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Taneytown to see four-way race for mayor in May election; Mount Airy and Manchester fields set
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Apr 05, 2019 | 5:00 AM
The municipal elections in Taneytown will be contested this year, with four candidates running for mayor, according to information provided by the city clerk.
Current Mayor Jim McCarron is officially running for a fourth term, while current Councilmen Bradley Wantz and Donald Frazier, as well as former Councilman Paul Chamberlain, will seek to unseat him on Election Day, May 6.
Read up on Taneytown's candidates for the 2019 election here. »
Frazier and Wantz have served on the council since 2015. Prior to that, Wantz served on the Taneytown Board of Zoning Appeal from 2013 to 2015. Chamberlain previously served on the Taneytown council from 2005 to 2009.
Both Wantz and Frazier would have been up for re-election to continue serving on the Taneytown City Council. But because they are running for mayor, two seats are now open on the Taneytown council, and three men — Barry Guckes, Daniel Haines and Darryl Hale — are running for those two seats.
Hale previously served two terms on the council, beginning in 1999, and again after winning re-election in 2003.
What you need to know about this spring’s municipal elections in Carroll County
By Alex Mann
Mar 08, 2019 | 11:30 AM
Haines is currently the chairman of the Taneytown Parks and Recreation Advisory Board.
Guckes has no previous political experience but served 21 years in uniform in both the Army and Navy, and another 20 as a civilian at the National Security Agency before retiring in November 2017. He has lived in Taneytown since 2015.
Residents must register by April 8 with the Carroll County Board of Elections to vote in the election. Absentee ballots will be available by April 15.
The election will be held from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on May 6, at the Taneytown Police Department at 120 E. Baltimore St.
Two other jurisdictions have candidate fields set thus far.
Four candidates are running for three open seats on the Mount Airy Town Council, according to a town administrative assistant.
The council seats occupied by Bob King, Jason Poirier and Council President Peter Helt are up for election.
Sykesville Town Council nominations include incumbents, former mayor, museum curator
By Jennifer Turiano
Karl Munder, John Stuehmeier and Pamela Reed are running for election to the council, and Poirier is aiming to retain his seat. Munder ran for a council seat in 2017, Stuehmeier is a police sergeant and Reed is president of the Mount Airy Main Street Association.
Town residents must register to vote with the Carroll County or Frederick County elections boards. Once they've registered with their county, they're automatically eligible to vote in the town election. Voter registration is open through April 8.
Absentee ballots are expected to be prepared by April 15, said Debbie Parker Brennan, the town clerk.
Mount Airy’s Election Day is set for May 6. Voting will be held at the Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Company Activities Building at 1008 Twin Arch Road.
Manchester will hold an election for the mayor and two council members on May 21.
The incumbents — Mayor Ryan Warner and Councilmembers Vincent Pacelli and Jennifer Warner — are running unopposed.
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Paul A. Carrubba
Paul is a Partner in the law firm of Adams and Reese LLP. His primary focus is on Banking Law and legal issues dealing with payment system laws and regulations and bank operations issues. He is a frequent speaker at industry trade organization events, vendor user conferences and Webinars on banking and banking law issues. He serves a litigation consultant and expert witness in matters dealing with banking procedures. Before starting the practice of law, Paul was Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Carreker Corp., Dallas Texas. In this position, he had responsibility for the management of the P&L for the software business units. Prior to joining Carreker, Paul started a consulting firm and provided bank operations consultation to banks in the U.S., litigation support and expert testimony, and legal services to financial institutions.
Paul started his banking career at Deposit Guaranty National Bank in Jackson, MS where he worked for over twenty years. At the time of his departure, he was Senior Vice President and Manager of Operations, served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southern Financial Exchange, he was a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA), a member of the Bank Administration Institute's Council for Educational Services and the Operations and Technology Commission and Chairman of the Operations and Automation Committee of the Mississippi Bankers Association. He is the author of five books including: Revised UCC Article 3 and 4, A Banker's Guide to Checks, Principles of Banking, and Remote Deposit Capture Practical Considerations.
Operations, Payment Processing
You can reach Paul via email at Paul.Carrubba@arlaw.com or by telephone at (601) 292-0788.
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The North Country Savings Bank
Canton, NY
Canton, NY-based The North Country Savings Bank is an FDIC-insured bank founded in 1909. As of December 31, 2017, the bank held equity of $33.7 million on assets of $245.6 million.
With 64 full-time employees in 4 offices in NY, the bank has amassed loans and leases worth $206.2 million, including real estate loans of $199.1 million. U.S. bank customers currently have $190.1 million in deposits with the bank.
Overall, Bankrate believes that, as of December 31, 2017, The North Country Savings Bank exhibited a good condition, earning 4 out of 5 stars for safety and soundness. Here's a breakdown of how the bank did on the three major criteria Bankrate used to score American banks.
SAFE AND SOUND?
THE INSTITUTION'S SCORE
Capital Score
Capital works as a buffer against losses and provides protection for account holders during periods of economic instability for the bank. It follows then that when it comes to measuring an a bank's financial strength, capital is essential. When it comes to safety and soundness, the more capital, the better.
On our test to measure the adequacy of a bank's capital, The North Country Savings Bank achieved a score of 18 out of a possible 30 points, beating the national average of 13.13.
One way to measure this buffer is looking at a bank's Tier 1 capital ratio. The North Country Savings Bank's Tier 1 capital ratio was 25.53 percent, above the 6 percent level regulators consider adequate, but under the national average of 25.65 percent. The higher the capital ratio, the better the bank will be able to weather economic difficulties.
Overall, The North Country Savings Bank held equity amounting to 13.72 percent of its assets, which exceeded the national average of 12.03 percent.
Asset Quality Score
This test's purpose is to try to understand how the bank's loan loss reserves and overall capitalization could be affected by troubled assets, such as past-due mortgages.
A bank with extensive holdings of these types of assets could eventually be forced to use capital to absorb losses, diminishing its equity cushion. It also means that there are likely to be many assets that are in non-accrual status and thus aren't earning interest for the bank, decreasing earnings and increasing the chances of a future failure.
On Bankrate's asset quality test, The North Country Savings Bank scored 40 out of a possible 40 points, better than the national average of 37.49 points.
A widely used indicator of asset quality is the percentage of problem assets a bank holds compared to its total assets. As of December 31, 2017, 0.97 percent of The North Country Savings Bank's loans were noncurrent, meaning they were more than 90 days past due or were in non-accrual status. That's below the national average of 1.01 percent.
Banks keep a reserve known as an "allowance for loan and lease losses" to deal with problem assets . The size of that reserve can be a useful indicator when evaluating a bank's ability to manage problem assets, especially when compared to the total amount of at-risk loans. Unfortunately, the FDIC did not provide information on The North Country Savings Bank's loan loss allowance in its most recent filings.
Earnings score
How profitable a bank is affects its safety and soundness. A bank can retain its earnings, boosting its capital buffer, or use them to deal with problematic loans, potentially making the bank more resilient in tough times. However, banks that are losing money have less ability to do those things.
The North Country Savings Bank underperformed the average on Bankrate's test of earnings, achieving a score of 10 out of a possible 30.
Return on equity, calculated by dividing net income (essentially, profit) by the total amount of equity, is one key measure of a bank's earnings. The most recent annualized quarterly return on equity for The North Country Savings Bank was 4.51 percent, below the national average of 8.10 percent.
The bank recorded net income of $1.5 million on total equity of $33.7 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2017. The bank had an annualized return on average assets, or ROA, of 0.58 percent, below the 1 percent deemed satisfactory in accordance with industry standards and below the average for U.S. banks of 1.00 percent.
WHAT IS SAFE & SOUND?
Bankrate.com's Safe & Sound Ratings provide a star rating system to evaluate the current financial status of financial institutions. The information gathered about banks, credit unions and thrifts is updated as set forth in the Terms of Use of Safe & Sound Ratings and Reports. The Safe & Sound Ratings information is grouped by categories of banks, thrifts and credit unions.
Bankrate.com evaluates the financial condition of institutions and assigns a one- to five-star rating for each with five stars representing the highest rating. Institutions with satisfactory performance will generally receive a rating of three or more stars. The majority of institutions fall into the three- to four-star range. An institution with an "NR" rating may be too new to rate or may have limited the publicly available information in their regulatory filings. The "NR" is not an indication of financial strength or weakness. The Safe & Sound rating is believed to be reliable, but the information is not guaranteed. In addition, events since the information was collected may have altered the institution's financial condition.
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December 18, 1954 (age 64)
Raymond Julian Vicimarli
Raymond Liotta
Raymond Allen Liotta
Ray Liotta Biography
American actor Ray Liotta is best known for his on-the-edge tough-guy characterizations in films like Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1992) and No Escape (1994).
Born in New Jersey in 1954, actor Ray Liotta made his acting debut on the daytime drama Another World. He initially struggled to find work in Hollywood, but he won critical and popular acclaim as the crazed ex-con husband opposite Melanie Griffith in Something Wild. Liotta is best known for his on-the-edge tough-guy characterizations in films like Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1992) and No Escape (1994).
Raymond Allen Liotta, generally known as Ray Liotta, was born on December 18, 1954, in Newark, New Jersey. He was adopted by Alfred and Mary Liotta when he was just a few months old. The family later grew to include Liotta's sister, Linda, who was also adopted. Liotta was a talented athlete, playing both basketball and soccer in high school.
After graduating from Union High School in 1973, Liotta went to the University of Miami, where he studied acting. Liotta moved to New York after college and was soon spotted by a casting agent. He got a part in a TV commercial, then found work as Joey Perrini on the daytime drama Another World. Liotta appeared on the show from 1978 to 1981.
After moving to California to try his luck in Hollywood, Liotta spent years struggling to find work. He landed a breakthrough role when he was cast as Melanie Griffith's crazed ex-con husband in Something Wild (1986). The portrayal won him critical and popular acclaim, though he followed the performance with an entirely different role, as a medical student caring for his mentally challenged brother in the 1988 film Dominick and Eugene. The following year, Liotta received praise for his turn as baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in the Kevin Costner box office hit Field of Dreams.
Liotta tackled what may be his most famous part in 1990's Goodfellas, which was directed by Martin Scorsese. He played infamous crime figure Henry Hill in the film, appearing opposite the likes of Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Liotta took on other tough roles in such movies as Unlawful Entry (1992) and No Escape (1994).
A leading character actor, Liotta also tried his hand at family drama, appearing with Whoopi Goldberg in Corrina, Corrina (1994). With the Disney movie Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), Liotta delved into comedy. He later returned to more hard-edged roles in such films as Blow (2001) and John Q (2002).
In 2005, Liotta won his first major acting award when he picked up an Emmy for his guest appearance on the medical drama ER. The following year, he took a starring role on the small screen in the short-lived crime drama Smith. More recently, Liotta has appeared in such films as The Iceman (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Better Living Through Chemistry (2014) and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014).
Liotta returned to television in 2015 with the miniseries Texas Rising, which explores the creation of the Texas Rangers. The following year, he starred in the gritty drama Shades of Blue. He plays a corrupt cop on the show, which also features Jennifer Lopez.
Liotta was married to actress Michelle Grace from 1997 to 2004. The couple's daughter, Karsen Liotta, was born on December 21, 1998.
https://www.biography.com/actor/ray-liotta
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Sugar Ray Robinson
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Ray Kroc
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Man Ray was primarily known for his photography, which spanned both the Dada and Surrealism movements.
Actor and producer Brad Pitt is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winner known for such films as 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Fight Club,' 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,' 'Moneyball' and '12 Years a Slave.'
A preeminent bluesman, award-winning guitarist and singer Stevie Ray Vaughan earned critical and commercial success during the 1980s.
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Australia plans to dump tons of sludge on the Great Barrier Reef
Tuesday, July 09, 2019 by Isabelle Z.
http://www.biosludge.news/2019-07-09-australia-plans-to-dump-tons-of-sludge-on-the-great-barrier-reef.html
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has been under threat lately from coral bleaching, but now it’s facing what experts are terming “another nail in the coffin” as plans have been approved to dump more than a million tons of sludge there.
In January, a permit was issued by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to allow North Queensland Bulk Ports to dump a slew of maintenance dredge sludge in the area of the reef, exploiting a loophole in a law that was put in place to protect this natural wonder. Although capital dredging is expressly banned, it doesn’t specifically outlaw port maintenance, which entails removing the sediment that has built up in shipping lanes.
The dredging will take place across a ten-year span at the port at Mackay’s Hay Point. Backers of the project claim it is necessary to ensure that ships and boats can access marinas and ports safely. A spokesperson for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority said that the material they plan to dredge will be naturally occurring and that the approval came down after a 60-day period of public comments. They say that without the maintenance dredging, the park will be vulnerable to accidents or the grounding impact of stranded boats.
Greens senator Larissa Water called for the permit to be revoked, telling The Guardian: “The last thing the reef needs is more sludge dumped on it, after being slammed by the floods recently. One million tonnes of dumping dredged sludge into world heritage waters treats our reef like a rubbish tip.”
She also pointed out that the difference between the capital dredging that has been banned and the maintenance dredging they’ll be carrying out thanks to the loophole means nothing to the reef, which is going to suffer in any case.
The National Oceanography Centre of Southampton’s Dr. Simon Boxall said that if the sludge is dumped over the coral reef itself, the effect will be “devastating” as it blankets over the coral. This will cut the coral off from the algae it relies on for sustenance.
While the North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation, which is in charge of Hay Point, acknowledges that there will be an impact on marine life, they say it will be short-term in nature and that the risks are “predominantly low.”
Coral reefs in Australia already in delicate condition
The news comes at a bad time as the reef has already lost half of its corals to bleaching. Last year, Australia pledged AUS$500 million to protect the reef after the losses. At that time, one of the reef’s threats was identified as “large amounts of sediment,” so it’s difficult to understand why they are now allowing this type of activity to go forward.
Some of the reefs have rebounded from the mass bleaching that took place in 2016 and 2017, but others are showing lasting effects and some have noted further declines. The reefs also suffered damage from tropical cyclone Penny earlier this year. Experts say it takes coral 10 years to rebound. What effect will dumping sludge have on these already delicate reefs as they try to recover?
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Genesis Lesson 12 | 11:10–12:9
January 12, 2019 Blog, Genesis: The Book of BeginningsBy Peter Montoro
Genesis Lesson Twelve | 11:10–12:9
Prayerfully read Genesis 11:10–12:9 at least two times and then read the following notes.
Context: Setting the Table
After the magnificent introduction of 1:1–2:3, the book of Genesis is divided into two unequal halves of five sections each. The first set of five sections (2:4–11:26) deals with the history of humanity as a whole, from its creation to the birth of Abram. In striking contrast, the second set of five sections (11:27–50:26) begins with the birth of Abram and then focuses exclusively on him and his descendants. This sixth section, the “family history” of Terah (11:27–25:11), marks the transition between these two halves.
Content: Reading the Text
(11:10–26) The “Family History” of Shem
(11:10a) This marks the fifth of the “generations” headings in Genesis—the last section in the first half of the book. From this point on, Genesis alternates between compact genealogies (like this one) and longer narratives involving a few key characters.1
(11:10b) While the genealogy here has some overlaps with the “table of the nations” in chapter 10, it focuses relentlessly on the direct line that led to Abram. Whereas 10:22 lists five sons of Seth, with Arphaxad as the third son, he is the only son of Shem mentioned in this list.
(11:11) Given how stylistically similar this genealogy is in style to the Adam-Seth line found in 5:3–32, it is striking that the characteristic phrase, “and he died” is not used even once.
(11:18) The genealogy in 11:25 mentions Peleg but does not list any of his descendants, focusing instead on the descendants of his brother Joktan. This is the last point of overlap between the two lists and it is perhaps possible that the “division” mentioned in 10:25 is somehow connected with this.
(11:26) Like Adam (4:1–2, 5:3) and Noah (6:10), Terah was the father of three named sons. All three are key transitional figures in the early chapters of Genesis.
(11:27–32) The “Family History” of Terah
(11:27) This marks the start of the sixth section, the first in the second half of the book. The repetition of the information included at the end of the previous section (the birth of three sons to Terah) is entirely characteristic of the way sections are linked together throughout the book. It is also “characteristic of the patriarchal narratives that the heading should mention the father, while the stories focus on the sons. Thus “this is the family history of Isaac” (25:19) introduces the stories of Jacob and Esau, and “the family history of Jacob” (37:2) heads the Joseph story.”2
(11:29) “Though the parentage of Nahor’s wife is given, that of Sarai is not. This omission is so extraordinary that it must be intentional…[this information is withheld] so as not to ruin the suspense in chapter 20 when Abraham, in order to extricate himself from an embarrassing predicament, reveals that Sarai is his half sister.”3
(11:30) It is very difficult for modern westerners to understand how devastating it was for a woman in the ancient world to be found barren, and it is astonishing how many women in the chosen line experienced this devastation. While the ultimate outcome is certain, the war of the seed of the woman with the seed of the serpent (Genesis 3:15) has never been a one-sided conflict. Throughout the book of Genesis, we find almost every conceivable obstacle to the propagation of the promised line (barrenness, abduction, rape, incest, etc)—yet God’s word of promise overcame them all.
(11:31) This move was the result, not of Terah’s decision alone (though it was that), but also of the direct working of the Lord (Genesis 15:7). The Lord had by this point already appeared to Abram (Acts 7:2).
(11:32) Stephen (Acts 7:4) points out that Abram did not depart from Haran until after the death of his father. It is important to note that Genesis 11:26 states only that all three of Terah’s sons were born after Terah had reached the age of 70. The varying order in which Shem, Ham, and Japheth are found make it clear that the order in which sons were listed was not always the order in which they were born. As Abram was only 75 years old when he departed from Haran (Genesis 12:4), the simplest reconciliation is that he must have been born when his father was 130. As this stands in some tension with Abraham’s shock at the possibility of fathering a child at the age of 100 (Genesis 17:17), other solutions, too complex to explore here, have also been proposed. In the end, our focus must always be on the clarity of what God has made clear rather than the difficulty of what he has chosen to leave obscure.
(12:1–9) The Call of Abram
(12:1a) The call in 12:1–3 can be interpreted either as a flashback to an earlier call that took place in Ur (Genesis 15:7) or as a repetition of this call. As the Hebrew grammar permits both options (“said” or “had said”), English translations differ.4
(12:1–3a) In the Hebrew of these verses, there are two unambiguous imperatives “go” (12:1a) and “be a blessing” (12:2b). Each of these two imperatives is followed by three words of promise. Abraham is told to “go”—the result of which would be that God would (a) make him into a great nation, (b) bless him, and (c) make his name great. He was further commanded to “be a blessing”—the result of which would be that God would (a) bless those who blessed him, (b) curse those who cursed him, and (c) that through him all the families of the earth would find blessing. The first group of promises are concerned with Abram, his family, and the blessing that God was going to give them. The second set of promises moves far beyond immediate blessing for Abram to God’s plans for restoring all of creation. The amazing promises God made to Abram were never ultimately about Abram. While Abram obeyed the command to “go,” it would be a long time before he learned how to “be a blessing”—and it is this dynamic that drives the remainder of his story.
(12:1–3b) Just as the Hebrew word for curse occurs five times in Genesis 1:1–11:26 (the half of Genesis that deals with humanity as a whole), so also the Hebrew word for blessing occurs five times in the call of Abram in 12:1–3. This is unlikely to be a coincidence. It is just one more indication among many that “God intends to use Abram and his family as the instrument of rescuing and restoring his broken creation.”5
(12:2a) The use of the word “nation” to describe God’s chosen people is very unusual as this word in the plural is the one normally translated as “Gentiles” The point in context is that Abraham’s descendants will “grow into the status of a nation” a status that is “linked with government and territory.”6 The promise of the land is therefore already implicitly included.
(12:2b) The “name” that the tower builders had sought in their rebellion (11:4), God gives to Abram as a gracious promise. See also God’s promise to David in 2 Samuel 7:9 and the fulfillment of both of these promises in the victory of Abraham’s Seed and David’s Son in Philippians 2:9.
(12:7a) This is the first time the Lord is said to “appear.” It should, however, be noted that these vision accounts, (sometimes referred to as theophanies), never occur independently of Divine speech.
(12:7b) The faith by which Abram obeyed (Hebrews 11:8) demanded the open and public expression of altar-building—even in the land of the Canaanites. “[T]he inward worship of the heart is not sufficient, unless external profession before men be added. Religion has truly its appropriate seat in the heart; but from this root, public confession afterwards arises, as its fruit. For we are created to this end, that we may offer soul and body unto God.”7
(12:9) “[T]he brief itinerary of Abram described in verses 5–9 takes him from the northern to the southern border of the land. He not only sees what has been promised to him; he walks through it, and he lives and worships in it. Symbolically he has taken possession of it.”8
Credo: Believing the Truth
Divided and scattered by God’s judgment after the great tower disaster, it looked increasingly unlikely that God’s image bearers would ever be able to accomplish his purposes for them. At this very moment, when the rebellion looked most unstoppable and the curse seemed most unbearable, God chose a man named Abram. What God had once commanded to Adam and to Noah, he now promised to Abram and his descendants. He promised Abram a fruitful seed of abundant descendants. He promised that he would bring that seed into covenant relationship with him. He promised that He would give that seed the land he had promised them. And—best of all—he promised that through the fulfillment of these promises, the curse would be reversed, all the scattered nations of the earth would be blessed, and God’s good purposes for creation would finally begin to be accomplished.
Conduct: Reshaping Our Walk
Discuss the meaning of the text and then walk through the following application questions as you discuss the difference this meaning ought to make in our lives today.
The amazing promises God made to Abram were never about Abram but about the fulfillment of his good purposes for the entirety of his creation. How might we be tempted to forget that the promises we have received are no different?
Examples: Reducing the gospel message to one of “living your best life now;” Defining God’s purposes in terms of our plans for our lives instead of the other way around, etc.
While true worship is a matter of the heart, genuine belief always demands an appropriate outward expression. What are some of the ways in which we might be tempted to mute our public profession of faith before the world?
Examples: Praying for our meals in public while pretending not to; Being willing to remain silent rather than be shamed for being one of “those people,” whether at work or at family gatherings.
1. Wenham 1987, 248
3. Sarna 1989, 87
4. Mathews 2005, 109
5. Gentry & Wellum 2012, 234
6. Hamilton 1990, 372
7. Calvin 1847, 1.353–354
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Susan Paine Krinjak, of Manchester, CT, beloved wife of John H. Krinjak, died at home on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at the age of 69, after a courageous three-year battle with breast cancer. Born in Hartford, the daughter of Donald and Ruth (Powell) Paine, Sue grew up in Manchester, where she was a graduate of Manchester High School, class of 1967. She received an associate’s degree from Centenary College in Hackettstown, NJ, a bachelor’s degree from Western Connecticut State University and a master’s degree in education with a specialty in reading from Central Connecticut State University.
Sue began her teaching career in 1972 in the public school system of Suffolk, VA, and became employed at Manchester Public Schools in 1974, where she spent her entire career in elementary education until her retirement in 2013. The bulk of her career was spent at Keeney Street Elementary School, initially as a fourth grade teacher for many years and later, until her retirement, as a first grade teacher. She also spent several years during the 1990s teaching various grade levels at Highland Park Elementary School. Teaching was her passion, and as an educator, Sue went above and beyond the call of duty, both in and out of the classroom--from putting in 12-hour days to get each lesson just right, to providing free summer tutoring for struggling students, to personally delivering a Christmas tree to a student and his family who were experiencing difficult times. To generations of her students, Sue’s most memorable classroom project was the annual Eastertime incubating and hatching of chicks--a tradition cherished not only by her own class, but by the entire student body of the school. In addition to her many achievements as an educator, she was a dedicated mother and homemaker; her skills as an accomplished seamstress, cook and crafter were widely known--her creations delighting family, colleagues and friends.
Besides her husband of nearly 34 years, Sue is survived by two sons, John H. Krinjak, Jr. of Providence, RI, and David P. Krinjak and his wife Kayla of Encinitas, CA; her sister Margaret Marino and her husband Joseph of New Britain; her brother Donald Paine, Jr. of Washington, DC; and her sister-in-law Karen Krinjak of Manchester. She is also survived by many cousins throughout the country. A celebration of Sue’s life will be held at 12:00 noon on Saturday, March 23, 2019 at the South United Methodist Church, 1226 Main St., Manchester, with the Rev. John Marshall presiding. A luncheon and reception will be held at the church immediately following the service. Burial in East Cemetery will be private. Memorial contributions may be made to the Kids In Need Foundation, which provides school supplies to children in underserved schools (www.kinf.org). The John F. Tierney Funeral Home of Manchester is being entrusted with the arrangements. For online condolences please visit www.tierneyfuneralhome.com.
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BlackPast
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Walter F. White (1893-1955)
Posted on January 21, 2007 May 20, 2019 by contributed by: Matthew C. Whitaker
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Walter Francis White was a leading civil rights advocate of the first half of the twentieth century. As executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1931 to 1955, he was one of the major architects of the modern African American freedom struggle.
White, whose blond hair and blue eyes belied his African American ancestry, was born in Atlanta, Georgia on July 1, 1893, the fourth of seven children. His parents, George W. White, a graduate of Atlanta University and a postal worker, and Madeline Harrison White, a Clark University graduate and school teacher, were solidly middle class at the time when the vast majority of Atlanta blacks were working class.
Walter White graduated from Atlanta University in 1916 and one year later helped establish the Atlanta branch of the NAACP after briefly working as an insurance agent. In 1918, at the invitation of James Weldon Johnson, the NAACP’s executive director, White moved to New York City, New York, and became the assistant secretary for the national organization.
White’s first major racial justice campaign effort in the national NAACP office came when he persuaded the Association to oppose the Atlanta Board of Education’s decision to eliminate seventh grade for African American students as part of an effort to finance a new high school for white students. Between 1918 and 1931, White built a national reputation both within and beyond NAACP circles. He authored a number of books, including Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (1929), which became a major expose of lynching in the U.S.
At great personal risk, White used his fair skin, blue eyes, and other “white” features, to successfully infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations. His clandestine surveys of these groups and their activities gave the NAACP first-hand knowledge of at least 40 murders of black people.
By 1931 White had become executive secretary, the highest position in the association. During his tenure, the NAACP led the fight for anti-lynching legislation, and initiated trailblazing legal battles to eliminate all-white primaries, poll taxes and de jure segregation.
Working with labor leader A. Philip Randolph, White in 1941 helped persuade President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802 which prohibited racial discrimination in defense industries and established the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), the first Federal agency to monitor compliance with anti-discrimination measures.
Although White devoted most of his attention to African American issues, he also participated in anti-racism efforts around the world. He was a delegate to the Second Pan-African Congress in 1921, a member of the Advisory Council for the Government of the Virgin Islands in 1934-35, and an advisor to the United States delegation to the founding conference of the United Nations in 1945 and the 1948 General Assembly in Paris, France.
White’s 1945 book A Rising Wind helped inspired President Harry Truman to desegregate the US military in 1948. Truman also appointed the first presidential committee on civil rights later that year at the urging of White. The group’s statement in 1948 emerged as the basis of the Democratic Party’s platform plank on civil rights in 1948, and according to many historians, established the commitment of that national party to racial equality.
Walter White, who was a member of Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, served as the NAACP’s executive secretary until his death on March 21, 1955. White was 65. He was succeeded as executive director by Roy Wilkins.
Subjects: AAHPeople, African American HistoryTerms: 20th Century (1900-1999), United States - Georgia, Gender - Men, Civil Rights - NAACP, United States - New York, Europe - France, United States - US Virgin Islands
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Whitaker, M. (2007, January 21) Walter F. White (1893-1955). Retrieved from https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/white-walter-f-1893-1955/
Source of the author's information:
“Walter White (1893-1955),” The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project (Washington, D.C.: George Washington University), http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/white-walter.cfm, accessed January 1, 2014; Walter F. White, A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995); The New Georgia Encyclopedia:
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-747.
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Inspector finds ‘significant concerns’ where Lancashire hospitals must improve
Posted on - 21st April, 2017 - 8:00am | Author - Luke Beardsworth | Posted in - Preston News
‘Improvements must be made across Lancashire’
Hospitals in Lancashire have been told there are 72 areas they need to improve in following an inspector by the Care Quality Commission.
An announced inspection of eight core services was carried out at Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital in September 2016.
Overall, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was told that it requires improvement, although caring was rated as good.
Professor Sir Mike Richards, Chief Inspector of Hospitals, said: “When we previously inspected Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in July 2014 we found a number of areas that required improvement.
“It is disappointing to report that the significant concerns we identified then around patient flow and pressure within the accident and emergency departments remain unresolved, and in some areas that the quality of patient care has declined further.
“Once again we found that patients were waiting too long in A&E, and a high number were placed in areas that weren’t the most appropriate for their needs due to capacity issues.
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“Additionally, the problems with capacity and patient flow through the hospital led to the cancellation of planned operations due to bed shortages, patients unnecessarily being moved wards during their stay, and the use of areas such as theatre recovery to house patients instead of wards, at times of high pressure.
“We remain concerned about the staffing levels at the trust, particularly within maternity, children’s and neonatal services. There are also significant challenges with medical staffing at the trust, although there are plans in place to improve recruitment in this area.
“The trust is working against a backdrop of pressure on all of its services and, I am anxious to see them continue to monitor and improve staffing levels, patients flow and patient discharge.
“The trust board is fully aware of our concerns. We will continue to monitor the trust and check on its progress. This will include further inspections.”
CQC’s inspection has identified 72 areas where the trust must make improvements, including:
The trust must improve the access and flow of patients through the hospitals.
The governance processes for the organisation must be reviewed and improved.
The process and practice for the escalation of the deteriorating patient must be reviewed and embedded across the organisation.
Staffing levels must be reviewed and improved to ensure safe care and treatment, particularly within maternity, children’s and neonatal services.
The trust must improve performance, especially in relation to the four hour target in A&E to avoid long waits for patients.
The trust must take appropriate action to reduce the number of cancelled operations and the number of patients whose operations were cancelled and were not treated within the 28 days.
Inspectors also identified several areas of outstanding practice, including:
The trust had launched a sleep improvement programme in critical care. An initial study showed that these small changes had caused a 50% reduction in patient delirium.
In dermatology a computerised diary system enabled a block booking for 12 weeks worth of care for patients in one go rather than them having to make individual appointments. This had improved patient flow through the department and also helped to improve auditing treatment.
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Excerpt from Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides, plus links to reviews, author biography & more
Summary | Excerpt | Reviews | Readalikes | Genres & Themes | Author Bio
Ghost Soldiers
The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
by Hampton Sides
May 2001, 336 pages
Nielsen peeked around the corner and saw the barge coming. He decided he was insufficiently hidden, so he broke off from the group and crouched behind a bush close by. From where he was secreted, he could watch the barge approaching. The Japanese were whispering among themselves and excitedly pointing out crannies that looked promising. One of the seven Americans, a marine from Mississippi named J. O. Warren, wasn't leaning back quite far enough. The Japanese saw his foot protruding from a rock and immediately shot it. Warren dropped in agony from his wound. In what seemed to be a sacrificial act intended to help his comrades, Warren hurled himself out in the open so as not to tip off the whereabouts of the other six. He was immediately shot and killed. The barge passed on.
I left that area and started down the beach. About fifty yards ahead I ran into more Japanese. Suddenly I realized I was surrounded. They were up above me and also coming in from both sides. I was trapped. So I jumped in the sea. I swam underwater as far as I could. When I came up there were twenty Japanese firing at me, both from the cliff and from the beach. Shots were hitting all around me. One shot hit me in the armpit and grazed my ribs. Another hit me in the left thigh, then another one hit me right along the right side of my head, grazing my temple. I think it knocked me out temporarily. For a short period I was numb in the water, and I nearly drowned. Then I found a large coconut husk bobbing around in the bay and used it to shield my head as I swam.
They kept shooting at Nielsen from the beach. He decided to swim back toward the shore so they'd think he'd given up and was coming in. He hoped they'd momentarily let up on their fire, and they did. Nielsen then angled slightly and swam parallel to the coastline for about a hundred yards. The Japanese followed him down the beach, patiently tracking alongside him, step for stroke. Occasionally they pinged a shot or two in his direction, but mostly they just kept a close eye on him.
I came down to a place along the shore where there were a lot of trees and bushes in the water. I knew they were following me, so I went toward shore and splashed to make a little noise. I wanted them to think I was finally coming in. Then I abruptly turned around and went out just as quiet as possible and started swimming across the bay. They never shot at me again. Probably it was too dark for them to see me. I swam most of the night. I couldn't see the other side of the bay but I knew it was about five miles. About halfway out I ran into a strong current. It seemed like I was there for a couple hours making no headway. Finally I reached the opposite shore and crawled on my hands and knees up on the rocks. I was in a mangrove swamp. I was too weak to stand up. It was about 4 a.m. I'd been swimming for nearly nine hours.
Washed up on the far shores of Puerto Princesa Bay, Nielsen was a pitiful sight--naked, nursing two bullet wounds, his skin crosshatched with lacerations. He rested for a few hours and then stumbled half delirious through the swamp until he encountered a Filipino who was walking along a path, wielding a bolo knife. In his current state, Nielsen was suspicious of anyone carrying a knife. The Filipino seemed wary of Nielsen's hideous castaway appearance but was not especially frightened. "I couldn't imagine how he could be so cool," Nielsen said. At first Nielsen worried that the man was a Japanese sympathizer, but then the Filipino offered him water. Nielsen asked the man to take down a letter. "I think I am the only one alive from the Palawan prison camp," he said. "I want you to write to the War Department to tell them about the Japanese massacre of the Americans at Puerto Princesa." Without uttering a word in reaction, the Filipino began to walk away from Nielsen. Then he abruptly turned around and said cryptically, "You have friends here."
Excerpted from Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides Copyright 2001 by Hampton Sides. Excerpted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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A bullish Klaas-Jan Huntelaar insisted Schalke could be proud of their performance despite losing the Revierderby to Dortmund. - © © imago
Huntelaar takes positives from Revierderby defeat
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar’s two goals on Matchday 12 were to no avail as FC Schalke 04 suffered a 3-2 defeat to Borussia Dortmund in the first Revierderby of the season.
Nevertheless, the Dutchman took consolation from the Royal Blues' performance against a Dortmund side bang in form and insisted in his post-match media comments that there were positives to be taken from the game.
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, you’ve come out on the wrong side of a narrow defeat in the derby. Where did it go wrong for Schalke?
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar: We gave everything and we could have got a point at the end. Both teams played well. We did a really good job closing them down, especially in the first half and they didn’t find too many of their men free to pass to. It’s frustrating that the shortest guy on the pitch [Shinji Kagawa] scores a header, but we still managed to come back strongly. If we’d taken all our chances, we’d have got something from the game. Unfortunately we didn’t and that’s a pity.
The team played with a lot of spirit here. Did the fans’ visit to your final training session before the game give you all a bit more motivation?
Huntelaar: It was great that they came to see us train and it showed the type of fans that we have at this club. Everyone celebrates together and that’s great to see. We can be happy with how things are going, I think. If we carry on playing the way we are, we’ll get back on track.
You were able to get back on track yourself in terms of scoring goals to end your barren run. Was that down to the adrenaline you felt, with this game being a derby?
Huntelaar: We played well and created a lot of chances, which we hadn’t really been doing that much in the last few weeks. When we do that, we score more goals.
You played up front with Leroy Sane. Is that a combination that works better than others?
Huntelaar: I don’t want to talk about individuals. What was important was what we did tactically. We matched Dortmund really well. In terms of the personnel that play next time, that’s up to the coach.
Does this game give you encouragement for the next few games, starting with FC Bayern München at home on Matchday 13?
Huntelaar: We can take a lot of positives from this match. We need to do exactly what we did here. Everyone enjoyed the game - the fans, the people that watched on TV and us players as well. The first-half performance in the DFB Cup game against Gladbach was the same. These were good performances that can give us confidence going forward.
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Rep. Roger Williams visited the office of the Burleson Star earlier this month and talked about several issues pertinent to District 25 and Burleson residents. BURLESON STAR/RICKY MOORE
Williams working for his constituents
sports@burlesonstar.net
His platform is the same as it has always been: lower taxes, less government, cut the spending, defend the borders, listen to your generals, understand the 10th amendment and stand with Israel.
That’s what Rep. Roger Williams is all about.
“Our platform is always that,” Williams said. “We never get out of that.”
Williams was recently touring his far-stretched 25th Congressional District in Burleson and came by the Burleson Star office.
School safety was on Williams mind and he mentioned House Bill 5107 which he introduced to the House of Representatives that directs the Secretary of Education to carry out a grant program to secure elementary and secondary school. The bill has bipartisan support.
“I’m really concerned that we aren’t doing enough to secure our schools as we are heading into a new school year,” Williams said. “What we have proposed is that if a school needs bulletproof glass, or a more secure entrance and exit or a few more people on the ground then that district can apply for a grant from the Department of Education and they can turn around and give them funds to help secure the school.”
Williams said the Department of Education has a $63 billion budget that could be used for such improvements and additions to personnel.
But Williams isn’t a fan of the Department of Education. He thinks it should be dismantled and let state and local school districts determine what they want to teach the students.
“In the interim, I don’t know that the Department of Education has any more important role than to protect our students and school teachers,” Williams said. “This bill does that and what makes it right is that the $63 billion is already in the budget. We are working hard on this bill.”
There is another education area where Williams is focusing his attention: students dropping out of school.
“Kids are dropping out of school in the ninth grade because they are losing hope,” Williams said. “We want them to focus on community colleges and remind these young men and women they can be welders or plumbers, they can be carpenters because the way our state is growing we are going to need people with those skills to build our infrastructure.”
Williams serves on the House Committee on Financial Services and is the subcommittee chair on the Monetary Policy and Trade committee where he has been heavily involved in the tax cuts and interest detectability.
The committee was able to get a law signed that rolled back some of the devasting effects of 2010 Dodd-Frank legislation.
“It was really squeezing community banks,” Williams said. “We were recently able to get legislation through to President Trump that was designed to ease rules on all but the largest banks. It passed both chambers of Congress with bipartisan support.”
Fort Hood is also part of Williams district and Congress was able to appropriate $61.5 million dollars to the base to renovate the barracks and another $33 million to rebuild the motor pool. One-third of the motor pools at the Fort Hood were built in the 1950’s and are not large enough for modern tanks.
He is also continuing to help the military to get things it needs which includes a proposal for $617 billion dollars to the armed forces and giving the troops a pay raise.
Williams, who is one of the few people in Congress that owns a business, is looking into eliminating deficits and balancing the budget.
“I’m still concerned that debt is the biggest problem in America,” Williams said. “We have to address it but nobody wants to address it but about 40 of us.”
Tax reform is also on Williams mind and he wants to make recent tax reforms permanent.
“I’m going to be addressing cutting the capital gains tax and dividends tax down to 15 percent and I’m proposing we cut the payroll tax in half for both the employer and employee tax,” Williams said.
When asked about the ongoing Mueller investigation, Williams said it is time to end it.
“It’s been a year now and they haven’t come up with anything,” Williams said. “We need to move on. I’ll tell you I’m traveling all over the place and people never ask me about the Mueller investigation. They want to know about taxes and if we are going to have fewer regulations. Nobody asks about the Russian investigation. I think it’s pretty much something that was made up in the Beltway. It needs to end.”
President Trump’s job in office got a thumbs up from Williams. Although he admits he doesn’t agree with everything the President is doing, especially in regards to tariffs.
“I think he’s doing a great job,” Williams said. “He has cut some burdensome regulations and improved our status in the world. Everything he ran on he’s doing. People like him because he’s saying things out front that people will say when they are alone in their homes.”
When asked about the Democratic Party’s recent shift towards embracing socialism, Williams said that just shows how out of touch Democrats are with those they serve.
“It’s a bonus for me because that’s not what Americans or Texans embrace. It’s not what this district embraces,” Williams said. “Their message of socialism, raising taxes, cutting the military budget, creating more regulations and impeaching the President is not a winning message. Our message is the winning message. Republicans believe in the people rather than the government. That’s the message we will win with.”
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PPG Completes COLORFUL COMMUNITIES Project at Booker T. Washington High School in Miami
January 22, 2019 12:03 PM Eastern Standard Time
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PPG (NYSE:PPG) today announced the completion of a COLORFUL COMMUNITIES™ project in collaboration with HandsOn Miami that helped revitalize Booker T. Washington High School. The school serves more than 950 students in ninth through 12th grade, with approximately 90 percent of attending students receiving free or reduced lunches and some experiencing homelessness.
The Colorful Communities program provides PPG volunteers and paint products along with financial contributions to bring color and vitality to communities where the company operates around the world, such as in Miami, where PPG has 20 PPG PAINTS™ stores.
The project brought together more than 100 PPG global leaders, who spent a combined 250 hours revitalizing the school’s cafeteria, band room and hallways. PPG provided more than 60 gallons of PPG Paints products to assist with the project, while the PPG Foundation granted $10,000 to the school to support science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educational initiatives.
Originally opened in 1926, the Booker T. Washington High School is the second oldest public high school built for African American residents in Miami. Although surrounded by poverty and a lack of resources, the 70 faculty members operate the school as a tight-knit unit, providing student-centered and culturally responsive classrooms where students can succeed.
Nearly a decade ago, the school’s graduation rate was less than 50 percent. Now, more than 85 percent of students are graduating, and an increasing number are pursuing further education.
“We are very thankful for the generosity of PPG and the PPG Foundation as they support our efforts to bring this beautiful and historic campus back to life for those who cherish it most,” said Dale Hirsch, CEO, HandsOn Miami. “It is truly gratifying to be able to come together and make a positive change for the young people in this community.”
The PPG volunteers painted areas of the facility in the school’s long-standing colors of orange, black and white to provide inspirational learning environments that will be beneficial to the success of current and future students for years to come. The project also included three bright, music-themed murals in the school’s once monochromatic band room. The school’s band program is a centerpiece of the extracurricular activities offered at the school and provides students with the opportunity to compete in local and statewide competitions.
“At PPG, we know that paint is more than just the color on the wall. It can breathe new life and purpose into a school, create memories and spark emotion,” said Malesia Dunn, PPG executive director, PPG Foundation and corporate global social responsibility. “The positive impact that our paint and employee volunteers can have on learning environments through the Colorful Communities program motivated us to make a tangible difference at Booker T. Washington High School.”
The Colorful Communities program, PPG’s signature initiative for supporting communities, aims to protect and beautify the neighborhoods where PPG operates around the world. Through the Colorful Communities program, PPG’s committed volunteers contribute their time and PPG paint products to help transform community assets – from painting classrooms, to bringing color to a maternity ward and redesigning a playground. Since 2015, PPG has completed more than 200 Colorful Communities projects, impacting nearly 5.2 million people in 29 countries.
PPG and the PPG Foundation aim to bring color and brightness to PPG communities around the world. We invested more than $10.5 million in 2017, supporting hundreds of community organizations across 29 countries. By investing in educational opportunities, we help grow today’s skilled workforce and develop tomorrow’s innovators in fields related to coatings and manufacturing. Plus, we empower PPG employees to multiply their impact for causes that are important to them by supporting their volunteer efforts and charitable giving. Learn more at www.ppgcommunities.com.
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Rolf William Landauer
American physicist
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Rolf William Landauer, German-born American physicist whose discovery of what came to be known as Landauer’s principle—that the erasing of computer information causes a loss of energy—led to the development of more efficient computers (b. Feb. 4, 1927, Stuttgart, Ger.—d. April 27, 1999, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.).
This article was most recently revised and updated by Karen Sparks, Director and Editor, Britannica Book of the Year.
Wesley A. Clark
Wesley A. Clark, (Wesley Allison Clark), American physicist and computer scientist (born April 10, 1927, New Haven, Conn.—died Feb. 22, 2016, Brooklyn, N.Y.), envisioned and designed (1961) the LINC (Laboratory Instrument Computer), a self-contained interactive computer that was the first…
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John Mauchly, American physicist and engineer, coinventor in 1946, with John P. Eckert, of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the first general-purpose electronic computer. After completing his education, Mauchly entered the teaching profession, eventually becoming an…
Albert Einstein, German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. Einstein’s parents…
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Victoria County History - Lancaster
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3
Townships: Ince Blundell
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1907.
INCE BLUNDELL
Hinne, Dom. Bk.; Ines, 1212—the common spelling to 1350; Hynis, 1242; Ince, 1360.
Ince Blundell embraces a considerable area of flat, fen country laid out in pastures and cultivated fields, where corn, root crops, and clover-hay are produced in a rich alluvial soil. The River Alt forms a tortuous boundary along its north-eastern, northern, and western edges. The low-lying fields are mostly separated by deep ditches, which serve for division and drainage. Near the sea coast, and near the mouth of the Alt, there is a narrow band of sandhills. The trees clustering about Ince Blundell Hall and village emphasize the scarcity of timber in the district, for they stand out as an abrupt mass in the bare landscape. Solitary trees here and there incline to the south-east, showing the direction of the prevailing winds. The lower keuper sandstone of the new red sandstone or trias is here entirely obscured by sand, deep boulder clay, and alluvial deposit. Beneath the alluvium, which covers an increasing extent of ground as the River Alt approaches the sea, are found the beds of grey clays belonging to the glacial drift series. The brook called Twine Pool and Hynts Brook divides Ince from Thornton. The township is nearly 3½ miles long, the area being 2,315½ acres. (fn. 1) The population numbered 392 in 1901. The village is situated near the middle of the township. There are hamlets called Carr Houses and Lady Green; North End includes Alt Grange.
The greens have been enclosed. There are crosses upon ancient bases in the village. The 'flowering' of the cross used to take place on Midsummer Day. (fn. 2) There is a sundial, dated 1744, at the hall.
Roads from Lunt and Thornton meet at the village and lead to Alt Bridge, where the road from Liverpool to Southport, which here crosses the township, joins them. The Liverpool and Southport branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway also crosses the northern end of the township, and has a station for the use of volunteers and others using the Altcar rifle range. An old lighthouse stands near this point.
A number of minor names are given in the Alt Drainage Act of 1779; they include Shire Lane Moss, Orrell Hill, Scaffold Lane, Hallops Hey, and Logers Field.
The township is governed by a parish council.
In 1066 three thegns held INCE for three manors; it was assessed at half a hide and worth beyond the customary rent the usual 8s. (fn. 3) Early in the twelfth century it was included in the barony of Warrington, and by Pain de Vilers was given to Roger de Stainsby, together with half a plough-land in Barton. (fn. 4) Later, probably on the death of Roger, (fn. 5) the manor appears to have reverted to the chief lord, of whom Richard Blundell, or possibly his father, subsequently held it either by re-grant or subinfeudation made by the former tenant.
Richard Blundell appears late in the twelfth century as a witness to local charters, (fn. 6) and was succeeded by his son William, who in 1212 held Ince and the moiety of Barton of the lord of Warrington by knight's service, as the third part of a fee. (fn. 7) William made an agreement with the lord of Ravensmeols, on the other side of the Alt, as to the formation of a mill-pool. (fn. 8) To William Blundell juvenis he granted four oxgangs of land in Ince, with the three villeins who occupied them. (fn. 9) He was a benefactor to the monks of Stanlaw, giving them his mill upon the Alt, (fn. 10) and his land called Scholes. (fn. 11) He appears to have received the order of knighthood. (fn. 12)
His son, Richard Blundell, was in possession in 1242. (fn. 13) He confirmed his father's donations to the monks of Stanlaw and added to them half the land of Alt marsh which Robert, citizen of York, had drained by dykes. (fn. 14) This land was in 1240–1 exchanged for another piece nearer the land already held by the abbey; the residue of the marsh between Ince and Scholes was to remain untilled for ever, as common pasture. (fn. 15) The half of the marsh was given to his daughter Amarica on her marriage with Gervase de Pencebech. (fn. 16) Between 1257 and 1259 Richard Blundell granted to Henry de Lea and his heirs a messuage and toft at the Morhulles, with right of turbary, (fn. 17) and in 1259, to Henry de Sefton, clerk, all his lands at the Moorhouses. (fn. 18)
Blundell of Ince. Azure, ten billets, 4, 3, 2 and 1 or; on a canton of the second a raven proper.
He died before 1265, and was succeeded by his grandson William son of John Blundell, a minor, as to whose custody there was a dispute between Sir William le Boteler and Robert de Ferrers, earl of Derby. (fn. 19) John had a brother Robert, called 'Goch.' (fn. 20)
William Blundell confirmed his ancestors' grants to Stanlaw, and added something on his own account; (fn. 21) and at the same time came to an agreement with the monks as to certain approvements within the common pasture, where their rights had been restricted, and allowed them convenient access to the carr adjoining Thornton. (fn. 22) On the other hand he gave them serious cause of complaint by erecting a windmill to which he caused his tenants to take their corn to be ground, to the loss of the abbey's mill; the monks accordingly summoned the tenants, and secured an acknowledgement of suit to their mill for all corn to the sixteenth measure. William Blundell made amends by granting the windmill to the monks, and allowing them to enlarge and improve the site. (fn. 23) He died in or before 1293. (fn. 24)
He was succeeded by his son William, who died about the end of the reign of Edward II, his widow Agnes appearing as plaintiff in 1331 (fn. 25); and a little later she and her son William exchanged certain lands in Ince. (fn. 26) It is difficult to decide if the younger William here mentioned was the husband of Joan de Haydock. (fn. 27) Probably he was; if so, he was succeeded by his brothers Henry and John. (fn. 28) In the latter's time the township became known as Ince 'Blundell' to distinguish it from Ince near Wigan.
John Blundell was still living in 1400. (fn. 29) His son William about 1387 married Isabel daughter of William de Beconsaw; (fn. 30) and William, their son, was contracted in marriage, as early as 1389–90, with Alice, daughter of Nicholas Blundell of Little Crosby; (fn. 31) further settlements appear to have been made in 1402. (fn. 32) The younger William died about 1450, and was succeeded by his son, another William, (fn. 33) who had a son and heir Robert. In 1463 a contest arose between William Blundell and Richard Ballard, one of the free tenants of Ince, concerning the division of the waste. The latter's supporters invaded the disputed land and carried off Blundell's cattle which they found there; and though an arbitration resulted in favour of Blundell, the other side gave trouble for some years. (fn. 34)
At the beginning of 1479 it was agreed between Thomas Molyneux of Sefton and William, son and heir of Robert Blundell, that the former should not enclose Ince Marsh, nor any part of it, until the death of William Blundell, father of Robert; and that then the two parties should show their evidence to counsel, and abide by their decision. (fn. 35) William Blundell the son of Robert, in December, 1504, paid 33s. 4d. as relief to the lord of Warrington and promised to do homage, but died before this engagement (fn. 36) could be fulfilled. On 12 August, 1505, his son and heir Robert did homage at Warrington in the Friars' house, and in the following May paid his relief. (fn. 37) On his death, six years later, (fn. 38) the Butlers took vigorous action to secure their right of wardship over his son and heir James, who was seized by William Molyneux of Sefton and detained, in defiance of the jury's finding, for some years, until, in fact, a writ was issued at Lancaster for the arrest of William Molyneux, with a threat of outlawry. Then James was surrendered to Sir Peter Legh, knight and priest, and by him delivered to Sir Thomas Butler at Bewsey in February, 1515. (fn. 39)
James Blundell lived till about 1541; (fn. 40) his eldest son William succeeded him and survived about six years, when, dying childless, his brother Robert, then a minor, followed. (fn. 41) Robert, having seen all the changes of the time, was living in 1585, in which year he was required, as a recusant, to provide a horseman equipped for the queen's service or pay £24 as an alternative. (fn. 42) His son, another Robert, was a temporizer, sheltering the missionary priests, and yet attending the statutory services in order to escape the heavy penalties by which they were made effective. (fn. 43) His wife was a convicted recusant. (fn. 44) He in 1596–7 secured a commutation of the tenure of the manor from knight's service to free socage, paying 1d. yearly as acknowledgement and doing fealty to the lord of Warrington. (fn. 45) He died at Preston, 22 March, 1615–6, leaving a son and heir, Robert, aged forty years. (fn. 46)
This Robert, a lawyer of some eminence in London, had been a Protestant, (fn. 47) but returned to the Roman Catholic faith, and like other recusants took the royal side in the Civil War, his sons being in arms at Preston. Consequently his lands were raided and seized by the Parliament, his wife being left without support for herself and children. (fn. 48) At last he was able to obtain a lease of his estate and afterwards to repurchase it. (fn. 49) In his more prosperous days he had greatly added to the family estates, purchasing the manors of Birkdale, Meandale, and Ainsdale, and Renacres in Halsall; purchases which in the latter half of the seventeenth century gave rise to a long dispute between the Blundell and Gerard families. (fn. 50)
He died in January, 1656–7, and was succeeded by his son Henry, who as a known recusant thought it well to retire to Ireland during the excitement roused by Titus Oates; his tenants took advantage of the difficulty by withholding rents and other dues. (fn. 51) He died in 1687, being followed by his son, another Henry, frequently mentioned in the diary of Nicholas Blundell of Little Crosby. (fn. 52) His son and heir Robert married Catherine daughter of Sir Rowland Stanley of Hooton; from which marriage resulted the possession of this manor by the present lord, who is the greatgrandson of Thomas Weld of Lulworth, by his wife Mary Stanley, a grandniece of Catherine. (fn. 53) Like his father, Robert Blundell was threatened with a prosecution for recusancy, the effect, it would seem, of personal ill-will. (fn. 54) He obtained possession of the Lydiate estate in 1760, (fn. 55) and soon afterwards retired to Liverpool, where he died in 1773. (fn. 56)
He had given Ince to his son Henry as a residence. This son distinguished himself as a philanthropist and connoisseur. (fn. 57) His life was embittered by a quarrel with his son, largely owing to the latter's refusal to marry. Henry Blundell thereupon endowed his daughters with a liberal portion of his estates. (fn. 58) The son, Charles Robert, resenting this action, bequeathed the manors of Ince, Lydiate, Birkdale, and Ainsdale, and other estates to a relative by his grandmother, as already stated. He chose as his heir Thomas, the second son of Joseph Weld, who was the son of Thomas Weld and Mary his wife; a lawsuit followed, owing to his custom of calling Joseph Weld, Edward. (fn. 59) This error appeared in the will, but the intention being clear Thomas Weld obtained possession of the estates, assuming the additional surname of Blundell. Dying in 1887 he was succeeded by his son Mr. Charles Joseph Weld-Blundell, the present lord of the manor.
Two early lists of the free tenants have been preserved. (fn. 60) The principal tenants were the Ballards, (fn. 61) who in the end established their claim to a third of the manor. (fn. 62) The inheritance had about 1560 come to two daughters of Richard Ballard, named Cecily and Dorothy, who had married respectively Richard Thorne and Thomas Massingberd. Cecily sold her moiety to Sir Richard Molyneux of Sefton, (fn. 63) and Dorothy hers to William Blundell, (fn. 64) whose son Thomas sold to Sir Richard Molyneux, grandson of the last-named Sir Richard. (fn. 65)
The Molyneux family had already possessed an interest in the township, (fn. 66) and on the suppression of Whalley Abbey (fn. 67) and the confiscation of its lands in 1537, Richard Molyneux purchased ALT GRANGE from Thomas Holt, to whom it had been granted by Henry VIII. (fn. 68) This portion of Ince still remains in the possession of the earl of Sefton. With regard to other lands an exchange was effected with Henry Blundell in 1772. (fn. 69)
Alt Grange became the seat of a younger branch of the Molyneux family, who also had a house in West Derby, known as the New Hall, and eventually succeeded to the manor of Huyton; they are now represented by Mr. Edward Richard Thomas Molyneux-Seel. The first of them was John, a younger son of Sir Richard Molyneux, the purchaser; (fn. 70) he was succeeded by his son Richard (fn. 71) and his grandson John. The latter's estates were sequestered by the Parliament for his recusancy and delinquency, and though he died early in 1649 (fn. 72) his widow was still petitioning in 1655. (fn. 73) The eldest son Richard (fn. 74) married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Harrington of Huyton Hey, and was in turn succeeded by his son (fn. 75) and grandson, each named Richard; the last-named (fn. 76) succeeded to Huyton in right of his grandmother Elizabeth, on the death of her nephew Charles Harrington in 1720. (fn. 77) This Richard, buried at Sefton early in 1735, (fn. 78) had a son Richard, who died a fortnight after his father, (fn. 79) and a daughter Frances, whose marriage with Thomas Seel carried the estates to this family. (fn. 80) The connexion with Alt Grange seems to have ceased before her brother's death. (fn. 81)
Molyneux. Azure, a cross moline or; a canton argent.
Seel. Per fess potent counterpotent pean and azure, three wolves' heads erased counterchanged.
Of the other free tenants the most notable were the Blanchards. (fn. 82) Part of the property of the Moorhouses seems to have been sold to Henry Blundell of Little Crosby. (fn. 83) In 1444 there was a contest between John Coldokes and Ellen his wife and Richard Johnson of Little Crosby concerning land in Ince, which has points of interest. (fn. 84)
The following registered estates as 'Papists' in 1717: William Brown of Lostock; William Davy, here and at Great Crosby; Thomas Gore; Thomas Rigmaiden; and Richard Tickle, here and at Altcar. (fn. 85) Richard Blundell, of Carr-side, registered a leasehold house at Altcar. (fn. 86)
It is probable that the Roman Catholic worship was maintained here all through the seventeenth century, (fn. 87) either at Ince Blundell Hall or at Alt Grange, or both, but there seems to be no evidence of it until the end of that period. During the eighteenth century the Jesuits were in charge. (fn. 88) The church of the Holy Family, built in 1858, is attached to the hall; the baptismal register dates from 1775. (fn. 89)
1. 2,318 acres according to the census of 1901; 24 of inland water being included. In addition an acre of tidal water and an acre of foreshore are within the boundary.
2. Lancs. and Ches. Antiq. Soc. xix, 176–8.
3. V.C.H. Lancs. i, 284a.
4. Lancs. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), 7. The superior lordship remained in the barons of Warrington, though the tenure was changed in 1597, as stated in the text. In 1548 a rent of 6s. was due from Robert Blundell for Ince; Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 13, m. 142.
5. Nothing appears to be known of Roger, but probably he held the manor of Stainsby in Derbyshire, parcel of the Domesday fief of Count Roger of Poitou; this had escheated to the lord of the honour before 1164, and was re-granted before 1170; Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 17b; Farrer, Lancs. Pipe R. 20–21.
6. Ibid. 377; Trans. Hist. Soc. xxxii, 183.
7. Inq. and Extents, 7; strictly the service was the proportion due from 3½ plough-lands where ten constituted a fee; but it was more conveniently called the third part; ibid. 147. William also held a moiety of Larbreck in Amounderness of the baron of Kendal; probably in right of his mother; ibid. 3; Whalley Coucher (Chet. Soc.), ii, 526. He had certain public offices between 1212 and 1237; Inq. and Extents, 2; Lancs. Pipe R. 420; Lancs. Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), 12, 40, 41, 49; in the last case his name is struck through, and Adam de Bury substituted.
8. Whalley Coucher (Chet. Soc.), ii, 497; this charter of Henry, son of Warin de Lancaster, which may be dated about 1210, allows William Blundell to use land on the right bank of the river, where he might find it convenient, for a rent of gilded spurs, or 4d. The privilege afterwards (1328) led to a dispute between Sir Richard de Hoghton and the abbot of Whalley; Croxteth D. O. ii, 7.
9. Whalley Coucher, ii, 525. The four oxgangs of land were to be held by knight's service where 9½ plough-lands made one fee.
10. Ibid. ii, 489–90. The grantor describes himself as William son of Richard Blundell; the charters gave the mill with all its appurtenances, as well in corn as in fish, and forbade his heirs to make any pool or device for catching fish which might injure the rights of the monks. The latter might remove the mill to a more convenient site on the Alt and take land for the mill-pool. In return they were to pray for the souls of himself, his wife Agnes, and his ancestors and successors. The grants were confirmed by William le Boteler; ibid. ii, 494.
11. Ibid. ii, 490, 492. This land lay within the ditch of Little Crosby on the south, following it northward to the pool falling into Skippool, down this to the Alt, and following the Alt to the sea—i.e. the tract within which Alt Grange is situated—with common of pasture of the whole vill of Ince for their sheep and cows, and rights of turbary and housebote.
12. Ibid. ii, 527.
13. Inq. and Extents, 147. His name occurs as witnessing charters; e.g. ibid. 20.
14. Whalley Coucher, ii, 494, 498. At the same time he enlarged the monks' right of pasturage and gave up his right to pasture in Sudmore; ibid. 500. Some of these charters are now at Croxteth.
15. Ibid. ii, 502; Robert of York was a witness to this exchange. He also gave some of his villeins to the monks; ibid. ii, 522–4. One villein who had been transferred by Richard's father gave 20s. sterling for a confirmation of the gift, indicating how advantageous it then was to serve a religious house, as compared with a secular lord.
16. Blundell of Crosby D. K. 291. Pasture as for two oxgangs was allowed. Ince is described as 'within the forest,' and the 'citizen of York' is called Robert de Preston. If Gervase de Pencebech were the same as Gervase de Ince, the daughter Amarica must be the Amabil of the Whalley Coucher.
17. Add. MS. 32106, n. 577; Gilbert the Cowherd had previously held it; turbary and common of pasture were included.
18. T. E. Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 91, quoting an Ince Blundell charter. The author had access to these charters, of which a few have been printed in TransHist. Soc. xxxii–iv. By one of them Richard Blundell granted to Hugh son of Alan de Ainsdale a messuage on the Alt; ibid. xxxiii, 265. By another he granted an oxgang of land in Ince to Benedict son of Simon; ibid. xxxii, 190, 189. Rose, as widow of Richard Blundell, quitclaimed to the monks all her dower right in the lands he had given them, as also in the land and pasture which he had given to his daughter Amarica on her marriage with Gervase de Ince; they were to pay her a mark of silver yearly, half at Christmas and half at Halton fair; Whalley Coucher, ii, 501.
19. T. E. Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 93; Jordan de Derby, on behalf of the earl, afterwards resigned his right in the wardship of the heirs of John Blundell of Ince to William le Boteler; Trans. Hist. Soc. xxxiii, 266. As the earl's estates were forfeited in 1266 through his participation in the rebellion of Simon de Montfort, a limit is afforded for this claim of wardship.
20. Richard Blundell granted to his son Robert one plough-land at a rent of 5s.; Croxteth D. O. ii, 1. Robert Goch quitclaimed to the monks of Stanlaw all the land which his father Richard had given them with his body; Whalley Coucher, ii, 503. Jordan de Derby was a witness to this charter. As Robert son of Richard Blundell he quitclaimed to William Blundell, 'my lord and lord of Ince,' all his right in lands near the Cow Holme; Trans. Hist. Soc. xxxiii, 266. Margaret widow of Robert Blundell was a plaintiff in 1283; De Banc. R. 51, m. 72. Margery daughter of Robert Goch married John de Meols, and was living a widow in 1311. John son of William de Meols and Margery his wife claimed lands in Ince in 1292 from Henry Blundell and Henry de Greenoll; Assize R. 408, m. 60d. For notices of deeds by John and Margery, see Lydiate Hall, 95. In 1318 Peter son of Richard de Molyneux of Sefton purchased from her an oxgang and land in Ince; Final Conc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), ii, 31. William son and heir of John de Ravensmeols granted to his brother Hugh land in the Moorhouses in Ince, 'according to the charter which John my father bought from Richard Blundell, then lord of Ince'; and William son of Hugh de Meols received the same lands in 1340 from William Blundell, lord of Ince; Blundell of Crosby D. K. 202, K. 293. The Goch plough-land probably came into the hands of the Ballard family.
21. Whalley Coucher, ii, 503–4. Here he describes himself as son of John Blundell, and speaks of his grandfather Richard Blundell, son of Sir William. His own gift was a piece of meadow in Ince Marsh, around which Roger de Upton, formerly granger of the abbey, had made a ditch; it was confirmed by the superior lord, William le Boteler; ibid. 505. Confirmations were in 1283 secured from the king, who was at Aberconway in Snowdon, and from his brother Edmund, earl of Lancaster; ibid. 506, 507.
22. Ibid. ii, 507. The monks had begun an action, but friends intervening an agreement was made, William Blundell giving four marks and the above piece of meadow.
23. Ibid. ii, 509–11. William retained the liberty of grinding his own corn either at the windmill or the water-mill; the monks gave him 10 marks of silver. Another of his charters, to William son of Wmyr of the Moorhouses, is in Blundell of Crosby D. K. 253. Two others, to Matthew de Molyneux and to Richard Flock, are printed in Trans. Hist. Soc. xxxiii, 267. From Margery widow of Gilbert de Greenoll he received a grant of four acres; ibid.
24. He was living in 1292 when he appeared in support of the abbot of Stanlaw, from whom certain land in Ince was claimed by Adam son of Robert de Thornton, Adam asserting that his grandfather, Robert son of Gilbert de Thornton, had been disseised by a former William Blundell; this claim was adjudged false; Assize R. 408, m. 27d. William Blundell was at the same time a plaintiff regarding his fishery rights; ibid. m. 43. In the following year 'his widow Ellen, in conjunction with Richard de Molyneux of Sefton and another, covenanted to hold Sir William le Boteler harmless for damages or losses in regard to wardship, &c.'; Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 95.
25. William Blundell was witness to an agreement as to Eggergarth Mill in 1298; ibid. 44. In 1315 William Blundell enfeoffed Adam de Ruycroft, vicar of Huyton, of the manor of Ince; and this was regranted to him with remainder to his son William and his daughters Emma, Maud, and Clemency; ibid. 95. His seal, showing a squirrel munching, with the legend S. Willi. Blovndel, is appended to one of his charters; ibid. Agnes, late the wife of William Blundell, in 1331 claimed dower in lands held by John the Harper, Gilbert del Wolfall, and Peter de Molyneux; her claim was prosecuted in the next year against the two former defendants, and as they did not appear, she succeeded; De Banc. R. 287, m. 178d.; 292, m. 66d. In the same year (1331) William son of William Blundell was defendant in a case concerning lands in Ince; Assize R. 1404, m. 27.
26. Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 96; details are given. In the same year he allowed turbary on any common moss of Ince to William, son of Simon, son of Henry; and in 1337 he granted to John de Derbyshire the wardship and marriage of William son of William Bimmeson, with his lands in Ince; ibid. In 1337 also William Blundell of Ince, Agnes late wife of William Blundell of Ince, and others, who brought an assize of novel disseisin against Robert de Bebington and Beatrix his wife, did not prosecute; Assize R. 1424, m. 11.
27. William Blundell in 1344 enfeoffed Henry de Solihull, chaplain, of his manor of Ince, and was re-enfeoffed the following year, having married Joan, daughter of Matthew de Haydock; Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 96. In 1343 a lease had been granted to Henry, son of William Blundell of Ince, with remainder to John, the brother of Henry, and to Emma, Almeria, and Joan, their sisters; ibid. The pedigree of 1613, drawn up from the family deeds, gives as father of the William who married Joan, William whose wife was Ellen; this is probably a confusion with the William and Ellen recorded above; Visit. of 1613 (Ches. Soc.), 76. William Blundell and Joan his wife were defendants in 1351, 1352, and 1355; Duchy of Lanc. Assize R. 1, m. ij (bis); R. 2, m. iij; R. 4, m. 116. William Blundell of Ince was defendant also in claims for money due made by Sir John de Molyneux in 1357 and 1358; ibid. R. 6, m. 6; Assize R. 438, m. 18. In 1350 a violent assault with intent to murder was made upon him in Sefton; Assize R. 443, m. 7. He was witness to a charter made in 1361; Blundell of Crosby D. K. 266.
28. John de Kenyon, chaplain, in 1366 granted to Joan widow of William Blundell the manor of Ince, with houses, gardens, orchards, the holt adjoining the said manor, turbary, &c.; with remainder to Henry Blundell, brother and heir of William, and Katherine his wife, daughter of William son of Adam de Liverpool; Trans. Hist. Soc. xxxii, 194; see also Kuerden, iii, i, n. 312. William Blundell and Henry his brother attested a charter in 1351 granting land to William de Liverpool, clerk; Blundell of Crosby D. K. 157. Henry Blundell held the manor for but a few years, dying in or before 1370, when an agreement was made between John de Haydock and Henry de Chatherton, no doubt concerning the marriage of Katherine, the widow, with John de Chatherton, or Chaderton; the deeds of 1315, 1344, and 1345, already mentioned, touching the succession and marriage of William Blundell, are recited in it; Croxteth D. O. ii, 17. He was succeeded by his brother John, who early in 1374 made an enfeoffment of Ince; Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 97. In the same year his name occurs as witness to a charter; Blundell of Crosby D. K. 292. The next year he settled £10 a year on John son of Henry de Chatherton, and Katherine his wife; this arrangement was completed in 1379; Lydiate Hall, 97; Final Conc. ii, 188. Henry de Chatherton, bailiff of the wapentake, was in 1374 charged with a multitude of offences; among others, that he had endeavoured to disinherit John Blundell. He had purchased the reversionary rights of John's sister Emma (who was married and had a son Richard); and his explanation that he had done so in order to secure his daughter-in-law's income not being accepted, he was found guilty; Coram Rege R. 454, m. 13.
29. John Blundell is mentioned in various ways down to 1401–2; Lydiate Hall, 98; Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Chet. Soc.), i, 39; Kuerden MSS. iii. 1, nn. 319, 673. In 1375 the sheriff was ordered to arrest and imprison John Blundell of Ince until he paid a debt of £200 due to Thomas de Molyneux of Cuerdale, John, however, was not to be found within the county and therefore his property was seized, a full description being recorded. He had the manor and manor-house, with chapel, barns, &c.; orchards, arable land, meadow, and pasture (in Flick Moor), cattle and sheep, rents of the tenants and tenants at will, &c. The outgoings included 5s. 3d. a year paid to the chief lord for the manor, £10 a year to John de Chatherton and Katherine his wife; 2 marks a year to Henry Blundell of Crosby, &c. The sheriff delivered the lands, &c. to Thomas de Molyneux; De Banc. R. 460, m. 323. There followed some suits by Thomas; De Banc. R. 461, m. 41, &c.
30. Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 98.
31. The feoffees, who included John de Beconsaw, granted to John Blundell of Ince all the lands they had had by his gift, with remainder to William his son and his heirs by Isabel his wife, and to William, son and heir of the said William, and Alice, daughter of Nicholas Blundell; Blundell of Crosby D. K. 143.
32. Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 98; the feoffees named are the same as those in the deed last cited.
33. A step in the pedigree has been inserted here, making a succession of three Williams, instead of the two in the pedigree in Lydiate Hall, 84. As John Blundell's father died about 1330 and John lived till 1401, it seems unlikely that his son William lived till 1450; more probably this was his grandson, who was born before 1390. William Blundell in 1445 enfeoffed Sir Thomas Stanley and Henry Blundell (of Crosby) of his manor of Ince; Croxteth D. O. ii, 21. In 1447 a covenant of marriage was made by which Robert son of William Blundell was to marry Elizabeth, sister of Thomas and Henry Dawn; William Blundell, grandfather of Robert, was a party to this; Trans. Hist. Soc. xxxiv, 135. The elder William died before 1451, when William Blundell of Ince conveyed to Robert, his son and heir, and Elizabeth his wife, various lands at Ince; Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 99. Two years after this an award was made between William Blundell and Katherine, widow of his father William, the arbitrator being Sir Thomas Stanley; Trans. Hist. Soc. xxxiv, 140. In 1461, Roger Sherdes and his wife Alice, daughter of William Blundell, released to William Blundell and his wife Agnes all claims; Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 100. Early in the following year a marriage was arranged by Robert Blundell and Roger Asshaw between William Blundell and Joan Asshaw, their children; William Blundell, the father of Robert, is also mentioned; Trans. Hist. Soc. xxxiv, 138.
34. Gibson, Lydiate Hall, p. 100.
35. Croxteth D. O. i, 8; it would appear from this that William Blundell was very old, and incapable of business, and that Robert Blundell was dead. In 1484 William Blundell arranged for the dower of Agnes, his grandfather's widow; four years later he arranged for the marriage of his daughter Mary with Thomas, son and heir of John, son of Richard Singleton of Inglewhite; Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 101.
36. Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 16. William Blundell died 18 June, 1505, holding Ince Blundell of Sir Thomas Boteler by knight's service, viz. by the third part of a fee, and by the rent of 5s., with 12d. for suit at court; the clear value was £10. He also held land in Lydiate; Robert Blundell was his next heir, and thirty-four years of age; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. iii, n. 65. He had also a burgage in Liverpool; Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 102.
37. Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 16. In the same year he made a settlement in favour of his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Molyneux; others followed in 1508 and 1511; Gibson, op. cit. 103–4. He also granted lands to his brother Thomas for life, in 1509; ibid. 103. This Thomas married a Ballard, showing probably some appeasement of the family quarrels, and became ancestor of the Blundells of Cardington, one of whom was raised to the peerage; Visit. of 1613 (Chet. Soc.), 77; Visit. of Beds. (Harl. Soc.), 161; G.E.C. Complete Peerage, i, 365; G.E.C. Complete Baronetage, i, 224.
38. Robert Blundell died 28 Dec. 1511, James, his son and heir, being eight years of age in Sept. 1517; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. iv, n. 17. The inquisition recites the feoffment of 1511, which was made for the purposes of his will, directing dower to be given to Elizabeth his wife, lands of 40s. a year value to his younger son William for life; £80 towards the marriages of his daughters —Jane, Margery, Grace, and Ellen; his brother Thomas is mentioned.
39. Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 30–2; also Gibson, op. cit. 104.
40. Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. viii, n. 18; no change is shown in the estates; William, the son and heir, was thirteen years of age. The inventory is printed in Lydiate Hall, 105–6; the manor-house had a hall, a parlour, a little parlour (both used as bedrooms), a higher chamber, a new chamber, and perhaps other rooms not mentioned.
41. Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. ix, n. 39; Robert Blundell, brother and heir, was over eighteen years of age in 1547. The heir, on 15 Jan. 1549–50, i.e. soon after he came of age, was called upon to fulfil covenants made by his father for the marriage of William Blundell and Elizabeth, natural daughter of Sir William Molyneux, who had taken a second husband, Edward Holme; Croxteth D. O. ii, 28. In 1550 a settlement was made by fine; Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 14, m. 324. Accounts of various settlements are given in Lydiate Hall, 107; where also may be seen the account of his killing, in his own defence, one Richard Buck of Sefton, for which he obtained the royal pardon; 108–9. Pedigrees are recorded in 1567, 1613, and 1664; they are printed in the Chetham Society's editions of the Visitations—1567, p. 114; 1613, pp. 76, 77; and 1664, pp. 38, 39; also Misc. Gen. and Her. i, 66 (1613). The change of arms in 1613 should be noticed; Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), vi, 263; Pal. Note Book, i, 57, 109; iv, 26.
42. Lydiate Hall 109, 231 (S.P. Dom. Eliz. clxxxiii, n. 61), 227 (ibid. clxxv, n. 21). He gave shelter to B. Lawrence Johnson, and sent one of his sons to Douay; Gillow, Bibl. Dict. Engl. Cath. iii, 637.
43. In 1590 he was classed with those 'in some degree of conformity, yet in general note of evil affection in religion, non-communicants'; Gibson, op. cit., 245 (quoting S.P. Dom. Eliz. ccxxxv, n. 4). In the following year Thomas Blundell released to Robert, son and heir of Robert Blundell of Ince, his cottage, hempyard, and land for a term of 100 years for a rent of 11s. 6d.; this is accompanied by a paper reciting that the grant was meant for the father, although the son's name was used; and should the queen seize two-thirds of the rent Thomas Blundell would indemnify Robert—an evasion of the statute of 1587, by which two-thirds of a recusant's property was sequestrated; p. 110. In 1592 George Dingley, a priest who had become a government informer, stated that Robert Blundell of Ince 'kept sundry years a recusant schoolmaster, that is a seminary priest named Gardiner'; and had 'lodged in his house and relieved since the last statute of 27 (Eliz.)' not only James Gardiner but the informant himself; he adds the significant hint: 'This Blundell is of good wealth and competent living and lands;' ibid. p. 111 (quoting S.P. Dom. Eliz. ccxv). Many of those who conformed outwardly under the Elizabethan persecution refused in the somewhat milder Stuart times, but this does not seem to have been the case with Robert Blundell, for in his will he directed that he should be buried at Sefton 'in the usual place where my ancestors have been buried, that is to say, under or near the form where I usually do sit, standing in the north aisle of the said church'; ibid. 113. Robert Blundell was plaintiff or defendant in numerous suits in the latter part of Elizabeth's reign; Ducatus Lanc. (Rec. Com.), iii, 184, &c.
44. Ibid. 247 (quoting S.P. Dom. Eliz. ccxxxv, n. 4).
46. Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), ii, 27. This shows the change of tenure, as stated in the text. Besides the manor of Ince and lands in Liverpool and Little Crosby he had had lands in Broughton, in Amounderness and Preston; also, perhaps as trustee for his daughter, the manor called The Hall of Garrett in Tyldesley.
47. This is stated by John Blundell, who for about a year studied at the English College in Rome, after being educated at home and at St. Omer's: 'I was baptized by a Protestant minister in April 1637 … my parents and relations … have suffered great losses on account of their professing the Catholic faith. They were formerly Protestants, but since their conversion have been constant in the faith. I have brothers and sisters, and was always a Catholic;' Foley, Rec. S.J. i, 246; vi, 397.
48. Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 118; Civil War Tracts (Chet. Soc.), 75; Royalist Comp. P. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 199–200. His house at Preston seems to have been utilized as a prison by the Parliamentarians in 1644; Lancs. War (Chet. Soc.), 49.
49. Royalist Comp. P. i, 201; Cal. Com. of Comp. iv, 3047. The manor and lands were repurchased through William West, the lawyer of Robert Blundell; Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 119–20. The sale took place under the Act of 1652 for the benefit of the navy; Index of Royalists (Index Soc.), 30.
50. See Lydiate Hall, 114–16; also the accounts of Halsall and Birkdale.
51. Ibid. p. 125. Henry Blundell in 1666 paid the tax for sixteen hearths; Lay Subs. Lancs. 250/9. He and John Leathwaite of Ince Blundell were indicted as recusants in 1678; Kenyon MSS. (Hist. MSS. Com.). 110.
52. Lyd. Hall, 127. N. Blundell records: 16 May, 1708—'Mr. Plumbe sent an express to give me notice concerning an information made against Mr. Blundell of Ince, by Parson Ellison [of Formby]. I went to Ince to acquaint Mr. Blundell therewith;' and on 26 July: 'I went to Ormskirk sessions, where Mr. Molyneux of Bold, Mr. Trafford, Mr. Harrington, I, &c. compounded to prevent conviction. We appeared in court before Sir Thomas Stanley, Dr. Norris, and Mr. Case, all justices of the peace. We Catholics that got off our convictions dined all together at Richard Wood's … and [later] drank punch with Sir Thomas Stanley;' Diary, 60–3. Henry Blundell died 4 June, 1711; ibid. 92.
53. Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), ii, 416; Foster, Lancs. Pedigrees.
54. Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 130.
55. Ibid. 131; see also the account of Lydiate.
56. Ibid. 133. For a recovery of the manors of Ince Blundell, Formby, Ainsdale, and Birkdale by Henry Blundell, the son, see Com. Pleas Recov. R. Trin. 33 & 34 Geo. II, m. 45.
57. See Dict. Nat. Biog. He died 28 Aug. 1810. An engraving of his monument in Sefton church is given in Gregson, Fragments (ed. Harland), 222.
58. Gibson, op. cit. 134. The Anderton and Heaton estates were those alienated.
59. Gibson, op. cit. 136–44, where the will is printed together with an account of the subsequent disputes. To several of his tenants he directed that leases should be given of their holdings at half the current rent; but his liberality is stated to have had evil effects; ibid. xxviii.
60. In 1283 they were William Knott, Alan the Young, Gilbert Blanchard, Adam de Crosby, Henry son of William, Peter de Leylandshire, Robert de Pekko, Robert the Chanon, Alan his brother, and Simon, son of Adam; Whalley Coucher, ii, 511. Some of these occur in adjacent townships; the last-named was Simon, son of Adam de Lunt, defendant in a fishery case in 1292; Assize R. 408, m. 43. For 1344 a fuller list has been preserved; Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 96.
61. This name occurs also in Litherland and Little Crosby. Robert Ballardson contributed to the subsidy of 1332; Exch. Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), 8. In the previous year Maud, widow of William Ballard, had been plaintiff in an Ince Blundell suit; Assize R. 1404, m. 27. In a similar suit Robert Ballard was a plaintiff in 1337; Assize R. 1424, m. 11. Richard Ballard in 1340 had a grant of land in Bold; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 196b, n. 33. In 1351 Emma, widow of Robert Ballard, and Thomas, his son, were joined with Robert de Knoll and Joan his wife, and Lawrence Nowell and Katherine his wife in a plea of novel disseisin brought against William Blundell touching tenements in Ince. The plaintiffs did not prosecute and were non-suited, their pledges being John and William Ballard; Duchy of Lanc. Assize R. 1, m. ij. Richard de Knoll and Joan his wife, a daughter of John de Clough, in 1357 sold their lands to Richard de Sefton; and shortly afterwards Lawrence Nowell and Katherine his wife (perhaps another daughter) sold to the same purchaser all the lands descending to Katherine on the death of her father; Croxteth D. O. ii, 11, 10. Three years later William Blundell of Ince released all his right in the lands formerly held of him by John de Clough by knight's service and a rent of 2s. 9d., and 7½d. for relief; the new possessor was Richard de Aughton; ibid. O. ii, 12. There are other notices of these transactions in Final Conc. ii, 155; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 337; Duchy of Lanc. Assize R. 6, m. 3. Thomas Ballard in 1344 bought land of Robert son of Collt of Ince; and this he sold, as bought of Robert Floke, to the same Richard de Aughton in 1364; Croxteth D. O. ii, 8, 13. A few years later Richard de Aughton made a settlement of the lands he had acquired in Ince, together with his lands and mill in Thornton, the remainder being to his son Richard; ibid. O. ii, 14–16. In 1417 Thomas, son of Richard de Aughton enfeoffed John Totty and another of his lands; ibid. O. ii, 20. There does not seem to be anything further known of these Aughtons, but their lands, as will be seen, were acquired by Molyneux of Sefton. Thomas Ballard and Margery his wife in 1355 claimed fourteen acres in Ince from William Blundell and Joan his wife; the agreement stated that Thomas Ballard should pay 15s. a year, carry with his wagons, and give services with plough and harrow like William Blundell's other tenants; Duchy of Lanc. Assize R. 4, m. 16. Thomas and William Ballard paid to the poll tax of 1381; Lay Subs. Lancs. 130/24. Robert, son and heir of Thomas Ballard of Ince, quitclaimed to Sir John de Bold in 1409–10 all rights to the land in Bold he had by his father and his mother Emma; Dods. MSS. cxlii, fol. 202b, n. 67. The dispute between the Ballards and Blundells which began in 1463 has been mentioned in the text.
62. In 1505 Robert Ballard secured a right to a third of the waste, and in 1509 sold a moiety of his waste to William Molyneux of Sefton; Croxteth D. O. i, 1–3.
63. In 1562 Richard Thorne and Cecily his wife sold to Sir Richard Molyneux their moiety of the third part of the manor of Ince Blundell, with lands, mills, &c., there and in the Moorhouses, North End, Melling, the Old Marsh, the Low Marsh, the Elcom acre, and Black carr; ibid. O. i, 4, 5, 7; also Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 24, m. 191.
64. Thomas Massingberd and Dorothy his wife, a daughter and co-heir of Richard Ballard, in 1569 sold this half; Croxteth D. O. i, 9; Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 33, m. 138.
65. Thomas, son and heir of William Blundell, sold to Sir Richard Molyneux in 1579; and at the same time an agreement to divide the waste was made between Sir Richard and Robert Blundell of Ince; ibid. O. i, 11, 10. This appears to be the 'manor of North End' named in the later Molyneux inquisitions, &c.
66. By a charter of about 1260 William de Molyneux, son of Adam, granted to Richard Flock a messuage and lands in Ince Marsh, which had descended to the grantor after the death of Richard his brother; Trans. Hist. Soc. xxxiii, 266. This charter is similar to that given in the Pal. of Lanc. Plea R. 12, m. 27b, quoted below. Lands in Ince are mentioned among the possessions of Richard de Molyneux in 1361; Croxteth D. Genl. i, 35. A certain John Molyneux and Katherine his wife in 1438 granted all their lands in Downholland, Lydiate, Ince Blundell and the Moorhouses, to James Molyneux; ibid. Genl. i, 53, 54. The lands of Sir William Molyneux in 1548 were stated to be held of the heirs of James Blundell in socage by a rent of 2s. 9d.; twenty years later they had grown to a 'manor,' but were still held of the Blundells, though no rent was payable; in 1623 the tenure was unknown; Duchy of Lanc. Inq. p.m. ix, n. 2; xiii, n. 35; Lancs. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), iii, 389.
67. The monks' official in charge was called the 'Granger of Alt' in 1283; Whalley Coucher, ii, 505. The mill was held by a miller whose right descended to his sons; Alexander, the miller of Alt, gave his son Thomas certain property, including a third part of the mill, sometime before 1250; Simon, son of Alexander, released to the monks his third part of the mill held by his father by hereditary right, the monks having paid him 100s.; and for 20s. they purchased from the widow her dower right; ibid. ii, 495–7. But little occurs to show the connexion of the abbey with the township. The abbot, from 1347 to 1351 prosecuted William Blundell of Ince and others for money owing; De Banc. R. 352, m. xxiiij d. R. 360, m. 37. At last the sheriff was ordered to distrain, notwithstanding the liberty of Henry, earl of Lancaster; Henry Blundell and John his brother were among the mainpernors; ibid. R. 364, m. 91. In 1366 John Amerison was charged by the abbot with waste of lands in Ince; De Banc. R. 424, m. 279. On the other hand in 1441 Henry Blundell proceeded against John, abbot of Whalley, for damage in Little Crosby and Ince caused by a flood, which he alleged to be due to the abbot's neglect to repair a ditch; the abbot replied that the water running by the ditch was the Alt flowing and re-flowing to and from the sea, and that he was under no special obligation to repair it; Pal. of Lanc. Plea R. 3, m. 20b. The abbot made a claim for common of pasture about 1500; Ducatus Lanc. (Rec. Com.), i, 124.
68. The grant of Alt Grange to Thomas Holt was by letters patent dated 1 Aug. 1543, a rent of £4 10s. 0½d. being reserved to the crown, and he sold it in the following November to Richard, son and heir apparent of Sir William Molyneux; Croxteth D. X. ii, 1, 2, 5; Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. iv. The tenant's name was Moorcroft.
69. The list of the lands exchanged is printed in the Sefton Abstract of Title.
70. Visit. of 1567 (Chet. Soc.), 104; and Visit. of 1664 (Chet. Soc.), 203— Molyneux of New Hall.
71. Mentioned Royalist Comp. P. iv, 147. In a deed of 1632 he is described as of Alt Grange, brother and heir of John Molyneux, deceased.
72. Ibid. 145–8. He had in 1634 a lease of Alt Grange from Lord Molyneux, at a rent of £4 7s. 2d. He and his wife, with many others, appear in the Recusant Roll of 1641 in Ince Blundell; Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), xiv, 237. The estate was sold for treason under the third Act of 1652; Index of Royalists (Index Soc.), p. 43. He was buried at Sefton 3 March, 1648–9.
73. Royalist Comp. P. loc. cit.; Cal. Com. for Comp. iv, 3171–2; the estate had been discharged in April, 1654, on payment of a fine of £20. The house in 1666 had five hearths taxed; Lay Subs. Lancs. 250–9.
74. He joined with his mother in the petition concerning the sequestration. For his age and marriage see Visit. of 1664, p. 203. His brother, Edward, a secular priest, for nearly forty years served the mission at Alt Grange and the neighbourhood; he was found dead on the sands, 28 April, 1704, and was buried in the Harkirk ground at Little Crosby; N. Blundell, Diary, p. 21; Crosby Rec. (Chet. Soc.), pp. xxi, 81. Thomas Molyneux or Wilkinson, S.J., is supposed to have been of this family; perhaps a brother of Edward. He was a victim of the Oates persecution, dying in Morpeth gaol, of poison given by the physician as it is believed, though it was given out that he committed suicide; Gillow, Bibl. Dict. of Engl. Cath. v, 69; Foley, Rec. S.F. v, 657. Richard Molyneux was buried at Sefton 7 May, 1686.
75. An elder son John, born in 1660 and baptized by Mr. Parr, a secular priest, after studying at St. Omer's, entered the English College at Rome in 1679; 'he was always a Catholic and suffered for his faith'; he went by his mother's name of Harrington; Foley, Rec. S. J. vi, 429. He was buried at Sefton 28 Jan. 1692–3, as 'John Molyneux of West Derby, gentleman.' His brother Richard, who succeeded him, was buried at Sefton, 29 Jan. 1712–13; see N. Blundell, Diary, 110.
76. He registered his leasehold estate in Ince as a 'Papist' in 1717; Engl. Cath. Non-jurors, 154. He had an elder brother John living in 1719, who in a deed of this date mentioned him and his sisters Mary and Elizabeth, also Mrs. Elizabeth Molyneux, widow; Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, 192, from Roll 7 of Geo. I at Preston. In 1722 John Molyneux, of Alt Grange and New Hall, was to marry Margaret, daughter of Richard Moore of Heskin; ibid. iii, 214, quoting second 5th Roll of Geo. I.
77. See the account of Huyton.
78. He died at New Hall in West Derby, and was buried at Sefton 23 Feb. 1734–5.
79. He was buried at Sefton 3 March, 1734–5; his will, enrolled at Preston (second 5th Roll of Geo. II), mentions his wife Margaret, his mother-in-law Mary Hawarden, his brother-in-law Bryan Hawarden, his uncle Edward, and his daughter Frances; Piccope MSS. (Chet. Lib.), iii, 256. For some monumental inscriptions, &c., relating to this family see Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), xi, 99, 100.
81. Richard Lord Molyneux leased Alt Grange to John Blanchard of Ince in 1726; Richard Molyneux of Alt Grange is mentioned; also his uncle Edward and his deceased brother John, and Margaret his wife; Piccope MSS. iii, 244 (from a roll of Geo. II at Preston.)
82. Richard Blundell between 1249 and 1266 granted to William, son of Swain Blanchard, two fields in his vill of Ince, at a rent of 12d.; Blundell of Crosby D. K. 247. Gilbert Blanchard occurs in the list of free tenants of 1283 given in a previous note. In 1304 Richard, son of William Blanchard, complained that Robert, son of Gilbert Blanchard, William, son of William Blanchard, and Richard Blundell had disseised him of his messuage and land in Ince; but he failed, as Robert showed that he entered on one portion, as heir, after the death of William his grandfather, and William, son of William Blanchard, by his father's gift; Assize R. 419, m. 12d. Richard Blanchard paid to the subsidy in 1332; Exch. Lay Subs. 8. Robert, son of Richard Blanchard, was one of the free tenants of 1344; Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 97. Adam Blanchard was a juror in 1375; De Banc. R. 460, m. 323. Robert and Adam Blanchard contributed to the poll-tax of 1381; Lay Subs. Lancs. 130/24. Huan Blanchard, son and heir of John, granted land in Ince Blundell in 1518; Towneley MS. CC. (Chet. Lib.), n. 807. Joseph Blanchard, of Lady Green, occurs in 1713, and Richard Blanchard was a leaseholder in 1834; N. Blundell, Diary, 109; Gibson, op. cit. 139. Families named Orshaw and Dey also occur during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; Croxteth D. O. ii, 18, 22–25. For others see Pal. of Lanc. Feet of F. bdle. 1, m. 29; bdle. 3, m. 9.
83. In 1374 Adam, son of Robert del Moorhouses, claimed certain land from John de Ashhurst; De Banc. R. 456, m. 195; R. 457, m. 114d. But four years earlier the defendant had given to Henry Blundell all the lands, &c., he had by the grant of Richard, son of William del Moorhouses; and in 1406–7 Isabel, as widow of John de Ashhurst, released all her right in her husband's land to Nicholas Blundell of Crosby; Kuerden fol. MS. 38, n. 436, 432.
84. The plaintiffs adduced a charter granted by William de Molyneux (1250– 80) to Henry, son of William del Moorhouses, of land called Ruholme in Ince, which William de Sileby formerly held of the gift of Richard Blundell, and which descended to the grantor after the death of Richard his brother, who had had the same by the gift of Sir William le Boteler. Henry, also known as Henry son of Bimme, had issue Thomas and Simon; the former had a son Roger and grandson Alan, whose daughter and heir was Ellen, wife of John Coldokes. On the other side was adduced a charter by Henry, dated 1302, granting his son Simon a moiety of his lands held according to 'the ancient charters' of William, son of John Blundell; for this gift his sons Simon and Thomas were to keep him in food and clothing for the rest of his life. Simon's moiety accordingly descended to his son William and grandson Thomas, and so to Emma, wife of Richard Johnson of Little Crosby, whose son John was joined as defendant; Pal. of Lanc. Plea R. 6, m. 26; R. 12, m. 27 b. A Thomas Coldoke was living here in 1595; Ducatus Lanc. iii, 332. William, son of Richard Bimmeson, claimed lands in Ince in 1342; Assize R. 1435, m. 48.
85. Eng. Cath. Non-jurors, 108, 122, 126, 148. One of Richard Tickle's daughters had married Richard Molyneux of Alt Grange, and their sons John and Richard are mentioned.
86. Ibid. 112. The Blundells of Carrside were a junior branch of the Ince family; 'their names appear in the recusant rolls throughout the whole period of persecution'; Gillow, Haydock Papers, 215, where particulars are given.
87. The first missioners certainly known are Edward Molyneux, already mentioned, and Henry Tasburgh, S.J.; both in the neighbourhood from about 1670.
88. Foley, Rec. S.J. v, 320, 362; the priest's residence for some time was the New House in the Carr Houses, built in 1701; and see Crosby Rec. (Chet. Soc.), 81–2; N. Blundell, Diary, 2; Haydock Papers, 213–14.
89. Liverpool Cath. Ann. 1901. A Benedictine was in charge from 1826 to 1865; Trans. Hist. Soc. (New Ser.), xiii, 168.
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Victoria County History - Worcestershire
A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3
Parishes: White Ladies Aston
A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1913.
WHITE LADIES ASTON
Eastun, Estun (xi cent.); Eston (xii and xiii cent.); Bishop's Aston, Aston Episcopi (xiv cent.); Bysshopusaston, Byshoppes Aston (xv cent.); Aston Episcopi, Whiteladiaston (xvi cent.).
The parish of White Ladies Aston lies to the south-east of the town of Worcester. Bow Brook, running southwards into the River Avon near Defford, forms the eastern, and Saw Brook, a tributary of Bow Brook, forms the southern boundary. The area of the parish is 1,236 acres. In 1905 the parish contained 446 acres of arable land and 772 of permanent grass. (fn. 1)
The soil is clay with a little sand and the subsoil is Lower Lias. The chief crops are wheat, beans and barley. The slope of the land is from west to east, the highest point, 205 ft. above the ordnance datum, being on Low Hill, on the western boundary of the parish.
The village of White Ladies Aston lies near the centre of the parish, a little distance to the south of the Alcester and Stratford road. The houses are grouped along a winding by-road, running roughly north and south, with the church at the east side of the road at the north end of the village, to which the many half-timber cottages with their thatched roofs give a characteristic and unspoiled appearance. Aston Hall, a farm-house at the lower end of the village, is a half-timber L-shaped house two stories in height, with tiled roofs. The north wing, containing the kitchen and dairy, though encased in 18th-century brickwork, dates probably from the 16th century, and originally formed a rectangular cottage of the normal central chimney type. The south wing, comprising a large hall and connecting staircase with apartments above, was added early in the 17th century, the house being then transformed into one of greater importance. The timbers of this latter part of the house are exposed, and the square panels which they form are filled with lath and plaster work. Against the gabled west wall is an original square brick chimney stack with a long vertical panel on the outer face in which the brickwork is arranged in a lattice pattern. The hall has a cellar under the east part, and is now divided into two apartments with a modern chimney stack on the east. The dog-legged stairs between the hall and kitchen are of early 17th-century date, and have square newels with moulded finials, chamfered rails, and plain flat balusters. Between this and the kitchen is a doorway made through the south wall of the original building, one of the horizontal timbers being partly cut away. The kitchen has a fine ceiling with a heavy beam along the centre about 12 in. square supporting the cross members, and a wide open fireplace. The brick chimney above is mainly original. Some of the old half-timber work of this part of the house is exposed at the north gable. At the north-west of the house there is a timber barn with a thatched roof, which dates probably from the 17th century, and at the, north-east there is another of similar character and date. An old stone cider press in another barn near the house is still in use.
A little to the north of Aston Hall, facing a bend of the road, is the house known as the 'Moat Farm,' which appears to have been rebuilt early in the 19th century to the west of the moated site from which it takes its name. The moat, which is still filled with water, is nearly perfect. Aston Court (fn. 2) is a modern red brick house of no architectural interest. Sneachill is a hamlet in the north-west of the parish on the Worcester and Evesham road. The nearest railway station is Stoulton, 1½ miles from the village, on the Great Western railway.
The Worcester and Evesham road forms the western boundary, and from it in the north of the parish another road branches off and runs east to Naunton Beauchamp, crossing Bow Brook by Edward's Bridge and ford. In the south another branch from the Worcester and Evesham road runs to Pershore. Other roads lead from the village of White Ladies Aston north to Churchill and south-east to Peopleton, the latter crossing Bow Brook near Hays Brake by Barrel Bridge and Barrel Ford.
An Inclosure Act for White Ladies Aston was passed in 1825. (fn. 3)
Chimney Stack at Aston Hall, White Ladies Aston
The following place-names have been found: Farmelandes (fn. 4) (xvi cent.); Hunt Place and Cock (fn. 5) (xvii cent.).
The manor of ASTON formed at the time of the Domesday Survey a part of the manor of Northwick, (fn. 6) and was probably given with Northwick to the Bishop of Worcester, as no separate grant of it has been found. Before 1086 Urse D'Abitot the Sheriff had obtained possession of part of the manor of Aston, and though this land was included under the possessions of the see of Worcester it does not appear that Urse did any service for it. Three hides and a virgate in the manor were held under the Bishop by Ordric, and this land had been and then was part of the demesne of the capital manor of Northwick. (fn. 7) King William I restored land at 'Eastun' to Bishop Wulfstan, (fn. 8) and this was probably Ordric's holding at Aston, for the land held in the manor of Northwick by the bishop in demesne had increased between 1086 and the time of Henry I by 3 hides, approximately the amount of Ordric's holding at White Ladies Aston. (fn. 9) Part of the manor of White Ladies Aston was given by Bishop Theulf (1113–23) to Robert de Evercy, (fn. 10) but a manor called 'the manor of Aston Episcopi' was retained by the bishop and remained in the possession of the see of Worcester (fn. 11) until 1648. It was then sold by the Parliamentary trustees for the sale of the lands of the bishops to Thomas Rawlins, Edmund Giles and Christopher Giles. (fn. 12) It was restored to the see at the Restoration and remained in the hands of successive bishops until the death of Henry Pepys, Bishop of Worcester, in 1860, when it became vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are the present owners. (fn. 13)
Walter, Bishop of Worcester, obtained a grant of free warren at 'Eston' in 1255. (fn. 14)
The part of the manor given by Bishop Theulf to Robert de Evercy (fn. 15) probably comprised half the vill of Aston, (fn. 16) and afterwards became known as the manor of WHITE LADIES ASTON. It was held of the Bishop of Worcester's manor of Northwick by knight's service. (fn. 17) Robert de Evercy held the manor in 1166, (fn. 18) and he or a descendant of the same name obtained a recognition of his right to present to the church of Aston in 1204. (fn. 19) Olimpia daughter and heir of Robert de Evercy married Ralph de Wilington, (fn. 20) and in 1205 Robert granted half the vill of Aston to Ralph and Olimpia, retaining for himself a life interest in the estate, (fn. 21) and this was confirmed by a fine in 1207. (fn. 22) Ralph de Wilington received seisin of the manor in 1208, (fn. 23) Robert de Evercy having died at about that time. (fn. 24) In 1215 Walter Gray, Bishop of Worcester, recovered from Ralph de Wilington the manor and advowson of Aston, (fn. 25) and in March 1215 the Sheriff of Worcester was commanded to give the bishop seisin of the manor, which, it was said, his predecessor Bishop Mauger had held before he fled the country in 1208. (fn. 26) In 1216 the sheriff was ordered to restore the land to Ralph, (fn. 27) but between 1216 and 1218 Ralph with the consent of his wife Olimpia granted the manor and the advowson of the church to Silvester of Evesham, Bishop of Worcester, (fn. 28) and Cecily de Evercy, widow of Robert de Evercy, released all her claim to a third of the manor to William of Blois, who succeeded Silvester as bishop in 1218. (fn. 29) This estate evidently formed part of the manor at Aston granted about the middle of the 13th century by Bishop Walter Cantilupe (1237–66) to the newly-founded nunnery at Whistones, (fn. 30) for in 1346 it was stated that the Prioress of Whistones held a fifth of a knight's fee in Aston Bishop and Barbourne which 'Ralph de Wilymet' once held. (fn. 31) The estate of the nunnery also included half a hide at Aston held in the time of Henry II by Robert de Burford, (fn. 32) and early in the 13th century by Walter de Burford, of the Bishop of Worcester's manor of Northwick, for the service of a tenth of a knight's fee, (fn. 33) this land having been acquired by the nuns before 1299. (fn. 34) Whistones Nunnery was suppressed in October 1536, (fn. 35) and at that time the nuns' manor of White Ladies Aston consisted of demesne lands worth £6 7s. 10d., a rent of 64s. 4d. and king's alms amounting to £10. (fn. 36) The manor was granted on 14 July 1544 to Richard Andrews and John Howe, (fn. 37) and they on 30 July sold it to Thomas Hill. (fn. 38) Thomas died in 1557, (fn. 39) but this manor does not seem to have passed to his son and heir William, but to a younger son Francis, who had joined with his parents in buying the manor. (fn. 40) Francis Hill died in 1611, leaving a daughter Alice wife of Richard Andrews of Piddington, co. Northants. (fn. 41) Richard and Alice sold the manor in 1612 to Robert Berkeley of Spetchley, (fn. 42) and the manor has since descended in the same way as Spetchley to Robert Valentine Berkeley. (fn. 43)
Land at White Ladies Aston, afterwards known as the manor of ASTON BRULEY (Nether Aston, xvii cent.), was held under the Bishop of Worcester as of his manor of Northwick (fn. 44) by the Bruleys from very early times. In the Bishop of Worcester's Domesday (c. 1182), Richard de Bruley is entered as holding a hide at Aston, (fn. 45) and Richard 'Brusle' is mentioned in the Pipe Roll of 1175–6. (fn. 46) In the early 13th century a descendant of Richard's bearing the same name held a hide at Aston for the service of a fifth part of a knight's fee. (fn. 47) Milicent widow of Richard de Bruley sued Henry de Bruley in 1274–5 for not keeping a covenant made between them as to 3 virgates of land at Aston under Oswaldslow. (fn. 48) No further mention has been found of this manor until 1346, but it probably passed from Henry Bruley to his son Henry, (fn. 49) and from him to his eldest son William. (fn. 50) Henry Bruley son of William left a daughter Agnes, who married a cousin William Bruley, (fn. 51) and William in 1346 held the land in Aston which Richard Bruley had formerly held. (fn. 52) In 1413–14 he and Agnes conveyed a toft and 2 virgates of land in Aston Bishop to John Lynton and John Bertelmewe. (fn. 53) William and Agnes Bruley had a son John, whose daughter and heir Joan married John Danvers of Ipswell and Calthorpe, co. Oxon. (fn. 54) John Danvers died about 1448, (fn. 55) and Thomas, the eldest son of John and Joan Danvers, died in 1502 without issue, being succeeded by his brother Sir William Danvers. (fn. 56) The manor passed in 1504 (fn. 57) from Sir William to his son John, who died in 1508, leaving an infant son John. (fn. 58) On his death while still a minor in 1517 (fn. 59) this manor passed to his youngest sister Dorothy, who married Nicholas Hubaud or Hubold. (fn. 60) It was settled in 1532 upon them and the heirs of their bodies with remainder in default to Dorothy's heirs. (fn. 61) Nicholas died in 1553 and Dorothy in 1558, (fn. 62) and the manor was sold by their son Sir John Hubaud to William Solley, (fn. 63) whose son Leonard Solley held it at the time of Habington's Survey of Worcestershire. (fn. 64) In 1610–11 Sir — Fitton, kt., was lord of the manor of Aston Bruley. (fn. 65) Its further descent has not been traced, and the manor no longer exists.
Danvers. Argent a bend gules with three martlets or thereon.
The manor at White Ladies Aston held in 1086 by Urse, in the manor of Northwick, remained part of that manor probably till about the middle of the 13th century. (fn. 66) The bishop's overlordship seems to have lapsed after that time. Urse's interest in the manor passed with his other possessions to the Beauchamps, who were overlords of this manor until about 1316, when the overlordship is mentioned for the last time. (fn. 67)
This manor was held under Urse D'Abitot by a certain Robert, and, like the manor which he held at Warndon, this manor passed subsequently to the Bracy family. (fn. 68) It descended apparently in the same way as Warndon until, according to Habington, it was sold by Robert Bracy to Walter Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester (1237–66), who endowed Whistones Nunnery with it. (fn. 69) Robert de Bracy was said to be holding Aston about 1316, (fn. 70) and in 1346 the manor was again returned as held by Robert Bracy, (fn. 71) but all records of the estate cease after this time.
Habington refers to another property in White Ladies Aston, which he states was held by Sir Hugh de Eston in 1269, and descended to Richard de Eston, whose heir Isabel married Adam de Clifton. He adds that 'Clyfton injoyed thease landes in Eston tyll thys family once worthy but nowe synckinge with theyre ruinatinge house, Mr. Francis Clyfton sould thease in Eston called Clyfton's place to Richard Wagstaffe, and Wagstaffe to Mr. Thomas Simonds who now inhabiteth theare.' (fn. 72)
There seems to be little evidence to confirm this account beyond a claim by Elena daughter of Richard de Aston in 1313–14 from John son of Richard le Clerk of Aston Bishop of a third of two messuages and land in Aston Bruley which Isabel wife of Richard le Clerk claimed as dower. (fn. 73) In 1594 Eleanor and Anne Clifton had livery of three messuages in White Ladies Aston or Nether Aston (Aston Bruley), which had belonged to their grandfather Nicholas Clifton at the time of his death in 1588. (fn. 74) The Thomas Symonds who purchased from Wagstaffe was probably Thomas Symonds of Aston Bishop, who died in 1640. (fn. 75) In 1656 George Symonds and Jane his wife and Thomas Symonds conveyed a moiety of the manor of White Ladies Aston to Jasper Brittaine and Thomas Harris, (fn. 76) evidently for the purpose of some settlement. George Symonds died in 1664, (fn. 77) and was apparently succeeded by Thomas Symonds, Sheriff of Worcester, in 1669. (fn. 78) Mr. Symonds of White Ladies Aston was executed in 1708 for the murder of Mrs. Palmer of Upton Snodsbury, (fn. 79) and his estate escheated to Bishop Lloyd as lord of the manor. He founded therewith in 1713 two schools called the Bishop's Charity Schools in Worcester. (fn. 80) The estate still belongs to the trustees of the Charity, and is leased to Mr. Robert V. Berkeley.
A very fine old black and white timbered house was the residence of the Symonds family. Here it was that Cromwell slept on his way from Evesham to Worcester before the battle, Symonds being a great Roundhead. The house and some land came to Thomas Henry Bund, who pulled down the house, and ultimately sold all his land in the parish about 1836 to Mr. Berkeley of Spetchley. (fn. 81)
There is some indication that there was a manor of the RECTORY in this parish. When the manor of White Ladies Aston was granted to Richard Andrews in 1544 the mansion and chief messuage of the rectory of Aston Bishop was included in the grant, (fn. 82) and this mansion is mentioned in the inquisition taken on the death of Francis Hill in 1611. (fn. 83) In a deposition taken in 1610–11 there is mention of a court held for Francis Hill in his house called the Parsonage House in White Ladies Aston. (fn. 84)
The church of ST. JOHN BAPTIST consists of a chancel measuring internally 23 ft. by 13 ft., nave 40 ft. by 17 ft., north aisle 10 ft. wide, and a vestry north of the chancel. The aisle and vestry were added in 1861, up to which date the church had stood unaltered in plan since the 12th century. Larger windows had, however, been inserted, one in the south wall of the chancel at the end of the 14th century and another to the nave in the 15th. The timber tower and spire, which rise above the roof at the west end of the nave, have no distinctive features, but probably the oldest timbers date from the 15th century.
During the incumbency of the Rev. Henry Martin Sherwood, who was vicar from 1839 to 1911, the church was restored and enlarged. Besides the addition of the aisle and vestry the west wall was rebuilt in 1861 and the south porch added in 1864. The walling of the chancel is small, wide-jointed rubble work. The east window is a single round-headed light, probably original. A small round-headed light of modern stonework in the north wall is either a repair or an insertion, and in the south wall of the chancel is a two-light window under a square head. Further west is another round-headed window with modern stonework. The chancel arch has square jambs with square abaci and a three-centred arch. The modern arcade to the north aisle is of three bays with round and octagonal piers and responds. The aisle is lighted by pairs of lancet windows and the north doorway is of modern stonework in the style of the 12th century. The south window of the nave is square-headed and of two lights partly restored. The round-headed south doorway is evidently of the 12th century, but only the abaci and a few other stones are old. In the modern west wall are two lancet windows with a quatrefoil in the gable above.
The tower is supported on strong wood posts which stand in the church. Its sides are boarded and covered with lead on the west and south faces; the windows to the bell-chamber are square and luffered. The upper corners are chamfered off to the octagonal spire, which is covered with wood shingles. The roofs are gabled and have plastered ceilings.
The font, probably of the 13th century, is of a dark red sandstone with a twelve-sided bowl. The other fittings are modern.
There are three bells: the first dated 1707; the second 1636, inscribed 'Give prays to God'; the third 'Sancte Jacobpe, ora pro nobis,' with a crowned female head and a cross.
The communion plate includes an Elizabethan cup and cover paten with the hall mark of 1571.
The registers before 1812 are as follows: (i) mixed entries 1558 to 1660 and baptisms 1661 to 1717, marriages 1661 to 1705 and burials 1661 to 1709; (ii) baptisms and burials 1718 to 1812 and marriages 1719 to 1753; (iii) marriages 1755 to 1812.
The advowson of the church of Aston was evidently granted with the manor of White Ladies Aston to Robert de Evercy, for in 1204 Robert paid two palfreys for having a confirmation of his right to present to the church, which seems to have been questioned by the Bishop of Worcester. (fn. 85) From that time the advowson followed the same descent as the manor of White Ladies Aston, (fn. 86) Mr. Robert Valentine Berkeley being the present patron.
There do not appear to be any endowed charities for the benefit of this parish. The children attend the National school at Bredicot.
1. Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905).
2. Aston Court was formerly the residence of the Goods. During the Civil War the Goods took the Royalist side, and Aston Court was plundered. 'The Puritan commander, noticing a pretty Miss Good, became very rude in his attentions, and to save herself from outrage she fled into a neighbouring wood, where she climbed into a tree and shrouded herself among the thick foliage and thus escaped further notice. The tree was long honoured in the family, but yielding to time and age like all sublunary things, only its stump was at last left in the wood' (Worcs. Nat. Club Trans. 1847–96, p. 243).
3. Burton, Bibl. of Worcs. i, 101; Priv. Act, 6 Geo. IV, cap. 79.
4. L. and P. Hen. VIII, xix (1), g. 1035 (107).
5. Close, 24 Chas. I, pt. xii, no. 31.
6. V.C.H. Worcs. i, 294.
8. Heming, Chartul. (ed. Hearne), 407.
9. V.C.H. Worcs. i, 325, n. 8.
10. For subsequent descent of this part see below.
11. Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 225; Exch. Dep. East. 8 Jas. I, no. 30; Nash, Hist. of Worcs. Introd. p. xxxvi; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 218. The Bishop of Worcester in 1324 leased the manor of Aston Bishop to Thomas de Hever and John Berking for their lives (Inq. a.q.d. file 172, no. 18).
12. Close, 24 Chas. I, pt. xii, no. 31.
13. a Inform. from Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In 1804 the Bishop of Worcester claimed to be lord of the manor of Upper Aston. Inform. from Mr. R. V. Berkeley.
14. Cal. Chart. R. 1226–57, p. 443.
15. Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 301; Red Bk. of Bishopric of Worc. (Eccl. Com. Rec. Var. bdle. 121, no. 43698), fol. 243.
16. Rot. de Oblatis et Fin. (Rec. Com.), 316–17.
17. Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 301; Feud. Aids, v, 308; Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 41b.
18. Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 301.
19. Pipe R. 6 John, m. 7 d.
20. Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), iv, 404.
21. Rot. de Oblatis et Fin. (Rec. Com.), 316–17; Pipe R. 8 John, m. 20 d.
22. Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 9 John, no. 48.
23. Rot. de Oblatis et Fin. (Rec. Com.), 430, 440.
25. Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), iv, 404; Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 189.
26. Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 189.
28. Habington, Surv. of Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.), ii, 19.
30. V.C.H. Worcs. ii, 154; Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), iv, 443. Habington states that Godfrey Giffard, the successor of Walter Cantilupe, gave the manor of Aston to the nuns (op. cit. ii, 20).
31. Feud. Aids, v, 308.
32. Red Bk. of Bishopric of Worc. fol. 18.
33. Ibid.; Habington, op. cit. ii, 41; Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 41b. Walter de Burford's estate was called 'Whitefe' (Habington, op. cit. ii, 43).
34. Red Bk. of Bishopric of Worc. fol. 2.
35. L. and P. Hen. VIII, xvi, 617 (ii).
36. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 230.
37. L. and P. Hen. VIII, xix (1), g. 1035 (107).
38. Ibid. xix (2), g. 166 (82).
39. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cx, 162.
40. Exch. Dep. East. 8 Jas. I, no. 30. The manor was claimed by William Hill, but Francis and his mother Anne recovered it (Chan. Proc. [Ser. 2], bdle. 210, no. 19).
41. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxxxi, 120.
42. Feet of F. Worcs. Mich. 10 Jas. I.
43. Ibid. East. 1656; Recov. R. Mich. 10 Geo. II, rot. 207; Mich. 17 Geo. II, rot. 160; Recov. R. D. Enr. East. 18 Geo. II, m. 27.
44. Habington, op. cit. ii, 41; Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 41b.
45. Red Bk. of Bishopric of Worc. fol. 18. Richard Bruley held this estate of William Bracy, and afterwards of Robert de Lucy, to whom Bracy's estates passed (ibid. 256, 257).
46. Pipe R. 22 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 36.
47. Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 41b.
48. Assize R. 1026, m. 20 d.
49. Visit. of Oxfordshire (Harl. Soc. 5), 186.
50. Wrottesley, Ped. from Plea R. 465.
51. Ibid.; Macnamara, Memorials of Danvers Family, 224.
53. Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 1 Hen. V.
54. Wrottesley, loc. cit.; Macnamara, loc. cit.
55. Macnamara, op. cit. 101.
56. Ibid. 165, 177.
57. Ibid. 180; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxiv, 62 (2).
58. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxiv, 82.
59. Ibid. xxxii, 43.
60. Burke, Landed Gentry (1846).
61. Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 24 Hen. VIII.
62. Dugdale, Hist. of Warw. 741.
63. Habington, op. cit. ii, 21.
65. Exch. Dep. East. 8 Jas. I, no. 30.
67. Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 41b; Add. MS. 28024, fol. 190a.
68. Ibid.; Feud. Aids, v, 307.
70. Add. MS. 28024, fol. 190a. His under-tenant may have been the Prioress of Whistones.
73. De Banco R. Mich. 7 Edw. II, m. 72; Hil. 7 Edw. II, m. 1 d.
74. Fine R. 36 Eliz. no. 23, 24; Exch. Dep. East. 8 Jas. I, no. 30.
75. Nash, op. cit. App. 150.
76. Feet of F. Worcs. Trin. 1656.
77. Nash, op. cit. i, 51.
78. P.R.O. List of Sheriffs, 157.
79. Nash, op. cit. ii, 438.
80. Ibid. i, 50.
81. a Inform. from Mr. J. W. Willis-Bund.
86. Ann. Mon. (Rolls Ser.), iv, 404; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iii, 230; L. and P. Hen. VIII, xix (1), g. 1035 (107); xix (2), g. 166 (82); Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cx, 162; cccxxxi, 120; Feet of F. Worcs. Mich. 10 Jas. I; Worc. Epis. Reg. Montagu, fol. 13 d.; Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). In 1772 Robert Berkeley leased the advowson for ninety-nine years to Sir Chandos Hoskins (Recov. R. D. Enr. Trin. 12 Geo. III, m. 129), but this lease must soon have been given up, for in 1775 Robert Berkeley granted the advowson for the same term to Rev. S. Stephens (Recov. R. D. Enr. Hil. 16 Geo. III, m. 129). Robert Dormer presented to the church in 1723, William Bund in 1759, and Thomas Elrington in 1808, probably for those turns only, by grants from members of the Berkeley family (Inst. Bks. [P.R.O.]).
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Governance at the British School, Alexandria has received international recognition as a model of outstanding practice. This is the benchmark to continuing investment in good governance to support the long-development of the School and its ongoing capacity for outstanding teaching and learning.
The governance policy and structure reflects the nature of The British School as a not-for-profit organisation, registered as a trust foundation with the Charity Commission in England, and operating in Alexandria, Egypt in the framework of the Cultural Agreement co-signed between the Egyptian Government and British Government.
The Trust is administered by a committee of Trustees who are accountable to the Charity Commission in England, and the overall management and development of the School in Alexandria is administered by a Board of Governors together with the appointed Principal/CEO. H.M. British Consul-General to Alexandria is Patron of The British School.
What are the profiles of current Board members and Trustees?
All the profiles are published and updated on the governance section of the website. Click here:
http://www.bsalex.net/governance
What is the composition of the Board of Governors?
The standard composition consists of: co-opted governors elected to the Board; the Principal/CEP; and the British Consul-General. The co-opted governors are on average around 12 individuals, with a balanced composition (experience, gender, cultural background, parent/non-parent).
The School’s Head of Finance and Head of Administration are invited to attend full Governor meetings but they remain non-voting members. Elected staff, parent, and student representatives provide in put to the Governance structure, principally through the Sub-committee on ‘Students, Learning and Staffing’.
What are the main responsibilities of the Board of Governors?
The Board of Governors monitors and supports the implementation of the School’s strategic and school development plan in partnership with the Principal and Trustees. The main responsibilities of the Board are:
Act as a “critical friend” to the Principal – in other words they hold the Principal to account but at the same time support the Principal.
Know what is happening with regard to the running of the school so that they can intervene if necessary but they would not normally be involved in the day-to-day running of the school.
Ensure that the school meets all legal obligations.
Ensure that the school is effective and doing its best for the education as well as ensuring the welfare of the students in accordance with the aims and values of the school.
Ensure a secure future for the school in accordance with the values and aims of the school as well as a secure future in terms of the school’s finances.
How are Governors elected?
In line with the Governance Policy, the School will publicise recruitment processes for Board members, principally through the School’s website and communications to the school community; current Governors are also responsible for pro-actively contributing to this process. The recruitment should specify priority areas of expertise and experience identified at the level of Governance.
Short-listing of governors is carried out by a committee of the Board, typically composed also of the Chair and the Vice-Chair, based on the advertised criteria. The short-list is presented to the full Board and to the Trustees for final review. All elected governors have a term of 3 years, at the end of wish they can seek re-appointment.
How can parents contribute to the decision-making of the Board?
There are three elected parent representatives (one for each of the three schools elected by parents) who meet with the Principal once every half-term to discuss any issues raised by the parents or the principal. This gives an additional channel of communication. The three parent representatives are invited to attend part of the “Students Learning and Staffing Committee”. The term of office would be 2 years.
How can students contribute to the decision-making of the Board?
There are 2 student representatives (normally the Head boy and Head girl) who meet with the Principal once every half-term to discuss any issues raised by students or the principal. The two student representatives attend part of the “Students Learning and Staffing Committee”.
How often does the Board of Governors meet and who attends these meetings?
The Board holds regular Board meetings once a term whilst the school is in session, and not less than 3 times per year. Regular meetings are attended by Board members only, unless other persons have been specifically invited to give a presentation to the Board in relation to proposals put before the Board. The regular Board meetings are also attended by the Clerk to the Board, who is a non-voting attendee with a range of responsibilities such as formulating the Board agenda in association with the Chairperson, taking and circulating the minutes of all meetings of the Board and maintaining the official copy of the Policies Manual.
What are the different committees attended by The Board of Governors?
There are three main sub-committees that drive the work of the Board of Governors:
1. Students Learning & Staffing Committee
This committee is responsible for scrutinizing the following areas:
Curriculum including curriculum enrichment – Recent and Future Developments – this could include presentations from Heads of Department and Subject Co-ordinators to keep governors updated
Student Admissions – Policies / Procedures
Student Achievements including Examination Results and extra-curricular achievements
Learning and Teaching – Recent and Future Developments (including SEN/More Able)
Pastoral, Welfare and Safeguarding (not Health & Safety) of students
Staffing updates including new staff and any issues
Staff Liaison Report
Staff welfare including staffing questionnaire for new staff in the Autumn term
Staff Development (CPD)
Other HR matters including staff contracts and staffing issues / effectiveness / attendance
2. Campus and Health & Safety
The Campus and Buildings and their suitability and quality
The Health and Safety of staff, students and visitors to the school including:
Buildings, Campus, Medical, first aid issues, Critical Incidents, Security and Trips.
3. Finance and Legal
The current and future financial security of the school and assessment of risk
Ensuring that proper financial procedures are in place in accordance with legal requirements and to prevent losses due to fraud or incompetence.
Receiving and scrutinising an annual auditors report
Ensuring best-value i.e. that our finances are used to best effect.
Agreeing the budget each year and monitoring on a regular basis whether expenditure and income is in line with the budget throughout the financial year including bank balances and forecasts.
Agreeing the fees
What are the responsibilities of the Trustees?
In line with the policies of the Charity Commission in England, the Trustees are responsible for ensuring compliance to the Commission, including ensuring that the charity’s resources are use for the established charitable purposes of the Trust.
More specific duties include: Performance Management, monitoring and supporting the work of the Board of Governors and Principal/CEO; Recruitment policy for the Principal/CEO; Legal policies related to compliance with the Charity Commission and British Company Law; Monitoring of the School strategic development plan and financial management policies; Reviewing the vision and aims of the school, on average every 3 years; Opening up international opportunities to support the school’s overall development.
What is the criteria for appointing Trustees?
The Trustees of The British School should have a long-term association to the School and demonstrated their capacity to act with independence and in the interests of the School’s strategic development. Current Trustees include former members of the Board of Governors who have held senior leadership positions as Governors, and educationalists associated to the School during its 30 year+ history.
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Romney, Obama chase women’s votes
Republican presidential candidate, former Gov. Mitt Romney waves to supporters as he arrives for a rally at Tidewater Community College in Chesapeake, Va., Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012.
(AP Photo/Steve Helber)
One day after their contentious, finger-pointing debate, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney vied aggressively for the support of women voters Wednesday, as they and their running mates charged across nearly a half-dozen battleground states in the close race for the White House with 20 days to run.
Not even Republicans disputed that Obama’s debate performance was much stronger than the listless showing two weeks earlier that helped spark a rise in the polls for Romney. The two rivals meet one more time, next Monday in Florida.
The first post-debate polls were divided, some saying Romney won, others finding Obama did. At least some of the voters who asked the questions in the town-hall style encounter remained uncommitted. “If Gov. Romney could actually provide the jobs, that would be a good thing because we really need them,” said Nina Gonzalez, a 2008 Obama voter, neatly summarizing the uncertainty confronting voters in a slow-growth, high-unemployment economy.
Obama wore a pink wristband to show support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month as he campaigned in Iowa and then Ohio, and reminded his audience that the first legislation he signed after becoming president made it easier for women to take pay grievances to court.
Romney took no position on that bill when it passed Congress, and his campaign says he would not seek its repeal. But Obama chided him, saying, “That shouldn’t be a complicated question. Equal pay for equal work.”
He also jabbed at Romney’s remark during Tuesday night’s debate that as Massachusetts governor, he received “whole binders full of women” after saying he wanted to appoint more of them to his administration. “We don’t have to collect a bunch of binders to find qualified, talented women,” he said.
“I’ve got two daughters and I don’t want them paid less for the same job as a man,” Obama said at an appearance in Athens, Ohio, later Wednesday.
Obama spoke to a crowd of about 14,000 students and supporters at Ohio University, imploring them to vote early. “I want your vote. I am not too proud to beg. I want you to vote,” he said.
Romney’s campaign launched a new television commercial that seemed designed to take the edge ever so slightly off his opposition to abortion — another example of his October move toward the middle — while urging women voters to keep pocketbook issues uppermost in their minds when they cast their ballots.
“In fact he thinks abortion should be an option in cases of rape, incest or to save a mother’s life,” says a woman in the new ad. Pivoting quickly to economic matters, she adds, “But I’m more concerned about the debt our children will be left with. I voted for President Obama last time, but we just can’t afford four more years.”
That dovetailed with Romney’s personal pitch to an audience in Chesapeake, Va.
“This president has failed American’s women. They’ve suffered in terms of getting jobs,” he declared, saying that 3.6 million more of them are in poverty now than when Obama took office.
With recent gains in the polls for Romney, he and the president are locked in an exceedingly close race as they shuttle from one critical state to another and dispatch surrogates ranging from former President Bill Clinton to ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to locations they cannot make on their own.
A little less than three weeks before Election Day, Obama appears on course to win states and the District of Columbia that account for 237 of the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. The same is true for Romney in states with 191 electoral votes.
The remaining 110 electoral votes are divided among the hotly contested battleground states of Florida (29), North Carolina (15), Virginia (13), New Hampshire (4), Iowa (6), Colorado (9), Nevada (6), Ohio (18) and Wisconsin (10).
As the campaign days dwindled down, the number of television commercials rose higher. According to media buyers who track ads, target voters in the area around Cleveland can expect to see an average of about 120 ads next week paid for by the two candidates and groups supporting them — more than 17 a day. There were similar, if somewhat less intense campaign-by-commercials under way across all the battleground states.
In many cases — Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia, Nevada among them — competitive races for the Senate and even House contests added to the bombardment. So, too, campaign brochures, piling up in mailboxes earlier than past elections because of widespread pre-election day voting.
There was little mystery in the candidates’ concentration on women voters. An AP-GfK survey taken in mid-September, when Obama was leading in the opinion polls, found that 8 percent of all likely votes were women who were either undecided or said they might change their minds.
Polls since the first debate two weeks ago show gains for Romney among women voters, a shift that Obama can ill afford given the traditional Republican advantage among men.
Democrats rebutted Romney’s memory of the binders he received as the newly elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002.
On a conference call arranged by the Democratic National Committee, a former executive director of the Massachusetts Government Appointments Project said the group provided the resumes of women qualified for appointment unprompted. “To be perfectly clear, Mitt Romney did not request” them, said Jesse Mermell.
Romney quickly countered with a combination testimonial and fundraising appeal from Kerry Healey, who was his lieutenant governor in Massachusetts. She said he had named numerous women to his administration, adding, “He sought out our counsel, and he listened to our advice. We didn’t always agree, but we were always respected.”
Vice President Joe Biden’s first stop of the day was in Greeley, Colo., where he mocked Romney on the same topic but in terms more pungent than Obama’s. “What I can’t understand is how he’s gotten into this sort of 1950s time warp in terms of women,” Biden said. “The idea he had to go and ask where a qualified woman was. He just should have come to my house. He didn’t need a binder.”
Republican Rep. Paul Ryan was in Berea, Ohio, where he said women were suffering under the economy as the end of Obama’s term nears. “Twenty-six million women are trapped in poverty today. That’s the highest rate in 17 years,” he said. “We need to get people back to work.”
In a lighter moment, he stopped by the football practice facility of the Cleveland Browns and lamented missing out on hunting season this fall. “I’ve got this election thing going on,” he told Pro Bowl tackle Joe Thomas.
Associated Press writers Steve Peoples in Chesapeake, Va., Frank Eltman in Mineola, N.Y., Beth Fouhy in New York, Nicholas Riccardi in Greeley, Colo., John Seewer in Berea, Ohio, Ryan Foley in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and Matthew Daly and Kasie Hunt in Washington contributed to this story. Espo reported from Washington.
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blutodog October 18, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Any women that votes for Willard is an idiot.
Jim B. October 18, 2012 at 2:39 pm
I get the same impression about the Rom re: women and women’s issues that Biden does…the Rom seems like he stepped out of the AMC TV series, Mad Men. Maybe someday he’ll “sorta get it”…but then again…
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It’s a dialogue two decades in the making. Jinbo, 53, stands almost halfway through his 20th season as conductor of the symphony. In all that time, he has never lived in State College, instead commuting from Chicago, North Carolina, New York and now Maine for rehearsals and concerts.
But he long ago shed any outsider status. He might as well reside in town, for all the close friendships made over the years. In one sense, the symphony has been a longtime side pursuit, a break from serving as director of the acclaimed Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestra Musicians in Hancock, Maine.
And yet, for Jinbo, a college town community orchestra hasn’t played second fiddle. Throughout changes in his life, it has remained a constant, a pleasure to revisit time and again.
“Simply, it’s that I enjoy the job,” he says. “I enjoy the community and I enjoy the people in the orchestra.”
Together, they have refined the bond between a conductor and an orchestra, sharing an unspoken language in service of a mutual goal — synchronized voices creating soul-touching beauty for even the most critical ears.
“I’ve had a handful of experiences when I’m conducting, I’ve gone offstage and gone to my dressing room and started to cry,” Jinbo says. “And the best I can describe it is, I opened myself, and the music stopped, and I was still emotionally open.”
Picking up the baton
He has directed musicians for most of his adult life and teaches the art of conducting. But growing up in Honolulu, Jinbo never envisioned himself waving a baton for a living.
“I wasn’t one of those kids who picked up a pencil and conducted with recordings,” he says.
In elementary school, he became interested in music and took up the violin. It proved an excellent match. Eventually, Jinbo ended up first violinist, the concertmaster, of the Hawaii Youth Symphony and a member of the Hawaii All-State Orchestra. By the time he graduated valedictorian of his class, he had played a solo with the Honolulu Symphony as a concerto competition winner.
At the University of Chicago, where he was concertmaster of the school’s orchestra for four years, he initially decided against studying music. “I had gone to a couple of national music camps and seen how many incredibly talented people there were,” he says.
An intended linguistics major fizzled, however, a victim of his own prowess after he placed out of beginning classes and had to wait to take anything higher. Back with music, he considered transferring to a conservatory but stayed for a non-performance degree.
His conducting start fell into his lap.
A friend, tired of leading a youth orchestra, offered Jinbo the job during his senior year. He took it, and then the university’s sole conducting course. “It was enough to pique my interest,” he says.
After graduation, he married a classmate and worked an office job at his alma mater, all the while going to conducting workshops and guest-conducting in the Chicago area. “From the outside, one would say all that stuff was my hobby,” he says. “But it didn’t feel like a hobby to me.”
Nobody could accuse him of dabbling once he began pursuing a master’s degree in conducting at Northwestern University. He finished in 1983, but his education wasn’t over.
That year, he first attended summer sessions at the Pierre Monteux School, founded and named after one of the 20th century’s great conductors. Jinbo studied with the master’s pupil and successor, Charles Bruck, the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship.
Every summer, while working as a freelance violinist in Chicago, Jinbo returned to learn from his mentor. But a regular conducting job eluded him — until 1990, when the Nittany Valley Symphony hired him after losing its conductor, a friend of Jinbo’s, to another orchestra. Jinbo had substituted for her once, to good reviews.
“He was really vibrant and vigorous, and we responded very well to him,” says Joanne Feldman, Nittany Valley’s current concertmaster. “We all liked him very much.”
A couple of years later, he joined the North Carolina Symphony as an assistant conductor and moved to Raleigh, N.C. With his wife staying in Chicago for post-doctoral studies, he juggled leading 60 to 75 concerts a year with the State College trips. He settled into his busy life — until an upheaval shook him.
In 1995, Bruck died.
He had become increasingly ill during the summer, to the point Jinbo cooked him meals and took over his classes, worried that disappointed students would leave. Everyone stayed.
“I had my week of teaching, and it was an incredibly cathartic experience,” he recalls. “I had all these lessons, and I knew I was good at this.”
Upon Bruck’s death, a shattered Jinbo taught the rest of the six-week session. Subsequently, the school made him its third director.
Other changes were in store. Denied a promotion, he grew disenchanted with North Carolina. His marriage dissolved after he realized he’s gay.
“I think more time on my own caused me to think about this more, and my feelings got stronger and stronger,” he says.
He moved to New York for more than a decade, playing the violin, teaching and appearing as a guest conductor with orchestras in, among other places, Switzerland, Germany, Quebec, Erie and Dayton, Ohio.
Today, he lives in Augusta, Maine, with his partner. When not leading musicians from around the world in his school’s orchestra, teaching conducting classes or staying in State College, he tends his burgeoning garden. It’s a new interest, inspired by a nursery gift card from one of his students, who remarked that Jinbo “likes to make things grow and evolve.”
The same creative spirit fuels his love for cooking, a source of many a rehearsal comment.
“I used to use cooking metaphors more than I use them now,” he says.
Jan Diehl, a Nittany Valley violinist and charter orchestra member, has heard plenty; she once compiled Jinbo’s colorful sayings as a present to him. She remembers when he corrected the orchestra’s tone by telling it to think of a certain Viennese dessert with whipped cream.
“All of a sudden, it got all sweet and saccharin, exactly what he wanted,” Diehl says.
His images aren’t limited to the kitchen. Once, for Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1 “Winter Dreams,” he advised the violins to sound “like breaking icicles in the Winter Palace, or frost growing on the window panes.” Another time, likening an overly brusque passage to “Gestapo troops arriving,” he said: “I want it to sound like your girlfriend’s arriving with wine.”
“He certainly builds bonds and gets laughter,” Diehl says. “It’s a very effective technique. There’s nothing worse than a taskmaster who drives you and puts you through beat after beat.”
Jinbo even feeds the orchestra, habitually bringing chocolate-covered macadamia nuts from his trips back to Hawaii. Several players he counts as close friends, none more so than the late Inez “Snookie” Williams, a cellist who became almost like a grandmother to him.
On stage, however, he’s not shy about criticizing, though he says he has mellowed over time and rarely singles out individuals. His volatile mentor, Bruck, often screamed his displeasure. That’s not Jinbo’s style; a dry aside now and then expresses his sentiments just fine.
“I think I’m a teacher,” he says. “I think that’s my temperament, and I think I came to that through conducting.”
Diehl, for one, appreciates the guidance: “He always pulls the best out of us somehow.”
Joanne Feldman admires the research and preparation behind Jinbo’s program notes and direction. “He knows the scores he’s conducting like the back of his hand,” she says.
From knowledge comes intuition, feeling, intangibles that make an effective conductor more than a human metronome. Jinbo’s old teacher showed him that. To wield the baton means balancing technique with emotion, being able to convey the music’s spirit without excessive flamboyance.
Jinbo says when he’s conducting, he’s “singing the music inside.”
“I love making something better, and I love that feeling that you start with nothing — until we start playing, there’s nothing but a printed page — and make something,” he says.
Indeed, at a fall rehearsal, Brahms’ first symphony comes together like a savory soup. As the finale builds to the climax, Jinbo mouths the notes, his eyebrows arched, channeling the music as though a charge flowed through him.
“Lots of good things,” he says afterward, smiling with everyone else. “When you’re cooking, it’s a joy. Thank you.”
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CHS’ Harrison sets school record in 800 at Divisionals
Ceres High varsity girls track and field standout Azar Harrison dominated the competition while finishing in first place in the 800 at the Sac-Joaquin Section Division-IV Championships on Friday in Stockton. Harrison broke the school record, which stood for 25 years.
Dale Butler
Courier staff writer
Updated: May 15, 2019, 9:34 a.m.
Ceres High varsity girls track and field standout Azar Harrison made program history at the Sac-Joaquin Section Division-IV Championships on Friday at Cesar Chavez High School in Stockton.
Harrison placed first in the 800 with a school-record time of 2:21.19.
The previous record of 2:22.90 was set by Diljeet Dosanjh Taylor in 1994.
“It’s a record that’s been around for 25 years. Azar beat it by 1.3 seconds. I didn’t anticipate it happening. She’s a freak of nature.”
Coach Brett Johnson
“It’s a record that’s been around for 25 years,” head coach Brett Johnson said. “Azar beat it by 1.3 seconds. I didn’t anticipate it happening. She’s a freak of nature. She didn’t run the 800 for the first time until a couple weeks into the season. To see how far she’s progressed, it’s a testament to her work ethic.”
Harrison wasn’t challenged in the finals.
Runner-up Madeline Dufour of El Dorado posted a time of 2:24.49.
“She won by 3.3 seconds,” Johnson said. “She wasn’t even pushed.”
Harrison has improved her 800 time by 14 seconds during the course of the season.
“This is her first year running the 800,” Johnson said. “Coach (Katie Thiele) talked her into doing it. She’s got the speed and endurance for the event. She practices hard and wants to get better.”
Harrison will represent the Bulldogs at the Masters meet this week.
“I’m excited to see what she does,” Johnson said.
Ceres High’s Mercedez Wood, Shania Evans, Destiny Suarez, Alyssa Stiles, Kaylee Hunt, Catryna Marquez, Jackie Rodriguez, Bianca De Los Reyes, Makayla Anderson, Bella Curry and Allison had their seasons and/or careers cut short at Divisionals.
Wood placed fourth in the discus (104-10) and 10th in the shot put (30-41/2).
Suarez, a senior, placed sixth in the 800 (2:39.25)
Evans, a senior, placed fifth in the triple jump (33-10).
Alyssa Stiles, a senior, placed sixth in the triple jump (33-51/2) and eighth in the long jump (15-51/4).
Hunt placed eighth in the discus (95-4).
Marquez placed ninth in the 400 (1:03.85).
Rodriguez placed 13th in the 3,200 (13:33.98).
De Los Reyes placed 13th in the 300 hurdles (53.09).
Anderson, a senior, placed 14th in the shot put (28-0).
Ceres High’s 4x100 relay team of Evans, Curry, Marquez and Allison Stiles placed fifth (53.03).
Ceres High’s 4x400 relay team of Suarez, Curry, De Los Reyes and Harrison placed seventh (4:28.01).
The Bulldogs totaled 19 points while finishing ninth in the team standings.
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Carrie Underwood makes her debut performance on the iconic Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England on June 29, 2019, joining a short and prestigious list of U.S. country superstars to play the main stage of the legendary U.K. performing arts festival.
Underwood joined an all-star line-up on the main stage this year that also included Janet Jackson, The Killers, Hozier, The Cure, Bastille, Vampire Weekend and Kylie Minogue, among others. Previous country acts to play the festival include Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash.
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Football tends to produce some of the biggest names in the sports industry. David Beckham is one of those players who rose to fame with just a few shots. With unlimited fame comes an unlimited amount of fortune. With so much cash on hand, it is only natural to such rich players to develop hobbies like collecting cars.
Today we bring you the insane collection that David has in his garage. Let’s have a look at some of the top end luxurious family vehicles to two-seater sports cars.
Rolls-Royce Phantom Drop Head Coupe
This super luxurious car from Britain is perhaps the most expensive one form its line up. Its inclusion in the garage of David is considered to be must since it is one of the most exotic cars in the industry. With its starting price range being $367,632; this car is capable of producing 400 horsepower with 500lb-ft torque. It is because of the powerful 6.75-liter V12 engine.
Bentley Mulsanne
Ever since it was unveiled in 2010, Beckham and family wasted no time in getting their hands on such a luxurious car which is a dream for millions. Although Beckham’s have this reputation as they love to drive their cars, this one car is exceptional. A specially hired chauffer is often seen driving while the family is sitting on the rear seats. It has a super powerful boast system 6.75-litre v8 engine which is all about power and speed. Its price is estimated to be around $400,000.
McLaren MP4-12C SPIDER
When Beckham purchased this extraordinary car, it was around $268,000, but due to its outer design and sleek look, it was bought of $319,000. It has a powerful 3.8-liter V8 engine which is capable of generating 593 horsepower to 616 horsepower. With extra features likes a bombastic sound system which can be controlled via the menu on the dashboard and no roof, this is a site which is worthy of seeing.
Though it may sound like it is not as much expensive as others in the lot but due to its astounding interior and classic customization, it is a must inclusion in the squad. Early rumors had it that it was gifted to David by Top film celebrity Tom Cruise, but later it was cleared that Beckham themselves bought it.
This heavy weighted car which weighs around 4600 lbs is perhaps one of the heaviest cars in the garage of David Beckham. It can go from 0 – 60 in just 3.9 seconds. This is due to the impressive 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged v8 engine which can produce 520 horsepower. Just like other cars mentioned above, this super luxurious vehicle is also in black.
We guessed when the Beckham family was living in America, they purchased their best cars. The next inclusion is an American Muscle which is priced around $55,000. With the powerful V8 engine, it comes as no surprise that 426 hp to 400 hp can be produced.
Bentley Bentayga
Another top lined vehicle namely Bentley Bentayga worth $225,000 is often seen with David driving it in London streets. As per the producers of this car themselves, it is the fastest, most powerful and exclusive SUV ion the world. All because it has 6.0-liter turbocharged V12 engine which can generate 600 hp while going from 0 – 60 in mere 4 seconds.
This classic convertible is known as Britain’s first Supercar. It has a 5.3-liter V8 engine which can deliver 375 hp to 403 hp. It may seem a little out of fashion with the look slightly old, but it has been rumored that this car will always be Beckham family’s favorite forever.
Jaguar F-Type Project 7
This car cost David $180,000 which may not seem like a lot for him but it is more than millions of us can afford. With exclusive 5.0 .litre V8 engine which can deliver up to 575 horsepower and can go to 60 mph in just 3.9 seconds say a a lot about its power and speed.
Bentley Continental GT Super Sports
Another Bentley to be found in the impressive collection of David Beckham worth $273,000. With the presence of twin-turbocharged V12 engine, it can produce 621 horsepower and 590 lb-ft of torque without any worry. To add more, this supercar can go from 0 – 60 mph in just 3.7 seconds. An interesting fact is that it wasn’t the first choice for David Beckham, but his wife Victoria was set to buy it.
With an impressive and expensive price range of $380,000, this car is perhaps the most inclusive in the lot due to its sleek design and impressive engine working. It has a6.6 litrev12 engine which is perfectly capable of producing 560 horsepower and 575 lb-ft. Torque.
Bought by David but never driven by him due to his tough time schedules; this car is an excellent choice to be collected as its engine is very powerful. This car can go from 0 – 60 mph in just 6.2 seconds which say a lot about the power it possesses. Its price range is around $100,000.
This family car by Jaguar is most that expensive with its Price range starting from $65,000, but it does not describe its power. It has a 3.0-liter supercharged V6 engine which has to generate 340 horsepower. It is in black paint job which is typical for the Beckham family tradition of cars with the matching logo of Jaguar.
Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
An expensive choice for the speed and style which is a trademark for Beckham as these factors can be seen in his play. With its prince being $ 410,000, it encloses a 5.7-liter V12 engine under the hood which can deliver 533 hp along with the top speed of 199 mph.
Ferrari 360 Spider(s)
The presence of 3.6-liter V8 engine which can generate 395 horsepower and 276 lb0ft, torque was so impressive for David that he went on to purchase not one but more than that cars. First one was bought in 2001 while the other purchased happened in 2003.
While it vehicle does not come cheap at all, this fact does not stop the players and celebrities from loving it. David is no exception as he purchased this heavy duty vehicle in 2005. This drive cost him $103,200 while customization cost him another $33,800. His family loved it so much that he gifted the smaller and toy version of hummer to his son which cost him $30,000.
With a powerful delivery of 240 horsepower, this heavy duty, power delivering drive is nothing short of royalty. An interesting fact to add here is that Victoria Beckham added few pointers in the customization which meant a lot to David. Plus the interior is nothing short of rose-gold accents in plating the entire cabin and steering wheel.
Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet
Like other cars in his garage, this vehicle also painted black from front to rear end and inside the entire interior; this vehicle is good luck for the family as it was sold for a hefty amount of $217,000. As per the reports, the current selling price is $145,790.
The presence of 5.0 liter v10 engine which can generate 520 horsepower and 376 lb-ft. Of torque, this luxurious drive is favoured by all of the Beckham family. Unlike other cars in the garage of David, it was in silver paint which meant some colors, but it was sold in 2012.
This vehicle screams for speed and road. With high ends and 22 inches of wheels in Beckham’s traditional Black color, it was a must buy.it has a powerful engine of V6.
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Intralot Buys William Hill Codere Italia Srl
The Greek Company Intralot has bought the entire share capital of William Hill Codere Italia Srl. The company William Hill Codere Italia Srl was a joint venture between William Hill Plc and Grupo Codere SA. The gross sale price agreed for the sale between the two is 5.5 million euros. The sale amount will be shared equally between the two shareholders.
The Greek company said that it was buying the joint venture company with an aim of strengthening its presence in the Italian market. The buy out will mean that the Greek owners will have 55 outlets for horse-racing and sports betting in Italy.
The joint venture company was set up in 2006 with a view to enter the Italian horse and sports betting market following a tender process in Italy for sports and horse race betting. The recent sale of the company includes the internet betting licenses that were secured in the 2006 tender.
The Greek companies Italian existing subsidiary has 416 exclusive point-of-sale licenses and a further 164 non-exclusive licenses to operate in Italy. It is the world’s second-largest lottery systems provider, and is present in 45 countries. It also runs sports betting in 12 other nations.
William Hill has said that the sale will result in a write off of around GBP 1 million in the group’s 2008 interim accounts. These write offs will come into effect after accounting for operating losses in 2007 and till the date of sale this year.
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CBS News June 16, 2014, 8:53 AM
Iraqi Christians brace for ISIS after army flees
Just 10 miles away from the center of Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, which was overrun by jihadist militants last week, is Bartella, a Christian town living in fear.
On the road to Mosul, CBS News' Holly Williams stopped at the last checkpoint before territory now controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The militants have vowed to impose strict Islamic law in Mosul, and they've allegedly massacred dozens of non-Sunni Muslims in their advance.
Who's running ISIS?
Just outside the militants' control, and desperately vulnerable to attack an attack by ISIS, sits Bartella. Williams says Christians have inhabited the town for almost 2,000 years. The locals still pray in Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus.
The Iraqi government soldiers who were supposed to be protecting this area ran away from the Islamic extremists. Now, Bartella is defended by about 600 lightly armed Christian militiamen.
Captain Firaz Jacob is in charge, and he told CBS News everyone in the town is frightened.
When asked what they will do if the militants attack Bartella, Jacob responded with trepidation. "I don't know, but maybe they'll do what they've done in other places and kill us."
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The City of Nampa is a community which presents great opportunity and institutional support for entrepreneurs. Our City is home to one of the top technology and entrepreneurial centers, Boise State University TECenter, along with the College of Western Idaho (CWI), and Northwest Nazarene University (NNU). In addition, there are many other private and public schools/universities right in our back yard.
Nampa is home to many successful well-known companies and entrepreneurs, that began their journey as small start-up companies. Recognizing that entrepreneurs play a key role in economic development and continued growth in a community, the City of Nampa partnered with the SBDC Business Accelerator (previously known as BSU TECenter) to develop a comprehensive approach to support entrepreneurship in Nampa.
Part of the approach involved the development of an organization called Nampa Entrepreneurs Organized "NEO". This group will aspire to engage entrepreneurs to learn and grow by offering valuable resources in the form of networking and educational events, mentoring programs, technical assistance, resource identification and marketing.
Some of the best examples of entrepreneurship are developing right out of our local SBDC Business Accelerator - Nampa, previously known as BSU TECenter Accelerator facility, and the success stories are never ending. Booklamp, a company focused on creating predictive analytics for readers of literature started at the TECenter in Nampa, and the company was acquired by Apple, Inc.in April of 2014. Dental R.A.T., a simple foot-operated mouse that enables the most effective, consistent hands free-periodontal charting solution available was developed and is now being used in dental offices all over the United States.
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Idaho Technology Council: The Idaho Technology Council exists to connect, inform and promote the technology companies in Idaho and is dedicated to foster the growth of technology companies in the state, primarily in the areas of information technology, agri-science, and energy
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Keritsu Forum: Keritsu Forum is one of the largest networks of angel investors in North America having monetized over 130 companies with over $80 million in funding. Keritsu established a Boise/Sun Valley chapter in 2006.
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SCORE: SCORE® is a nationwide organization of active and retired business men and women who volunteer their services to assist small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Small Business Administration (SBA): A Lead Economic Development Specialist from the Small Business Administration is located within Nampa. To Schedule an appointment, please contact Irene Gonzalez by email, or by phone at (208) 481-2262 ext. 349
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TechConnect: "Bridging the gap between entrepreneurial and innovation assets. Supporting the development of innovative companies. Helping existing companies to compete."
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Women's Business Center: Women's Business Center (WBC) provides education and mentoring to women business owners. Their focus is women entrepreneurs, especially those who have been historically under-represented, excluded and are economically disadvantaged. However, they welcome all aspiring entrepreneurs to use their service. They do serve men entrepreneurs as well.
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How should news organizations handle graphic content in the social media age?
Photo by Aaron Escobar (Wikimedia Commons)
This summer saw the on-camera slayings of two TV journalists in Virginia*, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, and the photo of a young Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi, washed up dead on a Turkish beach. This imagery added to an already bloated cache of relatively recent atrocities, from recorded beheadings at the hands of ISIS to police shootings caught on tape in the US. With so much violence spinning through our newsfeeds, it’s easy to feel as though media coverage of catastrophic events is only increasing. Suddenly, the world seems more gruesome. Yet experts say this isn’t the case (citing, for example, the spread of unsettling images from World War II and the Civil Rights movement). In fact, many signs suggest the world is actually a more peaceful place. What has changed is technology.
Viewers have more opportunities–some of them unavoidable–to stumble onto graphic content. This shift demands serious attention from news organizations. That’s compounded by the potential for psychological harm to journalists, whose jobs require them to work, sometimes extensively, with traumatic material. The answers aren’t simple, but the problems are clear. A panel of experts explored this issue in a discussion titled “Death and the Social Web,” hosted this week by Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism and Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Here are some of the big takeaways.
Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center, says the nonstop nature of social media feeds has taken control away from viewers. Video autoplay, which sparked discussion and outrage after the slayings in West Virginia, notably has the potential to force upsetting content in front of audiences–including victims’ loved ones.
People who work with these images (read: journalists) are more vulnerable to the psychological effects of this type of media than the general public. The trouble, however, is that harm is difficult to measure, and research has found that damage doesn’t sprout from the extremity of an individual image or by the amount of time someone spends looking at it. Rather, it comes from repeated exposure. “We’re still trying to figure out what to do about it, but frequency of viewing seems to be the vector for distress,” Shapiro says. Binge-watching footage of the 9/11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing has affected both audiences and journalists, he adds.
While moment-of-death imagery tends to dominate news stories and social media conversations, journalists need to look more closely at the aftermath of these events. That’s where we jump from shock, Shapiro says, and into the realm of understanding.
Barbie Zelizer of the Annenberg School for Communication says that when news organizations depict victims immediately before their deaths, audience engagement is strengthened. Such a strategy cuts across global and geographical borders, making people feel like they can do something about an unfolding tragedy.
But news outlets need to develop concrete standards in dealing with graphic images. The same goes for social media users. What about a particular image makes it ripe for sharing? And what, exactly, makes it newsworthy? Reporters and editors need to contemplate why they are willing to hold back a photo while they refuse to do the same for the story itself, she says.
News organizations and the social Web need to verify what is actually happening in each violent image they present. That’s a longstanding tenet of journalism that Zelizer argues has fallen out of favor. “If we were to insist on it,” she says, “we might be thinking differently about how those pictures actually figure into our information space.”
Louise Roug, Mashable’s global news editor, is on the frontlines of this phenomenon. The digital news site doesn’t have a blanket policy on how it handles each disturbing piece of content. Editors carefully consider every decision they make with respect to such images, weighing news value, an image’s role in a given story, and even the intent of the attacker.
The recorded beheading of journalist James Foley by ISIS last year, for instance, offered a crucial moment of clarity for Roug and her colleagues. “It became clear that we were sort of a tool for a quite sophisticated propaganda machine, and we didn’t want to be helping them,” she says. Mashable made a point of not sharing the grisly images on social media, as is the norm in that newsroom. The website also guards sensitive photos and videos with warnings to viewers.
Sam Gregory is the program director of Witness, a group that helps activists across the globe use video “safely, ethically, and effectively to expose human rights abuse and fight for human rights change.” A graphic image takes on different meanings, depending on the part of the world in which it’s consumed, he says. Arab nations have grown more accustomed to violent scenes, he adds, while the US is more likely to show dead minorities than it is caucasian victims. The human-rights community in Burma posts violent images to represent a larger struggle, as Syrian activists share them to provide evidence of the impact of an attack.
People who are not professional journalists upload much of this content, Gregory says. It’s unmediated and free to stream across the internet. A major problem arises when these images jump outside their original context. Not only does that practice open the door to resharing false information, but it transports graphic material that had a specific purpose: to energize, enrage, or educate a particular community. “We see it in front of us, and we’re like, ‘Wow, that is horrendous,’ and often we’re missing the context around it,” he says. “I think that’s part of why we’re feeling confronted now.”
Editor’s note: This article originally stated the shooting happened in West Virginia, instead of Virginia. CJR regrets the error.
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With over one hundred fifty years of combined experience, Comal Energy Services (CES) leverages off the technical knowledge and experience of our core management group to provide industry leading services to the Oil and Gas Industry. Utilizing this knowledge, experience and an extensive industry network, CES offers the premier support services in designing, building, operating and maintaining oil and gas facilities. Our leadership team has managed hundreds of employees and contractors in multiple states and geographic regions, including the Gulf of Mexico. They have had responsibility for tens of thousands of miles of natural gas and liquid pipelines, over two million horsepower at compressor stations and dozens of processing and treating plants. They have also overseen capital projects valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Safety has always been paramount on our projects. We understand what it takes to operate facilities safely, efficiently and in full compliance with regulations.
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Our leadership team has over one hundred fifty years of experience in the energy industry with processing and treating plants, salt dome storage, intrastate and interstate onshore and offshore pipeline operations, engineering, and construction. We have a record of fiscal responsibility, while continuously improving overall operations and safety records. Having worked on over thirty billion dollars in acquisitions, the team has extensive experience in managing large mergers and integration plans.
Throughout the years our leadership team has overseen the operations of:
Over 30,000 miles of gas and liquid pipelines
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Additionally, our team has extensive experience in all areas of oil and natural gas exploration and production and has held management and executive positions in the following areas:
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Third generation Oil and Gas executive, with more than forty years industry experience. Founder of a private Energy Services and Midstream Company. Founding Partner of SEC Energy Products & Services, a private natural gas compressor packager, that grew to $300 million in annual sales in five years. Chief Operating Officer, VP of Operations and Engineering at three separate mid-stream companies, managing hundreds of employees in multiple states, and geographical regions from high in the Rocky Mountains to both coastal and deep water offshore. Managed thousands of miles of gas, crude oil and natural gas liquid pipelines, both onshore and offshore, hundreds of thousands of horsepower, gas and liquid salt dome storage, and dozens of processing and treating facilities. He has managed multiple capital projects in the hundreds of millions dollar range. Evaluated midstream assets or entire companies for expansion opportunities, identified synergies and cost savings, and oversaw the integration of acquired assets
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Jon Lee brings over 27 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. His career has spanned across various aspects of the midstream to include planning, engineering, project management, construction, reliability and operations of gas gathering systems and intrastate pipelines. He has been involved in the planning and project management of over $1.5B of capital growth pipeline compression assets. Prior to joining Comal Energy Services LP, Jon worked for Energy Transfer Partners for 13 years in engineering and project manager roles involved with the design, construction and commissioning of mainline compressor stations, field gathering compressor stations and processing plant compression. He previously held manager positions with Stewart & Stevenson in the well servicing industry focused on fracturing and coil tubing systems for the United States and Canada. He has also been employed in consultant and reliability engineering positions with Dynalco and Mitchell Energy focused on predictive and preventative maintenance of reciprocating equipment assets. Jon received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Texas A&M University and has served over thirty years in various leadership positions in the United States Army and Army Reserves as a commissioned officer.
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More than forty years of experience in the energy sector. Founding Partner of BFX Partners, an engineering and fabrication company, that developed and patented portable mechanical refrigeration units that are currently in use in several basins. Engineering and operations management for an intrastate transmission and gathering company and Mitchell Energy’s midstream operations. Responsible for the design, construction and operations of thousands of miles of large and small diameter pipelines, mainline compressor stations, field compressor stations, treating plants and processing plants. Provided engineering, project management, operational development and training for three startup midstream companies that were subsidiaries of small E&P companies (one in partnership with Exxon Corp.). Evaluated several merger and acquisition opportunities and developed implementation plans for the integration of operations. Professional Engineer in Texas with a BS in Engineering and an MBA.
Alan Nichols – VP Operations for Service and Compression
Twenty-five years in the oil and gas industry with onshore and offshore experience. Director of Operations for SEC Energy Products & Services, one of the largest natural gas compression packagers in the United States. Managed field service staff to support the commissioning and startup of over 2 million horsepower in mainline compressor stations, gathering stations, treating and processing plants and natural gas storage facilities. Commissioning Engineer for one of the largest Caterpillar dealers in the United States. Extensive travel to foreign countries providing customer support for marine, drilling, EPG, and natural gas.
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NAB: Tech investment paying off
Process simplification around the bank’s ICT has helped underpin significant increases in customer satisfaction
Tim Lohman (CIO)
The National Australia Bank (NAB) has again moved to reassure shareholders that its investment in its Next Generation Banking IT platform (NGP) is paying off.
Commenting in the bank’s March 2012 Half Year report, CEO, Cameron Clyne, said ongoing process simplification around the bank’s ICT had also helped underpin significant increases in customer satisfaction.
“The transformation of the Group’s technology operations environment gathered momentum and is on track to deliver improvements in cost efficiency and a reduction in operational risk,” the commentary reads.
“Notably, the Group’s Next Generation Banking IT platform has successfully implemented a major foundational release of a broad set of underlying application components.”
In October Clyne also sought to reassure shareholders that the benefits of the company’s Next Generation IT Platform (NGP) would come stating he was “very comfortable” with the progress of the functionality delivered on the platform.
We have called out that it is a multi-year program,” he said at the time. “We have taken a deliberate approach of spending the initial [investment] money on the infrastructure layer.
“You have to have a solid foundation and we have prioritised things like financial systems… credit risk, a securitisation platform, and those sorts of things which are critical. You have to do them at some point…We are very pleased with the progress.”
According to the 2012 Half Year results, investment in infrastructure projects increased by $4 million or 1.3% compared to the March 2011 half year. Most of this investment went toward the bank’s NGP and the convergence of major technology and operational infrastructure.
“The Group maintains a continued focus on improving the quality, consistency and capabilities of the organisation to significantly enhance the customer experience,” the report reads.
“Other key investment activities include large-scale upgrades to technology infrastructure and the ongoing refurbishment and relocation of stores and partner sites in Australia and New Zealand.”
The report also noted that the bank’s NAB Wealth business continued to invest in its customer-facing technology and back office infrastructure.
“Activities in Wholesale Banking include the continued development of software platforms to assist in achieving cross-sell,” the report reads. “NZ Banking activities include the enhancement of banking services and improvements to NZ Partners’ products and services.”
According to Clyne, cost growth was managed to below revenue growth in spite of subdued market conditions and the bank’s ongoing technology investment program.
“Good progress has been made in the Group’s technology transformation and its initiatives to enhance its reputation and further differentiate itself from industry peers,” Clyne said in the report’s CEO commentary.
The chief executive also singled out the benefit derived by the bank’s NAB Wealth business.
“The level of claims improved over the half year following investments in technology and claims management resources,” the commentary reads.
“The Investment Platforms business was strengthened by the refresh of the core MasterKey Fundamentals offering and the migration of MasterKey Custom to the new discretionary investment platform, MLC Wrap.”
In the area of full time equivalent (FTE) employees, the March 2011 Half Year report also noted a decline in FTEs within its Wholesale Banking business of 186 during the March 2012 year compared to the March 2011 half year. These job losses were based on efficiency savings across support functions and technology and operations. The decline in jobs was partially offset by investment in front office roles, according to the bank.
For the March 2012 half year compared to the September 2011 half year, wholesale banking FTEs decreased by 70, due to efficiency savings across support functions and technology and operations, and again, partially offset by investment in front office roles.
In January the issue of job cuts in the banking sector raised its head with reports that Australia’s banking sector was preparing to shed some 7000 jobs in the next two years.
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Happy Birthday, Nicolaus Copernicus
Fanny Griesmer February 19, 2014
Now famous astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473, in Torun, Poland. His main contribution to science was the controversial concept of a heliocentric universe. Five hundred years later, we not only accept the Sun as the center of our solar system, we even support new theories of planets orbiting two stars at once.
Nicolaus Copernicus: A Heliocentric Model
Nicolaus Copernicus grew up during a time when everyone believed the planets and Sun orbited Earth, following a geocentric model. The prominent school of thought at the time aligned mostly with ideas by Aristotle and Ptolemy, but their philosophies were no longer accepted at face value. Their theories were partly based on mathematics, but also on flawed ideological assumptions, including that the heavens were perfect, subjective observation was fact, and the most reliable sources were ancient thinkers. One of the results of this thinking led to Ptolemy’s complicated system where planets traveled in circles within circles in order to rectify the mathematical issue of retrograde motion (planets moving backward across the sky).
Copernicus thought that Ptolemy’s model was too complex to actually occur in the real world. He also realized that the model did not make accurate predictions of planetary motion — one of the main concerns in astronomy at the time. His way of resolving these issues was to swap out Earth as the center of the universe with the Sun. This nongeocentric view was not entirely novel; Aristarchus of Samos suggested that the earth revolved around the Sun as well, and Pythagoreans thought our planet orbited a central fire (not the Sun, though). As it turns out, this heliocentric model solved some issues but was not without complex orbits and Copernicus’ planetary motion predictions… Well, they were even worse than if you followed Ptolemy’s model.
A mere couple of months prior to his death, Copernicus published a book on his theory of heliocentrism. His model, albeit flawed, was a step in the right direction, and future astronomers would eventually adopt and build upon his ideas. One such astronomer was Galileo Galilei, who in 1632 again proposed that the planets orbited the Sun. You may recall what happened next; Galilei was accused of committing heresy to the Catholic church and was placed under house arrest. While Copernicus was not the first scientist to suggest a nongeocentric universe, and it took about a hundred years for his heliocentric theory to take root, we attribute the discovery of planets orbiting the Sun to him and often refer to the model of our solar system as a Copernican model.
Planets Orbiting Two-Star Systems
Fast forward to the 21st century and it’s safe to say we have come a long way since a time when new scientific ideas were met with punishments from the church. By now we have accepted the Copernican model with a sun in the center and the planets orbiting around it. But what if I told you there was such a thing as circumbinary planets — planets that move around two stars — where instead of one sunset, you have two, á la Tatooine from Star Wars?
According to a November 2013 article in Scientific American, “World with Two Suns“, this is no science fiction. In the article, astronomy Professor William Welsh and astrophysicist Laurance Doyle state that binary stars (i.e., pairs of stars) are rather common and that this notion inspired the theory of binary stars supporting planets. As is usually the case, two camps emerged with opposing theories: one camp of astronomers thought this a possibility, while the other assumed it impossible because planets would not form in the chaotic environment around the two stars. They further suggested that even if a planet did form, its orbit may not last long-term.
Then, in 2009, NASA finally launched the Kepler Mission to investigate this theory out in space. It took about two years before the first transiting circumbinary planets were detected. Today, we know that these types of systems are more common than anyone may have previously imagined, possibly tens of millions in the Milky Way alone.
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Conservative Book Club » Author Directory » Seth Leibsohn
Seth Leibsohn
Seth Leibsohn is a radio host, writer, editor, policy, political, and communications expert. The former Vice President of Empower America, one of the nation’s premier think tanks, Mr. Leibsohn has counseled, written speeches for, and collaborated with candidates for national office and several former Cabinet officials. He has also collaborated in the writing of prominent op-eds, speeches, and several national best-selling books. He is the President of The Leibsohn Group, a Senior Fellow with The Claremont Institute, Chairman of the Board of Not-My-Kid and Chairman of the political action committee Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy.
For the past several years he has served as the Chief of Staff to former Education Secretary William J. Bennett with whom he co-authored the book, The Fight of our Lives. Mr. Leibsohn has been the producer, co-host, and guest host for the nationally syndicated radio show, Bill Bennett’s Morning in America, helping bring it from its debut on 60 stations to over 250 stations nationwide and making it the 7th largest national radio show in the country with over 3.75 million listeners.
Born and raised in Phoenix, he holds a graduate degree in political theory from the Claremont Graduate School and a law degree from Northeastern University in Boston.
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Seth Leibsohn Interviews CBC Editor in Chief Christopher Malagisi About Conservatism
In an in depth interview with talk radio host Seth Liebson (960AM - The Patriot, Phoenix, AZ), CBC Editor in[...]
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Laura Luc
← Adrienne Campbell-Holt
Julliard Girls →
Laura Luc & the Kids of the Arts
By Jaclyn Bethany
Photographed by Zayira Ray
I first came to know Laura Luc’s work when a local friend from my hometown was cast in Luc’s Off-Broadway production of A Little Princess. Luc directed the world premiere of this new musical, which eventually transferred to the prestigious Signature Theatre, under the banner of her company, Kids of The Arts. Attending one of KOTA’s productions is basically a who’s who of the most talented kids working on Broadway today. Luc founded the company when she was just 13 years old. Her most recent production, Madeleine’s Christmas, played Off-Broadway. Of the production, Luc says, “Madeline is a strong female role model, displaying fearlessness, strength, compassion, and a feisty spirit. This is a chance to bring Madeline's stories to a new generation.” Best of all, KOTA’s ultimate mission is to give back through the arts, which Luc advocates for with community service through her productions: last year, Laura and cast members of Madeleine’s Christmas volunteered at a local NYC soup kitchen during the holidays.
Constellation spent an afternoon with Luc and some of her kids on the set of KOTA’s production of The Hundred Dresses at The Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, NYC.
A Tony Award-winner for her role as one of the original Matilda’s, Oona Laurence just wrapped the role of Amy in Sofia Coppola’s new film, The Beguiled, “I can't say much about it, but what I will say is that it's a very female strong cast, and takes place during the Civil War.” She has also been seen in The Disney film Pete’s Dragon and played Rachel McAdams and Jake Gylenhaal‘s young daughter in Southpaw. Of the latter collaboration, Oona says, “They taught me so much as an actor. I was so excited to work with Rachel McAdams, because I'm a HUGE Mean Girls fan. ” At only 14 years old, Laurence is one lucky girl: She’s conquered Broadway, and now she’s making a name for herself on the silver screen, too.
Raquel Wallace (right, pictured with Oona Lawrence) started dancing when she was three years old, and she hasn’t looked back since. She recently danced as part of Justin Bieber’s Purpose world tour, and is finding a style all her own: “I have learned how to create my own style: not just in dance. You see in dance everyone has their own style or way of movement in how they approach the steps, but I use my style not only in my dancing, but in my everyday life.”
Nine-year-old Swayam Bhatia has already performed with world-class comedians on Saturday Night Live, but in her heart, she looks up to a few of America’s greatest historical (and theatrical) heroes and heroines: “My dream would be to play Alexander Hamilton, but since I am not a male, I think I would be Angelica or Eliza Hamilton.”
Hop over to the Winter Garden Theatre and catch Ellie Kim (left, pictured with Swayam Bhatia) making her Broadway debut in School of Rock The Musical. After seeing the Broadway production of Matilda for her eighth birthday, Ellie says, “That is when I knew I wanted to be on that stage!” After being cast in School of Rock through an open call, Ellie was surprised by her first interactions with her co-star (and Broadway legend) Sierra Boggess, best known for her roles as Ariel in The Little Mermaid and, (arguably), as the most iconic Christine in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of The Opera: “Ms. Boggess asked me if she could shake MY hand. I was like ‘You are asking me? I should be asking you!’” Kim aspires not to take on the role of Matilda one day, but rather that of her nemesis, Miss Trunchbull.
Kaci Walfall, a native of Brooklyn, made her Broadway debut as Young Nala in The Lion King: “Young Nala is such a fierce, strong, loud character,” Walfall says. “It was cool to play a character that has all those characteristics and to still add a little bit of myself to it!” She’s gone on to play Lavender in the national tour of Matilda and frequently performs with Kids of The Arts: “What I admire about KOTA is how it brings wonderful shows to life on the stage for everyone to watch. I first learned about KOTA when my mom took me to see their production of Number The Stars. What I admire about Laura (Luc) is that she is so talented and very humble.” ★
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Official commemoration to mark the centenary of the sinking of the RMS Leinster to take place in Dún Laoghaire on Wednesday, 10th October 2018
The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan T.D., today announced that an official commemoration will take place in Dún Laoghaire on Wednesday, 10th October 2018, to mark the centenary of the sinking of the Royal Mail Steamer (RMS) Leinster and to remember all of those who perished in that tragedy. The programme will comprise a significant cultural element as well as a formal commemoration and wreath-laying ceremony, with participation by members of the Defence Forces. This is also the date on which the vessel will come under the protection of the National Monuments Acts, which covers all shipwrecks over 100 years old.
Just before 9 o’clock on the morning of Thursday, 10th October 1918, the Royal Mail Steamer (RMS) Leinster began its final voyage from Carlisle Pier in Dún Laoghaire (then Kingstown) to Holyhead in Wales. The ship was owned and operated by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. An estimated 771 passengers and crew were on board, comprising postal sorters, civilian passengers, military and medical personnel and the ship’s crew. Between 09.30 am and 09.40 am, the RMS Leinster passed the Kish Light. Shortly afterwards, it was sunk by three torpedoes, fired by German submarine, UB-123. What unfolded was the worst maritime disaster in the Irish Sea, with over 500 lives lost.
Speaking today, Minister Madigan said:
“On 10th October 2018, we will remember all of those who lost their lives one hundred years ago, when the Royal Mail Steamer (RMS) Leinster was sunk off the Kish Bank by German submarine UB-123. This tragedy took place one month and one day before the signing of the Armistice that ended the fighting in World War I and it remains the greatest maritime disaster ever to have occurred in the Irish Sea.
Over 500 people perished, including members of the ship’s crew, postal sorters, civilian passengers and military, medical and support personnel involved in the war effort. Families and communities on both sides of the Irish Sea and as far afield as America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, were devastated by this tragedy. We will also remember the 35 members of the crew of UB-123, who themselves were killed one week later. An immense humanitarian response was mobilised following the tragedy and we will acknowledge the care and kindness shown by the rescue services, nursing and medical personnel”.
The Minister added:
“I commend the efforts of all of those who have, for many years, worked so hard to ensure that the stories of all of those who were on board the RMS Leinster when she embarked upon her final journey are not forgotten. Their stories have, for too long, been hidden and unspoken. As we mark the centenary of this tragedy, we have developed an appreciation of the complex narratives around Ireland’s involvement in World War I and a mature understanding of the context of that time.
In particular, I wish to acknowledge the efforts of the late owner of the RMS Leinster, Mr Des Brannigan, who was committed to protecting the ship and was one of the founders of the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoghaire. I would also like to sincerely thank Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown County Council, the family members of those affected by this tragedy, and the many other stakeholders who are working with my Department as we develop an inclusive, respectful and fitting ceremony in remembrance of all of those who died”.
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Chicago furniture designer: 'I'm in love' with Amy Schumer
By Tracy Swartz
Amy Schumer and Chicago furniture designer Ben Hanisch take a selfie at the Critics' Choice Awards Sunday. (Charley Gallay / Getty Images for FIJI Water)
The accolades keep coming for comedian Amy Schumer, who won a Critics' Choice Award Sunday for best comedic actress for her role in "Trainwreck."
Schumer's boyfriend Ben Hanisch, a Chicago furniture designer, complimented Schumer's white Calvin Klein gown for the Critics' Choice Awards and told her he loves her.
"One more from last night because this girl looked insanely gorgeous and I'm in love with her," Hanisch posted Monday on Instagram with a picture of the couple outside the awards show.
Schumer, 34, and Hanisch, 29, went public with their relationship earlier this month. Hanisch was Schumer's date to an after-party for the Golden Globes, where Schumer was nominated for best comedic actress in a movie and presented an award.
It's been a whirlwind month for Schumer and Hanisch, who have been photographed together at the White House, after the Golden Globes and on a hike.
Schumer gushed about Hanisch, who founded the Chicago-based The Last Workshop furniture company, on the Golden Globes red carpet last week.
"We're in love and it's really exciting," she said.
One more from last night because this girl looked insanely gorgeous and I'm in love with her.
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UK’S Top Three Mobile Fish & Chip Operators Announced…
Three of the UK’s leading mobile fish and chip businesses have been announced as finalists for the Best Mobile Fish and Chip Operator Award as part of the 2017 National Fish & Chip Awards, organised by Seafish.
The three finalists – Dodson’s Fresh Catch Ltd in Wakefield, West Yorkshire; Starchip Enterprise UK Ltd in Evesham, Worcestershire; and The Hip Hop Chip Shop in Salford, Manchester – will now compete for the top title in this award category, as part of what are regarded as the ‘Oscars’ of the fish frying industry.
To secure a place as a finalist, shortlisted businesses have been appraised across a wide range of judging criteria including responsible and sustainable sourcing policies, preparation of products, staff training procedures, monitoring of customer satisfaction levels, and marketing and promotional activity.
Award sponsor Colin Heathfield, Head of Foodservice, International Sales & Emerging Markets of Pukka Pies Limited, said: “Pukka Pies is delighted to be taking part in the prestigious National Fish & Chip Awards for 2017. The awards are important in both rewarding excellence and creating awareness to the general public about our industry.
“Although we have been sponsors over the last few years this is the first time we have sponsored the Best Mobile Operator Award, and we would like to congratulate and thank all those operators that have entered for the award – particularly those that have made the final. This year will be sure to be a close call with all finalists having done fantastically well to finish in the top three. We look forward to finding out which mobile operator will win this coveted award.”
Over the coming weeks, the successfully shortlisted businesses will be subjected to mystery judging visits from awards auditors to ascertain the quality of the fish and chips and the levels of customer service provided by staff. This final stage of competition judging will determine the overall winner that will be announced at the awards ceremony in London on 26 January 2017.
Marcus Coleman, Chief Executive at Seafish, said: “Running a successful mobile business can be extremely challenging and demands a lot of commitment. Our finalists are a great example of how dedication and passion for the industry pays off; from commitment to sustainability and responsible sourcing to the skilful promotion of their businesses, their passion to succeed is truly admirable.
“This year we had an exceptionally high level of entries so to be in the top three of a UK wide competition is a remarkable achievement, I look forward to seeing who comes out on top at the final.”
The National Fish & Chip Awards are recognised as one of the most prominent and respected seafood industry events in the UK. Widely considered as the ‘Oscars’ of the fish frying industry, they celebrate the Great British tradition of fish and chips, showcasing the best talent, quality and choice offered by fish and chip businesses through 13 different award categories.
For further information on The National Fish & Chip Awards please visit www.fishandchipawards.com. Follow @FishnChipAwards on Twitter for all the awards news and information.
National Fish and Chip Awards
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https://www.chron.com/opinion/recommendations/article/For-Ellis-and-Whitmire-Veteran-state-senators-1605633.php
For Ellis and Whitmire: Veteran state senators deserve to be re-elected
Veteran state senators bring experience, skill to their tasks; deserve to be re-elected
Published 5:30 am CDT, Thursday, October 21, 2010
Like its federal counterpart in Washington, D.C., the Texas Senate is designed to be a place of thoughtful reflection, somewhat removed from the hurly-burly of the Texas House of Representatives.
The atmosphere in the state's upper legislative chamber is often described as collegial, even clubby, and the relatively small number of senators — there are 31 - makes for more intimate relations among colleagues than are possible in the 150-member House. Senators are elected for four-year terms, as opposed to the two-year terms of House members, so they are also more removed from the immediate pressures of re-election .
Two veteran Houston senators, Rodney Ellis and John Whitmire, face major-party opposition in the 2010 election next month. We believe both men have distinguished themselves in their Senate service and urge their re-election.
Ellis, the longtime Democratic incumbent in Texas Senate District 13, has made his mark in many legislative areas, including education, the state budget process and the criminal justice arena. It is thanks to Ellis' efforts, for example, that Harris County will soon have a public defender's office. Access to higher education by low-income and minority Texans also has been widened thanks to the senator's efforts. It is no exaggeration to observe that Texas has become a more welcoming and tolerant place because of Ellis' efforts. It has.
Whitmire, the Democratic incumbent in Texas Senate District 15, has been in the Senate for 27 years and his length of service has earned him the title "Dean of the Senate." The Houston native, who first came to the Legislature as a Texas House member while still an undergraduate at the University of Houston in the early 1970s, has focused his energies on criminal justice, overseeing a rewrite of the state penal code in the 1990s. His deep knowledge of the criminal justice system is a resource that will be particularly valuable in dealing with the state's daunting budget deficit.
A parting thought: Ellis and Whitmire share an institutional memory that extends back to a time when Austin had a far less partisan feel than it does today.
It would not be a bad thing if some of that rubbed off on these senators' more partisan colleagues in both parties and both houses of the Legislature. The collegial pair have the stature and personality to bring that to pass. They richly deserve to be returned for another term in Austin.
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History of Science Society
The History of Science Society is the world’s largest society dedicated to understanding science, technology, medicine, and their interactions with society in historical context. Over 3,000 individual and institutional members across the world support the Society’s mission to foster interest in the history of science and its social and cultural relations. Several Society-sponsored initiatives carry advanced knowledge about the history of science to the wider world. The Society’s flagship publication, Isis, is the widest circulation journal in the history of science. Another journal, Osiris, produces annual thematic volumes devoted to a single topic of wide interest to the history of science community. The Society holds an annual meeting, at which hundreds of scholars present and discuss cutting-edge research on the cultural relationships and historical development of scientific practices, theories, and technologies. As its members study the historical record of science and technology, the Society is also making use of new technologies to stimulate interest in the history of science. The activities of the Society’s bibliographer are key to making information openly available on the history of science, technology, and medicine. Free access to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database is available as a benefit to its members. A four-year run of Isis is available on JSTOR.
Professional society; history of science, technology and medicine
the HSS Newsletter, published quarterly, provides job listings, conference announcements, and news of the Society, its members, their disciplines and the profession
Collections URL
http://hssonline.org/
Holding Highlights
world’s largest society dedicated to understanding science, technology, medicine, and their interactions with society in historical context
produces Isis, the widest circulation journal in the history of science, and Osiris, an annual thematic volume devoted to single topics of wide interest to the history of science community
maintains the Current Bibliography of the History of Science and its Cultural Influences (an HSS member benefit), an online bibliography of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine articles published world-wide
The Newtonian System of the Universe
Maker: Issac Frost (Cartographer/Author), W.P. Clubb & Son (Engraver/Draftsman), George Baxter (Printer/Publisher)
Shows the Solar System in center with imagined solar systems surrounding it. Originally intended for publication in Frost’s “The Two Systems of Astronomy, Etc.”
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Winston S. Churchill, The Official Biography, Volume V: The Prophet of Truth, 1922-1939
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. The Official Biography of Winston Churchill, initiated by Randolph Churchill but completed by Martin Gilbert, is an epic piece of scholarship about a singularly epic life, comprising eight mammoth main text volumes. The British and U.S. first editions of the eight main text volumes were published between 1966 and 1988. This fifth volume of the official biography covers the years 1922 to 1939, from the time when Churchill ended his two decades as a Liberal and returned to the Conservatives and the Cabinet through the wilderness years of the 1930s when he was out of office and out of favor, persistently warning about the growing Nazi threat. This is the first U.S. edition, attractively bound in blue cloth boards with a tan linen spine. Condition is fine in a near fine dust jacket. The binding is square, clean, and tight with sharp corners, nicely rounded spine, and virtually no wear. The contents are clean and bright with no previous ownership marks and no spotting. Even the page edges are bright and clean. The vivid red dust jacket is notably bright and unfaded with no losses and still retaining both original front flap prices. We note only trivial hints of wear to extremities and a hint of scuffing at the lower spine. The dust jacket is protected in a removable, archival quality clear cover. Bibliographic reference: Zoller A301e. Item #002679
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The next Reds superhero?
Reds LHP Cody Reed is almost like a bizarro version of Clark Kent, Superman with his glasses on, mild-mannered without.
The next Reds superhero? Reds LHP Cody Reed is almost like a bizarro version of Clark Kent, Superman with his glasses on, mild-mannered without. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/1Rdw1wK
C. Trent Rosecrans, crosecrans@enquirer.com Published 6:50 p.m. ET March 20, 2016 | Updated 4:48 p.m. ET March 21, 2016
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Cody Reed (84) delivers to the plate in the third inning during the Cactus League game between the Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds, Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at Goodyear Ballpark, in Goodyear, Arizona.(Photo: The Enquirer/Kareem Elgazzar)
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — When Clark Kent takes off his glasses, he becomes Superman. When Reds left-hander Cody Reed puts his on, he becomes something of a superhero himself.
“It’s not fair,” muttered one Reds minor leaguer (who will remain unnamed) after his first live batting practice against Reed earlier this spring. “6-foot-5, lefty, throwing gas and with those glasses, you don’t know if he knows where it’s going.”
There was a sense of wonder — and while fear may not quite be the word to use, perhaps intimidation may be.
On the mound, Reed is intimidating. He’s big — 6-5, 225 pounds — and he does have a certain look with his black goggles. In short, he makes quite the first impression.
That’s nothing new for Reed, who came to the Reds from Kansas City along with fellow left-handers John Lamb and Brandon Finnegan in the trade that sent Johnny Cueto to the Royals.
Reds catcher Kyle Skipworth, who was with Double-A Pensacola last year when Reed reported to the Blue Wahoos, remembers Reed’s Reds debut last July 31 in Chattanooga.
“It was my first time catching him and everyone is in a feeling-out process,” Skipworth remembered. “He comes over and you see a big ol’ donkey warming up in the pen throwing cheddar balls. You see he has life. He’s breezing through the game and we’re punching out a lot of guys with back-foot sliders and I’m like, this guy is nasty.”
Reed allowed a run in his first inning but then cruised through the Lookouts' lineup until Max Kepler hit a one-out triple in the sixth inning of what was still a 1-0 game with the fourth and fifth hitters in the lineup coming up.
“I went out to say ‘we’ve got first base open, we can be tough, pitch around these guys, get a double play… whatever,” Skipworth recalls.
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And what happened next showed him who Reed was.
“I looked at him, I said, ‘Skip, you don’t know me very well, I’m new to you, I’m new to everyone, I’m going to strike these next two guys out and we’re going to go back to the dugout.’” Reed recalls. “He said, ‘OK.’”
Reed proceeded to strike out Kennys Vargas and then get Adam Walker to line out to third, ending the inning.
“That fires you up,” Skipworth said. “It’s so refreshing when you get a guy that’s nose-to-the-grindstone, says it’s my game. You love that as a competitor.”
After the Blue Wahoos took the lead the next half-inning, Reed nailed down the seventh, retiring the Lookouts in order, including a strikeout of his final batter of the night. That was the first of six wins in his eight starts with the Blue Wahoos.
That night he was wearing the same black plastic frames he’ll wear to the mound for Monday night’s Cactus League game against the Padres on MLB Network. They’re the same frames his mother bought him when he was a 5-foot-9 high school freshman who couldn’t see the catcher’s signals. Reed thought they looked ridiculous and refused to wear them, saving himself from the teasing of his teammates. His mother had other ideas.
“He was going to wear them, because if I was going to take him to the doctor and go through all that trouble, he’s by-golly going to wear them,” Kris Reed-Jones said Sunday as she drove from Arizona back to the family’s home in Mississippi.
Reed wore them his first game of his sophomore season and dominated. Since then, he’s had to have them.
“I’m really superstitious, so I had one good game with them, I’ve obviously had bad games with them, but just having that one game of success, you feel like you have to wear them all the time,” Reed said.
His mother said he gets another pair almost every year, but he still wears the original ones. Every so often he’ll forget them and she’ll have to run to the post office and mail them to him, so he can wear them when it’s time to pitch — and only the original pair will do.
He doesn’t wear them all the time, just on the mound. He doesn’t wear his glasses around the clubhouse or even during some drills, instead, he goes sans specs, except for when he’s driving, for obvious reasons.
“I only put them on right before I start throwing. I stretch and stuff without them, but right when I start playing catch, I put them on,” Reed noted.
The transition is stark. In the Reds' clubhouse, Reed isn't heard, he sits low in his chair, more like the 5-foot-3 eighth grader he once was before a growth spurt. But when he puts on his glasses and heads to the mound, he demands attention.
“My intensity level is high, I’m focused in my bullpens, that’s my job for the day, to work on my craft, then I definitely relax,” Reed said. “When it comes to games, I’m totally different.”
That competitiveness has been on display this spring, as Reed’s allowed just one earned run in 10 spring training innings (two in a “B” game) on five hits with 10 strikeouts and no walks.
“We have a bunch of guys in camp that throw hard, the difference with Cody is he’s throwing hard and he’s throwing quality strikes and he’s getting good hitters out,” Reds manager Bryan Price said. “That’s what separates him. We’ve talked about some of the guys we’ve sent out of camp already. We’ve talked plenty about their stuff. They just haven’t harnessed it very well to this point, or to the point where they could compete at this level. He has shown nothing but the ability to challenge hitters in the strike zone with two quality pitches and the makings of a third with a changeup.”
Price had been anxious to see Reed in person, having read the scouting reports and talking with the Reds' front office about the 22-year-old lefty before seeing him. Price met Reed at Redsfest, on the caravan and then again at the team’s pitching summit in Goodyear in January. Price knew the resume: Reed was taken in the second round of the 2013 draft out of Northwest Mississippi Community College. He threw 84 innings in low-Class A ball in 2014 before starting 2015 in high-Class A and moving to Double-A before the trade.
“I couldn’t have assumed he would be this polished,” Price said.
Skipworth, who is entering his ninth pro season, has been impressed by Reed’s polish and competitive nature, if not his sense of style.
“His personal choice in glasses style,” Skipworth noted, “I think can be upgraded, possibly.”
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Teacher credentials come in for tough grading
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State’s schools haven’t fully embraced laws protecting LGBTQ students
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Later school bells, alternative testing: California lawmakers try again on quashed K-12 bills
California hit the snooze button last year on legislation that would have let middle and high school students sleep in a little longer. The later — and, experts say, healthier...
California high schools see fewer football players
If the Golden State has a rooting interest in the Super Bowl on Sunday, it won’t just be because the Los Angeles Rams will be on the field. Roughly one...
Can state afford Newsom’s vision for education?
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More school districts struggling
So many school districts are having such a hard time delivering the basics of an equal opportunity for an education that one in three statewide has been targeted for special...
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Brennan gets offers for legal action on clearance revocation
FILE- In this May 23, 2017, file photo former CIA Director John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force. Brennan says he is considering taking legal action to try to prevent President Donald Trump from stripping other current and former officials’ security clearances. Brennan said Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he’s been contacted by a number of lawyers about the basis of a potential complaint. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
By JILL COLVIN and LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former CIA Director John Brennan said Sunday that he is considering taking legal action to try to prevent President Donald Trump from stripping other current and former officials’ security clearances.
Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Brennan said he’s been contacted by a number of lawyers about the possibility of an injunction in the wake of Trump’s move to revoke his clearance and threaten nine others who have been critical of the president or are connected to the Russia probe.
“If my clearances and my reputation as I’m being pulled through the mud now, if that’s the price we’re going to pay to prevent Donald Trump from doing this against other people, to me it’s a small price to pay,” Brennan said. “So I am going to do whatever I can personally to try to prevent these abuses in the future. And if it means going to court, I will do that.”
Brennan, who served in President Barack Obama’s administration, said that while he’ll fight on behalf of his former CIA colleagues, it’s also up to Congress to put aside politics and step in. “This is the time that your country is going to rely on you, not to do what is best for your party but what is best for the country,” he said.
Trump yanked Brennan’s security clearance last week, saying he felt he had to do “something” about the “rigged” probe of Russian election interference. And he has said he may do the same for nine others, including a Justice Department official whose wife worked for the firm involved in producing a dossier on Trump’s ties to Russia.
An executive order signed in 1995 by President Bill Clinton lays out the process for approving security clearances and describes a detailed revocation and appeal procedure.
Former Obama-era CIA Director Leon Panetta, who also served as defense secretary, said Sunday that Trump must abide by the executive order unless he decides to change or cancel it. Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” he said Trump’s decision to revoke Brennan’s clearance raises questions about whether he followed due process.
Brennan’s legal warning came as other officials joined the growing chorus of critics — now more than 75 intelligence officials — denouncing Trump’s security clearance threats, saying they have a right to express their views on national security issues without fear of punishment.
Retired Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George W. Bush and Obama, likened it to President Richard Nixon’s use of a political enemies list.
Mullen told “Fox News Sunday” that while he doesn’t agree with Brennan’s decision to criticize the president, the former CIA director has the right to freedom of speech unless he’s revealing classified information.
“It immediately brings back the whole concept of the enemies list,” Mullen said, “and even before that, in the early ’50s, the McCarthy era, where the administration starts putting together lists of individuals that don’t agree with them and that historically, obviously, has proven incredibly problematic for the country.”
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin agreed with Trump that Brennan’s comments “really did cross a line.”
But, he said, rather than pulling officials’ security clearances, Trump should avoid politicizing the issue and simply deny them access to classified material.
“I don’t want to see an enemies list,” he said.
Colvin reported from Bridgewater, N.J.
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Paisley Police
Thirteen-year-old boy attacked with wine bottle in Paisley retail park
Police are hunting for the occupants of a black BMW car.
Ron Moore
Scene: The teenager was attacked with a wine bottle at Phoenix Retail Park (Image: PDE)
Detectives are hunting a vicious thug who attacked a 13-year-old boy with a wine bottle at a retail park.
The victim and his pal, aged 12, were at Phoenix Retail Park, in Paisley, late on Christmas Eve when they were chased by the occupants of a black BMW.
PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happens
Police believe words were exchanged between the youngsters and the people in the car, and this prompted a terrifying chase through the car park.
One of the thugs then leapt out of the car, ran after the victim and struck him on the head with the wine bottle.
The attack took place near Pets at Home around 10.30pm, when the area was quieter than usual.
The bloodsoaked lad was taken to the town’s Royal Alexandra Hospital by ambulance and needed three staples to close a laceration to his forehead.
The younger boy was left uninjured but has been badly shaken by the ordeal.
Police in Paisley are treating the incident as a serious assault and they are keen to catch the attacker.
Community Inspector Tracey Harkins said: “This appears to have been an unprovoked attack on a teenage boy who was left requiring hospital treatment for an injury to his face.
“We are appealing for help from members of the public in tracing those responsible.
“Anyone with information, or who may know something about this incident, is asked to get in touch with police in
Paisley.”
Detectives have described the attacker has being aged between 18 and 20, of skinny build and with black shaved hair.
He was wearing a grey-coloured tracksuit when he approached the youngster and struck him on the face with the bottle, which contained alcohol.
The vehicle is described as a black BMW, but there is no further information about the model.
Cops have been scouring public CCTV for evidence, canvassing witnesses and speaking to staff at businesses in the area about the attack.
Anyone with information is asked to call police in Paisley on the 101 non-emergency number.
Alternatively, you can ring CrimeStoppers on 0800 555 111 where anonymity can be maintained.
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Mike DeWine and his wife, Fran, just after his announcement that he’s running for governor Sunday in Cedarville. Photo by Lynn Hulsey
Who is Ohio’s new first lady, Fran DeWine?
To their friends and family, they’re “Mike & Fran” — team leaders of a sprawling, close-knit family with eight kids and 23 grand kids.
Frances Struewing met Mike DeWine in the first grade and the two married in June 1967 while they were both still undergraduate students at Miami University in Oxford.
“She is the love of my life. She is the rock of our family. She is my best friend,” Mike DeWine said of Fran during his inaugural address on Monday. He said he would not be governor without her.
Fran DeWine has been an ever-present figure as her husband moved from Greene County prosecutor to Ohio state senator to U.S. Representative to Ohio lieutenant governor to U.S. senator to Ohio attorney general and now to governor.
Attorney General Mike DeWine and his wife, Fran, accompanied by their 8-year-old grandson, Parker, voted Tuesday morning at Grace Baptist Church in Cedarville. DeWine and Rich Cordray are in the race for governor of Ohio. LISA POWELL / STAFF
She hits the campaign trail, sits in on media interviews, walks parades and hosts an endless stream of family and community events, including the annual DeWine Ice Cream Social that has been held for more than 30 years on their property in Greene County.
The DeWines even hosts an annual high school cross country meet in September at the property, which was once owned by Whitelaw Reid, a Civil War correspondent and journalist.
RELATED: Mike, Fran DeWine welcome visitors at Air Force Museum
Fran DeWine is known for her little blue cookbook, “Fran DeWine’s Family Favorites,” that she has been handing out on the campaign trail since 1980. Just 5,000 copies were printed for DeWine’s state senate campaign. That ramped up to 100,000 for the 12th edition when he ran for re-election as attorney general in 2014.
Re-worked for the gubernatorial campaign, the latest edition includes recipes from Tina Husted and her husband Lt. Gov. Jon Husted.
Fran DeWine is also known for her pie making skills. She and her friends crank out more than 150 homemade pies for the ice cream social.
In 2000, Mike DeWine dropped off copies of the little cookbook in the Statehouse press room. But according to a Dayton Daily News report from 2000, that didn’t cut it with reporters who said in the past DeWine had left Fran’s homemade pies in the pressroom. “We don’t want an interview, we want the pie,’ one reporter told the senator.
She is involved with the Becky DeWine School in Haiti — named after her 22-year-old daughter who was killed in an auto accident in 1993. Fran DeWine assembles care packages for the students at Christmas time.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs one of six executive actions alongside his wife Fran, left, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, in Cedarville, Ohio. The former U.S. senator took his oath in a private midnight ceremony at his Cedarville home ahead of a public inauguration planned Monday at the Statehouse.
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Credit Cards »News & AdviceNews»Research and Statistics»Love me, love my debt? No way, poll says
Love me, love my debt? No way, poll says
by Martin Merzer
Credit Scores and Reports
Attitudes regarding debt loom large over any relationship, and that’s especially true for women, who find heavy debt a huge turnoff, says a CreditCards.com survey
Single, attractive, successful professional looking for everlasting love. Must adore animals, walks in the park. Please respond with a list of all debts and your credit report. No report, no reply.
That’s the type of singles ad we’d really place, if we were honest. According to a new CreditCards.com survey, attitudes regarding debt loom large over any relationship, and that’s especially true for women.
With Valentine’s Day approaching, the scientific survey of 1,005 adults found most Americans consider heavy debt a major turnoff in a relationship. In fact, finding out your partner kept big credit card debt a secret, or lied about being able to pay routine bills, is enough for most to end a relationship.
Most Americans also believe that sharing the same attitudes about managing money is the single most important factor in a relationship.
Credit counselors and family therapists are not surprised. They say their real-life experiences mesh with and confirm the survey’s findings.
“Nothing breaks Cupid’s bow like an argument over money,” said Melinda Opperman, senior vice president of Springboard, a nonprofit, nationwide credit counseling and financial education organization. “Our counseling sessions reveal that money is a source of conflict for many couples … Differences in values make for conflict.”
Such conflict can be chronic and, ultimately, destructive to a relationship.
“Yes, even more than sex, money is often used by couples as a wedge, negotiating tool and weapon to manipulate and control a situation,” said Barbara Udell, a family and individual therapist and counselor who holds degrees in social work and other disciplines. “It can be very powerful ammunition.
“If you don’t get this right, it can be the death knell of a relationship,” Udell said.
Among the survey’s findings:
Expect women to be quicker to cut off a relationship over money and debt issues. About 70 percent of women would break it off if they found out their partner had lied about their ability to pay routine bills. That’s the same percentage of women who would stop seeing someone with a criminal history. Two out of three women find secret credit card debt a relationship deal-killer, and 55 percent would cut it off if they found out a partner was heavily in debt.
When asked the same questions, men are somewhat more tolerant of financial wrongdoing: Slight majorities would terminate a relationship over lying about bill paying or secret credit card debt, and just 37 percent say heavy debt is reason enough to call it off.
By comparison, cheating is still the ultimate sin in relationships, with 84 percent listing it as a good reason for the big chill. At the other end of the spectrum, getting fired from a job would cause just 16 percent to bid a beau adieu.
Nearly 53 percent of Americans believe “a partner with debt is a turnoff.” More women (57 percent) feel this way than men, but nearly 48 percent of men also would look askance at a relationship with an indebted partner.
Want me to love you? Show me your credit score: 57 percent of women agree strongly or somewhat strongly with that sentiment, along with more than 47 percent of men. The specific statement they were asked to evaluate: “If you were about to get seriously involved with someone, you would want to know your partner’s credit score.”
Agreeing about money is fundamental to relationships. A solid 68 percent of all respondents agreed with this statement: “Sharing the same attitudes toward managing money is the most important factor in a relationship.”
But that monetary nirvana is hard to find: 73 percent of those surveyed believe that couples argue most often about money.
About six in 10 Americans, including 62 percent of women and 53 percent of men, would have less trust in someone if they found out that the prospective partner was in serious debt. Three-quartersof all respondents wouldn’t pool money with a financially irresponsible partner.
But wait, we can fix you — or at least we think we can. About seven in 10 percent of Americans (69 percent) say it is OK to insist that a partner change his or her spending habits. On this matter, men and women essentially agree, with 70 percent of men and 68 percent of women thinking they should try to influence a partner’s money decisions.
Money issues can be landmines for relationships. Click image to enlarge.
The scientific poll was conducted for CreditCards.com between Jan. 11 and 13, 2013, by GfK Roper. Pollsters interviewed 1,005 women and men from various parts of the country through random-digit dialing. Typically, they were asked if they strongly agree, somewhat agree, strongly disagree or somewhat disagree with a wide range of statements regarding debt and money, and how that impacts their relationships.
Get your money act together
Regardless of who you are and where you live, this is the bottom line, experts agree: Get your financial affairs in order and be sure to tell the truth about them if you want your romantic relationship to develop, thrive and survive.
“Money matters and debt issues are the No. 1 reasons for divorce, child and spousal abuse, stress, addictions and low productivity on the job … ,” said David Jones, president of the Association of Independent Consumer Credit Counseling Agencies, which represents 32 nonprofit credit counseling companies.
“We find that today’s consumer is more aware than ever that good credit and high bureau scores are essential for successful family life,” he said. “I am not at all surprised that someone might consider credit issues when deciding whether to enter a relationship. That is in line with current consumer behaviors.”
“With respect to ‘fixing’ a partner’s spending habits and attitudes toward debt, it is critical that the subject be addressed openly and honestly,” Jones said. “Habits are hard to change, but the future of a strong family relationship may depend on it. The more responsible partner should make every effort to resolve credit and debt issues that threaten the relationship.”
Opperman agreed, saying it is more than worth a try.
“Actions speak louder than words, and when your loved one sees you living below your means, reducing debt and saving for a rainy day, he or she will know how much you care about your overall financial health as a couple,” she said. “If your relationship is your first priority, you’ll both have to be willing to negotiate.”
Money woes? Let’s talk
All the experts agree on one point: Openness is a key to successful relationships.
“Do whatever it takes to maintain financial openness and balance between you and your partner,” Udell said, “and be sure to remove some of the emotions that are prevalent when it comes to money management.”
“Most people assume, incorrectly, that the person they love thinks exactly the same way they do about money and has the same financial goals,” said Opperman, the credit counselor. “It’s important for couples to communicate early on in their relationship about their behaviors and attitudes toward money matters. Financing a lifestyle with heavy debt may be fine for one person. However, it creates financial worries and fears in the other person.”
Poll methodology: The survey was conducted from Jan. 11-13, 2013, by GfK Roper, a division of GfK Custom Research North America, on behalf of CreditCards.com. Random digit dialing phone interviews were completed with 1,005 adults (440 men and 565 women). The raw data were then weighted by a custom designed computer program that automatically developed a weighting factor for each respondent, employing five variables: age, sex, education, race and geographic region. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points for the full sample.
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Fed: As long as unemployment is high, rates will remain ultra low
If, after all these years, you still haven’t taken advantage of today’s historically low interest rates, don’t worry. Today’s record low rates aren’t going to disappear any time soon
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Dell Debuts XPS 15z Notebook
Dell this week officially announced the launch of the new XPS 15z, a Macbook rival which the company calls the thinnest 15-inch PC on the planet.
The computer, which Dell calls the first in a series to arrive this year, sports second-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors and runs Windows 7. It is available now starting at $999 from Dell directly, with retail availability soon to come.
“The XPS 15z provides a glimpse into a series of visually stunning and powerful systems coming soon to our consumer and small-to-medium-business product portfolio,” Steve Felice, president of Dell’s Consumer and Small/Medium Business group, said as part of the announcement. “We’re committed to introducing next-generation products that help people pursue their personal and professional passions.”
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December found Dee working with a reading and music of the play Dearly Beloved (written by Chana Porter; music composed by Deepali Gupta). She also participated in the culminating performance of the 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens, in the Winter Solstice performance.
Dee continued her work on the Sounds and Fury production abroad.
Dee performed in The Left Eye of Horus, written and composed by Johnny Gasper, at Dixon Place. She also traveled abroad for the first round of rehearsals for the Sounds and Fury production, touring in 2020. Sounds and Fury is written and directed by David Geselson.
The Autumn Equinox saw Dee participated in the 11th installment of 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens.
Dee collaborated with artist Seung-Min Lee in the performance of Intolerable Whiteness at The Kitchen Theater NYC. She was selected to participate in a two week workshop in collaboration with Harlem Stage, Company Lieux-Dits, and the Theater and Dance division at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
The Hollow run ended June 2nd. Dee begins the summer run of the 10th installment of the 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens.
Dee performed in The Hollow, a play by Matt Freeman.
In April, Dee continued her monthly Caillou recording schedule.
Dee kicked off the final year of Sibyl Kempson’s 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens with its ninth installment.
Dee shot a pilot for Whose It Gonna Be, written and directed by Alexis Powell and produced By Samin Pogoff. She also performed during the Avant-Garde-Arama Festival at Performance Space New York with 7 Daughters of Eve.
January brought a chance for Dee to work with playwright Matt Freeman as he explored his play The Starving Dress, as well as with other talented artists, including the amazing choreographer Djahari Clark, under the direction of Jessi Hill.
At the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) festival at the Whitney Museum, Dee performed in a 7 Daughters of Eve presentation of a “Best Of” its work.
Under the direction of composer and director Roland Auzet, Dee performed in Bernard-Marie Koltes’ two-person play In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields as part of The Night of Philosophy, a 12 hour event that brought together philosophers from around the world for lectures and performances.
Dee is currently recording episodes for the extended season of Caillou, the long running Canadian educational children’s television cartoon. Dee’s role is the voice of the Narrator in the French language version.
December saw the eighth installment of and Dee’s seventh participation in Sibyl Kemspon’s 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens. The Winter Solstice was welcomed by the 7 Daughters of Eve Theater & Performance Company on December 21st.
Dee participated in the reading of and presentation for the five Francophone novelists shortlisted for the 2018 Albertine Prize, which recognizes American readers’ favorite French-language fiction titles that have been translated into English.
Christmas Belles and Mistletoe, written by Linda West, was released as an audiobook in time for the holiday season. Book 6 in the Love on Kissing Bridge Mountain series, this holiday mystery is beautifully narrated by Dee and is available for download on Audible.
In November, Dee had the privilege of working with Christina Anderson in a workshop exploring her play in development, the ripple, the wave that carried me home, which was directed by Robbie McCauley. This project was part of a two-week in-house retreat for five resident playwrights and their collaborators, designed to explore ambitious work. She also participated in a reading of Kirk Wood Bromley’s play Want’s Unwisht Work at the New Dramatists, directed by Robert Ross Parker.
Dee’s work as the voice of the Narrator for the long running Canadian educational children’s television cartoon, Caillou, is well underway. She has been invited to and re-committed for more recordings in 2018!
Dee participated in the presentation of Cori Thomas’s Liberian Legacy Trilogy, directed by Mary Adrales, at the New Dramatist. She also was a moderator for In The Solitude of the Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie Koltès. Co-presented by NYU Skirball and NYU Center for French Civilization and Culture, this U.S. English premier was directed by Roland Auzet.
Dee played Mother Gaston in the kid-friendly show Master Gaston in the Motor Company’s presentation of Communal Spaces: A Garden Play Festival, directed by Lindsey Hope Pearlman.
September brought with it the Autumn Equinox and Sibyl Kempson’s seventh installment in the 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens series; this was Dee’s sixth show in the three-year iterative performance.
When not acting, Dee is diving into all aspects of theater! Dee collaborated with Oceana James’ one woman show, For Gowie: The Deceitful Fellow, at Brooklyn’s Brick Inc., during the This Is Not Normal: Arts and Activism festival.
June saw the sixth installment of and Dee’s fifth participation in Sibyl Kemspon’s 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens. The Summer Solstice was welcomed by the buoyant members of the 7 Daughters of Eve Theater & Performance Company on June 20th.
Following the welcoming of summer, Dee participated in an intensive workshop for a play under development at the New Dramatists in New York City. The workshop culminated in a concert-style performance of the music, composed by Graham Reynolds and written by Sibyl Kempson.
Dee has signed on to be the voice of the Narrator for the long running Canadian educational children’s television cartoon, Caillou. In addition to this exciting voice-over project, Dee’s focus this month has been auditioning and rehearsing for several upcoming projects.
Working on two children’s books has been a fun challenge! Dee has completed a recording of The Legend of Geoffrey, an uplifting children’s storybook. The novel will be translated into 10 different languages; Dee has the pleasure of completing the French narration.
Dee has partnered with the Nice Girls Club, whose mission is to empower young girls and women to be self-confident and kind in all that they do. Dee will be the voice of their first novel, proceeds of which will help support the organization’s cause.
Currently, Dee is co-directing Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, featuring an amazing cast of Bronx teen actors, and is also recording an audiobook, due for release in the 2017 holiday season.
Dee performed in Sibyl Kempson’s iterative performance project, 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens, at the Whitney Museum of Art. 12 Shouts marks each solstice and equinox from March 2016 to December 2018; the March 2017 spring installment was Dee’s fourth performance with the 7 Daughters of Eve Theater & Performance Company.
Dee also worked with some truly talented women during the Thalia Festival at the Roebuck Theater, which featured a series of plays written by women and performed with all-female casts.
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New sulphur supply from Qatar and Iran is some way off
Posted 26 July 2017
Author Nick Waters
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Fertilizer Week Sulphur and Sulphuric Acid
Both Iran and Qatar have announced significant expansions in gas production from the shared field South Pars/North Field, in the Arabian Gulf.
Iran has partnered with Total/CNPC to develop Phase 11 of South Pars. Qatar has announced its plans to boost LNG supply by 30%. The expansions will be a significant source of new sulphur supply when they start producing but technical difficulties, political instabilities, and economic sanctions warns us to be cautious about adding this new sulphur supply to our five-year outlook.
The South Pars/North Field natural gas field is located in the Arabian Gulf and spans the maritime borders of Iran and Qatar. The field has recoverable gas reserves of 1,260 Tcf which is split 40:60 between Iran and Qatar. This field accounts for the major share of each country’s total gas reserves and the two countries are a major share of global gas reserves; Qatar accounting for 13% of total gas reserves and Iran at 18% of total global reserves. Since start up in 2002, Qatar has increased gas production by 500% from 2.9 bcf/d to 17.5 bcf/day in 2016. Gas supply in Iran started from a higher base with growth of 150% from 5.8 bcf/d in 2000 to 19.5 bcf/d. Sulphur supply has grown in line with increased gas output with Qatar production up from 0.23 million tonnes in 2002 to 2.27 million tonnes in 2016 and Iran supply up from 1.20 million tonnes in 2002 to 1.59 million tonnes in 2016.
Total to develop South Pars Phase 11 in Iran
On 3 July 2017, Total announced its investment, as part of a consortium, for the development of Phase 11 of the South Pars field in Iran. The consortium is formed of Total (50.1%), CNPC (30%) and PetroPars (19.9%).Phase 11 will have final gas production capacity of 2 bcf/d with the gas sold to the Iranian market. The development will happen in two phases with the first due for completion by 2021. At capacity the project is forecast to add 0.1 million t/y of sulphur supply. The announcement is the first deal to be signed with an international company since the signing of the 2015 international nuclear accord.
Existing gas supply capacity is split between fields in the Arabian Gulf (South Pars, Kharg Island and Razi) and inland supply located near the Turkmenistan border at Khangiran. While sanctions have been in place, Iran has struggled to increase sulphur supply which has been caused by difficulty in finding markets to export gas. The easing of sanctions is expected to boost gas and sulphur supply from 2017, with additional phases also due to be completed during the year. Phase 17/18 is due to commission in 2017 with Phases 19, 20/21 and 22/23/24 due to come online in 2018. Combined sulphur capacity of Phase 19-24 will total 0.4 million tonnes.
Iran has ambitions to further develop the South Pars field but little of this intent has been finalised. There is likely to be continued difficulty in attracting investment until the removal of sanctions has progressed further as there is still a block on US$ transactions with Iran. Total was one of the biggest investors in Iran before sanctions were imposed, and the deal represents more of a return of a prior business relationship. Investment from an Indian consortium has also been discussed for the development of another of Iran’s gas fields, Farzad-B.
Qatar Petroleum to increase LNG exports
Qatar Petroleum announced the plan to increase LNG export capacity from 77 million t/y to 100 million t/y by 2022-2024. Qatar announced that it would double the size of the southern sector of the North Field to 4 bcf/d. The announcement followed the news of the Iran/Total deal, but as Qatar ended a self imposed ban on the development of the North Field in April 2017, a restart to investment does not come as a major surprise. LNG production ran at its capacity rate of 77 million t/y in 2016 which equates to around 10 bcf/d vs. total gas supply of 17.5 bcf/d. Total gas capacity in Qatar totalled 21 bcf/d in 2016. Qatar is the largest LNG producer and exporter in the world, supplying 30% of the global LNG trade in 2016. Another 2 bcf/d of gas is moved through the Dolphin pipeline to the UAE with remaining 5.5 bcf/d serving local demand.
The expansion in LNG exports would require an increase in primary gas extraction, but not as significant as the increase in liquefaction capacity. Qatar’s reported gas capacity of 21 bcf/d is currently 83% utilised. The announced capacity expansion would add 2 bcf/d to primary gas production but the growth in LNG output would consume 4.4 bcf/d. The increase in LNG exports is partly designed to increase utilisation of existing gas production assets.
The $10 billion Rasgas Barzan project, a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil, has also faced commissioning delays due to a gas leak that was found in one of the upstream pipelines last year. The problem is still persisting leading to the start up of the field being postponed a number of times with a start date in 2018 also looking in doubt.
In terms of a sulphur production increase, the growth in LNG capacity will not affect the medium term outlook as the start date is scheduled for 2022-2024. Sulphur supply is expected to increase at existing capacity as operations ramp back up to historical output.
The announcements in Qatar come at a time when regional neighbours have cut diplomatic ties with the country. Around 5% of Qatar’s LNG exports are sold to regional neighbours with these vessel movements being blocked. Qatar supplies 2 bcf/d of gas to UAE via the Dolphin pipeline which Qatar Petroleum have explicitly stated will continue to flow.
Future competition in LNG markets
The expansion in LNG capacity in Qatar would represent growth of 15% on current global trade flows. The new capacity plan comes at the same time as recent export growth from Australia and planned export increases from the USA. There is 9.6 bcf/d LNG export terminal under construction in the US Gulf with a further 6.6 bcf/d approved, but not yet in construction. There is also a 6.7 bcf/d Canadian LNG export terminal which has received approval.
The question remains as to whether all of the planned capacity will be needed. Shell published its “LNG Outlook” in Q1 2017 which estimated growth in seaborne LNG trade of around 30% on 2016 sales. Demand growth is expected to be strong in China and India but also from new entrants to the traded market in Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan.
One area that is highlighted as a future growth opportunity is the use of LNG for vessel fleets to help meet the International Maritime Organization 0.5% S cap in bunker fuels. Qatar Petroleum and Shell announced an agreement to develop LNG marine refuelling infrastructure in strategic global shipping locations.
The future development of the South Pars/North Field reserves is not unexpected, but will be faced with challenges. In Iran, the issues with residual sanctions may hinder the progress of new investment, but the local demand for gas is there as the country has suffered from supply shortages over recent years. The challenge for Qatar will involve its relationship with its regional neighbours, but also irrespective of how current diplomatic issues are resolved, a significant expansion of the demand for LNG.
Both projects are an important signal of sulphur supply growth from the field, but neither are going to have a meaningful impact on supply in the coming five years. Sulphur will continue to be produced at high levels and increase whenever there is a field expansion. Our view is that the continued expansions are feasible, however, the speed at which the expansions are commissioned may be too optimistic due technical difficulties, political instabilities and continued sanctions.
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Rouskas, Sitar Receive Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Awards
The Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Awards for 2004 were presented to Dr. George N. Rouskas, professor of computer science, and Dr. Zlatko Sitar, professor of materials science and engineering, at the spring faculty meeting for the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University.
Rouskas was awarded the Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award, intended to recognize young faculty who have accomplished outstanding research achievements during the preceding three years. Sitar received the Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Engineering Research Award, made to a senior faculty member for research achievements over a period of at least five years at NC State.
Rouskas is one of the most highly respected young researchers in the field of optical networks. He won the Alumni Outstanding Research Award in 2003, received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award in 1997 and won a Best Paper Award at the SPIE Conference on All-Optical Networking in 1998.
He is best known for his work with the Jumpstart project on optical burst switching technology and the Helios project on multi-wavelength optical access networks. He serves as editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Computer Networks and Optical Networks and is technical committee co-chair for Networking 2004 in Athens, Greece. Rouskas is a member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE. In the past three years, he has published 30 peer-reviewed journal papers, 28 peer-reviewed conference papers and five book chapters. He received his doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994 and joined the faculty at NC State in 1995.
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MVH: Mamma Mia! 2 - Fri 18 Jan
Home » Latest News » MVH: Mamma Mia! 2 - Fri 18 Jan
The film we've all been waiting for finally comes to Curry Rivel Movies in the Village Hall.
This musical romantic comedy is a follow-up to the highly successful 2008 Mamma Mia! The plot is set after the events of the first film and also features flashbacks to 1979, telling the story of how Donna Sheridan arrives on the Greek island of Kalokairi and meets her daughter Sophie's three possible fathers. Reflecting on her mother's journey, Sophie realises that perhaps she is more like Donna than she thought.
The film features many of ABBA's best-loved songs — just the ticket to brighten a dark January evening. How can you resist it?
Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Julie Walters, Christine Baranski, Lily James, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgård.
Doors open at 7.00pm; show starts at 7.30pm in the village hall. Refreshments are on sale. Tickets £7 are available at the door. Don't forget we have our annual ticket for only £55 -- saving you £20.
Swimming with Men (12A): A man facing a mid-life crisis finds a new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team.
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Beyond Pigeon Point and Store Bay - 10 Amazing Tobago Beaches
Five Awesome Trinidad Adventures for under TT$200
Awesome July/August Vacation Experiences
A Luxury Guide to Trinidad and Tobago
4 of Best Easter Accommodation Getaways in Trinidad
Tobago Jazz Experience – the Perfect Getaway Weekend
DTnT Top 4 Picks for an Amazing Easter Vacay
10 Extraordinary Family-Friendly Holiday Destinations in Trinidad
7 Awesome Festivals (other than Carnival) for which you must visit Trinidad and Tobago
Exploring the Smaller Islands of Trinidad and Tobago
Because Trinidad and Tobago is often referred to as a twin island country, it’s a common misconception that it consists of just two islands. On the contrary, there are several other small islands under Trinidad and Tobago’s jurisdiction. These little known areas are home to some unique stories and are fascinating destinations in their own right. So, let’s discover what these places have to offer.
Gaspar Grande Island
The ‘Blue Grotto’, the magnificent salt water pool 100 feet undergound at the base of Gasparee Caves.
Photo: Rishi Harradan
Gaspar Grande, or Gasparee, is well known for its spectacular caves. Once you pass through the caves’ dramatic stalagmites, you’ll find a beautiful blue pond that was formed by an underground water source. Another landmark is Point Baleine, which was used as a whaling station back when whaling was popular in the Bocas Islands. The island was also used as a defense point by the military during WWII against the threat of U-boats.
Monos Island was named after the red howler monkeys who once inhabited the area. It features shaded coves and small beaches that are ideal for swimming and basking in the sun. There are also hiking trails that can lead you to Turtle Bay and Scouts Hut at Copper Hole. If you’re lucky, you might just see dolphins following your boat. They are usually in the area when there is an abundance of red sardines in the waters. For those looking to maximize their stay, beautiful coastal homes are available for rent.
Goat Island in Tobago is just to the east of the town of Speyside and lies adjacent to the bird sanctuary island of Little Tobago. Scuba diving and snorkelling on the nearby Angel Reef.
Photo: Kalamazadkhan
Goat Island is located off the coast of Speyside and is, interestingly, home to four fascinating species of lizards, not goats. These are the Green Iguana, Rainbow Whiptails, Turnip-tailed Geckos, and Grenada Tree Anoles. It is also known for the house that supposedly once belonged to Ian Fleming, the creator of the James Bond series. The property is a West Indian-style villa that sits right next to a secluded little beach, the perfect setting for an author to pursue their writing. This house may be lesser known compared to GoldenEye, the author’s lush Jamaican estate, but this secret retreat has nonetheless piqued the curiosity of the traveling public.
That’s no surprise, given that James Bond has garnered massive commercial success and a dedicated legion of fans thanks to the film franchise. No wonder all sorts of companies like to borrow Agent 007 and place their own spin to the character. For instance, the Johnny English film franchise is a parody of James Bond, and focuses more on comedy rather than serious espionage. There is even a 1992 Indian musical called Mr. Bond, which starred a dedicated Bombay police officer. Meanwhile, Slingo’s Agent Jane Blonde game provides a fresh take on 007, as the company knows fans will easily pick up on the reference. All these play into and have expanded on our cultural fascination with James Bond, and Goat Island’s tourism has been directly impacted because of its association with the franchise. Therefore, fans of the series who want to know more about the author, as well as aspiring writers who see him as an inspiration, should really check out Goat Island.
Chacachacare Island
Old doctors’ quarters at the abandoned leper colony on Chacachacare.
If you are interested in the paranormal, then Chacachacare Island would surely pique your interest. The island was once the site of a leper colony, but the operations stopped in 1984. Since then, the island remains abandoned, though you will find remnants of several buildings, as well as eerie forsaken artifacts like patient records, medicine bottles, and furniture. Complex wrote that the island is rumored to be haunted, with the most popular ghost story involving that of a nun. Perhaps stemming from this story, promotional materials for the horror movie The Nun were filmed there, too.
Trinidad and Tobago has many hidden gems worth checking out. For more information, read up on Destination Trinidad and Tobago’s 10 attractions you won’t find anywhere else in the Caribbean.
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Luke W. Robson "2030"
Cross-discipline, interactive and immersive experiences, incorporating new technology alongside traditional scenography. My practice often explores the didactic nature of utopia and dystopia and exists in the intersection between science fiction and science fact. Drawin on the history of surrealism, cinema, dystopian and the role technology plays in our contemporary society. I am particularly interested in the progress of artificial intelligence and role of virtual assistants in a fully automated world. I am committed to making work that is complex and challenging, exploring an intense sensory experience.
‘2030’ will be exhibited in Cambridge in April 2019 as part of a major public showcase. This project is a collaboration with Crowded Room, a formally inventive theatre company based in London, whose previous shows include; ‘The Heart of Adrian Lovett’ and ‘The Listening Room’. ‘2030’ was commissioned by Collusion as the culmination of their three year in collusion programme aiming to explore the intersection of art, technology and human interaction. The project will manifest in an immersive installation with live performance that introduces an audience at the party of a young professional in the near-future. The show has been researched by drawing on opinions from around the world about the advancement of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Assistants. More broadly the work explores wealth disparity and the housing crisis in the UK and is a direct response to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal that aims to ensure 'no-one is left behind'. My ideas for the project have been Influenced by the ‘Parlour’ in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and the spatial instillations of Do Ho Such, James Turrell and Massimo Uberti. Moreover, the work draws on contemporary visual artists including Alan Kwan, Benedict Drew and many of the instillations at last year’s Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. In its final form, the piece should provide a surreal, (yet realistic) look at our increasing reliance upon technology, in particular virtual assistants. By combining a large sculptural instillation with live performance and highly-rendered video projection the work will blur the boundaries between art, theatre and technology.
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Link Between Mitochondrial DNA and Autism
Cornell University* - cornell.edu
Synopsis : Researchers confirmed genetic link between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and some forms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Cornell University researchers have confirmed a genetic link between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is passed on from the mother, and some forms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
What is Mitochondrial DNA?
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in mitochondria, cellular organelles within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP). In humans, the 16,569 base pairs of mitochondrial DNA encode for only 37 genes. Human mitochondrial DNA was the first significant part of the human genome to be sequenced. In most species, including humans, mtDNA is inherited solely from the mother. The fact that mitochondrial DNA is maternally inherited enables genealogical researchers to trace maternal lineage far back in time.
Previous research suggested a link between mitochondrial functional defects and ASD, but those studies included small sample sizes and could not verify whether the cause was genetic or environmental.
The current study, published Oct. 28 in the journal PLOS Genetics, analyzed mtDNA in 903 families, where the researchers compared the mtDNA of an affected child and an unaffected sibling and their mother. They found that in instances when the children had both mutant and normal mtDNA in a single cell, called heteroplasmy, all the children showed similar numbers of mutant mtDNA, but the autistic children had more than twice as many harmful mtDNA mutations compared to their non-autistic siblings.
"When we compared the inheritance between the mother and the children, we confirmed this particular pattern, which is the child with autism inherited more bad mutations than their siblings during the process of passing mitochondrial DNA from mother to children," said Zhenglong Gu, associate professor of nutritional sciences and the paper's senior author.
"We show not only that mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy is associated with autism, but also, among autistic kids, these pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutations are significantly associated with intellectual disability, and other neurological and developmental defects," said Yiqin Wang, a graduate student in Gu's lab and the paper's first author.
The current findings may lead to better diagnosis and treatment of children with a sub-type of autism caused by pathogenic mtDNA mutations.
Analyzing mtDNA could help diagnose some forms of autism in the future. Interventions restoring mitochondrial function might also be useful for treatment, Gu said. These findings also have relevance for other childhood neurodevelopmental disorders, which may be caused by disease-causing mtDNA mutations and is a subject for future work, he said.
Most human cells carry two copies of nuclear DNA, one copy from each parent, and hundreds of copies of mtDNA, which exist in an organelle called the mitochondrion, where most of a cell's energy is created. Aside from the nuclear genome that resides in the cell's nucleus, the mitochondrion is the only organelle that contains DNA. Compared to nuclear DNA, mtDNA is known to mutate rapidly, which has prompted Gu to look for age-related diseases and pediatric diseases linked to these mutations.
During egg production, there is a dramatic reduction in the numbers of copies of mtDNA, as a way of eliminating bad mutations passed from mother to child. But some bad mutations still pass to the next generation, and the number of pathogenic mtDNA in children may be affected by the mother's environment or physiology, Gu said.
"Does the mother have inflammation or diabetes, or is she obese?" Gu said. "These things could make the process of cleaning up mutations less efficient. This could give us some insight into why autism is rising," and will be a subject for future studies, Gu said.
Future work will also include looking into the effects of environment, diet and the mother's health on mtDNA in children, Gu said. The group is also developing better tools for efficient and cost-effective mtDNA sequencing, he said.
Martin Picard, an assistant professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University, is a co-author on the paper.
The study was funded by Cornell University, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the ENN Science and Technology Development Company.
Link Between Mitochondrial DNA and Autism - Researchers confirmed genetic link between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and some forms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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There are only three countries in the world where you can see wild Mountain gorillas: Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Due to the latter country’s instability, almost all travellers choose either Rwanda or Uganda for their gorilla experience. The gorilla tracking experience in both countries is pretty similar, although in 2017 Rwanda increased the price of the gorilla trekking permits from US$750 to US$1500, while Uganda’s permit price has remained at US$600, making Uganda a far more affordable option if you’re choosing a destination primarily for gorilla trekking.
In terms of accessibility for gorilla trekking, Rwanda is easier than Uganda. Rwanda is a far smaller country than Uganda, which means it’s a short journey by road from the capital of Kigali to Volcanoes National Park, where you do the gorilla trekking. In Uganda, it’s a 500-kilometre trip from the capital of Kampala to get to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park where you go gorilla trekking, but the roads are in bad condition so the journey takes about 10 hours.
If you want to do more than just gorilla trekking on your holiday, Uganda is a better option than Rwanda. Unlike Rwanda, Uganda offers big game safaris on open savanna as well as a much wider array of experiences and a bigger variety of landscapes to explore than its more compact neighbour. Overall, Uganda is also more affordable than Rwanda.
Your drive to Kibale is well worth it
Full day with the Chimps
Onwards to Queen Elizabeth
Witness the unusual tree climbing lions
Bwindi National Park all to yourself
at Buhoma Lodge
Gorilla trekking, enjoy every minute
Buhoma Village walk
Drive via Kisoro to Rwanda
at Mountain View Gorilla Lodge
Visit the Dian Fossey Tomb
at Kigali Serena
Uganda’s spectacular wildlife, birds and dramatic landscapes are a treat for any photographer. The best region to visit for a photographic holiday is Western Uganda, where the biggest highlight will be photographing mountain gorillas from just a few metres away in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. A camera that performs well in low light is ideal, as the forest environment can be…
Credit: Steven Dieveney Uganda is a wonderful choice for a family safari holiday, offering some of the most memorable wildlife experiences on the continent, game drives in national parks without the crowds, island and lakeside beaches to while away relaxing days and more outdoors activities than you can shake a GoPro stick at. For a family holiday in Uganda, Western Uganda is the top…
Queen Elizabeth National Park, the second largest and most biodiverse park in Uganda, is the country’s most popular safari destination. Located in western Uganda close to the Rwenzori Mountains, the park encompasses a huge array of different landscapes, including wetlands, swamps and crater lakes, tropical forests, woodland and open savannah, which support a diverse range of wildlife,…
Uganda in February
Credit: Sanctuary Gorilla Forest Camp February is a relatively dry month in Uganda, so it’s a good time to visit national parks in the south and go gorilla trekking. In the north of the country it’s particularly hot and dusty and not an ideal time for wildlife viewing. ...
Gorilla trekking is one of the most memorable wildlife experiences you can have in Africa, and so there’s a good reason why it tops the list when it comes to Uganda. The excitement of hiking through a lush tropical forest in search of a gorilla group – and then coming face-to-face with them as they play, eat and groom one another just a few metres away from you – is hard to beat.…
Encompassing the vast majority of the country’s parks and reserves, Western Uganda dazzles with its blockbuster wildlife, excellent birding and astonishing landscapes and natural attractions, making it the most popular region with travellers. Bwindi Lodge In the southwest corner of the region, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is home to the majority of Uganda’s mountain…
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Lands & Minerals
Land Exchange
Land Exchange Program
Board and meetings
Leases (non-mineral)
Tax-forfeited land reviews
Utility crossing licenses
Land Exchange FAQs
What are the applicant's expenses?
For an exchange of lands administered by the DNR, the applicant will be charged a fee up to 100 percent and not less than one half of the cost of the appraisal and survey (if a survey is needed). This fee is due before the real estate appraisal is made, but it will be refunded if the money is not spent. The applicant will also be responsible for providing and up-to-date abstract of title to the state and, if necessary, clearing title. The cost of preparing the deeds is paid for by the state. The applicant will also be responsible for some recording fees and deed tax.
How long does it take to complete an exchange?
For Class A lands, once the decision is made that the DNR is interested in proceeding, an exchange might be completed in as short a time as six to eight months. However, many land exchanges take longer because adjustments are needed in acreage to arrive at similarity of values or it is determined that a survey is needed.
For Class B lands, once the county board decides to proceed and all appraisal, value, and title issues have been addressed, the land exchange proposal is submitted to the DNR for review. Unless there are appraisal or title problems, the DNR review is usually completed within four weeks. The DNR then places the land exchange proposal on the agenda for the next Land Exchange Board meeting.
What are the procedures for an exchange involving land administered by the DNR?
A land exchange proposal form is obtained from staff with the Division of Lands and Minerals at the St. Paul, Bemidji, Grand Rapids, or New Ulm offices.
The application is sent out for review with each division of the department for comments and interest in the proposal.
If the department approves proceeding with the exchange, the applicant is billed for their portion of the appraisal and survey fee. The applicant is also required to submit an updated abstract of title.
The abstract of title is submitted for review and determination of whether the title is marketable or the steps that must be taken by the applicant to make the title marketable.
The lands are examined and appraised by a licensed appraiser, usually a private party under contract with the DNR for performing appraisal work. All appraisals are based on the fair market value of comparable lands which have been conveyed in recent transactions in the local area of the properties to be exchanged. For minimal value parcels (less than $100,000) an abbreviated determination of value process is available.
If the lands are found to be of substantially equal value and agreement is reached on addressing required waivers or differences in value, and if the title is marketable, then a public hearing is scheduled on the proposed exchange.
A record of the comments received at the public hearing is prepared. If the record indicates that the land exchange would not be detrimental to the interests of the state, the commissioner of natural resources recommends to the Land Exchange Board that approval be granted to complete the exchange.
If the Land Exchange Board approves the land exchange the deeds are executed and recorded.
What are the conditions for an exchange?
State land classification
State-owned land is classified into two categories for exchanges:
Class A lands are lands controlled or administered by the DNR, and include: school, swamp, internal improvement, and other land granted by acts of Congress; state forest land; tax forfeited lands held free from the trust in favor of taxing districts; and other acquired land.
Class B lands are lands acquired by the state through tax forfeiture and held in trust in favor of taxing districts and under the control of county authorities. Download the Class B Land Exchange application
Class A land exchanges are under the administration of the DNR. Class B land exchanges are under the administration of the applicable county.
If you are interested in obtaining an application for either a Class A or Class B land exchange, please contact your Division of Lands and Minerals staff for more information.
Value of land
If the land to be exchanged for Class A or Class B land has a greater value than the state land, then the other party must waive any payment for the difference in value. There are exceptions to this provision: (1) for Class A land, if there is an appropriation available to pay for the acquisition of the land and the state agrees to pay; and (2) for Class B land, the exchange is for non-school trust Class A land or U.S. owned land and the county agrees to pay the difference in value.
If the land to be exchanged for Class A or Class B land has a lesser value than the state land, the lands must be "substantially equal in value" and the other party must pay to the state the difference in value. "Substantially equal in value" means their values do not differ by more than 20 percent; unless both lands are over 100 acres, in which case their values do not differ by more than 10 percent. School trust lands cannot be exchanged for lands of lesser value.
Riparian land
Riparian land may not be exchanged unless expressly authorized by law or unless in the same exchange the state acquires land on the same or other public waters in the same general vicinity affording at least equal opportunity for access to the waters and other riparian use by the public.
Mineral reservations
The state reserves all minerals and water power rights in the lands transferred by the state. The state will generally accept lands where the mineral rights have been reserved, provided that the mineral reservation does not include a right to repurchase the surface.
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Column: Bonnet? Which bonnet? My sun bonnet?
Research has found that less than two-fifths of British holidaymakers (39 per cent) regularly conduct maintenance on their car.
Philip Weir
Published: 10:00 Saturday 15 July 2017
Many millions of Britons will be pushing ahead with a Brexit of their very own this summer, albeit in a way that somewhat reverses the meaning of the now familiar term.
We’re talking of course about all the Brits who it’s estimated will exit the UK in July and August for holidays abroad.
And a sizeable proportion of those engaged in the annual return-ticket migration to foreign parts- reckoned to be in the region of two million – will be taking their own cars with them on vacation, or will collect hire vehicles on arrival at their destination.
However, according to a recent survey, the only bonnets many of these drivers will be concerned about checking under as they head off on journeys that could involve many hundred of miles of travel, are their sun bonnets, which, perched on the rear window ledge, may of course be crucially hiding their sunglasses or a bottle of Ambre Solaire.
In short, it seems that many motorists are just not carrying out the vital yet simple checks to their cars which if done, might prevent them from, once they are en route to the sun, taking an unexpected detour along the highway to automotive Hell.
For instance, the research by Enterprise Rent-A-Car (1000 motorists were interviewed), found a quarter of drivers, before departure, will not check tyre tread depth (26 per cent); a fifth will not check tyre pressure (19 per cent); more than half will not check brake pads (54 per cent); nearly a third (30 per cent) will not check headlights; and a quarter (24 per cent) will not check screen wash levels.
It was also revealed that basic safety equipment was also lacking in a staggering number of private cars - nearly half (47 per cent) do not have a torch, 32 per cent do not have a jack, 38 per cent do not have a wrench to remove a flat tyre, and 36 per cent do not have a roadworthy spare tyre in the boot. Many also do not have a hi-visibility jacket (57 per cent) or a warning triangle (47 per cent), which are legal requirements in several European countries.
In fact, the research found that less than two-fifths of British holidaymakers (39 per cent) regularly conduct maintenance on their car. Nearly a quarter (23 per cent) admit they have never even opened a car bonnet, while 49 per cent have never changed a tyre.
Not unreasonably, among those who said they do not conduct any regular vehicle maintenance, the main reasons are that modern vehicles are increasingly reliable and have sophisticated on-board technology. Increasingly, motorists rely on their vehicle to tell them if something needs checking (36 per cent and on the annual MOT (36 per cent). Almost one in five (19 per cent) ‘expect modern cars to work all the time’.
One especially alarming revelation thrown up by the survey was that half of those picking up hire cars would set off without knowing where all the controls were.
The research found that a third (34 per cent) do not check how to operate hire car lights; 36 per cent say they never check where the indicators are; while nearly half do not check they know how to operate the windscreen wipers or the gears (45 per cent for both).
Meanwhile for a sizeable number of Brits at the helm of hire vehicles, every road abroad would seem to be, infuriatingly, one-way only - 19 per cent say they have previously been unable to get a car int less serious note, for many, the renting of a car abroad has ended up being an absolute audio nightmare - 16 per cent have listened to music they didn’t like at all because they couldn’t work the radio.
And on that note ...
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Unequal representation
Getting scientists from developing countries to serve on the climate change panel is proving difficult.
AT THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meeting in Harare in November, efforts were made to reorganise its bureauto ensure sgientists from the developing world are better represented. But IPCC secretary N Sundararaman said finding scientists from developing countries was difficult and some governments were reluctant to allow scientists to serve on what is essentially an intergovernmental panel.
Several representatives in the new bureau are from OPEC countries. Sundararaman said much to the dismay of several people, Saudi Arabia pushed for their representative to be nominated vice-chairperson of the bureau and ironically, the Asia representative selected was from Kuwait. The panel's work has been redefined to establish a better basis for future assessments of climate change. Three working groups have been set up - to deal with the science of climate change, to assess the impact of climate change and responses and to look at economic issues relating to climate change.
Scientists Developing Countries Climate Change Economic Development The Fortnight The Fortnight The Fortnight The Fortnight
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Living History Performance: Reverend P.B. Chamberlain
Fort Walla Walla Museum 755 Northeast Myra Road Walla Walla, WA, 99362 United States (map)
As a graduate of the Bangor (Maine) Theological Seminary in 1855, Peasley Chamberlain received his first assignment to pastor First Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon Territory. He and his new wife, Alice, left New York on their wedding day for Portland.
Although the church grew from 23 to 150 members during his first year as pastor, it didn’t take long for Rev. Chamberlain to take his virulent vilification of secret societies and the Roman Catholic Church to extremes. Things deteriorated to the point that in 1862 he was dismissed as pastor.
Within two years, Chamberlain had settled in Walla Walla, such a debauched place that Chamberlain decided to establish a church here, one that would also provide schooling for the young children. With his own money, he erected a small building at Second and Rose that was dedicated as First Congregational Church in November 1864.
The Chamberlains sustained themselves primarily through the school they operated in the church building. Chamberlain was instrumental in advocating moving Whitman Seminary, the precursor to Whitman College, from Waiilatpu to Walla Walla. He was appointed as the first principal in 1866 when the seminary opened in its new building at Boyer and Park. He continued to preach at First Congregational Church until 1879 and died in 1889. He was never successful in growing the church he established here due to his extreme beliefs, but over the ensuing years First Congregational Church has assumed an important role in Walla Walla.
Reverend Peasley Chamberlain is portrayed by Steve Wilen.
Live Cinema: An American in Paris — The Musical
Film: The Ripple Effect
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Could you have diabetes? Here are the warning signs
Chris Bishop
chris.bishop@archant.co.uk
@chrismojo
People are being urged to have free health checks. Photo: James Bass.
Archant Norfolk Photographic © 2009
Thousands of people across Norfolk could be living with Diabetes and unaware they have the condition.
The county has a high number of people with diabetes, with at least 52,560 people registered with the condition.
But it is feared there could be many more who may not know they have diabetes, leaving them at risk of further complications, such as heart disease or stroke.
Typical symptoms of diabetes include tiredness, thirst, weight loss and going to the toilet more frequently. Complications from diabetes can include cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, eye disease, amputation, neuropathy and reduced life expectancy.
To support national Diabetes Week, Norfolk and Waveney’s five clinical commissioning groups are launching a campaign to highlight how people can prevent or reduce their risk of developing diabetes along with promoting free NHS Health Checks for people aged 40 to 74 years.
Dr Clare Hambling, a professional member of Diabetes UK and a GP in Downham Market, said diabetes was caused by a range of factors including genetics, population growth, improved life expectancy along with diet and sedentary lifestyle.
She said: “Some people are unaware that they have type 2 Diabetes and may not be diagnosed until after they start to show signs of complications, which can be several months or even years after the onset of the condition.
“Early diagnosis and treatment is absolutely essential if we want to prevent or reduce the risk of disabling diabetes-related complications.”
Type 1 diabetes occurs when the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas are destroyed, whereas type 2 diabetes is caused when the body does not make enough insulin or does not use it properly.
Peter Shorrick, Diabetes UK Eastern Regional Director, said: “During Diabetes Week, we all need to talk about diabetes, we all know that it is not always easy, but the more we communicate the more we can support each other.”
People who are aged between 40 and 74 who do not have a known medical condition are eligible for an NHS health check. For more information click here.
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OTP completes acquisition of NBG’s Serbian operations
December 6th 2017 | Multiple countries | Banking | Multiple companies
On December 1st OTP Bank Plc said that it had completed the acquisition of the Serbian banking and leasing subsidiaries of the National Bank of Greece SA. The Hungarian lender said that its Serbian subsidiary would fully integrate the businesses by the second quarter of 2019.
OTP agreed to acquire Vojvodjanska Banka AD (VOBAN) and NBG Leasing doo from the Greek lender in August this year. The deal also included a portion of NBG's corporate loan portfolio in the Eastern European country. At the time, the Greek bank had said that it planned to receive €125m (US$148m) for the sale of its Serbian operations. The deal followed a similar agreement between NBG and OTP in July, wherein the latter agreed to purchase the former's Romanian subsidiary, Banca Romaneasca.
In October, the chief executive of OTP, Sandor Csanyi, told Bloomberg that he planned to acquire at least five banks by 2019, as part of a plan to increase the proportion of its international revenue to 70% of total revenue, from 45% at the time. As per media reports in March, the Hungarian lender had earmarked US$1bn of cash for acquisitions in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Belarus and Ukraine.
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StanChart eyes $800 million in renewable deals
SINGAPORE - Standard Chartered Plc said it planned to invest in several renewable energy projects in Asia worth over $800 million.
"We provide debt, advisory and equity across the sector," Brad Sterley, director of the bank's renewable energy and environmental finance team, told Reuters on the sidelines of a clean energy conference in Singapore.
The projects include a solar manufacturing venture in China worth up to $500 million and a $300 million geothermal energy project in Indonesia.
"We see some opportunities across all sectors but the sectors that would see most of these are wind, solar and water," said Sterley.
Sterley said the bank also planned to invest in a solid waste-to-energy project in China and a wind and a solar power venture in India.
The projects are on top of financing worth up to $10 billion for clean technology which the bank plans to mobilize under its commitment with the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007.
The bank has so far tapped half of the committed financing, but is targeting putting all the funding to work in markets including Asia, Africa and the Middle East by 2012.
"We see growing opportunities in waste, and hydropower is another significant subsector," said Sterley.
He said many of the technologies in the renewable space such as solar thermal could present growth opportunities going forward as they become more commercialized.
"Solar thermal is a technology which has been around for a long time but it really went dormant for about 20 years," he said, citing a lack of effort to commercialize the technology.
"Recently we've seen a lot of interest in solar thermal, not yet in Asia, but we believe it's coming," he said.
Maryland Reveals 2017 Investment Plans For Green Jobs, Renewables
EIB confirms EUR 200 million long-term loan to State Bank of India to support Indian large scale solar projects
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Brooks Institute Alumni Profile
Alumni Association of Brooks Institute
Los Angeles Wedding Photographer & Portrait Artist Profile
Summer 2016 edition of the Brooks Institute Alumni Newsletter
While in a portraiture class at Brooks, taught by the incredible Joyce Wilson, Adam George went on a class trip to the studio of a very talented portrait photographer named Mark Brandes (also a Brooks alumnus). Thanks to that meeting, he began working for Mark as soon as he graduated that same year (2003). George said, “Mark has an incredible gift for posing groups of people in a natural, elegant manner, and I learned a great deal from him over my five years there. In addition to further honing my ability to work with and photograph people, I learned valuable lessons about attracting and serving a sophisticated clientèle while working for Mark.”
Shortly after George started that job, his wife, Amber, and he learned they would soon be parents. In that moment in time, George realized that he really needed to step up his efforts. “Nothing motivates hard work like becoming a parent!” said George. While portraits were always his passion, George realized that he could shoot weddings on weekends in addition to working at the portrait studio. At first, weddings were pretty stressful for George, but after the first couple of years, he found his rhythm and began to enjoy the fast pace and intensity of shooting weddings. By 2008 George’s business grew to the point where he was ready to take it on full time.
Once George established his full time business, Embrace Life Photography, he was able to expand into portraits, events, and the occasional commercial shoot.
“I’ve always enjoyed variety and the challenge of taking on something new,” said George. As his wedding clients started having babies they contacted George for maternity portraits, newborns, and their family portraits. For one client in particular, he photographed their proposal, engagement, wedding, maternity session, and newborn portraits. “It’s such a joy to develop relationships like that with our clients.”
George’s wife, Amber, has been his partner in running Embrace Life Photography since the beginning. She is his regular 2nd photographer, studio manager, album designer, and life manager. Since she was about four years old, their now eleven year old daughter, Faith, has been fortunate enough to travel the U.S. and internationally thanks to a handful of great destination wedding photography jobs in places like Hawaii, Mexico and Asia.
Recently, George has been working to expand his editorial portrait portfolio. He’s looking to bring higher production value editorial portrait photography to families looking for something unique and different. He particularly enjoys incorporating a bit of the surreal into this work, especially when it can be achieved authentically, in camera.
When asked about his creative philosophy, George said, “I’m not particularly philosophical about photography; I’m pretty technical by nature. Before approaching a shoot, I strive to understand the goal of the client, plan thoroughly for success, have a good idea of the concepts and images I’d like to create, and to consistently execute at a professional level. Since my subjects are almost always people, ensuring that their experience is enjoyable is also very important to the process. I never planned to have a particular style, but instead have just done things the way they come naturally to me, and possibly, over time, my personality and
gifts/weaknesses have combined to develop a de facto style.”
George enjoyed many of his classes at Brooks, but the one he said he probably got the most out of was lighting theory because he learned so much about analyzing/seeing light, modifying available light and crafting artificial light to achieve his creative goals. “The principals I learned in that class have been applied in basically every shoot I’ve ever done. Over the years, it’s probably the class that has given me the most confidence to accept new, challenging assignments with which I have no prior experience, because I know I can figure out how to properly light just about any subject matter,” said George.
Without naming names, George’s favorite instructors were the ones who clearly love photography and constantly shoot new client and/or personal work. He said, “I much preferred learning from passionate, active photographers rather than those who may have replaced shooting with teaching."
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Bill and Vonette Bright and the Early-Marriage Conflict that Changed Their Lives
Early in their marriage, Bill and Vonette Bright realized they needed an anchor for their relationship.
By Dave Boehi
When future historians write the history of the Christian church in the 20th century, one couple they cannot ignore is Bill and Vonette Bright. God used this remarkable couple to found and lead a worldwide evangelism and discipleship movement that has, thus far, exposed more than one billion people to the gospel.
Today the influence of Campus Crusade for Christ can be seen in most countries of the world. From its beginning at the campus of UCLA, Campus Crusade has mushroomed into dozens of ministries reaching into different facets of American society. It has spread to more than 180 countries. More than 20,000 people serve as full-time or associate staff members. It is no exaggeration to say that billions of people have been exposed to the gospel through Campus Crusade since 1951.
Before his death in 2003, Bill spoke many times of the vision that God gave him to begin Campus Crusade. Many people, however, do not know the story of what happened just before Bill received that vision. It’s the story of a young married couple facing an early crisis in their relationship… and a decision that changed the course of their lives.
Moving into Bill’s world
Bill and Vonette faced some difficult adjustments after they married on December 30, 1948. At one point during their engagement he told her, “I’m so busy that I don’t know if I really have time for a wife.” Now she began to understand his comment. He was running his business, attending seminary, and volunteering countless hours at the church.
“The fact of the matter was that I was very selfish,” Bill recalled. “We seldom had an evening home. I just kind of worked her into my schedule and I wasn’t very sensitive about her thoughts. I find that a lot of businessmen and other laymen are guilty of the same. We take our wives for granted. So, she had to fit into my plans. It never occurred to me to fit into hers.”
On their honeymoon Bill had told her he wanted their marriage to be a true partnership. “I married you as Vonette Zachary,” he said. “You’re just adding Bright to your name. I want you to remain the person that I married. I don’t want you to try to fit what you think I want you to be, because I like you the way you are.”
But now it seemed to Vonette that she was somewhat of an unequal partner. Bill was more mature in his faith, and their conversations about decisions seemed one-sided.
Vonette’s frustrations smoldered for over a year…until one Sunday afternoon after church.
Absolute surrender
It began when Vonette couldn’t find her husband after Sunday school. Bill had been asked to help in an emergency counseling situation, but had neglected to tell Vonette what he was doing.
She decided to go on to the church service by herself. After that she walked out to their car, expecting to find him there. When Bill finally did show up two hours later, he found a frustrated and angry wife.
That conflict was settled fairly quickly, but it proved to be the catalyst for something much more significant. Later that afternoon Bill sensed God telling him, “I want you to make total, absolute surrender to My control.”
Bill and Vonette each took a sheet of paper and wrote a list of all the things they wanted out of life. Looking at their lists, they could see how materialistic their desires were. They had dreamed of owning beautiful cars, and a home in the upscale Bel-Air district of Los Angeles. Now they were convicted by Scriptures such as Mark 8:36: “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?”
‘The anchor of our marriage’
They decided to draft and sign a contract, turning their lives and their marriage over completely to the Lord Jesus Christ. It went something like this:
From this day, Lord, we surrender and relinquish all of our past, present, and future rights and material possessions to you. As an act of the will, by faith, we choose to become Your bondslaves and do whatever You want us to do, go wherever You want us to go, say whatever You want us to say, no matter what it costs, for the rest of our lives. With Your help, we will never again seek the praise or applause of men or the material wealth of the world.
Bill called that contract “the anchor of our marriage. It’s the greatest decision that we have ever made. It was a total, absolute, irrevocable commitment to the Lordship of Christ.”
It also prepared their hearts for something truly supernatural.
‘Lifted onto a spiritual plane…’
A few nights later, Bill was up late, studying for a Greek exam at Fuller Theological Seminary. Suddenly, Bill said, “God in a supernatural way seemed to open up my mind, to give me a vision which embraced the whole world. It was so intoxicating that I almost burst with joy. I wanted to shout the praises of God at the top of my voice.”
“I have at least a little appreciation for the experience of the apostle Paul who spoke of being lifted onto a spiritual plane which could not be described by mere human words…. God showed me the whole world and gave me the confidence that He would use me and others in this generation to reach the multitudes of the world for whom Christ died.”
In those few seconds, their lives changed forever. The next morning he told one of his seminary professors, Dr. Wilbur Smith, about the vision, and was amazed to see Smith pace back and forth excitedly. “This is of God, this is of God,” he said. A day later he handed Bill a piece of paper and said, “God gave me the name for your vision.” On the paper was written “CCC” and the name, “Campus Crusade for Christ.”
‘Give me a heart to respond’
Vonette did not initially react with quite the same enthusiasm. When Bill told her about his vision, he also said he had decided to drop out of seminary because he felt he could relate to students better as a lay person rather than as an ordained pastor. He also said he was going to sell his business and they would trust God to provide for their material needs.
Suddenly her world was turning upside down. Sell the business? Live by faith? “I began to realize that this was serious business with my husband,” Vonette said. “I was married to this man and I was totally committed to him and so I found myself on my knees praying, ‘God, give me a heart to respond to that which You have called him to do.'”
“Bill’s loving assurances and warmth made my struggle easier. I realized I would never be happy outside his dream, and as he described his strategy for evangelism, I sensed an invisible altar waiting for me somewhere ahead. Gradually, the Lord Jesus drew me toward it and answered my prayer for a ‘heart to respond.’ Bill’s dream had become my dream.”
‘The beginning of a happy marriage’
Vonette’s choice made possible an extraordinary partnership. When Campus Crusade began its ministry at UCLA, she began leading a ministry for women students. She helped Bill develop the organization–he usually sought her counsel on major decisions–as it added new staff and began expanding to other campuses and adding new outreaches to high school students, prisoners, executives, athletes, and other groups. Since 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has grown a worldwide ministry that has reached well over a billion people with the gospel.
During nearly 55 years together, Bill and Vonette came rely on their faith as the spiritual bond for their marriage. As Bill said, “That total surrender to Christ is the beginning of a happy marriage.”
When Bill and Vonette Bright signed that contract with God more than 50 years ago, they had no idea what God had in mind for their lives. During their marriage they have learned to trade the security of the world for the riches of heaven. “I think the question we all have to ask is, what kind of legacy are we going to leave behind?” Bill said. “Do we want to build a vast fortune? What are we going to do with it? We can only eat one meal at a time, wear one suit or dress at a time. You can’t take anything with you when you die.”
“It just makes sense to me that seeking first the kingdom of God is the only way to go.”
Adapted from I Still Do: Stories of Lifelong Love and Marriage, by David Boehi. Copyright © 2000 by FamilyLife. Used by permission of Broadman & Holman Publishers.
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Theatrum Elysium was an artist-centered revolution in the creative mindset of America and the springboard to the aesthic, mission and passion behind creating Elysium Conservatory Theatre. Founded in the summer of 2011 by Artistic Director Aaron Ganz as Theatrum Elysium, TE welcomed artists of every discipline to enter together into a world of unbridled creation.
In July 2011, we opened our doors at Spirit of the Foothills in La Crescenta presenting a new adaptation from the original French of Jean-Paul Sartre’s timeless masterpiece No Exit. As Theatrum Elysium moved forward we looked to offer more of the vital work that continued our mission as the country’s premier Conservatory Theater. Engaging with organizations such as The Wende Museum for The Vanek Trilogy and inaugurating the Battleship Iowa as a theatrical stage with an imaginative and daring production of Cymbeline - TE set the tone for a different kind of theatrical experience, one that infused dance, music and audience engagement into the theatregoing experience.
Out of this revelation, was born Theatrum Elysium's hunger to broaden the possibilities of truth in performance. Utilizing an inter-disciplinary approach ignited our aesthic.. Different from any American performance entity prior, Theatrum Elysium offered artists, teachers, and students a unique opportunity to step into a new kind of artistic freedom. Following in the footsteps of its Greek origins, it was more than just a performing arts organization, it was a destination— a place where craftsmen were afforded a supportive environment to pursue a new generation of art that looked to define the 21st century and beyond. Theatrum Elysium became an artistic paradise where artists were empowered with the highest levels of training and performance.
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Cherry Smiley, advocate for native women impacted by sexualized violence, wins 2016 Trudeau Scholarship
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June 11, 2016 by Jess Martin
Feminist Current would like to offer a hearty congratulations to ally Cherry Smiley, who has been announced as a 2016 Trudeau Scholar by the The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. The Trudeau scholarship honours individuals who have “distinguished themselves through academic excellence, and civic engagement.”
The Trudeau Scholarship cohort, consisting of 15 PhD students dedicated to social change within the disciplines of Social Sciences and Humanities, joins a team of nearly 400 researchers and intellectuals, “committed to applying their knowledge and skills to pressing Canadian and global issues.”
“I’m really grateful to the Trudeau Foundation for giving me this opportunity,” says Cherry Smiley, “and I’m thankful to Concordia University, who supported me through the application process.
“I’m especially thankful to my allies, family, friends, and partner, Alex, for their love and support through this. That’s why I’m doing this work — to try and make things better for all of us.”
Smiley, Co-founder of Indigenous Women Against the Sex Industry and former member of the Aboriginal Women’s Action Network and the Native Women’s Association of Canada, is a PhD candidate at Concordia University in the field of Communications. She is an accomplished academic and activist, having won the Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case in 2013, and SFU’s Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy in 2014. Her work on the issue of prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation of Indigenous women and girls sets her apart as a leader within the feminist community, both within Canada and abroad.
The Trudeau Scholarship, which provides PhD candidates with a total of $60,000 annually, will allow Smiley to expand her research, which comes as a refreshing surprise to feminists who are accustomed to denial of funding for initiatives addressing sexualized violence against women.
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Cod Army documentary details revealed
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Fleetwood Town have signed an exciting deal with Friday Films & SENT Entertainment, to produce a docuseries capturing the 2018-19 season.
Friday Films began filming the Cod Army’s campaign in pre-season following the appointment of Joey Barton as first team head coach in June 2018, enjoying access-all-areas 24 hours a day.
As well as being a fly-on-the-wall during Barton’s team talks, the crew filmed board meetings, transfer negotiations including a dramatic January deadline day, and all aspects of the day-to-day workings of the English Football League club to provide an unprecedented insight for viewers.
SENT Entertainment, who put pen-to-paper last week, is a UK based media company that creates innovative products for the sports and entertainment industry. In the last 12 months, SENT has created and invested in over 25 television projects for the global market including a number of football related titles with some of Europe’s biggest clubs.
Fleetwood Town Chairman Andy Pilley added: “As one of the biggest characters in football makes the transition from player to manager, this series closely charts Joey’s journey at Fleetwood Town.
“The level of access that has been given to the film crews to Joe, the players and his staff I believe is unprecedented.
“The production crew are embedded at the very heart of the club, and in Friday Films, we found a partner who we could trust, in what can be a very intimate and highly charged environment. We are also delighted to have SENT entertainment also very much involved, who also shared our vision of bringing such unique access to viewers.
“We as a club are looking forward to revealing the true story of the current season.”
The club are in discussions with a number of broadcasters and streaming platforms, with the distribution being handled by ICM Enterprises.
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Wed Nov 18 2009, 03:00pm | 12 comments
Fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie or TV show and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun.
Makes me want to sing, “There must be more than this pro-vin-CIAL frog!”:
Disney tells us about the film:
Walt Disney Animation Studios serves up a joyous gumbo of adventurous storytelling, captivating characters, offbeat comedy and memorable music in the all-new feature “THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG,” an animated comedy set in the great city of New Orleans. From the creators of “The Little Mermaid” and “Aladdin” comes a modern twist on a classic tale, featuring a beautiful girl named Tiana (ANIKA NONI ROSE), a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, and a fateful kiss that leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana. “THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG” marks the return to hand-drawn animation from the revered team of John Musker and Ron Clements, with music by Oscar®-winning composer Randy Newman.
The Princess and the Frog opens in New York and Los Angeles on November 25, wide in the U.S. and Canada on December 11, and in the U.K. on February 5, 2010.
Disney, of course, has not invited me to attend an advance screening, but I already have a ticket for the first early-morning show on the 25th, and I’ll report on it as soon as possible afterward.
Visit the film’s IMDB page or official site for more info.
Caption away…
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Suit alleges children, teens mistreated at Woodside
Posted by Avalon Ashley | Jul 3, 2019 | NEWS | 0 |
The Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center, Vermont’s only locked juvenile detention facility, is facing a slew of complaints alleging mistreatment against children and teens who live there (Photo by Avalon Ashley).
On June 21, Disability Rights Vermont (DRVT) filed a new lawsuit against the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center on behalf of children with disabilities, citing “dangerous conditions that are physically and emotionally harmful.”
When a child at the facility covered his cell window with his hands, staff charged into the room with riot shields, cut off his clothes, and physically restrained him, according the suit. The child was left in his cell, shirtless and isolated, with no mattress, and a broken, overflowing toilet.
The Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center is Vermont’s only locked juvenile detention facility.
The facility is run by the Department for Children and Families (DCF) and claims to provide in-patient psychiatric, mental health, and substance abuse services to youth ages 10 to 17 in DCF custody or who have gone through the justice system. The facility accepts all residents, no matter their risk level or degree of mental health.
In addition to Woodside, defendants also include Ken Schatz, DCF Commissioner, and Jay Simons, director of Woodside.
This is the second suit filed against Woodside just this year, and is another in a long list of grievances and reports that highlight dangerous conditions and prison-like practices.
In April earlier this year, the Office of the Juvenile Defender sued the facility on behalf of one child with disabilities regarding inhumane use of pain compliance restraints, according to the docket report. The case was dismissed, however, when the child was discharged from the facility.
According to testimony from the dismissed case, the child recounted not being able to breathe after staff shoved him across the room, restrained him face down, “with his arms hyperextended and twisted behind his back, his legs crossed and pushed hard into his back.”
Simons said that if a child can say the words, “You’re choking me,” that means he can breath so there is no cause for concern.
The most recent case cites “unconstitutional and unlawful conditions,” as well as outlines a corrupt grievance filing system that allegedly sees staff retaliate against residents who file or talk about grievances.
The case also describes a staffing pattern that damages employees’ ability to best treat the children. According to the report, the staffing differs from other residential psychiatric treatment facilities and “deprives staff of the ability to rest and recuperate, resulting in more aggression and less patience when interacting with residents.”
Isolation is often used in lieu of adequate staffing and in response to patients in danger of self-harm.
One child was left in isolation after a suicide attempt, where staff “forcibly removed her pants, and left her naked from the waist down in her cell for more than two days,” according to the docket report.
Amid questions concerning Woodside’s future, the facility lost its federal funding last fall due to a report that children were treated more like “inmates” rather than patients.
Another child described in the case was “physically restrained and carried while shackled in handcuffs and leg irons for refusing to return to her room.” Staff used a pain compliance technique where their knees are forced into the child’s back while restrained in the prone position—a technique that has been known to result in asphyxiation and death.
While a proposal to fund a new facility was floated in front of the House in January of this year, no new funding has been allotted. But even if the new building were to be approved and funding allotted, improvements would still be years away.
The DCF’s own Residential Licensing and Special Investigations Unit (RLSI) conducted a comprehensive report in October 2018, which is at the heart of the case, but Woodside has still denied all wrongdoing.
A statement DCF issued to VPR in late June says that they are in the process of reviewing the lawsuit.
“Woodside has been working in collaboration with interested stakeholders, including Disability Rights Vermont, on an ongoing basis to review its practices and improve them when appropriate. This includes consulting with an expert to assess de-escalation and restraint practices. We expect the expert’s report and recommendations in the next few weeks,” the statement reads.
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Ferretti 960 Project, the new flagship of the brand
FERRETTI 960 PROJECT,
THE NEW FLAGSHIP OF THE BRAND:
THE ULTIMATE EMBODIMENT OF A RECREATIONAL CRAFT
The largest planing recreational boat ever built by Ferretti Yachts is born.
A slender, sporty 96-footer ensuring top performances in its category and characterized by an optimized outdoor and interior layout, starting from
the master quarters, located for the first time on the main deck,
and an innovative aft area with a floodable garage to launch the tender.
Building the largest CE-certified planing recreational boat below 24 metres in length while developing further the design concepts pursued with the brand's most recent models and maximising them to obtain an unprecedented product in its category: this is the core philosophy of the Ferretti 960, Ferretti Yachts's new flagship, whose first hull is currently being built at the Group's Cattolica shipyard. The boat will be officially launched next spring.
The new Ferretti 960is yet another precious outcome of the cooperation between Studio Zuccon International Project (which signs all Ferretti Yachts's projects), AYT Advanced Yacht Technology (Ferretti Group's research and naval design centre), and the team of architects and designers of the Centro Stile Ferrettigroup; the design of its hull and waterlines draws inspiration from the previous flagship the Ferretti 881, one of the brand's most successful models , but develops it further and makes of this new boat the legitimate heir of its predecessor. The new model is only available in the version with raised helm station and includes all the main innovations already widely appreciated in other recent yachts, like the Ferretti 720, the Ferretti 690, and the Ferretti 870, and many more new features that make it very competitive even when compared with longer crafts. The new flagship thus takes an important step forward in the range's evolution while ensuring perfect continuity with previous models.
Thanks to its 29.20-metre overall length and 23.98 hull length, allowing it to be certified to EC standards and be considered a pleasure boat from all standpoints, even without being driven by a professional captain, the Ferretti 960 can boast unprecedented onboard liveability and comfort against competitors in its range and maximises several layout features typical of much larger yachts. Ferretti Yachts's new flagship is indeed the brand's first planing pleasure boat featuring five large cabins: four guest cabins - all equally sized and with equivalent fittings - on the lower deck and the master cabin forward, on the main deck, in addition to three comfortable cabins for the crew - a layout that can normally be found only on maxi-yachts.
The outer profile sets a new trend in the design of large planing hulls: the glazing extends along the entire main deck, "cutting" it from stern to bow and resulting in a much lighter profile, incredible interior brightness, very sporty features, and a significant stylistic innovation in Ferretti Yachts's top of the range. The low gunwale on both sides in the central part of the boat, at the level of the dining area, further increases interior brightness and makes the craft's profile look even lighter. Moreover, the decision to propose only the raised helm station version allows to make the most of this specific configuration, in terms of both outer lines and volumes: the main deck's interiors, in particular, have been maximised, making the deck's overall surface the largest in this category. Outdoor areas too have been extended: the spacious flybridge has specifically been designed to become an area entirely devoted to pure relaxation. Underdeck, the four large, equally sized windows set in the hull at the height of the guest cabins let through plenty of light and strengthen the concept of having four 'perfectly equivalent' cabins.
AFT AREA AND COCKPIT
One of the main innovations on the brand's new flagship is to be found in the aft area, which has been accurately designed to improve its functionality and increase its versatility and multi-purpose features. A brand-new concept of 'aft area' is thus born, whereby this part of the yacht is now entirely used for leisure activities, without any detriment to its original functions, i.e. storing equipment and launching the tender. The garage door is fitted with comfortable sun pads and cushions which de facto turn it into a chaise longue offering a wonderful view onto the sea. The pistons of the operation of the garage door have been skilfully hidden in the upper part of the door, not to interfere with the aesthetic features of the area. Moreover, the aft swimming platform is fitted with a convenient mobile section that can be used to launch and haul the tender, the seabob, and other equipment stored in the garage. The lift can be lowered to various depths, and can therefore also be used as a platform to dive into or come up from the water; once the garage door is opened, the central part of the swimming platform can be lowered, allowing to flood part of the garage and let the tender smoothly slide into the water using only a winch, with no need for a davit. The garage is very large and can host a tender of approximately 4.5 metres in length (in the case of hull #1 of the Ferretti 960 it will be a Williams Jet) and to store various equipment, from scuba diving gear to water-jets, in the numerous peaks.
The engine room is also accessed from astern, through a door located under the left steps leading to the swimming platform: when the steps are lifted, the watertight door is disclosed.
The cockpit is incredibly large, comparable to those found on much larger yachts, and is furnished with a comfortable C-shaped sofa, located aft, and a wooden dining table seating up to eight people.
The cockpit glazed door electrically driven as required by the Owner - grants access to the main deck interiors, featuring an ample-sized open-space salon, divided into the living and dining areas. Natural oak wood has been used for all furniture and furnishings; some details like the window frames, whose design is further highlighted by special backlights, and the "hanging" shelves above the cabinets - are in walnut-stained oak wood. Beside the salon entrance, on the right-hand side, is a bar unit with bottle racks and compartments; a fridge or a small wine cellar can also be fitted here. A long, uninterrupted glazing grants a wonderful view on the sea, which is even more striking in the central part, between the sofa and the dining area, thanks to the lowered gunwales, an element that was already present on the previous models Ferretti 870 and Ferretti 690. Along both broadsides, the full-height glazing may be replaced, upon the Owner's request, by sliding glass doors connecting the salon to the sidedecks. The hiding-TV-set cabinet can be found to starboard, and may contain a TV screen up to 55" large. In front of it are a comfortable U-shaped and a coffee table.
The dining table can be extended to seat up to 12 people and features a glass top resting on a painted metal base.
The whole central part of the main deck has been designed as a lobby area, also dividing onboard circulation routes between the upper and the lower deck. The starboard lobby grants access to the day toilet and leads forward to the master quarters, while the stairs providing access to the lower deck are located in the centre. When going downstairs, safety is ensured by a wooden balustrade with a leather-lined curved handrail. A mirror has been installed along the staircase bulwark, at the height of the main deck.
Along the port broadside, another passageway leads forward, to the galley; otherwise, taking the stairs on the right, the mezzanine floor can be reached, where the raised helm station can be found.
The master cabin has been designed to ensure the utmost privacy and noiselessness, also thanks to the sound insulation systems installed in the walls dividing it from the galley. Just after the entrance, on the right, is the walk-in wardrobe with a double sliding door, while a large chest of drawers and a full-height mirror are located on the left.
Along the entire starboard broadside, under the glazing, stand a vanity set and several storage compartments. The TV set is aft, in front of the double bed, which features a leather and Alcantara headboard. Upon request leather can also be used to line the bedside table tops. Lighting particularly the backlights of the window frames - has been accurately arranged, both here and in the main salon, to highlight the geometric features of the rooms and the contrast between the Alcantara and leather inserts in the headboard.
The bathroom, located at the extreme bow, is on a lower level and is characterised by a "hanging" Corian double washbasin, also fitted with a backlit surface above the cabinets. The bulwark lining is characterised by horizontal "stripes" in various materials and colours: the central one at the height of the washbasin is lacquered; above it is a dark-lacquered partition at the level of the mirror. The shower box and the toilet are divided from the bathroom by two lazed surfaces. The LED lighting above the mirror makes this room even more stylish and airy. Brightness is also ensured by the end portion of the long glazing running along the entire main deck.
The galley, located at the bow to portside, can rely on three different accessways, allowing to keep crew routes divided from those followed by the owners and their guests and thus ensuring maximum privacy: indeed, besides being accessible from the salon, the galley can be reached through an external door along the port broadside, and is also directly connected to the three underdeck crew cabins. Fitted with a service dinette, the galley is lacquered with a quartz top; in the standard version, it is furnished with a side-by-side fridge, high-end appliances, and several hanging compartments at the bow and on the port side.
Access to the four underdeck cabins is through the stairs which lead to a central lobby furnished with a front mirror. The four double cabins are identical and save the owner from the embarrassment of making a choice and giving his guests cabins having a different level of beauty and comfort. All cabins are ensuite with separate shower box and large storage compartments; the two forwards ones are fitted with sliding beds and can therefore be converted into twin cabins.
The guest cabins are fully harmonised with the colour shades found all over the yacht. Oak wood has been used in all cabins and is further enriched by walnut-stained oak wood details at the basis of the walls and on bedside tables. The most distinctive feature of the cabins, which also highlights the large hull glazing, is the wide Alcantara bulwark behind the double beds, which not only contains the curtains, but extends from the ceiling to the floor and covers the entire wall curving at the sides and resulting in a cosy 'wrapping' shape where guests can comfortably 'snug' at night - a feeling further enhanced by the backlights installed along the entire profile of the bulwark. Leather is the main material used for headboards and the strip running around the bed. Upon request it can also be used for inserts in the TV column and for cabinet tops. The bathrooms have walnut-stained oak wood floors and furniture bases, while the hanging cabinets are in oak wood. The washbasin and furniture tops are in Corian. Curved profiles can also be found in the bathroom bulwarks, resulting in a style perfectly harmonised with the one found in the cabins. The shower is separated from the bathroom by a glazed door.
Great care has been devoted to ensuring total noiselessness in the cabins: insulating materials have been installed in the bathroom wall that divides the two aft guest cabins from the engine room, while another insulating partition separates the forward cabins from the crew quarters. The latter are located at the extreme bow and have an independent access from the galley; they consist of three cabins and can host up to 5 crew members. The captain cabin with head and separate shower is located to starboard, while the two twin sailor cabins, at the extreme bow, share a head with separate shower box. There is also a passageway with a corner fitted with a washing machine and a tumble drier.
FLYBRIDGE, HELM STATION, AND OUTDOOR AREAS
Access to the spacious flybridge can be gained in two ways: from the cockpit staircase, located on the right-hand side, and from the helm station on the mezzanine floor. Since the tender can be stored in the garage under the cockpit thanks to the innovative winch & slide launching system, no davit needs to be installed on the flybridge, whose aft part thus loses its technical function and can be fully enjoyed for relaxation. Upon the Customer's request, however, a davit can be installed on the raised fibreglass basement, which is pre-fitted to host a davit although in the standard version it contains the life rafts.
On the left-hand side of the upper deck is the helm station, furnished with an electrically-adjustable height seat. Behind it is the large U-shaped sofa with two separate tables that can be however joined together by installing two wooden trays filling the gap between them. To starboard is the co-pilot seat and, behind it, the bar area with two cabinets containing the fridge (and ice-maker upon request), sink, grill, and a raised top where cocktails can be served or food stored. The aft sunbathing area, behind the sofa, can host a Jacuzzi; it is sheltered by the hard top with central opening section. The entire aft area is surrounded by a series of handrails and may be furnished with sofas and free-standing seats.
The helm station, connected to the flybridge by a central glass hatch, is really wide, and the glass surface grants the captain the best possible visibility. The station is fitted with many storage peaks, located behind the L-shaped sofa to starboard and, behind the seat, bookshelves on the right and left-hand sides, above the stairs coming from the main deck. The forward outdoor area is extremely functional thanks to two anchor chain peaks and has been furnished with two sofas featuring large storage compartments under the seat and separated by a short staircase leading to the large forward sunbathing area, on the pilot house.
ENGINE ROOM AND PROPULSION
Ferretti Yachts's first CE-certified 96-footer, the brand's new flagship, can be fitted with three different sets of MTU engines. The standard version has two 16V 2000 M84, 2218 mph engines allowing it to reach a maximum speed of 27.5 knots and a cruising speed of 24 knots. Two optional solutions include two 16V M93, 2435 mph engines or two 16V M94, 2638 mph engines, respectively, In the former version, the maximum speed will be 29 knots, the cruising speed 25; in the latter, more powerful version, the Ferretti 960 will be able to reach a peak of 31 knots and enjoy a cruising speed of 27 knots (preliminary data). The first hull will be equipped with the most powerful propulsion system and will therefore be at the top of its category's possible performances. The ARG (Anti Rolling Gyro) system is standard, to ensure maximum onboard comfort.
Single-member company Ferretti International Holding S.p.A, via Irma Bandiera 62, 47841 Cattolica (RN)
Capital Stock €180.239.156,00 i.v.
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Boro's base hit by break in
Boro news
Martin Dowey
Published: 10:22 Thursday 01 September 2016
Criminals have struck again at Scarborough Athletic's Bridlington base, breaking into the clubhouse at Queensgate and leaving the club with a four-figure bill.
Three laptops and an amount of cash have been stolen from an office at the football ground overnight, with the pool table damaged as the intruders tried to get the money from inside.
It comes less than 12 months after the last break-in, when a computer was taken from an office near to the players’ tunnel at the side of the pitch.
“It feels like we are getting targeted on purpose,” said Brid chairman Peter Smurthwaite.
“They have got into the clubhouse through a toilet window and done quite a lot of damage to the office behind the bar. They have also smashed the pool table to try to get the cash out.
“I just think ‘why bother?’. Why not shut it down?
“It doesn’t give you any heart to carry on.”
The clubhouse had been open last night while Bridlington Town’s Reserves played LIV Supplies in a Humber Premier League fixture, but staff arrived this morning to find the damage and immediately reported the incident to police.
Mr Smurthwaite said the value of the stolen laptops and the damage caused would easily top the £1,000 mark.
“I am trying to raise £4,000 for new floodlights, I’ve just spent £1,200 on a new fuel pump for the team minibus and £2,500 on a cooling system for the cellar.
“It is all outgoings, with nothing coming in.”
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DEFINITION of ICO - Initial Coin Offering
An unregulated means by which funds are raised for a new cryptocurrency venture. An Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is used by startups to bypass the rigorous and regulated capital-raising process required by venture capitalists or banks. In an ICO campaign, a percentage of the cryptocurrency is sold to early backers of the project in exchange for legal tender or other cryptocurrencies, but usually for Bitcoin. Also called an Initial Public Coin Offering (IPCO).
When a cryptocurrency startup firm wants to raise money through an Initial Coin Offering (ICO), it usually creates a plan on a whitepaper which states what the project is about, what need(s) the project will fulfill upon completion, how much money is needed to undertake the venture, how much of the virtual tokens the pioneers of the project will keep for themselves, what type of money is accepted, and how long the ICO campaign will run for. During the ICO campaign, enthusiasts and supporters of the firm’s initiative buy some of the distributed cryptocoins with fiat or virtual currency. These coins are referred to as tokens and are similar to shares of a company sold to investors in an Initial Public Offering (IPO) transaction. If the money raised does not meet the minimum funds required by the firm, the money is returned to the backers and the ICO is deemed to be unsuccessful. If the funds requirements are met within the specified timeframe, the money raised is used to either initiate the new scheme or to complete it.
Early investors in the operation are usually motivated to buy the cryptocoins in the hope that the plan becomes successful after it launches which could translate to a higher cryptocoin value than what they purchased it for before the project was initiated. An example of a successful ICO project that was profitable to early investors is the smart contracts platform called Ethereum which has Ethers as its coin tokens. In 2014, the Ethereum project was announced and its ICO raised $18 million in Bitcoins or $0.40 per Ether. The project went live in 2015 and in 2016 had an ether value that went up as high as $14 with a market capitalization of over $1 billion.
ICOs are similar to IPOs and crowdfunding. Like IPOs, a stake of the startup or company is sold to raise money for the entity’s operations during an ICO operation. However, while IPOs deal with investors, ICOs deal with supporters that are keen to invest in a new project much like a crowdfunding event. But ICOs differ from crowdfunding in that the backers of the former are motivated by a prospective return in their investments, while the funds raised in the latter campaign are basically donations. For these reasons, ICOs are referred to as crowdsales.
Although there are successful ICO transactions on record and ICOs are poised to be disruptive innovative tools in the digital era, investors are cautioned to be wary as some ICO or crowdsale campaigns are actually fraudulent. Because these fund-raising operatives are not regulated by financial authorities such as the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), funds that are lost due to fraudulent initiatives may never be recovered.
In early September, 2017, the People's Bank of China officially banned ICOs, citing it as disruptive to economic and financial stability. The central bank said tokens cannot be used as currency on the market and banks cannot offer services relating to ICOs. As a result, both bitcoin and ethereum tumbled, and it was viewed as a sign that regulations of cryptocurrencies are coming. The ban also penalizes offerings already completed.
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John Leguizamo Set as Pablo Escobar in Relativity's 'King of Cocaine'
by Ethan Anderton
Just last month, we learned that John Leguizamo was one of two actors in the running to play the title Medellin drug cartel kingpin in The Ballad of Pablo Escobar. The project from The Lincoln Lawyer and Runner Runner director Brad Furman has been gestating since 2011, and now it finally has legs with Relativity Media picking up the project with the title King of Cocaine. In addition, Leguizamo has now been confirmed to take the role of Escobar, after names like Oscar Isaac and Benicio del Toro left the project behind. So how did Leguizamo get the part? Well, the make-up tests we featured in our last story were actually funded himself just to audition for the role, and he just wouldn't stop trying being turned down.
That's right, according to Deadline, Leguizamo spent $15,000 of his own money for a fat suit and prosthetic make-up to shoot a screen test with Furman. This was after Leguizamo was already turned down by producer and financier Scott Steindorff. Leguizamo wouldn't take no for an answer, and after seeing the screen test, Steidorff still said no. But Furman pushed for his supporting actor from The Lincoln Lawyer (who also starred in his first film The Take), and convinced Steindorff to submit the test, along with a split-screen comparison, to Relativity, without revealing who was under all the make-up. Upon learning who that Leguizamo was the star in question, Relativity's Tucker Tooley and Ryan Kavanaugh were looking at him in a whole new light and he was hired.
This could be a big turning point for Leguizamo, following in the footsteps of actors like Al Pacino and Marlon Brando in The Godfather, who were both given special attention after screen tests from Francis Ford Coppola proved they were the right men for the job. As someone who has keenly observed the work of Leguizamo for a long time now, from his one-man shows like "Freak" on HBO to his big screen endeavors, I couldn't be happier to see this hard-working actor finally get a role that he deserves. Right now Leguizamo is shooting Cymbeline with Ethan Hawke, and will be seen in The Counselor later this year. Cool?
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That's awesome, good on him.
Slim on Sep 10, 2013
He better borrow RDJr's Iron Man lifts...
cuckoozey on Sep 10, 2013
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Is Sex Necessary?
On the poverty of progressivism's fixation on sexual liberation by Roger Scruton December 2014
E. B. White and James Thurber’s prescient satire of the sexual revolution in America, Is Sex Necessary?, was published in 1929, just before things really got going. It reminds us that sex was already understood as an arena of contest between the individual and society. Social order meant channeling and concealing our sexual emotions, and adhering to the unspoken agreement not to talk about them, at least not directly and in explicit terms. People might do unconventional things in private; but going public was taboo. Of course, Freud and the Freudians had upset things, but they discussed the matter in medical language that neutralized the appeal of the things they described. Apart from a few rude novelists like Henry Miller, Americans believed that decency forbade us from making a show of our inclinations and that the norms of middle-class society should continue undisturbed.
That was as true on the left as on the right, and it remained true during the rise of the baby boomers after the Second World War. The liberal causes of the sixties and seventies were enshrined in the civil-rights movement and the protests against the Vietnam War. They were protests on behalf of social justice at home and peace in the world. The idea that politics was really about sex, and about the liberation of the individual from the constraints of the bourgeois family, was a European import, which had little or no bearing on the issues of the day. The protesting voices of Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, Joan Baez, and Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the American people as a society of families still unsure “what to tell parents” about sex.
But Thurber and White’s prophecy of a new sexual politics was about to be fulfilled. Beginning in the fifties, Erich Fromm, Wilhelm Reich, and Herbert Marcuse implanted their infectious synthesis of Marx and Freud, which identified the liberation of the oppressed classes with the life of sexual freedom that these new gurus were intent on enjoying. And the Kinsey Reports, the first of which was issued in 1948, led many Americans to believe that everybody was doing it, so it was time to get a share of the action.
Sex, however widely enjoyed by activists, was not at the forefront of the radical causes of the sixties and seventies. But those causes entered a kind of stalemate as people on the left came to believe that, short of protesting over individual cases of racist behaviour and defending affirmative action against legal challenges, there was nothing further to be done to improve the status of African Americans. Withdrawal from Vietnam put an end to that cause, and the apparent futility of the war led to isolationist feelings across the political spectrum, which lasted until the attack on the Twin Towers in 2001. By the end of the protest culture of the 1970s, sexual liberation had moved to the top of the liberal agenda, for the reason that there was nothing left to put ahead of it.
Sexual liberation is not a simple matter, however. Wilhelm Reich, the pioneer, writing in the 1930s, believed that orgasm is the answer. But he never defined the question. His cranky therapies were very obviously an expression of his own sexual obsession, and apart from a few loners, nobody now pays attention to them.
But the question remains: If sex is liberated, what is it liberated from, and what is it liberated to? The lack of a clear answer soon became obvious in the feminist movement. Do women liberate themselves by taking multiple partners, defying the conventions enshrined in marriage, and having children at random by the men whose embraces they enjoy? Or does this not frustrate a deeper need for a stable family? Have women benefited from a liberation that enables men to abandon them at will, or are they merely the more completely enslaved by this? Easy divorce has meant that a woman’s power to retain the father of her children and the protector of her home has been removed from her. Is that a gain in freedom, or a loss? And if liberation is a matter of being free to have multiple partners, what kind of freedom does this bestow on the unattractive and the shy?
Those are real questions, and the first effect of them was to give rise, within the women’s movement, to another and more radical bid for sexual liberation. Not liberation with men, but liberation from men. If sexual liberation means living without sexual norms, pursuing pleasure in whatever way it arises, what is so special about men? Why take the risk of putting yourself in the hands of a dominant partner, whose track record in self-assertion beats that of all women beneath Cleopatra and Catherine the Great on the social scale? And so one bloc of the women’s movement began to morph into lesbian activism. With a woman you are safe: She won’t use sexual pleasure as a means of enslavement, but will acknowledge its true character, as a form of mutual bonding, in which partners enjoy equal freedom and equal rights.
However, that attempt to recapture, in altered form, the loving heart of sexual union and to incorporate it into a new kind of domesticity was, from the point of view of the sexual revolution, an anomaly. In the works of Reich, Marcuse, and Fromm, liberation is regarded as a release of the true self, the inner self, from the shackles of bourgeois society, and the purpose of this release is not some new form of domesticity, since that is merely a new form of enslavement. The purpose is self-expression—and in particular the pursuit of pleasures that are self-enhancing, though forbidden by the social norms.
The same view is propagated by the Kinsey Reports. Widely regarded now as works of fiction, the reports are nevertheless emphatic concerning two points that have become orthodoxies. The first is that sex is about pleasure, and that sexual pleasure is sensory, localised in the “erogenous zones,” available in a variety of ways and with a variety of partners. The second is that this pleasure is, in itself, morally neutral. The attempt to stamp out any particular form of it, or any particular means to obtaining it, is therefore a gross violation of individual liberty, and an act of oppression.
Freudian psychology fed into those two beliefs. For, although Freud’s views developed in time, it was Freud who popularized, in his earlier writings, the idea of the “erogenous zone,” and gave a reductive description of sexual pleasure as a bodily sensation. The ideal of sexual liberation was inspired in part by Freud’s theory of repression, which describes sexual desire as a kind of hydraulic force, which will burst out in surprising places unless “repressed” by the superego. The imagery here was far more potent than the reality, since it led to a completely new vision of sexual behavior. Sex was henceforth seen as the release of desires welling up from the “real me” inside. To release those desires is to produce a harmless, localized pleasure. To repress them is to “bottle up” urges that become dangerous when contained and not allowed to flow freely. To deny their release is to repress them, and repression of the sexual urge is also oppression of the individual.
Repression replaces oppression as the malignant political force. And since it is a force exercised on behalf of the old forms of domestic union, it is clear that repression is part of the bourgeois order, to be overthrown for the sake of inner freedom. A new revolutionary agenda therefore emerged in the works of Marcuse and Reich. This agenda had the form of Marxism without the content. And it had this one immense advantage over the old Marxist ideas, which is that the new kind of revolution could be achieved on your own, without a mass movement of supporters, and without doing much more than seducing whoever was needed to take part in the game.
It is for this reason, I believe, that sexual liberation has not only crept to the top of the liberal agenda but also remained there. Earlier liberal causes were causes on behalf of others. The enslaved, the workers, ethnic minorities, women, the wretched of the earth—all stood in need of the campaign that would free them from their shackles. Liberal politics was a matter of combining with others to release each new set of victims. By contrast the cause of sexual liberation is fought on behalf not of others but of the self, at once more abstract and more intimate than any victim discovered in the outside world. Hence this is a cause that can be fought and won on your own. Disillusion with radical politics of a more altruistic kind is therefore compensated for by a new radical politics that is entirely self-centered: politics against the others, whose staid morality stands as a barrier to individual fulfillment, and politics on behalf of the real me whose right to pleasure has been stolen.
In the revolutions of 1968, and in particular that which had its epicenter in Paris in May 1968, we already see the beginnings of this shift in focus. The “others” on whose behalf the revolution was fought were vaguely and irresolutely defined. The workers were at first proposed as the beneficiaries, on the understanding that, being inarticulate, they need not be consulted. When the workers began to protest against the students who were burning their cars, however, the proletariat rapidly disappeared from the agenda. It became easier to protest on behalf of the distant and unknown peasants of Vietnam and Cambodia than any victims closer to hand. The safest bet was to protest against the bourgeois order and to leave it to history to decide what one was for. Hence the revolutionary slogan “C’est interdit d’interdire.” It is forbidden to forbid. And since the students were young, comfortable, and with time on their hands, it was forbidden to forbid their pleasures.
This shift in focus can be seen most clearly in the writings of Michel Foucault, whose spirit is inseparable from that of 1968. His early works are pleas for the liberation of those incarcerated, whether for crime, for “madness,” or for illness. But he soon turned his attention from local liberation to general condemnation. He does not use the language of “repression,” but he is adamant that bourgeois society is threatened by those who express what they truly are—whether through crime, through “unreason” (déraison), or through whatever rebellious urge causes them to be confined within clinics, prisons, and asylums. The one who sets out on the path to be himself, to express his urges and his visions in authentic gestures, is the one who fights for all of us against the lies, distortions, and manipulations of the bourgeois order.
Hence those who challenge the idea of sexual normality and seek their pleasures in forbidden ways are—for Foucault—the true heroes of our time. He himself was such a hero. His strenuous efforts to liberate himself took him night after night to the sadomasochistic bathhouses of San Francisco, leading to his martyrdom from AIDS. By that time he was well into his four-volume History of Sexuality, which he left unfinished at his desk. But there is a curious story to be told about this powerful and scholarly work.
If we see marriage, and sexual relations generally, as a matter of pleasure, to be exchanged and obtained in some bodily transaction that concerns the partners alone, then it is possible to believe that the old norms of sexual conduct are merely the results of a power game. Foucault therefore begins his study from this question: “Why does sexual behavior, and why do the activities and pleasures which pertain to it, form the object of a moral preoccupation? Why this ethical concern?” But his researches took him in the opposite direction from the one suggested by that question. He set out to show the transience of sexual norms. And he discovered that sexual norms are not transient or malleable, but embedded in the very heart of our social understanding. In volume 2, entitled The Use of Pleasure, he studies a variety of ancient texts dealing with sexual attraction, attempting at first—as the title of the book indicates—to identify the primary sexual phenomenon as pleasure. But he discovered that the texts that he studied are not about sexual pleasure at all.
In the sexual act, as in the relations that made it possible, the human being was seen by the Greeks and Romans as shaping and symbolizing his social position. Sex is never simply sex; it is intrinsically “problematized,” as people trained in the terminology of Foucault are taught to say. Concepts of honor and virtue creep in behind the first impulse of desire, and even relations between men and boys raised, for those who practiced them, the question of how to distinguish the honorable from the dishonorable way of enjoying them, Plato famously arguing that the element of sensual pleasure must be transcended and replaced by the desire to educate.
In volume 3, The Care of the Self, Foucault argues that, in the ancient world, sexual activity, at first conceived as a symbol of the social status of the participants, is gradually “privatized.” Public concerns about honor recede in importance, and attention shifts to the “care for the self.” This, he suggests, is the source of the growing emphasis on purity, virginity, and fidelity in marriage. But, as he recognizes, “the intensification of the care for the self goes hand in hand with a valorization of the other.” By the end of the book the reader is made aware that sex, in the world of Pliny and Plutarch, was not about pleasure at all, except as an incidental side effect, still less about power and domination, but about mutual dependence and the care of children.
Foucault does not draw any moral from this. He adopts a position of detachment, as though pleasure remained the primary subject matter of sexual conduct and social structures the peculiar avenues through which people passed in order to reach it. Such remains the assumption behind the cause of sexual liberation. But Foucault’s style is circumspect, and by taking the position of women and children seriously, he comes close to recognizing the truth, which is that it is not pleasure but love that makes the world go round.
There are several important lessons that I wish to draw from Foucault’s example. One is that sexual pleasure is not a pleasurable sensation, such as you might obtain from a hot bath or a taste of sugar. It is a directed pleasure, like the pleasure you take watching a child at play. It is pleasure in and with another person. It is not reducible to any sensation in the body or its organs but involves our whole stance toward the other, who is the true object of desire. You can no more detach sexual pleasure from the social circumstances in which it arises—civilization, in other words—than you can detach love from the beloved, or fear from the threat of danger.
Likewise, sexual desire is not a hydraulic force of the kind described by the Freudians but a directed desire—a way of recognizing the other and targeting him. It is essentially compromised and compromising and cannot be expressed without raising the question whether it is rightly expressed and rightly received. Sex does not come to us as a neutral appetite that is then “problematized.” It is an interpersonal experience, for which we are accountable and which we understand as a gift. Shame, hesitation, tenderness, and revulsion all lie incipient within it, and everything depends upon the mutual self-giving of the participants.
If sex is just a matter of physical pleasure, then the freedom to enjoy it becomes the default moral position. Any further question concerns the use to which this pleasure is put. Such is implied by Foucault’s title, The Use of Pleasure. This way of seeing things feeds into two other orthodoxies of our time. My pleasures are mine, and if you are forbidding them you are also oppressing me. Hence sexual liberation is not just a release but a duty, and by letting it all hang out I am not just defying the bourgeois order but casting a blow for freedom everywhere. Self-gratification acquires the glamor and the moral kudos of a heroic struggle. For the “me” generation, no way of acquiring a moral cause can be more gratifying. You become totally virtuous by being totally selfish.
Furthermore, it becomes easier to weigh sex in the cost–benefit balance. As society retreats from the vestigial experience of the sacred and the forbidden, we easily imagine that sex has nothing especially to do with love, and that it has lost its sacramental aura. We then try to reconstruct sexual morality in utilitarian terms. Pleasures can be weighed in terms of their intensity and duration, and if there is no more to sex than pleasure we can form a clear and decidable distinction between “good sex” and “bad sex,” qualified only by the principle of consent. It is in these terms that the ethos of sexual liberation is now expressed, with “good sex” being esteemed as the natural outcome of a truly liberated and self-expressing desire—the desire being precisely a desire for pleasure.
If we see sex in that way, as the release of the real me inside, the reward of which is pleasure, then the sexual revolution does not lead to the “withering away of the state,” such as the Marxists foretold. It leads to the withering away of society. When the primary bond between man and woman loses its privileged status and its institutional protection, then all that civilization has built on that bond begins to totter. The bourgeois morality dismissed by Reich, Marcuse, and Foucault was not a system of arbitrary constraints. It was the way in which the great force of sexual desire was channeled into love and commitment, not for the sake of the partners only, but even more for the sake of the unborn generation that would be the long-term result of their union. That is why marriage has always been protected as a “rite of passage,” and why the Catholic Church has declared it to be a sacrament. It is why sexual desire itself has been seen as a kind of consecration of the other, who is, in the act of union, both absorbed and revered, both taken and given.
That traditional view of sex stands in the way of the liberal agenda. Sex, as formerly conceived, is emphatically not about “me” and my pleasures but about you and our commitment. Sex was construed as both a constraint on the living and a pledge to the unborn. Hence there grew in opposition to the traditional view not only the program of liberation, but also the far more insidious program of “sex education,” through which, in the late-twentieth century, a kind of moralizing anti-morality was introduced into our schools. Children, it was recognized, have a natural tendency to associate sex with shame, hesitation, and disgust. Their souls need to be swept clean of this bourgeois debris so that they too can be prepared for life as a truly liberated “me.”
This is why liberals have insisted and continue to insist on sex education as a compulsory benefit to the young, whose souls are otherwise in danger from the repressive, self-destroying forces surrounding them. Children are taught that shame is a negative emotion, to be overcome at all costs, that all sexual activity is, if consensual, prima facie “healthy,” a pleasant “release” from tensions that might be otherwise bottled up and dangerous. And in case they don’t get the point, children are provided with indecent images and models, to persuade them that sex is not about love between people, but about friction between their parts.
In the light of all that, we should not be surprised if many of the big issues in liberal politics today are downstream from sexual liberation. “Abortion rights,” gay marriage, the LGBT agenda are causes that under certain circumstances reflect genuine concern for our common humanity as well as common sense about the limits of morality, law, and custom. But they are all too often espoused in a spirit of radical non-compromise. They are seen as ways in which sex can be detached from the civilizing institutions that have expressed and tempered it, and attached to the liberation of “me.” It is for this reason, surely, that the advocates of abortion rights often see no limits to their demands, no reason to hold back from taking the life of the unborn victim, who is seen not even as a victim, but as an “alien presence” in a woman’s body—a presence from which she is entitled to free herself, given that it was the result of her innocent pleasure. In the same way, gay marriage is increasingly seen by its advocates, not as a way to incorporate homosexuals into an institution that channels sexual desire into love and commitment, but as a way to deconstruct marriage, so that it loses its sacramental character and becomes merely a contract for “the use of pleasures.”
Institutions, once destroyed, cannot be recreated. As Wittgenstein said, reviving a tradition is like trying to repair a spider’s web with your bare hands. Nevertheless, the result of the sexual revolution is with us for all to see, and it is far more alarming and far more devastating for the next generation than anything predicted by Thurber and White. We have been liberated from the old morality; but a puritanical anti-morality has come in its place.
The promised pleasures have staled, showing us that it was in any case not pleasure that we wanted. Vestiges of the old morality reappear—the growing panic over pedophilia; the new attempts to control what happens in schools and universities; forms of sex education that now emphasize “stable relationships” rather than “good sex.” Whatever else these new developments show, they remind us that human beings remain as they were—creatures hungry for love and commitment, who have as great a need to give as to take, and who are looking for the forms of social life that make love and giving possible. Will they find these things again? And if not, will they be able to do what until now they have always done by instinct, which is to make a lasting home for their children, and teach those children to make a lasting home in their turn?
Roger Scruton is the author of Notes from Underground and The Soul of the World.
Articles by Roger Scruton
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Popstar of the Year: Taylor Swift
It is hard to imagine how Taylor Swift could top the success of her self-titled debut album back in 2006, which has gone on to become a triple-platinum having sold more than 3.5 million copies in the US!
However, 2010 saw her break even more milestones and continue to solidify her position as one of the biggest artists in the popular music scene for years, and she’s still only 19!
Taylor started the year by releasing the single Today Was a Fairytale, which reached number two in the US charts, making it her sixth Top 10 and 23rd Top 40 single in America!
It also sold more than 325,000 in its first week, which meant Taylor broke the record for first week download sales by a female artist.
In October Taylor Swift also released her third album Speak Now. As may be expected with Taylor Swift now, it skyrocketed to number one in the US album charts, selling over 1 million copies in its first week and went on to be another triple platinum record!
Speak Now also demonstrated Taylor’s rapid popularity worldwide, with the album getting in the top 40 in 19 different countries and the top 10 in 9 countries. In the UK, the album reached number six.
2010 has also seen Taylor Swift prove herself as a budding actress too, making her feature-film acting debut in the successful film Valentine’s Day starring alongside everyone’s favourite werewolf from the Twilight series, Taylor Lautner!
So do you think Taylor Swift deserves to be crowned Popstar of the Year? Let us know!
In the meantime, here’s one of her many iconic songs, Love Story.
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Boeing estimates cost of 737 MAX troubles at a billion dollars and counting
by Alan Boyle on April 24, 2019 at 3:02 pm April 24, 2019 at 3:13 pm
Boeing’s first 737 MAX makes its way through the assembly plant in Renton, Wash., in 2015. (Boeing Photo)
Boeing’s first-quarter financial stats took a serious hit in the wake of two fatal crashes involving its bestselling plane, the 737 MAX. The company estimated the additional costs associated with grounding the 737 MAX fleet at $1 billion, but more uncertainty lies ahead. Boeing executives held off on providing updated financial guidance until the impact of the 737 MAX issue becomes clearer.
Revenue: Boeing reported first-quarter revenue of $22.9 billion, which is 2 percent below the year-ago figure but in line with analysts’ expectations. The shortfall is due primarily to fewer deliveries of 737 jets.
Earnings: Net earnings for the quarter amounted to $2.15 billion, which translates to adjusted earnings per share of $3.16. That’s 13 percent below what they were a year ago but slightly higher than the $3.11 consensus forecast from Zacks Investment Research.
Word from the top: “Across the company, we are focused on safety, returning the 737 MAX to service, and earning and re-earning the trust and confidence of customers, regulators and the flying public,” Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said in the company’s quarterly recap. “As we work through this challenging time for our customers, stakeholders and the company, our attention remains on driving excellence in quality and performance and running a healthy sustained growth business built on strong, long-term fundamentals.”
Word on the Street: Boeing’s share price rose 0.36 percent to close at $375.46, apparently reflecting investor relief that the quarterly results weren’t worse. The stock’s value has fallen about 15 percent since the beginning of March, just before the fatal crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX.
Quarter highlights
Boeing said the $1 billion in additional costs comes primarily from reducing the 737 production rate from 52 to 42 airplanes a month, a move that spreads fixed costs over a smaller number of planes. That toll could rise if the uncertainty surrounding the 737 MAX’s fate continues into the long term.
Muilenburg said Boeing is making “steady process on the path to final certification for a software update for the 737 MAX.” That update is meant to address problems with an automatic flight control system that has been linked to the Ethiopia crash as well as last October’s fatal crash of a Lion Air jet in Indonesia. Muilenburg said the fix has been tested on more than 135 flights but didn’t give a timetable for winning certification from the Federal Aviation Administration. This week Reuters quoted unnamed sources as saying certification could come as early as late May, potentially leading to a return to flight in mid-June.
The process that led to the 737 MAX’s certification in 2017 is the subject of multiple investigations, including inquiries by the FAA, the Justice Department and the FBI, and a panel of experts convened by Boeing. But Muilenburg said “there was no surprise, or gap, or unknown here, or something that somehow slipped through a certification process.”
Because of the focus on the 737 MAX situation, Muilenburg said Boeing hasn’t yet decided whether to go ahead with plans for a next-generation midsize airplane known as the New Mid-Market Airplane, the NMA or 797. But 777X production is moving ahead as planned, with the model’s first flight expected within months and the first 777X delivery due next year.
Boeing Global Services, which was broken out as a separate business unit in 2017, brought in glowing financial results. First-quarter revenue increased 17 percent over the year-ago figure, to $4.6 billion. Boeing said the increase was driven primarily by higher volume across the portfolio, including last year’s acquisition of KLX, an aerospace parts distributor.
Boeing Defense, Space & Security also served as a bright spot: Revenues for that business unit amounted to $6.6 billion, which represents a 2 percent increase over the previous year’s first-quarter figures. The first seven KC-46 tankers were delivered to the U.S. Air Force during the quarter — a milestone dimmed only slightly by reports of production problems.
Boeing said its CST-100 Starliner space taxi has gone through “successful environmental testing,” The current schedule calls for an uncrewed Starliner to make its first flight to the International Space Station for NASA no earlier than August, with the first crewed flight to follow by as early as late 2019.
GeekWire aerospace and science editor Alan Boyle is an award-winning science writer and veteran space reporter. Formerly of NBCNews.com, he is the author of "The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference." Follow him via CosmicLog.com, on Twitter @b0yle, and on Facebook and Google+.
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WATCH: Man who had $150K prosthetic arm stolen in Fla. competes on ‘Titan Games’
By Wendy Rhodes Special to the Palm Beach Post
Feb 6, 2019 at 3:00 PM Feb 6, 2019 at 3:00 PM
Chris Ruden has the kind of physique and charisma that bodybuilders strive for. He is muscular and cut, with short dark hair, tattoos and a winning smile.
He is the type of athlete producers from NBC’s “The Titan Games” sought out to compete on a show hosted by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson that tests the limits of human endurance, strength and mental fortitude.
“There were hundreds of thousands of people who applied for this show, and I was not one of them,” Ruden says. “They found me on social media.”
At 28, Ruden has broken numerous records for powerlifting and makes his living as a motivational speaker. The story might seem less than extraordinary, but there’s more.
Between work, exercise and spending time with his Boynton Beach, Fla., girlfriend, Ruden, a Type 1 diabetic, has to take insulin shots — sometimes up to 12 times per day.
Even then, it would be difficult to use his left hand to do it, because he was born with a congenital defect that left the arm shorter than average and with only two fingers.
After a girl in junior high school made fun of him, Ruden hid his arm in a glove for 17 years. He eventually got a $150,000 detachable prosthetic, but even when training or out with his girlfriend, no one saw his natural arm again.
But that all changed in 2017 when Ruden publicly removed the prosthetic for the first time in YouTube video that garnered almost 3 million views.
“It was the biggest weight lifted off my shoulders,” Ruden says of finally feeling comfortable in his own skin. “I’ve broken tons of records in powerlifting, but that was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”
One day last autumn, the prosthetic was stolen from Ruden’s truck when he was parked at the Advenir at Banyan Lake apartments in Boynton Beach. “I was devastated,” he says. “That was the thing that let me be me.”
But Ruden’s luck was about to change, courtesy of the Boynton Beach Police Department.
“A few detectives from the Boynton Beach police came in of their off day, which I thought was so impressive and so respectable,” Ruden says.
The officers found the arm tossed in a nearby bush. “That was the luckiest day of my life, for sure,” Rudin says. “Along with meeting The Rock — both of those were pretty lucky.”
After getting the arm back, Ruden lost the competition on “The Titan Games,” but says it was still one of the best experiences of his life.
“I was there to spread my message,” he says. “Everything I do is geared toward helping other people and to be the person I never had in my life and help people struggling with disabilities or diabetes.”
Ruden, who lives in Coconut Creek, is grateful for the opportunity the show provided to speak out in support of others who may be suffering from the same fears and insecurities he once had.
“I received hundreds and hundreds of emails from kids and parents, many in tears,” he says. “They said, ‘Thank you for doing that. You let my son, you let my daughter, feel comfortable in their own skin. She was ready to give up, and she didn’t because of that episode.’”
All’s well that ends well, and Ruden has no ill feelings toward the city where his arm was stolen. In fact, some say life is a series of lessons, and Ruden certainly learned an important one in Boynton Beach.
“You should keep your hands to yourself — literally and figuratively,” he says, laughing.
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Why Stewart Brand's New Book is a Must-Read
Marc Gunther
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 1:00pm
Many books shaped my thinking about business, economics and the environment during 2009. Last year was the year that I discovered Nassim Nicholas Taleb and The Black Swan, to my great delight, as well as the year that I began to explore behavioral economics by reading Daniel Ariely’s Predictably Irrational and Nudge by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler. I enjoyed my friend Russell Roberts’ libertarian romance (yep) The Invisible Heart, and I learned a lot from The Myth of the Rational Market, a timely and readable history of the economics of markets by my ex-Fortune colleague Justin Fox. The Good Soldiers by David Finkel is a searing up-close look at the surge in Iraq that should be read by any American citizen who wants to better understand the human costs of the wars being waged by our government.
But the book that I most want to recommend to readers of this blog is Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand. It’s brilliant, controversial, unconventional and lively. Nothing I read in 2009 changed my thinking more.
I’m not alone in my admiration for Stewart’s book. Paul Hawken calls it “likely one of the most original and important books of the century.…” Edward O. Wilson says it is “ominous and exhilirating.” Larry Brilliant says it is “an absolutely seminal work, extraordinarily well written, a tour de force of so many interconnected worlds and lives and studies.” Nice blurbs, no?
The praise is all the more remarkable because Whole Earth Discipline argues that we need nuclear power to combat global warming, that we need biotechnology to feed the world and that we need to take geo-engineering seriously — ideas that are anathema to much, though not all, of the environmental movement that Stewart helped create roughly 40 years ago.
For those of you (younger readers) who aren’t familiar with his work, Stewart, who is a vigorous 72-year-old, is best known as the editor of Whole Earth Catalog, an influential compendium of all things countercultural, published in the late 1960s and 1970s, with a photo of the earth seen from space on its cover. After an LSD-induced experience that got him thinking about the curve of the earth, Stewart campaigned to have NASA release the picture. Later, he wrote:
It is no accident of history that the first Earth Day, in April 1970, came so soon after color photographs of the whole earth from space were made by homesick astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon in December 1968. Those riveting Earth photos reframed everything. For the first time humanity saw itself from outside… Humanity’s habitat looked tiny, fragile and rare. Suddenly humans had a planet to tend to.
Since then, Stewart has been a writer, a speaker, an organizer, a pioneer of online communities as a founder of the WELL (the “Whole Eart ‘Lectronic Link,” where I first discovered the power of the Internet), a consultant to companies and the owner of a tugboat in San Francisco where he lives with his wife, Ryan Phelan. He writes:
Because I’m an ecologist by training, a futurist by profession and a hacker (lazy engineer) at heart, my bent is scientific rigor, geoeconomic perspective, and an engineer’s bias, which sees everything in terms of solving design problems.
Fun fact about Stewart: He owns the table where Otis Redding reportedly wrote “Dock of the Bay.”
I’m not going to try to summarize Stewart’s arguments about nukes, GMOs or geo-engineering here, but let me try to give you a flavor of his thinking and writing.
On nukes, he says, given the urgency of the climate crisis, it’s a little nutty to worry about how to dispose of radioactive waste hundreds or even thousands of years from now since we can’t predict technological progress between now and then (although we can sure there will be lots of it). And, as he notes:
Nuclear waste is minuscule in size—on Coke can’s worth per person-lifetime of electricity if it was all nuclear…Coal waste is massive—68 tons of solid stuff and 77 tons of carbon dioxide per person-lifetime of strictly coal electricity.
France, which built a fleet of 56 reactors in about 20 years because of an efficient licensing process, now has
the cleanest air in Europe, the lowest electrical bills and a $4 billion export business selling energy to all its neighbors, including Green Germany and nuclear Britain (2 gigawatts a year flows west under the English Channel). France shut down its last coal-fired plant in 20094. It emits 70 percent less carbon dioxide per capita than the United States.
I didn’t know that. Did you?
On biotech food, Stewart is characteristically blunt:
I daresay the environmental movement has done more harm with its opposition to genetic engineering than with any other thing we’ve been wrong about. We’ve starved people, hindered science, hurt the natural environment and denied our own practitioners a crucial tool.
He has a great rant about “natural food” (see page 133) as well as a fascinating account of the debate over genetic engineering inside the environmental movement in the 1970s which, among other things, led the scientists Lewis Thomas and Paul Ehrlich to part ways with Friends of the Earth. Since the mid-1990s, as Stewart notes, we (meaning earthlings) have conducted “the most massive dietary experiment in history” with most everyone in North America eating biotech foods and most everyone in Europe doing without them. The results are in, and no difference can be detected between the test and the control group. He goes on to write about what he calls a “GE-inclusive organic agriculture” as well as the potential of foods engineered to produce health benefits.
There’s much more to recommend in Whole Earth Discipline. It turns out that Stewart is a fan of urbanization, having abandoned what he calls his “Gandhiesque romanticism about villages.” Slums in the global south, he says, are hotbeds of innovation and cooperation, they cure overpopulation and they are better for people and the planet than the subsistence farms seen by many as “soulful and organic.”
I’ll save Stewart’s ideas about geo-engineering for another blogpost. Meanwhile, read this book. And, if you can, join us at FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference about business and the environment, where I’m delighted that Stewart Brand will be one of the featured speakers.
Green Biz.com Senior Writer Marc Gunther maintains a blog at MarcGunther.com.
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Tyler Pastorok ’19
As a child, Tyler Pastorok ’19 discovered a passion for outdoor recreation with his dad but did not, at the time, envision it would lead to a rewarding career.
He transferred to Green Mountain College for Adventure Education after one year at the University of Pittsburgh studying Mechanical Engineering for one semester, and film for the other. He naturally excelled at math and science in high school, and felt that careers in engineering paid well so it seemed like a good field to go into. The rigorous nature of the program pushed him to question why he was doing it in the first place. After a bit of soul searching, he began to think about career paths that would align more with what he enjoyed doing. After searching a bit for college outdoor education programs, GMC’s Adventure Ed block was by far the most attractive on the east coast.
All students enrolled in the Adventure Ed program are required to complete an internship, so Tyler chose to work with GreenMAP this past summer for his internship. ” I chose this path because I felt like I could make the greatest impact with a program that I already knew very well,” noted Tyler. He dove into the experience with a clear list of goals–most of which he was able to achieve. Working with the staff of GreenMAP, Tyler helped to run a day camp for local kids and planned the Wilderness Orientation for incoming students, restructuring the program itself, and re-envisioning its mission. “It has been nice to continue working with GreenMAP throughout this semester as a trip leader, and see how projects I completed worked well or didn’t,” said Tyler.
Ethics and morals play a huge role in how I perceive myself and the world, and so sustainability is something I think about constantly. I think to many people, practicing sustainability seems like a self sacrifice. However, I think many who try it will agree that it ends up being regenerative. When you practice sustainability you end up restructuring your life in a way that is healthier for your mind, body, and relationships. It’s not about being perfect, it’s about acknowledging the facts and doing your best to act on them most of the time. If you can be honest with yourself and acknowledge when you make an unethical choice instead of trying to justify it, that is a huge step towards making better choices in the future.”
Tyler is co-director of the Student Campus Greening Fund, which is advised by Director of Sustainability Ryan Ihrke. This committee manages a student fund that exists for students to use to increase the social and environmental sustainability on campus. Some past projects the group has funded include permaculture gardens, additions to GMC’s bike share, social sustainability art shows, and much more.
In addition to his work with the Greening Fund, Tyler serves as GreenMAP Trip Leader, GMC Bike and Ski Co-Op President, Adventure Recreation Floor President, and Green Mountain College Outdoor Recreation Association committee member.
When asked what makes GMC the #1 Sierra Magazine Cool, Tyler shared, “Many of the administrators value active, engaged community members, so GMC is full of opportunities. If you have an idea for how to make improvements physically or socially, there is usually a way you can make it happen. The students play a big role in what goes on on the ground.”
Tyler plans to return home to Doylestown, PA after graduation to save up some money, and process the experiences he had over the past few years. He shares, “My life is so different than it was when I got here, and my perspectives have changed so much. It’s going to take a little while to fully reevaluate how I will best fit into building better communities for the future.I’m excited to engage more with the community in which I grew up. I have been very active in the GMC community and look forward to using these skills to build relationships and help improve lives in my hometown.”
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A look at where AIDS battle stands
By FRED TASKERMcClatchy Newspapers
Dec 7, 2009 at 12:01 AM Dec 7, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Good news about HIV/AIDS came last week when the World Health Organization said more powerful drugs and better prevention programs have cut new HIV infections worldwide by 17 percent in the past eight years.
Still, since HIV/AIDS was first reported in 1981 in the United States, 1.7 million people have been infected and 580,000 have died.
Cases soared in the 1980s, plummeted in the 1990s as antiviral drugs were introduced, but have plateaued since about 2000 with more than 50,000 new HIV cases a year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
World AIDS day was held Tuesday. We asked Dr. Margaret Fischl, pioneering researcher at the University of Miami School of Medicine, about the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Q) AIDS deaths in the United States have plateaued since about 2000. Do you think this will change at this point?
A) HIV is a stable epidemic with a constant rate of new infections each year. The people who are disproportionately affected are men who have sex with men and African American men and women. You still see new cases, and not everyone who is infected is seeking care.
Q) How would you describe HIV today? How serious is it?
A) I look at HIV now as a chronic infection. If treated, people can live a relatively normal, healthy life. But we can't knock the virus out of the body yet. We have to treat it for the duration of life. It puts a burden on both patient and health care system.
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Protesters want permits for Pittsburgh G-20 event
Aug 19, 2009 at 1:15 AM Aug 19, 2009 at 6:59 AM
PITTSBURGH -- A coalition of protest groups plans to march to and gather at a state park during the week of the G-20 economic summit even though they lack permits to do so.
The groups, representing anti-war, environmental and social justice causes, said Tuesday that they'll also fight the city's denial of their permits in court if necessary and petition City Council in hopes of gaining permission.
About 50 demonstrators from the groups gathered at a church Tuesday to decide how to respond to the various permits being denied.
"We are not going to back down," said Pete Snell, a member of the Thomas Merton Center's anti-war committee. The center is a Pittsburgh activist group citing peace and social justice as objectives.
The various groups had wanted to gather at Point State Park during Sept. 20-25, but the city has either denied their permits or said the permits were pending, but subject to withdrawal by the Secret Service.
The park will be used as a command center for police and the Secret Service.
The official summit is Sept. 24-25.
Meanwhile, Pittsburgh officials are telling nearby businesses and residents to prepare, be patient and not to panic.
Just what access will be allowed near the David L. Lawrence Convention Center hasn't been determined, but with security expected to be tight for the world's economic leaders, City Council had decided to close offices and juggle schedules during the summit.
"The magnitude and nature of the G-20 event and its security requirements will make it very difficult to maneuver the streets and public buildings of Downtown Pittsburgh," council President Doug Shields said Tuesday.
And the region's public transportation agency advises that routes will likely change, but that it probably won't know how until shortly before the summit.
Joanna Doven, a spokeswoman for Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, said two perimeters will be set up around the convention center.
One will restrict only those with government-issued credentials to a fenced-in area around the convention center and another around that will restrict vehicle traffic.
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H.J.Res. 114 (107th)
H.J.Res. 114 (107th): Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002
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H.J.Res.114
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two
To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.
Whereas in 1990 in response to Iraq’s war of aggression against and illegal occupation of Kuwait, the United States forged a coalition of nations to liberate Kuwait and its people in order to defend the national security of the United States and enforce United Nations Security Council resolutions relating to Iraq;
Whereas after the liberation of Kuwait in 1991, Iraq entered into a United Nations sponsored cease-fire agreement pursuant to which Iraq unequivocally agreed, among other things, to eliminate its nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs and the means to deliver and develop them, and to end its support for international terrorism;
Whereas the efforts of international weapons inspectors, United States intelligence agencies, and Iraqi defectors led to the discovery that Iraq had large stockpiles of chemical weapons and a large scale biological weapons program, and that Iraq had an advanced nuclear weapons development program that was much closer to producing a nuclear weapon than intelligence reporting had previously indicated;
Whereas Iraq, in direct and flagrant violation of the cease-fire, attempted to thwart the efforts of weapons inspectors to identify and destroy Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction stockpiles and development capabilities, which finally resulted in the withdrawal of inspectors from Iraq on October 31, 1998;
Whereas in Public Law 105-235 (August 14, 1998), Congress concluded that Iraq’s continuing weapons of mass destruction programs threatened vital United States interests and international peace and security, declared Iraq to be in ‘material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations’ and urged the President ‘to take appropriate action, in accordance with the Constitution and relevant laws of the United States, to bring Iraq into compliance with its international obligations’;
Whereas Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations;
Whereas Iraq persists in violating resolution of the United Nations Security Council by continuing to engage in brutal repression of its civilian population thereby threatening international peace and security in the region, by refusing to release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman, and by failing to return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait;
Whereas the current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations and its own people;
Whereas the current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its continuing hostility toward, and willingness to attack, the United States, including by attempting in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush and by firing on many thousands of occasions on United States and Coalition Armed Forces engaged in enforcing the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council;
Whereas members of al Qaida, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq;
Whereas Iraq continues to aid and harbor other international terrorist organizations, including organizations that threaten the lives and safety of United States citizens;
Whereas the attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001, underscored the gravity of the threat posed by the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by international terrorist organizations;
Whereas Iraq’s demonstrated capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction, the risk that the current Iraqi regime will either employ those weapons to launch a surprise attack against the United States or its Armed Forces or provide them to international terrorists who would do so, and the extreme magnitude of harm that would result to the United States and its citizens from such an attack, combine to justify action by the United States to defend itself;
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 (1990) authorizes the use of all necessary means to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 660 (1990) and subsequent relevant resolutions and to compel Iraq to cease certain activities that threaten international peace and security, including the development of weapons of mass destruction and refusal or obstruction of United Nations weapons inspections in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 (1991), repression of its civilian population in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 (1991), and threatening its neighbors or United Nations operations in Iraq in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 949 (1994);
Whereas in the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (Public Law 102-1), Congress has authorized the President ‘to use United States Armed Forces pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 (1990) in order to achieve implementation of Security Council Resolution 660, 661, 662, 664, 665, 666, 667, 669, 670, 674, and 677’;
Whereas in December 1991, Congress expressed its sense that it ‘supports the use of all necessary means to achieve the goals of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 as being consistent with the Authorization of Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (Public Law 102-1),’ that Iraq’s repression of its civilian population violates United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 and ‘constitutes a continuing threat to the peace, security, and stability of the Persian Gulf region,’ and that Congress, ‘supports the use of all necessary means to achieve the goals of United Nations Security Council Resolution 688’;
Whereas the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-338) expressed the sense of Congress that it should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove from power the current Iraqi regime and promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime;
Whereas on September 12, 2002, President Bush committed the United States to ‘work with the United Nations Security Council to meet our common challenge’ posed by Iraq and to ‘work for the necessary resolutions,’ while also making clear that ‘the Security Council resolutions will be enforced, and the just demands of peace and security will be met, or action will be unavoidable’;
Whereas the United States is determined to prosecute the war on terrorism and Iraq’s ongoing support for international terrorist groups combined with its development of weapons of mass destruction in direct violation of its obligations under the 1991 cease-fire and other United Nations Security Council resolutions make clear that it is in the national security interests of the United States and in furtherance of the war on terrorism that all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions be enforced, including through the use of force if necessary;
Whereas Congress has taken steps to pursue vigorously the war on terrorism through the provision of authorities and funding requested by the President to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such persons or organizations;
Whereas the President and Congress are determined to continue to take all appropriate actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such persons or organizations;
Whereas the President has authority under the Constitution to take action in order to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism against the United States, as Congress recognized in the joint resolution on Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40); and
Whereas it is in the national security interests of the United States to restore international peace and security to the Persian Gulf region: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This joint resolution may be cited as the ‘Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002’.
SEC. 2. SUPPORT FOR UNITED STATES DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS.
The Congress of the United States supports the efforts by the President to--
(1) strictly enforce through the United Nations Security Council all relevant Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq and encourages him in those efforts; and
(2) obtain prompt and decisive action by the Security Council to ensure that Iraq abandons its strategy of delay, evasion and noncompliance and promptly and strictly complies with all relevant Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq.
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES.
(a) AUTHORIZATION- The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in order to--
(1) defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and
(2) enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq.
(b) PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINATION- In connection with the exercise of the authority granted in subsection (a) to use force the President shall, prior to such exercise or as soon thereafter as may be feasible, but no later than 48 hours after exercising such authority, make available to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate his determination that--
(1) reliance by the United States on further diplomatic or other peaceful means alone either (A) will not adequately protect the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq or (B) is not likely to lead to enforcement of all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq; and
(2) acting pursuant to this joint resolution is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorist and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.
(c) War Powers Resolution Requirements-
(1) SPECIFIC STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION- Consistent with section 8(a)(1) of the War Powers Resolution, the Congress declares that this section is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution.
(2) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER REQUIREMENTS- Nothing in this joint resolution supersedes any requirement of the War Powers Resolution.
SEC. 4. REPORTS TO CONGRESS.
(a) REPORTS- The President shall, at least once every 60 days, submit to the Congress a report on matters relevant to this joint resolution, including actions taken pursuant to the exercise of authority granted in section 3 and the status of planning for efforts that are expected to be required after such actions are completed, including those actions described in section 7 of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-338).
(b) SINGLE CONSOLIDATED REPORT- To the extent that the submission of any report described in subsection (a) coincides with the submission of any other report on matters relevant to this joint resolution otherwise required to be submitted to Congress pursuant to the reporting requirements of the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148), all such reports may be submitted as a single consolidated report to the Congress.
(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION- To the extent that the information required by section 3 of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (Public Law 102-1) is included in the report required by this section, such report shall be considered as meeting the requirements of section 3 of such resolution.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
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July 30, 2015 A New Vision for Success in Manatee, Sarasota Counties
By Ron Fairchild, Senior Consultant to the nationwide Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
If they say it’s differences that can bring people together — that’s certainly true, especially when it comes to uniting two counties around education as they work to combat the most common obstacles children face as they learn to read to succeed in school and in life.
Nationally, the statistics are troubling: 67 percent of all children — and 80 percent of those from low-income families — fail to read on grade level by the end of third grade. Failing to address this issue would be a major setback for everything from preparing our nation to compete in a global economy and closing the achievement gap to reducing high school dropout rates and working to end intergenerational poverty.
Through the new Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading — an effort of Manatee and Sarasota counties — lead supporters have stepped up to endorse a shared vision for success, marking a new beginning for the way the counties work together to share ideas, strategies, and learning opportunities. They include the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, Manatee Community Foundation, Sarasota County Schools, School District of Manatee County, The Patterson Foundation, United Way of Manatee County and University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.
As a senior consultant to the national Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, I can tell you this is significant. I work with the network of 167 communities in 41 states that are focused on making measurable progress on some of the most significant barriers to low-income children reading proficiently — school readiness, school attendance and summer learning. Through the power of passionate communities, these barriers have become opportunities to create a more promising future locally and beyond.
The approach of the Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading demonstrates how two communities can individually put stakes in the ground to make progress but also shows they can commit to accelerating their work by meeting regularly and sharing what’s working and why. Agreeing to work together to complement each other provides the benefits — especially from an awareness point of view — to achieve economies of scale.
This kind of commitment isn’t without challenges. It involves creating an infrastructure in Manatee and Sarasota counties to operate both separately and together. Creating that infrastructure and blazing a path forward takes time, coordination and constant communication. When it comes to nonprofits, individuals, schools and community organizations doing evidence-based work — there’s a need to aggregate these efforts and evaluate results that will uplift the overall campaign in this region.
When it comes down to it, the ultimate promise and indicator of success is this: how are kids helped to become proficient readers? Working together increases these odds for shorter and longer-term success. A brighter future for our children is a brighter future for all of us.
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UMCOR - Sager Brown
Secretary - Karen Trivett
Karen has been our church secretary since January 2007. She is a graduate of Appalachian State University and retired from the Caldwell County school system after 30 years of service as a teacher and coach at West Caldwell High School. Karen has also been a member of our church for over 50 years. She and her husband G.C. live in Cajah's Mountain and have one son, Cory, daughter-in-law, Amanda and two grandchildren, Payne and Paris.
Senior Pastor - Howard Fleming
Howard is a graduate of NC State University and after 12 1/2 years in the furniture manufacturing industry, discerned a call to pastoral ministry. Howard then earned his Masters of Divinity from Duke Divinity School and was ordained as an Elder in the United Methodist Church. Howard has been married to his wife Donna, a Labor and Delivery nurse, since 1980 and they are both proud of their two adult daughters, Katie and Christine who are both married. Donna is a cat-person and Howard is a dog-person so they have had cats over their years together including their current feline family member, Elvis.
Howard serves throughout the community and the extended church including chairing the Board of Directors for Helping Hands Clinic - a health care facility for the uninsured of Caldwell County and as Chair of the Congregational Vitality Team for our Appalachian District of the UM Church.
director of choirs - jason childers
Jason leads our traditional music worship including our Adult Choir, Adult Handbells, and Orchestra. The Adult Choir reheares weekly on Wednesday evening s and sings 60-70 traditional & contemporary sacred anthems per year. In addition, the Choir presents and annual Christmas Cantata, bringing in instrumentalists and additional singers to help share the Christmas message.
The Adult Handbells also rehearse on Wednesday evenings and play for Worship once per month on average. The group performed a full length concert in May of 2016.
Instrumentalists of the church get together about 3 times throughout the year to form an orchestra for special 5th Sunday and other seasonal services.
First United Methodist Granite Falls values quality music and it's role in connecting with Christ. Everyone has a song to sing, and is invited to share your talents in your own way.
Youth & Children's director - Shea bolick
Shea plans and coordinates curriculum for our youth. She holds weekly Sunday night events for elementary, middle, and high school age youth. She organizes service events on the local and international level, and arranges outing throughout the year. Some of these events include Stop Hunger now, FUMC Christmas musical, God Given Talent Nights and the youth mission trip to Costa Rica. She is an important mentor to the youth as she helps guide them towards a growing relationship with Jesus Christ. She is an advocate for our youth and is continuously educating the congregation about the hopes, concerns and needs of our youth in the local church as well as in the community.
Organist - Shirley sapp
Shirley recently celebrated her 50th year as the organist at Granite Falls First Methodist. Her service began on October 1, 1966. Shirley is our living example of sustainability and faithfulness. She was honored for her service by receiving the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina's highest civilian honor.
First United Methodist Church Granite Falls
9 Lakeside Avenue
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Rooted in Family Values: Namu Gaji
Two of the three Lee brothers, David (left) and Dennis (right).
The beauty of Namu Gaji lies in its symbiotic relationship between individuality and collectivity. Inspired by their mother's restaurant, owners and brothers Dennis, Daniel, and David Lee curated a menu to represent food true to their own American experiences. The brothers moved one by one from Boston to San Francisco, combining their passions at the intersection of food and art. While the brothers have different interests — cooking, mechanical engineering, and music — their close family dynamic led them to invest in a dining experience. The Lee brothers' participation in the farm-to-table movement stimulates a relationship between farmers, chefs, and guests, where preparing and serving high-quality food is simultaneously an experience and an education. Namu Gaji opens up new opportunities for building community while letting the creative juices flow.
By George Ko and Natalie Mark
Photos by George Ko
Oysters with dashi, scallions, and lime.
GR: What was it like growing up in Massachusetts in a restaurant family?
Dennis Lee: We grew up in a predominantly White, Irish-Catholic place. Our parents are immigrants, but they weren't academics; they both worked in the restaurant industry. Restaurants always have opposite hours so our grandmother would take care of us, and we grew up longing for our mother because she would come home really late. They also worked in multiple restaurants, so there were three or four places we grew up.
David Lee: We were lucky because our parents made sure we knew our heritage. My mom forced us to go to Korean school every week. My Korean name is “Hanguk,” which literally means Korea. It’s pretty funny. It wasn’t one of those immigrant stories where we were afraid to bring kimchi to school. A lot of friends would come over and eat Korean food at my house.
GR: When you think of Massachusetts you don’t necessarily think of a big Korean community.
Dennis: Absolutely not. I think the community is bigger now, obviously. A large portion of the Boston population is transient because it’s a big city with hundreds of colleges in the area. We rented out a room in our house to grad students for extra money. And the Korean church in the community was very tight-knit because it was small. They were our extended family. Jeff, one of our partners who lives with us now and runs our street-food operation, came from the same community. Our parents have been friends since we were born. He’s like a brother from another mother.
GR: One thing I noticed while looking through your mother’s restaurant menu is the huge blend of Asian cuisines. It’s not just Korean food, it’s a creative palate. Did growing up in your mother’s restaurant influence your menu?
Dennis: The food at my mom’s restaurant is more of a reflection of the general public's perception and ignorance of specific Asian countries.
David: Growing up, our neighbors called us the “Chinese boys,” and it wasn’t meant to be derogatory. They were just ignorant. In Massachusetts, our mom’s restaurant menu has a Thai food section, a Korean food section, and a sushi section. People want to sit down and order nigiri, California roll, and pad thai.
Dennis: Which makes sense because those are like the entry level Asian food items from different cultures. I guess our identity has evolved from that. We didn’t specifically want to make something eclectic. Since there were other Asian kids in our grade, that influenced us. They might have been Japanese, Chinese, or Cambodian, but we ended up getting grouped together and inadvertently learning about other cultures. It’s a typical American cliché: we’re a result of a melting pot.
David: A lot of American restaurants also incorporate different foods onto their menu, but people don’t assume they’ve swayed away from their heritage because they’re owned by a white face.
“Somebody is going to label you at one point or another. We just list ingredients on our menu. But I think modern culture, especially American culture, is rich with those mislabelings.
— Dennis Lee
Dennis: It’s funny, I was just driving past some sign for a restaurant that said, “Japanese tapas” or something like that. How many people really know what tapas are? It’s become appropriated into a whole new thing. But a lot of ignorant people think it's the original thing, which is absolutely not the case.
David: Like Asian kabob. Kabob already means it’s from the Mediterranean. But Asian kabob?
Dennis: We try to stay away from labeling, which is impossible to do. Somebody is going to label you at one point or another. We just list ingredients on our menu. There’s no flag emblem next to each ingredient. There are food items that are staples across several countries and are called by their origin name. For example, we use doenjang, which is a Korean fermented soybean paste. But everyone calls it “Korean miso.” It’s like Korean miso is an American label drawn from a Japanese food item that is the closest thing to a Korean food item, and somehow that became the name. I think modern culture, but especially American culture, is rich with those mislabelings. There are a lot of funny interesting intersections.
GR: What does the word fusion really mean? Every American restaurant is fusion in some way.
Dennis: It’s a conversation about authenticity that's become a hot topic in the past few decades because people are realizing it doesn’t really mean anything. The way we define authenticity comes with a true expression of a locale or a person.
GR: Farm-to-table is a “new trend” in the states, but if you look at countries like Italy and Japan, that's normal. You guys are cultivating your own farm with Kristyn Leach’s expertise and growing your own produce. How did you meet Kristyn and how did you come up with the idea to educate your diners about the food you’re growing?
Dennis: Kristyn Leach found us through the restaurant and food network, which was great.
David: She just showed up one day with produce for us.
Dennis: We had already been farming on a small plot of land. At the time Country Line Farms had some land they weren’t using, so they let us plant a few crops there.
We have always wanted to do more than just serve people food. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but we were young and curious and concerned with problems in the food industry. A restaurant is not unlike a supermarket: people want to sell you packaged and prepared food. The farm-to-table movement naturally spurred better cooking, because it forced chefs and cooks to actually prepare ingredients from their natural state to the plate. It’s a multifaceted thing that is mutually beneficial for our restaurant, and for Kristyn as a farmer and grower. She has a similar approach to farming and tending to the land and the soil. It was a good fit for us and we’re mutually inspired.
We want to impart some of those experiences and values onto our guests. It dovetails nicely with our cuisine. When you come to eat here, you don’t really know what you’re getting just by looking at the menu. Our staff are ambassadors to our guests: they show them what our food is and where the flavors come from, while also showcasing our ingredients and our ideas.
GR: How many people work on the farm?
Dennis: Kristyn, and Will, one other farmer. There are occasionally volunteers or interns. But she’s a very hardworking person and it’s even crazier when you think about how everything is done by hand. She doesn’t use any petroleum inputs. She works from four or five in the morning until the sun goes down. She loves it and it’s a huge part of her exploration of life and herself. The idea behind it was always that approach; it wasn’t a yield-based method where people want to produce certain consistencies or amounts. We’re always experimenting with different crops and methods. Naturally, over the years, things have been mixing together and producing other kinds of mutations.
“The Farm-to-table movement naturally spurred better cooking because it forced chefs and cooks to actually prepare ingredients from their natural state to the plate.
GR: Did all of you have kitchen experience?
Dennis: Everybody has probably helped out at some level, but I think I was the only one who worked in the kitchen.
GR: David, were you a mini general manager while growing up?
Dennis: He’s still a mini general manager!
David: I’m like the everything guy. As the youngest in the family, I get a lot of orders like, “Get that, do that, pick that up over there!” I’m really good at that.
GR: I wanted to ask you about your music. Did you study sound engineering?
David: I’ve always been into rap. I guess Dennis put me onto it since he’s four years older than me. I had the Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) tape in fourth grade. I didn’t even know what it was, but he had it, so I listened to it. Something about it always made me feel good. I connected with it since growing up in a predominantly White neighborhood made me feel like an outcast.
I got my first turntable in seventh grade. Now, it’s been over 20 years and I’ve been doing my passion every day. It’s something I will continue to do. Food is art, music is art, and music is like a showcase. Every time we have dinner service we’re putting on a show. They go hand-in-hand, and it works out for us because we have a lot of musicians who come here.
GR: Did you have a go-to mixtape you listened to?
David: I loved Mix Master Mike’s mixtapes. There was a D-Styles scratch mixtape with DJ Flare that was my non-stop go to. Of course, DJ Qbert’s Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Musik. Those were always on rotation. The D-Styles DJ Flare tape was one of the best. But the one I remember the most was the 8-track tape with D-Styles because it was called Hot Sauce in the Dickhole. I still think of that randomly. I’ll be taking a shower and think, “Oh yeah, Hot Sauce in the Dickhole.”
“Food is art, music is art, and music is like a showcase. Every time we have dinner service we’re putting on a show.
— David Lee
GR: On your website, David is described as a musician and Daniel as an engineer. All three of you guys are centered around this restaurant, but you all have other full-time gigs. It leaves a message to the younger generation that there is an intersection of art and food and computer science.
Dennis: I think anything a person does has some art in it, even just walking down the street. I believe the perception fed to young students or children in compulsory schooling is: “You are here and here are the separate things you can learn.” But everything you experience overlaps; all the experiences you have mix together to make you. We have to create categories to be able to function logistically because language is limited or inadequate.
But if you want to be good at one thing, then it comes with you being good at you. Whether it’s being a musician or chef or an entrepreneur or an engineer, the a-ha moments and the developmental experiences you have in your life always apply to other things you’re doing.
My brothers and I have a strong line of communication because we know each other so well. We live together and share our opinions. We share food, music, ideas, and that’s made me not only a better person, but a better chef. It’s made him a better musician, and it’s made Dan a better manager and engineer.
The idea is to enrich each other’s lives. People get so hung up on keeping things separate, whether it’s relationships, politics, or even the food on their plate. That’s a lot of wasted energy when you’re better off embracing what you have.
GR: Did you all go to schools around Boston?
Dennis: He did!
David: I went to Emerson. Growing up, I always wanted to be on 88.9FM, which was the Boston rap show. Ever since I was little, they always joked that if I wanted to do something, then I made it happen. I went to Emerson and I got on 88.9FM. That was the only reason why I wanted to go to college.
Dennis: Dan went to Michigan, so he was the only one who went away. I commuted to Stonehill College, which is 40 minutes south of Boston.
GR: What brought you to San Francisco?
Dennis: I was the first person to move. We all came out here for a vacation for 10 days with a couple of friends, but, I ended up getting a work opportunity with an urban streetwear company. It was one of David Choe’s first things. I did that for three months and then ended up going back into restaurants. David came out here when we got the contract for the concessions in Golden Gate Park. Dan found a great job opportunity downtown, then a couple years later moved to Facebook, where he's been ever since.
David Lee's favorite dish on the menu, the adobo turkey tail.
GR: Can you talk about the name of your restaurant?
Dennis: Namu means “tree” or “wood.” Our first restaurant was just called Namu. Gaji means branch; since this is the second location, it’s a literal concept. We pseudo-adhere to some Daoist approaches to health and food. Wood is an element beneficial for me especially, but something we need in our ecosystem.
GR: When you do pop-up ramen shops, is the ramen a take on ramyeon?
Dennis: We’ve done both. We explore traditional techniques but also try to do something personal and regional.
David: Seven years ago, he was doing ramyeon.
David: It was so good, it was like a take on Shin Ramyun.
GR: What stopped?
David: People didn’t want to get it!
GR: You should have served it in LA!
Dennis: We have a noodle place in the works that’s more of a bar with a restaurant concept. To develop that we’ve been doing noodle soup pop-ups. We’ve been in the Outer Sunset Friday and Saturday for the past few months. Even though we’re busy doing a million things, it’s important for us to stay connected with the neighborhoods and people. Pop-ups are great opportunities to drum up interests with people who might not make it all the way out to this restaurant. We also get to check out different neighborhoods, vibes, and crowds at different places. We can break up the geographic monotony of one location.
David: When you do a pop-up you have more freedom to experiment. To answer the ramen/ramyeon question, all our pop-ups are called Namu Noodle. We keep it open to all different kinds of noodles. For example, he’s done Indonesian noodles before.
“If you want to be good at one thing, it comes with you being good at you.
GR: Are you opening a new restaurant?
David: We’re opening up a new restaurant at 553 Divisadero. It’s at Divis and Hayes in the Panhandle. That’s our second restaurant. We’re shooting to open in two weeks or so.
Dennis: It’s a fast casual concept. It’s called Namu Stonepot and it’s centered around the stone plates we use here for our dolsot (stone pot) bibimbap. The staple is the rice with the prepared vegetables. We have ramen where all the toppings are plated, and then brought to a ripping hot sizzle. You pour the broth at the table, so the noodles are crispy on one side.
We’re also doing a pig head sisig, which we’ve done here before and works really well on stone plate. We’re just trying to promote stone plates by doing something fun and more accessible with it. There are a lot of places trying to crack the bibimbap code.
David: I think we’ve unlocked it!
Dennis: It’s hard because everybody wants it to be a make-your-own. You pick your toppings, you pick the starch, which is good but for us, we wanted to make something more unique with our personal stamp on it. We have access to such great ingredients in San Francisco. We are ingredient-driven and having the farm makes it more easily accessible. This location is a high-traffic area in the Mission, but obviously it’s a small restaurant. It’s a little bit more of a destination. We wanted to be the Panda Express of stone pots.
Mochiko Chicken KFC Style served at Namu Stonepot.
GR: What’s one of your favorite dishes Dennis has made? Or what is one dish you told him not to put it on the menu?
David: Currently, my favorite dish is the turkey tail. It’s the greatest thing on the planet. It’s a take on adobo made with heritage turkey from BN Ranch, a local farm. It falls off the bone.
Dennis: Turkey tails are pretty big. Chicken tail is one of my favorite parts of the chicken, and obviously a turkey’s is a lot bigger. If I were cooking a dinner party or Thanksgiving for my family, the tail is the part I usually would want to take a bite of. I expanded on that idea and made an adobo treatment. It’s a braised turkey tail with some different pickles and a super intense braising liquid that’s a mix of chicken skins, turkey, and other aromatics. David doesn’t even eat turkey, but he likes turkey tail.
GR: At your restaurant you can taste high-quality food at a very reasonable price. But a lot of chefs go the opposite direction, where they start at a fast-casual place and then go for higher quality to achieve a Michelin star. Is a Michelin the ultimate goal?
Dennis: That is not the ultimate goal.
David: That’s against how we roll. We’re the people’s champ!
Dennis: The ultimate goal is to continue challenging ourselves, and to see where that takes us. We’re building this experience in food by growing and distributing it. I have a lot of ideas to bring a certain quality of food to children and underserved or poorer communities. One of my dreams is to have a restaurant and a garden or farm where you could earn your food by putting in hours in any facet of the production. Then, you could have an opportunity to eat somewhere you know the food is coming from. Being part of the experience in cultivating, growing, and producing is extremely valuable but not in everyone’s communities.
GR: What about for you, David?
David: I’m always growing with the restaurant and expanding my entrepreneurship. Right now, I’ve been focusing a lot on my music. I have a rap group called Golden Age. The term “Golden Age” comes from me and MC DoDat. We think we’re living in the golden age of rap right now. That’s a point of contention, but it’s silly because right now is the golden age of music or anything because of technology. I could make a song on my phone right now, post it on Soundcloud, and anybody can download it. I’m going full speed with that right now. We’re dropping our album on July 23rd.
Video for G.A.S. "Work Talent," from David Lee's rap group Golden Age. Source: YouTube.
Dennis: Restaurants are constantly in dialogue, especially in San Francisco, where the cost is so much higher to operate. How can we make this work? How can we continue to bring new flavors? How can we continue to operate and pay livable wages? That’s a really difficult thing to do.
Butt he technology industry in the area leaves capital for opening restaurants. Hella restaurants are opening all the time, but just as many if not more are closing all the time. It’s an exciting and intense place to be in the industry. For now, we’re enjoying that. It has major ups and downs. It has a lot of challenges, which is why we’ve evolved into the fast-casual thing. The bigger project we’re doing is more driven by seeing how we can still serve high-quality food, but not in a traditional model. We are about maintaining integrity in food preparation and human interaction.
Namu Gaji is located on the corner of Dolores and 18th Street.
Namu Stonepot is located at 553 Divisadero Street.
Contact them at hello@namusf.com and (415) 431-6268.
Visit them on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
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HSI/Canada Exposes Horrific Cruelty as Grey Seal Massacre Begins on Hay Island
February 24, 2011 09:16 ET | Source: Humane Society International/Canada
SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 24, 2011) - Humane Society International/Canada condemns the government of Nova Scotia and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for authorizing the slaughter of nearly 2,000 grey seals on Hay Island, a part of the protected Scaterie Island Wilderness Area off Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. HSI Canada documented the slaughter.
"Today, in a Nova Scotia nature reserve, terrified baby seals were beaten to death with clubs and sliced open in front of each other," said Rebecca Aldworth, executive director of Humane Society International/Canada. "What we witnessed is a crime against nature. One of the greatest wildlife spectacles on Earth has just been turned into a killing field."
Grey seals were killed in large numbers on Canada's east coast throughout the past two centuries and, by 1949, were thought to have been wiped out in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. While the population has begun to recover, fishing-industry lobby groups have repeatedly pressured for a cull of grey seals despite any evidence to suggest such a move is necessary.
The grey seal hunt is only the beginning of the sealing season. Next month, the world's largest slaughter of marine mammals — the Canadian harp seal hunt — will begin, with sealers likely authorized to slaughter hundreds of thousands of defenseless baby seals.
Humane Society International/Canada is calling on the federal government to implement a one time buyout of the commercial sealing industry – a program in which sealers would be compensated for their licenses and funds invested in economic alternatives including ecotourism.
Humane Society International/Canada is a leading force for animal protection, representing tens of thousands of members and constituents across the country. HSI Canada has active programs in companion animals, wildlife and habitat protection, marine mammal preservation and farm animal welfare. HSI Canada is proud to be a part of Humane Society International—one of the largest animal protection organizations in the world, with more than 11 million members and constituents globally—On the Web at www.hsicanada.ca.
Contact Information: Humane Society International/Canada
Dean Pogas
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www.hsicanada.ca
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Overcoming Adversity
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January 9, 2012 • By Reed Vreeland
For Wayne Starks, 51, a former New York City bus driver, overcoming addiction and staying sober have been central to his fight to be healthy while living with both HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV). “I wouldn’t have survived if I had kept using drugs and alcohol,” Starks says.
When he was diagnosed with HIV in 1986, though, his doctors didn’t think Starks, who has two children, would live long. That grim outlook made curbing his addictions harder.
Starks started HIV meds in the early 1990s but returned to using drugs and drink on and off for over a decade, grabbing the quick fix to temporarily forget his problems in times of tragedy. Then in 2000, when Starks learned he also had hep C, he committed to sobriety.
Today, as a board member for VOCAL-NY (formerly New York City AIDS Housing Network), a group advocating for the rights of HIV-positive people, Starks draws on his years of living on the streets and in HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) housing. “I know what it is to be homeless,” Starks says.
Where you live can influence your health for better or worse, and drug-free housing is definitely for better. After cycling through several drug-infested housing complexes—smoky hallways in one gave him asthma attacks—Starks has found permanent scatter-site housing that helps him put his health first, take his HIV meds on time, make doctor’s appointments and get enough rest.
Starks wasn’t surprised to learn he had hepatitis C—several of his friends had it too. He points out the danger of so many HCV cases remaining undiagnosed: “People are living with hep C for years and don’t even know they have it. They’re drinking and using drugs. Little do they know it’s eating up their liver slowly but surely.” You can’t make informed decisions about your health, Starks says, without a full picture of your diagnosis—especially when considering giving up alcohol.
People also tend to make bad decisions if they’re told their outlook is hopeless, so Starks works to spread optimism and encouragement. “If you have HIV, if you have hep C, there’s treatment out there for you,” Starks tells people in his work for VOCAL. An HIV or HCV diagnosis is not a condemnation, he says, but a chance for a better, healthier way of life.
HCV regimens don’t work well in African Americans with genotype 1 HCV—a situation that applies to Starks—so he put off considering treatment. But in 2006 his doctor told him his liver enzymes were high, and Starks gathered the courage for a liver biopsy. Instead of another grim medical assessment, he was told his liver was stable. This allowed him to postpone HCV treatment for at least another five years, when drugs with greater success rates in black patients might be available. Anticipating his next appointment with the specialist, Starks says he’s comforted that some such drugs recently arrived, with others on their way.
Meanwhile, with the support of his family and a 12-step program, Starks is now 11 years sober and enjoying his role as a father and grandfather. He eats nutritious meals, drinks lots of water and has checkups with his primary care doctor every two to three months. His HIV viral load is undetectable, but his advocacy by example can be detected—loud, clear and courageous.
To read more of Wayne Starks’ story, click here.
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U.N. Report: Nearly 66% of Global Drug Deaths Are From Opioids
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Learning To Live With One Another
PUBLISHED: 11:04 28 October 2008 | UPDATED: 15:33 20 February 2013
Trevor Mepham
Hilary Engel talks to Trevor Mepham about his new appointment as principal of the Steiner Academy Hereford, and about what Steiner education has to offer.
Trevor Mepham's new job will require immense powers of diplomacy, which he probably possesses. He has just been appointed principal of the Steiner Academy Hereford, formerly the Hereford Waldorf School, which in all its 25 years has never had a principal. Like all the other 30 Steiner schools in the UK it used to be run by a Council made up of parents, teachers and administrators: and Trevor admits it is "a challenge" moving into this new role.
I have come to talk to him in the school's rambling premises at Much Dewchurch, where it occupies the site of the former primary school and various portakabins as well as a quaint old half-timbered farmhouse next door. Trevor has recently arrived from Devon, where he lived for 22 years on the edge of Dartmoor.
As a graduate in international politics: he was about to launch into a career with the Civil Service when he discovered Steiner education, and changed tack. After training, he taught in a Steiner school in Devon, then became a classroom advisor to Steiner schools in the UK and abroad, then for 12 years taught on a BA programme in Steiner education at the University of Plymouth.
He was also a member of the Executive Group of the national Steiner schools movement which for the past 10 years has been negotiating with the government to set up a Steiner Academy. From the time when Tony Blair was in opposition, he and his colleagues had offered to help the Steiner schools, as part of their commitment to 'choice and diversity' in education.
So what is the essence of Steiner education? What makes it different from state schooling? Trevor admits this is not an easy question to answer. "It isn't a simple blueprint, because a Steiner school grows from its roots and local context. Each school is founded on the basis of certain shared principles. Principles are like seeds; they need to grow from their own soil and conditions. This means that Steiner schools the world over are alike and also different in every place that you find them - just the opposite of MacDonalds.
"We try not to split things up into pieces artificially. Our teaching incorporates the notion that every human being has a character, a unique identity, with potential, and obstacles to overcome, and pupils can't be standardised or dealt with in a uniform way. We work actively with the notion that every human being has a spiritual aspect, and a soul, as well as a body. We try to meet the children as individuals, and help them make their way according to their strengths and distinctive attributes.
"Steiner education also focuses on the way in which people relate to each other. This is more and more important in modern life. We believe there are social and emotional aspects of education which need to accompany the more technical, functional ones. It's essential that we are able to consider, appreciate and, at times, tolerate each other, whether in a family, in a community, or across borders.
"Any form of education should have these ideals in mind - otherwise it is merely training, just the acquisition of skills without a meaningful context, and the human being gets sidelined in favour of technical know-how.
"We try to foster lifelong learning, meaning the disposition, the ability, to continue learning throughout one's life; this is essential to health and well-being."
Undoubtedly there are many misconceptions among outsiders about Steiner education; but one aspect which is widely known is that the children do not start reading until they are seven years old. I ask Trevor to explain the reasons for this: is it simply based on the theories of Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian scholar who founded the educational movement after the First World War?
"Steiner didn't want anyone to be bound by what he said," Trevor assures me. "He was a researcher working in many fields - agriculture, the arts, medicine, architecture , as well as education. He offered 'indications', not instructions, based on spiritual insight, coupled with a rigorous method of observation and reflection. He developed ideas that had come from Rousseau and Froebel, and were later shared, in part, by Piaget and Montessori.
"But Steiner did see childhood as composed of three different developmental phases: infancy, then the heart of childhood, then puberty and adolescence. They're not rigid divisions, and they don't apply in the same way to all children."
"In Steiner education we see 'reading' as just one aspect of literacy. Reading is a skill, but it is also a disposition: being literate means more than just being able to read in a mechanical or technical sense. We hope that our pupils will have an appetite for reading when they are 70 as well as seven. If you teach a three-year-old to read you are putting something in, of course, but you are also taking something away, or rather, filling the space. . This is a controversial idea, although it is the case that when you begin to read, your whole consciousness changes. A new and important quality dawns, while another, less obvious quality dims"
"We want our young children to be able to climb trees, and swim, and listen, and play and sing, get on with other people and certainly dream a little. We are very committed to literacy for the long term, and to emotional literacy, which is, arguably, more valuable than being a multi-millionaire."
Steiner schools begin teaching foreign languages from the age of seven. In addition to the bread and butter subjects - maths, English and science - they also put particular emphasis on art, music and drama, on the myths and philosophies of other cultures, and on practical handwork and land-crafts. The specialism of the Steiner Academy will be the natural environment.
Until now all of the British Steiner schools have been self-funded, though in many parts of Europe - Scandinavia, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands - as well as in Russia, Israel, Australia and New Zealand, they have been state-funded for many years. (There are over 1000 Steiner schools worldwide.) The Blair government was committed to funding one Steiner academy, in order to be able to assess its effectiveness. It proved impossible to find a suitable site in a city, where when a school becomes vacant it tends to be snapped up by developers. And so eventually the choice fell on the little school in Much Dewchurch.
As Trevor knows, the new Academy is going to be the focus of considerable attention. With all its funding coming directly from central government, he and the school are answerable directly to the Secretary of State. The school will continue to have Ofsted inspections, but now as a publicly-funded school. Already during the summer holidays there was an inspection of 'policies, procedures and premises'; and only after this was successfully completed could the opening date for the Academy be set.
But already the school is over-subscribed, with waiting lists extending several years ahead. "Some people ring up to apply for places when their children have only just been born," says Trevor. "But some of our children now are second generation - their parents came here too."
The local community will also be keeping a close eye on the Academy. Throughout its 25-year life the school has encountered opposition to its development plans; and although money was available for a complete re-build the planning application submitted this year was rejected. Instead there are going to be additions to the existing buildings and a refurbishment of the entire site.
There are those who are concerned that the Steiner Academy will drain resources and more importantly children from nearby state schools. "None of our funding comes from the local authority," says Trevor, so the first worry is unfounded.
And although the school is going to grow, it is only a modest increase. "The new classrooms are designed for a maximum of 26 children," says Trevor, "and we have ten classes, up to the age of 16. Including the three kindergartens there will be no more than about 320 children altogether - an increase of just 18%.
"Quite a few families have moved here specifically in order to send their children to the school, bringing their skills, their businesses and their families to the area. The school is a source of attraction, which is bringing growth and diversity to the local economy."
So what difference is it going to make to the school now that it is an Academy?
"The funding will enable us to upgrade our existing buildings and add new ones," says Trevor. "The school has never had its own hall - all of our festivals have taken place in the church next door, and the church has given us unstinting support, for which we are extremely grateful. Now we will have our own hall, and a music room, a movement room, three new classrooms,rooms for learning support, a new toilet block, and a new reception area. We'll be able to make our classrooms more spacious, and more beautiful."
One particular difference - assuming that the government does not change its existing policy in the meantime - is that the school has agreed to administer National Curriculum Tests in Key Stages 2 and 3. Previously the school has used internal, classroom-based forms of assessment, carried out by the teachers. Trevor admits that the SATS will call for "an interesting balancing act" between the requirements and expectations of the government, staff, children and parents. "It's an issue to be taken very seriously: the tests will need to be carefully discussed with the parents and children, who are studying a completely different curriculum from the one the tests are designed for. It's important that the Academy responds to the various aspects of this issue with respect and in a positive spirit."
Despite the diplomatic minefield that may lie ahead, Trevor seems to be facing the future in his new role with confidence and total commitment.
"This is and will be a small, local school set in a delightful part of the country. We are also part of a European family of 650 schools and an international network of 1000 schools. We find ourselves living in uncertain and complex times, where opportunities and constraints often vie with each other. I think Steiner education has a contribution to make to the wider educational life of this country. How we live and learn together, with our differences, rather than in spite of them, is a key challenge for our times and a task that is fundamentally an educational one."
Main photography by Shaun Thompson
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Obama, Clinton express solidarity with New York terror attack victims
At least eight people were killed and 11 others injured in the attack, while the suspect was arrested.
PTI, New York
Police investigate crushed bicycles on a bicycle lane the day after a pickup truck attack on the West Side Highway in Manhattan, New York on November 1.(REUTERS)
Former US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on Wednesday expressed solidarity with the victims of the New York terror attack that claimed eight lives.
A 29-year-old Uzbek immigrant, allegedly inspired by the ISIS, ploughed a pickup truck down a crowded bike-only path in lower Manhattan, in the deadliest terrorist attack in New York City since the 9/11 incident.
“Michelle and I are thinking of the victims of today’s attack in NYC and everyone who keeps us safe. New Yorkers are as tough as they come,” Obama, 56, said in a tweet, which was retweeted by former first lady Michelle Obama.
Michelle and I are thinking of the victims of today's attack in NYC and everyone who keeps us safe. New Yorkers are as tough as they come.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 1, 2017
Bill Clinton, 71, also took to the social media site to express his condemnation for terrorism.
“New Yorkers see this attack for what it is- an attempt to sow fear. We stand against terror as we grieve for the victims and thank the @NYPD,” the 42nd president of the United States tweeted.
New Yorkers see this attack for what it is—an attempt to sow fear. We stand against terror as we grieve for the victims and thank the @NYPD.
— Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) October 31, 2017
Former White House contender Hillary Clinton, 70, denounced the attack as a “cowardly act”.
“New York’s resilience is stronger than a cowardly act of terror. Thinking of the victims, their families, & the responders who saved lives,” she posted on Twitter.
New York's resilience is stronger than a cowardly act of terror. Thinking of the victims, their families, & the responders who saved lives.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 1, 2017
Republican Senator and Chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain said, “Praying for all those impacted by the tragedy in #NewYorkCity. Thanks to first responders & law enforcement for their quick action.”
Manhattan attack virtual replay of instructions in Islamic State magazine
Manhattan truck attack kills 8: 10 times vehicles turned terror weapons
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January 5, 2005: What is a Dwarf Planet?
By Major Dan on January 5, 2019 January 5, Nature, Science & Technology
A Brief History On January 5, 2005, American astronomer Michael E. Brown (CalTech, Princeton,Berkeley ) with fellow astronomers David L. Rabinowitz (Yale University and University of Arizona) and Chad Trujillo (University of Hawaii, Gemini Observatory and Northern Arizona University) were given credit for their discovery of a planetoid they called Eris, at the time, the largest dwarf planet known in the Solar System. The astronomical team actually discovered Eris in 2003, but its (relatively) small size and distance from Earth required rigid documentation for the discovery to be accepted. Larger than Pluto, the dwarf planet that used to be considered…
January 5, 2018: Insidious: The Last Key, Movie Review
By Major Dan on January 5, 2018 Cinema & TV, January 5, The Paranormal
A Brief History On January 5, 2018, the fourth movie in the Insidious horror movie series makes its opening across the US, bringing the familiar character, ghost buster Elise Rainier, back into play in a battle against evil. The film is an absolute must see for Insidious fans, but can easily stand on its own for those unfamiliar with the movie franchise. Digging Deeper Without giving away spoilers, suffice to say the movie reveals the background of our heroine, from her time as a young girl with the dubious “gift” of being able to see and communicate with ghosts. Smoothly…
January 5, 1066: 10 Modern Nicknames for Celebrities
By Major Dan on January 5, 2018 January 5, Lists, Politics
A Brief History On January 5, 1066, Edward the Confessor of England died, setting the stage for what became the Norman Conquest. On January 5, 1500, Charles the Bold also died, killed in battle. Of course, this guy is not to be confused with Charles the Bald, although he was also known as Charles the Rash, but not because of a skin condition! In the past we have pointed out the odd names bestowed upon historical figures, and today we speculate about what names our current crop of luminaries would be called if people still were named according to a…
January 5, 1998: Sonny Bono Skis into a Tree and Dies!
By Major Dan on January 5, 2017 Arts & Entertainment, January 5
A Brief History On January 5, 1998, former rock and roll star and current Congressman from California, Salvatore “Sonny” Bono, died when he skied into a tree at a Nevada ski resort. Sonny, former member of rock duo Sonny and Cher, was 62 years old when he died. Digging Deeper Born in Detroit to a Sicilian family, Sonny moved to California at the age of 7. Bono’s first foray into the music business was as a songwriter, with the hit song “Needles and Pins” to his credit (#13 in US and #1 in the UK in 1964 by The Searchers).…
History: January 5, 1956: Alexander the Great, The Motion Picture
By Major Dan on January 5, 2016 Cinema & TV, History versus Hollywood, January 5
A Brief History On January 5, 1956, producers and editors of the major Hollywood motion picture, Alexander the Great, starring Richard Burton in the title role, were hard at work preparing the movie for its March 22, 1956 release, cutting its running time from over 3 hours to 135 minutes. Digging Deeper The film is of course about the great Macedonian King and conqueror who ruled an enormous empire carved out of the Middle East and Mediterranean by his own leadership between 336 and 323 BCE. During his reign, Alexander defeated the great Persian Empire and all others that stood in…
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Written on November 26, 2016 by ER at 10:25 PM | 0
Americas, Caribbean, DD
Biographies, Cold War
In 2006, President George W. Bush said, “One day the good Lord will take Fidel Castro away.” On November 25, 2016, to the delight of Cubans both on the beautiful island nation and all over the world, Raul Castro announced the death of his brother, 90-year old dictator and former Cuban President Fidel Castro.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, a village in the province of Holguín to a wealthy family. His father was a well-respected and successful farmer – in fact, he owned a 23,000 acre plantation in the village. Castro then went on to study law at the University of Havana in 1945, where he was a classmate of my grandmother. While studying at the University of Havana, he began to develop leftist ideals and began to rebel against the imperialist notions of his family and the Cuban government, led by then-President Fulgencio Batista.
After developing more and more left-leaning policies and notions, Castro did not immediately rebel against his own country. He first led rebellions against right-leaning governments in Colombia and the Dominican Republic, honing his strategies for the day he would overthrow his own country’s government. Castro had always been a charismatic man, and he did not have much trouble gaining followers and convincing others to join his militia. In 1953, Castro returned to Cuba and attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, an attempt that failed miserably. He was imprisoned for a year.
Upon his release from prison, Castro traveled to Mexico and joined forces with his brother Raúl Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. The trio called their group the 26th of July Movement. As more and more Cubans were tiring of the imperialistic rule of Fulgencio Batista, his rag-tag group gained more and more members. My great-uncle was one of those members. He later told me that he felt that the ideals Castro first espoused to his followers would be good for the nation, and would finally give the Cuban people the freedoms and independence they craved. The group hid in the Sierra Maestras and waged guerilla warfare upon Batista’s troops. While hiding in the Sierra Maestras, Castro and his leaders would summarily shoot any of their own men who showed any dissent or doubt about their leader’s true intentions. Che Guevara proved himself to be quite enthusiastic about permanently silencing any of those with doubts. Thus began Castro’s habit of murdering those who did not agree with him or completely support him.
After several battles and skirmishes, Castro and his men were ultimately successful, and on January 1, 1959 former President Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba. The nation was officially in the hands of Fidel Castro.
Following his decisive victory, Fidel Castro named himself Prime Minister of Cuba. Slowly but surely, Castro turned Cuba into a Communist nation, which would be the first in the Western Hemisphere. He began to limit freedom of the press and freedom of speech, and turned to a socialist form of government. As my great-uncle saw that his former hero had no intention of fulfilling his promises to aid the Cuban people and become a better, more empathetic leader to his countrymen, he began to fight against his former friend. My great-uncle and several other brave men and women formed the Contra-Revolución (Counter-Revolution) in an attempt to force Castro to live up the promises that had led so many to support Castro’s overthrow of Batista. He had seen too many of his friends and relatives killed because they had voiced a simple opinion, and he knew that Castro’s government would not be any different. Dissidents would be dealt with harshly. However, Castro had gained too much power by then, and a bounty was put on my great-uncle’s head. Castro wanted him dead, and he was hunted, his family threatened, and he was eventually forced to flee to the Brazilian Embassy and seek asylum there. Through the gates of the Embassy, he was able to kiss his wife and young children good-bye, and was given safe passage to the United States. It was a harrowing nightmare, fought by a brave man who had the foresight to see that Castro would become a dictator like his predecessor. He was not the only one who fought against Castro – however, he was one of just a few who survived speaking out against Castro. Others who were not so lucky were led to el paredón – a wall where they would face a firing squad for voicing their dissent or displeasing their leader in any other way.
The members of the Contra-Revolución were not the only ones who did not have faith in the future of Castro’s leadership. The United States began to grow more and more worried about a Marxist leader only ninety miles to the south of Florida. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy were not going to allow such a government to exist in such close proximity. In 1961, the United States government began to gather Cuban exiles who opposed Castro’s rule and barely escaped with their lives to the United States, in order to plan an invasion and overthrow Castro’s regime. These Cuban exiles were poorly trained, poorly instructed, and poorly armed, and the Bay of Pigs invasion was a stunning loss of life and an incredible failure on the part of the United States government.
Meanwhile, Castro began to reorganize the country and place an emphasis on the social aspect of the nation, while mostly ignoring the economic needs of the people and the country at large. While Castro did build many schools and expand and nationalize health care, which led to a drastic drop in the infant mortality rate, the country was still reliant on its allies for any economic support. At the same time, Castro quickly began to deny his citizens their basic human and civil rights, and many innocent Cubans were jailed and even killed for showing any political dissent. The notion of free speech was quickly cast aside, and religion was soon to follow. Cubans were not allowed to celebrate Christmas and any who did were thrown in jail. He also instituted a network wherein neighbors would spy on one another. In every neighborhood, a designated “watcher” would walk around, covertly listen in on conversations, watch their friends and loved ones, and report any “anti-government” behavior. Cubans would be sent to prison for owning a television when they were not supposed to, making a comment that could be construed as an insult towards their exalted leader, or even complaining that they did not have enough food to feed their family that week.
In retaliation for the Bay of Pigs, Castro began to ally himself with the Soviet Union. Of course, this made the United States government quite nervous, and thus began several decades of Cold War, with Cuba squarely in the middle. Throughout his alliance with the Soviet Union, Castro survived assassination attempt after assassination attempt, from an exploding cigar to a sniper attack. Somehow they were all bungled and Castro continued to reign.
In 1962, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, asked Castro to store Soviet missiles in Cuba. While at first nervous at the thought of having these missiles on his lands, Castro eventually agreed, as he thought it would enhance his country’s safety against his mortal enemy, the United States. The storage of these missiles led to the Cuban Missile Crisis from 1962 through 1968, a time of great fear and anxiety throughout the world.
Although the Cuban Missile Crisis ended peacefully enough, the United States eventually instituted an embargo against Cuba. Americans were forbidden to buy Cuban goods, and any trade between the two nations completely ceased (if it had even existed before).
The Cuban people lived on a system of rations, and because they lived in a Communist society, where a doctor would earn as much as a store clerk, many Cubans lost the incentive and drive to work. Why work hard (or work at all) when you would receive a check no matter how many hours you worked? Cubans who had been doctors would leave their jobs to become taxi drivers, because their fares and customers would pay in the currency of their home nations, which were worth more than Cuban pesos any day and would buy much on the black market. Cubans would stand in line for hours at a rations depot, and certain foods were reserved for certain members of society. For example, only new mothers and the elderly were granted access to milk. If a Cuban waited in line and the rations store was out of any item on their shopping list, they were out of luck until the next month. As I was told by Cubans who had come to the United States within recent years, many Cubans turned to eating stray cats or other animals because there was not enough meat.
As Castro grew older, he took a less active role in politics but continued to give hours-long speeches to his people. In 2006, he stepped down and designated his brother Raúl as the Cuban president. Although Raúl announced the death of his brother and called it a “sad day” for the Cuban people, instituting a nine-day period of mourning, no cause of death has been announced.
To end on a personal anecdote – my grandparents left Cuba with their children in the 1960s, when, in a deal with the United States, Castro “opened the door” and let out those Cubans with family members in the United States who were willing to sponsor them. Once a Cuban was granted permission to leave, a barrage of military would arrive at the Cuban’s home and take inventory of every item in the home – after all, it was property of the state, not of the individual. On the day before the family was to leave for the United States, that same group of military men would return to the home. If one item was missing – one spoon, one picture frame – their permission was rescinded and they would be jailed. Additionally, the children of the families were treated as outcasts at their schools once it was announced that they were leaving. My mother, who was 8 years old when they began the process of leaving Cuba, was called a gusano (worm) by her classmates and was not allowed to participate in any school activities. This behavior was encouraged by the teachers and administration of the schools, as anyone who wanted to leave was seen as unpatriotic and traitorous. On the day they were to leave, each individual was allowed one small suitcase with one change of clothing, and any jewelry worn would be surrendered to the military at their leisure. My grandparents and their children survived this harrowing experience, but have never been able to return to the beautiful country of their roots.
Pearl de Vere- The Soiled Dove of Cripple Creek
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Mary Beth Bosco
MaryBeth.Bosco@hklaw.com
Washington, D.C. 202.469.5270
Government Contracts | Congressional Investigations | False Claims Act Defense | Native American Law | Data Strategy, Security & Privacy | Global Cybersecurity and Privacy Policy and Regulation
Mary Beth Bosco is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Washington, D.C., office. She has more than 30 years of experience working with new and experienced government contractors, and focuses her practice on advising such organizations in contract and regulatory compliance, transactional matters, and entering and navigating the federal marketplace.
A substantial portion of Ms. Bosco's practice focuses on compliance matters and transactional work. With a background in regulatory matters and litigation, Ms. Bosco counsels clients on the drafting of procurement manuals, and the development and implementation of compliance and training programs. In this connection, she has performed numerous audits of contractor compliance systems and policies. Ms. Bosco, who has a vast knowledge on government contract subject matter, represents companies, financial institutions and investment funds in connection with acquisitions, investments and credit facilities involving government contractors.
Ms. Bosco also devotes a significant amount of time to bid protests before the General Accountability Office (GAO), the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Ms. Bosco has led the response and defense of complex concurrent agency and congressional investigations. She has also advised clients in investigations involving Inspectors General and the U.S. Department of Justice with respect to the False Claims Act, other fraud investigations and whistleblower actions. She has handled voluntary disclosures for clients, and responded to government audits, including those by the Defense Contract Audit Agency, for both contractors and grant recipients. She represents numerous nonprofit organizations receiving federal grant money.
Beyond her law practice, Ms. Bosco regularly writes and speaks on a range of cybersecurity and other issues.
Ms. Bosco's representative matters include the following:
successfully represented a major contingency operations support company in responding to a whistleblower action, resulting in the agency praising the company's cooperation with the agency investigation
handled dozens of due diligence reviews for government contractors in a variety of industries, including defense, information technology, professional services and manufacturing
obtained agency corrective action in several bid protests in the federal leasing space
performed an audit of a large multinational company's compliance programs for its federal business and continued supporting the company by drafting policies and providing compliance advice
successfully defended a contingency operations support contractor in a multiprong investigation, including the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Congress, and suspension and debarment officials
assisted a nonprofit organization in an internal investigation and disclosure of regulatory issues without further action by the agency
successfully defended researchers against debarment proceedings relating to allegations of mischarging in connection with a government-funded program
The George Washington University, J.D.
Yale University, B.A., cum laude
Bar Admissions/Licenses
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
American Bar Association, Section of Public Contract Law
American Bar Association, Section of Public Contract Law Section, Cybersecurity and Privacy Subcommittee, Co-Chair
Women's E-Learning for Leadership Program, Advisory Board Member
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A History of Playstation Portables
Playstation Vita special: We delve into the history of the Playstation Portable brand, looking at its inception, discussing both its successes and failures.
July 3rd, 2011 by Ryan Sandrey
It almost did not happen
The ‘Walkman of the 21st Century’, as Ken Kutaragi called it when it was announced in 2003, the PSP has had a bumpy ride in life, with controversial ad campaigns, system hacking and the revival of the XMB from a failed PSX DVR all being risky and potentially damaging. The various iterations of the console sold 67 million units worldwide and the Playstation Portable can undoubtedly be seen as a popular system. With the announcement of the PS Vita, life as a portable gamer seems set to continue to evolve. However, what made the PSP so special in the first place? Why did Sony feel the need to wade into the Nintendo-dominated handheld market?
To understand why the PSP happened, you have to go back to the late 1980s, almost 20 years before the release of the Playstation Portable. Our friend, Ken Kutaragi, had just left his hardware engineering division and was approached by Nintendo to create a CD-Rom for the SNES. After 5 years in development, the ‘Nintendstation’ made its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in June 1991. However, a day after the announcement, Nintendo betrayed Sony by opting to go with Phillips. The lack of honour and respect shown infuriated Sony, who immediately set out to rival Nintendo in everything they did, starting with the home console market. This is pivotal: if the two companies had managed to broker a deal in the negotiations that ended in May 1992, it is unlikely that Playstation would ever have been born.
Some fun, some games
The announcement of the Playstation Portable was a shock to the industry, as previous manufacturers such as SNK and Sega had tried, and failed, to break the Game Boy monopoly on the handheld market. However, it soon became clear that the PSP would be a serious contender to the crown, with multi-media capabilities, outstanding handheld graphics and internet connectivity being just a few of the specifications that signalled Sony’s arrival. With a stellar range of launch titles including Ridge Racer, Metal Gear: Acid and Wipeout Pure, and the ability to watch movies released onto the short-lived UMD format, the PSP sold in excess of 200,000 consoles in Japan in just two days. With 185.000 units, the PSP eclipsed the 87,000 units that the Nintendo DS sold when it launched in the United Kingdom. The PSP hit the ground running.
And then it hit the wall. Launch units in Japan suffered from problems such as dead pixels and UMD ejection caused by movement. In PAL regions, the launch was delayed due to high demand in NTSC regions and $100 more expensive to boot. There was criticism too: its bulky weight and single analogue stick were seen as problematic for the handheld.
The successful release of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories caused many of these problems to be forgotten, to be replaced with new problems of 5 star police chases and ad-hoc multiplayer massacres. With a new in-house engine to take advantage of the PSP’s resolution and texture density, and custom radio stations, Liberty City Stories was just the game the PSP needed to market itself as a handheld for the core, whilst Nintendo went off and let you throw Frisbees at dogs in Nintendogs. Selling over 8 million copies as of 2008, the game was both a critical and financial success, with a PS2 remake being released in 2006, selling 1 million within a year. With Final Fantasy VII- Crisis Core, Gran Turismo and Vice City Stories, the PSP was going strong with some seriously impressive core titles.
Tweaking, grooming
Two improved versions made it both lighter and gave it a better screen and the PSP seemed to be going from strength to strength, with its foothold in Japan growing due to the insane popularity of the action title Monster Hunter, the Freedom series, and later Portable 3rd, selling over 10 million copies between them, mostly in Japan. It would take an absolutely monumental catastrophe for Sony to damage their reputation. Surely they wouldn’t. Would they?
They most certainly would. In 2009, after 4 years of gracefully sailing the portable seas with the PSP-1000, 2000 and 3000 iterations, the waves got rocky. In June of 2009, the PSP-Go was announced. Whilst the Go was not a replacement for the PSP-3000, it was marketed as the ‘evolution’ of the PSP. This evolution brought with it a smaller screen and a sliding mechanism, along with weight and size reductions and no UMD drive. Digital distribution would be the only method of purchasing games. This was a monumental cock-up. By removing the ability to play the games that existing PSP owners already owned, charging them more than a PSP-3000 and placing the analogue stick in an incredibly counter-intuitive place the PSP-Go was a ‘hard sell’. It was so bad that the PSP 3000 sold more in a week in Japan than the Go did in 2010. It had to be bundled with 10 games and heavily reduced in the UK to even sell. Not a good move by Sony, and confidence in their portable offerings was dented as a result, starting a slow but steady decline in sales, especially in Western countries.
But Sony is a resilient company and tempted their luck with the announcement of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, a Playstation-certified smart-phone that makes classics such as Crash Bandicoot playable on the train and on the bus. With the Xperia going strong, the time seemed right for Sony to revitalize their portable efforts so as to dominate both the smartphone and the traditional handheld gaming market and announced the Playstation Vita at the E3 2011.
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How We Founded myYearbook
Fast Growth
It's one of the 25 most-trafficked webites in the U.S., and it was founded by a pair of siblings in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Catherine and Geoff Cook explain how they did it.
By Liz WelchCo-author, 'The Kids Are All Right' @lizmwelch
The Overachievers: Catherine Cook's classmates voted her Most Likely to Become a Billionaire. with her brother Geoff, she's on her way.
It's hard not to wonder just what the Cook parents fed their kids, Geoff, Dave, and Catherine. Geoff founded a business while attending Harvard—and sold it in 2002 at the ripe age of 24. That inspired Catherine and Dave to launch myYearbook, a social networking site for high school kids, in 2005. When the site, based in New Hope, Pennsylvania, took off, Geoff stepped in as CEO. (Dave spent the past four years at college in Colorado but recently returned.) Last year, myYearbook, one of the nation's 25 most-trafficked websites, merged with Quepasa, a publicly traded company that runs social networking sites aimed at Latinos, in a $100 million deal. The Cooks still run the show and are focused on graduating to a global market. As told to Liz Welch.
CATHERINE: When I was 14, my family moved to Skillman, New Jersey, where I started high school. I didn't know anyone. My brother Dave and I were flipping through the school's yearbook to see if we recognized anyone, and we were shocked at how useless the information was. That's when we thought, What if we put the whole thing online? I'd always looked up to my brother Geoff. He's 11 years older than me and had already launched a successful start-up. I thought if he started a company, I could, too.
GEOFF: I was a sophomore at Harvard and was editing admissions essays and resumés. In 1997, I put up two websites—EssayEdge.com and ResumeEdge.com. By the end of my senior year, I was hiring students to do the work and making hundreds of thousands of dollars. I wound up finding an investor, and then sold the sites to the Thomson Corporation in 2002. I stayed with Thomson—which had offices in New Jersey, not far from where my family lived. I was looking for my Next Big Thing when Catherine bounced this idea off of me. I invested $250,000 and left Thomson and became myYearbook's CEO.
CATHERINE: I was like, Wow! He really likes it! We found developers in Mumbai through a Google search. Dave and I would get home from school at 4 and then be up chatting online until 4 a.m. because of the time difference. A month later, in April 2005, we launched a bare-bones site in our town. We wore T-shirts with sayings like, "Are you the prettiest girl in high school? How about the dumbest? Find out.'' In one week, 400 people signed up. I knew we were going to be successful when a friend told me it was one of the greatest procrastination tools ever built.
GEOFF: We immediately started thinking of ways to engage users with games and quizzes that appeal to teenagers. Catherine was responsible for some of our most important features, because she was communicating directly with users and learning instantly what they wanted.
CATHERINE: I have always been, and still am, one of the most active members on the site. Every new member gets a friend request from me, which is why I now have more than a million friends.
GEOFF: By mid-2006, we had one million users, mostly due to viral growth, but we weren't making any money at all. I reached out to one of the investors in my previous company, and he made a sizable investment, which allowed us to put together a team of about a dozen people—mostly engineers—and get our first office. Before that, we were working out of my home and my parents' place. But then we realized that we needed more engineers to scale the site, so we started looking for a second round of financing. Our selling pitch was that we were MySpace for high school. We got $4.1 million in 2007.
CATHERINE: Dave and I became known as the "myYearbook kids" at school. Our plan worked-we had tons of friends. But my grades suffered. By my senior year, I was skipping classes all the time to go to work. One of my teachers actually pulled me aside, because my grade had dropped to a 78 percent-and I had always been an A student. I missed one class so often I almost lost credit, but my school cut me slack.
GEOFF: Before we launched the company, Catherine cared about if she got an A-minus instead of an A-plus. Her striving for perfection transferred to the company. She became our spokesperson, and she's a natural. When she was 17, we were invited to speak at a technology conference with all these very high-powered people, including Mark Zuckerberg. We had to pitch our business to Barry Diller for a segment called "What Would Barry Buy?" Catherine and I followed MC Hammer, who presented his company, DanceJam. Barry picked myYearbook.
CATHERINE: We weren't making any money, so after I graduated, I went to Georgetown as a fallback. Dave wanted to focus on college, so he took time off from the company while he was at the University of Colorado. I came home every two weeks and clustered all my classes to two days and spent the other three telecommuting. As a result, I had no social life. There was no time for parties or extracurricular stuff. I felt bad about missing things. But how many kids could say, I'm missing my first midterm to talk about user-generated content at a conference in South Korea?
GEOFF: By the time Catherine was at college, it became clear that Facebook intended to rule the world, which forced us to hone our message: Facebook was about the friends you already have; myYearbook was about making new friends. On Facebook, people never accept friend requests from someone they don't know, but that is 99 percent of all friend requests on myYearbook. So we focused all our apps and features on becoming the social graph of people you want to know.
CATHERINE: I met my best friend on the site when I was in high school. Recently, a member messaged me to say his wife, whom he met on myYearbook, was pregnant with their first child. How cool is that?
GEOFF: In 2010, we had $23 million in revenue, but 85 percent of our users were in North America. Winners tend to be global brands, so we started looking for ways that myYearbook could span the world. We looked at raising private equity to go buy other companies, but we didn't see anything we were interested in. And then, in 2011, we were approached by Quepasa. We thought, If you put these things together and push, a year from now we'll have a meaningful Brazilian and Mexican audience.
CATHERINE: The merger made me even more excited to graduate. I kept it a big secret. I didn't even tell my boyfriend or best friend.
GEOFF: It was a $100 million deal—$18 million in cash, the rest in stock. I am now Quepasa's COO. Since yearbooks don't matter much outside of the U.S., we just announced a new name: MeetMe. And with that, we plan to make our social discovery platform span the world.
CATHERINE: My new title is vice president of brand strategy, so I'm focused on going global with the mission I started this company with: to meet new people. It's pretty awesome. I'm more popular than I ever imagined.
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Tag Archive: Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
Government Agency Refuses Compensation to Child Victims of Sexual Abuse
Children as young as 12 are being refused compensation by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), on grounds that they “consented” to their abuse.
The CICA has refused to provide compensation to around 700 young victims of sexual abuse since 2012, with blocked payouts ranging from £1,000 to £44,000. The information was revealed as part of a Freedom of Information request by a group of charities including Victim Support, Liberty and Barnardo’s, who have since written to Justice Secretary David Lidington, challenging the CICA to review guidelines on how it deals with sexual abuse cases.
Despite it being a criminal offence to engage in sexual activity with anyone under the age of 16, charities fear that the rules around payouts are being wrongly interpreted by the CICA, with underage children not receiving compensation because they supposedly consented to the abuse they suffered.
The charity coalition is demanding that the CICA change its rule on sexual abuse so that no child under the age of 16 is denied compensation. They rightly argue that consent through fear or lack of understanding isn’t consent, and that sexual abuse is a result of grooming and manipulation.
According to a recent YouGov poll, two thirds (66%) of people think the rules surrounding payouts to child victims of sexual abuse should be changed, and that refusal on grounds of “consent” should be scrapped in the case of sexual abuse of minors.
Speaking to the Independent, Martha Spurrier, director of human rights charity Liberty, said that it was a “disgrace” that the CICA would even imply that children had consented to their abuse, let alone deny them compensation. She said that the government “must urgently change these guidelines”, words echoed by Barnardo’s chief executive, Javed Khan.
In one case where the CICA refused to pay compensation, a young girl aged 14 was repeatedly raped by a gang of older men, only to have her compensation claim quashed because she had reputedly “not been the victim of non-consensual sexual acts”. This verdict came after the men responsible were jailed for 30 years — raising questions about how the CICA can justify its decisions on cases of child sexual abuse.
CICA Harming Young Abuse Victims, Not Helping Them
Under current guidelines, the CICA is harming young victims of sexual abuse by denying them compensation for the traumatic and life-changing abuse they’ve suffered. Not only are children missing out on monetary payments which are vital in securing aftercare and support, they’re effectively being shunned by a system designed to protect them — leaving them vulnerable, demoralised and with nowhere left to turn.
The complexities of consent have no place in cases of sexual activity relating to minors. Echoing the comments of Miss Spurrier, it’s a disgrace that young victims should be questioned on the circumstances of their abuse — particularly by a government agency whose sole purpose is to secure compensation for “blameless victims” of violent crime and abuse.
We stand beside the charity coalition in calling on the CICA to review its guidelines in relation to child sexual abuse, and hope that by further publicising the issue we can help to get justice for the 700 young lives left in turmoil by the agency’s unjust conclusions.
If your child was refused compensation by the CICA after suffering sexual abuse, our experienced criminal injury solicitors can help you appeal the decision. For more information, visit our CICA compensation claims page or take a look at our guide on what to do if your application to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority is turned down.
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Mansbridge's Exit Is CBC's Chance To Fix What's Wrong With TV News
My advice to CBC brass is to not pick a replacement for Mansbridge just yet, but go back to the drawing board and see if they can design a new way to report the news that will address real journalistic concerns facing the nation, rather than simply reapplying lipstick to a format that needs to be retired along with its icon.
Wade Rowland Professor, author, journalist
Nothing in Peter Mansbridge's three-decade tenure as CBC news anchor so graphically illustrates the problem with television news as his manner of leaving.
Mansbridge announced Monday night that he's "let the CBC know that I'd like to step down from The National next July 1, shortly after anchoring our very special Canada Day coverage for 2017."
The term and conditions of his departure were clearly his choice.
In the CBC's official news release, Jennifer McGuire says: "Peter has been paramount to making CBC News the most trusted brand in news in this country. We can't thank him enough for that." As general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC News, McGuire is Mansbridge's boss. Or so you'd think. But as with all network anchors, his reporting line reaches much higher up the corporate food chain. Nothing to do with Mansbridge -- its just the way the business works.
McGuire's use of the term "brand" gets to the root of the problem. It points to the fact that the anchor of a network television newscast is much more than just another employee, just another journalist. Since the days of Walter Cronkite and John Chancellor in the U.S. and Lloyd Robertson and Harvey Kirck in this country, the anchor has been much, much more. The anchor is the franchise.
A message from @petermansbridge. pic.twitter.com/4XFYizJUBx
-- The National (@CBCTheNational) September 6, 2016
As the individual who reads the flagship network newscast each night, the anchor inevitably becomes the familiar face of the news organization, and by extension, of the network. He (or, less frequently, she) becomes a crucial marketing vehicle, a combination of Aunt Jemima, the Maytag repairman, and Mr. Goodwrench for both the news organization and for the network as a whole.
The celebrity news anchor, in other words, fills no journalistic need, but is a marketing necessity, especially when quality comparisons are risky.
As marketing avatar, the network news anchor must epitomize integrity and wisdom, and with any luck, have a little sex appeal, at least for the target demographic. Image, whether deserved or not, is paramount. Which can be a problem when the person behind the image turns out to be human, as when CTV's Harvey Kirck was busted for drunk driving or NBC's Brian Williams was caught in a lie about his experience as a war correspondent. When the anchor's reputation takes a hit, the entire news organization's credibility suffers.
Mansbridge's departure is a golden opportunity for CBC to re-think its news operations and develop new formats more in line with public service.
Mansbridge, to his enormous credit, has managed to keep his nose relatively clean through the decades -- no small feat when you're under the microscope of celebrity-watchers -- although, for some in the news business, he has been too chummy with some of the politicians he covers, and his speeches to the oil industry have put him in an ethically ambiguous position.
As a former television news producer myself, it has long been my view that there's an even bigger problem with the whole idea of the news anchor as avatar. And it is that their value as a marketing tool gives them too much authority in the television newsroom. Whatever intellectual, academic or journalistic chops they may or may not have, their political clout within the corporation as a whole gives them disproportionate influence over the ongoing process of deciding what constitutes news and how stories should be covered.
My other long-standing concern is that the news should not have a face, either fatherly or motherly. Despite the unfortunate use in the business of the word "story" as synonymous with "report," news is not entertainment -- it's information. The anchor-as-chief-story-teller is a concession to entertainment values that confuses audiences, blurring the line between the two.
Former Liberal leader and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin (R) shares a laugh with CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge before the start of a town hall meeting in Guelph, Ontario January 12, 2006. (Photo: REUTERS/Chris Wattie)
One of the functions of a good public broadcaster is to experiment, to be creative and take risks in ways commercial media can't or won't. Mansbridge's departure is a golden opportunity for CBC to re-think its news operations and develop new formats more in line with public service less and less defined by the need to make a profit for shareholders.
So why not try something that addresses some of the pressing problems with the nation's journalism? Why not, for example, produce a truly distinctive national newscast originating on alternate nights from the country's various regions? Five regional presenters instead of one national anchor. Regions competing with one another on both quality and numbers.
My advice to CBC brass is to not pick a replacement for Mansbridge just yet, but go back to the drawing board.
Both private and public broadcasters have dramatically reduced regional coverage in recent decades, and the nation has suffered as a result. This is one way the CBC, at least, could funnel more resources of all kinds into regional production centres from Vancouver and Winnipeg to St. John's and Halifax.
And who knows? Done this way, The National might grow a bigger, more loyal audience.
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Why Recognizing The Charleston Church Shooting As An Act Of Racially Motivated Terrorism Is Only The First Step
By Lilly Workneh
CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 17: Police close off Calhoun Street where a gunman opened fire on a prayer meeting killing nine people at historic Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Police believe the attack is a hate crime and are searching for a young white man believed to be the only shooter. (Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images)
I took a moment of silence last night.
A long moment ... as I struggled to sort through my emotions while I watched the breaking news reports that gunshots had torn through Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, around 9 p.m Wednesday. Nine people gathered for a prayer meeting were killed.
The shots were fired by Dylann Roof, a white man in his early 20s, who entered the church, worshipped with the members and later opened fire. The massacre will be investigated as a hate crime, Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen said. However, by definition, it was a domestic act of terrorism and the gunman, a terrorist.
As the victims become publicly identified -- among them state Sen. Clementa Pinckney -- we must acknowledge that this atrocious act occurred inside one of the nation's oldest and most prominent black churches, making it hard to argue against the logical assumptions that all of the victims are black. More importantly, despite few specific details about the gunman's motives, it would be remiss not to consider this wicked act of violence as one of racial hate and terrorism. It appears steeped in the repulsive reality of race in America and the injustice it has forged against black lives everywhere.
"It's obvious that it's race," one local resident told an MSNBC reporter of the murderer's motives. "You got a white guy coming into an African-American church. That's a choice: He chose to go into that church and harm those people."
The agony pulsing through Charleston now is the same felt every time a black life is lost to the acts of bigots and brutality, every time a black life is violently dehumanized or devalued -- often without repercussion.
It's not breaking news that being black in America can be difficult and frightening, to say the least. Now, more than ever, we cannot ignore or mask the reality that we live in a country where one's complexion can be a direct threat to safety and livelihood.
Last week, I watched in horror as a white police officer yelled and used excessive force against young, black kids at a pool party in McKinney, Texas. A 15-year-old black girl was pinned to the ground and cried out for her mother as the officer dug his knee into her back. Moments before, he brandished his gun at two young black boys as they tried to come to her aid.
Much less importantly, in the last few days, I have seen former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal's white face, terribly tanned and masked as "black," plastered across TV screens, her name dominating my Twitter timeline and her life dissected through discussions I've both overheard and participated in.
I no longer care to see, hear or say her name.
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, in his latest piece for The Atlantic, urges us to weigh that circus against "America's greatest and most essential crimes -- the centuries of plunder which birthed the hierarchy which we now euphemistically call 'race.'"
He continues:
Kalief Browder died, like Renisha McBride died, like Tamir Rice died, because they were born and boxed into the lowest cavity of that hierarchy. If not for those deaths, if not for the taking of young boys off the streets of New York, and the pinning of young girls on the lawns of McKinney, Texas, the debate over Rachel Dolezal's masquerade would wither and blow away, because it would have no real import nor meaning.
Dolezal is a distraction, and her story is far too confusing, contradictory and complicated to serve as a useful catalyst to re-examine or redefine race or what it means to be black. Instead, if we are genuinely motivated to examine the role of race and racial violence, we must return our attention to how these institutional forces are affecting the lives of those who don't have the luxury of crafting their own identity.
Let us look to the events in McKinney, which made us witness yet again the harsh treatment of black citizens by white officers.
Let us look to the Dominican Republic, where hundreds of thousands of Haitians fear being deported by a xenophobic immigration policy that human rights groups say is rooted in long-standing racism.
Let us look to our own criminal justice system and the long-term and fatal effects it has had on countless individuals like Kalief Browder.
Let us look to the death of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man who was shot from behind by a white police officer in April, just miles away from Wednesday's church shooting.
Let us look to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, when four young black girls were the victims of another hate crime at another predominantly black church.
Let us look to the purpose and mission of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Lastly, let us look to all the other black men and women who have been brutalized and killed under similar, distressing circumstances, and consider them for what they are: acts of racial violence.
"This is as bad as it can get," one black Charleston resident told a reporter Wednesday night. "If we can't find refuge in church, where can we go? Where can we be safe?"
This article has been updated throughout to reflect recent developments in the Charleston shooting, including the identification and apprehension of the suspect.
Lilly Workneh
Black Voices Senior Editor, HuffPost
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A man kneels across the street from where police gather outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church following the shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina.
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