down barriers – not just in the UK, but overseas, too. The school is at the forefront of a global movement to promote inclusivity through dance and was invited to the United Nations in New York this year, to spread its message of human rights for disabled children: “Our vision is a world where disabled people have the same range of opportunities; where everyone works together as equals,” says Katherine.
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Board Member - Phase Forward (Oracle)
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Paul Joubert, CPA, has joined Phase Forward’s board of directors. Joubert is currently a founding partner of EdgeAdvisors, a privately held management consulting organization, and a director of Stream Global Services, Inc.
He previously spent over 35 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), an international accounting firm.
Bob Weiler, chairman and chief executive officer of Phase Forward, remarked, "Phase Forward is fortunate to add a senior executive with Paul's vast experience to our board of directors. In addition to his financial expertise, Paul has a long history of advising technology companies on strategic initiatives to enhance and sustain growth with the goal of building shareholder value. As Phase Forward continues to grow organically and through strategic acquisitions, we believe Paul's contributions will be invaluable."
"Phase Forward is a clear market leader and it is setting the vision for the evolution of clinical trial and drug safety solutions," said Joubert. "I look forward to using my business and financial background to add value to what is already a very strong and diverse board of directors at Phase Forward."
Joubert joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1971 and has worked extensively with both public and private companies in start-up to mature stages of growth in the high technology, manufacturing and service industries. Joubert retired from PwC in June 2008, most recently serving as partner in the firm's Assurance practice. Joubert's previous roles at PwC include leading the firm's Technology, InfoCom and Entertainment practice for the Northeast region of the United States and serving as chief of staff to the Vice-Chairman of domestic operations.
Joubert has been a frequent speaker and author on business and financial topics. He is a graduate of Northeastern University, where he received a bachelor of science in finance and accounting. Joubert is a member of various civic and professional associations including the Association for Corporate Growth, a former director and treasurer of the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange and he serves on the Board of Overseers of the Museum of Science. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
About Phase Forward:
Phase Forward is a leading provider of integrated data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety. The company offers proven solutions for electronic data capture (InForm™), phase I clinic automation (LabPas™), clinical data management (Clintrial™), clinical trials signal detection (CTSD™), strategic pharmacovigilance (Empirica™ Signal) and Signal Management, adverse event reporting (Empirica™ Trace), applied data standards (WebSDM™) and Web-integrated interactive response technologies (Clarix™). In addition, the company provides services in the areas of application implementation, hosting and validation, data integration, business process optimization, safety data management and industry standards. Phase Forward's products and services have been utilized in over 10,000 clinical trials involving more than 1,000,000 clinical trial study participants at over 280 organizations and regulatory agencies worldwide including: AstraZeneca, Boston Scientific, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Eli Lilly, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, GlaxoSmithKline, Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Merck Serono, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, PAREXEL International, Procter & Gamble, Quintiles, sanofi-aventis, Schering-Plough Research Institute, Servier, Tibotec and the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. Additional information about Phase Forward is available at www.phaseforward.com.
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Clare Waight Keller reveals new details about designing Meghan Markle’s top-secret royal wedding dress
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wed at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018. Image credit: Getty Images
After creating the royal wedding dress for Meghan Markle, the British designer reveals her upcoming homage to the maison’s high-fashion founder.
“It will be a very special show – when you receive the invitation, you will start to see a little bit of the collection,” said Clare Waight Keller, whose Givenchy haute couture show in Paris in July will be the first glimpse of her fashion spirit since that dress. The British-born designer of the French couture house stunned the fashion world by creating the streamlined wedding gown, with its fairy-tale train, for Meghan Markle – now the Duchess of Sussex.
And after its unqualified success, Clare announced on Monday that her couture inspiration focuses on the Hôtel Caraman, the 19th-century Givenchy townhouse on Avenue George V in Paris. The elegant building – with its grand staircase, elaborate wrought-iron banisters, and ornate salons – was chosen as the headquarters of the maison by the young aristocratic couturier Hubert de Givenchy in 1959. Clare is still basking in her glory – and only now appreciating her achievement. “It’s funny,” she said. “It takes a while until you understand the impact you have had. When you are in it, the whole thing just feels like you are working, doing your bit.”
“It’s an amazing part of history, so I am super proud,” the designer continued, as she relived that magical moment when the secret she had kept even from her husband and children was beamed across the world at the royal marriage of Prince Harry and his American actress bride.
“Honestly, it’s so much easier when no-one knows – not even my girls – until the night before,” Clare said. When I asked if she felt that Meghan’s dress had made a mark for women in history, she replied, “She is someone who I think really stands for women’s rights. I think she is a positive change for the royal family.”
Creations from Clare Waight Keller's first couture collection for Givenchy. Image credit: InDigital
I have known Clare’s work for over a decade, from her time as artistic director of knitwear brand Pringle of Scotland (2005-2011), through her five and a half years at Chloé, the French brand of cool and quirky style.
But when she took on the role of artistic director of Givenchy in 2017, that casual, “Chloé girl” aesthetic was given a grander dimension. Clare embraced the codes of the couture house instead of standing apart from Hubert de Givenchy, who died earlier this year at age 91.
Clare had approached the founder for inspiration and her first step was to re-think couture for the 21st century.
“It is an incredible moment – one I have never experienced before – so it’s quite special; an amazing few months bringing all the ideas together and crystallising them,” Clare told me in January as she received an enthusiastic response for her couture story telling. The effect was both actual – with its mix of noble black gowns – and futuristic – with its digitally-shaded colour.
“For me, it was an extraordinary experience to have the most amazing laboratory of techniques at my hands, which I have never had before – mixing incredibly big volumes of dresses, and then narrow columns, while working on texture,” the designer said, as she was congratulated backstage by LVMH supremo Sidney Toledano.
I recently asked the executive chairman and CEO how and where this resurgence of high fashion had begun.
“It was Clare herself who wanted to re-start haute couture,” Toledano replied. “She has given a good energy to couture, taking up the heritage of Monsieur de Givenchy back in history.”
About the royal wedding, Toledano was jubilant. “It was such a surprise. She didn’t tell anyone,” he said. “For me it was a moment of ‘grande honneur’. But the key was that she had developed a relationship with the Duchess (of Sussex).”
Has the concept of woman-to-woman been the essence of Clare’s work from the outset? I remember that in her Pringle of Scotland years, art played an important role, alongside her relationship with Tilda Swinton. The actress became a fiery mascot, but Clare was smart enough to embrace the work of Scottish artists as inspiration without overdoing the artistic side.
I have kept the letter that Clare wrote to me in March 2011, when she resigned from the Scottish knitwear house to join Chloé, where she took over from a roster of acclaimed designers including female British stars Stella McCartney and Phoebe Philo.
“It is with a mixture of sadness, pride, and anticipation that I leave the role I have called my home for the past five and a half years,” she said at the time. A few months later she announced, “I am thrilled to be joining one of the most prestigious design houses in Paris. Chloé is a brand that conveys a beautiful sense of effortlessness.”
On hearing the news, I immediately asked when we could meet up in Paris. Clare revealed the strength that has enabled her to balance motherhood and fashion work at the highest level. “I’m really thrilled to be joining Chloé and moving to Paris!” she wrote in her e-mail. “I would have been so delighted to meet up, but unfortunately everything seems to be happening this week and I’m actually going into hospital tomorrow to have my baby boy!”
The Duchess of Sussex wearing Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy and Queen Elizabeth II attend a ceremony to open the Mersey Gateway Bridge on June 14, 2018 in Cheshire, England. Image credit: Getty Images
Harrison is now six years old, and with her 15-year-old twin daughters Amelia and Charlotte and her American architect husband Philip Keller, Clare is a fine example of a modern working mother.
She cut her fashion teeth as a stylist for Calvin Klein, followed by Ralph Lauren Purple Label and then Gucci with Tom Ford, before joining Pringle as a designer in her own right. Significantly, she has worked on menswear for Givenchy and will be displaying her latest men’s collection at the end of this week.
Geoffroy de La Bourdonnaye, the CEO of Chloé, is as generous to Clare now as he was when she worked for him. “I think she’s a very talented, creative person,” he told me. “She has incredible taste and her personality is extremely conducive to collaborations at all levels both internally and externally, with her other creatives and the rest of her team.”
“She has a very strong balance between the imperative of creation and the imperative of rationality,” he continued. “She’s always very open to dialogue with business partners. She is an amazing creative and she is very balanced in her life as well, with three wonderful children. She has a very even keel and a personality that allows people to feel comfortable around her, which is why she is very strong on collaborations.”
The executive was as surprised as everyone else to see Clare on television at the wedding, crouching behind Meghan to straighten out her train.
“I was totally surprised, but happily surprised,” de la Bourdonnaye said. “It felt very moving and very emotional. I felt very happy for everybody – especially for the couple, who definitely came across as very genuine and connected extremely well with the people there – and for the way the dress participated in that by not being too overbearing and making reference with the lace veil to all of the Commonwealth.”
Clare does seem to be smart at taking on a fashion role – and running with it. When I interviewed her for The New York Times in 2011, she defined in detail how she envisioned her “Chloé girl”.
“She’s got a real sense of freedom and is very natural – the mix of something a little bit boyish and a little bit easy; a workwear pant in a beautiful silk, say, with a twist on femininity.”
As an Englishwoman working in Paris, she appreciated the need for balance. “Living here in France is a different experience to living in London,” she said. “I love being here in Paris because it really gives you a sense of French fashion and culture, just absorbing the whole atmosphere. But I also love being a British girl here because you bring both sides into the equation.”
But that was then. Clare, 47, is now, by age and by her sensitivity to a changing world, designing for women – not girls. The second white dress she created for Meghan’s first outing with The Queen was another statement of modern elegance, its wide bateau neckline and slim silhouette were an echo of the wedding dress, although that was crowned by the long, light embroidered train.
“We wanted to create a timeless piece that would emphasise the iconic codes of Givenchy throughout its history, as well as convey modernity through sleek lines and a sharp cut,” Clare explained. “In contrast, the delicate floral beauty of the veil was a vision Meghan and I shared; a special gesture embracing the Commonwealth flora, ascending the circumference of the silk tulle.”
I thought about my long conversation with Hubert de Givenchy last summer in the northern French city of Calais, where the Museum of Lace and Fashion was holding an exhibition of the clothes he had made for his favourite clients, including Audrey Hepburn, the Duchess of Windsor, and Jacqueline Kennedy. Givenchy had left his couture house in 1995, and his successors included John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, and more recently Riccardo Tisci, who will soon be showing his first collection in his new role at Burberry.
At the award ceremony for the LVMH Prize for Young Fashion Designers, Louis Vuitton’s director and vice president, Delphine Arnault, expressed her combined emotions of joy and sadness about the royal wedding dress.
“It was a big surprise – magnificent!” Delphine said. “But I thought of Hubert de Givenchy and I am sad he didn’t see it. He would have been so pleased and proud to see Meghan looking so beautiful in Givenchy.”
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THE NBA has announced that they will be returning to England as Oklahoma City Thunder take on Philadelphia 76ers in a friendly at the Manchester Arena on October 8.
It will be the first time ever that Manchester will host an NBA pre-season fixture.
The last NBA sides to play in England were Detroit Pistons and New York Knicks at the 02 Arena in London in January, with the latter winning 102-87.
Seven other pre-season games will also take place outside of America in the month of October.
“Providing fans with an authentic NBA experience is an important part of our efforts to grow the game globally,” said NBA Commissioner David Stern.
“This fall, nearly a third of our teams will embark on a global tour that will celebrate the game of basketball, give our international fans a chance to connect with NBA teams and players, and leave a lasting impact in each of the communities we visit.”
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Trish Stidham, Chief Business Officer
Trish joined the Veterinary Referral Center of Northern Virginia in 2010. She began her career working as a veterinary assistant for a small animal practice. Subsequently she worked in the United States Senate on the Special Committee on Aging with Senator Grassley and as an executive assistant in government affairs for many years before returning to her love of animals.
She and her husband Mark have three wonderful children. She adopted a husky mix named Max, a hound mix named Gracie, and a cat named Bella who are all beloved members of her family.
Most of her free time is devoted to her children and to enjoying time at her family’s cabin in West Virginia, hiking, kayaking, walking with her dogs, and trips to the beach.
Carrie Ellis, Chief Operations Officer
Carrie Ellis moved to Northern Virginia from Queens, New York in 1997. In 1999 she began working in animal hospitals and developed a true passion for the work. Carrie became a Licensed Veterinary Technician in 2005 after completing the Veterinary Technology Program at Northern Virginia Community College.
After several years as a practicing technician, she developed a strong interest in all aspects of hospital management. Carrie has spent the last six years working as a Hospital Administrator at a large multi-specialty referral practice. She completed the Veterinary Practice Management Certification Program at Purdue University in 2016. She joined the Veterinary Referral Center of Northern Virginia Team in 2018.
Carrie and her husband Duane have two dogs named Mulligan and Dory, and two cats named Frank and Beans. In her free time she works as a wedding planner and specialty cake designer.
Heidi Coleman, Chief Financial Officer
Heidi moved from Caldwell, Idaho with her husband Kevin so he could pursue a job opportunity with Micron Technology. She joined the Veterinary Referral Center of Northern Virginia in May of 2007. Heidi has many years of experience as a bookkeeper and payroll specialist.
In addition to Kandice and Kyle, her two children, she has two mixed breed dogs named Mocha and Bradshaw.
In her free time Heidi enjoys working in the yard, playing with her dogs, shopping, going for a motorcycle ride with her husband, sleeping, or watching the BSU Broncos.
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Male depression may hurt couple's chance of conception
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SUNDAY, May 20, 2018 -- Depression in the man may reduce the chances that a couple struggling with infertility will ultimately conceive, new research suggests.
Depression among women was not linked to lower conception rates, the study authors said.
But women being treated for infertility who also took a type of antidepressant known as non-selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (non-SSRIs) were found to have more than triple the risk of first-trimester miscarriage, compared to women not using those medications.
By contrast, the class of antidepressants known as SSRIs was not linked to any miscarriage risk.
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The findings are from an analysis of two infertility treatment studies that also screened couples for depression.
Together, the studies included about 3,200 men and women. None was using in vitro fertilization procedures at the time.
Just over 2 percent of the men and about 6 percent of the women had active major depression.
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"Our study provides infertility patients and their physicians with new information to consider when making treatment decisions," said study author Dr. Esther Eisenberg. She made her comments in a news release from the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), which funded the study.
Eisenberg is a medical officer with the fertility and infertility branch of the NICHD.
She and her colleagues detailed their findings in the May edition of the journal Fertility and Sterility.
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2017 Preview: Get Pumped for USGA Championships January 6, 2017 | Liberty Corner, N.J. By Greg Midland and David Shefter, USGA
All eyes will be focused on Erin Hills this June when the U.S. Open is conducted in Wisconsin for the first time. (USGA/John Mummert)
Calendars are flipped, resolutions are made and one goal is the focus for tens of thousands of competitors from more than 75 countries around the globe: to qualify for, contend in and, ultimately, win a USGA championship. The 2017 season promises enticing drama as players aim to be in peak form for the most comprehensive tests in the game. Here’s a preview of what you need to know.
Texas teens Hailee Cooper (left) and Kaitlyn Papp will defend their Women's Amateur Four-Ball title at The Dunes Golf & Beach Club. (USGA/Darren Carroll)
3rd U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship
The Dunes Golf & Beach Club, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Can anyone stop the teen dominance of the first two championships? High school golfers claimed the titles in 2015 (at Bandon Dunes) and 2016 (at Streamsong Resort) and the defending champions from Texas – Hailee Cooper and Kaitlyn Papp – are looking to repeat. One experienced tandem to watch is Dawn Woodard and Meghan Stasi, the latter of whom has claimed four U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur titles and represented the USA on the 2008 Curtis Cup Team.
Mid-Amateur stalwarts Nathan Smith (left) and Todd White head to Pinehurst in May seeking a second title in three years. (USGA/Fred Vuich)
3rd U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship
Pinehurst Resort & Country Club, Village of Pinehurst, N.C.
For the third consecutive year, the championship will be contested on a U.S. Open venue. Competitors will need to have their games in top form to succeed on Pinehurst’s venerable No. 2 course – the site of the 1999, 2005 and 2014 U.S. Opens, with a fourth coming in 2024 (the resort’s No. 8 course will serve as the companion course for the stroke-play portion of the championship). It will be interesting to see whether the championship’s presence in the Sandhills will favor a mid-amateur side such as inaugural (2015) champions Nathan Smith and Todd White or a younger pair like the reigning champions from SMU, Benjamin Baxter and Andrew Buchanan.
Carved from rolling terrain sculpted by glaciers, 10-year-old Erin Hills will provide a dramatic U.S. Open venue for the world's elite players. (USGA/John Mummert)
117th U.S. Open Championship
Erin Hills, Erin, Wis.
The U.S. Open returns to the Midwest and comes to the Badger State for the first time in June at Erin Hills, a 10-year-old course 35 miles northwest of Milwaukee. Two previous USGA championships have been contested on this dramatic venue that was carved from rolling land sculpted by glaciers: the 2008 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links (Tiffany Joh) and the 2011 U.S. Amateur (Kelly Kraft). Now, the heartland course built by architects Dr. Michael Hurdzan, Dana Fry and Ron Whitten is poised to test the game’s best players on golf’s grandest stage.
Tom Watson is always a sentimental favorite, and he's likely to be one of the few players in this year's field to have played Salem C.C. in 2001. (USGA/Fred Vuich)
38th U.S. Senior Open Championship
Salem Country Club, Peabody, Mass.
Tom Watson will be two months from his 68th birthday when the best 50-and-over golfers assemble just north of Boston, but it’s safe to assume the 1982 U.S. Open champion would be a sentimental favorite. Sixteen years ago, Watson tied for 16th when the Senior Open was last contested on this Donald Ross design. And what better place to produce an improbable first Senior Open triumph. It was at Salem Country Club in 1954 when Babe Didrikson Zaharias won the last of her three U.S. Women’s Open titles a month removed from colon cancer surgery and two years before she would die from the disease.
Brittany Lang's brilliant run to last year's U.S. Women's Open title endeared the Texan to fans on and off the golf course. (USGA/J.D. Cuban)
72nd U.S. Women’s Open Championship
Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster, N.J.
Ariya Jutanugarn and Lydia Ko combined for nine LPGA Tour victories, including two majors, in 2016, and there’s no reason to believe these two young stars – Jutanugarn is 21 and Ko 19 – won’t continue that trend in 2017. Ko was in position to claim last year’s U.S. Women’s Open at CordeValle until a couple of hiccups midway through the final round derailed her title hopes. Barring injury, both are likely to arrive at this summer’s championship as favorites to hoist the most coveted trophy in the women’s game. Of course, defending champion Brittany Lang, who won her first major title in a dramatic playoff over Anna Nordqvist, might have something to say about that.
Min Woo Lee, of Australia, can join Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth as a multiple U.S. Junior Amateur champion. (USGA/Darren Carroll)
70th U.S. Junior Amateur Championship
Flint Hills National, Andover, Kan.
Can Min Woo Lee become the first 18-year-old to win the U.S. Junior Amateur and become the championship’s third multi-time winner? The Australian can join Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth as the only multiple champions, but he can achieve something those two didn’t. Last summer, the USGA changed the maximum eligible age from 17 to 18 for both this and the U.S. Girls’ Junior to further enhance the strength of the championship fields. Lee turned 18 shortly after winning his championship in July at The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tenn., but under these new guidelines, he’ll get a chance to defend.
Eun Jeong Seong has been an inspiration for future U.S. Girls' Junior competitors. The 17-year-old Korean shoots for a rare three-peat this July. (USGA/Jeff Haynes)
69th U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship
Boone Valley Golf Club, Augusta, Mo.
It is rare for any player to have the opportunity to go for a three-peat in a USGA championship, but that’s exactly what Eun Jeong Seong, of the Republic of Korea, has this year. Seong, who turned 17 on Oct. 31, made history in 2016 by not only defending her U.S. Girls’ Junior title, but also winning the U.S. Women’s Amateur two weeks later, becoming the first to win both titles in the same year. A victory in the Girls’ Junior would match the feat of Hollis Stacy (1969-71) and also give her four USGA titles before her 18th birthday, something no golfer has achieved.
Talented young players such as Lucy Li have become a fixture in the U.S. Women's Amateur with teenagers winning the last eight titles. (USGA/Steven Gibbons)
117th U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship
San Diego Country Club, Chula Vista, Calif.
Teenagers have continued their dominance of America’s oldest women’s amateur championship as none of the last eight champions have been older than 19. Former Duke University All-American Amanda Blumenherst (2008) is the last non-teen to hoist the Robert Cox Trophy. The drought has been even longer for mid-amateurs (25 and older) with Cathy Sherk (then 28) being the last to win the Women’s Amateur in 1978.
The U.S. Amateur returns to Southern California for the first time in 41 years this August when Riviera Country Club hosts the 117th playing. (USGA/J.D. Cuban)
117th U.S. Amateur Championship
Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Calif.
While Riviera annually hosts a PGA Tour event each February, the USGA has only visited twice: the 1948 U.S. Open (Ben Hogan) and 1998 U.S. Senior Open (Hale Irwin). With the U.S. Amateur returning to Southern California for the first time in 41 years, Riviera gets to take center stage in August. The companion stroke-play venue is nearby Bel-Air Country Club – like Riviera a George C. Thomas design – which hosted the 1976 U.S. Amateur won by Bill Sander.
The U.S. Senior Amateur has a rare August slot as the historic Minikahda Club in Minneapolis hosts this year's championship. (USGA/Fred Vuich)
63rd U.S. Senior Amateur Championship
Minikahda Club, Minneapolis, Minn.
For only the second time in its history, the championship will take place prior to Labor Day weekend. Maybe it’s a Minnesota thing. In 1956, the U.S. Senior Amateur was played Aug. 20-25 at Somerset Country Club in St. Paul, which happens to be situated across the Mississippi River from this year’s site. The most accomplished field of 55-and-older amateurs will face an exacting Donald Ross design that hosted the 1916 U.S. Open, won by Chick Evans, and the 1927 U.S. Amateur, won by Bob Jones.
Ellen Port shoots for a remarkable eighth USGA championshp in September when she defends her U.S. Senior Women's Amateur title. (USGA/Matt Sullivan)
56th U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship
Waverley Country Club, Portland, Ore.
Ellen Port joined an elite group of golfers last fall when the St. Louis resident claimed her seventh USGA championship. When she travels to the Pacific Northwest in early September, she’ll not only be shooting for her fourth Senior Women’s Amateur title to join the likes of Carol Semple Thompson, Anne Sander, Dorothy Porter and Carolyn Cudone (she won five), but she can tie World GolfHall of Fame member JoAnne Gunderson Carner for the most female titles in USGA history. It would also be one shy of the all-time record of nine held by Bob Jones and Tiger Woods. Rarified air indeed.
The 10-man USA Team will be looking to reclaim the Walker Cup from Great Britain & Ireland in September at The Los Angeles Country Club. (USGA/John Mummert)
46th Walker Cup Match
The Los Angeles Country Club, Los Angeles, Calif.
The USA will be looking to reclaim the Walker Cup from Great Britain & Ireland when The Los Angeles Country Club hosts just the third Walker Cup Match conducted on the West Coast. Like Riviera and Bel-Air, LACC is a George C. Thomas original, thus completing the triumvirate of USGA competitions on these courses within four weeks. The Americans are coming off a decisive 16.5-9.5 loss in 2015 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, its worst setback since losing consecutive matches by 15-9 scores in 1999 and 2001. The USA, which owns a 35-9-1 lead in the biennial competition, has not lost on home soil since 2001.
Four-time champion Georgia is the only state with multiple titles in the USGA Women's State Team Championship. (USGA/Steven Gibbons)
12th USGA Women’s State Team Championship
The Club at Las Campanas, Santa Fe, N.M.
For just the second time, a USGA event is coming to New Mexico. The 1999 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links at Santa Ana Golf Club in Santa Ana Pueblo was the first championship to be conducted in the Land of Enchantment. The Sunrise Course at The Club at Las Campanas in Santa Fe, a Jack Nicklaus design, hosts the 12th edition of the Women’s State Team, an event that has been dominated by Georgia. Georgia has won four of the first 11 and is the only state with multiple titles.
Another U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur title would place Meghan Stasi in elite company among those with five USGA titles in the same championship. (USGA/Fred Vuich)
31st U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship
Quail Creek Country Club, Naples, Fla.
October 7-12
Only four golfers can say they’ve won the same USGA championship five times. Glenna Collett Vare and JoAnne Gunderson Carner claimed six and five U.S. Women’s Amateur titles, respectively, and Carolyn Cudone won the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur five consecutive years (1968-72) during an era when the event was conducted solely at stroke play. Bob Jones also won five U.S. Amateurs between 1924 and 1930. Meghan Stasi has had that chance in the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur since claiming her record-tying fourth title in 2012. Stasi, who turns 39 in May, will be competing in her adopted home state but will have to overcome stiff competition from a growing number of younger competitors, notably Margaret (Shirley) Starosto, Lauren Greenlief and defending champion Julia Potter; the latter two are still under 30 and the former will be 31 when the championship commences.
Stewart Hagestad quickly elevated himself among the world's elite mid-amateurs with his tremendous performance last fall in Pennsylvania. (USGA/Chris Keane)
37th U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship
Capital City Club, Atlanta, Ga.
Stewart Hagestad, of Newport Beach, Calif., would be hard-pressed to match what he accomplished a year ago at Stonewall in Elverson, Pa., when the 25-year-old birdied four of his last five holes in rallying to beat 2014 champion Scott Harvey in an epic final that went 37 holes. Even if he doesn’t manage to successfully defend his title this year, it would not be a surprise at all to see Hagestad’s name mentioned prominently in USGA championships for years to come. Capital City becomes the third Georgia facility to host this championship for 25-and-older golfers, joining Atlanta Athletic Club (1984) and Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island (2004).
Greg Midland is the director of editorial content for the USGA, while David Shefter is a senior staff writer. Email them at gmidland@usga.org and dshefter@usga.org.
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A postgraduate research course provides you with a unique opportunity to follow your interest in an area of research.
As a research student, you will benefit from the knowledge and expertise of our world-class staff, with networking opportunities that can lead to career possibilities around the world.
Together, our high-calibre researchers and students are solving some of today’s most critical and challenging problems. Browse our research degrees below to find one that best suits you.
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Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall
From curing ulcers to preventing asthma and allergies, Professor Barry Marshall continues to find ways to use his Nobel Prize-winning research to save lives.
In 2005 Professor Barry Marshall was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of the stomach ulcer-causing Helicobacter pylori bacterium. Today, he and his team are using this same research to develop a new treatment to prevent asthma and other allergies in children. UWA’s Barry J Marshall Library and The Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases and Research Training were both named in his honour. At the Centre, Professor Marshall and his team carry out world-class infectious disease research and surveillance, and develop vaccines and diagnostic technologies. With Australia being home to one of the highest rates of asthma and allergies in the world, the research of Professor Marshall is set to improve the lives of many, once again.
Cassava warrior Dr Laura Boykin
Dr Laura Boykin and her team are using supercomputers to fight whiteflies in the cassava root crops of Eastern Africa and save the local farmers from starvation.
Dr Laura Boykin is a Senior TED Fellow who uses genomics and supercomputing to help smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa control whiteflies, which have caused the devastation of local cassava crops (a plant that feeds 800 million people). Her lab at UWA is using genetic data to understand the whitefly’s evolution. Dr Boykin also works to equip African scientists with a greater knowledge of genomics and high-performance computing skills to tackle future insect outbreaks. She was invited to present her lab’s research on whiteflies at the United Nations Solution Summit in New York City for the signing of the Sustainable Development Goals to end extreme poverty by 2030.
A driving force in energy Professor Christophe Gaudin
With the help of a state-of-the-art centrifuge facility, Professor Christophe Gaudin’s research is changing the world of industry and renewable energy.
In his role of Deputy Director of the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems at UWA, Professor Gaudin is using an incredible centrifuge facility to design pipelines, anchors and other offshore infrastructures in a way that is safer, more efficient and cost-effective than ever before. In collaboration with Perth-based company Carnegie Clean Energy and colleagues in wave modelling and fluid mechanics, Professor Gaudin and his team are working on ways to develop commercially viable wave farms by optimising the location, and minimising the foundation costs, of wave energy convertors. This innovative work not only has the potential to reduce the costs of wave energy, it has earned his centre $1 million in research funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).
Indigenous campaigner Professor Pat Dudgeon
Professor Pat Dudgeon is transforming Australia’s approach to improving mental health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and leading the way to best practice for suicide prevention programs.
Professor Pat Dudgeon is from the Bardi people of the Kimberley area in Western Australia. She is a psychologist and research fellow at the School of Indigenous Studies at UWA. Currently she also works as director on two important programs: the National Empowerment Project, that involves 11 Aboriginal communities across the country, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project. Professor Dudgeon is considered by many as one of the founding people in Indigenous psychology and has made vital contributions, shaping government policies and championing issues faced by Aboriginal communities across Australia.
Leading Australian archaeologist Dr Jo McDonald
Director of UWA’s Centre for Rock Art Research and Management, Professor Jo McDonald is shedding light on some of Australia’s most ancient settlements and earliest symbolic behaviour.
Professor Jo McDonald is one of the rare few who can say her work has changed history. Recently recognised for her outstanding contribution to Australian archaeology, Professor McDonald is best known for her research on Aboriginal rock art. She has also pioneered the direct dating of pigment art sites, helped Aboriginal communities attain Native Title and assessed rock art significance at both national and World Heritage levels. On top of this, she has just uncovered evidence of human occupation during the last ice age in the Dampier Archipelago as well as Australia’s earliest domestic structures. In collaboration with the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation and RioTinto, Professor McDonald and her team will use this discovery to build a better understanding of how humans used this sacred area.
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These consist of a research project mutually agreed upon by a student, supervisor, head of school and the Board of the Graduate Research School. The programs require the development and implementation of a rigorous research plan, based on a comprehensive understanding of the relevant literature and the need for answers to questions posed in that literature or as the result of a new theory.
A thesis at this level will demonstrate, in the context of a substantial and original contribution, mastery of the subject as well as a furthering of understanding in that field of knowledge, through the discovery of knowledge, the formulation of theories or the innovative re-interpretation of known data and established ideas.
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Some research doctorates also include a structured coursework component and are designed to provide high-level research training to professionals in particular fields. These courses include the Doctor of Education, the Doctor of Juridical Science, the Doctor of Podiatry and the Doctor of Business Administration.
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A master's by research is a supervised degree for which a thesis represents 100 per cent of the degree requirements. Some master’s by research courses include creative work (creative writing, fine arts or music). For these degrees, assessment is based on creative work only. A master's thesis must be a substantial work, generally based on independent research that shows:
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A master's by thesis and coursework recognises your thorough understanding of a research field or area of professional practice. A master’s by thesis and coursework includes a dissertation component that represents 66.6 per cent or more of the degree requirements.
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Two shot and wounded in Southeast Washington
By Clarence Williams
Local reporter covering crime, breaking news, and public safety issues
Two men were shot and wounded Thursday night at a prominent and busy intersection in Southeast Washington, D.C. police said.
The victims were found near Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X avenues, a corner surrounded by a commercial strip of store fronts, a nearby gas station, and a park, about 8:45 p.m., said Officer Hugh Carew, a spokesman.
One victim was found conscious and breathing, while the second man’s condition was not immediately known, Carew said.
Homicide detectives were called to the scene to investigate. Police released no information about any potential attacker or what prompted the gunfire.
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UK police receive 3 new assault claims against Weinstein
1 year 9 months 2 days ago Sunday, October 15 2017 Oct 15, 2017 October 15, 2017 10:47 AM October 15, 2017 in News
LONDON - British police are investigating three new allegations of sexual assault against film producer Harvey Weinstein.
London's Metropolitan Police force says the same woman was the victim of the assaults that allegedly took place in 2010, 2011 and 2015. It said Sunday that officers from the Child Abuse and Sexual Offenses Command are investigating.
The force did not name Weinstein, in keeping with its policy of not identifying suspects who have not been charged.
But it said the allegations involve a man against whom another was made on Wednesday. That case also is being investigated.
Actress Lysette Anthony says she reported to police Wednesday that Weinstein raped her in London in the late 1980s.
Anthony told the Sunday Times newspaper she was left feeling "disgusted and embarrassed" after the attack.
33 die in fire set at Kyoto...
33 die in fire set at Kyoto animation studio
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South Africa marks Freedom Day; apartheid ended 25 years ago
A woman with the South African flag attends Freedom Day celebrations in Kwa-Thema Township, near Johannesburg, Saturday April 27, 2019. Sporting colorful outfits, South Africans celebrate Freedom Day, the holiday marking the 25th anniversary of the end of the brutal system of racial discrimination known as apartheid. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
A woman attends Freedom Day celebrations in Kwa-Thema Township, near Johannesburg, Saturday April 27, 2019. Sporting colorful outfits, South Africans celebrate Freedom Day, the holiday marking the 25th anniversary of the end of the brutal system of racial discrimination known as apartheid. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
A boy passes a mural depicting the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in Soweto, South Africa April 27, 2019 as the country celebrates Freedom Day. The country celebrates the day which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the end of apartheid. (AP Photo/Mujahid Safodien)
People attend Freedom Day celebrations in Kwa-Thema Township, near Johannesburg, Saturday April 27, 2019. The country celebrates the day which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the end of apartheid. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
A gospel choir performs at Freedom Day celebrations in Kwa-Thema Township, near Johannesburg, Saturday April 27, 2019. The country celebrates the day which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the end of apartheid. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
Calls for more jobs for South Africa’s black majority and respect for the rights of the LGBTI community have marked Freedom Day celebrations commemorating the 25th anniversary of the end of apartheid.
Singing and dancing punctuated one gathering on Saturday of about 3,500 people on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
A quarter-century ago South Africa’s blacks finally were able to vote, bringing democracy to the country. But long after the brutal apartheid system of racial discrimination, speakers said many still struggle to find a decent life.
Gauteng province Premier David Makhura says South Africa’s people need jobs and land. He also says all South Africans must respect the rights of gay citizens.
Eating your placenta can do more harm than good: B.C. study
Fish processor in northern B.C. to be audited after reports of illegal bartering
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Bolivia is home to some 36 indigenous groups. The country’s president, Evo Morales, the first indigenous Bolivian to hold that office, is leader of the Movement towards Socialism party, whose long-held goal has been the integration of indigenous communities into national life.
President Evo Morales raises the flag during a ceremony in Oruro, western Bolivia.
A women’s battalion waits to join a military parade, to celebrate the founding of El Alto, Bolivia’s fastest-growing city.
A worker rests on a mound of coca leaves in central Bolivia, the president’s power base. President Morales stresses that the plant is intrinsic to local culture, not just the raw material for cocaine.
A woman in traditional dress presents a national television news program.
People swim in a lagoon near Trinidad, on the edge of the Amazon Basin.
People prepare for a Carnival parade.
A member of a Mennonite community in Quattro Canadas, Santa Cruz. Some 57 Mennonite colonies exist in Bolivia.
Workers look out into the street after a strong downpour.
A fisherman decorates his boat for a blessing ceremony, on the sacred Sun Island, in Lake Titikaka.
La Paz, Bolivia’s administrative capital, is home to the country’s major businesses and government ministries.
Salar de Ulyuni is the world’s largest salt flat, extending over 10,582 square kilometers, and containing 50 to 70 percent of the world’s lithium.
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2012 Photo Contest, Daily Life, Stories, 2nd prize
Pietro Paolini was born in Florence, Italy in 1981. He graduated from the Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence in 2005. In 2004, he started to puruse his interest in the South...
Tiwanaku, Bolivia
People gather at the sacred ruins of the ancient city state Tiwanaku, beside Lake Titicaca, for a traditional ceremony on President Morales’ inauguration day. Bolivia is home to some 36 indigenous groups, who, although a majority in the population, have suffered marginalization and discrimination since colonial times. The country’s president, Evo Morales, the first indigenous Bolivian to hold that office, is leader of the Movement towards Socialism party, whose long-held goal has been the integration of indigenous communities into national life. President Morales enjoys considerable popularity. In 2009, he was elected for a second term in office with 64 percent of the vote.
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Florida Senate Votes to Allow Students to Express Religion on School Grounds
27 Mar 2017 Posted by Nathan Glover
The bill does have its share of detractors with some fearing that it infringes too heavily upon the separation of church and state.
Last Thursday the Florida State Senate voted to approve legislation that would effectively abolish previous rules that prevented religious services and events from being conducted on school property. The vote was 23 for with 13 against and was almost wholly along party lines with a single democrat, Senator Daphne Campbell voting in favor of the legislation. The bill was introduced by Republican Senator Dennis Baxley who heralded it as a much needed way for lawmakers in the state to take a stand and allow students and teachers to practice their constitutionally protected right to freedom of religion, regardless of what personal beliefs they hold.
With the new legislation in place Florida’s public schools are obliged to allow students to lead religious prayers during school operating hours , grant access to school facilities for student religious groups and allow students to pray at school-run events, activities that were previously strictly prohibited in the state.
Proponents of the bill, which includes Senate President Joe Negron, are of the opinion it would serve an important role in reversing what they view as an unnecessary and overbearing clamp down on free speech such as preventing the wearing of religious themed jewelry such as a crucifix or including references to religious figures in their school work. The bill in its current form not only allows religious expression but also shields students and teachers from persecution or discrimination in any form for their religious views.
In Florida Senate Education Committee for SB 436 Religious Expression in Public Schools by Sen @dennisbaxley #Sayfie
— Bill Bunkley (@BillBunkley) March 6, 2017
However, the bill does have its share of detractors with some fearing that it infringes too heavily upon the separation of church and state, essentially flying in the face of the intentions of the founding fathers. The move comes at a particularly charged time in U.S. politics with many in both camps seeing this action as a possible sign of things to come, for better or worse. While Florida is not the only state to allow religious expression in public schools it is in the minority.
It should be stated that despite the concerns that have been raised and fears of wider reaching implications cannot yet be ascertained, the legislation in its current form appears to be quite well-crafted, with little ambiguous wording, treating all religions with equal value and limiting its application to Florida's public schools.
Tags: Daphne Campbell, Dennis Baxley, Florida State Senate, Joe Negron, religious freedom
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By Rev. Dr. Tom Rice
Did you see the 60 Minutes story from November 1, 2015 on “Heroin in the Heartland?” You can watch it on the internet. It focuses on Worthington.
In this season of Thanksgiving I was reminded of another 60 Minutes show from years ago. Presbyterian author Anne Lamott writes about it. It was about Lourdes, that French shrine, renowned for healing. Lamott writes: “Ed Bradley (was) interviewing a family of three who came to the shrine every year—a devoutly religious mother of about thirty, a much older father who could barely look at the camera and who couldn’t say one word because he was so terribly shy, and a little ten-year-old girl with spina bifida who was in a wheelchair. They came to Lourdes every single year, and Ed Bradley was kind of badgering the parents for being so gullible. He said to the little girl, who was so weak she had to be firmly strapped into the wheelchair, ‘What do you pray for when you come?’ and she said, looking at her father really lovingly, ‘I pray that my dad won’t always have to feel so shy. It makes him feel so lonely.’ Which stopped old Ed in his tracks for about ten seconds. But then he looked back at the mother and said something to the effect that ‘year after year, you spend thousands and thousands of dollars to come here, hoping for a miracle,’ and she just looked at her kid, shook her head, and said, ‘Oh no, Ed, you don’t get it—we GOT our miracle.’” (Ann Lamott, Operating Instructions, pp. 115-116. Fawcett Columbine: New York, 1993)
Sometimes I think the greatest challenge in life as disciples of Jesus Christ is simply to PAY ATTENTION. Like that mom, it is NOTICING the miracle. Being thankful for the miracle represented in the people God has put in our lives, the blessings we experience each day and yet all too often take for granted.
On the radio this morning National Public Radio did a story on the health benefits of being grateful. A doctor has started prescribing for his cardiac patients that they take time each day to write down two or three things they are grateful for. They can write a few sentences about them—or a few paragraphs—or a few pages. But he has found measurable health benefits from gratitude.
It’s a great spiritual practice for you and for me this Thanksgiving and beyond. Spend a few moments thinking about (and better yet writing about) a few things you are grateful for—miracles you don’t want to overlook. It will benefit you physically—and spiritually.
Have a happy Thanksgiving!
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HUGHES | "It's A Massive Win"
Posted:Sat 06 Apr 2019
Author:Colin Henrys
Bryan Hughes could not hide his delight after watching Wrexham get back to winning ways by beating Braintree at the Racecourse.
Bobby Grant opened the scoring on his return to the team and, after Braintree levelled before the break, Shaun Pearson and Akil Wright scored second-half headers to seal victory.
And Hughes admitted it was a big result, after two consecutive away defeats, hailing the control his Wrexham players exerted for the majority of the game.
“It’s a massive win, especially on our current form,” Hughes said “It was important for us to get back on track.
“As a performance I thought we were in total control from the off. We gave away a sloppy goal, which the timing of was hard to take, but I felt we would always come good second-half. We were getting into good areas, and it was a good win in the end.
“As long as we get the goals, that’s the main thing – whether it’s the first or second-half. Bobby came back into the team and I thought he did well.
“We played with inverted strikers and at times it looked really good. I was pleased Bobby got a goal.”
Hughes was particularly pleased with Wrexham’s threat from set pieces – creating plenty of chances from Luke Young’s crosses into the box in addition to the two goals.
And he hopes the win will ease some of the pressure building up in the Wrexham camp, with four games left of the league season.
“One of the biggest things for me was set pieces,” he said. “We’ve got three goals from set pieces and I thought Luke Young was fantastic with his delivery.
“We put pressure on ourselves. We’re not fools here. Four defeats in the last five games prior to today puts pressure on you.
“I’ve said in the press our home form’s going to be key and it has been all season. We’re strong at home and the fans play a big part in that – they were fantastic.
“Going forward, we’ve got another two games here. We have Barnet away next week, which is going to be a difficult place to go, but if we show the same commitment and desire we showed at times today, we’ll go there full of confidence.”
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Trump to Continue "Freaking Mainstream Media Out", Will "Boldly Use" Twitter For Policy Announcements
Having drawn the ire of the mainstream press for his extensive use of Twitter in announcing major developments and policy shifts, President-elect Donald Trump will not end the "onslaught" of posts on Twitter that fed his unconventional campaign, even after taking on the formalized duties of the Oval Office later this month, as Bloomberg notes following an announcement by incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer who said he expects Trump "will boldly use" Twitter to make major policy announcements.
Shortly after his victory on November 8, Trump said in an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that he was rethinking his use of social media: “I’m going to be very restrained, if I use it at all, I’m going to be very restrained,” Trump said. That, however, has not happened and since then, during the countdown to Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, he’s shown little sign that he intends to follow that pledge.
In fact, making news and issuing statements on social media sites that also include Facebook and Instagram will “absolutely” continue, despite any prior promises to the contrary, incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
“You know what? The fact of the matter is that when he tweets, he gets results,” Spicer said.
“You know, with all due respect, I think it freaks the mainstream media out that he has this following of over 45 plus million people that follow him on social media, that he can have a direct conversation,” Spicer said. “He doesn’t have to have it funneled through the media.”
Indeed, he doesn't, and the fact that the media suddenly finds itself locked out in this most important of information dissemination and filtration pathways, has unleashed the biggest period of soul-searching for the conventional press in decades.
In recent tweets, Trump has hinted he’d like to change decades of policy on nuclear weapons; praised Russian leader Vladimir Putin even after accusations by intelligence agencies that Russia attempted to tamper with U.S. elections; and said the United Nations is a “club for people to get together, talk and have a good time.”
As a result, Trump was scolded by foreign policy experts last month when he used Twitter as the venue to say that the U.S. should greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capacity until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nuclear weapons. For now, if anything, this outside criticism has only emboldened Trump to avoid conventional media outlets.
On Dec. 28, the incoming president tweeted that he was trying to disregard statements by President Barack Obama that he considered “inflammatory.” “Thought it was going to be a smooth transition - NOT!” Trump said in the post.
After Putin said on Dec. 30 that he wouldn’t respond in kind to an Obama administration order expelling 35 Russian diplomats in response to that government’s hacking of Democratic Party officials, Trump tweeted: “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) - I always knew he was very smart!”
A day after praising Putin, Trump raised eyebrows by wishing a “Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies.” New Year’s Day brought a more conciliatory greeting ”to all Americans” that cast ahead to “a wonderful & prosperous 2017 as we work together.”
Trump’s tweets have also targeted specific companies, including Lockheed Martin Corp. for what the president-elect termed “out of control” costs for the F-35 fighter jet, and Boeing Co. for “ridiculous” costs to build a new 747 Air Force One for future presidents. “Cancel order!” Trump said in a Twitter post on Dec. 6, sending Boeing shares lower.
Trump currently has 18.3 million followers on Twitter, 16.8 million on Facebook and 4.5 million on Instagram. He has tweeted more than 34,000 times since joining the social media platform in 2009.
As Bloomberg adds, Spicer was asked on “This Week” about Trump’s Twitter statement on Dec. 22 that the U.S. “must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capacity until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.”
Surprisingly, despite having the president-elect as the brand's most vocal and prominent ambassador in the world, Twitter continues to lose key personnel, most recently on December 30, when in a series of Tweets, Twitter’s Managing Director for Greater China Operations Kathy Chen says that as the Twitter APAC team is working directly with Chinese advertisers, it is the right time for her to leave the company. She joined Twitter less than 8 months ago, in April of 2016.
Aside from the topic of Trump's tweeting, Spicer also said on Sunday that the White House may have disproportionately punished Russia by ordering the expulsion of 35 suspected Russian spies. Spicer said that Trump will be asking questions of U.S. intelligence agencies after President Barack Obama imposed sanctions last week on two Russian intelligence agencies over what he said was their involvement in hacking political groups in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
"One of the questions that we have is why the magnitude of this? I mean you look at 35 people being expelled, two sites being closed down, the question is, is that response in proportion to the actions taken? Maybe it was; maybe it wasn't but you have to think about that," Spicer said.
Trump is to have briefings with intelligence agencies this week after his return from vacation to New York on Sunday. On Saturday, Trump expressed continued skepticism over whether Russia was responsible for computer hacks of Democratic Party officials.
"I think it's unfair if we don't know. It could be somebody else. I also know things that other people don't know so we cannot be sure," Trump said. He said he would disclose some information on the issue on Tuesday or Wednesday, without elaborating. It is unclear if, upon taking office on Jan. 20, he would seek to roll back Obama's actions, which mark a post-Cold War low in U.S.-Russian ties.
Spicer said that after China in 2015 seized records of U.S. government employees "no action publicly was taken. Nothing, nothing was taken when millions of people had their private information, including information on security clearances that was shared. Not one thing happened." "So there is a question about whether there's a political retribution here versus a diplomatic response," he added.
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The Australian Children's Music Foundation (ACMF) 17th Annual National Song Writing Competition is now accepting entries via: www.acmf.com.au Open to school-aged children in grades four to 12, entrants gain the chance to win a share of more than $22,000 in prize money to be put toward musical equipment and tuition. Prizes are not limited to individuals this year - schools have the opportunity to win the newly introduced "Song writing School of the Year" Award. The winning school will receive $5000 for the resources to put toward starting or improving their school music program. This aligns with the charity's belief that no child should be deprived of access to a valuable music education. Entries are open now and close at 5pm August 29. For full terms and conditions and to enter, visit www.acmf.com.au Entry to the competition is free - however, for the charity to continue bringing music education programs, instruments, and creative initiatives to disadvantaged children across Australia - a donation of any amount before entering is greatly appreciated. Donations can be made at: www.acmf.com.au "Songwriting is a highly creative process. We must encourage creativity and imagination in children so that they can reach their full potential," said ACMF founder Don Spencer. Did you know the Manning River Times is now offering breaking news alerts and a weekly email newsletter? Keep up-to-date with all the local news: sign up here.
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Opportunity for young songwriters
Australian Children's Music Foundation founder Don Spencer encourages young people to enter the annual song writing competition.
The Australian Children's Music Foundation (ACMF) 17th Annual National Song Writing Competition is now accepting entries via: www.acmf.com.au
Open to school-aged children in grades four to 12, entrants gain the chance to win a share of more than $22,000 in prize money to be put toward musical equipment and tuition.
Prizes are not limited to individuals this year - schools have the opportunity to win the newly introduced "Song writing School of the Year" Award.
The winning school will receive $5000 for the resources to put toward starting or improving their school music program.
This aligns with the charity's belief that no child should be deprived of access to a valuable music education.
Entries are open now and close at 5pm August 29.
For full terms and conditions and to enter, visit www.acmf.com.au
Entry to the competition is free - however, for the charity to continue bringing music education programs, instruments, and creative initiatives to disadvantaged children across Australia - a donation of any amount before entering is greatly appreciated.
Donations can be made at: www.acmf.com.au
"Songwriting is a highly creative process. We must encourage creativity and imagination in children so that they can reach their full potential," said ACMF founder Don Spencer.
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Tag Archives: Zahra Halane
by yahyabirt1968 | July 17, 2015 · 10:40 am
Channel referrals are shrouded in too much secrecy – we need better figures, and more transparency and accountability
Yesterday Richard Wheatstone of the Daily Mirror offered some new and alarming statistics about referrals under the government’s Channel policy, the government’s main counter-terrorism instrument. It is officially described as a multiagency approach to identify and then support individuals being drawn into terrorism, in which the police play a central role. From April 2012 to April 2015, the article “More than 900 British children identified as potential extremists at risk of radicalisation from ISIS and terror groups” (16 July 2015) revealed that 912 children have been referred to Channel.
An easily missable word in the article’s title is the qualifying adjective “potential”, but it is crucial not to skip over it. The official Channel guidance advises that, if in doubt about the merits of a case of “extremism”, the designated professional in a statutory public body (e.g. a school or a hospital) should refer it to a Channel Panel as a matter of precaution and not refer the case to another agency, e.g. social services, in the first instance. An earlier set of Channel referral figures from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) that covers the early years of the policy (2006-13) shows that four-fifths of referrals were rejected by Channel Panels (analysed here). Assuming that this proportion has not changed radically in the last two years, it is therefore fair to conclude that this article is scaremongering. Of course we all have legitimate concerns about how we could best stop serious cases like those of Talha Asmal (Dewsbury) or Zahra and Salma Halane (Manchester) happening again in future but Wheatstone’s failure to mention that 80% of referrals are rejected because they do not raise any serious concerns means that this piece is grossly misleading.
Secondly, the piece features a regional breakdown for referrals and uses these figures to provide a macabre “extremism” league table of sorts. (Channel Referrals 2012-15 (Under 18s*): North West 191, South East 151, London 126, North East 120, West Midlands 117, East Midlands 106, Wales 41, East of England 53, South West 13.) However, keeping the principles of transparency and public accountability in mind, I think they tell us very little unless these gross figures are accompanied by the referrals rejection rate in each region, or, better still, for each Channel Panel. It is also important to know what kinds of extremism we are looking at in each region: Daesh (ISIS, ISIL, or IS), far right, etc., to put this regional breakdown into a proper context; otherwise, it is erroneous to make a quick assumption about Muslim terror hotspots as Wheatstone does. This alarmist theme of local terror hotspots has been picked up and run in similar terms by regional outlets such as the Birmingham Mail, Wales Online or the Chronicle (Newcastle).
Thirdly, Wheatstone says that “the majority of the cases” relate to what he refers to as “Islamic extremism”. He does not provide a figure. In the most recent figures in the public domain for 2012-13, 57% of those referred were Muslim. Has this figure changed substantially or not? Are we still looking at a simple majority in the average rate for the last three years or not?
Finally, some broad trends can be discerned by comparing the aggregated sets of figures, although they are awkward to work with. The two sets of figures overlap by a year and the age breakdown also differs between them. For the period 2006-13, children aged 13-16 accounted for 645 referrals out of 2653 or 24% of all cases. For the period 2012-15, children aged 12-17* accounted for 834 referrals out of 2335 or 36% of all cases. For the period 2006-13, children aged 12 or under made up 4% of all cases (113 out of 2653); for 2012-15, children under 12 also made up 4% of all cases (84 out of 2335).
Despite the awkwardness in comparing these two sets of figures, perhaps a few tentative observations are in order. In the last few years, the numbers of teenagers being referred has increased somewhat, while the numbers of under-12s being referred has remained roughly the same. Between 2006-13, a fifth of referrals came from schools, so It is reasonable to assume that, with the growing number of teenage cases, the percentage of school referrals is likely to have increased in the last two years. Since the introduction of the statutory Prevent duty in July 2015 it is likely to climb higher still, particularly when our kids go back to school in September after the summer holidays.
To conclude, whatever one’s overall assessment of Channel, I would hope that everyone might agree that it is shrouded in far too much secrecy, something that becomes ever more apparent as it grows in size, reach and impact. It is in the public interest therefore that proper information about referrals, that includes a detailed breakdown of rejction rates, region, age, religious affiliation, gender, and kinds of “extremism”, is regularly released into the public domain in the interests of transparency and public accountability. (Comparing “apples” and “oranges”, as this exercise in analysing sporadic information released under Freedom of Information requests shows, is obviously limited and unsatisfactory.) Clear and comprehensive information would allow for the proper democratic scrutiny of Prevent’s impact and performance from civil society groups, academia, the Home Office Affairs Select Committee or the still-to-be-initiated (according to one appointed member, Lord Carlyle, on the radio the other week) Prevent Oversight Board, the government’s own internal monitoring mechanism. Otherwise, how else are we to know for sure that referrals under Channel are either proportionate, fair, effective, non-prejudicial, or (ultimately) justified? Bland assurances from politicians, the police and Prevent industry insiders will not suffice. In a democracy, one rightfully expects much more.
* Assuming that Wheatstone is referring to the legal definition of a child in England and Wales as being someone under 18 years of age, when he uses terms like “children” and “kids”.
Filed under Education, Ghuluw, Terrorism, UK Politics
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Novel of the week
Godsend
by John Wray
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26)
John Wray’s remarkable fifth novel is “a literary endeavor boldly out of step with most contemporary literary impulses,” said James Wood in The New Yorker. It follows a disaffected 18-year-old Californian as her interest in Islam draws her to a madrasa in Pakistan and then to a militants’ training camp in Afghanistan, but it doesn’t press the issue of why she becomes radicalized. Nor does it insist that she grows emotionally as time passes. Instead, she submits—to Allah, and to the habits of religious devotion. And as she does, the novel itself “comes of age, steadily deepening and astounding as it develops.” Aden, knowing that a woman wouldn’t be allowed on the disciple’s path she seeks, disguises herself as a man. She’s a sympathetic character, but “she’s also a bit of a blank,” said Dwight Garner in The New York Times. Though I never felt as if I could say I knew the heroine, Wray held my attention, and his novel “builds to a shattering, balefully vivid ending.” This is “a significant literary performance.” ■
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Overview of Department of Biological Sciences at IISER Mohali
The Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (the IISERs) are a group of institutes set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) of the Government of India (GOI), to facilitate high quality science education and research in the country. The first two IISERs were set up in Pune and Kolkata in 2006. The IISER at Mohali (IISER-M) began functioning in 2007. Two more IISERs were set up at Bhopal and Trivandrum in 2008. After functioning out of a transit campus located in Chandigarh for several years, IISER-M moved into its own campus fully during the summer of 2013.
In June,2012,theinstituteorganizeditselfintoseparate departments to facilitate more effective functioning, given the growth of faculty numbers that had taken place in all subject areas during previous years. However, despite this fractionation, IISER-M’s original intent of fostering inter-disciplinary teaching and research has remained unchanged. Thus, research and teaching in the Department of Biological Sciences include all aspects of classical and modern biology, as well as every allied science that relates either nominally, or intimately, to any biological question, or pursuit.
In its educational aspects, IISER-M is modeled on the highly successful Indian Institutes of Technology (the IITs). In its research-related aspects, IISER-M is modelled on the Indian Institute of Science (the IISc), Bangalore. All five IISERs were originally set up to facilitate scientific research and teaching in an environment conducive to (and supportive of) routine, everyday interactions between undergraduate, or graduate, students, and researchers who are still extremely active and at the leading edges of their individual disciplines. This particular mode of functioning is IISER-M’s main leitmotif. It is also the main leitmotif of the Department of Biological Sciences, which currently has strengthof over 20 regular faculty members, over 80 Ph.D. students, and a total strength of over 250 including all students, postdocs, staff, and project assistants. The Department participates in three academic programs: the Integrated 5- year BS-MS program, the Integrated MS-Ph.D. program, which takes 4-6 years, and the PhD program which ideally takes a maximum of 5 years to complete. During the 5-year BS-MS program, students spend two years learning all science subjects, before choosing to specialize. Thus, although the Department aids in the teaching of the first two years, it becomes a real stakeholder in the BS-MS program mainly during the final three years of specialization, which include one (final) year of research. The Integrated MS-PhD program is offered only to select students who have completed their Bachelors’ degrees’ elsewhere. The PhD program consists of two semesters of coursework and lab exposure, followed by about four years of research.
The department manages to combine (and recombine) formidable strengths in many different areas of the biological sciences, including microbial and eukaryotic, cellular, molecular and organismal biology, biochemistry, and biophysics. As with everything else in this world, this department too is a piece of work that is ever under construction, and we intend to keep it that way-dynamic, sensitive, competent, diverse, responsive, colorful, joyous, exciting, inspiring, well-fitted-out, and populated with students and faculty who love to cooperate and create something higher, even as each individual in the department continues to plough his, or her, own lonely furrow.
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Sierra Leone News: US Embassy donates $800,000 USD worth of supplies to 34 Military Hospital
The United States Embassy in Freetown has donated two large shipping containers full of supplies and equipment worth $800,000 US dollars to the 34 Military Hospital in Freetown. At the ceremony unveiling the donated materials on Tuesday outside the hospital, speakers included Chief of Defense Staff Lt. General John Milton, Lt. Colonel Kimberly Lee, Defense Attaché with the US military and others.
Lee praised the competence and responsiveness of the 34 Military Hospital’s ebola treatment unit and thanked Colonel Dr Foday Sahr, Commanding Officer of the Joint Medical and his staff on behalf of the US Ambassador, who was not able to attend that day.
“From our standpoint when we go ‘where is the best investment to help Sierra Leone to help themselves,’ it is definitely Dr Sahr and his folks,” Lee said.
It was pouring with rain outside the hospital as at least two dozen military personnel in camouflage uniforms came to see the two newly opened metal shipping containers.
The containers, Milton said, “will go a long way in improving our health here, not only for the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces but in the community that we live.”
Milton told of how President Koroma directed him to improve the 34 Military Hospital, and Milton said the donated supplies would help in this effort. “I am the happiest man here today,” he said.
The CDS noted that this isn’t the only help the 34 Military Hospital has received from the US Embassy. The embassy also sponsored officers to be trained abroad, including in Ghana and Kenya.
“This is a clear manifestation of the good working relationship between the Embassy of the United States and the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces,” Milton said.
Among the items donated were an incubator, wheel chairs, oxygen machines, office chairs, hospital beds, pediatric beds, theater lights and more, Sahr said. Two years ago, he said, the hospital received two containers of similar supplies.
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Jacob Vargas – A Mexican In Hollywood
By Adelante on October 1, 2010 Articles
It seems that Mexicans are starting to garner more popularity nowadays what with the richest man in the world being Mexican and now the most beautiful woman in the world, Miss Universe, being Mexican as well. So as a proud Mexican myself I am honored to bring you one of Hollywood’s hardest working Mexicans in the entertainment industry.
Jacob Vargas, born in Michoacán, has been a working actor since the 80’s and has had minor parts in some very high profile films such as American Me, Traffic, and Jarhead and of course who can forget him in some of our favorite Latino themed favorites such as Mi Vida Loca, My Family, and Selena. The kind of films that make us proud of being frijoleros. But now the married actor and father of a six year old daughter Vargas will try to scare us in his latest film Devil. The title says it all. While in Miami to promote the film Jacob calls me in New York so that I can bring you guys in California what you need to know about el diablo.
Samara: The richest man in the world is Mexican and so is the new Miss Universe. How does it feel to be Mexican nowaways?
Jacob: Wow! Great sense of pride. It’s awesome. So now the Mexicanos are taking over. You got Machete, the first Mexican action-hero with Danny Trejo. So that’s great. I was born in Mexico, actually, I was born in Michoacán. And my parents came to the U.S. when I was a year old so I was raised in L.A. more in the valley, I was raised in Pacoima, California.
Samara: You’re from LA and you know there have been many little earthquakes lately. Do you think the big one is finally coming?
Jacob: You know what? I mean I don’t know… I’ve been through the Northridge earthquake and that was pretty big. We survived that. Do you mean the big one when they say California is going to go back into the ocean big? Oh man I don’t even wanna think about that. You know? Who knows? I really don’t know. I hope not. We still got a few more years in California. I try not to think about that.
Samara: How do you choose the movies that you are in?
Jacob: You know I’d say most of the time they kind of choose me, in a way. I just happen to be very fortunate to work with some great directors and to do some really good projects. But also, you know, to be honest with you what I really try to do with these characters is really bring dimension to the writing and different layers to it. And I think that’s what I try to bring to every character I play regardless of the project. And so I find that because of that I’ve been fortunate to be working with some really good directors and producers.
Samara: Speaking of great producers/directors tell us how it was working for M. Night Shyamalan?
Jacob: M. Night was great. I tell you. I’ve always been a fan of his films. You know The Sixth Sense blew me away, that was the most amazing film ever. I never saw the twist coming at the end. I had to watch it like five times. You know huge fan of Unbreakable, you know Signs. So when I found out that I get a chance to work with him I was really excited. And he turned out to be such a nice guy. I expected some very kind of… you know… spiritual, wise, Yoda type character. And he seemed to be just a normal, regular guy. You know? So it was awesome. And at the same time it’s great cause he lets the actor do their thing. He wasn’t really in the way at all. He cast you because I know what you can do and I’m just gonna let you go, and you do your thing. So there was no real direction.
Samara: Does he make a cameo appearance in this film?
Jacob: You know what? In this one he doesn’t. We shot a cameo with him but for some reason he just figured it was better if he cut it out. I think he didn’t want to distract from… you know… cause he didn’t direct this. He produced it and it was his idea, it was his story but he brought two new directors to interpret his ideas. He has a trilogy called The Night Chronicles. This is the first of three. So I think he didn’t want to disctract from what he was trying to do and he thought better if he just removed his cameo.
Samara: Are you a horror movie fanatic?
Jacob: (insert joke that I missed) lol I don’t know if I’m a fanatic but I am a fan and I do like horror movies. I like certain kinds of horror movies. I like like The Omen, The Seventh Sign, you know the supernatural, The Shinning. You know, those kind of horror movies.
Samara: Tell us about your latest movie Devil?
Jacob: Well, it’s a supernatual thriller about five strangers that get stuck in an elevator and one of them is the devil. My character is Ramirez who’s the security guard at the office building where the story takes place. My character is very spiritual, he has a lot of faith. Grew up very, very religious and his mother would tell him stories about the devil and the past. And so when he realizes what he’s witnessing is the phenomenon called The Devil’s Meeting, which is then documented through out time and history when the devil brings people together to torture them and take their souls. And you know he just happens to… because of his past, his background he knows this is what’s occuring. And he tries to convince everybody that the devil is in the elevator but nobody pays attention to him and they think he’s crazy and he has to really kind of find this inner strength cause he believes he can help combat the devil.
Samara: There’s never been a movie called Devil. Why do you think this movie deserves this title?
Jacob: Uhmm… whats funny is that it used to be called Elevator so I think because they didn’t want the people to go. “OK, the twist is that is the devil.” They wanted people to know of the bat look it’s the devil. This is about the devil there’s no question that the story is about the devil. And whatever you think the devil is.
Samara: Do you believe in the devil and hell?
Jacob: I do. And you know I was brought up Catholic so I have to believe in it. I grew up in a very religious family. You know hence the name Jacob. My whole family has biblical names. We all went to bible school and the whole thing. Now do I believe that it’s a man in a red cape with horns? No. But I do believe there is some evil in the world and there is a dark force. And we have to fight that with positivity and bring light to it.
Samara: There are people on the net that claim that many of todays big famous artists are devil worshippers. Do you believe that?
Jacob: You know what. I don’t believe they’re devil worshippers. I do believe that there are like secret socities if that’s what they mean. It’s like fraternaties and what have you. You have all these people in power with a lot of power and money and they kind of want to hang out with people with power and money and they form these secret societies to… I do believe in that. And if that’s what they mean devil worshipping? You know? Is money the devil? There’s so many ways to interpret that.
Samara: Should we believe everything the media tells us?
Jacob: Oh of course not. No I think there’s always three sides of the story. There’s his, hers, and the thruth. You know and I think the media has an agenda. The media has a certain goal in mind and so they do the angle they wanna do and there’s so many levels and layers to the truth. Then its our job to look beyond and not just take information at face value.
Samara: What are your thoughts on fame?
Jacob: Oh wow! It’s a funny thing. I think it can be a great tool if it’s used in a positive way. Like a lot of people use their fame and celebrity to do great things. To raise awareness to causes and to bring awareness to situations. Like people raising money for Haiti, which is great. And then there’s other people that just abuse it. So, I think with anything there is good and there’s bad. Power can be used in many different ways.
www.jacobvargas.com
Amor Vida Salud Spanish
Amor Vida June: El amor de padre – el rechazo paterno
Amor Vida June: A father’s love-a father’s rejection
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Environmental impact of wind power includes effect on wildlife, but can be mitigated if proper monitoring and mitigation strategies are implemented.[76] Thousands of birds, including rare species, have been killed by the blades of wind turbines,[77] though wind turbines contribute relatively insignificantly to anthropogenic avian mortality. For every bird killed by a wind turbine in the US, nearly 500,000 are killed by each of feral cats and buildings.[78] In comparison, conventional coal fired generators contribute significantly more to bird mortality, by incineration when caught in updrafts of smoke stacks and by poisoning with emissions byproducts (including particulates and heavy metals downwind of flue gases). Further, marine life is affected by water intakes of steam turbine cooling towers (heat exchangers) for nuclear and fossil fuel generators, by coal dust deposits in marine ecosystems (e.g. damaging Australia's Great Barrier Reef) and by water acidification from combustion monoxides.
As suppliers of inverters for turbines good, bad, and just plain ugly, we have pretty well seen it all when it comes to turbine failure. We can tell you unequivocally that you get what you pay for. Depending on your sense of adventure that can be good or bad; if you plan to go cheap, plan on (you) being the manufacturer’s R&D department and test center. Being a really good do-it-yourselfer with an understanding of wind turbines, alternators, and all things electric will come in very handy too. Just in case you do not believe us, you can read about it in this Green Power Talk thread. There are more threads with similar content on the forum, just browse around a little.
There is more trouble with rated power: It only happens at a “rated wind speed”. And the trouble with that is there is no standard for rated wind speed. Since the energy in the wind increases with the cube of the wind speed, it makes a very large difference if rated power is measured at 10 m/s (22 mph), or 12 m/s (27 mph). For example, that 6 meter wind turbine from the previous section could reasonably be expected to produce 5.2 kW at 10 m/s, while it will do 9 kW at 12 m/s!
So does it make a difference what type of electrical generator we can use to produce wind power. The simple answer is both Yes and No, as it all depends upon the type of system and application you want. The low voltage DC output from a generator or older style dynamo can be used to charge batteries while the higher AC sinusoidal output from an alternator can be connected directly to the local grid.
Subsequently, Spain, Italy, Greece—that enjoyed an early success with domestic solar-thermal installations for hot water needs—and France introduced feed-in tariffs. None have replicated the programmed decrease of FIT in new contracts though, making the German incentive relatively less and less attractive compared to other countries. The French and Greek FIT offer a high premium (EUR 0.55/kWh) for building integrated systems. California, Greece, France and Italy have 30–50% more insolation than Germany making them financially more attractive. The Greek domestic "solar roof" programme (adopted in June 2009 for installations up to 10 kW) has internal rates of return of 10–15% at current commercial installation costs, which, furthermore, is tax free.
Besides getting a working product, the one measure you are after as a small wind turbine owner is how much electrical energy it will produce for your location. Hopefully by now you know the annual average wind speed for the height that you are planning to put your turbine at, and you have selected a site with little turbulence. Forget about the manufacturer’s claims; it turns out that the best predictors for turbine energy production are the diameter and average wind speed. Here is an equation that will calculate approximate annual average energy production for a grid-tie horizontal axis turbine of reasonable efficiency:
Our latest innovation in the Industrial Internet era, The Digital Wind Farm, is making our turbines smarter and more connected than ever before. A dynamic, connected and adaptable wind energy ecosystem, the Digital Wind Farm pairs our newest turbines with a digital infrastructure, allowing customers to connect, monitor, predict and optimize unit and site performance.
This items including : 2pcs 400W wind turbine with grid tie controller ,2pcs waterproof grid tie inverter ! Why Off Grid Systems Should Include Wind? Wind provides power at night. Wind is strongest during the winter months when solar resources are limited. Wind provides power during poor weather conditions. Air density is higher in colder weather and maximizes power production.
A wind turbine is made up of two major components and having looked at one of them, the rotor blade design in the previous tutorial, we can now look at the other, the Wind Turbine Generator or WTG’s which is the electrical machine used to generate the electricity. A low rpm electrical generator is used for converting the mechanical rotational power produced by the winds energy into usable electricity to supply our homes and is at the heart of any wind power system.
Interest in recycling blades varies in different markets and depends on the waste legislation and local economics. A challenge in recycling blades is related to the composite material, which is made of a thermosetting matrix and glass fibers or a combination of glass and carbon fibers. Thermosetting matrix cannot be remolded to form new composites. So the options are either to reuse the blade and the composite material elements as they are found in the blade or to transform the composite material into a new source of material. In Germany, wind turbine blades are commercially recycled as part of an alternative fuel mix for a cement factory.
I wouldn’t consider myself a creative type. Never painted a picture, never felt confident in color or fabric choices. But I did get a real creativity boost living off-grid in northern New Mexico, raising children on one income in a home with caught water, gardening at 7600 feet in a climate that gets REALLY cold. We built a house called an earthship from recycled materials and earth.
Throughout the country, more than half of all U.S. electricity customers now have an option to purchase some type of green power product from a retail electricity provider. Roughly one-quarter of the nation's utilities offer green power programs to customers, and voluntary retail sales of renewable energy in the United States totaled more than 12 billion kilowatt-hours in 2006, a 40% increase over the previous year.
By 2040, renewable energy is projected to equal coal and natural gas electricity generation. Several jurisdictions, including Denmark, Germany, the state of South Australia and some US states have achieved high integration of variable renewables. For example, in 2015 wind power met 42% of electricity demand in Denmark, 23.2% in Portugal and 15.5% in Uruguay. Interconnectors enable countries to balance electricity systems by allowing the import and export of renewable energy. Innovative hybrid systems have emerged between countries and regions.[27]
Plant energy is produced by crops specifically grown for use as fuel that offer high biomass output per hectare with low input energy. Some examples of these plants are wheat, which typically yield 7.5–8 tonnes of grain per hectare, and straw, which typically yield 3.5–5 tonnes per hectare in the UK.[68] The grain can be used for liquid transportation fuels while the straw can be burned to produce heat or electricity. Plant biomass can also be degraded from cellulose to glucose through a series of chemical treatments, and the resulting sugar can then be used as a first generation biofuel.
“Climate Change Helped Make California a Tinder Box for its Record-Setting Wildfires” • Camp Fire, which is devastating Sierra Nevada foothills, has become the most destructive wildfire in California’s history. By the evening of November 10, it had scorched 105,000 acres of land and killed 23 people, with more than 100 people still unaccounted for. [Quartz]
Coal is our dirtiest source of energy. It releases more harmful pollutants into the atmosphere than any other energy source and produces a quarter of the nation’s global warming emissions. If we are going to effectively reduce air pollution and address global warming, we need to shut down the oldest, dirtiest coal plants—and not build new ones to replace them.
Wind turbines do work; put them in nice, smooth air and their energy production is quite predictable (we will get to predicting it a bit further on in this story). The honest manufacturers do not lie or exaggerate, their turbines really can work as advertised in smooth, laminar airflow. However, put that same turbine on a 40 feet tower and even if the annual average wind speed is still 5 m/s at that height, its energy production will fall far short of what you would predict for that value. How short is anybody’s guess, that is part of the point; it is impossible to predict the effect of turbulence other than that it robs the energy production potential of any wind turbine. Roof tops, or other locations on a house, make for poor turbine sites. They are usually very turbulent and on top of that their average wind speeds are usually very low.
In 2010, the International Energy Agency predicted that global solar PV capacity could reach 3,000 GW or 11% of projected global electricity generation by 2050—enough to generate 4,500 TWh of electricity.[40] Four years later, in 2014, the agency projected that, under its "high renewables" scenario, solar power could supply 27% of global electricity generation by 2050 (16% from PV and 11% from CSP).[2]
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that supports the organizational procurement of renewable electricity by offering expert advice, technical support, tools and resources. This can help organizations lower the transaction costs of buying renewable power, reduce carbon footprint, and communicate its leadership to key stakeholders.[88]
In the case of crystalline silicon modules, the solder material, that joins together the copper strings of the cells, contains about 36 percent of lead (Pb). Moreover, the paste used for screen printing front and back contacts contains traces of Pb and sometimes Cd as well. It is estimated that about 1,000 metric tonnes of Pb have been used for 100 gigawatts of c-Si solar modules. However, there is no fundamental need for lead in the solder alloy.[141]
Even if you can’t directly purchase and install a solar system because you rent your home, have inadequate solar resources, or lack financing, you may still benefit from switching to solar electricity, and there numerous business models that make solar easier, cheaper, and more accessible. Options such as community or shared solar programs, solar leases, and power-purchase agreements allow millions of households to take advantage of solar energy. Learn about the various ways you can go solar.
You have read this far, and still want to install a wind turbine? Then it is time for a reality check: Most (some would say all) installed small wind turbines do abysmally poor in comparison with their energy production numbers as calculated above. That is the message from a number of studies, usually on behalf of governments that subsidize wind turbines. Do not just take our word for this, read it for yourself:
Electricity for my off-grid cabin comes from solar and wind power stored in a bank of four 6-volt golf cart batteries wired for a 12-volt system. A charge controller and battery minder keep my system from under- or overcharging. The whole shebang cost me less than $1,000, and I have lights, fans, a television and stereo, refrigeration, and a disco ball that goes up for special occasions.
This sets sustainable energy apart from other renewable energy terminology such as alternative energy by focusing on the ability of an energy source to continue providing energy. Sustainable energy can produce some pollution of the environment, as long as it is not sufficient to prohibit heavy use of the source for an indefinite amount of time. Sustainable energy is also distinct from low-carbon energy, which is sustainable only in the sense that it does not add to the CO2 in the atmosphere.
The PV industry is beginning to adopt levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) as the unit of cost. The electrical energy generated is sold in units of kilowatt-hours (kWh). As a rule of thumb, and depending on the local insolation, 1 watt-peak of installed solar PV capacity generates about 1 to 2 kWh of electricity per year. This corresponds to a capacity factor of around 10–20%. The product of the local cost of electricity and the insolation determines the break even point for solar power. The International Conference on Solar Photovoltaic Investments, organized by EPIA, has estimated that PV systems will pay back their investors in 8 to 12 years.[73] As a result, since 2006 it has been economical for investors to install photovoltaics for free in return for a long term power purchase agreement. Fifty percent of commercial systems in the United States were installed in this manner in 2007 and over 90% by 2009.[74]
Solar contractors face many decisions when it comes to finding the best solar design. One important consideration is determining whether to use module-level power electronics (microinverters or DC optimizers). Once costly specialty products, module-level power electronics have made great strides in the last decade and are rapidly growing in popularity. And there’s good reason for…
The life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of solar power are in the range of 22 to 46 gram (g) per kilowatt-hour (kWh) depending on if solar thermal or solar PV is being analyzed, respectively. With this potentially being decreased to 15 g/kWh in the future.[121] For comparison (of weighted averages), a combined cycle gas-fired power plant emits some 400–599 g/kWh,[122] an oil-fired power plant 893 g/kWh,[122] a coal-fired power plant 915–994 g/kWh[123] or with carbon capture and storage some 200 g/kWh, and a geothermal high-temp. power plant 91–122 g/kWh.[122] The life cycle emission intensity of hydro, wind and nuclear power are lower than solar's as of 2011 as published by the IPCC, and discussed in the article Life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions of energy sources. Similar to all energy sources were their total life cycle emissions primarily lay in the construction and transportation phase, the switch to low carbon power in the manufacturing and transportation of solar devices would further reduce carbon emissions. BP Solar owns two factories built by Solarex (one in Maryland, the other in Virginia) in which all of the energy used to manufacture solar panels is produced by solar panels. A 1-kilowatt system eliminates the burning of approximately 170 pounds of coal, 300 pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere, and saves up to 105 gallons of water consumption monthly.[124]
Thermal storage technologies allow heat or cold to be stored for periods of time ranging from hours or overnight to interseasonal, and can involve storage of sensible energy (i.e. by changing the temperature of a medium) or latent energy (i.e. through phase changes of a medium, such between water and slush or ice). Short-term thermal storages can be used for peak-shaving in district heating or electrical distribution systems. Kinds of renewable or alternative energy sources that can be enabled include natural energy (e.g. collected via solar-thermal collectors, or dry cooling towers used to collect winter's cold), waste energy (e.g. from HVAC equipment, industrial processes or power plants), or surplus energy (e.g. as seasonally from hydropower projects or intermittently from wind farms). The Drake Landing Solar Community (Alberta, Canada) is illustrative. borehole thermal energy storage allows the community to get 97% of its year-round heat from solar collectors on the garage roofs, which most of the heat collected in summer.[58][59] Types of storages for sensible energy include insulated tanks, borehole clusters in substrates ranging from gravel to bedrock, deep aquifers, or shallow lined pits that are insulated on top. Some types of storage are capable of storing heat or cold between opposing seasons (particularly if very large), and some storage applications require inclusion of a heat pump. Latent heat is typically stored in ice tanks or what are called phase-change materials (PCMs).
Electricity produced by wind generators can be used directly, as in water pumping applications, or it can be stored in batteries for later use. Wind generators can be used alone, or they may be used as part of a hybrid system, in which their output is combined with that of solar panels, and /or a fossil fuel generator. Hybrid systems are especially useful for winter backup of home systems where cloudy weather and windy conditions occur simultaneously.
✅ FEATURES: Integrated automatic braking system to protect from sudden and high wind speed. Easy DIY installation methods with all materials provided. Can be used in conjunction with solar panels. MPPT Maximum power point tracking built into the wind turbine generator. Made with high quality Polypropylene and Glass Fiber material with a weather resistant seal.
The early development of solar technologies starting in the 1860s was driven by an expectation that coal would soon become scarce. Charles Fritts installed the world's first rooftop photovoltaic solar array, using 1%-efficient selenium cells, on a New York City roof in 1884.[28] However, development of solar technologies stagnated in the early 20th century in the face of the increasing availability, economy, and utility of coal and petroleum.[29] In 1974 it was estimated that only six private homes in all of North America were entirely heated or cooled by functional solar power systems.[30] The 1973 oil embargo and 1979 energy crisis caused a reorganization of energy policies around the world and brought renewed attention to developing solar technologies.[31][32] Deployment strategies focused on incentive programs such as the Federal Photovoltaic Utilization Program in the US and the Sunshine Program in Japan. Other efforts included the formation of research facilities in the United States (SERI, now NREL), Japan (NEDO), and Germany (Fraunhofer–ISE).[33] Between 1970 and 1983 installations of photovoltaic systems grew rapidly, but falling oil prices in the early 1980s moderated the growth of photovoltaics from 1984 to 1996.
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No: 137, 14 May 2018, Press Release Regarding The Decision Of The Us Administration To Move Its Embassy In Tel Aviv To Jerusalem
We strongly condemn the decision of the US Administration to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem violating international law and all relevant UN Resolutions. We reiterate that this action is legally null and void. We emphasize that such a step which disregards the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people will not serve peace, security and stability in the region.
The resolutions on Jerusalem adopted at the Extraordinary Islamic Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation held on 13 December 2017 as well as at the United Nations General Assembly on 21 December 2017 demonstrate that this illegitimate step taken by the US is rejected by the international community. By insisting on this attitude, the US Administration has damaged the basis for a solution of the most basic issue in the Middle East. The US Administration will be fully responsible for the repurcussions of the said decision which runs the risk of eroding the parameters established during the peace process. We curse the massacre carried out by Israeli security forces encouraged by this step on the Palestinians participating in peaceful demonstrations.
Neither regional nor global peace and stability will be viable unless the Palestinian question is settled through a lasting and just solution and unfair treatments towards Palestinian people cease.
Turkey will continue to work with the responsible members of the international community to revive the peace process on a sound basis and build a just, comprehensive and sustainable peace in the region.
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Art Technology Group
Art Technology Group (ATG) was an independent Internet technology company specializing in eCommerce software and on-demand optimization applications until its acquisition by Oracle on January 5, 2011. ATG continues to be based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and operates under its own name as a subsidiary of Oracle.
Art-Tech UAV
Art-Tech UAVs are Chinese UAVs developed by Shenzhen Art-Tech R/C Hobby Co., Ltd. (深圳市艾特航模股份有限公司), a firm that traditionally in the model airplane business but recently expanded its business to UAV arena based on its success of remotely controlled model airplanes.
Art, Technology, and Culture Lecture Series
The Art, Technology, and Culture (ATC) Lecture Series at UC Berkeley is an internationally respected forum for ideas that imagine the future — a window into creative minds that inspire the next generation of innovators.
List of art media
Art media is term that can have overlapping meanings, but commonly refers to either broad types of art (such as painting, drawing, sculpture), or, perhaps more commonly, the material used by an artist, composer or designer to create a work of art.
Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.
The globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus), also known as French artichoke and green artichoke in the USA, is a variety of a species of thistle cultivated as a food.
The Art Teacher
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Artech Digital Entertainment
Artech Digital Entertainment, Ltd. (stylized as ARTECH studios) was a video game developer formed in 1982 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Arteche Group
Arteche is a multinational corporation headquartered in Mungia, Basque Country (Spain). Arteche develops equipment and solutions for the electric power industry, focused on generation, transmission and distribution.
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Carbonic anhydrase XIV, isoform CRA_dcDNA FLJ77981, highly similar to Homo sapiens carbonic anhydrase 14cDNA, FLJ96529, Homo sapiens carbonic anhydrase XIV (CA14), mRNA (68)
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Christian Life Magazine /Feature Story/January 2018
Nick Tullier: A Pathway Paved by Prayer
Feature StoryJanuary 2018
# N I C K T U L L I E R S T R O N G
Nick Tullier:
A Pathway
Paved by Prayer
by Susan Brown
I know the power of prayer. There’s no doubt in our minds. When people gather, wherever, to pray for a common cause, it’s heard. And we have the proof. Is Nick a miracle? Well, yes. I mean, by everything that science told the doctors, Nick shouldn’t be here. -James Tullier, Nick Tullier’s father
If there is one lesson the Tullier family has learned over the past 18 months, it is that nothing is impossible with God. The 24-hour vigil over their son – that began with the 2016 fatal shooting of three law enforcement officers and wounding of three others – is bathed in the prayers and support of well-wishers from across the globe. They have learned to expect the unexpected.
“Nick did lose some brain mass. He’s got bullet fragments through his brain and on his brain stem,” said Nick’s father, James. “They had told us in the beginning he wouldn’t live 24 hours, then 48 hours, then five days.”
James and his wife, Mary, refused to believe the prognosis. “Mary told the doctor, ‘No, you don’t understand, this is not your decision. This decision is between God and Nick.’”
“About two weeks before we left Baton Rouge, the neurosurgeon caught Mary in the hall at Our Lady of the Lake and said, ‘I understand now. It never was in my hands,’” James said. “A higher power was guiding him.”
“Anoxic brain injury affects the whole brain. People usually don’t remember what happened, but the fact that Nick does is another miracle,” said Nick’s fiancé Danielle McNicholl. “He should not be able to breathe on his own or regulate his temperature or swallow, but he can, which is also a miracle. There are just so many delicate things he shouldn’t be able to do, and there’s no medical explanation for it.” And then, there is his smile. “It’s contagious,” Danielle said. “You can’t not smile when you see him smile.”
The journey toward healing is a journey of faith. “I grew up going to a Catholic church, Immaculate Conception in Denham, and Nick had questions. A lot of people do. I always had religion in my life, but it was what you’re supposed to do,” Danielle said. “I would pray to God when something bad happened, but I wouldn’t say that I really had a real deep connection before. This has changed all of us. It’s changed his parents; it’s changed me.”
“I blame my mom for this, actually,” she said with a smile. “It’s sort of our little joke. Because the morning this happened, she was at church with my stepdad, and she was praying, ‘Please God, bring my kids back to church, bring them back to prayer.’”
“I’ve never been a non-believer, but I’ve been from one end of the spectrum to the other,” James said. “I was raised Catholic and Mary was raised Baptist.” At his lowest point, he ended up in the chapel at Our Lady of the Lake where he made – not a bargain – but a promise to God to promote Him and promote prayer. “I talk to Him often, multiple times a day, multiple times a night. I ask for direction and help to keep that promise.”
“Nick did lose some brain mass. He’s got bullet fragments through his brain and on his brain stem,” said Nick’s father, James. “They had told us in the beginning he wouldn’t live 24 hours, then 48 hours, then five days.” James and his wife, Mary, refused to believe the prognosis. “Mary told the doctor, ‘No, you don’t understand, this is not your decision. This decision is between god and Nick.’”
As they celebrate each small step, the family is amazed at the way God places people in their path. “So many people were praying for Nick at this time,” James said. A church in Thailand asked for details to direct their prayers toward specific injuries. The family of former TV star Steve Irwin, owners of the Australia Zoo, sent a photograph of the entire staff wearing Pray for Nick bracelets. Tullier was contacted by praying people from the Philippines, Sweden, England, France, Germany, Italy and across the U.S. Father Charbel El-Jamhoury, pastor of St. Agnes Church, flew back to Baton Rouge from overseas to pray over Nick every night. The Tullier family still receives messages of support each day.
When memorial services were held for the three officers fatally wounded in the attack – Brad Garafola, Matthew Gerald and Montrell Jackson – at least two officers representing every state and Canada took time to visit. “At almost 3 in the morning there was a line of law enforcement officers in ICU,” James said. They would come in very formally and walk to the side of Nick, pop to attention and salute him. And every one of them asked, ‘Do you mind if we pray?’ So, we know what helped save Nick.”
God continues to connect the family with support, James said. Shortly after Nick was wounded, their home in Denham Springs was flooded. They were able to save only their three chihuahuas, two bags of clothes and their motor home. Lighthouse Charity Team stepped in to provide a place to park the motor home, so they could live near the treatment facility.
Then, after receiving care in Galveston, the family moved Nick back to Houston to remain under the TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research) umbrella of care. With insurance for round-the-clock care ending, they needed to quickly find a home that would meet Nick’s needs. Then, they were offered a rental house through their connection with Houston police officer Ronny Cortez and his wife, Sheri, a couple they met while Ronny was also receiving treatment at TIRR. The Cortez family is providing the house rent-free for the first few months for Nick’s parents and fiancé, who share responsibility for his 24-hour care. “It’s a lot, but he doesn’t quit, so we’re not quitting,” Danielle said.
Tullier has been contacted by praying people from the Philippines, Sweden, England, France, Germany, Italy and across the U.S. Father Charbel el-Jamhoury, pastor of St. Agnes Church, flew back to Baton Rouge from overseas to pray over Nick every night. The Tullier family still receives messages of support each day.
Neither is the community that has supported the family with donations and encouragement. Courville Construction in Baton Rouge took on the task of remodeling the house to meet Nick’s needs, including a rolling shower and expanded doorways. Donors are contributing home furnishings from a gift registry. “Everybody’s been wonderful,” Danielle said.
“You hear all the time in the Bible that people dropped everything and just followed Jesus,” Danielle said. “In today’s time, how would you quit your job and leave everything? That wouldn’t work. I was a hair stylist. But literally, I have not worked since Nick was shot, and God has provided everything.”
It is prayer that keeps the family going, Danielle said. “Nick’s brain is fully there; his body needs to catch up. So that’s what we’re waiting on. Now that he’s past all the infection he was dealing with, his muscles are starting to listen to his brain.”
“He’s doing multiplication and division, and he remembers everybody and everything,” Danielle said. “He’ll nod his head for yes and then turn his head for no. If you ask him a multiple-choice question, you can say A, B or C and he’ll turn his head. He thrives with pushing and pushing.”
“God knows everything that’s going to happen, but he set up all the people in Nick’s life so perfectly,” Danielle said. “And we want to tell them, ‘thank you.’ It’s been a God thing.”
“Danielle’s just fantastic,” James said. “She could easily jump up and say this wasn’t in my plan. But Danielle is in this game with us.”
Before the shooting, Nick and Danielle planned to marry the next summer. “I told him as soon as he can say, ‘I do.’ No pressure,” Danielle said. “I believe 100 percent that he will talk and walk again. I’ve just had that in my heart since the beginning. If you ask him if he wants a break – no. He just doesn’t quit, he doesn’t stop.”
“People have called us for over a year asking, ‘What can I do for Nick?’ Continue to pray,” James said. “That’s my fear, that it loses momentum. But we’ve got prayer warriors all over the nation and outside the nation, who message me and assure me they’re not going to forget. Please continue to pray for Nick.”
For more information, visit the Nick Tullier Strong page on Facebook.
Susan Brown began her career in radio news. she was news director for WJBO/WFMF radio and a journalism instructor at LSU. She holds Master’s Degrees from LSU and New Orleans Baptist Theological seminary, and served as a chaplain at Louisiana Correctional institute for Women.
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Has Organic Been Oversized?
July 15, 2012 By AskInYourFace.com 1 Comment
Michael J. Potter is one of the last little big men left in organic food.
More than 40 years ago, Mr. Potter bought into a hippie cafe and “whole earth” grocery here that has since morphed into a major organic foods producer and wholesaler, Eden Foods.
But one morning last May, he hopped on his motorcycle and took off across the Plains to challenge what organic food – or as he might have it, so-called organic food – has become since his tie-dye days in the Haight district of San Francisco.
The fact is, organic food has become a wildly lucrative business for Big Food and a premium-price-means-premium-profit section of the grocery store. The industry’s image – contented cows grazing on the green hills of family-owned farms – is mostly pure fantasy. Or rather, pure marketing. Big Food, it turns out, has spawned what might be called Big Organic.
Bear Naked, Wholesome & Hearty, Kashi: all three and more actually belong to the cereals giant Kellogg. Naked Juice? That would be PepsiCo of Pepsi and Fritos fame. And behind the pastoral-sounding Walnut Acres, Health Valley and Spectrum Organics is none other than Hain Celestial, once affiliated with Heinz, the grand old name in ketchup.
Over the last decade, since federal organic standards have come to the fore, giant agri-food corporations like these and others – Coca-Cola, Cargill, ConAgra, General Mills, Kraft and M&M Mars among them – have gobbled up most of the nation’s organic food industry. Pure, locally produced ingredients from small family farms? Not so much anymore.
All of which riles Mr. Potter, 62. Which is why he took off in late May from here for Albuquerque, where the cardinals of the $30-billion-a-year organic food industry were meeting to decide which ingredients that didn’t exactly sound fresh from the farm should be blessed as allowed ingredients in “organic” products. Ingredients like carrageenan, a seaweed-derived thickener with a somewhat controversial health record. Or synthetic inositol, which is manufactured using chemical processes.
Mr. Potter was allowed to voice his objections to carrageenan for three minutes before the group, the National Organic Standards Board.
“Someone said, ‘Thank you,’ ” Mr. Potter recalls.
And that was that.
Two days later, the board voted 10 to 5 to keep carrageenan on the growing list of nonorganic ingredients that can be used in products with the coveted “certified organic” label. To organic purists like Mr. Potter, it was just another sign that Big Food has co-opted – or perhaps corrupted – the organic food business.
“The board is stacked,” Mr. Potter says. “Either they don’t have a clue, or their interest in making money is more important than their interest in maintaining the integrity of organics.”
He calls the certified-organic label a fraud and refuses to put it on Eden’s products.
Big businesses argue that the enormous demand for organic products requires a scale that only they can provide – and that there is no difference between big and small producers. “We’re all certified, and we all follow the same standards,” said Carmela Beck, who manages the organic program at Driscoll’s, which markets conventional and organic berries. “There is a growing need for organic products because the demand is greater than the supply.”
Many consumers may not realize the extent to which giant corporations have come to dominate organic food. Then again, giant corporations don’t exactly trumpet their role in the industry. Their financial motivation, however, is obvious. On Amazon.com, for instance, 12 six-ounce boxes of Kraft Organic Macaroni and Cheese sell for $25.32, while a dozen 7.25-ounce boxes of the company’s regular Macaroni and Cheese go for $19.64.
“As soon as a value-added aspect was established, it didn’t take long before corporate America came knocking,” Mr. Potter says. He says he gets at least one e-mail a week from someone seeking to buy Eden, which is based in Clinton, Mich., and does about $50 million a year in sales. “Companies, private equity, venture capital, even individuals,” Mr. Potter says. “The best offer I ever got came from two guys who had money from Super Glue.”
Between the time the Agriculture Department came up with its proposed regulations for the organic industry in 1997 and the time those rules became law in 2002, myriad small, independent organic companies – businesses like Cascadian Farm – were snapped up by corporate titans. Heinz and Hain together bought 19 organic brands.
Eden is one of the last remaining independent organic companies of any size, together with the Clif Bar & Company, Amy’s Kitchen, Lundberg Family Farms and a handful of others.
“In some ways, organic is a victim of its own success,” says Philip H. Howard, an assistant professor at Michigan State University, who has documented the remarkable consolidation of the organic industry. Organic food accounts for just 4 percent of all foods sold, but the industry is growing fast. “Big corporations see the trends and the opportunity to make money and profit,” he says.
BIG FOOD has also assumed a powerful role in setting the standards for organic foods. Major corporations have come to dominate the board that sets these standards.
As corporate membership on the board has increased, so, too, has the number of nonorganic materials approved for organic foods on what is called the National List. At first, the list was largely made up of things like baking soda, which is nonorganic but essential to making things like organic bread. Today, more than 250 nonorganic substances are on the list, up from 77 in 2002.
The board has 15 members, and a two-thirds majority is required to add a substance to the list. More and more, votes on adding substances break down along corporate-independent lines, with one swing vote. Six board members, for instance, voted in favor of adding ammonium nonanoate, a herbicide, to the accepted organic list in December. Those votes came from General Mills, Campbell’s Soup, Organic Valley, Whole Foods Market and Earthbound Farms, which had two votes at the time.
Big Organic lost that round. Had it prevailed, it would have been the first time a herbicide was put on the list.
Kathleen Merrigan, a deputy secretary of agriculture, disputes that corporate interests are behind the increase in nonorganic materials deemed acceptable in “organic” food. “The list is really very small,” says Ms. Merrigan. “It’s really very simplistic and headline-grabbing to throw out those sorts of critiques, but when you get down into the details, there are usually very rational and important reasons for the actions the board has taken.”
The expanding variety of organic products is partly behind the list’s growth, Ms. Merrigan says, adding that the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, which governs certification, has tried to check the powers of board members. It requires, for instance, that the board reconsider each substance five years after the last approval of it – though only just a few have ever lost their status.
“Yes, there are some large organizations that make up a portion of the board, but they’re not at all a majority,” says Will Daniels, senior vice president for operations and organic integrity at Earthbound Farms Organic, one of the country’s largest organic produce processors. “Four of the 15 board members could be considered from a corporate structure, a number that means they don’t have power to do much of anything.”
Those four are Earthbound, Driscoll Strawberry Associates, Whole Foods and the Zirkle Fruit Company. Only one of them, Earthbound, has a fully organic business.
Critics say the system has never truly operated as intended. “It’s been neutered,” says Mark Kastel, director of the Cornucopia Institute, an advocacy group.
Cornucopia began taking a harder look at the history of the addition of carrageenan and other substances to the accepted organic list after a bruising battle last December over the addition of docosahexaenoic acid algae oil, or DHA, and arachidonic acid single cell oil, or ARA. Its research led to a paper titled “The Organic Watergate.”
“After DHA got onto the list, we decided to go back and look at all of the ingredients on the list,” Mr. Kastel says. “The average consumer has no idea that all these additives are going into the organic products they’re buying.”
Mr. Potter of Eden Foods was initially supportive of the government’s efforts to certify organic products. But he quickly became disenchanted. He has never sought a board appointment, for himself or anyone at Eden. “I bought into the swaddling clothes wrapped around it,” he said. “I had high hopes the law and the board would be good things because we needed standards.”
By 1996, he realized that the National Organic Program was heading in a direction he did not like. He said as much at a National Organic Standards Board meeting in Indianapolis that year, earning the permanent opprobrium of the broader organic industry. “They think I’m liberal, immature, a radical,” Mr. Potter says. “But I’m not the one debating whether organics should use genetically modified additives or nanotechnology, which is what I’d call radical.”
Charlotte Vallaeys, director of farm and food policy at Cornucopia, found that two large companies, General Mills and Dean Foods, and the vast cooperative Cropp, which sells produce under the Organic Valley brand, “have held nearly continuous influence on the board.”
Such influence is not always obvious. For instance, early members of the board from Cascadian Farms, Muir Glen and Small Planet Foods were the chief advocates for allowing synthetics into organic production. By the time synthetics made it into the final rules, passed in 2002, all three had been swallowed up by General Mills. Tracy Favre, newly appointed to the standards board, works for Holistic Management International, a nonprofit that advises clients on sustainable agriculture. Holistic Management has done work for Dean Foods to help it address criticism of production practices for its Horizon organic milk brand.
Ms. Favre referred calls to the Agriculture Department.
Cornucopia has also lodged complaints about the board’s composition with the secretary of agriculture and the department’s inspector general. Based on one of the complaints, the inspector general is looking into how materials are added to the list.
Cornucopia has challenged the appointment of Ms. Beck, the national organic program manager at Driscoll’s, to a seat that is, by law, supposed to be occupied by a farmer. Officially, “farmer” means someone who “owns or operates an organic farm.”
The Organic Foods Act calls for a board consisting of four farmers, three conservationists, three consumer representatives, a scientist, a retailer, a certification agent and two “handlers,” or representatives of companies that process organic food.
Ms. Beck works with Driscoll’s organic farmers here as well as in Mexico and Chile, helping them develop and maintain their organic systems plans. “I work with growers from as few as a couple of acres to up to hundreds of acres,” she says.
But Ms. Beck does not own or operate a farm.
In contrast, Dominic Marchese, who produces organic beef in Ohio, has tried and failed three times to win a board appointment as a farmer. “I don’t have anything against her,” Mr. Marchese says, referring to Ms. Beck. “She’s probably very smart. But how do you select someone who’s not an organic farmer to represent organic farmers?”
Driscoll’s nominated Ms. Beck for one of the handler seats – but Tom Vilsack, the agriculture secretary, appointed her to one of the seats reserved for farmers.
Similarly, the three consumer seats have never been filled by anyone from a traditional consumer advocacy group like the Organic Consumers Association or the Consumers Union. Instead, those seats have largely gone to academics with agricultural expertise and to corporate executives.
“If you fill the slots earmarked by Congress for independent voices with corporate voices, you greatly mitigate the safeguards built into the supermajority requirement of the law,” Mr. Kastel says.
MILES V. McEVOY, deputy administrator of the National Organic Program, says that all appointments are cleared with the Agriculture Department’s general counsel. “The board is designed to have interests and for the members to have biases and represent their particular interest groups,” he said. “We are trying to make sure the board represents the diversity of the American public and of organic agriculture.”
Alexis Baden-Mayer, political director at the Organic Consumers Association, says her group has no quibbles with that goal: “I understand that there are very few 100 percent organic businesses left. But to add someone from a company like General Mills that has such a big interest in promoting genetic engineering, promoting nanotechnology, promoting a variety of things that are so antithetical to organic principles, is that really necessary to achieve diversity?”
She was referring to Katrina Heinze, a General Mills executive who was appointed to serve as a consumer representative on the board in December 2005 by Mike Johanns, the agriculture secretary at the time. The outcry over her appointment by advocates and independent organic consumers was so intense that she resigned in February 2006 – but rejoined the board late that year after Mr. Johanns appointed her to the seat designated by law for an expert in toxicology, ecology or biochemistry. During her second stint on the board, which ended last December, critics said they were shocked when she did not recuse herself from the vote to add DHA to the list, since its manufacturer sometimes uses technology licensed from General Mills in making it.
Ms. Heinze is responsible for food safety and regulatory matters at General Mills and has degrees in chemistry. She referred calls to General Mills, which in turn referred questions to the National Organic Program.
Driscoll’s was the only company that allowed an employee serving on the board to talk to The New York Times. The rest – even Cropp, the 1,400-farmer cooperative that sells more than $700 million in products, many under the Organic Valley brand – had more senior executives do the talking.
Organic purists would consider Cropp’s board representative, Wendy Fulwider, as one of the corporate executives on the board. During her tenure, Ms. Fulwider, Organic Valley’s animal-husbandry specialist, has voted almost in lock step with its corporate members, even though her vote may be supporting something Organic Valley does not allow its own members to do.
“Wendy’s a public citizen on that group and is supposed to vote what her own integrity is and not what our company’s view is,” said George Siemon, Cropp’s top executive and a former member of the organic standards board.
Ms. Fulwider surprised many observers at a board meeting in May by voting in favor of keeping carrageenan on the organic list. Before that meeting, Organic Valley was saying that it planned to find an alternative to the additive, and there is a long and active list of consumer complaints on its Web site about the cooperative’s use of it in things like heavy cream and chocolate milk.
Ms. Fuldwider has also voted to let organic egg producers give their chickens just two square feet of living space, when Cropp requires its own farmers to provide five.
Most controversially, she voted to add DHA and ARA to the list for use in baby formulas. Milk fortified with DHA commands premium prices, and Mr. Siemon said Organic Valley had to have a version of its milk with the additive “because that’s what the consumer wants.”
He said, however, that Organic Valley uses DHA derived from fish, not the variety Ms. Fulwider approved for the list. “For us, algae didn’t seem like the real deal. It’s almost like a wannabe,” Mr. Siemon says. “But hey, what do I know? I’m told all the studies showing the benefits of DHA are based on the type from fish oil, so we use the type from fish oil.”
Mr. Siemon says Organic Valley’s goal is to eliminate all additives from its products. The cooperative, for instance, is working to find a substitute for carrageenan, which it uses to prevent separation in products like cream and chocolate milk.
AMID such issues, Mr. Potter has tasked his daughter, Yvonne Sturt, to find a way to preserve Eden’s independence after he’s gone. Four of his children are now involved in the business and, he says, they must earn any control of the family company.
“People keep telling me that all the work we’re doing with organic farming and agriculture and processing, some of that could be deemed charitable work,” he says. “Maybe we should start a church.”
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: July 10, 2012
An earlier version of this article misstated the name of one organic food brand; it is Health Valley, not Healthy Valley. The version also incorrectly included Honest Tea among organic companies that lost their independence by 2002; Coca-Cola acquired a 40 percent stake in it in 2008 and the rest in 2011. And the version misspelled the name of a substance approved for use in organic foods; it is docosahexaenoic acid algae oil, not docosahexzenoic.
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Who is …Petra
Petra has been nominated to twelve Grammys awards, of which gained four (1990, 1992, 1994, 2000). Winners of ten Dove Awards. Inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame (2007), Inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame (2000), Inducted into the Hard Rock Cafe (1994).
In 1982, More Power to Ya remained one of the five best-selling albums in Christian music, while Never Say Die remained in the top 20 – more than two years after it hit the shelves. At the end of 1982, the two albums had sold nearly 100,000 units combined. By the next summer, More Power to Ya alone had topped 125,000, a total nearly unthinkable for a Christian rock album just 12 months earlier. More Power to Ya would not drop out of the Top 40 Christian albums until June 1985, more than two and one-half years after its debut.
In 1985, by any measure, Petra was at the height of its success as it toured for Not of This World and prepared to record a follow-up album. No Christian rock band had sold more records, played before bigger crowds or had enjoyed such pervasive radio airplay.
Helped in part by a newly inked distribution agreement between Word and A&M that would give Petra and other Word-distributed bands placement in mainstream music stores for the first time, Beat the System sold more than 200,000 copies in four months, and by the end of the year, Billboard had certified Petra as the biggest-selling gospel music group in the country. When it debuted at No. 18 on the Billboard Top 40 Inspirational LPs chart in February 1985, Beat the System trailed both Not of This World (No. 6 in its 56th week on the chart) and More Power to Ya (No. 15 in week 115). Not for long: It leapt to No. 4 on the next chart, giving Petra two top 10 albums for the first time, and by June it had taken over the top spot on the chart, which it held for more than two months. In the end, Beat the System was one of the nation’s top two Christian albums for nearly half a year.
For its career, Petra topped the million-record mark in 1985, with 900,000 of them sold in the four years since Never Say Die. At the time of its release, Beat the System was the biggest Christian rock record ever recorded and the third-biggest Christian album of the 1980s (trailing only Amy Grant’s Age to Age and Sandi Patti’s Songs From the Heart), even though it did not produce any radio hits. By decade’s end, Beat the System’s impact on the Christian sales charts trailed only records by Grant, Patti, Steve Green and Michael W. Smith. Finally, the band was nominated for a Grammy for the second consecutive year, again for Best Gospel Performance by a Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus.
Joining the MTV world, Petra also recorded its first music video, for Beat the System’s title track, then went on tour again, playing what was considered “the biggest Christian rock tour of its time.” Petra ultimately played to more than 500,000 people in the yearlong world tour, which ranked second in all of Christian music only to Amy Grant’s. To capture the energy of the tour, the band recorded performances in Tennessee and South Carolina over three nights in November 1985 and released the final product on vinyl and VHS shortly after, dubbing it Captured in Time and Space.
The album was a farewell to Petra’s first era of popularity and the sound it had cultivated with Volz’s distinctive vocals. As constant touring took its toll on the band, Hartman and Volz began to disagree about Petra’s future, both on stage and off. The tour, while it drew more fans than ever, was expensive, and it left Petra hurting financially. Increased competition from other Christian rock bands, for whom Petra had paved the way, led to lower-than-expected showings as the tour went on. As Hartman told CCM Magazine in 1986, “If I had to put it in a nutshell without getting too deep, I would have to say it’s business. Greg and I agree on just about everything except business.”
In 1985 Volz announced he would leave the band to pursue a solo career upon completion of the tour and release of the live album, leaving in doubt the future of the world’s biggest Christian rock band.
With Petra hurting financially and Volz announcing his departure, rumors swirled that Petra would break up.
Instead, Hartman turned to former Head East vocalist John Schlitt, whom he had met on an airplane some years before but who had since converted to Christianity and left rock music altogether. Schlitt needed little convincing. He was introduced to Petra fans at a show in Australia in February 1986.
band and producer parted ways. To replace Brown, Star Song tapped the Elefante brothers – John, former keyboardist and lead vocalist for Kansas, and Dino, who had written songs for Kansas and had more recently produced albums for Christian metal bands such as Barren Cross. The combination of Schlitt and the Elefante Brothers significantly altered Petra’s sound and set the stage for the band’s greatest success.
The limb held, as Petra Praise: The Rock Cries Out became one of the band’s best selling, certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1998. After its release in October 1989, Petra Praise remained in the top 10 of Christian contemporary album sales for nearly a year. The artwork also won a Dove award, the band’s second. In subsequent years, the album would be cited by such popular praise bands as Sonicflood as influencing their decision to enter the genre.
The success of Petra Praise opened the door for even greater success than Petra had seen previously. The Christian rock scene had exploded, and the critics of the past decade had largely been silenced.
Beyond Belief was huge, the band’s most successful release ever, peaking at No. 1 on the Christian charts and certified Gold by the RIAA in 1995. The radio single “Love” shot to the top of the charts and stayed there, becoming Christian radio’s biggest hit of 1991.
It won the band its first Grammy, in the newly created best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album category, as well as Dove awards for Rock Album of the Year, Rock Recorded Song of the Year for the title track and Recorded Music Packaging of the Year. More historically, the Gospel Music Association for the first time honored a rock band as Group of the Year, as Petra beat contemporary artists 4HIM, First Call, Take 6 and BeBe & CeCe Winans.
The band was at the peak of its popularity, playing to sold-out arenas of 10,000 fans on yet another nationwide tour, and in CCM Magazine’s year-end Reader’s Choice Awards, the band swept to first place in eight categories, second place in four more, and garnered three times as many votes for pop/rock artist of the year as second-place finisher Michael W. Smith.
The Unseen Power album was a hit, allowing Petra to top 6 million records sold since its inception – the most of any Christian artist at the time. The newly formed Hard Rock Cafe asked the band for materials to include in its restaurant displays, another first for a Christian band. And Petra became the only Christian band to play Farm Aid when it took the Texas Stadium stage before 40,000 people in 1992.
Unseen Power garnered the band its second Grammy, again winning for Best Rock/Contemporary Gospel Album, and a Dove award, for Rock Recorded Song of the Year.
The wake up call album, was well received, as the album stayed on Billboard’s Christian albums chart for more than five months and was the third consecutive Petra album to receive a Grammy for Best Rock Gospel Album. The short-lived America’s Christian Music Awards named Petra favorite rock group or duo and named Wake Up Call favorite rock CD, and the band won a Dove award for Rock Album of the Year. In the 1994 CCM Readers Awards, the band continued to clean up, winning Favorite Rock Artist/Band, Favorite Rock Album for Wake Up Call and Favorite Song for the radio hit “Just Reach Out.”
No Doubt: The album opened at No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart but fell out of the Top 10 two months later. It peaked at No. 91 on the Billboard Top 200, lasting eight weeks. Its key radio single, the title track, barely cracked the 40 most-played songs for 1995. For the first time since the creation of the Rock Gospel Album category in the Grammies, Petra was nominated but failed to win, though it did pick up a Dove award for Rock Album of the Year, and CCM Magazine’s annual Reader Awards placed Petra once again at the top as the fans’ favorite rock band, with No Doubt their favorite rock album.
The Double Take album was largely rejected by critics and fans alike, and it sold fewer than 40,000 copies. When Double Take won Petra its fourth Grammy, for Best Rock Gospel Album in 2001, critics charged it was an example of the Grammy voters being “out to lunch.”
With the band’s future again uncertain, Petra received the highest of accolades from the Gospel Music Association as the first rock band to be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
In 2003 , For the first time since Petra Praise 2, six years earlier, the band broke onto the Billboard charts, peaking at No. 22 on the Christian albums chart. The album also garnered Petra its 13th Grammy nomination.
On March 5, 2014, Petra was recognized by SESAC with the Legacy Award.
During its 33-year career, Petra influenced countless artists in and out of the Christian scene. Petra was the only Christian band to play at the 1992 Farm Aid concert and the first Christian band to be included in the Hard Rock Cafe. In 2000, Petra was the first Christian rock band to be inducted to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. “The doubts about popular music mixing with Christian lyrics have mostly vanished due to their 25-year track record of proven ministry and changed lives. Petra was a true pioneer for our industry,” GMA President Frank Breeden said at the time.
In 2004, CCM readers inducted Petra into its Hall of Fame, with the magazine noting:
Few artists had as much influence in the formation and growth of what has come to be known as “contemporary Christian music” as did Petra. … As one of the movement’s trailblazers, Petra bore the brunt of the controversy, enduring picketers, protesters and public denunciations by prominent Christian leaders. (It is, perhaps, a telling sign of the Christian community’s former resistance to Petra that the band won a Grammy before they ever won a Dove Award!) Still, all rabble-rousers aside, Petra managed to create some of Christian music’s most treasured recordings.
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Who is …Stryper
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The original story can be found at http://bpnews.net/45321/missionary-remembered-as-godly-mother-wife
Missionary remembered as godly mother, wife
by Mark Kelly, posted Monday, August 17, 2015 (3 years ago)
Tags: Kyra KarrReid KarrIMBobit
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (BP) -- On the evening before she and her family had planned to return overseas, Kyra Lynn Karr, a Southern Baptist missionary to Italy, was killed in a traffic accident, Aug. 13.
News reports indicate a tractor-trailer driver exited his vehicle to conduct a safety inspection but the safety brake was not engaged and the truck began to roll. The vehicle hit the pickup in which Karr was traveling, crushing it against the highway guardrail on U.S. 41 in Bartow County, Ga. Karr, 30, died at the scene.
Her husband Reid and their two youngest children were transported to nearby hospitals, where they were treated and released. Their oldest child was not with them at the time.
The tractor-trailer driver, Ivan Delgado, 52, of Rome, N.Y., was arrested and charged with DUI, police said.
Tabernacle Baptist Church pastor Don Hattaway described Karr as "one of the most wonderful, godly young ladies you could know. She was energetic, kind, articulate, beautiful, and a great mother and wife."
The Karrs, who spoke at Tabernacle in Cartersville, Ga., Aug. 9, had been in the U.S. since mid-June and were returning home after a family outing Thursday evening to prepare to fly back to Italy the next day. Hattaway and a group had worked with the Karrs in Italy earlier this summer, and he spoke to their commitment to their work among churches, university students, and planting a church.
"Kyra was part of a street ministry to those caught in sex trafficking as well as to refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Italy," he noted.
The Karrs were appointed as International Mission Board missionaries in 2009 and have been serving in Rome. They were about to begin their third term of service after a brief stateside assignment.
Kyra Karr was a graduate of the University of Georgia and grew up in Tabernacle Baptist Church. She and her family also were connected to Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, Ky.
Karr is survived by her husband Reid; her children, Nolyn, Ellie and Livia; her parents, Joseph and Karen Carp; her sisters, Chelsey Carp and Sydney Shadle. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Aug. 19, at Tabernacle Baptist Church, 112 E. Church St., Cartersville, Ga., under the supervision of Parnick Jennings Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers the family request donations be made to Tabernacle Baptist Church for the Italian church plant Breccia Di Roma and its ministry efforts.
Mark Kelly writes for IMB. Scott Barkley, production editor of The Christian Index, the newsjournal of the Georgia Baptist Convention, contributed to this report.
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Vision, Mission and Guiding Principles
When Mississippi University for Women was chartered in 1884, it made educational history as the first state supported college for women in America. The founders had been persistent and tireless in their efforts, which had spanned over 20 years. Activist Sallie Reneau’s energetic campaigning in the 1860s and 1870s resulted in legislative approval, but no appropriations. A decade later, Olivia Valentine Hastings and Annie Coleman Peyton joined forces to lobby legislators and journalists in support of a public women’s College. Originally known as The Industrial Institute and College (II & C), this institution was created by the Mississippi Legislature to combine a high quality collegiate education with practical vocational training for women. In a time when education for women was considered potentially disastrous, the state legislature recognized that Mississippi’s young women needed to learn not only to think for themselves, but also to support themselves.
In October of 1885, the first session began in Columbus, the city that had won the college by virtue of its early interest in women’s education and its willingness to commit hard cash to the endeavor. The city donated the buildings and grounds of the Columbus Female Institute, a private school founded in 1847, and offered city bonds in the amount of $50,000 for any needed improvements on the property. That October, 341 girls embarked on a new educational experiment, and four years later, many of those same girls received their diplomas.
The Industrial Institute and College became Mississippi State College for Women (MSCW) in 1920. The new name more clearly reflected the institution’s effort to integrate professional training with the four year baccalaureate degree. Mississippi University for Women (MUW) has always shown an ability to adapt and change with the times. In 1922, alumnae campaigned and voted for their former President, Henry Whitfield, in his bid for Governor of Mississippi. By 1974, as all eight Universities in Mississippi began adding and strengthening graduate programs, MSCW became Mississippi University for Women. While the University has been admitting men since 1982, MUW still maintains a distinct emphasis on professional development and leadership opportunities for women, while providing a high-quality liberal arts education for all.
The first Board of Trustees consisted of Governor Robert Lowry, James T. Harrison of Columbus, Dr. Lea Williamson of Como, John F. Smith of Vossburg, Dr. J.J. Gage of Grenada, T. M. Miller of Jackson, Mayor G.R. Higgins of Chotard Landing, Captain D.L. Sweatman of Winona, Dr. J.J. Thornton of Pass Christian, and Senator John McCaleb Martin of Port Gibson, author of the bill creating MUW.
The university has had thirteen presidents and seven acting or interim presidents:
Richard W. Jones 1884-1888
Charles H. Cocke 1888-1890
Mary J. S. Callaway (Acting President) March 1890-June 1890
Arthur Beals 1890-1891
Robert Frazer 1891-1898
Mary J. S. Callaway (Acting President) February 1898-June 1898
Andrew A. Kincannon 1898-1907
Henry L. Whitfield 1907-1920
John C. Fant 1920-1929
Nellie Keirn (Acting President) November 1929-June 1930
R. E. L. Sutherland 1930-1932
Burney L. Parkinson 1932-1952
Charles P. Hogarth 1952-1977
James W. Strobel 1977-1988
Harvey M. Craft (Interim President) July 1988-October 1988
Delene W. Lee (Interim President) October 1988-April 1989
Clyda S. Rent 1989-2001
Vagn K. Hansen (Acting President) July 2001
Lenore L. Prather (Interim President) August 2001-June 2002
Claudia A. Limbert 2002-2010
Allegra Brigham 2010 - 2011
James B. Borsig 2012 - present
History was made in 1989 when Dr. Clyda S. Rent became the first woman to serve as the University’s President and the first woman to serve as the institutional executive officer of a public university in Mississippi. Vision, Mission and Guiding Principles
Building on its long tradition of excellence in liberal arts and professional education, as well as its historic focus on academic and leadership development for women, Mississippi University for Women will continue to be a university that prepares both women and men for successful lives by providing a high-quality education in a personalized learning environment.
A Carnegie Master’s II public institution, Mississippi University for Women provides high-quality undergraduate and graduate education for women and men in a variety of liberal arts and professional programs, while maintaining its historic commitment to academic and leadership development for women. MUW provides education in the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education and Human Sciences, College of Nursing and Speech Language Pathology, and School of Professional Studies, utilizing small classes and emphasizing a personalized learning environment. The graduates of MUW are prepared for competitive careers and excellent graduate and professional schools. MUW provides educational opportunities throughout Mississippi and the United States while addressing the unique educational and public service needs of northeast Mississippi and adjoining counties in northwest Alabama.
MUW provides high-quality instructional programs that emphasize teaching and learning. With faculty and staff of the highest caliber, MUW is dedicated to providing a campus environment that encourages lifelong learning, strong career preparation, and personal growth. Graduates are expected to have skills in communication, technology, and critical thinking, as well as an awareness of self, gender-related issues, cultural diversity, and responsible citizenship.
MUW is student oriented. MUW provides small classes and emphasizes personalized student attention, so that each student will have the opportunity to succeed. MUW offers a student-life program that stimulates learning and leadership development.
MUW values research, scholarship, and creativity. While MUW is primarily a teaching institution, the university supports research, scholarship, and creativity to enhance the professional development of faculty and staff in order to better prepare students.
MUW is committed to diversity among its faculty, staff, and students. The faculty, staff, and students of MUW represent the global society in which we live. MUW believes that diversity allows students to grow in their understanding of self and others.
MUW endorses sound organizational principles and is committed to operational efficiency, collaborative strategic planning, institutional effectiveness, and creative problem solving.
MUW meets regional, state, and national needs for higher education. The University responds to the needs of the local community by providing cultural activities; programs for intellectual, professional, and social development; and by assisting in economic development. MUW extends its outreach to the state and nation, using multiple delivery methods, including the internet and other advanced systems.
MUW is committed to public service. MUW forms partnerships with businesses, as well as with educational, governmental, public service, and charitable organizations, to create opportunities that provide economic and social advantages for the institution, community, and region.
“Mississippi University for Women is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award degrees at the levels of associate, baccalaureate, masters, and doctorate. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Mississippi University for Women.
For normal inquiries regarding Mississippi University for Women, such as admission requirements, financial aid, or academic programs, please contact MUW directly by phone at 662-329-4750 or 877-462-8439, or visit the Web site at www.muw.edu for additional information and contacts.”
MUW is a member of Association of American State Colleges and Universities, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, and the Southern Universities Conference. MUW is included among institutions whose programs are accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC, 3343 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 500, Atlanta, GA 30326; Phone 404-975-5000), The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530, Washington, D.C., 20036-1120; 1-202-877-6711), the National Association of Schools of Music, and the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. The academic (i.e., Master of Science) program in Speech Language Pathology is accredited by the Council of Academic Accreditation (CAA) of the American Speech Language Hearing Association. MUW’s Paralegal Program is approved by the American Bar Association. MUW’s Business Program is accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs. Graduates are eligible for membership in the American Association of University Women.
MUW is located in Columbus, Mississippi, a city with a population of about 25,000. One of the most beautiful and historic communities in the South, Columbus is the site of more than 100 antebellum homes and several hundred other buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The city is home to Columbus Air Force Base, one of only four Air Force undergraduate pilot training bases in the nation. The nation’s first observance of Memorial Day took place in Columbus, and the city is the birthplace of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams. Columbus is a headquarters for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.
The MUW campus covers more than 114 acres within the historical district of central Columbus. Twenty-three of the more than 60 campus buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The architectural styles represented include Queen Anne, Gothic revival, and neoclassical.
MUW’s Plymouth Bluff Center is only minutes from the main campus on a 190 -acre site with more than four miles of nature trails along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. This beautiful, sylvan setting has 24 neatly furnished guest rooms and dining facilities seating up to 150. Plymouth Bluff also includes a state-of-the-art conference center, making it an ideal facility for retreats, workshops, and meetings.
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Are employers required to provide benefits to same-sex domestic partners? The Oregon Insurance Division certainly thinks so!
Same-sex domestic partners are now entitled to the equivalent rights and benefits that married couples enjoy under Oregon law. Because the Insurance Code and most policies contain certain requirements that apply to "spouses" (e.g., survivor benefits are to be issued to a deceased claimant's "spouse"), many employers are now asking whether same-sex domestic partners should be considered spouses under their benefits policies.
The Insurance Division's Position
According to the Oregon Insurance Division, the answer is "yes." Insurance policies issued or delivered in Oregon must treat same-sex domestic partnerships like marriages, and same-sex domestic partners like spouses. Insurers may not require greater proof of the existence of a same-sex domestic partnership than they require of the existence of a marriage.
The April 1, 2008 Deadline
Depending on when the insurance policy form(s) were filed and/or approved by the State, employers are required to provide same-sex domestic partner benefits according to the following schedule:
The mandate takes effect for policies issued or renewed on or after April 1, 2008, if those policies are based on forms approved by the Insurance Division before February 4, 2008.
The mandate takes effect for policies issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2008, if those policies are based on forms approved by the Insurance Division on or after February 4, 2008.
What About ERISA Plans?
The Insurance Division has taken the position that same-sex domestic partner benefits apply to commercial insurance plans regardless of whether or not the employer's plan is governed by ERISA. Whether the Insurance Division is exceeding its authority in taking this position with respect to ERISA plans is subject to question. However, until the courts or the legislature have the opportunity to clarify this issue, the most prudent course for employers to take is to treat same-sex domestic partners as spouses with regard to both ERISA and non-ERISA plans.
In light of the Division's position on this complex issue, now would be a good time to review your employment policies and benefits plans to ascertain compliance with this rapidly changing area of the law. If you have any questions about same-sex domestic partner laws and their effect on employment or benefits issues, please contact one of Bullivant Houser Bailey's experienced employment and employee benefits attorneys.
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Museums Sheffield is home to over 6000 paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints and watercolours. The Visual Art Collection is extremely varied, reflecting the personal interests of directors and curators over the past 125 years and in particular two main benefactors, John Newton Mappin (1800 - 1883) and John George Graves (1866 - 1945).
The Visual Art Collection comprises mainly British and European works from the 16th century to the present day. Its strength lies in the Modern British Collection which is one of the most important in the country outside London. It contains works by key 20th century artists including L S Lowry, Henry Moore, Vanessa Bell, Stanley Spencer, David Bomberg, Gwen John, Frank Auerbach and Paul Nash. The collection also includes contemporary art works by significant British artists such as Sutapa Biswas, Hew Locke, Marc Quinn and Sam Taylor-Wood.
Highlights of the European Collection include work by Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, Pablo Picasso and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. The development of painting in the 18th and 19th centuries is illustrated through the works of artists such as JMW Turner, David Roberts and painters associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement such as Edward Coley Burne-Jones and John Brett. While the oldest paintings in the collection are by 16th and 17th century Old Masters including Daniel Mytens, Luis de Morales, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Giulio Cesare Procaccini.
The Graves Gallery displays the highlights of the Visual Art Collection, while other works are also on display in About Art and Sheffield Life and Times at Weston Park Museum.
Explore the Visual Art collections here or search for more paintings from Museums Sheffield on Art UK. Our online collection currently only represents a selection of Visual Art at Museums Sheffield but we are working to add more records.
Please note that these works may not be on view when you visit the galleries.
'Peace' Design for a Brick Mural VIS.5787 Visual Art 1984 103492
A 4.5 Mortar Battery at Gun Drill VIS.2946 Visual Art 161766
A Blacksmith's Shop VIS.3092 Visual Art 60736
A Coming Storm VIS.1541 Visual Art 1855 55126
A Corner of the Artist's Room in Paris VIS.2576 Visual Art 1907-1909 101686
A day out. We hired six double decker buses VIS.5803 Visual Art 1940s-50s 48967
A Dead Hare VIS.227 Visual Art 46241
A Frosty Morning Behind the Cook House VIS.1699 Visual Art 85597
A Merrymaking VIS.31 Visual Art 1685 35757
A Military Hospital Middle East VIS.1798 Visual Art 1939-1945 51840
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Priests told to follow conscience on feet washing
Priests are not obliged to wash the feet of women during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments has said, reports The Catholic Herald.
Cardinal Robert Sarah told reporters in Rome last month that a priest “has to decide in accord with his own conscience, and according to the purpose for which the Lord instituted this feast”.
Cardinal Sarah’s comments follow a decree issued by Pope Francis which revises the rules for the traditional foot-washing ritual on Holy Thursday, extending the rite to include women and young girls.
The rite was celebrated separately to the Holy Thursday Mass before Pope Pius XII restored it in 1955.
Before this point, women’s feet could be washed, but only by other women.
Photo: Churchmilitant.com
Priests are not obliged to wash women’s feet on Holy Thursday’
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2014 Football Poster
Courtesy of New Mexico State University
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The New Mexico State Athletics Department released the 2014 New Mexico State football poster, Thursday afternoon. This year the 2014 edition is shaped like the state of New Mexico, while also holding several elements of symbolism.
In addition to its unique shape, die cut in the State of New Mexico, the player wearing the No. 1 jersey shows that the players are excited for a new season and ready to strive for success on the field. It also symbolizes unity among the community, coaches, players, and the university to rebuild the football program to prominence.
The wording ‘This is our State’ ties into the die cut of the poster as well as a commitment to recruit New Mexico student-athletes and distribute television and radio events to as vast of a state-wide audience as possible. The lights shining down on the player represents a bright, new era of Aggie Football as it enters the Sun Belt Conference.
These posters will be available to the public sometime after June 11th and can be picked up at the Pan American Center ticket office, the Stan Fulton Center or at select locations around Las Cruces. Season tickets start at just $50 and are on sale now. Fans can order tickets by calling the Pan Am Ticket Office at (575) 646-1420.
Ticketmaster has launched the choose your own seat for NM State football. Pick your seats today! #AggieUp http://t.co/fM44YYHMW7
— Steve Macy (@SteveMacy) June 3, 2014
The Ticketmaster tool also let's you connect with your friends on facebook, so you can sit near each other. #AggieUp http://t.co/fM44YYHMW7
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Stoppage Time
Billing the concerts last week as the Season Finale suggested we might be entering the realm of Alternate Facts, since many knew the ensemble was scheduled to return for four more performances. The season would really end with the orchestra accompanying a week-long run of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, yet another of the film night performances sneaking across the boarder between classical and popular music to infest our schedule. Cherubini, Chant sur la mort du Joseph Haydn was an interesting choice in this era of Fake News; the work was composed in reaction to a (failing?) London publication's erroneous report that the revered composer had died. Having survived in spite of Cherubini's request that all copies be destroyed once he learned the error upon which it was based, the star-crossed composition was given an interesting performance here on Saturday evening. About seven measures into the quiet introduction, in response to an inadvertent noise from the stage, the Maestro stopped the performance, turned and excoriated the audience for the disruption. Breaking the fourth wall is often an invitation for the least inhibited among us to open up their own particular jar of crazy, and so, true to form, in the uncomfortable silence following the Maestro's remarks somebody yelled out something, a few people clapped, a few more tittered, none of which did anything but make the atmosphere more tense. With all hope of quickly putting a minor disturbance behind us gone, we started again from the beginning.
There were many theories put forth by musicians to try and explain what had happened. Perhaps the Maestro reacted to some audience members' spontaneous expressions of surprise over the onstage noise, which also had a visual component. Maybe the quick assignation of blame to the audience was a show of solidarity with musicians. The only constant was the poor reporting in the press, beginning of course with the premature pronouncement of Haydn's death, and continuing with both local papers writing up the incident as a concert halted due to 'coughing', a misrepresentation parroted by one of the more popular classical music blogs.
Humans, on either side of the proscenium, occasionally make unintended noises. With training and concentrated focus on the task at hand, most musicians are able to block out whatever the audience is doing, even when it is startling, like someone talking loudly, falling ill, or even a fistfight breaking out in the box seats (the so-called Brawl at the Hall). Unexpected surprises from the stage can be harder to ignore, since (ostensibly) we are paying close attention to each other. Where force of concentration is insufficient, the professional code of conduct keeps most musicians focused on their own tasks when faced with anything from a broken string or dropped mute to someone vomiting onstage (yes, that happened). Lacking the training, not bound by a professional code of conduct, and probably not concentrating as deeply, audience members can be forgiven for spontaneous reactions to something startling or unusual.
Coughs, on the other hand, are often symptoms of a bored or uninvolved audience. A disinterested group of people tends to cough and fidget more. Sometimes the very same audience that coughed a lot during one part of a performance will become riveted later on, and much more quiet. Concerts with superstar performers tend to draw audiences that contain more people who are not really there to hear the music, so these crowds often contain more people who are disengaged from the performance, inattentive, and noisy. But, no matter who is performing, audience behavior is a reflection on what is happening on stage. Becoming irritated with an audience is like yelling at the wind. Asking people not to cough is like telling someone not to think of a pink elephant and then getting upset when they do.
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When I asked an acquaintance why he was having so much trouble committing to acquiring a new cat, even though it was something he repeatedly expressed a strong desire to do, he replied that, as a man ‘of a certain age’, he fully expected that, even if it didn’t outlive him, his next cat would be his last. In that frame of mind, he certainly didn’t want to rush into such an important decision and eventually ended up agonizing over it for more than a year. When our music director’s contract was extended until 2022, as a musician ‘of a certain age’, I realized that either he or his replacement would be my last. Fortunately for me, as a rank and file player, I won’t have a lot of agonizing to do, but the decision isn’t entirely without consequences. And the arrival of a new maestro is an interesting time to be in an orchestra - sort of a chance for the dispassionate observer to play Jane Goodall minus a trek through the jungle - certainly an experience to savor one last time.
Esa-Pekka Salonen came to town a few weeks ago, conducting some heavyweight repertoire - Mahler 9 and Verklärte Nacht were the mainstays - which might indicate somebody in the organization has their eye on him as music director material. I like Salonen for the post, both as a conductor and composer, but also for a more insidious reason. As the arrival of the current music director prompted a number musicians to take up the study of Italian, I wonder if a new era might see a similar interest in the Finnish language emerge. Unfortunately, the US State Department Foreign Service Institute lists Finnish among the group of languages most difficult for English speakers to learn. According to the FSI, in order to become conversant, a student of Finnish might expect to put in about 44 weeks, or 1100 hours of study. I think it would be very interesting to see if any of my colleagues would take up the challenge. Coincidentally, since Finnish is related to Hungarian, and both are from outside of the Indo-European family, there is a certain pleasing symmetry to the idea I might end my career just as it began, under the baton of a maestro speaking one of the Uralic languages.
The Bass Blog now has a Facebook page. Nothing much to see there at the moment, but hopefully that will change in time.
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'Men in Black: International' celebrates box office win with lackluster numbers
By Ryan Painter 1560701846000
Pawny (Kumail Nanjiani) on the shoulder of Agent M (Tessa Thompson) and with Agent H (Chris Hemsworth) in Columbia Pictures’ MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL. (Photo Columbia Pictures)
Weekend Box Office June 14-16, 2019
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — All is quiet and eerie at the domestic box office as “Men in Black: International” takes the top spot despite being largely ignored as it looks to finish the weekend with a scant $28 million. Previous entries in the franchise all opened over $50 million. Following recent trends, the film did far better overseas where it has earned nearly $74 million for worldwide total of $102 million against a $110 million budget.
In its second weekend “">The Secret Life of Pets 2” fell 49% with $23.8 million. After 10 days, the film has earned $92 million in North America. The first film made $104 million domestically in its first three days. The worldwide total is $154 million. With a budget of $80 million, Universal Pictures and Illumination are Entertainment are likely to come away with a profit, but nothing remotely near the $875 million the original movie finished with in 2016.
Disney’s live-action adaptation of “Aladdin” held strong with $16.7 million for the weekend and a domestic total of $263 million. Worldwide the film has brought in $724 million. That’s good enough for third place at the worldwide box office for 2019. Only “Avengers: Endgame” with $2.742 billion ($45 million behind all-time leader “Avatar”) and “Captain Marvel” with $1.127 billion have earned more.
With $8.3 million “Shaft” didn’t exactly make a grand entrance. The silver lining here is that CinemaScore has audiences giving the film an A grade. Warner Bros. would happily trade for a C in exchange for the film opening closer to the expected $14 million.
“Dark Phoenix” is in a free fall as it dipped 72% from last week’s earnings with $9 million for a shocking domestic total of $51 million. Worldwide it has earned $204 million. Thank you, next.
Next week sees the release of “Toy Story 4.” Early projections have the film earning anywhere between $150 and $200 million domestically.
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'The Walking Dead' comic series comes to unexpected end with latest issue
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The cover of 'The Walking Dead' issue #193, drawn by Charlie Adlard. The final issue of the series hit comic book stores on July 3. (Image Comics)
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) —
A month after Robert Kirkman unexpectedly killed off his best-selling book’s lead character, the writer delivered an even bigger shock in “The Walking Dead” #193: killing off the series.
The end came without warning in the 72-page issue of the Image Comics series that hit stores Wednesday, written by Kirkman and drawn by Charlie Adlard, closing out the zombie survival drama that ran for 16 years and spawned a mini-empire of TV series, novels, and video games.
“This is the end of The Walking Dead,” Kirkman wrote in an essay in the back of the issue. “That’s it... it’s over we’re done. I’m sure you have a million questions and I’m sure you feel as emotional about all this as we do... if not more so. I’m completely willing to bet some of you are angry over this. I get it... I do. I mean... WHY didn’t we announce this so that fans would have some time to prepare? Well... personally... I hate knowing what’s coming. As a fan, I hate it when I realize I’m in the third act of a movie and the story is winding down. I hate that I can count commercial breaks and know I’m nearing the end of a TV show. I hate that you can FEEL when you’re getting to the end of a book, or a graphic novel.”
He argued the unannounced finale was consistent with the approach he took throughout the book’s run, with big plot twists and major character deaths coming when they were least expected. Most recently, that includes the death of Rick Grimes, who the series had followed since he woke from a coma in a land overrun by the dead in issue #1 in 2003.
After being shot in issue #191, Grimes died and turned into a zombie in issue #192 and was shot in the head by his son Carl. Image Comics had solicited two more issues to follow #193, but those books apparently are never coming.
Rumors of the series’ cancellation spread Monday after images of the final pages leaked on social media. AMC assured fans Tuesday the TV series inspired by the show and its spin-offs will continue.
The Rick Grimes character, played by Andrew Lincoln, was written out of “The Walking Dead” TV show last season, with plans to feature him in three stand-alone movies in the future. The series enters its 10th season this fall, and spin-off “Fear the Walking Dead” is currently in the middle of its fifth season. A untitled second spin-off is scheduled to launch next year.
“This extraordinary comic created a world that already lives in multiple forms, and in the hearts and minds of millions of fans around the world, and will for many years to come,” AMC said in a statement to The Wrap.
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Amidst Lawsuit, Ike’s Moves to State Street
April 25, 2019 at 12:09 am by Max Abrams
Nearly three years have passed since Ike’s began filling the stomachs of hungry Isla Vistans. The shop, nestled between Caje and Spudnuts on Embarcadero del Norte, opened its doors for the last time on April 13, bringing the local sandwich spree to an end.
The company’s founder Ike Shehadeh — colloquially called the “Ike of Ike’s” — said in an interview with the Nexus that the Isla Vista location was initially launched as an experiment, implying that the location was destined to be only temporary.
Ike’s location in I.V. opened its doors for the last time on April 13.Reena Nanavati / Daily Nexus
With the exception of a few spare signs, there isn’t much left to the now-defunct I.V. location – other than an eviction notice.
Litigation:
On the Tuesday following the store’s departure, an eviction notice on the window demanded that Shehadeh vacate the Icon-owned property by the day it was posted, April 16.
The eviction notice stems from a case that was originally filed by Icon Property as an unlawful detainer last December, according to public records from Santa Barbara Superior Court. The case alleges that Shehadeh owes Icon more than $42,000 in overdue rent, according to public records.
The Nexus reached out to both Icon’s leasing office and its legal team several times, but did not receive any comment.
In a separate interview with the Nexus, Shehadeh said he recently filed a countersuit against Icon, alleging that “[Icon] did some things that we didn’t appreciate.”
Shehadeh’s countersuit alleges that Icon breached his lease agreement and committed fraud in the form of concealment.
According to a court document sent to the Nexus by Shehadeh’s attorney, the countersuit alleges that Icon hid important information following a situation involving mold on the premises, resulting in the eventual litigation currently taking place.
After informing Icon in January of 2018 that he would no longer be leasing the store, “Icon negotiated with Ike’s Place to amend the lease” and remain in I.V., according to the court document.
The court document alleges that following the repair of a faulty hose in the soda dispenser at the I.V. location, Icon, “unbeknownst to Ike’s Place… hired ATC Group Services LLC to perform a mold inspection in the neighboring property…” that same day.
Within that same week, ATC Group Services allegedly reported that the mold found on the premises was coming from Shehadeh’s store.
The report claimed that the faulty hose was to blame for the mold but, allegedly, nobody from ATC Group Services contacted the store to inform Shehadeh there was a presence of mold on the premises.
Furthermore, the court document alleges that Icon had knowledge of mold on the premises prior to the faulty hose in the I.V. location’s soda dispenser.
However, the soda dispensary machine at the I.V. location had allegedly been inspected just “weeks prior” and the health inspector “did not find any issues with that machine,” according to the court document.
When Shehadeh entered negotiations between Jan. 19 of 2018 and Jul. 4 of 2018 to extend his lease with Icon, the leasing agency allegedly “did not disclose this mold report to Ike’s Place,” according to the court document: “had Ike’s Place known that Icon intended to blame mold damages in the Premises upon Ike’s place, then Ike’s Place would have been able to obtain contemporaneous evidence that it was not responsible for said damages.”
Shehadeh eventually decided to terminate his lease with Icon during the negotiation period but received an email in which Icon offered to “modify the amendment for the reduced gross rent,” according to the document.
Within weeks, Shehadeh agreed to extend the lease, ending negotiations with Icon.
Allegedly, “almost immediately” after Shehadeh signed the extended lease, Icon began inspections to “establish the presence of mold that it was already aware existed but had not disclosed to Ike’s Place,” according to the document.
The court document alleges that “Intrusive remedial work” was performed on the I.V. store following the inspection, ceasing store operations.
During this time, biohazard signs were scattered throughout the store, bathrooms were closed, the kitchen was sealed off and the I.V. location was unable to make and serve sandwiches, according to the court document.
“Ike’s place was unable to continue to do business at the level it previously did and was accordingly unable to pay rent,” the court document states.
By leaving the I.V. store uninformed about the mold, the court document alleges, Icon breached “the covenant of good faith and fair dealing when it concealed material facts from Ike’s place.”
The I.V. store claims, in the court document, that it was “harmed” by Icon due to its reliance on false information the leasing agency provided.
“Icon’s suppression of material facts was malicious and egregious such that Icon should be liable for punitive damages,” according to the document.
The court document adds that the I.V. location is seeking compensation for “punitive damages,” the cost of the suit, attorney’s fees and “general, special, compensatory, incidental, consequential and/or economic damages…”
New State Street Store:
With the new shop slated to open next week, Shehadeh circumvented the short hiring window by offering all current employees at the I.V location a chance to work at the new store. Furthermore, the store will be managed by one of Ike’s first-ever managers, who will bring roughly 10 years of experience to the new sandwich parlor.
The State Street location is equipped with a parking lot, which allows for a full-size catering menu, decreased wait times for delivery and parking for both employees and customers, according to Shehadeh.
Furthermore, Shehadeh also plans to keep the lights on late into the night, flirting with new store hours such as “10 to 10” on weekdays and “10 to midnight” on weekends. However, the hours will be adjusted according to demand, as Shehadeh finds that there’s no use in staying open if nobody wants to purchase food.
To further compensate for the move, Shehadeh is excited to offer a “super student discount,” where both Santa Barbara City College and UC Santa Barbara students can tack on chips and a drink to their meal for “a buck fifty.”
The court filings in full can be viewed below:
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Max Abrams serves as an assistant news editor. He is from Buffalo. That’s all you need to know.
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Absolute Authority
Kip the Dip said: You say you're an anarchist, but I believe Paul (the apostle, not Ron) fundamentally disagreed with your political views:
"Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves." - Romans 13:2-3
CodewordConduit said: Should this apply if a woman is married to a wife-beater? A child molester?
From the essay Ethical Choices: A Case For Non-Conflicting Absolutism by Robert V. Rakestraw:
In this regard, it is helpful to recognize two categories or kinds (not "levels") of absolutes with regard to the locus of authority. Some absolutes require obedience directly to God, without human intermediaries, while other absolutes involve obedience to human beings whose authority has been delegated to them by God. Examples of the first category include prohibitions against lying, murder, adultery, and the commands to be patient and kind to others. The second category includes such matters as obedience to parents, governmental officials, and local church leaders.
Moral dilemmas often arise when an absolute from one category appears to clash with an absolute from the other category. When a child is told by her father to lie on the telephone, or, far worse, to submit to his advances, the resulting sense of conflict can be intense. In such cases the human authority must be disobeyed, but this is not an exception or an exemption to an absolute, for the absolute is defined in such a way that obedience is to be rendered only when human commands do not violate clear scriptural prohibitions and instructions.
God's moral absolutes never truly conflict, and that all of them are binding in any given situation, with the power of God present for their fulfillment.
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Christians are Misogynistic?
freddies_dead said in that last post called Woman Boss (bit.ly/womanboss):Wow .. just wow .. the misogyny is almost palpable.
My friend Eric just today said on his Facebook page that his "faith is pure and his pimp hand is strong."
But seriously, we are called bride of Christ for a reason, God loves woman. Yes, women submit to the husband, and husband submit to God. See, we are playing the role of the marriage that will happen in heaven with Jesus and his believers. Stay loyal in Christ and you will understand how exalted you will be in heaven.
Many women don't like what the Bible says because it calls wives to "submit to their husbands."
However, submission is not limited to wives submitting to their husbands. We are told to submit to God, governmental authorities, our boss, and leaders in the assembly. We are also told to submit to one another, which includes men submitting women and vice versa. God is a God of order. In a sinful world, submission to those in authority is the only way to maintain order."
Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
Traits from man and woman equally make up the "image of God"
What about Genesis 2:18 where it says it is "not good" for man to be alone.
How did God treat women? Remember story of Esther?
You then have to ask, How did Jesus treat women? Like the woman at the well or Mary Magdalene or even the prostitute about to get stoned.
As it was said in the last post, "The women described in the Bible are not always homemakers and mothers. Obviously, the biological function of women is to produce children. However, Deborah was both a judge and leader of Israel.(Judges 4:4) Other women were involved in ridding Israel of her enemies.(Judges 4:21) Quite a number of women are described as being prophetesses.(Exodus 15:20,2 Kings 22:14,Luke 2:36) Other women in the Bible were involved in teaching the Word of God(Acts 18:26)"
Countless other verses point to Jesus holding high regard for women.
God's people are referred to as female, not male. In the Old Testament, God's people are the "daughters of Zion." The Body of Christ (including us men) is referred to as the "bride" of Christ and God is said to be our "husband." Whenever referred to by sex, the assembly is described as "she" or "her." (Ephesians 5:25,27)"
In conclusion we have one verse that sums it all up: Galatians 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." We all have our roles as the body of the Christ head.
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Woman Boss?
Women as bosses in the workplace are great. They know what they want, they understand how to persuade people. They battle for the right things and are, for the most part, ethically sound. They fit into the role quite well.
The women described in the Bible are not always homemakers and mothers. Obviously, the biological function (role it plays for its genetic success) of women is to produce children. However, Deborah was both a judge and leader of Israel. (Judges 4:4) Other women were involved in ridding Israel of her enemies. (Judges 4:21) Quite a number of women are described as being prophetesses. (Exodus 15:20,2 Kings 22:14,Luke 2:36) Other women in the Bible were involved in teaching the Word of God. (Acts 18:26)
Personally my own wife is an accomplished Graphic Designer and won, or helped win, 18 advertising awards and a television award. We made an agreement that whoever can earn the most money would work, the other would raise the children. I lost, now I am homeschooling our four, soon to be five, kids and wouldn't trade it for any amount of career money. It took a couple of months to later realize that I actually won the deal.
Even if I am still head of the house, she still submits to my authority as head of the house, I hold my wife elevated with respect and love. The gift she gave me that allowed me to truly enjoy my children is greatly appreciated. We still hold our roles Biblically though.
It all started with Eve. When Eve disobeyed God by transgressing His Law She brought things onto herself. (1 Timothy 2:14) She basically put "self" as her god. Eve placed God on trial as a criminal. She listened to God. She listened to Satan and weighed the two. Adam followed Eve instead of God. Autonomy was the oldest sin.
Now look at these two verses
(Genesis 3:16; Genesis 4:6-7)
See the similarities?
In referencing the woman: "and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
In referencing sin: "And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him"
Metaphorically, the temptation of sin wants to have control over, or consume, Cain, and it did. By nature, because of the fall, the woman will seek to rule over the husband. Also, because of the fall, there is a natural tension that takes place in the family and there is a struggle for headship. "Woman wears the pants in the family" is a result of the curse. We are to resist sin and control from the woman.
So the Women desire to rule over men, because of the fall, falls naturally into the position of authority, because of her desires. This is why, I believe, that desire was so great they burned their bras and protested in the recent past to increase their role in the workplace. In a Holy setting though (Church or Family) we are not to allow the woman to usurp that authority.
Don't stop here though, now go read bit.ly/misogynistic for a complete thought on Women and their role with God.
bit.ly/womanboss
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Darwin Day Debate- Dan Barker and Kyle Butt
Since, debating seems to be happening quite often here, I guess that can even be debated, I have an eye out for good debates and I found a few. Until the Comfort/Dawkins debate comes to fruition we will have to settle on what is already out there. This one is a debate between an Atheist Dan Barker and a Christian Kyle Butt. Due to the location of the videos, to watch the "next clip" you will have to click below and be redirected to the original location.
If you prefer the Mp3 of the Debate our friend Brian was able to locate it. You can either click on the photo or go to his blog called Apologetics 315.
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False Religions
OK the picture has nothing to do with this post but I liked it, so up it went.
Some Atheists try to claim the validity of other religions and other books (as if they are even on an equal plane), so let me attempt to show you the difference.
The Book of Mormon is contradictory to the Bible and claims cohesiveness. There is a fine example of law of non-contradiction right there.
Some quoted examples:
Joseph Smith: "In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 5).
Brigham Young: "There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . . " (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, page 247; see also, Vol. 4, pp. 53-54, 219-220.)
Brigham Young: "The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11, page 269).
Also, "Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 3, p. 266).
Which is in direct contradiction to the Bible. Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:5-6, Mark 10:8, 1 Corinthians 6:16, Ephesians 5:31, 1 Timothy 3:2, 1 Timothy 3:12, Titus 1:6
Who do you trust Man or God?
Brigham Young: "I say now, when they [his discourses] are copied and approved by me they are as good Scripture as is couched in this Bible . . . " (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 13, p. 264; see also page 95.)
Mormonism teaches that it is the true church, that God used to be a man that lives on a planet called Kolob, that he has a goddess wife, and that you have the potential of becoming a god. In the heavens, god and his goddess wife produced offspring. The first born was Jesus then we were all born as spirit children in heaven afterwards. We then inhabited human bodies at birth. Is that anything close to what the Bible says? Nope. False religion.
How about the Qur’an?
John Rhue said: "Koran is unchanged. It is the revelation. It can never be changed."
The Bible was penned by over 40 different authors, from 1500 B.C. to about A.D. 100, on three continents, and in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. These men wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Pet. 1:21). They wrote not in words of human wisdom, but in words taught by the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 2:13).
The Qur’an, on the other hand, was written approximately 600 AD, nearly 300 years after the Bible was compiled in its current form. The Qur'an was written by individuals familiar with both the Bible and the Torah. (Something borrowed, something blue.......) but from what I understand the Qur'an was written after Muhammad's death. There were many versions floating around. The third Caliphate (Caliph Uthman) had all existing versions gathered and burned. He has his scholars rewrite the Qur’an to his liking. Then he distributed his new version. This is the version of the Qur’an that exists as the ‘original’ today. But he could of burned the wrong version and no one knows if the QUr'an is the correct version today. If it is not of God then it is of the Devil and we can all agree that Islam is demonic. Just click on the link that has the number of Islamic terrorist attacks on this blog to find out more.
Qur’an claims to be the succession to the Bible and the Bible is truth. Surat Al-Baqarah 2:136 states the Bible is true. Qur'an states the Bible is truth, that none can alter the words of God (Surat Al-'An`ām 6:34) and if the Bible is truth the Qur'an is certainly false.
Besides the Bible being supernatural, the Bible has some 300 prophecies that came true that are provable by history. 135 prophecies came true in Daniel alone. From the beginning even as far back as Genesis 3:15 the Bible speaks of Jesus. Read Isaiah 53:1-12 and you will see that it was written about Jesus and was written almost 700 years before Christ was even born. Not the Qur’an or any other book in the world can prophecy even once like the Bible did 300 times and that is evidence that it was written by God.
CARM adds: "The Bible was penned by over 40 different authors, from 1500 B.C. to about A.D. 100, on three continents, and in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. These men wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Pet. 1:21). They wrote not in words of human wisdom, but in words taught by the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 2:13)."
It is quite obvious that these, as well as all other religions, do not compare to Christianity and the only Salvation we could have is through Christianity alone.
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Confident Christianity
In reading things about Mary Jo Sharp, I noticed many links on her facebook page that I wanted to examine more. So as a convenience to myself, and hopefully a great resource to all of you, I am posting them for future reading.
http://www.confidentchristianity.com
http://www.rzim.org
http://www.dwillard.org
http://www.tektonics.org
http://www.4truth.net
http://www.carm.org
http://www.leaderu.com
http://www.paulcopan.com
http://www.garyhabermas.com
http://www.williamlanecraig.com
http://www.reasonablefaith.org
http://www.irr.org
http://www.CrossExamined.org
http://www.csntm.org
http://www.leestrobel.com
http://www.comereason.org
http://www.normgeisler.com
http://www.answeringinfidels.com
http://www.bethinking.org
http://www.origins.org
http://www.str.org
http://www.withallyourmind.net
http://www.selflessdefense.com
http://www.risenjesus.com
http://www.reclaimingthemind.org
http://www.christian-thinktank.com
http://www.aomin.org
http://www.reasons.org
WELL WORTH THE TIME TO VISIT
http://www.damaris.org
http://www.apologetics.com
http://www.apologetics.org
http://www.problemofevil.blogspot.com (debate with John Loftus)
http://www.thinkagain.us
http://www.impactapologetics.com
http://www.internationallegacy.org
http://www.jewsforjesus.org
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org
http://www.soulation.org
http://www.answersingenesis.org
http://www.creationontheweb.com
http://www.skepticalchristian.com
http://www.christiancadre.org
http://www.reformed.org/apologetics
http://www.pleaseconvinceme.com
http://www.peterkreeft.com
http://www.sbtexas.com/evangelism
http://www.ChristianWorldview.net
http://www.proofthatgodexists.org (Rock Star)
http://www.prshockley.org
http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/Religion.swf
http://www.answers101.org
http://www.standfortruthministries.org
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com
Interpreting ancient manuscripts
Apologetics315.blogspot.com
Crisis of Credit Visualized
Josh showed me something interesting. This has nothing to do with DA but I liked it so much I wanted to share. Maybe I can relate it to how mankind is burying themselves with always doing the wrong things, especially when it comes to money. The righteous will prevail because God designed the universe that way.
Without Christ who is righteous? ...no one. (Romans 5:19, 1 John 2:29)
The Privileged Planet Hijacked
We were given the ability to observe, study and carry out experiments in order to gain a better understanding of our environment, our future, ourselves, and God. Unfortunately the Lab Coatauthoritarians have hijacked out system for study. We must take back the process to discover our environment. Seek God and you will find the truth, seek truth and you will find God.
The presuppositions of the secular scientific community are obvious and sad when faced with truth. They will twist the truth to fit their belief structure no matter how contorted the truth looks afterwords.
The Privileged Planet has a beautiful and compelling argument why we are exactly here, in this exact spot, for the exact reason to be able to study our universe. Imagine the odds? (Acts 17:24-26,Psalm 115:16,1 Corinthians 15:41)
Lying for Science?
"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." (2 Peter 2:1)
Speaking of Ray, I guess I should add this link also.
I was going to write an article/theory explaining about Darwin losing his Mom very early in life and then losing his three children (two as infants and one at age 10), thus possibly grudging against God, yada yada yada. But I have changed my mind. I am so fed up with the lying for science that is going on these days, I though I would just let things implode within itself. Instead, with minimal effort on my part, I will post a previous article about this day and hope that people will come to their senses. Since evilution has been exposed for what it is...a lie.
The Gospel According to Darwin
"There is scant reporting on the anti-religious zeal with which many atheists promote Darwinism.
February 12 used to be known in classrooms across the nation as Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. But over the last decade, an increasing number of schools and community groups have decided to celebrate the birthday of the father of evolution instead.
The movement to establish February 12 as “Darwin Day” seems to be spreading, promoted by a evangelistic non-profit group with its own website (www.darwinday.org) and an ambitious agenda to create a “global celebration in 2009, the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origins of Species.”
Darwin Day celebrations provide an eye-opening glimpse into the world of grassroots Darwinian fundamentalism, an alternate reality where atheism is the conventional wisdom and where traditional religious believers are viewed with suspicion if not paranoia.
Promoters of Darwin Day deny that their activities are anti-religious, but their denial is hard to square with reality.
According to the Darwin Day website, the movement’s inspiration was an event sponsored by the Stanford Humanists and the Humanist Community in 1995. Since then the honor roll of groups sponsoring Darwin Day events has been top-heavy with organizations bearing such names as the “Long Island Secular Humanists,” the “Atheists and Agnostics of Wisconsin,” the “Gay and Lesbian Atheists and Humanists,” the “Humanists of Idaho,” the “Southeast Michigan Chapter of Freedom from Religion Foundation,” and the “San Francisco Atheists.” The last group puts on an annual festival called “Evolutionpalooza” featuring a Darwin impersonator and an evolution game show (“Evolutionary!”).
Given such sponsors, it should be no surprise that Darwin Day events often explicitly attack religion. At a high school in New York a few years ago, students wore shirts emblazoned with messages proclaiming that “no religious dogmas [were] keeping them from believing what they want to believe,” while in California a group named “Students for Science and Skepticism” hosted a lecture at the University of California, Irvine, on the topic “Darwin’s Greatest Discovery: Design without a Designer.” This year in Boston there is an event on “Biological Arguments Against the Existence of God.”
A musical group calling itself “Scientific Gospel Productions,” meanwhile, mocks gospel music by holding annual Darwin Day concerts featuring such songs as “Ain’t Gonna Be No Judgment Day,” the “Virgin of Spumoni” (satirizing the Virgin Mary), and my favorite, “Randomness Is Good Enough for Me,” the lyrics of which proclaim: “Randomness is good enough for me./ If there’s no design it means I’m free./ You can pray to go to heaven./ I’m gonna try to roll a seven./ Randomness is good enough for me.” The same group’s website offers for sale a CD titled “Hallelujah! Evolution!”
The original “honorary president” of Darwin Day was biologist Richard Dawkins, author most recently of The God Delusion. Dawkins is best known for such pearls of wisdom as “faith is one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate,” and “Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”
The Darwin Day group’s current advisory board includes not only Dawkins but Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education (an original signer of the “Humanist Manifesto III”), philosopher Daniel Dennett (who praises Darwinism as the “universal acid” that eats away traditional religion and morality), and Scientific American columnist Michael Shermer (an atheist who writes that “Science Is My Savior” because it helped free him from “the stultifying dogma of a 2,000-year-old religion”).
Perhaps in an effort to revise the image of Darwin Day as merely a holiday for atheists, last year a professor from Wisconsin urged churches to celebrate “Evolution Sunday” on or near Darwin Day. But the fact that some liberal churches have now been enlisted to spread the Darwinist gospel cannot cover up the anti-religious fervor that pervades the Darwinist subculture.
Darwin Day celebrations are fascinating because they expose a side of the controversy over evolution in America that is rarely covered by the mainstream media. Although journalists routinely write about the presumed religious motives of anyone critical of unguided evolution, they almost never discuss the anti-religious mindset that motivates many of evolution’s staunchest defenders.
On the few occasions when the anti-religious agenda of someone like Dawkins is even raised, it is usually downplayed as unrepresentative of most Darwinists.
What Darwin Day shows, however, is just how ordinary the anti-religious views expressed by Dawkins are among grassroots Darwinists. Far from being on the fringe, Dawkins’ views form the ideological core of mainstream Darwinism.
Not that this should come as a shock. According to a 1998 survey of members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), nearly 95 percent of NAS biologists are atheists or agnostics. A look at the major critics of the theory of intelligent design reveals similar views. Barbara Forrest, co-author of the anti-intelligent design harangue Creationism’s Trojan Horse, is a long-time activist and board member with a group calling itself the “New Orleans Secular Humanist Association,” although she fails to disclose that fact in her book, and reporters studiously avoid asking her about her own religious beliefs.
The anti-religious outlook of many of Darwin’s chief boosters exposes the hypocrisy in current discussions over Darwin’s theory. The usual complaint raised against scientists who are skeptical of Darwin’s theory is that many of them (like the vast majority of Americans) happen to believe in God. It is insinuated that this fact somehow undermines the validity of their scientific views. Yet, at the same time, defenders of Darwinism insist that their own rejection of religion is irrelevant to the validity of their scientific views—and most reporters seem to agree.
Of course, in an important sense these defenders of Darwinism are right. Just because leading Darwinists are avowed atheists or agnostics does not mean that their scientific beliefs about evolution are wrong. Scientific propositions should be debated based on their evidence, not on the metaphysical beliefs of those who espouse them.
But if Darwinists have the right to be debated based on evidence, not motives, then scientists who are supportive of alternatives to Darwin’s theory such as intelligent design should have the right to expect the same treatment.
If Darwin Day helps expose the blatant double standard about religious motives operating in the current evolution debate, then its evangelistic boosters will have performed an invaluable public service—however unintentionally."
—John G. West author of Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest.
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Lab Coatauthoritarians
Speaking of Lab Coatauthoritarians AKA Liars for Science, John Cleese is clueless in a funny but very sad way.
Dr. David Berlinski is right, I think it's time to go after these so called Lab Coatauthoritarians.
Trying to demonize science merely trivializes your faith based worldview. You should know better than this. Science is science
Nice try to misrepresent my position. Get this straight once and for all. I LOVE SCIENCE!!!
What I don't like is the presuppositions and biased for a god that the SECULAR scientists have, called naturalism. They are trying to strangle hold simple common sense and hijack our educational system to teach false things. The Secular Scientists are liars for science. They do not represent the objectivity of science, they represent the common subjectivity of man hence the name Lab Coatauthoritarians.
bit.ly/LabCoatauth
Who was the Rich Man?
In discussing Luke 16:19-31, I heard a viewpoint that was compelling and though I would share from WotM.
Most people think the rich man is just a rich dude in hell for not feeding Lazerath. Is it a picture of the way to salvation? If so, it's totally inconsistent with every other Biblical reference to deliverance from death. The symbolism the author is making is very important.
First, why did the rich man end up in hell? What was his sin? Obviously, it was his failure to feed Lazarus. If that is the case, then he could have earned salvation. If a non-Christian wanted to earn his way into Heaven, should he then give food to the homeless? How much food would merit eternal life? No since salvation is "by grace through faith,... not of works"(Ephesians 2:8-9), the rich man's sin could could not have been a mere failure to give Lazarus free food.
On the other hand, what did Lazarus do to merit salvation? Did suffering in the life appease the wrath of God and gain him entrance? If so let us seek suffering instead of the Savior.
If this is a picture of the way of salvation, then Eternal Justice can be perverted, God can be bribed, and the sacrifice of the wicked is not an abomination to the Lord.
The story , therefore, MUST have another meaning .
So who is the rich man? Let's establish several principles of Biblical interpretation that will unlock the meaning of the story.
1. Purple is the Biblical color of royalty (Esther 8:15)
2. Fine linen represents the righteousness of the saints (Rev 19:8)
3. The Church is referred to as the "royal priesthood" (1 Peter 2:9)
4. The tabernacle was made of fine linen and purple (Exodus 26:1)
I believe the rich man is a type of professing Church, and the leper (Lazarus) is a type of 'the sinner'.
The rich man's thoughts are only for himself. He is filled with his own ways. We have built for ourselves big beautiful buildings with cool clear acoustics and colorful carpets, as cozy Christians we sit on padded pews, living in luxury while sinners sink into Hell. We say that we are rich, but we are poor, blind, wretched, miserable, and naked. We have lavish luxury on the lifeboat, while mass people drown around us.
bit.ly/RichMan
Push Towards Governmental Atheism and Socialism
UPDATE: Maybe I should add something else to make my point clearer. Although this video was made by a man that does not believe in God, we do share the same beliefs about our current government.
Karl Marx, in Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), posited that socialism would be achieved via class struggle and a proletarian revolution and would represent the transitional stage between capitalism and communism.
From the words of Dr. Cornelius Van Til, "Believers themselves have not chosen the Christian position because they are wiser then others. What they have they have by grace alone. But this does not mean that they accept the problematics of fallen man as right...Fallen man does in principle seek to be a law unto himself. But he cannot carry our his own principle to its full degree. He is restrained from doing so...In spite of what he does against God, he can and must work for God; thus he is able to make a "positive contribution" to human culture. (A Christian Theory of Knowledge, 1969 pp. 43-44)
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India should stop using ‘China Threat’ to build up its military - Chinese Media
By: Global Times
Since the founding of India, the country has been longing to become a major global power. The pursuit of dominance in the Indian Ocean is vital to its great power dream.
However, some Indian people, especially Indian journalists, have a bad habit - taking the so-called China threat theory as its excuse to develop India's military strength.
Bloomberg published on Monday a report written by an Indian correspondent, saying the Indian government "seeks to buy $2.2 billion in warships." The author explained it is a part of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's $250 billion military modernization plan to arm the country "when it faces threats in its maritime waters from its neighbor China." By "threats" he means "Beijing has in the past sent its warships to the Indian Ocean region." The article was soon republished by several India media.
However, Beijing has sent its warships to not only the Indian Ocean, but also quite a few others places, including the Gulf of Aden and the Caribbean. Such activities are welcomed by many countries along the routes, including small countries. Yet only India, a country with strong national strength, deems them as a threat.
The Indian Ocean is one of the main trade routes linking China and Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Substantial quantities of China's imports of energy and raw materials are transported through the Indian Ocean. But the safety of the waters is not always well maintained. The presence of the Chinese navy there not only protects Chinese merchant vessels but also provides security for other countries, such as cracking down on piracy and offering disaster relief.
In December 2014, a fire broke out at a water treatment plant in the Maldives. "About 100,000 residents in Male lost access to potable water," the BBC reported. China sent not only planes with tons of fresh water to the country, but also the rescue ship Changxingdao of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy to provide fresh water to Male residents through the ship-borne sea water desalination units.
China's national defense policy is purely defensive in nature. It has never once stationed large-scale troops on other countries' soil as certain Western powers do.
There are, indeed, divergences between Beijing and New Delhi over border disputes. But both sides have shown willingness to resolve them through negotiations. Communications are taking place from time to time. No cross-border conflicts had been reported for a long time.
But some Indian reporters tend to make a fuss about the so-called China threat theory for commercial interests by exaggerating certain officials' vigilance against Beijing.
For example, Press Trust of India quoted Indian Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba in March as saying "China's growing presence in the northern part of the Indian Ocean is a challenge to India."
China welcomes competition from India. But the latter should not compete by hyping up anti-China nationalism. China welcomes India to boost its military power. But Indian media should be aware that India's real challenges are its laggard military technologies, severe dependence on foreign imports of weapons and incomplete industrialization and modernization, rather than the "threat" from China, a fabricated excuse.
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Design Lecture Series
Watch VideoView April Greiman's Work
April Greiman is an internationally acclaimed American graphic designer and artist. She is recognized as one the first designers to utilize computer technology as a tool for design in the 1980’s, and to pioneer the American “New Wave” design style. She currently runs the multi-disciplinary design consultancy Made in Space in Los Angeles.
Greiman has held numerous solo exhibitions, including expos at the Visual Arts Gallery at the School of Visual Arts in NYC (2008) and at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (2006). Her work was also featured in the global exhibition “Elles“ at Centre Pompidou in Paris. Recently, Greiman has focused on large-scale public art projects such as a commission for the Wilshire Vermont Station in Los Angeles (2007) and branding design for the Great Park in Irvine, CA (2011).
Greiman currently teaches at Woodbury University School of Architecture and Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc). She has received a lifetime achievement Gold Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, as well as honorary doctorates from Art Center College of Design, Kansas City Art Institute, Lesley University, Boston College of Art and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
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Review: Bully: Scholarship Edition (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Mark B. | March 18, 2008 | Archive, Video Game Reviews, Xbox 360 | No Comments
Developer: Rockstar Vancouver, Mad Doc Software
Bully was one of those weird games that, based on the concept behind it, really had no right being as good as it was. Though the product was besieged by controversy for months prior to its release, some imagined (Columbine simulation) and some not (kissing boys), the actual game ended up being, simply put, a GTA-styled experience based around a private boarding school and, more specifically, the adventures of one character within it. Shockingly (based on the developer and their infamy), the game was reasonably tame, with little profanity, no blood, mild violence, and an even balance between toilet and tasteful humor, but perhaps even more shockingly, the game actually worked. It wasn’t a huge seller or a GOTY contender like certain other Rockstar hot properties, but for those who were tired of picking up hookers and stealing cars, Bully was absolutely fantastic and worth playing, just because of how different it really was while still remaining familiar.
And now it’s back.
Bully: Scholarship Edition is essentially a re-release of the original game with additional bits crammed in here and there, and is more or less geared toward players who either did not play the original or did and are starved for more. In both cases, this isn’t so unreasonable; if you’ve never played it, it’s certainly a fun and entertaining game to play and there’s plenty to enjoy in it, and if you loved the original a whole lot, of COURSE you’d be looking to play more Bully goodness. Unfortunately, Bully: Scholarship Edition probably isn’t quite the way to get into the game if you missed it the first time around, as for those who never played the game at all, there are a few technical issues in the 360 version that make the experience less than satisfying, and for those who HAVE played it, it’s not really worth playing through the whole game again for what little was added. This is not to say the game is BAD, however; Bully remains an outstanding game overall, though this time around it’s simply not as outstanding as it could have been.
The basic story remains more or less the same between versions: you play as Jimmy Hopkins, general malcontent who is sent by his parents to Bullworth Academy for unspecified reasons (though it’s pretty obvious that Jimmy was probably being something of a shit). Upon arriving, Jimmy is essentially crapped on by damn near everyone, starting with the Dean (who essentially notes that Jimmy is a horrible little brat and makes it well known that he’s already not well-liked) and moving down through the various cliques in the school, who either have no interest in Jimmy whatsoever… or want to beat the hell out of him. Jimmy eventually befriends two other outcasts in Gary (an outright pathological liar and psychopath with delusions of grandeur) and Pete (who’s fairly normal, aside from his crushingly low self-esteem), and more or less proceeds to make various attempts to entertain himself and fit in, some of which work out better than others. There’s a WHOLE lot more to the story than that, of course, but to go in-depth with any of it ruins a decent amount of the impact of the story, so we will leave it at that.
The interesting thing about the story of Bully is that it’s actually pretty damn good. Jimmy is a fairly three-dimensional protagonist who, while not out-and-out good, has his own fairly reasonable moral code he abides by, and the various characters you meet through your travels (with the possible exception of the Nerds faction, who are fairly stereotypical overall) are generally developed enough that you can understand who they are and where they’re coming from sufficiently. The writing and dialogue is generally quite solid as well, and the direction the story takes initially follows stereotypical lines before eventually veering off into other unexpected directions that are actually pretty interesting and entertaining.
Not that the story’s perfect, mind you. The Big Bad of the story (I don’t want to say who it is in case you haven’t played the game, but it’s not hard to figure it out) seems to perhaps be more successful than they ought to be, all things considered, and the ending scenario of the game will either strike you as awesome or contrived depending on your personal taste (I felt the former, but can completely understand the latter). And while the Scholarship Edition story does introduce new characters and events, they aren’t terribly important to the overall storyline as a whole and the missions and classes they are a part of don’t add anything exciting to the narrative (the only added missions really amount to one Music class oriented mission, and three missions featuring an ripoff of homage to “Bad Santa”Â. And, as noted, some of the characters do play into their stereotypes more than they act like legitimate characters, and some of the jokes are more toilet humor for the sake of toilet humor (hocking loogies into the stew, for instance), but this is surprisingly few and far between.
While the story has held up well over time, the visuals can’t say the same; while B:SE still looks stylish as hell, and the textures have generally been cleaned up (and the draw-in distance increased), it looks primitive in comparison to, oh, launch titles on the 360. This is generally jarring at first, though it’s fairly easy to get used to with a little time. What’s not so easy to get used to are the odd graphical glitches in the game (watching Jimmy spin around 360 degrees in his chair as classes start, as a perfect example) and the odd frame rate (which are few, but noticeable) and loading issues (noticeable load times pop up occasionally when running about the world) that pop up from time to time. On the upside, the aural presentation is as fantastic as it ever was; the music is incredibly fitting, and each track sounds appropriate to the context it is presented in, and the various sound effects are quite appropriate and fitting to their specific uses. The voice acting is especially awesome, and each voice actor and actress turns in a performance that is not only fitting and good, but also adds to each of the characters they portray beautifully, from the most important characters all the way down to the extras.
The gameplay in Bully, at its core, traces its roots most readily back to Rockstar’s own GTA franchise, though it’s fundamentally different enough that the two can’t be readily compared without much difficulty. Essentially, you’re given a free-roaming environment and allowed to move around in the game as you deem appropriate, undertaking tasks as you go, but that’s really where the similarities end. First off, Bully relies more on fisticuffs over weaponry insofar as combat is concerned, which is something that GTA was notoriously bad at. Bully, however, is pretty good at it; by locking on with the left trigger, Jimmy is offered four options for dealing with his targets; the “positive” negotiation option (which can be just saying hi to someone, offering them money to back off, apologizing to them, or flirting, depending on the person highlighted), the “negative” negotiation option (shoving and taunting, mostly), punching and grappling. This is used to deal with folks whether in combat or not, mind you, and you can use it to bully people, flirt with girls (and some guys), apologize to authority figures and bribe people to be your flunkies. In combat, however, it’s mostly used to hurt and/or embarrass those you’re looking to kick the crap out of, and in this respect, it also works quite well; aside from chaining together and charging various strikes, you can use the grapple to initiate all sorts of grabs and takedowns, and humiliate opponents in various ways once you’ve worn them down… in schoolyard oriented fashion, so more wedgies and wet-willies and less curb stomping.
So, really, it’s rather uncomfortably realistic.
Secondly, while Jimmy can traverse the world at large and undertake various tasks within it, as noted, the world at large is DRASTICALLY different from that of the GTA world. See, Jimmy’s a kid in a small, strict town, and thus the world works around that. The town you traverse around is much smaller than any in the various GTA-type games you might have played prior, though this is, surprisingly, not really noticeable, as it’s time consuming traveling the town, since Jimmy can’t drive (though he can skateboard, grab onto cars while skateboarding, and ride a bike as the game progresses, and can take the bus places if needed, which makes things somewhat less time consuming). You might think this would be an annoying downgrade, but it’s actually well integrated and works perfectly fine in context. Also, another side effect of being a kid is that Jimmy has to obey certain rules of the game world itself so as to avoid getting into trouble; he has to sleep or he passes out around 2AM (which either results in being apprehended by school officials or waking up missing a shoe or something, depending on where it happens), he has a curfew to obey, he doesn’t kill people (but he does knock them the hell out quite often), and he has to attend classes (or be truant and dodge officials).
Failure to adhere to the rules results in similar repercussions to that of GTA; when Jimmy breaks a rule of some sort, whether it be breaking into a locker, trespassing, truancy, hitting a girl (which is actually a far worse crime in Bully than just regular violence) or whatever, a delinquency meter of sorts fills up, and either police officers or prefects (depending on whether you’re on or off of school grounds) will attempt to detain you. On one hand, if you can avoid being captured long enough, the bar will empty (unless you’re is presently breaking a crime, say, by being truant or in violation of curfew), and if you ARE captured, you can break away by spamming the Y button, but on the other, if your bar is red, any attempts at detaining you instantly succeed (presumably, because you’ve done so much bad stuff that no attempts to ensure your safety are taken into consideration or something to that effect). And while being detained essentially results in being brought to the principle’s office and having many of your items stripped from you, unlike similar titles Jimmy will occasionally have to deal with detention as a repercussion of his actions; this often involves doing chores on school grounds, like mowing the lawn and shoveling snow and such.
Of course, you can always just go to your classes, which, aside from being a mildly interesting diversion, actually help you out in game. Most of the classes actually improve your abilities in some way; Gym class, for example, can teach you new moves or improve your throwing accuracy, while Art class can improve your kissing skills (kissing, FYI, acts like, um, paying for favors in GTA; kiss a girl or guy, and your health will improve exponentially) and so on. Most of the classes are little more than silly little mini-games, mind you (Chemistry, Music and Shop are essentially of the DDR mini-game format, Art is Quix, English is Scrabble of sorts, and so on), but they’re short and generally entertaining in their own right. Four new classes have been added to this version of Bully (Music, which is noted above; Math, which is just “Here’s a problem, solve it” questions with multiple-choice answers; Biology, which is, uh, dissecting dead animals… woof; and Geography, which is matching flags to cities/states and is thus the hardest course in the game for, well, probably just about everyone), though they’re mostly there as window dressing; yes, they’re still pretty fun, but three of them only unlock new outfits for Jimmy (which is neat, but not terribly useful), and the only class that actually UNLOCKS something (the ability to see hidden items on the map) is, well, Geography (Doh!), which is kind of a pain in the ass.
Now, in-between obeying the rules, going to classes, kissing people and avoiding/beating up various people who step to you, you’ll also be asked to complete various missions in the storyline, which can range through any number of activities including bike races, beating up one or more people, fetch quests, and so on. Most of the missions are specifically used to advance the storyline, though certain ones are ancillary and don’t need to be completed. Many of the missions will also rely on you to use your various tools of the trade to complete them; much like in GTA, Jimmy has weaponry at his disposal which he can use to take down foes and accomplish tasks, though since he’s a kid, this is restricted to less violent items such as fireworks, stink bombs, eggs, and marbles, along with the occasional bat or board as needed. As you complete missions, you advance the storyline through its various chapters, which are marked (usually) by the changing of seasons around Bullworth, indicating how much time has passed. The chapters (and conversely, the seasons) won’t progress until you complete the appropriate storyline chapters to progress things, so you won’t have to worry about missing things as you can’t move the story forward until you’re ready to do so, really.
So, yeah, Bully is a pretty interesting game that plays well. Fine. That said…
Okay, well, now that we’ve gushed all over the gameplay and how wonderful it is, what’s wrong with it? Well, the biggest issue with the game is, essentially, that if you’ve played Bully, B:SE offers you, literally, NO REASON TO PLAY IT. The four new classes in the game are generally uninteresting; of the four, the only class that plays in any sort of interesting way is Biology, and the only class that’s really USEFUL is Geography. Now, this isn’t really that bad until one stops and notes, “Hey, this is a $50 re-release of a nearly two-year old game, WTF?” which doesn’t seem so bad until one notes that Fable: The Lost Chapters, for example, did the exact same thing (more storyline, more to play around with, more clothing options, etc) and was released at value price (on a system that a LOT LESS PEOPLE OWNED, no less). Suddenly, B:SE doesn’t seem so great anymore, especially if you’ve already played/owned it. There’s very, VERY little here that’s original in comparison to the prior title, and while the original game (and its concept) were pretty original a year and a half ago, adding to that a couple of classes that feel like a couple of prior classes, one new class that offers little for completing it, and a couple missions featuring Billy-Bob Thornton (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) isn’t much of a reason to own it.
But let’s assume you’ve neither played nor owned the game and are looking at it as a first time acquisition. Well, there are some smatterings of detection issues here and there and some mild AI issues that can cause you problems; activating doors and missions sometimes requires re-centering yourself numerous times in the same spot until the game decides you’re properly where you need to be to activate a quest, and fighting enemies is a pain in the ass when your own allies or random bystanders tend to, literally, wander up right in front of your fists, which can cause you no end of suffering. The game also has odd balancing issues; the actual storyline missions are mostly balanced perfectly fine, but when one is wandering around the vicinity of the Gym, one can find oneself surrounded by multiple enemies in SECONDS for no adequately explained reason except that Jimmy is loathed, which isn’t a problem when one is simply passing through, but when one is undertaking a mission that takes them to such an area (Photography, anyone?), well, grab the vaseline buddy, you’re screwed. Fighting one or two enemies is fairly manageable in most cases; fighting four or five guys at once is generally suicide without allies, and even WITH them it’s no picnic.
This is then further hampered by the fact that the game is generally one of those “play it once to completion” sorts of games; beating the game generally doesn’t unlock anything cool or spiffy that you could play around with, and while Bully tends to be more focused than GTA, GTA tends to offer the player more of a reason to return to the product upon completing it; Bully, while entertaining, doesn’t have any real replay merit save for reliving the experience (good though it is). Now, Rockstar DID make the various classes available as local multiplayer games, for those of you who want to battle your friends in Biology or Consumo or whatever, which is cute… for about ten minutes, after which time it becomes incredibly boring considering how many other games are mini-game collections PRIMARIALLY and thus do it better.
And, oh yes, according to reports, the 360 version has crash bugs at certain points. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I did not personally experience any crash bugs (though I did have a couple of disc-read errors, which is most likely the fault of the console over the game), many, MANY people have, so it is best to be aware of this thing. Rockstar is promising a patch sometime in the near future (read as “sometime before the sun burns out”Â), so this will presumably not be a problem forever, but you may want to be aware of this all the same and wait on buying it for a few weeks.
Assuming you can get past the technical issues and you haven’t played it before, Bully: Scholarship Edition is something you really, really should play and might want to consider owning. A strong storyline, sufficiently lengthy quest, high-quality presentation (more so aurally than visually, but still), and addictive overall experience will more than make up for the lack of replay and the few annoying issues that pop up here and there. But while the technical issues will (hopefully) be fixed for those holding off because of that… those who were hoping for a new and exciting experience with this re-release will be sorely disappointed; the amount of new content in this game wouldn’t even be CLOSE to an expansion pack in most cases, and while the product itself should be experienced if you haven’t, if you have, the added content is wholly forgettable and not even really worth the cost of a rental, let alone a full purchase, unless you’re looking to play through the whole game over.
Of course, if you are, then I understand that. I would.
The Scores:
Story: GOOD
Graphics: ABOVE AVERAGE
Sound: UNPARRALLED
Control/Gameplay: GOOD
Replayability: POOR
Balance: ABOVE AVERAGE
Originality: POOR
Addictiveness: GREAT
Appeal: ABOVE AVERAGE
Miscellaneous: ABOVE AVERAGE
Final Score: ENJOYABLE.
Short Attention Span Summary:
Bully: Scholarship Edition is GTA for people who are tired of GTA, but didn’t play the original Bully. A fantastic story, excellent sound, fun gameplay that manages to be familiar and innovative at the same, and a good long quest make this a must-play for anyone who never has. But some (hopefully temporary) technical issues combined with translation hiccups make this a not so good translation, and a general dearth of anything new that’s interesting make this almost worthless to fans of the original. Anyone who’s never played Bully should check this out; everyone else can hold off for the sequel without missing a damn thing, really.
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The role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI)
Ahmed, N., Carrick, D., Layland, J., Oldroyd, K. G. and Berry, C. (2013) The role of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Heart, Lung and Circulation, 22(4), pp. 243-255. (doi:10.1016/j.hlc.2012.11.016)
Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2012.11.016
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the world, despite the rate having significantly declined over the past decade. The aim of this review is to consider the emerging diagnostic and clinical utility of cardiac MRI in patients with recent AMI.
Cardiac MRI has high reproducibility and accuracy, allowing detailed functional assessment and characterisation of myocardial tissue. In addition to traditional measures including infarct size (IS), transmural extent of necrosis and microvascular obstruction (MVO), other infarct characteristics can now be identified using innovative MRI techniques. These novel pathologies include myocardial oedema and myocardial haemorrhage which also have functional and prognostic implications for patients. In addition to its diagnostic utility in ordinary clinical practice, cardiac MRI has been increasingly used to provide information on surrogate outcome measures, such as left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and volumes, in clinical trials. MRI is becoming more available in secondary care, however, the potential clinical utility and cost effectiveness of MRI in post-MI patients remains uncertain. Cardiac MRI is most likely to be useful in high risk patients with risk factors for heart failure (HF). This includes individuals with early signs of pump failure and risk factors for adverse remodelling, such as MVO. This review focuses on the role of cardiac MRI in the assessment of patients with AMI.
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My Weekly Recommendations 27th November
Posted on November 27, 2017 by indie-film-fanatic00
I know it is Monday but I went home from university this weekend so I was extra busy with my parents so apologies for the late post. I will be doing some different posts soon but for now here is another rendition of what I have been watching this (last) week.
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
This film charts a story of two men meeting in 1980s Italy, they initially dislike one another but then they migrate to lovers. Sounds simple, which the plot is, yet it is 100% effective. The beautiful scenery of a hot Italian summer, the French language combined with Italian and English, the sensual soundtrack and costumes all come together to create a romantic love story that also explores being gay in the 80s and lusting after someone older then having to lose them. The main character Elio (Timothée Chalamet), a 17 year old who is a gifted musician at first dislikes the loud all American student that comes to stay for the summer, played by Armie Hammer. He gradually realises his feelings for Oliver(Hammer) are not hate but love. Chalamet’s performance is stand out, his emotions are always written all over his body unless he is trying to hide them. He looks French, his parents holiday in Italy but is American. His accent and piano playing are also spot on. Hammer is also great in his role, knowing when to be forward and play hard to get. Also starring are Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man) as Elio’s father, a professor of archaeology who invites Oliver to be his student; Amira Casar (Versailles) as Elio’s mother; Esther Garrel (17 Girls) as Marzia, Elio’s girlfriend who he gradually drifts away from as he becomes closer to Oliver and Victoire Du Bois (From the Land of the Moon) as Chiara, a girl who dances with Oliver and proceeds to lust after him.
A gorgeous film that made me smile and empathise with Elio even though I am not a boy in 1980s Italy. Chalamet made you feel Elio’s jealousy, fear, excitement, sadness, happiness and boredom. He truly brought Elio alive. Overall I give Call Me By Your Name 5/5.
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
This charming little rom com set in New York City starring Hugh Grant (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Sandra Bullock (Miss Congeniality) is definitely a feel good movie if you need to be reminded what it is like to love and not be loved back. Sandra Bullock plays Lucy, a lawyer who uses her Harvard education to fight against social injustice. She is offered at random a position as lawyer by George Wade (Grant) who is the face of Wade Corporation, a development company trying to knock down every old building in the Big Apple for their own gain. Lucy, who regularly protests against George’s company accepts the job deciding she can do some good from the inside. She excels at her job and becomes the one George turns to for everything, what outfits to wear to his divorce settlement. Lucy decides he is too demanding and quits for her own health. During her two weeks notice, whilst seeing her replacement, June cosy up to George, Lucy starts to feel one emotion for George she never thought she would: love. She continues to be professional and not let her rare feelings get in the way of quitting. A classic Hugh Grant film in which his character has some shocking similarities to Donald Trump pre 2016 who incidentally turns up for a surprise cameo during a benefit. I liked this film, definitely one to watch if you love Hugh Grant in Love Actually or Sandra Bullock in The Proposal. Also starring are Alicia Witt (88 Minutes) as June Carver, Lucy’s replacement; Dana Ivey (The Adams Family) as Lucy’s tough talking mother; Robert Klein (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) as Lucy’s dad; Heather Burns (You’ve Got Mail) as Meryl, Lucy’s friend and David Haig (My Boy Jack) as Howard, George’s business partner and brother. Overall I give this film 4/5.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
C.I.A agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill, Superman) and Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer, The Lone Ranger) a KGB operative are forced to work together to reach a common goal in the 1960s when the tension between Russia and the US is at a high point. Both agents have no choice but to work for the mysterious organisation. The film starts with an epic car chase through the streets of Berlin, where Solo and Kuryakin fight each other but are then forced to be a team. They meet Gaby (Alicia Vikander) a car mechanic who’s uncle has connections to the Vinciguerra family. Victoria Vinciguerra (Elizabeth Debicki) is building a nuclear bomb and Solo, Kuryakin and Gaby must work together to stop their common enemy from destroying the world as they know it. This film is cheesy and a parody to movies of the time, adapted from a television series of the same name but ultimately a good watch. The blossoming romance between Vikander and Hammer who pose as a couple to be wed gives the film a softer edge. There is also violence but it is more comic and entertaining than gruesome. Hugh Grant also appears as a British agent bringing in reinforcements for the final mission. The dynamic between Cavill and Hammer also gives some classic masculinity that Guy Richie, the director is famous for. Also starring are Luca Calvani (When in Rome) as Alexander Vinciguerra, Victoria’s husband and Sylvester Groth (Inglorious Basterds) as Gaby’s Uncle Rudi. Overall I give The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 4/5.
Hope you enjoy my 3 picks this week, other honourable mentions include Sleeping with Other People (2015) and What to Expect When You’re Expecting (2012).
Happy Watching,
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Justice Denied: The DPP's proposed public consultation on free speech and prosecutions
This is cross posted from Justice Denied.
Much has happened, dear reader, since we last spoke. I will focus on just a couple related items. You may be aware that a week ago today the Crown case against Azhar Ahmed of Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire resulted in a conviction at Huddersfield Magistrate's Court. We had hoped that the prosecution would choose to drop the case after the DPP loss in Chambers v DPP at the High Court. Unfortunately, they did not. Rather more unfortunately, the new leading authority of Lord Chief Justice Judge was not introduced into evidence. The defence stuck with DPP v Collins and lost the case. It seems that the judge was not persuaded by arguments that Mr Ahmed never imagined that his Facebook update would be seen by anyone other than his friends and family.
Now, less than one week from that result, the Director of Public Prosecutions yesterday published a statement on the CPS blog about his decision not to prosecute a s127 case and his intention to issue guidelines to prosecutors on social media. Once draft guidelines are published there is to be a wide public consultation feeding into the final publication. This is very good news, but one feels it comes a few days too late for poor Azhar Ahmed who must now await sentencing as he decides whether or not to appeal.
The DPP, Keir Starmer QC, has also been making appearances in the media. I'm told he was on BBC Breakfast this morning, though I've not heard what he had to say for himself. In light of his comments yesterday, I would now call upon the Director of Public Prosecutions to instruct his prosecutors to ask for an absolute discharge at the sentencing for Azhar Ahmed on the 9th of October and to explain to the judge that the CPS feel that a conviction would no longer be in the public interest. Certain of Mr Starmer's remarks are particularly relevant as quoted here:
"This was, in essence, a one-off offensive Twitter message, intended for family and friends, which made its way into the public domain. It was not intended to reach Mr Daley or Mr Waterfield, it was not part of a campaign, it was not intended to incite others and Mr Thomas removed it reasonably swiftly and has expressed remorse. Against that background, the Chief Crown Prosecutor for Wales, Jim Brisbane, has concluded that on a full analysis of the context and circumstances in which this single message was sent, it was not so grossly offensive that criminal charges need to be brought."
All of this with certain transpositions could be said equally of Mr Ahmed's Facebook remarks, which when taken in context are nothing more than a strong but poorly expressed political opinion. Indeed, his message was not found to be grossly offensive on an objective reading.
On top of all this recent business we have also seen, on the same day as this announcement by the DPP, another arrest on a s127 charge for a Facebook posting. A man has been arrested for creating an offensive Facebook page following the murders of two female police officers in greater Manchester. This may be the first time someone has been arrested on a s127 charge for publishing a web page. I will leave it to readers to work out why the publishing of a web page should not be caught by this offence. Start by looking up the definition of "public electronic communications network", then the definition of "electronic communications network", then the definition of "content service". All of these are defined within the Communications Act.
This has not yet been referred to the CPS and I am very interested to see what they would say about it. If it turns out that GMP have got the law "right" and the Lord Chief Justice would agree, then any web page, static or dynamic, can be caught by this offence. If that is the case then we have really opened Pandora's box. I will fight this like hell and I will need your help. In the meantime, please pop over to the Jack of Kent blog to get involved in a discussion about the upcoming public consulation.
Finally, please consider signing this petition in support of Azhar Ahmed if you have not already done so. Thank you.
UPDATE 5:16pm - I said I would leave it to the reader to work out why an act of publishing should not be caught by this offence. Ever one to be diligent, I decided to go and reread the relevant sections of the Communications Act, which are sections 151 and 32. Section 151 says “public electronic communications network” means an electronic communications network provided wholly or mainly for the purpose of making electronic communications services available to members of the public. Section 32 says:
32 Meaning of electronic communications networks and services
(1)In this Act “electronic communications network” means—
(a)a transmission system for the conveyance, by the use of electrical, magnetic or electro-magnetic energy, of signals of any description; and
(b)such of the following as are used, by the person providing the system and in association with it, for the conveyance of the signals—
(i)apparatus comprised in the system;
(ii)apparatus used for the switching or routing of the signals; and
(iii)software and stored data.
(2)In this Act “electronic communications service” means a service consisting in, or having as its principal feature, the conveyance by means of an electronic communications network of signals, except in so far as it is a content service.
It also defines a content service, but it turns out we don't need that. The internet has been found at the High Court to be a public electronic communications network (PECN); therefore, it is also an ECN. An electronic communications service cannot be a content service, but both operate over an ECN, so it follows that a "message or other matter" sent by way of an ECS or a content service on an ECN can be caught. This is bad news. There is an argument that the internet is not a PECN because it primarily provides content services nowadays, but this got us nowhere in the courts.
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BFI Gothic Dispatches from The Dark Heart of Film
Neil Mitchell Nov 12, 2013 Movie News Movies Reviews
The BFI’s mouthwatering Gothic season, running between November and January of next year, is now in full swing. A full and varied programme of screenings, Q&As, panel discussions and workshops covering film and television has been curated to celebrate and enlighten audiences both literate and curious. With various venues around the country staging their own Gothic related events and screenings in conjunction with the BFI’s programme, this is the perfect time to revisit or get acquainted with many of the works that have embraced the chilly, creepy and atmospheric traits associated with Gothic horror. Sub-divided into four distinct sections – Monstrous, The Dark Arts, Haunted and Love is a Devil – the Gothic season is complemented by the publication of a new book featuring a host of essays and stills on and from the films and series appearing over the coming months
BFI Gothic wasted no time in offering up some seriously impressive scheduling by hosting a trio of ‘in conversation’ evenings with Roger Corman, Dario Argento and George A. Romero respectively. Much as I admire Corman’s ethos – if not many of the films that bear his name – and love Argento’s output in the ’70s, it was the chance to spend an evening in the company of Romero that truly caught my eye. The man and his films are an integral part of why I came to love cinema so much, largely due to having been exposed to Dawn of the Dead on VHS while on the cusp of adolescence. Indeed, the first book about cinema I bought with my own money was Paul R. Gagne’s The Zombies Who Ate Pittsburgh, a lovingly researched and lavishly illustrated look at Romero’s career up to and including Day of the Dead. As the sold out audience in NFT1 on Friday 8th suggests, Romero is still an immensely popular figure despite the fact that, if we’re bluntly honest, only Monkey Shines and Land of the Dead out of the director’s half dozen movies post-Day are anything to write home about.
The now 73-year old director, whose films have spanned five decades, was in good form during his chat with FrightFest’s Alan Jones. The genial, humourous and self-deprecating figure regaled the audience with tales from his film-making career, with more time, unsurprisingly, devoted to discussing Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. Numerous clips were shown from his films during the conversation, with a sequence from Martin prompting Romero to state that it’s the favourite of all his films. Dario Argento was in the audience, and received a warm round of applause, and Romero talked fondly of his friendship with famed author Stephen King and less fondly of his two experiences working with Orion. After a Q&A session and a break a screening of Romero’s ground-breaking debut Night of the Living Dead rounded off a hugely enjoyable evening.
The following evening saw me take in a double bill of Shaun of the Dead and Cronos, both films I’d not seen for a number of years. Now almost a decade old, Shaun felt as fresh and whip-smart as it did when it was released in 2004. The visual gags brought forth the same belly laughs, the film references will never age, the graphic violence still packs a wallop and the screenplay zips back and forth with one-liners and beautifully timed punchlines. Guillermo Del Toro’s now 20-year old feature length debut, Cronos, has also aged well, even if the print used was in serious need of restoration and/or digitization. Alternately creepy, funny, bizarre and downbeat, Cronos, a highly stylized, alternative take on vampirism, features the kind of strangely loveable or deeply repellent characters we’ve subsequently come to expect from the director’s films.
Over the course of just two evenings, the BFI’s Gothic season has already proved to be a real winner with me. Judging by line up, the rest of the season will be equally as entertaining.
The BFI Gothic Season runs until February 2014. Visit www.bfi.org.uk/gothic for screenings and events around the UK.
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About Neil Mitchell
Neil Mitchell is the editor of The Big Picture magazine, the London and Melbourne editions of the World Film Locations series and co-editor of Directory of World Cinema: Britain. His monograph on Brian De Palma's Carrie will be published in September by Auteur Publishing as part of its Devil's Advocates series. Neil contributes to a variety of publications including Total Film and is the host of The Fourth Wall blog and can be found chatting away on Twitter under @nrm1972.
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Ziebach County, South Dakota
Ziebach County is a county located in the state of South Dakota. As of 2000, the population is 2,519. Its county seat is Dupree6.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 5,105 km² (1,971 mi²). 5,082 km² (1,962 mi²) of it is land and 23 km² (9 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.44% water.
The county is divided into three areas of unorganized territory: Dupree, North Ziebach, and South Ziebach.
Corson County, South Dakota - north
Dewey County, South Dakota - east
Haakon County, South Dakota - south
Meade County, South Dakota - southwest
Perkins County, South Dakota - northwest
Ziebach County
Population by year
1920 - 3,718
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 2,519 people, 741 households, and 594 families residing in the county. The population density is 0/km² (1/mi²). There are 879 housing units at an average density of 0/km² (0/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 26.40% White, 0.00% Black or African American, 72.29% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.12% from other races, and 1.11% from two or more races. 0.99% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 741 households out of which 47.20% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.90% are married couples living together, 23.80% have a female householder with no husband present, and 19.80% are non-families. 17.40% of all households are made up of individuals and 5.10% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.40 and the average family size is 3.81.
In the county, the population is spread out with 40.60% under the age of 18, 10.80% from 18 to 24, 24.70% from 25 to 44, 16.50% from 45 to 64, and 7.50% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 24 years. For every 100 females there are 97.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 98.10 males.
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Iron Man, the Illuminati and the Holy Grail
For about 18 months now I’ve had work trickling in writing short educational articles for various websites. Essentially the site supplies a title, around which I have to write an article. You can find all the titles I’ve done listed on my website, under the broad headings of Science and History. Most of the topics are pretty mainstream, but a few are distinctly Fortean. Earlier this year, for example, I did an article for Synonym Classroom entitled “What Are the Flaws in the Ancient Astronaut Theory?” (As I said, the titles are supplied by the website – I wouldn’t have worded it so negatively).
More recently, a number of assignments have come in from eHow, rewriting articles which have been on that site for some time but need to be brought up to date. There’s a lot of competition for this sort of thing, resulting in a feeding frenzy every time a new batch of titles appears. Among the half-dozen I’ve managed to grab so far were three I was particularly pleased with – on Iron Man, the Illuminati and the Holy Grail (you see – it wasn’t just a contrived headline to grab your attention!).
I did What Is the Holy Grail? in July, and The History of the Illuminati in August. They’re both archetypally Fortean subjects, although the writing guidelines for eHow are pretty strict so I had to stick to facts rather than speculation in both articles.
Perhaps the most surprising title of all was one I did last week: How to Make Energy Like Iron Man. This was listed in the Science category, not Entertainment, and I’ve always wanted to have a go at one of these “science behind science fiction” articles. To make things even more interesting, the science in this case is Cold Fusion – a Fortean topic in its own right, since it’s a classic example of “damned science”. Nevertheless, all the evidence (from the movies, at any rate) suggests that the Arc Reactor in Tony Stark’s chest plate is some kind of Cold Fusion generator.
I really enjoyed researching the article, but there was one thing I kept coming across that drives me mad. That’s the widespread belief that the character of Iron Man, and/or Tony Stark, was created for the 2008 movie starring Robert Downey, Jr. As I pointed out in The Marvel Age of Comics last year, that’s simply not true. While RDJ’s interpretation of Tony Stark is definitely appealing, it’s nonsense to say things like “he created the role and no-one else could possibly play it” when the character has been around since 1963.
But perhaps I shouldn’t press the point so hard. I recently dug out the T-shirt pictured below, which used to fit me perfectly when it was new (the larger one fits me now). OK, then – if the character of Iron Man was created in 2008, this T-shirt must be newer than that, right? I reckon that makes me about 16 years old (which, by coincidence, is a pretty accurate estimate of my mental age).
Actually the T-shirt dates from 1968 (the iron-on transfer was a free gift in Terrific #1, dated 15 April 1967, but I bought it as a back issue the following year). In those days, of course, no-one had heard of Cold Fusion. The highest level of technology mentioned in the early Iron Man stories was “transistors”. I wrote an article on that subject earlier this year, too: What Is a Transistor and What Effect Did Its Invention Have on Computers?
Labels: comics, Holy Grail, legends, nostalgia, Physics, Secret societies, weird science
When actors say "creating a character" they mean something different from what writers mean; something relevant to what actors actually do. But when mainstream articles use jargon, they ought to make the meaning clear. Especially since the jargon, when used in a mainstream context, tends to render writers invisible, and writers are writing articles - why do we as a profession do this sort of thing to ourselves?
Thanks Peni, for making a couple of excellent points I hadn't properly thought through before. With the exception of novels, the writer's role in more or less anything tends to get overlooked - but as you say, it's writers who are ultimately to blame for that! I've always wondered why everyone describes Quentin Tarantino, for example, simply as a "great director"... which he is, of course, but the real reason his films are so toweringly good is because he's a great writer, too.
In comics, the concept of "character creation" is an emotive and hotly debated one. Is the "creator" the person who first comes up with the name of the character, or the person who writes the first story, or the person who draws that first story? Some people have spent their lives burning themselves up with bitterness over such questions!
I've got that Iron Man transfer, AM - in un-ironed on condition. I'll be taking a look at that piece on the Illuminati as one of my friends is convinced they exist today.
Thanks Kid - I think belief in the Illuminati is on the increase. It's the sort of situation conspiracy theorists love - lots of circumstantial evidence, but no hard proof one way or the other.
Somehow I'm not surprised to hear your transfer is still in pristine condition. Even at the age of 8 or 9 you seem to have had an intuitive grasp of the collectibles market!
Alas, Andrew, you give me too much credit. My transfer is a replacement one I acquired a few years ago. The oldest copy of Terrific #1 (out of three I have) is one I got around 34 years ago. I did have four of the same issue, but I gave one away to a pal a couple of years back.
The Bavarian Illuminati sound like an admirable bunch - anti-monarchy, anti-religion and they also believed in things like equality for women etc but what about the modern Illuminati - what are they supposed to believe in ? Are they equally as progressive or do they believe that the world should be run by a super-rich elite for their own ends (we don't need the Illuminati for that - we've got neoliberal capitalism). If the Illuminati are running the world behind the scenes then they are making an arse of it because we are spiralling towards some kind of environmental catastrophe I'm sure.
Thanks Colin. As I said, my eHow article had to stick to verifiable facts and avoid speculation. If I were to speculate, I would say there is no single, highly powerful group in the world today that self-identifies as the Illuminati. There are undoubtedly groups that call themselves "Illuminati", but I suspect they are fantasists with no real power.
Of course, there are always powerful groups behind the scenes "pulling the strings" of elected politicians at any given point in history. But I don't agree with the conspiracy theorists that this is a single organized group that has existed, and held the same motives and beliefs, for a long time. There were string-pullers in the 1940s, string pullers in the 1970s and string-pullers today, but they're not the same string-pullers... and may have very different aims.
I think the reason these groups are always referred to as the "Illuminati" is an irony of history. The very first conspiracy theorists were devout Protestants and Monarchists who hated and feared everything the French Revolution stood for, and they fingered the Illuminati for this. So the name "Illuminati" came to mean "people who want to change the world order", even though the (US-centric) world order now is a lot closer to the ideals of the Bavarian Illuminati than it is to pre-Revolutionary Europe.
Ross said...
Speaking of MARVEL, what about Dr. Strange? There's some interesting occult retro-Forteana for you. Very much a part of the occult and consciousness "explosions" of the 1960s.
Excellent suggestion, Ross! I will add it to my list of things to do!
I can still picture my mother ironing on the Ironman transfer. White t-shirts were not really part of a 7 year old child's wardrobe in the UK in 1967. So my transfer was put onto a white ribbed type of t-shirt that was bought a couple years previous for a 5th birthday photo session. This unfortunately made me look more like Dr Bruce Banner seconds before he morphed into the Hulk! Happily about 15 years ago I found the same Terrific transfer tucked into a Jimmy Olsen comic I purchased at a fair. Happy days!
Thanks Ken - it's great to know there are others with similar memories to myself. I think my mother bought this T-shirt specially for the transfer, though I can't be sure. I also have a vague memory that I did at least some of the ironing myself, under her supervision. There is a bit of a mess-up in one place (not really visible in the photo) which I'm fairly sure was caused by over-enthusiasm on the part of my 10-year old self!
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Teamsters seek UPS Freight contract
Ken Hall, president of Teamsters Local 175 based in South Charleston, is heading efforts to win union contracts for about 16,500 workers at more than 200 UPS Freight locations.
United Parcel Service, a longtime union trucking company, acquired the Overnite Transportation Co. last year. Overnite, which operated nonunion, is now called UPS Freight.
Hall, who is director of the Teamsters’ Parcel and Small Package Division, called Wednesday a historic day.
“It was our initial meeting with UPS Freight, formerly Overnite, which the Teamsters Union has attempted to organize over many, many years. We are putting together a plan we believe will be successful,” Hall said during a telephone conference call.
Under a “card-check, neutrality agreement” reached with UPS Freight in June, the Teamsters agreed to choose one facility to organize initially — an Indianapolis plant with 125 employees.
That agreement required UPS Freight to remain neutral during organizing efforts at the Indianapolis facility. It also allowed the union to be recognized as a bargaining agent once a majority of workers signed union cards, rather than requiring an election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board.
Based in Richmond, Va., UPS Freight has about 150 workers at five service centers in West Virginia, including centers in Charleston, Bluefield, Sutton, Parkersburg and Fairmont.
Hall said, “In Indianapolis, we will attempt to negotiate a contract which will serve as a model to extend union representation across the country. We hope it will answer questions for UPS Freight workers who fear joining a union might have some [negative] impact on their pensions and other benefits.
“Once we are finished with that, organizing other locations will be done very quickly. We are already certified as the bargaining representative for the workers at Indianapolis.
“We are not going to rush the process. I would hope we get close to an agreement sometime in early 2007,” Hall said.
Ira Rosenfeld, UPS Freight’s media relations director, said his company’s pension plan is fully funded. All money in that fund will remain there and not be moved to any other fund.
Rosenfeld said Teamster negotiators “now have to go back to their members in Indiana and find out what they want. When they have surveyed their members, they will come back to the table for talks with us.
“As far as their overall goal, it seems a little ambitious. The first thing we have to do is to see what the people in Indianapolis want that they do not already have.”
Rosenfeld said it would be “premature to talk about what might happen” after both sides agree on one initial contract.
Today, the Teamsters represent 215,000 UPS workers, who ship parcels and packages to homes across the country.
UPS Freight workers handle heavy freight, rather than smaller packages ready for delivery.
Teamster representatives will meet local workers in Indianapolis on Sep. 23. “We expect additional negotiations in October and thereafter,” Hall said.
Many former Overnite workers, Hall said, are asking, “If I join a union, could I lose my pension? Could I lose my health-care benefits?”
Hall said, “We want a contract that proves they will not lose their benefits. We hope to come away with an agreement that could be extended to any other group. We will have a small army of folk ready to go out to the different locations.”
Rosenfeld said, “We will negotiate a contract in good faith in Indianapolis. Both sides will sit down and we will take it from there.”
Union to Begin UPS Freight Negotiations
Contract Will Serve As National Model
The Teamsters Union will kick off talks with UPS Freight on Wednesday, September 6 for the 125 drivers and dockworkers in Indianapolis who recently formed a union with Local 135.
The union plans to negotiate a strong contract—a national model—that will serve as a tool to organize the more than 300 other UPS Freight terminals nationwide.
“This is the next step in organizing the more than 15,000 workers at UPS Freight to provide them with a brighter future,” said Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President. “Our UPS and freight members continue to provide us with valuable support in the campaign.”
Ken Hall, Director of the Parcel and Small Package Division, and Gordon Sweeton, Assistant Director of the Freight Division, will lead the union’s negotiating team.
The negotiations will kick off in Washington, D.C.
The Fight of Our Lives
For those of you fortunate enough to have a long Labor Day weekend, go to your barbecues, your sales at the mall and enjoy yourself. But do me a favor – take a few minutes to think about why you get a Labor Day holiday and reflect on everything George Bush and his Republican Congress have done to eliminate the gains of organized labor and working people. Organized labor, after all, is responsible for weekends – and the 40-hour workweek, overtime pay, minimum wage and, yes, creating the American middle class.
We must honor working people every day, not just one day a year. They are our sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, grandparents and great-grandparents. We should retell their stories regularly and remind ourselves that if it weren't for unions, many of the things we take for granted today wouldn't even exist.
Spend some time this weekend thinking about your situation, your future and the future of your children. A recent survey by the Change to Win federation of unions, which the Teamsters helped form last year, shows that the majority of working families believe their children will be worse off economically and that they are falling farther behind. A Pew Research Center survey emphasizes many of the findings, showing that workers in the country are worse off today then they were a generation ago. And it's little wonder.
Workers' wages are stagnant. While cash compensation for the highest-paid U.S. executives climbed 41 percent last year, 80 percent of working families saw a drop in real wages.
Real median household incomes rose only 1.1 percent between 2004 and 2005, the Census Bureau reports – but that's only because more family members are working more jobs; inflation rose nearly 3.5 percent.
The minimum wage has not been increased in nine years. After adjusting for inflation, the value of the minimum wage is at its lowest level since 1955. But Congress has voted itself a raise seven straight times.
$3-a-gallon gasoline is now commonplace and what little dip we've seen in the last week will certainly reappear after the November elections.
America has lost 3 million manufacturing jobs and gained low-skilled, low-paying service jobs.
It's an outrage that the Bush administration tells us that we can make our lives better in an ownership society. Sure, that's fine for those who can afford to own a house or save a little money. But there are simply too many Americans today who own too little. They cannot afford to save. They live paycheck to paycheck. They are worried about just making ends meet. Saving money – for a child's college education, for a home of their own, or a secure retirement – is a fantasy.
In fact, the only people who's wages are growing are the rich and union members. A union contract provides wage, health care and retirement security protections that are being eliminated in nonunion workplaces across the nation.
After almost six years of the Bush administration and five years of his Republican-controlled Congress, it's obvious that our government has been bought and paid for by Big Business. We cannot rely on our government to look out for workers in this country:
In July, the Bush administration sought to cut some $35.6 billion in Medicare over the next five years and prepared to slash payments to hospital doctors who care for Medicare patients.
The Bush Administration's Committee on Foreign Investment approved in February the sale of terminal operations to Dubai Ports World, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates, at six of the largest ports in the United States, despite potential national security risks and the fact that the sell-off of the nation's infrastructure to foreign-owned companies will only weaken our nation. Bush threatened to veto legislation blocking the sale.
Over the past several years, the Bush administration has pushed through so-called free trade agreements that send American jobs overseas without requiring our trading partners to guarantee worker rights or environmental protections. When he took office, the U.S. had free-trade agreements with Mexico, Canada and Israel. Today you can add all of Central America, Jordan, Oman and Bahrain to the list. Bush has another dozen in the works with countries that can't afford to buy American products but will undercut our products with cheap exports to the U.S.
This president, who says he is so concerned about terrorism and homeland security stripped civil service and collective bargaining rights from 170,000 Homeland Security Department workers, denied collective bargaining rights to newly federalized airport security screeners and revoked union representation for hundreds of workers in five Department of Justice divisions.
The Bush administration in 2004 downplays an increase in coal mining fatalities and withdraws safety rules. Two years later, 16 minors die in the Sago Mine tragedy in West Virginia.
In 2003, Bush proposed a rule to end overtime pay for millions of workers, while signing a bankruptcy bill that makes it harder for Americans to get out from under oppressive debt.
In 2001, the administration proposed taking $11 billion from children's health insurance as part of his economic stimulus package.
That same year the Bush administration rescinded strict reporting requirements for union-busting consultants and attorneys.
And the recent anniversary is a vivid reminder of the bungling of Hurricane Katrina.
Teamsters and other union members were there in the ninth ward, moving in equipment, feeding the poor and hungry left behind, days before FEMA arrived.
In fact, a common refrain from the gulf coast following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita was that members "didn't hear from the government, didn't hear from my employer – but my union was there for me from day one."
No, we can't rely on this government to change our lives or to help us through difficult times. We have to rely on each other, our unions. Think about that.
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Mexican truck program 'sucker-punches' U.S.
Telling a women's conference in Houston that the effort is dangerous, leader vows Teamsters will fight funding
Calling a new pilot program opening the border to Mexican trucks dangerous, Teamsters President Jim Hoffa said today in Houston the union will lobby to cut its funding.
Hoffa said money for the new program came from somewhere and the union will press Congress to stop it.
"We can do that," he said.
In prepared remarks, the union president said the Bush administration has "sucker-punched" American workers by opening highways to Mexican trucks.
Under the year-long pilot program, up to 100 Mexican carriers can get permission to go beyond a 25-mile buffer zone in the U.S. There are also provisions for U.S. carriers to go into Mexico.
The program comes under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Hoffa told the annual Teamsters Women's Conference at the Hilton Americas hotel that drugs could come in the U.S. across the border in the trucks. He said that although the Bush administration says it is concerned about national security, the program will threaten safety.
The union, along with groups including the Sierra Club and Public Citizen, argues it endangers highways because safety issues aren't resolved. A new report by the Department of Transportation's inspector general strengthens that argument, Hoffa said.
That report concluded the Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hasn't developed and implemented complete, coordinated plans for checking trucks and drivers in the demonstration project as they cross the border.
"It's a disaster waiting to happen," the Teamsters president said.
But the safety administration says the inspector general affirmed its plans to go beyond statutory requirements and to check every truck crossing the border.
John H. Hill, administrator of the Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said today every audit the inspector general has done since 2002 found the department made substantial compliance in meeting requirements laid out by Congress.
"Any time a government program is put in place, there are always ways to improve it," he said.
Hill added that the pilot program's safety protocols are more rigorous for Mexican carriers than they are for U.S. carriers. And he questioned why Hoffa is concerned that U.S. trucking companies can't compete with Mexican trucking companies.
"We believe they can," Hill said. "I think this is about issues unrelated to the safety agenda."
The administrator also said some of the comments being made are unduly alarming to the public. He stressed last week that the program meets all public safety requirements.
Thursday night, transportation officials said one Mexican carrier and two U.S. carriers had been certified under the program. Friday evening, the Mexican carrier sent a truck loaded with steel bound for Wilson Hills, N.C.
A lawsuit by the Teamsters and other groups aimed at blocking the program is pending in court.
Truckers protest trial plan to permit Mexican trucks in US
Dozens of truckers waved signs and American flags at a border crossing Thursday to protest a program that will allow up to 100 Mexican trucking companies to freely haul their cargo anywhere in the United States.
The U.S. Transportation Department was expected to begin issuing operating permits in the pilot program as early as Thursday.
The Teamsters union, Sierra Club and nonprofit group Public Citizen sued to try to stop the program, arguing that there won't be enough oversight of the drivers coming into the U.S. from Mexico and public safety would be endangered.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday, though, that the Bush administration could move ahead.
Government lawyers said the program was a necessary part of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the trucks enrolled in the program would meet U.S. regulations.
NAFTA requires that all roads in the United States, Mexico and Canada be opened to carriers from all three countries. Canadian trucking companies already have full access to U.S. roads, but Mexican trucks can travel only about 20 miles inside the country at certain border crossings.
The current pilot program is designed to study whether opening the U.S.-Mexico border to all trucks could be done safely.
Teamsters continue to battle Mexican trucks
The plan to let Mexican trucks operate throughout the United States has prompted a war of words and legal papers between the Bush administration and Jim Hoffa, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Hoffa and his allies at the Sierra Club and Public Citizen have sued in federal court to stop the government from issuing permits to Mexican freight haulers. Their lawyers argued in court that Mexican trucks pose a danger on the roads and threaten increased human and drug smuggling.
"Dangerous trucks should not be driving all the way from Mexico to Maine and Minnesota," said Hoffa in a prepared statement. "What is it about safety and national security that George Bush doesn't understand?"
The government argued that stopping the trucks would unsettle a key trading partner in Mexico and delay U.S.trucks from operating south of the border. Officials insist that a lengthy pre-inspection of Mexican firms has resulted in strict safety standards and compliance with congressional mandates.
"We chose to do this incrementally and cautiously," said John Hill, who runs the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which regulates truck safety and is responsible for the cross-border trucking plan. "These carriers are going to be safe."
He has 254 inspectors along the border. Only 16 of the 188 firms inspected have failed. Just over 100 withdrew, signaling the inspections are rigorous, Hill said.The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday denied an emergency injunction to halt the program. The union will continue its lawsuit.
Nothing can happen until the inspector general of the Department of Transportation blesses the one-year experiment and until the Mexican government issues permits to U.S. trucking companies.
That all could happen as early as Thursday.
The heated rhetoric has melted into obscurity the fact that very few firms on either side of the border are interested. To date, 31 Mexican firms - with a maximum of 151 trucks - are poised for U.S. permits, and two-thirds of the firms are in Baja California. Two Mexican border states have no firms cleared to operate in the U.S. interior, including Sonora, across the border from Arizona.
In the United States, only 14 firms are awaiting permits from the Mexican government, Hill said.
Teamsters accuse the government of cherry-picking Mexican firms to skew the results of the imminent experiment.
"You can't take the 151 safest trucks in Mexico and let them drive all over the United States for a year and then say your entire program is safe," Teamsters spokeswoman Leslie Miller said.
Hill says follow-up reviews by the inspector general, plus one independent technical panel that includes former Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe, will assure the results' validity.
Opening the border to trucks was a key part of the North American Free Trade Agreement inked in 1994. The trucks were supposed to be delivering international cargo seven years ago. Under the trade pact, certified Mexican trucks can carry loads anywhere in the United States but can pick up loads only if they are bound for Mexico. The converse applies to U.S. trucks.
That was the arrangement before 1982. Since then, Mexican trucks have operated within a 25-mile commercial zone along the border. There, they transfer loads to U.S. trucks. Last year, 4.5 million trucks crossed north over the border, mostly through Texas.
Teamster Negotiators Return to Indianapolis
Progress Continues As Stewards Take Active Role
With momentum on their side, Teamster negotiators returned to the table with UPS Freight during the week of August 27 in Indianapolis, and rank-and-file members played a key role in the talks. The co-chairman of the union’s negotiating committee expects a tentative agreement very soon.
“I fully expect that we will have an agreement for the Indianapolis workers to vote on by the end of September,” said Ken Hall, Director of the Teamsters Parcel and Small Package Division who is Co-Chairman of the union’s UPS Freight negotiating committee.
Three stewards—a city driver, a road driver and a hostler—all participated in the talks.
“It’s exciting and I’m proud to be participating in these negotiations,” said David Osborn, a 21-year employee of UPS Freight and its predecessor, Overnite Transportation, who is a city driver. “We’re making history here.”
“The union’s leadership is including us and that makes us feel good,” said UPS Freight road driver Jesse Nicholson, a 19-year employee. “They care about what we have to say at the table—our opinions count. We’re making headway and things are going good.”
Neal Hylton, a hostler and 21-year employee, agreed.
“We’ve made a lot of progress,” he said. “I’m looking at the big picture. I’m looking beyond myself. I’m looking to negotiate protections that could affect UPS Freight workers in other cities if they choose to become Teamsters.”
The rank-and-file members’ help was praised.
“Having our members take an active role in the negotiations is very beneficial to our entire committee,” Hall said.
“Our rank-and-file members are the people who are on the front lines every day, who know the issues better than anyone else,” said Greg Alden, an International Union Representative with the Teamsters National Freight Division, who attended talks this week. “We can’t do our jobs without them.”
The committee continues to make solid progress in its hard push to reach a tentative agreement as soon as possible. Progress continues to be made on the non-economic issues, and work has begun on economic issues.
“No group of UPS Freight workers are as anxious as the Teamster members here in Indianapolis,” said Brian Buhle, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 135 in Indianapolis. “But we are moving ahead well and we will negotiate a very strong contract that will benefit the 125 members in Indianapolis. We also hope that it serves as a model contract for the thousands of other UPS Freight workers nationwide. There’s light at the end of the tunnel.”
Dates are currently being set for final bargaining sessions in the coming weeks.
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Ben Fulford: The Pentagon and agencies choose Obama, the Chinese military stick with Hu
Posted by Alexandra | Nov 7, 2012 | 2012, Conspiracy, Cabal, Education, Environment, Government Laws, Policies, Politicians, Military | 0 |
Barak Obama’s victory in the electronically rigged US presidential election means he will remain the spokesman for the pentagon and the agencies over the next 4 years. These same agencies recently have actively leaked information about Romney’s drug money laundering and other criminal activities in a clear sign of a military industrial complex revolt against the Bush Nazi faction, according to CIA and other sources. The Dragon family also supported Obama because he agreed to go along with their agenda, according to White Dragon Society sources in Indonesia.
A push by libertarians and milita movements to write in Ron Paul, meanwhile, was squashed by higher military ranks because of Paul’s proposal to close US bases world-wide.
However, the biggest losers were the Zionists who were hoping Romney would help them realize their dream of starting World War 3.
In China meanwhile, the old guard kept Hu Jintao in charge of the military to make sure incoming leader Xi Xinping keeps within the consensus of a peaceful rise of China and does not provoke unnecessary macho violent incidents.
The big changes as usual, remain under the surface as a consensus on the shape of the new financial system slowly gels.
Here the Lee family, the one that has traditionally worked the closest with the Western committee of 300 secret government faction, is emerging as a pivotal force. The models they are holding up for future US/China/EU relations are Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Vancouver, Canada. These regions have also successfully and harmoniously integrated the strong points of both Western and Asian culture while avoiding pervasive corruption.
There is a general consensus among both Western and Asian secret government factions in favor of the formation of a new world economic planning agency run along the lines of the meritocratic bureaucracies mentioned above that have merged the best of Western (Roman) legal culture with Asian (Chinese) bureaucratic culture.
There is also a consensus that such an agency would not be a world government but simply an agency in charge of development projects too big, international and ambitious to be carried out by individual governments or corporations.
However, before that can happen, the bastions of the old regime such as the BIS, the European Central Bank, the UN, the IMF, the World Bank and of course the Federal Reserve Board, need to be subjected to a final charge of the Bastille.
To this end, the pentagon and agencies have agreed on the need to start creating government issued “greenback” currency in lieu of the US dollars issued by the privately owned Federal Reserve Board. If the US government did this it would be able to rebuild US infrastructure and finance ambitious development projects such as the high-speed rail network proposed by Leo Wanta.
Before that is possible, though, the new greenback has to be decoupled from the international currency wrongly named the “US” dollar. If that happens, the greenback would plunge in value compared to the international dollar. This would generate a huge increase in US exports plus investment into the US manufacturing and tourist industries.
However, it would also mean the Pentagon would find it prohibitively expensive to maintain much of its overseas presence using devalued greenbacks. That is why the White Dragon Society has proposed that Asian countries, including China, hire the services of the pentagon for worldwide police and security work. This has been already been agreed to and test projects in places like Afghanistan have begun.
The unsolved issue remains deciding who would take over control of internationally traded US dollars. No US dollars have been created since 2008, which is why the US currency has not collapsed despite announcements of quantitative easing that should have been hyper-inflationary if the announced numbers were for real.
The problem is deciding on a new management structure can be put in place to manage the international trading currency formerly called the “US” dollar. The general consensus is that it needs to be merged with the Renminbi, Ruble and other currencies.
In Japan, meanwhile, signs of fundamental change continue to proliferate.
In a sign Japan is beginning to unravel the disastrous Wall Street and Nazi imposed economic policies of the past two decades, the Japanese Finance Minister, its Economy Minister and the Governor of the Bank of Japan all issued this unusual policy statement on October 30th:
http://www.boj.or.jp/en/announcements/release_2012/k121030b.pdf
The Japanese language version of this release is longer and more detailed and makes it clear the Japanese government has decided to end government debt slavery. In essence the Bank of Japan has started to print yen to use to pay down existing Japanese government bonds and reduce government debt.
The White Dragon Society has proposed that independent Japan’s ruling Democratic Party merge with the resurgent Liberal Democratic Party and place itself under the strong and charismatic leadership of Osaka’s Toru Hashimoto.
The Japanese imperial family, for its part, is seriously contemplating moving its headquarters from Tokyo back to Kyoto as a move to transfer some government functions towards the Kansai region. This would be in preparation for the establishment of the new economic planning agency.
The Japanese underworld is also undergoing fundamental reforms. All of Japan’s yakuza gangs are now under a single umbrella and will become a semi-autonomous semi-government agency somewhat like the CIA is in the US.
The new leadership is strongly opposed to the distribution of drugs but this is causing friction with gangs like the Inagawa who traditionally earned a lot of money selling drugs brought in through US military bases. To help generate funds and make up for lost income, the White Dragon Society has proposed that marijuana be legalized in Japan and sold by yakuza companies. In exchange, yakuza groups would continue to obey current directives not to sell hard drugs like amphetamines, heroin and cocaine.
The Yakuza and right wing groups have also formulated a new general policy towards China which can be summed up as follows:
“If China is a beautiful woman, make love, if it is a fat man coming to rape you, fight.”
The Chinese, for their part, are planning to bring plenty of money to Japan in search of investment opportunities. They are looking for a company listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and one rumour has it that Sharp is one of the companies being eyed.
The Chinese will be doing the same thing all over the world as well and all cou
ntries should welcome them so long as their presence is constructive and beneficial.
The old regime may still try to provoke conflict in a desperate attempt to stop all this friendly activity. Whenever they do so please remember it is better to make love than to make war.
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2018 Toyota c-hr a quirky vehicle from a conventional brand – the car guide t gas terengganu
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Toyota could’ve taken the easy route by launching a subcompact SUV that would’ve blended right in with the rest of the crowd. However, the brand decided to step away from conventionalism—which it very rarely does—in order to please a younger audience.
A normal subcompact SUV with available all-wheel drive will be perfectly suited to an older couple, whose kids have left the family home, who want a fuel-efficient vehicle that can take them to the cottage or garage-sale hunting on the weekends, with the occasional need to accommodate rear-seat passengers. The young urban creatives, a mix between yuppies and hipsters that are categorised as yuccies, clearly don’t want to buy the same vehicle as their parents.
That’s where the 2018 Toyota C-HR comes in. It’s a funky looking vehicle that’s classified as a light truck, but really, it’s more of a small four-door coupe with a higher ride height. It blurs the already fuzzy line between cars and crossovers, but the important thing is that it’s trendy. It competes directly with the new Nissan Kicks, which will go on sale in the summer of 2018.
Its chunky exterior design isn’t breathtaking, but isn’t all that repulsive either. There is one, maybe two lines that flow harmoniously from front to back, and the rest is a mishmash of bumps, lumps and creases that seems to have been penned by a team of designers on a Vodka Red Bull hangover. It does turn heads.
There’s an engine under the 2018 Toyota C-HR’s hood, but yuccies probably don’t care what it is. Good, because the 2.0-litre four develops a modest 144 horsepower and 139 pound-feet of torque. A continuously variable automatic transmission is the only way to send power to the front wheels, because well, people don’t buy manual gearboxes anymore, especially not the younger population. It’s like asking them to buy a flip-phone instead of an Apple iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy.
Acceleration is adequate, and the automatic tranny does get things moving along pretty quickly. The engine’s soundtrack is far from pleasant, but again, that’s probably criterion number 83 on yuccies’ must-have list. On the other hand, during our test, we averaged 7.4 L/100 km, which is quite good.
The CH-R’s coupe-like profile clearly defines its mission as a vehicle for people who don’t have kids. There’s not much room in the back seat area, whether we’re talking about foot space under the front seats, headroom or shoulder room, making it more of an occasional-use accommodation. More so than in a Mazda CX-3, a Hyundai Kona or a Jeep Renegade. The very small side windows and the lack of a sunroof—even as an option—really make the back seat a dark and uninviting place. The cargo area’s volume is rated at 538 litres, so it’s fairly versatile, and the rear seatbacks can be folded to create an almost-flat surface, expanding cargo space to only 1031 litres.
The dashboard design is stylish by simplicity, a break from the usual pileup of textures and lines in other Toyota products. The control layout is straightforward, helped by the fact that there aren’t many buttons to begin with. The infotainment system isn’t the slickest out there, and the lack of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto is a serious shortcoming for the yuccie crowd who’ll want to plug in their smartphones. Navigation isn’t available either, and the rearview camera is displayed in the mirror, not on the dash-mounted screen.
At a base price of $24,750 before freight and delivery charges, the 2018 Toyota C-HR includes items such as air conditioning, keyless entry and heated front seats. Distracted drivers will also benefit from a precollision warning system with pedestrian detection, lane keep assist as well as adaptive cruise control that can bring the vehicle to a full stop in dense traffic. Moving up to the $26,350 XLE Premium trim adds bigger wheels, an intelligent key and blind spot monitoring. That’s a noticeable amount for a small vehicle that doesn’t offer AWD and some features that many subcompact cars and crossovers do. With the C-HR, it all about styling and handling, with some versatility thrown in for good measure.
We get that this little Toyota is aimed at a different crowd than the one interested in a conventional small SUV. The company is trying something unique and so far, sales have been modest. Maybe young urban creatives aren’t all that interested in cars after all. The C-HR can be considered as a more modern alternative to a subcompact car than a more practical SUV. Share on Facebook
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How and why Amazon spies on millions of people around the world
E. Coachman
The American company Amazon conducts surveillance of millions of people around the world through a smart Echo column with voice assistant Alexa. Details strike the imagination: employees of the company hear bank card numbers, passwords, singing in the shower and much more. Why does Amazon have such unprecedented surveillance?
News of what Amazon is doing with the Echo column shocked the western community. Many media outlets came up with headlines that the company invades people's privacy in the most unprincipled and unbelievable way, receives confidential data and behaves akin to the US National Security Agency (NSA), secrets of which were given by Edward Snowden.
It turned out that the people who bought the Echo smart column with Alexa voice assistant also purchased a bug, a device that allows you to listen to them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For some, Amazon’s behavior was expected — in today's digital world, for example, cookies monitor a user on the Internet, and spyware and malware use data from these files to hack personal user accounts. Therefore, it would be naive to believe that if your home is a device with a microphone that is connected to the Internet, no one will hear you, except for the digital stuffing of this device.
Recently, however, in the light of scandals with leaks of users' personal data through Facebook, the topic of information protection is gaining momentum. Moreover, this issue is closely associated with politics - after all, the biggest Facebook leak, which affected more than 80 million users, had political goals, as it was organized by a company working for Donald Trump's campaign headquarters.
Why does Amazon follow in the footsteps of Facebook, how legitimate are the company's actions and how can it harm users?
Amazon Spy Network
As Bloomberg and CNN reported, Amazon hired thousands of employees around the world to analyze audio messages that were secretly broadcast by the Echo column.
It is reported that the company is doing this in order to improve the service of its voice assistant Alexa. An extensive team of specialists listens to recordings made by a column in private homes, offices, firms and enterprises. These messages are then annotated and classified in order to train Alexa to work even better.
According to Bloomberg, in its marketing campaign, Amazon reports that Alexa "lives in the cloud and is constantly learning." This refers to the "cloud" principle of data storage and dissemination, which allows multiple units of information to be collected in one center on an ongoing basis.
Amazon hired thousands of employees worldwide to process the data, including the US and Costa Rica, as well as company center employees in Romania. Every day, each employee listens to up to a thousand records, confirmed Bloomberg two sources office in Bucharest.
According to CNN, mostly ordinary and unremarkable voice commands come to data centers, but from time to time employees hear records of a “potentially criminal nature”. And besides this, they share messages about records that are difficult to distinguish through internal chats with each other, and also laugh at some files.
The channel received a comment from an Amazon employee who confirmed the large-scale tapping of users. He noted that this is done solely in the interests of improving the Alexa service, so that he would better understand human speech, the “natural language” of users. The employee also assured that the company strictly abides by the principles of non-proliferation of confidential data.
Bloomberg reports that Amazon allegedly does not have a data personalization system, since it does not own the full addresses of users, but knows the serial number of the device and the name of the account. It is also noteworthy that the Echo speakers microphones are very sensitive: employees say that they often hear recordings like “inept singing of a woman in the shower”, a crying child, and so on.
It would seem that the goals are absolutely clear. It’s as if you were using your car, but from time to time you would let an employee of a manufacturing company ride it, so that it would fix the problems on time and make the car even better. But let's be honest: the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, installed microphones in at least 100 million homes around the world, hired a large staff to collect data, set up special data centers to process incoming information, and now speaks of good goals. Does it remind you of anything?
Profit and profit again
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is still the richest man on the planet. Forbes estimates his fortune at $ 151.6 billion. The guru of the IT industry and online commerce continues its triumphant march on Forbes ratings. The magazine in 2018 recognized him as the leader of the top 400 richest Americans, the richest man in Washington State, placed fifth in the list of the most influential people of the year and second in the list of the richest people in the IT industry (Bezos was only slightly behind Bill Gates).
Meanwhile, this richest man said on April 11 that Amazon is facing hard times: the company is updating technical solutions, which will cost billions of dollars in investments. Bezos, in a letter to shareholders, urged them to prepare for "big trouble." And the company's chance of preserving future profits is Echo.
Now it becomes obvious why Amazon does not consider anything to promote its project. The company is not interested in the consequences of interfering in the personal lives of people, they are not interested in their concerns and real needs. The company through Echo creates a huge array of data, which can then be used for any kind of purposes. Will Alexa Voice Assistant Be Better? Quite possible. However, what about leaks? After all, they occur regularly.
Cloud storage is a constantly growing huge database, divided into sections. Having gained access to it, intruders, hackers, thieves, political strategists and private corporations will also receive a very good means of using people for commercial or other purposes. This and trade, advertising, influence on public opinion.
The problem in this situation is only one. Amazon cannot be caught by the hand. Even if the user wants to complain about the company's actions, he will have to prove in court that his column directly collected personal data, that the data center received and processed them. Finally, that these data have been classified and stored. As you understand, to prove all this is almost impossible.
This example shows how a global corporation is higher than an individual and his interests. And also how much the corporation is even higher than the judicial system due to the inability of the latter to take into account all modern high-tech processes. And as long as companies like Amazon successfully sell people new items like Echo, until reliable barriers are created to protect them from covert actions, the consumer will remain those who are processed, put digital experiences and from whom they profit.
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FOREST, Va. – Guilford College’s Madison Iandoli (Palm City, Fla./Martin County) and Holly Kozak (Portsmouth, Va./Nansemond-Suffolk Academy) represented Guilford College on the 2019 All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) squads as third-team midfielders. The conference office released the annual all-star teams Wednesday. League coaches nominated and selected the team members based largely on their play in ODAC contests.
Iandoli, a junior midfielder, was named a Third Team All-ODAC pick for the second straight season. She led the Quakers with 58 points on a club-high 39 goals and 19 assists. Her 58 points rank 10th among ODAC leaders and her 39 goals stand 12th through games of May 9. Iandoli also topped the Quakers with 37 ground balls and was second to Kozak with 19 caused turnovers. In nine games with ODAC foes, she tallied a team-best 25 points on 16 goals and nine assists. Iandoli scored at least one goal in all but two contests and had three five-goal outings. She collected a career-high eight points with a personal-best five goals and three assists in the Quakers’ March 9 win over Averett University.
Iandoli scored her 100th career goal in an April 13 loss to league-rival Bridgewater College and enters her senior season ranked 14th in school history with 107 career tallies. Her 138 career points in 47 games stand 13th all-time at Guilford.
Kozak enjoyed the finest of her four college seasons with a team- and career-high 39 goals that stand 12th in the ODAC. She ranked third on the team with 43 points and topped the Quakers with 20 caused turnovers, 12th-best in the league. Her personal-best 51 draw controls stood second on the club and 15th in the conference. In nine games with ODAC foes, she scored 22 points on 20 goals and two assists. Kozak scored in all but one Guilford game this season and posted 11 multiple-goal outings. She tallied a career-best five scores in the Quakers’ April 10 victory at Ferrum College. Kozak compiled three scores, a career-high nine draws, four ground balls, and three caused turnovers versus Bridgewater.
The winner of Guilford’s prestigious 2019 Nereus C. English Athletic Leadership Award, Kozak concludes her college career with 115 points in 65 games on 99 goals and 16 assists. She ranks 16th among the Quakers’ career goal-scoring leaders and 18 in career points. Kozak graduated with high honors May 4 and will attend the Wake Forest University School of Law in the fall.
The pair helped coach Charlotte Dixon’s team to a 7-9 overall record (2-7 ODAC). Dixon could return as many as 15 letter winners for the 2020 campaign, including Iandoli.
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Climate change in the Gulf of Maine
November 4, 2015 Environment, Fisheries, Marine Life, Weathercod, environment, fisheries, oceans
Discarded heads of cod caught in the Arctic Barents Sea lie in a plastic container at a fish processing plant near Sommaroya, north Norway on Jan. 31, 2013. REUTERS/Alister Doyle
Palm trees and parrot fish along the Maine coast?
Not yet and not likely, and are lot of people are hoping not ever.
There’s been a lot of attention over the past week or so about warming water temperatures in the Gulf of Maine, much of it prompted by the publication in Science magazine of a study authored by a group of marine and climate scientists, most of whom are based in Maine. The attention is entirely deserved.
Increasing temperatures in the oceans has been an openly discussed issue for decades, but it wasn’t until 2012 that it really hit home for residents of New England and Atlantic Canada who live around the rim of the Gulf of Maine.
An unusually mild winter and a noticeable uptick in the gulf’s temperatures in 2012 disrupted the usual patterns of behavior and abundance of a variety of marine species in the gulf — most notably lobster, elvers, shrimp and green crabs. The past two winters have been cold (early 2013, like 2012, was relatively mild) but they have not negated the larger warming trends and symptoms, including the cancellation of the 2014 and 2015 winter shrimping seasons, that have caught the attention of coastal residents in the past few years
Historically, the gulf has been colder than much of the North Atlantic, but now it has been identified as one of the fastest-warming sections of all the oceans on the planet over the past decade.
Scientists who have spoken publicly about the phenomenon said the increased water temperature also has been making the Gulf of Maine less hospitable to cod, an iconic fish whose presence off the New England coast has been credited with luring thousands of Europeans across the Atlantic. In short, they have said (as the Science article has strongly reiterated) that climate change in the gulf is stacking the odds against the species rebounding to its former abundance.
Worth noting in all of this is that the real damage to cod in the northwest Atlantic was inflicted years ago through overfishing.
The collapse of the cod population in the Gulf of Maine happened between 1991 and 1999, according to landings data compiled by Maine Department of Marine Resources. This DMR graph shows just how steep the dropoff in landings in Maine was, plummeting from more than 21 million pounds in 1991 to 1.5 million in 1999. There’s been a little flutter up and down since then, nearing 3 million pounds in 2001 and again in 2002, but last year cod landings in Maine were at just above 400,000 pounds — less than 2 percent of the state’s haul 24 years ago.
Others finfish species suffered the same fate, in and out of Maine. DMR landings graphs for many of them reveal fluctuations that suggest some natural cycles may have been at work, but the graphs also follow a familiar pattern as the eye moves toward the right: a spike, often in the 1980s or 1990s, followed by swift and steep declines and then an undulating trickle down to a small fraction of its former abundance.
These species include: cusk, dogfish, monkfish, plaice, skate, winter flounder, wolffish and yellowtail flounder.
Not surprisingly, warmer water has resulted in other species typically seen to the south moving into the gulf — some of which, from a ‘glass half full’ perspective, might be fished for economic gain. Black sea bass, squid, blue crab are among marine creatures relatively new to the gulf that could be caught commercially, and perhaps better managed, to provide fishermen with a sustainable source of income without the boom-and-bust cycle that has defined so many other fisheries.
Amid all this change and upheaval, however, there has been one constant over the past 25 years that has provided stability to Maine’s coastal fishing communities: the rise and overwhelming dominance of the state’s iconic lobster fishery.
As groundfish species have declined, landings in Maine of lobster have risen considerably since 1990, increasing sixfold from around 20 million pounds (where it had wavered annually since 1945) to more than 120 million pounds each year in each of the past three years. The lack of predation caused by the collapse of cod and other groundfish stocks is thought to be a major factor in the explosion of the gulf’s the lobster population.
Unlike the spikes the stand out in other DMR historic landings graphs, the graph for lobster looks like a skateboarding ramp.
The price fishermen have earned for lobster has risen steadily as well, save for a discomforting drop of nearly $2 per pound between 2005 and 2012. This past summer and fall the average price offered to lobstermen has consistently held above $4 per pound — a price not seen since the pre-recession year of 2007.
Including the $457 million that Maine lobstermen cumulatively earned from the statewide catch last year, the industry is estimated to contribute well over $1 billion to the state’s economy each year as the lobster moves along the distribution chain to dealers, processors and retailers. Lobster alone represents more than 75 percent of the total value of all marine fishery landings in Maine.
Ask a Maine fishermen and he or she likely will say that conservation measures they adopted decades ago, such as throwing reproductive females back and adhering to both minimum and maximum size limits, have helped make the second most lucrative state for commercial fish landings after Alaska.
It is also worth noting here that, unlike the way cod and other groundfish were, no one is arguing that lobster is being overfished.
That has not always been the case. Scientists sounded warnings for years that the Gulf of Maine lobster population could collapse until a researcher at University of Maine named Yong Chen came up in the mid-2000s with a new, scientifically-approved model for estimating the abundance of lobster in the gulf. The model, which incorporated data collected directly by fishermen hauling traps, has eased everyone’s concerns that lobster landings could be on the verge of yet another sudden bust.
But that’s not to say there isn’t cause for worry. Everyone connected to the fishery acknowledges that catches will not go up forever, and there is concern that too much of Maine’s coastal economy is dependent on that one species. If something like a disease outbreak were to occur, the impact on the state’s economy could be severe.
Plus, it has been demonstrated that warmer is not necessarily better for lobster abundance though, so far, the lobster resource in the Gulf of Maine doesn’t appear to have been harmed by the rise in water temperatures. Some scientists have suggested that the warmer water even may have helped the survival rate of juvenile lobsters.
South of Cape Cod, however, it’s a different story. The abundance of lobsters there has dropped considerably, and they suffer from a higher rate of shell disease than in the Gulf of Maine. Warmer temperatures closer to the Gulf Stream current that moves north along the East Coast is considered to be the most significant factor, but higher rates of pollution and possible overfishing in the 1990s could be other culprits.
These are some of the points I tried to work into a relatively brief conversation I had yesterday with Tom Ashbrook on his NPR radio show On Point, in which he focused on the Science article and what kind of effects climate change has had in the Gulf of Maine and in oceans worldwide.
To listen to that conversation and a longer, more detailed one he had with Andrew Pershing of Gulf of Maine Research Institute, lead author of the Science article, click on the audio player below.
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Home » Shelby Cecil Chism
Shelby Cecil Chism
Published by notices on Tue, 07/02/2019 - 12:36pm
Shelby Cecil Chism passed away at his home near Ash Grove on June 30, 2019, at the age of 83.
Chism was a retired stockbroker who worked in brokerage firms in St. Louis for 40 years. From 1987- 1989 he served as president of the four state region NASD. He was a Mason and a Past
Master of the Equality Lodge #497. He served for 13 years on the school board of the Newburg R-II school district including as vice president and president.
Chism is survived by his wife of 45 years, Thena Lampe Chism; son, Andrew Lucas Chism (Holly); daughter, Connie Louise Tyler; and sister, Mary Longinotti; five grand- daughters, one grandson, two great-granddaughters, and five great-grandsons.
Preceding him in death were his mother, Faye Brock Chism; his son Michael Francis Chism; his daughter Elizabeth Anne Chism; and two sisters, Oleta Gandy and Linda Dudek.
Visitation will be Friday, July 5, 2019 from 1 p.m. until service time at Wilson-Griffin Funeral Home, Ash Grove. Funeral services will begin at 2 p.m. with burial to follow at Ash Grove Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions can be made to the Ash Grove Sunshine Center.
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Krachi East
Member of Paliament: Gidisu, Wisdom
The Nchumurus are the traditional custodians of the land making up the constituency. They are part of the Guans that speak a similar language as the Krachi. They pay allegiance to a paramouncy situated at Burae. The Burae chief is the traditional leader of the indigenes and rules the entire constituency with support from sub-chiefs (Odikro) who reside in the communities acting on his behalf. These chiefs are usually appointed by him. The Nchumurus are traditionally farmers who reside in the larger communities like Dambai and Tokuroano.
They are further divided into clans with recognized clan heads. These heads play various roles in mobilizing their people for special functions. Among the various clans, there is no established structure or hierarchy and this often lead to confusion as to who among the numerous clan heads, one should pay homage on a visit to a particular community. There is high communal spirit among members of a particular clan in occasions such as funeral performance but the same is yet to be seen in terms of communal labour on self-help projects.
Other ethnic groups in the constituency include Ewes, Konkombas, Bassare, Grumah, Akan among others. Ethnic diversity in the constituency unlike other areas does not pose threats to peace and security as each group sees the other as neighbours. This is largely due to the ease with which productive resources such as land is easily acquired without any restriction and the receptive and hospital nature of the Nchumurus.
Major celebrations that bring the people from all the country to their traditional homes include funerals and festivals such as yam festival. These celebrations could be used to raise funds to support major development efforts in the constituency. They also contain beautiful events which when well documented and disseminated could attract tourist from all over the world.
The traditional knowledge of the local people includes weaving (nets, fans, mats etc), pottery and hunting.
This discusses the spatial organization of human settlement systems as well as the functionalities of the settlements in the constituency. It deals specifically with the number, type and distribution of facilities and services within the constituency. An attempt is also made here to assess the adequacy of essential facilities and ascertaining areas of deprivation.
The constituency can be located at the North Western comer of the Volta Region of Ghana and lies between latitudes 7° 40°N and 8° 15°N and longitudes 0° 6
The constituency lies between the Northern parts of the central Uplands with hills ranging between 850m to 1000m above sea level around Asukawkaw and Katanga areas. The Northern part of the District is part of the North Western Savanna zone of the Volta region which is characterized by almost flat relief with slopes ranging between 85m and 300m above sea level.
The constituency is drained by the Oti River and the Volta Lake which form the boundary between the constituency and the Krachi West constituency. The Asukawkaw River is another major river that drains the constituency and also marks the end of the constituency to Jasikan constituency.
Other water bodies found in the constituency include numerous intermittent streams located in most parts of the constituency. These water bodies constitute important resources for the people as most of them depend on them for household use, fishing and transportation. Similarly, the major hills present great potentials for the development of Tourism in the area.
However the topography does not allow for easy road development and most of the communities in the area are accessible only by foot paths through the high terrains. Generally, the area is well drained except that few portions located close to the major rivers and streams become waterlog and pose problems for human and vehicle movement in the rainy seasons.
The water bodies also create large expanse of river banks that offer enviable advantage for rice cultivation.
The mean maximum temperature is 30C usually recorded in March while mean minimum temperature is 25.5C usually recorded in August. The constituency experiences an alternating wet and dry seasons each year. The rain fall pattern is single maxima towards the northern part of the constituency with the rains occurring in April to October and double maxima at the south eastern tip. August is usually the peak of the rains.
Mean annual rainfall is 1,300mm. The dry season starts from November to March. Relative humidity is high in the rainy season, about 85% and very low in the dry season (25%) especially during the hamattan period which hits the constituency from November to December.
This climatic pattern is good for food crop production and to a lower extent, forest development. However, the concentration of the rains in six (6) months affect farming since most parts of the year when rains are off is usually declared as "off farming" and the people spend most of this period idling.
Similarly, the pattern also affect accessibility as most of the community access roads become flooded with water hence making transportation almost impossible during rainy seasons.
The constituency is located in the transitional zone between the Northern Savannah and the Moist Semi Deciduous forest. About 75% of the constituency is covered with savannah grass land characterized by short drought resistant trees notable among them are shea, dawadawa, etc. This type of open vegetation is predominant at the northern parts of the constituency.
Significant portion of forest vegetation could be found in the constituency especially at the southern part characterized by forest tree species such as Odum, Wawa, mahogany etc. Fringing vegetation can also be found along the major rivers that drain the constituency.
The vegetation type as described above is gradually being degraded because of overdependence on it for daily livelihood activities such as bush burning, charcoal burning and farming as well as lumbering. As result of these activities the forest trees are being succeeded with savanna trees. This therefore calls for a more concerted effort at preserving the forest cover.
The major soils found in the constituency include the Techiman Association, mainly sandy soil found in the north, Kplesawgu Association (sandy clay soil) in the mid portions and southern tip, and the Dormabin-Dentesso Association (silty sand) found around Dormabin.
These soil types described above is good for the cultivation of both cash and food crops such as maize, millet, groundnut, as well as roots and tubers such as cassava and yam.
The soils along the river banks support large scale rice farming and those at south eastern tip support cocoa cultivation.
Few patches of clay soil were also discovered around Asukawkaw area and that could be very useful for development of the pottery industry that could serve as an alternative source of livelihood to farmers especially during the dry seasons.
1.A scene from the water front
2.Fresh water fishing at Krachi
3.A scene from the beach at krachi
4.Admiring nature - still waters at krachi
5.Admiring nature at krachi
6.View a hill top at Krachi
7.A Bird view of the Krachi Township
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1980: Dartmouth Review Founded, Espouses Conservative Principles, Insults Blacks and Native Americans
The masthead of the Dartmouth Review (2005). [Source: Huffington Post]The Dartmouth Review, an alternative campus newspaper with a conservative slant, is founded by Greg Fossedal, the former editor of Dartmouth College’s official student newspaper, The Dartmouth. Fossedal feels that the Dartmouth administration is composed of “Stalinists” who oppose his views. Taking several staffers with him, Fossedal leaves The Dartmouth and founds the Dartmouth Review. The newspaper, which receives no university funding, quickly demands that the university purge most non-Western curriculum materials and coursework, takes a strong stance against affirmative action (claiming that the “administration has given in to every minority demand”), complains that professors are unfairly punishing students who express pro-American and pro-Christian viewpoints, and demands a return to “traditional values.” Early issues feature an article calling for the return of the old Dartmouth Indian symbol, and calling modern Native Americans “drunken, ignorant, and culturally lost”; an interview with a former Ku Klux Klan leader, illustrated with a staged photo of a black person lynched from a tree; and an open letter on parents’ weekend that says affirmative action at Dartmouth “explains your son’s stupid friends.” Before long, the Review begins receiving funding from conservative organizations and individuals, beginning with conservative alumni, and eventually receives funding from around the country as part of a program by the right-wing Institute for Educational Affairs to develop conservative publications on college campuses. Early support comes from former Reagan White House staffer Morton Blackwell, whose Leadership Institute will later recruit Review editors to train campus conservatives starting up their own newspapers (including Ann Coulter, who will start a similar publication, the Cornell Review, at Cornell University.) According to a 2006 article by the Dartmouth Free Press, “[t]he Dartmouth Review probably could not have survived without the national publicity it received by claiming Dartmouth was trying to silence its conservative voice.” The Review quickly gains a reputation for racism (see March 15, 1982, 1983, and August 2002), anti-Semitism (see October 1982, November 9-10, 1988, and October 4, 1990), homophobia (see 1981, 1984, and 1985), and personal innuendos, such as when it calls one visiting pro-choice speaker “allegedly syphilitic.” Relations between the Review and campus administrators sour even further as time goes on. [Nation, 2/17/2003; Dartmouth Free Press, 9/20/2006; AlterNet (.org), 1/15/2010]
Entity Tags: Greg Fossedal, Cornell Review, Ann Coulter, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth Review, Morton Blackwell, Dartmouth Free Press, Institute for Educational Affairs
October 1982: Conservative Student Newspaper Mocks Jewish Religious Observance
President Reagan and Dartmouth Review editor Dinesh D’Souza, 1988. [Source: Exiled Online (.com)]The Dartmouth Review, a conservative weekly student newspaper funded by off-campus right-wing sources (see 1980), publishes a satirical piece called “Grin and Beirut,” that compares an Israeli settlement in West Beirut to a temporary structure just erected by Jewish students at Dartmouth to celebrate the harvest and saying it was built on “the West Bank of College Hall.” The structure, known as a sukkah, is where the students gather for meals during the eight-day Succoth holiday. “The Zionists have gone too far with the erection of a ceremonial ‘sukkah’ settlement on the West Bank of College Hall,” the Review writes. Two days later, unidentified vandals destroy the structure. Many Dartmouth students and faculty members believe the Review’s apparent anti-Semitism incited the vandalism, including a rabbi with the university. Even the conservative Manchester Union-Leader, one of New Hampshire’s staunchest press supporters of the Review, criticizes the Review for its writings. One of the article’s co-authors says he regrets writing the piece, and the Review publishes an apology saying that it is “committed to fighting not only vandalism but also the psychological bigotry that can precipitate it.” [Boston Globe, 10/5/1990; Dartmouth Free Press, 9/20/2006] In 2006, the Dartmouth Free Press will write that Review staffers may have destroyed the sukkah. The reporter will note that any contrition or commitment to “fighting vandalism [and] psychological bigotry” was not in evidence in later years, when Review staffers used sledgehammers to destroy shanties built by students as part of protests against apartheid in South Africa. [Dartmouth Free Press, 9/20/2006] The Review is currently edited by Dinesh D’Souza, who will go on to become a policy adviser in the Reagan administration and a prominent conservative speaker and pundit. [Know Your Right-Wing Speakers: Dinesh D'Souza, 2/25/2005]
Entity Tags: Dartmouth College, Manchester Union-Leader, Dartmouth Review, Dinesh D’Souza
1984: New Hampshire Investigates Conservative Student Newspaper for Alleged Wiretapping of Gay Organization
The Dartmouth Review, a conservative weekly student newspaper funded by off-campus right-wing sources (see 1980), publishes a front-page story proclaiming an “Exclusive Report on the GSA,” the Gay Straight Alliance. In 1981, Review editors had published the names of GSA officers, many of whom wished to keep their homosexuality a secret (see 1981). This article features a transcript of a private GSA meeting, recorded by Review staffer Teresa Polenz, who was sent by Review editor Laura Ingraham. The accompanying illustration depicts a man peering over a bathroom stall; Ingraham’s accompanying prose calls the GSA “cheerleaders for latent campus sodomites.” The state of New Hampshire opens an investigation into whether Polenz had violated wiretapping laws, an investigation that is later dropped when the New Hampshire Supreme Court hands down a ruling in an unrelated wiretapping case. Dartmouth College chooses not to discipline any students, and merely issues a request that the Dartmouth community “censure” the Review for its “insensitivity.” The Review will display little sensitivity towards gays, often referring to them as “sodomites.” In 1997, Ingraham, who has become a prominent conservative talk radio host and pundit, will write an article for the Washington Post recanting her views on homosexuals, saying she changed her mind in light of her brother revealing himself as gay (see April 1997). In 2006, former Review editor and conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza will say that while the Review was never racist (see March 15, 1982 and 1983) or anti-Semitic (see October 1982, November 9-10, 1988, and October 4, 1990), it could at times edge towards espousing homophobia: “[T]his antigay thing is a little bit tricky,” D’Souza will say, and add that the Review sometimes published comments about gays he wishes it had not. However, he will say, “It’s not clear the Review’s target was homosexuals per se.” [Dartmouth Free Press, 9/20/2006; Huffington Post, 6/9/2008]
Entity Tags: Laura Ingraham, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth Gay Straight Alliance, Dinesh D’Souza, New Hampshire Supreme Court, Dartmouth Review, Teresa Polenz
November 9-10, 1988: Conservative Student Newspaper Compares Jewish University President to Hitler
The Dartmouth Review, a conservative weekly student newspaper funded by off-campus right-wing sources (see 1980), marks the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a Nazi rampage through the Jewish communities of Germany in 1938, by depicting Dartmouth College president James Freedman as Adolf Hitler on its front cover. Freedman is Jewish. The article accuses him of searching for a “final solution” to the problem of conservatives at Dartmouth, a specific reference to the Holocaust. Many Dartmouth students and faculty members accuse the Review of overt anti-Semitism (see October 1982 and October 4, 1990). The Review will later apologize, not to Freedman, but to those who might have been offended. [Boston Globe, 10/5/1990; Dartmouth Free Press, 9/20/2006]
Entity Tags: James Freedman, Dartmouth Review, Dartmouth College
October 4, 1990: Dartmouth Protesters Decry Publication of Hitler Writings on Yom Kippur
Almost 2,500 protesters gather on the Dartmouth College green to protest the conservative, off-campus Dartmouth Review, a student newspaper given to extremes of racial and political rhetoric (see 1980). The protest is sparked by the Review’s recent publication of a selection of Nazi propaganda on Yom Kippur, one of the highest of Jewish holy days. The selection, printed on the paper’s masthead, was from Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf, and read: “I therefore believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator: By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord’s work.” The protest is led by Dartmouth president James Freedman, and made up of a wide swath of students, faculty, and alumni. “This has been a week of infamy for the Dartmouth community,” Freedman says. “The Dartmouth Review has consistently attacked blacks because they are black, women because they are women, homosexuals because they are homosexuals, and Jews because they are Jews,” he says; two years before, the Review had compared Freedman, who is Jewish, to Hitler, and compared his policies to the Holocaust (see November 9-10, 1988). College trustees call the Hitler publication “a criminal act of sabotage.”
Trustee Accuses University President of Using Incident to 'Incite Hatred' - The Boston Globe describes Review trustee and former editor Dinesh D’Souza, a former policy adviser in the Reagan administration, as both “contrite and combative” over the incident. D’Souza apologizes for the publishing of the Hitler selection, then moments later accuses Freedman of using the incident to incite hatred against the Review. “This case is Dartmouth’s Tawana Brawley,” he says, referring to the 1987 case of a young African-American woman who some believe falsely accused several white men of raping her. “You have a sabotage, a hoax, a dirty trick that is being ruthlessly and cynically exploited by the college leadership in order to ruin the lives of many innocent students. President Freedman has emerged as the Al Sharpton of academia.” (Sharpton, a New York pastor and civil rights leader, was one of Brawley’s most public advocates.) Protesters line up one after another to urge the college to repudiate the newspaper. Dartmouth officials say that the newspaper has damaged the college’s reputation and diminished the school’s ability to recruit top students and faculty, particularly minorities. Religion professor Arthur Hertzberg calls the Hitler quote another “act of ongoing hooliganism” in a string of politically and racially explosive actions by the Review, and tells the crowd: “This is not a hating college. This is not an anti-Semitic college. This is not an institution of infamy. It is a community of warmth and love.”
Professor: Responsibility Lies with Conservative Funders - Hertzberg says his quarrel is not with “the 20 or 30 misguided young people who edit the Review.” Rather, he says, it is with the prominent conservatives who support the paper. The Review is financed mostly by off-campus, conservative organizations and foundations; it has an annual budget of some $150,000, and faces high legal bills. Hertzberg says the paper’s key backers include former Treasury Secretary William Simon; former Chase Manhattan Bank chairman George Champion; National Review editor William F. Buckley Jr.; and conservative commentator and former Nixon speechwriter Patrick Buchanan. “My quarrel is with those out there who put up hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with which to contaminate this campus,” Hertzberg says. “They should be ashamed of themselves.”
Board Member Accuses Liberals of Planting Hitler Quote - Review advisory board member George Gilder, a conservative economist, says the Hitler quote was planted by someone who wishes the newspaper ill: “Do you think any conservative in the world would deliberately put that into the magazine? It’s obviously an attack by somebody who infiltrated the ranks.” Gilder says Freedman and liberals at Dartmouth are using the Hitler incident “to try to kill the Review, just as they try to kill conservatism whenever it rises up on campus.” Editor in chief Kevin Pritchett collects the issues of the newspaper, and, with three other senior staffers, publishes an open letter denying any involvement in publishing the quote and accusing a staff “insider” of somehow inserting it. Review supporters in New York and Washington, DC, demand that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) conduct an investigation to find the “saboteur,” and Review adviser Jeffrey Hart releases a written response that attacks Freedman for falsely accusing the Review of racism (see March 15, 1982, 1983, and August 2002) and intolerance (see 1981, 1984, 1985, and July 1990). [Boston Globe, 10/5/1990; Dartmouth Free Press, 9/20/2006] Days later, Simon publishes an editorial in the New York Times decrying the Review’s reference to Hitler, but calling the publication of the quote “sabotage” and saying: “[s]omeone secretly gained access to the production process.… Since the slur was deviously implanted in a section that remains unchanged from week to week, the subterfuge eluded the proofreaders.” He describes Pritchett as “horrified” by the incident, says that any accusations of anti-Semitism on the Review’s part are “preposterous,” and accuses Freedman of orchestrating a protest against the Review “that quickly metamorphosed into an instrument of hate—hate directed against student journalists who, as a result, suffered death warnings, threats of violence, as well as mean-spirited accusations.” The Review serves to “question, challenge, and even deride the dominant liberal orthodoxy on the campus, exposing its hypocrisies,” Simon writes, and calls any attempt to call the Review to account “political opportunism.” [New York Times, 10/20/1990]
Investigation Finds Quote Included by Staff, Editors - The ADL will indeed conduct an investigation, and will find that the Hitler quote was from a well-thumbed book in the Review’s office. It will conclude that a Review staffer had inserted the quote with the knowledge and apparent complicity of the senior editors. The ADL will call the publication of the quote “obviously an anti-Semitic act,” and write, “Prior acts of the Review and the past conduct of its members have contributed, the commission believes, to the creation of an environment which condoned and even encouraged a member of the Review to include the offensive Hitler quote.” The investigation notes that the Review has frequently published other offensive comments such as “the only good Indian is a dead Indian” and “genocide means never having to say you’re sorry.”
History of Anti-Semitism - The Review has a history of anti-Semitic publishings (see October 1982 and November 9-10, 1988). D’Souza says Review trustees have repudiated such actions, which he calls the work of unpolished and overzealous staffers who sometimes run the Review like “a half-baked, ramshackle student paper.”
Review President, Contributors Resign over Furor - C. Tyler White, president of the Review, will soon resign in protest. “I cannot allow the Review to ruin my life any further,” he will write. “The official Review response, which I co-signed and helped distribute, avoids the main thrust of the issue. It does not emphasize our sorrow in this dreadful act of malice, nor does it claim responsibility for letting it reach newsprint.… The editor in chief has failed in his job, and now we must wear the albatross of anti-Semitism because he won’t take responsibility for the issue’s contents.” Review contributors David Budd and Pang-Chun Chen resign along with White, writing, “We are conservatives, but we are not Nazis.” Budd writes that the Review’s apology implied “let’s put the blame on someone else.”
Congressional Involvement - US Representative Chester Atkins (D-MA) delivers a letter concerning the incident to Freedman, accusing the Review of “fomenting hatred and intolerance.” The letter is signed by 84 of Atkins’s fellow Congress members. Atkins is running for re-election against a Review board member, John MacGovern. Atkins says MacGovern should step down as a board member; MacGovern refuses, saying the Review’s senior editors are not responsible for the Hitler quote. [Boston Globe, 10/5/1990; Dartmouth Free Press, 9/20/2006]
Entity Tags: Dartmouth Review, Chester Atkins, Dartmouth College, X.XXX XXX, Arthur Hertzberg, Anti-Defamation League, William F. Buckley, Patrick Buchanan, William Simon, Kevin Pritchett, George Gilder, James Freedman, Dinesh D’Souza, George Champion, XXX-XXX XXX, Jeffrey Hart, John MacGovern, David W Budd
June 5, 2004: CNN Hires Conservative Political Analyst with History of Inflammatory Racial Observations
CNN announces that conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza is a new political analyst for the network. D’Souza became active in conservative politics and punditry as an editor of the Dartmouth Review in the early 1980s, where he authored and published numerous inflammatory articles reviling, among others, blacks, Jews, and gays (see 1981, March 15, 1982, October 1982, and 1983). From Dartmouth, D’Souza went to the White House, where he served as a senior domestic policy analyst in the Reagan administration. He has served as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution, and published a number of books, including 1995’s inflammatory The End of Racism, which progressive media watchdog organization Media Matters described as advancing the idea that “low-income black people are basically ‘pathological’ and that white racism really isn’t racism at all, just a logical response to this ‘pathology.’” D’Souza’s Web site “argues that the American obsession with race is fueled by a civil rights establishment that has a vested interest in perpetuating black dependency”; in a 1995 Wall Street Journal op-ed, he argued that “[t]he best way for African-Americans to save private sector affirmative action may be to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” Two African-American conservatives, Glenn Loury and Robert Woodson, resigned from AEI after the publication of The End of Racism and another racially objectionable book, The Bell Curve, by AEI fellow Charles Murray. [Media Matters, 6/8/2004]
Entity Tags: Dinesh D’Souza, CNN, American Enterprise Institute, Charles Murray, Glenn Loury, Dartmouth Review, Reagan administration, Media Matters, Hoover Institute, Robert Woodson
September 12, 2010: Conservative Author: Obama’s Foreign Policy Driven by ‘Kenyan Anticolonialism’
A portion of the Forbes magazine cover featuring Dinesh D’Souza’s article on President Obama. [Source: Forbes magazine / PBS]In a cover story for Forbes magazine, conservative author and pundit Dinesh D’Souza claims that President Obama is using the Oval Office to pursue Kenyan anti-colonial policies once advocated by his father, Barack Obama Sr., a Harvard-trained economist and Luo tribesman from Kenya. D’Souza has a long history of race-baiting and using inflammatory rhetoric (see March 15, 1982, October 1982, October 4, 1990, and June 5, 2004). [Forbes, 9/27/2010] The story is loosely based on D’Souza’s upcoming book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage. [Washington Post, 9/16/2010] It is dated September 27, 2010, but is published on the Internet two weeks earlier. After tarring Obama as “the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history” and a strong advocate of expanding the federal government into all aspects of America’s commercial existence, D’Souza turns to his perception of Obama’s “strange” foreign policy. He cites several instances of Obama’s stated intention to reach out to Muslims across the globe, calling these initiatives “anomal[ies],” and proposes an explanation: Obama does not hold to the American dream, in any form, but instead hews to what D’Souza characterizes as the “Kenyan” dreams of his father, who D’Souza says was a champion of anticolonialism. The elder Obama advocated that native Kenyans “control the economic means of growth” in their country, D’Souza quotes him as writing in 1965, and also wrote, “We need to eliminate power structures that have been built through excessive accumulation so that not only a few individuals shall control a vast magnitude of resources as is the case now.” Obama, D’Souza writes, is following his father’s policies in his governance. “It may seem incredible to suggest that the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. is espoused by his son, the president of the United States,” D’Souza writes. “That is what I am saying. From a very young age and through his formative years, Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction. He came to view America’s military as an instrument of neocolonial occupation. He adopted his father’s position that capitalism and free markets are code words for economic plunder. Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America. In his worldview, profits are a measure of how effectively you have ripped off the rest of society, and America’s power in the world is a measure of how selfishly it consumes the globe’s resources and how ruthlessly it bullies and dominates the rest of the planet. For Obama, the solutions are simple. He must work to wring the neocolonialism out of America and the West. And here is where our anticolonial understanding of Obama really takes off, because it provides a vital key to explaining not only his major policy actions but also the little details that no other theory can adequately account for.” D’Souza cites Obama’s support for offshore oil drilling in Brazil, his support for repealing the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, and his refusal to consider nationalizing American financial or health care institutions as “evidence” that he intends “to decolonize these institutions, [to bring] them under the government’s leash.” D’Souza goes even farther, accusing Obama of idolizing the 9/11 terrorists as anticolonial heroes whose acts were justified by their ideology; D’Souza cites Obama’s support for the building of a Muslim community center several blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, and his support for the release of one of the Lockerbie bombers on medical grounds, as “evidence” of his favoring of Islamist terrorists. Finally, D’Souza cites the statements of one of Obama’s grandfather’s wives, Sarah Obama, and Obama’s own writings about weeping at his father’s grave in Kenya as conclusive evidence of Obama’s secret anticolonial ideology. “Obama takes on his father’s struggle, not by recovering his body but by embracing his cause,” D’Souza writes. “He decides that where Obama Sr. failed, he will succeed. Obama Sr.‘s hatred of the colonial system becomes Obama Jr.‘s hatred; his botched attempt to set the world right defines his son’s objective. Through a kind of sacramental rite at the family tomb, the father’s struggle becomes the son’s birthright.” D’Souza calls colonialism a “dead issue,” and terms Obama “the last anticolonial.” [Forbes, 9/27/2010] Many conservatives have long accused Obama of being un-American because of his Kenyan ancestry (see February 25, 2008, August 1, 2008 and After, October 8-10, 2008, June 25, 2009, June 29, 2009, and August 11, 2009). D’Souza’s article will be lambasted by a wide swath of media figures (see September 12, 2010 and After) and will be shown to be riddled with factual errors (see September 16, 2010). It will be praised by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is widely believed to be pursuing the 2012 Republican presidential nomination (see September 12, 2010 and After). [Media Matters, 9/12/2010]
Entity Tags: Sarah Obama, Forbes magazine, Dinesh D’Souza, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Sr
Timeline Tags: US International Relations, Domestic Propaganda
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My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece by Annabel Pitcher
Ten-year-old Jamie hasn't cried since it happened. He knows he should have - Jasmine cried, Mum cried, Dad still cries. Roger didn't, but then he is just a cat and didn't know Rose that well, really. Everyone kept saying it would get better with time, but that's just one of those lies that grown-ups tell in awkward situations. Five years on, it's worse than ever: Dad drinks, Mum's gone and Jamie's left with questions that he must answer for himself.
I wanted to love this book, I really did. But I didn't.
The book is centered around ten year old Jamie who after his Mum leaves his family for another man, his father decides that they will move up North as far away from London as possible. His family are a complete mess even though it has been a few years since the incident that happened. Jamie has two older sisters, Jasmine and Rose and a few years before, whilst they are in a park in London, a bomb explodes, taking Rose's life with it. Naturally, this destroys the family and gradually tears them apart. One thing that I found was reflected particularly well was the grief that this family had succumbed to. Obviously, death is a very difficult subject to talk about for most people and Annabel Pitcher showed how much each member of the family had changed and been affected by Rose's death and it was heartbreaking to read that.
As for the characters in this book, I wasn't that impressed. Honestly, I don't remember that much about the characters because it is actually a year since I read this but I know that they were very cold and I found them hard to like in any way. Out of all of them, I definitely warmed to Jasmine the most, she was mourning Rose quietly and she stuck by Jamie even when their father got to his worst. I found it really heartbreaking how much hope Jamie had when it came to his parents, he wanted desperately for his mum to turn up for his birthday and his parents evening and is distraught in both scenarios. He also hopes that his Dad will stop drinking.
Jamie's father was a really interesting character as alcohol is his coping mechanism for trying to accept his daughter's death, and he is the one who has been the most deeply affected by the passing of Rose. Sadly he can't see how the alcohol is effecting his children and so gradually becomes worse and worse, meaning the drinking continues. That is one of the key themes throughout this book, as was racism. Jamie becomes friends with a girl named Sunya, but since the terrorist attack took place that killed Rose, their father has become racist towards anyone who is Muslim because he believes that it was their race that killed his daughter. This means that Jamie doesn't want to tell his Dad that he has made any friends as he knows it will bring up many underlying issues they have within the family.
From my review I feel like I have given this book a couple of stars more than I actually think as the main floors lied in the plot. The main problem for me was the writing style - there were no speech marks - yes, it was still apparent who was talking most of the time but I feel that by writing like this it seems like one long speech with no pauses. It didn't feel real, it didn't feel any more like a book than it did an outburst of angst. I started this book of really enjoying it, and thought it could be a somewhat magical book, but as it went along I felt that a lot of that magic was lost.
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Education: Bonnie graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1978 with Honors and High Distinction. She next studied at the Centre for Renaissance Studies in Oxford, England before entering the University Of Kentucky College Of Law in 1979. While attending the University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Bonnie served as a member of the National Moot Court Team. She received her Juris Doctorate Degree in 1982. Since that time, she has practiced primarily administrative law specializing in workers' compensation defense.
Legal Experience: Bonnie clerked with Kentucky's Special Fund while in law school and then practiced with the Special Fund for a short time after completing her law degree. She engaged in private practice in Eastern Kentucky representing clients primarily in the coal industry from 1983-1986 before joining Stoll, Keenon & Park early in 1987. Since that time, she has practiced workers' compensation exclusively.
While working with Stoll, Keenon & Park, Bonnie served on the firm's Administrative Committee and Strategic Planning Committee. She was also instrumental in developing and upgrading computer software specifically designed for the Workers' Compensation Department.
In 2001, Bonnie founded Hoskins Law Offices PLLC.
Associations: Bonnie is a former Chair of the Workers' Compensation Committee of the Kentucky Bar Association In that role, Bonnie was asked by the Executive Director of the Department of Workers' Claims to serve on various advisory committees. Bonnie is also a regular speaker at Continuing Legal Education seminars and has published numerous outlines and articles in continuing education publications. Bonnie is also a contributing author to the University of Kentucky Workers' Compensation Desk Book.
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Education: Mr. Brashear received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Psychology from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1985. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University Of Kentucky College Of Law in 1989 and received a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business in 1999. There, he was a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society and an Honors member of the Financial Management Association's Student Division. Mr. Brashear has also completed additional course work in accounting and computer science.
Legal Experience: While in law school, Mr. Brashear worked as a policy analyst for the Coal Development Division of the Kentucky Energy Cabinet. He began practicing law in 1990 with the firm of Wells, Porter, Schmitt and Walker in Paintsville, Kentucky. Initially, he practiced in general insurance defense, but most of his work involved workers' compensation defense. Mr. Brashear later practiced workers' compensation defense for Clark, Ward & Cave and Stoll, Keenon & Park in Lexington, Kentucky before taking a position as a staff attorney with the Kentucky Workers' Compensation Board in 1994.
While working for the Workers' Compensation Board, Mr. Brashear authored numerous opinions covering all aspects of Kentucky Workers' Compensation. He worked closely with Hon. Larry Greathouse, a former Commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims, as well as a number of the current Workers' Compensation Board members. Mr. Brashear authored several opinions for the Board that the Kentucky Court of Appeals later adopted verbatim. He also prepared summaries of noteworthy opinions issued by the Board. During the 2000 legislative session, Mr. Brashear prepared analyses of proposed statutory changes which were used by the Legislative Research Commission.
In January of 2002, Mr. Brashear became associated with Hoskins Law Offices PLLC. His practice areas have been in workers' compensation and Federal black lung defense.
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J. Landon Overfield recently retired as Chief Administrative Law Judge with the Kentucky Department of Workers Claims. Mr. Overfield received Bachelor of Arts (political science) and Juris Doctor Degrees from the University of Kentucky. He was admitted to the practice of law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in April of 1973 and is a member of the Kentucky and Henderson County Bar Associations. During his 21 years of private practice, Mr. Overfield was admitted to practice before all Courts of Justice and administrative tribunals in the Commonwealth Kentucky, the United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
A native of Henderson, Kentucky, Mr. Overfield returned home after completing his legal education and established his law practice. He was in private practice from April of 1973 until November 14, 1994. His practice began as a general practice but evolved to lean toward personal injury and workers compensation litigation. In both arenas he represented both plaintiffs and defendants. During the last several years of his law practice, he concentrated almost exclusively on workers compensation and personal injury. As a practicing attorney, Mr. Overfield represented injured workers, self-insured employers and employers on behalf of workers compensation insurance carriers.
Mr. Overfield was appointed as an Administrative Law Judge and served in that position from November 15, 1994 until his retirement on December 31, 2014. As an Administrative Law Judge, Mr. Overfield administered thousands of Kentucky workers compensation claims, conducted thousands of proceedings, and issued hundreds of opinions. He presided over dockets from Pikeville to Paducah, from Ashland to Bowling Green and in multiple other hearing sites in Kentucky. From September 1, 2008 through July 31, 2009 Mr. Overfield served as the "acting" Chief Administrative Law Judge. He was appointed Chief Administrative Law Judge effective September 1, 2010 and served in that capacity until his recent retirement.
Mr. Overfield is a member of the planning committee of the UK/CLE Worker's Compensation Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Worker's Compensation Education Association and a member of the Executive Committee of SAWCA (Southern Association of Workers Compensation Administrators). He has been a frequent presenter in Kentucky workers compensation seminars.
After retiring from the DWC, he plans to practice on a limited basis performing contract work, offering consultation in workers compensation matters, reviewing files and preparing litigation plans and performing mediation services. Put 42 years of experience as a workers compensation practitioner and adjudicator to work for you and your client.
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Home Montpellier Business School 1897
Founded in 1897, Montpellier Business School is today triple accredited AACSB, AMBA and EFMD-EPAS.Its Master Grande École or “Master in Management” programme (formerly known “ESC Montpellier”) is among the top 15 best French Masters Grandes Écoles (Challenge, Le Point, Le Figaro, Le Parisien) and placed 46th in the Financial Times Masters in Management 2016 global rankings.
Key figures and rankingsA European Grande École in Management in numbers
120 years of history
Triple accreditation: AACSB, AMBA, EFMD-EPAS
80+ participating faculty
35% of students pay no tuition fees
+ 150 foreign university partners across 37 countries
Around 300 students from partner universities each year
68: the number of countries in which alumni live
25%: the percentage of international students on campus
Professionalization
14-month minimum company internship
50 professional specializations on the Montpelliérain site
Several thousand internship opportunities per year
70% of students recruited before receiving their degree
Nearly 14,000 alumni members in the alumni association
A Business Club grouping together committed Major Company Partners from more than 30 major national and international companiesKey performance metrics for student achievement
Retention rates
Average retention rates over the last four years:
Bachelor program: 98%
Master Program: 99%
E MBA program: 95%
Bachelor courses:
http://www.montpellier-bs.com/international/study-programs/bachelor/director-editorial#&Itemid=847
Masters Courses:
The Executive MBA is a cross-functional management leadership programme
Master of Science (MSc) in Marketing
→ Master of Science (MSc) in Finance
→ Master of Science (MSc) in International Business
→ Master of Science (MSc) in Global Business
→ Master of Science (MSc) in Digital Management
for more information please visit website
Montpellier Business School, a Grande École, is heir to a long tradition of teaching based on the needs of businesses and markets. Founded in 1897 by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Montpellier, the school has succeeded in continually refining its specialized instruction in management sciences over the years in order to adapt its programmes to constant changes in local and global economic environments.
The institution’s aim is “to be a leading European business school in the Languedoc-Roussillon Region that is internationally recognized for its values, its academic excellence and its concern for global responsibility and performance, which characterizes its operations, stakeholders and results.”
A Business School in Southern EuropeAn exceptional environment for living and studying
The school’s location and campusMontpellier Business School is located on a lovely wooded 6-acre campus in northeast Montpellier, near the General Council of Hérault, the Jean Monnet high school and the Sanofi-Aventis Laboratories and about five kilometers (three miles) from the city center and 20 minutes from the beach. Located at the intersection of a recently built network of roads, the school has two entrances and is easily accessible. It also benefits from a unified public transportation network, particularly the TRAM, which reaches the campus in 15 minutes from the Saint Roch SNCF train station: TRAM Line 3 to the “Hôtel du département” stop (opposite the entrance to the school) or the “Pilory” stop. Bus Line 7 serves the campus, passing every 15 minutes.The TAM website (the Montpellier Transportation Authority): http://www.montpellier-agglo.com/tam
The 14,000 m² (150.69 ft²) of surface area are distributed between seven buildings of various sizes. The parking area has 400 spots for vehicles and a zone reserved for “two-wheelers.” Six parking spaces are reserved for persons with reduced mobility (PRM). The entire campus is open Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. and from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. There is an integrated security system in place, incorporating security guards and a video surveillance device.
The mission of Montpellier Business School is “to train, through our higher education programmes, managers that are strong in their diversity, aware of their global responsibility in carrying out their missions, and able to adapt to changes in local, national and international environments.” (By ‘global’, we understand societal, economic and environmental responsibility).
Learning spaces and teaching methodsClassroomsOut of the 2,500 students in all Montpellier Business School programmes, only 1,825 are actually present at any one time on the Montpellier campus. This is due to the instructional design of the Montpellier Business School Master Grande École programme and the Bachelor of International Business Administration programme, both of which require all students to spend one year in a company and most students to spend one academic year abroad. To accommodate these 1,825 students – including international students participating in academic exchanges – who are on campus from September to June, the institution has:• 52 classrooms with a capacity of 12 to 75 students,
• a large amphitheater with 470 seats (including 11 reserved for PRM),
• an amphitheater with 134 seats,
• a “flat” amphitheater with 79 seats (including 4 reserved for PRM).
• various spaces available to students for group work.
This group of spaces has a total capacity of 2,912 seats.
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