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Koritha Mitchell, Contributor
Award-winning author, cultural critic
Alex E. Chávez, Contributor
Assistant professor of anthropology, artist, and cultural critic
An Open Letter To White People From Two Professors Of Color: Step Up!
03/21/2017 03:07 pm ET Updated Mar 21, 2017
Samantha Sais
“Dream 9” immigration rights activists in July 2013, wearing their school graduation caps and gowns to show their desire to finish school in the U.S.
Now that reality television star Donald Trump is the president of the United States, many Americans have begun experiencing life in a vertigo of disbelief, embarrassment, fear, and anger. Many find it galling that he was elected, despite evidence that he likes to touch women without their consent. However, others were outraged long before that evidence emerged because he had so consistently denigrated people of color, people with disabilities, and Muslims. As much as we would like to sympathize with those who were outraged enough to show up at Women’s Marches in impressive numbers, we cannot escape the knowledge that some of us were living in Trump’s America long before he became, as Koritha insists upon putting it, Predator-in-Chief.
For example, long before the “grab them by the p—” recording surfaced, Trump repeatedly called Venezuelan model Alicia Machado, the 1996 Miss Universe beauty pageant winner, “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping.” Especially given the latter insult, it is clear that racism and sexism worked together to ensure that those defending Machado would be few in number and would largely be ignored by the mainstream media. The silence around Machado’s mistreatment was quite familiar. Still, after seeing the massive crowds at Women’s Marches across the country, we had to ask: where was the general public’s outrage in Machado’s case?
Sadly, Trump’s name-calling was deemed to be laughable, an instance of Trump being Trump. This widespread tolerance, even if accompanied by eye rolling, revealed that Trump’s behavior is in line with mainstream attitudes toward women of color. American society during Trump’s political ascendency has therefore proven to be similar to what we have always experienced—and found in our research.
Yet, what makes the Trump era feel so familiar to us is also what should further mobilize white women. It is time for pink hat-wearing Women’s Marchers—and the many progressive men who cheered them on—to recognize what U.S. history makes crystal clear: wherever there’s an investment in controlling women’s bodies, you will also find hatred for black and brown success. And wherever there’s hatred for black and brown success, you will also find an investment in controlling women’s bodies.
Even privileged women participated in inauguration protest marches because they understood what brought this administration to power: the fact that many Americans want to see women in their “proper” place. White Americans voted in significant numbers for Trump, and support was even stronger among evangelicals. Ultimately, even if they did not identify with Trump’s extreme lack of decorum, they held their noses and voted for him in order to secure a more conservative Supreme Court that would target abortion. (The nomination of Neil Gorscuh shows that Trump intends to give these voters what they wanted.)
What fewer Americans understand is that efforts to constrain white women and to limit the life chances of black and brown men and women have one thing in common: they increase whenever these groups seem to be succeeding. In the United States, black and brown people and women of all backgrounds (and whether cis or trans) encounter aggression because of their success, not because they’ve done something wrong. In short, this election was an answer to women’s success in securing legal recognition of their right to reproductive health services, including access to safe abortions. It was an answer to the success of DREAMers in persuading other Americans that they are not criminals, but human beings. It was an answer to black and brown people who recently began assuming that the White House and the government should work for their benefit, too.
By voting for Donald Trump, 63 million Americans communicated their belief that successful people of color, especially women, had forgotten their “proper” place. His election (and the hate crimes that attended it) only reinforced a truth that was already painfully clear to us: in the United States, the success of marginalized groups inspires aggression as often as praise. American society is designed to facilitate the success of straight white men, so the achievements of other groups are diminished and the populations themselves are stigmatized.
Even with a wealthy white woman in the spotlight, the 2016 presidential election was a case in point. It was the first time that a woman represented a major political party in the race for the presidency, so gender was front and center. Attacks on Hillary Clinton were often misogynistic and sexist. A position of power is simply not a woman’s “proper” place, and everyone was reminded of this fundamental American belief.
The new regime’s stance toward women, people of color, the LGBTQ community, migrants, immigrants, and refugees exposes a reality with which we were already familiar, that “America” is a white racial project that both produces sexism and relies on it. The idea that white men deserve to lead—whether they are qualified or not and whether they are decent or not—is nothing new. Still, it seems to have intensified, pushing the nation toward what many recognize as fascism.
As professors of color, we regularly face the realities exposed by Trump’s hate speech and his administration’s hateful policy plans. In fact, to do our jobs well, we must challenge the assumptions that made hate speech a winning campaign strategy. We equip students to question their taken-for-granted notions of who we, as women and people of color, are. As important, we equip students to think critically about the favorable assumptions that society encourages them to make about white men.
While we do this work in the Trump era — which began when Hillary Clinton and her supporters were put in their “proper” place — we address gender dynamics head-on, which has also led us to address immigration. American attitudes have been and continue to be anti-migrant and anti-immigrant, thriving on misguided understandings of migration. Powerful people (like Trump) who get rich off of the global movement of people and products, encourage the public to believe that migration and crime go together. Mainstream conversations focus obsessively on walls and illegality and encourage hate and fear. Too many Americans believe that brown people from other places exist only to take jobs and commit crimes, and millionaires are happy to have them believe that forever.
Trump fanned the flames of fear and hate with his comments about ethnic-Mexican migrants, but the tiniest spark would have worked just as easily because anti-Mexican sentiment is very American…and has been at least since the nineteenth century. Trump could use this particular “genre” of hate speech to launch his bid for the presidency because such speech has deep roots. No wonder countless citizens were energized by his message. No wonder so many people have been emboldened and inspired to commit crimes against black and brown Americans.
Please recall: on the very day he announced he was running for president, he got his populist campaign off to an enthusiastic start by claiming that Mexicans are rapists. This sort of language only picked up steam as he conjured up images of “bad hombres.” And this resonated with the GOP’s habit of labeling Latina mothers “drop-and-leave” culprits and calling their children “anchor babies.” Importantly, much of this language centers on gender, stigmatizing Latinos and Latinas as a reproductive threat that will bring about the much feared “browning of America.”
A lethal combination of racism and sexism led to Trump’s electoral triumph, and it has already translated into intensified terror for those vulnerable to ICE agents and police. However, this terror must be understood as a continuation of the daily violence of white supremacy. Many of us were familiar with that violence long before Trump’s political ascendency.
Still, the hostile messages that black and brown people have always received have become more explicit, and all Americans must finally be absolutely honest about the gist of mainstream conversations. The widespread claim is that none of us people of color belong here—this is not our country. But, our research forces us to reject these ridiculous notions. For the United States was built on the backs of all marginalized groups who have been displaced, enslaved, raped, lynched, and exploited. We’ve sacrificed for this country. Indeed, it is more likely the case that we are most responsible for producing whatever is “great” about “America,” both socially and economically.
Because we recognize the urgency of this moment, we ask white people to own up to all that the Trump presidency means (not just the anti-woman part). You belong to the demographic that overwhelmingly supported him. Not just “working-class” white people; all kinds of white people, including many women.
Despite rampant voter suppression, people of color tried to save American democracy. That didn’t work, partly because not enough of you had difficult conversations over the years with your family, friends, and neighbors. You know, the uncle who’s always saying something racist at Thanksgiving or the co-worker you never challenge when she makes racist or homophobic jokes.
We’ve therefore brought a bit of our classroom to you here. Groups that are being targeted even more intensely than before need you to actually listen when we speak and both literally and metaphorically stand beside us. You can make this country less hostile for someone who isn’t living under your own roof. Democracy requires no less.
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Donald Cohen, Contributor
Executive Director, In the Public Interest
When Public and Private Meet, Extra Care Is Needed
10/08/2013 01:11 pm ET Updated Dec 08, 2013
Across the nation, private companies are looking to take over public services. A legislative battle in Sacramento over a bill to privatize state trial courts epitomizes the promises and pitfalls of privatization.
Assembly Bill 566 (Wieckowski) would require that before contracting services out, courts must provide proof of cost savings, create employment standards, engage in a competitive bidding process, and undergo regular financial and performance audits bill sits on the governor's desk for signature or veto and the lobbying is intense.
As in most debates over outsourcing of public services, opponents 'central claim is that privatizing essential courtroom services such as court reporting, processing cases, probate investigations, and interpretive services, saves dollars.
Yet the track record on privatization of public services and assets is decidedly mixed. Public agencies that hire private companies without strong mechanisms of accountability, transparency, rigorous evaluations of contracting costs and standards have learned the hard way.
Courts, like most branches of government, have faced years of deep budget cuts, and the siren song of promised savings with no loss of services is understandably appealing. But taxpayers should be skeptical: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. In fact, in 2007 the Government Finance Officers Association looked at the question of savings promised by privatizing public services and concluded that hidden and indirect costs can add up to 25 percent to the contract price.
Under-bidding, cost overruns, fee increases, and contract "change orders" or amendments are typical results of poorly planned and poorly executed outsourcing and it takes highly skilled personnel with expertise in private contract management to protect taxpayers and ensure high quality public services . Too often, especially in this era of reduced staffing, such oversight is simply not available.
One of California's most spectacular examples of this comes directly from the judicial branch: the central bureaucracy's case management IT project. A state audit found that the agency "failed to develop accurate cost estimates -- in 2004 the cost estimate was $260 million and by 2010 the estimated cost was $1.9 billion." With more than 100 contract amendments, basic management lapses, and under-reporting of costs, it has become the poster child of government mismanagement of private contractors in California.
But we should be more precise about the lessons to be learned from the debacle. It was a fundamental failure of the agency to adhere to best management practices that rely on strong accountability, transparency and oversight taxpayer protections. The state audit found that the Administrative Office of the Courts had not adequately analyze and planned the system, hadn't accurately estimated costs, kept the legislature in the dark about cost overruns, failed to control costs during implementation and didn't establish adequate oversight mechanisms -- the fundamentals of good management and the exact safeguards now being proposed for trial courts.
A second reason to be skeptical of the "same for less" promises made to justify privatization of public services is the track record that many private companies have in providing services. Companies often save money by cutting corners in unacceptable ways -- reducing access to services or to offer worse services. USIS, the contractor that does 700,000 yearly security checks for the federal government was found to have told managers to "flush" cases to meet revenue goals. In the waning days of a month, investigations were closed to meet financial quotas, without a required review by the quality control department.
USIS is now well-known as the firm that vetted were Edward J. Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, and Aaron Alexis, who the police say shot and killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard. The Office of Personnel Management stated that USIS performed well in these cases. But, according to the Washington Post, it is under criminal investigation over whether it misled officials about the thoroughness of its work for the government.
Transit riders in the city of Fairfield halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento learned the hard way about the pitfalls of outsourcing done poorly. MV Transportation, the private contractor hired by the local transit agency, was fined 295 times between 2008 and 2010 for exceeding the allowable preventable accident rate, for failing to meet agreed upon arrival times and for busses that failed to show at all. The transit manager at the time, George Fink, summed up his experience with outsourcing, "If you had a contractor that wanted to run the business and not maximize their profit at every turn, then it would be fine," Fink said. "As it tends to work out, you're spending 85 percent of the time making sure that they're doing everything in the contract instead of doing the things you need to be doing, like getting grant money doing transit planning."
Finally, there are policy considerations that must be weighed and that require thorough, public vetting before contracts are entered into. For example, when states privatize their prisons , many contracts include "occupancy guarantees" of 80 to 100 percent, that require states to keep the beds filled or pay for empty beds. Private highways and toll roads, such as California's State Route 91, often require that no upgrades be made to other competing transportation routes. SR 91 ultimately came back under public control for that very reason. In the case of courts, privacy issues and access to justice for the poor are potentially compromised in a privatized court environment.
Privatization is inherently neither a good nor a bad thing. It has potential upsides and downsides that depend entirely on the need for legislators to protect taxpayers and the public interest to stay in charge through clear standards, accountability, and transparency. AB 566 deserves a signature.
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Huntingdonshire’s car parks in focus for council-backed review
Sophie Day
sophie.day@archant.co.uk
Read more from Sophie Day
Updated: Friday, April 21, 2017 (07:47)
Riverside car park, in St Neots, will be among the car parks reviewed as part of the report.
An extensive review to determine the future of car parking in Huntingdonshire could get under way in the next few months, according to a council report.
Huntingdonshire District Council has published a report which sets out its plan for a fresh parking assessment after it abandoned a proposed increase in car park charges last year.
In the report, the council published a timeline for an in-depth assessment of provision for all the authority's car parks, along with on-street parking and residents permits.
A member of the council's overview and scrutiny panel, which met on April 6, said: "The origins of the project may have started with a report on car park charges, however, there is now a good opportunity for members to look at car parks in a holistic way."
The report, by head of operations Nigel Sloper, highlighted the council's lack of evidence to account for any increase of fees following its proposal in October last year.
Within the document it states that the council had no agreed vision for the role of car park management and operation, no clear evidence base on user requirements, preference or need, and that future fees and charges need to be developed using an evidence base.
Under the council's original plans, rates could have risen by 20p in short stay car parks and 30p for long stay parking. However, the proposal was dropped after receiving a number of negative responses from the public to a planned consultation.
As a part of the new four-stage review, the council will meet with interested parties, along with trying to understand customers' needs and any potential future requirements for car parking for new developments.
This was backed by members of the overview and scrutiny panel who also advised the portfolio holder, Councillor Jim White, to look at neighbouring authorities and car parks owned by other companies in the district.
The review will also look at car park standards and disabled parking provision, however, it was noted within the report that the setting of charges will not take place until after the district-wide review has taken place.
The report was due to go before the authority's cabinet last night (Thursday) for approval.
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Is this the oldest eye ever discovered? Scientists unearth 530-million-year-old fossil
Experts say some forms of eye have not changed in 500 million years.
By Jason Murdock
December 7, 2017 17:51 GMT
Schmidtiellus reetae fossil's right eye Gennadi Baranov
A 530-million-year-old fossil may contain the oldest eye ever discovered, a new study released this week by the University of Edinburgh has suggested.
The remains of an "extinct sea creature" included an early form of the eye seen in many of today's animals, including crabs, bees and dragonflies, researchers said.
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The team of scientists, made up of experts from across Europe, made the find while examining a well-preserved fossil of a hard-shelled species called a trilobite.
These were the ancestors of spiders and crabs which lived in mainly coastal waters during the Palaeozoic era, between 541 and 251 million years ago.
The scientists found that the ancient creature had a primitive form of compound eye - an optical organ that consisted of arrays of tiny visual cells, called ommatidia, which was similar to those of present-day bees.
The team, which included an expert from Edinburgh University, said its findings suggest that compound eyes have changed little over 500 million years.
The right eye of the fossil - which was unearthed in Estonia - was partly worn away, giving researchers a clear view inside the organ. This, the experts explained, revealed details of the eye's structure and function, and how it differed from modern compound eyes.
The ancient species - called Schmidtiellus reetae - had poor vision compared with many animals today but it could identify predators and obstacles in its path, researchers believe.
Its eye consisted of roughly 100 ommatidia, situated far apart compared to contemporary eyes.
Exceptional fossil
Unlike modern eyes, the fossil's eye did not have a lens. This is likely to be because the primitive species lacked parts of the shell needed for lens formation, the team said.
The team revealed that only a few million years later, improved compound eyes with higher resolution developed in another trilobite species in the present-day Baltic region.
"This exceptional fossil shows us how early animals saw the world around them hundreds of millions of years ago," said Professor Euan Clarkson of the University of Edinburgh.
"Remarkably, it reveals the structure and function of compound eyes has barely changed in half a billion years."
The study is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It was carried out with the University of Cologne, Germany, and Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.
Professor Brigitte Schoenemann, of Cologne University, said: "This may be the earliest example of an eye that it is possible to find.
"Older specimens in sediment layers below this fossil contain only traces of the original animals, which were too soft to be fossilised and have disintegrated over time."
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THE FOUNDATION (EXISTENCE & TASKS)
As on the previous page
and also the projects carried out by the foundation (homepage navigation, left) that the International Giuseppe Verdi Foundation would like to achieve within a short space of time.
This involves projects that may be partly linked with one another, but which still deserve attention on an individual level as priorities. For that reason, the foundation has selected some key projects and brought them to the fore, highlighting them as imperative. These are set out as follows under a., b., and c.
The conservation (archiving according to the current state) and, if necessary, restoration of the countless Giuseppe Verdi documents stored in the Villa Verdi (Sant'Agata).
The foundation and construction of a newly-renovated international multilingual centre for Giuseppe Verdi studies (including a research and education centre), in which the current Italian Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani can be integrated, if the Italian foundation wishes.
This centre could be established in:
the Villa Verdi (Sant' Agata),
one of the buildings to be constructed in the original style in the Villa Verdi park;
the Palazzo Orlandi, following restoration (Verdi's residence from 1845 to 1851);
the Casa di Riposo per Musicisti Giuseppe Verdi (Milan),
one of the palazzos made available by the cities of Parma, Piacenza or Cremona or a representative house.
It may also be an option to acquire or rent a representative old building at Lake Garda or Lake Como in the event that the above-mentioned options are not available.
The restoration of the Palazzo Orlandi in the Via Roma in Busseto. This was Verdi's first residence (1845-1851), in which he composed at least four and possibly even six operas, but which has been in a state of disrepair for many years and must be fully restored as soon as possible in order to save it from total decline.
Once the restauration has been completed, Giuseppe Verdi's first residence in the Palazzo could be used as follows:
Establishment of the new, internationally-focused multilingual centre for Giuseppe Verdi studies (also a research and educational centre).
Establishment of the Archivio Storico Ricordi in cooperation with the Bertelsmann Group.
Bistro, sale of books, CDs, DVDs, small office for the Friends of the International Giuseppe Verdi Foundation.
In conclusion, this points strongly once more to the fact that although all International Giuseppe Verdi Foundation projects are of great importance, the PROJECTS DESCRIBED HERE should be given absolute priority.
This, of course, requires the right resources, which is why the advisory board and trustees of the International Giuseppe Verdi Foundation would like to invite all those interested in Verdi to take part in financing the project or to help in other ways.
Further reports to follow.
Back to the foundation homepage (click here)
Translated by Katie Roskams within the initiative PerMondo. Sponsored by Mondo Agit offering translations from German into English. Proofreader: Thomas McGuinn
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Nixon’s Basic Income Plan
Why Richard Nixon once advocated for basic income — and then turned against it.
It was the summer of ’68, the end of the decade that brought us flower power and Woodstock, rock and roll and Vietnam, Martin Luther King and a feminist revolution. It was a time when everything seemed possible, even a conservative president strengthening the welfare state.
While young demonstrators the world over were taking to the streets, five famous economists — John Kenneth Galbraith, Harold Watts, James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, and Robert Lampman — wrote that “[t]he country will not have met its responsibility until everyone in the nation is assured an income no less than the officially recognized definition of poverty.” The New York Times published their letter, signed by 1,200 fellow economists, on the front page.
The next year, Richard Nixon was on the verge of making these economists’ dream a reality by enacting an unconditional income for all poor families. It would have been a massive step forward in the War on Poverty, guaranteeing a family of four $1,600 a year, equivalent to roughly $10,000 in 2016.
First, however, Nixon needed some evidence. Tens of millions of dollars were budgeted to provide a basic income for more than 8,500 Americans in cities around the country. The researchers wanted to answer three questions: (1) Would people work significantly less with a guaranteed income?; (2) Would the program cost too much?; and (3) Would it prove politically unfeasible?
The answers were no, no, and maybe.
Working-hour reductions were low across the board. “The ‘laziness’ contention is just not supported by our findings,” the chief data analyst of the Denver experiment said. “There is not anywhere near the mass defection the prophets of doom predicted.” The decline in paid work averaged 9 percent per family, mostly attributable to twenty-somethings and women with young children.
Later research showed that even the 9 percent finding was probably too high. The original study calculated the percentage from self-reported income.
When researchers compared the self-reported figures with official government records, they discovered that most participants underreported their income. After correcting for this discrepancy, the researchers discovered that the number of hours worked had scarcely decreased at all.
“[The] declines in hours of paid work were undoubtedly compensated in part by other useful activities, such as search for better jobs or work in the home,” noted the Seattle experiment’s concluding report.
One mother earned a degree in psychology and got a job as a researcher. Another woman took acting classes while her husband began composing music. “We’re now self-sufficient, income-earning artists,” she told the researchers. Among youth included in the experiment, almost all the hours not spent working went to education. In New Jersey, the rate of high school graduations for participants rose thirty percent.
But not everyone was pleased with the findings. Martin Anderson, a Nixon adviser and great admirer of libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand, vehemently opposed the plan, fearing a future where money was considered a basic right. The concept of a basic income ran counter to everything he (and his idol) believed in: the smallest possible government with the greatest possible individual responsibility.
So he launched a one-man offensive.
The Shadow of Speenhamland
On the same day that Nixon intended to go public with his plan, Anderson handed him a briefing. Over the weeks that followed, this six-page document, a case report about something that had happened in England 150 years before, did the unthinkable: it changed Nixon’s mind, and, in the process, changed the course of history.
The briefing, called “A Short History of a Family Security System,” opened with a quotation from the Spanish-American writer George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Anderson’s short report consisted almost entirely of excerpts from sociologist Karl Polanyi’s 1944 book The Great Transformation. There, Polanyi describes a system suspiciously close to Nixon’s proposed basic income: the nineteenth-century English Speenhamland plan.
According to Polanyi, Speenhamland incited the poor to idleness, damping their productivity and wages, and threatening the very foundations of capitalism by “prevent[ing] the establishment of a competitive labor market.”
Instead of helping the masses, Polyani charged basic income with “the pauperization of the masses,” who “almost lost their human shape.” Basic income did not introduce a floor, he contended, but a ceiling.
The president was stunned. He changed tack and settled on a new rhetoric. Departing from debates about endemic, structural unemployment that had begun under President Johnson, Nixon now spoke of joblessness as a “choice” and began stressing the importance of gainful employment. He deplored the rise of big government while promoting a plan that would distribute cash assistance to some thirteen million more Americans.
“Nixon was proposing a new kind of social provision to the American public,” writes the historian Brian Steensland, “but he did not offer them a new conceptual framework through which to understand it.”
Instead, in line with his admiration for British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Randolph Churchill (the father of Winston), Nixon steeped his progressive ideas in conservative rhetoric. “Tory men and liberal policies are what have changed the world,” he declared.
To mollify Republicans and manage concerns over the Speenhamland precedent the president attached an amendment to his bill: unemployed beneficiaries would have to register with the Department of Labor. Nobody in the White House expected this stipulation would have much effect. “I don’t care a damn about the work requirement,” Nixon said behind closed doors. “This is the price of getting $1,600.”
The next day, the president presented his bill in a televised speech, packaging “welfare” as “workfare.” What Nixon failed to foresee was that his rhetoric of fighting laziness among the poor and unemployed would prove more influential than his policy.
The conservative president who dreamed of going down in history as a progressive leader forfeited a unique opportunity to overthrow a stereotype rooted back in nineteenth-century England: the myth of the lazy poor.
To dispel this stereotype, we have to ask a simple historical question: what was the real deal with Speenhamland?
The Irony of History
Rewind to the year 1795.
The French Revolution had been sending shock waves across Europe for six years. Social discontent had reached a boiling point in England, too. Only two years earlier a young general by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte had crushed the English at the Siege of Toulon.
If that weren’t bad enough, the country was suffering another year of bad harvests with no hope of importing grain from the continent. Grain prices continued to rise, and the threat of revolution loomed ever closer to British shores.
The magistrates of Speenhamland, a district in southern England, realized that repression and propaganda would no longer stem the tide of discontent. Instead, they agreed to radically reform assistance for the poor by supplementing the earnings of “all poor and industrious men and their families” up to the subsistence level. They fixed the rate to the price of bread and paid out per family member.
This was not the first European program of public relief, not even the first in England. During Queen Elizabeth I’s reign, the Poor Law introduced two forms of assistance — one for the “deserving poor” (the elderly, children, and disabled) and another for those deemed fit to work.
The deserving went to almshouses; the “undeserving” to wealthy landowners who won them at auction. The local government supplemented their wages up to an agreed minimum.
The Speenhamland system was unique in that it put an end to the distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor, just as Nixon would aspire to do 150 years later. From then on, needy was just plain needy, and everybody in need had a right to relief.
The system quickly caught on across the south of England. To all appearances, it was a great success; hunger and hardship decreased and, more importantly, revolt was nipped in the bud.
But some raised doubts about the wisdom of aiding the poor.
In his 1786 Dissertation on the Poor Law, the vicar Joseph Townsend warned, “it is only hunger which can spur and goad them on to labor; yet our laws have said, they shall never hunger.”
Another clergyman, Thomas Malthus, drew out Townsend’s ideas. In 1798, he described “the great difficulty” on the road to progress, “that to me appears insurmountable.” His premise was twofold: (1) humans need food to survive, and (2) the passion between the sexes is ineradicable. Conclusion: population growth will always exceed food production.
According to pious Malthus, only sexual abstinence could prevent the four horsemen of the apocalypse from descending to spread war, famine, disease, and death.
But the Speenhamland system apparently encouraged people to marry as fast and procreate as prolifically as possible. Malthus was convinced England was teetering on the brink of a disaster as terrible as the Black Death, which wiped out half the population between 1349 and 1353.
Economist David Ricardo (a close friend of Malthus) was equally skeptical. He believed basic income would create a poverty trap: the poor would work less, causing food production to fall, fanning the flames of a French-style revolution.
The feared uprising broke out in the summer of 1830. Shouting “bread or blood!” thousands of agricultural laborers wrecked landowners’ harvesting machines and demanded a living wage. The authorities arrested, incarcerated, and deported two thousand rioters. Others were sentenced to death.
In London, government officials realized something had to be done. A national inquiry was launched into agricultural working conditions, rural poverty, and the Speenhamland system itself.
It was the largest government survey to date, with investigators conducting hundreds of interviews and collecting reams of data that were ultimately compiled in a thirteen-thousand-page report. But the bottom line could be summed up in a single sentence: Speenhamland had been a disaster.
The investigators blamed basic income for a population explosion, for wage reductions, for increased immoral conduct — effectively, for the utter deterioration of the English working class.
Fortunately, they wrote, as soon as basic income disappeared (1) the poor once more became industrious; (2) they developed “frugal habits”; (3) “demand for their labor” increased; (4) their wages “in general advanced”; (5) they entered into fewer “improvident and wretched marriages”; (6) and their “moral and social condition in every way improved.”
Widely circulated and endorsed, the Royal Commission Report became an authoritative source in the emerging social sciences, marking the first time a government had systematically gathered data to make a complex policy decision.
Even Karl Marx used the Royal Commission Report to condemn the Speenhamland system in Capital thirty years later. Employers used poor relief, he said, to depress wages by putting the responsibility for the reproduction of labor on local government.
Like his friend Friedrich Engels, Marx saw the poor laws as a relic of a feudal past. Releasing the proletariat from the shackles of poverty required a revolution, not a basic income.
Critics of Speenhamland acquired towering authority, with everyone from left to right condemning it as a failure. Eminent thinkers including Jeremy Bentham, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Hayek, and, above all, Karl Polanyi denounced it. It became the textbook example of government intervention that, despite the best intentions, paved the road to hell.
Faulty Evidence
But was Speenhamland a failure?
In the 1960s and 1970s, historians reexamined the Royal Commission Report. They discovered that the commissioners wrote much of the text before collecting data. Only 10 percent of the distributed questionnaires were ever completed. The study’s designers posed leading questions with fixed answer choices, and also interviewed almost no actual beneficiaries of poor relief.
The evidence, such as it was, came mostly from the local elite, especially the clergy, whose general view was that the poor were growing ever more wicked and lazy.
Rumors circulated that the commission’s secretary, Edwin Chadwick, had “the Bill in his head” before the investigation even started, but was shrewd enough to manufacture some substantiating evidence first.
And according to a fellow commission member, Chadwick was also blessed with the “admirable faculty” of getting eyewitnesses to say what he wanted, just like “a French cook who can make an excellent ragout out of a pair of shoes.”
In short, the Royal Commission Report was a fabrication, riven with bias and flawed methodology. The investigators barely concerned themselves with analyzing the data, though they did employ “an elaborate structure of appendixes to lend more weight to their ‘findings,’” two modern-day researchers note.
Their approach could not have been more different from that of the rigorous experiments conducted in the US in the 1960s and 1970s. Those experiments had been groundbreaking and meticulous but had almost no influence at all, whereas the Royal Commission Report was based on bogus science yet still managed to redirect President Nixon’s course of action 150 years later.
More recent research has revealed that the Speenhamland system actually succeeded. The population explosion that so worried Malthus was attributable chiefly to the growing demand for child labor, not basic income.
In poor families children were a source of security for parents. They could work for a wage and support the family in times of illness or old age. Even today birth rates drop as populations escape poverty and people find other ways to invest in their future.
Ricardo’s analysis was equally faulty. There was no poverty trap in the Speenhamland system: wage earners were permitted to keep at least part of their allowances when their earnings increased. And the rural unrest that so worried Ricardo was actually a result of price hikes caused by England’s return to the gold standard (which he recommended), not basic income.
Recent scholarship also highlights a mismatch between adoption of the policy and unrest; villages with and without the policy rioted in 1830.
All English peasants suffered from the return to the gold standard, along with industrialization in the north and the invention of the threshing machine. Threshers (which separate the wheat from the chaff) destroyed thousands of jobs in one fell swoop, depressing wages and inflating the cost of poor relief.
Fears of declining food production were baseless as well. Agricultural production experienced a steady upward trajectory, increasing by a third between 1790 and 1830.
But while food was more plentiful than ever, a decreasing share of the English population could afford it. Not because they were lazy, but because they were losing the race against the machine.
A Heinous System
In 1834, the British government permanently dismantled the Speenhamland system. The 1830 uprising, which probably would have happened earlier if not for basic income, had sealed the fate of the first cash transfer trial.
The new Poor Law introduced perhaps the most heinous form of “public assistance” that the world has ever witnessed. The Royal Commission forced the poor into senseless slave labor, from breaking stones to walking on treadmills, because they believed workhouses were the only effective remedy against sloth and depravity.
Indeed, it was the specter of the workhouse — not the existence of basic income — that enabled employers to keep wages so miserably low. In the town of Andover, inmates even resorted to gnawing on the bones they were supposed to grind up for fertilizer.
The myth of the lazy poor reinforced another myth: the idea of a free, self-regulating market. Contemporary historians say that blaming the 1830 uprising on Speenhamland “cover[ed] up the first major policy failure of the new science of political economy”: the re-adoption of the gold standard in 1819. Not until after the Great Depression was it clear just how shortsighted Ricardo’s obsession with the gold standard had been. Ultimately, the perfect, self-regulating market proved an illusion.
The Speenhamland system — a form of market regulation — was a much more effective strategy to address poverty. It offered security in a rapidly changing world.
Indeed, “far from having an inhibitory effect, it probably contributed to economic expansion,” concluded a later study. Historian Simon Szreter argues that anti-poverty legislation was instrumental in England’s rise as a world superpower. By boosting workers’ income security and mobility, it made the English agricultural industry the most efficient in the world.
A Pernicious Myth
And yet, almost 150 years later, history was about to repeat itself.
According to Nixon, his generation would do two things deemed impossible by earlier generations: put a man on the moon (which had been accomplished the month before, on July 20, 1969) and eradicate poverty.
Polls showed that 90 percent of US newspapers were enthusiastic about unconditional income for poor families. The Chicago Sun Times called it “A Giant Leap Forward,” the Los Angeles Times “a bold new blueprint.” The National Council of Churches, the labor unions, and even the corporate sector were also all in favor.
A telegram arrived at the White House declaring, “Two upper middle class Republicans who will pay for the program say bravo.” Pundits were going around quoting Victor Hugo: “Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come.”
In 1970 it seemed that the time for a basic income had well and truly arrived.
With 243 votes for and 155 against, the House of Representative approved President Nixon’s Family Assistance Plan (FAP) on April 16, 1970. Most expected the plan to pass the Senate, too, which was even more progressive than the House.
But doubts from both sides of the aisle reared in the Senate Finance Committee. “This bill represents the most extensive, expensive, and expansive welfare legislation ever handled,” one Republican senator said.
Most vehemently opposed, however, were the Democrats. They felt the FAP didn’t go far enough, and pushed for an even higher income floor. The Senate and the White House batted the bill back and forth for months before finally giving up entirely.
The following year, Nixon presented a slightly tweaked proposal to Congress. Once again, the bill sailed through the House, now part of a larger reform package. (The vote this time was 288 in favor, 132 against.)
In his 1971 State of the Union address, Nixon declared that his plan to “place a floor under the income of every family with children in America” was the most important item on his legislative agenda.
But once again, the bill foundered in the Senate.
As the 1970s drew to a close the myth of Speenhamland became fodder for the Right once again. Conservative thinkers began lambasting the welfare state, using the same nineteenth-century arguments Nixon had inadvertently revived in his attempt to make basic income more palatable to his conservative constituency.
Wealth and Poverty, the 1981 mega-bestseller by George Gilder, was emblematic. Gilder, who became Reagan’s most cited author, characterized poverty as a moral problem rooted in laziness and vice.
And in Losing Ground (1984), influential sociologist Charles Murray recycled the Speenhamland myth again. Government support, he wrote, would only undermine the sexual morals and work ethic of the poor.
It was Townsend and Malthus all over again. Even former Nixon advisor Daniel Moynihan gave up the fight when he discovered that the Seattle basic income experiment was linked with a 50 percent increase in divorce.
This statistic quickly overshadowed all the other outcomes, such as better school performance and improvements in health. A basic income, evidently, gave women too much independence. (Ten years later, a reanalysis of the data revealed that researchers made a statistical error. There had been no change in the divorce rate at all.)
Ayn Rand’s faithful follower Martin Anderson smelled victory. “Radical welfare reform is an impossible dream,” he crowed in the New York Times. The time had come to axe the old welfare state, just as the Brits had done in 1834.
In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton ended “welfare as we know it.” For the first time since the 1935 Social Security Act, assistance for the poor was seen as a favor instead of a right. “Personal responsibility” was the new mantra.
The perfectibility of society made way for the perfectibility of the individual, epitomized by the allocation of $250 million to “chastity training” for single mothers. The Reverend Malthus would surely have approved.
An Idea That Just Won’t Die
Things could have been different. They still can.
Historian Brian Steensland has meticulously traced the rise and fall of basic income in the US and emphasizes that, had Nixon’s plan gone ahead, the ramifications would have been huge.
Public assistance programs would no longer suffer from the misperception that they pander to lazy opportunists; the categories of “deserving” and “undeserving” poor would disappear. And had the United States, the world’s wealthiest nation, adopted basic income in the 1960s, there’s little doubt other countries would have followed suit.
But history took a different turn. Arguments in support of basic income — namely, that the old system was inefficient, expensive, demeaning — came to be leveled against the welfare state in its entirety. Speenhamland’s misinterpreted legacy and Nixon’s misguided rhetoric laid the foundation for Reagan-, Clinton-, and Bush-era cutbacks.
These days, the idea of a basic income for all Americans is, in Steensland’s words, as “unthinkable” as “women’s suffrage and equal rights for racial minorities” was in the past.
It’s hard to imagine that we’ll ever shake off the dogma that if you want money, you have to work for it. That a president as recent and as conservative as Richard Nixon once sought to implement a basic income seems to have evaporated from the collective memory.
Yet some ideas just won’t die.
In recent years basic income has made a comeback on political agendas. Switzerland is planning a referendum. Finland, Canada, and nearly twenty cities in the Netherlands are conducting large-scale experiments. Even Silicon Valley has embraced basic income.
Now is the time to finally let go of pointless distinctions between the deserving and undeserving poor people. Now is the time to move beyond the fallacy that a life without poverty is a privilege you have to work for, rather than a right we all deserve.
Republished from The Correspondent .
Rutger Bregman is the author of Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-Hour Workweek . He writes for the Correspondent .
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South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It. Queens Museum, Queens, New York, 14 December 2013 – 18 January 2014.
A Bomb, With a Ribbon Around It, at the Queens Museum through 18 January 2014, is an eclectic collection of contemporary works from the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, more commonly known as SAWCC. The show is part of SAWCC’s ongoing work—since its inception sixteen years ago as a grassroots, feminist arts collective in New York—to magnify the voices of emerging and established women artists in the South Asian community. To this end SAWCC, tirelessly produces public readings, film shows, art happenings, and a monthly studio circle throughout the city. SAWCC also works with independent curators to organize an annual exhibition, in step with its mission to bring cutting-edge work that tackles issues of gender and cultural representation to the fore.
This year’s guest curator, Raul Zamudio, opens A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It with a statement that describes the show as including:
works by South Asian women that metaphorically depict the self in personal, social, or cultural guises that will be as attractive, unassuming, and pristine as a beautiful ribbon; yet untying that ribbon triggers an explosion of subject matter that addresses contemporary conditions of globalization manifesting in politics, immigration, gender equality, sexuality, and religion.
In Zamudio’s selection, some works “explode” immediately upon viewing, while others reverberate more slowly and steadily.
Walking into the gleaming gallery space of the recently renovated museum, one is struck by the careful editing of the show, which offers a small but varied sample of artworks. Video, photography, small and large sculpture, painting, and mixed media works are on view, giving the exhibition multiple textures and meanings rather than adhering to a dominant aesthetic or message. A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It challenges viewers to go beyond essentializing and simplifying the creative voices of a particular cultural group, a common trap for curators, practitioners, and viewers of identity-informed art. In the spirit of SAWCC itself, individual voices stand strong to form a picture with many complex parts.
The only video presented, Freedom, Safety, NOW! (2013), is a collaboration of SAWCC artists, filmed and edited by Shruti Parekh. The video is a documentation of the collective’s creative intervention at the Indian Consulate in New York in January 2013, to bring attention to the horrific gang rape and subsequent death of Jyoti Singh Pandey and the assault on women’s bodies everywhere. The video is shown as an installation, its monitor hung against a floor-to-ceiling wallpaper of bold letterpress posters. Because no text is offered explaining who or what SAWCC is, this video serves to ground the exhibition by showing, rather than telling, a key component of their work. The video activates the space, and the urgency and directness of its message provides a counterpoint to the stillness of the other pieces in the exhibition.
[Installation view of "Freedom, Safety, Now!" (2013) by Shruti Parekh. Photograph by the author.]
Across from the installation, Jaishri Abichandani’s set of miniature sculptures, Before Kali (2013), scream out at the viewer. A series of small, ceramic hybrid goddesses—part animal and plant form, part archetype—each miniature sculpture can stand in the palm of one’s hand, yet their energy is that of forces much bigger. They are individually poised on handmade stands, jutting out of the white wall in a slight pyramid shape, hung just below eye level. This arrangement gives the viewer an intimate experience of these small yet fierce figurines.
Mona Kamal’s Alluring Friction (2013) presents the viewer with a life-size rustic wooden bed frame. The frame is a rugged design, not common to contemporary middle-class life, and the mattress is replaced by a tangle of golden barbed wire. The piece evokes a visceral response and conjures feelings of both desire and alienation. The form of a bed creates associations of warmth, comfort, and rest, which are immediately thwarted by the threat of the barbed wire. Information available on the artist’s website, but not presented in the exhibition, reveals that this is a Charopy, a traditional Indian bed typically woven with rope, commonly found in both India and Pakistan. This information, which the curator unfortunately excluded, gives the object another dimension of meaning, alluding to the charged relationship between India and Pakistan.
Without a bio or artist statement for a piece like Mona Kamal’s, multiple layers of meaning and important content can be missed. Pieces take on an entirely new set of meanings when culturally specific information is offered, either in the artist’s own words, or in the curator’s presentation. For the works to have their full impact, and in order to create the “explosion of subject matter that addresses contemporary conditions of globalization,” having access to contextual information is key, particularly for a non-South Asian audience. It is not always easy to strike the right balance between showing and telling, but including such cultural nuances in the form of wall texts would only enrich viewers’ understandings of the exhibition as a whole.
References to the body and gender are reflected in several featured works. Nazneen Ayyub-Wood’s Uninvited Pest (2013) spooks viewers from afar, appearing as a life-size enshrouded black figure oddly protruding out of one of the gallery’s white walls. Upon closer inspection, we see child-like fairy wings attached to this black costume, and a pair of silver Cinderella slippers, placed on the floor beneath the figure—as if they have just slipped off. The costume hangs from two large Velcro strips, loosely mimicking a flytrap. The uninvited pest seems to be a make-believe kind of superheroine who has just escaped her make-believe trap, leaving her costume behind. During the opening of the exhibition, the artist slipped into the attached costume and adopted the role of the clinging figure, punctuating the room as viewers encountered her contorted body. The performative part of this piece was only evident to viewers who attended the opening, since there is no documentation of the performance installed alongside the work.
[Nazneen Ayyub-Wood performing at the exhibition opening. Image courtesy of SAWCC.]
In Beena Azeem’s large-scale canvas Chaos Theory (2012), mirrors collapse the picture plane of a large canvas filled with male and female bodies. The space of the painting becomes a stage for these performers, who somehow act out various roles. There is a voyeuristic aspect to viewing these nearly nude figures, and suddenly their inner lives become more accessible than that of the classic nude, an overplayed subject in painting. By presenting these characters partially undressed as if in prayer or mid-ritual, Azem disarms them and makes them more familiar to the viewer, whereas “the nude,” an artistic invention, creates a distance between art and life.
[Installation view of Beena Azeem`s Chaos Theory (2012). Image courtesy of SAWCC.]
More conceptual works, like those of Shelly Bahl and Swati Khurana, provide spaces to reflect on the nature of representation and communication. Bahl’s International Woman of Mystery (2012), small hand-drawn pictures of movie stars on a scroll of patterned paper, leaves the viewer wondering who these women really were, raising questions about representations of “exotic” women on screen and in real life. Khurana’s ongoing series of transcribed text messages is presented as a magnified typed text, snaking across the top corner of two walls. It is a fragmented message, which conjures up ideas about the changing nature of intimacy in the digital age.
Marcy Chevali’s Swallowed series (2012), a set of drawings created with grains of dry rice formed into tightly knit, amorphous organic shapes on paper, whisper across a wall and hang close to the floor. In their intimate scale and use of simple organic materials, they evoke the movement of breathing or swallowing, or other internal bodily rhythms, or perhaps the tedious meditative work of sorting grains.
[Installation view of Marcy Chevali`s Swallowed series (2012). Image courtesy of SAWCC.]
Overall, A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It offers audiences a small but loaded selection of art. Issues of gender, cultural exotification, immigration, religion, and politics are addressed, more directly in some works than others. From the sobering reminder and call to action of Freedom Safety NOW! to the humorous bronze of a blinged-out semi-Hindu-goddess Diva (2013) by Siri Devi Khandavilli, the realities of our globalized world are not contained in what is local and cannot be captured with one type of mood or aesthetic response. As artists in diaspora, these women are grounded in more than one place, and in multiple histories, herstories, languages, and continents. They have personal access to an incredible array of visual languages and personal and political content to fuel their work. From the diversity of strategies present in this exhibition, it is clear that this art is not here to serve a monolithic view of culture, but to lead us into a world of questioning more deeply how culture affects us, and how we continually reinterpret culture.
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Beijing residents gather near the smoking remains of over 20 armored personnel carriers burned by demonstrators during clashes with soldiers near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4, 1989. | AFP-JIJI
Chinese defense minister labels Tiananmen crackdown 'correct' decision
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SINGAPORE - Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said on Sunday that the bloody crackdown on protesters around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 30 years ago was the “correct” decision, citing the country’s “stability” since then.
Responding to a question at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore after a hard-line speech about China and international security cooperation, he called the protests political “turbulence.”
It is rare for Chinese government officials to acknowledge the events of June 4, 1989, and references to it are heavily censored in China.
“Everybody is concerned about Tiananmen after 30 years,” Wei said on Sunday. “Throughout the 30 years, China under the Communist Party has undergone many changes — do you think the government was wrong with the handling of June Fourth? There was a conclusion to that incident. The government was decisive in stopping the turbulence.”
He added that China’s development since 1989 showed that the government’s actions were justified.
The Tiananmen protests were “political turmoil that the central government needed to quell, which was the correct policy,” he said. “Due to this, China has enjoyed stability, and if you visit China you can understand that part of history.”
Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the protests, in which Chinese troops opened fire to end the student-led unrest. Rights groups and witnesses say hundreds or even thousands may have been killed. China has never provided a final death toll.
His comments echoed those of Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian, who last week decried the use of the word “suppression” to describe the military’s response to the 1989 protests.
China at the time blamed the protests on counter-revolutionaries seeking to overthrow the party.
The event will not be officially commemorated by the ruling Communist Party or government.
In Washington, dozens of activists rallied in front of the Chinese Embassy on Saturday to commemorate the anniversary.
Holding aloft banners and battery-powered candles, about 50 activists, including Chinese political dissidents, spoke of their hopes for democracy.
“I feel that people around the world are getting more and more impatient with the communist regime. And I feel that people start to realize that they can no longer tolerate this regime,” said Wei Jingsheng, chairman of the Oversea Chinese Democracy Coalition.
“When I came here … I was shocked because the information about that movement was completely blocked by the government of China, so I wasn’t even informed of that when I was in China,” said a member of the Chinese Democracy Party who gave her name as Shirley.
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20 Sixth Form students took part in the annual City of London School Model United Nations conference to compete against some of the best grammar and independent schools from in and around London.
We are delighted to inform you that Adnan Zahid from Year 12 won 'Best Delegate' award for his contribution on the Security Council where he ably represented the views of Russia with regards to the ongoing Syrian Civil war. In addition, Andrei, Jaival, Sahas and Ziad managed to persuade their committee to pass a number of clauses in the Eco Soc Committee.
All the students represented the school with distinction and were pleasure to work with. It must be noted that the students were given a very short time to prepare and were exceptional in their efforts.
There was also an opening speech from Rosemary Thomas OBE who has worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for over 28 years covering a number of roles such as Ambassador to Belarus, Deputy Director for Eastern Europe, Head of the War Crimes and First secretary for Elimination. She gave an overview of her personal experiences in places like Afghanistan, along with her opinions and thoughts on working at the FCO and how the various roles she had covered were enriching, rewarding yet challenging. The students appreciated the insight she offered, and were better able to appreciate the role of a diplomat.
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Veterans Memorial Park, A 10 a.m. Independence Day program at Veterans Memorial Park, 339 Veterans Parkway, includes the dedication of American Revolutionary War Memorial. Bring lawn chairs if you want a seat.
Red, White and You Blood Drive, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. July 4-6, Sedgwick County Zoo, 5555 Zoo Blvd. The American Red Cross is hosting its 11th annual Fourth of July blood drive from Thursday through Saturday at the zoo. All those coming to donate at the Red, White and You Blood Drive will receive a Red Cross T-shirt, while supplies last, one free zoo admission voucher and discounted $5.25 admission for family members (good through Tuesday, July 9, 2019).
Fisher-Price Rescue Heroes tour at Walmart, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. July 4, Walmart, 501 E. Pawnee; 11 a.m.-3 p.m. July 6, Walmart, 3030 N. Rock. Local firefighters and police officers will be on hand for a touch-a-truck style event, sponsored by Fisher-Price, which is launching first-responder themed toys called “Rescue Heroes.”
Red, White & Boom!, The Wichita Parks Foundation hosts the 5th Annual Red, White & BOOM! from 5-10:30 p.m. in front of Hyatt Regency Hotel, 400 W. Waterman, The event includes food trucks, a local band and fireworks. The free concert by Groove 42 starts at 7:30 p.m. and the fireworks show starts around 9:50 p.m. More info: www.wichitaparksfoundation.org/red-white-and-boom
Celebrate America, Enjoy the last concert of the 2019 Bradley Fair Jazz series at 7:30 p.m. and stay for the fireworks show immediately after. Singer, jazz saxophonist and songwriter Grace Kelly closes the concert series that takes place in the plaza and fountain area of Bradley Fair, 2000 N. Rock Road. You can set up your lawn chairs as early as 6 a.m. Free. More info: www.bradleyfair.com/special-events/thursday-summer-concerts
Fireworks in surrounding towns, suburbs
Park City starts its two-day Salute to Freedom at sunset on the evening of July 3 with an outdoor screening of “The Secret Life of Pets” in Hap McLean Park, 6801 N. Hydraulic, Park City. Activities on July Fourth at the park run from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. and 6-10 p.m. and include a car show, parade, stage events, kids activities and water carnival, bingo, ice cream social, an evening concert and then fireworks. Festivities are free. More info: www.parkcityks4th.com or www.facebook.com/parkcityks4th
El Dorado has two days of festivities planned at the El Dorado’s East Park, 100 S. Woodland St. El Dorado’s festivities kick off at 6 p.m. July 3 with an adult wiffle ball tournament. Games and activities begin at 9 a.m.-2 p.m. July 4 at the East park and continue through the day with a hot dog lunch and public swimming. The fireworks show will be after the 7 p.m. Broncos Baseball game at McDonald Stadium, 398 N. Griffith St. All events are free. More info: www.eldoks.com or www.facebook.com/eldoradorec
Derby - Get a running start on Fourth of July activities with the 38th annual Firecracker Run at High Park, 2801 E. James St. There are two distances to choose from: a 4-mile race starting at 7:30 a.m. and a 1-mile run at 8:30 a.m.
Derby’s 150th anniversary, along with Independence Day, will be celebrated during the 10 a.m. parade on the 4th. Several activities happen at various locations throughout the day, from tours of Derby’s new fire station at 715 E. Madison Ave., to a “Party in the Park,” bingo games and a toy train exhibit at Madison Avenue Central Park facilities, 512 E. Madison Ave., to an evening baseball game followed by fireworks show. More info: www.derbyweb.com/475/July-4-in-Derby
Haysville - Things will be jumping at Haysville where frog races are among the many activities planned for the 4th. The festivities kick off with an 8 a.m. parade, followed by a fishing derby, frog and raft races, a water carnival, a family hot dog feed and more. Rock with The Banned at a 7:30 p.m. concert, and stay for the fireworks around 9:45 p.m. All activities, except a coed sand volleyball tournament, are free. More info: Search Facebook for Haysville 4th of July Celebration.
McPherson - Called the the Fourth of July Extravaganza, the 7:30-10:30 p.m. event in Wall Park, 500 S. Park St. features live music by King Midas & the Muflers, followed by fireworks. Free.
North Newton - The 7 p.m. event on the 4th at Kidron Bethel Village, 2001 Ivy Drive, includes live music, children’s games, a bake sale and a raffle. Fireworks are expected to start at dusk. Free.
Rose Hill The Rose Hill Recreation Commission, 400 S. Rose Hill Road, is providing ice cream and music by Bob Allison of Allison Sounds starting at 8 p.m., followed by a fireworks show at dusk. Free.
Goddard - Goddard will celebrate on July 5. The annual Independence Day celebration hosted by the Goddard Lions is at a new location this year: the ball fields just north of Clark Davidson Elementary, 333 S. Walnut. The event starts at 7 p.m. July 5, with free hot dogs, chips, water, watermelon and ice cream being served. Bring baseball and softball gear to play on the fields. Free swimming at the Goddard pool takes place after the fireworks show. Free.
Regional Fourth of July events
Peabody - This small Kansas town is known for its annual 4th Fest, with its Fireworks Extravaganza. This year, its 98th annual event, will run from 6 a.m.-11 p.m. July 4. There will be various events and shopping all day long, a parade at 5 p.m., music and a carnival in the town park, and fireworks at dusk. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/peabodyfireworks.
Dodge City - This event, billed as “western Kansas’ largest fireworks display,’ takes place at the Dodge City Roundup Rodeo, 608 S. 14th Ave., in Dodge City. The Old Dodge City 4th of July Celebration starts at 7 p.m., when gates, a beverage stand and concessions open. The fireworks show starts at 10 p.m.
Wamego - Wamego tends to go all out for holidays, and Fourth of July is no exception. Its Celebrate Freedom event has consistently been ranked one of the state’s top fireworks shows. The festivities start at 9 a.m. this year and run through 10 p.m., when the fireworks show begins. After the show there will be a concert by the classic rock band Departure. Events are free.
Kansas City - While it’s not technically a Fourth of July event, Kansas City is resurrecting its Air Show this weekend. The KC Air Show, which runs from July 6-7, will feature the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team, the U.S. Air Force A-10 “Warthog” demonstration team, and other top-tier civilian performers. The show takes place at the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, 900 Richards Road, in Kansas City, Mo. Gates open at 9 a.m. and aerial performances begin at 10:30 a.m. both days. Tickets are $30 for adults, $15 for teens (13-17) and $8.50 for children 6-12. Admission is free for active-duty military with government ID, and veterans receive a discount. More information: www.kcairshow.org
For a full list of Kansas City-based events, click here.
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Hadley Meares is a writer, historian, and singer who traded one Southland (her home state of North Carolina) for another. She is a frequent contributor to Curbed and Atlas Obscura, and leads historical tours all around Los Angeles for Obscura Society LA. Her debut novel, "Absolutely," is now available on Amazon.
Good Time Charlie
It all started in an ivy covered bungalow at 6665 Sunset Boulevard on May 20, 1931. The bungalow was shared by a realtor, a photographer, and the owner of the building -- a huge, jovial, high-voiced 52 year-old "businessman" by the name of Charlie Crawford. Charlie's office was in the back, and it was peculiar, with dark wood paneling covered in wires, and almost no natural light -- except that which found its way through a steel mesh covered skylight. Four telephones sat on a giant desk, along with a panic button. The doors were outfitted with special locks and steel bars and a large safe sat against one wall.
Around 4:30pm shots rang out. A few moments later, a dapper man in a double breasted suit walked calmly out the side door and got into a car where a bejeweled blonde woman was waiting. Inside, Charlie Crawford laid clinging to life. The other victim, Herbert Spencer, was already dead. Charlie was rushed to the Georgia Street Hospital, where his wife Ella, a slight and lovely woman with blonde hair and melancholy blue eyes, rushed through the halls with a bible in her hands, demanding to see her husband.
In the operating theater, an LAPD detective asked Charlie who had shot him. Charlie simply smiled and said "I don't know, ask Spencer." After being pressed further he smiled one last time, and slipped into unconsciousness. He had been true to his code to the last. Because Charlie wasn't a "businessman" or a "real estate agent" or a "politician," as the skittish newspapers frequently labeled him. And the 30-something woman who now stood perfectly still over his corpse, as tears rolled down her face, wasn't simply a privileged housewife, formerly Ms. Oddessa Ella Weding of Minnapolis, who lived at 929 Rexford Drive in Beverly Hills. She was the wife of the man who had once ruled the Los Angeles underworld, known to all of the Southland as "the gray wolf of Spring Street."
Guy McAfee, declared association with gambling interests, is shown at left, being questioned by Chief of Detectives Joe Taylor. McAfee, former lieutenant of Crawford and lately a foe, established a complete alibi and expressed belief that a ''close friend'' of Crawford committed the murders. | Herald Examiner Collection, Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library
Charles E. Crawford had gotten his start in boomtown Seattle at the turn of the century, operating casinos and bordellos and eventually making his way to the mayor's office. Around 1910, Seattle voted in a reform mayor and began an investigation into his activities. Charlie, followed by some of his cronies, headed down to sunny and lawless Los Angeles and opened the Maple Bar, at Fifth and Maple, which also featured a casino and bordello and was frequented by the city's ruling elite. By the 1920s Charlie was the boss of an informal but ruthless crime syndicate, commonly known as "the city hall gang." From 1921-29 Charlie, along with political fixer Kent Kane Parrot, virtually ran the city, using puppet-mayor George E. Cryer as the front man.
As the markets crashed, so did Charlie's empire. The Seattle situation happened all over again, as a reforming mayor was voted into office and Charlie was indicted for various crimes. Charlie publicly attempted to clean up his act, focusing on real estate and claiming to have found god with the help of his wife. He started a magazine, "Critic of Critics," and hired his friend Herbert Spencer to be the editor. But privately Charlie was up to the same old tricks. "Critic of Critics" was simply a tool in a propaganda campaign against targeted city officials. On that afternoon in 1931, for reasons that were never entirely clear, "Handsome" Dave Clark, a USC grad, corrupt District Attorney, and candidate for city judge, came to meet with Spencer and Charlie. As the prosecutor later stated, "there were three racketeers" in that bungalows back office.
Only one came out.
Frail and worn, but calm and self-possesed, Mrs. Ella Crawford talked with a group of newspaper reporters. 'I bear no malice in my heart toward anyone. And I do not believe in capital punishment. I believe that it is against the commandments of God to take a human life. I think the murderer of my husband should be treated as any other criminal.'-- The Los Angeles Times, August 6, 1931
Ella Crawford was now alone, with two small daughters, Joan and Eleanor, to raise.
No matter what she had known or thought of her husband's dirty dealings, during the two highly publicized trials of Dave Clark, Ella defended her husband with a pious vim and vigor that belied her helpless appearance. Dave and his histrionic wife Nancy turned out to be media stars, a highly attractive couple who won both the public and the jury's sympathy and adulation. They relentlessly courted the press, Dave inviting them into his cell to watch in him play poker with other accused murderers, Nancy granting endless interviews.
Widows Ella Crawford and Frances Spencer at the trials. Los Angeles Times, August 6, 1931
Ella and Spencer's widow also became media figures, with daily reports on what they wore and their demeanor in the court room. Ella was the more reserved of the two, often patting the hand of Spencer's widow while she sobbed uncontrollably and appearing at the trial only occasionally. When she was called to testify, she took the stand in a chic "black silk two-piece suit with a touch of color at the throat" and spoke in a "clear voice" with "calm blue eyes." When she was asked if her husband had carried a gun on the day of the shooting (a vital piece of evidence, since Clark claimed he had shot in self-defense) Ella said he had not. When asked how she knew, she smiled slightly -- reminiscent of her good time husband -- and rolling a bit of paper between her gloved fingers stated:
He embraced me when he left home. He always did before he left me and if he had been wearing a revolver I would have felt it.
Yet behind her austere and resigned calm, it seems Ella's blood was boiling. The murders were to be tried separately, with Spencer's death up first. While the judge read the jury his instructions, Ella sat silently, an occasional tear trickling down her face, as the other wives broke down. On August 24, when the star-struck jury came back with a vote of not guilty, she was at the home of friends and declined to comment. But two days later, back in her palatial, columned mansion in Beverly Hills, Ella let loose, issuing a remarkable statement that reveals more about her character and mettle than my insufficient words ever could.
August 26, 1931At the close of the trial as I was coming out of the building called the Hall of Justice, thinking of the injustice expressed by the verdict in the trial involving the slaying of my husband, I stepped across the street and was confronted by an inscription on an old building that had been erected many years past. It read:"It is not your battle, but God's!"So as far as I am concerned District Attorney Fittz need not put on any more burlesque shows in the trial of my husband's slayer. In these times of depression it would be far better if the taxpayers be saved the cost of another futile gesture such as that just completed. In the trial the memory of my husband was besmirched and a halo placed over the head of his slayer. Against the forces of evil and hypocrisy which now control this city, even reaching into pulpits to spread false rumors and reports, and into official circles to pervert justice, a lone woman cannot prevail. It must indeed be a dull conscience and complacent public which can view with unconcern the farcical conduct and outcome of this case. Sadly enough, it is not the first nor will it be the last if justice is to continue to be administered by such hands. Only a few months ago gangsters shot and hopelessly crippled an honest policeman doing his duty in attempting to arrest criminals. They were defended by one of the same attorneys who defended Clark. They put on the same kind of self-defense story they used in this case and a jury of American citizens acquitted the gangsters. So widows are robbed of their husbands, children robbed of their fathers, mother robbed of their sons, and this is called justice.-- Ella E. Crawford.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Roy Smith. Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1932.
The reasons behind Ella's absolute unwillingness for her husband's murderer to be tried were no doubt complicated and self-protective. She continued to battle with the D.A. in the days leading up to the second trial. On September 16 she wrote an angry letter to Fitz, accusing Prosecutor W. Joseph Ford of asking her for money, and accusing Fitz and Ford of dragging her husband's name through the mud and mounting a half-assed prosecution. This time the prosecution fought back, claiming they had not asked her for money. Fittz seemed fed up, and hinted at feuds now obscured by time, stating: "I propose to give Mr. Ford every assistance which he may desire, and do not propose to be dictated to by the whim or caprice of any person."
The second trial duly occurred, and just as Ella feared, Debonair Dave was acquitted (he would kill again in 1953, and die in jail a few weeks later). Perhaps in reaction to the verdict and wishing to escape, Ella rushed into a second marriage. She met C. Roy Smith, a dubious San Francisco real estate man of questionable marital status, at a party in September and they were married January 23, 1932 in Yuma, Arizona. The usually camera shy Ella posed for pictures, gushing "We found we had much in common and the romance grew naturally. I am happy to have had the love of two such men as Mr. Crawford and Mr. Smith." Not surprisingly, the marriage was over by 1934, with Ella reclaiming the name of Crawford for business reasons.
Since the first trial in 1931, Ella expressed her intention to carry on her husband's real estate ventures. In 1935 the IRS came after Charlie Crawford's estate for over $42,000 in back taxes. Crawford's estate was set at $113,724, $21,642 of which was in cash. It was around this time that Ella had a vision. "By golly, life is going fast here" she exclaimed, as she thought of the empty murder bungalow and surrounding city block she now owned. In its sordid place she pictured a calm, dignified fantasy land of multi-national buildings, modeled on the famous trade market of Jerusalem. In classic Hollywood fashion, she set out to whitewash 6665 Sunset Boulevard's sordid past, and in the process created an entire complex dedicated to the concept of escape -- and commerce.
Los Angeles Times, December 16, 1936
At the Crossroads
It would be like taking a trip around the world. Visitors coming here expect to see something beautiful and unusual, given the widespread publicity in some of our motion pictures.-- Ella Crawford, The Los Angeles Times, Oct 26, 1986
Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1936
Ella enlisted premier streamline moderne architect Robert V Derrah (who also designed the iconic Coco-Cola bottling plant at 1200 S. Central Avenue) to helm the $12,000 project. There would be a main building in the shape of a sleek ocean liner, in the front center of the property as if it were coming into port. Surrounding it would be buildings in Cape Cod, Italian, French, old English, and early Californian styles. With an eye for the hoped for 100+ international shops, artist studios and restaurants, bay windows were constructed to enhance the display of merchandise. In the back there was a lighthouse, in the middle a shaded patio, and on top of the ocean liner, a 60 foot tower topped with a turning globe. The haunted bungalow was razed, and construction began at the end of May, 1936.
The grand opening on October 29 was pure Hollywood kitsch. A cadre of Universal film players from all over the globe joined several foreign counsels, as folk singers, native dancers, and world musicians entertained the masses who came to see the nation's first outdoor mall.
The shops quickly filled with just the kind of clientele Ella had hoped for. Ads from the late '30s included Anne Herbert's hand-dipped chocolate, Dulaine-Bennatie's exclusive fashions and fabrics, Marcy De Paris's perfumes and powders, Mildred Asher, who specialized in peasant houses, gardens and "provincial feeling" design, McDonald Meyers importers of Peiping-Shanghai oriental arts, and more eclectic tenants like Burr McIntosh "the cheerful philosopher," the puppeteer Everett Burgess, and community theater pioneer Neely Dickson. Many artists established studios in the smaller spaces, including the influential ceramics artist Beato. The Subdebs hosted fundraising arts fairs in the quaint streets, the Sigma Kappas gatherd at the restaurant La Merienda, and several charities established their headquarters there.
With Ella's dream fully realized, it is here that she bows out of our story and back into the private life it seem she had always craved. She continued in the real estate business, and is mentioned in an L.A. Times article from 1940, when she and her daughter Joan were in a serious car accident. With both of her daughters married and now a grandmother of six, Ella -- who seems to have never wed again -- passed away in 1953. Perhaps in her final triumph, her obituary described her simply as the widow of "Charles H. Crawford, former building and loan official."
Crossroads of the World, 1937 | Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library
Crossroads of the World, ca. 1936 | Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library
Crane's at Crossroads of the World, ca. 1937 | Herman J. Schultheis Collection, Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library
Her great creation continued on during the war years. Though imports sharply declined, relief and charity work rose, and many production offices (including Hitchcock's) and do-good enterprises filled the vacant spots. After the war isolationism rose and commerce moved westward, slowly leaving Hollywood behind. The charities, like Herbert Hoover's C.A.R.E., and the theatrical organizations stayed, taking care of and giving work to Hollywood's increasingly large underclass. In 1949 the Masquers Club offered a free Santa school at Crossroads, instructing actors, dancers and musicians who would normally be out of work during the holidays in the finer points of being an employable Santa. The classes included psychology, first aid, holiday music, interfaith questions, Christmas legends, makeup and fire prevention.
The decline continued through the '50s, even though Billboard did occupy a suite for a time. By 1965 the property had changed hands several times and was considered by many to be an embarrassing, half-empty 2.7 acres of "goopy-de-goop," reminiscent of a "Don Ameche musical." Investor J. Thomas Wilner, calling himself "the craziest man in the construction industry," bought the Crossroads for $1 million and began a $250,000 refurbishment campaign.
He was not successful. In 1967 it was reported that motorcycles were being sold in front of the once high class mall. As the charities and legit business owners moved out, the hippies and hustlers moved in. A man named Gary Shusett opened an experimental college from two rooms, John Holmes was discovered in the nearby office of a porn magazine, and tenants were living in their offices and sleeping in the hallways. Musicians, including Jackson Browne and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and mixers, like the legendary Wally Heider, took over many of the rooms. Famed art director Kosh moved in, as did Interlock Recording Studios.
In 1977 developer Morton La Kretz purchased the Crossroads and began another round of renovations -- kicking out the dead-broke-drop-outs while nurturing the entertainment industry tenants. By 1980 he claimed to have only two vacant spaces, and by 1986 the Hollywood Arts Council, Cyprus Music, and Artistic Hand Beading had moved in, along with numerous ad agencies. That same year the Crossroads 50th anniversary was celebrated and the rebirth of Crossroads seemed complete.
Today the La Kretz family still owns the Crossroads. There are still high-end tenants like the book publisher Taschen, who occupies the central ocean liner and several surrounding suites. But the Sunday I went to visit, the complex had the forlorn feeling of an off-season amusement park. Many of the bay windows were empty and a peek inside several of the offices revealed dusty spaces frozen in time, with dark wood paneling and unpolished brass light fixtures. A lone European family sat on a bench in front of the "Old English" village, and an open door led into an office where voices wafted out of the musty darkness. There was a twinge of sadness in the air, in the peeling paint, in the makeshift sculptures and flowers growing out of beer kegs.
I know it was last the last thing Ella would have wanted, but all I could think about was where exactly that ivy covered bungalow once stood.
Crossroads of the World today | Photo: Caitlin Meares
The iconic Hollywood structure has been featured in many films, including L.A. Confidential, Indecent Proposal, and Argo | Photo: Caitlin Meares
The property became a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1974 | Photo: Caitlin Meares
Top: Crossroads of the World today. Photo by Caitlin Meares
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Dance acts announced for second day of MTV Crashes event in Coventry
MTV has revealed the first acts which will perform on the second day of MTV Crashes Coventry in May.
The Chainsmokers, Pete Tong and Wilkinson will all play Club MTV at the Ricoh Arena on May 28 with more names still to be announced.
New York DJ duo The Chainsmokers exploded onto the scene in 2014 with the party hit #SELFIE.
Since then, the pair have been making a name for themselves in the electro house and EDM worlds with their wild antics, hilarious personalities and unique productions ahead of the release of their album which is due to be released later this year.
The pair said: “We cannot wait to get out on the MTV Crashes stage in Coventry - it’s going to be huge.
“We always try to make our sets fresh, different and exciting - this show will be no exception.”
Ground-breaking BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong has held a commanding presence over the industry for more than two decades, possessing an unparalleled ear for new talent which has established him as a true icon of the electronic music scene.
He said: “Sharing a stage with some of the most exciting up-and-comers in electronic music is going to be incredible - bring it on.”
Having collaborated with the likes of Ed Sheeran, Chase & Status and Katy B, Wilkinson has fast established himself as one of the most exciting DJs of the moment.
With awards for Best Single, Best Album, Best Video, Best Producer and Best Live Act at the National Drum & Bass Awards in tow, the London producer is gearing up to release his second album in 2016.
All acts will follow the likes of Chase & Status, Fleur East, Tom Odell and Kaiser Chiefs, who will play on day one of the event on May 27.
Individual day tickets cost £10 with combined tickets also available.
For full details, visit www.MTV.co.uk and www.Ricoh-Arena.com.
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Legal Affairs: Bench pressing
Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz is living up to his promise to speed up the legal process.
By DAN IZENBERG
mazuz 248.88. (photo credit: Ariel Jerozolimski [file])
When Menahem Mazuz assumed the post of Attorney-General on February 1, 2004, he made it clear that he intended to speed up the process of investigating and deciding whether to prosecute suspects. This desire not to prolong the process of investigation and indictment for years at a time applied in particular to public figures who were, in the nature of things, under intense public scrutiny, and whose careers were often adversely affected by the investigations - even though they continued to be presumed innocent. Mazuz's predecessor, Elyakim Rubinstein, had been heavily criticized for taking too long investigating cases, such as the allegations against former prime minister Ariel Sharon in the Greek island affair, and the case of the illegal election campaign contributions. During the two-and-a-half years he has been in office, Mazuz has had to handle three major investigations of public figures: former internal security minister Tzahi Hanegbi, former justice minister Haim Ramon and President Moshe Katsav. In all three cases, he has lived up to his word. The longest lasting of the criminal investigations has been the case of Hanegbi. On Sept. 1, 2004, Mazuz ordered the police to launch an investigation into allegations that Hanegbi had broken the law by appointing dozens of Likud Party functionaries or their relatives to jobs in the Environment Ministry, which he headed. The team, under Dep.-Cmdr. Baruch Segilovich, submitted its report, which included a recommendation to indict Hanegbi, on February 12, 2005. Less than two months later, Mazuz announced that he had decided to indict Hanegbi pending the outcome of a hearing. However, the hearing did not take place until July 2, because Hanegbi's lawyer, Ya'acov Weinroth, asked for time to study the evidence. The final decision to indict him came on August 15, 2006. The investigation of Hanegbi in the case of the political appointments took far less time than an earlier investigation of his actions in the affair of the Derech Tzleha non-profit organization which he established several years before. But it is in the cases of Ramon and Katsav that Mazuz has acted with exceptional speed. THE RAMON affair began on July 12, when he allegedly forced a kiss upon a 21-year-old female soldier who was working in the Prime Minister's Office in Tel Aviv. Several days later, the woman, identified in the indictment against Ramon as "Aleph Aleph [A.A.]," submitted a complaint to the police. A court gag on the investigation was lifted on July 25. Twenty days later, on August 15, the police submitted their findings to Mazuz, and said there was enough evidence to warrant indicting him. On August 17, Mazuz announced that he was considering indicting Ramon pending the outcome of a hearing. Ramon waived the hearing, did not try to invoke his parliamentary immunity and was indicted on August 20. His trial began in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on September 11. One might say that if any investigation should have been conducted quickly, this was the one. After all, the file involves only one case and largely boils down to conflicting accounts of the same deed. This cannot be said for the Katsav investigation, which includes complaints by no less than 10 women who worked for him over the years, as well as Katsav's counter-accusations of extortion against "Aleph [A.]," the first plaintiff in the case. Considering these complexities, the investigation has been proceeding at breakneck speed. THE KATSAV story broke on July 8, when the media reported that he had asked for Mazuz's advice regarding a woman he believed wanted to blackmail him. After Katsav denied the report and refused to lodge an official complaint, Mazuz took the initiative and, on July 11, ordered the police to investigate the allegations raised by the president. Within a few days, the police were investigating Aleph's allegations against Katsav and over the coming days and weeks, many other women came forward with complaints of sexual misconduct against Katsav. On September 19, Mazuz convened a meeting of the police investigating team and senior Justice Ministry officials to hear an update on the progress of the investigation. In order to save time, Mazuz launched two parallel procedures. On the one hand, he asked the police to continue their investigation of certain matters. On the other, he handed the police's evidence that was compiled up until then to the Jerusalem District Attorney's Office, so that it could begin preparing its report and recommendations. While the police collected more evidence, the prosecution was already working on its report ,which was to be presented to Mazuz for a final decision. Furthermore, Mazuz himself kept abreast of the police findings throughout the investigation, so that he would be prepared to take the district attorney's recommendation and come to a quick decision. On Sunday, October 15, the police formally announced that they had completed their investigation and said there was enough evidence to indict Katsav on a wide array of crimes, beginning with rape. According to Justice Ministry sources, Jerusalem District Attorney Eli Abarbanel will hand over his report and recommendations to Mazuz in about three weeks. Then it will be up to the Attorney-General to make the final decision as to whether to indict Katsav. Based on his track record, it won't take him long to do so.
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The year of the Transfer Quarterback
The college football season ended less than a week ago and yet there’s already so much to look forward to next year. It’s not uncommon for a big-name quarterback to transfer, but for three, and a potential fourth, on the way, we’re in for an exciting few months ahead of us. During this time last year everyone was introduced to the name Tua Tagovailoa who ended up propelling Alabama to a National Championship. But not many people are still talking about the guy he replaced, Jalen Hurts. The 6-2 dual-threat gunslinger from Texas was given the keys to the offense heading into the 2016 season and over the course of the season Hurts put up 3,734 total yards and 36 total touchdowns. When the 2017 season started, Hurts won the QB battle over the young freshman totaling 2,936 yards and 25 TDs. All of this success for Hurts changed when he was benched coming out of halftime during the 2017 BCS National Championship. Fast forward to the beginning of this season and Tagovailoa was the one who walked with the starting job leaving Hurts with multiple options. He had the opportunity to sit out the season, saving his eligibility allowing him to play two seasons for another school. Instead Hurts decided to be a good teammate and leader by staying with the team. As the season has ended, however, we heard that Hurts would be on the move. Unlike the other two confirmed transfers I’ll talk about, this one is different because he hasn’t declared where he’ll be attending next season. My prediction on who wins the Hurts lottery is split between two teams, the Houston Cougars and the Maryland Terrapins. Houston may seem strange to many fans as it’s not known as a major football school but, there are multiple perks for Jalen Hurts. With Hurts being from Texas, playing for Houston gives his family the opportunity to watch him throw touchdowns every Saturday. The perk that might be most appealing to Hurts is their depth at quarterback which is practically none, besides upcoming sophomore Clayton True who struggled in his opportunity this year. This would give Hurts the opportunity to start right away on day one. Maryland the other option also has its perks, although their depth at quarterback is rather deep with four freshman, two sophomores and a junior. None of them have the experience Hurts has already in his career. The second perk being the conference in which they play in, the competition of the Big Ten may be something Hurts is looking for after dominating in the SEC he may be looking to see if he can do the same here. Wherever Hurts land I’ll be excited to see if he can bounce back after not starting this season, I’m not a huge fan of the Crimson Tide but I’m pulling for him on this one.
Kelly Bryant, a 6-4 dual threat QB from South Carolina, recently announced that he’ll be attending the University of Missouri after sitting out this season. Bryant decided to sit out this season after losing his starting job to freshman phenom Trevor Lawrence. During his one year as a starter, Bryant passed for 2800 yards and 13 TDs, while also chipping in 655 yards and 11 TDs on the ground. When he announced his decision to transfer, there were many different schools thrown into the conversation. He eventually decided upon Missouri, with their QB room opening up with the exit of Drew Lock who’s entering this year’s draft. Bryant will look to use his experience and dual-threat qualities to take over the helm and make the Tigers a force in the SEC. Bryant is transferring in hopes of improving his draft stock which wasn’t very high after just one season as a starter before being benched for the true freshman. I believe that although he’ll make himself at home next season, there are multiple schools that would be a better fit for Bryant. Missouri isn’t a team that is known for their quarterbacks to take off running, although Lock chipped in 6 TDs on the ground for the Tigers but primarily in goal line formation. My perfect fit for Kelly Bryant would’ve been UCLA out of the Pac-12, with two underclassmen QBs Bryant wouldn’t have to battle for the starting gig. Head coach Chip Kelly is known for his run, pass, option playbook and with his wheels and experience he could’ve made that offense his own.
Justin Fields, most likely the most talked about transfer going into next season. The speedy, strong-arm freshman made the most of his limited snaps this year backing up Jake Fromm for the Georgia Bulldogs. In 39 attempts he was able throw for 328 yards 4 TDs and 0 INTs, while also adding 266 yards and 4 TDs running. After the season, Fields made the announcement everyone expected, he made his announcement that he would be leaving the Bulldogs. Fields decided upon Ohio State a legitimate powerhouse every year. As a fan of Ohio State, I have mixed emotions about this decision, although he’ll be an instant factor, I wish he would’ve chosen a different school. I know that sounds crazy not wanting a potential Heisman winner on my squad but I believe we already have a Heisman winner on the team and now he’s on the verge of leaving. Tate Martell a redshirt freshman has had the opportunity to watch multiple QBs run the offence and now it should be his opportunity to do the same. Martell had even fewer snaps this year than Fields this year, on 28 attempts he tossed for 269 yards and a touchdown while also adding 128 yards and 2 TDs on the ground. Martell announced recently that he would enter the transfer portal giving coaches the opportunity to pursue him. Ultimately, I believe Martell will stay this season and attempt to win the job but if he doesn’t, I believe we could be having this same conversation next season. This will be one of the most watched stories heading into next season and like many fans out there, I’ll be excited to see how it pans out.
QB's to watch heading into this years draft
Top Ten Quarterbacks to watch heading into the 2019 NFL draft
1) Dwayne Haskins, Ohio State. As a redshirt sophomore Haskins had a breakout season throwing for 4800 hundred yards, 50 TDs and 8 INTs for a 174.1 passer rating. Haskins is a strong-arm quarterback who also uses his legs to create space and scoring options for the Buckeyes. With his 6’3 frame Haskins has the right skills and traits to an instant factor in his rookie season. After finishing third in the Heisman race and carrying the Buckeyes to a 12-1 record and a Rose Bowl win over Washington he’ll be looking to make an instant impact. My NFL comparison for Haskins would be Dak Prescott, with the similar build and traits I think we could see look alike numbers for the next few years to come.
2) Will Grier, West Virginia, A 6’2 senior from North Carolina made a career resurrection over the last two seasons. Grier threw for 3900 yards chipping in 37 TDs and 8 INTs, Grier is a field general who takes control as soon as he steps onto the gridiron. As a 23-year-old Grier brings a form of leadership that most rookies don’t have coming straight out of the draft, after a disappointing run at the end of the season ending with a lost to Syracuse in their bowl game Grier will look to show he can ball out in big games. My NFL comparison is Matt Stafford, like Stafford; Grier has the vision to see the whole field and not settle for the first route he sees.
3) Drew Lock, Missouri, a 6’4 senior from Missouri looks to get back to the top of teams big boards after dropping off throughout the season. After a big junior season throwing for 44 TDs his numbers took a step back only throwing for 3500 yards 28 TDs and 8 INTs. Lock struggles with consistency having a 63% completion rate which is an improvement from his previous season. Lock carried the team to an 8-5 record but struggled in conference games going 4-4. My NFL comparison would be Derek Carr, both quarterbacks show the potential to be great but have problems with consistency and showing up when it matters.
4) Daniel Jones, Duke. The big strong arm QB from North Carolina looks to prove that Duke doesn’t just produce basketball stars. With his 6’5 frame and his rocket arm Jones has the ability to make the long ball look easy, throwing for 2700 yards, 22 TDs and 9 INTs. Jones faced the struggle of competing in a strong conference carrying the Blue Devils to an 8-5 record but only went 3-5 in ACC play. Jones will look to use his height and his arm to lure coaches to take a gamble on drafting him. My NFL comparison would be Ben Roethlisberger, with similar size and similar arms but more importantly both players coming out of lesser known football schools, Jones will look to make the same impact Big Ben did coming out of the gates.
5) Kyler Murray, Oklahoma. The definition of a dual threat quarterback the Heisman winner has put his name out there for potentially entering this upcoming draft. Murray was electric this year throwing for 4400 yards, 42 TDs and 7 INTs. He also chipped in 1000 yards and 12 TDs on the ground. Murray would be higher on the list if it wasn’t for a fact that I believe he’s using this as way to squeeze out a few more dollars from the Oakland Athletics, the team that drafted him 9th overall in last years MLB draft. My NFL comparison is Russell Wilson, both QB’s made their college career out of using both their arms and legs to put points up on the board. Unlike Wilson I don’t believe we will see Murray scoring touchdowns in the NFL.
6) Ryan Finley, NC State. The 6’4 gunslinger out of Phoenix, Arizona may not be a name you know now but I believe it could be a name we hear a lot more often in years to come. Finley tossed for 3900 yards 25 TDs and 11 INTs, he led the Wolfpack to a 9-4 record and managed a 5-3 record in a tough ACC conference. Finley struggled with interceptions this year increasing from 6 the previous season, he’ll need to focus on his control if he wants to be able to compete for a job this off season. My NFL comparison would be Case Keenum, another guy who struggles with his control and interception numbers, they also compare well because like Keenum I expect Finley to find his role as a starter after multiple seasons as a backup learning from a strong veteran.
7) Jarrett Stidham, Auburn. The 6’3 junior from Texas looks to find his footing on coaches big board after falling down throughout the season. Stidham threw 2800 yards which is a decrease after coming off a 3200-yard season a year prior. While his yards are down his touchdown and interceptions stayed the same with 18 TDs and 5 INTs. Stidham will likely fall into the later rounds as a depth quarterback who will need to learn from more experienced veterans. My NFL comparison would be Tyrod Taylor, Taylor was drafted in the later rounds and was able to learn from a veteran like Flacco before taking over as a starter for another squad.
8) Easton Stick, North Dakota State. Stick is a dual threat quarterback who some people may never heard of maybe that’s because he doesn’t play in the FCS. Stick looks to become the second quarterback in the last five years to come out of the FBS and I believe he’ll make one team in the later rounds of the draft very happy. Throwing for 2800 yards, 28 TDs, and 7 INTs while also adding 700 yards and 17 TDs on the ground. Stick is the definition of a sleeper pick if he even gets drafted, which I believe would be a mistake if he doesn’t. My NFL comparison is none other than the other QB to be drafted out of the FCS and that’s former teammate Carson Wentz. With Stick being Wentz backup, their play styles are very similar with Stick picking up many of Carson’s traits even his injury bug as both quarterback’s struggle with staying healthy.
9) Trace McSorley, Penn State. The 6’0 senior finds himself near the bottom of my list after having a major drop off season. After throwing for 3600 yards and 28 TDs his junior season he struggled this year only chucking up 2500 yards and 18 TDs, the one bright spot from this season were his INT numbers which dropped from 10 last season to 7 this year. McSorley suffered a foot injury in his bowl game which hopefully clears up before he starts working out for teams prior to the draft. My NFL comparison is Teddy Bridgewater, both quarterbacks use their legs as a way to gain first downs for their teams but they’ve also both obtained legs injuries so we’ll see if McSorley will be able to bounce back like Teddy did.
10) Jake Browning, Washington. The four-year starter out of California rounds out my list for the ten quarterbacks to watch heading into this year’s draft. Browning must be the biggest hater of the NCAA rule of players staying at least three years after throwing for 3400 yards and 43 touchdowns his Sophomore season. His numbers dropped off immensely with his touchdown numbers for the last two seasons not even combining for 43 touchdowns with 19 his junior season and 16 his senior season. Although his passing yard were back up this year with 3200 yards it’ll be interesting to see if he’ll ever get back up to where he once was. My NFL comparison is Colt McCoy who had an amazing college career before disappearing in the NFL so it’ll be interesting to see if Browning is the same way if he even gets drafted in the first place.
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ESA honours Kongsberg with Norwegian flag
On Friday, 15 January, the European Space Agency (ESA) presented a very special Norwegian flag to the Norwegian Mining Museum at Kongsberg, which also houses the Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk Museum. This particular Norwegian flag is carved out of an Ariane 5 booster rocket, and it has been 80 kilometres up in outer space.
ESA Director of Space Launch Vehicles Jean-Jacques Dordain (r.) and President Tom Gerhardsen of Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace during the presentation of a Norwegian flag from an Ariane 5 missile to the Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk Museum.
"We are proud of the part Kongsberg Gruppen plays in the European Space Agency's Ariane programme. We hope to co-operate with ESA in other areas as well", stated President Tom Gerhardsen of Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, in response to ESA Director of Space Vehicles Jean-Jacques Dordain's official presentation of the rocket component bearing the Norwegian flag.
In addition to Gerhardsen, four other KDA managers were present, each of whom in different ways has played a key role in the company's Ariane activities since the very beginning in 1985: Ole Fiskum, Sven Arild Barstad, Jon Kvistedal and Olav Berdal.
Representing ESA as the donor, Director Jean-Jacques Dordain of France was also very proud to award the gift. "Given Kongsberg's long industrial traditions, this flag represents a link between the past and the future. It is intended to symbolise man's efforts to bring space closer to us here on Earth", explained Dordain.
ESA Director Jean-Jacques Dordain (middle) during the presentation of the Norwegian flag from an Ariane 5 rocket to the Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk Museum. Among those attending the reception were (l. to r.): Rolf Skår, Norwegian Space Centre, Tom Gerhardsen, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, Liv Håskold Haugen, Norwegian Mining Museum and Morten Eriksrød, Mayor of the city of Kongsberg.
Director Dordain thanked everyone for their sterling efforts, underlining the widespread international participation in the Ariane programme and the flag's long voyage prior to it ending up in Kongsberg.
"The booster rockets are built in Germany, filled with fuel in Italy, then transported to Kourou before boosting the Ariane rocket to a height of roughly 60 kilometres (the boosters continue another 20 kilometres further into outer space), then landing in the ocean. This flag is from Ariane 5, flight number 3", he pointed out.
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace supplies attachment and separation mechanisms that ensure the booster rockets separate from the main rocket at exactly the right time, before the main rocket continues its journey into outer space to deploy satellites.
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Agreement to expand the helicopter activity at KONGSBERG
Kongsberg Defence Systems (KONGSBERG) today signed an agreement to collaborate with the helicopter supplier AgustaWestland. AgustaWestland is in competition for the replacement of the Sea King in service for Norwegian Search and Rescue. The Sea King has been in service since 1972 and is also delivered by AgustaWestland.
Should AgustaWestland win with their AW101 candidate, this new agreement will expand significantly the long-term helicopter activities at KONGSBERG. With the new agreement, the helicopter activity has a potential for 150-200 MNOK in yearly revenues and secures 50 jobs for approximately 30 years.
On the existing Sea King, KONGSBERG has already for 30 years been responsible for maintenance of the helicopters drive line (rotorheads and gearboxes). The new agreement with AgustaWestland represents an expansion of tasks and development in connection with maintenance and test of rotorheads and gearboxes for the AW101 helicopter.
Furthermore the agreement includes transfer of technology for advanced test equipment facilitating full-functional testing of gearboxes and other new technologies in helicopter maintenance. With the new test equipment in house, it opens for new possibilities to maintain other gearboxes in the AgustaWestland portfolio, amongst others for the NH-90. In 2011, KONGSBERG signed an agreement with AgustaWestland to maintain the gearboxes on the NH-90`s in supply for the Nordic countries (totaling 52 helicopters).
Terje Bråthen, Executive Vice President, Kongsberg Defence Systems, mobile +47 9055 7641
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Since the minute Kristina stepped into Yolanda's Dance Studio in New Jersey at the age of 5, she knew dance was her ultimate passion. Throughout her journey she has been fortunate enough to train at some of the best performing arts schools all over the country. Kristina attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where she was the Dance Department Representative and Musical Theater Assistant Choreographer. She then went on to receive her BA in World Arts and Cultures at UCLA where she also focused in Arts Education. Wanting to her take her knowledge of dance further, she continued her studies at the NYU Steinhardt School to receive her Master's Degree in Dance Education.
Kristina has trained extensively with Dance Theater of Harlem, Alonzo King Contemporary Ballet, Alvin Ailey and Rennie Harris. She has worked with many commercial artists including: Jaime Foxx, T-Pain, Common, Whiz Khalifa, Tyga, Mally Mall, Carmen Electra and choreographed for Sky Blue of LMFAO. As a production assistant she worked on Gallim Dance’s production of Wonderland at the Joyce Theater under the direction of Andrea Miller. Kristina also joined forces with Svea Schneider in 2010 and co-founded KINEMATIK Dance Theater in 2011 where she served Director of Education from 2011-2013. Recently she has been Assistant Choreographer for the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers. She is currently a Program Specialist for GIRLS INC, running the Dance Program at the new Astoria location.
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Missing 21-year-old woman found safe, KCPD says
Aubryn Rushing
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Update, 7:15 a.m. Tuesday | Kansas City police said Tuesday that Aubryn Rushing, 21, was found safe.
Original | Kansas City, Missouri, police are asking for help to locate a missing 21-year-old woman, whose family is concerned for her well-being.
Aubryn Rushing, 21, was last seen around 9 p.m. on Wednesday near the 7700 block of Northeast 55th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, according to a release from KCPD.
Rushing, who is 5-feet-9 and 135 pounds, was driving a blue 2009 Ford Fusion with heavy rear-end damage, license plate number SR3 K1J.
Anyone who sees Rushing or has information on her whereabouts is encouraged to call the KCPD Missing Persons Unit at 816-234-5136.
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Op-Ed: Counties rarely collect fees imposed on those formerly jailed. So why keep charging them?
Inmates at North County Correctional Facility in Castaic, Calif. walk around the exercise yard on Oct. 11, 2017.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
By Anne Stuhldreher
Anthony Robles thought things couldn’t get worse. He had just gotten out of L.A. County Jail and was having trouble finding a job because of a felony conviction. His living space was in a corner of his grandmother’s 500-square-foot apartment, where he rolled out his bed each night next to his small dresser.
Then, things got bleaker. Robles’ probation officer told him he needed to pay $4,000 to the county to pay for the costs of his three-year probation term, with a minimum $50 payment each month. Robles had started back to community college and had found some odd jobs, but he needed what little money he earned to survive.
Unable to make a payment for 12 months, he got a letter from the county stating that he needed to make a payment within two weeks or risk being sent back to jail.
Every month people like Anthony Robles struggle with a harrowing choice: to pay rent and bills, or pay fees that will keep them out of jail.
Robles is not alone. Hundreds of thousands of Californians in the criminal justice system face bills for thousands of dollars in fees to cover such things as probation supervision, pre-sentencing reports, drug tests or electronic ankle monitors. The governments demanding the fees say they are meant only to recoup costs, not to further punish people who have already served their time. But every month people like Robles struggle with a harrowing choice: to pay rent and bills, or pay fees that will keep them out of jail.
California now has a chance to chart a new path. State Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) has introduced the Families Over Fees Act, which would make California the first state in the nation to eliminate administrative fees charged to people in the criminal justice system. Mitchell says her bill, which will be heard Thursday before the state Senate Appropriations Committee, will “remove economic shackles on people who’ve already paid their debt to society.”
Like Robles, most people leaving jail simply cannot afford the fees. Consequently, most governments collect little from them. Los Angeles County, for example, spends more to collect probation fees than they bring in, according to an analysis of public records by the Policy Advocacy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law. The ACLU of Southern California and the Western Center on Law & Poverty also contributed to the analysis. In the last fiscal year, the county spent $3.9 million on collections to bring in $3.4 million in adult probation fees — for a net loss of $500,000, the clinic found, and the county collected only 4% of fees on active probation cases. Most counties collect so little from the fees they do not even track what they bring in, according to the clinic.
In recognition of these facts, San Francisco last year became the first county in the nation to eliminate all locally administered fees charged to people leaving the criminal justice system. After doing so, San Francisco wrote off $32 million in debt from the fees owed by 21,000 people. Alameda County has now also eliminated its fees.
In April, Los Angeles County Supervisors Hilda Solis and Sheila Kuehl co-authored a motion requesting a study of the fees in L.A. County. “We thought that the United States outlawed debtors prison in 1833, but did they really?” Kuehl asked.
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The Senate Appropriations Committee will consider what statewide reform would cost. I hope they’ll consider other costs too, including the human costs of the fees to people like Robles who are struggling to rebuild their lives. They should also consider the ultimate cost to taxpayers of fees that minimize a released person’s chance of succeeding and maximize the chance he or she will end up back in jail or prison, according to a growing body of research.
Robles, who is now an organizer with the Youth Justice Coalition, is working to advance reforms in Los Angeles and also sits on the statewide steering committee of the Debt Free Justice California campaign, a coalition of 50 organizations that backs Mitchell’s bill.
To Robles, the choice is obvious. It took him years to pay off his fees, even after the county Probation Department gave him a discount because he was barely getting by.
He graduated last year from Cal State L.A. and was a recipient of the Trustees Award for students who demonstrate superior academic performance, personal accomplishments, community service and financial need. Eliminating fees would help more formerly incarcerated people take paths that don’t lead them back to prison or jail.
Anne Stuhldreher directs the Financial Justice Project for San Francisco and is a fellow at the Aspen Institute’s Financial Security Program.
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Letters to the Editor: Raging against Trump’s racism gives him exactly what he wants
Trump’s “go back to where you came” tweets were wrong, but focusing on racism only emboldens the president.
Opinion: Democrats would be crazy to kill the filibuster
Top Senate Democrats signal a willingness to end all filibusters if they reclaim the majority. It doesn’t take a psychic to see why they’d regret that decision.
Column: The Democrats’ ‘squad,’ infighting and extremism may save the nation
Donald Trump can’t take being called out, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Pelosi can.
Letters to the Editor: It shouldn’t take the FBI to get rid of sheriff’s department gangs
A former LAPD deputy chief says the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department is no place for tattooed cliques of brutish deputies.
Letters to the Editor: How to atone for detonating nuclear bombs on the Marshall Islands
The U.S. plans to spend more than $1 trillion on its nuclear arsenal. That money could be put to better use.
Op-Ed: Sex trafficking defendants have a new face — white, wealthy and well-connected
Broader sex trafficking laws are being used against people like Jeffrey Epstein, but their elasticity may also pose problems.
Op-Ed: Get children out of cages at the border and into school
Education cultivates resiliency in migrant kids. Its lack in detention centers is one more way Trump is ignoring the law.
Editorial: It’s long past time to raise the national minimum wage
The national minimum wage is way too low, but don’t overlook the trade-offs of raising it.
Op-Ed: Why don’t Republicans talk about the federal debt anymore?
Reining in federal spending is no longer on the table now that there’s a Republican in the White House.
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Summerhill Township, PA – Semi Truck Crashes into Freight Train
Fatal Collision on Route 711
Donegal, PA (July 14, 2018) On Friday, around 3:00 p.m., two women died in a head-on collision involving two vehicles. Officials state that the two women were in a SUV driving north when they collided with another vehicle driving south. The accident occurred on State Route 711 near Nedrow Road in Westmoreland County. Apparently, Kohan crossed the center line into the opposite lane for reasons unknown.
The names of the two women were Shari Kohan and Gloria Randall. They died at the scene. The identity of the other driver has not released; however, a medical helicopter transported the driver to Pittsburgh hospital.
Unfortunately, car accidents occur more than they should due to the number one cause being negligent driving. Actions like utilizing a cellphone, not paying attention to the road, driving under the influence, and speeding are all examples of negligence. Officials state that speeding occurred in this accident, which contributed to the crash. It’s unknown which car drove above the speed limit; however, investigators will determine who is liable at fault.
Depending on what investigators find, multiple lawsuits could be filed, including a wrongful death lawsuit if the other driver is deemed liable for the crash.
At Edelstein, Martin, & Nelson, we know that car accidents are tragic, especially when fatalities occur. We understand that no amount of money can supplement for the loss of a loved one; however, receiving compensation can help pay for medical and funeral expenses. If you, or someone you love, was involved in a car accident, call 888-208-1810.
2 Women Killed in Westmoreland County Crash
Fatal Collision on Route 711 in Donegal
Head-On Collision Kills Two Women in Donegal
Head-On Crash Kills 2 Women in Westmoreland County
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Hillsborough Campaigner Labels Ukip Donor Banks "A Disgrace"
15 February 2017, 15:31 | Updated: 15 February 2017, 15:35
Ukip donor Arron Banks has been criticised for claiming people are 'milking the Hillsborough disaster' by the mother of one of the 96 victims.
Mr Banks wrote on Twitter: "I’m sick to death of hearing about it. It was a disaster and that’s it, not some sort of cultural happening."
Margaret Aspinall lost her son at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989 and she told LBC that Mr Banks' comments are a disgrace.
Speaking to LBC's Senior Reporter Vincent McAviney, she said: "To me it's a disgrace. To make those certain comments and say it was an accident.
"It's been proved it was no accident. We got 96 unlawfully killed.
"That was no accident and it's alright for him, who sits in his ivory tower with his millions, to make those sort of comments - and it's the people who are hurting and still hurting to this day, trying to get accountability. They're the ones he should be thinking of.
"And when he says he sick of hearing about Hillsborough. Well, he might be sick of hearing about Hillsborough, but nobody is sick of it more than the families who have lost."
Her comments come after Ukip leader Paul Nuttall apologised when it emerged false claims about the disaster had appeared on his website.
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Bill G. Elms
ODESSA Bill G. Elms, a devoted husband, father and grandfather, civic leader, businessman, and faithful child of God, died peacefully surrounded by his family on November 7 in Odessa.
Bill was keenly aware of his blessings. After graduating from Odessa College and passing the CPA exam he rose to become the founding partner of Elms Faris Co., which developed into a large regional CPA and consulting firm. He was known for his honesty, loyalty and integrity in doing what was right for all involved.
A graduate of Odessa High School, he courted and married Anita Childress, a girl from church who caught his eye and won his heart. They were married for almost 60 years and worked together to create a strong, loving family. Together they cultivated in their children a love for God, country, community, and family.
Over time, Bill became the proud patriarch of an extended family of children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and more. His greatest joy was to have his family gathered together to celebrate holidays and share in life's blessings.
He was a long-time member of the 6th & Jackson Church of Christ.
Bill worked long hours developing his business, but was also active in local and regional politics for the good of the community, serving as an advisor and sounding board to many area political officials, and leading in numerous major advancements for the Permian Basin area.
He was a proud American, a prouder Texan, a committed West Texan, and a loyal Odessan. He took it as his welcomed duty to give back to his city. He was elected and served two terms as a county commissioner of Ector County. His countless investments to the welfare of Odessa were gratefully acknowledged by his being granted many awards.
He received the Heritage Foundation Award for Excellence in Community Service (1987), Odessa Chamber of Commerce's Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), Outstanding Citizen of Odessa (1977), Outstanding Young Men of America (1970), United Way of Odessa's Donavan R. William's Award, Who's Who in Accounting and Who's Who in America. He was inducted into the Odessa Business Hall of Fame (1996).
He was on the Ector County ISD Education Foundation (founding board member), Ector County Republican Women's Club (honorary lifetime member), Main Street Odessa (founding board member and first president), Odessa Boys and Girls Club (past president and board member), Odessa Beautiful (past president), Odessa Chamber of Commerce (past chair and lifetime board member), Odessa College Foundation (past president and founding board member), Odessa Country Club, Odessa Heritage Foundation, Odessa Industrial Development Corporation (past board chair and executive committee member), Odessa Jaycees (past president and board member), Odessa Junior Service League (advisory board member), Odessa Rotary Club, Odessa Village Place Trust (board of trustees member), Permian Basin Area Foundation (past vice chair and advisory board member), Permian Playhouse of Odessa (board member and past treasurer), Texas Tech University's Chancellor's Council and the United Way of Odessa (lifetime board member, past president and past resource chair).
Elms was a member of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants and its Permian Basin chapter and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He was recently honored by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy for maintaining his Texas Certified Public Accountant license for 50 years.
Bill's second love outside of his hometown was the 4E, the family ranch in Burkett, Texas, where he spent long weekends after retiring to enjoy the big sky and quiet nights. On those long weekends he became a regular at the Burkett Church of Christ where he made many friends.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Clarence and Lorene Elms, brother Norman, son, Steven, and grandson, Bobby.
He is survived by his beloved wife, Anita, who never left his side to the very end, his sons Tracy of Midland and Clark of Dallas, daughter Terri (Joe) of Louisville, Kentucky, five grandchildren, Kara, Carly, Steven, Murray and Luke, two great-grandchildren Max and Kathryn, and his sisters, Maxine Newton and Doris Roberson, sisters-in-law Jackie Bell and Janie Widner, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be held at the Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home on Thursday, November 8 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Funeral services will be at the 6th and Jackson Church of Christ on Friday, November 9 at 2:00 p.m. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorial gifts be made to United Way of Odessa and Permian Basin Area Foundation.
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
601 North Alleghaney Odessa, TX 79761
Published in Odessa American on Nov. 8, 2012
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Facebook and the First Amendment
Tyler M. Hampy
Jennifer O’Brien had been employed as a school teacher in Paterson, New Jersey for many years. In December 2010, O’Brien was assigned to teach the first grade. There were about 700 students in the school where she taught, and the student body consisted almost entirely of minority students, including African Americans and Latinos. There were 23 students in O’Brien’s first grade class, and all were either Latino or African American.
On March 28, 2011, O’Brien posted two Facebook comments. The first post stated, “I’m not a teacher — I’m a warden for future criminals!” The second post stated, “they had a scared straight program in school — why couldn’t [I] bring [first] graders?”
The following day, the principal of the school, Frank Puglise, learned of the Facebook posts and confronted O’Brien about them. According to Puglise, O’Brien insisted that she did not intend her comments to be offensive, but she was otherwise unrepentant. O’Brien was suspended with pay, pending a complete investigation.
In the days following, angry parents showed up at the school to express their outrage. One parent even threatened to remove her child from the school. The school received at least a dozen irate phone calls, and there was a protest outside the school, attended by about 25 people. Reporters and camera crews from major news organizations came to the school to report on the outrage.
On April 14, 2011, the deputy superintendent of schools filed a complaint against O’Brien, charging her with “conduct unbecoming a teacher.” O’Brien was suspended without pay on May 5, 2011.
The matter was referred to the Office of Administrative Law for a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”). At the hearing, O’Brien said she posted the statement about her students being “future criminals” because of their behaviors, not because of their race or ethnicity. She stated that 6 or 7 of her students had behavioral problems, which had an adverse impact on the classroom environment. O’Brien said that she was surprised by the reaction to her postings and that she did not anticipate that they would be interpreted as racist. O’Brien’s main argument in front of the ALJ centered on the fact that she believed that her statements were protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
On October 31, 2011, the ALJ rejected O’Brien’s contention that her comments were protected by the First Amendment. The ALJ wrote that O’Brien’s remarks were not addressing a matter of public concern, but were a personal expression of dissatisfaction with her job. Even if O’Brien’s comments were on a matter of public concern, her right to express her views was outweighed by the district’s need to operate its schools efficiently.
The ALJ stated that, “[a]n internet social-networking site such as Facebook is a questionable place to begin an earnest conversation about an important school issue such as classroom discipline. More to the point, a description of first-grade children as criminals with their teacher as their warden is intemperate and vituperative. It becomes impossible for parents to cooperate with or have faith in a teacher who insults their children and trivializes legitimate educational concerns on the internet…while First Amendment protections do not generally rise or fall on the public reactions to a person’s statements, in a public school setting thoughtless words can destroy the partnership between home and school that is essential to the mission of the schools.”
The ALJ found that the evidence supported the charges of conduct unbecoming a teacher, and therefore, O’Brien’s actions warranted her removal.
O’Brien thereafter filed exceptions to the ALJ’s decision with the Acting Commissioner. The Acting Commissioner issued a final decision on December 12, 2011, in which it adopted the ALJ’s decision for the same reasons. The Acting Commissioner concluded that O’Brien’s Facebook postings were not constitutionally protected, the evidence established that O’Brien engaged in conduct unbecoming a teacher, and removal was the appropriate penalty.
O’Brien then appealed to the Superior Court of New Jersey, which affirmed the prior decisions. The Superior Court added that, “to determine whether a public employee’s statements are protected by the First Amendment, we balance the employee’s interest as a citizen, in commenting upon matters of public concern and the interest of the State, as an employer, in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees.” Although O’Brien claimed that her statements were addressed to a matter of genuine public concern, specifically student behavior in the classroom, the court found that O’Brien was not commenting on a matter of public interest, but was making a personal statement driven by her dissatisfaction with her job and the conduct of her students. Therefore, O’Brien failed to establish that her Facebook postings were protected speech.
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Kyle Colton
kylescolton@gmail.com
Originally from the suburbs of southeast Michigan, Kyle Colton began acting 15 years ago, starting with
school plays and musicals. Some of his favorite roles include Hugo Peabody (Bye Bye Birdie), Bob Fosse
(All That Jazz), Shere Kahn (The Jungle Book), John Proctor (The Crucible) and Ralph (Reefer Madness).
In 2005, Kyle acted in his first feature film, playing the younger version of the lead character in the
indie thriller "Clocking Paper." From then on, Kyle knew he wanted to be a film actor.
While studying advertising, TV/Film production and theatre at Michigan State University, Kyle built an
impressive resume of independent film & TV credits . . . including "In Love & War," "Little White Lie"
(co-starring "Glee" star Darren Criss), "I.S. Turn," "The Midnight Hour" and "Little Creeps" (co-starring
Dustin 'Screech' Diamond).
Since making his move to Los Angeles in the fall of 2011, Kyle managed to add multiple
web series, shorts and features to his already extensive resume of projects.
Kyle played Shane Mungitt in the L.A. production of the 2003 Tony Award winning play
"Take Me Out," in January 2014.
At the suggestion of his manager, Emanuel Millar, Kyle packed up his car and drove from Los Angeles
to Atlanta, Georgia to see what the bustling film industry in the southeast had to offer. With his
manager and agent also residing in the Peach state, Kyle had many opportunities to make a name for
himself in a new market.
Kyle worked consistently on various TV shows and independent projects, such as "Legends & Lies,"
"Snapped: Killer Couples," the pilot "Ivacain," the 16mm black and white Easy Rider-esque horror film
"Hellbound" and the thriller "Til Death."
After winning the Monologue City monologue festival during the summer of 2016...Kyle signed on with a new
agency that suggested he go back to Los Angeles for pilot season.
Kyle's feature film, "Alicia's Dream," premiered in Mexico City in September of 2017. It will be coming to
theaters in the U.S. in 2018. It is currently playing on the Telemundo network worldwide.
Kyle Colton currently resides in Los Angeles..
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Alum Crawford returns as offensive coordinator
Mike Crawford '97 will take over the role of offensive coordinator for the Lancers football program.
Orange Lutheran High School is pleased to announce that OLu alum Mr. Mike Crawford will return to his alma mater in the role of offensive coordinator for the Orange Lutheran football program.
Crawford, a graduate of the Class of ‘97, enjoyed a decorated career as a football standout at OLu. He is the school’s all-time record holder in each receiving category, and was a multi-year all-league, all-county and all-CIF performer.
“I am incredibly excited to return to Orange Lutheran, my alma mater,” Crawford said. “My four years as a Lancer student-athlete were vitally important to my development, and I look forward to mentoring current and future Lancers. Having worked at several high schools since I left Orange Lutheran in 2012, I can truly say ‘there's no place like home.’ I'm glad to be back.”
After graduating from Orange Lutheran, Crawford played wide receiver at Texas Christian University and the University of Nevada, Reno. In 2003, Crawford began his coaching career, serving as an assistant coach at Orange Lutheran from 2003-2012, including five years as offensive coordinator for the program.
He went on to spend one season at Mater Dei High School as an assistant coach, two seasons at El Dorado High School as head coach, and has spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach and running backs coach at St. John Bosco High School. Crawford returns to Orange Lutheran after recently helping lead St. John Bosco to CIF Southern Section and CIF State championship victories.
“We are thrilled to welcome home a true ‘Lancer for Life,’” said Principal Todd Eklund. “Coach Crawford is beloved by countless former players and families and his rich experience coaching in the Trinity League has helped to propel young men of character to the next level. We look forward to the future growth and success of Lancer football as Coach Crawford unites with the rest of the staff to pursue a Christ centered program of excellence.”
Coach Crawford will join head coach Jason Presley ‘92, longtime defensive coordinator Dee Meza ‘99, and the entire Lancer football program after spending the Christmas break with wife Laura, a 2001 OLu graduate, and their daughters, Chloe and Everleigh.
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Home > Scott L Dennis
Scott L Dennis
sdenn@umich.edu
209 Hatcher North
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Librarian for Philosophy, General Reference, and Core Electronic Resources
Library subject specialist for Philosophy, supporting the Department of Philosophy
Coordinator of the Hatcher Graduate Library Reference Collection housed in the Reference Reading Room
Coordinator of Core Electronic Resources--general information, news and broadly interdisciplinary online resources
University of Michigan Library (1997 - present), Marquette University Libraries (1991-97), University of Michigan Department of Philosophy's Tanner Library (1987-91), University of California-Berkeley Music Library (1985-87), Chicago International Film Festival (1982-83), University of Chicago Art History Slide Library (1981-82)
Master of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan, 1990
Master of Arts in English, University of California-Berkeley, 1987 (master's thesis on Proust's influence on contemporary American gay novelists)
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with Honors, University of Chicago, 1982 (bachelor's thesis on Hans Reichenbach's philosophy of science)
I am a member of the Arts & Humanities Team in the University Library's Research Unit. I have a deep knowledge of the humanities and have previously served as a library subject specialist for several other humanities disciplines in addition to Philosophy.
I serve as chair of the Core Electronic Resources Team (or Core E-Team), and the General Reference & Popular Press E-Team, two of eight e-teams responsible for selection and management of library electronic resources. I have a strong interest in the technical aspects of public access to materials, and also serve as chair of the University Library's Public Access Resources Committee (PARC) that advises on interface design and development. Currently I'm also co-lead of the Search Project Team that is redesigning the search functions of the University Library website, and serve as an editor of the site's Search Tools databases list. I am very interested in open access issues and have worked to raise the consciousness of researchers in retaining rights to their work and improving publication practices.
I can work with researchers who are interested in text mining to connect them to collections of materials, newspapers in particular, within and outside of the Library. I can also help researchers determine what is permitted for text mining under the license agreement currently in effect.
I can help researchers in the humanities organize and format their materials effectively.
I can raise awareness of the importance and value of metadata.
I can assist researchers to consider how they might share their data effectively. I can assist researchers in depositing their data into the Deep Blue Data repository.
I can refer researchers to others in the library who can help address their needs as necessary.
MLibrary Associations
Hatcher Graduate Library
Basic Reference Resources
Graduate Library Reference Collection Resources
Germanic Languages & Literatures
German Culture, History, Politics
Finding and Using Electronic Books (e-Books)
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Government Ph.D.'s launch online, plus degrees in fire, public administration
September 19, 2018 : Liberty University News Service
Elevating its commitment to produce civil servants grounded in a biblical worldview at every level of government, the Liberty University Helms School of Government (HSOG) has launched two new doctoral programs online: the Ph.D. in Public Policy and Ph.D. in Criminal Justice. The university has also introduced new bachelor’s degrees in fire administration and public administration.
The Ph.D. in Public Policy is just one of two fully online accredited public policy doctoral degrees offered in the nation. The Ph.D. in Criminal Justice is one of only a few such degrees available nationwide. Liberty is the first Christian university to offer online doctoral degrees in these disciplines.
“We strive to ensure that the knowledge our students obtain is equal to that of any institution of higher learning,” said Ron Miller, HSOG interim dean. “The distinctive is that we take that knowledge and build it firmly on the foundation of a biblical worldview that is infused throughout our programs.”
Miller said the goal in rolling out the new degree programs is to create “statesman scholars” who bring a “higher level of wisdom and skill but also integrity in how they carry out their leadership duties.”
With degrees from the certificate to the doctoral level, Liberty’s Helms School of Government is a one-stop shop for government education with its breadth of degree offerings. Criminal justice is not typically housed under the government program at other institutions, but Liberty recognizes the complementary relationship between creating, executing, and reviewing policy and enforcing laws.
“It is really a holistic perspective of human governance from the beginning to the end of the process,” Miller said.
And it is a cyclical process. As public policies are enforced, any flaws revealed, prompts further study and the creation of new policies.
The new doctoral programs offer specializations that have significant impact on today’s issues.
Under the Ph.D. in Public Policy, students can choose from specializations in economic, education, foreign, national security, and social policy. The program is designed to train leaders in federal government, local and state politicians, heads of advocacy groups, and professors.
Courses are taught by faculty who hold degrees and have teaching experience from highly respected universities throughout the country. Faculty have served in positions with leading public policy organizations and have held senior government roles.
The Ph.D. in Criminal Justice offers specializations in homeland security and leadership, equipping graduates to lead law enforcement organizations or hold senior positions in federal agencies. A number of its faculty have real-world experience — some in high-ranking federal positions and others in leading large police forces.
“When you think about the relationship between law enforcement and the community, leadership is so critical,” Miller said, noting many underserved communities have developed a mistrust of law enforcement. “We need to rebuild that trust, and I can’t think of a better way to do that than by having people who are not only well trained but also who are spiritually mature and sound in Christ to be the leaders who are going to build that trust.”
Miller said the HSOG is committed to impacting every level of government, including “those who keep the government functioning day-to-day.”
Liberty’s new Bachelor of Science in Public Administration trains civil servants to properly manage and administer public sector administrations. The program can also serve as preparation for the existing Master of Public Administration.
The new Bachelor of Science in Fire Administration provides professional training for those who wish to lead in the critical area of fire services. Courses are taught by faculty whose experience ranges from managing local fire departments to heading the U.S. Fire Administration.
“There is a rich legacy in the Helms School of Government of cultivating leaders who bring statesmanship, integrity, service, and excellence in every area of human governance,” Miller said. “These new programs expand and equip our graduates to serve at the highest levels.”
Offering all of these new degrees fully online allows students to further their education while serving in their careers — and without uprooting their families.
Liberty offers discounts for military service members, veterans, and their spouses (visit Liberty.edu/Military for more information). The university also offers a discount for first responders, stackable with any military discounts.
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PEQF - Judicial Review Action Launched
Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Seeks Judicial Review of College of Policing scheme to require all new police officers to obtain a degree
In an exceptional legal move, the Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Bill Skelly, supported by Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones has begun the first stage action to take the national College of Policing to Judicial Review over the new degree requirement recruitment scheme being imposed on the police service. The College of Policing is the national body which was established by the Home Office in 2012 and Mr Skelly is taking issue with its plans to implement a new officer recruitment process which requires all recruits to have an academic degree or be prepared to commit to study for one in work time.
But he says it will mean 40 fewer officers at any one time for front line policing - roughly 10% of his deployable strength – because the study time has been significantly increased compared to the current recruitment programme, increased turnover and failure to complete the course. In addition, there will be extra cash costs to pay for contracts with local academic providers and a requirement for more training staff within the force. There is no estimate for the impact across England and Wales but if it is 40 officers for Lincolnshire, it could easily be over 4,000 for the country.
“I have been raising these concerns with the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) for more than two years since the impact of PEQF became clear,” he said. “The College has pushed forward ignoring the growing evidence that demonstrates the impracticality of their proposals for Lincolnshire. Their most recent communication states the intention to change Police Regulations to enforce the Police Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF) recruitment process from next year,” says Mr Skelly.
He is being fully supported by Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones who is funding the court action. “All I am asking for is a stay of implementation (to the summer of 2023) to give time for a legitimate evaluation of the new system being imposed across the country and for the results to be assessed and any adjustments made,” says Mr Skelly. “In the meantime we are developing an enhanced initial training package that meets the requirements of the modern police officer without creating an unaffordable impact on the police service in Lincolnshire.”
In addition to the financial costs, Mr Skelly says that no assessment has been made on such issues as the additional strain on the Police Pension Scheme or on the impact on equalities. Mr Skelly has also questioned the future of the Special Constabulary under PEQF. He said “The College is requiring that every new police officer to be a degree holder and have undertaken years of initial training. At present, Special Constables have the same police powers as our regular officers but do so after a limited period of training and a lower required level of educational qualifications. I see this as unsustainable after the introduction of PEQF”.
Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones has also written to his PCC colleagues in England and Wales saying that many of them share his views on the introduction of PEQF.
“I was elected by the people of Lincolnshire to represent them and act in their best interests regarding policing and crime. Put simply, if I did not challenge the imposition of these untested and far reaching changes that will see fewer officers on the streets of my county and the country as a whole, I would be failing in my duty. The public did not support a council tax rise earlier this year so we could put extra cops in classrooms and to have fewer than ever fighting crime and protecting communities. I would have expected the College to present a single business case that includes a detailed academic rationale, full financial assessments, detailed equalities assessments and a full benefits realisation plan,” said Mr Jones. “Protecting the people of Lincolnshire is our number one priority and to do that we cannot support a further loss of officer numbers to this ill thought through scheme. We believe that losing around 40 officers from the front line without challenging the College would be unforgivable and the costs to the public both financially and in loss of service leave us with no choice.”
Key facts and implications of PEQF
The following research has been done by Lincolnshire Police which covers abstraction, failure demand, turnover, diversity and ethnic minorities, cost, rational, existing workforce and other significant issues; with a brief description of each below:
To begin with abstraction has been found to be one of the key issues with PEQF, as the new routes will lead to an increased level of abstraction, which will remove officers from the front line.
Lincolnshire Police will financially be unable to recruit additional officers to cover the level of abstraction, as PEQF will, on the whole, cost even more as a training initiative compared to IPLDP.
From drawing comparisons with nursing, which has a similar educational history to policing, there may be an increase in failure demand from the pre-join degree, as well as an increased turnover.
Another point of concern is that PEQF may have a negative impact on the diversity of forces and will disadvantage minority groups.
There is also the issue of the College’s rational for the introduction for PEQF, as this does not seem to be substantiated by rigorous background research or pilot studies.
The College have also yet to supply sufficient proposals on the special constable educational requirements and the promotion from constable to sergeant.
The Policing Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF) represents a substantial change from the status quo in policing, with significant potential to impact upon the Statutory Duties and Obligations of the Service in general and of PCCs & Chief Officers in particular. These range from the Chief Constable’s duty to avoid discrimination in employment and other areas, through to those relating to the maintenance of business continuity and interoperability.
Definition of Abstraction: For the purpose of this report we define abstraction to be the withdrawal of a police officer from operational duties for the purposes of learning and assessment.
The abstraction impact is very high, particularly around the PCDA, due to a compulsory 20% of time spent “off the job” in order to cover the required knowledge.
The predicted abstraction of the student officer for the PCDA route is around 40% for year one, 20% in year two and 20% in year three. Currently, the abstraction level through IPLDP is 40% in year one and 6.4% for year two. Therefore, if a force recruits 5% of their total strength each year, then the abstraction of total force strength would rise from the current level of 2.5% to 6% of total constable strength.
The predicted abstraction of the student officer for the DHEP route is around 40% for year one and 20% in year two.
The predicted abstraction of the student officer for the Pre-Join route is around 7% for year one and year two.
No consideration appears to have been given by the College in its modelling to the impact of either the failure of student officers to complete their qualification course, or their resignation from the Service before their normal retirement date, i.e. the use of the PCDA primarily as a means to acquire a degree qualification without incurring student debt.
All degree level courses have a non-completion rate and there does exist vocational degree qualifications, such as Nursing Degrees to which ready comparisons can be made. In 2015/2016 the average dropout rate across all degree programmes was 10.5% (Higher Education Statistical Association, 2018); whilst in nursing the average attrition rate is 25%(The Royal College of Nursing, 2018).
The nursing degree programme has the closest parallel to the PEQF pre-join programme, in that it is a programme designed for a specific career outcome. The pre-join degree will have the additional pressure on failure demand.
The percentage range of turn over for PEQF is predicted from turnover rates in similar professions such as teaching and nursing, whose turnover rates are between 10%-16% (Department for Education, 2017; Royal College of Nursing, 2018) this would double the current average police turnover of 6% (Home Office, 2017).
Diversity and Ethnic Minorities
Ethnic minorities are well-represented in traditionally academic and high-earning degrees such as law (33.7%), medicine and dentistry (33.6%), business and administrative studies (30.7%). They are much less represented in public sector degrees such as education (15.1%).
Additional evidence for this conclusion can be gathered from the NHS, as similar requirements are in place for nursing, yet the organisation still faces challenges with diversity and attrition.
There is the concern that the introduction of the entry requirements of pre-join, degree-holder and apprenticeship will deter mature applicants. The numbers interested in becoming police officers who are under 25 is 51.4%, compared to those aged 26 and over, which is 48.5%. Thus, there are a substantial proportion of those individuals over the age of 26 who want to pursue a career in policing.
One of the larger issues for mature applicants is that the pre-join degree option would not be a suitable path for a lot of applicants, due to financial and timing constraints. For example, in consultations it has been raised that working as a Special Constable would reduce the opportunity for applicants to take part in paid work to supplement their income.
The longer probationary periods may be off-putting for mature applicants. By extending the probationary period, apprentices would be paid an apprenticeship wage for 3 years. It is likely that this would appeal more to younger rather than mature applicants. This is further evidenced as mature applicants, targeted for recruitment, find even the current appointment rates of pay problematic.
By introducing higher entry requirements, such as a pre-join degree, which are academic in nature, the College may be affecting the public-sector Equality duty. There needs to be clarity around how the College will ensure that chief constables are upholding their Equality duty, specifically when it comes to students who have a disability that would impact on their learning.
There are particular protected characteristics, which it is against the law to discriminate against. In both of the College’s equality impact analyses they have provided very limited information on some of these characteristics (e.g. gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership), and how PEQF could affect them.
An estimated 25.6% of pupils who were in receipt of Free School Meals (FSM) aged 15 in 2012/13 entered Higher Education by age 19 by 2016/17. This compares to 43.3% of non-FSM pupils. The gap in progression rates between FSM and non-FSM pupils has remained at 17.7 percentage points over the past three years. The gap has varied between 16.8 and 19.2 percentage points since 2005/06 (Department of Education, 2018). Therefore adding a degree to the entry criteria for police officer could be a potential barrier to those from a disadvantaged socio-economic background. Meaning the force would not be representative of the people we serve.
We determine that by 2024 Lincolnshire Police would be expending £1,152,000 p.a. on PCDA training. Only circa £400,000 of this would be met by Force Apprenticeship Levy contributions, with a further £115,200 having to be drawn from Force funds as a contribution to Government co-investment. This represents a significant increase in the budget currently set aside for the direct costs associated with the training of new recruits (circa £100,000).
With the adoption of DHEP the overall cost of training would fall by circa £113,000. This ‘saving’ is in fact a cost to the Force, as external funding for this training is not available as it is for apprenticeship training. We anticipate that funds recouped from provision of apprenticeship training might be deployed to fund other PEQF qualification routes, but this simply places the eligible costs of apprenticeship training as a cost to the Force, so no real saving is achieved.
The College continues to present the unsupported claim that development of a higher skilled workforce will result in better policing outcomes(The College of Policing, 2018, p. 8). Yet, the latest academic examination of the evidence of the impact of graduate education upon policing concludes that, “research is unable to confirm unambiguously that values associated with higher levels of education may bring improved policing outcomes,” and critically, that, “it seems policing or criminal justice degrees confers no particular advantage” (Brown, 2018).
The College has presented the role of police officer at a level 6, whereas it currently is set at a level 3. The College has attempted to relay their rationale for this decision in a number of documents (e.g. Case Study 1 – Why has the new police constable curriculum been set at level 6?). Yet, it stills remains arguable and also subjective as to what level the role of PC should be at.
In 2007 Denmark introduced their bachelor’s degree programme in policing. There were many issues with this introduction and it gradually met its demise due to the systematic decoupling of the educational reform from its strategic objectives (Diderichsen, 2017). There can be parallels drawn from this introduction to that of PEQF.
Existing Workforce
The College has released limited information on the educational requirements and training of special constables, in relation to PEQF. They mention in their transition guidance document (June 2019) that in the future they will be developing proposals for specials that accommodate the service’s needs.
There is also limited information that has been released on a constable’s promotion to sergeant and what the requirements are for this under PEQF. At the time of the writing on the transition guidance document (June 2019) the PEQF requirements for the rank of sergeant and above have still yet to be confirmed.
Other Significant Issues
The current National Police Promotions Framework (NPPF) was developed and trialled over several years before then being implemented over an additional three-year timeframe. The PEQF is expected to be simultaneously developed and implemented across all Home Office Forces by January 2020, with very few or no trials. It seems that the College will provide support, yet worryingly has supplied limited opportunity to pilot different delivery models, which would be very insightful for effective implementation of PEQF.
The College have attempted to consult with various people, such as Chief Constables and PCCs. These results were presented in their December 2016 report in which they failed to address key concerns or make any changes to their plans (e.g. Individual respondents had mixed views on whether the level 6 description is relevant to the role of constable).
Brown, J., 2018. Do Graduate Police Officers Make a Difference to Policing? Results of an Integrative Literature Review. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15th November.pp. 1-22.
Department for Education. (2017). School Workforce in England: November 2016. Retrieved from: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/620825/SFR25_2017_MainText.pdf
Department of Education. (2018). Widening Participation in Higher Education, England, 2016/17 age cohort – Official Statistics. Retrieved from: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/757897/WP2018-MainText.pdf
Diderichsen, A. (2017). Renewal and Retraditionalisation: The Short and Not Very Glorious History of Danish Bachelor's Degree in Policing. Nordisk Olitiforskning, 4, 149-169.
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The Linux Foundation: Accelerating Open Source Innovation
By The Linux Foundation August 29, 2018 September 4th, 2018 Blog
The Linux Foundation’s Jim Zemlin welcomes attendees to Open Source Summit in Vancouver.
The Linux Foundation’s job is to create engines of innovation and enable the gears of those engines to spin faster, said Executive Director Jim Zemlin, in opening remarks at Open Source Summit in Vancouver.
Examples of how the organization is driving innovation across industries can be seen in projects such as Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated certificate authority working to encrypt the entire web, Automotive Grade Linux, Hyperledger, and the new Academy Software Foundation, which is focused on open collaboration within the motion picture industry.
This is open source beyond Linux and, according to Zemlin, is indicative of one of the best years and most robust periods at The Linux Foundation itself. So far in 2018, the organization has added a new member every single day, with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), one of The Linux Foundation’s fastest growing projects, announcing 38 new members this week.
Successful projects depend on members, developers, standards, and infrastructure to develop products that the market will adopt, said Zemlin, and The Linux Foundation facilitates this success in many ways. It works downstream helping industry, government, and academia understand how to consume and contribute to open source. At the same time, it works upstream to foster development and adoption of open source solutions, showing industries how to create value and generate reinvestment.
During his keynote, Zemlin spoke with Sarah Novotny, Open Source Strategy Lead at Google Cloud, about Google’s support of open source development. In the talk, Novotny announced that Google Cloud is transferring ownership and management of the Kubernetes project’s cloud resources to CNCF community contributors and is additionally granting $9 million over three years to CNCF to cover infrastructure costs associated with Kubernetes development and distribution. Novotny, who noted that the project is actively seeking new contributors, said this commitment will provide the opportunity for more people to get involved.
In the words of Zemlin, let’s go solve big problems, one person, one project, one industry at a time.
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Entrepreneurial Renaissance: Cities Striving Towards an Era of Rebirth and Revival – Al Complexity Literacy Meeting 2017
Entrepreneurial Renaissance: Cities Striving Towards an Era of Rebirth and Revival
di Piero Formica
Per il Complexity Literacy Meeting Nazionale 2017, Piero Formica – Founder of the International Entrepreneurship Academy – presenta come Editor il Libro:
pubblicato nel 2017 per Springer
CHI E’ L’AUTORE:
Winner of the Innovation Luminary Award 2017, Piero Formica started his career as an economist at the OECD Economic Prospects Division in Paris, then moving to academic institutions. Piero is Founder of the International Entrepreneurship Academy and was Professor of Economics with a special focus on innovation and entrepreneurship at the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow of the Innovational Value Institute at the Maynooth University in Ireland where he leads an international research team on experimentation and simulation of high-expectation start-ups. He is Adjunct Professor of Knowledge Economics, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran (Iran), and a Guest Professor at the University of Tartu (Estonia) where he held the Marie Curie Professorship at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
Breve descrizione dei contenuti del Libro:
This book explores the parallels between the Renaissance during the 14th to 16th centuries and the upheavals in human and physical sciences in the 21st Century that herald an insurgent entrepreneurial renaissance.
The first Renaissance, conceived and developed in an urban environment, with the Medici family in Florence as pioneers, was a melting pot of art, culture, science and technology. It is in that context that entrepreneurship derived from artisan tradition and, hence, customized, was born to meet the demands and anticipate the needs of individual consumers. Starting with the mechanical technologies of the first industrial revolution, art, culture and science became separated from entrepreneurship. The later took on Fordist features which depersonalized and, therefore, standardized the producer-consumer relationship. The emerging model of entrepreneurship returns to its origins in customization (e.g., 3D printing technologies, sharing/on-demand economy) strongly linked to the sequence “art-culture-science-technology.”
The road to a new entrepreneurial renaissance is traveled by cities with creative communities. These communities actively participate in promoting international talent mobility, encouraging connections among the knowledge nomads who move around the world and the resources and talents rooted locally. Brought back to life under the conditions of the current age, entrepreneurship is once again woven into the fabric of art, culture, science and technology, and contributing to civic identity and pride. Featuring case studies from local experts that highlight innovative initiatives and developments in diverse cities around the world, this book aims to stimulate deep thought, theories and applications in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Ecco come Piero Formica indica le possibili declinazioni in ambito sistemico di questo libro:
In conceiving a publishing project for a new entrepreneurial renaissance, the Editor drew inspiration from the interweaving of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences that characterizes the University of Maynooth. Founded in 1997, the University is both the youngest and one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Ireland, tracing its origins to the foundation of the Royal College of St. Patrick in 1795.
The intent of the book is to create a bridge between the Renaissance of the period between the second half of the fourteenth and the sixteenth centuries and the present, insurgent renaissance: a bridge that creates an ideal connection between the Renaissance entrepreneurship of that time and the new one of the current time.
The book is a collection of diverse studies of how the proposition of an “entrepreneurial renaissance” may indeed be considered as being close to reality in a number of centres around the world.
The book explores the hypothesis that the degree of ‘connectedness’ increases idea generation across an ecosystem. The cities highlighted in the book explicitly work to cultivate and orchestrate the ecosystem to help enable entrepreneurial activity to advance growth, sustainability, and a collective consciousness.
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Route 7 Nightly Road Closures to Begin Later This Month
Tribune Staff
Late night traveling will be impacted along Route 7 as the Belmont Ridge Road interchange construction progresses. Loudoun County officials announced upcoming planned night closures to set structural steel for the future interchange at the intersection of Route 7 and Route 659 (Belmont Ridge Road). The work will occur in two phases with the first phase scheduled to begin the night of March 27.
During the noted period for night work, daytime construction activities will continue and include intermittent lane closures as necessary. Daytime lane closures are expected to continue into June 2017.
In advance of the start of Phase 1, electronic message boards will be posted around March 17 to advise the public of night work. The signs will remain in place through the completion of Phase 2. County officials ask that motorists plan ahead to take alternate routes to avoid this area during the affected times.
Route 7 westbound single-lane closures are set to begin at 10 p.m., on or about March 27, weather permitting. During Phase 1, the Route 7 eastbound left turn lanes to Belmont Ridge Road north and the left through lane will be closed, beginning at 10 p.m. Complete closures of Route 7 and Belmont Ridge Road will occur at 20-minute intervals between midnight and 5 a.m. Law enforcement personnel will be onsite directing traffic throughout the work.
During the 20-minute interval closures, Belmont Ridge Road northbound and southbound will be closed onto Route 7 westbound. Turning movements throughout the night work will be subject to the direction of law enforcement personnel. Phase 1 night work and road closures will occur Monday through Friday nights and are expected to take 11 working days, weather permitting, with planned completion of Phase 1 on or about April 10.
Route 7 eastbound single lane closures are set to begin at 10 p.m. immediately following completion of Phase 1 night work. Road closures will start around April 11, depending on weather. During Phase 2, the Route 7 eastbound left turn lanes onto Belmont Ridge Road north and the Route 7 eastbound left and center through lanes will be closed, beginning at 10 p.m.
As in Phase 1, Route 7 and Belmont Ridge Road closures will occur at 20-minute intervals between midnight and 5 a.m. Phase 2 night work and road closures will occur Monday through Friday nights and are expected to take six working days from the completion of Phase 1, weather permitting, with planned completion of Phase 2 on or about April 20.
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MSF: Ebola outbreak not a perfect storm but systems failure
“For the Ebola outbreak to spiral this far out of control required many institutions to fail. And they did, with tragic and avoidable consequences.”
by By Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press
TORONTO – West Africa’s ongoing Ebola outbreak reached its catastrophic scale because of the failure of a variety of international agencies and the lack of global health rapid response capacity, a new report says.
Medecins Sans Frontieres, which is also known as Doctors Without Borders, released the report to co-incide with the year anniversary of the recognition that Ebola had broken out in Guinea, a part of Africa that had never before dealt with the disease.
The report notes that many observers have suggested the scale of the outbreak was due to a perfect storm-like confluence of factors. The disease appeared at the juncture of three countries with porous borders and fragile health-care systems. And it ravaged people with no prior experience with Ebola and no understanding of how it spreads.
But the report says that analysis is “too convenient an explanation.”
“For the Ebola outbreak to spiral this far out of control required many institutions to fail. And they did, with tragic and avoidable consequences,” says Christopher Stokes, general director of the doctors’ group.
The report says the World Health Organization displayed a lack of leadership, downplaying the threat the outbreak posed when MSF officials were desperately trying to get the world to realize how dangerous the situation in West Africa had become.
“Meetings happened. Action didn’t,” says Marie-Christine Ferir, MSF’s emergency co-ordinator.
The Associated Press reported last week that the idea of declaring the outbreak a global health emergency was floated in early June, but the Geneva-based agency held off taking that step until early August. Emails obtained by the AP suggest the WHO worried the move would anger the affected countries, might restrict travel of Muslims to the annual pilgrimage to Mecca and might have economic consequences.
But the report says the WHO is not the only agency that bears blame. “It would be a mistake to attribute full responsibility for the dysfunctional response to just one agency. Instead, the age-old failures of the humanitarian aid system have also been laid bare for the world to see, rather than buried in under-reported crises like those in Central African Republic and South Sudan,” the report says.
MSF has taken a lead role in Ebola outbreaks for years, setting up and staffing treatment units. But as case numbers exploded across Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the organization virtually begged other non-governmental organizations to help, eventually even asking countries to send military hospitals. It was months before the world began to respond in significant ways.
“In the end, we did not know what words to use that would make the world wake up and realize how out of control the outbreak had truly become,” says Dr. Bart Janssens, director of operations for MSF.
The organization also criticized its own response. Though MSF had helped contain numerous Ebola outbreaks over the past 20 years, its hemorrhagic fevers team was small, comprising about 40 “Ebola veterans.” Others in the operation were initially reluctant to divert more of MSF’s people to the Ebola fight, and MSF says it should have been faster to mobilize the full capacity of the organization.
The MSF report also questions if it might have been able to do more to improve communications in Guinea earlier in the outbreak. Deep distrust of the foreign aid responders persists in some Guinean villages to this day and still hampers containment efforts.
MSF says the outbreak has produced a number of tragic firsts for it, including:
– It was the first outbreak in which MSF lost so many patients, 2,547 at the time the report was written.
– It was also the first time MSF staff became infected with Ebola. So far 28 have been infected and 14 have died.
– For the first time ever, MSF was forced to turn patients away from Ebola treatment units. At one point, a major treatment centre in Monrovia, Liberia opened its gates for 30 minutes a day – just long enough to fill the beds emptied by the previous night’s deaths.
Nearly 25,000 people have been infected since this outbreak began and more than 10,000 of them have died.
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Unmuzzled government scientists are ready to talk - Macleans.ca
Unmuzzled government scientists are ready to talk
Federal government scientists are bursting to discuss a lost decade. Ask them anything.
by Shannon Proudfoot
Dr. Kristi Miller-Saunders. (Photograph by Jimmy Jeong)
As a graduate student, Kristi Miller researched recruitment dynamics—changes in population abundance from year to year—in barnacles. They used barnacles to observe this phenomenon because they were abundant and easy to monitor. But they’re not exactly cuddly organisms, and talking about her work tended to act as a bit of a record-scratch sound effect in conversation. “When I would try to explain to friends and family what I was doing, they would look at me like, ‘Well, who cares about that? Why would anyone want to spend time and money on that?’ ” she says, laughing. As she progressed through her education—she completed a Ph.D. in biological sciences at Stanford University in 1992—Miller wanted to work on something people cared about. “I loved what I was doing, but I really wanted it to matter,” she says. That drew her to government science: she wanted to be involved with people who were making policy decisions, to have her research help shape something in the real world. She would, however, eventually become a poster child of the Conservative government’s “muzzling” of scientists.
Now, as head of the molecular genetics section at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, B.C., she works on developing novel technologies to track the health and condition of salmon. What she loves more than anything is knowing a tool she developed is being used to make decisions. She works long, intense hours because she loves her job, and that and her family—her husband of 25 years, a 22-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son—define the shape of her life.
In 2011, Miller published a paper in the high-profile journal Science on her discovery of a genomic signature in dwindling Fraser River sockeye salmon populations, which suggested that a viral infection was causing them to die off in large numbers before spawning. The journal flagged her paper as being of widespread interest, so she sought boilerplate approval from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (commonly known as DFO, for Department of Fisheries and Oceans) to do interviews. Journalists started calling, then tap-dancing anxiously as the embargo date on the study neared, but Miller was hamstrung, still waiting for permission to chat. Finally, a few days after the study came out—along with the initial rush of coverage—word came down through her department: there would be no approval to speak about what was considered a bad-news story. “It was actually really embarrassing, to be honest,” Miller says.
She was far from the only one who experienced this during the last several years of Stephen Harper’s government. If, say, you had a burning desire to know more about “rock snot”—which is best explained by its considerably less evocative identity as freshwater algae—you were out of luck, because the Canadian government scientist who was the pre-eminent expert on that particular natural wonder was under a gag order. Similarly, if you wanted to hear the author of Hotter Than Hell, a novel about a dystopian world ravaged by climate change, speak about the universe he’d conjured on the page, it wasn’t going to happen; he, too, was a government scientist told not to talk. Others attending a climate change conference in Montreal in 2012 were instructed to take the business cards of any journalists who wanted to talk to them and hand them over to media relations staff, who would arrange and chaperone interviews for researchers presumably too timorous and delicate to handle the task themselves. Still others were turned into sock puppets and helpfully handled scripts from which to answer questions.
What resulted from all of this shushing is what’s known on the Internet as “the Streisand effect,” so named for Barbra Streisand’s attempt to sue a photographer into removing a photo of her Malibu mansion from a thoroughly obscure website where he was documenting coastline erosion. As a direct result of the publicity around the lawsuit, the virtually buried photo of the singer’s home became a gleefully shared online pin-up. And so with Miller’s research and others, the effort to squelch coverage of science that likely would have had a short life in the spotlight instead spawned a new and much longer-legged series of stories about the Conservative government slapping muzzles on its own researchers.
By the 2015 federal election campaign, this was fertile ground for Justin Trudeau and the Liberals to stake out when they pledged in their platform to “value science and treat scientists with respect,” and ensure “that scientists are able to speak freely about their work.” Two days after the cabinet was sworn in, Navdeep Bains, the newly minted minister of innovation, science and economic development, announced that government scientists and experts were fully available to chat. The news was greeted in one department with the pop of a wine cork (non-alcoholic, these being work hours and responsible public servants and all), and in others with literal cheering.
The unmuzzling of government scientists has been a conspicuous and symbolically important part of the approach this government has aimed to project: transparent, progressive, fans of evidence-based policy-making and—perhaps most of all—Not Like The Last Guys. The implementation of the much-touted policy was slow to trickle down to ground level, though, and rolled out unevenly across departments.
But call a Canadian government scientist these days and you’re likely to get a swift response and a freewheeling conversation that has the feel of a long-held breath being exhaled. Rock snot, dystopian climate novels, sickly salmon—Canada could well set up a toll-free number that would let all these scientists release years of pent-up chatter about their work.
Critics, however, charged that the new government, particularly in the first half of last year, was basking in the glow of looking science-friendly while failing to ensure things had really changed. “Shortly after Canadians elected our government, we announced that federal scientists were once again free to speak about their work. This action followed years where scientists were silenced and government support for science flatlined,” Kirsty Duncan, minister for science, says in a statement. “We respect scientists and the important work they do, and remain committed to increasing openness and transparency. While we’re proud of this new approach, it is a culture shift that will take time to implement.” To that end, in May 2016, the government put out an updated communications policy spelling this out, her office said, adding, “Each department and agency is responsible for implementing this policy.”
Debi Daviau, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC), the union that represents most government scientists, says that some departments, including DFO, where Miller works, and Environment Canada, were proactive about this and explicitly told their employees and managers of the new approach soon after the announcement. But that didn’t happen everywhere. “Things were slow to get flowing,” she says. “Yes, the government changed its communications policy, but nobody seemed to know about it.” As of this fall, Daviau says more and more of their members were being clearly informed of their right to speak even if they were not designated spokespeople.
Last month, PIPSC triumphantly announced that it had negotiated with the government to include in its collective agreements a clause that protects this openness. “That was already the government’s policy, but now it’s enshrined in our collective agreement so no future government can take this away from us without a big fight,” Daviau says. She says all these measures are necessary to alleviate some of the “trauma, if you will” experienced by scientists over the last several years, and to restore “a sense of safety and security” that they can freely perform and discuss their research. “When a government is taking away their capacity to do their work, that’s a bigger attack to them than even not giving them raises or taking away their offices,” she says.
Back in 2010, Scott Dallimore, a Sidney, B.C.-based research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada and Natural Resources Canada, published a paper about a flood in northern Canada, but permission for him to speak to journalists was delayed until their stories were long filed. This was puzzling, given the fact that the flood his work focused on had occurred 13,000 years ago. “I don’t think my muzzling was super severe, but I think it was entertaining and it was farcical in some ways,” he says. “It just didn’t make sense. The science I was doing would not be easily accessed by the media when it had been published in Nature, a prestigious journal.” To this day, he says he doesn’t know why the approval was so slow in coming, but things are different now. “The changes in the government of Canada that have happened have come down to the scientist level and they’re very encouraging,” he says. “They suggest to me the government is serious about improving the atmosphere for access to government science by the media, dissemination of our science results. I see no reason to be suspicious that they don’t have very good intent, and it has completely changed the atmosphere for the working environment.”
One of the things that made the muzzling so difficult for government scientists is how it was fundamentally at odds with the way they work, and with the culture of their discipline. As Miller explains it, science is to some degree inherently about debate—scientists may disagree on the interpretation of data, and as they gather evidence that supports or refutes hypotheses, what they understand changes over time. Given how scientific knowledge evolves and deepens with technology and the accumulation of evidence, for Miller, confidence and integrity rest on knowing your research is solid and you have interpreted it well. “Truth is how we understand it today,” she says. “What our truth is today has to be based on the weight of evidence we have now.” But debate—which she knows to simply be a part of science—tends to be frowned upon in government departments. “They want a hard line. They want to know this is the answer and there only is one viewpoint,” she says. “I think sometimes the knee-jerk reaction of a manager is to pick the side of the most convenient truth.”
Much robust research goes on in government departments, Miller says, but if they’re not allowed to talk about their findings, they’re not on equal footing with researchers in universities and other institutions. “The public, they start trusting the government science less,” she says. “They don’t hear about it, so they start wondering, ‘Do they actually do anything? Do they actually do anything that matters to us?’ So you slowly erode the public trust and public support of the government-level science.”
Since the new government came in, Miller has done plenty of interviews—all with the instructions to just set up whatever conversations she likes and give the communications department a heads-up afterward—but they’ve all been about how politics affected scientists like her, not on the research that consumes her. “After I had done five or six or seven interviews on the lifting of the ban, I started asking, ‘Is anyone ever going to ask me what I’m doing, about the science?’ ” she says, laughing.
For the record: Miller’s program recently uncovered heart and skeletal muscle inflammation, a disease not previously known to be present in B.C. salmon. She has a big team working on this, with more papers coming out soon. And she’s happy to talk about it anytime—just ask.
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Modern Art Museum Valencia
Don’t feel bad if the goods don’t actually make it back home. Tip: Also along the Turia Gardens, Valencia’s Modern Art Museum (Institut Valencia d’Art Modern) offers free admission on Sundays and.
The Milwaukee Art Museum addition was Calatrava’s first project in the United States. Feeling insecure about working in the U.S., he actually withdrew himself from the selection process in 1994, only to be coaxed back. Today, Calatrava has completed dozens of buildings and bridges around the world, with many more in the works.
Jun 27, 2018 · In Summary (The Biggest Differences between the Metropolitan Museum of Art vs Museum of Modern Art) Both institutions are world-class museums that any art or culture lover should definitely visit at least once in their lives, but they have important differences, too. The Met is larger by far, with more gallery space and larger collections.
Across the gallery, in a model for an expansion of the Institute of Modern Art in Valencia by the Japanese firm Sanaa, the past is literally boxed in. A milky white translucent shell encloses a.
The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to sharing more than 1,400 works from the Bechtler collection of mid-20th-century modern art.
The Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum designed by Brazilian architect Oscar. The City of Arts and Sciences in Spain El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, a museum of science in Valencia’s City of.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art Announces New Interpretation Manager "A Portrait of a Young Lady in Pink" leads January Period Art & Design auction at Bonhams The Valencian Institute for Modern Art opens exhibition: Contemporary Indigenous Art in Australia
Valencia College opens "Graphic Guts," an exhibit by internationally. Her work is included in the permanent collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in.
LOS ANGELES – The Museum of Contemporary Art announced Saturday that it will make admission free – a switch made possible by $10 million gift from MOCA board of trustees President Carolyn Powers. Powers made the announcement during dinner at the museum’s annual benefit Saturday night. The event, inside the MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary satellite space in Little Tokyo, was something.
Govan and LACMA’s trustees have proposed a takeover of L.A.’s financially adrift Museum of Contemporary Art and its. dean of the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. "That.
Carmen Calvo is a Spanish visual artist who was born in 1950. Carmen Calvo has had numerous gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the IVAM – Institut Valencià d`Art Modern and at the Galerie.
Sejima also designed the famous Small House in Tokyo (2000), the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion, Toledo, Ohio (2001-2006), the extension to the Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain.
On 8 November 2018 the Modern Art Museum of Yerevan (MAMY), Armenia will open an installation entitled Palimpsest: History in Drawers, showcasing art works by Boston based artist Varteni. This is the second exhibition by Varteni in Armenia.
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Hugging the Mediterranean Sea, the community of Valencia is abundant with olive. and stop by the Museu d’Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni, the second biggest contemporary museum in Spain,
The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (Valencian pronunciation: [instiˈtud valensiˈa ˈðaɾd moˈðɛɾn]; Spanish: Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno; English: ‘Valencian Institute of Modern Art’), also known by the acronym IVAM, was the first center of modern art created in Spain, opening in 1989 in the city of Valencia. The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern is an important center for.
The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, IVAM, was born in 1986 with the approval of its founding law as public law entity by the valencian Parliament. Knowledge, expansion, protection, promotion and diffusion of modern and contemporary art are its principal objectives. Its programme of activities.
Hayon is based in Valencia, but also has studios in Barcelona and Treviso. Previous exhibitions were held at the Maison.
A significant video component is included both in the galleries and in a standalone programme hosted in the museum’s theatre.
The third space, the new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art with artworks from 1914 onwards, is currently presented through regularly renewed selections of works and a contemporary art in situ route, in anticipation of the move to a new location which will allow it to grow to its full potential. Address. Musée Modern Museum Rue de la.
Five years ago the need for a museum of contemporary art in Los Angeles was no more than a subject. Fitzpatrick, president of the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, said that the museum.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art; among others. The present work is in excellent condition. It is a warm toned print on double.
Federico Guzmán is a Spanish visual artist who was born in 1964. Federico Guzmán has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the IVAM – Institut Valencià d`Art Modern and at the Museo.
Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Miriam Schapiro, who helped spearhead the feminist. It was also at this time that Schapiro started taking art classes at the Museum of Modern Art, where she was.
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Looking at an IPO as a funding option.
An IPO, which stands for initial public offering, is the process whereby a privately-owned company offers shares to the public for the first time via a public market.
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A company could choose to IPO for a number of reasons, the primary one being to raise funds to grow the business. Other reasons include enhancing its public profile amongst investors, competitors customers and workforce, to facilitate the owner’s exit, and to enable staff share incentive schemes.
Raising capital, be it internally or externally is one of the first important steps to take when looking to grow and scale business operations. In the past, many Irish companies have traditionally opted to raise funds via bank debt, shareholder funding or via private equity funds rather than going down the route of an IPO. “Not taking an IPO into consideration when looking to expand can have many consequences, one of which is selling too early; paying down the debt by way of partial or whole trade sale rather than looking to the public markets for funding” says Lorcan Colclough, Partner, Mazars Ireland.
Ireland fosters a special culture for entrepreneurial businesses, particularly in the technology sector. The ecosystem here has gone from strength to strength, but very few Irish companies on the scaling journey are looking to the public markets to support their expansion. The introduction of the IPO Ready Programme, facilitated by Enterprise Ireland and Euronext Dublin, formerly known as the Irish Stock Exchange, aims to support Irish companies embarking on their IPO journey in the next five years and an important step in Ireland to encourage more Irish companies to become listed be it at home or abroad.
Irish companies have a number of exchanges to choose from when deciding to embark on the IPO journey. Unfortunately, the Irish stock market is relatively small in comparison to its European counterparts. Euronext Dublin has had very limited IPO activity in the last two years and are yet to have a new equity listing in 2019. In comparison, the Swedish growth market exchange, Nasdaq First North, has seen 12 IPOs since the 1 January 2019 and 51 during 2018, excluding the activity of the main market Nasdaq Nordic.
A main benefit of deciding to list on a growth market stock exchange such as Nasdaq First North is the access to permanent capital which does not carry any repayment burdens. Another key advantage is the ability to use it as a stepping stone before entering a main market, where the rules are far more extensive. This allows for senior management to keep focus on the business rather than on restrictive reporting requirements. It also sends future potential investors a signal of ambition for the company, giving visibility of the company to these investors by being associated with a creditable brand. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, it enables current stakeholders inclusive of founders and staff to realise the value of the business they have worked so hard to create.
On the downside, being a listed company will come with more bureaucratic restraints. Having the correct team both internal to the company and external advisors is paramount during the IPO process and continual reporting requirements. However, with the right team supporting the business the rigour that the public market brings can also be of benefit as it often results in a more refined company structure which aids in preparation for the next stage in the growth story.
One such company is Zutec , a leading Irish construction software company, which in 2018 was the first Irish company to successfully IPO on the aforementioned Nasdaq First North in Sweden. Zutec provide software solutions and expert services to assist the Construction, Engineering & Facilities Management Industries. Its listing on Nasdaq First North marks what is expected to be the first of many Irish companies to follow suit.
Supporting Zutec’s journey was Mazars, an internationally integrated accountancy and advisory firm. Mazars Ireland who held a long-standing relationship with the company; providing tax and audit services, engaged with their Swedish counterpart to provide a smooth transition during the process.
Having prior capital markets experience in the technology sector combined with Mazars' international reach, particularly in Sweden, meant Zutec was fully supported both in Ireland where their headquarters remain and in Sweden where the IPO was taking place.
Speaking of their experience at the time, Conor O’Brien, Director at Zutec says: “We believe the IPO on the Nasdaq First North stock exchange will enable the company to continue to grow at an accelerated rate and expand into further markets such as Scandinavia and North America. We would like to thank Mazars in Ireland and Sweden for the advice and support given during this process.”
The decision to IPO is significant and takes time to prepare and execute successfully. Like all funding methods, the due diligence and regulatory filings processes is the most laborious stage of an IPO, requiring significant legal and accounting support. The first important step is to find credible advisers and accountants that can be trusted to guide the company from the preparation stage all the way through to the post listing stage.
Apart from the obvious due diligence burden involved, the company must begin to operate as a public company which can often mean the restructure of shareholdings, boards and management teams; something itself takes a lot of time and planning.
“The decision to raise funding, be it an IPO or otherwise, is a very important one and marks a pivotal time in a company’s lifecycle,” says Colclough. “The time these types of processes take can sometimes be underestimated but it’s very encouraging to see companies such as Zutec taking their decision to IPO to Nasdaq First North”.
This article first appeared in Sunday Business Post on the 2nd June 2019.
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On 15 March 2018, Irish software firm Zutec Holdings successfully closed their funding round for their IPO of 50m Swedish krona (€5 million) on the Nasdaq First North stock exchange.
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Kerala initiates steps to deal with natural calamities
(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) With the south-west monsoon just weeks away, the State Government is working to put its disaster preparedness and contingency plan in place.
Work on District Emergency Operation Centres have been completed in Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha and Malappuram, Revenue Minister Adoor Prakash said.
"Work is progressing on the centre in Idukki. Such centres will be opened in all the districts and we are trying our best to open all of them at the earliest," he said.
The districts have been sanctioned Rs 33 lakh each, he added.
The centres will have their own office and staff and will be under the district collector concerned. They will report to the state-level emergency operation centre, currently functioning at the Institute of Land and Disaster Management (ILDM) in Thiruvananthapuram.
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Episode 3 Recap: The Origin Of Graviton
By Alison Tanner
In the pilot episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. we saw the origin of a potential superhero, Mike Henderson. But the Marvel Universe is not all rainbows and capes. In the third episode of the new series, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are on a mission to prevent the origin of a super-villain.
The episode opens as S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist Franklin Hall is kidnapped by a stealth team that uses a tiny device with the power to lift a semi truck into the air and bring it crashing down.
The device is powered by gravitonium, a newly discovered element that can alter the forces of gravity — and it turns out Dr. Hall is the world’s leading expert on the stuff. Are your Spidey-senses tingling? You’re not the only one.
That someone, it would seem, is billionaire playboy bachelor Ian Quinn, whom Coulson and the gang track down as Dr. Hall’s captor given the easily traceable gold bars Quinn used to pay off a minor player in his heist (that’s what you get for showing off). Quinn and Hall studied at Cambridge together, where Hall first developed his theories on gravitonium. After graduation Hall joined S.H.I.E.L.D. and became a highly guarded government scientist; meanwhile Quinn developed a global mining empire and purchased a compound on the island of Malta, a haven from international law (don’t get your hopes up libertarians; real life Malta is a member of the European Union and thoroughly ensconced in international law).
Coulson and the gang must devise a plan to save Hall without sending in a strike team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents (prohibited by Malta law). Fitz proposes a super solid plan involving a monkey that could slip through the pulse laser emitting fences and disable the censor’s power sources with his adorable little hands (please let this become a running gag; I loved how seriously Coulson almost took this!).
Sky suggests pulling an inside job, using her Rising Tide hacker cred to score an e-vite to Quinn’s conveniently-timed investor’s gala. Fitz-Simmons equip Skye with a Bond-ish compact mirror that can disable the fences and get Agents Ward and Coulson access to the compound secretly.
Shortly after Skye arrives at the party Quinn attempts to lure her to his freedom of information, anti-government side, which seems pretty much straight up older hacker Skye’s alley. Skye’s loyalties are still shaky, especially since she’s kept up communications with Rising Tide behind S.H.I.E.L.D.’s back. When Skye destroys her S.H.I.E.L.D. earpiece it looks like all hope is lost but she ends up activating her Bond gadget in the nick of time.
So mission success right? Dr. Hall is saved, the day is over? Wrong.
Coulson finds Hall in Quinn’s underground lab but soon learns that Hall has no intention of being saved. It turns out he leaked the information about his transportation in hopes of being kidnapped by Quinn. After Hall learned Quinn got a hold of gravitonium, he developed a plan to send Quinn and his new super-powered weapon to the bottom of the ocean.
Hall says Quinn is “addicted to exploiting opportunities … never giv[ing] a thought to the friends, ecosystems, future generations ruined in his wake” (snaps for the scathing anti-capitalist rant). Coulson points out that Hall could’ve worked with S.H.I.E.L.D. on this, but Hall rightly points out that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s own blind quest for a limitless energy source (the Tessaract) make it just as guilty of the same thing.
Oh, those super-villains always seem so vindicated! But to avert the entire island’s immersion into the ocean, Coulson has no choice but to use Dr. Hall’s body as a catalyst to interrupt the energy of the gravatonium device. Coulson orders S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to store the device deep in the org's underground vaults, but in the post-credit sequence we see Dr. Hall’s molten hand emerge from the elemental core.
This is the origin of Graviton.
What works: In a huge improvement from last episode, the writers have begun to drop some pretty compelling character back story. This episode we learn that Skye is a high school drop-out who grew up in foster homes and learned early that if you never really want anything, you won’t get disappointed when you don’t get it. We also learn about Ward’s abusive older brother, and how protecting his younger siblings turned him into an agent.
While May took to the sidelines this episode, hopefully for the last time, we learned a tantalizing tidbit about one of the side effects of Coulson’s near death experience: he’s lost his reflexes. He’s a clone, you guys. I’m calling it. Or a cyborg. Or a Life Model Decoy.
Even Fitz and Simmons are working (I’m as shocked to hear me say it as you are). Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen use Skye’s earpiece to perfectly incorporate FitzSimmons into the action for comic effect without turning them into token bumbling geeks.
What doesn’t: Now’s the time for the writers to develop arcs that last longer than a single episode (you know, besides the romance between Skye and Ward).
They dropped the ball on Skye’s mysterious texts to the Rising Tide, making this episode seem a bit disjointed form the last.
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Rocker who helps the mentally ill find their song part of New Haven panel Wednesday
Arts & Ideas events features Mary McBride
By Cara Rosner Conn. Health I-Team Writer
Published 12:43 pm EDT, Tuesday, June 23, 2015
(Cara Rosner - Conn. Health I-Team) Singer-songwriter Mary McBride and her band mates performed recently in New Haven.
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Dozens of Connecticut’s most at-risk mental health patients have added a new tool to their treatment plans – songwriting – thanks to an unusual partnership between a New York-based singer and the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
Over the past two years, singer-songwriter Mary McBride and her bandmates have worked with 36 young adults who receive DMHAS services, according to DMHAS Communications Director Mary Kate Mason.
McBride holds songwriting workshops with participants in DMHAS’ Young Adult Services. The songwriting process gives participants a creative outlet and a chance to be heard, she said.
“It allows them to do what they do really well,” she said. “Beyond most kids in their age group, they’re really good at telling their stories,” since they often are asked to do so in clinical settings, she said.
“They’ve been so creative. Music has been amazing for them,” McBride said. “It allows them to tell their story and also allows them to tell their story with a focus, which is coming up with a song.”
During the two-day workshops, participants share their stories with a group of their peers, and group members offer feedback on what resonates with them and may make for good songs. Participants derive a title and choose the musical genre in which they want their song to be. Then McBride, her band members and other musicians help participants write lyrics and arrange the songs.
“They’re given the opportunity to create something that is lasting,” McBride said, and patients’ songs typically are deeply personal.
In one workshop, McBride recalls, a young woman who had gone blind penned a song called “The Things I Remember,” about what she recalled seeing before she was blind. Another recent participant wrote a song about her experience transitioning genders.
“(Participants) are all incredibly focused kids when it comes to what’s going on in their lives emotionally,” McBride said.
Songwriting, she added, “allows them to have a sense of completion.”
In addition to the workshops, McBride and her band have brought their “Home Tour” to sites throughout Connecticut and beyond since 2010. The tour visits mental health facilities, supportive housing communities and other places where residents typically don’t have access to live music. Many DMHAS patients and clients have attended Home Tour concerts, Mason said.
McBride, who is based in Brooklyn, and her band travel the world with the Home Tour. Through a partnership with the U.S. Department of State, the band has six international tours booked this year and recently returned from a week in Haiti. On each tour stop, the band brings music to people where they live, eliminating the barrier of having to travel to hear live performances.
Sometimes, the Home Tour and McBride’s songwriting workshops intersect, as patients often are asked to perform onstage during concerts when feasible. During a recent concert at the Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven, for instance, a teenage patient performed a song he had written in one of McBride’s workshops.
The workshop and concert experiences benefit DHMAS patients by supplementing treatment they are receiving, Mason said.
The Young Adult Services division, with which McBride works, serves people ages 18 to 25 with a history of major mental health problems. Individuals in the program are transitioning from the youth mental health system to the adult system, and are working on achieving the necessary skills for successful adulthood, she said.
“Mary McBride’s contribution through music workshops and concerts aligns perfectly with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services’ belief in complementary and alternative strategies that benefit recovery-oriented practice,” Mason said. “DMHAS’ partnership with the Home Tour has been a three year-long opportunity to help educate, inspire and build healthy communities.”
In Connecticut, McBride said she is grateful for the support of DMHAS, the governor’s office and mental health providers who have helped make her efforts a success.
“Connecticut is our best model in terms of work with all the different agencies,” she said, adding she hopes to replicate the success elsewhere.
“The Home Tour is an example of state agencies collaborating, providing quality holistic services to the populations they serve,” Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman said in a statement. “It is a testament to our state agencies that they have worked so closely together with local town and non-for-profit agencies to print this project to fruition.”
While it is not necessarily what McBride and her band originally intended to do when they began touring back in 2002, she said working with mental health patients has been rewarding and has renewed their creative energy.
“It feels very meaningful to us,” she said. “These tours have really allowed us to have a second chapter in what we want our music to mean. The opportunity to write with young people in Connecticut has been this incredible experience.”
McBride will be featured on a panel, “Rock ‘n Roll That Heals,” Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. as part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven. DMHAS Commissioner Miriam Delphin-Rittmon and author Rick Moody will be on the panel.
McBride and her band also will perform a free concert on the New Haven Green Wednesday at 7 p.m.
This story was reported under a partnership with the Connecticut Health I-Team (www.c-hit.org)
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‘Modern Family’ actress Elizabeth Pena dies at 55
Published 2:43 pm EDT, Thursday, October 16, 2014
FILE - In this March 22, 2003 file photo, actress Elizabeth Pena flashes a peace sign as she arrives for the 2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. The "La Bamba" and "Lone Star" actress Pena, 55, has died. Pena's manager, Gina Rugolo, said the actress died Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, in Los Angeles of natural causes after a brief illness. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, file)(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file) less
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LOS ANGELES >> Elizabeth Pena, the versatile actress who shifted between dramatic roles in such films as “Lone Star” and comedic parts in TV shows like “Modern Family,” has died. She was 55.
Pena’s manager, Gina Rugolo, said Wednesday the Cuban-American actress died Tuesday in Los Angeles of natural causes after a brief illness. No other details were provided.
Born in Elizabeth, N.J., Pena’s Hollywood career spanned four decades and included roles in such movies as “La Bamba,” “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” “Jacob’s Ladder” and “Rush Hour.” In filmmaker John Sayles’ “Lone Star,” she memorably portrayed a history teacher who rekindles a romance with an old flame, played by Chris Cooper.
Pena appeared on such TV shows as “L.A. Law,” “Dream On,” “Resurrection Blvd.” and “Modern Family,” where she played the mother of Sofia Vergara’s character, Gloria.
She starred in the 1980s sitcom “I Married Dora” in the titular role as a housekeeper from El Salvador who weds her employer to avoid deportation.
Pena also provided her voice to Disney-Pixar’s “The Incredibles,” the “Justice League” cartoon series and Seth MacFarlane’s “American Dad.”
Pena most recently appeared on the El Rey Network drama “Matador.”
She is survived by her husband, two children, mother and sister.
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Poor Elijah’s Almanac: Counting to several
By Peter Berger
Published 12:54 pm EDT, Monday, October 20, 2014
My local newspaper recently headlined that students’ scores had marginally declined on Vermont’s statewide science assessment.
As with most standardized tests, no matter where you live, scorers use subjective rubrics to decide, for example, whether a student’s answer reflects a “thorough,” “general,” “limited,” or “minimal” understanding. According to officials, scorers can make those precise determinations because a “general” answer, for instance, includes an unspecified number of “errors and omissions,” as opposed to a “limited” response, which includes “several errors and omissions.”
Can you count to “several”? I can’t.
On a four-point scale, an answer with “errors” earns three points, while “several errors” earns two points. That’s a twenty-five percent score variation based on the difference between “I don’t exactly know how many” and “several.”
Further compromising the “data,” students work on parts of the test in randomly assigned groups. Do you think a student’s individual score might be somewhat influenced by how smart the other students in his group happen to be?
The insignificance of marginal variations aside, if a statewide average markedly declines, or improves, from one year to the next, there exist two alternative explanations. Either the statewide student body got remarkably dumber, or smarter, from one year to the next, which isn’t likely, or despite test promoters’ claims of statistical consistency and precision, the test accidentally got harder or easier. Publishers and education officials have had to swallow plenty of that assessment crow over the past two decades of our national testing frenzy.
Welcome to the world of modern assessment.
Don’t misunderstand. When I’m grading an essay, I’m not perfectly scientific either. The difference is I don’t claim to be, and I don’t base a whole year’s grade on one test. Also my grades cost a lot less.
Somehow officials aren’t overly troubled by these repeated assessment fiascoes. Critics have instead again focused their wrath on letter grades. Reformers charge that A-F report cards provide “hodgepodge” grades that are “impossible to interpret” and “rarely present a true picture of a student’s proficiency.” Some complain that letter grades inappropriately mingle academic competency, effort, and progress, and that teachers should award a separate grade in each category.
You don’t need a separate grade in “progress” to determine if a student has made any. You just need to track his grades in succeeding quarters and years. As for effort, we gave effort grades in my school for decades until our new computer grading system made awarding them a clerical nightmare. We also awarded checkmarks in areas that contribute to academic success, like homework completion and class participation, until our new computer program eliminated our ability to do that.
I won’t pretend that all the complexities of academic performance can be fully captured in a single alphabet character. Letter grades are shorthand. The question is, are they effective. Do they communicate what parents want and need to know about their children’s school performance?
Any grading system short of a comprehensive narrative, whether it consists of letters or numbers, is shorthand. Teachers’ comments have long provided a brief narrative when letter grades need further explanation. For example, I commonly add a note when incomplete work and missing assignments have lowered a student’s overall grade. I also add comments about everything from strong effort to exemplary class participation.
I’ve found that for most parents this is enough. Those who want more information can and do call, write, or arrange for a conference. Over the years I’ve talked with many parents, and a face-to-face conversation almost always answers any lingering questions they have.
Reformers’ latest recycled marvel, standards-based grading, rests on the assumption that parents aren’t satisfied with a summary A through F in English, for example, but instead want multiple 4 through 1 grades in specific English categories. I’m skeptical as to the validity of those category grades, especially since so many assignments simultaneously involve and assess a combination of skills. I’m also not sure how many parents actually want separate grades assessing their child’s performance in “narrative” as opposed to “explanatory” writing, just two of the ten new standards-based, English grades each elementary student in my school will begin receiving this year.
Promoters insist these elaborate standards-based changes are a response to parental demands for better communication and reporting. Ironically, as part of the standards-based move to better communicate with parents, my students’ parents will now be receiving three report cards a year instead of four. According to advocates, you can’t really compute meaningful standard-based grades over a nine-week marking period, prompting the shift to twelve week trimesters.
A grading system that can’t produce meaningful results in nine weeks isn’t much of a grading system. Changing how you report what students know doesn’t change how much they know. It’s also hard to reconcile proponents’ claims that standards-based grading is a response to parental demands when in districts where it’s been implemented, so many parents don’t like it.
Yeah, but what’s my kid’s grade?
Like the Common Core, standards-based grading isn’t the grassroots idea its boosters claim it is. It didn’t originate with parents. It was born in the fevered imaginations of experts and theorists who are strangers to the real world of kitchen tables and classrooms.
For how long will so few be permitted to visit so much folly and harm on so many?
Peter Berger teaches English in Weathersfield, Vermont. Poor Elijah would be pleased to answer letters addressed to him in care of the editor.
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LightPath Technologies Announces Organizational Realignment and Appoints Al Symmons to Newly Created Position of Chief Operating Officer
New Structure Increases Focus on Sales Growth and Product Development
ORLANDO, FL / ACCESSWIRE / July 8, 2019 / LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) ("LightPath," the "Company," or "we"), a leading vertically integrated global manufacturer, distributor and integrator of proprietary optical and infrared components and high-level assemblies, announced today an organizational realignment and the appointment of Al Symmons as Chief Operating Officer.
"As we begin a new fiscal year, the company is creating the new executive position of Chief Operating Officer and realigning it sales organization to bring sharper focus and a more proactive approach to its growth markets," stated Jim Gaynor, President and Chief Executive Officer of LightPath.
Mr. Gaynor continued, "LightPath has made these changes in response to evolving customer requirements and resulting complexity of our expanding product portfolio. As a result, we believe the company will be better positioned to take full advantage of its growth opportunities. Our new COO will have responsibility for all operations, engineering, sales and marketing functions. All of these areas interface with LightPath's three distinct product groups: molded optics; thermal imaging lens assemblies; and custom optics. Each of these groups have different growth rates, conversion rates and material content. The primary job of the COO is to ensure that the company has the ability to supply these products in accordance with their demand, while improving our profitability.
"The company continues to evaluate the organization as it looks to the future and starting today it is also establishing a product management function separate from the COO's responsibility which reports directly to the CEO. This function will be responsible for portfolio management and identifying strategic industry opportunities for LightPath. There will be a product manager for each of our three major product groups. This organizational structure will allow the company to proactively find more qualified sales opportunities and to increase the number of opportunities won at a faster pace.
"We are fortunate to have an extremely qualified individual in Al Symmons to become our Chief Operating Officer, effective July 8, 2019. Al has been instrumental in playing a leadership role in our operations, manufacturing, acquisition integration and product development, including our breakout line of BD6 infrared optical lenses. We are excited by our new organizational structure and approach to market which we believe will lead to improved performance this year and in years to come."
Since joining LightPath in 2006, Al Symmons has successfully served in progressively responsible positions leading up to his appointment as COO in July 2019. Most recently, he served as EVP of Operations, and he previously held the titles of Vice President of Corporate Engineering and Director of Engineering. Prior to joining LightPath, he was Engineering Manager at Aurora Optical, a cell phone camera module manufacturer, and held various management engineering positions in injection molded plastic optics at both Applied Image Group - Optics, and Donnelly Optics.
Mr. Symmons has over 20 years of experience in the high volume manufacture of optical components and assemblies with an emphasis on molded optics, and has published over twenty papers in the field and authored the Field Guide to Molded Optics. As a Fellow of SPIE (the international society for optics and photonics), he demonstrates dedication to advancing the scientific research and engineering applications of optics and photonics through international conferences, education and support of the industry's best practices. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Eller School of Management at the University of Arizona.
Mr. Symmons stated "I am excited for this new role. I am looking forward to aligning our sales, operations and engineering teams to proactively drive our growth. This consolidation combined with the introduction of product management will enable us to leverage our recent success with our new line of BD6 thermal imaging lens assemblies. As we look to establish some new key initiatives, we expect to set up our thermal imaging product lines for continuous expansion and long-term growth."
About LightPath Technologies
LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) is a leading global, vertically integrated provider of optics, photonics and infrared solutions for the industrial, commercial, defense, telecommunications, and medical industries. LightPath designs, manufactures, and distributes proprietary optical and infrared components including molded glass aspheric lenses and assemblies, infrared lenses and thermal imaging assemblies, fused fiber collimators, and proprietary Black DiamondTM ("BD6") chalcogenide-based glass lenses. LightPath also offers custom optical assemblies, including full engineering design support. The Company is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with manufacturing and sales offices in Latvia and China.
LightPath's wholly-owned subsidiary, ISP Optics Corporation, manufactures a full range of infrared products from high performance MWIR and LWIR lenses and lens assemblies. ISP's infrared lens assembly product line includes athermal lens systems used in cooled and un-cooled thermal imaging cameras. Manufacturing is performed in-house to provide precision optical components including spherical, aspherical and diffractive coated infrared lenses. ISP's optics processes allow it to manufacture its products from all important types of infrared materials and crystals. Manufacturing processes include CNC grinding and CNC polishing, diamond turning, continuous and conventional polishing, optical contacting and advanced coating technologies.
For more information on LightPath and its businesses, please visit www.lightpath.com.
This news release includes statements that constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding our ability to expand our presence in certain markets, future sales growth, continued improvements in our financial results,and implementation of new distribution channels. This information may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, factors detailed by LightPath Technologies, Inc. in its public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, we do not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Jim Gaynor, President & CEO
LightPath Technologies, Inc.
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The Plate
An Eater’s Guide to Food Labels
By Georgina Gustin
Food packaging isn’t just the shell that protects or contains a product. It’s a powerful miniature billboard—a tool that food producers use to reel in customers.
It’s also a document, of sorts, that conveys how a food was produced and whether the government has overseen that process.
The problem for consumers? Knowing the difference.
This week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will begin to consider input from the public and the food industry on how best to define “natural,” one of the most misused and misunderstood terms in food—and one that has immense marketing power. (See “So What do ‘Natural’ and ‘Healthy’ Really Mean?“)
But the agency’s effort is only the latest attempt by government regulators to clarify for consumers what certain terms mean and what they say about how a food is grown or made. And, when the FDA has finished its job, chances are that food packages will still baffle consumers who are faced with a bewildering assault of messages and claims.
Here, The Plate attempts to de-baffle with a guide to helping you understand just what a package, label, or term actually means—and what it doesn’t.
The claim: Natural
Currently, the FDA—which regulates most of the food supply—doesn’t define natural, meaning companies are free to call their products natural or all-natural even if that defies what a consumer might reasonably expect. Consumers have filed dozens of lawsuits against food companies for calling their foods natural when they contain synthetic or genetically engineered ingredients or if pesticides are used on them.
Many companies have decided to stop using the term for fear of being sued, but because the term is so compelling to shoppers—and helps sell billions in food products—many continue to use it even when, critics say, there are plenty of “unnatural” ingredients included.
Pushed by consumers and consumer groups, the agency last year said it would attempt to define natural. But the food industry and attorneys say this could be a very complicated task.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which regulates meat and poultry, has a very specific definition: “A product containing no artificial ingredient or added color and is only minimally processed. Minimal processing means that the product was processed in a manner that does not fundamentally alter the product.”
The take-home: Natural is not regulated or defined by the FDA, so the term can be applied freely to most processed foods or drinks. Meat, poultry, or eggs labeled “natural,” on the other hand, have to be natural.
Photograph by Becky Harlan
The claim: Non-GMO or GE-free
The FDA considers genetically engineered ingredients to be “substantially equivalent” to those produced by conventional growing methods. This means it has not, and does not, require foods containing genetically engineered ingredients to bear a label.
But plenty of companies make “non-GMO” or “GE-free” claims. These terms are not specifically regulated by the FDA. Keep in mind, though, that only a handful of produce items currently in the food supply are genetically engineered—a few types of squash and papaya, among them. (So if you see a “Non-GMO” label on a bunch of broccoli, you’re being misled. There is no GMO broccoli on the market.)
The vast majority of corn and soy grown in the U.S. is genetically engineered, however, which means a majority of processed foods contain genetically engineered ingredients, usually in the form of high fructose corn syrup or soy ingredients. (A lot of oils sold as vegetable oils, for example, are made from soybeans.) A majority of U.S.-grown canola and sugar beets are also genetically engineered.
At least 60 countries require foods containing genetically engineered ingredients to have some kind of label. This July, Vermont will become the first state to require foods to have a label indicating genetically engineered ingredients.
The FDA has issued guidelines for companies that want to make “GMO-free” claims, but the agency doesn’t police those. It does, however, have broader requirements that say a food’s label has to be truthful and that it’s illegal to sell unsafe food.
The take-home: If you care about whether your food contains genetically engineered ingredients, look to third-party certifications such as the Non-GMO project, buy USDA-certified “Organic,” or buy your groceries in Vermont starting this summer.
The claim: Organic
The agriculture department oversees the organic program, which bestows the familiar green-and-white circular icon on products produced without synthetic ingredients, synthetic pesticides, growth hormones, or genetic engineering. Producers who get the label have to go through a strict certification process.
The National Organic Standards Board meets regularly to decide what processes or ingredients it will permit and has agreed that some nonorganic ingredients are allowed under the organic label. (Under the program, 5 percent of an organic product can be nonorganic, but if it’s labeled “100 percent organic” it must be entirely organic.)
Bear in mind, though, that a product could very well be organically grown but not have the department’s label. Some producers merely decide they don’t want to go through the trouble or spend the money to earn the seal.
The take-home: With a few exceptions, the agriculture department’s organic label means what it says.
The claim: Cage-free, free range, or free-roaming chickens/eggs
According to the agriculture department, eggs labeled “cage-free” or “free-roaming” are “laid by hens that are allowed to roam in a room or open area, which is typically a barn or poultry house,” while “free-range” or “pasture-fed” eggs are “produced by hens raised outdoors or with access to outdoors.”
Critics maintain, however, that these terms are not well policed, and there’s a lot of room for interpretation. An egg might be marked “cage-free,” for example, but the chicken could live its life in a poultry house crammed with birds and have very little room to move. The same goes for chickens bred for meat.
Under the agency’s organic program, new rules are being considered that will require meaningful outdoor access for hens that produce organically raised eggs.
The take-home: Look for the organic label, or get to know a local egg farmer from your farmers market.
The claim: Humanely raised
Under the decades-old Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, livestock has to be slaughtered in a way that reduces the animal’s suffering. The law doesn’t apply to chickens, though, and doesn’t outline how an animal should live before slaughter.
A number of third-party certification systems have popped up in recent years as more consumers have become concerned about how animals live—and die. The Global Animal Partnership, for example, using a five-step rating system, and Animal Welfare Approved has developed stringent standards for livestock. These programs audit producers to make sure they’re adhering to their rules.
A company can use the term “humanely raised” or another similar term, but that claim isn’t verified or regulated by the agriculture department.
The take-home: Look for labels from third-party organizations that audit their producers.
The claim: Grass fed
The agriculture department decided earlier this year that it would withdraw its definition of “grass fed,” a move, critics believe, that will allow more producers to make grass-fed claims that aren’t verified or accurate.
Under the previous rules, livestock could be labeled “grass fed” even if they lived in dirt-floored enclosures much of the year or were only fed forage. But, despite these already low standards, they were, at least, standards. Now? Barely any.
The take-home: As with animal-welfare-related claims, look for an audited third-party certifier.
The claim: Farm fresh and farm-to-fork
On the spectrum of abused and misleading production claims, these probably lead the way. They tap into growing consumer demand for food produced nearby by smaller farmers, but can be—and are—totally abused and exploited.
The number of farmers markets in the U.S. has shot up in recent years, growing by 180 percent between 2006 and 2014, reaching a peak of nearly 8,300. Those numbers suggest that consumers have a hearty appetite for food grown or produced by small-scale farmers operating within local or regional food systems.
But the big guys—from restaurant chains to supermarkets to giant food makers—have attempted to cash in on the farm-centric frenzy. So, buyer beware.
The take-home: If you want “farm fresh” food, know your farmers market vendors. If someone is selling you pineapple in Maine in February and calling it farm fresh, ask questions.
Georgina Gustin is a longtime food policy and farming reporter. You can follow her on Twitter.
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JENN SCHANZ joins ABC Affiliate WXYZ in Detroit as a General Assignment Reporter. Jenn moat recently worked as a Reporter and fill-in Anchor at the CBS Affiliate in Buffalo. Jenn is a graduate of Depaul University in Chicago.
CRAIG NIGRELLI joins ABC Affiliate KAKE in Wichita as Monday-Friday Primary News Anchor. Craig comes to Wichita from the CBS Affiliate in Omaha where he had served in the same role since 2008. Craig who has won a variety of awards for his work is a graduate of Rutgers University.
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LACEY CRISP joins CBS Affiliate WBNS in Columbus as a General Assignment Reporter. Lacey most recently worked as a Reporter at CBS Affiliate WOIO in Cleveland.
SHAWNTE PASSMORE joins CBS Affiliate WFSB in Hartford where she will be a General Assignment Reporter/MMJ. Shawnte comes from the CBS Affiliate in Omaha where she also reported. Shawnte is a graduate of California State University at Long Beach.
MEGAN HICKEY joins CBS O&O WBBM as a General Assignment Reporter. Megan signed a three-year deal. Megan most recently worked as a Reporter at ABC O&O WLS in Chicago and prior to that worked at ABC Affiliate WEWS in Cleveland. Megan who is a native of Chicago is a graduate of Georgetown University and received her Masters at Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.
KRISTIN BYRNE joins NBC AFFILIATE WTMJ in Milwaukee where she will be the Consumer Investigative Reporter. Kristin worked most recently at ABC O&O WLS in Chicago and prior to that was at the ABC Affiliate in Cleveland where she was a News Anchor and an MMJ. Kristin is a graduate of Florida International University.
CHRYSTAL BLAIR is promoted to Weekend Anchor at CBS AFFILIATE KOLR in Springfield where she has been a General Assignment Reporter. Chrystal who is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University has a highly decorated career as a Radio News Anchor/Reporter and had worked at CBS O&O WWJ NEWS RADIO 950 in Detroit. Chrystal also worked at FGOX O&O WJBK in Detroit as a News Writer.
REMEISHA SHADE joins ABC Affiliate WEWS in Cleveland as Weekend Meteorologist and will fill-in on weekdays and report. Remeisha who previously worked at NBC Affiliate KXAS in Dallas is a graduate of Florida State University and is AMS Certified.
JULIE GARGOTTA is promoted to Anchor/Reporter at CENTRAL FLORIDA NEWS 13. Julie joined CENTRAL FLORIDA NEWS 13 as a Reporter in 2015. Julie is a graduate of Temple University.
FARAN FRONCZAK joins ABC Affiliate WZZM in Grand Rapids as Monday through Friday Morning Anchor. Faran previously worked at the CBS Affiliate in El Paso where she was the Monday through Friday Afternoon and Evening Anchor. Faran is a graduate of Purdue University.
SHELLEY CHILDERS joins ABC O&O KTRK in Houston as a General Assignment Reporter/MMJ. Shelley previously worked at ABC Affiliate WXYZ TV in Detroit where she also Reported. Shelley recently joined KTRK as a Freelance Reporter. Shelley is a native of Texas is a graduate of Michigan State University.
JOY REDMOND joins NBC Affiliate WMC in Memphis where she will be Monday through Friday Primary Anchor. Joy who is a graduate of University of Michigan most recently worked at the FOX Affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi.
KENA VERNON joins AccuWeather as a Reporter and will be based in New York. Kena who is a graduate of Hofstra University previously worked at News 12 Brooklyn and prior to that was at the GOX Affiliate in Binghamton.
JILL WASHBURN joins FOX O&O WJBK as a Freelance Meteorologist. Jill has also worked at CBS O&O WWJ in Detroit. Jill is a graduate of Michigan State University and received her Meteorology Certificate from Penn State University.
MIKE LACETT joins ABC Affiliate WZZM in Grand Rapids as Weekend Sports Anchor/Reporter. Mike who most recently worked at the FOX Affiliate in Louisville is a graduate of Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School Of Public Communications.
COLLEEN CAMPBELL joins WDTV the CBS Affiliate in Bridgeport where she will do Weekend Weather and will be a General Assignment Reporter, Weekdays. Colleen is a graduate of Temple University.
MEGAN RICE moves to CBS Affiliate WREG in Memphis where she will be Weekend Sports Anchor/Reporter. Megan who comes from the CBS Affiliate in Springfield is a graduate of The University Of Missouri.
SPENCER THOMAS joins FOX Affiliate WFFF in Burlington, Vermont where she will be a General Assignment Reporter/MMJ. Spencer is a graduate of Central Michigan University and she was also a member of the TEAM U.S.A World Synchronized Skating Team.
KRISTIN BYRNE joins NBC Affiliate WTMJ in Milwaukee as a Freelance Reporter.
Kristin most recently worked for ABC O&O WLS in Chicago as a Traffic Anchor and prior to that was an Anchor/Reporter at ABC Affiliate WEWS in Cleveland.
Kristin is a graduate of Florida International University.
MEGAN CRUZ joins ABC Affiliate WFTV in Orlando as a General Assignment Reporter. Megan who most recently worked at ABC Affiliate KOAT in Albuquerque is a graduate of New York University.
MATT FERNANDEZ joins CENTRAL FLORIDA NEWS 13 in Orlando as a Reporter/MMJ. Matt most recently worked in Birmingham at the CXBS Affiliate. Matt is a graduate of Western Michigan University.
KIM WYNNE joins ABC Affiliate WKRN in Nashville where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Kim most recently worked at FOX Affiliate WGHP in High Point where she was a Reporter and Fill-In Anchor. Kim received her Master’s Degree From The University Of Southern California and her Bachelors Degree from Virginia State University.
DAVID SCHUMAN moves to CBS Affiliate WDJT in Milwaukee as a General Assignment Reporter. David most recently worked at the ABC Affiliate in Las Vegas as a Reporter. David who is a former “Jeopardy” Champion is a graduate of Vanderbilt University.
JAMIE OSTROFF joins ABC Affiliate KTBS in Shreveport as Monday through Friday Anchor/Reporter. Jamie who most recently worked at the CBS Affiliate in Birmingham as a Reporter is a graduate of the University Of Miami.
VI NGUYEN moves to CBS O&O WBBM in Chicago where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Vi who most recently worked at WISH in Indianapolis is a graduate of DePaul University.
SHELLEY CHILDERS joins ABC O&O KTRK in Houston as a General Assignment Reporter. Shelley who is a Houston Native and Graduate of Michigan State University, most recently worked at ABC Affiliate WXYZ in Detroit.
CHRYSTAL BLAIR joins CBS AFFILIATE KOLR in Springfield as General Assignment Reporter. Chrystal who is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University has a highly decorated career as a Radio News Anchor/Reporter most recently worked at CBS O&O WWJ NEWS RADIO 950 in Detroit. Chrystal also worked at FGOX O&O WJBK in Detroit as a News Writer.
ERIN CLARKE joins NBC Affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Erin, who is a graduate of Syracuse University, comes to Pittsburgh from NY1.
STEPHANIE DUNLAP joins NBC Affiliate KVOA in Tucson where she will be the Weekend Weather Anchor and will do General Assignment Reporting during the week. Stephanie who is a graduate of The University Of Arizona most recently worked at the ABC Affiliate in Tucson as a Reporter.
MATT HOWERTON moves to ABC Affiliate WFAA in Dallas where he will be a General Assignment Reporter. Matt comes from ABC Affiliate KOAT in Albuquerque where he also served as a Reporter. Matt is a graduate of Baylor University.
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STEPHANIE PARKINSON is promoted to Monday through Friday Primary late afternoon and evening Anchor at WEYI/WSMH NBC/FOX Affiliates Flint/Saginaw. Stephanie joined the station in 2014 and was most recently Weekend Anchor/Reporter. Stephanie, who has received numerous awards for her work, is a graduate of Oakland University.
LAURA PODESTA joins CBS Newspath in New York as a Correspondent. Laura most recently worked at ABC O&O WLS in Chicago where she also Reported. Prior to Chicago, Laura worked at ABC Affiliate KOAT in Albuquerque as a Reporter and Fill-In Anchor. Laura is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
LAUREN POZEN moves to ABC Affiliate WSB in Atlanta where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Lauren comes from CBS Affiliate KMOV in St. Louis where she Reported and filled in at the Anchor Desk. Lauren is a graduate of the University Of Southern California.
ANNIE SZATKOWSKI is promoted to Monday through Friday Primary Anchor at FOX Affiliate WXMI in Grand Rapids. Annie joined the station in 2015 after coming from the CBS Affiliate in Mason City. Annie who is a former BIG 10 Gymnast is a graduate of The University of Iowa.
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JENNIFER KIELMAN moves to ABC Affiliate KLTV in Tyler where she will be a Monday-Friday Primary News Anchor. Jennifer comes from the CBS Affiliate in Springfield. Jennifer who is a native of Texas, has won numerous awards for her work, and is a graduate of Northern Illinois University.
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CAROLINE VANDERGRIFF joins FOX Affiliate KOKH in Oklahoma City where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Caroline who most recently worked at Spectrum News in Charlotte is a graduate of the University Of Southern California.
JEANNA TROTMAN joins NBC Affiliate WEYI in Flint/Cl;io where she will be the Weekend Sports Anchor and will do Sports Reporting Weekdays. Jeanna who is a graduate of Boston University and most recently worked at the ABC Affiliate in Rochester. Jeanna who is a Detroit area native is married to NHL/Pittsburgh Penguin, Zach Trotman
ANGELA MONROE joins CBS Affiliate KWCH in Wichita as Anchor/Reporter. Angela comes to Wichita from the NBC Affiliate in Palm Desert. Angela is a graduate of the University Of Montana.
ROSE EIKLOR joins Spectrum News in Charlotte as a Report/MMJ. Rose who is a graduate of New York University most recently worked at the NBC Affiliate in Memphis.
SARAH JAEGER joins FOX Affiliate WEYI in Clio/Flint where she will be a Reporter/MMJ. Sarah comes from the CBS Affiliate in Saginaw where she was a Producer. Sarah is a graduate of University Of Detroit Mercy where she received both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees. Sarah also received a Masters Degree from Michigan State University.
ERICA MURPHY joins ABC Affiliate WMDT in Salisbury as Weekend Anchor/Weekday Reporter MMJ. Erica comes from CBS O&O WWJ in Detroit where she was a Newscast Producer and Writer. Erica has also worked at HLN in Atlanta and at WJR in Detroit where she was an Anchor/Reporter. Erica is a graduate of Wayne State University.
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ANDREA ISOM joins WXYZ in Detroit as Investigative Reporter. Andrea most recently worked as a Correspondent for Nationally Syndicated, Crime Watch Daily. Before joining Crime Watch Daily, Andrea worked at FOX O&O WJBK in Detroit where she reported. Andrea received a Bachelor in Journalism from Ohio State University.
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JASON AUBRY joins NBC Affiliate WCMH in Columbus as General Assignment Reporter. Jason who is a graduate of Rochester College most recently worked at the NBC Affiliate in St. Louis.
JOSH BERRY moves to ABC Affiliate WOLO in Columbia where he will be Monday-Friday Primary News Anchor. Josh comes from the NBC/FOX Affiliates in Little Rock where he was an Anchor/Reporter. Josh is a graduate of Henderson State University.
DANA BISHOP moves to ABC Affiliate WISN in Milwaukee where she will be a Newscast Producer. Dana who is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin most recently worked as a Morning Show Producer at the ABC Affiliate in Cleveland.
TOM DURIAN joins NBC Affiliate WTMJ in Milwaukee as an Anchor/Reporter. Tom will Anchor weekends and Report during the week. Tom comes from the ABC Affiliate in Minneapolis. Tom who has won numerous awards for his work attended both UCLA and College of The Desert.
LACEY CRISP joins CBS Affiliate WOIO in Cleveland where she will be a General Assignment Reporter/MMJ. Lacey who is a graduate of University Of Minnesota has worked at the FOX O&O in Minneapolis and the NBC Affiliate in Milwaukee.
JOEL SCHIPPER joins FOX Affiliate WDRB in Louisville as an Anchor/Reporter. Joel most recently worked at Central Florida News 13 in Orlando in the same capacity. Joel is a graduate of Grand Valley State University.
GIOVANNA DRPIC moves to CBS Affliate WGCL in Atlanta where she will be the stations Political Reporter. Giovanna comes from FiOS1 NEWS in New York where she hosted “Money & Main$treet”. Giovanna is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University where she received both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees.
KRISTEN CHAPMAN moves to CBS Affiliate WPEC in West Palm where she will be a general Assignment Reporter/MMJ. Kristen comes form the FOX affiliate in Tyler where she was Weekday Morning Anchor and Reporter. Kristen is a graduate of the University Of Colorado.
MIKE SPRINGER moves to ABC Affiliate WFTV in Orlando where he will be a General Assignment Reporter. Mike most recently worked at the ABC Affiliate in Albuquerque where he was also a Reporter. Mike is a graduate of Providence College in Rhode Island.
JENNIFER ANN WILSON joins WXYZ TV in Detroit as a General Assignment Reporter. Jennifer most recently worked at ABC Affiliate KSTP in Minneapolis where she reported and filled in at the Anchor Desk. Jennifer is a graduate of Northern Illinois University.
MIKE KRAFCIK joins CBS Affiliate WWMT in Kalamazoo as a General Assignment Reporter/MMJ. Mike most recently worked in the same role at the FOX Affiliate on Hartford. Mike is a graduate of Central Connecticut State University and also received his masters at Syracuse University.
CHRISTIANNE KLEIN joins CBS Affiliate KLAS in Las Vegas as the 4-5pm Anchor and Reporter. Christianne most recently was the Morning Show Anchor on the FOX Affiliate in Sacramento and has been an ongoing contributor to the Dr. OZ Show. Christianne who has also worked at ABC News as an Anchor/Correspondent is a graduate of Wellesley College.
MARTY KASPER moves to CBS Affiliate KOTV in Tulsa where he will be a General Assignment Reporter. Marty most recently worked at the ABC Affiliate in Albany where he was also a Reporter. Marty is a graduate of Columbia College in Chicago.
HANNAH WELKER moves to NBC Affiliate WCNC in Charlotte where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Hannah comes to Charlotte from the ABC Affiliate in Rochester. Hannah is a graduate of The University Of Illinois.
NADIA SINGH moves to ABC Affiliate WMAR in Baltimore where she will be a General Assignment Reporter/MMJ. Nadia most recently worked at the CBS Affiliate in Roanoke where she was an Anchor/Reporter. Nadia is a graduate of The University Of Maryland.
LAUREN LEA joins ABC O&O KTRK in Houston where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Lauren most recently worked at the NBC affiliate in San Antonio. Lauren is a graduate of Texas Christian University.
DAVE DETLING moves to ABC affiliate KTNV in Las Vegas where he will be a General Assignment Reporter/M MJ. Dave most recently worked at The ABC affiliate in Oklahoma City. Dave is a graduate of Emerson College.
MEGAN SANCTORUM joins WISH in Indianapolis where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Megan comes to Indianapolis from the CBS Affiliate in Toledo. Megan is a graduate of Michigan State University.
JENNIFER ANN WILSON joins ABC Affiliate WXYZ in Detroit as a Freelance General Assignment Reporter. Jennifer who is a native Detroiter most recently worked at ABC Affiliate KSTP in Minneapolis where she was also a General Assignment Reporter. Jennifer is a graduate of Northern Illinois University
CHRISTINE VANTIMMEREN moves to CBS Affiliate WWMT in Kalamazoo where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Christine comes from FOX Affiliate KOKH in Oklahoma City where she Reported and Anchored. Christine is a graduate of Grand Valley State University.
MATT FERNANDEZ moves to CBS Affiliate WIAT in Birmingham where he will be a General Assignment Reporter. Matt comes from NBC Affiliate KVOA in Tucson where he was also a Reporter. Matt is a graduate of Western Michigan University.
STEPHANIE CLAYTOR joins Bay News 9 in Tampa as a General Assignment Reporter/MMJ. Stephanie who is fluent in Spanish most recently worked at the NBC Affiliate in Albuquerque where she also reported. Stephanie is a graduate of Syracuse University.
CRISTINA FRANK moves to ABC Affiliate WMTW in Portland where she will be Weekday Morning Anchor. Cristina most recently worked at the ABC Affiliate in Topeka where she also Anchored. Cristina is a graduate of Ohio University Scripps School of Journalism.
CHRIS EARL is promoted to Monday through Friday Morning Anchor at ABC Affiliate KCRG in Cedar Rapids, the dominant Newsroom in Eastern Iowa. Chris joined the station in 2008 and most recently was the Weekend Evening Anchor and Weekday Reporter. Chris who is a graduate of The University Of Wisconsin has won numerous awards for his work.
SHELLEY CHILDERS joins ABC Affiliate WXYZ in Detroit as a General Assignment Reporter. Shelley comes to Detroit from the ABC Affiliate KRGV in Weslaco, Texas where she was a Reporter and Anchor. Shelley is a graduate of Michigan State University.
SCOTT MCDONNELL, Anchor/Reporter, moves to ABC AFFILIATE WTNH in Hartford/New Haven where he will be the Monday through Friday Primary Anchor for the 6pm News. Scott most recently worked at ABC Affiliate KMBC in Kansas City. Scott is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island.
TARYN ASHER is promoted to 11pm Anchor and will also continue high profile Reporting for FOX O&O WJBK in Detroit. Taryn was most recently Weekend Anchor and Weekday Reporter at WJBK, which she joined in 2007. Prior to joining WJBK, Taryn was an Anchor/Reporter at ABC Station, WJRT in Flint. Taryn is a graduate of Michigan State University.
KATHERINE HESSEL moves to FOX Affiliate KTVI in St. Louis where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Katherine comes to St. Louis from the ABC Affiliate in Yakima where she also reported. Katherine is a graduate of Texas Christian University.
REBECCA KLOPF moves to NBC Affiliate WTMJ in Milwaukee where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Rebecca comes from the NBC Affiliate in Rockford where she was a Reporter and Fill-In Anchor. Rebecca is a graduate of the University Of Illinois at Champagne where she received both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees.
OLIVIA YORK joins ABC Affiliate KAAL in Rochester as a Reporter/MMV. Olivia who previously worked at Hudson County TV in New Jersey is a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles and also attended the Connecticut School Of Broadcasting.
IRIKA SARGENT joins CBS O&O WBBM in Chicago where she will be a Monday through Friday Primary News Anchor. Irika comes from CBS O&O WFOR in Miami where she served in the same role. Prior to Miami, Irika was an Anchor/Reporter at the NBC Affiliate in Houston. Irika is a graduate of the Missouri School Of Journalism and received her Law Degree from Cornell Law School.
JULIE GARGOTTA is promoted to General Assignment Reporter at Central Florida News 13 in Orlando. Julie joined CFN 13 as an MMJ in December of 2014, Julie who is a graduate of Temple University previously worked at the NBC Affiliate in Lancaster.
DAVID BODDEN is promoted to Weekend Morning Anchor and Weekday Reporter at Central Florida News 13 in Orlando. David joined CFN 13 in July of 2015. David who is a graduate of The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale has won two Emmy’s and an AP Award.
LAUREN POZEN moves to CBS Affiliate KMOV in St. Louis where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Lauren comes to St. Louis from the ABC Affiliate in Springfield where she also Reported and Filled In as an Anchor. Lauren is a graduate of the University Of Southern California.
NINA CARTER moves to FOX Affiliate KOKI in Tulsa where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Nina comes from the NBC Affiliate in Bismarck and is a graduate of the University Of Detroit Mercy.
SIA NYORKOR moves to CBS Affiliate WOIO in Cleveland where she will be a General Assignment Reporter/MMJ. Sia who previously worked at the CBS Affiliate in Wichita is a graduate of Indiana University and received her Masters Degree from the Columbia Graduate School Of Journalism.
REBECCA THOMAS moves to FOX O&O KTBC in Austin where she will be the Monday through Friday Primary Anchor. Rebecca comes from the CBS Affiliate in Phoenix where she Reported and filled in at the Anchor Desk. Rebecca also served as an Anchor/Reporter at the ABC Affiliate in Phoenix. Rebecca is a graduate of San Diego State University.
MEGAN HICKEY moves to ABC Affiliate WEWS in Cleveland where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Megan comes from the NBC Affiliate in South Bend where she also reported. Megan is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Medill School Of Journalism, Northwestern University.
LAURA BONNELL joins WWJ Newsradio 950 in Detroit as a General Assignment Reporter. Laura has worked at the station as an Anchor/Reporter, freelancing since 2011. Laura who has also worked at WJR in Detroit is a graduate of Northern Michigan University.
MARIANNE MARTINEZ joins NBC Affiliate KSDK in St. Louis as a General Assignment Reporter/MMJ. Marianne previously worked at both the CBS O&O IN Dallas as well as the FOX Affiliate in Denver. Marianne is a graduate of the University Of Missouri School of Journalism.
MAGGIE NEWLAND moves to NBC Affiliate WNCN in Raleigh where she will be Weekend Anchor and Weekday Reporter. Maggie makes the move from CBS O&O WFOR in Miami where she was a General Assignment Reporter. Maggie who has also worked for the ABC Affiliate in Minneapolis is a graduate of The College Of William and Mary.
KARI HALL moves to NBC O&O KNTV in San Francisco where she will be the Monday through Friday Morning Show Meteorologist. Kari most recently worked at News 12 Connecticut where she was the Lead Weekday Evening Meteorologist. Kari is a graduate of Mississippi State University.
KYLE BOGI joins CBS Radio 97.1 The Ticket in Detroit as an on air personality where he will host and do updates. Kyle also works for Scout Media as a Reporter as well as State Champs Sports Network. Kyle is a graduate of Madonna University and Specs Howard School Of Broadcast Arts.
ANNIE SZATKOWSKI jumps 114 markets to FOX Affiliate WXMI in Grand Rapids from the CBS Affiliate in Mason City where she will be a Reporter/MMJ and fill-in Anchor. Annie is a graduate of The University Of Iowa where she was not only an Academic All American but a member also of the Women’s Gymnastics Team.
TRENT BUTLER joins NBC Affiliate WAFF in Huntsville where he will be the Monday through Friday Morning Anchor. Trent most recently worked at the CBS Affiliate in Birmingham. Trent is a graduate of the University Of Georgia.
RON SMILEY moves to CBS O & O KDKA in Pittsburgh where he will be the Monday through Friday Morning Show Meteorologist. Ron arrives in Pittsburgh from the FOX Affiliate in Indianapolis where he has been since 2010 Ron is a graduate of Arkansas Tech University.
JASON AUBRY joins NBC Affiliate KSDK in St. Louis a General Assignment Reporter/MMJ. Jason who is a graduate of Rochester College and Specs Howard School Of Broadcasting most recently worked at the CBS Affiliate in Atlanta.
PJ RANDHAWA moves to NBC Affiliate KSDK in St. Louis where she will be an Investigative Reporter/ MMJ. PJ comes from the NBC Affiliate in Columbia South Carolina where she was an Investigative Reporter and Fill-In Anchor. PJ is a graduate of Northeastern Illinois University, received her Masters from DePaul and has won several awards for her work.
DAVE BONDY joins NBC Affiliate WEYI in Flint as Monday through Friday Primary late evening Anchor, Dave who is a native Michiganian comes to Flint from NBC Affiliate WPXI in Pittsburgh where he was a General Assignment Reporter and Fill-In Anchor. Dave who has won numerous awards for his reporting is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University.
CHRIS MARTINEZ joins CBS News as a Correspondent and will be assigned to the Los Angeles Bureau. Chris comes to CBS from CBS O&O WBBM in Chicago where he has reported since 2012. Chris is a graduate of Florida State University.
VENISE TOUSSAINT joins News 12 Long Island in New York as a Freelance Reporter. Venise who is a graduate of Syracuse University S.I Newhouse School of Communications most recently worked at the NBC Affiliate in Las Vegas.
CHINA SELLERS HALEY joins Crain’s Automotive News in Detroit as an Anchor/Reporter. China who previously worked for the NBC affiliate in Toledo is a graduate of University Of Detroit Mercy.
CHARLIE LANGTON joins WJBK, the FOX O&O in Detroit as Weekend Anchor and Legal Reporter. Charlie will also continue to host the “Let It Rip” discussion segments, which takes on provocative subjects. Charlie who is a graduate of Kalamazoo College and the Detroit College of Law joined WJBK in 2007. Charlie will continue to work Morning Drive on CBS Radio O&O WWJ News Radio 950 in Detroit as a legal analyst.
JULIE GARGOTTA joins Central Florida News 13 in Orlando as a General Assignment Reporter. Julie comes to Florida from the NBC Affiliate in Lancaster where she did Traffic and Reporting. Julie is a graduate of Temple University.
ROB MACKO moves to CBS Affiliate KLFY where he will be Monday through Friday Primary Anchor. Rob comes to Lafayette from the ABC Affiliate in Savannah where he was an Anchor/Reporter. Rob is a graduate of Penn State University.
DR. DEANNA LITES joins WWJ NewsRadio 950 as Health Reporter. Deanna is an award winning TV Reporter who has worked at NBC Affiliate WHDH in Boston, NBC O&O WMAQ in Chicago and CBS O&O in Miami, WFOR. Deanna has also been a contributor to Good Morning America as well as EXTRA. Deanna is a graduate of Michigan State University and Dr. William Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine in Chicago.
DAVID BODDEN moves to News 13 Orlando from the CBS Affiliate in Fort Myers. David joins News 13 as a General Assignment Reporter. David is a graduate of the Art6 Institute of Fort Lauderdale.
JOANNA SMALL moves to CBS Affiliate KIRO in Seattle where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Joanna, who has won numerous awards for her Reporting, comes from the ABC Affiliate in Springfield, Missouri. Joanna is a graduate of The University Of Colorado.
AMANDA SALINAS joins FOX O&O KTBC in Austin as Monday-Friday Morning Anchor. Amanda comes to Austin from KDAF in Dallas where she was the Primary Anchor and prior to that worked at the ABC Affiliate in West Palm as an Anchor/reporter. Amanda who has won numerous awards for her work is a graduate of the University Of Texas.
LAUREN ZAKALIK jumps to ABC Affiliate WFAA in Dallas where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Lauren, who is a graduate of Northwestern University-Medill School Of Journalism and received her undergraduate Degree from Michigan, arrives in Dallas from the ABC Affiliate Albuquerque where she has been the Lead Investigative Reporter since joining the station in 2010.
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MATT BRODE joins NBC Affiliate KVOA in Tucson as Chief Meteorologist. Matt returns to KVOA from the CBS Affiliate in Portland where he had been the Weekday Morning and Midday Meteorologist. Matt is a graduate of The University Of Arizona.
DAN LEACH joins WXYT 97.1 The Ticket in Detroit as a Host. Dan has worked for the station as a Freelancer. Dan is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University.
DANA JAY moves to FOX O&O WOFL in Orlando where she will be a General Assignment Reporter. Dana comes from ABC Affiliate WSYX in Columbus, Ohio where she reported and filled in at the Anchor Desk as well. Dana is a graduate of Columbia College in Chicago.
RYAN FIELD moves to FOX Sports 1 Network in Los Angeles where he will be an Anchor/Reporter when the Network hits the air this August. Ryan comes to Los Angeles from FOX Sports Detroit where he also served as an Anchor/Reporter. Ryan who has also was an Anchor/Reporter at FOX O&O WJBK in Detroit is a graduate of Michigan State University.
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The Private Intelligence Firm Keeping Tabs on Environmentalists
When big oil companies want to monitor activists, they turn to Welund.
Adam Federman
Activist Cedar George-Parker addresses a crowd protesters opposed to the Trans Mountain Pipeline in British Columbia in April. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP
The flyer shows a mob of balaclava-clad activists dressed in black, lobbing bottles at an undefined target. They could be protesting anything, but for attendees at a petroleum industry conference in Houston earlier this year, it was pretty clear what the violent demonstrators were targeting: the fossil fuel industry.
The scary image of protesters was distributed by Welund North America, a private intelligence firm that promises to help oil and gas operators mitigate the threat posed by an increasingly sophisticated activist movement. On the back of the flyer an anonymous testimonial reads, “Since subscribing to Welund we’ve dramatically increased our ability to pre-empt and better manage activist engagements and minimize reputational damage.” Logos—presumably of Welund’s clients—listed on the flyer include a who’s who of Big Oil and Gas: Royal Dutch Shell, Kinder Morgan, Duke Energy, Dominion, and Chevron. Welund has even secured contracts with the Canadian government.
“What we’re talking about here is an existential threat.”
In the past year, Welund has presented at several energy industry conferences and has also partnered with the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association—or TIPRO—to promote its intelligence-gathering services. The company bills itself as a leader in “understanding the activist threat” and in the past has provided intelligence on social movements and activist groups, including Greenpeace, Occupy Wall Street, and animal rights advocates.
Welund and its top North American officials ignored repeated requests for interviews and did not to respond to detailed written questions. But publicity materials and other documents reviewed by Mother Jones shed light on the company’s strategies.
Welund is part of a deeply controversial cottage industry of private intelligence firms that has flourished in recent years. According to one estimate, the global industry is now worth about $20 billion, and the agencies—sometimes with just a handful of employees—are popping up everywhere from Israel to Africa to the United States. Recent revelations have shown that Black Cube, an Israeli firm, gathered intelligence on Obama administration officials in an effort to undermine the Iran nuclear deal. Christopher Steele, the co-founder of Orbis Business Intelligence, another private firm, was responsible for the famous Trump-Russia dossier.
Welund, a UK-based company founded by a former MI6 special agent in 2007, has traditionally kept a low profile. Even its name, which is derived from Norse mythology, is little known beyond a small subset of industry and government contractors. Welund, which established a North America office in 2016, seems to rely heavily on its ties to industry and law enforcement. The firm’s vice president of operations, Travis Moran, is a former US Justice Department special agent who previously worked as a senior counterterrorism investigator at Dominion Energy, one of the largest suppliers of electricity and natural gas in the United States.
The company depicts the environmental movement as one of the energy industry’s most dangerous adversaries—comparable to the challenges posed by international industrial espionage. “What we’re talking about here is an existential threat,” Moran told the audience of oil and gas executives in Houston.
The industry seems to agree. In November 2017, when Welund partnered with TIPRO to provide free access to its intelligence platform, the petroleum group’s president described activism as “one of the most disruptive and costly threats to the energy industry—in lost productivity, damage, legal and reputational risk.”
Welund’s effort to court the oil and gas industry comes at a time when battles over energy development have reached a fever pitch. Beginning in 2008 with the campaign to block approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which was designed to carry tar sands oil from Alberta to the Gulf Coast, activists have focused on fossil fuel infrastructure as a target of both legal action and political protest. The movement claimed a major victory in 2015 when President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone project. (That decision was promptly reversed by President Donald Trump during his first few days in office.)
“The anti-fossil fuel movement is the No. 1 challenge threatening our industry, especially when they have sympathizers in the White House, Ottawa, and elsewhere in public office,” wrote the editor of the Pipeline and Gas Journal, an industry trade publication, shortly before the 2016 election.
“We keep track of them…You’ll see them at the Marcellus. You’ll see them at Bayou Bridge. That’s what they do.”
Welund specializes in profiling these activist threats and maintains a “live archive” of original content that, it says, is used by dozens of international corporations, law enforcement agencies, and government bodies. Its subscriber-only intelligence platform appears to be largely composed of open source data—that is, news reports, online information, and strategic analysis—according to the firm’s contracts with the Canadian government. At industry gatherings, the company has emphasized the importance of continuously following social media to develop effective counter campaigns. The firm promises to closely monitor activists, and one of its Canadian contracts referred to the use of open and “other sources.” Canadian officials declined to say what those “other sources” included.
At the Houston conference, Moran described activists as traveling “professionals” who have more experience than the companies they are protesting. “We keep track of them,” Moran said. “You’ll see them at the Marcellus. You’ll see them at Bayou Bridge. That’s what they do.” The Bayou Bridge Pipeline is a controversial project in Texas and Louisiana; the Marcellus shale formation is the epicenter of fracking in the eastern United States.
The firm has also presented alongside Gryphon Sensors, a subsidiary of defense contractor SRC, which is a pioneer in the field of commercial drones. Moran, whose Twitter handle is “dronin_on,” is a strategic partner at Gryphon and an advisory board member of the Texas-based Energy Drone Coalition, which focuses on the use of drone technology by the energy industry. According to Gryphon, its mobile drone security system, which can track hundreds of targets simultaneously, is “perfect for…law enforcement and critical infrastructure protection.”
In recent years, anti-pipeline advocates have been targeted by law enforcement agencies and private security contractors employed by the industry. In late 2012, the FBI opened an investigation into anti-Keystone activists. More recently, according to the Intercept, private security contractors and FBI informants infiltrated the activist camp at the heart of the Native-American-led protest movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. None of those controversies involved Welund, which cautions energy firms against using covert or illegal methods to obtain intelligence, arguing that such tactics are likely to do more harm than good. In Houston, Moran referred to the PR mess Energy Transfer Partners found itself in after contracting with private security firms that used aggressive tactics in encounters with protesters campaigning against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Moran advised companies enlisting the services of private security contractors to “make sure you have a policy that they understand.”
Industry now has a staunch ally in the White House, but activists have continued to engage in high-profile civil disobedience campaigns and legal challenges designed to thwart or delay pipeline development, often at great cost to the oil and gas firms. Environmentalists have also made life difficult for energy companies in Canada—as well as for the government agencies those firms often work with. In 2016, protesters disrupted a National Energy Board hearing in Montreal, resulting in several arrests and forcing the regulatory body to cancel two days of hearings on TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline, which was slated to run from Alberta to refineries and shipping terminals in New Brunswick and Quebec. TransCanada eventually terminated the project.
And that’s exactly what Welund is seeking to prevent. The company appears to have worked on behalf of clients involved in some of the most controversial projects currently moving forward: Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, designed to carry fracked gas from the Marcellus Shale in West Virginia to processing facilities in Virginia and North Carolina; and the Trans Mountain Pipeline, which would greatly expand the capacity for shipping tar sands oil from Western Canada.
Dominion, Moran’s former employer, is facing strong headwinds as it seeks to complete its pipeline. Activists have already set up an encampment in an old growth forest known as Miracle Ridge that is in the project’s pathway and is scheduled to be cleared this year. This follows weeks of tree sits—including one by a 61-year-old-woman that garnered national attention—protesting the nearby Mountain Valley Pipeline.
“It’s threatening your operations, it’s threatening your finances, it’s threatening your reputation, and it’s threatening your viability.”
Kinder Morgan, apparently also a Welund client, was facing similar opposition when it decided to abandon its Trans Mountain project. In March, the company’s CEO described the anti-pipeline movement as “much more intense” and “more organized” than ever before. Two months later, in an unprecedented move, the Canadian government agreed to intervene and purchase the pipeline for $3.4 billion. The sale closed this summer, and construction has been underway on about 600 miles of pipeline connecting Alberta’s tar sands with export terminals near Vancouver.
Opposition to the project has persisted, including from British Columbia Premier John Horgan, whose government has joined a First Nations lawsuit challenging the decision to approve the pipeline. The conflict has sometimes been described as Canada’s Standing Rock.
“People can just expect resistance to this project to grow,” Greenpeace activist Mike Hudema told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “Already we’ve seen over 200 people risking arrest and getting arrested to try and oppose this project, and those numbers are going to continue to increase as it moves forward.” In late August, a Canadian court ruled that the NEB had not properly consulted with First Nations groups and temporarily halted the project.
Welund did not respond to questions about its apparent work for Dominion and Kinder Morgan and whether that work related to the Atlantic Coast or Trans Mountain pipelines. Dominion declined to comment for this story. Kinder Morgan said it does not comment on security-related issues.
Last year, as Canada’s National Energy Board was evaluating Kinder Morgan’s application to build the Trans Mountain Pipeline, the agency signed a contract with Welund to monitor social media activity and provide the government with weekly updates on activist threats, according to documents obtained through a public records request.
The contract, which came just months after protesters shut down the NEB hearings on the Energy East pipeline, focused on helping the agency manage threats to “personnel, critical assets, information and services” as it prepared for upcoming public events, many of them related to the Trans Mountain project. The contract included access to Welund’s intelligence platform, email advice and warnings from Welund researchers, the Welund weekly banking digest, something called the “Welund Weekly Activist Overview,” and up to 50 hours of “bespoke services,” which focused on information specific to the safety and security of the agency’s staff and activities, according to the NEB. (Welund had already been providing the NEB with some form of intelligence and analysis for some time.)
Within the Canadian government, Welund’s services were touted by Lee Williams, who at the time was the head of security at the NEB. In a June 2016 email, Williams introduced his counterpart at the National Research Council—a Canadian government body that oversees research and development and often works closely with the private sector—to a Welund representative. “We’ve been using their services for almost a year,” Williams wrote, “and find both their web content and bespoke services very beneficial.” A few months later, the NRC’s security branch entered into a $28,250 contract with Welund. In one document related to the contract, an NRC employee highlighted the firm’s “domestic and international military and counter-terrorism experience” and targeted data collection “through open and other sources.”
Williams has since left the NEB, according to government records. In recent promotional materials, Welund has listed a person named Lee Williams as a company contact. A Welund employee confirmed that a Lee Williams currently serves as an executive with the company but didn’t know whether he is the same Williams who worked for the NEB. Company spokespeople did not respond to written questions about Williams. Welund’s Williams did not return repeated phone calls and text messages. The NEB said it does not comment on HR-related employee matters.
The National Research Council declined to be interviewed for this story but said that Welund had a one-year service contract with the agency to provide country-specific risk assessments and alerts. This information, according to an emailed statement from the NRC, was used to assess the safety of travel and to brief employees in advance of international trips.
In response to a public records request for specific Welund materials—including copies of the weekly activist overview—provided to the NEB as outlined in the contract, the agency said it had no additional records in its possession.
Karen Ryhorchuk, an NEB spokeswoman, said the agency sometimes conducts security assessments in advance of public events in order to safeguard personnel, assets, information, and services. Welund, she said, assisted the NEB in managing security threats and risks. “Information provided to the NEB by Welund was from [publicly] available, open source data from conventional media and social media outlets,” Ryhorchuk wrote in an email.
The NEB’s contract with Welund expired at the end of 2017 and has not been renewed. But early this year, the agency awarded a similar contract to Falling Apple Solutions, which was founded by Eppo van Weelderen, a retired Lieutenant-Colonel in the Canadian army. Falling Apple has the same Alberta address as Welund, and van Weelderen is listed as one of Welund’s directors. According to the NEB, the contract with Falling Apple, a self-described engineering and project management firm, was terminated after only three months. When I reached van Weelderen by phone and told him what I was writing about, he hung up.
Meanwhile, privacy advocates are growing increasingly alarmed about the Canadian government’s use of intelligence firms—especially after a recent request by the NEB for contractors who could evaluate security threats by monitoring social media on an even broader scale. In June, Ron Deibert, a political science professor at the University of Toronto and director of the Citizen Lab, which studies the intersection of technology and human rights, wrote an open letter warning that the hoovering up of massive amounts of data in the name of protecting critical infrastructure could have a chilling effect on free speech. “The system proposed…is inherently oriented toward mass data collection and analysis, and will, by definition, have significant collateral impacts on the rights and interests of individuals who pose no security threat,” he wrote. The NEB ultimately withdrew the proposal.
For its part, Welund may disagree with the heavy-handed methods employed against the Dakota Access protesters, but it still holds a rather ominous view of environmental activism. “It’s threatening your operations, it’s threatening your finances, it’s threatening your reputation, and it’s threatening your viability,” Moran said in Houston
The Houston conference was mostly celebratory, with discussions of greatly expanding oil production and pipeline capacity. There were presentations refuting the science of global warming and information sessions with representatives of the US Environmental Protection Agency and Bureau of Land Management. David Blackmon, editor of Shale Magazine, gave a talk titled, “The Trump-Driven Sea Change in Federal Energy Policy.” Chris Wallace of Fox News delivered the keynote address.
But, when Moran took the stage, the tone was decidedly darker. Showing the audience an image of a masked tree-sitter protesting a pipeline project, he warned them about the financial impact of activism. “If you’re not aware of this, if you’re not aware of how effective they can be…if you’re not ahead of the game,” he said, “this can be your fate.”
This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, with support from the H.D. Lloyd Fund for Investigative Journalism.
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FSN is going to raise its HD game--significantly.
The owner and operator of 16 regional sports networks around the country said it will transition toward offering round-the-clock high-definition telecast in the first quarter of 2009. In the process, the FSN services will produce its entire slate of more than 3,000 Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League and college football and basketball games in the enhanced format, up from some 1,700 in 2008.
The additional contests will make FSN, according to company officials, the leading provider of HD sports fare in the nation.
“This is the next step in the evolution of FSN’s commitment to being the leaders in HD sports production,” said FSN Networks president Randy Freer in a statement. “It’s one of the best ways we can serve the local sports fans throughout the country, and it also allows us to offer tremendous value to our team partners and distributors.”
Since debuting its HD telecasts nearly five years ago with some 200 games, FSN has essentially doubled its HD schedule every year, making its RSNs the largest providers of local HD events in America.
The sports programmer’s push to full-time HD in 2009 is being fueled by Fox Networks Group’s investment and construction of the nation’s largest and most technically state-of-the-art television transmissions center, Fox Network Center Houston. The 184,000-square-foot facility will be able to handle more signal traffic than any other similar facility, including as many as 40 live games in a single day.
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The Associated Press | November 19, 2013
Montana's Selvig becomes eighth to reach 800 wins
MISSOULA, Mont. -- Montana's Robin Selvig became the eighth women's basketball coach to reach 800 career victories with the Lady Griz's 68-61 victory against Portland on Monday night.
Selvig has been at the school for 36 years and produced 33 winning seasons, including 20 trips to the NCAA tournament.
The 61-year-old coach joined Pat Summitt, Sylvia Hatchell, C. Vivian Stringer, Tara VanDerveer, Geno Auriemma, Jody Conradt and Andy Landers in the 800-victory club. He has never beaten any of them, going 0-5 against the other members with all those games coming in the NCAA tournament.
''I'm really happy we got it the first try. I didn't want to have to listen to, When are you going to get 800? When are you going to get 800? Now we can focus on getting better and winning No. 801,'' Selvig said. ''What's really nice about it is we beat a really good team tonight. I didn't know where we were at this point in the year, but now I think we're going to have a pretty good team.''
Selvig, who has only lost 255 games in his career, went to Montana and played for the men's basketball team in the early 1970s. He spent three years coaching high school basketball before taking over as the Lady Griz's coach in 1978.
He reached the milestone in fewer games then all but Auriemma, Summitt and VanDerveer.
''He's done a great job and congratulations to him,'' VanDerveer said after Stanford's win Sunday. ''That's a lot of games.''
Montana presented Selvig with a ball after the game.
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This is a great department where students can have experiences that will enrich their lives and prepare them for the future. Our programs provide the exciting opportunity to study individual development, family relationships and consumer issues as they affect each other, and to learn how to improve the quality of life for individuals and families in many settings. Our mission is to provide high quality undergraduate and graduate instruction to help students develop greater personal understanding and prepare for successful professional careers. For those who are exploring the professional options provided in this major, we are available to answer your questions and to help you make an informed decision.
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The mission of the Department of Behavior Science at Utah Valley University is to prepare students for careers in the fields of anthropology, family studies, psychology, social work, sociology, substance abuse, and other related professions. Finding solutions to human problems involves the ability to apply academic theories to the real world. Behavioral Science students learn academic rigor in writing, critical thinking and analysis and integration of current scientific research. A multicultural perspective and respect for the range of individual differences are central to the department's mission. Insight, skill acquisition, and personal application are also important collateral aspects of a student's exposure to the behavioral sciences. Classes are frequently taught using experiential methods and collaborative assignments. Our department feels strongly about our interdiciplinary approach to our degrees. Our degrees are are structured around the Behavioral Sciences with students learning a little bit about each area while still choosing a specific emphasis in either Anthropology, Family Studies, Psychology, or Sociology. Our Bachelor's degree prepares students to work in the fields of human services, criminal justice, community/public relations, education, health, business, research, and prepares them to onto graduate school within their chosen field.
The School of Family Life has over 1,000 undergraduate majors, either pursing a degree in Family Life or Family and Consumer Science Education. Degrees in Family Life are offered with an emphasis in either Human Development or Family Studies. The School has COAMFTE-accredited masters and doctoral programs in MFT. Masters and doctoral degree graduate programs are also available in Marriage, Family, and Human Development. In addition, the School administers the university-wide Gerontology Program. Besides offering high quality learning experiences for students, faculty are actively engaged in research on family and human development-related research.
Family and Consumer Studies (FCS) is an interdisciplinary department where faculty and students examine how the social, economic, political, and physical environments affect families, individuals, communities, and consumers. The teaching, research, and service done in the Department focuses on expanding our understanding on how the welfare of individuals, and families in which they live, are affected by external forces and internal forces. As such, the Department emphasizes applied social science research and teaching with a strong public policy orientation.
The Department of Child and Family Studies at Weber State University has the mission to utilize contemporary educational practices to prepare students to become Family Life Educators who respect diversity, use culturally competent practices, and apply their knowledge to create environments that enhance the lives healthy development of adults, children, and families over the lifespan. We have a very strong Family Studies major that has an applied focus, field experience and job focus at the undergraduate level. This has made a very strong candidate for MFT and other grad programs. Students are very well qualified to work in the social service fields and go on for Masters Degrees.
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Blog | NCR Today
Yet more Vatican leaks
by John L. Allen Jr.
ROME -- In what has become a near-daily occurrence, more confidential Vatican documents were leaked today, including a memo from the cardinal in charge of financial oversight warning that a new law against money-laundering could be seen as a “step back” from reform, potentially creating “alarm” in the international community and among regulatory agencies.
The memo was addressed to the President of the Institute for the Works of Religion, the so-called “Vatican Bank,” and to the Secretary of State, Italian Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. It was published along with another memo along the same lines, this one written by the president of a Vatican court.
In the inimitable style of the Italian press, the documents appeared under the headline, “The Papers that Nail the Vatican.”
Speaking on background, Vatican officials today played down the significance of the documents, suggesting they amount to a snapshot of an internal debate that has already been resolved in favor of greater transparency and collaboration with external regulatory bodies.
One of the memos came from Italian Cardinal Attilio Nicora, who heads the Vatican’s new Financial Information Authority, created in 2010 with the power to inspect the books of other Vatican offices to guard against fraud. The other came from Giuseppe Dalla Torre, an Italian professor and head of a court for the Vatican city-state.
Taken together, the two documents cast doubt on modifications to the anti-money laundering laws adopted in January, and suggest that it contains a massive loophole: Offenses committed prior to the law taking effect on April 1, 2011, would be exempt.
In his memo, Nicora suggested the revisions to the law could “create serious alarm in the international community, as well as among international anti-money laundering organizations.”
In an accompanying commentary, the Italian paper Il Fatto Quotidiano suggested that behind the scenes, Bertone overruled those objections and supported a restrictive reading of the new law, in order to hamstring Italian inquests into incidents before last April.t
However, officials involved in the drafting of the new law said that the Nicora memo reflected an early reading of a draft, and said its concerns have already been addressed.
On Feb. 9, Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesperson, specifically rejected the charge of a loophole in the law, responding in that instance to an earlier leak of another internal memo.
“According to Vatican norms in the area of anti-money laundering, the Vatican judicial authority does have the power to investigate suspect transactions in the period before April 1, 2011,” Lombardi said, “and that’s in the context of international cooperation with the judges of other states, including those of Italy.”
American lawyer Jeffrey Lena, who’s advising the Vatican on its financial overhaul, said today the new rules are not a step back.
“The modifications of the law were undertaken to bring the internal legal system more closely into compliance with the GAFI international standards,” Lena said.
Lena’s reference is to benchmarks established by a secular intergovernmental body known as the Financial Action Task Force, designed to prevent the financing of terrorism and money laundering.
At the moment, the Council of Cardinals for the Study of Organisational and Economic Questions is holding a regulary scheduled meeting, made up of cardinals from around the world who advise the Vatican on economic matters. Though the meeting is held behind closed doors, it's a reasonable assumption that the recent cycle of leaks and bad press, along with the questions they raise about overall fiscal policy, are likely to come up.
Two American cardinals, Francis George of Chicago and Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, are members of the council.
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NDFP Order of Indemnification for Davao del Sur medical responders
17 March 2014 /0 Comments/in Statements /by Roselle Valerio
By RUBI DEL MUNDO
Spokesperson, NDFP Southern Mindanao Chapter
The Regional Council of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Southern Mindanao Region orders for the indemnification of Mr. Genaro Doronio Dumayas, Ms. Bonita dela Cruz, Mr. Arnel Comandante Veloroso, and Mr. Alberto Simbajon Cabual, who were wounded during the New People’s Army’s tactical offensive in Barangay (village) Managa, Bansalan, Davao del Sur, on 2 March 2014.
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CPP regrets injury of civilian medical personnel, denounces AFP for concealing ambulances in military convoy
7 March 2014 /0 Comments/in News /by Roselle Valerio
By CPP Information Bureau
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) deeply regrets the wounding of four civilian medical personnel belonging to the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) who were accidentally injured in an ambush carried out by a unit of the New People’s Army at 7:00 pm on 2 March, in Barangay (village) Managa, Bansalan, Davao del Sur. At the same time, the CPP denounced the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ 39th Infantry Battalion for concealing the ambulance and endangering the lives of the civilian medical personnel.
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NDFP Declaration of Undertaking to Apply the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Protocol I of 1977
21 January 2014 /0 Comments/in Books /by Roselle Valerio
Published by the NDFP National Council
It is of great importance and acute urgency that the Declaration of Undertaking to Apply the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Protocol I of 1977, promulgated and issued by the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) on 5 July 1996, is once more published and distributed more widely than ever before, together with related documents.
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Guy W. Farmer: Carson City Library looks to the future
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The brilliant Albert Einstein once said that “the only thing you should absolutely know is the location of the library.” Carson City’s dynamic young (31) Library Director Sena Loyd agrees with Einstein, and so do I.
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A self-assured and personable young woman with a clear vision of the library’s mission in our community, she’s working within budgetary and space constraints to provide innovative and necessary services to library patrons.
Ms. Loyd, who grew up in nearby El Dorado Hills, Calif., graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno with a bachelor’s in anthropology and earned an master’s in library science from San Jose State. She first came to Carson to work as a Nevada Highway Department librarian before being hired as the library’s technology trainer in the fall of 2012. So she was a non-participant in the fight for the big new library project, which was soundly defeated by the voters in November, 2012.
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Circle of the Song: A Fine Collaboration
Suze Uttal Posted On February 24, 2015
Featuring Seth Walker, Ed Jurdi, Edward David Anderson.
Collaborations like The Circle of the Song, featuring Seth Walker, Edward Davis Anderson, and Ed Jurdi, are becoming increasingly common. And, judging by this show, that is a very good thing. Take several musicians who approach music from different places, put them and their acoustic instruments on a stage, and see what happens. It can be magic!
I was quite familiar with Walker before this show, having seen him deliver his brand of Texas blues guitar several times. Jurdi is with the Band of Heathens, a band I know slightly, but I did not know Edward Davis Anderson or his rock and roll band Backyard Tire Fire.
The Circle of the Song was performed in much the same manner as the other collaborations I have seen: each musician leads one of his or her songs with the others playing and singing backup, and sometimes taking lead instrumentals. Walker began the 100-minute set, followed by Anderson and then Jurdi.
Walker’s style is fairly traditional blues, but since his move to New Orleans from Austin three years ago, he has added some funk to his songs. His voice is well-suited to both styles — slightly gritty and full of passion.
Anderson is a one-man band, playing guitar, banjo, and percussion – and, oh yeah, the kazoo, which he holds with a modified harmonica holder. I cannot remember the last time I heard a kazoo at a show. The songs he led covered a variety of styles, from rock to folk, to perhaps alt-country.
Jurdi, meanwhile, started the set playing the keyboard, then switched to the guitar and back again, and added a harmonica several times during the set. His songs seemed to be mostly blues and country.
In addition to performing songs each wrote in the past, they played songs written while on the road during this brief tour. A number of the songs they performed, whether new or old, had a traveling theme. Being away from their families can be difficult, as described by some of the lyrics.
The music was marvelous. At times I found myself closing my eyes and letting it transport me to a farm in Indiana (Anderson talked about his feelings for the farms and farmers in his native state). I did not want the show to end.
Clearly, all of these players have a lot of respect for each other and for the music. Despite the small crowd (presumably due to the Academy Awards being broadcast at the same time), they delivered an energetic show to an enthusiastic audience.
They do not have an album of the three of them together – yet. I bought the recording of the show, which I presume they are doing at every show, and am enjoying reliving the evening. If they are appearing anywhere near you and you appreciate musicians’ musicians, you should go see them. Hopefully they will tour again soon.
For more photos from this marvelous show, see Suze Reviews the Blues.
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Uproar Continues Over Pro-Right Remarks By U.S. Ambassador To Germany The new U.S. ambassador to Germany upset his hosts, and Democratic senators back home, with his announced support for right-wing populists in Europe.
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Richard Grenell has been the U.S. ambassador to Germany for barely a month, but already politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are demanding he be recalled.
The uproar is over Grenell's recent comments on Twitter and the right-wing Breitbart news site in support of Europe's conservative politicians who he said are making gains against the political establishment. German and U.S. politicians charge that the remarks could amount to meddling in Germany's political affairs.
But some current and former State Department officials say Grenell didn't violate any rules.
"Ambassadors have a right to express their opinion. They're representatives of the White House, whether it's this administration or other administrations," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a news conference in Washington on Tuesday. "We hear them voicing their opinions and they're sometimes opinions people may or may not like."
John Kornblum, a former U.S. ambassador to Berlin during the Clinton administration, agreed. Contrary to what Grenell's critics claim, he says, there isn't a diplomatic handbook ambassadors go by.
"People are saying, 'Oh, he's breaking all of the rules of diplomacy,' " Kornblum told NPR. "Well, there essentially aren't any rules of diplomacy. What there are is a government or an ambassador's judgement as to what works and what doesn't work."
During a routine visit to Germany's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, Grenell was asked to clarify remarks he made in an interview published over the weekend by Breitbart.
The right-wing news site quoted Grenell saying: "I absolutely want to empower other conservatives throughout Europe, other leaders. I think there is a groundswell of conservative policies that are taking hold."
He added, "The election of Donald Trump has empowered individuals and people to say that they can't just allow the political class to determine before an election takes place, who's going to win and who should run."
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The U.S. ambassador also gushed over Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, calling him a "rock star." Kurz — who is critical of German Chancellor Angela Merkel — heads a right-wing government he formed with the Freedom Party of Austria, which has Nazi roots.
Under criticism, Grenell tweeted: "The idea that I'd endorse candidates/parties is ridiculous. I stand by my comments that we are experiencing an awakening from the silent majority - those who reject the elites & their bubble. Led by Trump."
Absurd. I condemn those comments completely. Don’t put words in my mouth. The idea that I’d endorse candidates/parties is ridiculous. I stand by my comments that we are experiencing an awakening from the silent majority - those who reject the elites & their bubble. Led by Trump. https://t.co/DjSX4SL3bf
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) June 4, 2018
But his decision to invite Kurz to dine at the U.S. Embassy next week during the Austrian leader's visit to Germany, as reported on Monday by German magazine Der Spiegel, irked many Germans, who wonder why the American ambassador assigned to Berlin was making overtures to a leader from another country. The U.S. Embassy described the planned meeting as a "common initiative" but declined further comment.
According to the German Foreign Ministry, State Secretary Andreas Michaelis told Grenell the fact Germans were upset over his comments showed the "high value that the German population attached to relations with the United States." The ministry added the American diplomat was "unhappy about the reactions his interview had triggered."
"In particular, he did not want to be perceived as the partisan of right-wing forces in Germany," the ministry statement said, adding Grenell "also wanted to create the conditions for a close and trusting cooperation with German partners."
That may be wishful thinking, given the impression many Germans have of the new American ambassador to Berlin, a post left vacant for nearly 16 months because of delays in the White House appointing and the Senate confirming staff.
Already on Grenell's first day, the 51-year-old diplomat who is a cancer survivor, former Fox commentator and served as spokesman of the U.S. mission to the United Nations under George W. Bush, managed to ruffle German feathers by tweeting that German companies should stop doing business with Iran following the U.S. pullout from the Iran nuclear deal.
New U.S. Ambassador To Germany Grenell Irks His Hosts The Day He Arrives
And so a reporter on public broadcaster ARD recently quipped while showing footage of Grenell: "Is he smiling or baring his teeth?"
The U.S. Embassy declined to comment about the German reaction and Grenell has declined repeated NPR requests for interviews.
During a May 31 interview with KCRW Berlin, Grenell described himself as a "consistent conservative."
"A consistent conservative is probably an inconsistent defined political person," Grenell said. "So I'm very comfortable with my positions. I don't feel that I'm inconsistent, but from a purely partisan political criteria, I'm very inconsistent."
Some national politicians chose different monikers for him.
"It's somewhat like the colony's new master has arrived to take up his post," Sahra Wagenknecht, a German lawmaker whose left-wing group includes members of a party that succeeded East Germany's ruling Communists, said in an interview with public broadcaster ZDF.
"No government can allow itself to be treated like that," added Wagenknecht, one of several German politicians who have publicly said they want Grenell gone.
Some Congress members in Washington criticized Grenell too.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, said in a written statement on Monday: "If Ambassador Grenell is unwilling to refrain from political statements, he should be recalled immediately. The United States does not accept foreign meddling in our elections, and we shouldn't have an ambassador attempting to intrude in another country's political affairs."
On Thursday, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., called for a State Department investigation into the issue.
When I raised concerns to Grenell about politicizing this post, he personally assured me that once he became Ambassador he would stay out of politics. This interview is awful - Ambassadors aren't supposed to "empower" any political party overseas. https://t.co/i8oOhqEk5k
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 3, 2018
But German legislator Omid Nouripour, who heads the foreign policy committee in parliament for the Green party, told NPR that Grenell should be given another chance.
"I don't think that the U.S. ambassador of Germany should be expelled," he said. "But it's obvious that the way he's speaking these days is not the language we're used to from diplomats. And I hope this is because he's new in his job and I hope he learned from the mistakes he did."
Nouripour added he recently extended Grenell an invitation to meet with him and his left-leaning pro-environment parliamentary group. The German lawmaker said: "I will try to [get] my own impression of him by inviting him for a meal with a non — non-establishment, non-conservative."
Former Ambassador Kornblum added that Grenell is hardly the first American diplomat to stir up trouble in Germany. He too was embroiled in controversy 19 years ago while establishing the new U.S. Embassy in Berlin. His insistence that German authorities change some of the roads around the site to enhance security sparked a backlash, he said.
Kornblum added Germans are even more sensitive nowadays.
"Europe is in the midst of a social-political upheaval which is very similar to that which is taking place in the United States, probably for more or less the same reasons," he explained.
"If an American ambassador who represents a disruptive president, who is proud to say he's a disruptive president, comes and says: 'I sense here that there are these trends in Europe' ... then some people are going to be upset and that is their perfect right."
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Fullname: Julio Daniel Martinez
Nickname: Flaco
Born: 8/21/1987 in Miami, FL
Draft: 2009, Houston Astros, 20th rd.
College: Nova Southeastern
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Julio Daniel Martinez
Full name is Julio Daniel Martinez. Signed by Greg Brown (Astros). Graduated from Flanagan High School in Pembroke Pines, FL...Won consecutive state titles in 2005-06... Selected by MIN in the 36th round of the 2006 June Draft (did not sign). Attended Nova Southeastern University in FL...As a junior in 2009, hit .428 with 15 HR and 57 RBI while setting the school's single-season record with 73 runs.
Named an AL All-Star in his 1st season with the Red Sox, hitting 43 HR with 130 RBI, 111 runs scored, and a .330/.402/.629/1.031 batting line (188-for-569). Established career highs in runs, hits, doubles (37), RBI, BB (69), AVG, OBP, and XBH (82). Voted as the 2018 Player of the Year in the MLBPA's Players Choice Awards. Earned 2 Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger Awards, 1 as an outfielder and 1 as a DH...Became the 1st player in the award's history (1980-2018) to be named a Silver Slugger at multiple positions in the same season. Finished 4th in the BBWAA's AL MVP voting with 198 points, earning 1 first-place vote. Was the AL recipient of MLB's Hank Aaron Award, given to the most outstanding offensive performer in each league. Earned the Boston Baseball Writers' Ted Williams Award, given to MLB's most outstanding hitter. According to Elias, only 2 other players in MLB history have hit .330+ with 43+ HR and 130+ RBI in their 1st season with a team: Babe Ruth (1920 Yankees) and Jimmie Foxx (1936 Red Sox)...Started 93 games at DH and 57 in the OF...Made 32 starts in LF and 25 in RF, committing 0 errors and recording 3 OF assists. Hit .384 with 16 HR and a 1.130 OPS as an outfielder, compared to .297 with 27 HR and a .970 OPS as a DH. Earned his 2nd career All-Star Game selection, batting cleanup as the AL club's starting DH...Was elected to start the game via fan balloting. Named AL Player of the Month for August and was twice tabbed AL Player of the Week (5/14-20, 8/6-12). His 43 HR are the most ever for a player in his 1st season with the Red Sox (previous: Dick Stuart, 42 in 1963)...His 130 RBI are the 4th-most by a player in his 1st season with BOS. Homered against 38 different pitchers and 15 teams. Became the 3rd Red Sox ever to hit at least .330 with 40+ HR and 130+ RBI, joining Ted Williams (1949) and Jimmie Foxx (1936, '38)...The last major leaguer to do that was Miguel Cabrera (2013). Joined MIL's Christian Yelich as the only players in 2018 to hit .300+ with 100+ RBI and 100+ runs scored. The Sox went 35-5 (.875) in games in which he hit at least 1 HR...Homered in 34 of the Sox' 52 series...His longest homerless streak was 9 games from 8/19-29. Led the majors with 4.38 AB/RBI and ranked 4th in AB/HR (13.23). Reached base in 132 of his 150 games played (88.0%)...The only times he failed to reach base in consecutive games were a 3-game streak from 4/21-24 and a 2-game stretch from 5/23-24. Led MLB with 59 multi-hit games...Recorded at least 1 hit in 114 of his games (76.0%). Had multiple RBI in an MLB-high 37 games...Drove in 3+ runs 17 times, tied for the most such games in MLB. By month, recorded an AVG/OPS of .352/.994 (April), .299/1.099 (May), .347/1.037 (June), .310/1.016 (July), .373/1.139 (August), and .312/.898 (September). Batted .317 with 21 HR and a .973 OPS in 73 games when hitting 3rd in the lineup, compared to .344 with 22 HR and a 1.088 OPS in 77 games batting 4th. In 200 PA with RISP, posted a .386/.480/.671/1.151 batting line (61-for-158, 13 HR, 34 BB). His 26 HR at home are the 8th-most in Fenway Park's history (most since Mo Vaughn, 27 in 1996). Reached base in 51 straight games at Fenway Park from 4/13-8/18, MLB's longest home on-base streak of 2018 and the 3rd-longest single-season streak in the venue's history. Made his Red Sox debut on Opening Day (3/29 at TB), batting cleanup as the club's DH (0-for-3, BB, R). Recorded his 1st hit as a Red Sox on 3/31 at TB, a 6th-inning double off Ryan Yarbrough...Hit his 1st HR as a Red Sox on 4/7 vs. TB (7th inning, solo off Chaz Roe)...Hit a grand slam in the Sox' 10-7 loss on 4/11 vs. NYY. Reached base in 26 consecutive games from 4/25- 5/22, the longest streak of his career. Hit safely in 12 straight games from 4/29-5/11. Surpassed 50 hits and 10 HR on 5/13 at TOR, the Sox' 40th game...Is 1 of 7 Red Sox to record 10+ HR and 50+ hits in the club's first 40 games (also Manny Ramirez, Mo Vaughn, Dwight Evans, Jim Rice, Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx). Led MLB with 13 HR in May, tied for the most ever by a Red Sox player in the month (also Jim Rice, 1978)...The last BOS player with 13+ HR in any month was David Ortiz (14 in July 2006). Named AL Player of the Week for the period 5/14-20, during which he was 9-for-26 (.346) with 5 HR and 8 RBI. Led MLB with 17 HR during a 38-game stretch from 5/2- 6/13, 4 more than any other player in that time (Trout-13)... During that span, homered in 12 of the Sox' 13 series. Hit his 25th HR of the season on 6/27 vs. LAA, more than any Red Sox player hit in 2017 (Betts-24). Became the 1st Red Sox since Ted Williams to have more HR at the All-Star break than any member of the team had in the entire season prior...Bob Johnson led BOS with 12 HR in 1945; Williams had 23 at the 1946 break. Had 25 HR through June, setting the Red Sox record for most HR before 7/1 (previous: 24 HR, 4 players). Became the 4th Red Sox player ever with 25+ HR and 100+ hits through 84 team games, joining Jimmie Foxx (1938), Ted Williams (1946), and Manny Ramirez (2001). Became the 1st Red Sox player to hold at least a share of the MLB lead in both HR (29, T-1st) and RBI (80, 1st) at the All-Star break since David Ortiz in 2006 (31 HR, 87 RBI). On 7/17 at Nationals Park, started MLB's 89th AllStar Game as the AL club's cleanup hitter and DH... Became the 8th Red Sox player to start an All-Star Game as a cleanup hitter. Named AL Player of the Month for August...In 26 games, posted a .373/.453/.686/1.139 batting line (38- for-102) with 7 HR, 11 2B, 25 RBI, and 24 runs scored. Named AL Player of the Week for the period 8/6-12 after going 13-for-28 (.464) with 4 HR, 5 2B, and 11 RBI. Recorded his 100th RBI of the season on 8/10 at BAL, with 45 games still to play. Reached base in all 4 PA in the Sox' 6-4 win at BAL on 8/11-G2, going 2-for-2 with 2 HR and 2 BB...Marked his 3rd multi-homer game of the season, each of which came against the Orioles. Hit his 40th HR of the season in the Sox' 6-5 win vs. HOU on 9/9...Recorded 4 RBI in that game. In the final game of the season on 9/30 vs. NYY, set a new Red Sox single-season record for most HR in a player's 1st season with the club (43)...Went 2-for-3 with 3 RBI in the game, giving him 130 RBI and a .330 AVG...POSTSEASON: Reached base in 13 of the Red Sox' 14 playoff games, posting a .300/.403/.520 batting line with 3 HR and a team-high 14 RBI (15-for-50, 10 BB). Homered in each round of the postseason. His 14 RBI are the 5th-most by a Red Sox player in a single postseason...Recorded at least 1 RBI in 9 of the Sox' postseason games, including in the final 3 games of the ALCS and first 2 games of the World Series. In Game 1 of the ALDS vs. NYY, gave the Sox a 3-0 lead with a 3-run HR off J.A. Happ in the 1st inning. Gave the Sox a 1-0 lead in Game 5 of the ALCS with a 3rd-inning HR off Justin Verlander. Became the 10th player in MLB history to record multiple RBI in each of his first 2 career World Series games, the 1st since Lance Berkman in 2005. In Game 5 of the World Series, led off the 7th inning with a HR off Clayton Kershaw, giving BOS a 4-1 lead.
In only 119 games, hit .303 (131-for-432) and set career highs with 45 HR, 104 RBI, and a 1.066 OPS between DET and ARI (traded to ARI on 7/18)...Also matched career bests in triples (3) and BB (53). Among players with at least 300 AB, led the majors in SLG (.690), AB/HR (9.60), and AB/RBI (4.15)...Averaged 1 HR every 8.00 AB with ARI. His .690 SLG was .059 higher than the majors' next highest mark (Stanton-.631) (min. 300 AB). His 45 HR ranked 3rd in the majors behind Giancarlo Stanton (59) and Aaron Judge (52). Earned Player of the Week honors 4 times (5/15-21, 7/10-16, 9/4-10, and 9/11-17)...Became the 1st player to claim 4 weekly honors in a single season since the award's inception in 1973 (1975 for AL). Hit .376/.464/.892 vs. LHP (35-for-93, 10 2B, 12 HR). Batted .317 (39-for-123) with RISP...Hit .409 (18-for-44) with 5 HR vs. AL East teams. Had 6 multi-homer games, including 2 with DET (5/13 at LAA and 5/16 vs. BAL) and 4 with ARI (7/26 vs. ATL, 8/27 vs. SF, 9/4 at LAD, and 9/10 vs. SD). Recorded 4 games with at least 5 RBI (2 with DET and 2 with ARI), tied with Daniel Murphy for most in the majors...Is the only player ever with 5+ RBI in more than 1 game for multiple teams in a season (source: Elias). Hit 3 grand slams, 1 of only 5 players in the majors to reach that mark. Hit 1 grand slam for DET (5/16 vs. BAL) and 2 for ARI (7/27 at STL and 9/26 vs. SF)...Became the 4th player in MLB history to hit a grand slam in both the AL and NL in the same season (see table on next page). Became the 5th player in MLB history to hit 40+ combined HR with multiple teams in a single season (also Adam Dunn in 2008, David Justice in 2000, Mark McGwire in 1997, and Greg Vaughn in 1996). Is 1 of 4 players all-time to record 40+ HR in 120 games or fewer, joining Ken Griffey Jr. in 1994 (40 HR in 111 G), Matt Williams in 1994 (43 HR in 112 G), and Hank Aaron in 1973 (40 HR in 120 G). Was also the 1st player with 100+ RBI in 120 games or fewer since Carlos Lee in 2008 (100 RBI in 115 G). In 62 games for ARI, had 29 HR and 65 RBI...Was the 1st player since HOU's Carlos Beltrán (23) and NYM's Richard Hidalgo (21) in 2004 to hit 20+ HR for a club after switching teams midseason (source: STATS LLC). His 29 homers with the D-backs during the 2nd half of the season were the most in franchise history, surpassing Luis Gonzalez's 22 in 2001. His 31 HR after the All-Star break were the 4th most in MLB since 2000 behind Sammy Sosa in 2001 (35), Barry Bonds in 2001 (34), and Giancarlo Stanton in 2017 (33). Had 72 RBI during the 2nd half of the season, the most in the majors since Chase Headley had 73 in 2012...Began the season on the 10-day disabled list with a sprained Lisfranc ligament in his right foot... Suffered the injury while making a running catch in a spring training game on 3/18 vs. MIA... Activated from the DL on 5/12...From that point through the date he was traded to ARI (7/18), ranked among AL leaders (min. 150 PA) in SLG (2nd, .630), OPS (5th, 1.018), HR (T-7th, 16), and RBI (T-11th, 39)...Batted .305 (61-for-200) in 57 games with DET...Hit 6 HR in his first 8 games of the season, hitting 2 HR on 5/13 at LAA and on 5/16 vs. BAL...Acquired by ARI on 7/18 in exchange for INFs Dawel Lugo, Sergio Alcantara, and Jose King...Recorded 29 HR and 65 RBI in only 62 games with ARI...From 7/19-his first game with Arizona-through the end of the season, his 29 HR ranked 2nd in MLB. Was the 2nd-fastest player all-time to reach 20 HR with a new team (45th game), behind only McGwire (42 with STL in 1997). Removed from his D-backs debut on 7/19 at CIN after being hit by a pitch and suffering a left hand contusion. His 1st hit as a D-back was a 3-run HR on 7/24 vs. ATL. Hit 4 HR on 9/4 at LAD (see box below)...Named National League Player of the Month for September after batting .404 (40-for-99) and setting Diamondbacks franchise records for most HR (16) and RBI (36) in any calendar month. Tied the NL record for most HR in a September (also Ralph Kiner, 1949), falling 1 shy of the ML record held by Babe Ruth (1927) and Albert Belle (1995). His 36 RBI were tied with CHC's Hank Leiber (1939) for 2nd most in the NL in a September, trailing only Troy Tulowitzki's 40 RBI with COL in September 2011. POSTSEASON: Appeared in each of ARI's 4 postseason games, going 3-for-4 with a HR in Game 1 of the NLDS at LAD.
Finished the 2016 season with 22 homers, marking the third straight season he has hit 20-or-more homers...Ranked seventh in the American League with a .373 on-base percentage and a .535 slugging percentage, while he was eighth with a .307 batting average...Posted his second career four-hit game on April 12 vs. Pittsburgh (other, May 30, 2013 at Colorado)...Recorded his first career game with three doubles on June 14 at Chicago (AL) -- marked the first three-double game by a Tigers player since Miguel Cabrera on August 21, 2015 vs. Texas...Sidelined from June 17-August 3 with a non-displaced fracture of the radial neck at the right elbow...Began an injury rehabilitation assignment with Triple A Toledo on July 26 -- played in eight games with the Mud Hens and hit .278 (10x36) with three runs scored, three doubles and five RBI...Activated from the 15-day disabled list on August 3 -- hit the first pitch he saw in the eighth inning for a pinch hit goahead home run off of Chris Sale…was the second pinch hit homer of his career (other, May 19, 2014 at Cleveland)...Belted the 100th home run of his major league career in the seventh inning on August 14 at Texas, hitting a two-run shot off of A.J. Griffin...Hit safely in 14 straight games from August 9-24 -- batted .448 (26x58) with 13 runs scored, four doubles, five home runs and 11 RBI during the streak, which tied a career high...Named the Tigers Player of the Month for August after hitting .404 (42x104) with 21 runs scored, 11 doubles, seven home runs and 15 RBI -- tied for the AL lead with 11 doubles in August, while he ranked second with a .404 batting average, tied for second with 42 hits and third with a .446 on-base percentage and a .712 slugging percentage…his .404 batting average was the highest by a Tiger in the month of August since Alan Trammell hit .405 in August, 1993...Hit .307 (104x339) against righthanded pitchers, which ranked 10th in the American League…batted .306 (37x121) vs. lefties...Led the AL with a .362 (81x224) home batting average…posted a .254 (60x236) batting average on the road...Compiled a .286 (72x252) batting average with 36 runs scored, 19 doubles, two triples, 12 home runs and 39 RBI in 65 games prior to the All-Star break…batted .332 (69x208) with 33 runs scored, 16 doubles, 10 home runs and 29 RBI following the All-Star break.
Finished his first full season with the Tigers in 2015 and established career highs in games played (158), at-bats (596), runs scored (93), hits (168), doubles (33), home runs (38), RBI (102) and walks (53). Selected to the American League All-Star Team for the first time in his career. Won his first career Silver Slugger Award. Named Tiger of the Year by the Detroit chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Was one of three finalists for the American League Gold Glove as an outfielder after finishing the season with a .993 fielding percentage (282TC/2E). Finished the season with 38 home runs and 102 RBIs -- became the seventh player in Tigers history to hit 38-or-more home runs and drive in 100-or-more runs in a season, joining Miguel Cabrera (2010, 2012, 2013), Norm Cash (1961), Rocky Colavito (1961), Cecil Fielder (1990, 1991), Hank Greenberg (1937, 1938, 1940, 1946) and Dean Palmer (1999). Drove in 100 runs for the first time in his career -- became the first Tigers outfielder to record 100-or-more RBI in a season since Magglio Ordonez had 103 RBI in 2008. Ranked tied for third in the American League with 15 outfield assists, while he was fifth with 319 total bases and 73 extra-base hits, seventh with 102 RBI and eighth with 38 home runs and a .535 slugging percentage. Hit his first career Opening Day home run on April 6 vs. Minnesota, a solo home run in the second inning off Phil Hughes. Drew a career-high three walks on May 6 at Chicago White Sox. Had a season-best, 11-game hitting streak from May 9-20, batting .410 (16-for-39) with seven runs scored, two doubles, two home runs and three RBI during the stretch. Homered in three straight games three times during the season (June 13-15, June 24-26, July 4-6). Recorded the first multi-home run game of his career on June 21 at New York Yankees, hitting three home runs in the win -- became the first visiting player to hit three home runs at Yankee Stadium and the first Tiger to hit three homers vs. the Yankees since Charlie Maxwell on May 3, 1959 at Briggs Stadium...also established a career high with six RBI. Reached base safely in a career-best 19 straight games from June 4-26 -- during the 19-game stretch, he hit .320 (24-for-75) with 14 runs scored, three doubles, 10 home runs and 24 RBI. Named Tigers Player of the Month for June after batting .290 (27-for-93) with 16 runs scored, three doubles, 11 home runs and 26 RBI -- tied for the American League lead in RBI, while he was second in home runs...his 11 home runs in June were tied for the third most in club history and were the most since Mickey Tettleton hit 11 in June, 1993. • Selected American League Player of the Week for the week ending July 5 after hitting .458 (11-for-24) with six runs scored, a double, four home runs and 10 RBI in six games -- marked his second career player of the week honor. Hit 15 home runs and drove in 35 runs over 24 games from June 7-July 6 -- became the first Tiger to put together a 24-game stretch as such since Hank Greenberg from September 4-29, 1946, when he hit 15 home runs and had 36 RBI. Recorded 25 home runs prior to the All-Star break, which ranked tied for the third most in franchise history. Named Tigers Player of the Month for July after hitting .320 (33-for-103) with 21 runs scored, four doubles, one triple, eight home runs and 20 RBIs -- finished tied for second in the American League in runs scored during July, while he was tied for fourth in home runs and tied for seventh in RBI. Finished the series in Baltimore from July 30-August 2 with eight RBIs...according to the Elias Sports Bureau, the eight RBsI were the most by a Tigers player in one series at Baltimore since 1986, when Kirk Gibson had nine RBI in a threegame set at Memorial Stadium. Posted a .298 (28-for-94) batting average with 10 runs scored, six doubles, one triple, six home runs and 19 RBI in August. • Hit .265 (31-for-117) against lefthanders...batted .286 (137-for-479) vs. righthanded pitchers. Posted a .282 (84-for-298) batting average at Comerica Park...hit .282 (84x298) on the road. Hit .289 (95-for-329) with 57 runs scored, 16 doubles, 25 home runs and 59 RBIs before the All-Star break...hit .273 (73-for-267) with 36 runs scored, 17 doubles, two triples, 13 home runs and 43 RBIs following the All-Star break.
Established career highs in games played (123), runs (57), hits (139), doubles (30), home runs (23) and RBI (76) as he completed his first season with the Tigers in 2014...Tied for first in the American League with seven home runs in "close and late" situations, while he was second with 13 home runs in the seventh inning-or-later...Opened the spring season in the Houston Astros organization before being released on March 22 -- signed by the Tigers as a minor league free agent on March 24 and assigned to Triple A Toledo to begin the season...Batted .308 (20x65) with 16 runs scored, three doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and 22 RBI with the Mud Hens before having his contract purchased from Toledo by the Tigers on April 21...Tabbed the International League Player of the Week for the week ending April 21...Hit his first career pinch hit home run in the ninth inning on May 19 at Cleveland...Hit the game-winning sacrifice fly on June 15 versus Minnesota -- the first game-ending hit or sacrifice fly of his career...Blasted his second career grand slam on June 16 versus Kansas City -- equaled a career-high with four RBI that same game... matched the high with four RBI on September 12 versus Cleveland...Posted a season-high three hits June 17 vs. Kansas City -- equaled the high 11 other times during the season...Hit a home run in a career-best three straight games June 18-20...Selected the American League Player of the Week for the week ending June 22 -- batted .444 (12x27) with six runs scored, three doubles, four home runs and 11 RBI in six games during the week...Compiled a career-high 14-game hitting streak June 9-25 -- batted .411 (23x56) with nine runs scored, eight doubles, six home runs and 17 RBI during the streak...Reached base safely in 28 consecutive games June 9-July 10...Hit a home run in back-to-back games June 24-25, July 5-6, and September 1-2...Named the Tigers Player of the Month for June after batting .345 (29x84) with 12 runs scored, nine doubles, seven home runs and 21 RBI in 22 games during June -- tied for third in the American League with seven home runs while he was tied for fourth with 22 RBI during the month...Hit .345 (30x87) with 14 runs scored, four doubles, two triples, five home runs and 15 RBI in 24 games during July..Ranked seventh in the American League with a .354 (34x96) batting average during September, while he was tied for third with six home runs and tied for 10th with 17 RBI during the month...Ranked fourth among all players (min 100 AB) with a .359 (84x234) batting average against opponents from the American League Central Division...Batted .307 (35x114) with nine home runs and 27 RBI against lefthanded pitching...hit .318 (104x327) with 14 home runs and 49 RBI with righties on the mound...Hit .304 (63x207) with eight doubles, 13 home runs and 38 RBI in 61 games at home...batted .325 (76x234) with 22 doubles, 10 home runs and 38 RBI in 62 games on the road...Posted a .346 (65x188) batting average prior to the All-Star break...hit .292 (74x253) following the break...Appeared in all three games for the Tigers during the ALDS -- hit a home run in his first postseason at bat, joining Mickey Lolich as the only two Tigers in franchise history to accomplish the feat...Became the only player in franchise history to hit a home run in each of their first two postseason games, and just the 15th player in major league history to do so.
26-year-old outfielder played in 86 games in what was his third Major League season...missed over a month of the season due to a left wrist injury...hit well in 42 road games (.298 AVG)...did not make the club out of Spring Training and was optioned to minor league camp...was recalled to Houston prior to Opening Day on March 30 to replace the injured Fernando Martinez...was placed on the 15-day DL on April 20 with a right knee sprain...missed 16 games and was activated from the DL on May 6...placed on the 15-day DL on July 27 with a left wrist sprain and was not activated until Sept. 13 (missed 44 games)...sustained the injury while sliding into second base...had a career-high four hits on May 30 at COL...was one of four Astros to record an RBI in four straight games...did so from July 5-10...played in five games with Double A Corpus Christi from April 30-May 5 as part of a rehab stint...hit .300 (6x20) with two doubles, one homer and five RBI.
Led the club with 55 RBI in the second extended MLB action of his career...ranked tied for third on theclub with 40 walks and third with 11 home runs (all of which came in the first half )...ranked tied for third inthe NL among left fielders with nine outfield assists in just 97 starts at the position...began the season as theeveryday LF before getting optioned to Triple A on Aug. 7...recalled on Sept. 4...had surgery on Sept. 26 toremove the hook of the hamate bone in his left hand...started the season with a nine-game hitting streakfrom April 6-15 where he hit .371 (13x35) with three homers and 10 RBI...was the longest hitting streak by anAstro to begin a season since Craig Biggio also had a nine-gamer to open the 2005 season (April 5-15, 2005)...ranked third in the NL in walks (18), tied for fourth in RBI (20) and tied for fifth in on-base percentage (.414.)from April 6-May 2...the Miami native hit the first regular season home run at Marlins Park in Miami on April13...belted his first career grand slam against LHP Barry Zito on June 14 at SF...in 15 games from June 16-July2, hit .308 (16x52) with four doubles, three homers, 10 RBI and a .915 OPS (.357 OBP/.558 SLG)...hit the threehomers over a four-game span from June 23-26...did not make an error in his first 74 games in the outfield in2012...had a 101-game errorless streak, spanning two seasons from Sept. 3, 2011-July 18, 2012...recorded ahit in seven of his 12 games (.303, 10x33) after his final recall from Triple A on Sept. 4...hit .233 (21x90) withsix doubles and four RBI in 23 games with Triple A OKC.
Started 52 of the final 55 games of the season after having his contract purchased from Double A on July 29...started 51 gamesin LF and 1 in RF...had 107 RBI combined at the Major League and minor league levels (141 gms)...his 35 RBI after his MLB debut onJuly 30 were tops on the club, T-13th in the NL and led all NL rookies in that span...his 28 RBI in August ranked second in the NL andfourth in MLB...the 28 RBI were the most for any Astros rookie in any calendar month, besting Chris Truby's previous record of 27 inSept. 2000, and were tied for the third-most in the month of August among all Astros in franchise history...hit his first career MLBhome run on Aug. 3 vs. CIN, a two-run HR that was part of a 3x4, four-RBI game...also had a four-RBI game on Aug. 20 vs. SF...is oneof nine Astros in franchise history to post multiple games of at least four RBI during their rookie season...made his Major Leaguedebut on July 30 as a PH and hit an RBI-double...at the time his contract was purchased by HOU, ranked second in the Texas League inbatting (.338), T-fifth in RBI (72), fifth in OBP (.414) and seventh in slugging pct. (.546)...was a Texas League All-Star selection in 2011...named TL Player of the Month for July after hitting .380 with seven HR and 16 RBI.
Named the Astros Minor League Player of the Yearafter hitting a combined .341 (183x537) with 40 doubles,18 homers and 89 RBI with Class A Lexington and DoubleA Corpus Christi...before being promoted to Corpus Christion July 16, posted a .362 (126x348) average with 15 homersand 64 RBI in 88 games for Lexington...his performance, ina little over half the season with Lexington, earned him theSouth Atlantic League's Most Valuable Player Award andthe SAL's Player of the Year Award...also named a Midseason and Postseason All-Star in the SAL...named the SAL's Best Hitting Prospect by Baseball America...named Lexington's OffensivePlayer of the Month in April and June, the Legends' Defensive Player of the Month in May, and the SAL's Player of the Week fromJuly 5-11...after his promotion to Corpus Christi, hit at a .302 clip (57x189) with three home runs and 25 RBI in 50 games...earnedthe Hooks' Offensive Player of the Month in August
Hit a combined .348 (92x264) with 12home runs and 56 RBI in 72 games with Rookie-level Greeneville and Class A Tri-City...after signing with Houston, assigned to Greeneville, where he hit .403 (31x77) with five home runs and 23 RBI in 19 games...promoted to Tri-City on July 12 and finishedhis campaign with a .326 (61x187) average, seven home runs and 33 RBI in 53 games for the ValleyCats...led the New York-PennLeague in batting average and OPS (.920)...named a NYPL All-Star, and also earned NYPL Player of the Week from July 27-Aug. 2.
2019 Stats 346 54 99 19 49 1 .286 .360 .871
MLB Career Stats 3743 556 1092 214 655 23 .292 .353 .885
Next BOS Game: 7-19 @ BAL
Last 7 Games 30 2 3 1 1 3 6 0 .100 .182 .200
Last 15 Games 65 9 19 3 7 5 13 0 .292 .343 .492
Last 30 Games 130 18 35 7 16 14 35 0 .269 .340 .485
7/16 vs TOR 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
2019 Games by Position: LF (11) RF (14)
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Avg Launch Angle (deg)
2019 Red Sox AL 390 263 91.7 403 14.2
MLB Avg - - - - 88.8 401 12.5
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2018 Boston Red Sox AL
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2015 Detroit Tigers AL
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AL Hank Aaron Award
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09/2017 Arizona Diamondbacks NL
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08/2018 Boston Red Sox AL
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06/23/2014 Detroit Tigers AL
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Astros Rookie of the Year
2011 Houston Astros NL
MiLB.com Organization All-Star
INT Player of the Week
04/21/2014 Toledo Mud Hens INT
TEX Player of the Week
07/04/2011 Corpus Christi Hooks TEX
TEX Mid-Season All-Star
2011 Corpus Christi Hooks TEX
TEX Post-Season All-Star
MiLB.com TEX Player of the Month
07/2011 Corpus Christi Hooks TEX
Topps Class A All-Star
2010 Lexington Legends SAL
SAL Player of the Week
07/12/2010 Lexington Legends SAL
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2018 43 2nd in AL
2015 38 8th in AL
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2018 146 20th in AL
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2018 130 1st in AL
2015 102 7th in AL
2018 111 3rd in AL
2015 33 23rd in AL
2018 .330 2nd in AL
2016 .307 8th in AL
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2015 657 23rd in AL
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February 26, 2018 Boston Red Sox signed free agent LF J.D. Martinez.
November 2, 2017 RF J.D. Martinez elected free agency.
July 19, 2017 Arizona Diamondbacks activated RF J.D. Martinez.
July 18, 2017 Detroit Tigers traded RF J.D. Martinez to Arizona Diamondbacks for 3B Dawel Lugo, SS Jose King and SS Sergio Alcantara.
May 12, 2017 Detroit Tigers activated RF J.D. Martinez from the 10-day disabled list.
May 8, 2017 Detroit Tigers sent RF J.D. Martinez on a rehab assignment to Toledo Mud Hens.
May 5, 2017 Detroit Tigers sent RF J.D. Martinez on a rehab assignment to Lakeland Flying Tigers.
March 31, 2017 Detroit Tigers placed RF J.D. Martinez on the 10-day disabled list retroactive to March 30, 2017. Mid-foot sprain.
August 3, 2016 Detroit Tigers activated RF J.D. Martinez from the 15-day disabled list.
July 26, 2016 Detroit Tigers sent RF J.D. Martinez on a rehab assignment to Toledo Mud Hens.
June 17, 2016 Detroit Tigers placed RF J.D. Martinez on the 15-day disabled list. Fractured right elbow
April 21, 2014 Detroit Tigers selected the contract of RF J.D. Martinez from Toledo Mud Hens.
March 29, 2014 LF J.D. Martinez assigned to Toledo Mud Hens.
March 24, 2014 Detroit Tigers signed free agent LF J.D. Martinez to a minor league contract.
March 22, 2014 Houston Astros released LF J.D. Martinez.
January 14, 2014 J.D. Martinez assigned to Houston Astros.
November 20, 2013 Houston Astros sent LF J.D. Martinez outright to Oklahoma City RedHawks.
November 2, 2013 LF J.D. Martinez assigned to Leones del Caracas.
September 13, 2013 J.D. Martinez roster status changed by Houston Astros.
July 27, 2013 Houston Astros placed LF J.D. Martinez on the 15-day disabled list. Sprained left wrist.
May 6, 2013 Houston Astros activated LF J.D. Martinez from the 15-day disabled list.
April 30, 2013 Houston Astros sent LF J.D. Martinez on a rehab assignment to Corpus Christi Hooks.
April 20, 2013 Houston Astros placed LF J.D. Martinez on the 15-day disabled list. Sprained Right Knee
March 30, 2013 Houston Astros recalled LF J.D. Martinez from Oklahoma City RedHawks.
March 24, 2013 Houston Astros optioned J.D. Martinez to Oklahoma City RedHawks.
September 4, 2012 Houston Astros recalled J.D. Martinez from Oklahoma City RedHawks.
August 10, 2012 Houston Astros optioned J.D. Martinez to Oklahoma City RedHawks.
July 30, 2011 Houston Astros selected the contract of J.D. Martinez from Corpus Christi Hooks.
May 20, 2011 J.D. Martinez roster status changed by Corpus Christi Hooks.
May 8, 2011 J.D. Martinez roster status changed by Corpus Christi Hooks.
May 6, 2011 Corpus Christi Hooks placed LF J.D. Martinez on the 7-day disabled list.
January 12, 2011 Houston Astros invited non-roster LF J.D. Martinez to spring training.
July 16, 2010 LF J.D. Martinez assigned to Corpus Christi Hooks from Lexington Legends.
April 6, 2010 J.D. Martinez assigned to Lexington Legends from Tri-City ValleyCats.
July 12, 2009 J.D. Martinez assigned to Tri-City ValleyCats from Greeneville Astros.
June 19, 2009 J.D. Martinez assigned to Greeneville Astros from Houston Astros.
June 15, 2009 Houston Astros signed OF J.D. Martinez.
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Damage and compensation
What do you need to do if tenants have damaged a property? Paul Jager considers the agent’s obligations.
Agents who manage property have to deal with the return of the deposit at the end of the tenancy. This isn’t always as easy as it sounds.
An agent must be in a position to ascertain what the tenant was obligated to do under the terms of their tenancy agreement. Then there is the question of assessing whether they had failed to undertake these obligations in any way.
This can include:
defining fair wear and tear
assessing damage
ensuring neither landlord nor tenant is unfairly disadvantaged at the end of the tenancy
These depend on the initial terms of business with the client. What were the role and responsibilities of the agent? These are usually to:
establish if the tenant has been in breach of any requirements of the tenancy
assess any damages to the property, and prepare a schedule of costs for their restitution
assess whether those damages are the responsibility of the landlord or the tenant
The requirements that the tenant must fulfil will be listed in the tenancy agreement that was signed at the commencement of the tenancy. This, together with any agreed addenda added during the course of the tenancy.
These requirements will deal with the obligation to:
look after the property
return it and all of its contents in a clean and orderly fashion
return it in a comparable position to when the tenant took it on (subject to issues of fair wear and tear)
In addition, there will be the requirement to pay the rent as agreed, plus any other charges and costs (such as utility bills) which may have arisen during the course of the tenancy.
It is the agent’s job, if managing a property, to be aware of all the relevant clauses in the tenancy agreement and thereby be in a position to judge if the tenant has failed to adhere to any of them, for example:
a failure to pay all due rent
a failure to leave the property clean or the garden neatly trimmed
damage that the tenant has caused to the fixtures and fittings
If it can be proved that the landlord has suffered a loss as a result of a failure of the tenant to adhere to any of the conditions of the tenancy, the landlord may be entitled to compensation from the tenant’s deposit.
The primary pieces of evidence when attempting to prove a loss will be:
the inventory and schedule of condition
the check-in and check-out reports.
Rent arrears are simple to calculate. However, the Dispute Service has published these figures showing what issues occur most frequently in disputes:
cleaning – 52% of disputes
damage – 45%
redecoration – 28%
gardening – 12%
rent arrears – 18%
other issues – 56%
(Source: The Dispute Service Annual Review 2012)
These issues are more complex to resolve than non-payment of rent, and usually require recourse to further evidence and documentation. This may include the following:
addenda to the tenancy agreement agreed during the tenancy, relating to changes to the property, such as permission to redecorate
inventory and schedule of condition
reports of property visits
communications from tenants during the tenancy, regarding the state of the property
receipts and invoices from the landlord showing age and cost of items
evidence of work undertaken on the property during the tenancy
This is just a short primer to the subject of tenancy damage and compensation. There is still the question of fair wear and tear, remedies for damage and ‘betterment and apportionment’.
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Denise Brooks: Why I volunteered for Red Cross wildfire efforts
By DENISE BROOKS / For The Monroe News
"One client asked why I went so far away from home and endured hardships to help people I didn't know," Denise Brooks said. "
"I told him that I was given an extension on life and I wanted to spend that time helping others who suffer from disasters."
Her eyes were brimming with tears as the woman walked by my table. I asked if I could help with anything. She sat down and the tears spilled down her face. She didn’t need assistance; she needed or wanted to talk.
I was volunteering for the American Red Cross in Case Recovery for the victims of the camp fire that devastated Paradise, and Magalia, Calif. The victims of this wildfire were sheltering at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico, Calif.
After the fires were contained, I was called to deploy to California to do casework recovery. The work before us was to help victims with recovery plans and removing barriers to recovery. If they needed gas money or moving expenses, we assisted with that. We were told that the shelter would be closing on Jan. 31 and there were still about 600 people there.
My lodging was a tent at a place dubbed, “The Village.” As I looked around I saw tents, portable toilets, hand-washing stations, showers on a semi truck and a staff tent. My bed was a cot with an air mattress I brought with me.
I knew I could do this; I had before and it was quite cozy. I was able to meet new friends, too. I was there two weeks, helping victims of this horrific fire with their recovery plans.
The woman at my table began talking about the day the wildfires destroyed her community. She looked out of her window early in the morning and wondered about the red glow of the rising sun. She happened to look out later and saw that the red glow actually was a roaring fire quickly approaching her home.
Her tears were relentless as she relived her story through painful memory.
She didn’t have a very good car but she jumped in with few possessions and headed down the mountain. She picked up as many people as her small car would hold.
The fire was consuming the trees on both sides of the road and flames were bouncing off the trees onto the cars. They, in turn, were catching on fire and people were abandoning them as they exploded.
She wasn’t thinking of the people she saved; her thoughts kept returning to those running down the dark road whom she couldn’t save. They were her friends and neighbors.
Most days were rainy but I chose a bright morning to visit Paradise. It was a humbling and sobering experience. Most of the homes and businesses were reduced to a few steel beams and piles of ash and rubble.
I felt that if I actually saw what they went through, I could better understand their feelings. In the middle of town, 89 white crosses were placed to honor those who perished.
As it got nearer to the closing date, we worked 12 hours a day to reach out to as many people as possible. We knocked on trailer doors to talk to evacuees and met them in the shelter to discuss what was needed.
There also were daily meetings with case managers and evacuees together so everyone was given the same information about ongoing assistance and updates.
Some of the clients said that America had forgotten about them. The fires were in November but they were still in shelters in January and no one remembered them. But we were there because we wanted to help.
My first deployment was in September, 2005, with Hurricane Katrina.
Since that time I have taken many classes so I can assist in different ways. These trainings also help me as part of Monroe County’s Disaster Action Team. Our Red Cross team assists with local fires in giving immediate assistance to those affected. We assist with shelter and immediate needs. The team also helps firemen with water, Gatorade and snacks. If needed, we provide meals.
One client asked why I went so far away from home and endured hardships to help people I didn’t know. I didn’t have to think about why and told him that four years ago I was diagnosed with cancer. After considerable treatment, I was pronounced cancer free.
I told him that I was given an extension on life and I wanted to spend that time helping others who suffer from disasters.
Denise Brooks of Monroe is a volunteer with the Monroe County Chapter, American Red Cross, Disaster Action Team.
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Elinor Alice Samels-Owens
November 21, 1917 ~ November 1, 2018 (age 100)
It is with great sadness that the family of Elinor Samels-Owens announce her passing on November 1, 2018 at Meadowood Manor in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the age of 100 years.
Elinor was born on November 21, 1917 at Amaranth, Manitoba, daughter of William and Mary Letwin. At the age of two years the family moved to Portage la Prairie where she was raised and received her education, graduating from the Portage Collegiate in 1936.
In 1939 she started as a student nurse at the Manitoba Developmental Centre. In 1940 she married Walter Samels and they resided in Vancouver until 1946 when they returned to Portage la Prairie. She resumed her nursing career at the Manitoba Developmental Centre and trained towards becoming a Psychiatric Nurse, graduating in 1948 where she continued to work until her retirement in 1982.
Elinor was an adherent of the First Presbyterian Church, singing in the Church Choir and a member of the Ladies Evening Guild of the First Presbyterian Church. She was an active member of the Portage Community. Her memberships and activities included the following; Order of the Eastern Star, Ladies Auxiliary of both of the ANAF and Royal Canadian Legion, Herman Prior Center, Kozy Corner, and served on the board of the Psychiatric Nurses Advisory Board of Manitoba, President of the Manitoba Branch of the Registered Psychiatric Nurses, President of the Local Branch of the Registered Psychiatric Nurses, Secretary of the Canadian Registered Psychiatric Nurses, Horticultural Association, winning many trophies and prizes for her flowers and vegetables. She played mandolin with the Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra (at Folkorama), with Jessie’s Jems, and accompanied the Harmonaires, and sang with the Portage Senior Choir.
Predeceased by her first husband Walter Samels in 1979, her second husband Lyle Owens in 2001, one son Douglas in 1975, her brother Fred Letwin, her sister Margaret Cook, and her brother Bill Letwin. She leaves to mourn her passing her daughter Cheryl (Wayne) Mault of Winnipeg, granddaughter Carla (Carley) MacAskill and great grandchildren Jason and Shannon, grandson Dale, grandson Kelly (Rheanne) and great grandchildren Mackenzie & Liham, grandson Todd (Cathy) great grandchildren Kahnor & Lachlan, special cousin Angie Casey and family of Toronto, Ontario, many nieces and nephews, as well as Lyle Owens’ family.
Funeral Services for Elinor will be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. at the Omega Funeral Home; 83 Royal Rd S Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Viewing will be held at the chapel from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Interment will take place at Evergreen Memorial Gardens following the service. Should friends so desire, memorial donations may be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association, or to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
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INFINITE's Hoya speaks out on being an idol-turned actor
Following a series of successful appearances in dramas such as My Lovely Girl and Mask, INFINITE's Hoya has returned to the small screen after a 2-year break in new comedy sitcom Super Family.
Speaking on his choice of the drama as his comeback project, Hoya revealed that he decided to do so as he wanted to work with director Choi Moon Suk, who directed Memories of Bali, as it is a show he really likes.
The main dancer and rapper of boy band INFINITE, Hoya is well-known amongst fans for his electrifying dance moves and on-stage charisma and is also increasingly making a name for himself as a successful idol-turned-actor. "Acting has certainly made me a more "complete" and all-rounded entertainer," he said. "I never thought of becoming an actor as first, but as I grew my career as an artiste, I realized how valuable these experiences are."
Although idols-turned-actors are frequently subject to criticism from the public, Hoya shrugs off these concerns. "There are many successful idols-turned-actors out there and they've been an inspiration to many younger stars like myself, " he said. "You cannot change how others think of or perceive you, but you can change how you react to them.I choose to focus on doing well in every role I receive, and that's what I will place my attention on – not the naysayers."
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If Voted to Power, BJP Will Publish NRC in Bengal: Dilip Ghosh
The much-awaited final draft of the NRC was published on Monday in Assam, the only state in the country to have such a document, featuring over 2.89 crore names of the total 3.29 crore applicants in the north-eastern state.
Updated:July 31, 2018, 11:52 AM IST
File photo of West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh.
Kolkata: West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Monday said the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will be published, on the lines of the one in Assam, if the saffron party was voted to power in the state.
Supporting the publication of the complete draft of the NRC in Assam, he said some politicians were "shedding crocodile tears" as they were wary that their "vote-bank" politics would come to an end.
Reacting to Ghosh's remarks, Congress and CPI(M) leaders alleged that the BJP leader's statement reflected the anti-Bengali mindset of the saffron party, which was trying to import the Hindi heartland culture in Bengal.
"If we (BJP) are voted to power in Bengal, then we too will implement the NRC in the state. We will send back the illegal immigrants to Bangladesh. Tough days are ahead, we will not tolerate any illegal immigrants in Bengal," Ghosh told reporters.
Those who will support the illegal immigrants will also be thrown out of the country, he said.
"The NRC in Assam is being implemented following the orders of the court (Supreme Court). It was the Congress, which had proposed the idea of the NRC. Now they are speaking against it," Ghosh added.
Those whose names were not in the final draft could appeal for rectification, "but we will never compromise on the security and integrity of our country", he said.
Ghosh came down heavily on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her comments against the NRC in Assam and said she should stop doing vote-bank politics on each and every issue.
"Those who are inviting illegal immigrants and Rohingyas from the neighbouring country should not talk much about the integrity and security of the country," he said.
Expressing concern over the exclusion of 40 lakh names in the complete NRC draft, Banerjee said Indian citizens had become refugees in their own land and alleged that the Centre had resorted to "vote-bank politics".
The chief minister, who flew to New Delhi on Monday, said she would seek time from Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to discuss the issue.
"I am sending a team of party MPs to Assam and if necessary, I will go there too," she added.
The Congress and the Left Front said Ghosh's comments reflected the "anti Bengali" mindset of the BJP.
"The NRC in Assam and Ghosh's statement prove that the BJP is an anti-Bengali party. The people of our state will never accept such a party. It will be a disaster for the entire country and our state," Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Abdul Mannan said.
Left Front Legislature Party leader Sujan Chakraborty said, "The BJP is trying to bring in the culture of the Hindi heartland in Bengal. Who are they to tell the people of Assam that they are no longer citizens of India? They will do the same thing if they are voted to power in Bengal," he said.
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How Much Screen Time Is Too Much? Over Two Hours Per Day Linked With ADHD and Behavioral Problems in Kids
By Kashmira Gander On 4/17/19 at 2:00 PM EDT
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Kindergartners who use screens for more than two hours a day are more likely to show signs of behavioral problems, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a study by Canadian scientists.
Existing research suggests preschool-age children in Canada use screens for two hours a day. So researchers set out to study the potential negative effects this might have on their development, including their attention span.
The research, published in the journal PLOS One, included 2,427 children from the cities of Edmonton, Toronto and Vancouver, as well as the province of Manitoba, who were taking part in the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study.
The study had their parents complete a frequently used questionnaire designed to pick up mental health and behavioral issues at age 3, and again at age 5. The parents were asked how much their children used screens, and how much they engaged in physical activity. They were also asked for other information, such as their socioeconomic status.
Screen time included watching more traditional media such as TVs and DVDs, as well as playing video games and using a computer, tablet or mobile phone.
The 5-year-old children who took part in the research were found to use screens for 1.4 hours per day on average, while 3-year-olds used them for 1.5 hours on average.
Using this data, the researchers placed the children into four categories, acording to the Canadian government's guideline that children between the ages of 5 and 13 should spend no more than two hours using screens, or one hour for 2- to 4-year-olds.
By age 5, 83 percent of the children used screens for less than two hours per day, but 317 interacted with screens for more than the recommended limit.
Compared with children who used screens for 30 minutes or less, children whose screen time passed the two-hour mark were more likely to manifest behavior problems, such as inattention, even when scientists took into account their socioeconomic status, sleep and stress levels. This group was 5.9 times more likely to have difficulty paying attention, and 7.7 times more likely to show symptoms of ADHD. Kids who exercised for more than two hours per week were less likely to experience mental health problems.
Researchers investigated the potential negative effects of children using screened devices. Getty Images
Sukhpreet K. Tamana, in the department of pediatrics at the University of Alberta and a co-author of the study, told Newsweek: "We were surprised to find that how much time spent using devices or watching TV had the strongest influence on preschool behavior, compared to other environmental, home or movement-behaviors considered in our study."
Tamana acknowledged that the study was limited, as it didn't include the type of media used.
The authors said their paper questioned whether such technology should be used in classrooms, and suggested that future studies should test if reducing the screen time of children showing behavioral problems could ease their symptoms. Researchers exploring this topic should try to find a causal link between screen time and child development, Tamana said, as the study only found a correlation.
"The study highlights that preschool is an ideal time to promote healthy relationships with screens, and that it's beneficial for parents to increase opportunities for other structured activities."
Past studies have linked screen time to poor eating habits, low-quality sleep, heart disease and obesity in children, the authors noted. Evidence suggests that using such devices could cut into the time children need for mental development. One study published earlier this year on Canadian children found that children who used screens for more than one hour a day at 24 months had a higher risk of developmental problems at 36 months, and 60 months. That work was published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
"Readers should take away the message that less than 30 minutes of screen time each day is the optimal amount for preschoolers," said Tamana.
Natalia Kucirkova, a professor of early childhood and development at the Norwegian Center for Learning Environment and Behavioral Research, University of Stavanger, who was not involved in the research, told Newsweek the study was "robust" in that it drew on a large representative sample from Canada.
But she pointed out two limitations: First, the study considered only the amount of screen time, not the types of content or whether the children were supervised by parents or joined by friends when they used their screens. Second, parents' subjective perceptions were used as a measure of a child's progress, which could skew the results.
"Many adults perceive children's and their own performance on screens as inferior," she said, "and Canadian parents would be aware of the many reports in the popular press about the negative impact of screens on children's development.
"The message to take away is (1) excessive screen time is not good, (2) effects depend on the content and circumstances of use, and (3) parents need to act as media mentors and consider how much their child's use, let alone their own use, displaces face-to-face interactions."
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Poll Shows Giuliani over Clinton in 2008 Presidential Match-Up
17-Nov-2005 1:40 PM EST
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Newswise — If the 2008 presidential election were held today, Republican Rudy Giuliani would beat Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton according to a nationwide poll conducted by Canisius College. Of the 455 respondents who volunteered an answer regarding the 2008 match-up, Giuliani received 54 percent of the vote to Clinton's 38 percent.
Michael V. Haselswerdt, PhD, professor of political science at Canisius and co-director of the poll, notes "Clinton loses among voters in the red states, which is no surprise, but Giuliani breaks even in the blue states."
The Canisius poll also shows that only 27 percent of Americans think the nation is going in the right direction, only 42 percent view President Bush favorably, and the Bush administration is having trouble getting a "gentleman's C" on its performance.
While 27 percent think the nation is going in the right direction, 63 percent say it is on the wrong track, including six out of 10 of those who live in red states and four out of 10 Republicans. President Bush's 42 percent favorability rating is countered by the 55 percent who view him unfavorably.
But despite this dissatisfaction, if a presidential recall election were possible, only 42 percent would vote to fire President Bush, while 53 percent would vote to have him remain in office.
"It is a good thing for President Bush that his support has always been personal rather than performance based," says Haselswerdt. "In addition, among the people who are critical toward President Bush and his administration are some who do not think that a recall election is an appropriate mechanism."
The Bush administration gets its best grade, a grade of C, for its performance on the war on terror. It gets grades of C- for its performance on the economy, the war in Iraq and energy policy, and it receives a D+ for its performance on improving health care. While the war in Iraq does not get the lowest overall grade, it gets the highest percentage of failing grades, with 36 percent of the public giving the Bush administration an F. Other highlights from the Canisius College Poll include:
*Fifty-one percent (51 %) of the public believe that the U.S. should announce a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops, while 41 percent agree with President Bush that the United States should stay in Iraq "as long as it takes."
*Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay is seen as favorable by 18 percent and unfavorable by 40 percent, while 43 percent do not know his name. Neither are other congressional leaders household names, with majorities polled not recognizing names including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (52 percent), Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (58 percent) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (51 percent). Evaluations of these congressional leaders were split.
*Recent legal and ethical issues in Washington, DC, are seen as "business-as-usual" by 51 percent, including a strong majority of Republicans (67 percent), and a smaller majority of Independents (59 percent). These issues are seen as "more of a problem now than before" by 43 percent of the public, including 59 percent of Democrats.
*Almost two-thirds (65 percent) of the public and 58 percent of Republicans prefer the governmental system to be divided between Republicans and Democrats, while only two in 10 Americans favor one-party control.
*Sixty-two percent (62 %) would oppose amending the Constitution to allow foreign-born citizens such as Arnold Schwarzenegger or Madeline Albright to run for president, and 53 percent would oppose an amendment to provide for recall elections for the president and members of Congress.
The poll has a confidence level of 95 percent and a margin of error of +/-4.4 percent. Five hundred one (501) American citizens over the age of 18 from the continental U.S. were contacted between November 13-15, 2005. The poll was co-directed by Haselswerdt and Kevin R. Hardwick, PhD, associate professor of political science and utilized Canisius College students as interviewers.
In addition to providing excellent educational experiences for students, recent Canisius College polls have proved to be extremely accurate. The college's survey of New York Democrats conducted on February 17-20, 2004 showed John Kerry leading John Edwards 57 percent " 16 percent in the state's Democratic primary with a +/- 4.8 percent margin of error. Kerry eventually beat Edwards 61 percent " 20 percent two weeks later in the March 2 contest. A general election poll of Pennsylvania voters on October 17-18, 2004, also with a +/- 4.8 percent margin of error, gave Kerry a 53 percent " 45 percent lead. On November 2, Kerry did indeed win Pennsylvania with 50 percent of the vote to George Bush's 48 percent.
To view complete results of the Canisius College poll, go to http://www.canisius.edu/poll.
Canisius College is one of 28 Jesuit colleges in the nation and the premier private college in Western New York. Canisius prepares leaders " intelligent, caring, faithful individuals " able to pursue and promote excellence in their professions, their communities and their service to humanity.
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Chris Brown In Hot Water Again, Accused Of Punching Woman
By Matt Moreno
R&B singer Chris Brown is accused of striking a woman and taking her cellphone early Saturday morning.
R&B singer Chris Brown is denying allegations that he punched a woman at a Las Vegas area hotel early Saturday morning.
Las Vegas police are investigating Brown after a woman said she attended a private party with the singer at the Palms Hotel. She says she sneaked her phone past his security team and tried to take a picture of him. That's when, according to the woman, Brown allegedly punched her.
Brown is vehemently denying the allegations. His representative said the accusations were "unequivocally untrue" and "retaliation for a bruised ego."
He also posted a photo to Instagram late Saturday night with a caption about filing lawsuits against "these crazy individuals who keep lying on my name."
In May, Brown was accused of punching a man after a basketball game at the same hotel.
And in 2009, Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna. He was sentenced to more than four months in jail.
Police are investigating Brown for misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor battery in this latest incident.
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Stepbrother Of Elvis Presley Says 'The King' Overdosed On Purpose
By Stephanie Liebergen
David E. Stanley opens up about Elvis and his final years in a new book.
Elvis Presley's stepbrother is releasing a new book, and it has some fiery allegations.
In the book, "My Brother Elvis," author David E. Stanley shares personal stories about life with Elvis and his struggles with addiction.
Presley died at his home on August 16, 1977, and the New York Daily News reports that in the new book, Stanley says Presley overdosed on purpose.
Stanley says: "I felt it was my responsibility to write a book about these realities of Elvis beyond the glitz, glamour and fun. He was human, and his very human frailties and vulnerabilities cost him his life. If addiction could happen to Elvis, it can happen to anyone."
Before this book, the cause of Presley's death was shrouded in rumors. A toxicology report after his death found 14 drugs in his system, but his family covered up his cause of death in an attempt to preserve his legacy.
Official reports say no drugs were found at Graceland, Presley's Memphis home where his body was found. But according to Stanley, there were pills and syringes around his body, and Stanley started hiding that evidence in his pockets before police got to the home.
"My Brother Elvis: The Final Years" comes out Aug. 16.
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Of Bailouts and Boondoggles
Both Felix Salmon and Dan Gross have smart things to say about the proposed bailout of G.M. and Ford, with Dan explaining why a G.M. bankruptcy would be more complicated and inflict far more collateral damage than, say, a Linens ‘N Things bankruptcy.
One of the best things about these posts is that they are honest about the consequences of having the Big Three—or even just one of the Big Three—go under, particularly for American workers. By contrast, Henry Blodget justifies his support for letting G.M. fail by saying:
[W]e are not suggesting that the government abandon G.M.’s workers: We’d rather the government spend billions on retraining and job placement than on propping up perpetually weak companies that can’t fix themselves.
This is pure feel-good fantasy. The record of job-retraining programs is a dismal one at the best of times, let alone in the middle of a deep recession. And what jobs, exactly, are we going to be retraining forty-eight-year-old autoworkers to do? And why is Richard Shelby, the Alabama senator who doesn’t think that the Big Three’s problems are a national problem, going to be interested in spending billions retraining workers?
There is a principled, free-market argument against bailing out the auto companies, which, to a large extent, have dug their own graves. And most people that make this argument would also be opposed to bailing out the autoworkers; even if the U.A.W.’s labor contracts didn’t have anything to do with the Big Three’s onerous cost structures, autoworkers made a free decision to work in the auto industry, and have been paid well for it, so why should we help them as opposed to, say, all the Circuit City employees who just lost their jobs?
That position has the virtue of being both coherent and realistic: it acknowledges that letting G.M. go bankrupt will inflict damage, but it accepts that as the necessary price of a capitalist system—creative destruction in action. By contrast, the argument that, even if we let G.M. go under, they’ll still keep doing business as usual, and that we can use the money we saved to rescue hundreds of thousands of autoworkers, is just a way of avoiding reality, of pretending that things will turn out much better than they actually will. If you think the government should tell the Big Three to go screw themselves, that’s a reasonable position to take. But let’s admit that in doing that, you’re also telling all of the Big Three’s workers to do the same.
G.M.
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Democrats name 20 presidential candidates for 1st debate
Washington DC [USA], Jun 14 (ANI): As many as 20 Democratic presidential candidates have qualified for the first debate scheduled to be held later this month ahead of next year's elections.
Prominent names which were announced by the Democratic National Committee were former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, California Senator Kamala Harris and Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who have been at loggerheads with President Donald Trump over immigration, also made the cut, CNN reported.
In order to qualify for participating in the debate, candidates have to achieve 1 per cent in at least three qualified polls or receive campaign donations from 65,000 unique donors, including 200 donors each from 20 different states.
The first round of debates will take place on June 26 and 27 in Miami.
Four Democrats could not make their way into the list of first debate due to less traction of their respective campaigns. They were Montana Governor Steve Bullock, Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, Mayor Wayne Messam of Miramar in Florida and Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton.
Several Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have criticised the Trump administration over a number of issues particularly on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on alleged Russian meddling in 2016 elections and immigration. Some of them have even called for Trump's impeachment.
However, Trump while comparing himself to former President Richard Nixon had said that he has done "great" for the country and will not leave. (ANI)
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Australia and New Zealand are among the most captivating travel destinations in the world. The unique landscapes and cities found in the two largest countries in the South Pacific draw huge numbers of European tourists. However, if they want to experience the true diversity and beauty of these locations, booking a package holiday at a beach resort won’t give them what they’re looking for. They are much better off opting for a carefully planned, customized holiday package that perfectly matches up with what they would like to see and experience.
One of the leading providers of this type of unique holiday package is TravelEssence, a company founded in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in 2006. The key to this specialist travel agency’s success lies in its experienced employees, who all either hail from “down under” or have lived in one of these two countries for an extended period of time. TravelEssence focuses on accommodation, routes, and activities that are off the beaten track, serving as a tonic to large-scale mass tourism. The company’s rapid growth goes to show that this formula works. Alongside the Dutch branch, TravelEssence now operates subsidiaries and sales offices in many German cities (as well as Switzerland) that cater to increasing numbers of adventurous tourists. Their resoundingly positive feedback is the best advertisement TravelEssence could ask for.
The Initial Situation
The reason why Andrew Morten founded TravelEssence is very touching: He met and fell in love with his now wife, a born-and-bred Dutch, on one of his trips. He very much appreciated the quality of life in the Netherlands, and the compactness of its market made it possible to tap into it with an idea he had been thinking up for years. He decided to take up residence there and make his dream a reality. And thus, TravelEssence was born.
As an enthusiastic Apple® user and Mac® fan, it was clear to him from the outset that he would set up the company’s entire IT backend on Apple computers. Not one single Windows computer can be found on the desks of the roughly 60 employees. Morten claims that macOS® was just too simple and foolproof, the hardware too robust and reliable, and the design of some 15 Mac mini® and 50 MacBook® computers too attractive for a PC to be able to measure up. Standard Apple applications also cover most software requirements needed by TravelEssence—Apple Mail for internal and external communication, iPhoto, Safari and Pages for sales, and Numbers for the back office. Add to this some individually programmed automation scripts for managing travel information and meetings, and voilà! TravelEssence’s operative business stands on solid foundations.
However, there have not been any Mac-compatible solutions for two central elements of planning and organizing long-distance trips. The Galileo booking portal, a global computer-reservation system for flights, requires Windows to operate. The same applies to Tourwriter, the world’s leading tour-planning software, which is also used by TravelEssence. As a result, Andrew was forced to use an operating system that he didn’t like.
A preinstalled utility called Boot Camp® can be found on every modern Mac. It allows Windows to be installed alongside macOS and the computer to have a dual boot system. If Windows has been installed, a hybrid mode of the firmware and partition table allows the user to switch between the two operating systems every time the computer is rebooted by pressing the option key.
While this may seem like an ideal solution to TravelEssence’s minor application problem, Andrew says that this is not practical in everyday work. “Having to reboot the system every time you want to book a flight could hardly be called user- or customer-friendly. Just imagine a customer meeting being interrupted by one of these reboots, and you’ll see what I’m getting at. Aside from that, Boot Camp’s overall lack of performance and stability makes it impossible to transfer content between operating systems using copy and paste. However, this is also a basic requirement, without which it is impossible to carry out our day-to-day work efficiently.” Andrew didn’t have any choice other than to search for an alternative to Boot Camp. As anyone in his position would do, he turned to the world’s leading search engine to carry out further research. The first result Google presented him with was Parallels Desktop® for Mac. Andrew downloaded a free trial version of the solution and began to evaluate this option.
“I think that a computer can only be considered a good computer if it doesn’t feel like a cryptic puzzle to an IT amateur like me. That’s why I’ve always loved Apple for its simplicity and user-friendliness. I expect the same thing from a piece of software. It should intuitively, quickly, and reliably do what I need it to do, so that I don’t have to download an operating system with which I’m not familiar onto my Mac for certain applications. Parallels Desktop is precisely this type of software.”
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After a short time, it became clear that Andrew had found in Parallels Desktop a high-performance, sophisticated solution to his Galileo and Tourwriter problem. Alongside its simple installation and seamless, resource-saving integration in macOS, Coherence mode in Parallels Desktop really won Andrew over. With Coherence mode, the OS X® window (with Pages, iPhotos, and Numbers) and the Windows-based Galileo and Tourwriter screens can be displayed on the same desktop. Data can be transferred between both systems using copy and paste. This guaranteed the exact level of usability and practicality that Andrew had envisioned. As he himself testifies, “I think that a computer can only be considered a good computer if it doesn’t feel like a cryptic puzzle to an IT amateur like me. That’s why I’ve always loved Apple for its simplicity and user-friendliness. I expect the same thing from a piece of software. It should intuitively, quickly, and reliably do what I need it to do, so that I don’t have to download an operating system with which I’m not familiar onto my Mac for certain applications. Parallels Desktop is precisely this type of software.”
The travel agency TravelEssence, which had exclusively invested in Apple computers, was looking for a solution to conveniently use its key applications Galileo (a flight booking portal) and Tourwriter (a trip planning system), which are both only available on Windows.
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Employment: Autism:Written question - 240583
Asked by Thangam Debbonaire
(Bristol West)
Asked on: 03 April 2019
Employment: Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to tackle the underemployment of people diagnosed with autism.
Answered by: Justin Tomlinson
Answered on: 12 April 2019
DWP is committed to helping people with health conditions and disabilities, including autism move nearer to the labour market and, when ready, into work, by building more personalised tailored employment and health support.
The majority of DWP’s schemes and programmes are focused on helping people, including people diagnosed with autism, prepare for and enter work. For example:
The Work and Health Programme, which rolled out between November 2017 and March 2018, will support around 275,000 people over five years - the majority whom (around 220,000) will be disabled people who can volunteer for the programme at any time.
The new Intensive Personalised Employment Support programme, which is due to be rolled out across England and Wales at the end of 2019, will provide highly personalised packages of employment support for people with both disabilities and complex barriers to employment who are considered by DWP work coaches to be more than 12 months from the labour market without intensive support
The Local Supported Employment proof of concept is currently exploring how we can combine central and local budgets to scale up delivery of Supported Employment locally. This initiative is designed to explore how a matched funding model could support people with a learning disability or autism who are known to adult social care, or who are in contact with secondary mental health services.
Disabled people who are already working, or who are about to enter work, can apply for in-work support from Access to Work scheme. The scheme has a Hidden Impairment Support Team that provides advice and guidance to help employers support employees with conditions like autism, as well as offering eligible people an assessment to find out their needs at work and help to develop a support plan.
In addition, DWP is engaging with employers through the Disability Confident scheme - supporting them to feel more confident about both employing disabled people, including autistic people, and supporting disabled employees to realise their potential. Over 11,500 employers have signed up to the scheme so far.
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Recreation Information
> Recreation
Playground, picnic areas, fishing lakes, and more.
Driskell Park - 15 miles away
2155 Monroe Street NE
Basketball, grills, playground, tennis, and more.
Knecht Park - 16 miles away
1380 Glenham Drive NE
Baseball, soccer, basketball, picnicking, and more.
Pollak Park - 16 miles away
1455 Main Street NE
Beach, lake, river, boating, pier, playground, and more.
West Oaks Park - 23 miles away
1161 Lamplighter Drive NW
Baseball, basketball, jogging trails, grills, playground, and more.
Local Patrick AFB, FL Campgrounds
Sebastian Inlet State Park - 30 miles away
9700 S. State Road A1A
Melbourne Beach, FL 32951
RVs Allowed? Yes
Description: Biking, boating, camping, fishing, scuba diving, surfing, swimming.
St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park - 45 miles away
1000 Buffer Preserve Drive
Fellsmere, FL 32948
Description: Biking, camping, fishing, hiking, picnicking, and more.
Lake Kissimmee State Park - 52 miles away
14248 Camp Mack Road
Lake Wales, FL 33853
Description: Boating, camping, fishing, hiking, and more.
Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park - 52 miles away
33104 N.W. 192nd Avenue
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Jonathan Dickinson State Park - 115 miles away
16450 S.E. Federal Highway
Hobe Sound, FL 33455
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Mabel Marie (Born) Thompson
October 9, 1927 ~ October 22, 2018 (age 91)
Mabel M. Thompson, age 91, of Willmar, died Monday evening, Oct. 22, at Vista Prairie Senior Living.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Willmar. Interment will be at Cloverleaf Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Arrangements are with Peterson Brothers Funeral Home in Willmar. www.petersonbrothers.com
Mabel Marie Thompson was born on October 9, 1927, in Janesville, Minnesota, the daughter of Alfred and Elsie (Naporra) Born. She grew up and received her education in Janesville and returned to work on the farm as a homemaker. Mabel was united in marriage to William Thompson on Sept. 24, 1949, in Janesville. Mabel and William moved around Minnesota until settling in Willmar. She was the secretary at Redeemer Lutheran Church for over 16 years where she remained an active member.
Mabel enjoyed sewing, knitting, crochet work, and quilting, along with embroidery. Mabel was active in her church quilting group where they assembled quilts and afghans for those in need. Mabel loved to sit and read, spend hours talking on the telephone, and tend to her flower gardens. Mabel found ultimate joy in being with her family and friends and fishing at Tamarack Bay.
She is survived by her two grandsons, Brent Thompson (and Elizabeth Starke) of Monticello and Alex Thompson of Maple Grove; and numerous nieces and nephews; great nieces and great nephews, besides other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, William “Bill” Thompson; son, Steven Thompson; and brother, Adolph Julius.
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Books|Rachel Wetzsteon, Poet of Keen Insights and Wit, Dies at 42
Rachel Wetzsteon, Poet of Keen Insights and Wit, Dies at 42
By MARGALIT FOX DEC. 31, 2009
Rachel Wetzsteon, a prominent poet whose work was known for its mordant wit, formal elegance and cleareyed examination of the solitary yet defiant lives of single women, was found dead on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 42.
Ms. Wetzsteon, who died apparently late on Dec. 24 or early on the 25th, committed suicide, said her mother, Sonja Wetzsteon. She had been severely depressed in recent months, partly over the breakup of a three-year romance, her mother said.
At her death Ms. Wetzsteon was the poetry editor of The New Republic, a post to which she was appointed last fall. She was also on the faculty of William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J.
Widely praised by critics, Ms. Wetzsteon’s work appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Nation and elsewhere. She published three volumes of poetry, “The Other Stars” (Penguin, 1994); “Home and Away” (Penguin, 1998); and “Sakura Park” (Persea Books, 2006). She also wrote “Influential Ghosts” (Routledge, 2007), a study of W. H. Auden.
Hard-edged yet sinuous, rich with feeling yet unsentimental, Ms. Wetzsteon’s poems have a distinctly urban disposition. By turns angry, melancholy, hopeful and comic, they explore the sensibilities of women as they fall in and out of love. The city, in particular the West Side of Manhattan, is seldom far from view.
In the sonnet sequence that opens “Home and Away,” Ms. Wetzsteon trenchantly described an ill-fated affair: “And if a loving pair was what it took! to turn a cityscape from brown to bright,! both pair and city gained from the exchange — / it gave us history, we gave it life.”
Reviewing the collection, Booklist wrote, “A virtuoso of form, she breathes an astonishing amount of life into her crisply composed poems.” It added, “Chin up, shoulders squared, she dismisses all notion of a panacea, earning our trust as well as our admiration.”
Rachel Todd Wetzsteon was born in Manhattan on Nov. 25, 1967. (The family name is pronounced “whetstone.”) Her parents divorced when she was young; her father, Ross Wetzsteon, a former executive editor of The Village Voice, died in 1998.
Ms. Wetzsteon earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale, a master’s from Johns Hopkins and a Ph.D. from Columbia. She taught for many years at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y.
Besides her mother, the former Sonja Frenkel, Ms. Wetzsteon is survived by her stepmother, Laura Ross.
Ms. Wetzsteon’s work was often rooted in her Morningside Heights neighborhood. In the title poem of “Sakura Park,” here in its entirety, she wrote of the small park near Riverside Church, known for its cherry trees:
The park admits the wind,
the petals lift and scatter
like versions of myself I was on the verge
of becoming; and ten years on
and ten blocks down I still can’t tell
whether this dispersal resembles
a fist unclenching or waving goodbye.
But the petals scatter faster,
seeking the rose, the cigarette vendor,
and at least I’ve got by pumping heart
some rules of conduct: refuse to choose
between turning pages and turning heads
though the stubborn dine alone. Get over
“getting over”: dark clouds don’t fade
but drift with ever deeper colors.
Give up on rooted happiness
(the stolid trees on fire!) and sweet reprieve
(a poor park but my own) will follow.
There is still a chance the empty gazebo
will draw crowds from the greater world.
And meanwhile, meanwhile’s far from nothing:
the humming moment, the rustle of cherry trees.
A version of this article appears in print on January 1, 2010, on Page A21 of the New York edition with the headline: Rachel Wetzsteon, 42, Poet Who Mixed Melancholy and Wit. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Climate|Trump Administration Unveils Its Plan to Relax Car Pollution Rules
Trump Administration Unveils Its Plan to Relax Car Pollution Rules
President Trump and the E.P.A. are scaling back Obama-era rules for U.S. automakers on greenhouse gas emissions. Here’s the breakdown.CreditCreditMark Ralston/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday put forth its long-awaited proposal to freeze antipollution and fuel-efficiency standards for cars, significantly weakening one of President Barack Obama’s signature policies to combat global warming.
The proposed new rules would also challenge the right of states, California in particular, to set their own, more stringent tailpipe pollution standards. That would set the stage for a legal clash that could ultimately split the nation’s auto market in two.
The administration’s plans immediately faced opposition from an unusual mix of critics — including not only environmentalists and consumer groups but auto-industry representatives as well as individual states — who are now launching efforts to change the plan before it is finalized.
The plan, jointly published by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department, would roll back a 2012 rule that required automakers to nearly double the fuel economy of passenger vehicles to an average of about 54 miles per gallon by 2025. It would halt requirements that automakers build cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars including hybrids and electric vehicles.
That Obama-era rule, which aimed to cut the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions while reducing oil consumption, was opposed by automakers who said it was overly burdensome. However, Thursday’s proposal goes much further than many major automakers wanted, and manufacturers are now worried that years of legal challenges and regulatory uncertainty could complicate their business.
The governor of California, Jerry Brown, said his state was prepared to fight. “For Trump to now destroy a law first enacted at the request of Ronald Reagan five decades ago is a betrayal and an assault on the health of Americans everywhere,” he said.
In a statement titled “Make Cars Great Again” that was published Thursday on The Wall Street Journal’s website, Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao and Andrew Wheeler, the acting administrator of the E.P.A., wrote that the Obama-era standards would “impose significant costs on American consumers and eliminate jobs.” Their new proposal, they said, would “give consumers greater access to safer, more affordable vehicles, while continuing to protect the environment.”
Their proposal would freeze the increase of average fuel economy standards after 2021 at about 37 miles per gallon. It would also revoke a legal waiver, granted to California under the 1970 Clean Air Act and now followed by 13 other states, that lets those states set pollution standards that are more stringent than the federal government’s.
Administration officials have said that, by promoting lighter cars, the Obama-era standards could lead to about 12,700 more auto fatalities over the coming 13 years.
“This rule promises to save lives,” said Heidi King, the Transportation Department’s acting administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, during a Thursday conference call. “It could save up to a thousand lives annually by reducing these barriers that prevent consumers from getting into newer, safer cars,” said Ms. King, who was also an author of the proposal and pushed the new traffic safety analysis.
William Wehrum, the E.P.A.’s Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, added, “There is a tension between calling for ever-increasing efficiency standards on one hand, and the obligation to have safe vehicles on the road.”
That conclusion forms the basis of the current administration’s reasoning on rolling back the rule. However, it clashes with the Obama administration’s analysis of the same rule, which found that improving fuel-economy standards would actually lead to about 100 fewer auto-related casualties over the next 13 years.
Andrew Wheeler, the acting E.P.A. administrator, has said he would like to find a way to avoid a fight with California over the proposal.CreditErin Schaff for The New York Times
Some experts have disputed the accuracy of the new analysis.“The administration’s effort to roll back these standards is a denial of basic science and a denial of American automakers’ engineering capabilities and ingenuity,” said John DeCicco, an expert on transportation technology at the University of Michigan.
Because the proposal would revoke states’ rights to set their own pollution standards, a group of 19 state attorneys general announced their plans to sue the administration if it finalizes the rule. The attorneys general said they expected to focus on the claim that cleaner cars would lead to more crash fatalities.
“The case we’ll make is that the data and science do not back up what they’re trying to do,” said Josh Shapiro, the attorney general of Pennsylvania, which follows the more stringent California clean-air rules.
Allies of the Trump administration cheered the plan, but few industries spoke up in its favor, even among those that the proposal might benefit. The American Petroleum Institute, which represents the oil business — which stands to gain if the rule change creates a greater demand for gasoline — did not put out a public statement on the proposal.
The announcement “is good news for consumers,” said Myron Ebell, who directs the energy and environment program at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian advocacy group, and who advised the Trump administration’s E.P.A. transition team. “It means that the federal government will have slightly less control over the kinds of cars and trucks people can buy. It might even cause car prices to stop increasing so rapidly.”
Mr. Ebell went on to describe the move to revoke California’s right to set its own standards as “even better news.”
“Letting one state make decisions for people in other states makes a bad program even worse, especially since the state is California, which has been pursuing an anti-car agenda for decades,” Mr. Ebell said.
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This week’s publication of the proposed rule in the federal register marks a significant legal step in the process of weakening the Obama rule. The administration will next ask the public to formally submit comments before issuing a final version of the rule, most likely this year.
The government’s ideas have met with criticism even from some of the automakers that Mr. Trump has said he wants the plan to help. While the chief executives of auto companies last year asked Mr. Trump to loosen the Obama-era rules, they have since asked him not to pull them back quite so far.
Their concern is that any lawsuit by the states could ultimately tangle the rules in litigation for years, leaving automakers caught in regulatory uncertainty.
Furthermore, if the administration ultimately lost the court battle, it could split the nation’s auto market in two, with the federal government enforcing one set of emissions standards and a group of major states including California enforcing their own separate and stricter rules. Automakers have called that a worst-case scenario.
Maura Healey, the attorney general of Massachusetts, said, “Once again, the E.P.A. has handed decision-making to fossil fuel lobbyists and climate change deniers, while sticking the American people with the bill. Together with California, and 19 other states, my office will be suing to stop this terrible proposal.”
That legal threat is what worries the nation’s automakers, who will now urge the Trump administration to go back to the table and find a way to strike a deal with California and the other states before issuing a final proposal.
“With today’s release of the administration’s proposals, it’s time for substantive negotiations to begin,” Gloria Bergquist, a spokeswoman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, said in a statement. “We urge California and the federal government to find a common sense solution that sets continued increases in vehicle efficiency standards while also meeting the needs of America’s drivers.”
Xavier Becerra, center, the California attorney general, with Gov. Jerry Brown and Mary Nichols, head of the California Air Resources Board. Mr. Becerra has vowed to fight the Trump administration’s proposal.CreditRich Pedroncelli/Associated Press
Speaking to a Senate panel on Wednesday, Mr. Wheeler, the acting head of the E.P.A., said he would like to find a way to avoid a legal showdown with California. “It’s my goal to come up with a 50-state solution that does not necessitate pre-empting California.”
Mr. Wheeler’s views have clashed with those of others in the administration, particularly in the White House and at the Transportation Department, who are understood to be spoiling for a fight with California.
Behind the scenes, Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Wehrum have sought to distance themselves from the auto-fatality analysis put forth by Ms. King, out of concern that the numbers might be susceptible to legal challenge, according to 12 people familiar with the internal deliberations.
Mr. Wehrum acknowledged Thursday that the two agencies had had “long and spirited conversations” while drafting the rules, and expressed hope that a final deal could eventually be reached with California. “We’re all going to get together again and try to find a middle ground,” he said. “No one wants a two-car world where there are one set of cars on one side of the country and one on the other. That makes no sense.”
Also urging the Trump administration to go back to the drawing board will be the nation’s manufacturers of auto parts and components. Those companies say that the uncertainty of a protracted legal battle would freeze investment and innovation in the high-tech auto-parts sector.
“It’s our hope now to prevent a dramatic weakening of the federal standard and further erosion of regulatory certainty, so we can continue to innovate and invest in the United States and cut harmful pollution in a timely fashion,” said Chris Miller, executive director of the Advanced Engine Systems Institute, a trade association of companies that develop pollution-control technology.
Meanwhile, environmentalists will open a campaign to generate public comments opposing the rollback. At the same time, some industry interests are expected to try to negotiate behind the scenes to temper the proposed rules in order to minimize the prospects of the California legal showdown.
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Line Dancing Hip Hop Songs
Group dance songs and line dance songs are played at wedding receptions to get people on the dance floor in a group dance. Group or line dance songs are also known as audience participation songs. Group songs played can invoke a conga line, a train line, rows of line dancing, circles of the Hokey Pokey, hand signaling Y.M.C.A. and much more.
There are also songs with no horror correlation that have found their way. The song didn’t sit well with New Line Cinema,
Hip Hop: The Illustrated History of Break Dancing, Rap Music, and Graffiti [Steven Hager] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Examines the development in New York City of a Black culture centered around break dancing, graffiti art, and rap songs
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Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hip-hop music or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture.It includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking which was created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the United States. The television show Soul Train and the 1980s films Breakin’, Beat Street, and Wild Style showcased these crews and dance styles.
Pune, Jan 10: The organisers of electronic dance music (EDM) festival Vh1 Supersonic 2017 will be adding a hip hop twist to the fest with the addition of Grammy Award winning hip hop artiste Macklemor.
These songs are tried and true to get wedding guests on the dance floor. We include the best party songs from the past to some current hits. In addition, you will find all types of music including Rock, Country music, Dance, R&B, Hip Hop, Swing, Big Band, Oldies, Polka, Jazz, Disco, Reggae, etc.We do not discount any type of music.
As music evolved throughout the decades, so too did the movie theme song, which began to embrace hip hop as a way to appeal to younger audiences. In the history of hip hop movie theme songs. declar.
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“At first we tried to stick firmly from 2000 to 2009 hip. to songs like “International Players Anthem (I Choose You)" by UGK or “I Wish” by Carl Thomas, or doing the “Lean wit It, Rock wit It" danc.
I am looking for more songs that give me goosebumps and make me want to listen to it over and over again. I don’t want someone to post “Dance with the devil” because that always pops up in this kind o.
So here are my 15 dopest hip-hop songs of 2015. so far — according to me. Now it’s a top 5 Billboard Rap song, has over 40 million plays on YouTube and has a funny dance that goes along with it.
Music by Jason Howland and Larry Kirwan, with lyrics by Nathan Tysen, and based on the songs. Dance Champion Garrett Colem.
Whether you are planning a house party or just need a pick-me-up, this list of 50 of the best hip-hop songs of all time should get you dancing.
As you sit there, you wonder why is Mickey getting involved in this hip-hop dance crew that is dancing to terrible remixes of.
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See where rise of the booty and one day of the week falls in the 10 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2014. Nicki Minaj has been pretty. of either side for a playful riff of its ideology — from its line of qu.
VH1 is celebrating hip hop’s “golden era” with our long-running series, The Greatest: 40 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of the ’90s, and the full list starts here!
Why not hold auditions for a hip-hop dance team made up. The score to "Gotta Dance" was first assigned to Marvin Hamlisch — who wrote songs about the travails of dancers for "A Chorus Line" in 1975.
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"[I]t’s literally like chapter one of the hip-hop DJ bible," producer Mark Ronson told NPR in a recent interview, "[Y]ou can play all five minutes of it on a dance floor. basis of entire songs. The.
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M.I.A.’s music is a purposeful mishmash of styles and sounds, smashing hip-hop beats against the traditional music of. som.
Hits by artists such as Keith Urban, Florida Georgia Line, Carrie Underwood. A large percentage of pop and hip-hop songs i.
The History of Hip-Hop dance encompasses the people and events since the late 1960s that have contributed to the development of the early hip-hop dance moves, such as uprock, breaking, locking, roboting, boogaloo, and popping. Black Americans and Latino Americans created uprock and breaking in New York City. Black Americans in California created locking, roboting, boogaloo, and popping.
They become the beat by instinctively moving to every snare drum kick, bass line, keyboard or trumpet sound. The two interpret lyrics to rap songs through dance movement as if it was the hip-hop answe.
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The posture of the British Armed Forces in and around the Persian Gulf mean that it would be very difficult for the United Kingdom, or its key ally Oman, to remain neutral in any military escalation of the conflict between Iran and the United States. Read more
ORG Explains #10: The UK’s Joint Expeditionary Force
This primer describes the new UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), situating it in the context of other European rapid reaction forces and the UK and NATO’s expanded military presence in the Baltic Sea region. Read more
Confronting Iran: To What End?
The escalation of tensions between Iran and the United States during May has increased the potential for a new war in the Middle East. This briefing seeks to clarify what interests Washington and its key regional allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia, see as worth risking such destruction. And what might be the alternatives? Read more
Tipping to Rebellion: Action and Reaction on Climate Science
Global climate change is happening faster than most models have predicted and the consequences are likely to be ruinous on a global scale. Yet, as the Extinction Rebellion protests demonstrated, there remains a gulf between an increasingly informed and activist public and established political, security and economic interests. Read more
Sustainable Security Programme
Our work focuses on promoting global cooperation through attitudes, structures and institutions that sustain peace and security in the long-term. The programme brings to ORG expertise on climate and environmental policy, marginalisation and development challenges, arms industry, exports and proliferation, and geopolitical tensions, particularly in the Middle East and northern Africa.
The sustainable security approach has been pioneered by ORG since the mid-2000s and prioritises the identification and resolution of underlying drivers of insecurity and conflict rather than their violent symptoms. Its emphasis is on preventative rather than reactive strategies and an exploration of alternatives to military action to manage and resolve conflicts.
ORG identifies three interconnected trends that are most likely to lead to competition over resources, global and regional instability, and loss of life of a magnitude unmatched by other potential threats:
Climate change: Loss of infrastructure, resource scarcity and the mass displacement of peoples, leading to civil unrest, intercommunal violence and international instability.
Marginalisation of the majority world: Increasing socio-economic divisions and the political, economic and cultural marginalisation of the vast majority of the world’s population.
Global militarisation: The increased use of military force as a security measure and the further spread of military technologies, including chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons.
These drivers represent something new. Never before has humanity faced a world as interconnected yet so socio-economically divided, where environmental limits are so apparent and where traditional approaches to war-fighting and the use of force are so counter-productive.
The programme aims to develop new thinking around the security challenges and responses that define our age in pursuit of more sustainable approaches to peace and security in the United Kingdom and globally.
Rethinking UK Defence and Security Strategies
The Sustainable Security Index
Paul Rogers' monthly briefings
ORG Explains
Paul Rogers' Briefings
Published: 6th June, 2019
Published: 31st May, 2019
Published: 29th April, 2019
Updated: 1st May, 2019
ORG Explains #9: The Responsibility to Protect
This primer explains the Responsibility to Protect concept, including its origins, applications and critiques. Read more
After Baghouz: A Jihadi Archipelago
This briefing assesses the evolution of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and its re-emergence in Africa and Asia. Read more
Sahel - Sahara
Neither MAD Nor Even: Looking Beyond Trump’s Missile Defense Review
What has been overlooked in discussions of the Missile Defense Review so far is whether we are still asking the right questions about the role that missile defence plays in reducing nuclear dangers. Read more
Caliphate Interrupted: Towards a Stateless IS
This briefing examines the earlier declarations of victory, reviews the reasons for the false expectations of success and explores whether they throw light on the future of Islamic State. Read more
Published: 21st February, 2019
ORG Explains #8: UK Food Security and Climate Change
This primer explains the current situation concerning the United Kingdom’s food supply and how this is likely to change in the medium and long term as a result of climate change. Read more
Climate Change, Populism and National Security
Climate disruption is the human security challenge of our age. With carbon emissions again rising and the world well off course delivering on the commitments it made in Paris three years ago, this briefing looks at this challenge as well as the rising influence of populist nationalism in key countries, including the US and BRIC states. Read more
Published: 28th November, 2018
ORG Explains #7: The UK Military in the Arctic
This primer explains what military presence, relations and obligations the UK has in the “High North” region comprising the Arctic and the adjacent Northeast Atlantic Ocean between Scotland, Iceland, Greenland and Norway. Read more
Published: 31st October, 2018
The Other Weapons of Mass Destruction
With the rapid erosion of the prohibition on use by states of chemical weapons, and the rise of radical non-state groups seemingly willing to utilise whatever weapons of mass destruction they can obtain, what can the international community do to restrain their use? Read more
Sustainable Security Index – Research Note on Arms Exports
This research note from Oxford Research Group’s forthcoming Sustainable Security Index pulls together data on arms exports. Read more
Sustainable Security Index
ORG Explains #6: UK-US Defence and Security Relations
This primer explains the legal and institutional basis of current defence and security relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, including cooperation on nuclear weapons, intelligence-sharing, conventional forces and weapons development and procurement. Read more
Published: 1st August, 2018
Sustainable Security: Global Ideas for a Greater Britain
With the divisive process of leaving the European Union destabilising the UK’s minority government and driving an obsession with redefining a global role for a “Great” Britain, the time is right for political parties of all persuasions to rethink the country’s contribution to global security. Read more
Updated: 31st August, 2018
A Tale of Two Puzzles: Accounting for Military and Climate Change Expenditures
This research paper by Oliver Scanlan, ORG's Climate Fellow, examines the discrepancies between the UK Government’s military expenditures and its direct outlays on climate change mitigation and adaptation, both at home and abroad. Read more
ORG Explains #5: NATO Nuclear Sharing
This primer explains the role US-owned B61 tactical nuclear weapons play in Europe as part of NATO’s nuclear sharing arrangements. It considers these weapons in terms of their economic, political, diplomatic and security significance, including internal NATO dynamics, US-Russia relations and international arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament regimes. Read more
The Kim/Trump Summit and Implications for Iran
Trump’s esoteric approach to diplomacy produced surprising outcomes at his June summit with Kim Jong-Un in Singapore. In response, Iranian hardliners have made a surprising move on ballistic missiles, potentially signalling that they fancy their chances in bilateral negotiations with the great American deal-maker. Read more
Sustainable Security Index – Research Note on Global Opportunities for Refugees and Migrants
This research note pulls together data on refugees, migrants and labour conditions for the 170 countries. Read more
Updated: 29th August, 2018
Sustainable Security Index – Research Note on Climate Change
The Sustainable Security Index is a new project that aims to measure the net impact of each of the world’s states on global security. Read more
ORG Explains #4: The UK and UN Peacekeeping
This primer explains the United Kingdom’s human, financial and other commitments to UN Peacekeeping operations, how these compare to other states, and how they have changed over time. Read more
The Risk and Consequences of an Israel-Iran War
This briefing revisits ORG’s 2010 analysis of the risks and consequences of such a war, concluding that the risk is greater now than in 2010, with changes in Trump’s security team creating a window of opportunity for Israeli action in 2018. Read more
Updated: 3rd July, 2018
ORG Explains #3: UK Energy Security and Climate Change
This primer explains the UK’s current energy mix, with a focus on how import dependency might affect energy security in the context of rising geopolitical tensions and a changing climate. Read more
The Syria Attack: Motives and Consequences
This briefing looks at those issues and also the reaction of the main actors in the current complex civil war – the Assad regime, Russia and Iran as well as the Kurds, Turkey, Islamic State (IS), Israel and Saudi Arabia. It also makes an initial assessment of the consequences of the attack. Read more
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Jim Gallagher, Jr.
University of Tennessee (1983, Marketing)
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
CHARLES SCHWAB Cup Rank (2018)
CHARLES SCHWAB CUP POINTS (2018)
Greenwood, Mississippi
Wife, Cissye; Mary Langdon (1/15/92), James Thomas III (12/1/93), Kathleen Meeks (7/20/96), Elizabeth Ruth (11/11/99)
Greenwood, MS, United States
http://www.tourtalent.com/talent.asp?ID=Jim_Gallagher
Gallagher family was selected as the National Golf Month Family for 1995 by PGA of America.
Father Jim is a PGA Professional in Marion, Ind.
Wife Cissye is a former LPGA member and sister Jackie Gallagher-Smith and brother Jeff were both touring professionals. Jeff often serves as his brother's caddy.
His daughter Mary Langdon was the winner of the 2010 Mississippi State Amateur and was a member of the Mississippi State women's golf team. Helped the squad earn its first NCAA Championship appearance in 2013.
Another daughter, Kathleen, won the Mississippi Women's Golf Association state amateur title in 2013 and lost in the final to her sister in 2014.
Is part-owner of Gallagher-Meeks Cotton Co. in Greenwood, Miss.
Previously served a stint as a golf commentator for USA Network and CNBC.
Some of his favorite TV shows are "CSI: Miami," "Dirty Jobs," "Swamp People," "Deadliest Catch" and "Storm Chasers." Favorite movies are "The Rookie," "Remember the Titans" and the first two in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series. Favorite meal is a ribeye steak, a sweet potato, Caesar salad and cherry pie à la mode. His favorite team as a kid was the Chicago Bears.
Enjoys following college basketball and SEC football.
First job was a caddie position at Meshingomesia CC in Marion, Ind.
Most memorable vacation was going to his parents' 50th wedding anniversary.
Says his most memorable shot was his eagle-2 at No. 17 at Castle Pines at The International.
If he's not playing golf, he enjoys hunting, raising his four kids and being involved in their activities.
Cell phone ring is "Rocky Top."
Would love to trade places for a day with Bill Gates.
Hunting, coaching and watching his children play sports
1993 Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic, THE TOUR Championship
1994 Presidents Cup
1995 KMart Greater Greensboro Open, FedEx St. Jude Classic
1983 Indiana Open
1985 Magnolia State Classic
PGA TOUR Champions: 2011
Dick's Sporting Goods Open: In 12 starts, his best finish was a T36 at the Dick's Sporting Goods Open in August.
Season resume included 19 starts, with a pair of top-10 finishes.
Greater Hickory Kia Classic at Rock Barn: Was on the leaderboard for most of the Greater Hickory Kia Classic but fell back into a T9 after a final-round 70 at Rock Barn.
Sanderson Farms Championship: Made one start on the PGA TOUR, at the Sanderson Farms Championship (missed cut).
Liberty Mutual Insurance Legends of Golf: Was T14 at the Liberty Mutual Insurance Legends of Golf with partner Scott Hoch.
Toshiba Classic: Was a contender throughout the Toshiba Classic in March but shot a 3-over 39 on his final nine holes to fall into a T8 at Newport Beach CC.
Made 20 starts, with his best showing a T17.
Boeing Classic: T21 at the Boeing Classic.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Legends of Golf: T21 at the Liberty Mutual Insurance Legends of Golf (with partner John Huston).
Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic: T17 in his home state of Mississippi at the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic.
Among the top 10 twice in 17 starts during his rookie season.
Dick's Sporting Goods Open: Rallied from an opening-round 74 (tied for 57th) with scores of 66-65 on the weekend to finish T4 at the Dick's Sporting Goods Open.
Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn: Posted his initial top-10 finish when he fired three successive rounds in the 60s to finish T8 at the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn.
Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic: Made his Champions Tour debut at the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic and finished T45 at Fallen Oak.
Played sparingly on the PGA TOUR and Nationwide Tour, making one cut on each Tour in three and four starts, respectively.
Missed cut in two starts on PGA TOUR but made two cuts in eight starts on Nationwide Tour.
Viking Classic: Received sponsor invite to Viking Classic in home state of Mississippi but never got to play as event was canceled when poor weather made Annandale Golf Club unplayable.
Made one cut in seven PGA TOUR starts, and missed the cut in three Nationwide Tour starts.
U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee: Had a 76th-place finish at the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee.
Played in nine TOUR events and five Nationwide Tour events.
Ginn sur Mer Classic at Tesoro: Had a season-best T59 finish at the Ginn Sur Mer Classic.
Knoxville Open Presented by Food City: Best finish on the Nationwide Tour was T55 at the Knoxville Open.
B.C. Open: Finished T10 at the B.C. Open, his first top-10 since a T5 at the 2002 Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic.
Second $1-million season of his career, when he won twice.
FedEx St. Jude Classic: Shot second-round 62 to take lead for good at FedEx St. Jude Classic.
KMart Greater Greensboro Open: Stood in 10th place, seven strokes behind leader Jeff Sluman, entering final round of Kmart Greater Greensboro Open. Shot final-round 66 for one-stroke victory.
The Presidents Cup: Represented United States at inaugural Presidents Cup, where his record was 3-1.
First $1 million season of his career.
THE TOUR Championship: Won the THE TOUR Championship. Opened THE TOUR Championship at Olympic Club with course-record 63 en route to one-stroke victory over Greg Norman and David Frost.
Ryder Cup Matches: Playing on the Ryder Cup team, he defeated Seve Ballesteros, 3 and 2, to seal U.S. victory.
Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic: Final-round 65 at Anheuser-Busch was good for two-stroke victory over Chip Beck and helped earn spot on first Ryder Cup team.
Greater Milwaukee Open: First TOUR victory came at Greater Milwaukee Open, where he defeated Ed Dougherty and Billy Mayfair on first playoff hole.
Leading money winner on Tournament Players Series.
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Carlisle Acquires 46 Additional Wendy's Restaurants
Jun 18, 2018, 01:30 ET
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Carlisle, the tenth largest Wendy's franchise organization, announced the acquisition of an additional 46 restaurants in Alabama and Florida from the Wendco Group, a Wendy's franchise organization owned by Roger and Raisa Webb.
"We are thrilled about adding the Wendco Group's restaurants to our Carlisle family. We could not pass up the unique opportunity to grow our company by acquiring contiguous restaurants that have been incredibly well run by Roger and his team," said Carlisle's CEO Chance Carlisle. "Roger is a Wendy's Hall of Fame inductee, and we are beyond honored to carry forward his tradition of excellence," Carlisle added.
"We are proud of the work we accomplished with Wendy's and will cherish the memories and friendships made along the way," said Roger Webb. "Chance and his team are first class people and operators, and we know we are leaving our restaurants in great hands," added Webb, who began his Wendy's career working directly alongside the restaurant company's legendary founder, Dave Thomas.
Through its wholly owned subsidiary Wendelta, Carlisle owns and operates 150 Wendy's restaurants in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. A Wendy's franchise organization for more than 40 years, Carlisle is known for a relentless focus on world-class service and food. In 2017, nine of Carlisle's Wendy's General Managers were among the Top 200 recognized as the "best of the best" from the entire Wendy's global network of more than 6,600 restaurants.
Contact: local media contact
Mike Johnson, Marketing Director Carlisle
mjohnson@carlislecorp.com
SOURCE Carlisle
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Lance Yang
Direct Tel: +1 213-443-3360 lanceyang@quinnemanuel.com
865 S. Figueroa St., 10th Floor, California
600 University Street Suite 2800 , WA
lanceyang@quinnemanuel.com
Lance Yang is a partner in Quinn Emanuel’s Los Angeles and Seattle offices. Lance is a trial lawyer with extensive experience in litigating patents, copyrights and other complex intellectual property in “bet the company” cases. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants and has advised companies on a broad spectrum of technologies. Lance has extensive experience in software and hardware technologies in particular. He has litigated cases in both state and federal courts, including the ITC, and has advised on patent licensing as well. Super Lawyers Magazine named Lance a “Rising Star in Intellectual Property Litigation” in 2014 and a “Southern California Rising Star” in 2015 and 2016.
Before attending the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he spent five years at Maxim Integrated Products as an engineer and received a Masters Degree from Stanford University, specializing in RF chip design and wireless communications. He also holds an LL.M. from Tsinghua University and is admitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Represented plaintiff ViaSat against defendants Space Systems/Loral (“SS/L”) and Loral Space & Communications in a complex patent and breach of contract lawsuit in the Southern District of California involving high-speed satellite technology capable of providing broadband services to consumers and businesses. ViaSat asserted that its patented and proprietary satellite technology was misappropriated by defendants to build a competing satellite, in violation of ViaSat’s patent rights and confidentiality agreements. After a three-week jury trial, obtained a jury verdict of $283 million for ViaSat. Jury found that SS/L infringed all asserted patent claims and breached its contractual obligations to ViaSat. (http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/Apr/24/ViaSat-Space-Systems-Loral-lawsuit-satellite/)
Represented respondents Broadcom, NVIDIA, STMicroelectronics, MediaTek, Freescale, Cisco, and Motorola in an ITC investigation (337-TA-753) initiated by Rambus involving six patents covering memory controller and chip-to-chip interface technologies. Obtained a complete defense victory. The ITC Commission issued a final determination of no violation for all patents based on invalidity and unenforceability due to willful spoliation of evidence. Tens of billions of dollars in product sales were at risk and ultimately protected as a result of this victory. (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229679/Rambus_loses_US_ITC_case_plans_appeal)
Represented defendant Samsung Electronics and third party Google in the second “smartphone” patent case brought by Apple in the Northern District of California. Representation focused on Apple patents on alleged universal search, for which Apple did not recover, including Apple dropping one patent before trial (after it had previously obtained a preliminary injunction on the same patent) and a jury verdict of non-infringement for the other. (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/usanow/2014/05/02/apple-samsung-patent-trial-verdict-federal-jury/8150593/)
Represented respondent HTC in an ITC investigation (337-TA-710) initiated by Apple involving ten patents covering object-oriented operating systems, real-time processing, user interface and networking technologies. Five patents were dismissed prior to trial, and one additional patent was dismissed during trial. All patent claims defended by the firm were determined to be not infringed and invalid.
Represented plaintiff STMicroelectronics against its competitor, InvenSense, in multiple patent lawsuits at the ITC, the Northern District of California and the Eastern District of Texas. Asserted twelve different patents against InvenSense, and defended against five InvenSense patents, related to various design and manufacturing technologies for MEMS-based gyroscopes and accelerometers used in smartphones, tablets and other devices. After obtaining claim construction victories at the ITC, and after securing a transfer of the ED Texas case brought by InvenSense to the ND California, the litigation settled after one day of trial at the ITC, resulting in a successful patent license royalty agreement for STMicroelectronics.
Represented respondent HTC in an ITC investigation (337-TA-797) initiated by Apple involving five patents covering multi-finger gestures, sensor-based rotation of user interface, and touch panel sensor design. Shortly before the initial determination was due, Apple settled with HTC, resulting in a 10-year cross license with HTC reporting no material financial impact on its business. This was the first major settlement involving Apple’s claims against Android-based smartphone and tablet manufacturers.
Represented respondent MediaTek in an ITC investigation (337-TA-786) initiated by Freescale involving multiple patents asserted against DTV and DSP products. Obtained final determination of no violation for all patent claims defended at trial.
International Trade Commission Proceedings
Satellite & Aerospace Litigation
Transnational Litigation
(L.L.M., 2010)
(M.S., Electrical Engineering, 2005)
(B.S., Electrical Engineering, 2000)
Regent Scholar
National Merit Scholar
The State Bar of California; United States District Court: Northern District of California, Central District of California, Eastern District of Texas; Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
工作語言
Maxim Integrated Products:
Applications Engineer, Senior Member, 2000-2005
Selected as a SuperLawyer Rising Star (2014-2018)
The Next Step in the Evolution of Pressure Sensing, Electronic Engineering & Product World (2002).
Network Linearizes DC/DC Converter’s Current-Limit Characteristics, EDN (2005).
Breaking Down China’s Standardization Efforts, Tsinghua University (2010).
Participant in first US IP Mock Trial to SASAC in Beijing, China (2011).
Moderator at UCLA Anderson’s December 2011 Quarterly Economic Forecast Conference: The California-China Relationship: Partners or Competitors? in Los Angeles, CA (2011).
Participant in first US IP Mock Trial to Korean legal community in Seoul, Korea (2012).
Panelist at MOFCOM Business Legal Affairs Annual Meeting, Global IP Issues Workshop in Beijing, China (2012).
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Making perfect lives
Knowledge for democracy
Knowledge ecosystems
Science in figures
Human rights in the robot age
Challenges arising from the use of robotics, artificial intelligence, and virtual and augmented reality
Robots Human rights
Smart devices surveilling our lives. Artificial intelligence technologies steering our behaviour. Care robots hindering human contact. Does this sound terrifying? Inevitable? It does not have to be. Time for a wakeupcall.
Dr. ir. Rinie van Est
Linda Kool MSc MA
Report pdf - 968.9 KB
The report demonstrates that these technologies can have a positive or a negative impact on human rights. Regarding these rights, we focus on issues relating to the right to respect private life, human dignity, ownership, safety and liability, freedom of expression and the prohibition of discrimination as wellas access to justice and the right to a fair trial.
The Rathenau Instituut conducted this research on the invitation of the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Our research shows that the human rights framework forms a practical starting point for policy makers tasked with regulating robotics, artificial intelligence or similar technologies. However, in certain cases clarification on the rights is needed. We therefore argue in favour of two, novel, human rights: the right to not be measured, analysed or coached, and the right to meaningful human contact.
Preferred citation:
Van Est, R. & J.B.A. Gerritsen, with the assistance of L. Kool, Human rights in the robot age: Challenges arising from the use of robotics, artificial intelligence, and virtual and augmented reality – Expert report written for the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), The Hague: Rathenau Instituut 2017
This list of recommendations may also function as an initial agenda for the preparation of a convention on robot ethics.
Right to the protection of personal data
We recommend that the Council of Europe takes a stance with regard to the ubiquitous and massive personal data processing of the modern era, reinforcing the human rights principles as enshrined in the Conventions.
Right to respect for private life
The Council of Europe could form an opinion about the psychological experiments involving humans taking place on the Internet and could clarify whether the firms that are doing these psychological experiments on the Internet should follow the ethics codes that currently apply when doing psychological experiments. The Council of Europe could form an opinion on whether and how persuasion software can be developed that respects people’s agency.
Right to respect for family life
The Council of Europe could form an opinion about how ICTs can be designed in such a way that they comply with the right to respect for family life.
The Council of Europe could provide guidelines on engineering techniques and methods that permit AI and robotics to fully respect the individual’s dignity and rights, allowing vulnerable groups such as the elderly to fully and effectively participate in society and live their lives in dignity.
The right to the peaceful enjoyment of possessions
The Council of Europe could provide guidance on ownership matters in the robot age, setting the boundaries within which someone may enjoy his or her (in)tangible possessions and how others have to respect those boundaries.
Safety, responsibility and liability
The Council of Europe could offer guidelines on how to apportion liability with regard to robotics.
The right to freedom of expression
The Council of Europe could provide clarification on the role of information gatekeepers, such as Google and Facebook, as news editors and their possible duties as public watchdogs. In addition, the Council of Europe could provide a blueprint as to how central information gatekeepers, such as Google and Facebook, could use their algorithmic powers for the benefit of human rights, especially in relation to the right to receive and impart information and ideas.
The prohibition of discrimination
The Council of Europe could shed light on how algorithmic accountability or fairness can be facilitated and how the developers of algorithms can be enabled to devise automated decisions that respect human rights and will not (unintentionally) discriminate against individuals.
Access to justice and the right to a fair trial
The Council of Europe could establish a framework of minimum norms to be taken into account when a court uses AI. This could prevent as far as possible situations in which individual contracting states devise their own frameworks, which risks offering varying degrees of protection in the sense of what is set out in article 6 ECHR.
The right to not be measured, analysed or coached
The Council of Europe could clarify to what extent in the context of the robot age the right to respect for privacy implies the right to not be measured, analysed or coached.
The right to meaningful human contact
The Council of Europe could clarify to what extent in the context of the robot age the right to respect for family life should also include the right to meaningful human contact.
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Start-up case study: This Mum Runs
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Throughout its partnership with Entrepreneurial Spark and its own initiative Women in Business, RBS inspires and enables women to succeed in business. ‘This Mum runs’ is an example of small business who benefitted from such programmes.
Supporting small businesses
This Mum Runs has benefitted from a number of RBS partnerships and programmes.
This Mum Runs is a fast-growing women's running community that is open to all regardless of age, size, shape, ability or experience. Launched in October 2014, it has encouraged more than 2,300 mums in the Bristol, Bath and Keynsham areas to run regularly by making the activity fun, social, convenient and accessible.
“It all started after I had children,” says founder Mel Bound. “Basically, I found it almost impossible to exercise as it always seemed to clash with looking after them. I used to be a regular exerciser, I did sports studies at university and I worked in sports marketing. But if I was finding it impossible, even though I’m committed to fitness, what must other mums be going through?”
So Mel thought she’d try finding herself a running buddy; someone who’d run with her after the kids were in bed, often in the dark. She put a shout-out onto a local mums’ Facebook group saying: ‘I’ve had kids. I’ve done no exercise for four years. I feel lazy and out of shape. I’ll be in the park at 7:30pm, Wednesday. Who wants to come running with me?’ “I couldn’t believe the response,” she says. “The first week, 75 strangers turned up. That scared the life out of me. I thought ‘Great, okay, now what on Earth am I going to do with all these people?’”
The group mushroomed, with other mums asking ‘Can we set up a group in this part of Bristol?’ So Mel helped them. Then people said ‘Can we run weekends as well?’ So Mel started leading a group at 8:00am on Sundays. Within two months This Mum Runs numbered 400 people. Mel was soon approached by England Athletics, who agreed to fund the training of some mums to be running coaches.
“The reason it’s working is because it utilises a combination of my skills and experience gained over my whole career: working in sports marketing, being a runner and now as a mum. I understand what people want. Simply employing running coaches would have made this feel like a running club, which it isn’t. Actually having women leading sessions who were in the same boat and were totally relatable, felt more motivational. The first 15 we trained we called Run Makers (60 funded, by the end of April 2016). Then we organised couch-to-5K programmes that people paid to go on.”
That’s when it began to transform into a business. It’s also when it started to get really tough for Mel. “It nearly broke me,’ she says. “It was really intense and non-stop.” Then, while feeding her little boy in the middle of the night, an ad for Entrepreneurial Spark popped into her social media feed. “That was my Eureka moment,” she remembers. “I thought that if I got this thing up and running I’d leave my job and do it full-time. So I applied to Entrepreneurial Spark – who work in partnership with RBS – and, just two weeks later, total serendipity: I was offered voluntary redundancy at work. It was a real sliding doors moment. I got my Entrepreneurial Spark place and we went from zero to 100mph overnight.”
This Mum Runs is extremely active on Facebook, and tries not to make any decisions without involving the community. Even when Mel was considering taking redundancy and going full-time, she posted two pictures of her legs online; one in trainers, the other in heels and a work skirt, and said: ‘I’ve got this opportunity to take redundancy and do This Mum Runs full-time. What do you think?’ Then I asked people to vote heels or trainers. The response was insane. One day, while driving to a meeting, I stopped for petrol and the woman at the next pump said ‘Definitely trainers!’”
Mel was approached by the National Trust who’d launched a 10k run series on its property. “They wanted to get more women involved,” Mel notes. “So I met, chatted to and ran with the head of sports development, and we agreed on a pilot programme where I’d run a couch-to-10K programme on their land when it was closed to the public. That was incredible because some women didn’t feel like joining our runs because they were too self-conscious about people watching. Now they could do it “behind closed doors” if you like. The benefit worked both ways. I conducted a survey before the course started and after it finished to see what the runners thought of the National Trust and, by the end, 100% said they’d become a member or volunteer their time.
Being in Entrepreneurial Spark really helped shape Mel’s attitude. She couldn’t help but be a sponge and learn everything. At the three and six month marks, Entrepreneurial Spark runs an awards programme, “Accelerate”, which recognises the business with the most acceleration. This Mum Runs won both. From a revenue perspective, things couldn’t get any better either. The business made more money in the first five days of January 2016 than it did in the last five months of 2015.
Mel’s biggest challenge is balancing the day-to-day while planning for growth. “There will always be a natural tension between those things,” she believes. “At the moment, I’ve got one part-timer and two interns, but we probably need 10 of us. This January we were working until 11:00pm every night. I thought, ‘I don’t want to burn them, or me, out.’ But start-ups can make changes quickly. I knew we needed to focus on the experience, so I shuffled the team around and now everyone is working more sensible hours.
“As we grow, we’ll look at other ways of making money like sponsorship and public funding. And by scaling and rolling out nationally, we’ll have a big community of women and lots of insights into behaviours, the triggers to exercise and the obstacles. The data-side is really important. There’s value in it. Although I’m out of my comfort zone, this is where I’ve long wanted to be. Deep down, I’ve always had an entrepreneurial spirit. Now that the name is trademarked, we’ve rebranded and there’s a range of merchandise in the pipeline."
Entrepreneurs set up shop in RBS HQ
RBS has opened the doors of a new Entrepreneurial Centre at its global Headquarters in Edinburgh.
10 ways we are supporting enterprise
Here we look at 10 ways that the bank is supporting enterprise.
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Widespread debate needed on 'disease mongering' and overdiagnosis of patients, says RCGP in response to BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine paper on definitions of disease
Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said:
"Disease mongering is scaremongering and it has the potential to cause huge strain for the NHS and other healthcare systems around the world.
"Giving people unnecessary medical labels causes anxiety and distress and, in the worst cases, causes harm that can ruin lives. It also leads to unnecessary workload burdens in general practice and secondary care, and consumes funding that could be much better spent elsewhere on the care of patients who really need it.
"This is a controversial but ground-breaking paper that should spark a widespread debate on the entire industry that has grown up around disease mongering and overdiagnosis.
"GPs and our teams see over 1m patients a day in England alone. We understand how overdiagnosis adversely affects people - and the associated workload and costs - and we would welcome the opportunity to lead neutral and unbiased discussions with our specialist colleagues and members of the public about how we tackle the issue.
"We also welcome the idea of 'diagnosis reviews' similar to the medication reviews that GP teams already have in place.
"It is ironic that at a time when the health service is buckling under the strain of unprecedented demands, we live in a society where 'want' is increasingly prioritised over genuine 'need'.
"This paper could be just the impetus we need to re-evaluate our priorities for some aspects of patient care."
Read the RCGP response to BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
RCGP Press office: 020 3188 7633/7574/7575
Out of hours: 0203 188 7659
press@rcgp.org.uk
The Royal College of General Practitioners is a network of more than 52,000 family doctors working to improve care for patients. We work to encourage and maintain the highest standards of general medical practice and act as the voice of GPs on education, training, research and clinical standards.
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Time to face reality: Americans come from Mars, Europeans are from Venus
Despite President Bush’s efforts to repair the US-EU alliance, analysts believe the two sides no longer share a common world view.
By Simon Coss
6/26/02, 5:00 PM CET
Updated 4/12/14, 8:08 AM CET
IT MAY seem like a rather twisted kind of logic.
But more and more think-tanks are suggesting that the best way to heal the rift in relations between the European Union and the United States is for the two transatlantic partners to stop pretending they're the best of friends.
US policy analyst Robert Kagan set the tone in a recent article published by the Brussels-based European Policy Centre.
"President Bush is making a noble effort to pull together the fraying alliance, but the fact is Europeans and Americans no longer share a common view of the world.
"On the all-important question of power - the utility of power, the morality of power - they have parted ways," he argues.
"On major strategic and international questions today, Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus; they agree on little and understand one another even less," he adds.
Kagan argues that since the end of the Cold War, Europe and the US have developed fundamentally different views of just what sort of place the world is and should be.
He says the EU regularly defends the idea of a world where the rule of law rather than sheer brute force should decide how things are done. This is why it has supported initiatives such as the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, the international criminal court and a rules-based global trading system, to mention just three examples of where Washington has been accused of arrogantly ploughing its own furrow since George W. Bush became president.
The US, on the other hand, sees the world as an essentially anarchic and violent place where sometimes the only way to deal with international problems is by showing who's boss, with military force if needs be.
Kagan also accuses Europeans of being somewhat disingenuous when they criticise this kind of US unilateralism.
"Even today Europe's rejection of power politics ultimately depends on America's willingness to use force around the world against those who still do believe in power politics," he says.
This has led to a situation where Washington now often regards EU member states as "annoying, irrelevant, naïve and ungrateful," while the Union sees the US as a bullying "rogue colossus", he says.
But Kagan insists that rather than trying to see eye-to-eye, the only way forward for EU-US relations is for the two sides to agree to differ.
"There is no cure for this transatlantic divergence," he says. "Whatever else we do let's stop pretending we agree."
Steven Everts of the London-based Centre for European Reform also raises the question of the fundamental ideological divide between Europe and Washington in his recent paper EU Foreign Policy: From Bystander to Actor.
"Europe should resist superpower envy and develop its own distinctive approach [to foreign policy]," Everts argues.
Kirsty Hughes, a senior fellow with the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies, agrees with Everts that the EU's future does not lie in efforts to ape the US.
"The future EU will not be a federal state on the US model, but will continue to be in effect some combination of the US and the UN," she said in an article published in last week's European Voice.
The think-tanks seem pretty clear on the issue.
Breaking up may be hard to do, but sometimes a mature divorce settlement is far better than a bad marriage.
Simon Coss
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With “Surrender,” John Boehner Shows Keen Negotiation Skills
By Katie Shonk — on February 25th, 2014 / Negotiation Skills
On February 11, House of Representatives Speaker John A. Boehner reportedly rendered his Republican colleagues speechless. At a meeting of the Republican Capitol Hill Club, Boehner announced that he would bring to a vote a measure to raise the U.S. government’s borrowing limit without preconditions until March 2015, as reported in the New York Times.
The move was widely viewed as a surrender and a violation of the speaker’s own “Boehner Rule,” which requires that any increase in the debt ceiling be matched by equal spending cuts or changes to the budget. By holding the vote, Boehner ended a series of budget showdowns held over the past three years, each of which shook global confidence in the U.S. economy.
The same day that he revealed the decision to his party, Boehner brought the measure to the floor. The House voted 221 to 201 to support it, relying on Democratic backing to pass.
Boehner’s decision to hold the vote was condemned by Tea Party members and other conservatives who viewed it as a capitulation to President Barack Obama. But contrary to the view that Boehner put his leadership role in jeopardy by conceding on the issue of the debt ceiling, the move may actually have strengthened his hand, writes Jonathan Weisman of the Times.
Boehner reportedly made the decision only after proving to his own party members that they were incapable of rallying around any legislative package tied to the debt ceiling that could actually pass the House. After doing so, he took decisive action, showing “a relish for combat” by taking on House members to his political right.
With his decision, Boehner demonstrated canny negotiation skills. Looking beyond the short-term backlash that he would face within his own party for conceding, Boehner focused on the long-term benefits of closing off the debate over the borrowing limit for the next several years.
Calling the vote effectively ended the risk of the spectacle of future debt-ceiling showdowns, for which the public has tended to blame Republicans. Removing the debt-ceiling issue from the public consciousness frees Republicans to focus on issues they believe can attract greater support, such as efforts to weaken the Affordable Care Act. Boehner also extricated Republicans in the House from the uncomfortable position of having to vote for a debt-ceiling increase in the run-up to another potential fiscal crisis.
In negotiation, a combative, win-lose mentality often prevents parties from recognizing the benefits they could gain from walking away from a battle. Choosing to fight on multiple fronts often means you will “win” on none of them. Wise negotiators engage in pragmatic consideration of their strengths and weaknesses, then choose their battles carefully.
Build powerful negotiation skills and become a better dealmaker and leader. Download our FREE special report, Negotiation Skills: Negotiation Strategies and Negotiation Techniques to Help You Become a Better Negotiator, from the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
Related Article: Robert Mnookin Writes for CNN About “How Obama and Boehner Can Get to Yes”
Tags: backlash, get to yes, in negotiation, leadership, leadership role, mnookin, negotiation, Negotiation Skills, negotiators, Robert Mnookin
3 Responses to “With “Surrender,” John Boehner Shows Keen Negotiation Skills”
David S. February 25, 2014
Quite an insightful strategy to adopt after carefully considering all the options.
gary February 25, 2014
This article offers great insight and understanding of both best practice and situational awareness.
charley m. February 25, 2014
Okay, call me dumb. I don’t get it: “In negotiation, a combative, win-lose mentality often prevents parties from recognizing the benefits they could gain from walking away from a battle.” That would be BATNA right? How exactly did Boehner employ BATNA successfully in calling this vote?
“Choosing to fight on multiple fronts often means you will “win” on none of them.” Which fronts were those again?
“Wise negotiators engage in pragmatic consideration of their strengths and weaknesses, then choose their battles carefully.” Wise agreements are those that exhibit wins for all and maintain or enhance relationships among parties. Please parse that one with respect to Mr. Boehner’s choice. I just don’t follow.
To his credit, he got off his hard bargainer podium and apparently felt the longer-term value was present in this instancemore than any continuing short-term gain. Many of us saw that LONG before he did. Still, his bigger picture demonstrates he had nothing in mind in the way of WIN-WIN between Dems and Reps. No real Wise Agreements here. So how do we view this as Principled Negotiation again? I just don’t get it.
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Russian children’s magazine – the world’s oldest
Published time: 10 May, 2011 18:06 Edited time: 10 May, 2011 23:34
Russian children’s magazine Murzilka – the world’s oldest
Murzilka, a monthly literary and art publication for children aged 6 to 12, has been listed by the Guinness World Records as the longest running children's magazine in the world.
It was launched on May 16, 1924, and has appeared monthly and without interruption for its 87 years of existence, except for 25 double issues in the years 1931 to 1933 and the war period between 1939 and 1946. Overall, 1,015 issues have been produced as of December 28, 2010.
Murzilka publishes fascinating stories, drawings and poems for children, as well as educational articles, riddles and so on. Russia’s classics of children’s literature and most renowned artists have published their works here. Even today Murzilka remains relevant, the editors point out.
The magazine has a recognizable character of the same name – a little yellow cartoon man which was created by artist Aminadav Kanevsky in 1937. However, its prototype dates back to the 19th century, when Canadian illustrator and author Palmer Cox published a series of humorous verse books and comic strips about fairy-like sprites, the Brownies. Later, Russian author Anna Khvolson, who wrote a series of stories based on Cox’s illustrations, invented the name Murzilka , which was later adopted by Kanevsky for his character.
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ArtsGuest Author
This past summer I was lucky enough to be included in a group to preview two of the summer shows at the 2018 Broadway at Music Circus season.
photos by Diana Miller
First I saw 7 Brides for 7 Brothers and WOW that was a show! The dancing and music were outstanding! It was amazing how much acrobatic dancing they could do in a theater in the round. And the music and singing was just wonderful. I remember watching this movie on TV with my parents back in the 60s and really enjoyed it back then as well. The story is based in 1850s Oregon about a feisty young bride who marries a guy who lives out in the woods with his 6 other brothers. Unfortunately, they haven’t had a woman’s touch around the cabin in many years, so the bride works to clean everything up and get the place in order. Then she can’t help but notice the other 6 brothers are lonely and need to have a wife of their own too. Of course things go comically wrong which leads to more great songs and dance numbers including “Bless Your Beautiful Hide,” “Goin’ Courtin’,” “Sobbin’ Women.”Don’t worry, it all works out in the end!
Credits: Book by Lawrence Kasha and David Landay, music by Gene de Paul, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn. Based on the 1954 Stanley Donen film of the same name.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5E1g1cwVyQ&w=560&h=315]
The next show I had the privilege to see was Gypsy, based on the life of burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee. This was another show I was familiar with as a child, but I never had actually watched it so I was eager to see what it was all about. It starts out with this overbearing crazy stage mom, trying to get her daughter with the cute blonde curly hair into show business. She takes them cross country, chasing after the dying Vaudeville circuit, trying to get the big break for her girls. There are some great songs that I heard throughout my life that came from this show including “Everything’s Coming up Roses,” “Together (Wherever We Go),” “You Gotta Get a Gimmick,” “Let Me Entertain You.”
Credits: Music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents. Loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNKGw0xI3Qg&w=560&h=315]
Last but not least, I want to give a shout out to the absolutely wonderful live music at each show. The orchestra does an amazing job and really adds to the experience.
The Broadway At Music Circus 2019 Season will be announced on October 30, 2018!
Shows – Broadway Sacramento
Broadway At Music Circus is a truly unique musical theatre experience, renowned by theatre professionals and fans across the country. Each summer the Broadway At Music Circus series features new productions of classic musicals with some of the most talented professional actors available, Tony-winning Broadway veterans and stars of touring Broadway, film and TV.
Diana Miller
Diana Miller is an award winning photographer who specializes in children, family, corporate and wedding portraits. Based in Citrus Heights, Diana Miller Photography has been serving the Sacramento area since 1993.
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OFF TO A FLYER
Lalkovic on goalscoring start...
MILAN Lalkovic celebrated his first League start for The Saddlers with a goal and an assist in our 3-1 opening day victory over Tranmere Rovers.
The on-loan Chelsea man showed some nice touches as he linked up well with Craig Westcarr who bagged a brace.
"I'm really pleased with the start both I and the team made," he said. "It was nice to get my name on the scoresheet and help the team get our first three points on the board.
"We can now push on from here. We have good players on the ball with a lot of movement. We press together and everyone talks to each other, which will stand us in good stead.
"Everyone is fighting for their place, but I am pleased with how my partnership with Craig Westcarr has started and long may it continue.
"I am the type of player who works hard; I like to press and will never give up.
"It was a sweet finish for my goal; I had a few other chances during the game which I couldn't take, but this will come as the season goes on. The important thing is to create the opportunities in the first place."
Lalkovic will be looking for more goals as we travel to Port Vale in the first round of the Capital One Cup on Tuesday evening (kick-off 7.45pm).
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Karen Carney looks ahead to England Women's international at Banks's Stadium
England Women’s star Karen Carney speaks from experience when she says hosting Denmark at Walsall FC will be the perfect build-up for the rigours of a World Cup campaign.
The Birmingham-born star felt major tournament heartbreak when England were felled by the Danes during the UEFA European Championship on home soil back in 2005.
Almost 15 years down the line, Carney is preparing to face the Scandinavian side once again as the Lionesses put the finishing touches to their World Cup preparations.
In May, England will host their old rivals at Walsall’s Banks’s Stadium in their penultimate warm-up match on the road to France.
Carney, who burst onto the map with an injury-time winner over Finland aged 17, feels Denmark offer a rigorous run-out for her side in the build-up to their bigger tests.
“They are a really difficult side to play against because they are aggressive, and attack-minded,” said the 31-year-old.
“They have always kept the same culture – it was the same back in 2005.
“We played them at Ewood Park, their winger Johanna Rasmussen was the star player and they were so quick on the counter.
“It was a good game and I think that a lot of their players have changed in the squad now. We’ve never been fearful of them.
“It is a great test for us to have in the build up to the World Cup because they are always there at the latter stages of these tournaments.”
Carney also faced Denmark during England’s preparations for the 2017 European Championships, her seventh major tournament, that time tasting sweet 2-1 victory.
“Denmark have always been a really tough side and we played them recently in the run up to the Euros in 2017,” added Carney.
“We know all about Pernille Harder – she is top player doing really good things in a strong midfield – they are a strong side top to bottom though.”
The Chelsea ace has gone on to become the third-most capped England player of all time and is now a senior figure in a squad that features a host of bright young stars.
“I think sometimes though with young players it is just best to let them be and give them some breathing space,” she revealed.
“They need to enjoy the journey and embrace the moment – that is what I did when I was young and I thought it was wicked.
“I have been to major tournaments and if the younger players in the squad need me I am here for them and they can always come and ask.
“It is only football at the end of the day but I am still here and I am still enjoying it so long may that continue.”
England Women host Denmark in a ‘Road to France’ international on Saturday 25th May at Walsall FC, KO 1pm.
The early bird ticket offer has been extended to midnight this Sunday, 17th March. Tickets are priced at £1 for concessions and £10 for adults – reduced to £7.50 if booked before the deadline.
Purchase yours now by visiting our eticketing website
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Revisiting "The proto-Religious Right attacked Thomas Jefferson"
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And now . . .
The Christian Right forever claims that our nation was founded on biblical principles to be a Christian nation. If it had been, surely Christians of Thomas Jefferson's and George Washington's day would not have blasted the U.S. Constitution and its creators. But they did.
They recognized that America's founders wanted the nation to be a secular enterprise, and many Christians were dismayed by that. Sadly, falsehoods to the contrary--spread by the Christian Right's leaders and its increasingly influential media and philanthropic machine--persist.
Pat Robertson, a Goliath of the Christian Right, on The 700 Club, December 30, 1981 said:
The Constitution of the United States...is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society.
He and all the Christian Right's leaders still say the same things in 2005 that they did in the 1980's, and are teaching a whole new generation of young Americans to echo their disingenuous arguments.
One of our nation's most important founders, Thomas Jefferson, might be particularly alarmed by this development. He wrote of an American free from "public opinion" infused with the spirit of "inquisition" attempting to subvert the Constitution and the Enlightenment concepts that deists like himself, George Washington, Ben Franklin, and John Adams cherished. He must have thought such concepts secure--ultimately untouchable, self-evident. After all, the governing document of the United States, our Constitution, nowhere mentions or endorses God, Jesus, the bible, or Christianity. In fact, in Article 6 it prohibits religious tests for public office.
But the invincibility of such commonsense is no longer the case. The secular concepts dear to Jefferson are self-evident no longer. They are not embraced by our President, many judges, and perhaps a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court. They are in danger of being forgotten and replaced by something altogether different, something anathema to the rational citizen, something in line with the enemies of the Thomas Jefferson and the Constitution in Jefferson's own day.
Do the below incidents more reflect the spirit of the U.S. Constitution or the anti-Constitutional spirit of Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, James Kennedy, and others of the Christian Right?
+On July 4th, 1798, President of Yale, Rev. Timothy Dwight, preached that Christians dare not support "the philosophers, the atheists and the deists" in the coming election, including Thomas Jefferson, who was running for President. Dwight proclaimed that "our churches may become temples of reason" should Jefferson win the election. (see The Godless Constitution, by Isaac Kramnick & R. Laurance Moore.)
+Rev. David Caldwell on July 30, 1788, stated that the Constitution's abolition of religious tests (religious qualifications, or tests, were common in Europe) was, heaven forbid, "an invitation for Jews and pagans of every kind to come among us." (See " Original Intent," by Susan Jacoby in Mother Jones magazine. Also see here.)
+Rev. William Linn, a Dutch Reformed minister, authored an anti-Jefferson tract in 1800 complaining about Jefferson's "disbelief of the Holy Scriptures; or...his rejection of the Christian Religion and open profession of Deism." (this and all subsequent quotes, see Against Religious Correctness.)
+Dr. John Mason preached that Jefferson was "a confirmed infidel."
+The New England Palladium wrote: "Should the infidel Jefferson be elected to the Presidency, the seal of death is that moment set on our holy religion...some infamous prostitute, under the title of Reason will preside...."
What did Jefferson say of these attackers? He had harsh words that resonate as strongly today as they did in his own lifetime. He wrote that the religious conservatives of his day were:
"most tyrannical and ambitious.... They pant to re-establish by law, that holy inquisition, which they can now only infuse into public opinion."
But it may be the sentiment of one Maryland representative to the Constitutional Convention (1787), Luther Martin, that is most telling.
He wrote that some delegates at the convention thought it would be "at least decent" for there to be in law a "distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism."
The term Martin used for these beliefs?
"Unfashionable."
But that they still were.
April 07, 2007 in History, founding fathers, church & state | Permalink
I'm not atheist, but I think you have some sound points, though the constitution does allow for freedom of religious expression(As long as it doesn't harm others) it does not force religion down anyone's throat or demand that people conform and believe in God. But the religoius right seem to think that they have the right to do just that as long as it conforms to their views and ideology.If it were a matter of live and let live, it might be different, but to me a theocracy is a danger to this country, and I don't believe we(all of us) can be safe if others are allowed to dictate to us what we will or won't believe in. Theocracies like the one in Iran are an example of how theocracy is a dangerous notion and ideal for this country. People are literally stifled and repressed, if you speak up and disagree with the government you may end up in jail or worse. This is not just a threat to atheists but to other Christians as well, especially to more moderate ones(Have you seen the game they came out with based on the left behind series? Yikes! Yikes! Yikes, not only are atheists targeted but those of other faiths and moderate Christians and homosexuals. (CONVERT! or die seems to be the implicit message behind the game)We are all in danger if the will of the religious right prevails, it is nothing short of religious tyranny.
There is a darned good reason why there is separation of church and state..For the reason that you've quoted from Thomas Jefferson:most tyrannical and ambitious.... They pant to re-establish by law, that holy inquisition, which they can now only infuse into public opinion." Tyranny does not promote religious freedom, but the opposite.
Posted by: K. Green | April 20, 2007 at 05:56 AM
The only thing the constitution is founded on is democracy, not religion. The founding fathers saw the consequences of church and state not being separated, in England. They did not want this to happen here in America.They knew that tyranny would prevail . The church having too much power would wield that power unreasonably.
I'd like to add it is not good government to impose it's will on the people, government as defined by the constitution is for the people and by the people. The government is ideally supposed to represent the people, it governs at their discretion. With the religious right's interference in politics, they want the government to force religion down people's throats and of course only the religion they believe is truly representative of God and their own interpretation of the bible.
Their agenda is to overthrow the government and the constitution and remake it in to the image of what they want, and what they decide is best for the rest of us..They don't represent democracy or freedom, they stand for the opposite. It is no understatement that they are trying to force the rest of us into their own mold . They want the rest of us to be compliant and unquestioning of their authority as well. Docile people are easily led and stupid. That anyone should call this arrangement intolerable and stand up against religious extremism seems to be the only way to stop them. Passivity and a blind acceptance of the way things are will only make it easier for them to take complete control.
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Limitless Beauty
Protecting the Countryside
by Peter Reason
Cover: Sentinel, monotype by Rebecca Vincent www.horsleyprintmakers.co.uk
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Peter Reason discovers that our deep feelings for Nature form part of our spiritual longing. The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology by Douglas E. Christie. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199812325
I am a lapsed Nonconformist, the grandson of a Christian Socialist minister, brought up to approach religion and ethics from a rational Enlightenment perspective. I am embarrassed to confess that I was taught to be suspicious of Roman Catholics.
During my adult life I have explored atheistic humanism, the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, Chán Buddhism, Taoist philosophy and deep ecology. While I struggle with the notion of a transcendent God, I accept that whatever we take as sacred and divine is immanent in the universe and the Earth in which we live. Given this personal background, I find it curious that I have been deeply engaged in study of a book about the Desert Fathers, written by a professor of theology at a Jesuit academy.
Douglas Christie offers us a long and scholarly book that I have found both inspiring and challenging. He draws on the experience and practice of the ascetics, hermits and monks known as the Desert Fathers (although there were women among them too) in the 3rd and 4th centuries after Christ, showing how their contemplative disciplines took them between inner and outer landscapes in search of a consciousness of the whole of creation.
While they are often referred to as “living in the presence of God”, which can sound strange to modern and non-theist ears, Christie shows how they were also expressing a sense of the limitless beauty and vitality of the natural world and of the deepened, even transcendent, awareness of the self that accompanies this. He shows too how this “contemplative ecology” finds echoes in modern environmental writers and has relevance for our work and lives today. “Contemplative ecology”, he writes, “can best be understood as an expression of the diverse and wide-ranging desire emerging within contemporary culture to identify our deepest feeling for the natural world as part of a spiritual longing.”
Christie’s argument is that the quality of awareness that enables us to engage with the beauty, significance and fragility of the natural world is essentially mysterious. It requires an inner attention to that which the contemplatives experienced as their “demons” but that we moderns understand as our ego attachments, our sense of self-importance, our fragmented selves. And it requires an outer attention, a willingness to notice everything as part of a sacred whole. All this requires disciplined practice and is profoundly challenging.
There was, it seems, a powerful sense of wholeness in the ancient contemplative traditions. This wholeness included the ancient contemplatives’ feeling for the living world, a simple awareness of the beauty of the desert, an appreciation of deep silence, and wonder at their emerging intimate reciprocity with other beings. It grew out of the monks’ intense commitment to pay attention, out of which arose a sense of compassion and responsibility for their world, broken as it was by the dominance of the Roman Empire.
This suggests that in contemporary culture we would benefit from a contemplative practice that would allow us to comprehend our increasingly degraded and compromised world as sacred; to live in a deeper and more encompassing moral or ethical relationship with the living world; to live “so that we do not continue to visit our most destructive impulses upon the natural world”.
This, Christie argues, demands “self-conscious spiritual practices rooted in the desire to kindle a greater feeling and responsibility for other living organisms and the world as a whole”. We do not need to use the language of God for this: we can seek a transcendent spiritual meaning while remaining agnostic as to its origins. But this is demanding and challenging, potentially costly and self-implicating: there are no safe positions when it comes to reimagining our place in the world and enlivening our care for it.
The first chapter is essentially a self-contained essay that sets out this understanding of what these ancient traditions may offer for a contemplative ecology. The chapters that follow it explore the practices in detail, continuing the comparison of ancient teachings with modern environmental writings.
I found myself particularly engaged in Christie’s discussion in chapter six, Logos: The Song of the World, in which he asks “whether a thoughtful retrieval of the Christian contemplative sense of the Word – in all its cosmological and sacramental fullness – can contribute to a richer and stronger sense of what it is to inhabit a world that is … an expression, a voice, a song”.
I greatly appreciated Christie’s scholarship and ability to express subtle theology clearly. In comparison, my Nonconformist spiritual background seems threadbare. But there are also things I missed. Christie draws parallels in many places between contemplative Christianity and environmental writers, attending mainly to the stalwarts of the American tradition such as Snyder, Lopez, Leopold, and especially Thoreau. I would have appreciated a much stronger link with those aspects of modern scientific ecology, Gaia theory, holistic and systemic thinking which envisage our world as a whole; and links with ecological practices such as Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, ecopsychology, and wilderness experiences. I would also like to have learned more about the actual practices of the Desert Fathers, and some comparison of these with other traditions. (I often found myself making links with Buddhist meditation, and wondered if I would have got as much from the book if I did not have my own contemplative practice.)
I come to the end of my reading of the book with my prejudices completely disconfirmed. Early Christian mystics were not on a hopeless quest of mortifying the flesh in search of God: rather, they approached their world with a subtlety and discipline from which much can be learned. In particular, I was often taken beyond the either/or dualism that so often characterises debate about the place of religion and spirituality in our lives.
I am more than ever convinced that we will not learn to live in harmony with the ecology of our planet while holding onto a worldview that owes much to the European Enlightenment. New forms of politics, economics, industry and social relationships are all essential. But they will need to rest on a deeper sense of belonging in the world, a capacity to link the immediate and the local to the whole, an ability to see the sacred in our damaged and degraded planet. This is not an easy option, but one that requires intense discipline and self-examination. Maybe Christie’s “notes toward a contemplative ecology” will help us find a way forward.
An extended version of this review can be found at www.peterreason.net
Peter Reason has been exploring contemplative ecology through a sailing voyage around the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland (onthewesternedge.wordpress.com) .
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Tiki-Taka a “Myth”, Claims Ex-Barcelona Manager Guardiola
Over the past decade there has been no shortage of plaudits for the revered tiki-taka style purportedly employed by FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team. Both have enjoyed unrivalled success. Spain became the first team ever to retain the European Championship in 2008 and then 2012, with the small matter of a 2010 World Cup win in between. Barcelona’s achievements in recent years have been numerous, winning La Liga six times between 2005 and 2013 along with the Copa del Rey twice and no fewer than three Champions League trophies. With a significant crossover between the two teams, these accomplishments were largely attributed to a style known as tiki-taka – but former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola has rubbished such claims, stating that there is no such thing as tiki-taka, and revealing his “secret” to beat any team.
There is some debate over where the term tiki-taka first originated from, but there is little doubt about its meaning. Essentially, it is an onomatopoeic term with the words representing the noise of consistent passing between players. Tiki-taka involves teams retaining a large proportion of possession in an effort to completely control the game, playing at a slow tempo that is suddenly ramped up when in attack. Short, accurate passes, quick movement, and aggressive closing down are all common components of the aesthetically appeasing style of play. Pundits around the world have lauded over the possession game for many years, declaring the likes of Barcelona and Spain to be leagues above their opponents.
Ironically, it is the man supposedly behind the epitome of tiki-taka that has spoken out strongly against what he perceives to a style with “no purpose”.
In a revealing book titled ‘Pep Confidential’ that explores the successful young manager’s first year at Bayern Munich, he tells author Marti Perarnau “I loathe all that passing for the sake of it, all that tiki-taka. It’s so much rubbish and has no purpose.
“You have to pass the ball with a clear intention, with the aim of making it into the opposition’s goal. It’s not about passing for the sake of it. Don’t believe what people say. Barca didn’t do tiki-taka! It’s completely made up! Don’t believe a word of it!”
He then goes on to reveal a seemingly simplistic trick to dismantle the opposition’s defence.
“In all team sports, the secret is to overload one side of the pitch so that the opponent must tilt its own defence to cope.
“You overload on one side and draw them in so that they leave the other side weak. And when we’ve done all that, we attack and score from the other side.
“That’s why you have to pass the ball, but only if you’re doing it with a clear intention. It’s only to overload the opponent, to draw them in and then to hit them with the sucker punch. That’s what our game needs to be. Nothing to do with tiki-taka.”
The words will come as a shock revelation to the world of football, having spent so many years drooling at the sight of his perceived tiki-taka style. Indeed, his continued success at Bayern Munich having dramatically altered his previous style of play does suggest that tiki-taka is a creation of the media more than a winning formula.
Guardiola is known for loving to tinker with his formations, styles and players. Philipp Lahm, rated by many as the best right back in the world, is a prime example. Guardiola stepped in and moved the established star out of his favoured position and into a number of different roles. As the Mirror’s Ross Dunbar reported, Lahm has been utilised “From a right-back-midfield hybrid at the beginning of the season, in a system that didn’t last more than a month, an outright holding-midfielder and increasingly cogent central-playmaker”. Picture a new manager stepping into your favoured club and redeploying your captain to a new position and it will be clear just how bold this move was.
Despite running away with the Bundesliga title, Guardiola was still subjecting to criticism in the 2013/14 campaign. The Bavarians lost only two games in the league – both coming after the team had already secured first place – scoring an incredible 94 goals in 34 games. Using an old favourite of 3-4-3 revamped for the modern era, Bayern Munich destroyed everyone in their path to become the first team to clinch the league in March. They also saw off Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal final to complete a domestic double in his debut season.
It was in Europe that Bayern would face their greatest test. After narrowly overcoming Manchester United they were drawn against Real Madrid in the semi-finals. The Galacticos won the first leg 1-0 at the Bernabeu, taking their slender league to the fortress that is the Allianz Arena. It was expected to be another tight game, but what transpired was a rout. Los Blancos hit four – two from Ramos and two from Cristiano Ronaldo – to make it a confounding 5-0 on aggregate. Guardiola was furious with himself.
“I got it wrong, man. I got it totally wrong” admitted Guardiola in his book.
“A total mess. The biggest mistake of my life as a coach. I spend the whole season refusing to use 4-2-4. The whole season. And I decide to do it tonight, the most important night of the year.”
It is refreshing to hear a coach admit to his mistakes openly and not sugarcoat them, particularly given that he is still currently in the role. It takes a brave man to do as much, and via his bold tactical decisions Pep has proven that he certainly isn’t one to shy away from what he believes in. His constant tinkering has been widely criticised but, with such unprecedented success in such a short space of time, he has earned the right to say and do as he pleases for the time being. Just don’t mention tiki-taka to him.
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New way to pay for college: a Washington state 529 plan
Originally published March 9, 2016 at 12:40 pm Updated March 10, 2016 at 9:33 am
A state law passed this week will establish a college savings plan for Washington residents, but GET, the old prepaid-tuition plan, will remain an option, too, once it reopens.
Katherine Long
Seattle Times higher education reporter
Washington parents will have a new way to save for college later this year when the state opens its first-ever 529 plan, a type of college savings plan offered by many other states.
They’ll also still be able to pay tuition in advance, through the state’s Guaranteed Education Tuition plan, or GET, when the plan reopens. The new legislation stipulates that GET must open again to new investments by July 2017.
The Washington College Savings Plan was passed by legislators with strong bipartisan support this week and is expected to be signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee. The 529 option would be available by the end of the year.
A 529 savings plan is somewhat similar in design to a 401(k) retirement-savings plan — while there are tax advantages, you don’t receive the kind of guarantees you have in GET.
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Last year, Washington became the only state in the nation to cut public college and university tuition. The law that cut tuition also tied future increases to the state’s median family wage, which goes up by about 2.1 percent a year.
Will the Legislature hold to that promise? Frockt said he believes it will. He’s heard from his colleagues that they don’t want any more wild swings in tuition bills.
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Katherine Long: 206-464-2219 or klong@seattletimes.com. On Twitter @katherinelong.
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Parkinson's Disease Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Written By Yuda Rabu, 07 November 2018 Add Comment Edit
Parkinson's Disease or PD is a movement disorder where the dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra of the brain undergo degeneration.
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Parkinson's is one of the most common neurological disorders it's a progressive adult-onset disease and it gets more common with age affecting about 1% of people over 60.
The biggest risk factor is age, the vast majority of people will not have directly inherited Parkinson's.
Some people an inherited change in their DNA may be involved, our DNA is made up of lots of sections called genes.
Parkinson's Disease and the Basal Ganglia
There are genes responsible for eye and hair colour and that can influence how tall or short we are and scientists have identified changes in a number of genes that are linked to Parkinson's.
It's a chronic degeneration of the central nervous system and involves specifically a part of the brain called the substantia nigra, that part of the brain controls a neurotransmitter called dopamine.
A neurotransmitter is a hormone-like communication that doesn't travel to the blood it travels through the nerves, you have a lot of different neurotransmitters but dopamine is the one that actually is diminished with Parkinson's.
Symptoms with Parkinson's is like a resting tremor, it's like like the shakiness, rigid, very slow, very stiff, depressed, flexed posture you're hunched over like this eventually dementia.
Parkinson's derives from the death of dopamine-producing or dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra.
The name substantial nigra means black substance since it's darker than other brain regions when you look at a slice of the brain on an autopsy.
The substantia nigra is a part of the basal ganglia, a collection of brain regions that control movement through their connections with the motor cortex.
In Parkinson's these darkened areas of the substantia nigra gradually disappear.
Lewy bodies which are these eosinophils round inclusions made of alpha-synuclein protein are present in the affected substantial nigra neurons before they die.
The function of alpha-synuclein is unknown as well as the significant to the Lewy bodies and they're both also found in other diseases like Lewy body dementia and multiple system atrophy.
The substantia nigra actually can be split into two sub-regions, first, there's the pars reticulata which receives signals from another part of the bay ganglia called the striatum ...,
..., which is a term for the caudate and putamen put together and relays messages to the thalamus via neurons rich in the neurotransmitter GABA was also known as gamma-aminobutyric acid.
Second, there are the pars compacta, and this is a part of the substantia nigra affected in Parkinson's.
The pars compacta send messages to the striatum via neurons rich in the neurotransmitter dopamine forming the nigrostriatal pathway which helps to stimulate the cerebral cortex and initiate movement.
Therefore when the substantia nigra pars compacta neurons die the individual might be in a hypokinetic or a low movement state which is commonly seen in Parkinson's.
In addition to simply initiating movements, the substantia nigra helps to calibrate and fine-tune the way that movements happen, which leads to the clinical features of Parkinson's.
Tremor which is an involuntary shakiness most noticeable in the hands Characteristically called a pill-rolling tremor.
It looks like someone's rolling a pill between their thumb and index finger this is a resting tremor meaning it's present at rest and diminishes with intentional movement.
Rigidity which refers to the stiffness that can appear as cogwheel rigidity which is when there are a series of catches or stalls as the person's arms or legs are passively moved by someone else.
Rigidity is also responsible for the stooped posture and an almost expressionless face that some individuals with Parkinson's might have.
Bradykinesia which is slow movement hypokinesia which lessens movement and akinesia which is an absence of movement and all three result from difficulty initiating movements.
Examples of this are having the legs freeze up when trying to walk and also walking with a shuffling gait or small steps.
A late feature of the disease is postural instability which causes problems with balance and can lead to falls despite these multiple effects on movement.
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Medications for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's disease does not produce weakness and this helps differentiate it from other diseases that affect the motor cortex or corticospinal pathway.
In addition, the resting tremor of Parkinson's disease helps to differentiate it from cerebellar diseases which might result in an action ...,
..., or intention tremor was the tremor that's essentially opposite from the resting tremor where the tremor actually gets worse with movement.
Also, both bradykinesia and postural instability help differentiate Parkinsons from essential tremor of which an action tremor is also a hallmark feature.
Non-motor brain functions can be affected in Parkinson's as well, leading to additional common symptoms like depression, dementia, sleep disturbances and difficulty smelling.
These are thought to come about because of dysfunction in dopaminergic signalling in other parts of the brain beyond the substantia nigra.
For example in the prefrontal cortex leading to cognitive symptoms and also possibly from issues with other neurotransmitters like acetylcholine.
There are treatments that help with Parkinson's symptoms although none stop the progressive neurodegeneration. The main strategy here is to increase the amount of dopamine signalling in the brain.
Dopamine itself can't cross the blood-brain barrier but its precursor levodopa Ken and once in the brain levodopa is converted to dopamine by dopa decarboxylase most importantly within the remaining Nigro striatal neurons.
Peripheral dopa decarboxylase also exists which can metabolize levodopa into dopamine before it gets through the blood-brain barrier and via additional enzymes metabolize ...,
..., it into other catecholamines like epinephrine which can cause unwanted side effects like arrhythmias.
This is exactly why levodopa is administered with carbidopa, a dova decarboxylase inhibitor that isn't able to cross the blood-brain barrier.
Since usually there's this balance of signalling between dopamine and acetylcholine a loss of dopamine reaching the striatum increases the relative amount of acetylcholine signalling.
There, therefore, anticholinergic scan be given to restore the balance of cholinergic and dopaminergic signalling like bends tripping which improves the tremor of PD.
A special treatment available to help treat PD is deep brain stimulation which involves an implantable device that directly sends electrical signals to the basal ganglia which counteract the aberrant signalling in Parkinson's.
The term parkinsonism is sometimes used to describe symptoms of Parkinson's that are seen in other nervous system diseases like Lewy body dementia, Wilson disease and pic disease.
As well as side effects of a medication like antipsychotics such as haloperidol which blocks dopamine receptors and metoclopramide a dopamine antagonist sometimes used to treat vomiting.
Parkinson's is a progressive movement disorder caused by degeneration of dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra specifically in the pars compacta which leads to resting tremor ...,
..., rigidity, problems initiating movement, and postural instability and therapy for Parkinson's primarily focuses on increasing brain dopamine.
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Romania’s resident population – 19.5 million
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By Valeriu Lazar On Jul 11, 2019
Romania’s resident population was 19.5 million inhabitants on January 1, 2018, the natural increase being negative, the National Statistics Institute (INS) informs on Thursday.
July 11 is marked by the United Nations as World Population Day, as on July 11, 1987 the world’s population reached the symbolic threshold of five billion inhabitants.
Since then, the planet’s population has continued to grow, with the exception of the countries of Europe, including Romania, where natural growth is negative.
INS informs that on January 1, 2018, Romania’s resident population was of 19.530 million inhabitants. The female population accounted for 51.1% of the total.
Compared to January 1, 2017, on January 1, 2018, the demographic aging phenomenon is deepening, by the fall in the share of younger population and the increase of the elderly (65 and over) from 17.8% to 18.2%.
The adult population (15-64 years) represents 66.2% of the total, down by 163,800 as compared to early 2017.
On January 1, 2018, the North-East Development Region (with counties: Bacău, Botoşani, Iaşi, Neamţ, Suceava, Vaslui) had the largest number of inhabitants, with a share of 16.5% in the resident population of the country. At the opposite side, was the West Development Region (comprising the counties: Arad, Caras-Severin, Hunedoara, Timis) with a share of only 9.1% in the country’s resident population.
In 2017, life expectancy at birth was 75.73 years, up by 0.17 years against the previous year, with women having an average life expectancy by 6.95 years longer than men.
In 2018, the natural increase of the resident population continued to be negative (of -75,300 persons), with negative values being recorded in all regions of the country.
According to the UN Population Division, on July 1, 2019, the world’s population was estimated at 7.7 billion people.
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Update: Six Dead Following Strong Storms In Halkidiki, Greece. Two Romanians Among The Victims, a third is injured
Two earthquakes shook Vrancea region on Thursday
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Tattoo Artist Wins Dismissal Of Claim Of Negligently Creating Four Eyebrows
By Ronald C. Burke, Esq on Jun 18, 2019 | 0 Comments
Last month an appellate court affirmed a Manhattan Supreme Court Justice who dismissed a claim by a (then) 66 year old woman who underwent a permanent cosmetic eyebrow tattooing to her forehead. It was claimed that the tattoo was placed too far "above the plaintiff's natural brow line resulting in a gap/space between the tattooed pigment and natural brow which caused the plaintiff to appear to have four eyebrows".The Court relied on the plaintiff's sophistication in understanding the consent form she signed, especially given her 20 years experience in undergoing cosmetic eyebrow tattoos.
The plaintiff acknowledged in writing that she was responsible for the placement of the tattoos. Prior to the permanent pigment work, the eyebrows were drawn on her forehead and the plaintiff admittedly approved the placement and shape of the permanent tattoo. In an email after the procedure a very upset plaintiff told the defendant: "I have only myself to blame-I absolutely did give the okay to Melany, not noticing how my other brows would still be there." The Court determined that no reasonable jury could find in favor of the plaintiff given these admissions. Forman v Whitney Center For Permanent Cosmetics Corp., 2019 WL 1938754
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Mark Hood Brings Holiday Cheer and Toys to SOS Illinois
Chicago actor, recording artist, and previous contestant on NBC’s “The Voice” Mark JP Hood brought a little holiday cheer to the children at SOS Children’s Villages Illinois this year through the Karaoke For Kids Toy Drive, presented by his new organization, the Hood Dreams Foundation.
Focusing on “Turning Dreams Into Reality”, the Hood Dreams Foundation was excited to partner with SOS Illinois to remind the children that they are not forgotten. The Foundation collected over 100 toys and gift cards during the Karaoke event at the Hard Rock café on Thursday, December 21; and Mark was able to distribute the gifts in person during a holiday pizza party at the Chicago Village on Friday, December 22. Since these events also were in celebration of Mark’s birthday, the children at SOS Illinois presented Mark with homemade birthday cards, birthday cake, and of course, sang happy birthday to the rising star.
Mark said, “I’ve seen what abandonment and neglect can do to young people. It can make them feel like they aren’t worthy of love, and shatter all hopes in the possibility of their dreams manifesting into reality. Being surrounded and supported by a loving, supportive family and faithful friends made it possible for me to attain my dreams. That’s why I’m so excited to partner with SOS Children’s Village Illinois, an organization that truly creates the necessary Village of love and support needed for a child who’s been abandoned to still receive the quintessential love and support that is crucial to achieving success.”
We look forward to many more partnership opportunities with the Hood Dreams Foundation, and we thank Mark for his generosity and wish him continued success.
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AG Lynch alludes to Trump's alleged anti-Muslim speech
politics | Jan 18, 2016 | By Martin Barillas
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch attended the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance held by the National Action Network, founded by Al Sharpton – a regular on the CNN network and his nationally syndicated radio program. Lynch thanked Sharpton while praising him and his political group for being at “the vanguard of this country’s ongoing movement for progressive change through expanded equality and opportunity. Together, you have spoken out to ensure that our criminal justice system is fair and effective. You have stood up for every eligible citizen’s right to vote. And on issues as diverse as job access, corporate responsibility, education, and nonviolence, you have driven important conversations and prompted meaningful action to help create the more perfect Union to which we continue to aspire.”
Known as an advisor to President Barack Obama, Sharpton has long drawn criticism for his involvement in controversy such as the infamous Tawana Brawley hoax. Some observers criticism him as a “political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations while others have called him a racial arsonist.
Lynch praised her predecessor, Eric Holder, who received an award from Sharpton.
After launching into praise for the legacy of Dr. King, Lynch paid tribute to the activism going on at the Department of Justice. She praised Vanita Gupta, who leads a “revitalized” Civil Rights Division at DOJ, who is “committed to ensuring that access to the ballot box is as fair and unencumbered as Dr. King dreamed it would be. Wherever the franchise is being diminished – whether through historical barriers or newly erected ones – we stand prepared to use every tool at our disposal to protect the sacred American right to vote. The Civil Rights Division is making significant progress bringing criminal civil rights cases, as well. Over the course of this Administration, we have filed more criminal civil rights cases and prosecuted and convicted more defendants on hate crimes charges than at any other point in the Justice Department’s history.”
Lynch also spoke about her department’s efforts to ensure fairness in the criminal justice system, lauding the “Smart on Crime” initiative that was initiated by Holder. She noted that part of the effort of stemming crime is in affording opportunities for education to the incarcerated, which “will not only reduce their likelihood of recidivism, but also throw open doors to opportunity.”
She claimed that some Americans are voicing “concerns so strikingly similar to the early days of the civil rights movement. As I travel this great nation of ours I speak to people afraid to turn to law enforcement for help and thus stranded between fear and violence.” Repeating a theme that is heard from Democrats running for the presidency, such as Hillary Clinton, Lynch says people complain that the right to vote is “becoming part of an elusive shell game and held just out of reach. I hear from those who worry that a country founded on the freedom of all religions may devolve into one diminished by a fear of some religions. And I hear the question – how far, in fact, have we actually come?”
Like other Democrats, Lynch appeared to refer to Republican candidate Donald Trump and his oft-criticized suggestion that immigration by Muslims to the United States should be limited. This was a theme that was also brought up in the January 17 Democratic debate when Sen. Bernie Sanders described Trump as a "racist" and "facist."
She repeated praise for the National Action Network, which has been among those organization most forceful in denouncing alleged abuses committed by police, particularly in black communities. “That is why it is so fitting that on a day dedicated to justice, decency and equal opportunity, we are gathered by an organization called the National Action Network – because progress is never passive. Progress does not simply arrive. Instead, in this extraordinary nation created by and for the people, it is the product of a steady drumbeat of marching feet. It is the result of a sustained campaign through hardship and oppression. As President Obama said in his final State of the Union address last week, ‘Progress is not inevitable. It is the result of choices we make together.’”
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Unequal Opportunities
German Women Disappointed by Job Discrimination Act
By Kerstin Kullmann
Germany's 2006 Equal Treatment Act was hailed as a victory for women set on fighting discrimination in the work place. But with the burden of proof -- and the costs -- on them, many aren't even trying to assert their rights.
Silke Kühne is not a director at her company, but she earns as much as a director does. Kühne works at GEMA, the company managing music rights in Germany, which has now been ordered to pay her the 1,400 ($1,900) difference between her monthly salary and a director's as well as 20,000 in damages for "mobbing," a form of emotional harrassment in the workplace. If things had gone the way they should have, Kühne would probably have been made an executive by now. But, as she puts it, "the gentlemen gently pulled me over the barrel."
In a ruling that is a first of its kind in Germany, a court has now ruled in Kühne's favor. The court's decision was based on provisions in the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG) passed in August 2006. The law fulfills European Union guidelines and includes pledges to make it easier to more effectively prosecute discrimination against women in the workplace.
The EU has been calling on Germany to adopt such legislation for years. On average, German women earn 23 percent less than their male counterparts, which puts Germany in the lower third in a ranking of EU countries -- roughly the same level as women in Estonia, Slovakia and Great Britain. The share of women in top management positions in major German companies is 5.5 percent -- or, once again, in the basement when compared with other European countries.
But who should we blame for this? Bosses? Men? Women? Even if you can't change people, though, you can change the law. After AGG was passed, experts predicted that it would transform "social traffic regulations" in Germany. And many expected large numbers of disgruntled women to take their cases before German courts.
So, what has the AGG really done for women? Have they marshaled themselves to fight discrimination in the workplace? And, is it worth it now for women to sue their own bosses? Or must those who choose to do so say auf Wiedersehen to their jobs?
A Matter of Numbers
Silke Kühne is 47, tall and blonde. She has been working for GEMA in Berlin for 15 years, and she's been in charge of the company's human resources department since 2002. Above her in the company hierarchy, there are 27 directors and three members of the executive board. All are men.
In the spring of 2006, Kühne's then-boss shared with her over dinner that he was being promoted and that his position as a director was going to open up. That's when Kühne started keeping her ears pricked, waiting for the position to be posted so that she could try to fill her boss's shoes. Then she learned that a colleague of hers had been given the job, which had never been posted. She sued.
"If Ms. Kühne had lost," says Hans-Georg Kluge, her lawyer, "we could have just tossed the AGG in the garbage." "A woman would never have won a case after that."
Kühne's victory might have something to do with her position as director of human resources. Her job gives her access to information that is strictly off-limits to other employees, such as employee data and salaries -- all of which proved valuable in court.
Kluge hired a mathematician to calculate the probability of there being not a single woman among the 27 directors above Kühne, while almost half of the employees at the level just below that of director are women. The mathematician performed so-called Monte Carlo simulations and subjected the numbers to statistical analyses. His conclusion: There is a 99 percent probability that it is no accident that the top management level of management includes no women.
Kühne also won her case because she was the right woman at the right time. She will, of course, have to defend herself next year when Germany's Federal Labor Court hears GEMA's appeal; but she also stands a strong chance of winning there, too.
Still, Kühne is an exception. Two years after the AGG has been in effect, the surprising conclusion is: other women don't even bother to try.
Putting the Burden in the Wrong Place
Gerhard Binkert is a judge on the Berlin Labor Court. He estimates that the court handles about 25,000 cases each year, including those involving terminations and written warnings to employees. And when it comes to plaintiffs invoking the AGG over the last 30 months, Binkert puts the number at a mere 36 and adds that the numbers have been too meager to warrant spending any time on compiling related statistics.
Another detail: Hardly any of those 36 plaintiffs were women. When asked to explain that fact, Binkert hesitates before adding: "You need staying power. It isn't easy. And you could lose."
In Germany, taking your boss to court is more difficult than it is in other countries. According to German law, a woman must first prove that she is not receiving equal treatment. Someone who feels discriminated against by a supervisor often has to compile a paper trail full of telling interpersonal details. As everybody knows, though, it's no simple task to find an e-mail from a boss telling a female employee that her pregnancy might have something to do with her fact that she didn't get promoted.
But, with the help of statistical evidence, a plaintiff no longer has to argue for defamation of character at the lunch table or an insult in the hallway. She can let the numbers to speak for themselves.
Ingrid Weber, a former judge on the Berlin Labor Court, sits on a commission formed by the German Women Lawyers Association (djb) to address issues related to the AGG. As Weber sees it, when Germany introduced the new law, it neglected to make things easier for women by shifting the burden of proof to the employer. "Here in Germany, first you have to present all kinds of airtight evidence of discrimination," Weber says, "and only then is it the company's turn to prove that it did everything correctly." In many other countries, she adds, it is enough for the plaintiff to establish probable cause for unequal treatment, while the employer is required to prove that it did not discriminate.
In Austria, for example, the government actively supports citizens trying to combat discrimination. An Austrian citizen who believes he or she is earning less than a colleague with the same qualifications can appeal to an equal opportunity commission. The commission then contacts the company and requests salary details and prepares a report that the would-be plaintiff can then present to a court. And the entire process is paid for with tax money. "In Germany," Weber says, "you first have to pay for your lawsuit out of your own pocket."
The former judge says that you would think that the AGG had been "designed primarily for women." But the fact is, she adds, that "men are likely to sue much more quickly." Weber's reasoning: "They tend to file suits against alleged female quotas or when they feel that they were passed over for a promotion. Perhaps they're also a bit more daring. A woman is more realistic when it comes to calculating her odds of winning."
Patience & Precedence
The results of the AGG have not been encouraging. It has done little, if anything, to affect gender ratios at the level of senior executives. Still, judges, lawyers and their clients hope that the handful of cases will have a broad impact. In particular, they are anxious to hear the court's decision in the case of Barbara Steinhagen, which will be made public next Thursday. Steinhagen, a former marketing director at Sony BMG, sued her employer for allegedly denying her a promotion when she became pregnant. And right after she returned to work from her maternity leave, she was shown the door.
Hartmut Braunschneider, another attorney who has been on the legal team representing Silke Kühne, believes that his client has established a precedent. He also sees the case as a deterrent and predicts that employers will pay a high price for discrimination in the future. To back up his beliefs, Braunschneider cites the psychological principle of anchoring, which holds that people will eventually accept something as a social reality if they have heard it often enough.
Until that happens, though, women will still trail behind their male counterparts -- simply because they are women.
Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/unequal-opportunities-german-women-disappointed-by-job-discrimination-act-a-600004.html
Related SPIEGEL ONLINE links:
The Price of Discrimination: Low Award in Landmark German Sexism Case (12/19/2008)
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-price-of-discrimination-low-award-in-landmark-german-sexism-case-a-597513.html
Sexism in Germany: Universities Rewarded for Hiring Women Professors (09/04/2008)
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/sexism-in-germany-universities-rewarded-for-hiring-women-professors-a-576238.html
Getting Rid of Gender Stereotypes: EU Parliament Calls for Less Sexism in Advertising (09/03/2008)
https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/getting-rid-of-gender-stereotypes-eu-parliament-calls-for-less-sexism-in-advertising-a-576117.html
Battling Bias in Germany: Feared Cost of Anti-Discrimination Law May Not Exist (08/15/2008)
https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/battling-bias-in-germany-feared-cost-of-anti-discrimination-law-may-not-exist-a-572290.html
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How this season compares to other times Sheffield United were promoted
Sheffield United are mounting a serious push to be promoted from the Championship this season. With eight games left to play they are second in the table.
Going up a division is not something that the Blades are strangers to. It has happened on 10 occasions to date.
So how does the 2018/19 campaign compare to those other times?
1938/39 – promoted to Division One
After 41 years in the top flight of English football, United were relegated for the first time in 1934. Five years in Division Two followed before 17 goals from Jack Dodds helped fire them back to the big time. In a 42-game season they won 20 games under Terry Davison.
The Blades were relegated again in 1949, but four years later they would win the Division Two title in Reg Freeman’s first year as manager. Alf Ringstead was top scorer this time with 22 strikes, while they won 25 of their 42 fixtures.
The yo-yo effect continued with relegation once again in 1956. Five years in the second tier followed before finishing second in 1960/61 with 26 wins from 42 games. Derek Pace top scored – as he did every season for seven consecutive years between 1957/58 and 1963/64 – with 26 goals and John Harris was boss.
Harris was back when United were down again in 1968, but this time only stayed three years in Division Two before again ending up as runners-up. This time it was after 21 league victories, while Alan Woodward top scored with 15.
1981/82 – promoted to Division Three
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a tricky time for the club, with them suffering relegation three times in five years. By 1981 they were in the fourth tier for the first time ever. Ian Porterfield was appointed and luckily their stay lasted just one year, with them winning 27 of what was now a 46-game season while Keith Edwards netted an impressive 35 goals.
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1983/84 – promoted to Division Two
The Blades’ stay in Division Three was also thankfully brief, with them promoted again after two years under Porterfield. Edwards once again top scored with 34 strikes, while they won 24 of 46 fixtures.
United were back in the third tier by 1988 and in came the legendary Dave Bassett as manager. They were duly promoted after a one year stay, with Tony Agana top scoring with 24 and 25 wins from 46 games.
After a 15-year absence Bassett lead the club back to the top flight with 24 victories coming from their 46 outings. Brian Deane top scored, as he would for four consecutive years, with 21 goals.
2005/06 – promoted to the Premier League
Deane had scored the first ever Premier League goal, but the Blades only last two years in this new format before 12 back in the second tier. Neil Warnock took them up with 26 wins from 46 matches. Neil Shipperley top scored with 11.
2016/17 – promoted to the Championship
If Chris Wilder takes United up this season he will match the achievement of Harris, Porterfield and Bassett of getting promoted twice with the club. Following six years in League One, Wilder took them back to the Championship in emphatic style with 30 wins and 100 points. Billy Sharp also scored 30 goals.
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Ian Wright Advises Liverpool Star to Stay at Anfield Following Brilliant Recent Performances
Former Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright believes Daniel Sturridge should do everything in his power to secure a long-term future at Liverpool.
Sturridge has hit form in recent weeks but has had to make do with a bit-part role so far this season, with Roberto Firmino starting regularly in most of the Reds' games.
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The former Chelsea forward's deal runs out at the end of the campaign and Wright believes he needs to continue performing at a high level to secure his future at Anfield.
"Sturridge’s contract at Liverpool runs out at the end of this season. But the word is, the club are ready to offer him a new deal - and if I were him I would snap it up,” Wright wrote in his column for the Sun.
“He may have concerns at being fourth-choice behind Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane in the striking pecking order at Anfield. But Daniel is at a stage of his career when he does not need to be picked all the time.
“They are a club going places. They reached the Champions League final last season with a squad not as strong as the one they have now.
“It looks like they are the only ones capable of challenging Manchester City for the Premier League title. Why would you be in a hurry to leave that club?”
Sturridge came off the bench to score a screamer against Chelsea at the weekend in the 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge and also netted in the Carabao Cup loss against the Blues.
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