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John J. Wilson
John J. Wilson, 63 of Methuen passed away on Saturday November 3, 2018 at Lawrence General Hospital after a battle with lung cancer. Mr. Wilson was born in Cambridge, MA and has lived in Greater Lawrence for most of his life. For more than 37 years, John worked in property maintenance and grounds keeping at Lawrence General Hospital. He and his wife enjoyed fishing together and spending time working around their home. He enjoyed being with his grandchildren and helping to raise them.
His family members include his wife, Debra Hartung, his daughter Jennie Frulla and her husband Victor. John also leaves his step-son Rick Fedas. John has 3 grandchildren, Joseph Aiello and his wife Samantha, Jeremy Miller and Ryla Fedas. He also has 5 siblings, Dorothy and Steve Gale, Paula Johnson, Dana and Barbara Wilson, Lori Stetson and Duncan Wilson and several nieces and nephews. John was the son of the late, Ralph C. and Pauline (Bishop) Wilson and he was also predeceased by his brother Ralph Wilson and niece Jessie Wilson.
Family and friends are invited to visiting hours on Friday November 9, 2018 from 4pm to 7pm at the Dewhirst & Boles Funeral Home, 80 Broadway, Methuen. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to Dana Farber Cancer Institute, PO Box 849168, Boston, MA 02284-9168 or to the charity of the donor’s choice. To leave an online condolence, please go to John’s tribute page at www.dewhirstbolesfuneral.com.
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Martin Garrix No. 1 DJ in the world again!
The 21-year-old Martin Garrix has been crowned as the best DJ in the world last weekend (October 21th) during the Amsterdam Dance Event for the second year in a row. Leaving Dimitri Vegas & like Mike, Armin van Buren, Hardwell and Tiësto behind him in the prestigious top 100 ranking of djmag.com.
Martin Garrix can be called one of the greatest and youngest artists at the moment with an astonishing 15 million followers on Facebook and 14 million followers on Instagram. And because of his immensely big performances worldwide and his super cool tracks, he is a great example for all his fans. The fact that he is immensely popular among the school youth has been proved to the young DJ with a sold out show, the only one in ADE, was especially accessible to fans of all ages.
After the successful introduction in 2017, Dresz will bring for back to School 2018 an attractive and completely renewed school line in collaboration with this world star.
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Dublin Airport To Welcome 30,000 Irish Fans For Euro 2016
June 9, 2016 Back to all news
An estimated 30,000 Irish soccer fans will travel from Dublin Airport to the Euro 2016 finals over the next two weeks.
A total of 106 flights are due to carry fans to Ireland’s three Group E games against Sweden, Belgium and Italy. Airlines have added 39 extra flights to the normal schedule to Paris, Lille and Bordeaux to help cope with the increase in demand from fans.
Many fans are also expected to travel on flights to other destinations in France and Belgium and then continue their journey to the three match venues. In total, Dublin Airport has more than 150 departures to France per week this summer season, so fans had a wide choice of destinations.
Over this weekend alone, 64 flights, including 13 extra services, are scheduled to bring fans to Paris in time for the Republic of Ireland’s first game against Sweden at the Stade de France on Monday.
Another 21 flights, including 18 extra services, will operate from Dublin to Bordeaux ahead of Ireland’s second match, which is against Belgium on Saturday, June 18. And 20 flights, including eight additional services, will depart to Lille and airports nearby in the run-up to Ireland’s final group game against Italy on Wednesday, June 22.
Dublin Airport will also welcome a significant number of Northern Ireland soccer fans over the next two weeks, as they travel to games in Nice, Lyon, and Paris. Northern Ireland play in Group C with games against Poland, Ukraine and Germany.
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Dublin Airport Welcomes New Moscow Service
October 8, 2018 Back to all news
Dublin Airport welcomes today’s announcement from Aeroflot at it is to operate a new service between Dublin and the Russian capital, Moscow.
The daily year-round service will operate from October 28, 2018.
“We are delighted to welcome Aeroflot back to Dublin Airport with this direct connection to Moscow. The new service will further boost trade and tourism between Ireland and Russia,” said Dublin Airport Managing Director Vincent Harrison.
Vitaly Saveliev, Chief Executive of Aeroflot, said: “Today Aeroflot ranks as a leading global carrier and we continue to expand our international route network. This winter we will open new routes as well as increasing flight frequencies to popular destinations. We are pleased to offer travellers new international destinations as well as additional flights to popular tourist destinations, thus expanding travel options with Aeroflot for both business and leisure travellers.”
“About 42,000 passengers travelled between Dublin and Moscow last year on indirect flights so I have no doubt this new direct route will very popular in both directions," Mr Harrison added.
Aeroflot will operate its new daily service with an Airbus A320 aircraft.
Flights will depart Moscow Sheremetyevo at 19.20 and arrive in Dublin at 20.45. The return flight will depart Dublin at 21.45 and arrive in Moscow Sheremetyevo at 05.00.
Aeroflot previously operated a Dublin to Moscow service between 1987 and 2003. The airline is Russia’s flagship carrier serving 146 destinations in 52 countries.
So far this year, more than 21.2 million passengers have travelled through Dublin Airport, which is a 6% increase over the same period last year. More than 1.2 million additional passengers have been welcomed during the first seven months of the year.
Dublin Airport has flights to 195 destinations in 42 countries, operated by 56 airlines.
Image above: Red Square, Moscow
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The "Colacho", a character that represents the devil, jumps over babies lying on a mattress in the street during 'El Salto del Colacho' (The Devil's Jump) baby jumping festival, in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, on June 23, 2019. - "El Colacho" is a traditional Spanish ritual dating back to 1620 during which men representing the Devil jump over babies born in the last twelve months of the year and takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)
Babies lay on a mattress waiting for the "Colacho", a character that represents the devil, to jump over them during 'El Salto del Colacho' (The Devil's Jump) baby jumping festival, in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, on June 23, 2019. - "El Colacho" is a traditional Spanish ritual dating back to 1620 during which men representing the Devil jump over babies born in the last twelve months of the year and takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)
A priest blesses babies laying on a mattress before the "Colacho", a character that represents the devil, jumped over them during 'El Salto del Colacho' (The Devil's Jump) baby jumping festival, in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, on June 23, 2019. - "El Colacho" is a traditional Spanish ritual dating back to 1620 during which men representing the Devil jump over babies born in the last twelve months of the year and takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)
Babies covered in rose petals lay on a mattress waiting for the "Colacho", a character that represents the devil, to jump over them during 'El Salto del Colacho' (The Devil's Jump) baby jumping festival, in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, on June 23, 2019. - "El Colacho" is a traditional Spanish ritual dating back to 1620 during which men representing the Devil jump over babies born in the last twelve months of the year and takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)
The "Colacho", a character that represents the devil, chases spectators to whip them during 'El Salto del Colacho' (The Devil's Jump) baby jumping festival, in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, on June 23, 2019. - "El Colacho" is a traditional Spanish ritual dating back to 1620 during which men representing the Devil jump over babies born in the last twelve months of the year and takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)
Youths provoke the "Colacho", a character that represents the devil, to chase and whip them during 'El Salto del Colacho' (The Devil's Jump) baby jumping festival, in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, on June 23, 2019. - "El Colacho" is a traditional Spanish ritual dating back to 1620 during which men representing the Devil jump over babies born in the last twelve months of the year and takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)
The "Colacho", a character that represents the devil, arrives to chase and whip spectators during 'El Salto del Colacho' (The Devil's Jump) baby jumping festival, in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, on June 23, 2019. - "El Colacho" is a traditional Spanish ritual dating back to 1620 during which men representing the Devil jump over babies born in the last twelve months of the year and takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP)
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Collections by John Butler:
Animal Friends Hush, Little Ones Ten in the Den
John Butler has been an illustrator and writer of children’s books for over thirty years. Through a long and varied career he has also produced work for advertising agencies, design studios, magazines and newspapers. John’s clients include satirical work for Time magazine, illustrating baby animals for Sesame Street, and design work for Heinz and Crabtree and Evelyn.
Although successful in advertising, publishing has been the constant in his career and has provided most of his work. He has illustrated over 60 children’s books and written over 12 of these. John’s books have been published in over 20 countries, with 8 of his titles recently published in China, Russia and Ukraine.
John has experienced many high points in his publishing career, but nothing surpasses seeing his first book published, and he still gets a thrill when he receives the first edition of a new title.
John is delighted to have received numerous awards (one presented by Sir David Attenborough), but one of the most meaningful and rewarding parts of his work is reading letters and emails from children, parents and grandparents telling him how much they enjoyed his books.
To learn more about John Butler and view his work visit http://www.johnbutlerart.com.
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Inside A Brothel Bedroom
The reality of an underage sex worker
By Corinne Redfern; Photos by Allison Sarah Joyce
Suborna Islam, 17, came to Kandipara two years ago from Mymensingh. She allowed us inside her bedroom in the hope that we'd understand the reality of life as an underage sex worker.
At the same time, Robin Seyfert, Founder of BASHA Enterprises, provides insights into what is being done to help girls like Suborna, Moyna and Kajol.
Suborna's Story
Suborna: When I was 12-years-old, I went to work as a maid with a family. One of the teenage sons would torture me whenever we were alone – tying me up by my hands and feet while I screamed into a towel he'd stuffed in my mouth. When I escaped and ran back to my mum, it was too late; I was already pregnant. I had an abortion, but afterwards, the only option was to get married to whoever would take me. When he started torturing me too, I decided to come to the brothel. I thought, 'my life is ruined anyway – at least this way, I'll be able to support myself.' So I left him and took a rickshaw to Kandipara. I've regretted that decision every day since, but in Bangladesh, divorced girls don't really have any other choice.'
Robin: There are many fantastic organisations and projects which work to empower women within brothels across Bangladesh, but very very few which help them to actually escape or sustain a livelihood outside of the sex industry. They run tailoring classes and provide medical check ups – and they're teaching these women their rights, which is hugely important. But they're still not providing alternatives to prostitution. So many women and girls say 'it's too late – there's no hope for me anymore'. But there <is> hope for them. We <must> get them out. And they <can> lead hugely successful, happy lives away from the brothels.
My Favourite Doll
Suborna: My favourite thing in the world is my doll, Mimi. My mother bought her for me on Valentine's Day last year. I used to have so many more dolls and teddies – like, what you see here is nothing – but some of the children who live here sneak in and steal them because they want to play with them too. There are lots of children who are born here, and who grow up in the brothel. I wish I could go back in time and be a kid again – I had so many dreams back then. Now it feels like I've forgotten them all.
Robin: We have five centres across Bangladesh which provide former sex workers with paid training and full-time employment making jewellery and textiles. Since 2015, we've managed to provide 41 women from Tangail with work outside of Kandipara, and in February we are opening a hostel to accommodate more women in Jessore. Most of the women we work with are rescued through raids, but occasionally, madams will send the girls to us directly – maybe if they develop severe psychological problems and are physically unable to work in the brothel. And we are also trying to identify girls who might be at risk of trafficking – girls who are child brides, or widowed or orphaned – and prevent it from happening before it's too late.
Suborna: I bought the windchimes from a street seller here because the butterflies reminded me of the village where I grew up. There aren't many opportunities to buy pretty things here in the brothel, so sometimes I put a hijab on so nobody will know I've come from the brothel, and then I go outside to the market. But I have to be feeling brave to do that. People outside in the town think we're bad girls, but they don't understand. This could happen to anyone. It's not like I'm doing this willingly.
Teach Them How To Love
Robin: When the girls come to us, they're often very scared and very aggressive. They've been abused so much that they think it's OK to abuse those who are younger or weaker than them. We have to teach them how to love, and how to be loved. How to trust, and how to be trusted. How to survive without a husband. We have a doctor joining our team soon from Norway, who specialises in mental health, and I'm really feeling positive about that. If we really want to make a difference, we need to provide quality services.
Never Feel Safe
Suborna: I want my room to be pretty, because I spend all my time here on my own.
I don't have any friends any more, and I don't like sharing my stuff. There isn't much privacy here – sure, you have your own bedroom, and technically you can lock the door, but I never feel safe. That's why I have a big cardboard box under my bed. I've sealed it with sellotape and I check it every day. You can't trust anyone in this life. But I also know I won't be here forever. I already have an escape plan. It's a secret, but I know it's going to work.
There's Still Hope
Robin: Despite everything the girls have been through, they're still so hopeful. That's what I love about this job – it really shows female strength and the capacity for resilience. They might feel like it's too late for them to achieve anything, but they're also not willing to give up – if not for themselves, then for their sons and daughters. They're so driven. And as soon as they're given the freedom to make choices for the first them, then most of them are incredibly successful.
Translation by Ali Ahsan. Reporting was supported by Girls Not Brides.
'The Warriors' is a year-long reporting project by ELLE and the Fuller Project for International Reporting, funded by the European Journalism Centre via its Innovation in Development Reporting Grant Programme.
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The new wave of flexible working: good news for working parents
There is a new way of working which is gaining popularity in the UK, and it is great news for parents who want a credible and flexible career option.
This emerging movement is commonly known as the ‘gig economy’. Using online freelancing platforms like Jobstoday Freelance companies of all sizes can outsource projects, or ‘gigs’, to highly skilled workers who work on them remotely.
The gig economy is an ideal option for working parents because they can access opportunities that fit around their families.
The gig economy is growing rapidly. Data from Oxford University’s Online Labour Index shows the number of gigs in the UK has increased by 14% since May last year - highlighting that companies in the UK are embracing this new, flexible way of working.
Jonny Dunning, digital recruitement expert and CEO of weliketowork.com believes the growth of the gig economy is a result of small businesses seeing a huge opportunity.
He said: “Small businesses in the UK now have a simple, flexible way of getting work done without having to afford to hire a full-time employee. This on-demand workforce is perfect for small businesses. It also suits the modern professional who is comfortable with other on-demand services like AirBnB which have now become commonplace in most areas of modern life.
“An on-demand workforce means a small business can tap into expertise just when they need it”.
According to IPSE, the UK body representing freelancers and contractors, there are now 1.9 million freelancers in the UK, and research from Forbes says this is predicted to continue to grow with one in two people in the UK freelancing by 2020.
Despite the rapid growth, there are surprisingly low numbers of parents taking advantage of the gig economy. For example, in 2015 IPSE data shows there were around 287,000 freelancing mums, but that number seems low when you consider there are around 340,000 (source: House of Commons) professional women going on maternity leave each year.
Mr Dunning said: “IPSE’s data shows us that only one in seven freelancers in the UK are mums. It is a great start but there are so many opportunities for more mums and dads who want to earn a decent living.
“If you look at Jobstoday Freelance, we have stay-at-home parents working remotely on projects ranging from mobile app development to accounting and social media management. They work around their family commitments and are earning decent rates of pay.”
The gig economy is suitable for any type of work that can be done remotely. For example, web development, writing, accountancy or marketing. All that is required to start is an email address, a computer and a reliable internet connection.
To see how you can combine parenting with a flexible career visit Jobstoday Freelance
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New BBC Alba programme witnesses the move of Yorkhill’s sickest children
Dawn Renton
The Scottish Paediatric Retrieval Service provides a unique and vital service at the heart of Scotland’s NHS.
Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, this team of specialist doctors and nurses are on call to ensure that critically ill children receive life-saving treatment wherever they are in Scotland.
Following this division of the NHS in Scotland, BBC ALBA series Cobhair Chloinne provides an insight into the remarkable work of the doctors and nurses charged with transporting seriously ill children to the major intensive care units in Glasgow and Edinburgh. And what’s more extraordinary is that the retrieval team must provide the highest level of life support while in transit often inside ambulances, helicopters, airplanes and rapid response vehicles.
In tomorrow’s episode (October 7), we witness one of the most unusual – but historic - tasks undertaken by the retrieval service: moving the entire Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Yorkhill hospital, to the Glasgow’s new Royal Hospital for Children at the Southern General.
BBC ALBA follows the two day process, undertaken in June this year, to transfer 16 critically ill patients at Yorkhill to the new hospital across the River Clyde under the watchful planning and care of consultants Mark Davidson and Christina Harry. Patients include infants such as Olivia, who will be experiencing her first trip outside the hospital since arriving at Yorkhill seven months ago.
As well as the move from old to new units, we see more of the more of the standard yet lifesaving work that the Paediatric Retrieval Service conducts every day.
That includes the move of three year old Euan, who is critically ill with meningococcal septicemia, from Forth Valley Hospital in Larbert to Edinburgh’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children.
Cobhair Chloinne spent nine months in the company of the Paediatric Retrieval Teams based at Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill and Edinburgh’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children. We hear first-hand from the doctors and nurses who, day in day out, provide a life-saving services to the remotest parts of Scotland. They work closely with medical staff in rural communities ensuring children in those areas can receive the highest level of medical care, when they need it.
The show airs on BBC ALBA Wednesday, October 7 at 9.00pm
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Paige Testifies to Senate on Bush Education Plan
"If you doubt that the present approach is broken and needs fixing, just consider that nearly 70 percent of inner-city fourth-graders are unable to read at even a basic level on national reading tests," Secretary of Education Roderick R. Paige told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Wednesday morning, February 15. Included: Prepared transcript of Paige's testimony.
Secretary of Education Roderick R. Paige explained the details of President George W. Bush's education plan Wednesday morning, February 15, before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Paige emphasized that the nation must stop "funding failure and start building a culture of accountability and achievement in our education system."
Testing is essential in holding schools and children accountable; annual state assessments for grades three through eight would continue. Paige said that despite complaints about teaching to the test or too much emphasis in the schools on testing, testing is the only way to "find out whether students are learning and teachers are dong their jobs."
Paige's testimony, which follows in its entirety below, outlined the highlights of "No Child Left Behind," the president's education proposal, including consolidating and streamlining the federal education grant process, offering funding for proven early reading programs, and providing grants to improve teacher quality.
PAIGE'S PREPARED TESTIMONY
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:
Thank you for this opportunity to testify on behalf of "No Child Left Behind," President Bush's plan to bring real accountability to our education system and close the inexcusable achievement gap that this system currently fosters between poor and minority children and other students.
I want to begin by thanking the members of this committee for the warm welcome I received last month during the confirmation process. I met with most of you then, and I was pleased to discover that all of us share the same goal of providing a first-class education to all our children. I look forward to working with each of you over the coming months as we make the changes needed to help reach this goal.
Before I get into the details of these changes, I want to make a few observations that I hope you will keep in mind not only today but throughout the coming debate over the president's proposals. First, "No Child Left Behind" is, as the president has described it, "a framework from which we can all work together -- Democrat, Republican, and independent -- to strengthen our elementary and secondary schools." This means that within the context of principles like accountability for results, choice for parents and students, and flexibility for schools and teachers, we are open to your ideas on how to meet our shared goals.
Second, "No Child Left Behind" is bold and ambitious, but it is not extreme in any sense of the word. Rather, it builds very deliberately on existing efforts at the federal, state, and local levels to use standards, assessments, accountability, flexibility, and choice to improve the quality of education for all of our children. Indeed, the president's proposals are the logical next step following the changes made in the 1994 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). We are not asking states and school districts and schools to drop everything they are doing and start over but to pursue more vigorously the kinds of changes they are already making.
At the same time, we cannot ignore the need for real change in America's schools. Although the 1994 reauthorization took some tentative steps in the right direction, it did not go nearly far enough. If you doubt that the present approach is broken and needs fixing, just consider that nearly 70 percent of inner-city fourth-graders are unable to read at even a basic level on national reading tests. Or that our high school seniors trail students in most industrialized nations on international math tests. Or that nearly one-third of our college freshmen must take remedial courses before they can begin regular college-level coursework.
It is uncomfortably clear that our system of elementary and secondary education is failing to do its job for far too many of our children -- a failure that threatens the future of our nation and a failure that the American people will no longer tolerate. It is just as clear that federal education policy is not accomplishing its goals, despite the investment of more than $100 billion over the past three decades and the creation of hundreds of categorical programs. More often than not, in fact, it is precisely this bewildering array of federal programs, regulations, and paperwork that gets in the way of promising reforms at the state and local levels. Although many would argue that we need these bureaucratic controls to ensure accountability, it is real accountability -- measured by improved student achievement -- that is most lacking today in federal education programs.
It is time to stop funding failure and start building a culture of accountability and achievement in our education system. To do this we need to learn from states and school districts across the country that have made remarkable progress in turning around failing schools, raising student achievement, and closing the achievement gap. We need to bring to federal education programs many of the strategies that have worked so well at the state and local levels: increased accountability for student performance, a focus on research-based practices, reduced bureaucracy and greater flexibility, and better information to empower parents. "No Child Left Behind" provides a blueprint for accomplishing this goal, a blueprint that we believe should guide the upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP THROUGH HIGH STANDARDS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
President Bush believes that the federal government can, and must, help close the achievement gap between disadvantaged students and their peers. The primary means toward this goal is to spend the $9 billion federal investment in Title I more effectively and with greater accountability.
Our proposal would build on current law by adding science and history to the existing requirement for states to set high standards in reading and mathematics for Title I students. State assessments would continue to be required only for reading and math but would be conducted annually for grades three through eight, instead of the current law requirement for testing only twice during these critical formative years. Federal funds would support the development and administration of these new assessments.
I can tell you from my own experience that there is simply no substitute for annual information on how well students and schools are performing. Children in good schools make remarkable, almost stunning, progress during these early grades, and we cannot afford to wait three or four years to find out that some students have fallen behind. Where there are problems, they must be discovered and addressed immediately, an approach that can be accomplished only with the information provided by annual testing.
Contrary to complaints about "teaching to the test" or too much testing, I believe that teaching and testing are two sides of the same coin that we call education. There is simply no other way to find out whether students are learning and teachers are doing their jobs. Those who say that testing is the problem, rather than lack of learning, are really suggesting that we lower our expectations because some kids can't learn. I reject that because I know from my experience in Houston that it just isn't true. We need to set clear goals for performance and demand that our schools get the job done. The alternative is to continue to rob millions of poor and disadvantaged young Americans of their futures by failing to provide them an effective education.
The important thing about testing, of course, is what we do with the results. We would start by requiring schools to report assessment results for all students to parents and the public. School districts would use these results to make sure that all schools and students are making adequate yearly progress toward state content and performance standards and that no groups of students are left behind.
Our proposal would strengthen the Title I accountability process. Current law requires identification of Title I schools for improvement after two years of failing to make adequate yearly progress. We would identify schools for improvement after just one year of failing to meet state standards. Roughly half of schools currently identified for improvement have received no additional assistance from their state or district. We would require states and school districts to provide technical assistance grounded in scientifically based research. The president's proposal also would provide separate funding for state and local efforts to turn around low-performing schools.
If the school still has not improved after two years, it would be identified for corrective action and subjected to more comprehensive measures, such as implementation of a new curriculum, intensive professional development, or reconstitution as a public charter school. While such measures are underway, students would be given the option of attending another public school not identified for improvement or correction.
Only after all these efforts, and following three full years of poor performance -- during which time a student may well have fallen behind a grade or two through no fault of her own -- would we use federal funds to help that student find a better education at a private school. We are proposing to permit the use of Title I funds to help students transfer to a higher performing public or private school or to obtain supplemental educational services from a public- or private-sector provider.
The president also is proposing a system of rewards for success and sanctions for failure at both the state and local levels. States and schools that make significant progress in closing the achievement gap would be honored with awards from a "No Child Left Behind" school bonus fund and an "Achievement in Education" state bonus fund. States that fail to put in place the required standards, assessments, and accountability systems, or that fail to make adequate yearly progress and narrow achievement gaps, would be subject to losing a portion of their federal administrative funds.
Taken as a whole, these proposals reflect what I believe is a strong consensus, both within the Congress and among the American people, that states, school districts, and schools must be accountable for ensuring that all students, including disadvantaged students, meet high academic standards. At the same time, we recognize that it is unfair to demand accountability without enabling success. This is why the other major components of "No Child Left Behind" are aimed at giving states, school districts, schools, teachers, and parents the tools and flexibility to help all students succeed.
EXPANDING FLEXIBILITY AND REDUCING BUREAUCRACY
The federal government has recognized in recent years that it is possible to achieve better results by reducing regulations, paperwork, and bureaucracy and giving states and communities the flexibility to create their own solutions to problems in areas like education, health care, and protecting the environment. In education, for example, the 1994 ESEA reauthorization greatly expanded eligibility for Title I school-wide programs, which permits schools enrolling at least 50 percent poor students to combine federal, state, and local funds to improve the quality of education for all students. Congress also created and expanded the ED-Flex Partnership program, which gives participating states the authority to waive federal statutory and regulatory requirements in exchange for greater accountability for improving student achievement.
"No Child Left Behind" would build on these earlier efforts to expand state and local flexibility in the use of federal education funds. For example, we would lower the poverty threshold for school-wide programs from 50 percent to 40 percent, thereby enabling thousands of additional schools to use Title I funds to upgrade the entire school. We would coordinate education technology programs to reduce the paperwork burdens of submitting and administering multiple grant applications serving nearly identical purposes. We would consolidate overlapping and duplicative grant programs and let states and districts decide how to use their share of the single grant resulting from this combination of federal funds.
We also would create a Charter Option for States that would offer freedom from the current requirements placed on categorical program funds in return for submitting a five-year performance agreement that includes specific and rigorous goals for increased student performance. This option is intended for states on the cutting-edge of accountability and reform in education, those that have already established tough accountability systems and demonstrated real gains in student achievement. States would be sanctioned for failing to comply with their performance agreement and would lose their charter if student achievement did not improve.
SUPPORTING IMPROVEMENT IN KEY AREAS
Other proposals contained in "No Child Left Behind" are aimed at supporting state and local efforts in specific areas like reading, teacher quality, math and science, safe schools, and technology.
Our Reading First program would invest in scientifically based reading instruction in the early grades, with the goal of creating comprehensive, statewide reading programs to ensure every child is reading by the third grade. The proposal also would support the acquisition of pre-reading and math skills in pre-school and Head Start programs.
Our Title II Grants for Improving Teacher Quality proposal would consolidate the Class Size Reduction and Eisenhower Professional Development Programs into a flexible, performance-based grant program for states and school districts. Grant funds would primarily be used to strengthen the skills and knowledge of public school teachers, principals, and administrators. The program also would support innovative teacher recruitment and retention practices, including bonus pay for teachers in high-need subject areas and in high-poverty districts and schools. In return for the flexibility provided by the program, states and districts must use federal funds to promote effective, research-based classroom practices, ensure that all children are taught by effective teachers, and disclose to parents information about the quality of their child's teachers.
The Title V Drug and Violence Prevention and Education Program would turn the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Program and the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program into state formula grants for before- and after-school learning opportunities and violence and drug-prevention activities.
The new, streamlined grants would reduce administrative burdens, give school districts greater flexibility in developing programs that address school safety -- a major concern of parents and students alike, and support improved academic achievement. Participating states would be required to develop a definition of a "persistently dangerous school," to report on school safety on a school-by-school basis, and to offer both victims of school-based crimes and students attending unsafe schools options for transferring to safer schools.
Our Grants for Education Technology proposal would better coordinate several existing and duplicative technology programs and reduce paperwork and other administrative burdens while directing more funds to the classroom. Funds would be targeted to high-need schools, including rural schools, and could be used for a wide range of activities, including the development or purchase of software, wiring and other infrastructure, and training teachers to use technology effectively in the classroom.
All of these proposals adhere to the core principles of "No Child Left Behind" by expanding flexibility, reducing bureaucracy, and increasing accountability. In each case, the new flexibility provided to states, school districts, and schools is appropriately balanced by performance agreements that will ensure that program purposes are achieved, particularly for poor and minority students living in high-need districts.
The president's education reform proposals build on existing law and decades of federal, state, and local experience to create a comprehensive vision for closing the achievement gap and improving the quality of education for all of America's children. The policies and approaches described in "No Child Left Behind" reflect, in my view, the nearest thing to a consensus on education reform as we are ever likely to see in a diverse nation of 15,000 school districts and a strong tradition of state and local control over education. I urge you to give these proposals your most careful consideration, and I stand ready to answer any questions you may have.
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Senior guard official faces federal charges
Posted by Colin Flanders | Jun 26, 2019 | NEWS | 0 |
Maj. Scott Brochu
A senior official in the Vt. Air National Guard was arrested last week for allegedly possessing and transporting child pornography.
Scott Brochu, 47, of Essex, pleaded not guilty in federal court last week to charges of unlawfully transporting child pornography and possession of the illicit images. If convicted on both charges, he faces a minimum of five years and a maximum of 30 years imprisonment.
Brochu is being represented by attorney Craig Nolan, who said his client is innocent. “We expect that the evidence will bear this out by the end of the court process,” Nolan wrote in an email to The Reporter.
Brochu was arrested last Friday near his Brigham Hill Rd. home following a joint investigation from Vermont’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Homeland Security Investigations.
According to an affidavit filed in support of a search warrant for Brochu’s house, investigators received a cybertip pointing to an image of a nude prepubescent girl that they later determined was either “uploaded or viewed” from an IP address belonging to Brochu.
Investigators checked with the U.S. Postal Service and found Brochu was the only person receiving mail at the Brigham Hill Rd. residence.
The Air Force Office of Special Investigations confirmed Brochu, a major in the Vt. Air National Guard, worked full-time as a civilian technician at the South Burlington base, court records show. In a statement sent to The Reporter by Cpt. Mikel Arcovitch, the Vt. Guard confirmed Brochu’s arrest and said it would support the investigation as necessary.
“We hold our service members to a high standard,” the statement reads. “Any action by our service members that violates the law breaks the trust that citizens place on our organization and will not be tolerated.”
In a 2018 profile of Brochu that ran in The Reporter as part of the “Meet Your Guard” series, Brochu said he was a logistics readiness officer with more than 25 years of service. He described his role as supervising members who ship and receive aircraft parts, provide gear and fuel and maintain the Guard’s vehicles, and said he grew up in an Air Guard family, with his father a pilot.
“I have had the privilege to travel to eight countries and just about every state in the United States, all by choice and not by being ordered,” Brochu said in the Q&A. “So getting to see the world is a great benefit to being in the National Guard for me.”
Brochu was released on conditions that include the development of an internet use plan, the monitoring of his activities on electronic devices, a prohibition of travel outside of the state and a requirement that he remove any firearms from his house.
He’s also barred from contacting any individuals involved in the case, anyone under the age of 18 except with a responsible adult present and prior court approval. And he must avoid places like parks and schools where children are likely to congregate.
The Vermont U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a press release last week that since taking over the VT-ICAC task force in 2015, the task force has arrested 125 individuals for crimes against children.
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NextTown seeks feedback on plan to manage Saxon Hill Forest
Colin Flanders
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Public Release: 5-Oct-2016
Got eczema? It may just be bad evolutionary luck, study finds
A genetic variant associated strongly with eczema may be a random artifact of evolution, study finds
IMAGE: Pie charts show the proportion of chromosomes within different populations worldwide that carry a non-working copy of the filaggrin gene, a primary risk factor for eczema. Even in East Asia,... view more
Credit: Credit: Duo
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Some genetic diseases persist for generation after generation because the genes that cause them can benefit human health.
Sickle cell anemia is one example: This disorder compels red blood cells to take on a crescent moon shape, leading to anemia. But carrying a copy of the sickle cell gene can guard against malaria.
Not all ancient diseases come with such a blessing, however.
A new study probes the evolutionary history of eczema, and finds no evidence that a genetic predisposition for this disorder has helped humans.
The research -- published on Sept. 27 in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution -- examines a genetic variant strongly associated with the most common form of eczema, atopic dermatitis.
This skin condition can cause a slew of unpleasant symptoms, including extreme itchiness and dry, scaly rashes, but there doesn't seem to be a tradeoff for this discomfort: The genetic variant studied appears to be a random vestige of evolution, says University at Buffalo biologist Omer Gokcumen, who led the research.
"We present a complex evolutionary history of this disease variant, and it seems to be just bad luck that it has endured for so long," says Gokcumen, PhD, an assistant professor of biological sciences in the UB College of Arts and Sciences. "Unlike other disease variants, such as those linked to sickle cell anemia or psoriasis, the one we studied is just not that important from the standpoint of evolution. It doesn't appear to affect what biologists call 'fitness,' which is another word for reproductive success."
The research was based on a data set that included the genomes of more than 2,500 people around the world.
The roots of susceptibility to eczema
The gene at the heart of the research is the filaggrin gene, which tells the body how to make a protein of the same name in skin cells.
In some people, inherited genetic mutations cause the filaggrin gene to stop working, impairing healthy skin function and creating an increased risk for developing eczema.
The study found that "loss of function" mutations are significantly more common in filaggrin than in other human genes. However, despite this prevalence, the variants don't appear to serve an adaptive purpose: "The loss of function creates a susceptibility to eczema, but it does not appear to have an effect on the reproductive success of modern humans," Gokcumen says.
A hitchhiking mutation
The scientists' conclusions held true even when they took a closer look at the genomes of individuals from East Asia, who are more likely to have broken filaggrin genes than people from other parts of the world.
A genomic analysis showed that this trend may have been an artifact of evolutionary hitchhiking: In East Asia, many people share a genetic profile that includes a loss-of-function mutation for filaggrin, paired with a notable mutation in a nearby gene that carries instructions for making hornerin, another human protein.
While the filaggrin mutation did not appear to have importance from the standpoint of evolution and adaptation, the hornerin mutation did. This leads Gokcumen to believe that the filaggrin mutation may have proliferated in East Asia for the sake of preserving the hornerin mutation. As he explains, large sections of the genome are often lost or inherited together during evolution, so genes like those for hornerin and filaggrin that are close to each other often share an evolutionary history.
While the research did not draw concrete conclusions about why the hornerin mutation was so important, changes in the hornerin gene can affect healthy skin function, influencing microbiome diversity on the skin.
The study's first authors were Muthukrishnan Eaaswarkhanth, a UB postdoctoral researcher in Gokcumen's lab, and Duo "Erica" Xu, a UB PhD candidate in biological sciences. The research was a partnership between colleagues at UB, the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the University of Minnesota and Pennsylvania State University.
Charlotte Hsu
chsu22@buffalo.edu
@UBNewsSource
http://www.buffalo.edu
Filaggrin Loss of Function Worldwide (IMAGE)
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2016/10/005.html
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evw242
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Netherlands 'not responsible' for Srebrenica massacre
By Euronews •et; last updated: 10/09/2008
A civil court in the Hague has ruled that the Dutch state is not responsible for the deaths of Muslim refugees massacred by Bosnian Serb troops at Srebrenica.
Dutch UN peacekeepers, who were supposed to be protecting the population of Srebrenica, allowed Muslim men and boys to be taken away by Bosnian Serb troops in 1995.
Some 8,000 of the prisoners were then executed, and thrown into communal graves.
The survivors who brought the case against the Netherlands said the Dutch state was responsible for the soldiers’ acts, but a judge today ruled otherwise.
In July, the court said a case could not be brought against the UN.
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Sierra Leone mudslide victims take anger to ballot box
Wednesday 7 March 2018 - 3:16pm
People wait to cast their vote during Sierra Leone's presidential election in Freetown, Sierra Leone 7 March 2018.
REGENT - Francis Kanu&39;s face darkens as he remembers the day of Sierra Leone&39;s deadly mudslide in August, and the months that followed, waiting for government assistance that never came.
Now is his moment of revenge against the ruling All People&39;s Congress (APC). He waits quietly in line at the ballot box to deliver his vote for an opposition party.
READ: Sierra Leone picks new leader
"The way they treated me... that did not go down well with me," he says, echoing a common sentiment in Sierra Leone&39;s Regent community, where more than 400 people were suffocated or crushed in the disaster.
The APC is hoping for another five years in power, but pockets of the country are fed up with successive mismanagement of crises including the Ebola outbreak, and the alleged corruption that diverts away funds intended to stop them.
"There was heavy rock lying on top of my brother. He was dead," Kanu recalls, adding that his wife and child escaped a similar fate only because the baby had needed medical attention.
The 28-year-old security guard speaks with controlled anger about the failure to help him recover his possessions or provide housing after waters and debris swept away the family home.
He now lives with a friend to save costs, while his wife and baby are back upcountry where daily necessities are cheaper.
The disaster, he says, "changed my mind". He is voting for the main opposition SLPP.
Beautiful promises
This community was initially held together by the rush of humanitarian workers that arrived after the partial collapse of a mountain onto houses illegally constructed below.
But, several interviewees said, that aid soon dried up.
Father Joseph Emmanuel Bangura says he observed a sea change in Regent as politicians made their rounds during the campaign.
"The problem in this country is that when it is campaign time they say all these beautiful things, but when it comes to the reality whether they do it is a whole other ball game," he said, his white gown flapping in the breeze.
"We hope that this election will make a bit of a difference. People are gaining consciousness now; people are aware of the issues," he adds.
His church has continued to provide help where it can.
"Many of them when they left the camp were not housed so we had to provide rent, in some cases for a year in advance," he says.
Distrust in the APC does not mean it will not win this election: well resourced and still popular in its northern strongholds, well away from the Freetown disaster zone, continuity candidate Samura Kamara has strong appeal.
But the APC and SLPP cannot rely on ethnic and regional vote blocs alone in the capital, which has a more diverse and educated population.
Two new parties, the National Grand Coalition (NGC) and Coalition For Change (C4C), hope the economic mismanagement of the last 10 years under outgoing President Ernest Bai Koroma will give them a chance to break into the mainstream.
Scarred mountain
A deep orange scar on the mountainside is still visible on the horizon as Mohammed Kargbo, a first-time voter stands in line. Experts say a repeat is almost inevitable without immediate attention.
"We need changes. I am not a kid anymore, I know what is good and what is bad," he tells AFP, adding that a friend in the community took him in after his home was destroyed.
Also pledging his vote for the main opposition SLPP, Kargbo says he "never received anything" from the government.
He shrugs. "I have no problem with that. Thank God my life was saved."
Fatmata Kamara remembers "a loud noise, trees uprooting, stones falling everywhere. There was a lot of confusion", before her home was submerged.
She is living back in the danger zone despite warnings it is unsafe, and has managed to scrape enough money together to rent a place for herself and five children.
Kamara represents another issue for the upstart movements attempting to elbow their way into the Sierra Leone political scene.
She is voting for whichever party the local chiefs tell her to, she says, "or there will be problems".
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Children of prisoners often grow up to repeat parents’ mistakes
Deborah Straszheim
Jason Kelly, 29, has been in Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center in Uncasville, Conn., for about a year on drugs, weapons and assault charges. He has four children — boys 11 and 8, girls 5 and 4 — with two women.
Jason Kelly, 29, has been in Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center in Uncasville, Conn., for about a year on drugs, weapons and assault charges.
He has four children — boys 11 and 8, girls 5 and 4 — with two women.
He rarely sees them, though he’s not sure why. He believes it’s the recession and money. He’ll hear, for instance, that the family truck needs tires and can’t be on the highway.
Kelly, of New Haven, is a member of Corrigan-Radgowski’s parenting group. He said he had a relationship with his children before prison; he went on school trips and to Disney World, something he never did as a child.
He paid for it by selling crack, marijuana or whatever the market demanded.
“That’s like a choice that you make for yourself, and you’re not thinking about your kids,” he said.
“Because your kids can lose you to the system, or you can die on the streets. But we don’t look at it that way when we’re doing it.”
His own father was in prison for a time, but he sorted out his life, got a job and stayed out. Kelly said he was 7 or 8 years old when his dad was in prison; he doesn’t know what he did time for.
He’s never asked.
Kelly has three brothers. One was shot and killed in 2005. The other two, both older, also are in prison. One is serving 10 years for assault and a shooting; the other has a 50-year sentence for manslaughter, he said.
Kelly said he can’t see his own children doing what he did. His 11-year-old son knows he did something bad to go to jail, but not what it was.
“We’ve got a good bond,” Kelly said. “But it’s not as good as I want it to be.”
Toys in waiting room
Corrigan-Radgowski used to keep toys in the visiting room of the Radgowski building, which allows visits face-to-face instead of through glass.
They took the toys away, probably 10 years ago.
It was too much hassle. The inmates didn’t pay attention to the kids, or were more interested in their wives or girlfriends. The children weren’t well-behaved. Kids argued over toys.
Now the prison offers books, so parents can read.
Chuck Marshall, a correction officer who observes such visits, said about 10 percent to 20 percent of inmates actually read to their children or engage them in a conversation.
Despite this, those who work with children of incarcerated parents said there are benefits to
supporting the relationship.
Many men reported to Families in Crisis that their most important motivator to stopping criminal behavior was caring for the kids, said Sue Quinlan, executive director of the agency.
Families in Crisis is a nonprofit group that assists families with members in prison.
Visits at Corrigan-Radgowski are a privilege — not a right.
A big brother
Marshall has worked at Corrigan-Radgowski almost 17 years, and has seen families and the children of prisoners come and go.
“I think kids, especially raised in the environment where their dad’s in jail, they think it’s cool,” he said. “They have no foundation to live off of. That’s what they’re taught. From the time they’re a baby, until they go to jail.”
He blames it on the economy, the schools, the lack of places for kids to go, the absence of family time. Though he doesn’t see much hope at times, he said communities could help some by offering more for young people.
“They need somewhere where kids can go feel safe, they can get something to eat if they’re hungry, and it’s a positive atmosphere,” he said. The children also have to want their lives to be different, he said.
“It’s all about want,” he said.
Marshall grew up as one of seven children, whose adoptive parents made him work like a “slave” on a dairy farm in Iowa, he said.
He left home at 15 and never went back. Now he volunteers for Big Brothers Big Sisters, and in this respect, he has company among his colleagues. The Department of Correction provides more volunteers for Big Brothers Big Sisters than any other state agency.
Marshall’s been a big brother for nine years, mentoring a child who lives in New London. The boy is 18 now, and like a son.
‘It’s not too late’
Charlene Baskerville, facility coordinator at Corrigan-Radgowski, coordinates the parenting class. It grew out of a meeting last spring by Doug Edwards, coordinator of Real Dads Forever, which encourages involvement of fathers.
“It’s not too late to start,” she said.
Baskerville said she chose about a dozen men who seemed interested in what Edwards had to say. Because of prison transfers, she had four men in the group last month. She encourages them to write letters to their kids and talk on the telephone.
Beth Merenstein, associate professor of sociology at Connecticut State University, said communities also can reach out.
“We have a moral responsibility to care,” she said. “Not just about everybody, but about the children in our society. It’s not their fault if their parent makes a mistake. ... And second of all, I would say (we) have an economic incentive. Do you want to make more money building prisons instead of building schools? Because if you don’t help these kids, you are guaranteeing that they end up in the same situation.”
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Students Fight Discrimination
Vol. 51, Issue No. 16, 16 Apr, 2016
The students of the University of Hyderabad have passed a resolution unanimously at their Students' Union's general body meeting on 12 April 2016 demanding a Committee Against Prejudice and Discrimination on campus. This committee is seen as a way to institutionalise their struggle against prejudice and discrimination, which saw an intensification in the past few months. This proposed CAPD will comprise all sections of the university community and will focus on redressing complaints of prejudicial treatment and discrimination within campus. Modelled on the anti-sexual harrassment committee, it is also expected to create awareness about overt and covert forms of discrimination and prejudice.
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Six towns in Maharashtra—Lonavla, Shirur, Deolali Pravara, Umred, Vengurla and Sangola, made remarkable achievements over the last one year in waste disposal and management. A combination of proactive and punitive measures ensured that waste management is seen as part of a larger set of social problems and community initiatives.
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Shirin Dalvi
Bhiwandi, the power loom town close to Mumbai, is reeling from several challenges that threaten its existence. Labourers, power loom owners and local people, predominantly Muslims, are struggling to cope with the financial and logistical problems of the power loom industry.
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Madhav Godbole
This is the full unedited text of the speech titled "Is India a Secular Nation?" that was supposed to be delivered on 4 April 2016 by former Union Home Secretary Madhav Godbole at a function organised by the Maharashtra branch of the Indian Institute of Public Administration. The lecture was suddenly cancelled three days before it was scheduled to take place.
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New DNA technology helps to solve 2010 Odenton murder
John Frenaye | November 02, 2018, 02:40 PM
Anne Arundel County Police announced that they have made an arrest in a nearly 9-year old crime. In February of 2010, a home invasion by two masked men ended with Michael Temple being shot. As a result of his injuries, he was a quadriplegic and confined to a wheelchair.
In 2015, he passed away and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled that his death was a result of the injuries sustained in the attack in 2010.
Police had been trying to solve this cold case for several years. Most recently they put out a call for public help in December 2015 with no response.
Having collected DNA from the crime scene, they sent it out to a Northern Virginia company, Parabon NanoLabs, which offers a product called “Snapshot Genetic Genealogy Analysis.” Utilizing public DNA databases (as opposed to government ones) they run an analysis to see if there is a match or a close match which might indicate a relative. In this case, it came back with a strong match.
Victim: Michael Temple
Frederick L Frampton
Suspect: Jonathan Ludwig
The DNA match, along with 8 years of police work was enough to convince Judge Pryal to issue a warrant for Frederick L. Frampton, 32 of Glen Burnie on October 31st. On November 1st, police took him into custody without incident and he is being held at the Jennifer Road Detention Center without bail.
The Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney will be seeking a Grand Jury indictment this month to bring the case to trial. According to Anne Arundel County Police Sergeant Jackie Davis, the other suspect in the home invasion, Jonathan Ludwig, has passed away and there will be no charges forthcoming.
This technology highlights the advancements in police work and is more frequently used to supplement traditional crime solving tactics.
With the proliferation of the “test your DNA” companies and the popularity of genealogy companies, public DNA databases are getting larger and larger. Consumers using these types of services are reminded to carefully examine the terms of service and note the specific allowed uses of the DNA that you submit.
Here is the audio from the press conference today with Deputy Chief William Krampf, County Executive Steve Schuh, and State’s Attorney Wes Adams:
Below is a release from the police department on the case and the arrest:
Homicide (Arrest Update) Odenton
On February 02, 2010 at approximately 2050 hours, members of the Anne Arundel County Police Department responded to 522 Williamsburg Lane, Odenton, Maryland for a report of a home invasion/shooting, which had just occurred.
Upon arriving, officers discovered the victim, identified as Michael Anthony Temple Jr., suffering from a gunshot wound to his upper body. Witnesses told police two white males fled the scene of the crime. Representatives from the Anne Arundel County Police Department’s Evidence Collection Unit responded to the scene and collected numerous items of evidence. Forensic analysis later revealed a suspect DNA profile. Attempts to identify the profile have not produced a match. As a result of Mr. Temple’s injuries, he became a quadriplegic. All investigative efforts at that time were exhausted and the case has remained open.
On June 18, 2015 Mr. Temple died and his body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) for a post mortem examination. On October 27, 2015, the OCME officially ruled Mr. Temple’s death as a homicide due to complications from the gunshot wound.
In October of 2015, the Anne Arundel County Police Department’s Cold Case Unit was assigned the investigation. After reviewing the evidence, Cold Case detectives sought the services of Parabon-NanoLabs, a DNA technology company that specializes in DNA phenotyping, the process of predicting physical appearance and ancestry from unidentified DNA evidence. Law enforcement agencies use the service for lead generation and narrowing suspect lists in criminal investigations. A DNA sample from one of the two suspects in the Temple investigation was submitted to Parabon, from which the company produced the attached composite.
Arrest Update – November 2, 2018
The composite and accompanying announcement of a $10,000 reward for information from the public yielded no viable leads. Detectives again reached out to Parabon, this time for genetic genealogy assistance. Information was provided by Parabon which named 32-year-old Fred Frampton Jr., of Glen Burnie, Maryland as a possible suspect in the murder of Michael Temple. Detectives conducted covert surveillance on Frampton and were able to obtain multiple DNA samples. That DNA was given to the Anne Arundel County Police Crime Laboratory to compare with the suspect DNA recovered from the February 2, 2010 crime scene. That DNA was a match.
On Wednesday, October 31, 2018, homicide detectives obtained an arrest warrant charging Fredrick Frampton with the murder of Michael Temple. A few hours later on November 1, 2018, investigators located and apprehended Fred Frampton. Investigators executed search warrants and conducted interviews with ultimately led them to the second suspect; Jonathan Ludwig. Ludwig was not charged as he died in March of this past year.
The Anne Arundel County Police are urging anyone with information to come forward by calling the Anne Arundel County Homicide Unit at 410-222-4731. Callers wishing to remain anonymous they can contact the Anne Arundel County Police Tip Line 410-222-4700 or Metro Crime Stoppers.
Fred Lee Frampton, Jr.
300 block Thelma Avenue
Charges:
First Degree Murder
Second Degree Murder
First Degree Assault
First Degree Burglary
Second Degree Assault
Forth Degree Burglary
Use of a handgun in violent crime.
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About the Author - John Frenaye
John is the publisher and editor of Eye On Annapolis. As a resident and business owner in Anne Arundel County for nearly 25 years, he realized that there was something missing in terms of community news–and Eye On Annapolis was born in late spring 2009.
John’s background is in the travel industry as a business owner, industry speaker, and travel writer. In terms of blogging and social media, he cut his teeth with MSNBC.com.
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with Jay Stringer | May 15, 2019
Licensed mental health counselor Jay Stringer talks about sexual brokenness and our culture's growing obsession with sex. A crisis, like the threat of divorce or the loss of a job, often drives people to seek help when their behavior is exposed, but often what they are taught is merely lust management--how to bounce your eyes, or avoid tempting situations--which doesn't get to the root issue. There is nothing random about a person's unique brand of sexual brokenness, and it's a counselor's job to uncover where that attraction comes from, and how to deal with it.
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Journey into the Heart of Man Journey with Jay Stringer, a guided journey for men and women out of unwanted sexual behavior. https://www.heartofmanjourney.com/
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Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Wednesday, May 15th. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson, and I'm Bob Lepine.
Have you ever stopped to think about what it is you’re trying to satisfy when you give in to sexual temptation or sexual sin? We’re going to talk about that today with Jay Stringer; stay with us.
And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us.
We’re going to be dealing with a subject today that has to be in epidemic proportions, although as soon as I say that I think, “This has been an issue throughout the history of the world,” so, is it epidemic in our day, or has it just been more hidden in past days?
But you see it as a pastor. You see the issue of lust showing up all the time.
Dave: All the time. I would love to say that it’s only in the people I’m preaching to, but it’s in me. Yes, it’s something that I’ve battled my whole life, and it’s something you address every single hour, every single day in ministry when you’re trying to help people.
Bob: And not just a male issue.
Dave: Yes.
Ann: Yes, it’s a female issue, and I believe it’s a growing female issue, and it affects every single home, and so often it’s in the dark, and no one knows, and it’s a secret. That really affects how we’re dealing with everything.
Bob: The reason I framed it as a conversation around lust is because we’re trying to get to the root of what manifests itself in a wide variety of expressions, whether that’s people looking at pornography or it’s adultery or it’s premarital sexual involvement or—we could go on down the list; we don’t need to. All of that can be traced back to a heart issue.
Dave: Yes, and I’m excited today, because we’re going to get to the root. So often people don’t go there, and we get to go there today.
Bob: Jay Stringer’s going to help us do that. Jay, welcome to FamilyLife Today.
Jay: Thank you for having me!
Bob: Jay is an author, he’s a counselor, a therapist in Seattle, Washington, a graduate of the Seattle school. He’s written a book called Unwanted, and the subtitle is How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing. This has become for you in clinical practice kind of the bull’s-eye of what you’re dealing with, right?
Jay: It is. Yes. So, as a therapist, a lot of people were coming to see me, and they started talking about different struggles that they were having with pornography, infidelity… What I started recognizing was that most of the strategies and techniques that people had been given were primarily what I would just refer to as “lust management.” So this was a lot of the bouncing of your eyes, trying to stop the flow of lust.
So what I started recognizing is that this really is not getting to the root of the issue, that a lot of times the clients that were coming to see me had been really using the same type of pornography from the time that they were 15, and now they were using the same exact search engine search when they were 38.
Bob: Wow.
Jay: So I started recognizing that, unless we really radically change this conversation, we’re going to continue to consign people to a lifetime of futility with this issue, and I just don’t think it needs to be that way.
Bob: You said the breakthrough for you in this issue was to ask the question, “Why?” Not just to look at the behavior, but to say, “What’s really going on in my affections and in my heart?” Where did that journey take you?
Jay: Yes. This was near the end of seminary, grad school, and I wanted to start having a lot more integrity with regard to some of the struggles that I was having with pornography and definitely some of my sexual fantasies that had been with me since I was a teenager.
When I was working through this with my therapist, one of the questions that she asked me was to “tell me a little bit about the things that you’re struggling with.” One of the things that she highlighted was the role that I had come to play in my family, and highlighted some of the gifts that God has given to me with regard to, “What does it mean for me as a man to see brokenness and heartache in people’s lives, and then to offer something of myself to them in the midst of their heartache?” She said, “That’s why you want to be a therapist.”
And yet, what I wasn’t kind of making the connection between is that was also what was getting woven into my sexual life as well.
Bob: Okay, I don’t understand the connection between wanting to be a helper and you looking at pornography.
Ann: Yes. Share with us, what did that look like in your family? What happened?
Jay: So, in my family, my dad was a minister, so—I’m only 35, but I know I’m dating myself to say that this was before cell phones, before email. So when they would try to get ahold of my dad, they would first call the church office, and then if they couldn’t get ahold of him there they would go and call our home phone.
So what happened is people within our congregation would leave voicemails, and this could be anything from a mental health crisis to—one that I really remember was, an elder’s wife called and said that “my husband just had an affair.”
So what I remember feeling in those moments is—
Ann: Well, did you hear those messages?
Jay: I heard those messages, yes.
Ann: Okay.
Jay: And could kind of tell that, “Everything is not well. Everything that you’re seeing on Sunday morning is not really what’s going on in people’s lives.” That was really intriguing for me, as a young kid, to kind of recognize there’s so much more to people’s stories than you would ever see just on a Sunday morning.
So what would happen was my dad would go and attend to a lot of these crises, but then I would watch my mom’s face become sad, at times angry, for my dad’s involvement within the church life. So as a middle child and just someone that I think God has really made my heart sensitive to heartache and to brokenness, that was part of the way that I would engage my mom, to just say, “Can I help out with the dishes? Can I do some vacuuming? Let’s go shopping together.” So that became part of the role that I played in my family, was to help soothe people in the midst of heartache.
There was a point in college where I was on Instant Messenger, and this person, random pop-up came through and said, basically, “Hi, do you want to start chatting?” I didn’t know anything about, you know, sexually explicit stuff on Instant Messenger at that point, and this person had sent me a photo, and it was really innocent, really beautiful, and I kind of bit, hook, line, and sinker.
Within a couple minutes she sent me another link to a pornography site. That was all around mother-oriented pornography. So there was something about that theme that something in my heart merged with, “I want this.” That was a really, really significant turning point for me with regard to getting latched onto pornography. I had seen it from time to time, but there was something about those themes that that was becoming latched on into my heart.
So what my therapist did many years later was to kind of help me to identify [that] some of the fantasies and some of the pornography searches actually had their origins further back than I would have ever conceived of.
Bob: So, you’re saying that how we get to indulging lust, whatever that looks like, is rooted in things that are not sexual at all?
Jay: What I’m saying is that one of the things that I needed to do was—my whole life I had asked God to help me stop my lust, but what my therapist was really inviting me into is, “How do I actually invite God to help me understand why I’m drawn to it in the first place?” So that’s, I really think, part of the task within sexual brokenness, is not to just try and stop your lust, but to really listen to it. Study, “Why is it that this particular fantasy is always the thing that gets me when I’m on a business trip?” or, “Why is it that whenever my spouse turns down intimacy I’m drawn to pornography at this stage?”
So, part of what I think God is inviting us into is to really be curious about how our sexual brokenness came to be, because when we’re at the height of our sexual brokenness all that we can see is our shame and failure, which then sets up strategies and techniques to try and stop it.
You know, I think part of what God does is God approaches us with curiosity to say, “How did this come to be?” Because part of what we all know is that the present sin is so often the door that opens up the wider work of the gospel to bring healing and transformation to our lives. So what I thought was this kind of random issue of pornography was actually inviting me back into a lot of the family wounds and emotional pain that I had never addressed, and they were showing up in my pornography use, but I had never gone back to actually heal some of the initial pain from that family system.
Bob: Okay, you know there are some folks who are hearing this conversation and going, “Okay, it sounds like Jay’s saying you’re not responsible for what you were doing when you were looking at stuff on the Internet when you were on Instant Messenger.” That’s not what you’re saying, is it?
Jay: That’s not what I’m saying. One of the things that I love about the Scripture is that they hold honor and honesty together, that we know that Abram, for instance, trafficked his wife. We know some of the most difficult things about the patriarchs and the kings of Israel because Scripture is always holding honor and honesty together.
So this process of kind of going back to some of the original pain is not about blaming your parents, but, like a good historian, you’re trying to understand, “How did this story actually form, and how do we make sure that we don’t repeat it in the future?”
One of the things that I think we talk about too much within evangelical circles is that we usually think about sexual brokenness in terms of, “It’s only an issue of lust.” What I would say is if the river of unwanted sexual behavior is flowing, that’s fed by a lot of different tributaries. That could be anger, that could be lust. So if we’re only focusing on lust, we’re actually missing so much of the other stuff that’s at play with regard to our sexual brokenness.
One of the things that some of Dr. Patrick Carnes—one of the things that he recognized was that 78 per cent of addicts report coming from homes that are very rigid, and 87 per cent report coming from families that are very disengaged. So, the reason why this is so important is because if you’re growing up in a very rigid family (this is a lot of rules, lots of regulations, usually one parent is ruling with an iron fist), part of what you realize is that they’re using their power in order to intimidate, and sometimes to invade, your life.
So, as a child, what do you do in the midst of being powered over, feeling like someone has complete authority? That’s often the context where, when you begin to get bonded to pornography, part of the appeal to that is that “now I have this realm that’s secretive, that no one else knows about, and I can actually get exactly what I want when I want it.” You don’t have that anywhere else in your life, so one of the initial things that happens within a rigid family is that there’s anger that’s brewing beneath the surface of that type of person.
So much later in life, whenever you’re in the midst of someone else, like a boss, an employer, a spouse that looks like they have more power than you, one of the ways that you learned how to get through that as a child was actually to go to pornography, not just for lust, but, “Oh, here’s this realm that I have unlimited power and I can get exactly what I want when I want it.”
Dave: I mean, hearing that as parent scares you. It’s like, “How in the world can I manage this precious balance, you know, that my son or daughter doesn’t spin off into some addictive thing because of the way I’m treating him?” You know, I’m a dad of three sons, so I’m listening thinking there are parents going, “Okay, how do I do this in a way that doesn’t allow this to happen to my son or daughter?” What would you say?
Jay: Yes. What you’re—I mean, I think part of just even your heart to ask that question is so much of kind of the part two of that, which is, most parents are more disengaged when they realize something about that, and what happens within disengagement is that when you’re going through something really difficult (maybe it could be a father or a mother that was really strict, you’re going through bullying or some type of abuse at school), if you didn’t have anyone that was there to hold you, to attune to you, to be able to say, “How are you? Your face looks different today,” part of what you learn is that intimacy is not found within a family system, it’s found outside of one.
So this is a lot of the initial seeds that begin to get formed with regard to lust, is that, “I can’t really trust close relationships or a family system to actually be the place where I can be known and loved in the midst of that,” so I begin to look for things that are external to the family in order to provide something of that.
Bob: I tend to think that the issues of lust that we’re dealing with in our culture today are because we live in a hyper-sexualized culture. I mean, I remember talking with one of your professors and a mentor to you, Dan Allender, and I said, “So, sexual abuse—” because he’s written on sexual abuse, “sexual abuse; what are the statistics?”
He goes, “Well, it depends on how you define sexual abuse.” He said at one level, 100 per cent of people who live in America have been sexually abused.
I said, “What do you mean?”
He said, “Have you ever seen an ad on TV that’s sexually exploitive?”
I go, “Sure, everybody has.”
He goes, “That’s my point. You’ve been sexually abused.”
So, this hyper-sexualized culture we live in—I tend to think that’s the problem. If we’d just turn it down in the culture, it would turn down in our lives. But I hear you saying there are other factors, maybe deeper factors, than just our hyper-sexualized culture.
Jay: Indeed. Yes. So, one of the things we found was that people who were the most significant users of pornography use had sexual abuse scores that were nearly 24 per cent higher than those who did not view pornography at all. So I think that’s one thing that we need to be really careful about.
Part of what gets all the attention is you see this 17-year-old, or you see this 40-year-old person who’s struggling with sexual addiction, but you never actually go back to where was their sexual story first corrupted. Why this is so important is that if most of us are growing up in families that have some level of rigidity and disengagement, the first experiences of sexual abuse (whether that’s someone introduces you to porn or someone that eventually molests you) is that they are not going to start with sexual exploitation.
What they’re going to do is they’re going to say, “Hey, Jay, you have a really nice arm. Let’s go play catch,” or, “Let’s go and play this video game. I know that your parents don’t really allow any type of entertainment, so let’s just go play.”
So what your body initially experiences is the sense of rest, and oxytocin, even, that when you’re touched, when you’re loved, and you’re saying, “This is the best thing ever.” But then as the abuse and the grooming process goes on, what your body begins to feel is some cortisol, some stress of, “Should this be happening? Should this not be happening?”
But then they introduce you to something like pornography or a part of their body that you’ve never seen before, and the way that God has wired our brains is to actually feel excitement, to feel arousal. So then you’re feeling some dopamine within your system, and what I want to underscore is this is a highly, highly chaotic cocktail that’s getting mixed. You’re feeling bonded to someone, but at the same time you’re feeling stress, and then you’re feeling arousal. What in the world are you supposed to do with that?
So what ends what happening much later in life, much to people’s surprise, is that they don’t feel sexually alive unless they’re remixing that original cocktail. So then they find themselves on a business trip and someone notices, “Wow, you’ve done a lot with your career.” Then it becomes very sexual and you feel arousal.
So what they don’t really recognize is that they’re actually remixing some of the original trauma cocktail that was established for them in the sexual abuse, but they’re only seeing it through the lens of, “I’m just a deeply broken sexual man that struggles with an addiction,” rather than going back to say, “Where was your sexual story stolen from you?”
Bob: We’re going to explore this subject in greater detail, but I just want to know, are you suggesting that if we can dig back, be the archeologist, find where that extension cord is plugged in, and where were we first broken, that we can get to a point in life where we are free from having to battle lust?
Jay: What I’m saying is that—I think of Jesus’s words around, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” Many of us would say that we go to pornography, some type of an affair, for some version—maybe a compromised, idolatrous version of comfort.
So part of what I would say back to you is, why are you outsourcing your comfort to something that brings greater shame to you? Why not go back to some of the formative experiences of your own heartache, where, as you begin to attend to these stories, something in your heart begins to break for that little boy or for that little girl in terms of what she was exposed to and the sexual story she got caught up in? Where there is grief, there will be change.
Bob: This is kind of deep water, right? Don’t you agree?
Dave: We are swimming in the deep end, yes, no question about it.
Ann: But it’s really good.
Dave: Yes, and what I’m excited about as we keep talking is, okay, so you as you trace that back to the root, the next question is, “Okay, why do I stay there if I’ve found the root?” and then, “How do I get out?”
Bob: Yes.
Dave: That’s where we need to go.
Bob: Well, and Jay, that’s where you go in your book. The book is called Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing, and we have copies of the book in our FamilyLife Today Resource Center, so listeners who are interested can get a copy of the book. Go online at FamilyLifeToday.com and order, or call to order: 1-800-FLTODAY. Again, the title of the book, Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing. Order online at FamilyLifeToday.com, or call to order at 1-800-358-6329. That’s 1-800- “F” as in family, “L” as in life, and then the word “TODAY.”
Pretty sober, pretty powerful conversation today with Jay Stringer, and David Robbins, who’s the President of FamilyLife, is here with us. We got into some deep water, didn’t we?
David: Yes, we are in the deep end, and I think it’s really good for all of us to get into these deep waters and to process it. I think what’s central to what Jay has been bringing us and asking the question, “Do we believe God is distant and unattached, do we functionally live out life that way, or do we believe that truly He is nearby and involved?” If we believe He is distant, we are left to deal with all of the issues we’ve been talking about today that we each have in our lives, and they all show up in different ways. We’re left to deal with those on our own.
But if He’s near and involved, we’re never facing this alone. God enters His people’s struggles and leads us out of our issues! He restores us, he reconciles us. So it makes perfect sense that God would walk into our personal brokenness and backstories if we let Him in, and He will lead us out of it for our good—for our families’ good, for our personal good, and for the world, generation after generation.
I just simply say, don’t try to do this on your own.
David: Do what Jay did. Let God in to help understand why you’re drawn to particular sin patterns—why do you keep going back to them?—and not just trying to stop it without the deeper understanding.
Bob: Yes. And that means time in the Word, it means time in prayer, it means time with godly counselors who can help reveal the purposes and the will of God. That’s good, David. Thank you for that.
Again, if listeners are interested in the book Unwanted, go to FamilyLifeToday.com to get a copy, or call us at 1-800-FLTODAY.
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They did this with the idea that as we head into the summer months we could head in in a good financial position, because summer months are usually months when we see a decline in donations.
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So would you consider either a one-time gift or becoming a Legacy Partner? We’ve had lots of new Legacy Partners join us this month, lots of people who have made donations. We still have a ways to go to take full advantage of this matching gift opportunity.
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We hope you can join us again tomorrow. Jay Stringer’s going to be here again, and we’re going to talk about what is really going on in our hearts. What’s the hunger that we’re trying to satisfy when we give in to sexual temptation and sexual sin? We’ll talk more about that tomorrow, and I hope you can join us for that.
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Jay Stringer is a licensed mental health counselor, ordained minister, and nationally requested speaker on the subject of unwanted sexual behavior (i.e., extra-marital affairs, pornography, buying sex, and others). Based in Seattle, Jay has spent the last decade on the frontlines of demand for sexual exploitation and pornography. Jay Stringer’s first book, Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing, is based on a multiyear research project into the stories of 3,800 men and women to address the key drivers of unwanted sexual behavior, why people paradoxically stay in a place of shame, and the journey towards a new sexual story. Jay holds an MDiv and master’s in counseling psychology from the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and received post-graduate training under Dr. Patrick Carnes and Dr. Dan Allender while serving as a Senior Fellow at the Allender Center.
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The Adidas “Speed Factory” Aims To Bring Local Customization To Manufacturing
The German sportswear giant makes a major robot-powered leap in design and production techniques.
By Louise Jack 3 minute Read
What will the future of manufacturing look like? It may just see us 3-D printing everything from clothes to spare auto parts. It’s an evolving landscape that will almost certainly involve enhanced customization, increased speed to market, and greater automation and flexibility. And many companies believe making the right move now has the potential to make or break a business in the years ahead.
Adidas Speed Factory is the global sports giant’s opening bet on this future of manufacturing with a first pilot version opening this week in Ansbach, Germany. The automated facility uses what the company calls “intelligent robotic technology.” This is the initial step in an overarching strategy that envisions the local manufacturing of products running alongside the more traditional mass production methods the company currently employs. The intention is to react to meet local needs, and respond quickly with market customization in locations all over the world.
Adidas vice president of technology innovation Gerd Manz says the company is just crossing the starting line of a marathon. “We’re going to run that marathon really fast, but our vision is we want to have a decentralized, flexible manufacturing network that can react locally to consumer demands,” says Manz. “We started looking into this quite a while ago and we’ve moved away from looking only at product innovation, which is traditionally the case in our industry. We’ve been trying to look more at innovation in experience as well, trying to start higher up the value stream.”
The Ansbach Speed Factory will deliver its first 500 robot-built shoes in the first half of next year. But the footwear produced there will not simply be identical copies of products already made elsewhere. “We’re not going to build robots that make shoes from yesterday,” says Manz. “We’re working with new materials and new manufacturing processes. It’s different shoes made in different ways.”
The new shoe will feature Adidas’s Boost cushioning technology and Manz says, “It’s a performance running shoe, with a stunning design that is enabled by the manufacturing technology we’re using and is not really possible to do in the traditional way.”
While the Ansbach Speed Factory is a pilot project and certainly viewed as a learning experience, Manz says that it may one day be possible to manufacture some of Adidas’s best-known styles using robotic technology. “We can make certain types of shoe, for example, we can make a Gazelle-type shoe, but it’s not going to be made in the same way as the traditional methods,” says Manz. “You may want your Gazelle in the future to use local materials, you might want it to be made widely adhesive-free and without chemicals. These are new things that are going to be enabled by the technology we are building.”
The company sees having local Speed Factories as being in addition to, rather than instead of, or intended to replace, their current manufacturing system. Furthermore, it’s also aimed at a attracting a whole new group of customers. Manz says, “We don’t see this as a competition, we see it as complementary to what is going on right now. Frankly, we are growing so fast at the moment we have a hard time finding capacity in our existing supply chain. This new model we are creating will talk to a different consumer. It is a market no one is in yet.”
At the heart of all this is the concept of “opening up” the company, whereby customers are involved in the creation of products. “We have a belief we can inspire and enable the creators out there, be so disruptively innovative and have people be part of that innovative mindset,” Manz says. “We really want to open up as a company. There is huge potential there.”
Once the first Speed Factory is up and running, the intention is to open a larger facility in Germany, and the company is also currently searching for suitable sites in the U.S. Manz says that how the plan develops will very much depend on lessons learned during each step of the way. New facilities may concentrate on reacting to local market nuances initially, then later focus on customization and adaptation on an individual basis.
“The first Speed Factory, as a pilot, is going to make 500 pairs, but when it comes to individualization down the road, when we are introducing Speed Factories in other markets, we will have to decide if we’re going to do individualization from the beginning,” Manz says. “What we’ll certainly do is market customization. From a tech perspective, it’s pretty similar. Generally we’re going to be much faster reacting to consumer needs, whether it’s individual or market needs.”
Louise Jack is a London-based journalist, writer and editor with a background in advertising and marketing. She has written for several titles including Marketing Week, Campaign and The Independent.
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Parco Massari
The park takes its name from the adjoining palace, which was built at the end of the XVIth. century, and which has the biggest public gardens within the city walls, covering an area of about 4 hectares.
Parco Pareschi
This was originally the garden of the Estense Palace, said to be of St. Francis, which was built in the second half of the XVth Century by Pietro Benvenuto of the Francescan Order, and then continued by Biagio Rossetti.
Urban Park G. Bassani
The territory of Barco is located between the city and the river Po. It was one of the Este's game reserves, related to the famous "Delizia di Belfiore", within the walls of the city, and so devoted to the entertainment and amusement of a refined and cultivated court.
The Duchesses’ Garden
The Duke’s Garden, also known as “Duchesses’ Garden”, has been organized between 1473 and 1481, after the transformations of Palazzo Ducale, which has been partially rebuilt by the will of Duke Ercole I of Este.
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FilmL.A. Data Provide Insight Into Local Production
FilmLA March 31, 2011 ResearchLeave a Comment
When California State Assemblymember Anthony J. Portantino called a hearing on March 18, 2011 to discuss California’s Film & Television Tax Credit, FilmL.A. was on the short list of organizations invited to testify.
FilmL.A. Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs Todd Lindgren delivered a short presentation to the Select Committee on the Preservation of California’s Entertainment Industry. Using a longitudinal analysis of on-location feature film production data, FilmL.A. was able to demonstrate the effect of the credit on moviemaking in the Los Angeles region.
“The year 2008 was the worst year on record for on-location feature film production in Los Angeles, at least until the following year,” Lindgren testified.
“In 2009, we punched through the floor a second time, to an all time annual low of just 4,976 feature film production days in the region. Were it not for the contribution of state-incentivized feature projects, we’d have dipped lower still in 2010,” Lindgren continued.
FilmL.A.’s testimony underscores the importance of having widely-available, reliable and objective data on state and regional film production. FilmL.A. has become a trusted source for production information and our production summary reports are used by state and local officials, journalists, academic researchers, policy analysts, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs seeking a better understanding of the local film production climate.
Visit our website to see some of the numbers for yourself. FilmL.A.’s next quarterly production summary will be released on April 5. District-specific breakdowns for the City and County of Los Angeles, and an update of our ongoing television pilot production report, will follow in the coming weeks.
Download FilmL.A.’s March 18 presentation:
On-Location Film Production in Los Angeles: 2010 Year-in-Review
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Kerala nun abuse case: Bishop Franco Mulakkal remanded to 12-day judicial custody
Kottayam | Published: September 24, 2018 5:24:34 PM
Roman Catholic Bishop Franco Mulakkal, arrested on charges of repeatedly raping a nun, was on Monday remanded to a 12-day judicial custody by a magistrate court in Kottayam district.
Mulakkal was produced before the court after completing his two-day police custody. The court remanded him to judicial custody till October 6. (IE)
Roman Catholic Bishop Franco Mulakkal, arrested on charges of repeatedly raping a nun, was on Monday remanded to a 12-day judicial custody by a magistrate court in Kottayam district. Mulakkal was produced before the court after completing his two-day police custody. The court remanded him to judicial custody till October 6. The clergyman has been shifted to the sub-jail in Pala after completing his medical examination at a government hospital there.
On Sunday, the bishop was taken to the St Francis Mission Home in Kuravilangad, where he had allegedly raped the nun, to reconstruct the crime scene. In its remand report submitted in the court, police had said the nun was subjected to rape and unnatural sex 13 times by the accused at the guest house of St Francis Mission Home between 2014 and 2016.
In her complaint to the Kottayam police in June, the nun had alleged that the priest raped her at a guest house in Kuravilangad in May 2014 and later sexually exploited her on several occasions. The nun had said she approached the police as church authorities did not act on her repeated complaints against the clergyman. However, the bishop has denied the charges.
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Fierce Freedom of Information Advocacy
How ‘Up’ Becomes ‘Down’
Jay Stanley:
Interview On Privacy
Poop & Scoop
The Fight to Know
Scientology’s Fierce Freedom of Information Advocacy
Actual Innocence
Sheila Matthews
No Asylum Here
How Will the World Speak My Name…
Strong Voices in the Land
Life as a Game
Vol. 47, Issue 3 ‣ world
Illustration by Peter Green Design
It was the early 1980s, and Nancy Rivard was in a funk.
Rivard worked as a flight attendant supervisor for American Airlines, but felt deeply unfulfilled. The sudden death of her father had sent her into a tailspin, and on a seven-year search for meaning in her life that would take her all over the world.
By the end, Rivard would give away all her possessions save a few bathing suits, move to Hawaii, and go back to being a flight attendant (rather than a manager). All the while she pondered: How can I make a difference?
“I ultimately realized that travel could be used as a means to awaken people and raise consciousness,” Rivard says. “My idea was to bring compassion into action.”
For all her international travels, Rivard knew a few things. One was just how little most kids in developing countries had, yet they were often content in a way that American children—even with so much, comparatively, in terms of possessions and comforts—were not. And she’d heard stories—awful stories—that spoke to the risk young people suffer at the whims of unscrupulous adults.
And so it was that in 1992, Rivard traveled to Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Earth Summit. There she pitched everyone from prime ministers to airline executives to media moguls on her idea for a humanitarian program she planned to call Airline Ambassadors. She met with literally hundreds of people.
“No one was the least bit interested,” she recalls.
Yet Rivard kept at it. And kept getting doors slammed in her face, kept meeting with rejection from her superiors at the airline where she worked, kept running into brick walls.
“That’s when this inner voice said, ‘Nancy, quit talking about it and start doing it!’”
And so she did. Rivard moved forward on her own—slowly at first, then gaining momentum and a league of committed volunteers. In 1996, Airline Ambassadors International (AAI) was established as a nonprofit organization. Today, the group is affiliated with the United Nations and recognized by the U.S. Congress.
What began as a grassroots network of airline employees using their travel-pass privileges to help others has grown to include thousands of students, medical professionals, families, retirees and airline workers volunteering as Airline Ambassadors of goodwill. AAI programs bring humanitarian aid to orphans and vulnerable children around the world; provide medical escorts for kids traveling to the United States for medical treatment, and train airline and airport workers to recognize and report human trafficking. In 2014 alone, AAI volunteers leveraged contacts with the airline industry to contribute more than 89,000 combined hours of service and spent a half million dollars of their own money to carry out the work.
Under its humanitarian aid program, the charity has established medical clinics, food programs, schools, vocational training centers, housing projects and sustainable agriculture throughout the developing world. AAI volunteers have hand-delivered $60 million in aid to needy children and families in 59 countries.
Cheryl Robinson is regional director for AAI Detroit and a humanitarian mission leader. She made a trip to the Philippines in April 2014 to bring aid to an orphanage near Manila, in the form of medicine and school supplies. Robinson, a Delta Airlines flight attendant, also took the home’s 86 fulltime residents on a visit to a nearby aquarium.
Volunteers hope to build a playground at the orphanage on their next trip. “We’ve also raised money to bring bicycles for all of the kids,” Robinson says.
Robinson and AAI volunteers visited 75 families living at a Manila dump site without running water. “You can’t even believe the conditions these people are forced to endure,” she says. “When we got there, many of them apologized for smelling bad because they had no water to use for bathing and showering. These people had no water for cooking, brushing their teeth, washing their clothes.”
AAI volunteers paid for a permanent water hookup for those at the dumpsite, “to make their lives at least somewhat more livable,” says Robinson.
Another Airline Ambassadors program provides medical escorts to children with health issues. To date, AAI volunteers are credited with escorting more than 1,500 babies and children from countries including Nepal, Burkina Faso, Uzbekistan, China, Indonesia, Guyana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Cameroon, Afghanistan, Honduras and Peru.
The children—identified by other nonprofit groups—are brought to the United States for surgery and treatment addressing serious conditions like congenital heart problems, cleft palate, scoliosis, severe burns and debilitating orthopedic issues. The founding agencies (like Healing the Children) save significant monies by utilizing flight attendants’ travel benefits to transport the young patients. For example:
“American Airlines has been invaluable to our program since it gives active employees high priority bookable passes when they go on escort trips,” says Margaret Whitehead, director of the AAI medical escort program, which counts 250 current and retired airline employees among its volunteers, 85 percent of whom are affiliated with American.
The support AAI volunteers provide is more than financial and logistic, adds Whitehead. The escorts also supply comfort to children fearful at the prospect of medical treatment and dealing with the anxiety of traveling far from home and away from their families. “These trips are anything but easy,” Whitehead says. “You’re taking a child from the only family they’ve ever known and you likely don’t speak the same language as they do. They leave literally kicking and screaming.”
Difficult as it is, the escorts feel honored to be a part of something so important, says Bunny Doi, a flight attendant based in Chicago. Doi has personally escorted more than 100 children for Airline Ambassadors. “We travel with these children and serve as a bridge with the foster families who care for them both before and after their surgeries,” she says. “It’s a huge responsibility to reassure terrified mothers that their child will be well taken care of, but it’s my privilege to be a part of something that helps children in need as they embark on a life-changing experience.”
Quite on the flipside, in February 2015 AAI conducted its 27th Child Trafficking Awareness Training at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, part of a global initiative to raise human-trafficking awareness—the third prong of AAI’s work. The Department of Justice estimates that between 17,000 and 25,000 children are trafficked each year through O’Hare, one of the largest U.S. airline hubs.
The program trains gate agents, security and other airport personnel in how to spot trafficking of babies, children, teens and young adults, both at the airport and onboard flights, and how to safely intervene. The initiative is particularly close to the heart of AAI volunteer Sandy Fiorini Hodges.
Hodges logged a 42-year career as a flight attendant before retiring in 2014. She spent much of that time frustrated by a system that seemed unwittingly designed to protect smugglers trading in the sexual enslavement of young boys, girls and women, and infants trafficked for adoption or harvested for organs.
“I would see the signs onboard my flights all the time and didn’t know what to do,” says Hodges, a founding member of Airline Ambassadors. “I’d jump off the plane, call police and be told they were sorry but there was nothing they could do. It was just heartbreaking. I saw it all the time. But this was in the 1970s and ’80s, before anyone even knew what human trafficking was.”
Hodges didn’t have much more success when she raised the issue to her superiors, who didn’t think it good for business to put out the image of flight attendants policing and profiling its flight customers. “It was unbelievably frustrating,” she remembers.
Airline Ambassadors brings humanitarian aid to orphans and vulnerable children worldwide and trains airport workers to recognize and report human trafficking.
In 1996, Hodges met Rivard and Airline Ambassadors was born—with human trafficking among the issues they were determined to address. It would be a dozen years before the timing was right to tackle it, but in 2008 AAI partnered with Deborah Sigmund of Innocents at Risk, a nonprofit founded to fight child exploitation and human trafficking. The partnership led to the implementation of an initiative enabling flight personnel to raise the alarm from the air and have officials confront suspected human traffickers on landing. Under that initiative, in 2009 AAI personnel correctly identified trafficking incidents on two different airlines originating in the Dominican Republic, leading to the cracking of a human trafficking ring involving 82 children.
“I feel like we’ve only taken a tiny nibble out of a huge problem,” Hodges stresses. “The thing is, when you see a situation that you know is trafficking and you choose to do nothing, you are complicit in what happens to that person as a result. You can’t look the other way.”
Alicia Kozakiewicz couldn’t agree more. The 27-year-old is earning her master’s degree in forensic psychology and recently became an Airline Ambassadors human trafficking awareness trainer. She’s also a survivor of human trafficking herself.
In 2002, when she was 13, Kozakiewicz was abducted outside her Pittsburgh home by a 38-year-old man she met in an Internet chat room. She was held hostage, chained to the floor in the man’s home, tortured and sexually assaulted for four days. A tip to the FBI—from someone who didn’t look the other way—led to Kozakiewicz rescue and to the perpetrator’s arrest and conviction.
“The discomfort you may be feeling in interrupting your trip to Disney World is nothing compared to the hell a child may be going through,” she says.
AAI conducted its first training of flight crews in Europe in 2013 and in the past two years has made presentations at the annual Interpol Global Trafficking in Human Beings Conference.
A forthcoming AAI-developed mobile phone app will permit a growing Airline Ambassadors Hero Force—made up of onboard air personnel and the flying public—to report suspected cases of trafficking on the fly. And Chicago’s O’Hare is the first U.S. airport with plans to widely display AAI human-trafficking awareness materials to the flying public.
“I know the fear is that flight attendants and others will become vigilantes,” says AAI president Rivard. “But at the same time, our message is never to intervene yourself. It’s all about discreetly recognizing and reporting.”
Rivard retired from her flight-attendant career in August 2013 and now dedicates all of her time to the volunteer group she founded.
She sees herself more as a conduit than a hero, driving—among other things—awareness of the tragedy of human trafficking, which is the world’s fastest-growing criminal industry, according to the U.S. Department of State.
“This effort is slowly taking hold as the travel industry comes to realize that we all must work together in the protection of the public good,” Rivard says. “As people become enlightened, they can’t help but feel galvanized by an issue that’s so fundamental to our common humanity. There’s much more to be done. But we have a foot in the door, and now that we’ve awakened people, anything is possible.”
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Obama's Press Conference
https://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2011/06/obama-press-conference-2
President Obama has done a lot of public appearances and press conferences by this point in his administration, but somehow each time he does a new one I come away marveling at what he says.
Today's press conference began with a classic Obama straw man: "Our economic challenges are not going to be solved overnight," he said. No one claims they will be. But at this point, Mr. Obama hasn't been president just "overnight," he's been president for two and a half years.
It proceeded to classic Obama misleading statements. "I spent the last two years cutting taxes for ordinary Americans," the president said. Not Americans who smoke cigarettes or use tanning salons, and not Americans who choose not to buy health insurance, all of whom the president raised taxes on.
Mr. Obama then proceeded to classic Obama divisiveness, pitting "millionaires and billionaires," "oil companies," "hedge fund managers" and "corporate jet owners," against having to "cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship." Come on. The money from the college scholarships actually winds up in the pockets of college professors, a key Democratic constituency.
More Obama class warfare: "The revenue that we're talkin' about isn't comin' out of the pockets of middle-class families that are strugglin'" but rather from "people who are doin' extremely well."
It's as if Mr. Obama thinks that raising taxes on oil companies or corporate jets will take money out of the pockets exclusively of CEOs, rather than of the shareholders of these companies, who include lots of "middle-class families" and public and union pension funds.
The president kept pressing this point about what he called a tax break for corporate jets, at one point pitting the tax break against not just college scholarships but also "the National Weather Service" (there's a left-winger's idea of a necessary and successful government program that can't be done privately and is oh-so-reliable-and-accurate!), "critical medical research," and "food inspection." The president said he didn't want to "compromise your kid's safety so that some corporate jet owners can get a tax break."
This from a president who flies around in a 747 and a helicopter that are completely paid for by the taxpayers. The "tax break" he is apparently complaining about is one that provides a five-year depreciation schedule for "Part 91" corporate jets, versus a longer seven-year depreciation schedule for "Part 135" commercial jets. Whatever the federal revenue is at stake on this one, it can't be so large that it's worth Mr. Obama turning himself into the accountant-in-chief.
In response to a question from NBC's Chuck Todd about whether he thinks the debt limit or the War Powers Act are constitutional, Mr. Obama said, "I'm not a Supreme Court justice." What an astounding default from a president who takes an oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." Mr. Obama was willing to say that the Defense of Marriage Act signed by President Clinton is unconstitutional, though on the question of whether he favors same-sex marriage, Mr. Obama, who has in the past said he personally opposes it, said, "I'll keep on giving you the same answer until I give you a different one, and that won't be today."
The president, who recently visited Puerto Rico, went on an extended tour of Europe, and spoke at Democratic National Committee fundraisers in Florida and New York, lectured Congress about the debt-limit negotiations, "You need to be here. I've been here. You stay here, let's get it done."
In defense of his war on Libya without congressional authorization, Mr. Obama lamely offered, "I've had all the members of Congress over to talk about it...such consultating [sic] is entirely appropriate."
Mr. Obama touted his administration's review of regulations by claiming, "This is unprecedented. No administration has ever done this before." He must have missed Vice President Gore's 1999 speech: " In the United States, we forced agencies to cut 16,000 pages of needless regulation, and 640,000 pages of internal rules."
In support of a trade deal with Korea, the president claimed that there are a lot of Korean cars on American roads, but "you don't see any American cars in Korea." In fact American government statistics show that in the first four months of 2011 America exported $141 million worth of cars to South Korea.
What a performance. What a president.
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Science Fiction Focus – Derek Künsken, Author of The Quantum Magician – The Technology and Science of Science Fiction Writing and What Happens When Science Fiction Becomes a Reality
Derek Künsken, the author of The Quantum Magician, delivers an interesting account of his background and path to science fiction writing. Künsken is a passionate writer of science fiction and fantasy predominantly, and his love of all interesting subjects, people, and places keeps him fueled and always pushing to create more. Since he was ten years old, Künsken has been singularly focused on his desire to write and create. Künsken talks about his journey from early childhood through his university work in molecular biology, to working with street kids in Central America, and how he finally came back to his first love—writing. He discusses his work, from short fiction to novels, and highlights the relevant physics that are featured heavily in his writing as he weaves tales about extreme situations in the universe and the existence of life in other environments.
Künsken contrasts the novel world vs. the movie world and how film and TV don’t usually, because of the time limitations, delve deep into hard science. He describes that in the novel world, it is much easier to go into detail and explain the science that is involved in the subject matter, sometimes simply because there is just more of an opportunity in the written novel to elaborate and get into the fine details. And he delivers an interesting perspective on early science fiction film and television. In his discussion, he explains how Star Trek, the TV show, didn’t go deep into any actual science of the technological devices they used but rather took an interesting look at the impact of such scientific technology on those who were able to access it.
Künsken gives an overview of his method for creating The Quantum Magician, and discusses what intrigued him, and compelled him to write the novel. He explains that it was actually his own personal anxiety about the progress and direction of technology that was a motivating factor. He wanted to look at the uncomfortable questions that could come forth, such as what happens when people are given the opportunity to engineer their children before they are born, by changing their DNA, and how would a society function in space with no police presence, etc. From biological quantum computing to eleven-dimensional space and wormholes, to time travel and beyond, Künsken describes how he wanted to allow himself to push his most thought-provoking scientific and technological ideas. And he details his process for implementing the math, science, neurology, and technology into his work, describing his use of research coupled with his own personal knowledge from his university studies.
The science fiction author provides his personal thoughts on the genre in general and some of its common tropes and structures. He states that science fiction is particularly good at delivering cautionary tales. He talks about the unintended consequences of advanced science in a practical sense and how society may interpret the use of this science and technology as it advances, and the legal implications as well.
As a guest speaker at many world conferences on scientific topics, Künsken states that he is constantly meeting interesting minds in the scientific world, and he explains that amazing new scientific ideas and theories are being pushed forward at an astounding pace by these inventors of the future.
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This Tiny Biotech Pins Hope on U.S. Approval
A new treatment of Fabry disease could be available in the United States as soon as 2018.
Todd Campbell
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Amicus Therapeutics (NASDAQ:FOLD) already markets its Fabry disease drug Galafold overseas, and it hopes it will soon be able to help patients in the U.S., too. Yesterday, management reported that it had completed the application for Galafold's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
The FDA has 60 days to accept or reject the application. If it's accepted, the FDA will set a date to announce an official go/no-go decision on Galafold. An eventual approval could significantly improve this company's financial position, so let's take a closer look at Galafold's opportunity.
What's Fabry disease?
Fabry disease patients don't produce enough of a protein that's responsible for breaking down a fatty substance called GL-3. As a result, GL-3 builds up in vital organs, including the heart and kidneys. Over time, the buildup increases the risk of kidney failure, stroke, and heart attack.
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Commonly, Fabry disease is diagnosed when patients are in their 20s or 30s, and despite infusions of the missing enzyme, Fabry disease patients typically live shorter lives than the general population. There are about 3,000 Fabry disease patients in the U.S. and about 10,000 patients worldwide, about half of whom receive treatment.
A nine-figure opportunity
Enzyme replacement therapies (ERT) provide the alpha-gal A enzyme that's needed to break down GL-3. While Fabry disease is uncommon, ERTs still generate hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales. Shire's (NASDAQ:SHPG) Replagal is sold in Europe and Sanofi's (NASDAQ:SNY) Fabrazyme is available in both Europe and the United States. In 2016, Replagal's sales were $452 million and Fabrazyme's sales were $715 million, at current exchange rates.
Galafold's market opportunity is smaller than those two drugs, though. Unlike ERTs, Galafold acts as a chaperone drug that stabilizes alpha-gal A in patients who still produce some of it. According to Amicus Therapeutics, between 35% and 50% of Fabry disease patients can be treated with Galafold. Nevertheless, an approval could still produce meaningful revenue because Replagal and Fabrazyme are expensive therapies, and Galafold will be pricey, too.
Galafold's currently on the market in Europe, so that market offers some insight into how big of a deal a U.S. OK could be. In the third quarter, Galafold's net product sales totaled $10.9 million, and at the end of October, there were 260 reimbursed Galafold patients. If we divide the company's third-quarter revenue by the number of patients in October, we get a rough estimate of about $42,000 per patient per quarter.
That estimate is likely conservative, however, because new patients are coming on to treatment every week. In July, there were 179 patients on Galafold, so if we calculate revenue per patient that way, we end up with an estimate of about $61,000 per patient per quarter. The reality is that the real number is probably somewhere in between those estimates.
There will be 300 patients on Galafold at year-end, according to the company. If we use the above average revenue-per-patient figures, fourth-quarter revenue could be between $12.6 million and $18.3 million, giving Galafold an annualized sales run rate of $50 million to $73 million. At the midpoint, we end up with about a $62 million run rate, and that's only from European countries that have reimbursement or access agreements with Amicus Therapeutics.
Fiscal Quarter
Galafold Sales
Q1 2017 $4.2 million
Q3 2017 $10.9 million
Q4 2017 TBA
Data source: Amicus Therapeutics.
Assuming that Galafold wins FDA approval next year, it isn't a stretch to think the drug can be used to treat a similar number of patients as in Europe. Assuming half of the 3,000 patients in the U.S. are under treatment and one-third of them will end up on Galafold, then Galafold could be used in 500 Americans and generate between $21 million and $30.5 million per quarter in additional revenue, based on our per-patient revenue estimates.
Uncertain future
Amicus Therapeutics issued enough stock earlier this year for management to think it has enough money to get it into 2019. Theoretically, that means it has enough to get Galafold to market in Japan, where a regulatory decision is expected in the first half of 2018, as well as in the U.S. in the second half of 2018, if all goes well at the FDA.
It's anyone's guess, however, what the FDA will do. Previously, it told Amicus Therapeutics that it didn't have enough data to support an approval. Now, it's saying it will consider the same data used to win approval in Europe. If the FDA approves Galafold, it would be a big win, but even if it doesn't, the company's not out of luck.
Galafold's approval in Europe means that at least some money is rolling in. The company also has an intriguing Pompe disease therapy in development.
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Xinjiang Goldwind: The Profits Are Blowin' In The Wind
Mark L. Clifford Contributor
I write about green technology and business innovation in Asia.
A technician from Xinjiang Goldwind works on a wind turbine. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
With the China’s June market meltdown, it’s nice to find companies with good corporate fundamentals. So when I noticed that China’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology Co. Ltd., successfully floated its first U.S. dollar debt offering in July, I decided to take another look at the company.
I’ve long been impressed with Goldwind. Founder Wu Gang, who hails from the remote western province of Xinjiang, is a pioneer in the Chinese wind industry. Wu learned English when he was sent down to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution and braved blistering cold as part of the team that did the wind measurements to help get ready for China’s first wind farm, at Dabancheng, back in the late 1980s. He’s been building ever since – and he’s shown he can deliver. Today, Goldwind ranks second only to Denmark’s Vestas among global wind turbine makers.
Goldwind’s business is so strong that on July 9 the company came out with a “positive profit alert” to let investors know that for the first half of 2015, Goldwind’s profit could be as much as quadruple the year-earlier period.
In late July, Goldwind issued its first international bond. The $300 million 3-year debt, which was credit-enhanced and A1 rated by Moody’s, was marketed as a “green” bond because Goldwind is a pure-play wind company. Goldwind said that demand for the deal was almost four times larger than the offering. The company said that most of the issue was snapped up by mainland Chinese buyers. Even though it was priced to yield a bit more than its 2.5% coupon, the fund-raising meant significantly cheaper money for Goldwind than the $500 million of three-year Renminbi-denominated domestic debt it issued at 4.98% in June.
Goldwind’s Hong Kong-listed shares are up just over 30% year-to-date, (the shares also trade on the Shenzhen exchange), benefiting from China’s increasing commitment to expand wind power as a percentage of its overall energy mix.
China’s move to green energy is often obscured by its poor air quality and generally dismal environmental record. But things are changing. Last year, in a historic Joint Agreement with the U.S., President Xi Jinping set a national goal for peak CO2 emissions around 2030, and said that 20 percent of the country’s energy would come from non-fossil fuel sources by the same year. China already has the world’s largest installed base of wind turbines (though the U.S. generates more electricity from wind power), China plans to more than double its existing wind energy generation capacity by 2030 (from 95 gigawatts of installed wind currently) to 200 gigawatts. By way of comparison, Germany’s total electrical generating capacity today is about 180 gigawatts.
Goldwind has mostly been a domestic player, but it stands to benefit from China’s latest big initiative: The One Belt One Road program will see China move west across Central Asia. In Pakistan, Goldwind has already supplied turbines for a 49.5 megawatt, $130 million dollar wind project which began commercial operation in November 2014. In May, it announced another 30 megawatt project in eastern Pakistan, this time partnered with HydroChina.
Like many publicly-traded Chinese companies, Xinjiang Goldwind has significant state ownership. China Three Gorges, operator of the eponymous hydropower dam, and its subsidiary China Three Gorges New Energy together are the largest single shareholder, with a consolidated ownership stake of just under 25% and a board seat. China Three Gorges is itself wholly owned by the central government’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC).
With less than half its shares owned by the government, Goldwind is not a state-owned enterprise (SOE), but the company long has enjoyed central government support as well as the active backing of the regional Xinjiang government. Nonetheless it distinguishes itself from the sluggish growth and less than stellar track records of many SOEs. A leader in wind turbines, the company has found itself in the right place at the right time with the right product, a trend that is likely to continue. So, too, is the state support as China urges its companies to build abroad. For Goldwind, having good products in an expanding industry coupled with strong state backing is proving a powerful and profitable combination.
Mark L. Clifford
I am the executive director of the Hong Kong-based Asia Business Council. I spent 25 years as a journalist and have authored or co-authored seven books, mostly on Asia. ...
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Published February 27
China-funded institutes trying to 'influence' US public opinion should be constrained, Senate report says
By Rich Edson | Fox News
China is using 'economic espionage' to grab US technology
WASHINGTON -- Senators are considering legislation to constrain Chinese government-funded institutes they say are spreading propaganda and limiting criticism of China at hundreds of elementary, middle and high schools and colleges across the United States.
Confucius Institutes “depict China as approachable and compassionate; rarely are events critical or controversial,” according to a bipartisan report from the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. “The Chinese government approves all teachers, events, and speakers. Some U.S. schools contractually agree that both Chinese and U.S. laws will apply.”
In the last 15 years, the Chinese government has opened more than 100 Confucius Institutes on college and university campuses in the U.S. and are also in more than 500 primary schools, according to the report. Since 2006, according to the subcommittee, China has directly provided more than $158 million to U.S. schools for Confucius Institutes. Investigators said they found no evidence of espionage at the institutes as their investigation, they said, focused on propaganda and influence.
“That level of access can stifle academic freedom and provide students and others exposed to Confucius Institute programming with an incomplete picture of Chinese government actions and policies that run counter to U.S. interests at home and abroad,” said Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, the subcommittee’s chairman.
“Given what our country experienced during the 2016 election and what we’re preparing to grapple with in 2020, it is critical that we be vigilant in combatting foreign efforts to influence American public opinion,” said Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., the subcommittee’s senior Democrat.
CHINA TRYING TO INFILTRATE US COLLEGES TO RECRUIT SPIES, INDOCTRINATE STUDENTS, INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES SAY
Confucius Institutes and the schools that host them say they’re a resource to help Americans learn about Chinese language and culture in an increasingly interconnected world. As China’s economy and influence grows, there’s a greater demand for those who speak Chinese languages and understand China’s culture.
“Just as Confucius is perhaps one of the best-known teachers throughout history, the institutes named after him are recognized for promoting knowledge, understanding, and thus friendship across the globe,” said a statement on the website of the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland, the first institute established in the U.S. when it opened in 2004.
Earlier this month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report detailing a case study of 10 schools’ Confucius Institutes. It found, “All Confucius Institute directors were U.S. school employees who felt they–not China–had control of the institute.”
However, the subcommittee report cites reported Chinese government statements acknowledging their propaganda value to address criticism over human rights, Taiwan and individual freedom.
“We’re not against cultural exchange or language learning outright. We do view and recognize the value in this globalized world of cultural exchange, of foreign exchange, of language learning,” said a subcommittee investigator. “There are concerns schools need to be aware about how these things operate. And the public, faculty and students also need to be aware.”
The institutes, the schools they contract with and the Chinese government should reveal the details of their agreements, said the investigator. Without achieving that transparency, the investigator said senators are exploring legislation to address those concerns or would even pursue ways to shut them down.
OUTRAGE AFTER CHINESE COMPANY MAKES BID TO BUY NJ MUSIC SCHOOL
In its study, the GAO found, “While 42 of 90 agreements include language indicating that the document was confidential, some agreements were available online or are shared upon request. Some officials at schools that did not post agreements online said this was consistent with handling of other agreements.” The report also read, “Nonetheless, school officials, researchers, and others suggested ways schools could improve institute management, such as by renegotiating agreements to clarify U.S. schools' authority and making agreements publicly available.”
Last year, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, sponsored a provision included in the National Defense Authorization Act that prohibits Pentagon funding of Confucius Institutes. He’s also pushed a bill that would lower the threshold for universities reporting foreign contributions from $250,000 to $50,000.
The subcommittee investigation found that nearly 70 percent of U.S. schools that received more than $250,000 from the Chinese government for Confucius Institutes failed to properly report those contributions to the federal government.
In 2010, the State Department granted more than $5 million to create American cultural events on Chinese campuses.
The department’s inspector general determined the U.S. effort was “'largely ineffective' in its mission due to Chinese interference” and closed the program late last year, according to the report.
“As China has expanded Confucius Institutes here in the U.S., it has systematically shut down key U.S. State Department public diplomacy efforts on Chinese college campuses,” said Senator Portman.
While there are more Confucius Institutes in the U.S. than any other country, the Chinese government has spent more than $2 billion expanding them across the world, according to the subcommittee.
“They show no signs of slowing,” said an investigator.
Rich Edson is a Washington correspondent for Fox News Channel. Prior to that, he served as Fox Business Network's Washington correspondent.
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A selection of colorimetric and fluorescent enzyme substrates for the glycosidase, also known as glycoside hydrolases or glycosyl hydrolases. Glycosidases primary role is in the hydrolysis of glycosidic bonds found in complex sugars.
1-O-Methyl-alpha-D-galactopyranoside
1-O-Methyl-α- D- galactopyranoside 1-O-Methyl-galactoside 1-OMe-alpha-D-Gal MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRADE White to off white crystalline powder A gratuitous α-galactoside inducer Store at 2-8°C and protect from light. Features CAS#: 3396..
1-O-Methyl-alpha-D-mannopyranoside
1-O-Methyl-mannose 1-OMe-α-D-Man MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRADE Features CAS#: 617-04-9 Molecular Formula: C7H14O6 Molecular Weight: 194.18 g/mol ..
1-O-Methyl-beta-D-glucuronic acid, sodium salt
1-O-Methyl-β- D- glucuronic acid, sodium salt 1-O-Methylglucuronide sodium salt 1-OMe-beta-D-GlcA · Na MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRADE White to light yellow crystalline powder 1-O-Methyl-β-D-glucuronic acid is a β-glucronidase inducer. Store at 2-8..
2-Naphthyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside
2-Naphthyl-α-D-glucopyranoside β-Naphthyl-α-glucoside β-Nap-α-D-Glc MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRADE White to slightly off white crystalline powder Forms a colorless, clear solution when dissolved 1% in a warm water/ethanol mixture (1:1) ..
2-Naphthyl-alpha-L-fucopyranoside
2-Naphthyl-α- L-fucopyranoside β-Naphthyl-α-L-fucoside β-Nap-α-L-Fuc MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRADE White to off-white crystalline powder Chromogenic substrate for α-L-Fucosidase. 2-naphthol is released upon hydrolyzation. By simul..
2-Naphthyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside
2-Naphthyl-β- D-galactopyranoside β-Naphthyl-β-galactoside; β-Nap-β-D-Gal MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRADE White to off-white crystalline powder 2-Naphthyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside is a substrate for beta-galactosidase. 2-naphthol is released upon hydroly..
2-Nitrophenyl-N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminide
2-Nitrophenyl-N-acetyl- β-D- glucosaminide o-Nitrophenyl-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucoside ONP-beta-D-GlcNAc MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRADE White to off white crystalline powder Chromogenic β-glucosaminidase substrate yielding a yellow solution upon cleavage. &nbs..
3-Indoxyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside anhydrous
Y-β-D-GLC 3-Indoxyl-β-D-glucopyranoside anhydrous Y™-β-D-glucoside Y™-β-D-Glc, Y-Gluc MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRADE White to off-white crystalline powder Chromogenic substrate for β-D-glucosidase, yielding a blue precipitate upon cleavage...
3-Indoxyl-beta-D-glucuronic acid, cyclohexylammonium salt
Indoxyl β-D-glucuronide cyclohexylammonium 3-Indoxyl-β-D-glucuronic acid cyclohexylammonium salt Y™-β-D-glucuronide CHX salt Y™-β-D-GlcA • CHX MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRADE White to off-white crystalline powder 3-Indoxyl-β-D-glucuroni..
4-Aminophenyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside
4-Aminophenyl-β-D-gal MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRADE 4-Aminophenyl-β-D-galactopyranoside is a substrate for β-galactosidase. It is also a weak β-D-galactosidase inducer and can be used in affinity chromatography for isolation of galactose-binding. The 4-aminophenyl rel..
4-Methylumbelliferyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside
4-Methylumbelliferyl-α-D-glucopyranoside 4-MU-α-D-Glc EINECS: 241-794-0 Beilstein: 1690776 S-Phrases: S24/25,S22 MDL: MFCD00067661 Features CAS#: 17833-43-1 Molecular Formula: C16H18O8 Molecular Weight: 338.32 g/mol ..
4-Methylumbelliferyl-alpha-L-fucopyranoside
4-Methylumbelliferyl-α- L-fucopyranoside 4-MU-α-L-Fuc MOLECULAR BIOLOGY GRADE White to off-white powder Fluorogenic substrate for α-L-Fucosidase, yielding a blue fluorescent solution upon cleavage. Store at -15°C in the dark. ..
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Frank May, 1934-2006
Family, friends and colleagues of Frank May were shocked by his sudden and unexpected death, walking on the Pentland Hills near his home in Edinburgh, while keeping fit for his 2006 field season in the Scottish Highlands.
Frank was introduced to the Highlands while a student at Kingston Polytechnic (now University) by Head of the Geology Department, Doug Whitten - who each summer packed the whole department into a lorry and took them camping in Assynt. The direction of his future career was consolidated when he accepted a PhD project to map the northern part of Lochalsh, in the West Highlands, supervised by Professor John Sutton at Imperial College, London.
Frank proved to be a dedicated, thorough, careful and meticulous field mapper, never happier than when he was out in the field tracing complicated outcrops and complex structures, and never daunted by adverse weather conditions. It was therefore inevitable that he would apply to join the British Geological Survey and would be accepted into the Highland Unit to complete the geological mapping of the Scottish Highlands, a task to which he dedicated himself for almost 50 years.
Frank's first assignment was as part of the BGS team mapping the Loch Lochy Sheet 62E, followed by work on the Elgin Sheet 95. In the succeeding years he worked on a series of sheets adjacent to the Great Glen, including Dalwhinnie (63E), Glen Roy (Sheet 63W), Invermoriston (Sheet 73W), Glen Affric (Sheets 72W) and Kintail (Sheet 73E). Parts of these areas are relatively inaccessible, being reached only from tented camps and by boat.
Frank went on to map the Shetland Islands and Fair Isle (Parts of Sheets 123, 124, 125, 126 and 128, 166, 59N-02W, 60N-02W) where he formed a good working relationship with Professor Derek Flinn. As well as mapping metamorphic rocks Frank was equally conscientious in mapping the Quaternary 'Drift' deposits. Frank's contributions to the mapping and interpretation of the geology of the Highlands is recorded in maps and sheet memoirs, in several of which he was the lead author, and also in his original field slips and fair copies, now housed in the Survey Offices at Murchison House.
In addition to his mapping duties Frank was called upon log the geology of tunnels for hydroelectric schemes and to report on mineral (copper and kaolin) in Shetland, barytes in Aberfeldy, and sand and gravel deposits in the Highland Region. He also acted as a professional witness for the local authority during a claim by the railway company to close the track between Kyle-of-Lochalsh and Inverness following a landslide on the southern side of Loch Carron, which lay within his PhD mapping area.
From time to time he was called upon to lead excursions for local geological societies to the areas in which he was working. After retirement he was contracted by the Survey to revise geological map sheets in the West Highlands along the Moine Thrust, work which he was looking to continue during the 2006 field season.
Frank's memorial is to be found in his maps, memoirs and published papers. His colleagues in the Highland Unit of the Survey agree that he was the best geological field mapper of his generation and a worthy successor to the original surveyors (Peach, Horne and Clough) of the geology of the West Highlands.
Frank is survived by his wife Annette, children Linda, Gavin and Lucy and one grandchild.
Tony Barber
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A Massive Lake Beneath Greenland's Glaciers Has Collapsed
By Sarah Zhang on at
Under Greenland's frozen surface is a vast network of channels, crevasses, and basins—its "glacial plumbing system." A few years ago, the water suddenly disappeared from a subglacial lake, which then collapsed into a funny silhouette that NASA likens to a "mitten", but I think looks more like a waving Yeti.
The subglacial lake, a pool of water beneath the ice, drained out into a nearby fjord sometime between mid-August and September of 2011. The speed at which it emptied stunned glaciologists. They recently published a paper in Nature describing the lake. According to NASA's Earth Observatory:
Water rushed from the lake at a rate of about 215 cubic metres per second and caused the ice surface to collapse, forming a 70-metre-deep basin. "This drainage event is perhaps the first recorded instance of a rapid drainage of a subglacial lake in Greenland," said NASA glaciologist Kelly Brunt.
The lake is now slowly refilling again, and this time, the warmer temperatures from climate change may have something to do with it.
Read more about the subglacial lake at NASA Earth Observatory.
Top image: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and acquired by special request with the support of Theresa Arvidson (NASA/GSFC) and Eugene Fosnight (USGS/EDC).
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Theftivals: One in five Scots are victim of festival theft
New figures just released have found that one in five people (20%) in Scotland have been victims of theft at a UK festival, with the average amount of stolen goods amounting to £126 per person.
Some 29% of the people who have had items stolen have had so from their person, while theft hot spots included onsite accommodation (53%) and their cars parked onsite (18%).
The research by Together Mutual Insurance comes as 1.9 million Brits are confirmed as attending a UK festival in 2017 with numbers expected to rise due to the weak pound discouraging travel abroad.
Must-grab festival items for thieves include mobile phones (11%), cash (11%) and cameras (6%).
When it comes to reporting thefts, almost two thirds (65%) of people from Scotland took time to inform the festival authorities or police in a last ditched attempt to catch the thief.
The study also asked Scots to name which UK festivals they had been to, with T in the Park coming in at number one.
The top five was:
T in the Park (48%)
Glastonbury (24%)
Reading (15%)
Creamfields (14%)
V Festival (8%)
Jon Craven, CEO of Together Mutual Insurance, who commissioned the survey, said: “Our advice for festival-goers this summer is to take advantage of the security options such as onsite lockers, even if you have to pay a few pounds for it.
“We would also recommend that people insure their items before they attend, that way they are protected if something does go wrong.”
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By GlobalCarsBrands October 11, 2014 Cars Brands No Comments
French cars are most popular in European market, as based on a survey about 25% vehicles driven in Europe are made in France. Although several major car companies have set manufacturing facilities in France, the traditional French car brands par excellence remain Peugeot, Citroen and Renault. Additional brands worthy of mention include Venturi, an exotic automobile manufacturer located in Monaco and Bugatti, which was acquired by Volkswagen in 1998. Alpine is a brand mainly famous for race and sports cars. We also mention other auto manufacturing companies that still exist today in France, and the ones that contributed before.
List And Logos Of All French Car Brands
French car manufacturers are rated as top 10 in the world and produce about 3 million vehicles yearly.
Most Popular Car Companies from France
These top French car brands are the reason why French cars are widely known around the world. You may know most of these auto production companies.
Top French Car Brands Logos
Years: 1882 – Present
Headquarters: Sochaux, France
Founder/Parent Company: PSA Peugeot Citroën
Website: http://www.peugeot.com/
More Information: Peugeot Logo, History and Models
One of the most well-known auto manufacturing companies, Peugeot has a long history in France and in Europe. Dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, the brand has evolved gradually, until becoming one of the top European automotive companies with worldwide recognition. A cornerstone of the economy of France, in conjunction with Citroen, Peugeot produces a little less than 1 million vehicles per year and hires 83 000 people.
But this auto giant of France has very well understood the constraints and the challenges of a market economy, notably in the times of an economic crisis. Which is why it has shifted some of its production sites to Russia, Latin America and China, after having already started to manufacture vehicles in the rest of Europe.
Peugeot Coupe
Peugeot saw the second quarter of 2014 with increased sales results: deliveries totaled approximately 725 000 vehicles globally. This is good news for the brand, that is currently beginning to know appreciation among Chinese and Russian consumers.
Its newest model, the 108, acquired critics’ appreciation, for both design and performance (of course, within the limits of an affordable vehicle). This model is now a competitor to Toyota’s Aygo and Citroen’s C1.
Headquarters: Saint-Ouen, France
Founder/Parent Company: André Citroën
Website: http://www.citroen.com
More Information: Citroen Logo, History and Models
The other half of the PSA Peugeot Citroen is famous for its radically innovative approach to auto manufacturing, which was noticeable ever since the company became the only one to mass produce automobiles outside the US.
With an outreach as wide as that of Peugeot, Citroen has managed to boost sales considerably during the first quarter of 2014. China remains a key player, with the Citroen Dongfeng registering a 16% growth. The merger between Dongfeng and Citroen in 1992 resulted in the sales of several models on the Chinese market, among which the C2 is the most popular.
Citroen SUV
One of the top models of 2014 for auto manufacturing companies of France is the new C4 Picasso, with 127 000 units sold since its launch and the C-Elysee, with an exquisite design, specifically meant to conquer international markets.
Headquarters: Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Founder/Parent Company: Louis Renault, Marcel Renault, Fernand Renault
Website: http://group.renault.com/
More Information: Renault Logo, History and Models
Another powerful pillar of the French cars, Renault boasts on affordable vehicles that comprise of cars and vans. Although, in the past, the French car company also produced trucks and buses, for the time being its main production sites (among which Dacia in Romania and Samsung Motors in South Korea) only focus on Clio, Megane, Captur, Koleos, Scenic and several others.
Renault Sedan
Acquisition of former auto manufacturing factories in Romania and South Korea ultimately resulted in a number of French cars marketed under national brands: Sandero, Logan, Lodgy and Duster for Romania and Renault Samsung, Scala and Talisman in South Korea. It is these cheaper models that sell particularly well in emerging countries.
Renault also considered the idea of electric vehicles, which eventually positioned Renault Zoe among the top British preferences, ahead of Volvo V60 plug-in and Mitsubishi Outlander. Being a rather affordable alternative, Renault conquered the appreciation of Europeans, thus driving overall electric vehicle sales in 2014.
Headquarters: Fontvieille, Monaco, French Riviera
Founder/Parent Company: Claude Poiraud and Gérard Godefro
Website: http://www.venturi.fr/
One of the rather posh French car brands, Venturi is well-known for the luxury electric vehicles it sells. Unlike its other counterparts, Renault and Peugeot, this brand is a recent one – it was founded in the early eighties. Wishing to make a pledge out of delivering exclusively electric vehicles, Venturi designed two famous models that attracted worldwide attention: the Fetish and Eclectic.
Venturi Sports Car
The latter acquired media attention due to its rather awkward shape and to being the world’s first solar-electric vehicle. The Fetish, an entirely electric sports car, takes pride in a full 340 km range and a maximum of 110 miles per hour. Prices are a bit sharp – a mere $400 000, as this model is only manufactured in 5 items per year.
Headquarters: Molsheim, Alsace, France
Founder/Parent Company: Ettore Bugatti
Website: http://www.bugatti.com/
More Information: Bugatti Logo, History and Models
Started by a family in Alsacia in the beginning of the twentieth century, Bugatti has had a very sinuous history, before being recently acquired by Volkswagen. At the moment, the only models manufactured under this label include the famous Bugatti Veyron, Grand Sport and the Super Sport.
Bugatti Veyron
Other models from this luxurious sports brand include “Jean Bugatti”, “Meo Constantini”, “Rembrandt Bugatti”, “Black Bess” or “Ettore Bugatti”, all of them manufactured in limited edition, in homage to important people in the history of the this company.
Headquarters: Dieppe, France
Founder/Parent Company: Jean Rédélé
Website: http://www.alpine-cars.com/
The plethora of French automakers would not be complete without mentioning this less popular brand, founded in the late fifties. Alpine is known for building race and sports cars and achieved universal recognition by producing vehicles right after the Second World War. Another reason for its popularity was the association with Renault, which produced the engines for Alpine, before actually acquiring it in the seventies.
Renault Alpine Old Car
After the acquisition, names were changed from “Alpine” to “Renault Alpine”.
Other Active Auto Manufacturers Of France
These are some other automakers from France that still exist today, which are worth mentioning.
Aixam-Mega
Headquarters: Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France
Founder/Parent Company: Arola
Website: http://aixam.com/
Headquartered in Aix-les-Bains, Aixam-Mega is a automobile manufacturer from France that specializes in producing microcars and compact vehicles. The company was founded in 1983 following the acquisition of the microcar manufacturer Arola and introduced its first vehicle in 1984, known as the 325D. Ever since then, Aixam has become one of the most popular microcar manufacturers in France and has made several appearances in the British International Motor Show.
De La Chapelle
Headquarters: Not Available
Founder/Parent Company: Xavier De La Chapelle
Website: http://www.delachapelle.com/fr/
Founded in 1970, De La Chapelle, as the name implies, is an automaker based in France. The company was established by Xavier De La Chapelle and started as a Bugatti replica automobile manufacturer. The company introduced many beautiful variants of Bugatti’s early models, but in 1998, decided to create their own line of roadsters. Now, the company is one of the best manufacturers of grand tourers and roadsters and continues to grow, introducing its range of sport vehicles.
Headquarters: Abrest, France
Founder/Parent Company: Guy Ligier
Website: http://www.ligier.fr/
Headquartered in Abrest, Ligier is an auto production company from France that was founded by the former rugby player and racing driver Guy Ligier. The company specializes in manufacturing passenger and sports vehicles and introduced its first vehicle in 1971, which was the Ligier JS2, powered by a mid-engine Ford V6. After introducing the JS2, the company moved on to manufacturing microcars, such as the Ligier X-Too and Ambra CLS, both of which gained a lot of popularity during the late 90s.
Founder/Parent Company: Bénéteau Group
Website: http://www.microcar.fr/
Founded in 1987, Microcar is a French automobile manufacturer which as the name suggests specializes in microcars. The company generally started off as a sailboat manufacturer, but moved on to producing vehicles in 2000. It merged as one of the top microcar manufacturers in France and the largest maker of quadricycles. As of 2008, the company was taken over by Ligier Automobiles, but even then, both brands have managed to retain their separate identities and production facilities.
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founder/Parent Company: René Panhard, Émile Levassor
Website: http://www.teampanhard.org/
Founded way back in 1891, Panhard is an automobile manufacturer based in France that mainly specializes in producing military and light tactical vehicles. The company was formed following the acquisition of the renowned company Auverland. During its early stages, Panhard used to be a manufacturer of civilian vehicles, some of the most popular being the Levassor Dynamic, Panhard HBR, DB LE Mans, and Panhard 24. However, after being assigned a deal, the company now specifically manufactures military vehicles, such as the Panhard 178, 75, and 60-7.
Headquarters: Gilles and Olivier Prevot
Founder/Parent Company: Saint-Christol-lès-Alès, France
Website: http://www.pgo.fr/
PGO is a private-owned car manufacturer in France that produces sports cars. The company operates in the same market as Morgan, Donkervoort, Wiesmann, and Lotus, and all of their creations are considered perfect for connoisseurs seeking style and individuality. It started off by producing replicas of the famous Speedster II, but then moved on to producing its own range of two-seater retro-style sports cars. As of 2005, the company was bought by Al Sayer International, under which the famous ‘Hemera’ was introduced in 2008.
Non-Active Car Makes List Of France
These are the auto manufacturing companies from France, that stopped production after some time. But in there days, they contributed well to the auto industry.
Arola SARL
Years: 1975 – 1983
Headquarters: Lyon-Corbas, France
Founder/Parent Company: Daniel Manon
Based in Lyon-Corbas, Arola SARL, as you can see in the picture above was a manufacturer of microcars. The vehicles produced by this company could be driven without a license, due to their easy-to-understand driving operations. However, due to the inability to meet production deadlines, the company was forced to cease production and then it became a part of what is known today as Aixam-Mega, in 1983.
Headquarters: Édouard and Maurice Ballot
Founder/Parent Company: Brune, Paris, France
Ballot was a car manufacturer in France that started off by producing industrial and marine engines, but then in 1919 began manufacturing automobiles. The company specialized in producing passenger vehicles and was a huge sporting success during the late 20s, having introduced the famous 2LTS Cabriolet. However, in 1931 the company was taken over by Hispano-Suiza, after which it came to an end in 1932.
Headquarters: Gennevilliers, France
Founder/Parent Company: Ernest Chenard, Henri Walcker, Lucien Chenard
Chenard-Walcker, also popularly known as ‘Chenard and Walcker’, was a commercial vehicle manufacturer based in Gennevilliers, France. The company first specialized in producing bicycles and tricycles, but then worked its way into the automotive industry. It had gained a lot of popularity during its early stages and introduced many reliable and powerful vehicles, but due to insufficient capital, it had to increase its prices. Many people shifted their attention to more reasonably-priced vehicles and as a result, the company went bankrupt in 1936, eventually coming to an end in 1946.
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US steps against Ankara politically-motivated, could destabilize region: Turkey's finance minister
Iran Press TV
Mon Aug 27, 2018 04:24PM
Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak says recent unilateral steps taken by the United States to wage an economic war against Ankara are politically-motivated and could serve to ultimately bolster regional terrorism and the refugee crisis.
"These steps taken with political motivation will not only impact the global financial system but also global trade and regional stability," Albayrak said at a joint news conference with his French counterpart Bruno Le Maire in Paris on Monday.
"With the damage [the steps] will cause to regional stability, they will unfortunately contribute to chaotic problems that feed terrorism and also the refugee crisis," he added.
Albayrak, who is the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said Ankara intended to take its relations with the European Union to a new phase where trade with the 28-member bloc is more important.
The Turkish finance minister also told Le Maire that Turkey aimed to boost trade with France – now standing at 14 billion euros – to 20 billion euros.
Washington and Ankara are entangled in a dispute over an American pastor standing trial in Turkey over terror charges.
Pastor Andrew Brunson has been accused of having links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Gulen movement, which Turkey blames for the 2016 failed military coup.
Brunson, who has already spent nearly two years behind bars in Turkey, has denied the charges, calling them "shameful and disgusting." If found guilty, he will face up to 35 years in jail. His imprisonment and then house arrest have caused one of the deepest rows between Turkey and the US.
The US has taken the dispute to the economic front, adopting a series of punitive measures against Turkey, including imposing sanctions on Turkish ministers and doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs, which have led to a sharp decline in Turkey's currency, the lira.
Ankara has vowed not to back down in the face of US attempts to achieve its political goals through economic pressure.
The two NATO allies also disagree over a number of issues, including their military interventions in the Syria war, Ankara's plan to buy missile defense systems from Russia and the US conviction of a Turkish state bank executive on sanctions-busting charges in January.
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By the end of the Second World War the jet, missile and nuclear age had arrived. The problems for the British Government and the RAF were whether Britain should develop its own atomic bombs and, if they were to be developed, what type of aircraft would be needed to drop them. The Labour Government of Mr Attlee, which came to power in June 1945, decided that United Nations organization was not strong enough to enforce any international control over atomic energy development. If the USA was not to have a monopoly of the new weapons, Britain must develop its own nuclear weapons to safeguard its own security. That decision was made, after much political heart-searching and despite the strong opposition of some members of the Labour Party, on 8 January 1947.
The Air Staff had, however, anticipated the decision by issuing, in August 1946, a requirement for an atomic bomb. They had also, in November 1946, issued a draft requirement for a new bomber that could deliver the atomic bomb. This specification was for a 4-engined bomber with a greater range, twice the speed and twice the height over the target of any existing bomber. On 9 January 1947, the day after the Government's decision to develop an atomic bomb, the leading aircraft manufacturers were invited to design and build the new bomber. These 2 decisions, plus, of course, the doctrine of the strategic air bombardment, were, therefore, the foundations of a strategic nuclear deterrent force - the V-force of Bomber Command, whose creation and deployment was the single most important and costly activity of the RAF between 1945 and 1969.
Bringing a strategic nuclear force into operation took nearly 10 years after those decisions were made. During that time the western deterrent was in the hands of the strategic air forces of the USAF and the political leaders of the West were primarily occupied with the possibility that the Cold War could escalate into Third World War. The confrontational situation in Europe at the time of the Berlin Airlift has already been seen. It led to USAF B-29s being deployed in Britain and the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949. It also, along with the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, led to the largest ever peacetime UK defence budget to provide for an expansion of men and equipment (£4,700 million was to be spent over 3 years, 1951-54, compared with less than £800 million spent annually before 1950); the recall of reservists and the extension of National Service to 2 years gave an active strength of nearly 900,000 for the 3 Services; RAF strength was over 270,000 of which about one-third was National Servicemen.
The term V-Force originated from the bomber's names - Valiant, Victor and Vulcan. The first V-bomber the Valiant, came into service in 1955. The Valiant was used to drop the first British atomic bomb at Maralinga, Australia, on 11 October 1956 and, after the Government had decided to follow the USA and Russia into the thermonuclear age, to drop the British H-bomb at Christmas Island in the Pacific on 15 May 1957.
The V-Force of Bomber Command became operational by mid-1955 and maintained the strategic nuclear deterrent until 30 June 1969 when the role was taken over by the Royal Navy's nuclear-powered submarines armed with Polaris nuclear missiles. At its peak in 1961 the V Force had 164 V-bombers in 17 squadrons. The original armament was a 10,000 lb bomb with an atomic warhead designed to fit exactly into the bomb bays of the aircraft. It was this type of bomb that was successfully tested in the first British A-bomb explosion at the Monte Bello Islands in October 1952. When thermonuclear weapons arrived in 1958, the Vulcans and Victors carried the Blue Steel stand-off missile, which could be launched from about 100 miles from the target and gave the bombers some protection from Russian defences.
The 1957 Statement on Defence cast a long shadow over the future of the RAF. While stressing the overriding importance of maintaining the nuclear deterrent as the only way to prevent war and reaffirming British military responsibilities throughout the world, it aimed at what it called "a comprehensive re-shaping of policy". This meant taking into account both the country's economic and financial strength - the cost in terms of men and resources devoted to defence in the previous years was said to be too high - and, above all, the scientific advances in weapons and missiles that must "fundamentally alter the whole basis of military planning".
The very strong, almost dogmatic, emphasis on missile forces was reflected in the plans for both the bomber and fighter forces of the future. The V-Force was to be "supplemented by ballistic rockets". (The British-made long-range ballistic missile (LRBM), Blue Streak, had been under development since 1955 but until it became operational medium-range missiles would be supplied by the USA). The fighter force, responsible only for the defence of the V-Force bases since a more general task of air defence was thought impossible, was to be "in due course replaced by a ground-to-air guided missile system". These basic assumptions, therefore, led to 2 crucial statements on research and development; firstly that "the Government have decided not to go on with the development of a supersonic manned bomber"; and, secondly, "that the RAF are unlikely to have a requirement for fighter aircraft of types more advanced than the supersonic P.1 and work on such projects will stop". The P.1 entered service as the Lightning, an aircraft capable of flying at Mach 2.
Both this radical new policy and its author, Mr Duncan Sandys, then Minister of Defence, have been called many things, very few of which are complimentary. The policy appeared to threaten the place of the manned aeroplane in the execution of air power, it tended to put all its eggs into one technological basket, and it initiated large reductions in the size of the armed forces. It was over-dogmatic in its assumption and took no account of the lessons of history - that air power is flexible if it is anything and that the flexibility must be exploited.
The policy was modified in succeeding years for several reasons; either the development of missile technology did not go according to plan, or development costs snow-balled, or political decisions over-rode the technology. Bomber Command operated the American Thor intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM) from early 1959 until August 1963. The RAF Thor force - 20 squadrons each with 3 missiles - was manned by Bomber Command crews trained in the USA but the missiles remained under American control. The weakness of the Thor system was that it was static, above ground, and lacked the mobility that the V-Force had from its dispersed bases.
Blue Streak, although launched from underground, was similarly inflexible. Its development was abandoned in April 1960, having already cost £100 million, in favor of the American-built Skybolt air-launched missile. Skybolt was designed to have a range of 1,000 miles (the British Blue Steel designed for the Vulcans and Victors had a range of only 100 miles) and a joint US-UK development programme would allow it to be used by both the RAF and USAF. It was an ideal arrangement for the RAF; the life of the V-Force would be greatly extended at very little cost. Skybolt, however, never arrived. After major problems in development, the Americans cancelled the project in December 1962. Within 18 months, therefore, the RAF had lost its 2 future nuclear weapons, Blue Streak and Skybolt.
In place of Skybolt, the British Government agreed to accept the American Polaris missile (already proven) which would be launched from British-built nuclear-powered submarines. Thus the Royal Navy came to take over responsibility for the strategic nuclear deterrent, which it did from 30 June 1969, bringing to a close a chapter of RAF history. The strategic role of the aeroplane had been tied fundamentally to the independent mission and the independent organization of an air force. The creation of the Royal Air Force in 1918 was closely linked with the creation of the Independent Force soon afterwards. The doctrine of the independent strategic mission was the main, sometimes the only, case put forward for having an independent organization.
With the strategic nuclear deterrent transferred to the Royal Navy, there were some who supposed that the Royal Air Force would no longer remain a third service, who felt that, without its independent role, it would wither and die. In fact there was no possibility that the absence of the strategic role could affect the independence of the RAF. What happened was that the employment of air power by the RAF came a full circle; the great operational strength of the RAF at its formation was in the tactical support of the British Army and the Royal Navy.
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Plug Power Named to Food Logistics’ Top Green Providers List for 2019
June 18, 2019 07:00 ET | Source: Plug Power, Inc.
LATHAM, N.Y., June 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ:PLUG), a leading provider of hydrogen engines and fueling solutions enabling e-mobility, has again been named to the Top Green Providers list for 2019 by Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain.
Food Logistics’ annual Top Green Providers recognizes companies whose products, services, or exemplary leadership are enhancing sustainability within the food and beverage industry. Each year, the criteria for earning a spot on the list become more stringent for applicants. For example, the editorial staff evaluates a company’s participation in such programs as the EPA’s SmartWay and other recognized sustainability programs; facilities that are LEED-certified, and/or feature solar panels, LED lighting, and other energy saving installations and retrofits that produce measurable reductions in GHG emissions, to name a few.
2019 marks the third year Plug Power has been named on the Top Green Providers list. Through its GenDrive fuel cell product line and GenFuel hydrogen fueling stations, Plug Power has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to offering material handing fleet customers sustainable zero emission solutions to power their material handling equipment. Food and beverage companies like Walmart, Kroger, Supervalu, and Carrefour in Europe have made the decision to utilize hydrogen fuel cells to power their forklift truck fleets, dramatically improving their carbon footprint.
Plug Power entered the on-road vehicle market with its ProGen fuel cell engine product suite, expanding its product breadth and application reach within the logistics supply chain. Recently announced and marking the first commercial scale deployment of fuel cells for on-road logistics, Plug Power is partnering with electric vehicle manufacturer StreetScooter with an initial delivery of 100 hydrogen fuel cell-powered delivery trucks. Additionally, Plug Power has announced the acquisition of EnergyOr. Plug Power will use EnergyOr’s complementary lightweight compact fuel cell systems to power growing logistics applications utilizing robotics, autonomous vehicles, and UAVs.
"Our Top Green Providers demonstrate leadership in sustainability throughout the global food supply chain, from better management of natural resources to technology applications and operational improvements that reduce food waste from the farm to the retailer to the end consumer," notes Lara L. Sowinski, editorial director. "Environmental stewardship is a defining feature for these companies, as is their determination to continually raise the sustainability bar year after year."
“Plug Power’s hydrogen fuel cell solutions continue to prove the positive influence sustainable energy has on performance, revenue, and profitability for business growth,” said Andy Marsh, CEO of Plug Power. “We have proven this in the warehouse and in manufacturing, having deployed more than 25,000 fuel cell units to date. Now, we’re transforming e-mobility applications for delivery logistics on the road and in the air. We’re honored to be named to the Top Green Providers list for the third year in a row as we continue build and expand our portfolio of advanced technology, zero emission commercial solutions that enable customers to move product around the world in the cleanest way possible.”
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Food Logistics is published by AC Business Media, a business-to-business media company that provides targeted content and comprehensive, integrated advertising and promotion opportunities for some of the world’s most recognized B2B brands. Its diverse portfolio serves the construction, logistics, supply chain and other industries with print, digital and custom products, events and social media.
About Plug Power Inc.
The architect of modern hydrogen and fuel cell technology, Plug Power is the innovator that has taken hydrogen and fuel cell technology from concept to commercialization. Plug Power has revolutionized the material handling industry with its full-service GenKey solution, which is designed to increase productivity, lower operating costs and reduce carbon footprints in a reliable, cost-effective way. The Company’s GenKey solution couples together all the necessary elements to power, fuel and serve a customer. With proven hydrogen and fuel cell products, Plug Power replaces lead acid batteries to power electric industrial vehicles, such as the lift trucks customers use in their distribution centers.
Extending its reach into the on-road electric vehicle market, Plug Power’s ProGen platform of modular fuel cell engines empowers OEMs and system integrators to rapidly adopt hydrogen fuel cell technology. ProGen engines are proven today, with thousands in service, supporting some of the most rugged operations in the world. Plug Power is the partner that customers trust to take their businesses into the future. Learn more at www.plugpower.com.
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Paving the way to zero-carbon cities through building codes
Karen Weigert and Jennifer Scanlon
Monday, November 12, 2018 - 1:30am
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On Nov. 14, Chicago will welcome nearly 20,000 Greenbuild attendees from the architecture, commercial development, academia and advocacy communities. The ideas elevated and generated during this conference have the potential to deliver greater health and wellbeing around the globe at a time when we stand at a critical crossroads in our efforts to combat climate change. Being at the helm of an industry-leading manufacturing company and managing sustainability for the third-largest American city are very different roles. Yet, our experiences are united in a common truth: construction of tall skyscrapers and buildings is expanding from Accra to Zurich; and, global cities provide some of the most important catalysts for change related to sustainable built environments.
Consider this: the global urban population is projected to increase by 2.5 billion people and global building square footage is expected to double by 2050.
Buildings today are responsible for more than a third of global energy use. Nearly 50 percent of urban greenhouse gas emissions are from buildings; this exceeds 70 percent in many mature cities, including New York City, Chicago and London. We know the impending global construction boom will increase urban energy use and emissions.
Building codes and standards serve an integral role in shaping the cities and towns where we live and work. They also can help guide the cities and the nations we call home toward a more sustainable and economically vibrant future. However, in many places likely to see increased construction, building codes are not in place.
What role can codes play?
Throughout history, building codes have regulated the health and safety of the people and property inside buildings and held builders accountable for the quality of their work. In recent decades, these specifications have evolved into a number of minimum standards, including codes with a focus on energy efficiency. The most up-to-date energy codes can reduce a building’s energy consumption up to 70 percent compared with a similar base-case building.
The most up-to-date energy codes can reduce a building’s energy consumption up to 70 percent compared with a similar base-case building.
In addition to the environmental impact, cutting-edge building codes can generate significant energy savings. It is estimated that $126 billion could be saved from reduced energy use in the United States from 2010 to 2040. Green construction also can serve as a major economic driver in cities: low-carbon buildings in the United States accounted for 3.9 million jobs between 2015 and 2018.
Over the next 40 years, 100 billion square meters of floor space will be built in locations that do not have codes, and retrofits of existing buildings are not happening quickly enough. In order to create change in our economic, energy and transportation systems, we need urgent and widespread adoption, and ongoing enforcement.
From the Paris Agreement to the Global Climate Action Summit, there is a growing global consensus on the need for low-carbon buildings and leadership from cities. A recent report, published by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs with support from USG Corporation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, looked at 10 global cities. All incorporated action on buildings codes as part of a larger vision for a thriving, low-carbon city. A consistent set of principles emerged to shape the work of cities along with their partners throughout government, the private sector and nonprofit sector.
Priorities for established markets include faster retrofit cycles and increased energy-efficiency requirements for existing buildings, zero-carbon energy codes for new construction and a transition to an all-electric future.
In middle-income markets, the primary challenge is to quickly develop and implement energy codes for new construction while fostering energy-efficiency improvements in appliances and increases in local capacity for code enforcement.
Developing markets need to create base energy codes to avoid locking in decades of high carbon usage in new construction and to address concerns about access to modern energy sources.
Building codes are a foundation for change. An established set of principles is needed to frame the work of city officials and their public, private and nonprofit partners to shape a safer and more sustainable future for our economy and our health. It is our hope that the Greenbuild conference will lead to a better understanding of how we can meet the needs of rapidly growing cities and address the very real effects of climate change.
Karen Weigert
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Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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Can First Degree Burglary Occur If an RV Is the Dwelling?
The crime of first degree burglary is a significant crime because the act takes place in an inhabited dwelling or inhabited vessel, floating home or “trailer coach.” It violates a person’s feeling of being secure from attack in a home. In other words, it is a crime in one’s home, as compared to second degree burglary, which is not in a home, but at a store or commercial establishment.
First degree burglary is defined at Penal Code § 460. The text shows an intent to limit those crimes defined as first degree burglary by stating “all other forms of burglary are of the second degree.” Penal Code § 459 then has a broader and lengthier definition of burglary, which has, by implication of Penal Code § 460, been termed second degree burglary.
Within the meaning of “inhabited dwelling” in Penal Code § 460, prosecutors have attempted to include any type of building not included in the long list of buildings listed under § 459. Section 459’s list includes a house (uninhabited or else § 460 would apply), “room, apartment, tenement, shop, warehouse, store, mill, barn, stable, outhouse or other building, tent, vessel” (as defined under § 21 of the Harbors and Navigation Code), “floating home, railroad car, locked or sealed cargo container, whether or not mounted on a vehicle, trailer coach” (as defined under § 635 of the Vehicle Code), any house car (as defined by § 362 of the Vehicle Code), inhabited camper, vehicle, aircraft, or mine or any underground portion thereof, “with intent to commit grand or petit theft or any felony therein is guilty of burglary.”
Many burglaries are of inhabited homes, but some are not so clear and whether 459 or 460 applies becomes a debate.
In the case of Angel Robert Trevino, the issue was whether his entry into an inhabited recreational vehicle (RV) was first degree or second degree burglary.
The factual background was that Trevino and his wife, Linda, went to dinner with another couple, the Coggins in Santa Barbara County. The Coggins had been living in an RV for several years. It had a bed over the cab. The Trevinos parked nearby in their van. Both couples appeared to be retiring for the night.
About 2:15 a.m., Trevino woke up the Coggins and asked for a cigarette. It is unclear if the Coggins obliged, but what was clear is that Trevino went back to his van and the Coggins heard Trevino arguing with his wife. Trevino then drove away in the van, only to return a few minutes later. The Coggins then heard Trevino punching his wife and kicking her in the shins.
Trevino then drove away again, leaving his wife, Linda, behind. The Coggins invited her into their RV. When Trevino returned several minutes later, he pounded on the RV’s door and demanded that Linda come out. When the Coggins told Trevino to go away, Trevino broke into the RV and grabbed Linda by her clothing, pushing her down on the floor of the RV and kicked her. The Coggins called 911 and the police, who came and arrested Trevino.
Trevino was charged with first degree residential burglary of an inhabited dwelling (Penal Code §§ 460), domestic violence (Penal Code § 273.5), battery with serious bodily injury (Penal Code § 243(d)), felony vandalism (Penal Code § 594(b)(1)).
Trevino made a motion to dismiss the first degree burglary allegation under Penal Code § 1118.1. He argued that because the Legislature included burglary of a “house car” and motor vehicles under § 459, but not in § 460, it intended to exclude vehicular burglaries from those classified as first degree.
The trial court denied the motion, relying upon People v. Wilson (1992) 11 Cal.App.4th 1483, wherein the appellate court found a tent is an “inhabited dwelling” or building for purposes of § 460. The trial court analogized an RV to a tent insofar they both have walls and roof.
At trial, Trevino was convicted of all counts except battery with serious bodily injury. The trial court judge sentenced Trevino to probation, conditioned upon him serving 240 days in county jail, with 105 days of presentence credit.
Trevino then appealed to the Second Appellate District. He relied largely upon People v. Moreland (1978) 81 Cal.App.3d 11, in which defendant discharged a firearm into an RV and was convicted of shooting at an “inhabited dwelling house.” The court of appeals then reversed, holding that an RV was not included in the definition of “inhabited dwelling house” under Section 246 (shooting at an inhabited dwelling house). Moreover, an RV is not fixed to the ground like a home and can be moved easily.
The Second Court of Appeals in Trevino disagreed, at People v. Angel Robert Trevino (2016 DJDAR 6743), distinguishing Moreland from the Trevino case because Moreland did not address an inhabited dwelling in the context of 459 and 460. Moreover, here, it was undisputed that the RV was the Coggins’ sole place of abode. They had inhabited it for several years.
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In Good Faith: Where are they now?
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Jul 3, 2019 at 9:40 AM Jul 3, 2019 at 9:41 AM
My favorite Sports Illustrated issue of the year came in the mail this week. No, not that issue. That one comes the week after the Super Bowl, and I’m decidedly not in the market for a new swimsuit.
I’m referring to the magazine’s annual “Where Are They Now” feature. For years, Sports Illustrated has been catching up with stars who long ago left the bright lights of the headlines. Some of these highlighted athletes remain in the public consciousness, while others have drifted away as quickly as they burst onto the scene.
I’ve long loved this particular issue, and I always end up reading a lot more of the magazine than I normally do - which, in middle age, has mostly become flipping through the pictures and handing it to my sport-crazed eldest son.
But this issue’s different. For one thing, Ben hasn’t heard of many of the profiled players. Like most of his contemporaries, he’s concerned with the here and now of pro sports; with the stats and standings and current stars. And I get that this is basically a nostalgia issue, a bone tossed to my generation. When I find the time to sit down with it, there’s always a lot of inner “Oh, yeah! I remember that guy. I wonder what he’s been up to since his glory days?”
It’s hard to know why these stories resonate so deeply. Part of it is voyeurism, to be sure. Who among us hasn’t Googled an old girlfriend or boyfriend? But mostly it plays to the natural longing for connections to our past. If I can learn what a childhood hero of mine has been up to of late, say former Orioles slugger Eddie Murray, I can somehow reconnect to a part of my life that has long been repressed. Suddenly, I’m an 8-year-old sitting in the stands with my late father at the since-demolished Memorial Stadium in Baltimore with a $0.75 hot dog in one hand and my baseball glove in the other, chanting “Ed-die, Ed-die!”
There’s also a deep sense of humanity that plays out in these articles. During a star’s playing days, we’re mostly concerned with statistics and on-field performance. We rarely stop to consider what kind of person we may be rooting for or against. Players have images, for sure, but these are often highly crafted by agents and public relations professionals. Here, then, is a glimpse behind the curtain, a chance to see someone outside the lines.
There’s something about revealing the unvarnished humanity that reminds us that these aren’t superheroes, but people like you and me, but with particular talents and supernatural hand-eye coordination. Or, from a spiritual perspective, these are all children of God, reflecting all the joys and imperfections of humanity. Some have gone on to find new passions - former Red Sox star Kevin Youkilis runs an award-winning brewery in California - and some have encountered more tragedy than acclaim - William “The Refrigerator” Perry daily battles alcoholism and issues of mental health.
I think there are lessons for all of us embedded in these stories. We’re reminded that life does indeed go on. Some of us remain prisoners of the past, some of us move on into new and exciting challenges. Most of us remain somewhere in-between. But it’s important to reflect back on our lives, even while looking ahead to the future. We all have various chapters in our lives, albeit not necessarily ones lived out on highlight reels. And we must continually seek ways to stay in the game.
The Rev. Tim Schenck is an Episcopal priest at St. John’s Church in Hingham, MA. This article is excerpted from his newly released book “Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection between Coffee and Faith - From Dancing Goats to Satan’s Drink.” “Holy Grounds” is available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2IdFp91. Follow him on Twitter @FatherTim.
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Armenia: top places to visit as Kim Kardashian takes North West for the first time
Jet setter Kim Kardashian has already taken her young daughter North West to the likes of Paris, New York and London, and now the reality TV star has taken her little one back to her roots in Armenia. Kim, whose late father Robert Kardashian was a third-generation Armenian American, has always expressed a desire to understand her dad's culture and the country's history. Now, together with her rapper husband Kanye West and daughter, she is visiting Armenia just weeks before the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. As Kim draws sets about learning more about her heritage, we take a
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Orlando Bloom celebrates turning 38
January 13, 2015 - 10:42 GMT hellomagazine.com Happy birthday, Orlando Bloom! As the star of The Lord of the Rings celebrates turning 38, HELLO! Online takes a look at what the stars have in store for Orlando and you…
Happy birthday, Orlando Bloom! As the star of The Lord of the Rings celebrates turning 38, HELLO! Online takes a look at what the stars have in store for Orlando and you…
This is what Orlando who is a Capricorn, can be expecting today:
When we watch a TV soap opera regularly, we start to see the same old syndromes repeating themselves. For a while, all may be quiet in the life of character X but then, they will get into an argument with character Y again. Or, for variation, the writers will ensure that this time round, the disagreement is with character Z. Such cyclical events keep the viewers interested and happy. But your life is not a soap opera and there are good reasons now to avoid unnecessary repetition. Don't fall back into a bad habit today.
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Orlando Bloom in 2014
Named after the 17-century composer Orlando Gibbons – rather than the Virginia Woolf novel, as is so often reported – Orlando Bloom was born in Canterbury, England, in 1977. As a youngster, Orlando believed South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist Harry Bloom was his father, but it was later revealed that Colin Stone, a family friend, long-thought to be only Orlando's guardian, was in fact the actor's father.
Raised by his mother along with elder sister Samantha, he left Canterbury's St Edmund's school aged 16 to pursue his dream with the National Youth Theatre.
One year after receiving a scholarship to attend the British American Drama Academy in London, he entered the city's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and in 1999, just 48 hours before finishing his drama degree, he won the role of a lifetime as Legolas in Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.
"One minute I'm in school, the next I have my own action figure," said the star. "It's awesome."
His career soared following the high-profile part, and he starred alongside Kirsten Dunst in Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown, 2003's big budget flick Pirates Of The Caribbean with Johnny Depp, Ned Kelly with Geoffrey Rush, and Troy, in which he shared top billing with Brad Pitt and Peter O´Toole.
In 2013 Orlando made his Broadway debut in Romeo and Juliet to critical acclaim,
The screen hunk has been linked with celebs such as Jemma Kidd, Christina Ricci and Kate Bosworth and freely admits to being a romantic. "I once flew to Dubai just to hang out with a girl," he recalls. "Another time I had a crush on this girl and sent her an airline ticket from Ireland to London so she could come and visit me."
In 2007 Orlando met the girl who would become his wife – Australian model Miranda Kerr. The extremely private pair did their best to keep their romance out of the spotlight, and in July 2010 announced they had wed in secret.
The pair welcomed a son, Flynn, in 2011, but in October 2013 they announced that they had separated several months earlier.
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HomeNewsDHS Senior Stories: Singer hopes to give crowds a reason to dance for a long time
DHS Senior Stories: Singer hopes to give crowds a reason to dance for a long time
May 26, 2017 Ryan Arena News, School 0
Faith Becnel sometimes feels like she’s living two separate lives.
“It’s crazy,” she said. “I’ll come to school and no one knows what I just did on the weekend. It’s like two different worlds.”
The newly graduated Destrehan High School alumnus has already become a longtime fixture on the local music scene as a singer, discovering her love for it at the age of 10 when she sang at a 4-H Club talent show at DHS, performing before a large crowd for the first time.
It certainly wasn’t the last time. At age 12, she recorded her first CD. At 13, she formed her own band and auditioned for “America’s Got Talent,” where she made it to the top 70 of 1,500 acts and was given a producer’s audition. She has performed with acts like Vince Vance and the Valiants, Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. and The Topcats and at shows featuring Amanda Shaw and Irma Thomas, and she has auditioned for “The Voice.”
Becnel said she is extremely excited to take the next, post-graduation step in her life.
“I’ve always kind of been looking toward my future for a long time because I‘ve been in the music industry for a long time,” Becnel said. “So I’ve kind of had my goals set, but now it’s like I finally get to achieve them. It’s one step closer to all of that and becoming completely focused on my music career.”
Though she’s finished with high school, she’s not entirely done with school as a whole — and, in a sense, she doesn’t plan to be for a long time. Becnel will attend Southeastern University, where she plans to study education. She said that ideally she’d like to teach younger students around the third, fourth and fifth grade age groups.
Becnel recalls taking more than a few fellow musicians aback years ago, when she was a 10-, 11- and then 12-year-old “little girl with the big voice.” Back then, she and a group of classmates formed a band called “The Rowdy Rough Boys and a Girl,” who won that fateful 4-H competition. She hasn’t slowed down since: she’s formed her own band, Faith Becnel and the Music Krewe, while also singing with other groups when the opportunity arises.
She’s not taking many people by surprise anymore. Her involvement with the music scene has already spanned nearly eight years.
“The musicians in our band are all 50 or older, professionals … I’ve gotten so used to it, and it’s such a shift in how you act (with older and younger groups of people),” Becnel said. “It’s totally different.”
In her sophomore year, Becnel was voted Most Likely to Be Famous by her Destrehan classmates. But she doesn’t wish to venture out far from her hometown: Becnel’s goal is to become a fixture playing at weddings and festivals, and she hopes it happens locally, citing her love of New Orleans music.
“Someone’s wedding is such a special day and you want everything to be perfect,” she said. “I’m a perfectionist when it comes to the stage, so I feel like it’s a natural fit. And festivals … my main goal when I sing is to see people dancing. When I see that, I’m like, ‘Good, I’ve achieved my goal for the day.’ And that’s the perfect venue for that.”
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A Thank You Letter to Halsey
By Cassidy Richards • WMU Contributor • Entertainment January 30, 2018 at 2:08pm
Halsey spoke at the Women’s March in NYC, and shared a gorgeous poem about sexual assault. I want to say thank you to Halsey, for this act of bravery and for sharing your words. Below I’ll go in detail about the poem, A Story Like Mine, and how the words she spoke impacted me personally.
“And I'm too young to know why it aches in my thighs, but I must lie, I must lie”
Her words here show that she knows something is wrong, but she can’t tell anyone. She doesn’t know what’s wrong, but she knows she has to lie about it.
“And he wants to have sex, and I just want to sleep He says I can't say no to him This much I owe to him He buys my dinner, so I have to blow him He's taken to forcing me down on my knees And I'm confused 'cause he's hurting me while he says please And he's only a man, and these things he just needs He's my boyfriend, so why am I filled with unease?”
Here we see that even if you’re dating someone, it can still be rape if they’re forcing you to have sex. The key word here is “forcing”. Any sex that is forced isn’t sex, it’s rape. Halsey shows girls- both young and old- that they’re not the only ones who have been raped by their boyfriends or significant others.
“You can't put your hands on me You don't know what my body has been through I'm supposed to be safe now I earned it.”
Halsey says the one thing we’re all thinking: I’m supposed to be safe. Females shouldn’t have to look over their shoulders when they walk to their car after work. They shouldn’t be told to carry a knife when they’re driving by themselves. It’s 2018 and it’s worse than ever. Females are not safe, even if they’ve earned it.
“It's about closed doors and secrets and legs and stilettos from the Hollywood hills to the projects in ghettos.”
Rape and sexual assault doesn’t target any one kind of female, it targets all of them.
“Listen, listen and then yell at the top of your lungs Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues For the people who had to grow up way too young.”
Listen to their stories- your friends and neighbors, the stranger you meet. Anyone who is female has something similar, even if it’s minuscule compared to what you’ve heard.
So thank you, Halsey, for the courage it took not only to write the poem but to read it in front of thousands at the Women’s March in NYC. Your courage is admirable, and I’m grateful for the words you shared with everyone.
Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5xPxjVaYI4
Cassidy Richards (WMU)
I'm studying English and Art at Western Michigan University. I aspire to be an author. I want to move to Australia after college. I love reading, writing, and working out. My favorite artists include Eminem, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Highly Suspect, Modern Baseball, and The Front Bottoms. I currently waitress, but I'm hoping to get an internship next summer for editing. I'm from Paw Paw, a small town about half way between Kalamazoo and South Haven. My favorite season is summer, because that's when my birthday is.
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After Repeal of Obamacare: Moving to Patient-Centered, Market-Based Health Care
Report Health Care Reform
October 31, 2013 18 min read Download Report
Curtis Dubay
@CurtisDubay
Research Fellow, Tax and Economic Policy
Curtis Dubay, recognized as a leading expert on taxation issues, is a former research fellow in tax and economic policy.
Obamacare moves American health care in the wrong direction by eroding the doctor–patient relationship, centralizing control, and increasing health costs. True health care reform would empower individuals, with their doctors, to make their own health care decisions free from government interference. Therefore, Obamacare should be stopped and fully repealed. Then Congress and the states should enact patient-centered, market-based reforms that better serve Americans.
Obamacare moves American health care in the wrong direction. It undermines the doctor–patient relationship, centralizes health care decisions, and increases costs.
Obamacare should be stopped and fully repealed.
Congress and the states should pursue patient-centered, market-based reforms that get health care reform back on track.
For a better life, Americans need a health care system that they, not the government, control. Consumers should have the ability to choose how to meet their health insurance needs in a free market for insurance. Taxpayers should benefit from a more efficient and affordable system for helping those who need health care but cannot afford it. Above all, patients, with their doctors, should make their own health care decisions free from government interference.
The important first step is to repeal the Obamacare statute that puts the government in charge of health care. The second step is to let the country move to a patient-centered, market-based system that focuses on citizens and not on the government.
Principles for Reform
To allow Americans to reclaim control of their own health care and benefit from competition in a free market for insurance and health care, Congress should repeal the Obamacare statute and enact patient-centered, market-based reforms based on five principles:
Choose, control, and carry your own health insurance;
Let free markets provide the insurance and health care services that people want;
Encourage employers to provide a portable health insurance benefit to employees;
Assist those who need help through civil society, the free market, and the states; and
Protect the right of conscience and unborn children.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) moves health care in the wrong direction. It puts government, not patients, in charge of individual health care decisions. Moreover, it fails to meet the promises laid out by President Barack Obama. With each passing day, it becomes clearer that Obamacare will not reduce premiums for average American families, bend the cost curve in health care spending, or bring down the deficit. For these reasons, among others, Obamacare must be repealed.
However, a return to the status quo before Obamacare is not the final step. Policymakers should pursue reforms based on five basic principles. Adopting such reforms would move American health care in the right direction: toward a patient-centered, market-based health care system.
Principle #1: Choose, control, and carry your own health insurance.
True health reform should promote personal ownership of health insurance. While Obamacare uses government-run insurance exchanges to limit individual choice, real reforms would focus on encouraging Americans to purchase insurance policies that they can take with them from job to job and into retirement in a competitive, free market. Policymakers should enact several key changes for this culture of personal health care ownership to take root.
Portability. Most Americans obtain coverage through their place of work. This allows employers to provide tax-free health benefits to their employees, while individuals purchasing health insurance on their own must use after-tax dollars. As a result, most individuals with private health insurance obtain that coverage from their employer.[1]
Rather than following Obamacare’s example of forcing Americans into government-run health insurance exchanges, true patient-centered reform of health care would make insurance more portable. Individuals should be able to purchase an insurance policy when they are young and carry that policy with them throughout their working lives into retirement.
Equal Tax Relief. While Obamacare alters the tax treatment of health insurance, it does so in a way that increases burdens on taxpayers. Its 40 percent tax on so-called Cadillac health insurance plans is but one of 18 separate tax increases included in the law,[2] which, according to the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation, will raise $771 billion in revenue from 2013 to 2022.[3]
A better approach would equalize the tax treatment of health insurance without raising new revenues. The Heritage Foundation has previously proposed replacing the existing deduction for employer-provided health coverage with a flat tax credit that individuals could use to purchase a health insurance policy of their own.[4] Another idea, first proposed by then-President George W. Bush, would give all Americans purchasing health coverage—whether through an employer or on their own—the same standard deduction for health insurance.[5] Both proposals assume revenue neutrality over 10 years. Unlike Obamacare, they do not propose using reform to increase net tax revenues.
Both of these proposals would accomplish two important objectives.
First, they would equalize the tax treatment between health coverage provided through an employer and health coverage purchased by an individual. Providing equal tax treatment would remove a major obstacle that discourages individuals from buying and holding their own health insurance policy for years and taking that coverage from job to job. Tax equity would also encourage firms either to provide direct contributions toward their workers’ health coverage or to increase wages in place of health benefits.
Second, limiting the amount of the tax benefit provided, either with a tax credit or with a standard deduction, would encourage individuals to become smarter purchasers of health insurance coverage. Studies have demonstrated that the current uncapped tax benefit for employer-provided health insurance encourages firms to offer richer health plans and individuals to overconsume health care. According to the Congressional Budget Office, reforming the tax treatment of health insurance “would provide stronger incentives for enrollees to weigh the expected benefits and costs of policies” when buying insurance, thus helping to reduce costs.[6]
Choice of Providers. Through its new system of government control, Obamacare restricts choice and access for many patients. The nonpartisan Medicare actuary concluded that the Medicare reimbursement reductions in Obamacare could make 40 percent of all hospitals unprofitable in the long term, thus restricting beneficiary access to care.[7] Moreover, preliminary reports suggest that Obamacare’s insurance exchanges will feature limited provider networks in an attempt to mitigate premium increases for individuals purchasing exchange coverage.[8]
The most important element of any health care system is the trusted relationship between doctor and patient. Any system of truly patient-centered health care should work to preserve those important bonds and to repair the damage to those bonds caused by Obamacare.
Encouraging Personal Savings. Since their creation in 2004, health savings accounts (HSAs) have become a popular way for millions of families to build savings for needed health care expenses. HSA plans combine a health insurance option featuring a slightly higher deductible—but catastrophic protection in the event of significant medical expenses—with a tax-free savings account. As one of several new consumer-driven health options, HSAs encourage patients to take control of their own health care, providing financial incentives for consumers to serve as wise health care purchasers.
Over the past several years, millions of families have taken advantage of the innovative tools that HSA plans offer. The number of people enrolled in HSA-eligible policies has skyrocketed from 1 million in March 2005 to 15.5 million in January 2013.[9] Numerous studies have also shown that individuals with HSA plans have used tools provided by their health insurer to become more involved with their health care—for example, by using online support tools, inquiring about provider cost and quality, and seeking preventive care.[10] As a result, individuals had saved at least $12.4 billion in their HSAs by the end of 2011.[11]
However, HSA holders still face obstacles to building their personal savings. For instance, under current law, funds contributed to an HSA may not be used to pay for insurance premiums, except under very limited circumstances.[12] Changing this restriction and increasing HSA contribution limits would enhance both personal savings and personal ownership of health insurance.
Coverage for Pre-Existing Conditions. The problem of providing access to individuals with pre-existing conditions, while very real, did not necessitate the massive changes in America’s health care system included in Obamacare. In 2011, the Obama Administration suggested that as many as 129 million Americans with pre-existing conditions were “at risk” and “could be denied coverage” without Obamacare’s massive changes in America’s insurance markets.[13]
That claim was wildly untrue. Under prior law, individuals with employer-sponsored coverage (90 percent of the private market) could not be subjected to pre-existing condition exclusions.[14] In fact, prior to Obamacare, the number of individuals with pre-existing conditions who truly could not obtain health coverage was vastly smaller, and the problem existed only in the individual market. It is therefore not surprising that, according to the most recent data, only an estimated 134,708 individuals have enrolled in the supplemental federal high-risk pool program since it was created under Obamacare to cover individuals with pre-existing conditions[15]—still less than the 200,000 individuals originally projected to enroll.[16]
States could use a variety of approaches to provide coverage to individuals who are unable to purchase insurance. For instance, 35 states already operate high-risk pools with a collective current enrollment of 227,000 individuals to ensure access to coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions.[17] Alternatively, states could establish reinsurance or risk transfer mechanisms under which insurance companies would reimburse each other for the cost of treating individuals with high medical expenses without added funding from state or federal taxpayers. Either approach would be far preferable to the massive amounts of regulation, taxation, and government spending under Obamacare.
Principle #2: Let free markets provide the insurance and health care services that people want.
Many individuals have already learned that, due in part to Obamacare, with its government-run health exchanges, new bureaucracies, and other forms of government control, they will not be able to retain their current health insurance.[18] There is a better way, and it involves providing more choice through market incentives rather than undermining markets through centralized bureaucracy.
Cross-State Purchasing. Currently, state insurance markets suffer from two flaws: Many markets are uncompetitive, with up to 70 percent of metropolitan areas considered “highly concentrated,”[19] and costly benefit mandates raise health insurance premiums. A prior Heritage Foundation analysis found that each benefit mandate raises costs by an average of approximately $0.75 per month.[20] Another study found that states have imposed a total of 2,271 benefit mandates—or approximately 45 per state.[21] Taken together, these two studies suggest that the cumulative effect of these mandates could raise premiums by $20–$40 per month, or hundreds of dollars per year.
Congress can help to mitigate these problems by removing federal barriers to interstate commerce in health insurance products. Individuals should have the ability to purchase insurance products across state lines, choosing the health plan that best meets their needs regardless of the location of its issuer.
Pooling Mechanisms. Another way to improve patient choice and make insurance markets more competitive would involve new purchasing arrangements and pooling mechanisms. Small businesses, individual membership associations, religious groups, and fraternal organizations should be able to sell health insurance policies through new group purchasing arrangements. The federal government’s role should be to remove the barriers to such arrangements.
By extending the benefits of group coverage beyond the place of work, these new purchasing arrangements would also encourage portability of health insurance coverage. These reforms would allow individuals to obtain their health plan from a trusted source—one with which they would be likely to have a longer association than they have with their employer—thereby creating a form of health coverage that Americans could truly own.
Medicare Private Contracting. Seniors could also benefit from patient-centered Medicare reforms, one of which should help to restore the doctor–patient relationship. Congress should eliminate the anti-competitive restrictions that prevent doctors and patients from contracting privately for medical services outside of traditional Medicare.[22] Congress can also restructure the Medicare benefit, modernizing the design of a program that has remained largely unchanged since its creation nearly 50 years ago.[23] These changes would enhance patient choice while preserving the program’s solvency for future generations of Americans.
Medicare Reform. Regrettably, Obamacare imposes many its most harmful effects on senior citizens.[24] According to the Medicare actuary, the Medicare reimbursement reductions in Obamacare will make 15 percent of all hospitals unprofitable within the decade and 40 percent unprofitable by 2050.[25] As a result, seniors may face significant obstacles to obtaining health care in the future.
There is a better way. Specifically, Congress should provide seniors with a generous subsidy to purchase a Medicare plan of their choosing. Seniors who choose a plan costing less than the subsidy would pay less, while seniors who choose a plan costing more than the subsidy would pay the difference in price.[26 ]
Consumer Choice and Competition. As part of its system of government control, Obamacare hinders patients’ ability to choose their own health plan. One survey found that the mandates and requirements in the law mean that more than half of all insurance policies purchased directly by individuals will not qualify as “government-approved” under Obamacare.[27] As a result, many Americans are finding that they will not be able to keep the health plan they have and like[28]—despite President Obama’s repeated promises.[29]
True patient-centered reform would bolster HSAs and other consumer-directed health products—such as health reimbursement arrangements and flexible spending accounts—that have the ability to transform American health care. One study published in the prestigious journal Health Affairs in 2012 found that expanding market penetration of consumer-driven health plans from 13 percent to 50 percent of all employers could reduce health costs by as much as $73.6 billion per year—a reduction in health spending of 9.1 percent.[30]
In other words, expanding consumer choice and competition could reduce health care costs and spending—the opposite of Obamacare, which restricts consumer choice and increases health costs and spending.
Principle #3: Encourage employers to provide a portable health insurance benefit.
Because most Americans traditionally have received health insurance from their employers, many individuals have few, if any, choices when selecting a health plan. According to the broadest survey of employer plans, nearly nine in 10 firms (87 percent) offer only one plan type, and only 2 percent offer three or more plan types.[31] As a result, employees have only a very limited ability to choose the plan that best meets their needs.
Defined Contribution. An ideal solution would convert the traditional system of employer-provided health insurance from a defined benefit model to a defined contribution model. Rather than providing health insurance directly, employers instead would offer cash contributions to their workers, enabling them to buy the plans of their own choosing. Combined with changes in the tax treatment of health insurance and regulatory improvements to enhance portability, moving to a defined contribution model for health insurance would allow workers to buy a health insurance policy in their youth and take that policy with them from job to job into retirement. These changes would also enable workers and families to negotiate contributions from multiple employers rather than having just one employer foot the bill.
Principle #4: Assist those who need help through civil society, the free market, and states.
While some health reforms—such as changing the tax treatment of health insurance and reforming the Medicare program—remain fully within the purview of the federal government, states also play a critical role in enacting reforms that can lower costs, improve access to care, and modernize state Medicaid programs. By serving as the “laboratories of democracy,” states can provide examples for other states—and the federal government—to follow. Because many state-based reforms do not rely on Washington’s involvement or approval, states can move ahead with innovative market-based solutions even as federal bureaucrats attempt to implement Obamacare’s government-centric approach.
State Innovation. If given proper time and space by an all-too-intrusive federal government, states can act on their own to open their insurance markets. A few states have already acted to open their insurance markets. In 2011, Georgia enacted legislation allowing interstate purchasing of health insurance, and Maine passed legislation allowing carriers from other New England states to offer insurance products to its citizens.[32] Just before Obamacare was enacted in 2010, Wyoming acted to permit out-of-state insurers to offer products.[33] While it may take some time before a critical mass of states creates a true interstate market for insurance, these nascent efforts demonstrate the nationwide interest in expanding health insurance choice and competition.
Medicaid Premium Assistance. Among various forms of health coverage, the Medicaid program is known for its poor quality and outcomes for patients. Numerous studies have found that Medicaid patients suffer worse outcomes than other patients suffer.[34] A recent study from Oregon concluded that after two years, patients in Medicaid did not achieve measurable health benefits from their insurance coverage.[35] Even participants—recognizing that many physicians, because of the program’s low reimbursement rates, will not treat Medicaid patients—complain that the program is not “real insurance.”[36]
Obamacare makes Medicaid’s problems worse, consigning millions more Americans to this poor government-run program. True reform would instead subsidize private health insurance for low-income Medicaid beneficiaries. The Heritage Foundation has previously promoted such a solution as part of its comprehensive reform of the Medicaid program.[37] Congress should take steps to encourage states to provide premium assistance. Such programs would promote health care ownership and provide beneficiaries with better access to care than the traditional Medicaid program does.
Medicaid Reforms. Despite the looming presence of Obamacare, states should continue wherever possible to seek opportunities to reform their Medicaid programs, moving toward more personalized care and including strong incentives for personal responsibility. States can also seek additional flexibility from Washington to modernize care; many governors have already made such requests.[38]
Congress also should act to reform and modernize Medicaid. Efforts in this vein would include comprehensive reforms—such as a block grant or per capita spending caps—that trade additional flexibility for states in exchange for a fixed spending allotment from Washington.[39] Other reforms could incentivize and subsidize Medicaid beneficiaries to move to private insurance policies that they can own and keep. All of these reforms would focus on modernizing Medicaid to provide better quality care, reduce costs, and promote personal responsibility and ownership.
Reducing Fraud. Regrettably, many government health programs are riddled with fraud. Some estimates suggest that as much as $60 billion in Medicare spending may involve fraud.[40] Similar problems plague many state Medicaid programs. A 2005 New York Times exposé on Medicaid fraud quoted James Mehmet, a former chief investigator in New York State, as saying that 10 percent of the state’s Medicaid spending constituted outright fraud, with another 20 percent to 30 percent comprising “unnecessary spending that might not be criminal.” Overall, Mehmet estimated that “questionable” Medicaid spending totaled $18 billion in New York State alone.[41]
Congress and the states should do more to crack down on the waste, fraud, and abuse that plague America’s health entitlements. Reforms should end the current “pay and chase” model, under which investigators must attempt to track down fraudulent claims and providers after they have already received reimbursement. Other solutions would enhance penalties for those who engage in fraudulent activity—for instance, buying or selling personal patient information, which is often used to perpetrate fraud schemes. These and other reforms would save taxpayer dollars, helping to preserve Medicare and Medicaid for future generations.
Removing Barriers to Care. With studies indicating that America faces a doctor shortage in future years, policymakers should focus on removing barriers that discourage institutions from assisting those who need health care.[42] Regrettably, America’s litigious culture has resulted in the widespread practice of defensive medicine by doctors and other health practitioners. In response, some states have changed their medical liability laws to discourage frivolous lawsuits, prompting doctors to move to those states to practice medicine. Were other states to adopt such reforms, this would encourage doctors—a majority of whom believe the practice of medicine is in jeopardy[43]—to remain in practice and would encourage students to join the profession.
In addition, reforms that improve the liability system could reduce the prevalence of defensive medicine practices and thereby help to reduce health costs. One government estimate found that reasonable limits on non-economic damages could reduce total health spending by as much as $126 billion per year by reducing the amount of defensive medicine practiced by physicians.[44] More recently, the Congressional Budget Office concluded that enacting comprehensive liability reform would reduce health care spending by tens of billions of dollars per year, reducing the federal budget deficit by tens of billions over the next decade.[45]
To help to eliminate barriers to care and reduce health costs, states should reform their liability systems, capping non-economic damages and taking other steps to reduce the incidence of frivolous lawsuits and ensure proper legal protections for health care providers.[46] However, because liability reform and torts in general are properly a state issue, Congress should not impose liability reforms except where the federal government has a clear, constitutionally based federal interest. Examples might include liability reforms with respect to medical products approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration or when the federal government is a payer of health care services, as it is with Medicare and Medicaid.[47]
Reforming Scope-of-Practice and Certificate of Need. State governments control the licensure of both medical professionals and medical practices. By removing artificial obstacles that restrict the supply of medical providers, states can expand access to health services across populations while unleashing new competition that can work to reduce costs.
States can reform their health care systems by re-examining scope-of-practice laws, which frequently limit the ability of nurse practitioners and other health professionals to care for patients. In 2010, the Institute of Medicine concluded that “state regulations often restrict the ability of nurses to provide care legally” and that policymakers should remove “barriers that limit the ability of nurses to practice to the full extent of their education, training, and competence.”[48] Many states have begun to reform their scope-of-practice laws to allow physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and others to treat more patients even as entrenched interests have fought to preserve their preferential treatment.[49] States should follow the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine in reforming their scope-of-practice laws to allow all medical professionals to practice to the full extent of their training.
A total of 36 states also impose certificate-of-need requirements, which impede the introduction of new hospitals and medical facilities. These laws require organizations seeking to build new medical facilities to obtain a certificate from a state board that the facility is “needed” in a particular area.[50] As with scope-of-practice requirements, reforming or eliminating certificate-of-need restrictions would encourage the development of new medical facilities, expanding access to care and giving patients more choices.
Principle #5: Protect the right of conscience and unborn children.
Government should not compel individuals to undertake actions that violate their deeply held religious beliefs. Regrettably, Obamacare imposes just such a requirement on Americans, forcing many employers to offer, and individuals to purchase, health coverage that violates the core tenets of their faith regarding the protection of life.[51]
Congress should ensure that individuals never again are required to violate their religious beliefs to meet a government diktat.
Rights of Conscience. Congress should protect the rights of consumers, insurers, employers, and medical personnel to refrain from facilitating, participating in, funding, or providing services contrary to their consciences or the tenets of their religious faith. Enacting these protections would prevent Americans from facing the moral dilemma presented by Obamacare, which has forced individuals, employers, and religious organizations to choose between violating the law and violating their faith or consciences.
Permanent Prohibition on Taxpayer-Funded Abortion. Congress should make permanent in law the existing annually enacted prohibitions on the use of federal taxpayer funds to finance abortions or health insurance coverage that includes elective abortions. These protections, enacted as the “Hyde Amendment” every year since 1976, prevent the use of taxpayer dollars to fund elective abortions.[52] After nearly 40 years of renewing these protections on an annual basis, Congress should finally make them permanent in law.
A New Vision for Health Reform
Obamacare moves American health care in the wrong direction. Not only does the law raise health costs rather than lowering them, but it creates new bureaucracies that will erode the doctor–patient relationship.[53] The trillions of dollars in new spending for Obamacare will place a massive fiscal burden on future generations of taxpayers.[54] For these reasons and more, Congress should repeal the law in its entirety.
Once this has been done, policymakers should then advance health reforms that move toward patient-centered, market-based health care. Such reforms would promote personal choice and ownership of health insurance; enable the free market to respond to consumer demands; encourage portability of coverage for workers; help civil society, the free markets, and the states to assist those in need; and protect the rights of faith, conscience, and life.
[1] According to the most recent census data, 86.2 percent of Americans with private health insurance coverage obtained that coverage through an employer. Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, and Jessica C. Smith, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011, U.S. Census Bureau, September 2012, p. 65, Table C-1, http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-243.pdf (accessed September 20, 2013).
[2] Alyene Senger, “Obamacare’s Impact on Today’s and Tomorrow’s Taxpayers: An Update,” Heritage Foundation Issue Brief No. 4022, August 21, 2013, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/08/obamacares-impact-on-todays-and-tomorrows-taxpayers-an-update.
[3] Joint Committee on Taxation, “Estimated Revenue Effects of a Proposal to Repeal Certain Tax Provisions Contained in the ‘Affordable Care Act (“ACA”)’,” June 15, 2012, and Congressional Budget Office, “Table 2: CBO’s May 2013 Estimate of the Budgetary Effects of the Insurance Coverage Provisions Contained in the Affordable Care Act,” http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44190_EffectsAffordableCareActHealthInsuranceCoverage_2.pdf. The total amount of tax revenue collected from the individual mandate, employer mandate, and 40 percent excise tax on high-cost health plans comes from the CBO’s May 2013 estimate. For all other taxes, the amount of tax revenue totaled comes from the Joint Committee on Taxation’s June 2012 estimation.
[4] Nina Owcharenko, “Saving the American Dream: A Blueprint for Putting Patients First,” Heritage Foundation Issue Brief No. 3628, June 6, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/06/saving-the-american-dream-a-blueprint-for-putting-patients-first.
[5] The White House, “Affordable, Accessible, and Flexible Health Coverage,” 2007, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/stateoftheunion/2007/initiatives/healthcare.html (accessed September 20, 2013). Recently, the House Republican Study Committee included a standard deduction in its proposal for health reform. See U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Study Committee, “The American Health Care Reform Act,” September 18, 2013, http://rsc.scalise.house.gov/solutions/rsc-betterway.htm (accessed September 25, 2013).
[6] Congressional Budget Office, Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health Insurance Proposals, December 2008, pp. 84–87, http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9924/12-18-keyissues.pdf (accessed September 20, 2013).
[7] John D. Shatto and M. Kent Clemens, “Projected Medicare Expenditures Under Illustrative Scenarios with Alternative Payment Updates to Medicare Providers,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, May 31, 2013, pp. 8–10, http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/ReportsTrustFunds/Downloads/2013TRAlternativeScenario.pdf (accessed September 20, 2013).
[8] Anna Wilde Mathews, “Many Health Insurers to Limit Choices of Doctors, Hospitals,” The Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323446404579010800462478682.html (accessed September 20, 2013; subscription required).
[9] America’s Health Insurance Plans, Center for Policy and Research, “January 2013 Census Shows 15.5 Million People Covered by Health Savings Account/High-Deductible Health Plans (HSA/HDHPs),” June 2013, http://www.ahip.org/HSACensus2013PDF/ (accessed September 20, 2013).
[10] America’s Health Insurance Plans, Center for Policy and Research, “Health Savings Accounts and Account-Based Health Plans: Research Highlights,” July 2012, http://www.ahip.org/HSAHighlightsReport072012/ (accessed September 20, 2013).
[11] Devenir, “Health Savings Accounts Surpass $12.4 Billion in 2011,” January 31, 2012, http://www.devenir.com/2012/devenir2011yearendsurvey (accessed September 20, 2013).
[12] For the definition of “qualified medical expenses,” see 26 U.S. Code § 223(d)(2). HSA funds can be used to purchase health insurance only for COBRA continuation health coverage, health insurance purchased during periods of unemployment, Medigap supplemental coverage, or long-term care insurance (within certain limits).
[13] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Planning and Evaluation, “At Risk: Pre-Existing Conditions Could Affect 1 in 2 Americans,” November 2011, http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/2012/pre-existing/index.shtml (accessed September 20, 2013).
[14] Edmund Haislmaier, “HHS Report on Obamacare’s Preexisting Conditions Impact: Say What???” The Heritage Foundation, The Foundry, January 19, 2011, http://blog.heritage.org/2011/01/19/hhs-report-on-obamacare’s-preexisting-conditions-impact-say-what/.
[15] Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, “Covering People with Pre-Existing Conditions: Report on the Implementation and Operation of the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Program,” January 31, 2013, http://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Files/Downloads/pcip_annual_report_01312013.pdf (accessed September 24, 2013).
[16] Douglas W. Elmendorf, letter to Senator Mike Enzi (R–WY), June 21, 2010, http://cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/115xx/doc11572/06-21-high-risk_insurance_pools.pdf (accessed September 20, 2013).
[17] National Association of State Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans, “Pool Membership—2011,” September 2012, http://naschip.org/2012/Quick%20Checks/Pool%20Membership%202011.pdf (accessed September 20, 2013).
[18] Chris Jacobs, “Obamacare: Taking Away Americans’ Health Coverage,” The Heritage Foundation, The Foundry, August 6, 2013, http://blog.heritage.org/2013/08/06/obamacare-taking-away-americans-health-coverage/.
[19] Press release, “New AMA Study Finds Anticompetitive Market Conditions Are Common Across Managed Care Plans,” American Medical Association, November 28, 2012, http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/2012-11-28-study-finds-anticompetitive-market-conditions-common.page (accessed September 20, 2013).
[20] Michael J. New, “The Effect of State Regulations on Health Insurance Premiums: A Revised Analysis,” Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis Report No. 06-04, July 25, 2006, p. 5, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2006/07/the-effect-of-state-regulations-on-health-insurance-premiums-a-revised-analysis.
[21] Council for Affordable Health Insurance, “Health Insurance Mandates in the States 2012: Executive Summary,” April 9, 2013, http://www.cahi.org/cahi_contents/resources/pdf/Mandatesinthestates2012Execsumm.pdf (accessed September 24, 2013).
[22] Chris Jacobs, “Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate: Principles for Reform,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2827, July 18, 2013, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/07/medicares-sustainable-growth-rate-principles-for-reform.
[23] Robert E. Moffit and Rea S. Hederman, Jr., “Medicare Savings: Five Steps to a Down Payment on Medicare Reform,” Heritage Foundation Issue Brief No. 3908, April 11, 2013, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/04/medicare-savings-5-steps-to-a-downpayment-on-structural-reform.
[24] Alyene Senger, “Obamacare’s Impact on Seniors: An Update,” Heritage Foundation Issue Brief No. 4019, August 20, 2013, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/08/obamacares-impact-on-seniors-an-update.
[25] Shatto and Clemens, “Projected Medicare Expenditures Under Illustrative Scenarios,” pp. 8–10.
[26] Owcharenko, “Saving the American Dream: A Blueprint for Putting Patients First.”
[27] Jon R. Gabel, Ryan Lore, Roland D. McDevitt, Jeremy D. Pickreign, Heidi Whitmore, Michael Slover, and Ethan Levy-Forsythe, “More Than Half of Individual Health Plans Offer Coverage That Falls Short of What Can Be Sold Through Exchanges as of 2014,” Health Affairs, May 2012, http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2012/05/22/hlthaff.2011.1082 (accessed September 20, 2013; subscription required).
[28] Jacobs, “Obamacare: Taking Away Americans’ Health Coverage.”
[29] For instance, see a 2008 campaign document answering the question “Will I have to change plans?” under the Obama proposal: “No, you will not have to change plans. For those who have insurance now, nothing will change under the Obama plan—except that you will pay less.” Obama for America, “Background Questions and Answers on Health Care Plan,” 2008, http://www.scribd.com/doc/191306/barack-obama-08-healthcare-faq (accessed September 20, 2013).
[30] Amelia M. Haviland, M. Susan Marquis, Roland D. McDevitt, and Neeraj Sood, “Growth of Consumer-Directed Health Plans to One-Half of All Employer-Sponsored Insurance Could Save $57 Billion Annually,” Health Affairs, May 2012, http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/31/5/1009.abstract (accessed September 20, 2013; subscription required).
[31] Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust, Employer Health Benefits: 2013 Annual Survey, August 2013, p. 56, Exhibit 4.1, http://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/8465-employer-health-benefits-20131.pdf (accessed September 23, 2013).
[32] National Council of State Legislatures, “Out-of-State Health Insurance—Allowing the Purchase (State Implementation Report),” updated September 2012, http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/out-of-state-health-insurance-purchases.aspx (accessed September 23, 2013).
[34] For a summary of many of these studies, see Kevin D. Dayaratna, “Studies Show: Medicaid Patients Have Worse Access and Outcomes than the Privately Insured,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2740, November 7, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/11/studies-show-medicaid-patients-have-worse-access-and-outcomes-than-the-privately-insured. See also Scott Gottlieb, “Medicaid Is Worse Than No Coverage at All,” The Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2011, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704758904576188280858303612.html (accessed September 23, 2013).
[35] Annie Lowrey, “Study Finds Health Care Use Rises with Expanded Medicaid,” The New York Times, May 2, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/business/study-finds-health-care-use-rises-with-expanded-medicaid.html (accessed September 23, 2013).
[36] Vanessa Fuhrmans, “Note to Medicaid Patients: The Doctor Won’t See You,” The Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2007, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118480165648770935.html (accessed September 23, 2013; subscription required).
[37] Nina Owcharenko, “Medicaid Reform: More Than a Block Grant Is Needed,” Heritage Foundation Issue Brief No. 3590, May 4, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/05/three-steps-to-medicaid-reform.
[38] Republican Governors Public Policy Committee, Health Care Task Force, “A New Medicaid: A Flexible, Innovative, and Accountable Future,” August 30, 2011, http://www.rga.org/homepage/gop-govs-release-medicaid-reform-report/ (accessed September 23, 2013).
[39] Owcharenko, “Medicaid Reform: More Than a Block Grant Is Needed.”
[40] CBS News, “Medicare Fraud: A $60 Billion Crime,” 60 Minutes, September 5, 2010, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-5414390.html (accessed September 23, 2013).
[41] Clifford Levy and Michael Luo, “New York Medicaid Fraud May Reach into Billions,” The New York Times, July 18, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/nyregion/18medicaid.html (accessed September 23, 2013).
[42] Nisha Nathan, “Doctor Shortage Could Cause Health Care Crash,” ABC News, November 13, 2012, http://abcnews.go.com/Health/doctor-shortage-health-care-crash/story?id=17708473 (accessed September 23, 2013).
[43] Deloitte, “Deloitte 2013 Survey of U.S. Physicians: Physician Perspectives About Health Care Reform and the Future of the Medical Profession,” 2013, p. 3, http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local%20Assets/Documents/us_chs_2013SurveyofUSPhysicians_031813.pdf (accessed September 23, 2013).
[44] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, “Addressing the New Health Care Crisis: Reforming the Medical Litigation System to Improve the Quality of Health Care,” March 2003, p. 16, http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/medliab.pdf (accessed September 23, 2013).
[45] Douglas W. Elmendorf, letter to Senator Orrin Hatch (R–UT), October 9, 2009, http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/106xx/doc10641/10-09-tort_reform.pdf (accessed September 23, 2013).
[46] Randolph W. Pate and Derek Hunter, “Code Blue: The Case for Serious State Medical Liability Reform,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 1908, January 17, 2006, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2006/01/code-blue-the-case-for-serious-state-medical-liability-reform.
[47] Hans von Spakovsky, “Medical Malpractice Reform: States vs. the Federal Government,” The Heritage Foundation, The Foundry, March 19, 2012, http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/19/medical-malpractice-reform-states-vs-the-federal-government/.
[48] Institute of Medicine, “The Future of Nursing: Focus on Scope of Practice,” Report Brief, October 2010, http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/2010/The-Future-of-Nursing/Nursing%20Scope%20of%20Practice%202010%20Brief.pdf (accessed September 23, 2013).
[49] Melinda Beck, “Battles Erupt over Filling Doctors’ Shoes,” The Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323644904578271872578661246.html (accessed September 23, 2013), and Melinda Beck, “Nurse Practitioners Seek Right to Treat Patients on Their Own,” The Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323455104579013193992224008.html (accessed September 23, 2013; subscription required).
[50] National Conference of State Legislatures, “Certificate of Need: State Laws and Programs,” updated March 2012, http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/con-certificate-of-need-state-laws.aspx (accessed September 23, 2013).
[51] The Heritage Foundation “Obamacare Anti-Conscience Mandate: An Assault on the Constitution,” Fact Sheet No. 103, February 17, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/factsheets/2012/02/obamacare-anti-conscience-mandate-an-assault-on-the-constitution.
[52] Chuck Donovan, “Obamacare: Impact on Taxpayer Funding of Abortion,” Heritage Foundation WebMemo No. 2872, April 19, 2010, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/04/obamacare-impact-on-taxpayer-funding-of-abortion.
[53] Alyene Senger, “Obamacare’s Impact on Doctors—An Update,” Heritage Foundation Issue Brief No. 4024, August 23, 2013, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/08/obamacares-impact-on-doctors-an-update.
[54] Alyene Senger, “Obamacare’s Impact on Today’s and Tomorrow’s Taxpayers: An Update,” Heritage Foundation Issue Brief No. 4022, August 21, 2013, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/08/obamacares-impact-on-todays-and-tomorrows-taxpayers-an-update.
Current Approach to Surprise Medical Billing Could Have Unintended Consequences
Here’s the Conservative Plan to Improve Health Care
Trump Really Does Have a Plan That’s Better Than Obamacare
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Bill Campbell is the senior vice president of the Americas for Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure. Campbell joined the Hexagon team with more than 20 years of management, sales, and marketing experience. Prior to Hexagon, Campbell worked at Capgemini, a leading global systems integrator, where he served as the global sales officer and vice president of its Technology Services business. He has also held executive positions at General Electric Information Services. Campbell holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), a Master of Business Administration from The Johns Hopkins University, and a Master of Public Service and Administration and graduate certificate in homeland security from The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.
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PostDoc-Fellowship (3 years)
PostDoc/Habilitation-Fellowship (3 years)
Munich School of Philosophy is pleased to announce one 3-year PostDoc/Habilitation fellowship. The fellowship is full-time.
We invite junior scholars (ideally recent Ph.D.s) in philosophy and psychology (with proof of strong philosophy background) to apply for a three year fellowship starting March 15th, 2018. Salary and social benefits are competitive (German TvöD 13). (Candidates with completed Ph.D. thesis preparing for a defense in the near future are eligible.)
Possible topics of the PostDoc/Habilitation fellowship are deliberately given wide thematic scope. The fellowship will enable scholars in philosophy to conduct independent cutting-edge research at the intersection of philosophy and psychology. The fellowship will be part of the interdisciplinary project:
“Motivational and Volitional Processes of Human Integration: Philosophical and Psychological Approaches to Human Flourishing”
The project is based at the Munich School of Philosophy and the Technical University of Munich. The research methodology is interdisciplinary, combining philosophical and psychological approaches. Philosophically the project is situated in analytic theory of action, philosophy of mind, and meta-ethics.
From the executive summary of the project:
[6-page project summary]
The proposed project explores the idea of a dynamic and organismic concept of the self at the interface of philosophy and experimental psychology. We argue that human self-realization is a goal-oriented process leading from less integrated to more integrated states.
Although Harry Frankfurt and others have explored the idea of integration as a central characteristic of human life, we argue that those models lack complexity mainly because they do not sufficiently acknowledge the findings of empirical research in psychology. We draw from the philosophical tradition ranging from Duns Scotus to Harry Frankfurt in considering the volitional system to be the core of the human person. In our model, an understanding of this system is grounded in three factors: (1) implicit, unconscious motives and (2) explicit, propositional motives which in turn are integrated and regulated by (3) meta-motivational attitudes.
Based on a substantial concept of human integration and its relation to subjective well-being, we aim to detail the necessary conditions for flourishing. The project is, therefore, normative in the sense that it delineates the necessary conditions for flourishing, but not normative in the sense that it describes the material, sufficient conditions.
Projects ought to be systematic in character. We do not seek to support projects which are purely historical.
We expect the recipient of the fellowhip to actively publish during the 3-year period. Prospective fellows should be willing to engage in the interdisciplinary setting of the project; this includes the willingness to acquire a proficiency in current psychology, esp. motivational psychology; in particular the “3C model of motivation and volition” (Kehr), the “personality-systems-interaction model” (Kuhl), and the “self-determination model” (Ryan/Deci).
Possible areas of research may include:
Processes of human integration, the will, and the motivational system.
Processes of human integration and philosophical concepts of human flourishing (eudaimonia).
Processes of human integration and externalism and internalism about reasons, as well as externalism and internalism about motivation.
Processes of human integration and the diachronic unity of persons.
Processes of human integration and narrativity.
Processes of human integration and the role of second-person-relations.
During the fellowship the fellow officially belongs to the faculty staff of Munich School of Philosophy. Munich School of Philosophy provides all necessary infrastructure. The fellow receives office space, access to internet and to all university libraries and other infrastructure provided by the Munich School of Philosophy. Additional assistance may be provided, as needed, by partner institutions: the Technical University of Munich, the Bavarian State Library, and the Leibniz-IT-Center.
The fellow is entitled to teach courses at Munich School of Philosophy – details are up to negotiation.In addition to ongoing publication of research results, participation in the activities of the project at Munich School of Philosophy is obligatory (research seminars, project meetings etc.). Residence in the Greater Munich area is expected (details below).
The fellow will occasionally be expected to support the steering committee in planning and running academic events such as conferences and workshops, as well as in preparing publications. The details are up to negotiation, but clearly the main focus will be on the fellow’s own research and the timely publication thereof.
Fellows will find themselves surrounded by a stimulating blend of interdisciplinary research seminars at two universities, conferences, and regular guest lectures dedicated to the topics they are working on themselves. There is the opportunity to interact regularly with faculty members of both departments in a familiar atmosphere.
Information concerning eligibility, applications, dates, etc.
Conditions for Eligibility
PhD in philosophy or psychology (with a strong philosophy background);
familiarity with recent developments in philosophical action theory, familiarity with philosophy of psychology is desirable;
proficiency in English, oral and written; some familiarity with the German language is a plus but not a requirement;
at least one published paper (proven track-record in publishing is a great plus);
social and communication skills.
In addition, candidates are expected to be willing
to participate in seminars and conferences of the project organized;
to work in a larger research group;
to disseminate the research results through publications and conference presentations.
Further inquiries about project eligibility or about the application should be directed to motivation@hfph.de
Application Material Should Contain:
your statement of interest (approx. 250 words);
your CV;
a copy of your PhD-diploma;
an abstract of your research proposal (200-250 words);
your research proposal (1.500-2.000 words) outlining the research project as well as how it is relevant for and contributes to the overall perspective of the project;
a timeline describing precisely the work that will be completed during the grant period and in which order it is planned to do so;
two confidential letters of recommendation from two university professors (ideally one of them being the director of the PhD-thesis) addressing the applicant’s qualifications for outstanding PostDoc-research. These should be sent by the recommenders to the email-adress below.
Please use “PostDoc TRT-Project” in the header of your mail!
Applications can be in German or English.
The application materials must be submitted in electronic form (PDF with US-letter or DIN-A4 sized pages, double spaced) to: motivation@hfph.de
We will acknowledge each submission within 48 hours. All inquiries should be mailed to the address above.
Deadline for applications: December 22nd, 2017
Information about decision: January 15th, 2018
Start of the fellowship: March 15th, 2018
We expect the successful applicant to move to the greater Munich-area as soon as possible, but no later than the summer term of 2018 (June 1st). Details are up to negotiation.
Munich School of Philosophy, an Equal Opportunity Employer, has a strong commitment to diversity and actively encourages applications from candidates from groups underrepresented in higher education!
This project is made possible through a generous grant by Templeton (TRT)
Additional support is provided by the Erich J. Lejeune Endowed Chair for Philosophy and Motivation
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Smooth Fox Terrier Dog Breed Information and Personality Traits
Best suited for a family with an active lifestyle, the smooth fox terrier is friendly, energetic and outgoing and is a terrific companion for children as the dog never tires of playing.
Smooth Fox Terrier At a glance
The Smooth Fox Terrier has a strong aptitude as a trick dog and has been shown around the world in performance troupes and circuses.
Dolicocephalic (long face)
Exercise Requirements: 20-40 minutes/day
Tendency to Bark: High
Tendency to Dig: High Social/Attention Needs: High
Fox bolting
Characteristics: Flat
Colors: White should predominate
The Smooth Fox Terrier always portrays a lively and active appearance.
The body of this breed is compact and muscular, built for speed and agility. The dog has a short body but a long sleek face with ears that fold forward toward the cheeks. These dogs are from 13 to 15 inches tall and weigh 16 to18 pounds (seven to eight kilograms).
The coat of a Smooth Fox Terrier is short, flat against the body, and dense. Usually, the hair covers the belly and inner thighs as well. The color of the coat is predominately white with markings of black and tan.
Befitting of their strong hunting instinct, the Smooth Fox Terrier has a keen sense of smell, good eyesight and remarkable staying power to finish the job. This drive carries over to everyday life, whether playing a game of fetch or digging in the yard. The smooth is easily trained, but he needs a strong hand to control his desire to hunt. This breed is happiest when active and is best suited to a family who is on the go.
As a companion, the Smooth Fox Terrier is affectionate and protective. He makes a good watchdog with a tendency to be vocal.
Anyone who leads an active lifestyle and likes to take his dog along will be perfectly suited to this breed. The smooth fox terrier is friendly, energetic and outgoing. These dogs are wonderful companions for children and never tire of all sorts of games.
The coat of the smooth fox terrier is easy to keep looking neat. A daily brushing will keep it clean and prevent excessive shedding in the house. Daily exercise will naturally keep the smooth looking fit.
Smooth fox terriers originated in England during the 18th century. Until 1860, any dog that was quick, agile and small enough to bolt a fox from his hole was termed a fox terrier. It did not matter to the huntsman what style of Terrier was kept, as long as he performed his work. In the hunts, the dog was often carried in a bag slung over the shoulder of the "terrier man."
Other times, the terrier followed along behind the other hounds. When the fox would go into the ground, the terrier was brought up to go into the hole and flush out the fox. In addition to hunting fox, the smooth has been successfully used to hunt and retrieve birds and track deer.
The smooth fox terrier is one of the most universally recognized purebreds. Although considered a sporting terrier, the smooth fox terrier is more often seen as a pet and show dog.
The breed also has a strong aptitude as a trick dog and has been shown around the world in performance troupes and in circuses. One of the most famous portrayals of the breed is in the painting "His Master's Voice" by Francis Barraud, which shows a black and white terrier peering into the horn of a phonograph. The rights to this painting were first acquired by the Victor Talking Machine Company and then in 1929 by RCA.
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Can’t issue guidelines to stop misuse of rape law: Maharashtra govt tells Bombay high court
State was responding to a PIL and writ petition filed seeking to restrain cops from slapping rape charges in cases wherein the relationship was consensual.
mumbai Updated: Nov 08, 2017 09:48 IST
Kanchan Chaudhari
Bombay High Court.(HT FILE)
It is not possible to issue guidelines to restrain the police from registering first information reports (FIRs) in rape cases lodged by women when it was a consensual relationship, the Maharashtra home department told Bombay high court on Tuesday.
As per section 154 of the Criminal Procedure Code and the Supreme Court judgment in Lalita Kumari vs State of Uttar Pradesh (2013), the police are mandated to register an FIR if a complaint points to a cognisable offence, said the affidavit filed by the home department in high court on Tuesday.
According to the affidavit, a police officer is duty bound to register an FIR and investigate the offence. If at a later stage it is disclosed that no offence has been committed, the police are again under obligation to inform the court, the affidavit said.
The affidavit was filed in response to a public interest litigation and a writ petition that have sought direction to restrain the police from slapping on the severe charge of rape in cases wherein the relationship was consensual.
Responding to the petitions, the affidavit stated that under the law, when two adults engage in physical relationship voluntarily, such act does not constitute rape. It, however, added that whether the consent was voluntary or obtained under coercion is essentially a question of fact (which requires to be investigated).
The petition was filed by a 27-year-old doctor who has been accused of rape by a theatre actress. They had a long physical relationship. He married somebody else under the pretext of his MS examination.
In the petition filed through advocate Mahesh Vaswani, the doctor has sought that the FIR registered against him be quashed and also a direction to the police to prevent the ‘misuse’ of the rape law.
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SFBA Chapter May 2019 Event: Thermal Comfort
IBPSA-USA San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Online / Arup - Arup, 560 Mission St. Suite 700, San Francisco, CA 94105
Presentation 1: The accuracy of the PMV/PPD model and on what to do in simulations
Presentation 2: Defining acceptable temperature ranges without PMV
Presentation 3: Designing for thermal comfort in transient and non-uniform thermal environments - Case Study
Date & Time: Tue, May 28, 2019, 6:00-8:00 PM PDT
Schedule: 6pm - 6:30pm: Networking (Food & drinks provided); 6:30pm - 8pm: Presentations
Register Now on Eventbrite
*Note that the Link for webinar will be provided upon purchase of the webinar ticket.
More Information on Presentations:
The Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) and associated Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied (PPD) are the mostly used thermal comfort models. We used the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II to evaluate its prediction accuracy. We found that PMV predictions of thermal sensation were only correct one-third of the time, and had a mean absolute error of one unit on the thermal sensation scale. The accuracy of its predictions decreased towards the ends of the thermal sensation scale, meaning it performs poorly when it is most needed. People felt neutral or slightly cool/warm across a wider range of conditions than predicted by PMV, highlighting large potential for HVAC energy savings. The PPD was unable to predict the level of occupant dissatisfaction. These findings demonstrate the low prediction accuracy of the PMV–PPD model, indicating the need to develop better-performing thermal comfort models. For demonstration, we developed a simple model based on air temperature and its accuracy was higher than PMV on this database.
Presenter: Stefano Schiavon, PhD, is Associate Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley and Associate Director of CEDR.
Stefano’s research is focused on finding ways to reduce energy consumption in buildings while improving occupant health, well-being and productivity. He received a PhD in Energy Engineering and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy.
European thermal comfort standards use Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) classes as the basis of compliance criteria. The implicit assumption is that a narrower PMV range ensures higher thermal acceptability. However, our analysis of the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II demonstrates that PMV classes are not appropriate design compliance criteria. We derived acceptable temperature ranges based on field studies in buildings and found they are wider (7.4K - 12.2 K) than the current standards mandate (2K - 6K). Our findings support the call for a relaxation of suggested temperature ranges in thermal comfort standards so as to minimize unnecessary space conditioning. These results, in conjunction with the analysis of PMV accuracy, reinforce the need for a new approach to predict and assess thermal comfort at different phases of building design and operation.
Presenter: Thomas Parkinson, PhD, is Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for the Built Environment at UC Berkeley
Tom is working on topics that aim to enhance occupant comfort and well-being in buildings. This includes interests ranging from thermal physiology, indoor environmental quality, application of sensor technologies to built environments, and psychophysics. He received his PhD in Architectural Science from the University of Sydney.
Human thermal comfort is a key design parameter for buildings. Analyzing thermal comfort can be complex, especially in transient and non-uniform thermal environments. This presentation previews a new set of tools that simulate human response to these environments. This allows for the analysis of thermal comfort under environmental conditions such as stratification, radiant asymmetry, and the effects of personal environmental controls, to name a few. The presentation describes aspects of the new simulation tools and their applications in design. A case study of an airport will be presented to showcase how the analysis of transient environments gave the design team confidence to relax comfort set points, leading to expected savings in energy consumption.
Nathaniel Jones, PhD Advanced Technology & Research Analyst at Arup
Nathaniel is a building scientist, educator, and software developer. He is currently an Advanced Technology & Research analyst at Arup and teaches building science at the University of San Francisco. His background spans architectural design, engineering, and computer science, with an emphasis on tools that aid informed decision making in early design. Nathaniel is active in the building science community and serves as chair of the International Building Performance Simulation Association-USA (IBPSA-USA) chapter’s Research Committee and subcommittee on Emerging Simulation Technologies. He is the author of multiple journal and conference papers related to building energy and daylighting simulation, and he is the developer of Accelerad and other early design simulation tools.
Ingrid Chaires, PE, Advanced Technology & Research Senior Mechanical Engineer at Arup
Ingrid is a senior mechanical engineer, and digital leader at Arup in the Advanced Technology & Research team, specializing in non-linear analysis, performance-based design, and data. Through the use of computational fluid dynamics, energy modeling, and data analytics, Ingrid provides consulting services to help clients achieve their energy, sustainability, and performance goals. Ingrid has led several research projects developing a more comprehensive approach to thermal comfort and its application in design for a range of physiological, environmental, and space use conditions. Outside of Arup, Ingrid is also on the board of the IBPSA-USA SFBA chapter.
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Press Release : 26 June 2019
ICC Presidency assigns the Situation in Bangladesh/ Myanmar to Pre-Trial Chamber III
ICC-CPI-20190626-PR1461
The Presidency of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or the "Court") has constituted Pre-Trial Chamber III, composed of Judge Robert Fremr, Judge Olga Herrera Carbuccia and Judge Geoffrey Henderson and assigned to it the Situation in the People's Republic of Bangladesh/Republic of the Union of Myanmar. This decision follows a notice by the ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, informing the Presidency of her intention to submit a request for an authorisation to open an investigation into this Situation.
The Prosecutor has notified judges that she will seek an authorisation "to investigate alleged crimes within the Court's jurisdiction in which at least one element occurred on the territory of the People's Republic of Bangladesh – a State Party to the Rome Statute since 1 June 2010 – and within the context of two waves of violence in Rakhine State on the territory of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, as well as any other crimes which are sufficiently linked to these events".
Once the Prosecutor submits her request, it will then be for the Judges of Pre-Trial Chamber III to decide whether or not to authorise the Prosecutor to open an investigation into the Situation. The Judges will have to consider whether there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation, upon examination of the Prosecutor's request and the supporting material.
Background: On 6 September 2018, following a request submitted by the Prosecutor pursuant to article 19(3) of the Statute, ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I decided by majority that the Court may exercise jurisdiction over the alleged deportation of the Rohingya people from Myanmar occurred on the territory of Myanmar (which is a State not party to the Statute) to Bangladesh (which is a State party to the Statute). On 18 September 2018, the Prosecutor announced the opening of a preliminary examination concerning the alleged deportation of the Rohingya people from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
Decision on the constitution of Pre-Trial Chamber III and on the assignment of the situation in the People's Republic of Bangladesh/Republic of the Union of Myanmar
For further information, please contact Fadi El Abdallah, Spokesperson and Head of Public Affairs Unit, International Criminal Court, by telephone at: +31 (0)70 515-9152 or +31 (0)6 46448938 or by e-mail at: [email protected]
You can also follow the Court's activities on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Instagram and Flickr
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Alan Stoddart
Singer announces collaboration with Williams Advanced Engineering
Singer Vehicle Design has revealed details of a new level of restoration and modification services commissioned by three of its clients for their air-cooled Porsche 911s.
To meet the high-performance and light-weighting goals required for the restorations, Singer has undertaken a performance research study with Williams Advanced Engineering, part of Williams Grand Prix Engineering Group, and engaged the motorsports concern to engineer technical modifications and components for the restored 911s.
The first fruit of the project is a modified, naturally aspirated, air-cooled, flat-six Porsche 911 engine with a 4.0L capacity, four-valves per cylinder and four cam-shafts, rated at 500HP. It benefits from the additional insight and vast experience of famed engine designer and engineer, Hans Mezger, who is a technical consultant on the project.
Rob Dickinson, founder of Singer Vehicle Design, explained: “Helping our clients realise their unique vision for a reimagined Porsche 911 with the help of automotive royalty is very much a privilege. Singer is delighted to be working with Williams Advanced Engineering and Hans Mezger to offer our clients a “next level” of restoration and modification services for their Porsche 911s. With careful and dedicated development, this iconic air-cooled engine has much to give both its existing devotees and a generation of new enthusiasts.”
Jonathan Williams, Williams Heritage director, noted further: “The Porsche 911 has long been a standard bearer in the worlds of racing and advanced engineering – two things that we care deeply about at Williams. As an admirer of the 911, I’m thrilled that we’re working with Singer and its clients on these restorations.”
Paul McNamara, technical director, Williams Advanced Engineering added: “This has been a fantastic opportunity to showcase the core capabilities of Williams Advanced Engineering. Having had the opportunity to consult with Hans Mezger – the “father” of the iconic air-cooled flat-six – about the development of the engine, our team was pleased to be able to provide a solution to Singer’s clients’ requirements and of course, to be a part of this iconic vehicle’s continued evolution.”
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Antares AK-258
(AK-258: dp. 4,600; 1. 455'0"; b. 62'0"; dr. 29'2" (lim.); a. 15.5 k.;
cpl. 145; a. 8 40mm.; cl. Greenville Victory; T. VC2-S-AP3)
The second Antares (AK-258) was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 107) as SS Nampa Victory on 6 April 1944 at Portland, Oreg., by the Oregon Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 19 May 1944; sponsored by Mrs. R. A. Hadley: and delivered to the Maritime Commission on 10 June 1944. Operated during World War II by the International Freighting Co. under a contract with the War Shipping Administration, SS Nampa Victory was acquired by the Navy in 1951. She was converted to a Navy cargo ship at Baltimore by the Maryland Drydocks Co.; renamed Antares on 26 July 1951 and simultaneously designated AK-258. Antares was commissioned at Baltimore on 12 February 1952, Comdr. Grant 0. Hansen in command.
Dunn the first seven years of her Navy career, Antares operated as a cargo carrier between ports on the Atlantic coast, in the West Indies, and along the Mediterranean littoral. During the fall of 1958, the ship earned the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for her support for the ships and troops engaged in the intervention in Lebanon. Redesignated a stores issue ship, AKS-33, on 1 April 1959, Antares entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in June to receive modifications to allow her to perform underway replenishment missions. The work was interrupted in August in order that she might conduct refresher training in Cuban waters and then make a two-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea. In November, she resume her conversion overhaul at Norfolk.
Antares returned to active service in February of 1960 with a new mission and a new pattern of employment. She and Altair (AKS-32) were to alternate as station underway replenishment ship for the 6th Fleet. Whichever of the two not on that duty would serve as backup while on the east coast and in the West, Indies. Late in 1961, the stores issue ship received an additional mission when she was designated a support ship for fleet ballistic missle (FBM) submarines deployed abroad. She spent October and November of 1961 receiving additional modifications at Norfolk and at Charleston. During the first five months of 1962, she operated out of Norfolk conducting type training and participating in a multiship exercise in the West Indies. In June, Antares loaded supplies at Charleston and then sailed for Scotland on her first resupply voyage to the FBM base at Holy Loch. She returned to Norfolk on 25 July and then conducted local operations and received a tender availability.
Antares departed Norfolk in September 1962 to relieve Altair in the Mediterranean. That deployment proved to be a long one since Altairs overhaul was delayed by the Cuban missile crisis in October and hence that stores issue ship was unable to relieve Antares at Naples, Italy, before 30 May. Antares arrived back in Norfolk early in June and, following tender availability alongside Cadmus (AR-14), operated along the east coast for the remainder of 1963.
Following a resupply mission to the FBM base at Holy Loch in January 1964 and participation in the annual "Springboard" exercise near Puerto Rico, she returned to Norfolk later that spring to prepare for inactivation. She reported to the Norfolk Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, on 15 September 1964 and was decom- there on 18 December 1964. Her name was struck from the Navy list on I September 1965, and she was transferred to the Maritime Administration to be laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet facility at James River, Va. She remained there until late in 1975 when she was sold, apparently for scrapping.
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Counting’ to 5’ at Comcast Center
Eddie Shoebang
Jul 31, 2008 at 12:01 AM Jul 31, 2008 at 2:04 AM
At first glance, a co-headlining tour with funky, pop music maestros Maroon 5 and sensitive indie-rock artists Counting Crows seems a bit odd. One band’s star continues to rise, thanks to their ability to jump from genre to genre, while the other is returning after a six-year album absence.
And yet, when you hear Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows and Adam Levine of Maroon 5 talk about the tour and their friendship, it becomes apparent that it was an obvious choice to put the two together.
“We like each other’s music, which is a good thing because when you’re on tour all summer it’s nice to be able to hear some music you like,” explains Duritz during a conference call last week. “Also, I think the great thing about co-headling is that you get a one-plus-one-equals-10 situation because people are hesitant to spend their money nowadays.”
Both bands, along with pop music darling Sara Bareilles (she’s the pianist who sings “Love Song”), will be at the Comcast Center (formerly the Tweeter Center) this Saturday at 7 p.m.
It’s interesting that Duritz indirectly brought up the state of the economy. One of the big music stories this summer is how the high gas prices are affecting bands on tour (some smaller indie ones had to cancel since it wasn’t economically feasible for them).
As for this tour, the bands are working with a company called Reverb, an organization that, according to its website, “educates and engages musicians and their fans to promote environmental sustainability.”
“The whole tour is going to be using biodegradable products and biodiesel fuel in the buses and we’re going to be offsetting our carbon footprint,” says Levine. “Which is essentially just paying for the emissions that we’re putting into the world.”
But aside from the environmental impact of the tour, there’s also the issue of Duritz’s personal health. The singer has been open about his struggle with a dissociative disorder that affects his grasp on reality. He has it under control now.
And, despite past reports, he doesn’t suffer from stage fright. In fact, it’s quite the opposite — it’s the loss of the connection he builds up with the audience that, in the past, has left him debilitated.
“The nature of my mental illness is such that it makes things seem hallucinatory and not real and so the best and healthy thing for you is familiar things,” explains Duritz. “And there’s a real backlash after you’re out there kind of connected to all these people, your band and then you go back to the room yourself. That’s always been difficult for me.”
But the bands haven’t had any difficulty on stage.
“I’m just happy to return with [the Counting Crows] because there are so few bands at this point that are for real,” says Levine. “There’s a lot of smoke and mirrors these days so it’s nice that I think we both have the same touring ethics and we both go out there and hit the road and still do it the old-fashioned way.”
Duritz agrees.
“It’s so easy to fake it in the studios,” says Duritz. “And there are a lot of bands you see on TV and when you see their show you realize they can’t play. Everybody on this tour is a musician.”
And, since this is a co-headlining tour, is it possible the bands would cover each other? At the very least, both Adams know which song they would pick.
“I like the song on your album ‘If I Never See Your Face Again,’” says Duritz to Levine. “I just like the funk of it and I like it because it gives you a lot of [creative] room [to cover it].”
“‘Long December’ probably,” replies Levine. “I love that song so much it’s insane.”
“Yes, and I’ll play the piano and you can sing it,” says Duritz.
“Sweet, I’d love to do some of those…we should do some of those,” says Levine. “I know that’s going to happen.”
So is it official? Will there be a Maroon 5 and Counting Crows collaboration?
“I can guarantee there’s going to be some sort of collaboration,” says Duritz. “It’s going to be fun man, it’s going to be a good summer.”
Maroon 5 and Counting Crows Comcast Center Saturday, Aug. 2, 7 p.m. Tickets: $25-$125 Call 508-339-2333
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Middleborough, tribe still betting on casino
Alice C. Elwell
It’s been almost a year since the Wampanoag’s land-into-trust application was submitted to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the tribe expects a decision by next spring.
A year ago this week, television camera crews were a regular sight on the street.
The streets were plastered with signs.
Under enormous tents on the high school ball field, Middleboro hosted the largest town meeting the state had ever seen, where nearly two-thirds of the 3,700 people who showed up said yes to an $11 million-a-year agreement that provides $250 million in infrastructure improvements for a tribal casino.
And after all was said and done, then-Tribal Chairman Glenn Marshall lit up a celebratory cigar and declared, “I’m so doggone happy, I don’t know what to do.”
A year later, most of the signs have fallen to the wayside, neighbors have reached an accord and Route 44 is still badly in need of an overhaul.
And Gov. Deval Patrick, who for months championed legalizing gambling in the state, appears none too eager to lend his support to the plan. At an event in Taunton on Tuesday, Patrick told The Enterprise he is not prepared to begin formal compact negotiations with the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, saying it would be an “academic” exercise to do so before the plan has been approved by the federal government.
The governor acknowledged, however — as did his top adviser on the matter, Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Dan O’Connell — there are ongoing meetings with the tribe, which he described as “open, constructive and candid conversations.”
Last fall, Patrick pumped up the casino craze by pitching a plan to open three commercial casinos in the state to help bail out the flagging economy. The legislature shot down the plan.
It’s been almost a year since the Wampanoag’s land-into-trust application was submitted to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the tribe expects a decision by next spring, said tribal spokesperson Scott M. Ferson.
“There are continued discussions between the tribe and BIA as the application makes it way through the process,” Ferson said. “There has been no indication from the BIA there will be a delay.”
And as for negotiating a deal with the state, he said the current tribal Chairman Shawn W. Hendricks Sr. “will request compact negotiations at the appropriate time, knowing compact discussions typically are started before the land is formally taken into trust.”
Ferson said the Middleboro land, 539 acres on Precinct Street, is still in the hands of investors, led by world-class casino operators Sol Kerzner and Len Wolman.
For Selectman Wayne C. Perkins, the lead man on his board last year, it’s been a relatively quiet summer. But he said he thinks most people are still are in favor of the plan.
“Everybody’s sitting back with a wait and see attitude ... the majority I talk to are looking forward to a resort casino going forward,” said Perkins.
Perkins said relations between the town and tribe took a big step forward during the tribe’s annual powwow this summer. The tribe welcomed a Middleboro contingent into the sacred inner circle, Perkins said.
“We actually participated in a ceremony of peace with the tribe,” he said.
Richard Young, president of Middleboro’s CasinoFacts and the statewide coalition Casino Free Mass, said that during last year’s hoopla, many chose sides on the casino issue, but the lines have gotten blurred.
The heated exchanges over the issue that were common last year have cooled as well. Young said he has always had good conversations with the pro-casino allies.
“I try to respect their opinion, although I disagree, and I hope they respect my opinion,” he said.
But that does not mean he is giving up the fight to stop casino gambling. Young said the PR wizards nicknamed the “casino killers,” Dennis and Douglas Bailey, are waiting in the wings for the battle he expects to resume once the BIA releases the results of an environmental impact report.
Tribal casino or not, the governor isn’t giving up his commercial casino plan. On Tuesday he told The Enterprise, “It may come back again. We’re going to have to deal sooner or later with expanded gambling.”
“For me it’s never been about gambling, it’s about jobs and revenue,” Patrick said.
The Enterprise
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Mark Strong Joins 'Battlefield V' Cast (Exclusive)
October 15, 2018 8:00am by Patrick Shanley
The English actor will voice the prologue and epilogue of EA Dice's upcoming World War II shooter.
Mark Strong is heading to the battlefield.
The English actor will voice the prologue and epilogue of EA Dice's upcoming World War II shooter Battlefield V. The new game is the 16th entry in the long-running first-person shooter series and is a follow-up to 2016's Battlefield 1.
As the game features multiple single-player stories that focus on various missions and aspects of World War II, Strong's narration provides a central voice that weaves the disparate plotlines together.
Strong is no stranger to the video game arena, having voiced roles in 2011's Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine and 2013's Total War: Rome II. The actor was also revealed to be part of the star-studded cast of the upcoming sci-fi game Squadron 42 alongside Gary Oldman, Sophie Wu, Gillian Anderson, Andy Serkis, Ben Mendelsohn and Henry Cavill.
The Battlefield series launched in 2002 with Battlefield 1942. Since then, the series has featured war-torn tableaus from World War I to World War II to Vietnam to the far future of the 22nd century. The franchise is among the most successful in all of gaming, having sold over 60 million copies in its lifetime.
Battlefield V is available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on Nov. 20.
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Library & Archives ›
Library & Archives News
Hoover Institution News Advisory: Hoover Institution Houses Broadcast Archive of William F. Buckley Jr's. Show Firing Line
The broadcast archive of William F. Buckley Jr.'s television show Firing Line is housed in the Hoover Institution Archives. In addition to the television show he hosted, Buckley, who died today, was a columnist, author, and founded National Review in 1955.
On his show, one of the longest-running in television history, his varied guests included President Ronald Reagan, Nobel laureate Friedrich von Hayek, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, author Noam Chomsky, boxer Muhammad Ali, and poet Allen Ginsberg, among others.
Firing Line was broadcast from 1966 to 1999, first as an hour-long program and later as a half-hour show. The Preface to the program catalog explains the program's broadcast history, format, and numbering system. The Firing Line collection includes videotapes of approximately 1,500 shows, as well as transcripts, still photographs, preparation materials, and other items.
A database describing all 1,504 Firing Line programs is available for searching. It includes program descriptions copied verbatim from the catalog compiled by Linda Bridges, senior editor at National Review. In some cases the first five minutes of the show can be streamed online. Those shows that are available for viewing online are indicated.
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About Hoover ›
A Whisper to a Roar
Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, has produced a documentary, A Whisper to a Roar, on democracy activists in five countries (Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe).
The film has received rave reviews, including one from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who commented that “the film is not only a riveting documentary, but also offers inspiration to people everywhere who seek to make governments accountable to the citizens they serve.”
Click here to view an interview with Diamond in the Stanford Daily.
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, there will be a screening in Boston, Massachusetts. Click here for more information on future screenings.
The film was screened at various locations around the Washington, DC, area in January, including the Harvard Kennedy School and the State Department. A panel discussion followed the State Department screening with executive producer Larry Diamond, two of the film’s activists, Esraa Abdel Fattah and Roberto Patiño, and filmmaker Ben Moses.
For more see http://awhispertoaroar.com/.
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Lawrence Lessig on Campaign Finance Reform: Overturning Citizens United Isn't Enough
In contrast with many other campaign finance reformers, Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig believes fixing the U.S. election system will require more than just overturning the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission Supreme Court ruling, which removed many restrictions on independent political spending.
Reversing this flood of political cash would be enough to satisfy most reformers, but not Lessig, who spoke last week at the Center for Public Integrity offices in D.C. Overturning the ruling "terrifies" him, he said, because "it imagines somehow that on January 20, 2010 - the day before Citizens United was decided - our democracy was fine and Citizens United broke it. But of course, the democracy was already broken."
Lessig, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center on Ethics at Harvard, is concerned that if the decision is quickly repealed, it will take the wind out of an effort he's leading to achieve a more comprehensive overhaul of the election system. Then activists "will have gotten nothing out of this moment when there's an extraordinary anger and frustration that could be channeled in the direction of real reform," he said.
The changes Lessig is advocating for, which include but are not limited to the eventual reversal of Citizens United, are outlined in two recent books on campaign finance. He would like to see elections funded by a mix of public and limited, private donations, and a coordinated push by tea partiers, MoveOn.org, and the Occupy Wall Street crowd - a diverse cast he collectively refers to as "outsiders" - to root out the systemic corruption of Washington "insiders."
Lessig elaborated where Washington went wrong and how to get it back on track during his presentation, the highlights of which are featured in this video by the Center's Emma Schwartz.
After the speech, Lessig, who worked as a clerk for conservative Justice Antonin Scalia before becoming an academic, added that he was confident that Citizens United will soon be reversed by the high court.
"I think it's quite likely Justice Kennedy is about to flip," he said, referring to the Supreme Court justice who cast the deciding vote in the controversial 5-to-4 decision. Although Lessig cautioned that he had no inside information, he said Kennedy "is completely surprised by how much damage this decision has done - even Scalia doesn't like the world where all the money in the world is on one side."
Republicans, who have so far been the largest recipients of this influx of cash, have come to celebrate the new electoral landscape. As the Center has reported, it is dominated by powerful "super PACs," - political action committees that can accept unlimited contributions from corporations, unions, wealthy Americans - and nonprofit groups that can take unlimited cash from anonymous donors and spend half of the take on political activity.
These supposedly independent groups, many of which are run by longtime political operatives with close ties the candidates they are supporting, are legally forbidden from coordinating their political messages with campaigns. But these restrictions are tough to enforce and have been the subject of mockery by comedians like Stephen Colbert, who has launched his own super PAC.
In the political system reshaped by Citizens United, these rich, powerful, election-swaying groups are largely "funded by the tiniest slice of the 1 percent," Lessig concluded. "And that suggests a problem."
Read more investigations at the Center for Public Integrity
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Statue Of Unity: The World’s Tallest But Here’s What It Could Have Paid For
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I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Statue Of Unity: The World’s Tallest But Here’s What It Could Have Paid For https://www.indiaspend.com/statue-of-unity-the-worlds-tallest-but-heres-what-it-could-have-paid-for/.
Mumbai: The Statue of Unity, built at an estimated cost of Rs 2,989 crore, could have instead funded two new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campuses, five Indian Institute of Management (IIM) campuses and six Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) missions to Mars.
The statue’s construction cost is more than double the estimated amount for proposals submitted to the central government by the Gujarat government to include in Pradhanmantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (Prime Ministers Agriculture-Irrigation Scheme). The construction cost could have been used to irrigate 40,192 hectares of land, cover repair, renovation & restoration of 162 minor irrigation schemes and the construction of 425 small check-dams.
The Statue of Unity--representing the symbolic unification of India post-Independence--will be unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 31, 2018, as tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 143rd birth anniversary. The statue is now the world’s tallest at 182 metres (597 feet) or nearly 100 times taller than someone 6 feet tall.
Sardar Patel -- independent India’s first deputy prime minister and home minister--was popularly known as the ‘Iron Man of India’ for his role in bringing about the merger of the princely states post-independence.
Resentment among farmers and locals
Thousands of tribals and farmers in Gujarat are planning a mass protest against the unveiling of the statue. They are unhappy with the cost of the project and with the lack of adequate rehabilitation efforts and water shortages in the catchment area where the statue is located.
The statue’s construction has affected 75,000 tribals across 72 villages in Gujarat’s Narmada district, NDTV reported on October 20, 2018. Of these villages, 32 have been most affected.
In 19 villages, rehabilitation has allegedly not been complete while compensation has been paid but further commitments like land and jobs have not been fulfilled in 13 villages.
Farmers have also threatened to drown themselves in the Narmada river as protest during the statue’s unveiling event, The Indian Express reported on October 29, 2018.
Resentment has also been building among more than 1,500 farmers in four districts—Chhota Udepur, Panchmahals, Vadodara and Narmada— who had sold 262,000 tonne sugarcane to the Sardar Sugar Mill in Sankheda, which was shut down due to financial mismanagement by board members. They are still waiting for their dues amounting to Rs 12 crore.
“At a time when Gujarat is facing a water crisis due to lower availability in the Narmada dam, I think the statue project could have been postponed by a year,” according to Ghanshyam Shah, a political expert based in Gujarat Mint reported on October 30, 2018.
Vijendra Tadvi, a farmer in Gujarat has been finding it difficult to irrigate his three acre farm, the BBC reported on October 28, 2018. "Instead of spending money on a giant statue, the government should have used it for farmers in the district," he said.
Here’s what Rs 2,989 crore spent on the statue is worth:
Over eight times the amount (Rs 365 crore) allotted to Gujarat by the central government in 2017-18 under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (National Agriculture Development Scheme) as well as nearly five times the amount (Rs 602 crore) approved by the state government for 56 new schemes and 32 continuous projects under the scheme.
More than double the estimated cost (Rs 1,090 crore) of two water pipeline projects. Firstly, a project based on the Kadana reservoir that will irrigate 10,000 hectare in Dahod and Mahisagar districts. Second, the Dinod-Boridra lift irrigation project which will provide irrigation to 1,800 hectare within Surat district.
More than double the estimated amount (Rs 1,114 crore) for proposals submitted to the central government by the Gujarat government to include in Pradhanmantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (Prime Ministers Agriculture Irrigation Scheme). The projects will irrigate 40,192 hectares of land, cover the repair, renovation & restoration of 162 minor irrigation schemes and the construction of 425 small check-dams.
The statue construction cost could build:
Two new IIT campuses (considering one IIT campus costs Rs 1,167 crore).
Two AIIMS campuses (considering one AIIMS cost Rs 1,103 crore).
Five new permanent IIM campuses (considering one IIM campus costs Rs 539 crore).
Five new solar power plants, each producing 75 megawatts of power (considering one power plant costs Rs 528 crore).
Six Mars missions (considering one mission costs Rs 450 crore) and three Chandrayaan-2 (Moon) missions (considering one mission costs Rs 800 crore) by the Indian Space Research Organisation.
World’s tallest statue with state of art technology
The Statue of Unity is now 29 metres taller than the Spring Temple Buddha in China-- which at 153 metres was previously the tallest statue in the world--and twice the height of the Statue of Liberty (93 metres) in the United States.
The Veera Abhaya Anjaneya Hanuman Swami in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, was previously the tallest statue (41 meters or 135 feet) in India.
“The Statue [Of Unity] will not only remind every individual of our great nation's freedom struggle but will also inspire the people of our country to inculcate Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's visionary ideologies of unity, patriotism, inclusive growth and good governance,” the project portal reads under its objectives.
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14 responses to “Statue Of Unity: The World’s Tallest But Here’s What It Could Have Paid For”
The place is very beautiful, and when you see it from a distance, it’s amazing. I recommend that everyone visit this beautiful place.
Hope India will also grow as high as this statue.
Ankit Pratap Singh says:
Come on, don’t be so judgmental. Try to look at the brighter side of this work. You will definitely love it.
Its wonderful, and we should be proud of it.
S.Deshpande says:
I visited the statue yesterday. It is nice but it is a pain to reach it.
No direct trains from Ahmedabad. No direct buses. No railway station nearby. No decent hotels (just two hotels with poor facilities).
Arrey Modiji – agar corruption karna hi tha, toh railway station bhi saath mein banate. Transport bhi.
At least your people would have eaten money and done some development.
Aap to Bharat ko Pakistan bana rahe ho, in terms of lack of infrastructure.
Rathod Sanjay says:
Thank God no one had such vision than Mr. Modi. We are now the world number one spender on statues.
Sourav says:
I think its fine.. you can’t compare it with IITs or IIMs since they are different things.
Statue Of Unity has earned more than Rs 2 crore in just one week of opening.
Think about it. Don’t show only half facts. Also show some positive facts.
One-sided, half facts presented as the whole truth, and devoid of actual realities of India’s steady progress.
Brij Vaish says:
Yes, you can build many IITs but where is the faculty? may be ISROs but without scientists..
Relax…for me, it’s a great feeling that for the first time in my life, something big has been made. I am 79.
Saubhadra Kumar Gupta says:
The comparisons have been brought out very nicely.
I wish to see the breakdown of the amount spent: individuals/ agencies involved in the construction and who has got how much amount.
Shantanu Rai says:
True, but it’s world’s largest. And is in India.
How can you support mission to Mars when you have listed this huge list of problems India is facing. Ever heard of “spillover effect”?
Vinay Singh says:
Come to Lucknow, and you will see how much has been spent on elephants and other statues…there could be any number of IIMs and IITs in Uttar Pradesh.
Subhradip Ghosh says:
Is it made on a PPP mode? If so, how much is the government’s share?
Rajendra Bhargava says:
There are thousands and thousands of statues and other monuments of the Nehru/Gandhi parivar, Ambedkar and BSP elephants. Nobody felt anything was wrong.
One memorial for an extremely deserving mahapurush of this country and people start getting funny ideas.
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Adopt Films Picks Up One-Shot Heist Thriller ‘Victoria’
Adopt Films Picks Up One-Shot Heist Thriller 'Victoria'
Eric Kohn
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Adopt Films announced today that it has picked up U.S. distribution rights to the German thriller director Sebastian Schipper’s “Victoria,” which premiered last week at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Shot in a continuous, 134-minute take across 20 locations, the movie revolves around the titular young woman as she befriends some men at a nightclub and eventually becomes an accomplice in a bank robbery.
Recently listed in Indiewire’s “memo to distributors” featuring Berlin premieres that have yet to find U.S. homes, “Victoria” has generated comparisons to “Run Lola Run” and “La Femme Nikita.” Noting as much, Adopt’s Jeff Lipsky and Tim Grady said that the film “shares in common with those earlier titles a strong, smart, beautiful, galvanizing female protagonist. With this ground-breaking film, Schipper has mattered the full potential of digital filmmaking. Movies this good and this visually exciting don’t come along every day.”
The company plans to release “Victoria” later this year.
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Related Categories: California | Central Valley | East Bay | Environment & Forest Defense | Government & Elections | Labor & Workers
Big Ag’s Power Couple Banking On Brown, Feinstein
by Dan Bacher
Monday Feb 15th, 2010 10:42 AM
You can expect political influence by corporate giants like the Resnicks to increase even more, due to the recent 5-4 Supreme Court decisions that blocks bans on corporate spending for political candidates.
The Resnicks Manipulate Water Policy with Big Campaign Contributions
Stewart Resnick, the Beverly Hills agribusiness tycoon who owns 115,000 acres of farmland in Kern County, appears to be putting his bets on Jerry Brown as the winner of the gubernatorial race in the November election - even though Brown hasn't officially declared himself as a candidate.
On November 11, 2009, Resnick and his wife, Lynda, the co-owner of the giant Paramount Farms and Roll Corporation, wrote four checks totalling $50,000 for the Brown campaign.
The donations that the Resnicks made to Brown to date exemplify the enormous political influence of Resnick and other water barons exert over California water politics. The Resnicks are the largest tree fruit growers in the world.
Delta advocates fear that campaign contributions from the Resnicks and other big water interests could heavily influence Brown's positions on the peripheral canal, the construction of more dams and the November $11.1 billion water bond. They also fear the Resnicks could pressure Brown to support legislative and administrative attacks on federal plans protecting Delta smelt and Central Valley salmon.
The Resnicks and executives of their companies have donated $3.97 million to candidates and political committees since 1993, mostly in the Golden State, a California Watch review of public records shows, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting, December 6, 2009.
Roll International, one of the largest private water brokers in the U.S., makes millions of dollars in profit off marketing subsidized public water. “Through a series of subsidiary companies and organizations, Roll International is able to convert California’s water from a public, shared resource into a private asset that can be sold on the market to the highest bidder,” according to Yasha Levine in “How Limousine Liberals, Water Oligarchs and Even Sean Hannity are Hijacking Our Water" (http://www.alternet.org/story/144020/how_limousine_liberals%2C_water_oligarchs_and_even_sean_hannity_are_hijacking_our_water_supply/).
Resnick was heavily involved in the creation of Kern County Water Bank — a controversial underground water storage facility in the southern San Joaquin Valley. The Westside Mutual Water Company, owned by Resnick, now owns 48 percent of the bank. One of the reasons why Central Valley reservoirs were drained so low over the past few years was to fill the water bank and southern California water reservoirs.
The Resnicks have also written big checks to the campaigns of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and presidential candidates from both parties in the 2008 election. They contributed a total of $271,990 to Schwarzenegger’s campaign coffers. They haven’t contributed to the Republican candidates for Governor, Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner yet, but don’t be surprised if they do.
In response to my emailed questions about Brown's positions about the peripheral canal, new dams, the water bond and the biological opinions, I received the following response from "Ned," a staffer from Jerry Brown 2010.
"Thank you for your email," "Ned" stated. "While Jerry is considering a potential run for Governor, he is not a declared candidate. He has said that he will make a decision on the Governor's race by the filing deadline in March, until that time he is focused on his job as Attorney General. Should he declare a run for Governor, he'll begin to address all the issues and concerns that Californians will find important in choosing their next Governor."
Bill Jennings, executive director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), quipped about Resnicks’ contributions to Brown and others. “Resnick is an equal opportunity contributor to candidates seekers. He gives money to everybody – it doesn’t matter if they’re Republican, Democrat or the Anti-Christ, he’ll try to buy their votes.”
“For Brown to say that he doesn’t have a position on the issues and then to accept major contributions from a guy involved heavily in water politics like Resnick is highly disingenuous,” said Barbara Barrigan Parrilla, campaign director of Restore the Delta. “The contribution to Brown is a prime example of how big agribusiness influences both political parties.”
Brown signed the original legislation that authorized the original peripheral canal bond in 1982, but voters overwhelmingly defeated the canal at the ballot box that November.
Brown hasn’t indicated his position now on the canal and new dams, but the other candidates have. Meg Whitman is a strong supporter of the peripheral canal, more dams, and increased Delta pumping.
“She acknowledged the ‘humanitarian disaster’ resulting from 35-percent unemployment in some west valley towns and the threat to a region that grows a huge portion of the nation’s food,” according to Whitman’s Website, reporting on her visit to Fresno on May 29, 2009. (http://www.megwhitman.com). “As governor, she said she would stick with her conviction that saving jobs takes precedence and would use emergency powers to order more pumping from the Delta. In the longer term, she supports more above- and below-ground storage facilities and the construction of a peripheral canal in addition to conservation efforts.”
Poizner is also a big backer of the peripheral canal. In an interview with the Bakersfield Californian on April 30, 2009, he stated, “I do support more above-ground storage and I do support more water conveyance systems to get the water from where it is to where it needs to go, without completely destroying the delta.”
Obama Administration Convenes Panel at Resnick’s Request
The recent National Academy of Sciences Delta Panel held in Davis from January 24-28 illustrated the influence of the Resnicks’ money upon political decisions. Because of a letter that Stewart Resnick wrote to Senator Diane Feinstein, Feinstein pressured the Obama administration to conduct the review of the biological opinions protecting Central Valley salmon and Delta smelt.
In the letter of September 4, Resnick claimed that the biological opinion to prevent endangered salmon and smelt from becoming extinct was "exacerbating the state's severe drought" because it reduced the water available to irrigate farmland. He claimed that "sloppy science" by federal fishery agencies had led to "regulatory-induced water shortages." "I really appreciate your involvement in this issue," he stated.
The administration invited representatives of corporate agribusiness, including Resnicks’ Astroturf group, the Coalition for a “Sustainable” Delta, and Southern California water districts to testify, but they invited no representatives of recreational fishing groups, commercial fishing organizations, Delta farming groups, California Indian Tribes and environmental justice communities, the people most impacted by fish collapses.
The NAS Panel is a typical example of the “pay to play” corruption endemic to California and U.S. politics. The Resnicks and associates have contributed $29,000 to Feinstein and $246,000 more to Democratic political committees during years when she has sought re-election.
Feinstein, the Resnicks and other corporate agribusiness interests, southern California land speculators and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger are engaged in an intense campaign to weaken pumping restrictions protecting threatened and endangered species under the federal biological opinions for Sacramento River Chinook salmon, Central Valley salmon, Delta smelt, green sturgeon and the southern resident population of killer whales.
Senator Feinstein is now proposing an amendment to a jobs stimulus bill that, in effect, would suspend rules that protect salmon and other imperiled fish from being killed by the giant state and federal pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. She is doing this at a time when Central Valley salmon populations have collapsed to a new record low. The Pacific Fisheries Management Council (PFMC) on February 11 reported that only 39,530 Sacramento River fall Chinook salmon returned to spawn in 2009.
"No hearings have been held on Senator Feinstein’s proposed amendment," said Steve Evans, conservation director for Friends of the River. "No written version of the amendment is available for review by the public. This is not the way to conduct public policy!"
Corporate agribusiness and their political allies are also pushing for the approval of a water bond that, combined with the water policy package passed by the California Legislature in November, creates a clear path to the construction of the peripheral canal or tunnel and Temperance Flats and Sites reservoirs.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), who received $15,600 for his 2010 campaign from the Resnicks on July 30, 2009, strong-armed the water package through the Legislature in spite of strong opposition from his constituents and environmental, fishing and Delta farming groups.
The canal will cost $23 billion to $53.8 billion to build at a time when California is in its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression - and the budgets for teachers, game wardens, health care for children and state parks have been slashed.
Unfortunately, you can expect political influence by corporate giants like the Resnicks to increase even more, due to the recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision that blocks bans on corporate spending for political candidates.
For a complete list of Resnick’s contributions, go to http://californiawatch.org/data/resnick-and-associates-spend-nearly-4-million-campaigns. For action alerts and updates, go to http://www.restorethedelta.org.
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D&W helps C&C seal £180m deal
Dundas & Wilson were advisors to Irish drinks company C&C Group on its recent £180million acquisition of Tennent's and associated brands.
The firm advised Lawrence Graham, C&C Group's advisers coordinating the deal, on the Scottish law aspects of the acquisition.
Graeme Bruce, team leader and corporate partner at D&W, said: "There clearly remains an appetite in the UK deals market for the right kind of transaction, and we were very pleased to be involved.
"C&C Group is a market leader and this is a very positive transaction for not only its own continued success, but also for the brands which will now become part of the Group."
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Invesco buys Princes Exchange for £55.7m
One of Scotland's biggest commercial property investment deals of the year has been completed.
One of Scotland's biggest commercial property investment deals of the year has been completed.
Real estate fund iii-BVK Europa-Immobilien-Spezialfonds, managed by Invesco Real Estate, paid £55.7million for the Princes Exchange building in Edinburgh.
The Grade A office complex has 158,501 square feet plus retail space on the ground floor and an underground car park.
The whole building is let to Bank of Scotland and is home to its corporate division plus a number of other professional services firms.
There are more than 16 years remaining on the current lease.
Rob Johnston, director of UK and Nordic Transactions at Invesco Real Estate, said: "We are very pleased to have secured this high quality, well-located property in Edinburgh, which is one of the key markets in the UK."
Law firm Brodies were legal advisors on the deal. James Roscoe, partner in the property team, said: "We're delighted to support clients of the stature of Invesco Real Estate.
"Opportunities exist in the market and if deals like this can be done, our large and diverse property team is able to secure them for clients."
Colin Finlayson, investment director at Jones Lang LaSalle, which acted for Invesco, said: "This is a significant transaction for Edinburgh and is one of the highest profile transactions in the UK regions this year.
"The purchase is reflective of investor appetite for prime, well-let properties.
"The Exchange District continues to attract investor interest from both overseas and UKdomiciled investors, and our clients have secured this property at an attractive yield, in the face of strong competition."
The Crown Estate was the seller of the building.
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10 companies that pay extra for employees to go on vacation
Oct. 3, 2016, 12:15 PM
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Are you a work martyr?
If you're always in the office and never take vacation, no matter how generous your company's policy is, then you might be.
Many jobs allow for such workaholism (if not outright endorse it), but at certain places, work martyrdom is out of the question. Instead of just giving employees paid time off or unlimited vacation days, these businesses actually set aside a chunk of their budget to give employees extra money to take vacations.
Here are some the places work martyrs should probably apply.
Web development company Basecamp has paid for its employees vacations for the last seven years.
Each year, the company puts together a list of 16 vacation packages that employees past the one-year mark get to choose from. Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp, tells Business Insider that the trips range from $4,000-$5,000 apiece. Many are geared toward specific kinds of travelers, such as single people or couples.
SteelHouse
Marketing and advertising company SteelHouse began the practice of giving employees $2,000 a year for vacations in 2011, when it was only a year old. Mark Douglas, SteelHouse CEO, says it wasn't a hard decision.
"Our culture is really simple," he told Business Insider. "It's based on trust and ambition."
If people buy their vacation on a Monday, they're reimbursed up to $2,000 by Tuesday. If they can't front the money themselves, SteelHouse will let them use the company credit card.
After you've worked at human resources software company BambooHR for six months, you're entitled to $2,000 a year to go anywhere in the world. The policy started last year.
"We don't measure and say, 'OK, if you went on vacation, then you're this much more productive,'" CEO Ben Peterson told Komono News. "You can't work 60, 80, 90 hours a week and expect to be as efficient and thoughtful and productive as you might assume."
Tour group G Adventures offers employees who've been there a full year the chance to take one of its 700 tours around the world for free each year. They're known as "familiarization trips," or FAM trips for short — similar to the way servers at a restaurant taste the menu so they can offer recommendations.
Provided you've earned enough vacation days, G Adventures will pay $3,000 for tours up to 17 days/16 nights, and flights up $750.
FullContact, a content management company, started giving employees $7,500 once a year for vacations back in 2012.
CEO Bart Lorang has said employees need to meet three criteria to get the money: They must go on vacation, disconnect, and not work while on the trip. The $7,500 stipend is on top of the 15 paid vacation days all employees are entitled to.
"In today's world of Email, iPhones, Androids, Twitter, Facebook and devices on our person 24×7, we're always connected," Lorang wrote. "It's not healthy."
Marketing analytics company Moz supplements its 21 days of paid vacation with $3,000 in expense reimbursements. It borrowed the idea from FullContact.
"If you don't take a vacation, the opportunity disappears," a 2012 blog post reads. "Hence, it's in all of our employees' great interest to take time to do what they love with friends, family, whomever (we'll pay their vacation expenses too so long as you go with them) and disconnect for a few days, or a few weeks."
Evernote; Melia Robinson/Business Insider
Employees at the task management company Evernote have a unique work incentive.
You only receive your $1,000 bonus if you take at least five consecutive days off each year.
It's unlike other policies in that you can't just take several short trips — 3-day camping trips, for instance — but instead must go a specific number of days without working.
thinkParallax
For two years, creative agency thinkParallax has offered employees a program known as PARALLAXploration, in which they give them $1,500 to go on a trip.
In 2015, people chose any destination they wanted — from Seattle to Machu Picchu to Tokyo — and traveled on their own. They just had to spend at least one day giving back to the local community.
In 2016, the entire company traveled to Mexico City together, and employees were asked to blog about their travels.
AFAR Media
All full-time employees at travel company AFAR Media get 30 days of paid vacation (senior employees get more) and $2,000 in the form of travel stipend.
The company based the policy on research from the Society for Human Resources Management that found vacations lead to productivity, the company explained in 2015.
"We believe in the power of travel," a blog post reads. "It's good for the world and good for our bottom line."
Ranked the best place to work in the world in 2016, Airbnb gives each employee an annual stipend of $2,000 to use at any Airbnb on the planet. The money is split into a quarterly travel coupon and expires at the end of each quarter.
Similar to the G Adventures program, Airbnb has implemented the policy as a way for employees to connect with the company's user base. Employees also tend to come back feeling more refreshed and recharged.
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The Genesis of Rone
By Nathan Reese
ABOVE: RONE. IMAGE COURTESY OF TIMOTHY SACCENTI
Following up Spanish Breakfast, Rone’s much-lauded debut on InFiné, hasn’t been easy for the Erwin Castex. Forced to contend with high expectations from across the electronic music world, Castex labored over his next release for years, as he expanded his sound and gained inspiration while recording in Berlin. Beholden to neither the music of his native France, nor the minimal tradition of his adopted home, Tohu Bohu is grand in scale, yet delicately intimate: “The concept is, there is no concept,” says Castex.
The title of Rone’s sophomore album comes from, quite literally, nothing at all. Tohu Bohu is the word used in the book of Genesis to describe the swirling abyss that existed before God created light—what in English might be referred to as “hurlyburly.” Like its namesake, Tohu Bohu is a mercurial, vast, and often mesmerizing collection of tracks, ranging from lush techno to expansive pop reminiscent of M83.
We caught up with Rone via Skype, where he talked animatedly about the difficulty of following up his debut, the connection between music and imagery, and the difference between Paris and Berlin.
NATHAN REESE: It’s been three years since your last LP. Can you tell me about your new record, and the process behind creating it?
ERWAN CASTEX: Yes, well, it wasn’t so easy to do this album. For the first one, I just made some tracks—I didn’t realize I was making an album. This second album was different for me. It was like a job. It was a little bit new to make music this way… I was a little bit stressed because I was aware that people were waiting for my work, and for a while it was impossible for me to make music. Finally, I understood it was important for me to forget everything and make music like I did at the very beginning when I was alone in my room. In that way, I could make the album.
REESE: Did you approach Tohu Bohu track by track, or did you have a concept for the LP as a whole?
CASTEX: I mean, it was better if I wasn’t thinking about what I was doing. I was trained to do something more instinctive—something very direct between me and the music. In the morning I would go into the studio, turn on the machines, and forget about everything else. For example, “Icare” seems strange at the beginning—there was something almost ridiculous about it. I’d have to say [to myself], “It’s not a problem. I have to do this,” and then go in that direction.
REESE: There are a lot of beautiful visual accompaniments your music. How do the videos and art play into the record?
CASTEX: In the past, I worked in the cinema industry. It was my main job, and music was just for fun, so I think I have a unique attachment with cinema. When I make music, there is always something from this past—from pictures. There is something that’s a little bit narrative. It’s as if my tracks are little stories. [The visuals for the album] were done by a good friend of mine, Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka. I make the music, and at the same time Vladimir would make the drawings. At the end, we mixed our work together, and there is a kind of alchemy.
REESE: How did you hook up with High Priest of Antipop Consortium to make “Let’s Go,” and what was it like mixing in hip-hop with your sound?
CASTEX: I was talking with High Priest, and it was a very nice meeting. I sent him my music via email and he was very enthusiastic. We worked at a distance, like ping-pong. I met him [in real life] only one week ago—it was very cool. It was funny. It was like he was an old friend. I’m very interested in working with a lot of different people from different universes. When I was a teenager, I was listening to a lot of hip-hop. It was like a dream to make this track. Maybe I’ll try it again later.
REESE: How did writing the record in Berlin change your perspective?
CASTEX: It’s funny, because I don’t think the album sounds at all like Berlin electronic music. But for me, it’s really my German album. If I made the album in Paris, or in another city, it would be a completely different record. It wasn’t influenced by the music, but by the city. There is more space, it’s more quiet—totally different from Paris. Paris is more stressful. I think all these elements give color to the record.
REESE: What other music were you listening to when recorded the album?
CASTEX: For a long time—three months in the studio—I wasn’t listening to anything at all. I tried to isolate myself from the rest of the world. When I’m not working on music, I listen to music all the time, even when I don’t want to: getting a drink with friends, when I’m on the Internet… So there are certain influences indirectly. The thing to do is try to forget everything and make a work of introspection.
REESE: Are there differences between playing to an audience in Paris versus one in Berlin?
CASTEX: There are some differences. In Paris, for example, in clubs and at concerts people are a little bit more aggressive. You can feel that they had a big week of work, and it’s the weekend they have to be like, “Aaaahhhh!” [waves hands]. In Berlin the parties are longer—a club like Berghain opens Friday and closes Monday. People are more relaxed, even if the music is really strong.
REESE: What do you want to make your audience feel at a live show?
CASTEX: Playing live is very intense. It’s a big contrast to the time in the studio. You’re with a lot of people and there is so much energy. People give me energy and I give energy to people, it’s like a collaboration. My music is different when there are a lot of people in front of me. Something special happens. It’s a very curious moment. It’s like I’m remixing myself, because I play my track, but every time I try to play it in a new way. It’s important to me for people to think that there is something special happening there that night, and if there are accidents, I think it’s more interesting.
TOHU BOHU IS OUT NOW VIA INFINÉ. FOR MORE ON THE ARTIST, VISIT HIS WEBSITE.
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Private Investigators: The dangers of online phishing scams
You sit down and log into your email account. There’s the usual promotional junk mail and spam, emails from mailing lists you forgot you signed up for five years ago, and maybe something from a friend or relative if you’re lucky.
But then – what’s this? An email from your bank? There’s been some sort of problem with your account! Luckily, all you have to do to fix it is follow a link and provide some of your details.
And just like that, you’ve fallen victim to a phishing scam, which could see your bank accounts being cleaned out and even your identity stolen, by fraudsters who could be on the other side of the world to Sydney.
We see a lot of phishing scams in our private investigators office and in its most recent annual report, the ACCC revealed that it had been contacted 8788 times about phishing scams over the period, with 494 of those cases resulting in a loss of money. Forty of those cases resulted in losses of over ten thousand dollars, and the total lost was over 1.5 million dollars. And that’s just what was reported to the ACCC – the actual total could be much greater.
How do these scams work, and why are they targeting you? Actually, they’re unlikely to be targeting you specifically – the “phishermen” may have sent out millions of emails with automated programs. It’s more of a statistics game – they’re relying on the idea that, even if the vast majority of the emails are deleted or ignored, at least one person won’t be paying enough attention to recognise the scam. Don’t be that person!
So what do these emails look like, and what is their content? They tend to be presented as though they’re from some sort of authority or other trustworthy institution, usually a bank. Sometimes you’ll be able to recognise that an email is fraudulent simply by scrutinising the email address from which it’s being sent; however, this isn’t foolproof, as there are ways to disguise the true sender of an email. The way the text within the body of the email is written can be another hint as to its true nature – despite being technologically sophisticated, online fraudsters often suffer from poor language skills. This can’t be relied upon entirely either though, as you will see the occasional perfectly-crafted scam email (not to mention poorly-written genuine bank emails!)
The email may try to create a sense of urgency (e.g., “Act quickly – there’s a potential security risk to your account!” – even cyber-criminals have a sense of irony, it seems); or, the request may be presented as rather mundane or routine, probably so as not to arouse further suspicion. You may be asked simply to provide personal information, numbers or passwords in a reply email; or alternatively, instructed to follow a link to another website, which can be set up by the scammers to look like a legitimate bank website. As well as collecting your banking details from you directly, these imposter sites can upload malicious software onto your computer, allowing the criminals to record what you type from then on, and remotely access your files.
The Australian Federal Police recommend that you immediately delete suspected phishing emails. It should be noted though that this variety of scam doesn’t have to be restricted purely to the online realm – the Commonwealth Bank sent a (real) message to all its Netbank customers earlier in the year, urging them not to reveal personal or banking information to strangers calling on the phone claiming to be from reputable companies. The bottom line is, banks or other legitimate companies will never contact you in this way and ask you to provide them with information they should already have. If something about it seems like it’s not quite right, don’t do it. If you’re really not sure whether an email is legitimate or not, don’t risk it – call your bank (but not through any phone numbers provided in the email – do your own research!)
Of course, fraudsters of all varieties are endlessly creative, and the exact nature of online scams will continually evolve. What you may fall victim to may not resemble the scams described above in any way. If you feel that you may be on the receiving end of an online deception, you may need the help of a private detective specialising in computer forensic work.
Lachlan Jarvis
Lachlan Jarvis is the owner and director of Lyonswood Investigations & Forensics. He began working at Lyonswood in 2009 and became the owner of Lyonswood in 2013. In addition to being a licensed investigator, Lachlan has completed a Diploma in Law (LPAB) and a Bachelor of Arts (English).
This trip wire pipe bomb improvised explosive device (IED) simulator, used to train US military service personnel, is displayed in the US Army (USA) Training Support Center (TSC), USA Signal Command and Fort Gordon (USASC & FG), Fort Gordon, Georgia (GA).
How to Investigate a Pipe Bomb Threat
The Importance of Evidence and How to Gather It
Interview With A Legend
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Economy turning the corner, says upbeat Gore
Economy / 2 November 2018, 08:15am / Kabelo Khumalo
Discovery Group chief executive Adrian Gore speaks at the Discovery Leadership Summit at Sandton Convention Centre yesterday. Photo: Yeshiel Panchia/African News Agency (ANA)
JOHANNESBURG – Discovery Group chief executive Adrian Gore said the company would invest R13 billion in the next five years as it believed the economy would turn the corner.
Gore joined other captains of industry such as African Rainbow Minerals boss Patrice Motsepe and Investec’s Stephen Koseff, who said the country was well on its way to recovery following years of corruption and uncertainty under former president Jacob Zuma’s administration.
Gore told the star-studded Discovery Leadership Summit in Sandton, Joburg, that the multibillion-rand investment demonstrated the company’s confidence in the economy.
He said the money would be directed towards Discovery Bank and other business ventures.
“I’m very proud about our evolution as Discovery but we, frankly, built this company on the back of a very receptive South African market,” Gore said.
“If you look at Africa’s biggest economy, Nigeria, and you add all their banks together, they are smaller than Standard Bank and FirstRand I am making a point that we don’t appreciate the size of the South African market.”
Gore said the lion’s share of the R13bn investment would be ploughed into the South African economy.
He said Discovery Bank, which was announced a few years ago, would add to the group’s current market capitalisation of more than R100bn.
Motsepe echoed Gore’s upbeat sentiment, saying businesses were seeing more opportunities in the domestic economy.
“We dare not have a false sense of optimism,” he said. “But we have shareholders all over the world and we continue to see South Africa as an excellent place to do business and to invest in.”
Motsepe, who is regarded as the country’s richest black person, scored big in Sanlam’s R8bn black empowerment deal this week through his investment vehicle, Ubuntu Botho.
Koseff, who recently stepped down as the mainstay chief executive of Investec, described the past eight years as “useless” for growth.
He shared the frantic behind-the-scenes lobbying for Zuma to reverse his ill-fated appointment of Des van Rooyen as finance minister in 2015.
Koseff said he believed current President Cyril Ramaphosa had a big role in Van Rooyen’s short stay.
“I don’t know how he (Ramaphosa) did it, but I think he had a big role in Van Rooyen’s removal,” Koseff said.
“In the last eight years, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita was flat.
“Inclusive growth is the key to uplift society because we live in society and not off it.”
The Bureau for Economic Research data last month showed that, since the 2009 financial crisis, domestic real GDP growth has underperformed relative to both emerging market peers and average global growth.
The research showed that, under different assumptions regarding post-crisis growth and the elasticity of employment, the economy could have created between 500 000 and 2.5 million more job opportunities over the eight-year period.
Former commercial secretary to the UK Treasury, Lord Jim O’Neill, told the gathering that South Africa needed to improve its productivity levels.
“South Africa should focus on inflation stability and a credible fiscal and monetary policy framework,” he said.
#Ramaphosa: 'Radical economic transformation will happen soon'
Ramaphosa declares investment strike over in SA
Rand gains against US dollar
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Denis William Reed 1917-1979
The Lock, Bristol, c 1960
Denis William Reed, RWA (1917-1979) was a Bristol-born painter in oil and watercolour of landscapes, urban scenes, figure subjects and still life.
Reed studied art at the West of England College of Art 1934-38 and then at the Royal College of Art from 1938 taking up his studies in company with his friend the painter Richard MacDonald. It was in 1938 that he also began a long friendship with John Elwyn, who also studied at the Royal College, and at that time they shared accommodation in Kensington. Their time at the RCA was interrupted by the outbreak of war. In the case of Denis Reed, he undertook farm work in Wiltshire and in Warwickshire before joining the Royal Engineers, Ordnance Survey section, who appreciated the skills offered by trained artists. Reed served in the RE in Yorkshire, in Ruabon in North Wales (at Wynnstay Hall in 1943) and subsequently at Waddon in Croydon (1944). He was later appointed Art Advisor to the London District of Army Education. During his time at Ruabon he became friendly with Carel Weight and William Scott, and in company with other soldier artists at Ruabon, they had the freedom to paint on a Sunday. Weight was the prime mover in organising an exhibition of their pictures from Ruabon which were shown at the Charlotte Street Centre in the West End, a gallery opened by the Artists International Association. This exhibition titled ‘After Duty’ ran during November and December 1943.
In January 1946 Denis Reed re-enrolled at the Royal College of Art and he gained his diploma in 1947/48. He was regarded as a highly gifted painter. Reed renewed his friendship with John Elwyn, who had rejoined the RCA in September 1946. They painted together in Kensington Gardens, along the Thames, and in other areas of London. At this time they were living in Earls Court. Most of Denis Reed’s work post-1950 was of the city, coast and people of Bristol and the surrounding area. In the mid-1950s Reed secured a senior teaching post at Loughborough College of Art, but shortly after taking up his appointment he suffered from ill health and he returned to Bristol. For nearly twenty years he lived in the Clifton area of the city.
Denis Reed was not a regular exhibitor of his work, in part because of recurrent periods of ill health. He showed a few times at the Royal Academy from 1947 until 1973, at the New English Art Club four times from 1944 until 1972, at the Royal Society of British Artists, and with the Royal West of England Academy, of which he was elected a full member. In 1992 the RWA held a memorial show of Reed’s paintings. His work from the early to mid-1940s was signed ‘William Reed’, if signed at all. Post circa 1947 the artist preferred to be known as Denis Reed and exhibited under that name. Reed was not a prolific painter and much of his work remained with his family until 1989 when the paintings and drawings entered a private collection.
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"Letter from Her Son," J. Michael Walker
See, Judge, Act: The Pastoral Circle and Separation of Families at the Border
June 17, 2018 by Jennifer Owens-Jofré in activism
I have compiled a list of resources about the separation of migrant children from their parents that have been helpful to me in discerning steps forward on this issue. In the list below, I follow the model of the pastoral circle, which has its roots in Catholic social teaching and social movements. Wrote John XXIII in Mater et Magistra,
“There are three stages which should normally be followed in the reduction of social principles into practice. First, one reviews the concrete situation; secondly, one forms a judgment on it in the light of these same principles; thirdly, one decides what in the circumstances can and should be done to implement these principles. These are the three stages that are usually expressed in the three terms: look, judge, act (#236).”
In seeing, we learn about the reality of the situation. In judging, we make a discerning assessment of how to respond to that reality. In acting, we take steps to address it. For my own part, I am making a commitment to urge my civic and church leaders to bring the weight of their positions to bear on this issue, that we would bring an end to this practice of separating families at the border and atone for this national sin.
A Los Angeles Times piece about the conditions in a shelter for migrants on the border
A PBS piece on these conditions
A CNN piece about the circumstances under which children are being separated from their parents
NPR coverage of the impact these separations are having on the health of these children
CNBC coverage of Sarah Sanders discussing how separation of children from their parents along the border is biblical
The Washington Post’s coverage of Jeff Sessions’ biblical justification for the separation of families along the border
UPDATE (Monday, 25 June 2018): New York Times article on preparations being made to detain up to 20,000 migrants on military bases
UPDATE (Monday, 25 June 2018): NYT opinion piece "What My 6-Year-Old Son and I Endured in Family Detention"
Theologian Anthea Butler's response to Sarah Sanders and Jeff Sessions
Theologian Candida Moss’ response to Jeff Sessions
A Washington Post piece on America’s history of separating children from their parents
The National Catholic Reporter's series on this issue
The Hill’s coverage of the president of the USCCB’s take on this reality
The USCCB’s description of the seven themes of Catholic social teaching
USCCB’s Catholic social teaching on immigration and the movement of peoples
St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Prayer to Know God's Will
UPDATE (Monday, 25 June 2018): NYT Opinion Columnist Charles M. Blow on "White Extinction Anxiety" and the immigration debate
UPDATE (Monday, 25 June 2018): PICO California needs donations to keep its community organizing efforts on these issues thriving; consider making a donation today. Continue calling your Reps and your Senators to urge them to pass just and humane legislation like the Keep Families Together Act (see below for more information).
UPDATE (Wednesday, 20 June 2018): Families Belong Together has information about public witnesses happening around the country on Saturday, 30 June 2018. If you can't march in Washington, DC, but feel called to do something public, click through their website to find a solidarity gathering in your area. Keep calling your Reps and your Senators (see below for more info about how) to register your concern about what is happening on the border.
UPDATE (Tuesday, 19 June 2018): Hope Border Institute and NETWORK Lobby are encouraging us to call our Representatives to discourage them from supporting HR 4760 and Speaker Ryan's bill because this legislation does not effectively reunify separated families, nor does it adequately meet the needs of DREAMers. Call your Reps today at (202) 225-3121; this number will connect you to your Rep's office. If you're not sure what to say, here is a suggested script.
Professor Neomi De Anda’s suggestions of tools for action
Suggestions for action from the Editorial Board of the New York Times
Petition that will be delivered to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
Jim Martin, SJ's America piece on five things we can do to help immigrants at the border
Text of the Keep Families Together Act in the Senate
List of cosponsors of the Keep Families Together Act in the Senate
The phone number for the Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121. Calling it will connect you with your two Senators, even if you aren't sure who they are. If your Senator supports the Keep Families Together Act, you can call to thank her. If she doesn’t, you can call to encourage her to express her support for it.
Text of the Child Citizen Protection Act (H.R. 2508) would allow judges to decline any order separating a non-citizen parent from a citizen child.
Text of the HELP Separated Children Act (H.R. 5950) would require states to provide separated children with foster care through welfare agencies or community organizations and require DHS personnel to undergo child welfare training.
Call your Congressional House Representative about these two bills. If you don’t have her name and number handy, call the Congressional Switchboard at (202) 225-3121.
Donation page for the National Immigration Law Center
RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education Legal Services)
June 17, 2018 /Jennifer Owens-Jofré
migration, activism, practices, see-judge-act, Catholic social teaching
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2019/20 Land Sale Programme: Hong Kong Government releases most commercial land in decades
Hong Kong’s government has released the most amount of commercial land for sale in over two decades to meet demand for commercial, industrial and residential development.
Throughout the 2019/20 financial year, 8.8 million square feet of land in seven commercially-zoned sites will be scheduled for sale, including two unsold sites from the previous Land Sale Programme, according to a government announcement. This brings the total number of sites for sale in the program to 22.
“This is a good start to fix the acute supply shortage in the city’s Grade A office market,” says Rita Wong, Head of Valuation at JLL Hong Kong, although she cautions that “supply will still remain constrained over the near term.”
Tightening office supply has been a major concern for Hong Kong. The vacancy rate for Grade A offices has fallen from 11.9 percent at the start of 1999 to 2.0 percent at the end of 2018, resulting in escalating rental costs for occupiers in what is already one of the world’s priciest property markets.
“If the city is to benefit from the growth of the Greater Bay Area, the Hong Kong Government must ensure that there is adequate land supply to meet demand both over the short and longer-term,” says Denis Ma, Head of Research at JLL Hong Kong.
“A failure to do so will further erode Hong Kong’s competitiveness as a regional business hub.”
A further eight recommended options proposed by the government-appointed Task Force on Land Supply will provide additional Grade A office stock, and ease vacancy rates in the coming years. These include reclamation outside Victoria Harbour and the development of the East Lantau Metropolis.
A new CBD
Among the seven recently announced sites, six will be in the city’s Kai Tak Area where supply is needed most.
“The release of the sites at Kai Tak will help accelerate the development and emergence of the Kowloon East central business district,” Ma adds.
“It will also likely lead to a significant jump in the vacancy rate four to five years down the road. Demand for office space in Kowloon East is expected to rise once the cross-harbour section of the Shatin-Central-Link opens in 2021.”
The site above the West Kowloon Station of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link – potential new space spanning over 3.1 million square feet – will be the largest and one of the most coveted commercial sites to be made available in recent years.
More land for homes
A total of 15 residential sites – of which seven are new – providing an estimated 8,850 units – are also being made available as part of the programme.
Taking into account supply from other sources - including the MTR Corporation, Urban Renewal Authority and private development - the estimated 15,000 private residential units that will be available in the upcoming financial year is 14 percent lower than the Government’s annual target of 18,000 private flats per annum.
This is not surprising considering that the Hong Kong government has committed to raising the ratio of public to private homes in new developments to 70:30 – up from 60:40 – in the latest Policy Address to address calls for more affordable homes.
“With more land being made available for subsidised housing units, some buyers will be drawn away from the private market, further dampening the demand for nano-flats that trade at comparable price points,” says Wong.
“This should ultimately reverse the recent trend of developers building smaller units.”
Hong Kong land supply: Don’t forget about office
The Hong Kong–Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and Beyond: Mobility, Connectivity and Collaboration
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Paxton's office can't appeal Sulak's dismissal until the case has been resolved.
"We respectfully disagree with the trial court's ruling," said Marc Rylander, Paxton's communications director. "A unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit dissolved all aspects of the injunction against Senate Bill 4 applicable in this case. None of the parties dispute that point. Because the federal trial court's injunction was overturned, it cannot prohibit the state of Texas from enforcing Senate Bill 4 during the period it was wrongly enjoined."
Two of the rejected claims alleged that McManus "materially limited" the enforcement of immigration laws in addition to preventing his officers from doing the same. The third contended San Antonio had a policy of hindering the laws through its general police manual.
The remaining issue is whether the city has a general policy against cooperating with federal authorities regarding immigration laws. City officials deny that allegation.
In his suit, Paxton said McManus "skirted" procedure by disregarding Homeland Security's requests to probe the incident under federal immigration statutes.
At the time, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement were at the scene and "had every opportunity to do their job and it didn't get done," McManus said. The agency denied that claim, saying they offered their help and police declined.
"The court's ruling addressed only a portion of the state's case, and we intend to continue to pursue all legal avenues to enforce Senate Bill 4 to its fullest extent," Rylander said.
The newspaper reached out to McManus, but he deferred their questions to Segovia.
Woman’s own security camera captures her firebombing neighbor’s home
What you need to know about the 2020 Census
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Business Planning, Activity Planning, Funding Application
THE ENGINE SHED: SCOTLAND’S BUILDING CONSERVATION CENTRE APPLICATION
Historic Scotland is Scotland’s lead agency for the historic environment. Created through the redevelopment of a landmark disused historic building in Stirling, the Engine Shed will be a world-leading centre for technical building conservation. The purpose of the Engine Shed is to raise standards for traditional buildings, broaden awareness of the importance of traditional materials and skills and develop those skills to ensure a sustainable future for Scotland’s historic environment. It will be a unique national and international hub for technical conservation providing training and engagement opportunities on-site and also working in collaboration with and signposting the work of partners across the conservation sector. The Engine Shed will target a range of audiences from the general public to professionals within the sector in its attempts to raise awareness and standards across the industry.
Jura Consultants was commissioned to assist Historic Scotland in the development of an Activity Plan and Business Plan for a Round 2 submission to the Heritage Lottery Fund. A key element of this commission was working with Historic Scotland to deliver an extensive programme of consultation with internal and external stakeholder groups and the general public conducted through a combination of presentations, focus groups, workshops and surveys. This process not only informed audiences about the project but also enabled Historic Scotland and the project team to engage in a dialogue with the target audiences ensuring their views, needs and requirements were reflected in the ultimate scope, nature and activities of the Engine Shed. In November 2014 Historic Scotland was awarded £3.8 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards the £8.9 million project. The Engine Shed officially opened to the public in June 2017.
ST CECILIA’S HALL MUSEUM OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
St Cecilia’s Hall Museum of Instruments is home to the world famous collections of early keyboard and plucked strings, part of Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments (EUCHMI). It is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, and the second oldest in the Britain. At the heart of this Georgian building is its concert room, surrounded by three galleries which house one of the world's most important collections of musical heritage, with many of its instruments still playable in a concert setting.
The University of Edinburgh aimed to redevelop the museum to establish a bespoke home for the University’s Collection of musical instruments. As part of a funding application to the Heritage Lottery Fund, Jura Consultants was commissioned by the University of Edinburgh to assist with both the Round 1 and Round 2 HLF applications. Our involvement included Activity Plan and Business Plan development informed by an in-depth programme of audience research and analysis. The latter included a series of focus group research with current users of St Cecilia’s Hall, a survey with the general public including non-visitors, interviews with exhibition visitors and interviews with key staff and stakeholders. Having attained a Round 1 HLF pass and development grant of £76,500 in December 2012, the project secured a grant award of £823,500 March 2014.
Business Planning, Activity Planning
SIR WALTER SCOTT COURTHOUSE
BUSINESS PLAN AND ACTIVTY PLAN
In 2014, Jura Consultants were commissioned by Scottish Borders Council to prepare a Business Plan and Outline Activity Plan for the Sir Walter Scott’s Court House Redevelopment Project in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. The Court House lies within the heart of the town and was built on the initiative of Sir Walter Scott, the famous writer and Sheriff for the area. As part of this work, Jura Consultants supported the client in developing the project further from an initial options appraisal and feasibility study prepared by LDN Architects. Jura Consultants, working with LDN Architects, developed initial proposals that addressed the key ambitions of the council with regard transforming the Court House into a successful visitor destination within the region and in conjunction with nearby Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott’s residence, while also establishing the property as a community focal point. Jura Consultants subsequently facilitated public consultation on these proposals. Two open days were held at the Court House, where members of the public could review current proposals, make comments and provide further suggestions. Jura Consultants and members of the client team were available to answer questions. While the aim of the open day was to capture qualitative insights, demographic data was also collected in such a way that enabled analysis of comments on the basis of contributors’ characteristics such as age, residency and whether they had children. The client team used materials provided by Jura Consultants for further public consultation, which was analysed by Jura Consultants. Jura Consultants also developed, managed and analysed visitor surveys as Abbotsford, to test proposals for the visitor experience at the Court House, and how this may link in with the offer at Abbotsford. Following analysis of the consultation results, Jura Consultants prepared a Business Plan and an Activity Plan that brought the council’s library service, contact centre and museum service together within the Court House to offer community services that are integrated with a strong visitor and heritage offer.
CHARTERHOUSE LONDON
REVEALING THE CHARTERHOUSE
Sutton’s Hospital in the Charterhouse
The Charterhouse is an ancient charity founded in 1611 located in the beautiful setting of a former Carthusian monastery within the City of London. The charity today provides accommodation and care for retired, single elderly gentlemen known as Brothers. The Revealing the Charterhouse Project is designed to provide greatly increased public access, enjoyment and understanding to/of the Charterhouse site, a remarkable assembly of historic buildings dating from the 14th century, and to/of the collections owned by the Charterhouse and relevant collections owned by the Museum of London. The new presentation will tell the story of the site since the middle ages, right up to the present. A museum exhibition will be established on site curated by the Museum of London. Additionally, more of the building will be opened to visitors through new guided tours and a learning programme.
Jura Consultants was commissioned to work with the project steering group and a range of partners and consultants to develop both the Round 1 and Round 2 bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund. This included a detailed visitor market appraisal, an on-street survey targeting potential users, review of interpretation and activity plans, development of the business case, and coordination of the Round 1 and Round 2 applications . The Revealing the Charterhouse project received a grant award £1.5 million in March 2013.
Business Planning, Consultation, Activity Planning, Funding Application
CELEBRATING SCOTLAND’S ART: THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY PROJECT
The National Galleries of Scotland embarked on a £15.3 million project to redevelop and redisplay the Scottish Collection gallery within the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh. Jura Consultants were commissioned to support both the First and Second Round applications to the Heritage Lottery Fund. A key part of the first commission was to undertake extensive audience research to understand the profile, motivations and needs of both existing audiences and current non-visitors. This research used a multi-method approach, including face-to-face and online quantitative surveys with visitors and non-visitors, as well as focus groups with existing visitors. The research informed project development, and here particularly approaches to content and visitor experience, including activity programming. Working in close collaboration with key senior members of staff, Jura Consultants assisted in the preparation of an outline activity plan for the project. Jura Consultants also provided advice on business planning and the application process. Upon receiving a First Round pass from Heritage Lottery Fund for funding of £4.94 million, Jura Consultants was re-commissioned during the Development Phase of the project to provide evaluation analysis for activities, further research with non-visitors, and formative evaluation of exhibition designs. In addition, Jura Consultants wrote an Evaluation Plan for the project and provided on-going project development support and HLF advice. In June 2016, the project received a Second Round pass from Heritage Lottery Fund for funding of £4.94 million.
Evaluation, Activity Planning, Funding Application
COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART
ACTIVITY & AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT PLAN
The Courtauld Institute of Art is a world class teaching institution allied to one of the most outstanding art collections in Britain. It has recently secured a £9.4million Round 1 pass from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for Phase One of Courtauld Connects, a £32million transformational programme which will focus on improving public access to and engagement with the Courtauld Institute’s art collection and built heritage, its conservation work and teaching, both in Somerset House and nationally. Driven by the philosophy of its founder that ‘art is and must be for all’ audience development sits at the heart of the project. Jura Consultants worked with The Courtauld to develop and produce an Activity and Audience Development Plan in support of the succesful Round 2 HLF application.
Audience consultation formed a core part of our methodology. Firstly the team mapped previous audience research undertaken by The Courtauld identifying opportunities for development, balancing the need to enhance and deepen engagement amongst existing audiences with exciting and inspiring engagement amongst new audiences, specifically those under-represented in the current audience profile. Jura Consultants then delivered an extensive two-phase consultation programme involving over 1,700 people, both visitors and non-visitors, in order to determine how the project could meet different audience groups needs and so doing meet The Courtauld’s ambitious audience development objectives. The activity programme content was developed in collaboration with a core team of Courtuald staff over the course of numerous workshop sessions. Adopting this team approach encouraged collective, creative thinking and the cross-fertilisation of ideas ensuring a coherent, wide-ranging and ambitious resultant activity programme. Not only has this pushed the boundaries for The Courtauld with respect to the project, but it has stimulated a wider process of organisational change towards audience development, a legacy which will be sustained beyond the project period.
Encompassed within this study was a dedicated report covering The Courtuald’s nation-wide activity programme – one of the centrepieces of the Activity Plan - and an Evaluation Strategy setting out a methodology for formative and summative evaluation throughout the project period and recommendations for its continuation thereafter.
Evaluation, Activity Planning
KELVINGROVE BANDSTAND
ACTIVITY PLANNING AND EVALUATION
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust
Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre is a Category B listed landmark, which occupies a prime location in Kelvingrove Park, an important and popular historic, public park in Glasgow’s West End. The venue’s operational life spans 8 decades, originally opening for the 1925 season, however, following the site’s closure in the late 1990s the Bandstand fell into a dilapidated and un-usable state and was placed on the Buildings at Risk register. In 2012 a major £2.1 million transformation project was undertaken by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust in partnership with Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Life which aimed to restore the bandstand to its former glory as a much-loved, flexible and accessible community venue on the basis of long-term sustainability.
Over summer 2012 Jura Consultants completed the Activity Plan for the Bandstand in support of the project’s HLF Round 2 application which successfully secured a grant award. Jura Consultants were later commissioned to evaluate the project’s success in 2014/15. This evaluation involved retrospective evaluation of activities previously delivered as well as planning and undertaking formative and summative evaluation for outstanding activities. This process drew from a range of evaluative techniques, including analysing existing data, such as records of attendance and feedback from attendees as well as undertaking new research, including key stakeholder interviews, a workshop for volunteers involved in the project and new surveys.
ABBOTSFORD HOUSE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Abbotsford Trust
Abbotsford is a Grade A listed building designed and built by Sir Walter Scott (1771 -1832) on the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders. In May 2004 the last of Sir Walter Scott’s direct descendants to occupy the House died and it is now in the hands of the Abbotsford Trust.
Jura Consultants supported the Abbotsford Trust in the development of a project which has transformed the site into a world class heritage attraction. The project involved the delivery of a new visitor reception building (incorporating café, retail and introductory exhibition), enhanced interpretation, conservation works to the collections and historic buildings, landscape improvements, and high quality self-catering guest accommodation in the part of the house.
With support from the Scottish Government, Scottish Borders Council, Historic Scotland and Scottish Enterprise the project attracted some £9million of funding. Jura Consultants commenced work with the Trust in 2007 supporting the development of the HLF Application materials. Since then Jura Consultants project managed the development of both the Round 1 and Round 2 HLF applications. We also prepared a detailed Business Plan and developed the Activity Plan for the project.
Business Planning, Development Work, Masterplanning, Strategic Planning, Activity Planning, Funding Application
NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF SCOTLAND
Jura Consultants has worked closely with National Museums Scotland (NMS) supporting the coordination and development of capital projects across its portfolio. The National Museum of Scotland is now one of the most visited attraction outside London and Jura Consultants worked with NMS to develop a 15 year £80million Masterplan and each phase of delivery.
The Royal Museum Project was the largest phase in the Masterplan transforming the interior architecture of the Museum and enabling the rediscovery and display of NMS’s outstanding Natural World and World Cultures collections. Completed in 2011 the project enabled the display of 100% more objects, created 16 new galleries, enlarged the temporary exhibition space, increased public spaces and increased facilities for learning by 300%. Jura Consultants provided strategic advice and assistance with the development of the Masterplan and prepared an audience development plan to support applications to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The project secured a grant of £14.8million towards the £44.5million project.
The following phase focused on NMS’s internationally significant Science & Technology and Art & Design collections developing ten further gallery spaces. The project aimed to sustain and build upon the success of the RMP. Jura Consultants assisted NMS with both rounds of the HLF application process. Our role included bid coordination, activity planning and business plan support. A collaborative approach was adopted working closely with key client representatives and also a market research company for in-depth audience consultation. With significant audience development objectives, devising an innovative and engaging yet sustainable programme of activity was key. Following an award £4.85million in June 2014 the completed galleries opened in July 2016.
Most recently, Jura Consultants assisted NMS prepare a Round 1 HLF application for the creation of two further galleries focusing on its world-class collections relating to ancient Egypt, China, Japan and Korea. We provided ongoing advice as well as assistance with the preparation of the application form and supporting documents. Revealing Cultures will complete the Masterplan, attaining a Round 1 HLF pass in spring 2016.
Whilst working on the various phases of the Masterplan, we also assisted NMS to secure HLF funding support for the restoration and enhancement of two Category B listed hangars at the National Museum of Flight, phase two in a transformational development plan for the site. Our role included project coordination, business planning and activity planning. The redeveloped National Museum of Flight opened in 2016 delivering a significantly enhanced, innovative, world-class visitor experience enabling a greater understanding and appreciation of the aviation collections, the hangars and the entire historic airfield site.
Simultaneous to our involvement with the National Museum of Scotland and National Museum of Flight, we also assisted NMS devise a strategic investment programme the overall estate. This programme considered the needs of the buildings and collections combined with funding opportunities for each project, acknowledging funding received to date and ‘funder fit’ of subsequent developments, setting out a road map for capital development across the next ten years
Masterplanning, Business Planning, Feasibility Study, Activity Planning, Funding Application
FEASIBILITY STUDY, MASTERPLANNING AND HLF APPLICATION SUPPORT
Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
Jura Consultants adopted the lead role in a multi-disciplinary team exploring the future development options for the Highland Wildlife Park (HWP) and aiding them in applying for Heritage Lottery Funding. The HWP is owned by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) who in 2006 took the decision to diversify HWP’s previously native wildlife collections to include international species suited to cold climate and tundra habitats befitting the HWP’s Cairngorms National Park setting. This diversification, and successful breeding programmes borne from this, has led to an exponential increase in visit numbers establishing the HWP as one of Scotland’s top 20 paid visitor attractions. During this period however there has been little investment in the site facilities and infrastructure causing significant operational difficulties and constraining future growth. The HWP and Edinburgh Zoo, also owned by RZSS, are key for the delivery of public engagement activity and for the generation of revenue that sustains the charity’s vital national and international conservation work. Renewal of the HWP is required in order for it to achieve its potential and thus continue to support RZSS in the delivery of its charitable objectives.
Working closely with RZSS and HWP staff, our study team including LDN Architects, Optimised Environments, Campbell & Co, Gardiner & Theobald, Irons Foulner and Andrew Carrie Traffic & Transportation has developed a Masterplan which sets out a deliverable series of interventions capable of unlocking the HWP’s significant potential as an international exemplar of wildlife conservation and top 10 Scottish visitor attraction. At the heart of the Masterplan is the aim to foster a deeper connection between people and nature inspiring a change in attitudes and behaviour towards wildlife and landscape stewardship. The resultant Masterplan evolved through the course of the study responding to our research and analysis findings, which included a series of meetings and workshops with RZSS and HWP staff and in-depth comparator analysis including a field trip visit to Nordens Ark, a Swedish wildlife park renowned for its conservation credentials. The Masterplan balances the project’s conservation aspirations, the need for a sustainable ongoing business model and a deliverable programme of development. A phased approach to delivery has been identified and Jura Consultants aided the park in a Round One application to the Heritage Lottery fund including the creation of an Activity and Business Plan. The RZSS Board has approved the initial phase and is keen to explore subsequent phases in further detail
ABERDEEN ART GALLERY
HLF APPLICATION SUPPORT, PREPARATION OF ACTIVITY AND BUSINESS PLAN
Aberdeen Art Galley is the premier cultural destination in north east Scotland and its collections are of international significance, standing and quality. However, the buildings within which this collection was housed were inadequate and failed to provide 21st century standards of visitor care. Jura Consultants worked with Aberdeen Art Gallery to develop proposals for the £30 million redevelopment of the gallery complex. Encompassing the Art Gallery building, War Memorial Hall and Cowdray Hall this transformational project will enhance the physical, interpretive and emotional connections between the spheres of art, heritage and music inspiring a new depth of engagement with and appreciation of Aberdeen Art Gallery’s highly significant collection and heritage.
Our role included preparation of an Activity Plan, a Business Plan, and support to develop Round 1 and Round 2 applications to the Heritage Lottery Fund. A programme of extensive consultation with existing visitors and non-visitors was carried out to support the Activity Plan which resulted in the creation of an innovative activity programme designed to inspire existing and new visitors through arts and music engagement. Audience segmentation analysis was an important aspect of the activity planning process identifying key target audiences from which an engagement strategy was borne.
We also facilitated a number of workshops with gallery staff over the course of the Round 1 and Round 2 application development. Feedback from the consultation process was used to develop and refine the scope of the project so that it meets the aspirations of the gallery and its visitors, while fitting with the requirements of HLF and other funding bodies. We worked closely with the design team for the project to ensure that the capital project responds to the issues identified in the research. The project achieved a Round 1 pass from HLF in April 2013 and successfully secured a grant award of £10 million passing the Round 2 stage in October 2014. The transformed Aberdeen Art Gallery re-opens in 2018
Business Planning, Evaluation, Activity Planning, Funding Application
BUSINESS PLAN, ACTIVITY PLAN, EVALUATION FRAMEWORK
Auckland Castle Trust
CLYDE GATEWAY
EVALUATION OF THE ARTS AND HERITAGE PROJECT FOR OLYMPIA REDEVELOPMENT
Clyde Gateway is Scotland’s largest ongoing regeneration initiative, with an objective to re-develop large sections of the East End of Glasgow to create a dynamic and sought after city location, with a strong community, which will attract major investment, supporting Glasgow’s ambition to be a world class city-region. Jura Consultants were commissioned in 2013 to present an evaluation of the Heritage and Arts Activity Programme delivered as part of the restoration and redevelopment of the Olympia Theatre building in the east end of Glasgow which had lain empty for twenty years, in order to create a new community asset.
Delivery of the Heritage and Arts Project was focused around an Activity Plan, produced by Jura Consultants in 2010 in consultation with Clyde Gateway and Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, in order to secure HLF Second Round funding. The evaluation process was produced in line with HLF’s Good Practice Guidance and reviewed activity delivery against the project objectives, outputs and targets, including expenditure against profiled budgets, as well as undertaking a review of project delivery material including evaluation documents and materials produced. The process also involved consultation and interviews with key participants and artists engaged to deliver elements of the programme
ACTIVITY PLAN AND BUSINESS PLAN FOR HLF
The Chapter of Ripon Cathedral
Prior to engaging Jura Consultants, Ripon Cathedral had been identifying and developing its strategy for the next ten years, and had developed an architect-led vision of the Cathedral precinct for the future. Jura Consultants were commissioned to develop a Business Plan and an Activity Plan to support an HLF Round 1 bid to progress this vision. We worked closely with Chapter in developing both the vision for the overall project and potential new areas of activity for the Cathedral, and assessed the potential impact both would have on financial resources and visitor number impact. This was supported by the outline Activity Plan, which was informed by analysis of 600 visitor and non-visitor surveys and workshops with staff and Chapter.
Activity Planning, Funding Application
CITIZENS THEATRE
Jura Consultants was commissioned by the Citizens Theatre to work collaboratively with its learning, outreach and programming team to research and prepare an activity plan to support an HLF round 2 application. The overall project would see the building transformed creating new and enhanced spaces for performances and audiences. The activity plan was to identify new ways to showcase the history and heritage of the Theatre building and Theatre Company – connecting the heritage assets to communities of interest and communities of geography. We undertook focus groups with a number of target audiences including non-users, people with hearing impairment, the Young Company and others to test a programme of events and activities.
Consultation, Activity Planning, Funding Application
ACTIVITY PLAN AND COMMUNITY CONSULTATION
West Dunbartonshire Council (lead partner)
Jura Consultants led on the development of an Activity Plan complete with an Audience Development Strategy, for the Round 2 submission of a HLF bid for the Rediscovering the Antonine Wall Project. The Wall is Scotland’s largest and most important Roman monument, part of the much larger Frontiers of the Roman Empire UNESCO World Heritage Site which currently includes Hadrian’s Wall and the Upper German-Raetian Limes. The project is designed to increase awareness and understanding of, and engagement with the Antonine Wall, by linking the six management plan partners (Historic Environment Scotland, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, Glasgow City, Falkirk and North Lanarkshire Councils) with local communities across the length of the wall to co-design a series of pan-wall and area specific initiatives, that will be delivered over a three year period, creating direct and indirect benefit to areas adjacent to the line of the Wall and beyond.
Jura Consultants conducted an extensive programme of consultation to shape the proposals in response to community and stakeholder interests, through a combination of research techniques, from traditional public consultation events with community groups, individuals and organisations, targeted design workshops with schools, to more creative approaches such as attending events in local High Streets and running creative workshops. In total over 1,250 people were engaged through consultation process and their views served to inform the design of project strands and specific activity ideas.
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Rana Hamadeh
Rana Hamadeh is a visual and performance artist. Drawing on a curatorial approach within her artistic practice, she develops longstanding, discursive projects that think through the infrastructures of justice in relation to the histories and present manifestations of coloniality.
Her work stems from an extended investigation into specific concepts and terms, treating the field of theory as fiction.
Hamadeh’s previous solo exhibitions include projects and/or collaborations with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, 2017), The Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, 2016), The Showroom (London, 2016); Nottingham Contemporary (2015); Western Front (Vancouver, 2015); Gallery TPW (Tonoto, 2015) and Kiosk (Ghent, 2014). Group exhibitions include a.o. Contour Biennial (2017), The Moscow Biennial (2015), The New Museum (New York., 2014); e-flux (New York., 2014), The 8th Liverpool Biennial (2014), Wattis Institute (2014), 12th Biennale de Lyon (2013); The Lisson Gallery (2013) and the Van Abbemuseum (2008/2011). In 2017, the artist won the Prix de Rome.
in:Beirut (Liban)
Lives and works in:Rotterdam (Pays-Bas)
Group show:
Le centre ne peut tenir
Rana Hamadeh, The Ten Murders of Josephine, Commissioned by Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 2017 © Rana Hamadeh
The Ten Murders of Josephine: [Composition #4], 2018
Discussion : Rana Hamadeh et Rolando Vásquez
On the occasion of the exhibition Le centre ne peut tenir Rana Hamadeh will be in conversation with Dr. Rolando Vázquez, associate professor of Sociology at University College Roosevelt and affiliated researcher at the research...
Saturday 25 Aug 2018
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Pilot Theatre in partnership with York Theatre Royal & Unicorn Theatre
THIS PERFORMANCE TOOK PLACE IN 2008 By Anne Cassidy Adapted for the stage and directed by Marcus Romer Three children walked away from the cottages on the edge of town. Later that day only two of them came back. Where was Jennifer Jones? That’s what everyone was asking. There were only a handful of people who knew… Alice Tully knows exactly what happened that day six years ago, and she knows exactly where JJ is now. Alice’s past is dangerous, violent, and sad – and it’s about to rip her life apart. Can she ever get rid of her ghosts? Can life ever be ‘normal’, or will people always be looking for JJ? A gripping story of suspense and intrigue set to an original soundtrack with cutting-edge design and the latest technology. Pilot Theatre is renowned for producing visually stunning theatre that is thought-provoking, powerful and engages audiences of all ages. Suitable for ages 11+
Looking For JJ Djanogly Theatre Tickets £5 - £12
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Jay-Z Biography [Updated]
In addition to his award-winning hip-hop albums, Jay-Z is known for an array of successful business interests, as well as his marriage to singer Beyoncé.
Who is Jay-Z? Jay-Z Biography [Updated]
Born Shawn Corey Carter in New York City on December 4, 1969, Jay-Z grew up in Brooklyn’s drug-infested Marcy Projects. He used rap as an escape, appearing for the first time on Yo! MTV Raps in 1989. After selling millions of records with his Roc-a-Fella label, Jay-Z created his own clothing line and founded an entertainment company. He wed popular singer and actress Beyoncé in 2008.
Rapper Jay-Z was born Shawn Corey Carter on December 4, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. “He was the last of my four children,” Jay-Z’s mother, Gloria Carter, later recalled, “the only one who didn’t give me any pain when I gave birth to him, and that’s how I knew he was a special child.” His father, Adnes Reeves, left the family when Jay-Z was only 11 years old. The young rapper was raised by his mother in Brooklyn’s drug-infested Marcy Projects.
During a rough adolescence, detailed in many of his autobiographical songs, Shawn Carter dealt drugs and flirted with gun violence. He attended multiple high schools, including George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School in downtown Brooklyn, where he was a classmate of the soon-to-be-martyred rap legend Notorious B.I.G. As Jay-Z later recalled in one of his songs (“December 4th”): “I went to school, got good grades, could behave when I wanted/But I had demons deep inside that would raise when confronted.”
Jay-Z Biography Updated
Rise to Hop-Hop Fame
Carter turned to rap at a young age as an escape from the drugs, violence and poverty that surrounded him in the Marcy Projects. In 1989, he joined the rapper Jaz-O—an older performer who served as a kind of mentor—to record a song called “The Originators,” which won the pair an appearance on an episode of Yo! MTV Raps. It was at this point that Shawn Carter embraced the nickname Jay-Z, which was simultaneously an homage to Jaz-O, a play on Carter’s childhood nickname of “Jazzy” and a reference to the J/Z subway station near his Brooklyn home.
Even with a stage name, Jay-Z remained relatively anonymous until he and two friends, Damon Dash and Kareem Burke, founded their own record label, Roc-a-Fella Records, in 1996. In June of that year, Jay-Z released his debut album, Reasonable Doubt. Although the record only reached No. 23 on the Billboard 200, it is now considered a classic hip-hop album, including songs such as “Can’t Knock the Hustle,” featuring Mary J. Blige, and “Brooklyn’s Finest,” a collaboration with Notorious B.I.G. Reasonable Doubt established Jay-Z as an emerging star in hip-hop.
Two years later, Jay-Z achieved even broader success with the 1998 album Vol. 2 … Hard Knock Life. The title track, which famously sampled its chorus from the Broadway musical Annie, became Jay-Z’s most popular single to date. He scored a Grammy win for Vol. 2 and another nomination for “Hard Knock Life,” marking the beginning of a fruitful period in which Jay-Z would become the biggest name in hip-hop.
During those years, the rapper released a slew of No. 1 albums and hit singles. His most popular songs from this period include “Big Pimpin’,” “I Just Wanna Love U,” “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)” and “03 Bonnie & Clyde,” a duet with future bride Beyoncé Knowles. Jay-Z’s most acclaimed album of this period was The Blueprint (2001), which would later pop up on several music critics’ lists of the best albums of the decade.
In 2003, Jay-Z shocked the Hip hop download world by releasing The Black album and announcing that it would be his last solo record before retirement. Asked to explain his sudden exit from rap, Jay-Z said that he once derived inspiration from trying to outshine other great MCs, but had simply gotten bored due to a lack of competition. “The game ain’t hot,” he said. “I love when someone makes a hot album and then you’ve got to make a hot album. I love that. But it ain’t hot.”
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Rap Comeback
In 2006, Jay-Z ended his retirement from making music, releasing the new album Kingdom Come. He soon released two more albums: American Gangster in 2007 and Blueprint 3 in 2009. This trio of albums marked a significant departure from Jay-Z’s earlier sound, incorporating stronger rock and soul influences in their production and offering Lyrics that tackled such mature subjects as the response to Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama’s 2008 election and the perils of fame and fortune. Jay-Z noted he was trying to adapt his music to befit his own middle age. “There’s not a lot of people who have come of age in rap because it’s only 30 years old,” he said. “As more people come of age, hopefully the topics get broader and then the audience will stay around longer.”
Jay-Z next teamed up with former Roc-A-Fella protégé kanye west for 2011’s Watch the Throne. The album proved to be a triple hit, topping the rap, R&B and pop charts shortly after its August release. It went on to garner multiple Grammy nominations, winning the Grammy for Best Rap Performance with “Otis,” which sampled the late R&B singer Otis Redding.
In July 2013, Jay-Z unveiled his 12th studio album, Magna Carta Holy Grail. The effort earned a mixed reception from critics but otherwise fared well with fans, going on to top the Billboard 200 and achieve double-platinum status. That winter Jay-Z earned a whopping nine Grammy nominations, sharing the win for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration with Justin Timberlake for the hit single “Holy Grail.”
Rocawear & Tidal
During his hiatus from rapping, Jay-Z turned his attention to the business side of music, becoming president of Def Jam Recordings. As president of Def Jam, Jay-Z signed such popular acts as Rihanna and Ne-Yo, and helped kanye west‘s transition from producer to best-selling recording artist. But his reign at the venerable hip-hop label wasn’t all smooth sailing; Jay-Z resigned as Def Jam’s president in 2007, complaining about the company’s resistance to change from ineffectual business models. “You have record executives who’ve been sitting in their office for 20 years because of one act,” he lamented.
In 2008, Jay-Z signed a $150 million contract with the concert promotion company Live Nation. This super deal created a joint venture called Roc Nation, an entertainment company that handles nearly all aspects of its artists’ careers. Along with Jay-Z, Roc Nation signed such top artists as Rihanna, Shakira and T.I., among many others, to its roster.
Jay-Z’s other business ventures include the popular urban clothing line Rocawear and Roc-a-Fella Films. He also owns the 40/40 Club, an upscale sports bar that opened in New York City and later added venues in Atlantic City and Las Vegas (since closed), as well as Atlanta.
A part-owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team since 2004, Jay-Z helped spur the relocation of the franchise to a brand-new home in downtown Brooklyn, the Barclays Center, in 2012. In 2013 he launched a full-service sports management company, Roc Nation Sports, and sold his Brooklyn Nets shares in order to pursue certification as a sports agent. As Jay-Z once rapped about his business empire, “I’m not a businessman / I’m a business, man.”
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The business of Jay-Z made headlines once again in March 2015, when he and several of his high-powered friends, including Madonna, Nicki Minaj and Jack White, announced the relaunch of Tidal, a streaming music service. The service gained a reasonable stream of followers — a touted 1 million in September 2015 — but also endured a revolving door of top management and legal issues. In early 2017, Jay-Z agreed to sell a 33 percent stake of Tidal to telecommunications giant Sprint.
‘4:44’
On June 15, 2017, Jay-Z became the first rapper to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He tweeted about the honor: “I remember when rap was said to be a fad. We are now alongside some of the greatest writers in history.”
Later that month, on June 30, Jay-Z released his 13th solo album, 4:44, exclusively to Tidal and Sprint subscribers. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America less than a week after its release, solely based on download numbers. The highly personal album, which includes guest artists Beyoncé, Damian Marley and Frank Ocean, was an immediate commercial and critical success, praised for the rapper’s candid Lyrics and a new level of artistic maturity.
In an interview which aired on iHeartMedia, Jay-Z called the title track, “4:44,” “one of the best songs I’ve ever written.” His Lyrics appear to address the marital issues and infidelity his wife Beyoncé sang about in her confessional album Lemonade:
“I apologize, often womanize / Took for my child to be born / See through a woman’s eyes / Took for these natural twins to believe in miracles / Took me too long for this song / I don’t deserve you,” he says in the song, referring to the birth of their children.
Other tracks include “Kill Jay-Z,” which the rapper told iHeartMedia “is about killing off the ego,” and “The Story of OJ,” a comment on the culture of success. “‘The Story of OJ’ is really a song about we as a culture, having a plan, how we’re gonna push this forward,” he said in the iHeartMedia interview. “We all make money, and then we all lose money, as artists especially. But how, when you have some type of success, to transform that into something bigger.”
When the list of the year’s Grammy hopefuls was announced November, Jay-Z led the way with eight nominations for his work on 4:44. He wound up getting shut out when the winners were announced the following January, though he did receive the 2018 Salute to Industry Icons Award.
OTR II and ‘Everything Is Love’
Soon afterward, the hip-hop king announced that he and Beyoncé were teaming up for the OTR II Tour that summer, an extension of their 2014 effort. The tour kicked off in in Cardiff, Wales, on June 6, and 10 days later, the couple gave their fans another reason to get excited with the release of a joint album, Everything Is Love. Initially available for streaming solely on Jay-Z’s Tidal, the album was accompanied by a music video for the track “Apes**t,” which showed the Carters in their aristocratic element as they sang and rapped among the world-famous art pieces of the Louvre in Paris.
Political and Charitable Work
After staying out of the political arena for much of his career, Jay-Z emerged as a strong supporter of Barack Obama during his first campaign for president in 2008. He appeared at rallies and had only high praise for the African-American candidate. During one rally, Jay-Z told the crowd that “Rosa Parks sat so that Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so that Obama could run. Obama’s running so we all can fly.”
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Jay-Z once again backed Obama for his 2012 reelection bid. That same year, he stepped forward as a supporter of gay marriage. As he told CNN, denying same-sex couples the right to wed “is no different than discriminating against blacks. It’s discrimination plain and simple.”
In October 2015, Jay-Z held his first annual charity concert called Tidal X: 10/20, starring Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, lil wayne, Usher and other top-selling artists. The following February, it was announced that Tidal was donating $1.5 million from concert proceeds to numerous organizations, including Black Lives Matter and Sankofa, a nonprofit started by Harry Belafonte.
Jay-Z and Beyonce attend the ‘China: Through The Looking Glass’ Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York City. (Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images).
Very protective of his private life, Jay-Z did not publicly discuss his relationship with longtime girlfriend, popular singer and actress Beyoncé, for years. The couple even managed to keep the press away from their small wedding, which was held on April 4, 2008, in New York City. Only about 40 people attended the celebration at Jay-Z’s penthouse apartment, including actress Gwyneth Paltrow and former Destiny’s Child members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.
Jay-Z and Beyoncé welcomed their first child, a daughter named Blue Ivy Carter, on January 7, 2012. Concerned about their privacy and safety, Jay-Z and Beyoncé rented part of New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital and hired extra guards.
Shortly after the birth of his daughter, Jay-Z released a song in her honor on his site. On “Glory,” he expressed his joy of becoming a father and revealed that Beyoncé had previously suffered a miscarriage. Jay-Z and Beyoncé also posted a message along with the song, saying “we are in heaven” and Blue’s birth “was the best experience of both of our lives.”
In February 2017, Beyoncé announced on Instagram that she and Jay-Z were expecting twins. “We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over. We are incredibly grateful that our family will be growing by two, and we thank you for your well wishes. The Carters, ” she posted.
Jay-Z and Beyoncé welcomed twins, a boy and a girl, in June 2017. Although the couple didn’t immediately confirm the twins’ birth or their names, People magazine reported that they had filed trademark documents at the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the names Sir and Rumi. In the early morning hours of July 14, Beyoncé made it official, posting a photo in which she holds their 1-month-old twins.
In an article published by T: The New York Times Style Magazine in November 2017, Jay-Z opened up about his marital problems, acknowledged his infidelity and discussed how he and his wife were able to rediscover their bond through therapy.
“I grew so much from the experience,” he said. “But I think the most important thing I got is that everything is connected. Every emotion is connected and it comes from somewhere. And just being aware of it. Being aware of it in everyday life puts you at such a … you’re at such an advantage.”
He echoed many of those sentiments in an interview with CNN’s Van Jones in January 2018, acknowledging the difficult patches with Beyoncé and the progress they’d made in repairing their union. “For us, we chose to fight for our love,” he said. “For our family. To give our kids a different outcome. To break that cycle for black men and women.”
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Bob Hawley, man who helped find Steamboat Arabia, dies
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bob Hawley, the patriarch of the family that spent their fortune to discover and unearth the treasures of the Steamboat Arabia, died last weekend.
The family told 41 Action News that Hawley, 89, died after a battle with ALS.
Hawley and his family launched a massive, privately-funded operation to unearth the ship, which sank off the Missouri River in what is now northern Kansas City, Kansas in 1856.
No one was injured in the wreck, but the ship carried nearly 200 tons of cargo destined for families out on the frontier. That cargo, rumored to include whiskey and gold, was the dream of many treasure hunters.
It wasn’t until 1987 when Hawley and his sons located the wrecked ship and began the operation that unearthed the largest collection of pre-Civil War artifacts in the world.
Those artifacts are the center piece of the Steamboat Arabia Museum in City Market. Hawley and other family members would frequently help in the guided tours at the museum.
David Hawley, Bob's son, told 41 Action News that his father gave tours for many years.
Visitation is scheduled for 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 10, at the Steamboat Arabia Museum, 400 Grand Blvd, Kansas City. There will be no charge for admission into the museum during the visitation.
"It will be an amazing send off," David said of the plans for the visitation at the museum.
Funeral services are planned for 10 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 11 at the Speaks Funeral Home, 18020 E. 39th St., Independence, Missouri.
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The Chirp: Jan./ Feb. Submission Opportunities
Jan 04, 2016 – Playwrights’ Corner
NYFA Artists' Fellowships
Deadline: January 28th
Artists' Fellowships, awarded in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year period are $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York for unrestricted use. Artists’ Fellowships are not project grants but are intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, regardless of the level of his or her artistic development.
NYFA's Artists' Fellowships are administered with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.
James Tait Black Prize
Deadline: February 12th
The drama prize is awarded annually for the best original new play written in English, Scots or Gaelic and performed by a professional company in the previous year. Judges will award the accolade to a play which displays an original voice in theatre and one that they feel has made a significant and unique contribution to the art form.
The winner of the £10,000 annual award will be announced in August, and extracts of the shortlisted plays will be performed as a reading at The Traverse Theatre during the August festivals in Edinburgh.
HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP)
Deadline: February 3rd
HERE commissions and develops new hybrid works over a 1- to 3-year period. As part of the HERE community of artists and audiences, our 15 resident artists show works-in-progress, develop workshop productions, and mount full–scale productions. Through our residency programs, HERE seeks to not only grow innovative artistic work, but also give artists the awareness and skills—in areas such as audience relations, budgeting, grantwriting, and touring—they need to continue to grow their careers.
Headwaters New Play Festival
A week-long workshop where two or more selected plays will be developed with a team of professional theater artists and receive public readings. CRT provides travel, housing, and a food stipend for the playwrights. Plays read at the festival will be considered for a full production in an upcoming CRT season.
The Likhachev Foundation
Deadline: February 1st
The Likhachev Foundation will accept applications from professionals in the field of culture and history or arts from foreign countries who are currently working on creative projects related to Russian culture or history. Command of the Russian language is very helpful but not required. Students are not eligible. Working languages of the program are English and Russian.
Ten two-week fellowships will be organized from May 9 until May 22, 2016 in St. Petersburg (Russia)
Something Marvelous
Something Marvelous invites you to submit your work for our 2016 festival season! We seek one acts (of at least 45 mins. length) and full-length plays, and we will select 2 - 3 works to be developed in a series of workshops with actors, a director, and our staff, culminating in a public staged reading.
Selected new plays must 1. Take place in our expected human reality, and 2. Introduce an extra-real or magical element that the characters accept as part of their world. We give preference to plays that use magical realism to communicate a specific cultural experience; we seek diversity in points-of-view to represent a variety of perspectives based on gender, race, age, sexual orientation, subject matter, etc.
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Angels face devil of a time without Mike Trout in lineup
Mike Trout cries out in pain after tearing a thumb ligament while sliding into second base.
(Lynne Sladky / Associated Press)
By Mike DiGiovannaStaff Writer
The Angels thrived in the wake of a season-ending knee injury to Garrett Richards in 2014, going 21-7 over the next month without their ace and turning a half-game lead in the American League West on Aug. 20 into a division-clinching 111/2- game bulge by Sept. 18.
So it was natural to use that as a rallying cry this week when star center fielder Mike Trout, considered the best all-around player in baseball, suffered a torn left-thumb ligament that was surgically repaired on Wednesday and will sideline him for six to eight weeks.
“When Garrett went down in 2014, that was a big blow to our pitching staff, but everyone pulled together, and we finished up pretty strong,” right fielder Kole Calhoun said. “Not having Mike, things are definitely stacked against us, but we have a lot of guys in here, and if we play together we can still be pretty good.”
Not to say that won’t happen. The team has hovered around .500 despite losing its top two starting pitchers (Richards and Andrew Heaney) and top three relievers (Cam Bedrosian, Huston Street and Andrew Bailey) to injury.
But the loss of Trout will be much more difficult to overcome than the loss of Richards in 2014.
For starters, Richards pitched once every five days. Trout played every day, impacting games with his bat, speed on the bases and stellar defense.
The Angels had four solid starters in 2014 in Jered Weaver, Matt Shoemaker, C.J. Wilson and Hector Santiago, a deep bullpen headed by Street and Joe Smith, and a potent offense that eased the burden on the pitching staff.
“To have Mike on the disabled list for the first time is kind of the unknown,” Calhoun said. “It’s definitely tough. He’s best player in the game, so guys are gonna have to pick up the slack around here.”
Manager Mike Scioscia compared Trout’s loss to that of slugger Vladimir Guerrero, who in 2009 missed six weeks from mid-April to late-May because of a torn pectoral muscle, and a month from early July to early August because of a hamstring strain.
The Angels never fell more than 51/2 games back during Guerrero’s first absence. They moved into first place in late June and won the division with a 97-64 record.
“We had a very good year with a middle-of-the-order guy out for long stretches,” Scioscia said. “Mike’s loss is not gonna be made up with production from one person, but collectively, one through nine. If guys swing the bats to their capabilities, we can absorb the loss of Mike for the time he’s out.”
Guerrero, however, was 34 and near the end of his distinguished career in 2009. He was also surrounded by productive hitters in a lineup that included Kendrys Morales, Bobby Abreu, Torii Hunter, Howie Kendrick, Mike Napoli, Juan Rivera, Erick Aybar and Chone Figgins.
Trout is 25 and in his prime. He has won two AL most valuable player awards and was runner-up three times. He is arguably having his best season, batting .337 with an AL-leading 1.203 on-base-plus-slugging percentage. He ranks second with 16 homers and has 36 RBIs.
And he is surrounded by players who are struggling. Second baseman Danny Espinosa has been a huge disappointment, batting .144 with 56 strikeouts entering Wednesday, and corner infielder Luis Valbuena, expected to be a middle-of-the-order threat, is batting .176 in 26 games of an injury plagued season.
The struggles of Calhoun, who hit .266 with a .763 OPS, 61 homers and 216 RBIs in his first three full major league seasons (2014-2016), have been most surprising. He entered Wednesday with a .205 average, .601 OPS, five homers and 17 RBIs in 52 games.
“There’s a cliche about seeing the ball well, a lot of guys throw that around, but I think in Kole’s case, there’s no doubt that he’s a little jumpy, he’s just trying too hard,” Scioscia said. “He definitely needs to exhale and have things slow down in the batter’s box.”
The left-handed-hitting Calhoun normally hits left-handers well. He has a career .266 average and .761 OPS against right-handers and a .245 average and .713 OPS against left-handers. Those numbers are out of whack this season — .233 with a .655 OPS against right-handers and .098 with a .391 OPS against lefties.
“He’s working very hard on it,” Scioscia said. “This guy is such a gamer. He does anything for the team, whether it’s diving for a ball in right field, pulling for guys, hitting first, second, sixth in lineup … for him to struggle, there’s nobody who feels it more than he does.
“He’s too talented to stay down for a long time. He’ll find it. Right now, it’s a matter of slowing some things down in the batter’s box, taking some of the things pitchers are giving him and trying to use the whole field. If he does that, I think he’ll start to swing the bat to his capabilities.”
mike.digiovanna@latimes.com
Twitter: @MikeDiGiovanna
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Mike DiGiovanna is a sports writer who contributes to the coverage of the Dodgers, Angels and Chargers for the Los Angeles Times.
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The Dodgers asked season-ticket holders for their first payment for 2020 seats by Aug. 22. And, by the way, prices have gone up again.
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What is being done about the problems regarding electricity supply/demand in the United Kingdom?
Over the last few years the future of the electricity market has been much debated and many news articles have speculated about how 24-hour access to electricity may no longer be taken for granted. There is also growing concern that, at least in the short term, the United Kingdom might not be able to ensure 'security of supply' (ie, suppliers will not at all times be able to meet the country's demand for electricity), so that forced black-outs may be the only option at peak times. Consumers' right to affordable energy against a forecasted steep rise in energy prices is also a debated issue and many have estimated the overall costs increase that households are likely to experience on their energy bills.
Understanding the facts behind these statements and how the United Kingdom is working to address such issues at a commercial and legal level is complicated.
The Energy Bill
According to the UK Energy Statistics released at the end of March 2013 by the Department for Energy and Climate Change, total UK energy production in 2012 was 10.5% lower than in 2011. Imports were at a record high, while total energy consumption rose by 2% from 2011. High gas prices meant that in 2012 coal (currently the cheapest energy source, but also one of the most polluting) accounted for 39.5% of all electricity generated and that electricity generated by gas fell to a still significant 27.5%. Encouragingly, renewables' share of electricity generation grew by 2% to a first-time total of 11.5%. The same statistics also show that domestic gas and electricity prices have been relentlessly increasing.
In response to these figures and following extensive research/consultation, on 29 November 2012 the Energy Bill was introduced into the House of Commons. During the committee stage, further evidence was taken from experts and interest groups outside Parliament and every clause of the bill was scrutinised prior to being agreed, changed or removed. The committee stage concluded in February this year and the amended Energy Bill was re-published in readiness for the report stage, which will give all MPs an opportunity to consider further changes to the bill. There is no set time period between the end of the committee stage and the start of the report stage, and a date is yet to be fixed.
The stated aim of the Energy Bill is to "reform the electricity market to deliver secure, clean and affordable electricity".
"Secure" electricity
The main reason that energy availability has become an issue is the drastic reduction in generating capacity that will take place within the next 10 years as a result of the closure of existing power plants. These older plants currently account for 21% of the total generating capacity in the United Kingdom and include old nuclear power stations due to reach the end of their operating lives and coal-fired power stations due to be shut down to meet environmental commitments. Another factor affecting security of supply is the ageing infrastructure, particularly the electricity grid, which was not set up to manage and transport energy generated from an increasing number of smaller and geographically remote power sources, such as renewables (eg, wind farms, biomass and solar). The electricity network needs to be strengthened and expanded where new power stations are to be connected, (eg, to carry electricity from offshore generating installations).
One of the mechanisms proposed by the Energy Bill to address possible shortfalls in generation is the capacity market, which is meant to ensure a sufficient margin between generation and demand at all times. Capacity providers (primarily generators, but also energy storage providers and those who agree to reduce their electricity consumption on request at a particular time - so called "demand-side response") will participate in a capacity auction and enter into agreements where they commit to make a certain amount of capacity available when requested under the capacity market mechanism. In return, capacity providers will receive a payment for providing reliable capacity when needed, but will be penalised if they fail to do so.
In order to make the capacity market/auctions effective, the correct conditions need to be created and work is ongoing outside the strict boundaries of the Electricity Bill to ensure that all participants, including consumers, get on board. For example on 30 April 2013, the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) published a consultation on creating the right environment for demand-side response. This work is complementary to other initiatives, such as the introduction of smart meters to households and small energy customers which the government is hoping to complete by 2019. Smart meters will allow customers to understand their energy consumption by providing accessible, real-time information on their energy usage.
"Clean" electricity
The United Kingdom is currently bound to a number of environmental commitments, including:
supplying 15% of the nation's energy from renewable sources by 2020 (a target imposed by the European Union); and
reducing greenhouse emissions by 34% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2020 and by at least 80% by 2050 (as opposed to the minimum 20% reduction by 2020 target set by the European Union).
As mentioned above, coal and gas-fired power stations are still the main source of electricity in the United Kingdom and it is essential to increase electricity generation from renewables and nuclear to meet the environmental targets. The Electricity Bill is introducing 'contracts for difference' (CfDs) as a new mechanism to support and incentivise investment in low-carbon technologies, including renewables, nuclear and carbon-capture-and-storage. CfDs are meant to offer certainty to investors and generators, who are allowed to work around the constantly fluctuating wholesale energy price by setting a 'strike price'. If the wholesale price is lower than the strike price, generators receive a top-up payment from suppliers. If the wholesale price is higher, generators have to pay back the difference to the energy supplier, which in turn can pass the savings on to its customers. Many of the practicalities of the proposed CfDs (such as counterparties and allocation) are still being worked out and no final position has been reached to date.
Alongside CfDs, the Energy Bill is also introducing emission performance standards and legislation has already implemented a Carbon Price Floor (a tax on fossil fuels used in the generation of electricity that took effect on 1 April 2013), which should further incentivise the switch to low-carbon generation.
To the concern of some UK businesses, on 16 April the EU Parliament voted against a plan to raise the cost of carbon pollution across the European Union, which is currently set at about €3 per tonne of carbon emitted against the United Kingdom's £16 per tonne (which is set to rise to £30 by 2020). This could mean that UK-based energy companies may end up on an uneven playing field against their European counterparts, which will benefit from more favourable carbon taxes. The risk is also that companies will move new investments or even some or all of their high carbon dioxide emitting processes outside the United Kingdom. The government, which prioritised the need to create investment certainty and increase the rate of decarbonisation in the power sector above the level that can be delivered through the EU carbon price alone, intends to introduce measures to reduce the impact of the EU price level on those companies that, due to their international competitiveness, are most affected.
"Affordable" electricity
All these changes (and the many more planned to prepare the United Kingdom to meet its future energy needs) require considerable financial investment estimated at around £110 billion up to 2020. The costs will have to be borne by all parties involved, including businesses and household customers. According to the government's estimates - which are subject to significant uncertainties - there will be an increase in energy bills, but in the long term the measures should bring savings to consumers, particularly those who take advantage of the support offered to improve the energy efficiency of their homes.
In order to keep levy-funded spending under control, in 2010 the government introduced the Levy Control Framework, whereby spending caps are set in relation to a number of policies. If such caps are to be exceeded, the responsible government department must agree a plan with the Treasury to bring the spending down. The Energy Bill allows the secretary of state to set out the maximum costs of the scheme, while CfDs will fall under the Treasury's Levy Control Framework, which for 2020 has been set at £7.6 billion (in real 2012 prices). How the caps will operate annually in the interim period is yet to be confirmed, as is the level of flexibility that will be applied in practice.
Effective competition can also play a fundamental role in ensuring that the prices are the lowest possible. The EU Third Energy Package (European directives for gas and electricity markets) imposes strict unbundling requirements on energy companies, requiring the separation of ownership across the generation, transmission, distribution and supply sectors so that no one company can control the entire energy chain.
From a consumer's perspective, it is a significant advantage to have a choice of suppliers and easily comparable tariffs that make it possible to switch and easy to quickly identify the benefits of doing so. Ofgem, as the energy regulator, is in charge of protecting consumers' interests and promoting competition in the energy markets. Careful monitoring by Ofgem and the effective use of its powers will therefore be key to the ongoing successful delivery of energy savings to consumers.
The Energy Bill has received a generally positive welcome by market players. However, it has attracted some criticism, most recently by renewables developers desiring more certainty and worried that too much attention is being diverted to nuclear and shale gas which, even if implemented today, will not be producing energy until after 2020 and should therefore not be a priority at this stage. Concern has also been raised at how many different issues the government is trying to address with this one piece of legislation, and whether it will be in a position to live up to expectations.
The consultation process is still continuing on many aspects of the Energy Bill and much is therefore still subject to change. However, in order to ensure that the planned reforms come into effect in good time to address the issues that they set out to resolve, it is essential that the Energy Bill and all other policies progress without delay. This inevitably limits the extent to which further data gathering, market testing and any consequential policy changes will be possible. The details are crucial and will therefore be the focus of all parties' efforts during the next phase.
Valentina Santambrogio is a fourth-seat trainee at CMS Cameron McKenna.
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One of the Most Popular Bible Translations
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In July of 1604, King James I of England appointed approximately 50 of the best Bible scholars and linguists of his day, to the task of translating a new version of the Bible into English. The work took seven years. Upon completion, it was presented to King James I in 1611. It soon became the standard Bible for English-speaking Protestants. It is a revision of the Bishop's Bible of 1568.
The original title of the KJV was "THE HOLY BIBLE, Containing the Old Testament, AND THE NEW: Newly Translated out of the Original tongues: & with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties special Commandment."
The earliest recorded date that it was called the "King James Version" or "Authorized Version" was in 1814 A.D.
Purpose of the King James Version
King James intended for the Authorized Version to replace the popular Geneva translation, but it took time for its influence to spread.
In the preface of the first edition, the translators stated that it was not their purpose to make a new translation but to make a good one better. They wanted to make the Word of God more and more known to the people. Before the KJV, Bibles were not readily available in churches. Printed Bibles were large and expensive, and many among the higher social classes wanted the language to remain complex and only available to the educated people of society.
Quality of Translation
The KJV is noted for its quality of translation and majesty of style. The translators were committed to producing an English Bible that would be a precise translation and not a paraphrase or approximate rendering. They were fully familiar with the original languages of the Bible and especially gifted in their use.
Because of their reverence for God and his Word, only a principle of utmost accuracy could be accepted. Appreciating the beauty of divine revelation, they disciplined their talents to render well-chosen English words of their time as well as a graceful, poetic, often musical, arrangement of language.
Enduring for Centuries
The Authorized Version, or King James Version, has been the standard English translation for English-speaking Protestants for almost four hundred years. It has had a profound influence on the literature of the past 300 years. The KJV is one of the most popular Bible translation with an estimated 1 billion published copies. Less than 200 original 1611 King James Bibles still exist today.
A Sample of the KJV
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
The King James Version is in the public domain in the United States.
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Two exhibition-events at the Royal Château of Amboise
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ROYAL CHÂTEAU OF AMBOISE
The great Leonardo da Vinci’s remains are buried in the heart of the Royal Château of Amboise, giving it doubly good reason to pay tribute to the artist through two exhibition-events.
In partnership with the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (French National Library), the Royal Château of Amboise will be holding a must-see exhibition titled “The Death of Leonardo da Vinci: the construction of a legend”. The exhibition, which will articulate around the painting called “The Death of Leonardo da Vinci” by François-Guillaume Ménageot, will serve a dual purpose. While highlighting Leonardo da Vinci’s enduring place in the Loire Valley, it will also reveal the hidden aspects of his friendship with King Francis I, made legendary by numerous writings. In parallel to the exhibition, the château has commissioned 5 paintings by the Italian graffiti artist RAVO. The works, inspired by details from the painting by François-Guillaume Ménageot, will be installed on the walls of the Tour Cavalière des Minimes.
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Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Don’t miss Sir Ian McKellen as King Lear
By Phil Willmott Friday, February 9 2018, 12:29 - New Shows
This one’s going to sell out fast so book very, very soon.
One of our greatest actors, Ian McKellen, will be reprising his performance as King Lear when the highly acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s masterpiece transfers to the Duke of York’s Theatre this Spring.
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KING LEAR is one of the most demanding roles in Shakespeare. The actor has to play a psychological journey from tyranny to madness over three intense hours. It’s the story of how a king from the Dark Ages divides up his kingdom between three daughters on his retirement, based on how much they declare they love him. When his youngest and beloved child refuses to exaggerate her love she’s banished and the eldest two begin to abuse him once he’s stripped of power. He’s thrown out into a storm and amidst a civil war between the women. During the chaos he loses his mind.
The dichotomy is that this huge role has been written for an actor of advancing years and yet it’s very taxing and requires physical fitness, a great memory for a huge amount of text and it’s emotionally draining. A tough ask for someone approaching the end of their career.
McKellen has proven he’s up to the task both at Chichester and in a relatively recent production for the RSC. But the clever actor has pin pointed 45 minutes in the middle of the play when he’s off stage and can enjoy a re-invigorating nap ready for the challenges of the final scenes!
He’s also very excited about recreating his performance in the relative intimacy of the Duke Of York’s Theatre which is to be made even smaller to ensure you catch every nuance. Previously he’s played Lear in huge theatres so he’s looking forward to the chance of showing what he can do up-close. This will be a particular treat as the text is so psychologically rich.
It’s one of those plays that speaks to all ages and changes its relevance to us all as we get older. If you’re young it’s about your relationship with your parents, in middle age it’s about losing the bond between your children and your status, in later years it’s about facing impending death.
I’ve directed it twice and it’s been a profound experience both times. It’s also a play that you can return to again and again as an artist and a spectator and still fine new dimensions and depths. It’s endlessly fascinating.
The better the actor playing the title role the more you’ll get from watching a performance and McKellen is as good as it gets. So don’t miss this opportunity to see an extraordinary performance at the heart of an extraordinary play.
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In 2015, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres owner Cameron Mackintosh proposed plans to purchase and redevelop the Ambassador’s Theatre, a redevelopment which would see the venue transformed into a flexible performance space fit to accommodate productions which needed a non-traditional stage.
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A new musical which sounds rather promising has been announced, premiering at The Other Palace, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s venue for trying out new shows.
It’s entitled MYTH: THE RISE AND FALL OF ORPHEUS and it’s to be directed by Arlene Phillips and has been written by Sam Cassidy.
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Jan 22 Is Being Greedy Still a Good Thing in Capitalism?
Angela Colley
feature, Do Well
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The 80s brought you slap bracelets, the Walkman, after school TV specials, big hair, even bigger shoulder pads, yuppies, and “The Greed Decade.”
In the 80s, Wall Street, run mostly by Ivy League econ majors buying and selling blue chip stocks in brown suits, suddenly became very, very cool. Firms hired young, ambitious, and often completely inexperienced brokers with the drive to make it big, fast. The stock market floor suddenly got loud, intense, and maybe for the first time, interesting. Suddenly, everyone (or at least every yuppie) with a bit of cash was looking toward trading as their way to get rich quick and live the good life.
Even President Regan embraced laissez-faire economics, a “Hey, man, whatever” approach to letting the economy do whatever it wanted with little government intervention. At the beginning of the decade, Regan sought to end a recession by doubling down on government expenditures. In 1982, he deregulated the banks. All told, Reaganomics added $1.86 trillion to the national debt, a 186 percent increase. But it proved that, even in the White House, money was in.
The country was entering an invention boom. In 1981, IBM launched the first personal computer. That same year, MTV hit the small screens with the first ever music video, “Video Killed the Radio Star.” By 1984, Apple would make its play for dominancy with the now infamous “1984”-inspired Super Bowl commercial. And Microsoft launched the first operating system in 1985. In many ways, the decade felt untouchable. The 80s were here to party hardy on rooftop decks in designer clothes (and often with a good heap of cocaine), and nothing could get to us.
As Haynes Johnson wrote in The Washington Post March 18, 1987:
“Not since the 1920s, a decade that these Teflon Years of the 1980s increasingly resemble, has the nation witnessed so much common celebration of greed and selfishness. Now, as then, the country has been encouraged to follow the example of big-deal operators, get-rich-quick schemers, inside traders, market manipulators, laissez-faire entrepreneurs in political and corporate life. Private gain has been accorded a higher value than public service. "Making it" has been the era's slogan.
Whether this decade ends with a sense of disillusionment similar to that experienced by Americans after the giddy boom of the Twenties turned into historic bust, forcing a painful re-examination of all institutions and national leaders, cannot be determined now.”
Spoiler alert: The giddy boom did come to an end. On Oct. 19, 1987, a mere seven months after Johnson’s article was published in The Post, the stock market collapsed—dropping 22.6 percent in a single day. By 1989, Regan’s banking deregulation had led to a savings and loan crisis. In between, dozens of Wall Street bigwigs were taken away in handcuffs, and a Methodist university down in Texas was embroiled in a bribe and cheat scheme that shed light on unethical practices in American’s colleges, or as Johnson put it, “much of the glow of the early 1980s has been dissipated by evidence of major scandals and pervasive mismanagement.”
But for many average working yuppies, the painful re-examination didn’t come. The nation was entrenched in a spend-and-consume culture. Young professionals dreamed of driving around in their luxury cars, talking on their brick car phones to their broker, while listening to the latest get-rich-quick self-help book on tape. Teens all over the nation dreamed of being a real California Valley Girl, hanging out at the mall food court every Saturday. As Gordon Gecko once famously quipped on the big screen (four months after the market crash):
“The point is, ladies and gentlemen that greed is—for lack of a better word—good. Greed is right. Greed works.”
But is it still?
Millennials, the young professionals of the day, for better or worse, are often described as two things: On one hand, the trophy generation, entitled and lazy. On the other, bleeding hearts, happy to throw their money away to any cause they see on social media. Millennials don’t care about building up a good nest egg, they all think they’re going to save the world. As the sharks on Shark Tank and marketers all over the globe clamber to add any charitable component to their product to grab their share of the millennial market, the old guard clings to the old ideas: greed is good, you can’t make money and do good, and millennials aren’t smart enough to put themselves first.
But many millennials (and younger Gen-Xers) came of age in the same era of consumption. Cartoons were designed solely to sell us toys and TV shows like “Beverly Hills 90210” sold us the idea of shopping as the key to happiness. Even as minimalism picks up steam, the majority of us still prefer to own stuff. Because frankly, sitting on a lawn chair in our otherwise empty living rooms, staring down into our bowl of ramen, contemplating the ice caps melting just isn’t that appealing.
We also care about our retirements and hope to actually have one of those one day. After graduating in the height of the recession, many millennials had to delay their entry into the workforce, and some may argue we understand the necessity of a solid retirement fund better than a generation starting their careers in relative prosperity and market security.
But we also came of age in what “The X-Files” once put as “when the EPA got teeth.” We witnessed corporate scandals, humanitarian crises, and environmental disasters. Sure, we watched OJ try to outrun the LAPD and Kelly not marry Brandon while downing Crystal Pepsi. But we also witnessed Enron embezzle pension funds, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the Bhutanese refugee crisis.
Today, young adults are still investing, they’re just investing differently. According to Morgan Stanley's Institute for Sustainable Investing's 2017 Sustainable Signals report, people in their 20s and 30s are twice as likely to invest in companies focusing on socially responsible investing, and nearly 85 percent of millennials say they’re interested in SRI. After all, more and more investors are putting their money in funds that look for companies with good environmental track records and worker-friendly corporate policies over what simply performed the best last quarter--and those funds are performing well. In 2017, many SRI funds outperformed the S&P 500.
For younger investors, the definition of personal financial growth and what it means to embrace greed is changing. Maybe if Gordon Gecko was taking Bud Fox under his wing today, the big topic at the (ahem) holiday party would be divesting from oil.
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Angela Colley's work has appeared on TheStreet, Huffington Post, MSN, Yahoo, and many other outlets. She's also on Twitter @angelancolley, where she shares pictures of her dogs and debates the best Simpsons meme.
Jan 23 The Unconventional 9-5: Blazing a Career Path Less Traveled
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River City: Season 6: Episode 65
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Solar Power: What’s on the horizon?
Toronto, February 24, 2010 – Cleantech industry leaders Deloitte and Ogilvy Renault, along with MaRS Discovery District, hosted the latest in the Cleantech in Canada seminar series today at MaRS. Industry experts shared their thoughts on key emerging opportunities for cleantech entrepreneurs, investors and government in the solar energy industry.
“Ontario is a hub for the Canadian solar industry and its prospects for continued growth are very promising. That’s particularly good news when you consider the economic shadow cast on the solar energy industry during the global economic crisis. In many parts of the world, there is an overcapacity, but Ontario is one of the bright spots,” says John Ruffolo, national leader of Deloitte’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry Group.
The Cleantech in Canada panel was moderated by Rick Sutin, Co-Chair of Ogilvy Renault’s Cleantech practice. This event was generously supported by Macquarie Capital Markets Canada and Centre for Environment of the University of Toronto. Panellists included:
Kerry Adler, President & Chief Executive Officer, SkyPower Limited
Paul Huebener, Managing Director, Macquarie Capital Markets Canada
Nick Morgan, VP Business Development, Morgan Solar Inc.
Scott Nichol, Founder, President and CTO, 6N Silicon Inc.
Prof. Ted Sargent, Ph.D, B.Sc. Eng., University of Toronto
“In Ontario, the Green Energy Act and its Feed-in Tariff program has already stimulated sizeable investment,” says Sutin. “This includes the recent proposed $7 billion deal between Ontario and Samsung to develop renewable energy projects, including the development of 500 megawatts of solar energy. The long-term prospects for solar continue to be strong.”
As Canada’s leading innovation centre, MaRS brings together leaders across a range of disciplines—in science, business and beyond—to help boost the success of emerging ventures and to stimulate a broader culture of innovation.
“The question is whether Canada will be a buyer or a seller of solar technology solutions in the global green economy. Canada is making that choice in real time,” says MaRS CEO Ilse Treurnicht. “Ontario has set the stage with its new green energy policy framework, and MaRS is excited about helping cleantech entrepreneurs play a big role.”
For additional news, resources and information regarding this event and upcoming seminars as well as other cleantech-related topics, visit our Cleantech in Canada Web site at www.cleantechincanada.com.
You can also follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/canadacleantech.
Deloitte, one of Canada’s leading professional services firms, provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through more than 7,700 people in 58 offices. Deloitte operates in Québec as Samson Bélair/Deloitte & Touche s.e.n.c.r.l. Deloitte & Touche LLP, an Ontario Limited Liability Partnership, is the Canadian member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and its member firms.
About Ogilvy Renault
Ogilvy Renault LLP is a full-service law firm with close to 450 lawyers and patent and trade-mark agents practising in the areas of business, litigation, intellectual property, and employment and labour. Ogilvy Renault has offices in Montréal, Ottawa, Québec, Toronto, and London (UK), and serves some of the largest and most successful corporations in Canada and in more than 120 countries worldwide. Find out more at www.ogilvyrenault.com.
MaRS Discovery District (www.marsdd.com) is a large scale, mission driven innovation centre located in Toronto and networked across Ontario, focused on building Canada’s next generation of technology companies. MaRS works closely with entrepreneurs to grow and scale their ventures into global market leaders in life sciences and health care, information, communications and digital media technologies, cleantech, advanced materials and engineering, as well as innovative social purpose business.
Robyn Matsumoto
Director, Marketing and Communications
rmatsumoto@deloitte.ca
Peter Zvanitajs
Ogilvy Renault
pzvanitajs@ogilvyrenault.com
Linda Quattrin
Director, Communications
MaRS Discovery District
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Loyola Medicine First in the Midwest to Offer New PET Scan for Prostate Cancer Patients
MAYWOOD, IL – Loyola Medicine is the first center in the Midwest to offer the first effective PET/CT scan for prostate cancer patients.
The scan can detect the location and extent of cancer that has recurred after initial treatment and spread to other parts of the body. Prostate PET/CT scans can detect cancer earlier than either CT scans alone or MRI scans.
“By knowing where the cancer has gone, we can provide more accurate, precise and selective treatment,” said Loyola nuclear physician Bital Savir-Baruch, MD.
After the initial diagnosis of prostate cancer, patients undergo treatment such as surgery, cryotherapy or radiation. In some cases the cancer may recur. Following treatment, men are monitored with periodic PSA blood tests. An increase in PSA levels indicates the cancer probably has recurred, but the location is often difficult to determine.
PET stands for positron emission tomography. It’s usually combined at the same time with CT (computerized tomography) to improve the quality of the images and help localize abnormalities. PET employs a slightly radioactive tracer drug that homes in on the targeted tissue. PET/CT scans work well for breast, lung, colon and other cancers, but until recently did not work well for prostate cancer because there were no effective tracer drugs for the disease. That changed on May 27, 2016, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new PET scan tracer drug specifically for prostate cancer.
The drug is a synthetic amino acid analog called Axumin™ (fluciclovine F-18). Attached to the amino acid is a radioactive tracer, fluorine-18. After Axumin is injected into the patient, the drug is taken up by prostate cancer cells. The fluorine-18 emits a small amount of energy in the form of gamma rays. The PET/CT scanner detects this energy, and a computer produces a detailed image.
Dr. Savir is among the first nuclear physicians in the country trained to read prostate cancer PET/CT scans employing the Axumin tracer drug. While doing research training and completing a nuclear medicine residency at Emory University, Dr. Savir was part of the research team that developed and conducted clinical trials that led to the FDA approval of Axumin.
Loyola is offering PET/CT scans to previously treated prostate cancer patients who have increasing PSA levels indicating their cancer may have recurred. Patients are scanned from their thighs to their eyes. Loyola’s first patient was scanned with Axumin on Aug. 18.
“We are delighted that we can now offer PET/CT scans to prostate cancer patients in order to improve the quality of their care,” said Robert Wagner, MD, medical director of nuclear medicine. Dr. Wagner is a professor and Dr. Savir is an assistant professor in the Department of Radiology of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Loyola Medicine offers a multidisciplinary team of internationally recognized physicians performing state-of-the-art nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. Such imaging is used to diagnose and assist in the management of cancer, heart disease and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging also is used to diagnose many other conditions, including gastrointestinal, lung, bone, kidney and endocrine disorders.
About Loyola Medicine and Trinity Health
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a quaternary care system based in the western suburbs of Chicago that includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital and convenient locations offering primary and specialty care services from 1,877 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, a certified comprehensive stroke center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its teaching affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. Gottlieb is a 247-licensed-bed community hospital in Melrose Park with 150 physician offices, an adult day care program, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care and the Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center at Melrose Park. MacNeal Hospital is a 374-bed teaching hospital in Berwyn with advanced inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical and psychiatric services, advanced diagnostics and treatments. MacNeal has a 12-bed acute rehabilitation unit, a 25-bed inpatient skilled nursing facility, and a 68-bed behavioral health program and community clinics. MacNeal has provided quality, patient-centered care to the near west suburbs since 1919.
Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic healthcare systems in the nation, serving diverse communities that include more than 30 million people across 22 states. Trinity Health includes 94 hospitals, as well as 109 continuing care locations that include PACE programs, senior living facilities and home care and hospice services. Its continuing care programs provide nearly 2.5 million visits annually. Based in Livonia, Mich., and with annual operating revenues of $18.3 billion and assets of $26.2 billion, the organization returns $1.1 billion to its communities annually in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. Trinity employs about 133,000 colleagues, including 7,800 employed physicians and clinicians. Committed to those who are poor and underserved in its communities, Trinity is known for its focus on the country's aging population. As a single, unified ministry, the organization is the innovator of Senior Emergency Departments, the largest not-for-profit provider of home health care services—ranked by number of visits—in the nation, as well as the nation’s leading provider of PACE (Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly) based on the number of available programs.
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North Korea Reduces Local Market Hours through Autumn Harvest Period
Authorities in North Korea are extending a policy limiting the hours of local markets to less than four hours per day under the guise of allowing time to mobilize the public for farm labor.
But sources say that the policy is really a government attempt to limit the public's access to information from the outside world.
The strategy forces people to shop quickly to get everything they need rather than sit around and discuss world affairs.
People are resentful, though, because the reduced hours limit their ability to earn a living in the market, sources say.
"The Central Committee [of the Korean Workers' Party] made the announcement that they will extend the restriction period, reversing the previous announcement that the restriction on the market hours to 4pm-7:30pm would last from May to July," a source from North Hamgyong province said in an interview with RFA's Korean Service.
"They extended the restriction period to the end of this year, and it will last through the 'fall battle' period," said the source.
The North Korean government applies military phrases to encourage its workers in several industries, including farming. The fall battle refers to the harvest. There are various other farm labor-related "battles" throughout the year, including the spring battle, which refers to planting season, and then the summer battles of maintaining the crops prior to harvest.
Though the government says the restrictions on market hours will now leave time for people to complete their farming work, many long for the days when the markets were open all day long.
"In the past, residents freely used the local markets from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., so they had no difficulty making a living. However, since last year [and up until May], the market was only open from 2 to 7:30 p.m. on order of the authorities," said the source.
The government further reduced the hours in May for the spring battle to the current 3.5 hour window.
"Since most residents make their living in the local markets, the markets' business hours are very important," the source said, adding that the government is really instituting the policy to keep its citizens in the dark.
"The Central Committee concluded [recently] that the local markets are the main channel for residents to obtain information from outside the country, so in May this year, they drastically reduced the market hours under the pretext of mobilization for farm work," the source said.
Restrictions in the open markets' operating hours are usually in place for the months in which the agricultural "battles" occur.
"Originally, only the month of May during the farm workers' mobilization period had limited hours. But they extended it to July, for the weed-control battle," said the source.
"[The residents] have been patient, though they have been having difficulties making a living with the [reduced] hours," the source said.
"They are resentful of the authorities' ruthless restrictions, saying that they can't be involved in a 'battle' when it is a struggle to even make a living," said the source.
"Rice prices in the market are rising, but it is more difficult to make money because they extended the restriction period once again," another source, also from North Hamgyong, told RFA.
"People are criticizing the Central Committee, saying that because they are rich they don't know the struggles of the poor," the second source said.
The second source explained that with increased food prices, people need more time to make enough money to buy the food they need.
"Because the market hours are being cut short, a lot of us have difficulty getting food, because we can't carry out business activities," said the second source.
"People complain, saying that if they extend the restriction period until the end of October when the fall battle ends, it means that they don't care if people starve to death," said the source, suggesting that people would struggle to toil at farm work with limited food supplies, even while harvesting crops.
"Every year, even though there are many battles including the battle of rice planting in the spring, the battle of weed control, the battle of mowing, and the battle of fall harvesting, there is nothing that benefits the people themselves," said the second source.
"The people are wondering what the government is so afraid of."
Reported by Jieun Kim for RFA's Korean Service. Translated by Leejin Jun. Written in English by Eugene Whong.
Copyright © 1998-2018, RFA. Published with the permission of Radio Free Asia, 2025 M St. NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20036
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University of Minnesota Medical Center is one of "100 Great Hospitals in America"
University of Minnesota Medical Center was honored for its commitment to medical and scientific breakthroughs.
University of Minnesota Medical Center.
May 30, 2014 | By Staff Writer
University of Minnesota Medical Center is among the most prominent, forward-thinking and focused health care facilities in the nation.
That's according to Becker's Hospital Review, which recently named us among the "100 Great Hospitals in America."
According to the publication, "Hospitals included on the list are home to many medical and scientific breakthroughs, provide best-in-class patient care and are stalwarts of their communities, serving as academic hubs or local mainstays."
The editorial team named its top 100 after researching, considering nominations and evaluating reputable hospital ranking sources, such as U.S. News & World Report, Truven Health Analytics' 100 Top Hospitals, Healthgrades, Magnet designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, The Leapfrog Group and several other resources.
Becker's Hospital Review is a monthly publication offering up-to-date business and legal news and analysis relating to hospitals and health systems.
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Hard working Hatchet: Bad Axe's Ryan Wehner earns 150th win
Mike Gallagher Tribune Sports Writer
Updated 5:52 pm EST, Thursday, February 7, 2019
Bad Axe def. Ubly
Photo: Paul P. Adams/Huron Daily Tribune
BAD AXE – Bad Axe's Ryan Wehner has achieved a milestone that not many high school wrestlers, even some of the best, achieve.
Wehner, a senior, picked up his 150th career victory Wednesday night, while leading his team to a district title.
"It feels like all the hard work in the offseason and the extra time on the mat has paid off," said Wehner. "It feels good, it feels good to spend it with my team and it was just a great night overall."
The achievement, which puts Wehner's career record at 150-30, was made even more sweeter because of the fact that he was able to do so in front of the hometown crowd.
"I knew coming into last week that I had to get four more to get to 149, making this 150," Wehner said. "I pretty much told myself, I need to win all week, or I'm not going to be able to do it on my home turf. It ended up working out just perfectly."
Wehner, who was wrestling in the 145-pound weight class Wednesday night, earned his 150th victory in impressive fashion, as he pinned his opponent in just seven seconds.
"He was wrestling a kid that was severely outmatched," said Bad Axe head coach Adam Hollingsworth. "It was nice to see him win with a pin like that, rather than getting his 150th win because somebody avoided wrestling him. Just to see him get the 150th win here at home, that's a big deal. That's what we were hoping for, that it would fall on a home meet and it did."
Since joining the wrestling team as a freshman, Wehner has earned at least 30 victories in each of his four seasons.
As a freshman, he burst onto the scene, with a 39-12 record, had a 30-9 record as a sophomore, then a 46-4 record as a junior and now, a 35-5 record this season.
"It says quite a lot," Hollingsworth said. "He missed out on a bit of his sophomore season because of a broken hand. To be able to come up with 150 wins after being out during his sophomore year, that's a big deal. He's still got a lot of wrestling left this season, so, he'll pick up a few more too."
Wehner's accomplishment wasn't lost on opposing coach Jim Becker, of Ubly.
"150 wins is pretty darn good," said Becker. "He's a tough kid and to get 150 wins in high school wrestling, there's not too many people who do that. 100 wins is an accomplishment. He's very deserving and he's one of the best around."
Wehner credits his consistent success on the mat to the competition that he has been able to practice with during his four years at Bad Axe.
"I would say a lot of that goes back to the mat partners always pushing me," Wehner said. "I've had a state champ to practice with, and state qualifiers to practice with. Ben McVey, Dylan Smith, Zach Jandereski, they all pushed me to where I am today and have always worked with me. This year,I'm a little light on drill partners, but they all do push me pretty tough."
Since beginning his career wrestling in the 119-pound weight class as a freshman, Wehner has moved to the 130-pound weight class as a sophomore, and then spent his junior and seniors wrestling in the 140-pound weight class.
"It was really just about hitting the weight room in the summer and getting my weight up," Wehner said. "I didn't really cut much the last two years, I've just been staying where I'm healthy. My freshman and sophomore year I cut a lot to get down to 119 and then junior year, I went 135 and had the best season of my career. That's when I decided to stay at the weight I'm healthiest at."
To go along with his hand injury as a sophomore, Wehner has had to deal with another issue this year in his quest for 150 wins.
"Ryan has had a lot of tournaments that we've gone to this year, where because he is seeded so high the first couple of rounds, he'll get a bye," Hollingsworth explained. "So, he's missing out on matches every Saturday and only ends up getting two or three matches on a Saturday. I'm glad he was still able to get to his 150th tonight."
Hollingsworth went on to explain what makes Wehner such a great wrestler.
"He's just got an energy level that hardly anybody else has," he said. "The elite wrestlers have that energy level and he's always got it. He can't go hard enough or long enough ever."
Dylan Smith, who was Wehner's teammate from 2015-17, and a state champion in 2017, is the last Hatchet wrestler to achieve 150 wins.
"That feels pretty good," Wehner said. "I think that we're two different wrestlers and if you ask me right now, I think he's a lot better than me. I might get there though, we'll see how the rest of the postseason goes."
"Bringing back a state championship is the goal now," he added. "That's the No. 1 goal right now."
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Great Books For 8 Year Old Boy
Hi, I’m Critical Carlos, and I want you to read books like I do! Reading is good for your. “I wonder why the tennis ball is happy to be hit?” asks 11-year-old Critical Kid. Good question! “I wonder.
Eight-year-old Snellville native Nicholas. During his segment, Buamah demonstrated what he knows best: vocabulary. He.
Does your 10-year old boy or girl in fifth grade need a good book? I’ve collected my best recommendations here and as I read and review books, I’ll continue to add all recommendations to this list. Use this age as a starting point. Each child is unique and will progress differently in their.
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Reviews of and essays about children's books from The New York Times. May 8, 2019 By Joshunda Sanders. New nonfiction books show the varied thoughts and experiences of boys facing peril — or just figuring out how to be themselves. These new takes on beloved old stories deliver empowered princesses and.
Looking for the best chapter books for 9-year old boys and girls in 4th grade? You’ll find everything you need here — all my top picks plus reviews. If you need harder books, go to my Best Books for 10-Year Olds. If you need easier books, go to my Best Books for 8-Year Olds. Also read: Gifts.
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip.It is Dickens’s second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens’s weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1.
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Dec 18, 2015 · The Piano Boy: This 10-year-old’s playing skills will shock you The son of Chennai-based music director Varshan, this pre-teen sensation’s skill on the piano is.
"Some of the best times our family has had have been cooking and then eating what we made. When it came time to write a new.
White roses and tea lights lined the front steps of a Springfield Gardens, Queens home where an 8-year-old boy was killed in a fire earlier this. drawings from Tighani’s classmates, as well as a.
Not just for little kids, picture books provide elementary-age children with meaningful illustrated stories that build background knowledge, improve vocabulary, teach valuable lessons, and inspire imagination.Try our favorite picture book selections for the 7- and 8-year-old crowd.
Most kids would do anything for their best friend and Dylan Siegel is no exception. The 8-year-old boy has raised $. Back when the boys were 6, Dylan wanted to help raise money to find a cure. His.
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Speaking the Evening News, Mr McWilliams said a personalised Roald Dahl Willy Wonka book for their son, Rhys, was among the gifts in two carrier bags stolen from his wife’s car boot. And the.
We’ve been reading Chapter Book Series for 8 to 12 Year Olds and we’ve found a lot of good ones! We have a new obsession here. Esme discovered Chapter Book Series and our lives are not quite the same anymore. If I’m not begging her to please put down her book and eat.
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An Arizona grandmother is accused of fatally shooting her twin 8-year-old grandsons before trying to kill. One neighbor told local station WDSU that both boys had special needs. “They were good.
A new children’s book by "Saved by the Bell’s" Tiffani Thiessen and illustrated by husband and actor Brady Smith was inspired by looking out the kitchen window. Smith was absently pushing their 3-year.
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Mom-of-five Lisa Bridger said she hasn’t worn a high-neck top or a dress for seven years because she’s been breastfeeding. When the story was published last summer, the mom was breastfeeding her.
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Composer Brian Keane Scores Three Sports Emmy Nominations
Composer Brian Keane has received three Sports Emmy nominations in the "Outstanding Music Composition/Direction/Lyrics" category. The 23rd Annual Sports
Composer Brian Keane has received three Sports Emmy nominations in the "Outstanding Music Composition/Direction/Lyrics" category. The 23rd Annual Sports Emmy Awards will take place Tuesday, April 23rd, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.
David Beld, director of the Sports Emmy Awards, reports that Keane's coup may be unprecedented. He secured two nods for his work on HBO documentaries, Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team and Shot Heard Around the World, the story of Bobby Thompson's unforgettable home run. His third nomination was for CBS's Pistol Pete: The Life and Times of Pete Maravich, which he co-wrote with Buckwheat Zydeco. "In my 11 years at the Emmy Awards, I can't recall any composer receiving all the nominations in a single category," Beld remarked. "I'd say the odds are stacked in Brian Keane's favor this year."
"Each of these projects was very special," Keane says. "It was tough to pick a favorite so I entered all three. It will be very interesting to see which way the Emmy committee goes."
Brian Keane has scored over 200 films during his diverse career including such memorable documentaries as Ric Burns's New York, The Donner Party and Long Journey Home: The Irish in America, a Grammy winner for Best Soundtrack. He has also scored several Emmy Award-winning sports documentaries including Babe Ruth and Spirit of the Games for HBO. Early in his career, he established himself as a prolific Grammy Award-winning record producer working with such artists as Linda Ronstadt, Pete Seeger and the London Symphony Orchestra. He has over three dozen Billboard chart-topping albums under his belt, including five Number One CDs and two Records of the Year. Keane's new studio, designed by architect John Storyk, is currently under construction on a 10.5 acre site in Sandy Hook, Conn.
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Flute, Saxophone, Clarinet, & Piano Teacher
Abby began her studies on the flute at age 12 in the small, rural community of Poplar Bluff, Missouri. After only a year of playing the flute, Abby was invited to begin private studies at Southeast Missouri State University with Paul Thompson. While studying with Mr.
Thompson, Abby’s technical and lyrical skills developed and allowed her to become competitive during her four years in high school. After increasing her proficiency on the flute, Abby also included piccolo in her studies. She competed at both the district and state levels for flute and piccolo, winning awards and positions in select ensembles with both instruments.
Since her acceptance into Belmont University’s School of Music, where she began her private studies with Dr. Carolyn Treybig, Abby has continued to excel at the flute. In the fall of 2012, as a freshman, Abby auditioned and obtained the principal position of the Belmont University Wind Ensemble and Assistant Principal/Piccolo position in the university’s premiere ensemble, the Belmont University Symphony Orchestra. Abby continued to hold the Principal position in the
Wind Ensemble and then held the Principal position in the Symphony Orchestra for two years.
Abby has also been a performer in the first and second annual Instrumental Honor Recitals at Belmont, was one of the first two Belmont students to be selected to perform a duet arrangement of Borne’s Carmen Fantasie with the Wind Ensemble, and the Vivaldi Concerto in C major for two flutes with the Belmont University Chamber Orchestra, in addition to being a finalist in the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2015 and 2016 concerto competitions. Abby had several private flute students in the Nashville area, in addition to the children’s choir she taught weekly.
She resides in Chandler, Arizona with her husband and cat. Abby is a May 2016 graduate of Belmont University, with an undergraduate degree in Music Education with an emphasis in Flute Performance. She is currently studying with Dr. Elizabeth Buck at Arizona State University, pursuing a Master of Music in Flute Performance. Abby has been instructing at Music Makers since summer, 2016.
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Natasha Mando receives national award
Natasha Mando, a Mohawk College student in the Practical Nursing program, has been named a 2018 Work-Integrated Learning Student of the Year by Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning Canada (CEWIL Canada).
Four students from across Canada earned top recognition in different categories for bringing their academic studies to life and making an impact in their workplaces, on their campuses and with their lives. Natasha was named Student of the Year in the Other Forms of Work-Integrated Learning at the College level.
According to her nominator, Natasha “is a determined student who has been successful in her Practical Nursing program at Mohawk College because of her drive and dedication.” Although Natasha faced several obstacles as a deaf student during her clinical placements, her drive and dedication made her step outside of her comfort zone to provide the best care for her patients. Described as a trailblazer, Natasha researched and acquired assistive technologies, including a stethoscope that is used by hearing-impaired clinicians that displays the sound of a patient’s heart and lungs visually. Each clinical placement was equally impactful for Natasha as it was for her preceptors and colleagues, many who learned American Sign Language and new clinical techniques as a way to make her feel welcomed and included.
Other winners were Lawrence Young, Sheridan College (Co-operative Education at the College level), Nathan Duarte, University of Waterloo (Co-operative Education at the University level) and Kira Cheeseborough, Thompson Rivers University (Other Forms of Work-Integrated Learning at the University level).
Co-op/work-integrated learning offices across Canada will be celebrating these students’ achievements and other co-op/work-integrated learning initiatives during National Co-op and WIL Week, March 18-22, 2019.
Bill Steinburg
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bill.steinburg@mohawkcollege.ca
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The Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Lecture Series brings highly-regarded scholars to Memorial University. Established as part of the Henrietta Harvey Endowment Fund in 1964, the series has provided our faculty, students and public with tremendous insight and the opportunity to share knowledge.
Mrs. Henrietta Harvey (1878-1964) left a significant gift to Memorial University. Her bequest funds continue to enrich our community. Each year, this fund allows Memorial to bring in three or four distinguished lecturers not only to speak to the larger community about issues of interest and importance, but also to spend time in discussion with faculty, students and staff.
Nomination Call
Dr. Kim TallBear, Sponsored by the Department of Gender Studies, March 7, 2019
Past Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Lecturers
Dr. Robert Orsi, Sponsored by Department of Religious Studies, October 5, 7 p.m.
Dr. Riley E Dunlap, Oklahoma State University, Sponsored by Department of Sociology, October 1, 2015
Dr. Gavin Bridge, Durham University. Sponsored by Department of Geography - January 15, 2015
Dr. Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania. Sponsored by Department of Philosophy - September 29, 2014
Dr. Henry Glassie, Indiana University. Sponsored by Department of Folklore - October 3, 2013
Dr. Frederick Newmeyer, University of Washington. Sponsored by Department of Linguistics - February 26, 2013
Dr. Sandra Whitworth, York University. Sponsored by Departments of Political Science and Gender Studies - October 3, 2012
Dr. Lutgarde Vandeput,Director of the British Institute, Ankara, Turkey. Sponsored by the Department of Classics - October 5, 2011
Dr. Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham University. Sponsored by Department of History - October 20, 2011
Dr. Nigel Waters, George Mason University. Sponsored by Department of Geography - September 29, 2010
Dr. Bonnie McCay, Rutgers University. Sponsored by Department of Gender Studies and Department of Sociology.
Dr. Marek Zvelebil, University of Sheffield. Sponsored by Department of Archaeology and Department of Anthropology.
Dr. Gianfranco Pasquino, University of Bologna and Johns Hopkins University. Sponsored by Department of Political Science
Dr. Mathieu Marion, Université du Quebec à Montréal.Sponsored by Department of Philosophy
Who was Henrietta Harvey?
Mrs. Henrietta Harvey was a generous benefactress of Memorial University. Born in Nova Scotia in 1878, she first visited St. John's in 1905, accompanied by her mother. The following year she married John Harvey, a St. John's businessman and an important figure in the advancement of education and the fight against tuberculosis in Newfoundland. Mrs. Harvey was widowed in 1920.
When Mrs. Harvey died in 1964, she left a significant bequest to Memorial University. Among the properties were two letters from Rudyard Kipling (she and the Kiplings were warm friends). Memorial University presented these to the University of Dalhousie library, which already had an extensive Kipling collection.
The generous fund which Mrs. Harvey left to the university has been used, in accordance with her wishes, for the general enrichment of University activities in ways which would not otherwise be possible. It was decided that the benefaction would used be for the endowment of Chairs, to cover the costs of special visiting professors, and for the organization of special conferences and lectures.
While her funds were not used for buildings, Memorial's leadership felt it would be fitting to commemorat e her gift in a tangible way. In 1970, at a special ceremony honouring Harvey, Memorial University Library was officially named the Henrietta Harvey Library. This library was replaced by a new one named in honour of Queen Elizabeth II, which opened in 1982. Today, the Mathematics Building on our campus bears Mrs. Harvey's name.
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Superman: From Cleveland to Krypton
The Man of Steel's Jewish roots.
By Simcha Weinstein
Jews in Comic Books
Jewish-American Fiction in the 21st Century
Jewish Literature
Coming over from the old country, changing his name like that. Clark Kent, only a Jew would pick a name like that for himself. —The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the two ordinary young men who created an extraordinary hero, lived 12 blocks apart from each other in Cleveland. The pair collaborated on stories for their high school newspaper and shared a passion for science fiction and pulp comics. It was the 1930s, and comic book publishing was in its infancy. Like many young Jews with artistic aspirations, Siegel and Shuster yearned to break into this fledgling industry. Comic book publishers actively hired Jews, who were largely excluded from more “legitimate” illustration work.
The 1930s were also, arguably, the most anti-Semitic period in American history. Nazi sympathizer Fritz Kuhn of the German-American Bund led legions of rabid followers on marches through many cities, including Siegel and Shuster’s hometown. Radio superstar Father Charles E. Coughlin of the pro-fascist Christian Front was one of the nation’s most powerful men. And Ivy League colleges kept the number of Jewish students to a minimum, while country clubs and even entire neighborhoods barred Jews altogether.
So Siegel and Shuster began submitting treatments under the pseudonym Bernard J. Kenton, just to be on the safe side. Throughout the Great Depression, the two boys scraped together every penny they could just to cover postage. Shuster sketched on cheap brown wrapping paper.
From these humble beginnings, Shuster and Siegel carved out a character that embodied their adolescent frustrations, served as a mouthpiece of the oppressed, and became an American icon. Many years later, Jerry Siegel recalled the birth of Superman:
The story would begin with you as a child on far-off planet Krypton. Like the others of that world, you had super-powers. The child’s scientist-father was mocked and denounced by the Science Council. They did not believe his claim that Krypton would soon explode from internal stresses. Convinced that his prediction was valid, the boy’s father had been constructing a model rocket ship. As the planet began to perish, the baby’s parents knew its end was close. There was not space enough for three people in the small model craft. They put the baby into it. The mother chose to remain on the doomed planet with the man she loved, and die with him. Tearfully, hoping that their baby boy would survive, they launched the craft toward the planet Earth. Shortly, Krypton exploded and its millions of inhabitants were destroyed.
The idea of for this new superhero came to them in 1934. It would take another four years before Superman would be transformed from a feverish dream to a full-fledged hero. In 1938, Detective Comics, Inc., was looking for a character to launch its new magazine, Action Comics. They paid young Siegel and Shuster $130 for the first 13 pages of Superman. Action Comics #1 came out in June of that year. The issue sold out, and a star was drawn.
In a brilliant stroke, Shuster and Siegel gave their superhuman hero a secret identity, that of an all-too human reporter, the meekly mannered Clark Kent. Practically speaking, this notion of “double identity” allowed for almost endless storyline twists and thematic depth. On another level, it added considerably to the “mythology” that would eventually accrue around this fictional crime fighter. Clark’s shyness undermines his courtship of his co-worker, the gutsy Lois Lane. Siegel and Shuster later admitted that the shy Clark struggling for a date reflected their own social challenges.
Superman #1 was published in the summer of 1939. Across the Atlantic, in Germany, Adolph Hitler was exploiting his nation’s economic and social ills by scapegoating Jews. Living in a country that had stripped them of their citizenship yet perversely obstructed their exit, German Jews resorted to desperate measures. Just as the baby Superman was sent away from Krypton to avoid the mass destruction of his people, many Jewish children were sent on the Kindertransports to seek safety with families in England.
After the attacks on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, America entered World War II, and so did Superman. In Siegel and Shuster’s comic, Clark Kent tries to enlist in the Armed Forces, but he fails the routine medical examination,. Clark accidentally uses his X-ray vision to read the next room’s eye chart. Distraught, he muses, “I’ve got the most perfect body the world has ever known, and through a sad trick of fate, the army turns me down as hopeless!” This feeling of desperation and despondency was felt across the country. As news of the Nazis’ murderous Holocaust plan emerged, American Jews felt utterly powerless to help their European brethren.
Word of Superman and his ethnic undertones did not escape the enemy’s notice in real life. Josef Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, denounced Superman as a Jew. In April 1940, Das Schwarze Korps, the weekly newspaper of the Nazi S.S., attacked the comic and its Jewish writers:
Jerry Siegel, an intellectually and physically circumcised chap who has his headquarters in New York. . . The inventive Israelite named this pleasant guy with an overdeveloped body and underdeveloped mind “Superman..
Here were Nazis wringing their hands over a cartoon character cooked up by a couple of boys across the sea. Yet this ideologically driven rant actually touched on something vital–the importance of Shuster and Siegel’s Jewish heritage.
Superman #1 begins with a brief synopsis of the hero’s escape from Krypton, which draws heavily on Jewish sources. Superman’s journey closely reflects the story of Moses. Like the people of Krypton who faced total annihilation, the Israelites of biblical Egypt faced the murder of their male offspring. To ensure her son’s survival, Jochebed places Moses in a reed basket and sets him afloat on the Nile. Her desperate decision is clearly echoed by Superman’s father, Jor-El, who launches the little rocket ship containing his son into outer space.
Moses and Superman are eventually discovered and raised in foreign cultures. Baby Moses is found by Batya, the daughter of Pharaoh, and raised in the royal palace. Superman is found by Jonathan and Martha Kent in a Midwestern cornfield and given the name Clark. From the onset, both Batya and the Kents realize that these foundling boys are extraordinary. Superman leads a double life as the stuttering, spectacle-wearing reporter whose true identity no one suspects. In the same way, for his own safety, Moses kept his Israelite roots hidden for a time.
Superman’s original name on Krypton also reveals biblical underpinnings. Superman is named Kal-El and his father Jor-El. The suffix “El” is one of the ancient names for God, used throughout the Bible. It is also found in the names of great prophets like Samuel and Daniel and angels such as Michael and Gabriel. We may never know whether Siegel and Shuster were aware of these precise Hebrew translations; nevertheless, the name could not be more apt.
While the invincible Superman may have stood the test of time, the lives of his creators were not as triumphant. From the beginning, Siegel and Shuster were so busy they had to hire assistants, but while DC Comics was making millions, Superman’s creators weren’t sharing the wealth. The two men were paid a salary, but their initial payment back in 1938 had included all rights. They had sold their percentage of a goldmine for $130 and were eventually fired from their own creation.
Lawsuits followed. None were successful. Siegel and Shuster tried and failed to create new characters. Their names were familiar only to comic book aficionados. Then, rumors began to circulate in the early 1970s that a big budget Superman movie was in the works. DC Comics received $3 million for the rights to film Superman. Once again, Siegel and Shuster were left out of the equation.
This time, the two men tried a new approach. They bypassed their lawyers and went straight to the media. Newspapers across the world picked up the story of Siegel and Shuster, the poor boys who’d created an American icon, made DC Comics rich — and were now penniless and forgotten. That Shuster was now going blind added to the story’s poignancy.
Legally, DC Comics owed Siegel and Shuster nothing, but bad publicity was costing the company dearly. A financial settlement was reached, and the names “Siegel and Shuster” appeared in Superman comics once more. In 2006, Superman returned to the big screen, and not a moment too soon–in today’s world, we need a hero more than ever.
One of the most beloved writers of Yiddish literature, his work inspired the hit musical "Fiddler on the Roof."
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You don't have to know Hebrew to enjoy some of Israel's best books.
Jews in the Civil Rights Movement
Nowhere did Jews identify themselves more forthrightly with the liberal avant-garde than in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
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Video as pastor makes congregation drink petrol in South Africa!
South African Pastor pastor makes congregation drink petrol in alarming video.
Lesego Daniel of Rabboni Center Ministries, that has become well-known not just in South Africa but around the world for making his congregation eat grass, has re-surfaced again, this time, the pastor is making his church members drink petrol after he turned it into pineapple juice. During a Sunday service,Daniel allegedly prayed for a bottle containing petrol to be turned to pineapple juice.
In the video below which starts with a note of caution warning people not to try this at home unless they can turn water into wine, members of Pastor Lesego’s congregation are seen drinking what the pastor claims is gasoline claiming it tastes sweet, like pineapple juice and Iron Brew. They are seen calling out desperately to have a drink as the pastor continues to preach and encourage them. There are some nasty side affects of consuming petrol.
Vomiting and diarrhea are the worst next to the horrible taste in your mouth. According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), Petrol is toxic if ingested in moderate quantities. Ingestion of even small amounts (5 to 10 ml) of it may cause a burning sensation in the mouth, throat, and chest, and intense irritation and burning in the gastrointestinal tract with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Ingestion of 27 – 40 nil of petrol will result in more serious symptoms including central nervous system depression, headache, dizziness, drowsiness, fever, and transient liver damage.
Severe intoxication may cause unconsciousness and comma or convulsions with seizures. Fatal dose estimate for the average adult range from 115-180 ml to 470 ml, but death has been reported at a dose as low as 13 ml. The fatal dose for children is 13 to 20 nil. It is even more hazardous if aspirated into the lungs following regurgitation or belching. Once in the lungs, even small amounts may cause severe chemical pneumonitis, and death from lung insufficiency. Gasoline vapor is considered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be a human carcinogen (with 68 incidences in 1986), and is suspected of causing various other chronic effects. In addition, gasoline vapor contains benzene, a group of human carcinogens which was estimated to cause 155 cancer incidences in 1986. Gasoline’s threshold limit value (TLV) of 300 ppm and short-term exposure limit (STEL) of 500 ppm were set by EPA at least in part to protect against the cumulative toxic effects of benzene. ” Petrol consumption leads to dizziness, extreme fatigue, convulsions, general body weakness and unconsciousness, which members of the congregation appear to display in the video.
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Privacy alert - The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV
Sunday, March 25, 2012 by: J. D. Heyes
Tags: CIA, television, surveillance
https://www.naturalnews.com/035355_CIA_television_surveillance.html
(NaturalNews) Anytime you download a movie from Netflix to your television or turn on an Internet-based radio, you could be alerting people who you don't want or need watching you.
According to the Central Intelligence Agency, the organization says spies won't have to plant bugs in homes, businesses or other places where they want to spy because of coming advances in computer and Internet technology. Specifically, CIA Director David Petraeus, one-time commander of the Iraq and Afghanistan war theaters, says new apps and the rise of "connected" devices means people, essentially, will be bugging their own homes.
The CIA says it is very possible the agency and others will be able to "read" these and other gadgets from outside the places they want to monitor via the Internet and perhaps even with radio waves outside your home.
Nowadays, everything can be controlled by an app - your home security system, a clock radio, remote controls, the lighting in your kitchen. And, according to Wired magazine's online "Danger Zone" blog, it's going to get better - or worse, depending on your point of view. Computer-chip maker ARM recently unveiled low-powered, cheaper chips which can and will be used in virtually everything, including refrigerators, doorbells and ovens.
'Transformational'
The resulting flood of app-controlled devices will be able to be easily read and even manipulated and controlled, Petraeus said, adding that the technology will allow agents to spy without having to plant bugs, breaking or entering or engaging in other risky (or illegal?) behavior. Spies, instead, will simply monitor activity through existing apps in use by the subject.
"Transformational is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies," Petraeus said in comments made to a venture capital firm looking at new technologies that could transform previously dumb appliances into an interconnected "Internet of things."
"Particularly to their effect on clandestine tradecraft. Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing," he said, "the latter now going to cloud computing, in many areas greater and greater supercomputing, and, ultimately, heading to quantum computing."
He acknowledged that these devices and the technology to use them to spy "change our notions of secrecy" and triggers a rethink of "our notions of identity and secrecy."
'Mapping' our lives?
Those like Petraeus who are looking at the future say they believe someday such devices will be able to tell what modes of operation they are in at all times, and that they will be able to be mapped as efficiently as Google Maps charts the world right now. All of the devices that could be made into these so-called smart gadgets would become a wealth of information to spies if you are a "person of interest" - or not, critics contend. The advent of so-called smart homes would mean occupants would be continually sending out specific, geolocated information that spies can intercept in real time.
As you might expect, though, such technology has already alarmed privacy advocates. Already groups such as the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) have filed suit against the CIA and other government agencies for allegedly using social media networks to spy on people.
"Social-networking sites are becoming a part of the way we communicate every day and everyone thinks they are sharing information [on the sites] with just their friends," Shane Witnov, a law student who worked on the case in 2009 on behalf of the EFF by the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California Berkeley School of Law. "Governments are using the sites but not in the way [citizens] expect when they sign up."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10407224-83.html
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