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GORE-TEX® Shipton-Tilman Grant Program Awards $20,000 to Explorers
Gore awards $20,000 to a diverse group of explorers through the GORE-TEX® brand Shipton-Tilman Grant Program. Six teams make up the class of 2010 and help mark the 20th year of this unique program.
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W. L. Gore & Associates, inventors of GORE-TEX® fabric, a brand that helps outdoor enthusiasts “Experience More” as they follow their outdoor passion, is once again proud to support global exploration by awarding grants totaling $20,000 through the GORE-TEX® Brand Shipton-Tilman Grant program. The annual program was established by Gore in 1990 as a tribute to the spirit of adventure embodied by legendary explorers Eric Shipton (b. 1907) and Bill Tilman (b. 1897). Now in its 20th year, the program provides funds to be divided among expeditions that are most in harmony with Shipton and Tilman's philosophies.
Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman are arguably the greatest adventurers of this past century. They believed in traveling in small, compact teams, unburdened by porters and excessive bulk surviving on the bare minimum required to achieve their goal.
Applications are accepted from small, unencumbered teams of friends with daring and imaginative goals. The expedition team must plan to accomplish their feat in a self-propelled, environmentally sound and cost-effective way.
“Even after 20 years, we still find inspiring teams pursuing very ambitious goals. This year’s group includes young athletes in their twenties trying to make their mark along with seasoned teams trying to overcome past failures,” said Yvonne Erickson, Gore Fabrics Marketing Leader. “Gore is fascinated by the achievements of the 2010 winners as well as what the next 20 years of the GORE-TEX® Brand Shipton-Tilman Grant program may hold.”
The following six teams receiving grants in 2010:
The Australian Chamlang Grand Traverse, awarded $2,000
Inspired by a small “what if” mention in another climber’s writings, the Aussie team of Theo Kossart and Stuart Morris have set their course for the Nepal Himalaya and the 24,000-foot peak of Chamlang. If successful, they will be the first team to complete the Grand Traverse of this peak which rises just 11 miles from its well known sister, Everest.
British Tahu Ratum Expedition, awarded $4,000
Luke Hunt, Hamish Dunn, and Tom Ripley, all under the age of 22, will attempt the first ascent of the NW ridge of Tahu Ratum in the Hispar Muztagh region of Karakoram.The remote location and technical difficulty of the climb means it has not been attempted until now.The young team has climbed extensively in the UK and European Alps, but this will be their first attempt at a major expedition in Asia.
Full Length Ski Traverse of the Wrangell Mountains, awarded $2,000
The Wrangell Mountains in Alaska include several of North America’s highest peaks. The three-man team of Dylan Taylor, Andrew Wexler and Joe Stock plans to be the first to ski the full length of the Wrangell range covering more than 150 miles. Along the way they will ski over Mount Wrangell (14,163 feet) and attempt to ski Regal Peak (13,845 feet).
Karjiang Untouched, awarded $2,000
At 23,691 feet high, Karjiang is the fourth highest unclimbed mountain in the world. The summit remains untouched by humans. Joe Puryear and David Gottlieb plan to ascend to the peak, climbing in such a way that the mountain will appear untouched even after their climb. This commitment to leaving no visible trace means that no fixed rappel anchors or other lingering evidence will remain to spoil the experience for future climbers. There are only two other recorded attempts at the peak, both resulting in teams turning back.
Gangotri Expedition: First Ascent of Jankuth, awarded $5,000
Climbers Pat Deavoll and Malcolm Bass plan to return to Northern India and attempt to make the first ascent of Jankuth, the 22,326 foot summit that turned them away in 2004. This is the highest unclimbed mountain in this part of India. Both Deavoll and Bass are highly experienced Himalayan climbers. However, the challenge is increased as Deavoll recovers from a broken back suffered in a recent fall.
First Ascents in the Tien Shan: Central Kokshaal-Too Range, Kyrgyzstan, awarded $5,000
The climbing world is just starting to discover the potential in Kyrgyzstan. Once closed to foreign teams, the region is more open and features multiple virgin peaks. The four-person team of Matthew Traver, Steve Beckwith, Chris Parenteau and Mike Royer has identified three unnamed peaks as potential objectives. In addition to the climbing, the team plans to act as international goodwill ambassadors, carrying out volunteer work in Kyrgyzstan before departing for the Central Kokshaal-Too Range.
About the GORE-TEX® Brand Shipton-Tilman Grant Program: Applications are accepted from small, unencumbered teams of friends with daring and imaginative goals. The expedition team must plan to accomplish their feat in a self-propelled, environmentally sound, and cost-effective way.
The application deadline for the grant is March 1 of each year. A panel of independent judges meets annually in March to review all applications and looks for projects that exemplify the Shipton-Tilman philosophy. Teams receive a grant ranging from $2,000 to $10,000.
About W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.:
Gore is a leading manufacturer of thousands of advanced technology products for the electronics, fabrics, industrial and medical markets. Headquartered in Newark, Del., the company posts annual sales of $2.5 billion, and employs 9,000 associates in 30 countries worldwide. It is one of a select few workplaces to appear on all of the U.S. “100 Best Companies to Work For” lists since the rankings were introduced in 1984. This includes all 13 FORTUNE magazine lists and all three "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" books. For the past several years, Gore’s facilities in the UK, France, Italy and Germany have also been named as one of the “Best Companies to Work For” in those countries. Visit www.gore.com to learn more.
GORE, GORE-TEX, and designs are trademarks of W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ©2010 W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., 295 Blue Ball Rd., Elkton, Maryland, 800-431-GORE, gore-tex.com
Gore Awards $25,000 To Explorers Through Shipton-Tilman Grant Program
Cynthia Amon, W.L. Gore & Associates410-506-2647 camon@wlgore.comGORE AWARDS $25,000 TO MODERN EXPLORERS THROUGH THE GORE-TEX® brand SHIPTON-TILMAN GRANT PROGRAMSix teams reach for their goals while reducing their impact on the virgin territories they navigate. Elkton, Md. – ...read more
By Chris Goddard
Five Teams Of Explorers Share $25K Through GORE-TEX® Shipton-Tilman
Contact: Cynthia Amon 410-506-2647 Cell: 443-553-0333 camon@wlgore.com FIVE TEAMS OF EXPLORERS SHARE $25,000 THROUGH THE GORE-TEX® brand SHIPTON-TILMAN GRANT PROGRAM For the first time, recipients include two teams using sail power as a key component of their expeditions. ...read more
Six Innovative Climbing Teams Share $20,000 through the Gore-Tex® Brand Shipton-Tilman Grant Program
Celebrating 25 Years of Supporting Alpine Climbing Expeditions Elkton, Md., (May 1, 2015): In the 1930s,Eric Shipton (b.1907) and Bill Tilman (b.1897) changed mountaineering with a lightweight approach and “leave no trace behind” climbing philosophy that still inspires today’s ...read more
Gore Awards $30,000 to Modern Adventurers with Shipton-Tilman Grant
Surprisingly, six of the seven continents are not represented in this year's Shipton-Tilman team destinations. This should not be seen as a sign that there are no new challenges within those borders. Instead, the Asian focus stands as proof to the increased opportunities and ...read more
By Jaclyn Bailey, CGPR
Gore Announces The Shipton-Tilman Grant
While they venture off in opposite directions on the compass and have vastly different objectives, there is a common thread running through the six expeditions that have been selected for Shipton-Tilman grants for 2007. All of them are made up of small teams of explorers, men and ...read more
Five climbing teams share $25,000 through the Gore-Tex brand Shipton-Tilman Grant Program
Elkton, Md., May 1, 2013: Eric Shipton (b. 1907) and Bill Tilman (b. 1897) were arguably the greatest team of mountain explorers of our time. They were strong advocates of traveling in small, compact teams and remaining respectful of the terrain, unburdened by numbers of porters ...read more
Gore awards $30k for annual Shipton-Tilman grants
To help teams explore once off-limits portions of the planet, W.L. Gore and Associates is once again awarding $30,000 worth of grants to help finance far reaching expeditions. The annual Shipton-Tilman Grant program was established by Gore as a tribute to the spirit of adventure ...read more
Five Innovative Climbing Teams Share $25,000 Through the GORE-TEX® Brand Shipton-Tilman Grant Program
May 1, 2014 Contact: Cynthia Amon 410-506-2647 cell: 443-553-0333 camon@wlgore.com FIVE INNOVATIVE CLIMBING TEAMS SHARE $25,000 THROUGH THE GORE-TEX® brand SHIPTON-TILMAN GRANT PROGRAM Elkton, Md., May 1, 2014: In the 1930s,Eric Shipton (b. 1907) and Bill Tilman (b. 1897) ...read more
GORE-TEX® Brand Shipton-Tillman Grant Recipients Awarded 22nd Annual Piolets d’Or
Canadians Raphael Slawinski and Ian Welsted Honored for K6 West Ascent Elkton, Md., April 14, 2014: GORE-TEX® Brand Shipton-Tilman Grant recipients Raphael Slawinski and Ian Welsted were honored with a Piolets d’Or on March 29, 2014, in Courmayeur, France, for their ascent of ...read more
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Soccer Issue
Players, Teams, Leagues and Everything in Between
Michel Platini: From Football Magnificence to Football Corruption
March 23, 2019 By Greg Leave a Comment
Michel Platini is a name that will mean different things to different people. For some of a certain vintage like me, we will remember him as a French maestro and one of the world’s best-ever players. For those of a more current generation, Platini will be remembered as the head of UEFA who sold his football soul in the name of greed and corruption.
In fact, for many people, Platini will probably be remembered as both. Up until becoming the chief of UEFA in 2007, Platini’s career on and off the pitch was one of huge success and much respect. By 2015 his reputation was in tatters when he was banned from football administration for life by FIFA.
Platini’s Days as a Football Star
When charting Platini’s rise and fall, the best place to start is during his playing days. While his name often gets forgotten in discussions of all-time greats, make no mistake, he truly was. Platini was a sublime player, someone who possessed arguably the best passing ability the sport has ever seen. Versatile and boasting enviable ball control, Platini was quick and intelligent on the ball, making him a potent attacking threat.
Over a career that seen him play for Nancy and St. Etienne in France and Juventus in Italy, the Frenchman won nearly everything, including a French league and cup, Serie A, Coppa Italia, and the European Cup. With France he won the 1984 European Championship, but the World Cup always eluded him, becoming the only major trophy he never won.
By time Platini called time on his career he had won the Balon d’Or three times and would be named 6th in FIFA’s Player of the Century in 2000. Upon retirement, a career in football politics beckoned, including helping to organize the 1998 World Cup, which saw France win the trophy for the first time, and on its own soil.
Becoming UEFA President
In 2007, Platini took over UEFA as the only former player ever to be named UEFA president. Many believed having a football man in charge would help the organization handle the game more efficiently. Unfortunately, that never happened and Platini was a largely unpopular administrator who played a key role in the creation of Financial Fair Play (FF), love it or hate it.
Corruption and Ban
In 2015 things got worse as Platini’s bid to succeed Sepp Blatter as the president of FIFA ended in disaster. Platini was involved in an ongoing corruption investigation that permeated through FIFA and UEFA, whereby Blatter (FIFA) was accused of making a “disloyal payment” to Platini. Both Blatter and Platini were found guilty of ethics violations and banned from football administration for life.
Perhaps it’s harsh to call Michel Platini the classic football hero to zero story, but his career has certainly been a contrast.
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The Congressional District Method
Posted November 3, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
One of the persisting oddities of the United States’ political system is the Electoral College, which is an representative body that exists only to elect the President of the United States. Each state has a number of electors equal to its combined congressional representation in the House of Representatives and Senate, and the District of Columbia also has three electors of its own. To be elected president without throwing the contest into the House, a candidate must receive a majority vote of the electors.
This system is established in Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
The intent of the founders was that the Electoral College would be an elected body something like the House. The idea was that communities would choose a locally-trusted representative to use their best judgement to cast a vote for president. Those representatives would gather in the state capitols to cast their ballots and transmit them to Washington. In Federalist #68, Alexander Hamilton wrote that, “A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite [to choose a president].”
As a compromise, it was left to the states to decide how electors would be appointed. Most held the district-by-district elections that the founders envisioned, but some chose appointment by the state legislature.
If you lived in a state with elected electors, your ballot would have the names of the elector candidates, and you would choose those you thought would be most likely to choose a good president. The names of the presidential candidates would not appear on your ballot. Elector candidates might express a preference for one presidential candidate or another, but it was up to you to know what that preference was (if you cared). And it was always possible that electors could change their votes when they gathered with the other electors from their state and perhaps debated the merits of the various candidates.
This system reflects how the founders attempted to insulate our political system from direct action by the people, primarily on the (well-founded) assumption that the masses would be uninformed and prone to short-term thinking. They recognized the sovereignty of the people, and wanted to give the people a way to direct their government, but they included the filter of deliberation by trusted representatives. Only the House of Representatives and the Electoral College were meant to be composed of people directly elected by the people. The Senate, president, and Supreme Court were all to be appointed indirectly by other elected officials.
Our national preferences in the centuries since have shifted much more in favor of direct election, largely because the people are now much better educated and have at least the potential to become informed and overcome short-term thinking. We see this shift most clearly in the makeup of the Senate. Between the adoption of the U.S. Constitution in 1789 and the addition of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, more than half of the states changed their laws so that the state legislature was required to appoint the winners of popular votes to the Senate, effectively emulating the direct election of senators. In 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment took effect and required direct election of all future senators by the people of their states.
But we have not amended the U.S. Constitution to provide for the direct election of the president. The Electoral College and its indirect system for selecting presidents is still in place, albeit in a modified and somewhat-hidden form that would be quite foreign to the founders.
The states have all adopted some form of a ‘general ticket’ system, in which citizens seem to be voting for presidential candidates (whose names appear on the ballot) but are actually electing a usually-hidden ‘ticket’ of electors who have pledged to support that candidate in the Electoral College. In all but two states, this is done under a winner-take-all system. So, using Virginia as an example, if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D) wins the most Virginian votes for president next week—even if only one vote more than Trump—then all thirteen of Virginia’s Electoral College seats will be filled with electors who have pledged to vote for Clinton.
Although the states have attempted to veil our presidential election process in the guise of direct election, it is not. Because we are still using the Electoral College system behind the scenes, there is always the potential for strange and unrepresentative results.
Let’s imagine an outcome that would result in an unrepresentative Electoral College. For the sake of simplicity, imagine that all states use a winner-take-all system, and Clinton beats Donald Trump (R) by two points (51-49%) in every state. This means that Clinton would win the Electoral College by 538-0 votes. Forty-nine percent of the voters wanted Trump, but that half of the country was entirely unrepresented in the Electoral College vote. This is an extreme and unlikely example, but we have seen less extreme oddities. In 2000, then-Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) beat then-Vice President Al Gore (D) in the Electoral College by 271-266, even though Gore had beaten Bush by about a half-point in the popular vote.
The simplest way to reform the Electoral College would be to eliminate it and switch to a popular vote system. We can amend the U.S. Constitution like we did when we established the direct election of senators. Although I tend to oppose the direct election of senators (because the Senate is supposed to represent the sovereign state governments and so should be selected by those governments), I tend to support the popular election of the president. The Electoral College is an unnecessary complication, and the benefits it was thought to provide at the beginning—insulation from the whims of uneducated people—are largely moot at this point. First of all, uneducated people tend to stay home. Second, the ‘general ticket’ system has already made it so that the Electoral College cannot function as any kind of deliberative body.
There is a way we can improve the Electoral College in the mean time without the hassle of a constitutional amendment, and we should seriously consider it—especially since an amendment does not seem to be forthcoming. Remember how I said that all but two states use a winner-take-all system for appointing electors? Well, the other two states—Maine and Nebraska—use the congressional district method. This is a better (though still imperfect) system, and all of the other states should adopt it.
Let’s use Virginia as an example again, and a scenario where Clinton wins the state 51-49%. Under the current winner-take-all system, Clinton would receive all of Virginia’s thirteen electors, and forty-nine percent of the state’s voters would be unrepresented in the Electoral College.
But let’s imagine that Virginia switches to the congressional district method. Because Clinton won the statewide vote in this example, she is awarded two electors up-front (those that parallel the state’s two seats in the Senate). The remaining eleven electors are awarded according to the winners of each of Virginia’s eleven congressional districts. Because Virginia’s districts are somewhat ‘gerrymandered’ to benefit the Republicans, I think a plausible outcome in a close race like our example is that Trump wins six districts and Clinton wins five. So in the end, Clinton gets seven electors and Trump gets six . . . which, in percentage terms, is a breakdown of about 54-46%, which is pretty close to the 51-49% breakdown of the electorate.
Obviously it isn’t perfect. In the Virginia example I’m using, Clinton loses one or two electors to ‘gerrymandering,’ or the drawing of congressional districts to benefit one party or the other. If she lost one more, she would not have held a majority of electors in the state despite having won the Virginia popular vote. Though, even then, the outcome would still be in closer proportion to the actual vote than it would be under the winner-take-all system. The allotment of the two statewide electors helps to blunt the impact of ‘gerrymandering,’ but will not necessarily eliminate it, especially in states that have particularly egregious examples.
There will also be a lot of political difficulty in getting this method adopted. If Virginia, and only Virginia, switched systems, then Clinton (in our example) goes from thirteen down to seven electors from the state. If the Virginia General Assembly proposed this, Democrats would claim that it was just a shameless effort by Republicans to hurt Democratic presidential candidates, and would fight it vehemently in the legislature and in the public square.
This is why I propose we do it in every state. If one state adopts it, it is likely to help one party and hurt the other. But if we do it nationwide, it will not have that kind of partisan effect.
Here’s why. Take a look at Georgia, which is usually a solid Republican win in presidential elections. If Trump wins Georgia 51-49%, he gets all of Georgia’s sixteen electors. Again, nearly half of the state would be unrepresented in the Electoral College. If Georgia switched to the congressional district method, Clinton would win as many as five electors across the state. So if Virginia and Georgia both switched systems simultaneously, we would have a much more fair allotment of electors, but there would be little change in the total breakdown of the Electoral College.
For every state ‘gerrymandered’ in favor of the Republicans, there is another ‘gerrymandered’ for the Democrats. For every state that narrowly goes for Democrats in presidential contests (in which Republicans would benefit under the congressional district method), there is another state that narrowly goes for Republicans (in which Democrats would benefit from the switch). So this could be done incrementally through thoughtful interstate and inter-party compromise. Pair up roughly-equal states (like Virginia and Georgia) that cut in opposite directions, and time them to switch simultaneously. You could even include an ‘out’ in the legislation itself to ensure that it only takes effect as long as it does in the other state too.
And this could be done nationwide with enough interstate cooperation. We tend to forget that states have the ability to enact national policy on their own without involving the federal government . . . if they can manage to come to an agreement on their own. For example, the states coordinated the United States Numbered Highway System, and they continue to coordinate it via the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). The federal government has no real say in how it operates . . . it has a non-voting associate membership in AASHTO, and that is all.
Maine and Nebraska have been an example of how this can work. While we wait for an amendment to enact direct election of the president, let’s go ahead and get moving on this. If we’re going to have an Electoral College, let’s at least try to make it representative of the voters it serves.
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Caitlin Kunkel
Caitlin Kunkel is a comedy writer, satirist and famed pizza scientist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing has been featured in Shouts & Murmurs in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Second City Network, The Huffington Post, Reductress and many other places across the vast internetz. She is the head writer for Live Wire Radio, distributed by Public Radio International, and the co-founder and editor of the comedy and satire site for female writers The Belladonna.
Caitlin has taught screenwriting at Northwestern University and served as a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia. She has an MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern. She just finished a three year term as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR where she taught four courses she created: Modern Comedy and Satire, Introduction to Scripting, Scripting Intensive and Fight the Future: Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Stories (yes, that last one shares a title with the first X-Files movie on purpose. You gotta enjoy your life, huh?). Caitlin created the online satire writing track for The Second City Chicago Training Center. Follow her musings on Twitter @KunkelTron and subscribe to her comedy and satire newsletter here.
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Seniorscore
Osceola Mills
Senior Living in Osceola Mills, Pennsylvania
Top zip codes in Osceola Mills, PA: 16666
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The SeniorScore™ is calculated based on over 100 variables, some of which are shown below. The final score is curved based on a linear curving method. For More info visit senioradvice.com/seniorscore.
SeniorScore™ Overview
Osceola Mills scores significantly lower than the Pennsylvania average of 75.
Osceola Mills scores lower than the national average of 72.
There is an average number of Medicare registered physicians within the city limits.
There are no hospitals within close range of the city.
There are 5 senior living facilities in close proximity to the city, including Windy Hill Village , Mountain Laurel Nursing Care , and Epworth Manor.
There is a very low number of home healthcare providers operating in the city.
There is a high number of fire stations serving the city.
The average life expectancy is 78.5, compared to the national average of 78.6.
There are 22 pharmacies within close range of the city.
The city has a high percentage of seniors in the population (31% of residents).
There are 19 golf courses in or around the city, including Philipsburg Country Club, Grandview Golf Course, and Clearfield-Curwensville Country Club.
There are no parks near the city center.
There are 23 churches in or near the city, including Christian Missionary Church, Eason Glen T Rev, and Parsonville Assembly of God.
There is 1 mall / shopping center within close range of the city.
There are 8 grocery stores within the city.
There are 2 movie theatres in or near the city.
There are 4 gyms or health clubs in or near the city.
The property taxes average 2.83% of total income, which is higher than the national average of 2.79%.
The property taxes average 1.47% of property value, which is significantly lower than the national average of 1.09%.
The city sales taxes averages 7.00%, which is higher than the national average of 6.97%.
Pennsylvania has an average state income tax of 3.07%, compared to the national average of 3.38%.
The city's mean household income is $43,730, which is significantly lower than the national average of $64,580.
The city's median household income is $36,758, which is significantly lower than the national median of $51,560.
The city's per capita income is $18,537, which is significantly lower than the national average of $25,611.
Assisted living costs average $33,300 per year, which are very low compared to national figures.
Nursing home costs average $96,725 per year, which are high compared to national costs.
Adult daycare costs average $14,560 per year, which are very low compared to national numbers.
Home healthcare costs average $43,472 annually, which are low compared to national costs.
The unemployment rate is about 4.92%, which is low compared to national averages.
The overall cost of living is high compared to national averages.
0% of the senior population are financially responsible for at least one grandchild.
General Quality of Life
Osceola Mills receives average levels of rainfall each year.
Osceola Mills has very harsh mean temperatures, with very cold winters and pleasant summers.
This city has average air quality.
Osceola Mills has a sparse population density of 113.7 people per square mile.
Residents of Osceola Mills have a long daily commute time.
Osceola Mills has an average public school quality ranking.
The city has a very low public school safety rating.
This city has an average graduation rate of 86.17%.
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Mariah Carey returns strong with a Caution
Written By SOL Team - November 27 2018
Mariah Carey does not compromise to what you think would give her a hit. She makes music that she enjoys and have fun with it. While it may not be the “Classic Mariah” that many people adore from her pre-Butterfly album eras, she still leaves a wonderful presence among her hardcore fans. She went from giving her best pop work to the mass to taking a little corner to dabble with R&B and hip-hop but never given enough credit for it because it isn’t in trend. Just as Mariah’s latest 15th studio album Caution, she enjoys her creative process to work with producers and artists that solidify her role as one of the R&B queens of our generations.
After a lukewarm performance of her last album Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse released in 2014, she has been keeping busy with her kids, new boyfriend, Las Vegas residencies, world tour, voicing for computer-animated Christian comedy film Star, narrated in animated film All I Want for Christmas Is You based on her hit holiday song, signed to a new label, as well as releasing a few singles along the way.
Before Caution was released, Mariah already teased us with four songs off the album namely “GTFO,” “With You,” “The Distance” and “A No No” with her new label Epic Records. “GTFO” kick off the Caution album as she nonchalantly asks, “How ‘bout you get the f*ck out” to her knight in shining armour over a Nineteen85-produced track that is so subtle, yet so deadly in content through Mariah’s dramatic lyrics that we know and love.
This was followed up by a love song, which is her official first single off the album called “With You” produced by DJ Mustard with lyrics that goes “Yo, I’ve been loving you so long / Ever since that Bone Thugs song” that refers to her 1997 single “Breakdown” with Krayzie and Wish Bone from hip-hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Mimi sure knows how to take us down the memory lane with her ways by incorporating her catalogue. It is not as catchy as “GTFO,” but a great sing-along song.
Mariah dropped “A No No” prior to the album release too which samples rapper Lil’ Kim’s “Crush on You” remix that features The Notorious B.I.G. and Lil Cease, which she has been wanting to do for a long time. The diva puts on a savage mode with lyrics like “Off with your head / Now slither out the door / Snakes in the grass / It’s time to cut the lawn.” The world was snatched when she includes the famous Biggie line “He’s a slut, he’s a ho, he’s a freak / Got a different girl every day of the week” from the original remix as well as some “Touch My Body” elements into it.
We were surprised by her collaboration with famous DJ and producer Skrillex on “The Distance” that features Ty Dolla $ign. This triumphant single celebrates the haters that two people in love have to endure as she sings “Look at us, we’re going the distance / They just wanna be us / They don’t wanna see us / Going the distance.” It is always great to see Mariah reaching out to new talents to expand her sound which features a cheerleading chant about spirit that took us back to “Up Out My Face.”
Then the album arrives. Is it as exciting as the released tracks have been? You betcha. The other tracks are an anthem for many occasions whether to reminisce on the past, ex-lovers, personal struggles or just a fun moment. There’s a variety of textures on the album overall from the Timbaland-produced “8th Grade” to that amazing collaboration with Slick Rick and Blood Orange on “Giving Me Life.” Mariah is giving us her all from the bedroom-anthem “One Mo’ Gen” to the very personal “Portrait” to close the album.
Don’t call it a comeback because this diva and songwriter has been delivering amazing albums to us, but it usually isn’t what the critics want. Having that said, Caution feels unforced and in some ways, very similar to the tone she was serving us in the overlooked Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel album. This would go down well to a lot of naysayers as it obvious Mariah is having a lot of fun with this album and we sure enjoy it a lot too.
Full album on Spotify:
Writer | Kevin Yeoh
Kevin was the former editor of two music and lifestyle platforms in Malaysia. He is an all-round music enthusiast from the '90's R&B to K-Pop.
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Ten reasons why South Norwood is one of the best places to live in London
1. Stanley Halls: Stanley Halls was designed, built and funded by local inventor and philanthropist Sir William Stanley between 1903 and 1911. Today, thanks to local groups, Stanley Halls has once again become the hub of the community hosting theatre workshops, weekly shows, live music and film nights. To book please visit: www.stanleyhalls.org.uk
2. Norwood Junction Train Station: Formally named the Jolly Sailor, the larger and active Norwood Junction is only a few minutes to London Bridge and much less to Croydon. Twinned with the Overground places like Canary Wharf, Hoxton and Shoreditch are only a short hop away.
3. South Norwood Country Park: One of South Norwood's five parks, the country park is home to a lake and much wildlife while remaining a key site for nature conservation. Much history surrounds South Norwood's 125 acre Country Park. Walks and tours are available: www.friendsofsncp.org.uk
4. Sherlock Holmes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, lived in South Norwood. Following his death in 1920 his house still stands on Tennison Road displaying its legendary blue plague.
5. South Norwood Lake: A park hosing the largest lake in the area. The lake is used by Croydon Sailing Clubs. There is an cricket pavilion next to the lake that was once the setting for a cricket match between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and W.G Grace's teams.
6. Selhurst Park: The home of football in South London, Selhurst Park was opened in 1924 and has undergone a number of transformations. It is now set to be redeveloped after Crystal Palace secured promotion to the Premier League.
7. BRIT School: On the edge of South Norwood's Selhurst is the BRIT School that produced such artists as Amy Winehouse, Katie Melua and Adele.
8. Pubs: There are over sixteen good pubs and social clubs in South Norwood with another opening on Portland Road shortly. See all local pubs.
9: South Norwood Festival: South Norwood has a festival every June/July of which over five thousand local people attend. The festival is held in the local recreation ground near Norwood Junction and supports live music, arts, children's activities and local charities: www.sncfest.org
10. Norwood Junction Subway: The subway is the first reinforced concrete foot tunnel in the world. It was created to link the two sides of South Norwood, either side of Norwood Junction.
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The Feminist Library Finds A New Home
In December 2015 an email landed in the inbox of the Feminist Library two days before Christmas. It was from Southwark council and you’d be right in guessing that it wasn’t an early Christmas present. Far from it – it was a letter from the premises department with a demand for an immediate increase in their rent to £30,000 a year, rather than the £12,000 they were paying in service charges.
If they failed to agree to this they would be evicted on March 1st – ironically on the first day of women’s history month. Volunteers of the Library decided to mobilise and began a campaign to try and secure its future, a campaign that we featured in our first ever blog!
Fast forward two and a half years, and after a lot of negotiations and false starts, the Library is about to embark on a new journey – it has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign to support the move to a new home!
After a long search, Southwark Council has offered the Library a new building to rent in Peckham, and they need to raise at least £30,000 for the move project, and to get the space ready to move into.
We sat down with Magda Oldziejewska, the Library’s Fundraising Coordinator, and Rose Sinclair, the Library’s Finance Administrator, to find out more about the move and how the local community can help make it happen.
So what can you tell us about the new space?
Magda – ‘It’s a really lovely space. It’s bigger and we now have the space to expand our collection. We’re going to have a meeting space that over the twice the size of what we currently use.
‘It’s already quite a buzzing community centre and we are looking forward to nurturing opportunities to collaborate. Everything about it is great. It’s named after a woman and there are a couple of other women’s charities in the building that we’re going to be sharing the space with.
‘We’re also in conversation with a refugee organisation who are currently based there about how we can set up the space so that they can stay and continue to provide services for refugees and asylum seekers.‘
Our struggle is well documented
Part of the reason they are raising funds is so that the space can be brought up to a better state than it is currently in, but they haven’t given themselves much room to manoeuvre in terms of undertaking the huge task of moving their vast collection.
Any money donated will go towards fitting out the new space, including new shelving, flooring and giving the walls a fresh lick of paint, the move itself, signage, and some legal costs that come with a massive logistical project that is moving a library.
‘We’re hoping to be moved by March (2019) – which is a bit tight. We are hoping to start on the work that is needed to bring the space up to a better standard in January.
‘It’s going to be tight but it’s not impossible… we will see! Southwark Council are being quite flexible.
‘Before we move we are trying to organise over 4000 books which haven’t been sorted out for a long time. Our collections team is going to need the support of volunteers plus we would love to get some help for the actual move itself.’
Anyone involved in the voluntary and community sector in Southwark will be aware of the well documented issues surrounding premises, as affordable space for small voluntary and community sector organisations becomes scarcer.
As an organisation that has been handed a lifeline, what would your advice be to groups who find themselves in similar situation to you?
‘I think it’s terrible – our struggle is well documented. Our approach could be a way that works for other organisations but it seems to affect those who are on the smaller side. They don’t have any money and often end up feeling powerless to the extent that they often shut down.
‘I think that there is a lot of power to be gained from shouting about your situation from the rooftops like we did – I’m sure we would have been out by now and homeless if it wasn’t for the fact that we raised our voices, and I feel like a lot of charities don’t feel like they have that power.’
Our focus is going to revolve a lot more on collaborating with the local community
The Library has been based on Westminster Bridge road for over 30 years, so is this the beginning of a new era? It must be quite sad to be leaving a space that they have called home for so long.
‘The way I see it – the whole of 2016 was spent mourning the loss of our home – we were feeling really sorry for ourselves. Now that we know it’s possible for us to have a bigger space that is affordable – it’s a worthwhile move. It took us a year for our mindsets to change and accept that it was time to move.
‘In some peoples’ minds I’m sure it would have been easier to stay. It is going to be a lot of work to move. At the same time it’s exciting!’
Another factor that is making the move much more appealing to the group is that they have been offered a 25 year lease by Southwark council - a somewhat unusual arrangement for a VCS organisation. By donating to the crowdfunding campaign people are investing in a project that has a life span of at least a quarter of a century.
So now that the Library has secured a new home, what is the vision and the dream for the library? The new space is 1,500sq ft, which is 50% bigger than their current cramped premises.
‘The hope is that we are able to not only expand our collection, but also expand our community programme that takes place on site.
‘We’ve always hosted a lot of events, and there’s always been a lot of things happening, but going forward our focus is going to revolve a lot more on collaborating with the local community’
‘Unfortunately we do live in a time where space is at a premium and it is often something that charities simply cannot afford.
‘We want to be that hub for groups who don’t have their own space.’
Plans to secure future funding are currently being worked on. Like thousands of other charities, the Feminist Library relies not only on the generosity of people donating to a crowdfunding scheme, or a friends scheme, but also aims to deliver ambitious projects on the back of securing grant funding.
‘One thing that we want to do next year is to get a full-time librarian. Not only so that the Library is open 5 days a week, but so that our whole space is accessible.
‘At the moment we are restricted to when we can run events – they have to coincide with when we are actually in the building as we are a volunteer-run organisation. That will hopefully change next year.
‘We realise we are lucky. We know that so many groups are struggling. It would be ideal to try and grow our network and raise awareness about the potential for us to collaborate with groups in our new space.’
Friends and supporters of the Feminist Library campaigning outside of Southwark Council's headquarters
What have you learned in the two years since we last sat down?
‘We have learned to communicate better with the council and accept that they have been facing their own funding pressures from central government
‘Whilst the relationships has been tumultuous we have developed a working relationship. I do feel that if it wasn’t for the press campaign it probably wouldn’t have worked out in our favour. At the same time I understand that they are facing huge pressures.’
Rose, who joins us midway through the interview, agrees: ‘One place where I’ve had sympathy for the council is that there is a bigger political story to be told here.
‘Central government are making economic choices whose consequences are landing squarely on the shoulders of local authorities, who are then unofficially told by way of being given certain powers, to act more in the way of a corporation.’
In the context of multiple challenges being faced by Voluntary and Community Sector organisation, the Feminist Library has been given the opportunity to really make their mark in a brand new home – but there is a long way to go.
Rose shares that opinion: ‘I think it’s a balancing act between dealing with the huge amount of stuff that is coming in… Once we get through all of this there is actually going to be this fantastic opportunity to try something new. What could that something else be?’
A sketch of what the new space may look like
Any initial ideas?
‘We work as a collective so we will all sit down and have a discussion about it, but I think everybody is quietly thinking about it.
‘We went to Glasgow recently for a social centres ‘gathering’ and we experienced the different ways that they interact with local communities. I was excited by the ones that had a really reciprocal relationship with the local community, where the local community is driving the agenda.
‘There is the basic problem of not enough money and too much need. However, there is scope to be optimistic. A way to mitigate the consequences of what is currently happening is by empowering community groups to provide care and support from within the communities that they work with.’
The Feminist Library has been around for over four decades now, saving women's histories - with over 7,000 books, 1,500 periodical titles and countless archives, pamphlets and ephemera - and providing a space in London for feminists and community groups to meet, organise, learn, create, or just have fun.
The supporters, volunteers, and staff of the Feminist Library have been on one hell of a journey since that letter dropped on their doormat two days before Christmas in 2015.
To the relief of all involved it looks like they are finally in a position where they can secure their future, but they need your help!
If you want to chip in a couple of quid and help this wonderful resource not just survive, but thrive, then click here.
Other ways that you can get involved
The Library are always on a lookout for new volunteers, especially now, with the upcoming busy time of the move. Get in touch with their volunteers coordinator, Katie, if you'd like to help: volunteer@feministlibrary.co.uk.
Do you have a gift for fundraising? Would you like to help the Feminist Library reach its total goal of £65,000 for the move to build its dream home? Get in touch magda@feministlibrary.co.uk.
Not into fundraising but keen to help the Library even further? Sign up to be a Friend by giving a regular monthly donation to help make the Library reach its 100% sustainable income goal this year.
The Feminist Library will be building its local community outreach and events programme. Want to be part of their exciting and growing events team? Get in touch with their events team coordinators, Chiara & Mariana, event@feministlibrary.co.uk.
Are you a local community group looking for a space for meetings or events? The Feminist Library want to hear from you! Contact admin@feministlibrary.co.uk.
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Alex Jones Banned By Most Social Media Platforms
Alex Jones, a right-wing commentator and creator of "Infowars", a media outlet supportive of Donald Trump, has been banned from Facebook, Pintrest, YouTube, I-Tunes, and Spotify. Progressives have mixed reactions; With the more myopic and reactionary celebrating the event with no regard to the implications of removing the platforms of political actors.
Not everyone has gone collectively insane, however. Lee Camp and Jimmy Dore both progressive commentators and comedians, produced videos addressing free speech subsequent to Jones' ousting from the aforementioned platforms. In a "web exclusive" published on August 9th entitled "Don't Celebrate The Banning Of Alex Jones", Lee Camp stated "I support [Alex Jones'] ability to put his idiot information out there, and by YouTube crushing his platform, and Facebook and everything, I know that I'm next..."
Jimmy Dore of "The Jimmy Dore Show" correlated the event with the Nazi rallies that used to take place in his home town. He stated that while everyone obviously hated the Nazis, no one ever suggested that they not be allowed to march, bringing up the old political proverb "I might not like what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". He then made the following notable statement; "The First Amendment is not there to protect you from speech you agree with. The First Amendment is there to protect speech we don't agree with. Speech that we hate. That's why you need protection for it. Speech that everyone agrees with doesn't need protections."
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Spotlight on Our Coaches: Kim Cunningham
Speechworks coach Kim Cunningham understands the importance of speaking with credibility.
For years, people relied on her weather forecasts to plan their days. And when she was in the Air Force, pilots relied on her to help plan their combat missions.
“Getting the forecast right is critical,” says Cunningham. “And delivering the message in a way that connects is also critical. You need both.”
Kim learned to connect and build confidence with audiences as a professional meteorologist. For 25 years, she worked a meteorologist at The Weather Channel. She was on-air for 18 years. Before that, she predicted the weather for the Air Force. In the military she attained the rank of Staff Sargent and was once named “Airman of the Year”. She was the first woman promoted to the Severe Weather section of the Air Force’s Global Weather Central.
“Kim has spent years connecting with audiences,” says Joey Asher, Speechworks President. “She is a true pro and is a wonderful coach.”
“Not only that,” Asher adds, “Thanks to Kim, our coaches always know when to bring an umbrella to a workshop.”
In addition to her coaching role at Speechworks, Kim is an author and motivational speaker. She has been featured in numerous publications and asked to speak at events on a variety of topics, both personal and professional.
Connect with Kim on LinkedIn, and get to know more about him and our world-class communication coaches at www.speechworks.net/about/.
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A Vote For 2026
By Robbie Butler
In 1988 Calgary hosted the Winter Olympics. The Canadian city overcame competition from Falun in Sweden and the northern Italian town of Cortina for the right to host the games. Some thirty years later, Calgary once again wants to host the Games. This time it must overcome obstacles at the home, the most obvious being the local taxpayer.
In order for the bid by Calgary to continue, local taxpayers are going to the polls next week in order to decide if some $2.8 billion dollars of public money should be used to fund the Games.
Canadians are better placed that most when it comes to such questions. The 1976 Summer Games in Montreal is a classic example of a spending overrun. The Olympic Stadium cost more than 5 and a half times the original estimate and ended up with an outlay of around $1.4 billion. The legacy of this meant that Canadian's were still incurring the financing cost of the stadium until 2006. Somebody born in 1977 (the year after the Games), assuming they began paying taxes at 18 years of age, contributed for 11 years for a Games that haven't occurred in their lifetime.
This time around it is somewhat different, and locals will get the chance to decide whether they should continue with the bid. It is interesting to note that in recent years Olso, Kraków, Lviv, Stockholm, Graz, Sapporo and Sion have all withdrawn Winter Olympic bids. Stockholm, having withdrawn from the 2020 race will also vote on a bid for 2026. Quite aptly for Calgary, Cortina has also expressed an interest in bidding, and like the Swedes and Canadians', will put the bid to a public vote.
It will be very interesting to see the outcome of next week's vote in Calgary. Should the vote pass, and the city be selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the preferred host, many things will happen. Hosting the Games will bring a sense of pride and civic engagement. Many locals will be excited in the lead up to the event, and the hosting of the Games themselves may cause the general mood to heighten further. One thing that won't happen -the taxpayer in Calgary will not make money from the event.
Winter Olympics Passes to Beijing 2022
The 2018 Winter Olympics closed in Pyeongchang, South Korea in the early hours of this morning to much fan fare. The ceremonial event involved the passing of the Olympic Torch to Beijing where the 2022 Winter Games will take place. Beijing will host its second Olympics in 14 years, following on from the Summer Games in 2008.
Much has been written on this blog about the hosting of major sporting events and the costs involved. In a previous post, I also addressed the number of bidders prior to the voting for the Summer Games. Not surprisingly, given the costs involved there has been a gradual decline in the number of bidders, from a high point in the 1990s, to more recent times. The graphic below presents the number of bidders for both the Summer and Winter Games from 1984 to the Summer Games in 2028.
The Winter Games appear to be following a similar trend to Summer version. For the years 1984 to 1992 all Games were held in the same years. This changed in 1994 when the Winter Games broke for the Summer schedule.
Since the start of this decade there has been a consistent decline in the number of bidders for both sets of Games. The Winter Games has seen a fall from 8 in 2010, to 7 in 2014, to 3 in 2018, to just 2 for the 2022 Games.
The Summer Games went one step further when Paris and Los Angeles effectively agreed to let each other have a solo run at the 2024 and 2028 Games respectively.
While the destination of the 2026 Winter Olympics will not be known until the 134th International Olympic Committee Session in Milan, Italy during September 2019, it will be interesting to see if all four potential hosts currently suggesting they will be, will actually do so. If Sion, Sapporo, Stockholm and Calgary all do, they will buck the recent trend in host bidding.
Comparing Olympic and Paralympic Performance – Underachieving Nations
By Stephen Brosnan
Previously, I have discussed (here) the best performing nations at the Paralympic games relative to their Olympic counterparts. In this post, I look at the worst performing nations at the Paralympic games relative to the nation’s Olympic athletes to provide possible explanations for the drop in performance levels individuals with disabilities relative to others. As previously discussed, comparing Olympic and Paralympic performances is not so straight forward given that there are many more medals distributed in the Paralympics compared to the Olympics. In Rio 2016, 974 Olympic medals were awarded while 1597 medals were distributed in the Paralympics. Thus, when comparing the performances of countries it makes sense to consider the share of total medals the country won rather than absolute values.
The Table below reports the worst performing countries measured by the percentage of medals obtained by countries in the Paralympics relative to the Olympics.
The United States is the worst performing nation in terms of differences between shares of total medals in the Olympic and Paralympics. While the US Olympians claimed 12.42% of overall medals in Rio, the US Paralympians claimed only 7.20% of total medals. The United States finished fourth overall which considering their income per capita and population, two indicators which increase the likelihood of success, could be considered a major underachievement. A recent article in the Independent (here) insists that this underperformance is no coincidence and can be linked to a lack of investment in Paralympic athletes with no central government funding in existence while arguing that it reflects the lack of support in the US for those who are disabled.
Japan were the second worst performing nation relative to their Olympic athletes, finishing 59th overall, their worst ever performance. The performance has prompted Japanese Paralympic Committee (JPC) President Mitsunori Torihara to insist the country must analyse their performance to decide which sports to concentrate on when the country hosts the Paralympic Games in 2020. Furthermore, the JPC plans to roll out educational programmes for the public to raise awareness of the sport. These measures in addition to extra funding available as a result of hosting the event in 2020 should give the country a good opportunity to improved their Paralympic performance.
Olympics and Paralympics Medals – Differences in Country Performance
Previously on this site, Robbie Butler discussed some potential socioeconomic determinants of success in winning Olympic medals (here) and how the UK’s investment in athletic programs has contributed to increases in medal counts (here). In this post, I examine the differences between countries performances at Olympic and Paralympic games to identify differences in attention and resources devoted to individuals with disabilities relative to others.
Comparing Olympic and Paralympic performances is not so straight forward given that there are many more medals distributed in the Paralympics compared to the Olympics. Since it is more difficult to guarantee a level playing field among individuals with disabilities, a more complex classification of sport events is often required. As such, in Rio 2016, 974 Olympic medals were awarded while 1,597 medals were distributed in the Paralympics. Thus, when comparing the performances of countries it makes sense to consider the share of total medals the country won rather than absolute values.
The Table below reports the top 10 countries measured by the percentage of medals obtained by countries in the Paralympics relative to the Olympics.
Seven countries are represented in both the top 10 for shares of Olympic medals and Paralympic medals. These countries include USA, China, Great Britain, Australia, Brazil, Italy and Germany. Table 1 shows Ukraine is the country with second largest difference between shares of total medals in the Olympic and Paralympics. While Ukraine finished 29th overall in share of total medals in the Olympics, the country finished 3rd overall in shares of Paralympic medals. The performance of the Ukraine is surprising given its modest population and income per capita relative to its competitors and ongoing war and political turmoil in the country.
Table 1. Difference between Countries share of Paralympics medals and Olympic
Much of the country’s success at the Paralympics has been attributed to its investment in a programme called ‘Invasport’, under which each region in Ukraine has at least one school dedicated to sports programs for the disabled. This increase in investment has led to considerable results, similar to Team GB’s investment in their Olympic programmes which brought greater success in Rio.
China is the highest ranked country for Paralympic medal wins representing 14.97% of total medals won. This is a 7.78% difference to their share of Olympic medals (7.19%). This could be considered an indication of the country’s progress in increasing standards in social civilization. However, research carried out by Brittain (2006) suggests that rather than being a measure of national social and economic development, success at the Paralympic games is used for political propaganda which the author calls ‘athletes as a means to a political end’.
Research focused on differences between Olympics and Paralympic games is currently underdeveloped particularly when comparing the different determinants of success across the two platforms. As such, researchers are provided with many potential opportunities to fill these knowledge gaps in the future.
Romans Abandon Their Bid
Rome yesterday joined Boston and Hamburg becoming the 3rd city to abandon plans to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Mayor Virginia Raggi’s election in June was based on a number of issues including a commitment to end plans to bid for the Games.
The proposed €5.3 billion budget will now be used for 'other' projects.
Raggi cited the fact that Rome is still supposedly paying for the Olympics it hosted in 1960! Three cities still remain in the race Budapest, Los Angeles and Paris. So long as there is more than one the power rests with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
I wonder will other cities and countries follow Rome's move...
Andrew Zimbalist Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup provides an excellent analysis of the economic costs and benefits of this and similar mega-sporting events.
The Success of Team GB
With the Rio Olympic Games at an end, I thought it timely to consider the medals table. Unsurprisingly, Team USA retained top spot. However, the performance of Team GB is worth noting.
The graphics below present the number of medals won, and the total number of gold medals won by host countries during their Games and the Games four years later. Team GB bucked a recent trend and managed to win more medals in Rio than they did four years earlier at London 2012.
This is quiet an achievement and can be largely explained by investment by Sport UK in Olympics athletes and the funding model adopted by the governing body.
Currently, more than £350 million is allocated to both Olympic and Paralympic sports. This is an increase of more than 10% on the London Games in 2012. UK Sport provides a breakdown of this allocation by sport here. It appears that the heavy investment in cycling, rowing and athletics all paid off, with eleven, five and seven medals won respectively. Other sports, that could possibly have done better given the level of investment were sailing, swimming and boxing.
Given the strategy of Sport UK, under performing sports need to be careful. Some have had there funding cut, or eliminated entirely. Basketball, one of the most popular team sports in Great Britain, receives no funding from UK Sport. It does get roughly £10 million from Sport England but this does not go to fund Olympic pursuits. This is due to the perceived under performance of Team GB four years ago. Not surprisingly, Team GB didn't compete in Rio.
It's likely that athletics, cycling, equestrian and rowing will all receive increases in funding. Expect to see Team GB athletes dominating podium in these sports at Tokyo 2020.
Some Olympic Insights
Based on the Medal Table at lunchtime (GMT) on Thursday (18th) I decided to have a look at the relationship between GDP per capita, population and medals won at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil.
Not unsurprisingly the United States (93), China (54), Great Britain (50), Russia (41), Japan (33), France (31), Germany (29), Australia (24), Italy (23) and South Korea (16) occupy the top ten places in the medals table. The ten are amongst the biggest economies on the planet, measured by GDP. Eight of the ten are in both top ten lists.
Below are two graphics to digest. The first considers the medals haul of the seventy-nine countries that have made the podium so far and GDP per capita. The second plots medals won and population. Those below the trend-line in each graph are outperforming the mean, based on either output per person or population.
Should Irish Boxers Be Worried?
Irish Medal Tally at the Olympic Games
By David Butler
Last week Matt Cooper spoke about the possibility of allowing professional boxers compete in the Rio Olympics on his talk show the Last Word. The guests considered the merits of the AIBA’s proposal and the implications for Ireland. The aim is to abolish rules that stops boxers with 15 or more paid bouts from competing at the Olympics. The Independent newspaper carried the story and details last Wednesday.
While Ireland’s Katie Taylor said the new rules would not alter her preparation, the re-design could spell trouble for Ireland’s medal chances at Rio. 57% of our Olympic medals have come from boxing – two gold’s, five silvers and nine bronze. The table shows Ireland's medal tally at the Olympic games.
While nothing would be stopping Irish professional boxers from competing for a gold, something tells me that our share of boxing medals may not be as high if the proposal is ratified.You would have to worry for the amateurs, surely Wladimir Klitschko would like to add more Olympic golds to his CV?
Olympic Bids - Enter Budapest
Despite the growing body of literature examining the economic cost of hosting major sporting events, the list of countries seeking to host the Olympic Games continues to grow. Already Wikipedia pages exist for the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympic Games and list the potential host cities. The latest to add their name to the list was the Hungarian capital Budapest.
Andrew Zimbalist’s recently published Circus Maximus is a must-read for all would-be hosts. The book explains in detail the pros and cons of mega sporting events, the success stories, and the big failures.
While winning the right to host the Olympics Games (Summer or Winter) has become an achievement in itself, this was not always the case. Zimbalist explains how the city of Los Angeles was approached by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) prior to hosting the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, as no bids were placed to host the event. The success of Los Angeles, primarily due to the fact it held sway over the IOC, encouraged others to follow suit. The Olympics it seemed was the way to economic enrichment.
Barcelona 1992, and to a lesser extent London 2012, are used as examples of success stories. Barcelona used the event to upgrade much of the city’s aging transport infrastructure that was neglected during the Franco regime. The Games were hosted as a wider plan for the city's redevelopment. Others have been less fortunate. Greece, in particular, are paying the price of past excesses. The 2004 Games in Athens left very little legacy and cost the state between €6 - €8 billion. Much of the Olympic infrastructure now lies idle.
If Budapest do bid, they need to be more like Barcelona and less like their Greek friends to the south.
Bidding for Large Sports Events - Irish Citizens Beware
The issue of governments bidding for large sports events comes up again and again. It's fair to say the consensus view among economists is that these bidding processes are inefficient and wasteful. Governments engage in rent-seeking behaviour to capture the rights that are in the monopoly control of the large sports bodies such as the International Olympic Committee, FIFA, UEFA or World Rugby. There is also the spectre of corruption associated with almost all decisions on hosts of large sports tournaments.
Ireland has committed to bidding for the Rugby World Cup in 2023.There have been several posts on this blog relating to that bid - which are summarised here. Despite the consensus view that countries do not benefit financially from hosting these mega sports events, it is still remarkable that many countries still seek to host them. In Ireland's case one of the primary reasons put forward for bringing the Rugby World Cup is that it would provide a substantial boost to tourist numbers. (It's worth noting that the assumptions and figures are not publicly available).
A new paper in Applied Economics by Heather Mitchell and Mark Ferguson Stewart called "What should you pay to host a party?" (requires a subscription), considers the relationship between tourism and three football World Cups and five Olympic Game. The authors find very little positive effect. This is worth bearing in mind for the Irish bid.
The paper suggests another reason why governments may be willing to support bids for large sports events and this is based on significant evidence that these events are associated with greater happiness levels in the host country. The paper argues that governments are seeking to generate a feel good factor that can be turned to political gain. There may be something in this but it is a gamble because bids are made many years in advance of hosting an event and governments may be providing a boost to future governments that may not include their own parties. Admittedly this is only a problem in democracies.
Mitchell and Stewart also suggest that the happiness of the population is also based on ignorance. They say:
Although people feel happy when hosting these events, this is probably because they are unaware of, and certainly do not feel personally responsible for, the cost of both acquiring and putting on the event. Part of the reason for this is because the bidding costs are usually concealed from the public; and this is also often the case with the full cost of staging the event.
As a potential solution to this rational ignorance among voters and to address the inefficiencies in the bidding process, the paper recommends that large sporting events would be allocated using an auction. This would mean citizens would be able to see clearly how much hosting a sporting event will cost. This is not a bad idea but is unlikely to be welcomed by sporting bodies. The payments to them as part of hosting a bid (the monopoly rent) is not very transparent and they would not like it to be. The payment to the sporting body may also be only a (small) part of the total cost of hosting an event, with infrastructure investment (a lot on white elephants) probably accounting for a greater proportion of the cost. It means citizens are just as likely to remain rationally ignorant of the cost they are paying for their sporting buzz.
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India Must Work With Nepal’s New Government To Offset China’s Influence: Indian Media
Dec. 12, 2017, 10:30 p.m.
Much of the goodwill with Nepal was frittered away by what was seen as India’s interference in internal Nepali politics when it seemingly imposed a blockade after expressing its displeasure over inadequate representation for certain communities, including the Madhesis, in the new constitution.
Nepal’s Left alliance – a conglomeration of former Maoists and Communists – is certain to form the next government in Kathmandu. The rival centrist Nepali Congress alliance of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, comprising Madhesi parties and former royalists, is not likely to pose much of a challenge. This means that after a change of 10 administrations in as many years, Nepal could finally get a stable government.
While this is good news for Nepal, which has been hobbled by corruption, poor economic growth and a breakdown in infrastructure following the 2015 earthquake, it is causing considerable disquiet in India. The likely return to power of former Nepal prime minister KP Oli, whose relations with New Delhi have been fraught and who is seen as close to China, suggests that there could be a shift in geo-strategic policy in the Himalayan nation. Nepal serves as a buffer between India and China but has always tilted towards India with whom it has an open border. In fact, New Delhi was quick off the mark when the devastating earthquake of 2015 struck, moving in men and material for help within 24 hours. Nepal is the only country whose citizens can serve in the Indian army. But much of the goodwill following the earthquake was frittered away by what was seen as India’s interference in internal Nepali politics when it seemingly imposed a blockade after expressing its displeasure over inadequate representation for certain communities, including the Madhesis, in the Himalayan country’s new constitution. The fact that the Left has gained the upper hand now shows that India did not read the signals right. Now, whether India likes it or not, Beijing will play a bigger role in Nepali politics.
According to The Hindustan Times, China has already given Nepal access to its ports and has been talking about a joint rail link construction. But the most significant move is the possibility of China supplying Nepal with petroleum products, which now come exclusively from India. This means that managing diplomatic relations with Nepal is going to get much more difficult. India’s best bet is to show greater willingness to work with the new government on infrastructure projects and not be seen to be interfering in internal political matters. Given the lakhs of Nepalis who work in India, the country has a stake in maintaining good relations with New Delhi. This is a time for deft diplomatic footwork. Delhi must signal that it is willing to go out of its way to accommodate the concerns of the new government. The possibility of Kathmandu moving closer to Beijing will have several negative consequences for India that must be anticipated and dealt with promptly.
According to Indian newspaper Pioneer Daily, India needs to engage with the Left Alliance sensibly, in both nations' interests.
After the customary congratulations are conveyed to the Left Alliance comprising the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified-Marxist-Leninist) or UML and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) or the Maoists, which is set to come to power with a simple majority once the results of the Parliamentary polls in Nepal are formally notified, New Delhi needs to get going. Not to interfere in any manner, way or form in the affairs of a sovereign, friendly neighbouring country, naturally, but to ensure that both the abiding bond between the peoples of the two countries and the state-to-state Indo-Nepalese relationship continue to deepen regardless of governments coming and going on either side.
That's easier said than done, of course, but there is far too much at stake for New Delhi to stand by if the clearly pro-China UML, led by former and most likely next Prime Minister KP Oli, starts playing Beijing's game in an Indian sphere of influence once again, albeit citing national interest as a cover for ideological affinity though the Maoists, led by former premier Prachanda, have been far more genuine in their stated desire to ensure that Nepal maintains an independent foreign policy that doesn't lean precipitately towards either of its two powerful neighbours. Crucially, this election bears an imprint of legitimacy that makes it imperative for India to proactively engage with the Left Alliance.
According to a Pioneer Daily, the contours of what the terms of engagement can be are clear: First, a line has to be drawn under the perceived Indian support for a Madhesi parties-led economic blockade which turned Nepalese public opinion against India and provided the UML with an opportunity to bat for access to Chinese ports, construction of rail links between Nepal and China and the latter supplying petroleum products to Nepal, all in the garb of decreasing the dependency of a landlocked nation on its southern neighbour for trade and commerce. Secondly, whatever New Delhi's views on the merits or demerits of the new Constitution especially in regard to political representations to the Madhesis, Janjatis and Tharus, there are other less public ways of raising them rather than appearing to support mass protests. Thirdly, Kathmandu must be told bluntly there can be no compromise on India's concerns, as a lower riparian country, on hydel power exploitation in Nepal which is also a key component of Beijing's strategy to ostensibly aid Nepal. Fourthly, India's soft power outreach must be enhanced and examples such as India as first responder to the April 2015 earthquake must be kept alive in public memory. Lastly, instead of wasting time trying to give a fillip to the people-to-people contacts strategy with a failed state and antagonistic people in Pakistan, India would be far better served deploying such efforts vis-à-vis its Himalayan neighbour where a common Indic cultural heritage, an open border and Nepalese nationals living and working in India besides being able to serve in the Indian Army are all far more indicative of a special relationship which is worth preserving.
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Commercial & Dispute Resolution (Intellectual Property) - Review
Caselaw - Blackberry applications for invalidation bear limited fruit
In Blackberry International Limited v Wittaya Asawasuwannakul (Case O-074-09, 19 March 2009) the Comptroller has held that UK registered designs nos. 4002804, 4002809 and 4002814 were invalid on the grounds that they were not new and did not possess individual character.
In April 2007, Wittaya Asawasuwannakul (WA) applied to register thirteen designs 4002803-4002815, all in respect of women's clothing. In June 2007, Blackberry International Limited (Blackberry) applied for invalidation of the designs on the grounds that they were not new at the date of application. In December 2008, the hearing took place before the Comptroller. WA did not attend.
In May 2008, international law firm Hammonds became a limited liability partnership. Hammonds LLP and its affiliated undertakings has offices in Birmingham, Leeds, London and Manchester in the UK, and in Berlin, Brussels, Beijing, Hong Kong, Madrid, Munich and Paris.
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Vietnam's Other GIs
Nine out of ten of all US military personnel who served the Vietnam War did not fight. Instead, they served in support of those who did. They were postal workers, military police, guards, office clerks, mechanics, cooks, and drivers. Very few of their stories have ever been told. Van Carter was an Iowa boy who was sent to Vietnam as an infantry lieutenant, but who instead served as one of these rear echelon personnel. He discovered the other side of Vietnam, the side where all these people lived who worked in support of the soldiers in the field. He saw rampant drug use, prostitution and a huge racial divide between black and white American soldiers. He saw the absurdity of poor leadership, bad planning and even worse implementation of America’s war effort. He saw how everything and everyone became corrupted in Vietnam. And he, himself, succumbed to this all-pervasive corruption. He smoked dope, visited an authentic opium den, enabled some of the prostitution, openly defied authority, and made new rules he still hopes saved many from life-long addictions to heroin. And he fell in love. These are his recollections.
Van Carter is a retired Broadcast Journalist who received two national awards: the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists in 1984 and the Lowell Mellett Citation from Penn State University in 1988, as well as numerous state and local awards. He was the Statehouse reporter in radio at Des Moines, Iowa and a Supervising Producer for television in Los Angeles, California. Born and raised in Iowa, he attended the University of Iowa prior to and following his service in Vietnam as a U. S. Army officer.
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING:
"One thing you got going for you is this universal soldier thread. Your title itself recasts the archetype. He's not the warrior (Another archetype, entirely, and one the military seems to prefer nowadays). No, the universal soldier is the guy who survives, the mother f**r who was in the rear. And there were a lot more of them than warriors. Their story is what, for most men, war was really like. It's what being a soldier is really like. When I finished the section in Saigon with Loan, I thought it was really a great piece of description and well paced. A lot happens that kicks the story into second gear: the pot, the mixing with the Vietnamese, the building of the narrator's character. There's nothing elemental to be changed there. I now recall that by the end of this chapter, I was hooked. Nice work." -- Dr. Richard Musser, professor emeritus and former Clyde Reed Teaching Professor at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Kansas.
"Van’s memoir is more than a commentary on the War, and more than a commentary on race relations, the drug culture of the early seventies, or the contradictions of the law. Van’s irony and sarcasm mask a profound capacity for sympathy and understanding of human strengths and frailties. His personality is a mixture of naiveté and sophistication, of idealism and skepticism, of clumsiness and dexterity. All of these traits are revealed in his memoir of Vietnam. This is some powerful stuff." --
Dr. Wilson J. Moses, Ferree Professor Emeritus of American History, Penn State University.
by John VanDevanter Carter
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Memo-Gate Conjures Modern-Day McCarthyism
Sen. Joe McCarthy during his reign of terror. National Archives photo
On Feb. 9, 1950, a relatively unknown Republican senator from Wisconsin managed to leap to the front of a post-war paranoia movement that forever turned his name into a definition for exploiting fear without basis, all for political purposes.
Standing before the Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, W.V., Sen. Joseph McCarthy announced that he had a list of 205 men employed by the U.S. State Department who he claimed were “members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring” for the Soviet Union.
That pivotal moment in history was eerily echoed in the last few weeks by, interestingly enough, the current Republican senator from Wisconsin. In an interview with Fox News on Jan. 23, Sen. Ron Johnson suggested that a “secret society” may be operating within the FBI.
“The secret society: We have an informant talking about a group that was holding secret meetings off-site,” Johnson said.
He was referring to text messages exchanged between two senior FBI officials during and after the 2016 election, in which one text stated, “Perhaps this is the first meeting of the secret society.” Johnson added that a source had told him and other GOP senators that the FBI was holding off-site meetings.
Days later, Johnson backed off that suggestion considerably, saying that it was “a real possibility” that the “secret society” texts were merely a joke. But not all Republican lawmakers are as eager to backpedal when making accusations against our nation’s intelligence operatives.
Two weeks ago, California Rep. Devin Nunes made a McCarthy-esque gesture by spearheading the move to publicly release a memo declassifying information that he believed would expose anti-Donald Trump motives inside FBI operations. Trump himself was also convinced that releasing the memo would completely vindicate him regarding the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into possible Russian collusion and obstruction of justice, as he indicated on Twitter.
Trump approved the memo’s release despite public objections by his own FBI chief and Justice Department heads. But the memo is not the smoking gun that the right wing claimed it was. It was four pages of partisan, cherry-picked evidence that was largely incomplete or taken out of context.
What’s important isn’t so much what’s in the memo, but what the memo represents: Trump’s war against U.S. intelligence agencies is no longer merely a war of words. After claiming that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower without offering any evidence, after claiming Obama’s national security adviser illegally “unmasked” Trump aides (something Trump’s own national security adviser has debunked), after repeatedly refusing to acknowledge the conclusions by intelligence officials that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, and after buying into conservative media’s narrative that a governmental “deep state” exists to take down Trump from within, the Nunes memo is actually something on paper. It is a modern version of McCarthy’s infamous lists.
This time it’s not about ridding the government of Soviet sympathizers for national security reasons. This time it’s about Trump.
But the fundamental objective of McCarthyism is no different now than it was then: undermine crucial U.S. institutions that keep Americans safe, like the FBI and CIA, in order to score political points. And do that by making wild accusations that have no solid evidence, but are enough to get the public’s attention, and eventually, their support.
The memo was released to give allegations of corruption or bias inside the FBI a face, not a confirmation. It was released to enhance a conspiracy theory, not facts. And it was released not to protect the American people, but to protect the American president.
Trump’s road to the White House was paved by his attempts to delegitimize anybody or anything that challenged him. In his view, any press that publishes a negative story about him is fake, any poll not showing him winning is wrong, any judge who disagrees with him is unworthy and any election he doesn’t win is rigged.
Since becoming president, he has continued that trademark. Any lawmaker who criticizes him is incompetent, anyone who gets in his way is fired and any intelligence agency that comes forth with unfavorable information is corrupt.
Since Trump is keenly aware now that he cannot fire Robert Mueller without potentially serious political consequences, the next best thing is to delegitimize the organizations surrounding Mueller and the Russia investigation to discredit any damaging information that may come out of it. And now he has a member of Congress to help him. The Nunes memo is a tool to undermine law enforcement agencies like the FBI and DOJ, and in effect, force the American public to cast doubt on the effectiveness of those agencies.
Why would Nunes go to this extreme? Because McCarthyism can only spring from an issue or concern that is very popular among the American electorate.
McCarthy latched onto anti-Communism fervor to spread his falsehoods because it was the mainstream concern of the time. Now we’re in an era where mistrust of government institutions is popular. And Trump, the main practitioner of that mistrust, is also popular — at least inside the Republican Party.
Since Trump represents the Republican Party, Nunes will do what is necessary to protect Trump from political damage within his voter base, even if that includes extreme measures. The Nunes memo is meant to reinforce the beliefs of those Americans who both love Trump and mistrust government — and it’s working. A recent Huffington Post/YouGov poll found that 74 percent of Trump voters believe the FBI is biased against the president.
Nunes isn’t going to be satisfied with attacking just one area of government, either. McCarthyism needs constant nutrition from various tables in order to stay alive. That’s why the California congressman already has in his sights the State Department; McCarthy also began his witch hunt with that agency.
That witch hunt was only stopped when McCarthy began attacking the U.S. Army in 1954, accusing it of harboring communists. His movement collapsed, his support evaporated and he was censured by his Senate colleagues.
What will it take for our modern case of McCarthyism to reach the same fate? How far will this new assault on the pillars of our republic go before we say enough is enough?
The person who dealt the single most fatal blow to McCarthy was CBS news anchor Edward R. Murrow. He famously said on the March 9, 1954, broadcast of See It Now that “the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly.”
The same can now be said for President Trump and Rep. Nunes. The line between party loyalty and country loyalty is also a very fine one and more Republicans should start stepping over it and put an end to this modern McCarthyism while they still can.
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'The best thing is honest assessment,' Sussex coach Jason Gillespie reflects on defeats
Sussex coach Jason Gillespie (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
Bruce Talbot
Published: 11:27 Friday 05 July 2019
Head Coach Jason Gillespie says rest and reflection rather than more practice can help Sussex recover from successive defeats that have damaged their Specsavers County Championship promotion prospects.
A fortnight ago the county were settled in the promotion places in Division Two with every prospect of strengthening their position ahead of home games against Durham and Northamptonshire.
They are still third despite two dispiriting defeats – the second by a record 393 runs against Northants – but all the teams below them have at least one game in hand, and in the case of Worcestershire and Gloucestershire two.
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Former Yorkshire coach Gillespie has seen it all before during his career in English cricket and insists there is no need to panic.
“We’ve had a couple of bad weeks where we haven’t played to the levels that we know we are capable of,” he said.
“There’s no hiding from the fact that the Northants performance – while taking nothing away from how well they played – was not good enough.
“I know our supporters are disappointed but so are the lads and I’m not sure we would gain anything by more nets or practice at this stage. Since Tuesday they have gone away for a couple of days to rest and recuperate because the schedule in recent weeks has been pretty relentless.
“The best thing is honest assessment, individually and collective, and then for them to come back fresh and ready for the next challenge. We’ll be there for them and we will back them.”
Sussex begin a four-day match against Australia A at Arundel on Sunday.
The likes of skipper Ben Brown and Ollie Robinson, whose ten-wicket haul offered some consolation in the defeat to Northants, will be rested. Stiaan van Zyl, who missed the game because of tennis elbow, and Chris Jordan, who is recovering from tonsillitis, are unlikely to be risked.
But Gillespie says there is a good chance Mir Hamza, who has missed four games with a back problem, will face the touring team.
“We are going to take the chance to rest a couple of the lads,” said Gillespie. “But it’s still a good fixture and for those who do play it is an opportunity to play against some Test cricketers.”
The signing of former England one-day international Reece Topley until the end of the season has been made primarily with the forthcoming Vitality Blast campaign in mind.
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Topley has been training with Sussex since the start of the season and is fully fit after back problems blighted his career with previous counties Essex and Hampshire.
The left-armer has played ten ODIs and six IT20s for England. In 34 first-class matches he has taken 127 wickets, 83 wickets in 62 T20s and 93 wickets in 55 List A games so there is no doubting his pedigree, and what he can offer if he stays fit.
“It’s been a long time out rehabbing, so if I can make it through to the end of the season fit and having contributed to the team and then work hard during the off-season so I am at my best for the start of next summer I’ll be thrilled,” Topley said.
“I’m so grateful to Sussex for the use of all the facilities and personnel over the last few months. The ‘can do’ attitude around the place has been incredible and has surpassed any expectations I had.”
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GABBY BARRETT CONTINUES METEORIC RISE AT SIRIUSXM AND REACHES #1 ON RADIO DISNEY’S TOP 50 CHART
Captivating Country newcomer GABBY BARRETT continues her meteoric rise at SiriusXM, cracking the Top 3 with slow-burning, eye-for-an-eye anthem, “I Hope,” while also claiming the #1 spot on Radio Disney's Top 50 chart this week.
Hailed as one of the "10 Best Country and Americana Songs to Hear Now" by Rolling Stone Country – who praised the tough-talking single as “full of venom and vitriol” – “I Hope” has now been streamed more than 14 MILLION times globally, and its attention-grabbing video has been viewed over 3.3 MILLION times.
Co-written by Barrett with Zachary Kale and Jon Nite, the track has gained significant radio momentum since it was featured as a “Highway Find” by SiriusXM and spinning on Radio Disney Country – highlighting its blood-pumping sonics and Barrett’s sizzling vocal delivery.
“It’s been so much fun watching Gabby’s music explode on The Highway. The reaction has been huge from the beginning and hasn’t showed any signs of slowing down. Gabby Barrett is a star…it’s that simple,” praises The Highway’s Senior Director of Programming, J.R. Schumann.
The Pennsylvania native used her dynamic voice to impress as a finalist on Season 16 of ABC’s American Idol, and has since gone on to stun concertgoers around the nation. She recently delivered an electrifying beachside performance at the Tortuga Music Festival in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
On May 3, she rejoins PLATINUM-certified hitmaker CHRIS LANE for a show in Buffalo, NY – reprising his successful LAPS AROUND THE SUN TOUR lineup – and has more festival and fair dates on tap through September. As “I Hope” keeps climbing the charts, fans should be on the lookout for more new music soon. Barrett is currently in the studio with GRAMMY-nominated producer Ross Copperman (Dierks Bentley, Keith Urban), working on her debut-recording project.
For more information on Gabby Barrett, visit gabbybarrettofficial.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
ABOUT GABBY BARRETT:
Nineteen-year-old Country powerhouse Gabby Barrett came into national prominence in 2018 as a finalist on Season 16 of ABC’s American Idol, and has now burst on to the Country music scene with brand new song, "I Hope." A native of Munhall, Pennsylvania, and one of eight children, Barrett began singing in her local gospel choir in Homestead, Pennsylvania at the age of nine, started playing shows at age 11 and won the respected Kean Quest Talent Search in 2014. Prior to her appearance on American Idol, she performed 136 shows in 2017 alone, helped raise money for a host of regional charities – including the Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh and the Ronald McDonald House – and was regarded as “A voice you must hear” by The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Barrett has shared the stage with superstars like Luke Bryan, Bebe Rexha, Sugarland and Carrie Underwood, and following her third place finish on Idol, embarked on the American Idol Live! 2018 Tour and Chris Lane’s LAPS AROUND THE SUN TOUR. She is currently working on an upcoming release with GRAMMY-nominated producer Ross Copperman.
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Meta Analysis Statistical Study
“Although my centre develops the statistical software the whole Cochrane Collaboration uses for its systematic reviews and meta-analyses (Review Manager), I have often used Comprehensive Meta-Analysis for my own research projects, as it is easy to import data from Excel, to use effect modifiers, and also because it allows meta-regression and produces bubble graphs that are easy to work with.
Why perform a meta-analysis? What is a meta-analysis? Meta-analysis is the statistical procedure for combining data from multiple studies. When the treatment effect (or effect size) is consistent from one study to the next, meta-analysis can be used to identify this common effect. When the effect varies from one study to the next, meta-analysis may be used to identify the reason for the variation.
Aug 16, 2018 · We studied 15 428 adults aged 45–64 years, in four US communities, who completed a dietary questionnaire at enrolment in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study (between 1987 and 1989), and who did not report extreme caloric intake (<600 kcal or >4200 kcal per day for men and <500 kcal or >3600 kcal per day for women).
Cancer outcomes across all studies, in low and high cardiovascular risk populations, and in patients with diabetes. The absolute risk reductions and increases were calculated by multiplying the control event risk by the relative risk, and 95% CIs derived by frequentist meta-analysis (eFigure 4 in Supplement 2).Study heterogeneity was assessed using I 2 statistics.
Now, a new paper that will be published tomorrow in the Canadian Medical Association Journal* has looked at a vast number of meta-analyses and examined whether or not the studies had used valid.
It is increasingly common to include estimates of value of statistical life (VSL) in analyses of proposed policies that affect people’s mortality risks. While such VSL estimates have often been derived using methods that, for example, compare wage differentials between risky and non-risky jobs.
Major adverse events were more frequent with ablation, although the difference didn’t reach statistical. said meta-analyses are good for synthesizing data from different trials, but he pointed out.
We finally included 21 articles [22 case studies; one paper (Gonzalez et al., 2011a) reported two independent studies] in the meta-analysis (see Table 1).The study selection process (PRISMA diagram) is shown in Fig. 1.Basic information was collected for these studies, including the first author’s name, year and name of publication, country of origin, and details of settings (duration and types.
Detailed descriptions of the individual studies, ascertainment schemes, genotyping platforms, quality control protocols and statistical analyses for the primary association testing are described in.
Studies meeting the following criteria were included in the meta-analysis: (1) the study design was observational. modeling (conducted with MetaXL version 2.2 software), all statistical analyses.
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Despite the extensive cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) maize and considerable number of scientific reports on its agro-environmental impact, the risks and benefits of GE maize are still.
Meta-analysis can be a powerful way to reveal. to identify published reports studying the association and statistical analyses that synthesize the results of the identified studies. However,
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The sample consists of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental. analyses showed that with a power of 80%, the meta-analysis could detect much smaller effect sizes than any of the individual.
This is the first systematic meta. the studies’ methods vary. “What we have done is to draw that conclusion more accurately through statistical analysis.” Out of 63 studies, 53 showed a negative.
Results Twenty-four studies were included in the meta-analysis (4111 patients. Contributors MB and SLB designed the study and hypothesis, completed all statistical analyses and initial drafts of.
Meta-analysis is the quantitative, scientific synthesis of research results. Since the term and modern approaches to research synthesis were first introduced in the 1970s, meta-analysis has had a.
Meta-analysis of individual study and pooled effects. Each line represents 1 study in the meta-analysis, plotted according to the standardized mean difference (SMD; roughly the difference between the mean score of participants in the intervention group and the mean score of participants in the control group).
Thus, he said, additional studies will be needed to address the benefits and risks of ablation. Turagam MK, Garg J, Whang W, et al. Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation in patients with heart.
History. The historical roots of meta-analysis can be traced back to 17th century studies of astronomy, while a paper published in 1904 by the statistician Karl Pearson in the British Medical Journal which collated data from several studies of typhoid inoculation is seen as the first time a meta-analytic approach was used to aggregate the outcomes of multiple clinical studies.
Why Organisms Rely On Asexual Reproduction In diploid organisms, the breakdown of nonrandom associations of both kinds may be important in creating an advantage to sexual versus asexual reproduction, but only the between-locus effects are. Animals that are both male. Not all animal species rely totally on the male/female combination for furthering their kind and instead sometimes skip sex altogether. (The advantage of asexual. The algae depend on nutrients in order to reproduce. explain how biofilms are organized and why they
Meta-analysis, however, is a statistical tool with inherent strengths and weaknesses (Table 1). Clinically, it is most commonly and most appropriately used to pool data from available small studies in.
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16 of 23 (70%) comparisons that reported some form of statistical adjustment for covariates. While cross-sectional studies were not aggregated in a meta-analysis, most studies reported.
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Inside Tempest – the fighter jet of the future
By Cat Ellis 2018-07-21T13:00:00Z World of tech
Taking to the virtual skies
I’m at Farnborough International Airshow, looking down into the cockpit of the jet fighter of the future – and it’s empty. Instead of the usual rows of displays, buttons and switches, there’s nothing but a seat and a stick.
Everything else is virtual, and housed within a helmet that heavily, but comfortably, encases the pilot’s head, showing your surroundings (simulated, in this case) in colorful full HD.
Raising each hand brings up a menu of switches that you can tap to to toggle different views, and pulling a slide-out menu displays a map of the terrain.
Friends and enemies are flagged in AR, and 3D audio lets you pinpoint their location, even when you can’t see them (active noise reduction cancels out the roar of your own engines).
BAE revealed a concept model of Tempest at the Farnborough Air Show
You even have a virtual smartwatch. Raising your left wrist reveals various statistics about your health, including heart rate and ECG readings. If your vital stats indicate that you’re finding the current situation too stressful, the software could suggest handing over some tasks to a wingmate.
It seems strange to be putting so much trust in the helmet, but the plane will also be able to fly a UAV, with no pilot in the seat at all.
This is a full-scale concept model of Tempest – a next generation fighter jet that will eventually replace the Eurofighter Typhoon. Tempest was a closely guarded secret until this week, when UK defence secretary Gavin Williamson unveiled the model and announced £2bn (about US$2.6bn, AU$35bn) of government funding for the project.
The final plane will be equipped with next-generation weapons technology, including drone swarms that will use artificial intelligence to locate targets, and directed energy weapons – all launched using the virtual controls, or remotely with the plane being flown as a UAV.
Tempest will be equipped with advanced weapons, including drone swarms
Tempest is being developed by BAE Systems with Leonardo, MBDA and Rolls Royce. It’s still at the concept stage, but some of the technology that will be used in the project is already on display at BAE’s stand at the air show.
The concept model features a Striker II digital helmet-mounted display, which is designed to give the pilot all the information they need to make split-second decisions and reduce the amount of time spent looking inside the cockpit.
Information is projected onto the helmet’s visor, and displayed at the same focal depth as the outside world. There’s a built-in digital night vision camera, so there’s no need for pilots to use heavy, obtrusive goggles, and whereas previous displays only displayed symbology in monochrome green, which could become confusing. Striker II can color-code enemies and friendlies, making it far easier for the pilot to interpret their surroundings.
Tempest will be more than a plane – it will be an air combat system platform
Because the system is software-based, it can be upgraded easily without altering the physical cockpit to update it. This also has great advantages for training; engineers can create a simulator that’s identical to the real jet, and although a simulation is no substitute for flying an actual plane, but the gap is narrowing.
The software could also recreate the experience of flying one plane in a less expensive one, and even be used for aptitude testing as part of an interview process, in preparation for Tempest entering operation in 2035.
Check out our roundup of the best VR headsets of 2018
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Windows Mixed Reality Will Plunge You Into VR For As Low As $399, With Steam Support And New 'Halo' Game
29 August 2017, 9:09 am EDT By Aaron Mamiit Tech Times
Microsoft revealed that its Windows Mixed Reality headsets, which will be featured at the upcoming IFA 2017 trade show in Berlin, will bring virtual reality technology to homes for as low as $399.
The Windows Mixed Reality platform is also revealed to be the host of the next Halo game, so fans of the massively popular franchise should definitely check out Microsoft's latest product.
Windows Mixed Reality: What's It All About?
The Windows Mixed Reality headset is Microsoft's attempt to "democratize virtual reality" by allowing all head-mounted displays to have access to virtual reality software.
One of the characteristics of Windows Mixed Reality is that the platform is very easy to setup, as it does not use the cumbersome external cameras that certain virtual reality headsets require. The Windows Mixed Reality headsets will come with built-in sensors to track the wearer's physical position, for a plug-and-play experience that offers portability.
Microsoft also said that a variety of Windows Mixed Reality headsets and motion controllers will be launched this holiday season by Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Bundles for the platform will have price tags as low as $399 and will be compatible with both current and new PC models starting at $499. This makes the technology very affordable, compared to other headsets that require high-end PCs. For example, while the HTC Vive price was reduced by $200 to $599, the headset requires a powerful PC that will cost several hundreds of dollars.
Microsoft also said that it is currently working with a long list of partners to provide content for Windows Mixed Reality through the Windows Store. One of these partners is 343 Industries, the developer behind the Halo franchise.
The Next 'Halo' Game Will Be On Windows Mixed Reality
The next Halo game will not be on the Xbox One or the PC, but rather among the first wave of content that will arrive for Windows Mixed Reality.
Microsoft did not provide any specifics for the upcoming Halo title, but knowing the franchise's strengths, it will likely place the headset's wearer within a futuristic space shooter.
Other apps that are coming to Windows Mixed Reality include Rec Room, an online social virtual reality hub; Super Hot, a slow motion ninja simulator; and Hulu, a video streaming platform.
In addition to the pending arrival of Halo, Microsoft revealed that Windows Mixed Reality headsets will be compatible with Steam VR content, vastly opening up the content that customers will be able to load into the platform once it is launched in the upcoming holiday season.
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Andy Murray disappointed his fans with this news
Andy Murray is eager to be back in the competition. The former world No. 1 is back to practice on hard courts one month or so, and his recovery from the hip surgery he had in January is going well. However, Murray wants to take one step at a time and not try to come back too quickly like he did at last year's US Open or this year's Brisbane International by practicing on the tournament site and then withdraw.
That's why the three-time Grand Slam champion won't play the Glasgow ATP Challenger that takes place next week, from April 30 to May 5. There were a few rumours about it last weekend, but the news is now official despite the entry deadline is set for Wednesday, April 25th.
Murray could come back at the Loughborough ATP Challenger in late May, before coming back on the main Tour in June at the Libema Open in 's-Hertogenbosch.
For those with tickets next week or if you are interested in going, Andy Murray will not make his comeback at the Glasgow ATP Challenger.
— Stuart Fraser (@stu_fraser) 23 aprile 2018
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Guide to Lunar New Year in Seattle: Festivals, Events, Things to Do
United States Washington Seattle
All Seattle
By Kristin Kendle
Chinese and Vietnamese New Year celebrations are popular in Seattle and surrounding cities, and they bring festive fun to the chilly, wet winter. The Seattle area is diverse, filled with cultures from around the world, but Asians make up nearly 15% of the city’s population. This influence is part of what makes Seattle such a unique city, but also why its Chinese and Vietnamese New Year celebrations are so worth checking out!
From the Tet Festival at Seattle Center to Tacoma’s unique Monkeyshines, here’s how Seattle, Tacoma and other Northwest cities ring in the Lunar New Year.
Lunar New Year at Chinatown-International District
Kevin Schafer/Getty Images
The biggest and best Lunar New Year event in the Seattle area is held in the Chinatown-International District at Hing Hay Park. One of the best parts of this event is that it includes a little bit from many Asian cultures — Chinese lion dances; dances from the Philippines, China and other countries; Taiko drumming from Japan; and even a bit of Bollywood dancing might be in the mix. Equally as diverse is the delicious range of foods available for tasting. Chinatown-International District restaurants usually open their doors for Lunar New Year and offer affordable tastes of some of their menu items. This is a free event.
When: February 9, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Tet Festival at Seattle Center
The Tet Festival is a Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebration held at Seattle Center. It’s under the umbrella of Festal, a series of international festivals that take place throughout the year. Tet Festival brings in cultural performances and activities galore — music and dance performances, food and drink, as well as crafts and vendor booths. This is another free event.
When: January 26-27
Lunar New Year at the Bellevue Collection
Bellevue Collection
Yet another option for a Lunar New Year celebration is held at the Bellevue Collection. Like the other Lunar New Years in the area, expect music, dance, food, and activities. A big perk of this celebration is that much of it is held indoors. Learn a bit of Chinese calligraphy, make a greeting card, or join in a coloring session, all indoors. But there’s also a Chinese Lion and Dragon Parade because Chinese New Year doesn’t come in without a party! Admission is free.
When: February 9, 2019, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Lunar New Year by Tacoma’s Asia Pacific Cultural Center
Tacoma’s Asia Pacific Cultural Center hosts the largest Lunar New Year party in the South Sound at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall. Expect more than 90 booths featuring plenty of food, family fun, games and live entertainment. Like Lunar New Year in Chinatown-International District, the Asia Pacific Cultural Center brings in a bit of all Asian cultures. In 2019, the celebration focuses on Hawaii, but there’s also entertainment from China and Japan, Thailand, Samoa, and more. Admission is free.
When: February 9, 2019, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Kristin Kendle
Monkeyshines is not strictly a Lunar New Year celebration, but it takes place each year approximately on the same date. For this much-anticipated treasure hunt, a team of glassblowers create hundreds to thousands of hand-blown glass medallions and orbs. They and volunteers then hide these pieces of artwork all around the city of Tacoma in the wee hours of the morning. Tacoma residents (and increasingly people from outside of the city) then go hunting in an attempt to find some glass. If you find it, you keep it, but the rule is you can only take one per person.
When: There's no formal announcement for when glass is going out into the community. It mostly travels by word of mouth and the Monkeyshines Facebook page.
Seattle Art Museum hosts a free family Chinese Lunar New Year each February. Activities focus on the New Year's zodiac animal. In 2019, it will be the year of the pig. Expect live music, martial arts demonstrations, family-friendly tours of the galleries, and art activities for all ages. The event is free, but RSVP is requested, which you can do here.
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Fear of the Female Voice
Sarah Gailey
Mon Dec 4, 2017 12:00pm 31 comments 40 Favorites [+]
Ulysses and the Sirens by Herbert James Draper (c. 1910)
[Note: This essay is adapted from a lecture delivered by the author at Utah State University in October, 2017; video of the lecture is available here.]
Raise your left hand in the air and keep it there.
Did you do it? If so, you are extraordinary. A strange woman just told you to do something, and you listened. On a historic scale, that’s not just different. That’s revolutionary.
There are a lot of people in the world who wish you hadn’t done it. People who don’t like me personally, because I’m the kind of woman who gets up in the front of the room and starts telling people what to do. People who don’t like me in theory, because of what I represent to them. People who you know. People who are participating in a cultural narrative that is woven into the fabric of our society.
I’m not mad at these people, even though some of them have threatened my life. Even though some of them have threatened my family. Even though some of them have said they’d like to come to my home and shoot me in the head rather than see me continue standing up at the front of rooms, telling people what to do. I’m not mad at them, and I’m not scared of them. Because I recognize what they really are.
They’re terrified.
Of course they’re terrified. For millennia, Western society has insisted that female voices—just that, our voices—are a threat. We’re afraid of wolves, and we’re afraid of bears, and we’re afraid of women.
Pictured above is Odysseus, the titular hero of Homer’s Odyssey. In this picture, he’s resisting the call of the Sirens. The Sirens, for those who don’t know, were cursed women. In some versions of the myth, they failed to find Demeter’s daughter, Persephone, when she was kidnapped by Hades, the god of the underworld. As punishment, they were imprisoned on islands and trapped in horrible chimeric half-bird forms.
For the women who became Sirens, the curse was being marooned on islands, trapped for eternity. For the men who dared to sail too near, the real curse was the Sirens’ voices. Those voices were a curse because they could lure any sailor that heard them to the Siren’s islands, where the sailors would inevitably shipwreck and drown. Odysseus was set to sail past those islands, but he had a plan. He commanded his sailors to plug their ears with beeswax and cotton, and told them to lash him to the mast and not release him no matter what. He didn’t have any earplugs in for himself: he wanted to hear the singing and see if he could resist it. But when he heard the Siren song, Odysseus—a hero on a literally epic scale—was tempted. He was so tempted, in fact, that the only thing that kept him from commanding his sailors to change course and sail to their deaths was their inability to hear his commands.
The Sirens and Odysseus pictured on pottery, 5th c. B.C.
This story is a great summary of the cultural fear of female voices. In a society where men hold power, the most powerful thing a woman can do is to have influence over men. The idea of a member of an oppressed class influencing the powerful is fundamentally threatening to the existing order of society, because it puts some degree of power into the hands of those oppressed people. So, when the Sirens sing and Odysseus can’t resist being drawn in by their song, the reader sees an epic hero displaying a rare weakness: these women are so potent and dangerous that they can bring down a figure as powerful as Odysseus.
This is just one example of a significant theme in Greek mythology. Sirens appear in several different stories from Greek myth, and those stories all reflect and reinforce our societal terror of the influence of women on powerful men.
Starting in the fourth century A.D., Siren mythos began to be subsumed by Christian writers and became a tool of allegory.
Saint Isidore of Seville, who was an archbishop for thirty years and who is often called the last father of the Christian church, wrote about Sirens. His etemologae, which was intended to be a collection of all human knowledge, supposes that the Siren mythos is actually an exaggerated accounting of Sicilian prostitutes. Saint Isidore wrote that those women presented such temptation to travelers that they would bankrupt them, causing their innocent victims to ‘drown’ in the pleasures of the flesh.
Christian art through the renaissance period uses Sirens as metaphor for temptation and ruin. These Sirens are often depicted as human-fish hybrids (hence our contemporary conflation of mermaids and Sirens). During the Renaissance, the Jesuit writer Cornelius a Lapide described all women as Siren-like temptations when he said: “with her voice she enchants, with her beauty she deprives of reason—voice and sight alike deal destruction and death.”
Initially, Siren mythos reflected an existing fear of the female potential to tempt and ruin powerful men. But over the course of centuries, their story grew into a tool to reinforce that fear. Sirens grow from a few sisters stranded on an island by a curse, to a working class of Sicilian prostitutes, to all women. When Lapide wrote that ‘voice and sight alike deal destruction and death’, he was speaking into a fear that stretches all the way back to Eden narratives—a fear that listening to a woman is a mortal error.
In 1837, a man by the name of Hans Christian Andersen attempted to defang the developing Siren narrative by writing a story called Den lille havfrue…
Illustration by Vilhelm Pedersen, 1850
…which you may know better as “The Little Mermaid.” The original story, as our buddy Hans wrote it, is a Christian fairy tale about a virtuous Siren. His story is about an unnamed young mermaid who wants nothing in the world so much as a human soul, so that when she dies, that soul can live forever in the Kingdom of God.
She goes to a sea witch who gives her a potion that will grant her legs, allowing her to go up onto land and seduce herself a prince. The deal is simple: if she marries the prince, she’ll get a portion of his soul for herself, and she’ll be practically human. All she has to give up in exchange is her tongue and her voice. At the end of this original story, she doesn’t get her prince—he’s going to marry someone else, and she’s going to turn into seafoam. Her sisters—Sirens always have sisters—make their own enormous sacrifices to the sea witch in order to get the little mermaid a knife. She’s supposed to use that knife to kill the prince, which would let her turn back into a mermaid and rejoin her family. But because she is virtuous, she says ‘no thanks,’ and she dies, and she turns into seafoam.
Her reward for this enormous display of virtue? She’s trapped in purgatory for three hundred years, with the promise that at the end of that time, if she’s performed enough good deeds, she’ll get a soul and go to heaven.
Note that the overarching theme of this classic children’s tale isn’t love. Marriage is a factor, but it’s secondary—it’s a means to an end. What the little mermaid really wants—what she sacrifices everything to get—is a soul.
And the way for her to get that soul?
She has to give up her voice, and she has to endure agonizing pain, and she has to reject the company of her sisters. All this just to get to purgatory, where she has to undergo additional purification in order to have a soul. Her existing identity as a woman who wants things and can speak to that want is a moral obstacle to be overcome; her only shot at redemption comes to her via silence and death.
This isn’t a new concept. Two hundred years before Hans Christian Andersen redeemed a Siren by cutting out her tongue, a guy named Thomas Wilson wrote the first English text about rhetoric. In it, he asks: “What becometh a woman best, and first of all? Silence. What seconde? Silence. What third? Silence. What fourth? Silence. Yea, if a man should ask me til dowmes day, I would stil crie, silence, silence, without the whiche no woman hath any good gift..”
But the explicit demand for female silence isn’t an old concept, either. Women in contemporary media face an overwhelming demand for our silence.
One can trace explicit objections to female voices through to the Golden Age of radio. During that era, radio personalities were overwhelmingly male, and the voices of women were considered unbroadcastable. Women who tried to break into radio were criticized as shrill and grating; their voices were high and breathy at the time because they were required by the society they lived in to wear corsets and, later, tight girdles. Those undergarments kept them from being able to speak from their diaphragms, and the result was a voice which we currently affiliate with a young Queen Elizabeth: slightly breathless, high and airy. Those women’s voices were criticised as lacking gravity. In reality, they were lacking in air, because the culture of the day demanded that they suffocate. Medical professionals insisted that corsetry was necessary for female health—which left women with a choice between silence and survival.
Pauline Frederick began working in radio journalism in the 1930s. She was told by an executive, “A woman’s voice just doesn’t carry authority.”
Today, women are more present in broadcasting—but they’re still subject to consistent criticism focusing on the way their voices sound, and not because they’re shrill. Instead, the primary focus of contemporary criticism of women in broadcasting is their use of something called glottal fry. Glottal fry, which is sometimes known as vocal fry, is a distortion of the voice which generally stems from an attempt to speak in a lower register without adequate breath support. Glottal fry has come to be closely affiliated with stereotypes of vapid, thoughtless women, when in reality, it’s a vocal tic that reflects a woman’s attempt to speak in a voice that is deeper, and thus more masculine, and thus—per the strictures of our society—inherently more authoritative.
It doesn’t matter if we’re speaking in our natural registers or trying to reach for the registers demanded of us: Women in roles which focus on speech simply can’t win. This was summarized most concisely by The Daily Express, which, in 1928, described female radio voices as universally unbearable by saying: “her high notes are sharp, and resemble the filing of steel, while her low notes often sound like groans.”
This same discomfort with female speech extends into online spaces, where an entire culture of harassment against women has become an embedded part of the experience of being a woman in a position of high visibility. These harassment campaigns are global and insidious. They target women who disobey Thomas Wilson’s edict about female silence, and include explicit threats of violence, rape, and murder.
They target women ranging from actresses like Leslie Jones, who starred in Ghostbusters and dared to go on a publicity tour, to politicians like Jo Cox, a British Labor Party MP who was shot and stabbed to death in response to her advocacy for Syrian refugees, to feminist media critics like Anita Sarkeesian. Notably, Sarkeesian had to cancel an October 2014 speaking engagement due to the volume of threats leveled against her and the University at which she was supposed to speak. These threats included the usual promises of rape, murder, and violence—but they extended into threats of mass murder and terrorism. One of these threats promised that “a Montreal Massacre style attack [would] be carried out against the attendees, as well as the students and staff at the nearby Women’s Center”.
The historic and contemporary demand for female silence stems directly from fear of what women’s voices can do. If women can speak to each other and to the world at large, the ideas of women threaten to influence and shape society from the top down in the same way that men’s voices have for centuries. This fear—the fear that women will influence men, and the fear that they will influence culture on social and political levels—is pervasive, and leads directly to violence.
So what’s the solution?
This. This right here. I’m doing something that for centuries women have been told not to do: I’m using my voice. And you? You’re doing something that for centuries has been considered anathema.
You’re listening.
Keep doing that. No matter who you are, no matter what you believe, regardless of your gender identity: listen. Keep listening. Listen even when it’s uncomfortable. Listen even when it makes you question the things you assume to be true about your life and the world you live in. Find ways to amplify the voices of women who are speaking. And if you’re a woman who has been afraid to speak?
You have two options. You can be silent. You can let that history of fear and violence shut you up. You can give in to those people who would prefer to see people like me in the ground. It won’t make them change the way they treat people who look and sound like you, and it won’t make you feel any less scared, but it’s an option.
Or. You can do what I’m doing right now. You can be everything that those scared people don’t want you to be. You can be outspoken, and opinionated, and confident. You can use your mind and your voice to change the way that people think, so that there’s less fear, and less hatred, and less violence, and less murder. You can be exactly as powerful as they fear, and you can use that power to make the world safer for other women who are afraid to speak.
You can be a Siren.
Your voice has power.
Use it.
Hugo and Campbell award finalist Sarah Gailey is an internationally-published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has recently appeared in Mashable, the Boston Globe, and Fireside Fiction. She is a regular contributor for Tor.com and Barnes & Noble. You can find links to her work here. She tweets @gaileyfrey. Her debut novella, River of Teeth, and its sequel Taste of Marrow, are available from Tor.com.
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Tamora Pierce’s Fantasy Changes Lives
Meghan Ball
Tue Jan 1, 2019 11:00am 16 comments 5 Favorites [+]
Tamora Pierce should be a household name. We should all be crowded around our TVs every Saturday night watching The Song of the Lioness show on HBO. Her works should be considered a cultural touchstone that inspire generations. Prog rock bands should be creating epic concept albums based on her stories. There should be Funko Pops of Alanna of Trebond, Numair Salmalín, and Keladry of Mindelan.
But there aren’t. (At least, not yet.)
There are times I wonder if I made her up. These books are such excellent stories that it boggles my mind that they aren’t known by everyone I meet. It’s always an absurd relief when I encounter someone who loves Tamora Pierce just as much as I do. Whenever I spot a list of the best fantasy novels, I hunt for her name and am always gutted if she’s absent. I feel like grabbing people in bookstores and shaking them, demanding to know if they have any idea of what they’re missing. Pierce is one of the most important writers in my life, and yet it sometimes seems as if that importance is only recognized by a select fandom. Those days are over if I have anything to say about it—it’s time for you to fall head over heels for this amazing author and the intricate, beautiful worlds she’s created.
Tamora Pierce excels at writing stunning works of fantasy full of themes and concepts way ahead of their time. From the start, her books were feminist and diverse at a time where fantasy was predominantly focused on the adventures of white men. They were YA before the genre really started thriving and independent heroines from Katniss Everdeen to Arya Stark owe Pierce a debt of gratitude for getting there first. Her Tortall books are impressive works of fantasy with a world that feels gritty, realistic, and lived in, and contains a magic system that is well developed and imaginative. Her characters are some of the best I’ve ever had the privilege to read, brimming with warmth, humor, and determination. These are characters that will stay with you for your entire life—I know this firsthand, since I’ve lived with one foot in the world of Tortall since I was a little girl.
There are some books that become a part of you. They help you become the person you are, and you are forever changed after reading them. Their words become encoded in your very DNA; their paperback bodies are the bricks building the foundation of your character. Tamora Pierce’s books are part of mine. As a young girl my family moved from New York to the wilds of Arizona. In an effort to keep her bookish daughter from losing her mind during a move that was deeply hard on her, my mother took me to our local bookstore and turned me loose. I found a display with books that had a lady knight on the cover, horse rearing behind her, sword at the ready, and I fell in love. I grabbed every book on that display, eight in all, and carried them to my mother. Knowing a losing battle when she saw one, she let me buy them all. The Song of the Lioness quartet and The Immortals series kept me company as we moved away from the bustling city where I had been born to a sprawling, strange desert. Alanna and Daine became my friends as I suffered from homesickness and the barbs of new classmates who didn’t like my East Coast accent.
I gathered the other Pierce books as quickly as I could and one happy Scholastic Book Fair brought the other Tortall series, the Protector of the Small quartet, into my life. I still own these original paperbacks and they are yellowed from time and creased from love. I would not be the person I am today without the incredible women characters Pierce wove into the beautiful, brutal world of Tortall. I owe a debt of gratitude to Tamora Pierce I’ll never be able to repay. Her books taught me how to stand up for myself, how to speak up even when I was afraid, and how to persevere even when everything looks hopeless. I still consider Alanna to be one of my role models.
First published in 1983, Pierce’s first series is The Song of the Lioness quartet. It introduces the medieval fantasy world of Tortall and a young girl named Alanna who wants nothing more than to become a knight. She disguises herself as a boy and becomes a page, earning friendships and making enemies while doing everything in her power to show that she is just as good as the men around her. Alanna is a once in a lifetime character, with a vibrant mix of stubbornness and tenacity that makes her deeply compelling to read. She’s incredibly focused on her goals and won’t allow god or man to stop her from reaching them. There is a hard-won wisdom in Alanna, gathered over years of fighting in wars and stopping evil men from trying to kill the people she cares about. Her ability to triumph over adversity is an inspiration to me still.
The Song of the Lioness series is amazing, considering the time in which it was written. It’s incredibly diverse, with characters who are meant to be from fantasy versions of the Middle East and Asia. It’s a struggle even today to find fantasy worlds that seamlessly incorporate a variety of characters from different races and ethnicities and yet Pierce was doing it back in the 80s. They are respectful depictions as well—never fetishized or cartoonish. The Bazhir, for example, resemble Bedouins and they are generally shown to noble, wise, and kind. Alanna spends a year with them and her experiences make for one of the best books in the series. As Pierce expanded and fleshed out her world, she added Tortall versions of Japan, Egypt, and Africa. Each new place is depicted thoughtfully and populated with new and intriguing characters, people of color who have their own arcs and agency in the story.
Pierce is also a trailblazer when it comes to the relationships that she writes. Alanna falls in love with her friends Prince Jonathan and George Cooper, king of the thieves, creating a love triangle long before Peeta and Gale were a twinkle in Suzanne Collins’ eye. It would have been so easy for Pierce to make Alanna cold and single-minded in the pursuit of her knighthood, stripping away her womanhood to focus on her knightly duties. Instead she allows Alanna to fall in love, to flirt, and to have sex. I’m pretty sure The Song of the Lioness series was the first time I ever read about sex in a book and it was shockingly educational and enlightening. Pierce’s characters are never slut-shamed for bouncing from lover to lover—it’s presented as a normal part of their lives. It isn’t wrong or right, it’s just a thing people do with people they love. Alanna also goes through other girlhood rituals that are ignored completely in other fantasy stories even now. She panics over her first period and has an awkward talk about safe sex and pregnancy with a healer who happens to be the mother of a friend. In the guise of a boy, Alanna’s affection for other male characters is sometimes misinterpreted as homosexual, but at the same time that perceived desire is presented as just a normal sort of thing in Tortall. A little unusual, maybe, but nothing shameful or illicit.
The second Tortall series, The Immortals, introduces a girl with very little control over the wild magic that runs rampant through her blood. Daine Sarrasri is orphaned when raiders attack her village and her uncontrolled magic is mistaken for madness. She can speak to animals and, later on in the series, shapeshift into them as well. Daine meets Numair, one of the best mages of the age, and together they get a handle on her magic just in time for her to help save Tortall from total ruin. They travel together, fighting injustice in other parts of the world, with Daine’s moral compass always guiding her way even when it’s difficult and dangerous to speak up or take action.
The Immortals series builds on what Pierce started with Alanna in the earlier books. Daine is another amazing woman, strong and funny and undeterred by misfortune. She takes matters into her own hands instead of waiting around like a damsel in distress, and wants nothing more than to help those less fortunate than herself. She uses her wits and her magic to abolish slavery in a foreign land and comes back to pull Tortall from the brink of disaster.
The books are not completely perfect; they are still a product of their time, and there are some aspects and moments that haven’t aged well. The courtship and flirting that Alanna and Daine are subjected to are a touch uncomfortable in the current #MeToo environment. In one memorable instance, George traps Alanna in his arms and kisses her against her will, which is presented like it’s romantic and not, you know, sexual assault. On the whole, however, for books published in the 1980s Pierce’s early work is astoundingly progressive in spite of these occasional missteps. There is no rape in the novels, there is no fridging of any female characters. It’s a breath of fresh air in a genre that still hasn’t figured out that you don’t need these things to tell a good story or to show how a woman becomes strong.
Pierce’s fiction is gritty and the women face war, tragedy, and heartbreaking loss but the stories never descend into the grimdark basement of rape and torture that’s grown so popular in recent years. Each series focuses on a woman doing extraordinary things as they overcome long odds and daunting obstacles to become legends. The books don’t shy away from portraying some of the sexism that each girl experiences, using each instance to demonstrate how capable, courageous, and intelligent they are. They persist when others try to silence them and they rise above when others try to drag them down. It’s also important to note, moreover, that Pierce’s women aren’t infallible paragons. Each one makes mistakes and bad choices during their adventures. Each time, they must deal with the ramifications of their actions and face the realization that while none of us are perfect, we can all try and be better.
The Tortall books overlap and interact with one another and characters from one series often pop up in a separate storyline. I would consider Alanna to be the anchor character, since her story introduces the Tortall world and she usually appears a few times in each series. She even has a stubborn badass of a daughter named Aly, who eventually gets her own two book series in which she becomes a spy after being captured by pirates. Characters come and go, surfacing in an offhand reference or making a quick quip in a way that makes the world feel connected and real. It’s delightful to see a character from a different series show up, like running into an old friend unexpectedly at Starbucks and sitting down to discuss how they’ve been since you last saw them.
Alanna becomes a giant problem for one character, though. Keladry of Mindelan wants to follow in her footsteps and become a knight, and she is the first to try for her shield after a law is passed allowing women to join the knighthood officially. As is often the case with any male-dominated organization that has somehow let an exceptional, trailblazing woman slip into their ranks, Keladry is punished for Alanna’s success. She is doubted, hazed, and bullied. Undaunted, she squares her shoulders and plows ahead, forcing this restrictive masculine culture to make room for her. Keladry is less flashy than Alanna or Daine. She doesn’t have much magic, so instead she uses her almost preternatural patience and calm to forge her path. It is with grace and sheer bloodymindedness that she earns her knighthood and truly changes the paradigm in Tortall forever. Her series, Protector of the Small, takes great pains to prove to readers what can be accomplished even when others insist that your goals are impossible.
The world of Tortall has been going strong now for over thirty-five years and shows no sign of slowing down. In fact, a very long-awaited book about Numair Salmalín from The Immortals series is finally coming out this February (George R.R. Martin fans have got nothing on me—I have been waiting for this book for nearly a decade). It’s also interesting to note in that Tempests and Slaughter will be the first Tortall book centered on one of Pierce’s male characters. While the focus of Pierce’s writing has always been on the women until now, the men are also exceptionally well-written and believable, and I’m excited beyond words to finally hear the tale of one of her most fascinating side characters. And lest you make the mistake of thinking Tamora Pierce is a one-trick pony when it comes to setting, I should note that there is an outstanding non-Tortall series written the late ‘90s called the Circle of Magic. It has all of Pierce’s trademark wit and charm, as well as her wonderful women characters. Her ability to incorporate real world issues, like disability discrimination and race, into her narratives is again showcased with great aplomb and the characters written with great care and compassion.
Tamora Pierce and the women of the Tortall books made an indelible mark on me as I was growing up. They helped me through difficult times and taught me how to be confident, brave, and that being a girl didn’t make me lesser than any boy. Her novels are an embarrassment of riches that have never gotten all the attention and devotion they deserve. My hope is that new fans will continue to discover Tamora Pierce and spread the word, shining a light on these hidden gems until everyone can see the brilliance they contain. These books are pure magic, and you owe it to yourself to let them enchant you.
Meghan Ball is an avid reader, writer, and lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy. When she isn’t losing to a video game or playing the guitar badly, she’s writing short fiction and spending way too much time on Twitter. You can find her there @EldritchGirl. She currently lives in a weird part of New Jersey.
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Griko Bovesia (Greek-Bovesian) village on the slopes of the Aspromonte mountain in Calabria, southern Italy. Wikimedia Commons. Credit: Ragaznite
There are two minority Greek languages officially recognized in Italy’s south. Greko and Griko — both spoken by the “Calabrian Greeks” — are both timeless testaments to the ancient Greeks’ colonization of southern Italy in the 8th and 7th centuries B.C., some 2,700 years ago, greekreporter.com notes.
Now, both languages find themselves on the brink of extinction, and Calabrian Greeks, who are the last living trace of the Greek population who once formed “Magna Graecia” in ancient times, are striving to preserve their language.
A brief history lesson tells us that Greek was in fact the dominant language and cultural influence throughout a large portion of Italy, including modern-day Calabria, Basilicata, Puglia, and eastern Sicily, up until the 14th century.
Nevertheless, the introduction of Italo-Romance languages in the region, paired with the tumultuous and isolating geography, caused the Greek language to evolve into its own distinct dialect. In fact, it became two Greek dialects, one spoken in Calabria, named “Greko”; and another spoken in Puglia, called “Griko”.
“Greko” is spoken in a very limited number of villages by an estimated 200-300 people total in Calabria (although some reports state there are a couple thousand individuals who still speak Greko). These villages are located on the slopes of the Aspromonte Massif in southern Calabria. They include the towns of Bova, Bova Marina, Condofuri, Gallicianò, and Rochudi Nuovo, as well as several other small towns by the coast. This Calabrian area is still referred to as “Area Grecanica”.
“Griko”, on the other hand, is spoken in the southern area of Salento, Apulia, and especially in the villages of Calimera, Martignano, Martano, Sternatia, Zollino, Corigliano d’Otranto, and Castrignano. This area is known as “Grecìa Salentina”. With a high estimate of only 20,000 peoplemostly elderly, speaking Griko today, there is reason to fear that this ancient language may soon die off. Some estimate place the actual number at only around 2,000 total individuals.
In some ways, the isolation of these ethnic Greek villages, high up on the slopes of various mountain ranges, or in valleys in Calabria and Salento, served a critical role in helping preserve these ancient Greek dialects, as well as the communities’ rich oral tradition and folklore.
On the other hand, the isolation has also proved to be detrimental to the survival of the dialects. Even after the watershed year of 1999, when the Italian parliament recognized the “Griko communities” of Calabria and Salento as a Greek ethnic and linguistic minority, the dialects continued to disappear.
The languages are simply referred to jointly as “Calabrian Greek” in the UNESCO “Red Book” of endangered languages, where they is listed as “severely endangered”.
Nevertheless, Calabrian Greeks are not giving up on preserving their language and heritage. One way they are trying to save the linguistic history of Calabria is by offering online courses in Greko.
Olimpia Squillaci is a young Calabrain Greek who established the “Greko Language Summer School”. This industrious and driven young woman has also developed a Greko-Italian/Italian-Greko dictionary app, and established the first Greko online course!
She grew up speaking Greko thanks to the decision made many years ago by her father to speak with her and her sister only in Greko, as she points out in the video below. Squillaci received her PhD. from Cambridge University, focusing on language contact between Greko and the local Romance dialect, Bovese.
You can watch her express her passion for her Greko language and her pride in her Greek/Italian/Calabrese culture in her own words below. The first 0-:39 of the video is in Greko and the rest is in Italian.
Squillaci is not alone in her effort to save Calabrian Greek. She is a part of the Greko Cultural Association, called “Ellenofona Jalò tu Vua”, through which the summer school and classes are offered.
The organization is currently working on a program titled “Adopt the Calabrian Greek Language.” The program is offered from October 2018 to July 2019 and features free Greko language workshops.
Only time will tell if this new generation of young Greko and Griko Calabrian Greek speakers will be able to preserve their language for the planet to enjoy and appreciate.
To learn more about the project, and how to help, click here.
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Cookbook pioneer inspires 'Fannie's Last Supper'
Dec 29, 2010 at 12:01 AM Dec 29, 2010 at 2:31 PM
There comes an awe-struck moment in every modern, self-taught chef's life when he or she discovers "The Fannie Farmer Cookbook."
In our age, we take cookbooks for granted, along with the precise measurements and scientific and technical explanations they impart.
But Farmer's tome was a pioneer of the genre.
First published in 1896, it's in its 13th edition, which is pretty impressive since its author died in 1915.
Cooking has changed a lot in the century since Farmer first began inspiring young wives and mothers to create lovely meals at home, but her curiosity and devotion to perfecting the science of cooking lives on.
She ran the original "test kitchen" at the Boston Cooking School, constantly reworking recipes until they were just right.
Who knows what she would make of all our fancy gadgets and timesaving devices?
But after reading "Fannie's Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook," I have a feeling she would have enjoyed the relative ease of cooking in a more modern time.
God knows, delivering dinner in the Victorian-era was no small task, as author Chris Kimball discovered.
Kimball, the founder of Cook's Illustrated magazine and host of "America's Test Kitchen," is a fitting guide on this adventure. After moving to Boston, he discovered that his new brownstone was in the same neighborhood where Fannie and her family lived, and he found himself wondering what life and cooking was like in her time.
He hunted down Farmer's original 1896 "Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" (as her book was originally titled) and decided to try to stage an authentic 12-course Victorian era meal (including Mock Turtle Soup, Rissoles, Lobster a l'Americaine and saddle of venison, among other delicacies), recreating as many details as possible, from how the food was cooked to how it was served in his own newly restored Boston dining room.
For fans of both food and history, the book delves not only into Fannie's life, but how society was changing and how that affected the dinner table. (They already had Jell-O.)
Blended in with the history of the recipes and the era are tales of Kimball's efforts to find the proper ingredients and an authentic period cast iron stove - which was necessary if the re-creation was to be completely accurate.
Each chapter centers around one of the 12 courses, illuminating the issues the research team faced over the course of two years of rigorous recipe testing (led by Erin McMurrer, Kimball's culinary partner).
Some recipes worked better than others, tasting better as Fannie set them down, while others would make many a modern chef squeamish to prepare or otherwise needed tinkering to be more palatable to modern diners.
But, in the end, Kimball and company managed to make each recipe shine. Or so they hoped, as the date for the big dinner arrived.
What struck me most in Kimball's project is all the time and effort it took to prepare a meal, which is something we clearly take for granted today.
Sure, some households had a cook on staff, but by Fannie's time, that trend was in decline as the middle class began to rise and ladies had to take the burden of the kitchen on themselves.
Not only is a wood-burning stove difficult to use (it constantly needs tending to keep the temperature right), but it also creates a stifling atmosphere.
The coolest parts of Kimball's test kitchen ran around 92 degrees - and that was right by the A/C unit.
Kimball and his team weren't sure, even with all the testing, if they could pull off a seamless, three-hour dinner for 12 people.
That's right - 12 courses in three hours, which was the maximum amount of time Victorians gave to completing a dinner party.
Any longer would be unseemly, or so Kimball discovered.
Does it come off flawlessly? Well, let's just say the outcome is not the biggest surprise in the world, but that doesn't make "Fannie's Last Supper" a boring read.
Kimball takes you to another place in time, bringing the past to life in a fun and interesting way, and he made me wish I were one of the invited guests. I'm not sure I'd be able to eat that much food in one sitting, but I would have loved to try.
All of the recipes created for the dinner are included in Kimball's book, as well as a few others his team tried from the era.
While the book inspired me to take my time and truly enjoy my food and its preparation, I'm not sure I'm quite up to the task of recreating these recipes in my own kitchen - even with my modern equipment.
There are just too many steps for me - another reason I'm glad I was born in the late 20th century when cooking is not such a required skill.
The recipe that follows is one I'm sure I can handle. For some of the other recipes and pictures of the event, check out the website www.fannieslastsupper.com.
The entire dinner party was filmed and is being broadcast on some PBS stations during the holiday season.
VICTORIA PUNCH
4 tablespoons sugar 8 tablespoons lime juice 1 cup rum 1 cup water Pinch nutmeg 5 drops bitters
Combine ingredients and pour over ice to serve. Can be made several days ahead, as it apparently improves with age. Does not need to be refrigerated for storage.
Photos and recipe from "Fannie's Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook" by Christopher Kimball (Hyperion, 2010, $25.99).
Lisa Dinsmore is managing editor of One for the Table, an online magazine that specializes in food, politics and love. Information: www.oneforthetable.com.
Photo by Kate Kelley
"Fannie's Last Supper" author Chris Kimball installed the Cyrus Carpenter No. 7 coal cookstove in his Boston home to approximate the kitchen amenities of Fannie Farmer's era.
Spatlese Jelly with Port Jelly Cubes is a classic Fannie Farmer recipe revived by author Chris Kimball.
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster, Joe Pantoliano, Marcus Chong, Anthony Ray Parker, Paul Goddard
Keanu's Kicking Binary Butts
What if the world as we see it doesn't really exist, instead what we see, what we are is just a stream of 1s & 0s in a binary world. That is the seed of thought which "The Matrix" sows as it takes us on an action fuelled journey into an alternative perception of reality. And it has to be said that whilst being thought out and thought provoking "The Matrix" also has that wow factor so whilst your mind is accepting the possibility that what we see isn't real youre entertained by stunning visuals, amazing action and performances which bring it all together in a magnificent fantasy world.
By day Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves - The Devil's Advocate) works as a software engineer, by night he becomes a computer hacker known as Neo who sits at his computer waiting for a sign, a sign he has no idea as to what it will be. But one night he gets the sign in the form of Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss - Disturbia) who introduces him to Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne - What's Love Got to Do with It) and before long Neo begins to understand that the world and his life is not what it seems to be. But Neo is special, in the eyes of Morpheus he is the One who will lead him and his band of rebels on their mission whilst avoiding the capture and probably death from Agents lead by the creepy Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving - The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert).
As Neo is the special one in "The Matrix" it has to be said "The Matrix" is pretty special in itself. It manages to combine adrenalin fuelled action with a storyline which is thought provoking, something which very few action movies even attempt let alone manage to pull off. It serves up this concept that life is not what it seems, it's a computer generated reality manufactured by AI to give clone humans in a factory something to think about as it uses their energy to power their machines. Sounds wonderfully far fetched and it is, but it's also shockingly convincing because almost every detail of "The Matrix" storyline is thought out.
There is a surprising amount of intellectual reasoning imbedded into the storyline which makes you think, even consider that maybe life isn't what it seems, maybe we are just some stream of binary digits and that such things as de ja vu are in fact glitches in the system, as it is referred to in "The Matrix". De ja vu is not the only clever twist on life as we know it which creates "The Matrix" storyline, there are religious undertones as concepts of a special one, an almost messiah style being combined with belief also become part of the bigger picture, cleverly entwined so that it again makes you think more deeply about the concepts which "The Matrix" is throwing at you.
And by the time "The Matrix" ends you really are on the edge of believing that the Wachowski's who both wrote and directed are maybe on to something much deeper. Brilliant is the only way you can describe this storyline as it manages to take the far fetched, the sci-fi and deliver it in such away it makes you start to consider it as being real.
But "The Matrix" is not just about a thought provoking concept it's an action movie and the opening scenes where we witness Trinity escaping agents, kicking their binary butts in stunning style before disappearing in a phone box just as it is demolished by a truck sets the tone of what is to come. And that high level of stylish action continues through out. We watch a brilliant martial arts training fight between Morpheus and Neo, the ballistic fight as Neo and Trinity go on a rescue mission, a brilliant fight between Neo and Agent Smith in the subway and they are just a few of the many stunning action scenes which are so well executed and choreographed that like the concept of the movie takes you to another level.
And whilst there is plenty of action the whole look of it is breathtaking. Slow motion 360 degree revolving shots as the action takes place was and still is just incredible, the chase scenes are equally well choreographed instilling a real sense of adrenalin as you watch Neo, Morpheus and all try to escape Agent Smith and his minions. The way Agent Smith transforms into other people all has the desired affect of wowing and that is something "The Matrix" has in abundance, the wow factor.
It's not just the action which delivers the wow factor as "The Matrix" takes us aboard Morpheus's ship the Nebuchadnezzar and into the real world where the skies have been scorched and AI farm human clones to create their energy source. This futuristic world is just as stunning, especially the human cloning farms which almost feel disturbing as bodies are connected to the system by a series of sturdy chords connected in the neck and down the spine. Visually "The Matrix" is a match for the high end concept of the thought provoking storyline making it feel complete.
And then there is the acting and Keanu Reeves who was not the only actor to be offered the role of Neo, can you imagine "The Matrix" being so brilliant with say Tom Cruise, Will Smith or Ewan McGregor as Neo. Whilst Reeves is often called a wooden actor his performance as Neo is brilliant, he delivers that fear and confusion as he learns that life is not what he thought it was, but as the character grows so does Reeve's performance instilling that style and coolness into his performance giving it a mesmerising quality.
That same mesmerising quality also comes from Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus as well as Carrie-Anne Moss who is undenyingly sexy as Trinity especially in various action sequences which require her to dispatch an Agent with an impressive high kick. Talking of agents Hugo Weaving is brilliantly menacing as Agent Smith almost comically cruel without feeling over the top. And the applause continues through out with Gloria Foster adding charm as the Oracle and Joe Pantoliano offering up dodginess as Cypher.
What this all boils down to is that "The Matrix" is a very special and rare movie. It manages to deliver up a thought provoking storyline with layer upon layer of stunning action without compromising either. It set the standard for what movies had to compete against after its release in 1999 and features one of Keanu Reeves's best performances as the ultra cool Neo, matched by Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss who are just as cool as Morpheus and Trinity.
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Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
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World Cup 2022 the only focus for new UAE manager Bert van Marwijk
Dutchman, 66, was presented to the media at Al Nahyan Stadium having agreed to a three-year contract, with the option of another two years
UAEFA vice-chairman Abdulla Naser Al Junaibi and UAE manager Bert Van Marwijk at the press conference. Pawan Singh / The National
New UAE manager Bert van Marwijk says he has only one objective with the national team: to lead the country to the 2022 World Cup.
The Dutchman, 66, was presented to the media at Al Nahyan Stadium on Thursday having agreed to a three-year contract, with the option of another two years. However, the deal is dependent on meeting certain targets at the various stages of qualification.
Having guided Saudi Arabia to a first World Cup in 12 years during his two-year spell from August 2015, Van Marwijk knows what it takes for a Gulf side to reach football’s showpiece event. He faced the UAE four times on the road to Russia, as the Saudis finished second in their group to seal a spot at the tournament.
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The first round of a laborious qualification format for 2022 begins in September, with the draw made in April. The UAE have only previously appeared at a World Cup, in 1990.
“I’m here for only one thing, and that’s to qualify for the World Cup,” Van Marwjik said. “It takes a long time and the first thing we have to deal with is the first qualification round. That’s why I’m here.
“I know it’s not easy, but the Saudis and the UAE are about the same level. With the Saudis we qualified for Russia, so we will do really everything to go to Qatar in 2022.”
Van Marwijk, who finished runner-up with the Netherlands in 2010, denied he had been approached about a return to Saudi Arabia. Since leaving his post in September 2017, he managed Australia on a short-term basis at last summer’s World Cup, although the team failed to make it out of their group.
In the interim he has worked as an advisor to former assistant Mark van Bommel at PSV Eindhoven, but said he is now looking forward to beginning his tenure with the UAE.
“One of the reasons is the feeling - I have to have the right feeling when I sign a contract,” Van Marwijk said. “We analysed the UAE, we played four times against each other with Saudi, so I can see the potential. That’s the second reason, maybe the most important reason.
“I have had the experience to go to the World Cup twice: the first time we were second in the world, the second time was with Australia and we were a little bit unlucky - we played very well. So to go to the World Cup for the third time is the goal.”
Van Marwijk said he enjoyed his time with Saudi Arabia, but that his reason for leaving was a disagreement regarding preparations for the World Cup. At the time, the Saudi federation claimed it was because he did not want to reside permanently in the Kingdom.
Asked if he would live in the UAE, Van Marwijk said: “I was also the coach of Holland and I will do exactly the same as I did there. I will be here when I’m needed to be here.
“When I was a coach in Holland, I saw the players two-three days before the first game. That’s very important, that you have a little bit more time to prepare. I don’t like a lot of friendly games; I like to train. So for me the most important thing is can I prepare the team? Do I get the time to prepare the team?
“I like to know the players much better, so I like to train more. And that has nothing to do with living somewhere. I will be here when they need me here, and I will see a lot of games here. I also have a technical staff: we will see a lot of games if not all.
"It’s important that I see players and get reports on players, so that we can nominate the best ones I think can get us results. It’s the same as I did in Holland. I will be here as much as you like.”
Van Marwijk said his remit will include promoting players from the different age-groups to the senior team. However, he has been impressed with what he has seen in the past.
“First of all I have to learn about everybody,” he said. “I can tell a lot of things here about the football here. I know a few things; I don’t know all. It’s very good to start somewhere where you don’t know everything.
“For me the most important reason is the level the UAE have had, what I saw. That’s the reason we will do all the things we need to go to the world cup. That’s the most important thing. If I didn’t see the potential, I wouldn’t sit here.
“I heard there were some young talents so I’m anxious to know how good they are. I know the team has a few very good players. I will not mention all the names, but I want to mention only one: [Omar] Abdulrahman. I know he is injured. But those are players who can make a difference in the game. I like those players.
"In Holland I always say a team needs weapons and the UAE has a few weapons. And that’s very important.
“There were hard games with the Saudis against the UAE. As I said, you can compare the level and we achieved the World Cup. So that’s the goal we have here.”
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Corbyn is a Dangerous Anti-Semite.
There can be no doubt that Jeremy Corbyn is a shrewd and canny politician. It takes a special talent to emerge from the radical left of his political party to become the potential next Prime Minister of Great Britain.
He has cannily persuaded disillusioned Britons into believing that he can cure their ills. His rise is a phenomenon that goes against the trend in mainland Europe where, increasingly, populations are ditching failed Socialist governments, particularly over the issue of unbridled mass immigration which is leading to a breakdown of the social and cultural order in many European nations.
Britons, it seems, are prepared to put their concerns about this issue to one side and give Corbyn a chance to sort out the morass that has left a post-Brexit Britain in a quandary.
But how will the sharp rise in anti-Semitism within Corbyn’s Labour Party affect the outcome of a future General Election in Britain?
The greater part of their voters will put this to one side as they are not personally invested in this issue. There is a growing Labour constituency that will, surreptitiously, be attracted to the party because of this issue. Without naming who they are, they share a deeply felt antipathy to Jews. It’s part of their culture. There is, of course, a healthy section of the traditional Labour Party that abhor recent revelations of Jew-hatred within their party. Some have even admitted that Corbyn is central part of the problem, not the solution. They feel utterly uncomfortable within their party as more revelations come to the fore.
It is apparent that anti-Semitism was lying dormant within the party, and it became emboldened with the rise of Corbyn, a man who displayed tendencies and statements that position him as a latent anti-Semite with associations with individuals, groups, and even international terrorist organisations that exclusively target Israel, the Jewish state, for annihilation, while he and his supporters claim him to be anti-racist.
Successful political leaders have scheming minds. They know how to win friends and influence people. The really successful ones also know how to split the opposition and cause confusion and chaos among their ranks to reduce their effectiveness. This is an art that the cunning Corbyn has performed on British Jews over accusations of his anti-Semitism.
Following the uproar and the public demonstration of 1500 Jews in Parliament Square in highlighting the endemic left-wing anti-Semitism, the shrewd Corbyn joined a late Passover Seder, organized by a radical Jewish far-left fringe group mockingly called ‘Jewda.’
His strategy had the desired effect.
Against the rising voice from the leaders of mainstream British Jewry, Corbyn can now claim that some of his friends and supporters are Jewish. Therefore, how could he possibly be called an anti-Semite.
To prove his point, he went further to say that he had “learned a lot from talking to the young Jewish people at the event.”
What he learned was that this group calls Israel “a steaming pile of sewage which needs to be properly disposed of.” In this, these Jewish anarchists share his anti-Israel views. In truth, Corbyn knew this before he went. That was why he went. He had effectively split the Jewish voice who are now seen squabbling about whether Corbyn is an anti-Semite or not.
Corbyn has a convenient disconnect with facts and truth. Jeremy Corbyn not only called Hamas and Hezbollah, two Islamic terrorist organizations bent on the destruction of Israel, his friends. In 2014, he went to Tunis to support an event where laid wreaths at the grave of Atef Bseiso, the PLO head of intelligence operations who, among other murderous acts, was the planner of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre that killed eleven Israeli athletes.
When this embarrassment was exposed, Corbyn wriggled to suggest that he “attended an event where wreaths were laid on the graves of those killed by Mossad agents in Paris in 1991.” He was right, but he hid the inconvenient truth that he went in support of a terrorist responsible for the murder of eleven Israelis.
Corbyn associates himself with most of the Marxist dictatorships. More recently, the former chair of the Stop the War Coalition was silent about the grotesque chemical attack by the Russian backed Assad regime that killed over a hundred included many women and children, yet was quick to call for a UK review of arms sales to Israel.
Back in Britain, Corbyn can now sit back and watch British Jewry tear itself apart as Jews from the far-left claim to be, as described by Charlotte Nichols who escorted Corbyn to the Jewda event, “a distinct part of mainstream Judaism.”
Corbyn is an anti-Semite and he is playing the Jews for fools. He embraces Jews who reject Israel and stances those who defend the Jewish state against Palestinian anti-Semitism and their violent obstructionism to Jewish self-determination which are the sole reasons for lack of progress in the Palestinian problem.
Corbyn has now divided British Jews against themselves as the anarchist Jewda group, who claim to be an integral part of British Jewry, also claim, by their embrace of Corbyn, that he is not an anti-Semite.
The leadership of British Jews are confused as they seek a way out of this Corbyn-imposed dilemma. The answer is simple. Jews can also be anti-Semites. With our Jewish genius even this is something we do more passionately and successfully than the goyim.
History is replete with examples of Jews who have turned on their co-religionists and inflicted real harm on their own people. Spanish and Portuguese Jews betrayed Jews to the Inquisitors and executioners. Some even deserted the faith to become high-ranking archbishops in the Catholic Church. The pathology of Jewish self-hate had had deadly consequences for Jews. It occured a century ago in Europe as certain Jews internalized the negative imagery other had of them and decided to assimilate themselves to those in power by condemning their co-religionists. This is going on today with left-wing Jews who have not only abandoned Israel to its fate but are lining up with Israeli detractors and enemies in finding every opportunity to take shots against the Jewish state, shots they refuse to take against Israel's Palestinian adversaries, or any of the regions evil dictatorships. Among the canards that Corbyn's Jewish supporters are claiming is built on the lies that Zionists ( and therefore Jews) are immoral because Jews stole the land from the Arabs. Even Israelis are pathologically caught up in what has been called Israeli self-hatred. Corbyn has tapped into this display of Jewish self hatred and used it to his advantage.
It is right for British Jews to gather and call out Corbyn, but it now has to deal with both Corbyn, who heads a political party that reeks of anti-Semitism, and also with enemies within its own ranks that are siding with an anti-Semite against the truly mainstream British Jewry. It needs to put its own house in order before it can effectively win this battle.
“Criticism of Israel” is a carefully choreographed version of anti-Semitism in the hands of the malevolent, and Corbyn is malevolent. People such as Corbyn use it to disguise their Jew-hatred. This is apparent when one applies the 3D test – Demonization, Discrimination, and Double Standards.
When the Socialist hard left apply their scorn and action against Israel and not against the horrible regimes, including those totalitarian regimes they support or ignore, that is discrimination and double standards. When they use emotive language, one-sided judgments, false accusations, against the Jewish state and call for its elimination, that is demonization.
When a person goes out of his way to honor or justify the murder of Israeli Jews, that is blatant anti-Semitism. When one employs a tactic or strategy to divide British Jewry, that is the unscrupulous behavior of an anti-Semitic politician.
Apply these standards to Jeremy Corbyn and you can only come to the conclusion that he is a devious anti-Semite who seriously believes that the Jewish state represents all the evils of the world.
I agree and disagree with Alan Sugar, the British business magnate, who wrote a poem of sorts in which he called Corbyn, “a dangerous fool.”
Jeremy Corbyn is not a fool, but he is dangerous. His brand of anti-Semitism is sinister and toxic.
Barry Shaw is the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also the author of “Fighting Hamas, BDS, and Anti-Semitism” which covers the growing phenomenon of left-wing Jew hatred in support of a Palestinian cause.
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Strange Crosses in the Skies Have Been Reported all Over the World
Published: 8:00 AM 9/6/2013
Lawrence, Georgia - 09-01-13
At first, I only saw 1 and what caught my eyes was the color and shape. It was in a shape of a cross and thicker in the middle and bright orange in color and moving very slowly without any sounds.
As I got closer to my house, I cleared some of the trees and noticed that it had come to a complete stop. I didn’t see any blinking lights.
As I got in front of my house, I had a clear sight and noticed a 2nd object exactly the same. The first object had come to a complete stop and the 2nd identical looking object approached very slowly.
I ran into the house to get my cell phone to get a picture and ran to the backyard that gave a complete unobstructed view of where both objects were.
That was less than 20 seconds and they were no longer there. I ran to the front of the house and did not see or hear anything.
North Manchester, England - 12-22-09
The majority of sightings that are reported to the group typically describe spherical, disc-shaped or triangular objects.
However, sometimes objects of a more unusual shape are also reported. This report covers one such sighting by a highly credible witness – a 49 year old retire police constable named Ian Sawyer. Ian lives in Blackley, North Manchester, and used to be part of the South Yorkshire police force.
Several days before Christmas 2009, he had a very unusual sighting which prompted him to get in touch with BUFOG.
It was 8.38 pm on the evening of 22nd December 2009, and a very clear, still and cold night. There was very little cloud cover and the stars and moon were fully visible.
It had been snowing earlier in the day; there was about 3 inches of snow covering the ground. Ian was sitting in his lounge at the computer and having an internet chat with a friend on Yahoo Messenger.
The lounge window runs directly behind his computer. The view from the window overlooks the old Booth Hall Children’s Hospital site on Charlestown Road.
Suddenly an orange glowing light caught his eye, and he glanced out of the window to see where it was coming from. He immediately caught sight of a very strange, large glowing object in the night sky.
The object was the shape of a widened crucifix lying sideways, and was glowing a fiery orange color. At first Ian assumed it was an airplane on fire, but then realized it couldn’t be due to its shape and size.
It had very defined straight edges and appeared as a single solid object. Ian estimates it was 3 or 4 times the size of a jumbo jet.
He believed it was situated over a wooded area in the local vicinity, and at least a couple of thousand feet high. The object was moving extremely fast, hundreds of miles an hour, faster than a military jet would fly at. It was on a level flight path heading to the North in the direction of Middleton.
When Ian first sighted the object it was about a 3rd of the way across the view from his lounge window. Due to the speed of the object it was only a couple of seconds before he had completely lost sight of it off to the left of the window.
He immediately thought about grabbing his camera, but then remembered that the batteries were flat. Because the object was moving so fast, it is unlikely he would have had time to photograph it anyway.
He moved to the right to get a different view through the window, but the object had completely vanished from sight.
NOTE: NUFORC currently has 237 reports of cross-shaped UFO on file. One of the more interesting cases on record was the Devon Flying Cross.
When I started to look over the reports, I was amazed at the number of the cross-shaped UFOs that have been reported. Most of the UFOs were white or orange in color... some would morph in another shape (mostly a cigar or cylinder).
There have been a very high number of orange and orange-red orbs recently seen worldwide.
permanent link: http://www.ufocasebook.com/2013/flyingcrosses.html
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Are UFOs Real?
Published: 2:11 PM 9/4/2013
If a UFO cannot be explained would you suspend disbelief?
by ocjim, (statist)
Could you even imagine an airship originating from another world – autonomous, or maybe flown or guided by an alien creature?
Even our Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly called drones, you probably haven’t seen, unless you live in Pakistan, Somalia, or Yemen -- not a welcome sight, I’m sure.
Even if seen, our – and by "our" I mean Earthling — drones are a little different in that their technology doesn’t set them apart from the known.
But if we’ve seen an otherworldly craft, it sets us on a path of disbelief immediately. Why? Because the phenomena of its appearance and its performance put it in a separate realm.
All our experiences point to noisy craft in our skies, mostly with jet engines and some with propellers. An unidentified flying object (UFO) is unidentifiable because it is noiseless. It hovers, drifts, zips, zigzags, radically turns, or disappears in a flash of speed or stealth – a scenario not in our conventional realm of experience.
Popular media sources tend to discourage giving credence to such sightings. Government obfuscates. Neighbors poke fun. Family gets embarrassed. Consequently, we go along!
Social circumstances debunk the unconventional. You are ostracized. Your children are mocked and bullied. Let’s face it. We are social creatures who depend on others for our livelihood and our needs. We don’t tend to defy convention. We might speak maverick but we are herds.
For example, after 9/11 most of us suspended independent thought and followed our fellow citizens, our media, and our country to fight an unjustified war.
Let’s face it. If you quietly concede that tens of thousands of sane people, including astronauts, pilots, police, and presidents, have actually seen UFOs – let’s just limit it to alien craft and not ET — exercise your logic a little more. Unless you believe there are hidden alien bases on Earth or somewhere out in space in our own solar system, ask yourself where they (by "they" I mean craft, occupied or not) came from and how they got here.
Now would you not concede – since we’ve gotten this far – that such visitors would have to travel many light years (one light year is six trillion miles), the trip taking years at light-speed. Our science and scientists say that we can’t travel beyond the speed of light.
If we believe this, then this rule applies to others with much further advanced science and technology. Therefore a round trip from, let’s say Gliese 581G, some 20 light years away, would take over 50 years, assuming they could travel around .8 the speed of light.
When such aliens get here, do they hang around Earth and our solar system for a few years before they return to children who now look more like parents after aging 50 years while they age five, for example? If they experience our technology, are they weightless for 40 years, body deteriorated beyond repair?
I would say no to all of these questions. That is the point. Anyone who can travel light years to investigate our civilization will have a technology our science fiction writers can only speculate about, not even totally imagine. For all of us, pertinent questions will arise.
Can they render their crafts massless? Can they break our speed limit of light-speed? Can they create gravity on their space ships? Can they render their spacecrafts invisible — even themselves? Can they contract space (warp space)?
We are slowly emerging out of the cloud of superstition and ignorance that our forbears experienced. We are beginning to understand – perhaps not visualize – that the context of a truly advanced world is beyond our own context.
Our religions create fantasies that fill in the details of a realm our feeble minds cannot imagine in order to explain the unknown.
Rather than embrace and try to understand the unknown, do we scoff at it and scorn those who give it credence.
Is that where we are in our advanced civilization?
permanent link: http://www.ufocasebook.com/2013/areufosreal.html
http://www.nolanchart.com/article10409-are-ufos-real.html
Bright Object Emits Beams Across Idaho Skies
Coolin, Idaho - 08-10-13
Shape: Sphere - Duration: 2 minutes
Round bright object in night sky emitted light beams across the sky three times. The beams lasted for one to two seconds.
On the evening of Saturday, August 10, 2013, my wife and I spotted a round, bright white light object travelling across the sky. The time was approximately 10:00 pm to 10:30 pm.
The object was moving south. We were camping at Lion Head camp ground on the north end of Priest Lake in Coolin, Idaho, when we spotted the object.
At the time, we were gazing into the sky watching shooting stars, meteorites, and other marvels of the sky. When I noticed the bright object, I had my wife look at it because I knew there was something unusual about it. In fact, I said, "There, look! A UFO."
The object was travelling at a higher speed than any plane I've seen before and there were no blinking lights or any other alternative explanation. It was simply an unidentified flying object.
While my wife still doubted what she was looking at, the object shot a beam of light, perhaps a laser, the width of the object, all the way across the sky, miles in length, to a point we could not see due to trees blocking our view.
The beam of light lasted for approximately a second or two. I said, "Whoa! Did you see that?!?" And my wife did! The object shot the beam of light the same direction two more times, but to two different locations across the sky.
We continued to watch the object move across the sky hoping to see more unexplainable displays from the object, but more campers showed up with their car shining its headlights near our direction, which distracted us from watching the object much longer.
That same night, I witnessed various objects moving across the sky that would sometimes disappear while watching. Some may say that I saw satellites.
However, the objects moved way too fast to be satellites. I've seen satellites move across the sky, and these objects appeared to move 10 times as fast.
I've seen UFOs before, but for some reason I feel this sense of apprehension to talk about what I've witnessed. I even felt apprehensive about reporting what my wife and I saw. She doesn't even talk about it.
However, I found this UFO reporting site online and I feel it is alright to share what I witnessed when so many other people have witnessed various unidentified objects as well.
permanent link: http://www.ufocasebook.com/2013/idaho081013.html
Weird UFO Causes Emotional Reaction in New Jersey
Somerdale, New Jersey - 09-01-13
I couldn't sleep, so I suggested to my boyfriend that we go out and look at the sky. I live in a heavily light-polluted area, so getting a good look at the stars is a rare occurrence.
With few clouds and the moon out of view, for once, there were a fair amount of visible stars. We grabbed a blanket, set it up on my front lawn, and fixed our eyes on a stationary star above us in attempt to see some shooting stars.
After about 20 minutes of laying and staring we both witnessed an extremely bright, circular object appear right before our eyes.
It looked kind of like a star, in that it was white-blue in color and the same spherical shape; however, it seemed much closer and was brighter than anything I have ever witnessed in the night sky.
I immediately felt emotional, sitting up and beginning to cry for unknown reasons. It only lasted for a second or two before fading out and disappearing completely, without moving from its original location.
After seeing this, we were both confused and shocked. We began to rule out what it couldn't be, and were left with no explanation as to what it was.
After a few minutes (5-10) of frenzied ideas, while still staring at the sky, the light returned -- this time slightly above our heads and behind us, but bright enough so as soon as it appeared we were both fixated on it.
It behaved exactly as it did the first time, eliciting the same emotional reaction, and faded out just as quickly. I have been interested in the possibilities that the night sky holds for some time, and have spent plenty of time staring up -- in my area and other more secluded regions where the stars are plentiful and easily seen, but I have never seen anything like this before.
This was brighter any star, plane, or satellite I have ever seen and too perfectly circular to be just an iridium flare.
This case is under investigation by Ken Pfeifer of MUFON New Jersey
permanent link: http://www.ufocasebook.com/2013/newjersey090113.html
Thanks to Ken Pfeifer
British Charter Jet Encounters 'Battleship Size' UFO - Pilot, Crew In Shock
A British charter jet has had a close encounter with a UFO said to be "the size of a battleship."
The shocked pilot and crew of a Debonair BAe146 plane reported being buzzed by "a long cylindrical object" as they flew over the North Sea. Three other pilots have also independently logged seeing the bright object 58 miles off the coast of Denmark.
Last night the Civil Aviation Authority confirmed a comprehensive report of the pilot's sighting had been received. The report says the captain and crew first became aware of the object after the underside of the plane was immersed in "an incandescent light."
A CAA spokeswoman said: "The captain reported seeing an unnatural bright light below his aircraft while flying at 28,000 ft. The area below him was illuminated for about 10 seconds by incandescent light and it was certainly not a light from another plane.
"Three other aircraft saw it moving at a high speed or static. However, air traffic control were informed and they confirmed that there were no other planes in the vicinity.
"Then, five minutes later, there was a brief radar return from a spot 75 miles away. We believe there was no danger involved." The Luton-based 96-seater plane was flying company executives from Linkoping, Sweden, to Humberside airport. A spokesman for Debonair, which runs cut-price flights throughout Europe, said chief executive Franco Mancassola had been informed that a "great red light in the sky" had been spotted near one of the company's planes. At one stage, the report says, the object came to an abrupt halt before accelerating past the airliner at thousands of miles an hour.
A CAA source says the object was tracked by a military radar station in Yorkshire after it entered UK air space.
A spokesman for the 6,000 member British Pilots Association said: "We get reports of this nature from our members, but they are few and far between.
"In the past 10 years or so I would say there have been around six cases of UFOs being sighted.
"Many pilots are reluctant to make such claims because it tends to lay them open to ridicule. So when they do go as far as making a report we do expect it to be given credence."
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence insisted there were no military aircraft in the area adding: "We saw nothing." © Express Newspapers Ltd
By Simon Bird
Daily Express (UK)
From Mark Hall
The Mirror - London
From Gerry Lovell
A passenger jet's crew have reported a close encounter with an unidentified flying object.
They said that they noticed an "incandescent" light below their Debonair BAe 146 as it headed over the North Sea from Sweden to Humberside.
Then, they added, a long cylindrical silver-coloured object the size of a battleship flew alongside. The British plane's shocked captain saw what seemed to be rows of square portholes on the UFO before it vanished at "enormous speed."
The crew told the Defence Ministry about their sighting. An RAF radar station tracked the object, which was seen from three other planes.
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Edinburgh Film Festival — Turn It Loose
Michael Bonner
I'm up in Edinburgh, in case it needs some minor clarification, for this year's Film Festival. As usual, there's a satisfyingly wide array of movies to see, and I'll be blogging a couple of times a day between now and Tuesday to report back the highlights. Presently, I'm off to try and see Kathryn Bigelow's Hurt Locker, an Iraq War drama that's got many of my peers up here in quite a lather of excitement. Meantime, here's one of the best movies I've seen so far.
I’m up in Edinburgh, in case it needs some minor clarification, for this year’s Film Festival. As usual, there’s a satisfyingly wide array of movies to see, and I’ll be blogging a couple of times a day between now and Tuesday to report back the highlights. Presently, I’m off to try and see Kathryn Bigelow‘s Hurt Locker, an Iraq War drama that’s got many of my peers up here in quite a lather of excitement. Meantime, here’s one of the best movies I’ve seen so far.
Turn It Loose
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One small but notable trend in documentary filmmaking that’s emerged in the last few years has been the competition doc. I’m talking about films like Spellbound and Sounds Like Teen Spirit that cover the emotional gamut experienced by contestants during a competitive event; in the case of Spellbound it was the American Spelling Bee Championship, while in Sounds Like Teen Spirit, the junior Eurovision Song Contest. Turn It Loose, by first-time feature director Alastair Siddons, tracks the one-on-one “battles” between the world’s best breakdancers in a disused power station in Soweto. As with Spellbound or …Teen Spirit, your enjoyment of Turn It Loose is by no means predicated on whether or not you like, or indeed know much about the subject. It’s appeal lies, principally, in the characters themselves, but there’s also a fascinating socio-political subtext to the film that develops as Siddons and his crew travel to the contestants’ home countries.
We meet French Algerian Lilou, who lives “like a battery hen” in the slums of Lyon. Lilou, a devout Muslim, wears a hidjab in one battle against American contestant RoxRite in protest against America’s ongoing incursions into the Middle East. RoxRite, for his own part, lives with his family in one of the poorest parts of northern California and complains about being singled out simply because of his nationality (he’s in fact Mexican, but there). Ben-J, from the ghettoes of Dakar, carries himself with quiet nobility, and seems profoundly aware of the pressure on him to succeed. There’s Taisuke, in Tokyo, who speaks abstractly about presumably dark family troubles, before breakdancing in Shibuya Junction; to Taisuke, as with all the competitors, breakdancing provides a focus and a relief from poverty. As more than one character notes, if it wasn’t for breakdancing, they’d be selling drugs or running with gangs. They speak of breakdancing, and battles, in either gladiatorial or spiritual terms, and there’s something incredibly positive about their attitudes that, without sounding grumpy, feels refreshing when you perhaps consider some of the less savory aspects of hip hop culture.
Siddons’ film is handsomely shot. The Dakar sequences, for instance, are filmed with a bold colour palette that resembles City Of God. The bouts themselves achieve an almost Matrix-like quality, Siddons deploying image capturing techniques in the edit to freeze contestants in mid-air, speeding up or slowing down the action, splicing hip hop with classical music. It’s a formidably impressive mastery of his digital box of tricks (Siddons, for his part, has a background in promo clips for The Streets, Roots Manuva and –let’s not hold it against him – The Towers Of London). It’s interesting, perhaps, to wonder where the funding for this film came from. The tournament itself is sponsored by Red Bull, and it’s entirely possible they’ve invested money in the film; but, encouragingly, they exercise no editorial control here.
Anyway, I’ll be back later to post about a German film I’ve just seen, The Architect. More soon.
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Podcasts to Listen To: The History Chicks and the best history podcasts to listen to
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Winston Churchill famously said, "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it." To avoid that, here are four podcasts you can listen to right now to read up on a variety of subjects:
Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider don’t want their show to feel like a history class with an exam at the end. So, their semiweekly show dives deep into the life of a female historical figure to shine a light on some people’s legacies American education may have dampened. Their most recent episode on Charlotte Brontë is a good place to start.
Find it: http://thehistorychicks.com/
Five-time New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t see history as cut-and-dried as you may have read in a textbook. Throughout each of the show’s 30 episodes, Gladwell heads back in time to a historical figure or event and tries to see it in a new light in an attempt to get closer to the emotional truth of the subject.
Find it: http://revisionisthistory.com/
History shouldn’t only pertain to wars and politicians; the sports junkie needs a podcast dedicated to their own legacies. 30 for 30, an extension of the documentary series made famous on ESPN, produces original sports audio documentaries. Sports are a wide-ranging topic, though, so the show covers everything from social issues to esports.
Find it: https://30for30podcasts.com/
The Cine-Files
Much of our history has been preserved through the use of film. On this show, hosts Steve Morris and John Rocha take the plunge into a classic film to explore its themes and the bigger picture it’s trying to present. Now is a great time to jump in as the show returns next week with part two of its series on Ken Burns’ documentary, "The Civil War."
Find it: https://www.cine-files.net/
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A puzzling objection from Lysaght’s controlling shareholder on proposed shares split, bonus issue
Liew Jia Teng
TheEdge Markets.com
October 14, 2014 22:49 pm +08
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 14): Galvanised steel products manufacturer Lysaght Galvanized Steel Bhd has revealed that its controlling shareholder, Lysaght Malaysia Sdn Bhd (LMSB), intends to vote against the company’s proposed share split, bonus issue and issue of free warrants.
In a filing with Bursa Malaysia this evening, Lysaght said its board of directors had on the evening of Oct 13, 2014, received a letter from LMSB, informing Lysaght that a corporate representative of LMSB has been authorised and directed by LMSB “to vote against any resolutions, whether with or without amendments, in relation to the proposals”.
“The board will meet to deliberate on the above and the next course of action to be taken and a further announcement will be made in due course,” said Lysaght, without identifying the said representative from LMSB.
The announcement seemed bewildering as such corporate exercises like share split, bonus issue and issue of free warrants are meant to reward all shareholders.
It is worth noting that LMSB, which is the single-largest shareholder of Lysaght with a 55.14% stake, and Ingli Sdn Bhd (with a 15.46% stake) are both controlled by the same founding family of Lysaght.
Lysaght’s managing director is Liew Hoi Foo, who is the son-in-law of Lysaght’s founder, the late Chew Kar Heing and Lim Lee Kuan; the latter is still a director. Through LMSB and Ingli, the Chew family and Liew collectively owns more than 70% of Lysaght.
Meanwhile, Lysaght also told the stock exchange that it was not able to meet the given timeframe for the submission of the company’s draft circular and documents pertaining to the share split and bonus issue proposals.
Interestingly, Lysaght has also said it has yet to receive the director’s declaration from Chew Meu Jong, a new non-executive director who was appointed on Sept 30 this year. Meu Jong, an Australian, is the sister-in-law of Liew. She is the managing director of Chew Brothers (M) Sdn Bhd that holds a 40% stake in LMSB.
Liew, Lim and Chew are the only three family members in the five-member board of Lysaght.
Lysaght said an application has been submitted to Bursa on Oct 13 to extend to Oct 31 the submission of the company's draft circular and documents pertaining to the proposals. The application is currently pending Bursa’s approval.
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Home/Arts & Culture/Maybe Art Should Be for Everyone: A Review of PARK(ing) Day 2017
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Maybe Art Should Be for Everyone: A Review of PARK(ing) Day 2017
Arden Burtnik September 28, 2017
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At Edmonton’s rendition of the 16th annual worldwide PARK(ing) Day event last Friday, Daniel Walker, a graduate student studying Art History at the U of A, had stationed the U-Haul van he rented on the south side of 101A Avenue, between 96th and 97th Street. Pejoratively called “Tailgate Party,” Walker had rented the van to act as a pop-up art gallery for the day. Inside, he hosted works by Edmonton artists that centered around mass-produced domestic products.
Located at the back wall of the van were two works from Leila Plouffe, titled Leaning. Small, soft mattresses — on the verge of being futons — were propped against the wall at 45-degree angles and tiny wheels enabled them to slide along the wall, as if they were sliding upholstered library stairs. Plouffe is a recent graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA painting program, and her work is an attempt to imbue everyday items with their own agency. What if quotidian objects, like a forlorn murphy bed, were designed to fail?
With the U-Haul situated where it is — on the outskirts of downtown and the perimeter of Chinatown, with the women’s shelter down the street and the Hope Mission only a few more blocks away — I can imagine the circumstances under which Leaning would come off as tasteless in the face of such poverty, but it is worth noting that our city is already populated with a plenitude of public design works that are purposefully inhospitable to homeless populations, such as the impossibility of sleeping on a city bench when there is an armrest sectioning off each seat, or how (and this is truer in larger cities) small spikes are implanted in front of entrances to do the same. Leaning reads as a more cynical version of anti-homelessness design practices because a bed’s purpose is to be a place of sleeping, warmth, and security. Plouffe’s bed, in contrast, is so useless that it spites all other makeshift beds that homeless people must resort to.
Having been given a tour of the van from Walker and an overview of his curatorial direction (“allowing objects to fail at their functions allows us to reorient our lives towards them”), we stepped outside to take some photos. There were other booths stationed along the street from people doing karaoke to a crowd of three to a group of students performing improv theatre, but Walker’s had the most attention, so when a surly man from the neighbourhood came to voice his disgust at the entire operation, he picked Walker and the U-Haul as his audience.
“What are you doing to help the community?” the man yelled, in a general version of outrage that had no mandate other than to voice its opinion.
Nobody answered. He hadn’t come for an answer. He came to scold the crowd for not doing the complicated and difficult groundwork that one has to do if they are interested in alleviating entire communities from systemic poverty.
After a while he left. He called us privileged a few more times. None of us claimed we weren’t, but neither did any of us claim to be doing anything to be helping Boyle Street other than bringing bodies and movement and artwork into a grey side street and parking lot.
I wish the conversation were more nuanced than gentrifier and gentrified. At that moment, however, it didn’t seem that way. I left wondering how the encroachment of downtown into Boyle Street and McCauley would affect those who live there now and those who have nowhere else to go.
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Assisted dying in Canada has entered a new era following the federal government's failure to meet a Supreme Court deadline for new legislation.
Opinion: The Death of a Butterfly
It's time for the federal government to show mercy on suffering Canadians who wish to die.
Joel Tansey
Monday was a lovely night for a walk around town, especially after I spent the bulk of the morning and afternoon in the office putting the finishing touches on this week’s print issue.
Toward the beginning of my evening saunter, I killed a butterfly. Maliciously. I stomped on it three times and then pressed it further into the ground to make sure I had completed the job.
I didn’t feel an ounce of remorse and I’d do it again.
But before you call PETA, hear me out.
This butterfly, a brilliant blue and yellow, was flapping its wings vigorously in the grass but unable to move. Upon further inspection, it became clear that its left wing was severely and critically damaged.
Basically, the poor little guy was screwed and I showed him the mercy of a quick and (mostly) painless death.
It struck me how timely my mercy kill was, given the discussion regarding assisted dying that continues to rage in Ottawa. With the Supreme Court’s June 6 deadline for legislation having passed without federal law, the legality on assisted death is now as clear as mud.
According to the Supreme Court, doctors can now help mentally competent adults who are suffering through a grievous and irremediable condition end their lives without facing criminal charges.
But without federal legislation, doctors associations are concerned that physicians could still be prosecuted.
There are also some problematic items within the legislation that the federal Liberals did try to pass, including not allowing advance requests for assisted death (individuals with dementia who lose their cognitive abilities could be out of luck) and treating individuals differently based on their medical conditions (terminal cancer might make you eligible, but not ALS).
According to a poll conducted by Ipsos Reid and commissioned by Dying with Dignity Canada, eight out of 10 Canadians believe that “individuals with a grievous and irremediable medical conditions, including patients with dementia, should be permitted to consent to assisted death in advance.” So while this might appear to be a controversial issue in some circles, Canadians are mostly in agreement with the Supreme Court’s Feb. 5 decision to strike down Canada’s law against assisted suicide.
The worst aspect of this snail’s pace at the federal level is that there are Canadians in the hospital right now who might be begging for mercy, but have a doctor whose hands are tied by the fact that our government can’t pass a proper piece of legislation. According to a story in the Globe and Mail, some doctors plan to go ahead and perform assisted deaths this week. But others, such as in Ontario, are so concerned about future charges that they are still going through the slower process of having the assisted death authorized by the Supreme Court.
If we can show mercy to an insect, then surely we can show mercy to our fellow men and women. It’s well past time that our federal government stepped up and gave Canadians the right to live or die.
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Antarctic ice shelves are melting dramatically, study finds
Melting of floating ice shelves around the continent is accelerating, potentially unlocking extra sea level rise from larger ice sheets jammed behind them
Karl Mathiesen
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Thu 26 Mar 2015 15.54 EDT Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 12.50 EST
Satellite view of a large iceberg separating from Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier, where ice loss has doubled in speed over the last 20 years. Photograph: MODIS/Aqua/NASA
The ice around the edge of Antarctica is melting faster than previously thought, potentially unlocking metres of sea-level rise in the long-term, researchers have warned.
A team of US scientists looked at 18 years’ worth of satellite data and found the floating ice shelves that skirt the continent are losing 310km3 of ice every year. One shelf lost 18% of its thickness during the period.
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The loss of ice shelves does not contribute much directly to sea level rise. But they act like a cork in a bottle at the point where glaciers meet the sea – jamming the flow of ice from the massive ice sheets of east and west Antarctica.
Professor Andrew Shepherd, director of the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at the University of Leeds, said the rates of ice loss were unsustainable and could cause a major collapse. This is already occurring at the massive Pine Island glacier, where ice loss has doubled in speed over the last 20 years as its blocking ice shelf has melted.
“This is a real concern, because such high rates of thinning cannot be sustained for much longer, and because in the places where Antarctic ice shelves have already collapsed this has triggered rapid increases in the rate of ice loss from glaciers above ground, causing global sea levels to rise,” he said.
The new research, published in the journal Science on Thursday, discovered for the first time that ice shelf melt is accelerating.
Dr Paul Holland, a climate scientist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), said the loss of the shelves would speed the complete collapse of the west Antarctic ice sheet, which would eventually cause up to 3.5m of sea level rise. But he said it was highly unlikely this would occur this century. He said the “worst case scenario” for 2100 was that ice sheets would contribute an additional 70cm to the sea level rise caused by the warming of the ocean.
Timelapse of thinning ice shelves in Antarctica.
The UN’s climate science body has not previously included the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland in its predictions for future sea level rise because scientists are not certain how fast they will slide into the ocean.
Holland said: “What humanity needs to know is what’s the sea level rise in 2100 and the biggest source of uncertainty in that is what’s going to happen to the ice sheets.”
Over the past decade the loss of ice shelf volume in Antarctica increased from 25km3 to 310km3 every year.
It is unclear whether the loss of ice is directly related to man-made climate change or a cyclical change in ocean currents. But the extra sea level rise from ice sheets will exacerbate the rise caused by the expansion of oceans as the world warms.
Professor David Vaughan, director of science at BAS, said the findings would help scientists to make more accurate predictions about future sea level rise.
“The rate of ice loss, especially when considered in terms of the percentage of ice lost in the last two decades, is dramatic. This research is a significant step towards improving our ability to predict the future of the Antarctic ice sheet and its contribution to global sea level rise.”
The western coast ice shelves contributed the majority of the ice loss. The rate of loss increased by 70% in the last decade. Two shelves in this region could completely disappear within a century. Conversely, there were some areas in east Antarctica where the shelves stayed stable or grew slightly. Vaughan said the regional variations were predicted by previous studies.
Holland said it was important not to confuse floating ice shelves, which can be up to 2km thick, with the much thinner sea ice. The one metre thick layer of sea ice around Antarctica has been expanding in recent decades, which some scientists think is because of increasing polar winds, which push the ice further out.
NB: The article was changed at 9:35pm on March 26 to say that sea ice was one metre thick, rather than one mile.
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Man 'who used to be next leader' tries again
Paul Hamilos profiles the leader of Spain's opposition Popular party, Mariano Rajoy
Paul Hamilos
Tue 26 Feb 2008 08.01 EST First published on Tue 26 Feb 2008 08.01 EST
The leader of Spain's opposition Popular party, Mariano Rajoy. Photograph: Miguel Gomez/AP
Mariano Rajoy, the leader of the rightwing People's Party (PP), is the polar opposite of the socialist prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
With his grey beard and stiff manner, Rajoy always comes off worse in popularity polls when compared with his more relaxed opponent. His conservative views on social policies, from gay rights to immigration, make it easy for voters to draw the conclusion that Spain would be a very different country had he been in charge for the last four years.
And that is what should have happened. When José María Aznar stood down after two terms in 2004, it was expected that Rajoy, as his chosen successor, would slip easily into his shoes. But the Madrid train bombings of 2004 changed all that, and instead Rajoy became the Al Gore of Spanish politics - the man who used to be the next leader.
Unlike Gore, Rajoy has the chance to do something about it, and as the election date of March 9 draws closer, it looks like he might pull it off. For Rajoy has enjoyed a stroke of luck. The recent downturn in the economy means that many of the middle-class Spaniards who voted for Zapatero last time are now more concerned about paying their mortgages than supporting social reform.
The large turnout that brought about the Socialist victory in 2004 is unlikely to be repeated this time. This should help the PP, which has a rock-solid core of just under 10 million voters who will turn out come what may. Rajoy's stolid character, and the reputation of the PP for its handling of the economy, might just be what Spanish voters decide they need at this time.
Rajoy is an experienced politician. Born into a leading political family in Galicia, in the north-west of Spain, he served as culture, education and interior ministers and finally as deputy prime minister under Aznar, whose successful campaign for re-election in 2000 was led by Rajoy.
He will need this experience if he is to defeat Zapatero, who is popular with younger voters and women. To this end, Rajoy has run a populist campaign, guaranteed to capture the core vote, but also targeting lower-middle class voters worried about the economy and rising immigration.
Over the last decade Spain has changed dramatically with hundreds of thousands of immigrants coming from South America, north Africa and eastern Europe to work in the construction and service industries. Ten percent of Spain's 45 million inhabitants are now foreign-born.
For a long time, this caused few problems, but immigration has become an issue at this election. Rajoy has called for restrictions on the Islamic veil and said that immigrants should sign a legally binding contract promising to integrate into Spanish society.
With the end of the building boom leaving many immigrants without work, Rajoy proposed that they be forced to leave Spain if they cannot find a job after one year and be expelled if they commit crimes.
Other signs of a rightward shift by the PP came in January when Rajoy barred the popular, liberal mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, from standing at the elections.
While some saw this as part of the inevitable jockeying for position in the event that Rajoy should lose the election, he has recently made it clear he would not stand down if defeated. Many analysts argued it would scare off potential floating voters - they say that instead Rajoy should do more to make the party appeal to the centre ground, and to adopt more progressive positions in areas such as social reform and the environment.
When Spanish bishops last month issued a communiqué indirectly telling Catholic voters to support the PP, Rajoy was careful not to align himself too closely with the church, fearing it might scare off large parts of Spain's increasingly secular electorate.
Most polls still have Rajoy a few percentage points behind Zapatero, but they said the opposite in 2004. They were wrong then; they might just be wrong now.
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Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees, US Labor Agency Says
A U.S. labor agency has concluded that ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc's drivers are independent contractors and not its employees, which could prevent them from joining unions.
The National Labor Relations Board's general counsel, in a memo released on Tuesday, said Uber drivers set their hours, own their cars and are free to work for the company's competitors, so they cannot be considered employees under federal labor law.
San Francisco-based Uber in a statement said it is 'focused on improving the quality and security of independent work, while preserving the flexibility drivers and couriers tell us they value.'
Uber shares were up 6.4 percent at $39.46 in late trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
The memo dated April 16 came in an NLRB case against Uber that has yet to reach the five-member board, which is independent of the general counsel.
Under the National Labor Relations Act, independent contractors cannot join unions and do not have legal protection when they complain about working conditions.
In January, President Donald Trump's appointees to the NLRB adopted a new test making it more difficult for workers to prove they are a company's employees.
Uber, its top rival Lyft Inc, and many other 'gig economy' companies have faced scores of lawsuits accusing them of misclassifying workers as independent contractors under federal and state wage laws.
Employees are significantly more costly because they are entitled to the minimum wage, overtime pay and reimbursements for work-related expenses under those laws.
Uber, in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week, said it would pay up to $170 million to settle tens of thousands of arbitration cases with drivers who claim they were misclassified. Uber denied any wrongdoing, but said settling the cases was preferable to drawn-out litigation.
The company has agreed to pay an additional $20 million to end long-running lawsuits by thousands of drivers in California and Massachusetts.
The U.S. Department of Labor in a memo released last month said an unidentified 'gig economy' company's workers were not its employees under federal wage law because it did not control their work.
The company, which appeared from the memo to provide house-cleaning services, had a similar relationship with its workers as Uber does with drivers. The memo signaled a shift from the Obama administration, which maintained that most workers should be considered companies' employees.
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D-Backs, Phillies set MLB record with 13 combined home runs
Arizona Diamondbacks outfielders David Peralta (L) and Jarrod Dyson both homered in Monday's 13-6 victory over the Phillies. File Photo by Kamil Krzaczynski/UPI | License Photo
June 11 (UPI) -- The Arizona Diamondbacks and Philadelphia Phillies combined to hit 13 home runs, a new Major League single-game record, in Monday's 13-6 Diamondbacks victory.
Jarrod Dyson, Ketel Marte and David Peralta began the game with three consecutive home runs. Eduardo Escobar and Ildemaro Vargas each hit two home runs, and Alex Avila hit his fourth home run of the year for the Diamondbacks.
Arizona finished with a club-record eight home runs.
"You can't really explain it," Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. "It was just a bunch of really good hitters getting after it and not letting up on the gas pedal."
Scott Kingery hit two of the Phillies' five home runs. Jay Bruce, Jean Segura and Rhys Hoskins had the team's other three home runs.
Hoskins' ninth-inning home run tied the record at 12. Bruce made history two batters later.
"It felt like every ball that went in the air was a home run," said Kingery, who has six home runs this season. "I'm not sure if that had to do with the weather, the humidity, I don't know. It was just crazy out there."
The previous Major League record of 12 home runs in one game was held by the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers. The two teams accomplished the feat on May 26, 1995, at Tiger Stadium, and again on July 2, 2002, at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago.
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Conductive member
Norifumi Muranaka, Yokohama (JP); Satoru Yamada, Numazu (JP); Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Suntou-gun (JP); Seiji Tsuru, Susono (JP); and Yuka Muranaka, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2015, as Appl. No. 14/931,791.
Application 14/931,791 is a division of application No. 13/523,763, filed on Jun. 14, 2012, abandoned.
Application 13/523,763 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2012/001915, filed on Mar. 21, 2012.
Claims priority of application No. 2011-072404 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2016/0054674 A1, Feb. 25, 2016
Int. Cl. B05D 3/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/02 (2006.01); B32B 15/06 (2006.01); B32B 15/18 (2006.01); B32B 25/02 (2006.01); B32B 25/14 (2006.01); B32B 1/08 (2006.01); G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 15/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0233 (2013.01) [B05D 3/007 (2013.01); B32B 1/08 (2013.01); B32B 15/06 (2013.01); B32B 15/18 (2013.01); B32B 25/02 (2013.01); B32B 25/14 (2013.01); G03G 15/0818 (2013.01); G03G 15/1685 (2013.01); B32B 2264/104 (2013.01); B32B 2264/108 (2013.01); B32B 2307/202 (2013.01); B32B 2457/00 (2013.01); Y10T 428/31855 (2015.04)] 6 Claims
1. A method for manufacturing a conductive member comprising a conductive support and a conductive layer on the conductive support, the method comprising the steps of:
(i) providing an unmodified epichlorohydrin rubber having units represented by formulae (2), (3), and (4):
in which n represents an integer of 1 to 3,
(ii) reacting an amine compound with the unmodified epichlorohydrin rubber to obtain a modified epichlorohydrin rubber having units represented by said formulae (3) and (4), and formula (1);
in which R1, R2, and R3 each independently represent hydrogen or a saturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms; and
(iii) heating the modified epichlorohydrin rubber on the periphery of a mandrel to at least 160° C. to remove unreacted amine compound, and vulcanizing the modified epichlorohydrin rubber to obtain the conductive layer, wherein
the step (iii) is performed after the step (ii), and
the amine compound has a boiling point of 160° C. or less.
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The Spectrum vs. Cameron Indoor Stadium
Posted on January 30, 2012 by usustats
The Dee Glen Smith Spectrum has always been considered one of the very best college basketball atmospheres in the country, but how does it compare to other renowned venues? A few weeks ago I wrote an article asking if the Utah State Student Section was #1 in the nation. We’ve heard coaches like Rick Majerus (St. Louis, and former Utah coach) and Greg Marshall compare us favorably to schools like Kentucky, Syracuse, Uconn, Indiana, and Duke, but was it all just lip service? How would I ever know unless I had first hand experience?
Living on the east coast has given me the opportunity to attend many sporting events that I otherwise would not have been able to attend. I’ve been to a couple George Mason games, a couple Georgetown games, and also a George Washington game. A couple of years ago I drove down to North Carolina to attend a rock concert, and took advantage of the opportunity to visit one of the meccas of college basketball, Cameron Indoor Stadium. Walking through the deserted Stadium I could sense the history and amazing atmosphere even with no fans present. This winter season I decided that my Christmas Present to myself would be another trip to Durham, North Carolina to attend a basketball game at Cameron Indoor.
Acquiring tickets is no easy task. Getting in the doors required use of StubHub and some serious cash, but it was well worth it. I attended the Duke vs. Virginia game on Jan 12, 2012 and wasn’t disappointed.
So how did the atmosphere compare to the Spectrum? Let’s break it down into several different areas:
Cameron Crazies
The thing that stood out to me most about the Cameron Crazies was coordination in their chants. Not so much just with everyone chanting in unison, but the fact that everyone is also doing hand motions or dancing in unison as well. This makes the chants seem much more united and look very cool from a distance. Even simple chants like “Let’s go DUKE!” involve a hand motion (fist-pump on DUKE) that seems to bring the crowd together and create a fun atmosphere. The crowd sang along to the pre-game music selections and even had coordinated dances to many of them. When Coach K walked in, everyone gave him the universal worshiping motion. All of the students in attendance were totally involved in all of the chants, dances, and hand motions from before the tip-off to the end of the game.
The HURD
Coordination is also a strength for The HURD, but in a different way. While the Crazies have the edge in hand motions, and traditional dances to their chants and songs, the HURD has the edge in overall fan coordination. The Refraction has played a major part in recent years in bringing everyone on the same page, but even after the Refraction crew hung up their sneakers, the HURD has shown an amazing ability to coordinate. After an infamous apology letter and rogue usher mix-up, the entire Utah State Student section remained silent for the first few minutes of a game against Denver earlier this year. It took the students no more than five minutes to spread the word through a stadium full of nearly 4,000 students, and not one of them made a peep until the token silence was over with. Was it a good idea? Maybe, maybe not, but the coordination was definitely there. The HURD is also famous for their “I Believe That We Will Win“, and “Winning Team, Losing Team” chants, as well as their hand motions on the rousing favorite “The Scotsman”.
Advantage: Slight edge to the Cameron Crazies.
The hand-motions on all their chants were just that cool. The Spectrum would look amazing if they could adopt this aspect, and it would keep the students more involved and united.
Intimidation Factor
Walking in to Cameron Indoor Stadium was a completely different atmosphere from what is felt as the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. It was a FUN atmosphere. The students arrived early with faces painted, hair crazily styled, and dressed up in a wide array of crazy outfits. It was like a huge party between a group of tightly knitted friends. The crowd happily cheered on their players and coaches throughout the game, and made some pretty good noise when things were going right. There is the signature “spell casting” that is put on the opponents throughout the game. But this also seemed more like fun than intimidation to me.
The Dee Glen Smith Spectrum is a much more intimidating environment than the Cameron Indoor Stadium. It’s as simple as that. The first thing that the opposing team hears (or sees, in some special instances) is “Welcome to HELL!” before tip-off. And that’s exactly what they can expect the entire game. The Students come prepared with all sorts of ammunition to hurl at the opposing team. There have been multiple instances where opposing players have literally been brought to tears on the bench during the games from the relentless taunting and heckling shown to them. If you are an opponent with skeletons in the closet, fully expect to have them brought out into full view during the game. The HURD has contributed to some complete meltdowns of all-league players. The “Who’s Your Daddy” and “Ugly Duckling” chants to NBA-bound Coby Karl immediately come to mind, causing him to miss two straight potentially game clinching free-throws despite being one of the WAC leaders in free throw percentage (83.5%) that year.
The noise level in the Spectrum also definitely contributes to the intimidation factor, but we’ll get to that momentarily.
Advantage: The HURD, and it’s not even close.
If the Cameron Crazies are crazy, the HURD is flat out insane.
This was one of the things I was most curious about. The Wikipedia entry for Cameron Indoor Stadium boasts noise levels of 123.1 dB, similar to a power saw at 3′ or a jackhammer. Just how loud would it get in Cameron Indoor Arena? Luckily I was able to witness a good game pitting two Top-25 ACC opponents against each other in a game that was highly contested, and came down to the final shot. While I doubt that this game would compare to the Duke vs. UNC games, I think it’s pretty safe to say that it should have been one of the louder games at Cameron Indoor. The noise level was pretty tame for the first half of the game. There were a few peaks in the second half that got pretty spirited, but nothing even close to what I have heard in the Spectrum. Still it was probably the second loudest college basketball venue I have attended. One disappointing aspect of the noise at Cameron Indoor was the fake decibel meter that they showed from time to time on the scoreboard. I absolutely hate those things. It’s a video sequence showing a decibel meter going up higher and higher and finally topping out at insane levels. The Duke crowd got loud for it and then quieted down before the thing even topped out. It just kept going up and up despite relative silence in the crowd. That just insults a crowd’s intelligence in my opinion. I will say that the alumni section at Cameron Indoor puts the Utah State alumni section to shame. They were fairly loud and spirited and participated better than the Aggie alumni do.
The noise levels in the Spectrum are second to none. I have never heard anything as loud as the Chaz Spicer three-point game-winner over Utah in 2006.
The noise that ensued after that shot was so loud that my ear-drums actually gave out and the noise finally blended into an eerily silent white noise for a series of about 15 seconds. I’ve been to my fair share of rock concerts and other types of sporting events, and nothing has ever even come close to that kind of noise. Another extremely loud moment happened in 2009 in a game against the Nevada Wolfpack. Stavon Williams and Brady Jardine took over the game on a huge Utah State run as Mark Fox refused to call a timeout after stating in the pre-game that he didn’t believe The Spectrum crowd had an affect on the game. Can you hear us now Mark?
I truly believe that I have suffered permanent hearing loss from attending so many games in The Spectrum. I was happy to see that they are now distributing ear-plugs to the fans for the big games in the Spectrum. I’ve also heard that there have been talks of posting warning signs as you enter The Spectrum explaining the potentially damaging affects of the noise found therein. If The Spectrum Alumni could contribute as much as the Cameron Indoor alumni do, the Spectrum would be even better.
Advantage: The HURD.
The Spectrum: eardrums enter at their own risk.
As mentioned above, the Cameron Crazies are definitely fun. If you want to party with your friends, dress up, and act crazy, Cameron Indoor is for you. The atmosphere was very upbeat. Lots of cheering for your team, and very little intimidation towards the opposing team. Apparently this is something that Coach K preaches to the crowd.
There are definitely plenty of fun times to be had at the Spectrum, but often times they are at the expense of the opposing player or coach. In 2007, the HURD found a suggestive image of a greased up New Mexico State coach Reggie Theus. When Reggie came to town he was met with hundreds of color posters, and a group of front row diehards even participated in a Reggie Theus lookalike contest. The HURD can laugh at themselves as well as their opponents, as can be seen by the Stew Morrill Lookalike contest that happened later that same year.
Advantage: Cameron Crazies.
The Cameron Crazies have been well known for their creativity. From “Speedo Guy“, to the “spell castings” and creative outfits. I saw a Storm Trooper, Banana Suit, full body spandex suits, and plenty of crazy wigs. What I most looked forward to were witty chants. In this aspect I was pretty disappointed. There were no spur of the moment witty chants at the game. My favorite chant was “Crazy Towel Guy” that they chanted during a timeout in the second half until this crazy guy in the alumni section stood up and waved his towel around. But apparently this was not a creative, spur-of-the moment chant, but a traditional chant done at every game. There were very few signs at the game despite it being nationally televised. The only sign that I saw directed at other players was something to the effect of: “Who are your players again?”. Not creative.
Creativity has been as strong suit for the Utah State student section since long before they were referred to as the HURD. From the toilet-paper throws, to the water bomb incident, to the many spontaneous chants, and Wild Bill antics. The Refraction helped coordinate some of this creativity throughout the years, but it seems that every game in the Spectrum (regardless of opponent) includes witty chants. Some of my favorites include “M.C. Hammer” (directed towards an opposing coach with particularly baggy pants), “Uncle Fester” (directed towards a big bruiser with a shaved head similar to the Addams Family character), “Waste of Tithing” (directed towards religious based in-state rival BYU), and “Stew Is Hotter” (directed at Reggie Theus while mocking his greased up shirtless modeling photos). The HURD always brings it with creative signs for televised games. Here’s a little taste from a 2009 game against BYU:
Student Section Layout / Size
The layout in Cameron Indoor is very unique. About 80% of the lower bowl (which consists of pull-out bleachers) is dedicated to student seating. The student section wraps around most of the arena, and the students seats are pretty close to the court. The court-side students are within reach of the players as they pass the ball in if they reach over press row. The students are fairly close behind the hoops as well, but there are 2-3 rows of alumni seats in front of them that provides somewhat of a buffer. The stadium was designed for a maximum of 1,100 students, but the students have been known to cram in upwards of 1,600 for high profile games.
The Dee Glen Smith Spectrum was built with the help of student fees, and has dedicated a large portion of its seats to students since it’s opening in 1970. The Spectrum holds around 4,000 students spanning close to half of the arena. The students sit behind the hoop on one side, and occupy most of the court-side seats opposite the team benches. The sheer number of students attending the games makes for a very intense and loud atmosphere. Like the Cameron Crazies, the HURD stands up the entire game, and the seats go right down to the court. The only difference is that there is no press row in front of the court-side seats, and the only thing between the Bull-Pen (Section F behind the hoop) and the court is a railing barrier. This helps the students have “friendly” conversations with opposing coaches, players, and referees.
Advantage: Push.
The Crazies have a very nice layout, giving the majority of the seats closest to the floor to the students. The HURD has the advantage in size with nearly 4 times as many student seats.
Walking into Cameron Indoor arena was like stepping back in time several decades. The stadium, built in 1940 doesn’t look like a basketball arena at all from the outside. Air conditioning wasn’t even installed until recent years. The concourse has amazing inlaid duke logos, trophy cases, huge posters, photos, and a nearly never-ending display of history and tradition. Looking into the rafters reveals an insane amount of championship banners, some of which are also seen in the concourse. There is also a sports hall of fame that can be accessed from the concourse level. The Cameron Crazies also populate Krzyzewskiville each year prior to the North Carolina game and other select “tenting” games.
The Dee Glen Smith Spectrum was built in 1970, and sports traditional 70’s style fall-colored seating. It has always had a great tradition of student and alumni support, but we here at USUStats.com believe that this has increased over the last decade or so. Many students wait in line for a minimum of 12 hours to obtain good seats to every game. The HURD has also instituted their own version of Krzyzewskiville in recent years before the in-state rivalry game against BYU.
Advantage: Cameron Crazies
There is some good basketball history at Utah State as can be seen in the trophy cases and hanging banners, but it does not quite live up to the achievements at Duke.
So, which environment is the best for college basketball games? I guess that depends on your preferences. If you value costumes, dancing, fun, and tradition, Cameron Indoor is the place for you. If you value creativity, coordination, intensity, intimidation, and sheer noise, the Spectrum is the place for you. Personally, I will take the Spectrum any day of the week. GO AGGIES!
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7 thoughts on “The Spectrum vs. Cameron Indoor Stadium”
Chase on January 30, 2012 at 5:54 pm said:
I think 4,000 students vs 1,200 is all you need to know.
Dukie on July 4, 2012 at 11:25 pm said:
Cool article. Just a few comments from a Duke student:
(1) Duke’s student section is larger than 1,200 students. That figure refers to Section 17 ONLY. There is also student seating in Sections 18, 19, and 20. I don’t know the exact total, and it’s probably still less than 4,000 – but it’s definitely larger than 1,200.
(2) The Cameron Crazies aren’t as crazy as they used to be because of several rules changes designed to “show more respect” to opponents. Signs are almost entirely banned, and they added the “buffer zone” between the Crazies and the court to keep students from harassing opposing players and officials.
(3) I was actually at the Virginia game referred to in this article – the atmosphere wasn’t bad, but it definitely wasn’t the craziest crowd of the year. For a true Cameron experience, you should visit when Duke plays Carolina. That will blow your mind.
I’ve never been to the Spectrum, but I’d love to visit someday. I’ve heard it’s pretty awesome.
usustats on July 7, 2012 at 8:26 pm said:
I’d love to attend a Duke vs. Carolina game. Unfortunately it would cost me well over 1 grand just to get in. I need to somehow win the lottery or get a “sponsor” or something. 🙂
Hope you can make it out to a game in Logan someday. It’s well worth every penny.
P.S. Wikipedia says that the student sections were designed to hold 1,100 students, but that students have been known to pack in as many as 1,600 students.
Duke baby on November 28, 2012 at 6:26 pm said:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=olAUnu4QOvU
Cameron can get loud… Much louder than any buzzer beater I’ve ever seen.
Austin on January 12, 2013 at 6:32 pm said:
The spectrum is the most incredible atmosphere I have ever been to. I have been to quest field and to Cameron indoor, and it doesn’t even compare to what I have heard at the spectrum. It is true, you literally hear nothing because your ears are stunned and you can’t hear at some point. And the student section is the the most intimidating thing I have ever seen, I was a Nevada fan at the game and it was crazy
Cameron Crazie on February 11, 2013 at 5:56 pm said:
The Spectrum versus Cameron? Seriously? Let me know when USU students sleep outside for a month to attend a basketball game.
Jon on February 27, 2017 at 10:49 pm said:
Your confirmation bias is quite astounding, and going to one game does not suffice in providing all you need to know about Cameron gamedays, just as one game to your place would not do it justice either. I think you need to do more research on the Crazies or Cameron itself regarding its intimidation, the K-ville tenting process, tradition, and so on, if you ACTUALLY care about making an informed pick. Because clearly, you just want Utah State to have the best student section in the country when no one even knows about it. There’s a reason why Cameron dominates the rankings in terms of hostility and wit. Might want to do more reading bud…
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Pokémon Go Might Not Save Nintendo After All
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Emily Jane Fox
Trouble at Yahoo
Verizon Buys Yahoo's Core Business For $4.8 Billion
How Yahoo Lost Its Way
The seminal early tech giant never quite found a way to successfully pivot.
By Pascal Lauener/Reuters.
On Monday, Marissa Mayer’s tenure at Yahoo came to a whimpering end almost exactly four years after it began. Shortly before the markets opened in New York, Verizon announced a $4.83 billion deal to acquire Yahoo’s core Internet assets, including the company's email, media, advertising, and search properties, marking the end of an era for the 21-year-old Internet company that eight years ago rejected a $44 billion buyout offer from Microsoft's then-C.E.O. Steve Ballmer.
Now, Yahoo will be paired up with another once-beloved 90s relic, AOL, which Verizon bought a year ago for $4.4 billion, on the strength of their combined media and advertising businesses. But it’s over for Yahoo as an independent entity, and it’s almost certainly over for Mayer’s tenure, which could be described as both an era of stagnation and financial frivolity. Under her rule, Yahoo spent $3 billion in acquisitions, including $1 billion for the largely failed micro-blogging platform Tumblr. The company made a series of splashy and expensive hires, such as Henrique de Castro, an ad sales guru, who was paid $110 million for 15 months of of unspectacular work), as well as a coterie of high-priced journalistic talent whose work seemed lost on the portal. In the end, Mayer was never able to settle on one successful strategy to pivot Yahoo from a 1990s Web portal to something more enduring and dynamic. As a result, an exit into the hands of Verizon seemed the most logical, if unglamorous, eventuality.
In retrospect, Yahoo appeared felled by the rise of mobile. Though the company bought a significant number of apps and start-ups during Mayer’s tenure, the company failed to incorporate them into a broader mobile-first strategy. Its own core properties worked well enough—Yahoo Finance, for example, generates declining but substantial Web traffic for the company—but these verticals didn’t adapt for mobile, and Mayer failed to identify and enact a broader strategy to unite her existing stalwarts with the new businesses it purchased. Tumblr, for instance, has essentially been brought to a grinding halt through inaction. It was too little, too late.
Yahoo’s acquisition pattern illustrates the unremitting fact that technology changes at an unmatched pace. When the company launched, the Internet was a fundamentally different place; Yahoo served a need as a directory to a service that few people knew how to navigate on their own. But with the rise of other tech companies, like Google; increased user knowledge; and a flurry of ill-suited executives who could not decide on a suitable direction, Yahoo lost its way and failed to keep up. Now Verizon can monetize Yahoo’s stable of assets more cheaply than Yahoo was able to do itself, adding services like Yahoo Finance to its own bevy of media properties, including TechCrunch and The Huffington Post.
Mayer described the sale to employees in a Tumblr blog post Monday as “poetic”—and indeed, there is something poetic about one once-hot tech behemoth from the 90s joining forces with another. Like AOL, Yahoo cycled through a century of business vicissitudes over a 20-year span, ultimately falling victim to a new generation of disruptors, as it itself had once been. But Yahoo's sale also suggests the very maturation of an industry that Yahoo helped start. Mayer, who was once a wunderkind C.E.O. adored in the business press for her product intuit, is now likely to be replaced by professional managers and, perhaps more humbling, a former ad-sales guy—Tim Armstrong, her old Google colleague, who is the C.E.O. of AOL. For Yahoo, in the end, innovation lost out to practicality.
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Lorenzo di Credi
Geboren: 1459 - Gestorben: January 12, 1537 Standort: Botticelli Raum, Saal Antonio und Piero del Pollaiolo, Saal Leonardo, Saal Michelangelo und Florentinische Maler,
Credi was born in Florence, active as a painter and sculptor. He trained in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio (1435 – 1488), where he was known to have influenced a young Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), who also trained with Verrocchio. Though, as Leonardo gained prominence as a gifted artist, he would in turn become an influence on Credi.
After Verrocchio’s death, Credi inherited the direction of the workshop, executing his Madonna di Piazza for the Pistoia Cathedral. His other early works during this period include his Annunciation, now in the Uffizi Gallery and noted as one the artist’s most representative works. A later religious work by Credi is also in the Uffizi, his Adoration of the Shepherds, painted sometime before 1510 for the church of Santa Chiara.
His other known works include a Madonna with Child in the Galleria Sabauda of Turin, Adoration of the Child in the Querini Stampalia of Venice, and Madonna and Saints from 1493 and now in the Louvre. He also remade parts of Fra Angelico’s (1395 – 1455) panels in the altars of the Church of San Domenico in Fiesole. There is also is mythological piece, Venus, which was discovered in 1869 in a storeroom in the Medici Villa of Cafaggiolo and now in the Uffizi. Credi’s mature works, such as his Crucifixion now in the Gottingen Museum of Germany, the Annunciation from the museum of Cambridge and the Madonna and Saints from the Pistoia, all show an influence of Fra Bartolomeo (1472 – 1517), Perugino (1446 – 1524) and the early works of Raphael (1483 – 1520).
Credi was a painter of portraits as well; exampled by additional works in the Uffizi, such as Portrait of a Young Man; a piece once thought to be by Filippino Lippi (1457 – 1504). Also in the Uffizi, his Portrait of a Woman painted around 1500, was once thought to be by Verrocchio or Perugino and was once attributed to Raphael. One of his portraits, La dama dei Gelsomini (or Portrait of Caterina Sforza) recently gained much attention when the face of Caterina Sforza was shown to have a striking resemblance to the face of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa, which was painted between 1502 and 1506.
Credi had a number of pupils, including Giovanni Antonio Sogliani (1492 – 1544) and Antonio sel Ceraiolo (active, 1520 – 1538).
(Some of this text includes material from the www.wikipedia.org entry on Credi, made available through GNU Free Documentation License.)
Botticelli Raum
Saal Antonio und Piero del Pollaiolo
Saal Leonardo
Anbetung der Hirten
Porträt eines Jungen Mannes
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With Trump Now in the Clear, Rand Paul Wants Answers from Comey, Brennan, Lynch, Strzok and Ohr
By C. Douglas Golden
Published March 29, 2019 at 9:05am
Sen. Rand Paul wants answers from scads of the figures involved in the Russian collusion investigation.
In remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, the Kentucky Republican said he wanted to know whether former President Barack Obama’s administration was involved in the investigation of the Trump campaign — and introduced a plan that would look into many of the key figures in that probe.
“Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke on the U.S. Senate floor to offer an amendment to the House-passed resolution on releasing the Mueller Report that demands more information on the origins of the Obama Administration’s decisions concerning the investigation of Donald Trump and his campaign, particularly the use of the unverified and patently false Steele dossier,” Paul’s office said in a statement.
“What we need to discover, and we do not yet know, was President Obama involved? Was this done for partisan purposes? Was this done to try to elect Hillary Clinton?” Paul said during his remarks from the floor.
In his remarks, Paul became the latest Republican lawmaker to insist that the focus of the investigation shift.
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“What do we know so far? We know that we spent $30 million to investigate this, and they have decided and included — after doing hundreds of interviews and thousands of subpoenas — they have concluded that President Trump did not collude with the Russians, did not conspire with the Russians, did not commit a crime with the Russians and, as the president has said repeatedly, he never talked to the Russians,” Paul said.
“Now that we know that, in addition to the Mueller report, we also need to know was there malfeasance?” he continued. “Was there misuse of government power? Did President Obama’s administration get involved in an election to actually try and manipulate and infiltrate the Trump campaign to entrap them or try to spread information that was incorrect?
“We need to know that.”
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Paul was speaking in support of his amendment to H. Con. Res. 24, which calls for a number of investigations.
The amendment, according to Paul’s press release, asks “for the public release of all information and communications involving James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice, Barack Obama, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Loretta Lynch, Bruce Ohr, or anyone else in the Obama Administration concerning the Steele dossier or investigating Donald Trump and his campaign.”
It also calls for former CIA Director Brennan, “who allowed the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on computers of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, to testify under oath and provide to Congress all his records and communications regarding the 2016 election.”
The resolution notes that Clapper, Obama’s director of national intelligence, “lied to the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate about a secret surveillance program that was gathering all phone data of people in the United States” and calls on him “to testify under oath and provide to Congress all his records and communications regarding the 2016 election.”
Paul’s resolution also seeks the public release of all of Obama’s communications on the matter, as well as all documents related to former Secretary of State Clinton’s private email server or the Clinton Foundation.
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So, what could this retinue be nailed on? Well, for starters, the provenance of the Steele dossier, which was used to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant. And then there’s also the possibility that improper surveillance was going on; according to Paul, the individuals who might be most exposed to trouble are Brennan, Clapper and former FBI Director Comey.
In an interview with “Fox & Friends” on Thursday, Paul spoke of a source who told him of spying on the Trump campaign by Obama’s Department of Justice.
“Well, my source tells me that the intelligence community, Obama’s intelligence community, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, they were frustrated because they had this Russian dossier but nobody believed it was real,” Paul said.
“It wasn’t verifiable, they couldn’t get anything out of it,” Paul said. “So they sent spies into the Trump campaign, they tried to entrap Trump officials to admit they were working with Russia. That wasn’t working, so they were frustrated. …
“But they wanted to somehow get this information out — this Russian dossier … So finally they decided … what we have to do is attach this dossier, this fake dossier, to an intelligence report” that was given to Obama.
Paul isn’t the only Republican to come out for an investigation of the Obama administration’s actions involving both the Trump campaign and the Steele dossier. Earlier in the week, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called for a special counsel to be appointed to look into it.
“When it comes to the FISA warrant, the Clinton campaign, the counterintelligence investigation, it’s pretty much been swept under the rug,” Graham said. “Those days are over.”
One hopes more Republicans will go on the offensive to ensure that they are.
C. Douglas Golden
Contributor, Commentary
C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal for four years.
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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal for four years. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).
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Abdul Abdullah
When was the last time someone asked you where you are from?
It happens all the time, but it has rarely bothered me. That being said, no one has said it to me as part of an unwanted advance – no one was trying to pick me up by saying it – so it has never felt like a violation. I can only imagine how maddening that is. For me, how annoying it is depends on who is asking. If they’re doing in a way that is exclusionary, or overly presumptuous, they can get fucked. Depending on how I’m feeling I usually say something appropriately vague, like I’m urban or I’m equatorial.
What happened/how did they say it?
The last time that was a bit annoying was an Australian diplomat who visited my studio. When he asked me I told him I was from Perth (which is true), and when he pressed and asked where I was really from, I told him I was seventh generation Australian (which is also true), and I walked away. I know he wasn’t meaning to be annoying and was trying to relate to me by telling me some story of his experience with whatever country he thought I was from, but it still pissed me off enough to stop giving a shit about who he was and what he thought.
What was the person like?
I guess he just has this vibe I didn’t like. Most politicians and ex-politicians I’ve met do.
How did/does it make you feel?
It made me feel like he should know better. He asked me a question, I gave him an answer, and when my truthful, reasonable answer didn’t fit with his narrative he essentially called me a liar. Fuck him. If he’d asked me where my parents are from, I would have told him, but he asked where I was really from – and I’m really from right here. It also has to do with my perception of him as a rich person. Like, a rich person being paternalising to someone who has grown up pretty poor. I'm happy to explain my heritage to someone I like – I'm proud of it.
What connotations do you think the question has and what do you think it says about Australia in terms of the way we understand cultural identity/ nationality?
It’s about whiteness. If I was white, the question wouldn’t be asked. My parents could be Scandinavian, but if I had an Australian accent, my identity would be assumed: I’d be “Aussie”. It’s far from the worst thing going on this country though, at least whoever asking is showing some interest. They only ask if you’ve got something they want, or if you hold some value to them. If you didn’t, imagine how little of a shit they would give – the question wouldn’t even occur to them. Take that as a consolation.
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Leonard Oakland
Office Location: Westminster Hall 236
Email: loakland@whitworth.edu
Leonard Oakland has taught at Whitworth since 1966, mostly English literature and film studies, but also in the Core 250 program. He loves teaching the classical epics of Homer, Virgil and Dante, as well as the 19th century Russian novel and 17th century British poetry (emphasizing Milton's Paradise Lost). He has worked on several Hollywood films and continues to host and produce a classical music program on KPBX, the National Public Radio affiliate in Spokane. His Nietzsche lecture in Core 250 is famous enough to draw some students back to hear it a second time. (In 2008 he will begin a half-time appointment and reduced teaching load in English and Core 250).
Ph.D. Washington State University
B.A. Westmont College
Year Joined Whitworth Faculty
Areas of Specialization / Expertise
Documentary film history, 17th century British literature (including Paradise Lost)
Selected Publications / Presentations / Honors
Music producer and host of classical music program on KPBX-FM (National Public Radio affiliate) since 1985. Assistant to director for feature film "Bull Durham" (1987-88). Wrote "A History of the Hollywood Bowl" for Performing Arts magazine (1987); served as assistant to the editor of Media and Values magazine (1986-87). Voted "Most Influential Professor" (male) by Whitworth senior class. Provides frequent introductions for films (Spokane International Film Festival) and classical concerts. Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award (1990). Held a small acting role in feature film "White Men Can't Jump" (1992).
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This book centres on the sea carrier's liability for loss of or damage to goods under convention based regimes. The Hague, Hauge-Visby and Hamburg Rules have become the main reason for lack of uniformity in the field of the carriage of goods by sea today with their different texts and legislative styles. Preface; The book deals with the carrier's liability for breach of contract of sea carriage of goods under the convention-based regimes: the Hague Rules, the Hague-Visby Rules and the Hamburg Rules. Dr. Karan has undertaken an ambitious and brave task in joining an ongoing debate on whether the maritime transport industry needs all the 3 conventions on the same subject: the legal regime relating to carriage of goods. The book is divided into four broad Parts and a Conclusion. Part I deals with the preliminaries by setting out the basis for the carriers' liability under Roman Law, Common Law, Civil Law and Convention regimes. Part II is devoted to conditions applicable to the contract of carriage under the same regimes following the pattern set out Part I. Part III deals with exclusions and exemptions of the carriers' liability. Finally, Part IV deals with limitation of damages and liabilities by the carrier. The book concludes with exhaustive concluding remarks. The book starts on the premises that the unification, clarification and simplification of domestic legislation regulating carriage of goods by sea have always been the aim of shippers who wish to ascertain and minimize their contractual liability and insurance risks in such contracts. The book argues that it is for those reasons that the three international conventions (Hague Rules, Hague-Visby and the Hamburg Rules) were enacted. However, with differing textual approaches and legislative styles these conventions have themselves become the main obstacle to uniformity in international sea carriage today, with different countries applying different regimes. The book then examines and explains the necessity for, and the needed, amendments to the Conventions in comparison with the other carriage conventions (by Air, Road, Rail and Multi-modal Transport). This particular approach to, and the explanations and examinations of, the subject is not only unique but also puts the Rules in perspective and makes it easy for, especially practitioners, to better appreciate. Furthermore it also leaves it easier for undergraduates, post-graduates, and advanced researchers and scholars who might wish to pursue further research to do so. Secondly, the book identifies, evaluates, and compares the carrier's liabilities under the three conventions and determines the conditions of such liabilities and exemptions. In particular the author does not shy away from asking and answering questions as to whether the conventions lead to certainty in the international sea carriage regime and, if so, whether they have kept up to date with economic, political and technological developments in the field. The main arguments that the book highlights is the Anglo-American or Common Law approach versus the Continental or Civil law approach which has dodged this area of the law and made difficult attempts to unify the Conventions. This argument has been made in the past but not as strongly as in this instance. The book concludes that there are no substantial differences in practice between the Hague and Hamburg liability regimes except for what the book refers to as "the archaic nautical fault and fire exemptions", and that the latter, which contain all the Visiby amendments and the SDR Protocols, were more clearly drafted with the needs of modern trade in mind and have brought the regime into line with other modern transport Conventions. Having examined all the strengths and weaknesses of the three conventions, the author comes down on the side of the Hamburg Rules, as the preferred and more international and forward-looking convention on carriage by sea. In committing himself to one side, the author has not avoided the central debate on the subject, if anything he has aided it. Having so nailed its flag to the mast, the book also cautions that the Hamburg Rules themselves, to a certain extent, need some clarification and amendments to be more acceptable and accommodating. As an example in this respect, attention is drawn to Articles 5 and 6, which require the carrier to prove that the "exempted occurrence" causing the loss and to the exercise of care expected from a prudent carrier to avoid the occurrence and its consequences, which amend the burden of proving the fault of the carrier, his servants or agents in favor of the cargo interest, and change the limitation measures and unit of accounts. Other strengths of the book are the wide search and literature coverage: apart from the traditional inclusion of Annexes of the three Conventions including the latest ratification status; application of the rules or domestic statutes, and monetary limits to the carriers' liability in various countries; there is extensive provision of abbreviations used and extensive citing of authoritative sources; and wide provisions of exhaustive bibliography of conventions, reports, statutes, authors and cases. Another bonus is the inclusion of materials on the author's native country: Turkish maritime law. This is particularly interesting as the Turkish maritime law is itself based on a modified Germanic and Civil Law Codes; there is also mention of current reforms in that country in a bid to join the European Community. Other strengths of the book are the comparative approach to Continental Civil (Belgium, France, Germany and Greece) and Common Law (UK, Australia), including the Anglo-American (US and Canada) tradition as well as the Scandinavian and Far Eastern (e.g. China) jurisdictions. In producing this book the author has made efficient use of his: legal and academic training; association with the International Chamber of Commerce; experiences with the International Maritime Organisation; and skills as one of the advisors of his government's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on maritime and aviation matters. The author is to be congratulated on the admirable grasp he displays of the wealth of materials at his disposal. Although not necessarily original, the concept is intriguing, the approach is balanced and persuasive, and the study as a whole provides valuable contribution to an understanding of the problems facing the truncated maritime law convention regime at the present day. In advocating a streamlined policy towards sea carriage conventions Dr. Karan makes a forceful and persuasive case which gains additional strength when advanced during a period of widespread concerns. The book will be a valuable addition to knowledge and scholarship in maritime law generally and the convention-based regimes of sea carriage in particular. It will no doubt benefit practitioners, lawyers, shippers, policy makers, lawmakers, as well as law and business studies' students and the more advanced scholars and researchers.
Ademun-Odeke was a Reader in Law at London Guildhall (now Metropolitan) University, Senior Lecturer at University of Kent; Senior Legal Officer at International Atomic Energy Agency and Legal Officer at the International Maritime Organization. He is now AAA Consultant and Maritime Consultant, author of several books and articles, such as The Law of International Trade, London (Oxford University Press / Blackstone Press Ltd) 2000; Bareboat Charters Ship Registration, The Hague (Kluwer Law International) 1999; Shipping in International Trade Relations, Aldershot (Gower Publishers) 1986; Protectionism and the Future of International Shipping, The Hague (Martinus Nijhoff) 1983 etc.
Contributor: Karan Hakan
Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Biography: Ademun-Odeke was a Reader in Law at London Guildhall (now Metropolitan) University, Senior Lecturer at University of Kent; Senior Legal Officer at International Atomic Energy Agency and Legal Officer at the International Maritime Organization. He is now AAA Consultant and Maritime Consultant, author of several books and articles, such as The Law of International Trade, London (Oxford University Press / Blackstone Press Ltd) 2000; Bareboat Charters Ship Registration, The Hague (Kluwer Law International) 1999; Shipping in International Trade Relations, Aldershot (Gower Publishers) 1986; Protectionism and the Future of International Shipping, The Hague (Martinus Nijhoff) 1983 etc.
Karan Hakan
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An American pastor reportedly gave ‘miracle water’ to Ugandans. It was bleach.
Bleach. (Tom McCorkle/ for the Washington Post)
By Liz Weber
Liz Weber
An American pastor has been accused of distributing a poisonous “miracle drink” to thousands of Ugandans, including infants, according to a report by the Guardian.
Robert Baldwin — founder of a Christian nonprofit based in New Jersey — was providing a bogus “miracle cure” to almost 50,000 Ugandans, according to the outlet’s original reporting. In conjunction with Sam Little, a supposed British clairvoyant, Baldwin was promoting the substance as a cure for many diseases, including cancer, malaria and HIV/AIDS.
The cure? Known as “miracle mineral solution,” or MMS, the substance consists of sodium chlorite and citric acid, which combine to create chlorine dioxide, an industrial bleach. The U.S. Embassy in Kampala on Monday condemned the distribution of the substance.
In an interview with NJ Advance Media, Baldwin denied distributing the “cure” and said he had to shut down his operations because of the hate coming his way.
The pastor, who does not appear to be affiliated with a church, disabled his social media accounts and his website, Global Healing Christian Missions. He could not be reached by The Washington Post.
Baldwin, who is not a medical practitioner, trained roughly 1,200 Ugandan clerics to administer the “miracle cure,” and they then gave the concoction to members of their congregations, the Guardian wrote. The news organization also contends that the drink was given to infants as young as 14 months old.
“America and Europe have much stricter laws so you are not as free to treat people because it is so controlled by the FDA. That’s why I work in developing countries,” Baldwin said, according to the Guardian.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a public warning against MMS in 2010, when the promotion of the purported health benefits of the drink were spreading in the United States. The FDA urged people who had MMS to “stop using it immediately and throw it away.”
Reports of health injuries after the use of the product included severe nausea, vomiting and life-threatening low blood pressure from dehydration, according to the FDA’s warning. MMS has been banned in Canada and Ireland.
Baldwin acknowledged he did not want to draw attention to his use of MMS, according to the Guardian. “You have to do it low key. That’s why I set it up through the church,” he said.
At least one expert in Christian missions said organizations such as Baldwin’s should not be confused with legitimate outreach.
“This is not missionary work,” said Jonathan Bonk, director of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Bonk, who grew up in Ethiopia, is a research professor of mission at Boston University. He said roughly 85 percent of Ugandans are Christian, many of them devout.
Operations like Baldwin’s often promote themselves as missionary work because it plays better to American supporters, Bonk said. “America has a long tradition of believing they have a lot to offer the world,” he said. “It gives it a kind of legitimacy. They can show pictures of fairly extreme situations to register potential donors.”
But Bonk warns that most of these organizations, like Baldwin’s, are bogus.
“These are really, really poor people who are sick, and they believe they’re going to get better,” Bonk said. “Where people are desperate for medical care, they place their faith in miracles.”
Stephen Barrett, a retired psychologist, has operated a website tracking health-related fraud since 1997. He wrote about the dangerous effects of MMS in 2016.
“The world isn’t well equipped to handle people who insist on selling worthless products,” Barrett said. He said consumer protections against harmful health products should be prioritized and that the FDA should take proactive action against people who promote them.
“It’s up to the Ugandan government to stop it now,” Barrett said.
In a tweet published Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Uganda said it was aware of an American pastor providing MMS to churches in Uganda.
“We strongly condemn the distribution of this substance, which is extremely dangerous and is NOT a cure for any disease,” the tweet read.
The U.S. Mission is aware of reports that an American pastor based remotely is distributing a substance called “Miracle Mineral Solution” to churches in Uganda. We strongly condemn the distribution of this substance, which is extremely dangerous and is NOT a cure for any disease.
— U.S. Mission Uganda (@usmissionuganda) May 20, 2019
Fiona O’Leary, who has been campaigning against illegitimate medicine and MMS for six years, said Baldwin and others show up in Uganda with “the Bible in one hand and bleach in the other.”
O’Leary, who recorded a phone conversation with Baldwin that was excerpted in the Guardian article, said she wants him prosecuted. “They go to third-world countries because they know they can get away with it,” she said.
Bonk says wanting to believe in miracle cures is not unique to one country or one group of people. “As humans, we are a gullible species,” he said.
Correction: An earlier version of this story said that Jonathan Bonk was executive director of Overseas Ministries Study Center, which is at Yale. Bonk previously was with the center, but is now a research professor of mission at Boston University.
A mom turned to a controversial ‘treatment’ for her daughter’s autism — feeding her bleach
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Miracle cures or modern quackery? Stem cell clinics multiply, with heartbreaking results for some patients
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Lovey Land
Willie Harris, the face of the franchise
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By Thom Loverro The Washington Times - June 29, 2009, 11:49AM
Sitting in the Washington Nationals dugout last week, I was trying to convince Willie Harris that right now he was the most popular National player among the fans.
He wasn’t buying it, but he is — just as he was last year.
Fans appreciate Harris because he plays hard, plays the game right, and plays as if he is enjoying himself — all of which are true. There are other players who are more talented — and, overall, more well known, such as Ryan Zimmerman — but in the abyss the Nationals are in, the one shining star that makes fans smile is Willie Harris, who you could argue is not only the most popular play right now, but overall — offense, defense, baserunning — their best player.
“Wait until my bat gets going,” he said.
It’s going all right, as his average as risen from .217 on June 18 to .248, including a home run in Sunday’s win over the Orioles.
But this also illustrates the problem for this team. If Willie Harris is your most popular — and currently the best — player on the roster, then you have a problem. As much as Harris is fun to wafch, he is a role player, a contributor. He can’t be your go-to guy day in and day out, even though he is right now.
Then there is Austin Kearns, profiled by Ben Goessling in today’s Washington Times as pretty much untradeable, which is accurate. He is batting .197 and makes $8 million, with a $10 million option for next year that will cost any team who has him $1 million to get out of. So even if the Nationals were simply to cut Kearns lose and eat the remaining $4 million or so remaining on his salary this year, they would still have to suffer the insult of paying him another $1 million to get out of the $10 million committment.
Just another dead fish left in the safe deposit box to rot by former general manager Jim Bowden.
I will be on The Sports Reporters on ESPN 980 AM Washington today (Monday) from 4 to 7 p.m. and Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m.
To learn more about Thom Loverro, go to www.thomloverro.com
Thom Loverro has been a professional journalist since 1977, working for a number of newspapers, including eight years as a news editor and reporter for The Baltimore Sun, where he covered government, politics, and crime. He moved into sports writing when he joined The Washington Times in 1992. He moved to The Washington Examiner as a sports columnist in 2009 ...
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Aarti Gupta
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Aarti Gupta is an associate in the Business Finance & Restructuring Department of Weil’s New York office.
Ms. Gupta received her J.D. from Duke University School of Law, where she served as the Senior Articles Editor for the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum and Lead Editor for the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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The Holiday House... Do you Remember?
Posted on April 21, 2015 - 04:17 PM by Jeff Weiner
Monroeville's Holiday House offered memories of different time
The Holiday House on Route 22 in Monroeville was a popular spot for live shows. The 900-seat entertainment venue included 200 hotel rooms and a disco. With the demise of supper clubs, the building was demolished in 1989.
This is part of an occasional look at now-closed iconic venues and businesses that once were popular in the Monroeville area. The Holiday House opened in 1955 and closed in 1988.
Monday - April 20, 2015
Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013, 9:01 p.m.
Sue Bradley was a little girl the first time Frankie Avalon sang to her backstage at the Holiday House on Route 22 in Monroeville.
She said the 1960s teen heartthrob rescued her from a swarm of screaming teens outside of his dressing room.
Booking reservations at the Holiday House was more than a job for Thelma Gold of Monroeville. After losing her husband to a heart attack in 1970, it was an escape from her tears and financial security for her teenage boys.
Roger Greenbank spent 10 years in an unmarked van outside of the Holiday House, snapping photos from across the street. The FBI transferred Greenbank to Pittsburgh in 1979 to help dismantle the Pittsburgh mafia.
When the lights dimmed on the final performance at the Holiday House 25 years ago, it signified the end of an era. For decades, chart-topping singers played intimate shows where they were practically sweating on their audience.
The 900-seat entertainment venue on William Penn Highway that at one time included 200 hotel rooms, three banquet halls and a disco was operated by the four Bertera brothers and talent buyer Bert Sokol, who married into the family.
“Every week, I'd book a big show,” Sokol said. “People came from everywhere. There's nothing like it anymore.”
It was Jan. 26, 1973 when Bradley met Frankie Avalon.
“That date is etched in my mind,” Bradley said.
Bradley was sitting near the stage with her sister who was celebrating her 17th birthday. After the show, Bradley said she was escorted backstage by a waitress, her big sister in tow. The hallway filled with fans. Bradley remembers being trapped against the wall.
Avalon peeked out of the dressing room and spotted her. “You're gonna get killed out here little one,” he told her.
He pulled her in to his dressing room and her sister followed.
“I'm looking at him like, ‘Holy crap, I'm standing here with Frankie Avalon,' ” Bradley said.
When she told him her name, he belted out a few lines from “Wake Up Little Suzy.” He sang happy birthday to her sister and told the girls to keep in touch.
Sure enough, when Avalon returned to Monroeville, the girls were invited backstage and in the performers' suite. They would watch the guys play cards and occasionally answer Avalon's fan mail, Bradley said.
Avalon still tours but could not be reached for comment on this story.
For many who worked at the Holiday House, it was like a second home.
Gold was a grieving widow with two teenage boys in 1970 when co-owner John Bertera offered her a job. She spent the next 17 years booking reservations for the show room, alongside a co-worker who became a lifelong friend. The phones never stopped ringing, Gold said, laughing.
“I'll never forget, we had seven phones ringing,”she said. “One day Josie and I wouldn't answer the phones and we just sat there and laughed, because if we didn't laugh we would've cried. It was so busy.”
Every Saturday night was like New Year's Eve, she said.
“The kitchen was a riot,” she said. “Sometimes they would have to serve 1,500 people a night and everything had to be hot.”
Singer Al Martino cooked his own meals.
“He loved to cook, so he'd be in there cooking,” she said
The staff and the performers often operated like a big family, said Pittsburgh icon Bill Cardille. He was a television host know affectionately as “Chilly Billy.”
“The people who worked there, and the family who owned it, they were an institution,” Cardille said. “It was a constant happy time for many, many years.”
Sokol said the staff was loyal.
“When they worked the Holiday House they stayed there forever,” he said. “The place was always busy and everyone did well.”
For decades, there were rumors that “everyone” included members of the mafia. But Greenbank said the FBI could never prove that they had a hand in the business.
“They really had their run of the place,” Greenbank said. “These guys would meet up with broads and take them to rooms and leave without paying for anything.”
But there also were benefits of having them in the club, Greenbank said.
“People knew that you weren't (going to) start any trouble in a place like that.”
And while just about everyone who worked there knew, nobody talked about it, Gold said.
“They got the respect they wanted and they were welcome,” she said.
Undercover agents were cycled in and out of the building, Greenbank said.
“We had agents with concealed cameras who could take photographs,” he said. “But many of the pictures we took were from a concealed location, like a van in the parking lot or across the street with a long lens.”
A federal trial in 1990 struck a blow to the crime syndicate and a second trial in 1997 all but dismantled it in the region.
It was the end of an era both for organized crime, and live music and dinner venues in Pittsburgh.
The nation's top acts were scouted and booked to play the Holiday House by Sokol.
He booked teen idols such as the Four Seasons and crooners such as Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra; comedians such as Milton Berle and pop stars such as the Temptations and Three Dog Night.
Performers mentioned the Holiday House on talk shows, Sokol said.
“Johnny Carson put Monroeville on the map.”
By the time Jay Leno replaced Carson on the “The Tonight Show” in 1993, supper clubs outside of Las Vegas had faded. Entertainment managers and record executives were moving top acts to 30,000-seat arenas. Hotels stopped hiring live bands and wedding planners were turning to DJs.
Live entertainment has never been the same, said Rick Purcell, a trumpet player who performed at the Holiday House with the Temptations and Vic Damone.
“There was such a vibrancy about that era, and about that place,” Purcell said. “The excitement of dressing up with your girl and having some drinks, and you're sitting three rows back from someone who you usually see on TV.”
The Holiday House was demolished in 1989 and replaced with the Holiday Plaza strip mall.
“There's no question it was a loss to Monroeville and to Pittsburgh,” said Monroeville Historian Louis Chandler. “People always will tell us about special recollections or special evenings that they had there.”
It was a different time, according to those who hit the town on a Saturday night in Monroeville.
Women wore cocktail dresses. Men wore suits. Everybody smoked and drank, and underage drinking was loosely enforced, Purcell said.
“It was just different,” he said.
“I don't know if it was better, but it was more fun.”
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Brazilian Off-Roader Gets Electric Powertrain From MotoCzysz
Author: Keith BarryKeith Barry
The D1g1tal Dr1ve self-contained electric powertrain.
After successfully building and racing the E1pc electric motorcycle, MotoCzysz has turned their efforts to electrifying a tiny Brazilian-built off-roader.
The TAC Motors Stark is a four-wheel drive SUV that's only 160.7 inches long – about a foot shorter than a Honda Civic. It's tubular frame is covered in lightweight plastic panels and it's gained a cult following among Brazilian off-road enthusiasts.
Now, MotoCyzysz has been tasked with swapping the Stark's Fiat turbodiesel engine for a full electric drivetrain in order to create the eStark, a vehicle that the company hopes to eventually sell outside of Brazil. The agreement between the two companies calls for 3,600 eStarks to be built.
"The eStark is a very exciting and cool vehicle that I think will be a real success in Brazil and hopefully eventually in North America as well," said MotoCzysz CEO Michael Czysz.
The secret behind the partnership is MotoCzysz's unfortunately-spelled D1g1tal Dr1ve electric drivetrain. It's an off-the-shelf powerplant specifically designed for OEMs interested in converting existing vehicles into EVs. The D1g1tal Dr1ve system is about the size of a carry-on suitcase and contains a liquid-cooled electric motor, inverter, differential, heat exchange, oil pump and other necessary electronics. According to MotoCzysz, all that the vehicle manufacturer needs to provide is a DC power supply, water for cooling and a low-voltage wiring harness.
"Deciding to make an electric Stark was an easy decision, the difficult part was, how?" said TAC's technical director Giovani Balduino. "MotoCzysz answered that question with the D1g1tal Dr1ve."
Due to its low production numbers and the difficulty of meeting safety regulations for on-road use, it's doubtful that the eStark would ever become a mainstream player in the US. But from the looks of it, it could definitely be a fun off-road toy that treads a little more lightly in the great outdoors thanks to an electric powerplant.
Photo: MotoCzysz
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Oops, Kylie Jenner Now Says She Isn't Totally a Self-Made Billionaire
Katherine Cusumano
After so much back and forth and varying levels of qualifications, Kylie Jenner has, at last, come forward with the truth: No, she is not really, as named by Forbes, “self-made.”
“I can’t say I’ve done it by myself,” Jenner told the New York Times in an interview for a recent story on the Kardashians’ myriad business ventures. “If they’re just talking finances, technically, yes, I don’t have any inherited money. But I have had a lot of help and a huge platform.”
This is, essentially, the same thing Jenner has been saying all along, but framed a little differently. Ever since she was placed on the cover of Forbes last summer, positioned to become the youngest self-made billionaire, Jenner has courted constant questions about what, exactly, that means in the context of a family with money and massive social media followings. The controversy was reignited earlier this year when Kylie Cosmetics pushed Jenner over the billion-dollar valuation mark; since then, she’s expended considerable energy defending her claim to self-made-ness.
“It's the power of social media,” she said in an interview shortly after she made it to billionaire status. “I had such a strong reach before I was able to start anything.” Then, she explained in a subsequent interview with Interview Germany that “there’s really no other word to use other than 'self-made' because that is the truth.”
“That is the category that I fall under,” she went on in Interview Germany. “I did not get money from my parents past the age of 15. I used 100 percent of my own money to start the company, not a dime in my bank account is inherited...and I am very proud of that.” Of course, even Forbes includes the caveat that Jenner had access to certain privileges even before she founded Kylie Cosmetics, which is responsible for the bulk of her wealth—on a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being the least self-made and 10 the most (these things aren’t black and white, you know), Jenner clocks in at, let's say, a 7.
Liam Payne even entered the fray to defend Jenner from Piers Morgan, who wrote on Twitter that Jenner couldn’t possibly be self-made when her “sister made a sex tape.” Jenner might not be self-made in the Oprah Winfrey sense, but Piers Morgan is, as always, still wrong. Thanks for playing.
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University of Maryland football coach placed on leave amid investigation
Updated: 8:58 PM EDT Aug 12, 2018
By RALPH D. RUSSO
Maryland placed head coach DJ Durkin on administrative leave Saturday while the school examines allegations of poor behavior by the football staff, apparent misdeeds that came to light following the death of a player.In an open letter, athletic director Damon Evans wrote: "At this time, the best decision for our football program is to place Maryland head football coach DJ Durkin on leave so we can properly review the culture of the program." Offensive coordinator Matt Canada will serve as interim coach. Earlier Saturday, the head of the football team's strength and conditioning staff was placed on paid leave while the school investigates claims he verbally abused and humiliated players, according to a person briefed on the situation. That person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Maryland had not announced the decision regarding Rick Court. Maryland has also placed two athletic training staffers it did not identify on leave as it investigates the death of Jordan McNair. The 19-year-old offensive lineman was hospitalized May 29 after a team workout and died June 13. Dr. Rod Walters, a former college athletic trainer, has been hired by Maryland to investigate the circumstances of the death. A report is expected by Sept. 15. McNair's parents are being represented by Baltimore attorney Bill Murphy, whose firm is also investigating. In his open letter, Evans wrote: "The external review into the tragic death of Jordan McNair continues, and we have committed to releasing publicly the report being prepared by an independent and national expert." ESPN reported that head football athletic trainer Wes Robinson and director of athletic training Steve Nordwall were placed on leave by Maryland. An ESPN story on Friday quoted unidentified players, former players and former members of Durkin's staff, who contended Court and Durkin created a toxic culture within the program. "The safety and well-being of our student-athletes is our highest priority," Evans wrote. "These alleged behaviors are not consistent with the values I expect all of our staff to adhere to and we must do better." Durkin is starting his third season at Maryland. The 40-year-old former Michigan defensive coordinator is 11-15 in two seasons after receiving a five-year, contract worth $12.5 million in December 2015. Keisha Staples, the mother of junior defensive back Antoine Brooks Jr., told the AP she is close with a group of about eight players' parents who would like to meet with Evans and school officials to voice their "full support" for Durkin. Brooks was part of Durkin's first recruiting class in 2016. Staples said her son has never told her of inappropriate behavior by Durkin or Court, and that Durkin has been open and accessible when any issues have come up with Brooks. "I'm sure not everybody has had the same experience we've had, but we have had a good experience," Staples said. Staples said she has never had any interactions with Court. "I don't want the stigma to be at Maryland this is a toxic culture," Staples said. "This is a football culture." She added: "They're already dealing with the death of their teammate. Now they have to deal with the loss of their coach." Durkin brought Court to Maryland to lead the strength and conditioning staff in 2016. Court had been the head strength coach at Mississippi State since 2014 under coach Dan Mullen. Court also worked with Durkin at Bowling Green in 2005 and 2006, when Durkin was an assistant. Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald expressed support for Court on Saturday. Fitzgerald's first two seasons with the Bulldogs coincided with Court's time leading the strength program at the school. "He worked us hard," Fitzgerald told the AP. "They were definitely tough workouts, but ultimately he wasn't out to get anybody. He wasn't out to hurt anyone. His job is to make us physically fit and ready for the season and that's exactly what he did. From what I remember, he never really went over the line or did anything crazy like that." ___ AP Sports Writer Dave Ginsburg in Baltimore contributed to this report.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. —
Maryland placed head coach DJ Durkin on administrative leave Saturday while the school examines allegations of poor behavior by the football staff, apparent misdeeds that came to light following the death of a player.
In an open letter, athletic director Damon Evans wrote: "At this time, the best decision for our football program is to place Maryland head football coach DJ Durkin on leave so we can properly review the culture of the program."
Offensive coordinator Matt Canada will serve as interim coach.
Earlier Saturday, the head of the football team's strength and conditioning staff was placed on paid leave while the school investigates claims he verbally abused and humiliated players, according to a person briefed on the situation. That person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Maryland had not announced the decision regarding Rick Court.
Maryland has also placed two athletic training staffers it did not identify on leave as it investigates the death of Jordan McNair. The 19-year-old offensive lineman was hospitalized May 29 after a team workout and died June 13. Dr. Rod Walters, a former college athletic trainer, has been hired by Maryland to investigate the circumstances of the death. A report is expected by Sept. 15. McNair's parents are being represented by Baltimore attorney Bill Murphy, whose firm is also investigating.
In his open letter, Evans wrote: "The external review into the tragic death of Jordan McNair continues, and we have committed to releasing publicly the report being prepared by an independent and national expert."
ESPN reported that head football athletic trainer Wes Robinson and director of athletic training Steve Nordwall were placed on leave by Maryland.
An ESPN story on Friday quoted unidentified players, former players and former members of Durkin's staff, who contended Court and Durkin created a toxic culture within the program.
"The safety and well-being of our student-athletes is our highest priority," Evans wrote. "These alleged behaviors are not consistent with the values I expect all of our staff to adhere to and we must do better."
Durkin is starting his third season at Maryland. The 40-year-old former Michigan defensive coordinator is 11-15 in two seasons after receiving a five-year, contract worth $12.5 million in December 2015.
Keisha Staples, the mother of junior defensive back Antoine Brooks Jr., told the AP she is close with a group of about eight players' parents who would like to meet with Evans and school officials to voice their "full support" for Durkin.
Brooks was part of Durkin's first recruiting class in 2016.
Staples said her son has never told her of inappropriate behavior by Durkin or Court, and that Durkin has been open and accessible when any issues have come up with Brooks.
"I'm sure not everybody has had the same experience we've had, but we have had a good experience," Staples said.
Staples said she has never had any interactions with Court.
"I don't want the stigma to be at Maryland this is a toxic culture," Staples said. "This is a football culture."
She added: "They're already dealing with the death of their teammate. Now they have to deal with the loss of their coach."
Durkin brought Court to Maryland to lead the strength and conditioning staff in 2016. Court had been the head strength coach at Mississippi State since 2014 under coach Dan Mullen. Court also worked with Durkin at Bowling Green in 2005 and 2006, when Durkin was an assistant.
Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald expressed support for Court on Saturday. Fitzgerald's first two seasons with the Bulldogs coincided with Court's time leading the strength program at the school.
"He worked us hard," Fitzgerald told the AP. "They were definitely tough workouts, but ultimately he wasn't out to get anybody. He wasn't out to hurt anyone. His job is to make us physically fit and ready for the season and that's exactly what he did. From what I remember, he never really went over the line or did anything crazy like that."
AP Sports Writer Dave Ginsburg in Baltimore contributed to this report.
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Open letter to the Third Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade
Third Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade
Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 16
Open letter to the Third Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade
Since Monday, media have been reporting on the attempted murder of a woman in New Belgrade. In a parking lot in front of a building, D.J. (age 25) fired several shots from a gun at his wife T.J. (age 25), in front of their baby and passers-by. The victim had left him some time before and reported him for violence. He was, at that time, issued an urgent restraining order, which he respected until its expiration in April. The victim’s fear for her life is confirmed to media by her friend, who said she had been exposed to violence before, but was afraid to report it. Media also reported that the couple had lived in a house with high fences, under constant video surveillance, that the perpetrator’s father was already known to the police due to illegal weapons possession, extortion and connections with criminal circles. An announcement about this case was made by the Third Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office, stating that everything was done to protect this woman.
Bearing this in mind, we ask the Prosecutor’s Office to provide answers (publicly) to the following questions:
Was the case considered at a meeting of the Coordination and Cooperation Group (CCG), and if yes, how did the Group assess the risk? Why and how during risk assessment was it disregarded that the perpetrator’s father was known to the police from before because of criminal acts and that he had access to illegal weapons?
Did the CCG of Surcin inform the CCG of New Belgrade about the case, as the victim moved to her parents’ in New Belgrade?
Did the CCG make a protection and support plan for the victim?
Why does the deputy public prosecutor say the perpetrator could not be apprehended, as there were no prior reports of (the criminal act of ) domestic violence, and therefore no prospects of its repetition? What other indicators (except the possibility of the repetition of the criminal act) were taken into consideration during the assessment of risks and steps to be taken based on the submitted report?
The deputy public prosecutor blames the victim, claiming that she had chosen the perpetrator for her partner, and that she (bearing in mind that they have been friends since childhood) had to have known what he was like and could have reported him. How did the deputy public prosecutor and other professionals involved assess the victim’s possibility to report the violence bearing in mind she lived in isolation (in a house surrounded by tall walls and cameras), and that her father-in-law had been involved with criminal circles? Why wasn’t the victim provided adequate protection, now that she was brave enough to report the violence?
The victim initiated divorce proceedings and “in the meantime”, according to the deputy public prosecutor, asked the court to issue protection measures. What cannot be determined based on his statement is whether criminal charges were brought against the perpetrator? He states that such a procedure takes times as it is necessary to collect “serious” evidence, but he forgets that the safety of the victim has to be a priority and it must be guaranteed regardless of the length of procedures.
We wonder whether the responsible deputy public prosecutor is familiar enough with the law according to which he acts or whether this is a case of an unintended mistake, bearing in mind he states in several appearances in the “Belgrade Chronicle” television show that after the expiration of 30 days, urgent measures can be prolonged to another 30 days[1]?
The third basic prosecutor’s office has made efforts to convince us that it was impossible to prevent this attempt of murder and that everything was done according to legal procedures. Still, we would like to express our deep concern and distrust, bearing in mind that certain indicators of high risk (such as possession of and access to firearms, connections of the perpetrator’s father with criminal groups, separation of the perpetrator and victim) have clearly been disregarded. We also wonder how the responsible professionals of the Third basic public prosecutor’s office will provide support to other victims who turn to them, having in mind the visible lack of knowledge about relevant laws and procedures based on which they need to act (e.g. the principle of the priority of the victims safety and Law on Prevention of Domestic Violence), as well as the tendency to blame the victim. Institutions increasingly make mistakes, but perpetrators do not waste time, they always hit their target. It is possible that not all murders of women can be prevented, but this cannot be said in cases when calls for help were left without an appropriate response of institutions. React until it is too late!
For the Autonomous Women’s Center
Aleksandra Nestorov and Vedrana Lacmanovic
[1] Urgent measures, according to the effective Law on Prevention of Domestic Violence ("Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia”, no. 94/2016) are issued for 48 hours, with the possibility of extension to 30 days. In case of breach of measures, the sanction of 60 days in prison is envisaged. The television show is accessible via: http://www.rts.rs/page/tv/sr/story/22/rts-svet/3553654/beogradska-hronika.html (viewed on June 14, 2019.)
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The Major Breakthrough That Completely Stopped This Woman's Painful Genital Herpes Outbreaks
By Carly Breit
In the span of seven days, Mel Smith left her verbally abusive boyfriend, moved out of their house with her 13-year-old son, and found out that she had contracted genital herpes.
“I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t know what to do,” she says, remembering the time five years ago when her vagina itched so badly she couldn’t wear underwear. Her diagnosis? Herpes simplex virus.
The World Health Organization estimates that more than 420 billion people worldwide have herpes simplex virus, commonly referred to as “herpes.” The highly contagious virus is passed through human contact, be it orally or sexually. There are two types: HSV-1, which mainly causes oral herpes, and HSV-2, which infects 417 million people and mainly causes genital herpes. Women are infected with HSV-2 more than men because sexual transmission is more efficient from men to women than from women to men.
Most herpes infections don’t cause symptoms. But for some people, like Mel, painful, itchy, sore-causing genital outbreaks become the new reality.
Related: ‘I'm an Ob-Gyn and I Have Herpes'
Today, there is no known cure—just antiviral medications that can help ease the pain of outbreaks for some people.
“He told me that ‘it’s like buying a condo in Florida, you can never get rid of it,’” she says of her doctor, who prescribed her the antiviral and sent her away. Her ex-boyfriend, who she thinks may have cheated and passed along the virus, offered no support either. He accused her of cheating on him.
So she started taking the medication to lessen the intensity of her severe outbreaks, which caused tingling on her genitals, and intense itching that often resulted in scabs or open wounds when scratched. Still, every month when she got her period, an outbreak came with it, a common phenomenon for women with genital herpes.
Online, she found a community of people with herpes, and she also found William Halford, Ph.D., who had been studying the virus for more than 20 years.
Five years ago, Halford met filmmaker Agustin Fernandez, who was interested in investing a half-million dollars in a herpes vaccine, inspired by an ex-girlfriend who had the virus. The doctor and filmmaker started Rational Vaccines in 2015 with the hopes that a vaccine for herpes could one day be on the market.
Related: Why I Love Telling People I Have Herpes
After writing to him about her life with severe monthly outbreaks, Mel became one of the 17 people chosen for a clinical trial run by Halford in the Caribbean. The trial group, based in Saint Kitts and Nevis, was composed of men and women from the U.S. and U.K. of different ages and races. Each participant had tested positive for herpes and experienced severe genital outbreaks 12 to 24 times per year. Beginning in April 1, 2016, they were each injected with three doses, one month apart, of the vaccine.
Halford first tested the vaccine on mice, guinea pigs, himself, and co-founder Fernandez. Though neither of them were infected with herpes, they injected themselves to prove their belief that the vaccine was safe. Next came the trial, which not only offered further proof of the vaccine's safety in humans but its ability to help tame symptoms.
The clinical trial Mel participated in was the first live-attenuated herpes vaccine tested on humans. Translation: Halford injected a “slow, stupid version” of the herpes virus into participants, so their immune systems could find it, fight it, and do the same thing when the real virus flared up again.
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Halford and his team are still analyzing the data from the trial, and they expect to have a paper published in a medical journal by the end of 2017. However, Fernandez said 100 percent of the patients reported improvements in the frequency of their outbreaks.
“It worked on every person in varying degrees,” he said. About 65 percent of participants said they have not had a genital herpes outbreak since the trial has ended—Mel included. About 25 percent now have many fewer outbreaks than before, he says. Everyone in these two categories tested positive for one of two types of herpes simplex virus before the trial began.
The remaining 10 percent, all of whom were women who tested positive for both types of herpes simplex virus (HSV-1 and HSV-2), saw the least amount of improvement. But these women still reported that their outbreaks had subsided, whether it was the intensity or the frequency. Fernandez said that, like Mel, each of these women experienced outbreaks during their menstrual cycles.
Related: 7 Things You Should Never Say to Someone with Herpes
Live viral vaccines are nothing new—the shingles and chickenpox vaccines employ the same strategy to fight the viruses. Still, Fernandez said the words “live” and “virus” in the same sentence made the FDA hesitant to approve trials in the U.S. That’s why the company had to conduct the trial overseas. While that may sound suspect, it's similar to what happened with the chickenpox vaccine, which is now required to attend public school in all 50 states. When scientists behind that vaccine were conducting trials in Japan in 1972, the FDA delayed bringing it to the U.S. The regulatory agency was concerned that there could be unwanted side effects, according to the New York Times. It wasn’t approved until 1995.
Now, chickenpox is largely a thing of the past. Fernandez hopes that one day soon, herpes will be, too.
Edward Gershburg, Ph.D., who worked on the development of the vaccine with Halford at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, confirms that this trial was the first time a live-attenuated herpes vaccine was tested on humans. That may be because although the risk of contracting or worsening the virus from this type of vaccine is extremely small, it’s there, he says.
"We are at the point where (U.S. regulators) can’t afford even the slightest risk, even if it’s one out of several million,” he says. “Those vaccines will be somewhat considered risky.”
Fernandez says he is confident in the safety in the vaccine, but he wants to run more tests. Within three to five years, he hopes to have a Phase 1 FDA-approved clinical trial in the U.S. He doesn’t want to wait for the sometimes years-long approval process when he could be helping more people, he says, so he’ll organize more trials in Mexico and the Caribbean in the meantime.
With desperate emails from people with herpes pouring into his inbox every day, Fernandez says he asks himself, “What’s the bigger risk? I think it’s a little more risky to let this continue.”
Related: I Tested Positive for Herpes—Now What?
“We can’t wait,” he says. “There are literally too many people suffering.”
When Harvey Friedman, M.D., professor of infectious diseases at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, read about the trial, he says it was encouraging to hear that it had positive effects on every participant. Still, he says, it’s too early to celebrate.
“The first step is to have a control group, which he didn’t have,” he says. “He was looking at safety.”
To really prove the efficacy of the vaccine to alleviate outbreaks, patients would have to be split into two groups. One group would get the vaccine and one would get a placebo, Friedman says. After recording the results, Rational Vaccines will have a better idea of how to proceed.
Fernandez knows it will be a long road with several phases of testing before this vaccine could possibly be available to the public, but he is prepared to do whatever it takes. His friend and co-founder Halford has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and the filmmaker wants to continue his legacy.
“There is nothing else more important I could do than this,” he says.
Mel has thrown out the antiviral medications that she used to hide shamefully in her medicine cabinet. She has more time to spend with friends, her son, her boyfriend, and working on her business now that she doesn’t have painful monthly outbreaks. "I feel like a more whole person," she says.
Carly Breit Web Editorial Fellow Carly Breit is a freelance writer who loves to write about health, wellness, and strong women.
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Crime victim turned gun rights activist pushing new bill for Georgia
By: Matt Johnson
Updated: Feb 21, 2019 - 11:55 PM
ATLANTA - A metro man who said he and a friend were ambushed by two attackers said he wants others to be able to fight back like he did.
Surveillance video obtained by Channel 2's Matt Johnson shows the moments on Nov. 1, 2018, when the man was able to get his gun and start shooting at the men who ambushed him.
The shooting happened the same day he got his concealed carry permit.
"I just really had to get my handgun out and put them on their heels and give myself a fighting chance," Jon Foster said.
He shared pictures of some of the bullet holes in the would-be robbers' truck, which they left behind as they ran away.
Hapeville police said whoever is responsible is still out there.
"They had stolen goods in the truck from a previous robbery that night, and I think they were setting us up for a home invasion," Foster said.
Foster says he's speaking out now to support of HB2, a proposed bill known as "constitutional carry." If passed at the Capitol, it would get rid of the need for a concealed carry permit for Georgians legally qualified to own a gun.
Foster said his permit arrived after eight weeks and on the same day of the attempted robbery.
"Had it happened a day earlier, I would not have had my permit. I would not have had my handgun on me, and we'd be having a different conversation, if we were even having one," Foster said.
State Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver believes the bill would be unpopular among Georgians.
"They support more background checks, universal background checks. They do not support no background check in order to carry a gun," she said.
But Foster said he believes a right delayed is a right denied.
HB2 is still in the committee process, and similar bills like it have failed in the past.
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As an earthquake rattled the Los Angeles-area, the Dodgers and Padres just played through it
Nicole Chavez
The crowd at Dodger Stadium went wild at bottom of the fourth inning. It wasn't the game, the ground started shaking.San Diego Padres pitcher Eric Lauer threw several pitches to the Los Angeles Dodgers' Enríque Hernández while a 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Southern California on Friday night.The players just stayed focused, like it was nothing, even as broadcast cameras and the foul poles shook for a few seconds.The shaking was felt more than 250 miles away in Las Vegas, where an NBA Summer League game ended up being postponed.The New Orleans Pelicans and the New York Knicks were playing inside the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas when scoreboards and speakers near the ceiling of the arena shook.
LOS ANGELES —
The crowd at Dodger Stadium went wild at bottom of the fourth inning. It wasn't the game, the ground started shaking.
San Diego Padres pitcher Eric Lauer threw several pitches to the Los Angeles Dodgers' Enríque Hernández while a 7.1-magnitude earthquake rocked Southern California on Friday night.
The players just stayed focused, like it was nothing, even as broadcast cameras and the foul poles shook for a few seconds.
7.1 magnitude #EarthquakeLA? Just roll with it. pic.twitter.com/biXRVo0CTs
— San Diego Padres (@Padres) July 6, 2019
The shaking was felt more than 250 miles away in Las Vegas, where an NBA Summer League game ended up being postponed.
The New Orleans Pelicans and the New York Knicks were playing inside the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas when scoreboards and speakers near the ceiling of the arena shook.
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Seong Ji
Birthday: 27 February 1977, South Korea
Born Kwak Tae Gun on February 27, 1977 he landed his debuting role in 1999 SBS Television Drama KAIST. It was through the suggestion of is then-manager that he took on the the stage name Chae Ji-sung and subsequently known as simply Ji Sung. His participating in following TV dramas such as All In(2003) and Save the Last Dance for Me(2004) as well a... Show more »
Born Kwak Tae Gun on February 27, 1977 he landed his debuting role in 1999 SBS Television Drama KAIST. It was through the suggestion of is then-manager that he took on the the stage name Chae Ji-sung and subsequently known as simply Ji Sung. His participating in following TV dramas such as All In(2003) and Save the Last Dance for Me(2004) as well as is first film Whistling Princess(2002) further launched his acting career. Ji Sung enlisted into mandatory military service in June 2005 as a soldier and later transferred and served as a public ambassador of military affairs until his discharge June of 2007. Following his discharge that same year he made is comeback in TV Drama New Heart(2007) as once again began to capture the attention of his audiences and continued to do so in later television dramas. He then signed with new management agency, Namoo Actors in February of 2010. From there, Ji Sung continued to add to his extensive resumé playing parts in TV Dramas such as The Great Seer(2012) and in adult rom-com film Whatcha Wearin'?(2012). He then stole the hearts of audiences again in 2013 KBS melodrama Secret. In the same year, Ji Sung announced and tied the knot with South Korean actress and Save the Last Dance for Me co-star Lee Bo-young. On November 24, 2014 Namoo Actors Agency revealed Ji Sung and Lee Bo-young to be expecting their first child mid-June to early July of 2015. He then continued the capture audiences reuniting with Secret co-star Hwang Jung-eum in 2015 MBC Television Drama Kill Me, Heal Me for which Ji Sung received much praise for his outstanding acting skills. Show less «
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Home Media Centre Press Releases 2009 Senna name returns to Formula One
Senna name returns to Formula One
Bruno Senna, nephew of the late three-times world champion Ayrton and the first international driver to sample the Yas Marina Circuit, will graduate to Formula One in 2010 with Spanish newcomers the Campos Meta team.
"I am very content and want to share my happiness with the fans,” said Senna, who lapped the new Abu Dhabi track in late August and has been a frequent visitor to the new facility. “It's time to put my head down and prepare for next year. There is a lot of work ahead of me."
Campos Meta chief executive officer Enrique Rodriguez de Castro said: "For Campos Meta, it is an extraordinary honour to return the name of Senna to Formula One. The 2014 World Cup, the 2016 Olympics, and three drivers in F1 - it's clear that Brazil is coming up!"
Ayrton Senna, who won the drivers’ world title three times, was killed in an accident at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.
De Castro said he was surprised at the progress Senna’s nephew had made: “We have followed him closely since his early days in minor series and testified how quickly he developed his speed and skills at GP2 to become one of the most promising up-and-coming drivers of his generation.
"It is astonishing how fast he is entering the F1 scenario after just a few years in motor racing."
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Penn State linebacker Manny Bowen no longer with Nittany Lions, will 'focus on school'
Three weeks after being reinstated, Penn State linebacker Manny Bowen is no longer with the program.
Penn State linebacker Manny Bowen no longer with Nittany Lions, will 'focus on school' Three weeks after being reinstated, Penn State linebacker Manny Bowen is no longer with the program. Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/sports/college/psu/football/2018/08/28/penn-state-linebacker-manny-bowen-no-longer-nittany-lions-program/1119218002/
DEREK LEVARSE, (Wilkes-Barre) Times-Leader (TNS) Published 9:34 a.m. ET Aug. 28, 2018 | Updated 6:03 p.m. ET Aug. 28, 2018
Manny Bowen(Photo: Mark Selders/Courtesy of Penn State)
Linebacker Manny Bowen is no longer with the Penn State football program.
Bowen had returned to the PSU roster on Aug. 4 after suspensions in consecutive seasons.
Bowen's teammate, Cam Brown, said Bowen wanted "to focus on school."
To mix sports metaphors, there was no third strike for Manny Bowen.
The senior linebacker’s latest sudden departure from the Nittany Lions, which was announced Monday, did not come as a result of another misstep. It was a choice Bowen made on his own, according to a teammate.
“Honestly it’s not disappointing at all. Manny made the decision to focus on school and that’s it,” fellow linebacker Cam Brown said. “We weren’t really planning on having him back right away, so it doesn’t affect much of what’s going on in the room.”
Indeed, both head coach James Franklin and defensive coordinator Brent Pry had made it clear that Bowen wouldn’t be immediately joining the starting group he had been a part of the last two years.
He had been suspended twice and ultimately dismissed from the team in December before rejoining the roster for training camp at the start of August with the understanding that he’d have to continue working to regain his old spot.
Bowen himself was not available for interviews at the team’s media day at the start of camp and hasn’t addressed the situation on social media. The Instagram account that he used to hint at his return back in June appears to have been deleted or changed.
“It’s like a lot of things that come out and become public,” Franklin said. “No. 1, we love Manny. We want nothing but success for him and his future. I think Manny has a very, very bright future. But for us, we had been kind of working with (the assumption he wouldn’t be available) anyway.
“Again, there’s a lot of details of this matter that you guys aren’t aware of, but it really had not changed a whole lot for us at this point in the season.”
Franklin and the Lions have never gone into detail about Bowen’s suspensions and eventual dismissal, labeling them all “violations of team rules.”
But that isn’t the case this time.
Hypothetically, Bowen’s football career may not be over. Because he was forced into action immediately as a true freshman in 2015 because of injuries, he never redshirted. On track to graduate in December, if he remains at Penn State and gets his degree, he could potentially transfer to another FBS program the following semester and be eligible to play in 2019 as a grad student.
As for the Lions, walk-on Jan Johnson will start at middle linebacker in Saturday’s opener against Appalachian State, flanked by veterans Cam Brown and Koa Farmer.
“I feel like everybody in the room is ready,” Brown said. “Everybody is working hard. … Honestly, we’ve just been stepping it up a notch and going harder in practice. Doing the little things off the field to make sure we’re as healthy as we can be. We’re trying to chip away at everything we needed to improve on.”
Franklin said Brown has "differentiated" himself from the pack at linebacker, but some other young linebackers (true freshman Micah Parsons, true freshman Jesse Luketa and redshirt freshman Ellis Brooks) are pushing for playing time and even starting roles.
Parsons, a heralded recruit from Harrisburg, is pushing Farmer on the outside, while Luketa and Brooks are pushing Johnson on the inside.
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Arousal regulation refers to entering into and maintaining an optimal level of cognitive and physiological activation in order to maximize performance. This may include relaxation if one becomes too anxious through methods such as progressive muscle relaxation, breathing exercises, and meditation, or the use of energizing techniques (e.g., listening to music, energizing cues) if one is not alert enough.[46] The use of meditation and specifically, mindfulness, is a growing practice in the field of arousal recognition. The Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) Theory is the most common form of mindfulness in sport and was formed in 2001. The aim of MAC is to maximize human potential for a rich, full and meaningful life.[47] It includes specific protocol that involve meditation and acceptance practices on a regular basis as well as before and during competition. These protocol have been tested various times using NCAA men's and women's basketball players. In a study done by Frank L. Gardner, an NCAA women's basketball player increased her personal satisfaction in her performances from 2.4 out of 10 to 9.2 out of 10 after performing the specific MAC protocol for several weeks. Also, the effect of mental barriers on her game decreased from 8 out of 8 to 2.2 out of 8 during that same time period as a result of the MAC protocol.[48] Another study of the MAC protocol performed by Frank Gardner and Zella Moore on an adolescent competitive diver showed that when the MAC protocol is tailored to a specific population, it has the potential to provide performance enhancement. In this case, the vocabulary and examples in the protocol were tailored to be more practical for a 12-year-old. After performed the MAC protocol for several weeks, the diver showed between a 13 to 14 percent increase in his diving scores.[49] This finding is important because previously the majority of tests performed using the MAC protocol had been on world class athletes.
Most organizations believe that once someone reaches executive or senior status in the organization, they should inherently be able to act under pressure, inspire and implement ideas, keep their skills sharp and current, and have all the answers. In actuality, they can eventually get there on their own but the engagement of a qualified executive coach will exponentially increase not only the time it takes for the executive to get there but also the ability for the executive and the company to sustain the change.
In 1923, Griffith developed and taught the first sports psychology university courses (“Psychology and Athletics”) at the University of Illinois, and he came to be known as “The Father of Sports Psychology” in the United States, as a result of his pioneering achievements in that area. However, he is also known as “The prophet without disciples”, since none of his students continued with sports psychology, and his work started to receive attention only from the 1960s [13]
Students may wish to become student members of Division 47 of the American Psychological Association: Sports Psychology. Membership may provide them with leadership as well as networking opportunities. They will receive a newsletter and a journal, Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology. The dissertation provides an opportunity to distinguish oneself in the field. Division 47 has an award competition for dissertations.
It appears that hypnosis, under other names, has been used since the beginning of time. In fact, it has been insinuated that the earliest description of hypnosis may be portrayed in the Old Testament and in the Talmud. There is also evidence of hypnosis in ancient Egypt, some 3,000 years ago. However, the man credited with the development of what has become modern hypnosis is Friedrich Anton Mesmer, an Austrian physician. One day, Mesmer watched a magician on a street in Paris demonstrate that he could have spectators do his bidding by touching them with magnets. Fascinated by the demonstration, Mesmer believed the magnets had power of their own and from this belief developed his theory of "animal magnetism." He also believed that good health depended on having correct magnetic flow and that the direction of one's magnetic flow could be reversed easily. He further believed that he could direct this magnetic flow into inanimate objects, that could then be used for the good health of others. The term "mesmerism" came to be applied to his mystical workings. He experienced much success in helping the people of Paris as well as visitors who came from other countries, upon hearing of his powers. Later he was completely discredited by a special commission of the French Academy appointed by the King of France, causing him to leave the country. Two of the more famous members of the French Academy at the time were chairman of the commission Benjamin Franklin, American ambassador to France, and Dr. Guillotine, the inventor of the execution device.
Your hypnotherapist will begin your first session by asking questions about your medical history and the issue that brought you in. He will likely give you an explanation of hypnosis and how it works, and then will guide you into your first trance. The therapist will also probably teach you some self-hypnosis techniques, so you can reinforce the hypnotherapy on your own. Hypnotherapy sessions typically last about an hour.
Practice in the field of applied sport and exercise psychology usually involves a combination of individual and group consulting or counseling depending on the style of the professional conducting the intervention and the needs of the client. Although there are many specific concepts within applied sport and exercise psychology (e.g., goal setting, concentration, motivation, relaxation, imagery), the general goal is to teach mental skills necessary to perform consistently in training and competition, increase adherence to exercise programs, and to help individuals realize their potential.
This is what you say or think to yourself. Self-talk patterns are related to how people feel and act. Changing self-talk is commonly used for (a) prompting a specific behavior, (b) improving self–confidence, (c) attention control, (d) motivation, and (e) arousal control. Common components include the identification of negative or irrelevant thoughts, challenging these thoughts, the creation of positive thoughts, and the substitution of positive thoughts for the negative thoughts.
Luke O’Neil for The Atlantic reviewed quit smoking hypnotherapy when he tried the treatment himself. He said “I left the session feeling noticeably different. I sat in my car outside for a half hour and did not smoke. I went to dinner nearby and sat, and had a drink, and did not smoke. Eventually I caved in to the craving, but I didn't like it. I'm still smoking, I just don't enjoy them anywhere near as much as I used to anymore.”
I chose the University of Ottawa in Canada for my Master’s in Sport Psychology for 2 main reasons. One of the most experienced, forerunners of Sport Psychology, Dr. Terry Orlick, is a professor at U of O. I had a conversation with him prior to applying, and he offered to be my thesis advisor, so at that point the program at University of Ottawa became the only choice for me.
Motivation, concentration and focus, as well as overall mental health, are considered vital components in a winning athletes training. As the mental component in sport is such an important factor, psychology is assuming an increasingly important role in the field. It’s believed that the difference between a sports person with strong psychological training and a sports person without this could mean the difference between first and second place.
Sport psychology is a proficiency that uses psychological knowledge and skills to address optimal performance and well-being of athletes, developmental and social aspects of sports participation, and systemic issues associated with sports settings and organizations. APA recognizes sport psychology as a proficiency acquired after a doctoral degree in one of the primary areas of psychology and licensure as a psychologist. This proficiency does not include those who have earned a doctoral degree in sport psychology but are not licensed psychologists.
So we try to make athletes understand that there is a process to their sport, and that it is more important early on to get the process right than to worry about the result. Then, as the athletes get better and reach higher levels of competition, we put as much importance on the process as on the result. The hope is that the emphasis on the process will buffer the athlete from a bad loss. As long as they know that they performed to their best, they are more accepting of the result.
“Learning hypnotherapy does not commit you to drastically changing your therapy practice,” says hypnotherapist Catherine Reiss. “The training will allow you to more quickly and effectively get to the cause of your clients’ unwanted behaviors and the feelings they present with it, but it also facilitates the use of trance in more traditional formats.”
People may undergo hypnosis in order to address all manner of problems—from addictions, like mine, to emotional trauma. There’s some evidence that it could be an effective tool in dentistry, treating eating disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder, and helping with pain during childbirth. But despite its prevalence, there's still ample confusion about what it actually is, sometimes even among those who've already committed to it. I certainly had no idea what I was in for as I relaxed into my superlatively uncomfortable chair, ready for, well, something. Or maybe nothing.
Confusion can occur when one seeks a hypnotherapist, as a result of the various titles, certifications, and licenses in the field. Many states do not regulate the title "hypnotist" or "hypnotherapist," so care must be exercised when selecting someone to see. As a rule, it is best to consult a professional in the field of mental health or medicine, although alternative sources for hypnosis are available. Care must be taken also by the therapist to ensure adequate training and sufficient experience for rendering this specialized service. The therapist must be well grounded in a psychotherapeutic approach before undertaking the use of hypnotherapy. Professionals should not attempt hypnotherapy with any disorder for which they would not use traditional therapeutic approaches. The patient seeking hypnotherapy is reminded that unskilled or amateur hypnotists can cause harm and should not be consulted for the purpose of implementing positive change in an individual's life. The detrimental effects of being subjected to amateur or inadequately trained persons can be severe and long lasting. (See abnormal results below.)
Weight loss occurs when the body is expending more energy in work and metabolism than it is absorbing from food or other nutrients. It will then use stored reserves from fat or muscle, gradually leading to weight loss. For athletes seeking to improve performance or to meet required weight classification for participation in a sport, it is not uncommon to seek additional weight loss even if they are already at their ideal body weight. Others may be driven to lose weight to achieve an appearance they consider more attractive. However, being underweight is associated with health risks such as difficulty fighting off infection, osteoporosis, decreased muscle strength, trouble regulating body temperature and even increased risk of death.[3]
As Martens argued for applied methods in sport psychology research, the increasing emergence of practitioners of sport psychology (including sport psychology consultants who taught sport psychology skills and principles to athletes and coaches, and clinical and counseling psychologists who provided counseling and therapy to athletes) brought into focus two key questions and a debate which continues to the present day: under what category does the discipline of sport psychology fall?, and who governs the accepted practices for sport psychology? Is sport psychology a branch of kinesiology or sport and exercise science (like exercise physiology and athletic training)? Is it a branch of psychology or counseling? Or is it an independent discipline?
Because of shows like "Billions," the need and desire for coaching has expanded tremendously. The idea that someone can help you build muscles in the gym is now relating to someone coaching a C-suite executive through pivotal decisions while managing stress. Now that is huge progress. Who wouldn’t want less stress and more productivity in their lives? - Neeta Bhushan, Global GRIT Institute
Cally uses hypnotherapy to help people feel empowered in mind and body. Hypnotherapy can be integrated into your health care to address sleep problems, stress relief, general anxiousness, freedom from smoking, weight management, pain management, self-confidence, and fears that get in the way of daily life. Cally will teach you self-hypnosis, provide you with a list of strategies and resources for relaxation, and a digital audio file for reinforcement at home.
Within six months of taking the assignment, Nelson claimed that the once-raging COO was calm and capable of fulfilling his duties. While this successful outcome was aided in large part by the athletic shoe industry’s recovery, Garvin was nevertheless impressed with his friend’s accomplishments. When Nelson suggested that he apply the profiling system to all the company’s key executives, Garvin didn’t give it a second thought.
Salaries vary based on the psychologist's area of specialization and experience, the employing organization and the amount of advanced training received. Experienced psychologists working for professional sports teams or professional athletes may earn six-figure salaries, while those working in educational or research settings receive more modest salaries.
In 1996, as a result of a three-year research project led by Lindsay B. Yeates, the Australian Hypnotherapists Association[48] (founded in 1949), the oldest hypnotism-oriented professional organization in Australia, instituted a peer-group accreditation system for full-time Australian professional hypnotherapists, the first of its kind in the world, which "accredit[ed] specific individuals on the basis of their actual demonstrated knowledge and clinical performance; instead of approving particular 'courses' or approving particular 'teaching institutions'" (Yeates, 1996, p.iv; 1999, p.xiv).[49] The system was further revised in 1999.[50]
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PIROXICAM: PDE
DETERMINATION STRATEGY
1. BASIC INFORMATION ................................................................................................................. 3
2. HAZARDS IDENTIFIED ................................................................................................................ 4
3. SUMMARY OF ASSESSMENT PROCESS (CALCULATION OF PDE VALUE) ................. 5
4. IDENTITY OF THE ACTIVE SUBSTANCE ................................................................................ 8
5. OBJECTIVE AND SEARCH STRATEGY .................................................................................. 8
6. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 9
7. HAZARD IDENTIFICATION ....................................................................................................... 10
a. Pharmacodynamics data ......................................................................................................... 10
b. Acute toxicity ............................................................................................................................. 12
c. Repeat dose toxicity ................................................................................................................. 14
d. Carcinogenicity ......................................................................................................................... 16
e. In vitro/in vivo genotoxicity studies ........................................................................................ 16
f. Reproductive and developmental toxicity .............................................................................. 16
8. IDENTIFICATION OF CRITICAL EFFECTS........................................................................ 18
a. Most sensitive indicator of an adverse effect seen in non-clinical toxicity data ........ 18
b. Clinical therapeutic and adverse effects ............................................................................... 18
9. RATIONAL FOR NOAEL VALUE SELECTION....................................................................... 19
10. APPLICATION OF ADJUSTMENT FACTORS (rational for the adjustment factors)... 20
a. F1: Interspecies differences.................................................................................................... 20
b. F2: Intra-individual differences ............................................................................................... 21
c. F3: Duration of exposure ......................................................................................................... 21
d. F4: Nature of toxicity ................................................................................................................ 21
e. F5: Quality of data .................................................................................................................... 22
11. PK CORRECTION ....................................................................................................................... 22
12. REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................. 23
ANNEX 1: PHARMACOKINETICS AND METABOLISM OF PIROXICAM................................ 25
ANNEX 2. SUMMARY OF THE EXPERT CV ............................................................................... 28
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Chemical name:
Drug Product:
Piroxicam
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2. HAZARDS IDENTIFIED
Genotoxicant
Reproductive developmental toxicant
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3. SUMMARY OF ASSESSMENT PROCESS (CALCULATION OF PDE
VALUE)
PDE Value:
HAZARD IDENTIFICATION:
NSAIDS, non-selective COX inhibitor. Possesses
analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory properties
and inhibits platelet aggregation in animal models.
Repeat-dose toxicity:
After repeat- dose studies in rat (3 and 18 months) and
monkey (3 months), the main target organs were the
gastro-intestinal system and additionally the kidney in
the 18 months study in rats.
Carcinogenicity:
No evidence of carcinogenic potential was seen in rats
at doses up to 1 mg/kg/day for 2 years. Piroxicam is not
listed as a carcinogen by IARC, NTP or OSHA.
In vitro/in vivo
genotoxicity studies:
Piroxicam was negative in the Ames model for bacterial
mutagenicity with Salmonella E. coli and also a
negative results was obtained in human lymphocytes
cells (in vitro cytogenetics).
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re-sold, copied, or redistributed to other companies or organizations. The use by any company other than the one indicated in the watermark is
Reproductive/
developmental toxicity:
Piroxicam is not teratogenic. Some effects related to a
slight inhibition of postnatal body weight gain was seen in
peri- and postnatal development studies in rats (NOAEL
2 mg/kg/day) although the confirmation in human is
controversial. Classified as Pregnancy category C by
FDA and ADEC.
IDENTIFICATION OF CRITICAL EFFECTS:
Most sensitive indicator Gastro-intestinal and kidney effect.
of an adverse effect
toxicity data:
Clinical therapeutic and Beneficial therapeutics effects: pain, inflammation,
adverse effects:
fever. Side effects link to target: stomach mucosa and
platelet stickiness. The gastrointestinal system is the
major site of adverse effects. Others adverse effects
are cardiovascular risk, dizziness, headaches, skin
rashes, respiratory depression or hepatitis.
NOAEL
1mg/kg/day rat 18 months study
(MSDS, Pfizer,2007)
APPLICATION OF ADJUSTMENT FACTORS
F1: Extrapolation
between species (2-12)
Based on surface area calculations for rat.
F2:Inter-individual
variability (10)
Conventionally used to allow for differences
between individuals in the human population.
F3: Toxicological study
Chronic or acute (10 is
study duration < 4
weeks) (1-10). Not
included genotoxicity,
carcinogenicity,
neurotoxicity and
teratogenicity
Based on length of the study equivalent to at
least one half-life (1 year for rodent). Study of
18 months duration in rats.
F4: for severe toxicity
Because reproductive toxicity are controversial
for the animal studies.
F5: NOAEL vs LOAEL
(10 if LOAEL)
Because NOAEL value was used for PDE
PK CORRECTION:
Not applied
4. IDENTITY OF THE ACTIVE SUBSTANCE
4-Hydroxy-2-methyl-N-(2-pyridyl)-2H-1,2-benzothiazin-3-caboxyamid-1,1dioxid
[German];
4-Hydroxy-2-methyl-N-(2-pyridyl)-2H-1,2-benzothiazine-3carboxamide-1,1-dioxide;
4-Hydroxy-2-methyl-N-2-pyridyl-2H-1,2-benzothiazine-3carboxamide 1,1-dioxide; BAXO; CHF 1251; CP 16171; CP-16,171; Feldene; Piroftal;
Piroxicamum [INN-Latin]; Pyroxycam; Roxicam; 2H-1,2-Benzothiazine-3-carboxamide,
4-hydroxy-2-methyl-N-2-pyridinyl-, 1,1-dioxide; [ChemIDplus]
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Number: 36-322-90-4
Chemical Description and Physical Properties: white crystalline solid (Merck index)
Molecular formula: C15H13N3O4S
Melting point: 198-200C (ChemIDPlus)
Figure 1. Structure of Piroxicam.
5. OBJECTIVE AND SEARCH STRATEGY
In accordance with the Guideline on setting health based exposure limits for use in risk
identification in the manufacture of different medicinal products in shared facilities
(EMA/CHMP/ CVMP/ SWP/169430/2012) the determination of health based exposure
limits for a residual active substance is based on the calculation of the Permitted Daily
Exposure (PDE). Determination of a PDE involves (i) hazard identification by reviewing all
relevant data, (ii) identification of critical effects, (iii) determination of the no-observedadverse-effect level (NOAEL) of the findings that are considered to be critical effects, and
(iv) use of several adjustment factors to account for various uncertainties.
It is the purpose of this document to provide a brief summary of the scientific
information relative to Piroxicam compound. All the information presented for this
document is fully based on published data. With this aim, several pharmaceutical- and
medical- databases were scanned to reduce the risk of some reports missing. They
include databases such as Pubmed, Toxline, Medline, NTP (National Toxicology
program), GESTIS (German database on hazardous substances), CPDB (carcinogenic
potency database), Classification by the monograph of IARC (monograph on the
evaluation of carcinogenic risk to human, International Agency for research on cancer
monograph), DART (Development and Reproductive database), HSDB (Hazardous
Substance Data Dank) and data from medical agencies such as AEMPS (Agencia
Espaola de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios), CIMA (Centro de Informacin online de medicamentos), EMA (European Medicinal Agency), FDA (Food and Drug
Administration) and ECHA (European Chemical Agency).
The initial searched term was piroxicam.
Additional databases like RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical
Substances), USP (US Pharmacopeial convention), JECFA (Joint FAO/WHO expert
committee on Food additives), several MSDS (Material Safety Datasheet), IRIS
(Integrated Risk Information System), CCRIS (Chemical carcinogenesis research
Information system), GeneTox, MICROMEDEX, EFSA (European Food Safety
Authority), International Program on medical safety (INCHEM), CICAP (Concise
International Chemical Assessment Documents), were also incorporated during the
searching process. In addition, the reference book Goodman and Gilman (2006) was
also consulted.
Piroxicam is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent with analgesic and antipyretic
activity. Its ATC code M01AC01 (Oxicans, non-steroids anti-inflammatory and antirheumatic product). Piroxicam is indicated for the symptomatic relief of rheumatoid
arthritis, osteoarthritis or ankylosing spondylitis. The maximum recommended dose is
20 mg. The main advantage of Piroxicam is its long half-life, which permits once-a-day
dosing (Goodman and Gilman, 2006).
In this section and evaluation of all pertinent information relative to the substances
potential to cause harm in humans is performed. This section includes an expert
discussion with respect to the critical end-points, a rationale for the discussion of the
choice of end points and dose. Pivotal animal and human studies were sourced to the
original references when possible. The study design, description of findings and
accuracy of the report were revised.
a. Pharmacodynamics data
Piroxicam is a well-established product, with a well-known mechanism of action.
The principal therapeutic effects of NSAIDs derive from their ability to inhibit
prostaglandins production. The first enzyme in the prostaglandin synthetic pathway is
prostaglandin G/H synthase, also known as cyclooxygenase (COX) (See Figure 2 A).
Anti-inflammatory effect: This enzyme converts arachidonic acid (AA) to the unstable
intermediate PGG2 and PGH2 and leads to the production of thromboxane A2 (TXA2)
and a variety of prostaglandins (Goodman and Gilman, 2006). Therapeutic doses of
piroxicam reduce prostaglandin biosynthesis in human, mediating their inflammatory
activity. The inhibition of the different prostaglandins in turn mediate a variety of
physiological effects both beneficial and pathological, as seen in figure 2 B (Vane and
Botting, 2003). Piroxicam is an enolic acid (oxicam) that inhibit in a non-selective way
COX-1 and COX-2. COX-1 expressed constitutively in many tissues, and COX-2
(discovered in 1990), an induced isoform having elevated expression in inflamed tissues.
COX-1 is thought to be involved in ongoing housekeeping functions, for example,
gastric cytoprotection, while COX-2 is the isoform implicated in the pathological effects
mentioned above (Xie et al, 1993).
Figure 2. A) Generation of prostanoids by COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes: stimuli and
inhibitors. PG = prostaglandin; TxA = thromboxane A (Husain et al., 2002).
Schematic representation of the physiological and pathological action of COX-1 and
COX-2 enzymes, which are blocked by piroxicam.
Analgesic effect: Although NSAIDs are usually classified as mild analgesic, they are
particularly effective when inflammation has caused sensitization of pain receptors to
normally painless mechanical or chemical stimuli. NSAIDs do not affect hiperalgesia or
pain caused by the direct action of prostaglandins; their actions are due to inhibition of
prostaglandin synthesis.
Fever effects: Regulation of body temperature requires a delicate balance between
the production and loss of heat and the hypothalamus regulates the set point at which
body temperature is maintained. NSAIDs promote the return of temperature to this set
point by inhibition of PGE2. NSAIDs inhibit the fever caused by agents that enhance
the synthesis of IL-1 and other cytokines which in turns cause fever at least in part
through inducing the endogenous synthesis of prostaglandins (Goodman and Gilman,
b. Acute toxicity
According to the information contained in the safety data sheet of Feldene (MSDS,
Feldene, Pfizer 2007) and the ChemIDPlus database, The LD50 values for rats, mice
and dog administered intraperitoneal or orally are summarized in Table 1.
Table 1. Values of L LD50 for mouse, rat, hamster, guinea pig, dog and monkey after
oral, subcutaneous, rectal and skin intra-peritoneal administration.
(mg/kg)
Target organ
(MSDS,
Feldene, Pfizer
ChemIDPlus
Behavioral:
somnolence (general
depression activity)
Lungs, thorax or
respitatory: respiratory
Behavioral: Changes in
motor activity (specific
assay)
motor activity.
Behavioral: analgesia
c. Repeat dose toxicity
In additional reported studies compiled in the MSDS (MSDS, Pfizer, 2007), the NOAEL
values after multiple dose administration are summarized in Table 2.
Subchronic oral toxicity studies were conducted in rats at doses up to 25 mg/kg/day
and monkeys at doses up to 10 mg/kg/day for 3 months. In rats, gastric ulcers were
seen at 10 and 25 mg/kg/day in males and females (more severe and numerous).
NOAEL was established at 5 mg/kg/day (see Table 2). In monkeys, minimal
gastrointestinal lesions were observed at 10 mg/kg/day. In another study of 14 and 28
days duration in rats at the dose of 5 mg/kg/day piroxicam caused multiple gastric
erosions and hemorrhage in rats after 14 and 28 days of administration. The level of
myeloperoxidase activity (as an index of neutrophil infiltration) were not changed
compared with control after drug treatment. All the hematological parameters obtained
after drugs administration for 14 and 28 days were in the range of normal values, and a
significant increase in platelet levels could be observed in the group treated with 5 mg/kg
of piroxicam for 14 days. Aspartate aminotransferase (AST or GOT) increased
significantly after 14 days, but after 28 days the values returned to normality. Creatinine
and urea did not undergo significant changes except for the piroxicam 14-day 5 mg/kg
group, in which uremia increased significantly over normal values (Villegas, 2002).
Chronic toxicity of piroxicam was evaluated for 18 months in mice at doses up to 8
mg/kg/day and rats at doses up to 3 mg/kg/day, and for 1 year in dogs at a dose of
1mg/kg/day and monkeys at doses up to 10 mg/kg/day. Gastrointestinal lesions and
kidney necrosis were observed in mice at 4 or 8 mg/kg/day and male and female rats
at 3 mg/kg/day and one female at the low dose (0.3 mg/kg). In dogs, gastrointestinal
and kidney toxicity was associated with treatment. In monkeys, kidney toxicity was
seen in the high dose females; no evidence of gastro-intestinal toxicity was seen at the
dosage levels tested.
Table 2. Values of NOAEL for rat and monkey after oral administration for 3 and
18 months.
(mg/kg/day)
Gastro-intestinal
system, Kidney
d. Carcinogenicity
According to the carcinogenic potency database (CPDB), assays in male rats showed no
positive evidence in carcinogenic potential for piroxicam. No evidence of
carcinogenic potential was seen in rats at doses up to 1 mg/kg/day for 2 years.
Piroxicam is not listed as a carcinogen by IARC (International Agency for Research on
Cancer), NTP (National Toxicology Program) or OSHA (Occupational Safety and
Health administration).
e. In vitro/in vivo genotoxicity studies
In vitro Genotoxicity studies (MSDS, IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer
1987) revealed that piroxicam was negative in the Ames model for bacterial mutagenicity
with Salmonella typhimurium, E. coli and also a negative results was obtained in human
lymphocytes cells (in vitro cytogenetics).
The mutagenic potential of piroxicam has been evaluated using in vivo micronucleus
test. Four dose levels for each compound were used and bone marrow cells were
examined 24 hours after the administration. The results show that doses applied do not
induce a statistical significant increase of the frequency of micronucleated
polychromatic erythrocytes (Gris et al., 2008).
Reproductive and developmental toxicity
With regard to developmental toxicity, no effects on fertility or reproductive performance
were observed in rats (see Table 3). In mice after intraperitoneal administration of
piroxicam (0.28, 0.56 or 0.84 mg/kg) for a chronic administration during 60 (males)
or 35 (females) days, Piroxicam at the lowest dose diminished the concentration of
spermatozoa found in the uterus after mating. No other effects were observed
(parameters evaluated were: a) in females, spontaneous and induced ovulation, oocyte
maturity and spermatozoa migration through genital tract, b) in males, epididymal
spermatozoa concentration, motility, viability, resistance to hypoosmotic shock,
acrosomal status and membrane maturity and c) in both genders, in vitro and in vivo
fertilization, reproductive hormones plasma levels and cyclooxigenase inhibition in
reproductive tissues) (Martini, 2008).
According to both the FDA pregnancy category and the Australian Drug Evaluation
Committee's (ADEC), piroxicam is classified as category C (either studies in animals
have revealed adverse effects on the fetus (teratogenic or embryocidal or other) and
there are no controlled studies in women or studies in women and animals are not
available). Given the controversial data drugs should be given only if the potential benefit
justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Micromedex rate a minimal risk to
the infant when piroxicam is used during breastfeeding. The weight of an adequate
body of evidence and/or expert consensus suggests this drug poses minimal risk to the
infant when used during breastfeeding. Although piroxicam appears in breast milk, the
concentration is too low to be pharmacologically significant. Only small amounts of
piroxicam were observed in breast milk during long-term therapy in lactating women
(DrugDex). Four women with arthritis were treated with oral piroxicam 20 mg once daily
for up to 52 days. The mean milk concentrations at steady-state were 78 g/L (maximum
141g/L); the concentrations in breast milk represented 1% to 3% of simultaneous
maternal plasma levels. Accumulation of the drug was not observed in breast milk
relative to plasma. All infants remained healthy during the study period. In one breastfed
infant, piroxicam or its metabolites were not detected in urine samples. The estimated
daily dose of piroxicam ingested by the breastfeeding infant averaged
3.5% (maximum, 6.3%) of the maternal dose. This report suggests that piroxicam is
relatively safe when given chronically to a breastfeeding mother.
Table 3. Values of NOAEL for rat and rabbit after studies of developmental
toxicity after oral administration.
No effect at
maximum dose
Peripostnatal
LOAEL
Fertility and
No effects at
maximum dose, Not
Teratogenic
8. IDENTIFICATION OF CRITICAL EFFECTS
a. Most sensitive indicator of an adverse effect seen in non-clinical toxicity
After repeated dose toxicity studies in animals the more typical target organs were the
gastro-intestinal tract or the kidney.
b. Clinical therapeutic and adverse effects
By oral route, the main risk associated to piroxicam in clinical therapeutics are the
Cardiovascular Risk: NSAIDs may cause an increased risk of serious cardiovascular
thrombotic events, myocardial infarction, and stroke, which can be fatal. This risk may
increase with duration of use. Patients with cardiovascular disease or risk factors for
cardiovascular disease may be at greater risk. Piroxicam is contraindicated for the
treatment of perioperative pain in the setting of CABG surgery (DrugDex).
Gastrointestinal Risk: NSAIDs cause an increased risk of serious gastrointestinal
adverse events including bleeding, ulceration, and perforation of the stomach or
intestines, which can be fatal. These events can occur at any time during use and
without warning symptoms. Elderly patients are at greater risk for serious gastrointestinal
events (DrugDex).
Asthma, urticaria, or allergic-type reaction: Following administration of aspirin or
other NSAIDs; severe anaphylactic-like reactions have been reported, including rare
fatalities (DrugDex).
9. RATIONAL FOR NOAEL VALUE SELECTION
Piroxicam is well established anti-inflammatory agent.
As for all NSAIDs, piroxicam should always be used at the lowest dose for the shortest
possible duration to control symptoms. The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has
recently completed a review of the safety of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
(NSAID) piroxicam. The Agencys Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use
(CHMP) concluded that piroxicams benefits still outweigh its risks, but, based on safety
grounds, only in certain, limited indications. In addition, the CHMP concluded that
piroxicam-containing medicines should no longer be used for the treatment of acute
(short-term) pain and inflammation.
Toxicological data reveal no special hazard for humans, based on published data. Its
pharmacological activity is also well established, not only for the numerous
publications, but also by its continuous clinical use. But in spite of this experience, few
publications of piroxicam with data on original values of NOAEL could be identified.
Based on the description of the repeated dose studies and the developmental toxicity
studies, a NOAEL of 1 mg/kg/day was chosen as the most conservative approach. This
NOAEL was obtained after studies of Piroxicam in rats for 18 months. The target organ
for this studies were the gastrointestinal system and the kidney. After long-term
treatment morphologic lesions of the kidney and increase in voided urine volume,
sodium and potassium were observed. Injuries of the tubules and changes in kidney
function were more pronounced in female rats (Murn, 1989).
10. APPLICATION OF ADJUSTMENT FACTORS (rational for the adjustment
factors)
A series of modifying, or safety factors, are used when the NOAEL is based on studies
of differing types and durations in differing species to provide a risk assessment for
human exposure. These factors were generally established according to Appendices 3 of
the ICH Q3C (R4) and VICH GL 18 and the values of Connelli (Connelli, 1997).
a. F1: Interspecies differences
This factor takes into account the comparative surface area: body weight ratios for the
species concerned and for man. Surface area (S) was calculated as: S=kM0.67 where M
is the body mass and the constant, k, has been taken to be 10 according to the
appendices 3 of te ICH guideline. For a 50 kg person the equation gives a surface area
of 64.3 dm2; the surface area: body weight ratio is thus 2.76.
Applying the same calculation to other species and expressing the results as multiples of
the human surface area: body weight ratio gives factors for the mouse = 12; for the rat =
5; for the rabbit = 2.5; for the dog = 2. For other species, where the data are not so well
established the factor F1 is taken as 10.
Therefore a factor of 5 (for the rat) was used in the calculations.
b. F2: Intra-individual differences
A factor of 10 is conventionally used to allow for differences between individuals in the
human population.
c. F3: Duration of exposure
A variable factor up to 10 takes into account the differing durations of exposure in the
reported studies. A factor of 1 has been used for studies that last at least one half
lifetime (1 year for rodents or rabbits, 7 years for non-rodents cats, dogs and monkeys).
For reproductive studies, a factor of 1 is used if the whole period of organogenesis is
covered. A factor of 2 has been used for a 6 month study in rodents, or a 3.5 year
study in non-rodents. A factor of 5 has been used for a 3 month study in rodents or a 2
year study in non-rodents and a factor of 10 for studies of a shorter duration. In all
cases, the higher factor has been used for study durations between the time points e.g a
factor of 2 for a 9 month rodent study.
In this case a factor 1 was establish given that the lower NOAEL was determine in rats in
a study of 18 moth duration.
d. F4: Nature of toxicity
A variable factor applied when the toxicity produced is irreversible in nature i.e
carcinogenicity, neurotoxicity or teratogenicity. A factor of 10 has been used when
oncogenic or neurotoxic responses are present. A variable factor has been used for
reproductive toxicity effects as follows: 1 for embryo or fetal toxicity or mortality
associated with maternal toxicity. 5 for embryo or fetal toxicity or mortality without
maternal toxicity. 5 for a teratogenic effect with maternal toxicity and 10 for a teratogenic
effect in the absence of accompanying maternal toxicity.
A factor of 5 was established. Although no carcinogenicity or neurotoxicity or
teratogenicity was described, the data was contradictory in terms of toxicity to the fetus.
e. F5: Quality of data
A variable factor, up to 10, applied to results in which a NOAEL has not been
established, the PDE being derived from a LOEL. The size of the factor depends on the
judgment of the toxicologist taking into account the severity of the toxicity seen and any
dose-response information that may be present.
As the NOAEL was extracted, a factor of 1 was used in this study.
The PDE calculation shown in this document has been presented in the format:
11. PK CORRECTION
No PK correction was established as the bioavailability does not appear to be more
than 40% difference as compared to estimation of a 100% bioavailability. For more
data on the pharmacokinetic of the compound please refer to annex 1.
Pharmacokinetic and Metabolism of Piroxicam.
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ANNEX 1: PHARMACOKINETICS AND METABOLISM OF PIROXICAM
The pharmacokinetic characteristics according to the most recent label (2010) for
Feldene are the followings:
Absorption: Piroxicam is well absorbed following oral administration. Drug plasma
concentrations are proportional for 10 and 20 mg doses and generally peak within
three to five hours after medication.
The prolonged half-life (50 hours) results in the maintenance of relatively stable plasma
concentrations throughout the day on once daily doses and to significant accumulation
upon multiple dosing. A single 20 mg dose generally produces peak piroxicam plasma
levels of 1.5 to 2g/mL, while maximum drug plasma concentrations, after repeated
daily ingestion of 20 mg piroxicam, usually stabilize at 38g/mL. Most patients
approximate steady state plasma levels within 712 days. Higher levels, which
approximate steady state at two to three weeks, have been observed in patients in whom
longer plasma half-lives of piroxicam occurred.
With food there is a slight delay in the rate but not the extent of absorption following
oral administration. The concomitant administration of antacids (aluminum hydroxide or
aluminum hydroxide with magnesium hydroxide) has been shown to have no effect on
the plasma levels of orally administered piroxicam.
Distribution: The apparent volume of distribution of piroxicam is approximately
0.14L/kg. Ninety-nine percent of plasma piroxicam is bound to plasma proteins.
Piroxicam is excreted into human milk. In man it penetrates into the synovial fluid of
patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and re-active synovitis, where mean
concentrations are approximately 40% of those in the plasma; it is also demonstrable in
synovial tissues. The presence in breast milk has been determined during initial and
long-term conditions (52 days). Piroxicam appeared in breast milk at about 1% to 3% of
the maternal concentration. No accumulation of piroxicam occurred in milk relative to
that in plasma during treatment.
Metabolism: Metabolism of piroxicam occurs by hydroxylation at the 5 position of the
pyridyl side chain and glucuro-conjugation of this product; by cyclodehydration; and by a
sequence of reactions involving hydrolysis of the amide linkage, decarboxylation, ring
contraction, and N-demethylation. In vitro studies indicate cytochrome P4502C9
(CYP2C9) as the main enzyme involved in the formation to the 5-hydroxy-piroxicam,
the major metabolite (see Pharmacogenetics, and Special Populations, Poor
Metabolizers of CYP2C9 Substrates). The biotransformation products of piroxicam
metabolism are reported to not have any anti-inflammatory activity.
Higher systemic exposure of piroxicam has been noted in subjects with CYP2C9
polymorphisms compared to normal metabolizer type subjects (see Pharmacogenetics,
and Special Populations, Poor Metabolizers of CYP2C9 Substrates).
Excretion: Piroxicam and its biotransformation products are excreted in urine and
feces, with about twice as much appearing in the urine as in the feces. Approximately
5% of a piroxicam dose is excreted unchanged. The plasma half-life (T) for piroxicam
is approximately 50 hours.
Pharmacogenetics: CYP2C9 activity is reduced in individuals with genetic
polymorphisms, such as the CYP2C9*2 and CYP2C9*3 polymorphisms. Limited data
from one published report that included nine subjects each with heterozygous
CYP2C9*1/*2 and CYP2C9*1/*3 genotypes and one subject with the homozygous
CYP2C9*3/*3 genotype showed piroxicam systemic levels that were 1.7-, 1.7- and 5.3fold, respectively, higher compared to the 17 subjects with CYP2C9*1/*1 or normal
metabolizer genotype. The pharmacokinetics of piroxicam have not been evaluated in
subjects with other CYP2C9 polymorphisms, such as *5, *6, *9 and *11. It is estimated
that the frequency of the homozygous *3/*3 genotype is 0.3% to 1.0% in various ethnic
Pediatric: Piroxicam has not been investigated in pediatric patients. Race:
Pharmacokinetic differences due to race have not been identified.
Hepatic Insufficiency: The effects of hepatic disease on piroxicam pharmacokinetics have
not been established. However, a substantial portion of piroxicam elimination occurs by
hepatic metabolism.
Consequently, patients with hepatic disease may require reduced doses of piroxicam
as compared to patients with normal hepatic function.
Poor Metabolizers of CYP2C9 Substrates: Patients who are known or suspected to be
poor CYP2C9 metabolizers based on genotype or previous history/experience with
other CYP2C9 substrates (such as warfarin and phenytoin) should be administered
piroxicam with caution as they may have abnormally high plasma levels due to reduced
metabolic clearance.
Renal Insufficiency: Piroxicam pharmacokinetics have been investigated in patients
with renal insufficiency. Studies indicate patients with mild to moderate renal
impairment may not require dosing adjustments. However, the pharmacokinetic
properties of piroxicam in patients with severe renal insufficiency or those receiving
hemodialysis are not known.
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MAKATI CITY, 8 May 2019. — The Asian Institute of Management has won the Times Higher Education (THE) Technological Innovation of the Year trophy at the inaugural THE Awards Asia.
Unlike the THE World University Rankings which are based only on data points, these awards are an opportunity for institutions of all shapes and sizes, from all corners of the continent to share their extraordinary stories of success with a wider audience.
The award for Technological Innovation of the Year was hailed as “exemplary” by the judges for its multifaceted approach to engagement within research.
Set up in March 2018 to complement its existing academic programs, AIM’s Analytics, Computing and Complex Systems (ACCeSs@AIM) laboratory seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice for research-led teaching in higher education.
“I am a big believer in promoting academe-industry-government partnerships through ACCeSs@AIM to fast-track nation-building. In advocating the use of data science, artificial intelligence, and computational models, ACCeSs@AIM is AIM’s concrete step towards improving the economy of developing countries in ASEAN and promoting partnerships that will directly impact business, society, and communities,” said Professor Christopher Monterola, Aboitiz Chair in Data Science, Head of the Aboitiz School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, and Executive Managing Director of ACCeSs@AIM.
The lab, which is the first of its kind in the country, boasts of a multidisciplinary team of experienced scientists working with a 500-teraflop supercomputer – optimized for artificial intelligence technology and said to be the fastest in the Philippines. Its impressive resources support the teaching and learning of the Institute’s 106 Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS) students, providing them with real-world scenarios and direct links to industry partners.
“It is certainly not easy to find properly trained data scientists, in the Philippines or elsewhere. ACCeSs@AIM and the MSDS program hope to provide the region with welltrained, proactive data science leaders who can create practical solutions to the multifaceted challenges faced by industries and governments,” added Monterola.
Since its launch in 2018, ACCeSs@AIM has exemplified how collaborations across private industry, government agencies and other third-party research organizations can succeed and be impactful.
“Our goal is to empower business leaders and managers, government officials, and policymakers to make data-driven decisions that go beyond business in order to make a positive impact within society,” emphasized AIM President and Dean Jikyeong Kang, “and ACCeSs@AIM finds innovative ways to make this happen.”
Professor Erika Legara, Aboitiz Chair in Data Science, MSDS Academic Program Director, and Deputy Managing Director at ACCeSs@AIM, was enthusiastic about the added validation the team has received for all their efforts. “We are honored and grateful for this recognition from THE Awards Asia. In less than a year, ACCeSs@AIM has already produced relevant research for select industries and has deployed decisionsupport platforms for our stakeholders. Building the platforms demanded implementation of advanced-level analytics and formulation of mathematical and mechanism-based models, not to mention a true understanding of business needs. I am happy that we’re helping build this culture of R&D and academia-industry partnership here at home. Thank you, Jikyeong, Chris, and AIM, for the enabling environment! Thanks too to our industry partners who believe in R&D and our group’s ability to deliver.”
The judges were impressed by the scale of ambition and the impact already achieved by AIM, and they praised the project for its support of the national development of the Philippines.
ACCeSs@AIM “has given students a vital ability to learn with leading-edge technology that they can take into their future employment,” the judges said, adding that the project was an “exemplary initiative that perfectly illustrates strategic vision and technical innovation, creating positive opportunities for advancement.”
Professor Michael Purugganan, a Filipino-American biologist and Dean for Science at New York University, commended AIM. “To anyone who says the Philippines is lagging behind in STEM education, this is a great counterexample. It shows what dedicated and brilliant faculty, resources, and vision can do to propel us forward. Congratulations! Well-deserved. An inspiration and, hopefully, a model.”
For THE editor John Gill, “The THE Asia Awards have shone a light on the exceptional achievements of universities across the continent. The winners include institutions from China, Singapore, Iraq, South Korea, and the Philippines; they include names that will be known to all as among the best in the world, and others that have performed nearmiracles in times of great hardship. All demonstrate what transformational work universities do, whether in teaching or research, supporting students or building bridges and partnerships across borders. All are worthy winners of these prestigious awards.” The full list of this year’s winners is below, and profiles of their winning entries can be viewed here.
●Outstanding Support for Students: University of Kirkuk
●International Strategy of the Year: Zhejiang University
●Technological Innovation of the Year: Asian Institute of Management
●Teaching and Learning Strategy of the Year: Yonsei University
●Leadership and Management Team of the Year: National University of Singapore
For more coverage of the awards, including photos from the ceremony, please visit theawardsasia.com
Details are also online at Times Higher Education. The awards will feature in next week’s issue of THE magazine.
About the Asian Institute of Management
The Asian Institute of Management is a pioneering management school with an immersive, supportive, and practitioner-oriented culture that develops managers, entrepreneurs, and leaders who deliver meaningful growth the Asian business and society.
Founded in 1968 by a consortium of prominent business leaders, professors of the Harvard Business School and leading Philippine academic institutions, AIM offers postgraduate degree programs and certificate courses in business, entrepreneurship, innovation, data science, and development management which have helped its alumni reach leadership positions worldwide.
AIM is the first school in Southeast Asia to achieve accreditation from the US-based Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), which is founded on the world’s highest international standards.
More information about AIM can be found at http://www.aim.edu.
MAKATI CITY, 8 May 2019 — The Asian Institute of Management (AIM), through its Scientific Research Foundation (AIM-SRF), received today a donation worth more than half a billion pesos (USD10 million) from Aboitiz Foundation. The gift will support two Data Science Professorial Chairs, an interest-free student loan program, and future facilities improvement of AIM’s newly named Aboitiz School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (ASITE).
“Aboitiz Foundation and AIM have a shared vision of thought leadership within the education, innovation, and entrepreneurship ecosystem. This gift cements the beginning of a long-term partnership to develop innovation- and technology-oriented mangers, leaders, and entrepreneurs who will take the lead in transforming Asian business and society,” says AIM President and Dean Jikyeong Kang. “We are extremely grateful to the Aboitiz family for empowering AIM to continue to generate and sustain our mission of providing this region with future-ready leaders who can create value for their organizations and the communities within which they operate.”
Aboitiz Foundation’s contribution will lead to the establishment of two endowed professorial chairs, to be known as the Aboitiz Chair in Data Science, which will be held by the School’s world-class faculty members, Prof. Christopher Monterola and Prof. Erika Fille Legara. Prof. Monterola is concurrently Head of the Aboitiz School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and Executive Managing Director of AIM’s corporate lab, ACCeSs@AIM. Prof. Legara is the Academic Program Director of the Aboitiz School’s Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS) program, and Deputy Managing Director of ACCeSs@AIM.
The donation will also fund the zero-interest Aboitiz Student Loan Program (ASLP) for the Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS) and the Master of Science in Innovation and Business (MSIB) degree programs of the Aboitiz School, thereby expanding the Institute’s social inclusiveness by helping to support deserving students who do not have the financial resources to attend an international institution.
Mr. Erramon Aboitiz, Chairman of the Board of Aboitiz Foundation, notes that, “Over the past 50 years, AIM has contributed immensely to sustaining the growth of businesses and societies, not only in the Philippines but in Asia, by developing professional, entrepreneurial, and socially responsible managers and leaders. Similarly, sustainability is at the core of our growth story anchored on our philosophy that we can do well by doing good, always making the right longterm decisions that balance the interests of people, planet, and profit.”
“With the Aboitiz 100th Anniversary Commitment Fund, we hope that this new innovationfocused school will be able to benefit AIM as it leads and blazes new trails, to inspire real-world learning, and to transform principled leaders,” Aboitiz added
The endowment underscores the Aboitiz Foundation’s abiding advocacy in education, and provides the much-needed stimulus for moving the country forward in terms of addressing the challenges of Industry 4.0. “This gift marks a significant milestone in Philippine philanthropy — we believe it stands as the largest cash donation given to an educational institution in the Philippines, and we hope that the work Aboitiz Foundation and AIM do together raises the educational standard in the Philippines and contributes toward building and strengthening the emerging economies within the region,” says AIM Chairman of the Board, Mr. Peter Garrucho, Jr., OBE.
Lately, AIM has received an outpouring of support for its programs, with some of the notable contributions coming from global leaders in the technology industry, such as Dr. Narayana Murthy, Founder of Infosys, Ltd. and Member of the AIM Board of Governors; Mr. Stan Shih, Founder and Honorary Chairman of Acer and also a Member of the AIM Board of Governors; and Mr. Peter Garrucho, Jr., OBE, Chairman of the AIM Board of Trustees. Each of them has donated over USD250,000 in 2018. Topping this up, Mr. Shih and Mr. Garrucho have each pledged USD1 million to AIM.
In addition to being home to many world-class data scientists and engineers, the Aboitiz School’s Analytics, Computing, and Complex Systems (ACCeSs@AIM) laboratory also boasts of a 500-teraflop supercomputer donated by Mr. Shih of Acer. The ACCeS@AIM lab is meant to lead in the development of actionable insights and the creation of practical solutions to challenges experienced by both industries and governments.
The Aboitiz Foundation-AIM partnership, which coincides with the tail-end of AIM’s 50th anniversary celebrations, and marks the kick-off of the Aboitiz Group’s 100th anniversary in 2020, serves as a fitting manifestation of each one’s mutual commitment toward advancing business and management excellence in the Philippines and throughout Asia.
The Asian Institute of Management (AIM) is an Asian pioneer in management education. The Institute was founded in 1968 by a consortium of prominent business leaders, Philippine academic institutions, and professors of the Harvard Business School.
Throughout its history, the Institute has sought to empower students to thrive in challenging, rapidly shifting environments. It achieves this by encouraging a more considerate, effective, and sustainable approach to business in society.
Contact Person: Ma. Filomena “Tiking” Alegre | falegre@AIM.EDU | T: +63 2 892-4011 Ext. 1881
Aboitiz Foundation is the corporate foundation of the Aboitiz Group. Established in 1988, we continue to pursue our mission to help people help themselves, implementing corporate social responsibility interventions especially in communities where Aboitiz companies operate. We focus our efforts on education, enterprise development, environment, health and well-being, as well as disaster preparedness and response.
Contact Person: Ms. Adrianne Marie C. Alazas | adrianne.alazas@aboitiz.com | (T: +63 2 886-2638
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Arnold Schwarzenegger to Write His Memoir
Lee Celano/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) -- Arnold Schwarzenegger is finally ready to tell his story -- at least most of it.
Schwarzenegger, 64, is writing a memoir for release in October 2012, according to a statement from Simon & Schuster, the book’s publisher.
Tentatively titled Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story, the book will discuss his childhood in Austria and his careers in bodybuilding, film and politics.
Some things will not be in the book, however.
“This book will not be a tell-all,” a source told People magazine.
“He has been keeping notes and working on the book for over a year,” his spokesman, Adam Mendelsohn, told People. “He didn’t want to write his autobiography while he was governor.”
Instead, he’ll write it in between shooting scenes for his next film, The Expendables 2, with Sylvester Stallone. Peter Petre, former executive editor of Fortune, who also collaborated on books with Alan Greenspan and Norman Schwarzkopf, will be the co-writer.
In a statement, Simon & Schuster publisher Jonathan Karp said, “Truly, Arnold is one of the most fascinating figures of our time and one of the greatest success stories in the world. Nobody has a life story even close to his.”
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Happy Tax Day!
© Clay Bennett
Tax Day 2010: Most of every dollar you pay in federal taxes is spent on...
by Gregory Patin
USS New Mexico, commissioned March 27, 2010. Cost: $2.3 billion. (AP Photo/US Navy - Seaman Scott Pittman).
Health care? Social Security? An economic stimulus bill? Wars? Bailing out Wall Street banks? Education? Our nation's infrastructure? Each may be a good guess based on the issues that get attention in the mainstream media.
The correct answer may be that 53% of the federal tax being collected in 2010 has already been allocated for defense spending.
According to Philadelphia investigative journalist Dave Lindorff, writing for OpEdNews:
The 2011 military budget, by the way, is the largest in history, not just in actual dollars, but in inflation adjusted dollars, exceeding even the spending in World War II, when the nation was on an all-out military footing. Military spending in all its myriad forms works out to represent 53.3% of total US federal spending.
That would mean the military's share of the approximately $3 trillion 2011 budget is about $1.6 trillion.
On the other hand, anyone can find a handy fact sheet posted on the white house's web site that puts the department of defense's share of the budget at a "mere" $708 billion, seemingly bringing the cost down to about 24 cents on the tax dollar.
So, who's telling the truth? The answer is that both are, depending on how one looks at federal budget allocations.
http://www.examiner.com/x-38220-Orlando-Independent-Examiner~y2010m4d13-Tax-Day-2010-Most-of-every-dollar-you-pay-in-federal-taxes-is-spent-on
Wall Street Declares War on the Unemployed
By Mitchell Hirsch
It appears that I underestimated the brazen contempt that Wall Street has for America's unemployed millions, and for the millions more working only part-time despite wanting full-time work.
Last month, in a post titled Blaming Unemployment Insurance for Unemployment prompted by a JPMorgan Chase report that attempted to do just that I wrote:
This kind of cockamamie pseudo-science would just be laughable if it weren't a potentially dangerous threat to the survival of millions of unemployed Americans. You can bet that bank lobbyists and their conservative cronies are circulating this report and others like it to gin up opposition to extending unemployment benefits.
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal editorial, titled Incentives Not to Work, which blames long-term unemployment on extended jobless benefits, amounts to Wall Street's declaration of war on America's unemployed.
Conveniently ignoring a logical foundation of rational thought that correlation does not imply causation the Journal posits that because there are extended unemployment benefits, there is more long-term unemployment.
sure enough, the share of unemployed workers who don't have a job for more than 26 weeks has steadily increased, reaching a record 44.1% in March. The average spell of unemployment is now 31 weeks, even though the economy is once again creating more new jobs than it is losing. Democrats are slowly converting unemployment insurance into a welfare program.
By extension, they might as well say that because of extended unemployment benefits, employers are more reluctant to hire.
The Wall Street Journal's editors have the incredible gall to blame record long-term unemployment levels on unemployment insurance payments. Not the Great Recession, caused by Wall Street's financial train wreck. Not the lack of available jobs, caused by Wall Street's financial train wreck. But on unemployment insurance payments, made necessary by Wall Street's financial train wreck.
The Journal fails to mention that there are nearly six jobless workers for every one job opening, and that more than half the small number of newly added jobs are temporary while another chunk are part-time jobs.
http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2010/04/14/wall-street-declares-war-on-the-unemployed/
How the Other Half (of the Top 1%) Lives
What's life really like for those in the highest tax bracket? Benjamin Wallace finds out
By Benjamin Wallace
Photographs by Chris Buck
Remember when life was simple, way back in mid-2008? We all wanted the same thingsa private island, a Dassault Falcon 7X to spirit us there, and a Fonzworth Bentley to hold a sun umbrella over us as we deplaned. The brass ring was obvious, and it was more like a platinum ring.
Cut to a year later, mid-2009, and hey, life was still simple, only different. The Great Darkness was fully upon us, and we all wanted the same things, they were just other things. Like jobs, homes, hope, and our dignity.
And now? Everything's all mixed up. The recession is over, or it isn't. It's okay to indulge and spend, or it's not. Hairshirts may be so last season, but you still don't want to be the guy whining about the price of jet fuel. Luxurywhat it is, what it meanshas become a much more complicated, charged proposition. A limited-edition Cohiba is no longer just a limited-edition Cohiba.
Tasked with straddling the micron-thin border between healthy materialism and obscene self-pleasuring, your correspondent, who lives in an ordinary neighborhood in an undersize rental apartment, does not own a car, and puts his Banana Republic chinos on one leg at a time, recently subjected himself to a one-man stimulus package, a series of stamina-testing, high-life-simulating ordeals:
I got a two-hour, four-handed massage; I went heli-fishing in Patagonia; on a plane to Dubai, I drank mature, classed-growth Bordeaux and took a shower. Like any self-respecting quick-money guy, I paid full freight only if unavoidable, mooching whenever possible.
And between alternating surges of guilt (less than you might think), greed, and bliss, I found myself reckoning with a pleasing, if uncomfortable, insight: The crowds are thinner during a recession.
The Four-Handed Massage
Mandarin Oriental hotel, New York City
$782 (including tax and tips)
The minute I lied to Wafa, my masseuse, I glimpsed the new ambivalence about luxury from the inside out. She had asked whether the massage was a gift from someone, and I said yes, suddenly realizing how obscenely self-indulgent it would appear for me to have bought the experience for myself.
Wafa used the word decadent to describe the Oriental Harmony Journey, a two-hour, four-handed rubdown offered at the Mandarin Oriental in Manhattan. An hour-long massage performed by one person at a fancy spa costs maybe $150. This cost almost $800.
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/mens-lives/201005/stimulus-package-most-luxurious-items-to-spend-on
The TAO of Journalism
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It's a promise to your readers, viewers or listeners that you will be Transparent about who you are, Accountable if you make mistakes, and Open to other points of view.
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If there are credible challenges to our point of view or simply differences of opinion, we will be open to contrary positions. We will give the other side(s) opportunity and space to express their views and engage in open public dialogue through comments or other means. If we are primarily engaged in opinion and commentary, rather than news reporting, we will make that clear while inviting others to express their opinions through comment and feedback means.
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We understand that if someone using the "TAO Seal" starts violating its basic principles, they will be admonished, criticized, reprimanded and embarrassed in public through the awesome power of the Internet. Call it "crowdsourcing" ethics and accuracy. In summary, we believe that Transparency, Accountability and Openness are keys to our personal credibility and public trust.
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Former NYT reporter sleeps on street, eats out of garbage cans
by Xeni Jardin
"Hate Man," a homeless fellow who lives on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, wears cast-off women's clothing, and eats out of garbage cans (because "It's free [and it] makes your immune system strong"), once worked as a reporter for the New York Times.
Actually, he wrote at the Times from 1961 to 1970, nearly an entire decade. Back then, he was known as Mark Hawthorne. Why the identity change? Snip from his interview with Kevin Fagan at the San Francisco Chronicle:
Q: You require people to say "I hate you" before you begin a conversation. Do you really hate everyone?
A: I do. But it's a new way of hating. It's about being straight with people. The dictionary defines hate as hostility, but that's heavy. My idea is to be straight about negative feelings that we all have, which is what hate is, and then you can have a real conversation. Don't be threatening or angry or snotty - just straight.
This nytimes.com search query returns some of the articles Hate Man wrote for the New York Times back when he was Mark Hawthorne. They include "Long Hair and Sex Freedom: A Social Critic's Proposals for Youth" (PDF), "A Gallery of Apartment Doodles Lies Just Below the New Paint; The Artist Breaks Out" (PDF) and "Washington Sq. Singers Invent Own Instruments" (PDF).
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/14/former-nyt-reporter.html
You Have No Right to Violate My Rights
By Adam Murdock, MD
All the problems related to medical care can be traced to a revised and perverse new definition of human rights. No slogan or idea has been used with greater detriment and influence than implying that there is a right to 'free' healthcare. The problem with this slogan is that it takes advantage of the general public's naïve understanding and sympathy for human rights and combines it with an emotional subject such as healthcare.
Using this slogan as a backdrop, political opportunists seeking to impose their version of universal healthcare, trot out tragic examples of individuals, who 'deprived' of their right to healthcare, will be left to suffer and die. They use these rare examples to argue that if only government provided care for everyone then these people would be provided the care they need.
Over the last century, social engineers have also trotted out images of the homeless in the streets to justify total wealth transfer through taxation and the creation of government social programs. Likewise, the Marxist revolution in the Soviet Union and elsewhere appealed to the 'oppressed' with promises of bread and prosperity for the masses. However, in practice the Marxist ideal quickly devolved into endless lines ups for, not bread, but crumbs and not prosperity, but poverty. The promise and practice of universalism in all its forms, including healthcare, proved to be untenable and a gigantic failure.
Likewise, a modern government movement to impose universal healthcare will only provide figurative 'crumbs' of care rationed out to a long line of poverty stricken conditioned citizens. Indeed, the utopia envisioned by healthcare engineers will quickly transform into a Soviet-style failure.
In order to derail this program before it takes effect, it is critical to understand the fallacy of the slogan that implies a right to free healthcare. The definition of "rights," as proposed by the Founders, are not random claims that individuals demand. Rational "natural rights" are not based on wants or even perceived needs. I cannot simply say that since my neighbor owns a luxury car, that I should have a 'right' to the same car. Most people can easily see that this proposition and use of the word 'right' is ludicrous.
What then is a true definition of a 'right'?
Rights are principles that sanction freedom of the individual to serve his/her own life. Rational rights do not provide the slovenly things they don't deserve and never worked work, but rather protect the opportunity to obtain what one has worked for or is willing to pay for. Natural rights exist so that the freedom of the individual to do as they please can be protected against the tyranny of the majority, coercion of government, or any other group that would seek to initiate physical force against him. Rational rights prevent the actions of others that would prevent people from taking actions necessary to sustain their lives. Therefore, rights act as a prohibition to the society and government. These rights in effect serve to say that nobody shall interfere where people seek to serve their own lives. In addition, it is self-evident that the individual who is serving his own life shall not infringe upon the rights of others. No individual shall initiate physical force to curtail the rights of another. Therefore, it follows that actions enlisted of others must be obtained voluntarily because no individual has the right to create a right that would involve the loss of a right or impose physical coercion of another individual. There is no such thing as a right to violate other's rights.
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=771
Arizona Clears Strict Immigration Bill
By MIRIAM JORDAN
Arizona lawmakers on Tuesday passed one of the toughest pieces of immigration-enforcement legislation in the country, which would make it a violation of state law to be in the U.S. without proper documentation.
It would also grant police the power to stop and verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being illegal.
The bill could still face a veto from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. A spokesman for Ms. Brewer said she has not publicly commented on the bill. Ms. Brewer, a Republican, has argued for stringent immigration laws.
Under the measure, passed Tuesday by Arizona's lower house, after being passed earlier by the state Senate, foreign nationals are required to carry proof of legal residency.
Immigrants' rights groups roundly criticized the bill. "The objective is to make life miserable for immigrants so that they leave the state," said Chris Newman, general counsel for the Los Angeles-based National Day Laborer Organizing Network. "The bill constitutes a complete disregard for the rights of nonwhites in Arizona. It effectively mandates racial profiling."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304604204575182721466632104.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth
Deport the Palestinians to Where They Came From – Israel
More land and less Palestinians by any means necessary.
By Ahmed Amr
It was bound to happen. The Israelis have decided to opt for outright ethnic cleansing. As of April 13, 2010 - the Israelis military will be accorded the power to deport any Palestinian or any foreigner in the West Bank if their papers 'aren't in order.' The IDF has already made it clear that the order will not apply to Israeli citizens in the West Bank - you know - the illegal Jewish settlers. In fact, if you are Mongolian and can produce a faded newspaper clip announcing your grandfather's bar mitzvah - that will be sufficient documentation to acquire immediate Israeli citizenship and get a red carpet reception when you relocate to the occupied territories. They'll even provide you with subsidized housing if you take them up on the offer.
However, if you happen to be of the Palestinian persuasion, the IDF won't worry if you're married to a woman from Nablus or engaged to a Palestinian from East Jerusalem. If you're not Jewish - you have to move on. Even if you were born in the West Bank but your mother made the mistake of being born in Gaza, you qualify for deportation.
But what if both your parents were born in Jaffa, but they ended up being refugees in Gaza? You still get deported to Gaza - because you're not Jewish. What if your mother was a refugee from Nazareth who took refuge in Bethlehem and your father was born in Jerusalem but ended up in a refugee camp in Gaza. You're still deportable - because you're not Jewish. There are all kinds of possibilities if you're not Jewish.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15882
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Selected Reviews
Álvarez, Eduardo. “Crítica y compromise de Adrian Piper en el MoMA.” Madrid art process, April 5, 2018. http://www.madridartprocess.com/tendencias-arte-cultura/37-tendencia/454-critica-y-compromiso-de-adrian-piper-en-el-moma.
Apollo Magazine. “Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965–2016.” Last accessed October 28, 2018.https://www.apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/adrian-piper-a-synthesis-of-intuitions-1965-2016/.
Art Girls Jungle (Katya Lopatko), “A Cheat Sheet on Adrian Piper,” TheArtGorgeous, March 12 2019. https://theartgorgeous.com/cheat-sheet-adrian-piper/
Artishok. “MoMA Dedica Retrospectiva a Adrian Piper, Pionera en Temas de Raza y Género.” July 16, 2018. http://artishockrevista.com/2018/07/16/moma-retrospectiva-adrian-piper/.
Bass, Chloë. “How Adrian Piper Challenges Us to Change the Ways We Live.” Hyperallergic, April 23, 2018. https://hyperallergic.com/439255/adrian-piper-museum-of-modern-art-retrospective/.
Braiterman, Zachary. “(Agitated) Philosophy and Art (Adrian Piper).” jewish philosophy place, June 28, 2018. https://jewishphilosophyplace.com/2018/06/28/agitated-philosophy-and-art-adrian-piper/.
Brazilian Press. “Artista Adrian Piper será homenageada com retrospectiva no MoMA.” March 22, 2018. http://www.brazilianpress.com/v1/2018/03/22/artista-adrian-piper-sera-homenageada-com-retrospectiva-no-moma/.
Buskirk, Martha. “Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965–2016. Museum of Modern Art, New York.” Burlington Magazine 160, no. 1384 (July 2018): 597-599.
Carroll, Rebecca. “The Life-Giving Art of Adrian Piper.” Shondaland, April 20, 2018. https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/a19865841/the-life-giving-art-of-adrian-piper/.
Claflin, Whitney. “A Synthesis of Intuitions, Adrian Piper at MoMA.” Topical Cream, June 28, 2018. http://topicalcream.info/editorial/synthesis-of-intuitions-adrian-piper-at-moma/.
Colucci, Emily. “Why Is Everyone Sleeping On Adrian Piper’s Teenage Doll Paintings?.” filthy dreams, May 10, 2018. https://filthydreams.org/2018/05/10/why-is-everyone-sleeping-on-adrian-pipers-teenage-doll-paintings/.
Cotter, Holland. “Adrian Piper: The Thinking Canvas.” New York Times, April 19, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/arts/design/adrian-piper-review-moma.html.
Creahan, D. “New York – Adrian Piper: “A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965-2016” at MoMA Through July 20th, 2018.” Art Observed, July 17, 2018. http://artobserved.com/2018/07/new-york-adrian-piper-a-synthesis-of-intuitions-1965-2016-at-moma-through-july-20th-2018/.
Dobrowolski Andrzej. “Wielka retrospektywa Adrian Piper w nowojorskim MoMA.”, Dzieje, March 28, 2018. http://dzieje.pl/wystawy/wielka-retrospektywa-adrian-piper-w-nowojorskim-moma.
Doran, Anne. “Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965-2016 @MoMA.” Collector Daily, June 15, 2018. https://collectordaily.com/adrian-piper-a-synthesis-of-intuitions-1965-2016-moma/.
Douggal. “Adrian Piper: ‘A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1956-2016’ at MoMA.” June 24, 2018. https://duggal.com/adrian-piper-a-synthesis-of-intuitions-at-moma/.
Dusant, Macarena. “Rollspel med svärta. Adrian Piper tvingar publiken att utmana sina fördomar och begär.” Aftonbladet, June 27, 2018. https://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/konst/a/a2oa77/rollspel-med-svarta.
Froebe, Lola. “Ausstellung: Adrian Piper im MoMA.” Hey woman!, May 16, 2018. https://hey-woman.com/de/2018/ausstellung-adrian-piper-im-moma/.
Gat, Orit. “The right to call herself anything she likes. Adrian Piper’s ceaseless exploration of identity.” The Times Literary Supplement, June 27, 2018. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/the-right-to-call-herself-anything-she-likes/.
Gopnik, Blake. “Adrian Piper, Making Black Lives Matter Before ‘Black Lives Matter’.” June 4, 2018. http://blakegopnik.com/post/174573913705.
Gorle, Shivani. “Conversation Start/Stoppers. What Adrian Piper can Teach us About Social Mindfulness.” Thoughtmatter, May 17, 2018. http://thoughtmatter.com/conversation-startersstoppers/.
Guđjónsson, Kristján. “Listakonan sem hætti ađ vera svört.” RÚV, July 8, 2018, 13:00. http://www.ruv.is/frett/listakonan-sem-haetti-ad-vera-svort.
Haber, John. “Her Calling Card.” Last accessed October 28, 2018. http://www.haberarts.com/piper.htm.
Hannaham, James. “Adrian Piper. Return of the Mythic Being: the Museum of Modern Art mounts a vast retrospective of the artist’s work.” 4columns, April 5, 2018. http://www.4columns.org/hannaham-james/adrian-piper.
Happersett, Susan. “Adrian Piper at MoMA.” July 10, 2018. Fibonaccisusan. https://fibonaccisusan.com/2018/07/10/adrian-piper-at-moma/.
Haritou, Dennis. “Kant and Hegel Humming: On Adrian Piper.” 3G1B Three Guys One Book, June 27, 2018. http://threeguysonebook.com/kant-and-hegel-humming-on-adrian-piper/.
Hight, Joe. “Oklahoma Joe: Handwritten revelations shared publicly.” The Journal Record, June 11, 2018. http://journalrecord.com/2018/06/11/oklahoma-joe-handwritten-revelations-shared-publicly/.
Hubert, Craig. “Does MoMA Downplay the Influence of Psychedelic Drugs on Adrian Piper’s Work?” Observer, April 4, 2018. https://observer.com/2018/04/does-moma-adrian-piper-show-downplay-the-impact-of-lsd-on-her-work/.
Ives, Lucy. “Trust Survey 2018”. Art in America, December 1, 2018 https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazines/trust-survey-2018/.
Ixora.io “Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions”. April 9, 2018 http://ixora.io/itp/history_of_contemporary_art/adrian-piper/.
Jackson, Danielle. “Understanding Adrian Piper’s Probing Body of Work.” Longreads, July 20, 2018. https://longreads.com/2018/07/20/understanding-adrian-pipers-probing-body-of-work/.
Kaeser, Amy. “Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Institutions, 1965-2016.” Art and Cake, July 12, 2018. https://artandcakela.com/2018/07/12/adrian-piper-a-synthesis-of-institutions-1965-2016/.
Krasnov, Oleg. “Ретроспективу Адриан Пайпер готовит MoMA.” Art and Houses, March 17, 2018. http://art-and-houses.ru/2018/03/17/retrospektivu-adrian-pajper-gotovit-moma2/.
Kron, Cat. “Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions 1965-2016 at MoMA, New York.” ArtReview, Summer 2018. https://artreview.com/reviews/ar_summer_2018_review_adrian_piper/.
Lanay, Jessica. “Fuck It, Let’s Boogie (or Everything Will Be Taken Away): Adrian Piper’s A Synthesis of Intuitions: 1965–2016.” Bomb Magazine, July 9, 2018. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/fuck-it-lets-boogie-or-everything-will-be-taken-away-adrian-pipers-a-synthesis-of-intuitions-1965-2016/.
Lavallee, Andrew. “An Art-World Influencer Gets a Retrospective in New York.” The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2018. http://images.burrellesluce.com/image/9475NX/9475NX_27268.
Little, Colony. “Unsynthesized Intuitions: Confronting Discomfort with Adrian Piper.” Culture Shock Art, December 12, 2018. https://cshockart.com/2018/12/12/unsynthesized-intuitions-and-confronting-discomfort-with-adrian-piper/ [Review of Adrian Piper: Concepts and Intuitions 1965-2016, Hammer Museum of UCLA. 7 October 2018 – 6 January 2019]
Lee, Yaniya. “Adrian Piper. Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 31–July 22, 2018.” canadianart, July 9, 2018 (Summer 2018). https://canadianart.ca/reviews/adrian-piper-a-synthesis-of-intuitions-moma/.
Little, Colony. "Unsynthesized Intuitions: Confronting Discomfort with Adrian Piper.” Culture Shock Art, December 12, 2018.https://cshockart.com/2018/12/12/unsynthesized-intuitions-and-confronting-discomfort-with-adrian-piper/. [Review of Adrian Piper: Concepts and Intuitions 1965-2016, Hammer Museum of UCLA. 7 October 2018 – 6 January 2019]
Low, Syd. “Adrian Piper & MoMA & Painting Bathing.” it’s this now, June 11, 2018. https://itsthisnow.com/blog/2018/6/11.
Manatakis, Lexi. “Why artist Adrian Piper is one of the most innovative minds of our time.” Dazed, May 25, 2018. http://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/40084/1/why-artist-adrian-piper-is-one-of-the-most-innovative-minds-of-our-time-moma.
Mitter, Siddhartha. “Proof of Concept: Thinking About Adrian Piper.” The Village Voice, April 27, 2018. https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/04/27/proof-of-concept-thinking-about-adrian-piper/.
New Yorker. “Museum of Modern Art. Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions 1965-2016.” May 21, 2018. http://images.burrellesluce.com/image/9475NX/9475NX_27403.
New York Times “The Thread: reader’s respond to the 7.1.2018 issue. RE: The Artist is not Present. Thomas Chatterton Williams wrote about artist Adrian Piper, her self-exile from the United States and race itself.” July 15, 2018. http://images.burrellesluce.com/image/9475NX/9475NX_27581.
Noor, Tausif. “Are We Being Preached To? Adrian Piper’s Prompts at the MoMA.” Momus, May 24. 2018. http://momus.ca/are-we-being-preached-to-adrian-pipers-prompts-at-the-moma/.
O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. “Adrian Piper Speaks! (for Herself).” New York Times (The Stone), July 5, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/opinion/adrian-piper-speaks-for-herself.html.
Pappas, Nickolas. “The Restlessness of Thought: Adrian Piper at MoMA.” artcritical, June 5, 2018. http://www.artcritical.com/2018/06/05/nickolas-pappas-on-adrian-piper/.
Pham, Larissa. “This MoMA Show Asks You to Confront Racism—Both in Strangers and Yourself.” Garage Vice, April 3, 2018. https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/43bnvj/adrian-piper-synthesis-of-intuitions-moma-retrospective.
Piper, Adrian. “Reality Check. Where is Enlightenment? Adrian Piper responds.” Artforum 56, no. 10 (Summer 2018). https://www.artforum.com/print/201806/where-is-enlightenment-adrian-piper-responds-75518.
Pressler, Melinda. “Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965-2016 - 4 Year Collaborative Show at MoMA”. April 12, 2018. https://melindasmalarky.blogspot.com/2018/04/adrian-piper-synthesis-of-intuitions.html.
Q&Art. “artist-philosopher hybrid.” May 14, 2018. https://questionsandart.com/2018/05/14/artist-philosopher-hybrid/.
Ro, Lori. “Adrian Piper has done it all - what now?” Tribes Magazine, August 27, 2018. https://www.tribes.org/web/2018/8/27/adrian-piper-has-done-it-all-what-now-lori-ro.
Robertz, Andreas. “Adrian-Piper-Werkschau in New York Die Spätgewürdigte.” Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Fazit, March 30, 2018. http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/adrian-piper-werkschau-in-new-york-die-spaetgewuerdigte.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=414444.
Sargent, Antwaun. “Adrian Piper’s Massive MoMA Survey Will Force You to Face Your Prejudices.” Artsy, April 9, 2018. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-adrian-pipers-massive-moma-survey-will-force-face-prejudices.
Steinhauer, Jillian. “Outside the Comfort Zone. Adrian Piper’s art plays with identity and confronts defensiveness.” The New Republic, May 30, 2018. [docs/20180530JillianSteinhauerOutsideTheComfortZoneAdrianPiper¹sUncomfortableArt%20%20TheNewRepublic%20CorrAP.pdf]
Stephanie in the City. “Happening upon Adrian Piper’s Retrospective at the MoMA.” Medium, July 23, 2018. https://medium.com/@WOOLreLOO/happening-upon-adrian-pipers-retrospective-at-the-moma-664feda54c2a.
Sutnick, Simone. “MoMA Curator Christophe Cherix Discusses Adrian Piper.” Cultured, last accessed October 28, 2018. https://www.culturedmag.com/adrian-piper-moma/.
Sveriges Radio. “Adrian Piper borrar i vår tids brännande frågor på MOMA.” June 11, 2018, 06:30. https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=478&artikel=6972434.
Takac, Balasz. “Adrian Piper Brings Issues of Racism to MoMA in a Monumental Show.” Widewalls, April 29, 2018. https://www.widewalls.ch/adrian-piper-exhibition-moma/.
Tang, Nancy. “Review: Adrian Piper's "A Synthesis of Intuitions" at the MoMA.” Artworks Advisory, July 10, 2018. https://www.artworksadvisory.nyc/single-post/REVIEW-Adrian-Pipers-A-Synthesis-of-Intuitions-at-the-MoMA.
The Week. “Exhibit of the week. Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions 1965-2006.” April 27, 2018. http://images.burrellesluce.com/image/9475NX/9475NX_27349.
Tuazon, Anastasia. “Are you Being Preached to? Again? How Adrian Piper’s Meta-Art Imagined a Socially Engaged Art World.” Temporary, July 19, 2018. http://temporaryartreview.com/are-you-being-preached-to-again-how-adrian-pipers-meta-art-imagined-a-socially-engaged-art-world/.
Velasco, David. “Reveries of a Solitary Dancer. David Velasco on the art of Adrian Piper.” Artforum 57, no.1 (September 2018). https://www.artforum.com/print/201807/david-velasco-on-the-art-of-adrian-piper-76329.
Vin de Vie Wine of Life. “Adrian Piper 1: Becoming Free.” July 27, 2018. https://vindevie.me/2018/07/27/adrian-piper-1-becoming-free-1966-2000/.
Vin de Vie Wine of Life. “Adrian Piper 2 : Dance with Me.”, July 31. 2018. https://vindevie.me/2018/07/31/adrian-piper-2-dance-with-me/.
Vogel, Wendy. “Blood, sweat, tears, piss and vinegar: Adrian Piper at MoMA.” The Art Newspaper, May 17, 2018. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/review/blood-sweat-tears-piss-and-vinegar-adrian-piper-at-moma.
Walsh, Alyson. “Love this: Adrian Piper Berlin Dancing video.” That’s Not My Age, May 6, 2018. https://thatsnotmyage.com/lifestyle/love-this-adrian-piper-berlin-dancing-video/.
Waleczek, Agata. “‘I Still Do Believe They Want Me Dead’: An Interview With Adrian Piper.” Frieze, September 10, 2018. https://frieze.com/article/i-still-do-believe-they-want-me-dead-interview-adrian-piper.
Wheadon, Nico. “Adrian Piper: From Passing to Purple.” NW, May 1, 2018. http://www.nicowheadon.com/writing/2018/5/13/adrian-piper-from-passing-to-purple.
Wieliczki, Scarlett. “Adrian Piper Retrospective at MoMA.” May 28, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI08nowKHhQ.
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Solutions for Rio Olympic Park Remain Elusive
(ATR) The Brazilian Social Development Bank (BNDES) is still analyzing how to secure a private operator for the Rio 2016 Olympic Park.
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Last year the Brazilian government created the Olympic Legacy Management Authority (AGLO) to run the large section of the park currently operated by the Ministry of Sports. This section includes Carioca Arena 1 and 2, the velodrome, and the tennis center.
A BNDES spokesperson confirmed to Around the Rings that it signed a contract in March with the Ministry of Planning, Development and Management (MPDG) to develop a plan to find a new operator for the Park. ATR reported in May 2017 that the sports ministry had held preliminary discussions with BNDES about providing financing to entice an operator.
Administration of the park has been in limbo since the Paes administration had sought a 25 year lease for the venues after the 2016 Olympics. A Ministry of Sports spokesperson confirmed to ATR that the ministry ended up signing the lease on Dec. 23 so that the four venues were not left abandoned.
“After a period of talks between the City of Rio de Janeiro and the Federal Government about the scope of this project, the BNDES received in October 2018 a communication from the MPDG defining the scope to be studied and authorizing its beginning,” a BNDES spokesperson said in a statement.
Ernani Torres, a Brazilian economist who also worked at BNDES for 35 years, told ATR last year it would make sense for the bank to be involved in securing a private operator. Torres says the bank, which is subsidized by the Brazilian government, can offer lending rates that are much lower than private banks.
The bank would then create an auction for which private companies could bid on the concessionaire and assume operations of the park.
BNDES says that it is in the process of launching a tender to solicit consultants to help develop a public-private partnership for the park. The bank expects the scope of a potential public-private partnership to be formulated by the first quarter of 2019. Only then, will the search for a private operator begin.
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“The scope of services performed by technical consultants involves, among other services, the preparation of a commercial evaluation of the potential of the Olympic Park, a Plan and Business, legal assessments and, if necessary, engineering studies,” the spokesperson added.
In the interim, AGLO will continue to administer the park as is its mandate. By law, AGLO is a transitional body and only operational until June 30, 2019, unless it can hand off the Olympic Park to an operator earlier. AGLO is made up of the Olympic Public Authority, the government body which was in charge of Olympic construction.
If no operator is found by then, AGLO will legally disband and the Ministry of Sports will begin directly administering the park.
A ministry of sports spokesperson said that AGLO has a budget of $47.32 million in 2019, which “will be approved by the National Congress” but is subject to changes by deputies or senators. Any future budget would be at the will of the National Congress and new potential heads of the Sports Ministry.
This weekend Brazilians will go to the polls for the second time this month to vote for their next president. Polls suggest it is very likely that the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro will emerge the winner.
Unless the newly elected president suggests a new alternative for the Olympic Park, it is likely that the current, slow process will play itself out in 2019.
“There was no discussion about the management of the Olympic Park with the candidates for the Presidency of the Republic,” a sports ministry spokesperson said.
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Humanity and grace
About 18 months ago I wrote about Aung San Suu Kyi's triumphant and inspiring visit to this country. This was just after the Feast of the Sacred Heart, when the Gospel had focused our attention on Jesus' crucified vulnerability, and the ultimate triumph of Love over evil. Reflecting on what I had written about this, I described Suu Kyi as a seemingly powerless woman who, in her very powerlessness, has conquered military might; a woman who appeared a spent force when the regime was triumphant but whose very stillness and silence have moved the world. In their efforts to control and silence her, the regime unwittingly unleashed a spirit they could never control.
Today, the world mourns the death of a man about whom we could say pretty much the same. In their efforts to weaken, silence and control Nelson Mandela the apartheid regime unwittingly unleashed and strengthened a spirit they would never be able to control; a man whose stature and fame became far greater than any of his oppressors'.
But as with Suu Kyi, what we honour and remember Mandela for is not simply his indomitable spirit and long imprisonment, but his humanity, dignity and grace since his release. His refusal to seek any sort of revenge, and his commitment to reconciliation and peace-making are undoubtedly his greatest gifts to his country and to the rest of the world. As a BBC correspondent said, Mandela liberated not only black South Africans; he also liberated his oppressors from their hatred and rancour. Whatever else he was about, whatever else he may or may not have done, he lived forgiveness in the most extraordinary way; a way which can only challenge and teach those of us who have far less than 27 years' incarceration and ill treatment to forgive.
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Jonathon Simmons’ Journey From Paying For A D-League Tryout To NBA Playoff Hero
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I’ve been a basketball fan for 30 years, moved to Houston, Texas 17 years ago and Sugar Land five years ago and I have never heard of the Sugar Land Legends basketball team of the American Basketball League. NBA success story Jonathon Simmons not only knows about the team, he was drafted (they had a draft?!) by them in 2013 and dropped 62 points in his first game. Still, I had no idea the team existed.
After financial issues with the team, Simmons almost gave up on his NBA dream and quit basketball to become a barber or work any job to feed his four kids. He didn’t and in September of 2013, he paid $150 to participate in a D-League tryout with the Austin Toros (later to be named Spurs). Two years later, he was holding a MVP trophy for the champion Spurs summer league team in Vegas. A few months later, he’s in the NBA as a 26-year old rookie. And as a rookie, Simmons showed he could put up numbers when given the minutes; He was good for 10 points if he played 20 minutes and near 20 points if he got 30 minutes. In his final regular season game, Simmons had 19 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals vs the Mavs but barely got any minutes in the playoffs.
In the summer of 2016, at a Mountain Dew NBA3x event I helped organize, Simmons casually walked in and I was shocked to see how few people recognized the born and raised H-Town resident who made Sportscenter a few times in the past year for his high-flying dunks. I told a few kids, “he’s a walking success story, remember the name.”
On Thursday, May 11th of 2017, Jonathon Simmons started in place of injured MVP candidate Kawhi Leonard, outplayed MVP candidate James Harden and scored a playoff career-high of 18 points on 8 of 12 shooting against the Houston Rockets. I’m sure those kids know his name now and so does the rest of the basketball world.
UPDATE (7.14.17): Simmons agrees to a 3-year, $20 million deal with the Orlando Magic. That’s a nice raise from the $525,000 and $874,000 he made over the past two years.
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Totally Subjective Top 10 List of Baseball Movies: Number 7
Editor’s Note: In the spirit of counting down to the start of the Major League Baseball season over the next two weeks we here at Triple B will present our completely subjective ranking of the Top 10 Baseball Movies. Today we look at number 7 on the list.
Few people can argue that the game of baseball was forever changed when the sabermetrics element of the game was moved from the back rooms to the general manager’s office.
Like it or not the advanced analytics are here to stay and coming in at number 7 on the Triple B Top 10 Baseball Movies list is Moneyball which is the true story of how the Oakland Athletics front office used charts and graphs to build a team in a way that changed the game of baseball.
The number 7 movie on the Triple B totally subjective top 10 countdown of baseball movies is Moneyball starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill.
In the movie starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill (who received an Oscar nomination for the role), viewers are transported into the mind of the Oakland Athletics front office as they took a different approach to finding players for their roster.
While a new concept when it was introduced by the Athletics in the 1980’s, almost every team today using sabermetrics in one degree or another to build their rosters each year.
Whether sabermetrics is good for baseball in the long run is still up for debate but it has certainly allowed many smaller market teams the ability to be competitive and stand toe to toe with the big spenders in baseball for the past few decades.
While the past few decades have certainly proven that sabermetrics is certainly not going away any time soon, for those wanting to see how it all began Moneyball is the way to go.
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Kevin Costner has made three baseball movies in his career. By the time the third leg of the Costner baseball triangle rolled around though it was clear that he did not have much left in the tank.
Still, it is hard to not count the complete Costner trilogy in a listing of baseball movies so coming in at number 8 on the Triple B Top 10 Baseball Movies list is For Love of the Game which allows Costner to move from behind the plate to the mound as a nearing the end of his career pitcher.
The number 8 movie on the Triple B totally subjective top 10 countdown of baseball movies is For Love of the Game starring Kevin Costner.
The movie focuses on Costner as a 40 year-old pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. Throughout the course of pitching what could be the final game of his career Costner flashes back to various points of his career both on and off the field and thinks about the events that made him the person that he became.
The movie is helped by the presence of Vin Scully calling the on-field action as only Vin Scully can.
Like the number 9 movie on our countdown, Fever Pitch, this movie probably could also fall into the romantic category but as Fred Savage’s character in The Princess Bride comes to learn you likely won’t mind the “mushy stuff” as the movie draws to its conclusion.
The baseball action is strong for the most part and the flashbacks do not seem to water down the present day action.
Again, it is not Kevin Costner’s strongest baseball movie but it does deserve a place on the shelf next to the other two sides of the Costner baseball triangle. And of course like I said there is Vin Scully to listen to so one really can’t go wrong there.
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Like Neil Diamond, one tends to either love or hate the Boston Red Sox. It probably is not too surprising then that Neil Diamond and the Red Sox are so intertwined with Red Sox fans belting out a Neil Diamond song during every home game.
While the Red Sox have a long history of winning, they also had a long year of “cursed” play where the diehard fans wondered if their beloved BoSox would ever hoist the World Series trophy again.
The number 9 movie on the Triple B totally subjective top 10 countdown of baseball movies is Fever Pitch starring Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore.
As the defending World Series champions heading into the 2014 season, the Red Sox have certainly been on a bit of a winning streak lately.
Coming in at number 9 on the Triple B Top 10 Baseball Movies list is Fever Pitch which explores the fanatical side of Boston Red Sox fandom while also exploring interpersonal human relationships in the form of a baseball Rom Com, or romantic comedy.
At its surface the terms romantic comedy and baseball should not really be uttered in the same breath. But upon deeper inspection one can accept that baseball fans have long had a romance with the game that often starts when they catch their first game or pick up a ball and glove for the first time.
In Fever Pitch, the romance is between a Red Sox loving man, played by Jimmy Fallon, and the conflict that arises as he tries to choose between his love of his team and the pressure he feels to grow up.
The movie resonates with fans in different ways depending on where they see themselves along the spectrum.
For some people at a crossroads they can think about whether they need to give up their childhood love of the game and get a real job.
For others watching perhaps they long for a return to when they loved the game as much as the characters in the film.
Others may be somewhere in the middle finding balance between a so called normal life and support of the home team.
Regardless of where one stands in terms of their personal baseball journey, Fever Pitch offers a glimpse into a year of fandom related to one of the teams with the most rabid fan bases in all of baseball.
Of course, the movie also may or may not have helped break some of those dreaded Red Sox curses so it should be a must have for any member of Sox Nation.
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Totally Subjective Top 10 List of Baseball Movies: Number 10
Editor’s Note: In the spirit of counting down to the start of the Major League Baseball season over the next two weeks we here at Triple B will present our completely subjective ranking of the Top 10 Baseball Movies. Today we look at number 10 on the list.
I have often said that baseball is a sport that is best experienced live and in the Ballpark since there are so many sights, sounds, smells and other sensory sensations that just can’t be captured on television.
But for people who may not have access to a Ballpark or live in an area where games are frequently rained out there are several cinematic options to transport the movie goer into the world of the bleachers.
Coming in at number 10 on the Triple B Top 10 Baseball Movies list is Bleacher Bums which explores the view from the bleachers and the relations
The number 10 movie on the Triple B totally subjective top 10 countdown of baseball movies is Bleacher Bums starring Wayne Knight and Brad Garrett.
hips that can build over the course of a season among fans with adjoining seats.
The movie follows a group of season ticket holders over the course of the season and captures the highs and lows that go along with being a diehard fan.
Fans of Seinfeld will be treated to Wayne Knight in the film but do try to resist shouting “Newman” whenever he is on screen as one will end up with a sore throat and miss a lot of the dialog.
While the actual baseball scenes in the movie offer a few errors the film connects on the interaction of fans and the conversations that often break out during the course of a game.
Through the years just as I think I have heard almost everything imaginable in a Ballpark something new is overheard from my seat and I am reminded of Bleacher Bums and how it captures the Ballpark conversations to a science.
I never will understand fans that heckle players and feel it is their right to do so because they purchased a ticket to the game but unfortunately that is a part of the Ballpark experience.
While I recommend going to the Ballpark in person as often as possible to hear actual conversation, on a rainy day or when the ballpark is too far away the number 10 movie on our totally subjective countdown can be a good fit. Plus, you can always fast forward through the heckling scenes which is something I certainly wish could be done in real life.
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Surprises can be Both Good and Bad
The other day I took my Jeep in for a routine oil change and alignment check.
While I try to be good about coming in every 3,000 miles or so I am occasionally tardy in my duties as a car owner and stretch things out to four or five thousand miles between oil changes.
This was one of those times where I was closer to the five thousand mark than three thousand but I figured the car was no worse for it.
Since the mechanic is within walking distance of my house I will often drop off the Jeep and walk home as opposed to sitting in the waiting room watching the History Channel, which always seems to be on when I am there.
A recent surprise flat tire got me thinking about some surprises I would actually like to see this year.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the History Channel but I figure there are so many more things that I can do in the comfort of my own home as opposed to spending time in the waiting room.
So as I was sitting at home on my couch watching the History Channel, the mechanic called to tell me that they would not be able to fix my flat tire since the bolt had gone through the side wall.
This news surprised me in many ways.
First, I had not been aware that I had a flat tire and secondly how exactly does a bolt manage to enter a tire at a 90 degree angle?
I mentioned to the mechanic that I was not aware of a flat tire and perhaps he had mixed up my chart with someone else’s. He assured me that one of my tires was punctured and it was time to look at the options.
After it was determined that the tire could not be repaired and would need to be replaced, I realized that my $20 oil change was going to be far more expensive than originally planned.
My first reaction at having to purchase an unplanned tire was of course one of anger since I never seem to get the full manufacturer’s suggested amount of miles out of a set of tires.
In fact the tire that was mortally wounded by the bolt only had around 6,000 miles on it which made it a tire teenager cut down in its prime.
While the surprise aspect of the additional tire purchase was certainly not what I had planned on, I was definitely happy to have the surprise of a punctured tire happen while I was sitting on my couch as opposed to driving down the highway and experiencing a blowout or other tire issue that would have caused more damage to the Jeep and/or me.
So, all in all learning about a flat tire in air conditioned comfort on a couch with someone else doing the repair was certainly a welcome surprise albeit an expensive one.
The surprise World Serie pairing that I want to see in October is the Tampa Bay Rays against the Washington Nationals.
The surprise flat got me thinking about other potential surprises that could arise with the pending starts of the Major League Baseball, NASCAR and Indy Racing League seasons over the next couple of weeks.
Of course if one knew what was going to happen in each of those areas ahead of time they would not be surprises but for the sake of argument here is one potential surprise and one dark horse surprise that I would love to see in each of those sports this season.
First up let’s look at the surprises for Major League Baseball.
With the Major League Baseball season just around the corner the biggest surprise I would like to see is the Tampa Bay Rays making a return trip to the World Series against the Washington Nationals.
While the Rays and Nationals are both loaded with talent this year they each face huge obstacles in their quest for October glory. The Rays have a slightly better chance at postseason play despite playing in the toughest division in baseball.
Were the Houston Astros to somehow win the American League West title this season it would likely be the surprise of the year if not the century.
But for the record the Major League Baseball surprise I most want to see this year is a Rays against Nationals World Series.
Of course my dark horse surprise, that has almost no chance in the world of happening, would be for the Houston Astros to win the American League West.
That surprise is probably at least a decade away from happening but anything can happen I suppose.
With the Major League Baseball surprises written down my sights soon turned to NASCAR.
The Daytona 500 kicks off the 36-race NASCAR season this weekend (more on that in Friday’s column).
As in the past few seasons the powers that be added some tweaks to the points and other rules that teams will need to quickly get up to speed on.
Danica Patrick would surprise many people including Richard Petty were she to win a NASCAR race this season.
Perhaps no other sport enjoys messing with the rules each year as much as NASCAR does so they are certainly consistent with their constant changes.
My NASCAR related surprise that I would like to see involves the driver of the #10 car Danica Patrick.
After becoming the first woman to win an IRL race, Danica became the first woman to start on the pole and lead laps in the Daytona 500 last year during her first full year in NASCAR’s highest level.
My Danica related surprise would be for her to silence her critics in the Petty family and elsewhere by winning a race this year.
There are 36 opportunities for her to accomplish that and I feel that she very well could make history once again and make The King Richard Petty eat that feather on his hat.
In a perfect world Jimmy Johnson would let someone else win the championship this season.
As for the NASCAR related dark horse surprise I would most like to see, that would be for someone other than Jimmy Johnson to hoist the Champion’s trophy at the end of the year.
I mean come on Jimmy you have six of them already it is time to share with the rest of the class and take some time off before getting that record tying seventh championship that no amount of rules changes can prevent you from eventually winning.
Lastly let us look at the big surprises I am predicting for the IRL this year.
With the series returning once again to Houston for a two-race weekend in June I would like to have the surprise of seeing both races run without any career ending injuries such as the one that Dario Franchitti suffered last year.
Dario Franchitti’s racing career ended on a racetrack constructed in a stadium parking lot. Hopefully no other drivers face the same fate when the Indy Racing Series returns to Houston this June.
Hopefully with more time to plan race organizers can make sure that the track will be in better shape so the drivers can race each other and not worry about whether the track is going to cause them to lose control or take them out of the championship picture, or end their careers.
As for my dark horse surprise I want to see this year in the Indy Series, that would be for Juan Pablo Montoya to win the IRL Championship for Roger Penske after coming over from a few years spent in NASCAR driving for Penske’s bitter rival Chip Ganassi.
So there you have it several surprises to look out for over the next six months or so in MLB, NASCAR and IRL competition.
Of course if any of those surprises do end up happening you can always say that you read about them here first.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some surprises to get ready for.
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Presidents and Baseball are an American Tradition
Today is President’s Day, or Washington’s birthday as it is also known, here in the United States of America.
While originally the holiday was thought of as a way to recognize the two presidents with birthdays in February, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, President’s Day has grown to include a time to honor all of the men, and most likely some day women, who have served in the nation’s highest office.
Today we celebrate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
Through the years President’s Day has also become a time to buy furniture, appliances and cars at unheard of savings as many companies have sought to capitalize on people with the day off of work.. While the founding fathers wanted us to enjoy various freedoms, I doubt they had no interest financing on washers and dryers in mind. Then again maybe they did.
So for our purposes let us not focus on the retail aspects of the day but let us try to focus on the office of the President and what that entails.
To date, 44 men have served as President of the United States from Washington to Obama. While there are often disagreements between the Legislative and Executive branches of government it is important to remember that by and large the system of government that we enjoy is for the most part stable and allows each of us to enjoy freedoms that we would not otherwise have under certain other governmental systems.
And of course there is still that whole area of no interest financing. I really need to stop watching television on holiday weekends.
Campaign bumper sticker for the 1992 campaign of Bill Clinton. Clinton defeated George Bush to become the 42nd President of the United States.
I am far from the most politically active of people and part of that was by choice. I felt a reporter should be impartial and not let their political leanings show so I always tried to use that mantra as my guide.
Years later though, meeting candidate Clinton is still one of the more memorable moments of my journalistic career. I am sure that reporters that cover the Presidents on a daily basis lose some of the wow factor at some point but there always needs to be a respect for the office at some level.
So on this presidential holiday let us not focus on the civics behind the position, or the red state versus blue state leanings.
Let us not even focus on the plethora of sales that will end tonight at midnight.
Instead, let us focus on one of the many perks of residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington D.C.; the ceremonial first pitch.
President William Howard Taft started a tradition in 1910 that has linked the Commander in Chief with the National Pastime ever since when he threw out the first pitch on Opening Day.
The Senators moved to Minnesota to become the Twins and the Athletics packed up and headed west to Oakland but the one constant for 103 years has been presidents and baseball.
While the first pitch did not occur until 1910 the link between Presidents and baseball actually goes back to post Civil War America when Andrew Johnson invited the first team of professional ballplayers to the White House. Other teams were invited as well in the years to follow by other presidents.
Campaign buttons From George H.W. Bush’s 1988 Presidential campaign. Bush, was a former college baseball player and can often be seen at Minute Maid park watching the Astros play.
George H.W. Bush was a baseball player in college at Yale and can often be seen behind home plate at Houston Astros games.
It is also a given that if both President Bush and his wife, Barbara, are seated together they will end up on the stadium kiss cam.
So on this day that we honor our Presidents let us not forget that soon it will once again be Opening Day and when the President steps onto the mound to throw that first pitch he will be continuing a long standing tradition that honors both the past, present and future of both the Oval Office and the game of baseball itself.
Now if you’ll excuse me I think I need to practice my pitching just in case I am ever called on to throw out a first pitch. After all, no one wants to be the person that bounces it a few times on the way to the catcher.
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Time for Chocolate Hearts and Baseball
Today, February 14th, marks the arrival of Valentine’s Day.
While it is often joked about that Valentine’s Day is a made up holiday by greeting card companies, candy companies and florists, there is actually a historical reason behind St. Valentine’s Day.
While the actual origin story varies depending on who is telling it, one common version is that the day is based on one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus, or Valentine to you and me.
The common legend goes that Valentine was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire.
While imprisoned, legend goes on to state that Valentine befriended the daughter of his jailer and before his execution he wrote “from your Valentine” as a farewell to her.
How much of that really happened, and how much was added throughout the centuries as the tale was told and told again, is certainly up for debate.
After all, legends tend to grow the further out they are from the source material. But as far as legends go I guess if one were so romantically inclined there are worse things to believe in.
So whether the origin totally occurred as written or not the celebrations were tweaked through the generations and flourished during the romantic period as one might expect until at long last we reached the 21st century version of St. Valentine’s Day.
Nothing says, “I love you” quite like a box of chocolates. Put those chocolates in a heart shaped box and she is putty in your hands. At least that is what the marketing people want us to believe.
Decades ago when I was a younger version of myself Valentine’s Day meant that we used construction paper and other means to make our Valentine “mailbox” to stick at the end of our desks.
Once our mailboxes were completed we would go around and deliver valentine’s to each of our classmates.
After counting up the bounty one always hoped to not be like Charlie Brown, who was always valentine free, but to have a paper box brimming with tiny cardboard trinkets of affection.
As a rule I always made sure to have enough cards to go around for everyone in the class, but it seemed like not everyone followed that rule.
I am guessing the process still remains mostly the same as from when I was in school based on the amount of valentine’s cards I see at the stores each year, but who knows, maybe students just text each other their well wishes now.
Once in a while I will still have a coworker or two that will give out Valentines but as a rule my days of handing out mass Valentine greetings ended with my last construction paper mailbox.
Aside from the greeting card and valentine printing businesses, this season also marks a busy time for businesses that sell flowers and chocolate as they tend to be part of the more grown up valentine experience.
Turn on the television or radio any time between mid-January to mid-February and one is bound to be bombarded with commercials for suggestions on what makes the perfect valentine’s gift for that special someone.
While the romantic aspects of Valentine’s Day are all well and good, the season also marks a time for professional baseball players to await messages of “Be Mine” and “I Choo Choo Choose You” as competition begins for one of those coveted spots on the 40 man Major League roster.
Much like those cardboard valentines of old, a spot on the roster says to the player that someone values them and in this case values them enough that they have a future with the club.
Of course, roster placement alone does not guarantee success and several factors are involved in the aspect of who stays and goes from a major league roster.
But, the fact remains that players on the roster tend to feel better about their future than players who are not on the roster.
With up to 75 players vying for 40 roster spots Spring Training uniforms tend to use numbers more often seen on the football field.
For most teams the roster is mostly set at the start of spring training with a few positions here and there up for grabs through head to head competition.
As for the Houston Astros, this year their roster is less wide open than it was this time last season.
While last season was an every position is up for grabs kind of year heading into Spring Training, there seems to be a bit more stability heading into Osceola County Stadium this spring.
The biggest competition for the Astros appears to be at first base where former start Brett Wallace will try once more to prove that he belongs on a Major League Baseball Opening Day roster.
Unlike previous years though Wallace will be trying to make the team as a non roster invitee having lost his coveted spot on the 40-man roster.
Across the other 29 Major League teams other players will be in similar positions of just trying to extend their careers for one more season.
So as you celebrate your Valentine’s Day, in whatever manner you see fit, think of the baseball players who at this very moment are hanging their virtual Valentine mailbox on their lockers at spring training facilities in Florida and Arizona.
And with Valentine’s day behind us stores are quick to remind us that Easter is just around the corner as the chocolate hearts have been replaced on the shelves by chocolate bunnies. In some cases the chocolate bunnies were already up next to the display of chocolate covered Valentine strawberries.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to finish my Easter shopping before the Chocolate bunnies are replaced by Fourth of July decorations.
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Berkman and Oswalt to Retire as Astros
As the Houston Astros approach the 1oth anniversary of their last trip to the postseason two members of their 2005 World Series team have announced their retirement.
While Roy Oswalt and Lance Berkman were each traded from the Astros years ago as the team entered a youth movement, both men will be given the chance to be Astros for at least one more day in a sign and retire ceremony on April 5.
Over the past few years it has been commonplace for teams to hold these ceremonial retirements as a way for players and teams to reunite and allow the player to officially retire as a member of the organization where they spent the bulk of their careers.
The ceremonies also give a chance for the fans of the players to say one final good bye to players that they used to root for. And as a special treat the Astros have announced that a commemorative item will be given out at the gate to recognize the event.
Over the years I attended many games that Oswalt and Berkman played in and of the two I was a bigger fan of Berkman’s.
Even after he was traded I would still cheer for Berkman when he would visit Minute Maid Park and bat for the opposing team. Of course there were fans that would boo him as well which I never really understood.
Lance Berkman, who spent last season with the Texas Rangers, will sign a one day contract to retire as a Houston Astro on April 5 along with former teammate Roy Oswalt.
If you like a player it should not matter what color his jersey is since he is still the same player you once cheered for under it and many players do not get the choice of where they are traded to.
Speaking of trades, I was actually at Minute Maid Park on the day that Lance was traded to the New York Yankees.
This was the start of the Astros trading away all of their players to get younger but for some reason it felt like Berkman would be safe. After all he was a hometown player who went to the local university and had played his whole career with the Astros.
But on that day as the texts started rolling in, and the whispers that he had been traded turned to screams of disbelief it was apparent that the Astros were entering a new era where no player, no matter how popular, was safe.
It was also the day when the college kids who spent every game dressed up in their puma suits in honor of Berkman’s nickname, the “Big Puma,” took them off for the last time and tried to make sense of what had happened.
I had envisioned Berkamn getting to be like Cal Ripken Jr. who grew up in Maryland and played his entire career with the Baltimore Orioles before retiring on his own terms.
Of course, Ripken was a first ballot Hall of Famer from a generation of players that we just won’t see repeated.
In fact Derek Jeter, who has spent his entire career with the New York Yankees, very well could be the last player to spend his entire career with a single organization.
Baseball is a changed game and even players with dedicated fans who dress up in puma suits are not spared the trade deadline ax.
Of course on April 5 those puma suits can be dusted off as the “Big Puma” comes home for one last time.
They will be honoring a player in Berkman who after graduating from Rice University, played a dozen seasons in Houston before spending the final three years of his career with the New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers.
Of course getting traded away from the Astros was not a completely bad thing as Berkman earned a World Series ring during his time in St. Louis but something tells me he would have preferred winning it with the home town team.
Berkman was voted to the All-Star Game six-times and hit .296 with 326 home runs and 1,090 RBIs over his 12 seasons with the Astros. He led the National League in doubles in 2001 and again in ’08, while also leading the NL in RBIs in ’02, when he finished third in NL MVP voting.
As for the all-time Astros records Berkman ranks first in slugging percentage (.549), second in home runs, third in RBIs, walks and runs scored, and fourth in games played.
Sharing the retirement stage with Berkamn will be Roy Oswalt who was the ace of the pitching staff for the Astros for many years and had the honor of being the de facto Opening Day starter for most of his years with the club.
I never really followed Oswalt in the same way that I followed Berkman and will admit that his being traded did not affect me in the same way. But, I am sure that for many Astros fans at the time there was a great sadness felt when the announcement of Oswalt being shipped to the Phillies was made.
Of course the Phillies was not Oswalt’s last stop of his career. After spending his first 10 big league seasons with the Astros, Oswalt spent the last four years bouncing around with stints with the Phillies, Rangers and Rockies.
Roy Oswalt helped guide the Houston Astros to the World Series in 2005, earning National League Championship Series MVP honors after going 2-0 with a 1.29 ERA in the six-game series victory over the Cardinals. That performance also earned Oswalt the gift of a bulldozer from then team owner Drayton McLane. Oswalt will make one more appearance at Minute Maid Park before calling it a career.
Oswalt finished in the top five of the National League Cy Young Award voting during five of his 10 seasons with the Astros.
Oswalt recorded back-to-back 20-win seasons in 2004-05 and finished 143-82 with a 3.24 ERA during his time with the Astros.
As for that last trip to the postseason for the Astros, Oswalt helped guide Houston to the World Series in 2005, earning National League Championship Series MVP honors after going 2-0 with a 1.29 ERA in the six-game series victory over the Cardinals. That performance also earned Oswalt the gift of a bulldozer from then team owner Drayton McLane.
Oswalt finishes his career as the Astros’ all-time leader in win percentage (.636) and ranks second in both wins and strikeouts.
There is little doubt that the time for both men to retire has come. One could probably make the case that they should have retired at least a season or two ago as injuries turned both men into a shell of their former selves where performance at the plate and velocity on the mound just wasn’t what it used to be.
Of course it is hard to decide when to hang up the glove for good when playing baseball is all one has ever known.
As for their post baseball lives Oswalt is going to work for his agent as a vice president and Berkman has been mentioned as a possible successor to Rice Owls coach Wayne Graham.
In the meantime there is one more plate appearance at Minute Maid Park awaiting both men so that their careers can end where they began. Chances are there won’t be a dry puma eye in the house.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to get some tickets for the farewell to Berkman and Oswalt game.
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Sometimes You Want to Watch What’s Familiar
Recently I have been rediscovering a lot of old television shows from my youth.
This is not to say that the television shows being made today are not as good as the ones back then as much as it is to say that there are not as many good shows to choose from.
Too much television today is dedicated to the so called reality shows where reality is a long way from what is depicted.
While reality shows may have once been based in reality they soon turned more towards the scripted side where the lines between what is real and what is scripted becomes blurred.
The scenarios in these “reality” shows become so absurd and predictable at times that the only thing missing is a laugh track and the announcer saying that it was filmed before a live studio audience.
I have often said that the only true reality shows on television are live sports broadcasts and episodes of COPS.
The trend of catching up on television shows from my youth was likely kicked off by rediscovering MacGyver.
With the return of baseball approaching my nights will once again be filled with the soothing background noise of nine innings of competition on the baseball diamond.
Granted there are many television networks that air replays of classic games but for me if it is not live I do not want to watch it.
This is the same philosophy I use in not watching tape delayed Olympic coverage. I like the Olympics and like keeping up with the medal count but if I am not able to see the action the moment it is happening I am not interested.
Once a sporting event is over I just do not want to watch it. I may watch clips of a key play if I missed a particular game but I just cannot watch a game once the outcome is already known.
So while sports is an in the moment sort of thing I have discovered that many of the television shows that younger me liked have withstood the test of time.
Some of those timeless shows that I have been rediscovering lately include The X-Files, JAG, and surprisingly enough the Dukes of Hazzard.
Of course the trend was kicked off about a year ago when I started watching old episodes of MacGyver which as noted before is one of my all-time favorite television shows if for no other reason than my mom is convinced that I am related to the star of the show.
The first two shows on the list spanned my college years and now a few decades later I have found that while some of the plots may be a little dated for the most part they still include well written scripts that are well acted out.
Despite premiering over 20 years ago the X-Files and their “truth is out there” plots have stood the test of time.
As for the Dukes of Hazzard, those storylines of the show from my elementary school days are slightly more dated with the excessive use of CB radios instead of the cell phones that would be used today.
Few can argue though that for the most part a car jumping a ravine and a multigenerational family dynamic in a small Georgia town is as fascinating today as it was back in 1979 when it first aired.
I am sure there are many reasons why these old shows offer comfort and entertainment so many years after leaving the airwaves and arriving on Digital Video Disc (DVD) but for me the reason is rather simple.
Watching the old shows gives me a chance to relive some old memories and think about how I used to rush through bath time to make sure I was sitting in front of the television set by the time the opening credits were rolling for the Dukes, or how I would rush home from Sunday night church to catch the latest case for Mulder and Scully.
Now that I think about it there was a lot of rushing involved the first time I watched the shows so maybe now I am able to watch them at a slower pace after rushing home from work.
I also do not want to paint the picture that all I did in my youth was watch television. While there was a lot of television watching there was also a lot of time spent playing pick-up games with the kids in the neighborhood after school and reading.
Like the X-Files Jag is an over 20-year-old series that is still worth watching all these years later.
I am sure that all of us have television shows from our past that trigger memories of simpler times or perhaps time spent watching with someone who may no longer be with us.
Whatever those shows are that spark those memories they are worth holding on to as long as we can.
As mentioned above there are still some good new shows on the air and new memories being made each night by families across the globe.
While the shows bringing those families together may vary the connection being felt and the memory imprints cross through cultural and generational lines.
While scripted shows from my youth seem to be holding strong I often wonder how many of the crop of reality shows will stand the test of time.
That is nothing against the families who gather together to watch American Idol or the myriad shows like it. I just wonder if 20 years from now watching this season’s Idol episodes will be as magical as watching Bo and Luke Duke driving a tank with a hidden moonshine still in it.
Speaking of moonshine, odds are without the Dukes on the air there would not be that popular show about those moonshine making moonshiners on the Discovery Channel. What is the name of that moonshiners making moonshine show anyway?
It is hard to say what show from my youth I will rediscover next. There are many more on the list that I enjoyed during various phases of my life that are probably worth traveling down memory lane for.
Of course there are also some shows that are best left in the decades from which they came so the trick is finding the balance and the show that is still as good today as it was back then.
In a world of reality television I will take the memories of well scripted television from the past any day.
Of course when that fails it is always fun to curl up with a good book and let the garden of my mind paint the pictures for me.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some more old shows to rediscover.
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Torch Dimmed by Olympic Surroundings
February 7, 2014 Administrator Leave a comment
Tonight marks the Opening Ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Throughout the years Opening Ceremonies are a time for nations from around the world to come together as one before spending the next two and a half weeks as bitter rivals where only three people in each event come away with the metallic prize that they all seek.
So while the next two weeks will be about hard fought competition and trying to secure one’s lifelong dream, tonight the athletes they can just be people enjoying the pomp and circumstance of the world stage.
The Opening Ceremony will feature music, dancing and the parade of Olympic teams from around the world.
The ceremony can also serve as a geography lesson for people watching who may have forgotten certain names of countries.
Another highlight of the ceremony of course is the lighting of the Olympic flame that will burn brightly over the festivities until the closing ceremony where the torch will be passed to the next host country.
The Los Angeles Coliseum has played host to several Summer Olympic games. Time will tell if the venues in Sochi, Russia age as well.
While tonight should be all about the beauty and the magic of the Olympics, stories leading up to tonight’s ceremony have painted less than ideal conditions for those in competition and the media there to cover it.
From stories of unfinished accommodations to cruel treatment of stray dogs, there has been no shortage of media tweets and posts about the conditions in Sochi.
There are even reports of phones being hacked and showers being monitored through hidden cameras.
Of course the entire Olympic infrastructure was basically built from scratch for around $20 billion making it by far the most expensive Olympics venue build ever. And anytime that large of a project is undertaken there are bound to be shortcuts taken so the fact that a few things did not get down in time or the way one had hoped should not be a complete surprise.
As for the hacking of phones and the unwanted surveillance goes, I suppose the Olympic Host Committee wanted to give visitors the complete Cold War experience to go along with the games.
Even the venues that were completed in time and to code will have a short life in many cases as almost all Olympic Games venues built for the two weeks in the global spotlight will never be used again following the extinguishing of the Olympic flame.
With so much cost and so little to show for it after the games I have always wondered why countries spend so much effort and money to be an Olympic host city.
Sure there is the pride of saying that one hosted the Olympics but where is that pride after the venues start to crumble from neglect and the citizens are left to wonder whether the money could have been spent in better ways.
While I doubt that this will ever become the case having the Olympics in a central place year after year with a single set of venues would certainly be more economical than reinventing the wheel every two years.
But as long as there is a clout associated with hosting the games countries will continue to compete to be selected as a host city to then spend their billions of dollars on venues in the hopes of at least breaking even when all of the fans flock to see the games.
While some venues and accommodations failed to be 100 percent ready for the games to their credit NBC will do their best over the next two weeks to highlight the positives of the Olympic Games despite all of the negatives that have come to light in recent days.
After all NBC spends a lot of money on the Olympics so they have a vested interest in making sure people tune in to support their advertisers.
There will be countless human interest stories and time delayed coverage of events sprinkled along the prime time viewing hours. And yes there will also be stories about the lack of shower curtains or the toxic water with the do not use to bathe warnings.
I am sure that many of the journalists covering the games did not think they would be reporting games in a war zone type situation. Maybe instead of sending Bob Costas to the games NBC should have sent veteran war correspondents Wolf Blitzer and Peter Arnett since they are likely more used to reporting from places with no shower curtains and other amenities.
When all is said and done the lack of shower curtains and other creature comforts will not affect the performance from the athletes or the media members covering them.
In fact there could even be some people who have never seen a shower curtain so the lack of one is not a big deal.
But the fact that the issues are being brought up begs the question regarding what exactly was bought with that $20 billion investment in the games. For the answer to that I am sure there is a NBC report detailing it all.
I will likely watch the opening ceremony tonight and then tune out the rest of the Olympics and just follow the medal count online since I am not a fan of watching time delayed sports where the outcome is already known.
As far as Russia goes, I am scheduled to be there in May so I hope they find some shower curtains by then so I don’t have to bring my own.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some Olympic sized Opening Ceremony snacks to make.
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Best of the Bronx: Formerly incarcerated man helps young people succeed
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 7:40 AM EDT
A formerly incarcerated man is helping young people succeed on the campus of Bronx Community College.
He has earned President Awards, studied in Salzburg, Austria, won the New York State All-Academic Team Award and received a scholarship to New York University.
Coffie has an associate’s degree from BCC, bachelors and master’s degrees from NYU. He even created mentoring and advocacy groups and wrote a book. But not before spending 19 years in prison.
"My first time going to prison, I was 20 years old," he says. "I've been incarcerated over six times throughout my life."
Coffie spent 19 years in different prisons and in different states. As a former drug dealer, foster child, and victim of bullying, he was also homeless.
He came to New York and was accepted into the DOE Fund, which helps formerly incarcerated men transition back into life after release and that's where he was inspired to start college, and did so at the age of 40.
He's created a few organizations to give young people coming out of prison the mentorship and resources they need to get to school and succeed.
His goal is to help others reach their full potential, he says.
"They might not have had the parents, who are too ashamed to talk about the pain. You have the potential, you are a rose that will bloom from this concrete."
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1871 Hawaii Hurricane Strike Shows Lane’s Imminent Danger Isn’t Unprecedented
Powerful Hurricane Lane is forecast to skirt if not directly hit Hawaii as a slowly weakening major hurricane today and Friday. Its track is unusual: most Central Pacific hurricanes either steer well south of the tropical paradise or fall apart upon approaching the islands. But a recent paper in the Bulletin of the AMS reveals that such intense tropical cyclones menace Hawaii more frequently than previously thought.
Hurricane Lane as of Thursday morning local time was packing sustained winds of 130 mph with gusts topping 160. Its expected track (below) is northward toward the middle islands today and early tomorrow, followed by a sharp left turn later Friday. When that left hook occurs will determine the severity of the impacts on Maui as well as Oahu, home to Hawaii’s capital and largest city, Honolulu. Although Lane is expected to slowly weaken due to increasing wind shear aloft, it appears that the Big Island of Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, and Oahu will be raked at a minimum by tropical storm winds gusting 55-70 mph, pounding surf, and heavy, potentially flooding rain. Hurricane conditions on these islands also are possible.
Three-day track forecast for Hurricane Lane’s approach to Hawaii (Central Pacific Hurricane Center).
The last major hurricane to affect the islands with more than swells and heavy surf was Hurricane Iniki in 1992. It was passing well south of the islands when an approaching upper-air trough brought in steering flow out of the south, and Iniki made a right turn toward the western islands while intensifying into a strong Category 4 hurricane. It slammed directly into the garden island of Kauai with average winds of 145 mph and extreme gusts that damaged or destroyed more than 90 percent of the homes and buildings on the island. Iniki obliterated Kauai’s lush landscape, seen in its full splendor in such movies as Jurassic Park, which was filming there as the storm bore down.
The only other known direct hit on Hawaii was by 1959’s Hurricane Dot, which was a minimal Category 1 storm–the winds barely reaching threshold hurricane intensity of 74 mph when its center crossed Kauai. Without any prior record of major hurricane landfall, Iniki was not just rare, it was considered unprecedented.
More than a century before Iniki, a major hurricane crashed into the Big Island, its intense right-front quadrant passing directly over neighboring Maui, causing widespread devastation on both islands. Its discovery is outlined in Hurricane with a History: Hawaiian Newspapers Illuminate an 1871 Storm, which details the narrative thanks to an explosion of literacy on the islands in the mid 19th century, which led to hundreds of local language newspapers that published eyewitness accounts of the storm.
Map showing the reconstructed track of the Hawaii hurricane across the eastern islands of Hawaii and Maui on 9 Aug 1871. Labeled red circles indicate the approximate time and location of the core of the storm. Green shading shows terrain altitude every 2,000 ft (610 m).
The new historical research, published in the January 2018 BAMS, found unequivocal evidence of an intense hurricane that struck August 9, 1871, causing widespread destruction from Hilo on the eastern side of the Big Island to Lahaina on Maui’s west side. A Hawaiian-language newspaper archive of more than 125,000 pages digitized and now made publicly available along with translated articles contained account after account of incredible damage that led the paper’s authors to surmise that at least a Category 3 if not a Category 4 hurricane hit that day.
The paper’s analysis is put forth as “the first to rely on the written record from an indigenous people” of storms, droughts, volcanic eruptions, and other extreme natural events. Accounts published in Hawaiian newspapers create a living history of the 1871 hurricane’s devastation, as recounted in the paper:
“On the island of Hawaii, the hurricane first struck the Hāmākua coast and Waipi‘o valley. The following is from a reader’s letter from Waipi‘o dated 16 August 1871:”
At about 7 or 8 AM it commenced to blow and it lasted for about an hour and a half, blowing right up the valley. There were 28 houses blown clean away and many more partially destroyed. There is hardly a tree or bush of any kind standing in the valley (Pacific Commercial Advertiser on 19 August 1871).
“An eyewitness from Kohala on Hawaii Island wrote the following:”
The greatest fury was say from 9 to 9:30 or 9:45, torrents of rain came with it. The district is swept as with the besom of destruction. About 150 houses were blown down. A mango tree was snapped as a pipe stem, just above the surface of the ground. Old solid Kukui trees, which had stood the storms of a score of years were torn up and pitched about like chaff. Dr. Wright’s mill and sugarhouse, the trash and manager’s residence, were all strewn over the ground (Ke Au Okoa on 24 August 1871).
“On Maui, newspaper reports document that Hāna, Wailuku, and Lahaina were particularly hard-hit. A writer in Hāna described the storm:”
Then the strong, fierce presence of the wind and rain finally came, and the simple Hawaiian houses and the wooden houses of the residents here in Hāna were knocked down. They were overturned and moved by the strength of that which hears not when spoken to (Ka Nupepa Kuokoa on 26 August 1871).
“In Wailuku the bridge was destroyed:”
… the bridge turned like a ship overturned by the carpenters, and it was like a mast-less ship on an unlucky sail.” (Ka Nupepa Kuokoa on 19 August 1871).
“From Lahaina came the following report:”
It commenced lightly on Tuesday night, with a gentle breeze, up to daylight on Wednesday, when the rain began to pour in proportion, from the westward, veering round to all points, becoming a perfect hurricane, thrashing and crashing among the trees and shrubbery, while the streams and fishponds overflowed and the land was flooded (Pacific Commercial Advertiser on 19 August 1871).
The BAMS paper concludes that the 1871 hurricane was “a compact storm, similar to Iniki.” Honolulu escaped damaging winds or rain despite such a close encounter.
Because such historical records have been unnoticed for so long, the paper notes “a number of myths have arisen such as ‘the volcanoes protect us,’ ‘only Kauai gets hit,’ or ‘there is no Hawaiian word for hurricane.’”
Today’s powerful Hurricane Lane and the newfound historical records go a long way to dispelling these misconceptions about the threat of hurricanes in the Hawaiian Islands.
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Postcard Thursday: Alaska Admitted to the Union
On January 3, 1959--sixty years ago today--Alaska was admitted to the union as the forty-ninth state.
There had been some jockeying in congress to decide whether Alaska or Hawaii would become a state first. Alaska--then predominantly home to Democrats--was championed by Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson as it would add two Democratic Senators to the chamber. To counter this, the GOP pushed hard for Hawaii to be admitted, which would add two Republican Senators and restore the status quo.
Today, those roles are largely reversed. Hawaii is a reliably blue state, and while Alaska's politics are harder to pigeon-hole, it is mostly represented nationally by the GOP.
Alaska became a territory in 1867 when Secretary of State William Seward purchased the land from the Russians for $7.2 million. Known as "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox," the acquisition of such a large swath of mostly uninhabited land was seen as a waste to many Americans. A couple of years ago, we traveled to Sitka, Alaska, the former Russian capital, for the 150th anniversary of the handover. You can read more about those commemorations in James's story for The New York Post.
Alaska is both the largest and least densely populated state, with a mere 1.1 people per square mile. By contrast, at its peak in the early 20th century, parts of New York City's Lower East Side were home to 1,000 people per acre--that's 640,000 people per square mile--which some historians estimate made it the most densely populated place on the planet earth ever.
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K12-Powered Saxophonist Shines on Stage and In Online Classroom
Community & Leadership, Overcoming Challenges, Student Success
When Avery Dixon was born, he weighed just under two pounds. His prematurity led to various medical conditions throughout his life. One condition affects Avery’s vocal chords. Because his voice doesn’t sound like his peers, bullies singled him out. But once he found online school, Avery found strength he never knew he had.
When he first enrolled in Georgia Cyber Academy (GCA), Avery was sad, torn, and broken. He did not want to even participate in class. GCA’s clubs and support for bullying victims boosted his confidence. After Avery started participating in various anti-bullying activities, his grades started to improve. He also gained a new perspective on life both in and out of the classroom. “GCA has helped to come out of my shell,” Avery said. “By meeting people at social outings, I feel more comfortable when I participate in class.”
Online school also gives Avery the freedom to pursue his passion: music. As a professional saxophonist, he’s won many awards for his music, and even received a letter from President Barack Obama. With the support of his incredible teachers, Avery has even performed at GCA’s graduation ceremonies. However, Avery believes that his greatest accomplishment is his willingness to encourage others and give back to his community. Avery is currently starting an organization that will help families with premature babies. He also volunteers in homeless shelters where he reads to young children. “Giving back has taught me humility and the act of being selfless,” he said.
Thanks to his faith and perseverance, Avery has come out on the other side and is now an anti-bullying activist. His mission is to spread awareness to others who are suffering. He encourages students to get help if they are feeling depressed or hurt and to join a group of like-minded people with similar interests and goals. He says, “Being bullied is not your problem– it is a problem of the one who is doing the bullying. You should never feel embarrassed or ashamed.” Avery aspires to continue pursuing music after he graduates next year. He hopes to attend college and study music performance. He’s also interested in studying psychology because he wants to protect others from the pain he experienced throughout his childhood. Avery added, “Being bullied is not anything I would want anyone to go through, it is not OK, but it is not a problem that can’t be fixed.”
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Steam Version
By Isaac2468p7, December 22, 2014 in PT Boats
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I was wondering whether Battlefront.com supports the Steam release or whether it is only handled by Akella, also just on a side not is there any way to fix the very fast paced "wobble" of the ocean when the PT Boat is in motion? I've noticed I'm not the only person with the problem as YouTube videos have similar "wobbly" water.
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I'm not absolutely sure on this, but I believe that the Steam release of PT Boats is Akella's support responsibility. Battlefront is listed as the 'publisher' of the game, but I don't believe it was involved with the Steam release of the game. Unfortunately I'm not sure how easy it may be to contact Akella support regarding the PT Boats series.
The last patches for PT Boats came out in Dec. 2010 (with the Steam release being fully up-to-date at the time of publishing for that distributor), so there is no further development/patch work being done on the game.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable about the 'wobble of the ocean'. This could be just the way that the water displays as programmed or it may possibly be some issue with a video driver or setting, I'm not sure. Is there a particular YouTube video that shows this effect ? Do you see it in this particular game play trailer ?:
http://youtu.be/taE9YnGE17k
Is the game being run in DirectX 9.0 or 10 mode ?
Edited December 24, 2014 by Schrullenhaft
Thank you for the quick reply! Ah okay, that's alright. The main issue that still seems to plague the steam release is that in DirectX 10 mode the game crashes after it loads ships, it is a very common issue and I was looking for a fix.
Otherwise, the "wobble" of the ocean or more like a vibration, and can be seen in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TUkhcebdJE in the early moments between 10-50 seconds. The water vibrates quickly and I have this issue to a more severe extent, perhaps a physics issue? While it's not major it is quite distracting and doesn't seem to occur in the gameplay video you provided.
The game is running in DirectX 9.0c mode.
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Iowans head east this week to court Christie
Jennifer Jacobs
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Even as some Iowa Republicans criticize an upcoming mission to recruit in-your-face New Jerseyan Chris Christie for the presidency, one organizer defended it as a way to send a strong endorsement of no-nonsense conservative leadership.
“If we only accomplish one thing, and that is to encourage Chris Christie to maintain his leadership style and to encourage other Republicans to have the same leadership style, we’ll feel very good about the trip,” said Iowa hog and ethanol baron Bruce Rastetter, a prolific contributor to GOP campaigns.
Rastetter and a team of six other Iowa businessmen will fly by private jet Tuesday to meet with Christie, who has steadfastly refused to run but agreed to have dinner with them in the governor’s mansion.
The heavy hitters’ journey is being closely watched by political operatives across the nation who read it as evidence of Republican discontent in the lead-off voting state with the developing field of GOP hopefuls – and a sign that Christie’s resistance might crack.
“I think there will be others in the race, even though they don’t know it today,” said fellow New Jersey native Steve Forbes, a two-time presidential candidate and editor of Forbes business magazine. “You’re looking at an incomplete field.”
Forbes predicted the campaign donors from Iowa won’t lure Christie into the game Tuesday, but that when the New Jersey legislative sessions wraps up at the end of June, he’ll feel “very real pressure.”
“I’m not backing any of the ones in the race right now,” Forbes said in a telephone interview. But he said his eye is on Christie and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican.
The timing of the Iowa mission, delayed by scheduling snags, comes as the fog begins to lift off the battlefield, and Republicans here are settling in with the existing batch of potential GOP nominees.
The long-unseen Mitt Romney came to town Friday to give Iowans a little love. Michele Bachmann promised to reveal her intentions in her native Waterloo soon. Tim Pawlenty, Ron Paul and Herman Cain will fan out across Iowa this week. And Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have blanketed the state in recent days.
So are Iowans – well-fed on political discourse delivered with extraordinarily close-up access – feeling content?
Not at all, says Des Moines conservative radio talk-show host Jan Mickelson.
“There is not the happy warrior feeling out here. There is fear and trembling out here,” said Mickelson, 61. “The reason Christie has such appeal is the Iowa Republicans are hungry for an alpha politician who will go out and make battle.”
Christie, whose star power was fueled by videos his team posted on YouTube, has been elevated to hero status by conservatives who crave a union-bucking, budget-slashing leader in the White House. He’s seen by some Iowa Republicans as a beefy, Jersey version of John Wayne who demands unflinching reform – and as a corporate candidate that business leaders would like and trust.
“He’d be instantly welcomed here,” Mickelson said. “And then we’d start nibbling on him.”
State Sen. Rob Bacon, R-Maxwell, said he won’t mind if Christie doesn’t run.
“We don’t need him necessarily,” said Bacon, 56. “We have a great lineup.”
Bacon speculated that a coastal candidate might not fare as well here. “In Iowa, when we hear someone’s from out east, we kind of go, ‘Hmm, that’s nice.’ ”
Some Republicans are outright displeased about the businessmen’s journey. Republican Gopal Krishna, 64, of West Des Moines said he thinks the mission sends the message “that we only cater to certain people and that only certain people run the show.”
“It is the people who elect and the people who vote. Money has a role in politics, but money should not be the governing factor,” Krishna said.
Technical writer Bonita Davis, a Des Moines Republican, has similar feelings.
“It’s not up to the big-money donors to decide who they want. It’s for the grassroots to decide who they want,” said Davis, 58. “Governor Christie can stay where he’s at. We need good governors where they’re at, and I’m really not interested in him coming in.”
In response, Rastetter said the seven businessmen aren’t “anointing someone to run.”
“That’s for the people of Iowa and the country to choose,” said Rastetter, 54. “What we believe is important is that we encourage people to participate in the system – in this case to run for president, and in this case come to Iowa.”
Some Iowa Republicans were first exposed to the Christie brand in October, when he stumped for Terry Branstad. But Des Moines lawyer Matt Whitaker, 41, is one of the few who is a personal friend.
Whitaker served as a U.S. attorney at the same time as Christie and points out that the campaign trail isn’t particularly family-friendly. Christie, 48, has four children, all high school-age or younger.
“I don’t think Chris Christie’s running for president,” said Whitaker, who has signed on as chairman of Pawlenty’s Iowa steering committee.
Christie’s chief politics adviser, Mike DuHaime, asked whether the governor has ruled out 2016, answered: “He hasn’t even addressed his own re-election in 2013, so speculation beyond that is way too premature.”
Political guru Doug Gross of Des Moines dismissed Tuesday’s trip as a “fool’s errand.” “He’s not going to run,” he said.
Gross, however, is among Iowans yearning for a fresh face in the race. He visited with advisers to Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels to stress that there was interest in Iowa and a path to do well, if he got in. Daniels later ruled out running, and Gross remains uncommitted to any candidate.
The new name being batted about in Iowa Republican political banter? Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Chris Christie’s world
Republican Chris Christie has been governor since January 2010 in New Jersey. The state is still wrestling with how to cover promised pensions and health care benefits in future years.
Democrats control both chambers of the state Legislature, but because of redistricting, all 120 seats will be up for election this fall. The redistricting map favored by Democrats was selected.
NEWSWEEK, June 24, 2010: “He proposed-and has now passed-an austere budget that reduces school aid by $820 million, drops 1,000 state workers, assumes $50 million in savings from privatization, and skips a $3 billion contribution to the state pension system. He has refused to reinstate a tax on residents earning more than $400,000 a year.”
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, Feb. 24, 2011: “Acid monologues like this have made Christie, only a little more than a year into his governorship, one of the most intriguing political figures in America. … Newly elected governors – not just Republicans, Christie says, but also Democrats – call to seek his counsel on how to confront their own staggering budget deficits and intractable unions.”
WASHINGTON POST, April 21, 2011: “While Christie is known nationally as a conservative’s conservative and the first among equals with tea party activists, that’s not really who he is. For example, during a debate over collective bargaining rights for public unions in Wisconsin, Christie notably stopped short of supporting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s efforts. He also has some more centrist tendencies on curbing illegal immigration, has gotten a handful of Democratic votes for many of his proposals, and has called President Obama an ‘ally’ on education reform. And he voted for a tax increase as a county freeholder in the 1990s and used to support abortion rights.”
POLITICO, May 23, 2011: “The governor of New Jersey is a veritable right-wing heartthrob, inspiring coast-to-coast swoons with his tough talk about teachers unions and his emphasis on cutting government. He’s frequently mentioned by GOP idealists as they describe their ultimate champion. In the runup to the midterms, there was no more powerful Republican campaign surrogate as Christie stumped in a dozen states – meaning there’s now a lot of grateful Republican officeholders across the country. Back in November, Christie famously told reporters, ‘Short of suicide, I don’t really know what I’d have to do to convince you people that I’m not running.'”
Here are some of Chris Christie’s accomplishments, according to state GOP officials and the New Jersey governor’s office:
– As U.S. attorney in New Jersey from 2002 to 2008, he prosecuted public corruption by both Democrats and Republicans, winning convictions or guilty pleas against 130 public officials without losing a case. He also prosecuted violent gang members, child pornographers and environmental polluters.
– As governor, he capped limited local property tax increases to no more than 2 percent per year.
– In his first year in office, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority handed out $518 million in business incentives and tax credits, and the state provided another $64.8 million in assistance to small businesses.
– He has trumpeted millions in federal spending in New Jersey, saying he secured $39.6 million for a public safety wireless broadband network and $112 million for anti-foreclosure initiatives.
– He required local government public employees to contribute to their medical benefits, which he says meant cities, counties and school districts save $314 million.
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Two More HAT Award Runners-Up
All the contestants have now given me permission to post their entries, so here are two more. There'll be two more tomorrow, insh'allah, and then THE WINNER on January 20th.
Thanks again to all the participants, and the judges.
Entry by Lydia Costello
As we embark upon a future of Donald Trump as President of the United States there are questions regarding the future funding of historic preservation activities and initiatives. As a student I believe concern should focus on the classroom.
I am a junior studying Historic Preservation at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. In the fall of 2015, The 1772 Foundation approached Roger Williams University with a grant to research the effectiveness of The National Council of Preservation Education.
The 1772 Foundation’s mission is to ensure protection of historic buildings and farmland within the northeast, with matching grants for Connecticut, New Jersey and Rhode Island. The grant’s research objective was to determine which programs offered Historic Preservation Real Estate Finance courses. Real Estate Finance was decided as the most under studied aspect of historic preservation. The 1772 Foundation saw the benefits of a course like this would have on students. Research was conducted on every university, college and educational institution that provides an undergraduate degree, graduate degree and/or certificates within historic preservation. Four students were charged to review each institution’s course selection and syllabus.
The outcome of the research was shocking lack of uniformity among programs. My colleagues and I began to notice the absence of common classes within the fourteen undergraduate and thirty-two graduate institutions. One would think there would be a foundation courses or some kind of curriculum outline however we found the contrary. With this information The 1772 Foundation offered a course at Roger Williams University titled, “ARCH 530/HP 530 Project Development and Finance”. The outcome of the course was very successful. The students both graduate and undergraduate received invaluable information. This course has now been opened up to law and business students as well.
As one of four students assigned to this project my eyes were opened to the vast differences in programs and education. Setting up foundation courses or an accreditation process for undergraduate and graduate programs would be extremely helpful for employers to better understand the individual’s education. This could provide some competition or rigor between programs. While researching we began to see a trend of schools who were much more archeological based rather than structurally. Some were very history heavy while others focused on planning and conservation.
Historic Preservation is the endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance. I believe historic preservation is above and belowground, tangible and intangible however, my education does not go past the structure. I think that’s a huge disservice to students. Historic preservation undergraduates should be getting an education in structural integrity, conservation, cultural resource management, community planning and archeology. Within these sections are subsections of documentation, surveying, oral history, and archival research to name a few. Leaving graduate schools to have more specificity to allow students to hone their knowledge in a certain area. We can accomplish this within every historic preservation program with foundational curriculum or accreditation. The biggest lesson in historic preservation that I’ve learned thus far is every moment is a teachable one.
Educating communities, neighborhoods and citizens opens the door for positive perception of historic preservation. Historic preservation is seen in a negative light in many communities throughout the United States. In the summer of 2016 I was an intern for the Newport Historic Preservation Planner, Helen Johnson. I constantly overheard members of the community speaking negatively towards historic preservation and the “hoops” it requires for a citizen to simply change a part of their structure. Preservation is intended to be positive based planning not to challenge and hinder citizens. We need to begin investing in our communities by providing seminars and meetings on helpful and meaningful topics within historic preservation.
The transition of leadership in the United States brings up many questions. How organizations such as the National Trust or National Environmental Policy Act will change and evolve is not known. The way historic preservation functions today through government funding could change under Donald Trumps presidency. Our systems today are flawed and less than adequate funding will be detrimental to the success of historic preservation. The goal of interpreting tangible and intangible history is the mission of every preservationist and must be preserved as a priority in the new administration.
The question that needs to be addressed how will federal organizations such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation or more importantly the role of State Historic Preservation Officers function in the new administration. The United States has not seen a government-affiliated organization privatize, I believe historic preservation can be the driving force.
This is the beginning of the conversation. It will take many groups of professionals to come together and decide on the path of NEPA and Historic Preservation Act. I am writing this today as a student who believes historic preservation does have a future. I am not sure what the next four years will bring. I do know that we will not allow our work to preserve be hindered by a change in political power. The way historic preservation of our cultural and physical being is taught and supported will ensure that the United States of America has an accurate history of who we are, what we believe and how we live.
The Case for the Fantasy Federal Historic Preservation Law of 2017:
Musings on How to Make a Good Thing Better
S. Joe Griffin
My submission to the HAT contest is based on the central idea that historic preservation only matters if someone cares about the resources that are being preserved. The submission also addresses some of what I consider to be the most glaring deficiencies in the existing Section 106 process.
I doubt there is a cultural resources professional alive who hasn’t encountered a construction crew, or an engineer, or a developer who laughs at the idea that some old building/ old rocks/ old irrigation ditch/ old neighborhood/ etc. is historically significant. Who cares about all this stuff really? This is a fundamental question, and our profession must pay close attention to it, especially as we usher in an era where federal expenditures and requirements are looked at with increased scrutiny. Many practitioners approach historic preservation from the smug premise that the general public simply doesn’t know what is important about the past, and it is up to our enlightened cadre to bring it to light. You may not care about it, but when an architectural historian has determined that we must carefully document a building constructed by a locally prominent architect from the early twentieth century, this documentation is really for your own good.
Certainly the historic preservation community has an obligation to educate the public about interesting facets of the past, and to identify significant resources that may not be obvious. How can we find a middle ground that allows for education and exploration, but that does not stray too far from the realm of public interest into specialist interest? How are cultural resource managers expected to work out what is and is not interesting to the public? The Fantasy Law attempts to address this challenge with state-wide interest surveys, and by prioritizing consultation and the identification of as many potentially interested consulting parties as possible.
This leads us to the current National Register Criteria, four simple categories into which all significance must fit; association with an important event or person, artistic or engineering cleverness, or data potential; and the endlessly mysterious aspects of integrity, some permutations of which are acceptable, some others are not. Perhaps counter-intuitively, these seemingly open-ended categories wind up being restrictive in practice, introducing a heavy bias toward the opinions and preferences of professionals rather than communities. The American public, communities, and tribes are often not able to easily express their values in the limited terms of the law, and their voice loses volume as a result. The Fantasy law does away with these limited criteria and integrity considerations, focusing instead on the ways in which a resource is valued by different groups—including professionals who may have an intellectual or academic interest.
Certainly the existing process tries to get at these values, after all the first step in the Section 106 process, as described under 36 CFR 800.3, includes the identification of consulting parties. In practice, however, this is generally given pretty brief consideration. The regulations require the Agency to identify the correct SHPO for instance; this is an easy section to gloss over. Identifying potentially interested tribes can be straightforward in some cases, tricky in others (e.g. states where significant and large scale forced displacements occurred or where numerous small tribes exist with overlapping territories), but always important. Fortunately there are many resources available in various states to help with this and generally this isn’t terribly time consuming either. Identifying other potentially interested groups and individuals is immensely harder. Ambitious practitioners may contact historical societies and local museums, but more often public involvement is piggybacked on NEPA public meetings or given some other very minor consideration.
Identifying consulting parties is vital, and it is obviously appropriate to put it at the very beginning of the 106 process. On the other hand, it may not be obvious at the outset of a project whom should be consulted. For instance, suppose that construction would occur in a neighborhood that superficially looks like any other, but that was historically occupied by a particular ethnic group. This information will likely come to light quickly, but it may not be easy to find members of that group to speak with, much less a central voice who speaks for the community. For this reason, identification of consulting parties should be on-going, and made a chief priority throughout the process. The Fantasy Law does just that.
Unlike laws like the Endangered Species Act, the NHPA is almost entirely toothless unless someone sues. Even then, a cursory glance at NHPA case law highlights the fact that the government only loses lawsuits when it can be shown that an agency failed to follow the process, never when consulting parties disagree with conclusions or decisions made by an agency. In other words, substantively inadequate work is nearly bulletproof, so long as all of the boxes got checked along the way. The Fantasy Law addresses this by providing oversight from a federal regulatory agency, not individual states which, thanks to the supremacy clause in our Constitution, are not likely to be empowered to regulate the federal government.
Several important aspects of the existing processes are carried over into the Fantasy Law. Like the NHPA, the law applies only to Federal Agencies, leaving the individual states to regulate themselves and their citizens as they see fit. The structure of the process is similar, involving inventory, effects analysis, and resolution of effects. Finally, though the role of the SHPO is supplanted by a new federal agency, their primary function carries on (and the law benevolently directs the federal government to absorb all those hard working state employees).
Now, without further ado—I present the . . .
Fantasy Federal Historic Preservation Law of 2017
This law establishes a Federal Agency called the Federal Office of Historic Preservation (FOHP), with branches in each state. Each state branch of the FOHP is a Federal agency with authority to regulate the actions of other Federal Agencies. The FOHP is responsible for project review and for the establishment and maintenance of both historic resource record centers and the state historic interest surveys. Each state branch of the FOHP is expected to absorb and incorporate the staff and resources of existing State Historic Preservation Offices, as possible. For projects which occur entirely on Federal Tribal Trust Land, the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer may assume the role of the FOHP, if the tribe determines that doing so is in their best interest.
Within two years of the passage of this fantasy law, each state branch of the FOHP shall conduct state-wide historical interest surveys of the residents of their state. The interest surveys are intended to identify themes, events, and locations that are valued by the residents of each state. The surveys provide a starting point for historical resource consideration by highlighting resources and ideas that are important to the general public. For this reason, the surveys must be updated no less frequently than every five years. These surveys are intended to provide a broad perspective to the consultation processes outlined below, and do not replace full and complete consultation.
Federal projects will be subject to the following regulatory process:
Inventory Scoping and Planning
1. Identify jurisdictional project. All projects that are funded or permitted by the Federal Agency, or those that occur on or pass through Federal land, are subject consideration. If more than one Federal Agency is involved, one shall take responsibility for this process as lead agency.
2. Identify the scale and degree of Federal involvement in the project. The level of effort for historic resource consideration should be scaled appropriately.
a. The degree of Federal involvement is determined based on the Federal cost as a fraction of total project cost, and the proportion of the project that would occur on Federal Land or that would require a Federal permit or permission.
b. The project scale is based on total project cost in dollars. This calculation is based on projected costs or grant or allocation funds, and is subject to review to ensure that a larger project is not being artificially separated into smaller undertakings.
Inventory Process
3. Identify interested consulting parties. Consulting parties are any groups or individuals who can reasonably ascribe significance to an area or to properties located in whole or in part within an area. This effort should be on going throughout the inventory process. Starting with an initial identification effort made at the beginning of the inventory process, the Federal Agency should continue to seek additional parties with a potential interest as the process progresses.
4. Review the state and Federal Historical Interest surveys to identify themes, events, or locations that are potentially significant at a state or Federal level.
5. Begin consultation. Working collaboratively with consulting parties, the Federal Agency shall identify properties that are significant on one of the following bases, in order of descending significance:
a. The property or location is fundamental to the self-identification of a group or community
b. The property or location is highly valued by a group or community
c. The property or location is of high intellectual interest to a group of community
6. Certain properties may not be known to the groups or communities that would value them, if their existence were known. Collaboratively with the groups or communities with an express interest in the property or location, the Federal Agency shall identify an Investigation Area of Potential Historical Interest (IAPHI), and develop and implement a physical inventory of the IAPHI.
Effects Analysis
7. Once a reasonably scaled effort to identify significant properties has been completed, the Federal Agency, working collaboratively with the consulting parties, shall consider whether the undertaking would cause potentially cause effects to such properties.
8. If the Federal Agency determines that the project would not affect significant properties, the project may proceed to Final Review. If the Federal Agency determines that it is reasonable to conclude that a project would affect significant properties, the Federal Agency shall determine whether or not it is feasible to avoid affects to such properties.
Avoidance Feasibility Process
9. The Avoidance Feasibility process has two steps. The first step is to formulate one or more alternative approaches to a project that would avoid or minimize effects.
10. The second step is to determine whether an avoidance alternative is feasible. Such an alternative is considered feasible if the following conditions are met:
a. The avoidance alternative is not significantly more costly than the economically preferred plan. As used here, the term ‘significantly more costly’ means: A 5% increase to the Federal share of the project cost is considered not significantly more costly. For projects subject to Federal permitting, or for which access to Federal land is sought, a 1% increase to the total project costs is considered not significantly more costly. The reduced Federal involvement justifies this difference.
b. The functionality of the avoidance alternative is not diminished from the economically preferred plan, or any such diminution of efficacy is acceptable to the Federal Agency and the project proponent.
c. If the Federal Agency determined that avoidance is preferred, even if either or both of the above conditions are not met.
11. If avoidance is feasible, the project may proceed to Final Review. If avoidance is not feasible, the Federal Agency shall consider mitigation.
12. Where avoidance is not possible, the Federal Agency shall seek to develop a mitigation plan collaboratively with consulting parties. The mitigation may take any form, but should be specifically directed towards correcting anticipated impacts.
Final Review and Approval
13. The Federal Agency shall submit a summary report (SR) to the FOHP that will:
a. Justify the results of the scoping work
b. Describe efforts made to identify significant properties, analyze effects, and avoid or mitigate effects, as applicable.
c. Summarize consultation efforts.
d. Describe a plan for discoveries of significant properties during project implementation or for post review disclosures of properties or significance by consulting parties.
14. The FOHP shall review the SR for completeness and adequacy. The FOHP shall respond to the Federal Agency with their confirmation of completeness and adequacy, or with comment.
15. When the FOHP provides a Federal Agency with a confirmation of completeness, the project may proceed, pursuant to any conditions or plans outlined in the SR.
16. When the FOHP provides a Federal Agency with comments, each comment shall explain the specific incompleteness or inadequacy and suggest a course of action to resolve the comment.
17. If the Federal Agency chooses to adopt the course of action suggested by the FOHP, the project may proceed, pursuant to any conditions or plans outlined in the SR and FOHP comments.
18. If the Federal Agency chooses not to adopt the course of action suggested by an FOHP comment, the Agency, the FOHP, and any appropriate consulting parties shall consult directly for a period up to 180 days. If the Agency and FOHP cannot reach agreement by the conclusion of this consultation period, the Agency may either continue consultation, or terminate consultation and proceed with the project. An Agency shall not terminate consultation without a full 180 days of good-faith consultation.
Human Remains and Burials
19. Native American human remains found on Federal land shall be treated in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
20. When human remains are found to exist in the IAPHI, outside of Federal land; and the Agency determines that they would be affected by the project, but may be feasibly recovered and moved, the Agency shall take the following steps:
a. Notify local law enforcement and determine whether the remains constitute a crime scene. If the remains are found to constitute a crime scene, the Federal jurisdiction under this process ends.
b. Determine whether the remains may be individually identified and direct lineal descendants identified. If such descendants are identified, they shall be determined to be the responsible party.
c. If direct lineal descendants cannot be reasonably identified, the Agency shall seek to identify a group or community with which the remains are most likely affiliated. If such a group of community is identified, that group or community shall be determined to be the responsible party.
d. If the remains are equally likely to be affiliated with more than one group or community, those groups or communities will be given the opportunity to designate one group which will assume responsibility for the remains. If the groups cannot reach agreement, the Agency shall assign one group to be the responsible party based on a preponderance of evidence.
e. If no affiliation can be demonstrated, interested groups or communities will be given the opportunity to take responsibility for the remains, if the Agency determines that such a delegation of responsibility is appropriate.
f. The responsible party shall make a recommendation to the Agency regarding the ultimate disposal of the remains, or they may be given direct custody of the remains. If the responsible party requests that the remains are reinterred, the Agency shall provide reasonable assistance in accomplishing this.
g. If the responsible party declines to take possession of the remains, and makes no recommendation as to their ultimate disposition, the Agency shall make the remains available for scientific research, provide for respectful re-interment, or leave the remains in place.
21. Non-compliance is found whenever the FOHP finds that a Federal Agency has not fulfilled their obligations with regard to process or whose consideration is deemed less than a full good-faith effort.
a. When the FOHP finds non-compliance, they must notify the Federal Agency within thirty days of their observation of the non-compliance.
b. The Federal Agency will then have 60 days to resolve the non-compliance.
c. If the Federal Agency cannot resolve the non-compliance to the satisfaction of the FOHP, the project shall be suspended while the FOHP and Federal Agency enter into binding mediation by a disinterested third-party.
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Cross Reverie
DEV DIARY #11
Hey folks, Kovalen ‘Destructor’ Ramalingam here, producer and lead programmer on Cross Reverie! It’s been quite a while and hope you’re all doing well! Been some hectic last few months coming off an extended hiatus and heading into Cross Reverie’s final stretch. As the alpha draws near, Cross Reverie nears its final form with upgraded visuals and gameplay features.
The hiatus
Sometimes personal life requires your undivided attention which ended up in a leave of absence, thus extending our holiday hiatus. Afterall the stakes and commitment would only get that much higher from here on out so it was now rather than later. On the bright side, it’s proving to be that much more beneficial in the grand scheme of things to have been able to take a step back and re-evaluate some of our decisions and choices as we take Cross Reverie to the next level while preserving the game’s vision.
Time is usually our main limiting factor but seeing how we upgraded the Unity engine on the fly last year, further balancing the lighting game and visuals was on the to-do list to be able to bring out a wider range of colors while keeping with the game’s signature look. As we’re now starting to focus on implementing the levels and trials, this will prove to be quite useful in capturing different moods without being too overbearing and of course, a dash of eye candy never hurts.
And as promised, we’ve been looking into some new art styles for our characters to be more in-line with the game’s visuals. This coincides with the addition of a new gameplay feature in the form of the Stigma grids, which is currently resulting into an overhaul of the field menu.
Road to alpha and beyond
While good things take time and delays seem inevitable, I’d like to think it’s all about the big picture and getting there in an efficient manner. A quality experience has always been the priority but like most things in life, it’s all about finding that middle line. All in all we’re striving for a public demo of the alpha around the end of the summer. Following that, we’ll go ahead with the forum opening to get to work off the community’s feedback for the closed alpha stages and tighten up the release date for the PC version.
Lotsa good stuffs are in store, amongst other things new gameplay mechanics such as the Break Awakening finishers, Stigma Grids to give characters customizeable playstyles and of course, evil and mind corrupting trials that will put our 8 heroes to the test.
While we should be improving the communication aspect in the near future, once again I’d like to sincerely thank every single one of you following and supporting the game’s development, you guys are what makes us work that much harder! Until next time, Destructor out!
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Film Review: The Invisible Woman
Directed by Ralph Fiennes, based on the book by Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman tracks the illicit affair between Charles Dickens and a young Nelly.
In 1885 Nelly (Felicity Jones) is in her late 30s, her husband is the headmaster of a school and Nelly, who is passionate about the theatre, assists in the school productions, the latest one stars their son Geoffrey as a lovable lion.
Nelly takes long walks on the beach and is seemingly fractured alienated from her husband by a dark secret. When a local Reverend recognises the struggles Nelly contends with, he joins her for walks on the beach where she confides in him her past.
Nelly takes him back to 1857. The youngest daughter of actress Catherine Ternan (Kristin Scott Thomas), Nelly, aged 18, meets Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) during a rehearsal for The Frozen Deep starring and directed by Charles Dickens. She is drawn to Dickens, a charismatic man whose fame has failed to give him a grounded family life. Nelly finds herself the object of Dickens’s passion, but must remain invisible, as Dickens is a married man and a public figure.
Nelly’s mother is conflicted. While her two other daughters show promise on the stage, Nelly is less talented, but she does not want her to be the object of a married man’s passion, despite his fame and talent. But Nelly cannot resist Dickens and as a result endures hardship as she struggles with her love and its consequences.
The scenes between Fiennes and Jones are moving and tense building their doomed love affair for the fall it will endure. The film is steeped in time and place with attention to detail in every respect.
Fiennes brings out the showman in Dickens’s character reminding us that Dickens was a celebrity author in his time. He was indeed the first author to embark on the now common book tour, which he did with gusto.
A brilliant performance by Fiennes. Well worth a trip to the cinema over the Easter weekend.
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Top 10 Defining Moments of the Post-9/11 Era
And like that, he was dead. On May 1, less than one hour before midnight, President Barack Obama announced that U.S. Special Forces had killed Osama Bin Laden, the man behind 9/11. The decade since those attacks has been a tumultuous one. TIME takes a look back.
A Decade of War and Fear
The Bali Bombings
By Ishaan TharoorMonday, May 02, 2011
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After 9/11, the next major terror strike took place on the other side of the globe, in the balmy, tourist-clogged Indonesian island of Bali. An October 2002 suicide bomb blast as well as a car bomb at two nightclubs popular with tourists led to over 200 deaths, including 88 Australians. On the archipelago nation's only Hindu-majority island, the attacks were carried out by Jemaah Islamiyah, an al-Qaeda affiliated Islamist group that sought to radicalize the world's most populous Muslim nation. Three years later, more blasts would hit Bali. But the Indonesian government has largely been successful in clamping down on the extremists in its midst monitoring the more radical madrassahs and rounding up terror suspects, including those responsible for the Bali strikes. Umar Patek, one of the few behind the attacks still evading justice, was seized by Pakistani security forces in Karachi this March.
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Ringleader in 1998 gruesome Texas dragging death to be executed
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
The bill was first introduced into the 107 Congress's House of Representatives on April 3, 2001, by Rep. John Conyers and was referred to the Subcommittee on Crime. The bill died when it failed to advance in the committee. It was reintroduced by Rep. Conyers in the 108th and 109th congresses (on April 22, 2004, and May 26, 2005, respectively). As previously, it died both times when it failed to advance in committee.
Mylinda Byrd Washington, 66, left, and Louvon Byrd Harris,
61, hold photographs of their brother James Byrd Jr. in Houston.
James Byrd Jr. was the victim of what is considered to be one of
the most gruesome hate crime murders in recent Texas history.
Huntsville, Texas – A man who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history is set to be executed Wednesday for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. nearly 21 years ago.
John William King, who is white and an avowed racist, was put on death row for chaining Byrd to the back of a truck and dragging his body for nearly 3 miles along a secluded road in the piney woods outside Jasper, Texas. The 49-year-old Byrd, who was black, was alive for at least 2 miles before his body was ripped to pieces in the early morning hours of June 7, 1998.
Prosecutors said he was targeted because he was black.
Authorities say the 44-year-old King is openly racist and has offensive tattoos on his body, including one of a black man with a noose around his neck hanging from a tree.
If executed, King would be the fourth inmate put to death this year in the U.S. and the third in Texas, the nation’s busiest capital punishment state.
The hate crime put a national spotlight on Jasper, a town of about 7,600 residents near the Texas-Louisiana border that was branded with a racist stigma it has tried to shake off ever since. Local officials say the reputation is undeserved.
King’s attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution, arguing that King’s trial lawyers violated his constitutional rights by not presenting his claims of innocence and conceding his guilt. His lawyers cited a 2018 Supreme Court ruling in a Louisiana case in which the justices said that a lawyer for a criminal defendant cannot override his client’s wish to maintain his innocence at trial.
“From the time of indictment through his trial, Mr. King maintained his absolute innocence, claiming that he had left his co-defendants and Mr. Byrd sometime prior to his death and was not present at the scene of his murder. Mr. King repeatedly expressed to defense counsel that he wanted to present his innocence claim at trial,” A. Richard Ellis, one of King’s appellate attorneys, wrote in his petition to the Supreme Court.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday rejected a similar request to stop the execution.
John William King
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday turned down King’s request for either a commutation of his sentence or a 120-day reprieve.
Over the years, King has also suggested the brutal slaying was not a hate crime, but a drug deal gone bad involving his co-defendants.
King, who grew up in Jasper and was known as “Bill,” will be the second man executed in the case. Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed in 2011. The third participant, Shawn Allen Berry, was sentenced to life in prison.
King declined an interview request from The Associated Press in the weeks leading up to his planned execution.
In a 2001 interview with the AP, King said he was an “avowed racist” but wasn’t “a hate-monger murderer.”
Louvon Byrd Harris, one of Byrd’s sisters, said she and other family members plan to attend King’s execution.
“I think it will be a message to the world that when you do something horrible like that, that you have to pay the high penalty,” she said.
Harris said she doesn’t expect King to be remorseful. Brewer said nothing to Byrd’s family before he was put to death.
“All they are going to do is go to sleep. But half the things they did to James, all the suffering he had to go through, they still get an easy way out to me,” Harris said.
Billy Rowles, who led the investigation into Byrd’s death when he was sheriff in Jasper County, said after King was taken to death row in 1999, he offered to detail the crime as soon as his co-defendants were convicted. When Rowles returned, all King would say was, “I wasn’t there.”
“He played us like a fiddle, getting us to go over there and thinking we’re going to get the rest of the story,” said Rowles, now the sheriff of neighboring Newton County.
A week before Brewer was executed in 2011, Rowles said he visited Brewer, who confirmed “the whole thing was Bill King’s idea.”
Mylinda Byrd Washington, another of Byrd’s sisters, said she and her family will work through the Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing to ensure her brother’s death continues to combat hate everywhere.
“I hope people remember him not as a hate crime statistic. This was a real person. A family man, a father, a brother and a son,” she said.
Labels: civil rights, hate crime, James Byrd, John Conyers, John William King, Matthew Shepard
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DA MAN Magazine - Make Your Own Style! > Celebrities > International > Exclusive Feature : Aaron Taylor-Johnson on The Avengers and the British Invasion
Exclusive Feature : Aaron Taylor-Johnson on The Avengers and the British Invasion
TRUE BRIT. Aaron Taylor-Johnson joins the wave of British actors making it big in Hollywood. Ronald Liem talks to the rising star about his latest flick and his life as a headliner
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Like many “traditional” British actors, Aaron Taylor-Johnson began acting at a young age; starting with theater, then moving on to TV and film. He got a taste of Hollywood as a teenager, taking on minor roles in several films, but eventually made his mark in the independent movie scene. This is where he first moved onto starring roles, such as in the biopic film “Nowhere Boy” as well as the “Kick Ass” dilogy. But, Hollywood beckoned once more, with even bigger roles in bigger projects. Last year he emerged as the protagonist in the new “Godzilla,” and this May we will see him joining the ranks of Marvel’s leading men in “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” His journey as an actor, however, is just beginning.
Ronald Liem: Hi Aaron, obviously, we’re very excited about your upcoming appearance in the new Avengers movie. So, tell me, have you started campaigning for the movie?
Aaron Taylor-Johnson: Yes, we are soon going to jump all over the place, like Singapore, New York, London, and Canada. With all of us together. It’s kind of crazy and there’s such a mad energy about it. But, mainly, it’s a lot of fun because people had been anticipating a sequel for a long time now.
RL: How did you end up getting casted as a member of the Avengers? How did your journey begin with this franchise?
ATJ: As for how the Avengers came about … before I started filming “Godzilla,” Joss Whedon got in touch and we sat down and had lunch and he proposed this new role that he wanted to bring into the sequel and we just talked about it. I was, of course, flattered that he approached me. We have all these established fantastic actors and really fantastic superhero characters, and it got me thinking: What can I actually bring to this sequel? The most important thing for me is the character and how can I make it feel grounded and substantial in front all these major roles that everybody has already experienced and fallen in love with. And then I got in touch with the guys from Marvel and Kevin Feige [president of Marvel Studios] and we talked pretty much for most of that year, until it became real and I signed up. I am really happy to be part of this team, and happy that I and Elizabeth Olsen were embraced into this new family without any kind of judgment.
RL: So, the process of getting into the movie took a whole year?
ATJ: I found out about it even before there was even a script. But at that point it didn’t really matter what was on the script. There was such a huge body of work for Marvel, already.
RL: You mentioned about all of these established talents working in the franchise, like Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., and so on. A lot of A-list stars there. What was it like filming with your co-stars?
ATJ: My initial thought was that it’s very overwhelming, and also that you have to feel slightly inadequate. But all of that that goes pretty much the moment you’re in the ring with everybody. It’s such a friendly environment, and they’re very humble. They just become your friends and it becomes very close-knit. Then you feel your nerves calm down a bit.
RL: What is it like playing a superhero in such a huge blockbuster franchise?
ATJ: My character is super-powered, and he runs at half the speed of sound. So, my character is pretty much a blur throughout the whole movie [laughs], and my entry and exit out of a scene is pretty much skidding in or flying out. Most of my stunts and whatever I do involves actually a lot running, which is kind of ironic because I don’t actually really like running at all. In a lot of the fight sequences , you’re always surrounded by your stunt crew and team. It’s quite surreal and kind of fun.
“If I feel it in my gut, instinctively, and I think it’s the right thing to do, then I try not to have any regrets”
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Seeking lower-volatility U.S. consumer stocks
April 03, 2017 | IN Expert, News | BY Trading Central
The Globe and Mail, Number Cruncher
By Peter Ashton
What are we looking for?
U.S. consumer sector stocks with strong fundamentals and below-average volatility.
With U.S. markets now running within a few percentage points off their record highs, many investors have become concerned with the durability of the bull market now entering its ninth year. Sectors such as consumer goods are typically subject to less volatility than other sectors and have the benefit of being defensive in the event of a market downturn. In addition, these stocks often offer above average dividends.
We will be using Strategy Builder to search for U.S. consumer stocks with low volatility, strong dividends and reasonable valuations.We begin by setting a minimum market capitalization threshold of $10-billion (U.S.) to focus on larger, more established companies in the sector. To ensure we don’t overpay for our investments we will select stocks with forward price-to-earnings ratios of 27 or less. Next, we will look for companies that have a dividend of at least 2 per cent and a year-over-year dividend growth rate of 4 per cent or more.
Finally, in order to focus on stocks that demonstrate low volatility, we will screen for stocks with a beta of between 0 and 0.75. Beta is a measure of stock price volatility. A beta in this range means that the stock has 75 per cent or less of the volatility of the overall market.
Topping our list is Coca-Cola a Warren Buffett favourite with a strong dividend and stable earnings (the company has a long-term earnings-per-share growth rate of 5 per cent). Coke has a current dividend yield of 3.4 percent and has a one year dividend growth rate of 6.1 per cent.
Tobacco giant Altria Group has the lowest beta on our list at 0.19 and has a dividend yield of 3.3 per cent. Altria stock has been a tear for the past year – up 17 per cent in the past 12 months and more than 8 percent year-to date.
The lowest forward P/E ratio on our list belongs to J.M. Smucker Co. at just 17.3. The stock’s low P/E is in part due to its poor market performance over the past year. In August, 2016, the company issued lowered revenue guidance that caused investors to sell the stock down by more than 20 per cent over the following five months.
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Pair of men’s hoops prospects to visit CU this weekend
By Tom Kensler
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BOULDER — Anytime I hear that Colorado will entertain basketball recruits during a football weekend, I’m reminded that current Buffs star Alec Burks says he fell in love with the school after watching football fans celebrate a victory over West Virginia during his recruiting visit to Boulder in 2008.
Reports from Rivals.com say first-year CU men’s hoops coach Tad Boyle will welcome visits from two highly regarded high school seniors this weekend: Spencer Dinwiddie, a 6-foot-4 point guard at Woodland Hills (Calif.) Taft, and E. Victor Nickerson, a 6-6 swingman from Atlanta (Ga.) Norcross.
Nickerson is a member of Rivals.com’s national top 150 (No. 133) and told that recruiting site that he also is considering Charlotte, Wichita State and DePaul.
Dinwiddie, an outstanding student, also is considering Harvard and Oregon.
Boyle does not have any known commitments for the current recruiting cycle which includes the early Nov. 10-17 signing period. Perhaps that will change soon.
Who knows? Perhaps a victory by the CU football team over Baylor on Saturday evening might help.
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University of Nottingham > Blogs > Making Science Public > biotechnology > Fermenting thought: A new look at synthetic biology
August 20, 2014, by Brigitte Nerlich
Fermenting thought: A new look at synthetic biology
I have become involved in a new project related to synthetic biology. The University of Nottingham has received funding for a big Synthetic Biology Research Centre. I am a social scientist within the new team and in charge of keeping an eye on ‘responsible research and innovation’. This is not what this post is about though (but see here and here and, more importantly, here).
I recently went to a workshop related to this new centre during which the words ‘fermenting’ and ‘fermentation’ were used a lot. For the people involved in synthetic biology this is totally unsurprising, but for me it was a bit of a wake-up call.
In the past I had kept an eye on synthetic biology headlines around the creation of cells, the tinkering with genomes and the like. I even did a tiny bit of media analysis of a first wave of coverage (and hype) of synthetic biology in the mainstream press. While carrying out this research I had never become aware of the importance of the words ‘ferment’ or ‘fermentation’. I suspect that for me as for many other lay people synthetic biology as the new big science thing evokes the ‘creation of artificial life’ rather than ‘beer’.
Synthetic biology in the news
All this made me look again at English language news coverage of synthetic biology in 2010. Why 2010? Some background:
In the year 2000, the first draft of the human genome was announced in a flurry of publicity, a publicity that involved Craig Venter as one of the lead scientists working on the sequencing of the human genome. About a decade later scientists announced the creation of artificial or synthetic cells, such as the synthetic bacteria Mycoplasma genitalium in 2008 and Mycoplasma mycoides in 2010, with Venter, again, being one of the lead scientists. In May 2010 Venter published an article in Science Express announcing that his research group at the J. Craig Venter Institute (jcvi.org/) had created the first self-replicating ‘artificial cell’. This was heralded in many mainstream media articles as the creation of artificial life and as scientists playing God.
When I checked the news database Lexis Nexis for all English language news again today for 2010 as a whole, I found nearly a thousand (991) articles on ‘synthetic biology’. I then added the search terms ‘ferment’ and ‘fermentation’ and discovered that only 61 of these articles contained the words ‘ferment’ or ‘fermentation’. The majority of these were published in obscure trade journals (apart from one in the more popular New Scientist) – many focusing on work within Amyris, a renewable products company providing sustainable alternatives to a broad range of petroleum-sourced products. Only a handful of articles mentioning ‘fermentation’ appeared in the mainstream press; interestingly two were in the Scottish press.
One article by Emma Cowing written on 23 May, 2010 for Scotland on Sunday, was entitled ‘The power to create’ and was particularly interesting. It quotes UK’s foremost expert on cloning, Ian Wilmut, as saying: “It’s probably hard to imagine all the applications of this technology… Our view is that we’re going from 6.8 billion to 9 billion people in the next 30 to 40 years, and we can’t provide the food, the energy, clean water or medicines for the 6.8 billion, so we need some radical new technology to be able to do that without destroying the planet for 9 billion people.” Wilmut then goes on to compare the new technology to fermentation: “As we learn more about the mechanisms that regulate cell function it may then become possible to change cells in order to give them new abilities that are useful to us … Human beings have done this in different ways for many years. Yeasts have been changed to make them more suitable for production of wine, beer or bread.” Comparing synthetic biology to making wine, beer or bread is a good move, I think.
The New Scientist (20 February, 2010) article also had a powerful headline: “Genetic code 2.0: Life gets a new operating system”. It goes on to say: “A new way of using the genetic code allows proteins to be made with properties never seen before – it could lead to new or ‘improved’ life forms. … Doing so should lead to the creation of whole new classes of materials, Chin says. And because they could be churned out by bacteria grown in large fermentation vats, it would probably be a cheaper way of producing them than chemical synthesis.” Here fermentation doesn’t quite evoke mundane food stuffs like beer; on the contrary, the word ‘vat’ probably triggers negative images, from witches cauldrons (‘toil and trouble’) to babies in vats, brains in vats, vats of artificial meat and so on. But still, fermentation may be an interesting conceptual anchor for creating an understanding of synthetic biology.
Biotechnology in the past
While musing about these things, I came across a book on the history of biotechnology which had escaped me so far, just as much as fermentation had. And lo and behold, it all began with fermentation. The book is by Robert Bud and entitled The Uses of Life: A history of biotechnology (1993). As Susan Lindee says in her review of the book, Bud stresses that the term biotechnology was coined in 1919 by “Hungarian agricultural engineer and pig farmer Karl Ereky”. But he begins his history of biotechnology even earlier “with seventeenth-century zymotechnology – G. E. Stahl’s term for practical fermentation – and its ramifications in the development of organic chemistry, agriculture, brewing, and the biological sciences. …. He explores the American chemurgic (‘chemistry at work’) movement, the rise of industrial fermentation processes in the American chemical industry, scientific and industrial microbiology, chemical engineering (penicillin); the green revolution, and so on.” Really interesting and new, at least, to me (ok, old!)!
Fermentation, not creation
Stressing the link between synthetic biology and fermentation (but not vats!) rather than only the ‘creation’ of artificial or improved life forms (a way of talking which hogged the headlines in 2010 and evoked images of scientists playing God) may be a way forward in engaging ordinary people with this new technology, one that the University of Nottingham excels in.
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Home Posts Culture Marlena Donohue reviews Habsburg Exhibition: Empire of Style
Marlena Donohue reviews Habsburg Exhibition: Empire of Style
August 17, 2015 By Marlena Doktorczyk Donohue
EMPIRE OF STYLE is a new show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, culled from Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, brings together 100 treasures from the coffers of the imperial House of Habsburg — Titians and Tintorettos, arms and armaments among them — many never before seen in the United States
From the Review: The Habsburg line began in the 12th century, when, legend has it, a knight named Radbot found his lost hawk (Habicht in German) perched on a hill in what is now northern Switzerland and built his fortress on the spot, naming it Habichtsburg, or Hawk’s Castle.
Believe that tale or not, what we know for sure is that this powerful 800-year dynasty continued into the early 20th century, when Karl Franz became the last Austrian emperor by ascending to the throne after his elder brother, Austrian Archduke Ferdinand, was assassinated in 1916, an act of violence that instigated World War I. (By the end of that conflagration, the map of Europe had been redrawn and the Habsburg reign was at its end.)
Ruling as kings of Europe — and often simultaneously crowned titular Holy Roman Emperors — the Habsburgs used war, diplomacy and strategically planned marriages to control a vast region from their seats in Austria and Spain.
Now, this fascinating dynasty is the subject of a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, titled “Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna’s Imperial Collections.” On view through September 13, the show tracks the fates, fortunes, art holdings and royal accoutrements of the Austrian side of the House of Habsburg through 100 items — many never before seen in the United States and on loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. These include Greek and Roman antiquities, medieval armor, courtly table settings, royal costumes, centuries of the finest decorative arts and entire carriages, thoughtfully organized by curator Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner, director of the Imperial Carriage Museum in Vienna, in collaboration with experts at various U.S. venues. (Following the show’s close in Houston, it will move on to the High Museum, in Atlanta.)
“This exhibition chronicles the art of leadership through enlightened patronage,” says Gary Tinterow, the MFA Houston’s director. “But to me more importantly, we have brought major masterpieces of European painting not seen here before. In one staggering display, a single room holds The Crowning with Thorns by Caravaggio; a portrait of Jane Seymour Queen of England and third wife to Henry VIII, by Hans Holbein the Younger; and the stunning Jupiter and Io by Correggio.”
Tales of Habsburg genius, inbred madness, piety, license and largesse abound in historical records. Noteworthy among the featured characters is the devout Maria Anna, who at 14 was married off to her uncle King Philip IV of Spain, and so fortified the link between the Austrian branch of the Habsburgs with the Spanish — and its holdings in Naples, Portugal and the New World. The duo is famously depicted in Diego Velázquez’s iconic portrait Las Meninas. And although Las Meninas isn’t on view (nor is it part of the dynastic holdings), another superb portrait painted circa 1652–53 by Velázquez is included in the presentation, this one of the princess Infanta María Teresa, the eventual wife of Louis XIV of France, who was Philip IV’s daughter by his first wife, Elizabeth of France.
Also seen here are paintings by masters Giorgione, Peter Paul Rubens, Domenico Tintoretto and Titian, as well as engaging multi-object vignettes. In one installation, a complete suit of armor for an emperor is displayed as if mounted for war. Indeed, the Habsburgs’ early rise to power is embodied in such objects of war as armor, jewel-encrusted sabers, jousting weapons, tapestries and a stunning rock-crystal goblet made for Emperor Frederick III in the 1400s. The dynasty’s golden age, in the 17th- and 18th-centuryBaroque era, is charted via stunning religious and secular artworks, commissioned to consolidate Catholic power during the fraught Reformation period. The last section of the show displays sumptuous 19th- and early-20th-century ball attire, jewels and official imperial uniforms.The Habsburg rule may have ended nearly a century ago, but the family lives on. In fact, according to Tinterow, Houston has its very own member. “Maria-Anna Galitzine saw this show, and said it was like looking at a time long past as well as a very real part of her life,” he explains. “We have a painting of the royal carriage stopped just after the Coronation of Karl Franz in 1916; the Empress — Ms. Galitzine’s grandmother — steps out with little Crown Prince Otto, then just a boy wearing the elaborate ceremonial attire we have on view. That is all quite amazing.”
This article was published in Introspective Magazine, New York.
See more: http://www.1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/house-of-habsburg-museum-of-fine-arts-houston/
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Why We Can’t Agree on Climate Change
An ominous storm over Miami. Credit: James Good / Flickr Creative Commons
Man-made climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It’s going to radically change the world we live in. In fact, we’re already seeing its effects. So… why do Americans have a hard time believing in man-made climate change? And why aren’t we - as a country - doing more to prepare for a warmer world? To explore this, we talk to Michael Ranney who studies the psychology of climate change denial, and Jim Murley, Chief Resilience Officer for Miami-Dade County.
Three Takeaways:
In Ranney’s view, there are a lot of reasons why Americans don’t believe in and aren’t prepared for climate change. There’s a lack of scientific understanding in the general public, corporate interests arrayed against the science, and the psychological challenge of having to think about the future. “The problem with global warming is that you really have to think longer term. About your older self, your children, or plants you like, species you enjoy.”
Ranney thinks that a lot of the skepticism toward climate change will go away as the effects become more and more obvious. “You get flooding in Miami on a sunny day, just because the sea level has risen… We’re seeing droughts, we’re seeing fires in Tennessee in December... in what past did we live in that that occurred?”
One of the big challenges that Murley faces in dealing with Miami’s sea level rise is that it’s a phenomenon that takes place over decades. But, people respond to short-term events like a hurricane. “[When] it’s an event, everyone wants to help the community that’s heavily damaged by a storm,” Murley says. “So the funding to do a lot of these things happens after an event. And what we need is funding from our own resources, but also from the state and federal government to address some of these things before we have the events.”
More Reading:
Here’s Michael Ranney’s website, which demonstrates how global warming works in simple language.
Are you worried about climate change? According to these climate scientists, you’re not nearly worried enough.
A profile of the work Jim Murley is doing in Miami.
The New Yorker looks at the challenges facing Miami due to climate change.
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Eksklusivt interview med Kim Bodnia på Nordic Noir
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We talk to the Danish actor about his view from The Bridge and in the crosshairs of Hostages.
On the big screen, Kim Bodnia has worked with acclaimed directors from Denmark, including Susanne Bier, Ole Bornedal and Nicolas Winding Refn. He has starred with fellow Nordic Noir actors, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sofie Gråbøl and even Saga Norén’s new partner, Thure Lindhardt. In television, he has been synonymous with his character, Martin Rohde in The Bridge.Now, Bodnia is back in the second season of Hostages. “When I saw some clips of season one, I knew I wanted to be a part of the project after seeing the style, mood and the relentless intensity of the show.”
Hostages the complete season two is available to download today in digital HD from the BBC Store here.
Find out more from Kim Bodnia as we talk about his role in Hostages season two, his experience on The Bridge and what it was like working with Sofia Helin.
UK fans are looking forward to welcoming the star back our screens but what can we expect from the return of Hostages? “The new season will again revolve around a hostage situation that continues the story of some of the characters from the first season. It opens the scale of the conspiracy and introduces new characters. It’s quite a joy ride.” The socio-political storyline also continues to reflect the country’s culture and current affairs in a dramatic setting.“Hostages deals with the very relevant connection between high politics and big money. The idea of regular people being caught in the middle of a political conspiracy is something that most of us feel to a certain extent. The truth that is being told to us has many faces; nothing is black or white which is essentially the theme of the show.”
Bodnia plays the role of Arthur, one of an eclectic cast of antagonists to Adam Rubin’s (Jonah Lotan) plot with PM Shmuel Nester (Shmil Ben Ari) as his hostage. As Bodnia has been described as playing brusque, macho characters in the past, is this trait reflected in Arthur? “Behind the layers, there’s always a softer side – that’s where the real challenge lies. To me, it is all about the emotions within the characters I play. Arthur is a journalist that comes to Jerusalem to cover that funeral of the Prime Minister. His story quickly collides with the main plot of the hostage situation and he ends up playing a major part in the season climax,” Bodnia shares. “One of the main reasons I wanted to play the character of Arthur is because many of the HBO shows like Homeland, In Treatment and Wired come from Israel and I wanted to be a part of that; the original series.”
One of Bodnia’s recent cinematic performances saw him as the interrogator, “Mr. Rosewater”, in Jon Stewart’s Rosewater, adapted from Maziar Bahari’s memoirs, Then They Came for Me. “The preparation and filming for Jon Stewart’s film took place in Jordan where Mr. Bahari was present and could inspire us all with his unbelievable memories. Mr. Barhari was there every day in front of the monitors, and a look from him after a recording could tell you everything. To work with Jon Stewart was an amazing, unforgettable journey.” Bodnia has also starred in both Nordic and English-language films helmed by Susanne Bier – Love is All You Need, In a Better World and Serena. “It’s always a pleasure and incredibly inspiring to work with Susanne Bier. Mastering different languages always task you with various challenges but it is also a beautiful way of learning different cultures through playing them. My favourite language is body language and combining the senses.”
The first two seasons of The Bridge are full of funny and tragic moments which continues to make the series popular to this day. We wanted to know some of the star’s best moments on set. “I wouldn’t know where to begin! Acting alongside Sofia Helin was definitely a great experience. Our immersion in the roles we played has forged an unforgettable friendship. There were so many unique scenes which The Bridge has given us that it is simply impossible to pick a favourite,” Bodnia admits.We must know, will Martin be returning for the fourth and final season of The Bridge? There is still no news from the star but we will wait patiently in the hope that we will see Martin and Saga together again.
In addition to his illustrious cinematic career, Bodnia notably won Best Actor at the Robert Prisens in 2014 for The Bridge.“It was an unforgettable night, and the award means something very special to me! It’s a wonderful feeling to be acknowledged for my work in my homeland of Denmark. The character of Martin Rohde holds a very special place in my heart because you spend so much time away from your family when filming a television series, in contrast to when you’re shooting a film.” Here’s a snippet from Bodnia’s awards acceptance speech: “The most important part was thanking my wonderful and beloved wife, Rikke, for giving me the love and space to do my work; knowing my family would be in safe hands.”
One of the Dane’s earlier stand-out performances in Danish cinema was in the first chapter of the Pusher trilogy.“The memories of Pusher will always stay close in my heart and mind – the incredible experience of acting with Mads Mikkelsen and collaborating with Nicolas Winding Refn. I’m proud and happy of our work.” It has been announced that Kim Bodnia will be reprising his role as Jens in a sequel to Ole Bornedal’s 1994 thriller, Nightwatch (Nattevagten), opposite Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Sofie Gråbøl. “There are a few very interesting projects on the table which I can’t talk about yet – both television series and films. I have two other movies coming out later this year.” Watch out for Light Thereafter, alongside Thure Lindhardt and Barry Keoghan, as well as Night of the Lotus, with an international cast including Saffron Burrows, Russell Tovey Russell Tovey and Adelaide Clemens. In the meantime, we can look forward to seeing Kim Bodnia as the intriguing journalist, Arthur in season two of Hostages.
Finally, we asked if the actor avidly follows the plethora of Nordic Noir series on television as we do, to which he replied, “All of them, of course!” The perfect answer from one of the genre’s revered actors.
Hostages the complete season two is available to download today in digital HD from the BBC Store.
You can also download both Hostages seasons one and two here.
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Barker’s Perfect Game in 1981 Remains Last No-No for Tribe
Bob Toth | On 15, May 2019
Len Barker, getting the sign from Ron Hassey. Ernie Whitt stands in. Wind up, here it comes. Fly ball, center field. Manning coming on, he’s there…he catches it! Len Barker has pitched a no-hitter! A perfect game for Len Barker! The stands erupt, the players go out, Len Barker being surrounded on the field. He has made baseball history here tonight. Len Barker has pitched a perfect ball game. Faces 27 men, retires them all, eleven strikeouts. Len Barker being mobbed on the field, the Cleveland Indians win it, 3-0. – Herb Score’s call of Barker’s perfect game
Thirty-eight years ago today, the Cleveland Indians recorded the last no-hitter and perfect game in team history. I may be dating myself a great deal, but I was just a twinkle in an eye when the Indians added another name to the history book with the no-hitter and perfect game.
With the talented group of starting pitchers in the rotation over the last few years, it may be something of a surprise that the Indians have not been able to hold an opposing club hitless over the course of nine innings. Baseball has changed dramatically, with an influx of strikeouts and an emphasis on scoring with one mighty swing of the bat. While on several occasions the Tribe has flirted with history, they have not been able to complete the feat last accomplished when Len Barker, on May 15, 1981, lifted his leg high and tight on a 1-2 pitch to Toronto Blue Jays catcher Ernie Whitt, inducing a fly ball to center field. Rick Manning raced in, arms extended straight out as though he were flying. He raised both arms above his head and he secured the catch before beginning his sprint to the mound with several high hops in celebration of the 27th and final out of Barker’s perfect game.
Twenty-eight teams have celebrated similar monumental pitching feats in the center of the diamond since during my lifetime, with only the San Diego Padres suffering a longer drought of no-hit jubilation than the Tribe – they have yet to complete the feat after 50 full seasons of existence and a month and a half of games in year number 51.
Barker’s perfect game was the eighth recognized in the modern era and the first since the introduction of the designated hitter. Two other perfect games were thrown during 19th century games in the infancy of professional baseball (including the first on record on June 12, 1880, when the Cleveland Blues were blanked 1-0 by Lee Richmond and the Worcester Worcesters, a nickname of great creativity). Barker’s came 13 years and one week after the previous one tossed by Catfish Hunter of the Oakland Athletics against the Minnesota Twins on May 8, 1968. Thirteen additional perfect games have been thrown since Barker wrote his legacy, not counting several close calls, such as Armando Galarraga’s “Imperfect game” (when in a game between Cleveland and Detroit on June 2, 2010, first base umpire Jim Joyce ruled the potential 27th and final out Jason Donald safe at first on a play that Galarraga had clearly beaten him to the bag).
Barker’s path to his place among the baseball immortals took him through Texas first, as he was a third round pick by the Rangers in the 1973 draft. Following the 1978 season, he was traded with outfielder Bobby Bonds to the Indians for infielder Larvell Blanks and reliever Jim Kern.
He had not gotten a steady opportunity to start with the Rangers, but that changed when he came to Cleveland. He went 6-6 in his first season with the club in 1979 and followed with an impressive 19-12 season in 1980. He would go 8-7 in the strike-shortened 1981 season, posting a 3.91 ERA for the year in 22 games. He was also selected to the American League All-Star team in the months that followed his perfect game, the only trip to the Midsummer Classic in his career. It was fittingly held in Cleveland in August.
Barker with security guard Gus Farone – AP Photo/Mark Duncan
His outing was incredible on many fronts. He actually started the cool, damp night at the Stadium quietly, retiring the lineup in order the first time through with six groundouts and three fly balls to center. His offense provided a little support, plating a pair in the first against Toronto’s Luis Leal with an Andre Thornton sacrifice fly that scored Manning after his leadoff single, and a single from Ron Hassey scored Mike Hargrove, who had reached on error.
Barker did not record his first strikeout until the fourth inning, striking out Lloyd Moseby and George Bell back-to-back to end that frame. He blended a fastball that averaged 91 MPH on the night with a sweeping curveball, with Hassey sharing the duo went to the big breaking pitch 75% of the time. He would strike out two batters every inning after that until the fateful ninth, when with a lead increased to 3-0 (courtesy of a Jorge Orta solo shot off of Leal in the bottom of the eighth), Barker got Rick Bosetti to pop out in foul territory. Al Woods pinch-hit for future NBA player Danny Ainge and struck out on three pitches with Barker’s eleventh and final K of the night. Whitt grabbed a bat to hit for Buck Martinez and sent a 1-2 pitch to Manning, who handled the shallow fly with ease for the final out.
“I didn’t even look up when Whitt hit the ball,” Barker said after the game. “I knew Rick had it. He catches 99½% of the stuff hit his way.”
Champagne flowed in the locker room as the first place Indians recorded their second perfect game in more than 72 years.
“I don’t think I saw that one,” Barker joked after the game in quotes from the next day’s Plain Dealer when learning of his place in Indians history alongside Addie Joss‘ perfect game in 1908. “I bet he pitched a hell of a game.”
Barker’s no-hitter was the first in the American League since Bert Blyleven, his former teammate in Texas and then teammate in Cleveland, threw one for the Rangers on September 22, 1977. Of Barker’s 103 pitches on the night, 84 were strikes. All eleven of his strikeouts were swinging and he threw no more than five pitches called balls during a single inning.
“I have never seen a better pitched game,” said Indians manager Dave Garcia after the game.
Barker was at times speechless, or at least at a loss for what to say. He did give thanks for his opportunity, something that he did not take for granted.
“I have to thank the Indians and Dave Garcia for this,” he shared. “They gave me the ball, made me a starter. They stuck with me. In Texas, I ended up in the bullpen. Towards the end, I seldom even took my glove with me down there because I knew that they weren’t going to use me.
“I don’t know what to say. All the plays behind me were outstanding. The big thing was I was able to get my curveball over. I felt good.”
Hassey had a great view of things from behind the plate and shared his take on the outing.
“Everytime he goes out there with a good curveball he’s got the chance for something like this. He was placing it right where I aimed it. I mean, the ball was breaking so much Toronto kept asking to see the ball.”
For Hassey, Barker’s shot caller that night, it would not be his only taste of perfection. Ten years and a couple of months later, he would be behind the plate for the Montreal Expos and would become the only backstop in Major League history to catch two perfect games, doing so in Dennis Martinez’s 2-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Officially, the Indians have 14 no-hitters in their 117 years of existence, the eighth-most recorded in Major League history. Given the current drought, that means there was a period of time in the franchise’s first 80 years that they averaged a no-hitter roughly every six seasons. When considering some of the talented pitchers on the staff for the club over much of the last decade with unquestioned no-hit kind of stuff – Corey Kluber, Carlos Carrasco, Trevor Bauer, etc. – it makes it all the more amazing that the Indians have been unable to finish a no-hitter off in quite some time while the feat still happens inevitably for other clubs a few times each year. The drought has not come without a lack of close calls, including Carrasco coming within one out on July 1, 2015, against the Tampa Bay Rays, and Bauer and the bullpen combining for eight no-hit innings against Houston on April 9 of the same season (when he threw six hitless innings walking five on 111 pitches before two no-hit innings from relievers Kyle Crockett and Scott Atchison kept the combined no-hitter intact) until Nick Hagadone allowed a solo homer with one out in the bottom of the ninth. Bauer lost another no-hit bid on April 4 of this season, leaving after seven innings before the bullpen lost both the combined no-hit attempt and the shutout in the ninth against Toronto.
The Cleveland franchise was in its eighth season when the club recorded its first no-hitter, but nearly got one two and a half weeks into the inaugural season of the American League serving as a counterpart to the longstanding National League. Earl Moore threw nine no-hit innings on May 9, 1901, in a game between the 4-9 Blues and the 9-4 Chicago White Sox, but he allowed two hits in the tenth, including a leadoff single, and Cleveland lost, 4-2.
On September 18, 1908, Bob Rhoads led the Naps to a 2-1 win over the Boston Red Sox, ending nearly eight full seasons for the team without a no-hitter. They would need just two weeks to add another while charging hard for the pennant, when Addie Joss threw the second perfect game of the modern era in a 1-0 win for the Naps over the Chicago White Sox in a 74-pitch gem in Cleveland on October 2 (Boston’s Cy Young hurled the first at the age of 37 for the Boston Americans against the Philadelphia Athletics in a 3-0 win on May 5, 1904). Joss would get the Sox again on April 20, 1910, during his final Major League season before his tragic death early in 1911.
It would be another nine years before Cleveland would record an official no-hitter and for the first time, it came under the moniker of the Indians. The one recorded by Ray Caldwell on September 10, 1919, certainly was unusual as the pitcher had been struck by lightning in his first start for the Indians just a few weeks before throwing his no-hitter.
Wes Ferrell won a 9-0 decision over the St. Louis Browns on April 29, 1931, earning the distinction of facing and defeating his brother Rick Ferrell’s squad. The 23-year-old pitcher, in his fifth big league season in Cleveland, held his elder sibling and the future Hall of Famer hitless. Even more impressive, Wes outhit the Browns himself, hitting a two-run home run and a two-run double to support his cause.
Bob Feller tallied three during his playing career, beginning with his first on April 16, 1940. With a 1-0 win in Chicago against the White Sox, he threw what remains the only Opening Day no-hitter in Major League history. Six years and two weeks later, he was at it again, defeating the New York Yankees by a 1-0 effort in what he described later as the better of his no-hitters. He would add a final one on July 1, 1951, taking down the Detroit Tigers, 2-1.
A pair of his teammates added their names to the list in 1947 and 1948. Don Black, whose career was marred by struggles with alcohol and ended late in the 1948 season after suffering a brain hemorrhage during an at bat, became the sixth different no-hit pitcher in Cleveland Indians history on July 10, 1947. He defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0, in a game that he may have been amped up for, as the A’s were the team that had given up on him in October of 1945 before he was purchased by the Indians. Bob Lemon followed that performance less than a year later, no-hitting the Detroit Tigers by a 2-0 final on June 30, 1948, during the Indians’ run to their last title.
It would be nearly 15 years after Feller’s final no-hitter before another Indians hurler added his name to the history books in what was the longest drought in franchise history until the present one. Sonny Siebert blanked the Washington Senators, 2-0, on June 10, 1966, in the hours after promising his wife that he would throw one. Eight years, one month, and nine days later, Dick Bosman’s claim to fame was a little less pleasant, as his own throwing error in the fourth inning was the only blemish on an otherwise perfect stat line in a 4-0 win over the Oakland Athletics. On May 30, 1977, Dennis Eckersley stunned the California Angels in a 1-0 win, throwing a no-hitter with 12 strikeouts in his first start after a 12-inning complete game win over Seattle. He would add a one-hit masterpiece later in the year against the Brewers, giving up just a first inning triple to Cecil Cooper and retiring 24 straight after Jim Wynn reached on error to start the second.
Less than four years later, Barker had his date with destiny.
While the no-hitter drought in Cleveland will eventually come to an end, fans undoubtedly are far more concerned with a certain 71-year championship void enveloping the city since 1948. In the meantime, fans can watch and wonder if any of the present group of pitchers on the Tribe’s staff will one day have his own historic celebration at center stage after accomplishing something that few can boast about. If someone gets close to tasting 27 outs of glory, don’t get caught being the one to jinx it.
Photo: AP Photo/Mark Duncan
Len Barker
Today in Tribe History: May 16, 1902
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Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian
This year’s Minneapolis St. Paul Film Festival includes a remarkable new film that reflects Minnesota’s vital Dakota past and present. Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian “follows Kate Beane, a young Dakota woman, as she examines the extraordinary life of her celebrated relative, Ohiyesa, also known as Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939). Biography and journey come together as Kate traces his path—from traditional Dakota boyhood, through education at Dartmouth College, and in later roles as physician, author, lecturer and Native American advocate.”
You can view the film tomorrow, Saturday, April 28 at 1:30 pm at St. Anthony Main Theater.
As the filmmaker notes, “Charles Alexander Eastman was a renowned physician, author, lecturer and Native American rights advocate. His life has been documented in various articles throughout history, but Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian makes for a truly unique effort—a project helmed by Eastman’s descendants. Kate Beane and her family bring Eastman’s story to screen, charting from his childhood growing to his education to his illustrious career.
“Beside his beloved wife, Elaine Goodman Eastman, Charles (Ohiyesa) produced a lasting body of work that continues to inform Native American culture and the global representation of it. A family effort, filmmaker Syd Beane (whose great grandfather, John Eastman, was brother to Charles) and Kate showcase not only their ancestor’s career but the lasting influence his life had on future generations, making for a film that weaves together past and present to tell the story of Ohiyesa.”
We are honored to have Dr. Kate Beane as a colleague here at the Minnesota Historical Society. She was a Gale Fellow and is now Program and Outreach Manager working with the MNHS Native American Initiatives team. A member of the Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe in South Dakota, she holds a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Minnesota. Her research and writing is included in Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota by Gwen Westerman and Bruce White. Her section in the book on Bde Maka Ska, formerly known as Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis, details a Dakota agricultural community living there in the 1830s led by another one of her ancestors, Mahpiya Wicasta (Cloud Man).
Here are a few links to learn more about Ohiyesa and Dakota history and culture:
Bdote Memory Map
The U.S. Dakota War Oceti Sakowin: The Seven Council Fires Ohiyesa Dakota Land & Lifewaways
MNopedia: Charles Alexander Eastman, Ohiyesa
Historic Fort Snelling: The Dakota People
MNHS Press: Dakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought by David Martinez
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TRIUMPH Program Empowers Minority Males at Community Colleges
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by Tiffany Pennamon
A notice in his mailbox to join Triton College’s Transforming and Inspiring Undergraduate Men Pursuing Higher Education (TRIUMPH) program proved transformative for Brian “BJ” Miller, Jr. at the River Grove, Illinois school.
TRIUMPH Scholar Brian ‘BJ’ Miller Jr.
The TRIUMPH program – launched in 2014 to increase the retention and success of men of color on Triton’s campus – provided Miller with a community of support from other men of color in addition to personal development experiences while pursuing his associate’s degree in finance.
“If I had any issues or anything, there was somebody there that could talk to you and it also was a safe space as well,” Miller said. “Once you confide in somebody or talk to them about a certain situation, it opens up another door for you because trust is gained and all sorts of things.”
A five-year, $500,000 grant award from the ECMC Foundation this fall will expand TRIUMPH at Triton and allow more young men like Miller who are enrolled at neighboring Chicagoland colleges to participate in their own comprehensive support program. Triton will initially partner with Elgin Community College and Waubonsee Community College, leaders said.
Further, the grant will support increasing program officials’ data capacity to monitor data and scale programs to the other institutions.
“We continue to monitor [students’ outcomes] because it’s not just enough to put the programs in place,” said Dr. Deborah Baness King, dean of academic success and interim dean of student services at Triton. “We have to show that we’re making significant gains as well. We’re not doing our students a service unless we can see the service in the data.”
Dr. Adetokunbo “Earl” Fatoke, Triton’s director of student support initiatives, noted that because the community college space is a “primary point of entry” for men of color in higher education, one of the main goals in creating TRIUMPH was to provide ongoing support and additional resources to create a sense of belonging on campus. This connection is “vital to their success,” he said.
“The ultimate goal of TRIUMPH is to empower our students to not only succeed at the community college but to move on into the workforce and into four-year institutions with a high degree of confidence,” King said.
TRIUMPH empowers students to succeed academically, personally and professionally through intensive mentoring with male professionals and targeted workshops to reduce social, emotional and non-cognitive barriers to success. To accomplish this, program leaders set learning outcomes for the men to achieve competencies in emotion management, conflict resolution, time management, financial literacy and utilization of resources.
“We provide not only the resources, but also opportunities to utilize resources,” Fatoke said. TRIUMPH scholars attend Friday workshops throughout the semester focusing on their self-improvement and awareness, academic excellence and servant leadership.
A goal-setting workshop, for instance, requires the men to map out their academic plans and their plan of action to achieve their goals. Writing and public speaking workshops refine the men’s ability to assert and articulate their points, but also emphasize the value of listening, Fatoke added.
In addition, the young men learn how to tie a bowtie or tie, learn how to communicate with professors and others, or learn the appropriate behavior in a restaurant setting through a spring etiquette luncheon. A male leadership summit is scheduled for April 2019, Fatoke said.
“We do focus a lot on what does it mean to be a man of color on our campus, what does it mean to be a man of color on a campus that identifies as a minority-serving institution,” King said, and “what does that mean in terms of, as you go through your process and become successful, what obligations do you have to give back to your community and give back to generations that are coming behind you.”
These conversations extend to how the men can navigate their world post-graduation in environments that may not always provide a support system like TRIUMPH.
Students in TRIUMPH typically take three years to leave the community college setting, King said, so it provides an opportunity for older students in the program to serve as “big brothers,” creating a network of mentors to incoming men of color at Triton.
Triton College TRIUMPH Program scholars (L-R): Mikal Muhammad, Ryland Watts, Isaiah Negron, Raza Mojiz and Lazarr Johnson.
“When it comes to the financial side, [TRIUMPH] helps students learn the difference between credit and understanding a credit card, and what goes on with a credit card – how to use it, how to pay it off, what not to do with that,” said Miller, who intends to improve his community’s financial literacy skills. He is looking to transfer to the University of Illinois or an Ivy League institution after completing his degree next semester.
“As far as critical thinking, it allows us to have different mindsets [such as] being open-minded,” Miller said of TRIUMPH. “It also gives me somebody else that’s a part of the program that is just like me or that is similar to me, and it gives a connection.”
Leaders are seeing indicators around the program’s impact: students are attending classes at higher rates; retention, completion and transfer rates are increasing; and the program is giving students the confidence to branch out to attend four-year institutions beyond the region in some cases.
Triton, Waubonsee and Elgin college leaders recently met in September to discuss the expansion of the TRIUMPH program to the latter campuses. Expanded program initiatives will include group visits to historically Black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions beyond the region, among other activities.
“I’m really excited about the opportunity to work with other partner institutions and very pleased that institutions … are not hesitant to explore ways in which to meet the needs on their campus when it comes to our students of color,” King said. “A lot of institutions would shy away from that, and unfortunately, it seems to be kind of a unique approach to not shy away from it, and we need to get away from that. It needs to be the standard.”
Leaders aim to serve 1,500 men of color with the program’s expansion over the next five years. This is a significant increase from the program’s inaugural group of 25 students.
“The best compliment that we can have as a program is that we have so many students who want to participate that we’re struggling with how do we expand at the rate in which the demand is there,” King added. “At the same time, we also want to work ourselves out of a job. We want to get to a point where our students don’t need a special program in order to feel connected to the institutions.”
Tiffany Pennamon can be reached at tpennamon@diverseeducation.com. You can follow her on Twitter @tiffanypennamon.
Semantic Tags: community college • Elgin Community College • Leadership Development • Men of color • Mentorship • Student support • Transforming and Inspiring Undergraduate Men Pursuing Higher Education • Triton College • TRIUMPH • Waubonsee Community College
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A’yun, Annisa Qurrota (2015) The Social Condition of England during 1800-1900 Reflected in “Song to the Man of England” and “England in 1819” by Percy B. Shelley. Undergraduate thesis, Diponegoro University.
In this thesis, the writer combines the analysis of the two poems written by Percy B. Shelley entitled “Song to the Man of England” and “England in 1819”. The writer analyzes these two poems with the same poet, Percy B. Shelley, because both of the poems are showing the condition of England people in that era. The purposes for the writer to write this thesis are to analyze the intrinsic elements, which is imageries, metaphor, and diction that is reflected in these two poems. The other purpose is to analyze the extrinsic element of the two poems and the condition of people in England during the Romantic Period (1811-1820), which is represented from the two poems in which the writer uses sociological approach and Marxist theory. The research method that the writer uses is contextual research method in which the writer analyzes the intrinsic element and the extrinsic elements of the poems. The results after analyzing these two poems is the writer can analyze the condition of people in England during the year 1800-1900 that is represented in these two poems.
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A.E.K. Athens have come very close to their first ever European final going into the second leg of the Men's Challenge Cup Semi-final this weekend. The Greek side are leading by eight goals ahead of their home match against AM Madeira Andebol SAD of Portugal.
The other semi-final tie is tighter. In Romania, IBV Vestmannaeyjar are defending a three-goal lead against last year’s runners-up, AHC Potaissa Turda.
Athens defend eight-goal lead at home
The Challenge Cup trophy has spent the past year in Portugal since Sporting CP won the tournament in 2017. However, the trophy is likely to leave the Iberian country as AM Madeira Andebol SAD are trailing A.E.K. Athens by eight goals after the first leg.
Athens won 29:21 in Funchal last weekend - after even leading by 10 goals at half-time. The decisive leg in Greece is scheduled for Saturday afternoon at 15:00 hrs.
A.E.K. have played in the VELUX EHF Champions League Qualification but are yet to reach the final of any European Cup tournament. In fact, reaching the semi-finals has already been the club’s best ever achievement.
For Madeira, being in the semi-final is also a new experience.
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Turda struggling with Icelandic opposition again
Last year, AHC Potaissa Turda reached the Challenge Cup Final after defeating Valur from Iceland by one goal on aggregate in a dramatic semi-final tie.
This season, the Romanian club are facing Icelandic opposition in the semi-final again - and they are in for another tough battle as BV Vestmannaeyjar won the first match at home 31:28. They meet again in Romania on Sunday afternoon at 16:30 hrs.
IBV coach Arnar Petursson showed great respect for Turda after his team’s relatively narrow home win last weekend.
“In my opinion, Turda are even stronger than they were last year. Their players are physically strong, they play with passion, and they are very well organised and disciplined,” Petursson tells eurohandball.com ahead of the second leg in the Gheorghe Baritiu Arena of Turda.
In their efforts to catch up with the three-goal deficit and reach the final, Turda will have to keep an extra eye on Theodor Sigurbjörnsson. The 25-year-old IBV right wing scored no less than 13 goals in the first leg last weekend.
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Crohn’s disease research set to benefit from £1.8m funding boost
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Crohn’s disease is a chronic and often debilitating condition that causes inflammation of the digestive system and gut. It leaves sufferers in a constant cycle of relapse and remission of symptoms that include malnutrition, abdominal pain and fatigue. With it affecting at least 115,000 people in the UK alone and up to 80 per cent of sufferers experiencing hospitalisation at some point, Crohn’s disease is a pressing healthcare issue.
Currently, there is no cure. There are only treatments to prolong periods of symptomatic relief. However, not one treatment works for all. It is a highly personal disease with varying location and severity between patients.
The Leona M. and Harry B. Hemsley Charitable Trust’s Crohn’s Disease program are funding research to address the unmet medical needs of people with the disorder. Their aim is to improve the quality of life of patients and ultimately find a cure. Based in the US, it has awarded the University of Edinburgh 1.8 million pounds to investigate the role mitochondria plays in the progression of Crohn’s disease.
Mitochondria are found in all our cells, providing them with energy (ATP) for growth and function. One theory believes that they evolved from bacteria around 2-3bn years ago, retaining their own DNA that is still independent from the nucleus.
[The Leona M. and Harry B. Hemsley haritable Trust’s Crohn’s Disease program] has awarded the University of Edinburgh 1.8 million pounds to investigate the role mitochondria plays in the progression of Crohn’s disease
When our cells are damaged, their contents, including mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are released into the surrounding area. In inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn’s disease, it has been shown that during a relapse, the damaged cells of the gut release mtDNA. The mtDNA is then recognised as a bacterial infection by Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) found on the surface of circulating immune cells. This interaction has shown to trigger the immune system of the patient to attack its own tissue, ultimately promoting more inflammation and damage in the digestive tract and gut.
Investigating models of IBD disease in active human IBD and colitis mouse models, researchers at the University of Edinburgh found that sufferers of IBD had a significantly higher level of mtDNA circulating in their blood in comparison to healthy groups. They were then able to correlate that greater levels of mtDNA in the circulation induced an increase in the severity and activity of the disease.
From this discovery, it has been recognised that mtDNA has a promising role as a measurable marker of IBD injury. Dr Gwo-Tzer Ho of the University of Edinburgh’s Centre of Inflammation Research who is leading the study is taking his group’s findings further by focusing on developing mtDNA as a non-invasive test. Hopefully, removing the need for patients to undergo the current invasive procedure – a colonoscopy – for diagnosis and monitoring.
The research group hopes that by either taking a blood or stool sample of the patient and measuring their mtDNA content, doctors will be provided with information about the subtype and progression of Crohn’s disease easily. This, in turn, could provide the opportunity for patients that are experiencing an active flare-up or those with little to no healing of the bowel after treatment to receive a treatment plan that is personalised to their case.
[…] it has been recognised that mtDNA has a promising role as a measurable marker of IBD injury
Dr Gwo-Tzer Ho has said “I am honoured to receive this award, which is a reflection on the team’s efforts to understand the role of mitochondria in IBD. We are very hopeful that our work will lead to better tools to predict how the disease affects patients, which could ultimately lead to improvements in their treatment and quality of life.”
This post was written by Olivia Matthews and edited by Karolina Zieba.
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Top Faith Leaders Urge Immigration Reform This Year
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WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 15, 2014 — In the midst of a sustained push for immigration reform, a group of faith leaders from multiple denominations, including evangelicals and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, met with President Obama this morning to discuss the tragic human cost our current immigration system has on our nation’s families and communities.
With Congress home for the Easter recess, evangelical and faith communities nationwide are joining forces with businesses and law enforcement to hold dozens of pastors’ events in key districts. Following the recess, over 100 pastors will travel to Washington, D.C. to meet with members of the House of Representatives to urge immigration reform.
The following are quotes from participants in today’s meeting with the President:
“Today’s meeting with the President was a significant opportunity to meet during Holy Week and share the need to end the suffering of 11 million men, women and children who are caught in our nation’s broken immigration system. We discussed the urgency for House members to take action before the August recess for the sake of immigrant families and our nation. Let us continue to pray and impress this need on our legislators to act now.”
Dr. JoAnne Lyon, General Superintendent, The Wesleyan Church:
“It is with a sense of urgency that we encourage the House to pass immigration reform in the next few months. Not only are families continuing to be disrupted but this is also about maintaining the rule of law in the United States which is a fundamental foundation of our society.”
Dr. Russell Moore, President, Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission:
“I disagree with the President on some serious issues of human life, marriage, and religious liberty, but this is one issue where the country isn’t divided up into red and blue. I don’t know anyone who thinks the status quo immigration policy is working. Our border isn’t secure, we don’t know who is and who isn’t in the country, and we have families torn apart by an incoherent and capricious system. I encouraged the President to work with Republicans to get beyond partisan bickering and fix this broken system.”
Dr. Suzii Paynter, Executive Coordinator, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Atlanta:
It’s time to retool our laws for immigration. We can meet as a country at the intersection of moral conscience and common sense and pass reform. Congress has the tools to act and, as people of conviction, people of faith are in agreement that common sense measures can be taken. There is a place to honor the God-given dignity of persons, honor the rule of law, ensure fairness to taxpayers, and seek a path towards recognition for immigrants.”
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