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Hastings talent crowned county champion
The victorious Lizzie Clarke. Picture courtesy Terry Skelton
Simon Newstead
Published: 14:59 Updated: 16:30 Thursday 24 January 2019
A Hastings Athletic Club young talent produced a superb performance to triumph at the Kent Schools’ Cross-Country Championships.
Lizzie Clarke, who is on fire at the moment, won the senior girls’ race in Dover on Saturday by quite a margin in a time of 13 minutes and 22 seconds.
The result came just a couple of weeks after Clarke performed very well to come second in a very strong under-20 women’s field at the Kent Cross-Country Championships at Brands Hatch.
See also: * Hastings Academy student wins county title
* Hastings Athletic Club stages ‘best ever’ Sussex Championships
* Horntye Park: Clubs could lose home venues if site is sold for housing
Another Hastings AC member, James Crombie, competed at the Kent Schools’ Championships, finishing eighth in the intermediate boys’ race in 19:34.
Many of Hastings AC’s adult distance runners have also been in action over the past fortnight.
A dozen took part in the East Sussex Sunday Cross-Country League match at Ashdown Forest.
Paul Bennett led them home in 15th place, and was followed by Martin Watts (56th, 34:38), Chris Hawkes (70th, 35:38), Harry Trend (72nd, 35:49), Chris Brandt (74th, 35:56), Dave Turner (94th, 36:59), Jamie Kennedy (156th, 40:30), Kate Barlow (189th, 42:29), Maria Mitchell (216th, 43:34), Joanna Body (221st, 43:51), Amanda Ling (230th, 44:05) and Paul Rackstraw (251st, 45:25).
That was the fourth of the league’s six matches. The remaining ones are at Heathfield Park next month and Pett in March.
Six runners lined-up in the Sussex Veterans’ Championships at Lancing on Saturday.
In the ladies’ race, Riz Maslen was 18th in 34:44, Becky Mabon 21st in 35:42, Katie Arnold 43rd in 39:28 and Suzy Frost 48th in 40:23.
Chris Brandt was 27th in the over-50 men’s race in 33:34 and Terry Puxty 41st in the over-40 men’s event in 37:02.
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Constructive Escalation
Louis Kriesberg
When at least two persons or groups manifest the belief that they have incompatible goals, they are in conflict. Frequently, one or both sides will try to coerce the other to accede to its wishes. The conflict then may escalate destructively. If neither side can impose its will, the conflict becomes intractable.
The focus in this module is on methods of conflict escalation that do not tend to result in intractable conflicts. First, alternative escalation tactics are discussed; then, factors and processes affecting the use of different tactics are examined, and finally, the consequences of different escalation tactics are assessed.
Basic Inducements
Many non-coercive as well as coercive methods can be used for one side to get its adversary to change sufficiently so that the conflict is either resolved or acceptably managed. As with other social interactions, three basic kinds of inducements are combined in various ways to escalate conflicts strategically.[1] These inducements are coercion, reward, and persuasion.
Coercion, or negative sanctions, is frequently used as an inducement in conflict. Coercion refers to actions, including symbolic ones that injure or threaten injury to the adversary. The actions are intended to intimidate and deter the adversary from acting coercively themselves, and/or to force the opponent to yield to one's demands. The cessation of coercion is conditional on the opponent's compliance with these demands.
"Rewards," or positive sanctions, are also used to win compliance.[2] An extensive body of theory and research indicates that rewards are more effective than punishments in interpersonal contexts: for example, child rearing and education. That evidence carries over to the waging of violent and deadly conflicts. In this context also, offering a reward for compliance can be more effective in achieving one's goals than is punishing noncompliance.
Persuasive inducements are efforts to influence an opponent by communicating arguments, information, or appeals that alter their perception of the conflict. If effective, the tactic of persuasion involves the recipient becoming convinced of the other's goal and voluntarily accepting it.
Strategy Combinations
Though analytically distinct, these three tactics are not isolated in practice. They are variously combined in different strategies and tactics, which are employed simultaneously or in various sequences, constituting campaigns in an extended conflict. (For example, those waging the civil rights struggle in the Southern United States during the 1950s and '60s used many different tactics and strategies combined in a series of campaigns over several years.)
Some tactics are highly coercive, involving high degrees of violence, but with a small amount of reward or persuasion added in. Violent coercion includes acts of terrorism, sabotage, assassination, military attacks, and police suppression. Coercion can also be nonviolent: withholding purchases or services, as in boycotts or strikes.[3] Often, nonviolent tactics incorporate significant persuasive inducements, as occurs in acts of civil disobedience, which calls attention to rules that are deemed unjust. Finally, some tactics promise future benefits while threats are limited. For instance, confidence-building measures and cooperative projects can be undertaken which, if completed, provide benefits to both sides.
Different groups within each side may employ different tactics and direct them at distinct groups on the other side. For example, tactics may be undertaken by or in the name of officials representing one of the adversaries and target the other side as a whole, its leaders, or its citizens. Dissenting members of one side may undertake other tactics directed at different segments of the other side's population. Often, leaders of one side will use combinations of inducements to win over the other's rank-and-file or particular leaders in an effort to isolate other leaders.
Shapers of Tactics and Strategies
Olympio Barbanti talks about people's view of conflict in developing countries.
Four factors affect the escalation tactics and strategies that are devised and used in a conflict:
the disputants' goals in the conflict,
their internal characteristics,
the relations between them, and
their social environment.
Understanding these helps in choosing the appropriate tactics.
Partisans often point to their goals in a conflict as the reasons for selecting the methods they adopt. They generally seek a close fit between means and ends, sometimes arguing that the means should embody the ends sought and that, therefore, the means become the ends. Thus, if a nonviolent, cooperative, and egalitarian relationship with another community or ethnic group is desired, they may reason that using nonviolent methods would be more likely to succeed than violent attacks. Goals that deny what is vital to the other side are likely to require extremely coercive means and resistance as long as possible -- a formula for an intractable conflict. Recognizing the consequences of resorting to harsh methods may result in an appropriate modification of goals.
An adversary's internal characteristics -- its members' cultural traditions, past experiences, and quality of leadership -- also effect the methods chosen, sometimes leading a side to select methods that are ineffective or even counterproductive. For example, lacking the capability to exercise a particular tactic obviously precludes its adoption. This is relevant when employing particular kinds of military actions, forming disciplined non-violent resistance, or initiating problem-solving negotiation.
Significantly, perceptions of the opposing side's members also affect the choosing of tactics in a conflict. Members may seem open to persuasion, vulnerable to threats, easily bought off, or capable of ruthless retaliation. They may seem unified in support of their leaders and the positions they have taken or they may appear to be splintered in their support. By manipulating the other side's perception of such variables, one can influence which tactics they will use.
Finally, the social context of a conflict also affects escalation tactics. For example, tactics used in one arena become models for their use in other arenas. In addition, the prevailing norms of proper behavior may constrain conduct, since violating them weakens support for the perpetrators. Thus, the widespread condemnation of terrorism limits its effectiveness and even its greater adoption.
Conflict Methods and Intractability
Particular methods contribute to conflict intractability in various ways. They can do so by arousing fear and mistrust in one's opponents and even those supporting the tactics, by polarizing opponents' beliefs and experiences, and by creating vested interests. For example, one side, hoping to win both sympathy and allies, may use provocative tactics to induce severe overreactions from the other side. This is a common strategy in bringing about a revolutionary situation [4], but it is also a dangerous course of action. The severe reaction is likely to prevent success and result in a protracted and destructive struggle. Precise, limited responses are more likely to be effective in avoiding an intractable conflict.
By contrast, there are tactics that can raise a conflict's intensity, yet still prevent or limit intractability. One approach is to reassure an adversary that a mutually satisfactory accommodation to a struggle is possible, difficult as that may be in the midst of an intense conflict. Reassurance can be given by proclaiming that, after the fighting has ended, persons and property will be respected. Significantly, violence too can be constrained during a conflict, as illustrated by the leadership of the African National Congress in its struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Even when resorting to armed struggle, after years of nonviolent protest, the leaders forswore committing terrorism in order to make future negotiations more likely.
As noted earlier, nonviolent action can be a constructive escalation strategy, which applies pressure on the adversary to change, but at the same time keeps open the possibility of dialogue by respecting them and avoiding violence that might generate an intractable conflict. Such actions have often been effective, as was the case in the Philippines and in several Eastern European states.[5] However, large-scale demonstrations, boycotts, and other mass nonviolent actions do not necessarily prevent protracted destructive conflict. Efforts at violent suppression of nonviolent campaigns often ignite or re-ignite severe intractable conflicts, as occurred in Northern Ireland following the bloody suppression of the civil rights struggle there in 1968.
Persuasive elements are important to coercive actions in that they help contain conflicts and limit destructive tendencies. Nonviolent actions are often effective in this regard because the actions are overt, often accompanied by statements and slogans that recognize adversaries' common humanity, proclaiming shared values of fairness, justice, and human rights. Even violence, if limited and accompanied by other inducements, need not result in an intractable conflict. For example, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) initiated an armed uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, on January 1, 1994. The Mexican government immediately tried to suppress it militarily.[6] However, on January 12, Mexican President, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, persuaded by international and national sympathy for the rebels, declared a unilateral ceasefire and peace talks began on February 21. Though these, and subsequent talks have failed, the conflict remains largely within the constraints of the political system.
Several developments in the social and political context and of the EZLN strategy contributed to this surprising development. Various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) had rapidly increased in Mexico. They constructed a worldwide electronic network that spread news of the events in Chiapas within and beyond Mexico, facilitating the mobilization of Zapatista supporters who came to Chiapas. Furthermore, Subcomandante Marcos persuasively articulated the Zapatista message, writing in a style that delighted and enlightened Mexico City intellectuals.
Negotiations proceeded, but with many setbacks. Thus, the 1996 Accord of San Andres included an agreement to constitutionally recognize the indigenous peoples' rights to self-determination and autonomy; but afterwards, the government rejected it. Then, after 71 years, the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was defeated in elections. The new president of Mexico, Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN), upon assuming office in December 2000, asked the Mexican Congress to act on the Accord. In April 2001, Congress passed an Indigenous Rights Law, but it incorporated only a portion of the Accord; consequently, the Zapatistas and their supporters opposed the Law. The conflict continues politically, but mostly without violence.
The analysis presented in this module suggests several considerations that should guide the choice of tactics and strategies in escalating a conflict effectively while avoiding intractability:
Each party in the conflict should initially select "methods of struggle" that make legitimate claims on the other party through institutionalized methods of judicial proceedings or the larger political or diplomatic systems. The adversary should be responsive to the claims made through such channels; that need not mean yielding to the claims, but it does mean entering a process of focused interaction.
The tactics used should reflect consideration of the differences within the opposing side and not drive all groups in the adversary camp together in resistance.
The tactics and strategies should be embedded in a broad strategy to win over many members of the other side for an accommodation that is mutually acceptable.
The methods should convey recognition of the humanity of the other side and the possibility of reaching an accommodation that satisfies vital concerns of large numbers of each side's members.
If coercive methods are employed, they should be carefully calibrated and consistent with shared normative standards.
Finally, no particular strategy or tactic can constructively escalate a conflict for everyone in every circumstance. Each conflict is unique and must be thought about from a fresh perspective, even as past experiences are surveyed and alternatives, along with their likely consequences, are considered.
[1] Louis Kriesberg, Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution, 2nd Ed. (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). New edition (4th ) <http://books.google.com/books?id=qhuwiOmaVDIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false>.
[2] David A. Baldwin, "The Power of Positive Sanctions," World Politics 24 (1971): 19-38. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2009705.pdf?acceptTC=true>
[3] Powers, Roger S. and William B. Vogele with associate editors Christopher Kruegler and Ronald M. McCarthy. 1997. "Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-Up to Women's Suffrage." New York & London: Garland Publishing Co. and Sharp, Gene. 1973. The Politics of Nonviolent Action. Boston: Porter Sargent. <http://books.google.com/books?id=jlRHZdWJlV4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false>.
[4] Debray, Regis. 1967. Revolution in the Revolution? New York: Grove Press.
[5] Schock, Kurt. 1999. "People Power and Political Opportunities: Social Movement Mobilization and Outcomes in the Philippines and Burma." Social Problems 46 (3):355-375. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3097105.pdf>.
[6] Ronfeldt, David, John Arquilla, Graham E. Fuller, and Melissa Fuller. 1998. The Zapatista Social Netwar in Mexico. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Arroyo Center. <http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports/1998/MR994.pdf>.
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Registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein once tried to gift Les Wexner with a $339,000 portrait of the Victoria's Secret head's family that was so controversial it sparked a lawsuit
Áine CainJul 10, 2019, 21:37 IST
Jay LaPrete/AP Images
New York-based financier Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested on suspicion of sex trafficking minors.
His relationship with L Brands CEO and founder Les Wexner has come under scrutiny.
A Wexner spokesperson said that the businessman - who helms the company that owns Victoria's Secret - cut ties with Epstein years ago.
But back in the early 2000s, the two were close enough that Epstein was prepared to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a family portrait to give to Wexner's family.
The Wexners were upset with the finished portrait and Epstein refused to pay the artist; as a result, the whole incident was documented in a 2002 court case.
A decades-old legal spat involving a $339,900 family portrait paints a clear picture of accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's connection to L Brands CEO Les Wexner, as well as the financier's working relationship with his one-time girlfriend and employee Ghislaine Maxwell.
Epstein was arrested on suspicion of sex trafficking underage girls on Saturday. Law enforcement's investigation into the financier's alleged sexual abuse of young girls began back in 2005 in Palm Beach, Florida. But a lawsuit that popped up three years before the initial allegations about Epstein surfaced may shed a light into his pre-scandal wealth and influence.
This March 28, 2017 image provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. The wealthy financier pleaded not guilty in federal court in New York on Monday, July 8, 2019, to sex trafficking charges following his arrest over the weekend. Epstein will have to remain behind bars until his bail hearing on July 15. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP)Associated Press
A Wexner spokesperson told Business Insider that the businessman cut ties with Epstein years ago. But that wasn't the case back in the early 2000s. Wexner first met the financier in the 1980s and became one of his only known clients. The retail mogul even reportedly gave Epstein his Manhattan mansion for free in 2011, Bloomberg reported.
And back in the early 2000s, Epstein was close enough to the CEO of L Brands - which owns lingerie brand Victoria's Secret - that he sought to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to gift the Wexners with a family portrait painted by a well-known artist.
Business Insider reviewed court filings pertaining to artist Nelson Shanks' 2002 lawsuit against Wexner, his wife Abigail, Epstein, and Maxwell. In this lawsuit, Les and Abigail Wexner are described as Epstein's "clients and close personal friends," while Maxwell is documented as functioning as an agent for Epstein. Business Insider reached out to Maxwell's environmental non-profit, the Terra-Mar Project, which did not immediately reply.
Court filings say that in early 2000 Epstein dispatched Maxwell to commission Shanks, an artist known for his hyper-realistic style of painting, to complete a portrait of Abigail Wexner and her four children. Epstein would foot the bill for the painting, as a gift to the Wexners. At the time, Shanks was known for painting the likenesses of celebrities like Princess Diana, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Epstein associate Bill Clinton.
Shanks also did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
Dominique Mollard/AP Images
According to a filing in the case, Epstein initially met Shanks through the New York Academy of Art. The lawsuit lists Epstein as a trustee of the school, which the NYAA disputes.
"He purchased tickets for three of our ticketed fundraiser events along with hundreds of other guests," an NYAA spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider. "We have no record of any other donation. The New York Academy of Art sincerely hopes Epstein's victims will receive justice."
At the NYAA, Epstein was known to "observe students' works in progress, offer suggestions as to what he would want changed, and then would purchase a completed work if he approved of the final product," according to a legal filing. The lawsuit also said that he'd previously purchased a nude painting from Shanks.
Court documents say that, after an initial meeting with Abigail Wexner in New York City, Shanks visited the Wexners' Ohio home around April 26, 2000, where he said he snapped around 300 photos of the family. The artist claimed in the lawsuit that he was "given limited access to Abigail Wexner and her children" during his two-day stay.
Read more: The CEO of Victoria's Secret's parent company reportedly had close ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Filings from the defense claim that Epstein was under no obligation to purchase Shanks' work without approving of the finished product, while the plaintiff's council said that Maxwell confirmed to Shanks in a letter dated May 16, 2000 that the painting would cost $325,000. Later communications bumped the cost up to $339,900, to include a $14,000 antique, 18th-century frame and $900 for a crate, according to a legal filing. In early May 2001, a courier picked up the painting and delivered it to the Wexners, according to the filing.
But the family wasn't happy with the finished work, by all accounts.
In the lawsuit, Shanks said that the family's assistants communicated the Wexners' "dissatisfaction with the poses of the children, their relative ages and sizes as portrayed, and expressions of the subjects, including Abigail Wexner herself."
The defense put it in more colorful terms, saying that the artist had "created an inherently impersonal, inaccurate, and disturbing painting" that rendered the Wexner children as "unrecognizable" to their own parents. Shanks later told a Pennsylvania newspaper that Abigail Wexner "wouldn't look at my painting," according to a 2004 Philadelphia Magazine profile.
Epstein refused to respond to Shanks' subsequent invoices; a move prompted by both the Wexners' reactions and his own displeasure with the painting, according to filings in the case. But Shanks later told Philadelphia Magazine that he believed that the whole situation arose out of his "ridiculing" of the family's $41 million Picasso painting.
"They purchased Picasso for $41 million, which is a nice picture that out to be worth, you know, at least $50,000, and, which, just to make them happier, I included in their painting," he said.
Haraz N. Ghanbari, File / AP Images
That same article reported that Shanks told Allentown's Morning Call that the Wexners were looking for "cheap expressions" and "corn."
"They wanted sparkly flossy, whatever," he said. "They couldn't really comprehend my concept."
But the defense expressed dismay that the Wexners were even named in the lawsuit, writing in a filing that, given Epstein's intent on gifting the family the portrait, their inclusion "unfortunately evokes the old adage that 'no good deed goes unpunished.'"
In the lawsuit, Shanks requested $339,990 plus damages for the "hundreds of hours" he spent on the work.
"You would no more go up to Leonard Berstein and say, 'I'll tell you what, you perform for us in the Philharmonic Hall,' or Carnegie, or wherever it happens to be 'and if we like it we'll pay you,'" Shanks told Philadelphia Magazine. "It doesn't work that way."
The case was settled in October 2003. This final agreement was reached "amicably," according to Shank's 2004 interview with Philadelphia Magazine.
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CHINA TOURISM PUSH LANDS 300 DELEGATES
Written on the 3 January 2012
THE maiden arrival of a China Southern Airlines charter flight today (pictured) at Gold Coast Airport signals a renewed vigour in the push for the lucrative Asian market.
The Airport partnered with Gold Coast Tourism to welcome 300 travel and industry delegates, who were greeted with a celebration including Currumbin Sanctuary koalas, Aboriginal dancers and local surf lifesavers.
Delegates will spend four days scouring prospective locations and conference facilities throughout South East Queensland – the largest trade and corporate business ‘famil’ of its kind to touch down on the Gold Coast. Two days will be spent on the Gold Coast.
Visitors include senior airline management, including president Tan (China Southern) and senior executives from the airline’s top travel and ticketing agencies and representatives from their largest Chinese corporate clients.
China Southern Airlines is expanding its services quickly into Australia following success on the route as being the key to its transition to a truly network-oriented airline.
President Tan Wan’geng says China Southern expected to carry 80 million travellers in 2011, mostly on its extensive domestic routes.
“We will make greater efforts at the other end of these kangaroo routes to make our Guangzhou hub an important gateway hub into China and even into the Asia-Pacific region as well as an ideal transfer centre between Australia and Europe,” he says.
Tan says Australia is a focal point for the airline’s global operations due to the historic links Australia had with southern China and the synergistic trade and tourism interests between the two nations.
“China Southern’s Australia strategy is important for our integration into the international marketplace and the development of our worldwide brand,” he says.
He says China Southern’s Australian growth had been impressive, rising quickly from 10 services a week into three destinations in 2009 to 35 weekly flights into four destinations with the start of Beijing-Guangzhou-Perth flights last month.
“From January to November this year, China Southern Airlines carried some 498,000 passengers from mainland China to Australia and New Zealand, a year-on-year increase of 114.1 per cent and almost 30 per cent of the total traffic between the two markets,” he says.
“China Southern has become the largest air carrier from mainland China to the region. (It) has received generous coordination and support from the Australian government, tourism bureau, airports and all sectors of the society as we further introduce ourselves to the Australian business and leisure communities.”
Gold Coast Tourism (GCT) relocated an office from Singapore to Shanghai earlier in the year to capitalise on the growth of China.
GCT chief executive Martin Winter, says attracting the largest delegation in history from Southern China to the Gold Coast was the result of a lot of hard work over the last year.
“This is an absolute critical milestone that we have reached,” he says.
“It will reassure the tourism industry that when China Southern decides to fly here in 2015, we will be prepared. Gold Coast Tourism is absolutely committed to this and we have a lot to look forward to.”
Winter says the aim is to have 750,000 Chinese visitors fly into the Coast by 2020.
The Guangzhou-based airline has operated in Australia for more than 10 years and now flies twice daily between Sydney and Guangzhou, 11 times a week to Melbourne, four times a week to Brisbane and three times a week to Perth.
It operates the largest airline fleet in Asia and is the third largest airline in the world by passenger numbers.
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Tower Power
A Southwest Florida retail hub is on the cusp of a major shift — including doubling its offering of food and beverage establishments. Will the moves pay off?
While the retail real estate industry continues its mostly e-commerce-induced shakeout, the future of mall transformations can be seen up close in Southwest Florida.
Shopping centers nationwide, in all classes, have chased the entertainment and lifestyle trend for several years. Gone are dozens of big and bulky department stores, a slow burn facilitated by closures and bankruptcies. A mix of gathering-spot restaurants with millennial-fueled menus are taking the place of many of those legacy tenants. Others are filling the space with creative reuse, from chain-based gyms to medical clinics.
The reason behind the shift is simple: “Everyone knows the only thing you can't buy online is experience,” says Whitney Livingston, senior vice president of management services at Madison Marquette, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate development and investment firm. “There are a lot of landlords looking for tenants today, and we've had to modify development plans,” to reach that segment.
A prime example of that is happening at Bell Tower Shops, at the corner of U.S. 41 and Daniels Parkway in Fort Myers — a spot Livingston calls “bull's-eye real estate.”
A partnership that includes Madison Marquette and insurance giant Principal, according to Florida Division of Corporations records, owns the 343,000-square-foot Bell Tower Shops, built in 1982. A unit of Geneva, Switzerland-based investment firm Capital Guidance, Madison Marquette has owned a part of Bell Tower since 2004. Madison Marquette has also owned stakes in other prominent properties in the region, including Hyde Park Village in Tampa and the Mercato in Naples. The firm sold its interests in the Mercato in 2015, part of a $239.6 million deal, but remains its management, leasing and marketing company.
The Bell Tower redevelopment project, which began earlier in February, includes new inviting gathering areas; updated architecture and redesigned storefronts; and fresh paint and contemporary lighting, according to a statement.
The project is also planned to lure new tenants. The current mix at Bell Tower leans about 15% food and beverage entities, a figure that will likely rise to 30% or 35% after the redevelopment, says Livingston. That's a ratio on par with many other lifestyle centers nationwide.
One goal of the tenant shakeup, adds Livingston, “is to create something local and regional. That tends to be more authentic.”
While the Bell Tower redevelopment follows a key national retail trend, the project also got a big shove from the October 2016 closure of Saks Fifth Avenue. Saks had been a Bell Tower anchor since 1996.
“While we're regularly looking at the Bell Tower Shops, with the Saks Fifth Avenue vacancy, we saw it as an opportunity to do something different,” says Livingston, who grew up in Tampa and is now based in Dallas. “That 40,000 square feet gave us the critical mass.”
Madison Marquette officials declined to comment on the projected total investment in the upgrades — the first renovations at the property since 2009. “The investment is substantial,” says Livingston. “The landlord is committed.”
The overhaul will also provide another benefit for Madison Marquette, in fixing what Livingston calls a design flaw with signage at some stores. “Tenants look for three things — access, visibility and signage. Those are must haves,” says Livingston. The design issues at Bell Tower, she says, can be “significant hurdles in attracting best-in-class tenants.”
In terms of attracting customers and shoppers, the vision with Bell Tower, says Livingston, is to be a “modern town square.” The kind of something-for-everyone place, she adds, where activity ranges from a gym class at 8 a.m. to a drink with friends at 11 p.m. In between will be experienced-based retail, from getting nails done to coffee to groceries. Says Livingston: “It's going to be a place where you can park your car once.”
Push and Pull
A new retail real estate study from consulting firm A.T. Kearney says the heart of the shopping mall industry's seismic shift, from selling merchandise to offering experiences, leans on one key fact: owning stuff isn't as important to younger consumers as is experiencing things.
Commercial real estate Q&A
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Morning Update: How Women Are Leading Sudan's Protests
A crumbling Venezuela, Roger Stone posts about the judge in his case, Netflix cancels the Marvel shows. Your BuzzFeed News newsletter, Feb. 19.
By Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Elamin Abdelmahmoud BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on February 19, 2019, at 7:41 a.m. ET
20 years after Hugo Chávez launched the revolution, Venezuela is falling apart from within
For the last month, the US has been pressuring Caracas, in hopes of bringing down the government of Nicolás Maduro.
The Trump administration’s rhetoric has been dramatic, to be sure — there’s been talk of “all options” being on the table, and a matching tone from President Trump’s national security adviser.
But the reality is, the biggest threat to Maduro’s government comes from the inside. Once-loyal working-class supporters are turning their backs on the government, while politicians and diplomats have crossed the aisle to join the opposition.
The main question is whether Maduro can keep Venezuela’s army from turning against him, while quelling the anger of his supporters.
You should read Karla Zabludovsky’s excellent report on a crumbling Venezuela.
Roger Stone posted a photo of the judge presiding over his case next to crosshairs
The longtime Republican operative and former adviser to Donald Trump was recently charged with lying to Congress.
He posted a photo to Instagram of US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over his case, in which she appears to be next to a crosshairs symbol.
Stone’s efforts to get his case reassigned to a new judge have been denied. He claimed in the post that Robert Mueller used “legal trickery” to place his case in front of Jackson.
Stone has since deleted the photo and filed a “notice of apology” in court. Here’s the post:
Five people are dead after a gunman opened fire at an Illinois manufacturing plant. The gunman was killed in a shootout with police. He had worked at the company for 15 years, and opened fire in his termination hearing with HR. The victims include a plant manager, the head of HR, and an intern in his first day on the job — here’s what you need to know about them.
Robert Mueller’s office says Paul Manafort is facing as much as 24 years in prison — for just one of his cases. Manafort also faces a fine of up to $24 million, and another $24 million in restitution. Prosecutors did not make a recommendation on what sentence Manafort should get.
Kamala Harris said she’d support changing “Columbus Day” to “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.” The change is a focal point for some progressives. Harris also said she would support making Election Day a federal holiday as part of a new Voting Rights Act.
A Florida student was arrested after he refused to participate in the Pledge of Allegiance. Police said they arrested the sixth-grade student because he “disrupted a school function” and “resisted an officer without violence,” but not because he refused to recite the pledge.
The Academy Awards have reversed the decision to give some Oscars during commercial breaks after facing a major backlash. The Academy had planned to give awards for Cinematography, Film Editing, Live-Action Short, and Makeup and Hairstyling during breaks. Those plans are now abandoned.
Netflix has cancelled The Punisher and Jessica Jones. There are now no more Netflix shows based on the Marvel Defenders characters, with Luke Cage, Daredevil, and Iron Fist all having previously been axed. The upcoming season of Jessica Jones will be its last.
These women joined Facebook to talk about their crushes. Now they’re using their skills to expose abusive police.
Right now, there are huge anti-government protests in Sudan, aimed at the regime of President Omar al-Bashir. At least 57 people have been killed, and countless others have been shot at, tear gassed, and tortured.
As the protests swept the country, private Facebook groups that women initially started to share information about their love interests have been turned into powerful tools to expose abusive security officers.
Women are using the groups to identify and dox the officers brutalizing demonstrators. As a result, agents have been hounded by people in their own neighborhoods, beaten up, and sometimes even chased out of town.
Bashir has said protesters cannot change the government with Facebook or WhatsApp. But the women behind the doxing campaigns may yet prove him wrong.
Tamerra Griffin’s report on this story is so, so good.
This video of a mom and her sons dancing became a massive meme. Here’s the full story.
When I started seeing this video going around, I laughed at every single variation of the meme. Every single one.
The video shows three people dancing in a circle and having the time of their life, and has been used to make politics jokes, retail jokes, history jokes, and really, really good science jokes.
We spoke to Aspect Za’vier and his mother Willona, who gave us the original video and its magic. Enjoy the countless memes this video spurred, and tell me which is your favorite.
Elamin Abdelmahmoud is a curation editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in Toronto
Contact Elamin Abdelmahmoud at elamin.abdelmahmoud@buzzfeed.com.
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Letter of concern to the government of India with regard to the government’s position on the World Bank’s safeguard policies and proposed environmental and social framework
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact
World Bank safeguards review – phase 3 consultations
Equitable Cambodia
Dangers of dilution: World Bank’s new weak environmental and social framework
UN experts critique World Bank draft safeguards
Calls for World Bank safeguards without “policy dilutions”
World Bank safeguards protest in April 2015. Credit: International Accountability Project
CSOs write to Bank board in June with recommendations for new safeguards draft
May CSO letter calls for “meaningful” safeguards consultation process
CSOs raise concerns about India’s position on safeguards
As the World Bank prepares to release the second draft of its proposed new environmental and social framework for consultation, civil society organisations (CSOs) have raised a number of concerns regarding the anticipated draft and the consultation process (see Observer Winter 2015, Autumn 2014, Bulletin Sept 2014). The new draft was discussed by the Bank board’s Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE) in late June and early July, and subsequently approved for the third and final phase of public consultation, due to start in mid July.
Prior to the June CODE meeting a letter signed by 17 NGOs, including Alyansa Tigil Mina in the Philippines and US-based ‘Ulu Foundation, urged board members to “be vigilant” when reviewing the draft. The letter called the first safeguards draft “a dangerous weakening for the project-affected communities and the environment … [which] effectively dismantled thirty years of environmental and social protection.” Furthermore, the letter asserted that the draft “failed to achieve upward harmonisation with the strongest environmental and social standards of other multilateral and bilateral institutions”. The letter also expressed disappointment about the previous consultation phases, where “much of the input from civil society was neither properly recorded by the Bank, nor did it make much of an impact on the structure of the draft.” The signatories called on CODE to send the new draft back to Bank management if it contains “policy dilutions”. An appendix listed questions for CODE to consider while reviewing the draft, including whether the draft contains “highly flexible language linked to substantial policy dilutions and open ended compliance.”
A late May letter to the Bank’s safeguards team signed by 48 NGOs, including Ecological Justice in Indonesia and US-based Accountability Counsel, called on the Bank to “develop a consultation plan that secures meaningful input on the second draft of the environmental and social framework”. It observed that “the first two phases of consultations were marred by substantial problems”. It raised concerns that the Bank “is considering a truncated phase three consultation structure that would rely primarily on web-based consultations, over the course of as little as two months. A limited structure and timeline would be insufficient for interested parties to be able to review and digest materials and would run counter to the Bank’s commitments to transparency and citizen engagement.” The letter argued “that an adequate budget, and a minimum of six months’ time will be necessary to meaningfully consult stakeholders”. In a late June response, the Bank agreed that the next phase should be open and inclusive, but refuted the concerns arguing that its “approach to consultation meetings will follow the World Bank’s consultation guidance and international good practice.”
a dangerous weakening for the project-affected communities and the environment … [which] effectively dismantled thirty years of environmental and social protection. June NGO letter
In April a letter with 84 endorsements, including 56 indigenous peoples organisations, was sent to the Indian prime minister, calling India’s official response to the safeguards consultation “extremely problematic on a number of fronts”. This included a reference to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) for indigenous peoples, which according to India’s response “can lead to legal complications, delays, increase in costs and delay in project execution. [The Bank] has not been able to explain how the new framework is simple, less onerous and burdensome on the borrowers, compared to the present safeguards policy.” The letter argued that India’s position “puts many of the country’s indigenous communities at serious risk of further loss of their lands and resources in the name of development without equity and protection of human rights”. It called on the Bank to ensure “that its revised safeguards reflect international standards in relation to indigenous peoples’ rights by maintaining this FPIC requirement.”
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US Lawmakers to Vote on Authority to Subpoena Trump Officials
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee is set to vote Thursday on whether to authorize subpoenas to a dozen current and former Trump administration and campaign officials as part of its investigations into the 2016 election and the separation of families at the border with Mexico.
Democrats who lead the committee have expressed frustration at what they say is a lack of cooperation from the White House and federal agencies in response to the committee's requests to interview officials and obtain documents.
But President Donald Trump rebuked the lawmakers on Twitter as the congressional panel moved toward a vote
The White House has directed some officials, such as former counsel Donald McGahn, not to answer the committee's questions, as Republicans accuse Democrats of dragging out investigations and wasting lawmakers' time.
Trump has lodged numerous complaints about investigations into his administration and continued Wednesday with a tweet saying, "The Dems Witch Hunt continues!"
The Judiciary Committee announced Tuesday it would be voting on granting Chairman Jerrold Nadler authorization to subpoena Trump senior adviser Jared Kushner, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
The list of 12 people also includes former Trump campaign chief Corey Lewandowski and David Pecker, the head of National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc., which made hush money payments during the 2016 presidential campaign to a woman who alleged having an affair with Trump.
The committee said the documents and testimony it seeks relate to "the Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' policy and other family separation policies and practices; detention of children and families; and discussions about or offers of presidential pardons to Department of Homeland Security officials or employees."
Treatment of migrants at the southern U.S. border has been a prominent issue throughout Trump's presidency and gained greater focus this year with an unprecedented level of children and families entering the United States without papers.
Last week, the DHS inspector general issued a report expressing concern about overcrowding at migrant detention facilities and about people being held there for prolonged periods of time. Trump has dismissed criticisms of his administration's handling of the situation, saying on Twitter that if migrants are unhappy with conditions, "just tell them not to come."
The committee is also interested in learning more about "obstruction of justice, public corruption and other abuses," involving the president and his associates.
Mueller led a nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and allegations that Trump obstructed justice by trying to shut down the probe.
He issued a report, a redacted version of which was made public in April, that concluded the Trump campaign had not colluded with Russia during the election. Mueller did not explicitly state that Trump obstructed justice, but said the evidence uncovered during the investigation also did not exonerate the president.
Mueller is scheduled to testify before the Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee next week.
Nadler said in a statement he is open to not taking the step of trying to use subpoenas to compel cooperation with his committee if the panel gets the information it seeks voluntarily.
"For months, we have held hearings and sent letters to the agencies of jurisdiction involved with implementing a catastrophic and inhumane family separation policy at the Southern border. Many questions remain and it is past time for a full accounting of this policy and practice," Nadler said. "The Committee will also move forward with our efforts to request information from critical witnesses as part of our ongoing investigation into obstruction, corruption and abuse of power by the President and his associates."
The top Republican on the committee, Rep. Doug Collins, called the subpoena effort "unimpressive and unproductive."
"Even if Chairman Nadler still believes subpoenas are conversation starters, it's hard to imagine this handful of subpoenas will do anything but reinforce the principal conclusions we've been able to read about for months," Collins said.
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Providence · Warwick
Talking to Children
Walter G. Anderson, Sr.
Walter G. Anderson, Sr., 99, of Hundred Acre Pond Road, West Kingston, passed away Monday June 24, 2019 in South County Hospital. He was the husband of the late Barbara J. ( Barnes ) Anderson.
Born in Providence he was he son of the late Gustaf F. and Signe E. (Pearson ) Anderson.
Mr. Anderson served our country honorably in the Army during WWII in the Signal Corps. After his discharge as a Master Sergeant he went to work as a Test Man for New England Telephone working for over 40 years until retirement.
Mr. Anderson was a member and past Commander of the American Legion Post 1, Providence. He was a troop leader with the Boy Scouts of America earning the prestigious Eagle Scout.
He attended and completed the University of Rhode Island's Master Gardner Program and was a communicant of Christ the King Catholic Church on the U.R.I. campus.
He is survived by his children, Robert W. Anderson and his wife Joanne of Moline, IL, Sgt. Walter G. Anderson, Jr and his wife Joyce of North Kingstown, Christopher B. Anderson of West Kingston, Susan E. Hawley and her husband Joseph of Norwalk, CT, Denise B. Anderson of Narragansett, 16 grandchildren, 12 great granschildren, he is predeceased by a son, Nizar Al-Nusif and his siblings, Russell Anderson, Earl Anderson, Ralph Anderson and Ariel O' Connor.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be Celebrated Friday June 28, 2019 at 12:00 pm in Christ the King Catholic Church, 180 Old North Road, West Kingston. Burial with Military Honors will follow in the Rhode Island Memorial Cemetery, Exeter. Calling hours are June 27, 2019 from 4:00 to 7:00 pm in the Russell J. Boyle and Son Funeral Home, 142 Centerville Road, Warwick.
In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory maybe made to Master Gardner Program c/o URI Foundation, P. O. Box 1700, Kingston, RI 02881
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How Far Was Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig Responsible for the Failings of the British Army in 1916 and 1917?
Submitted By: blakeyboyiscool
Category: Biographies
How far was Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig responsible for the failings of the British army in 1916 and 1917? There is no doubt that Sir Douglas Haig was considerable responsible for the ‘Failings’ of the British army in the years 1916 and 1917. However Sir Douglas Haig responsibility was limited because of the culpability of others, especially his general in charge of the 4th army on July 1st1916, his name was Sir Henry Rawlinson. For example it must be noted that Rawlinson issued the famous directive to use the walking ‘wave formation’ on the first day which made the attacking soldiers such an easy target for German machine gunners. However Haig’s responsibility is also affected by what the question terms ‘failings’ of Haig’s armies. Again these must be discussed because it will be argued here that the failings of the BEF were partly inevitable because of the nature of the ‘citizen army’ and the huge learning curve the army had to go through to gain final victory in 1918. Though it will be argued here that Haig was indeed to some extent responsible for the difficulties the BEF faced in these years but there are other causes that will be discussed in some depth of addition. Sir Douglas Haig has become one of the most controversial figures in British military history. Haig is interesting but the history of his commentators is just as interesting, he it is my purpose to describe his period as a commander in Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, a position he attained in December 1915. While it is true that Sir Douglas Haig has been attacked since the Great War ended, very few of the ordinary soldiers who actually fought in the war would criticise him; in fact, he ended the war with his reputation very much intact. Haig was very much every inch of the cavalry man. He has always fought on horseback. He therefore had little idea of the infantry or the gunners when he became the Commander of the British Expeditionary Force in 1915. Haig had a lot to learn in...
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The British Army. The Legacy
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12 Jul UK Casting Industry Census shows industry growth – but challenges remain
The latest Census of the UK Foundry and Casting Industry shows that there has been an 11% increase in sales revenue in the last two years, together with a continuing rise in productivity and high levels of capacity utilisation. Improvements in efficiency and value added services have taken place, with more than half the firms reporting investments in capital equipment within the past two years and over 70% providing value added services such as rapid prototyping, innovative design and simulation and near net shape component manufacture.
Welcoming the publication of the 2017 Casting Industry Census, Dr Pam Murrell, CEO of the Cast Metals Federation, trade association for the UK castings industry, which commissioned the report from the Enterprise Research Centre, ERC, at the University of Warwick Business School, said: “The census clearly shows that the UK casting sector has really begun to recover after the global recession and confirms the information we have been hearing from our members, many of whom are now extremely busy. All the markets that are served by the industry, and that is all sectors of our modern technologically enabled lives, seem to be doing well (with the exception of industrial gas turbines), and this is very encouraging.”
She added: “Clearly there remains uncertainty, with the continuing negotiations regarding the UK’s exit from the EU providing little clarity to business, high energy pricing and skills shortages. We are also faced with significant technical changes taking place with the move to hybrid and electric vehicles, light-weighting and the increased use of additive manufacturing techniques. But the industry is used to change and is always innovating. Many of these changes actually represent an opportunity for closer contact with customers to provide innovative solutions to design challenges.”
Mike Naylor, CMF Chair agreed, saying: “We make highly engineered components that provide technical solutions to our customers, through liquid metal engineering and the application of complex science. The industry is diverse and services all sectors of manufacturing – and I do not see this changing – indeed the industry will continue to evolve, embracing change. Our focus needs to be on high value added, complex and technically challenging parts, near to market through close cooperation with designers and our customers. I am pleased to see that the optimism seen around the industry presently has been confirmed by this census and I would like to thank the team at the ERC for their work in analysing the data and compiling this census.”
The 2017 Casting Industry Census was commissioned by the Cast Metals Federation and compiled by the Enterprise Research Centre, ERC, University of Warwick Business School from data supplied by 159 CMF Member foundries. The data was collected during late 2017.
CMF Member foundries represent every part of the sector and manufacture around 85% of all castings produced in the UK. Ranging from global foundry groups to small jobbing foundries, CMF Member foundries supply precision finished parts and assemblies in a range of sizes, metals and process to the UK and global markets and generate sales revenues of at least £1.89billion.
For more information on the 2017 Casting Industry Census or on CMF contact: Dr Pam Murrell FICME, Cast Metals Federation, National Metalforming Centre, 47 Birmingham Road, West Bromwich, West Midlands B70 6PY, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 (0) 121 601 6396, Fax: +44 (0) 121 601 6391, Email: admin@cmfed.co.uk Web: www.castmetalsfederation.com
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Elton John's Big Day
Pop star Elton John, right, and his longtime partner, filmmaker David Furnish, flash grins at the crowd after their civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005. John and Furnish were the most prominent of hundreds of same-sex couples expected to form civil partnerships in England and Wales Wednesday, the first day that such ceremonies became possible.
The Guildhall, at center, in Windsor, England, is surrounded by media, police and public ahead of the arrival of pop star Elton John and his longtime partner David Furnish, who were to be united there in a civil union ceremony, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005. Britain's Prince Charles married the Dutchess of Cornwall here in April.
Pop star Elton John, left, follows his longtime partner David Furnish through a crowd of photographers as they arrive for a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.
Sir Elton John waits for the start of a ceremony at the Guildhall in Windsor, England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005, in which he will join in a civil union with longtime partner David Furnish.
A crowd of media, police and public gather near the Guildhall in Windsor, England, ahead of the arrival of pop star Elton John and his longtime partner David Furnish, who were to take part in a civil union ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.
Fans hold placards picturing Elton John, right, and his longtime partner David Furnish, left, outside the Guildhall, Windsor, England, where the couple were having their civil partnership ceremony.
Jubilant celebrity couple Sir Elton John and David Furnish leave the Guildhall, Windsor, following their civil partnership ceremony on Dec. 21, 2005.
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Filmmaker David Furnish and rock star Elton John wave to the crowd outside Windsor's Guildhall in England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005. The two were joined in a civil union there on the first date on which it was legally possible.
Rock star Elton John blows a kiss as he and longtime partner David Furnish greet the public after their civil partnership ceremony at the Guildhall, Windsor, England Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005.
Filmmaker David Furnish and rock star Elton John pose for photos outside Windsor's Guildhall, England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005, where they were joined in a civil union.
Photographers point their lenses at the car carrying Elton John and his longtime partner David Furnish after they concluded their civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005. John and Furnish are the most prominent of hundreds of same-sex couples planning to form civil partnerships in England and Wales on Wednesday, the first day that such ceremonies became possible.
Elton John, right, and his longtime partner David Furnish, wave to the public after their civil partnership ceremony at the Guildhall, Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.
David Furnish gives a thumbs-up sign as he and Sir Elton John, his longtime partner, greet the crowd after a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.
Elton John, right, and his longtime partner David Furnish accept a wedding cake from a representative of an ice-cream company after the two had a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.
Elton John , right, and his longtime partner David Furnish leave the Guildhall after their civil ceremony in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005.
Pop star Elton John, right, and his partner David Furnish wave to the media and public after their civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.
A fan's poster across the street from the Guildhall in Windsor, England, mocks Queen Elizabeth II's likely reaction to the civil ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005, uniting pop star Elton John and his longtime partner David Furnish. The Guildhall is just outside Windsor Castle, centuries-old seat of British royalty.
Pop star Elton John waves after he and his partner David Furnish were united in a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.
A statue of Queen Victoria looms outside the walls of Windsor Castle as a car carrying pop star Elton John and his partner David Furnish leaves the Guildhall after their civil ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.
Fans and police surround their car as pop star Elton John and filmmaker David Furnish are driven away after their civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the town of Windsor, England, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005.
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A volunteer Board of Directors, composed of 13 members, is responsible for governing CCSA. The directors meet face-to-face three to four times per year.
The Governor in Council appoints the Chair and up to four additional board members may be appointed. These appointments come on the recommendation of the Minister of Health after the Minister has consulted with the Board.
The Board may appoint up to eight additional directors. These appointments come after consultations with the provincial and territorial governments and with any individuals and organization representatives. They represent the business and labour community, and professional and voluntary organizations. These organizations also have a particular interest in alcohol and drug use that the Board considers appropriate.
Board members serve a three-year term. Extensions of up to two additional terms are possible.
Governor-in-Council Appointees
Vaughan Dowie, Chair (Ontario)
Vaughan Dowie joined Pine River Institute, a residential treatment centre for adolescents struggling with addictive behaviours, in Shelburne, Ontario, as its CEO in October 2011. He has more than 30 years of experience as a senior manager in public sector and community organizations, including as president of la Commission de Protection des droits de la jeunesse, Montreal, executive director of Batshaw Youth and Family Centres, Montreal, and assistant deputy minister in three different ministries of the Government of British Columbia.
Mr. Dowie has served as a volunteer on a number of boards of directors of not-for-profit organizations, both local and national in scope. He has served as board chair of the Child Welfare League of Canada and board president of Addictions and Mental Health Ontario. He has studied political science at Sir George Williams University and social work at McGill.
Immediately before joining Pine River Institute, Mr. Dowie was the Executive Head of Public Affairs at McGill University in Montreal.
Mr. Dowie joined the Board in May 2018, and serves as the Chair and as a member of the Executive Committee.
Curtis Clarke (Alberta)
Curtis Clarke is the Deputy Minister of Education for the Government of Alberta. Before joining the Government of Alberta public service, Dr. Clarke was an associate professor and coordinator of the criminal justice program at Athabasca University. In this role, he was responsible for the development of onsite and online programming, the implementation of prior learning assessment criteria, and partnership development with colleges, universities and public sector stakeholders. He has carried out studies on competency-based curriculum design, experiential learning and adult education.
In his role as president of the Canadian Association of Police Educators, board member of the National Police Sector Council and a founding member of the INTERPOL Group of Experts in Training, he has helped to design and implement national and international models of competency-based curriculum design and delivery.
Dr. Clarke holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters (Sociology) from Queen’s University and a PhD (Sociology) from York University. He has recently completed a certificate program in High Intensity Leadership from Cornell University and an executive program on Applying Behavioural Insights to the Design of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. During his career in the Government of Alberta he has held a number of positions: Executive Director, Alberta Justice and Solicitor General Staff College; Cabinet Policy Coordinator, Executive Council; Assistant Deputy Minister, Correctional Services; and Associate Deputy Solicitor General.
Dr. Clarke has been a member of the Board since 2018.
Christopher Cull (Ontario)
Christopher Cull is a filmmaker, the founder of Inspire by Example and creator of a clothing line to bring awareness to the issues around the prevention and treatment of drug misuse across Canada. As a filmmaker, he recorded his travels as he bicycled across Canada from Victoria, British Columbia, to St. John’s, Newfoundland, in 2014. His efforts were to raise awareness about prescription drug addiction. During his journey, he interviewed community leaders, patients and people along the way to help shape the documentary film, “Inspire.”
As a recovering opioid user, Mr. Cull wants his story to encourage those who need help to seek the support they require for recovery. He uses his experiences to inspire others. In 2016, he cycled across Canada a second time, this time to raise awareness about the opioid crisis and to demonstrate to others that recovery is possible.
Drawing from his personal experiences, Mr. Cull is an in-demand public speaker. He also serves as an advisor for numerous organizations on issues around the prevention and treatment of drug addiction.
Mr. Cull has been a member of the CCSA Board since 2018.
Chris Cull, Film maker and CCSA board member, discusses his struggle with opioid addiction and his journey to recovery.
Renu Kapoor (Saskatchewan)
Renu Kapoor, who was born, raised and educated in India, has a special interest in multiculturalism and diversity, and a passion for volunteerism. She has a master’s degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin, and has spent most of her career working in the field of social work. She worked for the Regina Health District for 37 years and is now a freelance consultant.
Ms. Kapoor has been a recognized community leader for the past 45 years. In 2011, she was chosen as Chair of the Year of India in Regina — a special project created by the governments of India and Saskatchewan to promote closer ties between countries. She has also been chosen as an Honourary Ambassador for Mosaic in Regina, served as an adjudicator for SaskCulture’s Multicultural Initiatives Fund and been appointed by the Minister of Human Resources and Development Canada to the National Committee of the Therese Casgrain National Volunteer Awards.
A dedicated volunteer, Ms. Kapoor has served on many volunteer boards, including SaskCulture, Regina Public Library (vice-chair), South Saskatchewan Community Foundation (vice chair), Regina Housing Authority, YWCA and Regina Chapter Osteoporosis Canada (chair). She has been recognized with many awards, including the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award (2015), President’s Community Award (University of Regina, 2014), Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012), Citizen of the Year (CTV Regina, 2010), YWCA Women of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award (2007), Canadian Association of Social Workers Distinguished Social Work Award (2004), Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal (2003), Flare Volunteer Lifetime Award (2003) and Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal (2002).
At present, Ms. Kapoor is serving on the boards of the Regina Airport Authority, Community Foundations of Canada, Cultural Connections Regina (chair) and several other local boards. She has been a member of the CCSA Board since 2018.
Anne Elizabeth Lapointe (Quebec)
Anne Elizabeth Lapointe has been the Executive Director of the Addiction Prevention Centre and la Maison Jean Lapointe — Prévention since 2016. A visionary and strategic leader, she has 20 years’ experience in the field of substance use and addictions, including 15 years in prevention.
Ms Lapointe proficiencies include behavioural addictions, such as problem gambling, as well as the prevention and treatment of all addictions. She has contributed to developing and evaluating the prevention programs of la Maison Jean Lapointe and the Addiction Prevention Centre. These programs reach more than 100,000 young people yearly.
Ms. Lapointe is actively involved in the community and sits on several round tables and expert committees. She has given countless conference presentations in her field of expertise, is a frequent guest on television and radio shows, and continues to share her knowledge within the community. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Communications and Media Studies) and a diploma in management from the University of Montreal, and a graduate degree in addiction and ethics from the University of Sherbrooke. She is bilingual.
Ms. Lapointe joined the Board in September, 2018.
Members-at-Large
Gary Bass (British Columbia)
Gary Bass spent over 39 years in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at a variety of locations across Canada. He retired in May 2011 as the Deputy Commissioner for Canada West, which included the three northern territories, the prairie provinces and British Columbia. Prior to that, he was the Commanding Officer for "E" Division RCMP (BC) and Deputy Commissioner for Pacific Region, BC and the Yukon.
Before moving to senior management positions in the RCMP, Mr. Bass spent most of his career involved in major crimes, terrorism and organized crime investigations. Since retiring from the RCMP, he has been working at the Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies at Simon Fraser University as a Senior Research Fellow with interests in policing and related criminal justice issues.
Mr. Bass is a member of the Board of Governors of Commissionaires BC and of the Board of Directors of the Vision Quest Recovery Society. He is currently serving on the Premier of British Columbia's Blue Ribbon Panel for Crime Reduction, which will be making recommendations to the Premier next year on changes to the criminal justice system in British Columbia.
Mr. Bass has been a member of the Board since 2013 and serves on the Finance Committee
Lesley Carberry (Yukon)
Lesley Carberry (retired) shares her time with her adult sons living with pre-natal alcohol exposure, volunteering in her community and running a small consulting company that undertakes work in strategic planning, governance and training. She serves as secretary–treasurer for the Teegatha’Oh Zheh Society, is a parent member of the FASD 10-Year Strategic Planning Group, and is involved with numerous community organizations.
Ms. Carberry’s combined experience in consulting and positions with the Yukon government Department of Justice spans more than four decades. Recognized for her work in restorative practices, facilitation and conflict resolution, she has led various initiatives in victim services, community justice, crime prevention and policing, with a focus on First Nations and rural communities.
She is the recipient of distinguished awards for performance from the Yukon Department of Justice and the Premier’s Award of Excellence, and was honoured with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Award in 2012. Ms. Carberry completed the course work required for a Master’s degree in Social Work (University of Northern British Columbia) and holds a Bachelor of Social Work (University of Regina) and Bachelor of Arts (University of Manitoba). She is currently pursuing a graduate certificate in restorative practices through the International Institute for Restorative Practices.
Ms. Carberry joined the Board in January, 2017, and serves on the Finance Committee.
Linda Dabros (Ontario)
Linda Dabros brings more than 25 years of public-sector experience in strategic planning, policy and regulations development, human and financial resource management, and multi-sectoral consultations working with federal, provincial and territorial committees, and international delegations to her board position with CCSA.
As the former director general with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), Ms. Dabros set strategic goals and managed the Commission’s research, policy and international programs, leading a team that prepared reports to Parliament and submissions to United Nations treaty bodies. Key priorities were addressing issues facing Indigenous peoples and engaging stakeholders at the national and community levels.
Prior to her work with CHRC, Ms. Dabros held executive positions with Health Canada (Canada’s Drug Strategy), the National Crime Prevention Centre (research, consultation and social policy development with federal, provincial and territorial governments, academia and NGOs) and the Privy Council Office. Ms. Dabros serves as a volunteer on the management committee of Arteast, a not-for-profit organization that promotes visual arts in Eastern Ontario. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) from Carleton University.
Ms. Dabros joined the Board in January, 2017, and serves on the Nominations and Governance Committee.
Deborah Dumoulin, (Quebec)
Deborah Dumoulin is a business leader and practicing Chartered Professional Accountant. Ms. Dumoulin brings over 18 years’ experience in audit and assurance at PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada, most recently as Partner, Audit and Assurance, at their Montreal office, leading a portfolio of public and private clients. She has diverse industry experience in the financial services, technology, manufacturing and non-profit sectors, and in government. She brings significant expertise in accounting, financial reporting, and governance and risk management practices. Ms. Dumoulin is currently providing management consulting services to a Canadian bank.
Ms. Dumoulin strongly believes in giving back to the community and is passionate about social issues. She is an active member of the Quebec Advisory Board for the Salvation Army and the Quebec Council for the Girl Guides of Canada. She has presented at numerous professional conferences. She has led several women in leadership initiatives, co-chaired fundraising events and participated in volunteer activities aimed at empowering and connecting people to make a difference in their local communities.
Ms. Dumoulin is a member of l’Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec and the Institute of Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours in Accounting) from the University of Ottawa.
Ms. Dumoulin has been a member of the Board since 2015 and serves on the Finance Committee.
Daniel Hogan (Ontario)
Dan Hogan is currently the Substance Abuse Violence Prevention Coordinator of the Safe Schools Department of Durham District School Board. This position includes responsibility for promoting and developing strategic partnerships to address and support the well-being of the 70,000 students and 7,000 staff members in the 130 schools of the Durham Board. Other responsibilities include chair of the Durham Youth Drug Awareness Committee and chair of the Racing to a Healthy Life (former Racing against Drugs Durham).
Mr. Hogan was the day treatment supervisor of Frontenac Youth Services, Oshawa, for 10 years, operating 10 treatment classrooms for adolescents and five expelled students programs for the Durham District School Board, the Durham Catholic School Board and the Kawartha Pineridge District School Board.
In his role as Substance Abuse Violence Prevention Coordinator, Mr. Hogan works in close partnership with the Durham Regional Police Services and the Health Department of the Regional Municipality of Durham, as well as with local treatment and support networks in the Durham Region.
He has a Bachelor of Physical and Health Education from the University of Toronto, and is a Restorative Practice Conference Facilitator certified by the International Institute for Restorative Practices.
Mr. Hogan joined the Board in May 2018.
Audrey McFarlane (Alberta)
Audrey McFarlane is a founder and the Executive Director for the Lakeland Centre for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Cold Lake, Alberta. She also serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Canada FASD Research Network (CanFASD), a national research network linking researchers, service providers, government and families.
Ms. McFarlane holds a degree in Community Rehabilitation, and has dedicated the past 20 years to working with children and adults with developmental disabilities and providing training on FASD. She developed the first adult FASD diagnostic and assessment clinic in Canada, the first training curriculum and manual for Canadian FASD diagnostic assessment clinics, and the only residential alcohol and drug treatment program for pregnant women in Alberta.
Ms. McFarlane’s duties at the Lakeland Centre have included developing a rural, community-based model for FASD diagnostic services for children and adults, a rural-based mentorship program for high-risk women, and best practice models for working with families who are affected by FASD. Her work has been published in the Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and the Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine.
The models of rural service delivery for individuals with FASD and their families developed by Ms. McFarlane and the Lakeland Centre have been recognized as best practices by all levels of government.
Ms. McFarlane has been a member of the Board since 2014 and serves as a member of the Nominations and Governance Committee and Finance Committee.
Julie Menten (British Columbia)
Julie Menten is a senior associate at a workplace law firm, Roper Greyell LLP, in British Columbia, where she practices in employment, labour, human rights and privacy law. A large part of her practice involves conducting investigations into workplace misconduct, bullying, harassment and sexual harassment. Prior to joining Roper Greyell, Julie clerked at the British Columbia Court of Appeal.
Before joining the legal profession, Ms. Menten spent most of her career working with children, youth and families as a psychotherapist and clinician. She began in the helping professions as a child protection social worker on an Aboriginal family services team for the B.C. Ministry of Children and Family Development. After completing her graduate degree in couple and family therapy, she started a private practice and worked as a therapist for the Associated Youth Services of the Regional Municipality of Peel in Ontario, as a counsellor for deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people, and as a clinician with the Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System in London, Ontario, providing intensive mental health services to young people. Her goal is to leverage a decade of experience in the helping professions in her career in law, and she specializes in mental health and substance use in the workplace.
Ms. Menten believes in giving back to her community and has served on a variety of boards and advisory committees. She is the chair of the advisory committee for the Bottom Line Conference on workplace mental health with the B.C. branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association. She holds a B.A. in child and youth care from the University of Victoria, an M.Sc. in couple and family therapy from the University of Guelph, and a juris doctor degree with distinction from Western University. Julie was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 2013.
Ms. Menten has been a member of the Board since 2018.
Donald Nicholls (Cree Nation)
Donald Nicholls is a member of the Cree Nation of Mistissini. He has a degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario, a common law degree from University of Toronto and a civil law degree from McGill University. He was a graduate of the inaugural class of the Masters of Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program at the University of Arizona. Over the course of his career, Mr. Nicholls has worked on rights-based actions and projects in Latin America, North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Mr. Nicholls is presently the director of justice and correctional services for the Cree Nation government. His department provides programming and frontline services, and develops partnerships to ensure a community of support for individuals and groups going through substance use and addictions issues. He also serves on the boards of the Provincial Organizations for Victims Support Services, Quebec's Provincial Organization for Aboriginal Court Workers, the Knowledge Mobilization Institute and the Healthy Aboriginal Network.
Mr. Nicholls has worked with the Quebec courts and Ministry of Justice to implement specialized courts related to substance use disorders. He has also been involved in projects that bring Indigenous people back to the land for treatment of substance use issues. He was the recent recipient of the Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution's Batsinduka Award for Peace for the innovative work he has engaged in the area of conflict resolution and mediation, and a Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada for his work with children and youth.
Mr. Nicholls has been a member of the Board since 2018.
Ex-Officio Board Member
Rita Notarandrea, Chief Executive Officer
Rita Notarandrea has a passion for improving the health of Canadians. She became CCSA’s Chief Executive Officer in 2015 and under her leadership; CCSA’s work has helped reduce alcohol- and drug-related harms for Canadians.
Rita’s expertise is in demand from all levels of government and from stakeholders in the field. She is driven by the need to increase the public dialogue on substance use, given the significant toll it takes on the lives of people in our communities and the health, social and economic impact it has on our society.
Rita has demonstrated her dedication to Canadian health care through the senior roles in which she has performed throughout her career. Prior to joining CCSA, she was Chief Operating Officer of the Royal Ottawa Hospital. She also serves as a member of the Clerk of the Privy Council’s Contact Group on Mental Health. Rita holds degrees from Carleton University in Ottawa and the University of Toronto, where she earned a master’s degree in health sciences and health administration.
Simon Kennedy
Simon Kennedy, Deputy Minister, Health Canada
Malcolm Brown, Deputy Minister, Public Safety Canada
Board Alumni
The CCSA Board Alumni serves in a consulting capacity to the current CCSA Board of Directors. When called upon, members of the alumni can provide expertise, support and advice. The role of the Board Alumni also includes serving as ambassadors and advocates for CCSA.
CCSA Board Alumni membership is open to all former CCSA Board members (governor-in-council appointees, independent appointees, ex-officio and chief executive officers) who are in good standing with the Board. The selection of the Chair of Board Alumni is by appointment and the Chair serves at the pleasure of the Board.
Chair of Alumni, Louise Nadeau
Louise Nadeau, Ph.D., M.A., is full Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal and associate researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University. Dr. Nadeau's multicentric and transdisciplinary focus is on the prevention of recidivism among high-risk drivers, on gambling epidemiology and, in particular, on co-occurring disorders. Dr. Nadeau was awarded the 2006 prix Marcel-Vincent for her work in the social sciences and the Prix du Québec Marie-Andrée Bertrand, the most prestigious award in science awarded by the Government of Québec.
Alumni Members
Nadeau, Louise, Dr. Chair (Quebec)
Aubry, André, Dr. (Quebec)
Beauchesne, Normand (Rusty) (Ontario)
Blumenthal, Leonard (Alberta)
Boivin, Jean-Francois (Quebec)
Clarke, Beverley (Newfoundland and Labrador)
Deeks, William (British Columbia)
DeGagné, Mike (Ontario)
el-Guebaly, Nady, Dr. (Alberta) (appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2017)
Fitzpatrick, Ed (Nova Scotia)
Fournier, Jean (Ontario)
Fralick, Pamela (Ontario)
Gervais, Karen (Ontario)
Hodgson, Maggie, Dr. (Alberta) (appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2005)
Hodgson Schleich, Heather (Ontario)
Jackson Dover, Frances (Alberta)
Kalant, Harold, Dr. (Ontario) (appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2012)
King, Barry V. (Ontario)
Landry, Roger D. (Quebec)
Lavack, Anne M., Dr. (British Columbia)
LeCavalier, Jacques (Quebec)
Lewis, Leanne (Ontario)
Liston, A.J. (Bert), Dr. (Ontario)
Loock, Christine, Dr. (British Columbia)
MacKillop, Barry (Ontario)
Maloney, Mark (Ontario)
Marley, Marnie (British Columbia)
Morrison, R.A. (Sandy) (Ontario)
Nicholson, J. David (Prince Edward Island)
Perron, Michel (Ontario)
Plecas, Darryl B., Dr. (British Columbia)
Porter, Meredith (Ontario)
Prospero, Michael (Ontario)
Quirion, Rémi, Dr. (Quebec)
Sangollo, Pierre (Quebec)
Skirrow, Jan (British Columbia)
Stewart, Sherry H. (Nova Scotia)
Thom, Margaret (Northwest Territories)
Tyler, Paula (Alberta)
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Paul Evans - an Hockey Player and Athlete - born on Sunday September 1st 1974, in Unknown.
Paul Evans is practical, down to earth with strong ideas about right and wrong. He is orderly, organized, systematic and controlled, and once committed - he employs decisive and methodical steps to problems solving, without giving up easily.
Paul seeks to establish a solid foundation, and would rather use hard work and long hours to build a business or career than search for "get rich quick" schemes. He has great potential for success, but only after putting out effort and overcoming the limitations he so often encounters. Courageous and a true survivor, he is a builder and the foundation of any enterprise, and his hard work and practical values pay off to provide Paul Evans with the rewards he seeks and deserves.
Justice and honesty are sacred to Evans, making him reliable and dependable, and quite often - a cornerstone in the community. Also, though not a typical idealist, Paul Evans is willing to work for a better world in a realistic way.
Paul Evans works well with others, but it is important that he would have his own responsibility and well-defined task, because he performs better when his responsibilities are not overlapping with those of others.
Due to the rare discipline and perseverance that Evans possesses, not everyone can keep up with him, and he has to be careful not to be bossy and rude. He can be also rigid in his ideas and get stuck in convention or too quick in judging his fellow man.
Paul Evans is loyal to those he loves. He is well suited for marriage and often becomes a responsible loving parent. However, anything that violates his profound sense of order, such as separation or divorce can be a shattering experience for him. More...
Paul Evans is a practical and down to earth person that can think through any situation or problem.
His good health and physical stamina allow him to work long and hard for anything that he believe in, and quite often for material rewards.
Paul utilizes his practical skills, strong physical dexterity, strength, and good health to work with his hands in either a practical or artistic way, such as being a sculptor or craftsman that possesses both physical and mental talents, and strives for high quality end results.
He is easy to get along with, and he has natural ability to save money and pool up economic resources.
July 18th 2019 finds Paul Evans to be sensitive and self-conscious.
Being a little out of tune, Paul's capacity to face challenges has diminished today, so he should avoid deadlines and other stressful constraints. His best bet is to take some time off and/or busy himself with romance - a highly favorable activity for the day.
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Paul Verhoeven - Primary Address
14980 Camarosa Dr
CA, 90272
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John Spainhour: No Barriers
John tells it as it is in his most candid interview yet. Find out what he has to say about sex and fame.
by Gianna Banzon | Nov 25, 2012
Three things we learned about John Spainhour over the past few weeks as this month's Online Hunk: 1. He knows how to handle guns; 2. He likes his girls fun and spontaneous, but not easy; and 3. He is a smitten boyfriend. To top it all off, he also happens to be extremely good looking. Sounds too good to be true?
We had our fun with John this month, but before we bid adieu to our super sexy stud as November comes to a close, here's our final and most candid interview with him. Trust us, you will enjoy this one. Check out our Q&A with John below and flip through the gallery to see all his steamy snapshots.
Can you share a secret boys will never tell girls?
"Probably the story of when they first lost their virginity because it’s usually not the best one."
What’s the most kissable part of a woman’s body?
"The neck."
Girls look sexiest in _____:
"Tight clothes."
What are your thoughts on one night stands?
(Laughs) "You’re going to get me in trouble again. I don’t really like them per se. I’m not saying that I haven’t done it, and honestly I’d do it again, but I don’t really like it. It’s kind of risky and it’s not really the lifestyle that I like to live. As a guy, sometimes you can’t help it."
Briefs, boxers, or commando?
"It depends on what I’m doing. I cycle through all three."
What is it about you that drives girls crazy the most?
"I don’t know, ask them." (laughs)
What’s the biggest turn on for you?
"The subtle and sexy movements or poses that she does, where I can see it."
What’s the most ticklish part of your body?
"It depends. Sometimes my neck."
I think sex is _____:
"Awesome."
What do you like wearing in bed?
"Usually I’m just naked."
Sex in the car, yes or no?
"It’s difficult but it could be exciting. Sometimes that’s all you got, you know." (laughs)
Have you ever or would you ever join the Mile High club?
"Ya I would. I haven’t actually [yet], but I would be up for it."
What’s your favorite foreplay move that will instantly turn you on?
"Just start kissing me all over."
Do you have any “man crushes” or guys you aspire to be like?
"I think Ryan Reynolds has one of the best bodies that I would like [to have]. He has the type of body I would like to mirror my body with."
Are you a James Bond fan?
"Yes I am."
What’s your favorite movie from the franchise?
"Skyfall. I haven’t seen it yet though."
If you could switch places with anyone in the world, who would it be?
"I guess I would pick someone famous, just because they’re rich and famous."
But aren’t you famous too?
"Well, not like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. It’s hard to say that I want to be like them because I don’t really know what their lives are like. They have a lot of money and they’re really famous, but I don’t know if I really want that."
Do you plan on living in the Philippines for good or are you going back to the States?
"I don’t really have plans right now. I’m just going with the flow."
Can you describe your personal style?
"Slightly rugged but still a clean look. I try, at least."
What’s the best compliment you ever received?
"That I’m modest and humble."
What are your plans for the holiday?
"I want to go back to the States and be with my mom and the rest of my family."
Would you say you’re a bad boy or a good boy?
"I just do my own thing and I don’t do things that will negatively affect anyone else. But if I feel like a rule or a restriction is keeping me from doing what I what I want to do, and in my head I think it’s stupid, then I’ll break the rules. But it’s not like I go out and kill cats or scream at police officers while I’m drunk. "
What’s your guiltiest pleasure?
"Probably video games. I’m a super nerd when it comes to video games, you have no idea!"
Outfit: Polo from Hang Ten. Pants from Folded and Hung; Shoes from Traffic.
Shot on location at Summit Studios.
Sittings editor: Stephanie Esguerra
Interviewer: Gianna Banzon
Stylist: Camille Santiago
Grooming: Carmel Villongco
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2017-2027 SEBAC AGREEMENT
P2 Contract Changes, 2016-2021
Advocating For State Of Connecticut Workers And Families
A union is an organization formed by workers who join together and use their strength to have a voice in their workplace. Through their union, workers have the ability to negotiate from a position of strength with employers over wages, benefits, workplace health and safety, job training and other work-related issues. Unions also serve an important role making sure that management acts fairly and treats its workers with respect.
Unions are democratic organizations and its leaders are elected by the membership.
Why do I need a union?
You work in public service because you care about your community. We can do more for our neighbors, our families, and each other if we speak with one voice. When we organize as a union, we gain the strength to make real change. Together, we speak with one voice that no one can ignore — not our bosses, not the people we serve, and not our elected officials at any level.
Do union workers get higher wages?
Yes. Workers who are union members earn 26.2 percent more than non-union workers. The difference is even greater for women and people of color. Women and African Americans represented by unions earn between 29.7 and 33.1 percent more than their non-union counterparts. And Latino workers with the union advantage make 47.1 percent more than those not represented by a union.
Do union workers get better benefits?
Yes. Union workers are more likely than their non-union counterparts to have access to health care and pension benefits. Ninety-five percent of union members have health insurance and a pension plan available — versus approximately 68 percent (health insurance) and 63 percent (pension) of those not in a union.
Why do I need a union now?
Some politicians and pundits like to blame public service workers for America’s problems. They say we earn too much, our benefits our too rich, and we have too much political power. They slash our budgets and take our pensions. They give our jobs away to private contractors who pay lower wages.
But public service workers are the backbone of the American middle class. Together, we fight for prosperity and opportunity for all working families.
They want to privatize our jobs, strip us of our rights, and dismantle the services we provide to make our communities stronger and safer. No one who works for the public, no one who cares about supporting a family, no one who cares about building a strong middle class should let that happen.
We have to act now to stop the attacks on our rights and our ability to earn a decent living. That’s why helping more workers join unions and bargain for a better life is so important.
As a union, we work together to build political support for the vital services we provide. We make our families, our communities, and our country stronger.
What is collective bargaining and how does it work?
Collective bargaining is the process of negotiation between employees and their employer over wages, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights.
A committee of our co-workers — chosen by us — sits down and hammers out an agreement known as a "union contract" on every issue of concern to our bargaining unit. The committee sits at the bargaining table as equals with management.
In settings such as home-based care, a committee of provider/members — chosen by us — meets with representatives of the appropriate public agency to discuss issues affecting our daily lives. The union bargaining committee represents the united strength of all union members.
The majority of members must approve the agreement before it can become accepted as a contract.
Does having a union mean there will be strikes?
No. A strike is just one tactic available to workers to pressure their employer, and is a tactic of last resort. The decision to strike is made locally by you and your fellow workers.
It is rare when AFSCME members have found it necessary to strike to achieve dignity on the job. Members always make the decision whether or not they should strike. In most cases, a strong, well-organized local will not have to strike.
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A farm deep inside a Brooklyn warehouse may lead the way to large-scale urban agriculture
Cara Eisenpress
CLOSED LOOP: Waste from tilapia in Jason Green's tanks fertilizes herbs, which then filter the water. Both the greens and the fish are sold to restaurants.
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This Week in Crain's NY: 4/10/16
Aquaponics company Edenworks is looking for new space to produce 50,000 pounds of fish each year
Here’s one way to grow food in an urban environment: Raise a school of tilapia in a tank. Filter out the nitrogen-rich waste, and let naturally occurring bacteria transform it from ammonia into nitrate. Run that naturally derived fertilizer beneath the roots of greens, herbs and peppers. Let the veggies flourish beneath LED lights. Harvest the vegetables. Later, harvest the fish. Cook and serve.
Known as aquaponics, this complicated but efficient ecosystem is the latest attempt at making agriculture commercially viable in New York City—even though it has a spotty history, a not-quite-proven track record and plenty of skeptics.
“We do aquaponics for the quality of produce it yields,” said Jason Green, CEO and co-founder of Edenworks, an emerging commercial aquaponics company in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that recently secured a commitment to supply baby greens and microgreens to Whole Foods Market stores in New York City later this year. “Our innovation is that we can do aquaponics cost-effectively, scalably and repeatedly.”
Though the premise of mimicking a natural system in a closed environment is ancient, Green says that new technologies including proprietary software, a complex plumbing system and cost-efficient LED lighting, plus a soaring demand for local food, will make fish-fed farms viable on a large scale, even in inner cities. A 2010 report from the New York City Council cited $600 million in unmet demand for regionally grown produce.
“Consumers are very interested in knowing the provenance of their food, and companies are responding to that by setting up systems to produce food in cities,” explained Nevin Cohen, an associate professor of urban food policy at the CUNY School of Public Health.
Brian Mansour, who runs a 20-year-old aquaponics greenhouse at Cabbage Hill Farm in Mount Kisco, in Westchester County, says the economics of farming in the city will eventually be made to work. “It’s just a matter of time before somebody with enough money and the right crew will get together the right model that will work,” he said.
Demand, he says, is not an issue: “There are more restaurants than you can imagine, and everyone wants fresh,” he said. He has no shortage of buyers for either vegetables or fish, especially in the winter, when regional outdoor farms can’t harvest.
At Edenworks, the Whole Foods agreement will let Green expand from a small warehouse in East Williamsburg, where his team has spent 18 months and $1.3 million in venture capital proving the concept of its modular farm, nurturing 50 pounds of tilapia and floating seed trays of chard, arugula and basil.
The farm’s products are chemical-free, even if they are not labeled organic. That has less to do with the fact that organic fish food is not always available than it does with the cost of getting products certified organic, Green said.
Green is now looking for a space with 8,000 to 10,000 square feet where Edenworks could harvest more than 120,000 pounds of baby greens and 50,000 pounds of fish each year. He expects to pay from $10 to $15 a square foot for the space and predicts an operating profit in the first year. The modular design means Edenworks can build the new farm in three months.
Indoor farming gives Edenworks an edge over Brooklyn’s oldest aquaponics venture, OKO Farms, an outdoor, seasonal operation in Bushwick, founded with the help of the now-defunct Brooklyn Economic Development Corp. to supply the neighboring Moore Street Market. Buyers include Roberta’s, the Bushwick brick-oven pizza joint, which purchases 10 to 15 pounds of basil a week in season. “We’re not making a profit yet,” said Yemi Amu, an OKO co-founder. “But we are on the way there.”
OKO has also launched an aquaponics school and is expanding to a second, indoor area where Amu and her partner will grow food for the Bedford-Stuyvesant food pantry.
VertiCulture, a Brooklyn fish-and-farm operation that opened in 2012, says it has 30% operating margins, thanks to the density of its arrangements and willingness to lease less-desirable real estate. Last fall, the company opened a 450-square-foot indoor “vertical farm” on the roof of the former Pfizer pharmaceutical factory in Bushwick, now a home to many startup companies. “We’re profitable in the first quarter and running out of product,” said Miles Crettien, a co-founder, who said he and his partners are not yet taking salaries. “We’re turning people away.”
Crettien and his three partners now harvest 40 pounds a week of four highly sought-after products: basil (Thai and Genovese), spearmint and arugula. They sell to food markets including Foragers, Brooklyn Kitchen and the Bushwick Food Co-op, and to FreshDirect’s hip offshoot FoodKick and Maple, a meal-delivery startup. “We find [their basil] to be incredibly fresh and more flavorful than traditionally grown basil,” said Soa Davies, executive chef at Maple.
Different plants have different “lighting recipes,” but beneath LEDs that stay on about 18 hours a day and well nourished by nutrient-rich water, the hothouse produce acquires the same flavors as if it were grown on a Tuscan hillside, Edenworks’ Green explained.
The water flows under rafts to grow plants, and circulates back to the fish.
Nothing fresher
Freshness augments flavor too. “We’re harvesting the same day greens are going out,” said Crettien. “People are getting the freshest product on the market, directly from our farm.” The demand and profitability have driven VertiCulture to plan to increase crop size 12-fold in the next six months, to 600 pounds a week of greens and herbs. For that, they are seeking a 2,000- to 6,000-square-foot facility.
VertiCulture has grown sales this year at a rate of 20% per month and is seeking $500,000 to $1.5 million to build a 2,500- to 5,000-square-foot farm. To woo investors, Crettien and his team are aiming to secure three new customers a month. He hopes to have 100,000 square feet of growing space in the city and open 20 farms across the U.S. in the next five years.
Aquaponic greens take anywhere from a week to seven weeks from seed to harvest. That quick turnaround appeals to chefs who want specific mixes of greens or herbs for their seasonal menus. Every week, an Edenworks employee hops on the L train with clamshells of a custom microgreen mix, bound for Gramercy’s Adalya restaurant. “Because I was the first customer, I had the ability to ask him to grow things for me. Now a year later, he’s offering me choices—all these different kinds of microgreens,” said Derek Miles, the executive chef.
Green says that new technologies including complex plumbing systems and cost-efficient LED lighting will make fish-fed farms viable on a large scale
Complete control of the growing environment—temperature, lighting and the plants’ nutrient intake—means aquaponic farms can easily satisfy New York’s famously demanding chefs and consumers and create a predictable business model, a key to their financial success. Edenworks’ engineers monitor the water chemistry, leaving farming as little more than “a to-do list: This needs to be harvested today; this needs to get seeded today,” Green said.
Still, as much as he likes the produce, Adalya’s Miles, like other chefs and buyers, is price-sensitive. “If you want to be a chef that buys more environmentally conscious products, the price sometimes skyrockets.” His location near the Union Square Greenmarket means Edenworks does have competition.
At retail, a 5-ounce clamshell of Edenworks baby greens sells for $3.99 to $4.49. Organic Baby Lettuce Mix from Earthbound Farms in California costs $3.99 at FreshDirect while packages of local Gotham Greens full-sized lettuce run about $4.40 for the same amount. Crettien says VertiCulture spends less than $1 to grow enough basil for its 1-ounce package, which retails for $3.99 on FoodKick.
In and out of cities, “small farms struggle with making enough money to cover their costs,” said Carolyn Dimitri, director of the food studies doctoral program at New York University and a former research economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Here, where land is expensive, “the only way to make enough money is to have a very expensive product,” which means you need “a body of customers willing to pay a high cost.” Many of the boroughs’ 900 farms and gardens grow on borrowed or subsidized acreage, she notes, making their business plans irrelevant as models.
A 2015 U.S. Department of Agriculture study on the business of aquaponics found promising margins for vegetables. “However, the fish portion of the aquaponics system was not profitable, with the production costs of tilapia less than market price in only one study, and either higher or essentially the same in the others,” the report stated.
“There aren’t too many success stories,” said Prof. Martin Schreibman, an aquaponics expert at Brooklyn College. “I see a common pattern: a lack of knowledge and not enough funding. There are great ideas. The thing is to make music to the words. I haven’t seen enough of that.”
Scaling fish farms
In New Windsor, in Orange County, N.Y., a $13 million investment and several tax breaks failed to show that aquaponics is a sustainable way of farming; the 175,000-square-foot greenhouse is in bankruptcy, owing at least $9.7 million to creditors and production of fish and greens has plummeted. The market for urban farmed fish is also unproven, though Crettien says he has interest in his tilapia from one local market but no commitment yet. Cabbage Hill’s Mansour said Asian and Mexican grocers want more than his greenhouse can supply.
Gotham Greens—which farms on the roof of the Whole Foods Market in Gowanus and in greenhouses in Greenpoint and Jamaica, has 95,000 square feet in New York City and has quadrupled revenue in four years—won’t say if it’s paid off its initial investment, but says its New York farms are profitable.
Profit may not be the only metric for the success of urban aquaponics, says CUNY's Cohen.
“Everybody interested in urban agriculture is looking at how companies will be able to be profitable—and how they can have a triple bottom line, in that they also give back to the community by employing people in the neighborhoods where they’re located, and maybe not selling all product at high margins by also selling to more affordable distribution channels,” he said. Educating urbanites about food systems is another important ambition, says NYU's Dimitri.
“I’ve been skeptical that urban agriculture that requires a lot of capital investment can easily be profitable,” said CUNY’s Cohen. “But I hope that entrepreneurs can figure out a way to make it happen because there are environmental, social and economic benefits.”
Even with their long-term commercial viability not quite proven, the plants at the Edenworks warehouse are flourishing. Roots are thin, tangled and free from goop, all signs of health, while leaves look strong and green. Water flows from a 250-gallon fish tank where the tilapia swim. Their waste moves out through a grid of tubes. To extract the solid matter and purify the water for reuse, Green’s team has set up aerobic breakdown processes, keeping the warehouse free of fishy smells. The fertilized water moves through the growing beds, where plants absorb the nutrients. The plants filter the water, which is circulated back to the fish tank to be reused by the fish.
Could this pleasant, though hardly pastoral, agricultural scene represent aquaponics’ moment? Thanks to technology, demand and entrepreneurial ambition, that wouldn’t surprise even the skeptics.
“If the business model works,” Cohen said, “there is huge potential.”
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Home Interviews Interview: Mayank Agarwal and a month to remember
Interview: Mayank Agarwal and a month to remember
Rohit Sankar
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VVS Laxman is an elegant act. With sublime cover drives, golden wrists and effortless stroke play, the Hyderabadi not only enticed Indian cricket fans but also the local ones when he hit a record 1415 runs in a Ranji season in 1999-2000.
The epic feat not only cemented his name into the Indian Test team at the time but also made him a big name in Indian cricketing circles. That the record has stood the test of time (17 long years) is evidence of how big a feat Laxman’s was.
However, one man, a relatively unheralded opener from Karnataka is on the cusp of putting Laxman’s name down from the top of the list after an astounding November saw him rack up more than 1000 runs in a single month.
We are talking of Mayank Agarwal who is the new sensation in Ranji circles following his stupendous run of form in the month of November. The Karnataka opener, who played for the Rising Pune Supergiant in the 2017 edition of the IPL, was thought of more as a limited-overs batsman but the outrageous month has seen him rack up 1064 runs in 28 days including a triple hundred and five tons in four consecutive matches.
“It is an extremely good feeling to get a triple hundred. I have never got that in any form at any level of cricket. It is a special feeling to achieve that feat,” Mayank said in an exclusive interview.
Only one other batsman in the history of first-class cricket’s recorded information has achieved a similar feat. That guy, the indomitable Bill Ponsford from Australia, made 1146 runs in the month of December way back in 1927.
Mayank has matched the legendary batsman’s first-class feat set 90 years ago with his sensational run for Karnataka.
An important aspect of Mayank’s run scoring fest is the strike rate of 68.38. In the previous two seasons, the opener had tried to be more defensive at the crease, something which goes against his natural gameplay. But this season has seen him resort to a much more on-the-face approach and so far, it has paid rich dividends.
“My mindset varies according to the different formats of the game. It also varies from situation to situation. If I have to talk exclusively about Ranji cricket, I try and understand the conditions, get acclimatised, then play myself in and then see how it goes,” Mayank says.
Only two years back, the dynamic batsman, who switches between opening and no.3, was unceremoniously dropped from the Karnataka Ranji team following some listless performances. He had them played close to three years of first-class cricket without scoring a single hundred.
The exclusion proved to be a source of motivation for Mayank. He vowed to become a better batsman, focus on his shortcomings and spends more time in the nets. Rahul Dravid, his India A coach at one time, states that it proved to be a wake-up call for Mayank.
“Maybe just being dropped from the Ranji Trophy side last year [has shaken him up],” Dravid had said. “He was not part of the side when they went on to win a final, in the XI. And I think that might have hurt him. You can say there was a certain amount of valid criticism because for a guy of his talent, not to get a first-class hundred [is not good]. It’s obviously tough in a side like Karnataka with so many young batsmen coming through. You’ve sort of got to really be consistent and score runs. And he missed out. So maybe, I think, that has been a really big wake-up call for him.”
It did indeed prove to be a critical factor in the emergence of Mayank Agarwal version 2.0.
This version was that of a dedicated student, spending countless hours practising and honing his skills in the backyard before effortlessly implementing the same in the examination.
Fitness has also played a role in Mayank’s resurgence. He has taken to high-intensity training and aced the yo-yo Test effortlessly, something mandatory to be picked in the Indian team of late.
“Speed and endurance play a huge role in the longest format of the game,” says Agarwal. “It is long-distance running that has helped me improve that facet of my game. It helps one focus for longer duration on the field and helps in recovery time after a long innings.”
The opener states that he runs 6-8 kilometres three times a week and that kind of intensity in training has given him the self-discipline and maturity to succeed in First-class games.
“To be honest, I have been working on my technique for the past two-three years. This year, I have a better understanding of where I am at. Obviously, there is a little fine tuning but I haven’t altered my technique, just understood it a little better. Every batsman is different and understanding my own game is of the utmost importance. A lot of skills-based training has also helped me”, Mayank says.
While there was widespread anticipation surrounding the squads for Sri Lanka and South Africa series, Mayank hasn’t made the cut in either despite his outrageous form in domestic cricket. But that does not bother the cheerful individual. He maintains that his job is to stick to his own “process” and not worry about selections which could materialise if the process keeps giving him such kind of success.
His feat in November, starting with a triple hundred after twin ducks in October, ended with hundreds in either innings in the final match of the month as Karnataka qualified to the quarter-finals of the Ranji Trophy, unbeaten.
Their star-studded line-up comprising of Lokesh Rahul, Karun Nair and Manish Pandey were always thought to be daunting, but it is Mayank who has stolen the limelight after a slew of scintillating knocks.
Knock, knock selectors!
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Donald Marshall Jr.
Home » Crime Library » Famous Prisons & Incarceration » Donald Marshall Jr.
Donald Marshall Jr, born on September 13, 1953 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, was a Mi’kmaq man from Canada who was accused of murdering acquaintance Sandy Seale when he was seventeen. Marshall and Seale had been walking together in Wentworth Park after a dance. Soon, they were approached by Roy Ebsary and Jimmy MacNeil, who asked them for a light. During that ensuing scuffle, Seale was killed.
Marshall was arrested and charged for the murder, and was convicted less than six months later. However, Marshall was not guilty of murdering Seale. He spent eleven years in prison before being released on parole in 1982. Ebsary, who seemed to have been the real murderer, was convicted of manslaughter and received a sentence of three years.
In 1990, Marshall was exonerated with a royal commission, and then was awarded $700,000 of compensation.
In 2007, he married Colleen D’Orsay, who, in 2008, reported that Marshall had only received $156,000 of compensation from another sum of nearly $2,000,000 promised to him from the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat.
Other than a few minor encounters with the law, Marshall lived an ordinary life until he died at 55, a symbol for wrongful conviction and trying to find justice.
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Where Anything is Possible: A Trip to Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery Museum (Photo by author)
Thirty years ago, my wife and I drove to Prince Edward Island with our two year old son. We took the Wood Island Ferry, stayed in a lovely B&B just outside of Charlottetown and saw very little of the tourist traps that are everywhere nowadays. I recall driving to Cavendish Beach and parking very close to the sand, no charge, and a short walk over the dunes to the ocean. On the way back to the car I lost my pen knife in the sand. Every time I have heard of someone visiting PEI since then I’ve suggested that they check out Cavendish to find my knife. Last week my wife and I drove to PEI again. No ferry this time, we crossed at the Confederation Bridge, a marvellous 10 minute drive across the Northumberland Strait. We stayed in a cottage on the Northumberland Strait near Bedeque. Over a couple of days, we saw every imaginable place that Lucy Maud Montgomery lived, worked, taught or remembered in her book[s] about little Anne Shirley. It was a real Green Gables vacation.
Red Dirt Road, Lower Bedeque (Photo by author)
It started at the end of the property where we stayed. The red dirt road of the Bedeque dairy farm created a dreamlike environment for us, especially when combined with the sound of the waves as the tide rolled in and out, and the fresh cooling breezes. It was the same environment that the eleven year old orphan found when she arrived at the farm of Matthew & Marilla Cuthbert in 1876. Further on along that red dirt road, it becomes a paved road and then joins the highway and there sits a little one room school house. Lucy Maud Montgomery taught there for a few months in 1898. It’s not easy separating the fictional world of Anne from the world of her creator Lucy Maud. The buildings described in the book come directly from these places which PEI has carefully restored. Standing in the empty classroom you can envision Anne sitting in the desk, lifting the slate over her head to crack it down on Gilbert’s noggin.
From Lower Bedeque it’s not far to the Kensington Train Station where Matthew went to pick up the little boy he and his sister had ordered from the orphanage in Nova Scotia. The station is home to a bunch of chichi shops these days, and a liquor store, but it’s not hard to imagine Matthew’s surprise on being greeted instead by a girl on that fateful (though fictional) night. The house Montgomery used as a model for Green Gables was the home of her Aunt Annie and Uncle John Campbell. Their family settled here in 1776 and still live in part of the house, behind the museum. Out the window are the rolling hills, the forest, and Anne’s famous Lake of Shining Waters. The museum is beautifully kept, and filled with mementos of the Lucy Maud Montgomery age. The enchanted bookcase is in the corner just as it appears in the story. I asked someone why there were no books in the bookcase, and they couldn’t tell me. I bought a copy of Anne of Green Gables, and began reading it immediately. The bookcase in the story had no books. It housed Anne’s imaginary friend and a collection of china and crystal, just like the one in the museum.
Avonlea Village Classroom (Photo by author)
I was captivated by the story Montgomery told in this, her first book. Her writing is strong, and the story is eternal. Not unlike Mark Twain’s tales of young boys in Mississippi, this story of a young girl in Canada has a charm and depth that can be missed if you see the stories the way they’re told in movies and TV. While the version of Anne, played by Megan Follows, stayed fairly close to the intent of the book, the musical which has been playing for 50 years waters the story down and compresses, even loses some of the best bits in the book. Much like Johnny Whitaker’s Tom Sawyer, the Anne Shirley presented in the stage musical is only a shadow of the fully developed character we see in the book. Montgomery’s character is a living, breathing girl, not quite the loud and abrasive post-adolescent on stage. The nature of a musical, wherein we stop every few minutes for another song, detracts from the reality that Lucy Maud Montgomery was trying to portray. The Anne of her book does make the reader laugh at her outbursts, but one feels the years of hurt behind her outer shell too.
My wife commented that she couldn’t believe how much I was enjoying reading Anne of Green Gables chuckling aloud, or going quiet in scenes like the one where Matthew passes. Coming after just finishing Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken where most of my responses were of shock, or even disgust at the treatment of the captives, a life-affirming book like Anne was almost a necessity. Driving further through PEI we came to the house where Lucy Maud was born. We arrived at the same time as a bus filled with Japanese tourists. They clamoured for pictures, and, as the building is tiny we decided to snap a shot of the outside and drive on. What is it about Anne’s story that speaks so deeply to the Japanese?
We drove to Avonlea, the most commercial of the day’s visits. It’s a small version of Disneyland, made just for fans of the book[s]. Dirt streets and old refurbished building present an image of 19th century PEI. Fortunately entry is free after 5pm, because the shows are done, and the buildings closed…except for the gift shop, of course. You can buy Anne Shirley dolls, any size; Anne Shirley clothes for the dolls or for your own children. Make your daughter a 19th century orphan! Straw hats with red pigtails attached are also available, along with a variety of editions of the book and videos. In fact you name it, they’ve probably got an Anne version.
Green Gable Alpaca Farm (Photo by author)
The following day we drove a few miles up the North Cape Coastal Drive on PEI’s western side to Green Gable Alpaca Farm. Even miles away from Charlottetown Green Gable is used as a catch phrase. Owner Julie Ogilvie spent an hour with us telling us her story and how she came to raise alpacas here 25 minutes from Summerside. We arrived just 6 minutes after the birth of her latest little fuzzy critter. It was fascinating to watch this gawky youngster stand up, fall down, search for a nipple and finally succeed. But why Green Gable? Surely Lucy Maud didn’t live here. She’s like George Washington, sleeping all over the eastern seaboard. It’s good advertising. Visit this farm, it’s marvellous, and buy yourself some alpaca socks…the most comfortable thing you’ll ever put on your feet!
Somewhere between Lucy Maud’s school and the Charlottetown Theatre, we stopped at an antique shop. There in the display case I spied it. Amidst all the well-thumbed paperback books, and beat-up record sleeves, behind the china cups and meerschaum pipes it sat. It had a $5 price tag, and a note that said “found on Cavendish Beach.” I reclaimed my knife, a mere thirty years later. “Oh, sure,” you’ll scoff, “It’s not the same one!” It doesn’t have to be. In this magical place where there’s a ceilidh every night, somewhere, and the roads are made of red dirt, and an eleven year old orphan girl can command such interest for 150 years…anything is possible.
– David Kidney has reviewed for Green Man Review and Sleeping Hedgehog. He published the Rylander Quarterly (a Ry Cooder-based newsletter) for 8 years before turning it into a blog, at http://rylander-rylander.blogspot.com. He works at McMaster University as Director of Learning Space Development and lives in Dundas, Ontario with his wife.
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Family Estate since 1711
Château de Lacquy is a good example of a Gascony family estate making Armagnac and also active in other crops such as wheat and vegetables.
The château was built in 1777 on the same place where the former seignorial manor once stood. Changes were made in 1910 with the addition of the north and south wings.
The current winery, built in 1876 to age the Armagnac, is a very traditional construction built with stone and wood and roofed with terra cotta tiles. It had replaced an older winery that is shown on the maps of the estate drawn in 1825. Every aspect of the winery contributes to the ideal conditions for ageing Armagnac. The thickness of the walls, the narrow windows, the floor of beaten earth, the insulation provided by the wood-framed attic and the tiled roof, the shade that surrounds it, and the natural ventilation all ensure constant humidity and very small temperature variations which are conducive to ageing Armagnac.
The grounds surrounding the château are highly typical of the old homes in Les Landes, and are primarily comprised of oak. At Lacquy, some oak trees date from the reign of King Louis XV. Wild animals abound, for the estate, far from noise and pollution, is a veritable game reserve that is carefully protected. In winter time, thousands of wood pigeon (palombe) make their home here, and it is not uncommon to see hare, wild boar, badgers deer and the common genet move about freely in the woods.
All of this means that the estate vineyards, dedicated to the production of Armagnac, thrive in an exceptional, well-preserved setting of ecological biodiversity.
> Producing Armagnac since 1711
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THE SEARCHERS~ John McNally
David A Ellis writes~ The Searchers started their recording career back in 1963. Their first big hit was Sweets for my Sweet, followed by catchy songs such as Sugar and Spice and Needles and Pins.
The line up back then was John McNally, Mike Pender, Chris Curtis and Tony Jackson. Jackson left the group in 1964 followed by drummer Chris Curtis in 1966. Frank Allen, who is still with the band, replaced Jackson. John Blunt took the drumsticks after Curtis’s departure. In 1969 it was Billy Adamson that was banging the drums. Eddie Roth took over in 1998 and was beating the drums until his departure in 2010. Mike Pender left in 1985 to set up Mike Pender’s Searchers, which is also still going today. He was replaced by Spencer James. So we have two groups knocking out all the hits. Sadly, Tony Jackson passed away in 2003, followed by Chris Curtis in 2005.
The present line-up is John McNally, Frank Allen, Spencer James and Scott Ottaway on drums. This interview with McNally, who was born in 1941 in Liverpool, was conducted before an appearance at the Gladstone theatre, Port Sunlight in Cheshire. As a youth he suffered from TB and it was while recovering that he took up the guitar. He says if he hadn’t been ill he wouldn’t have bothered to learn it. He is the only original member of the original band. Despite Frank Allen being in his late sixties and McNally in his seventies, the enthusiasm is as strong as ever and the band tour extensively.
What got you interested in joining a group?
I started playing skiffle around the street corners in the 1950s. Tony West, a friend of mine suggested we start a band. Eventually Tony went into the motor trade and I got other people in. Later Tony ran Tony West Entertainments. Some didn’t stay long but in the end it was me, Mike Pender, Tony Jackson and Chris Curtis.
What type of music influenced you as a youngster?
I had an older brother who went to sea and brought American records back. First of all he brought Hank Williams stuff home followed by many others. All this music had a great influence.
When were the Searchers formed?
It was in the late fifties, the name came from the 1956 film The Searchers. We all had day jobs and we turned professional when The Star club in Hamburg, Germany came on the scene. First of all we took a month off work to allow us to go over. They asked us back again so we asked our parents if we could pack our jobs in, which they weren’t too happy about. They said we would never make a living playing music. I was working as a semi-skilled fitter. Mike was a floor layer, Chris worked in a pram shop and Tony was an electrician.
How did you get spotted for recording?
The Beatles had made it with Love me Do and Brian Epstein had signed others up. Epstein came to the cavern club when we were appearing. We were last on and before that we were in The Grapes public house and got a little worse for wear, so Brian said I’ll pass on you. We thought then that we were going to miss the boat. We decided to go to the Iron Door club in Liverpool and make a demonstration record. We sent it around and were approached by music man Tony Hatch. He said, “I like what is on it, can you come down to London and record.” We said, no problem, we are on our way to The Star club, Hamburg anyway, we will nip into the PYE recording studios at Marble Arch. That is what we did; recorded Sweets for my Sweet, then went over to Germany.
While we were away they said they were going to release Sweets for my Sweet. So it was quite an exciting period. Then it wasn’t selling and we thought we had definitely missed the boat. John Lennon was asked what was his favourite record at the moment. He said Sweets for my Sweet. The press in London thought ‘who are they,’ they thought we were American. Once Lennon had said that, it was in all the music papers, becoming number one in two weeks.
Who was the lead singer on that?
It was Tony Jackson; all the early stuff was Tony.
Was Needles and Pins Tony?
No, Needles and Pins was Mike Pender. Tony Hatch didn’t feel Tony was right for the lead vocal on that number. It was after this that Tony wasn’t happy and said he was leaving the group. Tony was the hard edge of the band. Suddenly we were led into a country rock field with Mike’s voice, my voice and Chris’s voice. Chris had one of those amazing voices that could mimic anyone. All his harmonies are beautiful and his rock and roll stuff is superb. From the time Tony left, Chris did all the hard stuff. Tony had that solid, rough Liverpool edge on it, a bit like Lennon. He was sadly missed when he left.
Did you ever think of leaving and going solo?
No, I’m not that egotistical. It doesn’t bother me; I run and own the band with Frank Allen – it’s just something I always wanted to do.
Did your songs require a number of takes in the studio?
Not in the early days. We recorded twelve songs for the first album in one night. It wasn’t until later that we started experimenting with over dubbing.
How long did it take to record a single?
The early singles only took a couple of takes to get them in the can. We did more recordings and releases than the Beatles in a period of three years. The Beatles were allowed to experiment, we weren’t. We were worked hard because at the time they thought we would only be around for a short time.
Finally, did you sometimes have session musicians to create extra sounds in the studio?
No, not in the early days. When we did the Liberty recordings abroad, which I don’t like one bit, they brought in extra people to finish them off. A band has got individuality, its like when the Beatles brought in Billy Preston and people like that doing stuff on recordings – it doesn’t work.
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Rick Sutcliffe gets contract extension from ESPN: 'A terrific analyst who is as dialed into the game as anyone'
By Phil Rosenthal
Rick Sutcliffe, a Cy Young winner with the 1984 division champion Cubs who joined ESPN as a baseball analyst in 1998, has agreed to a multiyear contract extension with the multi-platform sports media outlet.
ESPN planned to announce the deal Wednesday.
“I knew when I retired as a player that I wanted to stay connected to baseball," Sutcliffe said. "At first, I thought as a pitching coach or even as a manager. But what's kept me at ESPN for 20 years has been the people I work with and for."
Sutcliffe will continue to work games as a commentator with regular "Wednesday Night Baseball" dates with Jon Sciambi. Other assignments include postseason games on ESPN Radio with Chris Berman.
“Sut is a terrific analyst who is as dialed into the game as anyone," said Mark Gross, ESPN senior vice president for production. "He brings everything that we’re looking for to the broadcast."
Sutcliffe, who was 1979 NL Rookie of the Year with the Dodgers, was a three-time All-Star in his 18-season career with the Dodgers, Indians, Cubs, Orioles and Cardinals.
In addition to his '84 National League Cy Young Award, Sutcliffe led the NL in wins in 1987 with the Cubs, also that year winning the Major League Baseball's Roberto Clemente Award for sportsmanship, citizenship and contribution to his team.
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Sutcliffe after his MLB retirement served as pitching coach for what, at the time, was the Idaho Falls Padres in 1996 and '97 before becoming a commentator for the Padres' major league franchise and ESPN. His work with the Padres ended in 2004. He also has done work for MLB International.
"I'm very thankful for the opportunity from ESPN to stay connected to the game I love," Sutcliffe said.
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Heisey’s hiccups hurt Reds’ chances
Heisey’s hiccups hurt Reds’ chances Heisey’s hiccups hurt Reds’ chances Check out this story on chillicothegazette.com: http://ohne.ws/1rx45eO
Genaro C. Armas Published 11:39 p.m. ET July 21, 2014 | Updated 11:40 p.m. ET July 21, 2014
MILWAUKEE – The Brewers scored three runs on two misjudged balls in the outfield by Chris Heisey, and Wily Peralta pitched seven strong innings in Milwaukee’s 5-2 victory against the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night.
Ryan Braun hit a two-run double in the third on which Heisey took a couple of steps in before retreating as the high liner went over his head. The four-year veteran with 134 career starts in left field apparently lost Carlos Gomez’s high fly ball to the warning track in the fourth, which turned into an RBI ground-rule double that made it 4-0.
Peralta (11-6) allowed three hits, including Billy Hamilton’s solo homer. Francisco Rodriguez threw a 1-2-3 ninth for his 29th save.
Cincinnati’s Mat Latos (2-2) gave up four earned runs and eight hits in seven innings.
It could have been a much closer game had Heisey made those two plays in left. The lights were on at Miller Park for an evening game that started under overcast skies, although Heisey seemed to be most bothered by the conditions.
Arms turned upward near his waist, Heisey looked lost as the fly ball by Gomez bounced a couple of feet away on the warning track. Heisey tried to reach for the ball as it bounced over the wall, and Jean Segura scored from second on a play that could have gotten Latos out of the inning.
Gomez then scored on an error by Donald Lutz, subbing for the injured Joey Votto at first base. An errant relay throw by second baseman Ramon Santiago allowed a run to score in the third.
The Reds lost again after resuming the season with a three-game sweep by the New York Yankees. Manager Bryan Price was ejected Monday in the sixth inning by home plate umpire David Rackley after Devin Mesoraco got into a heated argument about a called third strike on a checked swing.
Peralta, a right-hander with a fastball in the high-90s, overcame an early bout of wildness to win his second consecutive decision.
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L.A. man arrested in Pasadena stabbing death
PUBLISHED: March 2, 2019 at 8:58 am | UPDATED: March 3, 2019 at 11:55 am
PASADENA — Police on Saturday said a suspect has been arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a man in Pasadena, which prompted the lockdown of a junior high school and forced area residents to shelter in place.
The suspect has been identified as Telly R. Johnson, 41, of Los Angeles, said Pasadena police Lt. Jason Clawson.
Byron Young Nettles, 52, was stabbed at 9:05 a.m. Friday in front of an apartment building in the 100 block of South Euclid Avenue, according to Pasadena Police Department spokeswoman Lisa Derderian.
Paramedics took Nettles to a hospital, where he later died from his wounds, Clawson said.
Nettles lived in and managed the apartment building, according to media reports, but it was unclear whether Johnson had any connection to the building or the victim.
“Robbery-homicide detectives responded to the scene for further investigation,” Clawson said. “Preliminary investigation suggests the incident was not random in nature. A motive for the stabbing remains under investigation.”
Officers set up a perimeter containment to search for Johnson, who fled on foot, Derderian said.
The block-by-block search, involving helicopters and K-9 units, was in an area bounded by Green Street and California Boulevard, from Los Robles Avenue to Marengo Avenue, she said.
Mayfield Junior High School at 405 S. Euclid Ave. was locked down and area residents were told to shelter in place while police continued the search. The lockdown and shelter-in-place orders were lifted at 2:30 p.m. Friday, but residents were urged to report anything suspicious as the suspect remained at large, Derderian said.
“Detectives diligently continued their investigation and requested the U.S. Marshal’s Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force to surveil a location in Los Angeles,” Clawson said.
Johnson was taken into custody without incident a little after 9:25 p.m. Friday in the 1900 block of Cordova Street, when detectives executed a search warrant at a residence and vehicle there, he said.
Johnson was arrested on suspicion of murder and booked at the Pasadena City Jail, where he was being held in lieu of $2 million bail.
Pasadena police detectives asked anyone with information regarding the stabbing to call them at (626) 744-6477.
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Farm Bill Rock ‘n’ Roll
Diane Katz / @Dianeskatz / June 05, 2013 / Leave a comment
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What you are about to read is not satire or parody.
The farm bill pending in the U.S. House of Representatives authorizes a new tax on rocks.
The House Agriculture Committee, in its infinite wisdom, has actually approved an amendment to the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (H.R. 1947) to permit the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to enforce an involuntary levy on businesses that quarry and fabricate granite, sandstone, slate, limestone, marble, travertine, and quartzite.
(By the way, although the acronym of the bill is FARRM, some 80 percent of the spending goes for food stamps.)
The rock tax is a major victory for a faction of the “natural stone” industry that’s intent on compelling fellow tradesmen to pay for standardized product promotion. You know, like “Rocks. It’s What’s for Building,” or “Got Rocks?” or “The Rocks of Our Lives.”
The Marble Institute of America (MIA) is a leader in the rock tax effort, which was launched in 2008. The folks there acknowledge the likelihood of “concern” among some in the industry about the tax, which in this case is a euphemism for “some business owners won’t like being forced by the government to pay for services that they previously obtained voluntarily.”
Under the current plan, the tax revenues would be managed by a new Natural Stone Research and Promotion Board overseen by the USDA. According to the MIA, shifting the promotion work to a new board would allow existing trade associations to focus on “advocacy” (read: lobbying).
This is the very same model adopted by milk, beef, cotton, and some 15 other commodities that depend upon taxation rather than donation. Combined, they accumulate nearly $800 million dollars annually—most of which is recouped by businesses raising retail prices. The scheme has even spread to Christmas trees.
Even if a rock tax could somehow be justified, there’s just no rationale for it to reside in the farm bill or come under USDA jurisdiction. There are rock gardens, to be sure, but there are no farmers anywhere who grow rocks.
This is all yet another indication that consumers are getting rolled by Congress far too often.
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Diane Katz
Diane Katz, who has analyzed and written on public policy issues for more than two decades, is a senior research fellow in regulatory policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
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Amherst College Issues, Then Withdraws Politically Correct ‘Common Language Guide’
Courtney Joyner / April 09, 2019 / Leave a comment
Capitalism, a guide released at Amherst College said, is "an economic and political system ... [which] leads to exploitative labor practices, which affect marginalized groups disproportionately." Pictured: a 2011 protest in London. (Photo: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images)
The controversy that arose at Amherst College after it issued—and then withdrew—a politically correct “Common Language Guide” continues to reverberate across the Massachusetts campus weeks after its release.
On March 20, an email from Amherst Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which was obtained by The Daily Signal, explained to the student body of 1,792 that the Common Language Guide “emerged out of a need to come to a common and shared understanding of language in order to foster opportunities for community-building and effective communication within and across difference.”
The email continued:
It is a living document and by no means a comprehensive list, but it is a good place for us to start.
We understand that language around identity, privilege, oppression, and inclusion is always changing, evolving, and expanding.
After the document was reported on by the conservative website The Daily Wire—which had been tipped off by the Amherst College Republicans—it was removed from the school’s website with a statement from the school’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Norm Jones, who said the language guide was “a mistake … because of the implication that the guide is meant to dictate speech and expression or ideology on campus.”
Jones added:
It does not represent an official position of the college or an expectation that everyone on campus should use any particular language or share a point of view.
The goal was to help create greater awareness of the ways many people at Amherst and beyond understand their own identities.
The guide, which The Daily Signal obtained, had included a list of terms and definitions related to race, sexual identity, and politics. Among them:
ANTI-BLACKNESS: Behaviors, attitudes, and practices of people and institutions that work to dehumanize black people in order to maintain white supremacy. Anti-blackness can also be internalized and might show up in black people or black communities in the form of colorism, an elevation of white culture, or attempts to separate oneself from black cultural norms.
CAPITALISM: An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. This system leads to exploitative labor practices, which affect marginalized groups disproportionately.
MYTH OF SCARCITY: Used to pit people against each other, this is the fostering of the belief that resources are limited and the blaming of members of the marginalized group for using up too much of the limited resources available.
However, the controversy did not end with the guide’s withdrawal from Amherst’s website. Some students and faculty were upset that the college decided to take it down.
“People started printing the document … put them around the school. In the freshman dorms, in the cafeteria, in the library, everywhere,” said Robert Barasch, the president of the Amherst College Republicans, in an interview with The Daily Signal. Barasch added that they paired the document “with the printed copies of the president’s statement, as well as the diversity and inclusion officer’s statement apologizing for it … [They] crossed out those statements, and some of them wrote … hashtag ‘not my president.’”
But, Barasch added, “it’s important to understand that the school did a bad thing. It doesn’t mean the school is bad.”
“All the ‘free speech’ and ‘free exchange of ideas’ stuff are non-sequiturs and poison the well,” John Drabinski, professor of black studies and of film and media studies, told the school newspaper The Amherst Student. “That reaction, if I can be honest, is a symptom of race and sex panic.”
“Freedom of expression, research, and teaching has no relationship to the Common Language document … . Casting it in those terms is paranoid and diverts us from the real hard work of being a respectful community of difference,” Drabinski said.
Jonathan Butcher, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation, took strong exception to Drabinski’s view of the controversy.
Colleges need to return to the idea that it is not their responsibility to protect students from new ideas—something the University of Chicago has articulated so well in their position statements on free speech.
Students need to learn how to have civil discussions, especially on hot-button issues. Their success in the future in the workplace and with friends and other relationships may depend on it.
Amherst College did not respond to a request for comment.
The original photo accompanying this article has been replaced since it showed University of Massachusetts at Amherst, not Amherst College.
Courtney Joyner
Courtney Joyner is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation.
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Former county council care manager who was champion for disabled people in Northamptonshire dies
Phil Arnold
Published: 12:03 Updated: 16:35 Friday 18 January 2019
A long-time Wellingborough resident who managed Northamptonshire County Council services for people with learning difficulties and disabilities has died aged 81.
Phil Arnold was a stalwart of disability services in Northampton and in East Northants throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
A friend of Mr Arnold, Joan Cupples, who worked alongside him in Northampton and Wellingborough between 1982 and 1995, said he was no ordinary person who "just cared" and he always went the extra mile.
"He had exceptionally strong principles, based not only on his Christian faith but also on an innate sense of justice and social duty," said Mrs Cupples.
"He always went the extra mile to ensure that his service users had the best possible experience from their daycare, whatever the level of their need.
"He constantly looked for new ways to improve the quality of what his units provided.
"He was a great believer in the therapeutic value of work and sought ways to make the working experience available to people who are often marginalised in this area of life, but he also recognised the importance of providing excellent physical and emotional care to people whose level of disability and need was greater.
"In a world where care has become an industry, Phil just cared."
In the 1980s Mr Arnold worked at Shire Lodge in Northampton – whose catchment area in those days included the town and the whole of South Northants.
In the late 1980s, he took over the management of services in Wellingborough, his home town, providing a range of types of daycare to disabled adults from the local area including East Northants.
Mindful of his health, in the mid-1990s Mr Arnold stepped down from his role but he never forgot about his life's work and continued to make a voluntary contribution in his new home.
"Those who worked with and for Phil have only praise and gratitude to express," said Mrs Cupples.
"He was the hardest worker on site, wherever he was.
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"First in and last out, never one to begrudge giving up his own time if necessary, he supported his teams diligently and expertly, always with humour.
"He provided the same level of support to families and to local voluntary groups, such as Mencap, and was greatly appreciated."
Mr Arnold leaves a daughter, two sons, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Phil’s funeral will be held in Cheltenham on January 28 at 2pm.
Anyone wishing to pay their respects can do so by making a donation to Down Syndrome Group Northamptonshire – contact the Treasurer Steve Allwork on steveallwork@yahoo.co.uk.
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Town honors an African-American WWII veteran blinded in a 1946 police beating
Updated 1:48 PM ET, Mon February 11, 2019
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard historical marker was dedicated in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina on Saturday. The bottom portion is written in Braille.
(CNN) A South Carolina town has honored an African-American World War II veteran more than 70 years after he was beaten and blinded by local police.
Officials and community leaders in Batesburg-Leesville unveiled a historical marker of the attack on Sgt. Isaac Woodard Jr.
Woodard had just gotten out of the Army in February 1946 and was on his way home when he got into a dispute with the bus driver after asking to get off to use the bathroom.
The driver complained to the Batesburg police, including Lynwood Shull, the town's white police chief. They brutally beat Woodard, who was still in his Army uniform, and thew him in jail. He was convicted of drunk and disorderly conduct and fined.
The officers were later charged with violating Woodard's civil rights and acquitted.
"I am sorry that this happened and I apologize for this happening," said Batesville-Leesburg Mayor Lancer Shull during the dedication ceremony. The mayor shares the same last name as the police chief but says they are not related and that his family comes from Missouri.
Shull and other city officials worked to vacate Woodard's conviction last year.
"Forgiveness does not condone and it does not forget the act, but for those of us, we can vow to make sure that this act never happens again," he said.
Boxing champion Joe Louis (left) and Neil Scott guide Isaac Woodard up stairs at Hotel Theresa.
Woodard died in 1992, but his nephew, Robert Young, and other relatives came from New York for the ceremony.
Young said his uncle was his best friend, a leader in their community and his family's "illustrious, famous hero."
"Although they took his sight away in the end he was still able to see the creation of appropriate and specific laws needed to fight the inequities and injustice that he suffered at the hands of his fellow men as he returned from the war that he had no say in," Young said.
The attack helped inspire President Harry Truman to create the President's Committee on Civil Rights and to integrate the US military in 1948.
Woodard joined the US Army at Fort Jackson in nearby Columbia, where more than 48,000 soldiers go through basic training each year.
Fort Jackson's commander, Brig. Gen. Milford Beagle Jr., is African-American and said that Woodard helped pave the way for him and made the military stronger and more diverse.
He said he hoped that Woodard never doubted that his sacrifices made a contribution.
"He helped build the bridge that many like me used to cross the river of inequality injustice and prejudice," Beagle said. "The pain that he suffered led to the betterment of future soldiers, the Army and our nation."
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The (obvious) Problem with Cruising During Hurricane Season
The crew of Asante are hastily heading south for hurricane season safety, but Tropical Storm Chantal is on its way.
By Brittany Meyers
Windtraveler- tropical storm
We are on the island located under the bottom orange line.
Scott and I have talked numerous times how much we have enjoyed cruising during what is technically known as "hurricane season". Anchorages are wide open, villages pull back their high-season dog and pony shows, tourists have headed elsewhere and, in general, things slow down. It's nice. There's a little more peace and quiet, and there seems to be a tad more, I don't know, authenticity? Sure, it's a little warmer and the wind isn't always favorable this time of year (is it ever though, I mean...really?) but Scott and I would be hard-pressed to find a reason why cruising during these months is anything but a pleasure. Hard pressed, of course, if it wasn't for hurricanes. There's a reason the masses make a beeline south this time of year - and it's a pretty good one. There are approximately three million and eight other places I would rather be than on a boat in a hurricane.
We've got Tropical Storm Chantal barreling this way and several of the weather prediction models have it passing not too far from - if not directly over - us. This is no bueno. While we have made our way south, we are still north of what is considered "safe" from hurricanes by most insurance companies which means we are at a risk. We knew this and understood the risks we were taking cruising in these waters the last five weeks. We've been watching weather closely and this weather system, which has been on the radar for a while (though not as a tropical storm) was a huge reason we made our big push south. Despite this, we are still not in the clear which is a little unnerving for a worry-wart like me. Of course there is a chance that the storm will pass to the north of us and we'll experience nothing more than wind gusts to 35 knots and some gnarly rain, but mother nature has a way of throwing curve balls and, according to the weather man, we should prepare for the worst - wind of 65 knots or more and a torrential downpour.
We considered making a run further south today but decided against it. We are in a safe harbor, our anchor is firmly set and we're setting a second just to be safe. We might even have a third on deck just in case. As one Facebook follower said, "It's always better to be ready and have it fizzle, than to expect a fizzle and get a BOOM..." I couldn't agree more. So we'll keep our eyes on this system and prep ourselves and our boat as best we can. We're in a safe and protected anchorage and we should ride this out just fine. I'll tell you one thing though, it's going to be a sleepless night and I'm looking forward to this being over and getting to our safe-haven of Grenada in the next week or so. We're thinking of all our friends to the north...
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Confidential note from the Council on future relations with Portugal (Brussels, 2 February 1977)
In its report dated 2 February 1977, the ad hoc Working Party established by the Permanent Representatives Committee on 20 January 1977 gives its views on future relations with Portugal, in particular on the definition of a joint line of approach to be adopted during the visit by Mário Soares to Europe’s capital cities, the various models for negotiations and the various possible solutions for Portugal’s accession to the European Communities.
Note from the General Secretariat of the Council on the visits of Mário Soares to the capital cities of the Nine (9 February 1977)
In this note dated 9 February 1977, the General Secretariat of the Council outlines the common position to be adopted in order to reply to Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, during his visits to the capital cities of the Nine.
Telegram on the talks to be held between the Council and Coreper and the Portuguese Prime Minister (9 February 1977)
On 9 February 1977, Portugal’s Mission to the EEC sends a telegram to the Portuguese Foreign Ministry announcing that the Council and the Permanent Representatives of the Member States have agreed on a common platform for discussion with the Portuguese Prime Minister, Mário Soares, during his visit to the European capital cities.
Statement by Francisco Sá Carneiro to the Assembly of the Republic (Lisbon, 11 February 1977)
On 10 February 1977, Francisco Sá Carneiro, Portuguese Social Democratic MP, makes a statement to the Assembly of the Republic (Portuguese Parliament) in which he declares his party’s (PSD) full support for Portugal’s accession to the European Communities in response to an initial positive decision taken by the Council of Ministers of the European Communities.
Telegram sent to Portugal’s Ambassadors and Diplomatic Missions regarding the visits of Mário Soares to various European capitals (24 February 1977)
Dated 24 February 1977, this telegram, sent to Portugal's Ambassadors and Diplomatic Missions to the EEC by the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reports on the visit by Portuguese Prime Minister, Mário Soares, to the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and Italy.
‘What answer to give Portugal?’ from the Bulletin Quotidien Europe (7–8 March 1977)
On 7–8 March 1977, Emanuele Gazzo, Editor-in-Chief of Agence Europe, emphasises the need for the Nine to give a clear and rapid political response to Portugal’s forthcoming application for accession to the European Communities.
‘A duty of solidarity’ from L’Aurore (8 March 1977)
On 8 March 1977, the French daily newspaper L’Aurore welcomes the unwavering commitment to Europe of Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister.
EIB press release on the visit of Mário Soares (10 March 1977)
On 10 March 1977, the European Investment Bank issues a press release on the visit of Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, to the seat of the institution as part of his tour of the European capital cities.
Address given by Mário Soares to the European Commission (Brussels, 11 March 1977)
On 11 March 1977, during a visit to the European Commission, Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, delivers an address in which he describes his country’s accession to the European Communities as an economic and political challenge.
Mário Soares visits the European Commission (Brussels, 11 March 1977)
On 11 March 1977, Roy Jenkins (left), President of the European Commission, welcomes to Brussels Mário Soares (centre), Portuguese Prime Minister, during his tour of the capitals of the nine Member States of the European Communities, to which Portugal is to submit its official application for accession on 28 March.
Mário Soares visits the Economic and Social Committee (Brussels, 12 March 1977)
On 12 March 1977, in Brussels, Mário Soares pays a visit to the Economic and Social Committee (ESC).
Telegram sent to Portugal’s Mission to the EEC regarding the visits of Mário Soares to various European capitals (18 March 1977)
Dated 18 March 1977, this telegram, sent to Portugal's Mission to the EEC by the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reports on the visit of the Portuguese Prime Minister, Mário Soares, to various European capitals.
Address given by Mário Soares to the Assembly of the Republic (Lisbon, 18 March 1977)
On 18 March 1977, Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, makes a statement to the Assembly of the Republic (Portuguese Parliament) on the proposed accession of Portugal to the European Economic Community (EEC) and outlines the outcome of his tour of the capital cities of the nine Member States of the European Communities.
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Mário Soares arrives in Lisbon after visiting European capitals (Lisbon, 18 March 1977)
On 18 March 1977, Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, returns to Lisbon after having toured the European capital cities in order to present Portugal’s application for accession to the European Communities.
Portugal’s application for accession to the European Communities
José Medeiros Ferreira and Portugal's application for accession to the European Communities (29 November 1976)
On 29 November 1976, answering questions from journalists, José Medeiros Ferreira, Portuguese Foreign Minister, gives his views on Portugal’s application for accession to the European Communities, to which he hopes to receive a positive response.
Address given by MP Carlos Carvalhas to the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic (Lisbon, 2 February 1977)
On 2 February 1977, while Portugal is preparing to apply for accession to the European Communities, Communist MP Carlos Carvalhas delivers an address to the Assembly of the Republic in which he considers the crisis affecting capitalist countries and gives a negative assessment of the economic situation in Europe.
Portugal’s application for accession to the European Economic Community (28 March 1977)
Portugal’s application for accession to the European Economic Community (EEC), dated 28 March 1977, forwarded by Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, to David Owen, President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities.
Portugal's application for accession to the European Economic Community (Lisbon, 28 March 1977)
On 28 March 1977, Mário Soares, Prime Minister of Portugal, formally submits his country’s application for accession to the European Communities to David Owen, currently President-in-Office of the Council.
Portugal's application for accession to the European Atomic Energy Community (Lisbon, 28 March 1977)
Portugal’s application for accession to the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), dated 28 March 1977, sent by Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, to David Owen, President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities.
Portugal's application for accession to the European Coal and Steel Community (Lisbon, 28 March 1977)
Portugal’s application for accession to the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), dated 28 March 1977, sent by Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, to David Owen, President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities.
Letter from José Medeiros Ferreira to David Owen (Lisbon, 28 March 1977)
On 28 March 1977, José Medeiros Ferreira, Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs, sends a letter to David Owen, President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities, informing him of the submission of Portugal’s official applications for accession to the Communities.
Council press release on Portugal's application for accession to the Communities (Brussels, 28 March 1977)
On 28 March 1977, the Council of the European Communities announces to the press the submission of Portugal’s formal applications for accession to the Communities pursuant to Article 297 of the EEC Treaty, Article 205 of the EAEC Treaty and Article 98 of the ECSC Treaty.
Letter from Mário Soares applying for Portugal’s accession to the EEC (Lisbon, 28 March 1977)
Portugal’s application for accession to the European Economic Community (EEC), dated 28 March 1977, forwarded by Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, to David Owen, President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities, and acknowledgment of receipt from David Owen dated 5 April 1977.
‘The spirit of a united Europe in Soares’ discussions’ from the Diário de Notícias (29 March 1977)
On 29 March 1977, the Lisbon daily newspaper Diário de Notícias comments on the political implications of the visit of Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, to his Norwegian counterpart, Odvar Nordli.
Acknowledgment of receipt of Portugal’s application for accession to the EEC (Brussels, 5 April 1977)
On 5 April 1977, David Owen, President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities, acknowledges receipt of Portugal’s formal application for accession to the European Economic Community (EEC).
Acknowledgment of receipt of Portugal's application for accession to the EAEC (Brussels, 5 April 1977)
On 5 April 1977, David Owen, President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities, acknowledges receipt of Portugal’s formal application for accession to the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).
Acknowledgment of receipt of Portugal's application for accession to the ECSC (Brussels, 5 April 1977)
On 5 April 1977, David Owen, President-in-Office of the Council of the European Communities, acknowledges receipt of Portugal’s formal application for accession to the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
Letter from David Owen to José Medeiros Ferreira (Brussels, 5 April 1977)
On 5 April 1977, David Owen, President-in-Office of the Council, acknowledges receipt of the letter from the Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs, José Medeiros Ferreira, dated 28 March 1977, informing him of the submission of Portugal’s official applications for accession to the Communities.
Memorandum from the Foreign Ministry on developments in the process for the accession of Portugal to the European Communities (25 August 1977)
In a memorandum dated 25 August 1977, the Portuguese Foreign Ministry analyses developments in the process for the accession of Portugal to the European Communities since its official application was submitted in March of that year.
Letter from Wilhelm Haferkamp to the President of the Council on the problems surrounding Mediterranean agriculture (14 October 1977)
In his letter dated 14 October 1977 and forwarded to the President of the Council, the Vice-President of the Commission, Wilhelm Haferkamp, welcomes the application for accession to the Community of three Mediterranean countries. However, he emphasises some difficulties inherent in these regions which the Community will have to resolve, in particular problems surrounding agriculture.
Working document on the problems facing agriculture in the Mediterranean regions of the Community (14 October 1977)
Working document from the Commission annexed to the letter, dated 14 October 1977, forwarded to the President of the Council by the Vice-President of the Commission, Wilhelm Haferkamp. This working document includes general guidelines which seek to address the problems facing agriculture in the Mediterranean regions of the Community before any enlargement to include countries experiencing such difficulties takes place.
Statement made by Roy Jenkins on the applications from the countries of southern Europe for accession to the Community (17–18 October 1977)
In this statement made at the 474th meeting of the Council, held in Luxembourg on 17 and 18 October 1977, the President of the Commission of the European Communities, Roy Jenkins, emphasises the problems associated with the possible accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain.
Confidential note on the enlargement of the Communities and the accession of Portugal (2 November 1977)
Confidential note from the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dated 2 November 1977, on the problems of the enlargement of the European Communities and the accession of Portugal.
Address given by Roy Jenkins during his visit to Lisbon (10 November 1977)
On 10 November 1977, the President of the European Commission, Roy Jenkins, alongside Portuguese Prime Minister Mário Soares, delivers an address during his visit to Lisbon.
Roy Jenkins at a meeting with Mário Soares, Vitor Constâncio and Ambassador Siqueira Freire (Lisbon, 11 November 1977)
Roy Jenkins, President of the European Commission, at a meeting with Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, Vítor Constâcio, Chairman of the Portuguese Committee on European Integration, and Ambassador Siqueira Freire in Lisbon on 11 November 1977.
Interview with José Medeiros Ferreira: Portugal’s application for accession to the European Communities (Lisbon, 25 October 2007)
In this interview, José Medeiros Ferreira, former Portuguese Foreign Minister, gives the reasons why Portugal applied for accession to the European Communities in 1977 following the transitional period between the end of the dictatorship and the establishment of democracy.
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Global Database on National Nutrition Policies and Programmes
Hunger and malnutrition occur throughout the world, though the knowledge and resources exist to eliminate them. The challenge lies in changing political will, developing realistic policies, and taking determined actions both nationally and internationally. These are the basic beliefs of the Global Database on National Nutrition Policies and Programmes (GDNNPP). GDNNPP was created by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1995 to monitor and evaluate the progress of implementation of the 1992 World Declaration and Plan of Action for Nutrition, which states that all people should have access to safe and nutritious food and be free from hunger.
GDNNPP plays a large role in improving nutrition status globally by compiling data from six regions of the world: Africa, the Americas (in conjunction with the Pan-American Health Organization), the Eastern Mediterranean, Europe, South-East Asia, and the Western Pacific. Policies and programs vary from country to country according to population needs.
GDNNPP provides a global review and comparative analysis of national nutrition policies and plans of action. It identifies the priority nutrition issues of various countries, as well as key elements for developing and implementing effective and sustainable nutrition policies and programs. It also evaluates each country's progress in developing, strengthening, and implementing national nutrition policies and programs, and it serves as a guide to creating better national nutrition policies and programs through authoritative standards and guidelines, research, and collaboration. GDNNPP is designed to help enforce the health objectives, strategies, and activities of the WHO, which also provides technical and financial support to participating WHO countries.
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Contemporary Fiction, Young Adult, Urban Thrillers, Fantasy and Historical Novels Book Reviewer
No Honor Between Brothers
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Mitch Wilder's quest to get his wife back turns into an obsession. He becomes desperate when more of his lies are unveiled. When he catches Claire with her lover, Mitch becomes violent. And the only way he's stopped...is with a bullet.
Claire Lester-Wilder was Bob Marshall's first wife. And for twenty years he's hidden his real feelings for her. But when he sees her likeness in a magazine, old memories surface. He risks his own marriage with Sue and the wrath of Mitch Wilder to get Claire back.
When Darren Hoffman tells his drunken father where to find his wife, he’s unprepared for the backlash it causes. Things go from bad to worse after he’s seduced by a hooker. Darren fears he may lose his wife over it.
Snow was coming down hard and fast when Mitch Wilder looked up at the building on Dundas Street in London, Ontario. Glad his so-called wife wasn't with him. She threatened to handcuff him and drag him to the psychiatrist's if he didn't go this time. He finally gave in when he realized he couldn't put it off any longer. If he didn't get help now, he might succeed the next time he tried to commit suicide.
He couldn't pinpoint when depression took over his mind, his body...his life. All he knew was, he hit bottom when Claire left him just before Christmas in '67. They'd only been married for two months. He’d been in love with her all his life, still loved her. Mitch let out a snort as he closed the door on his pickup truck. One of the reasons he married her, was to keep his stepbrother away from her. That's when he tried to kill himself the first time, when she moved in with Tom. The second time was when Tom caught him with one of his mistresses.
His fault, Mitch knew, it was always his fault. If only he could keep his pecker in his pants, Claire would still be with him. He tried to live life normally after she left him, but he now knew he couldn't keep up with his lifestyle, anymore. Things were beginning to fall apart around him.
He needed to get better, and it was only the first thing that needed to be done. Mitch wanted to get some semblance of his life together for his son, Darren's, wedding next summer. His son's, not Claire's. A son he fathered with one of Claire's best friends, Kathy Hoffman, who had been dead for fifteen years.
He thought about last weekend. He spent it with Claire. It was his attempt to get her back. She still wouldn't let him move in with her, even after they'd stayed most of the time in bed. “Don't think about her now,” he admonished himself. Because, every time he did, he'd get a hard-on. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever met, and had the perfect body, so sensual, so tantalizing, and so many curves. She was the one who grabbed him by the heart so strongly that it choked him.
Mitch willed his mind to concentrate on mundane things as he walked across the icy parking lot, so his own body could cool down. He pulled a piece of paper out of his coat pocket and checked the address one last time. The two-story building at the back of the lot was all windows. Mitch sighed before he pushed open the glass door and walked into the lobby. After he checked the list of names on the wall, he headed down the hall to his right. He stepped into a waiting area and gave the receptionist there his name.
“The doctor will be right with you, Mr. Wilder,” she said, after he filled out a bunch of forms.
While he waited, he picked up a magazine and noticed last Friday's date on the cover. October 24th, 1969. It was only ten minutes later when he was ushered into the room. It surprised him that the doctor was female, that his estranged wife would even consider making him an appointment with a woman. Especially with a long-legged gorgeous brunette. The doctor asked him all kinds of questions, examined him and gave him another prescription to take with the Paxil he was already on. Dr. Marsh refused to up the dosage on the antidepressants for him anymore.
He left the building at five-fifteen, drove a few blocks north onto Oxford Street and turned left. There, he pulled into a driveway of a two-story red brick house and turned off the ignition in his pickup truck. Inside this house was only one of the reasons why his wife left him.
Mitch spent the weekend in London with Linda, who stuck with him for over twenty years. She almost left him when he married Claire. The only reason she stayed was because he told her that Claire's mother was on her deathbed and that her only daughter was to inherit a lot of money. Mitch was to wheedle that money away from her. He and Linda were supposed to go to Hawaii then. Except, Claire's mother had been dead for ages. It was easy to lie to Linda, because he only saw her once or twice a month.
And nobody knew about her until Claire caught him with her. He remembered the day when Claire walked into her kitchen and found Linda there, wearing one of his shirts, and nothing else. He ran out of the bedroom with only his briefs on after Linda screamed. She dropped two cups of hot coffee on the floor, which splattered all over her legs. She still had scars on them from being scalded. Claire keyed Linda's little red 1968 MGB. He paid to have it re-painted.
Linda was perfect for him. She didn't demand anything from him because she knew he couldn't deliver any more than he had. Except more of his time. As far as Mitch could tell, he was the only one she saw. She was in love with him, he knew; although she would never admit it. He preferred that. He didn't want confessions of love. Mitch watched her sleep in the wee hours of the morning and brushed her auburn hair from her face. She snuggled in closer.
He thought about all the lies he'd told in his life. The people in his hometown didn't even know half of his story. That's why he would disappear for years on end. When he married Claire, he thought he'd be able to settle down. Keeping her away from Tom wasn't the only reason he married her. Claire was the love of his life. It seemed to him that no matter who he was with, he couldn't get her off his mind.
Mitch sighed and rolled over to face the wall. Claire ended up with Tom anyway. She moved out on Tom after she found out his secret and Mitch wanted her back. A tear slid down Mitch's face. She still didn't want him, not permanently. He didn't blame her. She knew he would never settle down. Why would she take him back when had a different woman every night?
He had only gone to the funeral for one reason, to make sure his father was dead. Mitch
Wilder waited in his rented Mercedes across the street from Wharton's Funeral Home and
watched the people fight the blustery wind to go inside. What a hell of a day for a funeral. He
took stock of who showed up for his old man’s service. He certainly didn’t want to be there,
didn’t want to be...home.
It had taken him twice as long to drive from Hamilton than usual. Wind blowing snow across
the highway slowed traffic significantly. But by the time he'd gotten to Highway 15 and driven
into Port Shetland the wind had eased somewhat.
Mitch picked up the single red rose on the seat beside him and held it up to his nose. With
eyes closed he inhaled the sweet fragrance and brought the image of his mother to his mind. Her
arthritic hands were what he saw first, disjointed fingers curving over her thumbs. He could hear
her labored breathing as she pushed her heavy body out of a chair. Her knees would crack.
A tear dampened his cheek. He wiped it away with the back of his hand. Mitch remembered
the last time he was inside this funeral home. It had been fifteen years ago when his mother died.
Then: a week after his mother's funeral, he'd been drinking---which gave him courage---and
walked up to his old man. “So, you going to move in with Stella?”
Len took a step back. “How do you know about Stella?”
Mitch glowered. “I've known about your mistress for years, Dad.”
Len eyed Mitch for a few heartbeats before he said, “I hope you don't hate me, son. I'm going to
move in with her.”
Mitch's eyes were cold as he raised his chin...then hit his father. It had taken his old man by
surprise. After he staggered backward Len wiped the blood from his nose. “That’s the last time
you hit me, Mitch. The next time you’ll be written out of my will for good.”
“I don’t want your damn money.” Mitch held his clenched hands at his sides.
“Watch your step, Mitch.” His father glared at him. “I can take the company away from you.”
“You were the one who kept begging me to work for you.”
Len nodded. “And I'll make sure you don't inherit it too. Maybe...”
“Maybe what?” Mitch finished his whiskey and set the glass down.
Len took several breaths then said, “Maybe I'll leave it to your brother.”
“What?” Mitch blinked several times. “What brother?”
“You have a brother, Mitch. His name is Tom.”
Mitch clenched his hands again, then thinking better of it, he let them hang loose at his sides.
“Well, I don't want anything to do with your bastard.”
Len held onto Mitch's sleeve, his eyes glistening. “I'm sorry, son. But your mother couldn't... I
needed...”
Mitch stormed out of the house and despite his father's attempts to reconcile throughout the
years Mitch kept them from getting close. Even as they worked together. After that day, every
time Mitch had a few drinks they'd end up in an intense argument. More than once Nora’s
husband, Joe, stepped in between them. Then Mitch and Len would come to an uneasy truce until
the next time Mitch had a few too many.
Mitch sighed as he opened his eyes. The rose in his hand didn't seem to be as bright as it was
when he bought it that morning. He twirled it back and forth between his thumb and forefinger.
The idea was to place it on his mother’s grave after the service. But as a gust of wind shook the
car and made him shiver, he decided not to go out to the cemetery. “This stupid little flower
would just blow away, anyway.” Scowling, Mitch whipped the rose against the back of the seat
beside him. Three petals flew off. “Sorry, Mom.”
Mitch set the rose back on the seat. A quick glance at his watch told him he couldn’t delay
this any longer. He checked his image in the rear-view mirror and straightened his tie. After a
deep sigh Mitch forced himself to open the car door.
He stepped into the lobby of the funeral home. JT Wharton, the owner's son directed him to
the room on the left. To get his bearings, and to delay this for as long as possible, Mitch picked
up one of the announcements and read it. In Loving Memory, it said. He scoffed. Maybe in
Nora’s loving memory but not his. Leonard J. Wilder passed away March 25, 1967. Mitch stuffed
it into his pocket before he took off his coat, hanging it up on the rack where dozens of others
mingled with his tailored one. It surprised Mitch to see so many people there, he didn’t think his
father was very well liked. He forced himself to walk through the double doors and down the
aisle, between the two rows of seats, toward the front.
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U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), along with Congressmen Donald Norcross (D-NJ) and Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), today reintroduced legislation that addresses the country’s real and growing teacher shortage by completely overhauling the current student loan forgiveness program and boosting financial assistance for teachers.
Norcross Celebrates Camden High School Groundbreaking
“Every child needs and deserves a safe place to learn with all of the necessary resources, tools and technology available to them,” said Congressman Norcross. “It has taken us nearly 20 years to get to this point where shovels are finally piercing the ground and I am proud to have fought tooth and nail for this vital investment in our community, our children and our future. It’s exciting for everyone in Camden that we’re moving forward so that all students are afforded the best of the best.”
Defense bill: Funds joint base tankers, protects jobs at Lockheed Martin in Moorestown
“We live in an uncertain world where there are serious threats to our country and our democracy, and we must ensure our military has the tools and manpower needed to defend our nation,” Norcross, D-1st of Camden, said after the nearly 21-hour session. “We were able to keep our military fully equipped, meet mission requirements and deter potential adversaries, while ensuring the Department of Defense’s programs are fiscally responsible. Overall, I’m proud to have voted to strengthen and modernize our military to build a strong national defense, support service members and their families, and grow our nation’s workforce.”
Norcross Votes to Help Retirees by Addressing the Multiemployer Pensions Crisis
Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross, a leader on retirement security in Congress, voted in favor of the H.R. 397, the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act – commonly called “The Butch Lewis Act” – which addresses the nation’s worsening multiemployer pension crisis. The act passed by a vote of 26-18 out of the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Norcross, Brown Lead Bipartisan Letter Pushing Back Against Department Of Veterans Affairs’ Union-Busting Efforts
Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) and Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) sent a letter co-signed by a bipartisan group of 128 Members of Congress to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, pushing back on the department’s anti-labor policies in its collective bargaining with AFGE, the union representing 260,000 of its frontline employees.
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Leicester De Montfort Law School
Perceptions of Psychological Coercion and Human Trafficking in the West Midlands of England: Beginning to Know the Unknown
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Dando, C.;
Walsh, D.;
Brierley, R
Modern slavery is less overt than historical state-sanctioned slavery because psychological abuse is typically used to recruit and then control victims. The recent UK Draft Modern Slavery Bill, and current UK government anti-slavery strategy relies heavily on a shared understanding and public cooperation to tackle this crime. Yet, UK research investigating public understanding of modern slavery is elusive. We report community survey data from 682 residents of the Midlands of England, where modern slavery is known to occur, concerning their understanding of nonphysical coercion and human trafficking (one particular form of modern slavery). Analysis of quantitative data and themed categorization of qualitative data revealed a mismatch between theoretical frameworks and understanding of psychological coercion, and misconceptions concerning the nature of human trafficking. Many respondents did not understand psychological coercion, believed that human trafficking did not affect them, and confused trafficking with immigration. The public are one of the most influential interest groups, but only if well informed and motivated towards positive action. Our findings suggest the need for strategically targeted public knowledge exchange concerning this crime.
Open access article The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
Citation : Dando, C.J., Walsh, D., Brierley, R. (2016) Perceptions of Psychological Coercion and Human Trafficking in the West Midlands of England: Beginning to Know the Unknown. PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0153263.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153263
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Home » News & Blogs » Digital Matters: Marketing
In October 2018, after many years working in the private sector, I joined the marketing team within the Department for Enterprise (DfE) at a time of exciting change. Digital Isle of Man, Finance Isle of Man, Business Isle of Man and Visit Isle of Man – the four executive agencies of the DfE – had been created in May 2018: the Agencies sit alongside the Department's central functions of strategy and policy development, business intelligence and marketing, enterprise support, legislation, and the “Locate” team. Collectively, the functions work hand in hand with the private sector, growing real businesses, generating real jobs and real opportunities for the Island.
My role is to be the marketing partner for Digital Isle of Man. Mine seems to be the Agency that takes some explaining: it’s perfectly clear from their names what Finance, Business and Visit do – but people seem less clear about what Digital was established to achieve. Furthermore, just to confuse you, it’s not about digital marketing – although I do some of that, too!
Each of the Agencies has a board made up of private/public sector representatives, whose remit is to act as a key decision maker and advisory body. Their function is to promote and develop their sectors and deliver long-term, sustainable economic growth for the Isle of Man. Of course, I knew before I started that the DfE is responsible for economic development, and for the creation of an environment where local entrepreneurship is supported; but I now understand that this environment of innovation and collaboration is essential for the Isle of Man’s future growth and prosperity.
Digital Isle of Man focuses on the Island’s critically important digital sector and emerging initiatives, harnessing opportunities for a digital economy. These emerging frameworks are new entities that break uncharted ground, and it’s with some excitement that we enter a phase of creation in the digital world.
The face of marketing has changed dramatically in the past two decades, and it shows no sign of letting up. That said, one thing is clear: the parameters of digital marketing will continue to broaden whilst more traditional marketing techniques slowly become obsolete.
We’re currently riding the wave of digital novelties and entrepreneurial stardom, and it’s my job as a marketing partner to harness these opportunities through innovative digital tactics, promoting the Island as a beacon of opportunity and an environment for start-ups and entrepreneurs to flourish.
As an Island with an attractive relocation package, the Isle of Man holds a unique position amongst other competitive jurisdictions, and it’s this advantage that we need to exploit through the marketing and opportunities we offer.
Home to a dynamic cluster of digital-focussed businesses, from international corporate brands to start-ups breaking the status quo, there’s a unique energy and drive in the Isle of Man that has given life to an innovative and growing sector. Digital Isle of Man was created to support this sector, developing and implementing a strategy to support sustainable economic growth and establishing the Isle of Man as a centre of international excellence for the digital economy.
Think of the eGaming sector, with nearly 40 licensees. Think of huge global companies like Microgaming and PokerStars. Think of “out of this world” space sector businesses such as MannSat. Think of the Island’s thirty-year heritage in film making. Think of ground-breaking businesses like Quanta – the first licensed Blockchain-enabled lottery platform. All of these fall within the digital sector and, thus, within the remit of Digital Isle of Man. It’s a hugely diverse, constantly evolving, tremendously exciting sector: eGaming alone contributes around 18% of the Island’s GDP.
The Island has evolved into a well-respected digital jurisdiction with a robust infrastructure, and it’s fundamental that we nurture the environment we’ve created. The Digital Agency strives to make the Island a centre of digital excellence, in partnership with the industry sector, its representatives and its educational establishments. Therefore, in addition to championing innovation, Digital Isle of Man recognises the importance of strengthening the links between academia, research and ICT capabilities in the Island’s school leavers, university graduates and those returning to the workplace.
Recent marketing and promotional activity has centred around the ICE expo in London: it was my first time working there and, as colleagues had warned me, the scale of the event is simply mind-blowing.
Filling the enormous ExCel in Docklands, it was three full days of meeting clients old and new, cementing relationships with our stand partners from other Island-based businesses, and walking what my pedometer confirmed to be miles every day.
The ICE expo is an integral event in the digital calendar, as it provides a platform for us to boast about the advantageous nature of conducting business on the Island. It was wonderful and reassuring to see so many businesses in attendance who are already thriving in the Island’s digital environment.
The world’s first fully-licensed blockchain lottery was launched in the Isle of Man and it has positioned us as a pioneer and leader in blockchain and cryptocurrency, and its representation at ICE showcased the Island and its embrace of new technologies and frameworks.
We also dealt with a lot of media enquiries following the launch of two major initiatives at ICE.
The B2B software licence launch is a pivotal move for the future of the eGaming sector, which demonstrates the Island’s high standards of corporate governance and game fairness. Whilst the licence isn’t mandatory, the benefits for those who choose to be licensed are manifold, and its development is in response to the demand of those businesses wishing to be licensed by a highly experienced regulator.
The launch of our Blockchain Office and associated Sandbox is a product of the needs of blockchain businesses and aims to provide a streamlined transition through current and future regulatory landscapes through expert-led assistance and support, which is yet another process of cementing the Island as an international hub for digital businesses.
With digital innovations continuously pushing updates to adapt to the changes within the industry, it’s essential that we keep up to date with the propulsive nature of developments. Increasing visibility of the Isle of Man as a desirable business centre is perhaps the single most important factor in future-proofing the Island’s economy and infrastructure, and our marketing approach needs to be clearly expressed.
Providing new business start-ups with the support they need to navigate the digital landscape is the first link to enabling our Island’s digital evolution, and regular insights into the changing face of marketing should implement this change. Our on-Island approach will progress with emerging innovations and technologies, and with email marketing set to lead a change in digital trends, many marketers are implementing creative platforms to accelerate campaign performance and reduce errors.
Many email service providers have announced huge changes to their systems in 2019, and with a plethora of new mobile technologies which optimise imagery and high-pixel density being released this year, a change is dictated in the way we read and send email: mobile email continues to be the most popular reading environment for email, with 43% of emails opened on mobile devices.
Changes such as Apple’s Dark Mode and the introduction of Gmail Go (a stripped-back, lightweight version of the regular Gmail app) mean that changes to marketing emails need to be made in order to avoid a subpar user experience, and it’s a marketing method that is set to up the ante in the digital sector.
It’s an exciting time to be involved in the Department. The progression and triumph of digital businesses on the Isle of Man is the ultimate reassurance that Digital Isle of Man is succeeding in what it was set up to do: being responsible for the shared vision and strategy of the Island as an internationally well regarded and diverse digital nation.
Sarah Jarvis is Marketing Partner at Digital Isle of Man. She is an experienced and commercially-focused marketing professional with a proven record in implementing sound marketing and business development practice in line with business objectives, gained in the telecoms sector, professional services and the finance sector. She has also worked in the education sector, teaching both academic and professional students at the IOM Business School, and acting as Centre Director for the CMI programmes.
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Partners Outside Port-au-Prince Treating Quake Injured
By Jenny Hutain January 14, 2010 7:11 pm
Direct Relief partners reported this morning that they are seeing increasing numbers of patients from the quake-affected areas of Port-au-Prince are seeking care at their facilities outside the damage zone.
With medical facilities in Port-au-Prince overwhelmed or destroyed, patients are migrating out to neighboring areas to seek care. Aid deploying tomorrow will help replenish their stocks so they can continue to care for the injured. Direct Relief also is expanding its support to partner sites across Haiti that are seeing increased patient loads due to the lack of available facilities in the capital.
Justinian University Hospital (JUH) in Cap-Haitien, on Haiti’s north coast, reported today that they expected to receive trauma cases airlifted from Port-au-Prince by MINUSTAH helicopter. JUH is the second-largest hospital in Haiti and is one of the three partner facilities in Haiti that receives Direct Relief’s pre-positioned emergency modules as well as ongoing support.
Direct Relief also has provided funding for a supply-chain manager at UHJ, who delivered the report earlier today and outlined the specific additional needs brought on by the emergency.
Partners in Health (PIH) shared that people are traveling hours on their own to seek care and have headed to Cange, where PIH operates Zanmi Lasante Sociomedical Complex, a 104-bed full-service hospital. The facility has two operating rooms, adult and pediatric inpatient wards, a laboratory, a pharmaceutical warehouse, a blood bank, and radiographic services.
St. Damien Children’s Hospital reported that it has sustained only minor structural damage. The facility is near the airport in Port-au-Prince. The emergency medical aid shipment departing tomorrow is destined for St. Damien, with additional plans being developed for follow-up deliveries to other partners.
Filed Under: Earthquakes, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake 2010, Health
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John D. S. Adams
Genre: Alternative, Bluegrass, Celtic, Classical, Folk, Indie, Jazz, Pop, Roots, Singer-Songwriter, Traditional
John D.S. Adams is an award winning producer, recording/mix engineer, sound designer and electronic musician having worked on a wide variety of projects in film, television, music and dance. John’s incredible range and experience make him a highly sought after producer / engineer.
John’s client list is broad and impressive including music recording/mixing for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's award winning ‘Beach Birds: For Camera’, twelve CDs and 2 DVDs for Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Sony BMG artists Yo Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, PSI Factor (Alliance-Atlantis TV series), Anton Kuerti’s final Beethoven Piano Sonatas as well as composition/sound design for Barishnykov's White Oak Dance Project. John’s work has been honoured with multiple Juno Award for his collaborations with James Ehnes, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Jane Bunnett. In addition to the many independent recordings, Adams has worked with artists Suzie LeBlanc (2015 ECMA Classical Album of the Year), Paul Halley, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Old Man Luedecke (2017 ECMA Album of the Year), Andy Stochansky, Eve Egoyan, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Kevin Fox and Neil Young. In 2000 the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles sought the skills of John when embarking on a massive music archival project. Between 2007 and 2009, John was Senior Recording Engineer at The Banff Centre.
Following the completion of his Masters of Music in Sound Recording (McGill University class of ‘91), John spent an inspirational five years in New York City. While in New York he worked intensively as a musician and multi-channel sound designer for the cutting edge Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC) and acted as a hands-on assistant to electronic music pioneer David Tudor. Adams was requested by Tudor to realize and perform his music in the US, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Taiwan. In 1998 Adams joined ranks with New York based Composers Inside Electronics to perform Tudor’s Rainforest IV at the Lincoln Center Festival 98, and for the 2001 realization of Rainforest IV at the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles) Symposium on David Tudor. Adams continues to perform the works of David Tudor and creates music using his modular analogue electronics.
Adams has had the privilege of collaborating with some of the great musical pioneers of our time, including John Cage, Pauline Oliveros , Walter Zimmerman, Takehisa Kosugi, Steve Lacy and Stuart Dempster and Christos Hatzis. He is currently affiliated with suddenlyLISTEN (Halifax based improv collective), F.F.O.B. (Toronto based multimedia/electronic ensemble) and JERK (Atlantic Canadian experimental improv quintet).
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Published on Edge.org (https://www.edge.org)
2016 : WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST INTERESTING RECENT [SCIENTIFIC] NEWS? WHAT MAKES IT IMPORTANT? [1]
In the News [ 22 ] [2]
Contributors [ 199 ] [3] | View All Responses [ 199 ] [4]
Lee Smolin [5]
Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Time Reborn
No News Is Astounding News
The most important news from 2015 in fundamental physics is that probably there is no news. Let me explain. With one tantalizing exception (which may be a statistical anomaly), the experiments done recently confirm a frustratingly incomplete theory of fundamental physics, which has stood since the 1970s. This is in spite of enormous effort by thousands of experimentalists hoping to discover new phenomena that would lead to greater unification and simplification in our understanding of nature.
Since 1973, our knowledge of elementary particles and fundamental forces has been expressed in what we call the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics. This reduces all phenomena, save gravity, to twelve fundamental particles interacting via three forces. This Standard Model has been confirmed in all experiments to date. This includes new measurements announced this month by two teams of experimentalists operating the Atlas and CMS detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), working at nearly twice the energy as previous experiments.
In 2012, the news from the LHC was the discovery of the Higgs, which was the last particle predicted by the Standard Model remaining to be discovered. But the Standard Model cannot be the whole story, in part because the model involves twenty-nine free parameters. We have no explanation for the values of these parameters and hence seek a deeper theory “beyond the Standard Model” that would explain them. Moreover, many of these values seem extremely unnatural: they are very tiny numbers with large ratios among them, (the hierarchy problem) and they seem to be tuned to special values needed for a universe with many stable nuclei allowing complex life to exist (the fine tuning problem). In addition, there is no reason for the choices of the fundamental particles and for the symmetries that govern the forces between them. Another reason for expecting new particles beyond the Standard Model is that we have excellent evidence from astronomy for dark matter, which gravitates but doesn’t give off light. All these pieces of evidence point to new phenomena that could have been discovered at the LHC.
Several beautiful hypotheses have been offered on which to base a deeper unification going beyond the Standard Model. I will just give the names here: supersymmetry, technicolor, large extra dimensions, compositeness. These each imply that new particles should have been discovered at the LHC. Some also point to more exotic phenomena such as quantum black holes. To date, the experimental evidence sets impressive limits against these possibilities.
To be sure, there is one weak, but very exciting, indication from new results that might be interpreted as a signal of a new particle beyond the Standard Model. This is a small excess of collisions which produce pairs of photons that, remarkably, are seen by both of the experiments operating at the LHC. But the statistical significance is not high when the statistics is done taking into account that one is bound to get some signal by random chance in one of the many channels looked at. So it could be a random fluctuation that will go away when more data is taken.
Even if this hint grows into the discovery of a new particle, which would be extremely exciting news, it is too soon to say whether it will lead to a deeper unification, rather than just add complication to the already complicated Standard Model. Luckily, more data can be expected soon.
It is the same in quantum gravity, which is the unification of quantum theory with Einstein’s theory of gravity. Many proposals for quantum gravity suggest that at certain extremely high energy scales we must see new physics. This would indicate that at correspondingly tiny scales space becomes discrete, or new features of quantum geometry kick in. One consequence would be that the speed of light is no longer universal—as it is in relativity theory—but would gain a dependence on energy and polarization visible at certain scales.
In the last decade this prediction has been tested by sensitive measurements of gamma rays that have traveled for billions of years from extremely energetic events called gamma ray bursts. If the speed of light depends even very slightly on energy, we would see higher energy photons arriving systematically earlier or later than lower energy photons. The enormous travel time would amplify the effect. This has been looked for by the Fermi satellite and other detectors of gamma rays and cosmic rays. No deviations from relativity theory are seen. Thus, our best hope of discovering quantum gravity physics has been frustrated.
A similar story seems to characterize cosmology. Something remarkable happened in the very early universe to produce a world vast in scale but, at the same time, extremely smooth and homogeneous. One explanation for this is inflation—a sudden enormous expansion at very early times, but there are competitors. Each of these theories requires delicate fine tuning of parameters and initial conditions. Once this tuning is done, each predicts a distribution of noisy fluctuations around the smooth universe. These show up as a seemingly random distribution of very slightly denser and less dense regions. Over hundreds of millions of years of expansion, these amplify and give rise to the galaxies. These fluctuations make bumps that are visible in the cosmic microwave radiation. So far, their distribution is as random, featureless, and boring as possible, and the simplest theories—whether inflation or its alternatives—suffice to explain them.
In each of these domains we have sought clues from experiments into how nature goes beyond, and solves the puzzles latent in, our incomplete theories of the universe, but we have so far come up with nearly nothing.
It is beginning to seem as if nature is just unnaturally fine tuned. In my opinion we should now be seeking explanations for why this might be. Perhaps the laws of nature are not static, but have evolved through some dynamical mechanism to have the unlikely forms they are observed to have.
Return to Table of Contents [3]
[1] https://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-do-you-consider-the-most-interesting-recent-scientific-news-what-makes-it
[2] https://www.edge.org/inthenews/what-do-you-consider-the-most-interesting-recent-scientific-news-what-makes-it
[3] https://www.edge.org/contributors/what-do-you-consider-the-most-interesting-recent-scientific-news-what-makes-it
[4] https://www.edge.org/responses/what-do-you-consider-the-most-interesting-recent-scientific-news-what-makes-it
[5] https://www.edge.org/memberbio/lee_smolin
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More Than 2 Chinas Worth of People Will Be Digitally Connected By 2020. Are You Ready?
Joe Hyrkin
CEO of Issuu
January 14, 2016 7 min read
In five years, three to five billion consumers who have never used the Internet before will come online, and most of the new adopters will be mobile-only users. This means that a population twice the size of China will begin accessing information, sharing photos, making purchases, using digital services and more. By 2020, there will be around eight billion people on the planet, and nearly 65 percent of them will be connected.
Five years really isn’t that long of a time period. Think about it, the first iPad came out just five years ago. The implications, from purely a content consumption standpoint, are huge. The volume of content, products and information is going to explode in ways we haven't yet begun to dream of. New services will emerge.
Humankind has never had this amount of growth potential sitting right in front of it before. The population of the Internet and digital connectivity is literally going to double in five years. It’s a mind-boggling proposition, and everything we know about digital engagement will need to be thrown out the window. We are going to see massive changes across the entire spectrum of human life, including how we interact with each other and the world around us.
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Companies in every industry will have to rethink the way they structure their business, and scale will be the trump card. The need for scale will be particularly profound in terms of the demand for content. People are consuming digital media more than ever before, thanks largely to the rise of mobile devices. The global population now consumes 3.9 exabytes in data a month. By 2019, this number will be 24.3 exabytes.
Online content is how people are -- and will continue to -- learn and connect in just about every country on Earth. As the number of new Internet users continues to grow exponentially, so will the demand for content. In just five short years, there will be a shift in how the Internet is accessed and consumed, and one of the biggest changes will be that everything will be done, viewed and absorbed through ONE device.
Not only will people read, watch, share, buy, create, collaborate, etc., but in the future, all of those separate actions will be bundled together. This means consumers won’t just be using a device to read. For example, people will both be able to read about new health issues and also record their own vital signs, get real-time advice on how to manage their health or create a video on a nutrition and fitness routine and share it.
Everything will come from one place that can be accessed anytime, anywhere. This creates tremendous challenges and opportunities for businesses.
A brave new world
We are on the cusp of a content consumption revolution, and new users will inevitably have new online behaviors. It should come as no surprise that everything will center around mobile. The number of smartphone users worldwide will surpass two billion in 2016. By 2020, this number will triple to six billion, and GSMA Intelligence estimates that smartphones will represent two-thirds of the “nine billion mobile connections in place.”
But, what are these new Internet consumers going to be doing online?
A recently conducted global survey of online activities in emerging and developing nations helps answer this question. It found that these users actively share content with their friends and family, and that after socializing, accessing information is the second most common online activity. For users in emerging markets, the Internet is increasingly their go-to source for content on political news, healthcare, government services and more.
By 2020, we will be seeing new levels of collaboration possibilities that will not only cross borders but cultures too. It is a convenient and affordable link to the rest of the world, and in many cases, the only one.
Feeding the beast
This changing landscape has dramatic and unavoidable implications for what is required of publishers. When your potential customers are scattered all over the world, content is how you attract them, educate them, connect with and engage them. Companies that have high-quality products and / or content will be surpassed by those who have intelligently thought about how to execute quality content at scale, whether through user-generated content, content that is engineered to go viral or a well-honed formula for telling digital stories.
However it’s produced, this content will need to be accessible on-demand and on mobile. It also needs to be shareable, since social networking is the most popular online activity for users in emerging markets, and since social networks are leading platforms for content discovery and only becoming more powerful.
Content also needs to be original and relevant. The vast amount of content out there online means that making your content stand out is not easy, even within one country. Once you expand your playing field to the entire world, achieving relevance becomes a much steeper challenge.
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Localization is key. Emerging market consumers are extremely diverse, with significantly different cultural backgrounds and online behavioral patterns. A global strategy will never succeed unless it is also localized and keeps the unique characteristics of each market in mind. What resonates in India will not resonate in Africa, and vice versa. Conversely, making content locally relevant can reap real results. Around 60 percent of consumers in emerging markets react more favorably to mobile content that is locally relevant.
“As mobile offerings become more prominent in emerging markets throughout regions such as Latin American and Africa, hyper-local content is being consumed with more frequency than other broader offerings,” wrote Upstream CEO Marco Veremis.
In addition, all these new Internet users will come with their own unique sets of interests, experiences, passions, likes, dislikes, preferences and more, and they will want ways to engage with these interests online. It may already seem like there is an online community for just about every topic, no matter how niche, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.
As these small enthusiast communities expand in numbers, the demand for enthusiast content and the impulse to fulfill it will also expand. There are entire subsets of interests and content that haven’t even been created yet.
Fortunately, this tremendous diversity will also generate a tremendous amount of data about new types of Internet users, niche topics and more. This will enable brands to gain insight into these new users and target them accordingly, with articles, videos, offers, products, etc. Analytics will enable personalization. This is already happening today but on a minute scale compared with what’s coming.
Satisfying the hunger for diverse, relevant, localized and personalized content on a global scale is a momentous task. It will require more sophisticated, powerful infrastructure and new ways of thinking about how content is created and delivered. I predict that as the rising billions get online, a new wave of innovation will conceive of innovative new tools for creating content. People will create content with an immediacy and at a scale that’s never been done before, which will combine different kinds of experiences (videos, photos, audio, messages, etc.) in interesting ways.
Finally, since mobile devices will be the device for everything -- from content consumption to commerce -- these two experiences will become more closely connected. Content and commerce won’t be separable. We have already seen early efforts at this, as Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, and others roll out commerce buttons around content.
It is crazy to think that in just five short years, billions of people will be seamlessly connecting to the Internet not from a wired terminal, but from the palm of their hand. Content, sharing, buying and even new ways of consumption that we haven’t thought of yet will be available in less than a decade from now.
An online community the size of two Chinas is barreling toward us fast, and it will hit us hard. Are you ready?
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Writing Poetry through the Eyes of Science - A Teacher's Guide to Scientific Literacy and Poetic Response - Nancy Gorrell
2 What is Poetry? Developing the Poetic Eye
Nancy Gorrell [+-]
Nancy Gorrell (BA summa cum laude & MA State University of New York at Sony Brook) is an English teacher, poet, and award-winning author of numerous articles on the teaching of poetry in the English Journal. Her poetry has appeared in English Journal, Rockford Review, BlueLINE: A Literary Magazine of the Adirondacks, and Footwork: Paterson Literary Review, among others. A former New Jersey State Teacher of the Year, in 2001 she was awarded Outstanding English Language Arts Educator by the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English, and she received a Governor’s Award in Arts Education from the State of New Jersey.
And that’s the aim of foundation Lesson two – to make students more aware, more attuned, and more inspired seekers and finders of poetry in general, and science poetry in particular.
Gorrell, Nancy with Erin Colfax. 2 What is Poetry? Developing the Poetic Eye. Writing Poetry through the Eyes of Science - A Teacher's Guide to Scientific Literacy and Poetic Response. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 77 - 102 Jan 2012. ISBN 9781845534400. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=19408. Date accessed: 18 Jul 2019 doi: 10.1558/equinox.19408. Jan 2012
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Collison retires from NBA at 31 to focus on faith
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Veteran guard Darren Collison has decided to retire from the NBA after 10 seasons primarily to concentrate on helping the less fortunate through his Jehovah's Witnesses faith, he told ESPN's The Undefeated in a letter.
"While I still love basketball, I know there is something more important, which is my family and my faith," Collison wrote Friday. "I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses and my faith means everything to me. I receive so much joy from volunteering to help others and participate in a worldwide ministry. The joy I feel is unmatched. With that being said, I have decided to retire from the NBA."
The 31-year-old, who has made $43 million during his NBA career, was on target to secure a $10-12 million annual salary in free agency this summer, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. But after long deliberation with agent Bill Duffy, Collison ultimately decided to retire.
Collison averaged 12.5 points and 5.0 assists in 708 games through 10 seasons. The 2010 All-NBA rookie selection played for the New Orleans Hornets, Dallas Mavericks, LA Clippers, Sacramento Kings and Indiana Pacers. He is one of 26 players in NBA history to average at least 10 points and 3.5 assists per game in each of his first 10 seasons.
Darren Collison: 'I have decided to retire from the NBA'
He thanked several former teammates and NBA stars who inspired him during his career.
"I'm also appreciative of that great friendships that I have earned from my teammates, coaches, and front office personnel that I will treasure for a lifetime," Collison wrote. "Players such as Victor Oladipo, Russell Westbrook, DeMarcus Cousins, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Chris Paul, Stephen Curry, Dwyane Wade, and LeBron James that had a major impact on me competing at the highest level. I either have a close relationship with those that I have mentioned or they inspired me to work harder."
Oladipo was among Collison's former teammates to wish him well on social media Friday night.
Thank You General! 🙏🏿🙌🏿 pic.twitter.com/4qwN0D6OqR
— Victor Oladipo (@VicOladipo) June 29, 2019
Collison said in the letter that while he had done his best to help the less fortunate, he will now have the ability to do more in retirement. He plans on spending more time in ministry in his Jehovah's Witnesses faith, which he says has made him a better person.
"Basketball has been my life since I was a child," Collison wrote. "I could never imagine finding anything that brings me more joy than I get from playing the game."
Collison strongly thanked Duffy for his years of service. His biggest expression of gratitude, however, was directed at his wife, Keyosha.
"She has guided our family through everything you could imagine during the many NBA seasons," Collison said. "From the amount of moves that we've made, the day-to-day challenges we faced and all the while dealt with the emotions of an up and down season. She is our strength."
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Here's Some Stupid For Lunch
Centrist Democrats appear ready to battle Elizabeth Warren's camp over economic growth.
Jim Radcliffe via Google Images
Like the shingles, "centrist" Democrats lay dormant in the body until they erupt again and your face feels like it's burning off. They all showed up at the Cafe today for lunch, and there was some whoopin' and hollerin' and triangulatin' going on, I'll tell you. I had to threaten to call the cops to stop them from dancing on the counter like scalded monkeys.
"I have great respect for Sen. Warren - she's a tremendous leader," said Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.), one of the members working on the policy proposal. "My own preference is to create a message without bashing businesses or workers, [the latter of which] happens on the other side." Peters said that, if Democrats are going to win back the House and Senate, "it's going to be through the work of the New Democrat Coalition."
Who in the fk is brother Peters, you say? Glad you asked. Among his other qualities, he's rich as hell. So, it should be pointed out, is Senator Professor Warren. But who is advocating for policies guaranteed to take a little money out of their own fat wallet?
"Democrats ought to avoid the danger of talking about only redistribution and not enough about economic growth," said PPI President and founder Will Marshall, who addressed House Democrats during their Philadelphia retreat in January. "Economic growth is a precondition to reducing inequality. You can't redistribute wealth that you're not generating."
Actually, the great American middle-class was born at a time in which the top tax rate was in the neighborhood of 90 percent, and in which financial institutions were carefully regulated, and when there was a general political consensus that public investment and a thriving middle class were good for everyone. Damn, I liked Ike.
Gabe Horwitz, director of Third Way's economic program, said moderates have been arguing the case for rebranding the Democratic Party around "the middle class and middle-class prosperity." "In the last election, Democrats, as a party, offered a message of fairness. Voters responded, and they responded really negatively," Horwitz said. "Democrats offered fairness, and voters wanted prosperity and growth."
Remind me again. What was the fate of all those Democratic candidates who ran away even from this administration's very modest efforts at moderating income inequality? Nice to see you again, Senator Lundergan Grimes.
When you hear the cries of Democrats who want to be real big 'ho's for that sweet corporate cash, remember that Senator Professor Warren is not proposing anything that wasn't mainstream political thinking as recently as 30 years ago, and that the tender fee-fees of America's oligarchs should be somebody else's problem.
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Books, Articles, Reviews
The Look of Disaster: Comic Books as a Documentary Form
Artwork: Jacques Callot, "La pendaison" (detail), from Les Grandes Misères et Malheurs de la Guerre (1633). From Wikimedia.
Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form
Hillary L. Chute
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $35 (cloth)
If violence is intrinsic to human culture, then the history of human violence is also the history of art. Greek vases from the fifth century BCE illustrate scenes from the Trojan War: blood spewing from the wounded Hector’s chest, a grief-stricken Achilles. Roman texts show images of war machines. The first purely informational literary work was a richly illustrated military how-to guide, Roberto Valturio’s 1472 De Re Militari (The Art of War).
In 1633 the innovative printmaker Jacques Callot published Les Grandes Misères et Malheurs de la Guerre (The Miseries of War), eighteen sequential prints depicting the horrors of what became known as the Thirty Years War: soldiers ransacking a farmhouse, raping its inhabitants as well as burning them alive; two dozen corpses hanging from a vast tree while onlookers chat casually a few yards away; public tortures and executions by burning at the stake.
Francisco de Goya’s Disasters of War print series (published posthumously in 1863) remains one of the most compelling statements against war. Created in response to the 1808 Dos de Mayo uprising in Madrid and the long conflict it spawned between Spain and Napoleonic France, Goya’s terse written comments suggest that he was a witness to some of the scenes: “I saw it.” “One cannot look at this.” “Why?” accompanies a picture of a man being bound and strangled by soldiers. “Barbarians!” editorializes a trussed man being shot point-blank. One of the most horrific images—the remains of mutilated, disarticulated corpses arranged on a tree—earns the sardonic, “A heroic feat! With dead men!” Goya makes viewers complicit in these horrors, unable to look away, despite his injunction.
Pictorial journalism became an increasingly popular form during the nineteenth century, when newspapers and magazines like Harper’s Weekly published the work of battlefield artists who produced on-site drawings of the Civil War. By the twentieth century, photojournalism was commonplace but still had not supplanted documentary illustration. The English artist Bruce Bairnsfather sketched his fellow soldiers in the trenches during World War I. According to the artist, his weekly Fragments from France cartoons in the Bystander showed those at home the “macabre and pathetic predicament of mutilated landscapes, primitive trench life, ceaseless wearing drudgery.”
The first cartoon documentary to be shown in theaters was also the first animation about a wartime catastrophe. Winsor McCay’s twelve-minute The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) relied on eyewitness accounts to create the thousands of hand-drawn cells. McCay’s rendition of “the crime that shocked Humanity” resembled a contemporary newsreel, which in some sense it prefigured. Viewing the film remains a disturbing experience. Black smoke spews from the doomed ship as drowned corpses float in its wake. Hundreds of passengers leap to their deaths in scenes evocative of 9/11. The final, haunting image shows a mother sinking below the surface, helplessly trying to hold her infant above the water that swallows them.
One might think that a genre typically known to depict fantasy might be viewed skeptically as history. Indeed, Bruno Latour has argued that “the more the human hand can be seen as having worked on an image, the weaker is the image’s claim to offer truth.” Yet Hilary Chute argues in her new book, Disaster Drawn, that documentary comics are capable of unflinchingly representing events that verge on the unrepresentable—at times doing so better than media more conventionally associated with documentation, such as photography and film. This is because of what Chute calls their “plenitude,” the way they combine and juxtapose points of view, perspective, characters, chronology, and styles (in both words and images), allowing the viewer to become truly immersed.
Chute’s 2010 study Graphic Women explored autobiographical and sociopolitical narratives by comic book artists such as Marjane Satrapi, creator of Persepolis (2000). Her new book focuses on Art Spiegelman, Keiji Nakazawa, and Joe Sacco, whose best-known, groundbreaking works make readers experience atrocity at ground level: as Spiegelman says of Maus and Auschwitz, “It was a way of forcing myself and others to look at it.” In Disaster Drawn, Chute offers an elegant aesthetic and theoretical argument for how “made-up pictures” allow us to enter into traumatic historical events, “inviting one to look while signaling the difficulty of looking,” making them not only an accurate form of witness, but an ethical one. Chute thus underscores her main tenet: that the form of comics is inextricably tied to a moral response to trauma. This is not advocacy, as Chute writes of Sacco’s work, but the experience of history as “a kind of haunting by the other that does not end.” “Events are continuous,” Sacco writes in Footnotes in Gaza. “But the past and present cannot be so easily disentangled. They are part of a remorseless continuum, a historical blur,” not a liminal state of transition, but an immurement in the past that one is not condemned to repeat, but to confront.
Among the most significant documentary comics is Keiji Nakazawa’s 1972 Ore wa Mita (I Saw It: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima: A Survivor’s True Story). As a six-year-old, Nakazawa witnessed the atomic bombing of Hiroshima: he was shielded and saved from the blast when a concrete wall collapsed on him. His artist father and two of Nakazawa’s siblings were among the seventy thousand killed outright, as his pregnant mother watched. Traumatized, she gave birth that day to an infant who died four months later of malnutrition. Eventually she and her son found refuge with relatives outside the ruined city.
Like his father, the impoverished young Nakazawa was an artist. He drew on the backs of discarded movie posters, sewing the pages into books, and at an early age worked as a sign painter. Enthralled since childhood by the work of Osamu Tezuka, the legendary manga artist and activist best known to Americans as the creator of Astro Boy (which debuted in Japan only six years after the bomb), Nakazawa moved in 1961 to Tokyo to become a cartoonist. He did not disclose his experience of the bombing: after the war, the American occupiers and Japanese government censored mass media in Japan, outlawing mention of the devastation wrought by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the lingering effects of radiation poisoning. Within the resulting culture of silence and denial, survivors were known as hibakusha, “explosion-affected people,” stigmatized not unlike American AIDS sufferers during the height of the epidemic in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Nakazawa found work as a manga artist, and by the early 1960s was publishing generic manga—spy stories, science fiction, samurai adventures—in Boys’ Pictorial magazine. His mother’s 1966 death from radiation sickness shattered him. When he went to retrieve her remains from the crematorium, Nakazawa says: “There were no bones lef in my mother’s ashes, as there normally are after a cremation. Radioactive cesium from the bomb had eaten away at her bones to the point that they disintegrated. The bomb had even deprived me of my mother’s bones.”
In the aftermath of her death, Nakazawa wrote “Pelted by Black Rain,” his first fictional work about Hiroshima and the first Japanese comic about the bomb. It made the rounds of traditional publishers before finally appearing in 1968 in Manga Punch, a men’s magazine, where it was followed by four other atomic bomb–themed manga. In 1970 Nakazawa’s “Suddenly One Day” appeared in Boys’ Jump magazine, considered, like Manga Punch, to be a lowbrow rag. An unprecedented eighty pages long, “Suddenly, One Day” was the fictional account of a second-generation hibakusha whose child dies of leukemia, a result of his parent’s exposure to the bomb. It was many readers’ first encounter with both the facts of the bombings, and the lingering effects of radiation poisoning. The story triggered a huge public response (Nakazawa’s editor wept upon reading the story’s first pencil draft).
After the success of “Black Rain” and “Suddenly, One Day,” Nakazawa’s editor at Boys’ Jump encouraged him to create I Saw It, published as a stand-alone issue in 1972. Its grotesque images of shambling hibakusha and smoldering, melting corpses inevitably call to mind illustrations from horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and George Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. Other scenes evoke the destruction wrought by Godzilla’s “atomic breath.” But Nakazawa transforms these horror tropes into an extraordinary act of witness: “he responds to the most high-tech of high technology, the atomic bomb . . . with the deliberately low-tech, primary practice of hand drawing.” Chute astutely notes that in I Saw It, Nakazawa recognized science fiction “as a genre of reality” that irradiated our world more than seventy years ago.
The first version of what became Art Spiegelman’s masterwork, Maus, appeared as a three-page black-and-white comic, “Maus,” in Justin Green’s anthology Funny Animals (1972). The story was later expanded, serialized in Raw, and finally published in two volumes, an edition that received the 1992 Pulitzer Prize, the first ever awarded to a comic book.
A fan of Harvey Kurtzman’s MAD Magazine, the wellspring of American underground comics, Spiegelman began drawing as a boy. “I was oddly imprinted very early like a baby duck with Mad,” he said during a 2011 conversation with Joe Sacco at the Pacific College of the Northwest. “It was like tree, rock, Mad. Once I realized that comics were made by people, I wanted to be one of them.” At eighteen he started doing freelance work for Topps, where he designed trading cards, most memorably the Wacky Packages series of stickers that sent up name brands, MAD-style—Neveready Batteries, Crust Toothpaste, Ratz Crackers, Jail-O—a huge playground hit for those of us who grew up in the late 1960s (and now highly collectible, if any readers still have theirs). After moving to San Francisco in 1971, he became part of the city’s flourishing underground comics scene and, like Nakazawa, published cartoons in second- or third-tier men’s magazines like Cavalier.
Spiegelman’s Polish immigrant parents, Anja and Vladek, were Holocaust survivors. Like the hibakusha, they did not speak openly of their experiences. The young Spiegelma first learned about the Holocaust from his mother’s “forbidden bookshelf,” which consisted of pamphlets written by survivors, many illustrated with cartoons. The often-crude production values and sometimes comically drawn characters underscored the stark horror of camp chimneys churning smoke and emaciated figures trapped behind barbed wire fences. Most of these booklets were printed after the war. A few were drawn by prisoners in the camps, like Horst Rosenthal’s Mickey au Camp de Gurs (1942), which featured Mickey Mouse imprisoned in the same camp as Rosenthal, who later died in Auschwitz.
After returning to New York, Spiegelman began compiling the massive amount of documentary material—written, visual, and oral—that he used to research and write Maus, including interviews with his father, Vladek. Just as Nakazawa draws on the imagery of pulp horror, Spiegelman deploys comics tropes, such as talking animals, to chilling effect. Maus’s mouse narrator, Mickey (Art Spiegelman’s alter ego), inhabits a world of George Herriman–inspired Nazi cats and Jewish mice. This choice was inspired by Spiegelman’s research, through which he discovered that Nazi propaganda often represented Jews as rats: “Posters of killing the vermin and making them flee were part of the overarching metaphor.”
Spiegelman has said that his work “materializes history.” In Maus, as in I Saw It, the bodies of the dead are revived and revised, by hand, on the page. Like their human counterparts, many are then disembodied again, executed or consumed by camp crematoria. In Maus, as opposed to the earlier three-page, densely crosshatched “Maus,” the reader’s identification with those in the concentration camp is heightened by what Chute calls a “shaggier” drawing style: “the specified features of the animal characters are replaced by a more minimal notational style—a visual system in which the reader cannot ‘take comfort,’ as Spiegelman puts it, that ‘it ain’t you.’” There is no comfort in Maus; it “goes into the camps and stays there at length, re-creating a world meant to be studied and engaged at one’s own pace.”
Maus’s publication was a game changer for comics, the moment when the medium came of age as a documentary form worthy of scholarly study and serious critical attention. With regard to the latter, Spiegelman insisted on no less. In a 1991 letter to the editor of the New York Times, he took the newspaper to task for placing Maus on the fiction bestseller list.
. . . to the extent that ‘fiction’ indicates that a work isn’t factual, I feel a bit queasy. As an author I believe I might have lopped several years off the 13 I devoted to my two-volume project if I could only have taken a novelist’s license while searching for a novelistic structure. . . . I know that by delineating people with animal heads I’ve raised problems of taxonomy for you. Could you consider adding a special ‘nonfiction/mice’ category to your list?
The Times responded:
The publisher of Maus II, Pantheon Books, lists it as ‘history; memoir.’ The Library of Congress also places it in the nonfiction category: ‘1. Spiegelman, Vladek -- Comic books, strips, etc. 2. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Biography. . . . 3. Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography. . . .’ Accordingly, this week we have moved Maus II to the hard-cover nonfiction list, where it is No. 13.
Like Spiegelman, Joe Sacco is the son of immigrant parents, who survived German and Italian airstrikes on Malta during World War II. Born in Malta, Sacco lived in Australia until 1972, when at the age of ten he moved with his family to the United States. He received a bachelor’s in journalism, and although he cites the New Journalism of the 1960s and ’70s as a major influence, he grew disenchanted with a journalistic career after college. He moved to Malta, where he created the country’s first narrative comic, before returning to the United States. He founded an alternative comics journal and did satirical comics work before becoming engrossed in the ongoing Gulf War. This led to Palestine, which was published in nine installments beginning in 1993, received the American Book Award, and was collected as a standalone work in 2001. His later works, Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992–95 (2000), The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo (2003), Footnotes in Gaza (2009), The Great War (2013), and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012, with Chris Hedges) all explore “how history becomes legible as history.”
An on-the-ground journalist, Sacco immerses himself in the lives of those who lived (and are living) through conflicts that have torn their countries and lives apart. His crowded pages, the result of Sacco’s “saturation reporting,” are dense with meticulously drawn, almost photorealistic details. Sacco calls his work “slow journalism.” One can get lost in the pages for hours.
Sacco never loses sight of individual bodies, dead or living. He writes: “You see extremes of humanity in places like Palestine and Bosnia. . . . Mostly what you see is innocent people being crushed beneath the wheels of history.” His work expands the limits of what can be documented. In “A Thousand Words,” a six-page installment of Palestine, Sacco recounts his unsuccessful attempt to photograph Israeli police brutalizing a peaceful protest of Palestinian women and children. He was not standing in the right place to get the shot. “There’s nothing here,” an editor tells him. A camera limits what an artist can capture in ways that drawing does not: Sacco eloquently explains how the comics artist’s ability to place himself anywhere within the frame can surpass even a camera, to capture Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “perfect moment.” “When you draw, you can always capture that moment,” he writes. “You can always have that exact, precise moment when someone’s got the club raised.”
Sacco’s close-up drawings put the reader in a crowd being attacked by Israeli soldiers as the club slams down. Palestine’s final, black frame underscores the brutality of everything we’ve read so far, but also might suggest a tabula rasa for beginning a new story. In the Middle East alone, myriad artists have joined Sacco in creating comics of witness, including Magdy El Shafee’s Metro: A Story of Cairo (2012); Wajdy Mustafa’s Levant Fever: True Stories from Syria’s Underground (2015); and Ari Folman and David Polonsky’s animated film Waltz with Bashir (2008). In a world in which sophisticated photo editing has taught the savvy viewer to approach purportedly documentary photos with due skepticism, pictorial journalism—trustworthy, ironically, for the undisguised nature of its contrivance—might in time achieve nearly equal footing with more conventional documentary forms.
In her introduction to Disaster Drawn, Chute recalls Roland Barthes’s visionary 1970 essay “The Third Meaning,” which analyzes still frames from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1944 film Ivan the Terrible. The essay was also one of the first to describe the ability of comics to “open up the field of meaning through its dual inscription and mobilization of time.”
Barthes notes the two most common ways a viewer responds to a film or series of related images. The first is largely informational: we register the characters, settings, costumes, time frame, and dialogue, and from these construct a narrative that interprets the series of images. The second meaning is symbolic. Whatever information we’ve already absorbed can be deepened, and our perceptions perhaps altered, by an image’s symbolic or metaphorical weight: a clenched fist; a bowed head; teeth bared in a grimace that might be a snarl or smile.
There is a third, subtler hermeneutic Barthes identifies, which he terms the “obtuse meaning.” This meaning derives from the profound pleasure found in a purely visual depiction. Think of the sublime moment in Chris Marker’s 1962 La Jetée—a film consisting solely of black-and-white still frames, except for when we see the motion of a woman’s eyes suddenly opening to gaze into our own. It is the moment that can only be experienced in film or another diegetic art, Barthes states, “namely the photo-novel and the comic-strip. I am convinced that these ‘arts,’ born in the lower depths of high culture . . . present a new signifier.”
In comics as with film, our recognition of the artist’s hand and eye elevates our experience from that of passive viewer to engaged witness, even as we acknowledge the unreality of what we see. As film critic Matt Levine wrote in a blog about Barthes’s essay:
In the fissures and cracks of the filmic image, when we realize that pictures on film are indeed unique in a limitless number of ways, the transfixing real-unreal rift by which cinema operates becomes quite clear. This is what the third meaning is about: realizing that these images are illusions, and becoming simultaneously enraptured by how immersive, striking, and real they are.
It is this real-unreal rift that Sacco explores so memorably in his work: “the past and the present cannot be so easily disentangled,” he says in Footnotes in Gaza. “They are part of a remorseless continuum, a historical blur.” And while photographs that claim historical accuracy can be faked, provoking outrage, we know (and trust) that the artist’s hand and eye have collaborated to create the images we linger over in the work of Sacco, Spiegelman, Nakazawa, and the emerging artists whom they have inspired. They render the unspeakable in a language we can all understand, conjuring voices and histories that might otherwise go unheard.
Originally published on BostonReview.net.
Tagged: Disaster Drawn, Hillary L. Chute, Jacques Callot, Francisco de Goya, Winsor McCay, documentary, art, comics, graphic novels, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, Joe Sacco, Roland Barthes
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Council tax frozen in East Cambridgeshire for sixth year
Clare Butler
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PUBLISHED: 10:42 22 February 2019 | UPDATED: 12:08 01 March 2019
Council tax has been frozen in East Cambridgeshire for the sixth year running. Cllr Anna Bailey praised the council. Picture: ARCHANT.
Council tax has been frozen in East Cambridgeshire for the sixth year running.
Councillors voted in favour of the freeze at a meeting of the full council last night (February 21), meaning rates will remain at £142 for an average Band D home.
The council has also benefited to the tune of £1,317,939 thanks to being part of the Cambridgeshire Business Rate Deal, which was in place for three years up until March 2018.
Councillor Anna Bailey praised the council, saying it was “unrecognisable” from the one she joined in 2007.
She said: “Back in 2014 this council was in a very different place, we took difficult decisions about changes to the staffing structure and reductions in the number of councillors.
“We were told, by the opposition, that chaos would ensue, that the work of the Council would suffer, that things would grind to a halt, and that nothing would get done.
“How very wrong that was.
“Thank you John, and to all the staff at the council, for stepping up, putting forward your ideas, and embracing the opportunities.
“This has become a demanding, but exciting Council to be involved with.”
Cllr Bailey continued: “Our zero percent council tax rise, which in this budget, will have continued for six years, our low management costs - the lowest of all district councils in Cambridgeshire by a large margin.
“Our record of delivery is all things of which we can be proud. We are the smallest of the five second tier authorities in Cambridgeshire but I know we are an authority that others look to.”
The savings come despite a drop in government funding – compared to a £659,999 provisional revenue support grant for 2017/18, the council will receive just £11,576 in 2019/20.
The freeze also follows the recent decision of Cambridgeshire County Council to increase council tax by five per cent, of which two per cent is ringfenced for adult social care.
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Childhood Obesity Worst In Southeastern States, Best in West
By Denise Reynolds RD G+ May 5 2010 - 8:32pm
Most studies have shown that the Southeast has some of the highest rates in the United States for adult obesity, and new research from the US Health Resources and Services Administration shows that the same holds true for childhood obesity.
Dr. Gopal K. Singh and colleagues used data from the National Survey of Children’s Health to compare state-by-state changes in rates of overweight and obesity in children ages 10 to 17 between 2003 and 2007. Obesity was defined as a body mass index (BMI) in the 95th percentile or above.
Oregon had the fewest obese kids in the nation at 10% and it was the only state to show significant declines in overall overweight and obesity rates. The authors suggest several reasons for Oregon’s improvement, including a high rate of breast feeding, laws that set nutrition standards in schools, and chain restaurants that provide nutritional information on request.
Mississippi had the highest number of overweight and obese children, with 45 percent overweight in 2007, a jump from 37% in 2003 and obesity climbing from 18 to 22% in the same time period. Other states with high obesity rates included Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Georgia, Illinois and Kansas.
Overweight and obesity rose more significantly in girls than boys. The state of Texas had the highest percent of overweight girls – 20% of children. Wyoming had the lowest at 6%.
The states with the biggest childhood obesity problems were also the states where the kids spent more time watching TV and less time being physically active. Other environmental factors, such as ease of access to parks and playgrounds and the availability of sidewalks and walking paths, accounted for about 40% of the state-by-state differences.
"During the past 3 decades, there has been a dramatic increase in childhood obesity in the United States," writes Dr. Singh. "The rate has more than tripled, and the current prevalence remains high among children across most age, sex, racial/ethnic, and socioeconomic groups."
The authors suggest several policy initiatives that might help states reduce childhood overweight and obesity rates.
• Providing increased opportunities for physical activity by improving the existing trail/path system, sidewalks, and creating bike trails, playgrounds, and recreational facilities
• Increasing access to healthy foods in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods by encouraging the development of grocery stores and farmers' markets
• Launching educational or media campaigns that encourage parents to limit adolescents' television viewing and other recreation screen time
• Enhancing programmatic resources for surveillance, monitoring and prevention intervention research on obesity
The next National Survey of Children’s Health will be done in 2011. Singh hopes that the survey will show a stabilization of the trend. “Hopefully we have seen the worst,” he said.
SOURCE Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, online May 3, 2010
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US Labels Israeli Settler Violence As Terrorism For First Time
August 20, 2012 Maan 0 Comments
By Maan
In its annual report on terrorism around the world, the US State Department has defined violence by Israeli settlers towards Palestinians as terrorism for the first time, Israeli media reported on Saturday.
The 2011 US Country Report cites three suspected “price tag” incidents: vandalism of Jerusalem’s Mamilla cemetery, and arson attacks on a Jerusalem and West Bank mosque, Israeli daily Haaretz said.
The report noted that ten other attacks on Palestinian mosques are believed by Israeli authorities to have been “perpetrated by settlers, up from six such incidents in 2010 and one in 2009.”
Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: Central Israel next to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Price tag refers to the retribution settlers say they will exact for any attempt by the Israeli government to curb settlement in the occupied West Bank.
Meanwhile the US State Department spokeswoman condemned “in the strongest possible terms” an assault south of Bethlehem on Thursday which left a family of five seriously injured after Israeli settlers hurled Molotov cocktails at their car.
“We note that the government of Israel has also condemned this heinous attack and pledged to bring the perpetrators to justice. We look to Israeli law enforcement officials to do so expeditiously,” Victoria Nuland said on Friday.
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Faegre Baker Daniels Earns Perfect Score in Corporate Equality Index
For the fifth consecutive year, Faegre Baker Daniels received a perfect score of 100 percent on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
FaegreBD is one of 609 major U.S. businesses to earn top marks and designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality.
“At Faegre Baker Daniels, we strive to foster an environment as diverse and inclusive as the clients we serve and the communities in which we live and work,” said FaegreBD chair and managing partner Tom Froehle. “We are proud of our commitment to diversity and will continue to foster our culture of inclusion through ongoing strategic efforts that afford our professionals the opportunity to grow, succeed and better serve our clients.”
The 2018 CEI rated 1,084 businesses, evaluating LGBT-related policies and practices including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs and public engagement with the LGBT community.
Diversity and inclusion is a core value of FaegreBD. The firm embeds diversity and inclusion throughout its processes, policies, practices, departments and programming. These strategic efforts are overseen by FaegreBD's Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Group and full-time, professional diversity staff. The firm’s LGBT Resource Group contributes to the firm’s diversity and inclusion efforts and serves as a resource to firm leadership regarding LGBT matters.
Learn more about the 2018 Corporate Equality Index, or download a free copy of the report.
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FAMOUS PAINTERS
Biography and Paintings
Fifteenth century Italy was considered the hub of all artistic endeavours. Italy witnessed the rise of many artists to fame as they resurrected the original Roman and Greek works which resulted in Renaissance. One such unprecedented artist of his time was Antonello da Messina. His work came to limelight during Italian Renaissance. He was said to be inspired by Early Netherlandish painting. One interesting fact about Messina’s work is that he was credited for introducing oil-painting to his homeland. Moreover, the northern Italian artists especially from Venice took inspiration from his work which was a rare occurrence, given that he was based in southern Italy which was little behind in its excellence of arts.
Antonello da Messina’s year of birth is not confirmed but historians seem to place his birth somewhere around 1429-1431. His parents were Margherita and Giovanni de Antonio Mazonus. It’s been revealed by a letters from Pietro Summonte, a Neapolitan humanist, that Antonello was the student of Niccolò Colantonio at Naples in 1450. Upon his return to Messina during mid 1450s, influenced by Flemish treatments of the subject, he painted Sibiu Crucifixion. The painting is now being displayed at the Muzeul de Artǎ in Bucharest.
He was immensely inspired by Flemish work, which he received from his mentor Colantonio. Other painters that influenced his work include Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck. He received his first commissioned work in 1457, to paint a banner for the Confraternità di San Michele dei Gerbini. He then setup a studio to create such banners in mass production. Another one of his notable works was Salting Madonna in which he employed standard iconography and Flemish style. During 1460s he produced Abraham Served by the Angels and St. Jerome Penitent. The painting is now in the reserve of Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia.
One of his remarkable works that was reported being lost was Madonna with Child which he painted for Giovanni Mirulla, a Messinese nobleman. He painted his first portrait in the middle of his career. It is modeled after Netherlandish style of portrait full face against a dark background. It was contrast with the medal-style profile pose for individual portraits which was adopted by earlier Italian painters. Art historians are of the opinion that for Antonello believed that individual portrait was an art in its own right.
During the 1470s he painted the Annunciation and the St. Jerome in His Study. The former is now in Syracuse. In 1475 he stayed in Venice for a year. During that time his work took a slightly different direction as his work showed a great detail on the human figure, both in expressive sense and anatomically. This new development was credited to Piero della Francesca and Giovanni Bellini work.
The San Cassiano Altarpiece the Condottiero (Louvre), and the St. Sebastian were among some of his substantially significant works of that time. He also drew inspiration from Venetian painters as his work displayed the sacra conversazione format. He was offered the position of court portrait painter to the Duke of Milan, which he politely declined. The years close to his death are marked by his heightened creativity as he painted the paramount Virgin Annunciate painting which is now a part of Palazzo Abatellis. He died in 1749, leaving some unfinished paintings behind which his son, Jacobello, took upon himself to complete.
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Second Trailer for HBO's 'Andre the Giant' Doc Directed by Jason Hehir
"It's almost like the whole room moved when he walked through the crowd." HBO has debuted the second trailer for the documentary titled Andre the Giant, airing in April. The film profiles the life and career of professional wrestler André Roussimoff, who gained notoriety in the 1980s as "Andre the Giant". This HBO Sports documentary, made by "30 for 30" filmmaker Jason Hehir, is an "ambitious, wide-ranging film" that explores Andre's upbringing in France, and his celebrated wrestling career in the WWE. We posted the first trailer for this in January, and it looks like a must-see main event for sports fans, especially wrestling fans. He was in The Princess Bride, and the film has interviews with Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal, and Robin Wright. Born in 1946 in France, André was diagnosed with acromegaly in his twenties, and he passed away in 1993.
Here's the second official trailer for Jason Hehir's documentary Andre the Giant, from HBO's YouTube:
You can still watch the first trailer for HBO's doc Andre the Giant here, to see even more footage from this.
"Andre the Giant" was literally the biggest celebrity in the world. HBO Sports, the WWE, and the Bill Simmons Media Group present Andre The Giant, a documentary examining the life and career of one of the most beloved legends in WWE history. The ambitious, wide-ranging film explores Andre's upbringing in France, his celebrated WWE career and his forays into the entertainment world. Andre Rene Roussimoff was born in 1946 in Grenoble, France. In his early teens, he exhibited signs of gigantism though he was not diagnosed with acromegaly until his twenties. He began his training in Paris at 17 and eventually became known in wrestling circuits around the world. In 1973, Andre joined the organization now known as World Wrestling Entertainment, where he became a superstar and rival of WWE legend Hulk Hogan… Andre the Giant is directed by filmmaker Jason Hehir, director of 4 episodes of ESPN's "30 for 30" previously. HBO will debut Andre the Giant starting April 10th this spring. Who wants to watch?
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Trustees OK Ken Janke Sr. Golf Learning Center; Recognize Athletics Success
Ferris State University’s Board of Trustees approved the administration’s request to proceed with final design, planning and related tasks for its future Ken Janke Sr. Golf Learning Center at Katke Golf Course during its regular meeting on Friday, Dec. 15 in Big Rapids. The board also offered special recognition to the football and volleyball teams for their outstanding fall athletics season.
The trustees’ approval of the $3.5 million Ken Janke Sr. Golf Learning Center allows golf-management students, as well as the public, to benefit from state-of-the-art technology hosted in a professional setting as part of their golf-related instruction. In 2013, to further maximize this investment, the university reached an agreement, with the Michigan Golf Foundation, that has relocated the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame to Katke Golf Course. The vision for the new facility is to include indoor/outdoor hitting bays, a large indoor putting green, dedicated area to feature the historic artifacts of the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame and associated support spaces. Construction is expected to begin in the spring of 2018, and is expected to be completed by late 2018 or early 2019.
The trustees, and Ferris President David Eisler, presented citations of merit to the Bulldog volleyball and football teams in recognition of great team and individual performances during the fall.
Under the direction of head coach Tia Brandel-Wilhelm, the volleyball team won its fourth-straight Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament championships, in 2017. It is the first time in GLIAC history a team has won the volleyball regular-season title and the tournament title for four consecutive seasons. The seniors, the last four seasons, have amassed a record of 111-23 overall and 63-6 in the GLIAC. The trustees recognized several volleyball student-athletes, including sophomore outside hitter Allyson Cappel and senior middle hitter Ayanna Buckley, as American Volleyball Coaches Association Division II Honorable Mention All-Americans. Additionally, Cappel was named the GLIAC Player of the Year and GLIAC Attacker of the Year.
The football team, under the leadership of head coach Tony Annese, finished its 2017 campaign with a record of 11-2 overall and 8-1 in the GLIAC. The Bulldogs advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II playoffs. Additionally, the 2017 season marked the fourth-consecutive year the football team has won at least 11 games – a first in program history. The team’s overall record, the last four seasons, is 45-7. Among student-athletes cited were a pair of American Football Coaches Association Division II All-Americans: junior defensive end Zach Sieler and senior cornerback Tavierre Thomas. Sieler was named GLIAC Defensive Lineman of the Year while Thomas was named GLIAC Defensive Back of the Year, in 2017.
In other Friday action, the trustees approved:
two new appointments to the boards of directors of FSU-authorized charter school academies;
reauthorizations of Battle Creek Montessori Academy, in Springfield; Connor Creek Academy West, in Roseville; and Michigan Connections Academy, in Okemos;
closure of the Associate in Arts, Pre-Social Work degree, in Spring 2018. A new degree program, Associate in Arts, Social Work, was recently developed to replace the AA, Pre-Social Work and allow for a smoother transition for students who continue to the Bachelor of Science, Social Work; and
entering into a contract with TimeClock Plus to replace the university’s existing timekeeping system.
The trustees are chair Paul E. Boyer, of Ada; vice chair Lori A. Gwizdala, of Bay City; secretary Ana L. Ramirez-Saenz, of Grand Rapids; immediate past chair Gary L. Granger, of Byron Center; Robert J. Hegbloom, of Clarkston; Amna P. Seibold, of East Grand Rapids; Rupesh K. Srivastava, of Wixom; and LaShanda R. Thomas, of Grosse Pointe.
The next regular meeting of the Board is Friday, Feb. 16, in Big Rapids. Committee meetings begin at 10 a.m. followed by the 11 a.m. full board meeting.
PICTURED: Shown here is a artist rendering of what Ferris State University's future Ken Janke Sr. Golf Learning Center will look like, located at Katke Golf Course. Trustees approved the $3.5 million facility that wil allow golf-management students, as well as the public, to benefit from state-of-the-art technology hosted in a professional setting as part of their golf-related instruction. The facility will also serve as home to the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame.
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Likely race for president: Mohan Bhagwat vs Mulayam Singh Yadav
If Mohan Bhagwat’s name is approved, it will open up the possibility of one Brahmin succeeding another at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Meanwhile, the search is on for an Adivasi face for the vice-presidential canddiate. Kariya Munda, the BJP MP from Khunti in Jharkhand, is the frontrunner
By Nawal Kishore Kumar नवल किशोर कुमार On June 13, 2017 No Comments इस लेख को हिंदी में पढ़ें
Once again, political chess is being played for the post of the head of state. The election for the next president will be held on 17 July and the results will be declared on 20 July. The term of the 13th president, Pranab Mukherjee, will end on 24 July while Vice-President Hamid Ansari will complete his term in the end of August. The most important facet of this presidential election is the central role the Dalits and the Backwards are going to play. There are demands within the NDA, the alliance in power at the Centre, for a non-Brahmin president. Similarly, the opposition is also making the moves keeping the Dalits and OBCs in mind.
Jharkhand’s veteran MP, Kariya Munda, could prove to be NDA’s trump card in the race for vice-president
Despite these compulsions, sources tell us that the BJP and its alliance partners are getting ready to announce RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat as the NDA presidential candidate. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah have set up a three-member committee to help take a decision on the matter. However, the three members are from the BJP – Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Union Minister for Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu. The other parties in the NDA remain unrepresented. These three ministers are both loyal members of the Modi-Shah team and hard-core RSS stalwarts.
If Mohan Bhagwat’s name is approved, it will open up the possibility of one Brahmin succeeding another at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Meanwhile, the search is on for an Adivasi face for the vice-presidential candidate. According to sources, Kariya Munda, the BJP MP from Khunti in Jharkhand is the frontrunner. Munda is a former deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha. The BJP’s three-member committee will suggest names on 18 June.
The Left parties have been projecting Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi as a deserving candidate for president
On the other hand, the opposition parties will meet on 14 June. Sources tell us Mulayam Singh Yadav leads the race in the opposition camp. In any case, Sonia Gandhi has already started working on bringing all the opposition parties together on a common platform for the presidential election in July. As the talk of the imminent presidential election took centerstage, Sonia Gandhi set up a ten-member sub-group of the opposition parties in early June.
The opposition parties hope to remain united under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi
The sub-group of the opposition parties will officially begin meeting on 14 June and the elections for the president and vice-president will be discussed. Among the members of the sub-group are Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mallikarjun Kharge, Janata Dal-United’s Sharad Yadav, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien, Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party’s Rajya Sabha MP Satish Chandra Mishra, Draviad Munnetra Kazhagam’s R.S. Bharathi and Nationalist Congress Party’s Praful Patel.
Apart from the strength of numbers in this political game, what is going to matter is whether the opposition can stay united. Even now, the Left parties are shouting out Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s name for president while Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar still expects the BJP to announce a candidate who would also be acceptable to the opposition.
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Why Prakash Ambedkar prefers Congress to BJP
Prakash Ambedkar, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar’s grandson and president of Republican Party of India Bahujan Mahasangh, was in Patna to participate in the ‘Save the Constitution, Save the Country’ rally. Here are excerpts from his conversation with senior journalist Anil Gupta
कांग्रेस को इस कारण भाजपा से बेहतर मानते हैं प्रकाश आंबेडकर
भारतरत्न बाबासाहब भीमराव आंबेडकर के पौत्र और रिपब्लिकन पार्टी ऑफ इन्डिया बहुजन महासंघ के नेता पूर्व सांसद प्रकाश आंबेडकर बीते रविवार को बिहार की राजधानी पटना के गांधी मैदान में आयोजित ‘संविधान बचाओ, देश बचाओ’ रैली में शामिल होने के लिए शनिवार को पटना पहुंचे। उनसे फारवर्ड प्रेस के प्रतिनिधि अनिल गुप्त ने लंबी बातचीत की। पढ़ें इस बातचीत के संपादित अंश
SP-BSP alliance against Manuwad and for Manavwad?
Given its recent successes in the recent UP by-polls, the alliance has political potential as long as it adheres to the broader agenda of social justice laid out by Dalitbahujan icons Phule, Ambedkar and Periyar, write Sanjay Kumar and Badre Alam
मनुवाद के खिलाफ एसपी-बीएसपी गठबंधन?
उत्तर प्रदेश में हाल ही में हुए उपचुनावों में दलित-ओबीसी शक्ति को मिली जबरदस्त सफलता बहुत मायने रखती है। इस जीत को देखते हुए यह गठबंधन राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर राजनीतिक दावेदार बन कर उभरा है, साथ ही इससे सामाजिक न्याय के व्यापक एजेंडे का आधार तैयार होने का भरोसा मिला है। ऐसा भरोसा जिसकी नींव बहुजनों के जागरण के प्रतीक पुरुषों ने रखी थी। एक पड़ताल
BJP’s manifesto steers clear of terms ‘Dalit’, ‘Adivasi’ and ‘OBC’
The party’s justification for only a passing reference to these categories is that it does not want to spread casteism. But is there more to it than meets the eye?
घोषणा पत्र : अबकी बार पिछड़े-दलितों का नाम लेने से भाजपा ने रखा परहेज
भाजपा का कहना है कि पार्टी देश में जातिवाद नहीं फैलाना चाहती है, इसलिए उसने घोषणापत्र में दलित-पिछडे-आदिवासियों का उल्लेख कम से कम किया है। क्या उसकी यह दलील सच्ची है?
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Home Insights RESPA Class Action Case Cannot Survive Scrutiny under Spokeo or Menominee
RESPA Class Action Case Cannot Survive Scrutiny under Spokeo or Menominee
07 January 2019 Consumer Class Defense Counsel Blog
Authors: Michael D. Leffel
On December 7, 2018, a federal court in Maryland issued an important ruling in a Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (“RESPA”) case[1] (“Baehr”), granting a defense motion for summary judgment. The court dismissed the action entirely for lack of Article III standing and because the plaintiffs could not equitably toll RESPA’s statute of limitations. Foley partners and long-time blog contributors Jay Varon and Jennifer Keas served as lead counsel for the defense. This is a noteworthy development for RESPA cases and consumer class actions generally, as the court interpreted and relied on standards set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins[2] and Menominee Indian Tribe v. United States.[3] .
The Baehr RESPA and Equitable Tolling Claims
The Baehr case was filed in March 2013 as a single-count class action complaint under RESPA Section 8(a),[4] alleging an improper sham to disguise kickbacks paid for referrals. The complaint challenged a marketing services agreement (“MSA”) entered into between a now-shuttered Maryland settlement and title company (“Lakeview Title”) and one of the top real estate agent teams in the country. The complaint’s operative theory was that the MSA was used to disguise kickbacks paid to the real estate team by Lakeview Title for title/closing referrals.[5] The named plaintiffs—two former real estate customers who jointly purchased a home and then signed on to the lawsuit over four years later, after responding to an attorney solicitation—sued the professional corporation for the real estate agent team, Lakeview Title, certain of their respective principals, and the broker of record for the agent team.[6]
The Alleged Injury
The complaint did not allege any inferior services or pricing by the defendants as a result of the claimed conduct, and when the named plaintiffs were deposed, they conceded that they had been satisfied from the time of their July 2008 closing until they received a letter from an attorney in March 2013 indicating that the attorney was investigating a possible claim based on illegal kickbacks that could entitle the Baehrs or other similarly situated consumers to a financial recovery under RESPA.[7] Shortly thereafter, the Baehrs brought suit, but the only injury they alleged was that they had been “deprived of impartial and fair competition” between settlement service providers.[8]
Equitable Tolling Allegations
Because the complaint was filed long after RESPA’s one-year statute of limitations had run, the plaintiffs also claimed entitlement to equitable tolling, alleging that, despite the exercise of due diligence, they could not have discovered their claim on a timely basis because the defendants fraudulently concealed the kickbacks by creating a sham MSA.[9] The equitable tolling allegations survived a motion to dismiss and were subjected to discovery.[10]
The Baehr Summary Judgment Proceeding
Article III Constitutional Standing
Discovery confirmed that the plaintiffs had not been harmed in terms of services or pricing, or any other concrete way. Mr. Baehr testified that he believed that Lakeview Title deserved to be compensated for the services it provided, which were good and fairly priced, and it was undisputed that both he and his wife had known all along that they had the right to choose their own settlement and title company, yet elected to proceed with Lakeview Title.[11]
The court also rejected plaintiffs’ argument that standing exists because they were denied impartial and fair competition between settlement service providers. In analyzing this issue, the court acknowledged a reference to impartiality in the RESPA legislative history, but correctly noted that this had occurred in the context of so-called “controlled” or “affiliated” business arrangements. Those provisions were not at issue in Baehr since no such arrangement existed between the agent team and Lakeview Title.[12] This result is consistent with the statute itself. RESPA Section 8 does not address fair or impartial competition; indeed, it does not even mandate impartial referrals. There are no restrictions on real estate agents or other referring parties sending business to friends, co-workers, co-members of a fraternal, religious, or other organization, or anyone else to whom the referring party wants to send business, other than certain limitations applicable to the specific affiliated business arrangement context. The claimed deprivation of something that the statute never guaranteed raises significant redressability issues and further underscores the lack of Article III standing.
Accordingly—relying on established law that “Congress cannot erase Article III’s standing requirements by statutorily granting the right to sue to a plaintiff who would not otherwise have standing” and citing Spokeo—the court in Baehr held that there was no genuine dispute of material fact that the plaintiffs asserted only “a bare procedural violation, divorced from any concrete harm,” which did not satisfy the injury-in-fact requirement of Article III.[13]
Equitable Tolling
Alternatively, the court held that even if the Baehrs did have standing, their claim would be barred by the RESPA statute of limitations and equitable tolling did not apply.[14] The court emphasized that, under Menominee Indian Tribe v. United States, a claim of equitable tolling requires a showing of two distinct elements: (1) the plaintiffs’ diligent pursuit of their rights; and (2) some extraordinary circumstance that stood in plaintiffs’ way and prevented a timely filing.[15] Accordingly, “an insufficient showing of either diligence or extraordinary circumstances is fatal to a claim for equitable tolling.”[16]
The summary judgment record warred with the Baehrs’ allegations of due diligence and fraudulent concealment. Mr. Baehr conceded in his deposition that the defendants had not done anything to affirmatively prevent him from discovering his RESPA claim or otherwise conceal his RESPA claim and that he had made no efforts to discover the claim after his 2008 closing.[17] Likewise, while the Baehrs alleged that the MSA was a sham used to disguise and conceal the claimed referral fees, it was undisputed that they did not know or inquire about it.[18]
Noting the short one-year limitation period from the occurrence of the violation that Congress had prescribed for private RESPA Section 8 claims, as well as the plaintiffs’ concessions, the court found that they could not establish equitable tolling.[19] In particular, the court was struck by the incongruity between the Baehrs’ claimed sensitivity to impartial and fair competition and their complete failure to shop around or even inquire about their service provider options, even as they had awareness that Lakeview was being advertised by the real estate team and claimed to have been told by their individual real estate agent that “we do all our settlements at Lakeview.”[20]
Significance of the Baehr Decision
The Article III aspect of the Baehr decision comes nearly full circle with Edwards v. First American, a RESPA class case that presented this kind of standing concern to the Supreme Court, only for the high court to declare, after oral argument, that it had granted certiorari improvidently.[21] Subsequently, however, the Supreme Court’s Spokeo decision lent credence to the view that RESPA Section 8 cases should not be viewed as conferring Article III standing automatically on the basis of Congress’s decision to provide a private right of action for damages, given that the Supreme Court in Spokeo expressly criticized the Ninth Circuit for having mistakenly relied on its own Edwards reasoning in concluding that Robins had Article III standing.[22]
The equitable tolling analysis in Baehr is also significant because it emphasizes that due diligence is an independent element to toll the statute of limitations. Additionally, the court in Baehr was appropriately concerned—as other courts have also worried[23]—about whether a consumer who waits for a lawyer’s solicitation before deciding to investigate a potential claim constitutes the “rare instance” where it would be inequitable to enforce a deliberately short statute of limitations.[24]
It is not uncommon for class action complaints brought under RESPA and other consumer finance statutes to present such constitutional standing or timeliness issues. In Baehr, the allegations that had allowed the plaintiffs’ pleadings to survive dismissal were not borne out by the evidence adduced during discovery. Given the potentially extortionate effect that litigation costs in a consumer class action can have on defendants (but not plaintiffs, who are usually subjected to minimal discovery burdens), courts and litigants should give careful consideration to using phased discovery, where appropriate, to address critical threshold issues, such as a plaintiff’s claim of constitutional injury or entitlement to equitable tolling, before proceeding to full merits discovery.
[1] Baehr v. Creig Northrop Team, P.C., No. RDB-13-0933, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 206721, 2018 WL 6434502 (Dec. 7, 2018).
[2] 136 S. Ct. 1540 (2016).
[3] 136 S. Ct. 750 (2016).
[4] 12 U.S.C. § 2607(a).
[5] See 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 206721, at *3-4.
[6] See id. at *12-13. The brokerage firm was subsequently dismissed from the case, along with one of the individual defendants. See id. at *16.
[7] See id. at *11-12.
[11] Id. at *26-27.
[12] See id. at *24.
[13] See id. at *20-21 and *29 (citing Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811, 820, 117 S. Ct. 2312 (1997) and Spokeo, 136 S. Ct. at 1549).
[15] Id. at *30.
[18] See id. at *37-38.
[21] First American Financial Corp. v. Edwards, 564 U. S. 1018, 131 S. Ct. 3022 (2011) (granting certiorari), cert. dism’d as improvidently granted, 132 S. Ct. 2536 (2012) (per curiam).
[22] See Spokeo, 136 S. Ct. at 1546 n.5 (citing Edwards as authority upon which the Ninth Circuit had mistakenly relied below, in Robins v. Spokeo, Inc., 742 F.3d 409 (9th Cir. Feb. 4, 2014)).
[23] See, e.g., Cunningham v. M&T Bank Corp., 814 F. 3d 156, 164 (3d Cir. 2016) (“[A]ccepting Plaintiffs’ theory in this case—toll indefinitely the limitations period for claims under RESPA until a lawyer can find the right plaintiff to join a lawsuit and notify other putative plaintiffs—would effectively write the statute of limitations out of RESPA.”); see also Bezek v. First Mariner Bank, 293 F. Supp. 3d 528, 536 (D. Md. Feb. 2, 2018) (questioning the circumstances under which plaintiffs who themselves have failed to act diligently may have diligence imputed through the actions of their counsel).
[24] See Baehr, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 206721, at *38-39.
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Princess Anne in town to launch £5m robot
A robot caused a royal fuss when a princess came to turn on the state-of-the-art machine at an agricultural research site.
Princess Anne showed up at Syngenta’s site in Jealott’s Hill, Warfield, to launch the firm’s new formulation robot yesterday.
The Princess Royal started the £5 million robot, which will be used to formulate and test hundreds of crop protection products every day.
Site manager Mike Bushell said: “We are delighted that her Royal Highness agreed to open the new facility.”
Syngenta employs 800 people at Jealott’s Hill – Europe’s biggest agricultural research and development centre.
Princess Anne last visited the plant in 1987 to open the chemistry building.
Mike added: “Everyone on the site is honoured that the Princess has come back.”
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The Economic Recovery is a “Statistical Illusion”: More Misleading Official Employment Figures
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Theme: Global Economy, Poverty & Social Inequality
The payroll jobs report for November from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that the US economy created 203,000 jobs in November. As it takes about 130,000 new jobs each month to keep up with population growth, if the payroll report is correct, then most of the new jobs would have been used up keeping the unemployment rate constant for the growth in the population of working age persons, and about 70,000 of the jobs would have slightly reduced the rate of unemployment. Yet, the unemployment rate (U3) fell from 7.3 to 7.0, which is too much for the job gain. It seems that the numbers and the news reports are not conveying correct information.
As the payroll jobs and unemployment rate reports are released together and are usually covered in the same press report, it is natural to assume that the reports come from the same data. However, the unemployment rate is calculated from the household survey, not from payroll jobs, so there is no statistical relationship between the number of new payroll jobs and the change in the rate of unemployment.
It is doubtful that the differences in the two data sets can be meaningfully resolved. Consider only the definitional differences. The payroll survey counts a person holding two jobs as if it were two employed persons, while the household survey counts a person holding two jobs as one job. Also the two surveys treated furloughed government workers during the shutdown differently. They were unemployed according to the household survey and employed according to the payroll survey.
To delve into the meaning of the numbers produced by the two surveys, keep in mind that payroll jobs can increase simply because the birth-death model used to estimate the numbers of unreported business shutdowns and startups can underestimate the former and overestimate the latter.
The unemployment rate can decline simply because the definition of the work force excludes discouraged workers. Thus, an increase in the number of discouraged workers can lower the measured rate of unemployment.
Before reviewing this, let’s first assume that the story of 203,000 new payroll jobs in November is correct. Where does the BLS say these jobs are? Are these the long-missing New Economy jobs that we were promised in exchange for giving China our well-paid manufacturing jobs and giving India our well-paid professional service jobs?
Unfortunately, no.
According to BLS, the jobs are mainly the same lowly-paid, part-time, nontradable domestic service jobs that I have been reporting for a decade or longer.
BLS reports that 17,000 jobs are in construction. On the surface this looks like some slight pickup in housing, but less than 5,000 of the jobs are in residential and nonresidential construction. The bulk of the claimed jobs are in “specialty trade contractors.” Specialty trade contractors are involved in repairs, alterations, and maintenance, but some of the work pertains to site preparation for new construction.
The BLS also claims 27,000 jobs in manufacturing. What precisely is being manufactured? Apparently, very little. The manufacturing jobs are spread over about 23 categories.
The manufacture of wood products gained 600 jobs. (Keep in mind that we are talking about a population over 300,000,000, and a participating work force of approximately 155,000,000.) Nonmetallic mineral products experienced, according to the BLS, 2,000 new jobs. Machinery gained 300 new jobs. Computer and electronic products gained 500 new jobs. Electrical equipment and appliances gained 600 jobs. Transportation equipment gained 4,900 jobs. Furniture manufacture gained 2,100 jobs (apparently to fill the foreclosed unoccupied houses). Food manufacturing gained 7,800 jobs. Petroleum and coal products gained 1,600 jobs, chemicals gained 2,200 jobs, and plastics and rubber products gained 1,300 jobs.You can review the remaining categories on the BLS site.
Most the rest of the 203,000 jobs–152,000–were in lowly paid domestic nontradable services (nontradable means that the jobs do not produce a service that can be exported), such as retail trade with 22,300 jobs, transportation and warehousing with 30,500 jobs, temporary help services with 16,400 jobs, ambulatory health care services with 26,300 jobs, home health care services with 11,800 jobs, and the old reliable waitresses and bartenders with 17,900 jobs.
This is the jobs profile of the American super economy. It is the profile of India 30 or 40 years ago.
Are even these lowly paid part-time domestic jobs really there? Perhaps not. According to statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com), the government shutdown and reopening, the birth-death model, and concurrent-seasonal-adjustment problems can result in misstated jobs.
The unemployment rate is affected by not counting discouraged workers who cannot find employment. No discouraged unemployed worker and no person forced to work in a part-time job because he cannot find full-time employment is counted in the 7.0 unemployment rate (U3).
To be included in the U3 unemployment rate, an unemployed person has to have looked for a job in the past four weeks. Those who have looked for a job until they are blue in the face and have given up looking are not counted in the U3 rate. In November any unemployed workers, discouraged by the absence of jobs, who ceased to look for employment were dropped from the labor force that U3 considers to be the base for the measure of unemployment. Thus, if unemployed workers move into the discouraged category, the rate of unemployment falls even if not a single person finds a job.
The government has a second unemployment rate, U6, about which little is heard. This rate counts workers who have been discouraged for less than one year. This unemployment rate is 13.2 %, almost double the reported rate.
In other words, the U3 measure of unemployment can decline for two different reasons: the economy can create more employment opportunities or people become discouraged and stop looking for jobs. Discouraged workers move into the U6 category where they are counted as unemployed until they have been discouraged for more than one year when they are no longer officially considered to be part of the labor force. The U6 unemployment rate can rise as short-term discouraged workers are dropped out of the U3 measure and moved into the U6 measure, and the U6 rate can fall when the workers become long-term discouraged and are officially removed from the labor force.
Think about this for a minute. The BLS admits that the US unemployment rate that includes people who have been discouraged about finding a job for less than one year is 13.2%. The official line is that the US economy has been enjoying a recovery since June 2009. How is there a recovery when 13.2% of the population is unemployed?
This question becomes even more pointed when the long-term–more than one year–discouraged workers who cannot find a job are included in the measure of unemployment. The US government does not provide such a measure. However, John Williams (shadowstats.com) does. His estimate produces a 23.2% rate of US unemployment. An increase in the number of long-term discouraged workers is consistent with the drop in the US labor force participation rate from 66% in December 2007 to 63% in November 2013.
There is no such thing as a recovery with 23.2% unemployment.
So, if there is no economic recovery, why are stock and bond prices so high, at all-time records? The answer is simple. The Federal Reserve is printing $1,000 billion new dollars annually and the newly created money is going into the bond and stock markets, driving them to high bubble levels.
So here sits the US economy with substantial unemployment, with massive trade and budget deficits that are taxing the US dollar’s credibility, with the labor force participation rate declining because there are no jobs to be found, and we are enjoying economic recovery with bond and stock prices at historic highs.
If this isn’t enough of a puzzle, consider the official second estimate of third quarter GDP growth. According to this estimate, the US economy expanded at a 3.6% rate in the third quarter; yet official U6 unemployment is 13.2%.
And if you believe the government, there is no inflation either. Yes, I know, your grocery bills go up each month.
Keep in mind that many of the new November payroll jobs could reflect seasonal hiring gearing up for the Christmas sales season. Remember, the payroll survey counts one person with two part-time jobs as two jobs.
Economic recovery requires a growth in real median family income and/or an increase in consumer debt, and, except for a rise in student loan debt, there is no sign of either.
US real median household income has declined from $56,189 in 2007 to $51,371 in 2012, a decline of $4,818 or 8.6%. http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/us/ [1]
US real per capita income has declined from $29,554 in 2007 to $27,319 in 2012, a drop of $2,235 or 7.5%.
How do consumers take on more debt in order to finance their consumption when their real incomes are falling? The growth in consumer credit outstanding is due to student loan growth.
I have not seen the establishment’s explanation of how recovery can occur without growth in real purchasing power either from rising real incomes or rising consumer indebtedness.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 1,277,000 fewer seasonally adjusted payroll jobs in November 2013 than in December 2007.
How it is possible for the economy to have been in recovery since June 2009 (according to the National Bureau of Economic Research) and there are 1,277,000 fewer jobs today than existed six years ago prior to the recession?
How has real Gross Domestic Product recovered when jobs and real consumer incomes have not?
These are among the many questions that go unasked and unanswered.
Statistician John Williams says that the economic recovery is a statistical illusion created by deflating nominal GDP with an understated measure of inflation.
Copyright © Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Global Research, 2013
Articles by: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal, has held numerous university appointments. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Dr. Roberts can be reached at http://paulcraigroberts.org
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THE extension of the Stratford coal mine has been dealt a blow with a review calling into question the project’s economic benefits as well as questioning its impacts to biodiversity and strategies for dealing with noise issues. The Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) Review Report handed down late last month said figures provided by mine proponent Yancoal outlining the economic benefits of the project could not be substantiated and further assessment was required. In its original submission Yancoal claimed the extension of the mine would provide a net production benefit of between $145 and $174 million to the Commonwealth as well as State royalties of $130 million, taxes of $39 million, capital investment of $75 million and indirect output of $340 million per annum into the NSW economy. The company also claimed an increase in the workforce at the site to 250 jobs plus an additional 464 indirect jobs and $29 million in non-market benefits of employment. In the executive summary of its report the PAC said - following a detailed examination of the figures and with the possible exception of capital investment and direct employment at the mine - the Yancoal claims were questionable. The commission concluded that the net production benefit to the Commonwealth was more likely to be about $23 million while royalty payments would amount to no more than $47 million. It also said, without robust evidence to the contrary, jobs generated outside the mine site were likely to be few. The commission said the estimation of benefits and costs were based on modelling techniques that had been severely criticised by the courts, academics, public authorities and a major economic consulting firm. It said the estimates were based on coal prices that were so substantially above current market prices and forward pricing projections that the produced benefit estimates were simply not credible. The commission said the current Stratford operation was already under economic pressure as evidenced by the decline in production to 1.2Mtpa (million tons per annum) of the approved 3.1Mtpa and a decline in direct employment at the mine from 125 to 71 jobs. Yancoal was also warned it would need to address issues surrounding noise and biodiversity impacts if the Stratford extension project was to be approved. The PAC recommended changes to the way mine measures noise and how it reports the actions taken to minimise noise, but concluded that night-time operations should be permitted in the Avon North and Stratford East pits unless compliance monitoring indicated predictions could not be met. The commission was also critical of Yancoal’s mitigation strategies to reduce impacts on biodiversity.
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Stratford mine benefits questioned in planning review
THE extension of the Stratford coal mine has been dealt a blow with a review calling into question the project’s economic benefits as well as questioning its impacts to biodiversity and strategies for dealing with noise issues.
The Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) Review Report handed down late last month said figures provided by mine proponent Yancoal outlining the economic benefits of the project could not be substantiated and further assessment was required.
In its original submission Yancoal claimed the extension of the mine would provide a net production benefit of between $145 and $174 million to the Commonwealth as well as State royalties of $130 million, taxes of $39 million, capital investment of $75 million and indirect output of $340 million per annum into the NSW economy.
The company also claimed an increase in the workforce at the site to 250 jobs plus an additional 464 indirect jobs and $29 million in non-market benefits of employment.
In the executive summary of its report the PAC said - following a detailed examination of the figures and with the possible exception of capital investment and direct employment at the mine - the Yancoal claims were questionable.
The Planning Assessment Commission has queried aspects of Yancoal’s plan to expand the Stratford coal mine.
The commission concluded that the net production benefit to the Commonwealth was more likely to be about $23 million while royalty payments would amount to no more than $47 million.
It also said, without robust evidence to the contrary, jobs generated outside the mine site were likely to be few.
The commission said the estimation of benefits and costs were based on modelling techniques that had been severely criticised by the courts, academics, public authorities and a major economic consulting firm.
It said the estimates were based on coal prices that were so substantially above current market prices and forward pricing projections that the produced benefit estimates were simply not credible.
The commission said the current Stratford operation was already under economic pressure as evidenced by the decline in production to 1.2Mtpa (million tons per annum) of the approved 3.1Mtpa and a decline in direct employment at the mine from 125 to 71 jobs.
Yancoal was also warned it would need to address issues surrounding noise and biodiversity impacts if the Stratford extension project was to be approved.
The PAC recommended changes to the way mine measures noise and how it reports the actions taken to minimise noise, but concluded that night-time operations should be permitted in the Avon North and Stratford East pits unless compliance monitoring indicated predictions could not be met.
The commission was also critical of Yancoal’s mitigation strategies to reduce impacts on biodiversity.
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2019 Wrestling Team Duals Information PDF
Final 2018-19 Stats
Record Book Through 2018-19
Ashland Set For “Mini Midseason National Tournament”
LINK – ASHLAND UNIVERSITY WRESTLING PAGE
Ashland University will compete at the two-day Midwest Classic in Indianapolis, Ind. on Saturday (Dec. 17) and Sunday (Dec. 18), five days after staying put at No. 11 in the first regular-season Division II Wrestling Coaches Association national poll.
Eagles redshirt senior Michael Labry (No. 1 nationally at 133 pounds) will try to do something at the tournament that AU assistant coach Tony Guerra could not, win his fourth straight Midwest Classic title.
Guerra, a two-time NCAA D-II national champion (2007-08) at the University of Findlay, won the Midwest Classic as a freshman (149 pounds), sophomore (149) and junior (157), but he failed to do so as a senior (157), losing two of three matches.
"Every year," Guerra said, "it's a tough competition. Some of the best Division II schools are there. If you don't go into it with the right mental focus, things aren't always going to turn out your way."
Labry's record is 16-1 this season, with eight of his wins coming against D-I competition. He earned first-place at the Ohio Intercollegiates on Nov. 13 and at the Findlay Open on Nov. 19.
"We're hoping for Labry to go out there and compete hard," Guerra said. "If he's able to win it four times, that would be a great accomplishment. If anyone deserves it, it's him. He's put in work, he's had the results, and I'm hoping for the best."
Labry's situation is one of many that the Ashland coaching staff is focusing on this weekend.
Sophomore Colton Ullman (157) has far exceeded expectations at this point, earning a No. 7 national ranking in Monday's poll after being left out of the preseason regional rankings. Ullman placed first at the Findlay Open on Nov. 19, defeating a highly-ranked wrestler from Tiffin in the process.
"I think Colton's breakthrough tournament made him noteworthy of the ranking at this point," Guerra said. "I don't think he's been through this level of competition just yet, and I think this will be a good test for him to see if all the hard work he's put in pays off."
Guerra said the competition at this year's Midwest Classic is the toughest he's ever seen. He said he and AU head coach Josh Hutchens determined that almost every weight class features four or five of the top 10 guys ranked in the country.
"In my mind," Guerra said, "I'm looking at it as a mini midseason national tournament."
If that's the case, redshirt junior Jordan Murphy (184) is returning to the lineup just in time, as the Midwest Classic will be his first competition of the 2016-17 season.
"It will be a good gage for him," Guerra said. "I think he has one of the tougher weight classes in the whole tournament, but Jordan's a competitor. I think he's going to go out there and compete, and I think he should fare well."
Rounding out the nationally-ranked Ashland wrestlers competing this weekend are redshirt senior Brent Fickel (No. 1 at 149) and redshirt junior Luke Cramer (No. 12 at 197).
"In my opinion," Guerra said, "(Kramer) is better than 12th. Hopefully, he goes out and shows the rest of the country that he's better than that."
WR/KK
Fri, 02/08 | Wrestling Ashland at Lake Erie College 28 - 13 (Final) RC | R
Sat, 01/26 | Wrestling Findlay vs. Ashland 16 - 25 (Final) RC | R | PH
Wed, 01/23 | Wrestling Urbana vs. Ashland 0 - 45 (Final) RC | R
Sat, 01/12 | Wrestling Notre Dame College vs. Ashland 30 - 9 (Final) RC | R | PH
Tue, 01/08 | Wrestling Ashland at Mount Union 28 - 12 (Final) RC | R | R
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Business Spotlight: Local Catering Expert Opens Reid’s Cafe in Sugar Mountain
Published Friday, October 16, 2015 at 11:20 am
Looking for a local restaurant to call your favorite? There’s a new café in town that’s ready to take you in!
After 17 years of service to the High Country, the folks behind Reid’s Catering Co. in Banner Elk bring you Reid’s Café, which boasts a beautiful new space, a great wine list and an ever-changing menu that features all of your traditional homemade favorites.
Pictured is the storefront of Reid’s Cafe and Catering, located at 4004 N.C. Highway 105 S. Suite 8 in Sugar Mountain. Photo by Ken Ketchie.
Owner Tina Houston has been serving up great service and even better food at events throughout the High Country for nearly two decades now. It’s an exciting, fast-paced, always-on-the-go career, but she loves every minute of it.
“We have been very fortunate because we get to work with a lot of nonprofits, and we love doing that. Destination weddings in the High Country are a majority of our business,” Houston said. “Basically, we get to go to a party every week for work, so it’s an exciting job. There’s not a lot of downtime in the season, and we’re full tilt right now, for sure.”
While she’s always had her heart set on her catering business, fate seemed to give her the opportunity to open up a restaurant of her own.
“I wanted to build a new commercial kitchen, and the location was super fitting and appropriate to add a café space at the front door,” Houston said. “I had not set out to build a café, but it was just time to put together the kitchen that I wanted and this space was available.”
After leasing the new property, located at 4004 Highway 105 S. Suite 8 in Sugar Mountain, Houston took on the challenge of transforming the space into her dream kitchen, on top of their hectic catering season.
“It took about six months and it was a full-time effort, which was a little tricky being in the middle of the season,” Houston said. “It would have been nice to do it in the winter, but that’s not how it worked out. The timing wasn’t perfect, but something’s you can’t plan.”
The renovation of Houston’s new commercial kitchen offered the perfect opportunity for her to add cafe space to her business. Pictured is Cafe Manager Alexis Ostrowski in the newly renovated space. Photo by Ken Ketchie.
The new space features reclaimed barn wood, white concrete countertops, hand painted lettering, tables from Big Oak Woodworks, vibrant paintings by Jerry Cantwell and colors of the sea, clouds, forest, stone, sky and sunset.
To help operate the café, Houston added some new players to her team. She brought on Chef Alek Schober, who’s career history includes time spent at both The New Public House and The Gamekeeper, two of Blowing Rock’s most popular establishments.
Husband-and-wife duo Ben Jackson and Alexis Ostrowski also joined the team as chef and manager of the café, respectively, both coming from the Wythe Hotel and Diner in Brooklyn, New York.
“My husband and I just moved here from New York City,” Ostrowski said. “We have worked together for over 15 years and Reid’s is the fourth restaurant we’ve worked in together.”
Ostrowski said combing hers and Jackson’s experience with Houston’s and Schober’s creates something truly unique and high quality.
“I think it just makes for a really warm hospitable experience with really fantastic food,” Ostrowski said.
The café officially opened on Sept. 21 and operates from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
So what’s for lunch? Check out the new Reid’s website for daily menu updates or stop by and see for yourself.
The chalkboard menu at Reid’s Cafe features something new and exciting every day. Check it out in person or visit their online menu to see daily updates. Photo by Ken Ketchie.
“We have a chalkboard that we write the menu on every morning that depends on what the chef has available, what’s the freshest and what they’re really excited about,” Ostrowski said. “We take a picture of the menu and post it on the website. We serve pastries, soup, really nice elegant salads, sandwiches and some side dishes. Occasionally, we’ll do a chef’s dinner, but we’re still developing our menu on that.”
A couple of times a week, you can even call in your order for a whole roasted chicken, which comes with two sides for $24, pick it up on your way home and have easy, delectable dinner ready to go.
“We’ve had a good response with our roasted chickens. We season them and basically started to age them so the meat becomes really tender and succulent, then we roast them to order,” Ostrowski said. “You can call in between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and pick it up between 5-6 p.m. It’s perfect for two people with some leftovers, or you could add a few more sides and feed four people.”
While you’re there, shop specialty items from vendors like Counter Culture Coffees, Kermit Lynch Wines, Mazama ceramic wares, Toyo-Sasaki Glassware, Bellocq Tea Atelier, Beehouse Teapots, Diner Journal, Auntie Oti, Pallares-Solsona knifemakers, Gather Journal, J.Q. Dickinson Salt Works and more.
Nestled in between Banner Elk, Linville, Foscoe and the Grandfather communities, Reid’s Café gives you the best in homemade dining from experienced local professionals in an interesting, inviting atmosphere.
Stop by for lunch this week and see for yourself what Reid’s has to offer. The café is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays.
Check out Reid’s Catering Co. online or call 828-268-9600 for more information. To see the daily menu, visit the café’s online menu or follow the team on Facebook.
Tina Houston and her team of professionals are pictured in the new cafe space at Reid’s. Pictured from left are Ben Jackson, Alexis Otrowski, Tina Houston and Alek Schober. Photo by Ken Ketchie.
Check out changing daily specials at Reid’s Cafe! Visit their online menu for updates. Photo by Ken Ketchie.
Cafe Manager Alexis Ostrowski is pictured at work in the new space at Reid’s. Photo by Ken ketchie.
Reid’s Cafe. Photo by Ken Ketchie.
The newly renovated space at Reid’s Cafe. Photo by Ken Ketchie.
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Prince Harry and Charles' busy schedule in Turkey ahead of royal birth
hellomagazine.com Kate Middleton is due to give birth any moment, but Prince Charles and Prince Harry are busy carrying out their own royal duties in Turkey.
It's a busy weekend for the British royal family! Kate Middleton is due to give birth any moment, but Prince Charles and Prince Harry are busy carrying out their own royal duties in Turkey. The duo joined forces in Turkey Friday to kick off two days of engagements honoring the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign.
While Prince William is in London anxiously awaiting the imminent arrival of his second child, his father and brother will meet with the country's president for a banquet, meet descendants of those who took part in the campaign and attend a number of commemoration services.
The father-son duo stepped out together on Thursday evening at the Congress Center in Istanbul for a banquet given by President Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan. Following an address by the politician, the British royals enjoyed a concert masterminded by Turkish composer Can Atilla in the auditorium and a lavish dinner.
Prince Charles told the ceremony that everyone has a "shared duty" to overcome intolerance and fight prejudice "so we can truly say we have honored the sacrifice of all those who have fought and died here on the battlefield at Gallipoli and elsewhere."
That same night Charles and Harry slept on board HMS Bulwark. On Friday, they attended the Commonwealth and Ireland Service at Cape Helles, witnessing the unveiling of a memorial stone before viewing and entering the Helles Memorial itself.
Their Royal Highnesses, who were the service's official hosts, greeted the President of the Republic of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins before both delivering readings. Charles then laid a wreath on behalf of the Queen concluding their trip.
They will both then return to London giving them the chance to meet the royal baby should William and Kate welcome their second child before the weekend. It was confirmed 30-year-old Harry would return to the UK to attend the London Marathon on Sunday as part of his work as Patron of the London Marathon Charitable Trust.
And Prince Charles may have just enough time to meet the royal baby before heading off again. The 66-year-old is due in Scotland from April 28 - 29, where he holds the title of the Duke of Rothesay, to open a new engineering education room and an indoor gymnasium at Dumfries House in Cumnock, Ayreshire.
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Proof Prince Charles and Camilla have the BEST time on royal tour! All the sweet giggling pictures
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The Mayor's Mistaken Attempt to Supersize Buildings
April 25, 2018 | by Andrew Berman
(Credit: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)
Nearly every day it seems, a new record is broken for a tallest new residential structure in our city. Whether it is Downtown Brooklyn’s first 1,000+ foot tall tower, Queens’ tallest tower in Long Island City, or the 1,550 foot tall West 57 Street residential tower that will soon rise higher than the top floor of One World Trade Center, residential building in New York City is reaching new heights.
But for Mayor de Blasio and the real estate industry, even these record-breaking heights are not enough. They are advocating for repealing a 60-year-old state law, which, while capping the size of residential developments in New York City, is still so generous as to allow the unprecedented giants going up now.
If the mayor and the real estate industry have their way, the sky could literally be the limit for residential high-rises in New York City. And not just in Midtown or the Financial District, but residential neighborhoods like the Upper East Side and Upper West Side, Greenwich Village, and various parts of Brooklyn and Queens, where current rules limit new residential development to at or near the cap imposed by state law.
The possibility is more than theoretical. Two years ago proponents of lifting the cap came close to getting the State Legislature to do so. This year the State Senate pushed for the measure to be included in the state budget, but the Assembly ultimately did not go along with it (though the cap removal definitely has its proponents in the Assembly majority). Most observers expect the supporters of lifting the cap to push the measure again before the state legislative session ends in June, possibly as part of the “big ugly” – the annual package of often unrelated and controversial measures passed in the final hours of legislative session, with little public notice or input.
With all the problems facing New York City right now, from dysfunctional subways to crumbling public housing to crippling congestion, why is this an issue the mayor has chosen to take on?
Mayor de Blasio and some of the proponents of lifting the cap claim it’s necessary to build affordable housing. But not because they want affordable housing developments that exceed the current record-breaking heights. Because they want to allow real estate developers to build vastly larger for-profit, luxury housing developments. In return, they will require them to attach a comparatively small amount of affordable housing to the development.
This is a false dichotomy that the real estate industry has promulgated and the mayor has endorsed – that the best and, in many cases, only way to get new affordable housing out of for-profit developers across the city is by supersizing the amount of luxury, market-rate housing they can build, and then attaching these smaller amounts of affordable housing to it.
It’s due to this approach that communities throughout New York City have opposed the mayor’s rezoning plans – both because they would destroy the scale and character of their neighborhoods, and because under the guise of introducing “affordable housing” (which in many cases is unaffordable to the residents of the neighborhood), vastly increased quantities of very expensive housing is built, which more than counteracts any good done by the relatively small amount of affordable housing created.
Take Greenwich Village and the East Village. These increasingly wealthy neighborhoods with decreasing affordable housing have been begging the mayor to support a zoning plan we have proposed that would allow modest increases in the allowable size of developments as a condition for creating or preserving affordable housing. The mayor has adamantly opposed the plan, saying he would only be willing to consider the kind of massive increases in the allowable size of residential development that would bump up against the current state cap, to say nothing of destroying the character of these human-scaled neighborhoods.
Don’t let the mayor or Big Real Estate fool you. The state cap on the size of New York City residential buildings is not limiting anything New Yorkers should be worried about. The only thing it’s limiting is the already astronomical profits of developers, and the ambitions of some politicians to increase them even further.
Andrew Berman is Executive Director of Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. On Twitter @GVSHP.
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U.S. Code Leg. Notes
USC most recently checked for updates: Jul 18, 2019
All TitlesTitle 18Part IIChapter 237
Chapter 235 - APPEAL
Chapter 238 - SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS’ RIGHTS
§ 3771.
Crime victims’ rights
Rights of Crime Victims.—
A crime victim has the following rights:
The right to be reasonably protected from the accused.
The right to reasonable, accurate, and timely notice of any public court proceeding, or any parole proceeding, involving the crime or of any release or escape of the accused.
The right not to be excluded from any such public court proceeding, unless the court, after receiving clear and convincing evidence, determines that testimony by the victim would be materially altered if the victim heard other testimony at that proceeding.
The right to be reasonably heard at any public proceeding in the district court involving release, plea, sentencing, or any parole proceeding.
The reasonable right to confer with the attorney for the Government in the case.
The right to full and timely restitution as provided in law.
The right to proceedings free from unreasonable delay.
The right to be treated with fairness and with respect for the victim’s dignity and privacy.
The right to be informed in a timely manner of any plea bargain or deferred prosecution agreement.
The right to be informed of the rights under this section and the services described in section 503(c) of the Victims’ Rights and Restitution Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 10607(c)) 1
See References in Text note below.
and provided contact information for the Office of the Victims’ Rights Ombudsman of the Department of Justice.
Rights Afforded.—
In general.—
In any court proceeding involving an offense against a crime victim, the court shall ensure that the crime victim is afforded the rights described in subsection (a). Before making a determination described in subsection (a)(3), the court shall make every effort to permit the fullest attendance possible by the victim and shall consider reasonable alternatives to the exclusion of the victim from the criminal proceeding. The reasons for any decision denying relief under this chapter shall be clearly stated on the record.
Habeas corpus proceedings.—
In a Federal habeas corpus proceeding arising out of a State conviction, the court shall ensure that a crime victim is afforded the rights described in paragraphs (3), (4), (7), and (8) of subsection (a).
These rights may be enforced by the crime victim or the crime victim’s lawful representative in the manner described in paragraphs (1) and (3) of subsection (d).
Multiple victims.—
In a case involving multiple victims, subsection (d)(2) shall also apply.
Limitation.—
This paragraph relates to the duties of a court in relation to the rights of a crime victim in Federal habeas corpus proceedings arising out of a State conviction, and does not give rise to any obligation or requirement applicable to personnel of any agency of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
Definition.—
For purposes of this paragraph, the term “crime victim” means the person against whom the State offense is committed or, if that person is killed or incapacitated, that person’s family member or other lawful representative.
Best Efforts To Accord Rights.—
Government.—
Officers and employees of the Department of Justice and other departments and agencies of the United States engaged in the detection, investigation, or prosecution of crime shall make their best efforts to see that crime victims are notified of, and accorded, the rights described in subsection (a).
Advice of attorney.—
The prosecutor shall advise the crime victim that the crime victim can seek the advice of an attorney with respect to the rights described in subsection (a).
Notice of release otherwise required pursuant to this chapter shall not be given if such notice may endanger the safety of any person.
Enforcement and Limitations.—
The crime victim or the crime victim’s lawful representative, and the attorney for the Government may assert the rights described in subsection (a). A person accused of the crime may not obtain any form of relief under this chapter.
Multiple crime victims.—
In a case where the court finds that the number of crime victims makes it impracticable to accord all of the crime victims the rights described in subsection (a), the court shall fashion a reasonable procedure to give effect to this chapter that does not unduly complicate or prolong the proceedings.
Motion for relief and writ of mandamus.—
The rights described in subsection (a) shall be asserted in the district court in which a defendant is being prosecuted for the crime or, if no prosecution is underway, in the district court in the district in which the crime occurred. The district court shall take up and decide any motion asserting a victim’s right forthwith. If the district court denies the relief sought, the movant may petition the court of appeals for a writ of mandamus. The court of appeals may issue the writ on the order of a single judge pursuant to circuit rule or the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. The court of appeals shall take up and decide such application forthwith within 72 hours after the petition has been filed, unless the litigants, with the approval of the court, have stipulated to a different time period for consideration. In deciding such application, the court of appeals shall apply ordinary standards of appellate review. In no event shall proceedings be stayed or subject to a continuance of more than five days for purposes of enforcing this chapter. If the court of appeals denies the relief sought, the reasons for the denial shall be clearly stated on the record in a written opinion.
In any appeal in a criminal case, the Government may assert as error the district court’s denial of any crime victim’s right in the proceeding to which the appeal relates.
Limitation on relief.—
In no case shall a failure to afford a right under this chapter provide grounds for a new trial. A victim may make a motion to re-open a plea or sentence only if—
the victim has asserted the right to be heard before or during the proceeding at issue and such right was denied;
the victim petitions the court of appeals for a writ of mandamus within 14 days; and
in the case of a plea, the accused has not pled to the highest offense charged.
This paragraph does not affect the victim’s right to restitution as provided in title 18, United States Code.
No cause of action.—
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize a cause of action for damages or to create, to enlarge, or to imply any duty or obligation to any victim or other person for the breach of which the United States or any of its officers or employees could be held liable in damages. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair the prosecutorial discretion of the Attorney General or any officer under his direction.
For the purposes of this chapter:
Court of appeals.—
The term “court of appeals” means—
the United States court of appeals for the judicial district in which a defendant is being prosecuted; or
for a prosecution in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Crime victim.—
The term “crime victim” means a person directly and proximately harmed as a result of the commission of a Federal offense or an offense in the District of Columbia.
Minors and certain other victims.—
In the case of a crime victim who is under 18 years of age, incompetent, incapacitated, or deceased, the legal guardians of the crime victim or the representatives of the crime victim’s estate, family members, or any other persons appointed as suitable by the court, may assume the crime victim’s rights under this chapter, but in no event shall the defendant be named as such guardian or representative.
District court; court.—
The terms “district court” and “court” include the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Procedures To Promote Compliance.—
Regulations.—
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this chapter, the Attorney General of the United States shall promulgate regulations to enforce the rights of crime victims and to ensure compliance by responsible officials with the obligations described in law respecting crime victims.
The regulations promulgated under paragraph (1) shall—
designate an administrative authority within the Department of Justice to receive and investigate complaints relating to the provision or violation of the rights of a crime victim;
require a course of training for employees and offices of the Department of Justice that fail to comply with provisions of Federal law pertaining to the treatment of crime victims, and otherwise assist such employees and offices in responding more effectively to the needs of crime victims;
contain disciplinary sanctions, including suspension or termination from employment, for employees of the Department of Justice who willfully or wantonly fail to comply with provisions of Federal law pertaining to the treatment of crime victims; and
provide that the Attorney General, or the designee of the Attorney General, shall be the final arbiter of the complaint, and that there shall be no judicial review of the final decision of the Attorney General by a complainant.
(Added Pub. L. 108–405, title I, § 102(a), Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2261; amended Pub. L. 109–248, title II, § 212, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 616; Pub. L. 111–16, § 3(12), May 7, 2009, 123 Stat. 1608; Pub. L. 114–22, title I, § 113(a), (c)(1), May 29, 2015, 129 Stat. 240, 241.)
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Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran
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Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber Are Not About That Party Life On "I Don't Care"
They last time the pop behemoths collaborated was on Bieber's 'Purpose' track "Love Yourself"
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GRAMMY-winning pop performer Ed Sheeran has teamed back up with fellow GRAMMY winner Justin Bieber on a new song called "I Don't Care"—truly a JOMO anthem for the ages.
"Don't think I fit in at this party," they muse. "Everyone's got so much to say (Yeah)/ I always feel like I'm nobody, mmm/ Who wants to fit in anyway?"
Later, the boys say some more stuff we all think when we're feeling social pressure to be at a shindig. Over a bouncy beat, they expound on the pleasures of staying home with the one you love.
"'Cause I don’t care when I’m with my baby, yeah/All the bad things disappear/And you’re making me feel I like maybe I am somebody,” Sheeran sings, with Bieber’s backing vocals buoying the chorus. “I can deal with the bad nights when I’m with my baby, yeah/’Cause I don’t care/As long as you hold me near/You can take me anywhere/And you’re making me feel like I’m loved by somebody/I can deal with the bad nights when I’m with my baby, yeah."
This is the first time Bieber and Sheeran have teamed up since Sheeran appeared on Bieber’s 2015 Purpose single "Love Yourself." Produced by Max Martin, Shellback and FRED, "I Don't Care" is Sheeran’s first new music since 2017’s Divide.
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Beatles to Jack White: 59 reasons to watch the 59th GRAMMYs
From Beyoncé, Rihanna and Adele to Justin Bieber, Chance The Rapper, Drake, and Kanye West, here are 59 storylines to follow
You've seen the official 59th GRAMMY nominations list, but do you really know the nominees? In case you're not sure, we've dissected the categories to bring you 59 must-know factoids about this year's nominations class. While these facts won't help you predict the winners, they're certain to impress your friends at your GRAMMY viewing party. Read all 59 facts below and be sure to follow your favorite artists on Music's Biggest Night.
1. Beyoncé
Beyoncé received nine GRAMMY nominations this year, more than any other artist. She now has 62 career nominations, extending her lead as the most-nominated female artist in GRAMMY history.
2. Lukas Graham
Lukas Graham's "7 Years" is nominated for Record Of The Year. The Danish group is just the second group or duo from continental Europe to receive a nomination in this category. The first was Daft Punk. The French duo won three years ago for "Get Lucky" (featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers).
3. Rihanna
Rihanna received her third Record Of The Year nomination for "Work" (featuring Drake). All three of these nominations are for collaborations. Rihanna was previously nominated for "Umbrella" (featuring Jay Z) and Eminem's "Love The Way You Lie" (on which she was featured).
Beyoncé landed her fifth Record Of The Year nomination with "Formation." (This counts "Say My Name," which she recorded as a member of Destiny's Child.) This puts her in a tie with Barbra Streisand as the woman with the most career nominations in this category.
5. Adele
Adele's 25 is nominated for Album Of The Year. The singer's previous album, 21, won in this category five years ago. This is the first time an artist's follow-up to an Album Of The Year winner has been nominated in this category since Bob Dylan's Love And Theft (the follow-up to Time Out Of Mind) was a 2001 nominee.
6. Justin Bieber, Drake
Canadians Justin Bieber and Drake are among the nominees for Album Of The Year for Purpose and Views, respectively. Bieber, from London, Ontario, and Drake, from Toronto, are each vying to become the first Canadian solo artist in 20 years to win the category. Celine Dion won for Falling Into You for 1996.
7. Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd
Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd, who were nominated for Album Of The Year last year for their albums To Pimp A Butterfly and Beauty Behind The Madness, respectively, are nominated in the same category this year as featured artists on Beyoncé's Lemonade.
8. Sturgill Simpson
Sturgill Simpson's A Sailor's Guide To Earth is nominated for both Album Of The Year and Best Country Album. Simpson produced his album. It's the first entirely self-produced album to receive an Album Of The Year nomination since 2014, when two such albums — Beck's Morning Phase and Pharrell Williams' Girl — were nominated.
9. "Hello"
"Hello," which Adele co-wrote with Greg Kurstin, is nominated for Song Of The Year. A different song with the same title, by Lionel Richie, was nominated in this category 32 years ago. This marks the first time in GRAMMY history that two different songs with the same title have been nominated in this category.
10. "I Took A Pill In Ibiza"
Mike Posner's "I Took A Pill In Ibiza" is nominated for Song Of The Year. Posner wrote the song. It's vying to become the first song written by a single songwriter to win in this category since Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" (2007).
11. Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran is looking to become the first songwriter in GRAMMY history to win Song Of The Year two years in a row. Sheeran won in this category last year for "Thinking Out Loud" (which he co-wrote with Amy Wadge). He's nominated this year for "Love Yourself" (which he co-wrote with Justin Bieber and Benjamin Levin aka Benny Blanco).
12. Kelsea Ballerini, Maren Morris
Kelsea Ballerini and Maren Morris are both nominated for Best New Artist. This marks the first time in GRAMMY history that two country artists have received nominations in this category in the same year.
13. The Chainsmokers
The Chainsmokers are only the second electronic dance music artist to receive a Best New Artist nomination. Skrillex, a 2011 nominee, was the first.
14. Chance The Rapper
Chance The Rapper is nominated for Best New Artist. The rapper, 23, wasn't even born in 1989 when Tone Loc became the first rap artist to receive a nomination in this category.
15. Anderson .Paak
Anderson .Paak is nominated for both Best New Artist and Best Urban Contemporary Album for Malibu. He is the first artist to be nominated for both of these awards in the same year since Frank Ocean four years ago. (Ocean's Channel Orange won Best Urban Contemporary Album.)
16. Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for the second year in a row. The rock legend is nominated for Fallen Angels. Dylan is the fourth GRAMMY nominee to have won a Nobel Prize. The other three are Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and Toni Morrison.
17. Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson received his third nomination in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category. The country legend is nominated for Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin. Nelson was previously nominated for Moonlight Becomes You (1994) and American Classic (2009).
18. Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand could win her first GRAMMY in 30 years. The star is nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway. Her most recent GRAMMY win was for her first Broadway collection, The Broadway Album, which won for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female (1986).
19. Best Pop Vocal Album
For the first time in 11 years, female solo artists take four of the five nominations for Best Pop Vocal Album. Adele, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, and Sia are nominated alongside Justin Bieber.
20. Herb Alpert
Herb Alpert is among the nominees for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album for Human Nature. (The title track is the John Bettis/Steve Porcaro song made famous by Michael Jackson.) Alpert received his first GRAMMY nominations (and awards) for 1965 for his work with the Tijuana Brass.
21. Jack White
Jack White, who is nominated for three GRAMMYs this year, will be honored for his contributions "behind the glass" at the Producers & Engineers Wing's annual GRAMMY Week celebration on Feb. 8, 2017. White is nominated for Album Of The Year as one of the featured artists and producers on Beyoncé's Lemonade; Best Rock Performance for "Don't Hurt Yourself" with Beyoncé (her first nomination in a Rock Field); and Best American Roots Song for "City Lights."
22. Best Rock Performance
Two of this year's nominees for Best Rock Performance were recorded live on television programs. Alabama Shakes' "Joe" was recorded for the PBS series "Austin City Limits." Disturbed's version of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound Of Silence" was recorded on TBS' "Conan."
23. Megadeth
The title track from Megadeth's album, Dystopia, is among the nominees for Best Metal Performance. This is the band's 12th nomination in this category (including nominations in the discontinued Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category). The band is seeking to win their first GRAMMY.
24. Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop earned his first nomination since 1988: Best Alternative Music Album for Post Pop Depression. In 2016 Pop appeared at the GRAMMY Museum at L.A. Live for a wide-ranging talk with Josh Homme as part of the Museum’s A Conversation With series.
25. Radiohead
Radiohead are vying to become the first four-time winner for Best Alternative Music Album. The band is nominated for A Moon Shaped Pool. Radiohead won in this category for OK Computer (1997), Kid A (2000) and In Rainbows (2008). Radiohead are currently tied with the White Stripes as the only three-time winners in the category.
26. Solange
Solange's "Cranes In The Sky" is nominated for Best R&B Performance, marking her first career nomination. Solange's older sister, Beyoncé, has won nine of her 20 GRAMMYs to date in R&B performance categories.
27. Rihanna
Rihanna is vying to become the first repeat winner in the Best Urban Contemporary Album category (which dates to 2012). Her album Anti is nominated this year. Unapologetic won three years ago.
28. Jay Z, Kanye West
The Throne aka Jay Z and Kanye West are nominated for Best Rap Performance with Drake for "Pop Style." If they win, it would be their eighth collaboration to score a GRAMMY. Their previous wins together are "Swagga Like Us," "Run This Town" (which won two GRAMMYs), "Otis," "N****s In Paris" (which won two GRAMMYs), and "Church In The Wild."
29. Drake
Drake's "Hotline Bling" is nominated for Best Rap/Sung Performance. The category was formerly known as Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. The change was made to expand the category beyond collaborations between rappers and vocalists to include recordings by a solo artist who blurs the lines between rapping and singing. Drake is the first beneficiary of that change.
30. De La Soul
De La Soul's Best Rap Album-nominated And The Anonymous Nobody, which they crowdfunded via Kickstarter, is looking to become the first crowdfunded album to win the category. De La Soul were first nominated for a 1989 GRAMMY for Best Rap Performance.
31. Kanye West
Kanye West's The Life Of Pablo is nominated for Best Rap Album. West is a four-time winner in this category. Only Eminem has received more awards (six) in the category.
32. Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Three pop or rock artists are nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. Elle King is nominated as a featured artist on Dierks Bentley's "Different For Girls." P!nk is nominated as Kenny Chesney's duet partner on "Setting The World On Fire." Pentatonix are nominated for their rendition of Dolly Parton's "Jolene," which features Parton.
33. Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton is nominated with Pentatonix for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for "Jolene." A master of collaborations, this is Parton's 18th GRAMMY nomination for recordings in conjunction with other artists. Collaborators over the years have included Norah Jones, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, and Kenny Rogers.
34. Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn is among the nominees for Best Country Album for Full Circle. She won in this category 12 years ago with Van Lear Rose. If she wins again, she'll become the first female solo artist to win in this category twice. Lynn, 84, received her first GRAMMY nomination 50 years ago for "Don't Come Home A Drinkin'."
35. Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna
Hillary Lindsey and Lori McKenna, who collaborated (along with Liz Rose) on "Girl Crush," last year's winner for Best Country Song, are competing against each other in the category this year. Lindsey is nominated for co-writing the Keith Urban hit "Blue Ain't Your Color." McKenna is nominated for writing the Tim McGraw hit "Humble And Kind." If either woman wins this year, she would become the first songwriter to win back-to-back awards in this category since Robert John "Mutt" Lange and Shania Twain won for "You're Still The One" (1998) and "Come On Over" (1999).
36. Shirley Caesar
With her two nominations for Best Gospel Performance/Song and Best Gospel Album, Shirley Caesar is looking to add to her 11 career GRAMMYs, which is the highest total for a female gospel artist. Caesar is among the 2017 recipients of The Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award.
37. Kirk Franklin
Kirk Franklin could become the first artist to win twice in the Best Gospel Album category (which dates to 2011). Franklin won the 2011 award for Hello Fear. He is nominated this year for Losing My Religion.
38. Hillary Scott
Hillary Scott, who has won seven GRAMMYs as a member of Lady Antebellum, is nominated for two awards for a family project (Hillary Scott & The Scott Family). Love Remains is nominated for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album. "Thy Will," a track from the album, is nominated for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song.
39. Joey+Rory
Joey+Rory's Hymns is among the nominees for Best Roots Gospel Album. The duo received their first career nomination last year for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. Joey Martin Feek, the female half of this married couple, died on March 4, 2016.
40. Vince Gill
Vince Gill's "Kid Sister" is nominated for Best American Roots Song. Gill has won two of his 20 GRAMMY Awards to date for songwriting. "I Still Believe In You" (1992) and "Go Rest High On That Mountain" (1995) were both voted Best Country Song.
41. William Bell
Stax Records veteran William Bell, whose R&B hits date to 1966, is nominated for two GRAMMYs. This Is Where I Live is nominated for Best Americana Album. "The Three Of Me," a track from the album, is nominated for Best Traditional R&B Performance. Bell wouldn't be the first R&B veteran to win for Best Americana Album. Mavis Staples took the 2010 award for You Are Not Alone.
42. Judy Collins
Judy Collins is nominated for Best Folk Album for Silver Skies Blue, a collaboration with Ari Hest. Collins received her first GRAMMY nomination 53 years ago for her album, Judy Collins #3. It was nominated for Best Folk Recording.
43. Ziggy Marley
Ziggy Marley is vying to win his seventh GRAMMY in the Best Reggae Album category for his album Ziggy Marley. Marley won his first three awards in the category for albums on which he fronted Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers.
44. Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar is among the nominees for Best World Music Album for Land Of Gold. Shankar's late father, Ravi Shankar, won twice in this category, for Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 (2001) and The Living Room Sessions (2012). This is Anoushka Shankar's sixth nomination in this category (counting one in the discontinued Best Contemporary World Music Album category).
45. Patti Smith
Punk-rock poet Patti Smith is nominated for Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling) for the second year in a row. She is nominated this year for M Train. She was nominated last year for Blood On Snow. This would be Smith's first GRAMMY win.
46. Best Comedy Album
Three of the five nominees for Best Comedy Album — Margaret Cho's American Myth, Tig Notaro's Boyish Girl Interrupted and Amy Schumer's Live At The Apollo — are by female performers. This is the first time that female performers have accounted for three of the nominees in the history of this category (which goes back to 1958, the first year of the GRAMMY Awards).
47. Kinky Boots
The Original West End Cast Album from Kinky Boots is nominated for Best Musical Theater Album. The Broadway cast album from the show won in this category three years ago. Kinky Boots is vying to become the fourth show to win twice in this category (with two different recordings of the score). The first three were Gypsy, West Side Story and Les Misérables.
48. Steve Martin, Edie Brickell
The Original Broadway Cast album to Bright Star is among the finalists for Best Musical Theater Album. Steve Martin and Edie Brickell collaborated on the score. The two musicians won a GRAMMY three years ago for Best American Roots Song for "Love Has Come For You."
49. Amy
The soundtrack to Amy, a film about the late Amy Winehouse, is nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media. The film itself won a GRAMMY last year for Best Music Film. A win this year would mark the first time a film and its companion soundtrack each won in their category.
50. Straight Outta Compton
The soundtrack to the hit film Straight Outta Compton is a nominee for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media. The nomination comes in the same year that N.W.A's landmark 1988 album of the same name is inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame.
51. "Vinyl"
Vinyl: The Essentials Season 1, featuring music from the HBO series, is nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media. It's vying to become the second TV soundtrack to win in this category, following Boardwalk Empire, Volume 1, which won five years ago. Boardwalk Empire was also a HBO series.
52. John Williams
John Williams, one of the top winners in GRAMMY history, received his 66th career GRAMMY nomination for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Williams has now received nominations for six of the seven Star Wars films he has scored. (The lone film in the franchise he did not receive a nod for was 2002's Star Wars: Episode II — Attack Of The Clones.)
53. "Stranger Things"
Both Stranger Things Volume 1 and Stranger Things Volume 2 — composed by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein — are nominated for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media. This is the first time in the category's history two albums from the same TV series have been nominated.
54. Ryuichi Sakamoto, The Revenant
The Revenant, composed by Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, is nominated for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media. Sakamoto won in this category 28 years ago for The Last Emperor, which he composed with Cong Su and David Byrne.
55. Suicide Squad
Two songs from the film Suicide Squad are nominated for Best Song Written For Visual Media. They are "Heathens" (Tyler Joseph, songwriter) and "Purple Lamborghini" (Shamann Cooke, Skrillex & Rick Ross, songwriters). Last year, two songs from Fifty Shades Of Grey were nominated in this category.
56. Max Martin
Max Martin is nominated for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical. The Swedish hit-maker won in this category two years ago. If he wins again this year, he'll become the first producer to win twice in the space of three years since Rick Rubin, who won the 2006 and 2008 awards.
57. Judith Sherman
Judith Sherman could win Producer Of The Year, Classical for the third year in a row. To date, only one producer has won this award three years running. Robert Woods won for 1987, 1988 and 1989.
58. The Beatles
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week The Touring Years is vying for Best Music Film. It would be the third Beatles-related film to win in this category (or its predecessor category, Best Music Video, Long Form). The Beatles Anthology won the 1996 award. The Beatles Love—All Together Now won the 2009 award.
59. Special Merit Awards
Current nominees Herb Alpert, Blind Boys Of Alabama, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Ennio Morricone, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and Barbra Streisand have been previously honored by The Recording Academy with Special Merit Awards. (Lifetime Achievement Award: Blind Boys Of Alabama, Bowie, Dylan, Kristofferson, Lynn, Nelson, Parton, and Streisand.; Trustees Award: Alpert and Morricone).
The 59th GRAMMY Awards will take place Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, live from Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast on the CBS Television Network from 8–11:30 pm ET/5–8:30 pm PT. Follow Recording Academy/GRAMMYs on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and use #GRAMMYs to join the conversation.
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Ed Sheeran Reveals Plans To Release New Collaboration Album
The singer-songwriter's follow-up to 2017's GRAMMY-winning '÷' drops July 12, with a Chance the Rapper-supported single coming tonight
Ana Yglesias
Today, Ed Sheeran revealed that his highly anticipated fourth studio album is on the way, due out July 12. No.6 Collaborations Project follows 2017's GRAMMY-winning ÷, and brings in featured artists on all 15 tracks.
Before I was signed in 2011, I made an EP called No.5 Collaborations Project. Since then, I’ve always wanted to do another, so I started No.6 on my laptop when I was on tour last year. I’m a huge fan of all the artists I’ve collaborated with and it’s been a lot of fun to make. No.6 Collaborations Project will be out everywhere on 12 July. It’s available to pre-order from midnight tonight local time and my song with @chancetherapper and @pnbrock will be out everywhere at the same time x
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The British crooner's latest track, "I Don't Care," a stay-at-home anthem and reunion with fellow GRAMMY-winning pop star Justin Bieber, will be included on the LP. The second single, "Cross Me," will be released at midnight tonight. The forthcoming song will see Sheeran teaming up with GRAMMY-winner Chance the Rapper and rising Philly rapper PnB Rock.
"Before I was signed in 2011, I made an EP called No.5 Collaborations Project. Since then, I've always wanted to do another, so I started No.6 on my laptop when I was on tour last year. I'm a huge fan of all the artists I've collaborated with and it’s been a lot of fun to make," Sheeran explained in a press release.
Related: Ed Sheeran, Mariah Carey & More Broke Big Music Records In 2018
His No.5 Collaborations Project featured a handful of U.K. grime artists, including Ghetts, P Money and Devlin.
The singer-songwriter teased other artists on the new LP, sharing a "censored" tracklist on his Instagram album reveal post, as well as a follow-up post chatting with Charlamagne tha God, but with all the details bleeped out.
If the absurdly fun Emil Nava-directed music video for "I Don't Care" is any indication of what we can expect on No.6, it's safe to say it's going to be a good romp.
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Mental Health And Social Media: Can Stars Make Both Work?
Psychologists weigh in on how social media use for artists can take a toll on their mental health
Philip Merrill
Switching on or off social media has made news for GRAMMY winners, including Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Ed Sheeran, and Taylor Swift, showing that stardom and social media can be a rocky harbor for artists.
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"Social media allows fans to feel an authentic connection to artists, which creates more of a psychological bond and sense of relationship," Dr. Pamela Rutledge, a California-based media psychologist told Vice's Noisey. "It feels close. But that closeness also makes negative remarks and harassment seem all the more hurtful."
Harassment, tension and anxiety are becoming an increasingly common part of everyday digital life. This is true of nearly everyone who uses social media, but for celebrities with huge fan followings, the feeling of always needing to stay engaged and "on" increases the risk of adverse mental health reactions.
"It's a huge amount of pressure to put on yourself, beyond the job of just being an artist," William Doyle, aka East India Youth, said. "I had to get off it for a while because of the panic and anxiety I was feeling. There are a lot of things in the industry that can burn you out, and social media was definitely one them for me."
Psychologist Arthur Cassidy warns celebrity burnout is often the result from the high pressure stakes of social media.
"It becomes hard to take control of your own life or even to be 'normal' off stage when there is total invasion of privacy," said Cassidy. "It can be very depressing, trying have a normal life when your life really isn't that normal."
Some artists can let the pressure of social media roll of their backs, but with all the demands of celebrity, it's understandable when the weight of those expectations take their toll, especially on mental health.
"It's an incredibly lonely place to feel under attack in an anonymous and relatively consequence free forum," said artist manager Juliette Carter. "It's difficult to understand from the outside the vulnerability that comes with exposing yourself and your life so thoroughly to the public."
So how do artists combat the potential pitfalls of social media? While it may not work for every artist, Doyle wants you to come talk to him in person instead.
"Come talk to me at a show — maybe that would be more useful."
Read More: GLASYS Meets T-Pain: Why Social Media Is The New A&R
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Guns N' Roses to Depeche Mode: 10 tours that are stealing the show
From top dogs Guns N' Roses to the rest of the GRAMMY-winning and -nominated top 10 touring artists, take a look at the hard sales data from 2017 tours so far
Renée Fabian
While festival season may be in full swing, it's also that time of year when we get a peek inside the highest grossing tours of the year, so far. And the numbers don't lie — you've been going to a lot of live concerts!
Let's start with the big numbers. The top 50 worldwide tours have grossed a combined $1.97 billion in ticket sales, according to Pollstar's mid-year report. Even more exciting are the North American numbers, where the top 100 tours and their gross profit of $1.64 billion topped last year's industry record of $1.47 billion by 11 percent.
But I'm sure you're really wondering who took the top spot on the highest grossing tours list, and if you guessed Guns N' Roses, you would be correct. Their worldwide tour has earned the GRAMMY-nominated rockers $151.5 million from a total of nearly 1.4 million individual ticket sales.
Coming in at No. 2 was U2's worldwide tour, which grossed the GRAMMY winners $118.1 million, and No. 3 was GRAMMY winner Justin Bieber at $93.2 million in sales.
The rest of the top 10 is dominated by GRAMMY winners and nominees, including Metallica (No. 4), Depeche Mode (No. 5), Red Hot Chili Peppers (No. 6), Adele (No. 7), Ed Sheeran (No. 8), Eric Church (No. 9), and Bruno Mars (No. 10).
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Hits & Misses: There are lots of reasons for folks to visit Greeley
Opinion | November 29, 2018
Ed Edmunds and Marsha Tau-Edmunds pose by a sleepy giant head in 2017 at Distortions Unlimited in Greeley. Distortions Unlimited helped make Greeley's Monster Day an award-winning event, as the event was recently recognized by Downtown Colorado Inc.
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You might not think of Greeley as a tourist destination.
Still, with events ranging from Monster Day to The Greeley Stampede, the UNC/Greeley Jazz Fest and the Blues Jam, there are plenty of reason for folks to visit our city.
And, we learned recently, tourists spend plenty of money here when they visit. Greeley Chamber of Commerce officials estimate tourism accounted for more than $20 million in economic activity in Greeley last year. That’s up form $19 million in 2016.
Visit Greeley, the Chamber of Commerce’s tourism office, tracks tourists’ economic impact by compiling estimates on how many people came to town, as well as how much people spend on lodging, food, retail and gas, for different events. Visit Greeley Director Amy Dugan said the average tourist in Greeley spends about $70 per day, plus about $125 to $250 per night for lodging.
We’ve all known for a long time that Greeley has a lot of great stuff going on. It’s nice to see word is spreading.
Thanks to cops, donors for their help this Christmas
This past weekend, cops were out in force, but probably not for the reason you’d think.
Police from across Weld County gathered at both of Greeley’s Walmart Supercenter locations to accept donations and raise money for Santa Cops.
Between the two locations, officers received about 400 new toys and $2,100 in cash donations, said Rebecca Ries, a police officer with the Greeley Police Department’s Neighborhood Action Team and president of Santa Cops of Weld County.
In its 32nd year, Santa Cops benefits about 5,000 kids throughout Weld by making sure those children have something under the tree to open on Christmas.
Families who might not be able to afford presents for their kids during the holidays are identified by school district officials or by officers who might come into contact with families during the year while working their beats.
Officers collect, wrap and deliver presents to those families while out on patrol.
We think this is a great program, and we’re glad to see it supported so well. We’d like to thank the officers who spent their Saturday collecting gifts and will distribute them, beginning Dec. 6 in Greeley. We’d also like to thank all those who gave a toy or some money. If you’d like to help, stop by your local police department or email Ries at Rebecca.Ries@greeleypd.com.
Here’s something to be glad about
If you’ve lived here a while, you’ll remember this. Greeley once was nicknamed “Greeley — the Glad City.”
Here’s what we’re glad about: Greeley is home to the International Gladiolus Hall of Fame. It’s in the lower level of the James A. Michener Library at the University of Northern Colorado.
A couple, Marvin and Jane Bruce, serve as the caretakers of the hall of fame, which is dedicated to the flower they care so much about. The flower has made a big impact here. It became the center of grower attention in the city several decades ago. In 1929, Greeley made it the city’s official flower — thus the nickname.
We think it’s pretty cool Greeley is home to this international hall of fame. And we think it’s cool that Marvin and Jane Bruce have nurtured their love for the gladiolus for more than three decades.
Windsor Army nurse deserves honor for her service
We’d like to extend our congratulations and thanks to Lt. Leila Allen Morrison on her well-deserved honor.
The 96-year-old Windsor resident is slated to receive the Legion of Honor at a ceremony next month. It’s the highest decoration bestowed by France. It’s given to those who fought for liberty in France during World War I and World War II. Morrison, who served as a U.S. Army nurse, qualifies because of her service during the Battle of the Bulge, also known in France as the Ardennes Campaign.
Morrison volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps at 22. She completed basic training at Lowry Field in Denver before being sent to Santa Ana Army Air Base for further training. She was later moved to the regular Army and transferred to the 10th Field Hospital at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas. When she arrived, she found out she was one of 16 nurses who would definitely be deployed overseas.
She spent a year close to the front during some of the worst fighting of World War II.
“I feel very humble for receiving this honor,” Morrison told a group of mostly U.S. Navy nurses during a recent luncheon. “I accept it with a lot of memories of a lot of fellas. I can still see them and they deserve a lot more than what I have received.”
We can’t think of anyone more deserving.
— Tribune Editorial Board
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Are you concerned about another recession?
No. The economy looks great.
Yes. They are inevitable.
Things will slow but nothing like 2008.
It will be worse than 2008.
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Renewables Tax Equity Market Fares Fine in Q1, Calming Industry Fears
“Ironically, there seem to be more tax equity investors after tax reform than before.”
After a positive Q1, angst over tax equity financing seems to have relaxed.
Defying the fears that gripped the clean energy finance market at the end of 2017, investors seem to have fared well under the new tax scheme that took effect in January.
The Base Erosion Anti-Abuse Tax provision included in the final version of the tax bill cuts away 20 percent of renewable credit values for companies that fall under its purview. When it passed President Trump’s desk, investors were unsure how the new law would impact their business. But after a healthy Q1, industry watchers appear confident that the impacts will be minimal.
“Ironically, there seem to be more tax equity investors after tax reform than before,” said Keith Martin, a transactional lawyer who works in tax and project finance at Norton Rose Fulbright. “Not a huge increase, but people had worried that the supply of tax equity would contract. I don’t think that has happened.”
Martin said five banks have informed Norton Rose Fulbright that they’re potentially affected by the change in the law (a tricky part of the law mandates that investors must determine each year whether they’re subject to the BEAT provision). That sum is a small fraction of a tax equity market that can include more than 35 investors.
Of the five investors that may be impacted by the law, Martin said some may be able to wiggle their way out from under the provision through international tax planning. BEAT targets companies that use cross-border payments to international affiliates to reduce their overall tax in the U.S. Categorizing these payments in different ways, such as counting an affiliate as a “disregarded subsidy” or claiming the transaction as a “cost of goods sold,” could change a company’s standing.
Either way, the BEAT effect looks minimal. The three largest tax equity players, which account for over 40 percent of the market, are unaffected by the law.
“It doesn’t seem to be affecting more than a handful...and even then, it’s such a small group that the effect isn’t having any visible impact on the market,” said Martin.
The law has, however, minimized the portion of a project’s funding that comes from tax equity. Historically, it accounted for 40 to 50 percent of financing for solar projects and 50 to 60 percent of financing for wind projects. Now, Martin said, the percentage has decreased by 3 to 8 percent.
“Tax equity has shrunk as part of the capital stack,” said Martin. “But the current state of the market has moderated any real increase in capital cost.”
Because of the decrease in tax equity, the market has had to bridge the gap with other financing sources. Martin said that’s been mostly debt. While in the past that could have contributed to increasing costs, competition has compressed interest rates and made debt lending more favorable for projects.
“At the moment there are so many project finance lenders eager to lend in relation to the number of projects that lenders are happy to step here,” said Martin. “There’s downward pressures on yields; there’s margin compression.”
The threat of reduced tax equity joins an array of threats looming for clean energy in 2018: aluminum and steel tariffs, solar tariffs, and yes, the potential for even more tariffs on products tied to wind and battery storage. But Martin said the industry seems to be weathering the bumps.
“It seems like the market has turned a corner of sorts,” said Martin. “That will be felt as the year rolls on.”
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Cross-border links in the Carpathians
New cross-border roads have enhanced communications across the Polish-Slovakian border, two countries which have greatly benefited from becoming part of the Schengen region. The new roads are good news for private motorists, but those who rely on public transport are mourning the demise of cross-border rail routes in the same region.
The accession of both Poland and Slovakia to the European Union (EU) in May 2004 and the admission of both countries into the Schengen area in December 2007 has had repercussions on communications between the two countries (and between them and their eastern neighbour, Ukraine). We take a look at what it has meant in just one area, namely the Carpathian region explored in the opening feature of this issue of hidden europe. The tale we tell here has echoes of developments elsewhere in the countries that joined the EU ten years ago. It is a story that surely raises salutary lessons for crossborder transport policy.
On the face of it, the opening up of the Polish-Slovak border should have greatly facilitated contact between communities on either side of the main Carpathian mountain chain which divides the two countries east of the Tatras. But how has this panned out in practice?
Prior to Slovakia and Poland entering into negotiations to join the EU, the only all-weather road capable of carrying heavy trucks through the hills was Dukla Pass, which crosses the Carpathian ridge north-east of the Slovakian town of Svidník. It is a gently graded modern highway, so it is no surprise that it has featured centrally in bitter conflicts as opposing armies clashed in efforts to secure control of the Carpathian region. Indeed, the southern approaches to Dukla Pass are ‘decorated’ with some striking debris from the 1944 Battle of Dukla Pass, when the Red Army pushed south from Poland over the Carpathians in a bid to support the insurrection by Slovaks against the Nazi forces of occupation in their country.
Dukla Pass remains today by far the most important north-south road link over the hills, but new roads have been built to enhance cross-border connectivity.
This is just an excerpt. The full text of this article is not yet available to members with online access to hidden europe. Of course you can also read the full article in the print edition of hidden europe 43.
source: https://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk/cross-border-links-in-the-carpathians
This article was published in hidden europe 43.
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Home > News > Sri Lanka cardinal warns that if the state doesn’t act, the people will
Sri Lanka cardinal warns that if the state doesn’t act, the people will
The religious leader of Sri Lankan minority Christian gives this kind of warning directly after Jihadi terrorists targeted Christian missionaries for the first time in Sri Lanka, however Hindu religious leaders have never given such a warning even though Jihadi terrorists are attacking Hindus in Bharat for last three decades. From this, will the progressive factors take a note that, ‘Hindus are tolerant’ ? – Editor, Hindujagruti.org
Colombo (Sri Lanka) : After attacks that took the lives of more than 250 people on Easter Sunday, the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka is working on becoming a beacon of hope. Yet according to the local cardinal, if civil authorities don’t find the perpetrators and put them on trial, they risk the community taking justice into its own hands.
“I want to state that we may not be able to keep people under control in the absence of a stronger security program,” Cardinal Malcom Ranjith of Colombo said. “We can’t forever give them false promises and keep them calm.” He urged the government to “implement a proper program in order that the people don’t take the law into their own hands.”
Speaking at a press conference in Colombo on Tuesday, Ranjith accused the government of “placing responsibility on others” when it comes to investigating what happened on Easter Sunday, creating a commission to conduct an investigation formed by “pensioners” and retired officials instead of applying the law and guaranteeing the safety of the Christian community.
Ranjith said he doesn’t see the government taking the necessary steps to guarantee the safety of students, decreeing that schools should remain closed for the time being.
“I don’t see measures being taken by those in power. Instead, I see a lot of bouncing of responsibilities around,” he said. “The result is that the country and the population continue to suffer. If the current regime doesn’t have the adequate structures to fight terrorism, it will be impossible to contain the masses in the future.”
Ranjith, who was made a cardinal by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in 2010, said that the government shouldn’t “waste time mulling over the past,” and instead, assume the responsibility of putting political differences aside in the search of a solution to the question of national security, hence freeing the country “from this pitiful state.”
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Home> Publications & Directories> Perspectives on History> Issues> January 2018> AHA Today> Writing on the Wall
The AHA’s First Ever Undergraduate Poster Session
Antoinette Burton | Jan 6, 2018
If you have any doubts about the vibrancy of historical curiosity among our undergraduate majors nationwide, be sure to check out the Undergraduate Poster Session, which runs from 3:30–5:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 6, in the Atrium of the Marriott Wardman Park (Exhibition Level). Jewish pirates, Catherine de Medici, 1967 in Detroit, Egypt in 2017, indigenous communities in early colonial Connecticut—these are just a few samples of the historical subjects that have caught students’ attention and propelled them into the world of historical research, thinking, and writing. The energy and enthusiasm—and real historical insight—coming off of these projects are inspiring. And the range of topics and methods will remind you that we have much to learn from our own students.
This year, the AHA will feature its first poster session specifically for undergraduate research. Marc Monaghan
Many if not all of the posters on display are the result of deep archival encounters you will find yourself envious of. Julia Palmerino of the College of the Holy Cross went to the National Archives in Dublin last summer to explore how Irish dance halls and especially the behavior of Irish girls and women came to be controlled by church and state. Lara Manbeck of New York University was able to travel to archives in Vietnam to research her project on commemorative naming in Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City, in the context of decolonization and postwar anti-communism. Nia Blasingame of Howard University focuses on the writings of black activists who traveled to the Soviet Union to explore the impact of travel, especially in Central Asia, on the thinking and identity of artists like Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes. And Cory Starman (Univ. of Nebraska, Omaha) showcases the writing of Odo of Deuil, a French monk who accompanied King Louis VII on crusade in an interactive website that features his Latin 12th-century text, De profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem, in a form that allows it to be accessible to a variety of modern readers. The methodological breadth here is impressive. There are several projects with digital dimensions, reminding us of how tech savvy the next generation of historians already is. But it’s rarely technolology for its own sake: the authors here use it purposefully to reach broad audiences and are committed to getting us to think about how and why all history is, or can be, public history.
There is also a real sense of imagination and adventure about what counts as a historical source. Nala Chehade’s training at Virgina Tech has allowed her to see the graffiti produced in the Arab Spring uprisings as a powerful archive of revolutionary ambition. Highlighted by Alexyss McClellan (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), the amazing photography of the Gail Project, which features a range of images connected to the US military in Okinawa, speaks as much to elderly Okinawans who remember the postwar era as it does to a range of scholars interested in Pacific histories. This heightened consciousness of audience runs throughout the posters, and not just because they themselves represent an alternative form of communicating historical research and knowledge. These students are clearly responding to the contemporary urgency we all feel, namely that historians must think boldly about the relationship of the past to the present and must work harder than ever to communicate their findings and their passions to a variety of “readers” through an equal variety of media. That a significant number of these posters are the result of collaborative interdisciplinary teamwork is also impressive—another reminder of what critically engaged historical research looks like.
Anyone who has ever done a poster project knows how hard it is to represent, and persuade, in visual form. It’s a very particular genre, and it’s not self-evident, even if your work already has a graphic dimension. And if you are accustomed to the long-form essays as your primary means of expression, the leap can be very hard to make. It’s a design challenge that requires deep knowledge of your subject, an aerial view of its contours, and considerable skill in the art of spatial argumentation.
The AHA committee that reviewed the undergraduate poster submissions had its work cut out for it, because there were truly so many excellent proposals to choose from. So mark your calendars for a Saturday afternoon stroll through this gallery of undergraduate research. It will restore your faith in the promise of our students and renew your conviction about the work you are doing in your own history classrooms in the new year. In fact, you really should encourage your students to consider proposing a poster for the next AHA annual meeting in Chicago in 2019. For details contact Joe Gardella, the AHA’s meetings and executive assistant.
Antoinette Burton is professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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✎ About James Wong Howe
Who is it?: Cinematographer
Birth Day: August 28, 1899
Birth Place: Taishan, Guangdong, China, Chinese
Age: 120 YEARS OLD
Died On: July 12, 1976(1976-07-12) (aged 76)\nHollywood, California, U.S.
Birth Sign: Virgo
Years active: 1917–1975
Spouse(s): Sanora Babb (m. 1937; his death 1976) (marriage not recognized in U.S. until 1949)
Awards: Academy Award for Best Cinematography The Rose Tattoo (1955) Hud (1963)
James Wong Howe Net Worth
James Wong Howe was bornon August 28, 1899 in Taishan, Guangdong, China, Chinese, is Cinematographer. James Wong Howe was a successful and distinguished Chinese American cinematographer. Howe started his career as an assistant cameraperson and gradually established himself as one of the most influential and sought after cinematographers in Hollywood. A virtuoso in applying and exploiting shadows in films, Howe was one of the pioneers in using deep-focus cinematography where distant places remained under focus along with foreground of the scenes. His rich body of work encompassed more than 130 films that he contributed to in a long career span of over five decades. He worked with many eminent directors like Allan Dwan, Samuel Fuller, John Cromwell, Sidney Lumet and William K. Howard. His excellent work on cinematography saw him being nominated for the ‘Academy Awards’ ten times. He won the award twice, first in 1956 for the film ‘The Rose Tattoo’ and then for the 1963 film ‘Hud’. According to a survey of members of ‘International Cinematographers Guild’, Howe was considered one of history’s 10 most influential cinematographers. He became a member of the prestigious ‘American Society of Cinematographers’ and had the honour and right to add ASC to his name.
James Wong Howe is a member of Film & Theater Personalities
Net worth: $16 Million
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Awards and nominations:
Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Howe was born Wong Tung Jim in Taishan, Canton Province, China in 1899. His Father Wong Howe moved to America that year to work on the Northern Pacific Railway and in 1904 sent for his family. The Howes settled in Pasco, Washington, where they owned a general store. A Brownie camera, said to have been bought at Pasco Drug (a now-closed city landmark) when he was a child, sparked an early interest in photography. After his father's death, the teenaged Howe moved to Oregon to live with his uncle and briefly considered (1915–16) a career as a bantamweight boxer. After compiling a record of 5 wins, 2 losses and a draw, Howe moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in hopes of attending aviation school but ran out of money and went south to Los Angeles. Once there, Howe took several odd jobs, including work as a commercial photographer's delivery boy and as a busboy at the Beverly Hills Hotel. After a chance encounter with a former boxing colleague who was photographing a Mack Sennett short on the streets of Los Angeles, Howe approached Cinematographer Alvin Wyckoff and landed a low-level job in the film lab at Famous Players-Lasky Studios. Soon thereafter he was called to the set of The Little American to act as an extra clapper boy, which brought him into contact with silent film Director Cecil B. DeMille. Amused by the sight of the diminutive Asian holding the slate with a large cigar in his mouth, DeMille kept Howe on and launched his career as a camera assistant. To earn additional money, Howe took publicity stills for Hollywood stars.
Howe also was known for his use of unusual lenses, film stocks, and shooting techniques. In the 1920s, he was an early adopter of the crab dolly, a form of camera dolly with four independent wheels and a movable arm to which the camera is attached. For the boxing scenes of Body and Soul (1947), he entered the boxing ring on roller-skates, carrying an early hand-held camera. Picnic (1955) features a very early Example of the helicopter shot, filmed by the second-unit Cinematographer, Haskell Wexler, and planned by Wexler and Howe.
One of those still photographs launched Howe's career as a Cinematographer when he stumbled across a means of making silent film star Mary Miles Minter's eyes look darker by photographing her while she was looking at a dark surface. Minter requested that Howe be first cameraman, that is Director of photography, on her next feature, and Howe shot Minter's closeups for Drums of Fate by placing black velvet in a large frame around the camera. Throughout his career, Howe retained a reputation for making actresses look their best through lighting alone and seldom resorted to using gauze or other diffusion over the lens to soften their features. Howe worked steadily as a Cinematographer from 1923 until the end of the era of silent film.
In 1928, Howe was in China shooting backgrounds for a movie he hoped to direct. The project he was working on was never completed (although some of the footage was used in Shanghai Express), and when he returned to Hollywood, he discovered that the "talkies" had largely supplanted silent productions. With no experience in that medium, Howe could not find work. To reestablish himself, Howe first co-financed a Japanese-language feature shot in Southern California entitled Chijiku wo mawasuru chikara (The Force that Turns the Earth around its Axis), which he also photographed and co-directed. When that film failed to find an audience in California's nisei communities or Japan, Howe shot the low-budget feature Today for no salary. Finally, director/producer Howard Hawks, whom he had met on The Little American, hired him for The Criminal Code and then Director william K. Howard selected him to be the Cinematographer on Transatlantic.
In the early 1930s, while at MGM, Howe, who had generally been billed as "James Howe", began listing his name in film credits as "James Wong Howe". Over the course of his career, he was also credited as "James How", "Jimmie Howe", and "James Wong How." Often publicized as a Chinese cameraman, Howe was prevented from becoming a U.S. citizen until the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943. Prior to World War II, Howe met his Future wife, Novelist Sanora Babb, whom he married in 1937 in Paris. Due to anti-miscegenation laws, the marriage would not be legally recognized in the United States until 1949. Babb died in 2005, aged 98.
Howe met his wife, Sanora Babb, before World War II. They traveled to Paris in 1937 to marry, but their marriage was not recognized by California until 1948, after the law banning racial intermarriage was abolished. Due to the ban, Howe's studio contract "morals clause" prohibited him from publicly acknowledging their marriage. They would not cohabit due to his traditional Chinese views, so they had separate apartments in the same building.
Howe was nominated for an Academy Award in 1944 in the "Best Cinematography: Black-and-White" category for his work on the movie Air Force, a nomination he shared with Elmer Dyer, A.S.C., and Charles A. Marshall.
Again reestablished, Howe's camerawork continued to be highly regarded. In 1949 he shot tests and was hired for a never made comeback film starring Greta Garbo (screen adaptation of Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais). In 1956, Howe won his first Academy Award for The Rose Tattoo. The film's Director, Daniel Mann, had originally been a stage Director and later stated that he gave Howe control over almost all decisions about the filming other than those regarding the actors and dialogue. In 1957's Sweet Smell of Success, Howe worked with Director Alexander Mackendrick to give the black-and-white film a sharp-edged look reminiscent of New York tabloid photography such as that taken by Arthur "Weegee" Fellig. During the 1950s, Howe directed his only English-language feature films, Invisible Avenger, one of many film adaptations of The Shadow, and Go Man Go, a movie about the Harlem Globetrotters. Neither was a critical or commercial success. In 1961 Howe directed episodes of Checkmate and 87th Precinct, then went back to cinematography.
Howe's best known work was almost entirely in black and white. His two Academy Awards both came during the period when Best Cinematography Oscars were awarded separately for color and black-and-white films. However, he successfully made the transition to color films and earned his first Academy Award nomination for a color film in 1958 for The Old Man and the Sea. He won his second Academy Award for 1963's Hud. His cinematography remained inventive during his later career. For instance, his use of fish-eye and wide-angle lenses in Seconds (1966) helped give an eerie tension to Director John Frankenheimer's science fiction movie. After working on The Molly Maguires (1970), Howe's health began to fail and he entered semi-retirement. In 1974, he was well enough to be selected as a replacement Cinematographer for Funny Lady. He collapsed during the filming; American Society of Cinematographers President Ernest Laszlo filled in for Howe while he was recovering in the hospital. Funny Lady earned Howe his tenth and final Oscar nomination. Three documentaries were made about Howe during the last two decades of his life.
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Damn The Torpedoes, 3m 21sec
We got somethin' we both know it
We don't talk too much about it
Yeah it ain't no real big secret all the same
Somehow we get around it
Listen it don't really matter to me baby
You believe what you want to believe
You see you don't have to live like a refugee
Tell me why you want to lay there
And revel in your abandon
Listen it don't make no difference to me baby
Everybody's had to fight to be free
Now baby you don't have to live like a refugee
Baby we ain't the first
I'm sure a lot of other lover's been burned
Right now this seems real to you
But it's one of those things
You gotta feel to be true
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped
Tied up, taken away and held for ransom
It don't really matter to me
I said you don't have to live like a refugee
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Richard Forster, Notes on Architecture: Johnson Wax Building, 2016
A key starting point for Richard Forster’s practice is a documentary approach to time, process and sense of place. In his most recent exhibitions, he has constructed sequences of works that act as a calendar of activity, and a form of storytelling that circumnavigates the gallery architecture. Forster has nurtured his drawing from formative years he describes as an ‘anxious teenager alienated in an English suburban bedroom’. While his intimate and compulsive attention to detail could be categorised and mistaken for photo-realism, Forster prefers to use more ambiguous categories such as the ‘nearly-photo-realistic’ or the ‘photocopy-realistic’, in an attempt to extend the reading of the work towards the meanings inherent to the medium of drawing, and the particular subject-matter of his choosing.
Forster’s earlier sculptural works offered a counterpoint to this flow of drawing process, deliberating on the often theatrical nature of presenting work in public situations. The last few years have seen a consolidation of drawing as his primary activity, and a rigorous conceptualisation both to his subject-matter and to its point and mode of address.
Recent exhibitions include Seascapes at Ingleby Gallery in 2008; The Northern Art Prize at Leeds City Art Gallery in 2009 and Drawn from Photography, a group show at The Drawing Center in New York. Forster's first major solo museum show, Fast and Slow Time opened at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in July 2011 and toured to The Flag Foundation, New York the following year. In May 2012, Forster participated in the group exhibition Slow Looking: Contemporary Drawing at Tate Britain, London.
In 2014, Ingleby Gallery hosted a major survey exhibition of Forster's work, Modern, that toured to the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester in 2015. Richard Forster's major new body of work focusing on the American post-war housing development Levittown was shown at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex in the summer of 2016.
Watch: Richard Forster; Fast and Slow Time
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'Student members' can join CII
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The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) will change its rules in order to blow away its old-fashioned image.
People who have not sat CII exams will be allowed to become members following a decision made at the CII's council last week. President Lillian Boyle said the institute would be applying to change its rules so that so-called "student members" were allowed to join. The institute will apply to the Privy Council in order to change its rules.
It is understood the institute hopes to attract insurance industry workers in their 20s and 30s.
"We want the leaders of tomorrow to be a part of the institute today," said a senior CII figure.
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Children Who Can't Walk Race Mini-Cars at UCF Event
Ten children got the gift of mobility on Friday at the University of Central Florida, when they rode away with their very own motorized child-sized car.
GoBabyGo is a national effort to provide children without the ability to walk, a way to get around. The organization retrofits motorized toy cars for children with special needs. UCF has been working with the creator, University of Delaware professor Cole Galloway, and his nonprofit to bring the same opportunity to Central Florida. The local group, led by physical therapy professor Jennifer Tucker, held its third big “build” event from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Fairwinds Alumni Center on the main campus.
This time Tucker and her student therapists teamed up with the Orlando Health to bring the little cars to Central Florida. Children came from Orlando, Winter Garden, St. Cloud, Volusia, Daytona Beach and Perry, Florida. But the need is so high in in the Southeast that one family drove in from Bishop, Georgia, for a chance to get a free vehicle.
Volunteers from Orlando Health, Orlando City Soccer, Arnold Palmer Invitational and UCF’s physical therapy program met the families and assisted in the building of the vehicles. Then the children raced them under an official NASCAR checker flag on Memory Mall while the families, volunteers and special guests cheered on the young drivers.
“This is a community need that we don’t necessarily hear enough about,” said Lainie Fox Ackerman, director of community benefit at Orlando Health. “We wanted to help bring local families this innovative yet simple option to get their kids moving. The joy on a child’s face and the freedom the program brings will have an immeasurable impact on their future.”
Tucker, who has a waiting list of more than 30 families who are interested in getting a motorized toy car, said the event isn’t about a cute photo opportunity.
“This is about independent mobility,” Tucker said. “We know that getting children mobile isn’t just a necessary part of their physical therapy. It is also a critical part in a child’s socialization, growth and future potential. This is about so much more than a car. This is about giving a child an opportunity at a future that includes not being left on the sidelines as their peers move ahead.”
Megan Mueller said she expects the car to be life-changing for her son Lucas.
“It was really exciting to put him in there for the first time today, to see him strapped in there and just to know that he had the ability to move on his own,” she said. “I teared up a little, to know that he had that experience to just go and move and have fun.”
During the event parents and community guests also had an opportunity to see a special harness system developed by Cole and Enliten LLC.
It provides children and adults with the ability to move. The harness system is especially helpful for people who have traumatic brain injury and who have difficulty balancing for very long.
Source: https://today.ucf.edu/children-cant-walk-race-mini-cars-nascar-flag-ucf-event/
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Blog: Why some will milk the OFT's Morrisons apology
Dean Best | 23 April 2008
Sections of the UK dairy industry will cheer this morning’s (23 April) embarrassing climbdown from The Office of Fair Trading.
News that the OFT has admitted some of its claims against Morrisons were wrong will no doubt provoke renewed calls that UK business is being monitored by an over-zealous competition watchdog.
There were, of course, calls during last year’s inquiry into price-fixing in the dairy industry that the OFT had got it all wrong.
It was claimed that retailers and dairy producers had moved to raise prices on milk, butter and cheese in 2002 and 2003, not for financial gain, but to secure supplies amid fears that farmers were fleeing the sector.
However, then – and now – one is inclined to believe that if farmers had been paid a decent price in the first place, then they wouldn’t have been quitting milk production in droves, tired of not being able to make a reasonable return – or even cover costs.
And, like in 2002 and 2003, today’s news of the OFT payout to Morrisons has hit the average UK consumer in the pocket.
Because, of course, the OFT settlement will come direct from HM Treasury.
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Fundraising for The Giant Pledge run by The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
Marsden March for George & the Giant Pledge
Fundraising for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
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Event: The Marsden March 2018, 04 Mar 2018
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Alan, Jenny, Adam and I will be joining the Marsden March and walking 5 miles to raise awareness and funds to support George, Alex, Vicky & James Woodall who are George & the Giant Pledge. Please help us raise much needed funds and to hit George's £1m target!! We would really appreciate your support. Thank you xx
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KMC celebrates Independence Day
Miles Zuniga, a guitarist and vocalist for the American rock band, Fastball, plays an electric guitar on stage during a live concert for Freedom Fest on Ramstein Air Base, July 3. Fastball played a variety of songs for members of the Kaiserslautern Military Community at the festival.
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A. Jay Popoff, lead vocalist of the American rock band, Lit, sings during Freedom Fest on Ramstein Air Base, July 3. Lit was part of the lineup of live concerts for the festival.
A crowd of Kaiserslautern Military Community members enjoy a song by the American rock band, Lit. The band played songs from both their new and older albums.
A member of the Kaiserslautern Military Community smiles while riding the “Gold Rusher” during Freedom Fest on Ramstein Air Base, July 3. Gold Rusher was one of many rides at the festival.
The ferris wheel was one of several rides at the festival that members of the Kaiserslautern Military Community enjoyed.
Fireworks explode in a variety of colors at the end of Freedom Fest on Ramstein Air Base, July 4. Freedom Fest is celebrated every year to commemorate Independence Day.
Members of the Kaiserslautern Military Community smile as they ride “Miami” during Freedom Fest on Ramstein Air Base, July 4.
A member of the Kaiserslautern Military Community cheers during a concert at Freedom Fest on Ramstein Air Base, July 3. Many people attended live shows during the festival.
Kaiserslautern Military Community members dance in the street to live music during Freedom Fest on Ramstein Air Base, July 4. Parents and children from the KMC attended the concerts at the festival.
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IIROC study sheds light on high-frequency trading
Home News From the Regulators IIROC study sheds light on high-frequency trading
High order-to-trade traders are responsible for a high number of orders, compared to the number of trades they actually complete
The first phase of a new study into high-frequency trading in Canada finds that 11% of traders are embarking on this sort of trading, which accounts for less than a quarter of the trading volume, but over 40% of the trades, and the vast majority of message traffic on Canadian markets.
The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) Wednesday published the first two parts of a three-part study that aims to examine high-frequency trading (HFT) in the Canadian equity markets. IIROC notes that there is both concern about the possible impact of HFT, and support for it.
Advocates for HFT say it results in enhanced liquidity, reduced spreads and greater market efficiency, it notes; whereas critics say it exacerbates market volatility by withdrawing liquidity when most needed, takes unfair advantage of ‘real’ investors, contributes confusion and cost through excess message traffic, and undermines investor confidence. Yet, despite these opinions, there is not even an accepted definition of what constitutes HFT, it says.
The IIROC study doesn’t attempt to define HFT precisely either. Rather, it examines the activities of so-called high order-to-trade (HOT) traders — which are traders who were responsible for a high number of orders, compared to the number of trades they actually completed. It then offers a detailed, statistical analysis of their activity.
The next phase of the study will more closely examine the effects of their trading on market quality and integrity from multiple perspectives, such as liquidity, price formation, volatility and overall market confidence. IIROC says this will help Canadian and global regulators and market participants better understand the nature and impact of HFT.
The portion of the study released Wednesday looks at all trading activity on exchanges and most alternative trading systems in Canada from August 1 to October 31, 2011. It finds that, in that period, so-called HOT traders accounted for 22% of trading volume, 32% of dollar value, 42% of trades, and 94% of all order messages sent; despite the fact that they represent just 11% of user IDs.
It also found that they trade 36% of all Canadian share volume traded in US inter-listed securities; and, 60% of all Canadian trading in ETFs and ETNs.
The study also concluded that HOT users trade more in the dark than in lit markets; that they trade anonymously more often than other market participants; and, that they trade passively approximately 66% of the time.
Additionally, it found that over 90% of their activity comes through seven IIROC dealers, and that 23% of their volume is with the same broker. The HOT users also earned $250,000 more per day in rebates than they paid in fees, it found.
Moreover, the study found that 40% of HOT users were identified as direct market access (DMA) clients, and that these traders accounted for the majority of trading by all HOT users.
To facilitate the third phase of the study, IIROC also published for comment a proposed request for assistance (RFA) today, expressing its intent to seek help from interested outside parties, both academic and others, that have expertise in equity market structure, in order to complement its own internal analysis.
Once the final version of the RFA is issued, candidates will be given one month to submit proposals. And, after the successful candidates are selected, IIROC anticipates that the impact study will take eight to 10 months to complete, it said.
“This study leverages the rich set of consolidated regulatory data from IIROC’s real-time multi-market surveillance technology,” said Susan Wolburgh Jenah, IIROC’s president and CEO. “The results of this study will help to inform IIROC’s work with other Canadian regulators to determine the most appropriate response in the context of global regulatory developments.”
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I'VE STILL GOT SO MUCH MORE TO ACHIEVE, SAYS PARALYMPIC HERO COX
The terms inspirational and role model are bandied about all too easily in sport, but Kadeena Cox is worthy of and lives up to the descriptions.
Kadeena Cox
The 25-year-old from Leeds at September's Rio Paralympics became the first Briton in 28 years to win two medals in two sports at the same Games.
She is the first in 32 years to win golds in different sports, having topped the podium in athletics and cycling.
And she was chosen as flag bearer for Britain's most successful Paralympic team since Seoul 1988.
Cox's achievements are all the more remarkable as they came two years after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a progressive illness which could become more debilitating over time.
"I've thought about the diagnosis itself once or twice, but it just brings me to tears realising how far I've come.
"My focus now is what more can I achieve. I achieved a few great things in Rio, but I know there's so much more I can do and I want to do. It's all about looking forward now."
– Kadeena Cox
She won the C4/C5 500 metres time-trial on the bike in the velodrome before claiming gold on the athletics track in the T38 400m.
Her main focus for 2017 is taking gold at the London Stadium at the IPC Athletics World Championships.
Her physiotherapy degree concludes in 2018 - the long-term goal is to run her own business - and there is a European Championships in athletics, a to-be-confirmed Para-Cycling Track World Championships, plus the Commonwealth Games. A busy year, even by Cox's standards.
She hopes to go for four, possibly five, events in Tokyo at the 2020 Paralympics and then also compete in the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, when para-bobsleigh will be on the programme.
The reason she competed in two sports in Rio was because she knew she might not get the chance to compete at all in Tokyo.
And she knows all her targets depend on her MS.
"That's something that's in the back of my mind. It was, for a while, something that was in the forefront of my mind and something I'd constantly think about.
"And I wouldn't really plan too far ahead in the worry that my life could change due to my condition.
"Right now I take each day as it comes and I plan for what I want to achieve and if those change due to my condition then I just deal with it when I get to that point.
"My goals may change, they may not change, but right now those are my goals."
Cox is inspirational for another reason. She was brought up in Chapeltown, a deprived area of Leeds.
She is now working in the community, trying to instil confidence in youngsters.
"I'm from not the best of communities, but it's nice to be able to stand there and show young people what can be achieved.
"There's so many young people that go down the wrong path, just because they think there's no other option or there's nothing there for them.
"Just having someone to point them in the right direction and show them that it is achievable just allows them to see that there is more to life than drugs and crime.
"There's not very much in the way of athletics coaching or sport in general.
"I want to help with somebody who is working in the community already to try to bring more stuff locally, so it's something that is more readily available to them."
Cox has described life since Rio as "crazy". She is recognised wherever she goes and asked for selfies and autographs.
She was also named as one of the 16 nominated athletes for BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
"My family manage to keep me grounded. "I get told the gold medals mean nothing. I'm one of seven children, so there is no special treatment allowed.
"My mum did try it for a bit, but then my sisters picked up on it. Back down to reality."
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Hannah Cockroft wins third gold of Paralympics
Halifax wheelchair sprinter Hannah Cockroft made it a clean sweep of Paralympic gold medals for her this with victory in the T34 800 metres.
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Once again the 24-year-old dominated from the start to win her third gold medal in Rio and fifth Paralympic title overall.
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Ollie Hynd tweets snap of Gold medal
Mansfield's Paralympic star Ollie Hynd has taken to Twitter to share a picture of the Gold medal he won last night with a world record time in the S8 Men's 400m freestyle.
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Leeds council leader wishes ParalympicsGB good luck
The leader of Leeds City Council, Judith Blake, has issued a good luck message to the ParalympicsGB ahead of the Rio 2016 Games.
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We would like to wish Team GB and all our Leeds and Yorkshire athletes the very best of luck in the Rio Paralympic Games.
We cannot wait to see them perform on one of the world’s biggest sporting stages, and as always all of our local athletes can be guaranteed of tremendous support from the Leeds and Yorkshire public.
A special Yorkshire homecoming event is of course being held in Leeds on September 28 which will be a fantastic way in which to recognise and congratulate all of our Paralympic and Olympic athletes on their performances in Rio.
– Councillor Judith Blake, leader of Leeds City Council
Paralympic legacy comes to Sheffield
The Paralympic legacy has come to Sheffield today with some of the stars from the 2012 games on hand to inspire the next generation of athletes.
The Paralympic GB sports fest event is giving youngsters the chance to try their hand at a range of events - for many for the first time. Martin Fisher was there.
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Jacksons Food Stores, Inc. headquartered in Meridian, Idaho, was founded in Caldwell, Idaho in 1975 as a single service station. Jacksons has grown to be a nationally recognized chain of over 230+ Chevron, Shell, and Texaco branded convenience stores in 6 western states. All company operations currently employ approximately 3,000 associates.
Jacksons is one of the largest privately held corporations in Idaho. We have achieved “Top Performer” status in the nation, for each year of the Chevron’s “Customer First” and Shell’s “Mystery Motorist” customer service & store cleanliness programs.
Jacksons was awarded the “Patriotic Employer Award” by the Idaho National Guard, the “Pectin and the Pearl” Award for community service from Shell and the 2006 Idaho Brightest Star Award, awarded by the Governor. With the help of our employees and customers, Jacksons Food Stores has raised millions of dollars for local charities/community including St. Alphonsus Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital, Idaho Partners for Justice, St. Jude’s Children Hospital, Boys and Girls Club, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Red Cross, Paint the Town, College of Idaho, Boise State University, Little League teams, schools, Boise Rescue Mission, and many more.
John D. Jackson, a Chevron, Shell, Texaco, 76 and ExxonMobil Marketer based in Meridian, Idaho, founded Jacksons Food Stores, Inc. in 1975 as a single service station in Caldwell, Idaho. Jacksons Food Stores has grown to be a nationally recognized chain of 230+ branded convenience stores/car washes in six western states.
John also owns and operates Jackson Energy and Capitol Distributing. Jackson Energy is a wholesale and transportation company delivering fuel to over 800 branded retail locations in 9 western states. Capitol Distributing is a grocery wholesaler that delivers merchandise to over 650 convenience store locations in six western states.
John is personally involved in many associations such as, St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center Board of Directors, US Bank-Western Idaho Advisory Board, Chairman Emeritus National Shell Wholesale Council, Member of the Chevron Western Region Jobber Council and State of Idaho Petroleum Storage Tank Fund Trustee, and the Killebrew-Thompson Memorial Golf Tournament. John was awarded Boise Area Chamber of Commerce “Small Business Person of the Year” in 1993, received Idaho Coaches Association “Distinguished Service Award” in 1998, presented with United States Senator Mike Crapo’s “Spirit of Idaho” award in 2003, chosen as “Idaho’s Brightest Star” in 2006 by Governor Dirk Kempthorn and received the Liberty Bell Award by the Fourth District Bar Association in 2011. In 2010, he was awarded the Bronze Bronco Award from Boise State University for his contributions the Boise Athletic Association and Bronco Athletics.
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Katsunobu Kato, the Cabinet minister in charge of the abduction issue, right, speaks at an event in Tokyo in June calling for the return of Japanese nationals who were abducted by North Korean agents decades ago. | KYODO
North Korean officials say accord to reopen probe into Japanese abductees 'invalid'
Online: Sep 07, 2018
BEIJING - Senior officials in the North Korean government in charge of diplomatic affairs with Japan have declared as “invalid” a 2014 bilateral agreement that led to Pyongyang reopening an investigation into the whereabouts of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, it was learned Friday.
People who have recently visited Pyongyang and met with the senior officials concerned made the disclosure regarding the thorny issue that has dogged ties between Japan and North Korea for years.
The stance appears aimed at sending the message to Tokyo that Pyongyang has no intention of making concessions on the abduction issue.
The senior officials stressed the need to return to the “Japan-DPRK Pyongyang Declaration” signed in September 2002 by former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. They also reiterated Pyongyang’s official position that the abduction issue has been settled.
Under the deal struck in Stockholm in May 2014, Tokyo and Pyongyang agreed on principles for negotiations toward settling the abduction issue, and that North Korea would comprehensively reinvestigate the fate of Japanese abducted by the North decades ago through its own panel.
The senior officials said that the Special Investigation Committee, which was established under the Stockholm agreement, comprehensively examined abductee victims, Japanese who stayed on the Korean Peninsula after World War II, Japanese wives and the remains of Japanese nationals, and notified Japan of all the results.
“The Japanese government has not properly communicated (the results of the probe) to the people,” one of the senior officials was quoted as saying.
The agreement, they say, was effectively voided by the Japanese side as a result of its subsequent actions such as restarting sanctions in response to North Korea’s continued nuclear and missile tests.
Japan maintains that without settling the abduction issue, there will be no normalization of diplomatic ties.
North Korea, on the other hand, insists that Japan must “settle the past,” or compensate for the suffering of the Korean people under Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, before the two countries settle the abduction issue.
“Sanctions and dialogue are incompatible,” one of the senior officials was quoted as saying, indicating that the lifting of Japan’s sanctions is a condition for the resumption of dialogue.
It was recently reported that Shigeru Kitamura, head of the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office, visited Vietnam in July in an attempt to make contact with Kim Song Hye, head of the united front tactical office of the North Korean ruling party’s United Front Department.
If Kim responded to the outreach, there is a possibility that the Unified Front Department, which is in charge of the country’s negotiations with the United States, attempted to explore developments in Japan.
In the Pyongyang Declaration, Japan apologized for its past colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula and promised to provide economic assistance to North Korea once diplomatic relations are normalized.
Japan officially lists 17 nationals as having been abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s but alleges their involvement in many more disappearances.
Five of the 17 were repatriated in 2002.
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How To Teach Yourself Spanish
Have you ever wished you were fluent in Spanish? You know, to make yourself more marketable in the work place, impress your friends, be able to communicate with the locals when you travel, or just for the sheer joy of becoming bilingual?
My day job is high school Spanish teacher, and I constantly get this question: "what's the best way to learn Spanish [without taking classes]?" Well, I have good news for you. It doesn't require much (if any) money to teach yourself fluent Spanish, but it does take a bit of a time commitment. I became fluent in one year, almost accidentally. Allow me to explain.
I took two years of high school Spanish, like you probably did as well. When I started college, it had been two years since my last Spanish class, and I barely remembered anything. (Nor did I really care at that point--I was an English major, intent upon making a living by writing.) My contact with Spanish had been fun in high school, but definitely not life-changing, and I'd never been able to carry on a conversation with an actual Spanish speaker, even when the textbook Spanish was still fresh in my mind after my sophomore year in high school.
During college, I dated a guy who was Puerto Rican, fluent in both Spanish and English. At his apartment one night, I discovered "Univision," a U.S.-based TV channel whose target audience is Latinos living in the U.S. They air soap operas ("telenovelas," literally "TV novels,") produced in Spanish-speaking countries, and I was fascinated by them. I tried to see if I could understand anything, asked my boyfriend for a bit of translation here and there, and then back at my own place, I tuned my TV set to Univision and started watching a Venezuelan soap opera just out of sheer curiosity.
Within a couple of episodes, I was hooked. I wanted to try to figure out what everyone was saying just for the fun of it; plus, I wanted to know who these attractive people were and what all the drama was about. I started watching that soap every night--it was called Pobre Diabla, with the Venezuelan actress Jeannette Rodriguez in the lead role. She was captivating. I loved her hair and makeup. And her love interest, Ariel (played by Uruguayan actor Osvaldo Laport,) had me going ga-ga.
When Pobre Diabla ended a couple of months later, I started watching the soap that took its evening prime time slot, El Desprecio, another Venezuelan soap. That one lasted about nine months, so between the two, I had been watching soaps every weeknight for about a year.
My understanding of what was going on increased gradually night after night, until eventually I felt I was understanding a good 80-85% of what was being said. With my new interest in learning Spanish, I decided to add a Spanish minor to my English degree, and went to the Foreign Language department at my university to take the Spanish placement test so I could enroll in their program.
I was hoping to maybe skip level 1 and test into level 2 Spanish, but the placement test (to my utter shock) put me in third-year college Spanish. I was told that the lowest level class I was allowed to take was "Advanced Spanish Composition," and I panicked. "I don't speak Spanish," I told the lab assistant who scored my exam. "Well," he said, "according to this test, you're fluent. You made a 100%." My jaw dropped. The test hadn't been easy, and I'd mostly gone with what sounded right in my head. I certainly didn't feel as though I was acing it as I answered the questions.
So, I went to the first day of "Advanced Spanish Composition" with fear and trembling. I felt like a fraud, and soon everyone would know it, because I did not speak Spanish. The professor came in, a native of Colombia, and began introducing herself in Spanish, then went over the basics of the course.
A bit of relief washed over me. I could understand her pretty darn well.
Then she said (in Spanish,) "Okay, let's go around the room and introduce ourselves, say why we're in this class. You first," she said to the person sitting in front of me. My heart raced, my palms started sweating, and I gulped as my classmate introduced herself in Spanish.
Then it was my turn. I opened my mouth. Spanish came out. I was freaking dumbfounded.
I had sat there watching my nightly TV while eating dinner, slowly but steadily becoming fluent in Spanish.
So here's what you do if you want to replicate my results.
The Steps to Teaching Yourself Spanish
1. Get on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, or some other streaming service and find yourself a telenovela. If you're on a strict budget and can't afford those services, you can also find telenovelas on Youtube, but the quality, completeness, and selection will be sketchier. You can also use a TV antennae to pick up Univision (and a few other Spanish channels in some areas.) The only downside to watching it this way is that you'll need to be there every weeknight at the same time to watch. Back in the day, that worked well for me because I ran the same routine pretty much every weeknight, of eating dinner in front of the TV at 6:00.
On your streaming service, you should be able to read the description of each telenovela in English so that you can pick one that sounds interesting. If your streaming service doesn't have a description in English, look up the telenovela's title online. Almost all popular soaps have Wikipedia pages in English.
If you need some ideas for good telenovelas, here are some of my all-time favorites:
La fea más bella (an Ugly Betty-inspired story with the talented Angelica Vale and Jaime Camil)
Yo amo a Juan Querendon (with the hilarious, talented, hot Eduardo Santamarina in the lead in a sort of redneck-in-the-big-city role.)
Un gancho al corazón (with the drool-worthy Sebastian Rulli. OMG. Just Google him.)
Al diablo con los guapos (Crazy, funny, annoying, with plenty of twists and turns. Poor girl/rich guy plot, very common in Latino soaps.)
Abismo de pasión (dark, kind of scary, completely captivating.)
You want to go for a Mexican telenovela rather than a Venezuelan or Spanish one (from Spain.) They are higher quality, with better budgets and some truly talented acting, plus the main reason: Mexicans are easier to understand. They enunciate better and speak slower than Spaniards or Venezuelans.
2. Set aside some time each night to watch, starting with episode 1. That's all you have to do, is watch. No subtitles. Let your ear train itself to understand the Spanish without the distraction of reading subtitles. Making/eating dinner while watching is fine, and that way you can multitask.
3. Figure out people's names. This should happen relatively quickly. You'll probably figure out the main characters' names in the first episode. Once you have names down, you'll be able to separate those words from the rest of the sentences, and you'll have at least some starting point for understanding what's going on, for who's talking about whom.
4. Figure out the relationship connections, who is whose mom, child, girlfriend, spouse. Some of this will be obvious in the first episode, where they will spend some time setting up the plot. For that reason, the first episode is crucial. Try not to jump into the middle of a telenovela if you can help it (may be hard to avoid if you're watching it with the TV antennae option.)
5. At some point, you'll probably want to start looking up recurring words. I remember when the word "empresa" started jumping out at me during a soap. "Empresa" this and "empresa" that. (It means company, as in, a business.) When a word you don't know starts getting repeated enough that you notice it, it's a key word to the plot of that soap opera, and you can look it up (but don't distract yourself by trying to look up every word you hear, please! Just let the Spanish come to you, somewhat passively for the most part.)
Speaking of which, I recommend getting a Spanish dictionary app on your phone. I like Word Magic, which I paid $7.99 for a few years ago (but I think there is a free version as well?) It will pronounce words for you and has several features I use constantly.
6. Give it some time. At first, most of what you hear will sound like gobbledy-gook except for names and a few high school Spanish phrases like "Hola. ¿Cómo estás?" but be patient and hang in there. Words will start coming to you one by one, as if through a narrow tube of understanding. For me, that imaginary word-tube was narrow for about 6 months, but then it widened suddenly, at some point during El desprecio (my second soap.) When it widens and you start understanding whole chunks of conversations, it's really, really cool. Soon after that, you'll notice that you just understood an entire scene or two. And eventually, you'll be understanding a good 80-85% of what goes on. Keep watching, and that percentage will continue to rise.
Spanish movies, radio, or individual TV shows that aren't in a series do not work the same way. The magic of the telenovela is that it's a long series with the same characters, it's visual, and it's very repetitive. A dramatic event will happen, and then the key players will go and tell other people what just happened for a few more scenes. So you'll get present and past tenses, as well as future, conditional, and subjunctive, everything in context so you can acquire the language rather than study rules and then forget them. To me, it's the closest thing to being able to go spend time in a Spanish-speaking country to learn the language.
So that's it. No notes, no textbooks, no homework. Just good, juicy soap opera watching. I was able to get a minor in Spanish with only three Spanish classes in college--Advanced Composition, Advanced Conversation, and a Spanish Lit class. I turned that minor into a career that pays the bills while I write novels on the side.
Not a bad return for the 1 year investment of watching Spanish TV.
Life Travel
Caribbean Jewel available now on Amazon
An Englishwoman is caught committing a crime and escapes with a sexy Spanish privateer on his brigantine.
Sweet Barbarian now available on Amazon
5th-century Visigoth meets Colorado high school teacher when he's sent forward in time by a Druid priestess to save his life.
How to Pack a Perfect Suitcase
You know how everybody has one really weird skill that they have totally mastered? Mine is packing a suitcase. It's not that I'm a constant traveler or anything; it's just that I have deeply studied the topic and perfected my technique, because...well, I like being organized in all things I guess.
I read a book about 10 years ago called "Smart Packing for Today's Traveler" that got me started on this road to Unbelievable Packing Cleverness. Since then, I've whittled it down to a science.
The suitcase I'm featuring here is a Samsonite Hardside Fiero 24-inch Spinner, but I can pack almost this much stuff in their hardside 20-inch spinner. After years of trying different types of suitcases, I am now utterly devoted to hardside luggage. It's feather-light, has more cavity space (Samsonite's suitcases are basically ALL cavity space,) and can stand up to being tossed, loaded, and stacked on flights like a pro.
However, my packing tips will work in …
Seattle in March, My Kind of Place
Last week was my first time in Seattle, and I think I'm in love. Between the ridiculous abundance of healthy vegan food and the complicated, ubiquitous recycling bins, I felt right at home. And this "home" had just about everything my little heart desired: cozy coffee shops serving up steaming mugs of foam-topped heaven; a focus on diversity within a community-and-togetherness culture; an easygoing, friendly populace eager to help newcomers and visitors find what they need and feel at ease.
We arrived late due to snowstorms delaying our flights, took a taxi to our hotel, and walked next door to the Queen Anne Beerhall to relax and enjoy a meal before bed.
The beerhall was blissfully empty on a Sunday night, so we settled in and ordered up some food and libations. I managed to find a huge bowl of greens on the menu along with roasted veggies, so I put it all together for a huge bowl of body-nurturing deliciousness.
Queen Anne Beerhall had an extensive beer menu as well a…
Quinoa Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies (Vegan, Gluten Free, Sugar Free)
Okay, you guys. I've been on a search for an easy, vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free chocolate chip cookie recipe for years. A cookie that wouldn't be dry and hard as a dog biscuit, but would have that buttery-soft-crumbly inside texture with a slightly crisp outside.
I have also been interested in learning to bake with quinoa flour for months, but life has been so insanely, um, insane for the past year that I just never got around to it.
My wait has ended. I found a quinoa cookie recipe that I could build from, modify, and tweak out, and here is my finished recipe of chocolate chip cookie perfection, or at least as close to it as I have ever been able to get in the Vegan Gluten-Free Sugar-Free World.
This cookie has the best texture and nutty, buttery flavor of any I've made in at least 3 years (since I quit sugar, white flour, oat flour, and wheat flour.)
Also, it's reasonably easy to make and doesn't require 59 jillion ingredients. (Those of you who do alternative…
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Barnham windmill, Yapton Road, Barnham, Sussex, England
Black and white negative and print made from it of a tower windmill in Barnham, West Sussex, showing a view from the front, taken on 9th September 1934.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a tower windmill in Barnham, West Sussex, showing a detail view of a Quadrant on the ground near the mill, taken on 21st January 1940.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a tower windmill in Barnham, West Sussex, showing a side view, taken on 21st January 1940.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a tower windmill in Barnham, West Sussex, showing a ~ view from the rear with farm buildings and a bicycle in the foreground, taken on 10th April 1945.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a tower windmill in Barnham, West Sussex, showing a ~ view from the front, taken on 11th September 1938.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a tower windmill in Barnham, West Sussex, showing a ~ view from the rear, taken on 14th August 1931.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a tower windmill in Barnham, West Sussex, showing a ~ view from the front, including another building in the foreground, taken on 9th September 1934.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a tower windmill in Barnham, West Sussex, showing a side view, including the mill cottage in the foreground, taken on 9th August 1936.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a tower windmill in Barnham, West Sussex, showing a side view including farm buildings and cows in the foreground, taken on 21st January 1940.
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Morocco’s population is about 33 million, a few million less than the population of California.
Main Languages
At 6 a.m. U.S. Central Standard Time, it is 12 p.m. in Morocco.
Interesting Fact
Morocco’s “Marathon of the Sands” has been called “the toughest footrace on earth.” The race lasts six days and covers more than 150 miles in hundred-degree temperatures.
During Jesus’ time on earth, Rome ruled the land where He lived. Rome also ruled North Africa where Morocco is today. After Jesus’ death on the cross, Christianity spread to North Africa. People called Berbers lived there then, and some still live in Morocco today. Arab armies brought Islam to North Africa in the seventh century. Over the years, many groups ruled Morocco, including the Spanish and the French. Morocco became an independent country in 1956.
Islam is the official religion of Morocco, and about 99 percent of the people are Muslims. Morocco’s king is called “the Commander of the Faithful.” He makes sure that Moroccans respect Islam.
The king’s job is to be sure that the country continues to show “respect for Islam.” The government forbids people from handing out Christian books and pamphlets. Christian missionary work is not allowed. Christians may be left alone if they do not try to spread their faith. But leading people to Christ is against the law. Muslims who become Christians are often treated badly in Morocco. Many Moroccans are deciding to follow Christ anyway.
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Restricted: Countries where government policy or practice prevents Christians from obtaining Bibles or other Christian literature. Also included are countries with government-sanctioned circumstances or anti-Christian laws that lead to Christians being harassed, imprisoned, killed or deprived of possessions or liberties because of their witness..
Hostile: Large areas in nations where governments consistently attempt to provide protection for the Christian population, but Christians are victims of violence because of their witness.
Gaza and the West Bank
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Michael T. Fulks II
1001 West Fourth Street, Winston-Salem, NC USA 27101
mtfulks@kilpatricktownsend.com
Contracts & Commercial Agreements
Michael Fulks is a transactional and corporate attorney, focusing his practice on advising entrepreneurs and investors in venture capital and private equity financings and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Fulks regularly represents startups and other emerging growth companies at all stages of their lifecycle, including formation, financing, and restructuring matters as well as day-to-day operational matters such as employment and consulting agreements and incentive compensation for service providers. In addition, Mr. Fulks devotes a significant portion of his practice to advising private investment funds (including venture capital funds, private equity funds, and hedge funds) on fund formation and general operational matters, as well as representing private funds and other strategic investors in the negotiation and structuring of their portfolio investments.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Fulks worked as an associate in the Charleston, West Virginia office of a national law firm in its Tax and Commercial Law Practice Groups where his practice included corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and income and corporate tax law.
While attending law school, Mr. Fulks served as a Staff Member and Executive Editor of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review and also worked as a research assistant. While attending Washington and Lee University, Mr. Fulks was a recipient of the Mahan Award for Creative Writing.
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2 Early service
2.1 First battle of Ushant
2.2 Second Battle of Ushant
2.3 Siege of Gibraltar
2.4 Battle of Cape St. Vincent
3 Reconstruction
4 Nelson and Trafalgar
4.1 Battle of Trafalgar
5 After Trafalgar
5.1 Final years afloat
5.2 Victorian era
5.3 In dry dock
5.4 21st century
6 Admirals who have hoisted their flag on Victory
HMS Victory
For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named HMS Victory.
HMS Victory in Portsmouth, 1900
Name: HMS Victory
Ordered: 14 July 1758
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Laid down: 23 July 1759
Homeport:
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, England
50°48′07″N 1°06′35″W / 50.80194°N 1.10972°W / 50.80194; -1.10972Coordinates: 50°48′07″N 1°06′35″W / 50.80194°N 1.10972°W / 50.80194; -1.10972
Honours and
Participated in:
First Battle of Ushant (1778)
Second Battle of Ushant (1781)
Battle of Cape Spartel (1782)
Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797)
Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
Flagship of the First Sea Lord and museum ship
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 104-gun first-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 2,142 bm
186 ft (57 m) (gundeck),
227 ft 6 in (69.34 m) (overall)
Draught: 28 ft 9 in (8.76 m)
Depth of hold: 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m)
Propulsion: Sails—6,510 sq yd (5,440 m2)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Speed: up to 11 knots (20 km/h)
Complement: Approximately 850
Trafalgar:
Gundeck: 30 × 2.75-ton long pattern Blomefield 32-pounders (15 kg)
Middle gundeck: 28 × 2.5-ton long 24-pounders (11 kg)
Upper gundeck: 30 × 1.7-ton short 12-pounders (5 kg)
Quarterdeck: 12 × 1.7-ton short 12-pounder (5 kg)
Forecastle: 2 × medium 12-pounder (5 kg), 2 × 68-pounder (31 kg) carronade
Notes: Height from waterline to top of mainmast: 205 ft (62.5 m)
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.
She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship.
In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission, with 241 years' service as of 2019.
In December 1758, Pitt the Elder, in his role as head of the British government, placed an order for the building of 12 ships, including a first-rate ship that would become Victory.[2] During the 18th century, Victory was one of ten first-rate ships to be constructed.[3] The outline plans were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756, and the naval architect chosen to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who, at the time, was the Surveyor of the Navy.[4] She was designed to carry at least 100 guns. The commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction.[5] The keel was laid on 23 July 1759 in the Old Single Dock (since renamed No. 2 Dock and now Victory Dock), and a name, Victory, was chosen in October 1760.[6] In 1759, the Seven Years' War was going well for Britain; land victories had been won at Quebec and Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay. It was the Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Miracles (or Wonders), and the ship's name may have been chosen to commemorate the victories[7][8] or it may have been chosen simply because out of the seven names shortlisted, Victory was the only one not in use.[9][10] There were some doubts whether this was a suitable name since the previous Victory had been lost with all on board in 1744.[10]
A team of 150 workmen were assigned to construction of Victory's frame.[11] Around 6,000 trees were used in her construction, of which 90% were oak and the remainder elm, pine and fir, together with a small quantity of lignum vitae.[12] The wood of the hull was held in place by six-foot copper bolts, supported by treenails for the smaller fittings.[11] Once the ship's frame had been built, it was normal to cover it up and leave it for several months to allow the wood to dry out or "season". The end of the Seven Years' War meant that Victory remained in this condition for nearly three years, which helped her subsequent longevity.[13][14] Work restarted in autumn 1763 and she was floated on 7 May 1765,[15] having cost £63,176 and 3 shillings,[16] the equivalent of £8.48 million today.[Note 1]
On the day of the launch, shipwright Hartly Larkin, designated "foreman afloat" for the event, suddenly realised that the ship might not fit through the dock gates. Measurements at first light confirmed his fears: the gates were at least 9½ inches too narrow. He told the news to his superior, master shipwright John Allin, who considered abandoning the launch. Larkin asked for the assistance of every available shipwright, and they hewed away enough wood from the gates with their adzes for the ship to pass safely through.[17] However, the launch itself revealed significant problems in the ship's design, including a distinct list to starboard and a tendency to sit heavily in the water such that her lower deck gunports were only 4 ft 6 in (1.4 m) above the waterline. The first of these problems was rectified after launch by increasing the ship's ballast to settle her upright on the keel. The second problem, regarding the siting of the lower gunports, could not be rectified. Instead it was noted in Victory's sailing instructions that these gunports would have to remain closed and unusable in rough weather. This had potential to limit Victory's firepower, though in practice none of her subsequent actions would be fought in rough seas.[18]
Because there was no immediate use for her, she was placed in ordinary and moored in the River Medway.[19] Internal fitting out continued over the next four years, and sea trials were completed in 1769, after which she was returned to her Medway berth. She remained there until France joined the American War of Independence in 1778.[20] Victory was now placed in active service as part of a general mobilisation against the French threat. This included arming her with a full complement of smooth bore, cast iron cannon. Her weaponry was intended to be thirty 42-pounders (19 kg) on her lower deck, twenty-eight 24-pounder long guns (11 kg) on her middle deck, and thirty 12-pounders (5 kg) on her upper deck, together with twelve 6-pounders on her quarterdeck and forecastle. In May 1778, the 42-pounders were replaced by 32-pounders (15 kg), but the 42-pounders were reinstated in April 1779; however, there were insufficient 42-pounders available and these were replaced with 32-pounder cannons instead.[18]
Early service
First battle of Ushant
Main article: Battle of Ushant (1778)
The first battle of Ushant (1778) by Theodore Gudin. Admiral Keppel was later court martialed for allowing the French fleet to escape but was acquitted.
Victory was commissioned (put on active duty) in March 1778 under Captain John Lindsay. He held that position until May 1778, when Admiral Augustus Keppel made her his flagship, and appointed Rear Admiral John Campbell (1st Captain) and Captain Jonathan Faulknor (2nd Captain).[16] Keppel put to sea from Spithead on 9 July 1778 with a force of around twenty-nine ships of the line and, on 23 July, sighted a French fleet of roughly equal force 100 miles (160 km) west of Ushant.[21][22] The French admiral, Louis Guillouet, comte d'Orvilliers, who had orders to avoid battle, was cut off from Brest, but retained the weather gage. Manoeuvring was made difficult by changing winds and driving rain, but eventually a battle became inevitable, with the British more or less in column and the French in some confusion. However, the French managed to pass along the British line with their most advanced ships. At about a quarter to twelve, Victory opened fire on Bretagne of 110 guns, which was being followed by Ville de Paris of 90 guns.[23] The British van escaped with little loss, but Sir Hugh Palliser's rear division suffered considerably. Keppel made the signal to follow the French, but Palliser did not conform and the action was not resumed.[23] Keppel was court martialled and cleared and Palliser criticised by an inquiry before the affair turned into a political argument.[23]
Second Battle of Ushant
Main article: Second Battle of Ushant
Victory flying the Blue Ensign (with the pre-1801 Union Jack), from The Fleet Offshore, 1780–90, an anonymous piece of folk art now at Compton Verney Art Gallery in Warwickshire.
In March 1780, Victory's hull was sheathed with 3,923 sheets of copper below the waterline to protect it against shipworm.[12] On 2 December 1781, the ship, now commanded by Captain Henry Cromwell and bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt, sailed with eleven other ships of the line, a 50-gun fourth-rate, and five frigates,[24] to intercept a French convoy that had sailed from Brest on 10 December. Not knowing that the convoy was protected by twenty-one ships of the line under the command of Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, Kempenfelt ordered a chase when they were sighted on 12 December and began the battle.[24] When he noted the French superiority, he contented himself with capturing fifteen sail of the convoy. The French were dispersed in a gale and forced to return home.[24]
Siege of Gibraltar
Main article: Great Siege of Gibraltar
Victory's armament was slightly upgraded in 1782 with the replacement of all of her 6-pounders with 12-pounder cannons. Later, she also carried two carronade guns, firing 68-lb (31 kg) round shot.[25]
In October 1782, Victory under Admiral Richard Howe was the fleet flagship of a powerful escort flotilla for a convoy of transports which resupplied Gibraltar in the event of a blockade by the French and Spanish navies. No resistance was encountered on entering the straits and the supplies were successfully unloaded. There was a minor engagement at the time of departure, in which Victory did not fire a shot. The British ships were under orders to return home and did so without major incident.[26][27]
Battle of Cape St. Vincent
Main article: Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)
The Battle of Cape Saint Vincent, Richard Brydges Beechey, 1881
In 1796, Captain Robert Calder (First Captain) and Captain George Grey (Second Captain), commanded Victory under Admiral Sir John Jervis's flag.[16][28] By the end of 1796, the British position in the Mediterranean had become untenable. Jervis had stationed his fleet off Cape St Vincent to prevent the Spanish sailing north, whilst Horatio Nelson was to oversee the evacuation of Elba.[29][30] Once the evacuation had been accomplished, Nelson, in HMS Minerve, sailed for Gibraltar. On learning that the Spanish fleet had passed by some days previous, Nelson left to rendezvous with Jervis on 11 February.[31] The Spanish fleet, which had been blown off course by easterly gales, was that night working its way to Cadiz.[30] The darkness and a dense fog meant Nelson was able to pass through the enemy fleet without being spotted and join Jervis on 13 February.[32] Jervis, whose fleet had been reinforced on 5 February by five ships from Britain under Rear-Admiral William Parker, now had 15 ships of the line.[33] The following morning, having drawn up his fleet into two columns, Jervis impressed upon the officers on Victory's quarterdeck how, "A victory to England is very essential at the moment". Jervis was not aware of the size of the fleet he was facing, but at around 0630 hours, received word that five Spanish battleships were to the south-east.[28] By 0900 hours the first enemy ships were visible from Victory's masthead, and at 1100 hours, Jervis gave the order to form line of battle.[34] As the Spanish ships became visible to him, Calder reported the numbers to Jervis, but when he reached 27, Jervis replied, "Enough, Sir. No more of that. The die is cast and if there are 50 sail, I will go through them".[35] The Spanish were caught by surprise, sailing in two divisions with a gap that Jervis aimed to exploit.[28] The ship's log records how Victory halted the Spanish division, raking ships both ahead and astern, while Jervis' private memoirs recall how Victory's broadside so terrified Principe de Asturias that she "squared her yards, ran clear out of the battle and did not return".[36] Jervis, realising that the main bulk of the enemy fleet could now cross astern and reunite, ordered his ships to change course, but Sir Charles Thompson, leading the rear division, failed to comply. The following ships were now in a quandary over whether to obey the Admiral's signal or follow their divisional commander. Nelson, who had transferred to HMS Captain, was the first to break off and attack the main fleet as Jervis had wanted and other ships soon followed his example.[37][38] The British fleet not only achieved its main objective, that of preventing the Spanish from joining their French and Dutch allies in the channel, but also captured four ships.[38] The dead and wounded from these four ships alone amounted to 261 and 342, respectively; more than the total number of British casualties of 73 dead and 327 wounded.[39] There was one fatality aboard Victory; a cannonball narrowly missed Jervis and decapitated a nearby sailor.[38]
"I have also observed that the ship is very weak abaft; the transoms between the lower and middle decks work [bend] exceedingly."
— Naval architect Sir Robert Seppings, describing defects aboard Victory, September 1796[40]
On her return to England, Victory was examined for seaworthiness and found to have significant weaknesses in her stern timbers. She was declared unfit for active service and left anchored off Chatham Dockyard. In December 1796 she was ordered to be converted to a hospital ship to hold wounded French and Spanish prisoners of war.[16][41]
However, on 8 October 1799, HMS Impregnable was lost off Chichester, having run aground on her way back to Portsmouth after escorting a convoy to Lisbon.[41] She could not be refloated and so was stripped and dismantled. Now short of a first rate, the Admiralty decided to recondition Victory. Work started in 1800, but as it proceeded, an increasing number of defects were found and the repairs developed into a very extensive reconstruction.[41] The original estimate was £23,500, but the final cost was £70,933.[9] Extra gun ports were added, taking her from 100 guns to 104, and her magazine lined with copper. The open galleries along her stern were removed;[40] her figurehead was replaced along with her masts and the paint scheme changed from red to the black and yellow seen today. Her gun ports were originally yellow to match the hull, but later repainted black, giving a pattern later called the "Nelson chequer", which was adopted by most Royal Navy ships in the decade following the Battle of Trafalgar.[42][43] The work was completed in April 1803, and the ship left for Portsmouth the following month under her new captain, Samuel Sutton.[16][44]
Nelson and Trafalgar
Main article: Trafalgar Campaign
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson twice flew his flag on Victory
Vice-Admiral Nelson hoisted his flag in Victory on 18 May 1803, with Samuel Sutton as his flag captain.[16] The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson (Volume 5, page 68) record that "Friday 20 May a.m. ... Nelson ... came on board. Saturday 21st (i.e.the afternoon of the 20th) Unmoored ship and weighed. Made sail out of Spithead ... when H.M.Ship Amphion joined, and proceeded to sea in company with us" – Victory's Log. Victory was under orders to meet up with Cornwallis off Brest, but after 24 hours of searching failed to find him. Nelson, anxious to reach the Mediterranean without delay, decided to transfer to Amphion off Ushant. The Dispatches and Letters (see above) record on page 71 "Tuesday 24 May (i.e. 23 May p.m.) Hove to at 7.40, Out Boats. The Admiral shifted his flag to the Amphion. At 7.50 Lord Nelson came on board the Amphion and hoisted his flag and made sail – Log."
On 28 May, Captain Sutton captured the French Ambuscade of 32 guns, bound for Rochefort.[45] Victory rejoined Lord Nelson off Toulon, where on 31 July, Captain Sutton exchanged commands with the captain of Amphion, Thomas Masterman Hardy and Nelson raised his flag in Victory once more.[46]
Victory was passing the island of Toro, near Majorca, on 4 April 1805, when HMS Phoebe brought the news that the French fleet under Pierre-Charles Villeneuve had escaped from Toulon. While Nelson made for Sicily to see if the French were heading for Egypt, Villeneuve was entering Cádiz to link up with the Spanish fleet.[47] On 9 May, Nelson received news from HMS Orpheus that Villeneuve had left Cadiz a month earlier. The British fleet completed their stores in Lagos Bay, Portugal and, on 11 May, sailed westward with ten ships and three frigates in pursuit of the combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 17 ships.[48] They arrived in the West Indies to find that the enemy was sailing back to Europe, where Napoleon Bonaparte was waiting for them with his invasion forces at Boulogne.[49]
The Franco-Spanish fleet was involved in the indecisive Battle of Cape Finisterre in fog off Ferrol with Admiral Sir Robert Calder's squadron on 22 July, before taking refuge in Vigo and Ferrol.[50] Calder on 14 August and Nelson on 15 August joined Admiral Cornwallis's Channel Fleet off Ushant.[51] Nelson continued on to England in Victory, leaving his Mediterranean fleet with Cornwallis[52] who detached twenty of his thirty-three ships of the line and sent them under Calder to find the combined fleet at Ferrol. On 19 August came the worrying news that the enemy had sailed from there, followed by relief when they arrived in Cádiz two days later. On the evening of Saturday, 28 September, Lord Nelson joined Lord Collingwood's fleet off Cádiz, quietly, so that his presence would not be known.[53]
Main article: Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar, a composite of several moments during the battle, by J. M. W. Turner (oil on canvas, 1822–1824)
After learning he was to be removed from command, Villeneuve put to sea on the morning of 19 October and when the last ship had left port, around noon the following day, he set sail for the Mediterranean.[54] The British frigates, which had been sent to keep track of the enemy fleet throughout the night, were spotted at around 1900 hours and the order was given to form line of battle.[55] On the morning of 21 October, the main British fleet, which was out of sight and sailing parallel some 10 miles away, turned to intercept.[56] Nelson had already made his plans: to break the enemy line some two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief in the centre and achieve victory before the van could come to their aid.[57] At 0600 hours, Nelson ordered his fleet into two columns. Fitful winds made it a slow business, and for more than six hours, the two columns of British ships slowly approached the French line before Royal Sovereign, leading the lee column, was able to open fire on Fougueux. Around 30 minutes later, Victory broke the line between Bucentaure and Redoutable firing a treble shotted broadside into the stern of the former from a range of a few yards.[58] At a quarter past one, Nelson was shot, the fatal musket ball entering his left shoulder and lodging in his spine.[59] He died at half past four.[60] Such killing had taken place on Victory's quarter deck that Redoutable attempted to board her, but they were thwarted by the arrival of Eliab Harvey in the 98-gun HMS Temeraire, whose broadside devastated the French ship.[61] Nelson's last order was for the fleet to anchor, but this was countermanded by Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood.[62] Victory suffered 57 killed and 102 wounded.[63]
Victory had been badly damaged in the battle and was not able to move under her own sail. HMS Neptune therefore towed her to Gibraltar for repairs.[64] Victory then carried Nelson's body to England, where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 9 January 1806.[65]
After Trafalgar
Final years afloat
Victory's bow and figurehead, 2007
The Admiralty Board considered Victory too old, and in too great a disrepair, to be restored as a first-rate ship of the line. In November 1807 she was relegated to second-rate, with the removal of two 32-pounder cannons and replacement of her middle deck 24-pounders with 18-pounders obtained from other laid-up ships. She was recommissioned as a troopship between December 1810 and April 1811.[66] In 1812 she was relocated to the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour off Gosport, for service as a floating depot and, from 1813 to 1817, as a prison ship.[67][66]
Major repairs were undertaken in 1814, including the fitting of 3 ft 10 in (1.2 m) metal braces along the inside of her hull, to strengthen the timbers. This was the first use of iron in the vessel structure, other than small bolts and nails.[68] Active service was resumed from February 1817 when she was relisted as a first-rate carrying 104 guns. However, her condition remained poor, and in January 1822 she was towed into dry dock at Portsmouth for repairs to her hull. Refloated in January 1824, she was designated as the Port admiral's flagship for Portsmouth Harbour, remaining in this role until April 1830.[66]
Victorian era
In 1831 the Admiralty issued orders for Victory to be broken up and her timbers reused in other vessels.[66] A public outcry against the destruction of so famous a ship led to the order being held in abeyance and Victory was left, largely forgotten, at a Portsmouth mooring.[66] Admiralty officially designated the ageing vessel as a ship's tender for the port admiral's flagship HMS Wellington, and permitted civilian visitors to come aboard for tours.[69] The ship briefly returned to the public gaze on 18 July 1833 when the queen in waiting, Princess Victoria, and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, made a visit to her quarterdeck to meet with veterans of the Trafalgar campaign.[67] This generated a surge of interest in the vessel, and an increase in civilian visitor numbers to between 10,000 and 12,000 a year. Victoria returned for a second visit on 21 October 1844, creating a further burst of interest that lifted annual visitors to more than 22,000.[69] In late April 1854, Victory sprang a leak and sank. All on board were rescued.[70]
This heavy civilian presence militated against Victory's further use as a naval vessel, and she ceased her formal role as Wellington's tender. The impact of so much human traffic also left her increasingly decrepit, particularly in the absence of Admiralty funding for repairs. Sir Edward Seymour, the future Duke of Somerset, visited the vessel in 1886 and considered that "a more rotten ship never probably flew the pennant. I could literally run my walking stick through her sides in many places."[69] In 1887 she sprang a catastrophic leak and it was only with some difficulty that she was prevented from sinking at her mooring.[69] Admiralty thereafter provided a small annual subsidy for maintenance, and in 1889, Victory was restored to a military function by being fitted up as a Naval School of Telegraphy. The school remained on Victory until 1904, when training was transferred temporarily to HMS Hercules, and from 1906 to a permanent establishment at the Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth.[71]
Despite her reuse as a school, Victory continued to deteriorate at her mooring. In 1903 she was accidentally rammed by HMS Neptune, a successor to the vessel that had towed her to Gibraltar. Emergency repairs prevented her from sinking, but Admiralty again proposed that she be scrapped and it was only the personal intervention of Edward VII that prevented this from occurring.[72] Interest in the ship revived in 1905 when, as part of the centenary celebrations of the Battle of Trafalgar, she was decorated with electric lights powered by a submarine moored alongside.[72] In 1910, the Society for Nautical Research was created to try to preserve her for future generations, but Admiralty was unable to help, having become embroiled in an escalating arms race; thus by the time Frank H. Mason published The Book of British Ships in 1911, Victory's condition was described as "..nothing short of an insult".[73][74] A few glimpses of the ship in 1918 are to be seen towards the end of Maurice Elvey's biopic of Nelson created in that year.[75]
In dry dock
Restoring HMS Victory (William Lionel Wyllie, 1925)
By 1921 the ship was in a very poor state, and a public Save the Victory campaign was started, with shipping magnate Sir James Caird as a major contributor.[76] On 12 January 1922, her condition was so poor that she would no longer stay afloat, and had to be moved into No. 2 dock at Portsmouth, the oldest dry dock in the world still in use.[77][76] A naval survey revealed that between a third and a half of her internal fittings required replacement. Her steering equipment had also been removed or destroyed, along with most of her furnishings.[69]
The relocation to No. 2 dock sparked public discussion about Victory's future location. Suggestions in contemporary newspapers included the creation of a floating plinth atop which she could be preserved as a monument, either in Portsmouth or adjacent to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Others proposed a berth beside Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames, or as land-based structure in Trafalgar Square. Despite popular support, these options were not seriously entertained by Admiralty. The naval architects who had surveyed the ship reported that she was too damaged to be moved; Admiralty formally adopted their advice and No. 2 dock thereafter became Victory's permanent home.[69]
During the initial restoration period from 1922 to 1929, a considerable amount of structural repair work was carried out above the waterline and mainly above the middle deck. In 1928, King George V was able to unveil a tablet celebrating the completion of the work, although restoration and maintenance still continued under the supervision of the Society for Nautical Research.[76] Restoration was suspended during the Second World War, and in 1941, Victory sustained further damage when a bomb dropped by the Luftwaffe destroyed one of the steel cradles and part of the foremast. On one occasion, German radio propaganda claimed that the ship had been destroyed by a bomb, and the Admiralty had to issue a denial.[78]
Stern of Victory
In the 1950s, a number of preventive measures were instigated, including the removal of bulkheads to increase airflow and the fumigating of the ship against the deathwatch beetle. The following decade saw the replacement of much of the decayed oak with oily hardwoods such as teak and Iroko, which were believed to be more resistant to fungus and pests.[79] The decision to restore Victory to her Battle of Trafalgar configuration was taken in 1920, but the need to undertake these important repairs meant this was not achieved until 2005, in time for the Trafalgar 200 celebrations.[80] Victory's foretopsail was severely damaged during the Battle of Trafalgar, perforated by upwards of 90 cannonballs and other projectiles. It was replaced after the battle, but was preserved and eventually displayed in the Royal Naval Museum.[81]
In November 2007, Victory's then commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander John Scivier, paid a visit to USS Constitution of the US Navy, which is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. He met with Constitution's commanding officer, Commander William A. Bullard III, and discussed the possibility of arranging an exchange programme between the two ships.[82]
Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Victory has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012. Prior to this, she was the flagship of the Second Sea Lord.[83][84] She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship.[85] The current and 101st commanding officer is Lieutenant Commander Brian Smith Royal Navy, who assumed command in May 2015.[86]
Starboard side of Victory
In December 2011, Defence Equipment and Support awarded an initial five-year project management contract to BAE Systems, with an option to extend to ten years. The restoration is worth £16 million over the life of the contract and will include work to the masts and rigging, replacement side planking, and the addition of fire control measures. It is expected to be the most extensive refit since the ship returned from Trafalgar. In her current state she has no upper masts and minimum rigging. It is expected that it will be over 12 years before these are replaced.[87][88]
Since this contract was placed, the most significant change has been on 5 March 2012, when ownership of the ship was transferred from the Ministry of Defence to a dedicated HMS Victory Preservation Trust, established as part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy.[89] According to the Royal Navy website, the move was "heralded by the announcement of a £25 million capital grant to support the new Trust by the Gosling Foundation—a donation which has been matched by a further £25 million from the MOD".[90]
Victory has also undergone emergency repair works to prevent the hull decaying and sagging. The hull is moving at a rate of half a centimetre each year, about 20 cm over the last 40 years although there are plans to create new hydraulic supports that will better fit Victory.[91]
HMS Victory will benefit from a £35 million restoration project, utilising Scottish elm and oak trees as wood for the restoration project.[92][93]
Admirals who have hoisted their flag on Victory
Over the two centuries since Victory's launch, numerous admirals have hoisted their flag on her:
List of Admirals
Admiral The Viscount Keppel 16 May 1778 28 October 1778
Admiral Sir Charles Hardy 19 March 1779 14 May 1780
Admiral Sir Francis Geary 24 May 1780 28 August 1780
Rear Admiral Francis William Drake 26 September 1780 29 December 1780
Vice Admiral Sir Hyde Parker 20 March 1781 31 May 1781
Commodore John Elliott June 1781 August 1781
Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt 10 September 1781 11 March 1782
Admiral The Earl Howe 20 April 1782 14 November 1782
Admiral The Earl Howe July 1790 August 1790
Admiral The Lord Hood August 1790 August 1791
Rear Admiral Sir Hyde Parker 6 February 1793 May 1793
Admiral The Lord Hood 6 May 1793 15 December 1794
Rear Admiral Robert Mann 8 July 1795 27 September 1795
Vice Admiral Robert Linzee October 1795 November 1795
Admiral Sir John Jervis 3 December 1795 30 March 1797
Vice Admiral The Viscount Nelson 8 May 1803 21 October 1805
Admiral Sir James Saumarez 18 March 1808 9 December 1808
Admiral Sir Graham Moore December 1808 23 January 1809
Admiral Sir James Saumarez 8 April 1809 December 1809
Rear Admiral Sir Joseph Yorke December 1810 March 1811
Admiral Sir James Saumarez 2 April 1811 25 December 1811
Admiral Sir James Saumarez 14 April 1812 15 October 1812
In Ordinary 18 December 1812 31 January 1824
Commissioner Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet 1824
Paid off 30 April 1827 21 October 1831
became flagship of Port Admiral
Rear Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland 1832
Rear Admiral Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie 1837
Rear Admiral Hyde Parker 1842
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle 20 March 1848 19 December 1848
Admiral Sir Thomas Capel 20 December 1848 19 December 1851
Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs 20 December 1851 19 March 1853
Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane 20 March 1854 19 March 1856
Vice Admiral Sir George Seymour 20 March 1856 19 March 1859
Admiral Sir William Bowles 20 March 1859 19 March 1860
Vice Admiral Sir Henry Bruce 20 March 1860 19 December 1864
Vice Admiral Sir Michael Seymour 20 December 1864 19 March 1866
Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley 20 March 1866 20 March 1869
Tender to HMS Duke of Wellington 20 December 1869 1 September 1891
Admiral The Earl of Clanwilliam 1 August 1891 17 September 1894
Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon VC 18 September 1894 31 August 1897
Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour 1 September 1897 17 November 1900
Admiral Sir Charles Hotham 18 November 1900 30 September 1903
Admiral Sir John Fisher 1 October 1903 18 March 1904
The Port Admiral's flag moved to HMS Hercules
and on 1 February 1905, to Firequeen
Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas 18 March 1905 1 March 1907
Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet 2 March 1907 17 March 1908
Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe 18 March 1908 30 April 1910
Admiral Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe 1 May 1910 17 March 1911
Admiral Sir Arthur Moore 18 March 1911 31 July 1912
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Hedworth Meux 1 August 1912 17 February 1916
Admiral The Hon Sir Stanley Colville 18 February 1916 17 April 1919
Admiral Sir Cecil Burney 18 April 1919 17 June 1920
Admiral Hon Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe 18 June 1920 31 May 1923
Admiral Sir Sydney Fremantle 1 June 1923 1 April 1926
Admiral Sir Osmond Brock 18 May 1926 30 April 1929
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes 1 May 1929 17 June 1931
Admiral Sir Arthur Waistell 18 June 1931 17 February 1934
Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Kelly 18 February 1931 31 August 1936
Admiral of the Fleet The Earl of Cork and Orrery 18 August 1937 30 June 1939
Admiral Sir William James 1 July 1939 30 September 1942
Admiral Sir Charles Little 1 October 1942 28 September 1945
Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton 29 September 1945 29 June 1947
Admiral The Lord Fraser of North Cape 30 June 1947 18 April 1949
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon Willis 19 April 1949 17 October 1950
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Power 18 October 1950 17 October 1952
Admiral Sir John Edelsten 18 October 1952 17 October 1954
Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Creasy 18 October 1954 17 July 1957
Admiral Sir Guy Grantham 18 July 1957 17 July 1959
Admiral Sir Manley Power 18 July 1959 17 January 1962
Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley 18 January 1962 17 January 1963
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods 18 January 1963 9 September 1965
Admiral Sir Varyl Begg 10 September 1965 9 June 1966
Admiral Sir Frank Hopkins 10 June 1966 30 October 1967
Admiral Sir John Frewen 31 October 1967 27 February 1970
Admiral Sir Horace Law 28 February 1970 28 February 1972
Admiral Sir Andrew Lewis 29 February 1972 29 June 1974
Admiral Sir Derek Empson 30 June 1974 30 October 1975
Admiral Sir Terence Lewin 31 October 1975 30 October 1976
Admiral Sir David Williams 31 October 1976 30 October 1978
Admiral Sir Richard Clayton 31 October 1978 30 June 1981
Admiral Sir James Eberle 1 July 1981 31 December 1983
Admiral Sir Desmond Cassidi 1 January 1983 30 October 1984
Admiral Sir Peter Stanford 31 October 1984 30 October 1987
Admiral Sir John "Sandy" Woodward 31 October 1987 30 October 1989
Admiral Sir Jeremy Black 31 October 1989 30 March 1991
Admiral Sir John Kerr 31 March 1991 30 March 1993
Admiral Sir Michael Layard 31 March 1993 30 March 1994
Admiral Sir Michael Boyce 31 March 1994 30 March 1997
Admiral Sir John Brigstocke 31 March 1997 18 January 2000
Vice Admiral Sir Peter Spencer 19 January 2000 28 January 2003
Vice-Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent 29 January 2003 25 October 2005
Vice-Admiral Sir Adrian Johns 25 October 2005 15 July 2008
Vice-Admiral Sir Alan Massey 15 July 2008 19 July 2010
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Montgomery 19 July 2010 9 October 2012
Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope 9 October 2012 9 April 2013
Admiral Sir George Zambellas 9 April 2013 8 April 2016
Admiral Sir Philip Jones 8 April 2016 19 June 2019
Admiral Tony Radakin 19 June 2019 Present
Tenants Harbor Light in Maine, USA, which contains a replica of Lord Nelson's cabin commissioned by Andrew Wyeth
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US launches airstrikes targeting IS in Libya
Posted: 8:28 AM, Aug 01, 2016
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States launched multiple airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Libya on Monday, opening a new, more persistent front against the group at the request of the United Nations-backed government, Libyan and U.S. officials said.
Fayez Serraj, the head of the U.N.-brokered presidency council, said in a televised statement that American warplanes attacked the IS bastion of Sirte on the Mediterranean in northern Libya. No U.S. ground forces will be deployed, he said.
The precision strikes, which targeted an Islamic State tank and vehicles, come amid growing concerns about the group's increased threat to Europe and its ability to inspire attacks across the region.
"The presidency council, as the general army commander, has made a request for direct U.S. support to carry out specific airstrikes," Serraj said. "The first strikes started today in positions in Sirte, causing major casualties."
The strikes mark the start of a more intense American role in the fight against IS in Libya, as the U.S. steps in to assist the fragile, U.N.-backed government there. They were the first strikes by the U.S. on the group in Libya since February.
In a statement, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said President Barack Obama authorized the strikes following a recommendation from Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"They are consistent with our approach to combating ISIL by working with capable and motivated local forces," said Cook, using another name for the Islamic State group, adding that "additional U.S. strikes will continue to target ISIL in Sirte."
U.S. officials earlier this year estimated there were as many as 6,000 Islamic State insurgents in Libya, including some who have abandoned Syria. But in recent months, officials say, their numbers in Libya have declined and the group is weakening there under pressure from local militias and the U.N.-brokered government.
Just last week, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that Islamic State fighters in Libya are facing the "distinct possibility" of defeat in their last stronghold.
And Dunford estimated in mid-July that there were only a few hundred militants still inside Sirte, which the group has used as a headquarters.
"I don't think there is any doubt that the Islamic State in Libya is weaker than it was some months ago," said Dunford, adding, that "They've suffered significant casualties in and around the Benghazi area."
Without mentioning any future U.S. military plans in Libya, Dunford said that "whatever actions we conduct," aside from those meant to eliminate an IS threat to the U.S. homeland, "are going to be in conjunction with" the U.N.-backed government of national accord.
In February, American F-15E fighter-bombers struck an Islamic State training camp in rural Libya near the Tunisian border Friday, killing more than 40.
Libya slid into chaos after the ouster and killing of dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The power and security vacuum left the country a breeding ground for militias, and militants including the Islamic State group and al-Qaida affiliates.
Since 2014, Libya has been split between rival governments and parliaments based in the western and eastern regions, each backed by different militias and tribes. The U.N. brokered a deal in December, which tried to mend the rift by creating a presidency council and a unity government. The deal envisions an up to two-year-transitional period, followed by a vote on a draft constitution and then presidential or parliamentary elections.
Libya's pro-government militias — mainly from the western city of Misrata — have been waging an offensive against the Islamic State group in Sirte since May.
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MALACAÑANG
M a n i l a
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 1599
ESTABLISHING AN EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
WHEREAS, an exclusive economic zone extending to a distance of two hundred nautical miles from the baselines from which the territorial sea is measured is vital to the economic survival and development of the Republic of the Philippines;
WHEREAS, such a zone is now a recognized principle of international law;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby decree and order:
Section 1. There is hereby established a zone to be known as the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines. The exclusive economic zone shall extend to a distance of two hundred nautical miles beyond and from the baselines from which the territorial sea is measured: Provided, That, where the outer limits of the zone as thus determined overlap the exclusive economic zone of an adjacent or neighboring state, the common boundaries shall be determined by agreement with the state concerned or in accordance with pertinent generally recognized principles of international law on delimitation.
Section 2. Without prejudice to the rights of the Republic of the Philippines over it territorial sea and continental shelf, it shall have and exercise in the exclusive economic zone established herein the following;
(a) Sovereignty rights for the purpose of exploration and exploitation, conservation and management of the natural resources, whether living or non-living, both renewable and non-renewable, of the sea-bed, including the subsoil and the superjacent waters, and with regard to other activities for the economic exploitation and exploration of the resources of the zone, such as the production of energy from the water, currents and winds;
(b) Exclusive rights and jurisdiction with respect to the establishment and utilization of artificial islands, off-shore terminals, installations and structures, the preservation of the marine environment, including the prevention and control of pollution, and scientific research;
(c) Such other rights as are recognized by international law or state practice.
Section 3. Except in accordance with the terms of any agreement entered into with the Republic of the Philippines or of any license granted by it or under authority by the Republic of the Philippines, no person shall, in relation to the exclusive economic zone:
(a) explore or exploit any resources;
(b) carry out any search, excavation or drilling operations:
(c) conduct any research;
(d) construct, maintain or operate any artificial island, off-shore terminal, installation or other structure or device; or
(e) perform any act or engage in any activity which is contrary to, or in derogation of, the sovereign rights and jurisdiction herein provided.
Nothing herein shall be deemed a prohibition on a citizen of the Philippines, whether natural or juridical, against the performance of any of the foregoing acts, if allowed under existing laws.
Section 4. Other states shall enjoy in the exclusive economic zone freedoms with respect to navigation and overflight, the laying of submarine cables and pipelines, and other internationally lawful uses of the sea relating to navigation and communications.
Section 5. (a) The President may authorize the appropriate government office/agency to make and promulgate such rules and regulations which may be deemed proper and necessary for carrying out the purposes of this degree.
(b) Any person who shall violate any provision of this decree or of any rule or regulation promulgated hereunder and approved by the President shall be subject to a fine which shall not be less than two thousand pesos (P2,000.00) nor be more than one hundred thousand pesos (100,000.00) or imprisonment ranging from six (6) months to ten (10) years, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Vessels and other equipment or articles used in connection therewith shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture.
Section 6. This Decree shall take effect thirty (30) days after publication in the Official Gazette.
Done in the City of Manila, this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.
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Whereas altruism asserts that human beings should act in ways that help others, Egoism is a theory, in ethics, that human beings act or should act in their own interests and desires. Modern psychologist have been challenged to reconcile the two seemingly mutually exclusive theories expanding sphere of investments in others.
Dee Ann Sherwood
Ego means self; egoism can be thought of as self-ism. Egoism is a theory, in ethics, that human beings act or should act in their own interests and desires. Egoism is opposed to altruism, which asserts that human beings should act in ways that help others. Egoism is frequently associated with the early Greek hedonists, whose aim was pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain (The Columbia Encyclopedia 2002).
The assertion that people act in a purely egoist manner has several problems. Taken in the most literal sense, egoism can easily be proven false. People may be motivated by a myriad of feelings such as anger, fear, love, compassion, pride, a sense of justice, or a desire for knowledge. The theory assumes some ambiguity and fuses intentions and consequences. For example, a cigarette smoker acts on his desire to smoke; smoking causes health problems that are not in one's best interest. Oftentimes, one's desires can lead to behaviors and consequences that are not in one's best interest, though the initial action may have provided pleasure or avoided pain.
Modern psychologists have been challenged to reconcile the two seemingly mutually exclusive theories of altruism and egoism with the concept of an evolving self, a self that is enriched by a widening sphere of investments in others (Kegan 1982). Similarly, Maslow's actualized self is one whose more basic needs (ie., food, water, safety, belonging, esteem, and respect) have been met, propelling the self toward higher development and a concern for others.
Historic Roots
The concept of egoism is rooted in the tradition of Greek hedonism. The ancient Greek philosopher, Epicurus (342-270 B.C.E.) asserted that our life's aim should be fulfilling our moral obligation to pursue pleasure and avoid pain. In a letter to Menoeceus, he wrote:
We recognize pleasure as the first good innate in us, and from pleasure we begin every act of choice and avoidance, and to pleasure we return again, using the feeling as a standard by which we judge every good. (The Internet Encyclopedia 2002)
Epicurus denounced the pursuit of pleasure when seeking it produced pain. Rather, he thought that the less desires a person had, the easier it would be to find happiness. Yet, in the Middle Ages, Christian theologians "denounced Epicurean hedonism, which they believed was inconsistent with the Christian emphasis on avoiding sin, doing God's will, and developing the Christian values of faith, hope, and charity" (Ibid.).
Thomas More, in his Utopia (1516), revived interest in seeking pleasure, by claiming that God gives us desires for pleasure and He wants us to be happy. Over the years, philosophers and, more recently, psychologists have grappled with the issue of human motivation. Many people are familiar with the Freudian ego, the part of our mind that mediates impulses and desires (Wallach and Wallach 1983). Freud's theory is distinct from the forms of egoism discussed in this paper. For Freud, human behavior results from subconscious sexual desires.
Common sense and folk psychology assumes that people tend to act in their own interests. Today's culture reflects an interest in self-improvement, self-esteem, and self-gratification. The "X-generation" has also been called the "Me-generation," as rampant consumerism focuses young people on immediate gratification and reflects no example of community responsibility or consideration for others. In fact, the American market economy is founded on the assumption that self-interested, competing parties will produce the greatest good.
Yet, interestingly, our culture provides examples of both self- and other-centered paradigms. There are countless examples of people who act in the interests of others, sacrificing their own comfort and safety, to help fellow human beings, living creatures, or the physical environment. The acts of kindness, rescuing, generosity, self-sacrifice, and advocacy cover the spectrum of needs. Fire-fighters risked their lives, indeed some died, in the September 11, 2001, tragedy in the United States. In addition, a wave of financial gifts to victims and their families followed, as well as volunteers ready to help at the Ground Zero and Pentagon sites of devastation. Mother Teresa tended to the needs of the poor and sick in India - washing, feeding, bathing, and loving the least valued people in Calcutta's society. Princess Diana Spencer used her fame and status to advocate for the banning of land mines; she donated her clothing to raise funds for several social causes.
Ties to the Philanthropic Sector
Theories of egoism attempt to explain human motivation; understanding what motivates one toward serving the interests of others is key to understanding giving and philanthropic activity. The American spirit of giving has been expressed in concrete ways over the past two hundred years. "Major universities have been founded, hospital and medical centers have been built, and social change agencies have come into being" (Russo 1991, 1). Philanthropic gifts of time, talent, and treasure may result from complex motivations (ranging from the feeling of satisfaction that one has helped another to the tax-deduction gained from a financial contribution).
What is important to consider is that it does not have to be an either/or kind of proposition. People's behavior is not purely egoist or purely altruist. Actions can result from a blend of altruistic and egoist motives. Indeed our own American tradition has evolved from this apparent contradiction - we believe in individualism and serving the interests of self, and we have a tremendous history of giving to others in need.
Key Related Ideas
Ethics is a field of philosophy that is concerned with morality, recommending right and wrong behavior. Egoism is a philosophical theory in ethics, which has at least three subtypes, descriptive egoism, normative egoism and conditional egoism.
Descriptive egoism, also known as psychological egoism, contends that people always act in self-serving ways, though they may try to disguise their selfish motives. Normative egoism, also termed ethical egoism, claims people should act in self-serving ways because it is morally right. Modern philosophers have added a third, conditional egoism, which asserts that egoism is morally right and acceptable if it leads to morally acceptable ends; self-motivated actions can be considered morally acceptable, if they lead to the betterment of society and the public as a whole (The Internet Encyclopedia 2002).
Adam Smith, in Wealth of Nations, offers an example of conditional egoism. Borrowing ideas from Mandeville's, Fable of the Bees, Smith wrote:
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. (Ibid.)
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Thomas More (1478 - 1536) was a Renaissance philosopher. His Utopia, sanctioned pleasure on the religious grounds that "the chief part of a person's happiness consists of pleasure," God's wish is for human beings to experience pleasure and find happiness (Ibid.).
During the same era, Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) was born in Westport and educated at Oxford. In Leviathan, a political, philosophical, and ethical piece, Hobbes writes that life is "nasty, brutish, and short" and, therefore, people should above all value and pursue their own interests, under the sovereign authority of God (Ibid.).
During a time of great social upheaval and intellectual debate, that included a civil war and the execution of Charles I, David Hume (1711 - 1776) was forced to flee England (Baird 2000). Hume explored the moral theme of happiness and pleasure, in his renowned, A Treatise on Human Nature. Hume attended Oxford at the age of fourteen and thought that schooling was a waste of time. His position was controversial and brought him into conflict with Aristotelian authorities at Oxford.
Hume's Scottish friend, Adam Smith (1723 - 1790), expanded an application of egoism to include the economic sphere. The Wealth of Nations came to be regarded as the foundation for classical economics. In it, Smith asserts that if market forces were allowed to operate, unfettered by government interference, "an invisible hand" would guide the interests of the public and society at large would be served (The New American 1989). Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the work of German philosopher Max Stirner (1806 - 1856). In The Ego and His Own, Stirner asserts that "the individual must find his entire satisfaction in his own life" (Fleischman 1971, 14). For Stirner, the unique man is the center of the world; his will, in relation to his property, is an expression of his subjective interests. Stirner exalted self above the State, the law, and God (Honderich 1995).
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The Adam Smith Institute is "dedicated to introducing choice and competition, in extending the influence of markets, and giving ordinary people the chance to help frame their future by their choices, and in redesigning public services in ways that inject innovation and customer responsiveness into their delivery"
(The Adam Smith Institute 2002). Established in 1977, this British organization claims to have led the way in the development and evaluation of public policy.
The Values Institute, directed by Dr. Lawrence Hinman of the University of San Diego, is dedicated to the exploration and analysis of values, including egoism, as an ethical theory. Hinman purposes a four-quadrant framework, of opposing continua (representing degrees of altruistic and egoistic motivations) in order to understand human motivation and behavior.
The Adam Smith Institute Web site contains information with text and photos, related to the pursuit of self-interest in the American market economy, at https://www.adamsmith.org/.
The Ethics Update Web site, at http://ethics.sandiego.edu/ was founded in 1994, by Dr. Lawrence Hinman. It was designed to "provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics," primarily for faculty and students.
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy contains text and links to information on egoism, at http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/.
The Values Institute Web site, at http://ethics.sandiego.edu/values/index.html, contains links to egoism information with text and photos. The Institute is "dedicated to thoughtful discussion of difficult moral issues."
Bibliography and Internet Sources
The Adam Smith Institute. [updated 1 October 2002; cited 8 October 2002]. Available from https://www.adamsmith.org/.
Baird, Forrest. Philosophic Classics, Vol. III. New York: Prentice Hall, 2000.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, sixth ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
The Ethics Update. Psychological Egoism. [updated 7 October 2002; cited 12 October 2002]. Available from http://ethics.sandiego.edu/index.html.
Fleischman, Eugene. The Role of the Individual in Pre-Revolutionary Society: Stirner, Marx, and Hegel. London: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
Honderich, Ted, ed. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN: 0198661320.
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Hedonism. [cited 29 September 2002]. Available from http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/hedonism.
Kegan, Robert. The Evolving Self. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.
The New American Desk Encyclopedia. New York: Concord Reference Books, 1989.
Russo, Henry A. Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1991. ISBN: 1555423876.
Wallach, Michael, and Wallach, Lise. Psychology's Sanction for Selfishness. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman Company, 1983.
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Over 20% of newly-ordained priests in France belong to traditional, orthodox orders
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PARIS, July 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Over 20 percent of the 114 men who will be ordained to the Catholic priesthood in France this year belong to traditionalist communities.
Overall, the number of ordinations has fallen in France. In 2017, the “Eldest Daughter of the Church” received 133 new priests, 19 more than this year. However, according to La Croix, the number of priests belonging to communities that celebrate the Mass of John XXIII strictly according to the rubrics or the Traditional Latin Mass has continued to increase.
Of the “traditionalist” or “classical” priests to be ordained for France this year, eight are from the Community of Saint Martin, three are from the Institute of the Good Shepherd (IBP), two are from the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP), and two are from the Institute of Christ the King (ICK). The Fraternity of Saint Thomas Becket, the Society of the Missionaries of Divine Mercy, and the Canons of the Abbey of Lagrasse all have one.
La Croix did not mention the 2018 ordinations for the canonically irregular Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) despite the recent thawing of the Vatican towards Archbishop LeFebvre’s traditionalist order. On June 29, Bishop Fellay ordained three Frenchmen to the priesthood in Econe, Switzerland.
Julienne Thurrott, organizer of a contingent of Scottish pilgrims, told LifeSiteNews that the health of the traditionalist Catholic movements in France can be gauged by the huge numbers that attend the annual Paris-to-Chartres Pilgrimage.
“It regularly attracts about 15,000 – the majority of whom are French,” she said. “The SSPX pilgrimage, which walks from Paris to Chartres at the same time, attracts about 5,000 pilgrims.”
Fewer than half of France’s dioceses will ordain new priests this year. Of its 99 dioceses, 58 will ordain no new priests at all. Paris and Bordeaux have the most ordinands: six each. Lyon, Versailles and Fréjus-Toulon – a tradition-friendly diocese – will have five each. Evry-Corbeil-Essons will have four.
The La Croix article stressed that the number of “late vocations,” the ordination of middle-aged men, is also rising, particularly for priests who will say the Novus Ordo (post-Vatican II Mass).
This suggests a shorter term of service.
In 2014, it was estimated that if traditional communities continued to ordain men at the current rate, and ordinations for the Ordinary Form of the Mass continued to decline at those levels, then in 2038, more than half the Catholic priests in France would be traditionalists.
Although this may seem like good news for those who love the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, it actually represents a collapse of the Catholic Church in France. If the predictions are accurate, the year traditionalists become half of all French priests, there will be only 500 priests in total in France.
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Gagan Narang, Manavjit Sandhu, Heena Sidhu and Jitu Rai will be joined by three teenagers—Anish Bhanwala, Manu Bhaker and Mehuli Ghosh—at the shooting events of CWG 2018.
Shooters are India’s best hope at Commonwealth Games 2018
3 min read . Updated: 06 Apr 2018, 05:50 AM IST Suprita Das
India's shooters, 15 men and 12 women, will once again be our best medal hopes at the Commonwealth Games 2018
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15-41. That’s the age range of India’s shooters participating in the 21st Commonwealth Games (CWG) that gets underway in Australia’s Gold Coast on Wednesday. Three teenagers—Anish Bhanwala (15), Manu Bhaker (16) and Mehuli Ghosh (17)—are making their CWG debut alongside veterans such as Gagan Narang (34), Manavjit Sandhu (41), Heena Sidhu (28) and Jitu Rai (31). India’s shooters, 15 men and 12 women, will once again be our best medal hopes. The expectations aren’t exaggerated: Last month, India topped the medals tally at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Mexico, which was a first.
It’s been a memorable March for Bhaker, who won multiple gold medals in the senior and junior World Cups. But talk about the prospect of a podium finish at her maiden Commonwealth Games and chances are that she’d just smile or change the topic.
“That’s all she gets asked about—medals, rankings and podium finishes. After some time she just feels uneasy," says her father, Ramkishan Bhaker. It’s amid the silence on the shooting range that the youngster feels at ease. As do Ghosh, Bhanwala and Shahzar Rizvi—all products of a robust junior training programme of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI).
The success of the young shooters bodes well for the sport, especially after a forgettable Olympics outing in 2016. There was a concern about over-dependence on a few senior shooters. “But these juniors have made their way to the senior team already and the results are there for everyone to see," says NRAI president Raninder Singh. “Of course the Olympics continues to be our ultimate goal, but these are stepping stones towards that. The younger shooters are doing so well that the older ones have to ensure that they continue to do well to keep their spots."
Among those will be former World No. 1 Heena Sidhu, who was beaten by Bhaker at last year’s national championships. And even though the Commonwealth Games are perceived to be a grand, global affair, athletes such as Sidhu do acknowledge that it has a long way to go in terms of competition.
“I see the Commonwealth Games as a build-up to bigger events like the World Championships (in August-September)," she says.
Youth will be the key in several disciplines at the CWG, where the Indian contingent is 225-strong. Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and high jumper Tejaswin Shankar, both national record holders, will lead the charge in track and field. Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, who won a World Championship gold last year, will hope to improve her silver medal-winning performance from Glasgow 2014. And gymnast Aruna Budda Reddy will be keen to show that her World Cup bronze in the women’s vault final wasn’t a flash in the pan.
And then there are the seasoned campaigners who are looking for another twirl with glory: wrestler Sushil Kumar is eyeing a hat-trick of CWG golds, boxer M.C. Mary Kom is aiming for her first medal at the event, and badminton player Saina Nehwal, who missed the Glasgow Games due to injury, is looking to prove that she still has what it takes to win big titles.
The Games will also be the first multi-disciplinary event with Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore as sports minister, and Narinder Batra as president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). The two seemed to be on a warpath over the presence of “extras" travelling to Australia, an issue that was eventually resolved. India fell to fifth on the medal tally in 2014, after finishing at No. 2 in 2010. To improve that standing, this is, perhaps, exactly the kind of row that officials need to rise above.
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When small employers can sign up for SHOP coverage
The Affordable Care Act allows small employers to make health coverage available to their employees through the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP). Many of these organizations may wonder whether there are limits on when they can sign up for this coverage.
The short answer is that they can sign up anytime — a SHOP must permit a qualified employer to buy coverage for its employees at any point during the year. (This is often referred to as “rolling enrollment.”) But there are some important details to bear in mind.
Minimum participation
Under the Affordable Care Act, SHOPs are intended to allow eligible small businesses to offer employees a variety of qualified health plans. For SHOP purposes, a small employer is one with at least one and not more than 50 employees on business days in the preceding calendar year. (There is an option for states to expand the cutoff to 100 employees.) A SHOP is required to operate in each state. If a state hasn’t established one, the federal government operates a federally facilitated program for small employers in that state.
Under a SHOP’s rolling enrollment, the employer’s plan year is the 12-month period beginning with the plan’s effective date of coverage. But SHOPs may apply a minimum participation requirement. In most states, this means that at least 70% of employees must accept the offer of SHOP coverage (or be enrolled in other qualifying health coverage) in order for the employer to participate in the program. States can’t, however, impose such a requirement during an annual open enrollment period from November 15 through December 15 of each year.
Accurate prediction
Thus, while your company may sign up for SHOP coverage at any time during the year, you must satisfy the minimum participation requirement unless it’s an annual open enrollment period. A calculator is available here to help employers predict whether they’ll meet the minimum participation SHOP enrollment requirement. Of course, it’s also important to keep an eye on Affordable Care Act developments in Washington, which could affect the SHOP
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For a nation whose past half-century rivals few others in its complexity and brutality, Colombia is rightfully being lauded for its spectacular turnaround, at least by those who are paying attention. In recent times the government has sought out peace talks with the leftist guerrilla movement Los FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), with whom they’ve been battling since 1964. Furthermore it has confronted the issue of drug trafficking head on, whilst improving its cities through upgraded transport systems and educational programs thanks to large external investment and a renewed focus on entrepreneurship. Despite this significant change it’s far from a finished product. Given its recent and fragile history, the Colombians’ immense pride comes with an underlying cynicism, and who can blame them? For every person that speaks of their love for the country, there is always another that speaks of their distrust for their compatriots.
From a traveller’s perspective however, Colombia is undeniably one of the world’s most exciting and rewarding countries to explore - even for a nation situated in a continent as geographically spectacular as South America, its diversity is truly astonishing. There are 58 nationally protected areas which include the Amazon in the south east, the steamy jungles of the north where you can witness La Ciudad Perdida or 'The Lost City', whilst not forgetting the trekking available through the peaks of the Andes in the centre. On top of an Atlantic and Pacific coast, Colombia also owns two small idyllic islands located near Nicaragua (San Andres and Providencia) which lend themselves to a much more Caribbean way of life.
The main cities Bogotá, Medellín, Cali and Cartagena all claim their own identities and are compete fiercely with each other (none more so than Bogotá and Medellín). Their differences nevertheless make it special and worthwhile when visiting each one - something I haven’t found to be true of any other South American country. Wandering around any one of the colonial villages such as Villa de Leyva can be just as fulfilling however, especially if you are searching for something that seems to be fairly elusive here: peace and quiet. Indeed the numerous national holidays are put to good use with explosive festivals that show off the colour of the country and the love that the locals have for partying. For that is above all the most striking thing about Colombia: beyond any natural or historical wonder, the locals stand out as extraordinarily friendly and welcoming. At times it’s hard to imagine how the Colombia of today could ever have been so dramatically different from that of 20 years ago.
There are no two ways about it - the country is set for a boom in all senses of the word. With the strongest economy in all Latin America, a rapidly growing tourist industry, huge investment from overseas and valuable products available to export (coffee, flowers, emeralds and coal to name a few), Colombia has a bright future. As a languages student on my year abroad here, I have been fortunate enough to witness all that Colombia has to offer at a time when it is still relatively untouched by the huge numbers of foreigners found in neighbouring nations such as Brazil and Argentina. Inevitably, the day will finally come when this country’s reputation is not one of drugs or violence, rather its natural beauty and vibrant culture. Increasing numbers of tourists may bring fresh challenges for Colombia, but for now her cities, countryside and two coastlines are largely unspoilt, offering great opportunities for the traveller.
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7 things we can do to help stop mass shootings
The nightmare started as I'd guess many parents' do: a faceless gunman was stalking the halls of my son's school, hovering outside the locked doors of classrooms. He got to the Max's and started spraying bullets through the glass window. Max, in a corner with his classmates, screamed. He did not understand what was going on. Then I woke up.
Max's school, like most any in America these days, has safety procedures in place should a mass murderer show up at the door. But unlike other high schools, the students in Max's school are more defenseless than their peers. Max, for one, would not be able to crouch down and hide in a space because of his balance challenges. During the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a girl told a friend to hold a book in front of her face. When I heard that I thought, Max would not be able to do that because of his challenges with holding stuff.
My nightmare was parents' real-life one in this country last week. In the end, teens of all abilities at the Parkland, Florida high school were defenseless in the face of a man bearing an AR-15 rifle—similar to the military-like kind used at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. As people sent prayers, students at the Parkland high school and their families have spoken out to say prayers and good thoughts are not enough, and have made widespread pleas for gun control. "I do care that our Congress and our President outlaw these technologically sophisticated tools of murder just like every other civilized country on this planet," wrote Abbie Guttenberg Youkilis, whose 14-year-old niece, Jaime, died in Parkland, in a Facebook message to the country. "Failure to act will make our politicians complicit in Jaime's murder."
Posing restrictions on the most deadly types of weapons is one preventative tactic. Another is establishing a national gun registry, much like our country regulates automobiles (Chris Ladd, the former GOP Committeeman, makes an excellent point about this here). I've despaired about the lack of progress, and hope that this time, real change happens. For perspective, I reached out to my friend Noelle Howey, director of cultural engagement at Everytown for Gun Safety. "All of our voices matter," she responded. "We may be at a tipping point right now, led by the brave kids at the Parkland high school and other kid survivors of gun violence around the country, and we need to heed their call to action." Seven things any one of us can do:
Join a group.
I joined Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America last week after a friend posted a link on Facebook. Started in response to Sandy Hook, it demands action from state and federal legislators, companies and institutions to establish common-sense gun reforms. It supports the 2nd Amendment, but also practical solutions. Through the group, which has chapters in all 50 states, you can connect with other parents in the community, find local events and get involved on national and local levels.
Join a rally.
On March 24, families will be marching in the streets of Washington, DC, and in their own communities to demand an end to gun violence, through March For Our Lives—an effort spearheaded by teens from the Parkland high school.
Call your reps.
Share your thoughts on gun control, along with your hopes, with your Congressional representatives. "Whether they're for or against gun safety, your call matters," says Noelle. (Find your rep's contact info here.)
Know the facts.
There's been a lot of talk that mental illness is a key underlying problem with mass shooters. Obviously, you can't walk into a school toting a highly deadly weapon, kill people and be in a sane state of mind. Mass murderers may be paranoid, narcissistic or resentful and hell bent on avenging a wrong. Still, the majority have no defined prior history of mental illness. "It is important to remember that only a very small percentage of violent acts are committed by people who are diagnosed with, or in treatment for, mental illness," American Psychological Association president Jessica Henderson Daniel said in a statement. "Framing the conversation about gun violence in the context of mental illness does a disservice both to the victims of violence and unfairly stigmatizes the many others with mental illness."
Don't say their names.
Mass killers may hope to gain attention from their crimes. In fact, research has shown that school shootings and mass killings involving firearms are often triggered by similar recent events. After the Aurora, Colorado shooting, parents Tom and Caren Teves started No Notoriety, a nonprofit that challenges the media to limit the name and likeness of individuals already in police custody, among other measures of responsible coverage. As individuals, we can also refrain from naming these shooters in social media.
Tell children to speak up.
"If you see something, say something"—the national campaign started by Homeland Security—applies to students too. In the course of discussing school safety with our children, we can remind them that if they hear students making threats about gun violence or see troublesome photos on social media posted by a peer, they should tell us or another responsible adult.
Teach children to be kind to all kids.
Four years ago, Glennon Doyle at Momastery wrote about one of her son's teachers, who every week asked the students in her class to write down the names of four kids with whom they'd like to sit with the following week. After the kids had left, this teacher would study the slips of paper to see which kids were getting left out. She was identifying, Glennon wrote, "the littlest ones who are falling through the cracks of the class's social life." When had this teacher started doing that? After Columbine. This shouldn't solely be teachers' responsibility—they have enough on their shoulders. Encouraging our children to make connections with peers who are left out or on the fringes—to speak to them at the playground or in the cafeteria, invite them to the birthday party, ask them to join the club—could make a difference in ways we can't even imagine.
Janet February 20, 2018 at 8:47 AM
One of the things that I thought about is that my son doesn't have a cell phone - the method many/most students used to text their parents. I'm guessing in the typical educational setting, those who had one would share with those who didn't. Not something I will ever mention to my son's teachers. Their first job is to keep the students safe not contact a bunch of parents.
Paige Flamm February 20, 2018 at 11:23 AM
This is something that I've been thinking about a ton the last week! We've been taking action too and talking to our kid's schools about the ways we feel the security really lacks and helping on that end too while we wait for our politicians to make changes.
http://thehappyflammily.com
In Italy in 2017 there have been 343 homicides. At the end of the XIX there was an average of 5000 murders a year. The reason for the steady decrease of violent crimes in Italy (as in most European countries) is that Italians came to accept that the Government has a monopoly over the use of force. I understand the political corruption behind the inability of the legislative body to regulate weapons, but, really, this is a cultural issue. No one should be able to buy weapons, with very very narrowly taylored exceptions. Period.
especially in a highly violent society such
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How can vitamin D help with psoriasis?
Last updated Tue 26 February 2019 Last updated Tue 26 Feb 2019
By David Railton
Reviewed by Debra Sullivan, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, COI
What is vitamin D?
Effect on psoriasis
UVB light therapy
Other vitamins and supplements
Psoriasis is an autoimmune condition that affects the skin and other parts of the body. There appears to be a link between low vitamin D levels and psoriasis, but can extra vitamin D help to improve symptoms?
Vitamin D, also known as the sunshine vitamin, is very important for maintaining the health of the bones, muscles, heart, lungs, brain, and maybe other parts of the body, including the skin. Scientists also believe it may play a role in the immune system.
This article will look at the relationship between psoriasis and vitamin D, how to get more vitamin D, and whether or not an extra dose of this vitamin can help people with psoriasis.
Sunshine is a key source of vitamin D, which may help with the symptoms of psoriasis.
Vitamin D is a unique vitamin for two reasons:
When the skin is exposed to sunlight, the body can make its own store of this vitamin. People need to consume other vitamins in food.
Unlike other vitamins, the body turns vitamin D into a hormone. The name of this hormone is "activated vitamin D" or calcitriol.
There is evidence that vitamin D helps to maintain and support the health of:
bones and teeth
insulin levels
Scientists have also found links between vitamin D and some skin conditions, including psoriasis.
When sunlight falls on the skin, the body produces vitamin D. The skin appears to play a role in the synthesis of vitamin D.
Scientists describe this interaction as "complex." They still do not understand the relationship fully.
Learn more here about vitamin D and its benefits.
Low vitamin D levels are common among people with long-term psoriasis.
People with psoriasis go through times of remission, when symptoms recede or disappear, and flares, when they get worse.
Scientists have found that a person with psoriasis is more likely to experience low levels of vitamin D.
Experts believe that having a vitamin D deficiency does not cause psoriasis, but it might limit the body's ability to keep skin healthy.
One study looked at the vitamin D levels of people in Ireland with psoriasis. The investigators found that, when there was less sunlight, people's vitamin D levels fell, and their psoriasis symptoms tended to worsen.
The researchers proposed that, during the wintertime, people with psoriasis might benefit from either UVB therapy or vitamin D supplementation.
In fact, doctors often prescribe ultraviolet B (UVB) light therapy to treat psoriasis. It seems to work, but whether or not this is due to increased vitamin D remains unclear.
Vitamin D also features in some oral and topical psoriasis treatments.
UVB light therapy and vitamin D
Researchers have noted that UVB is effective at reducing psoriasis symptoms.
One effect of the treatment is that it mimics the sun's UVB rays, and these rays trigger the production of vitamin D in the skin.
However, some scientists have suggested that, while UVB treatment improves symptoms of psoriasis, this may be due to other factors, rather than the creation of additional vitamin D.
What to know about light therapy for psoriasis
Find out more about light therapy for psoriasis.
Sources: How to get more vitamin D
There are four ways for people with psoriasis to boost their vitamin D levels.
Fortified dairy produce can provide vitamin D.
Good dietary sources of vitamin D are:
oily fish, such as salmon
fortified cereals, juices, and dairy produce
egg yolk
beef liver
The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) recommend that most people get enough vitamin D through a healthful diet and careful exposure to the sun's UVB rays.
Vitamin D2 and D3 are available as supplements, and doctors recommend them for infants and others who are at risk of a deficiency.
There is no specific recommendation for adults to use vitamin D supplements. Anyone with psoriasis who is considering supplements should speak to a doctor first.
The Institute of Medicine recommend an upper limit of 4,000 IU of vitamin D a day to prevent the risk of side effects.
The sun enables the body to make vitamin D, but sunlight consists of both UVA and UVB rays.
While UVB exposure does not increase the risk of cancer, UVA exposure does.
For this reason, people with psoriasis should ask a doctor for advice before increasing their exposure to sunlight. Find out more here about sun exposure and psoriasis.
A healthcare professional will provide UVB treatment at a doctor's office. It is not available in tanning salons.
Tanning beds are not suitable for treating for psoriasis because they increase the risk of skin cancer and other skin problems. People with psoriasis should not use a tanning bed.
A doctor may prescribe creams and other topical applications containing a form of vitamin D to treat the symptoms of psoriasis.
Some studies have found that applying vitamin D to the skin, especially combined with corticosteroids, might be an effective treatment. There are concerns about the side effects of corticosteroids, and researchers say that this could help to solve this problem.
In a Cochrane review, published in 2016, researchers concluded that vitamin D may be beneficial.
However, they found that it can also have adverse effects, especially when used alone and in high doses, and appears to be less effective than corticosteroids.
For this reason, authors concluded that it is safer and more effective to use vitamin D in combination with a high-quality topical steroid.
Creams for psoriasis containing vitamin D are available for purchase online.
Some creams for psoriasis contain vitamin D.
Low levels of vitamin D can result from:
poor diet
low absorption or high excretion, due, for example, to inflammatory bowel disease
lack of exposure to sunlight
certain medical conditions
People with psoriasis often have low levels of vitamin D, but exactly why is unclear.
In addition, people are more likely to have a deficiency if they:
are older in age
have a high BMI
are breastfed infants
have dark skin
have little exposure to the sun, due, for example, to winter cloud cover, an indoor lifestyle, or wearing clothing that covers all the body
If there is a chance that a person has low vitamin D levels, a doctor can use a blood test to check. If the levels are low, they may advise the person to take oral supplements to increase their levels.
However, there is little evidence to suggest that supplements will help to improve psoriasis symptoms.
Clinical trials are under way to find out whether vitamin D might have a role to play in treatment. One Norwegian study is due for completion in May 2019.
Vitamin D side effects
According to the ODS, taking too high a dose of a vitamin D supplement can lead to:
anorexia and weight loss
excessive urination
high calcium levels in the blood, increasing the risk of kidney stones and cardiovascular problems
The ODS suggest that an intake of 10,000 IU a day or more could be toxic. They warn that both low and high levels of vitamin D could cause health problems in the long term.
In studies where people with psoriasis used vitamin D as a topical treatment, some people experienced adverse effects in the area where they applied the cream.
These included:
skin pain
red, inflamed, dry skin
The National Psoriasis Foundation note that there is little evidence to confirm that using vitamin D supplements will help people with psoriasis, and they also warn that vitamin D supplementation can lead to side effects.
They advise people to check with their doctor before taking supplements, to prevent adverse effects and interactions with other drugs.
Other vitamins and supplements for psoriasis
There is not much evidence to suggest that vitamins or dietary supplements help reduce symptoms of psoriasis.
However, oily fish are a good source of vitamin D, and some people with psoriasis believe that omega-3 fatty acid supplements help ease their psoriasis.
Omega-3 fatty acids may reduce inflammation, and psoriasis is an inflammatory disease.
However, there are not enough long-term clinical trials to show whether these supplements are effective for treating psoriasis.
Scientists believe there is a link between vitamin D and psoriasis, and they have often found low levels of vitamin D in people with the condition.
However, they do not yet understand how the two interact. Nor is it clear whether vitamin D supplements will help people with psoriasis.
Topical creams combining corticosteroids and vitamin D may help. In addition, UVB treatment, an established therapy for psoriasis, can help the body to create more vitamin D and also appears to relieve symptoms.
As researchers find out more about the links between psoriasis and vitamin D, their findings could lead to new treatments in the future.
For now, however, people should speak to their doctor before trying either UVB treatment or vitamin D supplementation.
Any supplement could interfere with other medications the person is taking.
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