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Townsend's mounting credibility problems
By - The Washington Times - Monday, August 5, 2002
Things seem to be going from bad to worse these days for Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. "The thing that has worried people is: Can she do the job? And she hasn't projected that she can," says one of Townsend's own Democratic ticket-mates, Maryland comptroller and former Gov. William Donald Schaefer.
The latest messes Mrs. Townsend (known to many of the masses as KKT) is trying to spin her way out of are both related to her ruinous performance in overseeing the state's juvenile-justice system, her major substantive policy-related role during her eight years as the number two official in the state. New stories, reported on a near-daily basis late last week by liberal-leaning media organs like The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post, raise serious questions about the state's expenditure of funds to fight juvenile crime and the ability of juvenile-services officials to prevent young criminals under home detention from committing more violent crimes.
The latest juvenile-justice problems have to be particularly jarring to Mrs. Townsend, because last week began on a relatively high note or at least a high note for a political candidate whose campaign has been in a state of political free-fall for the past month or so. On Monday, KKT reconciled with four influential black Democratic machine politicians from Prince George's County, led by Rep. Albert Wynn; the Wynn group refused to attend a Townsend photo-op earlier last month and urged their supporters to boycott the opening of her P.G. office to protest the candidate's selection of highly decorated retired Adm. Charles Larson, who is white, to be her running mate.
Mr. Wynn announced that Mrs. Townsend had agreed to fund a laundry-list of projects at P.G. colleges; to provide more state contracts for minority-owned businesses and throw more tax money at nice-sounding programs to prevent AIDS and teenage pregnancies. For his part, Mr. Larson, who claimed to have had a scheduling conflict, didn't bother to show up for the press conference. Not exactly a rousing show of Democratic Party unity. But, compared to all the bad news Mrs. Townsend had been getting of late, the "unity" session was a relative high point for her campaign.
It didn't last long. The Post reported two days later that a federal grand jury is investigating grants awarded to at least three P.G. County nonprofit groups by the Maryland Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, the agency which Mrs. Townsend has overseen since 1995, when Gov. Parris Glendening designated her his crime czar. U.S. Attorney Thomas DiBiagio is seeking documents related to $503,000 in federal grants which were to have been spent on rehabilitating 200 juvenile criminals in P.G. County. One of the programs, which Mrs. Townsend oversaw, was plagued by administrative problems and shut down by her own agency, but not before paying out $42,000 to settle claims by several people who said they had been employed under the federal grant. The group in question has P.G. Del. Joanne Benson, a Democrat, chairing its board; the executive director is the daughter-in-law of Democratic Sen. Gloria Lawlah, one of the black P.G. politicians who joined Mr. Wynn in reconciling with Mrs. Townsend several days earlier.
And things just seem to grow worse for KKT: The Sun reported that three teenagers, supposedly under the supervision of the "crime czar's" state Department of Juvenile Justice, were charged in separate slayings after slipping off home-detention monitors and disappearing from sight.
It should come as no surprise that Republican Rep. Robert Ehrlich has nearly drawn even with Mrs. Townsend in the polls. She's in serious political trouble, and that has a lot of her fellow Democratic machine politicians deeply worried.
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Remembering Michael Busch
Updated: 10:46 AM EDT Apr 12, 2019
Dan Joerres
President & General Manager
>> FOR THE WBAL-TV 11 EDITORIAL BOARD, HERE IS THE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER. >> HE IS A GUY WHO DEDICATED HIS ENTIRE LIFE TO THE PEOPLE OF STATE OF MARYLAND, HE CARED ABOUT THE PEOPLE HE REPRESENTED AND THE PEOPLE ACROSS THE STATE. HE IS A TRUE LEADER WHO WILL BE GREATLY MISSED. >> MARYLAND SUFFERE A GREAT LOSS THIS WEEK WHEN THE HOUSE EAGER PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 72. IN HIS EARLY DAYS, HE WAS PROLIFIC ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD, BUT AN INJURY SIDELINED HIS FOOTBALL CAREER. HE LATER BECAME A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER AND A COACH. HE SET HIS SIGHTS ON ANNAPOLIS, WHERE HE WOULD BE REMEMBERED FOR BRINGING HIS LARGER-THAN-LIFE PERSONA TO BRING CHANGE. HE FOUGHT TO PROTECT THE CHESAPEAKE A AND LABORED TIRELESSLY TO HELP THE WORKING POOR. DESPITE HIS DECLINING HEALTH, HE CONTINUED WORKING TO HIS FINAL DAY. HE SET THE STERLING EXAMPLE FOR HIS CONTEMPORARIES, BECOMING A MENTOR AND COACH TO YOUNG LEGISLATORS. >> HE IS BEST KNOWN IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOR BEING A COACH. HE REALLY BROUGHT THE SKILLS HERE TO ANNAPOLIS. >> JUST A VERY DECENT, COMPASSIONATE MAN WHO WAS SO VERY PROUD TO SERVE WITH, WHO LEAVES A LEGACY. >> IN TODAY’S POLITICAL CLIMATE WHERE DIFFERENCES BRING ABOUT DIVISION, MAYBE I’LL LOOK TO THE EXAMPLE OF SPEAKER BUSH, A POLITICAL POWERHOUSE WHO W
Maryland suffered a great loss when House Speaker Michael Busch passed away at the age of 72."He's a guy who dedicated his entire life to the people of the state of Maryland, and he cared about the people that he represented and the people across the state. He's a true leader who's going to be greatly missed," Gov. Larry Hogan said.In his early days, Busch was prolific on the football field, but an injury sidelined his athletic career.He later became a high school teacher and coach. Busch then set his sights on the State House in Annapolis, where he will be most remembered for using his large-than-life persona to champion change.Education topped his list of priorities, he fought to protect the Chesapeake Bay and he labored tirelessly to help the working poor.Despite his declining health, Busch continued working for his fellow Marylanders until his final days. An elder statesman, Busch set a sterling example for his contemporaries, becoming a mentor and coach to young legislators who fondly remember him as a consensus-builder."He's best known in Anne Arundel County for his being a coach, and he really brought those skills here to Annapolis," House Minority Leader Nicholas Kipke said."Just a very decent, compassionate man who we're so very proud to serve with, who leaves a legacy," Senate President Mike Miller said.In today's political climate where differences bring about division, may we all look to Busch's example, a political powerhouse who worked across the aisle to bridge divides.
Funeral service details for Michael Busch
Maryland House Speaker Michael Busch dies
Maryland suffered a great loss when House Speaker Michael Busch passed away at the age of 72.
"He's a guy who dedicated his entire life to the people of the state of Maryland, and he cared about the people that he represented and the people across the state. He's a true leader who's going to be greatly missed," Gov. Larry Hogan said.
In his early days, Busch was prolific on the football field, but an injury sidelined his athletic career.
He later became a high school teacher and coach. Busch then set his sights on the State House in Annapolis, where he will be most remembered for using his large-than-life persona to champion change.
Education topped his list of priorities, he fought to protect the Chesapeake Bay and he labored tirelessly to help the working poor.
Despite his declining health, Busch continued working for his fellow Marylanders until his final days. An elder statesman, Busch set a sterling example for his contemporaries, becoming a mentor and coach to young legislators who fondly remember him as a consensus-builder.
"He's best known in Anne Arundel County for his being a coach, and he really brought those skills here to Annapolis," House Minority Leader Nicholas Kipke said.
"Just a very decent, compassionate man who we're so very proud to serve with, who leaves a legacy," Senate President Mike Miller said.
In today's political climate where differences bring about division, may we all look to Busch's example, a political powerhouse who worked across the aisle to bridge divides.
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UPDATE: Three People, Four Dogs Occupied Duluth House Damaged in Monday Morning Fire
A house on the 2200 block of West 4th Street was damaged in a fire early Monday morning. | Photo: WDIO-TV
The Duluth Fire Department says a man, woman, young girl and four dogs were in a Duluth house when it was damaged in a fire Monday morning.
Assistant Chief Clint Reff says crews were dispatched to a residence on the 2200 block of West 4th Street around 5:30 a.m. Reff said the caller reported a porch was on fire and the flames were 'growing fast.'
When they arrived, they saw a woman jumping out of a second-story window. She was treated for burns and smoke inhalation, and taken to the hospital where the fire department says she remains in the ICU. The fire department says the man and young girl exited through the back door, and were not injured.
The first crews on scene noticed the two-story residence was 'heavily involved.' Reff said all people inside the house were evacuated and Duluth police officers were able to evacuate residents inside neighboring homes.
The fire department says smoke detectors alerted occupants of the fire.
Initial damages are estimated at $75,000. Five companies responded.
The Duluth Police and Fire Departments are investigating.
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Two Industries That are Giving Back
Photo courtesy of the Naples Winter Wine Festival
Florida Charity Auction Names Chef de Cuisine and Honored Vintners for 2018
Naples Winter Wine Festival, a charity wine auction, announced its 2018 festival Chef de Cuisine and Honored Vintners–San Francisco’s chef Gary Danko, and David and Kary Duncan of Silver Oak and Twomey. The auction will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples, Florida, January 26-28.
The festival brings together the best of wine and food with renowned chefs, rare bottles of wine and a live auction where guests can bid on once-in-a-lifetime experiences, cars, wines and more. Proceeds benefit Naples Children & Education Foundation services for underprivileged and at-risk children. Last year, more than $15.1 million was raised for NCEF’s grants and strategic initiatives.
Maine’s Allagash Fluxus Beer Raises $290,000 for Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital
Every year since 2007, Allagash Brewing Company has donated a portion of the proceeds from its Fluxus ale to a scholarship fund for pediatric nurses at The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital in Portland, Maine. To date, Allagash has raised more than $290,000 for the hospital.
“The cumulative donations have provided 157 scholarships over the last 10 years,” said Nicole Manchester, director of nursing on the Inpatient Unit of BBCH.
Allagash was founded by Rob Tod in 1995 and has grown from a one-man operation into one of the Top 50 Craft Breweries in the United States (by sales volume), and earned a spot on Maine’s Best Places to Work list for three years running.
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Rapper Remy Ma Opens Up About Her Miscarriage And Infertility Struggles
For the rapper and reality star, having a second baby hasn't been easy.
When I had a miscarriage in early 2017, it was such a lonely experience. None of my friends had talked about having miscarriages—it’s just not something that’s discussed publicly. And then my husband told me, “Babe, do you think you’re the only woman going through this?” I was like, "Well, no...but still, no one talks about this stuff, at least in my circles." So I felt like the only one.
Black women feel a constant pressure to be superwoman—to be strong. We’re the moms, the best friends, the workers, the backbone of the family. So struggling to naturally have children? That’s a sign of weakness that makes you feel like less than a woman. It’s as much about stigma as it is about pride.
In some ways, I had to open up publicly about my miscarriage, because we had already started filming Love & Hip Hop when I found out I was pregnant. So the show had footage of me with the pregnancy test, telling my husband we were having a child, and the two of us shopping for baby stuff. And then I experienced an ectopic pregnancy, which meant that the egg had attached itself to my fallopian tube. I needed an emergency surgery and to have my tubes removed. Suddenly, there was no baby.
After the miscarriage, I was like, “I’m calling Love and Hip Hop, I’m telling them to take all of that out of the show. I just don’t want to talk about it.” My husband was the one who encouraged me to open up. “Babe, the reason why people love you and relate to you is because you’re real and you’re honest," he said. "If you say how you really feel, there’s some women out there that you’re really gonna help. And you’ll realize that it’s not just you," he said.
I was scared, and I was embarrassed. But he was 150 percent right. So many women have commented on my Instagram or come up to me to say, “Just hearing your words, seeing what you went through, I finally felt like it wasn’t just me. I felt like less than a woman, and I felt like there was no one I could talk to about it, but you opened that door, so thank you.”
Hearing from so many women who had gone through similar struggles actually helped encourage me to try IVF. But it was scary. My husband and I sat down with a couple of different doctors until we found one who we were comfortable with, and they pretty much told us: “There’s not a guarantee this will work, but that does not mean that it’s not gonna happen.”
We knew it was going to be a long process, but I had no idea how expensive it was going to be. My friends, people around me...no one I knew was talking about IVF, much less how much it costs. But there were so many numbers thrown at us. One medication is $7,000...another procedure is almost $15,000...freezing my eggs would be $500. The amount it can take to bring a life into the world is mind-boggling.
I wish I’d had a friend to talk to about what IVF would be like. I was even surprised at how many different steps there can be and how much waiting there is. You wait while they draw your blood and take samples, wait for test results, wait for medications, wait for egg retrievals...the process is long. And while all of this was happening, I was taking anywhere from two to three injections in my stomach and abdomen every day for about two months, and then there was a giant needle that had to be stuck in my buttocks for eight weeks straight. Fun!
When we were able to successfully retrieve and then implant my egg with my husband’s sperm, we were over the moon. But then there was a lot of anxiety, especially after having experienced a miscarriage.
擄#RemyMom @Fashionnova has the most comfy one piece SB: I think it’s from their maternity section #RemyMa #MeetTheMackies
A post shared by Remy Ma (@remyma) on Oct 4, 2018 at 4:48pm PDT
Our music, the TV show, careers, money—nothing mattered more to my husband and I than focusing on having this baby. I’m 39, and I’m now a month away from my due date. My husband calls the baby the Golden Child. It was a miracle because so many people were saying it might not work. We sacrificed a lot with no guarantees.
I do think time played a big part into my situation. I have an 18-year-old son, and I put off having a second baby for many years. I’d say “Okay, I’m gonna do it next year…” and then I’d get another contract. “Okay, I’ll do it in a few more months…” then I’d start a new TV gig. Before I knew it, I was in my mid-30s and still putting it off, not realizing my body was not the same body I had when I had my son Jayson, when I was 20. My body's not even the same as it was when I was 30!
I thinka lot of working women feel this way—like they’re forced to make the choice between motherhood and their career.
And for female artists, it’s on a whole different level. We’re supposed to be seen as sex symbols. You’re told to appear single so people want you and desire you. All of these things are stuck into your head by the industry. So when you're in the limelight, it takes a special kind of woman to say “I don’t care what anybody says.”
Remy & Pap: Meet The Mackies Tune in TOMORROW night, October 1 On VH1 at 9 pm EST #BlackLove #MeetTheMackies #TheGoldenChildIsComing #RemyMa
A post shared by Remy Ma (@remyma) on Sep 30, 2018 at 7:33am PDT
I commend the Cardi Bs, Serena Williams, the Beyoncés of the world, successful women who are like “You know what? I love my job, and I love my fans, but I also love my partner and I want to be a mother.” Because when all of the cameras and fame and your career are gone, what do you have left?
Black women, man. We are amazing creatures! Women in general are just amazing creatures. We are able to do so much under so much pressure. So I want to tell any working woman that wants to have a baby: Don’t ever let anyone make you feel ashamed of wanting to take time to build your family."
And for those who are having issues starting a family, whether it’s infertility, or rebounding from a miscarriage like me, there is nothing wrong with you. You are still amazing. Whether you can or cannot bare children, it does not diminish or lessen the fact that you’re a woman, and you are you. My journey has been difficult, and a lot of women go through difficult things. But we are strong. And I wouldn’t change any single part of my story.
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“If I could tell Black women anything, it would be: Listen to your body.”
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FEATURE STORY December 11, 2017
A Rocky Future? Ensuring Central Asia’s Mountains are Climate and Disaster Resilient
Central Asia’s mountain areas, such as this dramatic range in Tajikistan, are home to thriving ecosystems, and unique communities – but are also considerably sensitive to changing climatic conditions and exposed to rising disaster risks.
Climate change, a major source of uncertainty across Central Asia
A sense of anxiety looms large in Barsem, a small village in Tajikistan’s Pamir mountains. Just two years ago, triggered by sudden rainfall and melting snow, a powerful mudflow devastated the village, leaving over 82 families without homes, cutting the local power supply for weeks, and disrupting the country’s only international transit route with China, the “Pamir Highway.”
Barsem villagers walking on steep and dangerous slopes after a devastating mudflow destroyed the main walking roads.
Such disasters are frequent across Central Asia. In Tajikistan, as much as 36 percent of the country’s territory is under threat from landslides. Kyrgyzstan is prone to avalanches: between 1990 and 2009, the country had over 330 avalanches.
In these remote areas, the threats from mountain hazards are exacerbated by existing conditions of poverty, insufficient infrastructure and poor resources.
The region is also expected to see an increase in extreme weather events in the coming decades. By the end of the century, temperatures in the Central Asia region will rise by up to 6 degrees Celsius, leading to the disappearance of more than one third of glaciers from Central Asian mountains by 2050, putting nearby communities at greater risk and rolling back hard-won development gains.
By 2050, up to one third of the glaciers across Central Asia are predicted to disappear entirely, dramatically raising the risk of sudden floods from glacier lake outburst. The map credit: ZOI Network
Anticipating disaster shocks, fostering resilience
To help countries to adapt to a riskier future, the World Bank’s Central Asia Hydrometeorology Modernization Project (CAHMP) is bolstering weather forecasting and early warning efforts in the region. These efforts are particularly important for Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic, two of the most disaster-prone countries in the region with mountains covering more than 90 percent of their geography.
Funded by the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), this $28 million investment focuses on strengthening hydrometeorological services and generating further climate-related risk information that the region is lacking.
The project provided cutting-edge technical equipment – such as modern workstations, automated observation networks, access to satellite data and numerical weather prediction – coupled with specialized trainings for participating agencies.
Because of these improvements, the forecast accuracy in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan increased by 20 to 30 percent. With access to more accurate risk information, countries can better anticipate extreme weather events and take timely action, such as organizing evacuations for at-risk communities, putting in place protective measures and minimizing potential losses.
Rising temperatures mean that mountain glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates in Central Asia, affecting freshwater supplies downstream. Mountain communities, however, also have a wealth of knowledge and strategies accumulated over generations, on how to adapt to climate variability and other related shocks.
In the long term, decision-makers can also better plan significant infrastructure investment projects, something particularly salient in Central Asia, where aging infrastructure is gradually deteriorating from insufficient maintenance and repeated exposure to natural hazards.
Better climate information will also benefit sectors such as agriculture, which is frequently exposed to extreme weather events.
For farmers, accurate predictions of the growing season, rainfall patterns, and potential hail or storm can help boost productivity and increase incomes. This is especially the case for countries like Tajikistan, where more than 60 percent of the population is solely dependent on agriculture as a source of livelihood.
Both Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic have made tremendous strides in reducing poverty - from 75 to 80 percent a few decades ago to below 35 to 40 percent today. Yet the challenges of a changing climate threaten to push mountain communities back into poverty, without critical investments in resilience.
As the world celebrates International Mountain Day, it is important to reflect on how to better care for these important landscapes and to protect communities such as Barsem, which call them home.
Project: Central Asia Hydrometeorology Modernization Project
Project: Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program for Aral Sea Basin (CAMP4ASB)
Press Release: Tajikistan Aims to Better Protect People and Property from Natural Disasters and Climate Change
Feature Story: Strengthening Infrastructure in Tajikistan for Disaster and Climate Resilience
Feature Story: Report Launch – “Learning from Disaster Simulation Drills in Japan”
Story of Impact: Building a Stronger Emergency Management System in the Kyrgyz Republic
GFDRR Hydromet page: Hydromet Services and Early Warning Systems
Publication: Europe and Central Asia: Country Risk Profiles for Floods and Earthquakes
Blog: Are we listening to our ancestors’ warnings?
Report: Central Asia Earthquake Risk Reduction Forum – Proceedings Report
Report: Turn Down the Heat: Confronting the New Climate Normal – The Climate Challenge for Central Asia
World Bank in the Kyrgyz Republic
World Bank in Tajikistan
World Bank in Central Asia
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Deng Xiaoping recognized the need to restore a sense of “socialist legality” and credibility to a system that was on the verge of breakdown and hoped that rapid economic growth would satisfy the Chinese people and prevent them from demanding political reforms. The post- Mao leaders demonstrated a willingness to place economic performance over ideological purity. To stimulate the stagnant industrial sector, which had been under state control since the end of the era of New Democracy, they reduced bureaucratic controls over state industries and allowed local managers to have more say over prices, salaries, and quality control. Productivity was encouraged by permitting bonuses to be paid for extra effort, a policy that had been discouraged during the Cultural Revolution. State firms were no longer guaranteed access to precious resources and were told to compete with each other for public favor and even to export goods on their own initiative. The regime also tolerated the emergence of a small private sector. Unemployed youth were encouraged to set up restaurants, bicycle or radio repair shops, and handicraft shops on their own initiative. Finally, the regime opened up the country to foreign investment and technology. The Maoist policy of selfreliance was abandoned, and China openly sought the advice of foreign experts and the money of foreign capitalists. Special economic zones were established in urban centers near the coast (ironically, many were located in the old nineteenth-century treaty ports), where lucrative concessions were offered to encourage foreign firms to build factories. The tourist industry was encouraged, and students were sent abroad to study. The new leaders especially stressed educational reform. The system adopted during the Cultural Revolution, emphasizing practical education and ideology at the expense of higher education and modern science, was rapidly abandoned (Mao’s Little Red Book itself was withdrawn from circulation and could no longer be found on bookshelves), and a new system based generally on the Western model was instituted. Admission to higher education was based on success in merit examinations, and courses on science and mathematics received high priority. No economic reform program could succeed unless it included the countryside. Three decades of socialism had done little to increase food production or to lay the basis for a modern agricultural sector. China, with a population now numbering one billion, could still barely feed itself. Peasants had little incentive to work and few opportunities to increase production through mechanization, the use of fertilizer, or better irrigation. Under Deng Xiaoping, agricultural policy made a rapid about-face. Under the new “rural responsibility system,” adopted shortly after Deng had consolidated his authority, collectives leased land on contract to peasant families, who paid a quota as rent to the collective. Anything produced on the land above that payment could be sold on the private market or consumed. To soak up excess labor in the villages, the government encouraged the formation of so-called sideline industries, a modern equivalent of the traditional cottage industries in premodern China. Peasants raised fish or shrimp, made consumer goods, and even assembled living room furniture and appliances for sale to their newly affluent compatriots. The reform program had a striking effect on rural production. Grain production increased rapidly, and farm income doubled during the 1980s. Yet it also created problems. In the first place, income at the village level became more unequal as some enterprising farmers (known locally as “ten thousand dollar” households) earned profits several times those realized by their less fortunate or less industrious neighbors. When some farmers discovered they could earn more by growing cash crops or other specialized commodities, they devoted less land to rice and other grain crops, thus threatening to reduce the supply of China’s most crucial staple. Finally, the agricultural policy threatened to undermine the government’s population control program, which party leaders viewed as crucial to the success of the Four Modernizations. Since a misguided period in the mid-1950s when Mao had argued that more labor would result in higher productivity, China had been attempting to limit its population growth. By 1970, the government had launched a stringent family planning program—including education, incentives, and penalties for noncompliance—to persuade the Chinese people to limit themselves to one child per family. The program did have some success, and the rate of population growth was reduced drastically in the early 1980s. The rural responsibility system, however, undermined the program because it encouraged farm families to pay the penalties for having additional children in the belief that the labor of these offspring would increase family income and provide the parents with greater security in their old age. Still, the overall effects of the modernization program were impressive. The standard of living improved for the majority of the population. Whereas a decade earlier the average Chinese had struggled to earn enough to buy a bicycle, radio, watch, or washing machine, by the late 1980s many were beginning to purchase videocassette recorders, refrigerators, and color television sets. The government popularized the idea that all Chinese would prosper, although not necessarily at the same speed. Earlier slogans such as “Serve the people” and “Uphold the banner of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought” were replaced by others that announced that “Time is money” and instructed citizens to “Create wealth for the people.” The party announced that China was still at the “primary stage of socialism” and might not reach the state of utopian communism for generations. Yet the rapid growth of the economy created its own problems: inflationary pressures, greed, envy, increased corruption, and—most dangerous of all for the regime— rising expectations. When the economy failed to live up to those expectations, as in the late 1980s, disillusionment ran high, especially in the cities, where high living by officials and rising prices for goods aroused widespread alienation and cynicism. Such attitudes undoubtedly contributed to the anger and frustration that burst out during the spring of 1989, when many workers, peasants, and functionaries joined the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square against official corruption and oneparty rule. During the 1990s, growth rates in the industrial sector remained high as domestic capital became increasingly available to compete with the growing presence of foreign enterprises. The government began to adopt a serious attitude to the need to close down inefficient state enterprises, and by the end of the decade, the private sector, with official encouragement, accounted for over 10 percent of the gross domestic product. A stock market opened, and China’s prowess in the international marketplace improved dramatically. As a result of these developments, China now possesses a large and increasingly affluent middle class. The domestic market for consumer goods has burgeoned, as indicated by the fact that over 80 percent of all urban Chinese now possess a color television set, a refrigerator, and a washing machine. One-third own their homes, and nearly as many have an air conditioner. Like their counterparts elsewhere in Asia, urban Chinese are increasingly brand-name conscious, a characteristic that provides a considerable challenge to local manufacturers. But as Chinese leaders discovered, rapid economic change never comes without cost. The closing of staterun factories has led to the dismissal of millions of workers each year, and the private sector, although growing at more than 20 percent annually, is unable to absorb them all. Discontent has been increasing in the countryside as well, where farmers earn only about half the salary of their urban counterparts (in recent years, the government tried to increase the official purchase price for grain but rescinded the order when it became too expensive). China’s recent entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) may help the nation as a whole, but is less likely to benefit farmers, who must now face the challenge of cheap foreign imports. Taxes and local corruption add to their complaints. In desperation, millions of rural people have left for the big cities, where many of them are unable to find steady employment and are forced to live in squalid conditions in crowded tenements or in the sprawling suburbs. Millions of others remain on the farm but attempt to maximize their income by producing for the market or increasing the size of their families. Although China’s population control program continues to limit rural couples to two children, such regulations are widely flouted despite stringent penalties. Chinese leaders must now face the reality that the pains of industrialization are not limited to capitalist countries.
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Colorado man: 'I was almost a school shooter'
Man hopes to change lives with story
Posted: 4:06 PM, Jun 11, 2018
By: Chris Welch
“I was almost a school shooter.”
Those were the six words that began a February 16 Facebook post from Aaron Stark, recalling a period of darkness he's never shared until now.
“I didn't carry out anything, I didn't hurt anyone,” the post continued, “But in 1996, I almost did the worst possible thing.”
It was an admission two decades in the making. He had never shared it out of fear.
But the day he decided to make it public, two days after the Parkland shooting, is significant. He and his family were watching news coverage at their home in the suburbs of Denver when his wife Becky Stark raised a question, almost rhetorically: “How could people be so mean,” Becky Stark recalled, “that someone feels they have to take things out on other people?”
“Sadly, I understand how they could get to that point,” Aaron remembered thinking.
But rather than verbally respond right there in front of the cable news discussion they had been watching on MSNBC, he retreated to the bedroom and started writing.
“I was picked on and bullied,” his post went on. “For being fat. For being smart. For not playing sports. So I got angry, and I started hiding weapons around anywhere I hung out at frequently. I had hidden around me knives, sticks, shanks, brass knuckles, whatever. I always kept one in arms reach.”
“My mental health was in sad shape, I was severely depressed and suicidal,” he wrote. “When someone has nothing to lose, they can do anything, and that thought should be terrifying.”
This all culminated during what would have been his high school years: Aaron technically was enrolled at North High School in Denver, Colorado. But aside from popping in to the occasional lesson—“I always liked choir and English so I went to those,” he said—he never attended regular classes. He just hung around the school grounds because he had nowhere else to go.
The other problem was a lack of friends, and, as he puts it in his post, a “severe lack of love.” Stark felt isolated.
“As I got older I was more and more depressed,” he said. “And I started cutting. I still have scars to this day.”
His depression and loneliness finally came to a head, and he decided he would carry out the unthinkable: shooting up a school or mall food court.
“I didn’t care which one,” he said. “It’s the most amount of damage possible in the shortest amount of time. That’s the quickest way to do it.”
Stark approached local gang members, many of whom also hung around outside North High, because he knew they’d have access to a gun. But it would take three days to get it, and in that time one of the few people in his life he might have been able to call a friend intervened in one of the smallest ways. But it was enough to change the course of his history.
“He took me to his house sat me down gave me a shower meal treated me like a human,” Aaron said. “When you treat someone like they’re a person when they don’t feel human at all, it changes their entire outlook on everything.”
Ever since then he’s believed in treating people with kindness, with love. And that’s the message he hopes to share with the world now that he’s gone public with his story. He’s booking speaking engagements, inked a book deal, spoken on national TV, and recently gave his very first TedX talk.
“I think it’s what I was meant to do,” he says of his newfound passion. “I think this is where I should have been the whole time.”
“I was a stay at home dad playing video games watching TV all day beforehand. Now I want to spend the rest of my life talking to people to get the word out,” he said.
And his message is simple.
“Embrace the person who you think deserves it the least. The person you think deserves the least amount of love, you should give them the most love because they deserve it the most. And it’ll help you as much as it’ll help them,” Stark said.
His wife Becky says that now the “world gets to see what I see everyday.”
Stark's daughter Katie shares that sentiment and adds that the revelation about her father only strengthened the connection the two already shared.
“I see him as the same person I saw him as two or 3 years ago: my best friend and someone I look up to,” Katie said, and regarding his newfound passion to share his story added “he can change the world.”
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Britain’s Jocelyn Rae announces decision to retire from tennis
A longtime fixture on Britain’s Fed Cup team, Jocelyn Rae announced her decision to retire from the sport and shared future plans for coaching and charity work.
British doubles player Jocelyn Rae has made the decision to retire from her professional career in tennis, the LTA announced today.
With 17 appearances for Great Britain at Fed Cup, 26-year-old Rae has been a fixture for her country since her first call up in 2011. She’s partnered up with fellow Brits Heather Watson, Laura Robson, and long-term doubles partner Anna Smith. Other career highlights include taking home the gold for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in 2010 and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Jocelyn Rae in mixed doubles action at Wimbledon. (Getty Images)
“I’m incredibly lucky to have played tennis across the world and experienced so much through the sport,” Rae said in a statement. “The sport has given me many opportunities and I have met the most incredible people along the way.
“Being on the tour can be a grueling place, but I feel that now is the right time for me to take a step back and spend more time at home with my friends and family and I’m really looking forward to it.
“There’s no doubt that the wear and tear on the body has played a part in this decision, but I'm excited for the next chapter in my tennis career, and I'm already enjoying giving back to the sport that has given me so much.”
Jocelyn Rae in Fed Cup action against Romania, alongside Laura Robson. (Getty Images)
Speaking on the news of Rae’s retirement, Great Britain’s Fed Cup Captain, and former British No.1 Anne Keothavong said, “I am delighted for Joss that she is embarking on this exciting new stage in her career.
“I have been so lucky to play alongside Joss in Fed Cup and more recently captain her too. She is a joy to be around and is an incredible team player, we will miss her on the team. Her positivity and commitment will see her successful in whatever she chooses to do next.”
Following 19 years in the sport, 26-year-old Rae will now focus her time on coaching, charity work, and building on her existing media profile, as she hopes to inspire future generations to play and share her passion for tennis.
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Do councils now owe a duty of care to building developers?
Between 1999 and 2000 the Southland Indoor Leisure Centre Charitable Trust (Trust) built a sports and leisure stadium in Invercargill (incidentally, on land owned by the Invercargill City Council). The stadium comprised of a foyer, amenities area, squash courts, two main events courts and five community courts. The Trust engaged all its own specialist consultants and contractors for the project.
During construction, it became apparent that the roof trusses over the community courts were sagging. After receiving advice from an independent structural engineer, the Trust organized remedial work on the trusses in early 2000. The Trust then applied for a code compliance certificate for the remedial work. The Invercargill City Council (Council) did not inspect any of this work and instead relied on the Trust's engineer to inspect and certify.
Before receiving the Trust's engineer's certification (known as a PS4), and without referral to its chief building inspector, the Council issued a code compliance certificate for the remedial work in November 2000.
The Trust's engineer eventually provided a PS4 to the Council on 22 January 2001 which said the remedial work had been "generally" constructed in accordance with the relevant drawings and associated specifications. The Council's chief building inspector repeatedly requested further information and calculations from the Trust's engineer. Eventually, some of the Trust's engineer's measurements were provided to the Council, but not those specifically requested by the Council's chief building inspector. However, the Council never withdrew the certificate nor (it appears) continued to request the specific information required.
The Council issued a final code of compliance certificate for the last stage of construction on 9 April 2003.
The remedial work on the trusses did not follow the independent structural engineer's specifications and the roof construction was defective. The roof flexed, leaked and had moved up to six inches under wind load. In 2006, the Trust asked an independent engineer to assess the roof design. That engineer advised the Trust that the roof trusses were adequate, but gave recommendations for improvement, and recommended a visual inspection of the roof truss welds and support fixings be carried out to assess any deterioration or fatigue.
The Trust undertook repairs to address the leaks, but otherwise did not carry out any of the engineer's recommendations. It transpired on the evidence that had those recommendations been carried out, the roof construction problems would have become apparent (and could have been properly remedied).
On 18 September 2010, because of the inadequate construction, the roof collapsed under heavy snowfall. Fortunately, the eight people in the building at the time managed to escape unharmed.
The Trust brought proceedings against the Council in negligence and negligent misstatement for issuing a code compliance certificate for the building, seeking the costs to repair the damaged building. The Trust was successful in the High Court. The Council successfully appealed to the Court of Appeal, with that Court being of the view that the Trust never relied on the code compliance certificate (as confirmation the building complied with the Building Code) and that its own contractors had in fact caused the loss. The Court of Appeal also held that the Trust was contributorily negligent in failing to carry out the engineer's recommendations.
Supreme Court decision[1]
The Council had argued that the Trust's claim against the Council was for negligent misstatement in issuing the code compliance certificate. To establish this claim, the Trust had to show reliance on the issue of the certificate, but the Council argued the Trust was not reliant, having commissioned its own experts to ensure that the building was built in accordance with the Building Code and that the Trust was aware of the issues identified with the roof at the time the certificate was issued.
In its decision delivered on 14 December 2017, the Supreme Court did not accept these arguments. Earlier cases had confirmed that a Council's duty of care stemmed from its regulatory obligations, and its power and control under the Building Acts, and a building owner commissioning and relying on its own experts cannot displace that duty. The Supreme Court in this case was not prepared to depart from these earlier decisions. It therefore held that the Council owed a duty of care to the Trust in (or despite) the circumstances, and breached that duty of care by negligently issuing a code compliance certificate. While a building owner's specialist consultants may be negligent, this does not by itself absolve the council of liability.
The Supreme Court also held, by majority, that in ignoring its independent engineer's recommendation to have the trusses and welds inspected, or failing to make any further inquiry on that issue (which was a safety aspect over which the Trust was already concerned), the Trust was contributorily negligent. Damages were reduced by 50%.
The case is of interest in that it appears to entrench the courts' expansion of a duty of care owed by councils to all forms of building owners; whether residential homeowners, owner/occupiers, commercial building owners and now 'developers'.
In coming to this decision, and following earlier authorities, the Supreme Court likely had at the forefront of its mind the rights of future owners of buildings, who necessarily rely on code compliance certificates, who would have no knowledge of the basis on which certificates may have been issued and/or the extent to which the council, or the previous building owner, relied on specialist consultants.
It is likely that as a result of this decision, insurers of councils may well demand tighter processes for issuing code compliance certificates, including increased inspections. If so, this would inevitably increase the time required to issue certificates; but in order to better ensure the safety and compliance of a building, this is not necessarily undesirable.
[1] Southland Indoor Leisure Centre Charitable Trust v Invercargill City Council [2017] NZSC 190
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Museum to celebrate manuscript
Gemma Jimmison
The Royal Armouries museum in Leeds is hosting a conference to explore one of the most treasured objects in its collections.
The medieval I.33 manuscript is one of the oldest and most enigmatic treasures in the museum’s archives and is one of the earliest surviving examples of a Fechtbuch, or Fight Book. The manuscript was produced in Germany in the early 14th century and it documents historical martial arts techniques through a number of beautifully illustrated pages. The images featured in the manuscript detail a system of fencing using sword and buckler.
The ‘Heart of the art of combat’ conference on May 10 will look at the codicology, language, art history, arms and armour and the fighting techniques illustrated in the manuscript. It will also examine I.33 alongside other sword and buckler traditions.
The conference key note speaker will be Dr Jeffrey Forgeng, the foremost authority on the manuscript and the editor of the recently published facsimile, ‘The medieval art of swordsmanship’. Dr Forgeng, curator of Arms and Armor and Medieval Art at the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA, said: “When I first learned of the existence of this manuscript in the early 1990s, I was astonished to find such a detailed treatise on sword fighting from such an early date - by far the earliest known text of its kind. This conference will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spotlight one of the most remarkable treasures in the Royal Armouries’ collection.”
The conference runs from 10am to 5pm. Tickets are £20 and available through Eventbrite. It will be followed by a practical training seminar on Saturday, May 11 and Sunday 12 May. Tickets cost £60 and can be booked through the Kunst des Fechtens (KDF) website.
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The Concept of a Modern Self
The Setting Sun is a Japanese novel that was written after the end of World War II. The story reflects some of the troubles that the Japanese people were ongoing through after the end of the war. The characteristics of the modern self can be found throughout the entire novel. The first characteristic that is seen is the rejection of tradition. This characteristic is seen when the reader is introduced to the characters. The novel Is told through the eyes of a woman named Kazoo whose aristocratic family, lost most of their money after the war.
Her brother, Nasal, returns home from the war and begins to spend the little money the family has on opium and alcohol. This causes Kazoo to have to take on the responsibility of providing for her family. This Is the rejection of tradition because, It was usually the men who provided for the household. For a man to be as blatantly irresponsible and uncaring as Ana]I, was uncommon. The author created Kazoo and her circumstances in order to show the changes that were beginning to happen in Japanese society. The next characteristic that we see is Ann-intellectualism.
Kazoo and her family started off as aristocrats, but they lose their status and most of their money after the war is over. Because of this, Kazoo and her mother move to the countryside. After causing a minor fire, Kazoo decides to repent by going to work in the field. After doing hard labor for a while, she mentions that she now finds it stifling to sit on the porch with her mother and knit Like she used to do In the past. She Is now more at home when she Is In her tennis shoes and out In the field, because she feels as though she Is connecting with nature. Dazzle 39) She even admits that she Is “steadily turning Into a coarse, low-class (Daze 44) This is anti-intellectualism because she is beginning to feel repressed by her old life style, and is gradually gravitating towards the idea of nature and feeling free. Lastly, we see alienation and loss when Kazoo’s brother returns from the war. At some point during the war, Ana]I had gone AIM, and had not been heard from for a while. One day he randomly shows up at the new home and begins to criticize it. He never properly greets his mother or sister and goes out to drink on the night of his return.
Throughout the story, he keeps a distance from both his mother and sister. He alienates his family to the point where they know nothing about Nation’s personal life. The few things that they do know of, is received from a Journal that Ana] kept while he had narcotic poisoning. This Is a great example of alienation because that Is exactly what he does. He alienates his family. The loss Is apparent when Kazoo loses her mother to tuberculosis and after her brother commits suicide less than a month later. This is thought to be based on ten autumns personal Tie.
Decal’s mother was canonically Ill Just Like ten connecter In the story and Daze also had a terrible drinking problem and committed suicide. Considering the events that were taking place at the time, it was probably difficult to not take on a modern conception of the self. The war had devastated Japan, and social and cultural changes were taking place because of the exposure to the world hat existed outside of the country. The novel itself is like some kind of reflection of what the author and other people during this time period were going through.
The war was a major turning stone for Japan culturally and socially and this novel is provides a brief insight into the gradual changes that occurred. While The Setting Sun is a work that shows all of the characteristics of the concept of the modern self, it is always nice to try and apply concepts to a more contemporary work. Toy story is one contemporary work that is enjoyable but also, filled with the characteristics of a modern conception of the self. Toy Story is a movie about toys that come to life whenever humans are absent from the room. In the story Buzz Lighter is a toy that is given to a child on his birthday.
However, as Buzz emerges from his box, it is clear that something about him is off. To the surprise of all the other toys, Buzz believes that he is not a toy but an actual space ranger that has to protect the galaxy. Buzz is rejecting tradition by thinking this way. He refuses to believe that he is a toy, no matter what the others say. Buzz continues to believe that he is a real space ranger and is confronted by one of the other toys who goes by the name of woody. Woody tells Buzz that he cannot fly because the Jet pack on his back is made of plastic.
Buzz rejects Wood’s practical break down of why he cannot fly and decides to prove that he can indeed fly. Although Buzz did not truly fly, he ignored Wood’s reasoning and flew by “falling with style. ” This is the idea of anti-intellectualism because Wood’s logical hypothesis was rejected and, in Buzz’s mind, proved to be wrong. The lasts characteristic of the modern concept of the self is alienation. In the movie, there are two forms of alienation. The first is when Woody grows agitated and feels as though he is being replaced by Buzz.
He decides to take matters into his own hands by telling Buzz to stay away from what is his. When this does not seem to work, Woody takes more drastic measures by trying to push Buzz into a space between the desk and the wall. This is forced alienation. Woody is purposefully trying to get rid of Buzz because he feels as though he is in the way. The second form of alienation is when Buzz is made to realize that he is indeed Just a toy. He shuts everyone out and starts to act completely out of character. I think that this form of alienation matches up well with the concept of the modern self.
This is simply because the choice to alienate himself was decided on his own, and was his way of coping with his new found realization. Unlike The Setting Sun, Toy Story, has a much happier ending. Even though Buzz has conformed to the fact that he is a toy, he is happy and keeps his space ranger mentality. After reviewing these two works it is interesting to see that these two completely different works have all of the characteristics of a modern self. This goes to show that while the concept of a modern self is not a new idea, it is still a common idea that is thought about in today’s society.
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Ken Taylor was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. His acting career began with roles in the series "L.A. Law" (NBC, 1986-1994) and "Real Life" (ABC, 1995-96). He also appeared in the TV movie "The Image" (HBO, 1989-1990). In the beginning of his Hollywood career, Taylor acted in films like "The Bear" (1984). He also appeared in the TV special "The U.S. Open Tennis Championships" (USA, 1996-97). He also worked in television around this time, including a part on "The Practice" (ABC, 1996-2004). More recently, he earned a role in the action picture "Mighty Joe Young" (1998) with Charlize Theron. In the nineties and the early 2000s, Taylor lent his talents to projects like "Mardi Gras 2000" (Travel Channel, 1999-2000), "Scream 3" with Neve Campbell (2000) and "Retrosexual: The '80s" (VH1, 2004-05). His credits also expanded to "Fashion House" (2006-07). Most recently, Taylor acted in the Jon Huertas horror movie "The Objective" (2009).
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Fighter Pilots Lived Their Dreams
On: November 1, 2008
FRONT ROW Aces Col. Art Fiedler, Col. Steve Pisanos & Col. Richard Candelaria STANDING visiting ace Lt. Cmdr. James “Schulz” Duffy, Col. Barrie Davis, Col. David Wilhelm, Maj. Fred Ohr, Lt. Col. Robert Goebel, & AFAA president, Cmdr. W. E. “Bill” Hardy.
By Larry W. Bledsoe
Six aces from the European and Mediterranean Theaters of Operation were guests of the Southern California Friends (SCF) on Oct. 5, 2008. These impressive pilots won most of their victories while flying the Mustang, but some also have combat experience in the cockpits of Spitfires and Thunderbolts. As they recalled their youth, their flight training and combat during World War II, a common thread emerged—each had realized his dream of becoming a fighter pilot.
The moderator, SCF President Dennis “Scott” Thomas, introduced other guests in the audience—Lt. Col. Robert Goebel, author of “Mustang Ace, Memoirs of a Fighter Pilot,” and Navy ace Lt. Cmdr. James Duffy. Another visiting fighter pilot, Lt. Col. Robert H. McCampbell from the 52nd Fighter Group, was there with his book “An Ordinary Guy in Extraordinary Times.”
After giving a brief biography of each ace, Thomas called on Col. Barrie Davis to speak. Davis joined the 325th Fighter Group in March 1944 and was assigned to the 317th Fighter Squadron, where he flew Thunderbolts. Davis said that WWII was a young man’s war. As an example, he pointed out that, like him, many of his fellow pilots were only 19 when they started pilot training. Davis’ performance earned him the rank Lt. Col. on his 24th birthday.
After enlisting, Davis and others were sent to the Santa Ana, Calif., classification center where they went through a battery of tests, both physical and mental. He jokingly said the smart guys were made navigators, the skinny guys became bombardiers and the rest were pilots.
Having flown both the Thunderbolt and Mustang in combat, Davis said the P-47s seemed like battleships with their eight .50 caliber machineguns. He said they could take a lot of punishment from ground fire when they were down on the deck and could still bring you home. His combat victories were all made in the Mustang, which he remembers as a great fighter, but he said an enemy round anywhere in the P-51’s coolant system would cause the engine to freeze up.
Author Lt. Col. Robert H. McCampell and SCF Director Ed Cote
Col. Arthur Fiedler joined the 317th Fighter Squadron, 25th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force a couple months after Davis in May 1944. He racked up seven of his eight victories within five months. Perhaps his most noted victory was over a particular BF-109. Fiedler said that, contrary to stories otherwise, he did not shoot down that BF-109 with his .45 automatic. In fact, he didn’t even draw it.
Fielder remembers that day. They were on a fighter sweep and not tied to the bombers, cruising somewhere above 25,000 feet, when two BF-109s were spotted below. They went after them. During the pursuit, they were above and below the clouds, turning this way and that, climbing and diving until finally they were down on the deck.
Fielder’s guns had jammed (not uncommonly) during one of the high G maneuvers he pulled during the chase, and he found himself flying next to a German pilot. As they looked at each other, Fielder reached for his .45 out of frustration, but before he could draw it, the German pilot popped his canopy and bailed out. Why did the German pilot jump? Fielder says we’ll never know.
Also honored was Maj. Fred Ohr, the only American ace of Korean ancestry. He served with the 2nd Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Group, until November 1944. He worked his way to the ranking of squadron colonel and flew 241 combat missions before returning stateside. His first victory was against a Ju-88 while flying a Spitfire. He then transitioned to the P-51 and shot down five more German fighters.
Col. David Wilhelm graduated from Yale in 1942 and earned his wings in March 1943. He joined the 31st Fighter Group in April 1944 and was assigned to the 309th Fighter Squadron. Between April 21 and July 3, 1944, he was credited with shooting down six German fighters. Wilhelm told his story in his book “Flyboys.”
Col. Richard Candelaria grew up listening to and reading stories about WWI aces, and knew he wanted to be a fighter pilot. After completing flight training, he was looking forward to a combat assignment but was instead sent to Luke Field, Ariz., to be an instructor. He was later trained stateside in P-38s before joining the 479th Fighter Group in September 1944, assigned to the 435th Fighter Squadron as pilot of a P-51.
(L to R) SCF President Dennis “Scott” Thomas, Col. David Wilhelm and SCF Vice President of Operations Michael Alonzo.
He said to become an ace you have to be at the right place, at the right time and do the right thing. He recalled an April 7, 1944, mission when he arrived at the rendezvous point over a bomber formation seven minutes before the rest of his squadron. Being a lone fighter, two German Me-262s came after him. While the 262s were making wide turns, he turned inside of them and kept them in his sights. Candelaria was credited with a “probable” that day, but he did not have time to confirm it because he was outrunning several BF-109s by the time it happened.
During the ensuing melee, Candelaria was diving on a BF-109 and saw orange balls floating past his canopy. He was surprised when he looked in his rearview mirror to see a BF-109 on his tail. Those orange balls were 30 mm rounds from the German’s nose cannon!
He broke off his attack and went back up to the bombers. His flight was still three minutes from the rendezvous point and he encountered a large formation of 109s and turned into them. There was no lack of enemy aircraft that day for him to attack and he was fortunate to have survived. Within the seven minutes he was waiting for the rest of his squadron to arrive at the rendezvous point, he managed to shoot down four Bf-109s in addition to the Me-262. Three weeks later he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire.
The last to speak was Col. Steve Pisanos who brought along his new book “Flying Greek.” Pisanos was born in Greece and when he was just 12 he knew he wanted to fly. It struck him after watching an aviator from a nearby military base perform aerobatics near his home. He later discovered that he didn’t have a chance of becoming a military pilot in Greece, so he joined the merchant marines at the age of 18 in hopes of reaching America and his dream.
AFAA president, Cmdr. W. E. “Bill” Hardy, was recently inducted into the Commemorative Air Force’s American Combat Airman Hall of Fame. He is shown here wearing the medal he was awarded.
When his ship reached Baltimore, Steve jumped off with $12 to his name. He spent most of it on a ticket to New York City. When he arrived in New York, he had no money and no prospects. As luck would have it, he met two fellow countrymen who helped him find work in a Greek bakery.
He was eventually picked up by immigration officials, and after spending the night locked up, he talked to one of them. The official said that with the war raging in Europe he couldn’t send Pisanos back to Greece, so instead he classified him as a refugee and provided him with paperwork that allowed him to stay legally. Pisanos went back to work in the bakery.
When the opportunity came, he went to England and joined the Royal Air Force. He was later assigned to the 71 Eagle Squadrons flying Spitfires, even though he wasn’t an American,. When the Eagle Squadrons transferred to the 4th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, Pisanos went with them. In 1943 he returned from a mission and was told to report to the American ambassador in London. There, he and some others were naturalized, and he officially became a United States citizen.
Pisanos shared several of his combat experiences about flying the Thunderbolt and the Mustang. He was on the first escort mission to Berlin, and on March 5, 1944, he was credited with two BF-109s before his plane went down near Bordeaux, France. He then spent six months with the French underground. Pisanos’ love for the nation for which he fought was evident as he closed by pointing to the American Flag and said, “I’m very proud to be an American!”
Larry W. Bledsoe is an avid aviation historian and writer. He can be contacted at (909) 986-1103 or at lwbcpf@aol.com or www.bledsoesbooksandart.com.
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Weekly Update October 11, 2010
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg Joins with Public and Private Sector Leaders in Call to Address Global Counterfeit Drug Crisis
Partnership for Safe Medicines Hosts Inaugural Safe Medicines Forum; GPhA Joins Organization as Alliance Partner
Washington, D.C. (October 8, 2010) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is committed to keeping American drugs safe and needs new regulatory authority to do so, said Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the FDA, in prepared remarks at today's inaugural Counterfeit Drug Interchange Conference hosted by the Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM). The conference brought together more than a hundred cross-industry stakeholders to discuss ways to stem the rising tide of counterfeit and unsafe medicines.
"The FDA is firmly committed to doing all that we can to further strengthen our nation's drug supply and ensure the quality and safety of all drugs and medical products on the U.S. market," said Hamburg. "It is clear that FDA needs new regulatory tools that provide the authority we need to meet the challenges we face in today's increasing globalized marketplace. And we look forward to working with Congress on legislation that will give FDA the ability to protect Americans from harmful drugs and medical products-and fulfill our fundamental public health mission."
Today's forum underscores the severity of the problem and the interest among all segments of the pharmaceutical sector - law enforcement, patient groups, government regulators, academics and manufacturers - to come together to discuss practical solutions.
"The U.S. has the safest drug system in the world, but that does not mean American consumers are immune. The instances of counterfeit drugs are increasing and the counterfeiters are becoming more sophisticated, which means that our drug safety is at risk," said Scott LaGanga, executive director of PSM. "PSM's goal with the Interchange is to raise awareness of the scope of this epidemic, as well as the need for global collaboration, information sharing and tools and resources that will help protect consumers across the globe."
In addition to Dr. Hamburg, speakers included an American victim of counterfeit drugs, representatives from the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, law enforcement officers, and patient advocacy groups.
At the event, PSM also announced that the Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) has joined the organization, adding their expertise and network to PSM's efforts to keep all medicines - generic and branded - safe for consumers.
"Given the role that generic drugs play in the global marketplace, PSM today is even more positioned to continue its battle to keep prescription medicines safe for consumers," said LaGanga. "We welcome GPhA to our membership and look forward to working together on this critical health issue."
NABP Acquires Public Education Website AWARxE
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) recently announced the purchase AWARxE, a website and campaign that seeks to educate the public about the dangers presented by illegal online pharmacies. AWARxE was started in 2007 by the Minnesota Pharmacists Foundation after it heard about the story of Justin Pearson, a 24 year old who accidentally overdosed and died from taking a variety of medication he purchased from illegal online pharmacies. "NABP has heard too many stories like Justin's," said William T. Winsley, NABP president, "and when the Foundation approached us about taking the AWARxE campaign national we knew we had been presented with an excellent opportunity to help save others from having a similar story. Using the AWARxE consumer protection program as a vehicle, NABP aims to educate and raise public awareness about rogue internet drug outlets, counterfeit medications, and prescription drug abuse, among other serious issues." More information on the AWARxE consumer protection program is available at www.awarerx.org. (Partnership for Safe Medicines, October 7, 2010; Link here)
Interpol Russia Launches Campaign to Fight Counterfeit Antibiotics and Others
Interpol Russia recently announced that it would start a major operation against fake drugs.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta announced the operation Monday September 27, 2010. The head of Russia's Interpol Bureau, General Timur Lakhonin, said that the operation would seek the sources of counterfeit drugs in the country, reports the ITAR-TASS News Agency. "At present, a special raid was launched to detect the channel of counterfeit medicines," he said. "This is a new direction in our work. We found 1,200 websites in the internet that sell fake medicines. These medicines are now being seized. The operation is underway in 25 countries and now it begins in Russia." Lakhonin said that certain segments of the pharmaceutical injury warrant more attention than others. "The most dangerous segment of the black market is [the] counterfeiting of different antibiotics, contraceptives, steroids and weight loss medicines," he said. (Partnership for Safe Medicines, October 7, 2010; Link here)
Pittsburgh Doctor Charged for Writing Prescriptions Illegally
A Bethel Park physician is accused of writing prescriptions for narcotics to patients he never met in person -- communicating, instead, through phone calls set up by online "doctor consultation" services. Dr. Charles McCool, 64, was indicted by a grand jury and charged with the unlawful prescription of a controlled substance, done outside the scope of a doctor-patient relationship. McCool is accused of writing prescriptions to patients in five Pennsylvania counties from 2007-09. The prescriptions included Vicodin, Lortab and Valium. ("Bethel Park doctor charged in Internet prescription scheme," Pittsburgh Tribune, October 2, 2010; Story here)
About the Partnership for Safe Medicines
The Partnership for Safe Medicines is a group of organizations and individuals that have policies, procedures, or programs to protect consumers from counterfeit or contraband medicines. For more information, please visit SafeMedicines.org.
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Review of Cyrano at The House Theatre of Chicago
Once upon a time, I went to a show and it was called Cyrano. Cyrano was about a poet with a long nose (Shawn Pfautsch), and he was in love with this woman named Roxanne (Stacy Stoltz), but she was in love with somebody else, and Cyrano and Roxanne were just friends. This guy that she was actually in love with was not very good at poetry, and his name was Christian (Glenn Stanton), so when he wanted to talk to her on his own it turned out very bad. Matt Hawkins did the fight choreography and he also directed the show. I think the fighting was really good and cool and awesome. I would describe the play as hilarious but very touching and sad.
Cyrano's nose was the biggest nose after Pinocchio--which has a very long nose, so that means Cyrano has a very long nose, which you will see in the picture below. I wondered how they made his nose grow so long. I think it was a rubber nose that they glued onto his face. I thought it was kind of weird that people that saw his nose were like "Oh my gosh!" because his nose wasn't sooo weird. In this letter Roxanne says "Even if your handsomeness goes away, I would still love you." She thinks she is writing to Christian but she is actually writing to Cyrano. That means that she doesn't really care if somebody's nose is long. She'll love them anyway. I think that is good that she doesn't care how handsome they are, just how smart they are.
I liked the songs (by Kevin O'Donnell, Shawn Pfautsch, and Matt Hawkins) but my favorite one was "Panache." "Panache is a word that makes me crash"--isn't that a good rhyme? Panache means white feather in French. I found that out on Wikipedia. The feather makes him look like a poet. It is like everything in the whole world to him. It's a very special feather that makes him who he is. Panache is poetry-ness. Poetry-ness means that he writes good words and he is good with romance and stuff like that. He fights funny, and he fights in hard ways--how can you write a letter while you're fighting? That is particularly what I mean by panache.
The first scene where Valvert (Jason Peregoy) was fighting Cyrano--that was the "dink scene," as I call it. I call it the "dink scene" because one of the most funny lines was "dink." So Cyrano was fighting with Valvert, and he is composing a poem, and then--suddenly--Cyrano very quietly, the slightest bit of stabbing, he stabs him and "dink." He stabbed him and the "dink" was like he had just made a tiny little dent in him. Ligniere (Mike Smith) barges in and says "That was awesome!" and he just keeps trying to imitate Cyrano. He kept going "ching, ching, dink!" twice--and it was so funny.
The ninja scene is where Cyrano is fighting ninjas that just barge in suddenly. In the play he is supposed to be fighting off one hundred people, but he actually isn't. They give you a very good feeling that you are actually seeing one hundred people being fought. It is a mystery to me how they made it seem like there were one hundred people; there were only twelve people (Justin Verstraete, Meredith Lyons, Jon Beal, Marty Dubin, Megan Schemmel, Jennifer Betancourt, Jack Miggins, Aaron Kirby, Glenn Stanton, Shane Brady, Mike Smith, and Jason Peregoy). He fought each person like ten times. I liked the ninja scene a lot--that was my favorite scene. They've all surrounded him, and then Cyrano says, "Well you want to play this way, do you?" He gets every single sword that surrounds him like a xylophone. And he just hit all the swords in one slice. I thought that was amazingly cool.
This is one of my favorite scenes because it is hilarious. In this scene Christian is talking to Roxanne, and he did a very very very bad job because he doesn't have very much poetry like I said in the first paragraph. She said, "So tell me what you have to say," and he said, "I love you." And then she said, "Tell me more," and then he said, "I love you." "Tell me more than that." Then he said, "I love you so much." And then she said, "Get more into it." And then he said: "I will unfold my lips onto your mouth." And that did not go well. When he tried to kiss her she fell off the piano, which they happened to be sitting on. And that had to hurt.
In the balcony scene, Christian comes and Cyrano is trying to tell him what to say to Roxanne. And Cyrano says, "Say her name." And then Christian says "What?" Then Cyrano says, "Say her name!" and then Christian says, "Her name. Yeah." Then Cyrano says, "Roxanne!" Then Christian says "ROXANNE!" And then Roxanne is like "What?!" and she looks down. And then Cyrano comes and says, "We better switch." And then he says very poetic things. And then he says, "There is one last thing I would like to have of you." And then Christian says "a kiss!" Then Cyrano says, "Shut up, Christian" through pursed lips. Cyrano says, "I was contradicting myself for going too far." I thought this scene was really funny because Christian is really bad at poetry, but he is trying to say what Cyrano is telling him, but he can't actually do it. This scene is kind of scary because you think Roxanne is going to be angry at Cyrano if she finds out that he is at the bottom. You feel bad for Cyrano because he loved Roxanne and he plays a sad song and Christian gets to go up and kiss her.
There was this funny scene where the Spanish came in and he said "Parlez-vous Francais?" and they just kept standing there with the swords pointed at him. Then he said, "Parlez-vous Espanol?" And then they like nodded their heads and he keeps writing and he says, "Oh crap. Ahhhhhhh!" because he is trying to kill them because they are against the Spanish in that time. He keeps trying to write the letter while they are fighting. But writing the letter works out very badly while he is fighting because someone is too excited about fighting than writing a letter about love.
Finally Christian decides to let Cyrano marry Roxanne because in a letter she said that she would love him even if he was amazingly ugly. That means she would adore Cyrano. Because Christian dies, Cyrano can't tell Roxanne that he is actually the person she's in love with because Christian is dead and she is really sad. Either way, they don't get to get married because...you will find out in two paragraphs. Christian dies because the Spanish kill him not knowing he is in love with somebody. I thought it was a cool battle until Christian died. Then I hated it because I loved that character. He was hilarious.
When Roxanne heard about Christian's death--that was a sad scene. She went down and cried. And remember when Cyrano kept making her hit the keys on the piano. He was making her feel better. She was very beautiful and smart and lovely and had good taste. She should have chosen Cyrano because he was the only person that she actually liked a lot that was still alive.
In the last scene, Cyrano comes to visit Roxanne with a broken head. He has a big, long, very cool speech, and then he dies. And his last words are, "there's one thing that I will take up to the moon with me...my panache." When it happened I was very touched. I think she actually loves him in the end, but he never actually gets to marry her like he wants to. Everybody in the audience was touched except if the Joker was there. Then he would not be touched, because he is a supervillain. Catwoman and Poison Ivy would because they are more gentle-hearted than others.
Cyrano is for ages 6 and up. The things that might parents have to think twice about are the big kissing scene, the word "shut up," the bloody head, the dying, and the fighting. The things that I think the kids would love are the balcony scene, the song "Panache," and when you first meet Christian. I don't think other kids would be as comfortable with the fighting because I have seen lots of plays with fighting in it. People that would like this show are people who like romantic stuff, poets, duelling, funny stuff, and long noses. You can get poetry-ness if you go to see this play--if you don't already have it. And you can get more if you already have panache.
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Conflict Resolution for Labor Day
Preached at The Church of the Incarnation, New York City, September 4, 2011
Our lessons this morning all in one way or another refer to the resolution of conflict. How interesting that they should occur on the weekend of Labor Day.
The labor movement in this country began as a serious force in the 1880's. Founded in 1869, the first major American labor organization, the Knights of Labor, had only 28,000 members in 1880, and grew to an astonishing membership of 700,000 by 1886, just six years! Something big was going on! The founder of the Order of the Holy Cross, James Huntington, joined the Knights here in New York City and quickly became a national figure supporting the rights of working people, helping to bring their concerns into the heart of the Episcopal Church. The Knights of Labor could not maintain that level and its membership soon fell back, but its rapid growth showed the industrial and political community that organized labor was a force to reckoned with. The Knights of Labor paved the way for an industrial order which eventually came, through struggle, to recognize the rights and dignity of working people. That struggle takes different forms in our own age, perhaps, but it is perpetually necessary, even in times when the creation of work through capital itself seems endangered. And conflict was part of that struggle.
Our three lessons this morning all deal with conflict in one way or another. The prophet Ezekiel is commissioned by the Lord to warn the wicked. But Ezekiel seems not to want to follow through. The Lord has to tell him that if he does not warn them and disaster comes, the blood will be on his hands. So this conflict is dealt with by telling the truth regardless of its consequences to the teller. If people are not warned, they will not change. If they are warned, they may not change anyway, but at least they have had the option presented to them. So, the prophet says, Change while you have the chance.
St. Paul takes another tack. We know what we should and should not do. The Law tells us – adultery, murder, theft, greed are going to cause conflict for sure. Paul wants us to understand how urgent our lives are. We may think there is all the time in the world to resolve things. We may excuse ourselves because keeping the law is complicated. But actually, Paul says, in some of the most inspired words of scripture, Wake up. The time is now. Start living without building up toxic debts to each other. “Love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.” If Ezekiel recommends truth telling, Paul recommends living as though the other person is as important, and as worthy of love, as we are.
The passage from St. Matthew’s gospel comes as a surprise in this context. When conflicts arise in the Church, as they always have, and I suspect they always will, one might expect Jesus to tell the believers to turn the other cheek, as he does in another context, the context of an individual choice. But this is a group situation which requires a different approach. So Jesus recommends a conflict resolution process. First talk to the person you have your problem with. If that doesn’t work, bring in another person or two. If that doesn’t work, take it to the congregation. And if that doesn’t work, invite the person to leave. You can almost imagine Jesus writing this out in large letters on big pieces of paper and taping them to the wall during a conference called something like “Conflict Resolution in the Church”. A morning session at a retreat center just outside of Capernaum, by scenic Lake Galilee, perhaps. Jesus the Conference Facilitator. Joking aside, conflict happens, and it clearly happened in the early church. So procedural. So sensible. So sane. So boring.
Except, the ways conflicts were resolved in Jesus’ time were often quite violent. Just look at the 18th chapter of Matthew, from which this passage comes. Earlier in the chapter, it is said, "If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame than to have two hands or two feet and to be thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into the hell of fire.” And after our passage, a story about forgiving debts, which ends: “And in anger his lord handed him over to be tortured until he would pay his entire debt. So my heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother or sister from your heart." Jesus was using these images because they are familiar – all too familiar – to his hearers. If this is the way people deal with themselves and with members of their own extended households, how will they deal with outsiders?
And that is the point of this passage, I think. Jesus wants the church to be different, to start something new. Jesus is saying to the church, Even though you come from different families, different towns, different languages and cultures and nations, you are not outsiders to each other. You have a responsibility to listen to each other. You are still bound to come to a just decision, and when you do, the Father will support you, But this must not be done with violence in any case, as is the way of the world.
Jesus is preaching the Kingdom of Heaven here. The world, God’s world, is enveloped in violence, violence which we commit upon ourselves and upon each other, unthinkingly, almost unconsciously, because that is the way of things. And perhaps it can’t be avoided, although I do think that the Middle Eastern love of rhetorical hyperbole should be considered as an interpretive tool for scripture when we are tempted to follow its advice and pluck out eyes or torture each other as means to spiritual progress. But the believing fellowship, the church, is the place which is expressly dedicated to beginning to live in the Kingdom of Heaven, And so here, Jesus calls his followers to another way, a way which is contrary to the way their world operates, to a counter-culture. It is not acceptance of what is wrong. It does not facilitate the offender. But it gives the offender three distinct forums to repent, not unlike Ezekiel’s prophetic call to tell the truth. And if that does not work, the punishment meted out is not eye gouging or hand amputation or torture. It is simple exclusion. If you cannot come to terms with the honest judgment of those who love you as a brother or sister in the Lord, then you don’t belong in the fellowship. Perhaps the Kingdom of Heaven is not for you.
How different from the organized violence of the Roman state. How different from the rhetorical violence of the thought world of Jesus’ hearers, How different from a world in which you have the duty to practice violence on those outside your kinship group at the slightest pretext, and how different from a world in which the enforcement of discipline on those inside the family can call for torture. Jesus wants to transform the conflict of the world, and he wants the church to lead the way.
The history of labor and industrial relations in this country is a history filled with violence. But it is also a history of learning to listen, sitting down one to one, in small groups, and in assemblies if need be. It is a history of learning to hear each other, and of learning that each needs the other.
Ezekiel says that there must be truth tellers. Paul tells us that the time is urgent, and that the way forward is to treat each other with more than wary respect, in fact, to treat each other with love. And our Lord says, If the conflict is real, deal with it. Begin at the lowest level and work up. Come to good and right decisions, and be prepared to enforce them if necessary. But check the violence at the door.
The hurricane came and went. We did as much preparation as we could at the monastery. There were a lot of leaks. The crypt underneath the chapel flooded. It was renovated last year, and the flooding was interesting. The water came up from under the altar, not from the outside drainage area, which had been the problem before, and not from the floor in general. The new heating system was installed in a way that seems to have sealed that part from the source of the water. So once the water was pumped out and the carpet dried and cleaned, little damage was sustained. Our area had a power outage that lasted for a day, but we have a good generator which kept us in electricity.
But that was not the case for our bookkeeper, whose property is by a creek that is tributary to the Wallkill River, and which was badly flooded. At least one car was totaled, and parts of the property so damaged that little could be salvaged. They will be dislocated in various ways for months. And they were lucky. Their power was restored in a day or two, while others in the area are not so fortunate.
Because a lot of the damage was in small towns and out in the country, the news of the effects of the storm is a lot slower coming in than if it had been in more populous areas. It seems that the edges of the storm carried more water than more central parts, so the northern areas, in New York State and Vermont, turn out to be the most heavily hit. A lot of bridges are out. A lot of farms and towns are built in low-lying areas around rivers and streams and were in the way of the water. Schenectady, west of Albany along the Mohawk River, is particularly hard hit. Small towns in the rural areas near us are reported to have basically disappeared. This is not big news in a media sense, but it is significant in our area. There is not a lot of economic activity in New York State once you get away from the New York City commuter areas and the Albany area, where the state government people live and work. The loss of a farm or two, of a small community, can be permanent.
It is increasingly clear to me that the monastery has an important positive economic role in our area. We employ people, purchase a lot of local products, bring people to the area from other places, and work to share what we have with the wider community in various ways, including cooperating with those who help disadvantaged people, of whom there are plenty around here. On a normal week 50 people or more are here doing one thing or another, on retreat or at a meeting or coming to pray with us, in addition to the community, which at this point numbers 15 or so. This is not insignificant, especially in an economic area which, while not precisely depressed, is not flourishing either.
The way we live, the Christian monastic way, is of course not the way for everyone. But we share what we have communally, we practice simplicity (to some extent at least!), and we work cooperatively. These are values useful beyond the monastic context, I think. What we do puts me in mind of the classic Benedictine monasteries of medieval Europe, which were literally centers of their communities, and whose cooperative economics were both stable and dynamic for wide areas around them.
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Krauthammer
I don't know if you have read this Speech by Dr. Charles Krauthammer but I found it to be very interesting indeed. I tend to agree with Dr. Krauthammer on this and with his forecast as gloomy as it may be for conservatives. I am certain that many of the conservative who read this blog will take issue with me and that is all well and good but I will take my chances and say what is and has been on my mind for sometime.
Folks, we are in for a long hard road and must stop looking for the "perfect" conservative to lead this party. Ronald Reagan was by no means the "perfect conservative" as some would like to believe so it's time to "get over it" and start looking for someone who has intelligence, an ability to relate to the people from the center to the right but also one who stands firmly on the constitution, national defense, integrity and honesty.
Yes they may even be some skeletons in the closet but there is none perfect except the one who came and is no longer walking on this earth. It is time we get past expecting such a human being to descend from the heavens to save us from Obama. Hopefully Obama will be long gone before the second coming even though the left thinks it has already occurred in the form of the chief occupier as their messiah. They too will be in for a rude awakening in the not to distant future.
Those who voted for "hope and change" for the sake of change are among those addressed by their savior when he said" there will be some who will be disappointed". There are some who are beginning to sober up from drinking of the koolaide and are finding that their vision of change is not what they are getting. Unfortunately those of us who didn't drink the koolaide and were intelligent enough or perhaps stubborn enough not to vote for "the One" will have to suffer the same as those who did and are now being disappointed.
There were those of us who saw the red flags waving and tried to warn those who only saw "something different" and a change but they failed to listen, comprehend and to take action that would have prevented this travesty that is not occupying the White House.
We are going to see the Cap and Trade and the Obamacare enacted before the end of the year so we may as well tighten the belts and get ready for some very tough economic times. If you have money in the bank, I suggest you withdraw all of it with the exception of what is necessary for day to day operations. Hide it in a jar, under the mattress, in the mattress or where ever but do not leave it in the banks for they will all become nationalized prior to 2012, possibly as early as late 2010. Those who are not aligned with the correct party will find their money suddenly frozen and no longer available for withdrawal. If you don't think it can happen I suggest you read the history of Germany in the late 1930's when those who were not aligned with the Nazi party and or were Jewish were suddenly cut off from all banking, and other privileges that they had known prior to the coming of their "savior " . Yes, there were some in that group who had voted for "change' that his upstart on the political scene has promised. They like the Obamazombies who voted in 2008 were disappointed.
Get use to taking public transportation if there is any in your city or town because you will only be able to afford a small amount of gasoline at $8 to $10 dollars a gallon and a tax of so much per mile that you drive. Don't think it can happen? You didn't think cap and trade would be allowed to pass as well but it did and Nancy Pelosi has already proposed such measures two years ago and even though the chief occupier has said it won't happen stay alert because as Dr. Krauthammer stated, don't believe what he says, watch what he does. Just as he proclaimed that he was against DOMA, he has already give credence to such same sex unions by awarding gay government employees medical coverage and other "paybacks" are in the works. Don't believe what he says, only what you see him do.
I am sure you can already add to this list , at least if you have been paying attention rather than keeping an eye on the "middle shell" in the old game that "the One" has been playing with the American people since he started campaigning.
I leave you know to read the summary of Dr. Krauthammers speech and decide if you agree or disagree with not only his points but with perhaps my predictions as well.
Subject: Charles Krauthammer Speech/Comments on the 'New Economy' &Barack Obama
Recently, Dr. Charles Krauthammer spoke to the Center for the American
Experiment. He is a brilliant intellectual, seasoned & articulate... He is
forthright & careful in his analysis, & never resorts to emotions or
personal insults. He is NOT a fearmonger nor an extremist in his comments &
views. He is a fiscal conservative, & has a Pulitzer prize for writing.
He is a frequent contributor to Fox News &writes weekly for the Washington
Post...
The entire room was held spellbound during his talk.
We are living in uncharted waters economically and internationally. If you feel like forwarding this to those who are open
minded & have not 'drunk the Kool-Aid', feel free.
Here is a summary of Krauthammer's comments:
1. Mr. Obama is a very intellectual, charming individual. He is not to be
underestimated. He is a 'cool customer' who doesn't show his emotions...
It's very hard to know what's 'behind the mask'.
Taking down the Clinton dynasty from a politicalneophyte was an amazing accomplishment.
The Clintons still do not understand what hit them.
Obama was in the perfect place at the perfect time.
2. Obama has political skills comparable to Reagan & Clinton. He has a way
of making you think he's on your side, agreeing w/ your position, while
doing the opposite. Pay no attn. to what he SAYS; rather, watch what he
DOES!
3. Obama has a ruthless quest for power. He did not come to Washington to
make something out of himself, but rather to change everything, incl.
dismantling capitalism. He can't be straightforward on his ambitions, as
the public would not go along. He has a heavy hand, & wants to 'level the
playing field' w/ income redistribution & punishment of the achievers of
society. He would like to model the USA to Great Britain or Canada.
4. His 3 main goals are to control ENERGY, PUBLIC EDUCATION, &NAT'L
HEALTHCARE by the Fed. govt.
He doesn't care about the auto or financial services industries, but got
them as an early bonus. The cap & trade will add costs to everything &
stifle growth. Paying for FREE college education is his goal. Most scary is
healthcare program, because if you make it FREE & add 46,000,000 people to
a Medicare-type single-payer system, the costs will go thru the roof. The
only way to control costs is w/ massive RATIONING of services, like in
Canada. God forbid.
5. He's surrounded himself w/ mostly far-left academic types. No one
around him has ever run even a candy store. But they're going to try & run
the auto, financial, banking & other industries. This obviously can't work
Obama's not a socialist; rather a far-left secular progressive bent on
nothing short of revolution. He ran as a moderate, but will govern from the
hard left. Again, watch what he does, not what he says.
6. Obama doesn't really see himself as President of the USA, more as a
ruler over the world. He sees himself above it all, trying to orchestrate
& coordinate various countries & their agendas. He sees moral equivilency
in all cultures. His apology tour in Germany & England was a prime example
of how he sees America, as an imperialist nation that has been arrogant,
rather than a great noble nation that has at times made errors.
This is the 1st President ever who has chastised our allies & appeased our
enemies!
7. He's now handing out goodies. He hopes that the bill (& pain) will
not 'come due' until after he s reelected in 2012. He'd like to blame all
problems on Bush from the past, & hopefully his successor in the future.
He has a huge ego, & Mr. Krauthammer believes he is a narcicist.
8. Republicans are in the wilderness for a while, but will emerge strong.
We're 'pining' for another Reagan, but there'll never be another like him.
He believes Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty & Bobby Jindahl (except for his
terrible speech in Feb.) are the future of the party.
Newt Gingrich is brilliant, but has baggage.
Sarah Palin is sincere & intelligent, but needs to really be seriously
boning up on facts & info if she's to be a serious candidate in the future.
We need to return to the party of lower taxes, smaller govt., personal
responsibility, strong nat'l defense, & states' rights.
9. The current level of spending is irresponsible & outrageous. We're
spending trillions that we don't have. This could lead to hyper inflation,
depression or worse. No country has ever spent themselves into prosperity.
The media is giving Obama, Reid &Pelosi a pass because they love their
agenda. But eventually the bill will come due & people will realize the
huge bailouts didn't work, nor will the stimulus pkg. These were trillion-
dollar payoffs to Obama's allies, unions & the Congress to placate the left,
so he can get support for #4 above.
10. The election was over in mid-Sept. when Lehman brothers failed. Fear &
panic swept in, we had an unpopular President, & the war was grinding on
indefinitely w/o a clear outcome. The people are in pain, & the mantra of
'change' caused people to act emotionally. Any Dim Wit would have won this
election; it was surprising is was as close as it was.
11. In 2012, if the unemployment rate is over 10%, Republicans will be
swept back into power. If it's under 8%, the Dims continue to roll. If
it's between 8-10%, it'll be a dogfight. It'll all be about the economy.
I hope this gets you really thinking about what's happening in Washington and Congress. There's a left-wing revolution going on, according to
Krauthammer, and he encourages us to keep the faith & join the loyal resistance. The work will be hard, but we're right on most issues & can
reclaim our country, before it's far too late.
The Case of the Fallen Governor
It seems that Chuck Colson has summed up what many of us were thinking in light of the actions of Governor Mark Sanford. Shock, anger, sadness and yes bewilderment as to why a man who seemingly had it all would take the risk that he took and then be discovered. I urge each of you to read carefully and then take time to read the comments I have added at the end of the piece by Mr. Colson.
The Bewilderment of Sin
In the past 24 hours since Governor Mark Sanford admitted his affair, I’ve run the gamut of emotions: sadness, depression, anger, and most of all, bewilderment.
The particular tragedy of Sanford is that he had been an outstanding governor. He’s attractive, engaging, and smart. He is an articulate and tenacious defender of family values. And he espoused the cause of Christ.
Now, his career lies on the ash heap of history. He’ll have to gracefully withdraw from political life and try to put his shattered marriage back together.
I mentioned sadness and depression. Sanford’s admission is simply the latest among pro-family conservative Christian politicians. Remember Senator David Vitter, involved with a prostitution service? Then just a week ago, Senator John Ensign of Nevada—a good friend I have known for years—he, too, admitted an affair.
And now Mark Sanford, probably the last man in American public life I would have expected to so incredibly disappoint us.
Sadness, depression—then there’s anger. These men dishonored their families and their offices and the Christian faith they profess.
But most of all, I am bewildered. Sanford had it all—a beautiful wife and family, high public office, and he was a viable candidate, perhaps, for President. Why would he throw it all away?
The answer came to me as I stewed over Sanford’s demise—and as I have reflected on my own life and my own failures, particularly before I knew the Lord.
We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization. We reason that we can give in to those seemingly minor temptations—say an emotional attraction to a co-worker, or just one drink at the party—because we think we know the boundaries. We think our reason can keep us safe.
The problem is, as C. S. Lewis wrote in his timeless essay, “Men Without Chests,” that our reason is no match for the passions of the flesh. Lewis put it this way: Our stomachs (that is our appetites) can’t be controlled by our minds (that is, reason). Something else has to come in to play—and that is the spirited element, or our chests, as he called it. It’s our will being trained to do what is right and just.
Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin. Because there comes a time, after we toy with sin, when one pull of the flesh causes us to cross the line, to disengage from reason, and to follow our appetites wherever they may lead.
And, I’m afraid, this is especially easy today. We’re told we can have it all, that we can be free to pursue any pleasure. Our wills are not trained to do what is good, but to do what pleases us. Many of us have become, as Lewis said, men without chests.
So, fellow Christians, don’t be self-righteous. Let the Sanford tragedy be a cautionary tale. Are you toying with sin? If so, for your self, your family, and your Lord—stop. Don’t put yourself in a position of compromise.
Instead, let us—you and I—prayerfully build up our chests and train our will that we might, by God’s grace and in fellowship with other believers who hold us accountable, not betray our Lord.
Remember as well the words spoken in I Corinthians 10:13(AMP): For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently.
Before standing in judgement of Governor Sanford we should also remember the words in Galatians 6:1 (NIV) Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
When are the Lies Going to Stop?
It would appear that the "liar in chief" is on a roll with lies and more lies. First he claims that he will not tax health benefits and now he is willing to do so. He claimed that he wanted the American people to have the same health coverage as he and the Congress have but today he is once again proven to be a liar. When is this empty suited pretender ever going to tell the truth?
Surprise of surprise the All Barack Channel has this a lead story!
ABC itself leads with Obama’s response that he wouldn’t stay within his own plan for his family:
President Obama struggled to explain today whether his health care reform proposals would force normal Americans to make sacrifices that wealthier, more powerful people — like the president himself — wouldn’t face.
The probing questions came from two skeptical neurologists during ABC News’ special on health care reform, “Questions for the President: Prescription for America,” anchored from the White House by Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson.
Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it’s not provided by insurance.
Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he’s proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.
The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.["]
Oopsie! So ObamaCare for thee, but not for me? Hope and change, baby!
A transcript is available below:
DR. DAVINSKI: If your wife or your daughter became seriously ill, and things were not going well, and the plan physicians told you they were doing everything that could be done, and you sought out opinions from some medical leaders in major centers and they said there's another option you should pursue, but it was not covered in the plan, would you potentially sacrifice the health of your family for the greater good of insuring millions or would you do everything you possibly could as a father and husband to get the best health care and outcome for your family?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: ... does she get hip replacement surgery even though she was fragile enough that they weren't sure how long she would last whether she could get through the surgery. I think families all across America are going through decisions like that all the time. and you're absolutely right that if it's my family member, my wife, if it's my children, if it's my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care. but here's the problem that we have in our current health care system. Is that there is a whole bunch of care that's being provided that every study, every bit of evidence that we have indicates may not be making us healthier.
So once again the “liar in chief” is trying to sell We the People something that he himself is not willing to live with. Shall I say more?
More Liberal Whitewash
Over on Faultline USA blog , J.D.Longstreet wrote the following: “Less than six months after Obama became President of the United States, the US Senate passed a formal apology for slavery. For what it is worth, the act is a non-binding resolution. It is said to acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery. Last year the US House of Representatives passed their own apology for slavery, as well. A number of states have passed apologies including, unfortunately, my own state. There are reports that a huge celebration is being planned for sometime next month. A pathetic gesture, I know, but, hey, these are liberals and everything with them is based on emotion and feel-good politics.”
Of course most of us, at least those who haven’t imbibed in so much of the Zombie koolaide that this can lead to the next step which is reparations, or will it. Evidently the leftist want to apologize for anything and everything it seems these day but when it comes down to actually paying out money can they be counted on as many I am sure are awaiting with bated breath, after all their great-great-great granddaddy was a slave and by dang the guberment owes me. Given the current tone in DC reparations is not so farfetched these days and more of a possibility that it was say 12 years ago or even 8 years ago. It is not unlikely to see the leftist Dems come up with some such bill right before the election in 2010 and hope that the conservatives will vote against it. This way they can advance their argument, which to them is an unchallengeable truth, that conservatives are racist and that is why they didn’t vote for reparations and can say if you know what is good for you , you will vote for us, the party that takes care of you especially when it comes to spending money. We never allow race to enter our heads when it comes to making such decisions as do the conservatives. They will continue to blather that the Republicans and conservatives are nothing more than red-necked bigots and on social welfare, immigration, refugee, security issues and now reparations are anti-black. That line has been hammered so many times it has become a part of leftist ,liberal folklore.
However it is just another one of the liberal lefts great attempts of whitewashing the truth. What, the liberal left would lie to one of their voter bases? Certainly, and research shows that their claims are nothing more than lies to keep the voters down on the plantation.
If you remember the leftist , especially those in the media went on for years that the evil George W. Bush did nothing to help in New Orleans and deliberately so because the victims were mostly black or Hispanic. That old argument continues to this day on leftist website anytime New Orleans, flooding or natural disaster is mentioned. Again it is nothing more than lies of the liberal leftist who use such arguments and statements to inflame that segment of their voters and keep them in shackles just as surely as their ancestors may have been in shackles at some point in history. Liberals and Democrats of course, voted to give more money to hurricane victims and for a longer period. Hardly surprising, since Liberals and Democrats are keen on giving away other people's money and, for them, a natural disaster is as good an opportunity for doing so as anything else. But wait, what's this? Research by Shanto Iyengar, a professor of communications at Stanford University, shows Democrats were prepared to give $1500 more to victims if they were white than if they were black. What, give less money to innocent victims just because they were black? I'm afraid so. Moreover, Democrats would give more money to whites than to other minorities such as Asians and Hispanics.
So it was left-wingers who used race as the big test.
Conservatives, on the other hand, were not influenced by race at all. The Republicans' view, as Iyengar put it, was more principled, as they supported individualism instead of handouts: "Independents and Democrats i.e. leftist liberals, on the other hand, are more likely to be affected by racial cues." Even The Washington Post, on June 23, had to concede that this evident bias was disturbing.
But it gets worse. Iyengar's study matches perfectly with an earlier study by Franklin Gilliam Jr of the University of California, Los Angeles, that shows although Conservative voters support tough treatment of criminals, Leftist liberals and others "support harsher measures when the criminal suspect they encountered was non-white".
Now that's not the way things are supposed to be. But if left-wingers and liberals use race in a way that conservatives on the right do not, in crime and now in something as deserving as hurricane relief, how about their attitudes on, say, social welfare? Surely, the Left would not discriminate on the grounds of race in that essential field?
Disturbingly, to use that ominous word, it turns out that Gilliam has done another study that looks at whether attitudes on welfare bludging are influenced by race and, you guessed it, they are influenced by it, but only if they are liberals. His exact words: "Depictions of white welfare queens also seem to induce whites who describe themselves as having liberal views about gender roles to arrive at extremely harsh views of African-Americans."
This has to stop. Unbridled research such as this will end up destroying all our cherished myths.
Why, before you can say "hope and change", we will be using facts and reality before we make political assumptions.
NOTE OF INTEREST: Hattip to Paula:
Here is a bit of history of slavery and the Democrats. Yep, the leftist libs have a lot to apologize for, not the conservatives.
In 1840, the very first national nominating convention of the Democratic Party adopted a platform which read in part:
Resolved, That Congress has no power ... to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several states ... that all efforts by abolitionists ... made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery ... are calculated ... to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the union.
Government-Run Churches
Once again I am offering a Chuck Colson article for your consideration. When I read this article I was reminded of the Hate Crimes Legislation and how far it can be carried. So the answer to the question of can it happen here is certainly in the affirmative. Given the ideology of the current administration one could say that the scenario is not too far fetched. The current administration has already set aside a week for Gay Lesbian and transgender recognition, is pushing health benefits for gay government employees, is pushing to mandate that religious groups such as the Salvation Army doing non-profit community work must hire individuals regardless of sexual preference. The next step… government run churches? You decide.
Can It Happen Here?
In China, Christians have a choice: Join a government-approved church—which is constantly monitored by the authorities—or join an underground church.
Thank heavens things like that don’t happen in the West, you may be thinking. Think again. In Britain, the government has begun sticking its nose in church business, telling churches what to do.
According to the Daily Telegraph, starting next year, the British government is going to begin forcing churches and other religious institutions to hire open, practicing homosexuals. It will happen under the provisions of the so-called Equity Bill, which forbids discrimination against homosexuals or transsexuals.
The law would “cover almost all church employees,” according to Deputy Equities Minster Maria Eagle. “The circumstances in which religious institutions can practice anything less than full equality are few and far between,” Eagle said. Church groups, she said, “cannot claim that everything they run is outside the scope of anti-discrimination law.”
What’s next—regulating the content of sermons? I’m not kidding. According to Eagle, “Members of faith groups have a role in making the argument in their own communities for greater” acceptance of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people.
Maybe it would simplify things if the government simply wrote the sermons for the pastors.
The Equity Law could lead to some interesting situations. What happens if a church, under pressure, hires a gay youth minister—and orders him to teach kids about the sinfulness of homosexual behavior? And I can only imagine the reaction of a British mosque when the religion police orders it to hire a lesbian secretary.
Neil Addison, a Catholic barrister who is an expert on religious discrimination laws, told the Telegraph that the Equity Law “is a threat to religious liberty.” “What we are losing,” he said, “is the right for [churches] to make free choices.”
He’s right. To put it more bluntly, the government is beginning to run the churches. And if they succeed, it will be the end of religious freedom in Britain.
Legislation like the Equity Law should concern Americans. So-called “social reforms” that begin in Europe soon wash up on our own shores.
And then, what will happen to the Church? Will we put our congregations under the authority of Caesar? Or will we resist and, if need be, abandon our elegant buildings and, like our faithful brethren in China, form underground churches?
The Bible teaches that the followers of Christ will be tested. We ought to be in prayer for the church in Great Britain, asking God to guide it as the government bears down.
Second, we ought to be preparing for similar laws here. Many churches are already under great pressure by homosexual activists to violate their own teachings under the guise of “fairness”—a much abused word.
This, by the way, is not a hysterical rant. The threat is very real.
Third, we ought to remind our neighbors that the First Amendment was written not just to protect the government from churches, but more so to protect churches from the government.
Cyber Czar Starting Early?
It seems that someone at FEMA is interested in my blog. I wonder , should I be flattered , or is this an attempt to bully me , intimidate me or what? The first visit occurred shortly after I posted
More Attacks, Vets and 2nd Amendment The other visits occurred after posting David vs Goliath
Could it be the new Cyber Czar is already hard at work, making us safer from “terrorist”. Of course the government denied that such action would invade the privacy of those just posting on the Web and would be used only for those receiving or sending overseas e-mails. We know that to be another one of their lines of barnyard bovine excrement as well. Once the Cyber Czar is given the green light, and it appears that FEMA, which of course falls under the line of command of Secretary Janet Napolitano and we all know her feelings toward Veterans and other groups who oppose “the WON” . This Cyber Czar would work supposedly for the Dept of Commerce and would have unprecedented powers. Had this been done under the last administration calls for impeachment would be ringing from the Halls of Congress and from the Lame Stream Media (LSM). But that will never happen in this administration since anything done gets a pass both from Congress and the LSM.
This act contains a particularly dangerous provision that could cripple privacy and security in one fell swoop:
The Secretary of Commerce— shall have access to all relevant data concerning (critical infrastructure) networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access…
In other words, the bill (S.773) would give the Commerce Department absolute, non-emergency access to “all relevant data” without any privacy safeguards like standards or judicial review. The broad scope of this provision could eviscerate statutory protections for private information, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Privacy Protection Act, or financial privacy regulations. The Act also gives the President unfettered authority to shut down Internet traffic in an emergency and disconnect critical infrastructure systems on national security grounds goes too far. Certainly there are times when a network owner must block harmful traffic, but the act gives no guidance on when or how the President could responsibly pull the kill switch on privately-owned and operated networks.
As a further note on this Cyber Security Bill it seems that “the WON” will not wait for this bill to pass through Congress and become law. He as already appointed a Czar to take command. Following reports that computer and email systems of the FBI had been shut down on May 29 due to a far-reaching virus, President Obama created a Cyber-Security Czar position, responsible for overlooking the country's network security. No regard was given for the Constitutionality of such a position, but then when has such a small , trivial thing as the Constitution ever stopped the Chief Occupier from doing as he wished.
Well it has begun just as I and others warned before and after the election of 08. Few listened then it seems and I wonder how many will listen now . I and I am sure others will continue to speak out and even at times shout out the warning of the criminality of this administration and the erosion of our freedom for many of us have paid too high of a price to remain silent.
Am I intimidated? To put it very bluntly , HELL NO!--I am not intimidated. I will not be intimidated as long as I draw breath on this planet. I will not run because I have faced more worthy opponents and did not run. I will not SHUT UP because this is MY COUNTRY, Ms. Napolitano, Mr. Chief Occupier of the WH. I have served honorable and was and am still willing to die for this country and NOTHING you can do will stop me from saying what I wish to say about the way this country is being destroyed by the likes of you. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?
You may visit my blog site all day long if you wish. I take it as a compliment for I must be saying something right or I would scarcely get the attention of such “mighty ones”.
Rather than a sneaky, cowardly visit , why not leave a comment and let the rest of the readers know your feelings on the subject. Of course most already know and that is why blogs such as mine and many others are speaking out loudly and often about what we see as the eroding freedoms taking place in this country today.
I would urge my fellow bloggers not to be discouraged, frightened or intimidated but instead be empowered by such “invasions” and keep on keeping on. You can bet your sweet that I shall.
This is supposedly just a practice, but now we can begin to wonder just when the real thing will be pulled off by this administration. After the statements by Janet Napolitano of Home Land Security and now this from FEMA ( the organization that is supposed to be in charge of disaster relief), along with the approval of the chief occupier, be assured that some contrived crisis will be forthcoming and the roundup will begin. I suppose a man-made disaster would suffice this administration to take such steps. Do not forget the motto of this administration: NEVER LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE!
This is not a made-up item, since the link has been provided for all the doubters and naysayers. I googled this upon receipt to see if it were perhaps just another one of the e-mails that occasionally go around on subjects such as this. THIS IS FOR REAL! Remember the story of David as he went against Goliath? He GATHERED FIVE STONES. I suggest we start gathering our five smooth stones.
Now read the article below along with the links provided.
FEMA Web Page Shows Martial Law Exercise With Foreign Troops
Set for July 2009
This is a link to FEMA.GOV website page that details the upcoming nationwide training exercise in July 2009. This is directly cut and pasted the full text below from the site.
This is very alarming. This IS NOT an exercise for FEMA to practice disaster relief. This page states very clearly that this exercise will "focus exclusively on terrorism prevention and protection, as opposed to incident response and recovery".
AND THEY ARE BRINGING FOREIGN TROOPS INTO OUR TOWNS AND CITIES TO TRAIN TO POLICE US. As stated in FEMA website, "This year the United States welcomes the participation of Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom in NLE 09."
Imagine, armed Mexican troops protecting us from "terrorism" in the United States! Don't you feel safer already? ¿Dónde están sus documentos?
Rumors of foreign troops on our soil have been circulated for a long time. BUT this is not a rumor. It is a blatant fact as stated by FEMA on their government website. THIS IS AN INVASION.
During Katrina the federal government went in and disarmed everyone, even law abiding citizens. Recently, Tennessee passed into law a bill that states that Tennessee residents undoubtedly have the right to keep and possess their firearms during martial rule. Why did they feel the need to do this? And what does it mean when our government is running martial law drills on a nationwide scale?
We are told that this is just a training exercise. Should we believe that? Foreign troops in the Southwest sounds incredibly similar to what we learned, back in the 1980's, from undercover FBI agent Larry Grathwohl:
Watch the videos that are here: and here; and here.
Undercover FBI agent Larry Grathwohl told us of people whom he described in this way:
"They felt that this counter-revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing re-education centers in the Southwest, where we would take all of the people who needed to be re-educated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be. I asked, well what is going to happen to those people that we can't re-educate that are die-hard capitalists? The reply was that they would have to be eliminated. When I pursued this further they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. When I say eliminate, I mean kill … 25 million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people. And they were dead serious."
http://www.fema.gov/media/fact_sheets/nle09.shtm
National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE 09)
National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE 09) is scheduled for July 27 through July 31, 2009. NLE 09 will be the first major exercise conducted by the United States government that will focus exclusively on terrorism prevention and protection, as opposed to incident response and recovery.
NLE 09 is designated as a Tier I National Level Exercise. Tier I exercises (formerly known as the Top Officials exercise series or TOPOFF) are conducted annually in accordance with the National Exercise Program (NEP), which serves as the nation's overarching exercise program for planning, organizing, conducting and evaluating national level exercises. The NEP was established to provide the U.S. government, at all levels, exercise opportunities to prepare for catastrophic crises ranging from terrorism to natural disasters.
NLE 09 is a White House directed, Congressionally- mandated exercise that includes the participation of all appropriate federal department and agency senior officials, their deputies, staff and key operational elements. In addition, broad regional participation of state, tribal, local, and private sector is anticipated. This year the United States welcomes the participation of Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom in NLE 09.
EXERCISE FOCUS
NLE 09 will focus on intelligence and information sharing among intelligence and law enforcement communities, and between international, federal, regional, state, tribal, local and private sector participants.
The NLE 09 scenario will begin in the aftermath of a notional terrorist event outside of the United States, and exercise play will center on preventing subsequent efforts by the terrorists to enter the United States and carry out additional attacks. This scenario enables participating senior officials to focus on issues related to preventing terrorist events domestically and protecting U.S. critical infrastructure.
NLE 09 will allow terrorism prevention efforts to proceed to a logical end (successful or not), with no requirement for response or recovery activities.
NLE 09 will be an operations-based exercise to include: activities taking place at command posts, emergency operation centers, intelligence centers and potential field locations to include federal headquarters facilities in the Washington D.C. area, and in federal, regional, state, tribal, local and private sector facilities in FEMA Region VI, which includes the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
EXERCISE OBJECTIVES
Through a comprehensive evaluation process, the exercise will assess prevention and protection capabilities both nationally and regionally. Although NLE 09 is still in the planning stages, the exercise is currently designed to validate the following capabilities:
* Intelligence/Information Sharing and Dissemination
* Counter-Terrorism Investigation and Law Enforcement
* Air, Border and Maritime Security
* Critical Infrastructure Protection
* Public and Private Sector Alert/Notification and Security Advisories
* International Coordination
VALIDATING THE HOMELAND SECURITY SYSTEM
Exercises such as NLE 09 are an important component of national preparedness, helping to build an integrated federal, state, tribal, local and private sector capability to prevent terrorist attacks, and rapidly and effectively respond to, and recover from, any terrorist attack or major disaster that occurs.
The full-scale exercise offers agencies and jurisdictions a way to test their plans and skills in a real-time, realistic environment and to gain the in-depth knowledge that only experience can provide. Participants will exercise prevention and information sharing functions that are critical to preventing terrorist attacks. Lessons learned from the exercise will provide valuable insights to guide future planning for securing the nation against terrorist attacks, disasters, and other emergencies.
For more information about NLE 09, contact the FEMA News Desk: 202-646-4600.
FEMA leads and supports the nation in a risk-based, comprehensive emergency management system of preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation, to reduce the loss of life and property and protect the nation from all hazards including natural disasters, acts of terrorism and other man-made disasters.
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More Attacks, Vets and 2nd Amendment
I received an e-mail from a friend of mine this morning and he had received the original e-mail from a friend of his. It is quite disturbing to realize that in such a short time how a massive war against Veterans and gun owners has been organized.
After you read this I would like for you to offer some feed back as to the rules in your State/county.
Have they changed to reflect the Napalitano mandates?
Have any of you who perhaps go to the VA or to Military hospitals for treatment been asked these questions?
I can attest to the fact that these questions are asked at the VA I go to for treatment. The questions have changed drastically. The questions use to pertain to the individual such as , Have you felt depressed lately? or; Have you felt like harming yourself? These questions are no longer asked but instead the ones posted are now asked. This came about shortly after the” Nappy manifesto” about Vets.
The following is the original e-mail:
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This was sent to me from a former shipmate. He says:
I can find nothing in Snopes that contradicts this, and I was asked these 3 questions on my last visit to the VA! (name removed )
This one is for you Veterans.
I have never heard of this before, but I thought it was important enough to pass along here.
"I had a doctor's appointment at the local VA clinic yesterday and found something very interesting I would like to pass along.. While going through triage before seeing the doctor, I was asked at the end of the exam, three questions.
(1. Did I feel stressed?
(2. Did I feel threatened?
(3. Did I feel like doing harm to someone?
The nurse then informed me, if I had answered yes to any of the questions, I would have lost my concealed carry permit as it would have gone into my medical records and the VA would have reported it to Homeland Security.
I am a Viet Nam vet and 15 year cc permit holder. Looks like they are going after the Veterans."
My friend offered this as further proof that there is a vendetta against Veterans: (**and gun owners as well)
I have had a ccw permit for 5 years. I have applied for renewal and it is pending. I received a letter from the Sheriff's office in Mecklenburg County, NC (Charlotte) that they needed a copy of my DD 214. This was not a requirement 5 years ago when I initially applied for my ccw. Yesterday, I was told that the "State now requires us to get a copy of the DD 214" because I checked the box where it says I was honorably discharged from military service. I produced a copy of the document. The person at the desk said they are getting a lot of complaints about this new requirement. I am sure it is not a coincidence that thus new requirement follows on the heels of Homeland Security's Janet Napalitano's crowd tagging everyone who ever drew a military paycheck as a nutcase and should be watched. I am in the process of back tracking on this "new requirement" from the State because (1) my wife (ccw permitee) and (2) we keep track of anything to do with our laws and reqs when it comes to the 2nd Amendment in NC. I have not seen Jack about the "new requirement."
The whole issue of targeting returning Vets from the sand pile is the tip of the iceberg, especially in light of the 87 year old (WW II Vet) whack job who shot a guard at the Holocaust(Museum). Yesterday's shooting is only going to validate the Department of Homeland Security's position on veterans. The State and local LE's are being told to keep and eye on vets and this latest nonsense about producing a DD 214 for a ccw is proof enough for this American.
Be forewarned and be aware.
The Obama administration has gone on record as considering veterans and gun owners as potential terrorists.
If you are a veteran, you've been warned.
If you know veterans, please pass this on to them
Israel --Part III
In part one I wrote about the Miracle of Israel’s foundation beginning with the birth of Isaac to Abraham and Sarah who were at the advanced age of 100 and 90. Moving forward in the history of Israel and the Miracle that kept the nation alive we had Joseph who because of the jealousy of his brothers was sold into slavery and taken to Egypt there he gained the attention of the King and became the second most powerful person in the country. When the famine spread across the land where the children of Israel were living the same brothers who had sold Joseph into slavery traveled to Egypt and were welcomed by their brother thus saving a remnant of Israel. There are many more miracles, or what one could consider miracles which occurred during the history of Israel. After the destruction of Jerusalem during the Roman Empire period the nation was scattered across the world. In 1948 the Restoration of Israel began, a miracle within itself and with this I begin the final part of the Miracle of Israel.
THE MIRACLE OF HER RESTORATION
May 14-15, 1948 - Israel became a recognized nation.
In Amos 9: 14 find these words of promise and the picture of what has occurred. And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
THE MIRACLE OF HER PRESERVATION - Psalm 89
God’s promise to David: 28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 29 His seed also will I make [to endure] for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; 31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; {break: Heb. profane} 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. {will...: Heb. I will not make void from him} {to fall: Heb. to lie} 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. {that...: Heb. if I lie} 36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. 37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and [as] a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
-Israel may be DISPERSED, DESPISED, DISPOSSESSED - but they will never be DESTROYED!
Not only was the beginning a miracle, but the continuation and survival as well.
The Red Sea couldn’t drown them
The Nations and Dictators of this world have been unable to DECIMATE Israel and to destroy her people and failed.
Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander, Nero, the Turks, Hitler, the Russians, the Arabs and some from this country as well. It would seem as if the current administration has this goal in mind as well but as the others they will fail as well.
It is an amazing thing that when others leave their lands, they get absorbed in the land they go to and lose their distinctiveness, but not so with the Jewish people
Israel and the people of Israel are much like this. West Palm Beach Florida just 3 miles off the coast is the Gulf Stream. It Flows northward through the Atlantic Ocean like a river - Sail there and you will see in the waters a razor sharp line separating this from the ocean itself with the colors changing from blue/green suddenly to deep indigo. It is warmer water, like a river, flowing in the ocean and doesn’t get mingled. Israel and its people are similar to the Gulf Stream which flows through the ocean and somehow does not get mingled. For eighteen centuries in the midst of deep persecution the laws, the culture and its stature has survived. That within itself is a miracle.
There is but one way to destroy Isreal and her people and we find the answer in Jeremiah 31: 35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name: 36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, [then] the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
In other words you would have to be able to control the power of the universe.
You can no more destroy Israel than you can stop the sun from moving through the heavens.
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God
ISRAEL’S RESTORATION – MILITARY MIRACLE
This was and is still consider a military miracle by many.
In 1948 you had a nation established with only 650,000 people surrounded by seven ARAB states with 40 million people that hated them swearing that they would drive Israel into the seal and drench the soil with Jewish blood. Up until that time if a Jew was caught with a gun he was prosecuted. The people of Israel had no implements of war to speak of so they took old autos, buses and welded boiler plates to the sides in order to make a semblance of a tank. They took hoe handles, broomsticks and painted them to look like guns and in the front lines they would alternate guns with broomstick and fire off firecracker to make it appear that they had more guns than they actually had.
When the Arabs invaded Israel they went through groves were bee hives were located. When the hives were turned over during the attacks they began to sting the invading Arabs. The Arabs dropped their modern weapons and fled. The Israelis were able to go back into the groves after the bees had settled down and returned to the hives and pick up much needed weaponry.
When the Syrians and Iraqi’s came across the Jezreel Valley to invade Israel they came down with dysentery and they became so weak that they could not fight. Israel captured the sick soldiers in the valley without so much as a fight. It is said that at one point over 20, 000 Arabs were captured by only 400 Israelis.
- JUNE of 1967 the Six Day War began and outnumbered 80 to 1 Israel was victorious.
One could also say that Israel is a SOCIOLOGICAL MIRACLE as well.
There were 650 ,000 people who came from sixty one different countries to settle there in Israel. It is difficult to imagine that many people from that many nations coming together to make one nation in such a short period of time. One Sociologist estimated that it would take three different generations to make this happen – over 100 years but that same man came back and visited and said: “What I said would take 3 generations to do, you have done in half a generation!”
Moshi Diane, a leader and hero of Israel said: “We don’t have a melting pot, we just have a pressure cooker!”
There has been a blending together of this people into a oneness that is unparalleled in the world. That indeed is miraculous.
Israel is also a LINGUISTIC MIRACLE.
In Israel the children taught and are teaching to the parents the mother tongue of Hebrew. At one time Hebrew , even tough taught in schools was fast becoming a dead language but it has been revived.
Israel could also be called an AGRICULTURAL MIRACLE
How so? If one would look upon this” Rocky Land” you would say nothing would grow there. Almost 60% of that land is considered Desert. There is sparse rainfall and that rain falls only in the winter months. The people have established an irrigation system and pumped in water to where there was no water and the desert has begun like a rose. When Israel was forced to give back part of the land which was being actively farmed and yielded an unusual high quanity of crops, once the Palestinians settled there the land once again turned to desert. It seems the Palestinians didn’t have the drive nor the will to do what the Israelis had done over the years and that is work to make the desert bloom.
There are only six nations in the world that produce enough food for themselves and Israel is one of them. They can grow strawberries and cotton like you have never seen.
The Valley of Jezreel was at one time a malaria filled swamp and fires had to be built to keep flies and other insects away. Today it is the bread basket of Israel and of course on of the areas of contention with the Palestinians. It is a beautiful fertile valley where three to four crops per year are harvested. With out this land Israel would not be able to sustain its self and of course the enemies of Israel know this.
The major problem in the world today is not Iran and it’s drive for nuclear capabilities or North Korea firing off its missiles to garner attention, it is Israel and Jerusalem. As we have read and heard the Arabs will not settle for Jerusalem being the capital of Israel nor do they even wish to share the city with Israel. They only wish for Israel to be gone. For these people and much of the world Israel has become “Burdensome” (In the Hebrew language it describes the idea of a heavy weight. ) The UN and even the current administration in this country appear to be intent upon Israel becoming non-existent but that is not going to happen. It appears that the majority of the world is turning against Israel. In Zechariah 12:3 we find these words: “And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it”.
At that point many ask what will occur and indeed another miracle will occur. In verse 9 of the same chapter of Zechariah we find these words: “And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem”
Israel is indeed in so many ways a miracle as I have attempted to show in this series. I hope that it has been informative and that you have enjoyed this bit of history both from the secular and from a Biblical stand point.
Never Let a Few Facts Stand in the Way.
ISRAEL-- PART II
Why this Nation has Lost it’s Moral Identity
Here's Another Example of the Change That Was Prom...
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Dental Alliance
Private Equity Dental Management Companies Come Under Fire
The Wealthy Dentist | Jim Du Molin | Jan. 10, 2019
Private Equity dental management companies are at the center of a U.S. Senate inquiry, audits, investigations and civil actions in six states over allegations of unnecessary procedures, low-quality treatment and the unlicensed practice of dentistry, according to a report released by Bloomberg News.
Federal lawmakers and state regulators are trying to determine whether a popular dental practice model funded by Wall Street is having a destructive influence on dentistry in the U.S.
The private equity dental companies only account for about 12,000, or 8%, of U.S. dental practices, according to Thomas A. Climo, a Las Vegas dental consultant.
In 2010, The Wealthy Dentist reported that All Smiles Dental Center Inc., a management company owned by Chicago-based Valor Equity Partners, filed for bankruptcy protection after a Texas Medicaid action cut off reimbursement payments because of their exorbitant amounts of orthodontic care at the expense of Texas taxpayers.
All Smiles was part of a state audit that discovered 90% of the Medicaid claims for orthodontic braces weren’t medically needed.
After years of criticism that the poor were being deprived of dental care under Medicaid, class-action lawsuits and public pressure forced Medicaid to change their health care reimbursements. As reported by The Wealthy Dentist in our story, Taxpayers Footing the Bill for Braces in Texas, some Texas’ dental practices went on to bill Medicaid $184 million for Medicaid orthodontics — more than the rest of the United States combined.
M. Alec Parker, executive director of the North Carolina Dental Society told Bloomberg News that the private equity industry stepped up its investments in dental management over the last 5 years partly because health care was one of the few areas that grew through the recession.
According to the Bloomberg report, Christine Ellis, a Dallas orthodontist, who testified before Congress in April of this year reported that the “flagrancy of the fraud” she found in audits she performed for Texas Medicaid “is truly unbelievable,” with only 10% of the paid claims she reviewed actually qualifying for Medicaid coverage.
Dental Alliance Leadership
Kristine Grazioso, DMD
Frustrated by the increasing pressure to sell out to private equity firms, 15 independent dentists rallied to form AID’s first alliance. Unlike an AID chapter, which requires a minimum of 15 doctor members in a state or region, alliances are united by their specialties’ unique interests and have members nationwide.
AID has given this group a voice on the national stage by launching a national media campaign "Is Dental Insurance Worth It?" and by writing "Why dentists need to fight back against corporate giants," which appeared in Modern Dental.
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Book Spotlight: Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer by John Glynn -- with Giveaway!!!
Earlier this week, John Glynn's debut novel, Out East, was published. To help the publisher get the word out, I am hosting a giveaway for two lucky readers...one giveaway is being hosted here & one is being hosted on my Instagram page.
I just finished reading this book and posted my review earlier today - you can find my review here.
Read on to see what others have to say and then you can find out where to enter the giveaway below!!!
Title: Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer
Author: John Glynn
Published: May 2019, Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
A gripping portrait of life in a Montauk summer house--a debut memoir of first love, identity and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family.
They call Montauk the end of the world, a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic. The house was a ramshackle split-level set on a hill, and each summer thirty one people would sleep between its thin walls and shag carpets. Against the moonlight the house's octagonal roof resembled a bee's nest. It was dubbed The Hive.
In 2013, John Glynn joined the share house. Packing his duffel for that first Memorial Day Weekend, he prayed for clarity. At 27, he was crippled by an all-encompassing loneliness, a feeling he had carried in his heart for as long as he could remember. John didn't understand the loneliness. He just knew it was there. Like the moon gone dark.
OUT EAST is the portrait of a summer, of the Hive and the people who lived in it, and John's own reckoning with a half-formed sense of self. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, The Hive was a center of gravity, a port of call, a home. Friendships, conflicts, secrets and epiphanies blossomed within this tightly woven friend group and came to define how they would live out the rest of their twenties and beyond.
OUT EAST is an indelible story of love and transformation, longing and escape in our own contemporary moment.
"Glynn's memoir is perfectly evocative of long, lazy summers, taking place over a few months in Montauk and charting the blossoming of friendships, the heat of new romances, and the journeys to self-discovery."―Entertainment Weekly
"A moving account of the particular sort of loneliness that descends when you know you're unhappy but don't quite know why, and the boundless devotion of the chosen family who's there while you're figuring it out."―Oprah.com
"This book perfectly captures unrequited love and longing, as John struggles with growing feelings for his fellow vacationer... this one is staying on my shelf forever."―Cosmopolitan
"Sun-soaked and brimming with youth, Glynn's debut memoir chronicles a life-changing summer spent in a Montauk share house. With honesty, heart, and generosity, the memoir explores friendship, first love, and identity."―The Millions
"'We were sun children chasing an eternal summer.' This boisterous chronicle of a summer in Montauk sees a group of 20-something housemates who'll grow to know, to love, and care for one another. They work hard during the week, party hard on weekends, and each will face heartthrob and heartbreak. A coming out story told with feeling and humor and above all with the razor-sharp skill of a delicate and highly gifted writer."
―Andre Aciman, New York Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name
"Out East is full of intimacy and hope and frustration and joy, an extraordinary tale of emotional awakening and lacerating ambivalence, a confession of self-doubt that becomes self-knowledge. It beautifully charts the dynamics of a group of people in a house share, but it's also about the emergence of its narrator into an exquisite emotional honesty. It's gripping and generous, and hidden in its rollicking naivete is a good measure of authentic wisdom."―Andrew Solomon, National Book Award winner
"No author has captured a millennial milieu better or with more empathy than John Glynn. Out East is a perfectly paced memoir and riveting portrait of a friend group. I loved it."―Anita Shreve, New York Times bestselling author of The Pilot's Wife and The Stars are Fire
"John Glynn wonderfully captures it all: the bars, the clothes, the music, the breakups, the giddiness and terror of being young in New York, searching for yourself all week, searching for someone else on weekends, in one of the world's most hauntingly beautiful beach towns. If you're in your twenties you'll smile and nod at the joy and pain of Glynn's quest. If you're not in your twenties, he'll make you feel as if you are. A gorgeous debut."―J.R. Moehringer, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Tender Bar
"As a microcosmic rendition of a lost summer's drunken rhythms and Glynn's slowly unfolding realization about his own sexuality, the writing resonates with a shimmery tingle."―Publisher's Weekly
"It's at its most personal that his memoir shines brightest, grasping at the many ways there are to love and be and ultimately reveling in them."―Booklist
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Giveaway Details -- (US or Canada Only) Thanks to the publisher, two readers will win a finished copy of Out East by John Glynn.
There are 2 options to enter: by the rafflecopter here on this page and by heading over to my Instagram page to this post. You can enter on both if you so choose. Both giveaways will end on Wednesday, May 22nd, and are not affiliated with or sponsored by Instagram or Blogger.
Posted by Kristin at Thursday, May 16, 2019
Labels: Book Spotlight, Giveaway
traveler May 17, 2019 at 9:59 AM
A memoir which was unforgettable and beautiful was A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal.
Mystica May 17, 2019 at 3:09 PM
Sounds like a memorable read. Thanks for the review.
Carl Scott May 17, 2019 at 3:51 PM
Chasing the Dragon by Cathy Smith.
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The Amateur Planner
F&$%ING AWESOME TALKING POINTS
Cambridge NIMBYs revisionist history
Every so often, you wonder what goes through the minds of people who don't want to build more housing where there's high demand. (Which works. The market works.) In Cambridge, there is a contingent of people who live near Fresh Pond and don't want to build more housing because there's been too much development there already (or something). They'll trot out all the tired canards: climate change (the solution to which is obviously to make people live further away from jobs and transit), traffic (the solution to which is obviously to make people live further away from jobs and transit), impact to natural resources (even if the housing is being built on brownfield sites which haven't been wetlands for decades or centuries) and the like. Does it make sense? No, of course not!
(Unless, of course, you bought your house 30 years ago for a song and have seen it appreciate it to the point that you're blinded to the housing cost and availability crisis around you. And you remember the days when Cambridge had 20% fewer residents and traffic wasn't so bad and the Red Line wasn't full. You can't have both: your home value has appreciated because of the increase in traffic, not in spite of it.)
Has Cambridge done its part? Hardly. The city has an arduous process to permit new development, and while more housing has been in the pipeline in recent years, it's not nearly enough. It is true that Cambridge does more than many of our more suburban neighbors. But that shouldn't be an excuse to sit back and wait for someone else to build the housing our region needs.
Yet here we are, with several hundred residents in the Fresh Pond area signing a petition for a "pause" for housing development. It's an absurd stance, to paraphrase: a complete and total shutdown of housing development until we can figure out what's going on. Their arguments are just as specious as as the the premise, and today this page will analyze their latest opinion piece and poke the holes necessary to ensure that well-informed discourse takes place, not discourse where one of the parties uses scare tactics to poison the dialogue.
Original in indented italics. My comments in plain text:
There’s a new housing construction clash in Cambridge, this time over a letter signed by more than 600 people hoping to push the pause button on decades of virtually unrestrained development.
That's their opening. "Virtually unrestrained development." In a city where you have to spend 45 minutes in front of a zoning board (and certainly hours of preparation) to add a second dwelling unit to a house which was built as a two-family household when it was originally built. For something which won't really affect anyone. These are the same people who rail against protected bike lanes because it affects their parking space: when you don't get what you want through the public process, demand the public process is shut down. Doesn't work that way, nor should it. But please, go on.
Ah, yes, from the days when Alewife had genuine community.
It led to the submission of a zoning petition to be taken up by the City Council next week, demanding that the council weigh in on an essential question: What kind of communities shall be shaped by new housing, affordable and not? In a cash- and resource-rich city, why should we continue to allow the process be driven by developers focused on short-term profit rather than by urban planners and city officials focused on building genuine communities?
I'm confused. Is there something less genuine about people who move in to new apartment buildings? Most of the development in the Alewife area is taking the place of things like old industrial buildings or dilapidated night clubs. And the city may be cash-rich, but it doesn't have the resources to build new housing. Instead, the way it works is that the private sector builds new housing, and then the owners pay taxes on it. What a novel concept!
To help understand why we need more attention on city- and citizen-directed planning rather than mostly out-of-town developers of luxury rentals,
This is what we have! Who do you think sits on the planning board, and the other boards which support it? Who votes? This is a false comparison, conflating "city- and citizen-directed planning" with "out-of-town developers." But those operate together! City-directed planning is the process through which out-of-town developers of luxury rentals (and really, of anything) create housing. It's not as if out-of-town developers run the process.
one need only approach the town from the west and consider the so-called communities that have taken shape with the current “anything goes” approach.
Define "anything goes." While you may not love every piece of the development in the Alewife corridor, every project goes through a thorough zoning process. And it turns out that if you build enough luxury rentals, the overall cost of housing will come down.
By car from Belmont and Arlington on Route 2,
Apparently, the best way to understand Cambridge is from a highway.
one’s gaze is first drawn to the right, where virtually uncontrolled development sprawls across the Alewife wetland, suggesting “No Vision” vs. “Envision” Cambridge.
Areas in yellow are impervious surfaces today. Red are
buildings. A few new parking lots near the right-most
buildings aren't shown. But those parking lots are now parks!
What about this development is "virtually uncontrolled"? If you look at the area south of Route 2, the majority is protected wetlands. It's not virtually uncontrolled. It's actually quite controlled! Here's where the revisionist history comes in: there's actually significantly less development there now than there was 50 years ago. In 1969, much of what is now the Alewife Brook Reservation was a series of parking lots, which have since been removed, remediated and turned in to a park. So, removing a parking lot and turning it in to a park is "no vision"? If that's the case, what should we envision instead? We have six acres of new parkland in the Alewife thanks to the lack of vision of the planners there. If that's what we're fighting against, I'd hate to think what we're fighting for.
Rounding the corner, one passes dilapidated, “brutalist” Alewife T architecture – untouched by enhancements or landscaping since its creation 30 years ago.
The Alewife station is brutalist (although relatively functional, and could work better with, say, bus lanes in and out), and it is dilapidated, but it is certainly not the fault of the City of Cambridge, or that we've built too much housing.
One wonders about the asbestos-contaminated brownfield lurking behind the chain-link fence around Jerry’s Pond, across from the Rindge Towers and Jefferson Park, the largest concentration of affordable housing in the city. More than a half-century has passed since the contaminants were left there by W.R. Grace.
In addition to having nothing to do with this housing "pause", this is kind of a chicken and egg problem. The public housing was built there probably because the nearby land uses made the land undesirable for other housing (and when the housing was built in the 1960s, there wasn't the kind of market pressure which would today turn a clay pit in to housing without governmental intervention).
Though a process with community input concluded the safest approach at the time was containment, one cannot help wondering if such corporate neglect would have been permitted in a more affluent neighborhood.
But now I'm even more confused. There was a community process, which is supposed to be good, but here you don't like the outcome, so it's a corporation's fault. If a corporation develops housing, it's bad. But if a corporation neglects an area, it's also bad. "We can't win, don't build any housing!" Finally, such neglect probably wouldn't have occurred in an affluent neighborhood, but the case is that an affluent neighborhood probably wouldn't have had such land uses next to it in the first place. (In other words: there's no quarry in the midst of Observatory Hill.) This is not an excuse for not cleaning up Jerry's Pond (for which there are new plans to remediate and clean), but also not a reason to stop building housing in the region. This whole paragraph is pablum. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can clean Jerry's Pond and build more housing: in fact, the new city revenue from the new housing may allow us more funding for laudable projects like the Jerry's Pond clean up.
Stopped at the Alewife light with a head swivel to the right, one’s gaze is drawn into “The Triangle,” a dead-end neighborhood without a name that presents like a Chinese flash city and corporate annuity for institutional investors.
I mean, some of us call it Cambridgepark Drive. Is not having a name really that much of a sin? Also, this neighborhood has been developed over 30 years (it had a planning process at least as far back as 1979!), adjacent to the Alewife T station. It's not perfect transit oriented development (there's way too much parking) and, yes, it has corporate owners (not sure what the China hang-up is). Also, those corporate investors pay two-thirds of the city's property taxes. So that's something.
It offers egress,
Not sure what "egress" means here, since it's a dead end, right?
impenetrable traffic jams during rush hours and virtually no amenities to suggest community.
Okay, yeah, it offers impenetrable traffic jams. So, let's do something about that. Lots of that traffic is coming from the west trying to get in to Alewife. Why? People can't afford to live in Cambridge! There are buses, and they're full, but they're no faster than the traffic they sit in. Bus lanes—which would be feasible if we put on our thinking caps—could attract a lot of these drivers if they provided a faster trip than driving. And amenities, you know how you get amenities? Build more housing! Amenities don't spring up unless there are people to use them. More people = more amenities. (Setting aside the connection to two bike paths, many walking paths and a 10 minute walk to the Whole Foods and Trader Joes across the tracks may actually count as amenities.)
Finally, up and over the railroad bridge to the south it is hard not to wonder about the dead trees, never-cleaned sidewalk grime, permanently graffiti-ridden “Alewife Parkway” plaque
Yes, the Alewife Brook Parkway bridge is a mess. It was built long-enough ago it wasn't built with sidewalks nearly wide enough. It is also a state-owned property, so beyond the purview of the city. But let's stop building housing anyway. Of course, we could build a new bridge. How do we do that? Well, it would certainly help if we had a developer build the bridge integrated with a new development.
and a mall owner and city lacking initiative to create safe and aesthetic pedestrian passage to shopping, Danehy Park and West Cambridge. Pedestrians are instead obliged to navigate a sea of traffic and parked cars.
And, yes, the city could probably do a better job of traffic management in the Alewife area, by incentivizing bicycling, walking and transit use. And the mall owner, which built the mall in the '70s, could have built a better mall then. But it's not a reason to not build more housing, in fact, it is a reason to build more. More local housing will mean more customers arriving by foot, giving the owner and incentive to build a more reasonable pedestrian environment to accommodate these customers, or risk losing them.
Desperately needed affordable housing should be built, but not through abandoning good planning. It should exist within the context of a city vision – one that ensures the evolution of livable communities with access to green spaces, public transit, schools, meeting areas, shopping – and safe, sensible pathways connecting our neighborhoods.
Let's see what the Alewife area has:
√ green space, much of which has recently been reclaimed
√ public transit
√ schools (nearby and accessible by pathways, and an easy Red Line trip to CRLS for older kids)
- meeting areas should be integrated in to new development
√ shopping across the bridge
√ safe pathways, although more are needed
Aspects of these are evident, but for such vision to take better shape, a brief pause on development is needed so we can access the nearly complete recommendations of our city-paid planning consultants. Let’s leave behind an era of disconnected, developer-driven Triangles in favor of one led by our own world-class planners, city leaders and citizens.
This doesn't make sense! What are the benefits of this "pause"? What will be done better, or differently, if we have this pause? How long do you propose this pause? Why not call it what it is: a moratorium? What in this entire article gives you an argument for a pause? And what's so disconnected about Alewife, anyway? It sits on the Red Line. It has good walk/bike paths leading to green space, and to Davis Square, Belmont and Arlington (and Lexington and Bedford and beyond). It has sidewalks to the mall, which could be improved, but are an argument for building more housing, not against it! The disconnnectedness of Cambridgepark Drive has nothing to do with housing development, and can be mitigated without any sort of housing moratorium.
Much of what has been built has been built over the course of three decades (Alewife didn't exactly open yesterday). Projects like these have plenty of vetting through various city boards and committees: if you don't believe me, go to a bicycle committee meeting where the committee vets every large project to make sure it complies with the city's bicycle ordinance, and this was a couple of pages in otherwise thick permitting documents. We have a great staff at the city and a lot of interested citizens. If you are interested in improving the built environment the best thing you can do is to get involved. But the city's goal should be to permit as much housing as it can, not to stop development in its tracks. Doing so, and ensuring that the housing crisis is exacerbated, is about the worst thing you can do.
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Springtime thoughts on Seattle, Rhode Island (and Calgary)
Spring break! Woo!
What do I do on spring break? Apparently I travel places and look at their transportation networks.
Amongst other things! Last year I went to Calgary to visit a friend living there for the year (and to go skiing). This year it was Seattle for a cousin's bat mitzvah, to see friends (and to go skiing). And then I came back to Boston (Thanks to TG for the UG) and spoke at a conference in Rhode Island (where another speaker talked about Seattle). My only regret was not spending the $10 in BART fare to get to the In N Out in Millbrae during my layover there (but I did get BART to call me brilliant). Next time.
In any case, since Yonah came back from Canada tweeting about things, I am going to write up some thoughts in a blog post (old school, I know).
I visited friends last year in Calgary, because they were only there for a year. After a day at Canmore and Lake Louise (Advice: "remember that you're skiing and to look away from the amazing view every so often.") I browsed my way around the city itself (after visiting November Project, of course), particularly interested in how a relatively new city in the Texas of Canada has such high transit use. It helps to have no downtown freeways and a progressive parking fee scheme (and high parking prices), and bus service which has grown along with the C-Train. (Much detailed here, by Yonah.) The C-Train is the stand-out service, carrying more than 300,000 passengers daily, with the routes converging on a single, at-grade segment downtown.
Outside of the city, the trains run in highway medians and rights-of-way with full signal priority, but downtown they don't. With level boarding and four-car trains, the trains are able to move in sync one light cycle every stop, allowing 30 trips per hour per direction, carrying 24,000 passengers. Each four-car light rail train carries as many passengers as an eight-car L train in Chicago, and after 35 years, the system has reached capacity. A third line is planned to be built in a subway under the city (Edmonton's also-successful light rail uses a subway downtown).
One bus came two minutes before
it departed … but these arrival signs
sure are nice!
Before going to Seattle proper, I found myself in Bellingham for a cousin's bat mitzvah. While I didn't have the chance to ride the local transit network, I did note that it had a 15-minute network, not bad for a town with under 100,000 people (albeit many of them college students). Then it was off to the main event. The only city in the US to grow transit ridership in the last year. The 206. Seattle.
What has Seattle done right? They invest in transit, most recently voting on a 20-year, $50 billion package to expand to build 110 miles of light rail which will carry 600,000 passengers, building a system that may carry as many passengers daily as the CTA, WMATA or MBTA's rail systems. This isn't a streetcar (they have one of those too, although it's dubious how effective it is) but a heavy-duty system where three-car trains match the capacity of bigger-city subway trains. I rode most of the line four times, each including the section along MLK south of downtown where it runs in a center median on a city street. Despite a top speed of only 35 mph, it is given nearly full signal priority: in the trips I took, accounting for 15 miles of travel and 48 grade crossings we only had to stop for a signal twice; the other 96% of the time the train was lined through the crossings at track speed. Imagine what that would do on, say, the B Line in Boston.
The Link is ready to go north.
Yet Seattle seems to have learned that for a high-capacity, trunk line, grade crossings don't really make sense, so new lines are mostly in private rights of way. The extension to the University of Washington is in a 3.2 mile, $1.7 billion dollar tunnel which was completed on time and under budget. It dead-ends at the U-Dub for now, but is planned to go further north (there are bizarre garage doors at the end of the platform) and Seattle may run in to the same issue Calgary faces: a single segment of line nearing capacity. But that's a good problem to have. And Seattle has found a sweet spot and is building tunnels at a cost of about $300 million per track per mile, stations included. At that rate, the North South Rail Link in Boston would cost about $4 billion.
So many bus lanes!
But it's not just heavy construction. I follow Dongho Chang on Twitter (you should too!) to see a constant barrage of bus and bicycling infrastructure in another city. Seattle does overnight things which seem to take years in Boston. I'm sure it's more complex than that, but Seattle is a fast growing city which seems to be planning for the future, not one ignoring growth until it's too late. What does this get you? Bus lanes seemingly anywhere there's a long traffic queue to jump by. As I'd coincidentally learn in Providence, an investment by the city in transit such that the number of people living within a 10-minute walk of a bus which comes at least every 10 minutes will rise from 25% to 72%. And this in a city barely half as dense as Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. But when the buses aren't always overcrowded and/or slow, and when they have priority lanes to get them by traffic queues, people use them. The light rail is nice, but most Seattle commuters ride the bus.
See, adding a protected bikeway isn't that hard.
Are all the roads wide enough there's plenty of room for bikes and transit? Hardly. The roads are no wider than many of the main streets in Boston. Spring Street a road with parking, a bike lane, two lanes of traffic, and a bus lane. It used to look like most roads in Boston (Beacon, Tremont, etc): three lanes of traffic and two parking lanes. Now: two lanes of traffic, a bike lane and a bus lane. Bike lanes get real protection. It's not rocket science: if you make transit fast and biking safe, people will use them. The point is not to abolish the use of cars, but to make other options more competitive.
Then there's land use. Seattle is not a very dense city, but it's growing quickly. From 1980 to now, Boston has grown from 562,000 to 673,000, gaining 20%. Seattle has gone from 494,000 to 704,000, gaining 40%. So the new light rail line? The surrounding area was rezoned. It's sprouting four-to-six story buildings with reduced parking requirements. Land use, housing and transportation go hand-in-hand. I'm sure what Seattle is doing isn't perfect, but at least they're trying.
One thing I did notice were the dockless bike share bikes around town. I'm not sure what to make of the dockless systems: I'm used to Hubway in Boston (although I've been using it less and my own bike more, partially because they moved the nearest rack about 50 meters further from my house, which matters for short trips!) and not knowing where a bike might be could be troublesome. I'd also wonder how well the bikes work in a hilly city like Seattle. The jury is still out, it seems, and the ridership numbers aren't huge given the number of bikes, but the up-front costs are certainly lower, and I'll remain interested in which model works best there and elsewhere.
Oh, and it has an all-night bus network, too. And this bus driver, who writes this blog. And there goes my evening.
In Rhode Island, I saw a presentation about Seattle.
I stepped off a plane in Boston and got on a train 9 hours later to Rhode Island to be a panelist talking about regional rail in the, well, the region. I traded $4 for an hour of sleep and took Amtrak down and then a plodding MBTA train back, illustrating how messed up the Providence Line is (big idea: Strava, but for transit). The panel was a good discussion and was well-attended; it's hard to remember what was said when you're saying some of it, but I think there is still a lot for people to learn about how the rail network works (and doesn't work) in the region. I did get to poll the audience and as usual, they underestimated the percentage of people using Commuter Rail to get in to Boston. We talked about level boarding, electrification, and all the things the T really should be doing between Boston and Providence.
Just as interesting was the afternoon panel, and some of the remarks at the start. The governor talked about tearing down the 6-10 Connector and replacing it with bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure after the community said it didn't want a bigger highway (hear that, MassDOT?). The state also has a transportation master plan that looks like more than the Commonwealth's laundry list of projects thrown in to a blender and spit out. So, something to learn from our neighbors to the south.
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Dr. Carol M. Swain Commentary: Trump’s Heroic Efforts to Fulfill His ‘Make America Great Again’ Promises
January 22, 2019 January 21, 2019 Battleground State News Staff
by Dr. Carol M. Swain
With President Donald Trump about to begin his third year in office, it’s fitting to discuss what he has accomplished since his election.
Although the news is currently dominated by the federal government shutdown and the conflict between Trump and Democratic leaders over the funding of a wall on the Mexican border, it’s worthwhile to look beyond the headlines. What you will find will be shocking for any person unfortunate enough to get their news exclusively from America’s mainstream media.
Despite unprecedented levels of opposition from national and international sources, Trump has been enormously successful at accomplishing his goals. He has been quietly checking items off a list of promises he made as candidate Trump, all part of his overriding goal to “Make America Great Again.” Note that wearing anything bearing that phrase is considered hate speech by the political left and an act of great bravery by the rest of America.
Frustrated with media bias, the president’s supporters have kept their own running list of accomplishments. In October 2018, Washington Examiner reporter Paul Bedard reported 289 presidential accomplishments over the 20 months Trump had served in office.
There is a website called MAGAPILL that has a running list of the president’s accomplishments in the categories of government, economy, trade deals, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, Homeland Security, Veterans Administration, and the State Department.
Criminal justice reform, the USMCA trade agreement that replaced NAFTA, moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, and securing the release of American Pastor Andrew Brunson from a Turkish prison are among the notable accomplishments, as is the record level of Americans who now have jobs.
MAGAPILL is a reaction to documented reports that more than 90 percent of the news media’s coverage of the Trump presidency is negative. Each of the website’s articles offers documentation from mainstream media sources or government sites.
Contrary to “Chicken Little” predictions, Trump is reaching his goals, despite the nonstop opposition he faces on almost every issue.
I took an informal poll of people in my network and asked them what they considered to be the president’s greatest accomplishments. There were hundreds of responses, including a fair number praising him for not giving up in the face of opposition.
After citing tax reform and his two Supreme Court appointments, a woman named Kelly said there are many intangibles. Trump has “re-established the United States as a stalwart, unwavering global power and defender of what is right,” she argued.
“[Trump] has made it clear that he cares little how well he is ‘liked’ by the media, or Hollywood, or other global leaders, and that he will not blink when threatened or in the face of character assassinations. I pose it to people this way: Trump is the first president in the history of this country for whom living in the White House was a step down, for whom flying on Air Force One was a step down. After his presidency, he doesn’t need to write a book or give speeches or make celebrity appearances, so he doesn’t really give a rip what people think of him—and that allows him to do exactly what needs to be done!” Kelly said.
This “puts him in line to be the most impactful president in modern history,” she added. Many Americans would agree wholeheartedly with Kelly’s bold assessment of the president and what he has sacrificed to serve our nation.
Trump has placed his life under a magnifying glass. He tries to be a man of his word. A few months ago, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) shared this at a private conference I attended last year: The president keeps a whiteboard in the Oval Office of campaign promises, and where each promise was made. As each promise is accomplished, he checks it off.
The president is currently under enormous pressure to give up on building the wall and to allow the Democrats to continue their foot-dragging on immigration reform. There are some leaders who, under pressure, would back away from such a promise, in light of the vicious, ill-conceived opposition that Trump faces. He digs his heels in and fights harder.
Dr. Carol M. Swain is a former tenured professor at Vanderbilt and Princeton universities. Her Be The People News blog and podcast empower individuals to think independently, understand their responsibility, and make a difference in the world. This article was previously published in The Epoch Times.
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Discovering The Bee Gees: Col Joyes’ big gamble paid off
ol Joye and The Joy Boys were pioneers in the rock industry took the Australian charts by storm in 1959. They were the first act to have three number ones in a calendar year with “Bye Bye Baby”; “Rockin’ Rollin’ Clementine” and the biggest selling record in Australia that year “Oh Yeah Uh Huh”.
They had many more hits and another number one in 1960 with “Yes Sir That’s My Baby”. But they had to wait until 1973 for their final number one hit, “Heaven Is My Woman’s Love” another top selling Australian song of the year. But perhaps Col Joye’s biggest contribution to the Australian music scene started at a party on the Gold Coast in 1961. At about 3am he was about to leave when he was told to hang around to hear these three local kids performing, at 3.15 they performed and Col joys one word reaction was “Knockout!”
The trio comprised of twins Robin and Maurice Gibb and their elder brother Barry. Col invited them to perform with him at a Church gig the following day, when he decided to tape …
Official trailer of JOY, with TO LOVE SOMEBODY of the Bee Gees
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Jennifer Lawrence can't always get what she wants Jennifer Lawrence on the 'Joy' of working with David O. Russell
How does director David O. Russell want people to react to the new trailer for his film, Joy? “I want it to be unexpected,” he says. “I want people to see that it’s exciting and that it’s emotional and it’s intense and it’s funny and it’s new. It’s something we’ve never done before.” The trailer for Joy – in theaters this Christmas – certainly takes a much deeper dive into Russell’s latest film starring Jennifer Lawrence, an epic journey examining one woman’s life from age 10 to age 40 as she becomes the matriarch of her family.
“It’s about emotion and about people and humanity and what is ridiculous and ordinary about them but where that becomes extraordinary and magical. That’s that place where we live,” says Russell. It’s a much more grown-up Lawrence than we’re used to s…
List of Bee Gees TOP 10 Awards
Below is a list of the Top 10 awards won by the Bee Gees throughout their years as one of the most celebratedmusical groups in the world.
10) Billboard’s Top Pop Producers:
Although Billboard did not have a televised awards show back in the ‘70s, they still highlighted the year’s greatest musicians within the magazine. In 1978, the Bee Gees scooped up several awards including the year’s Top Pop Producers.
9) Billboard’s Top Pop Albums Artist
The brothers also wrapped up their ultra-successful year winning the title of Top Pop Albums Artist.
8) Grammy for Best Arrangement for Voices
The group that defined disco dominated the 1979 Grammys. The Bee Gees took home the award for Best Arrangement for Voices for their catchy hit “Stayin’ Alive.” In total, the pop stars walked away with an impressive five awards making them the second group or duo to win five Grammys in a single night (the first was Simon & Garfunkel in 1971).
7) Grammy for Album of the Year
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"IT'S THE SONG, NOT THE GROUP SAYS BARRY GIBB"
(Beat Instrumental, 13 May 1968)
In only a shade over a year, the Bee Gees have made an enviable impact here in Britain. They’ve also shaken a lot of people by cutting across established lines of a group career. Like releasing no less than six singles in 12 months; and by launching a tour with a Royal Albert Hall orchestra of some 67 musicians behind them.
They are five boys with a nice and uncontrived line in modesty and a built-in sense of perfectionist ambition. But are they going TOO far in their efforts to please?
Barry says “In Germany, then at the Albert Hall and later on the tour, we carried a large orchestra with us. Okay, at the Albert Hall we gave the cynics a certain amount of ammunition. An RAF band, a choir, a near-symphony orchestra … it was obvious that some knockers would say we over did it – and worse that we got ourselves out numbered simply because we couldn’t depend on our own music to get us through.
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24th Jack & Jill Beautillion
By Joanne Davidson
Twenty-nine high school seniors that President Deidra Walker described as “awesome young men” who are “well-prepared, humble, polite and seriously focused” were introduced to society on Sunday night when Denver chapter of Jack & Jill of America staged its 24th Beautillion.
Over 700 family members and community leaders gathered at the Adam’s Mark Hotel for the formal ceremony chaired by Deirdre McGee, June Johnson and Faye Tate. The honorees were introduced by David Walker Jr., senior manager for a multi-billion-dollar development program at Lockheed Martin, and Mical Bruce, a pilot for United Airlines and lieutenant colonel in the District of Columbia Air National Guard. Their wives, Sylvia Walker and DeVita Bruce, are members of Jack & Jill.
Walker encouraged the Beaus to be “Extraordinary in your own way” and to “go forward, onward and upward … and never, ever give up.”
After each Beau was introduced on a stage decorated with lighted Christmas trees and poinsettias, he and his escort proceeded to the edge of the dance floor to be met by family members who invested the honoree with a kente cloth scarf.
In Africa, Bruce reminded the audience, similar garments are reserved for kings and chiefs.
The 2007 Beaus are:
David Wardell Arterberry, a senior at Denver School of the Art, an accomplished artist and winner of the Beautillion essay contest. Arterberry has vovlunteered at the Black Arts Festival, the Cherry Creek Arts Festival and Denver Botanic Gardens and has tutored students at Bruce Randolph School and the P.R.E.P. Academy. He hopes to attend Savannah School of the Arts, the University of Alabama at Birmingham or the University of Denver. His escort was Jordan Celeste Pettis.
Terrance Kevin Boyd,who lettered in band at Thomas Jefferson High School and belongs to the Colorado Starlites, a drum/poms/step/flag and drill team. He also has played with the Citywide Marching Band and the Thomas Jefferson and Montbello high school drum lines. He plans to attend Prairie View A&M, studying music and engineering. His escort was Kamaria Gyashi Hakeem.
Marion Courtenay Brown, who aspires to become a surgeon, was a member of the Grandview High School student council and honor roll and received Academic First Team All-State football and track honors. He has applied to Morehouse, the University of Colorado and the University of Arizona. His escort was Morgan Shanice Arline.
Jaren Alan Carr-Rabb has been on the honor roll all four years at George Washington High School, where he played football and participated in the University of Colorado pre-collegiate program. He hopes to attend Colorado State University as a psychology major. His escort was Nicole Qwaysha McGee.
Eric Jamaal Coleman was Montbello High School’s defensive player of the year in football; he also plays basketball and runs track. In addition, Eric is a mentor to special-needs children, is a member of the King Baptist Church choir and is a junior ambassador for Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. His career goal: technical engineering. Victoria Devon Turnipseed-Henderson was his escort.
Julian Taylor Daniels, who aspires to become a pilot, is an accomplished chess player, placing sixth in the nation and first in Colorado. He’s a senior prefect at Regis Jesuit High School, where he plays soccer and runs track; he also is active in the Denver Museum of Nature & Science Air and Space Club. Julian plans to study aeronautical sciences at the University of North Dakota. Rhoda Mahmoud Fahieh was his escort for the Beautillion.
Raymon Anthony Doane is a candidate for an International Baccalaureate diploma at George Washington High School, where he is treasurer of the International Baccalaureate Black Organization and a Link Leader. Raymon tutors in the Denver Public Schools, belongs to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and is a youth ministry counselor at his church. Escorted by Lauren Nicole Coffey, he plans to attend Liberty University and study accounting and finance.
Mahad Mahmoud Fahieh earned a varsity letter for cross country at Smoky Hill High School, where he was Student of the Month for February 2007 and recipient of the Blacks in Government Award. Mahad is a member of the National Honor Society, is a volunteer at Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and took part in Colorado State University’s Black Issues Forum. He also is a member of Shades of Blue. He has applied to Purdue, the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado with plans to study aerospace engineering and business. His escort was Ariessa LaFaye Adams.
Cameron Greene, a senior at East High School, took part in the National Youth Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C. He also plays with the Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestra, the East High School Orchestra and Hart Violin Studios. Cameron has attended a New York Film Academy program at Harvard University and the High School Honors Institute sponsored by the University of Colorado College of Engineering; in addition, he has served as a mentor at the summer science institute at Metropolitan State College’s Center for Mathematics. After high school, he hopes to major in engineering at Syracuse University and become an inventor. His escort was Lesley Camille Pace.
Brennen William Gregory was an all-conference selection for the 2007 first track team, helping to represent the 2007 state champion Cherokee Trail High School track team. Outside the classroom, Brennen is involved with the Making a Difference Project and mentors at Ponderosa Elementary School. He has applied to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and Colorado State University with the goal of becoming a social science major. His escort was Jasmine Nicole McGee.
Lee Arthur Hall Jr. is an honor roll student at Montbello High School, where he plays varsity golf and basketball. He is a College Summit peer counselor, a youth usher at his church, a Sky’s the Limit counselor, and served as an escort at the 2007 Owl Club Debutante Ball. His college plans include majoring in business administration at the University of Northern Colorado. His escort was Tavon Avai Davis.
Joseph Alexander Harris was captain of the George Washington High School football team and was an all-league linebacker in his sophomore, junior and senior years. He is also the top football recuit in Colorado and the state triple jump champion. Joseph has lettered in football, basketball and track all four years, and while he has not yet finalized his college plans he hopes to go to “a great school” that will prepare him for “a great career with a stable home and family.” His escort was Crystal Jasmin Nelson.
Nathaniel Bruce Hayes Jr. maintains a 3.8 grade average at Rangeview High School and was named to the National Honor Roll for the 2006-2007 school year. In 2006 he took part in the Lead America leadership conferences for outstanding high school students in engineering, science and robotics. He wants to become an architect who builds environmentally friendly homes and toward that end has applied to the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and the University of South Carolina. His escort was Anngelique Reashall Chislum.
Andre Akeem Lanier has his heart set on designing “an exciting video game”
and will major in computer science at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Andre has has a poem published by the American Poet Society and was a guest speaker at the Cherry Creek Schools new teacher orientation this year. A senior at Grandview High School, his escort was Elizabeth Denise Jefferson.
Brandon Joseph Lewis has a perfect 4.0 grade average at George Washington High School, where he played varsity football and was a member of the track team. He volunteers with the Shining Stars Foundation for children with cancer and aspires to become a doctor. He has applied to Morehouse and Mesa State, and was escorted by Shanel Marie Hughes.
Nicholas Royce Lewis, captain of East High School’s varsity soccer team, was the 2006 Defender of the Year, the same year he made first team in the DPL. He’s still weighing his college options, but wants to get a degree in international business or hospitality management and work for a Fortune 500 company or open a family restaurant. His escort was Kayla Danielle Gilbert.
Evan Lee Martin, who was East High School’s homecoming prince, hosted the Masters of Disaster, a disaster awareness mini-festival presented in cooperation with the African-American Leadership Institute and the Red Cross. He is a member of East’s Black Student Alliance and 100 Black Men of Denver and has applied to Florida A&M and Morehouse with the goal of becoming a lawyer. His escort was Alexandria Leighland Pierce.
Shaine Anthony McGee is vice head boy at Montbello High Schoo, where he’s on the honor roll, lettered in football and won numerous medals for track. He is also a member of the National Honor Society and Montbello Black Pride, and served as an escort at the Sigma Gamma Rho Cotillion. He plans to double major in business and law at Colorado State University, Alabama or Oklahoma. His escort was Breanna Shenice Brooks.
Jonathan Jason Mobley, a senior at Overland High School, aced a perfect score on the ACT math section and is in the top 10 percent of his graduating class. He has lettered in debate, given 480 volunteer hours at the Lowry Family Center, and is a member of the Beckwourth Hiking Club. He has applied to the universities of Miami, Pittsburgh and Colorado, where he plans to study medicine in preparation for a career as an orthopedic surgeon. His escort was Angela Daniella Campbell.
Tyler Harlon Neal, of Chaparral High School, is an accomplished saxophone player who has received numerous awards. He has played in the Metro Jazz Festival and received a scholarship to the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Camp. He’s a member of the All-Star Band at Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts and volunteers with Urban Peak. Tyler hopes to attend either Berklee College of Music or UNC with a double major of jazz studies and music business. He wants to become a jazz musician with a Christian influence. His escort was Aubree Ren Fullwood.
Joshua Neil Russell is senior at East High School who has won a full scholarship to Stony Brook University. He was inducted into the National Honor Roll this year, and made the all-state lacrosse and football teams. His career goal is to become a teacher. Morgan Andrea Burgess was his escort.
Royce Lynn Sanders II has won numerous awards in speech and debate at Kent Denver School, where he is a member of the chess team and Blue Key, and president of Environmental Action. He hopes to attend business school in New York. Rhiana Neshae Brame was his escort.
Andrew Dominique Smith, a senior at Rangeview, is a member of the track and baseball teams and the African-American Achievement Club. Honors include an award for aid provided to a blind student when he was in eighth grade. Aerospace engineering or music production are majors he’s considering at one of Colorado’s colleges or universities. Iesha Marlene-Idalina Sandlin was his escort.
Christopher Norman Smith, who plays baseball for George Washington High School, was recognized as a leader by Steps Ahead and the Odyssey Institute. His plans are to attend Albany State University of Clark Atlanta University and study radio and television in preparation for owning his own station. Codi Kathryn Cox was his escort.
Marcus Earl Jahmai Steward, the Outstanding Musician and Leader-in-the-Making at Denver School of the Arts, is a founding member of The Six, a social awareness club, and the DSA percussion ensemble. He has taken pre-collegiate summer programs at the University of Colorado and hopes to become an audio/media production advisor for Bose Corp. after graduating from Georgia State University. His escort: Sanai Michelle Fennell.
Devin William Thaxton, the fastest 400-meter hurdler in the region and captain of the Eaglecrest High School track team, hopes to one day make the U.S. Olympics track and field team. A member of Restoration Christian Fellowship’s youth group and his school’s madrigal ensemble, Devin is weighing engineering and veterinary medicine as career choices. He hopes to attend Arizona State University, the University of Utah or an historically black college. His escort was Jourdan Elizabeth-Allena Sherman.
Coty Carter Walker is a member of Rangeview High’s gymnastics team, and has won numerous state, regional and national awards. He is ranked at competency level 8 by the United States Association of Gymnasts, and has coached at the Aurora School of Gymnastics. Coty is undecided on the college he’d like to attend, but knows he will major in business management or accounting. Asha Sydney Patrick was his escort.
Daniel Scott Wetmore, the Outstanding International Baccalaureate Student at Smoky Hill High School, is a first-degree black belt in tae kwon do and a member of the 2007 state champion University of Denver World Affairs Challenge team. Daniel is president and a founding member of The Brotherhood, a mentoring organization for African-American students, a peer counselor, member of the football and track teams, and student winner of the Dartmouth Book Award. He has applied to Stanford, Princeton, Georgetown, DU and Claremont McKenna, with plans to pursue a doctorate in criminology and become a forensic psychologist or sociology professor at a leading university. Brianna Dunea Halliburton was his escort.
Denzel Edward Williams, captain of the football and track teams at Montbello High School, is a junior ambasssador for Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity was was named most valuable player in football during his freshman year. He has applied to the University of Nebraska and lists his goals as playing in the National Football League and starting his own business. Beatrice Elainia Johnson was his escort.
Pictures taken at the Beautillion are at denverpost.com/SeenGallery.
Denver Post Society Editor Joanne Davidson can be reached at 303-809-1314 or jdavidson@denverpost.com.
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The Beginning of Greatness was the theme for the dinner affair held at the Adam’s Mark Hotel. Jennifer Carter and Shawnetta “Kai” Madden were the chairwomen; Elma Hairston was mistress of ceremonies.
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Just as the love that Linda and Jimmy Yip have for their son will never die, neither will the affection shared by so many of the late Nathan Yip’s friends, classmates and relatives. That fact is evidenced every year at the dinner supporting the foundation established in his memory.
Nathan, who was an only child, perished in 2001 following an automobile accident. He was just 19 years old and home on Christmas break from Lehigh University, where he was a freshman. Read more…
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I had Christmas money burning a hole in my pocket and when a patch of sunshine appeared on Saturday I decided to stimulate the economy at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. But the car wouldn’t start.
So I called AAA, only to have a recording tell me that the service was experiencing heavier than usual traffic and that unless my situation was urgent to please call again later.
The recorded voice also said that service requests could be placed online, Read more…
Sources of Great Pride
In the words of co-chair Angela Davis-Robertson, the 32 young men who were presented at the 23rd Jack & Jill Beautillion have not only set impressive goals for themselves, but they also “understand the wisdom of accepting the knowledge of their families, teachers and clergy. (They) inspire other young people to achieve their dreams, too.”
The Beautillion is an annual event of Denver chapter of Jack & Jill of America, an organization dedicated to strengthening families in the African-American community. The honorees are male high school seniors who have distinguished themselves academically and through church and community service. Read more…
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Minutes - AGM May 2009
CYNGOR CYMUNED Y BORTH COMMUNITY COUNCIL
MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BORTH COMMUNITY COUNCIL
HELD AT THE MEMORIAL HALL ON MONDAY 11 MAY 2009 AT 1830 HRS
Present: Chairperson: G B Jones
M Griffiths
J Jones
J Lawrence
J Owen
M Teasdale
R Wyatt
13 Members of the Public
1. None.
ELECTION OF A CHAIRPERSON
2. Cllr Margaret Griffiths was elected as Chairperson for 2009/10. .
3. Cllr Griffiths made her declaration of acceptance of office and took the Chair.
ELECTION OF VICE CHAIRPERSON
4. Cllr Jackie Lawrence was re-elected as Vice Chairperson for 2009/10.
CO-OPTION OF MEMBER ONTO COUNCIL
5. The Chairperson invited Mrs Carol Bainbridge to join the Council. The motion was proposed and seconded. Mrs Bainbridge swore her Declaration of Acceptance of Office and was welcomed as a member of the Council.
MINUTES OF THE LAST ANNUAL MEETING AND MATTERS ARISING
6. Copies of the Minutes of the Annual Meeting held on 12 May 2008 were available. Cllr Hitchings asked why the minutes of the AGM were approved at the June monthly meetings each year when it should be done at the following year's AGM. The Clerk said she had followed the format of previous years. It was agreed that in future the AGM minutes would be approved at the AGM the following year.
CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT FOR 2008/09
7. Cllr Jones gave the following report verbally to the meeting and passed a copy to the Clerk for inclusion in the Minutes.
Whilst it’s fair to say that this year has seen a great deal of discontent within Borth Community Council meetings, it has to be said that there have been several successful activities and initiatives held within the community. On that note, I wish the next Chair a less contentious tenure and a year full of success for the community of Borth and Ynyslas.
We’ve seen many changes to the makeup of the Community Council this year which includes five new Councillors. Thanks are due to all of those community councillors who did not seek re-election – Derek Hand, Grace Bailey and Diane Richards. Diane's long and unbroken contribution for the past 20 years deserves special mention and we shall miss her reliable and consistent presence. In addition, our thanks should go to Anna Cole who had to resign from the council earlier this year due to work and family commitments. Moreover, I wish our latest member Cllr. Carol Bainbridge (Anna’s replacement representing Ynyslas) all the best on joining Borth Community Council.
Sadly last year Peter Glover, who was one of Borth’s characters passed on. Peter was a former Chairman of the Community Council and served the community with distinction. Perhaps he is better remembered for his enthusiasm in making mosaics, of which many can be seen within the community.
The proposed replacement sea defence scheme continues to progress in a positive manner and we are grateful to our County Councillor, Ray Quant MBE for keeping us informed about the latest developments. In terms of the sea defence, we have progressed further with the Welsh Assembly Government and Ceredigion County Council who have been successful in biding for European Convergence Funding towards implementing the scheme.
Furthermore, Ceredigion County Council also resolved to amend its policy to restrict dogs from the beach during the summer months by adding that stretch of beach from the slipway to the Cliff. This means that the full extent of the restriction now runs from the cliff northwards as far as the YHA.
The new street lights for lower Borth have turned out to be immensely popular. This lighting is more energy efficient and produces much less light pollution.
In, addition, the Safe Routes to School project has been completed which included the mini roundabout and crossing points opposite the Nisa store. The same area has also seen the completion of the new combined HM Coastguard and RNLI complex. It’s fair to say that these two schemes have greatly improved the image of the village, especially as you enter Borth at the southern end.
On behalf of Borth Community Council I would also like to express our thanks for all the hard work that the Carnival Committee put in every year, making Borth Carnival one of the best in the region. Last August saw another excellent Carnival with many colourful floats and participants all enjoying themselves and raising hundreds of pounds for local organisations….well done everyone!
A personal highlight for me this year was the ‘Grand Slam’ evening held at the Hall in Borth. This was a fantastic night with over 300 people attending from all over the county and further a field, in order to raise funding for the Urdd Eisteddfod in Ceredigion 2010. On behalf of the Council I wish to congratulate Elin and John Hefin for their hard work in organising a hugely successful evening that showed off the fantastic community that Borth is to a lot of people who have little contact with the village. I believe that over £2,500 was raised that night………diolch o’r galon.
I’d like to also mention an enjoyable evening that I was invited to attended recently at Borth Golf Club with the former pupils of Uppingham School. Many of you will know that in the 19th Century Uppingham School decanted to Borth to avoid an outbreak of Typhoid at their school in the East Midlands. The school remembers the community of Borth and their generosity in those difficult times every year at a special Sunday service at the school and is keen to develop this association with Borth. Moreover, I hope that Borth Community Council can assist in perpetuating this association in the future with joint community events. In terms of improving tourism in Borth, this year we instigated the creation of information boards to be sited along the village. My thanks goes to Cllr. Rita Wyatt who had the initial idea and, to all who worked on these colourful and informative boards that highlight all the important points in the village and surrounding area.
In addition, I am proud to say that Borth beach was once again granted Blue Flag status in 2008.
Finally I’d like thank our Clerk, Margaret for all her hard work in supporting the council during the year, all the Councillors for taking on their designated responsibilities with due diligence and commitment and members of the public who attended our meetings on regular basis.
INVITED QUESTIONS FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC
8. The main issues raised by members of the public were:
Anne Ferris. Ms Ferris is involved with Borth Community Gardens and will be writing to the Council asking for further funding. In addition it is apparent that they require planning permission and must therefore apply for retrospective planning. Cllr Morris spoke on behalf of the Council when he said that the venture would receive the Council's full support when the plans came before the committee.
Betty Horton is concerned that the large sign on wheels opposite the entrance to Brynowen Holiday Park has not been removed. The Clerk was asked to write to the owners of the caravan site requesting that they re-site the sign which has been placed on Borth Community Council land. Mr James Davies pointed out that Borth Community Council would be liable for any injury resulting from the trespass. The Clerk was also asked to write to Mr Hywel Owen explaining that whilst he has grazing rights on that particular piece of land it is wholly owned by the Council.
CHECK INVENTORY OF COUNCIL’S DEEDS
9. The Clerk stated the original Deeds are held by the Council’s solicitor and that she holds duplicate copies, which were available for Cllrs to check.
MEETING CLOSED
10. There being no further business the Chairperson closed the meeting at 19.10hrs.
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The Carlton Woods Invitational was established to create a tournament based upon tradition that is rich in quality and detail. We continue to build upon the history, traditions, and philosophy behind the Invitational.
The inaugural Invitational was held in 2006. The Club remains committed to developing the Invitational into one of the most-prestigious events in amateur golf. We expect to give our players a pure, traditional golf experience while paying attention to the smallest of details. The Invitational has attracted an elite national amateur field and represents one of the finest events in the U.S. The format is a three day stroke play competition for Mid-Amateur and Senior-Amateur golfers.
In the first three years, the Invitational was held on our Nicklaus Signature and Tom Fazio golf courses; both of which receive meticulous care and attention. Given the difficulty of the playing conditions, the Tournament Committee decided to hold the tournament on the same course for all three rounds, beginning in 2008. The Invitational was selected as one of Golfweek’s national designated tournaments and at that time, the practice of flying the state flags of each contestant was adopted.
An official tournament logo and winners’ trophies were designed to incorporate an American bald eagle, reminiscent of our national bird and the eagle pair who have made their home in the massive treetop nest on the 4th teebox of our Nicklaus Signature course. The “Eagle Trophy” represents the strength, pride, and tradition we are building into this tournament.
The Club at Carlton Woods has quickly established itself as a preeminent championship venue and has enjoyed hosting USGA events from qualifiers to a national championship. The Club has hosted USGA Open and Mid-Amateur Qualifying, the 2004 Texas State Amateur, the 2007 USGA State Team Championship, the 2008-2016 AJGA Boys Championship, the 2010 U.S. Open Sectional Qualifier, the 2011 Texas State Mid-Amateur, the 2013 Southern Amateur, and the 2014 U.S. Junior Amateur Championship. Both the Nicklaus and Fazio courses have garnered a long list of state and national awards, and we hope players will enjoy the challenge and charm of our events.
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European sales 2019-Q1 Subcompact car segment
May 16, 2019 by Bart Demandt Leave a Comment
After a stable 2018, sales of subcompact cars in Europe declined by 8% in Q1 of 2019, to 749.634 deliveries. Europe’s largest segment by volume now accounts for 18,4% of the total market. The Renault Clio holds on to its top spot despite being replaced by a new generation this year while its closest two rivals have already been updated recently. The French hatchback (and station wagon) delivers 2% fewer vehicles this year, which enables it to keep a significant distance to the #2 Volkswagen Polo while clearly distancing the former segment leader Ford Fiesta, which is down 24% as the new generation celebrates its first birthday. The Fiesta is now nearly outsold by the Opel/Vauxhall Corsa which is also due for a redesign this year but manages a 12% improvement, probably thanks to discounts and rental company sales. The car on which the next generation Corsa will be based, the Peugeot 208, is down 11% as it too will be replaced this year. There are less than 5.000 sales separating the #3 and the #7 in this segment, and as you see there will be quite a few model changes this year, so it promises to be a volatile ranking in 2019. The Toyota Yaris has improved every year for the past five years and shows no sign of ending that streak in 2019 with a 3% gain in the first quarter, which means it actually gains 0,8 percentage points of share of the segment. The Citroën C3 also continues to improve with a 2% gain on the first quarter of last year.
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European sales 2018 Subcompact car segment
February 12, 2019 by Bart Demandt 2 Comments
The subcompact car segment in Europe was stable at nearly 2,79 million sales in 2018, with sales up by just 800 cars. Europe’s largest segment by volume still accounts for 18% of the total market. The top-3 positions remain the same as they were for the last two years and the top-5 rankings are unchanged from last year. That means the Renault Clio celebrates three years on top of the segment, while it’s due for a redesign in 2019 and its closest two rivals have already been updated last year. As a result, the Volkswagen Polo and Ford Fiesta are closing in in the top spot, but have been unable to knock the French model off its throne. The Clio is one of only two models in the top-10 that’s available as a station wagon (together with the Fabia), but that version is expected to be cut for the next generation, so we will see how that influences the fight for the top spot. The Peugeot 208 consolidates its 4th place despite a 5% loss as its closest rival Opel/Vauxhall Corsa is down 7%.
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February 12, 2018 by Bart Demandt 12 Comments
The subcompact car segment in Europe increased by 2% to nearly 2,79 million sales in 2017. Europe’s largest segment by volume still accounts for 18% of the total market, down from 18,1% in 2016. The segment declined by 2% in Q4 as two of the top-3 players were in double digit declines due to model changeovers. This allowed the Renault Clio to extend its pole position to a 50.000 sales lead over the #2. The former traditional best seller Ford Fiesta remains stuck in third place behind the Volkswagen Polo, which was in a lowly 6th place in the fourth quarter even behind the Citroën C3 and Toyota Yaris. The former of these is the big winner in the top-10 thanks to its new generation, topping 200.000 sales for the first time since 2010. Its stablemate Peugeot 208 moved up one spot in the ranking after a strong finish of the year with a 2nd place in Q4, helping it to leapfrog the Opel/Vauxhall Corsa which takes a big hit in the second quarter after PSA took over [Read more…]
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European sales 2017 Q1-Q3: Subcompact car segment
November 11, 2017 by Bart Demandt 10 Comments
After a 6% growth rate in the first half of 2017, Europe’s largest segment by volume declines 2% in the third quarter. That brings the year-to-date figure to 2,17 million, up 4% on the same period of 2016. Major culprit of this slowdown in Q3 is the former segment leader Ford Fiesta which suffers a 44% decline in Q3 as it is changing over to the new generation. That has dropped the Fiesta to 9th place in Q3 although it holds on to its third place year-to-date, helped by a 17% decline in Opel/Vauxhall Corsa deliveries as a new generation of that car is long overdue as the Corsa is still based on a platform launched in 2006. The Renault Clio continues to sell strong and is the only model in the top-5 to grow in the third quarter, doing so by 11%. That allows it to stay ahead of the Volkswagen Polo which was running on its last legs as it too has a new generation arriving in Q4. The Peugeot 208 holds on to its 5th place while its sister model Citroën C3 stroms up the charts from #9 last year to #6 thanks to the successful launch of the new generation. However, the C3 was outsold by both the Dacia Sandero and Toyota Yaris in the third quarter. The Sandero keeps going from strength to strength even without any major updates, while the Yaris has recently been facelifted.
European sales 2017 first half: Subcompact car segment
The subcompact car segment in Europe grew by 6% in the second quarter of 2017 and a similar rate in the first half. It remains the largest segment in Europe by a large margin, with an 18,6% share of the total market, at almost 1,56 million sales in the half. The segment is very dynamic thanks to a number of new and updated models, with plenty more to come later this year. But some of the existing models also show continued strength. At the top of the ranking, the top-3 is back to how it was for the full year 2016 with the recently facelifted Renault Clio in the lead ahead of the Volkswagen Polo and Ford Fiesta. The latter two are about to be replaced by completely new generations and should give the Clio a run for its money if it wants to top the segment for a second consecutive year. The new Fiesta is already in showrooms at the moment this article is published and the Polo won’t be long behind. Big loser in the top-10 is the Opel/Vauxhall Corsa with a loss of 16% in Q2 as its 2014 facelift cannot hide that it’s basically already an 11-year-old design. Unfortunately for the model, its replacement isn’t due until 2019. That replacement will be developed on the PSA platform which also underpins the new Citroën C3.
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Sales of subcompact cars in Europe grew by 10% in the first quarter of 2017, faster than the overall market growth of 7,8%, and it remains the largest segment in Europe by a large margin, at more than 793.000 sales. This growth is fueled by a number of renewed or facelifted models, but also by continued strength of older models. At the top of the ranking, we have once again a change of guard as the Ford Fiesta reclaims its top position after being outsold by the Renault Clio in the full year 2017. The Fiesta is traditionally strong in Q1 thanks to its popularity in the UK and it therefore benefits from large volumes in March. In fact, this March the Fiesta was even the best selling nameplate overall, even ahead of the VW Golf, even despite being due for replacement this year. The Clio is still the fastest growing model in the top-5 and overtakes the Volkswagen Polo when compared to Q1 of 2016.
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The subcompact car segment grew by 3% in 2016, about half the overall market growth of 6,2%, but it remains the largest segment in Europe by a large margin. At the top of the ranking, we have a change of guard. For only the second time since 2009 the Ford Fiesta is not Europe’s best selling subcompact car and for the first time in a decade the Renault Clio is the segment leader. We’ve had three different leaders in three quarters, with the Fiesta in the lead after the first quarter, but the Clio took over in Q3, while the Volkswagen Polo became the segment best seller in Q3. By year end, the Clio ended up on top with sales up 3% to just 3.500 ahead of the Polo, while the Fiesta lost 5% of its volume to drop below 300.000 annual sales for only the second time since 2002. The Clio has just been slightly facelifted and the Polo will be updated soon, but there will be an all-new generation of the Fiesta later this year, which should help the nameplate recover some of the lost ground.
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European sales 2016 Q1-Q3 Subcompact car segment
Sales of subcompact cars in Europe are up just 2% in the first nine months of 2016, and they were flat in Q3. Europe’s biggest segment is in a low point of its product cycle, with a lot of new and updated models due in the coming months, including new generations for the two best sellers and a facelift of the #3. Still, only two models out of the top-12 are down year-on-year, with the Opel/Vauxhall Corsa less than one tenth of a percent. In each of the three quarters we’ve had a different leader this year: we started with the Ford Fiesta on top, then after six months the Renault Clio had taken over, and now in the third quarter the Volkswagen Polo has taken charge, even though the Fiesta outsold it in Q3 despite both being in the final stage of their life cycle. The Peugeot 208 is the big winner in the top-5 and the Dacia Sandero takes those honors for the top-10, even though it was passed by the Skoda Fabia this quarter.
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7 states sue to block contraception mandate
Lincoln, Neb. – Seven states filed a lawsuit Thursday to block the federal government's requirement that religious organizations offer health insurance coverage that includes free access to contraception for women.
The attorney generals of Texas, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Carolina jointly filed the lawsuit in a Nebraska US District Court.
Two private citizens, two religious non-profit organizations and a Catholic school also joined the lawsuit against the contraception mandate, which is part of President Barack Obama's sweeping health care law.
The lawsuit asks a federal judge to declare the law unconstitutional and enjoin the government from enforcing the requirement...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/24/7-states-sue-to-block-contr...
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Senate going back to GOP?
A conservative political science professor says a Democrat's recent retirement announcement is the latest indication that the GOP is poised to take control of the Senate this fall.
Senator Ben Nelson survived nearly two decades representing Nebraska, which has been a Republican state for the most part. But the Democrat recently announced he would not seek a third term, swinging the door wide open for the GOP, which only needs to net four seats to take back the Senate this year.
Dr. Charles W. Dunn, distinguished professor of government at Regent University, thinks the Democrats are in trouble.
"The Democratic Party recognizes that it's going to have difficulty defending all of those seats that it holds," he comments. "They have 23 seats to defend, and Republicans have only ten seats to defend."
And whenever a Democrat retires, Dunn points out that that creates an open seat...
http://onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1508210
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson Announces Retirement
Nebraska Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson, a pivotal figure in the health care debate, announced his retirement Tuesday in a letter to Nebraskans, saying, "Simply: it's time to move on."
"It's time for me to step away from elective office, spend more time with my family and look for new ways to serve our state and nation. Therefore, I am announcing today that I will not seek reelection," he said.
Nelson's departure is not considered a surprise despite efforts from his allies to encourage him to seek reelection, though Democrats were taken aback that he chose not to run again while holding $3 million in the bank ahead of expected GOP attacks.
Sources say the senator has been frustrated for awhile with Washington. He was roundly scorned for his role in the health care debate by Democrats, who were furious with his opposition to the so-called public option and requests for exemption on abortion coverage.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/27/nebraska-sen-ben-nelson-to-...
States Looking to Change Definition of Late-Term Abortion
Anti-abortion bills advancing in several state legislatures appear to have a far better chance of passing than in past sessions -- a development that could further complicate the country's patchwork of local laws and create a scenario where more women search across state lines for certain abortion services.
Though most states have restrictions against late-term abortions, two states moved bills this week that would make those restrictions tighter. The Kansas Senate passed a bill Wednesday prohibiting most abortions after the 21st week of pregnancy. At the same time, the Idaho Senate backed a similar proposal with a 20-week threshold.
The bills were modeled after legislation passed last year in Nebraska premised on research suggesting a fetus is able to feel pain after 20 weeks. Similar proposals are percolating in at least nine other states, according to one organization's estimate...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/25/states-looking-change-defin...
Nebraska attorney general won't defend abortion-screening law
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's attorney general will not defend in court a new state law requiring health screenings for women seeking abortions, effectively preventing the controversial law from ever going into effect, according to his spokeswoman and court documents filed Wednesday.
Attorney General Jon Bruning agreed to a permanent federal injunction against enforcement of the law, which faces a challenge from Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, his spokeswoman, Shannon Kingery, said.
"We will not squander the state's resources on a case that has very little probability of winning," she said...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/18/neb-attorney-general-w...
New Pro-Life Law Banning Abortions Based on Fetal Pain Awaits Court Fight
Lincoln, NE (LifeNews.com) -- Lawmakers in Nebraska put their state on the pro-life map by passing a first-of-its kind piece of legislation that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on the notion that unborn children feel pain. The legislation will likely be headed for court, but that's exactly what pro-life groups are after.
Expected legal challenges from abortion advocates will have LB 1103 in the courts, which is where pro-life advocates hope to shape the future of abortion jurisprudence.
The bill was drafted with the idea of moving the Supreme Court further along its current path of watering down Roe v. Wade with the hopes of overturning it once a pro-life majority is present on the court...
http://lifenews.com/state5002.html
First-of-a-kind bill passes - victory for pro-lifers
A landmark law for the pro-life effort has passed in the Nebraska legislature.
Mary Spaulding Balch, director of state legislation for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), tells OneNewsNow the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is unique and sound legislation "that basically says that the unborn child at 20 weeks is capable of feeling pain and that the state of Nebraska has a compelling interest in protecting that child. And so they actually said, 'You cannot kill that child through abortion in Nebraska.'"
Balch argued against the claim that unborn children cannot feel pain, as there is now substantial evidence showing that a baby indeed feels pain at that stage. She points out this is information the Supreme Court did not have in 1973 when it legalized abortion in Roe v. Wade...
http://onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=971442
Ben Nelson to Henry McMaster: 'Call off the dogs'
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) reached out Thursday evening to South Carolina GOP Attorney General Henry McMaster, the leader of a group of 13 Republican state attorneys general who are threatening to file suit against the Senate health care bill, and urged him to forgo any legal action, POLITICO has learned.
According to a copy of a memo sent by McMaster’s chief of staff to other GOP state attorneys general detailing the call, Nelson asked McMaster to “call off the dogs,” a reference to recent threats by the state AGs to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Medicaid provision in the bill that benefits Nebraska at the expense of other states.
Under the terms of a deal Nelson cut with Senate leaders to secure his crucial vote for the health care package, Nebraska would be exempted from having to pay for the coverage of its new Medicaid enrollees—leaving the federal government to pick up the tab.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31100.html
Henry McMaster
Nelson feeling the heat in Nebraska
Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) is attempting to subdue the anger of pro-lifers who feel he betrayed them with his support for the Senate healthcare bill.
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska)Senator Nelson aired a new television ad last night during the Nebraska-Arizona Holiday Bowl game in an attempt to justify casting the 60th vote in favor of the Senate healthcare bill. Nelson claims in the ad that he "took a commonsense approach to improve the bill," however the two-term senator alienated many of his past supporters who are pro-life when he supported legislation that allows taxpayer funding of abortion.
A Rasmussen poll earlier this week showed that Nelson would be defeated by 31 points in a potential 2010 Senate race with Republican Governor Dave Heineman.
http://onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=833476
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Sen. Ben Nelson Faces Backlash Over His Vote for Senate Health Care Bill
Omaha, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska's Republican governor was concerned about expanded Medicaid costs in the proposed Senate health care bill, and Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) says that’s what led to a compromise, in which the federal government will cover Nebraska’s estimated $45 million share over a decade.
Gov. Dave Heineman "contacted me and he said this is another unfunded federal mandate and it's going to stress the state budget, and I agreed with him," said the Nebraska Democrat on Sunday. Nelson himself served as Nebraska’s governor in the 1990s.
"I said to the leader (Sen. Harry Reid) and others that this is something that has to be fixed. I didn't participate in the way it was fixed."
But Heineman expressed anything but gratitude, saying he had nothing to do with the compromise and calling the overhaul bill "bad news for Nebraska and bad news for America"...
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/58833
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The Joker Origin Movie Starring Joaquin Phoenix is Happening
July 10, 2018 Arelis Feature, Movies, News, The Joker
The Joker origin movie is officially a go at Warner Bros. as actor Joaquin Phoenix finalized his deal with the studio, that’s being reported by The Hollywood Reporter, to start shooting in New York, in the beginning of September of this year.
Todd Phillips set to direct, who also co-wrote the script with Scott Silver, with Emma Tillinger Koskoff as producer and Richard Baratta is an exec producer.
The movie set to have a budget in the $55 million range, which goes to show how small-scale the world will be, compared to previous recent DC Comics movies, which all have had budgets above $100 million.
Warner Bros. described the script as being:
“exploration of a man disregarded by society [that] is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.”
The movie’s release date isn’t set, but it looks like the studio is shooting for a late 2019 release.
Source: HollywoodReporter.com
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I always thought it an amusing paradox that, in establishing a liberal democratic state following the horrors of Nazism, the founders of the German Federal Republic did so with a singularly illiberal and undemocratic act; namely that henceforth all Nazi symbols, the National Socialist Party itself, and any denial of the overwhelming facts supporting the Holocaust would be illegal.
Predictably, the hammer and sickle, the Communist Party and denial of the horrors taking place on the other side of the Iron Curtain remained legal, but that’s another argument (the Communist Party of Germany was banned in 1956 but this was because of ‘aggressive and combative methods’ – the German Communist Party swiftly replaced it and still exists today).
Still, at the least the Germans had the sense to be typically precise about what they were banning. Nobody can join the National Socialist Party and wave the Swastika in the street while shouting about how the Holocaust was a conspiracy by the West to discredit Hitler; but they can join the National Democratic Party, wave the old Kaiserflagge (which was the flag of Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1935, wink wink) and walk out of a minute’s silence for the Holocaust because people also died in Dresden during the war.
I worry that we can’t say the same about our present government. I’ve said this before but, while we at Conservatives for Liberty were extremely excited about the first majority Conservative Government in our political lifetimes – and there are many policies to be excited about – we were concerned about the Prime Minister and Home Secretary’s mutterings on confronting ‘extremism’ as a uniform term. That concern, sadly, has been horribly justified; neither of them appears to truly understand the concept of liberty or even the rule of law.
Worse still, they have the indecency to corrupt the language of liberty to peddle their authoritarian agenda, something we on the Right frequently are far more used to accusing socialists of. Garbage about freedom of speech as a ‘British value’ is interwoven with consciously vague calls for the persecution of law-abiding citizens who hold “extremist” views.
To quote the Prime Minister directly from his extremism speech delivered on Monday, this appears to include ideas he and Theresa May don’t much like, such as ‘that Jews exercise malevolent power; or that Western powers, in concert with Israel, are deliberately humiliating Muslims, because they aim to destroy Islam…that British security services knew about 7/7, but didn’t do anything about it because they wanted to provoke an anti-Muslim backlash.’
Here are some more unsettling excerpts from that speech;
‘This means confronting groups and organisations that may not advocate violence – but which do promote other parts of the extremist narrative.’
‘We are all British. We respect democracy and the rule of law. We believe in freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of worship, equal rights regardless of race, sex, sexuality or faith…These are British values.’
‘We need to put out of action the key extremist influencers who are careful to operate just inside the law, but who clearly detest British society and everything we stand for. These people aren’t just extremists. There are despicable far right groups too. And what links them all is their aim to groom young people and brainwash their minds.’
‘So as part of our Extremism Bill, we are going to introduce new narrowly targeted powers to enable us to deal with these facilitators and cult leaders, and stop them peddling their hatred.’
In line with his frighteningly totalitarian assertion that ‘For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone,’ the Prime Minister is planning to silence certain points of view even if they do not advocate or support violence, for no other reason that because he and the crazed crone he placed in the Home Office consider them ‘extremist’.
However, as pointed out earlier, this is being done explicitly under the pretence of defending the ‘British value’ of freedom of speech. Our Government has quite literally embraced the doublespeak of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four; like the idiosyncratic creed of ‘War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength’, we are now destroying freedom of speech in its own name; eliminating something in order to preserve it.
The only people who win here are the terrorists the Government is claiming to fight. They wish to destroy our way of life – and we are gleefully doing their work for them.
This post is part of a series discussing liberty under the law. Read more:
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World’s Largest Land Donation Led by Tompkins Conservation
Martin Becker
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Over two decades of conservation leadership by North American philanthropists Douglas and Kristine Tompkins have culminated in a major land donation that marks a milestone in the history of global land conservation. The Sept. 23 signing of a donation agreement transferring 375,000 acres from Tompkins Conservation to the Argentine government created Iberá National Park in the northern province of Corrientes.
Simultaneously, negotiations with the government of Chile would result in the Tompkins’ donation of one million acres to create five new national parks and expand two existing ones in Patagonia.
Douglas Tompkins, who passed away in a kayaking accident in December 2015, used to describe his conservation work as “paying my rent to live on this planet,” according to his wife Kristine. She has taken on this legacy.
CFN: Kristine, the land donations you are pursuing in Chile and Argentina are historic, both locally and globally. How do you view your organization’s enormous legacy?
Tompkins: I always wish we could do more, but I also realize that what we are doing is historic. These are the largest private ownerships of conservation land in the world. If we finish this, as I hope to, in partnership with the governments of Chile and Argentina, the will far surpass any donation before this to any government in the world.
I feel very proud of all the work we have been doing. But I also feel tremendous pressure because things are not going well when it comes to what’s happening to the natural world and the conversion of native land to production. On one hand, I feel very proud and very blessed to be doing these things. But on the other hand, it’s painfully just too little. We should be doing so much more.
We feel very proud of having achieved so much, but at the same time, it’s discouraging to see what’s happening out there on the front lines. And that’s why I look forward and hope that young Chileans and Argentineans take these things on. We want to make sure that, 40 years from now, they have done so much more than we were able to do because we started when I was 43! We need young people to get started now and do more.
CFN: CFN brings together practitioners who are using innovative financial mechanisms to scale conservation results. Your organization has been very successful in protecting lands and using traditional philanthropy as a funding source. What are the strengths and weaknesses you see in using philanthropy to protect lands?
Tompkins: First of all, I must say there is never enough conservation. That’s the way we see it. The strengths of philanthropy are pretty obvious. It’s a source of funding for terrestrial or marine protected areas. Certainly philanthropy, whether it’s social or environmental conservation, is an important arm. But it doesn’t nearly produce the capital you really need to protect land at the pace that you should. That’s the problem.
The funding from philanthropy will never be enough for conservation. We should be doing much more and much faster. If you read E.O. Wilson’s work, setting aside ‘half the Earth for conservation’ requires that you have other funding possibilities for conservation at that scale. That’s where we need to get a lot smarter about how to fund big projects.
CFN: To accept your land donations and create the proposed national parks might be seen by governments as a long-term barrier to economic development in these territories. How are you making your land donations attractive to governments?
Tompkins: It depends on where you are working and what kind of industry potential there is. I’m not saying that there aren’t conflicts with so-called ‘development,’ but I’m saying that where we work…it has changed what is produced there.
We are offering a country a turn-key national park. Remember that we are working in areas where there is low population density and all of these things are taken into consideration with the government. In any case…they know that our projects are being conserved no matter what. We just want them to go to the government to create what we believe in as the National Park Service.
If you look at the Grand Tetons, are they adding to the economic development of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, or are they taking away from it? That’s not even a question. Real estate development is a function of the popularity and beauty of a place. So, in all of these places we are involved, I say those are economic development issues and that we are changing the economics of what’s produced in an area. We are not promoting the contrary. We are taking typically isolated areas and bringing life to them for new development.
CFN: Do the governments see it the same way?
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Tompkins: They certainly do in Argentina, and they are starting to in Chile, absolutely. I mean, this is good for business, and people see that as a new economic driver. Tourism is linked to national parks, and national parks are like a brand.
If you go to Iceland, you check to see what their national parks are like. You don’t necessarily know what is there, but you know there must be something there because they protected it forever. That happens everywhere in the world. For example, Argentina has been super clear. They associate tourism with national parks 100 percent. And as I said, Chile is starting to do the same.
CFN: Tompkins Conservation actively participated in environmental campaigns that opposed the construction of hydroelectric dams in southern Chile. What is the importance of environmental activism as part of your conservation work?
Tompkins: We give huge importance to activism. It is one of the four legs of our approach to conservation. For us, activism is essential. A lot of conservation organizations shy away from it because they don’t like controversy. We look at it differently. We want to be involved in the fights that we think are appropriate, that we agree with. We want to be right there.
CFN: Does your role as activists create tensions with governments during the negotiations?
Tompkins: No, not at all. I think we are always very respectful of governments in general. We are not violent, we are just very clear and consistent. Certainly, Doug’s discussions with the salmon industry in Chile caused them a lot of headaches, but that does not shut us up. That’s what it is. If we are willing to stand up for the things we believe in, that’s always going to happen.
CFN: If the land donations in Chile are accepted, what are the greatest challenges and opportunities you foresee for Tompkins Conservation in the coming years?
Tompkins: Oh, we are going to keep going! We don’t have any intentions to stop working. That’s what we hope to do. I’m 66 years old, so I’m not that old! We have a lot of goals. There is a lot of rewilding we are doing in the Iberá National Park. We have lots of projects. My hope is just to keep going.
CFN: If the donations succeed, you won’t be the owner of the protected lands anymore. What will the operating space of your organization be in the future?
Tompkins: Hopefully, if the funds are available and so on, we’ll just keep looking for great conservation opportunities, maybe make more national parks. And if there are areas that are missing species, maybe we’ll get to work on the reintroduction of species in these areas in different places in Chile or Argentina. I don’t see us working outside of those countries.
We are going to keep working in terms of activism, in terms of initiatives related to agriculture. I’m sorry, but I’m not going to retire anytime soon and buy a house in Florida or something like that. There are lots of Chileans and Argentineans who do fantastic work through our foundations and I expect to support their roles as long as I can. These are local people doing extraordinary things. This is the beauty of it.
Note: On 11/2/2016, the introductory section of this article was edited to indicate that negotiations are still in progress in Chile.
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Architects as Bookmakers: Concepts, Contexts and Competing Visions
Daniela Ortiz dos Santos
Architects’ trips have often been an object of study for historians, who have examined the effects of these travels on their architectural practice. But there is one other type of voyage that has rarely been considered, and about which architects such as Swiss born Le Corbusier was indeed silent: throughout his life, Le Corbusier wrote almost fifty books and published more than two hundred articles besides executing seventy-nine architectural projects.
It is worth considering, then, that literary activity was part of Le Corbusier’s everyday life, and that this may have produced echoes in his other practices. Le Corbusier is here a good example to argue for the importance to intersect the building culture and the booking culture. This seminar does not focus on Le Corbusier. Instead, we will look at twentieth-century architects and architectural historians, whose writings and publications deeply affected the building culture, and whose idea of “a modern architecture” was not necessarily presented the same way.
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum will collaborate with us in this seminar and participants are expected to join the workshop The Building Culture and the Book Culture with DAM curator Oliver Elser and Dr. André Tavares from Lisbon. The workshop will deal with art historian Heinrich Klotz’s book Moderne und Postmodene (1987), his trips to the USA and exchanges with architects. The languages of the seminar are English and German. Participants are required to regularly attend the seminar, which is mainly divided in three parts:
Part 1. Examining architectural books through three concepts: “Anatomy”, “Archives” and “Archaeology”.
Part 2. Workshop in the DAM + two sessions = production of a collective outcome.
Part 3. Analysis of three books through the concept of “intertextuality”. Participants will be divided in three groups. Each group will focus on one book and will hold a presentation.
Instead of delivering a “Hausarbeit”, credit points will be granted to participants who have an active participation in the sessions and the workshop, collaborate to the production of a collective outcome (to be produced during the seminar hours) and join a group presentation.
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He beginning of the organization for handball in CSKA is in October, 1962 when the union between CDNA AND DFS "Red flag" was made. With this a start to the youth academy for handball in CSKA is started, which later on becomes leading in the country.
The first men's handball team of CSKA "Red flag" is created in April, 1964 when the sent by "VIF G.Dimitrov" student Mihail Sarbinov created an organization for the team that will participate in the Spartakiad during the summer of the same year.
In the team, throughout the various years, in order for them to get rid of their military duty, through the team have gone some of the most famous Bulgarian handball names.
In order to participate in the Spartakiad, the women's handball team is made out of athletes in other sports, mostly skiing, or other alpine disciplines, who didn't have competitions during this time of the year, but have studied handball in university. During the fall of the same year, Totyu Valchev is appointed a the coach of the women's team, but he also participates in competitions with the men.
In 1965, at the final competitions in Tutrakan the juniors of CSKA win the first medals (silver), but lose the final with one goal difference to the team of "Septemvri" (Sofia).
In the end of January, 1969 the union between CSKA "Cherveno zname" and "Septemvri" is completed. The results of the united teams don't come too late and the coached start working very productively.
The real accomplishments of the youngsters come during the Spartakiad in 1970 in Tolbuhin (today's Dobrich). The first republican champions for CSKA are the kids under 14 years of age.
Only 25 days after the first champions, the youngsters aged up to 16 year old win golden medals. The senior girls also become champions, whereas the senior men get the 2nd place. The bases of these successes are the training sessions and the famous champion-like mentality, which is typical for CSKA.
10 years after the introduction of handball in CSKA, the club wins its first title. The women's team becomes a champion. After the initial success, the women go on to win the championship 10 more times. They also win 8 times the "Cup of Bulgaria".
Gradually, the men's team starts to become more competitive towards the leading handball clubs. In 1970 the first posts are let - Spas Bonev and Angel Ganchev. At the Spartakiad in 1974, the first medals (silver) and vice-champion titles are won.
During the same year, Nikolai Georgiev (Kaio), Dimitar Nikolov (the Bear), and Valentin Denchev (Tendzhi) are added to the team that wins golden medals in all age groups, in which they have gone through. In that way, the academy which was created during the 60s wins a championship title in the year of 1976 for the first time. Everywhere the team has always been supported loyally by the red fans, who have sometimes even been an additional player.
After the glorious first title, the men's team becomes the champion 9 more times. The championship titles in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1990, and 1991 were won. Also, the "Bulgarian cup" was won 9 times.
Nikolay Georgiev, Tsvyatko Nachev, Rami Akulov, Stanislav Peykov, Emil Tarkalanov, Marin Marinov, Simeon Blazhev, Christopher Mitev, Rosen Davidkov, Ivan KolayLakov, Stanimir Dzhemperliev, Simeon Hristov, Veselin Petrov, Slavcho Georgiev and many others signed their names into the golden books of champions with the red jersey.
The competitors of CSKA had been the backbones of our national teams for years. Throughout those years there have been more national players in CSKA than the incumbent players.
The handball teams of CSKA also have a lot of success on the international scene. They reach the base of their accomplishments during the 70s and 80s, when CSKA is a factor in European handball.
Both the men and the women in CSKA reach quarter finals for the "Cup Winners Cup" and in tournaments for the cup of "European champions".
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This is an important fact to consider. If the source of the report or research is funded by an organization that has a vested interest in the results of the study, its reliability may not be as great as otherwise. For example, a study of the health effects of tobacco smoking funded by the American Tobacco Institute--a research organization funded by the tobacco industry--may not be as reliable as a similar study funded by the non-partisan National Institute of Health.
Another aspect to consider is the potential for conflict of interest between the report and the source of support or the publisher of the material. For example, all of the impact assessment studies that monitor the release of pollutants are conducted by the potential polluters themselves. Therefore there is a conflict of interest between what is reported and who is reporting it. Such conflicts question the reliability of the study.
has the material been peer reviewed?
Peer review means that the study and its results have been reviewed by a group of people with the necessary expertise to assess the merits of the work. Peer review is the system of "checks and balances" in science.
Peer review occurs in two contexts. First, there may be review of "factual" material, for example when a web site presents what is known about some medical condition. The second context is the publication of original research or a review of original research.
Before the results of scientific research are published in a peer-reviewed journal, persons trained and active in the same area of research review the manuscript. Reviewers check to make sure that the methods and statistical tests employed in the research are appropriate and that the conclusions of the study are justified given the data presented in the study. If there is a problem with the study or the conclusions, the paper is not published. This review process helps ensure that only properly conducted research is presented in scientific journals.
Peer review is subverted, however, if the reviewers have a vested interest in the results of the study they are reviewing. "Creation scientists" review each other's work but do not have their work reviewed by biologists or earth scientists who may not have the same preconceived conclusion as they do.
Because peer review is of such importance in establishing the reliability of the information, knowing whether a source is reviewed and who has done the reviewing are important aspects to consider when evaluating a source.
To find out whether a journal is peer reviewed:
Check Ulrich's Plus (this link brings you to the JMU Library site, which will allow direct access to this resource, simply click on the link!)
Check the journal's homepage or the journal itself (at the Library). In particular you might try looking at the "About the Journal" or the "Instructions to Authors" sections.
Knowing something about the author is also important in establishing reliability. This sounds very daunting. How can we assess the work of someone we do not know? One thing that we can judge to some degree are the credentials of the author. Does the author have expertise on the subject? Is he affiliated with institutions that themselves appear to represent experts on the subject and that may not have a vested interest in the results?
How do you find out?
Look at the source to see if it tells you anything about the author's credentials.
Check a biographical source.
Many internet sources do not give the identity or credentials of the author or producer. Sources that do not give this information have questionable reliability.
Knowing when the information was obtained or reported is important. Because scientific findings are happening all the time, some information can become "yesterdays news" very quickly. A program on TV appeared to be a documentary on the Shroud of Turin, a religious relic that was believed by some to be Christ's burial shroud. What the program didn't mention, presumably because it was made more than several years ago, was that, with the Church's permission, the shroud has been radiocarbon dated and has been determined to be from the 13th century and, hence, cannot be the relic is was thought to be.
Reliable sources of information provide references to the sources of information they are presenting. These references allow you to check the original information yourself to verify that it is being accurately conveyed.
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Veterans’ Memorial, Old Saybrook
Old Saybrook honors its Civil War veterans with a simple monument in Riverside Cemetery.
The undated monument stands in a small traffic island near the cemetery’s main entrance from Sheffield Street. A dedication on its front (south) face reads “In memory of our comrades who served in the war of the rebellion. Erected by the veterans of Old Saybrook.”
At the base of the monument are the years in which the Civil War took place, 1861-1865.
The monument is not dated, but the reference to the “war of the rebellion,” likely indicates the monument was erected in the late 19th Century. By the early 20th Century, the conflict was more commonly described as the Civil War.
The monument has no lettering on its other faces. A smaller, more modern granite marker at the base of the monument bears the inscription “Veterans’ Memorial.” Several Civil War veterans are buried in the sections near the monument.
A short distance southwest of the cemetery, three monuments in front of Town Hall honor the veterans of the 20th Century’s Wars. A 1926 boulder monument honoring the service of World War I veterans bears a dedication on its front (west) face reading “In memory of Old Saybrook’s sons who served. The east face of the monument has a plaque with two columns of names listing local veterans, organized by service branches. The monument is topped by a bronze eagle.
Near the World War monument, a granite monument dedicated in 1961 honors local war heroes. A dedication near the top of the monument reads, “Erected by the citizens of Old Saybrook in memory of her sons who died at war.”
Beneath that dedication, the monument lists heroes and the wars in which they were lost. One person is listed for World War I; 15 for World War II; two for Korea, and one for Vietnam.
A polished granite monument in front of three flagpoles bears the POW-MIA logo. An eternal flame flickers in front of the POW-MIA monument.
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DROWNING IN MILK
The plight of a family-owned Virginia dairy farm
Story and photos by Caleb Ayers
Dan Myers steps out of his white Ford F-350 and onto the muddy ground just as the morning light begins to illuminate his family’s dairy farm, Walkup Holsteins. In the partially-covered pavilion in front of him, more than 30 pregnant dry cows lay on beds of straw and wood shavings.
As he walks down the cement path that separates the two groups fenced in on each side, Dan counts to make sure that nobody gave birth overnight. The cows watch him, each breath steaming out of their nostrils in the freezing morning air. Once the first cow stands up, a chain reaction ensues, bringing all the cows to their feet and approaching the fence. When Dan confirms that the night has brought no new calves, he grabs the push broom and sweeps the hay off the path.
At 79 years old, Dan has been working on this farm for his entire life. His glasses accentuate his bright blue eyes, his fisherman’s hat protects his wispy gray hair, and his tall black boots and heavy tan coat complete his farmer’s look.
At the milking parlor on the other side of the farm, Dan’s wife Charlotte, 77, and their daughter Teresa Callender, 53, are around halfway through milking the cows, a process that they started just after 5 a.m. The similarities abound between the two: their facial structures and expressions, the bandanas around their heads — which they said are at least partially to protect themselves from splattering feces — and the strength they exude in their work.
Drawing on decades of experience, they perform the same routine over and over. First, Teresa ushers eight cows from the holding area into two lines on either side of the parlor. Once they align cows with milking machines, Teresa and Charlotte move down the line, completing the same steps at each cow: apply disinfectant foam, check the milk’s consistency, wash, rinse and dry the utters and then plug the air-powered vacuum milker to each of the teats. A wall box next to each milker initiates the suction, which pumps the milk into the main holding tank. Once all eight milkers detach and Teresa and Charlotte apply a lanolin-based “post dip” that helps the teats close, they open the front door, letting the cows back into the covered feedlot. When one group leaves, Teresa leads another in from outside to start the process again.
They perform this same, several-hour routine every morning and afternoon, regardless of weather or holidays. Over the 141 years and seven generations that the family has managed to keep the farm, their livelihood of working with dairy cows has also become an integral part of their family identity.
But, as is the case for dairy farms across Virginia and the nation, the troubled milk market — marred by oversupply and falling demand — threatens to rip away their way of life. Whether this 141-year-old family tradition continues for the remainder of Dan and Charlotte’s lives, and provides a livelihood for future generations, depends on what wins out: a declining, volatile dairy market, or the family’s resilience.
The family first obtained the farm in 1877 when Jackson and Catherine Showalter purchased the land in the Dayton area of Rockingham County. Since then, they’ve managed to keep it through 26 different presidential administrations, the addition of 12 U.S. states, the Great Depression and two world wars. Over those years, farms have generally increased in size and productivity, and diminished in number. And the number of farmers in the United States population has shifted from nearly half in the 1880s to only 2% today.
In 1918, 7-year-old Victor Myers, who grew up to become Dan’s father, obtained the farm’s first registered Holstein heifer calf for a 4-H project. Holsteins boast the highest dairy production of any animal in the world. As their herd grew, the Myers adopted the prefix “Walkup” when they registered with the Holstein Association USA in 1927. Today, the Myers maintain a herd of about 130 milking cows that produce roughly 279,000 pounds (almost 32,450 gallons) per month.
Dan spent his entire childhood on the farm, drinking raw, untreated milk from the tank, something that the family still does today. As a kid he also learned to show cattle, but he didn’t — and still doesn’t — enjoy the awards and fanfare. When he was 9, nobody could find Dan for the award ceremony after he showed a cow in the Rockingham County Fair. “When they came out to get me, I was out there in the ball field, playing with my trucks,” he says.
After meeting at a skating party as teenagers, he and Charlotte dated for several years. She had always enjoyed the outdoors, but she was unfamiliar with farm life until she began dating Dan. “I guess I enjoyed being around the cows some, but I didn’t ever think I was going to get into what I’m into: milking cows and taking care of calves,” she says.
They married in 1961, and Dan completed his bachelor’s in mathematics from Bridgewater College three years later. Then he taught high school mathematics at Broadway High School for the next four years, but continued milking and working on the farm the whole time. In 1968, after Dan quit teaching, he and Charlotte bought the farm from his father, returning to full-time farm life. They now have two children — Teresa and DJ, 48 — who, have also been involved on the farm their entire lives.
Most of the buildings and structures that currently reside on the farm were built under Dan’s watch. As a way to commemorate the history and document the farm’s progress, the family has etched the year of completion into each building and structure.
In 2002, Dan, Charlotte, DJ, Teresa and her husband Don, 53, formed Walkup Holsteins LLC. Each of them, along with Don and Teresa’s two daughters and DJ’s daughter, are invested into the farm as their livelihood, but they view the cows as more than a source of income. They know most of the cows by some combination of name, traits and stories.
“We have 250 pets,” says Dan.
“They all have different personalities,” says Teresa. “They’re like people, some good, some not so good.”
Although the family enjoys the work, it is hard and requires long hours. Decades of intense, consistent labor have taken their toll, especially on Dan and Charlotte. The non-stop work and the ever-moving hands of time have sapped some of their strength and ability.
“All these dairy activities have cost me two knees and two hips,” says Dan.
But in recent years, the real toll has been on their finances. Across the country, the economic situation for dairy farms has been deteriorating for several decades. Data from the US Department of Agriculture indicates that per-capita fluid milk consumption has declined by more than 35 percent since 1980. Yet, over that same time, milk production has more than doubled.
Most dairy farms in Virginia are similar to Walkup Holsteins: small, family-owned enterprises. But with an increased emphasis on efficiency, large-scale dairy farms — which can afford to make less per gallon because of the sheer volume they produce — are driving down prices and rendering the small, family-farm model ineffective.
“Most of where we see production headed are these larger, multi-thousand head dairy operations that are more or less feedlots,” said Tony Banks, a commodity marketing specialist with the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation.
Premiums from the Virginia State Milk Commission initially delayed the decline in Virginia, but it is in full force right now. Over the last 22 years, Virginia has lost about 1,200 Grade A dairy farms, says Banks. The depression has waxed and waned, with occasional spikes — such as 2014, where prices across the country soared to record highs — punctuating deep, long depressions that ravage farmers’ finances.
“Those peaks are not as long-lived as the valleys in these price-cycles,” Banks says. “When [Virginia dairy farmers] are making money, they’re not making it long enough or as much to offset the significant economic downturns that they’ve experienced.”
Right now, Virginia’s dairy industry is in the midst of its longest, deepest depression yet. With the gap between supply and demand growing each year, the market has become oversaturated, leaving dairy farmers in a precarious situation — paying more money than they have to produce more milk than they know what to do with. Banks says that a dairy farmer recently summed it up by saying they were “drowning in milk.”
Economists initially thought the market would stabilize this summer, but brutal conditions have persisted. Some have cited trade conflicts with Canada and Mexico as part of the reason why. Regardless, the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services data paints a grim picture of the current, deteriorating dairy landscape: 20% of Virginia Grade A dairy farms have closed since July 2017. And the disaster has hit dairy farmers across the state equally, regardless of location or experience, says Banks.
“It’s guys that have been in it for decades and decades, it’s third- and fourth-generation, and it’s folks that are first-generation that haven’t been able to survive these sharp price declines that we’ve had in recent years,” he says. “After a while it just eats away all your equity, and it gets harder and harder to weather each storm.”
Other dairy products, such as cheese and yogurt, have grown in popularity, but Banks says those gains have not come close to matching the losses in fluid milk, and not every farmer can make that transition. And to make matters worse, no major improvements in national milk consumption or market prices are in the forecast.
In Rockingham County – the epicenter of Virginia’s dairy industry – Walkup Holsteins has endured the decline better than most. When the market took a deep drop in 2008 and 2009, they were able to pull through and recover over the next several years. And the spike of 2014 allowed them to pay off some debt and make improvements on the farm.
While they’ve handled the past recessions relatively well, the current crisis is forcing them to make difficult decisions. In order to make ends meet, they have been dipping deep into their reserves.
“You get kind of depressed with that after a while…” says Dan. “Why do you keep going? And you have to ask yourself that question. It’s not because it’s a good, profitable deal. There’s got to be other things.”
For Dan, the family tradition of dairy farming has been one of the primary motivators to continue, even when the money isn’t flowing. Looking around and knowing that past generations milked cows on this same farm inspires him, and simply being with the animals also motivates him to continue through these depressing times — both financially and emotionally.
But things may come to a head soon. Barring significant market improvement, Dan is not sure whether they will be able to make through the end of this year.
After cutting costs “down to the nitty gritty,” the numbers are still coming back negative. Over the last several months, their production costs have outweighed their returns by as much as a dollar per hundredweight — an unsustainable rate that translates to a roughly $2,000 loss each month. Dan says that some major reorganization may be their best hope of surviving, but even that may not actually give them the means to not sell.
“I do like our cows,” says Dan. “With the financial situation, I can’t guarantee that they’ll be there next year. It’s going to be tough, it’s going to be a sad day.”
In mid-January of this year, Delegate Tony Wilt-R, who represents Harrisonburg and part of Rockingham County in the Virginia House of Delegates, presented a bill that would provide taxww credit to Virginia dairy farms that are selling their milk for less than the cost of production.
“[Dairy farms] are just a valuable asset to our business community and to our communities as a whole,” Wilt says.
In order to qualify, the farms would need to have developed or already implemented either a nutrient management plan or a resource management plan with the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
However, a House subcommittee tabled the bill for now. “Every member agreed with the concept,” says Wilt. “They know that there’s a problem, but at the same token, we’ve got to balance our books.”
To that end, Wilt says the House Finance Committee is currently working with Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to see if there are any other measures the state can take to help the remaining smaller dairy farms survive.
If the state tax breaks or other help does eventually come, however, it will likely be too little, too late for a lot of these dairy farms, including Walkup Holsteins
Like many farmers, Dan and Charlotte don’t have IRAs or substantial retirement savings. With the intent of helping their family as long as possible, and considering the current economic situation, retirement isn’t a feasible option –– and, frankly, that’s not what they want to do.
“I don’t know that I consider it a job,” says Dan. “It’s a life, it’s what we’ve done.”
How much longer it lasts, though, is now very much in question.
Contact Caleb at ayersck@dukes.jmu.edu.
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‘A first step towards combating discrimination’
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By Evie Andreou
The passing of the law that regulates the rights and obligations of couples in civil cohabitation is a first step towards combating discrimination, the head of Accept LGBT Cyprus Costas Gavrielides said on Friday.
The group, which has been lobbying for the bill for the last five years, said they were very satisfied with the move by parliament. The plenary gave the green light on Thursday to the much-anticipated bill on civil cohabitation regulating the rights and obligations couples wishing to enter into a union other than a ‘traditional’ marriage.
Despite carrying the full force of traditional unions between two persons, regulating such issues like inheritance, adoptions are forbidden for couples entering into a civil cohabitation agreement. The prohibition applies to heterosexual as well as same-sex couples. The bill passed with 39 votes for, 12 against, while three MPs abstained.
“It was a long road, it took five years in the make, but this changes the lives of many people,” Gavrielides told the Cyprus Mail.
He said that the passing of the specific law, would help other sidelined groups, as human rights have entered another level, and are not only referred to vis a vis the Cyprus problem, which is what traditionally human rights in Cyprus so far meant, he said
“As of today, all those same sex couples that were married abroad, but not recognised as such in Cyprus, will have their rights recognised,” Gavrielides said.
He added that there were couples battling in courts for years to have their rights recognised.
One of these cases, he said, was a same sex couple that was married in Canada, but one of the spouses who was not a Cypriot, was not given residence permit to live on the island, because the state did not recognise his marriage to a Cypriot national.
“There are many cases like this one. We were facing many problems in the past. This law will re-unite families,” he said.
Based on experience recorded in other countries, he is certain the law will help combat homophobia and encourage more people to stop hiding their sexual orientation.
“In other countries when these kinds of laws were passed, homophobia was reduced significantly so more same-sex couples felt more comfortable in expressing themselves. We expect that the same will happen here as well,” he said.
Commenting on the prohibition of adoption, Gavrielides is positive it will be eventually become an option for partners in civil cohabitation.
“Adoption is an important aspect. We welcome AKEL’s move to put the issue forth and ask for an amendment, and I believe we will eventually get there,” he said. “Five years ago when we started discussing the cohabitation bill, there were intense reactions by some people. But following discussion, pre-existing fears will slowly cease to exist,” he said.
“We thank the government and the interior minister Socratis Hasikos for promoting the bill, and everyone who worked towards its implementation,” Gavrielides said.
The regulation of civil cohabitation comes 22 years after Cyprus was slammed by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which ruled in 1993 that the country’s antiquated 1885 anti-sodomy law violated the rights of Alecos Modinos, the first Cypriot gay activist, to a private life guaranteed under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Modinos, who had founded in 1987 the Cypriot Gay Liberation Movement asking for homosexuality to be decriminalised, took Cyprus to court in 1992 challenging the colonial law, which remained in place after the island’s independence in 1960. The law was eventually repealed in 1998. Modinos could not be reached for a comment on the latest development .
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Sematech News Boon For Albany; Plan To Sell Chip Fab Laboratory In Austin Could Mean More R&D Jobs Coming To Nanotech Center Here
By: by Larry Rulison, Times Union
ALBANY - In a move that could mean more good things to come for Albany NanoTech, Sematech Inc. is looking to sell off its chip fab laboratory in Austin, Texas.
The lab, known as the Advanced Technology Development Facility, or ATDF, includes 62,000 square feet of cleanroom space and is used to help companies do the latest research on computer chip manufacturing. It employs about half the 400 people who work at Sematech in Austin.
The news, which was reported last week by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper, means that Sematech, which has a growing presence at Albany NanoTech's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, will likely do more of that R&D work in Albany.
"I can confirm that discussions are under way that include both ATDF and potential investment partners," said Sematech spokesman Dan McGowan, who declined to talk specifics.
Sematech is a research consortium of the world's largest com puter chip manufacturing companies, including IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. Created in the 1980s, the organization helped make Austin a global center for computer chip manufacturing and design. But New York state and the NanoCollege, which is part of the University at Albany, have been chipping away at Austin's grip on Sematech.
In 2003, Sematech created Sematech North at the NanoCollege's Albany NanoTech complex on Fuller Road, and now is expanding its presence there in a $760 million project that includes $300 million from New York state.
As part of that deal, Sematech will put the headquarters of what will be known as International Sematech at Albany NanoTech, and grow its presence there to about 700 people from the current 250.
The American-Statesman story said Sematech employees not affiliated with ATDF are being told they must move to Albany if they want to keep their jobs.
"I can't speak directly on specific staffing plans," said McGowan, the spokesman. "(But) the vast majority of the new positions ... will represent new hires."
The NanoCollege is currently building a $100 million, 250,000-square-foot building that will house International Sematech's offices.
The college also is spending $50 million to expand its cleanroom space, where it does computer chip manufacturing research and development on 300-millimeter silicon wafers.
That cleanroom - which has capabilities similar to work done at ATDF - will grow to 80,000 square feet, from 65,000 square feet currently, opening up additional space for Sematech's work.
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Geopark Patron - Dr Iain Stewart
Television's favourite geologist Dr Iain Stewart is patron of the English Riviera Geopark.
Iain is the presenter of Journeys from the Centre of the Earth, and the award winning BBC series Earth - The Power of the Planet. He hopes that as patron he will be able to encourage more to share his enthusiasm for the dramatic events and changes which have shaped the English Riviera Geopark over millions of years and to gather support in the wider community for the European Geopark Network.
"The English Riviera Geopark is one of the most exciting initiatives I have seen in terms of the quality of the geology and the enthusiasm of the team. I am proud to act as its Patron.
The Geopark is great because it is within an urban area, but you can still tell a lot of the story of Britain, and the dramatic changes which have taken place, for example in climate, from looking at the different ages and types of rocks found in the area. . For example down at Hope's Cove you find rocks laid down at a time when Torbay was in a Caribbean-type ocean, then at Oddicombe beach you are among rocks formed in desert, Sahara-type wadis. A geopark is also about telling the human stories, such as when the Ice Age came and what the humans were doing then.
I think rocks themselves can be boring. You can pick up a totally nondescript pebble, but when you realise that pebble is there because it was washed down in a desert flood 300million years ago, that's an exciting story."
Iain's Biography
Born near Glasgow in 1964, Iain attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama before being cast as a ‘Gorbals Diehard' in the award-winning BBC series Huntingtower. An equity card, miscellaneous television work and various repertory work followed, before his thesbian career ended, age 16, cut short by successful school exam results!
Iain went on to study Geography and Geology at the Strathclyde University in Glasgow, graduating in 1986 with first-class honours. He then proceeded to doctoral studies at the University of Bristol on the earthquake geology of Greece and Turkey, gaining his PhD in 1990. The same year, he was appointed lecturer in earth science at the West London Institute of Higher Education, which later merged into Brunel University. After 12 years at Brunel University's Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Iain returned north in 2002 to take up an Honorary Research Fellow's position at the University of Glasgow, before heading south in 2004 to be a Senior Lecturer in Geodynamics at the University of Plymouth
Iain's main scientific interests are in the fields of earthquake science and recent geological change. He has organised numerous conferences on this theme both here and abroad, and chairs two international research bodies. He is one of a growing band of earth scientists that are working closely with historians, archaeologists, climate scientists and cosmologists to understand major geological events over the last ten thousand years. In 2003, he was appointed co-leader of a 5-year IGCP Project 490 on ‘Holocene Environmental Catastrophes and Human History'.
An occasional media commentator on geohazard issues, Iain's research has featured in two BBC Horizon programmes: The Search for Ancient Helike (2002) and Earthquake Storms (2003). As well as being a geologist on the BBC2's popular Rough Science team, Iain's own 6-part geology series Journeys From the Centre Of The Earth aired on BBC2 in the spring 2005, and a popular science book based on the series was published in April (Century Press). Broadcast in the US by Discovery Science Channel as ‘Hot Rocks', the series won the prestigious 2005 Jackson Hole Film Festival's ‘Best Earth Science programme' award. Currently, he is filming a follow-up series of JFTCOTE on the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire'.
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3 electric vehicles added to Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service
Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service has recently added three new, all electric vehicles to its fleet. The three vehicles will be based at Ascot Drive, Kingsway and Nottingham Road Community Fire Stations, to support Community Safety activities.Group Manager Sean Wells said: “The introduction of these three, all electric vehicles will contribute to reducing vehicle emissions and to demonstrate our commitment to improving air quality, as we continue to work with our colleagues from Derby City Council to address roadside NO2 issues in the city and making Derbyshire Safer Together. We were able to apply for charging point installation funding from the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV), which was encouraging the installation of these facilities on public sector estates.Verna Bayliss, Acting Director of Planning and Transportation, Derby City Council said: "We are delighted that Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service have invested in adding these electric vehicles to its fleet, which fully supports the Council's commitment to reducing roadside emissions, and improving air quality within our City."
Photo: (Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service)
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EU ban on commonly used neonicotinoids to go ahead
EU-Policies | April 29, 2018 | Agriculture, Food, Health, News | No Comments
The EU has announced that it plans to ban the most commonly used pesticides from all fields. A ban on the use of neonicotinoids on flowering crops that attract bees already came into force in 2013. However, recent reports from Efsa have shown that any outdoor use posed a high risk to both wild bees and honey bees. This also follows a recent study, showing that honey samples are contaminated across the globe by the use of neonicotinoids and the plummeting number of bees around the world.
A recent petition to ban three of the main neonicotinoids, which was set up by the group Avaaz, reached five million signatures. A spokesperson said: “Banning these toxic pesticides is a beacon of hope for bees. Finally, our governments are listening to their citizens, the scientific evidence and farmers who know that bees can’t live with these chemicals and we can’t live without bees.”
Bees and other insects are vital for food production, and pollinate an estimated 75% of all crops. The new ban on neonicotinoids has already been approved, and is expected to become effective later in the year. It will mean their use will only be permitted in closed greenhouses. Martin Dermine, at Pesticide Action Network Europe, said: “Authorising neonicotinoids a quarter of a century ago was a mistake and led to an environmental disaster. Today’s vote is historic.”
Vytenis Andriukaitis, European commissioner for Health and Food Safety, welcomed the decision, saying: “The commission had proposed these measures months ago, on the basis of the scientific advice from Efsa. Bee health remains of paramount importance for me since it concerns biodiversity, food production and the environment.”
Prof Nigel Raine, at the University of Guelph in Canada: added: “Policy makers in other jurisdictions will be paying close attention to these decisions. We rely on both farmers and pollinators for the food we eat. Pesticide regulation is a balancing act between unintended consequences of their use for non-target organisms, including pollinators, and giving farmers the tools they need to control crop pests.”
However, the ban has been met with some criticism, mostly from farmers and farming groups, who claim the EU is being overcautious. “European agriculture will suffer as a result of this decision,” said Graeme Taylor, at the European Crop Protection Association. “Perhaps not today, perhaps not tomorrow, but in time decision makers will see the clear impact of removing a vital tool for farmers.”
The UK’s National Farmers’ Union (NFU) also commented on the news: “The pest problems that neonicotinoids helped farmers tackle have not gone away. There is a real risk that these restrictions will do nothing measurable to improve bee health, while compromising the effectiveness of crop protection.”
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EU moves closer to banning single-use plastics
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Home > Laws > 2016 Florida Statutes > Title X > Chapter 119 > Section 071
Title X PUBLIC OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND RECORDS
Chapter 119 PUBLIC RECORDS Entire Chapter
General exemptions from inspection or copying of public records.
119.071 General exemptions from inspection or copying of public records.—
(1) AGENCY ADMINISTRATION.—
(a) Examination questions and answer sheets of examinations administered by a governmental agency for the purpose of licensure, certification, or employment are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. A person who has taken such an examination has the right to review his or her own completed examination.
(b)1. For purposes of this paragraph, “competitive solicitation” means the process of requesting and receiving sealed bids, proposals, or replies in accordance with the terms of a competitive process, regardless of the method of procurement.
2. Sealed bids, proposals, or replies received by an agency pursuant to a competitive solicitation are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution until such time as the agency provides notice of an intended decision or until 30 days after opening the bids, proposals, or final replies, whichever is earlier.
3. If an agency rejects all bids, proposals, or replies submitted in response to a competitive solicitation and the agency concurrently provides notice of its intent to reissue the competitive solicitation, the rejected bids, proposals, or replies remain exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution until such time as the agency provides notice of an intended decision concerning the reissued competitive solicitation or until the agency withdraws the reissued competitive solicitation. A bid, proposal, or reply is not exempt for longer than 12 months after the initial agency notice rejecting all bids, proposals, or replies.
(c) Any financial statement that an agency requires a prospective bidder to submit in order to prequalify for bidding or for responding to a proposal for a road or any other public works project is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
(d)1. A public record that was prepared by an agency attorney (including an attorney employed or retained by the agency or employed or retained by another public officer or agency to protect or represent the interests of the agency having custody of the record) or prepared at the attorney’s express direction, that reflects a mental impression, conclusion, litigation strategy, or legal theory of the attorney or the agency, and that was prepared exclusively for civil or criminal litigation or for adversarial administrative proceedings, or that was prepared in anticipation of imminent civil or criminal litigation or imminent adversarial administrative proceedings, is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution until the conclusion of the litigation or adversarial administrative proceedings. For purposes of capital collateral litigation as set forth in s. 27.7001, the Attorney General’s office is entitled to claim this exemption for those public records prepared for direct appeal as well as for all capital collateral litigation after direct appeal until execution of sentence or imposition of a life sentence.
2. This exemption is not waived by the release of such public record to another public employee or officer of the same agency or any person consulted by the agency attorney. When asserting the right to withhold a public record pursuant to this paragraph, the agency shall identify the potential parties to any such criminal or civil litigation or adversarial administrative proceedings. If a court finds that the document or other record has been improperly withheld under this paragraph, the party seeking access to such document or record shall be awarded reasonable attorney’s fees and costs in addition to any other remedy ordered by the court.
(e) Any videotape or video signal that, under an agreement with an agency, is produced, made, or received by, or is in the custody of, a federally licensed radio or television station or its agent is exempt from s. 119.07(1).
(f) Data processing software obtained by an agency under a licensing agreement that prohibits its disclosure and which software is a trade secret, as defined in s. 812.081, and agency-produced data processing software that is sensitive are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. The designation of agency-produced software as sensitive does not prohibit an agency head from sharing or exchanging such software with another public agency. This paragraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2021, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
(2) AGENCY INVESTIGATIONS.—
(a) All criminal intelligence and criminal investigative information received by a criminal justice agency prior to January 25, 1979, is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
(b) Whenever criminal intelligence information or criminal investigative information held by a non-Florida criminal justice agency is available to a Florida criminal justice agency only on a confidential or similarly restricted basis, the Florida criminal justice agency may obtain and use such information in accordance with the conditions imposed by the providing agency.
(c)1. Active criminal intelligence information and active criminal investigative information are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
2.a. A request made by a law enforcement agency to inspect or copy a public record that is in the custody of another agency and the custodian’s response to the request, and any information that would identify whether a law enforcement agency has requested or received that public record are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution, during the period in which the information constitutes active criminal intelligence information or active criminal investigative information.
b. The law enforcement agency that made the request to inspect or copy a public record shall give notice to the custodial agency when the criminal intelligence information or criminal investigative information is no longer active so that the request made by the law enforcement agency, the custodian’s response to the request, and information that would identify whether the law enforcement agency had requested or received that public record are available to the public.
c. This exemption is remedial in nature, and it is the intent of the Legislature that the exemption be applied to requests for information received before, on, or after the effective date of this paragraph.
(d) Any information revealing surveillance techniques or procedures or personnel is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. Any comprehensive inventory of state and local law enforcement resources compiled pursuant to part I, chapter 23, and any comprehensive policies or plans compiled by a criminal justice agency pertaining to the mobilization, deployment, or tactical operations involved in responding to an emergency, as defined in s. 252.34, are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution and unavailable for inspection, except by personnel authorized by a state or local law enforcement agency, the office of the Governor, the Department of Legal Affairs, the Department of Law Enforcement, or the Division of Emergency Management as having an official need for access to the inventory or comprehensive policies or plans.
(e) Any information revealing the substance of a confession of a person arrested is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution, until such time as the criminal case is finally determined by adjudication, dismissal, or other final disposition.
(f) Any information revealing the identity of a confidential informant or a confidential source is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
(g)1. All complaints and other records in the custody of any agency which relate to a complaint of discrimination relating to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap, or marital status in connection with hiring practices, position classifications, salary, benefits, discipline, discharge, employee performance, evaluation, or other related activities are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution until a finding is made relating to probable cause, the investigation of the complaint becomes inactive, or the complaint or other record is made part of the official record of any hearing or court proceeding.
a. This exemption does not affect any function or activity of the Florida Commission on Human Relations.
b. Any state or federal agency that is authorized to have access to such complaints or records by any provision of law shall be granted such access in the furtherance of such agency’s statutory duties.
2. If an alleged victim chooses not to file a complaint and requests that records of the complaint remain confidential, all records relating to an allegation of employment discrimination are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
(h)1. The following criminal intelligence information or criminal investigative information is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution:
a. Any information that reveals the identity of the victim of the crime of child abuse as defined by chapter 827 or that reveals the identity of a person under the age of 18 who is the victim of the crime of human trafficking proscribed in s. 787.06(3)(a).
b. Any information that may reveal the identity of a person who is a victim of any sexual offense, including a sexual offense proscribed in s. 787.06(3)(b), (d), (f), or (g), chapter 794, chapter 796, chapter 800, chapter 827, or chapter 847.
c. A photograph, videotape, or image of any part of the body of the victim of a sexual offense prohibited under s. 787.06(3)(b), (d), (f), or (g), chapter 794, chapter 796, chapter 800, s. 810.145, chapter 827, or chapter 847, regardless of whether the photograph, videotape, or image identifies the victim.
2. Criminal investigative information and criminal intelligence information made confidential and exempt under this paragraph may be disclosed by a law enforcement agency:
a. In the furtherance of its official duties and responsibilities.
b. For print, publication, or broadcast if the law enforcement agency determines that such release would assist in locating or identifying a person that such agency believes to be missing or endangered. The information provided should be limited to that needed to identify or locate the victim and not include the sexual nature of the offense committed against the person.
c. To another governmental agency in the furtherance of its official duties and responsibilities.
3. This exemption applies to such confidential and exempt criminal intelligence information or criminal investigative information held by a law enforcement agency before, on, or after the effective date of the exemption.
4. This paragraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2020, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
(i) Any criminal intelligence information or criminal investigative information that reveals the personal assets of the victim of a crime, other than property stolen or destroyed during the commission of the crime, is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
(j)1. Any document that reveals the identity, home or employment telephone number, home or employment address, or personal assets of the victim of a crime and identifies that person as the victim of a crime, which document is received by any agency that regularly receives information from or concerning the victims of crime, is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. Any information not otherwise held confidential or exempt from s. 119.07(1) which reveals the home or employment telephone number, home or employment address, or personal assets of a person who has been the victim of sexual battery, aggravated child abuse, aggravated stalking, harassment, aggravated battery, or domestic violence is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution, upon written request by the victim, which must include official verification that an applicable crime has occurred. Such information shall cease to be exempt 5 years after the receipt of the written request. Any state or federal agency that is authorized to have access to such documents by any provision of law shall be granted such access in the furtherance of such agency’s statutory duties, notwithstanding this section.
2.a. Any information in a videotaped statement of a minor who is alleged to be or who is a victim of sexual battery, lewd acts, or other sexual misconduct proscribed in chapter 800 or in s. 794.011, s. 827.071, s. 847.012, s. 847.0125, s. 847.013, s. 847.0133, or s. 847.0145, which reveals that minor’s identity, including, but not limited to, the minor’s face; the minor’s home, school, church, or employment telephone number; the minor’s home, school, church, or employment address; the name of the minor’s school, church, or place of employment; or the personal assets of the minor; and which identifies that minor as the victim of a crime described in this subparagraph, held by a law enforcement agency, is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. Any governmental agency that is authorized to have access to such statements by any provision of law shall be granted such access in the furtherance of the agency’s statutory duties, notwithstanding the provisions of this section.
b. A public employee or officer who has access to a videotaped statement of a minor who is alleged to be or who is a victim of sexual battery, lewd acts, or other sexual misconduct proscribed in chapter 800 or in s. 794.011, s. 827.071, s. 847.012, s. 847.0125, s. 847.013, s. 847.0133, or s. 847.0145 may not willfully and knowingly disclose videotaped information that reveals the minor’s identity to a person who is not assisting in the investigation or prosecution of the alleged offense or to any person other than the defendant, the defendant’s attorney, or a person specified in an order entered by the court having jurisdiction of the alleged offense. A person who violates this provision commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
(k)1. A complaint of misconduct filed with an agency against an agency employee and all information obtained pursuant to an investigation by the agency of the complaint of misconduct is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution until the investigation ceases to be active, or until the agency provides written notice to the employee who is the subject of the complaint, either personally or by mail, that the agency has either:
a. Concluded the investigation with a finding not to proceed with disciplinary action or file charges; or
b. Concluded the investigation with a finding to proceed with disciplinary action or file charges.
2. Subparagraph 1. is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2018, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
(l)1. As used in this paragraph, the term:
a. “Body camera” means a portable electronic recording device that is worn on a law enforcement officer’s body and that records audio and video data in the course of the officer performing his or her official duties and responsibilities.
b. “Law enforcement officer” has the same meaning as provided in s. 943.10.
c. “Personal representative” means a parent, a court-appointed guardian, an attorney, or an agent of, or a person holding a power of attorney for, a person recorded by a body camera. If a person depicted in the recording is deceased, the term also means the personal representative of the estate of the deceased person; the deceased person’s surviving spouse, parent, or adult child; the deceased person’s attorney or agent; or the parent or guardian of a surviving minor child of the deceased. An agent must possess written authorization of the recorded person to act on his or her behalf.
2. A body camera recording, or a portion thereof, is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution if the recording:
a. Is taken within the interior of a private residence;
b. Is taken within the interior of a facility that offers health care, mental health care, or social services; or
c. Is taken in a place that a reasonable person would expect to be private.
3. Notwithstanding subparagraph 2., a body camera recording may be disclosed by a law enforcement agency:
a. In furtherance of its official duties and responsibilities; or
b. To another governmental agency in the furtherance of its official duties and responsibilities.
4. A body camera recording, or a portion thereof, shall be disclosed by a law enforcement agency:
a. To a person recorded by a body camera; however, a law enforcement agency may disclose only those portions that are relevant to the person’s presence in the recording;
b. To the personal representative of a person recorded by a body camera; however, a law enforcement agency may disclose only those portions that are relevant to the represented person’s presence in the recording;
c. To a person not depicted in a body camera recording if the recording depicts a place in which the person lawfully resided, dwelled, or lodged at the time of the recording; however, a law enforcement agency may disclose only those portions that record the interior of such a place.
d. Pursuant to a court order.
(I) In addition to any other grounds the court may consider in determining whether to order that a body camera recording be disclosed, the court shall consider whether:
(A) Disclosure is necessary to advance a compelling interest;
(B) The recording contains information that is otherwise exempt or confidential and exempt under the law;
(C) The person requesting disclosure is seeking to obtain evidence to determine legal issues in a case in which the person is a party;
(D) Disclosure would reveal information regarding a person that is of a highly sensitive personal nature;
(E) Disclosure may harm the reputation or jeopardize the safety of a person depicted in the recording;
(F) Confidentiality is necessary to prevent a serious and imminent threat to the fair, impartial, and orderly administration of justice;
(G) The recording could be redacted to protect privacy interests; and
(H) There is good cause to disclose all or portions of a recording.
(II) In any proceeding regarding the disclosure of a body camera recording, the law enforcement agency that made the recording shall be given reasonable notice of hearings and shall be given an opportunity to participate.
5. A law enforcement agency must retain a body camera recording for at least 90 days.
6. The exemption provided in subparagraph 2. applies retroactively.
7. This exemption does not supersede any other public records exemption that existed before or is created after the effective date of this exemption. Those portions of a recording which are protected from disclosure by another public records exemption shall continue to be exempt or confidential and exempt.
8. This paragraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2020, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
(3) SECURITY.—
(a)1. As used in this paragraph, the term “security system plan” includes all:
a. Records, information, photographs, audio and visual presentations, schematic diagrams, surveys, recommendations, or consultations or portions thereof relating directly to the physical security of the facility or revealing security systems;
b. Threat assessments conducted by any agency or any private entity;
c. Threat response plans;
d. Emergency evacuation plans;
e. Sheltering arrangements; or
f. Manuals for security personnel, emergency equipment, or security training.
2. A security system plan or portion thereof for:
a. Any property owned by or leased to the state or any of its political subdivisions; or
b. Any privately owned or leased property
held by an agency is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. This exemption is remedial in nature, and it is the intent of the Legislature that this exemption apply to security system plans held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of this paragraph.
3. Information made confidential and exempt by this paragraph may be disclosed:
a. To the property owner or leaseholder;
b. In furtherance of the official duties and responsibilities of the agency holding the information;
c. To another local, state, or federal agency in furtherance of that agency’s official duties and responsibilities; or
d. Upon a showing of good cause before a court of competent jurisdiction.
(b)1. Building plans, blueprints, schematic drawings, and diagrams, including draft, preliminary, and final formats, which depict the internal layout and structural elements of a building, arena, stadium, water treatment facility, or other structure owned or operated by an agency are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
2. This exemption applies to building plans, blueprints, schematic drawings, and diagrams, including draft, preliminary, and final formats, which depict the internal layout and structural elements of a building, arena, stadium, water treatment facility, or other structure owned or operated by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of this act.
3. Information made exempt by this paragraph may be disclosed:
a. To another governmental entity if disclosure is necessary for the receiving entity to perform its duties and responsibilities;
b. To a licensed architect, engineer, or contractor who is performing work on or related to the building, arena, stadium, water treatment facility, or other structure owned or operated by an agency; or
c. Upon a showing of good cause before a court of competent jurisdiction.
4. The entities or persons receiving such information shall maintain the exempt status of the information.
(c)1. Building plans, blueprints, schematic drawings, and diagrams, including draft, preliminary, and final formats, which depict the internal layout or structural elements of an attractions and recreation facility, entertainment or resort complex, industrial complex, retail and service development, office development, or hotel or motel development, which records are held by an agency are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
2. This exemption applies to any such records held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of this act.
3. Information made exempt by this paragraph may be disclosed to another governmental entity if disclosure is necessary for the receiving entity to perform its duties and responsibilities; to the owner or owners of the structure in question or the owner’s legal representative; or upon a showing of good cause before a court of competent jurisdiction.
4. This paragraph does not apply to comprehensive plans or site plans, or amendments thereto, which are submitted for approval or which have been approved under local land development regulations, local zoning regulations, or development-of-regional-impact review.
5. As used in this paragraph, the term:
a. “Attractions and recreation facility” means any sports, entertainment, amusement, or recreation facility, including, but not limited to, a sports arena, stadium, racetrack, tourist attraction, amusement park, or pari-mutuel facility that:
(I) For single-performance facilities:
(A) Provides single-performance facilities; or
(B) Provides more than 10,000 permanent seats for spectators.
(II) For serial-performance facilities:
(A) Provides parking spaces for more than 1,000 motor vehicles; or
(B) Provides more than 4,000 permanent seats for spectators.
b. “Entertainment or resort complex” means a theme park comprised of at least 25 acres of land with permanent exhibitions and a variety of recreational activities, which has at least 1 million visitors annually who pay admission fees thereto, together with any lodging, dining, and recreational facilities located adjacent to, contiguous to, or in close proximity to the theme park, as long as the owners or operators of the theme park, or a parent or related company or subsidiary thereof, has an equity interest in the lodging, dining, or recreational facilities or is in privity therewith. Close proximity includes an area within a 5-mile radius of the theme park complex.
c. “Industrial complex” means any industrial, manufacturing, processing, distribution, warehousing, or wholesale facility or plant, as well as accessory uses and structures, under common ownership that:
(I) Provides onsite parking for more than 250 motor vehicles;
(II) Encompasses 500,000 square feet or more of gross floor area; or
(III) Occupies a site of 100 acres or more, but excluding wholesale facilities or plants that primarily serve or deal onsite with the general public.
d. “Retail and service development” means any retail, service, or wholesale business establishment or group of establishments which deals primarily with the general public onsite and is operated under one common property ownership, development plan, or management that:
(I) Encompasses more than 400,000 square feet of gross floor area; or
(II) Provides parking spaces for more than 2,500 motor vehicles.
e. “Office development” means any office building or park operated under common ownership, development plan, or management that encompasses 300,000 or more square feet of gross floor area.
f. “Hotel or motel development” means any hotel or motel development that accommodates 350 or more units.
(4) AGENCY PERSONNEL INFORMATION.—
(a)1. The social security numbers of all current and former agency employees which are held by the employing agency are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
2. The social security numbers of current and former agency employees may be disclosed by the employing agency:
a. If disclosure of the social security number is expressly required by federal or state law or a court order.
b. To another agency or governmental entity if disclosure of the social security number is necessary for the receiving agency or entity to perform its duties and responsibilities.
c. If the current or former agency employee expressly consents in writing to the disclosure of his or her social security number.
(b)1. Medical information pertaining to a prospective, current, or former officer or employee of an agency which, if disclosed, would identify that officer or employee is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. However, such information may be disclosed if the person to whom the information pertains or the person’s legal representative provides written permission or pursuant to court order.
2.a. Personal identifying information of a dependent child of a current or former officer or employee of an agency, which dependent child is insured by an agency group insurance plan, is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. For purposes of this exemption, “dependent child” has the same meaning as in s. 409.2554.
b. This exemption is remedial in nature and applies to such personal identifying information held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of this exemption.
(c) Any information revealing undercover personnel of any criminal justice agency is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
(d)1. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “telephone numbers” includes home telephone numbers, personal cellular telephone numbers, personal pager telephone numbers, and telephone numbers associated with personal communications devices.
2.a.(I) The home addresses, telephone numbers, social security numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of active or former sworn or civilian law enforcement personnel, including correctional and correctional probation officers, personnel of the Department of Children and Families whose duties include the investigation of abuse, neglect, exploitation, fraud, theft, or other criminal activities, personnel of the Department of Health whose duties are to support the investigation of child abuse or neglect, and personnel of the Department of Revenue or local governments whose responsibilities include revenue collection and enforcement or child support enforcement; the home addresses, telephone numbers, social security numbers, photographs, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such personnel are exempt from s. 119.07(1).
(II) The names of the spouses and children of active or former sworn or civilian law enforcement personnel and the other specified agency personnel identified in sub-sub-subparagraph (I) are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
(III) Sub-sub-subparagraph (II) is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2018, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
(IV) The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former nonsworn investigative personnel of the Department of Financial Services whose duties include the investigation of fraud, theft, workers’ compensation coverage requirements and compliance, other related criminal activities, or state regulatory requirement violations; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such personnel are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. This sub-sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2021, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
b. The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of firefighters certified in compliance with s. 633.408; the home addresses, telephone numbers, photographs, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such firefighters; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such firefighters are exempt from s. 119.07(1).
c. The home addresses, dates of birth, and telephone numbers of current or former justices of the Supreme Court, district court of appeal judges, circuit court judges, and county court judges; the home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of current or former justices and judges; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of current or former justices and judges are exempt from s. 119.07(1).
d.(I) The home addresses, telephone numbers, social security numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former state attorneys, assistant state attorneys, statewide prosecutors, or assistant statewide prosecutors; the home addresses, telephone numbers, social security numbers, photographs, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of current or former state attorneys, assistant state attorneys, statewide prosecutors, or assistant statewide prosecutors; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of current or former state attorneys, assistant state attorneys, statewide prosecutors, or assistant statewide prosecutors are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
(II) The names of the spouses and children of current or former state attorneys, assistant state attorneys, statewide prosecutors, or assistant statewide prosecutors are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
e. The home addresses, dates of birth, and telephone numbers of general magistrates, special magistrates, judges of compensation claims, administrative law judges of the Division of Administrative Hearings, and child support enforcement hearing officers; the home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of general magistrates, special magistrates, judges of compensation claims, administrative law judges of the Division of Administrative Hearings, and child support enforcement hearing officers; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of general magistrates, special magistrates, judges of compensation claims, administrative law judges of the Division of Administrative Hearings, and child support enforcement hearing officers are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution if the general magistrate, special magistrate, judge of compensation claims, administrative law judge of the Division of Administrative Hearings, or child support hearing officer provides a written statement that the general magistrate, special magistrate, judge of compensation claims, administrative law judge of the Division of Administrative Hearings, or child support hearing officer has made reasonable efforts to protect such information from being accessible through other means available to the public.
f. The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former human resource, labor relations, or employee relations directors, assistant directors, managers, or assistant managers of any local government agency or water management district whose duties include hiring and firing employees, labor contract negotiation, administration, or other personnel-related duties; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such personnel are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
g. The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former code enforcement officers; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such personnel are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
h. The home addresses, telephone numbers, places of employment, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former guardians ad litem, as defined in s. 39.820; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such persons; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such persons are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution, if the guardian ad litem provides a written statement that the guardian ad litem has made reasonable efforts to protect such information from being accessible through other means available to the public.
i. The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former juvenile probation officers, juvenile probation supervisors, detention superintendents, assistant detention superintendents, juvenile justice detention officers I and II, juvenile justice detention officer supervisors, juvenile justice residential officers, juvenile justice residential officer supervisors I and II, juvenile justice counselors, juvenile justice counselor supervisors, human services counselor administrators, senior human services counselor administrators, rehabilitation therapists, and social services counselors of the Department of Juvenile Justice; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of spouses and children of such personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such personnel are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
j.(I) The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former public defenders, assistant public defenders, criminal conflict and civil regional counsel, and assistant criminal conflict and civil regional counsel; the home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such defenders or counsel; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such defenders or counsel are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
(II) The names of the spouses and children of the specified agency personnel identified in sub-sub-subparagraph (I) are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. This sub-sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2019, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
k. The home addresses, telephone numbers, and photographs of current or former investigators or inspectors of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such current or former investigators and inspectors; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such current or former investigators and inspectors are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution if the investigator or inspector has made reasonable efforts to protect such information from being accessible through other means available to the public. This sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2017, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
l. The home addresses and telephone numbers of county tax collectors; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such tax collectors; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such tax collectors are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution if the county tax collector has made reasonable efforts to protect such information from being accessible through other means available to the public. This sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2017, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
m. The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former personnel of the Department of Health whose duties include, or result in, the determination or adjudication of eligibility for social security disability benefits, the investigation or prosecution of complaints filed against health care practitioners, or the inspection of health care practitioners or health care facilities licensed by the Department of Health; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such personnel are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution if the personnel have made reasonable efforts to protect such information from being accessible through other means available to the public. This sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2019, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
n. The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former impaired practitioner consultants who are retained by an agency or current or former employees of an impaired practitioner consultant whose duties result in a determination of a person’s skill and safety to practice a licensed profession; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such consultants or their employees; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such consultants or employees are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution if a consultant or employee has made reasonable efforts to protect such information from being accessible through other means available to the public. This sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2020, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
o. The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former emergency medical technicians or paramedics certified under chapter 401; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such emergency medical technicians or paramedics; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such emergency medical technicians or paramedics are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution if the emergency medical technicians or paramedics have made reasonable efforts to protect such information from being accessible through other means available to the public. This sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2021, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
p. The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of current or former personnel employed in an agency’s office of inspector general or internal audit department whose duties include auditing or investigating waste, fraud, abuse, theft, exploitation, or other activities that could lead to criminal prosecution or administrative discipline; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and places of employment of spouses and children of such personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such personnel are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution if the personnel have made reasonable efforts to protect such information from being accessible through other means available to the public. This sub-subparagraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15 and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2021, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
3. An agency that is the custodian of the information specified in subparagraph 2. and that is not the employer of the officer, employee, justice, judge, or other person specified in subparagraph 2. shall maintain the exempt status of that information only if the officer, employee, justice, judge, other person, or employing agency of the designated employee submits a written request for maintenance of the exemption to the custodial agency.
4. The exemptions in this paragraph apply to information held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of the exemption.
5. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this paragraph, this paragraph is subject to the Open Government Sunset Review Act in accordance with s. 119.15, and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2017, unless reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
(5) OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION.—
(a)1.a. The Legislature acknowledges that the social security number was never intended to be used for business purposes but was intended to be used solely for the administration of the federal Social Security System. The Legislature is further aware that over time this unique numeric identifier has been used extensively for identity verification purposes and other legitimate consensual purposes.
b. The Legislature recognizes that the social security number can be used as a tool to perpetuate fraud against an individual and to acquire sensitive personal, financial, medical, and familial information, the release of which could cause great financial or personal harm to an individual.
c. The Legislature intends to monitor the use of social security numbers held by agencies in order to maintain a balanced public policy.
2.a. An agency may not collect an individual’s social security number unless the agency has stated in writing the purpose for its collection and unless it is:
(I) Specifically authorized by law to do so; or
(II) Imperative for the performance of that agency’s duties and responsibilities as prescribed by law.
b. An agency shall identify in writing the specific federal or state law governing the collection, use, or release of social security numbers for each purpose for which the agency collects the social security number, including any authorized exceptions that apply to such collection, use, or release. Each agency shall ensure that the collection, use, or release of social security numbers complies with the specific applicable federal or state law.
c. Social security numbers collected by an agency may not be used by that agency for any purpose other than the purpose provided in the written statement.
3. An agency collecting an individual’s social security number shall provide that individual with a copy of the written statement required in subparagraph 2. The written statement also shall state whether collection of the individual’s social security number is authorized or mandatory under federal or state law.
4. Each agency shall review whether its collection of social security numbers is in compliance with subparagraph 2. If the agency determines that collection of a social security number is not in compliance with subparagraph 2., the agency shall immediately discontinue the collection of social security numbers for that purpose.
5. Social security numbers held by an agency are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. This exemption applies to social security numbers held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of this exemption. This exemption does not supersede any federal law prohibiting the release of social security numbers or any other applicable public records exemption for social security numbers existing prior to May 13, 2002, or created thereafter.
6. Social security numbers held by an agency may be disclosed if any of the following apply:
a. The disclosure of the social security number is expressly required by federal or state law or a court order.
b. The disclosure of the social security number is necessary for the receiving agency or governmental entity to perform its duties and responsibilities.
c. The individual expressly consents in writing to the disclosure of his or her social security number.
d. The disclosure of the social security number is made to comply with the USA Patriot Act of 2001, Pub. L. No. 107-56, or Presidential Executive Order 13224.
e. The disclosure of the social security number is made to a commercial entity for the permissible uses set forth in the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994, 18 U.S.C. ss. 2721 et seq.; the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. ss. 1681 et seq.; or the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, 15 U.S.C. ss. 6801 et seq., provided that the authorized commercial entity complies with the requirements of this paragraph.
f. The disclosure of the social security number is for the purpose of the administration of health benefits for an agency employee or his or her dependents.
g. The disclosure of the social security number is for the purpose of the administration of a pension fund administered for the agency employee’s retirement fund, deferred compensation plan, or defined contribution plan.
h. The disclosure of the social security number is for the purpose of the administration of the Uniform Commercial Code by the office of the Secretary of State.
7.a. For purposes of this subsection, the term:
(I) “Commercial activity” means the permissible uses set forth in the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994, 18 U.S.C. ss. 2721 et seq.; the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. ss. 1681 et seq.; or the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, 15 U.S.C. ss. 6801 et seq., or verification of the accuracy of personal information received by a commercial entity in the normal course of its business, including identification or prevention of fraud or matching, verifying, or retrieving information. It does not include the display or bulk sale of social security numbers to the public or the distribution of such numbers to any customer that is not identifiable by the commercial entity.
(II) “Commercial entity” means any corporation, partnership, limited partnership, proprietorship, sole proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, or association that performs a commercial activity in this state.
b. An agency may not deny a commercial entity engaged in the performance of a commercial activity access to social security numbers, provided the social security numbers will be used only in the performance of a commercial activity and provided the commercial entity makes a written request for the social security numbers. The written request must:
(I) Be verified as provided in s. 92.525;
(II) Be legibly signed by an authorized officer, employee, or agent of the commercial entity;
(III) Contain the commercial entity’s name, business mailing and location addresses, and business telephone number; and
(IV) Contain a statement of the specific purposes for which it needs the social security numbers and how the social security numbers will be used in the performance of a commercial activity, including the identification of any specific federal or state law that permits such use.
c. An agency may request any other information reasonably necessary to verify the identity of a commercial entity requesting the social security numbers and the specific purposes for which the numbers will be used.
8.a. Any person who makes a false representation in order to obtain a social security number pursuant to this paragraph, or any person who willfully and knowingly violates this paragraph, commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
b. Any public officer who violates this paragraph commits a noncriminal infraction, punishable by a fine not exceeding $500 per violation.
9. Any affected person may petition the circuit court for an order directing compliance with this paragraph.
(b) Bank account numbers and debit, charge, and credit card numbers held by an agency are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. This exemption applies to bank account numbers and debit, charge, and credit card numbers held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of this exemption.
(c)1. For purposes of this paragraph, the term:
a. “Child” means any person younger than 18 years of age.
b. “Government-sponsored recreation program” means a program for which an agency assumes responsibility for a child participating in that program, including, but not limited to, after-school programs, athletic programs, nature programs, summer camps, or other recreational programs.
2. Information that would identify or locate a child who participates in a government-sponsored recreation program is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
3. Information that would identify or locate a parent or guardian of a child who participates in a government-sponsored recreation program is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
4. This exemption applies to records held before, on, or after the effective date of this exemption.
(d) All records supplied by a telecommunications company, as defined by s. 364.02, to an agency which contain the name, address, and telephone number of subscribers are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
(e) Any information provided to an agency for the purpose of forming ridesharing arrangements, which information reveals the identity of an individual who has provided his or her name for ridesharing, as defined in s. 341.031, is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
(f) Medical history records and information related to health or property insurance provided to the Department of Economic Opportunity, the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, a county, a municipality, or a local housing finance agency by an applicant for or a participant in a federal, state, or local housing assistance program are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. Governmental entities or their agents shall have access to such confidential and exempt records and information for the purpose of auditing federal, state, or local housing programs or housing assistance programs. Such confidential and exempt records and information may be used in any administrative or judicial proceeding, provided such records are kept confidential and exempt unless otherwise ordered by a court.
(g) Biometric identification information held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of this exemption is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. As used in this paragraph, the term “biometric identification information” means:
1. Any record of friction ridge detail;
2. Fingerprints;
3. Palm prints; and
4. Footprints.
(h)1. Personal identifying information of an applicant for or a recipient of paratransit services which is held by an agency is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution.
2. This exemption applies to personal identifying information of an applicant for or a recipient of paratransit services which is held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of this exemption.
3. Confidential and exempt personal identifying information shall be disclosed:
a. With the express written consent of the applicant or recipient or the legally authorized representative of such applicant or recipient;
b. In a medical emergency, but only to the extent that is necessary to protect the health or life of the applicant or recipient;
c. By court order upon a showing of good cause; or
d. To another agency in the performance of its duties and responsibilities.
(i)1. For purposes of this paragraph, “identification and location information” means the:
a. Home address, telephone number, and photograph of a current or former United States attorney, assistant United States attorney, judge of the United States Courts of Appeal, United States district judge, or United States magistrate;
b. Home address, telephone number, photograph, and place of employment of the spouse or child of such attorney, judge, or magistrate; and
c. Name and location of the school or day care facility attended by the child of such attorney, judge, or magistrate.
2. Identification and location information held by an agency is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution if such attorney, judge, or magistrate submits to an agency that has custody of the identification and location information:
a. A written request to exempt such information from public disclosure; and
b. A written statement that he or she has made reasonable efforts to protect the identification and location information from being accessible through other means available to the public.
(j) Any information furnished by a person to an agency for the purpose of being provided with emergency notification by the agency is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. This exemption applies to information held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of this exemption.
(k)1. For purposes of this paragraph, the term:
a. “Identification and location information” means the:
(I) Home address, telephone number, and date of birth of a servicemember, and the telephone number associated with a servicemember’s personal communication device.
(II) Home address, telephone number, date of birth, and place of employment of the spouse or dependent of a servicemember, and the telephone number associated with such spouse’s or dependent’s personal communication device.
(III) Name and location of a school attended by the spouse of a servicemember or a school or day care facility attended by a dependent of a servicemember.
b. “Servicemember” means a current or former member of the Armed Forces of the United States, a reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States, or the National Guard, who served after September 11, 2001.
2. Identification and location information held by an agency is exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution if a servicemember submits to an agency that has custody of the identification and location information:
a. A written request to exempt the identification and location information from public disclosure; and
3. This exemption applies to identification and location information held by an agency before, on, or after the effective date of this exemption.
History.—s. 4, ch. 75-225; ss. 2, 3, 4, 6, ch. 79-187; s. 1, ch. 82-95; s. 1, ch. 83-286; s. 5, ch. 84-298; s. 1, ch. 85-18; s. 1, ch. 85-45; s. 1, ch. 85-86; s. 4, ch. 85-301; s. 2, ch. 86-11; s. 1, ch. 86-21; s. 1, ch. 86-109; s. 2, ch. 88-188; s. 1, ch. 88-384; s. 1, ch. 89-80; s. 63, ch. 90-136; s. 4, ch. 90-211; s. 78, ch. 91-45; s. 1, ch. 91-96; s. 1, ch. 91-149; s. 90, ch. 92-152; s. 1, ch. 93-87; s. 2, ch. 93-232; s. 3, ch. 93-404; s. 4, ch. 93-405; s. 1, ch. 94-128; s. 3, ch. 94-130; s. 1, ch. 94-176; s. 1419, ch. 95-147; ss. 1, 3, ch. 95-170; s. 4, ch. 95-207; s. 1, ch. 95-320; ss. 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 25, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, ch. 95-398; s. 3, ch. 96-178; s. 41, ch. 96-406; s. 18, ch. 96-410; s. 1, ch. 98-9; s. 7, ch. 98-137; s. 1, ch. 98-259; s. 2, ch. 99-201; s. 27, ch. 2000-164; s. 1, ch. 2001-249; s. 29, ch. 2001-261; s. 1, ch. 2001-361; s. 1, ch. 2001-364; s. 1, ch. 2002-67; s. 1, ch. 2002-256; s. 1, ch. 2002-257; ss. 2, 3, ch. 2002-391; s. 11, ch. 2003-1; s. 1, ch. 2003-16; s. 1, ch. 2003-100; s. 1, ch. 2003-137; ss. 1, 2, ch. 2003-157; ss. 1, 2, ch. 2004-9; ss. 1, 2, ch. 2004-32; ss. 1, 3, ch. 2004-95; s. 7, ch. 2004-335; s. 4, ch. 2005-213; s. 41, ch. 2005-236; ss. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, ch. 2005-251; s. 14, ch. 2006-1; s. 1, ch. 2006-158; s. 1, ch. 2006-180; s. 1, ch. 2006-181; s. 1, ch. 2006-211; s. 1, ch. 2006-212; s. 13, ch. 2006-224; s. 1, ch. 2006-284; s. 1, ch. 2006-285; s. 1, ch. 2007-93; s. 1, ch. 2007-95; s. 1, ch. 2007-250; s. 1, ch. 2007-251; s. 1, ch. 2008-41; s. 2, ch. 2008-57; s. 1, ch. 2008-145; ss. 1, 3, ch. 2008-234; s. 1, ch. 2009-104; ss. 1, 2, ch. 2009-150; s. 1, ch. 2009-169; ss. 1, 2, ch. 2009-235; s. 1, ch. 2009-237; s. 1, ch. 2010-71; s. 1, ch. 2010-171; s. 1, ch. 2011-83; s. 1, ch. 2011-85; s. 1, ch. 2011-140; s. 48, ch. 2011-142; s. 1, ch. 2011-201; s. 1, ch. 2011-202; s. 1, ch. 2012-149; s. 1, ch. 2012-214; s. 1, ch. 2012-216; s. 1, ch. 2013-69; s. 119, ch. 2013-183; s. 1, ch. 2013-220; s. 1, ch. 2013-243; s. 1, ch. 2013-248; s. 1, ch. 2014-72; s. 1, ch. 2014-94; s. 1, ch. 2014-105; s. 1, ch. 2014-172; s. 1, ch. 2015-37; s. 1, ch. 2015-41; s. 1, ch. 2015-86; s. 1, ch. 2015-146; s. 1, ch. 2016-6; s. 1, ch. 2016-27; s. 1, ch. 2016-49; s. 1, ch. 2016-159; s. 1, ch. 2016-164; s. 1, ch. 2016-178.
A. Additional exemptions from the application of this section appear in the General Index to the Florida Statutes under the heading “Public Records.”
B. Portions former ss. 119.07(6), 119.072, and 119.0721; subparagraph (2)(g)1. former s. 119.0711(1).
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PLAYING AREA
The field of play is divided into two halves by a halfway line. The centre mark is indicated at the mid-point of the halfway line. Maximum pitch size will be 65 x 45 meters
Goal Size
Mini size goals will be used.
Ball Sizes
The ball should be size 4 for U9 and size 4 for U10 and U11.
It should be safe and made of leather or other suitable material.
U9 and 10 will be 7 v7.
U11 will be 9v9.
Squad size is 14 maximum.
Any number of substitutes, without being named, may be used at any time with the permission of the referee. A player who has been replaced may return to the playing area as a substitute for another player.
All team members should receive equal playing time where possible, with a best
practice recommendation of at least 50% per player for each game.
Must Be Worn
Players must wear shin guards and goalkeepers must wear a distinguishing
playing top. Shin guards must be covered entirely by the socks. Players must wear the appropriate clothing dependant on the weather. Correct footwear must be worn for the surface of the pitch e.g. no metal studs on artificial grass pitches.
The Authority of the Referee
Each match is controlled by a referee who has full authority to enforce the Laws for Mini-Soccer in connection with the match to which they have been appointed.
Furthermore, referees should also recognize their role is to facilitate the learning of the players, for example, allow young children to take a second attempt at a throw-in if the first is not within the Laws.
Each game will consist of 2 equal halves of 15 minutes each way. In Knock out games 5 penalties will determine the outcome – no extra time to be played..
Starting / Restarting Games
A kick-off is taken at the centre of the playing area to start the game and after a goal has been scored. Opponents must be five yards away from the ball and in their own half of the field. The ball must be played forward. In Mini-Soccer a goal cannot be scored directly from a start or restart of play. Throw ins are taken as normal in football matches.
A dropped ball to restart the match, after play has been temporarily stopped inside the penalty area, takes place on the penalty area line parallel to the goal line at the point nearest to where the ball was located when the play stopped. No goal can be scored direct from a dropped ball.
There is no off side.
Normal rules apply, as per Laws of Association Football. However, in Mini Soccer all free kicks are direct. A free kick is awarded to the opposing team if the goalkeeper:-
takes more than six seconds to release the ball from his/her hands
touches the ball again with his/her hands after it has been released from his/her
possession and has not touched any other player
touches the ball with his/her hands after it has been deliberately kicked to him/her by a team mate
touches the ball with his/her hands after he/she has received it directly from a
throw in taken by a teammate.
For all these offences, the free kick should be taken from the penalty area line, parallel with the goal line, at the nearest point to the offence.
For all free kicks opponents must be five yards from the ball.
The decision of the referee is final.
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Porsche en El Salvador
Porsche 911 RSR, Porsche GT Team (92)
Porsche 911 RSR, Porsche GT Team (93, 94)
FIA World Endurance Championship, round 8 at Le Mans, France, Qualifying
Porsche takes up the 24 Hours of Le Mans from fourth
Stuttgart. Porsche will head into the 24 Hours of Le Mans from the fourth grid spot. In the final two qualifying sessions prior to the last round of the FIA World Endurance Championship WEC season in France, Nick Tandy clocked the fastest lap time of all Porsche drivers with 3:48.907 minutes. With this result, the British driver planted the ca. 510 hp 911 RSR with the starting number 93, which he shares with Patrick Pilet (France) and Earl Bamber (New Zealand), on the second grid row.
In sunny conditions and temperatures of 21 degrees Celsius for the second qualifying session, only small improvements in times were possible. Only at the beginning of the third qualifying session in the evening, when the 13.626-kilometre racetrack offered more grip, could lap times be slashed. At this point, Tandy managed to leap ahead, while his colleagues in the sister cars were plagued by bad luck. Multiple caution phases, interruptions to the session and a dirty track surface in the second half of the final run hampered them from turning faster laps.
The No. 92 Porsche 911 RSR, shared by the drivers’ championship leaders Michael Christensen (Denmark) and Kévin Estre (France) with Belgium’s Laurens Vanthoor, takes up the race from position seven. Their factory driver colleagues, Gianmaria Bruni from Italy, Richard Lietz (Austria) and Frédéric Makowiecki (France), will tackle the world’s toughest endurance race from 13th on the grid in the No. 91 car. Works driver Sven Müller (Germany) and the Porsche Young Professionals Mathieu Jaminet from France and Dennis Olsen from Norway head into the race from position 15.
In the GTE-Am class, Porsche’s customer teams underlined their strong performance in the first qualifying with five 911 RSR cars in the top six. The No. 88 vehicle fielded by Dempsey Proton Racing takes up the Le Mans 24-hour race from pole position. Posting a time of 3:51.439 minutes, Porsche Young Professional Matteo Cairoli (Italy) sliced around a second off his top time from the previous day. Cairoli is joined in the cockpit of the 911 campaigned by the German customer squad by his compatriot Giorgio Roda and Satoshi Hoshino from Japan. Just 0.206 seconds behind, Matt Campbell (Australia) planted last year’s winning car with the starting number 77 on the second grid spot.
Porsche Young Professional Thomas Preining (Austria) and Michael Wainwright and Ben Barker from Britain head into the FIA WEC season finale from P3 with Gulf Racing’s No. 86 car. Vincent Abril (France) and the Italian father/son duo Philippe and Louis Prette take up the race in the identical vehicle with the No. 78 from fifth. The Porsche 911 RSR fielded by Project 1 achieved position six. Works driver Jörg Bergmeister (Germany) shares driving duties at the wheel of the No. 56 Art Car with Egidio Perfetti (Norway) and the American Patrick Lindsey. The No. 99 Porsche 911 campaigned by Dempsey Proton Racing will not contest this year’s 24-hour race after an accident in free practice on Wednesday.
The track will be closed to competitors on Friday (14 June), however fans, teams and drivers can look forward to a highlight. From 5pm, the drivers will take part in the traditional parade in the Le Mans city centre. The 87th running of the world’s toughest long-distance race begins on Saturday, 15 June, at 3pm. At this year’s event, Porsche legend Hurley Haywood assumes the honorary role of Grand Marshal. The American won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1977, 1983 and 1994 driving a racing car from the Stuttgart sports car manufacturer.
Qualifying quotes
Pascal Zurlinden (Director GT Factory Motorsport): “In the GTE-Am class, we have three 911 RSR on the first three grid spots and five cars in the top six. Everything ran perfectly. We had less luck with our factory cars. We were constantly hampered by incidents and heavy traffic. Our cars are well prepared for the race. We’ll do better over the distance than in qualifying.”
Gianmaria Bruni (Porsche 911 RSR #91): “I was really unlucky. The conditions were good when I attempted my hot lap in the last qualifying session. The sector times indicated a significant improvement, but then the yellow flag came out in the Porsche corners and I had to reduce speed. After that we focussed on preparing for the race.”
Michael Christensen (Porsche 911 RSR #92): “We’re actually better than the qualifying result indicates. On my flying lap I had to let two prototypes pass in the middle sector, and then I had to overtake a GT car. This cost me a lot of time. Of course we would have preferred to start from further up the grid, but our car is really well balanced, which means we’ll be able to make up a lot of ground in the race. I’m heading into the season finale feeling really good.”
Nick Tandy (Porsche 911 RSR #93): “You can’t compare the qualifying at Le Mans with any other race. Most of the time, you have to work on the setup rather than going for fast lap times. At some point you give it a go with little fuel and fresh tyres, but everything has to come together perfectly. This decisive attempt worked better for us than for many of the others. Fourth on the grid isn’t perfect, but it’s totally fine for the start of a 24-hour race.”
Mathieu Jaminet (Porsche 911 RSR #94): “Fifteenth is disappointing for us. Still, we just have to deal with it. Our car is definitely better than it might seem at first glance. In the race we’ll be able to set a good pace. And that’s all that matters.”
Matteo Cairoli (Porsche 911 RSR #88): “This is my second pole position in a row at Le Mans – I’m blown away! My fastest lap was good, but I still lost a little time in some places. At the end I was nervous because it looked as if some other Porsche 911 RSR might still pose a threat. But it was enough. We’re heading into the big race feeling terrific.”
Matt Campbell (Porsche 911 RSR #77): “Second is a great starting position. But much more important is the fact that our Porsche 911 RSR has a very good setup. Our speed over the distance will be consistently high. In a 24-hour race, that is always one of the key factors for a top result.”
Thomas Preining (Porsche 911 RSR #86): “Pole position would have been possible for us. Unfortunately, after top times in the first two sectors, I lost a bit of time in the last section. Never mind, P3 is a good position to tackle such a long race. We three drivers in the number 86 car are more than happy with our Porsche 911 RSR. The race can begin.”
Qualifying result
GTE-Pro class
1. Thiim/Sörensen/Turner (DK/DK/GB), Aston Martin Vantage, 3:48.000 minutes
2. Priaulx/Tincknell/Bomarito (GB/GB/USA), Ford GT, + 0.112 seconds
3. Magnussen/Garcia/Rockenfeller (DK/E/D), Corvette C7.R, + 0.830 seconds
4. Pilet/Bamber/Tandy (F/NZ/GB), Porsche 911 RSR, + 0.907 seconds
7. Christensen/Estre/Vanthoor (DK/F/B), Porsche 911 RSR, + 1.196 seconds
14. Lietz/Bruni/Makowiecki (A/I/F), Porsche 911 RSR, + 1.921 seconds
15. Müller/Jaminet/Olsen (D/F/N), Porsche 911 RSR, + 2.278 seconds
GTE-Am class
1. Hoshino/Roda/Cairoli (J/I/I), Porsche 911 RSR, 3:51.439 minutes
2. Campbell/Ried/Andlauer (AUS/D/F), Porsche 911 RSR, + 0.206 seconds
3. Wainwright/Barker/Preining (GB/GB/A), Porsche 911 RSR, + 0.505 seconds
5. Prette/Prette/Abril (I/I/F), Porsche 911 RSR, + 0.995 seconds
6. Bergmeister/Lindsey/Perfetti (D/USA/N), Porsche 911 RSR, + 1.311 seconds
Full results: http://fiawec.alkamelsystems.com
All reports on the previous season can be found in our archive.
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FILTER Magazine Celebrates 10 Years In Print
By Staff on January 12, 2012
“Good Music Will Prevail,” that is the motto we have been championing here at FILTER Magazine headquarters for 10 years. That's right, FILTER, the independently-owned avant-garde music magazine, has now entered its 10th year in print, a pretty massive milestone indeed.
Over the past ten years (2002 - 2012) FILTER Magazine has stayed true to its roots. The publication was founded on the philosophy of printing quality content about quality music, helping fans to discover artists and their stories. From the first issue, On The Dark Side of The Moon with Weezer, which hit newsstands in July 2002, to the upcoming issue 47, on-sale Feb. 17, the magazine’s unwavering dedication to guide people towards good music discovery has kept its readership growing and FILTER readers coming back for more.
So what does this mean for you, the FILTER reader? As the year rolls out, we will be revisiting certain features from every single FILTER Issue ever published including covers stories from David Bowie, Lou Reed & The Strokes, Tom Waits, Bjork and more and we will also look at where all of our Getting To Know artists are now.
Issue #1 (July 2002) Getting To Know: Bright Eyes, Doves, Balligomingo, South and Breakestra
Issue #1 (July 2002) Cover Story: On the Dark Side of the Moon with Weezer
Issue #2 (September 2002) Getting To Know: Haven, Interpol, Division of Laura Lee, Jazzanova and The Cato Salsa Experience
Issue #2 (September 2002) Cover Story: Björk: Look Back In Wonder
Issue #3 (Nov/Dec 2002) Getting To Know: Clinic, Röyksopp, Thievery Corporation, Hot Hot Heat & The Pattern, Ikara Colt , The Music
Issue #3 (Nov/Dec 2002) Cover Story: Coldplay: At Home In the World
Issue #4 (February/March 2003) Getting To Know: 2 Many DJs, The Datsuns, The Microphones, Turin Brakes, Muggs, and The Coral
Issue #4 (February/March 2003) Cover Story: Art Imitating Life Imitating…THE DANDY WARHOLS
Issue #5 (May/June 2003) Getting To Know: The Ravonettes, Elefant, Verbana, Longwave, Cave In, and Paloalto
Issue #5 (May/June 2003) Cover Story: Blur: Surviving Soomsday, a True Story
Issue #6 (July/Aug 2003) Getting To Know: Broken Social Scene, Ambulance, AM Radio, Aceyalone, The Sounds, and TV Eyes
Issue #6 (July/Aug 2003) Cover Story: David Bowie: Bowie's Return To The Golden Years
Issue #7 (Sep/Oct 2003) Getting To Know Stereophonics, Ima Robot, Jet, WHY?, and Bent
Issue #7 (Sep/Oct 2003) Cover Story: The Great New Hope From The Great White North: Hot Hot Heat
Issue #8 (Nov 2003) Getting To Know My Morning Jacket, The Rapture, The Twilight Singers, Azure Ray, The Joggers and Howie Day
2012 will also feature FILTER's 50th Magazine issue, new content on the FILTER Magazine iPad App, 2012 SXSW Rainey St. takeover with four venue showcases, new Good Music Guides, Coachella Kick Off Party, Official Lollapalooza after parties, and the grandaddy of them all, the third annual Culture Collide Festival.
So be on the lookout everyone. 2012 will be an exciting year for FILTER Magazine.
Good Music Will Prevail.
10 Years of FILTER: Issue #1 Revisited, Getting To Know Bright Eyes, Doves + More (July, 2002)
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Twitter eliminates deprecation geotagging
The blue bird’s social network has stopped the option to add an accurate geographic tag to tweets, taking into account that there is not enough demand for the feature.
Through a tweet, the company’s support account said it was removing the feature “to simplify the tweeting experience.” However, you’ll still be able to tag the precise location of your photos. When Twitter originally announced geolabeling support in 2009, it had great ambitions and expectations for the feature.
At the time, they believed that people could start looking for tweets based on location, allowing them to keep up with a local event like a concert, but the reality was different.
It seems that people found it much more convenient to organize around hashtags and trending topics. Meanwhile, keeping a feature around that almost no one wants to present a privacy risk if people accidentally use it.
Although Twitter already has enough time to start removing the useless features, it still doesn’t add an edit button, even though many have been asking for it.
Hackers could modify files on WhatsApp and Telegram
Google tries it again with social media
Stormchaser: Facebook’s tool to track misinformation and rumors
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Charles Depasse
Head of Human Resources, Nycomed
Charles Depasse’s key strength is dealing with complex situations arising from organizational restructuring and post-merger integration.
As Head of Human Resources, after Nycomed grew to close to 12 000 employees through the acquisition of Altana, Mr. Depasse has acquired a comprehensive understanding of the requirements for a successful change program in Europe.
Started his career with Pfizer in Product Development, then moved on to take Production responsibilities with Smith and Nephew, before joining Nycomed as Head of Operations in March 2000. Supported the transformation of Nycomed, by improving Manufacturing and Supply Chain, one of the key factors that made possible the acquisition of Altana in 2007. In the newly formed company, led the integration and then took on the responsibility for Human Resources until 2013 when the company was acquired by Takeda.
Mr. Depasse has a graduate degree in Business Administration from New York University and a Master in Engineering from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is currently based in London. Today Charles advises different Private Equity groups, both during the due diligence phase and the subsequent integration.
In addition to English, Mr. Depasse is fluent in German, and French. He can be reached at charles.depasse@bluewin.ch
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Those perfect spring Fridays – cerulean skies, temperatures in the 70s – are exactly the kind of days that Dan Nerelli has come to dread.
That’s because Nerelli, assistant superintendent for personnel in the Upper Darby School District, knows he’ll be scrambling to put substitutes in dozens of teacher-less classrooms. The Delaware County district’s ability to cover faculty absences has plunged from 95 percent just a few years ago to roughly 60 percent.
Philadelphia-area school administrators such as Nerelli now struggle to find ways to cope with a shortage of substitutes unlike anything they have ever faced. They congregate multiple classes in the gym and put one teacher in charge. They pay regular faculty to give up prep time. They take over classrooms themselves.
Earlier this month, the Delaware County Intermediate Unit announced a new two-day program to train “guest teachers” for the sub-starved districts it serves. It is open to anyone with a bachelor’s degree, in any subject.
Harrisburg has put a more radical idea on the chalkboard. A bill crafted by State Sen. Lloyd Smucker (R., Lancaster), chairman of the Senate Education Committee, would allow upper-class college students majoring in education to take over classrooms as paid substitutes.
School officials say Pennsylvania classrooms are one place where the freelance “gig economy” isn’t thriving.
Last month, the Philadelphia School District dropped the firm that provides substitutes, Cherry Hill-based Source4Teachers, after it was unable to fill classroom vacancies as much as half of the time. A new company, Kelly Services, has promised to pay subs a higher daily rate. The temporary teachers typically make about $100.
The dearth of subs parallels a dramatic decrease in newly minted certified teachers in Pennsylvania, from 16,361 in 2012-13 to just 6,215 in 2014-15. State and school officials blame fear of layoffs, threats to retirement benefits, the increased stress of the standardized-testing regime, and poor discipline. In the past, more certified teachers has meant a larger pool of substitutes.
Compounding the crisis is the increase in training days that take teachers out of their classrooms.
Also, the day rates offered to substitutes by cash-strapped districts aren’t sufficient to keep a reliable supply of workers.
“It’s changing times,” Jim Scanlon, superintendent of the West Chester Area School District, said of substitute work. “There’s a lot more stress in the job than 20 years ago – mandates and demands, bomb drills, active-shooter drills.”
Marcia Reilly, 53, of Glenolden, raised four children before getting an education degree in 2010. Unable to land a full-time teaching job, she works regularly as a sub, most recently in Upper Darby. She said she enjoys the classroom, but the pay, typically $90 to $120 a day, is frustrating.
“I went through the same education [as] everybody else,” Reilly said. “You kind of expect to be paid what you’re worth.”
Some young grads see substituting as a foot in the door to a teaching career. Shannon McGurk, 22, of Berwyn, has yet to find a job teaching high school social studies, so she subbed at her alma mater, Downingtown High School East, for much of the last year. Kids occasionally “try to push your buttons,” McGurk said, but “most of the experiences I’ve had will help me become a better teacher.”
The challenge for administrators and private contractors is finding more people like McGurk.
Pennsylvania’s current requirement that substitutes have bachelor’s degrees is stricter than most states. New Jersey, which has not reported sub shortages, demands only 60 credits. Virginia requires just a high school diploma.
The Pennsylvania bill allowing college students with 60 credit-hours to sub raises red flags for George Drake, dean of the college of education and human services at Millersville University.
“I understand we have a need to have warm bodies in front of the children,” he said, “but I do have concerns whether these folks would be prepared.”
Guest-teacher programs, such as the one at the Delaware County IU, offer a smattering of instruction on lesson plans, classroom management, behavioral techniques, child development and psychology, plus a half-day in a classroom.
Jay Goodwin, president of Substitute Teacher Service, which provides online guest-teacher training, said much of the sub shortage comes down to money. He said he had walked away from districts that want to pay as little as $75 or $85 a day. While districts prefer retired certified teachers over “guest teachers,” Goodwin said, “you can’t take people’s pay rates and give them less than what they were making yesterday and expect them to come back and be happy with you.”
The Rose Tree Media School District pays the lowest daily rate in Delaware County – $75 – and struggles to fill classrooms when teachers call out.
Tom Haupert, human resources director, said the district was looking at a pay increase. But “you get into a bidding war,” he said. “You raise it 10 bucks, the next district raises it 10 bucks more, and before you know it, you’re at $200 a day.”
For the time being, many administrators say their strategy is improvisation. Some common tactics: paying a staff teacher to give up prep time to take over a class, or installing one or two full-time subs in each building.
“There are days where it’s so bad,” said Downingtown Middle School principal Nick Indeglio, “we have to put multiple classes in the gym and send somebody down to cover it, because there are not enough bodies.”
Credit: The Philadelphia Inquirer
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NHL — Showdown Between Eastern Conference’s Top Teams
Lightning and Bruins Have Talent to Win Stanley Cup
Tonight, hockey fans will get a preview of what is likely to be a late-round Eastern Conference matchup in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins have been two of the most consistent teams all year. That consistency has put them atop the Eastern Conference. These two clubs are truly the cream of the crop in the East.
TV: 7:30 p.m. NBC Sports Network, Sportsnet One, Sportsnet East, Sportsnet Ontario, TVA; LINE: Bruins -120; O/U: 6.5 Over -115.
The Boston Bruins have been on a roll of late. They’ve collected at least one point in each of their last 14 games and have won eight of their last nine matchups. Tukka Rask has been all-world over that stretch and they’ve surrendered just five goals in their last three games. He’s now up to an impressive .920 save percentage and 2.40 goals against average. It won’t be easy going up against a potent Lightning lineup. Tampa Bay enters Thursday’s matchup in first place in the NHL. It’s hard to believe how good Jon Cooper’s group has been this season as they’ve already eclipsed the 100-point mark. Nikita Kucherov is sure to be at the center of the action on Thursday.
The Bruins sit 19 points behind Tampa Bay in the Atlantic Division, but are just one ahead of Toronto for second place and home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. Tampa Bay set a franchise record on Wednesday with its 10th straight victory as it coughed up a two-goal lead. Then defenseman Victor Hedman scored in overtime for a 4-3 win over the New York Rangers as it matched Boston’s 14-game point streak (12-0-2), all this month. Nikita Kucherov set up Hedman’s game-winner for his third assist of the contest and league-leading 104th point of the season for the Lightning, who can reach 50 wins on Thursday.
This, Than, and a Dart Throw
The Lightning are 49-11-4 on the season. Kucherov is four points shy of matching the franchise single-season record set in 2006-07 by Vincent Lecavalier. Brayden Point reached 80 for the first time in his career on Wednesday with an assist. Captain Steven Stamkos added a pair of assists in the win, giving him 16 of his 77 points in his last 10 games. J.T. Miller has scored in three of his last four contests. Andrei Vasilevskiy recorded his 29th win on Wednesday. He is 9-0-2 with a .950 save percentage in February. Backup Louis Domingue has won a franchise-best 11 straight starts. The Lightning were 6-for-6 on the penalty kill during Wednesday’s win. They are 25-for-25 over their last seven contests.
The Bruins are 37-17-9 on the season. Brad Marchand has picked up his production level in David Pastrnak’s absence. He has collected 17 of his team-high 74 points in the last 11 contests. He scored one goal and set up two others on Tuesday. Krejci also has been a major factor during Boston’s 14-game run. He has registered five goals and 10 assists over the last 12 contests to push his season total to 55 points. Marcus Johansson notched an assist in his team debut on Tuesday.
PREDICTION: Bruins 3, Lightning 2
NHL Betting Odds & Trends
Tampa Bay is 6-3 ATS in its last 9 games
Tampa Bay is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Tampa Bay is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Tampa Bay’s last 9 games on the road
Tampa Bay is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Boston
Tampa Bay is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Boston
Tampa Bay is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Boston
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Sights to be seen at the Great Lakes Exposition, Cleveland, Ohio
Great Lakes Exposition; Ships; Women; Ferris wheels; Airships; Collages
"Tops among famous American exhibits" in general appeal, practical arrangement, splendor of illuminating effects who have been closely associated with its forerunners. Compact, yet of great magnitude, with no fatiguing stretches between exhibits...
Cleveland Home and Flower Show Exhibits
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Home and Flower Show exhibits at Cleveland Public Auditorium. "Cleveland Ohio Show Chas. Jamison" -- card front.
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"The first of its kind in the western hemisphere, the Cleveland Health Museum is devoted exclusively to human biology. Modern permanent exhibits uniquely depict the digestion of foods, human reproduction, dental health, and nutrition. The Brain...
"The first of its kind in the western hemisphere, the Cleveland Health Museum is devoted exclusively to human biology. Modern permanent exhibits uniquely depict the digestion of foods, human reproduction, dental health, and nutrition. There are...
Exhibits at the Hall of Progress at the Great Lakes Exposition
Great Lakes Exposition; Hall of Progress (Great Lakes Exposition : Cleveland, Ohio); Exhibition buildings; Timken Roller Bearing Company; National Malleable and Steel Castings Co.; Bearings (Machinery); Transportation industry; Exhibits
Exhibits for Timken and National Malleable and Steel Castings Co. inside the Hall of Progress at the Great Lakes Exposition. The Great Lakes Exposition took place on the lakefront of Cleveland, Ohio in 1936 and 1937.
Analysis and appraisal of the West Side Market House for the city of Cleveland
West Side Market (Cleveland, Ohio); Analyses; Appraisals; T.W. Grogan Company; W. 25th St. (Cleveland, Ohio); Lorain Ave. (Cleveland, Ohio); Market Ave. (Cleveland, Ohio)
An analysis and appraisal of the West Side Market, done in April 1950 by the T. W. Grogan Co. as commissioned by the city of Cleveland. The document is comprised of 69 typewritten pages and 10 black-and-white photographs, bound in a black...
Juno - The Transparent Talking Woman
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"America's first Health Museum, 8911 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Incorporated in 1936, dramatizes good health and shows body functions with animated exhibits." - card verso
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"THE PUBLIC LIBRARY is located at Superior Avenue at East 3rd Street. It is of gray Georgian marble and was built at a cost of $4,000,000. The reading rooms are free to all. It is open on week days from 9 A.M. to 9:30 P.M. and on Sundays from 1:00...
Bird's-Eye View of Art Museum and Fine Arts Garden, Cleveland, Ohio
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"The Museum is a magnificent building of Georgia marble, completed in 1916 at approximate cost, including equipment, of $1,250,000. It contains interesting and important collections and exhibits representing the arts of many ages and countries."...
"The Museum is a magnificent building of Georgia marble, completed in 1916 at approximate cost, including equipment, of $1,125,000. It contains interesting and important collections and exhibits representing the arts of many ages and...
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
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"The Cleveland Museum of Art. East Boulevard at Bellflower Rd., overlooking Wade Park and near Euclid Ave. A magnificent building of Georgia Marble, completed in 1916 at approximate cost, including equipment, of $1,250,000. The Museum contains...
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
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"The Cleveland Museum of Art, East Boulevard at Bellflower Road, overlooking Wade Park and near Euclid Avenue. A magnificent building of Georgian marble, the museum contains interesting and important collections and exhibits, especially in armor,...
Cleveland Aquarium
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"The Cleveland Aquarium. Located at East 72nd Street and Interstate 90, Cleveland's renowned aquarium exhibits live aquatic mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes from all over the world. Open all year. Closed Mondays, Thanksgiving,...
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"The Cleveland Aquarium. Located at East 72nd Street and Interstate 90, Ohio's renowned Cleveland Aquarium exhibits live aquatic mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, and fishes from all over the world. Open all year; Tuesdays...
Cleveland Health Education Center
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"Cleveland Health Education Center, 8911 Euclid Avenue - Cleveland, Ohio. The first of its kind in the entire world, it features 13 experimental teaching laboritories and a health museum devoted exclusively to human ecology. The 55,000 square foot...
Cleveland Health Museum and Education Center, 8911 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
"The first of its kind in the world, it features 13 experimental teaching laboratories and a health museum devoted to human ecology. The 55,000 square foot complex houses permanent exhibits, the 156-seat Sears multi-media theatre, and a reference...
Cleveland Heights Historical Center at Superior Schoolhouse
Cleveland Heights Historical Center; Cleveland Heights landmarks; Superior School; Cleveland Heights
"14391 Superior Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118, (216) 932-0391 and (216) 291-4878. www.clevelandheights.com/mainframe_historical.html. Owned and operated by the City of Cleveland Heights, the Cleveland Heights Historical Center at Superior...
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The Internet Journal of Anesthesiology
Foxglove Revisited
T Papadimos
T Papadimos. Foxglove Revisited. The Internet Journal of Anesthesiology. 2004 Volume 10 Number 1.
My practice of anaesthesia includes attending as a critical care physician in the surgical intensive care unit of an academic institution, as well as performing anaesthetics in the operating suites. With the upsurge in the number of patients and their acuity, intensivists and primary care physicians are encountering increasing numbers of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) [1, 2].
While it can be agreed that countershock in the haemodynamically unstable patient with acute AF is of paramount importance, the chemical options for the treatment of AF (whether for rate control or chemical cardioversion) in a haemodynamically stable patient remain numerous. Such treatments include quinidine, procainamide, disopyramide, flecainide, propafenone, dofetilide, ibutalide, sotalol, amiodarone, verapamil, diltiazem, esmolol, metoprolol, and digitalis, to name a few. The pharmaceutical companies have made new drugs available to us at a dizzying rate.
At our institution the anaesthesiology and surgical attending physicians and their residents seem to favor diltiazem, metoprolol, esmolol and amiodarone for the treatment of the acute onset of postoperative AF in the intensive care setting. These drugs are popular for a good reason; they have a rapid onset of action. While acknowledging the forgoing behaviour of residents and their attending physicians (including myself) I would like provide an important teaching point involving two recent cases.
In the first instance, a 74 year old male, who was admitted with a myocardial infarction and taken for coronary artery bypass grafting, developed AF with a rapid ventricular response postoperatively in the intensive care unit. The patient was treated for several days with amiodarone, diltiazem, metoprolol, and esmolol without success. His heart rate could not be well controlled. The lack of sinus rhythm created difficulties with his ability to be weaned from the ventilator.
In the second instance, an 88 year old female experienced intraoperative pulmonary fat emboli during her right total hip replacement that led to hypotension, hypoxemia, myocardial infarction, renal failure, and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In the surgical intensive care unit (in addition to volume, vasopressors, and inotropes) she was treated with amiodarone, metoprolol, esmolol, and countershock for her AF and rapid ventricular rate, but did not respond. Diltiazem was not used because of intermittently low blood pressure.
In both cases, after the above-mentioned therapeutic failures, the patients received an initial dose of digoxin 0.5 mg intravenously. The atrial rate of each patient was controlled within a few hours. The first patient was extubated within 12 hours of receiving digoxin, and in the second patient there was restored renal function and substantial improvement in cardiac index (as measured by a pulmonary artery catheter and transthoracic echocardiography). In neither case could it be determined whether the rate control was due to the digoxin alone, or its use in combination with the other drugs administered. Nonetheless, the use of William Withering's “old drug” foxglove (digitalis) seems to have been important in the recovery of both of these patients [3].
Not only does digoxin have a primary parasympathomimetic effect on the atrial myocardium by slowing conduction and increasing the refractory period of the atroventricular (AV) node, but it also increases vagal tone (decreasing sinoatrial and AV node conduction), causes sympathoinhibition, and decreases serum concentrations of norepinephrine and plasma renin activity [4].
Clinical guidelines were suggested recently regarding AF; the authors assessed 17 drugs in 54 studies [5]. The review and recommendations in regard to rate control concentrated on studies that evaluated calcium channel blockers, beta blockers, and digoxin. Nondihydropyridine calcium channel blockers (diltiazem and verapamil) were found to be more effective when compared to placebo or digoxin. Also, beta blockers, such as atenalol and metoprolol, were shown to control ventricular rate at rest and when exercising. However, the evidence also suggested that adding digoxin to a beta blocker or a nondihydropyridine calcium channel blocker may provide an additional benefit over administering either beta blockers or nondihyropyridine calcium channel blockers alone [5, 6], an option of which anaesthetists practicing in the postoperative setting should be aware. Although digoxin is a second line drug for the treatment of postoperative atrial fibrillation in the intensive care unit, practitioners should be cognizant of its efficacy in this setting as an adjunct to, or in lieu of, other therapies.
Using the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) Fang et al determined that the digoxin use in the United States declined from 76% of the patients with AF in 1980-1981 to 37% of patients in 1999-2000 [7]. This probably reflects the influence of studies that indicate digoxin is less effective than beta blockers or calcium channel blockers in controlling tachycardia related to effort [8].
Even though the NAMCS involves ambulatory patients, as opposed to critical care patients, the decline (or disfavour) of this “old drug” (digitalis) is being reflected in the teaching environment. Thus, our physicians in anaesthesia and critical care training are less exposed to its use and benefits, never fully appreciating the niche that Withering's foxglove still occupies.
Correspondence to
Thomas J. Papadimos, MD, MPH Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology Medical University of Ohio Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA Email: tpapadimos@mco.edu Phone: 419-383-3556 Fax: 419-383-3550
1. Chugh SS, Blackshear JL, Shen et al. Epidemiology and natural history of atrial fibrillation: clinical implications. J Am Coll Cardiol 2001;37:371-8.
2. Go AS, Hylek EM, Phillips KA, et al. Prevelance of diagnosed atrial fibrillation in adults: national implications for rhythm management and stroke prevention: the anticoagualtion and risk factors in atrial fibrillation (ATRIA) Study. JAMA 2001;285:2370-5.
3. Eichhorn EJ, Gheorghiade, M. Digoxin---new perspective on an old drug. N Engl J Med 2002;347:1394-5.
4. Gheorghiade M, Kirkwood FA Jr, Colucci WS. Digoxin in the management of cardiovascular disorders. Circulation 2004;109:2959-64.
5. McNamara RL, Tamariz LJ, Segal JB, et al. Management of atrial fibrillation: review of the evidence for the role of pharmacologic therapy, electrical cardioversion, and echocardiography. Ann Intern Med 2003;139: 1018-33.
6. Khand AV, Rankin AC, Martin W, et al. Carvedilol alone or in combination with digoxin for the management of atrial fibrillation in patients with heart failure? J Am Coll Cardiol 2003;42:1944-51.
7. Fang MC, Staffor RS, Ruskin JN, et al. National trends in antiarrhythmic and antithrombotic medication use in atrial fibrillation. Arch Intern Med 2004;164:55-60.
8. Segal JB, McNamara RL, Miller MR, et al. The evidence regarding the drugs used for ventricular rate control. J Fam Pract 2000;49:47-59.
Thomas J. Papadimos, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical University of Ohio
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Susan Ciminelli – Ways to de-stress during these trying times.
The minute Susan Ciminelli hit the streets of New York City she drew a celebrity crowd. They had one thing on their minds – how they could get their skin to glow like hers. Coming from Buffalo, New York, where harsh weather and the wrong diet and lifestyle wreaked havoc on her skin, Susan took matters into her own hands, bucked every trend, and over the years became a true pioneer of holistic beauty and health. She turned her own skin and health around, and has devoted her life to teaching and helping others to achieve the inner peace and outer radiance that is known all over the world as “The Susan Ciminelli Glow.”
Growing up in Buffalo, Susan knew even then that the processed and snack foods her mother stocked in the pantry were having a negative effect on her skin and her health. At 14 she was diagnosed with an ulcer, and she frequently had rashes and breakouts. She quickly found out that stress equals bad skin. “I didn’t understand the correlation then, but my body was showing me every day how not to eat, and how not to live”, she says. From then on, she was a teenager with a mission.
When her friends went to the mall and shopped, Susan would sit on the floor of the health food store and read books on natural health and healing. On instinct she began performing shiatsu and reflexology on herself. Soon she was practicing her newfound knowledge on her friends. On weekends they’d sleep over and she’d feed them clean, healthy food, steam their faces over herbal teas, whip up masks from fresh ingredients and their skin quickly cleared up.
At 15 Susan went to live with relatives in Italy, and for the first time felt like she was where she belonged. People there didn’t stock up on canned foods – they shopped for fresh ingredients every day. It was here that Susan learned about energy meridians in the body and other Eastern and alternative medicine concepts from one of her relatives who was a surgeon who practiced acupuncture. She began to combine Eastern and Western philosophies into her own unique method.
Later Susan would travel extensively throughout Europe, where she learned about European Spa treatments, particularly thalassotherapy (seaweed treatments). She would visit India and Egypt many times, learning about unusual essential oils that she eventually incorporated into her own product line.
Back in the US, Susan moved to New York, landing a job at a cosmetics counter in Bloomingdale’s, where she advised women about good skin and nutrition as she applied her employer’s make up on them. She developed quite a following. She started her own spa in her apartment, and over the years she moved to larger and larger spaces, until 1996 when she moved to the penthouse at Bergdorf Goodman where she remained for over 10 years. She now has a spa located on 57th Street built for a full day of beauty. The Beauty Clinic offers only the best certified and established experts in New York City, that provide holistic nourishment with hydrating and healing treatments such as Broad Ban Light rejuvenating treatment, Aromatherapy Facials, Slimming Body Treatments, Massages, Waxing, Anti-aging treatments, Make-up application, Nutritional Consultation & more.
Although today many people take for granted what Susan pioneered years ago, to this day she continues to go against the trends. “I fight the chemists every step of the way to get my products manufactured the way I want them. I insist on the ingredients I myself have discovered in my travels around the world and on the level of purity I demand. I refuse to compromise that!”
Beyond wonderful products, Susan developed a method of using them that infuses the skin with nutrients and moisture like a fluffy puff pastry.
Her famous trio of essential oils, Seawater and Marine Lotion, applied with her unique layering process is unmatched anywhere.
This is in sharp contrast to the rest of the industry. Even now, despite what everyone knows about good health and skin care, the conventional wisdom is that you have to destroy the skin to help it. Microdermabrasion, laser peels Retin-A, glycolics and the like, all do more harm than good. But those in the know, who embrace Susan’s nurturing approach, have the beautiful, glowing, young looking skin to prove it.
And perhaps most importantly, while everyone else offers false hope, Susan delivers useful advice, products and services that actually work. You leave Susan empowered with knowledge you can use for a lifetime of health and beauty. Thanks to Susan’s holistic approach to beauty, you leave not only with the benefits of a facial or massage, but with an overall sense of balance and peace, thanks to Susan’s total and nurturing approach to beauty.
Visit the spa and find out what Susan’s teenage friends knew back in the 70’s. You can’t sleep over any more, but you can get Susan’s undivided attention, her pure, natural products, and the soft, dewy complexion the world recognizes as “The Susan Ciminelli Glow.” http://itsyourhealthwithlisadavis.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Susan-Ciminelli-baths-stress-for-site-.mp3
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Kirchner Beverage
In 1933, Serena A. Kirchner walked to the local courthouse and purchased Lancaster's first liquor license for a mere five dollars. For several decades the business steadily grew, delivering beer from door-to-door throughout Lancaster.
After Serena's death in 1970, three of her sons (Andy, Jim, and Tommy) took over the business and oversaw the transition from a retail to a wholesale distributor. The first brands to be acquired included Pabst, Schmidt's, and Yuengling.
In the mid 80's, as the popularity of craft beer increased, the company took on several new brands including Samuel Adams and Sierra Nevada.
In 1997, Andy purchased his brother's shares and became the sole owner of the company. In 2002, after nearly 70 years of business, Andy decided the 11,000 square foot warehouse on Poplar street was no longer capable of meeting their needs.
The current warehouse in Manor Township was originally 35,000 square feet, but after a decade of growth, more room was needed. In 2013, an addition was completed that increased the building to around 57,000 square feet.
From the early days of delivering door to door, to now delivering to eight counties, we have always been committed to putting our customers first and constantly striving to meet their needs.
We are fortunate to have a loyal, committed, and unbelievably hard-working group of employees. Without them, the success of the business would never have been possible.
We are now entering our 86th year of business, and although a lot has changed since Serena left that courthouse in 1933, the passion, hard work, and determination that we pride ourselves on has never diminished. With Andy continuing to lead the way, and six of his children currently employed, we are committed to continued growth and carrying on the Kirchner legacy.
Serena A. Kirchner, Inc., 2740 Charlestown Road, Lancaster, PA 17603717.872.1400
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SMITH, Alvin - I37
From Joseph Smith wiki
A Sketch on the Life of Alvin Smith [1]
According to early town records for Tunbridge, Vermont, Alvin Smith, first surviving child and second son of Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack, was born 11 February 1798. He was thereafter referred to as the "first son," and, as he grew, became an indispensable aid to his father in the heavy work of the family farm. His schooling was that of other frontier boys: basic skills in the three R’s, reading, writing, and arithmetic with his father, who farmed in the summer and taught school in the winter, as a primary teacher.
His spiritual training began early as the family studied the Bible daily holding devotionals both morning and evening. This day by day teaching was further enforced by his parents who, in the words of his brother, William, "poured out their souls to God… to keep and guard their children and keep them from sin and all evil works."[2] Alvin must have also been fortified in his Christian beliefs by his grandfathers, Asael Smith, and Solomon Mack who lived nearby.
Asael held Restorationist views asserting that mankind needed to return to the pure practices and doctrines of ancient Christianity.[3] Asael, along with Alvin’s father, Joseph Smith Sr., and Jesse Smith, an uncle, were instrumental in forming the Tunbridge Universalist Society, in order to worship "according to the dictates of our conscience." Solomon Mack, who converted to Christianity in his later years, wrote a tract detailing his experiences, and rode the countryside preaching, and talking to children in schools. This testimony would also have been part of the religious discussion in the Joseph Sr., Lucy Mack Smith family. Richard Lloyd Anderson,[4]
After several failed harvests in Vermont, including those of 1814 through 1816, the Smith family determined to move to the wheat lands of western New York. They arrived in Palmyra, New York, in January 1817. Alvin, who was going on nineteen, was again his father's right hand in establishing a 100 acre farm there. In order to secure the land, Alvin, along with his father and younger brothers, hired out and 'worked by day, 'gardening, harvesting, well digging, etc.' "for the village and farming people.'" Alvin was known for his strength and work ethic. "[5]
By 1819, the Smith family found themselves settled in a small log home on their farm. Alvin, who had considerable carpentry skills, was determined to build a more comfortable frame home on the Palmyra-Manchester farm. Lucy Smith records him as saying, "I am going to have a nice, pleasant room for Father and Mother to sit in and everything arranged for their comfort, and they shall not work anymore as they have done." Lucy tells us that by "November 1822 ... the frame was raised, and all the materials necessary for its speedy completion were procured."[6]
During this Palmyra period, Alvin's younger brother, Joseph Smith Jr. experienced heavenly manifestations in the spring of 1820 and the autumn of 1823, in which he was told he would be instrumental in the restoration of the gospel as it existed in ancient times. In September of 1823, Moroni, an angelic messenger, told him that he would obtain and translate ancient plates containing a record of God's dealings with peoples who had formerly lived on the American continent. The record in question would eventually be published as The Book of Mormon.
Alvin accepted Joseph's revelatory experiences as coming from God, and encouraged him to be faithful to them. It was Alvin who encouraged the Smith family to gather in the evenings to hear his younger brother's account of what he had seen and heard. Alvin counseled Joseph, "We will get up early in the morning and go to work so as to finish our day's labor by an hour before sunset, and if Mother will get our suppers early, we will then have a fine, long evening and all sit down and hear you talk."[7]
Within a month of Moroni's September 1823 visit, Alvin was unexpectedly stricken with severe stomach pain possibly caused by appendicitis. The family doctor being unavailable, he was attended by a physician who administered a "heavy dose of calomel" which "lodged in his stomach, and all the powerful medicine which was afterwards prescribed by skillful physicians could not remove it." This attempted purgation took Alvin's life.[8]
His last words to his brother, Hyrum, were a plea that he finish building the house and care for their parents in their old age. His words to Joseph were an admonition to be faithful to his revealed mission. He cautioned Joseph to "do everything that lies in your power to obtain the record. Be faithful in receiving instruction and in keeping every commandment that is given you."[9]
Alvin died late in the night of November 19th, 1823 in the 25th year of his age. His death was a great loss to the family who loved and depended on him. His mother tells us that it was also felt by the "whole neighborhood," and most particularly by the young woman he was engaged to marry. The name of his bride-to-be has not been preserved to us.[10]
A most unfortunate aspect of Alvin's passing was the further grief imposed upon his family by persons prejudiced against his younger brother's religious views and who viciously claimed his body had been exhumed and dissected so that Joseph Jr. could present his remains to the angel who would then deliver the promised gold plates. These slanders became so rampant that Alvin's father, Joseph Smith Sr., felt compelled to have an exhumation of Alvin's remains in the presence of witnesses to verify the undisturbed state of his son's body. He thereafter ran a public notice in the Palmyra Weekly for six issues, answering this deliberate and malicious fabrication.[11]
In a 21 January 1836 vision received by Joseph Smith Jr. in the upper room of the Kirtland, Ohio, Temple, he saw his brother Alvin in the Celestial Kingdom as a full recipient of salvation. This revelatory experience brought closure to a thirteen year struggle in the Smith family to accept the tragedy of Alvin's death.
In August of 1842, Joseph Smith Jr. wrote of his older brother, "He was the oldest, and the noblest of my fathers family. He was one of the noblest of the sons of men…. In him there was no guile. He lived without spot from the time he was a child…. He was one of the soberest of men and when he died the angel of the Lord visited him in his last moments." During an 1834 blessing meeting with his children and their spouses, Joseph Smith Sr. said that his son, "Alvin... was taken from us in the vigor of life, in the bloom of youth. My heart often mourns his loss, but I have no disposition to complain against the Lord." He prayed that this much loved son not be forgotten.[12]
At the time of his death Alvin was engaged to be married. His sudden illness and death left his fiancé, whose name we have never been able to discover, so sorrowful that according to Alvin's mother's history, the young woman languished and also passed away within a short time. Although he has no living posterity in this generation, Alvin's name is not forgotten—the memory of this good young man invites all of us to consider his example of devotion and service to his family.
For a more detailed look at Alvin's life, see Richard L. Anderson in Kyle R. Walker, United by Faith, Covenant Communications, pp. 84-121)
↑ By Vivian McConkie Adams, 3rd Great Granddaughter of Joseph Smith Sr. 4/1/11
↑ Mark McConkie, The Father of the Prophet, pp.147-148
↑ Milton V. Bachman, Jr., Ensign, January 1989, pp. 16-19
↑ Joseph Smith's New England Heritage, p. 43
↑ Richard Lloyd Anderson, in Walker, United by Faith, pp. 88-89
↑ Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith, Revised and Enhanced, edited by Scot Facer Proctor and Maurine Jensen Proctor [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996].
↑ Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith, Revised and Enhanced, edited by Scot Facer Proctor and Maurine Jensen Proctor [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996], p. 111.
↑ Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith, Revised and Enhanced, edited by Scot Facer Proctor and Maurine Jensen Proctor [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996], p 115.
↑ Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith, Revised and Enhanced, edited by Scot Facer Proctor and Maurine Jensen Proctor [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996], 116 .
↑ United by Faith, p.100
↑ United by Faith, pp. 101-102
↑ Anderson in Walker, United by Faith, pp. 84; 101-102
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TV show creator Ryan Murphy joins Walk of Fame
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HOLLYWOOD — A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Dec. 4 honoring Ryan Murphy, the six-time Emmy winning creator of such television series as “Glee,” “American Horror Story” and “Nip/Tuck.”
“I look at this star as the halfway point in my career,” Murphy said in the late-morning ceremony in front of the Hudson Hollywood Apartments on Hollywood Boulevard. “I’ve done a lot of work and I’ve been so lucky, but I have so much more to say and to do. I’m blessed. I know that. I’m excited with what’s to come.”
Murphy recalled his 1989 arrival in Hollywood from Washington D.C. in a “broken-down used yellow Subaru with under $100 in my pocket and I didn’t know a single soul.”
“All I had was a dream that I would be somebody someday,” Murphy said.
Murphy said that in his first week in Hollywood, his car ran out of gas across the street from the site of his star because “I had to make a decision of gasoline for the car or styling gel.”
“And of course, I chose the styling gel,” Murphy said.
Murphy was preceded in speaking by actresses Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson, who have appeared in multiple projects produced by Murphy; Murphy’s producing partner Brad Falchuk and actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who appeared on “Glee,” where she met Falchuk, who she married this year.
“Ryan Murphy is one of the most creative and brilliant minds in television,” said Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “His shows open the doors for people to see things they may have never thought of and invites viewers to his world of exhilarating programming.”
Murphy was born Nov. 30, 1965, in Indianapolis and is an alumnus of Indiana University. He was initially a journalist, writing for such publications as the Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News and Entertainment Weekly.
Murphy began his entertainment career by selling a script to Steven Spielberg titled, “Why Can’t I Be Audrey Hepburn?” which has not been produced.
The first television series Murphy created was “Popular,” a teenage comedy-drama that aired on The WB from 1999-2001. The next show he created was “Nip/Tuck,” a drama about plastic surgeons that ran on cable’s FX from 2003-2010 and brought Murphy the first of his 29 Emmy nominations, receiving an outstanding directing for a drama series nomination in 2004 for the series pilot.
Murphy then created the Fox musical comedy-drama about a high school choir “Glee,” which ran from 2009-15. It was nominated for outstanding comedy series each of its first two seasons. Murphy received the first of his six Emmys in 2010, winning for outstanding directing for a comedy series for the pilot.
Murphy produced the Emmy winner for outstanding miniseries two of the past three years, “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” the 2016 winner, and “The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” the 2018 winner. Both aired on FX.
Murphy won an outstanding directing for a miniseries movie or a/dramatic special Emmy for “The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.”
Murphy’s other Emmys were for producing the outstanding made for television movie, “The Normal Heart,” in 2014 and outstanding short form nonfiction or reality series, “Inside Look: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” in 2016.
Murphy is also the creator of the FX anthology series “American Horror Story” and the Fox procedural drama “9-1-1.”
Murphy directed the films “Running with Scissors” and “Eat Pray Love.”
Murphy’s next television project is the Netflix comedy “The Politician,” set to debut in 2019, with a cast including Lange and Paltrow.
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Transient charged with attack on actress
Posted on November 20, 2015 Author Independent Wire Services
LOS ANGELES — A 45-year-old transient was charged Nov. 16 with attacking and threatening to kill television actress Pauley Perrette, one of the stars of the hit series “NCIS,” near her Hollywood home. David Merck appeared in a downtown courtroom and pleaded not guilty to one felony count each of false imprisonment by violence and Read More…
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HOLLYWOOD HILLS — Hundreds of friends, family members and fans paid tribute to Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills March 25 in a laughter- and tear-filled tribute to the mother-daughter duo who died one day apart in late December. The public memorial service for the actresses best known for their respective Read More…
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St Luke's not ceasing to feed multitudes
Published:Saturday | March 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer
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Archdeacon Patrick Cunningham (left, background) of St Luke’s Church in Cross Roads, Kingston, and Leon Golding (centre), suffragan bishop of Montego Bay, greet students at the launch of the 50th anniversary and dedication of the St Luke’s church building earlier this month
Feeding a multitude of poor people every week is no easy feat, but 50 years after the dedication of the St Luke's church building in Cross Roads, Kingston, the leaders of that church remain committed to the task of uplifting less fortunate individuals from surrounding communities.
The Gleaner caught up with Patrick Cunningham, director of the church, during a recent service marking the 50th anniversary since the dedication, and he reeled off a list of work activities the church has been up to.
"We feed upwards of 300 persons per week here at St Luke's on Wednesday mornings. We have a soup kitchen, which operates every other Friday between noon and 1 p.m. These are persons who come from the streets and have various conditions," Cunningham told The Gleaner.
"We are here to respond to their needs. We even partner with the University of the West Indies in providing various social workers for them. Social workers interact with them and help them access various facilities to overcome the challenges they face in life," he added.
All in all, even with St Luke's involvement with education, Cunningham said that everything the church does in the various communities is a part of fulfilling its mission as a beacon for God.
"We address various issues with family life and parenting. Those are some of the things we want to continue. We have a mission at St Simon's in Jones Town. We have that basic school, and we are involved in the community. Our mission is to be a beacon for God," he said.
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Fame, Love, and Murder: The Story of Actress Mary Miles Minter
by Sara Catherine Lichon.
Mary Miles Minter, silent film star and suspect in her lover’s 1922 murder.
Sometimes the stories and scandals of celebrities come up when researching for the JAPP. Oftentimes, the famous are only mentioned briefly in one of Addams’ letters, and their scandals become known when we research their lives to write their biographies. Continue reading “Fame, Love, and Murder: The Story of Actress Mary Miles Minter”
Jane Addams, Alice Austen, and Virginia Woolf
Mary Rozet Smith and Jane Addams.
This blog is a short exploration into the realm of female love and partnership within the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Jane Addams and Alice Austen, two women of notable character during this era, provided the main case studies for this research. Continue reading “Jane Addams, Alice Austen, and Virginia Woolf”
The Tragic Case of Baby Bollinger
Photo of Anna Bollinger and Henry Haiselden, Chicago Tribune, March 31, 1917.
A little over 100 years ago, the case of an infant allowed to die in a Chicago hospital captured the nation’s attention. Born on November 12, 1915, “Baby Bollinger” died five days later on November 17, after physician Harry Haiselden refused to operate to save his life. Haiselden made his decision because the child was born with deformities and he believed the the boy was was mentally and morally defective. He convinced the child’s mother, who said “the doctor told me it would be, perhaps, an imbecile, a criminal. Left to itself it has no chance to live. I consented to let nature take its course.” (Boston Globe, Nov. 17, 1915, p. 1.) Haiselden’s controversial decision led to a heated debate in newspapers across the country. Continue reading “The Tragic Case of Baby Bollinger”
Facing Death Twice: Lawyer Francis J. Heney
This is the last in Sara Catherine Lichon’s series of blog posts about interesting characters that she came across while working as a co-operative education student for the Project this semester. Her work involves identifying and describing the over 5,000 unique individuals mentioned in Addams’ correspondence.
Francis J. Heney, a lawyer and politician whose life was threatened twice during his career.
Life in law can often be exciting, especially when cases take a dramatic turn. For Francis Joseph Heney, a lawyer and politician from California, drama and excitement was part of the job — and sometimes his job even became a matter of life and death. Heney was known for many cases throughout his career, but he was most famous for killing an opposing plaintiff and for being shot in the head by a juror.
As a member of the National Committee of the Progressive Party, Heney’s name appeared numerous times in letters to and from Jane Addams that discussed the National Committee. Heney was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1912 and ran for U.S. Senator from California as a Progressive in 1914. Outside of politics, he was a lawyer in both Arizona and California, and owned a cattle business in Arizona with his brother. From 1893 to 1895 he was Attorney General of the Arizona Territory, and he also served as the U.S. District Attorney for the District of Oregon. Heney was a well-known lawyer, having worked as a prosecutor on famous cases such as the Oregon Land Fraud scandal, where U.S. government land grants were being obtained illegally by public officials, and the San Francisco gaft trials, where members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors were prosecuted for corruption.
Dr. John C. Handy and Mary Ann Page Handy
In 1889, Heney defended Mary Ann Page Handy, the abused wife of Dr. John Christopher Handy, in a divorce case. Handy was known for being violent and aggressive, having abused his wife throughout their marriage, threatening to kill her when she wanted to file for divorce, and causing her to become addicted to morphine. In July 1889, Handy filed for divorce himself and sent their children to live with his mother. Handy threatened to kill anyone who dared to defend Mary, scaring away most attorneys. Originally, C. W. Wright was to defend Mary, and he asked Heney to assist him. After Heney agreed, Wright withdrew from the case, and Heney decided to do the same. After some reconsideration, though, Heney decided to defend Mary, despite the anger of Handy.
Throughout the case, Handy threatened Heney numerous times, even trying to run him over with his buggy. Ultimately, Handy won the case and received custody of the children, which Heney was quick to appeal, and a new case soon started – and the threats continued. On September 24, 1891, Handy attacked Heney outside his office, grabbing his neck and pinning him to a wall. It’s here where there are different accounts of what happened next; some newspapers say Heney broke free, ran, and drew a revolver, which Handy tried to grab. During the struggle, Heney shot Handy in the abdomen. Other papers say Heney shot Handy while running from him. After the encounter, Handy was taken to Dr. George Goodfellow for an operation but died during the procedure. Heney surrendered to the police but was bailed out by three of his friends. In a hearing two days later, the court ruled Heney acted in self-defense and he wasn’t charged.
The San Francisco Call, Nov. 15, 1908
This was not the end of Heney’s exciting cases. During the San Francisco graft prosecution, Heney pointed out that one juror, Morris Haas, was ineligible to be a juror because he was an ex-convict. Heney also believed that Haas was planted by political boss Abe Ruef, who was being prosecuted by Heney at that time. Angered and resentful, Haas came into the courtroom a few weeks later while the trial was in recess and shot Heney in the head. Haas was then arrested, but found dead in his cell shortly after, leading some to believe he had been killed by one of Ruef’s gangsters. Others thought he committed suicide. Heney was expected to die, but he survived the attack. The newspapers of the time reveal how loved Heney was by the public; The San Francisco Call had an entire page dedicated to the story, describing how three thousand people gathered at Oakland’s town hall in support of Heney and how President Theodore Roosevelt sent Heney’s wife a telegram of sympathy.
Heney continued to be involved in law and politics after these incidents, and lived a fulfilling life. In 1906, he married Rebecca Wentworth McMullin. She died in 1911. Heney married to Edna I. Van Winckle in 1915, who managed his U.S. Senate campaign. Heney died in 1937.
Heney’s work with the Progressive Party and in law have gone down in history, especially the stories of his near-death encounters. And he is yet another fascinating person who has appeared in Jane Addams’ papers!
Dexter Marshall. “Thrilling Chapters in Lives of Public Men.” The Washington Herald. April 19, 1908, p. 36.
“Hand to Hand.” Tombstone Epitaph. September 27, 1891.
C. Martin. “Territorial Divorce – as Turbulent as the Times.” Arizona Daily Star. November 12, 1972, p. 57.
Oliver Tatom, “Francis J. Heney (1859-1937),” The Oregon Encyclopedia.
“Roosevelt Wires Tribute to Heney: Messages of Sorrow from Friends Abroad: Leading Citizens of Country Praise Prosecutor.” The San Francisco Call. November 15, 1908, p. 23.
“When Francis J. Heney Shot His Man, Too.” The Des Moines Register. December 6, 1908, p. 10.
“Francis J. Heney,” Wikipedia.
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Calling All Lebanese
November 30, 2013 By Janis Powers 2 Comments
This blog was originally posted in The Huffington Post on November 25, 2013.
The most under-reported aspect of the civil war in Syria is the monumental refugee crisis in Lebanon. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that over 2.2 million Syrians have fled their country. 824,000 people have sought refuge in neighboring Lebanon. Other sources cite over 1.4 million refugees in Lebanon.
Although Lebanon does not conduct a census, estimates track the population to be between 4.1 and 4.4 million people. Simply put, almost one in four persons in Lebanon today is a Syrian refugee.
The humanitarian impact of such a dramatic influx of refugees is staggering. Yet Lebanon is the only country bordering Syria that does not contain any officially sanctioned UNHCR refugee camps. The Lebanese government refuses to provide the land rights necessary to establish them. To the arm’s length observer, rejecting any aid from an internationally neutral organization like the UNHCR seems both callous and foolish.
I would feel the same way, had I not enjoyed a visit to Lebanon last December. Beirut is a global, cosmopolitan destination that is still suffering the impacts, both physically and psychologically, of its own 15-year civil war. It’s taken decades for Lebanon to bounce back from the trauma, and now, right when the country is on the cusp of a national renewal, the Syrian crisis has the potential to tear it down all over again. The Lebanese solution? Political isolationism.
To the Lebanese, official refugee camps are not merely havens for those desperate to escape the horrors of war. Camps have the potential to become permanent settlements, pushing the economic strains on a host nation long into the future. Worse yet, refugee camps can be the breeding ground for military recruitment: pro-al-Assad, pro-rebel, pro-ISIS, pro-al-Qaeda, pro-Hezbollah. You name it, there’s a faction that needs bodies to fight. And where better to find them than in a sea of over a million destitute people?
But the isolationism won’t last forever. Recent events have shown the Lebanese government’s acknowledgment of the crisis, and its requests for help. It has authorized provisional, temporary construction of a small number of UNHCR tents in northern Lebanon. It has requested support from the United Nations for its military to maintain order and to safeguard lives if necessary.
To get a handle on the economic impact of the situation, Even the United States has quietly pledged over $74 million.
Pledging money almost always comes with strings and stipulations. A donation from the U.S. faced political struggles over concern that the cash could wind up in the hands of the Hezbollah, a powerful military force inside Lebanon which is also designated a terrorist organization by our country. They are an enemy of Israel, our ally, and they support the al-Assad regime. By the same token, money could get siphoned to al-Qaeda forces, also our enemy, despite the fact that they are fighting against the al-Assad regime. So they’re de facto fighting the Hezbollah. Huh? Exactly. It’s a political mess that no one wants to touch, but anyone with an ounce of empathy wants to help solve. Money is thrown at the problem. Conscience cleared. Happy holidays.
Cash is king, and it needs to be spent wisely, especially in Lebanon. Financial resources contributed towards the refugee crisis do not address the infrastructural issues which plagued Lebanon before the Syrian civil war began. Beirut’s lack of mass transportation and the abeyance of the development of a national rail system contribute to continuous, national congestion in Lebanon. A sustainable solution for not only the Lebanese, but also for the Syrian refugees residing there will have to address these concerns.
Lebanon needs more than financial help. It needs macro-leadership to oversee the transformation of the country’s infrastructure to ensure the fair and expedient delivery of support to all individuals residing in Lebanon. The country needs a politically independent agent of change. Lebanon needs the Lebanese.
Just as the Syrians are streaming into Lebanon today, Lebanese in the not-so-recent past have left their own country. This constituency has moved from the Middle East primarily to the Americas. It is a group characterized by above-average wealth, power and influence. And it cares about Lebanon.
In 2010, the World Bank estimates that almost $8.2 billion in remittance money was sent to Lebanon. The country’s GDP is about $43 billion, so individuals outside of Lebanon have been ostensibly propping up the country’s economy. And they can do more. They need to do more. They have an obligation to their heritage to do more than just send a check.
Who are these people? King of the Lebanese ex-pat community is Carlos Slim, Mexican telecommunications magnate, a.k.a. the second richest man in the world. Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault, was schooled in Beirut. Brazil is home to a higher population of Lebanese than live in Lebanon itself.
Lebanon’s ex-pat community has the skills and resources to work in conjunction with the Lebanese government in an apolitical fashion to drive positive change for Lebanon at a time when the country and all its inhabitants need it the most. Lebanon needs creative ideas for its future. Looking back may be the best way to find them.
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Artistic risk and Gene Sculatti’s Binary Theory of rock ‘n’ roll
September 13, 2016 Jim
Usually I write something it’s pretty much over, unless I’m on the elliptical and my mind wanders, like the other day at the gym. For some reason I thought back to my Rock and Roll Hall of Fame piece from May. And then I was reflecting further on the definition of rock ‘n’ roll, and what “makes it so great.”
To recap, the RockHall, in responding to Steve Miller’s criticisms during his post-induction press conference, stated that what makes rock ‘n’ roll so great is that it can “ignite many opinions”–a characterization that I ignited as one big crock of shit.
I then took issue with Ice Cube, who said, also in his acceptance speech, that rock ‘n’ roll is neither instrument nor style of music, but “a spirit that’s been going on since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock, and yes, hip-hop.” I didn’t care much for this definition, either, especially since he pointedly left out country, not to mention polka.
Like I said, not many country stars are in the RockHall, with Johnny Cash the only one coming quickly to mind outside of Bill Monroe and Jimmie Rodgers-both inducted as “Early Influences.” Seymour Stein always argued for Conway Twitty, whose career began in the 1950s with the rock ‘n’ roll chart success of hits like “It’s Only Make Believe.” I’ll always remember my late, great friend Dave Nives, who held various marketing and a&r indie label gigs and correctly ascertained, after I brought him a CD by polka legend Eddie Blazonczyk, “This is real rock ‘n’ roll.”
What is real rock ‘n’ roll, then, or what we have called since the l970s, “rock”? I have little idea from looking at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, I thought, as I realized, with deep disappointment and mounting bitterness, that I’d only been on the machine for three minutes.
Then I drifted further into considering one of the main tenets of rock ‘n’ roll criticism, which these mostly old boys likely lifted from art criticism as a whole, that the rock ‘n’ roll artist must always take risks. As in crossing the street without looking? I wondered. As in throwing a pass from the one-yard-line on first-and-goal?
This is why I was never part of that old boys club. I never wanted my favorite artists to take risks. The Beatles could do it, for sure, but who else, besides, say Kenny Rogers?
Did I just say Kenny Rogers? Yes! By risk-taking criteria, Kenny Rogers is arguably the greatest rock ‘n’ roll artist of all time! The chronology: Houston native Rogers learned guitar and fiddle and played in a rockabilly recording band, The Scholars, in high school. He also recorded solo singles and performed on American Bandstand. Dropping out of the U. of Texas, he played bass in jazz combo the Bobby Doyle Three, and played bass on country star Mickey Gilley’s 1960s single “Is It Wrong.” He joined the Kirby Stone Four vocal group, then released a few unsuccessful solo singles before joining the successful New Christy Minstrels folk group–out of which the First Edition formed.
With the First Edition, Rogers scored the No. 5 pop-psychedelic “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” hit in 1968 and others including “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town,”
“Something’s Burning” and the distinctly country-flavored “Ruben James”–the band now billed as Kenny Rogers & the First Edition. Leaving the group, he then built a superstar country music career in the late 1970s and ’80s following the Grammy and Country Music Award-winning success of his No. 1 country hit “Lucille” in 1977; when it reached No. 5 on the pop charts, it also ushered in a remarkable country-crossover career generating a pair of pop chart-toppers in “Lady,” which was written and produced by Lionel Richie, and “Islands In The Stream,” his duet with Dolly Parton that was written and produced by the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb. He also worked with The Beatles’ George Martin and mainstream pop producer David Foster. Besides Parton–who also recorded Rogers’ “Sweet Music Man”–Rogers had hit duets with Dottie West, Kim Carnes, Sheena Easton, Carnes and James Ingram, Nickie Ryder, Ronnie Milsap, Anne Murray, Wynonna, Alison Krauss and Billy Dean, and Whitney Duncan. He’s been represented on the charts in one way or other the last six decades, while spinning off a successful acting career–most notably his series of TV movies based on his Grammy-winning 1978 hit “The Gambler.”
Really, the guy’s done everything any critic could ask for and way, way more.
But otherwise, lets look at The Ramones, for example. Sure I like the Spector-produced End of the Century as much as the next guy–that is, if the next guy likes it–and I always loved Road to Ruin‘s country-flavored “Don’t Come Close.” And don’t forget, I wrote the fist book on The Ramones (Ramones-An American Band, if I remember correct)! But really, I and you really just want to hear “Blitzkrieg Bop” and “Beat on the Brat.”
Or Elvis Costello: Sure I love the country album Almost Blue produced in Nashville by Billy Sherrill, or The Juliet Letters with the Brodsky Quartet and Painted From Memory with Burt Bacharach, or any number of other artistic excursions beyond “Alison” and “Watching the Detectives.” But I always hope that when he performs with the band in concert, he goes back heavy on his second album, This Year’s Model, his first with The Attractions, and far and away his most intense rock record.
Which brings me, circuitously-and I’m off the elliptical and back home now-to Gene Sculatti and the Binary Theory of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Gene Sculatti, truly one of rock’s great theorists, is credited by U.K. author Jon Savage, in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded, as one of the writers for the seminal rock magaine Crawdaddy who actually began using the word ‘rock’ to describe the new mid-‘60s experimental rock forms manifest on albums like The Beatles’ Revolver and Jefferson Airplane Takes Off. But what brings us to him here is his most brilliant Binary Theory.
Right up there with gravity, relativity and evolution, the Binary Theory—and I hereby admit that I’m pretty much a layman here, in terms of understanding such scholarly rock stuff—addresses the deceptively simple elemental principle that a rock artist initially does whatever he, she or it does (roots-rock, let’s say) and becomes successful doing so. They keep doing it the first few albums and tours, and then the success wanes. So they announce with great fanfare a new direction (dance music, let’s say), and enlist the top songwriters and producers in the field—but the ensuing record stiffs. So they announce a return to form (in our example, back to roots-rock) with even more fanfare (a.k.a. hooey), either admitting to the mistake of the failed new direction or more likely, blaming the record company and/or just-fired management.
“That’s the riff, yeah,” says Sculatti, taking a moment out of deep study in his ivory tower to talk down to a relative ignoramus.
“It’s important to distinguish the binary move, though, from such things as organic progressions like The Who evolving from lean, mean mods to arena-ready pomp-rockers, or mere trend-hopping, like the Beach Boys doing a 10-minute disco version of ‘Here Comes the Night’ off of Wild Honey, or the Grateful Dead doing disco on Shakedown Street. And it’s different from polymaths like Prince or Bowie, who could slip into new and different musical togs monthly and always wear them well.
“Then there’s the Stones, who pulled the binary as a canny, if brief, career move: ‘Oh, you think you know us only as noisy young rowdies? We’ll show you!’ Hence ‘As Tears Go By,’ ‘Lady Jane,’ maybe even ‘Play with Fire.’ And Elton, who starts as an earnest Band follower, all Americana’d up–but eventually realizes what a cul-de-sac that is and lightens up into the pop guy he really always wa,s i.e. ‘Crocodile Rock,’ ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,’ ‘Island Girl.’”
But “the real blatant binary cats are Kiss,” contends Sculatti, “who snag their biggest hit ever by momentarily abandoning bludgeon-rock for the reflective ‘Beth,’ and Alice Cooper. He starts out as a good solid rocker, gains some rep emphasizing the horror-show bit, but then–I’m almost sure pointed in this direction by management, who knew that songs about nightmares and dead babies wouldn’t get him into the Top 40–suddenly makes a complete U-turn and starts doing, and succeeding with, housewife-friendly ballads like ‘Only Women Bleed’ and ‘I Never Cry.’ I’m pretty sure I remember an interview with him later when he’d semi-retired and was doing the golf bit with Groucho: He said he could never go back to doing the immature shock-rock he’d become known for. Then, lo and behold, a few years later–and continuing well into the present day–he’s out there with the guillotine and all, right back where he started from.”
Sculatti kindly recaps.
“The binary is most often done by the act that dead-ends with whatever it first came to prominence with, so someone decides an about-face is the only rational move. Maybe it’s like Eno’s ‘oblique strategies’: Stuck for inspiration in the studio? Leave, go outside and stand on your head for 10 minutes or play hopscotch with the neighborhood kids–just do something different and your muse will return!”
Meanwhile, Sculatti, who’s also written for Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Creem, Billboard, Mojo and other publications while authoring books including The Catalog of Cool, San Francisco Nights: The Psychedelic Music Trip, Too Cool and the Kindle book Dark Stars and Anti-Matter: 40 Years of Loving, Leaving and Making Up with the Music of the Grateful Dead, is issuing Tryin’ to Tell a Stranger ’bout Rock and Roll: Selected Writings 1966-2016, in both paperback and Kindle editions on Sept 21. The book collects more than 60 pieces from his prolific career. He’s also a featured participant in the just-released documentary Ticket to Write: The Golden Age of Rock Music Journalism.
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A warm Rock and Roll Hall of Fame salute to Steve Miller and Paul Stanley
April 13, 2016 April 14, 2016 Jim
New inductee Steve Miller did us all a big service Friday night at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when he criticized the organization for neglecting female rockers during his acceptance speech, revealed its mistreatment of inductees during his press conference, then lambasted the publicist for trying to cut him off.
As for his first complaint, I always like thinking I was kicked off the Hall of Fame Nominating Committee years ago because I always spoke out in favor of Lesley Gore, Nancy Sinatra, Joan Jett and the Shangri-Las—not to mention males like The Turtles and The Hollies (Jett and The Hollies have since gone in), even though the form letter giving me the boot (along with a number of others) claimed that they wanted people who were more knowledgeable about 1970s rock—no matter that I’d written the first book on The Ramones.
So good on you there, Steve. Then again, as I’m from Madison, Wisconsin, I know how you inspired my homegirl Tracy Nelson’s signature song “Down So Low”–even if you did break her heart.
As for the RockHall’s treatment of inductees, he slagged the entire induction process backstage, in press accounts accusing the organization of disrespecting “the artists they say they’re honoring, which they don’t.” Here he specified licensing agreements between the show and inductees, and how they only gave him tickets for him and his wife while making his band and their wives fork over $10,000 per.
What I loved most, though, was how when the event’s publicist tried to stifle him, he stood his ground-—and then some: “No, we’re not going to wrap this up–I’m going to wrap you up,” he said. “You go sit down over there and learn something.”
What I’ve always hated about these award shows, or for that matter any major media extravaganza, is the way that media is herded and controlled (see Donald Trump media pens) like sheep—even if most of the time we are. Of course he wasn’t so much sticking up for the press and against big-event publicists as he was for himself and fellow RockHall inductees, but even an indirect slap at media manipulation, even among the most manipulatable, is to be applauded.
“This is how close this whole show came to not happening because of the way the artists are being treated,” he said, holding up two fingers very close together. And then he did wrap it up and walk off.
The RockHall tried to act diplomatic afterwards via a statement: “Rock ‘n’ roll can ignite many opinions,” it said. “It’s what makes it so great.”
Now there’s one big crock of shit statement! It’s the music that makes it so great, and it’s the many opinions that makes the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame so despised! In fact, it’s those opinions—a good many if not most of them stupid—that makes defining rock ‘n’ roll apparently impossible! Another new inductee, N.W.A.’s Ice Cube, makes my point.
“The question is, ‘Are we rock ‘n’ roll?'” Cube said in an acceptance speech in which he proclaimed that N.W.A. and hip-hop belong there next to the Beatles, Elvis and Chuck Berry, “and I say–you goddamn right we rock ‘n’ roll.” His explanation? “Rock ‘n’ roll is not an instrument. It’s not even a style of music. It’s a spirit that’s been going on since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock, and yes, hip-hop.”
You may have noted, as I most certainly did, that he left out country. Not many country stars are in the RockHall, with Johnny Cash the only one coming quickly to mind outside of Bill Monroe and Jimmie Rodgers—both inducted as “Early Influences.” Seymour Stein always argued for Conway Twitty, whose career began in the 1950s with the rock ‘n’ roll chart success of hits like “It’s Only Make Believe.” I’ll always remember my late, great friend Dave Nives, who held various marketing and a&r indie label gigs and correctly ascertained, after I brought him a CD by polka legend Eddie Blazonczyk, “This is real rock ‘n’ roll.”
Ice Cube didn’t say “polka,” either. But he—and N.W.A. mate MC Ren—got into a tiff with 2014 inductee Gene Simmons over the very point at hand.
KISS’s Simmons had told Rolling Stone that he was “looking forward to the death of rap,” that rappers didn’t belong in the Hall of Fame because they didn’t play guitar or sing—much as Phil Spector once told me that “rap music” is actually an oxymoron. In The New York Times shortly before his induction, Cube said he respected Simmons, “but I think he’s wrong on this, because rock ’n’ roll is not an instrument and it’s not singing. Rock ’n’ roll is a spirit. N.W.A is probably more rock ’n’ roll than a lot of the people that he thinks belong there over hip-hop. We had the same spirit as punk rock, the same as the blues.”
Here he invoked the “spirit” characterization of rock ‘n’ roll, that once again, takes precedence over the music itself. He added in his induction remarks that “rock ‘n’ roll is not even a style of music,” with Ren answering Simmons directly: “Hip-Hop is here forever. Get used to it.”
Never the type to suffer in silence, Simmons tweeted Saturday: “Respectfully, let me know when Jimi Hendrix gets into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame. Then you’ll have a point.” The next day Cube retorted, also via tweet, “Who stole the soul? Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Chubby Checker help invent rock & roll. We invent it. Y’all reprint it.”
Simmons’ final reply: “Cube, I stand by my words. [I] respect N.W.A, but when Led Zep gets into Rap Hall of Fame, I will agree with your point.”
Rolling Stone, covering the exchange Monday, quoted from a 2014 Simmons interview with Radio.com: “A few people decide what’s in and what’s not. And the masses just scratch their heads. You’ve got Grandmaster Flash in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Run-D.M.C. in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? You’re killing me. That doesn’t mean those aren’t good artists. But they don’t play guitar. They sample and they talk. Not even sing.”
But KISS and N.W.A. did have one thing in common, in addition to the capital letters. Neither band performed at their induction. As Cube told the Times (and echoed Miller), “we really didn’t feel like we were supported [by the RockHall] enough to do the best show we could put on.” In fact, the members of N.W.A. actually cut out early without taking questions.
KISS had long been shunned by the RockHal nomcomm, and by the time they finally were inducted, also chose not to perform, due to dissension among band members. This was hardly unusual: Paul McCartney didn’t even show when the Beatles were inducted in 1988, proclaiming that “after 20 years, the Beatles still have some business differences, which I had hoped would have been settled by now. Unfortunately, they haven’t been, so I would feel like a complete hypocrite waving and smiling with them at a fake reunion.” And none of the Sex Pistols were present in 2006 when they were inducted, Johny Rotten, contending in a handwritten letter that the RockHall was “a piss stain” and noting that the band would have to pay $25,000 to sit at a main table. And even at last week’s ceremony, inductee Chicago’s Peter Cetera didn’t show, and Cheap Trick’s Bun E. Carlos, who did attend and perform, complained on Facebook after how the other three originals had forced him out of the band.
“The spirit of rock ‘n’ roll means you follow your own path regardless of the critics and your peers,” Paul Stanley had said in his KISS acceptance speech, ironically presaging Cube’s speech Friday night: “Rock ’n’ roll is not conforming to the people who came before you, but creating your own path in music and in life. That is rock ’n’ roll, and that is us.”
Stanley also observed that KISS had stuck to its path for 40 years.
“Here we are tonight basically being inducted for the same things that we were kept out for,” he noted, and nodded to the fans. “Let’s not forget that these people make it all possible. We just benefit from it.”
I was reminded how, many years ago, I interviewed Paul for a Billboard KISS special, and told him that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was irrelevant without KISS.
“You know, we have our own Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” he said. “It’s in the record store bins.”
And really, what’s in the bins is what makes rock ‘n’ roll so great.
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Concert Highlights–Del McCoury Band with David Grisman at City Winery, 4/17/14
Del McCoury said early on that he didn’t want to repeat any of the songs from the previous night’s first of two shows at City Winery. According to Del McCoury Band bassist Alan Bartram, he didn’t.
Alan, incidentally, also mentioned during the show how thrilled he was to see it spotlighted in New York magazine. Turns out he’s a longtime subscriber.
Speaking of magazines, the band had been to Relix earlier in the day, and had already done “a lot of picking,” said Ronnie McCoury. Del noted, too, that he’d spent a lot of time at the Winery “downstairs with the barrels.” He seemed happier about that visit than the one at Relix.
The first half of the show was all McCoury Band. They did their version of Dylan’s “Walk Out In the Rain,” actually from the 1995 album Ronnie & Rob McCoury. It’s as good a Dylan cover as there is, and Ronnie sounds a lot like Del singing it.
Del prefaced the performance of his 2008 album titletrack Moneyland by noting that John Herald’s manager had sent it to him shortly after Herald died (an apparent suicide in 2005).
Herald was one of the major players in New York City’s bluegrass scene, having formed the Greenbriar Boys in 1959. I was lucky to meet him when he was a key part of Greg Garing’s Alphabet City Opry in the late ‘90s in the East Village.
Another highlight came with another McCoury album titletrack—last year’s “The Streets of Baltimore” cover of Bobby Bare’s classic 1966 country hit. As Del explained, he had lived in Maryland for a time, when he was playing with late bluegrass upright bass great Jack Cooke.
Determining after that no one in the audience was from Baltimore, Del opened it up to requests: “You paid to get in here, I didn’t,” he said. “We should do something you want to hear.” It was “High on a Mountain,” his 1972 album titletrack, and then he brought out David Grisman.
Grisman related how he met Del at Del’s first show with Bill Monroe (he played five-string banjo) in the spring of 1963 at NYU, where Grisman was a student. He and Del then sang the Monroe Brothers’ “Nine Pound Hammer,” Grisman on mandolin and Del on guitar. From their Del & Dawg album of ‘90s jams, they performed “Country Boy Rock & Roll.” Marty Stuart also does a great job of the Reno and Smiley country classic:
Also from Del & Dawg came “The Tennessee Waltz,” “Walkin’ the Dawg” and the Carter Family’s “I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes.”
Grisman scored by pointing out how late-night TV never mentions the Carter Family, and that “any financial advisor will tell you to put some of your money in CDs.” He was also the most visual guy on stage, a big, gentle bear of a man in gray shirt and slacks to match his long hair and beard, positioned in between Ronnie in a black suit and Del in a light one.
He would turn to his left to share vocals with Del, then turn to his right to trade mandolin licks with Ronnie, rocking physically while Ronnie stood and smiled—a striking balance in appearance and performing style.
Del and Dawg will now tour together, while Rob completes his first solo CD.
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All of these titles are available via my author’s page at Amazon, though you really should support you local mom-and-pop bookstore
Let It Blurt
The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic
(Broadway Books, 2000)
Lester Bangs lived fast, died young, and left a beautiful body of work. Jim DeRogatis, himself a gifted writer on rock and roll, knows both of Bangs’ worlds–the music and the journalism–and has written an elegy for one of the few critics whose work is worth reading for itself, apart from its subjects.—Roger Ebert
Finally the great American writer gets the book he deserves. LET IT BLURT is a personal journey through the wit and the world and the ferocious spirit of Lester Bangs… DeRogatis brilliantly delivers the long-awaited biography of Bangs with an explosion and a commitment that Bangs himself would have appreciated–it reads like rock and roll.—Cameron Crowe
LET IT BLURT tells one of the essential rock and roll stories with great affection and panache. Lester Bangs — paradigm, mystery, great writer, tragicomic presence — has been given the biography he deserves. But LET IT BLURT also manages to paint of remarkable portrait of a group of writers inventing a critical genre and immediately having it bought out from underneath them, illuminating the commodification of rebellion which became Bangs’ own great theme. A splendid book.—Jonathan Lethem
Lester Bangs pounded the typewriter keys as they were the cavalry coming to the rescue–everything he wrote, from his eulogies of Elvis and John Lennon to record reviews knocked off in the middle of the night–was a forward charge. A performance artist on the page, Bangs turned rock criticism and personal soul-baring into standup comedy. Like Sam Kinison, another unclassifiable American original who died too young, he saw humor as the most honest road to salvation. Bangs’ feud with Lou Reed, his editorship of Creem, his Kerouackian writing jags, his own woozy quest to become a punk singer–all contributed to a legend that hid a real-life story waiting to be told. I recognize the Lester Bangs I knew in Jim DeRogatis’s biography (a superb piece of detective work), and see sides of him I didn’t know were there.—James Wolcott
If the popular media’s short attention span caused the work of Lester Bangs to be forgotten, it would be a disaster for the entire culture of rock & roll. With this vivid and carefully researched biography, Jim DeRogatis has done everything in his power to ensure this won’t happen.—Mick Farren
To those who knew him, Lester Bangs was a force of nature, “larger than life” and all such biz. For a mere book to capture the full sweep of his mind/body at speed and at rest may be too tall an order, but Let It Blurt is a welcome stab indeed at the whole Lester thing.—Richard Meltzer
Staring at Sound
The True Story of Oklahoma’s Fabulous Flaming Lips
An engrossing and intimate portrait of the Oklahoma-based psychedelic pop band the Flaming Lips, cult heroes to millions of indie-rock fans.
Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma’s Fabulous Flaming Lips traces the band’s history from its earliest days playing local dives to their current status as cult kings, from ambitious noise rock to ambitious studio symphonies, and from borrowed equipment and menial jobs to state-of-the-art studios and elaborate, exuberant concerts. With enviable access to the band, Chicago-based music critic Jim DeRogatis effectively builds on the band’s recent documentary, the Bradley Beesley-directed The Fearless Freaks: The Wondrously Improbably Story of the Flaming Lips, as well as the band’s own autobiographical liner notes. He incorporates a wealth of research and represents numerous points of view, remaining accessible and level-headed in the retelling.—Pitchfork
With some rock band biographies, back story is just something to skim en route to later fame-induced decadence. With Oklahoma’s Flaming Lips, it’s quite the opposite. DeRogatis, the pop music critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and the author of a biography of Lester Bangs, does a nice job rendering the 60’s and 70’s cultural dust bowl that produced these alt-rock lifers. Whether you find the Flaming Lips’ noisy excursions and psychedelically embellished melodies endearing or a bit grandiose, their leader, Wayne Coyne, emerges in “Staring at Sound” as a fascinating character: a mid-American mix of organic capitalist, badgering colloquist and charismatic quester. DeRogatis’s account of the band’s early road-warrior touring echoes the D.I.Y. pattern of any band crisscrossing the country during the all-ages-club heyday of the late 80’s. But his focus on Coyne results in lots of pithy quotations from a guy who had his hometown scene wired from Day 1. With an audience initially made up of Coyne’s own working-class family, the Lips moved on to a large and loyal following that still comes to shows assured of big melodies, swirling guitars, bubbles, bear suits and other trip-friendly spectacles.—Laura Sinagra, The New York Times
Their new CD, “At War With the Mystics,” and their well-timed biography “Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma’s Fabulous Flaming Lips” by Chicago pop-music critic Jim DeRogatis’ marks one more artistic (and perhaps commercial) high point for the band. The Lips are one of the few experimental acts who seem to remember, and care, that the audience is listening. “Mystics” is an invitingly freakish, downright pretty and even moving record: one part early Pink Floyd, one part the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” and one part small-town science museum. It features shimmering keyboards, fuzzy psychedelic guitar and everyday found sounds – a creaking door, a beeping alarm – and the songs are tethered together with what sounds like signals from outer space.—Lorraine Ali, Newsweek
Milk It!
Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the ’90s
(Da Capo, 2003)
“An electrifying collection on the music of the ’90s by the acclaimed journalist and critic who wrote dispatches from the front lines of the Alternative Nation.”
Fans — and detractors — of acerbic pop music writer Jim DeRogatis may want to find a copy of Milk It!, a collection of Dero’s rantings and musings on the alternative rock explosion of the 1990s. DeRogatis, whose last book was the thrilling Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic, is a heck of a writer. DeRo’s disses of the rock music elite — Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Courtney Love, Clear Channel Entertainment and tired ol’ Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner — are in the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll. DeRo says what many writers are afraid to say for fear of falling from grace with magazine editors, labels or the reading public. (What? No more phoners with rock stars?) I don’t always agree with the guy, and sure, I’d be scared to sit down to lunch with DeRo, but I relish his candor, passion and spunk. I’m glad he’s in print and, in the way of his idol, Bangs, telling it like no other.—Gina Vivinetto, The St. Petersburg Times
DeRogatis is not contemporary rock criticism’s great gonzo journalist, gutter poet, or romantic visionary—that is to say, not its Lester Bangs. But he’s enthusiastically assumed the role of its most dedicated journeyman and unapologetic gadfly. And when the problem with music is that one has to settle for Stephan Jenkins instead of Lou Reed, that might be a worthy enough charge.—Bob Mehr, The Chicago Reader
“Even though DeRo can sometimes be a DICK, he’s only exercising his right to free speech, and ultimately he’s got balls and takes on the man—a lot. He can’t be bought, and he’s got ears.”—Courtney Love
“Jim has always taken the ‘investigative reporter’ approach to any area of exaggerated hype in music culture—which usually means the bigger the egos of those being critiqued, the more fun he has pointing out their blunders. If only he could’ve been around for the birth of Christ.”—Wayne Coyne
Turn On Your Mind
Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock
“A history and critical examination of rock’s most inventive genre.”
(Hal Leonard, 2003)
“Be you a reefer-smoking square or a fluid-sniffing hipster, a transcendental simp or a wholesome mahoney who gets his kicks from secondary smoke, enlightenment awaits you in this study of what happens when guys without consciousness set out to expand their consciousness.” — Nick Tosches
Originally published as Kaleidoscope Eyes by Citadel Underground, 1996.
Kill Your Idols
A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics
Edited by Jim DeRogatis and Carmél Carrillo
Thirty-five of the best rock writers of Generations X and Y each weigh in on an album that’s universally considered “a classic,” but which they think suck
(Barricade Books 2004)
A gang of Gen-X and -Y music critics slaughter sacred cows like Born to Run, Rumours, and Sgt. Pepper’s (“a bloated and baroque failed concept album”)—with hilarious results. Guaranteed toinfuriate any boomer rock fan.—Entertainment Weekly
Sometimes incisive, occasionally enraged and other times infuriatingly muddle-headed, “Kill Your Idols” will promote screaming, either in agreement or disagreement… But it’s only rock ‘n’ roll, right? You bought the albums. Now destroy the thing you love.—The Los Angeles Times
Kill Your Idols is a fun, frustrating gathering of attacks on some of rock’s most revered albums. Slaughtered sacred cows range from reliables like Sgt. Pepper and Pet Sounds to the recently anointed OK Computer and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, with a few head-scratchers (why Ram?). Mostly, the essays are gleeful rants that give the canon, and music writing itself, several much needed blows to the ego. But the fact that only two of the 34 records are by nonwhite musicians, and one, Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, is treated with a malicious, problematic screed, suggests that the editors should have put more thought into choosing their targets. Still, what’s an identity crisis without a little pain? —Amy Phillips, The Village Voice
The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones
Sound Opinions on the Great Rock ’n’ Roll Rivalry
(Voyageur Press, 2010)
An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wild Side
Sheperd Paine
The Life and Work of a Master Modeler and Military Historian
(Schiffer, 2008)
Shep Paine’s Armor Modelers Guide
(Kalmbach, 2016)
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Filtering by Category: International Collaborations
Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement
May 23, 2011 / Teresa
Gateways is a refereed journal which publishes articles produced through university-community cooperative research projects. It provides an international forum for academics, practitioners and community representatives to explore issues and reflect on practices relating to the full range of engaged activity. The journal publishes evaluative case studies of community engagement initiatives; analyses of the policy environment; and theoretical reflections that contribute to the scholarship of engagement.
categories / International Collaborations, Conferences & Lectures
Residents’ Voices in Affordable Housing Policy and Practices in the U.S. and Australia
January 01, 2008 / Teresa
UWS faculty/students and tenant leaders in a video conference with Loyola, Oct. 2008.
The Center for Urban Research and Learning at Loyola University Chicago has partnered with the Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre University of Western Sydney to launch Residents’ Voices, a project designed to develop new ways to research and understand affordable housing issues in Chicago, Sydney, and Adelaide.
categories / Housing, International Collaborations, Participatory Evaluation
Equitable Sustainable Community Development
September 01, 2004 / Teresa
This international project was an effort to document existing successful alternatives to the reinvestment and displacement cycle in communities. We developed a curriculum that can be used either by faculty and students in the university classroom or by community leaders and residents in city and suburban neighborhoods.
categories / Economic Development and Employment, Education and Curriculum Development, Housing, International Collaborations
Living Knowledge Network – International Science Shop Network
CURL is a primary U.S. partner working with a group of more than 15 university-based and independent "science shops" in ten European countries promoting communications and connections among collaborative researcher: community activist partnerships. Science shops are organizations created as mediators between citizen groups (trade unions, pressure groups, non-profit organizations, social groups, environmentalists, consumers, residents association, etc.) and researchers.
categories / International Collaborations
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Journal "Letonica"
"Letonica" is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal in publication since 1998. The journal publishes original, previously unpublished articles in the fields of the humanities and social sciences. All articles are peer-reviewed.
The journal is indexed in Scopus, ERIH PLUS and EBSCO.
Editor-in-chief: Mg. philos. Artis Ostups
E-mail: artis.ostups@lulfmi.lv
Editorial board: Dace Bula, Peter Burke (UK), Raimonds Briedis, Dace Dzenovska (UK), Didier Francfourt (France), Benedikts Kalnačs, Inta Gale Carpenter (USA), Deniss Hanovs, Ieva E. Kalniņa, Janīna Kursīte, Lalita Muižniece (USA), Juris Rozītis (Sweden), Sanita Reinsone, Anita Rožkalne, Pavel Štoll (Czech Republic), Jana Tesaržova (Slovakia), Rita Treija, Kārlis Vērdiņš, Guna Zeltiņa
The journal is published by the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University Latvia.
Publishing director: Una Balode
E-mail: una.balode@lulfmi.lv
To read journal online click here.
The editor, authors, and reviewers of the journal Letonica have a responsibility to follow the standards ensuring compliance with publishing ethics. The responsibility of the magazine’s editorial board is to prevent violations of publishing ethics. The guidelines for the editor, authors and reviewers of the magazine are based on COPE’s Code of Conduct for Journal Editors.
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The editor makes the decision to publish an article based on the conclusion made by reviewers. The editor ensures that articles are reviewed anonymously and objectively, and that the decision to publish an article is made solely on the basis of the article’s content. The editor must ensure the confidentiality of the peer-review process.
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The reviewer observes confidentiality during the peer-review process and remains objective when reviewing articles. The reviewer determines whether references for all of the used sources have been provided in the article. If the reviewer is not sure of his or her competence in reviewing articles or if a conflict of interest forms, he or she informs the editor so that another reviewer can be appointed.
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Authors observe the article submitting guidelines that are available on the journal's homepage. Authors submit works that are completely original and cannot submit works that are fully or partly submitted / published elsewhere. Authors are obliged to provide references to all of the sources used in the article. The manuscript authorship is limited only to those authors who have provided a significant contribution to the creation of the article.
Guidelines for Submitting Articles
The recommended volume of the article (with references and summary) is 20 000–50 000 characters (including spaces). References must be formatted as endnotes (in Roman script). The recommended volume of the summary is 1000–3000 characters. Five to six keywords should be identified for each article.
The Latin alphabet must be used throughout the whole text. Books using Cyrillic or any other writing system must be identified by their Latin transliteration, following the ISO 9 standard. The transliteration rules for Cyrillic characters: http://translit.cc/.
1) Books:
Van Maanen J. Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. P. 67.
2) Collections of articles:
Ethnography and Personhood. Notes from the Field. Ed. M. W. Meister. Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat, 2005.
3) Articles in books:
Backus O. P. The Impact of the Baltic and Finnic peoples upon Russian History. Baltic History. Ed. A. Ziedonis, W. L. Winter, and M. Valgemäe. Columbus: AABS, 1974. P. 3–11.
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Ben-Amos D. Toward a Definition of Folklore in Context. Journal of American Folklore. 1971. No. 84. P. 3–15.
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O'Rourke M. The Latvian Debutante's Handbook. The New York Times. June 27, 2004.
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Puzik A. The Baltics: What's Wrong with Being 'East' Anyway? The Guardian. June 20, 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/20/lithuania-latvia-estonia-baltics-guardiannew-east (Last accessed January 2, 2015)
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1) Van Maanen J. Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. P. 67.
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South Africa: Declaration of the Democratic Left Front; New left seeks revamped SA
By the steering committee of the Democratic Left Front (previously the Conference of the Democratic Left)
January 24, 2011 -- Post-apartheid capitalism is leaving a trail of hunger, poverty, anger and misery. The wealthy elite, the bosses and their hangers-on refuse to concede a single inch to the urgent needs of the majority. They label even the most modest reforms as the thin edge of the wedge of communism. And as always the government shakes and concedes … And a new round of suffering begins for our people.
From January 20 to 23, 2011, at Wits University in Johannesburg, 250 delegates from around the country representing a diverse range of social movements, popular organisations and anti-capitalist formations gathered to forge a united political front to break this cycle which has made South Africa the most unequal country on Earth. The cry of the Conference of the Democratic Left is KWANELE, KWANELE, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, GENOEG IS GENOEG.
ANC managing capitalism
Conference for a Democratic Left (South Africa)
left unity
South Africa: `COSATU has waged titanic battles' -- COSATU marks its 25th anniversary
Workers celebrate COSATU’s 25th anniversary. Picture: Gallo Images.
The following speeches, by COSATU's president and general secretary, were delivered at a ceremony in Johannesburg on December 3, 2010, to celebrate the Congress of South African Trade Unions' 25th anniversary.
By Sidumo Dlamini, COSATU president
December 3, 2010 -- Cyril Ramaphosa was prophetic when he declared that “a giant has arisen!” That giant has grown from 130,000 members when it was launched to well over 2 million paid up members today.
While still barely walking, the young giant launched itself into titanic battles against employers and the apartheid regime. In his speech at the launch, founding COSATU president Elijah Barayi gave apartheid ruler P.W. Botha a six-month deadline to do away with passes. Indeed Botha succumbed and the hated pass laws that had humiliated millions for decades were scrapped. Today we carry proper identity documents.
South Africa: First national Conference of the Democratic Left called
A call to the 1st national Conference of the Democratic Left
Unite to make Another South Africa and World possible!
A call for united anti-capitalist action and for democratic left politics
Issued by the Interim Steering Committee of the Conference of the Democratic Left
December 7, 2010 -- This is a call to social movements, trade unions, other progressive mass organisations, progressive civil society organisations, left forces and supportive individuals committed to an anti-capitalist politics to come together in unity and action in the 1st national Conference of the Democratic Left (CDL), a conference against capitalism and for democratic left politics.
Through this conference, the momentum of the two-year old CDL process is reaching an important milestone. The conference will take place as follows:
Date: 13h00 on Thursday, January 20, 2011, ending 13h00 on Sunday, January 23, 2011.
Venue: Wits University, Johannesburg.
South Africa: ANC leaders attack COSATU
By John Haylett
November 5, 2010 -- Morning Star -- Relations between the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and sections of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) plumbed new depths this week following a union-initiated Civil Society conference.
The October 27 conference was organised by COSATU and human rights bodies Section 27 and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). More than 50 independent organisations took part, debating how to encourage community-based activism to achieve social justice and improve poor people's lives. [Read the declaration of the civil society conference. Read Zwelimzima Vavi's speech to the conference.]
So far so uncontroversial, but the organisers had agreed to make the conference non-party political, which meant that neither the ANC nor the South African Communist Party (SACP) were invited to take part.
South Africa: What would Chris Hani say today?
Chris Hani.
"Being a staunch believer in the dictum that the masses are the makers of history, Chris Hani would urge all of us to push the workers' wagon forward. He would warn that without mass power, we must all forget about liberating ourselves from the shackles of capitalism and apartheid. I want to be like Chris Hani! Let all of us be inspired by his examples and deeds that need to be emulated."
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture by Zwelinzima Vavi, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) general secretary, delivered in Queenstown, October 23, 2010
I am extremely honoured by your invitation to deliver the Chris Hani memorial lecture here in Queenstown today. It was over fifteen years ago, on April 10, 1993, when "Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani was cruelly taken from us by an assassin's bullet. We remember too all the other heroes and heroines of our liberation struggle whom we lost in the month of April, including Solomon Mahlangu and Oliver Tambo.
Chris Hani's story and my own interaction with him after his return from exile have inspired me and millions of others. He remains a shining example of what we mean when we talk about an authentic, genuine, true revolutionary leader. He is the best embodiment of the finest traditions and principles of our liberation movement.
South African splinters: From `elite transition' to `small-a alliances'
"The [ANC-SACP-COSATU] Alliance has stuck together through thick and thin for two decades, and is likely to outlast this latest conflagration for at least a few more years."
[The following article first appeared in AfricaFile's At Issue Ezine, vol. 12 (May-October 2010), edited by John S. Saul, which examines the development of the southern African liberation movement-led countries. It has been posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission.]
South Africa: Communist youth leader -- `Black economic empowerment becomes Zuma economic empowerment'
By David Masondo, Young Communist League chairperson
September 5, 2010 -- City Press -- There was cautious optimism among many leftists in the African National Congress (ANC) that the ousting of Thabo Mbeki in Polokwane [the ANC's 2007 national conference] might mark a shift towards a much more egalitarian economic policy, including "Black Economic Empowerment (BEE).
Instead, BEE is increasingly becoming too narrow, amounting to ZEE – that is, Zuma Economic Empowerment.
The recent multibillion-rand Arcelor-Mittal BEE deal involving Duduzane, President Jacob Zuma’s son, is another example of how BEE has become too narrow.
To crown it all, the president’s nephew, Khulubuse Zuma, seems to have suddenly become an African imperialist, amassing oil resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
South Africa: Strike ends, workers' anger remains
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On September 6, the major trade unions representing South Africa's 1.3 million public servants and teachers announced that the 20-day strike for higher wages and allowances had been "suspended". See union statements below. Union leaders said the move would allow members to consider the latest government offer. Public servants went on strike demanding an 8.6% pay rise, while the government has offered 7.5%. According to the BBC, workers who came to hear union officials shouted in protest when they announced that the strike was being suspended. Meanwhile, workers in many other industries are taking or threatening industrial action.
South Africa: COSATU's Zwelinzima Vavi's Ruth First Memorial Lecture
Ruth First with Joe Slovo (left).
Zwelinzima Vavi presents the 2010 Ruth First Memorial Lecture, Wits University, Johannesburg, August 17, 2010. Vavi is secretary general of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Ruth First (May 4, 1925–August 17, 1982) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and communist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was killed by the apartheid regime with a parcel bomb in Mozambique in 1982, where she worked in exile from South Africa.
I will always cherish this moment. It is such an honour to deliver the annual lecture in memory of Ruth First.
The theme is "How policy is affecting the marginalised and its impact on poverty".
As we recall the immense contribution of Ruth First to our struggle, let me begin with a quote from Karl Marx, which describes Ruth First's life. In a letter to his father in 1837, Karl Marx says: "If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people".
Ruth First
South Africa loses its ‘War on Poverty’
August 6, 2010 – Shortly before Pretoria’s presidential power change from Thabo Mbeki to Jacob Zuma two years ago, the South African state announced its War on Poverty. What news from the front, in the immediate wake of World Cup host duties that showed observers how very pleasant life is for the rich and middle class here?
We don’t know, because the War on Poverty is one of the most clandestine operations in South African history, with status reports kept confidential by a floundering army in rapid retreat from the poor, who are estimated at half the society.
Initially the War on Poverty appeared as a major national project. Early hubris characterised the war, as happens in most, with victory claimed even before Mbeki officially launched it in his February 2008 State of the Nation speech.
South Africa: FIFA forbids free speech at World Cup
FIFA's attempts to silence anti-xenophobia activists hits the headlines in Durban.
July 7, 2010 -- Acting against our alleged "ambush marketing" and "incitement" (sic), the South African Police Service, newly augmented with 40,000 additional cadre for the World Cup, detained several of us here in Durban last weekend. We were simply exercising freedom of expression at our favourite local venue, the South Beach Fan Fest, whose half-million visitors is a record.
Wearing hidden microphones so as to tape discussions with police leadership, what we learned was chilling, for they have received orders from Durban city manager Mike Sutcliffe that the property rights of the world soccer body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), overrule our foundational constitutional rights.
“We can charge you and detain you until the 11th of July, [when] FIFA is over!”, a top officer shouted at me during my second interrogation, on Saturday, July 3.
Film: `A Place in the City' -- A world class city for whom? World Cup tourists and the rich, or the poor majority?
July 7, 2010 -- Abahlali baseMjondolo -- Sixteen years since apartheid ended, and amid the hoopla and false hopes promoted by the 2010 soccer World Cup, millions of black South Africans still live in self-built shacks – without sanitation, adequate water supplies or electricity. In Durban, almost in the shadow of the massive multibillion-rand Moses Mabhida stadium [paradoxically named after a veteran leader of South Africa's Communist Party], poor people are fighting for their right to live near work, schools and health facilities.
Abahlali baseMjondolo (South Africa)
South Africa: FIFA, not migrants, are the real tsotsis
June 25, 2010 -- South Africa's soccer-loving critics have long predicted the problems now growing worse here because of its World Cup hosting duties:
loss of large chunks of government’s sovereignty to the world soccer body FIFA;
rapidly worsening income inequality;
future economic calamities as debt payments come due;
dramatic increases in greenhouse gas emissions (more than twice Germany’s in 2006); and
humiliation and despondency as the country’s soccer team Bafana Bafana (ranked #90 going into the games) became the first host to expire before the competition’s second round.
Soon, it seems, we may also add to this list a problem that terrifies progressives here and everywhere: another dose of xenophobia from both state and society.
The crucial question in coming weeks is whether, instead of offering some kind of resistance from below, as exemplified by the Durban Social Forum network’s 1000-strong rally against FIFA on June 16 at City Hall, Durban, will society’s sore losers adopt right-wing populist sentiments, and frame the foreigner?
World Cup in South Africa: Six red cards for FIFA
Democracy Now! June 11, 2010 -- Raj Patel on how South Africa has cracked down on the poor and the shack dwellers’ movement ahead of the World Cup. Read the full transcript HERE.
[See also ``2010 World Cup: Africa's turn or turning on Africa? A political economy of FIFA's African adventure''.]
June 11, 2010 -- The soccer World Cup began this weekend here in South Africa, with the home team playing a 1-1 draw with Mexico before 95,000 fans at Johannesburg’s Soccer City stadium.
Regardless of whether South Africa’s Bafana Bafana (our boys), ranked #90 in the world, can survive its next matches against France and Uruguay to advance a round, we know this society is already a big loser. The reason: egregious mistakes made by national and municipal governments, apparently under the thumb of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).
A barrage of flag-waving, vuvuzela-blowing hypernationalist publicity cannot drown out at least six critiques of the World Cup:
1) dubious priorities and overspending;
2) FIFA super profits and political corruption;
3) heightened foreign debt and imports amidst generalised economic hardships;
The legacy of anti-colonial struggles in Southern Africa: Liberation movements as governments
SWAPO's Sam Nujoma.
By Henning Melber
This paper explores some aspects of the narrow translation of a liberation movement -- an agency of transformation -- into an exclusivist apparatus claiming to represent the interest of all people and a total monopoly in advocating the public interest. It thereby tries to explain to some extent the dominant party syndrome under liberation movements, which have been in power since Independence.[1]
MPLA
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Neville Alexander: South Africa – An unfinished revolution?
Neville Alexander.
[The following address -- the fourth Strini Moodley Annual Memorial Lecture, held at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on May 13, 2010 – was delivered by renowned South African revolutionary socialist and theorist Neville Alexander. From 1964 to 1974 he was imprisoned on Robben Island. Strinivasa Rajoo "Strini" Moodley (December 22, 1945–April 27, 2006) was a founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. In 1976, he was convicted of terrorism in a trial involving members of the South African Students' Organisation and the Black People's Convention, and imprisoned on Robben Island. The speech is posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with Neville Alexander’s permission.]
South Africa: Will the World Cup party be worth the hangover?
Construction workers protest outside the new Soccer City Stadium near Soweto.
May 15, 2010 -- On June 11, South Africans start joling [jol -- to have fun, to party] like no time since liberation in April 1994, and of course it is a huge honour for our young democracy to host the most important sporting spectacle short of the Olympics. All the ordinary people who have worked so hard in preparation deserve gratitude and support, especially the construction workers, cleaners, municipal staff, health-care givers and volunteers who will not receive due recognition.
Southern Africa: The liberation struggle continues
[The following is the editorial in the latest edition of AfricaFile's At Issue Ezine, vol. 12 (May-October 2010), which examines the development of the southern African liberation movement-led countries. It has been posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission.]
By John S. Saul
South Africa's poor to pay for dirty World Bank loan
April 14, 2010 -- Just how dangerous is the World Bank and its neo-conservative president Robert Zoellick to South Africa and the global climate? Notwithstanding South Africa's existing US$75 billion foreign debt, on April 8 the bank added a $3.75 billion loan to South Africa's electricty utility Eskom for the primary purpose of building the world's fourth-largest coal-fired power plant, at Medupi. It will spew 25 million tons of the climate pollutant carbon dioxide into the air each year. [For more background go to http://links.org.au/node/1570.]
South Africa's finance minister Pravin Gordhan has repeatedly said that this is theWorld Bank's "first" post-apartheid loan, yet the bank's 1999 and 2008 Country Assistance Strategy documents show conclusively that Medupi is the 15th credit since 1994.
Conference of the Democratic Left: Unite to make another South Africa and world possible!
The following call was issued by the Conference of the Democratic Left, a left unity project in South Africa. It first appeared at the Conference of the Democratic Left web site.
A call to a national people’s conference against capitalism and for democratic left politics
A Call for united anti-capitalist action …
This is a call to come together in unity in a Conference Against Capitalism and for Democratic Left Politics.
1. The world is in crisis
Global capitalism threatens our world with disaster. If it is left to plunder the natural resources of our planet and pollute the atmosphere, the oceans and the soil, life itself will be under grave threat.
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Nobody Killed Them
Wasim Ahmad
Publish Date: Jul 12 2017 8:52PM
Updated Date: Jul 12 2017 8:52PM
Photo: Habib Naqash/ KI
What happened to the enquiries ordered into some of the killings of 2016?
Against the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on July 8 last year, Kashmir erupted in rage. Pro-Azadi demonstrations were held everywhere and stone-pelting protesters fought pitched battles with government forces.
The protests were often suppressed with brutal force, leading to the death of at least 88 people, mostly teenagers, in the first five months of the uprising. The government announced investigations into many of the deaths, but nothing came of them.
Families of some of the victims of state violence are fighting it out in courts and police stations as well. Justice, however, remains elusive.
Shabir Ahmad Monga, a 27-year-old college lecturer, was lynched by the army outside his home in Shaar Shaali village of Khrew on August 18 last year. Nobody has been booked for his murder despite the family claiming they know the killers.
After the lynching, the police had filed a case of murder at Pampore police station. That was about it. “Nobody has been held for my brother’s death,” Shabir’s sister Masrat rued. “Even the chief minister spoke about the death of my brother and promised that she would probe the case, but nothing of the sort happened. It appears that she was just politicking to save her chair. She was lying.”
Masrat said the police and other officials have visited them just once. “It was the last time we saw them,” she said. “But let me tell you, the state government cannot punish the culprits as it is the army which plays the game here.”
“We were once asked to appear in the court at Pampore. We went. Nothing moved forward. We have been fighting the case in the court, but the administration is not cooperative. They just want to prolong things so we grow tired of it,” she added.
According to the police’s report of the incident, a contingent of the army’s 50 Rashtriya Rifles rounded up people in Shaar Shali and beat them mercilessly. They then abducted Shabir and beat him to death.
Shabir, who was doing his PhD in English Literature, taught at Srinagar’s Amar Singh College. He has left behind his wife and a 15-month-old child.
“We were sleeping when the army and SOG men raided our houses,” Masrat recalled. “The army men belonged to 50 RR and were based in Shaar. They used steel rods and sharp edged weapons to beat up around sixty men of the village and vandalised property. They also stole valuables such as jewellery.”
“Later, they took away my brother and beat him to death. They threw his body on the roadside, a few miles from our home,” Masrat added. “He was dead and lying there.”
The lynching was led by the commanding officer of the 50 RR camp in the village, Shabir’s family alleged. “He should be hanged,” Masrat said. “You cannot even imagine what it means to lose a brother.”
But Masrat has no faith in India’s legal system. It’s unlikely, she said, that her brother’s killers will be brought to justice “in man-made courts”. “They will face divine justice,” she said. “I am sure of that.”
Riyaz Ahmad Shah, an ATM guard, was killed by Indian forces in Karan Nagar, Srinagar on the night of August 2, 2016. His killers are still at large. Doctors had plucked out 365 pellets from Riyaz’s body, which was found lying on a roadside near a CRPF camp.
“The police filed an FIR but nothing happened afterwards,” Riyaz’s brother Shakeel Ahmad Shah, who lives in Chattabal area of Srinagar, said. “Mehbooba Mufti had promised that she will probe the death, but she didn’t.”
Shakeel said an official from the District Collector’s office once visited his house, offering compensation for his brother’s killing. “But the government did not probe the killing. We want the killers to be traced,” he said. “We want them locked up.”
Some newspapers, quoting unnamed sources, had reported in November 2016 that on the instructions of the chief minister, the government had started probing the killing of seven of the people by the police, army and paramilitary forces during the 2016 unrest - Junaid Ahmad, 12, of Eidgah, Srinagar; Shabir Ahmad Mir, 25, of Batamaloo, Srinagar; Shabir Ahmad Mangoo, 27, of Khrew, Pulwama; Riyaz Ahmad Shah, 21, of Chattabal, Srinagar; Showkat Ahmad Itoo, 25, Neelofer Begum and Saida Banoo, 42, both from Churat, Qazigund.
As for the rest of the killings, according to the reports, the chief minister refused to probe them because she believed the slain people were party to the “violence on streets by participating in protest demonstration and marches or by storming camps of police, army and paramilitary forces.”
Junaid, a class 5 student, was standing outside the gate of his home on October 19, watching minor clashes between the residents and government forces. The forces indiscriminately fired pellets inside the locality, hitting Junaid in the brain. He died in hospital a few hours later.
“It seems we are fighting an elephant when seeking justice in Kashmir,” Junaid’s sister Iqra said. “Once a local patwari visited our home. Except him, nobody ever came to probe the death. Nobody has been arrested, or even questioned. It seems nothing has happened. I lost my brother, my mother her son, her last hope. She cannot sleep. She is still in trauma.”
On his mother’s insistence, Junaid was buried next to his home. “She sees his grave and weeps,” Iqra said.
Iqra said their family wants to see the accused personnel of the armed forces who killed her brother brought to justice. “But who will listen to us?” she asked, hopelessly.
On January 10, 2017, the government had ordered the police to set up Special Investigation Teams to probe the deaths of 76 civilians during the five-month-long uprising. The police was told that each SIT should be headed by a deputy superintendent rank officer. The police said they would complete the investigations by March 2017. The deadline is long past and the police is tightlipped about the progress of the enquiries.
“Nobody knows what happened to the SIT enquires,” a top police official told Kashmir Ink on the basis of anonymity. “It›s true that the DGP had passed instructions to complete them by march. But nobody knows what happened to those probes.»
Insha Mushtaq, 15, residence, is struggling to memorise her science lesson. She cannot read but listens to her brother who reads from her class 10 textbook. Insha is blind.
Insha became the face of the suffering of young people who lost their eyes to pellets fired by the Indian forces during the 2016 unrest when a picture of her pellet-riddled face was published by newspapers and circulated on social media.
Over 1,200 persons were hit by pellets in their eyes over the course of the unrest, leaving them partially or completely blind. Nearly 14% of the pellet victims are below 15 years of age. Over 15,000 people also sustained fire arm injuries in 2016.
The government has so far not revealed the official figures of pellet victims, or how they would be rehabilitated or whether the culprits would ever be booked.
Insha was watching the protests outside her home in Sedow village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district, when government forces emptied a cartridge full of pellets into her eyes. The only daughter of her parents, Insha dreamed of becoming a doctor. That dream is now lost.
Doctors at Srinagar’s SMHS Hospital tried their best to restore her eyesight before she was flown to AIIMS in Delhi, where Mehbooba Mufti and the Congress leaderRahul Ghandhi went to see her. “I had requested madam (Mehbooba) to do something for my daughter,” Insha’s father Mustaq Ahmad told Kashmir Ink. “Nothing happened.”
“I do not want my daughter to be burden on someone in future,” Mushtaq, who has since been engaged as a driver with the state-run Motor Garages Department, said. “There was no FIR registered against the culprits. Nobody was held accountable. No probe was conducted.”
The state government has constituted a committee headed by Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Baseer Khan to identify pellet victims so they can be provided jobs and compensation. The committee had identified no more than 12 such victims for compensation until May.
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United Nations has chosen Denmark as the location for the new Climate & Technology Centre Network (CTCN)
The new Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) will be placed in Copenhagen.
United Nations has chosen Denmark as the location for the new Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN).
The location of UN's new Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) in the UN-City in Copenhagen is an achievement.
The CTCN shall support developing countries in using the best technologies to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
The UN Summit in Doha 2012 selected the United Nation's Environment Programme (UNEP) as host for the Centre, and UNEP decided to place the Centre in Copenhagen. The Minister for Development Co-operation, Mr. Christian Friis Bach, has been in the lead of the Danish Government's efforts to get the CTCN to Denmark.
"The location of CTCN in the new UN-City is a landmark for Denmark. Denmark has strongly supported the establishment of the CTCN, and by placing the Centre in Copenhagen we are in the best possible situation to contribute to mitigation against and adaptation to climate change in developing countries. It will give Denmark a unique platform to promote green growth and may also benefit Danish science and commercial interest," says Mr. Christian Friis Bach.
UNEP has already concentrated a great deal of its energy activities with the UNEP Risøe Centre at the Technical University of Denmark. Moreover the Danish Government is working towards the creation of a hub for energy efficiency under the initiative of the UN Secretary General, "Sustainable Energy for All", also to be located in the UN-City in Copenhagen.
"The Climate Technology Centre matches perfectly with Denmark's policy and unique competencies in the field of climate and energy. If we are to stop climate change, it is important to assist developing countries to find the best technical solutions. The CTCN's work is very important, and I am proud that the Centre will be located in Denmark," says the Minister for Climate, Energy, and Buildings, Mr. Martin Lidegaard.
The Executive Director of UNEP, Achim Steiner, is convinced that the UN-City in Copenhagen is a worthy host of the UNEP-led Climate Technology Centre, and says: "Denmark is a trend-setter for new standards for resource-efficient buildings, the country is among the world leaders in clean energy, and the centre has been made possible by strong political and financial support from the Danish Government."
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UNCG Resident MFA Faculty & Visiting Writers
The resident faculty of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro are not only award-winning writers, but also committed teachers who have spent their careers mentoring young writers. Each year the faculty invites writers and editors to visit the campus for readings, workshops, and one-on-one tutorials with MFA students. They bring unique voices and a variety of experience to the writing community. Guests have included winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Rome Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Award, among other honors.
All Faculty | Resident | Emeritus | Visiting
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Memorable Manitobans: Stephen Nicholas Krawchyk (1903-1943)
Stephen Nicholas Krawchyk
Educator, MLA (1941-1943).
Born at Garland on 1 January 1903, son of Nicholas Krawchyk and Anna Mylymonka, he was educated at Winnipeg public schools, Winnipeg High School, Central Normal School, Colorado State College, and North Western University. As Principal of the Brooklands School District from 1933 to 1941 (a school renamed in his memory), he became active in community affairs. He was chairman of the finance committee of the Brooklands municipal council. He was elected to the Manitoba Legislature at the 1941 general election. On 27 June 1941, he married Anne Wasko, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wasko, of Winnipeg. He died at his Winnipeg home on 21 January 1943 after an illness of several weeks. He was commemorated by Krawchyk School in Winnipeg.
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Brooklands “Red School” / Krawchyk School (1921 Pacific Avenue West, Winnipeg)
The Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1943.
Members of the Legislative Assembly (Deceased), Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
“S. Krawchyk, Legislature Member, dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 22 January 1943. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9, page 122]
A Short History of Brooklands Elementary Schools including Woodsworth, Cressey, Krawchyk, Butterworth, St. James Assiniboia School Division.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
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Girls Inc. Is Focusing on Its Mission and Thriving
Deb Hokins: The staff couldnt do it on their own if the board were only a governing body.
February 24, 2012 Girls Inc., a Worcester nonprofit focused on building leadership skills for girls in central Massachusetts, has received three grants over the last 18 months, enabling it to serve more girls and move away from co-ed programs, develop new partnerships, and engage more volunteers all without adding to staff.
The agencies that are thriving and doing well now are those that are laser focused on their missions and not doing all things for all people, observed Deb Hopkins, who came on board as executive director of Girls Inc. nearly two years ago.
Shortly after Hopkins joined Girls Inc., the organization received a five-year, $285,000 grant from its national office to encourage interest among eighth grade girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, commonly called STEM.
Then, National Grid last year granted $25,000 to support a six-week summer program to support the STEM initiative.
In addition, the United Way of Central Massachusetts Womens Initiative gave $40,000 to support an expressive arts program aimed at educating the community on what its like to be a teenage girl today in Worcester county.
Those grants are part of a pool of funds that make up 30% of the agencys annual, $1.6 million operating budget. The remaining income derives from program fees, contracts, and donations, including those from alumni of Girls Club of America, the original name of Girls Inc. until the late 1980s.
The inflow of new funding has spurred program growth. For example:
The five-year STEM program is bringing in a new cohort of 45 eighth grade girls each year.
The daily drop-in rate for K-6 girls at the organizations Providence Street office in Worcester has doubled, from 30 to 60.
The number of volunteers has jumped nearly 40% from 179 last year to an expected 250 this year.
Partnerships with other organizations have grown, particularly through the YouthConnect Collaboration, which includes Boys & Girls Club, Friendly House, Girls Inc., Hope Coalition; Worcester Youth Center, YOU, Inc; and YWCA of Central Massachusetts.
Despite the growth, Girl, Inc. hasnt increased its staff, which stands at 11 full-time equivalent employeesincluding a staffer responsible for volunteer recruitment and trainingplus a half dozen part-timers. Thats because, Hopkins said, the organization relies heavily on volunteers and college interns and makes judicious use of consultants.
We very rarely used consultants in the past, but have engaged eight for the summer STEM program, she said. If we need very specific expertise for one week, hiring a consultant is much more cost effective than adding to staff.
Helping to manage the growth and direction of Girls Inc. has been a fully committed, working board.
All this growth is tied completely to a phenomenal board that understands fund raising and is masterful at opening doors, facilitating introductions of staff to funders and decision makers, and acting as ambassadors to the community. The staff couldnt do it on their own if the board were only a governing body, said Hopkins.
To help keep the organization on track, the board recently held a retreat and decided to host a super camp this year. In the past, Girls Inc. hosted a summer co-ed day program at Camp Kinneywood on the Worcester/Holden line and another city-oriented program at its Winthrop House location on Providence Street. This summer, the programs will be combined and cater exclusively to girls ages 6 to 15.
Explained Hopkins: Our mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. For us to be successful in recruiting and serving girls, we still need to look at the needs of the total family, including male siblings. Well assist families in identifying quality options for boys, but we wont do it ourselves.
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A Day of Service, and a Memorial Day Flag and Remembrance Ceremony Honor the Armed Forces
Lauren Healey
Pay homage to soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice during two events organized by Soldiers Memorial Military Museum this May. The Museum has partnered with Greenwood Cemetery for Return to Honor, a day of service at the cemetery on May 18, from noon to 4 p.m. A Memorial Day Flag and Remembrance Ceremony will take place from 10 a.m. to noon on Monday, May 27, at Soldiers Memorial Military Museum downtown.
One of the earliest commemorations of the Memorial Day holiday was held after the Civil War, when emancipated African-Americans consecrated new graves for 250 Union soldiers who died in a prison camp in Charleston, South Carolina.
“In 1865, the South was in ruin, and the nation was being reborn,” says Marvin Greer, education and visitor experience lead at Soldiers Memorial Military Museum. “While not directly associated with the modern Memorial Day, thousands of members of the African American community in Charleston gathered to pay honor to the Union dead that fought to preserve the Union and to defeat the slave powers. This was the first large-scale celebration and remembrance of soldiers who gave their lives for the country.”
While most white Unionist viewed the war initially as a war to preserve the Union, it was the black community — North and South — who kept up the steady drumbeat of freedom and citizenship, Greer says.
“They knew this war would redefine America and what it meant to be American,” he explains. “Ten thousand men, women and children of Charleston’s black community honored not just black but white soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice for the cause of freedom. This Memorial Day remains an important symbol of the reimagining of American society, from a nation that began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal,’ except for certain classes, to a country where minorities can hold public office and even ascend to the presidency.”
“If not for the victory over slavery, America would have looked much different,” he continues. “In an era of inequality, it was black Americans who stood by the flag, the constitution and the founding ideals of America even when the country did not stand by them.”
The modern Memorial Day is credited to former Union General John A. Logan, who established Decoration Day in 1868 to clean and decorate the graves of fallen Union soldiers, Greer says.
“The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), the first large veterans’ organization, traditionally spearheaded these public ceremonies,” he says. “It was not until 1966 when President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized an official national holiday.”
Greer expressed the importance of taking the time to pause and remember those who sacrificed for us both on and off the battlefield.
“This partnership with Greenwood Cemetery helps remember an event of over 150 years ago by cleaning the graves of those fallen service people,” he says. “Greenwood is the perfect place to partner with. It’s the home to members of the Armed Forces and civilians who were prominent activist in helping make America a more perfect Union.”
Celebrating Memorial Day is imperative, even for those who may not feel its relevant to their lives.
“We do not always know who our ancestors are, especially in the black community,” Greer says. “The word ‘sankofa’ is used in the Twi language of Ghana. It means ‘go back and get it.’ You must go and get your history in order to progress forward in life. This holiday allows everyone in the community to go back and remember those who sacrificed for our freedoms today.”
“Visiting Soldiers Memorial [Military Museum] will also help keep the memories of those of the past alive,” he continues. “Individuals may recognize familiar names and might even find a long-lost relative.”
If you would like to participate in the Return to Honor day of service at Greenwood Cemetery, meet at the cemetery entrance at 6571 St. Louis Ave. Hillsdale, MO, 63121 at noon on Saturday, May 18. Lunch and water will be provided. Volunteers will be mowing grass, removing brush, and doing other yard work, please dress appropriately. Some brooms, trimmers, etc., will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring their own tools if they have them. In case of inclement weather, the event will be postponed.
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Fallon has exclusive insider information on the decision to implement “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques,” and the backchannels and deception employed to legalize these methods and hide them from the public’s view. Hard-hitting, raw, and explosive, Unjustifiable Means forces the spotlight back onto how America lost its way and exposes those responsible for torturing innocent men under the guise of national security—individuals who have yet to be held accountable for their actions.
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F Y I ........... Here's a couple of published articles about the book and it's subject matter that you might find interesting.
Alberto Mora's 8/15/2017 Newsweek article chastising government agencies for delaying/redacting Unjustifiable Means
IS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CENSORING A NEW BOOK ON GOVERNMENT TORTURE?
BY ALBERTO MORA ON 8/15/17 AT 1:53 PM
Three years ago, the Senate Intelligence Committee released the summary of its torture report, replete with shocking details about the way the CIA once waged the war on terror. Yet it was only part of the story. Of the full 6,000-page report, only 525 pages were released to the public, and those were heavily redacted.
Today, there is much we still don’t know about the George W. Bush administration’s fateful decision to use torture as a weapon of war, including how the agencies applying the policy interacted with one another. But a new book could offer some insight—if the Trump administration ever permits it to be released.
The book, Unjustifiable Means, is a forthcoming memoir by Mark Fallon, a former official for the Defense Department and Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Fallon retired in 2010 after a distinguished 31-year career—much of it on the front lines in the fight against Al-Qaeda. Before 9/11, Fallon worked with the task force that investigated the first World Trade Center attack and was the leader of the NCIS team that probed the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. After 9/11, he was NCIS chief of counterintelligence for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and later served as the deputy commander and chief investigator of the DOD Criminal Investigation Task Force, which gathered evidence to prosecute terrorism suspects by military commissions at the U.S. prison in Guantánamo Bay. Given Fallon’s insider background, his book may be an incredibly important account of the policy failures that damaged our national security by helping boost jihadi recruitment, among other things.
Yet the book may never be released—or, if it is, may appear only in a heavily redacted, bowdlerized form. Fallon’s story is currently undergoing a pre-publication security clearance review. Ten agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Justice and the CIA, the three agencies most responsible for the torture fiasco, are combing through it. And some, myself included, worry that the censors may be more concerned about protecting individual reputations than improper disclosures. Fallon was initially promised this process would take no longer than six weeks; it has now dragged on for more than seven months, with no end in sight.
As someone who has closely followed—and participated—in the war on terror, I’m dismayed by the prospect of Fallon’s book being censored. When I was the Navy’s general counsel, Fallon was one of several NCIS officials who came to my office in November 2002 to present me with his concerns. He, along with NCIS Director David Brant and others, had obtained evidence that some Guantánamo detainees were being subjected to unlawful physical abuse during interrogations. If unchecked, they felt, the abuse would rise to the level of torture. Leaving aside whether torture was legal, they also felt that the harsh interrogation techniques being used were inherently counterproductive and demonstrated shocking incompetence. Lastly, they told me, the brutality was rumored to have been authorized “at the highest level” of the Bush administration.
The NCIS team in my office was composed of the types of officials that our nation values most: tough, courageous, capable and experienced people who are eager to combat the enemy and—no less important—faithful to the laws and values that define our country. None of them wanted to condone illegality, incompetence or dishonor, no matter how high the rank of the official ordering otherwise. By refusing to participate in and speaking out against the abuse of enemy captives, Fallon and his NCIS colleagues were defending their integrity and our nation.
Fallon, who believes that it is as important to learn from our mistakes as from our successes, continues to serve our nation. Unjustifiable Means delves into how key officials were able to manipulate governmental processes to adopt counterproductive policies; it recounts the leadership, ethical and moral challenges that he and others faced in telling truth to power and illuminates how torture contributed to the proliferation of the global violent extremism that jeopardizes our national security.
These lessons are critical. The Obama administration commendably banned torture, but it was mistaken in believing that we could erase the temptation to use these harsh measures without meaningful accountability. Now, we are led by a president who is an unabashed torture enthusiast, is appointing architects or apologists of the Bush-era interrogation policies to key government positions, has abandoned U.S. leadership on human rights and treats police brutality as a laughing matter. The slide toward brutishness continues.
Unjustifiable Means can help thwart that slide—if the Trump administration would release it already, in its unredacted form.
Alberto Mora, a former Navy general counsel, is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
Mark's 2016 Op-Ed article published in HUFFPOST on the fight to end torture.
HuffPost Politics Tuesday, February 9, 2016
By: MARK FALLON
Congress Should Act to Solidify Ban Against Torture
At this point we all know that, in President Obama's words, "We tortured some folks." The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's report on the CIA's rendition, detention, and interrogation program revealed shocking abuses that went far beyond even the torture that the administration had authorized. The Senate report represents a victory for transparency.
But the story doesn't end there. The government went to great lengths to cover for its official policy of abuse, and some of that is just now coming to light.
Just last week a group of dissident health professionals and human rights activists issued a report that contends that the American Psychological Association (APA) secretly collaborated with the CIA "to bolster a legal and ethical justification for the torture of prisoners swept up on the post-Sept. 11 war on terror."
After the 9/11 attacks I was appointed the Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Defense task force to investigate terrorists for military commission trials. In 2002, I became aware of cruel treatment of detainees, and I witnessed heroic, moral leaders who took a stand against torture--interrogators, law enforcement professionals, lawyers, and yes, psychologists. Unfortunately our warnings weren't heeded, and the administration continued its policy of brutality.
I want to make sure America is never in the same situation again, so for the last six years I've served on the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) Research Committee, currently as chair of the committee. Composed of research scientists, government experts, psychologists, journalists, and human rights advocates, the HIG research committee studies the most effective means to lawfully and humanely obtain accurate and reliable national security information from high value targets.
Had the HIG existed in 2001, policy makers would undoubtedly have resisted turning to the dark side. They would have known that not only are abusive interrogation techniques wrong; they're also ineffective. They would have known the thoroughly researched scientific backing for that conclusion. And they would have known what humane and legal techniques actually work.
The report on the APA sheds light on the fact that unless we as a nation close the loopholes that allowed torture to take place, proponents will continue to use any rationale to justify the practice. The attorney general or Congress should appoint an independent counsel to investigate if there was an intentional manipulation of the APA to give the CIA the legal cover for torture. An independent counsel would avoid the conflict of interest inherent when the government investigates itself and would have the ability to delve into the conspiracy of torture and the cover-up of torture related offenses.
At the same time, to make sure the United States never again sanctions torture, we need legislation. Next week the Senate Armed Services Committee will markup with 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. It should take this opportunity to ensure that all U.S. officials--including the CIA and the intelligence community--abide by humane interrogation standards.
Senator John McCain reminded us who we are as a nation when he took the Senate floor on the day the torture report was released. He said, "The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow....but the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless....We need only remember in the worst of times, through the chaos and terror of war, when facing cruelty, suffering and loss, that we are always Americans, and different, stronger, and better than those who would destroy us."
America isn't great because we never make mistakes--far from it. It's our ability to admit our mistakes and to recover from them that determines our greatness. The Senate report was a step in that direction, but we need to solidify the ban against torture to truly emerge from the dark side and stand in the light.
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Gillian Flynn: The Grownup Review
I don’t hide the fact that I’m a huge Gillian Flynn fan, and as you can imagine I was pretty fucking excited when I saw a new story from her on amazon. It’s not technically new; it was released in a collection helmed by George R R Martin but I hadn’t read that so it was new to me.
Flynn is never one to shy away from explicitness and when I read the opening line ‘I didn’t stop giving handjobs because I wasn’t good at it,’ I was like okay, this is going to be interesting, and very much a Gillian Flynn story. Ultimately it was, but it didn’t quite reach my high expectations, although having said that neither did her second novel Dark Places. I was completely gripped by Sharp Objects and Gone Girl but something about Dark Places pace and overall payoff didn’t quite hit the spot for me, and neither did her new(ish) short story The Grownup although for the complete opposite reason; whereas Dark Places felt a little drawn out and slow, The Grownup felt quite rushed, particularly the climax, and although the ending was deliciously psychological I think the ending’s two twists were far too close together and although I suppose this adds to the confusion and ambiguity, the delivery comes across a little too unnatural for me. The substance of the story was great though, and I was gripped by the characterisation of the protagonist from the get-go and Flynn kept me hooked throughout. I loved how the story dabbles in the supernatural but from the psychological angle fans have come to expect from Flynn, and it doesn’t feel out of place either; it only adds to the mystery and tension.
Overall I think The Grownup is a must-read for fans of Flynn’s other novels, and a great gateway story for those sorry folks who have yet to read her novels. I really want to see another novel-length psychological thriller from her but this certainly helps to pass the time until then. It’s not perfect and I think the ending could be stronger, although its twist was certainly better than Dark Places’. Gillian Flynn certainly knows her genre, and she nails the female protagonist therein. I’d give it maybe three and a half stars out of five, as it doesn’t quite live up to the standards set by Sharp Objects and Gone Girl, though in its own right is still a fucking good read.
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Birthplace : Tredegar, South Wales
Nationality : British
The British Labor Party politician Neil Kinnock served as a member of Parliament beginning in 1970. He also served as a member of the Labor Party's national executive committee beginning in 1977 and was elected party leader in 1983.
Neil Kinnock was born in Tredegar, South Wales, on March 28, 1942. His father, Gordon Kinnock, began his working life as a coal miner but subsequently changed to work in a steel mill due to a chronic skin disease brought on by the working conditions in the mines. In 1939 he married Mary Howells, who was the district nurse for Tredegar. Both parents were staunch Labor supporters. His first distinct political memory was being taken by his father to hear a speech by Aneuran Bevan, the town's member of Parliament (M.P.). Kinnock joined the Labor Party at the age of 15.
Mary Kinnock saw to it that her son attended the best schools in the district. Although Neil passed the entrance exam known in Britain as the "11 plus" with flying colors, his years in secondary school were neither happy nor academically successful. However, he did well enough in his final year to gain admission to University College, Cardiff.
At the university, Kinnock immediately threw himself into the whirl of student politics. He organized protests against apartheid in South Africa and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela, campaigned for James Callaghan during the 1964 elections, served as chairman of the campus socialist society, and in 1965 was elected president of the student union. During his college years he developed his skills as a fluent and quick-witted speaker. He also met Glenys Parry, the daughter of a North Wales railway worker and student activist. The two were married in 1967.
Because of his political activity, his studies suffered; in fact, he only barely graduated after failing his exams the first time. Shortly afterwards he became a staff tutor and organizer for the Worker Education Association. He gained a reputation as a gifted teacher and lecturer on economics, and as early as 1967 his name was being mentioned as a prospective candidate for Parliament. When the incumbent Labor M.P. for Bedwellty, South Wales, unexpectedly announced in 1969 that he would not be running for reelection, Kinnock decided to seek—and narrowly won—the local Labor Party nomination over an endorsed candidate of the National Union of Mineworkers who was twice his age. In the 1970 general election Kinnock won by 22,000 votes and held the seat by massive majorities through the mid-1980s.
On entering Parliament, Kinnock joined forces with the left wing of the parliamentary Labor Party grouped around the newspaper Tribune. His maiden speech was an abrasive attack on the Tories during a debate on the National Health Service. During the 1970-1974 Parliament he spoke frequently in debates and conscientiously attended to the needs of his Bedwellty constituents. Thereafter, however, his attendance in Parliament dropped off; and by the early 1980s he had one of the ten worst attendance records of all contemporary M.P.s.
In the years 1974-1979 Kinnock had gained a national following among the left wing of the Labor Party and in the country at large. He appeared frequently on television and spoke at many local Labor Party and trade union meetings. A sharp critic of the Wilson and Callaghan administrations, he turned down offers of ministerial positions, although he served briefly as Michael Foot's parliamentary private secretary. He unsuccessfully opposed Britain's entry into the European Common Market (European Union), which the British electorate approved by a large margin in a 1975 referendum. He led the Welsh opposition to legislation providing for limited self-government for Wales, arguing that the misfortunes of Welsh working people could best be redressed "in a single [British] nation and in a single economic unit." His stance was triumphantly vindicated in March 1979 when Welsh voters overwhelmingly rejected the proposal in a referendum. He was also associated with Labor Party M.P.s and activists who were calling for constitutional changes in the electoral method by which the Labor Party selected its leader. He won election to the Labor Party's national executive committee on his second attempt in 1977 and was subsequently re-elected until his emergence as party leader. As a Conservative newspaper said of him in 1978, Kinnock was "a left wing fanatic who looks and sounds like a reasonable man."
Following Labor's defeat in the general election of 1979, Kinnock's political orientation underwent an abrupt change. He agreed to enter the shadow cabinet as spokes-person on education, thus ending his years as a back-bench "rebel." Distancing himself from the far left of the Labor Party, he opposed the candidacy of Tony Benn for the post of deputy leader in 1981—a bitterly fought contest that Benn lost by the narrowest of margins. In Kinnock's opinion, "We needed the contest like we needed bubonic plague." He also denounced as demagogic promises that a Labor government could fully restore cuts in educational and social services spending given the parlous state of the British economy. These and other positions of his cost him considerable support on the Labor left, and by the 1982 party conference he had slipped to fifth place in the balloting for election to the national executive.
The 1983 general election was a disaster for the Labor Party, which saw its proportion of the votes cast reduced to a post World War II low of 27.6 percent. Nevertheless, it was Labor's defeat that provided the context for Kinnock's election as party leader in October 1983. He had been an unswerving supporter of Michael Foot, and, partially as a repayment for his loyalty, Foot let it be known following his resignation as leader that he wanted Kinnock to succeed him. In a smoothly-run campaign held under the terms of the new electoral system he had been one of the first to advocate in the 1970s, Kinnock easily defeated three opponents with 71.3 percent of the votes. In his tenure as leader he continued his attacks on the Conservative administration of Margaret Thatcher, as well as his opponents on the left—most notably Arthur Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers, whose leadership of the 1984-1985 nationwide coalmining strike he sharply criticized at Labor Party conferences. In the opinion of the Economist of London his personal dominance within the Labor Party had by 1986 come to exceed that of any Labor Party leader since Clement Attlee in the 1940s and 1950s.
By 1992, Kinnock had resigned as Labor Party Chief. The Labor Party was defeated in the April 9, 1992 election. Kinnock now serves as European Commissioner for Transport.
View the full website biography of Neil Kinnock.
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BGA Report: City of Joliet, Sheriff's Office unlawfully exempt public records
By ALEX ORTIZEmailFollow
Eric Ginnard - eginnard@shawmedia.com
A sign welcomes travels to Joliet on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, along Interstate 80 in Joliet, Ill.
An analysis by the Better Government Association, a nonpartisan watchdog group based in Illinois, found that the city of Joliet and the Will County Sheriff’s Office were among the worst offenders when it comes to improperly exempting public records requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
The BGA found that the city of Joliet was third worst of the public bodies in Illinois that it reviewed for wrongly exempting and denying public documents requested. It found that among the denied FOIA requests which were sent to the Public Access Counselor for review, the city improperly applied exemption rules 58 percent of the time.
Joliet ranked behind only the University of Illinois, which improperly applied the law 63 percent of the time, and the city of East St. Louis, which had violations 100 percent of the time, according to the report.
The Will County Sheriff’s Office was seventh, improperly applying the law 39 percent of the time, the report revealed.
The BGA examined the frequency with which public bodies claimed a FOIA exemption that was found to be improper from April 6, 2010, to March 15, 2018.
The Freedom of Information Act gives the public the right to request records from public agencies. State government agencies are required to disclose any information requested under the Illinois FOIA unless it falls under one of a number of exemptions for confidential or sensitive records.
If a government agency in Illinois denies a request for a record, the requester can ask the Public Access Counselor in the Office of the Attorney General to review the request and denial.
The PAC, which has a staff of 13 full-time lawyers, three supervisors and four support staff, according to the BGA report, then receives, investigates and rules on records disputes. Newly inducted Attorney General Kwame Raoul said on the campaign trail that enhancing the PAC and getting through the backlog of review requests was a priority for him in running for that office.
Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk referred questions to interim City Manager Marty Shanahan and interim City Attorney Chris Regis, who failed to respond to requests for comment.
The Will County Sheriff’s Office also failed to respond to multiple requests for comment for this story.
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In her sanctuary, Santuario de Nossa Senhora da Nazaré, in the upper part of town called Sitio Nazaré, 25 cm, painted wood, according to tradition 1st century, possibly one of the oldest "Black Madonnas". photos: Ella Rozett
Our Lady of Nazareth (Nossa Senhora da Nazaré)
Ever since Ean Begg listed this Lady as a Black Madonna in his ground breaking index, she is known as such internationally and she does have a fine patina. However, the local Portuguese don't call her a Black Madonna and the copy in her grotto as well as the copies sold in the museum shop of her sanctuary are all white. Her Portuguese children are far more interested in her breasts than her skin color!
According to an oral tradition inscribed on a memorial stone in 1623 and placed in her "Chapel of Commemoration", the holy image was sculpted by St. Joseph the carpenter step-father of Jesus, in Nazareth, when Jesus was still a baby. A few decades latter St. Luke the evangelist is said to have painted it. That would certainly make it the most ancient image venerated by Christians.
The nursing type of Madonna with the child sitting on her left knee is indeed the oldest type, closely related to Isis and Horus statues. Also, her head dress, a hair net covered by a veil, is typical of Eastern Mediterranean images.
The Legend of Nazaré recounts that on the early morning of September 14, 1182, the knight Dom Fuas Roupinho, the governor of the fortress Porto de Mos, was out hunting with his companions, near the coast. He was chasing a stag in a heavy fog. The deer ran towards the top of a cliff and Dom Fuas in the midst of the fog was cut off from his companions. When he realized he was on the edge of the cliff and in mortal danger, he recognized the place: it was right next to a small grotto where a statue of Our Lady nursing baby Jesus was venerated. So he cried out: "Mother of God, help me!" With that, the horse miraculously stopped right at the edge of a rocky point suspended over the void, saving horse and rider from falling more than 100 meters. That place became known as the Bico do Milagre (Point of the Miracle).
With tears of gratitude running down his face, Dom Fuas dismounted and went straight down to the grotto to give thanks for his miraculous rescue. Then he ordered his companions to fetch masons in order to build a small chapel over the grotto so that the miraculous image could be easily venerated by all and as a memorial to the miracle that saved him. In the process of building this chapel, the masons demolished the existing altar in the grotto. It was normal to sanctify an altar with relics and holy objects and this one was no exception. So when it was disassembled, the relics of two saints and an old parchment recounting the history of the little wooden statue were found.
In an ancient script the parchment declared that the statue had been venerated since the beginning of Christianity in Nazareth. That's why she became known as Our Lady of Nazareth henceforth. In the fifth century she was rescued from the iconoclasts, who were out to destroy all "idols", by the Greek monk Cyriakos. He brought it to the monastery of Cauliniana, near the Spanish town Mérida. The Madonna remained there until 711, the year of the battle of Guadalete, when Christian forces were defeated by Moorish invaders. When the news of the defeat arrived at Mérida, the friars of Cauliniana prepared to leave their monastery. Meanwhile, the defeated king, Roderic, was able to flee the battlefield alone, disguised as a beggar. Without revealing his identity, he asked for shelter at the monastery. Only when he went to confession to one of the monks, Brother Romano, did he have to reveal his identity. The friar, foreseeing the approaching invasion of his monastery, suggested that they fled together, taking with them the monastery's most prized possessions: the relics of Sts. Blaise and Bartholomew and the miracle working image of Mary and baby Jesus.
On November 22nd 711, they ended up on the Atlantic coast of Portugal and settled near a monastery, in an empty hermitage on a rocky hill called Monte de Sao Bartolomeu. After a few days they decided to separate and live by themselves as hermits. The friar took the image and settled in a little grotto, on the edge of a cliff above the sea, next to the hill where the king went on living.
A year went by and Roderic decided to leave the region. Friar Romano stayed in his hermitage above the sea until he died. The holy statue stayed on the altar where he left it until 1182, when Dom Fuas moved it to the so called Chapel of Commemoration, built over the grotto as a memorial to the event that saved his life.
In 1377, because of the increased number of pilgrims, King Fernando had a church built across the plaza from the chapel, and transferred the statue there. This Santuário de Nossa Senhora da Nazaré (Sanctuary of Our Lady of Nazaré) was remodeled several times since. Inside, a sign reading "to the throne" guides you through the sacristy, a tiled hallway (see photo above), and up some stairs. You really feel like you are going before the throne of the Mother of God!
Besides its "Black Madonna", Nazaré is famous for its giant waves. The biggest wave ever surfed (estimated at almost 100 ft.) crashed against the base of the light house right behind the sanctuary. The light house sits on top of an old fort, on top of a 100 ft. cliff. There's a nice little museum in the fort. Photo by Francisco Leong/AFP/Getty Images taken from a Telegraph post.
Source: a brochure from the museum shop.
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Brazil, Aparecida do Norte
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In the basilica in her own city Aparecida do Norte, 160 km South of São Paulo, 39 cm, terra cotta, cleaned during a renovation.
Our Appeared Lady of the North
(Nossa Senhora Aparecida do Norte)
Mother of the Excluded
Patroness of the Poor
Queen of Brazil
In 1717 three fishermen were sent to catch fish in the Paraoba River for the governor of São Paulo because it was a religious day of abstinence and he wasn't allowed to eat meat. The three companions tried and tried, but no fish were entering their nets. When they were at the point of giving up, they caught in their net the headless body of a statue of the Blessed Mother. Bewildered they continued fishing and rowing down the stream. Soon they also caught the head of Our Lady. Now that the Mother of God was on board with them, they caught so many fish that their boat almost sank. This was reminiscent of the story in Luke 5, where the disciples couldn't catch any fish until Jesus appeared and told them where to cast their nets. Soon their boats filled almost to the point of sinking.
Since the Brazilian fishermen recognized the statue as the type called Immaculate Conception, they called the statue Our Appeared Lady of the Conception (Nossa Senhora da Conceição Aparecida).
Our Appeared Lady was installed in the village of the men who found her and many miracles and blessings continued to gladden the whole country.
In his book God-Sent: a History of the Accredited Apparitions of Mary, Roy A. Varghese retells the story of Our Appeared Lady the way the Brazilian faithful think of it:(*1) The Black Madonna was found at a time when Brazilian slaves were demanding freedom and Princess Isabel was refusing to sign their freedom act. When the Queen of Heaven intervened by performing many miracles through a "black" statue, the earthly princess saw the light and understood the message. She signed the papers abolishing slavery and offered the black Virgin a precious crown.
According to China Galland on the other hand, all the efforts of the Divine Mother in Brazil accomplished little to end slavery, though it did ensure her a great following among the oppressed to whom she is a symbol of liberation. Galland also retells a traditional story: "One day a slave was traveling with his master near the small shrine that had been constructed for Aparecida. The man entreated his master to stop the wagons and let him pray at the door of the shrine. As soon as he knelt down in the doorway, the heavy chains he wore fell off his hands and feet, and the wide iron collar around his neck broke apart. His master declared him free: the Virgin herself seemed to command it."(*2)
Galland paraphrases Archbishop Dom Aloysius Lorscheider's explanation of the Virgin's title 'Mother of the Excluded of Brazil': "All who have been marginalized by conventional society are upheld and revered in the figure of this Virgin - the poor, the broken, and the dark. She is their champion. She is black because she is the Mother of All." Brazilians call her Mari-ama. Ama to them is the black wet nurse who nurses black and white children without discriminating.
Pope Pius XI officially confirmed her titles in 1929.
*1: Roy A. Varghese, God-Sent: a History of the Accredited Apparitions of Mary, p.81
*2: China Galland, The Bond Between Women, 1998, pp. 183-5
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Reframing retirement as legislators consider ending state benefits
by Andrew Holton on May 5, 2017
As a former employee of the NC Department of State Treasurer, the agency that oversees retirement and health benefits for public employees in North Carolina, I have a professional and personal interest in retirement and benefit policy. I was closely watching the N.C. Senate earlier this week, as the Committee on Pension and Retirement and Age debated Senate Bill 467.
As introduced, the bill would end government pensions and retiree health benefits for future state employees, including public school teachers. It would not affect current employees or retirees. Instead, the bill would steer new employees into a 401(k)-style plan in lieu of providing a pension benefit. Additionally, it would eliminate the state’s provision of health insurance for employees in retirement.
The News and Observer and U.S. News have covered the debate, which has been going on in North Carolina and across the nation for many years. For an in-depth look at the issue, see the Center’s 2015 research by John Quinterno: Public Price of Growing Old.
A tough issue
The debate about retirement and health benefits is complex. No, really. There are a lot of complex public policy issues, but these are exceptional for two reasons.
First, the scale and impact of public benefits are large. In most counties, the school system and units of local government (municipal and county) are among the largest employers, so the issue directly affects a lot of people. Of the 10 million people in North Carolina, approximately one in 10 is a retired or active public employee. This means that there a lot of interested stakeholders—a sure-fire ingredient for complexity.
Second, the principles driving the debate are difficult to understand. As economist George Stigler once wrote, “The public has chosen to speak and vote on economic problems, so the only open question is how intelligently it speaks and votes.”
Generally speaking, retirement issues involve macroeconomic principles that make it difficult to compare with individual or business experiences. States and local governments have fundamentally different perspectives than individual or corporate enterprises. Well-managed states can think in 50 and 100-year increments. This long-term perspective leads to different credit and debt outlooks and has led to the creation of separate set of accounting standards for governments, the rules and principles of which are often foreign to people outside of government.
In addition, pension and benefit accounting is based on actuarial and accounting knowledge beyond that of most policy professionals and decision-makers, much less the general public. I say this having been one of those policy professionals who struggled to follow the actuarial forecasts and accounting rules that underlie these policies. There is a staggeringly small number of people in the state who fully comprehend the models around which pension assumptions and policy recommendations are based.
Reframing retirement
This complexity is compounded by the emergence of some fundamental shifts in how we think about retirement.
A 2016 study by Wells Fargo showed millennials have a different retirement outlook than baby boomers. Approximately two-thirds of millennials studied believe that retirees should be responsible for their own financial support. 74 percent did not expect for Social Security to be available to them. About 50 percent of millennials expect to help their parents in retirement, while only a quarter of baby boomers have done so.
As the General Assembly continues to debate the issue, here are three ideological frames to that need to shift as we build a retirement policy for the next era:
1. Retirement does not mean disconnecting from productive, purposeful life
Studies on aging show that maintaining purpose in later years is a strong predictor of individual health and wellness. For the last 70 years, we have largely maintained a notion that one’s productive life has an ending point and that people then enter a phase of post-employment decline until death. This model no longer rings true. Citizens’ abilities to be productive at 70 may be different than they were at 40, but the notion that we reach a point of disengagement from productivity is wrong and is, according to the studies, hurting us.
A 2016 report from the Pew Research Center shows that official employment among older Americans is rising. We need to pay attention to this change; we need to rethink strictures around when people start to disengage from the workforce; and we need to create structures that facilitate making citizens’ waning years purposeful and productive.
2. Universal retirement parameters don’t make sense
As life expectancy and quality of life in advanced years increase, it becomes increasingly difficult to set a standard age at which all people should shift how they engage with work. For some people, physical and mental capacity will last into their 80s and beyond. For others, deterioration begins earlier. We need to acknowledge these differences and work to develop post-employment benefits structures that account for them.
Similarly, not all jobs are the same and will lead to the same advanced age plan. Physically intensive jobs may lead to shorter work spans, while others may allow for a longer work life. As we shift into an economy where workers are less focused on singular careers and more focused on moving between jobs and occupations, we need to stop thinking about work as a terminal proposition. Work, or at least productivity, is a lifelong experience that can and should last well into advanced years.
This Bureau of Labor Statistics data presented by the Pew Research Center, shows occupational categories where workers are working longer.
3. Oversimplification hurts the debate
Due to the complexity of the issue, it is easy to oversimplify the discussion of the issues and create red herrings. Here are a couple of the most egregious oversimplifications to be mindful of during the debate:
North Carolina and most states are not facing imminent bankruptcy concerns due to pension or benefit liabilities. It is wise to discuss unsustainable trends and to consider changes in the policy course, but it is not accurate to frame it in terms of bankruptcy.
The state is not facing a pension and benefits challenge due to a single issue or actor. Fees for investment managers may be an issue worth discussing, but Wall Street fees have not created the current retirement paradigm.
At the end of the day, the biggest player in the pension and health benefit space is the General Assembly. Legislators annually make the decision about how much to pay out in pension obligations. Unlike many states, the North Carolina General Assembly has been conservative in making obligations and has honored the obligations it has made. As such, it is wise for them to continue to discuss and debate this issue. Stay tuned as Senate Bill 467 moves through the Senate. This is a policy debate that we need to have.
Andrew Holton is a board member and contributor to the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research.
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Elevation Burger satisfies organic and halal food markets
October 8, 2015 by TMO
By Mahvish Irfan
TMO Contributing Writer
What’s better than a big, juicy, mouth-watering burger? That’s easy. A 100% organic, grass-fed, free-range, environmentally-friendly burger. Oh, yes. Now we’re talking.
But, what if that burger was also halal? Wouldn’t that make it the ultimate burger? No, actually, that would make it an Elevation Burger.
The idea for Elevation Burger, an eco-minded fast-food-style chain, was conceived in 2002. Founder Hans Hess wanted something that he could happily serve his family and friends without an ounce of guilt.
“I had been married and my wife and [I]… really wanted to serve our kids something a lot more healthy, a lot more humane, a lot better for the planet. We realized that families couldn’t find that. You weren’t going to find that in the big fast-food [chains],” Hans explains.
Realizing there was an opportunity to create something truly meaningful –and seriously needed in the fast-food world – Hans and his wife April devoted three years of extensive research before opening up the first Elevation burger in Arlington, Virginia, in 2005.
The vision always went beyond creating great burgers. “We also wanted an impact in the world and the way things work,” Hans says, “and create demand for that kind of product and the supply would ultimately follow.”
And boy, was there a demand for Elevation Burger’s organic, sustainable, delicious foods. Such a powerful demand in fact, that the business began franchising in 2008.
“Right now we have 55 [locations], in the U.S., the Middle East, and Mexico, with more coming. There are 34 in the U.S., 20 in the Middle East and 1 in Mexico,” states Jay Wisse, VP of Marketing at Elevation Burger.
The business’ success can be especially credited to the fact that they serve two rapidly growing markets: the organic food market and the halal food market.
According to the USDA, the demand for organic food has been on the rise since 2002 and is becoming increasingly mainstream.
Sales of organic foods in the U.S. were an estimated $28.4 billion in 2012, making over 4% of total at-home food sales. Globally, it was worth $63.8 billion. The U.S. organic food market is expected to grow by 14% by 2018.
The global halal food market, on the other hand, was a staggering $1,292 billion in 2013 according to DinarStandard, a growth strategy research and advisory firm. That number is predicted to grow to $2,537 billion by 2018, making up 21.2% of global expenditure.
What makes Elevation Burger so special is that it merges the two markets and embraces a deeper meaning of halal so that it goes beyond slaughtering the animal in the most humane way possible. Instead, it deals with treating the entire life of the animal, the environment it lives in, and ultimately the consumers who consume it, in the most humane and healthiest way possible by going organic halal.
“We went halal very early on. It had to be a year into it, probably in 2006,” Hans shares. “We started looking for organic, grass-fed supply and we found that the best producers of organic grass-fed beef also happen to be halal.
“What we learned is that halal is considered the most humane way of slaughtering. That’s what got us. This is considered to be the best practice, really. So we said let’s build our whole supply chain around it…We started to add more supply [until] it became a requirement because we wanted to make sure the whole system was uniform…We embraced it and our customers embraced it.”
Additionally, going halal is what introduced Elevation Burger to the Middle Eastern market which, needless to say, was excellent for business. “It turned out to be great for us…It worked out really well!” Hans affirms, chuckling. Now, more lucrative growth is on the way.
“We are going to continue to grow in the Muslim world…in Middle East and Asia,” Hans says. “The halal markets in Asia are pretty important to us….And [we will] continue growth in the U.S. I think just sticking by our integrity of choices of organic halal. We think that really makes a difference to the animal and consumer’s body, your health. Those are things that are really core to our brand.”
In the U.S., Elevation Burger is open to expanding in any metropolitan area. “If people [franchisees] come to us, we don’t care really where they live, if they think that their community would benefit from having an Elevation Burger, we’re all ears,” explains Jay.
It is important to note though that not everything on the menu is halal. Select locations serve bacon, a decision made entirely by the franchisee, but that may change soon since Elevation Burger has been looking into halal beef alternatives for over a year.
“We use beef bacon in the Middle East and it’s pretty good, it just doesn’t meet our standards here right now,” Jay says. “We’re close though…I talked to our VP of supply chain yesterday and he found what he thinks is a really good one. So we’re testing it in-house and then get more if it meets our standards we’ll pass it to some of our stores close to our headquarters. And then we’ll roll it out systematically to anybody who wants it…
“I can’t promise but it is our intention to find halal beef bacon and to add that to our menu and in many cases it will completely take the pork bacon out of our stores. It will completely replace it.”
At the end of the day, it all boils down to creating and sharing a great food experience with everyone that satisfies both hunger and conscience.
“We don’t want to exclude anybody, really,” Hans promises. “Nobody deserves to not have a really healthy burger and fries. Everybody deserves it. I don’t want to exclude the Muslim population.”
To sink your teeth into one gratifying Elevation Burger, find a store near you by visiting elevationburger.com. To follow the rave on social video, treat yourself to a visit to facebook.com/ElevationBurger and @ElevationBurger on Twitter and Instagram.
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2019 Romeo Weems
2019 F ROMEO WEEMS CONTINUING TO LOOK LIKE AN ELITE TALENT NATIONALLY
Jake Nelson — Contributing Editor - NY2LASPORTS.COM
Romeo Weems is the highest rated prospect in the very deep and talented 2019 Michigan class. After averaging 18 points and 11 rebounds last season for New Haven, Weems has taken yet another step forward this season and is averaging 28 points while leading his team to a 7-0 start.
A top 50 prospect nationally by virtually every recruiting service (i.e. #31 on NY2LASPORTS.COM Class of 2019 board), The 6-7 wing plays a very physical game and he loves to play above the rim. His jump shot is improving at a rapid pace and is starting to become a very big threat for opposing teams.
One thing that stands out as well is his effort and when you combine that with his overall ability to fill the box score it’s easy to see why Weems is impressive and continues to see his stock elevate after a solid effort on the USA team. Weems won a gold medal over the summer at the 2017 FIBA U16 Americas Championship playing with the U16 USA team. Starting in all five games he put up very solid numbers averaging 7 points, 7 rebounds, 1.5 assists, and 1.5 steals per game. "It feels good to be a part of a great group of guys and coaches that help me get better but also help me become a better person too," Weems said about his experience playing with USA basketball.
Weems is a hot commodity already and his recruiting trail continues to grow with each passing month. He holds offers from Michigan State, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio State, Iowa, Creighton, VCU, Oakland, and DePaul.
The 2019 standout is planning on visiting Michigan State this weekend and has also scheduled a visit to DePaul next month. He wants to attend a school that will make him a better player and get him ready for the NBA, his ultimate goal. Whether he fulfills those loft goals is yet to be seen but one thing that’s for certain is Weems is a legit high major talent with a high major motor and he’s only getting better.
Weems plays with The Family during the grassroots travel season.
Note: Jake is the owner and chief videographer for Movement Hoops. He is also the contributing editor for NY2LASPORTS.COM Follow Jake on Twitter @MovementHoops.
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Roses are red, violets are blue, here is an Insights blog, just for you
Oh darling, do tell me more about the policy implications
It’s Valentine’s Day (wasn’t it Saint Valentine’s Day at one time?) and here at this most romantic of international organisations we’re happy to see lovers the world over celebrating causes so close to our red velvet heart as trade and innovation (or flowers and chocolate, to use the technical terms). On this special day, let’s leave the cynics to their grumbling and enjoy being nice to somebody by sharing the fruits of technology transfer, competition, economies of scale and opportunities for learning, as described by Nobuo Kiriyama in the latest OECD Trade Policy Working Paper.
History provides some vivid illustrations of what Nobua is talking about. In the era of the Silk Road, China’s competition policy regarding the silk trade was simple: anyone caught trying to export silkworms, cocoons or eggs was executed. This crude but effective barrier protected Chinese manufacturers until around 200 BCE when Chinese immigrants to Korea started production there too. A hundred years later, a princess smuggled eggs to India in her hair. A hundred years after that two monks smuggled eggs on the orders of the Byzantine emperor and the industry gradually became established in the West.
Silk shows that new technology doesn’t have to be imported readymade, and that knowledge transfer can be more important (it also raises questions about whether and by how much the economy as a whole benefits from protecting intellectual property).
Chocolate is another interesting case. The link to international trade is obvious – cacao beans can’t grow in most places and have to be imported by manufacturers. But there’s a link to migration too. Spain was the first European country to develop a chocolate industry, but the persecution and expulsion of the Jews in the late 15th and 16th century forced many Jewish chocolate makers to flee, with some of them setting up business around Bayonne in southern France or in Belgium and Switzerland, still famous for high-quality products today, while Spain was left behind. (Another OECD report on entrepreneurship and migrants argues that modern migrants may be a source of job creation provided they have adequate support to gain access to capital, learn the language and deal with regulation.)
The flowers you offer your sweetheart tell a whole story too (including about you if you bought them at the last minute from a service station as you were filling up the car). Chances are they came from Kenya, India or another developing country. Exporting firms in these countries are usually more productive than non-exporting ones, and have to innovate for a number of reasons, for example to meet hygiene or other standards in potential markets or to make sure the products get to the market in a saleable condition. In doing so they learn from their clients as well as their partners.
You may have noticed that none of these examples actually talks about inventing a new product. Innovation covers this too of course, but these days it more frequently means something else – for example crossing a hard drive and a music player to create an MP3 device or crossing different genetic traits to try to produce angora chickens. Coca Cola for instance has been highly innovative throughout the company’s history without inventing a new drink. Removing the cocaine was an example of product innovation while selling it in cans or from machines were marketing innovations.
Innovation can also mean applying a technology in a new way. The introduction of mobile phones to fishers in India led to an increase of 8% in the profits for the fishers and a decline of 4% in consumer prices as the fishers could use their phones to call several nearby markets from their boats to establish where their catch would fetch the highest price. Fish, phones and innovation seem to go together. The first call ever placed on a commercial GSM phone was on 1 July 1991 when Harri Holkeri, governor of the Bank of Finland, telephoned the mayor of Helsinki to talk about the price of Baltic herring.
So if you’re tongue-tied when you call your Valentine tonight, try discussing the price of kippers. For more policy advice, see below.
OECD Innovation Strategy
OECD work on trade
OECD work on new sources of growth
Tags:innovation, International Trade
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Jeremy Strauss - 16/02/2012 Reply
Kiriyama’s research and conclusions are not easy to swallow for many countries even with the body of evidence supporting trade liberalization, and the benefits of regimes that expose domestic markets to competition from imports. Vested interests in “less liberal” markets often make the implementation of policies that create value slow.
The case of Russia joining the WTO, Russia’s implementation of the WTO agreements, and the performance of its exporters in direct correlation with this implementation should be studied with interest. Public investment in areas that facilitate trade like infrastructure, and those aimed at increasing the productivity of utilities should as well.
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Curator Emerita D’Oench Dies at Age 78
by Olivia Drake • June 4, 2009
Ellen "Puffin" D'Oench
Ellen “Puffin” D’Oench, curator emerita of the Davison Art Center, adjunct professor of art history emerita, and former trustee of Wesleyan University died May 22 in Middletown. She was 78 years old and had been ill for some time.
D’Oench interrupted her education at Vassar College to marry Russell “Derry” D’Oench and raise their family. She completed her undergraduate education at Wesleyan in 1973, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in the same class as her son Peter. She received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1979.
D’Oench was Curator of the Davison Art Center from 1979 until 1998. She served as a board-elected member of Wesleyan’s board of trustees from 1977 through 1979.
Her doctoral dissertation resulted in the exhibition and catalog “The Conversation Piece: Devis and his Contemporaries” at the Yale Center for British Art. She co-authored catalogues raisonnés on Jim Dine and Sylvia Plimack Mangold, and curated numerous exhibitions on topics ranging from the color photography of Robert Sheehan to prodigal son narratives. After retiring, she published Copper into Gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith, 1751-1812.
At Wesleyan, she taught courses on museum studies, the history of prints, and the history of photographs, and advised many tutorials and student-organized exhibitions at the Davison Art Center.
D’Oench was a gifted scholar, a generous colleague, and an inspired teacher who sparked in many a love of prints and photographs. With the aid of gifts and funds raised by the Friends of the Davison Art Center, she expanded the renowned collection of the Davison Art Center by more than 5,000 objects, including significant photographs and contemporary prints.
D’Oench is survived by three children, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Donations in memory of Puffin may be made to the Friends of the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, or to Middlesex County Community Foundation, Inc. More information is available at Doolittle Funeral Home: http://obit.doolittlefuneralservice.com/obitdisplay.html?id=673531
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For many years, the lush banks of the majestic Tennessee River were all but inaccessible to most Chattanooga residents. In 1986, however, a seven-mile landscaped path called Riverwalk was built, and it quickly became a catalyst for the development of some of Chattanooga’s most popular recreational facilities, as well as a great social equalizer.
Once, only a wealthy few with homes on the banks of the Tennessee could enjoy its beauty; today, now that the Riverwalk has reconnected the city’s diverse neighborhoods to the river, every citizen can.
Fishing piers, parks, plazas, homes, offices, shops, restaurants, and the Tennessee Aquarium have all been built on or around the Walk, which will extend for twenty miles on both sides of the river when completed. As of 2010, 13 miles of the Riverwalk from Chickamauga Dam to Ross’ Landing have been constructed. These new facilities have none of the race or class distinctions attached to many of the older places in the community, and they attract citizens and tourists of every stripe.
The River is Everybody’s Business
The degree of community participation in the Chattanooga Riverwalk’s conception and implementation has made it unique among the many riverfront projects of the past three decades. The bold idea of creating one continuous path along twenty miles of the Tennessee river was first formulated in 1983 by a city- and county-appointed citizen task force. Vision 2000, a series of community-wide brainstorm sessions aimed at improving Chattanooga’s quality of life, adopted the idea a year later and supplied the impetus for its implementation. Two nonprofit organizations, The RiverCity Company and Chattanooga Venture, established as a result of Vision 2000, contributed in major ways to the creation of the Riverwalk and its associated developments.
ReVision 2000, a second series of public meetings conducted nine years later, in 1993, reconfirmed Chattanooga’s commitment to the river and emphasized the environment as a central theme in the city’s continued revitalization.
Since nearly everyone in Chattanooga seems to have gotten involved in some aspect of the Riverwalk project, it has the stamp of community ownership. Thanks to ad-hoc coalitions of citizens, government and private-sector leaders, and local foundations, which have supplied financial, political, and technical support, the Riverwalk and the many public facilities it has spawned have become symbolic of the city’s civic and physical renaissance.
Karen Hundt, director of the Planning & Design Studio in the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Agency, credits transportation consultant Walter Kulash of Glatting Jackson with a crucial recommendation: the addition of four new at-grade intersections. Those intersections give motorists a larger variety of routes into and out of the downtown, averting potential congestion. The result, according to Hundt, is that traffic flows well and Chattanoogans finally have easy access to the riverfront.
The city created a needed pedestrian route from the northern part of downtown to the Bluff View Art District, home of the Hunter Museum of American Art. Until 2005, a visitor standing in downtown could see the Hunter Museum occupying a promontory above the river, but could not easily walk to it. The city solved the access problem by building steps — and a 100-foot “incline elevator” for those unable to climb them — and by constructing what may be America’s most avant-garde footbridge. Designed by Los Angeles-based Randall Stout Architects, the footbridge has a walking surface composed of 45,000 pounds of laminated, translucent nonslip glass. The green-tinted glass is internally lighted. At night it glows. Some find it disconcerting to walk on the glass, seeing the pavement of Riverfront Parkway well below, directly beneath their feet. (The 10-foot-wide bridge’s center strip is surfaced in sandblasted stainless steel, providing a more secure feeling.)
A public art display plaza has been created at a spot near both the footbridge and the 114-year-old Walnut Street Bridge, which ceased being a vehicular route years ago and was reopened as a pedestrian span in 1993. “People raised $2 million privately to save the bridge,” said Paul Brock, chief executive officer of the RiverCity Company, a nonprofit organization that shepherds development in the downtown and along the river.
With its bright blue metal trusses, the 2,370-foot Walnut Street Bridge has become enormously popular among joggers, walkers, and people who want a good view of the river as it sweeps past downtown. The bridge touches down on the north side of the river at Coolidge Park, a large recreation area completed in 1999. The bridge and the park, which has a century-old carousel, are both so appealing that they have helped spur the revival of Frazier Avenue, a formerly scruffy commercial district on the north shore. “There’s things to do on both sides of the river now,” Brock noted.
The city converted several miles of one-way streets to two-way traffic despite opposition from people who claimed there would be traffic tie-ups, head-on collisions, and general mayhem. In December 2003 the city reintroduced two-way traffic on McCallie Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard, two broad streets used by suburban commuters. None of the predicted catastrophes came to pass, and the city reaped several benefits, according to Jeff Pfitzer, the city’s director of capital planning. “There was a decrease in out-of-direction travel” as motorists gained more direct access to their destinations, he said. Traffic slowed by about 15 mph (to 25 mph from 40 mph) on the affected routes, but the flow became more regular. Thus, according to Pfitzer, the average commute did not become any more time-consuming than it had been.
The city has since converted several other streets. Two-way movement has made it much easier for motorists to reach the Hunter Museum and Bluff View, a neighborhood that has blossomed with restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts. Pfitzer noted that one-way street systems tend to confuse drivers, especially those from out of town, whereas two-way streets are easy to figure out. “A city,” he said, “needs to be intuitive, easily understood.”
“All of our two-way conversions have been successful in supporting redevelopment,” Pfitzer said. “I honestly don’t see a downside to this.”
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ART SUNDAY - THOMAS WILMER DEWING
“He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.” - Meister Eckhart
For Art Sunday today, an American Artist, Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) who had a highly personal style, yet was influenced by impressionism and English aestheticism. He worked around the turn of the 20th century and from his native Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, he went to Europe and studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and in Munich from 1836-1839. He returned to the USA to settle into a studio in New York City. He married Maria Oakey Dewing, an accomplished painter with extensive formal art training and links with the art world. He is best known for his ethereal, tonalist paintings of female figures situated in moody and dreamlike surroundings. Often seated, these women play instruments, write letters, or simply communicate with one another, Dewing’s sensitively portrayed figures are distant and private, keeping the spectator a remote witness to the scene rather than a participant.
Tonalism as a style resisted the violent surge of modernism and abstraction in art, although the political success of modernism eventually succeeded in branding tonalism as an outdated mode of artistic expression in popular culture. Now that the dogma of Modernism itself is under question, a fresh assessment of tonalism is underway, free of political influence or the sway of his contemporary fashionable trends.
Dewing was a member of the Ten American Painters, a group of American Impressionists who seceded from the Society of American Artists in 1897. He spent his summers at the Cornish Art Colony in Cornish, New Hampshire. The artist was quite fortunate in having a pair of wealthy patrons who were devoted to his work. The New York insurance magnate John Gellatly was convinced that Thomas Wilmer Dewing was “the greatest living painter” and consequently acquired thirty-one of his paintings, most of which were bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution. The Detroit businessman and railroad-car manufacturer Charles Lang Freer was sufficiently enamoured of Dewing's “decorations” to have purchased twenty-seven of them for incorporation in his eponymous gallery of art in Washington, D.C. Though their subject matter no longer fulfills its original inspirational intent, the rich painterly skills of the artist continue to delight the eye and mind. Dewing stopped painting after 1920
The painting above is his “A Reading” of 1879. The interior space in this is softly painted, tonally fairly uniform and the colours muted and gentle to the eye. The two women depicted are typical of his oeuvre, prominently placed in shallow space. They are elegant, detached creatures, elusive, idealised, and contemplative. The woman reading aloud concentrates on the book in front of her and the faint suggestion of a smile may be discerned on her face, which is otherwise closed to the viewer, as her eyes are downcast and concentrating on the book. The woman listening is also introspective and toys with a flower she has plucked from the vase, the colour of which is in harmony with her gown. This is highly civilised and restrained art, almost decadent in its sensibility and detachment. There is elegance and distance, excellent draughtsmanship and colour-handling, but quite dispassionate – which perhaps contributes to its attractiveness.
As one critic observed, “…the Thomas Wilmer Dewing type was intellectual enough to be worthy of Boston; aristocratic enough to be worthy of Philadelphia; well enough dressed to be a New Yorker, but seldom pretty enough to evoke the thought of Baltimore – but always genteel enough to insulate the viewer from disturbing thoughts of the tumultuous changes that were taking place in the real world of commerce and industry.”
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Penthe 6 October 2011 at 10:24
This is lovely! I didn't know about this artist, thanks for the introduction, I'm off to find more of his art!
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MORE FORKS
When I first got together with the Loved One she came to my apartment in London and I cooked for her. She offered to set the table and I said sure and she got out some cutlery and when I looked at what she’d laid out I said, “But honey, those are pastry forks!”
A pastry fork has a blunt blade down one side (for slicing rather than actually cutting) and tines for stabbing. See above.
She thought I was either insane or an aesthete, or both. She claimed, and I had to believe her, that she’d never seen a pastry fork and didn’t know what one was. More to the point, I think she didn’t see why a real man would even own pastry forks.
The last part is easily explained. I grew up in Sheffield, in northern England, a city that is famous for making steel and cutlery. There’s a reference in Mark Twain. My parents never actually worked in steel mills or cutlery factories but we had plenty of friends and relatives who did. All the time I was growing up sets of cutlery would arrive at the house, “gifts” from cutlery workers. These hadn’t exactly fallen off the back of trucks because most of them had never even made it onto the backs of trucks. People who worked in cutlery factories stole them because ... because they just did.
Consequently every household you ever went into in Sheffield had far more cutlery than it could ever possibly use. And after my parents died and it was my job to clear their house I found literally hundreds of knives, forks and spoons, including of course pastry forks; most of which had never been used.
At that point in my life I was a grown man with a life and household of my own. I thought I had all the cutlery I needed; but I didn’t have any pastry forks. So, as I got rid of all my parents’ redundant I kept a few pastry forks, a practical reminder of my mom and dad, which was why they were there in my apartment in London.
Now frankly I’ve never quite understood why the Loved One couldn’t tell that the forks she laid out weren’t your average fork. They had a blunt blade as well as tines. Surely you’d have noticed. But obviously she didn’t. So. Anyway ...
Lately I’ve been reading a book by Richard Wrangham called “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human” which among many other truly amazing topics discusses food and mating rituals among the Bonerif hunter-gatherers of New Guinea. Wrangham tells us that the sago palm is the year-round staple food of the Bonerif, and if a woman makes a sago meal and gives it to a man they’re considered to be married. “The association is so ingrained,” writes Wrangham, “that a man’s penis is symbolized by the sago fork with which he eats his meal. If a man takes his sago fork out of his hair and shows it to a woman, they both know he is inviting her for sex.”
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. And I’m still not sure whether it makes eating and courtship much simpler of infinitely more fraught. I’m fairly sure however, that in the west, wearing a fork in your hair probably isn’t the best way of appealing to women.
I haven't been able to find an image of a sago fork, but below is one of something called a sago club , from Alfred Russel Wallace's "The Malay Archipelago:The land of the orang-utan, and the bird or paradise. A narrative of travel, with sketches of man and nature."
FORKING WITH THE DEVIL
Before 9/11, when I used to fly back and forth across the Atlantic all the time, I regularly stole the airline forks that came with dinner. Partly it was because I was outraged at the airfares and wanted a few freebies but also because some of them – the British airways ones especially - were actually quite attractive and well designed; real forks made of metal, not the plastic crud we have today. And for some reason I only ever stole forks, not spoons or knives.
Reay Tannahill in “Food In History” tells us that although forks in one form or another (pitch forks and kitchen forks for instance) have always been with us, it wasn’t until the nineteenth century that they were regarded as anything other than a novelty, and often as an affectation. She says that as late as 1897 the British Navy was forbidden to use knives because they were regarded as “prejudicial to discipline and manliness.” She gives James Morris’s “Pax Britannica” as her source.
“Panati’s Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things” tells us that small eating forks were introduced in eleventh century Tuscany and were denounced by the church on the dubious theological grounds that “only human fingers created by God, were worthy to touch God’s bounty.” Panati also says that over a century later, when a Venetian, fork-using noblewoman died of the plague, clergymen declared this was God’s vengeance for the woman’s excessive refinement. Mysterious ways indeed.
So I found myself wondering just what it is about the fork that gets people so riled up, and I began by wondering if it was sexual. “Forking” is slang for a certain kind of sex – what follows on from “spooning” – but I think that’s just a slightly lame play on words. As a phallic symbol the fork seems pretty useless.
And then I began thinking about the line that Injuns say in old cowboy movies; “white man speak with forked tongue.” Some scholars date the line, or at least a variation of it, to “The Great Sioux Uprising,” a 1953 movie starring Jeff Chandler (that's him below in the movie), which is credited to 3 writers - Melvin Levy, J. Robert Bren, Gladys Atwater - with additional dialogue by Frank Gill Jr. Who knows which of them came up with it? In any case these writers were definitely Hollywood types rather than experts in Native american linguistics, so they probably just made it up; or maybe this wasn’t even the first use of the line.
In any case, I’m guessing the Sioux weren’t big users of forks; and so the metaphor is presumably not theirs, but it’s obviously an incredibly appealing one. It’s used all the time by white men against themselves in fits of post-colonial guilt, and against other white men they disapprove of. Try Googling “forked tongue” and “George Bush.”
Ultimately I reckon it must have something to do with snakes and the devil. The devil is a liar. The devil is depicted as a snake. Snakes have forked tongues. And of course the devil himself carries a three-pronged fork. It’s a rich nexus, for sure, though again I think the Sioux probably have very different feelings about snakes.
The last few times I’ve flown – on Virgin America – the planes, or at least my lowly section of them, have been entirely fork-free zones. Obviously the cutlery we use always determines the food we eat, and vice versa. So Virgin now serves food that you eat with your fingers: sandwiches, wraps, cookies, cheese with fruit. There’s no need for a fork. The fork is regarded at best as surplus to requirement, at worst as a weapon. The fork is seen as dangerous. Maybe it always was. Personally I blame the devil.
SUZANNE VEGA FONDLING A BIGGISH APPLE
Here’s proof, if proof were needed, that Tom’s Restaurant in Brooklyn isn’t the Tom’s Diner that Suzanne Vega sings about.
Here’s what Vega wrote in an article for the New York Times, published September 23, 2008 “I got the idea for “Tom’s Diner” in 1981, but I wrote it in the spring of 1982, making the song 26 years old now. When I was at Barnard College in Manhattan, I used to go to Tom’s Restaurant for coffee, and after I graduated I also ate there before going to work. It was then a cheap, greasy place on 112th and Broadway, and it still is, in spite of its celebrity. (Sorry, but I have never been to the one in Brooklyn, though I hear it’s really cute. The real one isn’t cute, and isn’t atmospheric. It’s just plain, which is why I liked it.) And yes, it is the same one they use in the Seinfeld credits — the neon sign that says “RESTAURANT.” I actually once saw Jerry Seinfeld right near there!’
Elsewhere she says that she called it Tom’s Diner rather than Tom’s Restaurant just because it sounded better.
Still, it’s odd isn’t it that of all the diners and restaurants in the world, this particular, very ordinary one features in both a song and a TV show that have no connection with each other.
Arlo Guthrie “Alice’s Restaurant” managed to be both a song and a movie, but they were coming from the same source material, as it were.
Of couse there are a thousand and one songs that give shout outs to various restaurants and bars,from Rosa's Cantina, in "El Paso" by Marty Robbins to Dino's Bar & Grill in Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back In Town" but whole songs based around real places that seems fairly rare. I'm going to have to do some thinking about that one.
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NEW YORK: THE BIG STOMACH
I’ve just been in New York doing the kind of things you do in New York, including a lot of eating.
The fanciest, and most old school, meal I had was the $45 mutton chop at Keen’s – and no, it most certainly wasn’t dressed as lamb.
The newest and hippest restaurant I went to was the John Dory. I had the flounder, which I was fairly sure I’d never eaten before. It was very good if you like fish and chips, and yes I do. My "companion" (do restaurant critics still use that term) was my edtior Geoff Kloske, who ate squid followed by octopus. He's hell on cephalopods, that guy. Best thing about the place was the counter top of the bar, which looked like this.
One thing I was absolutely certain I’d never eaten before was the “pork stomach porridge” I ordered at a Chinese restaurant called Great N.Y. Noodletown. It tasted much the way you’d imagine, and it seems that some bits of pork stomach are way more appealing than others, but we probably knew that already. “Frog porridge” and “beef and fish stomach porridge” were also on the menu; but I saved those for another time.
The most all-round fun meal I had was lunch at Tom’s Restaurant on Washington Avenue, in Prospect Heights, a fairly gritty bit of Brooklyn and even grittier at night than at lunchtime. Tom’s Restaurant stays shut at night.
Some authorities say this is the place Suzanne Vega sings about in Tom’s Diner, though they’re almost certainly wrong. But somebody definitely should write a song about it. I think it was the friendliest eating establishment I’ve ever been to. This was my first visit but Gus the owner treated me like family. I was there with my pal Michael Kupperman who’d been there a few times before and they treated him like a long lost son. My pastrami came with about a pound of potato salad, and I didn’t really need to eat again for the rest of the day, but somehow I forced myself.
This is the thing about New York. Of course I ate too much while I was there. It’s hard not too when there’s a deli or sushi bar, a pizza joint or hot dog stand on every street corner. There are those who say this is absolutely what’s wrong with America, that we’re becoming ever more overfed and obese simply because we overstimulate our appetites. We never really get hungry but we still want to eat all the time because there are so many enticing options all around us. As with drugs, pornography and gun crime, New York got there first.
On December 6th 1980 John Lennon was interviewed by the BBC and extolled the virtues of New York. He said, “I can go right out this door now and go in a restaurant. You want to know how great that is?” Two days later he was shot dead. Curiously enough he hadn’t been out to a restaurant. He’d been at the recording studio and had hurried home to see his son Sean before he went to bed.
Of course, one of the reasons New Yorkers eat out so often is because they have such crappy little apartments with even crappier little kitchens. It’s not so much that they want to eat out but that they can’t bear to stay home.
Below is the best food sign I saw in New York, in the window of a restaurant on 23rd Street called Live Bait.
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Friday’s LA Times ran an article with the headline “You’d rather eat pate than dog food? Try telling them apart.”
It described research done by the American Association of Wine Economists who fed 18 volunteers with 5 food samples, all of which looked like pate. The samples included duck liver mousse, liverwurst and Spam but one of them was Newman’s Own dog food.
Only 3 out of the 18 volunteers identified the dog food correctly. 8 thought the liverwurst was the dog food, 4 thought Spam was dog food.
I’m not sure this proves much of anything except that America is not a nation of pate eaters. I believe 18 Frenchmen would score rather higher.
I, however, am a pate eater. I enjoy cheap and cheerful pates as much as the high-end stuff, and since I make no claims to have the most sophisticated palate, I did wonder how I’d do on such a test. Also, I confess, I’d always wondered what dog and cat food taste like.
I wanted to take the test. However one dog food sample out of 5 seemed way too easy. What if you had 6 samples, 3 pates of various qualities, alongside 3 samples of dog or cat food ditto? (Actually 2 cat and 1 dog) Wouldn’t that be far more of a challenge? My wife, a tolerant and experimental woman, set up the blind test for me.
The first thing to say is that it’s very easy to make pate look like dog and cat food: no doubt the reverse is true too. And brave omnivore that I am, I admit that knowing you’re going to be eating cat or dog food isn’t a very appetizing prospect. We eat with our eyes but also with our preconceptions. I had a 24-ounce can of Miller Genuine Draft at hand to keep the palate cleansed.
Incidentally my wife tells me that watching someone eating cat food isn’t an especially comfortable experience, either.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, it was dead easy to tell the difference. I was spot on in my identifications, six out of six. And basically the ones that tasted best were the ones intended for humans. Well, duh.
However, the best cat food - Fancy Feast Tender Beef and Liver - really didn’t taste so very much worse than the cheapest pate – Sells Liver Pate - and it would have been no great ordeal to eat the two cat foods I was presented with. They tasted a bit too strong, and they left a bitter after taste but put them on a cracker and serve them with a cornichon and they’d have gone down easily enough.
The only one that was completely gag-inducing was – perhaps you guessed – the Newman’s Own Chicken Formula For Dogs “Made With Organic Chicken.” The label lists brown rice, flax seed and kelp among many ingredients. To my palate it also seemed to contain bone fragments, sand, grit and god knows what else.
Well, this is hardy a criticism. Newman’s presumably understands the tastes of its demographic much better than I do.
As a final test we offered all 6 items to our cat – an old and fussy animal to be sure – and he wouldn’t touch any of them.
I’m sure this all proves something, but I’ll leave it to the American Association of Wine Economists – whoever the heck they may be – to decide what.
I was reminded of a passage in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. The hero, Jurgis, learns a thing or two about what goes on in the canning-room at Durham’s meat processing plant.
“They advertised ‘potted chicken,’ – and it was like the boarding house soup of the comic papers, through which a chicken had walked with rubbers on. Perhaps they had a secret process for making chickens chemically – who knows? Said Jurgis’s friend; the things that went into the mixture were tripe, and the fat of pork, and beef suet, and hearts of beef, and finally the waste ends of veal, when they had any. They put these up in several grades, and sold them at several prices; but the contents of the cans all came out of the same hopper.”
FICTIONAL FEASTING
This article of mine appeared as an essay in yesterday's New York Times Book Review (May 3, 2009)
GO AHEAD. SPOIL MY APPETITE.
By Geoff Nicholson
Like many people, I’ve been spending time lately with Roberto Bolaño’s enormous posthumous novel “2666.” The book is strange and wonderful in all sorts of ways, not least because I can’t think of any other novel in which so many meals are consumed while being so little described.
In the 150-page opening section, four lovelorn literary scholars zip around the world, trying to find a fugitive author and (I think you’d have to say) themselves. They’re always away from home and going out for meals in bars, restaurants, trattorias, taverns and in one case a “Lilliputian” cafeteria. But what do they eat? I have very little idea.
Most of these meals aren’t described at all, and even when certain items are mentioned — a taco here, sausage and potatoes there — there’s no attempt to evoke any sense of how the meal looked, tasted or smelled. I find this curious. I also find it a tremendous relief. Haven’t we all read too many novels in which authors go to town describing meals in sumptuous, elaborate detail, in some cases even giving us the recipes?
It’s all very well for Bob Cratchit and his family to sit down to a Christmas goose whose “tenderness and flavor, size and cheapness” were “the themes of universal admiration.” But since I’m likely to be reading this while sitting alone on the couch sustained only by instant coffee, I tend to develop a bad case of food envy. It’s a lot like sex, I think. I don’t want characters in novels to eat better than I do, any more than I want them to have better sex lives than I do.
I’ve realized that the moments of literary eating I like best are the ones in which the characters suffer because of their food. In “Gravity’s Rainbow,” for instance, there’s an early scene in which the wartime inhabitants of a London maisonette enjoy bananas served in myriad forms, including mashed bananas “molded in the shape of a British lion rampant.”
This is good stuff, but the truly magnificent scene in the book has Tyrone Slothrop sampling various hideous English candies, flavored with the likes of quinine, pepsin, eucalyptus, tapioca, until, choking, he’s offered a Meggezone, “the least believable of English coughdrops.” This is a real product, a nasty little black lozenge, still available, and if my childhood memory is reliable, Pynchon’s description of its effects — “Polar bears seek toenail-holds up the freezing frosty-grape alveolar clusters in his lungs” — gets it about right.
Of course, nobody feels guilty about mocking English taste, least of all the English. In “1984,” George Orwell details the hideous food served in the canteen at the Ministry of Truth, chiefly a “pinkish-gray stew” that he says at one point has a “sour metallic smell,” at another is “tinny” and elsewhere is a “filthy liquid mess that had the appearance of vomit.” O.K., George. We get the idea.
As with the Meggezone, I don’t think Orwell is actually inventing much here. He’s just remembering the terrible food he ate at school, in the army, and indeed in the BBC canteen. A few years earlier he’d written an article called “In Defense of English Cooking,” but since his defense was based on the virtues of bread sauce, marrow jam, suet and haggis, I wonder if it really helped.
I was recently rereading “Moby-Dick,” and it struck me as a vast smorgasbord (bouillabaisse?) of bad eating: the Try Pots Inn, where even the milk tastes of fish; the grim formal meals aboard the Pequod; and the notorious scene of Stubb’s Supper, in which the second mate gets a craving for whale steak and sends a crew member to slice some flesh off a poor dead beast attached to the side of the ship. The steak is “cut and cooked,” and although it’s not clear by what method, Stubb isn’t happy with the results and berates the ancient cook. He devours the steak regardless, and as he eats he hears sharks in the water far below tearing apart the rest of the whale carcass. This all leads Ishmael to ruminate about cannibalism — certainly some members of the ship’s crew are cannibals — and he concludes, “Cannibals? who is not a cannibal?”
Not me, honest. But I accept that in literature, all sorts of people are; from Tamora in “Titus Andronicus” to the Morlocks in H. G. Wells’s “Time Machine” to Hannibal Lecter and Patrick Bateman. I assume it’s the idea of eating human flesh that’s repulsive rather than the flesh itself (I’ll bet it tastes a lot like chicken).
I know nothing about the eating habits of Thomas Harris or Bret Easton Ellis, but I would think that authors who revel in inventing nightmarish food scenes probably revel in eating really good food. Not Franz Kafka, however. He was a food faddist, a sometime passionate vegetarian, a drinker of vast quantities of unpasteurized milk and, according to current diagnosis, also an anorexic. There are those who claim that his short story “A Hunger Artist” is autobiographical, the story of a man who can fast indefinitely because he’s never found any food he likes.
According to Kafka’s great friend and biographer Max Brod, there was a time in the 1920s when Kafka considered, or at least fantasized about, opening a restaurant with his lover Dora Diamant, who was apparently an excellent cook. Kafka was going to be the waiter. The mind reels. How very different the history of 20th- century literature could have been if Dora had managed to put some flesh on those dry Czech bones. We might still have “The Trial,” but perhaps we’d also have “The Franz Kafka Cookbook.”
It would have some good company. Today, we have not only “The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook,” a literary memoir as much as a cookbook and source for Brion Gysin’s infamous hash fudge (not brownie, as is so often supposed), but also “Dining With Marcel Proust,” “Tea With Jane Austen” and at least four cookbooks inspired by Sherlock Holmes; there’s also a book called “The Joyce of Cooking” (as in James), a title so wonderful that if you’d thought of it you would have had to write the book.
I tried, briefly, to come up with some preposterously unlikely titles — “A Lettuce Leaf With Joan Didion”; John Updike’s “Rabbit Reflux”; “Venus in Curds: In the Kitchen With Sacher-Masoch”; or “The James Frey Stovetop Companion,” in which all the recipes sound pretty good but you just can’t trust ’em. Then I discovered there actually is a book called “Kafka’s Soup,” although to be fair this is an ironic enterprise giving “a complete history of world literature” in recipes in the styles of various writers, including “Cheese on Toast à la Harold Pinter,” “Lamb With Dill Sauce à la Raymond Chandler” and Kafka’s “Quick Miso Soup.”
Still, I think we can safely assume that nobody will be publishing “The William Burroughs Cookbook” anytime soon, and that’s a shame, since “Naked Lunch” contains my favorite description of disgusting food. Burroughs writes: “In Egypt is a worm gets into your kidneys and grows to an enormous size. Ultimately the kidney is just a thin shell around the worm. Intrepid gourmets esteem the flesh of The Worm above all other delicacies. It is said to be unspeakably toothsome.” This is surely Burroughs’s own hallucinatory invention, but I’d still like the recipe. I’m not sure I’ve ever eaten anything that was unspeakably toothsome.
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Vida Dutton Scudder, American Lesbian Saint for Our Times
Vida Dutton Scudder is a rare example of a modern lesbian who is a recognized Christian saint (recognized by the US Episcopal Church, not the Roman Catholics). Her work and message are particularly relevant to the twentieth century, as we grapple with an economic crisis triggered in effect by corporate and consumer greed.
Born in 1861, over a long life Scudder was an educator, writer, and welfare activist in the social gospel movement. Much of her thinking has particular relevance to us today, as we grapple with a financial and economic crisis precipitated in effect by a corporate and consumer culture marked by unrestrained greed. Throughout her life Scudder’s primary relationships and support network were women. From 1919 until her death, Scudder was in a relationship with Florence Converse, with whom she lived.
After earning a BA degree from Smith College in 1894, in 1895 she became one of the first two American women admitted to graduate study at Oxford university. After returning to Boston, Scudder taught English literature at Wellesley College, where she becoming an associate professor in 1892 and full professor from 1910.
While studying in England, she had come under the influence of people like John Ruskin,Leo Tolstoi, George Bernard Shaw, and Fabian Socialism. Back in Boston, she became actively involved in promoting her socialist ideas, especially Christian socialism. In 1988, two years after her return from Oxford, she joined both the Companions of the Holy Cross, a women's group dedicated to intercessionary prayer and social reconciliation, and the Society of Christian Socialists . In 1890 she was a co-founder of the Boston "settlement house" Dennison House, part of a movement which had the goal of getting the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent community, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of their low-income neighbors. From 1893 she was active in the trade union movement, and in 1911 she co-founded the Episcopal Church Socialist League and joined the Socialist Party, attempting to reconcile the conflicting doctrines of Marxism and Christianity. After the First World War, she also embraced capitalism, and in 1923 she joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation, giving a series of lectures before the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in Prague.
After her retirement from Wellesley in 1928 until her death in 1954 at the age of 92, as Theresa Corcoran notes:
She continued to be in the storm center of advanced thought in the church and in society, supporting by her name and by her writing such groups as Reinhold Niebuhr's Fellowship of Socialist Christians and Rufus Jones's Wider Quaker Fellowship. She worked closely with the Christendom group in England, encouraged Mother Pattie Ellis in her desire to establish the Community of the Way of the Cross, a women's religious order combining active social work with monastic life, and followed closely the Reverend Frederick Hastings Smyth's Society of the Catholic Commonwealth.
Her socialism was not simply a political impulse, but sprang from her deep religious conviction and Gospel values, seeking to implement God's kingdom on earth. She valued her red Socialist membership card, but placed it in her personal oratory at home beside her crucifix. In the early years after the Russian Revolution she wrote that she "took delight in the Russian experiment", but later recognized that it too, could not guarantee justice, writing in her autobiography,
"I'm afraid that Lenin would have scoffed at my treatment of the red flag given me at this time, which I placed beside the crucifix -- where it still hangs -- in my private oratory . . . I was doing my best to align a catastrophic and dialectical conception of history with my Christian thinking; and in communist revolution I discerned a Divine Judgment which was the sign of approaching redemption . . . But as coercion and cruelty were continuously impounded as means to reach justice and brotherhood, uncritical enthusiasm waned. Helped . . . by Franciscan studies, I became increasingly convinced that no revolution could bring ultimate salvation unless it proceeded from a Christian conception of man."
As we now recognize the failings of the unrelenting pursuit of profit that have brought us to our present crisis, we would do well to reflect deeply on these words. It is not neither the capitalist "system" that has created the problem, but the failure of our values. As Scudder writes, we need to return to a Christian conception of what it is to be human, remembering all the many warnings of Jesus Christ on the dangers of riches and the pursuit of wealth.
She is recognized as a saint by the Episcopal Church (USA), with a feast day on October 10.
PRAYER to VIDA SCUDDER
Most gracious God, you sent your beloved Son to preach peace to those who are far off and to those who are near: Raise up in your church witnesses who, after the example of your servant Vida Dutton Scudder, stand firm in proclaiming the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
(from a collection of lectionary resources for the Episcopal Church)
Labels: Episcopal Church, lesbian, saints
KittKatt 15 December 2011 at 20:32
This is simply awesome! You have introduced me to a wonderful new lesbian saint, and I look forward to researching her and writing more about her (with a link to this post, of course). One question I have is what is the evidence that she was a lesbian?
Saint Vida means a lot to me because my own great-aunt Mabel Hyde Kittredge was deeply involved in the settlement house movement -- and with one of its women leaders Lillian Wald. Nobody has nominated them for sainthood yet. Obviously my first name Kittredge comes from that line of my family.
Terence 15 December 2011 at 23:45
Thanks, Kitt. Your family connection adds a fascinating dimension. I knew nothing about the settlement house movement until I started researching this post, and then found that there is also a connection with Dorothy Day's work with the Catholic Worker movement, which adapted the idea for their own houses. There's a lot more I would have like to follow up on, but I only came across the reference to her as a saint late yesterday, so I was pretty rushed to get something up in time for today, which was the anniversary of her death.
The rush is also my excuse for not giving proper references. This line from Wikipedia is pretty clear, complete with a reference to a printed book (which obviously I've not been able to check):
From 1919 until her death, Scudder was in a lesbian relationship with Florence Converse[4] In Wellesley they resided at 45 Leighton Road.[5]
The relevant references are:
[4] Lillian Faderman (1991) Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America pp. 23-24., Penguin Books Ltd, London.
[5] Who Was Who in America (1960) Marquis Who's Who, Inc., Chicago.
A more oblique reference is from "The Lectionary" (the same one with the prayer I quoted, and lectionary readings for the day):
"Throughout her life Scudder’s primary relationships and support network were women; her closest companion was Florence Converse, who shared in her religious faith and political ideals. "
Seems clear enough for me.
I'm sure there's a lot more for you to find. Have fun.
paula key 14 August 2014 at 20:49
Awesome blog. If interested, I have two blogs on my site: http://stories4hotbloodedlesbians.com that list two other saints:
Felicity and Perpetua - and - St. Brigid and her soulmate.
Look under Religion on my home page.
“Queen Victoria refused to believe that women could have sex with women. Some historians have written that if the Queen had passed a law against lesbians, many women then would be able to put a name to their feelings.” (from my lesbian ebook: Jazz: Jet Setting Carpenter.
Even today, lesbians do not come out of the closet for many reasons.
Some may be - financial ruin (singers/movie stars) or family embarrassment. Think back to Vida's day - Scientists were calling such women 'freaks of nature.' Vida had her career and such declaration may have resulted in her not being able to follow her charity work. Florence was an author - with much to lose.
http://stories4hotbloodedlesbians.com NOT a porn site, but a second home for lesbians world-wide
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2012 Audi A6 3.0 TFSI Quattro
Jumping to the top of the class with Audi's supercharged 311-bhp V-6 and great style.
By Sam Mitani
While has become known as a builder of world-class sports cars, namely the and , the lifeblood of the company comes mainly from its sedans, the , and . They make up more than 40 percent of the company's sales in the U.S. And this year marks the arrival of a completely new A6, a car we sampled on the twisty roads of Sicily, home to the Targa Florio, one of the most exciting and dangerous races ever.
Granted, the new A6 seems hardly the ideal machine for these shoestring roads because of its large size, which is about the same size as the current A6. Still, from inside the car, the new A6 sedan felt smaller, thanks in part to its excellent maneuverability and robust power delivery.
Under the hood of our test car resides Audi's trusted 3.0-liter supercharged V-6 that produces 311 bhp from 5250 to 6500 rpm and 325 lb.-ft. of torque from 2900 to 4500 rpm. The belt-driven supercharger provides 0.8 bar (11.6 psi) of pressure, coming on low in the rpm spectrum, so there's virtually no lag. In Europe, this engine comes mated to a new dual-clutch 7-speed S tronic transmission that sends power to all four wheels via Audi's Quattro all-wheel-drive system. In North America we get an 8-speed Tiptronic with a torque converter.
Our test car was a European model, so we sampled the S tronic, a sportier gearbox. When the path is straight and even, the gearbox, in Sport mode, exhibits lightning fast up- and downshifts, allowing the executive sedan to run to 62 mph in a scant 5.5 seconds, according to Audi. But what's most impressive is this: The new 2012 Audi A6 achieves 22/36 mpg city/highway, a big improvement over the current model. (Audi says there will also be a diesel and hybrid model added to the A6 U.S. lineup next year.)
Part of the reason behind the added economy is that Audi engineers were able to cut 78 lb. from the car's curb weigh. With more than 20 percent of the body composed of aluminum, the new A6 tips the scales at 3836 lb. The new chassis is stiffer too, thanks in part to the use of "hot-shaped steel," which is heated in a furnace to almost 1832 degrees Fahrenheit, then immediately shaped in a water-cooled pressing at about 392 degrees F. This temperature differential allows the steel to achieve an extremely high tensile strength values at relatively low weight.
Tight Handling Via a Revised Suspension and Quattro
Providing stability through turns and over bumps is the suspension—a 5-link setup in front and trapezoidal links at rear, although an adaptive air suspension is available as an option. Together with the car's new electromechanical power steering, the A6 corners flatly and precisely. There's some understeer if you push too hard, but the handling balance is optimal for a jaunt on a mountain road, even one as narrow as those found in the Sicilian countryside. Because the Quattro awd system maintains a 40/60 front/rear torque split when driving normally, the A6 behaves like a rear-drive sedan; it's only when the system senses rear-wheel slip does it send additional power to the front wheels. Ride quality is smooth, and you can feel the rigidity of the chassis when going over bumps.
When it comes to appearance, the A6 shines. In my opinion, this is the best-looking car in the class. Its design is highlighted by the front end, whose mesmerizing optional "xenon " headlights make it instantly recognizable as an Audi, thanks to its LED daytime running light strip, a la the R8. Inside the cabin, you're surrounded by a well-appointed interior with new redesigned seats, and more space for rear-seat passengers, thanks in part to a longer wheelbase, now measuring 114.6 in. And the cabin is quiet—even at speeds of more than 100 mph, the interior seems like a sound-proof chamber.
There are heaps of technology found within the new A6, including ESP stability control, in-car WiFi, MMI navigation system with Google Earth maps and a great-sounding optional Bang & Olufsen stereo. Although Audi officials wouldn't discuss price, we predict that the 3.0 TFSI Quattro will go for about $55,000, while the value-oriented front-wheel-drive 2.0 TFSI sedan will be priced in the mid $40,000 range. Look for both cars to make a splash as soon as they go on sale in the U.S. in September.
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Exceptional Circumstances in Bayh-Dole, 5
Posted on August 23, 2018 by Gerald Barnett
Despite the recognition that there are all sorts of federal research programs primarily directed at nonprofit-hosted research that would benefit from a determination that Bayh-Dole’s default provisions do not do a good job of promoting Bayh-Dole’s stated policy and objectives, federal agencies rarely use exceptional circumstance. Here’s a recent DOE proposal to use exceptional circumstances for energy efficiency research. Makes a lot of sense. What’s strange is how much effort Bayh-Dole requires a federal agency to go through to articulate the obvious. And that’s with Bayh-Dole claiming as a policy and objective that the law minimize the cost of administering policies in this area”–one would think that is policy objective would apply equally to the overhead of stating pubic policy objectives that required invention ownership handling that varied from Bayh-Dole’s default.
One would have to believe that Bayh-Dole’s default was generally the best possible disposition of ownership of inventions once a contractor had acquired ownership–otherwise, the arbitrary default creates a huge administrative burden on federal agencies seeking to act in the public interest across all of the policy and objectives set forth in Bayh-Dole.
Bayh-Dole creates its own awfulness–it “reduces” the costs of administrating good public policy by making those costs so high that federal agencies don’t bother trying–and therefore there’s no cost at all!
Dr. Thomas turns to a description of a determination of exceptional circumstances, a “DEC”:
Let’s consider Dr. Thomas’s first bullet point. A DEC is a document that justifies a restriction or elimination of the right of a contractor who has acquired title to an invention to choose to keep that title. Now Dr. Thomas’s version:
. . . justify the restriction or elimination of patent rights of those awarded a contract . . .
Not it. Bayh-Dole is directed to inventions, not patent rights. But there’s a more subtle slip. Those awarded a contract are not inventors–in the case of universities, they are organizations that receive federal funds on behalf of faculty investigators who have proposed projects worthy of public support. Only where an organization awarded a contract acquires ownership of an invention made under contract does Bayh-Dole apply. Bayh-Dole does not assume that those awarded contracts have any patent rights–or even any rights to any invention, and does not somehow smooth the way for those awarded contracts to get those inventions. Sorry for all the italics. I feel the need of emphasis here to make clear the difference between Bayh-Dole and the slant misrepresentations. The misrepresentations are not merely sloppy or loose–they patch write in place of what Bayh-Dole does something else entirely that sounds plausible to them and they expect will sound plausible to anyone who hasn’t read Bayh-Dole and who doesn’t know any history, and all of this plausibility is then attributed to Bayh-Dole as federal legal truth.
Bayh-Dole’s lack of an assumption with regard to contractor ownership of inventions has been construed by at least one law professors to be just the opposite–that those behind the drafting of Bayh-Dole assumed that all federal contractors must have a patent agreement that requires employees to assign, and that their assumption was wrong. But, but, but… the people who conceived and drafted Bayh-Dole, including Latker and Bremer, knew full well that most universities did not have patent agreements with faculty. The University of Wisconsin, where Bremer harvested inventions for WARF, didn’t even have a patent policy. Knowing that–wouldn’t you think that Latker and Bremer would have included a requirement that inventors assign their inventions to their university “employers”? You know, just as Latker and Bremer had worked out for the IPA program, on which Latker claimed Bayh-Dole was based?
No, Bayh-Dole’s authors did not assume everyone had a patent agreement with employees. They knew otherwise. And given that Bayh-Dole was directed at university-based federally supported research (the small company bit was a political throw-in–there weren’t many small business contractors and the SBIR program had not even been legislated into existence), Latker and Bremer must have gotten stuck trying to turn their contractual scheme to force inventors to give up ownership of inventions to their university hosts into a federal statute. Bayh-Dole does not even require federal contractors to have a patent policy, let alone a patent agreement.
Bayh-Dole preempts federal statutes only when a nonprofit or small business acquires a patentable invention made under contract–otherwise, Bayh-Dole doesn’t apply. If an inventor for some reason wants a contractor to own an invention, and for some even stranger reason is not also a party to the funding agreement, then the inventor needs to assign the invention to a party to the funding agreement. Otherwise, the invention is governed by the various federal statutes that Bayh-Dole otherwise preempts–but does not repeal. Under those statutes and regulations, an inventor can request a determination of rights in most cases–but the federal agency has no obligation to allow an inventor to retain ownership.
Furthermore, if a faculty inventor refuses to assign an invention to his or her university host, while that may cause the university to sue over the rights it claims by policy or contract, there’s nothing in federal law–not Bayh-Dole, not the rest of federal patent law–that dictates that a faculty inventor must assign inventions to the university at which the inventive work was done. Whatever a university claims and acts on with regard to invention ownership comes from its own posterior cortex, not from Bayh-Dole’s. In fact, it is a felony (18 USC 242) for university administrators to misrepresent Bayh-Dole in order to coerce faculty inventors to sign over their inventions:
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States . . . shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both . . .
Claiming that Bayh-Dole requires faculty inventors to sign over their inventions isn’t just a mistake–it’s illegal. After Stanford v Roche, there’s no excuse. Even NIST’s attempt to insert an assignment requirement doesn’t work. It’s a logical deadend everywhere but for inventions that a university already owns, say by equitable title but not legal title.
We are being picky, of course. The general point that Dr. Thomas makes in his first bullet point is that federal agencies can determine exceptional circumstances and then require something other than Bayh-Dole’s default provision that owners of subject inventions can keep their ownership subject to Bayh-Dole default requirements with regard to that ownership.
Now Dr. Thomas’s second bullet point:
A DEC may only apply to a narrowly identified contract or class of contracts and does NOT automatically flow down to subcontractors.
Nothing in Bayh-Dole limits the scope of a DEC to a “narrowly identified contract or class of contracts.” Look–here’s the provisions:
In the case of a determination under subsection (a)(ii), the statement shall include an analysis justifying the determination.
DECs are to be sent to the Secretary of Commerce, and if the Secretary thinks a DEC or class of DECs are not appropriate, he informs the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, which then
is authorized to issue regulations describing classes of situations in which agencies may not exercise the authorities of those clauses.
That is, the government can exclude classes of situations from DECs, but there’s nothing that requires DECs to be narrow with regard to contracts or classes of contracts. Perhaps NIH policy makes up its own requirements on the matter. Or perhaps Dr. Thomas confused limitations on changes in disposition of rights with limitations on the classes of situations in which the limitations apply. Perhaps NIH has the same confusion. Here’s the guidance at 37 CFR 401.3(b):
When an agency exercises the exceptions at paragraph (a)(2), (3), (5), or (6) of this section, it shall use the standard clause at § 401.14 with only such modifications as are necessary to address the exceptional circumstances or concerns which led to the use of the exception.
Make only the necessary changes, but there’s nothing that restricts the classes of contracts to which the exceptions apply other than that a determination cannot be justified according to the requirements of Bayh-Dole, as reviewed by the Secretary of Commerce.
Now for Dr. Thomas’s assertion that a DEC’s modification of rights does “NOT” automatically flow down to subcontractors. That’s a strange point. Flow down of the patent rights clause is governed by provisions that aren’t in Bayh-Dole but were inserted into the standard patent rights clause at paragraph (g):
(1) The contractor will include this clause, suitably modified to identify the parties, in all subcontracts, regardless of tier, for experimental, developmental or research work to be performed by a subcontractor.
The DEC does not flow down automatically because the contractor must flow it down as a condition of the contract. By contrast, Bayh-Dole does require the application of the patent rights clause in nonprofits’ assignments of subject inventions (35 USC 202(c)(7)(A)):
In the case of a nonprofit organization, (A) a prohibition upon the assignment of rights to a subject invention in the United States without the approval of the Federal agency, except where such assignment is made to an organization which has as one of its primary functions the management of inventions (provided that such assignee shall be subject to the same provisions as the contractor);
That is, whatever patent rights clause is in a nonprofit contractor’s funding agreement–including a clause modified by a DEC–must follow any assignment of a subject invention.
Here Dr. Thomas’s apparent broader point would make no sense. Why would a federal agency determine exceptional circumstances and require a modified patent rights clause only to permit contractors to subcontract their way out of the modification? That’s like throwing a pebble in the Mississippi.
Typically, NIH will not approve a DEC for grants or cooperative agreements.
Dr. Thomas here makes a claim that’s not in NIH policy with regard to DECs (we deal here with the 1999 version of Chapter 607 of the PHS Technology Transfer Manual, the version in place when Dr. Thomas gave his talk). Here’s the text:
NIH presumes that the policy and objectives of the Bayh-Dole Act are generally best served by implementing the standard patent rights clauses in grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements.
Nothing here that singles out contracts for modification and not other grants or cooperative agreements.
It is the policy of the NIH that DECs be made on a case-by-case basis, after consideration of other alternatives, and with appropriate management controls and review as set forth in this Chapter
Perhaps at the NIH, “case-by-case” means “case-by-case except never if a grant or cooperative agreement.” Here’s the fascinating thing about the NIH DEC policy at the time–Section E: “Alternatives to DECs”:
NIH views the use of the exceptional circumstances authority to be appropriate where there is no lesser means of achieving an important programmatic goal, consistent with the policies and objectives of the Bayh-Dole Act. NIH encourages ICs and proposed recipients of IC funds to explore alternative means of achieving programmatic goals in lieu of DECs. NIH has been very successful in the past in avoiding DECs by discussing programmatic goals with known or anticipated funding recipients and agreeing on mutually beneficial terms and conditions.
That is, why use the cumbersome procedure of determining something to be in the public interest that does better than Bayh-Dole’s arbitrary default when one can work around Bayh-Dole altogether? The point of a DEC is that the default ownership and/or the default requirements on that ownership do not best promote Bayh-Dole’s goals. But the NIH instead has a policy to work around Bayh-Dole. Institutes and Centers (ICs) are to “explore alternative means” to have contractors do things that they are not required to do by Bayh-Dole’s defaults–but without requiring the contractors to do those things and instead “agreeing on mutually beneficial terms and conditions”–that is, contract for different terms without making those terms formally part of the funding agreement. A side agreement, if you will. A scheme.
Perhaps then when Dr. Thomas asserted that the NIH won’t approve DECs for grants and cooperative agreements, he meant that the NIH didn’t bother with DECs because it could withhold funding until the nonprofits agreed on modified terms outside the funding agreement. In contracts, especially with competitive bidding, perhaps doing side deals with all involved would look bad, and so there the NIH would consider DECs.
Final approval for the DEC is made by the Agency Director after extensive review.
No doubt! And on that follows Dr. Thomas’s exclamatory point for DECs at the NIH:
DECs are rare and truly exceptional!!
Dr. Thomas pounds home this point, after describing various situations in which a DEC might be used by the NIH, with a summary slide:
Given that the NIH supplied the principal drafter of Bayh-Dole, we might expect the NIH to avoid DECs and adopt Bayh-Dole’s default provision. It is that default provision, after all, that enables a pipeline of patent monopolies to pass through the hands of nonprofits to be delivered to favored pharmaceutical companies or to venture speculators hoping to sell up to those companies. This pipeline was first enabled by the NIH’s IPA program, which was shut down a decade later for being ineffective, doing sweetheart exclusive deals with pharma companies, and running generally against public policy by seeking almost always to do those exclusive deals, despite alternatives and despite the ineffectiveness of the attempts.
But rather than look out for the public interest, the NIH maintained as a matter of policy that Bayh-Dole is successful:
The Bayh-Dole Act has been successfully implemented by the widespread election of title to subject inventions by government grantees and contractors, and the subsequent commercialization efforts of those grantees and contractors.
“Election of title” is of course a misrepresentation, as was made clear by Stanford v Roche. Contractors could elect to retain title. But Bayh-Dole is not “successfully implemented” because contractors acquire title and elect to keep it, or even because they make “commercialization efforts.” The primary standard of success in Bayh-Dole is utilization of inventions, practical application, with benefits available to the public on reasonable terms. And then also maximum participation of small businesses, including in development efforts; collaboration between universities and industry–not just a university collaborating with a favored company in an industry; free competition and enterprise; and when there is commercialization or public availability, the use of United States manufacturing and labor. On these metrics, there was and is no good evidence for Bayh-Dole’s success. AUTM does not collect this information. Bayh-Dole does not require federal agencies to collect this information, and if they do, they are required to keep it exempt from FOIA disclosure–perhaps in violation of FOIA! But NIH made it policy that Bayh-Dole was successful. The 2013 revision of the PHS Technology Transfer Manual removes the “Policy” and “Alternatives to DECs” sections. We will discuss the new NIH DEC guidance next.
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The Problem with Executive Isolation
07.10.13Ron Ashkenas
A common phenomenon: the "gatekeeping of senior executives"
A client of mine recently experienced a jarring moment akin to a scene straight out of the old Broadway musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." She was getting ready for a meeting with her CEO. After pulling together her materials, she was asked to review the agenda and presentation with her boss and one of the CEO's staff advisors. During that prep meeting, the staff person strongly encouraged her to downplay or even eliminate any discussion of the newer, more innovative things she was working on — and not to ask the CEO for anything specific, like a policy decision, funding, or public support. "A senior-level committee handles these kinds of issues," he assured her, "And the CEO prefers to focus on areas that he can influence immediately." Finally, he told her to forward the final materials to several other people from the CEO's office who would be in the meeting.
My client was puzzled by this advice; the CEO had personally requested the meeting a month earlier and seemed very interested in the longer-term initiatives spearheaded by her department — some of which could fundamentally change the company's trajectory. As a result, her team had spent a great deal of time sharpening their plans and identifying specific ways that the CEO could help to advance them. Now at the last minute — on the way to the forum — this advisor was telling her to back off. What was going on?
The answer lies in a common phenomenon that I call the "gatekeeping of senior executives." In many large organizations, executive assistants, chiefs of staff, schedulers, and advisors surround senior people; and that's in addition to direct reports who handle particular subject or functional areas. The purpose of this entourage is to leverage the senior executive's limited time — to sort through the myriad of issues and requests, establish priorities, filter out low-value activities, and keep the executive focused on where she or he can make the most difference.
While this process does help to leverage a leader's time, it also has its dark side — it shields the senior executive from direct contact with many of the issues, dynamics, and ideas that are percolating throughout the organization. As a result, all too many senior executives only receive views that have been filtered, orchestrated, and often censored to include only what the "senior circle" thinks he or she should hear. While this sounds extreme, it's really a pervasive dynamic. I worked with another organization, for example, where project teams regularly held a series of "pre-meetings" with staff people before reviewing progress with a senior sponsor — with the goal of producing a slide deck that wouldn't raise any questions.
As a senior leader, breaking through this pattern is not easy. When Jack Welch was CEO of GE, he intentionally created "listening posts," or meetings with managers from other parts of the company where he could get unvarnished views and engage in more spontaneous dialogue. He then urged his senior executives to do the same by insisting that they lead "town meetings" as part of the Work-Out process. Other managers overcome their isolation by setting up skip-level meetings or birthday lunches; or by dropping in on leadership development classes.
Now, if you are a middle manager and want to have direct dialogue with a senior executive, start by not taking everything that his staff people say at face value. They have the difficult job sorting through all of the issues that come the executive's way, and sometimes their opinions about what to do are just that: opinions. So while you don't want to argue or offend them, don't take their advice as if it's written in stone. Use your own judgment about what you want to say, and how you want to say it. Another approach would be to work up the courage to engage the senior leader in a dialogue, instead of just presenting and asking for approval. Most senior people actually appreciate a good discussion about alternatives and candid views about what might or might not work. And if you can get them to help develop an idea or solution, they will be more committed to helping you take it forward. In fact, in the case of my client she politely ignored the advice of the CEO's staff people and presented an unadulterated version of the big idea. The CEO was so interested that he asked for a follow up paper and a series of meetings to explore it further.
Overcoming senior executive isolation is a tough challenge — whether you are the executive or a middle manager. But if you don't break through it, you run the risk of having leaders who may be out of touch.
Ron Ashkenas' blog post on Harvard Business Review. Join the discussion.
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April 15, 2013 | by Nick Truebridge | in News |
Poor Sports
Victoria University will be poorly represented at the 2013 Uni Games, with the Ultimate Frisbee team the only group to take up the offer to compete.
This year’s University Games will be hosted by the University of Otago, and will run from 21 April to 24 April.
Victoria’s Associate Director of Campus Operations Rainsforth Dix told Salient the University had made contact with eligible sporting clubs in March, but that there seemed to be little interest in competing.
“Only two teams expressed interest, and from those two, the Ultimate Frisbee team was the only team that decided to compete this year,” she said.
This means Victoria teams who have seen previous success at the Uni Games will be unable to uphold their championship status.
The Victoria men’s basketball team is just one squad that will not be participating this year, preventing the team from defending the title it has won for the last three years.
One member of Victoria’s 2012 men’s basketball team was spoken to by Salient, and said he had heard nothing about this year’s Uni Games.
“I had no idea there would be no basketball team going this year,” he said.
“Quite frankly, I’m fucked off.”
Recent Uni Games have suffered from poor representation from campuses around the country as a result of high costs for both students and student associations.
The last time Auckland hosted the games two years ago, participation costs for Victoria’s athletes were set at $1000. Last year, the games were held in Wellington and cost $120 for each Victoria student participating.
Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) has aimed to minimise costs for this year’s event, in an attempt to increase participation. OUSA Club Development Officer James Grubb has said that entry costs for students are set at $50 this year.
Grubb has also echoed OUSA’s objective to make sporting events the focal point of the Games, as opposed to the expensive social events that have been prominent in previous years.
”We’re fully focussing on sport,” he said.
However, attendees will still have to pay for extra costs. It is unclear at this stage how much the Ultimate Frisbee team will pay to attend
the Games, as Dix told Salient the University was still deciding how it would go about assisting members of the team financially.
“The level of funding support they might receive is currently being decided by the Student Clubs Council,” she said.
University Games have been held since 1902. The overall winner is awarded the Games Shield, a tradition since 1923. This year, 13 sports will be contested: badminton, basketball, Twenty20 cricket, debating, football, handball, hockey, lawn bowls, netball, rugby sevens, touch, ultimate, and volleyball.
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Your Friendly, Fading Technician
July 1969 Electronics World
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Electronics World, published May 1959 - December 1971. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
Would you work a 44-hour week for $127 (less after taxes are pulled out)? That's $6,600 per year, or $2.89 per hour for a highly skilled electronics technician in 1969. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Inflation Calculator, the equivalent pay in 2017 would be $45,703.89 per year, or $19.98 per hour. A quick look at the current pay rate for an E4 (Sr. Airman, ~3 years of training and service) pay grade in the USAF is $2,139 per month ($25,668 per year). That does not factor in free housing, meals, and medical care (including for all dependents) - which has significant value. GlassDoor reports the average salary for an electronics technician in 2017 was $42,390. That amount is actually a bit lower than the 1969 average. Assuming the present day average is for a 40-hour week ($20.38 per hour), then adding another 4 hours of overtime at a x1.5 rate per labor law increases the total by $122.28 per week ($6,358.50 more per year), That makes an adjusted grand total average of $48,749 per year, which is a tad more than the 1969 average. Since these are all averages without standard deviations or even knowledge of the method and/or agenda (if any) of the reporter, it is probably safe to conclude that electronics technicians make today approximately what they made in 1969.
Where Do You Find Technicians?
That's the question most electronics-service-industry leaders are asking. new blood is hard to attract and harder to hold. Just as important is how to make present technicians more able and efficient. The answers take several directions.
The Electronic Industries Association is concentrating right now on vocational instructors and guidance counselors. Better instructors of servicing can stimulate more interest among students and turn out graduates better qualified to repair home electronics gear. And guidance counselors can influence students considering electronic careers. School systems can find out about this program for vocational instructors from EIA, 2001 Eye St., Washington, D.C. 20006.
National Electronic Associations is putting its effort into an improved apprentice program. New NEA director of apprenticeship is Charles Cave, 7902 Bardstown Rd., Louisville, Ky. 40291. He initiated the Louisville plan (this column, October 1968, page 6) whereby public-school vocational students go to class half- days and work in local shops half- days (for pay). The plan is so successful, shops are on a waiting list for the next class to start. With Cave, NEA is helping the Indiana Board of Education set up a similar program statewide.
To the Editors:
The present situation relative to TV shops closing down ("Radio & Television News" items in Feb. issue on "Old Service Shops Just Fade Away" and "Who Cares About Customers?") is attributable to too much work and too little pay. TV technicians earning $550.00 a month for a 44-hour week know they are underpaid. Increasing the work output is not the answer, for it cannot be increased beyond its prevailing level without lowering the quality and incurring the penalty of callbacks and the like. In short, only a given amount of work can be produced in a given period of time.
The handwriting is in the plaster. The consumer has to face the moment of truth that if he is to obtain the services of competent TV technicians he must pay what they are really worth.
This can be implemented only by a rate increase sufficient to pay shop owners a reasonable return for their efforts; and they will, in turn, pay their TV technicians more than $3.00 per hour, which is what the above figure of $550.00 per month reflects.
I could not agree more with Mr. Belt's view that the customer likes a friendly technician. This is as it should be. The present climate militates against this however; the scene is hardly pacifistic. Only a fellow technician can know the outrages suffered almost daily by other technicians dealing with the rank and file customer. This alone has driven the TV shop off the scene, for the pay is too little, and the attrition too great. Until the pay is increased substantially, and a new sense of pride is restored, the forces of attrition will continue to drive the cream of the TV servicing profession to other industries. This, Mr. Belt, is a fact to be reckoned with by all parties. Big shops will not ameliorate it - they will only perpetuate it on a larger corporate level.
Vincent L. Irvan
Pacific Grove, Cal.
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The Gate House, Rochester
The Gate House is in Village Gate on Goodman Street in Rochester. It's in the space formerly occupied by Salena's, which has moved to a different location in Village Gate. The Gate House is a full-service restaurant that, according to its website, prides itself on fresh ingredients. Much of its menu is taken up by its burgers and its pizzas. Here's what they say about their pizzas:
"[O]ur pizza dough and sauce [are] made daily. We pay homage to traditional Neopolitan pizza making techniques by using Tipo OO Italian flour, tomatoes from the San Marzano Valley, fresh mozzarella and a wood burning pizza oven."
I tried their "Strong Margherita" (most of their entrees are named after local landmarks or celebrities, usually with no apparent rhyme or reason, although I guess margherita, which was named for Queen Margherita in the 19th century, kind of fits with Margaret Woodbury Strong), which the menu describes as topped with "tomato sauce, mozzarella, parmigiano, olive oil and basil."
Upon arrival at the table, it looked pretty good - very thin crust, bright red tomato sauce, nicely melted cheese, a few "islands" of fresh mozzarella, and wilted shreds of basil. The edge, though, was just a bit browned, without the telltale blackened spots you might expect from a high-temp, wood-fired oven. The underside was a surprise, too, with some dark brown spots here and there, but mostly a uniform, pale hue.
The slices were very easy to fold, and biting into them, I found that they had no crispness at all, again a surprise, since pizzas cooked in a woodburning oven are often so crisp they're almost crackerlike. These were quite chewy, and not at all bready; although the edges seemed to have some small air holes, I really wasn't sure that any yeast had been used in the dough, which didn't seem to have risen at all.
The dough also seemed to have a fair amount of shortening in it. It wasn't really flaky, but it had a slightly greasy feel that seemed to come from the dough itself rather than from the surface on which it had been cooked. And despite the charred spots, it didn't seem to have been cooked all that much. It reminded me, a little, of one of those flatbreads you can get at Indian restaurants that has been cooked in a tandoor oven, only this was not cooked to quite the same degree of doneness.
The toppings were good, with a thick tomato sauce that seemed to have bits of garlic in it, a nice contrast between the two cheeses, and a subtle basil flavor. But it was hard for me to get past the crust. It was such an attractive pizza I almost hate to say it but the best short description I can give would be slightly undercooked (for a pizza) pastry dough.
I might go back to The Gate House sometime, but only to try their burgers and fries, both of which looked pretty good. As for the pizza, well, I've never been to Naples (the one in Italy I mean, not the one with the Grape Festival), but it was not what I think of as Neapolitan pizza. I won't presume to offer advice, but I wonder if their oven is not as hot as it could be. I'm sure the pizza at The Gate House has its fans, but for me, it rates only a C.
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Rookies Express, Monroe Ave.
Rookies Express Pizza & Pasta has been open for a few months now on Monroe Ave., in a former location of Mark’s Pizzeria, which moved up the street a little. They are open all day, past bar closing time on weekends. Besides regular and “gourmet" pizzas, they offer baked chicken wings, pasta and subs.
I had a “Hugia Slice” with pepperoni, the name of which is derived from a local auto dealership ad. The huge/mega/jumbo slice thing seems to be hitting Rochester lately. It may be an overgeneralization, but I would say that when you see a place advertising how enormous their slices are, that’s not a good thing if you’re looking for really good pizza. Same as when a restaurant makes a big deal about how generous their portions are: it’s putting quantity over quality.
My “Hugia Slice” did nothing to dispel that view. It was big, for sure, but, almost strange. The crust was very doughy, with a soft, spongy texture and yeasty flavor that reminded me a little of the crepe-like injera bread they serve at Abyssinia, the Ethiopian restaurant on University Ave. The underside was pale and soft too, but the edge was slightly burnt and crunchy, with an oily flavor and mouthfeel.
There was not much sauce on the crust, but above that was a medium-thick layer of cheese, with flecks of brown, cooked spots. The cheese adhered to the slice when I bit into it, although it pulled away in a single mass quite easily when I tugged on it with my fingers. The pepperoni was of the “cup and char” variety, with a nice crunch to it.
The counter service (there is virtually no seating) was friendly and polite, but despite that I have no plans to go back. Rookies’ menu says that they have three dough styles to choose from if you order a full pie - “original pan, thin, or crispy” - and I assume that I got the “original pan” version - but nothing about it made me want to check out the other two. My take on Rookies is that, like a lot of the big-slice places, it caters, or appeals, primarily to the bar crowd looking for a cheap way to fill their guts and soak up beer. This would certainly do the trick, but I’m afraid that’s about all. I give it a D.
Pizza Guy Note: Rookies Express has closed.
Labels: 14607, grade D, late-night, slices
Bay Goodman Pizza, Rochester
Years ago, Bay Goodman Pizza, at the corner of Bay and Goodman Streets, would certainly have been on anybody's short list of classic Rochester pizzerias. It combined a bar with a pizzeria, which turned out medium-thick pizzas with a thick, stringy layer of cheese, and it had been around for a long time. It may not have been the greatest pizza ever, but it was one of the definitive Rochester pizzerias.
At some point both the bar and the pizzeria closed, as the surrounding neighborhood went downhill, and the bar itself became a trouble spot. In name at least, though, Bay Goodman Pizza has reemerged as "The Original Bay Goodman Famous New York Style Pizza," incongruously located near the corner of North Winton and Blossom Rd. on the city's eastern edge. As before, it adjoins a bar, Mickey Flynn's.
I stopped by recently for a lunchtime slice. Would the pizza be the same as I remembered?
The choices were plain cheese or pepperoni. I chose the latter.
The slice, which seemed pretty fresh out of the oven and had not been reheated, was covered with a generous helping of "cup & char" pepperoni slices, which were nicely crunchy along the edges.
Beneath that was a fairly thick layer of congealed cheese, more chewy than stringy, which adhered fairly well to the underlying crust, from which it was separated by a thin layer of sauce.
I would characterize the crust as medium thick. Perhaps a bit on the thin side of medium, by Rochester standards, but hardly what I would call New York-style thin. Maybe at one time this is what people around here thought of as NY-style pizza, but not today.
It was, I have to say, a bit on the greasy side as well. Some of that was undoubtedly from the pepperoni, but the healthy dose of cheese certainly had something to do with it too. Still, it wasn't so greasy or crunchy as to have obviously cooked in its own grease, and the crust, though lacking the exterior crispness of a good NY-style pizza, nevertheless retained a noticeable interior breadiness reminiscent of Italian bread. It also had a subtle but pleasant herbal flavor, and was flecked with what I'm guessing was oregano. The crackled underside bore a thin coating of flour and several large grease spots.
So was it as good as I remembered? I'm not sure. At first I didn't think so, but upon reflection, it was close enough to the original that it left me wondering if I'm simply remembering the old Bay Goodman through nostalgically tinted glasses.
Bay Goodman would not be among my choices for a regular pizza stop. It's thicker and greasier than I like, and a bit too heavy-handed on the cheese for my taste. Given the medium-thick, chewy crust and the substantial amount of cheese, it also would have benefited from a bit more sauce, of a heartier consistency, to balance out the other components.
I will say, though, that Bay Goodman is well positioned next to a bar, as I could see a bready, greasy slice or two hitting the spot at the end of the night, or as a sponge to slow down the effects of your drinks.
Speaking of the bar, I should mention that there is no seating in the pizzeria, and the bar doesn't open until sometime in the afternoon, so lunchtime orders are strictly to go. I didn't see any indication that they deliver, but I didn't ask. Various subs, sides and wings are available as well.
The bottom line? The "new" Bay Goodman is still turning out some pretty decent pizza, in a style that, at one time at least, typified pizza in these parts: medium crust, plenty of cheese, nice and bready. But things have changed over the years, rendering its sign a little inaccurate, in more ways than one. Perhaps it should now read, "The Original Bay Goodman Blossom Winton Famous (Rochester) New York Style Pizza." It gets a C+ from me.
NOTE: since this was posted, Bay Goodman has moved a few blocks north, to the corner of Winton and Browncroft. There is a second location on Titus Ave. in Irondequoit.
Posted by Pizza Guy at 1:36 PM 13 comments
Labels: 14610, bar, grade C+, Rochester style, slices, thick crust
In thinking about which pizzerias I should cover in this blog, the question occurred to me what to do about chain pizzerias. Should I review them or not?
The short answer I've come up with is this. National chains I won't report on at all. If you've had a Papa-Domino-Hut pizza anywhere, you know what it's like already. I can assure you it's the same here as anywhere else. If you haven't tried it by now, then you're probably not interested anyway. For that matter, if you're reading this blog you're probably not interested in what their pizza is like.
For local and regional chains, though, I will try to get to one (preferably the original, if it's still around) location of each. Now I know that some local chains have more locations in the Rochester area than do their national competitors (the Rochester White Pages list 10 Domino's and 17 Salvatore's, for example), but if a reader has just moved to this area, or is planning to visit or relocate here, I figure it may be helpful to provide some info on the local chains.
Also, if I were to leave out the local chains, the question would then arise, what about a pizzeria with only two locations? Is that a "chain"? Most people would probably say no. So what would be the magic number at which a pizzeria becomes a chain? Any number I could pick would ultimately be arbitrary.
At the same time, it would be pointless to visit, say, every single Mark's Pizzeria around here. Presumably they're all pretty much alike, or at least they should be. Hence my solution: one location per local pizzeria. Stay tuned.
Labels: chains
Tony D's, Corn Hill, Rochester
Although there are by now several places around Rochester making pizza in wood-fired ovens, Tony D's in Corn Hill Landing is the first and so far only local pizza restaurant with a coal-fired oven. Why is that a big deal? Well, some of the most renowned pizzas in NYC and elsewhere have been made in coal ovens, which burn at very high temperatures, generally without producing as much smoke as wood.
A quick aside: in Naples, considered the birthplace of modern pizza, wood was the traditional fuel; coal was used in the old days by Italian immigrants in New York because it was readily available. As with many pizza-related topics, there's a whole debate about what's better, coal or wood, and natural gas has its adherents too, but that's beyond the scope of this review. Just take it from me: a pizzeria with a coal-fired oven in Rochester is a big deal to pizza aficionados.
Tony D's is a full-service restaurant, with table service as well as a counter in front of the open kitchen, where you can sit and see your pizza, or other food order, being prepared. In the corner of the back wall is the cobblestone-faced oven, with a stack of wooden pizza peels standing nearby. I should've turned the flash off on my camera because the flash tends to drown out the orange glow of the coals, which is much more visible than the picture would indicate. The aroma from the fire is noticeable but not strong, and not really smoky, since coal burns pretty cleanly.
(The D&C, incidentally, describes the oven at Tony D's as "gas assisted," which I assume means that it uses a combination of gas and coal, but unless you're a real purist, it's a legitimate coal-fired oven, and is clearly hotter than the average pizza oven.)
I ordered a margherita, which was razor thin except for the puffy edges. It was charred and blistered underneath and along the edge, to the point of being burnt in spo ts, but thanks to the heat of the oven it retained some bready chewiness and the pieces were foldable, meaning that they hadn't dried out to the point of becoming crackly. Clearly, though, this is pizza that needs to be watched and tended to carefully in the oven; a minute or two one way or the other, or a failure to rotate the pizza when needed for even cooking, can make all the difference.
I had read that at one point Tony D's had turned down the heat in the ovens because patrons were complaining that their pizza was "burnt," but that they had since gone back to the high temps. I'm glad they did. What would be the point of a coal-fired oven if you're not going to crank up the heat? The menu, by the way, warns that Tony D's pizzas are "well done" - you want golden-brown pizza, there are plenty of other places you can go to.
The sauce was applied thinly - heavy toppings won' t do on thin pizza - and had a nice, sharp tomatoey flavor. The sa uce was topped with a thin layer of shredded cheese, browned on top, and applied sparsely enough to allow pockets of sauce and the occasional tomato chunk to poke through. In the center of each of the four slices was a creamy, melted island of fresh mozzarella, and scattered throughout were wilted shreds of fresh basil. (It struck me while eating that one benefit of folding a thin slice is that it squeezes the toppings together, so that you still get a healthy dose of toppings with each bite.)
The overall impression was of a mix of diverse flavors rather than a homogeneous blend. With each bite, the crust, tomatoes, cheeses and basil each came through individually, unlike your basic corner pizza joint slice, in which the flavors tend to meld together.
As I've said before, that very corner-pizza-joint style is, to me, the ideal pizza, so it wouldn't be fair to measure Tony D's against that standard. The basic approach here is different, whether you want to call it high-end, artisanal, rustic, authentic, etc. Simply approaching it on its own terms, I thought it was quite good, with a range of contrasting, yet complementary flavors and textures that made it easy to finish off my 9" pie. I'll give it an A-.
Labels: 14608, coal-fired, Corn Hill, eat-in, grade A-, margherita, outdoor seating, table service, thin crust, wood-fired
All Star Pizza, Penfield
All Star Pizza, on Penfield Road across from Panorama Plaza, claims to "Specialize in New York Style Thin Crust Pizza," so this was high on my list of places to check out. The result was, well, pretty good, though I'm not sure it would make a City native feel as if he'd been transported back to the Big Apple.
I should note, first of all, that All Star does not just make thin crust. The flyer advertises a "Crust-O-Meter" with three options: "NY Style Thin," "Traditional Regular," and "Double Thick." Of course a lot of places will make the crust thicker or thinner on request, but since the flyer describes this as "New!" I'm guessing that thin crust was originally All Star's default or "regular" pizza, and that at some point they decided to explicitly offer three choices, though the emphasis remains on the thin version.
Anyway, I went with the thin crust, since that's my favorite and All Star's specialty. It certainly met the thinness criterion, not a bad looking pie. Checking the underside revealed that it had been baked on a screen (you can tell by the cross- hatching). I guess the theory behind a screen is that the the holes in the screen allow the bottom of the dough to cook by convection and radiant heat rather than by conduction as when the pizza lies directly on the oven floor. In theory that should result in a crisper crust, but it didn't here. Now I should point out that this pizza sat in the box in my car for a good 20-30 minutes before I opened the box, so maybe that had something to do with it, but the crust was not that crisp, and the slices were on the floppy side (ideally you should be able to fold a NY-style slice and have the pointy end stick out straight, without flopping down).
For all that floppiness, oddly, one slice cracked right down the middle when I folded it, but the rest passed the foldability test.
As might be expected, there was also no charring, which is not a huge deal to me, but the ideal NY-style pizza should have some char spots. The edge of the crust was on the crunchy side, in a way that a crust will get when it's got some grease on it or in it. In other words, a fried rather than baked kind of crunch. As you can see, the box also soaked up a fair amount of grease, which may be a good or bad sign depending on how you feel about grease. Frankly I think a little grease (I guess "oil" sounds better) isn't a bad thing, as fat helps convey flavor to your taste buds.
The toppings were pretty standard, with a moderate amount of sauce, and a fairly thick layer of mozzarella cheese that had a tendency to slide off the crust when you removed a slice from the pie or took a bite, unless you were careful to cut or bite cleanly through it. Maybe the fat in the cheese melted and created a barrier between the dough and the cheese, preventing the cheese from adhering to the crust.
I ordered this one half cheese, half pepperoni, although as the photo indicates, what I got was more like 2/3 cheese, 1/3 pepperoni. There's the usual list of available toppings, and some specialty pizzas, including chicken wing, "lasagna pizza," and Philly steak. They also do subs, wings (which are pretty decent), calzones, salads, and various fried sides. Takeout and delivery only. Ask about specials when you order; if I had, I could've saved myself a few bucks.
It may sound as if I really didn't like this pizza, but that's not the case. I enjoyed it. Most of what I said about it was intended only to describe it, not to criticize it. It had a good flavor and was thin enough that I could, and did, eat several slices without getting too full. It's just not, in my opinion, particularly close to what you would typically get at a pizza slice joint in NYC; I'd call it more of an interpretation than an exemplar of NY-style pizza. But measured on its own terms, it was enjoyable enough. I'll give it a B-.
Labels: 14625, grade B-, NY style, penfield, thin crust
Pizzeria Americana (Greece)
Pizzeria Americana has two locations, one on Long Pond Road in Greece, near the Lake Ontario Parkway, and another on Monroe Ave. in Brighton. The Greece location is officially "Kip's Pizzeria Americana" and the Brighton one is "Pizzeria Americana Ohana." ("Ohana" means "family" in Hawaiian, but I have no idea if there is actually a Hawaiian connection there.) But I digress. Today's pizza comes from the Greece location, which shares Carriage Stop Plaza with a convenience store and a couple of bars. It's pretty much a takeout and delivery place only.
P.A.'s Yellow Pages ad proclaims "Stone Hearth Baked Pizza" and "Over a Million Possibilities!"
As to the former, I do think the use of a stone hearth makes a noticeable difference compared to some pizzerias that use an oven with a metal floor. Stone, like brick, tends to draw away moisture from the dough, and there's no need to oil it. The result is a firm crust that's not soggy, with a slightly charred, non-greasy underside.
The crust at P.A. is about a half inch thick, I guess about average for the Rochester area. Although I'm more of a thin-crust guy, I've found that if a place doesn't typically make thin crust or NY-style pizza, don't ask them to make it thin. If medium is what they typically do, then it's probably what they do best. This crust had a pleasant bready flavor, with a nicely chewy interior.
I'm not sure about the "million possibilities" claim, but they do offer quite a few toppings (I went with fresh basil), including "cup and char" pepperoni (the fat little pepperoni slices that form a "cup" when baked), prosciutto, spinach, artichoke hearts, pine nuts, roasted garlic and clams, to name a few. They also do a number of "gourmet pizzas," such as a grilled-steak pizza, seafood alfredo (doesn't sound good to me, but that's just me) and a "garbage pie" that's basically a garbage plate on a pizza (minus the baked beans, thankfully). I doubt I'll be trying that one anytime soon, but it might be a "bucket list" kind of thing.
The sauce was, well, sauce, and the cheese was applied fairly liberally but was not gloppy, and was pleasingly browned in spots.
Pizzas here come in small (10") and medium (14") pies, and half and full sheets. I've never been a fan of sheet pizza, so if I had a lot of mouths to feed, I'd go with two or more pies rather than a sheet. With the medium-thick crust it is pretty filling stuff though.
The menu also includes a number of appetizers, subs, salads (does anybody actually order salad from a pizza place?) and wings. The wings were OK, but their version of Buffalo sauce was kind of odd - dark, tangy and vinegary. Not bad, necessarily, but not what I would call a Buffalo wing either.
Given my preference for NY-style pizza, Pizzeria Americana would probably be more of an occasional than a regular choice for me, but for a medium-crust pie, I thought it was actually quite good, with a distinctive taste that rates it a cut above the average for the Rochester area. I'll give it a B+.
Labels: 14612, grade B+, greece, hearth baked
The closest thing I've found around Rochester to NY-style pizza is that served up by the Pizza Stop on State St. downtown. It's in an unassuming storefront location that looks as if it could be on any busy street in the Big Apple, and the pizza lives up to that appearance. The crust is thin and foldable, with a good bready flavor. Look at the underside and you'll also see a little charring from the hot, hot ovens - a rarity in this area except for restaurants with wood-fired ovens (which tend to disappoint me, but that's a post for another day). When you stop in for a slice or to pick up your pie (they don't deliver), you'll notice that the ovens are wrapped in heat-reflective insulation to keep the indoor temperature bearable. I don't know if that's because the ovens are unusually hot to begin with, but I'm guessing that the insulation also makes the temperature inside the oven even higher. In any event, the result is a nicely charred pie, which is not the same as burnt. Most pizza places around here keep their oven temps too low to get that effect; their pizzas come out brown on the bottom; if they leave them in longer, the pizzas simply get burnt, with the flavor and texture of burnt toast. A charred pizza has a crust that i s pleasantly crisp on the outside but still bready and chewy on the interior. In NYC, it's commonplace, but as I said, in this area it's sadly all too rare.
Anyway, back to the Pizza Stop. The crust is the star, as it should be, but the sauce and cheese are worthy supporting players. Neither is overdone here, and they're uniformly distributed across the surface (I am not among those pizza aficionados who think that the cheese should be applied here and there, with pockets of sauce poking through - I want cheese in every bite).
The Pizza Stop does serve square slices of thick-crust, "Sicilian" pizza as well, but I don't think I've ever tried it; I figure every bite of it would be one less bite I could take of their thin-crust pizza, and I can't bring myself to do that.
As I said, Pizza Stop doesn't deliver, and it is only open on weekdays till 5:30 (7:30 on Fridays). At lunchtime it's not unusual to see a line out the door. There is some ind oor seating. They don't do wings or subs. I think there is some sort of pasta and maybe one or two other things on the menu but I can't say I've ever seen anybody eating anything here but pizza, which is entirely understandable. If you love NY-style pizza, you owe it to yourself to get to the Pizza Stop. I give it a solid "A".
Pizza Stop, 123 State St. 546-7252
Mon. - Thu. 10:30 - 7:00, Fri. 10:30 - 9:00. Closed weekends.
[Pizza Guy's note: go here to read my interview with Pizza Stop owner Jim Staffieri, and here to read my review of their Sicilian and stuffed pizzas.]
Posted by Pizza Guy at 7:26 AM 16 comments
Labels: 14614, downtown, grade A, NY style, slices, thin crust
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