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Myth and Meaning
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EventsMargaret Mikkelborg2017-01-17T13:51:28-04:00
Women’s Relational Psychotherapy Group
What Is It? You are invited to join a very unique women’s relational psychotherapy group that will meet once a month for a full day, over a period of 8 months. The purpose will be to explore relationships issues of all kinds (spouses, partners, work, children, other) using psychodrama, focusing techniques, breath work, dream work, and guided meditation. You will be asked to commit to the full 8 months in the interest of creating a solid on-going support group and a strong transformational container. Participants will have a preliminary interview to determine suitability for this type of work.
Meeting one Saturday a month for 8 months:
November 2015 – June 2016 (see dates below)
Hincks- Dellcrest Centre, 114 Maitland St., Toronto
$1600 for 8 months – (two installments are possible)
Early Bird Registration:
$1535 (if paid in full by October 21st)
Sign Up Early – Space is Limited
Contact the Group Leaders to register or for more information
Margaret Mikkelborg, M.A. RP is a Registered Psychotherapist and has been in private practice for over 25 years. She has long been deeply involved in the study and practice of Jungian thought and dream analysis combined with a strong orientation to the body-mind connection. She has a M.A. in Psychology in which she focused on Jungian and archetypal psychology. Her other credentials include: Focusing Trainer, and Certified Yoga Teacher. She has been a Clinical Member of the Ont. Society of Psychotherapists since 1996 and is currently serving on their board as Chair of PR. She is also an associate consultant at www.management-transitions.com. She has a wide range of experience working with individuals, couples and groups. Contact Margaret
Pat Rayman, M.Ed., RP is a Registered Psychotherapist, Certified Associate Director of Psychodrama, Clinical Member and Past President, Ontario Society of Psychotherapists. Pat is a seasoned psychotherapist in private practice in Toronto. She has had in-depth training in a range of psychotherapeutic theories and practices. These include psychodrama, family therapy, narrative and cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma treatment, self psychology and relational psychotherapy. She has extensive clinical experience working with groups, couples, and individuals, as well as providing training and supervision for therapists. Contact her at patrayman@rogers.com (416-588-3662).
Dates: Nov. 14/15, Dec.5/15, Jan. 23/16, Feb.13/16, Mar 19/16, Apr. 16/16, May 14/16, June 4/16
Photos by Peter Buchanan and iStock
Video & Portrait by Lika Severin
Avenue Rd. & Davenport, Toronto, ON
218 Bayfield St. Barrie, ON
Copyright 2015 Margaret Mikkelborg | All Rights Reserved
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An illustration of what a Mars colony could look like. Shutterstock
As Temperatures Heat Up, Cities Need to Keep People Safe
By Emma Coleman
Lessons from early American colonies might provide best practices and cautionary lessons for future settlements on other planets.
As both private companies and governments around the world inch closer to the possibility of creating human settlements on other planets, some are beginning to wonder what the makeup of those settlements will look like—and, more specifically, what kind of government those first intrepid explorers could create.
When considering how to structure society on Mars or elsewhere, Craig Calhoun, a professor of social sciences at Arizona State University, offered a few possibilities. “Are space communities to be modeled on idealized small towns?” he asked. “Or on resettlement camps for refugees? Or mining camps with overwhelmingly male populations that do hard labor?”
The possible self sufficiency of those space communities will have a large impact on what government looks like, Calhoun said at an event held this week by the JustSpace Alliance and Future Tense, a project that explores emerging technologies. And just because the communities are self sufficient, doesn’t mean they’ll be utopias. “It’s a red herring to say ‘space is empty, therefore there won’t be any issues of dominance or exploitation.’ Europeans brought slaves to America, and the same thing can happen again analogously in space. The potential for forced migration and labor are large,” he said.
Calhoun’s fears over the potential for space communities that are plagued by inequality or other social problems are partially based in historical examples from the founding of American colonies. Russell Shorto, a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, illustrated the parallels between the founding of New Netherland, which in the 1600s formed the basis of modern New York City, and future space settlements. “North America for [early explorers] might as well have been space,” he said. “There was a sense that it didn’t matter what people did. Laws and morals didn’t necessarily have to apply over there.”
New Netherland may be a particularly apt comparison to a Mars colony because it was originally founded under the auspices of a corporation, much as a company like SpaceX may very well be the first to create a new settlement in space. The residents of New Netherland eventually petitioned the government of the Netherlands to take a stake in the government of North America when they felt they had no say in the direction of the colony.
“Nation states had ceded governments to corporations,” Shorto said. “I don’t know where that behavior would take us in the limitlessness of space.”
One way to combat a do-over of the profound flaws of the colonial experience would be to think about government early on, said Bina Venkataraman, the director of global policy initiatives at the Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT. “When we imagine space settlements right now, we see a lot of examples of the infrastructure, how people are going to grow food and breathe,” she said. “All of that is important from an engineering point of view, but we have to include the issues of governance in that vision as well.”
The structure of any government would likely be determined by why people leave Earth in the first place, she said. “Is leaving an escape for the elite or is it an eviction for people who can no longer use the resources on earth?” she asked. Factors like that could determine how much public space is created in other worldly settlements, or how property rights are set.
Space settlements would likely be part of a larger international system that answers some of these questions. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 has already stipulated that no nation can establish sovereignty on any celestial body. But while territory can’t be officially claimed, the U.S. has pushed to allow companies greater rights in space. The Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015, designed to encourage companies to fund expensive space exploration missions, granted corporations the rights to objects they obtained in space, potentially opening the door to intergalactic mining.
The issues that arise from allowing mining in areas seen as international common space have already been shown here on Earth on the continent of Antarctica. Unlike other similarly barren parts of the world, Antarctica has no native population, and is not governed by any particular country, so standards there are largely set by international agreements.
Officially, under the Antarctic Treaty of 1961, the continent is a scientific preserve. Though seven countries have territorial claims, some of them overlapping, other countries do not recognize these claims, and any attempts to establish rights of sovereignty or conduct military activity are technically banned. Prospecting for minerals and drilling for oil are also banned, but the 54 states that have ratified the treaty will have to re-agree to these terms in 2048, when the protocol is up for renewal.
Before that issue comes before an international vote, though, military expansion on the continent by Chile and Argentina have some scientists worried the treaty is losing its consensus support, possibly leading to a physical or diplomatic war for control of Antarctica.
A scenario like that might be less likely to play out in space, simply because few countries have the resources to send government officials or military personnel there. But whatever settlement arises in space—if one ever does—will face local governments challenges entirely unique to their conditions.
Alex MacDonald, a senior economic advisor for NASA, said that the first local governments in space may struggle to impose control because they didn’t fund their arrival there. “We want these settlements to have autonomy, but they’ve probably been sent there by an entity that has a motive for sending them there,” he said. “That will be a challenge.”
Calhoun, expanding on the authority that local governments could seek in space, was more worried about the possibility of disagreements of residents within a particular settlement, which would force local governments to create systems to allow residents to migrate between different space communities. “Local governments will have to confront a difficult degree of enclosure,” he said. “There’s always somebody who will want to go elsewhere. How to deal with that will be a big question for the governments.”
Emma Coleman is the assistant editor for Route Fifty.
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These Police Can't Use Radar and Changing That Could Be an Uphill Battle
Similar bills have passed the Senate in recent years but languished before House committees. Shutterstock
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By Kate Elizabeth Queram,
Staff Correspondent
By Kate Elizabeth Queram
| July 3, 2019
Pennsylvania is the only state in the country where local police departments can't use speed-detecting radar. Multiple bills aim to give them access.
In Pennsylvania, local police officers carry firearms but aren’t allowed to use radar guns. Lawmakers there are trying to change that, despite repeated failures in recent years.
“For the past three or four legislative sessions we’ve been trying to get it going,” said Joe Regan, chairman of the legislative committee for the Pennsylvania Fraternal Order of Police. “Last year was the closest we got. At the end, it just seems like the legislators aren’t interested in bringing it up, and it peters out.”
The local radar ban—the only one in the country—has been in place since 1961, when state police in Pennsylvania first began using the devices. The exclusion came largely from fears that small-town police departments would use radar to set up speed traps to drum up additional revenue. Money is still a sticking point for supporters of the ban, who say that radar is prone to errors that can cause drivers to get speeding tickets they don’t deserve.
“RADAR should be banned in Pennsylvania and not extended to municipal police,” Tom McCarey, a member of the state chapter of the National Motorists Association, wrote in an April op-ed for PennLive. “There is no epidemic crisis of speeding, only an epidemic crisis of highway engineering malpractice allowing well meaning but misinformed politicians to seek more and more money from safe drivers.”
But proponents of the measure say it’s simply about safety—for drivers and residents, but also for police officers on the road.
“It’s not about the revenue,” Regan said. “It’s about the safety of the officers, and it’s about using a tool that’s accurate.”
Kept from using radar guns, local police in Pennsylvania rely mainly on stopwatches and a laser timing system known as ENRADD. Both are functional, Regan said, but radar is more accurate and safer to deploy in heavily trafficked areas because it does not require an officer to exit the patrol car.
State lawmakers have introduced legislation to reverse the radar ban in at least two recent legislative sessions. Both bills passed the Senate and then languished before a House committee, ultimately dying due to lack of action before the conclusion of the session.
This year’s iteration, sponsored by state Sen. Mario Scavello, passed the Senate 49-1 last month. As written, the bill requires municipalities to adopt an ordinance authorizing the use of radar by their police departments, establishes training standards, and caps the amount of money that a city, town or county can keep from fines generated by speeding tickets (20 percent of the overall budget).
Scavello, a Republican, told The Morning Call he would spend the summer contacting his colleagues in the House to give the bill a better chance of passing.
His is one of several radar proposals making its way through the legislature, including a House bill that would establish a six-year pilot program for accredited local and municipal police departments.
Because of the multiple proposals, and the amount of time left before the legislature adjourns in December, Regan said he’s confident that some form of a radar bill will pass this time.
“We’ve been asking about this for many years, and I just tell our active police officers to tell their legislators that it’s important,” he said. “The good part about this is that it’s early in the session now, so we’re going to see what we can do as far as lobbying to move local police radar through.”
Kate Elizabeth Queram is a Staff Correspondent for Route Fifty and is based in Washington, D.C.
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Norman Ackroyd RA
© Eamonn McCabe
My studio life: Norman Ackroyd
By Tom Jeffreys
Published 1 November 2013
Norman Ackroyd RA has been working from a former leather factory in Bermondsey for 30 years, where he has a printing press and an etching press.
Norman Ackroyd RA is known for his aquatint work. Having trained in Leeds, he went on to the Royal College of Art in London and lived in the United States for a time before returning to London to take up the post of Professor of Etching at the University of the Arts in 1994.
In the 1980s Ackroyd emerged as a landscape artist, creating works that range from minimalist, nearly abstract impressions, to detailed images. His subject is the ragged landscape, with traces of human habitation, though the human figure rarely enters his work.
In 2013, Ackroyd was featured in the BBC series What do artists do all day?
“I’ve been in this studio in a former leather warehouse in Bermondsey for 30 years now. The area has changed a lot in that time – it was very desolate when I moved here with a three year-old and a one year-old.”
“I live on the top two floors, which is also where I do my watercolours. Oil painting and etching are all done here on the first two floors.”
"Probably the best etching press in Europe"
“This large printing press on the ground floor dates from around 1900. There was no expense spared building this machine. It took Welsch, the firm that Whistler used for his copperplate prints, two years to make. Later, it was fixed up by the artist Merlyn Evans, who died without leaving a will, and it was then offered to me in 1975. It’s probably the best etching press in Europe and it’s an absolute delight to be able to work with it.”
A good luck charm
“The little figure on top of the press was brought back from the Congo by a girlfriend in the 1970s. It’s a good luck charm. I’d only just bought the press and it’s been there now for nearly 40 years.”
Mixing pigments
“On the plate here is a mix of saturated sugar with black pigment. Then a film of acid-resistant wax is added. It’s a mix of beeswax, bitumen and resin.”
Order among chaos
“Cleanliness is important, believe it or not!”
“Here are some pieces I’m working on at the moment. In the centre is Thirsk Hall up in Yorkshire. It’s for a wedding invitation.”
Former glories
“My assistant Niamh does all the letterpressing, which we do in-house on this small screwdown press. The cricket balls on the shelf each represent a five-fer. I played for the Private Eye XI from 1973 to 2003, and took about 35 five-fers in total. My best was a nine-fer – but I got slower and slower as I got older and then finally stopped.”
Golf of course
“As well as cricket I also love golf. I actually practice my putting a fair bit here in the studio. My favourite course is Lahinch – it’s a wonderful, old-fashioned golf course, with mad holes. It’s like going back in time to the 1890s.”
Rhyme and reason
“These are a few lines of Milton on the staircase. I have a huge poetry library upstairs and I know and work with a lot of poets. People like Seamus Heaney, Douglas Dunn, Bernard O‘Donoghue. I’ve done poetry readings at the Bodleian Library in Oxford too.”
"Traces of habitation"
“The pins in this map represent places I’ve been to and produced work. The big pins are where I’ve done full sets – places like St Kilda, Shetland, and Orkney. What interests me is when people have lived there – I like those traces of habitation. When I go on trips I charter a boat with a few people – the likes of Ian Ritchie, Chris Frayling and his wife Helen, Robert Macfarlane… I love places like the Flannan Islands, High Island, which is just south of Inishboffin (it’s owned by poet Richard Murphy) and the Shiant Isles. They’re owned by Adam Nicholson – he’s a poet too.”
The pubs of Whitby
“This year I’m doing the North Yorkshire coast. So I’ll head to Whitby, visit some of the pubs, and talk to the boatmen. You want a local skipper who really knows how to land on certain islands. Then you find out how much they earn in a week and you’ve got to match it. You also need a good young mate who’ll pull you out out of the water when you fall in!”
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Group home closures and other chaos for disabled adults in Illinois
By Leslie RenkenGateHouse Media Illinois
PEORIA — About two weeks before the corporate caregivers of 45 developmentally disabled adults announced they were leaving Peoria, Jean Henning started receiving emergency calls from her 24-year-old daughter Kaitlyn, who was living in a group home in Peoria.
“Over Labor Day weekend all of a sudden we’re getting panic calls from Kaitlyn,” said Henning, who lives in Rochelle. “She said she wasn’t getting her medications, and she knows the voices, the hallucinations will start if she doesn’t get her meds.”
Kaitlyn’s grandmother, who is her guardian, was told that Kaitlyn’s medications were lost when the home’s coordinator left. Kaitlyn has autism and schizophrenia. She can’t miss a dose of her medication without risking a psychotic event, her mother said.
“She’s on several psychotropic drugs — there’s only a 15 minute window that she can be without them, as prescribed by her psychiatrist,” Henning said.
When the situation continued into the next day, Henning and her mother made the 100-plus miles trip from Rochelle to Peoria.
“We were going take her to the emergency room,” said Henning.
By the time the family arrived, Kaitlyn had been medicated and she continued to receive her medicines after the family left, though the timing was not as precise as Kaitlyn's psychiatrist had ordered, Henning said.
About two weeks later, Community Alternatives Illinois, formerly known as ResCare and owned by the Kentucky-based BrightSpring Health Services, announced the impending closure of its Peoria and Pekin facilities, including the home Kaitlyn lived in.
The announcement disrupted the lives of 36 people living in group homes, and nine people living with host families in central Illinois, according to information GateHouse Media Illinois received through a Freedom of Information request to the Illinois Department of Human Services, which regulates group homes in Illinois.
Closing and changing of ownership of group housing for developmentally disabled adults is just one of the difficulties these adults and their families face. They also struggle with medication issues, lack of oversight and a lack of options.
ResCare/CAIL declined to be interviewed for this article, but issued the following statement:
"Our commitment is to help people live their best lives every day, although from time to time, we must make difficult business decisions. As such, we’ve made the difficult decision to redirect our focus and commitment to core Illinois areas, which do not include Peoria.
"We’ve partnered with all parties involved and are working hard to ensure that the individuals we have served have as seamless of an experience and minimal disruption as possible during the transition to new homes.
"Our commitment to quality was not a factor in this decision, as we have earned full two-year provider certification in Illinois and our license is in good standing.”
While IDHS did not give a reason why the homes were closed, saying “Community Alternatives Illinois made the decision to withdraw from providing services in the Peoria area,” they did provide documentation of many violations found in recent months. The problems ranged from facility issues, such as a lack of bedding, soap and towels and water heater temperatures set too high, to concerns about resident rights being restricted without written clinical justification, most concerning issues regarding the administration of medications.
“CAIL does not currently have sufficient staff who are authorized to complete the medication administration,” an IDHS inspector wrote on a report. “The agency and/or contracted nursing staff are not going to each site to pass meds. Various CILA (Community Integrated Living Arrangements) recipients are being transported back and forth to other CILA sites where the nurses are passing their meds. Unauthorized staff are taking medications from the various homes with them for daily medication administration. CAIL has been informed that this is an unacceptable practice.”
The medication issue was also a serious problem for the brother of Tara Cady, 25, a Montana resident. Jason, 21, lived in one of the Peoria group homes. He has autism and suffers from a host of other issues, and without medication he can become violent, said his sister.
“My parents received the initial phone call from my brother. He said ‘I’m not receiving my medication,’” she said. “He does understand that and knows what happens to his health if he doesn’t get his medication.”
But even more disturbing for Cady was when, a few weeks later, she learned her brother’s facility was being closed, and he was going to have to move. With his behavioral issues, her brother had trouble finding homes willing to take him, and when she learned about the impending closure he had nowhere to go.
“He’s been in two homes since March, now he’s going to move again. It’s detrimental to his health, all these disruptions in housing,” she said.
Mary McGlauchlen, executive director of Central Illinois Service Access (CISA), the Independent Service Coordination agency (ISC), which oversees the care of disabled clients in the Peoria area homes, doesn’t know exactly what finally prompted the closure of the ResCare/CAIL facilities. CISA had filed numerous complaints about the facilities with the department of Human Services in the last two years, but little was done. So when she got a call about a meeting between Human Services and ResCare/CAIL in September, she was surprised at the result.
“The meeting was called on the spur of the moment after two years of reporting issues and concerns with ResCare,” she said. “When it came right down to it, the state told them you are either going to have to withdraw from the Peoria area, or we will take away your entire contract from the state of Illinois. So I guess ResCare decided it was better to lose some of their revenue stream than all of it.”
How many people have to suffer?
While ResCare/CAIL's sudden departure was difficult for residents and their families, chaos is something many of them have learned to live with. The October closure wasn’t the first — the same thing happened in 2016 when Bethesda Lutheran Communities made a hasty departure, claiming financial difficulty and passing the homes on to ResCare/CAIL. Every parent interviewed for this article said the time with ResCare/CAIL was difficult. They described filthy conditions, inadequate nutrition, and more than a few visits from the police.
When ResCare/CAIL took over eight Peoria area group homes from Bethesda Lutheran Communities in the fall of 2016, families were given very short notice. Most had no option but to leave their loved one in the facilities when ResCare/CAIL took over.
“Everybody was horrified about ResCare,” said Peoria resident Maddy Beck, whose son had been living in a Peoria group home for only six months when ResCare/CAIL came in. “You can look up the IDHS website and see what complaints they have.”
In an effort to provide families another option, McGlauchlen brought in representatives from Individual Advocacy Group (IAG), a Chicago-based nonprofit which manages group homes. Parents liked what IAG had to say, but there was a problem — they had no facilities in the Peoria area.
“They said they would work with us to open group homes in Peoria if we were interested. Of course most of us were, but that doesn’t come quickly. You have to find houses and staff. It took a whole year to get it done. In the meantime, we were stuck with ResCare.”
Families did their best to keep an eye on what was going on inside the homes once ResCare/CAIL took over.
“The stuff that went on was just crazy,” said Beck. “The staff was so inconsistent — you never knew who was going to be there. Sometimes there was no food in the house. You would go over and the refrigerator was empty. In the summer the air conditioning broke — it was 90 degrees in the house. If I hadn’t gone over there they would have just left those guys in the house.”
Peoria resident George Voorhees told a story so disturbing he had to pause to compose himself before relating it.
“I found out my daughter was not being given her meds to keep her regular, so then they gave her a heavy dose of laxative. It ruined a brand new mattress,” he said. “It was such a mess, to the extent that the caregivers didn’t want to deal with her. So instead of calling me or her mother to come clean her up, my daughter sat in her waste for a long period of time — 12 to 14 hours. It was pathetic.”
Chillicothe residents Lee and Mary Fran Nordstrom said the police were called to their son’s group home numerous times.
“There were more than 400 police calls on the seven group homes while ResCare was in charge,” said Mary Fran Nordstrom. “Two homes had more than 100 calls. Most of this was because the staff didn’t know how to handle these people. They didn’t know how to deescalate the situation, and that was because they didn’t have any training.”
Complaints to the state from parents seemed to fall on deaf ears.
“This is how a complaint is handled: You send in a letter about a specific issue and three months later you get a letter saying that the incident is being investigated,” said Lee Nordstrom. “Then six months later you get a letter saying the complaint was either founded or unfounded, and little other information. If you want more information you have to fill out a FOIA.”
CISA, the agency which oversees the care of residents in group homes, also made numerous complaints about the ResCare/CAIL homes, said McGlauchlen, but until ResCare/CAIL closed, the Illinois Department of Human Services didn’t do much about it.
“If there are consistent problems, there needs to be something in their rules and regulations to close a home — three strikes you are out — but there’s nothing like that in the IDHS regulations," she said. "There are no corrective steps to take away a provider’s contract. They can have multiple complaints and nothing happens. How many people have to suffer before there’s some type of action?”
Lack of funding
Ever since the tenets of the Ligas v. Hamos lawsuit were approved by the courts in 2011, adults with developmental disabilities in Illinois have had the option to live in state-funded, community-based residences rather than large state-run homes. But those facilities have never been adequately funded, said Meg Cooch, executive director of Ark of Illinois, a nonprofit advocacy group for people with developmental disabilities.
“The state is currently out of compliance,” she said. “The rate of what Illinois pays for services is too low.”
The lack of money has led to a long waiting list — people are waiting years to get into a program. And ultimately the amount provided for people who are in programs is too low — they are not getting the services they need. According to the Institute for Public Policy for People with Disabilities, the average annual funding for a disabled adult in a home is $50,000, including both state and matching federal grants. Disabled adults living in large state-run facilities each get an average of more than $250,000 a year, said Cooch. Illinois is one of the worst states in the nation for funding community options, ranking 44th out of the 50 states for how well residents with developmental disabilities are being served by Medicaid programs, according to the annual Case for Inclusion rankings released Thursday.
Inadequate funding has made it difficult for group homes all over the state, but the Peoria area is having more problems than neighboring communities, said McGlauchlen.
“I’m not 100 percent sure why, to tell you the truth,” she said. “Peoria has five times more crisis cases than any of our other nine counties we cover, and we cover Springfield and Bloomington. But there are a number of providers who have survived — EP!C and CWTC (Community Workshop & Training Center) are surviving and scraping by.”
McGlauchlen said the fact that ResCare/CAIL is a for-profit corporation may have contributed to its problem in Peoria.
“They give bonuses to their administration for filling beds,” she said. “That doesn’t lead to good matches in the homes.” ResCare/CAIL frequently took residents with behavioral issues that other care facilities refused. The state pays more for those individuals, but if the match isn’t done carefully it can cause problems in the home, said McGlauchlen.
But undoubtedly the biggest problem is caregiver pay, McGlauchlen and Cooch said. People are the core of these care facilities. Caregivers have a very difficult job which requires training, empathy and a great deal of patience. Low pay makes it hard to attract and retain good workers.
“Finding trained support staff that will work for the wage that’s provided — around $9 an hour with a couple bucks added for benefits — is almost impossible in the Peoria area,” said McGlauchlen. “All the providers are struggling to find staff.”
Dr. Charlene Bennett, executive director of Individual Advocacy Group (IAG), a nonprofit company which now has seven group homes in the Peoria area housing former ResCare/CAIL clients, said hiring support people is difficult all over the state.
“It’s hard getting people to even want to apply. There is such opportunity elsewhere. We have an Amazon plant here where they are starting people at $16 to $17 an hour,” she said.
In an effort to make it work financially in Peoria, the company chose to cut costs on office space.
“We are renting a room in a church,” said Bennett. “We did that so we could bring in the best staff we could and pay them higher wages. We put our resources with the people as much as we could.”
Parents are saying good things about IAG. Some residents have been in the homes for over a year, and some, like Lee and Mary Fran Nordstrom’s son, just moved in. By Christmas all of ResCare/CAIL’s former clients had been situated with new providers, including another new-to-Peoria provider named Help At Home.
Several residents moved out of the area, including Tara Cady’s brother, who moved into a home run by ResCare/CAIL in Kankakee, which is closer to his parents. Though the move was very disorganized — Jason and his belongings weren’t moved at the same time, and for a while Tara had no idea where her brother was or how to contact him — in the end, he reported being happy with his new roommates.
Leslie Renken: 217-686-3250, lrenken@pjstar.com, @LeslieRenken
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Firefighter Runs 22 Marathons in 24 Days to Celebrate 72nd Birthday
Ruben Cantu runs to inspire greater physical activity in children.
By Alison Wade
Leading up to his 72nd birthday, Ruben Cantu recently completed 22 marathons in 24 days, despite developing a giant blister that threatened his journey. He continued on through the pain, because he wants to help fight childhood obesity and inspire more children to run. Cantu turned 72 on the day of his last marathon, March 27.
Cantu was taking place in the Race Across Texas, part of the larger Race Across the USA. He was joined by a handful of runners who are running across the entire country, as well as some runners who were doing select marathons with the group. There were only two competitors who opted to run the length of Texas, however, and the other participant was 23 years old.
At times family members, who served as his support crew, joined him on the road. Cantu spent his nights in a mobile home.
On day one of his journey, Cantu ran through high winds, rain, sleet, and snow. On day two, he developed a blister, which covered about a third of the bottom of his foot, due to the steep camber along Highway 380.
“Eventually the right side of my foot became basically raw meat,” Cantu said.
He and his support team developed a system for caring for his blister, which involved putting four layers over it—the top one duct tape—before he resumed running each day. He says his times suffered, though, as did the rest of his body, which took more of a pounding as he tried to compensate.
He considered dropping out after 11 marathons, because the pain of the blister was becoming unbearable, but he continued on with his cause in mind. All of the participants in the Race Across the USA are spreading the word and raising money to combat childhood obesity, and he knew his message would be more powerful if he could make it the whole way across Texas.
“With that in mind, I didn’t want to quit. I wanted to come back and say, ‘Look what I did,’” Cantu said.
With his journey complete, Cantu is now speaking with schools near his home in Atoka, Tennesee, about getting involved with the 100 Mile Club. He figures if he can run 582 miles in 24 days at age 72, he can convince kids that they can run 100 miles within a school year.
“We didn’t have computers, of course, when I was a kid," Cantu said. “We didn’t have iPhones or smartphones. We were outside doing things all the time. That is no longer the case.”
Extreme feats of endurance are nothing new to Cantu. He has finished the 135-mile Badwater Ultramarathon six times, he’s run five 100 milers, and he’s covered more than 100 miles as part of 24-hour races several times. He hasn’t run an ultra since 2009, the year of his last Badwater, but he says his run across Texas was tougher, “because of the daily beatings.”
While in the maintenance phase of his training, Cantu normally runs 6-10 miles, 3-5 times per week. While training for the Race Across Texas, his runs were between 10 and 18 miles. His irregular work schedule made it hard for him to follow a consistent schedule and run every day, but he estimates he ran 60-70 miles every nine days.
It’s less than he used to train. He recalls doing 30-35 miles every Saturday and 40-50 miles on Sunday once a month while training for Badwater 15 years ago. “I can’t do that anymore,” Cantu said. But for a 72-year-old runner, his body has held up remarkably well. “I can’t explain why,” he said. “I have no clue.”
Despite his extreme accomplishments, Cantu hasn’t always been a runner. At age 29, he loved lifting weights, until he went for a Navy physical. “The doctor said, ‘You look beautiful, but what about your insides, knowing your family history?’” Cantu recalled.
His family has a history of cardiovascular disease. His mother, father, and five of his 10 siblings have all passed away due to cardiovascular disease. He immediately took up running, in an attempt to “beat the system” he said, but he didn’t truly get serious about the sport until 1983, when he was 40. He ran his first marathon and got hooked on longer distance races. He developed a goal of running at least 1,000 miles each year, something he’s been able to achieve most years since.
Of his remaining siblings, Cantu is the only one who doesn’t take medication for cardiovascular problems. He credits that to his running and his healthy diet.
“I thank God for giving me the ability to maintain my health and the chance to be a runner and realize it early enough that I should do something like what I’m doing,” Cantu said.
His good health has also allowed him to work full-time as a firefighter for the past five years. After retiring from the Navy in 1983, Cantu worked in the aerospace industry. In 2005, he retired and he and his wife moved to Tennessee to be near family. He says he “wanted to do something constructive” in retirement, so Cantu began volunteering with the Munford-Atoka Fire Department.
Though he began as a volunteer, when a full-time position became available in 2010, he earned it. “I’m enjoying the heck out of it,” said Cantu, but he will retire this summer to allow himself to spend more time doing other activities.
Cantu has no plans to retire from running, however. He’s already thinking about the races he might run in the coming year. As long as the challenges are out there and his body is able, he will keep going after them.
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R. J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC Announces Josie Curtis as AVP of People Services
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky – R. J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC announces that Josie Curtis has accepted the position of AVP of People Services. Curtis will be responsible for People Services, which handles employee benefits, employee relations, the management training program, recruiting and hiring, and employee training and development for all R. J. Corman employees across the nation.
“I am genuinely excited to have this opportunity and to continue being a part of such an amazing team of people,” said Curtis. “People Services will be a strong strategic partner and advisor to all R. J. Corman employees. The department will foster and encourage safe and efficient operations through diversity, learning, development, innovation and continuous improvement.”
Mrs. Curtis has a background in human resources, and has over 16 years of experience. She joined R. J. Corman in October 2008, and since then, she has held several roles in the company, such as Employment Supervisor, Employment Manager, Director of Transportation and Recruitment, and Director of People Services before moving into her current position.
Altogether, R. J. Corman Railroad Group employs approximately 1,400 people in 22 states. In addition to short line railroad and switching operations, R. J. Corman companies provide a broad scope of services to the railroad industry such as emergency response, track material distribution, track construction, signal design and construction as well as building fuel-efficient locomotives.
For more information about the company, visit www.rjcorman.com or call 859-881-2400
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EU Adopts New Privacy Shield for Data Transfers to U.S.
John M. Conley
On July 12, 2016, the European Union announced that it had formally adopted the long-awaited EU-U.S. Privacy Shield to permit the transfer of personal data from EU countries to the United States. Until late 2015, U.S. companies could receive transfers of personal data (defined very broadly to include any identifiable data) about EU citizens in three ways: by signing up for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Safe Harbor Program, by obtaining the consent of the data subjects, or by using (without any variation) the protective contractual provisions approved by the EU. Then, in its October 2015 Schrems decision, the Court of Justice for the European Union struck down the Safe Harbor. The Privacy Shield is intended to replace the Safe Harbor. The other two means of data transfer remain available.
In Schrems, the CJEU was not concerned about the behavior of private businesses. The issue, rather, was U.S. government snooping in the wake of the Snowden revelations. Consequently, most of the EU-U.S. negotiations have concerned limiting and monitoring governmental access to data. Private businesses that have used the Safe Harbor will see few significant changes in what they have to do to comply.
The Privacy Shield mechanism will be the same as under Safe Harbor: U.S. businesses must certify annually to the U.S. Department of Commerce that their privacy practices comply with Privacy Shield principles. Companies may begin self-certifying on August 1. In response to EU complaints about lax Safe Harbor oversight, the Department of Commerce is supposed to conduct regular compliance reviews of self-certifying companies, with defaulters facing removal from the list and as-yet unspecified sanctions. As under the Safe Harbor, participating U.S. companies must be under the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission (or one of a few other specified federal agencies), so nonprofits are generally ineligible.
Substantively, the Privacy Shield principles amount largely to a stronger statement of their Safe Harbor counterparts. U.S. companies must display their privacy policies on their website. Among other things, a Privacy Shield-compliant company must offer people the opportunity to opt out of disclosure to third parties or use of their data for purposes other than that for which it was originally collected; must take reasonable and appropriate security measures; must take reasonable steps to ensure that the data is reliable; and must offer data subjects access to their data and the ability to correct or delete inaccurate data.
A few things are new. Most significantly, a U.S. Privacy Shield company that receives EU data can transfer it to a third party (regardless of whether the recipient is Privacy Shield-compliant) only under a contract that ensures Privacy Shield-level protections for the data after transfer. In addition, Privacy Shield companies must offer EU citizens free alternative dispute resolution by an independent provider in the EU or United States.
A couple of post-Privacy Shield uncertainties loom. The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation is expected to take effect in two years. Since the GDPR’s privacy protections are stricter than those of the Privacy Shield, U.S. Privacy Shield companies should expect more onerous privacy obligations when the GDPR comes into force. Another possible variable is what the United Kingdom will do with its privacy laws—currently governed by EU law—once Brexit is final. Presumably, the UK will maintain EU-level protections to facilitate commerce with the continent, but that remains to be seen.
This alert is intended only as a summary of the most significant provisions of the Privacy Shield. Robinson Bradshaw's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group members are available to help companies work through the many details.
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Vacation Rental Safety Tips Are A Must When You're Planning A Trip — Here's What Experts Suggest You Look For
By Kelly Mullen-McWilliams
What's the first thing you do when you arrive at your vacation rental? Pick out the best bedroom? Check out the hot tub? What about making safety checks, for fire extinguishers and emergency exits? When you rent a home through a site like VRBO or Airbnb, it's important to remember that you're not booking a room in a hotel, with its cleaning schedule and clockwork fire drills. In fact, you're renting from an individual who may or may not have safe, functional, up-to-code appliances, let alone batteries in the smoke detector, which is why you need vacation rental safety tips from experts, no matter where your travels take you.
On Friday, March 23, an Iowa family of four was found dead in their vacation rental home in Tulum, Mexico. According to Today, the Sharp family died of toxic gas inhalation, likely carbon monoxide, in a condo rented through VRBO. While third-party rental services like VRBO and Airbnb do want to protect you — Airbnb even offers free smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms — there's only so much these companies can do to enforce precautionary measures. (By contrast, hotels must follow the international fire code, which provides a baseline of legal requirements for every property, including carbon monoxide alarms in rooms with fireplaces, fuel-fired appliances, or unventilated attached garages, explains Jennifer Myers of the American Hotel and Lodging Association.) In the end, it's up to you to ensure your safety in rental homes. As John Gobbels, Chief Operating Officer of Medjet, tells Romper in an email interview, you should inspect your rental property for fire detectors and carbon monoxide alarms before you unpack. Take a look around for the fire extinguisher, too.
"Carbon monoxide, which some experts believe is what killed the Sharp family, is tasteless, odorless, and invisible," explains Gobbels. "Local safety requirements vary widely, and many properties will not have a carbon monoxide detector." To be on the safe side, he says, you can bring your own inexpensive, battery-operated carbon monoxide detector ($35, Amazon) on vacation with you. "Water heaters and furnaces are prime leak points, so place the detector near the room that contains those items," notes Gobbels.
Even before you go, there's a bit of planning you can do to ensure a safer stay. If you're traveling out of the country, check the U.S. State Department website for any alerts, and the CDC’s travel site for health risks, Gobbels advises. Also, remember to register your foreign travel plans with the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program so the U.S. embassy can contact you in the event of a natural disaster. For extra security, Gobbels also recommends checking out the neighborhood where you'll be staying online, and arranging with a friend or family member to check in once, or preferably twice, daily. Finally, know exactly what to do, and where to go, in the event of a medical emergency. What's the fastest route to the hospital, and how will you get there?
As for choosing a vacation rental, keep in mind that owners' commitment to transparency may vary widely. William Seavey, an Airbnb Super Host who runs the bed and breakfast Her Castle along with his wife Eleanor, tells Romper in an interview that "it's up to the hosts to define and explain every aspect of the rental property, and up to guests to read the fine print." So if the information available online is thin, think twice.
What happened to the Sharp family on their Mexico vacation is a rare, unimaginable tragedy. It's also a reminder, as VRBOs and Airbnbs become a force to be reckoned with in the industry, that rentals don't always provide the same protections as a hotel. Experts recommend doing your due diligence before you book, and always keeping safety issues in mind.
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Contact Oceanside, California Accident Attorney Walton Law Firm
Accidental deaths are among the leading causes of fatalities across the country. The National Safety Council projects that every five minutes another person dies in a preventable accident. That means that well over a hundred thousand families lose a loved one in these circumstances each and every year. While the incidents take many forms, there are certain accidents that are much more common than others, specifically auto accidents, fires, falls, and choking. For years our San Diego wrongful death lawyer at the Walton Law Firm has helped families throughout our area after these accidents.
As the name implies, a “wrongful death” occurs any time that an individual dies as a result of the wrongdoing of another. Of course, the individual who is hurt by the misconduct can no longer go to court and protect their rights, and so wrongful death lawsuits allow family members of the victim to seek legal recourse for the harm caused. These rights are based on statutory law. The California legislature has specifically passed legislation allowing certain survivors to pursue these claims. The statute lays out rules regarding exactly who can file a California wrongful death lawsuit. Usually the right is limited to a surviving spouse, children of the victim, and dependent parents. However, in situations where the victim does not have any of those relative, then others can step in with the assistance of a wrongful death attorney in the San Diego area.
The damages that can be recovered in one of these cases are unique. A wrongful death action is intended to compensate the actual survivor for what they lost when the victim died. As such, a jury in a wrongful death case may award a range of both economic and non-economic damages. Economic damages in these cases includes things like lost financial support that the victim would have provided, funeral and burial expenses, and the value of lost household services. Recoverable non-economic damages in these cases include loss of companionship, loss of affection, and similar qualitative losses. Therefore, unlike other personal injury cases, a wrongful death suit does not involve recovery for medical expenses or the victim’s property damage. A wrongful death lawyer in San Diego can help bring a separate “survival action” to return these losses to the estate of the victim. Often a wrongful death claim and a survival action claim can be brought together and litigated at the same time.
Visiting with a legal professional following the accidental death of a loved one is essential. Our wrongful death attorney has worked with families in our area after the death of a loved one in a variety of circumstances. Timing it important, because it often takes a significant amount of preparation before a legal cases related to these accidents can be pursued. Please remember that no family should have to deal with the loss of a loved one from accidental circumstance alone. Experienced, professional help is available at the Walton Law Firm to guide you through the process and ensure fair, timely recovery with personal attention devoted to each and every case. You can contact our San Diego wrongful death attorney by phone at (866) 607-1325 or (760) 571-5500. In addition, feel free to send our lawyers a message at any time with our online contact form.
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Samuel Johnson was born on the Eastern prairie of the Red River Valley in 1973. After studying painting and ceramics at the University of Minnesota at Morris, he served a three and half year apprenticeship in pottery under Richard Bresnahan. In 2000, he was invited as a guest of Denmark's Design School to study Scandinavian Ceramic Design in Copenhagen; while also working at the International Ceramic Center in Skaelskor and as an assistant in private porcelain studios. After working for a short period in a studio in New York, he traveled to Japan as a studio guest of Koie Ryoji. In 2005, Johnson earned graduate degrees in fine arts from the University of Iowa. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Artaxis.org, and international artist organization, and is a Professor of Art at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University in Central Minnesota.
I wasn't initially drawn toward making unglazed utilitarian pottery with dark surfaces, but over time, I began to see this as a way to evoke a sense of mystery and stillness. Both seemed an effective response to a culture which celebrates quick and insignificant revelations. My work is also imprecise. When shaping a vessel, I might use a tool to scrape or beat a form that may otherwise seem rigidly structured and symmetrically balanced. Sometimes small stones in the clay crack and burst through the surface. The clay and fire are both irregular and have natural forces. But when one thinks about it, so are we. We have capacity for reason and mathematical precision and yet are also half wild, full of biological and spiritual mysteries which drive our impulses despite existing, often, beneath consciousness. Poets refer to this as shadow - those aspects of our personality, our humanity, which are hidden from us.
My work is dark and rustic, evidence of both the process of shaping wet clay and its transformation through fire. They were placed within a wood burning kiln, and over the course of a firing, marked by wood and heat, melting ash and charcoal. The resulting patina of natural hues and irregular textures creates quiet surfaces that seem more like shadows than scorched earth. This work strikes a balance between wild and mysterious parts of ourselves and the part of our psyche that sets us apart from them.
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https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/editorials/article/Janet-Napolitano-and-Secure-Communities-2373673.php
Janet Napolitano and Secure Communities
On Checking the Status of Suspects
Published 4:00 am PDT, Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano answers questions of the San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Board, Monday April 25, 2011, in San Francisco, Calif. Among the issues she disgusted was border security and immigration. less
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano answers questions of the San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Board, Monday April 25, 2011, in San Francisco, Calif. Among the issues she disgusted was border security ... more
Photo: Lacy Atkins, The Chronicle
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has offered firm and overdue direction on a program that requires local police to submit fingerprints on suspects being arrested to federal databases that include a check on immigration status. Her message is clear: It is not voluntary.
For months, a fight has brewed over the Secure Communities program, made worse by Washington's confusing instructions on the rules. The federal plan, which has taken years to get underway, requires that local law-enforcement agencies submit fingerprints to Washington on all suspects detained. The information is run through both FBI and immigration databases.
There are causes for concern here, as Napolitano acknowledged. Minor-league crimes conceivably could snare illegal immigrants, many of them living here for years, and tear apart families. As Napolitano noted, the federal government does not have anywhere close to the resources to round up the estimated 11 million people who are here illegally. As the Obama administration stated in its arguments against the Arizona immigration crackdown, the government's priority is to identify and deport those who commit serious crimes. It also maintained that immigration policy is a federal matter.
Without a federal standard, the country will become a hodgepodge of sanctuary cities or bastions of anti-immigrant hostility. San Francisco had its moment of truth last year when a kid-glove program of returning juvenile drug dealers to home countries was abruptly canceled because of public uproar. The city still remains formally opposed to the federal program through a Board of Supervisors vote last year and the opposition of Sheriff Mike Hennessey, charged with submitting arrestee data to Washington.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a San Jose Democrat, has accused Homeland Security officials of "essentially lying" about the required reporting. In a meeting with The Chronicle editorial board, Napolitano acknowledged the original instructions were unclear.
But she said the time for confusion is over. "You don't get to opt-in or opt-out," she said.
What's needed is a clear understanding of how the law's broad scope will work. Napolitano indicated she was open to fuller consideration of the facts behind a potential deportation that might result from a brush with the law. For example, she said policies were being developed to assure that a woman reporting domestic abuse would not be swept up in immigration proceedings the same way as a suspect involved in a violent crime.
Immigration law is a federal matter. Arizona cannot take it upon itself to lower the threshold for deportation - and San Francisco cannot shield the people it arrests from possible deportation. Secure Communities should be given a chance to work in a fair manner.
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92% of parents are opposed to the proposed new site for our new National Children’s Hospital
MummyPages.ie, Ireland’s largest parenting community, joins forces with the parents of an ‘Extra Special Kids Group’ (a closed Facebook Group of parents with life-limiting serious illnesses), the Jack and Jill Foundation, and The New Children’s Hospital Alliance to say “NO” to the proposed new site at St. James Hospital, Dublin.
According to the MummyPages parenting community:
92% of parents are opposed to the proposed new site for our new National Children’s Hospital at St. James Hospital, Dublin
87% of parents are upset that they must pay €50 in a planning application objection to make their voice heard by tomorrow’s deadline 2nd, October.
95% of parents agree that the most important factors to be considered in approving the planning application for the new National Children’s hospital are:
o Easily accessible by parents across the four corners of the country
o Easily accessible by road or air in emergencies – when minutes matter
o Potential to build parents accommodation for those who need to be near their seriously ill children
o Greenfield site with potential for ongoing development and expansion
o Quick construction potential so that we can avail of the children’s hospital before 2020
o Extensive parking facilities and traffic flow at peak times
o Safe and secure public environment at night-time
Parents, MummyPages and relevant interest groups are opposed to the construction of the National Children’s Hospital at St James’ site because:
Inaccessibility: The National Children’s Hospital will be the main hospital for children in Ireland. Located in the inner city Dublin, heavy traffic will make it difficult for emergency services and families to reach the hospital in an emergency. The influx of traffic into the city will cause further gridlock and result in a delay in emergency care to those children who need it the most.
Limited parking: The proposed 473 bed hospital at St James’ will contain only 675 public car parking spaces which is far too little when you take into account parents, relatives and all levels of staff.
Security: St James’ site is located in the inner city which presents a number of safety and security issues for all those visiting the hospital, especially during evening visiting hours.
Lack of space: St James’ site won’t allow for expansion in years to come. It is a known fact that hospitals double in size every 10-20 years. There will be no room for that at St. James’s which may mean relocating the hospital in years to come.
Waste of tax payer’s money: In 2007, the National Paediatric Development Board was set up to manage the development of the Mater. €40 million of tax payer’s money was wasted on the proposed Mater location and while many more millions will be wasted on the planning for the St. James’ location, it will cost even more to relocate when we outgrow this site.
The Government and Planning Authorities are failing to look at the bigger picture, with this in mind, MummyPages is calling on parents, grandparents, and family members in Ireland to stand up and voice their concerns regarding the new site for The National Children’s Hospital. If you can’t afford the €50 fee to submit your planning objection, please talk to your local government representatives and make your voice heard. It is our responsibility as citizens of Ireland to fight for the best location for the new Children’s Hospital to ensure children can access the best possible care in a timely and efficient manner.
Speaking on behalf of the MummyPages community Laura Haugh, Mum-in-Residence with MummyPages.ie said:
“Our mums are very upset that the Government has not only wasted €40 million on the badly thought out Mater site for the new National Children’s Hospital, but that they are about to make an even bigger mistake now with the new proposed site at St. James.”
“Thankfully not all of our mums have had to face the arduous journey to hospital when a child is seriously ill. Nor have they all had to endure long days, weeks or even months of medical treatment to help a sick child. However, our all of our mums acknowledge the invaluable advice from their peers both offline and in our online community who have experienced parenting challenges and issues before them as life-saving. It is for this reason that they implicitly trust the advice of those parents currently enduring daily hospital visits for their children and accept and trust the views of ‘The Extra Special Kids Group’ as their own.”
“Access, parking, safety and development potential are the most important factors in considering the location of our new National Children’s Hospital, and if the Government and Planning Authorities won’t listen to these objections, then maybe they’ll listen when it hits their pocket and they realise that the Greenfield site proposed in Blanchardstown will actually be cheaper and quicker to construct.”
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Cisco Galway Celebrates a Decade as Global Collaboration Innovation Hub
In the glow of being named the Best Workplace in Ireland for medium sized businesses on Thursday 23rd February, Cisco Galway also celebrates its 10th anniversary this month. For the last decade, the town of Oranmore, on the outskirts of Galway city, has played host to a major innovation hub and R&D site for Cisco’s Global Collaboration business.
Cisco Collaboration products make it simple and delightful to communicate and work together. The company’s vision is a world where technology fades into the background so you can get your best work done with your team—anywhere, anytime, on any device.
Engineers from Cisco Galway are at the centre of R&D innovations that deliver on this vision and are instrumental in software developments across the entire collaboration portfolio, including WebEx®, Cisco TelePresence®, Jabber® and the game-changing Cisco Spark™ Cloud Collaboration Service.
With one individual holding the global title of ‘Top Innovator’ in the collaboration business for three consecutive years, Cisco Galway is home to leading innovations that remove barriers to technology; whether in how devices and software platforms work together, or the way you use Cisco collaboration technology.
Visiting the site to mark the celebration, Rowan Trollope, Senior Vice President & General Manager, IoT and Applications Group, Cisco, commented, “I am so proud that we have the best engineers building and designing amazing products that help teams get their best work done. With 95 percent of the Fortune 500 using Cisco collaboration products, we know that this is in large due to our people, and the people of Cisco Galway play a key role in making that happen.”
Pat Hession, R&D Site Leader, Cisco Galway, added, “Given the velocity of technological advancement over the last 10 years, we take great pride in being part of Cisco, and at the forefront of technological advancements. We’ve built a formidable team here, who as well as developing world class products, take great satisfaction in leveraging Cisco’s fantastic community and social responsibility programs to support local community activities and charities in the Galway region. We’re delighted by Best Place to Work award and we’re hugely excited for the future.”
Martin Shanahan Chief Executive Officer of IDA Ireland said: “Over the past ten years Cisco has thrived in Galway and the company brand has since become synonymous with innovation. Cisco has contributed significantly to the local economy and enhanced the reputation of the county as a prominent tech hub. Ireland continues to be a viewed an attractive location for FDI as a result of highly skilled talent pool and pro-business infrastructure. The IDA is committed not only to securing but also to supporting investment in regional locations, and today’s celebration is testament to the success of that strategy. I wish Cisco every success going forward with their next ten years in Ireland.”
As the Best Medium-Sized Workplace in Ireland, Cisco provides an engaging and rewarding working environment for employees, with initiatives such as ‘bring your kids to work’ days, fundraising throughout the year and the ability for employees to volunteer for organisations of their choice with five paid days per employee per year given by the company as ‘Time to Give’.
As an employer in Galway, Cisco have a strong presence with the local community, helping to support IT skills for all ages, including complimentary computer classes for elderly members of the local community, provided by staff, supporting Girls in Tech programmes with local secondary schools and engagement with university students across multiple initiatives.
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BREAKING: De Ligt chooses Juventus
Veselin Trajkovic in Eredivisie, Serie A, Transfer News & Rumours 22 Jun 2019
After a long and wearying transfer saga, Matthijs de Ligt will be moving from Ajax to Juventus this summer, according to Sky in Italy.
The story surrounding the future of the 19-year-old captain of the Dutch champions has arguably been the one that took the most twist and turns during its course. Since Barcelona confirmed the signing of midfielder Frenkie de Jong from Ajax and made their interest in de Ligt known as well, it looked like the centre-back was set to follow in his footsteps towards Catalonia.
However, other suitors began appearing in time, with the likes of Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid all featuring in the media reports at different stages of the story.
However, it seems Juventus showed the most desire to add de Ligt to their ranks and they managed to convince him that his development would be best served in Turin.
The fee that the Serie A champions will have to fork out still remains to be ironed out, as well as the personal terms with the player himself, but the report clearly states that de Ligt has made his decision.
Veselin Trajkovic
Vesko is a football writer that likes to observe the game for what it is, focusing on teams, players and their roles, formations, tactics, rather than stats. He follows the English Premier League closely, Liverpool FC in particular. His articles have been published on four different football blogs.
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SolarWinds recognizes that the use of third party vendors creates various risks that must be properly managed. Before entering into any third party relationships, we take deliberate steps to conduct an assessment of risk related to the vendor relationship. We take care to understand the compliance, reputational, strategic, operational, and transactional risks relating to a particular vendor before entering into a contractual relationship.
Any vendor who has access to SolarWinds data classified as Personal Data or higher are expected to demonstrate their security policies, processes, and procedures and prove that they are able to provide adequate protection of such data, including against misuse or compromise. The following sections outline the requirements that vendors must follow if they collect, use or process personal data while providing services or doing business with SolarWinds.
Organization of Information Security
Vendor must establish, implement, and maintain information security policies and a program of Technical and Organization Security Measures appropriate to prevent any access to SolarWinds Confidential Information and comply with and meet all applicable Information Security best practices standards and guidelines, including those set forth herein.
Secure Baseline Standards
Vendors must ensure that secure configurations are developed, documented, and maintained for information systems accessing SolarWinds Confidential Information. Baseline configurations must include software versions and security patch levels, managed anti-virus and malware detection, and must include security settings for audit and accountability.
Compliance and Accreditation
Vendor must be compliant with applicable laws, including regulatory laws, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), and Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements 16 (SSAE16) Service Organization Controls (SOC) Type I or II.
Vendors must complete regular attestation audits, such as SSAE16 SOC1, which evaluates internal controls over financial reporting and a SOC2 report, which evaluates the Vendor’s information system relevant to security, availability, processing, integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. These SSAE16 attestation reports can be Type I or Type II.
Further to the above, Vendor must acknowledge and comply with export controls under the laws and regulations of the United States ("U.S.") and any other applicable jurisdictions, which govern export, re-export, import, transfer, distribution, and use of goods and services and shall obtain all required U.S. and any other applicable authorizations, permits, or licenses.
Vendors must maintain security related audits and certifications where SolarWinds Confidential Information is stored and must be able to attest to these certifications. Vendor datacenters or hosted colocations must have recently completed a Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements 16 (SSAE16) Service Organization Controls (SOC) 2 audit. This report must be made available upon request. Vendors must have a process to document any non-compliance of any legal, regulatory or privacy instance or control that does not meet local laws and regulations and must identify and quantify the risks and mitigation plans and document the business decision for alternate controls or risk acceptance. The mitigation plan and business decision must be signed off by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) or an authorized individual who can accept responsibility and accountability.
Physical and Environmental Security
Vendor must ensure that all of Vendor’s systems and other resources intended for use by multiple users are located in secure physical facilities with access and authorization restrictions.
Vendor must ensure that all of Vendor’s employees, agents, third party vendors, or otherwise sign a non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement with Vendor prior to processing SolarWinds Confidential Information.
Vendor must limit and monitor physical access to its facilities to ensure that visitor access is logged and that access is restricted to appropriate personnel based on their job requirements. Vendors must require that all employees, contractors, and visitors present identification, log in, and be escorted by authorized staff through its facilities.
Vendor must take all reasonable steps to prevent anyone from accessing SolarWinds Confidential Information in any manner or for any purpose not authorized by SolarWinds. Vendors must limit access to SolarWinds Confidential Information to Vendor’s employees, agents, and third party vendors who have a legitimate need to access Confidential Information to provide goods and/or services and have agreed in writing to protect the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of SolarWinds Confidential Information.
Vendors must maintain reasonable procedures to terminate access to SolarWinds Confidential Information when it is no longer needed or relevant to the performance of Vendor’s duties.
Vendors must separate SolarWinds information from any other customer’s or Vendor’s own applications and information either by using physically separate servers or alternatively by using logical access controls where physical separation of servers is not implemented.
Vendors must prohibit and employ reasonable Technical and Organizational Security Measures to ensure that any employee, contractor, or Vendor’s third party vendor processing SolarWinds Confidential Information may not copy, move, or store the Confidential Information onto any storage device.
Vendors must require at least two-factor authentication to remotely connect to internal Vendor resources containing SolarWinds Confidential Information.
Identification and Authentication
Vendors must assign unique user IDs to individual users and assign login credentials to one individual account. Vendors must have procedures for user account creation, timely account removal, and account modification (e.g., changes to privileges, span of access, functions/roles) for all access to SolarWinds Confidential Information and across all production, test, and development environments.
Vendors must require password complexity rules that at least meet the following password construction requirements: a minimum of eight (8) characters in length for system passwords and four (4) characters for tablet and smartphone passcodes. System passwords must contain three of the following: upper case, lower case, numeric, or special characters. Vendors must verify a user’s identity and set one-time use and reset passwords to a unique value for each user after first use.
Passwords must not be the same as the user ID with which they are associated, contain a dictionary word, sequential or repeat numbers, and not be one of the last five passwords used. Vendors must also require password expiration at regular intervals not to exceed ninety (90) days and that all passwords are masked when displayed.
Failed login attempts must be limited to no more than five (5) failed logon attempts and lock the user account upon reaching that limit in a persistent state. Access to the user account can be reactivated subsequently through a manual process requiring verification of the user’s identity.
Vendors must ensure that such systems and other resources are properly hardened in accordance with security best practices for establishing a secure information system baseline and including, but not limited to, removing or disabling unused network ports, protocols, and services, along with installing endpoint malware, antivirus, and host based firewall protection technologies.
Vendors must conduct internal vulnerability assessment scans including, but not limited to, networks, servers, applications and databases, with applicable industry-standard security vulnerability scanning software to uncover security vulnerabilities.
Vendors must use a documented process to apply appropriate security patches. Critical security vulnerabilities with a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 7.5 or higher must be installed immediately upon a patch or security updated being made available and in no event longer than one month after release. Security vulnerabilities with a CVSS score of 4 or higher must be installed within 90 days of release.
Data Isolation and Segmentation
Vendors must implement a set of multi-layered security controls to logically isolate and segment SolarWinds Confidential Information in a hosted environment. Mechanisms to ensure appropriate isolation and segmentation must be implemented at the network, operating system, and application layers. Vendors must ensure that clients in a hosted environment are isolated from each other such that they are considered to be separately managed entities with no connectivity between them. Any system or component shared by the client environments, including but not limited to hypervisors and underlying infrastructure systems must not provide an access path between these environments.
Use of an application programming interface (API) must be secured through a combination of methods that include the Strong Encryption of data being transmitted as part of the API call, using the latest supported versions of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections to during transmission, and implementing authentication and session management correctly by using secure procedures to create, manage, and end a session for each authorized user.
Vendors must maintain an automated audit trail that documents system security events as well as any change management event that results in the access, modification, and/or deletion of SolarWinds Confidential Information.
The audit trail must, at a minimum, record the following information for each event:
Type of event occurred
Date and timestamp of when the event occurred
The source of the event
The outcome (success or failure) of the event
The identity of any user/subject associated with the event
Audit logs must be read-only and protected from unauthorized access. Audit records documenting events resulting in the access, modification, and/or deletion of SolarWinds Confidential Information must be made available to SolarWinds.
Vendors must employ a regular audit log review process (either manually or automated) for detection of unauthorized access to SolarWinds Confidential Information.
Vendors must maintain a formal process for approving, testing, and documenting all network connections and changes to the firewall and router configurations. Vendors must configure firewalls to deny and log suspicious packets, and restrict network connections that only allow appropriate and authorized traffic, denying all other traffic through the firewall. Firewall rules must be reviewed on a recurring basis.
Vendors must restrict unauthorized outbound traffic from applications processing, storing or transmitting SolarWinds Confidential Information to IP addresses within the Demilitarized Zone DMZ and Internet.
When using radio frequency (RF) based wireless networking technologies to perform or support services and products for SolarWinds, vendors must ensure that any SolarWinds information transmitted is protected using appropriate encryption technologies sufficient to protect the SolarWinds information. Wireless technologies must use Strong Encryption, and Vendors must regularly scan, identify, and disable unauthorized wireless access points.
Data Protection, Sanitization, and Destruction
Vendors must use Strong Encryption for the transfer of SolarWinds Confidential Information outside of Vendor controlled networks or when transmitting SolarWinds Confidential Information over any untrusted network.
Vendors must use Strong Encryption to protect SolarWinds Confidential Information when stored. Vendor must not store SolarWinds Confidential Information electronically outside of Vendor’s network environment unless the storage device (e.g., backup tape, laptop, memory stick, computer disk, etc.) is protected by Strong Encryption.
Vendors must not store SolarWinds Confidential Information on removable media (e.g., USB flash drives, thumb drives, memory sticks, tapes, CDs, or external hard drives) except: (a) for backup, business continuity, disaster recovery, and data interchange purposes as allowed and required under the Agreement and (b) using Strong Encryption.
Upon termination of the Agreement or at any time prior to reuse or repurposing of media used to store or process SolarWinds Confidential Information, media must be cleared (using a DoD-compliant 7-pass wipe) or purged in accordance with NIST SP 800-88. If the media is to be destroyed, Vendor must provide a certificate of destruction to SolarWinds. Prior to such destruction, Vendor must maintain all applicable Technical and Organizational Security Measures to protect the security, privacy and confidentiality of SolarWinds Confidential Information.
Incident Response and Notification
Vendors must maintain a current Incident Management Process and must notify SolarWinds without undue delay after becoming aware of any potential destruction, loss, alterations, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to or accidental or actual destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to SolarWinds Confidential Information, including data, transmitted, stored or otherwise processed by the Vendor or its sub-processors.
Vendors must have and use an Incident Management Process that is managed by trained resources. The Vendor Incident Management Process must be consistent with various state and federal laws and regulatory requirements as well as published best industry compliance and governance standards.
Vendors must follow incident response best practices and make reasonable efforts to identify the cause of incidents and take appropriate steps in order to remediate the cause of the incident.
Under no circumstances shall Vendor publicly disclose any such breach of SolarWinds information, systems, or other resources. Vendor must immediately notify SolarWinds of a possible or actual incident and work directly with SolarWinds, as requested by SolarWinds, to notify applicable government officials, authorities, credit monitoring services, individuals affected by such breach, and/or any applicable media outlets, as required by law.
Business Continuity Management and Disaster Recovery
Vendors must develop, operate, manage, and revise business continuity and disaster recovery (BCP/DR) plans. Such plans must include BCP/DR roles and responsibilities, established recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives, daily back-up of data and systems, off-site storage of backup media and records, record protection and contingency plans commensurate with the requirements of the Agreement. Vendors must securely store such plans off-site and ensure such plans are available to Vendor as needed.
Vendors must have documented procedures for the secure backup and recovery of SolarWinds Personal Data or higher, which must include, at a minimum, procedures for the transport, storage, and disposal of the backup copies of the data and, upon SolarWinds’ request, provide such documented procedures.
"Agreement" means the contract or other legal document entered by SolarWinds and the Vendor.
“Affiliates” shall mean, with reference to a party, any company or other legal entity which: (i) controls either directly or indirectly, a party; or (ii) is controlled, directly or indirectly, by a party; or (iii) is directly or indirectly controlled by a company or entity which directly or indirectly controls a party. For these purposes, “control” means the right to exercise more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting or similar right of ownership; but only for so long as such control shall continue to exist.
“Confidential Information” means any commercially sensitive, proprietary or otherwise Confidential Information relating to SolarWinds, its Affiliates or the contents and/or purpose of the Agreement, whether oral, in writing or which by any other means may directly or indirectly come into the Vendor’s possession or into the possession of a Vendor personnel or the Vendor’s personnel, agents, contractors or sub-contractors as a result of or in connection with the Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt all work product shall constitute Confidential Information.
“Incident Management Process” is a Vendor-developed and documented process and procedure to be followed in the event of an actual or suspected attack upon, intrusion upon, unauthorized access to, loss of, or other breach involving the confidentiality, availability, or integrity of SolarWinds Confidential Information.
“Personal Information” as defined under European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) as and other applicable global information security, data protection, and privacy laws, means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity. Examples include, but are not limited to: full name (including prefix and suffix), personal identification number (PIN) or password, payment card information or associated numbers (e.g. CVV number), bank account information, email addresses, phone number, physical address, information evidencing health status (e.g. prior treatments) or health requirements, travel documents such as driver’s license number, state or national ID number, passport number, citizenship, residency, date of birth, sexual orientation, religion, trade union membership, social security number or visa number, criminal history, biometric or genetic data.
“Strong Authentication” means the use of authentication mechanisms and authentication methodologies stronger than the passwords required herein. Examples of Strong Authentication mechanisms and methodologies include digital certificates, two-factor authentication, and one-time passwords.
“Strong Encryption” means the use of encryption technologies with minimum key lengths of 256-bits for symmetric encryption and 1024-bits for asymmetric encryption whose strength provides reasonable assurance that it must protect the encrypted information from unauthorized access and is adequate to protect the confidentiality and privacy of the encrypted information, and which incorporates a documented policy for the management of the encryption keys and associated processes adequate to protect the confidentiality and privacy of the keys and passwords used as inputs to the encryption algorithm. Strong Encryption includes, but is not limited to: SSL v3.0+/TLS v1.0+, Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), AES 256, FIPS 140-2 (United States government only), RSA 1024 bit, SHA1/SHA2/SHA3, Internet Protocol Security (IPSEC), SFTP, SSH, Vormetric v4, or WPA2.
“Technical and Organizational Security Measures” mean any activities required under these Information Security Requirements to access, manage, transfer, process, store, retain, and destroy information or data; to disclose and notify affected parties required under the Agreement and under applicable information privacy and data protection laws; and to safeguard information or data to ensure availability, integrity, confidentiality, and privacy, or notify individuals of any failure to safeguard such information or data. Measures include but are not limited to those required or interpreted to be required under European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) as promulgated under member countries, the United States Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and any other international and U.S. laws, official legal interpretation, or case precedent pertaining to information or data under the Agreement.
“Vendor” means the contracting entity set forth in the Agreement together with its Affiliates.
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Has the Globalist Establishment Defeated the Populist-Nationalist Revolt?
Last year, when the people of the United Kingdom voted in favor of leaving the European Union, the Establishment in Europe and the United States was stunned. All the polls had predicted a win for the Remain camp. Everyone who counted, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, made it clear that staying within the increasingly dysfunctional EU was the only acceptable option.
The friendly advice of global elites, from all the smart, beautiful, and rich people on both sides of the Pond, was rejected by the people of Britain – or by the people of England and Wales, anyway. What was considered unlikely or even impossible nonetheless happened. Britain, it seemed, was not dead yet.
Next came the United States. All the experts said Hillary Clinton’s victory was a foregone conclusion. The only serious questions were how large her win would be, whether other Republicans running for Congress and state offices could escape the vortex of Donald Trump’s debacle of historical proportions, whom would she select for her Cabinet, and when would World War III start. (Indeed, some seriously suggested that Trump had run solely to help ensure Hillary’s path to the White House, as the only Republican who could manage to lose to such a flawed Democratic standard-bearer.) But working-class voters in America’s Rust Belt – Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan – flipped the Establishment a rude gesture and elected Trump. America, it seemed, was not dead yet.
On both sides of the Atlantic the revolt had been unleashed! Ordinary citizens demanding to claw back power from the Davos class were on the march! What began in 2016 would surely continue in 2017.
Except it didn’t.
Actually, the counterattack of the Establishment began already in 2016. In Austria, Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), who earlier in the year had initially squeaked out a narrow win, which was then reversed by questionable absentee ballots, only then to be nullified by a court challenge, lost to an establishment candidate in a December re-run. The loss came after a predictable campaign of vilification of the FPÖ and Hofer as (choose your favorite) racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, fascist, Nazi, and so forth.
The first test of what some have called the «Trump effect» had failed.
Next came the Netherlands. The March 15 vote saw the defeat of the Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders, who promised to hold a Brexit-style referendum to take the Netherlands out of the EU – «Nexit.» Focused heavily on to the harmful impact of Islamic immigration and Muslims’ refusal to integrate into Dutch society and accept Dutch social standards, Wilders made an even more attractive target than Hofer for those whose concept of Europe includes abolishing its traditional identity. Even though polls showed most Dutch voters favoring a referendum, the result was another defeat for the «far-Right.» (Why is there never a «far-Left»?)
Now we come to France. Three-quarters of French citizens cast their ballots in the first round for candidates who to one extent or another wanted to renegotiate or end France’s relationship with the EU («Frexit»), and maybe NATO too, and to restore ties with Russia. The only top contender who did not make such an offer, Emmanuel Macron – an Establishment candidate fraudulently branded an «outsider» by the servile media – is heavily favored to win over (you guessed it) «racist» «far-Right» «fascist» «Islamophobic» «xenophobic» Marine Le Pen of the National Front. Some media are already warning in grim terms about Russian intrigues to secure her victory, preemptively discrediting her if she does somehow manage to win, or at least to sow «doubt/discord/confusion».
Which brings us back the United States again. Trump won, but he is far from fully in control of the apparatus of the US government. Congressional inquiries into Russian influence in the election and on his team now suggest that General Michael Flynn, Trump’s first National Security Adviser, could face criminal charges. Federal judges brazenly disregard the laws and the Constitution to strike down Trump’s efforts to police America’s borders and deport illegal aliens.
Taking what may seem now to him the path of least resistance, Trump and his appointees have instituted a national security policy that hardly differs from Obama’s or what Hillary’s would have been if she had won:
– Vilify Russia, maintain sanctions, and keep expanding NATO (welcome Montenegro!), which turns out not to be «obsolete» after all;
– Bomb Syria and demand «regime change» in Damascus;
– Expand military operations in Afghanistan, including dropping the «Mother Of All Bombs»;
– Threaten North Korea and Iran with military action; and
– Press China on Korea and the South China Sea, while offering concessions on trade – a complete reversal of what should have been Trump’s deal.
Part of this reflects bad personnel selections. Part of it may be a calculation born of necessity – one step forward, two steps back. (After all, Steve Bannon has called himself a Leninist.) The pinprick strike on Syria indicates it may have been mainly for show.
But most of all we see how weak Trump’s position is, election or no election. The Establishment may not have been able to stop him at the ballot box, partly because of how horrible the competing candidate and her campaign were. But they still may get the last laugh.
If indeed Le Pen is defeated, it may show that the corrupt, plutocratic, anti-Christian, anti-national pseudo-elites have found the formula to ensure their perpetuation in power, for a while anyway. That, however, will do nothing to address the political, economic, demographic, and above all spiritual crises that characterize their misrule. It means only that they have beat back orderly and peaceful attempts by decent citizens to change course before it’s too late. If that turns out to be the case, it will only mean that the collapse, when it comes, will be all the more terrible.
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Oman, Technology
Oman confirms plans to launch satellites
Oman is planning to launch two medium-sized satellites into orbit, according to the Minister of Transport and Communications.
News, Saudi Arabia, SME, Software, Technology, Vendor
Canon to support business solutions demands in Saudi Arabia
Canon Middle East (CME) has announced that it is expanding its regional presence by establishing direct operations in Saudi Arabia.
Hardware, News, Technology
Etisalat has begun selling Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS +Cellular), which adds built-in cellular, with orders starting 8th June and availability on 15th June.
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AMD demos next-generation of CPU and GPU offerings
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Batelco appoints new chairman
Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), has announced the appointment of a new Chairman, Shaikh Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Khalifa.
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Saudi Arabia’s Al Khobar becomes first Middle East city to get 5G network
Al Khobar, a city in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province, became the first city in the Middle East and North Africa to test 5G wireless connectivity after it launched a pilot project last week, according to a recent statement released by the Kingdom’s Ministry of Culture and Information.
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News, Startup, Technology, Telecoms
UAE’s Etisalat teams up with startups to develop future technologies
Etisalat Digital has announced that it has signed strategic partnerships with four scale-ups as part of the ‘Dubai Future Accelerators Program,’ the world’s largest government supported accelerator.
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Husband of US soldier deported to Mexico, then allowed back
PHOENIX (AP) — The husband of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan was deported to Mexico last week and then allowed back to Arizona after the move sparked outrage.
The Arizona Republic first reported that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 30-year-old Jose Gonzalez Carranza last week. Gonzalez Carranza came to the U.S. illegally when he was a teenager.
Within hours of the newspaper's story Monday, authorities told Gonzalez Carranza that he could return to the U.S.
His wife, Barbara Vieyra, was killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2010. She was 22. The couple has a 12-year-old daughter who lives with Vieyra's parents.
Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, who has embraced a tough stance on immigration, said on Good Morning Arizona that the story bothered him and that the deportation was "not right."
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In Florida governor’s race, are Jeff Greene and Phil Levine one in the same?
Democratic candidates for governor Jeff Greene and Phil Levine are pitching platforms and back stories to voters that are so similar they almost sound like they’re promoting the same candidate.
Jeff Greene (left) and Philip Levine (right) are both seeking the Democratic nomination for Florida governor. [AP Photo Steve Mitchell / Miami Herald Jose Iglesias]
By David Smiley
Have you heard about the Jewish businessman who was born in Boston, grew up in South Florida, built a fortune and now wants to become the state's next governor?
Chances are good that you have — especially since there are two of them.
As Democratic voters begin to cast mail-in ballots and prepare for early voting in August's primary elections, Jeff Greene and Philip Levine may be each other's biggest complication. Despite massive financial advantages that have helped them promote their campaigns in ways that Andrew Gillum, Gwen Graham and Chris King can not, Greene and Levine are pitching platforms and back-stories to voters that are so similar they almost sound like they're promoting the same candidate.
"Both men have extremely similar profiles — politically experienced, successful business owners who are white, male, Jewish and from South Florida," Brad Coker, CEO of Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy, noted last week after a poll showed Greene climbing into third place and Levine falling into second behind Graham. "With this overlapping appeal, the two are drawing a combined 30% of voters — slightly more than Graham."
The Mason-Dixon findings are similar with other recent polls showing that the former Miami Beach mayor appears to have slipped since Greene, a 63-year-old Palm Beach billionaire, entered the race in early June. Once the frontrunner, Levine, who at the age of 56 lists his net worth at $133 million, is now polling alongside or behind Graham.
Levine had built an advantage over the field heading into the summer thanks in part to a habit of criss-crossing the state in a luxury tour buswrapped in campaign logos and an advertising blitz funded by his own money, which he's used to match his donors' contributions. But that was before Greene spent $13 million of his own dollars in seven weeks.
Now, while Levine's other opponents are either just getting on television or avoiding South Florida's expensive TV market altogether, Greene is suddenly sharing air time with Levine in Miami and out-spending him around Florida.
Levine, though, is undeterred. After a brief appearance Saturday at his Broward County campaign headquarters, he answered a question about his similarities with Greene by contrasting himself with all his opponents.
"The difference between me and the rest of my opponents is I combine both the best of the private sector but also someone who's tested in the public sector as a two-term mayor," Levine said, while subtly comparing Greene to Republican Gov. Rick Scott and President Donald Trump. "One thing we do know is we have a governor who went straight from business to politics and a president who's gone right from business to politics. I think folks want to see someone perform in the public arena — maybe not at the highest level — to see how they do and how they're able to get things done."
Where Levine is a longtime Democratic donor and Bill Clinton confidant, Greene once ran for Congress in California as a Republican. Greene — who says he'll use his money to fund other candidates if he's the Democratic nominee — also ran for the U.S. Senate in Florida as a Democrat in 2010 and lost a primary to Kendrick Meek, but has never held public office.
Still, before a behind-schedule Levine arrived in Plantation Saturday morning, his own field staff was talking in the halls of the office about the similarities between the two candidates, the possibility that they are fighting over a similar pool of voters and the chances that all of this benefits Graham.
Consider: Both Greene and Levine were born into blue-collar families living near Boston. Both moved to South Florida in their youth. Both are Jewish. Both are heavily invested in real estate. Both tout the appeal of a successful business record. Both say their ability to self-finance insulates them from the sway of special interests.
But like Levine, Greene thinks there are some notable differences. Following a speech Saturday evening to the Florida LGBTA Democratic Caucus at a Hilton next to the Palm Beach International Airport, Greene said he brings "a very unique background to the race.
"This is a job interview. They [voters] have to look at who's best to run an $89 billion budget and a $1 trillion economy," Greene said. "If we were all sitting at a table or walking into an objective hiring board looking at resumes … I'm not saying Philip isn't educated. He went to the University of Michigan and I went to Johns Hopkins University. He's been successful. I've been much much more successful."
Greene also dismissed the importance of Levine's tenure as mayor, arguing that Levine has inflated his accomplishments and over-stated his role in a city government run by an appointed administrator, not the mayor.
"They don't have a school system," Greene said. "They're not running the city."
As Greene spoke to a reporter, his wife and children were squeezing into a blue Tesla headed to the airport. He was headed to Orange County for another speaking engagement, the first stop on a statewide tour.
On this leg, Greene was flying.
But for the rest of the trip, he planned on getting around in a method that Levine would also find familiar: a luxury tour bus wrapped in campaign logos.
David Smiley @NewsbySmiley [email protected]
Miami Herald's political reporter.
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DOT survey wants to know driver origins, destinations
Where are you coming from and where are you going?
That's what the Florida Department of Transportation wants to know if you use Interstate 95 in Palm Beach and Broward counties.
Starting Tuesday, workers will hand out questionnaires to drivers stopped at traffic signals at select I-95 exit ramps and at intersections near the highway. The survey will be conducted on weekdays for two weeks.
Drivers can complete the "origin and destination" surveys online or return them by mail with the included prepaid postage.
Those who return the surveys postmarked by midnight July 31 are eligible to win a $50 gas card. Ten respondents will be chosen.
The Federal Highway Administration is sponsoring the survey to help the state better understand how I-95 is used by the public.
Move Over Law campaign pulls over 4,500 violators
When a police officer is on the side of a road, it's not only important to slow down or move over, it's the law.
Florida law enforcement officers have been working hard to enforce the Move Over Law since it became official in 2002, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The law requires drivers to move over one lane whenever an emergency vehicle on the side of the road has emergency lights activated. If moving over is not an option, the drivers must slow down at least 20 mph below the speed limit.
During the weeklong campaign June 23-29, law enforcement agencies statewide issued more than 4,500 citations, the FHP said.
From 1996 to 2000, motorists in Florida crashed into working law enforcement vehicles that were stopped or parked along Florida roadways 1,793 times, resulting in five deaths and 419 injuries, the FHP said.
Keep umbrella handy; afternoon rain forecast
You might want to rethink any outside activities planned for the weekend in South Florida. More rain is on the way.
Mornings should be dry in both Palm Beach and Broward counties today and Sunday, but the rest of the day may be a wash.
"We're going to see the typical afternoon-evening showers and thunderstorms developing," said Chuck Caracozza, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami.
Caracozza said there was about a 50 percent chance of rain today and 60 percent Sunday, with temperatures hovering around 90 degrees.
The recent rain has been a boon for Lake Okeechobee, which is inching closer to normal water levels. At 9.85 feet above sea level, the lake is still 4 feet below average. But it's a foot higher than last year.
Man fatally shot during gunbattle identified
Sheriff's Office deputies identified the man fatally shot in what neighbors described as a street gunbattle near West Palm Beach on Wednesday night.
Mohammed Beckford, 29, of west of West Palm Beach, was shot and killed in the 5000 block of Eadie Place. Another man injured in the shooting remains unidentified.
When deputies arrived, they found the unidentified man in a driveway with a gunshot wound to the chest. A rifle was found next to him. He was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center.
Beckford was found dead in the backyard, investigators said. The county Violent Crime Task Force has taken over the investigation.
Detectives ask anyone with information on this case to call 561-688-4000 or Crime Stoppers at 800-458-8477.
Two drivers injured in crash on Yamato Road
Boca Raton police are investigating a crash at West Yamato Road and Jog Road that injured two drivers about 12:40 a.m. Thursday.
Marisa Pettigrew, 24, of Lighthouse Point, who was driving a Kia, was rushed to Delray Medical Center, where she is listed in critical condition.
Elise Ralby, 45, of Boca Raton, who was driving a Nissan Murano, was also taken to Delray Medical Center, where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police spokeswoman Sandra Boonenberg said.
Details of the crash are unclear.
To determine what happened, police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the crash to contact traffic investigators at 561-338-1356.
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ALYSE GREGORY
SHE SHALL HAVE MUSIC
Publication: 26 Sept 2017
KING LOG AND LADY LEA
Reissued: February 2017
IN STOCK HESTER CRADDOCK
Publication: July 2019
ALYSE GREGORY (1882–1967) was born at Norwalk in Connecticut. One of her first great loves was music and she spent some of her early years in Europe training to be a singer, but on returning to the United States became involved in local politics and the woman’s suffrage movement, for which she was a fearless public speaker. In New York she began contributing articles to such publications as The Freeman, The New Republic and The Dial, becoming editor of this last journal in 1924. That same year she married the English writer Llewelyn Powys and moved with him to Dorset in 1925. Over the next six years she published three novels – She Shall Have Music (1926), King Log and Lady Lea (1929) and Hester Craddock (1931).
First reissue since original publication
With an Introduction by Janice Gregory
She Shall Have Music was Alyse Gregory’s first novel published in 1926 while she was Managing Editor of The Dial. The book draws from Gregory’s real life, gives her a platform for examining her feminist beliefs and, strangely enough, foreshadows the consequences of her choices.
The novel is both a coming of age story and an awakening to feminine consciousness for the heroine, Sylvia Pennington Brown. At the outset, young Sylvia, her mother and her father have just moved to a wealthy suburb of New York City on Long Island. Sylvia’s brother, Burton, is off stage enjoying (as Sylvia views it) a great education and worldly adventures accessible only to men.
Mrs. Pennington Brown, the quintessential social climber, frets over Sylvia’s bookishness, and schemes to introduce her daughter to society and to marry her to a man from the upper classes. She is aided in her schemes by the sycophantic butler, Meadows. Her husband, Mr. Pennington Brown, escapes to his job as a banker in New York City. While he minimally supports his wife’s endeavours, he appears more as a pawn in the action.
Sylvia, of course, falls in love with a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, the drunken gardener’s son, Marcel, from the neighbouring estate. Despite his low birth Marcel is an intellectual living in a study filled with books. Sylvia and he are simpatico souls seeking knowledge and an understanding of their unfolding world - a world set in the early twentieth century when new inventions, such as the car, electric lighting, the airplane, abounded and the social structure was upended by the consequences of World War I, emerging working class rights, and feminism.
The plot of She Shall Have Music uses Sylvia’s rebellion against her parents’ values and her relationship to men, lovers and marriage to understand women’s rights in the new world. Gregory grappled with these issues all her life.
The style of She Shall Have Music is languorous in the best sense of the word. Gregory employs multiple metaphors, similes and complex sentences to reveal the totality of her keen observations. Her writing is reminiscent of Henry James who, she states, “was the novelist who, until I read Proust, influenced me most strongly. He taught me to seek out drama in the most insignificant daily incident, and that the only really important battles are the eternal ones of the ardent and the magnanimous against the cruel and the gross.” Sylvia, the heroine, is the ardent and magnanimous while characters such as Sylvia’s mother, the butler, the gardener and societal norms of the 1920s represent the cruel and the gross.
An excerpt adapted from Janice Gregory's Introduction
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First Paperback Edition
With an Introduction by Anthony Head
In her second novel, Alyse Gregory recounts the story of Richard and Mary Holland, a married couple whose seemingly conventional relationship is threatened by the arrival on the scene of Celia Linton, once the object of Richard’s attentions several years earlier and now an alluring young woman. Richard is eager to incorporate her into his life, but hasn’t bargained for the intangible mutual attraction that develops between the two females. Underlying this sober tale of love and death is the theme of war between the sexes, with its unheeded misconceptions and fevered imaginings, but more profoundly the fear of loneliness and the poignancy of human isolation.
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Alyse Gregory: King Log and Lady Lea
Sundial Press. p/back, 224pp., ISBN 978 0955 152382
Alyse Gregory (1884-1967) is one of the many as yet unrecognized American women modernists of the early twentieth century who unfortunately suppressed her ambitions in order to fulfill the role of the ideal wife according to the precepts of nineteenth century “true womanhood.” Her second novel, King Log and Lady Lea (1929) candidly discusses the options available to women at the time. It opens with a marital breakfast scene which introduces the reader to Mary and Richard Holland. Mary, who recognizes that after two years of marriage “her experience had closed in about her and was contained only in the figure of her husband” [p.4], likens herself to a “wounded gull shot while flying over a swamp” [5] – the same bird that years later would lend its name to the title of Gregory’s diary. In spite of this self-knowledge, willing to forsake her writing, betray her well-developed artistic tastes, and sacrifice her peace of mind, Mary throws all her intellectual and vital energy into ensuring her husband’s well-being. In order to afford him some distraction from the quiet life of the country, she invites Celia, a young woman he had known before his marriage, to spend a few days with them. The amorous triangle that ensues and the final tragic death are narrated by Gregory with psychological insight and poetical intensity.
Gregory had made her position as to modernist experimentation clear in her reviews for the Dial, of which she had been Managing Editor till her marriage to Llewelyn Powys. She wanted language to be “simple and selective,” capable of expressing a clear thought, and she objected, for example, to what she saw as a lack of “dignity, simplicity, and restraint” in H. D.’s prose [1]. King Log and Lady Lea does not always achieve the simplicity and restraint that Gregory sought, veering, at times, dangerously close to melodramatic sentimentality, but the invisible narrative voice, strictly channeled through the consciousness of the characters, is distanced and controlled in spite of the torments of agitation that Mary, Richard or Celia occasionally surrender to. Gregory is sufficiently in command of the narrative to allow for subtle moments of comical insight, such as when Celia praises Mary’s playing the piano, and Richard, who had never considered his wife in any way talented, is surprised – and feels “his own importance enhanced in consequence” [29]. New York, where part of the novel takes place, and the countryside are also portrayed as experienced by the characters: for example, we are not told that Richard ran up the steps as he pursues Celia toward the end of the novel, but that “The tracks above as he took the last step up the curb seemed to descend upon his head, the pavement to rise up like a perpendicular plane” [181]: thus the city participates in the human drama that unfolds on its streets. Similarly, in one of the many scenes in the country, nature is made into an active element in the minimal plot: “When would the first yellow irises come, and the pickerel weed, they [Mary and Celia] wondered, hoping that both would be together to view them, for each drew away with fear from the thought of separation” [85].
As Anthony Head in his sensitive introduction to the Sundial edition of this novel states, there is “an undeniably personal nature” in the events that Gregory recounts in King Log and Lady Lea. However, the novel cannot be considered a model for Llewelyn Powys’s Love and Death: an Imaginary Autobiography (1939); Gregory’s novel is not a Proustian reclaiming of “the significance of past life through creative reordering,” which is how Peter Foss presents Powys’s novel [2]. Rather, Gregory is attempting to exorcize – and imaginatively compensate for – a very recent past and its impending reiteration. The novel can be read as an attempt to come to terms with the anguish that her husband’s infidelities caused her but also as an attempt to justify her tolerance of Powys’s insensitive behavior – and to imaginatively explore the possible results of a woman leaving her husband.
Although it is generally assumed that the novel is based on Llewelyn Powys’s relationship with Gamel Woolsey, Gregory’s letters home reveal that she was already busy rewriting her first draft in September 1927 – and feeling fairly optimistic that it would be much more successful than She Shall Have Music, her first novel [3]. The direct inspiration for King Log and Lady Lea would have been Powys’s affair with Betty Marsh, a young woman he had known before he married Alyse Gregory; Powys did not meet Woolsey until after their return to Patchin Place in November 1927. In an undated letter to Malcolm Elwin, Gregory explains how, soon after her marriage to Powys, she had agreed to Betty’s visit, thus establishing a precedent for the later relationship with Woolsey. She had always valued her independence and solitude and by giving her husband the liberty he sought gained a certain measure of freedom for herself – a license she would never take advantage of. Although in King Log and Lady Lea she examines the consequences of conjugal freedom, the novel is more fictional than autobiographical. If, as Jacqueline Peltier in A Woman at her Window rightly points out, descriptions of Celia coincide with the descriptions of Gamel Woolsey in The Cry of a Gull, this is because Gregory would continue rewriting her novel till it was published at the end of 1929, incorporating characteristics of the woman who was indeed to become one of her closest friends.
The question of a lesbian relationship is inevitably raised by King Log and Lady Lea; Rosemary Manning remarked on this possibility, but dismissed it, saying “That her [Mary’s] relationship with Celia is lesbian is hinted at, but is unimportant. The story’s power is in the alliance of these two women against the man they both love” [4]. I agree with Manning that this is not a significant issue in the novel, which is much more than an examination of female friendship. The themes of the novel focus on fear of the natural processes of life: ageing – particularly for women – and death; on the total solitude of human beings that is never fully assuaged even by the beauty and variety of nature; and on the impossibility of real communication and interpenetration with others – achieved in nature but rarely by humans. It is also about the sexual life-force of women that post-Victorian society strove to deny, and the lack of understanding between human beings and particularly men and women.
Gregory does not focus exclusively on how female friendship empowers women in her attempt to understand human behavior; her capacity for psychological insight and her admiration for Freud’s theories does not allow for a simple resolution to the human triangle created by Richard. Mary does not want to hurt her husband by leaving him suddenly; although she recognizes that her life had folded in on itself after marriage and that she had lost – and misses – the independence of mind and action that she had previously enjoyed, on some level, she still loves Richard and pities him. Celia’s allegiances, however, have turned exclusively to Mary and, through Celia, Gregory captures the fears, insecurities, and jealousies that plague all relationships. Pity and jealousy lead to a series of fraught, almost melodramatic scenes that culminate in a tragic street accident. Mary’s sense of obligation to Richard, and her inability to fully confide in Celia because she sees her as thirteen years younger and so a rival on the sexual arena come close to destroying the women’s friendship. And yet Gregory ends the novel on an optimistic note; a tune spiritedly played by an Italian band offers Mary a promise of fullness of life, and – we hope – a renewal of the bonds of friendship.
The title, King Log and Lady Lea, might appear puzzling: Gregory confided in her mother that it did not fully please her but that she had not been able to come up with anything better. The phallic log – representing felled virility – and the fallow lea of the title dispel any hints of a lesbian focus to the novel, and concentrate on the sterile male/female relationship. King Log could be a reference to Aesop’s Fable of “The Frogs who Desired a King,” alluding to women’s presumed need of a master, as expressed by Herr Hugo von Stirner in his cameo appearance in chapter nineteen of the novel. But Gregory herself gives us another possible interpretation: she prefaced the first edition of the novel published by Constable in 1929, with two quotations, the second a variant of the nursery rhyme:
London bridge is broken down,
Dance over my Lady Lea;
With a gay ladye.
Lady Lea – sometimes spelt Lee – has been variously identified, but could be Lady Margaret Wyatt, a childhood friend of Anne Boleyn who accompanied the doomed queen as she awaited her fate in the tower. In that case, and Gregory’s erudition was far-reaching, the reference could be to the loyalty of women’s friendships.
The other quotation, the first four lines of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 41, “Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits” seems to exonerate infidelity as a trifling misdemeanor. Although the betrayal in King Log and Lady Lea is committed by Richard, it is Mary who, true to social prejudices, feels guilty. She takes responsibility for having invited Celia, for being older and therefore of less interest to Richard, for enjoying her newly-found female friendship with Celia, for being angry at Richard’s callous behavior. At no point does her husband even entertain the thought that he has done wrong; he is incapable of seeing the events from her point of view or of understanding how he has hurt and offended both her and Celia – nonetheless, Gregory, by her sensitive portrayal of Richard’s tormented mind, makes him into an amiable character whose predicament rouses the reader’s compassion. Mary’s obligation was to construct and safeguard his faith in his virility and in his social and artistic talents; the moment she strays from this path, his sense of identity is shattered: he finally sees himself as “a figure puerile and insignificant. . . . To whom could he cling? Who was there to comfort him? . . . He was a Philistine, a failure” [18]).
King Log and Lady Lea rehearses imaginatively the opinions on marriage that Gregory expressed in her diaries and, more publicly, in articles published in literary journals in the early twenties and in Wheels on Gravel, a collection of essays that came out in 1938. “The Dilemma of Marriage,” an article in the New Republic on 4 July 1923, is a radical statement against monogamous marriage and the unequal treatment of women in a nation that had just recently, in 1920, given women the right to vote. Gregory, who had fought for suffrage, and who by this time was living with Powys, but not yet married to him, audaciously affirms that “It is hardly an exaggeration to say that most monogamous marriages are compromises based upon mutual illusion, and maintained by fear” [15]) – and fear is one of the essential components of all the relationships in King Log and Lady Lea. By 1938, when she published Wheels on Gravel, which includes an essay of the same title, her views had been tempered by her experiences with Powys and by time itself, although she continued to believe in the polygamous nature of humankind and in the positive aspects of polygamy. To add weight to her argument she turned to Nietzsche, whose Dionysian joy of life she struggled to make her own, a joy she projects onto Mary: “Life means for us constantly to transform into light and flame all that we are or meet with”[5].
However, Gregory – as is Mary – is fully aware of the tension created by the need for tenderness and security as opposed to this need to live adventurously. She insists that a woman who loses the love of her husband/companion to another woman should not feel belittled, for such a loss bears no “stigma of dishonour” [76], and the suffering caused by feeling “her own worth annulled” and seeing herself “shorn of every charm” [75] can be combated by “intelligence – intelligence and more intelligence” [77]. And yet, as she had written in Wheels on Gravel, “Women create the illusions in which men thrive and themselves perish in the illusions they create” [63]. In her earlier, imaginative, recreation of the theme, the women do not perish: Richard’s obvious infidelity stirs Mary to reflect on how and why she has transformed herself from the independent, fearless woman she had been before her marriage, to virtual non-existence: “she had nearly vanished altogether” [41] as she says of herself. But at a critical moment in their relationship, Mary reflects that “If he no longer loved her she had nothing to lose in being herself” [49].
The carefully prepared and designed Sundial edition of King Log and Lady Lea makes this novel by Alyse Gregory available after many years to the general public, and together with Hester Craddock, her third novel, published by Sundial Press in 2007, should do much to affirm Gregory’s position as a modernist writer of stature. King Log and Lady Lea, a study of infidelity and the struggle to overcome fear of solitude, is still valid today and probably more likely to attract readers than the later novel.
Barbara Ozieblo
[1] Alyse Gregory. “A Poet’s Novel.” The Dial, November 1927, 417-19.
[2] Peter J. Foss. “The Proustian Equivalent: A Reading of Love and Death. Powys Journal. Vol. 7, 1998, 131
[3] Gregory’s letters to her mother are held in the Beinecke Library of the University of Yale.
[4] Rosemary Manning. “Alyse Gregory: A Biographical Sketch based on her Published and Private writings.” Powys Review. No. 3, 1978, 90.
[5] Alyse Gregory. Wheels on Gravel. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938, 73.
HESTER CRADDOCK
First Paperback Edition December 2018
With an Introduction by Barbara Ozieblo
Hester Craddock and her sister Nelly live with their aloof brother Wilfred in a cottage on a remote headland. The comfortable monotony of their routine lives is broken irrevocably by the arrival in the local village of the writer Edwin Pallant and his attractive artist friend Halmath Tryan. Casual acquaintance leads to deeper involvement as the protagonists become entangled in a web of shifting relationships, in which the desire for knowledge and experience unleashes the forces of jealousy, suspicion, and despair, with unforeseen consequences.
‘This attractive reissue of her third novel, Hester Craddock, an acutely observed psychological drama, is especially welcome. It is certainly an impressive and memorable work.’ – The TLS, 2007
‘Hester Craddock is a rich and powerful book... It is a novel of psychic moods, inner tensions and forces.. However much of Alyse’s personal experiences and torments went into the writing of this novel, they have been through the crucible of her imagination to produce a work of fiction of wide scale and deep intensity.’ – Rosemary Manning
An excerpt from Barbara Ozieblo's introduction to HESTER CRADDOCK
As Hester and Edwin, in the last pages of Hester Craddock, ‘approached the Black Nore promontory where the sun was flinging its powerful rays onto the abrupt bitten edges of the white dazzling cliffs’, their own troubles are reflected in the stark solitude of the terrain and the melancholy mewing of the gulls. Alyse Gregory, author of this novel that was published in 1931, also identified with the cliffs and the downs where she had made her home in 1925, and where she would remain – with brief absences – until 1957.
Gregory had moved to Dorset from New York where she had been Managing Editor of The Dial; she was also an established essayist and book reviewer, a largely self educated, responsive and intelligent woman who had decided to give up her independence and career for love. Born on 19 July 1884 into a well-established family in Norwalk, Connecticut, she had always felt herself to be the outsider, the unwanted child that could never live up to her parents’ expectations. Unable to face failure and yet terrified of boredom, her extreme awareness and sensitivity made those early years into a time ‘to be endured’ rather than ‘enjoyed’, and allowed her to build up the ‘granite strength of character and courage’ that would see her through life and, eventually, suicide, on 27 August, 1967.1
At the turn of the century, the moral strictures of the Victorian era were giving way to the demands of evolution, technological progress, and women’s rights; in some ways, Gregory benefited from this move toward what we can, today, call a modernist liberalization of thought and mores. She spent some years in Italy and France, studying music – she had an excellent singing voice – but, unwilling to trust her voice in public, she returned to Connecticut after a few years to, as she would set down in her autobiography The Day Is Gone (1948), ‘pursue ends concealed from others’. An idealistic interest in town politics and education, a deep, active commitment to the woman suffrage movement, writing, and editorial jobs in New York filled the next years. She soon made a place for herself in literary and intellectual circles, counting Scofield Thayer, Harold Stearns and Randolph Bourne among her closest friends. In early 1924 she accepted the position of Managing Editor of The Dial, a prestigious post she would hand over to the poet Marianne Moore in July 1925 in order to accompany her husband to England.
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S-Corps, Basis & Loss Limitations
By Lou Vlahos on May 1, 2017
It is a basic principle of federal tax law that a taxpayer cannot, for purposes of determining the taxpayer’s taxable income, claim a loss with respect to an investment in excess of the taxpayer’s unrecovered economic cost for such investment. If the taxpayer invested $X to acquire a non-depreciable asset – for example, a capital contribution in exchange for shares of stock in a C corporation, or a loan to a corporation in exchange for an interest-bearing note – the amount of loss realized by the taxpayer upon the disposition or worthlessness of the asset will be based upon the amount invested by the taxpayer in acquiring the asset. Where the asset is depreciable by the taxpayer, the loss realized is determined by reference to the taxpayer’s cost basis, reduced by the depreciation deductions claimed by the taxpayer (which represent a recovery of the taxpayer’s cost), i.e., the taxpayer’s adjusted basis.
Application to S-Corps
In the case of an S corporation, a shareholder’s ability to utilize his pro rata share of any deductions or losses realized by the S corporation is limited in accordance with this principle; specifically, for any taxable year, the aggregate amount of losses and deductions that may be taken into account by a shareholder cannot exceed the sum of the adjusted basis of the shareholder’s stock in the S corporation, and the shareholder’s adjusted basis for any bona fide loans made by the shareholder to the S corporation.
Stock Basis
Because an S corporation is treated as a pass-through for tax purposes, its income is generally not subject to corporate-level tax; rather, it is taxed to its shareholders (whether or not it is distributed to them).
In order to preserve this single level of tax, a shareholder’s initial basis for his shares of S corporation stock – which may be the amount he paid to acquire the shares from another shareholder or the adjusted basis of any property he contributed to the corporation in a tax-free exchange for such shares – is adjusted upward by the amount of income that is allocated and taxed to the shareholder; in this way, the already-taxed income may later be distributed to the shareholder without causing him to realize a gain (as where the amount distributed exceeds the stock basis).
By the same token, where already-taxed income has not been distributed to the shareholder, it remains subject to the risks of the business, and the shareholder is effectively treated as having made an “economic outlay” which may be lost in the operation of the business; this is reflected in his stock basis.
Debt Basis
In general, a shareholder’s basis for a cash loan from the shareholder to the corporation is equal to the face amount of the loan.
If the corporation’s indebtedness to the shareholder arose out of a transfer of property by the shareholder to the corporation – basically, a sale of the property in exchange for the corporation’s obligation to pay the purchase price some time in the future – the basis is equal to the face amount of the obligation less the amount of the deferred gain.
As the corporate indebtedness is satisfied, and the amount at economic risk is reduced, the shareholder’s basis in the debt is reduced.
“Necessity” as the Mother of Invention?
Because of this basis-limitation rule, S corporation shareholders, over the years, have proffered many arguments to support their ability to claim their share of S corporation losses – i.e., to increase their stock or debt basis – without having made an economic outlay. A recent decision by the U.S. Tax Court illustrates one such argument.
The Personal Guarantee
The sole issue in this case was whether Taxpayer had a sufficient basis in S-Corp., on account of his obligation with respect to S-Corp’s debt to a third party, to permit Taxpayer to deduct $X, which represented a portion of his distributive share of the corporation’s flow-through losses, on his personal income tax return.
Taxpayer was the sole shareholder of S-Corp. S-Corp. borrowed $Y from Bank, and Taxpayer personally guaranteed the loan. S-Corp. was later liquidated. At the time of liquidation, S-Corp. still owed Bank $X. S-Corp. filed its Form 1120S, U.S. Income Tax Return for an S corporation, on which it reported an ordinary business loss of $X. Taxpayer had no stock or debt basis in S-Corp. when it was liquidated.
According to the record before the Court, after S-Corp. was liquidated, the operations of the business somehow continued under its former name, S-Corp.’s loan with Bank was somehow renewed, and S-Corp. remained the named borrower of the renewed loan. Taxpayer signed the renewal note as president of S-Corp. and was the guarantor of the loan.
Also according to the record, Taxpayer made all loan payments following the liquidation of S-Corp., but the record did not indicate whether he made the payments from his personal funds or merely signed checks drawn on the account of S-Corp.
The IRS examined Taxpayer’s tax return and disallowed the $X loss deduction related to S-Corp., explaining that, because Taxpayer’s share of S-Corp.’s loss was limited to the extent of his adjusted basis for his stock, the amount of loss in excess of such basis was disallowed and was not was not currently deductible.
The Court’s Analysis
The Court began by explaining that an S corporation shareholder may take into account his or her pro rata share of the corporation’s losses, deductions, or credits. It then explained how the Code limits the aggregate amount of losses and deductions the shareholder may take into account to the sum of (A) the adjusted basis of the shareholder’s stock in the S corporation, and (B) the shareholder’s adjusted basis in any indebtedness of the S corporation
Taxpayer conceded that he had no stock or debt basis in S-Corp. at the time of its liquidation. However, he contended that upon the liquidation, he assumed the balance due on the note as guarantor and, because he was the sole remaining obligor, this assumption was effectively a contribution to capital, allowing him to deduct the amount of S-Corp.’s losses. Further, he asserted that, following S-Corp.’s liquidation, the Bank expected him, as guarantor, to repay the loan and that the Bank’s expectation was sufficient to generate basis for Taxpayer in S-Corp.
The Court rejected Taxpayer’s arguments. Merely guaranteeing an S corporation’s debt, it stated, was not sufficient to generate basis. The Court pointed out that, on many prior occasions, it had held that no form of indirect borrowing, be it by guaranty, surety or otherwise, gives rise to indebtedness from an S corporation to its shareholders until and unless the shareholders pay part or all of the obligation. “Prior to that crucial act, ‘liability’ may exist, but not debt to the shareholders.” The Court also stated that a shareholder may obtain an increase in basis in an S corporation only if there was an economic outlay on the part of the shareholder that leaves the shareholder “poorer in a material sense.” In other words, the shareholder must make an actual “investment” in the corporation.
The Court recognized, however, that a shareholder who has guaranteed a loan to an S corporation may increase his or her basis where, in substance, the shareholder has borrowed funds and subsequently advanced them to the corporation. Although, as a general rule, an economic outlay is required before a shareholder in an S corporation may increase his or her basis, this rule does not require a shareholder, in all cases, to “absolve a corporation’s debt before [he or she] may recognize an increased basis as a guarantor of a loan to a corporation.” Observing that “where the nature of a taxpayer’s interest in a corporation is in issue, courts may look beyond the form of the interest and investigate the substance of the transaction.” The Court indicated that a shareholder’s guaranty of a loan to an S corporation “may be treated for tax purposes as an equity investment in the corporation where the lender looks to the shareholder as the primary obligor.”
This determination, the Court stated, was an “inquiry focused on highly complex issues of fact and that similar inquiries must be carefully evaluated on their own facts.” (For example, the testimony of a loan officer stating that the lender-bank looked primarily to the taxpayer, and not the corporation, for repayment of the loan, as well as evidence that the S corporation was thinly capitalized.)
The Court then turned to the facts in the case to determine whether Taxpayer had established that the Bank looked to Taxpayer for repayment and Taxpayer had made economic outlays in making those payments.
The Court found that Taxpayer presented no evidence to support a finding that the Bank looked primarily to him, as opposed to S-Corp., for repayment of the loan, especially given the fact that, even after the corporate liquidation, S-Corp. remained an ongoing business enterprise.
It acknowledged that, according to the stipulation of facts, “[t]he [Taxpayer] continues to make payments on the loan”, but there was no indication, it pointed out, that the loan payments were made from Taxpayer’s personal funds rather than S-Corp.’s funds with Taxpayer signing payment checks as president. Moreover, under the terms of the renewal note, the renewed loan was to S-Corp. and Taxpayer’s obligation was that of a guarantor, not the maker of the loan.
The Court next considered Taxpayer’s assertion that the renewal of the loan to S-Corp. did not affect his position that he became the primary obligor of the loan upon S-Corp.’s liquidation. Taxpayer posited that he assumed the debt at the time of S-Corp.’s liquidation and that “his status as the sole remaining obligor”, for tax purposes, caused the repayments of the loan to be treated as contributions to the capital of S-Corp. The IRS disagreed, arguing that “upon the corporation’s liquidation, the debt remained undisturbed: the corporation did not default on the debt, the terms of the debt were not altered, and payments on the debt continued.”
The Court determined that there was insufficient evidence in the record to support a finding that the loan was made to Taxpayer personally, as opposed to S-Corp., and that Taxpayer, as the borrower, advanced the loan proceeds to S-Corp. Because Taxpayer failed to establish that the Bank looked primarily to Taxpayer to satisfy the debt obligation or that Taxpayer made an economic outlay with respect to the loan, Taxpayer failed to prove he had a basis in S-Corp. sufficient for him to deduct the reported business losses.
Advice to S Corporation Shareholders
What is an S corporation shareholder to do when corporate losses have been allocated to him, but he has no basis in his shares, and he either has no outstanding loan to the corporation or at least not one in which he has any basis? What happens to these excess losses, and how can they be utilized?
The excess losses allocated to a shareholder for a tax year cannot be used by the shareholder to offset ordinary income reported on the shareholder’s tax return for that year. That being said, the shareholder must realize that the excess losses are not lost (sorry for the pun) – they are merely suspended until such time as the shareholder has sufficient basis in his stock, or in a loan made by him to the corporation, to allow the losses to flow through to him. (Even then, however, the losses have to pass muster under the “at risk” and “passive loss” rules before the shareholder can realize their full benefit.)
So, how can a shareholder facilitate or expedite the use of his suspended losses? There are some options to consider:
Make a capital contribution to the corporation (using the shareholder’s own funds, or using funds borrowed from a third party; paying off a corporate debt)
Forego distributions by the corporation in profitable years (loan the distributed funds back to the corporation)
Accelerate the recognition of income by the corporation
Defer the deduction of corporate expenses
Make a loan to the corporation (using the shareholder’s own funds, or using funds borrowed from a third party; substituting the shareholder’s note for the corporation’s)
Each of these options presents its own risks and issues. For example, what if the shareholder does not receive additional stock in the corporation in exchange for his capital contribution? Has he made a gift to the other shareholders? He has certainly put more of his money at risk.
Of course, the shareholder can wait until the corporation sells its business. The gain from the sale may generate sufficient basis so as to allow the use of the suspended losses for the year of the sale (though the shareholder will thereby likely realize more gain on a subsequent liquidation of his shares).
However, if the disposition of the business is effected through a sale of stock by the shareholders (without an election to treat it as an asset sale), the suspended losses will disappear. They will also be lost if all of the shares are gifted to another (other than the shareholder’s spouse or to a grantor trust) prior to any sale. The suspended losses will also be lost if the shareholder dies before having used the losses – the step-up in basis for the stock that occurs at death does not benefit the deceased shareholder.
Thus, it may behoove the shareholder to find a way to “consume” the suspended losses before it is too late, provided as always, of course, that the means chosen makes sense from a business perspective.
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Financial Information Ontario 2014 Budget
Ontario -> Budgets -> Ontario 2014 Budget
Ontario 2014 Budget - May 2, 2014
All proposals are subject to legislative approval. An election was held on June 12, 2014, which resulted in a Liberal majority government. They have indicated that they will present the same budget as the previous one below.
Personal Tax Measures
The Ontario 2014 Budget proposes to change the taxable income threshold for the top tax rate of 13.16%, from $514,090 to $220,000, and introduce a new tax rate of 12.16% for taxable income between $150,000 and $220,000. The new thresholds of $150,000 and $220,000 will not be adjusted for inflation each year. These changes apply to the 2014 and later taxation years. See the table of marginal tax rates for Ontario, which has been revised for these changes. Our Income Tax Calculators include these changes.
Dividend Tax Credits
As previously announced in the November Ontario 2013 Economic and Fiscal Review, the tax credit rates for non-eligible and eligible dividends will be revised to 4.5% and 10% respectively. The surtax calculation will be revised so that dividend tax credits will have the same value for all taxpayers, regardless of their income. This revision was previously included in our table of Ontario tax rates, and is also included in our Income Tax Calculators for the 2014 taxation year.
Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP)
will build on key features of the CPP, and could later be integrated with the CPP should negotiations on an enhancement be successful in the future.
would require equal contributions to be shared between employers and employees, not exceeding 1.9% each (3.8% combined) on earnings up to a maximum annual earnings threshold of $90,000.
maximum earnings threshold would increase each year, consistent with increases to the CPP maximum earnings threshold
those already participating in a comparable workplace pension plan would not be required to enrol in the ORPP
earnings below a certain threshold would be exempt from contributions, similar to the CPP
government will consult to determine how best to assist self-employed individuals in achieving a secure retirement future
ORPP would be introduced in 2017 to coincide with the expected reductions in Employment Insurance premiums
Business Tax Changes
Small Business Deduction
Currently, the small business deduction is available for all Canadian controlled private corporations (CCPCs) for the first $500,000 of active business income. The budget proposes to eliminate the deduction for CCPCs with taxable capital of $15 million or more, and reduced on a straight-line basis for corporations having taxable capital over $10 million.
Aviation Fuel Tax
The budget proposes to increase the tax rate on aviation fuel by one cent per litre each year for 4 years, beginning in 2014 on the day following Royal Assent of an amendment to the Gasoline Tax Act. Subsequent rate increases would be effective on April 1 of 2015, 2016 and 2017. The current rate is 2.7 cents, so would be 6.7 cents per litre effective April 1, 2017.
Tobacco Tax Changes
The budget proposes to increase the tobacco tax rate from 12.35 cents to 13.975 cents per cigarette and per gram of tobacco products other than cigarettes and cigars, effective 12:01 a.m. May 2, 2014.
There are more tax measures which are not mentioned above. The complete 2014 budget can be found on the Ontario Budget website. See also their Tax and Benefit Related Measures (pdf).
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Study Engineering in Netherlands
Why study mechanical engineering in the Netherlands? There is no one simply answer to this question. When choosing a profession almost all of us have different objectives. Below is a list of reasons why someone may choose a career in mechanical engineering, though this list is very general, and is applicable for many other professions.
- Variety of career options;
- Challenging work;
- Intellectual development;
- Benefit Society;
- Financial security;
- Prestige;
- Professional environment;
- Technological and scientific environment;
- Creative thinking.
The good thing about becoming a mechanical engineer is that you can concentrate on whichever objective is most important to you, be it creative thinking or benefiting society and often they can be combined. But studying mechanical engineering will take a lot of determination. Depending on which level you choose to study at, studying to become a mechanical engineer may take you between 4 and 10 years, starting from master to PHD.
If you haven’t been scared away yet, then read on!
Here are a few examples of why it is a good choice to study mechanical engineering in the Netherlands. We can safely say that a mechanical engineer has been involved for almost all man-made things somewhere down the line. This is because we have made machines to support us in our tasks and often to make these tasks more economical. When you take a look at bread for example, we find machines all along the way from the corn in the field to the shelves in the supermarket. But also when we look at medical or drug research, there are machines that test cell cultures and allow parallel testing of many samples, enabling components to be tested over a broader field in a shorter time. Further possibilities are expected from the lab on chip technology, where also important input is expected from the mechanical engineer; think fluid flow and mixing of fluids. The opportunities are limitless…
A career in mechanical engineering can be daunting and at first glance, there are many easier options. There are more men than women in this profession, but you shouldn’t let this put you off and the numbers vary throughout Europe. The first prerequisite to studying mechanical engineering is good grades in math and science.
And then there is the question of where to do the study. Given the harmonisation of studies throughout Europe this opens the possibility to do your bachelors at one place and to continue elsewhere with your masters. This is nice as most of us discover a passion for a specific area later in the study. So after your bachelor you can then switch to the right college for your chosen field of interest.
You should consider studying abroad. Learning and understanding more about foreign cultures and languages will give you an edge when working with other people from abroad.
Now let me tell you a little about studying mechanical engineering in the Netherlands.
There are basically two options, the Hogeschool or the University. The Hogeschool is a 4-year bachelor education, which is more practically orientated. You will find a Hogeschool in each region in the Netherlands. Then there are 3 technical universities, Delft, Eindhoven and Enschede. One serious complication for foreign students is that most courses are in Dutch; courses in English are more an exception. However, all three universities have a strong program in the field of precision engineering. This is related to the industrial interest in this array, think of companies such as Philips, ASML (wafer steppers), Singulus (optical disc mastering), OCE (copiers), FEI electron microscopes and several small companies and consultancy firms. Enschede’s speciality is the work in the field of MEMS, in short, constructing mechanisms mainly with the same technology which is also used in the chip industry, with the aim to miniaturise mechanisms and processes. Think of the development of the lab on chip, miniature sensors (airbag). This is only a small number of options you can choose from when thinking about studying mechanical engineering in the Netherlands.
Information about the technical universities can be found at www.3tu.nl, there is no general site for the Hogescholen, you must look these up in a search engine.
How to combine mechanical engineering with other interests?
Preferring the research side of mechanical engineering, I found great possibilities in the institutes working on particle physics. Here is an example of how a mechanical engineer can work in collaboration with the particle physics community:
Atlas, CMS, LHCb and Alice are a new generation of particle physics experiments, for these experiments a new particle accelerator is being constructed, the LHC. All of this is being constructed by an international collaboration of physicists and engineers at the world’s largest laboratory CERN. (See www.cern.ch) This offers the mechanical engineer numerous interesting challenges. In the detectors of the experiments mechanics is an unavoidable evil, mechanics is needed to physically build the detectors but the material needed for the construction interferes with the particle detection, thus challenging the engineers to use the minimum possible amount of material to provide the mechanical functions. To enable this all kinds of special things are being done. Special carbon fibre structures, special productions processes for machining of structure, as forces in conventional processes are too high, special alloys to allow pipes in cooling circuits to be made with a wall thickness of 40 μm (half the thickness of a hair). For the accelerator consisting of a circle with a circumferences of 27 km consisting mainly out of magnets one of the challenges is the quality insurance, for example for the welds in the cooling circuit (He 1.8 K) zero error is needed to allow operation. Or just the assembly of unusual structures shown on the picture is the first of 2 Atlas End Cap magnets.
Mechanical engineering offers you endless possibilities; it is up to you to make what you wish out of it.
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Thinking Big, Thinking Small
June 17, 2019 • By Philip Seo, MD, MHS
I would like to tell you a story. Two, actually.
I am just returning from the 19th International Vasculitis and ANCA Workshop, which is always a fascinating meeting. In its inception, it was a workshop, in the true sense of the word. Now, we discuss anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) testing as casually as we discuss obtaining a complete blood count. Then, ANCA testing was much less straightforward—we knew ANCA could be directed against several neutrophil cytoplasmic antigens, including proteinase-3, but who to test and how they should be tested were much less clear. The first ANCA workshop, held in Copenhagen in January 1988, included 34 participants.1 The latest workshop was attended by more than 500 participants.2
This growth reflects the growing importance of ANCA to my world, and how much the ANCA-associated vasculitides have taught us about how to approach other patients with other forms of vasculitis. This is the one meeting I attend that is not populated only by rheumatologists; sitting next to you may be a nephrologist, a pulmonologist, an immunologist or an internist, all of whom have an interest in these diseases. It really is a model for how all of our diseases should be approached.
If I’ve piqued your interest, the next workshop will be held two years from now. In Ireland. I’d love to see all of you there, but I imagine many of you will be otherwise engaged.
At this particular meeting, Rae Yeung, MD, PhD, FRCPC, professor of pediatrics, immunology and medical science at the University of Toronto, told a tale of discovery that I want to share with you today.3 The story emphasizes the importance of thinking big. But it made me recall a second story, which I heard at the 18th International Vasculitis and ANCA Workshop, about the importance of thinking small.
Thinking Small
Kawasaki’s disease was not a slam dunk.
I was a little surprised to learn that. Having grown up in the medical system when I did, I just assumed the concept of Kawasaki’s disease was immediately recognized as a truth, fully formed, like the goddess Athena emerging from the head of Zeus.
Apparently, its origins were somewhat less godlike.
Tomisaku Kawasaki was a staff pediatrician at the Red Cross Hospital outside of Tokyo when he saw his first patient with the disease that would eventually bear his name.4 Of course, he didn’t know that at the time. What he did know was that he was asked to examine a 4-year-old boy who presented with a fever, congestion of the mucous membranes, cervical lymphadenopathy, and desquamation. The patient eventually improved on his own, and was discharged, with the honest label of “diagnosis unknown.”
It was not until he saw his second patient, a year later, that he realized that he might be on to something. He put together a case series of seven patients, which he presented at a meeting of the Japanese Pediatric Association, and subsequently submitted the case series for publication.
It was rejected.
The reviewers noted the patients he described were much more likely to have an atypical form of Stevens-Johnson’s syndrome, and not a new disease entity.
Kawasaki then did what I hope most of us would have done in the same situation: He collected an additional 43 cases, which he then published as an even larger case series.5
There is a quotation, variously and apocryphally attributed to James Baldwin, George Bernard Shaw and Confucius, that says, “Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” I like to think that whoever first said that was thinking of Kawasaki at the time.6
The morbidity of Kawasaki’s disease was not clear until four years later, when Noboru Tanaka, the head of pathology at the same Red Cross Hospital, performed an autopsy on a child who had died after having been diagnosed with Kawasaki’s disease. Up until that point, Kawasaki’s disease was considered a self-limiting diagnosis with a benign course. Dr. Tanaka’s autopsy demonstrated the child had died of a coronary artery thrombosis, establishing for the first time a connection between this mucocutaneous febrile illness and its pathomneumonic vascular finding.
This observation, too, was rejected.
Most clinicians at the time thought the connection between Kawasaki’s disease and coronary artery pathology was coincidental, not causal. It was not until a decade later that clinicians started to accept cardiovascular involvement as a hallmark of this disease.5
Since these initial reports, Kawasaki’s disease has come to be recognized as a worldwide phenomenon, affecting children in most racial and ethnic groups. It is now recognized as an independent syndrome, and the leading cause of acquired heart disease among children in the U.S. and Japan.7
Thinking Big
Why do patients develop Kawasaki’s disease? The answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind. We think.
For 50 years following the initial description of Kawasaki’s disease, episodic epidemics have been identified in Japan, the U.S. and elsewhere. The mystery has been why these epidemics emerge at a specific time and place.
The three largest epidemics of Kawasaki’s disease occurred in Japan in April 1979, May 1982 and March 1986. Investigators from the U.S. and Japan analyzed environmental factors, such as sea level pressure and surface winds, in the months preceding each epidemic.8
The investigators learned that each epidemic was preceded by a shift in the direction of the wind. Typically, in the months associated with a low incidence of Kawasaki’s disease, the winds over Japan come from the south or the northeast. When the origin of the wind changes to Central Asia, blowing over Japan from the northwest side of the island, rates of Kawasaki’s disease start to spike. Some data indicate the same winds from Central Asia, blowing across the Pacific, may be responsible for peaks in the incidence of Kawasaki’s disease in San Diego.
What is in the air from the steppes of Central Asia that is causing children to develop Kawasaki’s disease? It could be, quite literally, anything—multiple organisms could survive airborne in the long trip from Asia to Southern California, and no one knows if the etiologic agent is a single pathogen. Dr. Yeung hypothesizes it may be a class of organisms or molecules, all of which induce the same pathologic response in the right host.3
Who is the right host? Genetically, humans are 99.9% alike. The risk of developing Kawasaki’s disease likely lies in that crucial 0.1% difference. One method of determining what genetic difference may confer an increased risk is to look at single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs. There are 10 million polymorphic SNPs in the human genome, meaning that, at 10 million points in your DNA, you may have an adenine, while the person reading this article over your shoulder may have a guanine or another nucleotide.9
This is a little different than Mendelian genetics. Any individual SNP is unlikely to create a problem. It is likely a specific combination of SNPs that places an individual at risk. Determining which specific SNPs are associated with a given diagnosis may lead to additional insights into the genes that are important to disease pathogenesis.
How do we find these SNPs? A genome-wide association study (GWAS) is based on the hypothesis that if a genetic variant is associated with a given illness, then that variant should be more common among patients with the disease than in patients without. Interestingly, the GWAS approach itself is hypothesis free: You don’t have to know what you are looking for. You just look. Unburdened by hypotheses, this approach is less likely to be flawed by our own preconceived notions of what we should find.
In the days of Sanger sequencing, a GWAS would have been impossible. With advances in technology bringing down the cost and labor associated with genotyping, genome-wide association studies have been used to identify genetic variants associated with bipolar disorder, coronary artery disease, hypertension, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes and many other diseases—including Kawasaki’s.
In 2009, the International Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium conducted a GWAS in 893 patients with Kawasaki’s disease. This study identified a single functional network of five genes involved with inflammation, apoptosis and cardiovascular pathology.10 This network may provide new treatment targets, but longer term, may also explain why some children are so sensitive to winds from the central steppes.
The story of Kawasaki’s disease is the story of thinking big. The work on environmental factors associated with Kawasaki’s disease involved investigators from four institutions on three continents. The work of the International Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium includes investigators from Australia, The Netherlands, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the U.S. Together, these investigators—looking at large datasets representing large groups of patients with a rare disease—are making observations and advances that would have been out of reach for any single institution.
At the same time, however, I hope we don’t lose sight of the fact that all of this was dependent on individuals thinking small. It was one physician, fascinated by a single case of a single child, who was discharged a few days after he met him, that led to the first descriptions of Kawasaki’s disease. Another physician, similarly entranced by a single case, connected Kawasaki’s disease to the presence of coronary arteritis.
Big data would never identify such outliers. They would be excluded from the initial analysis because they did not meet study criteria. Or they would end up being represented by a single dot, well past the 75th percentile in the box plot, likely without further comment. Large consortiums of investigators and patients clearly bring new potential for new insights, but I hope we do not lose sight of the importance of the single observation to discovery. Rheumatology is just now starting to think big, and we are all the better for it, but at the same time, I hope we don’t forget how to think small.
Philip Seo, MD, MHS, is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. He is director of both the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center and the Johns Hopkins Rheumatology Fellowship Program.
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Is Mitt Romney a Real American?
Eric Liu
If it's our ideals and not our origins that make us countrymen, Romney's tactics suggest that he's the one whose Americanness should come under question.
Nobody's ever asked to see my birth certificate. But as someone of Chinese descent I have been asked plenty of times where I'm from -- and when I say "Poughkeepsie," I often get the follow-up question that's almost a cliché now among Asian Americans: "No, where are you really from?"
It's always disheartening to get that question, even though I've learned to answer it with equanimity and usually take care to make the inquisitor feel not-stupid. But it's always clarifying, for it reveals the default picture in the minds of some of my fellow Americans about who they are, who we are, and who I am.
That's why Mitt Romney's birther-baiting remarks today are, in a way, welcome. Let there be no doubt: He is the candidate for people who think the name Obama must be Muslim and its bearer indelibly foreign. He is also the candidate for the greater number of people who do not initially imagine that someone with my face, my eyes, my skin could be from this country.
Even in one of his home states (Michigan, the site of today's remarks), Mitt Romney is not some iconic American hero whose patriotism is beyond reproach. The reason no one questions where Romney was born is simply this: he is white. If that's good enough for you, then you're good enough for Romney.
But that's not good enough for America. I have as much a claim to be the image of an American as Romney and his offspring do. So does Barack Obama. So, by the way, does Bobby Jindal or Ted Cruz or Susana Martinez -- nonwhites in Romney's own party who likely have also been asked (no, really) where they are from.
Romney's implicit pledge of allegiance to the birther movement is as revealing of his character as anything else in his campaign of half-deliberate opacity. He appears to lack a core capacity for empathy. He literally cannot see himself as someone not white, as someone accented or a newcomer.
In fact, Romney's tactics suggest that he's the one whose Americanness should come under question. True Americanness is not about how WASPy your surname is, how pale your skin, or how many generations your family has lived here -- or how much you can lord those facts over others. Nor is it about how subtly you can stir up secret prejudices against people who could be deemed outsiders.
True Americanness is about fidelity to a creed that by design transcends color or place of family origin. Yes, we as a nation have often subverted that creed, or averted our gaze, but it still stands in timeless judgment, measuring our willingness to deliver on the promise of equal citizenship. True Americans see in a sea of colored faces a chance to bring everyone into the fold, so that the team is stronger and the creed redeemed. Mitt Romney can prance all he wants but his words today were those of a second-rate American.
And the more he plays his Donald Trump card, the more his becomes a last-gasp candidacy: the inarticulate paroxysm of those who still silently believe, as was once permissible to declare in public, that America is a white nation and that the interests, mores, and preferences of whites should predominate.
Romney may yet win in November. But he and this whole odious line of attack are on the losing side of history. The tide of demographics is irresistible, and soon enough it'll sweep up his birth certificate and mine into a new notion of who is truly from this country.
Eric Liu is a contributing writer for The Atlantic. He is the author of You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen. He is founder of Citizen University and executive director of the Aspen Institute Program on Citizenship and American Identity. He was a speechwriter and deputy domestic-policy adviser for President Bill Clinton.
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Claims That Wireless Service Is Too Expensive Don't Hold Up
Adoption rate by minorities suggests prices are right and more regulation is not needed.
Roslyn LaytonNational Journal
The U.S. and Canada are two of the world's most robust and competitive wireless markets. Both countries have a variety of wireless networks, providers, products, and services. The extensive next-generation wireless networks of the countries have been the hotbed for wireless innovation, including the Blackberry, the iPhone, Android, and scores of mobile applications and innovations.
In fact, the United States and Canada are home to just 6 percent of the world's mobile subscriptions, but they comprise more than 50 percent of the world's 4G/LTE connections, the current state-of-the-art technology for wireless connectivity. The U.S. has four 4G/LTE wireless providers delivering access to 97 percent of the population, and Canada has five such providers offering service to 75 percent of the population. Wireless service can be purchased with or without a handset, both on contract or in a pay-as-you-go fashion. Thereafter consumers can personalize their connection with a variety of services and content. Competition is lowering prices, expanding choice, and increasing the value of what consumers get for their money.
Nevertheless, critics in both the United States and Canada maintain that prices are too high. They say costs adversely affect people in rural areas, people of color, and the elderly — who are being left on the wrong side of the digital divide. Many assert an unfounded notion that prices should just be cheap without any relationship to the underlying costs or quality of networks.
Recently critics have pressured regulators in the U.S. and Canada to intervene in wireless markets, even though regulatory reports attest to significant dynamism and competition in the sector. Specifically in the U.S., there are calls for the Federal Communications Commission to regulate Internet service like a utility, controlling price, output, and access. Congress, which oversees the FCC, has historically supported a light regulatory environment under the reasoning that broadband and wireless are emerging industries that need freedom to evolve and innovate.
The idea that wireless prices are too high flies in the face of increasing Internet adoption and consumption across all demographic groups. Not only is there an explosion of mobile-device use, but the price of a wireless megabyte of data has fallen by 99 percent since 2007. Americans and Canadians hold, respectively, the second and third slots in the world for Internet consumption per capita, particularly video. The Canadian Internet Registration Authority notes, "Accessing video online is particularly intensive in Canada, thanks to the country's investment in video-enabling broadband technology.... The trend toward mobile continues to strengthen."
With its advantages of relatively low capital and maintenance requirements, mobility, shared capacity, and usability with a mobile device, wireless represents the most cost effective way to close the digital divide, including connecting rural areas, people of color, and the elderly. It's not surprising that wireless broadband has exploded in Canada and the U.S. with some 330 million connections.
Historically, African-Americans have had a lower rate of wired Internet subscriptions than whites. Moreover people with less income and education, regardless of racial background, have been slower to subscribe to the wired Internet, not necessarily because of cost, but because desktop computers were not part of their lives. Without a computer, there is little need for a wired Internet connection.
However, the differences in Internet adoption disappear when it comes to wireless. Wireless devices are ubiquitous, increasingly inexpensive, and more user friendly than desktop computers. The Pew Research Internet Project reports that African-Americans and Latinos are at least as likely if not more likely than other Americans to own and use smartphones and use mobile connections to access the Internet. Young blacks are just as likely as whites to use the Internet and to have broadband service at home. In fact, blacks between the ages of 18 and 29 have the highest rate of Twitter use of any group in the U.S.
It's remarkable to consider how wireless technologies have transformed our society in less than a generation, a powerful change driven largely by age. The Pew Research Center's study for Internet and American Life reports that 95 percent of teens are online, with 93 percent saying they have a computer or have access to one. They are just as likely to have a cell phone, increasingly a smartphone. In fact, three out of four adults under 50 connect to the Web with a mobile device.
Critics try to assert that broadband providers exploit the poor and old through high prices, but this is not found in the data. The International Telecommunications Union maintains the world's largest data set about communications prices globally. In its 2013 report Measuring the Information Society, the U.S. scores third in the world for entry-level affordability for fixed line broadband. Furthermore, the U.S. scores in the top 10 for entry-level affordability for both prepaid and postpaid (traditional billed) mobile broadband for use with a computer.
It is true that wireless subscriptions, unlike a wireline subscription, often carry a data cap. This is applied to apportion bandwidth. For example, a single service such as Netflix can take up 30 percent of a network's capacity with relatively few users. When it comes to closing the digital divide, the first order of business is ensuring accessibility to essential applications for health, employment, education, and personal finance. All of these services are accessible with a basic wireless broadband subscription without hitting a data cap. In this way, wireless is a substitute for traditional wired connections.
Those who want to stream video entertainment on their phones will typically pay more for a subscription. There are many options for entertainment, and it only reasonable that those who want to use high volumes of bandwidth should pay for it. Fortunately, with a variety of innovations and partnerships, real-time wireless entertainment is becoming increasing affordable and more efficient.
The International Telecommunications Union recommends that connectivity cost no more than 5 percent of average monthly income. Both the U.S. and Canada fall well below this threshold. Canada's wired and wireless broadband prices amount to approximately 1 percent of average monthly income, with the U.S. ranging between 0.4 percent and 2 percent. Consumers in both countries spend far larger portions of their income on housing, energy, transportation, clothing, and even discretionary vacations.
As for critics' assertions that prices are cheaper in the European Union, this is based upon a misunderstanding of the data. Americans and Canadians use 75 percent faster networks and consume more than twice the voice and data services used by Europeans. Europeans may pay less, but they are using older, slower networks that deliver less data. Only a quarter of people in the European Union can even get 4G/LTE. Not only do these flawed studies fail to compare the same types of networks, availability, and contracts, they also fail to include the compulsory media license fees that Europeans pay to support state broadcasting companies. In Denmark that amounts to an extra $36 per month per household with any broadband subscription. Plus there are telecom taxes across the European Union that add as much as 27 percent to the cost of connectivity. When accounting for these real costs and the lower quality of European networks, Americans and Canadians get a far better deal.
Moreover, American and Canadian operators invest in wireless networks at the twice the rate of Europe's. Wireless prices in the U.S. and Canada reflect the value of world-class networks, as well as real costs such as spectrum licenses and deploying hundreds of thousands of towers and thousands of miles of backhaul fiber optics. In that way, it should not be expected that prices be cheap, but only that they reflect the value of what they offer.
Existing competition in American and Canadian wireless markets is closing the digital divide faster and more economically than any government intervention could.
Roslyn Layton is a Ph.D. fellow at the Center for Communication, Media, and Information Studies at Aalborg University in Denmark and is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute's Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy.
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Andrew Manze conducts Bacewicz, Mozart and Mendelssohn featuring pianist Francesco Piemontesi
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Each making his BSO debut, English conductor Andrew Manze and Italian pianist Francesco Piemontesi join the orchestra for a somewhat rarely heard Mozart concerto, the vivacious No. 19 in F, which the BSO hasn't played in Symphony Hall since 1994. Graźyna Bacewicz was one of Poland's most important composers of the mid-20th century, and one of very few women with an international reputation in that era. Her dynamic and soulful Concerto for String Orchestra won the Polish State Prize in 1950. Mendelssohn's Fifth Symphony, Reformation, is based in part on Martin Luther's hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." The symphony was written to coincide with the 300th anniversary of a major Reformation event, the Augsburg Confession.
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Michael W. Smith Leads “Surrounded (Fight My Battles)” On Good Morning America
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Multi-Platinum, three-time Grammy Award winning artist, best-selling author and acclaimed actor Michael W. Smith performed “Surrounded (Fight My Battles)” on ABC-TV's Good Morning America today (March 13). Michael led the song live during the broadcast and taped the song “A Million Lights” from his 5-star-acclaimed hit albums Surrounded and A Million Lights respectively. The albums were released last month from Rocketown Records and The Fuel Music and are available now through iTunes, Amazon.com, Spotify, Apple Music, LifeWay Christian Stores, Google Play and more at https://mws.lnk.to/Surrounded and https://mws.lnk.to/AMillionLights.
Introduced by host Michael Strahan and joined by the Times Square Church choir, Smith’s live broadcast appearance is available to watch now on Michael’s Facebook. Smith also completed a Facebook Live interview for Good Morning America with ABC News Correspondent Eva Pilgrim.
Smith further completed interviews and performances in New York City with SiriusXM The Message and for the Parade live-streamed Backstory Presents: Michael W. Smith live from The Cutting Room event. Additionally, Michael completed interviews with FOX News Radio and with FOX News that went out to 170-plus FOX television stations.
The media appearances were sparked by the success of Michael’s 5-star-acclaimed new albums that have become his 30th and 31st Top 10 hits on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart, more than any other solo artist in history.
Released Feb. 16, Michael’s USA Today, Billboard, Yahoo! Music, CCM Magazine and NewReleaseToday-acclaimed studio album, A Million Lights, includes the lead single/video and title track along with “Love Always Wins,” “Crashing Waves,” “Revolution” and “Footsteps,” while his live worship album Surrounded (released Feb. 23) features not only the declarative “Surrounded (Fight My Battles),” but “Light To You,” “Build My Life” and more songs that Parade calls a “masterful blend of uplifting messaging, brilliant song writing.”
Following this week’s media appearances, Michael’s “Surrounded By A Million Lights World Tour,” which has already packed venues in the Midwest, continues in Minneapolis/St. Paul (Bloomington, MN) Thursday, March 15. Sharing a musical tribute to Rev. Billy Graham, along with the new music and fan favorites from his extensive repertoire on the road, Michael’s full-production tour is being presented by Compassion International and features special guest Nathan Tasker. This spring leg of the tour will traverse the Eastern half of the US into 19 cities before wrapping up May 11 in Houston, TX.
Michael also works into his schedule his 10-day “Israel Tour 2018” beginning April 10. For all his latest tour detail, go to http://michaelwsmith.com/tour/.
In many ways, Michael is a statesman, at the fulcrum of Christian music in pivotal moments. It is said that the heart of a lion never goes away, and Michael isn’t content staying with the equilibrium. At a loss for what his voice should be toward the end of 2016, this prolific artist comes roaring back with A Million Lights and Surrounded.
“Until the world ends, music is the most powerful language there is,” says Michael. “It can transform your life on every level, not just the spiritual. It can help people reconnect with why they’re here.”
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HomeNewsNational NewsIrish Rail funded over €100,000 for extra security over Christmas period
Irish Rail funded over €100,000 for extra security over Christmas period
Catherine Gallagher
December 12, 2018 National News, News
There have been repeated calls from the National Bus and Rail Union for additional security on certain routes, including calls for a dedicated Garda Public Transport Policing Division.
Up to €115,000 in funding for Irish Rail to provide additional security over the Christmas period has been allocated by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.
In the allocation, €100,000 will go towards additional security for passengers, staff and property. There will also be extra security patrols on evening Dart and commuter services between Dublin city centre, Howth, Maynooth, Kildare and Greystones.
There has been a 43 per cent increase in the past 18 to 24 months of anti-social behaviour on public transport. There have been repeated calls from the National Bus and Rail Union for additional security on certain routes, including calls for a dedicated Garda Public Transport Policing Division.
A spokesperson for Irish Rail Jane Cregan said, “We do recognise there has been an increase in anti-social behaviour. However, it should also be noted there were 45.5 million passenger journeys in 2017 and a projected 49 million in 2018, the overwhelming majority of which occur without incident.
“Our security patrols 2016 vs 2018 have increased by 35 per cent as we enhance general security cover, and provide for enhanced security patrols for major events,” said Cregan.
Irish Rail has previously expressed concern about the cost of removing graffiti from carriages. The remaining €15,000 will subsequently be aimed at targeting this.
University of Limerick student Laura Murray spoke to The College View of her experience travelling on the Westport to Dublin train over the summer.
“A fight broke out as a result of an older man slapping or hitting a young woman for looking at him funny. The fight broke out at the end of my carriage and all we could hear were screams and shouts and men jumping out of their seats to help the driver.
“It was extremely unsettling to see the lack of security here and that the driver himself had to handle the situation – the guards were called and the man was arrested. I don’t think I realised how bad the security was for Irish rail until that incident,” said Murray.
A DCU student who wished to remain anonymous said, “I’ve been offered drugs, seen people sexually harassed, homophobic comments to staff which were not dealt with by management, had homeless people looking for money.
“The overbooking of trains is a serious safety issue,” they added, “the number of people being left standing in carriages on intercity trains is a disgrace.”
Earlier this year, the company banned the consumption of alcohol on certain services to tackle anti-social behaviour.
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Kishtwar, July 03: In a first-ever incident of its kind, Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday evening seized a Chinese drone fitted with a camera which was allegedly flying over the premises of a high-security district jail at Kishtwar.
Jail Superintendent Mohammad Iqbal said the drone crashed against one of the watchtowers of the jail and fell down at around 5.35 pm. The CRPF personnel deployed on the towers immediately cordoned the area and informed the senior jail officials and the police.
“It is a small sized drone, but it has a camera fitted in it,” said a senior police officer who wished not to be named. The matter is under investigation, he added.
There are 101 inmates inside the Kishtwar district jail including 25 militants. Except for four Kashmiri militants, remaining are from DODA and Kishtwar districts.
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It is recommended that persons visiting the website available at www.tme.pl, www.tme.eu, www.tme.cz, www.tme.sk, www.tme.ro, www.tme.hu, and tme-germany.de, as well as customers of Transfer Multisort Elektronik Sp. z o.o. or its subsidiaries read this Privacy Policy before submitting any personal data and/or filling out any online forms available at the website. This policy specifies which personally identifiable information can be collected and used. Furthermore, this policy also takes into account other important issues related to the privacy of natural persons.
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1) Transfer Multisort Elektronik Sp. z o.o. with its registered office in Łódź at ul. Ustronna 41, 93-350 Łódź, entered in the Company Register by the District Court for Łódź-Śródmieście, XX Department of the National Court Register (KRS), under KRS number 0000165815, with initial share capital of PLN 3,300,000.00, NIP 729-010-89-84, REGON 473171710 (hereinafter referred to as "the Company"), and its subsidiaries comply with the rules of preserving the privacy of natural persons and protect their personal data with due diligence.
This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected and used by Transfer Multisort Elektronik Sp. z o.o. and its subsidiaries, and it addresses, in particular, the services offered by the Company and its subsidiaries via websites available at www.tme.eu/pl, /gb, /de, /ro, /hu, /cz, /sk, /es, /it, /sk – each hereinafter referred to as a "TME website."
2) If one of the aforementioned TME websites is subject to special privacy protection and data processing requirements, they are regulated by a separate privacy policy and made public on the TME website to which they pertain (hereinafter referred to as "Local TME Privacy Policy"). Provisions of each Local TME Privacy Policy supersede, modify, or exclude (as applicable) the provisions of this Privacy Policy within the scope in which they are not consistent with this Privacy Policy, but only in relation to the TME website on which the Local Privacy Policy is available.
3) This Privacy Policy does not apply to third party websites and services that can be accessed via links shared on the aforementioned TME websites.
4) Within the meaning of this Policy, the term "Customer" means a natural person visiting the TME websites and/or using the services provided by the Company or its subsidiaries.
1) In accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (hereinafter referred to as GDPR), Transfer Multisort Elektronik sp. z o.o., ul. Ustronna 41, 93-350 Łódź (hereinafter referred to as "TME") is the Data Administrator, and consequently the party responsible for determining the purposes and methods of processing of personal data of customers, potential customers, and other natural persons using the https://www.tme.eu website.
2) We process your personal data because it is necessary to perform a contract we sign with you via our website (https://www.tme.eu), i.e. to provide a service (compliant with Article 6 (1) (b) of GDPR). Furthermore, we process personal data for the following purposes:
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processing claims and complaints (compliant with Article 6 (1) (c) of GDPR);
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Furthermore, we may process personal data for marketing purposes, i.e. promoting our products and services. If we do this without using electronic means of communication, the legal basis for those activities is Article 6 (1) (f) of GDPR where conducting marketing activities is a legitimate interest of the Data Controller. However, if we use electronic means of communication for this purpose, such as e-mail or phone, then due to other applicable laws we only process personal data after obtaining your consent (compliant with Article 6 (1) (a) of GDPR).
3) Personal data of Customers of the Company is processed and protected in accordance with provisions of the law governing protection of personal data, including but not limited to GDPR and the Personal Data Protection Act. The Company does not transfer, sell, or rent collected personal data to other persons or institutions, except when it is necessary to fulfil obligations under applicable laws or after obtaining a consent to those actions from the data subject. The Company may transfer personal data to third parties in accordance with conditions laid down in applicable laws.
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We will retain your personal data for the duration of a contract (performance of services) and after its dissolution:
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Cookies can be used during remarketing activities. Ads in the form of an image or text, based on previously saved user preferences, are displayed on other websites to people who have previously visited a given page.
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We use Personalized Retargeting services by RTB House, which enable us to provide you with the most relevant ads related with the contents you view on our website. Ads are displayed based on your activity on our website. Naturally, you can resign from such services by following the instructions provided on the following website: http://www.rtbhouse.com/pl/privacy/ (simply click OPT OUT), or by adjusting appropriate options in your web browser.
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The TME website may include links to different websites, provided for the information and convenience of the Customer. The Company is not responsible for any information provided nor Privacy Policies applied by those websites. The Customer should be aware that such websites are separate from the TME website, and each time should verify on their own the Policy of each website visited with the use of any such link.
1) The Company may introduce changes to this Privacy Policy at any time, in particular to update the contents to reflect any changes in the procedures adopted by the Company that define the ways in which the Company protects and uses collected information. Every time a new Privacy Policy is published on the TME website, it becomes binding and applicable to all data collected in relation with Customer's activities in the TME service taking place after the publication of such revised Privacy Policy on an appropriate page of the TME website.
2) Should you have any additional questions related to the Privacy Policy, please contact us at: dpo@tme.eu or via traditional mail:
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History of Indian currency
Take a walk through the history of Indian currency notes and see how it has changed over the years.
The new 100-rupee note was the latest currency note to be released with a new look after demonetisation. The vibrant lavender note features Gujarat’s UNESCO World Heritage Site Rani Ki Vav. It is just a small addition to the long line of notes and coins that have been in use in India throughout its history. Indeed, the history of Indian currency is almost as old as the history of the country itself.
The word ‘Rupee’ is said to have evolved from the Sanskrit word for coin, ‘Rupya’ and also the Sanskrit word for silver, ‘Raupya’. Needless to say, silver was one of the most recognised forms of currency alongside paper money and coins of other metals like gold, copper, bronze etc. Ancient Indians were one of the earliest users of coins as money, along with China and Mesopotamia. Cowrie shells were also another accepted form of money, up until a few centuries ago.
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If we plot the journey of the Indian currency in a historical timeline, it would be in the following order:
6th Century BC – Irregularly shaped coins made mostly of silver were minted by various kingdoms such as Saurashtra, Dakshin Panchala, Magadha etc. around this time. Although the coins were somewhat shapeless, they had distinct marks like floral patterns, animals, religious symbols etc.
4th to 2nd Century BC – This period belonged to the illustrious Maurya dynasty. Mauryan coins generally weighed around 3 grams and had specific marks like the Sun and a six-armed ‘god’. These coins were mostly circular, with a few of them being rectangular/square. It is safe to say that the history of Indian coins took shape during this period, as did their physical shape.
1st Century AD – The Kushans brought the Greek tradition of imprinting portraits on their coins. By this time, gold, silver, copper, and lead were popular choices for minting coins. Kushan coins had elaborate imprints of Bactrian legends and kings holding weapons or other objects and complete with scriptures in the sides of the coin. In a way, modern-day coins continue to follow the Kushan blueprint.
12th Century AD – The rule of the Turkish sultanate saw a departure from the imprint of Indian kings and introduced Islamic calligraphy, a tradition that their more illustrious successors continued. High-value coins of this era were called ‘Tanka’ and were made of gold, silver, and copper, while coins of lesser value were called ‘Jitals’.
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1540-45 – Sher Shah Suri’s five-year reign is significant in the history of Indian currency. He introduced a new consolidated currency in the country, which withstood changes in reign and survived even up till the early days of British rule. Suri issued silver coins that weighed around 11 grams and named them ‘Rupiya’.
Mughal Era – The Mughal era silver coins were called Tankas or Shahrukhis and assumed different imprints as the rulers changed. Parallel to these, however, Sher Shah Suri’s Rupiya legacy continued. Shahrukhis always had Islamic calligraphy imprints and were made of silver, except for the copper coins minted during the reign of Humayun and Akbar.
1717 – Mughal currency remained prevalent even as the East India Company rule commenced – until Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar gave permission to the British to mint Mughal coins at the Bombay mint. The British started minting coins from gold, silver, copper, and tin.
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1770-1832 – Paper money saw the light of day for the first time in India under the aegis of early financial institutions like Bank of Hindostan, General Bank of Bengal and Bihar, and the Bengal Bank. It was a time when both semi-government and private banks could issue currency notes. Financial instruments like hundis, shares, and bonds also started appearing in the Indian money market.
1835 – The year that witnessed the passing of the Coinage Act. This act standardised the currency for undivided India and as Mughal Empire wound up in the next few decades, portraits of British royalties made their first appearance on the rupee, notably Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V.
1935 – The Reserve Bank of India was established and empowered to issue money for the Government of India, an arrangement that exists to this day. The first note issued by the RBI was a five-rupee note with the portrait of King George VI.
1947-50 – With independence, the Lion Capital of Sarnath was introduced as the national emblem, which replaced portraits of British monarchs. The first post-independence currency was the one-rupee note.
1996 – The smiling Mahatma series was first introduced in 1996, which remains to this day. The picture was taken from an actual photograph of his, taken alongside British politician Lord Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence.
Since 1996, various objects have featured on Indian currency notes, such as the Indian parliament, the Himalayas etc. After demonetisation, we saw the introduction of the new 500- and 2000-rupee notes in 2016, 200-rupee notes in 2017, and 50- and 100-rupee notes in 2018.
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Manufacturers Move Supply Chains Out of China
By Austen HuffordWSJ
Bob TitaWSJ
U.S. manufacturers are shifting production to countries outside of China as trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies stretch into a second year.
Companies that make Crocs shoes, Yeti beer coolers, Roomba vacuums and GoPro cameras are producing goods in other countries to avoid U.S. tariffs of as much as 25% on some $250 billion of imports from China. Apple Inc. also is considering shifting final assembly of some of its devices out of China to avoid U.S. tariffs.
Furniture-maker Lovesac Co. is making about 60% of its furniture in China, down from 75% at the start of the year. “We have been shifting production to Vietnam very aggressively,” said Shawn Nelson, chief executive of the Stamford, Conn., company. Mr. Nelson said he plans to have no production in China by the end of next year.
The moves by U.S. companies add up to a reordering of global manufacturing supply chains as they prepare for an extended period of uneven trade relations. Executives at companies that are moving operations outside China said they expect to keep them that way because of the time and money invested in setting up new facilities and shifting shipping arrangements. Companies said the shifts accelerated after the tariff on many Chinese imports rose to 25% from 10% in May.
“Once you move, you don’t go back,” Mr. Nelson said.
Yeti Holdings Inc. said it plans to move most production of soft-sided coolers out of China by the end of this year. iRobot Corp. said it would start a new Roomba production line in Malaysia this year. Crocs Inc. said it expects less than 10% of U.S.-bound products to be made in China by next year, down from 30% in June. And diesel-engine maker Cummins Inc. said it has avoided $50 million in tariff expenses by moving some production to India and other countries.
Imports from China fell 12% in the year through May, compared with a year earlier, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the biggest decline since the financial crisis a decade ago.
The biggest beneficiaries of that decline have been other countries in Asia where production costs are low, such as Vietnam, India, Taiwan and Malaysia. Many of those countries have recorded sharp increases in exports, although there have been allegations that some of the added traffic stemmed from goods made in China that were routed through those countries without significant alterations to avoid tariffs.
U.S. imports from Vietnam are expected to reach $64.8 billion this year, up 36% from 2018, according to consulting firm A.T. Kearney.
“We’re moving production to other parts of the world,” Marvin Edwards, CEO of CommScope Holding Co., said in June. The Hickory, N.C., company is making antennas for sale in the U.S. at its plant in India instead of China.
There is little evidence, though, of U.S. manufacturers bringing production from China back to the U.S., a move the Trump administration hoped the tariffs would encourage.
While imports from other Asian countries have climbed, U.S. manufacturing output has declined 1.5% through May from a recent peak reached in December, according to the Federal Reserve. The Institute for Supply Management said earlier this month that its manufacturing index slipped again in June to the lowest level since 2016.
“If we were to try to do a factory in the U.S., it would be enormously expensive,” said John Hoge, co-owner of Sea Eagle Boats Inc., which makes 85% of its inflatable kayaks, canoes and fishing boats through contract manufacturers in China. Mr. Hoge said the network of manufacturers and suppliers in China that makes boats for Sea Eagle and many of its competitors isn’t as comprehensive in any other country.
“It took us 20 years to build up the supply chain in China,” he said. Mr. Hoge estimated the 25% duty on his products that took effect in May would double the Port Jefferson, N.Y., company’s tariff expenses to about $500,000 a year.
Crown Crafts Inc. analyzed manufacturing costs in a half-dozen countries before deciding to keep making its baby blankets in China despite the tariff costs. “It’s very difficult to find a country that can do it competitive with China,” Randall Chestnut, CEO of the Louisiana company, told analysts in June.
More than 100 companies have asked the Commerce Department to waive the latest 25% tariff on their imports because they said they can’t find suppliers outside of China.
One is Zoom Telephonics Inc., which said it lost $1.1 million during the first quarter and likely more in the second as a result of the tariffs on the cable-television modems it imports from China and sells through Amazon.com Inc., Best Buy Co. and other retailers. “I don’t think anybody makes them in the U.S.,” said Frank Manning, CEO of the Boston-based company, in an interview. “We’re bleeding.”
Write to Austen Hufford at austen.hufford@wsj.com and Bob Tita at robert.tita@wsj.com
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Robson: Pace and perspiration can prove the winning formula for England
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September 1 2001, 5:51pm, The Times
GERMAN catastrophes simply don’t happen. Euro 2000, when the traditional strength and durability of our favourite enemies leaked into sterility, was just a blip. It’s easy on occasions such as this to slip into stereotypes and I want to avoid that, but the task awaiting Sven-Goran Eriksson and his players represents the pinnacle of difficulty. Germany, in Germany, for a competitive match, is one of the true toughies of world football.
No easy answers, no short cuts. There won’t be any freebies in the Olympic Stadium, guaranteed. This is akin to the most testing of cup ties away from home. Having said that, there’s no reason why England cannot triumph, but it calls for nothing less than a superb all-round team performance. Potentially, we are…
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The Unbearable Darkness of Trump – South of the Border Edition
President Chaos and Captain Evil have decided that the best way to spend the summer is to spin the country into a heart-rending, sanity-testing tailspin
Sharon Waxman | June 20, 2018 @ 8:56 AM Last Updated: June 20, 2018 @ 9:22 AM
President Chaos strikes again. The entire national media – not to say the entire nation itself – is focused on a few dusty border towns in Texas where American federal agents are busy with the essential work of ripping children from the arms of their mothers.
Foreign children from foreign mothers who crossed into this country illegally. So, you know.
No one saw this particular Trumpian curve ball coming, but we might have expected it. President Chaos and Captain Evil (Attorney General Jeff Sessions) have decided that the best way to spend the summer is to spin the country into a heart-rending, sanity-testing tailspin, where we endure audio recordings of Latino children screaming, “Papi!” and can’t do a thing about it except scream and feel like we’re going insane. While the Trump gaslighting machine insists that those Democrats ought to fix that mess they made.
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This was too much for even the no-nonsense Rachel Maddow, who broke down crying on the air on Tuesday night as she tried to read the AP headline. The following hour, Stephanie Ruhle — mother of three — barely fought back tears as she lectured viewers about American values and what it means to be part of the sisterhood of mothers everywhere.
We’re unhinged, again, because Trump is crashing through civilized norms, again, because that’s what he likes to do.
As I have written before, when we experience the cognitive dissonance of the Trump administration — condoning white supremacism, embracing dictators, lying with abandon and now arresting babies — we must remember that the shock is calculated. That the disorientation caused by the jettisoning of our democratic values by our government is a feature of the Trump presidency, not a bug. Somewhere in the West Wing, Stephen Miller is smiling.
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For those of us who are working to elevate the conversation around women, promoting leadership and gender equity, it is hard to process all of this and put it in context.
Just last week in Washington DC and New York, TheWrap highlighted the courageous work of women photographers for National Geographic, people of talent risking their lives to chronicle sex trafficking in the Philippines and illegal animal poaching in Africa. We showcased the work of activists and mothers like Shannon Watts, seeking to end gun violence alongside advocates like Shenee Johnson, who lost her son to a gun. We heard the delightful Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) recite the Dr. Seuss-style poem that got her old white guy colleagues to let Senator Tammy Duckworth bring her baby to the Senate floor.
But to be honest, the sisterhood of powerful women does not feel so powerful when the state brings its awesome power to bear on defenseless women who have fled violence in Honduras and El Salvador to save themselves and their children.
So we howl into the maw of Twitter and Facebook. Now protesters have gathered, the media has been pulled into that 24-hour crisis vortex, and I swear we are all walking around with persistent nausea in the pit of our stomachs, the echo of that little boy ringing in our ears, “Papi! Papi!”
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This is what it’s like to watch the state abuse its power, without the mandate of its citizens and in shameless defiance of our democratic norms. Trumpsters tell us it’s the law, but it’s not. They tell us it’s necessary to create order, but it’s not.
Soon they will tell you that it’s all somebody’s fault. Maybe they’ll fill in the blank with — you know, anybody who’s not Russian.
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19 Times Donald Trump and Co. Were Confused About History, Including Canada Burning Down the White House (Photos)
Since becoming president, Donald Trump has had a lot more occasion to talk about American history. He likes to remind people that "you know, I'm, like, a smart person," but he doesn't always seem to get it right. Here are 19 instances of Trump and his surrogates giving weirdo history lessons.
1. On Frederick Douglass
During a Black History Month breakfast in February, after mentioning several African American historical figures Trump said, "Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice." We're not saying Trump didn't know who Douglass was, but despite his remarks, the famed abolitionist died in 1895.
2. On Trump’s Civil War Battle Golf Course
Trump’s Virginia golf course on the Potomac River includes a plaque stating the location was the site of a Civil War battle. “Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, died at this spot,” the inscription reads. “The casualties were so great that the water would turn red and thus became known as ‘The River of Blood.’” Historians say nothing significant took place at the site.
3. On Abraham Lincoln’s Political Party
Trump brought up Abraham Lincoln at the National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner in March. "Great president. Most people don't even know he was a Republican," Trump said. "Does anyone know? Lot of people don't know that."
Lincoln, of course, is famously the first Republican president, although the party has changed significantly, both geographically and ideologically, from when it was started in 1854. Trump went on to suggest, “Let's take an ad, let's use one of those PACs,” to educate people about Lincoln’s link to the party. He apparently was unaware the GOP very often refers to itself as “the Party of Lincoln.”
4. On His Electoral College Victory
Since winning the 2016 presidential election, Trump and his team have repeatedly called the win “the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan.” It wasn’t. In fact, only two presidents have received fewer than Trump’s 304 electoral votes since 1972 — Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush. And Trump’s 304 is less than both of Barack Obama’s wins, at 365 in 2008 and 332 in 2012.
5. On His Inauguration Crowd
Trump and his surrogates have maintained he had the biggest inauguration crowd in history, citing both the people on the ground at the National Mall in Washington D.C., and watching on TV and online. “When I looked at the numbers that have come in from all of the various sources, we had the biggest audience in the history of inaugural speeches,” Trump told ABC News. Going by the crowd and TV numbers, though, Trump’s inauguration crowd was definitely not the biggest ever.
Nielsen ratings for the inauguration put TV viewership at about 31 million, or 19 percent fewer than the number who tuned in for Obama’s inauguration in 2009, The Independent reports. And a PBS timelapse video shows the National Mall was never full during the entire event, while shots of Obama’s inaugurations show the mall packed. Trump’s inauguration might make up the difference with online streaming viewers, but those numbers aren’t known to the public or the media.
6. On Andrew Jackson and the Civil War
In a Sirius XM interview with a reporter from the Washington Examiner, Trump said President Andrew Jackson would have stopped the Civil War. “I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later you wouldn't have had the Civil War," Trump said. "He was a very tough person but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw with regard to the Civil War, he said 'There's no reason for this.'" Jackson, of course, died in 1845 — 16 years before the Civil War began.
Trump took to Twitter to clarify his comments on Jackson. “President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!” In fact, Jackson, a slave owner, probably would have fallen on the Confederacy’s pro-slavery side.
7. On the Civil War, Why
“People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?” Trump continued during the same interview. “People don't ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?” Of course, plenty of people have asked “the Civil War, why?” The answer: slavery.
8. On Medieval Times (Not the Restaurant)
In February 2016, Trump explained his view of torture and terrorism in an interview on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” “We are living in a time that's as evil as any time that there has ever been,” Trump said. “You know, when I was a young man, I studied Medieval times. That's what they did, they chopped off heads.” Trump went on to say he would authorize measures “beyond waterboarding” when asked if the US would chop off heads under Trump.
9. On Sweden and What Happened There
Trump brought up immigration in Europe during a rally in February 2017. He appeared to mention some immigration-related event “last night” in Sweden that hadn’t actually happened. "We've got to keep our country safe," he said. "You look at what's happening in Germany. You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They're having problems like they never thought possible.”
Screen Capture/The Guardian
Trump later clarified the statement, yet again on Twitter. He said he wasn’t referring to a news event that happened “last night” in Sweden, but rather, a Fox News story. “My statement as to what's happening in Sweden was in reference to a story that was broadcast on @FoxNews concerning immigrants & Sweden,” he wrote.
10. On being treated the most unfairly
Delivering a speech to the graduating class at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Trump said, "No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly." That apparently includes politicians who have actually been assassinated, which seems like it should count for being treated "unfairly." Maybe he means he's been "unfairly" given more passes on bad behavior, like admitting sexual assault, than any other politician.
11. On the Paris Climate Change Accord being a trick
Trump said other countries and world leaders are laughing at the U.S. for its role in the Paris climate change agreement. That would be kind of strange, given that the list of "no" countries is only three United Nations members long: Nicaragua, which said the agreement didn't go far enough; Syria, which is in the middle of a civil war; and now the U.S. Maybe what Trump was hearing was the other approximately 190 countries taking part in the agreement laughing that he thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax.
12. On the Panama Canal
In a meeting with Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela, Trump seemed to kind of, sort of take credit for the Panama Canal. "The Panama Canal is doing quite well. I think we did a good job building it, right — a very good job," Trump said, to which Varela answered, "Yeah, about 100 years ago." While what Trump meant by "we" was probably "the United States," as Varela's comment suggests, there's still an air of Trump glomming on to past accomplishments that had nothing to do with him.
13. On how much legislation he's signed
Trump likes to say things are historic without actually ever checking (or maybe caring) if it's true. He's said repeatedly that he's signed more legislation than any other president, and specifically called out Harry Truman. In fact, he ranks last in legislation signed as of December 2017.
14. On his "historic" defense spending increase
Trump also said at a July 2017 rally the increase to defense spending he advocated was historically high. It isn't. Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both increased defense spending by more, for two quick examples.
15. On how his approval rating was not historically low
One thing about Trump's administration that he claimed wasn't historic was his approval rating after six months in office. An ABC News/Washington Post poll put Trump's approval at 36 percent, which he tweeted "wasn't bad." As it turns out, it was the worst of any president in the last 70 years.
16. On the Pulse nightclub shooting
As part of his push against gun control in the wake of the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Trump has advocated for arming teachers and others to stop mass shootings. As Politifact reports, he also said that another shooting, the one in June 2016 at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people, could have been prevented if someone else there had been carrying a gun.
The trouble is, someone was: there was an armed police officer working at Pulse the night of the shooting, who even exchanged gunfire with the shooter, Omar Mateen. Trump has actually claimed before that if there had been more people armed at Pulse, the shooting could have been stopped, in 2016. At the time, Trump claimed later on Twitter that what he'd meant was that he wished there had been even more people with guns to stop the Pulse shooting.
17. On the War of 1812
Trump has been pushing to enact new tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, which are affecting not just China and other countries Trump sees as competitors to the U.S., but also allies such as Canada. In a phone conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that got somewhat heated over the tariffs, CNN reports, Trump brought up the War of 1812, claiming that Canadians burned down the White House during that conflict.
Trump wasn't wrong that the White House was burned down in the War of 1812 -- that did happen. Blaming Canada doesn't make a ton of sense, though. It was British troops that burned down the White House, since the U.S. was at war with England for the two-year conflict. Canada was a colony at the time, and so was pulled into the war. A lot of it was also fought in Canada. But blaming Canada for the White House doesn't actually track.
18. Kellyanne Conway On the Bowling Green Massacre
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway invented a terrorist attack that never happened when she mentioned the “Bowling Green Massacre” in a February interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. Conway was attempting to justify Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, and claimed the media hadn’t covered the attack. As the Washington Post reports, Conway also mentioned the massacre, which never took place, in two other interviews.
19. Sean Spicer On the Holocaust
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer got into trouble when he compared Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and Adolf Hitler when discussing Trump’s decision to bomb a Syrian airfield in response to a gas attack against civilians. “...Someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons,” Spicer said during a daily press briefing. Of course, the use of gas to murder millions of German Jews and other minority groups from within Germany and Europe was central to the Holocaust.
Spicer went on to clarify that he did, in fact, know about the Holocaust. "I think when you come to sarin gas, there was no -- he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing," Spicer said. "I mean, there was clearly, I understand your point, thank you. Thank you, I appreciate that. There was not in the, he brought them into the Holocaust center, I understand that." The historically accurate term for "Holocaust center" is "concentration camp," and at least 200,000 people killed in them were Jewish German citizens.
From the Bowling Green Massacre to the the War of 1812, you might call it “alternative history”
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Job cuts cause fresh exodus
CAPE TOWN – “I always thought I would be the last one to leave Zimbabwe. But with the current situation, I had no choice but to come down here to fend for my family,” said 42-year-old Calvin Kavara.
The skilled engineer and father of three feels betrayed by his Zanu PF party which has failed to deliver its election promises of 2,2 million jobs and has presided over more job losses since 2013 due to mismanagement of the economy.
“I had hoped against hope that things would get better soon, but after I was laid off about a month ago, I had to make some tough decisions,” he said with a sad smile on his face.
Kavara — a casualty of the recent Supreme Court Labour ruling which saw an estimated 20 000 people losing their jobs in less than a month — joins thousands of people who are crossing Zimbabwe’s borders daily in search of greener pastures.
Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States, among other countries, have for more than a decade become a sanctuary for Zimbabwe’s economic refugees and the trend is rising again — after a reprieve during the coalition government era between 2009 and 2013 — due to a resurgent economic meltdown.
Economist Eddie Cross estimates that up to 5 000 people a day are now crossing the country’s southern border into South Africa, a number he said could translate to more than 40 000 a week or two million people by the end of this year.
“Some will return but the majority will stay and seek new lives. Can South Africa take such an additional burden at this time? I think not,” he said.
The Bulawayo South legislator blamed the mass exodus into South Africa — where only a few months ago Zimbabweans were fleeing from xenophobia attacks — on Zimbabwe’s deteriorating economic situation.
“Every aspect of life is affected by the economy and how it is performing. Despite the statements by the pundits, our economy has resumed the downwards slide that characterised the economy from 1997 to 2008.
“Inflows to State coffers have shrunk and suddenly there is no money in the market. Companies are retrenching staff or simply winding up their affairs. Human flight has resumed with a vengeance into any country that will have our economic refugees,” he said.
Political analyst Blessing Vava says President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF have failed the majority of Zimbabweans and cannot claim to be their saviour by rushing labour law amendments through Parliament.
“The collapse of Zimbabwe’s economy originated from ‘market fundamentalism’, but the recent crisis has been due to a total collapse of the nationalist interventionist paradigm, itself a creature of the Third Chimurenga — the chaotic land reform — and ZimAsset policies,” he said.
Vava noted that government recently indicated plans to cut the public sector wage bill to 40 percent of total revenue from the current 80 percent.
“Therefore, the Supreme Court ruling is not surprising: it had been planned already. And it is clear that Harare is succumbing to pressure from institutions like the IMF and World Bank, and of course the East, which are prescribing these austerity measures as pre-conditions for a financial bailout.
“It is shocking why the international community is quiet while all this is happening in Zimbabwe. Their only loud cries were when Cecil the Lion was killed. It boggles the mind,” he added.
MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora said Zimbabwe can revive its economic fortunes under Morgan Tsvangirai, who proved his mettle during the inclusive government era when live improved significantly for the majority of Zimbabweans.
“Tsvangirai is an astute visionary. He went into the inclusive government to improve the economy, reduce State-sponsored violence and delivered a new people driven democratic Constitution. Tsvangirai and the MDC achieved just that,” he said.
Mwonzora said the MDC leader — who has controversially lost elections to his political nemesis Mugabe, albeit under controversial circumstances since 2002 — remains the best bet for the ailing country.
“Though famous and enjoying mass support, Tsvangirai remains down to earth and approachable. Resultantly, the masses love and trust him. That is why he remains the face of the struggle and Zimbabwe’s best foot forward in the long and arduous fight against tyranny, repression and deprivation,” he said. – Daily News
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EditorialFor This Utah Wastewater Operations Manager, Water Isn't Just a Job
For This Utah Wastewater Operations Manager, Water Isn't Just a Job
Hatfield Award winner Steve Williams oversees a major treatment plant upgrade while looking to a future of water reuse for his Utah utility district.
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Investing in a microscope and the training to use it proved to be a big advancement for Steve Williams and his team.
When Steve Williams went to work for the Magna Water and Sewer District in 1977, it was “just a job.” Not anymore.
“It became a career for me,” says Williams, winner of a 2017 William D. Hatfield Award from the Water Environment Association of Utah. “I really got into the work, and I could not believe the technology. Here we are, taking this dirty water and turning it into a material that can be developed into fertilizer and clean water that we can reuse.”
And speaking of reuse, Williams aspires to build a system to produce and distribute tertiary effluent for irrigation around the district. That comes after completion of a $22 million wastewater treatment plant upgrade, which started construction last fall.
For his success, Williams credits his team members — award winners in their own right. “I’m really proud of our team,” he says. “Just about all of them have been named Operator of the Year. Two years in a row now we’ve had the top collections system operator for facilities treating under 5 mgd. We’ve got a very nice plant here. It does a great job.”
The Magna district serves a population of about 32,000 at the base of the Oquirrh Mountains west of Salt Lake City and next to the world’s largest open-pit copper mine, now owned by Rio Tinto. The district provides drinking water, wastewater treatment and irrigation water delivered from reservoirs. Williams has been wastewater operations manager for the past 15 years, responsible for collections and treatment.
The wastewater treatment plant was built in 1962 as a digester and trickling filter facility. A 1987 upgrade converted it to an oxidation ditch (Smith & Loveless) with a design capacity of 3.3 mgd. A later expansion boosted the design flow to 4.0 mgd; average flow is now 2.8 mgd.
The facility has a bar screen and a fine screen (HUBER Technology) at the headworks, along with a PISTA Grit system (Smith & Loveless).
Biosolids from the oxidation ditch are dosed with polymer and delivered directly to a pair of Model RoS3 inclined screw presses (also HUBER Technology) that increase the solids content from 1 to 15 percent. The material is then trucked to a contractor site for composting and ultimately for sale.
The current upgrade will replace old brush aerators with surface-mounted aerators supplied by Aeration Industries International. “We hope this new equipment, combined with our upgraded SCADA system, will provide a brain to guide the feeding of air to our system,” Williams says.
The upgrade will also include phosphorus removal by addition of alum to the secondary effluent, a process designed by Carollo Engineers to meet a new state permit requirement of 1.0 mg/L total effluent phosphorus. In addition, the emergency generators and the entire electrical system will be replaced.
Up the ranks
To oversee it all, there’s Williams, who spent his first 10 years with the district as a second-shift operator. After the 1987 upgrade, the second shift was eliminated and Williams moved to days. He became a lead operator in 1993 and stepped up to his current role in 2009.
“In the beginning, just about everybody at Magna would work up the chain,” Williams recalls. “Of course you had to have the certifications to do that, and the desire. As the older people retired, you’d move up the ladder. So my time finally came. Certain people are meant to lead, and other people are better off under leadership. You have to have great workers.”
His approach to leadership is straightforward: “You need to give everyone a chance. We talk about our goals, and then I let our lead operators lead the team. We talk about what we’re going to do and how we’re going to do it, and then I give them the reins. I don’t micromanage them at all. We do it together. That’s why our lead operators have been so successful winning awards. Both our treatment and collections crews have just shined.”
Their excellence had been recognized by the Water Environment Association of Utah. In 2016, Raymond Mondragon, collections lead, received an Outstanding Collections Operator Award, and Tony Peterson, wastewater lead, received an Outstanding Water Reclamation Operator Award. In 2017, Rob Jaterka, collections operator, received an Outstanding Collection Operator Award. The Magna team also includes Beau Lamper, Ed Tucker and Scott Beck, plant operators; and Clint Giles and Dallas Henline, collections operators.
Spotless record
That team is responsible for the facility’s permit compliance record. “We have never, ever had an issue,” Williams says. “We have a total clean record with the state and the EPA. We’re careful with everything. We make sure we’re doing it right.
“We sample our system three days a week. Everybody takes part in the process. I may be the chief but I’ve got all these team members out there working. They’ll come to me if they have a problem, but they know how to take charge. They all can make decisions. They’ve all got Grade 4 certifications. They know the process. We try to fine-tune our plant. We’re always working at making it better.”
One on the biggest advances came just a few years ago when the plant acquired a microscope and invested in training the team to use it effectively. “We take samples almost every day and see how the bugs are doing,” Williams says. “It’s all about how happy the bugs are. They’ve got to have food and air. You keep the bugs healthy and happy, you’ve got a great plant. There is a fine line between a great plant and a mediocre plant. A mediocre plant can still run for a long time, but if you’re going to have it be great, you have to be able to fine-tune it.
“Before we had the microscope, we had to depend on our outside lab. We would provide the samples, and it was a long process before somebody looked at them and got back to us. Now we can see what’s going on with those bugs daily. That has been a huge thing.”
The next big step
With the treatment upgrade underway, Williams is looking toward effluent reuse. That will mean adding sand filtration after the secondary clarifiers, building out the distribution system and adding pumps for delivery.
Already the plant effluent is used on site for in-plant washing and grounds irrigation, saving about 100,000 gpd of potable water. Irrigation water is also delivered from reservoirs to some customers, but that supply is seasonal and has issues with algae blooms. “Our effluent would be much cleaner and much better as irrigation water for golf courses, schools, churches and our residents,” Williams says.
The wastewater collections system flows entirely by gravity to the treatment plant. On the flip side, delivering reuse water will mean pumping the tertiary effluent up the mountainsides to the reservoirs. A share of the distribution system is already in place, since for the past 10 years the district has required all new developments to install piping for irrigation water. The district itself has laid sections of piping in conjunction with other projects when possible.
Williams envisions the reuse system greatly reducing demand for potable water, much of which is now used for irrigation. Given the community’s growth, the reuse system could delay expansion of the potable water system for as long as 20 years.
The district has applied for a $5 million-dollar grant from the federal Bureau of Reclamation to help cover the estimated $10 million cost of the reuse system. “I think we’ll proceed whether we get the grant or not, but the grant would certainly help a lot,” Williams says. “I’m really hoping we can do it in the next three to five years.”
Building the team
Meanwhile, Williams continues to encourage close teamwork. One catalyst for that has been the Water Environment Federation’s Operations Challenge. About a dozen years ago, Williams attended a state-level wastewater conference with three district trustees. There they watched Operations Challenge competitions.
“The trustees were just amazed,” Williams says. “They said, ‘Our guys are this good. Can’t we do this?’ I said, ‘Absolutely.’” The district assembled a team, named Magna Flow, and enabled its members to devote time for practice.
“Our people have done fantastic,” Williams says. “It has turned everybody around. The camaraderie we have developed with this challenge has been outstanding.” Members of the Magna Flow team have gone on to the national Operations Challenge at WEFTEC as part of a Utah team called the Wasatch All-Stars.
In 2012, Beau Lamper, wastewater operator, was a member of a Wasatch team that placed third in the collections event and fifth overall. In 2015, a collections operator was on a team that finished second in maintenance and 10th overall. In 2017, Clint Giles, collections operator; Ed Tucker, wastewater operator; and the Wasatch team place second in maintenance and 17th overall.
Reflecting on his career, Williams takes special pride in his team and facilities: “We’ve got a beautiful plant here. We’ve got it landscaped, and we use our reuse water to keep it that way. We keep our operation clean and pretty. Everybody looks great. Our grounds are manicured. Our trucks are all washed. We keep everything painted and cleaned up.
“After all these years, I still love my job. I like coming to work. People say, ‘Gosh, you’re probably thinking about retiring.’ Not me. I have no thought of retiring. At home I’ve got plenty to do to keep me occupied, but I still love coming to work. Wastewater is a big part of my life. I’ve traveled all over the country and have seen so much at many different plants. My wife, Shelly, and I always go to WEFTEC.
“I’ve had great support from my family, and I’ve had the support of my team here, too. I support them, and they support me. It’s been a fantastic combination.”
Horsing around
Before he started his wastewater career, Steve Williams was involved with a family ranch — raising, training and showing cutting horses. He’s still active in that endeavor with his wife, Shelly, and their five children.
Cutting horses take part in contests in what has long been among the world’s most popular equine sports; each year thousands of cutting events are held worldwide. The sport harks back to the 1800s when cowboys used their best horses for cutting. In today’s cutting horse contests, a rider selects and separates one cow from a herd. The cow’s instinct is to return to the herd; the horse keeps it from doing so, independent of any direction from the rider.
“Trained cutting horses are incredibly intelligent and instinctive athletes,” says information on the website of the National Cutting Horse Association. “The competition is judged based on difficulty and how well the horse anticipates and reacts. This is the only equine competition where the horse is required to think.”
Williams observes, “It’s quite an addicting sport when you ride a horse that can do that. I’ve been doing it for a lot of years.” Williams works with the horses after work hours and on weekends. He was president of the local cutting horse association for 10 years and has been a National Cutting Horse Association director; he still judges cutting horse shows. His wife is an announcer at shows.
Williams embarked on his wastewater career to gain stability for his family in the form of a reliable income, insurance and a retirement plan: “In any livestock industry, you have so many variables and so many things can happen.”
So, how many horses do he and his family have on their 50-acre spread? “We have about 30 or 40 horses. If you have to count them, then you don’t really have that many.”
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Commongrounds Aims For Eighth Street “Renaissance”
By Ross Boissoneau | Dec. 10, 2018
Even before ground has been broken, the ambitious Commongrounds cooperative building to be built at 416 Eighth Street has reached its first goal: 366 people have committed to purchasing an ownership position. Co-founder Kate Redman says plans are on track for construction to begin in late spring 2019 with completion a year or so later.
Commongrounds will be a four-story building with a café, preschool, concert venue and housing, as well as a community work space. Among the tenants will be Higher Grounds Trading Company and Iron Fish Distillery, which will collaborate with an as-yet-unnamed third partner for a café overlooking the river; Pathways Preschool; Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology, which will operate the 150-seat performance venue; and Commonplace, Redman’s community workspace. All told, it will be 48,000 square feet with an underground parking garage.
The project first came together after Chris Treter of Higher Grounds and developer Joe Sarafa had a vision to create a community building on the empty lot. “I had a purchase agreement and Joe was a mentor and old friend,” says Treter. The two presented plans together, with Sarafa eventually taking over the property.
Sarafa says one of the goals of the new building is to kick off a renaissance of Eighth Street. “I think Eighth Street is the next best area for redevelopment,” says Sarafa. “I had plans with Chris Treter for a community resource building to kick off the new Eighth Street. It would be the first of many improvements. I pursued that till I met Kate,” referring to Redman. The attorney is the creator of the two CommonPlace work spaces in Traverse City; she and Treter bought the property from Sarafa and worked together to create what they thought would be the right mix, with Sarafa serving as consultant. “It was my original idea, expanded and improved,” says Sarafa. “I saw the potential (but) they are the visionaries.”
Changes in securities laws and the national crowdfunding law led Redman to believe that a concept involving both tenant owners and community owners would work.
Thus far, she’s been proven right. “I got involved a little over a year ago,” she says. “I thought the vision was powerful.” So powerful that the $12 million cost for land, construction and soft costs didn’t dissuade her – nor those who have already pledged cash.
The idea to make the building as large as it is came from the desire to incorporate all facets – workspace, café, housing, daycare and event space – and the economies achieved by going up four stories. To do so, they needed to get a zoning variance, which allowed them to make the entire building 60 feet tall, rather than just the back half. That will allow the creation of approximately 24 apartments, most of which will be small, efficiency apartments of approximately 360 square feet, with some larger one-bedroom units. Rental rates will be between 60 and 100 percent of the median rate for the area.
The group is consulting with local musician May Erlewine for the event space, which they are likening to a listening room, with a maximum audience of 150. It’s based in part on a similar venue in Spring Lake near Holland, which Erlewine and other musicians frequent. Brad Kik of Crosshatch, which will run the event space, says it will encompass everything from concerts by high school bands to high-end shows by local and traveling musicians.
Treter says the project is in part his attempt to replicate the success of not only his coffee company but the community projects he’s been involved in worldwide, such as the “Run Across Palestine,” a journey in 2012 to raise funds and awareness for fair trade olive farmers in Palestine.
“This was our run across Traverse City,” he says.
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Uber Breach Exposes the Data of 57 Million Drivers and Users
In a highly publicized data breach incident, rideshare application Uber announced that the personal information of 57 million customers and drivers were potentially compromised in October 2016, which was complicated by their failure to notify legal authorities and regulators.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi acknowledged the existence of the hack in a statement published on their website, stating that in 2016, two outsiders gained access to user data that was stored on a third-party cloud-based service used by the company. The trove of stolen information included the names and driver’s license numbers of 600,000 Uber drivers, but Khosrowshahi clarified that the company’s corporate infrastructure and systems were not affected.
The hackers were able to gain access to the information after developers working for the company uploaded code to the repository website Github. Unfortunately, this code also contained credentials that the hackers used to log into special accounts on Uber’s network containing the sensitive data, which was hosted on Amazon Web Service (AWS) servers.
According to reports, the incident was further complicated when Uber paid the hackers $100,000 to delete the data and prevent the breach from being disclosed publicly. According to insiders, the company also made the hackers sign nondisclosure agreements as part of the deal, making it appear as part of a bug bounty program that involves paying off “bug hunters” for hacking into their system to check for security flaws. In their statement, Uber also mentioned that two individuals who were part of the initial response back in 2016 were fired from the company.
Immediately after the breach, the company took steps to secure the data and prevent further unauthorized access by the individuals. Uber also implemented security measures on their cloud-based storage accounts intended to restrict access and strengthen controls. The drivers whose credentials were compromised were notified and provided with free credit monitoring and identity theft protection.
Insights from the Uber breach
Not only is this latest incident one in a long line of recent data breaches, but it is also not the first one to involve the highly popular ridesharing company—back in April 2016, a series of “phantom trips” occurred after stolen Uber accounts were peddled in the underground. Just a few days ago, a similar incident involved drone manufacturer DJI, which was also the subject of a data breach involving Github repositories.
For organizations, there are many lessons to be learned from this incident, starting with the proper configuration of public cloud storage, as well as increased emphasis on its security.
In Uber’s case, the error was compounded by the exposure of sensitive credentials, which could have easily been avoided by putting more care into what goes into these repositories. In addition, adherence to the shared responsibility model for cloud services can create a highly secure environment that can make it difficult for attackers to access sensitive information.
In addition, paying off threat actors does not make the problem “go away,” as it does not guarantee that the data will be deleted or that public disclosure can be avoided. In fact, it will likely complicate things even more, as payment and non-disclosure can be used to fund future attacks. It can also be construed as a violation of regulations depending on the circumstance. It can also hurt a company’s reputation, as well as damage the trust between the company and its customers and partners. It is reasonable to assume that, in most data breach cases, the personal information acquired by the attackers will be sold in the underground.
Customers should always be aware of the potential compromises applications could have on their privacy. Many users download apps without being aware that these could actually be gathering personal information that could be exposed in the event of a data breach. For users whose privacy is non-negotiable, looking for “opt-out” clauses or even choosing alternative apps would be better choices.
While Uber initially made mistakes with how they handled the incident, the company is now taking the right steps to address the breach by placing greater emphasis on securing their cloud storage and repositories. While the incident cannot be reversed, creating comprehensive contingency measures and mobility plans can help mitigate the impact of data breaches.
What can organizations do to minimize or even prevent the impact of the breach?
• Double check the data that goes into public cloud storage and ensure that these services are properly configured.
• Avoid paying attackers, as these do not really solve the issue and will often even exacerbate it. Instead, organizations should work with legal authorities and security experts to determine the next steps to be taken.
• Create a contingency plan that addresses potential security incidents, while ensuring that customers and partners are informed of the details of the incident and the steps being taken to mitigate its impact. User notification is a standard of data breach notification laws worldwide, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Organizations that rely heavily on cloud storage can look into the use of multilayered solutions such as Trend Micro™ Hybrid Cloud Security, which delivers a blend of cross-generational threat defense techniques that have been optimized to protect physical, virtual, and cloud workloads.
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Features > The true story behind The Finest Hours
The true story behind The Finest Hours
By Tribute on January 28, 2016 | 1 Comment
The SS Pendleton was a tanker built in 1944. The story of her demise and of United States Coast Guardsman Bernard C. Webber’s heroism is known as The Pendleton Rescue.
Known to friends as Bernie, Webber was a Merchant Marine veteran during the Second World War and subsequently joined the Coast Guard in 1946, where he became a Boatswain’s Mate First Class stationed in Chatham, Massachusetts. He is known for his leading the rescue operation that saved the lives of over 30 crew members of the SS Pendleton.
His crew included Engineman Third Class Andrew Fitzgerald, Seaman Richard Livesey and Seaman Ervin Maske.
On February 18, 1952, during a severe storm (or “nor’easter”) off the coast of Massachusetts, the SS Pendleton was en route from New Orleans to Boston with a hull full of 122,000 barrels of kerosene and heating oil.
At approximately 5:50 a.m., the ship split in two following a series of explosions. The bow was left without power and went down with the Captain and seven crew members – all of whom perished – about 10 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. In the stern were 33 men, including Chief Engineer Raymond Sybert, who took charge. Earlier that evening, another tanker, the Ft. Mercer had also split in two just up the coast and the Coast Guard at first only knew about that shipwreck – several men were sent out to rescue those sailors.
When the Coast Guard learned of the second shipwreck, Webber quickly chose three of the remaining men to be his crew and headed out in a freezing winter storm at the helm of a CG-36500 motorboat to rescue the remaining sailors from the Pendleton. He asked his neighbor to call his wife, Miriam, to let her know where he was going.
Webber maneuvered the 36-foot lifeboat under the stern, where the entirety of the crew were trapped. Each man, one by one, jumped into the water and were pulled into the lifeboat, until it came to George “Tiny” Myers, the largest man on the crew at 300 pounds.
With 32 men already in the Coast Guard boat, which was designed to safely hold eight people, Tiny had waited until he’d helped his fellow crewmen off the ship, then jumped and hit the water. Just at that moment, a huge wave pushed the CG-36500 forward, slamming Tiny into the Pendleton. He was the only casualty of the 33 crew members. The rest were brought back to shore and the rescue mission is considered one of the greatest in U.S. Coast Guard history.
Webber, Fitzgerald, Livesey and Maske were awarded the Gold Lifesaving Medal for their heroics.
Webber died on January 24, 2009 at the age of 80. The Sentinel class-cutter, the first of its kind, USCGC Bernard C. Webber was named in Webber’s honor and launched in April 2011.
Released in 2016, the Disney movie The Finest Hours accurately depicts the rescue mission. However, there were a few liberties made to enhance the romantic aspects. At the beginning of the film, Webber meets Miriam and four months later, they are engaged. When the rescue mission departs, they are not yet married in the movie, although they were in real life.
The movie stars Chris Pine as Bernie Webber, Holliday Grainger as Miriam, Casey Affleck as Raymond Sybert, Ben Foster as Richard Livesey, John Magaro as Ervin Maske, Abraham Benrubi as Tiny Myers and Kyle Gallner as Andy Fitzgerald. When watching filming of the movie in 2014, Mr. Fitzgerald, then 83, told The Boston Globe: “You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back. It was our job.” ~Shelby Morton and Alexandra Heilbron
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jmstettner • February 23, 2016 @ 12:47 PM
Just a small point, Bernie Webber died at the age of 80 (May 9, 1928 – January 24, 2009).
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All welcome at church for candle lighting in wake of murder
Published: 16:06 Updated: 17:06 Friday 18 September 2015
A church will open its doors to the community of Grovehill for candle lighting following the shocking murder of a young mother.
The Church of Resurrection, in Henry Wells Square, will be open from 10am to 4pm tomorrow (Saturday).
Nicola Cross: A beautiful person, inside and out.
It is a chance for people from all walks of life and faiths to reflect and light a candle following the tragic death of 37 year old Nicola Cross.
Revd Austin Janes said: “When there are no words there is nothing to divide and in this situation there are no words and no answers. Just sitting together is all that we can do.
“People of any faith or none can just come. This is a multi-faith community and this has touched the whole community.”
There will also be the opportunity to write in a book of condolences.
Mum of two Nicola was discovered stabbed to death at her home in Dunlin Road, Hemel Hempstead, on Monday night by police who had been attending a call about a burglary at a neighbouring property.
Officers had also been called to the estate earlier that evening to reports of a man acting suspiciously. No-one was arrested at that time.
Nicola’s devastated family have described her as the ‘most beautiful person, inside and out’ and the ‘perfect wife and most amazing mummy’.
A post mortem examination has confirmed that she died from stab wounds and two men have been arrested in connection with her death.
Mr Janes said: “I get a lot of feeling of shock from the community, they just can’t believe what’s happened. It’s still so early days and people are feeling numb with it.
“There will be different feelings as the days go on and our hearts go out so much to the family.”
Marcin Porczynski, aged 25, of Claymore Avenue, Hemel Hempstead, has been charged with murder, two counts of kidnap relating to two children aged three and six and a burglary at a neighbouring property in Dunlin Road. He is due to appear in court this afternoon.
A 19-year-old man from Hemel Hempstead arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to burgle has been released on police bail until September 24.
Police say Nicola’s family are being supported by specialist officers and have reassured worried residents that this type of crime is ‘highly unusual’ in Hertfordshire.
Det Chief Inspector Jerome Kent from the major crime unit said: “We fully appreciate the events of Monday night have also significantly impacted the wider community however, I would like to reassure you that this was a tragic and isolated incident, the events of which are highly unusual within Hertfordshire.
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Home Anime Netflix Tokusatsu TV Ultraman Ultraman anime coming to Netflix in 2019
Ultraman anime coming to Netflix in 2019
The Geekery Friday, July 06, 2018 ,Anime ,Netflix ,Tokusatsu ,TV ,Ultraman
Hold on to your seats as our favorite tokusatsu, Ultraman is getting an anime series in 2019 via Netflix.
Anime News Network reported the 12th volume of Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi's Ultraman manga revealed the upcoming CG anime adaptation of the series.
The series will directed by Kenji Kamiyama of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Shinji Aramaki of Appleseed Alpha for Production I.G. as it follows the adventures of Shin Hayata, the son of the original Ultraman.
Viz Media publishes the Ultraman manga in North America, and it describes the story:
Decades ago, a being known as the Giant of Light joined Shin Hayata of the Scientific Special Search Party to save Earth from an invasion of terrifying monsters known as Kaiju. Now, many years later, those dark days are fading into memory, and the world is at peace. But in the shadows a new threat is growing, a danger that can only be faced by a new kind of hero - a new kind of Ultraman...
Shinjiro is an ordinary teenager, but his father is the legendary Shin Hayata. When he learns that his father passed on the "Ultraman Factor" to him, and that he possesses incredible powers, nothing will ever be the same again.
Production I.G. is responsible for our beloved anime series such as Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Blood: The Last Vampire, Patlabor, xxHolic, and The End of Evangelion.
A sequel to Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shiguchi's ULTRAMAN manga in 1966, Ultraman television series and began running in Shogakukan's Monthly Hero magazine November 2011, and has been collected into ten volumes as of 2017. The manga has been licensed by Viz Media for an English language release in 2015 and is rated fifth in the "Best New Manga for Kids/Teens."
Will this be igniting tokusatsu fans' anticipation everywhere? Well, let's wait until 2019 to determine.
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World Cup 2018: best team of the tournament so far
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Fri 29 Jun 2018 12.13 EDT Last modified on Fri 29 Jun 2018 14.56 EDT
Our readers’ team of the tournament so far features, clockwise from bottom left, Harry Kane, Isco, Ivan Rakitic and Alireza Beiranvand. Composite: Team of the Tournament/Guardian
All the 48 group-stage matches in Russia have now been played and after each of them we have asked our readers to hand out their player ratings. The verdicts have then been inputted into our guide of all the 736 players at the 2018 World Cup – and we have now gone through them to see who makes our team of the tournament so far.
According to our readers, Iran’s Alireza Beiranvand gets the nod in goal and it is difficult to argue with that selection. Had a difficult upbringing and was at one stage sleeping rough in Tehran. He worked in a carwash and as a pizza delivery driver before becoming a professional footballer. He has been brilliant in Russia. Saving a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty against Portugal was only one of the highlights as he has produced several high-calibre stops and started Iran’s attacks with his long and accurate throws. Before the tournament he said: “I want to shine in the World Cup, then maybe I can join a European big club. I’d like to play at Liverpool or PSG.” He will not be short of offers. After the three games he had an average rating of 8.67, the highest of all the players in Russia.
World Cup 2018: complete guide to all 736 players
Anyone who has done player-ratings knows that the full-backs are often the most difficult players to rate. You can get to 85 minutes and suddenly wonder what they have done. This has been reflected in our readers ratings with the centre-backs outscoring the full-backs by some margin. We have therefore opted for a three-man defence with an intriguing set-up. First we have Uruguay’s Diego Godín, who led his team from the back as they won all three Group A games without conceding a goal. The dominant Godín is joined by Sweden’s Andreas Granqvist who masterminded his country’s progress to the last 16 by being the leader of a very-well organised defence as well as scoring two of the team’s six goals, both on penalties. The final member of our backline is Manuel Akanji of Switzerland. The 22-year-old Borussia Dortmund defender has been one of the revelations of the tournament so far.
Manuel Akanji
Where to start? Probably with Croatia. The coach, Zlatko Dalic, has arguably the most talented group of midfielders in Russia with Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic both making our team. The La Liga duo have been instrumental in Croatia’s impressive performances against Nigeria, Argentina and Iceland and it will be fascinating to see how far they can go. A third member of the Croatia midfield, the irrepressible Ivan Perisic, just misses out on our XI.
The Croatia pair take up the two central positions with Kieran Trippier of England on the right and Russia’s Aleksandr Golovin. Trippier has had a superb tournament so far, dominating his right side and creating so many chances for his team from set-pieces. It should be remembered that he only played against Tunisia and Panama, two of the weaker teams in the tournament (he was rested for the game against Belgium) but there is not much he can do about that. Golovin has been the hosts’ best player so far together with Denis Cheryshev but did not play in the defeat against Uruguay so ended the group phase with two eights while the latter started with two eights and was then given a five in the final group game.
In a central attacking role, ahead of Modric and Rakitic, our readers have opted for Spain’s Isco. He has shown no signs of slowing down after a long season with Real Madrid and has been sublime to watch and was given an eight against Portugal, a seven against Iran and an eight again in the draw against Morocco. One of the players of the tournament so far.
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The readers’ two-man forward line is made up of Harry Kane and Romelu Lukaku. It is no surprise, perhaps, that they are both from Group G and were able to score against Panama and Tunisia but they both recorded on eight out of ten and one nine out of ten. They were then rested for their final game and therefore ended the group stage with an average rating of 8.5. Eden Hazard, Peru’s André Carrillo, Nigeria’s Ahmed Musa and South Korea’s Son Heung-min were other contenders for a place in the XI.
Check out every player’s ratings in our interactive guide here and don’t forget that you can hand our your own verdicts on every game in Russia at the bottom of the match reports (open for three days).
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Tough case to crack: the mystery of Britain's falling crime rate
Decline in heroin use, unrecorded cybercrime and greater civility are some of the reasons suggested for the drop in offending
Ian Cobain
Sun 31 Aug 2014 13.28 EDT First published on Sun 31 Aug 2014 13.28 EDT
Crime is falling across Britain but the perception of it is not. Photograph: Alamy
On the south side of Northampton, a town an hour's drive north of London, stands a former cinema that is now the home of a discount sofa warehouse called The Sofa King. Outside, a sign proclaims the prices to be "Sofa King low!" Inside, Mark Kypta, a savvy former estate agent, produces a business card that introduces him not as the proprietor, but as The King.
Kypta knows the town well: he was raised there, his parents live there; he knows where the business opportunities lie and which neighbourhoods are best avoided after dark. Asked whether he believes crime to be going up or down in Northampton, his response is immediate: "Up – it's got to be hasn't it?" And nationwide? "It's going up!"
Kypta is far from alone. At the other end of the road is The Bop Shop, a rock'n'roll memorabilia store run by Johnny Dowling. Asked about criminality in Northampton, Dowling, an ageing rocker who has lived in the town for 35 years, reels off his own unhappy experiences: his wife held at gunpoint while working at a petrol station – "he got 10 years for that"; the woman who burst into his shop, squirted petrol at him and threatened to set him alight – "the police showed me mugshots of skinny women with lank hair, all junkies: you couldn't tell one from another"; the man who tried to kick his front door down one Christmas: "I slipped the latch, he fell inside, and I was waiting with a length of three-by-four – bang!" Dowling pauses. "Allegedly," he adds, "you'd better say allegedly waiting …"
All over town, the story is almost invariably the same. Crime is probably going up across Britain, people say, and it's most certainly going up in Northampton.
Except that it is not. According to the official statistics, crime is falling across Britain. It has been falling steadily for almost 20 years, despite the occasional spike in the statistics for some forms of crime. And over the past 12 months, the sharpest fall – 19% – has been recorded in Northampton.
But it is not just the people of Northampton who are perplexed by crime trends. Surveys have shown that while most people in England and Wales believe lawlessness to be falling in the area where they live, the overwhelming majority believe it to be rising nationally, when it has actually fallen to its lowest level in decades. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) believes this may be explained by the way some crimes are reported in the media.
The experts are just as baffled as the public: like the economists who failed to foresee the global financial crisis, criminologists were taken by surprise by what happened during the years of recession that followed the crash. Public spending was cut, unemployment rose, incomes were squeezed, families resorted to food banks. And yet, against all expectations, the number of recorded offences fell.
This phenomenon is not unique to Britain: crime has been falling steadily across much of the western world.
But while most senior police officers, social scientists and Home Office officials accept that crime is falling across Britain, they rarely agree on the cause. Some highly respected criminologists believe so-called acquisitive crime must have risen during the recession, and argue that the surveys are asking the wrong questions: that new forms of crime – often perpetrated online – are not being acknowledged.
Crime in Britain, and the way it is viewed, has become a preconception wrapped in a myth inside a conundrum.
There are two ways of assessing crime in Britain. The police keep records of the crimes reported to them and, since 1982, a survey of 35,000 households, nowadays known as the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), records the public's experience of crime. A separate survey of 12,000 households records Scottish crime.
Police chiefs complained for years that Home Office changes to the way they were expected to record crime rendered their figures next to useless for anyone searching for trends. Earlier this year they suffered the humiliation of seeing the UK Statistics Authority withdraw the gold-standard status from crime data that the police record, after the Commons public administration select committee heard evidence that a number of forces had for years been under-recording crime, particularly sexual offences, in an attempt to meet national targets.
There are acknowledged problems with the CSEW too: it leaves out crimes committed against businesses, such as shoplifting, and does not question some of the most vulnerable people – such as the homeless – who may be victimised repeatedly. It has always recorded greater levels of crime than the police figures, however, and has long been regarded as more reliable.
Both sets of figures showed crime to be rising sharply across Britain during the early 1980s, at a time when unemployment was soaring. So too was the use of heroin. The drug was being smuggled into the country from Pakistan and Iran in increasing quantities, its use spreading from a relatively small number of middle-class people in London to the deprived areas of the cities of northern England and Scotland.
"By 1984, the hotspots were Edinburgh, Glasgow, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and parts of London," says Prof Howard Parker, who ran more than 30 drug research projects over more than two decades. "A little later heroin reached Torquay and other parts of the south-west. It was less common in some areas and barely touched Northern Ireland, but that was basically down to the IRA."
The waves of burglaries and car crime were frequently attributed to addicts – and no doubt some government ministers of the day were relieved to be able to blame lawlessness on individual moral fecklessness, rather than on their own policies – but this became increasingly difficult towards the end of the decade as sophisticated statistical analyses demonstrated that economic conditions appeared to be driving crime trends.
One particularly influential report in 1990 [pdf], based on the work of a Home Office researcher, showed that whenever the British economy had been weak over the previous 45 years, and money tight, there had been a rise in property crime, such as theft. Times of relative plenty, on the other hand, saw an increase in personal crime, such as sexual offences and violence – but not robbery – as people consumed more alcohol, particularly beer, and spent more time outside their homes.
There are other theories put forward to explain the rise and fall of crime. Opportunity and security theories suggest acquisitive crime rises when such offences become easy to commit, and falls when they become more difficult. So, theft from cars increased in the 1970s when manufacturers began to install radios; the theft of cars increased because there were more cars on the roads; and the increase in female employment was said to explain a rise in burglary, because more homes were empty during the day. Conversely, falls in such crime may be explained by improved locks and immobilisers, enhanced home security, and CCTV.
The criminal justice theories suggest that crime trends can be driven by the number of offenders held behind bars and the length of their sentences, and by police numbers, resources and strategies. As a result, there were dire warnings in 2010 from the Police Federation, which represents rank and file police officers in England and Wales, that planned cuts in the policing budget would result in "Christmas for criminals".
Then there are the offender-based theories, which argue that the nature of offending shifts according to changes in the stock of would-be criminals. There have been studies [pdf] on the impact on crime of the legalisation of abortion, for example, and others [pdf] examining the introduction of lead to petrol and its subsequent removal, and the effect that this had on the development of children's brains.
There are problems with each of these sets of theories. The opportunity and security theories fail to explain why burglaries and car crime not only rose in tandem but also fell together, along with violent crime; the criminal justice theories do not help us understand why crime came down in Germany and the Netherlands after those countries reduced their prison populations, nor why offending rates fell when policing numbers were cut – Christmas never came for criminals.
The economic theory held up well for decades, however; so well that in early 2009, as the recession deepened, Chris Grayling, now the justice secretary but then the shadow home secretary, claimed that the Labour government was incapable of getting to grips with what he termed the "credit crunch crime wave", while Chris Huhne, then the Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman – who later served time in jail for perverting the course of justice – declared: "There is now clear evidence of rising crime as the recession bites." In fact, crime continued to fall, as it had done since 1995. It appeared to be time to lock up the economic theory and throw away the key.
In July, the Home Office appeared to have come full circle when it published a research paper that suggested the heroin epidemics of the early 80s and early 90s may have fuelled the rise in acquisitive crime, and that the 19-year fall in crime across England and Wales could be explained by the fall in drug use.
After comparing statistics showing the spread of heroin use around the country with local and national statistics about acquisitive crime – and by examining similar data from Ireland and the US – the author reasoned that the study of geographic variations in crime and drug use "offers the best chance of unlocking the crime-drop puzzle". He concluded that crimes committed by heroin and crack cocaine users could account for at least half of the crime rise from the early 80s until 2005, and for between a quarter and a third of the subsequent fall, to 2012, as drug users quit or died.
While stressing that a combination of different factors might explain crime trends, to different degrees at different times, the report also concludes that "preventing a future epidemic is crucial" if crime levels are to remain low.
Heroin use was linked to the rise in crime in the 1980s. Photograph: Julian Simmonds/Rex Features
Parker believes the report to have accurately reflected the role that drugs and addiction played in fuelling crime in Britain, and says more work should be done to prevent a future epidemic.
However, some criminologists remain convinced that drug use can provide only a partial explanation for the steady rise in crime, and for its unwavering decline.
Prof Mike Hough, associate director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at Birkbeck, University of London, says that rather than searching for narrow explanations for falling crime, people should consider a more general cultural cause: "There is a very long-run trend in European cultures towards greater civility and better treatment of our fellows, however naively optimistic that may seem. If one takes a long view – over centuries – it is pretty obvious that this is the case."
Hough believes societies are reverting to this long-term trend as a result of a combination of reduced opportunities for criminals, better policing, reduced drug taking and, to a small extent, increased use of imprisonment, and that it is the swings around this trend that need explaining.
Other criminologists question whether the two main sources of the official statistics tell the full story, and whether they adequately reflect the enormous recent changes in society.
Some statistics are beyond dispute: the figures that place Britain's murder rate at its lowest level for decades must be correct, as they rely largely on the number of victims' bodies. The reasons for the fall in the number of murders and other violent crime remain elusive, however, with researchers pointing to reduced alcohol consumption, improved treatment of some mental health problems and higher incarceration rates as possible answers.
Other figures are disputed: Marian FitzGerald, visiting professor of criminology at the University of Kent, says the CSEW fails to adequately assess credit card fraud, which is usually reported to the card issuer but not to the police.
FitzGerald also believes the survey takes too little account of the way in which crime has moved online. The survey asks questions about cybercrime, but the ONS has yet to decide whether to include the answers in the main set of results. The internet, FitzGerald says, offers a low-risk opportunity for piracy, fraud and the sale of stolen or counterfeit goods, as well as for blackmail and harassment. "As yet, the crime survey has not asked about the range of victimisation its respondents may now be experiencing via these media, rather than in physical space," she says.
John Graham, director of the Police Foundation thinktank, agrees. "I think crime probably did go up during the recession, but wasn't reflected in the crime figures," he says. "There has been a shift in the way crime is happening. Much of it is moving online, organised crime is difficult to assess, and the amount of money that is made through fraud is greater than the money made through drugs, but we have never been good at counting fraud."
In 2012, the Serious Organised Crime Agency warned MPs on the Commons home affairs select committee that the internet had allowed criminals to commit some traditional crimes on "an industrial scale", leading the committee to conclude [pdf] that what it describes as low-level e-crime is being committed on a vast scale, and with impunity.
In addition to traditional crime that may be facilitated by the internet, there is a generation of new crimes, such as music piracy, phishing, cyberbullying and denial of service attacks, that would not have been possible a few years ago. While police and prosecutors have moved rapidly to deal with some emerging online offences – such as the use of the internet to to incite Islamist terrorist attacks – their initial response to phone hacking showed them to be reluctant to devote resources to other contemporary digital crimes.
If FitzGerald and Graham are correct and new forms of crime are either not being reported to police or not recorded by them – and are also overlooked by the crime surveys – then the curious case of Britain's vanishing crime wave appears to be an even more difficult case to crack.
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Gisele Bundchen Says She and Tom Brady Have “Learned A Lot From Each Other” in Marriage
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Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen have changed each other in marriage. (Shutterstock.com)
By: Kelly Spears 05/17/2017 at 12:42 PM
Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines when it comes to their relationship. In a new interview with CBS This Morning, the supermodel opened up about how the couple continues to thrive after eight years of marriage.
Bundchen, 36, made headlines earlier this year when she asked Brady, 39, to retire as quarterback from the New England Patriots. Rather than putting a wedge between them, Brady’s refusal prompted the Brazilian beauty to look inward.
“He’s playing football. It’s a contact sport and a very aggressive sport,” Bundchen acknowledged while speaking to Charlie Rose on Thursday, May 17. “But he knows I will always support him, and I want him to be happy.”
She added: “If [football] makes him happy, and he loves to do that, then I’m always gonna support him like I always have. I want him to be happy and fulfilled.”
“You’ve changed him and he’s changed you,” Rose observed.
“Yeah, I think that’s what we’ve done,” Bundchen said. “We do most of our growing in relationships because they see all of us, right? All the sides of us.”
The mother of two shared that she and the athlete continue to learn from each other. “Walking through this life with a partner you can always learn and grow from, it’s wonderful,” she told Rose.
While Brady’s career is still going strong, Bundchen has shifted her focus since her retirement from modeling in 2015. Along with motherhood (the couple share two children, Benjamin, 7, and Vivian Lake, 4), the former Victoria’s Secret Angel has made it her mission to protect the environment as an advisor for Project Drawdown, a non-profit dedicated to reversing global warming.
“I believe that what all of this noise is doing… is bringing more awareness,” Bundchen concluded to Rose. “I think now, people are just like, ‘I have to take matters [into] my own hands. I have to get educated. I have to learn. I have to kind of figure out how are we gonna do this.’”
Watch the interview above.
Kelly Spears
Kelly is an online news writer for The Knot. She is a professional writer who studied English at Ohio State University. Kelly is a big fan of TLC's '90 Day Fiance' and FYI's 'Married at First Sight.'
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AKA: 神無月の巫女 (Kannazuki no Miko), Priestesses of the Godless Month
Genre: Yuri, maid fantasy thing, sci-fi, mecha
Distributor: R1 DVD from Sentai Filmworks
Content Rating: 15+ (sexually-oriented lesbian themes, violence, offensiveness and stupidity)
Also Recommended: I don't really know much about yuri, but there are definitely some yuri-themed shows out there that are actually GOOD, unlike this one. Don't ask me what they are (Revolutionary Girl Utena, maybe?)
Notes: Based on a manga by Kaishaku.
As THEM Anime Reviews uses the Hepburn romanization system, the alternate title of "Kannaduki no Miko" is not used, as the syllable "du" does not exist in Hepburn (and is therefore incorrect), and furthermore, looks like Kana-Dookie, an implication that, in retrospect, sort of makes sense.
Now that the DVD with an official English title is out, this is sort of irrelevant anyway.
Destiny of the Shrine Maiden
The popular, elegant Chikane becomes friends with Himeko, a shy, timid girl. From early on, they wonder if they may be feeling a little bit more than friendship for each other. But then an evil thing threatens to blow stuff up, and the only people who can combat it are the Moon and Sun priestesses, who happen to be Chikane and Himeko. They then go off on a (sexually-confused) epic fantasy quest to save the Earth!
Awhile back, a friend and I decided that it would be fun to pick a short anime series that we knew nothing about and watch it in one night. Now I'm sure this is still a fun thing to do in most cases. But I'm afraid it's very unfortunate that we chose Destiny of the Shrine Maiden as our first series to do this with. Because right now, I don't feel very up to trying such an experiment again, ever. Why, do you ask?
Because Destiny of the Shrine Maiden proved to be a bad anime. A very bad anime.
I like mecha, I like fantasy and fantasy heroines, and I like science fiction. However, I should've known that something was up with a series that advertised all of those things at once. Sure, it could work, it has worked, but it usually doesn't. It sure didn't with Destiny of the Shrine Maiden, and the results were disastrous. I did get some mecha, some Victorian fantasy (complete with maids), and some science fiction, all in one series. But the quality of these elements was down the tubes. They put in mecha so that they could sell this to mecha fans, but they didn't really care about the mecha. They put in fantasy so they could sell this to fantasy fans, but they didn't care about that either. Same goes with the sci-fi elements. The result is a series that rips off just about every type of anime fan in existence. The best I can say about this odd mish-mash of genres is that it's the closest thing to a hilarious cross-over that I've ever seen. If anyone dared to produce Macross in Hanaukyo, they would end up with something like this.
Overshadowing all of Destiny of the Shrine Maiden's generic shortcomings mentioned above, however, is the most offensive marketing ploy in this basket case of a show. Remember that Destiny of the Shrine Maiden, on top of all the mecha and maids mess, also calls itself a romance anime ... a yuri romance anime. Although I was not prepared for this when I first started the series, I was ready to take the yuri theme and run with it. But they didn't care about the romance element any more than they cared about the other stuff. It's sloppy, forced romance. If it had been completely heterosexual, it would have been sloppy, forced romance, and worthy of the same contempt. Why do they put in such romance? So that they can introduce a load of yuri scenes? Why do they introduce a load of yuri scenes? So that they can they can sell homosexuality as some strange and exotic product; a freak show of sorts. When Destiny of the Shrine Maiden tries to sell mecha, sci-fi, and fantasy in this manner, it is annoying. When they begin doing it with lesbianism, it becomes EXTREMELY offensive. Because such exploitation was the main priority of this show, among all the other wily tricks up it's sleeve, it sinks to the lowest levels of "entertainment" as far as I'm concerned. The whole thing is really a way to make money off of lesbianism, while pulling in every other type of fan it can at the same time. Not only is that against my principles of why anime (or any product) should be created, but it's just not entertaining to watch, period.
One last thing to mention is that, despite the clashing genres displayed on the front design, the advertisement art did manage to trick me into thinking that the visuals of this series would be very good. Well, the old trickster got me again. This series looks horrible, like a totally average series from the mid-90s. This is totally unacceptable, considering they probably did the entire thing on a computer, and could've at least made it look better than Gainax's super-low-budget stuff from the 90s. But they didn't manage to do this, and it shows. Backgrounds are bland, and characters are very pointy and plain.
That's just one little morsel to add to the top of this heaping pile of junk.
If you like awkward lesbian romances, lesbian-lesbian-mechademon love triangles, or unexciting lesbian fan service, then you will thoroughly enjoy this series. If you like awkward lesbian romances, lesbian-lesbian-mechademon love triangles, or unexciting lesbian fan service, then you really need to get out more. — Connor McCarty
Recommended Audience: Nobody really. Anybody who'd actually enjoy this exploitation needs to get their head examined. However, if for some reason you're actually considering watching this thing, you have to be prepared for a whole bunch of lesbian scenes. So know what you can handle and what you can't. And these themes get pretty maturely sexual later on, from what I've heard. Pair that with some spastic violence and destruction, and nobody under 15 should really be watching this. But as I said, no one still ALIVE should be watching this.
Version(s) Viewed: digital source
Review Status: Partial (4/12)
Destiny of the Shrine Maiden © 2004 Kaishaku / Kannazuki no Miko Committee
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Theme Park Insider - November 2018
First look at Disney World's new Lightning McQueen show
November 23, 2018, 1:41 PM · Walt Disney World is opening four new attractions next year at its Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park. The headliners are, of course, the two new rides in the upcoming Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge land — Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance — whose names Disney revealed at last weekend's Destination D event in Orlando. And then there's the first-ever Mickey Mouse-themed dark ride, Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway, which opens in the old Great Movie Ride space in the Chinese Theater sometime late next year.
But the first of the new attractions to open next year at the Studios will be a new Cars-themed show in the Sunset Showcase theater, Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy.
Disney is teasing the new show in its "Disney Parks Presents a 25 Days of Christmas Holiday Party" show that is playing today on the Disney NOW app and then starts showing on the Disney Channel on December 1 at 8pm ET. (It's at the 19:00 minute mark, if you want to skip to it on the app or your DVR playback.)
In the preview, show directors from Disney and Pixar talk about the new production, which will feature Lightning McQueen on stage showing off his "racing simulator," a 200-foot wrap-around video screen in the theater. Lightning's here to share some of his tips for the aspiring racers in the audience, and he's brought Tow Mater, Cruz Ramirez, and other friends from Radiator Springs to cheer him on. But since it's Lightning McQueen, expect at least a little gentle chaos along the way.
Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy premieres next spring at Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort. No specific opening date yet.
Reader ratings and reviews for Disney's Hollywood Studios
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I think this is going to be more along the lines of a temporary attraction to help soak up the impending Star Wars hordes. If children find it entertaining, then it'll have served it's purpose.
AngryDuck
Circlevision 180 with animatronic cars characters... interesting.
Enjoying a 'Taste of Winter' at Disneyland Paris
Which theme park has the best Christmas parade?
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Clarice Lispector: O lustre (The Chandelier)
The latest addition to my website is Clarice Lispector‘s O lustre (The Chandelier). This is Lispector’s second novel, written when she was in her early twenties, and now published in English more than seventy years after publication in Portuguese. Much of the novel takes place in the head of Virginia, whom we first meet as a girl under the sway of her controlling brother, whom she adores, and her bullying father. In the second part of the novel, she is an adult. Her brother has married and she has a boyfriend, Vicente. However, she is not sure whether she loves him and still lives very much inside in her head. She heads off back home where nothing has changed and still does not know where she belongs. Most of the novel takes place inside her head and we get a detailed and superbly well written story of a complex and insecure girl/woman.
Miklós Szentkuthy: Fekete Reneszánsz (Black Renaissance)
The latest addition to my website is Miklós Szentkuthy‘s Fekete Reneszánsz (Black Renaissance). This is the second in his St Orpheus Breviary series. It has not yet been translated into English (I read it in French) but will be appearing from Contra Mundum Press in the not too distant future. Nominally about Claudio Monteverdi, his opera L’incoronazione di Poppea and Venice, these three scarcely make an appearance as Szentkuthy romps through various parts of European intellectual history, including Tacitus (Monteverdi’s source for information on Poppea), Tiberius, Empress Theodora and the man she hid for twelve years Anthimus, Pope Sixtus IV, the architect Filippo Brunelleschi and Roger Ascham, tutor to the future Elizabeth I. How are these people connected? All too often they are not but this does not stop Szentkuthy setting off on innumerable tangents to tell their stories and to make his point about the dualities in European intellectual history. It is enormous fun and full of great learning, if you can keep up with him.
Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès: L’Île du Point Némo (Island of Point Nemo)
The latest addition to my website is Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès‘ L’Île du Point Némo (Island of Point Nemo). Like his earlier work, this is a madcap romp, with adventures, sex and violence, world travel and characters from all over the world. It features amputated feet, a racing pigeon fancying, breast-loving Chinese manufacturer of e-readers, the Bloop, the Battle of Gaugamela and, of course, Point Nemo as well as a character called John Shylock Holmes who is not Sherlock Holmes though he almost is, two women in a coma, Creationist terrorists and the impotent Dieumercie Bonacieux. It is great fun, post-modern and thoroughly unpredictable.
Gloria Guardia: Tiniebla blanca [White Darkness]
The latest addition to my website is Gloria Guardia‘s Tiniebla blanca [White Darkness]. The unnamed narrator, like Guardia, is a Panamanian student at Vassar College. One evening, while in New York, she has forgotten her money and tracks down an uncle and aunt, Antonio and Carmen. They are very friendly but she soon discovers that Antonio is perhaps too friendly. However, Carmen is eager to assure her that she is like the daughter they never had (they have no children) and hopes that she will help repair their failing marriage. However, when she is staying there one evening, Carmen is absent and uncle and niece behave in a decidedly un-uncle-and-niece like manner. Guardia was only twenty and still at Vassar when she wrote this. I hope it was not autobiographical.
Hamid Ismailov: Jinlar Bazmi (The Devil’s Dance)
The latest addition to my website is Hamid Ismailov‘s Jinlar Bazmi (The Devil’s Dance). It tells the story of the last nine months of the life of Uzbek writer Abdulla Qodiriy, spent in a Stalinist prison in 1937-38, prior to his execution as a bourgeois nationalist. Just prior to his arrest, Qodiriy had planned to write a novel set in mid-nineteenth century Bukhara and Kokand, about Nasrullah Khan, Emir of Bukhara and Madali Khan, Khan of Kokand, both distinctly unpleasant men, and the unfortunate Oyxon, who was married to both of them as well as Madali’s father, all against her will. We follow Qodiriy’s time in prison, while he writes the book in his head, changing the emphasis a lot, in the light of his discussions on the history of the period with his fellow prisoners, particularly as regards the Great Game. Ismailov superbly shows his creative process and how Qodiriy’s plight overlaps with that of Oyxon and other victims of that time, as well as telling us about nineteenth century Bukhara and Stalinist prisons.
Rana Haddad: The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor
The latest addition to my website is Rana Haddad:‘s The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor. This is the first novel by a Syrian woman who has spent her adult live in England. This novel tells the story of a Syrian woman, daughter of an English woman and a Syrian heart surgeon, Dunya Noor who, growing up in Syria, does not behave either in the way a young woman is expected to behave in Syria nor does she uncritically support the (Hafez) Assad regime. When she refuses to attend a voluntary demonstration, her mother takes her back to England before there are serious problems. There she meets another Syrian, Hilal, who is a physicist, studying the Moon. They live together but, when Hilal learns of his father’s death six months after the event, they decide to return. Hilal disappears and Dunya, with the help of a singer she meets in a men-only café, tries to track him down. This is a fascinating feminist, anti-Assad love story.
Ricardo Piglia: Plata quemada (Money to Burn)
The latest addition to my website is Ricardo Piglia‘s Plata quemada (Money to Burn. This is a novelised account of an actual robbery from a bank armoured car in Buenos Aires. Piglia was a journalist at the time and reported on the case. The robbery succeeds but the police track down the robbers, with others betrayed by an informer. There is a final shoot-out in Montevideo. Piglia gives the book both a political edge – it seems that some politicians and police officers might have been involved – as well as a psychological edge, as the criminals seem to be psychopaths, serious drug users and generally mentally flawed. The novel was controversial – Piglia was sued three times over it (details in review) – but it has been acclaimed as a foremost Latin American novel and is certainly a good read.
Paolo Cognetti: Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains)
The latest addition to my website is Paolo Cognetti‘s Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains), which won the prestigious Strega Prize in Italy. It tells the story of Pietro, only child of two mountain lovers. His father, in particular, is very keen on climbing at high altitudes in the Italian Alps and Pietro gets the bug. His mother, who prefers the lower reaches, persuades the father to rent a small cottage in Grana and the father and then, when he is older, Pietro go up the mountains. It is in Grana that Pietro meets Bruno, a boy of his own age and they become lifelong friends. Bruno is a mountain man and their close relationship helps Pietro develop his love of mountains. There is a falling-out between father and son, and between the friends when Pietro becomes a teenager but Pietro rediscovers his love of mountains with the help of Bruno.
J. G. Farrell: Troubles
The latest addition to my website is J. G. Farrell‘s Troubles. This novel, which won the Lost Man Booker Prize more than thirty years after the author’s death, is the first in Farrell’s acclaimed Empire Trilogy. It is set in the crumbling Majestic Hotel, a symbol of the decaying British Empire, located in County Wexford in Ireland, at the end of the First World War and during a period when unrest in Ireland is increasing. Major Archer, who had been invalided out of the army for what we would call post-traumatic stress disorder, seems to have accidentally got engaged to Angela, daughter of the owner of the Majestic and goes to stay with the family there, her father, staunchly opposed to any Irish independence, her irresponsible brother and her almost evil twin sisters. He barely sees Angela, who is ill, but watches as both the hotel and British rule in Ireland, crumble in synchronicity. It is a superb novel and deserves the reputation it had when it first came out.
Chico Buarque: Leite Derramado (Spilt Milk)
The latest addition to my website is Chico Buarque‘s Leite Derramado (Spilt Milk). The book is narrated by a hundred-year old Brazilian man, who is lying in a hospital bed in Rio de Janeiro, in a public hospital. He comes from a rich family but the family has fallen on hard times, partially through poor investments, partially through dishonest dealings. His father was murdered, either because of sex or money, his son-in-law ran off with the family money, his grandson was murdered by the police (apparently) and his great-grandson killed in a dubious kidnapping. His great-great grandson seems to be well-off, though possibly from drug dealing. His wife left him with a baby, though it is not clear what happened to her, as various explanations are given by this unreliable narrator. Now he lies in a hospital bed, talking to his daughter, the nurses and his long dead parents about the family and his not very successful life, criticising all and sundry. It is both a funny book but also a serious attempt to look at Brazil, its history, its corruption and its racism.
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Alexander Keobke
Hey everybody (excluding 9er fans), my name is Alex and (shocker) I am a massive sports fan. While my main interest is in the NFL, I am open to a discussion and to list about anything related to the sporting world. A warning though, the happiness of my lists may or may not be contingent on the success of the Seattle Seahawks.
Articles by Alexander Keobke
20 NFL Players Who Will Be Out Of The League By 2020
One of the most difficult times of your life might occur when you realize that it is time to switch careers. This is especially the case for professional athletes who have literally spent their entire...
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Ranking The Last 20 First Overall Picks Of The NFL Draft
It's not the most fun feeling world to go into an NFL season and know that your team probably has a better chance of competing for the #1 pick in the draft than appearing in the Super Bowl. But at lea...
The 15 Biggest NFL Free Agency Hits And 15 Biggest Misses Since 2010
Every year the NFL gets a jolt of excitement when free agency opens up and players get an opportunity to cash in for their years of hard work. It can be a heartbreaking time for some fanbases as they ...
25 Madden 19 Ratings That Make No Sense
There are many different things that you can do to try and earn some bragging rights over your friends and family. But if they are a fan of the NFL and video games, it stands to reason that they are p...
10 Expensive NFL Contracts That Are Worth It (And 10 Teams Would Take Back)
If you are going to have a successful team in the NFL, one of the most important elements is making sure that the front office manages their contracts well. If they don't, you can often see teams drow...
Top 20 MLB Prospect Flops Since 2000
There are a lot of amazing sports that I'm sure you would love to be able to play professionally. But perhaps the increased awareness of concussions in football has made you a little leery. And the co...
NFL Redraft: 20 Recent First Round Picks Teams Want Back
With every job comes a certain level of pressure and responsibilities. If you work at Starbucks, you need to make sure you are on top of people's drink orders. If you work retail in a sports store, yo...
13 WWE Wrestler Family Members Who Get Way Too Much Attention (And 12 Who Fly Under The Radar)
There are many WWE superstars that pride themselves on being relatively private people. While they may have an active family life away from the ring, they don't often open up about it. And photos of t...
8 Retired Wrestlers From The '90s Who Look Great (And 8 Who Have Seen Better Days)
Retirement has the opportunity to be the best time of your life. But that definitely isn't the case for some of the wrestlers on our list. Such as Kamala whose battle with diabetes has been harder tha...
8 Athletes Who Couldn't Succeed In Their Father's Shadow (And 8 Who Made Them Look Like Scrubs)
It is incredibly hard to become a professional athlete. One thing that may work to an athlete's advantage is having family members who have walked a similar path. Because while the idea of playing in ...
8 Contracts Vince McMahon Shouldn't Even Think About Renewing (And 8 He Absolutely Must)
There are many difficult decisions that Vince McMahon needs to make over the course of his year. But nothing that he does may have quite as big an impact as when he looks over the WWE roster and decid...
15 Rare Photos Of WWE Women With Baby Bumps
One of the most magical experiences that a person can have is becoming a parent. It's an experience that many of the best women in WWE history have had on multiple occasions. Even if it's an experienc...
Awkward Photos These 10 Female (And 10 Male) Wrestlers Didn't Want To Be In
When fans meet wrestlers in real life, they get excited. This excitement often leads to them asking for a photo. This can be a great experience for the fan. But that doesn't always translate to a grea...
8 NBA Teams Kawhi Leonard Could Be Traded To (And 8 With No Chance)
Kawhi Leonard's 2017-2018 season with the San Antonio Spurs was disappointing, to say the least. Marred by injury, Leonard never managed to make an impact on the court and spent most of on the sidelin...
8 WWE Relationships That Were Doomed From The Start (And 8 Built To Last)
If you jump to only a few months ago, John Cena and Nikki Bella were working hard at trying to make arrangements for their destination wedding. But the scenario that faces Nikki Bella in May isn't a l...
10 Biggest NFL Draft Busts (And 10 Biggest Steals) Of The Last 10 years
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15 Little Known Facts About Jennifer Lopez And Alex Rodriguez's Relationship
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9 WWE Stars Who Had To Get Regular Jobs (And 8 With Jobs Better Than Wrestling)
One of the toughest things for wrestlers to adjust to is life after wrestling. This may be even tougher if, like for Sean O'Haire, he goes from pulling off suplexes in the ring, to trying to make he g...
15 Reasons Why Blair O’Neal Is The Greatest Thing To Ever Happen To Golf
One of the most recognizable faces in the world of female golf is Blair O'Neal. While perhaps her biggest claim to fame comes from when she won the golfing reality show, Big Break: Dominican Republic,...
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The Multimodal Legal Framework – A Real Labyrinth: Part 2
Author: Navin Dhillon
Part 2: Legal issues arising under the current unimodal transport Conventions
In Part 1: Introduction and background of this article, we provided an overview of the international Conventions applicable to the multimodal trade.
We shall now look at some issues which the current unimodal Conventions give rise to. In this discussion, we will be focussing only on the maritime Conventions.
2. Legal issues under the unimodal transport Conventions
i) Conflict of laws enabled by Article 2 CMR
Instead of causing a conflict situation to arise between the Hague-Visby Rules (or the Hamburg Rules) and the CMR, Article 2 of the CMR actually seeks to restrict the potential for conflict.
Take for example the hypothetical scenario of a multimodal transport which is “mode on mode” (typically road-sea-road) and it is established that the loss, damage or delay to goods occurred during the road stage. In such an instance, the CMR is applied. If, however the loss, damage or delay is known to have occurred during the sea stage, then, although the goods have not been unloaded from the vehicle, the liability of the road carrier to the consignee will be governed not by the CMR, but by the law appropriate to the sea stage (if the case falls within the proviso to Article 2(1) of the CMR.)
In situations which concern events that could only have occurred ‘in the course of and by reason of that other means of transport’, and the other means of transport are covered by ‘conditions prescribed by law’, the CMR grants the other carriage regime precedence in relation to matters concerning the liability of the multimodal transport operator.
In the case of Thermo Engineers Ltd v Ferrymasters Ltd, a heat exchanger was on an open trailer from England to Copenhagen, roll-on-roll-off out of Felixstowe. The cargo was damaged in the course of loading on the vessel, with the top of the heat exchanger hitting the vessel’s bulkhead. As the carriage was contracted on the basis of ro-ro carriage under Article 2 of the CMR, the question arose as to whether the CMR or the Hague Rules applied at the time the damage to the heat exchanger occurred.
The judge noted that the CMR was intended to fit in with other Conventions and the first condition of Article 2 was satisfied as it was proven that sea carriage as understood in the Hague Rules had begun i.e. at the time the damage occurred, the loading was well advanced and the trailer had already passed over the outboard ramp and across the line of the stern. As such, it was irrelevant that the truck was moving on its own wheels.
It was therefore established that a collision with the bulkhead of the ship had taken place in the course of loading the ship and such event could only have occurred in the course of and by reason of the carriage by sea.
In Und Adriyatik,[1] the Federal Court of Germany followed the decision in Thermo Engineers in holding that when the requirements of Article 2 CMR are fulfilled; it is the Hague/Hague-Visby Rules and not CMR that governs the road carriers’ liability during the sea leg. The rulings in Und Adriyatik and Thermo Engineers create a degree of certainty. So, in every case where CMR applies during a multimodal transport operation, a careful analysis is required to establish which international convention is applicable whenever cargo is damaged.
There is, however, still potential for conflict in areas such as jurisdiction, limitation of actions and time bars which are outside the CMR’s provisions on carrier liability.
For instance, if a consignee seeks to bring a claim against the MTO under a multimodal transport contract, Article 32 of the CMR prescribes a basic time bar of one year. However, this limitation period can be extended to three years in cases of wilful misconduct or gross negligence. There would, for example, be evidence of wilful misconduct in cases where the driver of a lorry has exceeded the permissible tachograph regulations.[2]
Significantly, Article 32 covers not only claims arising out of the different articles of the CMR but all claims in connection with a transportation governed by the CMR. The time from which the period of limitation begins to run in Article 32 differs depending on the grounds upon which the claim is based. If a claim is based on the goods being partially lost, damaged or delayed in delivery the limitation begins to run from the date the goods are delivered (CMR 32.1(a)). The point as to when the goods should be considered as delivered and when the time of limitation starts to run has been considered in many cases. As a general rule, it is the time of the actual delivery of the goods to the consignee that is relevant.
Let us now take a look at a multimodal transport contract where the CMR applies to the first leg and the Hamburg Rules to the second leg. A potential conflict could arise as Article 20 of the Hamburg Rules deviates from the CMR in setting a time bar period of two years for the consignee to bring a claim against the carrier.
If such a conflict situation were to arise, Article 25(5) of the Hamburg Rules may assist. Article 25(5) which deals with potential uniform transport law conflicts determines that nothing contained in the Hamburg Rules prevents a Contracting State from applying any other international convention which was already in force on 30 March 1980[3] and which applies mandatorily to contracts of carriage of goods primarily by a mode of transport other than transport by sea.
Article 25(5) of the Hamburg Rules therefore resolves any potential conflict between Article 2 of the CMR and the Hamburg Rules simply by giving the CMR rules ‘rights of way’.
The potential for conflict created by Article 2 of the CMR with the Hague or Hague-Visby Rules is rarer in practice because transport under Article 2 of the CMR including a sea stage usually concerns short-sea shipping (where generally a bill of lading is not issued). As such, there is only a chance for the Hague-Visby Rules to apply to the sea stage if a multimodal or combined transport bill of lading is issued for the entire carriage by the multimodal – or Article 2 CMR – carrier.
Nonetheless, if one assumes that the Hague or Hague-Visby Rules and the CMR are capable of applying to separate legs of a multimodal transport contract, Article III rule 6bis of the former provides that an action for indemnity against a third person may be brought even after expiration of the time bar period and this may have the potential of creating a further cause for conflict between the two Conventions.
ii) Lack of certainty under the current legal framework
Currently, in cases of loss, damage or delay to goods during international multimodal transport, cargo claims are brought by cargo interests against the MTO under multimodal transport documents such as Multidoc 95, Combiconbill and the FIATA Multimodal Transport Bill of Lading
Some multimodal carriers and non-vehicle owning carriers have adopted their own in-house standard form negotiable and non-negotiable bills of lading, for example, P&O Nedlloyd’s Bill of Lading for Combined Transport or for Port to Port shipment. Non-negotiable transport documents specifically devised for multimodal transport include BIMCO’s MULTIWAYBILL and COMBICONWAYBILL
All of these documents provide for a more or less complete contractual liability regime with clear rules on the basis of liability, available defences at different stages of the voyage, applicable limitation periods and time bars. However, it should be noted that each and every bill of lading devises its regime differently on the basis of a concept known as the limited network liability system.
The aim is to avoid insofar as possible, interference with mandatory regimes applicable to unimodal segments of the adventure. In practice, this means that the outcome of every single claim depends on the wording of the contract and the specific circumstances of the case. In some circumstances, more than one Convention may apply to the same claim, yet under the current system, each Convention proceeds without reference to the other. This has resulted in a distinct lack of uniformity between the international Conventions relating to the carriage of goods by sea, land and air.
Under the current network liability system, faced with an excessively fragmented and complex legal regime. The applicable liability regime varies depending upon the stage of the transport where the loss, damage or delay to goods occurred. Cargo interests often have to seek legal guidance on which legislation or Convention is applicable to their claims, and the extent to which such legislations and Conventions apply.[4]
The above uncertainty has an impact on the insurance market. The difficulty in assessing the carrier’s full risks exposure in advance has the effect of driving up insurance costs, which distorts the insurance market in general.
The current unsatisfactory situation is not attributable just to the lack of an international multimodal convention, but rather to the presence of numerous unimodal conventions that are mandatorily applicable to different legs of the multimodal carriage of goods. Each unimodal convention is seeking to tackle specific multimodal problems on a “piecemeal basis”. It is clear that the current approach is not adequate and there is a need for a new approach.
iii) Is a multimodal transport document a bill of lading or similar document of title making it subject to the Hague-Visby Rules?
A multimodal transport document will in many cases be governed at different stages by different legal requirements under the conventions governing each mode because there is hardly any national and no international legislation whatsoever governing this type of document. In general terms, a multimodal transport document such as a combined transport bill of lading will generally be viewed as a ‘received for shipment’ bill of lading. There is no clear legal authority providing that this document can constitute a document of title i.e. a document whereby property and possession in the goods can pass during the voyage without an attornment from the carrier. A multimodal bill of lading may be regarded as a negotiable transport document only if it is issued "to order" and the last leg of the carriage is a sea shipment.
A further argument that a combined transport bill of lading does not generally amount to a document of title centres on the fact that the document may be issued by someone other than the actual sea carrier, for example, a freight forwarder.[5] It is doubtful whether this document can confer constructive possession in the goods to which it refers when the contractual carrier has never taken the goods into its physical possession.
It is clear however that what matters is not the physical reception of the goods by the carrier, but the performing carrier’s contractual capacity to control delivery. This was established in the case of Spectra International plc v Hayesoak Ltd[6] where it was decided that a party could become a bailee of goods, even without taking physical possession of the goods, by obtaining a right to give directions to the warehouseman as to their delivery.
[1] “UND ADRYATIK” BGH, Judgment of 15 December 2011 – I ZR 12/11 – OLG München
[2] As seen in the case of Denfleet International Ltd v. TNT Global Spa [2007] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 504
[3] the date of the Convention
[4] Haedong Jeon (2013) “Coping with muddles and uncertainty in the field of multimodal transport liability”, University of Southampton, Faculty of Business and Law, PhD Thesis.
[5] As seen in The Maheno [1977] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 81, NZ. Ct.
[6] [1998] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 165, CA
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Game of Thrones Finale Backlash Does Nothing to Stop Total Emmy Domination
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Kit Harington Told Us He’s Going Through a “Flabby Stage”
Bennett Marcus
Kit Harington or poetry T.A.?by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images.
In DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon 2, Kit Harington plays dragon trapper Eret, Son of Eret, a threat to the creatures’ peaceful coexistence with the Vikings. At a Cinema Society screening in New York on Wednesday, VF Hollywood spoke with the Game of Thrones star about why the Khaleesi was not a font of advice on dragon behavior, his half-posh accent, his flabby body (ahem), and his love of New York. VF Hollywood: Did you consult the Khaleesi on how to trap dragons?
Kit Harington: No, I didn’t. She just got born with them, right? She just had them there, and they think that she’s their mother, so no, I didn’t. Seriously, how did you prepare to do this movie? It’s animated, so you don’t need to do training.
Do you know, weirdly, I like finding a voice for a character in anything I do. In most things I do, I’ve got some kind of an accent, and I find it weird in a role when I don’t have an accent. So for this, it was very similar. I was like, where’s he from? What’s he like? He’s a bit of a bloke, he’s a bit of a lad; he’s gruff. So first, he started to be Swedish, because he’s from Ice World, and then that didn’t work, so I just made him a bit more London than my own voice. I’ve got a half-quite-posh voice, half-London voice, and I just cut the posh bit out.
When you’re not shooting Game of Thrones, or a movie like Pompeii, where you have to do a lot of action, do you continue to workout, or do you drink beer and eat pizza and get flabby like everyone else?
It depends. I fluctuate. At the moment, I’m going through a flabby stage. I’m not actually hitting the gym at the moment. But, um, I’ve always had quite a high metabolism; I don’t really put on weight, which is great, at the moment. It won’t last forever. But, no, I like to keep fit, I think it’s important as an actor that you do, but I don’t generally hit the gym every day. On television, you talked about having wanted to cut your hair, but your Game of Thrones contract forbid it. Did you really want to cut it?
Yeah, but I wanted to cut it for a part. So, eventually, when Thrones is over, I’ll wait for that part that’s U.S. Marine #1, and go and get a buzz cut. And that’ll be really weird; it’ll be weird for me looking in the mirror and having short hair. You were with America Ferrera when that crazy guy accosted her at Cannes. What were you thinking at that moment?
I just thought it was a disgusting, despicable thing to do at a family movie. It really made me quite angry. There’s very little that’s made me angrier than that, and I don’t think there’s any place for him anywhere near a carpet, ever again. Do you spend much time in the U.S.?
I do now. I’m always flitting between New York and L.A., but I don’t live here. I live in London, that’s my home. And I love New York. Actually, this time around in New York, I’ve looked around, and I’ve thought, This is a cool place, maybe I could come live here at some point. Is there anything we Americans do that you find odd or funny?
No, not really. There’s lots, but I always think England and America are actually, culturally, very different places, and very similar at the same time. But, no, I love America, I love Americans. Otherwise I wouldn’t want to work here, you know?
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Dec. 9, 2018 / 10:50 PM
Hilary Duff: 'There's been some conversations' about reviving 'Lizzie McGuire'
Hilary Duff hasn't ruled out the possibility of a "Lizzie McGuire" revival. File Photo by David Silpa/UPI | License Photo
Hilary Duff arrives on the red carpet of The Weinstein Company and Netflix Golden Globes after party in Beverly Hills on January 11, 2015. File Photo by David Silpa/UPI | License Photo
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Hilary Duff said her sitcom Lizzie McGuire, which initially aired 2001-04, could be one of the next shows to get a revival.
"There's been some conversations," Duff told Entertainment Tonight. "It's definitely not a go. I don't want to get everyone wild talking about it."
Duff, who can now be seen in the comedy Younger, said she loves the character of Lizzie and would enjoy playing her again, this time as an adult.
"I think she was so important to girls at an important time in their life. If she could be important to them again at this age, I think that would be amazing," she said.
Bringing back long canceled shows has been a recent trend in streaming and broadcast television, with Roseanne, Will & Grace, Murphy Brown, Gilmore Girls and Full House all getting fresh episodes years after they went off the air. Last week, media reports said New York Undercover is also set for a reboot.
Duff, 31, gave birth in October to her second child, a daughter she and her boyfriend Matthew Koma named Banks Violet Bair.
She also has a 6-year-old son named Luca with her ex-husband, Mike Comrie.
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Rajasthan government subsidy scheme on solar irrigation pumping
Rajasthan 325 sunny days in a year, on Earth, the solar insolation (6-7 kWh / m 2 / day) is endowed with one. To harness the vast amount of energy, the Rajasthan government subsidized 86 percent solar-powered irrigation in 2011-12 introduced 3 HP DC submersible pump. Initially, the government has set a target of 50 pumps by the end of the 2011-12 target was increased to 500 pumps; For 2013-14 the target was increased to 10,000 pumps. During the period 2011-12, after only 14 districts were considered for implementation in 2012-13, the plan was available for 33 districts in the state.
MNRE and the Ministry of Agriculture through the financial assistance of the state government had supported. India Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) provide 30 percent of the state government, Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) and the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy offers a 56% subsidy. The cost of a solar pump system Assuming that about Rs. 400,000- 450,000, the farmer will be required to pay only Rs. 56000-63000 (solar pumping system costs 14 per cent).
The scheme farmers and has created a positive impact on the lives of the natives. Groundwater while reducing the total irrigated area under cultivation increased. The gap between demand and supply of electricity decreased. Water availability, especially crops, horticultural crops, production increased greenhouse, shade-nets and agricultural technique of fertilization (3-4 times) has increased substantially. The additional 12,000 hectares of land with at least two crops every year, has been irrigated is estimated to be around.
Buoyed by the success of the first phase solar water pump, according to reports, the state government in the next stage of the pump is set to roll out a number.
As many as 14 districts in the electricity and fuel (diesel) with farmers able to save the state horticulture department will be distributed throughout the state, 3,000 solar water pumps.
“We are planning to distribute the pump by the end of February. The department already has invited expressions of interest from solar pump set manufacturers. Approximately 12 producers in rural areas to supply solar pump set is determined,” a The senior official said.
Officials say the first delivery pump at a lower price than would be paid to farmers claimed. “3HP submersible solar pump with a maximum head of 75 meters would cost about Rs 4.85 lakh, Rs 4.25 lakh, while 3HP pump would cost solar surface.”
“The last time the same pump costs approximately 5.70 million. However, prices have come down to compete,” he said.
Under the scheme, farmers only pay the remaining 14%, 86% subsidy on the cost of the pump will get.
Officials set solar pump connected to a water source that are explained. The solar panels to pump water pump motor that runs the electricity, solar energy converts. 3HP power of a solar water pump delivers approximately 15-20 units every day.
In 2008-2009, the government set up on an experimental basis was 14 pumps. Later, in 2010-11 and 1675 this year followed by 36 pumps, pumps were distributed. This was enough water in the district as “so far, more than Ganganagar farmers have taken advantage of the scheme. The last time, 621 solar pumps were not confident in Ganganagar,” senior government official Times of India told.
“A farmer for a rent subsidy for a solar pump to meet three requirements – a storage source, a drip system and they should cultivate cash crops,” he said.
Farmers working in the fields in the dark was seen as a major requirement at this stage, solar lights will be attached to the solar pumps.
Meanwhile, farmers are already using solar pump is shown satisfaction with the results.
Kulveer Singh of Ganganagar farmers have saved the money spent on fuel consumption, with the help of pump “, told the Times of India. In an hour, requires 2.5 liters of diesel, and a generator in one day at least 8 hours is run for. The solar pump is very cost effective. ”
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Procoin acquired by G+D
26 June 2017 - 08:54 am UTC
G+D, the Munich-based security technology specialist, announced on 26 June that its Currency Technology unit has acquired Procoin GmbH, a German provider of counting, sorting, and packing machines in the coins sector, as well as banknote counters. The purchase contract was signed today in Frankfurt, Germany.
With this takeover G+D Currency Technology is expanding its offering in the coins segment, whilst also strengthening its position as a global market leader for cash cycle automation. In addition, the company is benefiting from the wide product range offered by Procoin, as well as its strong distribution network in Europe. Procoin was founded in 1998, and has its registered office in Frankfurt.
"The global volume of cash will grow steadily. For this reason, G+D Currency Technology's acquisition of Procoin represents an investment in a market with an exciting future," stated Wolfram Seidemann, CEO of G+D Currency Technology. "We are bringing together Procoin's technically advanced product range with G+D Currency Technology's strong global presence. This enables us to offer outstanding support to our customers at every point in the cash cycle."
"We are delighted about the unique opportunity to affiliate with the market leader in the areas of cash as well as banknote processing," commented Marcus Nau, the current and future Managing Director of Procoin. "Together we can even better serve our customer's needs for greater efficiency and automation."
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Apr 16 Beychella
Eve in the Bayou
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Coachella, thank you for allowing me to be the first black woman to headline. Ain’t that ‘bout a bitch?
One of the most devastating things someone has ever said to me was, “Lemonade was good and all, but I really miss White Beyoncé.” If this person hadn’t been a manager at my job, I would’ve told them to meet me outside. It was a reminder that at some point the mainstream media and the majority of white America forgot that Beyoncé is Black. They were so caught up in “Single Ladies”, “Halo”, “Crazy in Love”, and “Irreplaceable” that they temporarily forgot the color of her skin. This was surely helped by the fact that Beyoncé is a very private person, and in the past, she rarely spoke up about political, cultural, or personal issues. To them, she was a docile woman with catchy songs and amazing talent; therefore, she was perfect for their consumption. Now that Beyoncé has put in her time, paid her dues, built her empire, and become an Unstoppable Icon, she can do and say whatever the hell she wants, and that’s what she has been doing for the last eight or nine years. This performance is a great example of that.
If you don’t know by now, then I’m sure you’re probably stranded on an uninhabited island with no cell phone, no internet service, and no carrier pigeons. Beyoncé turned out Coachella. It will never be the same. What is a Coachella? The only thing that I recognize is Beychella, and that’s the bottom line ‘cause Stone Cold said so. For almost two hours, The Queen Bey delivered her best live performance to date with a marching band, a huge entourage of female and male dancers, Wheezing Old Ass Jay-Z, and Destiny’s Child. It was everything. The performance didn’t start until 2:15 am EST after Post Malone’s moldy, Wonder Bread looking ass had the audacity to stand on the stage and cry about being called a culture vulture. Once the band started playing and Beyoncé came down the runway in a gorgeous Nefertiti inspired ensemble, I knew that my neighbors were going to hate me. It was flawless, and the amount of logistical and operational planning that it took to pull off that one-time performance is still something that many people are scratching their heads about. How does she do it?!?
I’m not going to break down the performance and tell you piece-by-piece what my favorite parts are. That’s not why I’m here. I’m here to talk about how BLACK (all caps necessary) this performance was. Someone on Facebook said, “Beyoncé’s performance is a love letter to Black people in a white AF space. Period.” I couldn’t agree more. This performance was not for the majority of the cultural appropriating people in attendance at Coachella. It was for Black people, especially Black women. Anyone who says different is clearly a liar. "Why must everything be about melanin. Couldn't it have just been a performance for everybody?" Hell naw! Did you see the same show that I did? Clearly, there were so many nuanced references to Black American culture that most of it went over the heads. They don’t know about Swag Surfin’. They don’t know the importance of Chopped and Screwed music in Houston. The stepping, J-Setting, the probate, the scene where the brothers were at “set” with Big Sister DP Beyoncé, the Drumline performances, or the Fela Kuti homage. They didn't know about any of it, and that's just the top of the iceberg of what she delivered in that performance. I honestly could go on and on.
This performance was not for the people in the audience, but for the people at home…Black people. In my mind, this performance was for any Black person that has ever felt alone and isolated in a white ass space. It was her way of telling all of us to stand up in our shit. Be unapologetically black in these spaces. Physically and mentally “take up” space in these places. Make sure that they know that you’re here. Don’t be afraid to be yourself. When they finally decide to put their racist tendencies to the side and give you an opportunity to shine, you make sure to do it better than anyone has ever done it before. You leave no doubt about your talent and your work ethic. You make it so that they have no choice but to acknowledge you. Remember, the best revenge is your paper so be strategic about it. When they upset you, throw little jibes that will surely go over their head but make all of your other POC co-workers know that you see them and you acknowledge that ya’ll are in the struggle together.
And as always, Beyonce wanted to let Black women know that she sees them. Not only did she call Coachella out for not having a black woman headline the festival before her, she also played the Malcolm X clip, which she featured in “Lemonade”, about the black woman being the most disrespected person in America. You remember that time where folks said that they didn’t think that Beyoncé was a feminist because she never came out and directly stated it? I haven’t heard them talking in a while. Beyoncé makes me so proud to be a black woman, and as one of my friend’s puts it, “She’s the fierceness and [definition] of unapologetic black womanhood we want to embody. She makes us feel recognized.” I couldn’t agree more, especially after last night when I saw the two full figured, curvy women background dancers that she gave a special moment to during one of her songs. Beyoncé sees us, and in a world where so many people don’t, I couldn’t help but walk around with a smile on my face after seeing her on stage. Love God Herself, ya’ll.
Beyonce, Coachella, Black Women, Music, Music Festival, Black Girl Magic, Destiny's Child, Lemonade, Beychella
Eve in the Bayou, aka the King of Sorrow, was born under a bad sign in the Deep South. A Redbone with eyes that beam like four karats and moves that remind you of a brown stallion horse with skates on, Eve spends most of her time working for the man night and day. When she’s not fighting evil by moonlight, Eve can be found sharpening her claws as she offers her thoughts on feminism, politics, television, and anything else she damn well pleases. She is both the Love Below and the Speakerboxxx so don’t hurt yourself.
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We must stop turning a blind eye to the world's health crises
Cholera took hold in Yemen after clean water facilities were destroyed
Image: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Paul Spiegel Director, Center for Humanitarian Health
When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared lengthy humanitarian crises to be a top health threat, perhaps they had Yemen in mind. It wasn’t one individual bomb landing in Yemen that infected hundreds of thousands of people with cholera. Diseases don’t often provide a single snapshot of impact like that. Instead, it was a long series of bombings that wrecked the water treatment plants, the power grids that provided the plants with electricity, and the healthcare facilities that should have been available to control the cholera epidemic. Today, more than two years after the outbreak started, its end is nowhere in sight.
Complex humanitarian disasters often fade into the background. But they don’t end quickly, if at all. The damage they wreak on public health goes unseen, until a singular image drives media coverage and public scrutiny. Saudi Arabia’s bombardment of Yemen didn’t attract attention until a school bus was hit by a 500-pound bomb in August 2018. When Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, the scandal completely overshadowed how half of Yemen’s population has been displaced by the conflict, with millions living in desperate conditions.
We see this again with the current ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has garnered more headlines in medical journals than in international news outlets. The nation has concluded a presidential election with disputed results; more than one million people in the eastern part of the country have been forcibly displaced; and, with dozens of rebel militias, the population hasn’t known peace in decades, even though the two Congo wars formally ended 15 years ago.
When the first cluster of cases in this outbreak was identified in summer 2018, the DRC government and the WHO had just finished containing a different outbreak in a separate, more peaceful part of the country. This previous outbreak ended quickly - in several months - because health officials worked closely with community leaders to trace everyone possibly exposed to those infected with the virus, and used a new experimental vaccine to protect those at greatest risk.
But in conflict zones, this methodical approach to humanitarian health hits too many roadblocks. Outbreaks of polio, cholera, measles and monkeypox compete for attention in eastern DRC. Community resistance to the interventions and tracing efforts has resulted in occasional flares of violence. This current Ebola outbreak has lasted twice as long as the previous one and is still growing in size – it is now the world’s second-largest – because of the insecurity and chaos.
Eastern DRC and Yemen are connected in a distinct way. Because the world has reacted only passively to years of war and suffering, both places have only got worse. Such situations can become powder kegs, exploding into dozens of crises that spread across borders and even continents. The guidelines and interventions in place for responding to specific health emergencies become less effective in the maelstrom of protracted humanitarian disasters.
For example, to control cholera, the WHO highlights the need for clean water and proper sanitation. In Yemen, many of the facilities needed for these services have been bombed into rubble. The worst Ebola outbreak, which ravaged West Africa from 2013 to 2016, took years to contain. Even after the decades-long conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone had ended, communities would not trust corrupt governments - or anyone in a position of authority - with even the most basic of health information. That outbreak led to cases in the US and Europe, and ensuing panic.
A woman sits by her cholera-infected daughter at al-Sabeen hospital in Sana'a, Yemen.
In an environment of indiscriminate bombing, guerilla raids, or even desperate poverty, disease containment becomes extremely difficult. In DRC, a volatile political situation and a contagious virus threaten other countries. But there is nothing preventing Yemen or any other long-term conflicts, such as those in Kashmir, Palestine, Syria and Afghanistan, from rising to this status.
There have been a number of United Nations Security Council resolutions addressing the humanitarian crises in DRC, Yemen and elsewhere, but rarely do the force of words carry enough resolve to pacify these disasters. The powers seated at the Council who are fuelling both sides of the Yemeni war, for example, prevent these resolutions from naming and deterring all of the states involved.
The UN needs a stronger stance on the protection of health facilities, as well as water and sanitation infrastructure. In this age of satellite data, monitoring attacks against these off-limit targets should be easier to document, even in the world’s more remote places. Similarly, the outlaw militias in eastern DRC may be able to hide from satellites in the deep rainforest, but when they move, they can be tracked - if there is political will to find them and their sponsors.
This picture of a starving girl shocked the world. But it’s just another tragedy in Yemen’s forgotten war
Half of Yemen's population could soon be on the brink of famine, according to the UN
The Ebola crisis is another call to action
Protracted conflicts are public health crises of the worst magnitude. We need to treat them accordingly. These situations need their own containment plans, and we need to invest in long-term solutions that bring peace and governance, so that the health of long-suffering populations can improve.
Singular snapshots grab attention, but they never capture the entire picture. These complex situations are no longer isolated - they are our present and our future. The instability that long-term conflicts breed is a threat to us all, and should be tolerated no longer.
Paul Spiegel is the director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Spiegel and colleagues recently issued a report examining the 2017 Cholera outbreak in Yemen.
Paul Spiegel, Director, Center for Humanitarian Health
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The Saïd Business School takes on water education
The Saïd Business School recognises water as a pressing global challenge, naming ‘Water Management and Markets’ a theme of its flagship Global Opportunities and Threats Oxford (GOTO) programme in 2015.
GOTO is an action-oriented problem-solving community geared towards addressing some of the most complex issues that the world faces today. It has been running at the Saïd Business School since 2012 and is an integral part of the curriculum, with all MBA and EMBA students participating.
At the core of the GOTO programme is a multimedia platform which connects students, alumni and faculty to discuss, debate and drive new business ideas that address global challenges. The platform features contributions from experts and practitioners, debating forums, research from Saïd Business School’s students and faculty, as well infographics, images and videos.
In 2015 the Business School is taking on Water Management and Markets as a key theme, reflecting the growing concern about global water risks such as water scarcity, pollution and floods. The World Economic Forum’s 2015 Global Risks Report recently ranked water crises as the risk with highest impact on society in a survey of 900 leaders from politics, business and NGOs.
The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment is partnering with the Saïd Business School to design the curriculum for a course on Water Management and Markets, to be delivered as part of the GOTO programme in the Spring Term of 2015.
The Water Management and Markets course will engage students and stimulate thinking around private sector risks, challenges, and opportunities related to water. Leading academics, industry experts, international organisations and growing enterprises will give presentations on a range of topics, including: the science of water management, water supply services and systems, corporate water risk and return, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the water sector.
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HomeGigsSnow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody to receive ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music’ award in Belfast on November 15th
Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody to receive ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music’ award in Belfast on November 15th
November 2, 2018 Mark Millar Gigs, News 0
Gary Lightbody to receive ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music’ award in Belfast on November 15th. Gary Lightbody, the singer, songwriter, musician and Snow Patrol front-man, will be presented with the ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music’ award at the NI Music Prize in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, on November 15th.
Gary is the first recipient of this special award, which is in association with Oh Yeah Music Centre and Inspire Wellbeing. The presentation is in recognition of his exceptional contribution to music as an artist, but also for his active role in supporting grassroots and emerging acts from NI through the various projects and initiatives he has worked on over the years.
Gary Lightbody is a multi-platinum selling and award-winning songwriter from Bangor, Northern Ireland. He first started out in 1994 in the band ‘ Shrug’, later known as ‘ Polar Bear’, before gestating into Snow Patrol. He has completed a number of high-profile co-writes with artists that include Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and One Direction. He has been involved in several side projects during his career, including two albums with Glasgow band ‘ The Reindeer Section’, and more recently ‘ Tired Pony’, which he formed with his long-term producer Jacknife Lee along with members of both REM and Belle & Sebastian.
Gary has played a huge role in supporting artists from Northern Ireland and was instrumental in the inception and formation of the Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast. He also established Third Bar, a Belfast based Artist Development business set up to support Northern Irish artists in the advancement of their careers.
Charlotte Dryden of the Oh Yeah Music Centre says: “It is with great pleasure that we are able to offer this special award to Gary. Not only is he one of the most successful musicians to come out of NI, but he has always been an incredibly supportive and committed champion of the local music community. He has invested emotionally, financially and artistically to support its growth, promotion and development. Gary has also very recently opened up about his own battle with depression and so it is only fitting that this presentation is in association with Inspire Wellbeing, a charity doing brilliant work in the area of mental health. We are delighted to be able to combine the opportunity to thank Gary and to promote the work of Inspire, at what is going to be a fantastic evening in celebration of local music as part of the NI Music Prize”.
Peter McBride, CEO of Inspire said, “Gary Lightbody’s contribution to music is immense and all of us from this part of the world are very proud of his global success. The entire team at Inspire is particularly grateful for his powerful contribution on mental health. Through sharing his own story, Gary has helped breakdown stigma and encouraged all of us to seek help when we need it, talk about our mental health and to look after each other. Inspire is very proud to be associated with Oh Yeah Music Centre and with Gary on such a special night celebrating creativity, community and all that is good about Northern Ireland. On behalf of our service users, staff and volunteers we offer a huge Inspire congratulations to Gary on this award and our deepest gratitude for his solidarity in challenging the stigma surrounding mental ill-health.”
The ‘Outstanding Contribution to Music’, presentation will be preceded by the NI Music Prize, an awards evening featuring four categories including Best Single, Best Album, Best Live Act and The Oh Yeah Contender Award. There will be performances from six of the nominees on the night, including Hannah Peel, Roe, The Wood Burning Savages, Ciaran Lavery, Ryan Vail featuring Arco String Quartet and Brand New Friend. The announcement of winners and all presentations will take place throughout the evening. The event is open to the public and tickets can be purchased from the Ulster Hall website.
This event is part of a wider programme, Sound of Belfast that will take place November 8-15th Nov.
Tickets only available via Ulster Hall website at
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Amazon’s Biggest Acquisitions
Published in 2013, Brad Stone’s book The Everything Store paints an ambitious and relentless portrait of Jeff Bezos, a man who is determined to create an online store that will someday be “everything to everyone”.
As prescient as this characterization was at the time, the narrative is even more relevant now – and with Amazon’s most recent acquisition of Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion, it’s clear that no market is safe from the sprawling Bezos Empire.
The Everything Store
Today’s infographic comes to us from CB Insights and it shows how Amazon’s strategy is unfolding, as well as which acquisitions are helping in the company’s quest to become the fabled “everything” store.
While buying Zappos ($1.2B), Twitch ($970M), and Kiva Systems ($775M) were all essential to Amazon’s strategy, the price paid for these companies is minuscule in comparison to the massive $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market.
Here’s how each of these acquisitions is helping to fuel Amazon’s ambitions:
Amazon’s boldest move yet, buying Whole Foods signals Amazon’s goal of becoming a transcendent brand that touches every aspect of daily life. Most people need to buy groceries every week – and that gives Amazon a new and more frequent window to interact with customers.
Known for its obsessive customer service and company culture, Zappos was most likely bought by Amazon for its team.
Kiva Systems
Now re-branded as Amazon Robotics, this company specializes in manufacturing mobile robotic fulfillment systems for Amazon’s array of warehouses.
Elemental Technologies
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Thought as the “Netflix of Europe”, Lovefilm’s streaming services were re-branded as Amazon Prime Instant Video in 2014.
Amazon bought this Dubai-based retailer to improve its footprint in the Middle East – and to prevent global competitors like Alibaba and Flipkart from making inroads in the market.
Quidsi
Bought by Amazon in 2011, Quidsi ran six shopping sites, including Diapers.com, Soap.com and Wag.com. After a brief stint at Amazon, Quidsi founder Marc Lore left to start Jet.com – which was sold to Walmart for $3.3 billion.
Owning the leader in audiobooks was a no-brainer for Amazon, and the Audible acquisition went down in 2008.
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Amazon bought Twitch, a video game live streaming company, in 2014 when the service was flush with 55 million subscribers. Today, Twitch.tv is the 40th most visited website worldwide, and is particularly known for its broadcasts of eSports competitions.
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Each generation was shaped by unique circumstances, and these differences translate directly to the investing world as well.
View the full-size version of the infographic by clicking here
Every generation thinks about investing a little differently.
This is partially due to the fact that each cohort finds itself on a distinct leg of life’s journey. While boomers focus on retirement, Gen Zers are thinking about education and careers. As a result, it’s not surprising to find that investment objectives can differ by age group.
However, there are other major reasons that contribute to each unique generational view. For example, what major world events shaped the mindset of each generation? Also, what role did culture play, and how do things like economic cycles factor in?
Finding Generational Discrepancies
Today’s infographic comes to us from Raconteur, and it showcases some of the most significant differences in how generations think about investing.
Let’s dive into some of the most interesting data:
1. Investment Outlook
The majority of millennials (66%) are confident about investment opportunities in the next 12 months. This drops down to 49% when boomers are asked the same question.
2. Volatility
How did different generations of investors react to recent bouts of volatility in the market?
82% of millennials made changes to their portfolios
69% of Gen X made changes
47% of boomers made changes
32% of the Silent Generation made changes
3. Knowledge and Ability
In terms of investment knowledge, 42% of millennials considered themselves to be experts in the field. On the same question, only 23% of boomers could say the same.
4. Financial Goals
Back when they were 27 years old, 45% of Gen Xers said their primary goal was to buy a home. Compare this to just 23% of millennials that consider a home to be their primary investment objective today.
5. Managing Investments
The majority of millennials (66%) saw the ability to manage all aspects of personal finance, including investments, in the same app as being important. Only 35% of boomers agreed.
Similarly, 67% of millennials saw recommendations made by artificial intelligence as being a basic part of any investment platform. Both Gen Xers and Baby Boomers were more hesitant, with 30% seeing computer-based recommendations as being integral.
6. Impact Investing
Millennials are twice as interested in ESG (environmental, social, and governance) investing, compared to their boomer counterparts. In fact, the majority of millennials (66%) choose funds according to ESG considerations.
Reasons for Not Investing
While generations may have varying investment philosophies, they seem a little more in sync when it comes to having reasons not to invest.
Gen X
Recognize future outlook would be better if they start investing 72% 73% 57%
Want to try out investing with a low money commitment 35% 31% 25%
Afraid of losing everything 42% 29% 28%
Too worried about current financial situation to think about future 49% 46% 32%
Find information about investing difficult to understand 63% 59% 55%
Don't have enough money to start investing 55% 59% 56%
There are some similarities in the data here – for example, non-investors of all generations seem to have an equally tough time learning about investing, and similar proportions do not believe they have the funds to start investing.
On the flipside, it seems that millennials are more worried about their financial future, while simultaneously seeing a risk of “losing everything” stemming from investing.
Does high pay for CEOs translate into company performance? See for yourself in this visualization featuring the top CEOs of companies on the S&P 500.
How Much the Top CEOs of S&P 500 Companies Get Paid
How much do the CEOs from some of the world’s most important companies get paid, and do these top CEOs deliver commensurate returns to shareholders?
Today’s infographic comes to us from HowMuch.net and it visualizes data on S&P 500 companies to see if there is any relationship between CEO pay and stock performance.
For Richer or Poorer
To begin, let’s look at the highest and lowest paid CEOs on the S&P 500, and their associated performance levels. Data here comes from a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Below are the five CEOs with the most pay in 2018:
Pay (2018)
Shareholder Return
#1 David Zaslav Discovery, Inc. $129.4 million 10.5%
#2 Stephen Angel Linde $66.1 million 3.1%
#3 Bob Iger Disney $65.6 million 20.4%
#4 Richard Handler Jefferies $44.7 million -14.9%
#5 Stephen MacMillan Hologic $42.0 million 11.7%
Last year, David Zaslav led top CEOs by taking home $129.4 million from Discovery, Inc., the parent company of various TV properties such as the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, HGTV, Food Network, and other non-fiction focused programming. He delivered a 10.4% shareholder return, when the S&P 500 itself finished in negative territory in 2018.
Of the mix of highest-paid CEOs, Bob Iger of Disney may be able to claim the biggest impact. He helped close a $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox, while also leading Disney’s efforts to launch a streaming service to compete with Netflix. The market rewarded Disney with a 20.4% shareholder return, while Iger received a paycheck of $65.6 million.
Now, let’s look at the lowest paid CEOs in 2018:
#1 Larry Page Alphabet $1 -0.8%
#2 Jack Dorsey Twitter $1 19.7%
#3 A. Jayson Adair Copart $203,000 82.2%
#4 Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway $398,000 3.0%
#5 Valentin Gapontsev IPG Photonics $1.7 million -47.1%
On the list of lowest paid CEOs, we see two tech titans (Larry Page and Jack Dorsey) that have each opted for $1 salaries. Of course, they are both billionaires that own large amounts of shares in their respective companies, so they are not particularly worried about annual paychecks.
Also appearing here is Warren Buffett, who is technically paid $100,000 per year by Berkshire Hathaway plus an amount of “other compensation” that fluctuates annually. While this is indeed a modest salary, the Warren Buffett Empire is anything but modest in size – and the legendary value investor currently holds a net worth of $84.3 billion.
Finally, it’s worth noting that while J. Jayson Adair of Copart was one of the lowest paid CEOs at $203,000 in 2018, the company had the best return on the S&P 500 at 82.2%. Today, the company’s stock price still sits near all-time highs.
Maxing Returns
Finally, let’s take a peek at the CEOs that received the highest shareholder returns, and if they seem to correlate with compensation at all.
#2 Lisa Su AMD $13.4 million 79.6%
#3 François Locoh-Donou F5 Networks $6.9 million 65.4%
#4 Sanjay Mehrotra Micron Technology $14.2 million 64.3%
#5 Ken Xie Fortinet $6.8 million 61.2%
Interestingly, three of highest performing CEOs – in terms of shareholder returns – actually took home smaller amounts than the median S&P 500 annual paycheck of $12.4 million. This includes the aforementioned A. Jayson Adair, who raked in only $203,000 in 2018.
That said, there is a good counterpoint to this as well.
Of the five CEOs who had the worst returns, four of them made less than the median value of $12.4 million, while one remaining CEO took home slightly more. In other words, both the best and worst performing CEOs skew towards lower-than-average pay to some degree.
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Bishkek Declaration
Voltaire Network | Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) | 14 June 2019
Bishkek Declaration of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Heads of State Council
The leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Member States (hereinafter the SCO or the Organisation), following the meeting of the SCO Heads of State Council in Bishkek on 14 June 2019, declare the following.
The modern world continues to change rapidly, the global balance of forces is going through a reconfiguration, primarily due to the emergence of new development centres in Asia, and the connectivity and interdependence between participants in international relations is deepening. However, the situation in global politics and economy remains turbulent and tense, and the process of economic globalisation is being hindered by the growing unilateral protectionist policies and other challenges in international trade.
The SCO is a reliable platform for fruitful cooperation in the interests of creating a polycentric world order that ensures the supremacy of international law, above all the UN Charter; equal, mutual, indivisible, integrated and sustainable security; the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; respect for nations’ independent choice of their political and socioeconomic development; and the interests of each and every state. The Member States emphasise the importance of initiatives to promote cooperation in building international relations of a new type, based on the principles and standards of international law, primarily mutual respect, justice, equality, mutually beneficial cooperation, and a common vision of creating a community with a shared future for humankind.
The Member States will continue to develop multifaceted and diversified cooperation in the interests of ensuring peace, security, sustainable growth and prosperity in the SCO space. In this regard, they, supporting the efforts of the Central Asian countries to deepen interaction in the political, economic, cultural, humanitarian and other spheres, welcome the adoption of the resolution of the UN General Assembly “Strengthening regional and international cooperation to ensure peace, stability and sustainable development in the Central Asian Region” of 22 June 2018 and the second consultative meeting of the leaders of Central Asian states to be held in Tashkent in 2019.
The Member States reaffirm their support for the efforts of the United Nations as a universal multilateral organisation in maintaining international peace and security, advancing global development, and promoting and protecting human rights. They advocate strengthening of the key role of the UN Security Council, which, in accordance with the UN Charter, is entrusted with the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security.
The Member States have noted the intentions of the Republic of India, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Republic of Tajikistan to seek to become non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, as well as the intention of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the People’s Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Uzbekistan to seek to join the UN Human Rights Council.
The Member States praised the outcome of the high-level special event “UN-Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: Cooperation Aimed at Strengthening Peace, Security and Stability,” hosted by the Kyrgyz side in New York on 27 November 2018.
The Member States consider it important to accelerate the adoption of the UN General Assembly Resolution “Cooperation between the UN and the SCO.”
The Member States, relying on the Shanghai Spirit, which embodies mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, mutual consultations, respect for cultural diversity, common development, the goals and objectives of the SCO Charter and the SCO Development Strategy until 2025, intend to continue to develop cooperation in politics, security, trade and the economy, finance and investment, and their cultural and humanitarian ties.
The SCO, as an influential and responsible participant in the modern system of international relations, will enhance its participation in efforts to ensure peace and security, consistently advocating the resolution of international and regional conflicts by exclusively peaceful political and diplomatic means, based on the principles of equality, respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, the non-use of force or the threat of force.
The Member States believe that increasing challenges and security threats that are becoming cross-border in their nature such as terrorism, the spread of terrorist and extremist ideology, including on the internet, returning foreign terrorist fighters, proliferation of the weapons of mass destruction, the risk of an arms race, unsettled regional and local conflicts undermining the international security system, illicit drug trafficking, organised crime, human trafficking, cybercrime, development imbalances, food market instability, climate change, lack of potable water and the spread of infectious diseases require special attention, close coordination and constructive cooperation of the entire international community.
The Member States emphasise their intention to extend and deepen cooperation in addressing threats to stability and security in the SCO space. The Member States noted the SCO Convention on Countering Extremism coming into effect, as well as the results of the SCO Defence Ministers Meeting (Bishkek, 29 April 2019) and the meeting of SCO Security Council Secretaries (Bishkek, 14–15 May 2019).
The Member States condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. They call on the international community to promote global cooperation in combatting terrorism with the central role of the UN by fully implementing corresponding UN Security Council resolutions and the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in compliance with the UN Charter and the principles of international law without politicisation and double standards and with respect for the sovereignty and independence of all countries, as well as to work towards a consensus on adopting the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism.
The Member States, stressing that acts of terrorism and extremism cannot be justified, believe it important to take comprehensive measures to intensify efforts against terrorism and its ideology, as well as to determine and eliminate the factors and conditions that promote terrorism and extremism. They note that interfering in other countries’ domestic affairs under the pretext of fighting terrorism and extremism as well as using terrorist, extremist and radical groups to achieve one’s own mercenary ends is unacceptable.
The SCO Member States signatories of the Code of Conduct towards Achieving a World Free of Terrorism speak out in favour of its consistent implementation (New York, 28 September 2018).
The Member State believe the consistent implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear programme to be a priority and, in compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 2231, call on all the participants to strictly fulfil their obligations for the comprehensive and effective implementation of the document.
The Member States condemn the propaganda of the ideology of terrorism, extremism and religious intolerance, as well as manifestations of intolerance and discrimination based on religion or convictions in any form, and welcome the adoption of the resolution on Enlightenment and Religious Tolerance at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly.
The Member States believe it a priority to step up the international community’s joint efforts to counter the attempts to involve young people in the activities of terrorist, separatist and extremist groups and in this respect will continue to fulfil the provisions of the Joint Address of the SCO Heads of State to the Youth and the Action Plan on its implementation (Qingdao, 10 June 2018), focusing on preventing the spread of religious intolerance, xenophobia and racial discrimination.
The Member States will continue their cooperation on disarmament, control and nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, arms control and peaceful use of nuclear energy, as well as political and diplomatic responses to regional challenges to non-proliferation regimes.
The Member States reaffirm that unilateral and unlimited build-up of missile defence systems by countries or groups of states jeopardise international security and destabilise the situation in the world. They believe the attempts to provide one’s own security at the expense of other states’ security to be unacceptable.
The Member States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons speak out in favour of strict compliance with the provisions of the treaty, comprehensive and balanced promotion of all goals and principles envisaged by it, strengthening the global non-proliferation regime, continuation of the nuclear disarmament process with consideration for all factors affecting international stability and promotion of the equal and mutually beneficial cooperation in using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
The Member States believe that the earliest possible coming into effect of the Protocol on Security Guarantees to the Treaty on Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia for all the states that signed it will make a significant contribution to the regional security and strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation regime.
The Member States state the importance of keeping outer space free from all types of weapons as well as the crucial importance of strict compliance with the current legal system, which provides for exclusively peaceful uses of outer space. They also welcome the work carried out by the UN Government Expert Group on examining and submitting recommendations on substantive elements of a legally binding international document preventing an arms race in outer space and envisaging solid guarantees of no first placement of weapons in outer space.
The Member States stand for strict compliance with the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, including by adopting the Protocol to the Convention with an effective control mechanism. The Member States call on the signatories of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction to join efforts in order to overcome the deep split within the Organisation for the Prohibition of the Chemical Weapons, restore the integrity and ensure the effectiveness of the Convention.
In response to the threat of chemical and biological terrorism, the SCO Member States reaffirm and emphasise the need to launch multilateral talks at the Conference on Disarmament on an international convention to combat acts of chemical and biological terrorism.
The Member States are actively and persistently countering international terrorism, separatism and extremism, transnational organised crime, illegal trade in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, as well as weapons, munitions and explosives, threats to biological and information security and illegal migration. They advocate further improvement of the legal and regulatory framework for cooperation in these areas.
The Member States believe that one of the key factors of preserving and enhancing security and stability in the SCO space is a prompt settlement of the situation in Afghanistan. They support the efforts of the government and people of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan aimed at restoring peace, economic development of the country, countering terrorism, extremism and drug crime. The Member States stress that there is no alternative to settling the conflict in Afghanistan through political dialogue and an inclusive peace process conducted and led by Afghans themselves, and urge to step up cooperation of all the nations concerned and international organisation, with the central coordinating role of the UN, for the stabilisation and development of that country. In this context vital importance is given to further interaction in different multilateral formats, including the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group, the Moscow format consultations and others.
The Member States highly praise the outcomes of the regular meeting of the SCOAfghanistan Contact Group (Bishkek, 18-19 April 2019) and the signing with the Afghan side of a roadmap for further steps by the Contact Group. They also noted the intention of the Republic of Uzbekistan to host a Ministerial Meeting of the Eighth Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA VIII) in Tashkent in the second half of 2019.
The Member States reaffirm their common stance on the lack of alternatives to Syria settlement through dialogue on the basis of ensuring sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of the country.
They believe that interaction within the Astana format created the necessary conditions for implementing UN Security Council Resolution 2254, promoting an inclusive process of political settlement by Syrians themselves and under their leadership in order to search for solutions meeting the interests of the people of the SAR and of the international community. In this context, they stress the significance of continued international efforts to assist Syria in the post-conflict restoration of the country.
The Member States will continue regular Peace Mission military command-post antiterrorist exercises and similar events held by relevant agencies. In this connection they noted the successful results of the Unity 2018 joint border operation (20 July – 20 October 2018).
The Member States will continue cooperation in defence and security, interaction in ensuring safety and security of large-scale events, and in training personnel for increasing the capability of the armed forces and competent agencies of the SCO Member States.
The Member States will counter the use of information and communications technology to undermine political, economic and public security in the SCO countries, and curb propaganda of terrorism, separatism and extremism online. They oppose discriminatory measures imposed under any pretext, which impede the progress of digital economy and communications technology. They deem it necessary to work out universal rules, principles and standards of responsible behaviour in the information space, and will actively cooperate in this area in order to ensure information security in the SCO space.
The Member States welcome the adoption of the resolutions “Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security” and“Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes” by the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly and call on all UN Member States to continue cooperation to elaborate the rules of responsible behaviour of states in the information space and a universal, legally binding document to counter the use of information and communications technology for criminal purposes.
The Member States note the effective activities of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure to contribute to cooperation between competent agencies in fighting terrorism, separatism and extremism. In view of the growing scale and interconnectedness of security threats and challenges, they emphasise the need to further enhance the interaction potential of the competent bodies in these fields.
The Member States emphasise the need to continue work on building within the SCO of a system for monitoring possible threats in the global information space and countering them. In this regard, the importance of further implementation of the relevant resolution of the SCO RATS Council (Bishkek, 18 October 2018) was underscored.
The Member States emphasise the need to expand international relations of the SCO RATS and in this regard, welcome the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation between the Executive Directorate of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee and the SCO Regional Antiterrorist Structure (Bratislava, 25 March 2019).
The Member States believe that illegal cultivation, production, trafficking, sale and distribution of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors pose a serious threat to the stability, security, health and well-being of the people in the region.
Underlining the importance of the three international drug control conventions and other relevant legal documents, they consider it necessary to take action to form an effective cooperative system to fight the drug threat and establish a reliable barrier to the cultivation, production, manufacture and illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, as well as to counter the spread of drug addiction, including through the elaboration of a draft Concept on the Creation of the SCO Anti-Drug Centre in Dushanbe.
The Member States support intensive cooperation with other interested states, regional and international organisations and agencies on this matter. In this regard, they also state the need to draft a Memorandum of Understanding between the SCO Secretariat and the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors.
A positive assessment was given to the Joint Statement of the SCO Member States at the 62nd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (Vienna, 14-15 March 2019), as well as to the joint event of the SCO and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, “United Nations and SCO in the fight against drugs: Cooperation for strengthening international drug control” held on the sidelines of its ministerial segment on 14 March 2019. The importance of the SCO’s involvement in the implementation of the Paris Pact Initiative was also underscored.
The Member States express their readiness to step up the practical implementation of the provisions of the Agreement between the SCO Member States on cooperation in combating illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, the SCO Anti-Drug Strategy for 2018-2023 and the Programme of Action for its implementation, as well as the SCO Concept to Prevent the Abuse of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, with a view to deepening their anti-drug cooperation at various levels and develop joint solutions to regional and international drug problems. In this context, they noted the approval of the Action Plan on the implementation of the SCO Anti-Drug Strategy for 2018-2023 and the results of the meeting of the Senior Officials of Competent Authorities for Combatting Illicit Drug Trafficking (Cholpon-Ata, 25 April 2019).
The Member States reaffirm the importance of the SCO anti-drug Operation Spider Web to be held at the initiative of the Republic of Kazakhstan (8-12 July 2019).
The Member States noted the holding of the 11th Ministerial Meeting of the States Parties to the Memorandum of Understanding on Sub-regional Drug Control Cooperation (Tashkent, 2-3 May 2019) and the high-level international conference on International and Regional Cooperation on Countering Terrorism and Its Financing through Illicit Drug Trafficking and Organised Crime (Dushanbe, 16-17 May 2019).
The Member States note that corruption in all its manifestations is a threat to national and regional security, and leads to lower effectiveness of public administration, adversely affects countries’ international prestige and investment appeal, and hampers their socioeconomic development. They advocate further development of international anti-corruption cooperation.
The Member States reaffirm their commitment to develop practical cooperation in the oversight over compliance with the legislation, abiding by law and justice, and strengthening the independence of the judiciary and forensic investigations. They also noted the results of the SCO Meeting of Ministers of Justice (Cholpon-Ata, 24 August 2018) and the SCO Meeting of the Prosecutors General (Dushanbe, 20 September 2018).
The Member States highly assess the practice of sending SCO missions to observe presidential and parliamentary elections and referendums. The Member States consider it important to intensify contacts and cooperation between their legislative bodies, and to exchange experience in public administration and development. The meeting of the heads of parliamentary committees of the SCO Member States (Bishkek, 14 December 2018) was noted in this regard.
The SCO Member States stress the importance of further improving the architecture of global economic governance, and deepening cooperation to build a transparent, predictable and stable environment for the development of trade, economic and investment cooperation through the consistent strengthening of the multilateral trading system based on the rules and regulations of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and through opposition to the fragmentation of global trade and trade protectionism in all its forms. They believe that unilateral protectionist actions in violation of WTO rules and regulations undermine the multilateral trade system and threaten the world economy and trade.
The SCO Member States note that the WTO remains a key body for the discussion of the multilateral trade agenda and the formulation of the multilateral rules of international trade. While confirming their commitment to the fundamental principles and rules of the WTO, the SCO Member States support greater efforts to improve the efficiency of the Organisation, including the ability of the WTO to respond to presentday challenges to global trade in a timely and effective manner.
The Member States stress the importance of further deepening cooperation in order to bring forth an open world economy, consistently strengthen an open, inclusive, transparent, non-discriminatory and rule-based multilateral trading system, maintain the authority and effectiveness of WTO rules, and to prevent any unilateral protectionist actions in international and regional trade.
The Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan reaffirm their support for China’s Belt and Road Initiative and praise the results of the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (Beijing, 26 April 2019). They note the ongoing work to implement this initiative together, including the efforts to align the Eurasian Economic Union projects with those under the Belt and Road initiative.
The Member States agree that since its foundation, the SCO has built up a considerable potential for trade, economic, and investment relations that contributes to the improvement of economic cooperation at the Organisation. The Member States believe that expanding and deepening cooperation of the SCO nations in finance, investment, transport, energy, agriculture and other areas meet the interest of sustainable economic growth in the region as a whole.
The Member States support the establishment of a favourable environment for the development of the trade and investment that is necessary in order to gradually ensure the free movement of goods, capital, services and technologies, as provided for by the SCO Charter. They favour further efforts to coordinate approaches to facilitate trade in the region in accordance with the Joint Communique of the SCO Heads of States on Simplifying Trade Procedures of 10 June 2018.
Recognising the importance of innovation and the digital economy as a key factor for medium- and long-term economic growth and global sustainable development, the Member States express their readiness to harmonise the SCO Member States’ innovation policies and to promote cooperation between the elements of the innovation ecosystem. Based on the adopted Concept of Cooperation of the SCO Members States in the Field of Digitalisation and Information Technology, the Member States intend to join efforts to implement innovative programmes and projects, as well as to promote effective cooperation in science, technology and innovation, joint research, knowledgesharing by scholars at research centres, and special competitions within the SCO in order to find new sources of social and economic growth. In this context, ongoing efforts to develop the analytical component of the SCO’s economic activities found support.
The Member States believe that the development of the service industry and trade in services are essential for the growth and transformation of the economy. They emphasise the need to promote cooperation among the SCO Member States in trade in services and electronic commerce, based on mutual benefit, including the examination of prospects and modes of cooperation in this area and the continued work on draft documents pertaining to trade in services and electronic commerce.
The Member States will deepen regional cooperation, create favourable conditions for the expansion of mutual investment by improving the investment and business climate, make efforts to promote peaceful development, prosperity and the stability of all the Member States and the region as a whole, and contribute to increasing the pace of global economic recovery.
The Member States note the importance of cooperation on economic issues between the research and analytical centres of the SCO Member States in order to study and comprehensively analyse the factors that affect economic cooperation within the SCO, taking into account global and regional processes.
The Member States consider it a priority to improve the well-being and living standards of the population by further strengthening cooperation in trade, production, transport, energy, financial, investment, agricultural, customs, telecommunications, innovation and other areas of mutual interest for the purpose of inclusive, green and sustainable development. In this regard, the Member States aim to promote favourable conditions for the development of trade, economic and investment activities within the SCO.
The Member States emphasise the importance of the further promotion of multilateral cooperation in transport, including the development of new and the upgrade of existing international vehicle and railway routes, multimodal transport corridors, international multimodal logistics, trade and tourism centres, the implementation of innovative and energy efficient technologies, the improvement of cross-border procedures in accordance with the best international practices and the implementation of other joint infrastructure projects to provide for the effective use of the SCO Member States’ transport potential. The Member States will focus on implementing projects that can expand the region’s transport and communication capacities, including those involving the potential of the observer states and dialogue partners. They express the need to continue working to coordinate the draft agreement between the SCO governments on the establishment and functioning of a transport integrated management system as well as the draft Concept of Cooperation between Railway Administrations (Railways) of the SCO Member States.
The Member States will continue to promote cooperation in agriculture focusing on the effective implementation of the SCO Programme of Cooperation in Food Security (Dushanbe, 12 October 2018). In this respect the Member States believe it necessary to develop a package of measures that will upgrade cooperation in food security including, above all, the development of a corresponding legal framework, information and analytical work in this sphere, cooperation in training experts and establishing cooperation with interested states and international organisations. Further agreement and adoption of the Programme Implementation Plan will become an important practical step in this area.
The Member States note the work being carried out to examine issues related to the establishment of the SCO Development Foundation (Special Account) and the SCO Development Bank and favour the continuation of related consultations. They believe it important to expand the practice of using national currencies in transactions between the SCO Member States. In this respect, the development of the draft Road Map to increase the share of national currencies in mutual settlements between the SCO Member States will be continued.
The Member States note the results of the latest Forum on Small Business of the SCO and BRICS Regions (Ufa, 18-19 October 2018) and the SCO Business Forum (Bishkek, 17 May 2019) that were attended by representatives of the business communities from the Member States, observer states and dialogue partners. They emphasised the importance of holding regular forums and exhibitions to help increase the export and import of products manufactured in the SCO countries as well as to promote cooperation between businesses and entrepreneurs, especially in small and mediumsized businesses.
The Member States note the positive results of the introductory meeting of the Forum of the SCO Member States’ Heads of Regions (Chelyabinsk, 4-6 December 2018) and representatives of regions from the SCO Member States (Chongqing, 14-16 May 2019). They welcome the adoption of the Regulation of the Forum of the SCO Member States’ Heads of Regions and the Development Programme of the Interregional Cooperation between the SCO Member States.
The Member States will continue their efforts to progressively unlock the potential of the Business Council and the Interbank Association. They support the business communities’ joint initiatives to step up their cooperation to implement projects in finance, high technology, transport and communications infrastructure, energy and investment in the SCO space.
The Member States consider the sustainable development and effective management of water resources to be an important and urgent task, one of particular importance for the preservation of the natural environment, ecosystems and biodiversity, and for the achievement of the social Sustainable Development Goals. In this context, they welcome the adoption of the UN General Assembly Resolution 73/226 of 20 December 2018 Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development,” 2018-2028, aimed at facilitating coordination and increasing the effectiveness of measures and steps taken towards this end.
They expressed concern about the widespread consequences of the ongoing desiccation of the Aral Sea and noted the importance of advancing interaction with the UN, and the countries and institutions interested in solving this problem.
The Member States consider it important to utilise the potential of the region’s countries, international organisations and multilateral associations to create a space in Eurasia for broad, open, mutually beneficial and equitable cooperation aimed at providing stable security and sustainable development.
The Member States confirm their intention to strengthen foreign policy coordination in the SCO format at the UN and its specialised agencies, as well as at other international platforms. The Member States will strengthen cooperation, hold consultations and develop contacts through the ministries of foreign affairs, embassies and permanent missions of the SCO Member States to the UN and other international organisations. In this regard, the Member States note the initiative of Pakistan to improve the coordination between the SCO Member States on issues related to cooperation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna.
The Member States express the need to continue to involve the observer states and dialogue partners as well as partner international organisations in economic, humanitarian and other activities, including through the SCO Business Council and the SCO Interbank Association. The Member States welcome the adoption of the Roadmap for the Development of Interaction of the SCO Secretariat with Observer States and Dialogue Partners, and support the further expansion of ties with inetrnational and regional organisations and associations.
The Member States will strengthen ties in the scientific, technical, cultural, humanitarian and tourism areas, contributing to the further strengthening of neighbourliness, friendship and cooperation. They will promote intercultural dialogue in the interests of the people living in the SCO space, preserve and promote diversity of cultures, cooperate in the study of the cultural and natural heritage of the region, hold international festivals and contests, deepen cooperation in the fields of music, theatre, fine arts, cinema, television and radio broadcasting, archiving, museum and library work, as well as promote people-to-people contacts, especially among young people, as well as tourist exchanges, including along the historical Great Silk Road.
The Member States intend to advance cooperation on the prevention and control of infectious diseases, including particularly dangerous diseases, and to ensure the safety and quality of food products in the SCO space. In this regard, the Member States intend to continue holding regular meetings of the SCO Member States’ heads of services responsible for sanitary and epidemiological protection.
The Member States commend the ongoing cooperation in healthcare, including through the implementation of the Statement by the SCO Heads of State on Joint Efforts against the Threat of Epidemics in SCO space (10 June 2018, Qingdao). The Member States welcome the signing of the Action Plan for Cooperation of the SCO Member States in the field of Healthcare for 2019-2021. Joint work will continue in areas such as capacity-building in combating the spread of infectious and non-communicable diseases, health emergency response, healthcare worker exchanges, telemedicine and the promotion of cooperation between medical institutions in the SCO countries.
The Member States support the consistent implementation of the Programme for the Development of Cooperation in Tourism (Tashkent, 24 June 2016) and the corresponding Action Plan for 2019-2020. They welcome the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the SCO and the World Tourism Organisation (to be signed).
The Member States praise the Kyrgyz Republic for initiating the World Nomad Games that popularise and promote ancient nomad culture and traditions. They note the successful holding of the 3rd World Nomad Games (Cholpon-Ata, 2-8 September 2018) and the role played by the Republic of Uzbekistan in the organisation of the Maqom and Bakhshi international art festivals (Shahrisabz, 6-10 September 2018; Termez, 5-10 April 2019, respectively), which aim to preserve and further develop these unique music genres.
The Member States attach great importance to the further development of the SCO Forum as a public consultation and expert mechanism.
They stress the importance of public diplomacy tools to strengthen mutual understanding, cultural and people-to-people ties between the Member States, and note the work of the SCO Public Diplomacy Centre in Uzbekistan in this regard, as well as the initiative of the Kyrgyz Republic on a cultural integration centre of the SCO countries and the Silk Road.
The Member States welcome the results of the SCO Women’s Forum (Bishkek, 15 May 2019). The Member States welcome the signing of the Agreement between the Governments of the SCO Member States on Mass Media Cooperation. They praise the SCO Mass Media Forum (Bishkek, 23-26 May 2019) while noting the importance of encouraging interaction between media outlets.
The Member States stress the significance of sport as an effective tool for promoting dialogue between nations and welcome the signing of the agreement between the relevant agencies of the SCO Member States on cooperation in physical fitness and sport.
The Member States note the holding of the Kunming and Issyk-Kul SCO Marathons (9 December 2018 and 11 May 2019, respectively) and favour holding them regularly as a contribution to enhancing friendship and mutual understanding between the peoples of the SCO Member States and also to positioning the SCO in the global arena.
The Member States advocate stepping up cooperation in education within the SCO. They deem it important to expand information exchange on the steps taken to modernise national education systems both as part of cooperation between relevant ministries and universities, at university rector forums, scientific conferences and symposia of researchers, educators and students.
The importance of further promoting the activities of SCO University is stressed, including through the involvement of interested states in the Agreement between the Governments of the SCO Member States on the Establishment and Functioning of SCO University.
The Member States note the significance of enhancing the potential for preventing natural disasters and mitigating their aftermath, as well as a joint response to them.
The Member States praise the performance of the SCO Youth Council and note the results of its regular meeting in Bishkek on 13-14 June 2019. They stress the need to further step up the Youth Council’s participation in implementing the provisions of the SCO Heads of State’s Joint Appeal to the Youth and the Roadmap on its implementation of 10 June 2018.
The Member States support the development of technology parks and business incubators in the SCO space to improve the business climate in the region and to support youth startups, including the SCO International Youth Business Incubator project under the SCO Youth Council.
The Member States praise the initiative of the Republic of Uzbekistan on preparing a UN Convention on Youth Rights, and are set to pursue coordinated activities on this issue.
The SCO Member States note the launch of the international project SCO Youth Map at the 29th Winter Universiade (Krasnoyarsk, 2-12 March 2019), and the outcomes of the 4th Forum of SCO Universities (Belgorod, May 2019 ) as well as the hosting of the 3rd SCO and BRICS Student Spring International Festival (Stavropol, 4-9 June 2019).
The Member States, in view of the importance of preserving environmental balance in the SCO space and restoring biodiversity for future generations, ensuring favourable conditions for the wellbeing of the people and for sustainable development, welcome the signing of the Action Plan on implementing the Concept of Cooperation in Environmental Protection.
The Member States welcome the agreements reached at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Katowice on the guiding principles for the practical realisation of the Paris Agreement. They confirm their commitment to fighting climate change.
The Member States stress the significance of establishing interaction between research and analysis centres in the SCO Member States on socioeconomic issues, as well as promoting cooperation in science, research and innovation, and underscore the necessity to implement the Roadmap on Cooperation of SCO Scientific and Research Institutions for 2019-2020 (Dushanbe, 12 October 2018). They express the necessity to support the expansion of the SCO’s scientific, research and innovation potential by pursuing joint scientific and technical projects, research, contests, and the exchange of experience between research and education centres.
The Member States believe the 75th anniversary of Victory over Nazism, to be widely celebrated in 2020, will reaffirm its lasting significance and the current challenge to prevent new tragedies with mass casualties, as well as the need to actively counter attempts to revive the ideology of Nazism, to spread xenophobia and intolerance. The Member States support Russia’s initiatives to adopt a joint statement of the leaders on the 75th anniversary of Victory over Nazism at the next SCO Heads of State Council Meeting, as well as to jointly advance the proposal to recognise Victory over Nazism in World War II as humankind’s world heritage, and monuments to the fighters against Nazism in all countries as a world memorial for humankind to remember, to be included in the 74th UN General Assembly resolution Combatting the Glorification of Nazism, Neo-Nazism and Other Practices that Contribute to Fuelling Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.
The Member States highly recognise the Kyrgyz Republic’s SCO Presidency in 2018- 2019, which helped improve mutual trust and understanding, constructive and successful cooperation, neighbourly relations and friendship among the SCO nations.
The Member States, drawing on a high level of mutual trust, will strive to provide security, stability, neighbourliness, friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation in the region.
The Member States will continue to enhance cooperation within the Organisation so as to advance it to a brand new level and turn the SCO space into a region of lasting peace, friendship, prosperity and harmony.
Republic of India Narendra Modi
Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping
Kyrgyz Republic Sooronbay Jeenbekov
Islamic Republic of Pakistan Imran Khan
Russian Federation Vladimir Putin
Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon
Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev
Source : “Bishkek Declaration”, Voltaire Network, 14 June 2019, www.voltairenet.org/article206808.html
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Paul George Opts Out Of Contract With Oklahoma City Thunder, Now A Free Agent
By Fitzgerald Cecilio
on Jun 29, 2018 10:04 AM EDT
Tags:Paul George, oklahoma city thunder, los angeles lakers
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All-Star forward Paul George will test the free-agent market after he opted out of the final year of his deal with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Sources said George informed the Thunder front office that he will not exercise the option.
The option will pay George a $20.7 million salary for the 2018-19 season. Instead, George will venture into the free-agent market as an unrestricted free agent.
However, George is interested in returning to the Thunder, who will face tough competition from the Los Angeles Lakers for the All-Star forward's services. Aside from the Thunder and the Lakers, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Houston Rockets might also join the chase for George.
The Thunder acquired George via trade with the Indiana Pacers last year. Before the trade happened, George expressed his intention of joining the Lakers, his hometown team.
George Formed Big Three With Westbrook, Anthony
Left without any choice, George eventually settled in with the Thunder, forming a Big Three with Russell Westbrook and Carmelo Anthony. However, they had an up-and-down year before making the playoffs as the No. 4 team. They lost to the No. 5 seed with Utah Jazz in the first round.
Playing alongside All-Star guard Russell Westbrook, George averaged 21.9 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 3.3 assists in 79 games with the Thunder last season. In his career, George is averaging 18.6 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 3.2 assists in 527 career games.
If he decides to rejoin the Thunder, George will be eligible to sign a five-year, $176 million contract extension this summer, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reports. However, Wojnarowski said George might opt for a "one-plus-one" contract where he could turn free agent next summer.
In 2020, George will have 10 years of service, meaning he can sign a four-year maximum contract worth $169 million with any team with enough salary cap space.
George Could Join Lakers With James?
George tells Brett Dawson of The Oklahoman that he hopes the majority of the people will be happy with his decision to turn free agent. George added that he's excited to through the journey and the freedom of making his next career decision.
The 28-year-old George said he will consider many factors before making his final decision. However, George did not provide any hint on what team he will join next season.
The Lakers are expected to actively pursue LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers and George when free agency period starts on July 1. The Lakers have enough salary cap room to accommodate maximum deals of two big-name stars. The Lakers are also trying to acquire Kawhi Leonard from the San Antonio Spurs via trade.
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For many centuries the area of Moorfields and Finsbury was open grazing land, too poorly drained for market gardens or building, and was a place for drying clothes, archery practice and for Sunday strolls. Shakespeare mentions the area, close to the City, in Henry IV Part One “...as if thou never walk’st further than Finsbury…” (Act III, Scene 1). When the boggy ground was drained during the 16th century the area became the site of a plague hospital (there’s a plaque marking the site in Bath Street) and later the tent city of London citizens displaced by the great fire of 1666.
The growth of the city in the 18th century led to the establishment of St Luke’s Church on Old Street, a church associated with John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. Wesley, who had received a public rebuke from one vicar over his open-air preaching and informal prayers early in his ministry, came to be a regular Sunday preacher at St Luke’s later in life.
St Barnabas
St Clement’s Church, consecrated originally to St Barnabas, was designed to be a “chapel of ease” (an extra place of worship for those in a parish too far from the parish church, or for extra space if the parish church was too small). Certainly the area was becoming a populous place. The orchards that covered the area in the 18th century were, by the 1820s, giving way to smart new developments on the city fringe, including King Square (named after the newly-crowned King George IV). Houses in King Square were large and designed for artisans and clerks at a convenient distance from the City.
The government had set aside a fund of £1 million “for building new churches in populous places”, in thanksgiving for victory over the French in the Napoleonic Wars. And St Luke’s parish was chosen to be the site of one of these so-called “Waterloo” churches. However, in those days, both church and local government were run by the churchwardens and local “Vestry”, who didn’t have to be church people, merely residents of the parish. The vestry of St Luke’s, Old Street, thus resisted the proposal, believing that the new church would “impose on the inhabitants a needless and oppressive expense”, and that “no additional chapels are necessary”. Despite their protest, the Church Building Commission went ahead and purchased the land in King Square.
Despite this opposition, on the 27th January 1822 the foundation stone was laid, an event ignored by the Vestry of St Luke’s. Work on the building is said to have been done by French ex-prisoners-of-war and locals. The new church building was considered to be “for use and duration, rather than particular ornament”. Designed by Philip Hardwick, the architect of Euston Station, St Barnabas was built in the ancient Greek (Ionic) style, but with a spire attached. The windows on either side of the porch were originally glazed, but not the oblong recesses above them, as the illustration, from 1828, shows. There was no vestibule - the main doors led directly into the church and the door on either side of the porch led into galleries which went around three sides of the building. Altogether it could hold 1,600 people!
It was very plain inside. There was a small temporary organ in the west gallery and the altar was in a small semi-octagonal recess at the east end. Gas lighting was fitted in 1827, but on condition that no service started later than 3 pm.
St Barnabas was complete by July 1824, but had to wait two years for consecration by the Bishop. This delay was because St Luke’s was reluctant to recognise it as a parish chapel, or pay for it to be furnished and decorated. In November 1824 they set up a committee to make sure that ratepayers paid no more than the absolute minimum toward the new church. Eventually, however, £660 was contributed for bibles, prayer-books, altar, communion-plate and furniture, rejecting an offer by the first priest of the new church to pay for many of these himself. They also paid £585 for the wall around the churchyard and for decorating and mending windows already broken by vandals.
The consecration finally took place on the day after St Barnabas Day, 12th June 1826. The building had cost around £17,000!
The Victorian Church
The Victorian era saw profound social changes in the area, the better-off moving further out of town (to new suburbs such as Finsbury Park), to be replaced by the poor. The houses in the square were divided up, as they remained until their demolition at the start of the 1960s. In 1842 the church became a parish in its own right, with its own vicar.
As the population of the area soared in the mid-19th century other churches were built in the area, including St Paul’s, Pear Tree Street (1865) and St Matthew’s (designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott with an enormous spire) on City Road (1849). The last was St Clement’s Church, Lever Street, designed by William Butterfield on a cramped site between Lever Street and Nelson Street. It was consecrated by Bishop W Walsham How on 6th October 1880, to serve some of the most difficult and needy streets of the district.
The best-known of St Clement's vicars was Father Gofton-Salmond (who later went on to found the Community of the Servants of the Will of God at Crawley Down, Sussex) in the 1930s. Sadly, both St Clement's, Lever Street and St Matthew’s, City Road were destroyed by enemy bombs during the London Blitz. A rare relic from this time is a Service Register from St Clement’s, Lever Street: damaged but legible. Under the record for 7th September 1940 is written “Church destroyed 1.25am 8th September 1940. Register dug out of the rubble some weeks later.”
A New Beginning
St Barnabas had also been slightly damaged by war time bombs, but was in any case effectively redundant. It had, in fact, been used as a store for ecclesiastical furniture from other buildings since the beginning of the conflict.
After the end of the war, the question was how to reorganise the church in this part of Finsbury, in view of the bombing and a much smaller local population. It was decided to unite the three parishes of St Clement, St Barnabas and St Matthew, and for St Clement’s (who were meeting in their temporary church hall) to come to St Barnabas.
In 1952 the three parishes were united and work began on refitting the church in King Square. The interior was completely remodelled, including the pulpit, ceiling and new pillars, incorporating some of the ornaments of the old St Clement’s. A cross was placed at the top of the spire, in place of the original weathercock, and on 11th June 1954 the new altar was dedicated by the Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev’d J. W C. Wand. Finsbury had a new place of worship.
Of course the devastation of the bombs and the poor quality of much of the remaining housing stock meant that not just the church had to be re-housed. During the 1950s and 1960s the old streets, tenements and courts gave way to high– and low-rise developments, including the estate which now surrounds the church.
The church continues to play a role in the life of the local community and even if they don’t come to worship very often, local residents still see St Clement’s as “their church”. We hope and pray it will continue to be for many years to come.
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China pushes back as U.S. aluminum industry urges crackdown on imports
China pushed back on Thursday at charges by U.S. manufacturers and labor unions that it has flooded the market with cheap aluminum and put U.S. producers out of business, saying unilateral punitive trade measures should not be used to try to remedy a global glut of the metal.
In a rare appearance at a U.S. government hearing by a Chinese official, Li Xie, director of China's export division at China's commerce ministry, called on the Trump administration to refrain from imposing curbs on Chinese aluminum imports.
He spoke at a hearing by the U.S. Commerce Department on the Trump administration's Section 232 investigation into whether foreign aluminum imports pose a threat to U.S. national security. The administration is also conducting a separate investigation into steel.
The administration is widely expected to impose tariffs or quotas on foreign aluminum and steel imports.
"Aluminum products imported from China are general products with civilian uses such as packing, roofing, road signs and consumer durables. None of these products implicate national security," said Li.
He noted that Chinese firms had not been invited to the hearing and said unilateral sanctions by the United States were not an answer to a global issue.
"Global overcapacity is the result of manufacturers, including weakness in global economic growth and sluggish demand. The solution to these challenges entail global joint efforts."
China had undertaken measures to eliminate excess domestic aluminum capacity, said Li. When asked by the panel what those measures were, he said he would submit a written report.
Testimony to the committee by American manufacturers and labor unions said the domestic aluminum industry had been brought to its knees by market-distorting policies in China.
Robert Scott, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, said foreign aluminum imports threatened the entire U.S. industry which was hanging on "only by a thread" after a prolonged and steady decline in aluminum prices.
The threat was driven by growth of excess capacity and overproduction in China, which had increased by nearly 1,500 percent between 2000 and 2017, he said.
Official data shows that just 6 percent of America's aluminum exports come directly from China, but producers here argue the capacity expansion there has prompted a global price crash.
Michael Bless, president and chief executive for Century Aluminum Company, a large U.S. producer of primary aluminum, said the U.S. aluminum industry was "in danger of completely disappearing" because of global overcapacity.
"The domestic industry is in danger of completely disappearing," he said, adding that out of five aluminum smelters only two were operating at full capacity. In the last four years, employment and production have fallen nearly 60 percent, he added.
"China has no natural comparative advantage. Its smelters are among the highest cost producers in the world, they lose money, yet continue to expand," he added.
Gerd Gotz, director general of the 80-member European aluminum industry, said European manufacturers should be spared from any crack down as a result of the investigation.
"The vast majority of European imports have little to no link to U.S. national security but are largely used in commercial applications," he said.
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Canada’s Quiet Ascent as an Entrepreneurial Powerhouse
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By Ryan Holmes
Founder and CEO of Hootsuite
YPO member since 2013
A third floor conference room at my company headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, holds a glimpse of the future of Canadian entrepreneurship. A dozen young founders, some as young as 17 years old, have gathered for a fellowship program — The Next Big Thing — hosted on our campus. Over the course of eight months, these budding entrepreneurs will develop and commercialize everything from apps that leverage the sharing economy to sugar-free gummy bears to on-demand tutoring services, attracting millions in investment.
Holmes will speak at the annual YPO EDGE conference being held in Vancouver, British Columbia.
These young founders are hardly the exception to the rule. Canada has quietly grown to become a global hub for entrepreneurship. Among the Group of Seven, we’re second only to the United States in terms of the level of entrepreneurial activity, according to the “Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.” And while Canada may have a reputation as a resource-based economy, tech is increasingly driving new growth. In fact, since 2013, the technology and innovation sectors have grown faster than any other sector. Unicorn companies such as Shopify, Kik and my own firm, Hootsuite, are increasingly conceived, scaled and globalized, all from Canadian soil.
Undergirding this growth is an exceptional foundation for entrepreneurship. At both the provincial and federal levels, the government has made a significant investment in the startup culture, including a new, USD100 million VC fund in my home province. At the same time, the low Canadian dollar offers a significant headwind for entrepreneurs, keeping costs down and opening up foreign markets. In terms of talent, Canada has one of the best education systems in the world, ranking in the top 10 globally according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Because of its commitment to the environment and social justice, Canada also receives top marks for quality of life, and liberal immigration policies further incentivize talented newcomers. Finally, strong financial and political institutions, not to mention equitable wealth distribution, have enabled the country to weather the global recession favorably and avoid the social turmoil roiling parts of Europe and North America.
Despite these advantages, Canada has historically suffered from one major handicap when it comes to entrepreneurship: capital. Thankfully, over the last decade capital has grown increasingly accessible to entrepreneurs of all sizes. At the seed stage, companies now are able to tap funding platforms, including Kickstarter and AngelList to launch promising startups. For later-stage companies, a growing base of Canada-based VCs has been complemented by increased investment from abroad. Canada ranks as the most sought-after global destination for American VCs. Even as investors tightened their wallets in 2016, Canadian companies enjoyed record levels of funding.
Nonetheless, Canada still faces some hurdles on its path to entrepreneurial power. Although the educational system is strong, we have a deficit of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) candidates, with only one in five graduates coming from these critical disciplines. Only a redoubled commitment to science and math education, in particular at the university level, can reverse this trend. At the same time, while entrepreneurship in the abstract is seen positively in Canada, little has been done to provide concrete support for young entrepreneurs. I was hungry to start a business from an early age but found minimal guidance within the education system and had to forge my own path.
All of which makes the scene inside my company conference room — packed with young, ambitious entrepreneurs — so encouraging. The new founders who make up this year’s cohort for The Next Big Thing benefit from access to mentors, investors and industry contacts, as well as in-depth guidance from entrepreneurs who have successfully navigated the startup landscape. And that support can make all the difference: The 34 graduates from our program have launched 23 ventures and raised nearly USD5 million in capital, an exceptional success rate. If Canada, with all its existing competitive advantages, can find more ways to bolster our homegrown innovators, our entrepreneurial future will look even brighter.
This article first appeared in the November 2016 issue of YPO’s “Ignite” magazine.
Ryan Holmes is the founder and CEO of Hootsuite and a member of YPO in British Columbia. He started the company in 2008 and has helped grow it into the world’s most widely used social relationship platform with more than 10 million users, including 800 of the Fortune 1000 companies.
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The FME Series in early modern thought is dedicated foremost to scholarly studies in the history of early modern philosophy, covering a period ranging from the end of the Renaissance era (16th century) to the first part of the 17th century. As the history of philosophy becomes more and more contextualized, the series is opened also to fields such as intellectual history, history and philosophy of science, late medieval studiesor the history of art, in the spirit of a cross-disciplinary enquiry into the founding elements of the European modern consciousness. Publishing author books, monographs or collection ofarticles, and edited volumes resulting from various academic events, the series benefits from the strong support of an international board of well-known scholars in the field of early modern studies. It is edited by a team of young and senior scholars gathered by the Research Centre for the Foundations of Modern Thought of the University of Bucharest. We are welcoming works of young as well as senior scholars, focused studies or general monographs, written in one of the international academic-working languages. The motivating spirit of the Series lies in its effort to strengthen the communication between Romanian and foreign scholars and to bring the discipline in the frontlines of the Romanian intellectual awareness today.
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ALEXANDRESCU, Vlad - Croisées de la Modernité. Hypostases de l’esprit et de l’individu au XVIIe siècle
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JALOBEANU, Dana - The art of experimental natural history: Francis Bacon in context
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NETL Director delivers lecture on fossil energy research activities
Published by Nicholas Woodroof, Assistant Editor
World Coal, Thursday, 28 February 2019 10:00
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Director Brian Anderson, Ph.D., gave an in-depth description of his laboratory’s fossil energy research priorities, activities and capabilities when he delivered the 2019 Carnegie Mellon University Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation Distinguished Lecture Series in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, last week.
The Carnegie Mellon Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation addresses the world’s most important energy-related challenges by enabling collaborative research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach, entrepreneurship, and education. As one of CMU’s only university-wide institutes, the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation seeks to optimise energy resources, reduce the environmental impacts of energy production and use, and develop breakthrough technologies and solutions that will have meaningful global impact.
NETL is a US Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory that develops technological solutions to America’s energy challenges. For more than 100 years, NETL and its predecessor organisations have been recognised for innovation, discovery, development, and deployment of fossil fuel technologies.
Anderson described how NETL’s mission focuses on discovering, integrating, and maturing technology solutions to enhance the nation’s energy foundation and protect the environment for future generations, and follows a robust vision that will continue to power the nation’s economic progress, ensure its security, and enhance national prosperity. He noted that fossil energy remains critical for all sectors of the US energy economy, providing 92% of the energy used in commercial and residential activity, 95% of transportation needs and 60% of the nation’s power requirements.
The lecture also highlighted pioneering, state-of-the-art energy R&D and fossil energy and crosscutting initiatives that bring together multidisciplinary teams to meet some of the nation’s most important energy challenges.
NETL’s 1234 employees conduct and support more than 900 R&D projects in 50 states in it facilities in Pittsburgh, Morgantown, West Virginia, and Albany, Oregon. He also explained how the Laboratory executes research missions that draw on its key competencies: computational science and engineering; materials engineering and manufacturing; geological and environmental systems; energy conversion engineering; systems engineering and analysis and programme execution and integration.
Attendees were told that the Laboratory’s fossil energy priorities include:
Developing the coal plants of the future.
Modernising the existing coal fleet.
Reducing the cost of carbon capture, utilisation and storage.
Advancing big data.
Improving the efficient use of water resources — the Energy-Water nexus.
Maintaining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
He also highlighted how NETL bridges gaps between early stages of science and discovery and the final stage of commercial deployment by the private sector by developing productive partnerships that help reduce financial risks and shorten times to commercialisation for new technologies.
Anderson urged his audience to monitor available NETL technology portfolios for licensing opportunities through the Laboratory’s web site: https://www.netl.doe.gov/business/tech-transfer/available-technologies. He added that Department of Energy Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) are also available at https://www.netl.doe.gov/business/solicitations.
Anderson manages the complete NETL complex, including delivery and execution of the Laboratory’s mission and national programs in fossil energy. He has a long history of collaboration with NETL and other DOE national laboratories. He served NETL as the coordinator of the International Methane Hydrate Reservoir Simulator Code Comparison study. In 2011, he was awarded a Secretary Honor Achievement Award from the Secretary of the Department of Energy for his role on the Flow Rate Technical Group, a team spanning multiple national laboratories that worked in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Anderson came to NETL from West Virginia University (WVU) where he served as the director of the WVU Energy Institute.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcoal.com/special-reports/28022019/netl-director-delivers-lecture-on-fossil-energy-research-activities/
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Hero Unneeded
Tacy Layne | Writer/Editor "It's Batman!"
The excited little boy's voice echoes the joy and relief the citizens of Gotham feel as Batman soars above the city in the Bat Mobile. Attached by a chain to the famous aircraft, the Neutron Bomb swings like a pendulum through the air. Every face turns towards the sky.
The camera catches the look of anticipation on each spectator's face. The effortless beauty of the sunset contrasts the painful possibilities still hanging in the balance. Then, we see his face.
Batman. Fierce. Brave. Determined to save the city.
As the explosive detonates below the water's surface with not a second to spare, the city erupts in exclamations, knowing the hero—Batman—has saved the day.
Whether it's 2012's The Dark Knight Rises or 1920's The Mark of Zorro, we love the hero . . . and more than that, we love the idea of being the hero. What if you caught Mary Jane as she was free-falling through the sky or you saved an entire village from being terrorized merely with your armor?
THE HERO COMPLEX
O, to be the hero—the hero in the eyes of our parents, our spouse, our children, our family, our town, our state, our country. Certainly, we want to "help" people, right? But, don't we also want to know what it feels like to stand in the spotlight as people celebrate the fact that we just saved the day? I know I've craved that feeling. Haven't you?
Here's the problem. When we make any single act of kindness about us rather than the recipient, our eyes cannot see past the mountain of pride in front of our faces. What happens when we carry this hunger for fame and recognition into ministry with us?
The results can be devastating.
Developing countries do not need another hero. They've had their fair share and in many cases the "hero" made the crisis or problem worse.
This story—of redeeming the creation for the creator, of releasing the oppressed and the oppressor, of bringing beauty out of the ashes—already has a hero. He didn't need us at the resurrection and he doesn't need us now, but he invites us to be part of this logic-defying, grace-covered story that's sent the cosmos reeling.
We are not bringing Christ to poor communities. He has been active in these communities since the creation of the world, sustaining them, Hebrews 1:3 says, by His powerful Word. Hence, a significant part of working in poor communities involves discovering and appreciating what God has been doing there for a LONG time.
— Steven Corbett
Steven Corbett's When Helping Hurts calls out the church for our historically egocentric approach to missions and suggests a better way—a way that engages our brothers and sisters in Christ in real community, recognizing their strengths and weaknesses, our strengths and weaknesses, and the celebration of the grace covering it all.
When God calls us to serve someone, he isn't asking us to be the hero of that person's story. He's reminding us that he's already the hero, and he's inviting us to be engaged in the process. If we'll allow it, this realization can be freeing.
Your brothers and sisters could use your gifts, your talents, your wisdom, and your generosity in all its forms because we are made for community and God can do a magnificent work through us. But it's time for us to abandon the desire to be the hero.
PEOPLE OVER PROCESS
This is about more than the prideful practice of trying to take the glory which rightfully belongs to God, though. When we decide that we're going to be the hero of the story, we make those we are serving part of a means to an end, missing out on the gift of friendship with them, wisdom from them, and community shared alongside them.
38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.39 She had a sister called Mary,who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said.40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”
41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things,42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one.Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:38-42
Perhaps at one point Martha was excited about the arrival of Jesus, but she got lost in her to-do list. In the midst of her meltdown, she talked (rudely in my humble opinion) to her honored guest, threw her sister under the bus, and made herself a negative example for people like us to talk about until the end of time. She missed the people because she was lost in the process. She wanted the house to be perfect, and in her own way, she wanted to be the hero of this day. Not only did she get wrapped up in the process and lose sight of what was truly important, but she tried to take Jesus down with her when she pleaded, "Tell her to help me!"
We must not get so caught up in engaging the poor, disadvantaged, or struggling people around us in our processes that we forget the people. I've been there with my to-do list, checking off projects rather than emotionally and mentally checking in with people. It's easier that way, isn't it? It's far less messy to do something for someone in a distant, project-oriented type of way than it is in an honest, face-to-face, authentic human kind of way.
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Relationships are messy. Christianity is messy. Missions? Totally messy. At some point though, we have to learn to live in the mess rather than trying to clean it up all the time.
Don't get in a tizzy, Martha. We don't need an action shot, Batman. Instead, let's love the people we serve with a selfless, unconditional love. God's the hero of this one.
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Hyundai's Genesis unveils its vision for a teeny electric luxury car
At the 2019 New York Auto Show, Hyundai-owned Genesis unveiled an all-electric two-passenger concept car.
Posted By: By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business
You may be used to thinking of luxury cars as big and ultra-roomy, but Genesis, the luxury automaker spun off from South Korea's Hyundai a few years ago, unveiled something Tuesday night on a much smaller scale.
The Genesis Mint is a small electric concept car designed to go where long and wide luxury sedans are more of a pain than a comfort. It's a "city car" meant to squeeze through the narrow alleys and dense traffic of packed urban centers. The two-seat, two-door car has a shortened sedan-shaped body, but without a traditional trunk.
Instead of rear seats and a conventional trunk lid, the Mint has a deep shelf for cargo or luggage that's accessed by a set of Lamborghini-style scissor doors on the side. Since the cargo area is accessed from the side, people don't have to walk all the way around the back to get to their baggage.
The Mint is not just a fun design exercise, said Manfred Fitzgerald, the global head of Genesis. The brand is seriously considering producing a vehicle like this if parent company, Hyundai Motor Group, will approve it. It could potentially enter production around 2022, Fitzgerald said at a meeting with reporters before the unveiling.
Fitzgerald said he does not see the Mint as an "entry level" car for Genesis. Instead, it's simply an alternative product intended to be just as luxurious as any other Genesis model.
"I think this will be definitely an icon for the brand," he said.
Despite its dimensions, the Mint is not meant to be a sporty car. It is really intended for urban gridlock as opposed to sweeping country roads. The fact that the car is electric allowed designers to create more interior space since no room had to be carved out for an internal combustion engine or a transmission.
"I don't think that you need a lot of sports attributes for this," Fitzgerald said. "This is something which will be very pragmatic, but at the same time cool and stylish."
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Meteorologist Matt Jones
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Microbursts, downbursts, and tornadoes, oh my!
Matt Jones / April 30, 2018
The damage last Friday in Mercer County was caused by a downburst.
On Friday, the air near the ground was extremely dry. When the showers moved in the initial rain fell from the clouds, but did not make it to the ground. The dry caused the raindrops to evaporate. There is something important that happened at that point.
The process of evaporation is endothermic, meaning that the evaporating raindrops take in heat from the atmosphere. Now imagine this happening millions and millions of times above your head. If all these drops are taking in heat then the air around it will cool and quick.
Cold air is denser than warm air. So the colder the air gets the heavier it becomes. Eventually, the rain breaks through the dry air and when this happens the cold air comes crashing down to the surface and can cause damaging winds.
If you were out in the windy conditions, the wind probably felt colder to you.
There are different types of severe winds.
Downbursts
A downburst is a strong downdraft which causes damaging winds on or near the ground. This term is commonly used when the size of the downdraft is not known or the damage is sporadic. When the size and scale is known, we categorize them into two types of downbursts:
Microburst: this is a downburst that is less than two to three miles in size. It covers a concentrated area and can produce winds over 150 mph.
Marcoburst: this is a downburst that is more than two to three miles in size. It covers a concentrated area and can produce winds over 125 mph.
Also, there are two types of downbursts, a wet downburst that also produces heavy showers and a dry downburst that only produces strong winds.
For example, if there was a damage swath of 3 by 4 miles and also produced heavy showers at the time of the damage, we would classify that as a wet macroburst.
Straight-Line Winds
These are winds that are generated by a storm. Unlike a downburst, these winds can be produced and sustained for hundreds of miles and go on for hours. The winds can exceed 100 mph and produce as much damage as a tornado.
Straight-line winds are often mistaken as tornado damage, but there is a distinct way to tell the difference. All the damage, due to straight-line winds, would be in the same direction. All the trees would fall the same way and lawn furniture would be pushed into one corner of the yard.
The most well-known severe weather. Tornado damage is concentrated and the path is typically longer than it is wide. Tornados can be destructive, but also sporadic in their damage path.
You can clearly identify damage caused by a tornado because the debris would be all over the place. Trees would be laying in opposite directions and structures would have damage to multiple sides of the building.
As we head into severe weather season it is important to know the different types of severe winds. It is as equally important that you treat severe thunderstorm warnings the same way you would treat tornado warnings.
People don’t think that severe thunderstorms can be worse than tornadoes at times. At the end of the day, we don’t care what caused the damage, as long as everyone is safe.
April 30, 2018 in Meteorology.
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The Hamptons Union, August 2, 1923
The Monday Club was delightfully entertained this week by Mrs. James Tufts and daughter.
Miss Marian Lamprey and fiance Mr. Arthur Louis Penniman, of Boston, whose engagement was announced last week were week end guests of her father, Judge Howell M. Lamprey.
Miss Constance L. Adams is visiting relatives at Sherborn, Mass.
Best pastry flour at 69 cents a Bag, or $5.40 a Barrel. Co-op.
Miss Ruth Perkins was a week end guest of her mother, motoring down from Boston with her brother, Carl Perkins, who has a cottage on the beach.
Miss Ernestine Cole is enjoying an automobile trip to New York with friends. She plans to return this week.
Mrs. Wallace Mullen enjoyed a week end with Rev. G. W. Clark and family this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Spackman were guests of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Ross this week.
Mr. Howard Arnold of New York City, has entered the employ of the Rockingham Printing Co. as a linotype machinist operator.
At the Methodist parsonage Wednesday evening Mr. Elmer L. Reed of Hampton Beach, and Miss Pearl E. Holbrook of Worcester, were united in marriage by Rev. R. S. Barker. The couple will make their home at the Beach this summer.
Miss Dorothy Barker is visiting her sister at Pearly Lake, West Rindge.
Mr. James Kershaw of Fall River spent a couple of days with his sister, Mrs. Gilpatrick.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jefferson and daughter of Cliftondale who spent the week with Mrs. Gilpatrick, have returned home.
Mr. John Olson has entered the Maine Hospital in Portland for treatment.
Miss Taylor of Norwood, Maine, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Fred Harrison.
Guy Mitchell and John McPhe of Boston, spent Sunday with Mrs. Mary Brown.
Fresh Eggs, guaranteed in cartons, 39 cents a dozen. Co-op.
New Potatoes, 59 cents 15 lb. Co-op.
Mrs. Fisher and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crowell motored to Portland and Old Orchard Beach on Monday.
Mrs. C. F. Adams is spending a week in Camden, N. J., her former home.
The vacant store in the Post Office building has been leased by the Atlantic & Pacific Co., who will soon open one of their chain of stores there.
Mrs. Ernest Mace, nee Miss Fay Hill, has entered the Exeter Hospital for heart trouble having strained the muscles of her heart.
Miss Ruth Barker is spending two weeks with friends in Boston.
Best Bread Flour at 89 cents a Bag, or $6.97 a Barrel. Co-op.
Supt. Frank Stevens of the Street Railway is just getting about again after a ten days' illness with the shingles and neuritis.
Ernest G. Cole is fitting up a fine suite of rooms for Dr. Ward on the first floor of the Williams building, recently purchased by Mr. Cole. There will be three rooms in the suite, a general reception room, consulting room and laboratory, all handsomely finished. With the leasing of this apartment the entire building is now occupied. The remainder of the first floor is a dressmaking parlor and the upper floor is occupied by Charles Tarlton and Mr. Grant.
Sugar 9-1/2 cents a pound. Co-op.
The W. R. Corps will hold its regular meeting next week Aug. 8th, at 2:30 p.m.
Leroy King, a conductor on the Exeter, Hampton and Amesbury street railway, was struck by an automobile while standing on the running board collecting fares Wednesday. He was knocked from the car, receiving cuts on his head and face. The accident happened in Exeter.
A few of the older natives of the town have been requested to furnish something to represent Hampton on the Old Home Day at the Beach. This has nothing to do with carnival week as it comes the week before.
Dr. Arthur Ward has had quite a busy week with calls for his services.
There is a lawn party talked of for the near future. It will be held by all of the ladies of the Congregational Church. The proceeds will be used for renovating the parsonage.
Friends of Rupert Lindsey are glad to see him in town.
A very pleasant meeting of the Congregational Missionary Society was held with Mrs. S. M. Lane at her cottage at the Beach. There were about twenty five present including a number of visitors.
Mrs. Alys G. Hemingway has been appointed to succeed Miss Ethel M. Dill, who retires on Wednesday as nurse director at the Prendergast Preventorium at Mattapan. Mrs. Hemingway has had considerable experience in hospital work and is well qualified to assume the care and responsibility of the thirty children who are patients at the institution. She was born in Paris of American parents and received her early education in Europe, including two years at Trion College, Cornwall. On coming to this country she was graduated from the State Normal School at New Britain, Conn., after which she completed post-graduate courses at Yale in psychology and pedagogy. Since that time she has had ten years of professional and four years of teaching experience. She has had charge of a department of the New England Hospital for Women and Children in this city and was superintendant and instructor of nurses at Grace Hospital, New Haven, Conn. Three years ago she entered Red Cross work and has been engaged in public health nursing and school work since.
---Boston Evening Transcript; July 28, 1923
HAMPTON BEACH:
Funeral services for Ex -Alderman George O. Tilton of Haverhill, Mass., who died Thursday evening at his summer home on Ocean Avenue, were held Saturday afternoon from the home and were largely attended. Rev. A. J. Hook of Haverhill officiated, and delegations were present from the Masonic bodies, the Elks, Haverhill. The Whittier and The Knights of Pythias quartet sang three selections. The bearers were William Sleeper of Exeter; John Paul of Camden, Me; George Tupper and Andrew J. Tilton of Haverhill. Burial was in Linwood Cemetery, Haverhill, with the Knights of Pythias holding committal services.
More than $250 was collected here at Hampton Beach for the benefit of the fresh air fund of the Bethany Cottage at Boar's Head. Subscriptions amounting to $103.90 were raised previous to the tag day through the efforts of Ethel G. Powers, ably assisted by Mrs. Mary Hazen and Mrs. Nellie Poore, both of Manchester. The tags were distributed to boy and girl workers who collected $149.65. Kenneth Devine of Roslindale, Mass., led all other workers, collecting a total of $25. Next in line was Paul Moore, with $18 to his credit. Other workers included Robert Lazell, Helen Haley, May McLaughlin, of Manchester, Esther Scott and Dorothy Hobbs of Hampton, Muriel Chase of Henniker, Grace Means of Goffstown, Gladys Minor of Springfield and Sallie Tuck of Salem.
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Barbara Kingsolver never tires of asking big questions, said Lidija Haas in TheGuardian.com. A few years before the publication of 1988’s The Bean Trees, the first in a now long line of popular novels, her focus was on completing a Ph.D. dissertation about the genetics of altruism. But then she experienced a crisis of faith. “Lying in bed, counting in my mind the people who would read it, I came up with 11,” she says. Ever since, the Kentucky native has devoted herself to creating stories that tackle difficult subjects in a way that pulls in a healthy audience. Often, she hopes readers will connect enough to the people or places threatened by crisis that they’ll be inspired to act. “Only if you love something,” she says, “will you inconvenience yourself to work on its behalf.”
Kingsolver’s latest novel, Unsheltered, tackles a crisis that she expects many readers are experiencing firsthand, said Leigh Haber in O magazine. Willa Knox is a middle-aged out-of-work New Jersey mother who’s realizing that her trust in the American economy to reward hard work was misplaced. The crumbling old house the family lives in affords Kingsolver a chance to flash back to previous occupants from the post–Civil War era. “I usually begin with a question,” she says. “In this case: How do people behave in times of great upheaval?” She has come to believe that in every such era, some people desperately fight change and others embrace it. Willa, for her part, resists until she realizes it’s unwise. She realizes, says Kingsolver, “that yesterday’s people can’t solve tomorrow’s problems—and she’s a yesterday person.” ■
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‘Fat boy’ to viral sensation: Akshat Singh on dancing his way to fame
July 5, 2019 8 Views
BY SUGANDHA RAWAL
New Delhi, From “India’s Got Talent”, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to “Britain’s Got Talent”, Akshat Singh — all of 14 — has entered the hearts of millions with his dance moves. But there was a time when people dismissed his dream because of his weight.
There were teachers who had doubts about his capabilities and he used to go for practice early in the morning to avoid getting mocked at. All this because he was plump. But he was determined to prove all of them wrong.
“When I was small (really young), I was really fat… Everyone told me, ‘You can’t dance and you can’t do anything in your life’. From that time, I just told my dad that ‘I want to dance and show everyone that fat people can dance’,” Akshat told via a recorded response.
“I did a lot of hard work. My friends encouraged me. My parents, my school and my guru helped me. It was with their help that I was able to show everyone that fat people can dance,” added Akshat, who represented India at “Britain’s Got Talent”, which is aired in India on Colors Infinity.
Recalling an incident, he said: “When I went to the dance class, the teacher said, ‘He is a fat boy, I don’t think he can even dance’. From that time, I had a thing in my mind that I want to show everyone that fat people can dance.”
“There was a lot of hard work behind it. I went to the field in the morning around 4-5. Because at 6-7 other people would have come and teased me saying that I am fat,” he added.
It was in 2014 when Akshat first went viral on the social media with his dance video on Salman Khan’s popular numbers like “Oh oh jane jaana”, “Tera hi jalwa” and “Dhinka chika”. As he came out on the stage on his toy bike and in his police uniform, he not only impressed the judges of “India’s Got Talent”, but the Indian audience as well.
“When I was four, I saw Salman bhai’s movie ‘Wanted’ and loved the song ‘Tera hi jalwa’. I started dancing and one day my father asked me if I wanted to dance. I said ‘yes’ and then a teacher came to my house and taught me. That was when I thought I can be a dancer,” he said, talking about how his love for dance developed.
Akshat has two idols — Salman and late pop star Michael Jackson.
“Salman bhai because he has a golden heart and loves everyone. And MJ because of his dance.”
Since becoming popular with his video from the reality TV show, he has been invited by TV personality Ellen DeGeneres as a guest on her talk show. The dancer also appeared on Steve Harvey’s “Little Big Shots” in 2017. His latest stint has been on “Britain’s Got Talent”.
Akshat performed on “Deva shree Ganesha” from “Agneepath” and followed it with some fast-paced dance moves, twerks and 180 degree splits on rapper Nicki Minaj’s song “Starships”.
On appearing on “Britain’s Got Talent”, he said: “It is a big dream for me. And getting the golden buzzer for my act and standing ovation from all the judges was a cherry on the cake…One of the Indian audience members came up to me said, ‘Proud of you my puttar (son)’. I felt very happy.”
The reason for which he was ridiculed by many, has now become his strongest trait.
Has the thought of losing weight crossed his mind?
“No. I like to eat a lot and I am happy with my weight. I love to eat but I am not lethargic. I can do the splits, back flips, headstand, something which people with my weight can’t do. So, I am really happy with my weight,” said Akshat.
His biggest dream is to be “Sachin Tendulkar in the world of dance”. And he is happy to live with his motto — “love to study, eat a lot, dance and make everyone happy”.
Akshat Singh 2019-07-05
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Function VF 309
Crown lands (public)
About this Function Related Agencies Related Groups
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Regulation of occupation and use of unreserved public land (ie for public use, benefit or enjoyment) by lease and licence Reservation of land for public purposes Regulation of the management of reserved public land The management of Crown lands yet to be classified as serving either public or government purposes
Do not use this Function for
Land sales - use crown lands (government) Survey of Crown land - use survey Government lease of ly-owned land - use crown lands (government) Crown land reserved for government purposes (eg. government buildings, schools, roads, railways, police stations) - use crown lands (government) Forests (after 1907) National parks (after 1956) Zoos Coastal management Crown lands (historic sites) Soil conservation Protection and management of fisheries and wildlife Conservation (flora) Botanic gardens Herbarium Settlement schemes (closer settlement) Settlement schemes (soldier settlement) Settlement schemes (irrigable lands) Municipalities Planning (crown land use) Planning (to 1988) Public works Titles Unused roads and water frontages
Description of this FunctionDescription of this Function
Background Since the first occupation of the Port Phillip District the Government of Victoria has been responsible for the management of the publicly-owned land and water of the State. As at 1988 approximately two-thirds of the States land had been alienated from the Crown. The Government also plays a role in the protection of this ly-owned land and water. The management of Crown (unalienated) land and protection of ly-owned (alienated) land has had a complex history and is encompassed by a number of related functions. In the 19th century, Crown land administration included the survey of land, regulation of the sale (alienation) of Crown land by auction and selection; settlement of disputes regarding alienation and occupation; issue of occupation licences and leases and ensuring compliance with the conditions of such licences and leases; issue of Deeds of Grant for alienated land and for reserves granted for public purposes such as schools and churches; issue of licences for pastoral occupation and determination of rents; control and management of public parks, reserves and commons, alpine resorts and prevention of the unauthorised use or occupation of crown lands. In the 20th century the focus of land administration has been the management of the State's public land through the issue of leases and licences for unreserved land; the support, co-ordination and monitoring of committees of management responsible for over 4000 Crown reserves; the control of pests and weeds and development of conservation and management plans for public land. In order to gain some understanding of the various ways that the States land has been managed and regulated it is useful to understand some of the ways in which land has been classified. Overview of land classification and management The land and waters of Victoria have, since their first occupation, been classified in various ways and have often been managed according to their classification. The primary classifications are: Alienated/Unalienated Under presumption of the legal doctrine of "terra nullus" the land and waters of Australia were seized in 1770 from the indigenous population and annexed to and vested in the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. From the time of the annexation property rights could be derived only from the Crown. The administration of these rights in the Port Phillip District was initially through the Crown Colony of New South Wales. Since 1851 the land and waters of Victoria have been administered by the Crown Colony of Victoria and its successors. As land was sold to interests it became known as alienated land. Reserved/Unreserved Under legislation Crown (unalienated) land and water can be reserved permanently or temporarily for a variety of purposes. The permanent reservation of land can only be revoked by Act of Parliament. Remaining Crown land is unreserved. There are a number of special forms of reservation which have determined the way the land and/or water is managed. These include: State Forests:The Forests Act 1907 provided for the creation of permanent or reserved forest which can be excised only by Act of Parliament, by a resolution of Parliament, for specific public purposes or by exchange for or unoccupied Crown land. The Forests Commission is vested with sole control and management of all areas of reserved forest. National Parks: The National Parks Act 1956 (No.6023) provided for the establishment of national parks under the control of the National Parks Authority. Under the National Parks Act 1975 the types of parks and reserves managed as national parks were expanded to include wilderness parks and state parks. Public/Government Since 1987 the management of Crown lands has been separated according to whether the land is classified as public land or as Government land. Public land has been identified as that land which needs to be retained permanently for the "public benefit" because of its natural resource, environmental resource or heritage attributes, and includes: unreserved public land (including forests and plantations) native forest reserves public parks, gardens and recreation reserves national and state parks, historic sites wildlife and wilderness reserves. Government land has been identified as land used for the provision of goods and services by public agencies, and includes: declared roadways (used) railway permanent way and rail reserves sites of premises and other land use for delivery of goods and services, eg. offices, schools, laboratories, depots etc. Unreserved lands subject to classification review are managed as Public land until their classification into Government or Public land. A Bill of Parliament to authorise the transfer of Government land management, lease and sale functions to the Minister for Property and Services (VRG 69) was prepared but never tabled. In order to effect the intention of the Bill, sections of the Land Act 1958 (No.6284) were subsequently transferred to the Minister for Property and Services via Administrative Arrangements Order (No. 58) 1988. This transfer of functions has been described as "administratively clumsy". The authority to manage and undertake the lease and sale of government land was transferred to the Minister of Property and Services to enable a co-ordinated assets sales program. Although the power to sell Crown land was transferred to Property and Services (VRG 69), the ability to lease designated government land (usually in the metropolitan area) had to be effected by the Department of Property and Services (VA 430) acting as an agent for the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands (VA 1034). Similarly the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands exercised responsibility for the sale of Crown land (usually in rural areas) by acting as a land agent for the Department of Property and Services. Public Crown lands Although the distinction between public and government land is relatively recent, for the purposes of functional analysis the distinction has been applied retrospectively. This function, ie. the management of Crown land classified as public land, has included the following broad activities: regulation of occupation and use of unreserved land by lease and licence reservation of land for public purposes regulation of the management of reserved land. Unreserved land subject to classification review is managed as public land until it is classified. Regulation of occupation and use of unreserved land The first Act to restrain the unauthorised occupation of Crown Lands (commonly known as the Squatting Act) was passed on 29 July 1836 authorising the issue of depasturing licences for grazing stock on vacant Crown land outside the limits of settlement. The Act imposed penalties for the illegal occupation of land. The first squatters licences were not granted however until July 1838 when the first full-time Commissioner of Crown Lands was appointed. The regulation of occupation and use of unreserved Crown land has since been governed either by short term (annually renewable) tenure or guaranteed long term tenure, neither of which embodied the right to purchase. Authorised forms of occupation have included land held under lease, licence or permit within the following categories: primary production, residential, recreational, public utility, industrial and commercial. Examples of temporary occupancies have included grazing licences, permits to remove gravel and bee range licences. Examples of long term occupancies have included Mallee grazing leases and industrial leases. Crown land occupation has been controlled and administered pursuant to a number of Acts, including the Squatting Act mentioned above. Until the establishment of the Department of Crown Lands and Survey (VA 538) in 1857, primary responsibility for policing the occupation of Crown lands rested with the various district Commissioners of Crown Lands. From 1853 to 1857 the district Commissioners were organised into a Department of Crown Lands (VA 2878) under the supervision of a Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands. Pastoral Leases After 1829, as white settlement in New South Wales (and the Port Phillip District) grew, the emphasis of land administration shifted from small-scale land grants encouraging agricultural production, to tickets of occupancy, later to become the pastoral licence and leases of the 1830's and 1840's. In the years from first European settlement in the Port Phillip District in the early 1830s, the fertile regions of Victoria had been turned into sheep runs by squatters whose possession of the land rested on simple occupancy. By 1838 practically the whole of the present Western District had been occupied and flocks numbered more than 310,000. By 1840 this number had almost doubled. [Australian Encyclopaedia, Grollier, Sydney, n.d, Volume IX, p.118] After 1838 the occupiers of these pastoral runs in the Port Phillip District had to obtain an annual 10 licence based on a stock assessment which was conducted by the Commissioners of Crown Lands. Under the provisions of 1847 Orders in Council all persons in occupation of licensed runs had to lodge applications for leases and the pre-emptive rights of the squatters were thus recognised. In the newly defined Intermediate and Unsettled Districts of New South Wales, which encompassed most of the Port Phillip District except land near the townships of Melbourne and Geelong, pastoral occupants were to be granted eight and fourteen year leases respectively, together with the right of prior purchase and compensation for improvements. The leases were never granted. Instead 1852 Orders in Council continued the system of yearly tenure. The 1862 Land Act allowed a nine year tenure which was to expire in 1870. Under the terms of the 1869 Land Act the annual licences were not assured beyond 1880. The annual licences constituted a chattel interest and were transferable, but after 1873 no new licences were issued - all new runs and old surrendered runs were held under "grazing licences". Pre-emptive rights to homestead sections were secured to all licensed tenants, but after 1870 no claims were allowed for compensation for improvements made by outgoing licensees. Until 1852 rents were based on the amount of stock actually carried. Later, the basis for assessment was the grazing capacity of the run. This was calculated from estimates sent in by the run holders and verified or amended following occasional inspection and arbitration. Reservation of land for public purposes The disposal (sale, reservation or otherwise) of Crown lands in the Australian Colonies was initially regulated by Imperial legislation. An 1842 Act (5 & 6 Victoria, c. 36) provided for Her Majesty, or persons acting on her behalf, to reserve or dispose of in some other manner such lands as may be required for public roads or other internal communications, whether by land or water, or for the use or benefit of the aboriginal inhabitants of the country, or for purposes of military defence, or as sites of places of public worship, schools or other public buildings, or as places for the interment of the dead, or places for the recreation and amusement of the inhabitants of any town or village, or as the sites of public quays or landing places on the sea coast or shores of navigable streams, or for any other purpose of public safety, convenience, health or enjoyment.... Crown lands reserved, temporarily or permanently for public purposes are known as Crown Reserves. Some are surveyed allotments while others are large tracts of land whose boundaries are loosely defined. A permanent reserve can only be revoked by an Act of Parliament. Until 1988 all Crown reserves were managed by the one department. The division of responsibility for Crown lands in 1988 introduced a distinction between Crown reserves for public purposes and Crown reserves for government purposes. Examples of Crown reserves for public purposes are: recreation reserves, foreshores, municipal parks and gardens, camp reserves, public halls, timber reserves, commons, water reserves, fauna reserves and early national parks. Until 1871 Crown land was also reserved for church purposes, however, after the 1871 Act for the Abolition of State Aid to Religion [No. 391] this practice ceased and provision was made for church trustees to obtain a freehold title to any land which had previously been promised or reserved. Further research is required into the administration of Crown reserves between 1853 when the Colonial Secretarys Office ceased to have prime responsibility and 1857 when responsibility was assumed by the Department of Crown Lands and Survey. It is believed that the Surveyor-Generals Department (VA 2921) was primarily responsible during this time although it is not yet certain what relationship existed, and how Crown lands responsibilities were divided, between the Surveyor-Generals Department and the Department of Crown Lands (VA 2878). Regulation of the management of reserved land Crown lands reserved for public purposes are in most cases directly controlled by Committees of Management which are appointed by the Minister responsible for Crown lands. In most cases the local municipal council is appointed, in others, local individuals are elected to the committees. These Committees of Management are supported, co-ordinated and monitored by the Department responsible for Crown land and from the 1980s, through jointly developed management plans. In some matters the Committees are subject to statutory control by the government agencies which deal with fire protection, land conservation, planning etc.
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Function Title
Function Number
Agriculture VF 245
Coastal management VF 236
Conservation (flora) VF 284
Fisheries and wildlife VF 98
Forests VF 30
Land offices VF 392
Municipalities VF 397
National parks VF 173
Parks and reserves VF 399
Planning (crown land use) VF 238
Planning (to 1988) VF 329
Public works VF 404
Settlement schemes (irrigable land) VF 34
Settlement schemes (soldier settlement) VF 113
Soil conservation VF 178
Survey VF 17
Titles VF 38
Zoos VF 180
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PROVguide055 Land Records
Agencies with prime responsibility for this FunctionAgencies with prime responsibility for this Function
Date of Responsibility
- 1839 Police Magistrate Port Phillip District VA 472
1839 - 1851 Superintendent, Port Phillip District VA 473
1851 - 1853 Colonial Secretary's Office VA 856
1853 - 1857 Crown Lands Department VA 2878
1857 - 1983 Department of Crown Lands and Survey VA 538
1921 - 1983 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Geelong Division VA 4811
1983 - 1990 Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands VA 1034
1990 - 1992 Department of Conservation and Environment VA 3004
1992 - 1996 Department of Conservation and Natural Resources VA 3097
1996 - 2002 Department of Natural Resources and the Environment VA 3972
2002 - 2013 Department of Sustainability and Environment VA 4554
2013 - 2014 Department of Environment and Primary Industries VA 5002
2015 - cont Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning VA 5036
Other Agencies responsible for this FunctionOther Agencies responsible for this Function
1840 - ? 1858 Commissioner of Crown Lands, Westernport VA 2710
1840 - ? 1858 Commissioner of Crown Lands, County of Grant VA 4739
1840 - ? 1860 Commissioner of Crown Lands, Portland Bay VA 4737
1841 - ? 1860 Commissioner of Crown Lands, County of Bourke VA 4729
1843 - ? 1858 Commissioner of Crown Lands, Murray District VA 2711
1843 - ? 1858 Commissioner of Crown Lands, Gippsland District VA 4738
1846 - ? 1858 Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wimmera District VA 4740
Groups related to this FunctionGroups related to this Function
Group Title
Group Number
- 1839 Police Magistrate, Port Phillip District VRG 7
1839 - 1851 Superintendent, Port Phillip District VRG 11
1851 - 1853 Colonial Secretary VRG 16
1853 - 1983 Lands VRG 18
1983 - 1990 Conservation, Forests and Lands VRG 75
1990 - cont Conservation and Environment VRG 94
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In Volkswagen decided on the date of the start of sales of electric vehicles ID
Dealers of the German mark will begin to place orders for the long-awaited novelty already next week. But the debut of Volkswagen ID will take place only in September – until the Frankfurt Motor Show, the exterior of the serial electric car will remain a secret.
Volkswagen announced the start date of sales of its new hatchback, created on the MEB modular electric platform. Pre-orders for Volkswagen ID official dealers of the German brand will begin to take May 8. The novelty gets an electric motor mounted on the rear axle. Such an “architecture” allowed the car to be made smaller: its length was reduced to 4.1 meters, while the cabin capacity did not suffer. Any technical details about the new product, as well as its appearance, are still kept secret.
It turns out that those who wish to purchase an electric car will place an order, possessing minimal data about it. The debut models are organized after the start of pre-order – in the framework of the September motor show in Frankfurt.
But the prices for a novelty have long been “declassified.” According to specialized media, the minimum price tag for an electric Volkswagen I.D. set at around 29,900 euros. On one charge, such a car can travel up to 305 kilometers. However, eletkrokhetch will be the first to enter the market with a range of 450 kilometers. It was estimated at 35 thousand euros. “Senior” equipment Volkswagen I.D. with a power reserve of up to 600 kilometers will receive a price tag of 40 thousand euros.
In the company itself, they note that with each Volkswagen I.D sold they will lose about three thousand euros. Such a picture today is not uncommon. For example, losses from each Chevrolet Volt sold are estimated at 9 thousand dollars. In such cases, automakers expect to make a profit in the future.
Truly cool 1996 Dodge Ram T-Rex 6×6 concept
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Scholarships, Grants and Events Abroad
Scholarships, grants, conferences, seminars, youth festivals and summer schools with a focus on economics, political and social science, international communication, and youth development
Visegrad Scholarship Program 2017
Visegrad scholarships support Masters and post-Masters (PhD/postdoc) studies/research stays at higher-education institutions in the V4 region, as well as in the Western Balkan and Eastern Partnership countries.
Gerda Henkel Fellowships 2017/2018
New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study in the humanities and social sciences in Bucharest, Romania announces a Call for Applications for its newly launched GERDA HENKEL Fellowships. The program targets young researchers / academics working in the fields of humanities (in particular archaeology, art history, historical Islamic studies, history, history of law, history of science, prehistory and early history) from the following countries: Afghanistan, Belarus, China (only Tibet and Xinjiang Autonomous Regions), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Riau International Youth Summit 2016
Youth, as active agents of future growth, have a great responsibility in ensuring that our nation live in a world that is better than today. Youth have to able to hold answer keys to the question ‘what is the role of young people in driving change?’ since our responses to this will affect on us and our world. The rise of youth forums and youth movements should, therefore, be supported in order to facilitate and provide space for young people determine their role and keys in shaping our better future.
Gates Cambridge Scholarship 2017
Each year, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. Gates Cambridge Scholarship covers the full cost of studying at Cambridge. It also provides additional, discretionary funding.
The aim of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme is to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.
The Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme was established in October 2000 by a donation of US$210m from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the University of Cambridge; this is the largest ever single donation to a UK university.
International Winter School for Educators
The winter school will provide a forum for 15 junior educators from European countries who want to exchange ideas on methods and teaching practices on the topic of Nazi forced labour and its memory in post-war Europe from a transnational perspective. The focus will be on civilian forced labour in Nazi Germany. The winter school will also focus on how educators can use documents archived in the ITS Digital Archive, which include among others multi-million page collections of records on forced labour, post-war DPs and resettlement.
African Humanities Program
The African Humanities Program (AHP) seeks to reinvigorate the humanities in Africa through fellowship competitions and related activities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda. In partnership with the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which has generously provided funding, AHP offers African scholars an integrated set of opportunities to develop individual capacities and to promote formation of scholarly networks. The African Humanities Program supports the Carnegie Corporation’s efforts to develop and retain African academics at universities in Africa.
Visby Programme Scholarships 2017/2018
The scholarship application call for the academic year 2017/2018 is open from 1 November 2016 to 10 January 2017. About 40 scholarships will be offered.
The aim of the Visby Programme is to support individual mobility, thereby contributing to increased contacts and collaborations between actors in Sweden and countries in the EU Eastern Partnership and Russia. The goal is to build an integrated, knowledge-based and research-intense region, centred on the Baltic Sea while also including EU Eastern Partnership countries and Russia.
Facebook Fellowship Program
The Facebook Fellowship Program is designed to encourage and support promising doctoral students who are engaged in innovative and relevant research in areas related to computer science and engineering. Winners of the fellowship are entitled to receive two years of tuition and fees paid, a stipend of $37,000 each year, and up to $5,000 in conference travel support. Applications will be evaluated based on the strength of the student's research statement, publication record, and recommendation letters. While open to students in any year of PhD study, heavy emphasis on research and publication record favors students who are further along in their course of study.
Eastern European Academy for Social Democracy 2016
The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung invites progressive young leaders between 25 and 35 years to apply for the first edition of the Eastern European Academy for Social Democracy, which will take place from 20th till 27th of November 2016 in Germany (Berlin, Schwerin).
2016 Human Science Summer School in Fukuoka
The Human Science International Course in the Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, invites Graduate School students studying outside of Japan to the 2016 Human Science Summer School. Those of you eligible and interested in the education of our International Course are encouraged to apply. We offer financial support and course credits, as well as course education and laboratory experience.
The Human Science Summer School provides a program consisting of 15 lectures of 90 min in combination with research experience at a laboratory of a faculty member of your choosing (afternoons). The lecture course, Advanced Design and Technologies for Human Science, is designed as an overview of the whole curriculum of the Human Science International Course.
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1936 Cup Of The Ukrainian Ssr
1936 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR Tournament
Ukrainian Cup Football cup
2018–19 Ukrainian Cup Sports league season
1992 Ukrainian Cup Football league season
2011 Ukrainian Cup Final Football match
1994–95 Ukrainian Cup Event
1993–94 Ukrainian Cup Tournament
1999–2000 Ukrainian Cup Sports league season
FC Dynamo Kyiv Soccer club
2012–13 Ukrainian Cup Football competition
Desc: The 1936 Ukrainian Cup was a football knockout competition conducting by the Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR.
Originally the tournament was known as the Spring Challenge of the UkrSSR or the Spring championship.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Cup_of_the_Ukrainian_SSR
Type: Thing, Event
Football cup
Desc: The Ukrainian Cup is an association football national knockout cup competition run by the Ukrainian Association of Football. The competition is conducted almost exclusively among professional clubs.
URL: http://www.ffu.org.ua/
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Cup
Type: SportsOrganization, Organization, Thing
2018–19 Ukrainian Cup
Sports league season
Desc: The 2018–19 Ukrainian Cup was the 28th annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition. The competition started on 18 July 2018 and concluded on 15 May 2019.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_Ukrainian_Cup
Type: Event, Thing
1992 Ukrainian Cup
Football league season
Desc: Like the championship, the first edition of the Cup had a tight schedule as the Football Federation of Ukraine was given just several months in order to switch to the European seasonal format with the minimum required matches played.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Ukrainian_Cup
Desc: The 2017–18 Ukrainian Cup was the 27th annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition. The competition was planned to be started on 9 July 2017 and concluded on 9 May 2018.
2011 Ukrainian Cup Final
Football match
Desc: The 2011 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that was played at the Yuvileiny Stadium, Sumy, on 25 May 2011. The match was the 20th Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Ukrainian_Cup_Final
Desc: The 2019 Ukrainian Cup Final is a football match that was played on May 15, 2019 in Zaporizhia between Shakhtar Donetsk and Inhulets Petrove. The match is the 28th Ukrainian Cup Final since fall of the Soviet Union. This is the first time the cup final would be held in Zaporizhia.
Desc: The Ukrainian Cup 2007–08 is the 17th annual edition of Ukraine's football knockout competition, the Ukrainian Cup.
The Cup started with the round of 32, but it also had couple of preliminaries.
Desc: The 2015–16 Ukrainian Cup ias the 25th annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition.
The decision on a schedule of competitions for clubs from the First and Second League in the composition was confirmed on 3 July 2015 at a session of Central Council of the Professional Football League of Ukraine
Desc: The 2002 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the NSC Olimpiyskiy on May 26, 2002. The match was the 11th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv.
Desc: The 2008 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Metalist Stadium on May 7, 2008. The match was the 17th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv.
Desc: The Ukrainian Cup 1994–95 is the fourth annual edition of Ukraine's football knockout competition, known as the Ukrainian Cup.
The main event started on September 26, 1994, with the round of 32 and concluded with the final game on May 28.
Desc: The 2011–12 Ukrainian Cup is the 21st annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition, and fourth under the name of DATAGROUP – Football Ukraine Cup.
Desc: The 2017 Ukrainian Cup Final is a football match that was played on May 17, 2017 in Kharkiv. This was the fourth time the cup final was held in Kharkiv. The match was the 26th Ukrainian Cup Final since fall of the Soviet Union.
Desc: The Ukrainian Cup 1991 was the 26th and the last annual edition of the Ukrainian SSR football knockout competition, known as the Ukrainian Cup. The competition started on March 30, 1991, and its final took place on November 24, 1991. It was a second edition of the tournament since its revival in 1990.
Desc: The Ukrainian Cup 1993–94 is the third annual edition of Ukraine's football knockout competition, known as the Ukrainian Cup.
Desc: The 2013–14 Ukrainian Cup is the 23rd annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition.
The decision on a schedule of competitions for clubs of the First and Second League and leagues composition was confirmed on June 20, 2013 at a session of Central Council of the Professional Football League of Ukraine
Desc: The 1995 Ukrainian Cup Final is a football match that took place at the Republican Stadium on May 28, 1995. The match was the 4th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by FC Shakhtar Donetsk and FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.
1999–2000 Ukrainian Cup
Desc: The Ukrainian Cup 1999–2000 was the ninth annual edition of Ukraine's football knockout competition, known as the Ukrainian Cup. The winner of this competition was Dynamo Kyiv, beating FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih in the final.
The format of competition was completely changed.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%E2%80%932000_Ukrainian_Cup
Desc: Football Club Dynamo Kyiv is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kiev. Founded in 1927 as part of the Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club plays in the Ukrainian Premier League, and has never been relegated to a lower division.
URL: http://www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua/
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Dynamo_Kyiv
Type: SportsTeam, Thing
Desc: The 1997 Ukrainian Cup Final is a football match that took place at the NSC Olimpiyskiy on May 25, 1997. The match was the 6th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by FC Shakhtar Donetsk and FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.
Desc: The 2014 Ukrainian Cup Final is a football match that was played on 15 May 2014 in Poltava. The match is the 23rd Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by Cup holders Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv.
Desc: The 2000 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the NSC Olimpiyskiy on 27 May 2000. The match was the 9th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Dynamo Kyiv and Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih.
Desc: The 1996 Ukrainian Cup Final is a football match that took place at the NSC Olimpiyskiy on May 26, 1996. The match was the 5th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC Nyva Vinnytsia.
Desc: The 2016–17 Ukrainian Cup is the 26th annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition.
The decision on a schedule of competitions for clubs from the First and Second League in the composition will be confirmed by Central Council of the Professional Football League of Ukraine and the competition will start on 20 July 2016.
The decision on a schedule of competitions for clubs of the First and Second League and amateur leagues composition was confirmed on 23 July 2014 at a session of Central Council of the Professional Football League of Ukraine.
Desc: The 2013 Ukrainian Cup Final is a football match that was played at the Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv, on 22 May 2013. The match was the 22nd Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by the champions of Ukraine Shakhtar Donetsk and Chornomorets Odesa.
Desc: The 2007 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that took place at the Olympic NSC on 27 May 2007. The match was the 16th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv.
Desc: The Ukrainian Cup 2004–05 was the 14th annual edition of Ukraine's football knockout competition, known as the Ukrainian Cup. The first game was conducted on August 4, 2004 with the game between Rava and Shakhtar Donetsk in Rava-Ruska, Lviv Region.
Desc: The 1998 Ukrainian Cup Final is a football match that took place at the NSC Olimpiyskiy on May 31, 1998. The match was the 7th Ukrainian Cup Final and it was contested by both Kievan clubs FC Dynamo Kyiv and FC CSKA Kyiv.
Desc: The Ukrainian Cup 1990 was the 25th edition of the Ukrainian SSR football knockout competition, known as the Ukrainian Cup. The competition started on May 11, 1990, and its final took place on October 28, 1990.
Desc: The 2018 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that has been scheduled to be played on May 9, 2018 in Dnipro. This was the second time the cup final has been held in Dnipro. The match was the 27th Ukrainian Cup Final since fall of the Soviet Union.
Desc: The 2012 Ukrainian Cup Final was a football match that was played at the Olimpiysky NSC, Kiev, on 6 May 2012. The match was the 21st Ukrainian Cup Final and was contested by Metalurh Donetsk and Shakhtar Donetsk.
Football competition
Desc: The 2012–13 Ukrainian Cup was the 22nd annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition.
The Cup began with two preliminary rounds, before the first round proper involving the Premier League clubs.
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Traditional Style Chalet in Abondance
Number of “Lots” in copropriété 1320
Chalet near Abondance
On the edge of a forest
On large plot of land
Laid out over 3 floors
View of Mont Chauffé
Large garage
A traditionally style chalet on the edge of a forest in Abondance. The property is sold with a large plot of land (1320m²) and is about 1.5 km from the village. Access is along a mountain track. The chalet has a large garage.
Located approximately 1.5km from the village, this chalet has a lovely natural forest edge setting and is accessible via a track.
Built in 1965, the property sits in a large plot of 1320m2 with a view of le Mont Chauffé. The accommodation is over three floors.
Large garage, playroom, storeroom.
Main entrance, living room with fireplace and access to the terrace, small fully-equipped kitchen, two bedrooms, shower-room, separate WC.
Two large bedrooms, one with washbasin.
Agency fees payable by the vendor. Partner Agent Mandate - Delegation. Energy Rating (DPE): To follow.
Abondance is picture perfect. It offers traditional Savoyard beauty and history but with the added bonus of unrivalled accessibility. It has a solid infrastructure, direct access to its own ski slopes and is linked to one of the largest ski areas in the w
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Abondance is picture perfect. It offers traditional Savoyard beauty and history but with the added bonus of unrivalled accessibility. It has a solid infrastructure, direct access to its own ski slopes and is linked to one of the largest ski areas in the world.
Located on a plateau backing onto Mont Jorat (1830m), Abondance lies in a valley dominated by Mont de Grange (2432 m) and the Pic de la Corne (2084m). Situated at 1000 meters, Abondance is just 30 kilometres south of Lake Geneva. It is a 20-minute drive from Thonon with its abundance of shops, cultural events and the beaches of Lac Leman. It is a 10-minute drive to Chatel and Pre-la-Joux, giving access one of the largest ski areas in the world and it has direct access to its own ski slopes. The valley is an area of spectacular mountain beauty year round and the local area offers an variety of activities from hiking, biking, swimming and golfing in the summer to every conceivable winter sport.
The commune of Abondance dates back as far as the 6th century but it was the arrival of monks around 1108 that helped shape the town we know today. The monks constructed an abbey around 1400 and started to produce cheese at the Sainte Marie d’Abondance Monastery for the papal conclave at Avignon.
Abondance is now famous for its local produce and its cheese was awarded the AOC label (Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée) in 1990. In 2003 the Abondance valley was acknowledged as an area of art and history (Pays d'Art et d'Histoire) by the Minister of Culture, in recognition of its remarkable heritage and treasures.
One of Abondance’s most beautiful features - apart from the famous cows that graze in its meadows– is the aesthetics of the area. Many of the buildings here are the original stone and wooden farmhouses which are hundreds of years old. Chalets constructed more recently have respected the traditional look of the valley and are nestled upon the typical farms and chalets of the valley creating a picture postcard beauty. These comprise most of the properties for sale as well as apartments within buildings that sit naturally in the beauty of the valley. Offering views, history and a very modern level of accessibility and amenities, Abondance brings so much to the table when considering a property purchase.
Abondance also delivers on skis. Firstly it has its own ski area. The ski station is known as Essert and was reopened in 2009 with a 12-year commitment from an American investor. A gondola rises up from the edge of the village, taking you up to a variety of slopes ranging from green to black offering something for every level of skier. But Abondance is also one of 12 ski stations of the Portes du Soleil which is one of the largest ski areas in the world. From Abondance village there is a regular free bus service (ColomBus) running through the valley to Chatel and Pre-la-Joux where you can access over 650kilometers of Swiss-Franco skiing.
The village has all the local amenities one could need. From restaurants, cafes, supermarket, boulangeries, patisseries, boucheries and delicatessens to the more practical pharmacy, doctors, gym, banks and post office. There are also lots of specialist food shops where you can enjoy the regional produce that Abondance is famous for. There is a bustling Sunday market in the village square with stalls selling meat, vegetables, local produce, honey and the famous Abondance cheese. You can also easily access Thonon and Geneva for anything else you may need.
You can take the Eurostar and TGV from London to Cluses, changing at Paris. Cluses train station is just over an hour away.
Geneva Airport is 70 - 80 minutes away and is the most convenient. There are regular transfers during the season but these can become more expensive out of season.
You can also fly into Turin, Chambery, Lyon but transfer times are then closer to three hours.
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The Aramaic New Testament
Galilean Aramaic in the Context of Early Christianity
About The Translation
Learn Aramaic
Galilean Aramaic (GAL101) [BETA]
Conversational Galilean Online (GAL101)
Conversational Galilean Study Groups (GAL110)
The Aramaic Lord’s Prayer (ARC010)
Differences of Dialect
Confusing Words
What Is This All About?
What is Galilean Aramaic?
Methodology Explained
What This Project Is Not
The Lord’s Prayer in Galilean Aramaic
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
An Overview of Semitic Languages
The True Children of Abraham Debate
He Who Lives By The Sword
Sermon on the Mount? Or the Plain?
Problems With Peshitta Primacy
Marcus Borg (1942-2015)
January 22, 2015 Aramaic Blog, NewsJesus Seminar, Marcus Borg, RIPstevecaruso
March 11, 1942 – January 21, 2015
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The Seventh North American Syriac Symposium
January 16, 2015 Aramaic Blog, Newscall for papers, North American Syriac Symposiumstevecaruso
* * * The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 1, 2015 * * *
The Seventh North American Syriac Symposium will be held at The Catholic University of America on June 21-24, 2015. Held every four years since 1991, the North American Syriac Symposium brings together university professors, graduate students, and scholars from the United States and Canada as well as from Europe, the Middle East, and India, in particular from the State of Kerala. The Symposium offers a unique opportunity for exchange and discussion on a wide variety of topics related to the language, literature, and cultural history of Syriac Christianity, which extends chronologically from the first centuries CE to the present day and geographically from Syriac Christianity’s homeland in the Middle East to South India, China, and the worldwide diaspora.
The theme for the 2015 CUA Syriac Symposium will be ‘Ad Fontes: Sources for Syriac Studies’. Given the tremendous growth in Syriac studies over the last two decades, we would like to celebrate the rich and varied sources on which the field is built, from manuscripts and inscriptions to architecture, from objects of art to oral tradition. Thus, we encourage submissions that reevaluate well-known sources, investigate lesser-known sources, and bring to light entirely new ones. Submissions that reflect on disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the sources are also welcome. No original submission will, however, be rejected on account of its subject, so long as it relates to Syriac studies and meets the scholarly standards established by the 2015 organizing committee.
Based on the response to this Call for Papers, a number of sessions, each consisting of three or four papers, will be put together. These may include some of the following:
(1) Syriac Christianity in its Greco-Roman context.
(2) Syriac Christianity and Judaism.
(3) The Syriac Bible: Old Testament, New Testament, and Apocrypha.
(4) Ephrem.
(5) Aphrahat.
(6) The fifth and sixth centuries and the development of separate West-Syrian and East-Syrian traditions.
(7) Syriac Christianity and early Islam.
(8) Syriac Christianity in the 11th-13th centuries and the ‘Syriac Renaissance’.
(9) Syriac Christianity in the modern period and its contacts with the West.
(10) The Syriac-Christian diaspora in the 20th and 21st century.
(11) Literary genres in Syriac Christianity, or more specifically: biblical interpretation, hagiography, historiography, poetry, philosophy.
(12) Asceticism in the Syriac Christian context.
(13) Syriac liturgical traditions.
(14) Syriac language and linguistics.
(15) The study of Syriac manuscripts.
(16) Art and material culture of Syriac Christianity.
(17) Connections between Syriac Christianity and Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Georgian Christianity.
(18) Christian Arabic as part of the Syriac heritage.
Papers will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes of discussion. Submissions can be of one of two types:
1. Individual Paper. Anyone who is submitting a paper individually is required to submit an abstract of approximately 250-350 words in addition to contact information. The symposium organizers will assign accepted paper proposals to a session.
2. Panel. A panel consists of three or four papers dedicated to a specific topic or theme. Anyone who is organizing a panel is required to submit an abstract of approximately 250-350 words for each of the papers in the panel along with the contact information for each panel participant. The panel organizer should also submit a title for the panel as well as a suggestion for a moderator. Panel participants should send their abstracts to the panel organizer who will then submit all of the panel abstracts to the symposium organizers.
The submission of panels is especially encouraged. All submissions should be sent in an electronic version (both pdf and Microsoft word document) to nasyriacsymposium@gmail.com. The deadline for submission is February 1, 2015. In order to ensure the widest range of participation in the conference, individuals will be allowed to present only one paper at the symposium.
In addition to standard papers and panels, there will be four keynote lectures:
(1) Joseph P. Amar, Professor, Department of Classics, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame
(2) Adam H. Becker, Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, New York University
(3) Bas ter Haar Romeny, Professor of Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern History, VU University Amsterdam
(4) Dorothea Weltecke, Professor of History of Religions, Universität Konstanz
Additional information for the Symposium can be found at the following website:
http://semitics.cua.edu/north-american-syriac-symposium.cfm
The website now contains information about housing and registration. Registration must be completed by Friday, April 24, 2015. Additional information will be posted on the website soon.
All papers presented at the 2015 CUA Syriac Symposium can be submitted for review for publication in a volume that will be published by CUA Press and edited by Aaron Butts and Robin Darling Young. The submission date for the final version of papers for consideration in this volume is Aug. 15, 2015. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed both by the editors of the volume and by CUA Press.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to write to nasyriacsymposium@gmail.com.
We look forward to welcoming you to CUA in the summer of 2015!
Aaron Butts, symposium organizer
on behalf of the local steering committee:
Aaron M. Butts, The Catholic University of America (organizer)
Robin Darling Young, The Catholic University of America (chair)
Monica J. Blanchard, The Catholic University of America
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Dumbarton Oaks
Joel Kalvesmaki, Dumbarton Oaks
Stephen D. Ryan, Dominican House of Studies
Shawqi Talia, The Catholic University of America
Janet A. Timbie, The Catholic University of America
Lev Weitz, The Catholic University of America
Gospel of Mark Collation
November 30, 2014 Newsstevecaruso
Working on The Aramaic Words Translation has stalled. This is mostly due to a matter of tools to work with, as in my attempts at reconstruction I’ve had to flip back and forth between several sources to look over all extant Aramaic versions of the New Testament alongside their Greek counterparts. As a result, I realize that I’ve — once again — put the cart before the horse, and I need to take a step back and work on some tools to aid my translation efforts.
As such, I’m going to be refocusing my efforts upon collating Aramaic versions of the New Testament, one chapter at a time along with general translations of each source and as I come across quirks I’ll have a good place to refer to them.
The first chapter of Mark is presently what’s on my plate, and I’m now in the process of formatting it for use on this website. We’ll see how it goes. 🙂
Update: The new parser seems to be working properly now! Please tell me if you see any glitches in the display of Aramaic text on the site.
Status on November 25, 2014 Newsstevecaruso
Yep, so the latest WordPress update killed some functionality with the plugin I wrote to display Aramaic text and thereby knocked out each and every Aramaic lesson or page that has Aramaic text larger than the default size.
I’m going to have to take some time to sort this out today. It should be fixed soon.
Status on November 24, 2014 Newsgrumblestevecaruso
Steve Caruso (MLIS) has translated Aramaic languages professionally for over 15 years with a focus upon the Galilean dialect – the language spoken by Jesus of Nazareth. He is presently the Program Coordinator for Interface Design & Web Development at Raritan Valley Community College. Here on "The Aramaic New Testament," though, he keeps track of Aramaic in media and scholarship at large and continues his work on various Aramaic-related grants and projects.
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Weekend R&R: The Books of Experimental Might
With the announcement earlier this week that Monte Cook to leave the 'D&D Next' project which caused much on forums and blogs alike, I decided to look back at some of Monte's material.
I have a few of his books and not just ones he specifically worked on for WOTC. Monte Cook had a profound influence on Third Edition, went on to form Malhavok Press where he might be best known for his Arcana Unearthed (Arcana Evolved) material and his Ptolus setting. As co-designer of Third Edition, he was naturally well invested into the system. He played it, he wrote for it, and he had his own house rules. From this and the interest generated on his own blog when he talked about it, he penned the first 'Book of Experimental Might'. With the success of the first volume, he penned a second companion volume. They were initially released in PDF format (and had a softcover print run) but it was subsequently published by Paizo as the 'Collected Book of Experimental Might' in hardback.
Personally, I love books like this. When I was involved with Third Edition, I didn't care much for the variety of splat books (in hardcover no less!) which rapidly grew with the release of 3.5. On the other hand, I loved the Unearthed Arcana. For that matter, I also liked the original Unearthed Arcana despite it's flaws when it was released back in the mid-80's (but we'll leave that for another day). My love for these sorts of books is why I was immediately attracted to Joseph Bloch's 'A Curious Volume of Forgotten Lore' which is coming out later this year. The list goes on, whether it is old or new, and is also a motivation for my own project, 'The Ballista Rules Companion'.
Cook's 'Collected Book of Experimental Might' is a significant book in the sense that it tries to improve and correct certain aspects of the D&D game. The goal of course was greater playability. Does he actually succeed? Well, from my perspective given my gaming preferences (as well as those of some of my other readers), probably not. But it was a good effort and better than diving towards a 4th Edition! I'm also certain that the 3rd Edition 'power gamer' would have liked certain aspects of the book (not that I'm encouraging this either). Looking through the book can give possible insights where some aspects of subsequent games editions were going.
The Bad ... Feats, feats, and more feats. Different types of feats... Uberfeats. Even the name 'uberfeat' may send some power gamers into a frenzy. The 3rd Edition concept behind feats was not a bad idea and there were certain things about it that were elegant as far as a system was concerned. The problem is that the list just grew and grew and grew with the publication of new books and somewhere along the way, the concept of balance got tossed out the window. Even the 'core' Feats in the PHB didn't stack up well against once another. As an additional, possible flaw with 3rd Edition, many of these were also miniature dependent in terms of combat.
The Good ... Domains and Disciplines. These are kind of like class abilities. A cleric as we typically recognize them has an ability to Turn Undead and a Paladin will have Lay on Hands for instance. In this instance, the characters select a discipline which can become more powerful as the character increases in levels with other associated effects or a new discipline can be learned by sacrificing a Feat slot. What's great about this is it gives a chance for more differentiation between characters of the same class.
There is also some nifty rules concerning hitpoints and healing... with rules which may remind some of what 4th Edition introduced though not quite the same either. It also introduces up to 20th level spells -- meaning a 5th level wizard can cast up to 5th level spells as opposed to only 3rd level ones. Fireball becomes a 6th level spell while Lighning Bolt is 5th level but a spell like Wish is a 20th level one. Of course, using a vancian system of magic, the number of spells per level is also spread out. The most 1st level spells you'll gain according to the chart is 3 -- even at 20th level. Oh... no 0 level spells either though cantips are now part of a Discipline.
Aside from that, there are a few little things like Skills and Feat clarifications as well as a couple of classes but that's about it. It's not a big book but part of that is the paper stock used I think, it clocks in at just over 140 glossy pages. Art is nice but nothing stood out for me but the presentation is sharp enough. But is it worth the price for what you can get out of it?
For the most part, it might not be too difficult to try and shoehorn some of this material for a pre-3rd Edition game though you would need to look out for any power creep from such a modification. There are some great ideas but ultimately, for most it's probably more trouble than it's worth. The MSRP of the hardback is $29.99 though you may get it for less (new) if you shop around. Noble Knight Games has a new copy for $24.95 and a NM copy for a couple bucks less. In PDF (on RPG Now!), volumes 1 and 2 are $9.00 each but at $18 for the two, you may as well get the bundle which also has an adventure thrown in for the same price. Given the content, I would be hesitant to recommend the book to any gamer who doesn't play 3rd Edition or a game derived from it such as Pathfinder. On the other hand, if you like tweaking and exploring different options and don't mind a bit of work, it's decent enough if you can find it for a good price.
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Castles & Crusades: A $15 Players Handbook
I need more time to actually relax and enjoy myself. Castles & Crusades has been my go to FRPG for years now and I realize that it's been a over a decade since I've picked up my first Players Handbook for C&C. The book has gone through multiple printings and is gearing for a 7th print run right now on Kickstarter. In some ways, the book has changed a lot over the printings ... but not so much in terms of the actual content. You can gather a group of players each with different printing and still be on the same page as far as rules are concerned. It's a rules light game that is a good balance of what I was looking for.I love this game a lot.
I'll write more about the how the game feels mechanically in a couple of days. For now, I want to talk about the evolution of the Player's Handbook.
It started off as a booklet in a white boxed set. Before Swords & Wizardry had their white box and before other various OSR clones did their own white box tribute, Troll Lord Games did it first with their white, collectors edition box. Three booklets in a box containing all the basics you needed to play! It was a proof of concept as no one at that time had used the SRD and the OGL to recreate d20 version of the D&D game that was a nod to the classic versions of D&D that many people grew up with. Sure... it was rooted with a slightly more modern system design with ascending armor class and a unified d20 mechanic to resolve a variety of challenges, but it was so elegant when unhindered by the mountain of skills and feats and a requirement of miniatures that Third Edition forced you to contend with.
From there, the first printing of the Player's Handbook was made possible and... well... never had I seen a more abysmal display of layout and editing in a 'professionally' released gaming product. Had I come across Castles & Crusades in that guise, I would have closed the book and walked away. It was a more complete game and on par to contain some of the things one became accustomed to seeing in first edition AD&D. Unlike the booklet that had the four core classes... the PHB had 13 classes in all... from Assassin to Wizard! A much greater and detailed selection of spells as well as an array of demihumans to choose from.
I was one of the lucky ones though as I came upon C&C with the 2nd printing of the PHB. The text was basically the same but it was finally laid out correctly and pleasant to flip through. Both 1st and 2nd printings where black and white and printed on white paper. A good stock that took pencil (and ink) well which made some people happy. The game was new so there were errors and mistakes littered throughout the book. I have met more than one person that marked up their books accordingly. I was not one of those people.
The cover artwork began to change slightly with the third printing but the biggest change was the paper. It went to a higher quality but thinner stock of paper while retaining the black and white look. There were LITTLE variations to the text and the most significant change was to the poison tables. The thinner stock also meant the books were slightly thinner as well. Many loves this new printing but others didn't care for it as much.
Up to this point, the books have also remained at a bargain selling at $19.95 a book. You could get the Players Handbook and the Monsters & Treasure book for the same price (if not cheaper) than the current 3rd Edition PHB!
The next printing was a big thing for Troll Lord Games though and they were making a concentrated push to expand the game. All books in their main line were getting reprinted and all sported the same dark olive green trade dress. The 4th printing of the PHB also represented the most changes in any of the printings. New material was added and a couple of classes got revamped. Notably, the Barbarian class moves away from being a berserker to a regular barbarian befitting a variety of cultures. The Monk on the other hand moved away from an oriental themed influence to a slightly more western one. There were new spell and multiclass options also presented in the volume. The book also saw a $5 price increase.
The 5th printing was another big step even if it was a bit of a misstep. It was the first printing of the PHB which would see color and the art and pages all got colorized. Have you ever seen a black and white movie that got colored after the fact? It doesn't always work out does it. The same thing happened here. Some pages and pieces of art looked good while others looked worse. It was significant nonetheless and, aside from errata, no content changes happened here.
The last printing is probably the finest printing we have to date. It is also full color but TLG went back and made sure the color was done perfectly. It got an expanded page count but not so much because content, but because they chose to make the font slightly bigger and more legible. The font had always been on the smaller side for these books but the new look is bigger and crisper and suits the book very well. Some of the text was clarified a bit and a lot of errata was corrected. The book has a $39.95 price tag if I'm not mistaken but, given the quality of paper, color, and increased page count, no one should be surprised. In my case, I treated myself and made sure my copy was a leather copy.
I've owned easily a couple dozen players handbooks for C&C books over the years and often gift copies or even sell some of them second hand. I've kept my third printing, fourth printing, and definitely will be keeping my sixth printing. I like to see the book getting arguably better with each printing but I honestly figured that the 6th printing would be my last printing.
The current kickstarter is for the 7th printing and they got me by offering a collector's cloth edition with my name embossed on the cover. That sounds nice and I'm of course happy to support them.
Why should you support them? How does $15 for a full color hardcover sound? That's right, they are planning a deep print run and, at the same time, want to thank current fans and supporters that might already have the books to allow for an inexpensive upgrade. They also think that $15 is a great incentive to buy the game to see if they like it. In other words not a lot of risk.
And there are stretch goals and add-ons to consider.
If it sounds like you might be tempted, I invite you to check out the current Kickstarter campaign HERE.
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CAN Statement on Pittsburgh
October 31, 2018 Campus Antifascist Network
The Campus Antifascist Network mourns the brutal killing of eleven at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Many of those killed were in fact older people in their 70s and 80s. They had grown up in a world still reeling from the effects of fascism, and anti-semitism. Yet that did not prevent them from working earnestly to help Muslim refugees. And for that they were killed by a man filled with the racism, fascism, and bigotry that is a…
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Colorado Springs Campus Antifascist Network Calls for Public Meeting
March 23, 2018 Campus Antifascist Network
Dear faculty / students / staff / friends, In response to white nationalist posters found on the UCCS campus at the end of February, your friendly local chapter of the Campus Antifascist Network is holding a public meeting on Thursday, March 15th, at 12:30 at Sanatorium Grounds in the University Center. The question of the meeting… How do we create a campus culture that makes it difficult / uncomfortable / impossible for racism / sexism / homophobia / xenophobia /…
New CAN Chapter at Folsom Lake College!
Aren’t community colleges where a diverse array of students from all walks of life come together to start their pathway to higher education? Maybe. But at Folsom Lake College, located in a conservative suburb of Sacramento—home to white nationalist groups, like the Golden State Skinheads, Sacto Skins, Traditionalist Workers Party, and other alt-right boneheads—we have major problems. Despite the institution’s commitment to diversity and equity, we are a hotbed for ultra-nationalism and overtly racist activity. A lot of this new…
CAN Statement: Help MSU Mobilize Against Richard Spencer!
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The Campus Antifascist Network offers its unequivocal support for the community-based movements at Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of Michigan (UM) to resist white supremacist Richard Spencer and his violent, neo-fascist supporters. University administrations at MSU and UM continue to willfully endanger the communities they’re supposed to serve by caving to the demands of dangerous people, like Spencer and his alt-right followers, who preach “ethnic cleansing” and bring murderous violence wherever they go. In response, the #StopSpencer coalitions…
CAN Stands in Solidarity with the Mercy Junction Six!
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The Campus Antifascist Network stands in solidarity with the Mercy Junction Six who have been arrested and charged for protesting the appearance of Neo-Nazi Wayne Heimbach at the University of Tennessee. The arrests took place February 19th during a non-violent protest against Heimbach’s invited lecture on the UT campus. The Traditional Worker Party is a white supremacist, anti-semitic organization. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, in 2013, Heimbach praised neo-Nazi David Duke and joined a cross and swastika lighting…
CAN Statement of Solidarity with the International Women’s Strike
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Vincent Derrick
(21 November 1933 – 4 March 2019)
Vincent Astor ‘Tubby’ Derrick
Former Cabinet Minister, Antigua and Barbuda
Vincent Derrick was a former Senator and Cabinet Minister in Antigua and Barbuda
Vincent Astor ‘Tubby’ Derrick was born on 21 November 1933 in Antigua to George and Ruby Agnes Isabelle Derrick aka “the Violet”, Tubby was the third child from that union. He was educated at the TOR Memorial and Antigua Grammar Schools.
Derrick joined the Antigua and Barbuda Democratic Movement (ABDM) which was formed by his late close friend Robert Hall in the 1960s. Seeing the strength in unity, he was instrumental in the merger of the ABDM and the Antigua Workers Union to form the Progressive Labour Movement (PLM) in 1967.
The PLM defeated the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) during the 1971 General Elections and Dad became a Senator and Leader of Government Business in the Senate. Derrick was also made a Government Minister without Portfolio and consequently became a member of the Cabinet and Government during the PLM term in office between 1971 and 1976.
His assignments included working with Premier George Walter and Prime Minister Errol Barrow to create LIAT (1974) Ltd out of the ashes of Leeward Islands Air Transport’s bankruptcy.
He travelled to Bermuda to study their tourism and road system and by 1976 PLM was known as the “Road Government”.
After the 1989 general elections, Derrick helped in bringing together the disparate opposition forces under the banner of the United Progressive Party (UPP) in 1992. In addition to being a founding member, he was the first and longest serving chairman of the UPP (1993 to 2001).
Derrick was a father of five: Mu’min, Foster, Beverley, Gillian, and Kim.
Death Derrick died on 4 March 2019 after a brief period of illness. He was 85. His funeral service was held on Wednesday, 13 March 2019 at the St. John’s Cathedral, Antigua.
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Liberal Democrat MPs must ensure Murdoch BSkyB bid is delayed
I wrote yesterday about my initial reaction to the phone hacking scandal. I now want to turn my attention to the future of News International's plans to take over B Sky B which looked likely to go ahead from Conservative Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt with few assurances from the Murdoch empire that it would get rid of Sky News. This raises long standing concerns about the closeness of
Our Vince Cable would no doubt have referred the takeover to the Competition Commission. In principle this was absolutely the right thing to do. And that was before the revelations of the past week.
It is so stark staringly obvious that there's no way this takeover should go ahead until we see the conclusions of the judge led inquiry into the phone hacking. On that, Ed Miliband is right, despite his party having spent most of the last 20 years licking the boots of Murdoch and his representatives on earth. He intends to bring a motion to the House of Commons on the matter.
The Liberal Democrats have, as Danny Alexander said on BBC Breakfast this morning, a long track record of not cow-towing to Murdoch or any other media baron. I would expect all of my party's MPs to support such a motion. The signals the party is sending out are quite strong on that. Danny is being quite sensible in not giving Miliband a blank cheque and giving away our support before we actually see the wording of the motion. On the other hand, I don't want to see us use some legalistic excuse for not backing it. Surely the law on such matters can't possibly stop the Government putting a delay in the process when there is evidence that widespread criminal activity has been taking place within the company wanting to take the broadcaster over. And that case is helped by the BBC's report that News International have been covering up evidence of wrongdoing for 4 years. If News International knew in 2007 that the phone hacking scandal was more widespread than they admitted, and they didn't hand that over to the police, isn't that perverting the course of justice, or something?
It may not come to a Commons vote, though. I am certain that our MPs will be putting a strong case for delay within the Government, hoping to change things behind closed doors. It would be good if ministers themselves could delay the takeover by an appropriate means.
Of course, if News International had any decency, it would simply withdraw the bid. We have, however, seen that that virtue is in fairly short supply in the Wapping area. I find the smiley photocalls with Murdoch saying Rebekah Brooks is his priority,with the flame haired one helping photographers who've fallen over utterly nauseating.
Let's imagine, though, that by whatever means, the Government or Parliament blocks the bid. Are News International really going to have the nerve to challenge it in the courts? And, if so, what would the public feel about that? Would they really want to continue buying his products in the numbers that they did?
I'm pleased that our MPs have been as robust as I would expect them to be in all of this - first of all it's down to Nick Clegg that we have a judge led enquiry. I suspect that if it had been left to David Cameron, the Downing Street cat would have been put in charge.
Then Simon Hughes wrote to Ofcom questioning whether News International is a fit and proper organisation to run a broadcaster. Of course, if Ofcom say no, then where does that leave Sky, given that NI own 40% of them already. It encourages me that Simon's letter has been published in full not just by Simon, but on Nick Clegg's website.
An interview in today's Independent with Nick Clegg shows his determination on the issue:
On the 6.52am train from London St Pancras last Friday, Mr Clegg speaks with passion: "You have politicians falling to their knees ingratiating themselves with media moguls. You have too many vested interests tied up with each other. You have a culture of arrogance and impunity"
He was quick out of the traps last week, pressing Mr Cameron successfully for the public inquiry covering the police and the press to be headed by a judge. Mr Clegg believes the crisis offers an opportunity to clean up Britain's "rotten establishment". To reflect liberal values, of course. "The anger people feel is almost palpable. The question is how we harness that sense of outrage to build something better for the future."
While Nick's claim that "the pillars of the British establishment are tumbling one after the other" might yet be premature, it's clear to me that our party has been on the right side of the argument on MPs' expenses, the banks, the press and police when these institutions have been rocked by scandal. While people are becoming more aware of the abuses of power and the ways vested interests work together to protect themselves, we're not yet in a position to make wholesale permanent change.
It's clear that the role of the Liberal Democrats is going to be crucial in determining the progress of the News International takeover. For me, it's inconceivable that we could take a course of action which would lead to it proceeding while the investigation takes place.
In the longer term, I agree wholeheartedly with what Cicero's Songs says - that the Murdoch empire should be severely dealt with if the enquiry or police investigation shows criminal wrongdoing.
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Luiten Can Upstage Rahm And Garcia – By Ian Hudson
Dustin Johnson won the World Golf Championship HSBC Champions in 2013 and he can win the tournament again at Sheshan International Golf Club in Shanghai. The world number one has a game suited to the host course and can become the first multiple winner of the event which was first played in its current format 2009. It has been played at Sheshan in every year since then except 2012 so there is plenty of course form to assess.
Johnson is the main tip of the week with Golf Rater. This is WIN’s dedicated golf service that has produced a decent return on investment since proofing began at the start of the year. Subscribers have enjoyed a run of winners including Jordan Spieth at 16/1 in the Open Championship. You can get all the best golf bets until the end of the season at a one-off price of £14.99: CLICK HERE!
This WGC event brings together the best players from all the global tours and it is the first elite event since the USPGA Championship in August. There is a limited field of 78 players so no cut which means everybody receives a cheque. The prize fund is almost $10 million and points won count towards the FedEx Cup. It is the third leg of the Far East Swing on the US PGA Tour and the first two legs have been won by Pat Perez and Justin Thomas but the latter is absent.
Sheshan International is a par 72 course measuring 7,261 yards which is about average in length by modern standards. The course puts a premium on accuracy over distance and it features fairway bunkers and water hazards. The fairways are tree-lined and they lead to undulating greens. The key skills for good scoring are driving accuracy, greens in regulation and average putts per round. The course is a good test of a player’s all round game and a quality player is usually the champion.
The average winning score over the seven renewals on the track is 19 under in a range from 11 to 23 below par. There has been one playoff and winning margins from one to seven shots. Three players from the United States have won, there have been four champions from Europe and Hideki Matsuyama from Japan is the defending champion. The field is made up mainly of tournament winners over the last year.
The HSBC Champions is the first event of the US PGA Tour season that attracts a strong field. Johnson is playing for the first time and in addition to win the event in 2013 he was tied fifth two years later. He had a poor playoffs at the end of last season but then won 4 points from 5 matches in the Presidents Cup. Johnson is currently the best player in the world and he can confirm that status by winning this week.
Johnson combines long and accurate driving which is a rare combination. He can avoid the hazards on the fairways and find plenty of greens with relatively short approach shots. His putting is good enough to make him the most likely winner this week and consolidate his position at the top of the world rankings. Johnson can embark on his new season with a victory in Shanghai.
Hideki Matsuyama cannot be ignored as a potential champion. He won the tournament last year with a score of 23 under. He was tied 5th on his last outing two weeks ago and is in decent form. Tyrell Hatton is on a hot streak and has won in his last two starts. The US Open champion Brooks Koepka has only finished lower than 20th once in his last eight outings. However, Johnson has most in his favour so can record his second win at Sheshan.
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New visions of the countryside of Roman Britain volume 3: life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain
Smith, A., Allen, M., Brindle, T., Fulford, M., Lodwick, L. and Rohnbogner, A. (2018) New visions of the countryside of Roman Britain volume 3: life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain. Britannia Monographs Series, 31. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, London, pp437. ISBN 9780907764465
This is the third and final volume of New Visions of the Countryside of Roman Britain (2016-18). Drawing on the mass of new data deriving, in particular, from developer-funded archaeology since 1990, this presents a social archaeology of the rural population of Roman Britain in the context of the regional and chronological framework and the settlement hierarchy as defined in Vol. 1 of New Visions. Themes around the question of identity are addressed. They include dress and personal display, lifestyle and the domestic environment (eg variation in the built environment, eating and drinking, recreation and literacy), the relationship betweeen people and animals, both domesticated and wild, religion (eg sacred space, associated material culture, animal and plant remains), burial practice and the people themselves as revealed through osteological analysis (eg diet and the impact of daily stressors).
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From Roman England to Roman Britain: rural settlement, society and economy
Funded by: Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2014-227 - £216,935)
Local Lead (PI): Michael Fulford
1 January 2015 - 28 February 2017
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What Is A Film Adaptation
I always believe that the book is better than it’s film adaptation in so many reasons. Many parents want their children to read the book before watching the film adaptation. This is because if you read the book, you have an image in your head of what the character looks like, what their voices sound like, and what the scene looks like, and usually it is pretty good. But when you watch the film, all those appearances gets altered.
When you watch a movie, you begin imagining that the characters in the book in fact look like the actors that are in the film adaptation. The film creators use famous people to act out the characters in the book. For example, in the book Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Percy is expected to “look” like a 12 year old who doesn’t know what he is doing and would lose any brawl he got into. But in the film adaptation, Percy looks sort of athletic, and is 16 years old. So when you the reading a book, you see him as a sort of weakling, but when you see the movie, the whole visualization you already have gets shattered.
One other thing is when you read a novel, there may be parts of the book that you really like that you would like at see on the TV screen. But then, when the film adaptation finally comes out, the part you like isn’t even filmed!
Writing a book or a novel is a lot less complicated than making a movie. With a book you can describe places that come out of your creativity, which could never become “reality” no matter how hard Hollywood tries.
On the other hand the film adaptation can also be better than a book. With a movie, you don’t have to read anything, you can watch a movie while doing homework if you wanted to. But with a book, the only thing you can do is read, you can’t read a book and do homework at the same time, that’s impossible. I’m not saying that I wouldn’t read a book just because I had to actually read it, but when you’re reading a book, all you can do is read the book.
But, with a book, you can carry it anyplace you prefer, and stop any time you prefer and subsequently, just start reading specifically where you stopped. But with a movie or the film adaptation , you have to watch it at home, and you have to keep in mind when you stopped in order to start again.
One thing that I don’t like about films is that people only make motion pictures around 2-3 hours long because they are afraid that people won’t enjoy it if it’s too prolonged, which means they have to cut a lot of parts out and then put some more parts in to let it make sense. But with a book, it can be as long as the author wants it to be, as long as it all makes sense. I’ve seen people who read books that are over 600 pages long and not mind a bit, but when a 3 hour movies comes, they just can’t concentrate that long.
These are all the major differences between a book and its film adaptation and most of them are in favor of the book. Therefore books are better than the motion picture.
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Taylor Gets Teachers’ Top Job
Jo Taylor is president and CEO of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers’), effective January 1, 2020. Currently executive managing director, global development, he will succeed Ron Mock who is retiring on December 31, 2019 after almost two decades at Ontario Teachers’. Taylor joined Ontario Teachers’ in 2012, leading Europe, Middle East ,and Africa (EMEA) operations and subsequently assuming additional responsibility for operations in Asia-Pacific, before being appointed to his present role in August 2018. He currently oversees the investment teams operating in Ontario Teachers’ international offices; setting strategy, reviewing investment proposals, managing key relationships, and optimizing the allocation of resources.
Population Ages Faster In Cities
Population aging is taking place throughout the Americas, with the elderly expected to grow faster than the overall population between 2018 and 2025, says a report from Global Data. It says Canada already has more elderly people in its cities than it does children. In the U.S., this is expected to happen over the next 20 years. By 2025, it projects that 141 cities in Canada and the U.S. will have old age dependency ratios (the ratio of elderly to working-age people) of over 30 per cent. While rising life expectancy and declining birth rates have signalled population aging in North America for some time, the report notes that aging is also happening at a faster rate in cities in South and Central America. For instance, the firm reports that the elderly population in South and Central America is expected to grow by 33.5 per cent between 2018 and 2025, compared to 14.9 per cent in North America. The growth rate differential is attributed primarily to increases in life expectancy in South and Central America, which has risen by 22 years over the last 50 years. Low birth rates and an increasing old age population will affect social insurance, public pension, and healthcare systems thereby impairing the existing social support system and ultimately leading to long-term fiscal gap, it says. Grappling with these issues requires reforms to public pension and healthcare systems, along with policies to promote greater workforce participation by women and the elderly.
Virtual Healthcare Offers Advantages
With average smartphone screen time increasing by 60 per cent over the past three years and 72 per cent of smartphone users currently monitoring their health through their phones, it’s not surprising that most Canadian employees want access to virtual care services to supplement in-person visits with their doctors, says Medisys Health Group’s ‘2019 Virtual Healthcare Industry Report.’ Responsible companies already provide health benefits to protect the bottom line. Each year, health-related employee absenteeism equates to an estimated $16-billion or more in direct lost revenue to Canadian employers. With people taking two to six days off per year for physician-related visits (double that figure for Canadians with kids) and each five-minute visit taking approximately two hours of time from the workplace, the financial benefits of virtual healthcare equate to thousands of dollars in savings per employee annually, thanks largely to reduced absenteeism. Ultimately, while companies are investing significant resources into providing health benefits to their workforces, there’s a major gap between what’s being offered and what employees want and need. This disparity is resulting in “companies incur(ring) millions of dollars of hidden costs due to employee turnover, loss of institutional knowledge, and temporary hiring, in addition to substantial productivity costs such as absenteeism and presenteeism,” says a Harvard Business School report. Effective virtual care has the power to remove ongoing access barriers to traditional care, reduce economic strain on the public system, dramatically improve treatment for those suffering from mental health challenges, protect the bottom line for employers, and empower Canadians to become more engaged in their health, says the Medisys report.
Europe Sees Record Alternatives Activity
Although the macroeconomic picture for Europe has been muted in the past 24 months, the alternatives industry in the region is moving from strength to strength, says Preqin’s second annual ‘Alternatives in Europe’ report in partnership with Amundi. The report finds that 2018 has seen record activity across most alternative asset classes and Europe-based alternative asset fund managers held €1.62 trillion in assets under management (AUM) as of the end of June 2018 – up almost €300 billion in just three years. The opportunities present in Europe are apparent to investors globally. Almost half of the institutions with a preference for the region are now based in North America, with significant proportions coming from the Middle East and Asia. Hedge funds remain the largest part of the European alternatives market (€608 billion), but AUM in that industry has declined in the past 12 months, leaving private equity poised to overtake as the largest asset class in the region (€559 billion).
TTC Pension Fund Adds Managers
Helen Pham (CFA) is manager, private markets, and Chris Pinto (CFA) is manager, public market investments, at the TTC Pension Fund Society. Both hires are new positions. Pham was most recently a senior investment analyst, private markets, at Ontario Power Generation (OPG). She will be responsible for infrastructure, real estate, private equity, and private credit. She has nine years investment experience from her roles at Hydro One and Mercer. Pinto will be primarily responsible for overseeing the fund’s public equities, fixed income, and hedge funds. He was most recently at Aon Hewitt Investment Management and served as lead portfolio manager for its Canadian OCIO business. He has over 20 years’ experience gained from roles at Aon, Northern Trust, and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
Employers Realizing Mental Health Risks
Canadian employers are increasingly realizing the rising individual and business risks presented by mental health issues and most are offering paramedical psychology benefits and other programs that support workplace mental health, says a survey by Aon. “While fewer than half of the employers we talked to identified mental health as a serious business risk now, a much larger proportion foresee it developing into one over the next five years,” says Kim Siddall, vice-president, health solutions, Aon. “They are already taking steps to address that developing risk. For instance, many are now isolating psychology benefit maximums from other paramedical ceilings and are covering a broader range of practitioner types, including family therapists, social workers, and clinical counsellors.” Fewer than half of employers (43 per cent) identify mental health as a “serious” business risk now, but 61 per cent anticipate it will be one in five years. A high proportion (73 per cent) of employers provide psychology maximums on a stand-alone basis, rather than lumped in under the maximum for other paramedical benefits. Arguably, that strategy demonstrates a growing recognition of mental health risk and a strengthening commitment to addressing it. The most common paramedical psychology maximum offered is in the $500 to $1,000 range. However, among financial services and tech firms, the trend is higher, with typical maximums falling with a range of $1,000 to $5,000. The top non-benefits-related supports for workplace mental health among surveyed employers are employee assistance programs (EAPs), physical health promotion, personal finance or debt counselling, addiction counselling, and self-help sessions on topics like stress or time management. Among the emerging areas of interest for mental health supports, a majority of employers identified virtual health services, tech-based behaviour awareness tools, and peer support networks (in-person and online) as considerations for the future.
NDP Member Wants Divestment Explanation
A New Democratic Party member of federal parliament is urging the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) to explain its recent divestment from two private prison companies involved in the incarceration of migrant families in the U.S. While initially CPPIB defended its decision to purchase stock in private-prison operating companies CoreCivic and GEO Group, it appears to have divested itself of the holdings. CPPIB Securities and Exchange Commission filings from May no longer list CoreCivic and GEO Group among the pension plan’s investments. Charlie Angus, the MP, wants to know whether the divestment was a “deliberate decision, or an automatic function of the passive investment program” at CPPIB. Public pension funds in the U.S. have also divested from CoreCivic and GEO Group, which have fallen under investor scrutiny as of late.
ETF Investment Flat
Canadian ETF investment was flat in June, with strong flows into actively managed fixed income products, says a report from National Bank. Outflows last month totaled $133 million, driven by $1.45 billion in redemptions from Canadian equity funds. Fixed income ETFs drew $885 million, bringing total inflows this year for the asset class to $6 billion. Investors moved money into low-cost aggregate bond funds as well as actively managed global fixed income funds with higher fees, the report says, reflecting a “fearful sentiment” in the equity market. On the equity side, low volatility and low-cost benchmark products were in demand. “Canadian ETF investors still seem rather defensively positioned, with low-volatility and income-themed equity ETFs winning the popularity contest in June, despite the fact that strong market action worked more favourably for plain cap-weighted indices,” the report says. The report noted the defensive theme for the year with fixed income ETF flows double those of equity in the first half. Within equities, low-volatility products and those focused on real estate, healthcare, and utilities gained from January to June, while financial sector ETFs bled.
Climate Bond Index Launched
FTSE Russell is launching an index that incorporates climate change considerations into its government bond index. The FTSE Climate Risk-Adjusted World Government Bond Index is based on FTSE’s existing global government bond index that includes investment-grade sovereign bonds from 22 developed economies. It weights each country based on its preparedness for and resilience to climate change risk. Index components are weighted by climate risk scores based on modelling developed by environmental analytics firm Beyond Ratings.
BCI Invests In Valence
ATL Partners and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) have acquired Valence Surface Technologies LLC, an independent aerospace surface finishing platform in North America. Existing management also invested in the company. Founded in 2013 and based in Houston, TX, the company provides surface treatments such as non-destructive testing, shot peening, chemical processing, plating, painting, and spray coating to aerospace and defense components that require complex finishing to meet engineering specifications. It currently operates eight facilities throughout the U.S. in key aerospace and defense manufacturing regions, serving over 3,000 customers and processing over 12 million individual parts annually.
Flegg Joins T. Rowe
Jonathan Flegg (CFA) is vice-president of institutional sales at T. Rowe Price (Canada) Inc. Based in Toronto, ON, he will provide investment solutions and sales support to defined contribution consultants, brokers, and clients. Most recently, he was with CI Investments where he served as associate vice-president of asset management.
Proposal Makes MEPs Easier
The IRS is seeking comments on a proposal that would make it easier for unrelated employers to participate in multiple employer defined contribution plans (MEPs). The proposal addresses what many consider the biggest barrier to employers joining MEPs, the risk that one employer’s non-compliance could disqualify all members. The IRS is proposing an exception to its unified plan rule, more commonly referred to as the ‘one bad apple rule’ that would allow other employers in the MEP to claim the exemption if certain conditions are met, such as the disqualifying employer being unable or unwilling to correct the problem or to provide information. The compliant employers would have to take actions to separate the assets and accounts of the disqualifying employer, under the proposed rule.
Key Themes Outlined
Global trade tensions, private infrastructure investing, ESG investing and climate change, the credit cycle and its implications for global fixed income, select growth in emerging market equities, and liability-driven investing are key themes in Manulife Investment Management’s biannual ‘Global Intelligence’ report. “The global economy and markets continue to experience volatility and trend toward risk aversion. Despite the uncertainty and a short supply of broad-based growth, we see durable public markets opportunities in the second half of the year including global equities and emerging markets debt,” says Christopher Conkey, head of public markets at Manulife Investment Management. “At the same time, we believe investors should consider the potential benefit of longer-term investment disciplines such as liability-driven and sustainable investment strategies to ensure they are positioned in a way that may benefit their portfolios through market cycles.” Frances Donald, chief economist and head of macroeconomic strategy, says for the global economic outlook, “the fog of uncertainty has thickened.” She sees continued uncertainty as global trade tensions rise. With the escalation of a U.S. ‒ China trade war, she describes why market volatility will be front and center over the next 12 months, leading to a murky investment outlook in the short term. Emily Chew, global head of environmental, social, and governance research and integration, discusses how corporate entities, investors, and governments engage in sustainable investing as both an art and a science that should be anchored by deep climate analysis and quantifiable portfolio resilience. Daniel Janis, senior portfolio manager, says there is still room left for expansion in the credit cycle despite volatility as the risks to the corporate bond markets are mostly geopolitical in nature rather than fundamental or macroeconomic.
Real Estate Capital Falls
Real estate capital raised by global funds fell to a five-year low to $29 billion at the end of the second quarter, from $46 billion in the first quarter and $38 billion in the second quarter of 2018, says data from Preqin. Funds focused on somewhat riskier strategies raised the most capital, with opportunistic funds gathering $10 billion in the second quarter and value-added funds raising $9 billion. Slightly more than half, 52 per cent, of real estate investors surveyed by Preqin indicated they are planning to make a single new real estate fund commitment in the next 12 months, up from 37 per cent in the second quarter of 2018. However, investors plan to commit less capital, with 54 per cent planning to commit less than $50 million, an increase from 45 per cent in the year-earlier quarter of 2018.
Public Sector Challenges Tackled
The Canadian Public Sector Pensions and Benefits Conference tackles the unique challenges encountered by the public sector. It will feature solutions to ensure the viability of pension and health and welfare funds. It takes place September 18 to19 in Whistler, BC. For information, visit Public Sector Challenges
Data Science Shows Promise
There’s a lot of promise in the use of data science in the investment management industry and some early successes, says Andrew Chin, chief risk officer and head of quantitative research at AB. He says they are confident that the human-plus-machine model can work and ultimately be more effective than either on its own. Most firms ‒ except for some quantitative shops ‒ are integrating the two. However, the investment management industry has to overcome hurdles to endure the coming shakeout period and survive to advance data science. Humans must be more open to machine learning and AI. Even skeptics would likely admit that these techniques are a good starting point to helping find better stocks or bonds. While there’s a long way to go before the industry truly embraces data science, “One thing is for sure: we certainly can’t ignore it altogether,” he says.
Pension Product Benefits Asset Managers
Asset managers stand to benefit from the European commission’s proposal for a new pension product to complement public and occupational pensions, but size could be a key factor in determining where this new business goes, says Cerulli Associates. The pan-European personal pension product (PEPP) is a voluntary scheme designed to ensure adequate consumer protection while also being flexible. The PEPP regulation establishes the legal foundation for a pan-European personal pension market by ensuring standardization of core product features such as transparency requirements, investment rules, switching rights, and types of investment options. A Cerulli survey of European asset managers found that only 5.9 per cent of respondents do not believe the PEPP offers growth opportunities. When incentives are taken into account, estimates suggest that the PEPP could account for one-third of personal pension product assets under management in the EU by 2030 and that the overall market could be worth three times the €700 billion (US$788 billion) it was valued at in 2017. Passive funds are likely to be at the core of the PEPP due to the cost advantages, with active strategies and alternatives being used to add alpha or create different style tilts.
Alternative Assets Grow
Alternative assets under administration as of December 31, 2018, totaled $10 trillion, up 18.8 per cent from the prior year, says survey from eVestment. Among different asset classes, which included private equity, hedge fund, real assets, fund of funds, and liquid alternatives, the hedge fund-of-funds segment had a particular resurgence. While hedge fund assets under administration (AUA) totaled $4.468 trillion compared with total hedge fund-of-funds assets under administration of $934 billion, median participant grew 10.99 per cent for the year ended December 31, 2019, compared with median hedge fund AUA growth of 4.13 per cent. Real assets AUA totaled $1.4 trillion with the median firm reporting growth of 20.64 per cent from the year before. Private equity and debt assets under administration totaled $3.07 trillion with the median firm reporting growth of 11.35 per cent year-over-year.
CPPIB Sells Student Housing
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) will sell its wholly owned student accommodation business Liberty Living to the Unite Group plc (Unite Students), a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange. CPPIB will retain a 20 per cent shareholding in the combined group. On completion, the combined group will manage a total of over 73,000 beds across 173 properties in 27 UK towns and cities.
Pair To Develop Business
Brad Moore and Gary Grondahl are directors of business development for Western Canada at ClaimsPro. They will focus on growing its business and finding opportunities to further support clients using its broad range of claims adjusting and loss services, specialty risk, and niche products. Moore joined the firm as an adjuster in 2016 while Grondahl has 25 years of business development experience.
Food And Chronic Disease Linkages Discussed
‘No Plan Is An Island’ is the theme of the ‘2019 CPBI Atlantic Regional Conference.’ Sessions will include ‘Cut the Crap: Creating Nutritional Consciousness in the Workplace’ with Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, author of the ‘Diet Fix,’ who will explore the linkages of food with chronic disease; chronic pain, and mental health. Blair Richards, of the Halifax Port ILA/HEA, will examine the missing link between contribution levels and the benefits those contributions are expected to provide ‒ an element that isn’t often measured in terms of the adequacy of retirement income, particularly within defined contribution plan models. ‘The Psychology of Investing’ will be the focus of a talk by Darin Eddy, of the HRM Pension Plan. He will provide insight into the psychology and drivers behind making investment decisions. It takes place October 2 to 4 in Charlottetown, PE. For information, visit CPBI Atlantic
Employers Take Steps To Support Mental Health
Employers in Canada have begun to take encouraging steps to support mental health in the workplace and will see the greatest gains with a strategy in place that addresses all stages of the mental health continuum, says Dr. Karen MacNeill, a psychologist at Copeman Healthcare. In a Telus ‘Health Benefits Hub,’ she says the “end” stage of the mental health continuum often comes to mind first when considering the impact of mental illness in the workplace, given the fact that the condition is a leading cause of short- and long-term disability claims. Moreover, both the cost and duration of disability leaves due to mental illness are generally highest. Yet it’s equally important to keep in mind that 49 per cent of depressed or anxious individuals have not sought medical care and up to two-thirds are not getting proper treatment, despite the availability of employee assistance programs in the majority of workplaces. The biggest barriers to treatment are stigma, lack of time, and long waiting lists for counselling or therapy. These individuals continue to work, at least initially, to the point that the costs of presenteeism are estimated to be three times the costs of absenteeism. During episodes of depression or anxiety, productivity can fall by more than 50 per cent per day. She says that resilience training, mindfulness, and internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy have stood the test of clinical research studies and should be considered evidence-based, proven methods to support mental health.
Coalition Demands Improved Job Quality
A coalition of institutional investors with combined assets of more than $14 trillion is renewing its demand for companies across the world to come forward with better data on their staff and supply chain workers, with the aim improving the quality of jobs globally. Investor signatories to the Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI), co-ordinated by ShareAction, are asking 750 major international companies to disclose more standardized data on topics including health and safety, workers’ rights, diversity, and wage levels. Many of the world’s largest listed firms, including MasterCard, Nestlé, BHP, Toyota, HSBC, Adidas, and AT&T, have already made disclosures. Disclosers to the WDI in 2018 employ over eight million people, with millions more working in their supply chains. Many investors have drawn on WDI data to inform their company engagement, while some have started to incorporate data into stock analysis. Companies approached this year include Samsung, Walmart, Novartis, Rio Tinto, Coca Cola, Royal Bank of Canada, BP, and Siemens. Companies are selected based on their market capitalization, significance within their sector, and size of their workforce. The WDI was launched in 2017 in response to investor concerns that the quality of data from companies about workforce management is poor and inconsistent. Increasingly, investors and companies recognize the business benefits of good workforce management.
Fiera Completes Acquisitions
Fiera Capital Corporation has completed its acquisition of all the issued and outstanding shares of Natixis Investment Managers Canada Corp. and its previously announced acquisition of Integrated Asset Management Corp. Natixis LP is based in Toronto, ON, and the value of the assets of its funds amount to approximately C$1.8 billion as at March 31, 2019. Natixis LP will continue to operate as a distinct legal entity from Fiera Capital. Natixis Corp, Natixis LP, and the Natixis Funds will be rebranded as Fiera Investments in conjunction with the closing. Fiera Capital acquired all of the outstanding common shares of Integrated.
Navacord Acquires Benefits Consulting
Navacord Corp. acquired Edmonton, AB-based Benefits Consulting Inc., (BCI), effective July 1. Founded in 1975, BCI was one of the first benefit brokerages in Alberta and will be the dedicated benefits and retirement consulting division of Lloyd Sadd Insurance Brokers, a founding Navacord broker partner. Founded in 2014, Navacord is actively seeking to continue expansion of its group benefits and retirement consulting solution across Canada.
Global Debt Issuance Holds Up
Global debt issuance held up in the first half, but global equity market activity dropped, says data from Refinitiv. Equity issuance fell to a three-year low in the first half, with new issue activity totalling $307.1 billion. This represented a 25 per cent decline from the same period a year ago. The volume of deals was also down 23 per cent year over year. Deal volume jumped by 39 per cent quarter over quarter and the second quarter finished as the strongest quarter in the past 12 months. On the debt side, global issuance held up much better. Global debt activity totalled $3.9 trillion during the first half, up by two per cent compared to the first half of 2018. The green bond market was particularly strong in the first half, jumping by 25 per cent from the first half of 2018 to $85.5 billion.
CDPQ Invests In AlayaCare
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Inovia Capital, and Investissement have invested in AlayaCare. It helps home and community care agencies manage all aspects of their business and operations using a single cloud-based SaaS platform. Through this platform, it improves the patient experience by facilitating client-directed care planning and by offering tools such as real-time remote monitoring; improving the caregiver experience through mobile tools that mean better preparedness for home visits and efficiency of task-management; and lower costs for organizations by streamlining billing and communications and limiting the need for expensive IT infrastructure.
Understanding Links Examined
Cynthia Hasting-James and Susanne Cookson, from Best Life Rewarded, will speak on ‘Understanding the Links between Financial, Physical and Mental Well-Being. Catch-22 or Panacea?’ at CPBI Ontario’s ‘Links & Learn Golf Tournament.’ As program administrators, advisors, and consultants get unprecedented access to data, they will discuss the many ‘opportunities’ to mine customer trends and leverage machine learning, artificial intelligence, robo-advisors, chatbots, block chains, and social media results. It takes place July 25 in Burlington, ON. For information, visit Link & Learn
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The Brazos River Authority was the first agency in the country to be tasked with managing the water resources of an entire river basin. The BRA currently holds water rights issued by the State of Texas for a System of reservoirs, a 30 percent share in a proposed reservoir, and its System Operation Permit. Collectively, these rights authorize the BRA to supply approximately one million acre-feet of water from the Brazos River basin annually for municipal, industrial, agricultural and mining purposes.
BRA’s water supply reservoirs, Possum Kingdom Lake, Lake Granbury and Lake Limestone were constructed and are owned and operated by the Brazos River Authority. A fourth reservoir, Allens Creek, is a permitted water storage lake planned for construction in the lower portion of the Brazos basin.
The eight US Army Corps of Engineers reservoirs were built for both flood control and water supply. The BRA leases water supply storage space from the federal government in Lakes Proctor, Whitney, Aquilla, Belton, Stillhouse Hollow, Georgetown, Granger, and Somerville.
The BRA operates two pipeline systems to transport water from reservoir storage to areas where it is needed. The Williamson County Regional Raw Water Line links Lake Stillhouse Hollow in Bell County and Lake Georgetown in Williamson County. The East Williamson County Water Transmission Line moves water supply from Lake Granger to a potable water treatment plant.
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UNEP/POPS/COP.6/1 Provisional agenda
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1. Opening of the meeting.
2. Adoption of the agenda.
2. Organizational matters:
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/1/Add.1 Annotations to the provisional agenda
Opening of the meeting
1. The sixth ordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants will be held at the Geneva International Conference Centre, 17 rue de Varembé, Geneva, from 28 April to 10 May 2013, in conjunction with the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade and the second simultaneous extraordinary meetings of the conferences of the parties to the three conventions. The meetings will be opened at 10 a.m. on Sunday, 28 April 2013 by the three presidents of the conferences of the parties.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/2 Election of officers
Note by the Secretariat
1. The present note contains information pertaining to the election of officers by the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants at its sixth meeting. In addition to the election of the officers of the Conference of the Parties, the meeting is also expected to elect the Chair of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (see UNEP/POPS/COP.6/16).
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/3 Rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties
1. At its first meeting, by decision SC-1/1, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants adopted its rules of procedure, as contained in the annex to that decision, with the exception of the second sentence of paragraph 1 of rule 45, which it agreed to maintain in square brackets to indicate that it had not been agreed and was of no effect.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/4 Evaluation of the continued need for DDT for disease vector control and promotion of alternatives to DDT
1. Paragraph 6 of part II of Annex B to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants states that, commencing at its first meeting and at least every three years thereafter, the Conference of the Parties shall, in consultation with the World Health Organization (WHO), evaluate the continued need for DDT for disease vector control on the basis of available scientific, technical, environmental and economic information.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/5 Register of specific exemptions and register of acceptable purposes
I. Introduction
1. In accordance with the provisions of the Stockholm Convention, the Secretariat maintains the following on the Convention website:
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/6 Process for the evaluation of progress parties have made towards eliminating brominated diphenyl ethers contained in articles and the review of the continued need for specific exemptions for those chemicals
1. Pursuant to paragraph 2 of Parts IV and V of Annex A to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, at its sixth ordinary meeting and at every second meeting thereafter the Conference of the Parties shall evaluate the progress that parties have made towards achieving their ultimate objective of eliminating hexabromodiphenyl ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether and tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether contained in articles and review the continued need for the specific exemption for those chemicals.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/7 Process for the evaluation of the continued need for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride for the various acceptable purposes and specific exemptions
1. Paragraph 5 of part III of Annex B to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants provides that the Conference of the Parties is to evaluate the continued need for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride (PFOSF) for the various acceptable purposes and specific exemptions on the basis of available scientific, technical, environmental and economic information, including:
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/8 Evaluation of the continued need for the procedure under paragraph 2 (b) of Article 3
1. Paragraph 7 of Article 19 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants states that the Conference of the Parties is to, at its third meeting, evaluate the continued need for the procedure contained in paragraph 2 (b) of Article 3, including consideration of its effectiveness.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/9 Polychlorinated biphenyls
A. Polychlorinated biphenyls elimination network
1. By paragraph 5 of decision SC-5/7, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants requested the Secretariat to facilitate a transition of the leadership of the polychlorinated biphenyls elimination network, in a sustainable manner, from the Secretariat to one or more United Nations agencies whose mandate was better suited to implement the network, and to report to the Conference of the Parties at its sixth meeting on the progress of the transition.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/10 Work programme on brominated diphenyl ethers and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride
1. Having amended the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants by decisions SC 4/10 to SC-4/18 to list nine new chemicals in Annexes A, B and C to the Convention, the Conference of the Parties decided, by its decision SC-4/19, to undertake a work programme to provide guidance to parties on how best to restrict and eliminate brominated diphenyl ethers, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), its salts, and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride (PFOSF) and the other newly listed chemicals. In the same decision, the Conference of the Parties requested the Persistent Organic Pollutants Committee to develop recommendations on the elimination of brominated diphenyl ethers from the waste stream and on risk reduction for PFOS, its salts and PFOSF.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/11 Work programme on endosulfan
1. Having amended the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants by decision SC 5/3 to list technical endosulfan and its related isomers in Annex A to the Convention, the Conference of the Parties decided, by its decision SC-5/4, to undertake a work programme to support the development and deployment of alternatives to endosulfan, as set out in the annex to that decision.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/12 Guidelines on best available techniques and provisional guidance on best environmental practices
1. In its decision SC-5/12 on guidelines on best available techniques and provisional guidance on best environmental practices, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, among other things:
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/13 Review and updating of the Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases
1. At its second, third, fourth and fifth meetings, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants adopted decisions SC-2/5, SC-3/6, SC-4/7 and SC-5/13, respectively, enabling the implementation of a process for the review and updating of the Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/14 Measures to reduce or eliminate releases from wastes
1. In paragraph 2 of its decision SC-5/9 on measures to reduce or eliminate releases from wastes, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants invited the appropriate bodies of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal to work on specific issues to reduce or eliminate releases from wastes of chemicals newly listed in Annexes A, B and C to the Stockholm Convention. In particular, they were invited:
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/15 Implementation plans under Article 7 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
I. Transmission of national implementation plans
1. At its fourth meeting, held from 4 to 8 May 2009, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants adopted amendments to Annexes A, B and C to the Stockholm Convention to list nine new persistent organic pollutants. The above-mentioned amendments entered into force on 26 August 2010 for all parties, except those that had submitted a notification of non acceptance in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 (b) of Article 22, or that had made a declaration in accordance with paragraph 4 of Article 25, in which case such amendments enter into force on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit of those parties’ instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession with regard to such amendments.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/16 Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee: developments for action by the Conference of the Parties
1. The Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee held its seventh and eighth meetings in Geneva from 10 to 14 October 2011 and from 15 to 19 October 2012, respectively. The reports on those meetings are available as documents UNEP/POPS/POPRC.7/19 and UNEP/POPS/POPRC.8/16, respectively.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/17 Recommendation by the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to list hexabromocyclododecane in Annex A to the Stockholm Convention and draft text of the proposed amendment
1. At its sixth meeting, in its decision POPRC-6/9, the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee adopted a risk profile for hexabromocyclododecane and concluded that hexabromocyclododecane was likely, as a result of its long-range environmental transport, to lead to significant adverse human health and environmental effects such that global action was warranted.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/18 Technical assistance and capacity-building for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
I. Guidance on technical assistance
1. Paragraph 3 of Article 12 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants states: “Technical assistance to be provided by developed country Parties, and other Parties in accordance with their capabilities, shall include, as appropriate and as mutually agreed, technical assistance for capacity-building relating to implementation of the obligations under this Convention. Further guidance in this regard shall be provided by the Conference of the Parties.”
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/19 Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres for capacity-building and the transfer of technology
1. At its fourth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, by its decision SC-4/23, among other things, endorsed the eight nominated Stockholm Convention centres listed in annex I to that decision as Stockholm Convention regional or subregional centres for capacity-building and transfer of technology for a period of four years. It also decided to evaluate, in accordance with the criteria set out in annex II to decision SC 2/9, their performance and sustainability and to reconsider pursuant to decision SC-3/12 their status as regional or subregional centres under the Stockholm Convention at the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/19/Add.1 Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres for capacity-building and the transfer of technology: Methodology for evaluating the performance and sustainability of the Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres for capacity building and transfer of technology based on the criteria set out in annex II to decision SC-2/9
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/19 on Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres for capacity-building and the transfer of technology, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, in decision SC-5/21, requested the Secretariat to develop a methodology for evaluating the regional centres based on the criteria set out in annex II to decision SC-2/9, which should include a quantitative analysis to be used in the evaluation of the performance and sustainability of each centre to be undertaken every four years.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/20 Needs assessment
1. In decision SC-1/9, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants adopted the guidance to the financial mechanism. The annex to the decision provides that, in accordance with paragraphs 6 and 7 (d) of Article 13 of the Stockholm Convention, the Conference of the Parties will regularly provide the entity or entities entrusted with the operations of the financial mechanism assessments of the funding needed to ensure effective implementation of the Convention.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/21 Report on the effectiveness of the implementation of the memorandum of understanding between the Conference of the Parties and the Council of the Global Environment Facility
1. Paragraph 6 of Article 13 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants defines a mechanism for the provision of adequate and sustainable financial resources to developing country parties and parties with economies in transition on a grant or concessional basis to assist in their implementation of the Convention. The financial mechanism is to function under the authority, as appropriate, and guidance of, and be accountable to, the Conference of the Parties for the purposes of the Convention.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/22 Report of the Global Environment Facility to the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants at its sixth meeting
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/21, the executive summary of the report of the Global Environment Facility to the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants at its sixth meeting is set out in the annex to the present note. The executive summary has been reproduced without formal editing.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/23 Third review of the financial mechanism
1. Pursuant to paragraph 8 of Article 13 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Conference of the Parties shall review the effectiveness of the mechanism established under Article 13 in supporting the implementation of the Convention, with a view to taking appropriate action, if necessary, to improve the effectiveness of the mechanism, including by means of recommendations and guidance to ensure adequate and sustainable funding to meet the needs of the parties.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/24 Consolidated guidance to the financial mechanism
1. Paragraph 7 of Article 13 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants states that the Conference of the Parties shall at its first meeting adopt appropriate guidance to be provided to the mechanism and shall agree with the entity or entities participating in the financial mechanism upon arrangements to give effect thereto.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/25 Facilitating work with regard to financial resources and mechanisms
1. Paragraph 6 of Article 13 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants defines a mechanism for the provision of adequate and sustainable financial resources to developing country parties and parties with economies in transition, on a grant or concessional basis, to assist in their implementation of the Convention. The financial mechanism functions under the authority, as appropriate, and guidance of the Conference of the Parties and is accountable to the Conference for the purposes of the Convention.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/26 Reporting pursuant to Article 15 of the Stockholm Convention
1. By paragraph 6 (b) of its decision SC-5/16 on reporting, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention requested the Secretariat to update the reporting format to include the nine chemicals listed in Annexes A, B and C to the Convention in 2009, for consideration at its sixth meeting.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/26/Add.1/Rev.1 Reporting pursuant to Article 15 of the Stockholm Convention: Revised format for national reporting under Article 15
As discussed in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/26, in accordance with decision SC-5/16 the Secretariat has updated the format used by parties in reporting pursuant to Article 15 of the Stockholm Convention to take into account the 10 chemicals newly listed in Annexes A, B and C to the Convention in 2009 and 2011. The updated reporting format is set out in the annex to the present note.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/27 Effectiveness evaluation
1. By its decision SC-5/17, on effectiveness evaluation, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention took note of the proposed framework for effectiveness evaluation prepared by the ad hoc working group on effectiveness evaluation in accordance with decision SC-4/32. It also invited parties and others to submit comments on the proposed framework and requested the Secretariat to compile the comments received in the form of an information document and to integrate them into the proposed framework for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its sixth meeting.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/27/Add.1 Effectiveness evaluation: Proposed framework for effectiveness evaluation revised according to the comments submitted by parties in follow up to paragraph 4 of decision SC -5/17
1. As discussed in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/27, the annex to the present note sets out, for the consideration of the Conference of the Parties, the proposed framework for effectiveness evaluation revised by the Secretariat to take into account the comments submitted by parties in accordance with decision SC-5/17.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/27/Add.1/Rev.1 Effectiveness evaluation: Framework for the effectiveness evaluation of the Stockholm Convention pursuant to Article 16
The annex to the present note contains the framework for effectiveness evaluation pursuant to Article 16 adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention at its sixth meeting in decision SC-6/22. It is presented as adopted, without formal editing.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/28 Global monitoring plan for effectiveness evaluation
1. By its decision SC-5/18, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, among other things:
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/29 Procedures and institutional mechanisms for determining non compliance with the provisions of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and for the treatment of parties found to be in non compliance
1. Article 17 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants provides for the development and approval of procedures and institutional mechanisms for determining non compliance with the provisions of the Convention and for the treatment of parties found to be in non-compliance.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/30 Official communications
1. Communication with and between the parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants on matters relating to the Convention is accomplished through:
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/31 Admission of observers
1. Paragraph 8 of Article 19 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants provides the following:
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/32 Draft memorandum of understanding between the United Nations Environment Programme and the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
1. At its meeting held on 10 and 11 May 2012, the Bureau of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants agreed that it would initiate the development of a memorandum of understanding between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention to better formalize their relationship. The Bureau decided to send a letter to the Executive Director of UNEP to request the development of a memorandum of understanding between the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention and UNEP concerning secretariat functions for the Stockholm Convention. The Executive Director of UNEP agreed to initiate the preparation of such a memorandum of understanding and suggested that the memorandum of understanding between the Standing Committee of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and the Executive Director of UNEP concerning secretariat services for and support to the Convention could be used as a starting point.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/33 Report of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants on the work of its sixth meeting
1. The sixth ordinary meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants was held at the Geneva International Conference Centre from 28 April to 10 May 2013.
Information Documents
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/1 Provisional list of meeting documents organized by provisional agenda item and by document symbol
Annexes I and II to the present note set out provisional lists of meeting documents for the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention. The documents listed in annex I are grouped according to the items on the provisional agenda for the meeting to which they pertain. Those listed in annex II are organized by document symbol.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/2 DDT expert group and its report on the assessment of scientific, technical, environmental and economic information on production and use of DDT for disease vector control
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/4 on the evaluation of the continued need for DDT for disease vector control and promotion of alternatives to DDT, the DDT expert group assessed the information on production and use of DDT and prepared a report for the consideration of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants at its sixth meeting.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/3 Report by the United Nations Environment Programme on activities undertaken in relation to the Global Alliance for the Development and Deployment of Alternatives to DDT for Disease Vector Control
As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/4 on the evaluation of the continued need for DDT for disease vector control and promotion of alternatives to DDT, annex I to the present note contains a report by the United Nations Environment Programme on progress in the implementation of the Global Alliance for Alternatives to DDT. The report of the first meeting of the Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for Alternatives to DDT, which took place in Nairobi, on 27 and 28 August 2012, is set out in annex II to the present note. The annexes have not been formally edited.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/4/Rev.1 Report on a study of health sector information sources on the availability of lindane as a pharmaceutical and its alternatives as a treatment for head lice and scabies
As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/5 on the register of specific exemptions and the register of acceptable purposes, the annex to the present note sets out the report of a study, undertaken by the Secretariat, in cooperation with the World Health Organization, of health sector information sources on the availability of lindane as a pharmaceutical and its alternatives as a treatment for head lice and scabies. The annex has not been formally edited.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/5 Report by the United Nations Environment Programme on activities undertaken in relation to the Polychlorinated Biphenyls Elimination Network
As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/9 on polychlorinated biphenyls, annex I to the present note contains a report by the United Nations Environment Programme on progress in the implementation of the Polychlorinated Biphenyls Elimination Network (PEN). The report of the fourth meeting of the PEN Advisory Committee, held in Beijing, on 7 and 8 September 2012, is set out in annex II to the present note. The annexes have not been formally edited.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/6 Programme of work and proposed budget for the biennium 2014−2015: Stockholm Convention proposal, including joint activities
1. At its fifth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants adopted decision SC-5/28 on financing and budget for the biennium 2012–2013, in which, among other things, it:
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/7 Compilation of information submitted by parties on their experience in implementing the recommendations on the elimination of brominated diphenyl ethers from the waste stream and on risk reduction for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride, and for the evaluation and review of brominated diphenyl ethers pursuant to paragraph 2 of parts IV and V of Annex A to the Stockholm Convention
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/10, the Secretariat invited parties to submit information on their experiences in implementing the recommendations set out in the annex to decision POPRC-6/2 on the elimination of brominated diphenyl ethers from the waste stream and on risk reduction for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride, using a format developed for that purpose. As referred to in UNEP/POPS/COP.6/6, and as requested by the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee in its decision POPRC-7/7, this format was also used for collecting information for the evaluation and review of brominated diphenyl ethers pursuant to paragraph 2 of parts IV and V of Annex A to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/8 Updated joint Toolkit and best available techniques and best environmental practices expert roster
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/12, the Secretariat invited parties and others to nominate experts with specific expertise in best available techniques and best environmental practices to the joint Toolkit and best available techniques and best environmental practices expert roster.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/9 Draft evaluation of the performance and sustainability of the Stockholm Convention regional centres endorsed by the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention at its fourth meeting
As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/19, on the Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres for capacity-building and the transfer of technology, a compilation of relevant information related to the evaluation of the eight Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres for capacity-building and the transfer of technology endorsed by the Conference of the Parties at its fourth meeting in 2009 is set out in the annexes to the present note. Annex I contains a summary of the draft assessment of the regional centres to be evaluated by the Conference of the Parties at its sixth meeting. Annex II contains draft assessments for each of the eight centres based on the draft methodology for the evaluation of the performance and sustainability of the Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres set out in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/19/Add.1. The annexes to the present note have not been formally edited.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/10 Information from the World Health Organization on the continued need for DDT for disease vector control
1. Document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/4 on the evaluation of the continued need for DDT for disease vector control and promotion of alternatives to DDT contains information for the consideration of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants at its sixth meeting.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/11 Reports of the sixth and seventh expert meetings to further develop the Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases and of the first meeting of the expert group on best available techniques and best environmental practices
1. As stated in the notes by the Secretariat on the review and updating of the Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases (UNEP/POPS/COP.6/13) and on the guidelines on best available techniques and provisional guidance on best environmental practices (UNEP/POPS/COP.6/12), the reports of the sixth and seventh Toolkit expert meetings and of the first meeting of the expert group on best available techniques and best environmental practices, established by decision SC-5/12, are annexed to the present note.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/12 Implementation plans transmitted to the Conference of the Parties
As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/15 on implementation plans under Article 7 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the annex to the present note contains a table indicating the deadlines by which each party to the Convention is to transmit to the Conference of the Parties its implementation plan pursuant to Article 7 and its revised and updated implementation plan, as well as the dates on which the plans were received by the Secretariat.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/13 Compilation of comments received on the guidance on national implementation plan development and updating
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/15, on implementation plans under Article 7 of the Stockholm Convention, the Conference of the Parties, in decision SC-5/14, took note of the progress made in developing guidance for the review and updating of national implementation plans with information relating to the persistent organic pollutants listed in 2009 and 2011 and requested the Secretariat to identify any additional guidance that might be required to assist parties in their implementation of the Convention. In response to the request, the Secretariat, in collaboration with UNIDO and UNITAR and with the financial support of GEF, developed new guidance documents to assist parties in developing, updating, and reviewing their implementation plans under the Stockholm Convention with information relating to the newly listed persistent organic pollutants. The Secretariat subsequently invited parties to provide comments on the updated existing guidance and the new guidance.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/14 Report on the feasibility of parties, particularly developing country parties, parties with economies in transition and small islands developing States, revising and updating their national implementation plans
As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/15, on implementation plans under Article 7 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the report on the feasibility of parties, particularly developing-country parties, parties with economies in transition and small island developing States, revising and updating their implementation plans with information relating to the newly listed persistent organic pollutants is set out in the annex to the present note. The report is presented without formal editing.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/15 Report on the legal opinion on Article 7 of the Stockholm Convention taking into account decisions SC-1/12 and SC-2/7, in particular when new chemicals are listed in Annexes A, B or C to the Convention
1. In its decision SC-5/14 on implementation plans, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention requested the Secretariat to prepare, within available resources, a report to the Conference of the Parties for consideration at its sixth meeting and subsequent action on the legal opinion on Article 7 of the Convention, taking into account decisions SC-1/12 and SC-2/7, in particular when new chemicals are listed in Annexes A, B or C to the Convention.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/16 Compilation of comments received from parties relating to the listing of hexabromocyclododecane in Annex A to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants recommended by the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/17 on the recommendation by the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee to list hexabromocyclododecane in Annex A to the Stockholm Convention, the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants decided, in decision POPRC-8/3, and in accordance with paragraph 9 of Article 8 of the Convention, to recommend to the Conference of the Parties that it consider listing hexabromocyclododecane in Annex A to the Convention with specific exemptions for production and use in expanded polystyrene and extruded polystyrene in buildings.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/17 Analysis of obstacles and barriers to gaining access to technical assistance and technology transfer and recommendations on how to overcome them
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/18 on technical assistance and capacity-building, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, by paragraph 2 of decision SC-5/20, invited developing-country parties and parties with economies in transition to provide information to the Secretariat on their technical assistance and technology transfer needs and the barriers and obstacles in that regard. Furthermore, paragraph 3 of the same decision invited developed-country parties to provide information to the Secretariat on the technical assistance and technologies that they had available to be transferred to developing-country parties and parties with economies in transition, together with the barriers and obstacles to responding to those needs referred to in paragraph 2 of the decision.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/18 Programme for the delivery of technical assistance for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention
As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/18 on technical assistance and capacity-building for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention, the annex to the present note sets out the technical assistance programme for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention. Section I contains the Secretariat’s programme for the delivery of technical assistance for the implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions. Section II sets out a programmatic approach for the delivery of technical assistance relevant to the mandates under the Stockholm Convention, the decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention and the needs assessment carried out in 2012. The annex to the present note has not been formally edited.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/19 Activity reports submitted by the Stockholm Convention regional centres and the nominated Stockholm Convention centre
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/19 on Stockholm Convention regional and subregional centres for capacity-building and the transfer of technology, the activity reports submitted by the regional and subregional centres for capacity-building and the transfer of technology for the period from January 2011 to December 2012 can be found on the Convention webpage at http://chm.pops.int/Implementation/RegionalCentres/Workplansandactivitiesreport/tabid/482/Default.aspx.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/20 Report on the assessment of funding needs of parties that are developing countries or countries with economies in transition to implement the provisions of the Stockholm Convention over the period 2015–2019
As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/20 on needs assessment, the report on the assessment of funding needs of parties that are developing countries or countries with economies in transition to implement the provisions of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants over the period 2015–2019, prepared by a team of independent experts, is set out in the annex to the present note. The report is presented without formal editing.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/21 Compilation of submissions from parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants regarding the assessment of funding needs for the period 2015–2019
1. In its decision SC-5/22, the Conference of the Parties invited parties and others to provide information required to undertake the assessment of funding needed by developing country parties and parties with economies in transition to implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants over the period 2015–2019 for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its sixth meeting.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/22 Compilation of submissions received by the Secretariat on ways in which to support the Stockholm Convention
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/20 on needs assessment, the Secretariat invited parties and observers to submit information, by completing a questionnaire, on ways in which they could support the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/23 Compilation of completed questionnaires from parties and others on needs assessment methodology
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/20 on needs assessment, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, in decision SC-5/22, invited parties and others to provide the relevant information required to undertake the assessment of funding needed by developing-country parties and parties with economies in transition to implement the Convention over the period 2015–2019 for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its sixth meeting.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/24 Report of the Global Environment Facility to the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants at its sixth meeting
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/21, the report of the Global Environment Facility to the Conference of the Parties at its sixth meeting is set out in the annex to the present note. The report has been reproduced without formal editing.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/25 Draft report on the third review of the financial mechanism
As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/23, the draft report on the third review of the financial mechanism of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is set out in the annex to the present note. The draft report has been prepared by an independent consultant, ICF International. It is reproduced as submitted, without formal editing.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/26 Guidance and consolidated additional guidance to the financial mechanism of the Stockholm Convention
1. Pursuant to decision SC-5/23, on additional guidance to the financial mechanism, as referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/24, the Secretariat, in consultation with the secretariat of the Global Environment Facility, prepared the consolidated guidance to the financial mechanism of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which is set out in the annex to the present note. It has not been formally edited.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/27 Information submitted by parties on facilitating work with regard to financial resources and mechanisms
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/25, the Secretariat invited parties to submit information, by completing a questionnaire, on the key objectives and functions to be achieved to improve the efficiency of the work on financial resources and mechanisms and on the organizational structures best suited to delivering those objectives and functions.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/28 Strategy to increase the rate of submission of national reports by parties pursuant to Article 15 of the Stockholm Convention
1. In decision SC-5/16, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants requested the Secretariat to develop a strategy to increase the rate of submission of national reports by parties pursuant to Article 15, taking into account the feedback received from parties on obstacles to reporting.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/29 Comments received on the proposed framework for effectiveness evaluation
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/27, the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants invited parties and others to submit comments on the proposed framework.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/30 Report on the availability of information outlined in the revised framework for effectiveness evaluation and on the use of the elements and indicators set forth therein
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/27 on effectiveness evaluation, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, in decision SC-5/17 on effectiveness evaluation, invited parties and others to submit comments on the proposed framework for effectiveness evaluation, and requested the Secretariat to integrate the comments received from parties into the proposed framework for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its sixth meeting.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/31 Guidance on the global monitoring plan for persistent organic pollutants
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/28 on the global monitoring plan for effectiveness evaluation, the Secretariat has continued to support the process of revising and updating the guidance on the global monitoring plan for the evaluation of the effectiveness of the Convention and the work of the regional organization groups and the global coordination group for the global monitoring plan.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/31/Add.1 Guidance on the global monitoring plan for persistent organic pollutants: Global monitoring plan for persistent organic pollutants as amended after the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/28 on the global monitoring plan for effectiveness evaluation, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, in decision SC-4/31, adopted the global monitoring plan for persistent organic pollutants and requested the Secretariat to make non-substantive changes as necessary.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/31/Add.2 Guidance on the global monitoring plan for persistent organic pollutants: Implementation of the global monitoring plan for effectiveness evaluation as amended after the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention
1. As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/28 on the global monitoring plan for effectiveness evaluation, the Conference of the Parties, in its decision SC-4/31, requested the Secretariat to make non-substantive changes to the implementation plan for the global monitoring plan for persistent organic pollutants for the first effectiveness evaluation that was adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its third meeting, so that it can serve future effectiveness evaluations.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/32 Report of the meeting of the global coordination group and regional organization groups under the global monitoring plan for persistent organic pollutants
1. In its decision SC-5/18, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants requested the Secretariat to continue to support the work of the regional organization groups and the global coordination group for the global monitoring plan and the process of revising and updating the guidance on the global monitoring plan.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/33 Results of the global survey on concentrations in human milk of persistent organic pollutants by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Health Organization
1. By its decision SC-5/18 on the global monitoring plan for effectiveness evaluation, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants encouraged parties to engage actively in the implementation of the global monitoring plan and the effectiveness evaluation, in particular to continue to monitor the core media of air and human breast milk or human blood.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/34/Rev.1 Admission of observers to meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention
As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/31 on admission of observers, the annex to the present note contains a list of bodies and agencies that had not previously been admitted to meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and that are requesting admission to participate in such meetings as observers in accordance with rule 7 of the Rules of Procedure for meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention, as at 22 April 2013. The annex to the present note has not been formally edited.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/35 Activities undertaken by the Secretariat pertaining to the Stockholm Convention from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2012
1. The annex to the present note sets out a report prepared by the Secretariat on its activities pertaining to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2012, which were undertaken in accordance with its mandate under the Convention and as decided by the Conference of the Parties. The annex to the present note has not been formally edited.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/36 Information on financial matters
1. By its decision SC-5/2, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention amended the financial rules governing the administration of the Conference of the Parties, its subsidiary bodies and the Secretariat to read as set out in the annex to that decision. As amended, paragraph 1 of rule 3, which deals with the budget, requires the Executive Secretary to dispatch reports on the actual income and expenditure for each year of the previous biennium and estimates of actual expenditure in the current biennium at least 90 days before the opening of the meeting of the Conference of the Parties at which the budget for a given biennium is adopted.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/37 Implementation of the Stockholm Convention programme budget for 2012
The annex to the present note contains a report prepared by the Secretariat, as at 31 December 2012, on the implementation of the programme budget approved by the Conference of the Parties in decision SC-5/28. It describes expenditures incurred under the general and the voluntary trust funds of the Stockholm Convention and provides information on related voluntary contributions made by donors for the implementation of activities. The report has been reproduced without formal editing.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/38 Updated information on financial matters
As referred to in paragraph 4 of document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/36 on information on financial matters, the annexes to the present note set forth updated information on expenditures and on contributions pledged or received. The annexes, which have not been formally edited, are organized as follows:
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/39 Stockholm Convention capacity-building and training activities planned by the Secretariat for 2013
As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/18 on technical assistance and capacity building for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention, the annex to the present note contains information on Stockholm Convention capacity-building and training activities, planned by the Secretariat to take place between 1 January and 31 December 2013. Table 1 lists capacity-building and training workshops and table 2 lists webinars and online meetings. The annex to the present note has not been formally edited.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/40 Capacity-building and training activities organized by the Secretariat between May 2011 and December 2012
As referred to in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/18 on technical assistance and capacity building for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the annex to the present note sets out tables listing capacity building and training activities organized by the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention between May 2011 and December 2012. Regional and national-level activities are described in table 1, global-level activities are set out in table 2 and relevant projects are listed in table 3. The annex to the present note has not been formally edited.
UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/41 Nomination letter and information submitted by the nominated Stockholm Convention centre pursuant to paragraph 6 of decision SC-3/12
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UNEP/POPS/COP.6/INF/42 Submission by the United Nations Environment Programme on a draft memorandum of understanding between the United Nations Environment Programme and the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
The annex to the present note sets out a revised version, submitted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), of the draft memorandum of understanding between UNEP and the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants contained in the annex to the note by the Secretariat in document UNEP/POPS/COP.6/32. The revised version of the draft memorandum is being circulated as provided by UNEP and has not been formally edited.
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UNEP/POPS/POPRC.8/INF/29 Fact sheets on chemical alternatives to endosulfan
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Students affected by Trump’s immigration ban share concerns for future
By Laurel Scott and Alexandra Tryggvadottir
A Closer Look, Campus, News
Soheil and Sara Kashani are international UCLA students from Iran, who spoke to the Daily Bruin about how President Donald Trump’s travel ban is affecting them. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Correction: The original version of this article incorrectly stated Soheil Kashani's grandparents decided not to attend his graduation ceremony because of the ban and Deeown Shaverdian identifies as Persian. In fact, Kashani's parents decided not to attend the ceremony and Shaverdian identifies as Iranian.
About 150 UCLA students have been directly affected by President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries.
A federal judge from Washington ordered a temporary restraining order on the ban Friday, but it is unclear whether the ban will be enforced. Students from Iran and Sudan spoke to the Daily Bruin about how the ban is affecting them and their families, and their worries for the future of international Muslim students in the U.S.
An officer at the U.S. Embassy in Dubai accused Soheil Kashani of being a right-wing extremist when he learned Kashani was from Iran.
“I thought he was joking,” said Kashani, who was trying to receive his passport from the embassy so he could return to UCLA at the end of winter break. “Then he literally told me that all the people that come from my city are bad people.”
Once he was able to return to the U.S., Kashani, a fourth-year civil engineering student, didn’t think he would face the same discrimination in America.
But three weeks later, Trump issued the travel ban and Kashani learned it would prevent him from returning to the U.S. if he left again.
“It’s nothing new to the Persian community that we’re oppressed in these ways, and it’s not just Persians either,” Kashani said.
Soheil Kashan is an Iranian citizen and fourth-year civil engineering student. His family is from Iran but they lived in Dubai for the past decade. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Kashani didn’t receive his visa and passport from the embassy for over a month because of the change in administration, which led him to miss his flight and first week of classes, he said.
Because it’s uncertain if the ban will be lifted or last longer than three months, Kashani worries he will be unable to attend any of the American graduate schools he has applied to.
“I know a lot of people who’ve been left behind (overseas), who probably won’t be able to finish their degrees if the ban lasts for three months,” he added.
Kashani said everyone he knows in the Persian community is stressed because the ban was so sudden and unexpected.
He added he fears restrictions against immigrants and international students may escalate soon.
“What if there is a deportation for Iranians?” Kashani said. “It’s just a possibility, but this (travel ban) was a distant possibility too, and now it’s happened … what if they just start kicking people out?”
Kashani’s parents decided not to come to his graduation in June because of the ban.
Kashani said he feels the travel ban is contrary to American values.
“Us Iranians … do not expect not to be treated like all other students are, and we come here knowing that we’re limited in terms of freedom of mobility,” Kashani said. “But we still choose to come here even though all of us have offers from universities in different countries … because we know America’s different.”
Kashani added most people he knows have told him they oppose the ban, even his Republican acquaintances.
“All my friends have been supportive and it’s very heartwarming,” Kashani said.
Faced with the prospect of being unable to remain in the U.S., Kashani said he has begun applying to graduate schools in Europe, even though it is late to apply to most schools.
“Sometimes I just question my sanity, and ask, why did I come here?” Kashani said.
Sara Kashani followed in her brother’s footsteps in attending UCLA, but she has already started looking at other places to finish her undergraduate degree because she feels unwelcome in America.
Sara Kashani, a second-year neuroscience student, said she fears her parents will make her move back to Dubai if the ban lasts longer than 90 days because they are concerned about their children’s safety in America.
Sara Kashani, a second-year neuroscience student, decided to move to the U.S. two years ago for her undergraduate degree, like her brother had done before her. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
“I’m really scared right now; I feel like my life is up in the air,” she said. “Everything I have is at risk, even my education and I don’t even know if I will be allowed to finish it.”
Her brother will finish his degree in June 2018, and because of the ban he will most likely not stay in America for graduate school. Sara Kashani, on the other hand, will have to figure out what to do for the remaining years of undergraduate education.
“My mom was very mad when she heard about (the ban) because she didn’t want us to move to America in the first place,” Sara Kashani said. “She just wanted us to be together as a family, home in Dubai.”
Nis Hamid, who has lived in the United Arab Emirates for more than 10 years, said she feels stuck in America as a result of the travel ban.
If Hamid does not return to Abu Dhabi in two weeks, she will have to live in her home country of Sudan, where she has almost no family. However, if she leaves the U.S., she won’t be able to return to finish her degree.
Hamid, a second-year global studies and political science student, is allowed to live with her family in Abu Dhabi because they are sponsored through her father’s job, she said. Her sponsorship will become void if she does not return to Abu Dhabi every six months.
“I lose my sponsorship if I don’t go home, but if I go home, I can’t come back,’’ Hamid said.
She added her initial reaction to the travel ban was to write a post and try to make light of it on Facebook.
“If anyone wants to get married and get me a green card, that would be great,’’ Hamid posted on Facebook.
Nis Hamid, a second-year global studies and political science student, is a Sudanese citizen but her family lives in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Dayoung Lee/Daily Bruin)
But right after the news broke, Hamid, who said she has an anxiety disorder, suffered a panic attack during her job as a campus tour guide.
Hamid said she locked herself in a bathroom stall and cried before her boss came and helped her through the panic attack.
Hamid’s father, brother and sister have never been to the U.S., and she said she fears that now they never will.
“My dad tells me to try not to think about it … he is just trying to keep me calm,” Hamid said. “I’m afraid this will be a permanent thing.”
Hamid added she expected a ban to happen, but did not think it would happen so soon.
“The thing I’m most scared of that haunts me is if I go to a government building where I have to show ID, I might be deported,’’ Hamid said.
However, Hamid added she feels blessed to be in California because of the support the University of California system is showing to international students. She remains hopeful the ban will be lifted within the next 90 days.
Deeown Shaverdian is an American citizen but worries he might never be able to visit the country his family is from because of the ban.
Shaverdian, a third-year history and political science student, is the son of two Iranian-born refugees who are ethnically Armenian and came to America in the 1990s.
“I am worried about not seeing my family,” Shaverdian said. “I have a group of cousins in Germany who moved there as refugees, and I can’t see them until this ban is lifted.”
Being both Armenian and Iranian, Shaverdian said he has always felt a strong community around him in Los Angeles, but feels upset and betrayed by the U.S. government.
Deeown Shaverdian, a third-year history and political science student, is the son of Iranian-born refugees who are ethnically Armenian and came to the U.S. in the 1990s. (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)
“It felt as if … you (become) a second-class citizen in a country you have called home for two decades,” Shaverdian said.
Shaverdian added the travel ban came as a complete surprise to him and made him angry because he never believed Trump would target a specific group of people.
Although he’s a U.S. citizen, the ban has made him fearful that he won’t be able to go to Iran, which he has never visited.
“Iran is one of the most beautiful countries, filled with some of the kindest human beings,” he said. “I will still cling to my dream of one day visiting (the) country.”
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Alexandra Tryggvadottir
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Trouble Me
I had been to Bart’s parents’ Cape house before, when they weren’t there. What’s funny is that I had forgotten what it looked like. I had convinced myself it was a split-level, with a large deck in the back.
I later figured out that in my head I had transposed some other rich family’s Cape house where we’d gone to a party around the same time, three or four years ago. There was a while when that was sort of a thing we did, going to parties of mostly college-age people Bart kind-of knew. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that after he and Michelle hooked up we went to a lot fewer of them. Not that Bart only went to them to cruise (is that even the right word? does it apply to straight people, too?). I mean, if he was only there to pick up girls you wouldn’t think he’d drag me along? Whatever. It was a thing we did. I didn’t think too much about it at the time.
Beach houses are inherently relaxing. Even the beach houses of rich people. I had forgotten what it was like to be with a bunch of people and to have no agenda myself. I didn’t have to be the center of attention. I didn’t have to be anything. I could just hang around. Other people had various agendas: food, drink, swimming, walking somewhere, that kind of thing. Amusingly enough not only did I have no agenda, but Ms. Agenda herself didn’t. Carynne, like me, let other people pick the music on the stereo. Someone else picked the beer, the food, the topic of conversation.
It was nice. We were sitting together on the couch one night, drinking whatever someone else had opened, when she commented on it: “I forgot what it’s like to not be in charge.”
“And I forgot what it’s like to be in the background,” I added. “I used to be in the background all the time.”
“You’re funny,” she said. “Because when you want to light up a room, you can.”
“I guess. Nobody here gives a shit if sunlight comes out my butt, though. Thank goodness.”
“We know you too well.” She gave me a smug smile. “So Jonathan’s really moving to L.A.?”
“Yeah. He signed a month-to-month lease he said, though, so if he’s done in six months and he has opportunities, he can move on.” I shrugged. “I don’t think he likes L.A. that much.”
“I don’t think you like L.A. that much.”
“Got that right. I like Remo’s. Not so much the traffic, earthquakes, and surgically-plastic population.” I yawned. “The clubs are okay. But we’ve got better here.”
Colin sat down across from us. “Check it out. I found a set of Hollywood Trivial Pursuit cards.” He began pulling out a game board.
So we got sucked into playing the game. And by the time we were done with that it was time to eat again. And that was just how things went. Bart and I wrote a song on the beach. Just because.
Over the course of the weekend, I had a couple of conversation with Lacey, and it became clear to me after a bit that she was trying really hard to figure me out. Like she’d taken it on herself to shrink my head since I was the only one there who wasn’t currently in or who hadn’t previously been to therapy.
No, I’m not kidding. Bart, Michelle, Carynne, Chris, Lacey, Colin, Courtney, they’d all had something.
Lacey’s way of starting one of these conversations would be to say something like, “So it’s really a problem that you let your Daddy issues get in the way of effective leadership.”
We’d be sunning ourselves by the water, or peeling carrots, or whatever, and I’d have to say, “Excuse me?” And then a kind of non-argument would ensue where I’d have to pick apart whatever the theory was–meaning she had to explain to me what she meant by Daddy issues, or passive aggression, or whatever jargon she was throwing around, and I’d then have to debunk whatever conclusion she’d come to about me, which always seemed three or four steps too far in the wrong direction. She wasn’t what I would call confrontational about it, not like she was the night I’d come home and she’d accused me of wanting to bash Chris’s brains in, but she wasn’t exactly what I’d call sympathetic and understanding either.
Mostly no one talked about our problems, I guess because we all felt the point of going to the Cape was to leave troubles behind.
The one time I took the tack of questioning Lacey as a form of self-defense, it went something like this.
Lacey: Your sexual repression is the source of all your anger, you know.
Me: Okay, I’ve about had it with the generalizations. Yeah, I’m pissed off about the way the world has pissed on me for being gay, but you know what? I’ve got plenty of other things to be angry about, too. Life isn’t that simple, Lacey. There’s not one magic single thing that explains it all.
Lacey: Sure there is. And you can find it through Transcendental Meditation.
Me: What?
Lacey: If you close your eyes and repeat your mantra for twenty minutes, twice a day, you’ll figure it all out.
Me: Is that how you figure it all out? Meditating on everyone else’s problem’s?
Lacey: No, silly. When you meditate you try not to think.
Me: I’m great at not thinking already, thanks. Pass me another beer. But seriously, you meditate?
Lacey: I don’t have time. I’m too busy. Chris does, though. I’m trying to do it with him but it’s so boring.
Me: Chris meditates?
Lacey: Every day. I think he does it instead of praying since he doesn’t believe in God. Dave sort of ruined that for him.
Me: Do you believe in God?
Lacey: Yes. Yes, I do. I believe God is testing me every day.
Me: Really?
Lacey: Yes. And you know, I thought it would be difficult to stay with someone godless, but Chris isn’t like other godless people.
Me: Because of the meditation thing?
Lacey: Yeah. I think he really is communing with God, he just can’t bring himself to call it that. I figure he’ll come around in good time, if he can just stay clean.
Me: What about you? What do you do to stay clean? Pray?
Lacey: I’m just over it now. I learned my lesson. I’m so young, I wasn’t addicted that long, so it’s not as bad for me.
Me: Is that how it works?
Lacey: Sure is. Anyway, what about you? Do you believe in God?
Daron: I don’t know. I think there probably is a God but I think as puny humans we can’t even comprehend. So I don’t think about it much.
Lacey: You think of yourself as puny because you have crippling self-esteem issues.
Yeah, yeah.
Actually, you know what? I don’t think I do have crippling self-esteem issues. I’ve got issues, yeah, but if I really had an esteem problem, do you think I could get up in front of ten thousand people a night and do what I do? Do you think I would have even gotten this far? Would I even still be alive now if I thought myself that worthless? I don’t think I would. One of the reasons suicide has never entered my mind except as a subject of momentary morbid curiosity is that taking myself out of the equation would never occur to me as an option. Now, you could argue that someone with really incredible talent can make it on luck while still fighting “crippling self-esteem issues,” but if that’s the case with me, well shit, I guess that means I’ve got incredible talent. And if I believe I’ve got incredible talent… then Q.E.D. I don’t have self-esteem issues.
I decided, for the third or fourth time, I should look into therapy, though. So at least I’d know what the fuck I was fooling myself about.
(I apologize to everyone who is as bothered as I am by how flat Natalie Merchant is here. I mean, she’s ALWAYS flat, worse than Whitney Houston, but it’s even worse than usual here. -daron)
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cayra wrote:
I’ve had a hard time commenting lately, never felt like I had anything to say, but I still love this series. It brightens my day each time to see an update .
It always brightens my day to see you drop by. :-)
Posted 15 Aug 2013 at 11:00 am ¶
Connie wrote:
Lacey is a trip, that’s for sure. Hope there was plenty of beer!
She makes my sister and Carynne seem relatively less nosy, how’s that for a plus?
Posted 15 Aug 2013 at 1:00 pm ¶
Jude wrote:
You could always turn it around on Lacey: “So why are you spending so much time considering my problems? I think you are both projecting your own issues at me and denying your own issues at the same time.”
It’s a thought? Thing is, sometimes she’ll say something that really sounds like good advice. (It’s usually before or after something wacked out, though.)
Joe wrote:
There’s nothing wrong with being flat when it works. They craft their songs & harmonies around it, so it’s OK (at least to me).
You’re allowed to like them. Both Whitney and Natalie have excellent voice timbre. But for someone like me, listening to someone who sings flat… it’s a lot like a chef who is really good except that everything is too salty. It ruins it for us.
Joe Reply:
I sang in a choir from fifth grade through my sophomore year in college. For three years in high school I had a woman standing behind me and to my right with a very loud voice, who was very certain of her singing ability and never held anything back. She was also ever-so-slightly flat. All of the time.
I guess I just got used to it.
I’m sure it sounded fine to her! Would have driven me insane though. It’s one thing to play with the pitch, to bend it and use it to make the voice pop from the accompaniment. But folks who are flat all the time it isn’t intentional. That’s how it sounds right to them. Makes me crazy… I can’t get over it.
Posted 16 Aug 2013 at 11:37 pm ¶
Bill Heath wrote:
Ditto on the flat all the time, Daron.
Isn’t it funny that almost no one seems to be always sharp all the time? Yes, my sister is sharp all the time but she knows she can’t sing and doesn’t care.
In “I Will Always Love You” part of Whitney’s appeal to me is that she’s just always a few herz low. So were her emotions at the time. It just fit.
I’ve known some instrumentalists who overcompensated to sharp when they tuned because they had been (badly) taught that “flat = bad” as opposed to “out of tune in either direction = bad”. But not many.
I think singers can be habitually flat because reaching pitch is about tightening the muscles and to go flat you just. don’t. quite. do. enough. You can’t overshoot easily but you can fall just short easily. And once you get used to it sounding “right” you’re stuck. I think people accepted Whitney’s flatness because the overall timbre and expressiveness of her voice was so great that the “imperfection” was almost necessary…? IDK. I hate speaking ill of her now, given how things went for her. But I still can’t listen to her.
Bill Heath Reply:
Until a year ago I directed a church choir; we had five parts.
Fifteen months ago my vocal cords were destroyed by a doctor working on restarting my heart. I forgive him. Almost. Astoundingly, I’m still on pitch. However, my range shrank from two octaves and a fourth (F to Bb) to one octave (D to D). I’m getting back about one half step every three months. I believe if you could get back one half step of Ziggy every three months you’d be thrilled.
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FURTHER INFORMATION: SITUATION OF DETAINED MAN STILL UNKNOWN: ‘ALI SAYED AL-SHIHABI
f.haddad April 17, 2014 July 18, 2019 Reports by NGOs
‘Ali Sayed al-Shihabi, a Palestinian refugee living in Syria, who was detained in December 2012 and then subjected to enforced disappearance, has been confirmed to have been in the custody of the Syrian authorities. But his place of detention and present condition remain unknown.
‘Ali Sayed al-Shihabi, an English-language teacher, went missing on his way to visit a friend in the al-Zahira al-Jadida area of Damascus during the night of 19 December 2012. Shortly after this, unofficial sources inside the security forces said he might be held at the Military Intelligence branch 235 (also called “Palestine branch”) but when a leading Palestinian figure wrote to an official in the security forces, he received a response in October 2013 officially denying that ‘Ali Sayed al-Shihabi had been arrested, heightening fears for his safety.
However, Amnesty International recently obtained a report from the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, which included information from the Syrian government dated 31 December 2013, stating that ‘Ali Sayed al-Shihabi “was arrested on the basis of suspicions about his activities, and he is still under investigation by the competent judicial authorities.” There has been no news about him since then.
It is unclear what ‘Ali Sayed al-Shihabi is suspected of having done. He had been arrested in May 1982 and detained for almost 10 years in connection with his membership of the Party for Communist Action (PCA). He was released in 1991, but detained again from August 2006 until January 2007, reportedly on charges which included “knowingly broadcasting abroad false or exaggerated news which damages the reputation of the state or its financial standing” and “joining a political or social organization of an international nature without the permission of the government”.
Please write immediately in Arabic, English or your own language:
Urging the Syrian authorities to reveal the whereabouts and legal status of ‘Ali Sayed al-Shihabi, grant him immediate access to his family, lawyer and any medical attention he may require;
Urging them to ensure that he is protected from torture and other ill-treatment;
Calling for his release if he is not promptly charged with an internationally recognizable criminal offence.
PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 29 MAY 2014 TO:
Fax: +963 11 332 3410 (keep trying)
(If voice answers, say "Fax". Fax is the only reliable communication method; please do not send letters)
Salutation: Your Excellency
Minister of Justice
Najm Hamad al-Ahmad
Fax: +963 11 666 2460
Email: moj@net.sy
Permanent Representative to the UN
Bashar Ja’afari, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
820 Second Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10017
E-mail: exesec.syria@gmail.com
Where appropriate, please also send copies to the Syrian and Russian diplomatic representatives accredited to your country. Please insert local diplomatic addresses below:
Name Address 1 Address 2 Address 3 Fax Fax number Email Email address Salutation Salutation
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. This is the first update of UA 223/13. Further information: http://amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE24/039/2013/en
URGENT ACTION
situation of detained man still unknown
‘Ali Sayed al-Shihabi has written articles on political and social issues and also had two books published in Syria on social affairs. He has been summoned for questioning by the authorities many times and was a prisoner of conscience between 1982 and 1991 for his membership of the outlawed Party for Communist Action. He has since left the party. For more information see UA 222/06 (http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE24/052/2006/en) and update (http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE24/003/2007/en).
For an insight into the widespread torture and other ill-treatment in Syria’s detention centres, please see I wanted to die: Syria’s torture survivors speak out,
(http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE24/016/2012/en) and Deadly detention: Deaths in custody amid popular protest in Syria, (http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE24/035/2011/en).
Recent arrests and deaths in custody of residents of Yarmouk have also been documented in Amnesty International’s report Squeezing the life out of Yarmouk: War crimes against besieged civilians, March 2014 (http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE24/008/2014/en).
Name: ‘Ali Sayed al-Shihabi
Gender m/f: m
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE24/017/2014/en/60f449e3-cda9-46c9-8e0f-88e51e457f8d/mde240172014en.html
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